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v j VOL. XVIII. ! ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER ll 188 6 PRICE FIVE CENTS CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR ALL. • We cell attention to our plan for distributing Christ mas presents to our friends, described on I ’ the last column of paga-six of this week’s issue. . Wo want every subscriber to sharo in theso Jireseiit'. V The plan is simple. You send us a now sub- . ■ scriber. Your name is at unco written on atag and put in our Christmas box. On January X, re the hoc is shaken and tho tags mixed up, and a \ coounittio draws out atag. The name on that I lag gets the $100 present. Tho 6ceond tag tho ’■ $60—and so on till all tho presents aro taken. „ Of course eviry person who sends n subscriber will not pet n present, but overy one WILL BAVK a s equal CUAKCK. Tho lady who sends ©Do-nlwribcr may get tho $JOO. (-OMKJtoiiY ecnr.i.v WILL. Why not you? Remember yonr name goes in onco for every subscriber you uad, and onco for your own subscription. If you send Arc aubscrilicra at ono dollar each you pet ono of our superb pictures freo. For II five xtjfscrlberi at $1.00 each, by adding fl.25, a - watch and chain. For ten subscribers at $1.001 ■ each, a watch and chain free. In each ? yonr nuuic goes in our Christmas box for ovory ~ you acud. r wo urge every subscriber to Is) repre- I in our Christmas box. There is not ono J.OOO subscriber-, this week who cannot t subscriber—that one subscriber may got ■ >100. The box is closed December Ulst, •i gntOptiy. J rir (Our: Story (Jorner - Gourlay Brothers. ’ V In a quiet streut oil* ono of the qulot squares $» lit the -Vicinity of Ilolboru, thcro ia n tall ’ gloomy house, with narrow, dusty window*, ^ and » JiiUFbivo double door, that still hears a . fanm-plnte with tho words “Gourlay Brother*” «nnrh\ td thereon. v.. The lower part of tho house was used as an office, hut tho blinds were rarely drawn up, tho deor.rcidora swung back to tho energetic push Ot ciif-tomers, tho long passage cehocd no hur- otsteps, and Ell Ifaggart, tho clerk, was luppctuanco tho Ulcht man ii©Lomloii, till | tame to know his maficis. * e Gourlay HrotJiers v.xre never any imsior tbclr faithful old servant—never hurried, kd, or worried; never Ute and never oft fly. nrningat 10 o’clock they eutor.xl their ;ether, read tliOir letters, glanoed at the . Jints, It ft instructions for possible caller*, and ' fbrn vent to the city. m • They always took the same route; at dev ' Ifetiy might "bo seen puanitig along tho sunny UdQ of < wnuon street, at ha.lf-p.i-t on ; they eu« v or winter, cmy working «l«v for thirty years tlioy had gone through tho same ** routine, always excepting tho month of Soptom- her, when they took their annual holiday. They were elderly men—John, tall, thin, rnclancholy.looking, with light gray eyes •canty I air and whiskers, and a general expfos- *, alonofdmbncss pervadiug his whole flico and . faultUssly neat attire. Roger was shorter, Lrounder, more cheerful and generally warmer In color. His pervading hue was brown, keen i ‘ reddish eyes that must have been merry onco, i crisp auburn hair that time had not yet quite * inaamuUd to silver, a clean-shaved ruddy fa re, and brown hands ful 1 of denta and dimples, r j John was tho elder, still ho looked up to Roger L-wiih grave respect, consulted him on every K subject, and never, either in or out of bud new, took any step without his approval. And ):«>gcr was no less deferential; without atiy pro* ft ssioti of nfilet ion, or display of feeling, the (iourlay Brothers dwelt together in dosest friendship and love; their life was a long har mony. and during all the fears of theiri ■ a nership no shadow had fullon between I I : nnd their public life was m harmonious as their * .private Intercourse. In business they were § wccewful, every speculation thoy mado pros-J il pered, everything they touched turned to gold; and as their whole lives were spent lu getting, ( not tnding, they were believed, and with , reason, to l»o Immensely wealthy. ‘ Cold, haul, gtern, enterprising,” men callod them; with an *>. acuteness or vision and a steadiness of , only to lie acquired by loug and close i.. tion to business. Resorvea in manner, afraplo I - In their tastes, economical! a their habits, the ' 'Gourlay Brothers were tho last men in tho world to be suspected of sentiment tbeir lives t In' least likely to contain oven the twain of a remain o. And yet thoy had not been always mein business machines; tho sole aim aud end • of their existence had not always been money. In early years they had had brighter dreams, r< nobler Ambitions. r / At arhool John had • distinguished hiiusolf.l j and hlvbrU f university career gave promlso ofl . a brilliant future. Roger had boon a bright, i v ardent 1 «y, with a taste for music that was al most a portion, and a talent little start of * genius. With his deep earnestness, intensel very ingnv tor sue Dresners; mere wi to prevent andtverythlng to amisi o LjfrJtowjoK his inclination. But In Jjo \ > VT i heir career their Cither died,and | idiners of purpose, and clear, vigorous Intel- iv Ifet John could scarcely have railed to make a . Vtl htlpguifhed lawyer. Roger was a bora artist, with a restless, lofty ambition. Life seemed very bright for tho brothers: there was nothing > assist each in j very dawn nd they were '^ddeLly reduced from affluence to actual pov erty. Nothing remained from the wreck of a magnificent fortune but the bitter experience . that always accompanies such reverses. Fine t t> lends failed them, flatterers looked coldly on their, distress, ‘those who had most frequently purtnkm of their lsvfth hospitality passed by - in tho ether side. Not a friend remained in •?a thi ir adversity but one, and she had Indeed t the will but not the power to help them. The leys left college and turned their thoughti to L ubinc. 5. It was hopeless to attempt to follow «P their professions with an invalid mother . and klo’lxed only sister depending on them for euppcit. John secured a situation as clerk in a city varchoore; Roger accepted a desk in tho ©filet* rf Bernard Burnell, an old friend of his fatLci*J. They moved to cheap lodgings, and for several years plodded on wearily, the only gleam vf enntblno in their altered home being the cmsfanl visit* of Alice Bmwell to their Bister. Maude Gourlay and Alice had boon school fellows and friends; they usually spent their vacation* togeth r, aud Alice felt tho mis fortune that had (alien on tbeir family as if it had overtaken her own. But she could do nothing except pay them flying visits, send trifling gifts of frnit and flowers, and write ' irettsv sympathetic notes to Mamie. _ _ A tern years of horiahip and poverty told on , >ir>. < burlap's always feeble frame- still for he r daughter’* sake she clang to lit.- with a stmt ge tcrucity; bat Mandeb lover, who had ' gone to Australia to make hU fortune, return d. Lot wealthy, but snflidently so to elaiar his . bride in her altered cirramstsinva, Mw.<?ucrfay u • xu <1 to Lave no. other object to live toe. - lUt.cVs marriage was hastened, and the very day after the rcrenumy. the poor, weary, : bn. lur-hearted mother ditd. George Leslie 'took, his wife back with him to Sydney, and John and Roger Gourlay were literally alone in tho world. As if in bitter mockery of their loss and! loneliness, immediately after their mother's death the brothers inherited a small fortune. But it was too late for John to go back to his studies, too late for Roger to return to his piano; -they had follen Into the groove of busi ness, and John at least was seized with a fever ish eagerness to tnra his small fortuno into a large one and become wealthy. So they went Into business on tbeir own scconnt as Gourlay Brothers, with the firm resolution of retrieving the position their father had lost, nnd a very few years sow them established In Whittier street, and fairly on the high road to fortune. Then, one quiet rammer evening, as thoy sat] over their dessert, John opened his heart to his brother and told him of his hopes, dreams, and ambitions for the future. “Yon will bo surprised, and I trust plowed, I (o hear, Roger, that I lovo Alice Russell,” ho said, laying his hand on his brother's arm; “I can|hardly remember tho time when sho was not dearer to mo than all tho world besides. Tl;c bitterest part of oar misfortune to mo was that it separated me from her; the only thing -that has sustained mo through our long strug gle was tho hope of some day winning her; nothing else can ever compensate mo for the ruin of all my hopes and glorious ambitions. 11 onco dreamed of being frmous. Roger; for her fake I put that behind me, nnu have grubbed for gold like a miser. We, Gourlay Brothers, are on tho high road to fortune; I may aspire to the hand of Alice “.Surely, John,” and the . voice was husky, and his ■ ^ ■ took up his glass; *1 drink to your success." ‘Thanks, brother. I should have told you all this before, I should have confided in you, but I feared trembling yon on my account,* you would have seen a thousand shadows across my path, you would have been more nnlnippy Ilian I was xnvsclf. And now I want yon to promlso' that it shall make no difference between us.' We shall be Gourlay Brothers still?” Roger stretched bis hand across tho-table, and John grasped it heartily. “Gourley Broth ers to the end of the chapter, old fellqw; .aud may yon be as happy at. you deserve. God biOss you, John I” John's face became a shade or two paler with, emotion, and he ttalked up nnd down tho room a ft w times; then he stood behind his brother’s ehait. . “Roger, yon will think me very weak, very nervous, but I dare not speak to Altec myself. I could not endure a refusal from her. I havo never even given her tho most distant hint of my feelings. I have not tlio slightest renrion to suppose that she regards me m other than a mere acquaintance, at most ns Maude’s brother. Roger, we have always boeh friends ns well as brotherv-stand by me In this; you are less shy aud^pnro accustomed t<* women; Alice for lne; «?k lu r to be my win-.’’ “John, you're mail! Van do not mean it!” “I do; it is my only chance, l’lcad for ray lutofrineepi brother, as I would plead for yours; I nin n nuin of few words, but I feel deeply. A nm her lips would kill me; I could *r< fWatl i beivr it ft bis face from the light. “I'll call on Alico to morrow.” The next day was the longest of John Gour- •lay’s life; a bright, warm, happy day, that made people, even in tho city, look glad and cheerful. Ho went about his hnrincan as usual, ate his luncheon, and walked homo lcinurely. Roger waa standing at tho window watching for him. and ho kept his back to him whuu ho entered the room. “Well,” John said gently, “Well, Bogor, havo you icen her?” H'Wes. 1’vo seen her.” and Roger faced round Suddenly; “John, ola fellow, it’s no nsol” “Brother l” auu ho lifted his baud as if to ward off a blow. “It’S no use,” Roger went on, in a hard voice; rhe docs not lovo yon. Sho lores some ono rife. Be a man, John, and bear it, for there’s no hope.” * Ono low, stifled groan, and then John Gonr-I lay wrung his brother's lmml and walked I steadily but of the room. What he suffered in the hours that followed no ono ever know, and when he appeared at the dinner-table ho was calm and tclf-poaseMcd, hut aometbing had either come into his face, or gouc out of it, thn altered him. Bat of the two Roger looked tht most pnhappy. Tho blow had really fallen I most heavily on him. “Jack, old fellow, we’re Gourlay Brothers now, to the end of the chapter,” he said huski ly. “I know you’ll never ninrry, nnd neither will I;” and somehow John felt that Roger meant what be said. Twenty-five years passed by—a quarter of a century of changes and chances—and still the Gourlay Brothers held the even tenor of their n i They were rich beyond their wishes or res, and not altogether unhappy In their I solitary friendship. Altec Russell seemed to have drifted completely out of their lives; her nnme was never mentioned, and whether sho wss married or dead they did not know. One morning, about the middle of September, they were walking along tho King's Road, at Brighton, whither they had gone for their an nual holiday. Roger entered a shop to purchxso something, anil John stood outside looking dn study at the passers-by. Suddenly ho start*! nnd advanced a step, ass lady in an invalid chair was wheeled by. Chancing to look up, aho met bis glance with a srailo of recognition. “Mr. (iourlay, it surely ia—U must bo you. I am so glad tome yon 1” “And I to* meet yon,” John said, with a coot- (ecus bow. “I have not the pleasure of knowing ” “My name—I am Alice Russell still,” she said frankly. At that moment Roger appeared. For an instant the blood forsook his ruddy face, while a hot crimson flush rose to Alice's pale check mshe tried to stammer out some wotd^of greeting. Roger was no less conftiscd, and tho expianlon of both frees was a revelation to John Gourlay. He felt as If theworld had suddenly drifted away from him and he was loft solitary in come unknown infinite space. But there was nothing of that in bis voice u he asked Alice for he r address, and permission to call upon her in the afternoon; then taking hia brother by the aim he led him away, and they continued their walk without exchanging a single word about the strange encounter. In the afternoon John called at Miss Russell’* hotel, and in a few moments he found himself seated beside her in a pleasant sitting-room overlooking the sefl. “Alice,” he said, plunging into the subject at orce, “do you remember a conversation you hail with my brat lu r a Icng time ago 1" I “Yea, I remember, Mr. Gourlay,” she replied, •adly. “He mode a request tot me then which ft was not in yonr power to grant, I am come to make a similar one for hia now. Roger loves yon, Alice. He hac loved you all tiMaelr.ng weary years, though yon will at leas; believe I did not know It then.” “Poor Roger r Alice said, auftiy.^ “Yon care about him? yon will make him happy even aft this late hour? Tell me, Alice, It? Imt. lovrf Mm linn UKw*li I <XM not know that h« and .boat mo, .nd If tho little life that i. loft me am mike him Inppiar, II «m drrot.lt to Um «bdl]r. *rmdl| Kiger! You see I »m toaoldf.rpr Mr. Gourlay, and I fear I am dying; therefore I toll yon all.” “Dying, Alico ? No, no! yon will live many { tan yet, I hope, to make my dear brother .ppy—brave, loyal, great-hearted Itygcr! Let mo tend Mm to yon now, and Alico, for my old and tong affection’, take mako him happy. IIo deter vea it, and tint U tbo only way I can over lu lpto repay tho devotion of hfallfo.” "I love him," Alico replied limply, “I cannot do any more.” In their lodging. John Gourlay found hn brother paring icetemly np and down. “Soger, I havo found out your meret and hen," ho aid, laying both hia handa on hi. choulderr, “loyal, nlthital Mend, go to her; Hie luves you; ahe ia waiting for yon." “l’oor Alico! how iho must have (nOTorod “How we all have .ulfered: hat it', nearly over now, Soger—tho grief, pain, regret. In .11 clear and bright Soger, dear Mend, can you forgive me?" “Forgive yon, John? ny rather can yon for give luo?” • "Truo to the hut!" John murmured, ia ho wrung his brother's hand. “Now, Roger, go to her; sho ia waiting for yon, Sho loves you— love, you, Sogotl Good-bye, and may yon both he happy!" Late that evening, when Sogor Gourlay re turned homo, full of deep, quiet gladness, ho found hie brother alttiug In an easy chair near tho window apporently asleep. The foil moon ■lame down on hia pale foee, and ahoarod a smile on hi. lira; hia band, were ctaapod on an own book that restod on hia knee. Tho atti tude was life-like, hut at the very first glauco lieger felt that his brother was dead. Tho doctors aald ho bad died of dlsoase of tho heart. I’crhap. they were right. More pcopio die of that malady than tho world knowa or. A TRAGEDY OF EVIDENCE. [Wilkie Collins lu Yonth’a Companion.] At that mcmorablo period in tho early his tory of the United Stales when American cit- Iwna resented tho tyranny of Georgo tho Third and tils parliament by destroying a cargo of taxed ten, a Bristol trader arrived in tho har bor of Beaton, haring ono pamengor on board. Tills person wns a young Englishwoman, named Estiirr Calvert, daughter of a .hopkeepor at Cheltenham and ulcco of tho captain of tho ship. Kor land 1 , - associated with a deplorable public event— which hvl shaken her attachment to her na tive land. Free, at a later period, to choom f'. i herself, she resolved on leaving England ns recii as employment could bo found for her ill another country. After a weary Interval uf expectation, the sea-captain had obtained u situation for Ida niece ia housekeeper in tho family of Mrs. Andcrkln—a widow lady living In Boston. Esther 1 dntii a during tbo long Intelligent, modest nnd sweet-tempered, sho roon beeamo a favorito with Mrs. Andorkln and the till tainrs Of tier young family. Tim - Til- dim ‘ouml but ono ifliilt with the new house- hup* r; luSpn-c.—-■<! inTltfinl)l)tSHt 1 - L l black aril it nils fmpOMiiblc.tn provuli upon her to give the canso. It was known that sho was an oipbau, and sho lint] pcknowlegod that no relations nf licrs bail recently died—anil yet sho pi-relsled ill wearing mourning. Homo great grici'had evidently overshadowed the life the gentle English housekeeper. .tin tho day before ho sailed on bis homeward voyegc tlio Bcn-rnptain called to take leavo of Iiia niece—and ihcn nskbd if ho could also pay hia uspcels to Mrs. Andorkln. Ho wan in- fortred that tl . Irnlv ef tlio house hod gone- out. but that tho governess would bo happy to receive him. At the interview whioh followed they talked of Esther, nnd agreed so well la their goed opinion of her that tho captain tmid a long visit. Tho governess had per- Minded him to tell tho.tory of his niece’s wasted life. Hut he insisted on one condition. “Jfwehadbetnin England," ho »ld, “fl should havo kept tbo matter secret for the rake e-f Hit firmly. Herein America, Esther is a stranger—here iho will stay—and no alar will be east on the fcmily name at home. Hut mlml ono thing! 1 treat to yonr honor to tike no oneinto your confidence—excepting only the mistress of tho honso." More than ono hundred years havo passed since theae words were spoken. Esther's sad litcry may be harmlessly told now. tn the year l?tu a young man named John Jennings, employed os a waiter at a Yorkshire Inn, astouIHrcd hia master by announcing that he was engaged to be married, and that he I puiposrd retiring from service ou noxt quarter- day. Further Inquiry showed that tho young woman’s name was Esther Gal vert, and that Jennings was greatly her inferior in social tank. Herfirthrr'aconaent to tho marriage depended on her lover'o success in rising ia tho world. Friends with money were inclined to trust Jennings and to help him to start a bati- I neu of bis own. if Miss Cslyert's father would do aometbing for the young people on hia aide, lie made no objection and the marriage en gagement waa sanctioned accordingly. Or.e evening, when tho Is it days of Jen- nlng's servlco were drawing to an end, a gen tleman on horseback stopped at the inn. In a state of great agitation Lo Informed the land lady that he was on bis way to Hull, but that Iho bed been so frightened ft to mako it impos sible for him to continue hil Journey. A high- wsytsan had robbed him of a pores containing twenty guineas. The thief taw (ss usual in thoco days) was concealed by a mask; and there was fcnt one chance of beingjng him to jastteo. It wss tho treveUcr’a custom to place a private mark ou every gold picto that he carried with him on s Journey: and the stolen guineas might possibly he traced in that way. | The Isndlow (one Mr. Brunei!) attended on ^■ttsnpper. Ilia wife bad only that rjd him of the robbery: and be had a circumstance to mention which might lead to Ithc discovery of tho thief. In theAretplaee,bow- ever, ha wished to ask at what time the ertmo had been committed. Tho traveller answered that be bad been robbed lata in the evening. Juntas it was beginning to gat dark. Ou hearing tMs .Mr, Bread! looked very ranch [dift raved. . “I have got a waiter ben named Jennings." he raid, “a man inporior to his station In life- good mannen and a tairedaeaiion—In fact, a general favorite. Bat for some little time past II have obeerved that he haa been rather freo I with his money in bedltag, and that habits of Idrinking have grown on him. lam afraid he is not worthy ef the good opinion entertained of him hy myaelf anilby other persona This evening I sent him out to get some small stiver for me, giving him a galuee to change. He came back intoxicated (riling mo that ebango was not to be bad. I’oidered him to bed—and then happened to.lookat the guinea which hi I bad brought beck. Unforlurutaly I had not at that time heard ef tbeiabbiwr, and I paid the guinea away with some other money In eetticmentaf a tradesman's account. Bat this II am are of—there was a mark on the guinea which Jennings gave hock to me. It la, of course pebble that there might have been a mark (which reaped my notice) on the guinea which I took oat of toy parse when I seat for cbiuife.” “Or,” Ike traveller eoggeated, ‘it may have is®?afiSfflWsvs; K rtend of the guinea handed to him by yourself. Do you think ho is asleep?" “Sure to in asleep sir—in his condition." ““Do yon object, Mr. Brunei!, after what you liavo told me, to setting this matter at rest by searching the man'* clothes?" The landlord hesitated. “It seems hard on Jennings,*-be said, “if wo provo to havo been suspicious of him without a cause. Can yon speak positively, sir. to the mark which you put on your money?" Tho traveler declared that he could swear to Ms mark. • Mr. Bnmoll yielded. Tlio two went up together to the waiter's room. Jcnnfn|- was fast asleep. At the very oat- ret of the fregth they found tho stolen bag of money in Ms pocket. Tho gninoas—ninotqen in number-mid n mark on each ono of them, and that mark tho traveller identified. After this discovery there was bat one eoarso to tnko The waiter’s protestations of imioconco when they woke Mm and accused him of tho rob- hery wore wurds flatly contradicted l * ' Ho was charged before a magistrate v theft of tie money aud. as a matter of conreo, waa committed for trial. The circumstanoci wore a strongly against Mm that Ids own friends rrcotmncndod Jen nings to plead gifilty and appeal to tho morey of the court. Ho refused to follow their advice and ho was bravely encouraged to persist in Hint decision by the poor girl, who briievod hr his Innocence with her whole heart. At that dreadful crisis in iter Ufe she secured the best legal assistance, ami took from her littlo dowry the money (hat raid the oxpenscs. A11 lie next assizes tho care was tried. Tho pro ceeding! Be fore the jodgo were a repetition (at great h net h and witli more solemnity) of tho proceeding- before tho magistrate. No skill In erors examination could shake tbo diroct state ments of; tl-o witnesses. Tho evidence wns made absolutely complete by the nnpcaranca of tho ttadesnan lo whom Mr. Hruncll had l-a-i the marked guinea, Tliocoln (so marked) was it e-tirioelly; tho man had kept it, and ho now product-l it in mart. Thejndgosnmmed up. find ing literally notldng that bo could say. as an hom-rt man, in favor of tlio prisoner. Tho Jury rcIm-ntdiwrrdlctorKUilty, nfter a consults- tii n which was n matter of form. Clrarcroir- rumstaBtlaFerfdenco ofgnlU had never (icon piodnrrd in tho opiuion of overy pciapn-but one—who was present nt tho trial. Tbo sentence on Jennings for highway robbery mar, by the iawofthoso days, deal h on tho affoid. ■ J5F ” Friends were found (o help Estlior in tlio but effort that tho faithful creature could now make—the attempt to obtain a commutation of the rrnlcnc". She was admitted to an Inter view with the homo serre-tary, and bur; -: it I On was prifenttd to Iho king. Hero, again, tbo Indisputable evidence forbade tlio oxe-re-Iso of mrrey. Esther's betrothed husband was hanged at Unit. Ilis lust words declared his innocence —with tho rope around his neck, Before n year lmd passed tlio ono poor conso lation that she could liopo for in this world found Esther in her misery. Tbo proof that Jennings hud died a tnytyr to the fallibility of human justice wm made public by tbs snnT-s- eion of tt-o -r-jiltv man. Another iriudiiat trial t. t il- asa'-es The inndtord of nn was found guilty of liiivitig Hloleu Iho -erty of n peraon staying ill Ids house, it .slated in evidence' Unit Ibis war not bis first offense. Ho lmd Iiccn luhitually r robber ou tlio highway and Ids immo was Brio mil. The wretch confessed that ho was tho masked highwayman who bad stolen tho bag of guineas. Biding by a nearer way than was known to tho traveler, ho hnd reached tho inn first. There ho found a person in trade waiting by appointment for tho settlement of a bill. Not having enough money of his own about him to pay tbo whole amount, Brtmcll had mado nso ofonc of tho stolen guineas, and had only hoard tho travclcrdce-laro that Ills money was nvirke-1 alter the tradesman had left the honso. To ask for tho return of tho fatal guinea wns more than hodaml to attempt. Hut one other alter native presented ttsolf. The inorcllnn villain insured hia own reCsty by tho sacrifice of an Innocent nun. After thn time when the sea-captain had raid hia visit at Mrs. Andorkid’s house, Esther's position became subject to certain changes. One littlo domestic privilege followed another re gradually and so modestly that tho house keeper found bsnOlfa loved sod honored in am ber of tho family, without being alilo to trace by wlut racces»lun of events she- had risen to the new place that sho oosupied. Tho socret confined to the two ladies had been strictly preserved; Either never even suspected that hey knew tho deplorablo story of her lover’s death. Her life; after what she hail aufibred, was nut prolonged to a great age. Bho died neon-folly, unconchms of the terra of death. Iter last words were spoken with a smiio. Bho looked at the loving friends assembled ronml her lied, and said to them, "My dear one is waitiug for me. Good hy.” HEADY TO FIGHT Ijacksohvii.i.e, Fla., December For sev eral months lost, accenting lo reliable informa tion which haa Just reached tills city, bod fuel ing has existed between the Bemlnolo Indians in Dado and Monroe counties, in tbo extremo southern portion of the state, and a band of -et-w-loyi enramped on Lake Okeechobee. The ■cow-boys tend the bents of the south Florida rattle kings, and the Indiana claim they have been driving otr and killing their cattle and hogs. Dimands ef redress were met by the ccw-heys with threats of a resort to bullets. Thrco weeks ago the exasperation of tho In- diaua reached a climax, and several shots were atchanged, but whether with fktal effect is not known, tvardaueea have boon danced la the everglades during tho past two weeks, and the bueke are said to have donned their point and fiathers. Many of the settlers have removed their families to the lsltuds along the const for mfety. The scene of the trouble is remote from rail- rad aud telegraphic communication and aocur- •te particulars are slmost unobtainable. It Is reported, however, that a delegation of Indian chiefs are en route to Titusville, tbo nearest, town of any else, to lay their grievances before g mayor, whom they look np to os a big t, and erroneously suppose invested with power lo suppress tbo outrages. IIo can do nothing but notify tke federal government. Whether he has done so ie not known. A gentleman who has Just returned to this city from Titotvilie leys the poopla on the out- rkfrtaofthe everglades four that a nmn ere of [the Whites will result if tho trouble is not ad justed within a few days. The settlers claim I that the Bemlneteo can master five thousand |fl|drtere..8hoaj|fco)r p on thowa^.tlirir l>r<rr»lon would M zlisost in iuipo*vDiiiiy, the everglade swamps art almost Impenetra ble to toy one but the Indian in habitants, Bhould news of an Indian outbreak reach tbo Ai-arhrs at Fort Marion and Pickens, It Is fear ed they might btcomo dangerously reetivo, though escape would be difficult If not impact. WILLIAM WAILS, nut Arp Looms 00 IS Uses], Bettis Is KM as Ota snd Serves is He Would UM to to-An Arm run or word ends oprsiusd Anus ou ofths Hi tolls of tho naotv atone. lie Wanted Full Credit, A benevolent yooag lady, who had for a long time sought to convoy eome lasting mr,ml Ms- Kras to young bojeettbe north cad eho tied been gathered teu her siregw Miofti allk sae ofthayoangMare recently, referred to the death of hia brother, a bon ho Hole up In a tone cipreastvo ofprifie end eraiui«uii»; “Ob, that ain iaii tho <«ad I got; l lia<l*iotbCf brother diq »ijMI« agp.’ lam not calm nnd screno by nomoanx Wo aro passing through great tribulations In theso parts. Iramohomo Saturday night with a driving alert in my free bnt I knew there was a light In the window for mo and. so I endured it with resignation and hopo. Domestic lovo and acheerfol fire Boon thawed mo out and we talked abont tho beantifol snow and over and anon surveyed IU myriads of tailing flakes from tho windows and tho children wore happy. But I am an old coon about sneh things now, and wish I had Aladdin’s lamp to lift ns all np and set ns down in Florida for a season. The fonts nil ovor and tho novelty too. Sunday morning I waited patiently for John. John makes tho lira hot John didn’t romo to time. Ho llvea half a mtlo away and whon I rose for ward and looked out upon tho taco of n.-iforo, I saw that tho beautiful'snow wo i deep, very deep, and it occurred to mo that John n-usuow- cd under and wasn’t coming. Tho wood and thdightwood Was in Uio woodhouso nnd tho drift was two foot deep midway, mid so I trad to wade for fool. I'think tlioro was loss on ill it limn most anything I ever undertook; tut in course of tlino I got a good lire made, and was happy. There was nnllghltvood split, andnonx;.John lmd carriod tun ux homo witIi li 1 in -1 in- inipi-ovidctil scump. Strange lo ray, I found tho long-hnudicd shovel where it belonged, nml I begun to nso it. I worked bant and fast, (hoveling tho beautiful snow out of tliopnihway to tho wood house, nnd off tlio steps, anil out of tho buck plur/a nml down to tbo lot gale, mill from there to tho alablo gate, amt from there to tho corn crib; nml so firth, nml vo on. Not a goto or a door could ho op.-uod til I bad cion red a way, nml my feet trero wet and cohl, and iny upper story all hot and tiled, sml I hnd to como to Um hnuso and hunt up old shoes nml dry socks, and rocoivo it big lot of— domostio sympathy, A g.iotl break- hist and hot colliio restored me, and so 1 tuckel- cd tin- txsiutiful snow again aud^nailo a walk lo tlu- spring, and fed the stock ; ami evory few si looked up tlio road for John. In of timo I got everything dnho that Mil lo ho done, ami ivoa alnnit glad that Ihoil nobody to help mo. What acorn- fort tlioro lain tho reaction after you havodoiio a work of finty yourself, jttow much cislcr it is to do a thing ivhou ywi know you have got it to do, anil there is no substitute to e ill All day Bunduy 1 foil manly onfrhoa. I swung tlio big sticks of btckoiy wood upon any patliiuefiai shollltior and w.uhllod r-refolly- and slowly np tho Stopianitri-plen- ivlird tin-gi ulnl tires. I apit only one fall, and .. slick went rolling one why and T Wont sailing unother. Tlio liimio aluok with tin) shuck, nml lay fcmnlo family tliouglil it tvvs an eartfaqnakosud ran to tho rescue-, hut I rallied t*i my work and showed them wimt is meant hy tlio sunlrnl of thu fittest. TJtcro ia no innocuous desuetude about ms when trouhio conies. In abont half an hour I found that my ankle was sprained, and I couident tocorauto, ami 1 began to look up Uioroad again for John. Thoy bathed tho swollen Joint with kcroseno and camphor and mustang, nnd I grunted around smartly nnd got bettor. I do lovo to grant aud take on. It dure iat as much goad ns It does children to ciy, and I always did bellovo in letling children cry when they got hart. It li the best sort of medicine. All day Bundsy and Monday nnd Tuesday there was not a track ill the big road—not a sonl went by or came in night. Thcro was some rabbit hunting In tbo i naborbond, Imt it didn’t last long, for iho huntonemildsnt travel any better tlian the rabbits,- Rowland trlml It, but hn soon foil in a gaily, that wav deeper than bis head in snow, and i could hardly gnt out. 1 loeaanred the gmoral avprsgo with nu Iren square and it wss sixteen Inches. The like or It has ncrar been Men In this genera tion, and I hope will never bo again. Enough of a thing u enough, and too muck is the greatest plenty. Wo can’t go anywhere. My w ifo sold tho lard was out and wo would havo to send up to nabor Freeman's for some. ''Bond who?' thought I. There's nobody bore toseud but me—no man, no hoy. I’m the only boy now, and I don't sea how I can get to Nabor Freemon’s, It will tako mo an hour to shovel tlio snow away from the two gates. Iran’tcllmhtho fem e for It Is barbed wire ami I will get caught Ion It and dung there and there Is nobody to como and unhang me. It Is a quarter 'to Na bor Freeman's and I'm a duck-legged sort of a man and don't heltaro I can mAka it, Hut sure enough Neighbor Freeman's folks got out of sugar and ho rigged np a sleigh and came down and we swapped sugar for lard, anil bo brought it down. Jlia two big mules could hardly null that sleigh down grade. 1 tried it with a buggy, and tho wheals gnt solid and then got oval sod one-sided and twisted and I wobbled every way, and wo had liked to havo J not got homo ngxlti# Well, tho next day I waded op to Bowlsnd's nnd borrowed an ax and sbovaied tho drift off I the wcodpiio and cut np sow wood and aome ligbtvrooa, and abont the time I got thrangh nnd waa Mowing for wind, I looked np the rood and Tsiw John earning with my ax on his shoulder. I thought first that I would gut my gun and shoot him, but I didn't. “What's Men the matter, John,”said l. “Haro yon been sick.” “No, sir, I haln’t been sick, but 1 is hnd do worst paina-de wont pains In my bead and my back and jintea to be snre, to ha sure. I try to git hare Bondar morning, bnt I cava in fore I git fifty yards, I did shore. No I slot been sick, bnt sick pains, sick paint. I knowd you want din ax, bnt I lowad you'd 't ’long somehow. I knowod if any man got .jng you could, and I tell my ola oman yon is do shiftiest nun I ober seed In nil my llfo and do beat one." Tbe old sly coon knew my wtekneas for e little flattery and so he laid It on thick. Well, we know now what they mean up north when they ray‘snowed under,’ but wo don’t fix up foritllke they do. Our folks would perish or frve/c if tbe IUM of this would last a month. Not half of oor people keep a smoke honso like wo used to before the war. We kill a bog at a, time at oar house. Whon wo want a cured ham we buy one. That is not tarmsr- llke I know, bnt wo do It. Wo sail oor wheat and boy floor, nod so when provisions got out and we can't send to town wo are in a bod fix. Tho town la In n bod fix too, for they get oat ot wood sometimes at.d free JO in. There are'poor folks In town now who are boning paling* and oldplank and hovering over a mighty Intlo fire. There are lots of folks who need spun lir.n to mako them provide forbo-l weather and hard times. I’ll havo MS good home-made «l.,lgh before an other sprit Wee this—set If I don't. This runny tooth will have to rhangv. Its name before long I neon it Is tlio yankecs moving down here and bringing their blizzards with tin ,o. imt we aro all rig'll now at our honso. We killed a tat thole this morning, and my folks are goii-g to mako about half of it into manage meat .. VVe can klU a sheep or a yeariln .Wheip wo want otto, and Mrs. Sicily- Mims can't be bent on Mg hominy. Bo let tbo beautiful snow prevail if It want* to. But hy aud hy will ccmo tho ugly Aiurlt nnd tlio roads will be awful. The very timo that Iho roads ought to bo tlio last they aro tlio worst, and It is all owing to tlio system. Tho system of road- working la lust the same it was fifty yoars ago. The hands aro called out ou n day's notice, and they dig and shovel around a day or a day and a half and call It dona. Tito next grand Jury gets after tho commis sioners and they get nfter tbo overseers and they call out tho hands again and so on. Noth- log thoy do la permanent. Tho roads ought to be worked by tuxut Ion, Imt a man should havo tbo option of paying Ids tnx or working it out nt a dollar n day. This law would get an in come from tho landlord*. I don't wot k, neith er do 1 pay, amt yet wo travel tlio road to town more than anybody, I ought to ho made ta pay II road tax on my land,and I am willing to pay If tho law is mads general My tenants all work tlio road, hut seldom travel It. 1 don’t work hut (ravel all tlio time, nml Dr. Felton ta In the samo fix. Thcro ought to ho a s ore of good able-bodied hands or convicts hJroil by the ■county to work tlio roads, and put thorn in charge of a matt who knows how it should be done. Won’t tho lcgMIuitiro pom a local option low on this suljcct, and let encli county choose Its own methoila. Floyd county ndopted the convict plan twelve year* ago, and hut tlio last roads in tho state. It is m luxury to drive over thorn. Tho whole system nnderonr l-rescut taw is wrougand hence imcquaiiy and i* hsnb-r on tl*,, poor than on tile licit and tho loud owners. 1 own half off n milo of road front, and Dr. Fottoh owns e mite on both sides and flhm Jones hstfu mtte, and neither one nf ns work nor scud a hand* The doctor nud 1 aro too old, and Dam Jones live* in town, Nul-nr Fn-tanan owns a floe farm r.cxt to mo, ami hn furuiahoa only one baud. N'alior Mnmfonl owns two splendid filial", worth, perhaps, twenty- thousand dol- hus, nml he works lot* of mulos and wagons, nud tnitiagi-snnd buggies, and sends ono hand to work tlio road, amt when hn gets n littlo older ho won't have to send auy. Those inns and lnai-nuncso mine* are teaming aai Is all tlio time, sod don’t solid a single hand, for tlio owner* live away off vanewin-re. i* a chance to clumgo tho system, And Iff mmiiudonrr* want tin, convicts lsOptheTA have them, t lood roads are what wo went. Ily taxed to support tho courts and tlio Jail nud other psoplo'a lawsuits bub we laid rather -be laved for goad wtladh. There nro two hail 1-nta between my lurase nnd town, and they will nT- y* bo had, oml yet twenty good hands ccmld make good roods around thorn lu one week and not inereuNo tlio dlstsnt-o. * v 1 was down to Millcdprvflto lust week, thAtei£, good old town of im-morica—grout memories—■ ’’’• tho old time honored oopitol, whoro the great,: statesmen of nnii-hcllnnr days wore wont fid*) oongroruito. x It is classic anil oqrasecnMa^ art,tit,d. My memory wont bock to tbedayeof Temp and Clark, and tho Crawfords, and John . it nnd Hcrrlaii, who were stars of tha £i*t magnitude, and who*, (Irsrglsni will nnror fnrgct. Then I came aloug down thu corridors f time to Utrir peers of another generation horn I personally know and roveronowf. wcnty-Onu years sgo 1 met them there, for wo Intel roiled for their ominsel in nu effort to ro- i-onstnict our shattered oommoawoalth. Thorn was Jtukins nml Cobb, amt Alock Htopluuisand his brother Linton, nud Toombs and Bon Hill and Horaohel Johnson,nnd nowliioy nro dead— all dead, Tho stnto hotiHo lots been couvcitcd into a college, nnd linn In I raining over BOO pupils, more In fact than any other college In tho stale, tli-ucml I), II. Hilrbicnutatlonia an educator and dis-lpli- narinn has already placed this institution anion/,- iho first ill tho ntato. Ho tvt-ar* well both mentally and phystcnlly. I lmd not seen him for tweuiy-threoy canmudho had not great ly changed. What a pure and notdo record Jim i i* since (lu- war. Would that all oar bravn generals lmil such an ono. Tbo uld MH'-,tab's honso is still in thn cor ner. If it could only tell all that It* trail* hare hull! iviint a history could bo written. Great men took bulging tline—nll tha great man off tho last generation, amt there was ntrategyand wit and anecdote and ulu<iucm o unsurpassed. Hut Millcdgovillc I* it, itltor ilsad or ttNloop. Sholsi-ryoyingnqiili-t and stialy prosperity. New InilldfnfBaro golu,; op sit thn timo, amt her pcopio aro calm nnd seme, A better hotel I have not found ’anywhere. And that alone, will giro a ! town a goosl reputation, I Jnurneyrd from Mlllcdgovillo to Gordon and olrlvgil before breakout, bnt not bs foro Tiigt'owirririrrioit of that mom- log's date had reached there. I thought surely it was yesterday's taper, but no It was today’* and I wss surprised anil delighted for it al ways routes as a welcome friend—oxcept whon tho hcauttfol snow cuts os uff from the railroad and llivu It don't come at all to us. You said you wished every subscriber would get o more and so I have got mine, notwlthstandli tho snow and herein ineleoe the name and the money. I hope you will lure tho first hundred tbouMudbyChrlitmasaml tho second byf hrMmso year. I know that the more subscribers you have tho better tin paper will be. BillAbp. AN BNOLI3H ROMANCE. Il Mhrprril wins the Heart . itor's Dslighter end Elnpe*. NAMnmxr, Teen., December 10.~[8poc!oLT Borne romantic incidents Hive come to light concerning Chalks l'hlppen. who; together with his son llowry, wrws killed in Stewart county, by ofleeiis, who were about to arrest them on the charge of cattle stealing. I’h/p- B n wrso an Englishman Ira birth and breeding. any years ago bo was, tlio hireling shepherd of a rich Englishman at thu Hatch honso, mills, in England, named Brestew. Remaining there a few months he won the heart of Ms msster’o daughter and In duced her to marry him and fico to America. About eighteen years ago Fhippen and Mo wife appeared at the fumberland iron works In Ktewrart county, and he was employed so a shepherd. Fhippen, wan a rough, unodn- oted, burly Englirhtnan, wbllo his wlfo wu* * iclinrd and seMniUra lady. FMppeo accu mulated considerable personal property. Ho then leased a IB# form f„r t.ujcir*. At tin, expiration of the leaso ho here,mo owner ami had added romhto his worldly p.eee*mims. l’hlppen had made many friends, some of whom see among ourbestcitizens, who believe that ho wsshonci-tand correct, while other good citi- rmiUlii many of his goods wore obtained hy dark and mysterious method*. In HJltx l'hlppen died, having in her nossesvion a num ber of lcltira from Queen Victoria, *1,owing theta friendly correspondence had bennatr- ritd on between her ttn-1 tbo queen for many year*—Ir. tact, ever stare her arrival In Tennessee. About two years later, FUfMO married XlrAMafgta Turner, of Ijifiyett-, Fy.» a most sstfrnabM lady, who rursives h!tu. Tha killing ir I’bipi-cn and bis son was most un fortunate, and white tho g„c«l people ot tbe oWynuMB Messrs. McAnloynudCoj'cy foe ti e indomitable energy and Mai they havo dtiptayed in ferreting out the organized bind of cow thieves who hare defied the ■tale's officers for the last decode, they think the killing was unncceiwtry and cculd have Men avoided. Tho coroner's jury rendered a verdict of felonious killing, —* * —-• placed lu the INDISTINCT PRINT