POETICAL.
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For the’Gazette.]
A WAIF,
“Vita brevis,” says the sage;
We must study every page;
We must seek, through every age,
Knowledge, wisdom, power.
“Vita brevis,” says the boy;
We must drain the cup of joy j
We must seek, without alloy,
Pleasure every hour.
“Vita fugit”—Life is o’er,
Vain, oh prating sage, thy lore;
Foolish buy, to you no more
Pleasure's dream shall come.
“Mors evenit”—naught avails;
All that human strength entails;
Wisdom youth, e’en virtue fails,
When lie summons home.
Honor, riches, knowledge, power,
Every tree and every flower;
All the sweet and all the sour
Unto men arc given.
Fame and fortune lure the one;
After pleasure others run:
He does best whose work, when done,
Leads the way to Heaven.
LAUGHOGEAMS.
Why is the earth like a Colt’s pistol"?
Because it is a revolver.
-New book—“ The Stray Wig,” by the
author of “Wandering Heir.
A Memphis boy threw a companion in
to the river to see if he could swim, but
he couldn’t.
Little fish have a good notion as to the
commencing of life —they always begin
on a small scale.
A boy pressed the muzzle of a pistol
against his body in cocking it, and the
bullet came out at his bade.
What is the difference between a trick
of war and a game cock? One is anise
and the other a rooster.
A local paper in lowa records the acci
dental shooting of a doctor, and has
“strong fears of his recovery.”
What is the difference between a cloud
and a beaten child? One pours with
rain and the other roars with pain.
If a man named William marry, why
is he pretty certain to be henpecked ?
Because his wife will always have a Will
of her own.
“Is your house a warm one, landlord? ’
asked a gentleman in search of a house.
“It ought to be,” was the reply; “the
painters have just given it two coats.
It is a curious fact that poor people,
though sometimes given to stealing, are
never afflicted with kleptomania. It takes
a rich person to have that disease.
A young lady wishes to know how it is
on the day of wedded bliss the bride
groom pledges, “with all my worldly
goods I thee endow,” and after his death
she only receives the use of a third.
A New York female who read that the
Hoosac Tunnel cost SUOO per yard, said
she would have a dress pattern oft from
that piece if the old man didn t lay up a
cent for the nest two years.
“X never saw so cold a woman as Mrs.
is,” said an envious beauty of an
other, the other evening. “I feel quite
confident that she must give her husband
a cold in the head whenever she kisses
him.”
We always feel mad when we walk
along a street about 9 o’clock, and pass
ing a shaded porch where a young man
is bidding his beloved a good hear
the girl exclaim in a loud whisper, “ Oh,
stop, George, you haven’t shaved.”
The young ladies are getting to be
high-toned. W-h-y, y-o-u o-l-d s-a-r-d-i-n-e!
Is that you? is the way one fair one sa
luted another on the street, and the an
gel in bustle and high-heels meekly and
poetically responded: “ You bet I’m your
katydid every time I”
While a couple of women were dis
cussing the other day the merits of a cer
tain physician, one of them asked the
other what kind of a doctor he was.
“Sure, I dunno,” was the reply, “but I
think its an alatacca doctor they call
him.”
The ghost of Robert Fulton was call
ed up at a spiritual “seance” in Philadel
phia the other day, and his communica
tion from the other shores was as fol
lows: “They give me to eat of nothing
but cold waffles up here, and if it keeps
on I shall break Gabriel’s head with his
own trumpet.”
A party gf men were watching with a
corpse recently, in Russville, Tenn.,wlien
the “corpse” suddenly “came too.” The
watchers “went too,” and never stopped
to say good-night. It is thought that
some of them are going yet, and proba
bly they will never return until the “body”
advertises for them.
Tho temperance cause in Kentucky has
been set back by the announcement that
ono of the few water thinkers in that
State has just discovered at the bottom
of his well the body of a neighbor who
disappeared four years ago; and the ma
jority of the people have determined to
stick to whiskey, and let wells alone.
An exchange tells of the recont sur
prise of a Sunday-school teacher. She
had been explaining the story of the
crucifixion to her class of little boys,
who seemed to take great interest in it.
When she thought they fully understood
the subject, one of them suddenly burst
out and said: “By golly, TO hot you
they wouldn’t have done it if Buffalo
Bill’d been there.
Here is the old, old story again. Jus.
Rogers, a miner, undertook to thaw out
a can of nitre-glycerine in a blacksmith
shop. The blacksmith shop is not there
any more, and a shattered foot found a
quarter of a mile distant looks like one
James used to wear. People who profess
to know about such things are fully con
vinced that the cun was thawed out.
A SPIDER’S BRIDGE.
The way in which a spider spins and
uses his web is often very remarkable.
A writer in the Hearth and Home gives
this curious instance:
“One chilly day, he says, I was tired
of reading Robinson Crusoe; I caught a
spider and brought him into the house
to play with. Funny kind of mate
wasn’t it? Well, I took a washbasin
and fastened up a stick in it, like a lib
erty pole or a vessel’s mast, and then
poured in water enough to turn the mast
into an island for my spider, whom I
named Crusoe, and put on the mast. As
soon as he was fairly cast away, he anx
iously commenced running around to
find the road to the main land. He’d
scamper down the mast to the water,
stick out a foot, get it wet, shake it, run
around the stick and try the other side,
and then run back up top the to again.
Pretty soon it became a serious matter
with Mr. Robinson, and he sat down to
think over it. As in a moment he acted
as if he wanted to shout for a boat, and
was afraid he was going to be hungry.
I put a little molasses on the stick. A
fly came, but Crusoe wasn’t hungry for
flies just then. He was homesick for his
web in the comer of the woodshed. He
went slowly down the pole to the water
and touched it all around, shaking his
foot like pussy when she wets her stock
ing in the grass, and suddenly a thought
appeared to strike him. Up he went like
-a rocket to the top and commenced play
ing circus. He held one foot in the air,
then another, and turned around two or
three times. He got excited and nearly
stood on his head before I found out
what he knew, and that was this, that
the draft of air made by the fire would
carry a line ashore on which he could es
cape from his desert island. He pushed
out a web that went floating in the air
until it caught on the table. Then he
hauled on the rope until it was tight,
struck it several times to see if it was
strong enough to hold him, and walked
ashore. I thought he had earned his
liberty, so I put him back in his wood
shed again.”
A GOAT STORY.
A retired clergyman is responsible for
the following little affair that happened
in his place:
It appears that there was a young wo
man, a fine spirited girl, engaged at a
wash-tub opposite an open door. Just
behind her was a young man, as is gen
erally the case, and in the yard was an
old buck that was allowed the freedom
of tho premises, which is not always the
case, we are glad to say. Well, this buck
came up to the door and looked in, and
the young man going close behind the
young woman, pointed his finger straight
to the buck, and the old fellow, recogniz
ing at once the pressing character of this
mute invitation, put down his head and
dashed forward, and the miserable man
stepped aside and fled, and the young wo
man, all unconscious of the arrangement,
received the awful shock without warn
ing and passed over the tub, and the air
for an instant appeared to be full of
slippers and wet clothes and hot water
and suds. And the next minute that
goat came flying out of that door at a
dreadful speed, bald the whole length of
his spine, and with a wild look in his eye.
And for an hour afterwards he stood
back of the barn, scratching his chin,
and trying to recall all the circumstances
in tho unfortunate affair.
Jim Gmnpins was a very clever, nice,
good dispositioned, thick-headed sort of
a fellow, and was tlic butt of all the girls
in bis neighborhood. The most brilliant
thing he ever said was when some of the
fair teasers questioned him one day in
regard to his powers of memory.
“How far back in youi' lifetime can
you remember, Jim?”
“ Oh, I can remember the day I was
born,” was the reply.
“Tho day you were bom!” exclaimed
one of the younger ladies of the party.
“Why, Jim, what can you remember of
that day?”
“ Oh, I can remember very distinctly
that on the day I was born I sat on a lit
tle stool in the corner of the fireplace
and cried for fear I was a girl.”
In a San Francisco court the other
day, a little dialogue ran thus:
Counsel to witness —“You say you
were at liis house every night?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Were you his partner?”
“No,,'sir.”
“ Any relative of, his ?”
“No.”
“What were you doing at liis house
every night?"
“I was sparking his wife’s sister.”
A somewhat juvenile dandy said to a
fair partner at a ball:
“Miss, don’t you think my mustaches
arc becoming?”
To which miss replied :
“Well, sir, they may be coming, but
they haven’t yet arrived."
NOT SO SMART AFTER ALL.
A crafty chap, with the sarpint of de
ceit squirming in his heart, became the
possessor of a S2O greenback. His wife
was a woman who indulged in the con
jugal custom of nightly searching his
pockets for nomadic scrip. Sometimes
she performed this ceremony of investi
gation while her husband was enjoying
ing that sweet and innocent slumber
which is only produced by brewings of
malt and hops, fuming upon the brain.
But when the wily chap got his S2O
greenback, he wadded it up, and with
diabolical deceit he put it in his tobacco
box, and shut down the cover with a
snap that spoke of the greedy satisfac
tion that rioted in his soul. He was
seen to wink horribly'and heard to mut
ter, “ Guess the old gal wouldn’t think
of that.”
That evening, before going home, he
drank freely in celebration of his match
less cunning. On his way home he com
forted himself in his lonely walk with a
cud of tobacco of unusual proportions.
It disagreed with him and he spat it out.
The next morning he woke up to the dis
covery that his S2O greenback was gone,
and that all his wiles and arts were, after
all, weak and unreliable pretence.
INDEPENDENT AND FEARLESS.
Here is anew outburst of the west
ern salutatory mania:
“With our publication we want to
please everybody, but never having ac
quired the nack of placing each person’s
advertisement at the head of the first
column, we don’t expect to. We don’t
mean to be very 4 touching ’ in our per
sonal remarks, but if as a reform educa
tor, or anything of the kind, we dis
please any parties, it may be well for
them to consider the fact, before taking •
means of summary vengeance in their
hand, that our weight is always over one
hundred and fifty pounds, and that in
the many leisure moments we have had
the pleasure of entertaining in our ear
lier career, we went heavy into the prac
tice of hoisting two hundred pound an
vils over our head, holding bags of flour
at arms’ length, and other feats for mus
cular developement. This is not told as
a dampener to any of the pugilistic spir
its of this community, but to let people
know' that we are ‘independent and fear
less.’ ”
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Shot. —An active newsgatherer at St.
Johnsville made rapid time to a storey in
that village on information that a man
had got shot there ten minutes previous
ly. The obliging merchant told him that
a man got a pound and paid for it. The
reporter neglected to have the facts pub
lished.
A young man in Connecticut, having
the late railroad disasters in his mind,
has broken his engagement with a young
lady, because she wears a train and is
negligent about her switch.
SX-1860-X
IS PURELY A VEGETABLE PREPARATION, com
posed Bimply of well-known ROOTS, HERBS
and FRUITS, combined with other properties',
which in their nature are Cathartic, Aperient, Nu.
tritious, Diuretic, Alterative and Anti-Billious. The
whole Is preserved in a sufficient quantity of spirit
from the BUOAK. CAXE to keep them in any;
climate, which makes the
PLANTATION
Bitters
one of tho most desirable Tonics and Cnthßr
in the world. They arc intended strictly as a .
Temperance Bitters
only to be used as a medicise, and always according
to directions.
They are the sheet-anchor of*tho feeble and debili
tated. They act upon a diseased liver, and stimulate
to such a degree that a healthy action is at once
brought about. Asa remedy to which Women
arc especially Bubjectit is superseding even, other
stimulant. Asa Spring and Summer Tonic
they have no equal. They are a mild and gentle
Purgative as weU as Tonic. They Purify the Blood.
They are a splendid Appetiser. They make the weak
strong. They purify and invigorate. They cure
Dyspepsia, Constipation an 4 Headache. They act as
a specific inall species of disorders which undermine
the bodily strength and break down the animal spirits,
, Depot, 53 Park Place, New York.
New Goods! New Goods!
J. H. JONES & C O.
Have just opened a beautiful assortment of
PRINTS, SHOES AND CLOTHING
New Designs, Latest Styles, Very Attractive.
We cordially invite all to call and see our Stock
"before pnroliasing.
PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
a. full Stock of Groceries and Provisions Always on Hand,
TO WHICH W’E INVITE THE ATTENTION OP PLANTERS.
TEMPTING PRICES
AT THE
Southern Dry Goods Store
189 ST., AUGUSTA, GA.
OLD PRICES GIVING WAY TO NEW ONES. BARGAINS ALL OVER THE STORE.
We are determined not to carry over any Spring or Summer Goods at all, therefore all persons
in need of anything usually kept in a first class Dry Goods Store should not delay calling on us
at once or send for samples..
BARGAINS IX DRESS GOODS.
Including Silks, Poplins, Grenadines, Japanese Cloths, Batiste Cloths, Muslins, Cambrics, white
and colored Lawns, &c.
BARGAINS
In Hamburg Trimmings, Kid Gloves, Hosiery, Fancy Goods, Notions, &c.
EXTRA BARGAINS
In Lace Points —a beautiful assortment, from $2.50 to $75, and many other articles too numerous
to mention. In all orders from samples sent we pay the express charges when retail bills amount
to $lO or over. Before You Buy, Go To
POWELL & MULLER’S, 189 Broad st.
The People’s Clothing Store
THE LARGEST HOUSE IN THE STATE,
268 Broad st., Augusta, W. A. RAMSEY, Agent.
WE offer this season the largest line of Fine, Medium and Common Ready-made Spring and
Summer CLOTHING for Men and Boys in the State. We have some of the most elegant
goods that can be found, and every article of our own make, and equal to custom work, together
with the finest line of FURNISHING GOODS in the city. HATS, CAPS, DRUNKS, VALISES, &c.
New Goods constantly arriving. Large men or small will find no trouble in getting fitted. Boys
rom 2j to 20 years old can be suited. No one should purchase Clothing before examining this
immense stock. ap 23 XV. A. RAMSEY, Agent.
NEW SPRING GOODS!
TO THE STORE OF- ■
S.. BLACKWELLS SON
WHO ARE FAST RECEIVING A LARGE AND JUDICIOUSLY SELECTED
STOCK OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE GOODS.
SOMETHING WORTH REMEMBERING
evn BSSBft KRAS, IS NOW IN new YORK, CULLING GEMS FROM ALL TDK
’jAKC-E importing houses,
in the United States, and feels confident that for
Style, Quality & Cheapness
HIS SELECTIONS WILL BE HARO T 9 SURPASS.
@s® 8S8I3I& mmm
Is coming in rapidly, and we cordially invite all to visit us daily, as there will be something
NEW, ATTRACTIVE AND NOVEL
Every day, and it affords us pleasure to display them, whether you buy or not.
We will sell to COL.VTai' MERCHANTS at Blew York quo a
tlons lor CASlfc.
For approved City Acceptance wc will sell on a credit to Ist October next, adding U per
cent interest per month.
Apply with perfect confidence in our willingness and ability to
serve you as well as any house South, and you will not be disap
pointed. Very Respectfully,
KEAN & CASSELS.
DOZIER & WALTON
241 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
■FOK SALE.
In Store and to Arrive.
100 Hhds. Bacon SHOULDERS.
!>0 Huds. Bacon SIDES.
lOu Ilhds. Reboilcd MOLASSES
20 Hhds. Cuba MOLASSES
20 luncheons Demarara MOLASSES
200 Barrels Reboiled MOLASSES
d0 Harr, Is New Orleans MOLASSES
40 Hhds. New Orleans SUGARS.
35 Ilhds. Demarara SUGARS
150 Barrels Refined SUGARS
50 Tierces RICE
150 Tierces Choice Leaf LARD
150 Kegs Choice Leaf LARD
150 Boxes Dale SOAP
150 Boxes and half boxes Adamantine CAN
DLES
100 Bags Rio, Java and I.nguyra COFFEE.
325 Boxes Well-cured Bulk C. R SIDES
50 Boxes Well-cured Bulk SHOULDERS.
Brooms, Woodware, Spices, Starch, Matches,
Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, Twines, Wrap
ping paper, at lowest wholesale prices.
WALTON, CLARK. & CIO.,
Mch2(J-tf Augusta, Georgia.
E. O. ROGERS,
147 and 149 Broad Street.
AUGUSTA, GA.
'I am now offering a very superior stock of
FURNITURE
Of all grades, comprising Parlor, Chamber, Din
ing-room, Hall and office Furniture, in great va
riety of style. My stock of Chamber Suites is
especially varied, being the best in the city.
UNDERTAKINGS-.
My Undertaking department is now fully or
ganized, and I am prepared to furnish Coffins,
Cases, and Caskets in all the varieties,
from the best manufactory and ot my own make.
HI ETA LIC CASKS from the most ap
proved makers always on hand.
Experienced attendants. Calls attended at all
hours. Apply at night, or on Sundays, in yard
at rear of store at 102 GREENE ST., second
Uonse below City Hall. [Myl4-3m
3fc§al
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL be sold before the courthouse door iu
Elber'pn, Elbert county, on the first Tues
day in July next, between the legal hours ot
sale, the undivided one hundred and twenty
eighth part of a lot or parcel of land in the
ninth (9th) district of the second (2d) section
of originally Cherokee (now Fannin) county.
Said lot or parcel known in said district and
said section as No. 18—the whole lot contain,
ing one.hundred and sixty acres,'more or less.
Sold as the property of Mrs. Elmira Sullivan,
late of Elbert county, deceased, by virtue of an
order from the court of Ordinary of said county,
for the benefit of creditors and heirs of said de
ceased. Terms, Cash.
April 1,’73. J. I. CHANDLER, Admin’ t.
GEORGIA, Elbert County,—Notice is hereby
given to all persons concerned that on the
sth day of April, 1873, Jonathan G. Nelms, late
of Elbert county, departed this life intestate, and
no person applying for administration on the es
tate of said Jonathan G. Nelms, and that in termg
ot the law administration will be vested in the
Clerk of the Superior Court, or some other fit
and proper person, thirty days after publication
ot this citation, unless some valid objection be
made to his appointment.
Given under my hand and official signature,-
this 9th day of June, 1873.
JAS. A. ANDREW, Ordinary.
Citation for Cotters ol'lVsmissioii
O TATE of Gorgia, Elbert County: Whereas Wru
OH. Teasly, guardian aud administrator of John
11. 11. Teasley, represents to the court in his peti
tion,duly filed and entered on record, that he has
fully administered John Id. 11. Teasley’s estate,
this is therefore to cite all persons concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any
they can, why said admini.stratorshonld not be
discharged from his administration and receive
letters ot dismission on the first Monday in
September, 1873. Jas. A. Andkbw, Ordinary.
notice:.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of George
T. Williams are requested to make imme
diate payment, else they will he sued. The claims
will be found in the hands of E. I’. Edwards, Esq,-.
Elberton, Ga. J. D. HILL, Adln'r.
May 5, 1873.
ANDREW MALE HIGH SCHOOL,
ELBERTON. GA-
P. E DAVANT, A M., - - Principal.
GEO. Q. QUILLIAN, - - Assistant
Spring term commences Monday, Jan. 27,1872.
fpHE course of instruction in this institution
-L is thorough and by the analytic system.
The pupils are taught to think and reason for*
themselves. Boys will be thoroughly prepared
for any class in college. Those desiring aspeedy
preparation for business can lake n shorter
course in Analytic Arithmetic, Surveying, Book
keeping, &e.
The discipline of the school will be firm and
inflexible. An effort will be raadeiu all eases
to control students by appealing to their sense
of duty and honor, but at all events the discip
line will bo maintained.
Rates of Tuition: Ist class, $2,50 pef-mon th ;
2d class, $3.50; 3d class, ss—one-naif in ad
vance.
Board in good families $lO per month
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TIIMBIJLL BROTHERS^
Publishers, isalilmorc.
Change of Schedule
ON THE GEORGIA AND MACON AND AU
GUSTA RAILROADS.
On and after Wednesday, June sth, 1872, tho
Passenger trains on the Georgia and .Macon and
Augusta railroads will run as follows :
Georgia Railroad—Pay Passenger Train.
LEAVE AKIUVE
Augusta 8 20 a m I Atlanta ........O' 10 p n
Atlanta 815 am | Augusta 530 p m
Night Passenger Train.
LEAVE ARRIVE
Augusta 8 15 p m | Atlanta 6 45 a m
Atlanta 8 00 p mj Augusta C 00 a m
Macon and, Augusta R. R.—Dug Passenger Train ,
LEAVK AUIUVK
Augusta,...,.l2 13 u m I Macon... 7 80 p m
Macon 630a m | Augusta 115 p m
No change of cars between Augusta and Macon
Passengers from Athens, Atlanta, Washing
ton, or any point on the Georgia Railroad and
branches, by taking the Day Passenger Train
will make connection at Camak with trains for
Macon.
Pullman’s (first-class) Palace Sleeping Cars
on all Night Passenger Trains on the Georgia
Railroad; and first-eLss Sleeping Oars on all
Night Trains on the Macon and Augusta R. It.
S. K. JOHNSON, Supt.
2he Oldest Furniture House in the State*
PLATT" BROS.
Ql3 & 214 Broad St.
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Keep always on Land the latest styles of
FURNITUKJE
Os every variety ruanvfactured, from the lowest
to the highest grades
CHAMBER, PARLOR, DINING-ROOM, AND
LIBRARY COMPLETE SUITS, OR
SINGLE PIECES.
At prices which cannot fail to suit the purchaser
UNDERTAKING,
In all its branches, METALLIC CASES AND
CASKETS, of various styles and make; im
ported Wood Caskets and Cases, of ev
ery known design and finish; Cof
fins and Caskets of our own
make, in mahogany, rose
wood and walnut
An accomplished undertaker will be in at
ttendance at all hours, day and night
