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Up -Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store,
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
BOOTS & SHOES.
The undersigned respectfully an
nnunees to the people of Elberton and
surrounding country that he has opened a first
class
Boot and Shoe
SHOP IN ELBERTON
Where he is prepared to make any style of Boot
or Shoe desired, at short notice and with prompt
ness.
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ELBERTON, CxA.,
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BOOTS, SHOES, HATS
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THE GAZETTE.
Series.
MY ANGEL.
Slowly the night is falling,
Falling down from the hill,
And over the low green valley,
The dew lies heavy and chill;
The crickets cry in the hedges,
And the bats are circling low,
And like ghosts thro’ th’ blossoming garden,
The glimmering night-moths go.
Hand in hand through the twilight
Come the children every one,
Flushed with their eag*r frolic,
Tawny with wind and sun ;
Home from the sunny uplands
Whers the sweet wild berries grow,
Home from the tangled thickets
Where the nuts are ripening slow.
They mock at the owl’s weird laughter
And the cricket’s 'onesome cry,
At the tardy swallows flying
Late through the darkening sky ;
And silently gliding after,
Through the dusk of the shadowy street,
Comes their little angel sister,
Star-white from her head to her feet—
Never crossing the threshold,
Come they early or late;
With her empty hands on her bosom,
She stops at the cottage gate.
I stretch out my arms in longing,
But she fades from my aching sight,
Asa little white cloud at morning
Vanishes into light.
And spite of the shining garments
Folded about her now,
And spite of the deathless beauty
Crowning her lip and brow,
I tvish for one passionate moment
She sat on my knee again ;
On her reet, so spotless and tender,
The dust and the earthly stain.
For missing her morning and evening,
The bitterest thought must be
That safe with her blessed kindred
The child hath no need of me ;
And counting her heavenly birthdays,
I say in iny jealous care,
“The babe that lay oti my bosom
Hath grown to a maiden fair;
“And now, if out of the glory,
Her face like a star should shine,
Could I guess the beautiful changeling
_* ~Had vwrfli beeu-rauie?
But never forget my lack,
For the clinging hands of my baby,
And the mouth that kissed me back.”
Yet thougu in my human blindness
I cannot fathom His way
Who counts in His glorious cycles
A thousand years as a day—
Whenever the cloud is lifted,
Whenever I cross the tide,
Mine own He will surely give me,
And I shall be satisfied.
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
NOTE FROM A PHYSICIAN’S MEMORANDUM.
Joel Carter lived in a small cottage
near the town of Carterville, with an
only daughter, Mary ; aud there he had
resided over fifty years, subsisting on
the results of his labor. The farm he
cultivated had come into his possession
from his father, and under the same
roof his grandsire had lived and passed
away.
A little mound, in the churcli-yard
close by, with its neat, inexpensive slab
of marble, marked the spot where, a few
years before, a loving and devoted wife
had been tenderly, tearfully laid, in a last
repose.
Three smaller graves w r ere there also,
to indicate the resting places of children
who had passed away, until nothing now
remained but the old house, the old
farmer, and his pretty daughter.
“I am tired of this kind of life,” said
Mary, as she closed an interesting book
she had been perusing, and turned to
serve the frugal meal, prepared and
awaiting her father’s return from the
field. “It is so dull, and nothing to
expect in the future but the same routine
of duties. Can’t we sell the old farm
and move to a larger town, or make a
change in some way ?”
The words of his daughter fell upon
the farmer’s ears strangely. That very
day he had been thinking this was no
place for his daughter—not the life he
would have her lead; but bow to make
the change—how to give up the old
farm and its associations, or how to earn
a living for them both elsewhere, had
not found a response to his inquiries.
He must be guarded in his reply.
“My dear daughter, we must not re
pine at our lot,” he answered. “I am
too old to begin a sew business life
without capital, and away from the old
homestead.”
“But I might find something to do in
a town or city. I would work in a store,
or sew, or teach school, or anything
almost to be relieved of this dull mo
notony,” continued the ambitious girl of
eighteen.
“We cannot take such a step at pres
ent, Mary, but I will think the matter
over,” the father replied.
This was move encouragement than
Mary had expected at tbe outset, and
soon she was humming a cheerful air as
she performed her household duties.
Supper had hardly been finished, when
there came a rap upon the cottage door.
Mary opened it, and found a stranger
standing before her—a man older than
her father, but more fashionably dressed,
ESTABLISHED 1859.
ELBERTON, GEORGIA, SEPT’R 1. 1875.
and evidently conversant with the world’s
customs and courtesies. In his hand he
carried a heavy traveling bag.
“I have missed the v/ay, and am in
search of a resting place for the night.
Could I be accommodated here V he
asked, bowing politely.
Mr. Carter heard the stranger’s voice
and canae forward at once, as Mary
looked around for her father’s approval.
“Come in, sir—come in ! Such as we
have is heartily at your disposal. Mary
will brew you a fresh cup of tea, and
you shall have rest, which, from appear
ance, you greatly need.’’
“Thank you both, my friends. I am
very weary, and may interest you with a
history of a strange life.”
They brought the easy chair for their
guest, and prepared some hoir e made
food, but this he did not require.
As he sat down in the easy chair h:s
head fell back as if in a quiet sleep, and
Mary and her father walked quietly
about, lest they should disturb or awaken
him.
Ne fear of that. When they came
closer to him, they discovered that he
had fallen forward and he was lifeless —
cold and dead!
There was no one near at hand to call,
and no need of calling, for not a spark
of vitality remained.
Speechless, they looked at each other,
and then tried to find, from papers
about his person, who the strange guest
was ; but all was enshrouded in mystery
“ Let us examine the traveling bag, ’
suggested Mary.
They did so, and thei'e found clothes
and valuables, but no papers.
In one corner of the bag a box was
foand—a strange, antique affair, of pe
culiar workmanship, with no key.
The old man, with trembling hands,
burst it open, and its glittering contents
fell at their feet. Diamonds, rubies,
gold in solid ingots, and coin—wealth
enough to satisfy any ambition, but no
clue to the owner.
Here lay untold riches. It was a grieat
temptation, and the farmer yielded to fs|
He took the gems, with trembling fin
gerp, and hid them in his cellar.
buried the remains of the stranger
night, alone ; and now he could go wlieiff
he pleased, live as he chose, and
could be a fine lady.
By their 100 kg they understood
S-IC’S-T '&*
B*6 die”came to claim it, or to qjqdirfc
regarding the stranger; and inter the -
O O
lapse of a few weeks, farmer Carter sur
prised his neighbors by selling his farm,
and removing to a distant city.
If wealth could have purchased happi
ness, Mary Carter might now have
gained possession of that fleeting phan.
tom. Mr. Carter purchased a fine resi
dence, dfcalt in stocks—sometimes with
success, and at others meeting with
failures. He was naturally cautious, and
old habits clung to him.
Friends flocked around the rich man
and his heiress in great numbers, until
Mary was quite dazzled by the brilliant
position in which she found herself.
Still there was always a phantom at
her feast. The recollection of that night
at the quiet farm-house—the pale face
of the dead stranger —came up before
her to mar most enchanting festivities,
and make bitter the contents of a golden
cup.
These thoughts she tried to dispel
with other thoughts—that they could
have pursued no other course, for there
were no means of identifying the stranger.
Mary had many suitors, and among
them one she thought most noble, and
to Winfield Marion she gave a promise
that she would be his wife.
The day was approaching when the
marriage ceremony was to be performed,
and the lovers being alone together,
Winfield remarked:
“My dear Mary, before we consum
mate our marriage vows, I must give
you a little history of myself and our
family. You have met mother and my
sisters, but I have never told you of my
father.”
“Your father, Winfield ? I was not
aware yeu had a father living. You have
never spoken to me of him ”
“True, my darling, and I do not know
that I have. He may be living, but I
fear he is not.”
“How strange !”
“It is strange. I will tell you all that
I am able to tell concerning him. In
taking me for your husband, you take
one who has not wealth to offer—”
“Why mention that circumstance
again, dear Winfield, when I have
enough for both,” she interrupted.
“Well, not to mention that, my father
was a great traveler, and practical stay
at-home people called him visionary,
predicting that he would never accom
plish anything of importance. Their
predictions appeared correct, for father
had reached the age of sixty, when he
left us for a last sea voyage, with barely
money enough to enable him to reach
the distant country he proposed to visit
in search of wealth. But our last advices
from him indicated that he had been
more successful even than he had antici
pated, and he wrote that he had found
the prize men strive for, often unsue
cessfully, at last, and would return in a
few weeks to make us rich and happy.
Weeks and months passed awqpl how
ever, until it is now two years since We
have heard from them. I fear we shall
never hear again.”
A dreadful thought came to Mary’s
mind. Could it be possible, she mused,
that Winfield’s father was the man who
asked their hospitality—the man whose
money they were using ?
“Of what was the property composed
that your father had accumulated ?” she
asked, trying to keep calm her rapidly
beating heart.
“Gold and precious gems, he wrote.”
She looked at her lover, who held her
hand caressingly, and fancied he bore a
slight resemblance to the aged stranger
who came to their house to rest, and
now slept under the great willow of the
old homestead. Should she tell him all
i.er suspicions, and ask for mercy at his
hands ? or should she still keep up the
deception, and forever carry the canker
ing secret in her heart ?
Mary decided to consult her father on
the subject before taking such an im
portant step.
He laughed at her fears as idle, and
saw no similarity in the two cases, except
a few trifling incidents.
Her lover had been so frank and up
right in his conduct, that Mary de
termined to make full confession, and
he might then spurn her if he would.
He should first promise to keep her
secret. At the next favorable opportu
nity she unfolded the strange story, and
Winfield, recognized at once the picture
of his father, as drawn by Mary from
her memory of the past.
He was at once stupefied at the words
uttered by the lips he had held in love’s
embrace, and, pale , and fainting, stag
gered to his seat.
There he lay, cold and bloodless, as
his father had lain in the chair at the
farm-house—his very image now ! Alas!
he, too, was lifeless by the same disease
that bore his father over the btream that
.is never re-crossed.
Mary’s tears, cries or caresses were of
no avail. She was almost a wife, almost
"a widow—and her heart was broken.
’Others sought her hand, but all in vain !
| Mr. Carter soon passed away, and
.Mary was left alone in the world, with
linhappy reflections wealth had bought,
-and a vain regret that discontent had
robbed her of an innocent country life,
|k>' load her with golden chains and late
Repentance.
| She made over all her property to the
wother and sisters of her deceased lover,
without permitting them to know the
rJtLUT'ce of their good fortune; then,
an assumed name, obtained em
jfloyment with an enterprising milliner,
Whose partner she became subsequently.
F?VI was so fortunate as to
the story of‘heir lift;' By luits.
ytfnarity, she was endeavoring to atone
or early errors.
LOYAL KU-KLUX.
A special from Benton, Franklin coun
ty, Illinois, says that ten disguised men
have been whipping and otherwise abus
ing people in "Williamson and Franklin
counties. J. B Maddox, County Com
mission®!’, received information that the
marauders would visit his house and
whip him for not complying with one of
their orders. Maddox notified the Sher
iff who summoned men and concealed
them in Maddox’s house. About 2 o’clock
fourteen men approached, disguised and
mounted. The Sheriff demanded their
surrender, when the leader fired, missing
the Sheriff. The band then wheeled to
make off, when the posse fired, fatally
wounding one and injuring five. All
got away but the man who was fatal
ly hurt, who gave the oames of the
others. A citizens’ meeting resolved
to rid the country of these men. The
band numbers five hundred. Gov. Bev
eridge sent one hundred stand of arms
to the county. Bloody results are ex
pected.
Cement for Iron. —A writer in the
English Mechanic states that he has
found the following composition com
pletely successful for cen.enting iron
railing tops, iron gratings to stoves,
and other similar applications, and with
such effect as to resist the blows of a
sledge hammer, namely : Equal parts of
sulphur and white lead, with about a
sixth of borax, these being thoroughly
incorporated together so as to form one
homogeneous mass. In applying this
substance to either of the purposes
named, it is moistened with strong sul
phuric acid, and a thin layer of it placed
between the two pieces of iron, and these
are then firmly pressed together to form
a perfect union. In-the brief period of
about five days it becomes perfectly dry,
all traces of the cementing compound
having vanished, and the iron exhibits
the appearance simply of having been
welded together.
“Don’t you know the prisoner Mr.
Jones ?”
“Yes, to the bone.”
“What is his character ?”
“Didn’t know he has any.”
“Does he live near you?”
“So near that he has spent only five
shillings for firewood in eight years ”
“Did he ever come in collision with
you in any matter?”
“Only once, and then he was drunk
and mistook me for a lamp post.”
“From whal you know of him, would
you be.ieve him under oath ?”
“That depends upon circumstances.
It he was so much intoxicated that he
did net know what he was saying, I
would; if not, I wouldn’t.”
An ordinary lighthouse where oil is
used gives an illuminating power equal
to about 200 candles. An electric light
in England flashes over the North sea
its condensed beams, each of which is
more than an equivalent to" the com
bined light of 800,000 candles.
Vol. IY,-No. 18.
HOW TO KEEP MEAT FEESH.
We found the following in an ex
change without the author's name, or
the name of the paper in which it was
published ; but as the receipt is simple,
all who wish to toy it can do so at a
small expense: There is no good reason
why farmers and their families should
eat sc much salt pork, leaving all the
fresh meat to inhabitants of cities and
villages, when the following method will
keep meat fresh for weeks, even in the
warmest weather. I know for I have
tried it for more than ten years : As soon
as the animal heat is out of the meat,
slice it up ready for cooking. Prepare a
large jug by scalding well with hot salt
and water. Mix salt pulverized saltpe
sre in the proportion of one cupful of
salt. Cover the bottom of the jar with
a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Put
down a laying of meat, sprinkle with salt
and pepper the same as if going to the
table, in 1 continue in this manner till
the jar is full. Fold a cloth or towel
and wet it in salt and water, in w’hioh a
little of the saltpetre is dissolved Press
the cloth closely over the meat and set
in a cool place. Be sure and press the
cloth on tightly as each layer is removed,
and your meat will keep for months. It
is a good plan to let the meat lie over
night after it is sliced, before packing.
Then drain off all the blood that oozes
fromj.it. It will be necessary to change the
cloth occasionally, or take it off and wash
it—first in cold water —then scald it in
salt water as at first. In this way far
mers can have fresh meat the year round.
I have kept beef that was killed the 12th
of February til. 1 the 21st of June. Then
I packed a large jar of veal in the same
way during the dog days, and it kept
six weeks. This receipt alone is worth
the price of any newspaper in the land.
Anecdote of Gen. Lee —He respected
all forms that religious feeling could
take. During the latter days of the dis
mal struggle around Petersbui’g, a Jew
ish soldier petitioned the General for
leave to go to Richmond to keep the
Passover. The man’s Captain had on
the margin of the petition a sharp nerte,
unfavorable to its prayer. Lee, indeed,
did not grant the required leave, but he
stated the grounds of his refusal iq a
courteous lines, showing_that tile
And praise T©
tain’s note he added these u*u?ds: • •
“We should always be charitable to
ward those whoße religion differs from
ours, and, as far as we can, aid every one
to fulfill the duties imposed upon him
by his belief.”
A singular wedding took place at Vin
cennes, in France, the other day. The
ceremony was fixed for 11 o'clock in the
morning, at which time all the parties
appeared But the bridegroom looked
sullen and annoyed all through the cere
mony, although he said nothing out of
the way. Suddenly as they came out of
the church, he took his new mother-in
law aside and said to her: “Madam,
I have just been reflecting a great deal,
and have concluded that your daughter
does not suit me at all. I have never
noticed before that she was freckled. I
prefer to go away,” and notwithstanding
her entreaties he jumped into a passing
carriage and drove hastily away. He
has not yet returned.
The Population of Louisiana. —The
State Registrar reports the result of the
census of Louisiana, recently taken, as
follows : City of New Orleans—whites,
145,721 ; colored, 57,647 ; total, 203,368
—an increase of 11,966 upon the census
of 1870. Population of the whole State
—whites, 404,361; colored, 450,029—an
excess of colored over whites of 45,668,
and a total increase of 128,115 over the
census of 1870. These figures may be
subjected to some slight modifications,
the returns of one or two remote par
ishes not being quite complete.
To test Timber. —To test the sound
ness of a piece of timber, apply the ear to
the middle of one of the ends, while an
other person strikes upon the opposite
extremity. If the wood is sound and of
good quality, the blow is very distinct
ly heard, however long the beam may be.
If the wood is disaggregated by decay or
otherwise, the sound will be for the
most part destroyed.
We have the proclamation ol Gov.
Houston convening the Alabama Conven
tion, recently chosen by the people, on
the first Monday in September. The
Governor gives the vote o,f the State
as follows; Total vote for Convention,
77,763; total vote against Convention,
59,928 ; total vote of the State, 137,691;
total majority for Convention, 17,835.
On the various cotton farms above
and below Brownsville, Texas, picking is
going on briskly. On some of the farms
are working from eighty to one hun
dred hands. They are paid by the
pound, receiving 18| cents for each
twenty five pounds pitSced.
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A magnificent villa is now being erect
ed at Newport for the wife of Mr. Sher
man, the New York banker who failed
on Tuesday, July 29, and the contractor
was notified that the failure would not
interfere with its completion.
A cubic yard of sand or earth weighs
about 30 cwt; mud 25 cwt; marl 26;
clay 31 cwt; chalk 36 cwt; sandstone
39 cwt; shale 40 cwt; quartz 41 cwt;
gi'anite 42 cwt; trap 42 cwt; slate 43 cwt.
JEFFEKSON DAVIS.
A Gentleman's Eeproof to Ignorant Fanat
ics.
Memphis, Tenn., August 15, 1875.
Henry P. Kimball Secretary of the Win
nebago County Agricultural Society,
Rockford, Illinois:
Dear Sir: I yesterday sent to you a
telegram announcing my revocation of my
conditional acceptance of the invitation
to address your Association at their an
nual meeting in September next The
long period which has elapsed siuce the
receipt of your first letter and the consid
erate courtesy which has marked your
correspondence make it my duty to
the Board and to myself that sufficient
explanation should be given of ibis
change of purpose. Three objects main
ly induced mo to accept this invitation ;
First. The hope that personal inter
course might remove some of the preju
dices which had been generated by
partisan factions and nurtured by indi
vidual and sectional hate Anxious as
iu former years to promote the interest
of our great Valiey of the Mississippi,
and believing that with mutual Confi
dence and co-operation much could be
done for their advancement I only delayed
my acceptance of your invitation until it
became resonably probable that it could
be met. The productive capacity of the
Northwest needs for its development
cheaper and safer trailspe rtation to the
markets of the Southwest, and also t
those of foreign countries, in England
especially. Earnest attention has been
directed for several years past to a more
direct and economical trade with the
Mississippi Valley. In this connec
tion it was my desire to confer with the
Patrons of Husbandry in your rich and
prosperous section to discuss with them
questions involved in securing better
means of transporting you l farm pro
duce to the most favorable markets, and
providing agencies which should insure
larger returns to farmers, and, by such
conference, to learn the views of one
member of the family of the Mississippi
Valley, a family the chief interest of all
members of which is agriculture, but hul
it vators of such various crops as to make
trade among themselves extensive and
lucrative, while it stamps upon each and
all the same interests, and the same poi
icy as to their foreign trade. To render
such conference effectual, there must
needs be a disposition to attend to the
subject under consideration ; surely not
a purpose to smother it by the interpo
sition of matters having no just relation
to it.
Second. An effort was made to recog
nize the courtesy of your Board, and I
was encouraged to believe that your re
ception of me would be beneficial rather
than injurious to your Association.. This
was the jtnore supposable because several
other agricultural societies .of Illinois
had in like,manner invitedme to address
fe smeetina*. .Yesterday I
sp§ xTjfJ) . ‘
.fowii ft, to^aWtbe
al address 'at * the* ‘ obuity •’
Thereupon I sent you a telegram with- *
drawing my accepptance of the invita
tion under thereonviction that it would
not be useful or agreeable to partiei
pate in the meoting, and I hope that nei
ther your Association nor the Directors
will suffer harm by the delay in procur
ing an orator or by the correspondence
which has caused it.
Third. The object was to gratify a
wish, long entertained, to see in its cul
tivated dress, the country known to me
as a trackless wilderness. But that be
ing merely a personal gratificatien, it
may be indulged at my convenience or
postponed indefinitely. I can well be
lieve that the cause which thus changed
my purpose, was as unforeseen by you
as oy me, and you may be assured that
I feel no dissatisfaction toward tbe Di
rectors or yourself, and have suffered no
personal embarrassment from the event.
As the invitation was unexpected and
only acceptable as an expression of gen
oral good will, so my only regret is the
loss of an opportunity to promote the
public interest with which the welfare
of your community is identified.
Again expressing the hojie that nei
ther the Directors nor yourself may suf
fer injury or annoyance, and thanking
you for the kindness and consideration
you have manifested, I am respectfully
yours, Jefferson Davis.
Guano Not an Excrement. —The long
received opinion that guano is the de
posit of myriads of sea birds, accumu
lating through long ages, is rendered
untenable by the recent investigation of
Dr. Habel. After treating the guano
with an acid, microscopical and chemical
examination revealed that the iusoluble
residue was composed of fossil sponges
and other marine animals and plants
precisely similar in construction to such
as still %xist in those seas. The fact that
the anchors of ships in the neighborhood
of the guano islands often bring up gu
ano from the bottom of the ocean is quite
in opposition t® the prevalent belie*'.
Di\ Habel therefore considers that the
deposits of guano must be ths result of
the accumulation of fossil plants and
animals whose organic matter has been
transformed into nitrogenous substance,
the mineral portion remaining intact.
How to Remove Wabts. —Warts are
not only very troublesome, but disfigure
the hands. Our readers will thank us
for calling their attention to the follow
mg perfect cure, even of the largest,
without leaving a scar: “Take a small
piece of raw beef, steep it all night in
vinegar, cut as much from it as will cover
the wart and tie it on ; or, if the exerts
cence is on the forehead, fasten it on
with strips of plaster. It may be re
moved during the day and put on every
night. In one fortnight the wart will
die and peel off.” The same prescription
will cure corns.
The picture of Morse, the adapter of
lightning to telegraphy, has been do,
stroved by lightning in New Orleans., j