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*,ate4ie annual resurrection has be.
Th« warm spring sunshine :s
revivifying the old earth sgain and
her pulse is quickening and new
life is springing up every where.
How forcibly these thing bring
to our minds the redirection of our
bodies after he long cold sleep of
death ! How like an anchor to the
soul this hope of the resurrection
comes to those who have buried
their darlings.
Amind all the flnsh’ and stir of
mother earth and the new life that
is springing up around us there lies
hopelessly cold and still many hu
man hopes that na divine “conie
forth” will over wake to life again.
|>ead hopes! dead hopes! Some
arc hurried away with our darlings,
of these we can but say sleep on.
Others are the results of our own
short comings and mistakes of life.
•Of these we say “beat on vexed
waters in my heart.
Ye bring to me in your unrest
Some olden wrongs to be redressed’
To lash the wricn mo more.
***
“There is mourning in the cottage
as the twilight shadows fall,
For a little rosewood coffin has been
brought within the hall,
And a little palid sleeper
In a shadow colder, deeper
Thao the night of life could give in
• its narrow borders lies,
With the sweet and changeful lus
tre ever faded from theevss,
’Twas a soul upon a journey and
was lost upon its way,
’Twas n flash of light from heaven
on a tiny piece of clay.
• ‘Twas more timid, yet bolder,
It was vougger and yet older,
la was weaker andvet stronger than
this little human guise
With this strange unearthy lustre
over faded from its eyes,”
Oh.’iissad to leave it sleeping
And to turn away with weeping
To the sad and lonely home. God
pity the hearts in the home
where the empty cradle stands
tonight.
***
“Money! Money!! Money!!!
What is* it that men will not do for
money? And yet it is that for
which most precious things are sold
and can never be bought back. You
may sell your integrity for a dollar
but a million could not buy it back
again. You can sell your soul to
the devil fora dime, but the world
would not redeem it.
Gold can not buy a pennyweight
of happiness, a grain of respect, or
a ton of lore, or an instant of life.
That which has so much power to
damn and none to redeem, should
be handled with great care. A
clean dollai all your own is worth a
hundred illy gotten.
***
Dear Aunt P. you have left the
•‘City of Brotherly Love” (as you
call it), for more peaceful haunts I
trust, but don,t forget “our paper.”
I think your “Dog tight would be
in order now, or the venom of some
slimy serpent cast upon women.
A. J. T.
i:\TLKTAI\MESiT
One of the most elite gatherings
ever assembled in Trenton greeted
the first appearenc of the Trenton
Dramatic Club Tuesday night.
'i he old fo ks were there, the
young man and his best girl were
tin re, and the kids filled up the
small corners. Ev ry thing was
conducted as far as practical after
the fashi m ol a lirsi class opera
house. The connection betwe<* a
back woods school “exibition” and
the entertainment of Tuesday nigut
Avas very remote; nevertheless from
this very fact appreciation was
lacking from certain sources. The
depraved tast of lovers of burnt
cork remained unsatisfied and
“Zeke” was declared the only cl ar
acter “worth a cent” The culti a
ted portion of the house appri ci
ted the efforts of the company 1 t
raising the standard theatric; Is
The company should feel elatea at
their success in meriting the piaise
of the appreciative portion of the
house.
towa a\d coirn,
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sOCIBS GATHERED HERE
fAND THERE.
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Pay the printer.
Send in the news.
Court Monday week.
Patronize your county paper.
Subscribe for your county paper.
Correspondent send in the news.
“Give it to hiui hard” is now the
cry.
• Lookout for a big real estate
transter.
Come to Trenton and be happy
if you can.
Real estate is changing hands
every week.
Next week’s paper “is gwine ter
be a hummer.’**
The White Cap band is talking
of employing a teacher.
Webb Tatum will run the Alli
ance store at Rising Fawn,
Miss Lizzie McLean is suffering
with a severely sprained ankle.
Editor Havron, of Jasper, took
in the enteetaimuent Tuesday night
If our subscriboes read last week
paper it was more tmm we coulcT do.
If there is anyone that wishes to
his subscription in wood he cau do
so.
The boom is now only fifteen
miles touth of us and coming this
way.
Miss Fannyßie.se, of Chattanoo
ga, Tenn., returnod home Thursday
night.
The dance at the hall Tuesday
night was highly enjoyed by those
attending.
Woid Pace put a new fence'
around the old Gardenhire hotel
this week.
B. P. Majors is having the lum
ber hauled to buiid another room 1
to his house. .
We return our thanks to our'
neighbors for getting >ut
week's paper.
We hope allowing ti, 'er
will make it couvenir u to l. j
up court week.
If the people of Dade county
want a paper they must support it
as it tlioy should do.
Byron Tatum has come home
where he is certain of getting three
meals a day and bed ut night.
The young people spent a very
pleasai t evening, Wednesday, at
the residence of Mr. Dobbs near
Town. ,
While in Chattanooga this week
John Cureton attended revival ser
vices at the M. E. Church two
nights.
The grand jury committee ap
pointed to investigate the books of
the county officers commenced
their inipection yestorda}’.
The young men had a splendid
opportunity of “wasting” a little
money on their best girl Tuesday
night but “some of ’em ’fused.”
Dr. Lumpin, Sheriff -Byrd, and a
few others, and W. U. Jaeoway. .1.
P. Bond, Andy Brown and Byron
Tatum took in Chattanooga this
weok.
Mr. B. F. Massengale, of Bluff
City, Tenn., nephew of Mrs. J. W.
Cureton, visited relatives in the
county this week.
The Dramatic club will repeat the
pertormanee of Tuesday night on
Wednesday night of court week,
adding a new play. Prices reduced
to 15 and 25 cents.
Rev. J. G. Moore, of Sequachee
Valley, will preach at the Cumber
land Presbyterian church Sunday
at 11 o’clock and at night. Rev.
Mr. Moore is a ministor of some
prominence in tho Cumberland
Presbyterian churdh, and it is
hoped that our people will give him
a large audience.
DEVOTED •; J THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY.
TRENTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH. 8, 1889.
TWO LONDON LITERARY WOMEN.
I*en of Mm. (nuliel Uwj and
Mm. Cumphcll I* 1 ,
Mrs Cashel lloeyiui‘! M Campbell
Prowl are both “in no-.k lie first
named i* an Irish lain i.‘ a’xu.t 00 or
05. short, stout, mm i i • . 'id al
ways divssod —accord; uv, to American
ideas—very unfasliiotialdy. ihequoen
is tho grainiest of tin* grand army of
dowdily dressed old English ladies,
whoso ifpparel would drive an Ameri
can woman crazy if file were obliged *o
wear it. lilting bodices, la e
shawls, enormous caps, plainly hand
ed hair—natural or a “scratch' —milts
and reticule, ura component jiarts of
this get up a la Heine Victoria. By its
wearers it is considered the dignified
and becoming thing for elderly wo
men; while the yellow skinned, thin
old wtnnan, with an abundance of elu
borately dressed gray hair, no cap
diamond earrings and tightly fitting
Parisian costumo is looked upon as
one of the most offensive of American
products, and is the constant subject
of derision from English |»ens, pencils
and voices.
Although Mrs. Cashel Iloey has
bet*n for many years beforo the pub
lic as u writer, and has produced ex
cellent work in iictiou, she has never
been fortunate enough to achieve a
wonderful paying success. She has
told me that her earnings average £3OO
a year, about $2,300. or SSO a week.
She values her American connection
very highly, and acknowledges that
the larger part of her incouio is de
rived from America.
Having formed a literary partner
ship for copyright purposes with John
Lillie,'the Harpers are able to protect
her lateT writings, and pay her with
tho promptness and liberality fof
which their name is a synonym. Mrs.
Hoey lives in a pretty house in the old
court suburb, Kensington, not far
from the beautiful town house of the
duke of Argyll on Cumpden Hill.
Her husband is a legal light, and is a
permanent member of the counsel for
tho management of the Prince of
Wales’ Rothesay estates. This office
brings him a salary of £I,OOO per un
uum, so that financially ns well as so
cially, Mr. and Mrs. Cashel Hoey are
in an enviable position.
Mrs. Campbell Pined is a graceful,
delicate young woman about 85. She
comes of a good family, and the name
of her husband is also that of one of
the gentility. She is a charmingly ar
tistic dresser, and as far as her health
will permit associates with a gay and
fashionable set. Her novels are wide
ly read, but in England are kept away
from young readers exactly as those
of Ouida. They are in a certain sense
brilliant, but are restricted to the de
lineation of scenes and manners of a
fast and loose class of people—a kind
only too prominent in large cities iu
this feverish ago. Her literary style
violates all canons of the art, asunder
m ’ and studied by more serious
v • •», nevertheless, there is a gla
mour in her periods, a fascination in
her study of character which causes a
reader to pursue her fiction breath
lessly to the end, and then tossing it
away, vowing that the time spent in
reading it might and should be more
profitably employed. Mrs. Campbell
Praed has been m America, having
made the now regulation trip thither
with her friend Justin M<.' . thy.—
Cor. Pittsburg Chronicle
Telrgrnphy I’uzzlcr XTi <
A man who had neve; •?; ilie in
side of a telegraph otiico wandered
into that of New London the other
day, and as somo ono came in with a
message asked to “sco it go.” lie was
taken insido and gratified, but was not
inclined to believe that a message was
really sent by the clicking key.
Fiuully Manager Smith built a short
circuit in the operating room, with
Ojierator Costello at one end and the
old man and the manager at the other.
Then Mr. Smith requested the old
fellow to whisper something to him
and he would send it to Costello. He
did so, but when he saw his words
written out at the other end of the
short circuit ho claimed that Costello
heard him when ho told Manager
Smith what to send. Mr. Smith sug
gested to him that he should write oil
najK'r what he wanted to say, and then
lie could convince himself that there
was no “shenanagin” about it. The
olil fellow did so, and Mr. Smith sent
it to Costello, who returned the words
on pajK*r. Even then he could hardly
be convinced, but he concluded that
“it was the durndest thing ho ever
saw." He spent half an hour in the
otiico and furnished a great laugh for
the operators and messenger lx>ys.
He hailed from Ixslyard and had
never been in a telegraph office before.
—New Lou ion Telegraph.
A Widen wake Little Mlw.
I have a little girl, 4 years old, who
is a source of much amusement to all
who hear her talk. The day of the
presidential election wo lost her; some
one had ieft the basement door oj>en
and she was away up the street with
the kitten in her arms. 1 ran after
her and said: “Oh! baby, where are
you going?” She said: “I am takin’
kitty to tl>e White House to boat for
Clevelin.”
Another time we were talking at
the dinner table about the Feast of the
Passover, and her father said: "The
Israelites eat nothing but unleavened
bread during that time.” Baby fol
lowed with the remark: “No, not
even ’lasses or jelly on it.”
Yesterday 1 took her to see a lady*
with a new baby, and on her wav
home she said: “Mamma, why don't
»'>■' Imv * Uhvt” Jaoid-in renlv? “J
cannot afford it, because you cost me
v> much all (he time.” Bhe waited a
while am! then said: “Mamma, if I
i cost so much von ought to be awful
good to me.” —New York World.
| Why will people postpone tlicir
benefactions? Record was made in
London the other day of a lady be
queathing a fortune mi 1873 to a man
who had savcof her life in ISIS.
Twenty.-five year's are a big slice of u
1 man’s life, and perhaps, in the above
<*ose, the man died in tho interval be
tween hu heroism and the proposed
lev. aid.
Ur Paid f.T It.
“I would like to see some diamond
Engs," said a foppish young man with
a dainty manner of speech, entering a
three hall emporium on Gristed street,
near Taylor.
“You would, oh?" said Marx, the
proprietor, to himself, as he traveled
along his counter toward the threaten
ing to lx* customer; “but 1 bet mo dot
feller ish no good.” and aloud, in tho
I most genial manner, “Auyding you
i vant, sir, you shall haf.”
| The young man quickly choso a ring
with a three carat single stone of
lirimo light and requested that it be
;cpt apart for him, as lie had no money
at that moment. Marx cleared away
the rings, when the young man, sud
denly leaning over tne counter, indi
cated a spot upon the shelf where the
chosen ring should be left until his
return. In tho movement his elbow
went through the glass top of the
showcase.
“Upon my word,” cried he, “that
was a most awkward trick. I do not
know what to say. Y’ou may add the
damage to the price of the ring.”
“Dor glass cost only tree dollar,”
said Marx with some ill grace. “Vhy
don’ you pay it now?"
“Why. sir, I am out of funds,” was
the distressful protest.
“You vill egseuse mo if I correct
you,” blandly replied the broker, and
bending over the case he seized tho
protruding end of a S2O bill and
plucked it from tho young man’s vest
pocket.
The purchaser was covered with
confusion and averred that ho knew
not that he hud the money.. Ho was
muly, however, to have the cost of tho
glass deducted.
When Marx deposited that evening'
the bank clerk returned to him a S2O
bill on which he had deftly imprinted
in large violet letters the condemning
word, “Counterfeit.” Chicago Tri
bune.
An Ancient Document.
A most valuable and interestingdoo
ument of antiquity has been obtained
l for the Ixmvro museum. It is the
rspeech against delivered
by Hyperidcs, the friend of Demos
thenes, and the defender of the notor
ious courtesan Phryne, who was ac
cused of impiety, but was saved by the
orator, who her peplum and
displayed her chariflu) the eyeAf the
astonished judges. Tlie iucujMt has
been depicted on canvas by Aome.
The history of Hyperidcs and his
speech, as set forth bv M. Revillout in
his report to the Academy of Inscrip
tions, is curious enough. Athenogcnes
had a perfumery shop which was man
aged by a man of straw, or rather a
slave, called Midas, to whom a client
of Hydrides had left money. Being
unable to recover the sum the client
resolved to buy the shop, and the
negotiations were carried on by a lady
friend of Athcnogenes, to wit, Anti
gone, a red haired and black eyed
Athenian damsel.
All this traffic led to legal squabbles
between these extremely interesting
Greeks, and gave Hydrides an oppor
tunity of descanting on bargains af
fected by women, who wero treated as
badly by Solon as Napoleon afterward
treated them in his ungallant code.
The pleading of Hyperidcs has
a wonderfully modern tone about
it, and—but for the names, dates
and places—might have been de
livered in the royal courts of
justico in the strand or at the Paris
tribunal of commerce. The speech is
mentioned by Longinus, who ulso re
fers to that in defense of Phryne. but
it has only recently been found on
papyrus by M. Revillout, an assistant
keeper of the Louvro museum. —Lon-
don Telegram.
Testing Telegrnpli Poles.
A young man with a gimlet two
feet long stopped in front of a tele
graph pole in an uptown street the
other day and began to boro into it.
Another young man, a reporter on
The Sun, stopped also ami asked the
first what ho was about, “lam going
to find out bow long this stick will
stand up,” he said, twistingtho handle 1
rapidly. “I am employed by the com
pany that owns the pole, and it is my
business to go about the streets making
inspections like this. Every pole is
numbered, and wheu I make my re
port tiie company takes action accord
ing t<» the condition of the wood.
This is the only way we can tell how
strong a pole is, for decay begins be
neath tho surface and wor.es toward
the center. It shows on the outside
last. 8o you cau’t teli from the looks
whether a pole may not come down in
the first nigh wind, or light one,
either, for that matter. This one,”
and he withdrew his gimlet and looked
at the fine shaving clinging to it,
“will last at least a year without dan
ger. There is one on the Bowery, near
Fourth street, that looks perfectly
sound, much better than this one, in
fact, and yet it is decayed almost from
surface to surface, ami is liable to fall
any day.” The young man did not
know when the comoanv would re-
piii. e uro uangerdus jjclc-, anti, a/ter
making a memorandum in a book, he
proceeded uu the street to prooc tin
next stick, —New York Sun.
A Kcpmtlitj; Kill* Invcntnl In 18”..
A Kingston man. while looking
through a file of newspapers published
in Kingston in 1822, found a descrip
tion of u "new invention." a repeal
ing firearm. The gun was manufact
ured in New York city and was
invented bv a man named Isaiah
Jennings. ’Hie description reads us
follows: “It is a single barrel and
lock stocked in the usual style, and is
perfectly simple, safe and convenient.
The numbir of charges may be ex
tended to fifteen, or even twenty, each
charge being under as complete con
trol as u single charge in an ordinary
gun, and may bo fired hi the space of
two seconds to u c harge or at longer
intervals, at the option of the jxw
sessor. with the same accuracy and
force ns any other gnu. Tho princi
pal can bo applied to any musket, ri lie.
fowling piece or pistol, and can be
made to fire from two to twelve times j
without adding anything to tho in
cumbrance of the piece, except five or
six ounces to its weight.”—Kingston |
Freeman.
THE PAGODA AT RANGOON.
Xlii-owing Colil iiiul Silver Into Crucible*
to Mitko h r.hd'w Wing.
A correspondent of an Indian paper
describes a ceremony which took place
at Rangoon. It seems that in a re
cent earthquake the bird’s wing of
gold and precious stones crowning
the great Rangoon pagoda was thrown
down and injured.
The trustees of the building called
on the people for subscriptions for a
new one, and in three weeks a sum of
about 80,000 rupees was collected. It
was notified that the melting of the
gold and silver would take place and
that it would be the last opportunity
of contributing. In one of the large
rooms of the pagoda two large cruci
bles were placed, one for gold, the
other for silver. Hundreds of men
and women, girls, boys and small chil
dren passed by, dropping their silver
or gold ornaments into the crucibles,
or handing their precious stones to the
clerk for the purjxwe of being set in
the bird’s wing. Women gayly
dressed and covered with jewels
passed by, and, taking a couple of
Sold bangles from each arm, threw
lem into the pot, or they took off
rings, and, handing the stones to the
clerk, added the gold to tho melting
mass. Those who had no gold put ru
pee coins into the silver crucibles and
handed over others to the clerk for
the use of the pagoda; even the beg
gars came and added their mites.
All partt'd with their treasure with
out a sigh, and, in fact, seemed glad
to give it for such a devout purpose.
All their good deeds are so many
rungs mounted on the ladder towards
heaven. The Slums went in a Lxxly of
twenty men and presented a diamond
weighing seventy-live carats, which
is to he placed us tho chief ornament
in the wing. The silver melted
amounted to 7.550 rupees, that collect
ed to 3,525 rupees; tho gold melted to
13,800 rupees, and the precious stones
given were valued at 22.000 rupees.
The wing that fell down was valuedat
122,500 rupees, and the one to replace
it will bo worthl7s,ooo rupees.
The umbrella ornament at the top
of the same pagoda (tlie Shaw-da-goan)
is said to have cost King Mindine Min
six lacs of rupees. It is of pure gold,
richly set with gems, and is actually
fifteen feet high, although at its pres
ent elevation it does not seem two
feet Tho pagoda itself is 328 feet
high, and tne hillock on which it
stands is about 100 feet. Tho pagoda
is surrounded by the barracks of the
British troops, and the magazines are
said to be in the hillocks on which it
is built.—St. James’ Gazette.
A Soldier's Romance.
Col. Graves, speaker of the lower
house of the Minnesota legislature,
has had a strangely romantic career.
He was a gallant solilier in the late civil
war, and arose from a private to the
rank of colonel. Terry has re
cently said of Col. Graves that he was
one of tho bravest and shrewdest of
the colonels with whose careers he be
came familiar during tho war.
“He’s small in stature,” said tho
general “but he was a great fighter.”
Col. Graves first met his wife upon
a southern battlefield. She is the
daughter of Gen. Tatman, and she
was the wife of another man the day
she first saw Col. Graves. Their meet
ing was both sad and romantic. Her
husband had been fatally shot, and
while she stood by his side in anguish,
waiting for the last heart throb she
knew must come very soon. Col.
Graves was brought in. Ho was in
sensible from a fearful wound in the
left breast. Tlius Col. Graves and tho
lady who is now his wife became ac
quainted under circumstances most
terrible, but later on the friendship
ripened into love. Mrs. Graves is her
husband's senior by fifteen years. She
is an estimable lady, and is highly es
teemed in Zenith City society and
charitable circles. It is probaby not
generally known that Col. Graves’
life was finally saved by the insertion
of a silver tube into the bullet wound,
which passed through the left lung.
Apparently the wound does not
trouble him now. He is a very active
man, and his general appearance in
dicates the healthy, ■well Kept kusin(s3
man of 50, —Minneapolis Journal.
Pay up.
ALLIANCE MATTERS.
To the members of the Dado
County Alliance, and to thc|sub-
Alliances throughout the county:
Believing it to be to the mb r :st and
! of maleriul benefit to the advance
| men! of all the Alliances in Dade
county I have thought proper to
appoint two more committeinen to
(lie county trade committe, to-wrt:
V\\ 8. Taylor, of Morrison sub-Alli
ance. and C, M. Tatum, of the
Tronton sjb-Alliance; to imedi
ately to enter upon the duties of
the trade committee with the reg
ular elected trade comirittemen, J.
W. Blevins, G, G. Evatt and Jas.
R. Acuff, subject to your approval
1 further believe it to be of inter
est to call a meeting of the coun
ty Alliance to meet in Rising Fawn
| March 16, 1889, to perfect and re
ceive the report of the trade com
mittee. G. A. R, Bible,
President Co. Alliance.
Alliance Spi akin 9.
The Hon. Ben Terrill will de
liver one of his famous lectures in
the interest of the Farmers’ Alli
ance at Trenton,Ga.,March 20,1889.
Hope all who feel an interest will
turn out and hear him as he is said
to be the right man in the right
place. J. A. Bennett,
Sec. County Alliance.
DADE SHERIFF SALES.
Will be sold before the Court
House door in the town of Trenton
within the legal hours of sale on
the first Tuesday in April, next the
the following described property to
wit: One acre of the south west
corner of lot no. 83 in the 10th
Dist. and 4th sect, of Dade county
said State bounded on south by
John Clark’s land and west by
lands of Joel Cross. Levied on as
the property of W. D. Cross Adniis.
of Alt red Cross deceased to satisfy
a Justice fi fa from the 974th Dist.
Ci. M. in favor of S. R. Deakens
and against the said W. D. Cross
as administrator of Alfred Cros de
ceased. Property pointed out by
Joel Cross. Levy made by W. H.
Lyles. L. C. and turned over tome.
This March the Ist 1881-1.
W. A. Byrd Sheriff.
Georgia Dade Co.— Will be sold
before the Court House door in the
town of Trenton within the lagal
hours of sale, on the Ist Tuesbay in
April for cash, the following prop
erty to wit: Two acres of land
more or less, lying on east side of
Lookout creek, opposite Rising
Fawn in the 18th dist. and 4th
sect, of Dade county Bounded on
the south by public road on north
east by Wm. Pettit on the west by
Lookout creek, and known
as the McClendon place. Levied
on as the property of J. W. Blev
ins to satisfy a Superior court fifa
in favor of J. W. Cureton et,al and
against T. C. Wright &Co. and et,
als Property, pointed out by J.
W, Blevins.
Also at the same time and place
1 black mare mule 7 or 8 years old
15 hands high and known as the
Dave Tatum mule. Levied on as
the property of Dade coal compa
ny to satisfy a Superior court fi fa
in favor of J. W. cureton and
against T. c. Wright et al. Prop
erty pointed out by W, c. cureton.
This March Ist. jSB9. W. A.
Byrd Sheriff. .
Georgia Dade county— to all who
it may concern. M. A. B. Tatum
uni, having, in proper form ap
plied to me for permanent letters of
administration on the estate of Ma
ry E. McCauley, to be and appear
at my office within the time allow
ed by law, and show cause if any
they can, w hy permanant adminis
tration should not be granted to
M. A. B. Tatum on the first Mon
day in April next on said estate.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature. This 4th day of February
1889. J. A, Bennett, Ordinary.
A. G. S. TI.VCE CARD.
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No Ar at Trenton 10:2 a, m
North Bound
No 6Ar at Trent* n 4:52 p, m
No “ “ Chatta loog 5:45 p, no
NO. 2.