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VOLUME IX 1 "■ — DUBLIN^ ftEOBjglA, WEDNEI^Bit, JTJLY..'Ii* 086 NUMBER IV. P rofoss i onalCa rd« ifaefcsA= Dr. T. f. —, , .—Ma MPOflice at His Kesidence.Lgg Simms’—Building. First door 5 ' below the Court House, j naiii Uuir Next to our old homestead lay Kes trel House. No farm lund whs at tached to; it» ir was simply a ipark and gardens, built for a rich man’s pleasure; and in its midst stood a fountain, bending ovor which a stone mermaid combed her carven hair with a carven comb, using the Dr. . P. HOLMES, PRACTITIONER, J ': : /CONDOR, - - GEORGIA. . ATTENDED TO \J hours. Obsterics & specialty. Office Residence '< meh24, 7m. ' SJfithfQS' GA. ; C 'lALLS ATTENDED TO AT ALL; J hours. Obsterics a.specialty. Office Residences mch24, tf. sj when; the water arose and played in showers all over the mermaid’s head* and shoulders, ran down her tresses, and dripped over; her hands. r i;hose who had seen it said it was a prettf sight; but the machinery was out of order, or, perhaps, had been turned off, and it played no more. The house; handsome and,}pibtnr- esque, as It was, was all shut! up;; the windows 1 barred; ahcl'tlfe doors t! ^drita stone stepg, ostmdes;; ant4 the flowerfe r^rrr* Dr. P. M. JOHNSON, I/. Lovett, -Georgia. pAIXS ATTENDED TO AT ALL W hours, Day and Night. ; ; v- ■ •mch86<.tf.|>:r4- ! .5 J . M .^Taviob j -'»>#• Sv;i::t ’'Afel1 line I ftniU-j Dr. J. L. [six miles north op d’dbi.in.I i OFFERS his services to the public _at large. Calls promptly, attended to, day or uight:' ; Office at‘residence , • • .'if T • ! CHARLES HICKS, M. D -J Mil* b : PllLlin, 1*20, ly Georgia. ! W.; vn. G. F. GREEN, Dublin, - Georgia. v - "1ALLS ATTENDED TO AT ; ALL KJhqaTB, Obstetrics a specialty, i Office Residence ... ii&dfcili.vvSIfllNERjr ATTORNEY & COUNSELL0E***+fiVS$ ft |?fif ■1'Sii‘fi s«* AT LAV, "-.i.-uju.n } j.ijL ■ ;> i may21tf. ■••h: .’1, feSkanja W'.t ! m mJ -Ml j—L. THOMAS B. FELDER, Jr. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Georgia. co- ir.d Dublin. • . .voas. ;>vtsa i'.Krfi *i ' i i\ r V"a« vwSini Will practice in the courts of ths 0; nee. Ocmulgee'hnd Middle circuit!, a! ‘Hie Supfemc court of Georgia, and else where by special* contract. : *el Will negotiate loans on improved farm ing lands. Ecb./ 18th, 1885.-Cm. if j MMij 1 r,! SB . k 1 tmvo n us-)7 i T .« HAVE YOU TAK ENj INTA CONSTITUT1 FOI tB not. it right now'. If you want it every day, s Daily, which ‘cost's $iOVOG*a y ^/\p oiv rnAnfhe ai* AO F\A fnt* th for si hd send fbr the if; 1 or $5 .00. e months iths'or . . i.'iiio? ■■ . I * If you want.it every , week, Bead tor the Great Weekly, which costs $1,25 5, or $5,00 for Clubs of VtVGb'Ha -i m ■" : ■ Oti. TOE STITUTION 9 the Cheapest! B iggest and Best Paper Printed In America! It Las 12 pages chock full of news, gos sip and sketches every , week. It prints ilap-j mere romance, than , ihe atory papers, more farm-news than the agricultural papers, :<n1;cndnra$B fun than the. humorous papers—be- sides all the news, andiQ 1;> bijisd [ ; v^Ilill bp's and Betsy Hamilton's letters, Uncle Remus's Sketch- v •” o jo-j it ^aiuo ’L-jUjolt -riJiH.L ip j **;>age’s‘-‘-t Sermons, . ’«*■ its* 2 Gouts a Weel^ « It comes once week—takes a whole week *•*<> n»d m ut ’■* You can’t well farm or ke£p house with- lii won tn* i;Oa pi. Write your name on a postal card, ad- " dnjsa it to us, and wc will scud you S]>cci- jtEi, „\j j. irtiji-L-r 11 THE CONSTITUTION. iwob Kid ■ men Copy Fhsk! Ad^ Iddress h Land claims A SPECIALTY, AND WARRANTS additional homestead certilicatc-s and certitieatcH and all kinds of land script bought and sc’.d Large stock and highest prices paid. If you want to sell or buy? If so, write D. A. A. THOMAS, Attorney ut-Law, Wash- gtow. D C -j. THE MERMAID FOUNTAIN foi a There had bben a time pr its value as I wag at;,th.at titno” T could not but aaM^ iJ, n sparkletl so brilliantly. T^P^ was ho mud at the bottom of the spriiiif, only Bhin* ing white pebbles. It was perfectly clean, theiefove, after its bath, whethor that had been long or short. “I’ll give this to mamma,” 4 stlid, speaking aloud in my astonishment;, and ashamed of having done so when I heard the souud of my own words, because it was “like the baby.” But the next moment some one an- •werta.N*.'.aEBHWrteKK3a«?0 —You lmve found my ,dug,” a voice said in ipy„ ear. “You nave found my ring. At last, at last, at last, tlmnk Heaven!” I^turnqji Thp : h^emppn . iyaa drawing to a bldio. The park_ wasr were oil gone,’ spve snph .ljpfrdy bushk es as took to a wild life kindly, and * i ed a 1 ^ittle hy;eiy yeOr. , . “I wonder if they don’t lwe.here, ^J^^opie :#ho ^wh;,.tlijs p^ce.r my iyoqng Uncle Morris nsed td sa^ '^ji^n lie spent his yacgilbn, Witlh oa^ Mlt’ea joliyolAVplaoejit’siishamf it should stand like that.” j, And then my mother would say: b,, ^pfieth1bg'Very. dreadful ; hap pened there years ago.” I had heard that before. It was'k 4o®yjI^was hoc to hear, and I won- dered why. . All thy uncle’s vacation I trotted about with .him., and;.as he;,;wtis| fond bt'dsiiiiijft'iook to falling, tppl He woman ueai’i merseemed 1 misty, too~ Alb 4W «^;hanging>l^^^^; : Jn;-^ft;: and a face that I could barely see was $ii*ind delicate. “Of such is the kingdom of heav- AhOj< «ringi. to Marmaduke. Kestrel. Tell r iilnv that Agqes d id not 1ie.» ^^^Pm.jppTOund it in the Mor- UiaidiFountain. Tell him-—” Her. ‘voice grew fairil. She was gone 1 . Mw?M. I was vaguely terrified, and olutch- nng gave me a rod and line, and taught me how to pat on bait: and we used to go to a fine stream a longdistance mm Qsh »e stream a longdistan ed , : never canglit anything, bat he .assured me. that I would some day and I felt very manly as I trottod away beside him with my rod bveir hvy-ihouldbii:Xcf jitG care The'not always welcome care of my mother and aunts relaxed, jam! 1 "** »<!*« NgH ^I'tiire to ..to|low. Morris, eyerywbero, and to pome home quite safe. . : My uncle’s vacation was a : very happy 1 time to me. When ip was dv'ei’ a phange came. Feminine rule began once more. I was forbidden to go to the river side lest I should be drowpgdjtand.my .rambles were limited tor'dur own propev^ and the jdesprtqd nark pf K.estrel dousd. fWdolj Oge uijy pu-, cle often wrote to me, and I was careful to reply, hunting up the big words in my little dictionary, but it , IRQ Ip I IK was humiliating to r |adb|ffid > re k- fishing iii tile r wever, qna^py an. ^djea came into m.y head which enabled me to obey my relatives, and yet injclulge in the sport I knew my uncle thought so much of. 1 resolved to fish in the basin of the Mermaid Fountain in. Kestrel Fark^and acoordinbly dairried tiay'.rba a^(4i|i^'i>'lierb. j The ’fir8bday»fl had ; better i>ldck than usual, for I caught a small green irojr. ' M Jr* sf .imimB | : ! lbblced at %'^ppeht, re flected that his frog mother might be anxious about him, and nut him bac^i.9^t^0^a^f;'andiweptioned ^ h, ‘ 8 ^> 41 Hole Morris, who replied that there was no know ing what I nilght catch next; but I caughjL not'jjing ‘mofe.!* An4 one aiitnmn iiiorning, when all the red leave* were falling and like little fairy boats, I realized the fact that it was jawing top A $Mf with pleasure beside the fountain waiting r ^orajbite. . f rCT {V“L. 6h!” r thWgH ^Tf i could catch something now, this last time! Something to write to uucle about!” I -And just then the little boat bobbod up. I had, perhaps, at last hooked a fish. Delighted, I carefully drew up the line. Something glimmered upon the hook. It was pot a fish. However, 1 Iiasteued to detuch it, aud found it to be a very handsome Cluster diamond ring. Ignorant of things.-• • • Pbrhaps you have se<on one oEthem. ..Bb'ifbUtalk Abbut it, .qnd. say. .yqiufc^RWraj'tonight very pare- fully. ” • ’JfiXYMLI i ,,'jAii’hour or so after'this my; father dtoVb iio'tiie froni t'llb’ tli&trosfc town in his light wagon. 1: - “Something • happeheddat tiie‘ho tel this evening,” he sai.d, i“liilttr- maduke Kestrel is dead.j Ho oanie back very pale, attei; a walk tp Kes-: trel Park, they tliiqk; alia a fjtll Was heal’d dpfhis-r^qrui-soon after. They found him on tho“floor beside liit 1 fl6kki F Ulreiitly d6M1 ;%lAf-lfb had writ ten oh a paper' word’s nearly like these:'”; f. ic | 0 - <*1 ! have doubtb'd‘ ' i fli^ pnHty of sweetest woman who ovor lived. jn,” si iamJu.iiEttTflsur Wiirt-Ljsij'jyjt ou.'m&Krcti 'toMi ing the ring tightly in one hand I ./ou£ rm *“ - JL bee'an to run, but looking o\er my shoulder to see if she was following me, I stumbled and fell. Some one picked me up. It was old Marrmidiiko Kestrel himself. Sometimes I had seen him walking 1 saillVj.t!iroughs;.the;'park, hy Tiiniself, ithorigli heiived a lon'g distance off at a.hotel, and was often away, in jSurdpe, Canada, or"' dalifbraia. Travelling for' his health, people Said. ' -• - n-i “What is the hi alter, little one?’* ho said. “Havo you hurt your- W “No,” I said. “Tho lady fright ened me. She was—she seemed to go out like a candle. She said it was her ring; but she did not tnae it. She said I wus to give it to you, and say:. ‘Agnek did. not lie.’ Is she Agnes 9 Does she always look like that? What did she: mean?” Mr. Kestrel sat down upon the stone seat beside the fountain, and held me by the arms and etured me iuto my face. ~ > w >i “Tell me whatyou moan, boy,” he said. “I was. fishing in the basin of the fo.uutai9;.;th^ , f' j ';j6aid I, “and J .thoughi I liad ; bauglU a trout, bbt it was no iBsh at alh but a beaiitiful 'shining ringi. Seel” X held it put to him as well as I could with his grasp upon my arms, and ho lot go of mo and took from me. He peer ed at it closely and said: I “Your eyejs ; ^ ;> yopng;,^^^d what is engraved on the inside, Child.** ;J And with muoh paitls/ Tor it.- was gro^in|j^Wilight; I s word's: <u:u-,>iy/ “To 18—” Then ho took it from me again and said: “Goon.” “I thought it, was a pretty ring,” Isaid, “and I would give it to mamma And then there was a lady tliiere by the fountaiu, fair; with long, . ijght curls ; but like smoke or m|st. ; . I could not help being frightened, and she said: " •' *' ' .« “ Ht is my ring. It is foun^ at last, thank Heavon’—and words that Jesus said ill the, Bible—and then, ‘Give it lo Marmaduke Kestrel and tell llinif you found it iti the fountain, and Agiies did not lie.’ Was she Agnes?” r ’ ~ • Ho answered “Yes, ” and stooped down and kissed me, and wont his way, taking the ring with him, and I ran home lo my mother unci told her the story. She litdd mo clear. “IPllMt was sho, mother?” I asked. ■' i the Lettl|em,bury me nqar the fountain my Stone these; words: mpry of- J r m'^fnithful ail'd bdl^VOd wjife ^f Marmaduke Kestrel, whose} body lietli lidre, but whose soul hath gone Uraisk 1 pardon i.of- her he wronged; for bitter yeare*”;® j ■ \ And my’Xiiptheiri 'with a cry] olnng tUXUk arm and told iii|p ^iy grange story; ; ! ‘“What does it all 1 moan?” Tasked;- “ lUho waif, AgHes? IThat did Mr. Kestrei do, to .her? Wiirtt was it: L saw in the park? ITas ft a ghost?” But my mother put her build ovor my mouth, and my father told mo that thore were strango things and wicked storios in this world that children could not understand, bnt that Agnes-Kestrel was said; to havo; died pf a broken.' heart because her husband, wus^cruel ,'to her; and tliPtigliTF-^iemid-^i Veil away j aiVihgi she swore she had lost. ,,Af^.W^d4^R4P.<»M>pd/thiit this story might bo; but I'cannot Explain to myself what it was thatliubponed to me in Kestrel Park (any more Clearly than I uhdbrdtb6d ! ib in m.y childhood.—Mary Kylo Dallas, in N. Y. Lodger. 1 Sold His WileTuid Children. Ppban^Grovb, N. J., Juno 28.— Ellib Thompson, a woulthy farmer living about a mile from hero, has purchased a wifo and two children,’ and is now living with them in a now houso, handsomely furnished.: Kate Karson, a right good girl, was years ago sought for by Thompson, tiicn 14 years old, and a you ng man naiiidil Hiram Sattorlee. Sattcrleo won 1 the. girl and married her. ft: week ' ago in honse nlong the railroad; near Deal lake. Satterlee was ompfoyod on tho Now York and Long Branch rui 1 roadbu 11iitqni|lqi;miC0 has ia j fl ed him, and he has given but help lb'bjs,; family lately, son saw how poor- the family were, and bow-.the:’ Woman ho loved; was 1 beinjw ill iised by her husband; His syni]>athies.wentito tjic injured wife, aiid he' l<)hgb^ ;t(i M lkk^ hor |d thq house hc.was ilpilUing on his*} flirqfiV At length he huff a happy lp^ire- tion—lie would buy Mrs. Saltorloo. \yhen he broached (he subject to lier, sjie receivod the proposition with fewer scruples than he fixpocU' ed. She appreciated his solicitation, and, if she could not retuifn bis iis. her gratitude would go a until (i: iveok ago in a little log long way toward it. The question now arose us to whether tho husband would mako a reasonable bargain, Mr. Thompson wohfe to tho] house and broached the subject. Satteileo thought at first it was a jokp, but when ho Thprnpsoii was iiTenrn-' est ho became serious;! and finally offered to^dll hifi wifeand children foi- 80,00.. M.r.lThompson put down the cash at onco. T'hut night BaLtof- lee left for New York, uuu tlie wo- nmn and children are now living with Thompson in 'cornt/H and Imppiiicss. Jjeta foreign foo to the country appear in the shape of a millluii l>ou«ids of tobacco and our navy would soon chew it up,—Picayune. Hoi*. A. O. Bacon. Every generous mind must ad mire tho pluck and manhood exhibit ed by this bigh-miiided and ooura- geous gentleman in the present con test. It would he difficult to esti mate tho fearful odds against!w)iic]i bo is contending, 1 alm'bst jsingjd handed. It is nothing less than tho revival of the old Confederate Mvar' spirit!. Tile rnemoribs bf buttlo fields always stir the blood, blit they have had ! apBtetToy in thik'oivil.figllY that we never saW equalled! Mr. Bacon is purely a civilian. His training and, doubtless,' his j tastos are adapted to a peaoofui -eiiil His whole strength since tlie war Inis been given to tlie work of restoring the State otbl*' Which he 1 llbnorably as- pires to’ preside as Chief Magistrate. .If hdn-“ Georgia * was ^thenadoq with destruction more dire-than that' H bi wav; 1! Mfa Baebii 1 was : found' a 1 e less seiitinel at hisqiost'us legislator; vaihbnt'She- was^wHdunded, sia^ !> ai{(ij! sore;from*'ttib 1 asstiultis of ^the! high- waymetriWhb hadbrebbed hor of her 'stored, he pouied- inlq7®^ woundsvhnd helped to niirse l 'nei‘ back to health. Twelve years of useful > and honorable service in hor iGenerhl 'Assombly entitled him to the respect and; esteem of tho peoplo whom ho has berved. But all this does not save this noble. reputation from besmiiiclmientat tho hands of thoso who, for a purpose, seek to destroy him, politically. >ni | : i The stillainall voice:of reason and justice lias been drowned by tho noise of battle i and; tho shouting ]of the captains. If Mr. Bacon is ; beaten, we honestly LoLieve that it will;be at the ultimate oxpenso of the tax-payeri of the State and at. tho sacrifice o its best interests.. He lias tried to rcuson ootfUie issues involved; in tlie campaign—rhe lifts held up Georgia and hergreat matters us calling for the exorcise of a calm judgment ifl the selection by the peoplo of hor chief offloers, and lie has avowed a policy wiiioh must lmve commended .itself to the sober oousideration of all thoughtful (persons as tho -wisest in the preBent:emergoj)Qy$>und if he j'oea down, thei tfinh whioli ho lifts f ohampioti*d, and the purity and in dependence. in ofHolai ]conduct of ,wliieh-lie‘i*(jUi:e strong-and able ad- vQcate. wil Jlikowise nieoti a tempo rary, defeat. 1 The rashness , oif tile present hour may be deplorefi ivHon it is too late to stay its results. A mftnly man, surli as Mr. Bacon, may Well accept private lifo oiieor- fully, with the * high oonsoiciUBness of duty done; after so gallant it figh t as lio is making against;oppositibn suoh as na candidatem(Georgia ov.pr pprtor. •■It: Hrfn A Brick Wagon Romance. ; Wasliington Critic; ' Inhere was a soiVsation 1u it ihonso- libld in’ ‘tiib north wostm’n' part ! o ; f. the city oho day lii^t yvebk, when tho pn- ; Iy child; a daii^hfer iigod afibjut sov- ehifien,’ was disebvered to be married to ii yoiing miVri Who e’arilbd Iris living by : ‘ dilVltig J ii brick wagon. Tho youhg lady in the caAe ia'very attrac tive^ and hor father is a loadiiig'con- tractor and builder of (his city, worth at a moderate cstiinato: upward of 1100,000. ; i5 Recently the father de cided to build sevoral new houses on lots of adjacent to the one occupied by his own residbiice, and they are bow nearly completed. | Among the drivers who dellivored .brick for the new btiililnigs was a tall awkward, iiaudy comploxionod and mustached young man, who hud hot uppurehtlybtho faintest concep tion of romance. But ho wus fair in, tlie eye.4 of the daughter, of the contruotor, and she frequently car ried a liberal lunch oiit to him at the hour of the noonday meal. Nothing was thought amiss by hui* motive merely to kindness of heart,' little dreaming of the relations that exist ed-between tho pair. Several days after (ho meal incident, the young luly romuinod absent from hor homo one night and did not return till late the following afternoon. When questipned as: to her wfioreabouts the night befprjs, she replied. that she had remained uthei motiier-in-law’s. Even then tho family entertained no siispipiqns, but thought it was a joke on hor part, and the subject was not referred, to, again.A repetition of the young lady’s absence was not treated so lightly, however, and, to ; }|ie astpii.ishm.enV of ' hey parents, Whqn, the ufte^npon papers appeared t}iey oQi^tfti nod tlie ] aimon'nei me it that a nquriage iiceiiso had been i * sued to their daughter and the brick cart' ■ p ‘ ' V ■ . •n{j:,yj o«i : . . Subsequently it was ascertained llmt tho voung folks had b*m mar- nod for several weeks past and that tho l^npymdpii; had ( .boon s^r - 1 tho groom on hi, cart eajoyi 3 house by the brido. groom, spout by oying tho father- tnrmoil rine*. ]roai.g,eoaplk>«t> them la nay tray, aud ha. even gone .0 far a. to retain her clothing bought be- “Ah'wrai un en Use Chalk. ■PH... . Vtillused by Women to beautify i-liPir face,” frankly admit ted a fa8hipnable di'UggiVt on Broad way the other day to a Mail and Express reporter. “I don’t mean that it is used exclusively, because there arc several popular preparations that we alleged to make homely wo- mqfl‘ beautifill as'angels., '"Dozens of fluids and nostrums may ho applied 10 the face, but when a woman starts tolcuve the house for the street, thea tre or church ilio last thing is a quick rub of chalk. Tho clmlk, therefore, line tho monopoly and is ’less harmful t.oXhe oomplexion than the’patent applications. The reason '* rubbed on. lightly, aiid is fbon incited by perspi ration. It doesn’t stay op long enough to obstruct the action of tho pores of'tlie skin. Thp- other bcau- tlfidrs ftro ushiiliy: liqtiid- and pasty iu their nature, thus closing up tho pores. W.oniep arq becoming very oureful how they use complexion bouutifiors indiscriminately. Do l know of aiiy ursoidc eiiters to make their complexions beautiful? I nev er knew of but two women who atfc/Ai^ed’khbli a dangerous oxpori- 'liibflt'. ‘‘Both of thorn are dead now. X a'flvXreo to say that when nature has refused a boautifut complexion, tfibrcl ui’C ‘tew’noitrttms tlmt can make up for tho deficiency. Tho tenijidmry iisb of chalk is rather Id a voitilv' wn hkrifllbss itiid citbrs to a vfthity wo JPHP| all possess more or Ies8.--Kew York encountered beforekM-LiiGrahge lie- Mitilbill'd Express. — Accqminodatiiig.jDiyorce </Oiirts in Iowa, 1 f,i Under*the, Jaw* of Iowa a couplo was diyqrqcdjthree Years ago on complaint of the wife,,who alleged “supl; injiumqn f .tr,eatmeut us endan gered her- life;” Before a year had elapsed the* two were again mated, and in a little Whilo the divoroo mill was again resorted to, this timo by the husband. Ho alleged that wifo applied toJiim'“epithets not to be commended;” that “she refused to kneel when lie was enguged in pray er, aud on one occasion when he was so engaged in his boa-room she came UniieceBsurily into the room and in terrupted Imn,” and finally, .that she threatened him with personal vio lence. The specification under the lust allegation was that at one time when they-“wasseated at the sunpor table,” he laid before her e “bill for a cheup dress,” whereupon she struck it from the tuble and nnuHy threw it at him, and thut cither the paper or her hand struck him in the eye.” A second di voi ce was. gran led by the lower court, but an appeal was taken to tho Supreme Uoiirt, which decided in favor of tho wifo. “Wo reach tho conclusion the more reudily,” tho court added, “ns tho plaintiff testifies he lores his wifo and would gladly welcome her back to his honiu if she will do bettor; while the de fendant testifies that she loves hor husband and would willingly live with him if lie would reform.