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ftupsta gusincss Cards. SCHNEIDER^ DEALERIN WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS •AUGUSTA, OA. Agant for Fr. Schleifer & Co.’s San Francisco CALIFORNIA. BRANDY. HHDGffi CUCQUGTT EHAMPASHB. E. R. SCHNEIDER, Augusta, Georgia. (Elberton §usiitfss Cards. UShTcl^^ J. F. ATILD, Carriage |||amfact’r 12(.BURTON, GEORGIA. BEST WORKMEN! BEST WORK! LOWEST PRICES! Good Baggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O Common Buggies - SIOO. REPAIRING AND BLACKS.MITHING. Work done in this line in the very best style. The Best Harness My22-1v H. K. CAIRDNER, ELBERTON, GA., DEALER IN MY EDIK. (lOCIIIIS. HARD W ARE, CROCKERY, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS Notions, &e* T. M. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD SWIFT & ARNOLD;- (Successors to T. M. Swift,) DEaI.KRS in DRif GOODS, GROCERIES, GHOOKERY, BOOTS AND SIIOES'fnARDWARE, &c., Public Square, ELBERTOSI GA. wm Hi “o -r qtt \ xrxro^ ■P '■ Jc • t) • . 5 Saddler & Harness Maker Is fully prepared to manufacture HARNESS, TinTiri icq BRIDLES, SADDLES, At the shortest notice, in the best manner, and on reasonable terms. Shop at John S. Brown’s Old Stand. ORDERS SOLICITED. S. N. CARPENTER. ATT OK NEY AT LAW, ELBERTON, G A. 8^”Will practice in the Northern Circuit. Special attention given to the collection ot claims. _ BOOTS & SHOES. The undersigned respectfully an noonces to the people of Elberton and surrounding country that lie has opened a first class Boot and Shoe SHOF IN ELBERTON Where he is prepared to make any style of Boot or Shoe desired, at short notice and with prompt ness. REPAIRING NEATLY EXECUTED, The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. *p.29-tf CJ. W. GARRECIIT. ANDREW MALE HIGH SCHOuL ELBEBTON, GA. P. K DATANT, A M.; - - riineipal. Th* next term will commence January 25, 1875. BATES OF TUITION. lit class per term of G months sl6 00 Id “ “ “ “ 22 00 u <i “ “ 31 Oo One-half pa;/able in Advance. Thesi rates apply only for the full term. Pu pils entering for shorter periods will be charged 85 per cent, higher. No deduction made for absence except for proridential causes Board in good families at 12.50 per month. P K. DAY ANT, A. M., Principal ELBERTuN FEMALE COLLEGIATt INSTITUTE rpHB exercises of this institute will be resum- X and on Monday, January 25, 1874. RATES OF TUITION. Ist term 6 mouths. Primary Department sl6 00 Id class, embracing Geography, Arithme tic, English Grammar 22 00 3d class, Languages, Mathematics or Higher English Branches 31 00 One-half playable in Advance These rates apply only for the full term. Pupils entering for shorter periods will be charged 25 per cent higher No deduction made for absence except tor providential causes Mils liAtinx Loftox will assist in the educa tional department. Mrs. Hester will continue in charge of the music. . Poard iu th* best families can be obtained at $13,58 per *otb. . . , . P. SIMS, Principal- THE GAZETTE. New Series. “GOING TO MARIA." Just at this time there is a lively eompeti tion among railroad ticket agents to se cure travel‘over their respective lines. Rates east have been cut, travels have in creased in consequence, and each west ern road wants to have its full share. Yesterday a portly, pleasant looking old gentleman came in on the train from the North and started up Francis street, carpet sack in hand. He 'was evidently a farmer, and probably belonged to the grangers. At this precise juncture L. M. Dunn, ticket agent of the St Louis, Kansas City and Northern line, happened to-be glancing out of his window, and savr the traveller and his carpet sack. He met him half way between Long Branch and the Pacific, and commenced as follows: “Going east, sir?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Ah! Step right up to the Union ticket office. Great through line, sir. Land in New York sixteen hours in ad vance of any other route. Chicken three times a day, and beds free from ver min. Butter on two plates, and molas ses all over the table. Come right along, sir.” The innocent countryman walked alo~g a few steps, when Major J. B. Laughlin, ticket agent of the Hannibal and St. Louis railroad, greeted hiui affectionate ly with: “Going east, sir ?’.’ “Yes,” again. “Glad to meet you. Step right into the office. Shortest ’ine by thirty three miles and a half to New York; put you in there nine hours ahead of auy other line. Finest eating houses in the world. Soup three times a day and, fleas expell ed from the sleepers daily. Coine in sir." Before the astonished countryman could recover from his bewilderment at these sudden and unexpected manifestations of interest in his welfare, Dan Mountain, of the Kansas City, Joseph and Council Bluffs, tackled him with: “Going east, sir?” “D—n it, yes,” (rather curtly.) “I am just the man you want to see. Come along with me. Office “not on the corner.” Best and shortest route by a long shot to any point. Put you through in a jiffy. Splendid sleepers and codfish balls for breakfast. Con ductors all of pious and respectable pa rentage* yand fires kept up Come along, six * Thfe unfortunate’Tuan completely dumufouuded, and before ho could re cover Laughlin him by one arm, Mountain by the other, while Dunn clungt iglitly to his coat tail, and he was hustled into tho Hannibal and St. Joe office, where another parley took place. “What point are you going to?” was asked by three disinterested individuals simultaneously. “Goin, to Maria.” Instantly three railroad maps were jerked out, and for full fifteen minutes, three pairs of eyes inspected them close ly. Then each of said pairs of eyes looked at the other, and finally all settled on the gentleman from the rural die tricts. Then the question was asked by three persons: “Where is Maria ?" “Where’s Maria! Why I s’pose she's to hum. Maria’s my wife, and lives six miles east of town, and if I didn’t want to go to her, where would I want to go to 1" Three railroad maps wore put up quicker than lightning, and in less than two minutes’ time Dunn was seated in his office consulting an abominable old pipe. Dan Mountain was busily engaged in admiring Lou Thompson’s magnifi cent new iour-story plug hat, and Major Laughlin was calmly contemplating the prospective arrival of the next street car. The man bound for “Maria” left on one of Fish & Hutchison’s sleighs. [St. Joseph Herald. For the Gazette.] A WILD MAN NEAR RUOKERSVILLE. After tbe Americans had shaken off the galling yoke of Britain and achieved great victories, and were lauded to the j skies for their military prowess, one of the old war worn veterans was asked if he had three wishes what he would wish for. It was a very grave question and required much brain work for him to de cide One would be apt to think that as the old soldier had suffered cold, hun ger, and nakedness during seven long years that he valued liberty more highly than any earthly blessing, and that his first wish would be that monarchy might be abolished throughout the world, and that all people might be the happy recip ients of blessed freedom. But that was not his first wish. Was it that he might have large possessions of lands and ser vants ? Not at all. Was it that he might be the President and be the observed of all observers'? No indeed. Was it that he might be possessor of much learning and sway the nation by his pen ? It was not. Was it that the tomahawk might be buried throughout the world, and that peace and good will might abound amongst all mankind? Ah, no. Now, friedns, if you will guess till next week what his second wish was, I will inform you what his first one was, and I am sorry to have to pen such a wish from such a man. His first wish was, “that all the rivers might run rum!” One. “Your money or your books!” re marked a highwayman at the Custom House. ESTABLISHED 1859. ELBERTON, GEORGIA, MARCH 24.1875.^ TWO BROKEN HEARTS. The Paris Figaro tells the following j French story : In 1870 a young Frenchman, the Count George de Meyrac, married a beautiful girl of his own station in life, Mathilde who was very much in love with him. All went well, and the two was very happy in their devotions to each other. They were fond of the ; theatre, and every one just at that time was enraptured with anew actress, Rosi ta, who took the principal rolen iii the dubious dramas of the Dumas school.— The newly-wedded pair often went to Rosita’s theatre, until the Countess! thought her husband’s eyes lingered too fondly on the actress, rnd began to feel pangs of jealousy. Frou Frou was one of Rosita’s best impersonations, and on her farewell night she appeared by re quest in that character. The Jockey Club, of which George de Meyrac was Vice President, gave her a supper ofter the play. George, of course, was present, and sat by the side of the facinating Rosita, who was surrounded with boquets. Wine flowed freely, and mirth and wit enlivened the banquet un til 3 o’clock in the morning. Meanwhile the poor wife, Mathilde, waited at the little gate of the park for her truant husband. The hours passed slowly on and he came not. A cold, penetrating rain began to fall at midnight, and Ma thilde trembled from exhaustion and ex posure. At sin the morning, when her husband came through the little gate, he stumbled over her inanimate body lying un the rain-soaked ground. She was not dead; she lived five days after, but never recovered her mind. In her delir ium, incessantly murmured, “Frou Frou! Frou Frou!” Those were her last words. The Count was almost crazed by his wife’s loss. He entered the army and sought death in the bloody battles of the Franco-Prussian war. Fate was cruel and he returned unharmed. His wife’s room, adjoining bis own, had always been kept closed since her death, but owing to the suffocating heat one sum mer’s night, George opened the door between the two rooms. He then fed asleep. In about an hour he awoke ; the clock struck midnight. As the last stroke sounded, he heard distinctly from the other room the words, “Frou-Frou.” He listened with inexpressible -.anguish* —“PjQjqiJ nm" muriuurfetT Jrom all parts of he leaped from tho bed, lighted a candle, and crossed the threshold of Mathilde’s chamber. At that instant a current of air extinguished tha candle, and George felt upon his forehead, liis lips, his cheeks, something indefinable—a breath, a caress, the contact of a cold wing, or perhaps, the muslin of a peignor. He fell unconscious. The next morning he was found lying there insane. To every interrogation he only replied “Frou- Frou.” The country people in the neighbor hood of the Chateau de Meyrac think that it was the soul of the Countess re turning at midnight to murmur in the ear of her cruel husband; “George, I still love thee; but it is thou who hast killed me.” A STRANGE COINCIDENCE. Donn Piatt, says the Louisville Com mercial says he gave his note for the five thousand dollars he received from Irwin—part of the Pacific Mail corrup tion fund. Mr. used to tell a story | of Mr. Webster and Rufus Choate —a ■ case in point. Neither of these gentle } men, it seems, were goOd financiers, and, \ though each of them were in receipt of large sums from their engage ments, they were always in want of money. Mr. Choate called one morning, very early, at Mr. Webster’s lodgings in Washington, and, after sitting a moment, asked Mr W. the loan of five hundred dollars. Mr. Webster, looking fearful ly crestfallen and disappointed, replied : “Why, by Jupiter, Choate, I was on the point of asking you for the loan of a iike sum. I haven’t a cent in the world.” Setting their wits to work, it was fi nally agreed, at the suggestion of Mr. Choate, that the best, and perhaps the only chance was to make a joint note for a thousand, which would give to each the amount desired, and sell it to their friend Corcoran, the great banker in Washington. Acting at once upon the suggestion, a joint note was prepared, and they lost no time in calling at the banking house of Mr. Corcoran. They found Mr. C. in his office ; they were received with great cordiality, and with out hesitation Mr. Corcoran purchas ed their note and gave them the sum of money. Leaving the bank together, it is said Choate was greatly delighted at the success of their negotiation, -was full of anecdote, but soon his wit was lost on ! Mr. Webster, who from the time they ! left the bank was completely absorbed ; in his own reflections ; abstracted, wear- I ing a puzzled, confused look, and seem ingly utterly unconscious of his compan ! ion’s presence. At length Mr. Choate • said to him: “Webster, what is the matter with you ; you look rather like a man who had failed in a great financial effort, than like the successful negotiator you are ?” “Well, Choate,” said Mr. W., “I was just thinking what in the h—ll Corcoran - wanted with that note.” ARAB HORSE MAXIMS. Who raiseth and traineth a ho.iso for the Lord fs counted in the number of those who give alms day and night, in private as well as in public. He will find his reward. All his sins will be for given him, and never more will any fear come over him and dishonor his heart. Let your colt be domesticated and live with you from his tenderest age, and when a horse he will be simple, do cile, faithful and inured to hardship and f tigue. To have your horse serve you on the day of trial, if you desire him then to be a horse of truth, make him sober, ac customed to hard work and inaccessible to fear. Do not beat your horses, nor speak to them in a loud tone of voice ; do not be angry with them, but kindly reprove their faults; they will do better thereaf ter, for they understand the language of man and its meaning. If you have a long day’s journey be fere you, spare your horse at the start; let him frequently walk to recover his wind. Continue this until he has sweat ed and dried three times, and you may ask him whatever you please, he will not leave you in difficulty. Use your horse as your leathern bot tle ; if you open it gently and gradually you can easily control the water within, | but if you open it suddenly tho water j escapes at once, and nothing remains to j quench vour thirst. Never let your horse run up or down hill, if you can avoid it. On the contra ry slacken your pace. “Whichdo you pre for,” was asked of a horse, “ascent or de scent?” “A curse be on the point of meeting!” was the answer. Make your horse work and work again. Inaction and fat are the great perils of a horse, and the main cause of all his vices and disease. Observe your horse when ho is drink ing at a brook. If in bringing down his head he remain square, without bending his limbs, he possesses sterling quali ties and all parts of his body are built symmetrically. Four things he must have broad— front, chest, loins and limbs; four things long—neck, breast, fore-arm and croup, f o u Busby, of Trenton, celebrated his “iron wedding” one day last week, and invited about one hundred and twenty guests to the wedding. Of course each persou fo-lt compelled to bring a present of some kind, and each did. When Mr. and Mrs. Jones arrived, they also had a pair of flat-irons. Ail hands laughed at the coincidence, and there was great merriment when the Browns then ar rived with two pair of flat irons; but when Mr. Mrs. Robinson came in, with another pair of flat irons, the laughter became perfectly convulsive. There was, however, something less amusing about it when the Thompsons arrived with four flat irons wrapped in brown pa per. And Busby’s face actually looked grave when the three Johnson girls were ushered into the parlor carrying a flat iron apiece. Each one of the succeeding guests brought flat irons, and there was no break in the continuance until old Cf.rby came from Philadephia with a cast iron cow bell; and at any other time he would have treated such a pres ent with scorn, but now ho was actually grateful to Mr. Curby, and he was about to embrace him, when the Walshing harns came with the new kind of double pointed flat-irons with wooden handles. And all the rest of the guests brought the same articles, except Mr. Rugby, and he had with him a patent stand for holding flat irons. Busby got madder and madder every minute, and by the time the company had all arrived he was nearly insane with rage, and he went to Ded leaving his wife to entertain the guests. In the morning they count ed up the spoils and found they had two hundred and thirteen flat irons, one stand and a cow bell. And now the Busbys have cut the Smiths, and Browns, and Jacksons, and the Thompsons and the rest entirely, for they are convinced that there was a preconcerted design to to play a trick upon them. The fact, however, is that the hardware stores in the place had an overstock of flat irons, and Busby’s friends went for the cheap I est thing they could find, as people al i ways do on such occasions. Busby j thinks he will not celebrated his “silver ; wedding.” In the days when rouge-et-noir flour ished at Baden-Baden, the Prussian offi cers were strictly forbidden to play. One of them, however, dressed as a civil ian, ventured to place Napoleons on a color. The color came up twice and the officer was just about to take up the money when his eye fell upon the King of Prussia, who was watching the game with interest. In his fright, the officer did not dare to remove his Napoleons. The play continued, and the same color came up a third, a fourth, a fifth time, and 3,200 francos were added to his pile, but the winner stood motionless, erect as if on parade, expecting the next instant to see all his winnings wiped out. The King put an end to his suspense by ap proaching and saying in kindly mood: “I advise you to draw in your winnings and to be quick about it, before I notice you; your luck cannot continue so favor able.” Vol. 111.-No. 48. UNITED. She who upon my heart, Was the first to win it ; She who dreams upon my breast, Ever reigns within it; She whe kisses oft my lips, Wakes the warmest blessing ; She who rests within my arms, Feels my closest pressing. Other days than these shall come, Days that may be dreary; Other hours shall greet us yet, Hours that may be weary ; Still that heart shall be thy home, Still that breast thy heart shall pillow, Still those lips meet thine as oft Billow mceteth billow. Sleep, then, on my happy heart, Since thy lore hath won it; Dream then on rny loyal breast— None but thou hast done it; And when age our bloom shall change, With its wintry weather, May we, in tue self-same grave, Sleep and dream together * A STUPENDOUS WORK. It is estimated that if the English Channel is successfully tunnelled, the 300,000 travelers who now cross it will increase to 3,000,000 A journey from London to Paris will then take but livo or six hours, with the dreaded rough sea voyage taken out The boring is to be gin simultaneously in Franco and Eng land, from tho bottom of two wells 100 feet deep. The bore is to be nino feet in diameter, by machinery invented by Dickinson Brunton. The debris made from the excavation is to be continuous ly carried out th e whole length of the bore, and the fresh air breathed by tho workmen is to be continuously forced in. When Charles Dickens made Montague Tigg the projector of a plan for tunnel ling the English Channel ho did so in the nature of a huge joke, that was in tendad as a satire upon some of the chi merical financial schemes of the period. Yet here, to-day, is a practical and sci entifically organized scheme, backed by a large capital, for the execution in earn est of tho task he proposed in jest and ridicule.. Assuredly, it is unsafe to ridi cule almost anything, no matter how iuv , • IT • J X 1 J J 1 . J 'otP selves.—[Baltimore Sun. GOOD COMMERCIAL PAPER. A good story is told of a Chicago dry goods salesman, who has the reputation of being somewhat of a wag. He re cently sold a bill of goods to a country customer, who was believed to be a lit tle shaky, and was expected to commit justifiable insolvency as soon as he dis posed of his stock. As it was Ihe cus tomer’s intention to pay part of his ac count with notes, which might prove worthless, the salesman—so the story goes—added hero a little and there a little to the price of the goods, so that when the purchase of some two thous and dollars’ worth had been made, of which all but two or three hundred dol lars were paid in cash, there w r as no pos sibility of the firm losing sympathy, even should the notes go to protest.— The transaction concluded, the customer besought the salesman to give him a present of some sort, and the generous salesman accordingly presented him with a valuable red silk pocket handker chief. •‘That won’t'do,” said he ; “give me a silk dress for my wife, or something of that sort,” “Can’t do it,” he said ; “but I’ll tell you what I’ll do—l’ll give you back your notes.” “No,” replied the customer, “i’ll take the handkerchief.” THE PIN MACHINE. This machine is ore of the closest ap proaches that mechanics have made to the dexterity of the human hand. It is about the height and size of the lady’s sewing machine, only much stronger. On the side at the back a light belt de scends from a long shaft in the ceiling that drives all machines, ranged in rows, on the floor. On the left side of the ma chine hangs on a peg a reel of wire that has been straightened by running through a compound system of small rollers. The wire descends, and the end enters the machine. This is the food con sumed by this voracious little dwarf. He pulls it in and bites off by inches, incess antly—one hundred and forty bites in the minute. Just as he seizes each bite, a little hammer, with a concave lace, hits the end of the wire three times, “upsets” it to a head, while he grips it to a counter sunk hole between his teeth. With an outward thrust of his tongue ho then lays the pin sideways in a little groove across the rim of a small wheel that' slowly revolves. By tho external press ure of • stationary hoop these pins roll in their places as they are carried under two series of small files, three in each. These files grow finer toward the end of the series. They lie at a slight inclina tion on the pins, and a series of cams, lovers, and springs are made to play like lightning. Thus the pins are drop ped in a little shower in a box. Twenty eight pounds are a day’s work for one of these jerking little automatons. The machines reject crooked pins, the slight est irregularity in any of them being detected. BAOON, BOUNTY AND BRANDY SMASH; When wo come to review tho policy of the Congress which has just expired, says the N. Y. Tribune, it does not seem to differ tnaterially from the principles of government professed by the Romail Emperors in the decline of their power. Degeherate Caesars thought it enough to keep tho populace fed and amused, while the purple ruled and rioted ; and one can almost believe that leading statesmen at Washington this winter imagiried they heard the old cry of Pa nem et cirences, and that tho whole art of legislation consisted in satisfying the demand. Confronted by a tremendous political change in the North, they could think of no measiire to restore their fall en popularity except tho gratuitous dis tribution of two or three hundred mill ions of dollars among tho voters in the guise of a “bounty bill." Menaced with a loss of a part of their colored support ers in the South, they called upon tho war Department for hogsheads of army bacon to give away in the districts en dangered by an overflow of Conserva tism, and then they promised all the ne groos good seats at the theatres and free admission to the bar-rooms. What could statesman do more? The bounty bill has fortunately been defeated by the President. The bar-room bill bas become a law, and the country is watching with a curiosity that is half amusement and half disgust to sec what it will do for the negro. There is little left in it which has any practical value. Whatever Congress could lawfully do to secure for the freedmen the blessings of education and the privileges of citizen ship,—that it should have been the task of the Republican party to insist upon, and all wise men would have applauded the work. But for this scheme no per son of sense can entertain sympathy or respect. It contains a jury clause which violates the Constitution and common sense—for what ? Why, to secure suit ors tho inestimable privilege of a trial before tho most ignmant aud incompe tent jurors. It contains other clauses ostensibly framed so as to secure tho colored peol - certain rights in public conveyances, theatres, restaurants and hotols, but re- ally intended to enforce nothing but that sort of social equality which knows no low except prejudice and custom, and can never bo established by all the Con gresses and courts in Christendom. We do the frcedmen the justice to boliovo that they care very little about this bill and are not anxious, as a class, to thrust themselves into company where their presence is not acceptable It would ba strange, however, if among them all there were not some aspiring spirits ea ger to avail themselves of the new privi lege offered them, merely because they have been told that they aro privileges. 1 The incidents attending the execution of the law thus far are ajjout what we might have expected. We hoar of no dryuble as yet on railways or steamboats, but colored*men in various parts of the betrayed an In tense desire to be lathered and shaved at the barber’s, are found calling for cock tails at first class rum shops, and on one or two occasions have even bought dol ■ lar tickets for tho theatre. Thus Con gress elevates tho oppressed race, and the Goddess of Liberty probably dances with delight at the spectacle. Undoubtedly the senseless prejudice which excludes a decent man from ho tels and other places of entertainment because he belongs to what was long a servile race, is cruel and unchristian.— But it is only aggravated by the attempt to crush it through tho means of law.— At the North it has been gradually dy ing out ever since the beginning of tho war, and tho time is not distant when, if no imprudent legislation revives it, we may count on its entire disappearance. At the South the change would be still more rapid if selfish political agitators would stop making mischief. But on the other hand the schemes by which some of the Southern Legislatures aro trying to nullify the law are certain to do harm. They proclaim a virtual if not an actual conflict between the laws of Congress and of the State, and thus raise the bar-room privileges of the col ored man to the dignity of political rights. Let the civil right statute alone, and the difficulty will adjust itself. So far as the law confers any real benefit upon the colored man it will be of bene fit to society generally, and therefore, to the white man as well as to the black. So far as it attempts to prescribe to us with whom we shall tip the convivial tumbler and rattle the festive fork, it will fall to the ground under tho load of its own folly, and the politicians of tho future will be very much ashamed of it. HOW HE KNEW IT. The Danbury man visited a “baronial hall'’ in Norfolk, England, and had his first view of a tapestried wall. On one portion of the wall, at the head of the stairs was a piece of tapestry. I think the word tapestry is suggestive of luxury, taste, refinement and wealth. “Walls hanging with tapestry.” I sup pose I have read that sentence a thous and times luring a life actively devoted to the perusal of fiction. This was tho first tapestry wall I had seen. It was right before me, and it made me sick. The bit of wall was about 12 feet square and the tapestry was about two thirds of that size. The wall of wain scot, and tapestry was tacked to it. It had not been cut with any accuracy, and its edges were fraying. It was held by large tacks and their great heads pro traded and stood out as prominently as mud on patent leather boots. “I said to the butler; “What is the carpet nailed up there, for ? Spattered fat on the wall ? Or is it to keep out the draft ?” •‘Bless you, no, sir ; that’s tapestry.— Don’t you have it in America ?” That is the way I knew it was tapest ry- It is sure sign of an early spring to , see a cat intently watching a hole iu the I wall.