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WatkinsvillB, Oconea Co. Georgia.
NV. <3-. SULLIVAN,
EDITOR AXD PROPBIRTOB
One TERMS:
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Moody, the Evangelist.
Twenty-four years ago Mr. Moody was
of the aggressive spirit of Christian
proselytism in him which had to have a
* Not being able to get class,
vent. a he
M nicked ud eighteen 4ged n bare-headed di^Sht^ and
and
and marched them into the North Wells
street Sabbath school. Not satisfied
even then, he kept going out into the
streets and getting more turning them
over to new teachers as he brought them
in. Then he organized a mission school
the of his vilest own, renting a saloon in one of
Out quarters of the city to hold it
in of this lias MitSon, smwn „ fo „.
Chicago Avenue or “Mr.
Moody which is s Church,” as it is called now.
one of the most attractive
tSSSeffiSS M18S10n hulkl :
■„,
P L„ l? m( nt .® — xten ® lv f 1 ed 1 ‘ flce> muZ ^ llemon UU ^y
build it and to buy the ground,
t^hnVe^l^tlio'a^V.^l . was con
b / ns i
Mr* Moody S personal friends, some of
money coming nJi/Z^ijjeXs from as far awav as
For
was the scene of Mr. Moody’s
Christian efforts, the object of
tenderest solicitude. Through heat
rain, in storm and ice and swelter
weather, he tramped through the
forsaken districts of the city, form
the acquaintance of the poorest class
children and their parents, and bringing
play every device his tact and ex
could suggest to get them to go
church and Sunday school. In Iris
he lets drop some stray bits of
rebuffs history this bearing period; upon his trials
at as, for in
where he tells of boys throwing
boots and shoes after him and oc
house smashing the windows of his
; but it is only here in
arid by accidental encounters
those familiar with the circumstan
that one, can form an adequate idea
the difficulties and even perils that
missionary Moody braved in these early days of
living ministry. in Chicago, There are many
now who tell
thrilling from escapes which Mr. Moody
personal violence in his efforts
bring the refining and elevating influ
of Christianity to the doors of the
refuse of the city’s foreign popu
at a time, too, when the law and
were Chicaao not as generally prevalent as
Correspondence.
Our Little Friend, the Chipmuck.
The chipmuck likes to dig his hole in
_ dry banks, and often
rustling in the thick you beds may dry
a of
loud enough to attract your at¬
from a distance of fifteen or
rods. A cautious approach to
spot will show you a couple of chip¬
through chasing each other round and
the leaves. They will
from their sports as you come
but if you sit down quietly they
soon conclude that you are not dan¬
and commence again. They
include the trunk of a fallen tree
their circuit, running along its whole
then plunging like divers into
leaves, they rush headlong through
stir seeming greatly to enjo3' the noise
which they make. They play
this way for hours. If one stops, the
turns back to look for him, and
climb they go again. The chipmuck
as well as any squirrel, and
does so when the coast is
but if danger threatens he makes
to descend. He never can realize
a tree affords him the least security.
If you get so near before he sees vou
that he dares not come down, he plainly
considers the situation to be very seri¬
ous. Sometimes he will make a desper¬
ate rush for the ground within reach of
your lie hand, and as soon as you withdraw
comes down and scampers away, evi¬
dently feeling that he has got well out
of a bad scrape. Let his large cousins
—red, black or gray—depend on trees
for safety, if they choose; his trust is
in store walls and brush-heaps, not to
mention his burrow. Within reach of
these, his easy impudence is in striking
contrast with his panic-stricken condi¬
tion when treed .—Good Company.
Autumn Leaves.
An effective method of decorating a
wall or panel with autumn leaves is to
cover the space to he ornamented with
tulle, the meshes of which are as large
the painting or the paper on the
wall, and it makes an excellent ground
work on which the leaves and ferns can
be pinned to form very ornamental de¬
signs. Picture scraps are excellent for
decorative purposes. Small rooms, and
nurseries, especially, varnished, papered afford with them great
and afterward
entertainment; cornices may be made
of them to run around all the wail paper,
with about two inches of gold roll be¬
tween Wooden each, and a black bordering.
fire-boards and Holland mats
may also be covered with them ; these
mats should l,e varnished vamisneu. Com
mon uumJEEnor- ,
and a C ? a ^ P a mt
then nrC^ °t* tbem landscai>eK,
flowers embosse/i^fi™*' 1 y ° U cannot
the BCra l’ s can bo
nasted on aVelJr™ “terward varnished,
photograph Bleached ro™*^ M ° D
bmk tr ay ?’
and Plotting book* • ,
They wJkI lookespeciall N ciose v wefion S thlT ^
ed Eid togetl JL
semble an inlaying I K of ‘S. ivorv a ? laui
table with tabfe stLning itbi^k*
prettv 'm<l than writing I™,, XTr by ‘i '
round rouml the the too top ^ and l around aro o d tZ the . ilrawers. i ° rdf , ‘ r
SZjFwbX tbeZh^l^Sd l
m^tTnrtstele rM with white dSotton^ tube of the « * ar “
An eU.
“Ella, is your father at
Mid a bashful lover to his sweetheart
“I want toprotsjsc something very
isatant to him.” “ No, Clsronoe,
i» not at henna, just lmt I am. well?” Couldn’t you
proisss* to ms M Ami
did with r perfect success.
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
THE M Esse kgeks.
« ma m. holios.
‘asaessss it wMspeiod, «i *8«in,"
ne-rar can c°m»
Thou elIouUy flow B "‘ ay -
But another came in its plan,
And.^seeing my sad surprise, K7
1 "X*
But when i felt ^ that da >'of message would should epe*L for mo
accounts come
Another, Each had „ d etm they came;
a mespage for mo
And conVe^'lud coaeceuc* .nd work work ’£££& must
But oft us they gilded by,
A record of sin with its stain. wmg.
i g.«d would have called them bach,
Is borne to the other shore.
rtn to-night, my life most done,
ihe ghosts of my white-winged messengers
Come hack to mo one by one.
What meancth their sad reproach?
“Who .r art t: thou?” “ “ We’re “ envoys of peace
To note whRt you think ’ Bay and do -
“ntXS?**"*
J^cUm’r !
Thou eaii’st us moments caii’st while we are her. ■,
When cone, thou us time.
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A a r lAlAL |T ». |yt]rn|TiE!nF IttHcHi AfiuCi
1
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ny leigh —! n. brookner. ‘
“Is this artist’s blouse becoming to
me ?” asked Drusilla Sterling of her
Cousin Lucreee. -
“ What matter whether a garment be
comes you or not ? Your attitudes are
always for graceful this alone and fascinating. If it
were it would he worth
while to he the daughter of a daucer. I
wonder what Maxwell St. Ives would
say if he knew that?”
Drusilla’s anger was at white heat,
but so great was her self-control that to
an ordinary observer she would have
seemed perfectly calm. Her voice was
unusually smooth and low as she replied
to Lucrece’s scornful speech :
“Thank yon for your compliment
thongh it is not by nnv mea ns new for
me to be told that I am e-raeofnl As
for st . j vcs knowing the rtory of my
^Sd’emaX; na rento~e I-meau to tell him as heTt^ soon -is
at present
little interested in me or my affairs to
care about the story.”
Poor Lu felt that her thrust had been
without effect. It was rarely sho al
lowed herself to ho so bitter, but surely
she had occasion. Here was this squint
eyed, pale-faced, who, ill-born and ill-bred
creature, Lucerce’s by some elfish witchery,
had won handsome lover from
ber
From the first moment Roy Sebert
heard Drusilla’s voice he had boon ready
to follow her through the world. Only
two months from England, and ahcady
so unfortunate as to have caused an affi.
anced lover to bo unfaithful to his vows !
It was rumored that a young curate on
the other side of tiie water had com¬
mitted suicide for her sake.
When her cousin left the room Dru
silla sat down before the pier-glass and
looked at herself steadily, sadly.
“ My fate follows me. I am doomed
to make trouble wherever I go. Lu is
jealous, and, therefore, unjust. I have
never, by t*ie her slightest conscious act,
tried to win lover. Yet Roy is hand
some, and the temptation has been very
strong sometimes.”
It was a source her of deep humiliation to
Drusilla that mother had been an
actress, and, when sho remembered her
cousin’s taunt, she resolved to try and
make li rmoi.e unhappy
“I will deny myself the pleasure of
being amiable to Roy Sebert no longer
HCousm Lu, witn those lovely dark
eyes of flers, cannot enchain a lover, we
will see what the daughter of a dancer
can do ! ”
Slie lifted a small green-velvet shade
from the toilet table and placed it over
her eyes. An intense and unremitting
devotion to philosophical studies had
made her nearly blind. Certainly, her
eyes-were she not pleasant to look at, and
said, “I certainly wish to shock no
one by my hideousness. Perhaps she
was also a ware that the dark velvet shade
rke h,er toehead ’tlie airetbv
contrast. She was tall and well de\el
oped, uot at a 1 the sort ol woman one
the gentlemen without exception denied
it.
“She is simply a lovable woman, and
wins our interest without effort,” said
her gentleman admirers.
“ She is so artful as to conceal art,"
said the bitter and unloved of her own
sex
One dav as she sat openeefand talking to Max
weU St. Ives, the <V>or little
6-year-old Floy said, “Mr. Dcvune is
Maxwell’s lip curled this’ and he remarked:
~ I did not know was public-recep
V. on day. , t I will v .ill call call aeain.” again.
“Pray be seated, Mr. St. Ives. I
have something to say to you when my
young friend is gone. Fred is pnv
ileged, and comes at any time; you
honor me with your presence more rare
”
TLe caller had for . “J ,
exerse a pair
Drusilla’s white kid gl<r.cs, that she lwl
eft the v ‘ 1Ia f readmg-room She
toon . them with thanks for liM thought
fulnes -‘ , ‘ «>d aa aim talked United ji^l tom
? ar f, ! ' Msly “ h®’ hulds. Fred mcident. was
by this seemingly tnvui
was romar,tlt! atl<i ni<t a supersti
ti 0U H,f.,r layed between dainty the paluai of tin, gloves
bB »? a bine violet, say
to b,,u r' f > 1 wil1 lfct thi » bloHBOni be
tbe B >' rubo1 of “7 ta, “- Jf “he places it
way I shall receives hope. attentmu Ah she or tossed gives tlw pleasure, gloves
‘“U‘ b! ,bu flower fell broken and mi
noticed at her feet. Ah, how different
**“nr dream trout the reality. It was
the first violet of the year, ' as it was the
first love of |,is life 1
As he arose to go she said : “If yon
will please take ujc by Urn hum! I will
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 23, 18S0.
accompany you to the head of the stairs.
I want to scold you a little for something
my way without stumbling t.»u yon
“• for the merest moment, Mr.
St. Ives ?
Aow.it was not really necessary for
Drusilla to he led[about ininhouse where
Bhe was perfectly Fred, familiar, and knew but she of wished
to influence no way
more certain.
How her soft, magnetic hand thrilled
him ' hc f J}K btcst tolwh was like »
caress. She talked very earnestly to
lu and “ about wrnu, “W?"? Said she 8 f had /T heard T ^ such
rumors, but would uot believe them.
be witiiout touimation i ftfdS He would prom
*“lte2fi&g ?;Mv'college’ the paTlor ^shera marked SfS
to Maxwell: brothers, boys
much to me like Mr-**- I can reprove
"--art*-* style without tlieir resenting *» it. They
need some one to scold them a little
sometimes ”
Maxwell said, in his abriipt, argu
kk.’ks.ts.
• jy »»
woum 0 .
J he Lwfi
face . . Hush, Maxwell St. Ives, I will
not believe different. it. My own regard for this
lad is so I want him to re
gard me as and a friend ; I want him to look
U P to me - CHUle to me for counsel
aud B y m P atll 7 1 1 want his esteem;
in short, friendship, I want earnest, respectful,
beautiful instead of fickle,
passionate, fatal love !
She was much excited. All the con
trol she had shown when Lu taunted
her was swept away. She had suffered
so much through love that she could
bear no mention of what had darkened
her whole life.
“Whenever and wherever T try to os
tablisli formed a friendship, it is shortly trans¬
into reckless and despairing
love.”
All that she said was received in utter
marble. silence. Surely All this he was such uot deep man grief but
was to
her, and he did not care. Any other man
would have expressed some sympathy;
not so this impassive Northerner, who,
cynical and bitter, thought it a fine bit
°f ac ting. He had been drawn toward
!u : ,at lirst - b « tan anonymous letter had
to!d him , to “beware of Drusilla Stor
ling,” that she was an actress by birth,
alld b y education, and utterly had without
hls b ? alt - from that time lie been on
Pardon my emotion,’ .. „ she , said, after
? moment's pause. “ Pardon me also if
^ I 1 .™ 11 * J' ou to kuo w m y lf se thoro f- is any
sumcie ° t rei } s (, n m . * h , ® P ast ^hy my
Present should 1 3 , be so full of passion and
* ^ ou ^ av ei before^uow accused me
^ bel f® a co h U( ,' tte • my honor I
ao not mean to be. What I do I cannot
^lp. teI1 It is a dem and sad fatality Let
m,! y?« the «tory of my birth that
Di'lge f or yourself how I camo
o r n i ent my but hnght ot sorrow,
^7 fother *** who aQ English made her artist living and
mamo ° a woman
by singing and deceitful dancing she at the theaters. beauti¬
She was as as was
ful. My old nurse Jeanette has often
told me how mother would say to her :
him ‘ The she Englishman would is an ogre,’ But grand to
say: ‘You are
like the gods.’ She won him, not be
cause she loved him, but because he
was supposed to be wealthy. He loved
her with his imagination rather than
with his heart. Ho was very suscepti
bio to beauty and gracefulness, and both
were her’e to a remarkable degree, The
fact that she was married did not pro
vent, men three loafing her. She died when I
was but days old, and father and
Jeanette brought me to England,
,q,- rom tenth year I have been con
scions of feEfion. possessing my mother’s fatal
{auU There is nothing I
s<) much English (l , for 1 have mv f ttthe r’s
boIK , 8 where t I could heart, and would win love the
only return it. Until
last few months I have never known
what that word meant. You are still si
lent. I have lost your esteem by con
fessing Maxwell my St. mother’s profession. Oh,
Ives, I trusted you ! Are
y OU not still my Mend ?”
jn her earnestness she laid both her
] ■ ttlo caressing hands over both of
his _ All hif! re8erve and skepticism
wer e swept away. He pressed her hands
jjke roso loaves in his own, and an
BWered:
“ For life—for death !”
Before they parted they were betrothed
„ Can yon go to yonr j )roud raoth , r
and tell her that you have espoused the
daughter of a dancer?”
“ Drusilla Sterling, I can say any
thing to there anybody. obstacle If only you are true
to me w no to our union
that I will not easily overcome. I have
°y°u, body and soul, and
£hefelthe « ^ r this hcarT^w^M love&t- ^“he £
Bp ke .
happy? glad hour O, it of was betrothal too sad that in this
first there should
be a shadow of impending evil. She
l OV ed him so 1 It was cmel that she
culd not be free from forebodings. At
t.lio moment of farewell she sobbed as if
scarcely |, f . r heart reached were breaking, his home and when he had
a note
followed him, saying f :
“ Maxwell St. ve* ; A* I Jove you
I must never see you again. I would
on i v bring vou nnhnppm<-Hs. Jnd It is any 7
f^.. Forget me farewell.
“ Yours, * with love and regret, fjiuiLtva *
“Dbuh wla ”
It WM hardly tMb kind bf letter toMKd
th. world ; s width .... from Ins .. heart’s .
a man No
desire! isarfible combination of
words could have been niore certain to
brl,l « b,m *° b, T. ”
tomlerness, rymld have ls.^ more jiajmt
Wbat woni'i ne iioi v au ire i u nsr w
faction. GUlCT U*en Bright love ho^—
they must Juvc her if u-y mt ent4irc*l
her presence-out she should lie as u* OHM * «•»’■
s* h, ' V‘. *7 “**
devotiom so bei geu • > >1 *'
hmderness that she could love
no om* else. *
li' 1 wfubi
for - many Jay*. t Uo would wait until until
her mood had changed and she was sub¬
dued by a desiro to see him. He had
some power over her that he knew. But
his own will wns weakest. He must see
her. He must hold her in his arms, if
only for a moment. It was evening,
two weeks from his last visit. That very
afternoon Roy Sebert had returned from
a fishing exclusion, and at 8 o’clock he
found Drusilla alone iu the brilliantly
lighted parlor. Never had ho
seen her so well dressed, sho
was careless about her attire in general.
Oho had put on her one rich dress, a
myrtle green silk, bought, I think, to
match her emerald ring and nocklace,
Drusilla had persuaded herself thatMax
well would visit her that evening. Oh,
could sho but have known ou what a
fatal errand, she would never have let
Roy lift her hail 1 to examine the quaint
device on her ring. Bofore she could
prevent it, Sho’snatehed Roy had pressed angrily her hand to
his lips. it away,
and at that instant the words flashed
through between her brain, ns.” “ God help him who
comes
At Drusilla’s command Roy instantly
loft the room. He had been gone but a
moment when she heard the report of a
pistol, rushed and, fearing she knew not what,
she into the hall only to find her
worst fears confirmed. Roy Sebert >’
there upon the floor in a last, agony, 1no
blood issuing from wound in his
heart.
Swift as Drusilla had been Lncreco
was there before her. Sho was down
upon her knees trying to stanch the
blood. Her face was distorted with hor¬
ror and grief. Sho was still as death
until she found her efforts vain, and,
when her lover fell a lifeless burden
from her arms, such a shriek echoed
through the house as could never he for¬
gotten by those who heard it. Father
and mother know in that instant that
tlieir beloved only daughter was a hope¬
less her glanoo maniac, fell (ilaring Drusilla, wildly around,
garding her upon and, re¬
cousin as the murderer of
her lover, she sprang toward her with
insane fury. It required the united
strength of Mr. Sterling and his farm
luind to loosen her hold of Drusilla’s
throat! O what a night el horror was that!
Drusilla lying between life and death,
Lucreee raving of her lover, and accus
ing Only Drusilla as his murderer. the
one person knew truth of
the affair; that was John Miller, the
hired man. He had berin to the village,
and, on his return, he saw Maxwell St.
Ives standing by th«f gate, looking
toward the house. The, man glanced up
to find what attracted his attention, and
there, Drusilla’s plain as day, saw Roy Sebert kiss
bund. The next instant Max¬
well went rapidly up tk« walk, entered
the house without announcement, and,
almost immediately afterword, retraced
his steps, mounted his horse, and
All this was elicited the following day
at the Coroner’s inquest, and the fact
that Maxwell St. Ives was missing was
all that was needed to confirm the ver¬
dict, and free Drusilla irom any sus¬
picion of direct complicity in the mur¬
der. Yet when, after weoks of illness,
Bhe came back to reason and life, she
felt that she could no longer remain
under her uncle’s roof.
“I must live by myself,” death she said,
sadly ; household “ I bring I sorrow enter.” and into
every
So it was planned that a cottage
should be bought, and Jeanette should
be sent for as companion and servant.
I was visiting a friend Sho iu the country
who told me the story. said to mo,
one afternoon when we wore out driving,
“ Would you like to call on Drusilla
Sterling? there beautiful is the place. cottage. ”
It was a There were
English roses trained about the low
porch. A woman in French cap met us
at the door and conducted us into the
room where her mistress sat reading. A
stately woman, wearing a black dress
and a* small black cap, that, with its cor¬
onet outline marked by tiny pearls,
looked like a small royal crown. The
eyes were clear and dark, but infinitely
sad. her Of late years Jeanette had road
to mistress until Drusilla’s over¬
taxed eyes had, by rest and carefulness,
become as bright as in youth. Her
month was large, grateful but curved for and coming; sweet.
She was so to us
she admitted that her life was lonely at
times.
Wiien my friend said, “I have told
Miss Brookner your story, and sho gives
you her love and sympathy,"she reached
her right hand out of to me. I can never
forget the clasp those soft, caressing
fingers. By and and-by of Maxwell she was St. led Ives. to talk
of the past A
man answering to the advertised descrip
tion of him had died of yellow fever in
New Orleans one year after that sum¬
mer-night tragedy.
Snow-Shoeing In Norway.
(>f all the bodily exercises I know of,
j s none in my opinion that cun
come up to snow-shoeing, Skating as it is done
bi Norway. is nothing com
pared to this sport. What can equal
“P len * W / flying acros.
clc? And then, going down hill, staff
in hand no exertion necessary other
than to keep swiftly the balance, onward. while Unfikethe gliding
softly Canadian but snow-shoes, these
nki (pro
nonneed of the Norwegian* are
often fully twelve feet long, curving up
ward at the prow, and arc uot brooder
than whole three length or four they inches. provide! Throughput
the are trith
a groove tor the pnrpose of keeping
them from slipping Although when by going at an
angle wherfused down lull level no means
stow across ground, it is
¥•* downhdl their that !«»««} they are most e/ec
«v«, for Wig al ‘ d ihorr pol
iehed undwAurfaoe on Uie frozen snow
R } morft bk , fi ying tlmn # ny 7
other motion I know of.
The mlmb.tante..f Tdcmurken, eflieiant in the
South of Norway, are most »ki
tnumrhi mil ut annual competitions
prizes. At the oonijsstiUon there m
b 1870, one of these men leaped, aoe<»rd
flirty lg to a local imwspajsir, a distanea of
f Into Norwegian this aUn, it or will fully sixty
f«*d couutry ho im
possible to introduce them, a* of course
would Is- little or no ojqs.rlunity
iV using them tbs snow never lying
w honouring suffinenll*
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Hinds is the most populous county in
Mississippi.
There are nine cotton seed oil mills in
Mississippi.
The cattle drive of Texas this year will
reach 100,000.
The State Treasury of Texas contains
nearly $1,000,000.
Jasper county, Ala., voted to repeal
the prohibition law.
Western Texas is fast being turned
into pastures with barbed wire.
Beaufort county, 8. C., has 2,438 white
and 27,762 colored inhabitants.
The State offices at Little Rock are
still heated with blazing pine knots.
There are 2,170 members of the An¬
cient Order of United Workmen in Ten¬
nessee.
The new public school building at
Little Rock will be heated with hot
water pipes.
A gentleman has recently settled at
New Smyrna, Fla., with twenty-two
hives of bees, brought from Ohio.
Preparations are being made to
the Eagle and Phoenix Mills at
bus, Ga., with the electric light.
Of 122 Greenback newspapers iu
United States only sixteen arc published
south of the Ohio river.
S. II. Cox, of Oglethorpe county, Ga.,
presented the Rev. Mr. Ivey with a
plantation worth $-1,000.
There is but one member of the forty
of the last Georgia Senate returned to
the present Legislature.
There are fourteen thousand six hun¬
dred and fifty-two more females than
males in South Carolina.
The Pratt coal and coke company, five
miles from Birmingham, Ala., are get¬
ting out GOO tons of coal per day.
The Commissioner of Immigration of
Florida thinks that 18,000 people I ave
immigrated ta that State within two
year*.
An elegant new steamer is being
to run on the line between New York,
Port Royal, Fernandinn and
ville, Fin.
In Nicholas county, W. Va.,
Austin, aged thirteen, and George
tin, aged sixteen, killed during a
hunt, four deer.
Notice lias been given that a hill will
be introduced into the next Legislature
to increase the liquor license of
county, Ga., to $6,000.
The shipments of cattle and sheep
from Southwestern Virginia are now so
heavy that it is with difficulty that ears
can be procured for their transportation.
The machinery for a Clement Attach¬
ment lias been received and put in posi¬
tion at Mt. Pleasant, Gadsden county,
Fla. It took three cars to carry the ma¬
chinery to that place.
A sale of $20,000 in Tennessee bonds
was made in Nashville at forty-six cents
on the dollar, a heavy advance on the
rates which have ruled for some time
past.
One thousand feet of tubing for the
artesian well has arrived in Little Rock,
and work will be at once resumed in pre¬
paring the well for further boring. The
directors believe that a large volume of
water will be obtained.
A man in Madison county, Tex., gath¬
ered on his farm 1,000 bushels of pecans
and sold them in San Antonio for $8.40
per bushel. Just $26 covered the ex¬
penses of gathering and marketing, so he
realized a profit of $3,400 on the crop.
In Augusta, Ga., a velocipede tourna¬
ment for the small hoys is held every
year, the merchants of the city contribu¬
ting the prizes, which consist of knives,
hails and other articles best suited to
toys’ fancy.
There will Is; five colored men in the
Tennessee legislature, three from Shelby,
one from Tipton and one from Davidson
county. T. A. Sykes, the colored mem
tor from Davidson, was a member of the
North Carolina Legislature.
The Capitol Commirsioners appointed
by the Georgia legislature to look into
the validity of the title of the city of
Atlanta to the City Hall lot, which was
deeded some time ago to the State for
the site of tho State eapitol, have held a
meeting and decided to accept the City
Hal) lot.
At Dallas, Tex., Maj. I’enn baptized
thirteen convicts, old men and women,
middle-aged and young people, in the
river. Long before the hour arriveel for
the immersion the town commenced pour¬
ing forth its citizens til! the bunk*of the
river on cither side was a mass of hu¬
manity. His meetings are the events of
the season. ■ IHb
The hotel-keepers of New Orleans.
who have decided to employ white girls
as waiters, say they have m. trouble in
seem mg them, ,i and say „ that ,i , respe.Uhle , , , 11
famine** 9lnymt nttily for j>Iuc*<*»
tor tltfir <laugbl<*r*. TIm* girl* lila* (lie
work and give HiitUfaiiti n, l*oth to cm
phivt’ri* J»fld tlieir gue*t*s
NUMBER 3 /.
Three crazy persons, two negro women
and a white man, all of Ncwnan, Ga.
passed through Macon Thursday, ou their
way to the asylum at Milledgeville.
Singular to say, all three went crazy
through jealousy. The negro women ou
account of the infidelity of their hus¬
bands, and the white man from the mune
on the part of his wife.
The Knoxville City Council now has
in Knoxville with a capital of $5,000 or
more shall be relieved of taxation for
fifteen years. Atlanta, Chattanooga and
other Southern cities long ago adopted
this policy, \ and now have their reward
in extensive : and . paying . manufactories /
of various kinds.
Judge William Cothran was on his
way to Lexington, Miss., to hold Circuit
Court, when lie was suddenly taken sick
at Winona and died in a few hours. He
was seventy-five years old, and had been
Circuit Judge six years before the war.
He was elected by the people since the
war and was removed by Governor
Ames. lie was appointed in 1876 by
Governor Stone for six years.
The New Orleans Picayune 1ms some
statistics showing that before the civil
war the South had more taxable property
on her rolls than New England and the
Middle States combined. After thecon
test and live years of peace, she had sunk
$800,000,000 below the New England
States alone. In 1860 forty percent, of
all the real and personal property tis
sensed in the United States was in the
Southern States, while now they have
only ourtccn per cent.
Some English capitalists own 500,000
acres of land in Alabama, on tho line of
the Alabama Great Southern railroad,
which are very rich in timber nnd min¬
t-ruin and which they intend developing.
For the present chief attention will be
given to developing tho mineral resources
of those lands, which are almost hound
leas, hut tho farming interests will not
be neglected. Arrangements are now
making to induce immigration of En
lish farmers, and at an early day a num¬
ber will probably settle on the lands.
Dellville (Tex.) Times : W. E. Crump,
near his plantation on I lie Brazos river,
last week discovered an alligator on the
hank, some distance from the water. On
riding up quite close it reared up to at¬
tack him, when he dextrnusly threw a
strong rope over its head, and wheeling
his horse rode quickly off. The alliga¬
tor followed so rapidly that it were fully
a hundred yards before he succeeded in
tiglilning the rope nround his neck. Af¬
ter a desperate struggle Mr. Crump suc¬
ceeded in dragging hi* prize home, where
lie dispatched it at his leisure, ft
measured over ten feet. ^
A Water-Wheel 8tory.
Borne one tells tho following story,
which serves to point a moral: “There
were two men (in about 1888), Stick
penny and Whowell, who owned a saw¬
mill near Old Town, Maine, in common
The arrangement under which the mill
was operated himself was during that each had the mill
all to alternate weeks.
Stiekpenny Whowell was a mean, rusty old chap.
was a shrewd, mill investigating
young man. Tho was run by a
crude, rough kind of an undershot
wheel, that gave very little power for the
amount of water used, ho that, the water
was often short. Whowell wanted to put
in a new iron spiral-vent, wheel, then just
coming out, but Stiekpenny would have
nothing to do with it. He wasn’t going
to lay out money for any ‘such a job as
that.’ all Finally, the lulls, Whowell to which said Htickponny ho would at
pay List agreed, ‘hut provided put the
wheel iu in week.’ you Ho
your the new
wheel was put in, and Whowell, being of
a mechanical turn of mind, experimented
with it, and soon the found that by plugging
up some of orifices the saw went
through the log faster than when they
were all open. Ho ho plugged them up
during his week, and always Btiekpenny pulled the
plugs all out again it for to op¬
erate with, Hoou began to 1h> noticed
that somehow or other Whewcll always
managed to saw a oouple of thousand
feet more of lumber iu his week than
ever Stiekpenny could, no matter how
the was.
“Finally Wlieewcll Stiekpenny wont down to
see about it. Boys he, ‘Who¬
well, how is it that you mann'ge to saw
more lumber in a given time tlmn I can
when my turn comes round?’ Says
Whowell, ‘Don’t you know how that is?
Waal, I’ll tell you. It’s liecause you
ain’t been treatin’ of me fairly in this
matter. It’s iig’iu nature. You can’t
expect the mill to saw in* well for you as
it does for them as do the square tiling
all around.’ Stiekpenny wouldn't be¬
lieve that, and went away. But still the
mill went ou turning out regularly more
lumber for Wliewcll than Stick penny
managed to get out of it; so, Anall y, the
latter came round, and said, ‘What's
your hill? I’ll pay my share.'
“ Ho paid it, aud thereafter Htiek
lM-nny managed to saw lumber just as
lively as Whewell did. ‘Well,’ said the
old fellow, ‘I always knew that tho folks
•round here were nil ug’ln me, but I
never thought that the Almighty was ;'
and he died without finding out the ex¬
plication of it at all.”
—
Jones
“I don’t like Jones, » said •, u Hm>dgrna». i
„ N .. ho ^,,,1 „ fUjr amuse, “ 1 don’t
hko him. Tlui foot in, Jo&M Hpiinkn no
mudi of hinu^lf, tell* no much, you
know, that 1 m* do«feU*t h ave any r«K»m
fur the imagination.” Due* any rouder
koow Juucn?
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PIT1I AND POINT.
And now Lady falsehood, Godiva is said to be a
myth—a bare aa it were,
election Aotobs should be watched professional closely oa
day. They are re
pea ter*.
Some one inquires : “ Whore have all
the ladies' belts gone ?" Gone to waist
long ago.
If a mule had as many legs as a cock¬
roach this country wouldn’t be so thickly
populated.
ininal facilities,
A compositor who cannot agree with
bis wif « says he must have taken her
0 U l Ofth 0 r O gf ' mt -
...^hv is the discovery v of , tho , North VT , pole ,
like an illicit whisky manufactory? Be
cause it’s a secret atUl.
It requires but a short time for a
young lady out shopping to learn all the
countersigns of the dry-goods trade.
“ I cannot think,” nay! Dick,
“ Wlmt makern my anklea grow no thick.”
“ You do not recollect,” *ay« Hurry,
“ IIow great a calf they havo to carry.”
The Eye says it was a Bloomington
man who bit the nail on tho head, but
ho mourned the loss of a thumb by the
transaction.
From Adam they took a vibbone to
make fair woman. Fair woman has
been made up with ribbon ever since.—
Bloomington Eye.
Ls Physicians injurious now say that the telephone
to tho ear. We presume
nothing it’s the that strain docs of the listening harm. and hearing
One of the first requisitions received
from a newly-appointed “Send railway gallon station of red
oil agent for was the : danger lanterns.” me a
In Texas there is a township called
Gin, tho and in it the a town called Brandy, and
name of postoffice is Rummy.
No Stato could ask for anj'thing better.
A very disagreeable old gentleman
dies. A nephew, charged with the duty
of preparing regretted his epitaph, by nil who suggests :
know “Deeply him.” never
1 ‘A in’t that a lovely critter, John ?” said
Jerusha, as she stopped opposite the
leopard’s cage. then “ Wa’nl, yes,” said
John, “hut lie’s dreffully freckled,
ain’t he?”
“I think, dear, tho dew has com¬
menced falling,” “Yes,” ho said in his softest
accents. she yawned, “I’ve
been hoping to hear adieu for Borne time.
Ho didn’t call the next evening.
The Whitehall Timex says the fish in
Lake Champlain have been so long with¬
out water that when it began to rain, for
the first time in six weeks, they wore
seen running about with umbrellas over
their heads.
A young woman in Denver flung heis
self into a cistern, but sho was fished
out. A local paragrapher advised her
as follow.*: “ Cis iurn from your evil
ways.” But he won’t joke that way
when it comes cistern.
A poet usks : “ When I am dead and
lowly laid.....And clods fall heavy rue?”
from the spade, who’ll think of
Don’t worry. Tailors and shoemakers
have retentive memories, and you’ll not
be forgotten. —Norristown Herald.
Fate of a jilted In drink butcher to drown . bis
Hp tried care!,
And thore found no relief;
But duiiy tfrew morn woo-begon*»-~ grief.
You nevwr «au«a«c
At laHt hi# weary «*ul found rest,
Ui« aorrow* now are trouble* o’er;
Ko fickle maid now him—
Dork reaeher, ho’» no more.
One Sunday night we wore sitting out
in tho moonlight, unusually silent, al¬
most sad. Suddenly some one—a lovely po¬
etic-looking man, with a gentle,
fuco—said, in a low tone, "Did you
ever think of the beautiful lesson the
stars teach us ? ” We gave a vague, ap¬
preciative murmur, but some soulless
clod said, “No; what is it?” “How
to wiuk,” he answered, with a sad, sweet
voice.
_
Simple Language in Sermons.
In addressing the multitude, highly simplio
ity of language is always desir
able, there attaching being tho danger of the un¬
learned very different (and
sometimes and venr uwkwnrd) meanings which to
the grand careful clergymen uncommon words ho betrayed
even the pulpit. may those,
into using in One of
when in his study and in the act of com¬
posing a sermon, made use of the term
“ ostentations man.” Throwing himself, down
his pen, he wished to satisfy
ere he proceeded, of his congregation as to whether a great
portion prehend the meaning of the might said term, com¬
anil adopted the following method of
proof. Kinging tho bell, his footman
appeared, and was thus addressed by bia
master : “ What do you conceive to be
Implied ostentatious by an ostentatious sir?” said man Thomas. ?” “An
man,
“ Why, sir, I should say a perfect gen¬
tleman.” “ Very good,” said the Vicar,
“ lis,” Bend asked Ellis the [his Viear, coachman] “ what here.’ do “El¬ im¬
be you
agine on ostentatious niau to ?” “An
ostentations man, sir?” replied Ellis,
“ Why, I should say an ostentations man
meant what we calls—saving your pres¬
ence—a jolly good the fellow.” Vicar It substi¬ need
scarcely be told that
tuted a less “ostentatious" word.—
Chamber s’ Journal.
Crushed.
A dashing youn'g fellow was very at¬
tentive to a .young lady who secretly did
not favor his attentions, and little who brother was
blessed with an observing growth. Tho
of only a few summer’s
lady’s admirer was visiting her when
the little chap broke into their presence,
and, mounting tho dashing young man’s
knee, said: “Haven’t you got a fine
room?” “Oh, yes,” fellow, proudly whose replied vanity
the dashing young touched by the
vv u t evidently remark.
Seeing, as opportunity he thought, in the circum¬
stances an to make a favor
able mustache impression on the sister, he gave
his his reply an with extra twist, and rntor
atod fine room.” emphasis: "I thought "Oh so,”
yes, „md a wry liopoful, musingly,
the young
•• B„t what madeymi think*. ?’’ soul tho
young tin* time lady’i fully tuluiijvr, aroirnttl, hw curioadtjr H Beouuae, by
uu* Um crushing reply, “Binter Mug
m U\ your room wiw Utter tluin your
company,” rrr ...