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SCHNEIDER,
DEALER IN
WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
AUGUSTA, GA.
Agent for Fr.Schieifer & Co.’s San Francisco
CALIFORNIA. BRANDY.
RHQGffi CMCQOOTT CHAMPAGNE.
U. R. SCHNEIDER,
Augusta, Georgia.
E. H. ROGERS,
Importer and dealer in
RIFLES, GOES PISTOLS
And Pocket Cutlery,
Amm'tuition of all Kinds,
245 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, OA.
REPAIRING EXECUTED PROMPTLY
WH. HOWARD C. H. HOWARD. W. H. HOWARD, JR.
W. H. HOWARD & SONS,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
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COR. BAY AND JACKSON STS.,
AUGUSTA, GA.
Cemmissions for Selling Cotton Per Bale.
Bagging and Ties Furnished.
ORDERS TO SELL OR HOLD COTTON STRICTLY
OBEYED.
Particular attention given to Weighing Cotton.
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BUGGIES.
J. F l . A.XJXjD,
Carriage ||£anufact’R
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
BEST WORKMEN!
BEST WORK!
LOWEST PRICES!
Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O
Common Buggies - 8100.
REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITHING.
Work done in this line in the very best style.
The Best Harness
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NEW FIRmTnEW GOODS!
J H. DIM 5 BRd.
Are now opening in the northeast corner of the
Masonic building a fine stock of
DRY GOODS
Groceries, Provisions of all kinds
Hats, Shoes, Crockery, Table
and Pocket Cutlery.
In fict, everything usually kept in a first-class
Variety Store, which we propose to sell at the
lowest cash prices, or in exchange for country
produce. We respectfully solicit the patronage
of our friends and the public.
No Goods Delivered till Paid for.
•£• si, SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD
SWIFT & ARNOLD,
(Successors to T. M. Swift,)
dealers in
I>RY GOODS,
GROCERIES, CROCKERY, BOOTS AND
SHOES, HARDWARE, Ac.,
Piblic Square, ELBERYOUT CcA
H. K. CAIRDNER,
ELBERTON, GA„
DEALER IN
MY MODS. MOCMIES,
H ARD W ARE, CROCKERY,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS
Notions, &o
H. D. SCHMIDT,
DRAPER&TAILOR
ELBERTON, GA.
ggf Shop over the Store of Blackwell & Son.
Express Line
to Washington.
Running a regular mail from Elberton to Wash
ington. leave here Friday, and return Sat
urday, I am prepared to carry passen
gers or express packages either
way on accommodating terms.
11. C. EDMUNDS.
McCARTY & SHANNON,
GENERAL
INSURANCE
AGENTS,
ELBERTON GA.
THE GAZETTE.
ISTew Series.
WHICH WAS THE LOVER ?
“I!” said Susy, innocently. “I do
wish, Gilbert, you wouldn’t be so full of
whims and caprices. What have I done
now?”
Mr. Gilbert Armitage was the happy
man whom Miss Milner had promised
one day to marry. Happy in the prom
ise, with its far-off prospect of fulfill
ment, but unhappy in the thousand will
ful fancies of the beautiful enchantress.
He believed himself the luckiest individ
ual in creation, but there were a dozen
times a day when he was ready to hang
himßelf.
“It was last night at the ball," said he.
“Not that I care for Morse Jeming
ham—but it is the principle of the
thing.”
“Principle 1 principle!” she repeated
pettishly, “Oh, Gilbert, how tiresome
you are!”
“Susy, I have scarcely seen you in a
week!” remonstrated the young lover, a
dark line settling between his brows.—
“Between drives, sociables and dress
ing, I might as well not be engaged to
you.”
“That is exactly what I think myself,”
she said.
“What do you mean ?” asked he hot
ly-
“ Who, I mean that I am tired of being
scolded the whole time,” pouted Susy
Milner. “And I’m tired of our engage
ment. Mamma thinks that I can do bet
ter.”
He bit his lips, stung by the careless
ly uttered words.
“Do you really wish to be released
from our engagement, Susy?” he ask
ed.
“I really do,” she answered, half fright
ened at herself, half pleased at what she
had dared to utter.
“Then you are free !”
He turned abruptly on his heel and
left her.
“Let him go!” she cried aloud, with a
merry flirt of the sandal wood fan ’ that
she held. “There are plenty of others,
and lam pretty enough to win anew
swain for every day in the year, if I
choose. Morse Jerningham is not so
handsome and intelligent as Gilbert, but
Moi-se Jerningham is rich, and I always
thought that I should like to be a rich
man’s wife. So good by, sweetheart,
good-by.”
And Susy gayly waved her handker
chief toward the door through which her
swain had disappeared, and went into
her chamber chanting a little aria. Aunt
Margaretta was in her room, who thus
addressed her:
“You are in spirits, it seems, Susan
na.”
“So I am,” said Susy, confining the
masses of hair that fell in a shower of
gleaming, rippled gold down her back,
“of course I am, I’ve just dismissed a
lover.”
“Gilbert Armitage?”
“Yes.”
“I am glad to hear it,” said Aunt Mar
garetta. “Young Armitage was very
well, but he’s not as rich as some men,
and you are pretty enough, to do as you
please."
“Of course. I shall do as I please,”
said Susy.
The sun was just dipping like a ball of
molten gold, in the ocean that evening,
as Susy Milner came out in a superb
riding habit of blue cloth and a tiny
plumed hat, while in her hand she held a
coral-handled whip.
Two horses were led around to the
door by a groom at the same moment—
one white, with gray mane and tail; the
other a glittering bad, with an arched
neck and slender limbs.
Gilbert Armitage, who was pacing up
and kown the esplanade smoking a cigar,
stopped.
“You are going to ride Brown Diana,
Susy ?”
“Yes, I am. Mr. Jemingham says
she’s safe.”
“Safe! She’s wicked and skittish
both."
“I don’t believe it,” said Susy, saucily.
At all events, I am going to ride her this
evening.”
“Let me persuade you to alter your
resolution,” he cried out in the intensity
of his earnestness.
Susy Milner drew back slightly.
“You have no longer any right to speak
thus to me, Mr. Armitage.”
“I speak to you simply as I would to
my sisteo, my mother, or any other lady
whom I beheld rushing headlong into
i danger.”
ELBERTON, GEORGIA. FEBRUARY 25,1874.
At that moment Morse Jemingham
came out, all apologies for having kept
Miss Millner waiting even a second.—
Gilbert Armitage drew back, but a pain
ed look came over his face, as he saw Su
sy spring lightly to the saddle on Brown
Diana's back.
Aunt Margaretta was standing at her
window which overlooked the esplanade
and the ocean, just at dusk, when there
was a little crowd and commotion be
low.
“Something has happened, ’ said Aunt
Margaretta to herself. “I wonder whatf
O, my God! they are bringing a limp
lifeless figure up from the beach—and it
is our Susy !"
“Our Susy” it was. Brown Diana,
warranted “as safe as a kitten,” by Mr.
Jerningham, had taken fright at a load
of barrels in the twilight and thrown
her rider. Susy Milner had been picked
up lifeless and bruised, on a pile of rocks
that skirted the road, and now lay be
tween life and death, a broad gash across
her forehead, near all of her front teeth
knocked out, and an arm badly shatter
ed.
Poor Susy !if she had only followed
Gilbert Armitage’s advice that last
time!
“Let me have the looking-glass, Aunty!
I will have it, I say! Please, Aunt Mar
garetta !”
And the old dowager, not without
many misgivings, gave the little mirror
to her niece, as she sat among the pil
lows.
False teeth, false hair, a zig-zag scar
across her forehead, and the pallor of a
long burning fever replacing the bloom
of former days! Susy Milner shudder
ed.
“Oh!” she sobbed, as the mirror drop
ped from her hands. “I really hate my
self!”
“Susy ! Susy! don’t talk so !” broke
out the quivering voice of Gilbert Armi
tage, who was being admitted by Mrs.
Milner, for the first-inn*,
me the right to comfort and cherish
you. Only say, Susy, that you will be
mine.”
‘ ‘Oh, Gilbert! you cannot really love
a disfigured creature such as I now
am!”
He stood reverently by her bed-side
looking down on her pale, hollow eyed
face.
“i used to think I loved you, in old
times, Susy,” be said, “but I know now
that I never loved you half so much as I
do at this instant. Darling, you are my
Susy still!”
She was, in very truth, his Susy. The
beautiful Queen of Hearts was dead and
buried in the sunset of that August day;
but the loving tenier-souled woman liv
ed. And in her wifely troth Gilbert
Armitage was content, as both lives were
made happy.
A GOOD HIT.
Many of our readers will remember
the exciting controversy which arose, in
1845, between the governments of the
United States and Great Britain, con
certing the boundary line between Ore
gon and the Britiah territory. The
States claimed up to 54 degrees 40 North
latitude, while England would draw the
line at 42 degrees. The cry ot the hot
headed ones at Washington was, “Fifty
four forty, or fight!” Wise counsels,
however, at length prevailed. The Brit
ish Government, in ’46, proposed the
parallel of 49 degrees, which was finally
accepted.
While the controversy was yet warm,
the British Minister, Mr. Packenham,
was one day walking up to the Capitol,
and not far behind him was Mr. S ,
a member of Congress from the West.—
S , though a gentleman and a most
genial companion, was one of the beli
cose members. With him it was “Fifty
four-forty, or fight!” and nothing short
of it.
When near the Capitol a drunken man
intercepted the minister, and accosted
him:
“Say, old fellow, you are that British
Packenham, ain’t you ?—Yas —I know ye
be. Now look here, my old stump, just
you bear in mind ’at you don’t get one
single inch of that territory below fifty
four-forty. It’s a fight every time be
yond that!”
Mr. S came up, and nodded pleas
antlv to the minister.
“You will excuse that man,” he said.—
“•He’s drunk.”
“Certainly,” returned Mr. Packenham,
also pleasantly nodding. “Ne sober
man would ever make such a declaration
as that.”
LINES TO A SKELETON.
The following has been published and repub
lished, to our knowledge, for the last fifteen
years. It was published—in 1861, we believe
—in the “Star of the South;” and we are now
requested to publish again. The author is un
known, though a reward of fifty guineas was of
fered for his or her discovery. The lines were
found on a skeleton in the Museum of the Royal
College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn, Lincoln:
Behold this ruinl ’Twas a skull,
Once of ethereal spirit full:
This narrow cell was life’s retreat.
This space wa3 thought’s mysterious space.
What beauteous visions filled ’his spot!
What dreams of pleasure long forgot!
Nor hope nor joy, nor love nor fear,
Have left one trace of record here.
Beneath this mouldering canopy
Once shone the bright and busy eye;
But stare not at the dismal void;
If social love that eye employed—
If with no lawless fire it gleamed,
But through the dew of kindness beamed—
Thatcy* should be forever bright,
When stars and aun ar. sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready, swift and tuneful tongue.
If falsehood’s honey it disdained,
And where it could not praise was chained ;
If bold in virtue’s cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke,
This silent tongue shall plead for thee
When time unveils eternity.
Say, did these fingers delvt the mine?
Or without envied rubies shine ?
To hew the rock or wear the gem
Can little now avail to them.
But if the page of truth they sought,
Or comfort to the mourner brought,
These hands a richer meed shall claim
Thau all that wait on wealth or fame,
Avails it whether bare or shod,
These feet the paths of duty .rod ?
If from the halls of ease they fled
To seek affliction's humble shed ;
If grandeur’s guilty bribe they spurned,
And home to virtue’s cot returned,
These feet with angel’s wings shall vie,
And tread the palace of the sky.
THREE TIMES A DAY.
Boast as we may of our superiority
over brute creation, we cannot deny the
Tact that aTTeait Lalf bFour existence
half of that portion which slumber spares
us—is spent in pondering upon what we
hall eat, in preparing it, and devouring
it. After that, of course, we must di
gest, and woe to us if we do not spare
time for that process.
The housekeeper may have lofty aspi
rations, but she must deliberate between
the merits of beef and mutton, and con
sider the number of potatoes which will
be needed every morning. She must al
low her mind to be filled with considera
tions as to the pudding, and consult with
the cook about the tomatoes, or suffer
the agonies that assail the house-mistress
when a dish will not “go round.”
No sooner is dinner swallowed than
tea absorbs the soul. No sooner is tea
dispatched than the cook asks, “What’s
for breakfast?” Breakfast, lunch, and
dinner are the American woman’s anxie
ties. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea, and
supper follow the English woman through
the day.
And the man: Let him be ever so
busy, he grows hungry. He must feed
himself. He mast eat to live; even if he
cares not what he eats. It is a law of
Nature.
Byron did not like to see a woman
eat, though one never hears that he fast
ed himself. It is not a pretty sight.—
Fat cheeks bulge, and thin jaws work
unpleasantly. People talk with their
mouths full, and interrupt each other’s
brilliant speeches with:
“Hand me the pepper or, “Butter
please.”
The animal developes itself at the ta
ble, if anywhere, and we see that the
human being’s likeness to the pig is not
confined to the skeleton.
Alas! why is man so like the oyster
that the stomach is the largest pari of
him? Why were we not fed in some
way by divinely scattered manna ? Why
all this baking and boiling, and frying
broiling and gobbling. It is a mystery
not to be solved.
But in Heaven I think there will be no
eating—neither any drinking—l hope.—
No, I have no time to hope, for the cook
wants to know whether ? Yes; com
ing, cook. Good-by, Reader.
Mart Kyle Dallis.
GENUINE COMPLIMENTS.
We have heard of the lady of rare
beauty who said upon one occasion, that
the only real, disinterested compliment
she ever received was from a coal-heaver
who asked permission to light his pipe
in the gleaming of her eyes.
Another compliment, true and genu
ine, was paid by a sailor who was sent
by his captain to carry a letter to the la
dy of his love. The sailor, having deliv
ered the missive, stood gazing in silent
admiration upon the face of the lady, for
she was very beautiful.
“Well, my good man,” she said, “for
what do you wait ? There is no answer
to be returned.”
“Lady,” the sailor returned, with hum
ble deference, “I would like to know
your name."
“Did you not see it on this letter ?”
she asked
“Pardon, lady—l never learned how
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to read. Mine has been a bard, rough
life.”
“And for what reason, my good man,
would you know my name?” asked the
lady.
“Because,” answered the old tar, look
ing honestly up, “in a storm at sea, with
danger of death afore me, I would like
to call the name of the brigntest thing
I had ever, seen in all my life. There'd
be sunshine in it, even in the thick dark
ness.”
MACREADY PERPLEXED.
When Macready, the actor, first visit
ed this country, he found many things to
puzzle and perplex him, for he was as
precise and angular as was Mr. Grew
gious. The idioms and eccentricities of
the Yankees were beyond his compre
hension.
At one of our theatres where ho was
performing an engagement, he had oc
casion to find much fault with the sup
port iug actors, who were a free and-easy
set. Going to the manager on day, he
said:
“Mr. Manager, you have deceived me !
You have told me that which was not
true, sir!”
“Bless me !” cried the manager, in sur
prise, how so ?”
“About your supporting actors, sir.—
Did you not tell me that Mr. A was
on a high ?”
“Yes, that is exactly what I told you,
Mr. Macready.”
“And that Mr. S had a touch of
the tangle-foot?”
“Yes.”
“And that Mr. H had a brick in
his hat!”
“Aye—that was what I said,” replied
the manager.
“And in explanation of the conduct of
Mr. B you told me that he had a
snake in his boot ?”
“Certainly—l did.”
“Well, sir,” announced the great tra
gedian, in a most indignant and stern
manner, “I find, upon critical examina
tion, that these men are all drunk, sir !
Aye— all dbuok!”
DOG VERSUS BARK.
Old Muggins took the cars from the
Mountains by way of the Great Falls &
Conway Railroad. Muggins is a gentle
man, somewhat nervous, but always po
lite. In the seat behind him was a young
lady who held in her lap, or allowed to
sit beside her, a small, coarse-haired
bushy-headed dog. Toe dog yelped and
snarled, and barked almost continuous
ly, which did not appear to give the lady
any trouble at all. She seemed used to
it. Muggins tried to read, but in vain.
The canine din fretted him exceedingly.
He looked for a seat in a distant part of
the car, but could see none unoccupied.
At length he ventured to remonstrate.—
He turned and complained to the lady
of her annoyance.
“Bless me, I wonder that my dog can
annoy you. He is the admiration of ev
erybody. He is a real Peruvian," she
said.
“It isn’t the Peruvian dog that annoys
me, ma’am, it is the Peruvian bark,” re
plied Muggins.
Whether the dog detected vengeance
in Muggin’s eye, or not, we cannot say;
but shortly thereafter he curled up in
the lap of his mistress and went to sleep.
And Muggins read his paper.
STATE TAXES.
The following is the tax bill as per
fected and passed by the lower branch
of the General Assembly. It has prob
ably passed the Senate without material
alteration:
A Bill to be entitled an act to levy a
tax for the support of the Govern
ment for the year 1874, and to provide
for the collection of the same, and for
other purposes therein mentioned.
Section 1. The General Assembly of
the State of Georgia do enact, That His
Excellency, the Governor, be authorised
and empowered, with the assistance of
the Comptroller General, to assess and
levy such a per centage on the taxable
property in the State as will produce, in
the estimation of the Governor, the sum
of one million dollars, exclusive of spe
cific tax: Provided, That the rate of tax
shall not exceed four-tenths of one per
cent.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That in
addition to the ad valorem tax on real
and personal property, as required by the
Constitution, and as assessed in the pre
ceding section, the following specific taxes
shall be levied and collected:
One—Upon every practitioner of law,
medicine and dentistry, ten dollars.
Two—Upon every daguerrean, ambro
type and photographic, and similar ar
tists, fifteen dollars.
Three—Upon every person carrying
on the business of an auctioneer, twenty
five dollars.
Four—Upon every keeper of a pool,
or billiard table, kept for public use,
twenty-five dollars for each table. •
Five—Upon every keeper of a baga
telle table, kept for public play, twenty
five dollars for each table.
Six—Upon every keeper of any other
table stand or place, or any game or
play, with or without a name, unless
kept for exercise or amusement not pro
hibited by law, and not kept for gain, di
rectly or indirectly, ten dollars.
Seven —Upon every keeper of a ten
pin alley, or alley of like character kept
for public play, twenty-five dollar’s.
Eight—Upon all peddlers of patent
medicines, or other articles of like char
acter, the sum of fifty dollars for’ each
County in which they may peddle.
Nine—Upon each and every male in
habitant of this State, on the first day of
April, between the ages of twenty one and
sixty years, a poll tax of one dollar* for
educational purposes.
Ten—Upon all slight of hand perform
ers, magicians and negro minstrels, the
sum of twenty-five dollars for every per
formance in each and every county where
they may exhibit.
Eleven—Upon all circus companies,
two hundred dollars for each day they
may exhibit in cities, towns and counties,
containing a population of more than ten
thousand inhabitants, and one hundred
dollars in cities, towns and counties,
containing a population of more than
five thousand inhabitants, and less than
ten thousand, and fifty dollars in all ci
ties, towns and counties, with a popula
tion under five thousand inhabitants.
Twelve—Upon all show’s or exhibi
tions, except for literary or charitable
purposes, in this State, the sum of twen
ty-five dollars, for each and every county
where such shows may be exhibited.
Upon each agent of an insurance com
pany doing business in this State, sls.
Upon each sewing machine company,
selling machines by themselves or agents,
$lO.
Thirteen —That all railroad companies
incorporated in this State shall pay a tax
of one-half of one per cent, on their net
earnings, and the president or superin
tendent of each and every railroad com
pany shall return, under oath, quarterly
to the Comptroller General an account
gross receipts, and the taxes herein lev
ied shall be paid to the Comptroller Gen
eral on or before the first day of Decem
ber, each year.
Fourteen —That all homo and foreign
Insurance Companies doing business in
this State shall pay one per cent, on all
premiums in money or otherwise received
by them, and in addition to the tax here
in imposed upon gross receipts of insur
ance companies, as well as all bnilding
and loan associations doing banking or
other business in this State, shall be
taxed upon their capital in the same
manner and at the same rate as herein
provided for banks and banking.
Fifteen—That all Express and Tele
graph, Sleeping and Palace Car Compa
nies doing business in thic State, shall
pay a tax of one per cent, on their gross
receipts.
Sixteen—That the President of all
Banking Companies, Manufacturing Com
panies, and other incorporated compa
nies other than Railroad, Insurance, Tel
egraph and Express Companies, shall bo
required to return all the property what
ever of their respective companies at its
true market value. To be estimated at
the aggregate value of the share of
stock—in no case to be considered less
than the highest amount of capital siook
actually paid into such corporation—to
the Tax Receiver of the county where
the same is located, or where the princi
pal business of such company is located,
to be taxed for State purposes, and coun
ty purposes also, as other property in
this State. Provided tins action shall
not apply to any company heretofore ex
empted from taxation.
Seventeen—That the president or prin
cipal agent of all the incorporated com
panies herein mentioned, except such as
are required to make return to County
Tax Receivers, shall make returns for tax
ation to the Comptroller General, under
the rules and regulations provided by
law for such returns to the Comptroller
General, and subject to the same penal
ties and modes of procedure, for the en
forcement of taxes from companies or
persons required by law to mako return
to the Comptroller General.
Eighteen—That the oath to be admin
istered to all persons making return of
their taxable property shall be in the
words following:
“You do solemnly swear that you will
true answers make to all lawful questions
which I may put to you touching the re
turn that you are about to make, and
that you will make a true return of all
your taxable property, at its market val
ue on the first day of April preceding, to
the best of your knowledge and belief.
So help you God.”
And it shall be the duty of the officer
receiving such return to inquire of each
and every person taking said oath touch
ing all of his taxable property, and the
market value of the same, and his liabil
ity for specific taxes as named in this act,
and to propound the questions which
may be published by the Comptroller
General under the law for the purpose
of eliciting full and true tax returns.
Nineteen—That all taxesss aessed un
der this act shall be collected in United
States for National Bank currency, and
the value of the property taxed on the
first day of April next, in such currency,
shall be the basis of the taxes.
Twenty—That nothing in this act shall
be construed to affect the exemptions
provided for in section 798 of the second
edition of the Revised Code, except that
portion of paragraph 13 of said section,
exempting two hundred dollars’ worth of
the property of every tax payer from tax
ation, which provision is hereby repealed,
provided that nothing in this act shall
be construed to effect the exemptions
heretofore made in favor of mining and
manufacturing companies.
Twenty-one—That no assessment shall
be made for corporation or county pur
poses on the specific taxes herein im
posed, on practitioners of law, medicine,
dentistry, and photography; provided
this section shall apply to all who prac
tice and charge for the same.
Twenty-two—That the Comptroller
General is authorised and empowered to
order the Tax Receivers of this State to
commence receiving the returns taxable
property immediately after the first day
of April, of the year 1874; and that the
Comptroller General is empowered and
required to cause the taxes to be collect
ed by the 15th day of December next-