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FAWNING TO KONE-CHABITY TO ALL-
VOLUME YIXL
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY JUNE 22. 18S6-
NUMBER 20.
Church Directory.
—^WQLASY^E-Fii'st, third
«id fifth Sundays.
before ^ PRINGS —® econ( i Sunday, ard Saturday
Midway—Fourth Sunday, and Saturday he,
R>re - ( : "W. R, JOOTE, Pastor.
B^tist—Douglaijville, first and fourth Sun
days. Rev. A. B. Vaughn, pastor. ■
A THIEF DETECTOR.
One Man’s Employment
a New York Store.
in
Masonic,
DoupIasviHe Lodge, No. 289, F. A; M. .meets
m Saturday night before the first and third
Sundays in each month. J. R. Garter, W. M.,
. J. Gamp, Secy.
A Private Detective who Mingles with
the Throng of Shoppers.
County Directory.
^Ordinary—H. T. Coopery
Clerk—3. N. Darsett.
Sheriff—Henrv Ward.
: Deputy Sheriff—G, M. Souter.
'fax Raoeiyer-—E. H. Camp.
Tax Collector—W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon,
Surveyor—John, M. Huey.
Coroner—F. H„ Mitchell.
iSBUPEKIOB COURT.
Meets on thiitd Mondays in January and Jnlj
■ and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon, Ramson W. Harris.
■ Sol. Genl.—Hdn. Harry M. Reid.
1 Glerk—S. NfDorBett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
' COUHTY COURT.
! „ : Meets in quarterly session . on fourth Mon
days in February, May, August and November
, and holds until all the cases on the dooket are
- oalled. In monthly session it meets on fourth
Mondays in each month,
Judge—Hon, R. A. Massey.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
. ordinary’s court
Meets for ordinary purposes on first Monday,
and for county purposes on first Tuesday in
each month.
. Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
JUSTICES COURTS.
730th Dist. G. M. meets first.Thursday in each
month. J. I. Feeiy, J. P., W. H. Cash, N. P.,
». w. Johns and W. K. Hunt, L. 0.
736th Dist. G. M., meets second Saturday.
A. R. Bornar, J. P., B. A. Arnold, N. P., S. C.
SjeerpL 0.
84th Dist. G. M. meets .-fourth Saturday,
nblin Carver, J. P., C, JB- Baggett, N. I’.,
I asms* and M. S. Gore, L. Cs.
JSgtk Dial. G. M. meets third Saturday, T.
/Hamilton, J.P., M, L. Yates, N. P., ». W.
liggefs, L.C., S. J. JooraSn, L. C.
1260th Dist.'.' G. M. meets third Saturday. N.
W. Camp, J.P., W.' S. Hudson, N. Pi, J. A.
Hill, L. C.,
1271st Dist. G, M. meets first Saturday; C.
C. Clinton, J. P. Aiberry Hembree, N. P.,
L, , L. O. L
1272nd Disf. G. M. meets fourth Friday.
Geo. W, Smith, J. P., C. J. Robinson, N. P.,
, L. O.
12.73rd Dist. G. M. meets third Friday. Thos.
White, J. P.,iA. J. Bowen, N. P-, W. J. Harbin,
L. C.
Professional Cards.
ROBERT A. MASSEY,
Attorney at law
DOUGLASVIllLE, GA.
'.(Office in front room. Dqrsett’s Building. j,xi
practice anywhere except in thyeCouhtj
Court of Douglass county.
W. A. JAMES,
I ATTPRPiEY AT 1
Vill -..jactico in u ‘ ts-
1 Trif Office on Cou -?««•
GA.
Slate an
D0W
J
T. ROBERTS,
'WjfORNEY AT LAW,
A tall haughty young woman, wrapped
in furs, with large diamond earrings,
moved lazily through the throng of shop
pers in an uptown dry goods establish
ment the other day. She viewed with
indifference the great varietySgf objects
exposed for sale, and chatted gayly with
a Young and stylish dressed companion,
casting haughty looks of displeasure at
the more vulger shoppers whenever, as
frequently happened they were rude
enough to jostle against her. A hand
some Japanese leather shopping satchel
swung from her left arm, and in a harder
jostle than any she had yet received, the
spring snapped and the satchel swung,
open. Inside lay a purse, some loose
greenbacks, and odd change -temptingly
exposed to view. The 1 fair owner 1 con
tinued her elegant walk utterly oblivious
of the danger threatening her purse. .
A stylish young fellew who had been
darting hither and thither in the thron
suddenly rested his eyes on the open
satchel." They twinkled for a moment,
and then he became very earnest and ap
parently very anxious to reach the street,
lie forced his way up to the satchel, dex
terously bid it from view, and slyly stole
his hand into its depths. He was about
to withdraw it again, when he met with
a sudden and unexpected shock. A
stout, heavily -built man, with his over
coat buttoned up to the ears, who had
been moving slowly with the crowd, ap
parently indifferent to everything and
everybodv, had suddenly taken a violent
interest in the dapper young map, and it
was his hand which had arrested the
thief justj as he had started to remove
purse and money from the open safchel.
The yotmg lady turned around With a
slight scream, much disturbed, and there
was ^ j commotion ip. the immediate
neigmsorhood.
" ‘‘keep your satchel Close I. Madam,”
remarked the stout man calmly, " ‘Md be
fore she.had recovered from her frigb^ho
had disappeared with tbe-- : t&ei in his
custody, v . ■
A reporter ..for thg.- Sun, who hfd
watched the foregoing, followed 1116^/4’'
men fipto a private office.
'the second. -story. 1 1
‘ T should think that*- you wbuldjknQw
enough.to keep c»t of herCf ’ said tile
to the thfef. ’
■ Tlie latter laughed carelessly and spi
mitted to being’qpSr ched without mftir-
mur. /
“What’s the odds,” he retoj>md with a
'grin. /
The bosses won’t hav^os arrested, so
they all do, inside and out of the store,
from the superintendent down to the
scrub woman. If the superintendent is a
drinking man or the cash girl eats more
candy than her wages would pay for, the
firm wants to know .it. If the young
clerk there spends his nights going
around town, J am expected to keep my
eye on him. I take orders from no one
but the firm itself, and, although I be
lieve I am popular with the employees, I
also know that I am fearedby them, f° T an
evil,report from me would be immediate
ly followed "by the delinquents discharge.
The firm trusts me, and I am proud Of it,
but it’s a trying and responsible place all
the same.”
The reporter watched the detective as
he slowly moved away, appareiffly seeing
nothing bdt his little piercing byes tak
ing in everything within their range of
vision.—New York Sun. / ,
THE “ALABAMA.
The Confederate Cruiser’s
Last Engagement.
How- She Was Sunk by the "Kearsarge”
Off the French Coast.
Washington Money Lenders.
When a government clerk gets deeply
“in a hole,” or suffers the agonizing dis
comfort of being pn “his last legs,” he
generally appeals for a lift to one who, in
Washington parlance, is known as a 10-
percenter. This is a specimen of human
ity that loans money for. sums not ex
ceeding half the borrower’s salary, at' the
rate of 10 per cent, per month; that is, if
your salary is $100 a month, he will loan
you $45 in cash and take your note for
$50, payable in thirty days. These mon
ey-lenders claim this exorbi*-'‘"t interest
on the ground that the unsufficient secu
rity subjects them to frequent losses.
But I do not see how they/an lose; a
clerk is completely in their power, They
never accept a note without lihc name of
a second clerk in gook standing as ah en^
dorser. If either clerk refuses to pay,-
his position in the department can V e
placed in jeopardy by thq., 10-percenter
filing a report of disregard - of obligation
against him. The lender’s only danger
of loss depends upon the rare contingency
of death, resignation,-or discharge sever
ing both the principal’s and the endors-.
el’s connection with ,the |depffl$menfBu-;
fore the note falls due. T^is money lend
ing business, is a lucrative one, and the
foundation of inbny a handsome fortune
in W
MjfflBi
■f. 'j
Shaksperqjs School-4
In ,1482, Thujas .Tclj.^
From an account of “Life on the Ala
bama,” by one of her- sailors, in the Cen
tury, we quote the following: ‘ We got
everything ship-shape and left Cherbourg
for our last cruise on a bright Sunday
morning, June 19th. We were escorted
by a French armored vessel, and when
we got outside we could see the Kearsarge
awaiting us, about four miles away. .
Captain Semmes made us a short speech
which was well received, though it seemed
odd to me that ah American should ap
peal to an Englishman’s love of 1 glory to
animate him to fight the speaker’s own
- countrymen. But we cheered, and the
French ship leaving us, we steamed
straight for the Kearsarge. There is, no
doubt that Sgmmes was flurried and com
menced firing too sopn. We were, I
should say, nearly a mile away, and I do
not" think a single shot told. The enemy
circled around us and did not return our
fire until within seven or eight hundred
yards and then she let us have it. The
first shot that struck us made the ship
reel and shake all over. I was serving on
one of the thirty-two pounders, and my
sponger was an 1 old man-o’-war’s man,
i who remarked, after a look out of the
.port, ‘We might as well fire batter pud-
dens as these pop-guns:, a few more biffs
like that last and we may turn turtle.’
He had scarcely spoken when a shell
burst under our ]7?vot-gun, tilting it out
of range and killing five of the, crew”.
‘What is wrong Vith the rifle-gun|’ *^.a^
asked. Wo don’t seem to he a m
enemy.an/iarm,’ while with
sktO-wuiu-
as: a
taking a stSi
-away- fortu"
The fruit ripens in June and December *
at which time the beans, which are abou
the size of shelled almonds, are separated
.from the pulp and dried in the sun, when
they are ready for the market. They are
then roasted like coffee, which causes the
Shells to separate from the beans. These
shells are sorted by winnowing, and form
an inferior, cocoa. The seeds thus pre
pared are sometimes used for food after
being boiled a long time, but if they are
to be made into chocolate they are ground,
mixed with starch, sugar and other , sub
stances, and made into cakes. The best
chocolate, however,, is simply made from
shelled beans, which axe parched and
ground like coffee. The irregular pieces
into which the seeds separate after being
shelled are called nibbs, and are the pur
est form in which cocoa can be bought.
Collector Harris is now experimenting
with some of the seeds, with a view of
starting a cocoa farm. It takes about
three years fer the plants to come into
Key West (Fla.) Democrat.
A Woodland Flower.
How could I know, 0 tender woodland treas-
. ure. , - ' . ■ .... ,
With petals blue and soft as Summer skiee,
That from the dust of long forgotten pleasure-
So dear a hope, so fair a dream could rise?
Meek, lonely blossom hiding in the shadows,
And waved by mountain breezes cool and’
free, w
No fairer flower from Summer’s golden
meadows
Could bring the thoughts i that thou hash
bom to me 1
From the sweet stillness of the misty moun
tains,
Where fairies weave a strange mysterious
spell,
The cooling winds that blow from hidden
fountains
Bore thee ’mid alien bowers and scenes, to
dwell I
Ah! sweeter en thy petals, fair and broken,.
Than winds -that blow across a Suipmesr
sea,
Or Strain of fairy music, is that token,
Oh wonderous flower, that thou has brought
to me. . ■ ,
—Courier-Journal.
1
bearing.*
Canned Hoods.
In the testimony brought forward in
the recent Kolyer-Thurber case, much
light'was thrown by expert and other
witnesses upon the methods, in some in
stances, of the canning trade. Besides
the copper boiling and zinc soldering
practices, other reprehensible modes of
manufacture* were testified to. One wit
ness, who said that be had been in the
canning business for thirty years, gave a
simple means , ; o£,,distinguishing spoiled
from wholesome fruit. It is- midci/tood
that when air can get at the contents ol
the cap. decomposition will ensue. The,
wholesomenCSsj of the goods, therefore,
depends entirely upon the air-tight con-
di-cJ
HUMOROUS.
often.
"TJre vptness
kt.ly alf
asserted
tight
Sweet strains—Clear honey.
When a man falls down his temper gen-,
orally gets up before he does.
The tramp, like the mariner,
looking for a hospitable cove. .
A fly is said to have lft;000 eyes. No-
wonder he is careless where he leaves his
-specs. . , if
A man seeing the sign , “Hands off,”
innocently asked if they had gone on st
picnic;
Lite is short—-only four letters in it-
Three quarters of it is a “lie” and a half
of it is ah “if.”
The man who wouldn’t pay his tailor^
rtas non-suited. That i4* the HuEi
the clqth|g^>ack.
was hrpdil
that he bd
‘steam-b’iljB
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
I fllpractioe in all the Charts,
ness will rei
^jjjourt House.
*|snf ss will receive prompt attention. Office
All lega
N O. D. CAMP,
TTORNEY AT LAW,
jWjgfeg-:-- DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
■Will practice in rail the courts. All business
• intrusted to himWill receive prompt attention.
B. G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,,
■ DOUGLASVILLE, GA /
Will practice in ali the courts, Staf™ n( ^
Federal.
■
^^gieslt: a'
jpj&sffiSSr of the
, gave certp^p^Ahd
&0 the ,BrpthJrh|od of the Hol^i Cross, to
'maintain a jiri.fst fit to teach grammar
freely to all scholars.
a There is very kittle doubt that here, in
ris boyhood, Shakspere conned hiktasks.
The antique appearance of the school
room islo a^riftfr extent gone, fd r in the
laspe of timq many of the old, character,
listipreaturei; have passed away.
lore
the fhissile
‘She’s going
was confusiom^B
about the wafe'r-Ir
like- a drunken man. The
wounded were lying abfeut.
ITTiqh
S^Snd the
[ms was”
Alabama,
^rj*. all
hi^Hstrhek'
vesi^l
land
thq deck.
we run no risks. Oy : m a wmle w^e ra |3| e - • - J y ^
IchhIm
JOHN M, EDGF
ATTORNEY A^
SSSSitetea— a h 1
DOUGLASVI^f-, GA,
LAW.
/ WiU practice in all
attend iif all business
Sppurts, and promptly
Kusted to liis care.
J./JANIES,
ATTOl
AT LAW,
/OUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will police in the courts of Douglass,
Cainpheit Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and
adjorning counties. Prompt attention given'
to all business.
J. H. McLARTY,
AXTQtirt§V AT
DOUCLASYI/LE, GA. .
Will practice in all the Courts, both State and
Federal. Collections a f|>eoia(ty.
JOHN V. EOGE.
attorney at law,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
n®
JOB PRINTING
NEATLY DONE
AT THE “STAR” OFFICE
strike a duffer when y^t’re off galliv
ing with the daisies^ That was a^tretty
•lay you spoilednow, thpdgh, ” he
added regretful- “Won’t you come
out and have/^thingl-li#'
“Not jusrt° w >” replied the stout man
ironically'LU see that you get out..?’
“I an^“ e house detective,” ho said a
little/^ er > after having conducted his
cha-to out of a side door. I ‘I have been
-^elective nearly all my life,* and I owe
present place to the faet that I know
/by i sight every professional thief and
pickpocket in the country. I get "a large
salary for doing nothing but walk upj
down through the store all day^*^ 111
entirely my own master; several j
assistants also, but I am^^onsible for
all. If a pocketboo^^fost, an article
taken from a cw-rter, or a clerk knocks
down, I am/dfd to answer, so that I am
obliged.- 4o keep my eyes wide open all
the time.
“People are* very careless. A dozen
times, at least every day I have to warn
ladiesj that their shopping satchels are
open | or that they have laid their purses
on the counter while Examining goods.
“It is a rule of this house to avoid pub
licity as much as possible in the matter
of arrests. If I find a thief, even in the
act of stealing, I simply take away his
booty, search him "carefully for other
stolen goods and then put him out. Jf I
find him in the crowd, even when he is
not plying his' trade, I search him just
the same and put him out. 1 use no dis
guise. The thieves know me and I know
them. They submit to search rather
than arrest, and in that way we keep
from the public the fact that thieves fre
quent this place, There is no doubt that
they do come here in large numbers as
well as to every other*large store. Some
of the biggest criminals in the country
have been in this store. They frequent
the art stores‘very much, for there they
have a chance to make rich and unsus
pecting acquaintances,
“Besides watching for thieves from
outside, * I have to keep my eyes on the
employees. I am supposed to know what
and
impressed me deeply. At
the invitation of the Head Master, I ligt-
eued for a few minutes to the recitations
ui Greek of a class of
English boys.
stout and sturdy
The boys in Shakspere’s school
if 1 f i a it ? .xLsiii:
/hat given to skylarking^” 1011 the mas '
back was turng^ P° or man! he
er a hard time of it;
rYto maintain a conversa-
and at the same time re-
which was red with blood. Our officers
did their duty and the men at once , be-
gan tqsget up-the wbut|led.' The’’cutter
and launch were in tha water, and the
officers were trying to -keep the men back
till the wounded vverekll in; but- certain-:
ly many of them were lefb !oFFsaw- sev
eral on the berth-leck''witoh : I w||MMg
low, 1 and the boats werafc, ; fSe^rt|
pushing || ^ h '
the shiiwH^^^ ft “ a a ^ a look ‘
"rtween decks, and I tuT below, but
iuv-.u;a hole I
•rtiij fruit and
this trick is cl
vent-hole, heat,
der the can
no mark, a
dence
with.-
tha(|
-Ne\J
a afB
ter’s
in his ende^>
tion wijh^"®‘■ ■- i v- -■ . ,,-i 1 -:vvf...
strain^® exuberant feelings of his pupils.
Nicholas.
Extracting Teeth Willi a Pistol.
Old Dr. Mousey extracted teeth by
fastening, a strong piece of catgut secure
ly to the, tooth, to the opposite end of
which lie affixed a bullet, With this
bullet and a full measure of powder, a
pistol was charged, and when the trigger:
was pulled, the operation was performed
effectually and speedily. Once a gentle
man who had agreed to try . the novelty,:
and had even allowed the apparatus to
be adjusted, at the last moment ex
claimed, “Stop, ‘stop, I’ve changed my
mind!” “But I haven’t, and you’re a fool
and a coward for your pains,” answered
the Doctor, pulling tlip trigger. In an
other instant the tooth 1 was extracted, ,
much to the timid patient’s delight and
astonishment, -—Scientific "American.
Doubly Unfortunate.
Clara—Well, Henry, this is pretty con
duct. Mother was here to supper , and
you never made your appearance.
Henry—Very, sorry, my love—cou’fn’t
help it, Met Boojum—would have-' me
go to the theatre'.
Clara (suspiciously)—Indeed 1 - /What
was the play about? You know I always
like to hear.
Henry—Sorry I can’t oblige y0u. .Boo
jum talked to me. ■ :sq that I dicin’i hear a
word.
Clara—What did you see !
Henry—Nothing. Boojum’s sister and
her hat sat in front of uic. —t-SKiUidclyhia
Call
they were gone. . ;
“ ‘All hands., on deck— ship’s going
down!’ was called, an* I hhd just got
on the upper step ofrte forward,compan
ion-way when the-/ater, : entering the
berth-deck ports, forced the air up and
almost carried me /off my legs. I cast
my eyes around fqf a moment. Old Gill,
with his ,head errthed under' the carriage
of the eight-inc/gun, was lying there,
his brawny hanks clinching the breast of
hie jumper. - Just as the water came over
the stern I event over the port bulwarks. •
I was a good'swimmer, and had not been
in the water five minutes when a French
pilot-boat'/bame running past, and a
brawny fellow in petticoats and top-boots
dracked me out of the water.” %
Oo 1 «
Chocolate.
There is no reason why Alonroe County,
should not afford a large portion of the
chocolate which is consumed in theUnit-
ed 'States. We have ‘a climate and soil
which is admirably adapted to its pro-
citiction, and it will certainly pay a hand
some profit upon any proper investment
hiade in its cultivation. The; name is de
rived from the Aztec chocqlati, pnd it is,
as we know, . a nutritious, drink,' and is
prepared from the cocoa, which is the 1
fruit of the theobroraa cocoa. 1 The tree
is found in Central America, South Amer
ica and Mexico, and in the West India
Islands. . It is a beautiful evergreen,,
growing to the height of from twelve to
twenty feet; producer both fruit and
flowers during the; entire year,’ and is one
of the handsomest plants known. The
fruit is about five or six inches long, and
about two and a half in diameter, and is
shaped like apod of okra. It turns yel
low when ripe, and contains generally
from twenty to thirty beans in the fruit.
These are arranged in rows in a rose col
ored pulp, which is sometimes eaten.
Tie
Ilf
greatly
sands of po
from Italy to
China sends us tET?
it is rather coarse, aud is’
factoring low-grade . theatrics;
and back-pieces;' braids and bangs fa?
ladies’ street wear. By bleaching .and ,
dyeing, Chinese hair can be given any
color that is desired. But it assumes;;
auburn 1 shades best, and an enormous
quantity of it has been used. The
Swedish hair is rarely longer than
twenty-two inches, and when received
here it is always dirty and teeming with
insects. French hair is generally clean,
bqt the Italian half, which comes to
New, York in 100-pound bundles, is ex
ceedingly’filthy, and the workmen who
clean it before it is purchased by the;
wig-makers sometimes contract diseases
from handling it., Dyed hair is called
(“dead,” and becomes harsh after .being
worn a short time.' Chemicals are used
to give H. a glossy appearance., Besides
the human hair large- quantities >of yak
and angora goat hair and - jute -liber 1 are
used.
Jlsftlt
A Tough Regiment.
Jack Stephens, Clerk of toe
| Court)
He
BHmm
War'Prices in the South.
A few days ago a party of gentlcirien:
were discussing high prices in the South
during the latter,part of the civil war.
(voUI paid $30 a yard for a suit of gray
cotton jeans; ’’ said the first speaker, “and
the suit of clothes cost me $800 after be-,
ing cut and made.” \
“The,biggest trade,!, made during the
war,” said No. 2, “was$30.for a spool ,of
cotton thread.” ■’
' “And I,” saidNo, 3, .. ‘-‘.paid $15 for a
shave.” ; .
9 “How, could a man carry ..enough'
change; in his pocket to buy anything!’/';
I ventured *to ask.
“They stuffed it in their hats, boots,
pockets, or most anywhere it would
stick, replied No. 1 .—Barnesville, Ga.,
Mail, is - l
Criminal I
tells how it came about that his
[regiment was in the late Senator Miller’s
| brigade but fifteen minutes. Jack’s regi-
Jment was one of the toughest in the army,
\and nobody seemed anxious to have it in
1 his command. Alter it had been trans
ferred from one brigade to another and
had found nobody who could control it.
Gen. Miller, , who Was on pretty good 1
terms with himself and had a high opin
ion of his ability to, control any set of
rien asked to have thetough regiment ad
ded to his brigade. There was no opposi
tion to this, of course, and the transfer
rtas made. Gen. Miller immediately or
dered the regiment up in line and pro
ceeded to make a speech Jo it, telling the
hoys what he was and what -he was not.
going to ' suffer [them to do. As he
warmed up to his subject he drew off his
long gauntlets and laid them on a drum
standing near him. Hardly had he done
this when one of the boys in the line,
sneaked around behind the General and'
in plain sight Of the entire regiment stole
the' gauntlets, and succeeded in getting
back tbihis place in the ranks unobserved
by the, eloquent General. At the close of
the speech, which did not take more than
ten minutes, ; the General dismissed the
boys .and turned to pick up his gauntlets.
“Well, I’ll be blessed 1” What he said
is not fully reported, but the faejis
known that in five minutes more he had
succeeded in having the regiment turned
over* to another brigade.—Chicago News.