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peenaineae = MR. GREELEY’S GOLD GULCH. How He Took His Own Advice and Went West to Loose $5,000. liver, 10 w Dawson county, quietiy retired to his i arm; but when to sett'ers his restless mind carrie a him out there. He entered a large body ot Big Biue river, from which point he 1en territory of Kan- the Rocky explored the sas and reached moun- d on} gathered in tk tains, taking with him tools to pros— | | quarantine. tT ; duction of pect for gold. In going to the mountains he tullowed up the Ar- kansas river to its source the foot of Pike’s Peak, then turning north, across the ridge dividing the waters of the Arkansas and Platte rivers, he struck Cherry creek about fiity mil west of now Denver citv. | Here, with his test pan, he found gold from the dritted sand. He fol- lowed the creek on to where it emptied into the South Platte river, 1 headquarters stablish and there at whatis now Denver city, from which point he prospected the coun- try, finding gold almost everywhere. He haa with him two brothers and This was in the In the fail he left re- one other man. summer of 1558. a brother and the other man and iurned to The the discoyery had spread throughout of i859 myself him. Denver Georgia. news ot the land, and in the spring a number otf Georeians, among them, returned with We reached what is now city-on May tl new city two or three sod hous- es snow was falling so fast we could not see a mau ten fcet. By night it was eighteen inches deep, but melted off next morning bejore 10 o'clock. Russell had laid off a littte town the side of Aurora, year betore on the north Cherry creek, and called it in honor of his native town in Lump- kin county, known as Nuckelsville, but as the south of the creck was the first entered in reaching the place, parties began in the spring ot 1859 to settle on that side and call it Denver. So Russell’s village was absorbed and became a_ part of ‘the present city of Denver. Thousands of men from ail parts of the United in side States rushed to the golden fields the spring of 1558. Stage lines were ublished, mail facilities were proyided and the rush was immense. sthen making Horace Greeley vy his famous trip across the continent and he took in Pike’s Peak. I re- member seeing him. When the six- stage ceach drove up he got out with a slouched hat and a pair of moccasin shppers on, which he had gotten from the Indians. I telked with him a little as he left the stage. That night he made a speech to the min a territorial government and it Colorado. ley went up into the Gregory dig gingsyand some sharpers had set a trap tor him. They nad mine and had collecred a quantity ot horse ‘rs and advocated the forming ot hng In a day or two Gree- gold dust, got sick. When Greeiey got there they told him what a fine mine the had opened and kow fortune hod turned against them not able to wotk it. their mine ,tound gc ? rs na ally struck a und th and‘ they } al nabuan Jane and fin trade and paid the miners $5 5¢> forthe miae clam). Otc worked out the salted ¢ gone. Russell adel back and forth, but never made ‘ourse, before Greeley eldthey were several trips any He money out of his big discover essthan w has since died, worth ! he made the discovery.—J. C. Hen- | nstitution. dricks in the q cted Adanta Co Ps fter 2 BN n has been ele ff of 2-Kentucky county and served sher- out Six bp hs of histerm, he begins he blessing of having ’ ee ; winot & log house betweea t q Other 1—the man he Tele- As we entered the | \ | opened aj | | were | Greeley tested | | was decided that o grotesque appearance. : | boned hed salted the pit and all } drawn impediment in t Un leged to have b to the ted a letter of Wm saith officer of the port of New York, to the firm of importers, in wien he says fruits f :d districts, but packed and nae trom non-in- fected pomts, will not, oa that ac- count, subject the vessel to d elay at his reters directly t ins trom Mal to the the import of rai and Denia. R statements, a prom experienced eferring nent and packers there is great danger ot th cholera microbes in rz from the infected districts of Spain, acked fi abserbs the ¢ the microbes and ret: great length of A Southern Town With Two Post Offices . Charlotte, N. C., Sept. a few months ago there led Whi one in the eastern section and one in Cleveland county. This tact was of the continual mis 1.—Until two were towns cal takers in this state, ng up ast it Whitta- It happened that the cause ot freight and itl at le m and e of the kers had to though Cleyeland county’s Whitta- hers was mm North Carelina the post office was in South Carolina, on th state line, and the post being South Carolina ground. The was petitioned and the go. office on legislature name of Cleveland’s Whittakers was the established and post changed to Grover, office called Grover and in town. This new post office as well as the old one is now ation, and this is one instance where itwo post offices. If a calls at the Grover he in oper- a town has citizen of Grover office can Step ove his luck at that office. are Only 200 yards distant trom each leave two and tails to get any mail to Whittakers and The offices try other, and mail agents mail bags at one stoppage of train. This town with two post offices has a population of 2,500 people, and contains an hotel and seven. stores. Nearly all the residents live in North Carolina. They Were Both There. At the panaramo ot the Battle Shiloh in this city small, shriveled-up man made self by around the place sniveling dolorousiy. He did not appear to be more than five feet high. He black, and his attenuated gray whiskers gave him a ot yatew days ago a him- conspicuous going dressed all in form and peculiarly was He seemed to be greatly interested in the pano- rama, and as he moved point of yiew to another A approach and wept copiously. man ed wore grav slou appearance ot ‘7 was raw- boned man, it was upr where wh small, Ti n€ panor kill. } we ain’t sold the ‘Ves,’ reat eied-up man; “¥”? repled the maduke , shrivele tall, raw-t —C the But the war’s Gener ea nd we over 1 How It Sums Up. The girl w ing a picnic hoe lately. ten days her good ti faithfully chronicled, and a gia the record sh as ever. £ Ows nor away pes has t Durin; mes ha wi another wi ch othe yeen hav gthe pa ve f place sh th ama 2 th husband ot another woman, and sti in another with a boy not yet of h In addition to this she has fill bs age. ed marrying a colered man whoseeme: to be white, marrying on black. Nothing and in e who go the girl that elopes. one seeme od is Now é in an unoccupied moment instar ds quit heard « and the she figures in the divorce courts, eit! er as plaintff or de‘endent, but ord narily the leaves ber to the police of her life and youth with whom she world her tate when the moves Occa records give a lite has fled and heyley ‘| GURE FOR THE DEAF Deer > TUTT’s: : PILLS i 25 YEARS IN USE. ——— : r zatest Medical h of the Age! a “ e- wes SYMPTOMS CFA ae TORPID LIVER. 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At once addresss ‘True ‘Cos Augusta, Maine, Uz-1yr* NO SURPRISE bere Thn Government Eudorses ‘Lhe = 0 5 weve | Ameriean rN as eloped has take to beating her in order to get up an aj petite for brea the open its door she wearies of the life she gladly sumed and 1s,too proud to beg fi torgiveness the morgue officials find among the suicides of the to no effect akfast. sto re at hom her experience hag Here ceive her live and diess and another place The worse than th her, of course, but she usually pay vee =| , VAK ALL, BOS for the tun she enjoys, and 1 iodic $h the only party to the escapade wh omer cou “2 neither deserves or gets any syn : thy.—P deiphia es. he cam guied as to th and also the ‘Did they e Indiana girl w ho her and ther workhouse of charitable hom whe f ometinre wns Pa) 4 ALF A CENTURY CARER takes he oo ee ) WANAMAKER leper etn WHAT IT IS TO-DAY | [ = 4€ man who elopes wit No Use. ous Youngs man hac hovel, e home he was investi € cust house, isk you stopp eek, an tow as a grave Agriculturist| ~ just pr i From the tenth cencus, vol. “he American culturist: is ly woathy of mention, because of the remarkable success that has attended the unique and untiring efforts ot its pro- prietors to Hage and [tees nd its circu- “which also , to the cuter weétian yp i ucael S INDIAN VEGETABLE FILLS Secure Healthy action to the Live: nd relieveall bil- ous troubles ping. 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