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A SUNSET BREEZE.
All of the livelong day there was scarcely a rustle of leaves.
The writhing river burned like a molten serpent of lire;
The reaper dropped his scythe, and the binder fled from Ills Sheaves,
And a breeze on the throbbing brow was tho world’s supreme desire.
When t ho disk of the sun dipped down there sprang from out of tho west
A sudden watture of wind that crinkled tho unmown grain;
The kino were glad In tho field, and the bird was glad on tho nest,
And the heart of the mother leaped that her prayer was not in vain.
For the sunset breeze stolo In with healing upon its breath,
Winnowed the fevered air with a single sweetening Sweep;
Out of the back-swung door slipped tho pallid angel of death,
And lo! as the mother knelt, tho baby smiled In its sleep.
— Clinton Scollard, ic tho Chautauqitan.
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IBS CAROLINE
/IV. Seovillo sat with
her sewing at a
~ Q 0°°J I round table in her
fiffr n dining-room. It
ii was early sum¬
i mer, and through
13 <L the open Frenoh
I l windows she
£ could look out
over New York
. Bay and see the
•5 church spires and
tall buildings of New York and Brook¬
lyn. Bho often laid aside, her work
and gazed at the blue water and the
great ships and boats that passed to
and fro upon it and at the far-away
cities. Indeed, this is what she was
doing when a gentle Itnock disturbed
her reverie.
"Come in! Oh, Sophia, it is you,
my dsat’i” she said, as a little girl of
twelve entered. “Sit down here, and
I’ll ring for Kate to bring you some
gingerbread. ”
With an air of extreme satisfaction,
Sophia drew up one of the old-fash¬
ioned mahogauy chairs and seated
herself at the table beside tho old
lady.
“And now,” > said , Aunt Caroline,
after Sophia had been supplied-with
two large slices of gingerbread, "shall
lt ho a talk or a story this afternoon?”
“A story,” replied Sophia, promptly,
“Well, then, I’ll tell you a story
about this table,” and Aunt Caroline
laid her soft obi hand on tho polished
surface of the table at wf.Au Lh.-y »at,
with IT was a V lte Piece H farm me-
it VS
uncle 3*&f
often sit here thl, Kon mV -raud
mother and. wonder Tiow d
t»? husband 'T“ and Arn; outy^ br 2 fl WR 1 ” -J,. 1 H u Sr..
..•nors in tho American army during the
A\ tu oi the Revolution. Her husband
was Major Deerfield and served in
Washington s army, while her brother,
Homy Dayton, was captain of horse
under Colonel James Ciintou, who, at
tho time the events I am going to tell
you about happened, was in command
oi certain posts in the highlands of the
Hut.soii.
“Grandfather and grandmother were
mavriod in the spring of 1775, and it
was about a year after, that affairs in
New York began to assume an alarm¬
ing aspect. Out on the bay lay a
British fleet, among them the vessel
honored by the presence of Governor
Tryon—how tiro good New Yorkers
hated him—aud a British army was en¬
camped on the Staton Island and Jer¬
sey shores.
“My grandmother, plucky though
she was, could not help feeling alarmed,
and 3he was overjoyed when Washing¬
ton arrived from Boston, where lie had
been turning tho British out aud re¬
storing tho Bostonians to their rights.
With Washington’s army came, of
course, Major Deerfield.
“For a time, tho arrival of Washing¬
ton put new heart into the New York¬
ers; hut iny grandfather meant to run
no risks where his wife was concerned.
Ono morning ho came from lieadqna !•-
tors to his house on Pearl street aud
found grandmother seated by the win¬
dow in her little boudoirs Her work
lay in her lap aud her elbows rested
on tlio table—this table.
" AVell, sweetheart,’ said ho, stoop¬
ing aud kissing her, ‘what ails you?
Idle eo early in the morning?’ Then
he sat down beside her aud they both
looked out of the window down the
bay; aud he counted the British ships
in sight, and pointed out to her our
fortification on Brooklyn Heights and
showed her that if tho British once
wrested this post from us, Now York
would then—and be directly under their noses,
‘and then,’said ho, ‘there’d
be the deuce to pay.’ And he told her
that he thought it would be better for
her to go out of town, away from the
turmoil aud confusion aud possible
dangor until thiugs in the city had bo-
como qniet and peaceful again. Iu
fact, he said, he had already taken
measures to this end, aud hail ob¬
tained leave of absence from his regi-
mont long enough to allow of his plac¬
ing her in safety with some good, re¬
liable Dutch people, who lived on a
farm about thirty miles up the Hud¬
son. My grandmother did not want to
go a bit; for, in leaving Now York: she
would not only bo cutoff from all com¬
munication with her husband and
friends there, but would lose the
chance of getting news of her Brother
Henry, from whom she had heard
nothing for many weeks. Howover,
grandmother was a sensible woman,
and, making tho best of a sad necessi¬
ty, said she was willing to go.
“Major Deerfield had arranged that
they should leave the city next morn¬
ing, and an escort of ten men had been
provided. Traveling at that time was a
perilous undertaking without an armed
escort, as one -was liable at any mo¬
ment to encounter a party of British
foragers or a band of native maraud¬
ers, unscrupulous aud rapacious.
“Grandmother’s room at tho farm¬
house was made quite homelike by fur¬
niture and knick-knacks she brought
with her from tho city. Among them
was this table, which she would nut
lift VO consented to leave behind on any
account* Her life in tho country was
not unhappy, though she longed for
news of her husband and brother.
However, it was just as well that she
could not know of the dreadful thiugs
that were happening in the city, as the
knowledge would have increased her
anxiety ten fold. Washington was
disheartened at the turn affairs had
taken. His enemies were overpower¬
ing in numbers and their ranks were
rival constantly being increased by the ar¬
of fresh troops. Poor man, he
saw dire disaster staring him iu the
face. His own forces seemed little
calculated to cope successfully with
those of the well-trained, well-equipped
enemy.
“But I am going ahead of my story.
It was about six weeks after her ar¬
rival,at the farm that a little daughter
was born to my grandmother, And
this baby was my mother, How
grandmother longed to show her now
treasure to her husband! But there
was no way even of getting word to
him that the baby was there. One day,
as she lay on a couch with her three-
weeks’-old baby in her arms, she heard
au unseal commotion down stairs,
and-the voice of the farmer’s wife
lotidlp about. ordering the maids and men
“Get , ut Hie covered wagon, Peter.
You, Caroline, celkM aiV pro-
the ' Uol J foytste P s sounded 9, u
mothtT’ m • as ,,cxt jkk '
-
q,c«l«, pale and excite,!.
“ ‘Madame,’ she said, ‘there ia
a
party iug of ruffians bent on plunder com-
up the road. They have robbed
and burned tho Allens’ house, three
miles from here, and are driving bo¬
fore them the horses and cattle they
have stolen. It is not safe for us to
romaiu here.’ While she spoke the
good woman helped grandmother to
dress. Then they gathered together
what small articles of value they
could, and, wrapping the baby in a
shawl, descended into tho yard where
the wagon stood. Scarcely had grand¬
mother been helped into it than loud
shouts and yells announced tho ap¬
proach of the pillagers. The Dutch
woman and her maids clambered into
the wagon beside my grandmother
and her baby. Tlieu the farmer
cracked his whip and the whole party
were jolted swiftly down a steep hill
and across the fields to tho welcome
shelter of the woods, into whose depths
they drove for some distance.
“Half an hour later the farmer,
who had been reconnoitering, re¬
turned to the fugitives in a state
of great agitation and excitement to
say that his house was in flames.
“How dreadful,” exclaimed Sophia.
“And wore theso British soldiers?”
“No, my dear; they were not sol¬
diers at all. Tories, they called them¬
selves when plundering Americans.
But they really belonged to neither
aide, and veered from party to party, Weil,
as it suited their wicked ends.
the marauders remained in tho vicin¬
ity several days, during which time
our little party was afraid to leave its
hiding the place and seek protection in
mile3 neighboring village, some ten
of away. At last, on the morning
the third or fourth day, while they
the wore making a miserable breakfast off
remainder of their provisions,
they were startled by tho appearance
of half a dozen horsemen coming
toward them through the woods. Ab
her they drew nearer, grandmother saw, to
great relief, that they were Ameri¬
can soldiers, and furthermore, one of
tho group looked uncommonly like her
brother Harry; and, sure enough, it
was he, and next moment ho had
sprung down from his horse and was
clasping his sister and her baby in his
arms.
"Some hours later, wbon tho poor
fugitives were comfortably settled in
a house in the village, Captain Day-
ton told how ho had come to find
them.
“ ‘You know that blessed mahog¬
any table of yours, Bess,’ said ho,
‘that Uncle Henry sent you from Eng¬
land?’
“ ‘Oh, yes, Harry; it was burned
with all the poor farmer’s posses¬
sions. ’
" ‘No it wasn’t,’ ho replied; ‘it’s
safe and sound, and was the means
of my fiudiug yon.’ Then ho went
on to tell how that news of
a party of Tories, who were
making raids upon tho country
round about had reached his corn-t
mftnder, who {tad sent him out
with a small party to put au end to
their depredations. And while they
wero galloping along iu hot haste, his
horse cast a shoo. But presently, as
luck would havo it, they came upon u
POPULATION AND DRAlltfAaa
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 17,1891.
blacksmith’s forge, and while his hors*
was being shod, Captain Day foil en¬
tered the shed and found a heap of
furniture piled up in a corner, and
among it this table, whioli he recog¬
nized at onco as his sister’s, though
how it had come there he could not
for his life conjecture, for, you see, he
knew nothing of her departure from
New York. Upon inquiry he learned
that the table and tho other things had
been left by the party' of freebooters
he was iti search of, who had insisted
forge upon making the poor blacksmith's
a temporary inquiry storehouse for their
booty. the Further of revealed that
latest scene their depredations
was a farmhouse some five miles dis¬
tant, whore it was rumored a rich and
beautiful New York lady was living in
seclusion, placed there by her hus¬
band, an officer in the American army.
The farmer and his family were sup¬
posed to have escaped unharmed, but
the house was ransacked and burned,
“Oiyitnin Dayton united for no
more; but detailing half of his men to
stay and watch the forge, he galloped
away, followed by the remainder. On
reaching the farm he found nothing
but a heap of blackened ruins left to
mark the place where the houso had
stood, Whatever tho pillagers were
unable to carry away they had burned
or after destroyed. And it was not Until
and his a long discovered search that the Captain
mon my grandmother
and the good Dutch people in their
hiding-place in the woods.
“Years passed before my grand¬
mother returned to her house on Pearl
street; hut she did go back. And af¬
ter awhile grandfather bought a houso
fronting old on the Battery, and hero the
table stood, in the centre of my
grandmother’s boudoir, and round it
many happy little one’s clustered, who
never tired of hearing the story I havo
just told you. And now, Sophia, give
me a kiss and be off.”—Empire Maga¬
zine.
NATURE’S REMEOIES.
Scheele discovered glycerine in 1789.
Nux vomica is the seed of a troo in¬
digenous to India and Ceylon.
Hemlock, the extract of which killed
Socrates, is a native of Italy and
Grcoce.
Creosotq was discovered in 1830 by
Reichenbaob, who extracted it from the
tar of wood.
Peppermint is nativo to Europe, and
its use as a medicine dates back to the
middle ages.
Aconite grows in Siberia and Contra!
Asia, and was first used as medicine by
Storek in 1703.
Myrrh, which comes from Arabia and
Persia, wa3 used as medicine in tho
time of Solomon.
Ergot is the product of the diseased
seeds of common ryo. and is ono of
Hahnemann’s discoveries.
Iodine was discovered in 1812 by
Conrtois, and was first employed in a
hospital in London in 1825.
Arnica hails from Europe and Asia,
hut the medicine is made from artificial
plants grown for that purpose in Ger¬
many and France.
Ipecac conies from South America,
and its qualities aro first mentioned in
1048 by a Spanish writer, who refers
it aa a Brazilian medicine.
Hasheesh, or Indian hemp, is a res¬
inous substance produced from the
tops of tlio plant in India. It lias boon
used, as bus opium, sinco Indian his¬
tory begun.
Caffeine, tho nativo principle of cof-
fco, was found by Range in 1820. Or¬
dinary coffee contains "about one per
ceut., Java coffee, 4 2-5 per cent., and
Martinique, G 2-5 per cent.
Perhaps the most ancient of medi¬
cines is hops, which wero used in the
dual capacity of an intoxicating bever¬
age aud as a medicine iu 2000 it. 0.
This is attested by pictures of the plant
tho Egyptian monuments of that
date.
Tlio Statural liridge of To-Day.
The Natural Bridge in Virginia is
215 feet in lioight, 100 foot in width,
with a span of ninety feet. Under tho
arch might be placed the Washington
monument at Baltimore. Cedar Creek,
tlio stream ovor which it stretches its
arch, is clear as crystal. No photo¬
graph or painting can impress the
mind with its immensity or grandeur,
or geometrical proportions, or the rich
coloring, or the picturesque surround¬
ings. One must feast his eyes upon
this migh ty arch to realize its vastness.
Under tlioaroh are the outlines of an
American eagle, formed by moBs and
lichens. Upon ono sido is where
George Washington, when a surveyor
for Lord Fairfax, 150 years ago, carved
his namo in the rock. The ravages of
time and exposure to tho elements havo
nearly obliterated the numo, hut some
of tho letters are quite distinct. In
tho years gene by Henry Clay, Dauiol
Webster and many prominent states¬
men, before railroads wero built, spent
days of inconvenient travel to look up¬
on this—one of the wonders of tho
world. New tho iron horso speeds
ovor its steel roadway, and in iv fow
hours ono can reach this destination
without fatigue.—Baltimore Sun.
Valufi of Wild AiiIuiuIh.
The small boy who measures the
standard of tho circus by the number
of its elephants is very nearly light ir:
to method. Tlio 1 pachydermata probos¬
cides is tho most costly animal in cap¬
tivity. African elephants aro now
quoted at from $0000 to $7000, an
Indian elephant ut about $5000.
Giraffes aro worth about tho HUU10
price as an African elephant on ac¬
count of their scarcity, but as the ele¬
phant is tho most popular for exhibi¬
tion purposes its price keeps up. A
fine hippopotamus may be purchased
for $3000, a big African lion for from
$1000 to $1500, and a fine lioness for
$800 or $900. Bengal tigers aro also
.worth $800 or $900, and camels from
$400 to $500 apiece.
DOMESTIC HAtTINESS A TREAS¬
URE VALUED ABOVE RICHES.
MANY ILL-ASSORTED MARRIAGES.
To lireak Up the IVilt'e of n Happy House¬
hold Is Worse Than Murder, Says
The Sago of llartoW*
The poet says tlirtt “domestic happi¬
ness iB the only bliss of paradise that
has survived the fall.” If that is so,
and I reckon it is, what an awful sin it
is for a man or his wife or a son or
daughter to-break it up. It in worse
than murder, for there is then only
ono victim, and he is dead; but the de¬
stroyer of domestic happiness brings
misery to the family, and they must
iive on in their sorrow. If domestic
peace and love could be purchased
with money, what a price it would
bring, and yet it can be had without
money if every member of the family
would do right, I was ruminating
about this and wondering if even the
devil was mean enough to take pleasure
in destroying the peace of a household.
The book of Job does not make him
that mean, for job suffered no sorrow
from any bad conduct of wife or eltild-
ren. Satan wants worshipers, and
even darod to try to seduce the Savior
to his allegiance; hut he did it in an
open and manly way, and lost. He is
an adversary—a bad one—a powerful
one ever since lie was thrust out of
heaven; but according to scripture he
lias not yot lost his power or his con-
sequence, for the Lord talked to him
in job and tho Savior liRd n conference
with him in Mathew, and Michael, the
archangel,had n dispute with him about
tho body of Moses. Ho is a bold,self-
poised,defiant spirit and uses many arts
to sednee mankind from their allegi¬
ance; but surely he wouldn’t take away
and destroy the only bliss of paradise
that is left us. He linsent done it from
Ingersoll, for that notable man has a
most loving household, and so have
many infidels and atheists and skep¬
tics. My opinion is that onr original
sin has more to do with bad conduct
than tho devil.. We are horn to sin as
the sparks fly upward, and the devil
urges us on and apologizes for every
mean thing we do and tries to comfort
us, but I believe that it is in the pc aver
of every man and woman and son and
daughter to preserve the family peace
and to rnalto home the most attractive
place upon the earth. Then, why
don’t they do it? It sickens ns with
sorrow to read the family troubles in
the daily papers. Sometimes it is tho
husband, sometimes the wife, son io-
times tho daughter, hut oftener than
all together it is the son that brings
the blight and darkens the doors and
makes parents and sisters seek to hide
from the gaze of men. What makes
the young men do so? Every day
there is a new case somewhere mnr
der, suicide, embezzlement, and all in
mixed up with tho jails and courts and
pictures in the papers ami the misery
of kindred and the world’s cold criti¬
cism. How many families that once
moved proudly with the social swell¬
ing throng have retired from it to
grieve over the crushing fate of a way¬
ward son or n daughter’s shame, 11 isv
many families have been broken down
by reckless sons-in-law. l know some
aged parents whose hair lias grown
furrowed prematurely gray, whose brows are
with lines of sorrow and
whose smilos are always sad, if they
smile at all.
Young men, please stop and think.
The happiness of home is worth mill
ions of dollars. It beats the Klondike,
and iB right close by, and no frozen
hills to cross. The pleasures of a
happy home excel anything upon
earth, and can l*> had so cheaply if
father and mother mid children will
make it so, “He that troubleth his
own house shall inherit the wind.” A
cross husband, a contentious, com-
plaining discontented wife, a selfish son or an in¬
dolent, daughter can de¬
stroy the peace of Ho household.
There are somethings that are worth
so much they cannot he valued. Health
of body is one of them, hut peace of
mind is worth more than that. Borne
years ago there was a verdict rendered
in our court at Rome giving $35,000 to
a young man because of a fall from the
train at night and a permanent injury
to his spine. He was a man of brilliant
mind and high ambition and splendid
prospects, but the doctors testified
that he would ho a mental wreck, and
his eloquent lawyer drow such a sad
picture of the wreck that the jury gave
this large amount as compensation.
No bones were broken, nor did h«
suffer any pain. Ho walked about and
visited hi* friends, anti showed HO
sign of imbecility, but his mental
force was impaired, his high ambition
gone, and this verdict was only an ap¬
proximation of the damage.
What, then, is tho peace of a family
worth? Not merely peace of mind,
but of heart, for the heart outranks
the mind as the mind docs tho body.
I was ruminating about these ill-
assorted, unhappy marriages that seem
ht these later years to be more frequent
than in the olden time, and aro the
prolific source of so much domestic
trouble. Tho poet says:
“How sod and dreary Is the home
Whore love, domestic love no longer
Rut stricken nestles. by cruel doom
some
Its corpse lies on tho trestles.”
I wonder how many modern mar
riages may be called happy—in how
many families do peace and love rule
tho household Not many among the
children of tho rich, I know, for they
have known no want nor self-denial,
and cannot bear patiently uny mis-
fortune. And even among the poor
there is misery that the hard times
have increased. Only yesterday a
sad faced woman emne to ns begging
food and Clothes for lier children, and
her story wits that her husband had to
run away for trying to ntiifce it living
by running a blind tiger. "What it
curse is this marriage tie when hastily
and unhappily made. would If 1 was a girl,
it seems to me, I father remain
single all my life than bind myself
body and soul to a young man who
had no moral principles to govern him.
Tho chains of matrimony! If a man
commits a crime ho but can give bond and
keep out of jail, there is no bond
provided chained for a poor woman who is
band, to it bad, unprincipled hus¬
She timidly shrinks from seek¬
ing a divofee, for the even that does Hot
erase the scars of shackles she has
worn. Her life and her hopes are
blighted. There is no move pitiful
sight, in all nature than a good woman
chained for life ton had, unkind, un¬
principled man. She clings to her
children as her only comfort and lives
only to shield them from her shame.
But why write about these things of
sorrow? I know they arc unwelcome
to my readers, hut I have thought it a
dniy, and that moybo some one or
mol e might he influenced to stop and
think. On yesterday I received along
letter from an old friend asking mo to
plead with tho young people and bog
them to stop this mad career that
land—tills seems to he increasing in our southern
unhallowed thirst for get¬
ting money by short cuts and dishon¬
est practices—this drinking and gam¬
bling that leads to suicide or the jail
—this infidelity to their marriage
vows that destroys the happiness of
the family.
But Ibis will do for this time. It is
not a good day for mo no how. It is
not Friday, unlucky hut it is ono of these
hard, days that brings trouble
in various forms. The old cow got out
last night and went foraging in tho
suburbs and eat up n whole cotton
patch, and I’m expecting the darkey
every minute to come for his damages.
But that’s nothing. A little negro
girl was rolling our little Caroline
through the ball on a tricycle. The
child is only two and a half years old,
and is my comfort—a little bluo-
eyed beauty that wo borrow almost
every day from her mother—and I
wouldn’t take a million dollars for her
love. But, somehow, the nurse cut
the wheels around too suddenly and
threw Caroline violently forward on to
the iron shaft, and tho bolt on tho top
of it mashed out two upper teeth and
one lower rule, and bent, tho others in
ami" cut her chin badly ami Ionised
her little lips to a jelly, and when )
took her up and saw it all it made me
heart sick. I wanted to weep and cry
aloud for grief. For au hour or two I
was nearly heart-broken for I can’t
l>c\v to sec such a helpless child suffer
such agony. Her little mouth was all
broken up and deformed. But tho
good Lord tempers such tilings to
little children, and now the dear little
girl is getting along nicely and sings
a lisping song to her dolly. The good
book tells about a place where there
will lie no more pain or sorrow. We!!,
1 want to go that place a.s soon as the
Lord wills it; and I want all iny folks
to go with me, and everybody vise's
folks, too. —Bill Ann in Atlanta Con¬
stitution.
Ni;W ORLEANS SAFE*
No Su«|ilri:nin Fuhuh of F«vor Foil ml In
tho City.
When tlie New Orleans board of
health met Wednesday night Dr. Oli-
phaut had no additional eases to re¬
port to thill body as having occurred
in New Orleans and was able to say
that tlie local situation had vastly im¬
proved and that t.hero was no present
prospects of evil results following the
death of ihe Gulpi child.
New Orleans is almost, ready to de¬
clare that it lias had a scare for noth¬
ing. Dr. Olipliant and nis stall have
fairly honeycombed tlio city for sus¬
picions cases of fever without result.
MORE IUJRVE 0 HOHIES FOUND
Now Tlmt Mven Wero
I jOftti In Hants! F«> Wrork.
A special of Friday from Emporia,
Kan., says: It is now believed that
sixteen persons were killed in the
Santa Fe wreck. The charred remains
of three more bodies were found.
Two of the bodlds, a man and
woman, were burned beyond recogni¬
tion. Little remains of the third
body, but a shirt bosom marked W.
if. E, a Knights of Pythias pin and a
green stud may afford identification.
Engineer Frisbee, who was injured,
died from liis wounds.
NEW YORK IMMMimmoXlSTS
Hold ii Hfiito Convention and Name Clilef
Judge of Court, of Appoulf*.
The New York state prohibition
convention, in session at Byrueuse,
concluded its labors Wednesday by
nominating Francis E. Baldwin, of
Elmira, for chief judge of court of
appeals. The platform presented tha
issue of the liquor traffic and de¬
nounced the Baines excise law and
secular amusements on Sunday. The
plank declaring for woman suffrage
was voted down.
DIG WALL STREET FAILURE.
.1. K. Willanl & Co. Go to the Wall For a
M llllon.
James It. Willard, Elmer Dwiggings
and J. Dwiggings, who compose the
firm of J. K. Willard A Co., hankers
and brokers, with offices in New York,
Buffalo, Washington, Philadelphia and
Montreal, have assigned to James
Starbuck, with preference for $20,000
to William H. Osterhont.
No statement of the condition of the
firm is yet obtainable, but it is esti:
maied that their liabilities will reach
$ 1 , 000 , 000 .
T. P. GREEN,‘MANAGER.
CONVICTS MAT BE PUT TO WORK
ON PUBLIC HOADS.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S STATEMENT
Four riiinH f9v AVhKi* tho MIftfl«ine»nov
Coiivli’ts May 1 iti —-Otlior
Georgia NXmvh.
Attorney General Terrell has issued
the following self-explanatory state¬
ment!
Misdemeanor convicts may bo legally
worked in four ways:
First. Upon live chaiugang of the county
where the oonviot Is sentenced.
Second. Upon the oliatngang of any In¬
corporated town, city or village of tie,
county.
Third, Upon the ehningting of any other
county of tho state under a contract be¬
tween tile authorities of tho two counties in¬
terested.
Fourth. Upon any works except mechan¬
ics! pursuits wherein the products of their
latter will come into competition with the
product* of froo labor, that tho county nil-
thorttles may son At to employ tho chain-
gang, provided, tho oontrol of the convicts
Is not given to private persons. Under this
latter plan the county authorities may em¬
ploy them upon tho farm of a private person,
employ them at cutting timber for the saw¬
mill of a private person, etc;, but the county
authorities must retain oontrol of tho con-
viets and not lot any private person have
management or control of them,
Camps Are Creaking Up.
Of the eight hundred misdemeanor
convicts illegally confined in private
camps in Georgia three hundred have
already been unshackled from their
lawless bondage and put to work upon
the public roads oi the counties which
convicted them. The camps which
still exist arc slowly but surely disin
tegrating, and it is now a question of
a very short time when the good work
of reform which Governor Atkinson
inaugurated a fow months ago is
crowned with complete success.
Every day brings fresh evidence of
the healthy work of the leaven of re¬
form in this loaf of illegality. Already
the comities of Jasper, Hancock, Rich¬
mond, Wilkes, Elbert, Bulloch, Ap¬
pling and Washington have joined in
the good work, and the meeting of the,
fall term of other superior anil county
courts will unquestionably complete
tho job. Clovarnnr Atkinson nays
that bo does not believe there will bo
a single private misdemeanor convict
camp in Georgia by the time tho next
legislature meets, and there is plenty
of evidence to sustain his prediction.
Thoro was one witness before tho
Full,on county grand jury which in¬
dicted W. B. Fuller, who gave some
startling testimony and furnished some
evidence which puts the prisoner in a
had light. The witness was Mr.
Drown, of Woodbury, the brother-in-
law of Fuller. Mr. Brown stated that
after Fuller had been arrested and
carried to Atlanta, he wrote a letter to
a friend in Woodbury asking him to
get bis coat and destroy what lie found
in the pockets. When Fuller was ar¬
rested at a sawmill, near Woodbury,
he was not given lime to go homo and
get his coat,. When the letter was re¬
ceived the coat was found and the
pockets searched and a bottle of mor¬
phine was discovered. Tho poison
had been purchased in Atlanta, and
Fuller’s anxiety about having it do-
stroyed pointed to the fact that ho had
bought it for tlio purpose of giving it
to tlio child.
Captain AV. W. Williamson, who
captained the Georgia team at Sea
Girt, has received a challenge for the
Georgia men from the Twenty-third
regiment of Now York, which has been
accepted, and the match will Vie shot
on tho Avondale range,near Savannah,
on Thanksgiving day. The Twenty-
third regiment contains many of New
York’s crack shots and those who rep¬
resented the state at Boa Girt. After
their recent work at Boa Girt, how¬
ever, the Georgia hoys look on the
challenge as a huge joke, and those of
them who have returned say the con
test will be all one way. They sa
they will give tlie Now York mon
good time, but they will have to teach
them a lesson on the range.
For the third time Commissioner
Nesbitt will receive bids for the sea¬
son's supply of fertilizer tags. The
Hartman company, of Demovent, did
not close tho contract won by them
and for that reason new bids have
been asked for. The successful bid¬
ders wired that if they had to close
the contract by last Monday they
would let the matter go. This they
did, and Commissioner Nesbitt wrote
to the bidders stating tho circumstances
of the bid and informing them that
new bids would bo received at his
office until tlio noon hour on Hoptem-
bor 10th. Owing to the nearness of
the season it is necessary that the tags
he obtained at once, and there will he
no delay iu the matter.
Tho marriage of Miss Doreh to Gen¬
eral Lougstreet is understood to in¬
volve her withdrawal from tlio list of
candidates for the position of state
librarian. It is learned that she will
fill the position of assistant librarian
until the term expires, which will he
nominally on the 28th of September,
but practically not before the legisla¬
ture meets, as no appointments will
ho made until then. There is a great
deal of curiosity to know what effect
the retirement of Miss Dortch from
the race will havo, and there aro vari¬
ous opinions about it.
OEN. L0NG8TREET WEDS.
Miss i'JlIen Dortch, Assistant State Libra¬
rian of Georgia, tho Bride.
General Tamos B. Lougstreet and
Miss Ellen Dortch were united iu
marriage in tho executive mansion at
Atlanta Governor Wednesday.
Atkinson gave the bride
away and Rev. Father Shade well, of
tho Catholic church, performed tha
ceremony. Both
families are Catholic, but be¬
cause Miss Dortch preferred to havo
the marriage celebrated quietly at the
home of her best friends rather than
publicly at the church, Bishop Blecker
granted a dispensation to permit them
to be wedded at tho mansion, a con¬
cession that iu only granted to persona
of high degree.
There were no attendants and only
a select party of friends of -tho con¬
tracting wedding parties were invited. Tho
was free from all formality
other than tho solemnizing of the holy
covenant.
After tho wedding Governor and
Mrs. Atkinson tendered tho newly
married pair an informal reception
and they received the good wishes
and congratulations of their friends.
The bridal couple left Atlanta at 4:3(1
for Dorter Springs, where they will
spend their honeymoon. Afterwards
they will return to Gainesville, where
they will make their future home.
Miss Ellen Dortch is assistant state
librarian, tho first woman to hold an
official position under the state gov¬
ernment in Georgia, and has been an
applicant for the position of librarian..
General Lougstreet is one of the
most famous commanders of the civil
war, and has been often honored by
high positions under the Federal gov¬
ernment since tho close of the war.
His homo is iu Gainesville, and the
home of Miss Dortch was in Carnes-
vi 1 lo, first, ami afterwards in Milledge-
ville, where she eadducted a daily
newspaper for several years.
Her father was a prominent news¬
paper man, hut lias been dead several
years, and she took his place and lias
bravely hold her own since his death.
Bho made a goodlight for Governor
Atkinson during his first campaign
and was rewarded for the stand she
took with the position of assistant
state librarian, a position which she
showed herself eminently capacitated
to fill.
PERRY DIES ON GALLOWS.
Tlio Mayer of llely Lanier Hung at De¬
rate r, 0».
H. B. Forty was hanged at Decatur,
I In. Stw Uji> murder of Bely
Lanier, lie met death with n certain
degree of fortitude, but not with tho
•nllousness and indifference which lie
had displayed during his confinement.
As he mounted the gallows on the arm
of Sheriff Austin liis face was ashen.
While he stood on tho death trap his
eyelids fluttered, Ins breath came in
short gasps and he swayed from sido
to side. Jt was easy to sec that the
terror of approaching death had seized
him. He professed a belief in the
forgiveness of his sins and expressed
many times over his readiness to die.
He died maintaining that he had
killed Lanier in defense of bis wife’s
honor.
On the gallows Ferry made tho fol¬
lowing statement:
"Gentlemen and cltlzenH of DeKalb coun¬
ty-. I am hereto face death. I am glad to say
l am ready to go, 1 have made my peace
with God. 1 did my duty. I am dying for
protecting my dear wife. I may have liro-
kon the laws as they aro in Georgia, hut I
did iny duty to protect my wife.
"I have prayed during the last few days
for iny sins to he forgiven, and when I am
gone I hope you will pray for mo and my
family.
“O, God, I hopo today that my sins aro
forgiven. It wifi soon he all over and
finished and I will ho no more. I’m going
homo to my God.”
The condemned man was then led
to the trap, where bo was made to
stand directly under tlie noose. As he
moved his stop was faltering and his
colorless face seomed to take on a moro
death-like palor.
He said not a word while the sheriff
tied his bands and feet. As the noose
was being fitted about his neck Perry
closed liis eyes and delivered a short
prayer in a broken voice.
When the (rap door was sprung the
body gave a short rebound and then
swung motionless on the rope’s end.
Tho murderer’s neck was broken, and
after swinging for 14 minutes tho
body was cut down by the sheriff and
placed in the coffin, which biy under
the gallows ready to receive it.
TO fORM BEER TRUST.
American Malting Company Organized
With Capital of * 30 , 000 , 000 .
H is learned at Chicago that the men
who are the principal promoters in the
big malting company which was form¬
ed in Now York a few days ago are the
Milwaukee matters and brewers.
Instead of being a simple combina¬
tion of matters, it appears that the
brewers are also interested in the com-
bination and that it is to he conducted
on such a gigantic scale that it will
virtually control the brewing business
of the country.
Tlio American Malting company, as
the new combine will he known, will
have a capital of $30,000,000.
GAGE WORKING ON REPORT.
Huronu Chiofg Are 1tu(iuented to Make
Their Statement# Kurller,
A Washington dispatch says: Secre¬
tary Gage is at work on his annual
report. He had instructed the bureau
chiefs to make then indvidual reports
a month or six weeks earlier thun has
been customary in tlio past.- That of
Comptroller Traeewell, which was the
first to be submitted, was laid before
tho secretary Wednesday.