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gvofeionat Cavtb, J. S. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SIBSaTON, GA. JOSEPH M. WORLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTGN, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN THE NORTHERN & Western Circuits. ocl2,tf JOSS \ T. OSBOR3V, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBEKTON, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevl7 ly L. J. CARTRELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATLANTA , GA, PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES Clß cuit and District Courts at Atlanta, and Supreme and Superior Courts of the State. (gUmlon Cards. J. A. WREN, FMSTOGRAPHEG ARTIST Has located for a short time at DR. EDMUNDS’ GALLERY, ELBEETON. GA. WHERE he is prepared to execute e-very class of work in his line to the satisfac tion ef all who bestow their patronage. Confi dent of his ability to please, he cordially iuvites a test of his skill, with the guarantee that if he does net pass a critical inspection it need not be taken. nlch 24. tf. MAKES A SPECIALTY OF Copying & Enlarging Old Pictures tTT eimm ¥ to.. REAL ESTATE AGENTS, ELBERTON, GKA.., "TT7 ILL attend to the business of effecting \V sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS. fiigp* Applications should be roads to T. J. BOWMAN. SeplS-tf LIGHT CARRIAGES &^BiIGGjES. J. ~F. AULD (Carriage ™[anufactb ELBERTON, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE OF 27 YEARS, He hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O REPAIRING ANDBLACKSMITHING. Work dene in this line in the very best style. The Best Harness TERMS CASH. My 22-1 f J. M. BARFIELD, THE It EA I EI V E Fashionable Tailor, TTp-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, EEBERTON, GEORGIA. ••“Call and See Him. THE ELBERTON DRUG STORE H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines Makes a specialty of ST AT I ON RY PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES Plain and fancy- just received, including a sup ply ot LEGAL CAP. CIGARS AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. F. A. F. SOBLETT, mmmM mason, ELBERT ON, GA. Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK anywhere in Elbert county [jel6 6ra CENTRAL HOTEL MRS. W. M THOMAS, propriei ress, AUGUSTA GA THE GAZETTE. New Series. THE RIGOLETTA'S ENGINEER. “Hetty, -wouldn’t you like to go down on the engine to morrow night?” The speaker, a good looking young fellow of niuteen, leaned against one of the monster drive wheels of the Rigoletta, which stood puffing before Stanton's unpretentious depot. The girl addressed looked up into his face, with a smile that displayed two rows of pearly teeth. “You want somebody to bother you,” she said. “Why, Jule, all the time I would be in the road, and John would stop the Rigoletta, and leave her in disgust If you know what is good for yourself, keep away from me!” He laughed, and said: “Yes, I know you’ll go down with me on the engine. The ride is so ex citing, and just think, we will take Governor Knox and his staff down to morrow night John will be glad to have an angel on the engine, and you know what Bradley thinks of you.” Hetty McFarland yielded to the en treaties of the young fireman, before the Rigoletta threw smoke rings heav enward, and moved off like a monarch. The sun was setting behind the hills in the rear of the town, and the girl waved her lover good-bye, as she turned toward her home. Fifty miles south of Stanton, in the city of Hamilton, dwelt McFarland’s uncle, whom the girl had long thought of visiting. Therefore, to carry out her purpose, she promised to go down on the Rigoletta the following night. She knew that conductor Bradley would not object to her presence on the engine, for he was the politest conductor of the road, and was in debted to her for the many well chosen bouquets he wore during the flower season. Then, as Julius had said, a ride on the engine would be so exciting, and with such good fellows as her lover and John Nixon, the engineer, she anticipate! a pleasant time. When the Rigoletta, oiled and pol ished till her machinery and mountings glistened like burnished silver and gold, again reached Stanton on her down trip. Hetty McFarland was prepared for her ride. Julius sprang from the engine, found her in a jiffy, and assisted her to the little apartment which he had fitted up anew for her reception. “How foggy it is to night,’’ she said to him. “There is a moon, but it does no good.” “That’s so, Hetty. _ .We've got to feel our way. You see, Governer Knox and his staff’ are aboard, and we have been ordered to be very careful. I spoke to Bradley about you going down with us, and he said, certainly, just as I know he would.” Hetty was sitting on the green plush cushion that covers the lid of the tool box of the engine, and her lover, talking, leaned against the jamb of the door. “Excuse me for one moment, Hetty,” he said, and sprang from the engine and disappeared. He walked about the platform, look ing for some person, whom it seemed he could not find “I don’t like affairs to-night,” he said to himself. “He looked as if he had been drinking, and we want a sober man to run the Rigoletta through this terrible fog.” Across the track and almost directly opposite the depot building stood a groggery to which access could be ob tained through a garden behind it. This was not the sole avenue of ingress, bul it was called the secret way, and sometimes the employees of the road made use of it to procure a sly drink- After a while the young fireman crossed the track and traversed the garden to the groggery. He did not enter, for beyond the threshold of such a place he had promised a fair young girl that he would step. He paused at the door, which was open, and looked between the green slats of the shade into the room. At the counter, with a glass of brandy in his hand, stood the man for whom he had been looking—John Nixon, the engineer. The fireman’s face grew pal* when he saw him, and he said something which was connected with Hetty Me Farland’s name. He did not move until the engineer emptied the glass aud turned to go. Then Julius saw that his face was flushed, and he hardly looked like the same man. He passed very near the young j watcher, whom the fog hid, and a ] minute later was shaking hands with ] Hetty on the engine. For four years John Nixon had, to all appearances, refrained from (drink ing. Once liquor had cost him a good situation on the road; but his reforma cion was so strong and praiseworthy, that the company encouraged him by restoring him to the mastery of the Rigoletta. Until that night no railroad man had seen him lift the glass to his lips, and Julius Baird, after witnessing what he had, did not know what to do There were precious lives on the train that trip, and it would require good engineering to carry them through safely. He knew that Nixon would be discharged before the train could leave Stanton if Bradley was in formed of his action. In such an event his duties would devolve upon the young fireman, who doubted bis ability to perform them satisfactorily. The responsibility was great, and then ESTABLISHED 1859. ELBERTOX, GEORGIA. JAN’Y 5. 187 John Nixon knew every mile of the road and he could n jt be spared. After a long mental debate the fire man stepped upon the engine and sat beside Hetty. He talked with her pleasantly, mentioning not his fears, but watched the engineer without ceasing. The train moved off after its usual halt, and was soon rushing through the dense fog. The engineer conversed for a few min utes when became sullen and stood in the door with his back to the lovers. “What’s the matter with John?” ask ed Hettey, in a whisper. Her question drew a secret from thp young fireman’s heart. In a whisper he narrated the scene in the groggery, and told her the engine was under the care of drunken man. The fair cheeks grew pale at this, and Hetty's hand dropped upon her lover’s arm. “John, we must take the Rigoletta safely to Hamilton !” she said, with firm ness* “Think! Our good Governor is on board, and there are women and chil dren in the sleeping cars.” He nodded, and said, “Yes, Hetty,’ without taking his eyes from the engin eer. “We ought to find signals in this fog!” she said, for, from her lover, Het ty had learned much about the iron track. “If there be danger we will find them,” he answered her. “The governor’s pres ence insures the extra precautions, and]l expect to hear the signals before we reach Hamilton. Why, in this awful fog, wbictTseems like a shroud of triple thickness, we couldn’t see a headlight fifty feet before ns.” At that moment Nixon turned and looked at the guage. Then he threw open the furnace door, “Wood!” he laconically said to the fire man, who looked at Hetty and turned to the tender. “John, aren’t we going fast enough through this fog?” she said_to*the engi neer. in a soft, half-pleading tone. “I’m the engineer of the Rigoletta,” he answered her, not harshly, but with a smile. “But the governor’s on board.” “He’s no better than John Nixon.” “John, we might collide train.” “In which event the Rigoletta would be knocked out of shape. I have run through worse fogs than'this, and,” in a lower voice as he turned away, “I l|pun as I please if we burst the boiler.” Hetty with pallid face saw Julias feel the furnace anew and reseat himself at. her side. The speed of the engine increased, an 1 John Nixon, mad brandy, watched the pointers of the guage. “Why don’t Bradley ring him down to slower time ?” asked Hetty. “He’s having a good time with the governor’s party, and then lie’s got all the confidence in the world in John.” On, still on, through the cold fog that made Hetty wrap her shawl about her shoulders and shiver, even then went the engine, growing as mad as its drun ken master. Suddenly a strange report that seem ed to emanate from beneath the very wheels of the engine fed upon the lov er's ear. Julius Baird sprang to his feet. “The fog signal!” he cried, and looked at Nixon. “What’s up, young man 1” said the en gineer, looking at him with wild eyes that would have made some believe that their owner was a maniac. “Sit down with your doll-faced girl. I’ll run the Rigoletta. “John, didn’t you hear the fog sig nal ?” said the fireman. “No, nor you either. We are all right—” “There! the second one,” cried Julius, as a report exactly like the first fell.upon his ears. “That means stop.” “If you’re running this train I want to see your commission of authority !” said the mad engineer. “I am not running it,” replied the youth quite calmly “You know the code of the road as well, perhaps better, than I do. You know all about the fog signals. The first means run slower, the second stop, the third stop at all hazards—there’s danger ahead!” “What’s that you’re trying to tell me!” roared Nixon. “Curse your fog signals ! You shan't dictate to me be cause you’ve got your sweetheart with you to night. Now keep your mouth shut, or —” He never finished the threat, but laid his hand on a heavy wrench, and looked daggers at the youth. The last word had scarcely left theen gineer's lips when the third and last fog signal sounded more distinct than the others. The wheels had crushed the cap on the iron rails ; but John Nixon paid no heed it. “He’s crazed with drink !” said Julius, moving back toward Hetty McFarland, “and he’s driving the train right into some terrible accident. The rains may have swept that river bridge away; we must be very near it now.” The minute that followed was one of agony, i At the end thereof the engineer threw open the furnace, and turning to his fireman, said j “Wood ! wood ! and be quick about it, too.” Julius was leaving the cushion, when Hetty suddenly sprang to her feet and drew a small revolver from her pocket. “Stop the train !” she cried, pointing the weapon at John Nixon’s head ; “you will not obey the fog signals; you must ooey me or die.” The drunkard dropped the wrench and stared aghast into Hetty’s flashing eyes. The new situation seemed to be sober ing him. “Stop the train !” she repeated, “and stop it at once !” He put his hand on the lever, and still looking at her, he obeyed the com mand. The speed of the train diminished, and it soon stood stdl on the track. Then was heard the rushing of mad voices, and the shouts of men. “I feared it, cried Julius. “The bridge over the river is gone.” John Nixon stood erect with his hand on the lever, and almost sober. “Go and tell Bradley,” Hetty said to Julius, who disappeared. A moment later the conductor, follow ed by several passengers and men in their shirtsleeves, appeared at the en gine. “I thank God for such women as you, Hetty,” he said. “We are within twen ty feet of the bridgeless abutment. An instant more and we would have been in the foaming torrent.” Hetty McFarland breathed a thankful prayer, and saw John Nixon removed from his post. The danger was over. A woman's firmness had saved the train and its precious freight. It seems that a few minutes prior to the explosion of the alarm caps the bridge had been carried away by the high waters, and the signals were put down to warn the train. “It’s the pistol you gave me, Jule. Mother thought I might be safer with it, and made me bring it along.” The train had to back many miles, for the river of course could not be cross ed, and valuable time was lost. But the loss -was nothing compared to the gain. John Nixon was discharged, and be came a confirmed inebrtate. The old habit eventually slew' him. Julius Bair l took his place, and if the wedding that shortly followed was a quiet one the presents wereTnagnificent. They came from Governor Knox and the railroad company. LONG DRESSES. Our landlady’s daughter is a young lady of some pretensions to gentility. She wears her bonnet back on her tead. which is known by all to be a Vnark of bigh breeding. She wears her trains very long, as the great ladies do in Europe. To be sure their dresses are so made only to sweep the tapestried floors of chateaux and palaces; and these odious aristocrats of the other side do not go dragging through the mud in silks and satins, but, forsooth, must ride in coaches when in full dress. It is true that, considering various hab its of American people, also the little accidents which the best kept sidewalks are liable to, a lady who has swept a mile or two of them is not exactly in such a condition that one would care to be her neighbor. But confound the make-believe women we have turned loose in our streets! Where do they come from ’ Not out of Boston parlors I trust Why, there isn’t ’a beast or a bird that would drag its tail through the dirt in the way these creatures do their dresses. Because a queen or a duchess wears long robes on great oc casions, a maid-of-all-work, or a factory girl thinks she must make herself a nu isance by trailing about with her—pah ! that’s what I call getting vulgarity into your bones and marrow. Making be lieve what you are not is the essence of vulgarity. Show over dirt is one attri bute of vulgar people. If any man can walk behind these women and see what she rakes up as she goes, and not feel squeamish, he has a tough stomach. I wouldn’t let one of ’em in my room with out serving them as David did Saul in the cave in the wilderness —cut off his skirt3. Don’t tell me that a true lady ever sacrifices the duty of keeping all about her sweet and clean to the wish of making a vulgar show. I won’t believe it of a lady. There are some things that no fashion ha3 a right to tonch, and cleanliness is one of those things. If a woman wishes to show that her husband or father has got money, which she wants and means to spend but doesn’t know how, let her buy a yard or two of silk and pin it to her dress when she goes out to walk, but let her unpin it when she goes into the house. [Waverly Magazine. There isn’t a particle of news in our city exchanges for the past week. If there is any thing which the average city editor can appreciate it is a well devel oped Christmas egg-nogg. A collision occurred on the Georgia railroad last week. Nobody hurt. Henry Grady, of the Atlanta Herald, has been quite ill with pneumonia. We are glad to know of his convalescence. The huge joke of the season i con sidered Speaker Kerr’s appointment of Hon. A. H. Stephens at the head of the committee on weights and measures. The only showing for Christmas jolli ties in an undeveloped city we know of was two old maids and but one young man, the latter being red-headed, cross eyed, left handed, and bow legged. The echoes from the frolic had the ling of a funeral dirge. Vol. IY.-No. 36. For The Gazette.] Mr. Editor: A communication in the last number of The Gazette on the sub ject of Female Education has attracted my attention, and I desire to say some thing through the medium of your valu able paper on the same subject. I heartily agree with the writer that it is a subject of the greatest importance to the community, and among the bene fits resulting therefrom are those which accrue to the merchants, the profession al men, business generally, and to the great cause of Christianity. I see on our streets every day a crowd of wagons, bringing in the products of the farmer and planter, products of our own and adjoining counties, and a good many from the mountains and from the “good old North State,” bringing down of their fruits and meats and grain, and many other good things so acceptable to our people, and inducing an inter change of trade and commodities Dro vers, too, from Tennessee and Kentucky, with their hogs and horses and mules, are litre, and quite a scene of business activity is going on every day. This shows that Elberton is a good point for business, and needs ©nly a lit tie help from other sources to make it first rate in all the good things which go to make up a most desirable town. Now, there is one fatal error which onr people have fallen into, and that is, that it is not my business or duty to help in any enterprise unless my imme diate necessities compel me to do so; thus, if I have no children to educate, I need not and should not aid in keeping up a school. What a great mistake this is. Aside from the duty of general ben efit to be derived from the promotion of education and good morals, those who have no children should aid those who have, thereby lightening their burden, and, to a certain extent, becoming a part or joint owner in those children’s sue cess, and certainly a participation in the joys arising from the satisfaction of see ing the fruits of their offerings illustrat ed in the improvement of the children of their neighbors and friends. The mei'cnants are perhaps more ben efited than any other class, l/ecause their sales are increased, and generally of those goods which bear the best profits ; and every merchant, if he is actuated alone by the desire of pecuniary gain, should feel that he is interested as much as if he had two or three children to educate. But I trust that a higher feeling aetu ates them. But, as I said, all business’and profes sional men in the town are benefitted, and the farmers in the surrounding coun try, inasmuch as it gives them a better market for a great many things easily raised on their farms and furnished to the boarding houses created by flourish ing schools. Now, it would seem that all should lend a helping hand in such a desirable work, and a little help from all is'all that is needed. But what I mean by help is not merely “hope so,” and “perhaps,” and “may be,” and ifs and good wishes, which, all added up, make the sum of do nothing. But by it I mean let every one do what i they can ; let those who have houses and a room that can be possibly spared open it and invite a boarder at a reasonable, living rate. Uet up funds and help and put the college building and grounds in thorough and complete, preparation, go out and electioneer and bring in scholars, and start the school and stand by it, visiting tlie institute often, and helping it in every way where help is needed. We have every encouragement. Here is a" fine community, a healthy town, pleasantly situated, quite a large num ber of young persons needing education, and last, though not least, if we may credit the writer of the article alluded to—“One of the Trustees,” who seems to know whereof he writes —wc have the offer of a teacher possessing the very highest gifts and qualifications for train ing the youthful minds in our commu nitv. The wise man in the book tells us that the price of a good woman is far above rubies. Then how eager we should be to secure the services of such an one to improve the minds, the mor als, and shape the destinies of our chil dren. W. December 23, 1875. PROBLEMS. At a time when eggs were scarce an old woman who possessed some remark able good-laying hens, wishing to oblige her neighbors, sent her daughter round with a basket of eggs to three of them. At the first house, whicn was the Squire’s, she left half the number of eggs she had and half a one over ; at the second she left half of what remain ed and half an egg over; at the third she again left half of the remainder and a half one over; she returned with one egg in her basket not having broken any. Required the number she started with J. P. S. Problem. —On the summit of a moun tain, a general made a square pyramid of common balls, each ball 6 inches 1 barley-corn in diameter. The base uf the pyramid contained 200 balls on each side In the absence of the general, a soldier, whom he had punished, climbed to the pyramid, and rolled 464,478 of the balls down the mountain, how many balls did he leave on the pyramid. Tyro. + Robert C. Lampkin, of Athens, is dead. LEGISTURE. Mr Editor, Dear Sir: —The time is near at hand for our legislature to meet, I have been looking auxiously for some one to suggest the making of two laws, to wit: The first and most important, is what I call a cotton baggers law, that is, a law preventing persons from trad ing in seed cotton. This is a nuisance that has become intolerable, and unless something is done to impede its pro gress I verily believe that the farmers as a mass, (I mean the intelligent farm ers) will take the matter in tneir own hands. It may be said by some that this is a white man’s law. Not so, for L assure you that there is not in all my knowledgs a single intelligent and hon est freedman who does not approbate such a law. The second is a dog law. This might not be such a popular law, but I believe the majoritor of our people would sus tain it, at least I know they would six months after its passage. I might go on in detail, a%d give my views of these matters, the evils, and so on ; but I forbear, believing, as I do, that the county at large is fully ac quainted with the evils attending these neglected matters. It is an old adage, that, where there is a will there is cer tainly a way. Therefore, I call earnest ly upon our worthy representatives to show their wll by their actions. If you can’t do ai y.hing towards theso mat ters, let us know that you have tried, and then we will be better satisfied to support you in future A Friemd to the County. For The Gazette.] AMO T AWFUL LIE. Mr. Yisotor : You stated in a paper some time ago, that you heard a sow talking to her master. Now, you low down, trifling, lying scamp, you very well know that I told you that sow and pigs were not mine, but you went and wrote about them, and lied awfully. Af ter I saw your scandalous piece in the jpaper, I called many things to rniud. One was, that you asked me particular ly about my cotton-patch. I told you I had been sick and had not been able to till the ground as it ought to be. I saw you punching the man in the buggy with your elbow as you went off, and I heard you say the reason that cotton was so good, it had such a good pasture to run in. You thought I did not hear you, you trilling Ethiopian, but 1 heard you plainly enough. Now L guess if you would look about home, you would see as many things out of fix as about mine The reason it hurt mo so was that every one I saw for a week after, asked me if that hog could talk as well as ever ; and I heard four or five say they were going to keep the paper, so they could refer to it at any time. Some went on to say that they aimed to subscribe for the paper, just on account of that article. It is a good' paper I know; but when a scand .lous article against me, is their only reason for tak ing the paper, I can toll you it makes me mad. As I live but eight miles from Athens, I rode out there in a few days, and every one bad it in his mouth, and directed all of their fun at me. I waDt for your safety to give yon a piece of advice : Wi.en you go to Athens hereaf ter, go some other way : for if I catch you here again I will pull you into such fine pieces, that a green fly cannot find a piece large enough to operate on—so stay away. A. M. L. Decalcomanie. —This is the name of a comparatively new art that is attract ing considerable attention at the present time. It consists in transferring pic tures which have been printed upon pa per in bigh and beautiful colors to any object one may wish to ornament, such as fans, work boxes, vases, flower pots, articles of furniture, &c. When trans ferred these pictures look painted upon the article ornamented, and they are much more attractive and beautiful than they would be if painted with a brush, unless executed by a skillful artist; in deed this beautiful art offers a complete substitute for the process of hand paint ing for most purposes. The pictures em brace a great variety of subjects, such as heads, landscapes, animals, ccmic figures, &c. The art is easily acquired and children even soon become experts. Transferring these pictures is a charm ing pastime for old or yoifllg, and serve* to cultivate a taste for the beautiful. We have received from J. L. Patten & Cos , 162 William Street, New York, who are dealers in transfer pictures, some handsome samples of their goods. These gentlemen will, for the small sum of ten cents, send full instructions in this beautiful art, together with ten handsome samples of the pictures, oj; for fifty cents they will send one hundred attractive pictures. Where Does It All Come From?— Pints and quarts of filthy Catarrhal discharges. Where does it all come from ? The mucous membrane which lines the chambers of the nose, and its little giands, |are diseased, so that they draw from the blood its liquid, and exposure to the air changes it into cor ruption. This life-liquid is needed to build up the system, but it is extracted, and the system is weakened by the loss. To cure, gain flesh and strength by using Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, which also acts directly upon these glands, correcting them, and apply Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy with Dr. Pierce's Nasal Douche, the only method of reaching the upper cavities, where the discharge accumulates and comes from. The instrument and both medi cines sold by druggists and dealers ia medicines. Reuben Payne, of Hancock, only mea sured up one hundred and eighty five bushels of corn from five acres of com mon upland, but ho has solemnly prom ised to do hotter. A Crawford county lad/ has a cat which she takes out rabbit bunting.