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Sk IPaite ftjMfwf) wccblg §4itte VOL. tf THE RAPE COUNTY TIMES, £ N rEUEI> AT TUB PoSTOFMCE A.i SK onu Class Mattkk. gjSiiNj_ M. ,1 .. . J. MAJORS, EDITOR AND PROEKIE'UK ■jgJ --.JL. ■ ■ "" "agg=gg feODItS AND ENDS! jCarvit 5 « *,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, 0 sOCIBS GATHERED HERE fAND THERE. o 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. South Bound No s'Lv Chattanooga 9:10 a, m 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.