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ROGERS, Importer and dealer in RISKS-, GUIS PISTOLS And Pocket Cutlery, Ammunition, of nil Kinds, 245 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. repairing executed promptly iglkvtcw (Tavd*. LIGHT j. V hr), Carriage JJamufactb ELBEBTOS, GEORGIA. BEST WORKMEN! BEST WORK! LOWEST PRICES! Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O Common Buggies - - - >lou. REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITIITNG. Work done in this line in the very best style. The 33est Harness Mv 2 2-1 v T. M. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD SWIFT & ARNOLD, (Successors to T. M. Swift,) dealers in dry goods, groceries, crockery, boots and SHOES, HARDWARE, 4c., Public Square, EEBERTOMT ©A. r, elberton, DEALER IN MI Mil. MOCMIB, HARDWARE, CROCKERY, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS Notions, &c- ELBERTON FEMALE ®oUegutte|nslitute THE exercises of this institute will be resum ed on Monday, August 18ih, 1873. term, four months. Tuition, $2.50, s3*so, and $5 per month, according to class— payable half in advance. Mrs. Hester will continqe in charge, of the Musical Department. Board in the best families can be obtained at from $lO to sls per month. For further information address the Principal H, I>. SIMS. THE GAZETTE. ISTew Series. WOMAN’S WITS AND LAWYER'S TRICKS. • Old Walter Kilbome died, and left a fortune that aggregated nearly a mil lion. The gloomy old house had been the family residence for many a year.— It stood in one of the down-town streets that had once been the site of fashiona ble residences of New York city. But the wealthy families had long since re moved to the avenues, leaving the per verse old millionaire to hold his own among the growing business of the once aristocratic thoroughfare. A bunch of crape was hung on the door knob four days after the funeral, when a bent wily ly looking man pulled it. Being admit ted he was shown into the dingy room which Mr. Kilborne had in his life used for an office. The bent and wily-looking man was lawyer Whitternore, and he was almost immediately joined by Rob ert Kilborne, a grandchild of the dead milliinaire, a young man who showed plainly enough the marks of rough so cial usage. “Good morning,” said the lawyer as Robert entered and extended his hand rather listlessly. “Good morning,” was the reply.— “Well.” “Well,” echoed the lawyer. “You got my note f’ w “Asking me to meet you here? Yes, what do you want ?” “T ou drew my grandfather’s will, I be lieve?” “I did, - just two days before he di ed.” “What are its contents?” “I have no right to tell,” said Mr. Whitternore, trying to look severe. It is with the Surrogate now, and you will know its contents on Thursday, when it will be officially opened. You know that I couldn’t think of violating my official—” “Not unless you arc well paid for it,” interrupted the young man, “I under stand that perfectly well, and will be plain and brief with you. As you are aware, my cousin Myra and myself are the only too living relatives of my grand father. We have both been brought up in this house together, and each hates the other as much as possible. Now I have no idea how the property is left, and I want to know. I’m willing to pay for the knowledge in of the opening of the will, and you have it to sell.” The lawyer assented with a cool nod of the head. “Then name your price,” continued Robert. • “One thousand dollars,” said the law yer. “I haven’t so much,” replied the young man. “A note for a month will do,” said Whitternore. The document was quickly written out, signed, and transferred to the law yer’s pocket. “The will, then,” said Mr. Whitternore “is a strange one—as strange as the man who made it—but lie would listen to no advice, and I had nothing to do but car- ry out his wishes and his orders. lie leaves all his property to Myra Kil borne.” “D—n him!" hissed the disappointed young man. “Hold,” said the lawyer, “untill you hear the conditions. He leaves all his property to Myra, as I said before, pro vided she becomes your wife. If she declines to fulfill this condition, the prop erty goes to you. The only other point is, that in case Myra is married when the will is opened, she gets the property the same as if she marries you. But that provision, of course, is of no conse quence, as she is not likely to marty be fore day after to-morrow, which is Thurs day, the day the document is to be open ed.” Here the lawyer stopped and looked into his companion s face, as if expect ing an expression of displeasure. He was disappointed, however, for Robert seemed rather more satisfied than other wise. “It pleases me well enough,” he said, “for I half expected to be cut off uncon ditionally. You see I’ve been rather fast, and the old man disliked it, and Myra’s gentle ways and attentions to his wants won his regard. She is complete ly bound up in her lover, Harry Perton, who is hundreds of miles away just now, and I don’t believe she’d give him up for I the fortune a dozen times over. Even I if she consents to marry me, I wouldn t ELBERTON, GEORGIA. fEPTEAIBER 24, 1873. be so badly off with the property under my control.” The lawyer then arose, bade his un scrupulous patron good-day, and went out. But as he did so, had his ears been younger and sharper, he might have heard the sound of rustling skirts flee ing from the stairway—those same skirts enveloping the pretty form of My ra Kilborne, who had heard every word of the interview by listening at the door. “So, so,” she mused, when she had reached her own room, and thrown her s elf in a chair, “I am to buy the fortune by selling myself. I won’t do it. I wouldn’t give up Harry for fifty times a million. Cousin Robert can take all the property, and much good it may do him.” Yet, notwith standing her conclusive decision, Myra could not relinquish without a pang the fortune to which she hid always looked forward as her cer tain portion. Her grandfather had al ways seemed to regard her with much affection, and she had not dreamed that in his will he would impose such a dis tasteful restriction. Without a moment’s delay, she dress ed herself for the street and went out. She knew no lawyer, but walked until she came to a building upon which she had noticed an army of legal signs.— Passing up stairs, and selecting a name from the lot that chanced to strike her the most favorably, she entered a well fumished office. A middle-aged man sat alone writing at a desk. “Is Mr. Temple in ?” asked the young lady. “Yes,” said the man looking up at his pretty visitor, and motioning her to a seat, “that is my name.” “I have come for some legal advice— some advice on a matter of great impor tance to me, and—” “If-I am to aid you,” said the lawyer, kindly, “you must speak freely and unre servedly, which you may do in the ut- most confidence.” Thus encouraged, Myra told him the" whole case of the will, the manner in which she had obtained her information, and how much she felt concerned in the matter. “Of course,” she continued, “I want to retain ’the fortune, but not at the price stipulated in the will. Can you help me ?” Mr. Temple sat for a while in deep thought, so long, in fact that Myra got fidgety with waiting. At last his face brightened with an idea, and he at once imparted it to his fair client. For an horn - or two they were in close consulta tion. That clay and the next passed, and Thursday came. The will was read in the Surrogate’s at 12 o’clock. At eleven o’clock a carriage drove up at the Kil borne residence. In it were Mr. Temple and two of his intimate friends. The former entered the house. In a moment he reappeared with Myra. She acted a little nervous, but seemed reassurSd by the presence of the lawyer, who helped her in the carriage, and all were driven away. They proceeded to the residence of a clergyman, where they were evidently expected, as they were promptly shown into the parlor. The reverend gentle man entered, and the lawyer stepped forward with Myra. “We are the couple, sir.” The marriage ceremony of the Epis copal church was performed, a certifi cate made out, the two friends signed as witnesses to the marriage, and the quartette were soon again seated in the carriage. “Drive to the courthouse,” said Mr. Temple. The Surrogate, the clerk, Robert Kil borne, Lawyer Whittemore, and a few others were in the Surrogate’s office when the wedding party entered. It was just twelve o’clock. The will was read, and Robert turned to Myra for her decision. “Will you sign the agreement to mar ry me ?” he asked. “No, I will not,” replied the young girl. “Then you resign the property to me 1” and a gleam of triumph shot from his eyes. “No.” “The will provides,” said Mr. Temple, “that she shall take the fortune if marri ed at the time of its opening. She is married to me, and there is the certifi cate. The ceremony was performed an hour ago.” I There was no question as to the valid ity of the document, or the fact that, un f der the circumstances, Myra was entitled to the estate. On the same day proceedings were in stituted on behalf of Myra, by Mr. Tem ple, to obtain for her a divorce from himself, “abandonment” was the ground. A few days later Harry returned, and before the day appointed for his mar riage to Myra, she had obtained her di vorce from Air. Temple. The latter was one of the j oiliest of the guests pres ent. “If it hadn’t been for you,” began the blade. “Stop,” interrupted Mr. Temple I will put it all in the bill. For the will suit, so many dollars ; for the divorce suit so many dollars; so you see lam the proper one to be grateful, after all!” But no bill for legal services was ever paid with a better grace. GENEKAT LONGSTREET. A Letter of Defence From Him. Lynchburg, Va., September 3, 1873. R. W. Hughes, Esq. Dear Sir: The Richmond Enquirer, of the 26th of August, reports Col. Withers, in his Warren ton speech, as having said, “ in reference to Longstreet, he not only accepted the issue, but went over for money,” etc. I hope that I am not asking too much in appealing to you and your friends to make known the-truth in this cause. The charge of Col. Withers is so vague and indefinite that I can find nothing in reply except general denial and the rec ord of my motives as announced by me from time to time. There has been no room at any time for doubt as to my motives and wishes in regard to our politics. When they were first announced in the spring of 1862 [?], I stated expressly that I could see no other way by which the southern people could reinstate themselves in pro -£■ r-p fl-.-mjmUiy- suul relations with the gen eral government, and thus save them selves greater losses and humiliation. There commenced and ended all my rea sons and motives in connection with this mattter, and my letters have so plainly expressed my views that no one can mis construe them except they do so through malice. If Colonel Withers knows the record, and he virtually claims to know it when he makes grave allegations as matters of fact, he knew when he made his charge that it was not true. If he made them in ignorance or reckless disregard of facts, he is equally culpable. In order, however, to place the matter beyond question or doubt, I propose that Colonel Withers give the names of the parties to this transaction and the time and place of its occurrence, so as to give me something tangible. I think that I can safely promise him, as soon as he puts his charge in such shape as to ena ble me to take hold of it, that I will prove to the world that there is not a word of truth in his allegations against me, nor even a reason for them except in malice. Another Virginian, Rev. Mr. Pendle ton, aiming to avail himself of the prej udice gotten up on false statements, goes back nine or ten years to attack my rec ord as a soldier. I will say to him, as I have said in reference to the other charge, that it is too vague and indefinite as it stands to be met by the evidence of witnesses. But if he will give the names of the staff officers of General Lee and the general and staff officers of the first corps of the Army of Northern Virginia who are cognizant of facts, as he asserts them, I will undertake to prove by his own witnesses that his statement is also false. I am, sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant, James Longstreet. A Floating Island.— There is a singu lar natural curiosity in a lake in Ver mont, consisting of one hundred and fifty acres of land floating on the Mir face of the water. The tract is covered with cranberries, and there are trees fifteen feet high. When the water is raised or lowered at the dam of the pond, the isl and rises and falls with it. It affords a fine shelter for fish, large numbers of which are caught by boring a hole and fishing down through as through the ice in winter. A barber was recently presented with a “strapping big boy." I I .-lN o. 22. THE DANGER OP BETTING. Some time ago, a clerk of a market near our city, looked into the butter tub of a market man, aad thought he discov ered a small deficiency in the size of the lumps. "Whereupon lie brought forth his balances, with an air of justice, and proceeded to weigh the whole by par cels. Every lump was short of weight. So that thirty pounds of butter [less the illegal deficiency in each lump]] was con fiscated. A week or two afterwards, the clerk, in the faithful discharge of his duty, stopped at a butter tub, and tried a pound in his scales—Lit was correct; he tried another, and another. At length the owner said: “You need not trouble yourself-—you will find all my butter cor rect.” The clerk looked up, and discovered his old friend of the light lumps. “Per haps I shall,” said he—“but if I am not mistaken, I took thirty pounds from you last week.” “You are mistaken,, it was not from me.” “It was,” said the clerk, “I know you.” “I’ll net five dollars you never took thirty pounds of butler from me, at any one time.” “Done.” The money was staked—the clerk told his story. It looked blue for the coun tryman. “I admit the loss of thirty lumps of butter ; but to have been thirty pounds there must have been a pound in each lump. Now, either the clerk did me in justice by confiscating my butter for un lawful weight, and I may claim back of him thirty pounds, at 25 cents per pound, which is seven dollars and a half; or he did not take thirty pounds, and I may claim my bet of five dollars, which you owe me.” The clerk was compelled to give up the bet. Moral, — Make no light lumps of but ter —and no heavy five dollar bets. A young .married friend irfln <* good joke on himself, perpetrated by a little three year old “pride of the family.’ She is the only pledge of love that has twined itself around the heart and affec tions of himself and wife. A few even ings since a minister visited the family and remained till after tea. At the ta-. ble the reverend visitor asked the bless ing, and the little one opened her eyes to the widest extent in startled wonder ment. She could not understand what had been done, and it was with great persuasion that her mother could keep her quiet during the time they were at the table. When they left it, she walked up to the minister, for whom she had formed a great friendship, and said; “What did you say at the table before we ate?” “My little darling, I thanked God for His goodness in giving us to eat, so that we might be strong.” “Papa don’t say that,” said the little girl. “What does your papa say?” asked the preacher. “Papa says, -Godlemighty, what a supper? ” •ANDY AT HIS OLD TRADE. A southern gentleman who was at Greenville, Tenn., a short time since, tells the following: “Andy Johnson is as big a demagogue as ever. A countryman came into town last week with a bundle of jeans to have a suit of clothes made for his negro. He saw Andy standing on the corner, and said: ‘ Well, Andy, you used to be the best tailor in these parts, and I wish you’d cut out this suit of clothes for my boy Jim here.’ ‘All right,’ says Andy, and they stepped into a shop near by, and in five minutes an ex-President might have been seen swinging round the circle of a dirty negro, taking his latitude, longitude and bearings for a suit of clothes. Andy is very ambitious, but whether such tomfoolery as this will get him into the Senate is more than any one can tell.” THE BEST LIQUOR. “Give us a glass of your best liquor,” said: a toper the other day, as he entered a shop. The keeper gave him a glass of pure wale The toper without weakening it dashed it down his throat at a swallow. His taste, seemingly, was not exactly satisfied, “What’s the matter,” said the keeper “wafn’t it the best liquor you ever drank 1 ?” “Yes, it was good, but it seems to me it wasn’t very strong. What sort of liquor was it ?”( “It was cold water,” said the bar keeper. The toper was a temperance man ev er afterwards. BUCKNER’S GOOD FORTUNE. The Homance of a Confederate General’s Suc cess. It would appear as if a kind Provi dence bad specially intervened to protect from poverty, misfortune, and the other ills of life those true and gallant officers who risked their all in the straggle for independence of the southern States. We know few of them who have not im proved their worldly condition since the war, or who are not now in better cir cumstances than they were previous to that event. It it an agreeable reflection that in this, as in other acts of devotion to duty and patriotism, honesty has proved the best policy. The instance of Gen. 8. B. Buckner is a striking and cheerful one. Gen. Buckner lived in a State which never seceded, and a majority of its peo ple were opposed to the movement. All his own and his wife’s property must be left to the tender mercies of the enemy, in case he should join the Confederates. It was a magnificent property, the large income of which enabled the general to live in a style suited to his refined and elegant taste. And yet all this he risked when impelled by liis sympathies and convictions, he abandoned his beautiful home, joined the Confederates, and fought through the war with distin guished gallantry and unflinching fideli ity. At the close of the war General Buckner found himself stripped of eve rything. Locating in this city, he sot to work first as a journalist on the Crescent, and afterwards engaged in the business of life insurance, wherein he achieved a brilliant success. He then took meas ures to recover his property in Ken tucky and his wife’s property in Chicago. There were serious obstacles to the suc cess of these efforts. Large suits had been brought against him for damages inflicted by the Confederate forces under his command. On these suits his prop erty had been attached and much of it sold. It was a severe, tedious and ex pensive litigation in which he became in volved, but his efforts were finally crowned with victory. His property was restored to him, and the claims for dam ages against him were all defeated. Next he instituted proceedings to re cover his wife’s property. And here was a developed and intensely interesting ro mance Mrs. Buckner had, before join ing her husbrnd in the Confederacy, con veyed her property to her brother under a deed of tmst. The obligation rested upon his honor to preserve and recon vey the property to her after the war. In the progress of the rrm- tbi brother married and accepted a commission in the Federal service. Further to compli cate affairs he became a father. In case lie should prove faithless to his obliga tion to his sister this child would inher it a large fortune. Here was a great temptation to the young man, whose natural affection for his sister wore antagonized by his ardent hostility to the cause with which she was identified, and to his paternal instincts and affections. It was for him alone to determine whether this large property should accrue to the wife of a rebel, in preference to his own offspring. Honor and brotherly affection, it is true, de mand a certain course; but how rarely in these selfish and materialistic times do these principles control the acts of men. This young man, however, recognised their obligation, and on the eve of battle he made his will rcconveying to his sis ter the property she had confided to him. After making one of those wills he went forth with the intrepidity of a man con scious of an act of high self-control to encounter the enemy, and met the fat© of a brave soldier at the battle of Sharps burg. The general of his corps knew of the will he had made—all honor to him that he kept the secret—and after the war communicated to his old com rade in amis—his recent foe, but now his friend and brother—the [facts, and gave every aid to recover the instrument. This was General Burnside. By his generous assistance, and tliro’ the indefatigable devotion and energies of one of General Buckner’s staff, the gallant and gifted Colonel Wooley, of Lexington, Kentucky, the testamentary proofs were procured, and title of Mrs. Bucker to her patrimony was fully estab lished, and after a legal contest she was reinvested with the same, and now is in full, undisturbed enjoyment of a mag nificent estate, and no couple ever more justly merited the happy fortune this victory over the most formidable difficul ties and perils which could arise in the path of duty or honor, but which never for a moment dismayed or swerved them from the line which patriotism and con science had marked out for them. No man is free who cannot command ! himself. i Chemists s.ay no matter is lost. Prill i ters deny it.
