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SCHNEIDER,
DEALER IN
WINES, LIQUORS AND CICARS
AUGUSTA, GA.
Agent (or Fr. Schleifer ft Co.’s San Francisco
CALIFORNIA. BRANDY.
HUQOIH ELIEQUBTT EHAMPAGNB.
E. R. SCHNEIDER,
Augusta, Georgia.
E. H. ROGERS,
Importer and dealer in
RIFLES, GUNS PISTOLS
And Pocket Cutlery,
Amm. tuition of all Kinds,
245 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
REPAIRING EXECUTED PROMPTLY
W.H. HOWARD C. H. HOWARD. W. H. HOWARD, JR.
W. H. HOWARD & SONS,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
mil MMTS
COR. BAY AND JACKSON STS.,
AUGUSTA, GA.
Commissions for Selling Cotton $1 Per Bale.
Bagginy and Ties Furnished.
ORDERS TO SELL OR HOLD COTTON STRICTLY
OBEYED.
Particular attention given to Weighing Cotton.
(glkftcm §usiuw Cavils.
LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES.
j. F.
C'ARIil A<iE A UFACT' R
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
BEST WORKMEN!
BEST WORK!
LOWEST PRICES!
Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to SIBO
Common Buggies - SIOO.
REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITHING
Work done in this line in the very best style.
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T‘ M. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD
SWIFT & ARNOLD,
(Successors to T. M. Swift,)
dealkrs in
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, CROCKERY, BOOTS AND
SHOES, HARDWARE, &c.,
Public Square, ELBERTON CSA.
H. K. CAIRDNER,
ELBERTON, GA„
DEALER IN
IITIHK ttOCIHIB.
HARDWARE, CROCKERY,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS
Notions, &o
ELBERTON FEMALE
(Megiatejnstitwte
rpHE exercises of this institute will be resum-
JL ed on Monday, August 18th, 1873.
ggyFal! term, four months. Tuition, $2.50,
$3.50, and $5 per month, according to class—
payable half in advance
Mrs. Hkstbr will continue 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. P. SIMS.
JOHN T. OSBORN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ELBERTON, LA.
Will give undivided attention to law cases.
ANDREW MALE HIGH SCHOOL
ELBERTON. GA.
P. E DAVANT, AM., - - Principal.
GEO. Q. QU/LLIAN, - - Assistant
Fall term commences Monday, Aug. 19, 1872.
rpHB course of instruction in this institution
X 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 take a shorter
course in Analytic Arithmetic, Surveying, Book
keeping, &c.
The discipline of thp school will be firm and
inflexible. An effort will be madein all cases
to control students by appealing to their sense
of duty and honor, but at all events the discip
line will be maintained.
Rates of Tuition: Ist class, $2.50 permonth ;
2d class, $3.50; 3d class, ss—one-half in ad
vance.
Board in good families $lO per month
THE GAZETTE.
Series.
A WHITE LIE.
And What Game Of It.
There are different colors and de
grees of falsehood, just as there are dif
ferent colors and degrees of other sins.
There is, blackest of all, the malevolent
hypocrite and slanderer, who can twist
truth into falsehood, and falsehood into
seeming truth. And there is that down
right Liar, who falsifies on purpose to
deceive. There is another downright
Liar not quite so bad—he falsifies from
the marvellous, and a burning desire to
appear what he is not. Some people lie
because it is their disposition to deceive.
Others lie because they lack the courage
to tell the truth. And, there are other
lies—sometimes called White Lies—
which are mere lies of convenience. In
their utterance there is no evil intent.—
They are told just as a man whisks an
impediment from his path with his walk
ing stick. They are told to save trouble
of explanation; or, perhaps, to avoid
reprimand. At first a lie of this kind
may not seem a very sinful thing ; but,
unfortunately for the misguided mortal
who entertains the petty sin, it is one
that does not improve upon acquain
tance. Like many other evils which
might be mentioned, it is likely to grow
to alarming proportions and consequen
ces. There is one safe ground—and on
ly one: Truth—Absolute Truth—un
der every circumstance and on all occa-
Bions.
Sarah Powers believed herself to be a
truthful girl. She had not the disposi
tion to wittingly deceive. Had it
been plainly intimated to her that she
was a Liar she would have been shocked
beyond measure ; and yet her rule of life
in this respect was not pure and unswerv
ing, as we shall see.
“Sarah,” said Mrs. Powers, coming
into the room, one winter morning,
where her daughter sat, “did you see
anything of a twenty-dollar bill on the
mantle-shelf last evening ?’’ Her voice
and manner showed that she was un
pleasantly exercised.
“A S2O bill?” repeated Sarah, with
open eyes. “No!”
“You didn’t see anything that looked
like one?”
“Like a twenty-dollar bill? Certainly
not.”
“I certainly left it in the sitting-room
on the shelf; and I know that I set the
large glass lamp down on it, so that it
should not blow away. I forgot all
about it until this morning. O, I must
not loose it.”
“But, mother, S2O is not such a large
sum.”
“Ordinarily, no, my child; but just
now it is considerable. Your father’s
accounts do not balance so favorably
this season as he had anticipated. In
fact, Sarah, he cannot possibly spare me i
any more if he is to meet his bank-pa
per. Where can that bill have gone to?
And I promised Mrs. Judkins $lO to-day.
Do you think it could have got knocked j
off and blown away?”
We may as well remark here, that Sa
rah had been lying. The facts were sim
ply these:
On the previous evening Robert Yea- i
zie had called to visit Sarah. Sarah re-!
membered that she and Robert had sat !
together upon the sofa and looked over j
an illustrated magazine. While thus!
occupied it had occured to her that they
could see better if the large lamp, which
stood in the middle of the shelf, was
moved out to the end; and she arose to
do it. Upon lifting the lamp she saw a
piece of paper whirl out and circle down
until it was drawn into the fire of the
grate beneath.
“What was that?” asked Robert who
had seen the paper.
“I kon’t know, I’m sure. It’s burned
up, whatever it was," answered Sarah.—
She saw the charred, tinder-like frag
ments whisked up by the draft, and then
she added, —“I guess it was nothing of
importance, or would not have been on
the mantel.’’
Now Sarah remembered all this very
well; and, in truth, the question of her
mother had startled her; but she had
not seen a S2O bill. We can imagine
the amount of mental reservation em
ployed in this decision. Her first im
pulse was to avoid a disagreeable expos
ure. If the bank-nrte had been destroyed
as she now saw it had, it was through
no fault of hers, and, moreover, the loss
could not be helped.
Upon reflection, when Sarah saw how
much trouble was upon her mother, she
■ was sorry' she had not confessed the
ELBERTOK, GEORGIA. NOVEMBER 19, 1873.
whole truth at once. But it was top late
now. She had taken the first false step,
and she could not retract without ft dis
agreeable exposure.
“Who could have knocked it off?’*; she
said, in answer to her mother’iftast
question ; “I certainly saw nothingfof a
bank-note.”
Mrs. Powers searched in vain, and at
noon she told her husband of the loss ;
and then they both searched, and Sir.
Powers questioned his daughter—not
thinking that she had deceivedJfbut
in hopes that some forgotten incident
might occur to her. But Sarah dared
not confess now. She lacked the cour
age ; and she lacked the courage because
she was yet to realize how very small
evils can grow to enormous consequen
ces.
Mr. Powers returned to his store in a
thoughtful mood. He knew that his
wife must have left the bank note under
the lamp upon that shelf, and that it had
been there on the previous evening.—
She was not a woman liable to make a
mistake in memory of such a matter.—
The only other person who had been in
the sitting-room from that time beside
his daughter was Robert Yeazie. Per
haps Robert might have seen the note.
On arriving at the store he call his clerk
and said:
“Robert, did you see anything of a §2O
bill on the mantel in my sitting room,
last evening ?”
“No, sir.”
“You saw nothing that looked like
one ?”
“I—l saw nothing, sir.”
■ Mr Powers was not at all satisfied
with this answer ; but he wouldn’t press
the matter then. He dismissed his clerk,
and sat down and reflected. And his in
flections were not pleasant
That very evening Mr. Powers called
upon Mr. Selvidge, the tailor, to collect
a bill for cloth. The tailor, was fortu
nately, in funds, and he paid the bill.—
With the money he handed out was a
§2O bill, of the Blackstone Natiowjl
Bank, new and crisp. It was
such a bill as Mr. Powers had given to
his wife.
We will state that Robert was clerk
ing for Powers & Dunbar, and was Sa
rah’s lover.
Mr. Powers asked Selvidge where he
got it.
“Robert Veazie paid it to me this
forenoon.”
“For what?”
“For anew coat.”
Mr. Powers went home, and showed
the bill to his wife. She declared in a
moment, that it was the bill she had
lost.
The merchant asked her could she be
silent and discreet for a time. And when
she told him that she could, he told her
how the bill had come into his posses
sion.
They both were greatly shocked. —
They had not believed such a thing pos
sible. If Robert could be a thief, who
could they trust ?
On the following day Mr. Powers
called Robert in the counting-room, and
bade him close the door behind him.—
There was that in his.employer’s look
and tone that made the youth trem
ble.
Mr. Powers showed him the new, crisp
bank note, and asked him where he got
it.
“Is that the bill I gave to Mr. Selv
idge ?”
“It is.”
Robert did not answer readily. He
stopped to think, and when he did not
answer his employer’s searching gaze
oppressed him.
“Mr. Powers, I saw that bank-note in ;
the drawer with another just like it. 11
happened to have S2O of my own in i
small bills in my pocket, and I made the j
exchange, taking the crisp, new bill, and
putting in its place my worn ones. Be- j
fore the money was deposited, I think
you took the other one.”
“I did take a bank-note exactly like
this—the only one I saw with our money
that day, and I gave it to my wife. She
placed it beneath the large lamp on the
mantel in our sitting-room. She did
this just before sitting down to tea, and
forgot all about it until the following
morning, and then it was gone. On
that evening only you and Sarah were
in the room, Sarah did not see it. Now
what am I to think !”
“Are you sure that Sarah knows noth
ing ?” ssked Robert, eagerly and excited
ly-
“She declares that she knows nothing
at all about it! I trust that you would
not have me believe that my daughter
could— ’’
“No! no! oh no !" broke in Robert,
quickly. Then he gasped and trem
bled.
“What more have you to say, Rob
ert?”
“Nothing, sir.”
“Nothing?”
“Nothing!”
“You can leave me.”
And the young m. Ji went out pale,
bowed, and sti ick_n. The merchant saw,
and was sorry. It was a grief to him
deep and heartfelt. L..ier in the day he
went out and told Robert he might go
home.
“I will send for you when I want
you.”
“Mr. Powers!—”
“What would you say, Robert ?” asked
he.
“ Nothin g!”
“Then you may go. I will send for
you when I am willing to see you
again.”
And Robert Veazie went out from the
store; but he dared not go home then
to his widowed mother. The fear that
came crushing upon him was for Sarah.
Did she love him so little that she could
sec! him thus suffer and be silent ? W T as
it possible that— But he dared not
think. He must wait until these first
emotions were passed.
That evening Mr. Powers and liis wife
talked the matter over; and it was de
cided that Robert Yeazie should be da
nied the house, and, of course, that he
must be discharged from the store.—
They would not expose this his first
known ciime; but it was certain they
could giue him tlieir confidence never
again.
And they must inform Sarah. That
was the hardest part of all. They sent
for her to come to them. They would
have it done at once. She came in and
sat down.
, 3§he '‘Lisped her hands, and gasped for
breath What did her father want with
her?
He told her the story, directly and
clearly, of his discovery of Robert’s guilt;
and he told how broken and penitent the
young man had appeared. This latter
he added by way of showing that the
crime was acknowledged.
Pale as death, and with eyes fixed, she
asked if Robert had mentioned her
name.
“He only asked me,” said her father,
“if I had spoken with you,—if you could
not throw some light upon the missing
money. I answered him promptly, that
you knew nothing whatever of the twen
ty-doliar bill. His guilt was very appar
ent from that moment. His shame and
remorse—”
“Oh! father! father ! moaned Sarah,
“have mercy—have pity—upon your
daughter!”
“My child!”
“No, no, —lift me not up. Let me tell
it all with my head here in your lap. O!
lam a miserable, wicked girl! I did it
all!—Robert has suffered rather than be
tray me.”
And when she could control her
speech she told the story of the binning
paper; and then she tried to tell how
she had been led to falsify and prevari
cate.
That was not a time for chiding.—
Poor Sarah was like one whose heart
was breaking. She had come to think
now of Robert. He would despise her
after this!
Mr. Powers looked at his w-atch.
Presently be whispered something to his
wife, and then arose and left the room;
and very shortly afterwards he left the
house.
In about half an hour he returned
home.
“Sarah,” he said, to his daughter,
who sat w ith her head upon her moth
er’s shoulder. “Robert is in the parlor.
Go in and see him.”
There was a fearful struggle, but the
better genius conquered, and Sarah went
to her injured lover.
By and by both Sarah and Robert
came into the drawing room. They had
een weeping freely, but they seemed
very happy, nevertheless. Sarah came
and kneeled at her parent’s feet, and
said:
“Father—mother—-will you pardon
and forgive as Robert has done.”
“Yes, —yes, my child.”
j “Then I will try to deserve your con
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fidence henceforth. O, Ido want to be
happv once more, and never, never, —"
Robert caught her to his bosom and
held her there ; and her father came
and rested his hand upon her head.
“I know it is a bitter lesson, dear
child; but I believe a blessing will follow
it. It is possible that from this time you
may be happier than you have ever
been.”
CURRENT NOTES.
—The Courier Journal says that when
Cincinnati whiskey fails to kill a man,
there is nothing else that can, and he
would just as soon jump from a nineteen
story house into a pile of pig metal as
to come down on an elevator.
—Some of our statesmen think that if
anything can save France as a Republic,
it will be the circulation there of Ameri
can newspapers. If some statements
we hear are true some of the publishers
who send there would find it difficult to
tell the difference between a republic
and a well-developed whale.
—Magistrate—You may have been in
toxicated; but the officer testifies that
you were not so tipsy as not to know
what you were about. Prisoner—Oh, if
I had known that was an objection, I
could easily have taken another chink or
two.
—The Gullet gin took the prize at the
Macon fail - , and now comes Mr. Sawyer,
who missed the prize by the “skin of his
teeth,” and says Die Gullet man won by
tarring his pulley. He can’t poke that
down our gullet.
—A. T. Stewart on the panic: “We
don’t owe anybody anything. That’s
more than most others can say. We’ve
plenty of money. This panic does not
affect my business; on the contrary, I
make money after every panic. In 1837
I coined money; in 1857 I made mints
of money, and now I am making a cent
or two.”
—A western paper says, on the best
authority, tnat, at a very early stage in
the next session of Congress, a Connec
ticut Senator will introduce a bill to
wind up the national banks, redeem their
currency and issue greenbacks instead.
—Mrs. Mary Custis Lee, widow of
Gen. R. E. Lee, died at Lexington, Va.,
on the sth. She was laid beside the
remains of the dead hero in Memorial
Chapel, Lexington.
—“You don't do that again," said the
pig to th e boy who cut his tail off.
—Ann Ward, colored, Dixon Springs,
Tennessee. Staiting fire with kerosene.
No caniages.
—The old fashion of wearing beads
around the neck lias been revived. Jet
beads are used instead of the large rub
bar ones as heretofore. Four times
around the neck is the correct thing just
now.
—Elijah C. Hunt, who has been on
trial in Brooklyn, N. Y., for acting as a
decoy in obtaining possession of girls
for vile purposes, has been released on
condition that he leave Brooklyn and
never return. We suppose he is at lib
erty to practice his miserable profession
anywere else he pleases.
—A witty scientist once silenced a
London fishwoman, w ho was pouring out
at him a flood of vile talk, by hurling at
her, in emphatic tones, the language of
palaeontology, thus: “You ichtyosaurus,
you pterodactyl, I’ll feed you on cephal
opoda, and saurians shall consume your
parietals. ’ In blank silence the woman
stared at her enemy, and did not utter a
word in reply.
—“ That’s unjust,” exclaimed a travel
er, w T hen informed by the conductor of a
railroad train that the price of passage
had been recently doubled. “True,” re
plied the conductor, as he took the pas- !
eenger’s cash; “it is hard, but then it’s
FABE.”
—ln some of the western granges, it
is said, the members are pledged never j
to go to law with each other, but to set
tie all their disputes by arbitration. That
is a good idea.
—A Chinaman came down one of the
main streets of Millerton, Cal., on elec-:
tion day, in a state of exaltation, and
thus delivered himself: “Hoop-la! me all
same Melican man. Hair cut short and
drunk like h—lL Hoop-la!”
—Catoosa county has produced Willie
Jackson, who is just six years old and
weighs one hundred and ten pounds. He
has six fingers on each hand and six toes
on each foot, and the showman says he
can easily run him up to 160 pounds if
he’d only give him as much as he want
ed to eat. He ~vas on exhibition in At
lanta a short time since.
—Hon. Jamas B. Beck favors the re
peal of the late salary law, with a provis
ion directing the excess of the present
compensation over the former pay re
ceived by any member since the 4th of
March last to be deducted from any fu
ture payment to be made to such mem
ber, and this repeal to be made applica
ble to all persons, including the Presi
dent, who were benefitted by the salary
act
—A son of Erin once accosted a rev
erend disciple of Swedenbourg thus i
“ Mr. , you say that we are to fol
low the same business in heaven that we
do in this world ?” “ Yus, that is in per
fect accordance with reason; for the Cre
ator himself is not idle, and why should
his creatures be?” “Well, thin, your
honor, do paple die there?” “Certainly
not; they are as immortal as the Creator
himself.” “Thin I should like to know,
your honor, what they’ll find for me to do,
for I’m a grave-digger in this world."
—A watering-place correspondent sa; ■
that very few’bathers bathed at the West
End,” whereupon Mrs. Partington says
she “ had an idea that they bathed all
over.”
-A Micliigon farmer has 'written to
Mr. Berg to know if folding doors in hog
pens will be in fashion this winter.
—Gen. W. J. Hardee, another Confed
erate hero, died at Wytheville, Va., on
the 6th.
—The Supreme Court has before it a
case of the heirs of John Slidell, which
involves property to the amuuntof about
half a million dollars, comprising valua
ble real estate in the city of New Oi
leans, confiscated by the government du
ring the war.
—Gin-house of Dr. Irving, in Baldwin,
and seven bales of cotton, burned.
—Jas. Reynolds, Macon county, gin
house and eight bales burned.
—The number of gin-houses burned
since the 30tli of September will aver
age nearly one a day.
—The Virginius, engaged in shipping
supplies to the Cuban patriots, was cap
tured recently, and several of the officers,
including the notorious General Ryaj >
court-martialed and shot by the Span
iards.
—“You’ve been swimming,” said a fa
ther to his son.” “I hain’t.” “You have ;
your shirt’s on t’other side out.” “Pshawj!
that shirt got turned wrong side out get
ting over the fence.”
Among sundry “Maxims of Garrison
Life,” in a volume now in press, which
is designed especially for soldiers, we
observe many points worthy of atten
tion from every one, in whatever po
sition he may be placed. For exam
ple :
Be sure not to overrate your abilities,
but remember that your superior may at
any time stand at your elbow.
Do not distrust others without a most
just reason.
If you are married, respect no one so
cially who has not been duly courteous
to your family.
Be decided, kind, and polite in all
your official private relations.
Live within your income, and be just
in all your dealings.
Be faithful to your friends, and cau
tious with your enemies.
Never allow yourself to go in <h) bad
habit of grumbling or fault finding, but
be pleasant, agreeable, and cheemd in
all your duties.
Be careful, active, vigilant, and consid
erate in the execution of all your duties;
and above all be just to your inferi
ors.
If all persons, follow these “maxims, ’
the troubles of life would grow beauti
fully less.
A FRENCH WOMAN’S OPINION OF NEW
YORK.
A young French lady, just arrived from
Paris, seeing “Cafe Francaise” on the
windows of a small dining room in Sixth
avenue, New York, entered. On her arm
she carried a rich and expensive shawl,
and in her hand a valuable silver handled
silk umbrella. As she was unable to
reach the hook on the wall, a well dress
ed gentleman approached her, and po
litely bowing said, “Shall I take them
from you'?” Mademoisell blushingly said
“Yes,” and the waiter approaching at
the time she became engi-oseed in the bill
of fare.
On finishining her lunch she asked the
waiter for her shawl and umbrella. They
could not be found. Mademoiselle, pale
with excitement, tearfully exclaimed—
“On de virst day I coom to America, de
deeves took my portemonnaie. On de
second my shawl and parapluie. Mon
dieu! mon dieu! de Americans are big
I deeves. I sail go naked unless I go back
to Paris."
Gen. Hooker, in the late re-union of
the Army of the |Cumberland, paid
the following handsome tribute to the
Confederates:
“ Search the world over and you will
never find the like of them. I have had
an opportunity of seeing some of the ar
mies of Europe since then—the French,
Prussian and Austrian—and I tell you it
, will be down hill work to fight them com
-1 pared with our late foes. ”