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(Sajctte. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY J. T. McCARTY, Editor. SUBSCRIPTION: On® Ybar $2 00 Six Months 1 00 r In Advance- §spsta Business Cards. "W- B- ‘V.A.IX., WITH KEAN & CASSEL.S, Wholesale and retail dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods 309 Broad st., lat stand of H. F. Russel & Cos. AUGUSTA, GA. MURPHY Sc CO. Wholesale and retail dealers in English While Granite & C* G. Ware ALSO, ' • # Semi-China, French China, Glassware, &c. AUGUSTA, GA. . MARKWALTER, MARBLE WORKS, BROAD STREET, Near Lower Market, AUGUSTA, GA. THIS AU(HLSTA Gilding. Looking-glass,Picture Frame FA (ITDRY. Old Picture Franus Reg Hi to look Equal to New. Old Paintings Carefully Cleaned , Lined and Varnished. J. J. BROWNE, Ascnt, 346 Broad st., Augusta, Ga. E. IT. ROOEIIS, Importer and dealer in MX, GUNS PISTOLS And Pocket Gutlery, Amm mition of all Kinds, 245 BROAD BTREET, AUGUSTA, GA. REPAIRING EXECUTED PROMPTLY CUirvtim gnsmcsss (Cards. lias received a STOCK OF FURNITURE and is constantly adding thereto, which he will sell at the LOWEST CASH PRICES BPHOISTERING AND REPAIRING and all work in his line done in a neat and workmanlik'' manner. Satisfaction guarantied, t'rdcrs titled for Sash, Doors and Blinds. My22-ly LIGHT C^^pE^^UGfiiES. j. if. a r ivi >, Carriage 3 ANUFACT’R ELBERTOAI, UEOHUIA. BEST WORKMEN! BEST WORK! LOWEST BRICES! Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O Common Buggies - - SIOO. REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITHING. Work done in this line in the very best style. The Best Harness My 22-1 v T. M. SWIFT. MAGIC ARNOLD SWIFT & ARNOLD, {Successors to T. M. Swift,) dealers in dry goods, groceries, crockery, boots and SHOES, HARDWARE, &c., Pmblic Square, ELiBERTOiV CSA. JOHN H. JONES & CO., Prom this day, will sell their stock of WINTER DRESS GOODS CLOTHING, OASSIMEREB, HATS, RIBANDS, NOTIONS, &c., AT COST FOR CASH. h. kTcairdner, ELBERTON, GA., DEALER IN my mu m HARDWARE, CROCKERY, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS Notions, &c- THE GAZETTE. |jl tymxxl oi jfntlcjmuicuf §n §Ut sMng#~-£mta \ tohisirrhi fit the of the Community. New Series. WHAT ARE NEWSPAPERS? WHAT DO THEY CONTAIN? ‘‘Organs that gentlemen play, my boys, To answer the taste of the day, Whatever-it be, They hit on the key, And pipe in full concert away. “News from all countries and dimes, my- boy, Advertisements, essays and rhymes, Mixed up with all sorts Of (fjlying reports, *And published, at regular timps. .‘‘Articles able and wise, my boy, At least in the editor’s eyes, With logic so grand That few understand To what in the world it applies. “List of all physical ills, my boy, Cured by somebody’s pills, Till you ask with surprise Why any one die3, And what’s the disorder that kills. “ p rices of cattle and grain, my boy, Directions to dig and to drain, But ’twould take me too long To tell you in song, A quarter of all they contain.” Mr. Duffy’s Valentine. BY MAX ADEI.ER. Jim Duffy loved. Ke was not singular in this—other Duffies had done the same thing; but it was Jim Duffy’s peculiar for tune that while he loved hut one woman, two women loved him. Miss Smith was the beautiful blue-eyed being to whom he had given his heart, and to whom lie would have cheerfully have given his liver or his ribs or any other portion of his framework if the custom of society had made such an anatomical surrender proper. Miss Clatnin was the faded flower who had fixed her bat tered and venerable affections upon Mr. Duffy without any provocation having been offered by him, uud Mr. Duffy hated datum with quite as much intensity as he loved Smith, because Clamrn would always fasten to him at the church-meeting the even ing companies, and gush over to him in the presence of people, and insist upon his com pany home at the very moment when he had determined to esc rt Miss Smith. And so, when St. Valentine’s day came round, Dufi'y thought it would he a clever idea to seud a proposal of marriage to Miss Smith, aud at the same time to cool the en thusiasm of Ulatnm with an outrageous com ic valentine of some kiud. He procured one of these immediately, and then wrote to his only Smith a note beginning with “Dear est,” and ending with “Yours, till death.” Unhappily, it came to pass that Mr. Duffy placed each of these papers in the wrong envelope, #tnd while the comic affair went away to Smith, a direct proposal proceeded to Clamrn. Nothing could have been more uulurtuuate, for no sooner did the aforesaid Clannn receive Duffy’s note than she sud denly put up her back hair, put on her bon uet, assumed h r umbrella and gum shoes, and started by the shortest known route to James Duffy’s residence. When the front door was opened, she dashed past the hired girl aud into the sit ting-room, where, finding Jim reading a newspaper, she flung her arms about his neck, dropped her head upon his shoulders and her umbrella upou his corn, and ex claimed : “Take me, take me James! Take me, dearest; I am yours —yours forever !” As soon as Mr. Duffy regained nis pres ence of mind, he struggled to disengage himself, while he attempted to explain to her that he should not take her; that he didn’t want her; that she was not his forever, nor for five minutes; and that if she did not re move her iorehead from his vest, and her umbrella from the vicinity of his toe, he should be compelled to call the police. But Miss Olamm would hear no explanation.— She nestled closer and closer to his waist coat, and cried into his watch pocket, and plunging her umbrella about with such er ratic vigor, that Mr. Duffy’s left foot contin ually executed half of the waltz movements in an effort to save its most sensitive excres cence from torture. But at last, when Clamm murmured something about fixiug the wed ding day and making it soon, Jim Duffy tore himself away and fled to the garret, where he locked the door and tied the trap down with rope, lest the invincible Ciamm should burst in upon him from that direc tion. Meantime, Miss Smith received the com ic valentine, and recognizing Duffy’s hand writing upon the envelope, she was deeply pained, and she thought she might iudirect ly obtain comfort aud explanation of the matter by calling upon her bosom friend, the 1 sister of Mr. Duffy. So she sallied out aDd reached the house. It happened, by a very 1 strange coincidence that her bonnet aud ELBERTON, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19.1873 cloak bore a kipd of general resemblance to those worn by Clatum; aud Daffy, when he heard the door-bell ring, looked out from the garret window, and felt perfectly certain that the remorseless Clamrn had returned for the purpose of impressing more firmly upon his mind that she was his for ever, and he could take her. So Duffy did a most scandalous and ungentlemauly thing. He emptied a bucket of water out ot the window upon the figure below. Miss Smith went home damp and indig nant. A little while after her return, Clanur, being in pursuit of bgr Duffy, called upon Miss Smith, hoping to find him there. She waited in the parlor while Smith changed her clothing, and meanwhile it really oc curred to Mr. Duffy to go to Smith’s aud ask an answer to his proposal. It was a sunny day, and snow was upon the ground. The parlor and entry were gloomy, and when Duffy went in he could hardly see a hand-breadth before him. But the eye of Miss Clarati) was upon him. As he came into the parlor she flew toward him. He perceived the indistiuct outline of a woman’s figure. He was of course sure that it was Miss Smith, aud he felt certain that she was about to express her teelings by actions ra ther than in language. So Daily tolded her in his arms aud kissed her forehead, aud asked her if she really loved him. She whispered yes; aud as she stood tl ere, while his heart overflowed with joy, aud he wondered why Miss Smith would sit in her own parlor with her umbrella iu her had, the wind blew oue of the shatters opeu sud denly, aud at the same moment in walked Miss Smith. It was but no, I shall not attempt to describe that situation, that is impossible. Everybody was agitated but Clamrn. James Duffy was dumbfounded aud horror-strick en— Miss Smith was annoyed aod furious; but Clamrn was collected, she was cool— she appeared to enjoy everything; and she would probably have fallen upon Jim Duf fy’s shoulder again aud cooed, merely to let Miss Smith see how nice it wa>, had not Duffy dodged as he saw her coming, and permitted her to smash her bonnet against the sofa-cushioD, Then Mr. Duffy undertook to tell Miss Smith how it was, but naturally, after all that had happened, she was too much en raged to hearken to what he said, she order ed both visitors from the house. They de parted, Clamrn with the hook of her umbrella-handle firmly fixed in the pocket of James Duffy’s overcoat. But when they reached the street, Daffy in his agony and auger expressed his feel ing upon the subject of Clamrn iu such a violent aud unmistakable manuer that even she was convinced. And when she asked him if he iutended to marry her aud lie said no, she left him and proceeded at once to a lawyer, who began a nuit for bieach of prom ise {.gainst Duffy, aod took it iyito court the next week. Duffy’s letter to S|nith was read in evidence, aud Clamrn made Smith testify as to the proceedings in her parlor which cut up the defendant horribly.— Clamm herself sat there all the time weep ing for the purpose of harrowing up the teuling of the jurymen, who gave a verdict of SO,OOO damages to the plaintiff, where upon the said plaintiff instantly beg*.n to organize war upon a fresh man. Jim Duffy is still single. I know him well. He seems to hate women ; and when ever he has to write a note to one, he al ways takes it out of the envelope fourteen or fifteen times to assure himseli that he has the right document, and that a chemical an alysis could not detect an offer of marriage in it.; — Philadelphia, Ip-Day. Jackson’s Speech.—A correspondent gives to the Hopkinsville New Era the fo’- lowing as a speech made by Gen Jackson, when he was yet a poor backwoods lawyer in Tennessee aud unknown to fame: He was employed to prosecute a negro for the murder of another in a fit of jealousy, and his speech to the jury was the following paragraph “No more shall the voice of the murdered man be heard in the songs of the merry corn huskings. No more shall he pluck the snowy cotton boll. No more shall the forest resound with the echoes of his hunting horn as with his dogs he chas ed possum and coon. No more shall his nimble feet keep time to the music of the banjo as he patted juba and cut the pigeon wing. That voice once so joyful is now hushed in death. Those limbs once so agile are rigid and still. His body now lies upon the blood-stained turf, with his big toe pointing up to the blue arched vault of Heaven.” A Quaker Answer.—“ Martha, dost thee love me ?” asked a quaker youth ofone at whose shrine his heart’s holiest feeling had been offered up. “Why, Seth,” auswered she, “we are commanded to love one another, are we not ?” “Aye, Martha; but does thee regard me with that feeling which the world calls love ?” “1 hardly know what to tell thee, Seth. I have greatly feared that my heart was an ! erring one—l have tried to bestow my love on all; but I may have sometimes thought, perhaps, that thee was getting rather more than thy share.” For Gazette.] A SnORT SERMON. tafclß BY A ‘ c ‘ S&jfhis bow abode in strength, and the arms ofißwFhands were made strong by the hands ot t ! ’v mighty God of Jacob (from thence is the •shepplerd the stone of Israel). —Gen., xlix., 24. I .-Bwis chapter may be considered a proph ecv bbncerniug the luture of Jacob’s twelve ?oiJi>>f6nd may have respect to the twelve tubers which descended from them, which was delivered to liis t welve sons on hisdeath . bed.| ; ’ Onr text was delivered concerning Jo- whom the archers sorely grieved, shot at him, and hated bim (verse 22). An arch er is. ot.c who uses a bow iu battle. This may be regarded as figurative, in allusion to his brethren, who grieved him by their bad treatment and ill usage, shot at him, aimed tlmir arrows of abuse at him, used bitter words against him, and hated him on ac count of his dreams, which aroused their jealousy aud envy. They mocked at him; plotted against him to kiil him; stripped him ef his coat of many colors, which his his lather had given him as a mark oi his peculiar love; cast him into a pit, and aftcr terward sold him to become a slave. Alter he was sold into Egypt, his wicked mistress and satan, through her, grieved him by her temptations to commit sin. These were as fiery darts shot at him ; but when he re sisteSdier temptations, her unprincipled aud impure love was soon turned into bitter ha tred, .and she shot at him with lyiug calum nies, tbrusting bitter reproaches at him as a horrid criminal. Irrall this Joseph was a type of Christ.—• Set at naught by his own brethren ; inno cently betrayed by them, who wickedly plot ted to put him to death; sold for money; stripped of his raiment, aud was as though he was dead to his father and all his sons and numerous family for many years. But his low abode in strength. As his enemies were archers, and had bows and arrows, so he had a bow of differ ent calibre. His boW and arrow consisted in his moral virtues, such as faith, hope, love, pudencc, wisdom, fortitude, chastity, and integrity, with many others of the same sort. Iu these he remained strong aDd pow erful against the attacks of his enemies.— Joseph, as a representative man, a man of God, stood firm and unmoved; the weapons of his warfare were strong and mighty to overcome and destroy the archers arrayed against him. And. the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob. Murk this : the mighty God of Jacob made the arms of his hands strong to hold the bow and draw it with strength against his enemies. All the saints, as well as Jo seph, have their strength and their right eousness from the mighty God of Jacob. From thence is thd shepherd the stone of Israel. God sent Joseph into Egypt to be a shep herd to feed his father’s (Jacob’s) family.— He was as a stone, or corner-stone, th e foundation of support to the famishing, starving Israelites. In this he was a re markable type of Jesus Christ, the good shepherd of the spiritual Israel, and the stone laid in Zion, on which the whole struc ture of the plan of salvation is built.— Christ, in his official character, was pro vided by the mighty God of Jacob to be the fouuda'ion of tho building, the church, as well as the shepherd aud bishop of the souls of ail, and of each one who compose his spiritual kingdom. M'JIAT THE FARLEY BOYS THOVGUT. “I say, Phil, what do you think is the greatest invention that ever was made ?” said Bob Farley to his brother, as they all sat by the fire one evening. Well, bob, that depends upon the view you take of the matter. Do you mean to ask what invention would appear to indicate the most genius in its cc nstructicn ; or what contrivance bestows the most universal ben efit r Phil had been a whole year in college, and talked in such a grand way that he ap peared to Lnow a great deal; indeed, if on ly he had had on spectacles he might have been taken for a professor. “Well, for my part,” said Bob, “I think the Mower is the most wonderful thing that ever was invented—though, to be sure, thero’s the Corn-Sheller, and the Patent Rake.” “What do you think of the Spectroscope?” asked Phil. “And the Cotton Gin ?” said his moth er. “And then, you know, there’s gunpow der, and clocks, and printing presses,” put in Jimmy. “Well if we go back to the discovery of clocks aud printiug presses, we shall hardly Vol I—No. 46 know where to begin, or where to stop, rath er. Even confining ourselves to the inven tions of the last quarter ot a century we find an immense list.” “I know what is the greatest invention ever made,” exclaimed Harry. Why, don’t you know that hammer the man came round to sell ? It said in the papers, any way, that it was the greatest invention in the world. Why, it was a hammer, and a nut cracker, aud a screw-driver, and ever so rnauy things, all in one.” “Pooh !” said Jimmy, “that wasn’t any thing. Just think a big balloon, or the Car diff Giaut. I say the Cardiff Giant was the greatest invention that ever was made—the biggest thing out !” “Well, if you are discussing what is of the most universal benefit, l really can’t say 1 think balloons or Cardiff giants as useful as some other things.” “Just think of the sewing machine,” said Mrs. Farley; “what should we do without that ? But then, so many things have been invented within the last quarter of a centu ry that we could hardly now do without.” “And I know r of one,” Mrs. Farley went on, after thinking u moment, “that I don’t believe one ot you wdi guess. It is useful to everybody, is used by everybody very fre quently, and c *sts but a trifle.” “Can everybody work it, did you say i'” a c ked Harry. “Yes, everybody ; for my own part, I don’t know what I should do without it.” “Have you oue, mother ?” “Yes, there is one in this room, one also in the kitchen, aud auother in the bed room.” “People did do without them till about, thirty or forty years ago; but when we went on a picnic out to Fir Lodge, last summer, I remember what trouble we were in because had forgotten to bring one.” “Oh, matches, mother! I remember all about it; and how I went to the little farm house, and the woman said she hadn’t any, and then took down a little tin box and showed me how she sometimes struck a fliut with a piece of steel until a spark fell on some old rags ; and so she lighted the fire. And I remember you said that was the way people always did before they had match es.” , “Well, how do you suppose fire came in the flint ?” said Phil, who, I suppose, thought it was time to show off’ a little ot his learning. “How did it ?” “Oh, a long time ago, when Jupiter rul ed the earth, Prometheus, wishing to do mortals p good turn, went up to Heaven aud stole a little fire for them —you see, they hadn’t any before that—and Prometheus brought it down in a hollow reel, or cane. Of course it was a very desirable aud handy thing for the people of the earth to have, but didn’t Prometheus catch it though ?” “Caught fire said Bob. “Worse than that; he was chained to a rock, and a vulture came and ate out his liver!” Oh ! oh ! ate out his liver ! and killed him ?” “Oh, dear, no ; that was the worst of it, for at night his liver grew again, and so the vulture kept gnav.ing lor thirty thousand years.” “Oh, horrid!—but I don’t believe it’s true.” “Well, that’s just as you’ve a mind,” said lhil. “But I do think matches are as useful as anything can be,” said Bob. “I remember, last summer, when we at last did get a match, the light came so easy, it was almost like coming lroin the end of one’s finger.” “Well, Bob, why didn’t you light it with the cud of your finger ?” asked Phil. “Oh, pshaw !” “Well, hut I have lighted the gas with the tip of my finger,or, rather a spark that came from the tip of my finger.” “Without any mutch at all ?” “Without auy match at all. Just you run across a thick carpet a few times —slip- ping youi feet along—then you touch your finger to Jimmy’s check, and see what you will see.” “Will a spark come?” “You try it, and see; only be careful and not set the house ou fire, nor burn Jimmy’s nose off cither.” A PROPOSAL AND THE REPLY. THE PROPOSAL. Miss: —Most worthy of estimation, after long consideration, and much meditation, od the great reputation you possess in the na tion, I’ve a strong inclination to become your relation. On your approbation of this declaration, I shall make preparation to re move my situation to a more agreeable sta tion, and if such obligation is worthy of con sideration, and can obtain commiseration, it will be an aggrandizution beyond all calcu lation of the joy and exultation Of yours, Sans Dissimulation. THE REPLY. Sir.—l perused your ovation, with much deliberation, and a little cousteruation, at the great infatuatiou, of your weak imagi nation, to show such veneration on so slight a foundation; but after examination, and serious contemplation, I suppose your ani mation was the fruit of recreation, or had sprung from ostentation, to show your edu cation by an odd enumeration, or, rather, multiplication, of words with the same ter mination, now, without disputation, your la brious application to so tedious an operation deserves commemoration ; and thinking im itation, a sufficient gratification, I am, witli- Cl n o 0 „ Cash Rates of Advertising. lyr. 6 mos. 3 mos. 1 mo. 1 time 1 cdlumo, $l5O S9O S6O $35 $25 1 “ 80 60 40 23 15 5 inches, 50 35 25 12 6 3 “ 35 25 15 7 4 2 “ 25 15 10 5 3 1 inch 1 time, $1.50. out hesitation, Yours, Mary Moderation. Railroad Development in tiieSouth. —The Memphis Appeal say:s: The rapij extension of railroads throughout the South has never had a parallel in its own history, and is scarcely excelled even in the Great Northwest. In ooc respect, at least, the South stands ahead of any competition the strength of their financial management, and their sound reputation in the leading moneyed centres. This we may truthfully state, with but lew exceptions, is the gener al estimation in which Southern railroads are held here. We attribute this very largely to the fact that, in a great degree, the people themselves, in the several States where roads are under construction or com pleted, have put their own shoulders, to the wheel, and helped along the car of progress. They have taken stock by granting the right of way, by u’orking put contracts, by furn ishing timbers, aud subscribing money.— They have not first sought to issue a large amount of wildest stock, based upon prom ised security to throw upou the market ut whatever it might bring. The consequence is good, strong, healthy, paying roads all over the South, aud more in rapid process of construction, The Southern people are at last becoming thoroughly aroused to the importance of the development of all their material resources, aud they know that the first step is to se cure ample and cheap transportation facili ties. Now let them be wise enough to in sist that these facilities bo cheap—that is absolutely necessary to secure the full ad vantages of the great increase in railroad iin6S throughout the South. A Cool Customer.—A man entered a well known restaurant the other day, and called lor a dinner. His orders were of the most elaborate character, and fairly stagger ed the resources of even so noted a restau rant keeper. lie lingered long at the table, and finally wound up with a bottle of wine. Then lighting a cigar he had ordered, he leisurely sauntered up to the counter, anti said to the proprietor : “Very fine dinner, landlord ! Just charge it to me, I haveu’t got a cent.” I “But I don’t know you,” said the propri etor, indignantly. “Of course you don’t! If you had you wouldn’t have let mo had the dinner.” “Pay me for the dinner, I say.” “And I say I can’t. Haven’t got Hie needful.” “I’ll see about that,” said the proprietor, somewhat furiously. Then he snatched a revolver from a drawer, and leaped over the counter, collared the man, exclaiming, as he pointed it at his head : “Now, see if you’ll get away with that dinner without paying lor it, you scoundrel!” “What is that you hold in your hand ?” asked the getter away with free dinners drawing hack. “That, sir, is a revolver.” “Oh ! that's a revolver, is it ? I don’t care a pin for a revolver. I was afraid it was a stomach pump."* Definition of Biblical Terms.— A day’s journey was thirty-three miles aud a filth. A Sabbath day’s journey was about an English mile. Ezekiel’s reed was nearly eleven feet long. A cubit was twenty-two inches, nearly. A hands-breadth was equal to three inches aud five eights. A finger’s breadth was equal to an inch. A shekel of silver was equal to fifty cents. A shekel of gold was equal to $8.09. A talent of silver was $516 32. A talent of gold was $1330.09. A piece of silver, or a penny, was 13 cts, A larthing was three cents. A gerah was a cent. A mite was a cent and a half. A homer contained seventy-five gallons and five pints. A bin was a gallon and two pints. A firkin was seven pints. An omer was six pints. A cab was three pints. — ♦ ■ Posing a Pedagogue.—“ Sally Jones, have you done the sum l set you ?” “No, thir, I can’t do it.” “Can’t do it! I’m ashamed of you. Why at your age, i could do any sum that was set me. I hate that word can’t! for there is no sum that can’t be done, I can tell you now.” “I think, thir, that I knowoth a sum you cant thifer out.” “Ha ! well, well, Sally, let’s hear it.” “It ith thith, thir. If one apple cauthcd the ruin of the whole human rathe, how many thuch will it take to make a barrel of sweet Under, thir ?” “Miss Sallie Joocsyou may turn to your parsing lesson.” “Yeth, thir.”