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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. * S 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. >rTY fT*f% tv r / r v r v it 111 Hi li A /j Vj 11 H. ISTew ja*^;ies. 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.