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ij.,. m is r Hiii i»*w *<■ M MWm , m -w At.iAir YOLtlME IX, DUBLIN, GEORGIA« WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY til. 18; NUiU »BR :n. Professional Cards. W.T. PARK, M. D. 3£ Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga, Celebrated many year.*? for his cures of the •worst forms of stomach, liver, bowel,.kid »ey end biiulder diseases, . dropsy, heart rrh, etc., all blood nervousness, -ami lung troubles, catarrh diseases, nerve disorders, wwvwnvm, neuralgia, rheumatism, debility, fetnule complaints, opium and whisky lmbits, private diseases, sexual weakness, etc. Furnishes medical advice, modiciue, ete.> to the afflicted at their homes through mail, express, or otherwise or takes' them under his personal care in Atlanta. Call on or write to him giving a history nnd statement of jout* affliction,' svinptons, age, sex, etc., enclosing postage for reply. Dr. J.P..HOLME8,' M6TiTIONBi?, CONDOR, GEORGIA, ATTENDED TO AT ALL J hours. Obsterics a specialty. Office Residence. ’ - ^ s, moh24, 7m. ; Dr. P. SVi. JOHNSON, TEACTITIONER, Lovett, - - Georgia, ALLS attended to at all J hours, Day and Night. > . ; niohSS tf. W- Mm LINDER, [SIX MILS NOK'I'H OF DUBLIH.J OFFERS his'seivlces to the - public at large. Calls promptly attended to, day or If -night'. Office at residence. - I aug 20, .’84 ly. GHOST OF RUSS SALLY. CHARLES HICKS, M. D., PRACTITIONER. Dahlia, Georgia. ; m OR. ©> 'F. GREEN, PRACTITIONER. Dublin,' - Georgia. ALLS ATTENDED Tt) AT ALL vAhours. Obstetrics a specialty. Offioe Rdsldencn ' * • ^ < i— T. L. GRUWSR, ATTORNEY '& COUNSELLOR AT. LAW, Dublin ■ - Georgia. ■.may 21'P" N-N FELDER & SANDERS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Dublin, - • Georgian Will practice ,1a the courts of tbs Oco nud, Oemulgeb and Middle circuits, and the Supreme court of Georgia, and else- wliere try special contract. Will negotiate loans on improved fann ing lands. b. l?lh,- 885.-Ora. r‘ . Notice , *5000 Aores improved farm land in 50 dif ferent places from 1 to 12 miles from Dublin. Terms easy ;4 Store Housas nud Lots on Jackson and Washington Streets. IS Ruilding nnd Business lots in aad a- i .nud Dublin. 2 Dwelling Houses woIT ioeated in Dublin. ,i 1 man 2 room Dwelling Houses. PC Uuilding and Duainess lots at Bruton Stntipn, p, & . R, R. 6'JO Acre place, Saw Mill Bonanza, Bruton Station. D. & . R. R. h00 A crc place. 1 3 settlements miles west of Dublin P.again' • , ■ Lauds Bought and Bold a Specialty. Patronage Solicited, Buyers Wanted. Prompt attention given to.all KffrN Business, • £&'"300 Fakmuis Vf anted....^3 Burney & Stubbs, General Real Estate and Goi General Real .Estate and Col lecting Agency. KW"Life insurance) on good terms SemJ in yopr age and got estimate of cost. .. . 3DTx"bZL±xx - 0-3- IUJi. Prairie Mange, and Scratches of «rw‘ ’ ifiiiife. ewrrkiud cured in 80 minutes by Wool fords .■’aiuiary Lotion. Use no otlier. This never fails.-Bold by II. Hicks & Co., Druggist, Dunlin, Ga.- . . , ' NOTICE. t The uudeni&m tniiii tin- uOh.n ,i P"-- ■ r Ali I--. Clin Hi J fitale . • be here from now close* for .the pur- receiving cotton a I have demands, me are hereby rn i and make iinrnc- If any ouo can contradict sny story ho is welcome to do so; ho or she, us the caso may be. The house ia stand- iag still iu one of the Southern States, uud there was a Lime tv lit u it was »s well known os any family mansion could be. A groat planta- tation lay boyoud it. The slaves wore numerous, and tho honse ouo oonataut sceno of hospitality. Such dinners, such breakfasts, such dances will never bo known again ; but for years it had had a bad reputation— iis original owners, dead, and with the reputation of being q haunted house upon it. A family had hired it from those who had inherited it, but hud gone away very suddenly. They hud been visited by ,an apparition—the ghost of Miss Sally, tho negro who infor med mo of tho fact called it. The “sure’uougli ghost of Miss Sally. 1 ’ Folks that had soon iier knew hor vory well. She was Cohniel Wil liams’s daughter, and “he done kill her.”- ■ “Why ?*’ I asked.2 Tlio negro looked down. “She was sure nough fust family,” he said, “but the curnel he spec she didn’t do liko sho’4 oughtor aud ho douo kill her. Folks said ho - done kilt hor; anyhow, nobody kiu live in dat house, missu3—nobody kiu, dat am dc truf.**- I inquired if Colonel Williams was over taxed with the crime, but the negro started at me, amazed. “Curnel Williams jess do liko ho choose,” he said. “Nobody done gone ask Curnel Williams ’bout his doins iu dese parts.” From others I heard that Miss Sally Williams had run away with a soldier during the war times, who turned out to be poor white trash and very unkind to her, aud that it was known that she came back to .her old home oue stormy night. Loud words passed. Tho . servants in the kitchen heard them; but af ter that no- one ever saw Miss Salfy. it was the vaguest rumor possible, and besides, I did not believe in ghosts. I hired thehonso and composed my kitchen cabinet—Martha, Cath erine -and little Billy, who oared for me with a zeal scarcely possible to any one but a “leal South servant.” Alas ! before a week lmd passed they stood before mo with their shiny faces quito ashy with fright, and.begged a dismissal. “\Wa mighty pleased with missus,” Martha said; “wo -jos’ like to lib an’ dio.hcrc but ’taint no use; wo can’t stand do ghos’ of Miss Sally.” ‘iDere aint ho odor satisfaction,” said Catherine, solemnly. “I is jus’ misefbal ’bout goin’; ,btit the ghos’ ob Miss Sally am too much fur me. Billy seen her. Tell missus, Billy; speak up peart, houey. Didn’t you seo do ghos’ ob Miss ^al ly r* . “Done eat up do gingerbread,” said Billy, rolling his big eyes about. ‘Martha, she make me & ginger- broad, and Miss Sally she come eat it up.” - /‘.Ghosts don’t eat gingerbread, Billy,” I said. “It must Irnvo been “Twant, no rat. «Gh(M* ob Miss Sally eat up do ginger,”, .persisted little Billy. ' . : p.. There was no reasoning with my horrified trio. I dismissed them, and provided mvsolf with three %or©--r-i?hoebc-, R.icl.el aud Jim. Jim was oldor than Billy, and milked tho cow: One day ho caino tome with a singular piece of information—the craam was*all gone. It lmd been taken off and set asiJo for the table, and now it was “done gone.” “But where ?” I asked. “Ghof* ob Miss Sally tools- it, I raokon,” said Jim. I instantly informed Jim that “Oh, yes, missus, dey is ghosses, pure enuir ; but 1 isn’t fraid ob de«n* po’t’ings. l)e gala is, but 1 isnt.” 1 was thunkful to hear this, fot 1 knew thut the panic would spread, and vory shortly 1 found that I was right. Phoelio aroused tho houso one night with hor shrieks, having mat Miss Sally’s ghost whon she went to tho kitchen to Bud an ear ring sho had dropped, aud Rachel followed hor out of the house, with all hor Query iu u bundle. In her haste she strewed the road with bits of bugle trimming, gilt-hoad hair pins, artificial flowets that had once gruced the bounets of her former la dies, aud other odds and ends. Jim picked them up and made u parcel of them, which he gallantly called that evening to restore, but the ghost of Miss Sally did not frighten him away. Ho elected to romuin, and very thankful indeed I was, for from that tirno 1 found it impossible to obtain servauts. “You lib at de ole Williams place ?’’ the women would siiy. “Souse me, inis8U8;is dat wliar Miss Sally’-e ghost walks nights ? I couldn’t go dur, no how.- l’s mighty skeery, missus. ” * And so Jim became cook, waiter and house Borvant generally. A wo man took tho washing away, and for the short time wo remained I thought that we could inanago; a thing im possible but for Jim’s great good- naturotund activity. My husband, mean wCilo, made a joke of the wholo matter, but I, tried, to exorcise nay common smise, I could'hot believe that there was no reason for all this alannr In Tact, botween you and me, doar reader, I actually believed in the ghost of Miss Sally.-. One night -I remember that tile olock liad struck twelve, ' and that the moon was very bright—it oocur- red to hie th at 1 smelt firo. I was aware that Jim always smoked in the evening, and I felt afraid might have left a spark or two bo- hind him. My husband had come home tired, and was very aonnd asleep, and 1 felt that I hud better not arouse him unless it was necces* sary. So I slipped on a drossing- gown, and hurried down stairs, The kitchen was in a building a few yards from the'houso, but the pantries and store-rooms woro of course, iu the main building. Jim was so honest that I never locked up anything, and 1, wa3 not surprised to find the store-room door ajar; but !• was simply astound*' ed, as I pushiM it open, to see. a lights A candle was burning , upon a 3helf, and the flame wna licking away at an upper one. To extin guish the flame required some min utes’ work. Then I examined the caudle. Jim had a tin candlestick, aud there were two candlohibra On the parlor marj- tie, but tho rest of the house was furnished with lamps. * The candlestick was a very hand - some one of china, winch I had nev er ooen~before. Where did it cotno from ? I ttCarchcd the house, found noth ing, and rotiied luking the candle with mo as a prize. Whon I told my story, Jim seemed as much sur prised as I was; but my husband laughed at my credulity. “Jim has been pilfering,” he suid, and yon are taken in by his inno cent airs. Wait aud you will sec.” I did wait. If, as Jim declared, tho candle had been loft by the “ghost' of Miss Sal ly,” it was timo to keep a good wutch uvoulhat wandering spirit. Throe nights poised, and I heard no sound. On the fourth a curious cracking sound aroused mo. J hiid prepared a dark lantern, nud instant ly lit it. Then I stolo down stairs, well wrapped up, and wearing slip per* of Gorman list- Ttiere wh* no tored, sot my back against the door, and opened my Ian torn. A flood of light filled the little place, and I saw not Jim, but u womau—a frail, fig ure iu a faded old gown, who' stood, filling a little basket with provisions. Sho turned, looked ut me, drop ped her buskot, uud foil upon her knees, and I knew - I stood in the presence of tho ghost of Miss Sully, “Don’t bo afraid,” I said. “I am not going to harm you. Who are you ? Where do you oouio from ?’’ Sho answered : “1 am Miss Sally. ** I am Colonel Williams’s daughter. I have lived in this'house all the time. The ser vants think mo a ghost. I can’t keep if up any longer.” “You need not,” I suid ; and 1 took nor by the arm and led her to a quiot room, where bit bit she told her story. ' A Southern girl — a Southern officer’s duughlqr—siio had tncl and loved n'yoang soldier. He had in duced lioMo elope with him, had proved to bo a good for-nothmg fel low, and finally deserted her. One night she hud returned to hor father, und he had sworn that hor caso should never be talk of by his neigh bors. Tho rortm lie oalleil hie study was walled with wood, and at Urn end a secret chamber hud been built for some iu,knowu reason. Entered by sliding panels, its existence was a societ to all but Its owner. To, this lie led his daughter, and while ho lived it was her dwelling place. On- !y at-night, did ho permit har to leave it and take the air in the gar den, where her supposed ghost began to be seen, Ilor lather died suddenly and left no will. The next of kin.waB an qjj tnan who caredJLhUu L»r-tlre AdJiudi) to his wealth, and.leased the proper ty. But the girl, anew nothing of what had happened—never dreamt that she could, if she chose, provo herself heiress of the old placo. She feared starvation for herself and the little babe she had reared in that strange prison, and rotnain.ed within its walls. When the honse was inhabited sho came out at night and secured food. When it was not, she went forth uud took wlmt she could find in gardens or robbed hens nosts, She hud euffejfcd greatly, but she lived, and ao did the child —a pnuuy little creature whose fuee had never soon iho daylight, Poor ilisa Sally ! Wo nursed her for a week or two before we porfliiad- -cd her, for her child’s sake, to-nsaert. her right tojjt.ho property, bur at last she consented to do so. To-day she lives in tho old Williams house, and the uoighbnrs have beun kiijd'to her. —New York Ledger. !![)> Vi l were uo -nci> Jungs an chosn, light •«» the store-room, tmt I hoard . it 1 ' 1 • ' . .... .1 /i ..j. • THE VETO. . A few of the Republican journals that reach ns, believe, or cfleet to be lieve, that Congress will over-rale the veto of tho Dependent Pension Bill by President Cleveland. In doing so, tho prosout Congress will act with a far greater degree of oourago than it. has ovor yot shown. It would in effect be placing tho great majority of its members iu both Houses, in di rect antagonism with tho sciitimont of fonr-fifths of the country ut lurge, ombraomg all tho best element of the Republican party. An almost uni versal chorus of the.nation eudorsos tho action of tho Prosidont. Unless sbrnothrug nhtowUrd should Imppon during tho remainder of liisadminis tration, this oue act decisively clinches his hold on tho Demooratio nomination, in 1383. Even tho odi- -tor of the LoqinviUo Courier Journal rclente, and in thu poiirso of a long commendatory article on -the vote, bestoivs upou Proridout Oiovelatid, his mood of praise in the following language : “Under these circumstances, the President's course was plain; but ro- quirod courage of the boat wind and the higho3t confidence in the intelli gence and in tho patriotism of the people. He appoalg from the do in a- gogoos who, for temporary' advanl- agae, wore willing to make any terma with a powerful and active oluss of political wdi klu’S, to the sober, second thought oi all classes. The appeal will not be in vAipj it bus a oiguifi ounce greater oven then llie oecnoi.bn. It assures the pooplu that the 1’rosb dent aces dourly his duty in this re gard, and that at any cost hi will perforin it,.. At tv time whon leguila tion seema to have jiassed beyond all coiifititutionai bounds; : when e#ery sclunne 6f public pliindor hasitB or ganized forces When the classoo are preying on the uwisaos, apd ignorstitic uml cupidity so.tur to bo eveM|iwhere dominant, tho President's message has a moaning and a value that are inestimable.”—j/dcon News. * Unless Secretary Bayard can pre sent aoiiio stronger reason for, with- holding the correuponder.oe. result ing in elm. resignation of Minister Jackson thau the one ascribed, con gress shouhr demand that the docu ments bo made public. Because such correspondence contains some very severe passages at which Mexi co might take offense, is no reason why it -should not *bo published. If the action of Moxico on any ques tion of international interest wus such as to justify severe criticism on the part of our Mexican minister, it is buc right that the 'butter bo made public, whether or not Moxico likes it. Tho namby pnm.by foreign polir ey of ibis government is not iu keeping with the dignity nor tho power of the nation, nud tho sooner it is abandoned the better. A Brooklyn man was recently im prisoned eight years.for kissing a girl against her will, * but wo hare kissed them agunat* fauces and barns and apple, trees, and the other hereditament* bud appurtenances, and if wo had boon locked up eight dau-for every misdemeanor, 6nr life* would be mortgaged, /or the neat 10,0M years, Yum! More.— BaslijngtBh,, Feb., 15,—Tbe Piotiidonl sent ,io tho Speaker of the lloaso to-day a mossago vetoing Rib bill providing for gratuitous distributioh of soeda of tho drought sLrickon counties to Tex«B ; The President fniye he cun find in the constiititiiim no warrant fur indulg ing benevolent and charitable sen-, liment through an impropriation of public fuiida tor thut purpose, and that the power and diUy of the general government ought m»t to be extended to the relief of individual suffering, which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. ' * Good Cmiso For GrioL Gen lie roader, you sometimes won der why newspaper mon occasionally givo way to passion; you .think it ' strange that they should not ulwnvs be in 1.1io. angit-ic ninuj in which you kiiow thorn bost. But if you wero Ur write: “Her dainlv feet wero en cased in satin slippers that might haveservodforTitunia'; lairy boots,” and to tiiul upon leading thu paper that the compositor and’proof-reader had entered into a horrid conspiracy nud tr.iusmtiled your dolicato rheto ric into, “Her dirty feet wore en cased iu satin slippors aiul might li^vo served for Titanic ferry boats,” wouldn’t you, with all your amiabi lity, bounce and flutter liko a squib ? Zounds ! tho ohancos are you’d break all the cpmtnnndmenlB, as Moses did, at onco, and glare abovo for moro.—Boston Iranscript. ISxpjspcrtttlug People. The editor who returns your stoi;y • with thanks. ’I ho person who aa-uniUM an <>x • presaion of gloom, while ydu aro tel ling thoifunniost anecdote von know. Tho pitblic ivhioh wou’t go to; see your pluy. N : Wiggins. ; ' ‘ The individ.iivl who, whon lie learns, that- your ago is 30, looks sm - prised and says lio .supposed you wore at least five yottrs older. ThO man who differs with yoU dn politioal matters. 3 : : y ‘ The misguided bjing who refuses to bo, ^verued b" that yoa have invested all ybiir capital i3 sure to'bo it full’llr^i. Tho roador who don’t‘think tho- foregoing fanny. S'OUJ An anxious Now York tailor wh» sent bill after bill to the home and office of one of liis 'backward cus tomers finally hit Upon the -lcviue uf leaving his dun ut tlio Manhattan Club, where ho-hoard fclio debtor witta mcmbor. The club’s clork lotujrndd the bill marked “Mr. Blank is dead:” On Nov. ] in came tho bill 'again. : Tho oJirk- with a grim humor, roturnod it onco again writing on its face, “This mull instill dead.” ^ It in easy to ask a oonundrum, but it .is not always to.give-on exact all ow,or whon your liflurbrs “give it up.” Some years since at a dinner party in Main, Judge Shcploy linked— “Wily ia woman liko tho ivy ?” In to every body’s mind camo Irving’s beam ifiil comparison, but no one seemed oblo to put i-fc into words. The answer, “'Tho greater tho ruin tlio closer she clings,” is cortuiuly a cieditable sent;ment, but tho Judge uufortlinutaly got tilings mixed, and iu hiu'confusion said : “The cloflor piho olitigo tite greater the ruin,” which sot the table in a roar. Old gout,—“And hpw is yotir fa ther, John !” Jwhn—“Ho is dead flir.” 0. G.—“Dear! Dear me ! Wliat a pity! And how is, your mothor V[ Julia—“She is dead too.” 0. G.—“Indeed ! Dear me J What a pi!v; wha^a pity ! But how is your wife,* J^hrt ; ?’* John—-“Bho diod last ■ week, sir,’.’ 0; G.—“Why goodnena nfe, what a pity, A.id your mothor in-law, how’s sho ?” John She’s hoairty, sir.” G. G. (ubslracled) r “Dear mo, what a pity.” Senator (’udigminily) —The report going about that I am one of the best pokor playors m tho country is doing me a great deal of harm. Sen ator’s Wifo /soothingly.)~I don’t seo why it should, my dear. People Jay vory little attention to such id io tales.' r Hbff doc.i it larm you ? .Snn- ator—I can’t got anybody Io play with mo.—New York Sun. The inter -State commerce bill will operate in a very different uiaunor upon the country at largo, than acts with sudbtantially tho same provis ions have' upon litose elutes«t!ml have enacted Railroad Commission bills, Witii.a ltatliionai Commission opera ting in burmony with tho several atutc commissions, wc seo far moro to avert j bun to bring on a panic. A panic is more hkeiv to result from tho imlicenMd aud unroslraine^ newer ot gig&ulic corporations, tlm.. from their prosier regulation an 1 control. Sjiad have ooinmenccd to run in Oboopco and fishermen aro prepar ing U» RUqftfifty iliem with thoir AChinam.m i,-; Hjumking to liini- suK as lio iron3 u 'siiir.t. I'icliH ip shirt showing oviilonce - oi bjen cared for amt says ‘Jiacholor. Him landlady fix him.” Picks up another, buttonless and all frayed at the wrist mid nock, aud says : “Malliod man.”—Boston Courier. Ono of £he .most forcible orators than over .took the the farmer snug. Noumi was 680 years of age when sho got married. This shows that there is hopofor the. Mussaohutmts girls yet,- UocheHtor IW ! , „ furmor whose plow strikes a Morchunt Traveler. ^