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SCH^IDER,
DEALER IN
WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
AUGUSTA, GA.
Agent for Fr. Schleifer ft Co.’s San Francisco
CALIFORNIA BRANDY.
miQOifi ELIfiQHQTT CHAMPAGNE.
E. R. SCHNEIDER,
Augusta, Georgia.
E. 11. ROGERS,
Importer and dealer in
RIFLES, GUNS PISTOLS
And Pocket Cutlery,
Ammunition of all Kinds,
245 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
REPAIRING EXECUTED PROMPTLY
VT.n. HOWARD C.H. HOWARD. W.H. HOWARD, JR.
W. H. HOWARD & SONS,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
mn mum
COR. BAY AND JACKSON STS.,
AVGUSTA, GA.
Commissions for Selling Cotton $1 Per Bale.
Bagging and Ties Furnished.
ORDERS TO SELL OR HOLD COTTON STRICTLY
OBEYED.
Particular attention given to Weighing Cotton.
(BUtnlou Ouvtte.
LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES.
J. F. A-XJXjD,
(3|]aREIAGe|||ANUFACT’R
ELUCBTOS, GEORGIA.
BEST WORKMEN!
BEST WORK! •
. LOWESJ, PRICES!
* (Jd'od Ba'ggias, 'warrantad, %*25 to SISO
Common Buggies ... SIOO.
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REPAIRING ANDBLACKSMITIIING.
Work done in this line in the very best style.
The Best Harness
My22-1y
3. IT. DUNCAN. J. A. V. DUNCAN.
NEW EIRmTnEW GOODS!
J. H. DIM i BRO..
Are now opening in the northeast corner of tho
Masonic building a fine stock of
DRY GOODS
Groceries, Provisions of all kinds
Hats, Shoes, Crockery, Table
and Pocket Cutlery.
In ftct, 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 friend.*. and the public.
No Goods Delivered till Paid for.
X - M. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD
SWIFT & ARNOLD,
(Successors to T. M. Swift,)
dkalkrs in
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, CROCKERY, BOOTS AND
SHOES, HARDWARE, Ac.,
Public Square, ELBERTOS GA,
H. K. CAIRDIMER,
ELBERTON, GA., *
DEALER IN
BIY 601S. SRDCERIIK,
HARDWARE, CROCKERY,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS
Notions, &c*
H. D. SCHMIDT,
DRAPER&TAILOR
ELBERTON, GA.
fligr-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, lam prepared to carry pessen
gp.rs or express packages either
wav on accommodating terms.
11. C. EDMUNDS.
McCARTY & shannon,
GENERAL
INSURANCE
AGENTS,
ELBERTON. GA.
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THE BETTER PART.
Is it when the fount of feeling
Rises to the brink, revealing
Burning thoughts the breast concealing
Presses inward on the heart;
• Or is it when the stream is lower;
When the impulses are slower;
When the judgment goes before,
That we act the better part?
If the human mind was pure ;
If the friends we meet were truer;
If uncandid hearts were fewer,
I should say, let impulse reign.
But the human mind is bare
Of pure thoughts, and friends declare
That the candid hesrt is rare
And prevarication gain.
Let us pray that God will s nd us
One pure soul; that He will blend us
Two in purpose and defen I us
In temptation and unrest.
Then the fountain may run over,
Purifying loved and lover;
And of feelings we discover
Will the warmest be the best.
~palse'or true.
“Depend upon it, my dear, he is an
impostor,” said Aunt Myrtilla.
She was sitting in the roomy old
fashioned farm kitchen, where the sun
shine photographed tho small window
in squares of light on the floor, and the
dresser shelves looked liko the dainty
furniture of a doll’s house, while the
wooden clock, half a century old, ticked
peacefully away behind the bower of sil
ver-southernwood and asparagus, and
the tea-kettle hummed a cherry accom
paniment. .
Aunt Myrtilla was stoning cherries, her
fingers purple with the blood of the
shining fruit, her spectacles nicely bal
anced on her organs of “casualty.” And
her neice Bernice—for shortness railed
Berry—was washing china in a little blue
wooden tub, with a miniature mop, which
she whisked and splashed about in a
“housekeeping” fashion.
“Depend upon it, ray dear,” Aunt Myr
tilla was gravely enunciating, “he is an
impostor.”
“That’s what you say about all of ’em,
aunty,” said Berry, with a shrug of her
shoulders.
‘•And it’s true, my dear,” said Aunt
Myrtilla. “Men and currant jelly are
alike. You never know how they are go
ing to turn out."
“How do you know, aunty ?” saucily
demanded Berry. “You never were
married.”
“No, and I never mean to be,” said
Myrtilla tartly. “None of your smoking,
stamping, muddy-footed creeturs about
me! I never had an offer, thank the
Lord ; but if I should, I trust that I
would have common-sense enough to say
No.”
“That hasn’t got anything to do with
my affairs,” said Berry. “Mi’. Elsley is
very handsome, stylish and agreeable,
and I like him. I mean to marry him
too.”
“Berry!”
“Well, why not, Aunt Myrtilla ? Here
I am eighteen years old, and am able to
judge for myself.” A
“But what do you know about him,
my dear Berry?” sagely demanded the
elder.
“What do I know about anybody, if it
comes to that ?” pouted the young la
dy-
“ Yes, yes, child ; but if it was Hugh
Corey or Joseph Smithson, or any of the
other young men born in this neighbor
hood—”
“Horrid bores, every one of ’em!” said
Berry.
“ But here is a perfect stranger, come
to board at Desire Dutton’s, to sketch
and paint and loaf around for his health-
That looks suspicious on the very face of
it. And there’s no sort of doubt but he
has heard of the hundred dollars, and
the six silver table-spoons and six silver
teas, that your Uncle Ebon promises to
give to you, if you behave yourself prop
erly, and means to marry you for your
property.”
“Nonsense, Aunt Myrtilla,” laughed
the yonng girl, diving down to the bot
tom of the tub after one of the very iden
tical “silver teas” in question, while the
brown ringlets danced about her pretty
brow, and the dewy violet eyes sparkled
with ill-concealed mirth. “You should
not talk so about Mr. Elesley.”
Aunt Myrtilla brought a deep-feeling
groan.
“He’s very extravagant in his habits,”
said she. “Desire Dutton says he wears
a clean linen collar every day, and a
clean handkerchief, no matter if the old
one isn’t soiled a'whit. Think of the
EL.BERTON, GEORGIA, MARCH 4*1874.
week’s washing,"my deaFTSerry! And
a fresh napkin at every meal, and a sil
ver fork.”
“Quite dreadful,” said she, with glit
tering eyes of mischief.
“And Desire thinks he dyes his hair,”
went on the Aunt Myrtilla, and—”
“Nonsense,” cried Berry. “I don’t be
ieve a word of it.. He is true all the
way through, or I should never have lis
tened to him.”
“And I’ve thought all along his teeth
were too white and even to be real,” said
Aunt Myrtilla maliciously, “though the"
do make such things dreadful natural
now-a-days.”
Bernice Nellis turned around, with a
disturbed look upon her face.
“Aunt Myrtilla,” said she, “if I tadjHt
ed he could be false, even in one siqjjflj]
respect, I should despise him with aslUj
heart.”
And she swept out of the room leaving
the china half washed. Aunt Myrtilla
chuckled to herself, as she took up a
large milk pan filled with ch< rries to
stone.
“We’ll circumvent him yet,” said the
old maid to herself. “Not that I’ve got
anything special against Richard Elsley
in partic’lar, but I don’t approve of get
tin’ married any way. Men ain’t worth
it; and if all the gals ware of my opin
ion, they’d soon find their level. Berry's
better off here to home with me and her
uncle Eben.”
The tea-table was just cleared off that
evening, and Bernice, with her straw hat
tied over her ears, and a little white mus
lin scarf thrown over her shoulders, was
setting off for a pleasant twilight stroll
throuffli the fragant aisles of the cool
July woods, when the accent of an unu
sual voice in the keeping-room struck. on
her ear.
“I wonder who that is ?” said Berry to
herself. “It must be—it is, Desire Dut
ton!”
Just then the door opened, 2nd Aani)
Myrtilla called out:
“Berry ! Berry! Bernice ! where are
you ?”
“I am here, Aunt Myrtilla," answered
Berry.
“Just you come here. We have found
him out. We’ve settled hime—me and
Desire.”
“Found whom out ? Settled whom ?”
questioned Berry, with a singular com
mingling of laughter and vexation about
her voice and brow and violet shining
eyes.
Desire Dutton, a tall, lank old maid,
with fishy blue eyes, a knot of hair
tightly pinned at the back of her head,
and wrinkles of exclamation and interro
gation all over her long face, sat close to
the window, with a paper in her hand.—
Fat, cozy Aunt Myrtilla, Whose double
chin shook like a mould of jelly at every
motion bent over her. And Berry, in
the door-way, near by, looked from one
to the other with a mute and inquiring
glance.
“He wears a wig!” shrieked Aunt Myr
tilla. “Three of ’em.”
“He wears false whiskers!” croaked
Desire.
“I knew he was an impostor,” said
Aunt Myrtilla.
“A designing villain! I wouldn’t mar
ry him not to be made Queen of Eng
land !” breathlessly added Miss Desire,
whose general style certainly would not
-have added much grace to the steps of a
throne.
“But where is the proof of all this ?’’
asked Bernice, a little bewildered. And
Aunt Myrtilla held up a crumpled bit of
paper.
“One of his bills!” she gasped. “Miss
Desire has just found it under the ta
ble. Read; only read, and you will be
convinced.”
And Bernice reads:
“To J. Mylett, Hair-dresser, etc.
Me. R. J. Elsley,
To three "Wigs $3 00
“ “ Whiskers 275
Received payment,
J. Mylett."
“There,” echoed Miss Dutton, in a
sort of gruff contralto.
“Well," cried Berry, tossing back her
ringlets, and hoisting the crimson signal
of defiance on both fair cheeks, “what of
it ? What all this matter to me, I
don’t care.”
And the two old maids were tempora
rily silenced at this sudden turning to
bay of their prey.
“If he chooses to wear sixteen pairs
of whiskers at one time, and all of ’em
false, it’s nothing to me,” added Berry.
And then, with a singular inconsistency
began to cry.
I “You will never see him again, Berry,
n?y coax
“Never! never!” sobbeand
“And I believed him so good—so true—
So noble!”
“jfctid you really believe that of me,
dearest?”
All three started at the sound of Mr.
Elsley’s cairn, perfectly modulated voice
-—Berry most of all.
p “Go away, man!” screamed Aunt Myr
tilla, hovering over her niece like an old
hen over a brood of hawk-threatened
chickens.
“Take your false whiskers away from
here, and your wigs !” cried Miss De
! sire.
r “Is this bill yours, sir 1” said Berry,
with all the dignity she knew how to
muster.
“Yes, it is mile,” said Mr Elsliv, com
ing up to her. “Bub I give you leave,”
with a laughing tug at his brown curly
hair and silken beard, “to test yourself
whether or not my hair and whiskers are
ginuine.”
“But this bill ?”
“The bill is perfectly accurate. Only
the wigs and whiskers were hired last
winter to complete the costumes of some
friends at a private theatrical in Phila
delphia, in which I enacted the part of
‘venerable father’ with beard and tresses
of flowing silver.”
“There!” cried Berry, triumphant in
her turn, as she suffered Mr. Elsley to
clasp her in his arms. “I was right. I
knew he was true and genuine. And I
will marry him.”
Which she did, much to the disgust of
Aunt Myrtilla and her ally, Miss Desire
Dutton. And what is more, she persist
ed in being radiantly, offensively happy
in her new relation, instead, as Aunt
Myrtilla prophesied, coming home in a
“Upon my word, I don’t understand it
at all,” said Aunt Myrtilla.
And it is not at all likely that she ever
did.
THE LAST NIGHT ON EARTH.
There is sometliing perfectly awful in
the contemplation of the last night on
earth to a man docmed to be executed
on the moiTow.
A natural death can be looked forward
to with very different feelings. It is
known to be inevitable, and we do not
regard it as anything which we have
brought upon ourselves.
But a person sentenced to be execu
ted for a crime—with what terrible re
morse, with what bitterness and intensi
ty of regret, must he recall the unfor
tunate fatal act which he is obliged to
suffer.
He now realizes, which he did not at
the time of its commission, how it in
volves others as well as himself, and how
terrible has been his mistake.
He is closely watcLed, not so much
to prevent escape, which is known to be
impossible, as to guard against the pos
sibility of suicide.
Self-destruction! It has come to this
pass at last, that the officers of the law
act upon the presumption that a man
will take his own life, if he can, to avoid
the execution in the presence of witness
es, provided by the law !
Is it not dreadful to think of such a
condition!
The weary hours—weary with the
fearful anxiety—but quick as thought in
their passage, because they are so few,
either in sleeping or waking. If he sleep,
it is probably to dream of death on the
gallows. If he wake, it is but to find
his dream the dread shadow of the reali
ty-
What a last night on earth !
The Ways and Means Committee of
the United States House of Representa-
tives has discovered a comma in the tariff
bill of August, 1872, which has cost the
government $2,000,000. In that bill,
among other things included in the free
list, were fruit plants, tropical and semi
tropical, for the purposes of propagation
and cultivation. In engrossing the bill
or in tbe process of copyiug it for official
printing, a comma was inserted after
“fruit,” and all fruit was thereby placed
upon the free list. The customs officers,
however, not noticing the change contin
ued to collect duties on fruit until the er
ror was discovered. The Ways and
Means Committee have agreed to report
a bill to remove the comma in accordance
with the intent of the law of 1872. The
amount of tax illegally collected is not
far from $2,000,000.
Vol. lI.—No. 44.
WHAT I KNOW ABOUT FARMING.
BY A PRINTER.
Now the winter is here, it would per
haps be as well to discontinue haying and
turn your attention to getting in your
fall saw*l?>gs. No farmer can d&ftsider
his fall crop complete until he has lya
cedar supplied with saw-logs. Seated
around the blazing hearth of a winter’s
night there is no fruit more delicious.
A correspoLdent asks us what we think
of late plowing? Plowing should not be
continued later than 10 or 11 o'clock at
night. It gets the horses in the habit
of staying out late; and unduly exposes
the plow. We have known plows to ac
quire string halt and inflammatory sheu
tasm from late plowing. Don't do it.
To another correspondent who wants
us to snggest a good drain upon a farm,
we would say, a heavy mortgage at ten
per cent, will drain it about as rapidly as
anything we know of.
When you make cider select n /thing
but the soundest turnips, chopping them
into sled lengths before cradling them.
In boiling your cider use plenty of ice,
and when boiled, bang up in the sun to
dry.
A pick axe should never be used in
picking apples. It hss a tendency to
break down the vines and damage the
hive.
In sowing your winter apple-jack a
horse will be forrad preferable to a step
ladder; step-ladders are liable to freeze
up, and are hardly palatable unless boiled
with sugar.
In cutting down hemlock trees for can
ning, select the largest. Don’t throw
away the chips, as they make fine parlor
ornaments, encased in rustic frames
Add a little salt and vinegar.
The present cold weather should sug
gest to the humane farmer the necessity
for a good cow shed. The following is a
good receipt for making a Cow shed:
Pour a pail full of boiling hot water
on her back, and if that don’t make a
good cow shed—her hair—we are no pro
phets to anybody.
Now is the time for planting your win
ter hay. The pink-eyed Southdown is
probably the best variety, as it don’t need
polling, and begins to lay early.
ON A MISSION.
—-Brother Bftdyar was rather taken aback
a few Sundays since. Brother Bawlger
is senior deacon of the crack church in
Raybridge, and Brother Badger owns a
great deal of property in Raybiidge,
and is very loud in his praises of the
town. He would advise everybody and
everybody’s relatives, to come and set
tle in that peaceful, moral, and beautiful
municipality; and, to further so laudable
an end, he would sell them land upon
which to build.
It was Sunday evening, and at the
close of the prayer-meeting Parson Lo
gos, who is the settled pastor of the
crack church of Raybridge, informed his
friends that Rev. Mr. Swan, of Lakeside,
would supply his pulpit on the follow
ing Sabbath ; and he gave as a reason
for the exchange that he himself should
have no time to prepare a sermon, as
he was going on a mission to the Heath
en.
The assembly were in consternation.
They loved their pastor, and did not wish
to part with him.
Brother Badger arose, and addressed
the minister openly. He was surprised
and pained.
“Wherefore ?” asked the crack church
pastor.
“That you, whom we so love and re
spect, should make ready for doing such
a thing without giving us more warn,
ing.”
“Doing what thing, Brother Badger ?"
asked he.
“Going off to the Heathen, sir,” said
Badger.
“Why, bless you, brother, I am not go
ing out of town.”
OUT 01 DOORS.
Live out doors as much as you can—
It is the place for a man to be. It is
good for the health. A distinguished
physician was in the habit of saying,
“However bad the air may be out-doors,
it is worse in the house.”
“It is good for the temper. People
who are always shut up in a house are
apt to grow fretful and peevish. They
are prone to acquire narrow views of
things, and to worrry over trials not
worth considering.
It is good for the whole character;
for strength, hope, patience, health and
fortitude. It expands and tends to soft
en one’s nature, and makes us more char
itable.
Always live outdoors as much as you
can.
A man in San Francisco was lately
charged with selling his daughter to an
organ grinder.
CURRENT NOTES.
A Boston butcher found two ladies'
belt buckles iu a cow’s stomach, but
couldn’t find the ladies.
Cincinnati Commercial: “The trade
in cork-screws for private use is said to
be rapidly increasing.”
Mrs. Smith says her husband is like a
tallow candle, because he always will
smoke when he is going out.
The following advertisement is posted
near a western depot on the front of a
restaurant: “Lunch, 25 cents; dinner,
50; a real gorge, 75 cts.”
Gaines Chisholm shot Penn Bedell in
Atlanta on the 19th. Bedell had previ
ously knocked Chisholm down, and was
returning from the station housrt in
charge of an officer, when he was shot
by Chisholm. Both were gamblers.
Tho legal fee for registering letters
formerly fifteen cents, is now but eight
cents. The reduction was made on the
Ist of January.
We have been informed that a pairor
lovers will sit up half the night and not
use as much kerosene as the family uses
in an hour during tho evening.
“Gracious me!” exclaimed an old lady
in a witness box, “how should I know
anything about anything I don’t know
anything about.”
“Came to his death while being hit
on the head with a long-tailed stew-pan
in the hands of his wife,” was the ver
dict in a recent case in Illinois.
Tvo deaf mutes were recently arrest
ed in Atlanta for making a disturbance
while drunk. It is difficult to imagine
what kind of a disturbance they could
have made.
“You have lost all your teeth,” slid a
trav- ler to a beggar.
“It was time to lose ’em,” was the re
ply-
“ Why ?”
“Because I could get nothing for ’em
to work on.”
A little boy carrying home some eggs
from the grocery, dropped them on the
way.
“Did you break ally?” asked his moth
er.
“No, raa ; but tho shells came off of
some of 'em.”
A Kentucky legislator was recently
missing for three days. The fourth
found him back in his seat. To the in •
quiries of friends ho replied that he had
been sick. Being asked what the matter
was, “Well,” said he, “some folks call it
nervous chills, others pronounce it a
kind of affection of tho heart, but, to bo
candid, I call it a plain case of old-fash
ioned drunk.”
“ Pa,” said a Baltimore boy, “ what is
Mardi-gras they are talking so much
tionaryi” The boy ribbed and saw—
“ Shrove Tuesday—the Tuesday follow
ing Quainquagesima Sunday, and pre
ceding Ash Wednesday.” Then he knew
all about it.
Never put a particle of soap about
your silver if you wish it to retain its
original lustre. When it wants polish
take a piece of soft leather and whiting
and rub hard. The proprietor of one
of the oldest silver establishments in the
city of Philadelphia says that “ house
keepers ruin their silver by washing it
in soapsuds, as it makes it look like pew
ter.”
A southern poet tells how a St. Louis
lover gave up a match with a $50,000
heiress, because she objected to his smo
king :
This maid, as by tho papers doth appear,
Whom fifty thousand dollars made so dear,
To test Lothario’s passion, simply said:
“Forego the weed, before we go to wed :
For smoke take flame—l’ll be that flame’s bright
fanner.
To have your Anna, give up your Havana;'’
But he, when thus she brought him to tho
scratch,
Lit his cigar and threw away his match.
In the House, the Committee on Judi
ciary, have made a report in which thoy
say that as all other property and rights
of property of persons engaged in the
late rebellion, have by general acts of am
nesty laws in United States been exemp
ted from confiscation, there can be no
reason for now retaining on the statute
book such acts and parts of acts as were
very properly enacted to prevent aid and
comfort to the enemy of the United States
during the war, which, by their impedi
ment to the creditors of the United
States in receiving their just duos,
amount to confiscation thereof, and also
such acts to the same effect which were
passed to hinder and prevent disloyal
persons whose disabilities had not then
been removed because of their partici
pation in the rebellion, from making any
claims not arising out of the rebellion
prior thereto, should also be replaced.
The committee therefore report a bill
repealing the joint resolution of March 2,
1866, prohibiting the payment of debts
due by the United States before the war,
unless loyalty is proved, and repealing
the oath at present required of appli
cants for pensions.
The French government, acting on the
recommendation of the committee on
fortifications, has determined to keep
for the next five years 5,000 pairs of car
rier pigeons for breeding purposes for
service in war time. Each fortress
will have a military pigeon-house, and
each pigeon-house will contain 1,000
birds. Two general stations will be es
tablished, at each of which 60,000 pi
geons will be kept. The German for
tresses at Metz and Strasburg have been
for a year past connected with the other
German forts bv a system of carrier pi
zesns.