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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. SHANNON & WORLEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF the Northern Circuit and Franklin county jQgySpecial attention siren to collection. J. S. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBEiVTON, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevl7,ly L. J. GARTBELL, 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. ELBERTON BUSINESS CARDS. J. A. WREN, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST Has located fora short time at DR. EDMUNDS’ GALLERY, ELBERTON. GA. WHERE he is prepaied to execute every class of work in his line to the satisfac tion of 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 not pass a critical inspection it need not be taken. inch 24. tf. MAKES A SPECIALTY OF Copying & Enlarging Old Pictures T. J. BOWMAN & CO-, REAL ESTATE AGENTS ELBERTON GA. WILL attend to the business of effecting sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE ks Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS. Applications should be made to T. J. BOWMAN. SeplP-tf J. F. uATJIAD (Carriage MI an ufact r ELBERTON, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE OF 27 YEARS, |( hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O REPAIRING ANDBLACKSMITHING. Work done in this line in the very best style. The Best Planless TERMS CASH. My 22-1 T THE REAL LIVE Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. and See Him. THE ELBERTON DRUG STORE H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always on band a full line of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines Makes a specialty of STATIONERY and PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES Plain and fancy, just received, including a sup ply of LEGAL CAP. Cl OARS AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. F. A. F. WOn LETT, PMHfEAL MASON, ELBERTON, GA. Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK anywhere in Elbert county [jel6 6m CENTRAL HOTEL MRS, W. M THOMAS, PROFRIEIRESS, A.UGUSTA GA W. H. ROBERTS, CARPENTER & BUILDER ELBERTON; GA. I HAVE LOCATED IN ELBERTON WHERE I will be prepared to do all work in my line as cheap as any good workman can afford. Con tracts respectfully solicited. jgigg- Shop on the west' side of and near the jail. • •offini Made to Order. THE GAZETTE. .New Series. WADDELL. His Card in Reply to Senator Hester. Editors of the Constitution : I have lived over forty years. The while I have tried to serve my country and my kind, in season alike of war and peace. Never until a day or two since did any one attempt “to blur my name with foul dishonor.” A Senator named Hester, in his place, in the Senate, went out of his place, t j make a most wanton personal attack upon me—one of the managers of the Georgia State Lottery. Why he should have single 1 out me through whom to strike the institu tion a blow, I can’t conceive ; for it is certain I never knew the creature and never did the fellow a favor. His spoken speech “as the idle wind I regarded not.” In fact he is the only wind-mill I ever saw run by water (he drank four glasses of water while speaking.) I had r.o rights upon the floor of the Senate. But he has chosen to parade it—a liter ary gem—in the press. Through the press I may be heard. I must beg pardon for talking plain ly and calling things by their true names. There are nine lies in his printed speech important enough to bo noticed; there are seventeen others of compara tive insignificance. Senator Hester says: “Somo of the persons invited to participate in the scheme spurned it, among them being Mrs. Cobb, widow of Gen. Howell Cobb, once a Governor of the State.” The Senator’s chronology is at fault—Mrs. Cobb was not a widow then—Howell Cobb died nearly two years after the lottery act was passed. He was at Mil ledgevillo and favored its passage surely not for the benefit of his widow ! The Supreme Court was then in session at Milledgeville, and I well remember that when I approached the late Chief Jus tice Joseph Henry Lumpkin—clarum et venerabile nomen—to ask whether Mrs. Thomas R. R. Cobb would be benefitted by being of the number of trustees, he said: “My daughter is not without means of support—but my niece, Mrs. Wilson, whose husband fell in the fore part of the battle of Manasas is needy —make her a trustee.” Judge Lump kin is dead; but there are two living witnesses to the conversation, as I state it, besides myself—to wit: Major Mos es, of Columbus, and Mr. Harry, of Washington. The Senator says that I am “the head of the concern.” The truth is, lam its humblest member, and know less of its operations, outside of its benefactions, than any one else connected with it. He insinuates that I have made (or stolen]!) an immense amount of money out of the concern, as he called it. The insinua tion is a lie ! Not five hundred dollars of the salary allowed me ever got into my pockets, as those associated with me can testify. And if he will produce a single person who ever called on me for help in the time of need—if deserv ing—and who went away empty, I will take back the fixednest conviction of my mind, and say : “Hester is a gentle man.” The Senator says : “No reports have been made between the dates of the charter and the one above given.” An nual reports have been made since my connection with the concern, according to law. The Senator says : That I stated that “they had bought some other property, (besides the school building) out this had been sold and the money pocket ed.” That statement I pronounce a lie. I have not spoken to, nor seen a member of the Senate Committee on the Judi ciary since I saw Hester’s reported speech—nor. have I conversed with one of them on that point since I met them in committee; and lam willing to leave it to that committee, or to any one of them, as to whether this is not what I stated about the purchasing of “other property.” “The lottery bought fifteen acres of land within the corporate limits of At lanta, whereon to <rect an orphans’ homo. For lack of means no homo has been built yet. Indeed, the managers were compelled to sell some three or four acres of it to meet hits and pay current expenses. They still retain ten or twelve acres.” The creature talks about Waddell's “cream.” When and where have I tasted of it ? Ho insinuates, and, indeed, makes it a point of attack upon me, that 1 am an “educated man." Is that a crime ? By the favor of an honored uncle, I was permitted to grad uate, not without credit, at the Univer sity of Georgia. I paid him back four fold over in dollars and cents for his benefaction to me. His claim upon me had he presented it ever, would have bankrupted my gratitude! But I tried to help some others in the same way. Two of my wards have diplomas from the same institution at my expense.— Two others have been there, and though they did not graduate, they do no discredit to the man who sent them there. The creature speaks of me as the grandson of “Stephen” Waddell! I never should have believed that my grandfather's Christian name was “Ste phen”—if I had not seen it in print un der the imprimatur of “the Honorable Robert Hester”—Senator—selah! I had always heard that my grandfather was christened Moses. Why the Senator wanted to link to my ancestral patro nymic it was by the ESTABLISHED 1859. ELBERTON, GEORGIA. MARCH 1. 187 k principle of association of ideas, the “Stephen” whom some bad fellows “stoned”—l cannot imagine. The Sen ator must, however, mark the difference: They “stoned” “Stephen he is merely throwing mud at me. Paul minded “Stephen's” clothes. I will not pursue the parallel. The Senator (I desire to be polite) says that tickets are sold in the room adjoining the school building. Not a word of truth in that. No vender sells tickets there. He waxes eloquent upon a statement that I made as he alleges before the committee, to wit: that one of the or phan boys going to the school, at one time drew the numbers out of the wheel, and descanted grandiloquently upon the demoralizing bent such an incident must give to the boy’s character. Let me say that the boy who drew out the numbers is Scott Grist, a lad of some sixteen years, now in the employ of Governor Brown on the State Railroad at thirty dollars per month, four fifths of which he gives to the support of his widowed mother. Demoralization ? It is your sort of puritanic demoralization. Good men—men who can look into the clear pellucid stream of charity and not take hydrophobia at the sight—will feel a sensation of pleasure and thankfulness in the contemplation of such a fact; and wise men will be more thorougly con vinced of the truth that “all our bless ings are bought with a price.” You talk about morality! All your ideas of morality came over in the “May flower”—that same skiff that fruited De cember, and took root on Plymouth Rock, nearly three centuries ago. But even from that stock there were some good shoots. Do you know that Jona than Edwards and his son-in law found ed Princeton college with money raised by a lottery ? Princeton college, the alma mater of our Lumpkins, our Col quitts, our Crawfords ! Do you know, sir, (no ’squire) that the monument erected to commemoiate thenobie Pole, Pulaski, at Savannah, was the work of a lottery ? Do you know that General Greene’s monument was built by a lot tery ? Do you know that the gold ro gion of upper Georgia was disposed of by a lottery? Do you know—but I haven’t time to teach you history, to teach you truth. Life is too short. But, Puritan as you are, let me say to you that when we come to our final account in the day of general reckoning, I shall be willing to show sheets with you, and ask you to put into your side of the bal ance a weight which will make mo and my twelve hundred orphaned charge, whose fathers’ bones are bleaching upon every battlefield of the Confederate struggle from Galveston to Gettysburg, kick the beam. James D. Waddell. “Charge It.” A simple little sentence is this, to be sure, and yet it may be considered one of the most insidious enemies with which people have to deal. It is very pleasant to have all the little commodi ties offered for sale in the market, and it is something bard to deny one's self of the same when they can be obtained by saying “charge it.” But this habit of getting articles, however small the charge may be, without paying for them, keeps one’s funds in a low state most of the time. “I have no money to day, but should like the article much,” says a young man who happens to go into a store, and sees something which strikes his fancy. ‘difever mind,” says the clerk, “you aro good for it.” “Well, I will take it and you may charge it.” And so it is that little accounts are opened at one place and another till the young man is surprised at his liabili ties ; which, though small in detail, are sufficiently large in the aggregate to re duce his cash materially when settling day comes. In many instances, if the cash were required, the purchase would not be made even had the person the money by him ; but to some, getting an article charged does not seem like parting with an equivalent. Still, when pay day comes, as always it does, this illusion vanishes, and a feeling is experienced of parting with money and receiving nothing in re turn. If there is an actual necessity of ma king a purchase, and the means are not at hand, there is a reasonable excuse for obtaining the same on credit; but when the article can be dispensed with until payment can be made, it is much to the advantage of the purchaser to do so.” “We must have a nice set of furni ture,” says the young couple about to be united in marriage, “but we have not the means,’ however we will get it and have it charged.” And so they start life with a debt hanging over them for which there is no occasion. Were there any certainty of health and a supply of labor, - it would place rather a different construction upon the mat ter. But considering the fluctuations of business and the uncertainties of life, “Charge it,” is a very mischievous phrase. A raptured writer inquires: “What is there under heaven more humaniz ing, or if we may use the term, more angelizing than a fine black eye in a lovely woman?” Two black eyes is the only answer thought of at present. BROWN’S BREAKFAST. An Incident of the Polar Season. Mr. Brown is a Truckee man, and his wife usually gets breakfast. The other morning she didn't. She was sick. He said ho could cook. He had cooked in the mines. Was a rare hand at making flapjacks. He glanced at the thermom eter. It stood fifteen degrees below za ro. He found the kitchen floor covered with snow that had drifted in through the cracks. He would have taken a wash, but the basin was frozen to the bottom of the sink, and the water-pipe wouldn't work. Ha thought it must be frozen. He kindled a fire. It refused to draw. The flue was choked up with snow. He succeeded in thawing out the snow until it succeeded in thawing out his fire. This pleasant performance oc curred three times. When the fire at last got warm, Mr. Brown had three toes, two fingers, and a ear frozen. He intended to have a good breakfast, but the potatoes were frozen so hard he con cluded to omit them from the bill of fare. He slipped as he reached for the pan containing the pancake batter and the pan lit bottom upward on the floor. He first picked up the pan, then the batter. The latter was as solid as a stone cheese, and was 30 heavy that he despaired of its ever making light cake, and he thought he would omit the flap jacks. The cream was ice, and he got off a poor pun on ice-cream and guessed he would omit the cream. Eggs, meat and coffee were enough for breakfast.— drew out some coals and laid the steak on them. It was as pliable as an oak board, but he chuckled to think how the hot coals would fetch it to time. They did. In one minute it was done brown on the lower side. Ho turned it over, and in another minute both sides were brown. He smiled to think how easy it was to cook frozen beefsteaks. Ho put the steak on a plate. He forgot to warm the pi te. Some eggs wouldn’t go bad. With the hatchet 110 cracked off a piece of butter and put it on the frying-pan. It thawed and melted. He took an egg and dexterously tapped it on the edge of the frying pan. The shell seemed very hard. It didn’t crack. He struck it harder. No go. The egg was an oval chunk of ice. He lost all patience and threw it against the wall, but that chunk of ice rebounded and playfully skated across the kitchen floor. He picked it up and laid it where the steak v/as, among the coals. He watch ed it get brown, and then black where the coals touched it, and a gleam of tri umph lit up his eye. He would show that egg he was no chicken. When the lower half was burnt to a cinder, he took it up and split it with the hatchet. He had a piece of baked ice. The lower half was burnt to a coal, the upper half was ice. Asa scientific feat it was a success—to a hungry man it was a fail ure. It went out doors. Went quick. A happy thought struck him He would first chop up the eggs and then fry them. He cornered the egg and split it wide open with the hatchet. He split it up into little chunks. He couldn’t get the shell off. Thought it wouldn’t make much difference —would have egg on she half-shell. Bully joke. He laid Le pieces in the hot grease. Instead of frying, each pi see swelled up, became watery, and looked like Sanclio. He didn’t want any eggs; would omit them. Steak and coffee would answer. He hunted up the coffee-pot. It was two thirds full of what had been old coffee and was ice. He hadn’t time to thaw it, and the shape of the coffee-pot pre cluded the possibility of getting out the ice, as he had the pancake batter. He was compelled to omit the coffee. The steak was left Many a king hadn’t had steak for breakfast. Ho made a dive at it with his knife and fork. Guess he had struck a bone. Never heard of a bone in the fleshy part of a round steak. Dove again. Same result. Examination disclosed that the steak had been brown ed on both sides without thawing in the center. He had to use the hatchet in making the examination. He omitted the steak. He omitted to wash the dishes. When the snow disappears next spring a frying-pan, a steak, a coffee-pot, a hatchet, and a 1 ound, cheese-like piece of dough may be found in Brown’s back door-yard. After this when Brown’s wife is sick he’ll lie in bed until she re covers. He will omit getting breakfast. MAXIMS FOR FARMERS, It is worth while for all farmers, eve rywhere to remember that thorough culture is better than three mortgages on their farms. That good fences pay better than law suits with their neighbors. That more stock perish from famine than from founder. That a horse that lays his ear back and looks lightning when any one ap proaches him is vicious. Don’t buy him- That scrimping the feed of fattening hogs is a waste of grain. That over fed fowls won’t lay eggs. That educating children properly is money lent at 100 per cent. That one evening spent at homo in study is more profitable than ten loung ing around country taverns. That cows should always be milked regularly and clean. That it is the duty of every man to take a good, reliable, entertaining paper, aud pay for it promptly. Vol. IY.-No. 44. WUH EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES. French juries find as extraordinary verdicts as even our ow% do. Their peculiarity is appending the words “with extenuating circumstances” to their verdicts of guilty against mur derers. In one copy of a paper re ceived recently we found several in stances of “extenuating circumstances,” which show that the French have a strange power in the discovery of pal liation for crime. A young woman in the rural districts was denied by her parents the privilege of marrying the man of her choice. She did not sit down and weep and wail over her misfortune, nor did she die of a broken heart, as so many young women in novels do ; but she went out into the barn,armed herself with a hatchet, and returning to the room where her parents were, hacked their heads to pieces. The jury found her guil ty of murder “with extenuating circum stances." A young man had a slight dispute with a neighbor. He lured him to a woody tract near the town where they lived, and after talking for a while with his neighbor, in the most appar ently friendly way, deliberately shot him dead, then collecting a lot of brush wood, placed it around the murdered man and set fire to it. The jury found him guilty “with extenuating circum stances.” But the most extraordinary case of all was that of a M. Durane. He was a married man with two child ren. He had grown tired of his wife and his errant love had fallen upon a young er lady of greater beauty. The young lady proved cold to the fascinations of a man she knew to be married. To make the way clear to her possession, he cut the throats of his wife and two children, and then set fire to the house in which 110 lived to destroy the traces of his crime. He was tried and convicted, but the jury found that there were “ex tenuating circumstances” around oven this murder. A NARROW ESCAPE. The wild beast tamer, Bidel, now exhibiting his menagerie near the Chat eau d’Eau, Paris, narrowly escaped be ing torn to pieces recently. Ho had, as usual, entered the large cage in which he had assembled three lions, two hye nas, two bears, a jackal, a sheep, and an elephant, when one of the lions and one of the bears commenced to growl at each other, and then to fight. Bidel in terposed, and seizing the bear by the flesh of the neck, dragged that animal away from his adversary, but the lion not liking this intervention, struck at the tamer with his paw, tearing the flesh off his hand, and laying open his leg down to his knee. The cage was sprinkled with blood, which the bear be gan to lick up, and, as the man remark ed, seemed to find it to his taste. A moment’s hesitation and the tamer would have been devoured, but he for tunately did not lose his presence of mind. Advancing straight to the two animals, he dealt them each somo heavy blows with his whip, aud when he had brought them crouching at his feet, he qnietly stepped from the cage. A feel ing of terror had spread among the audience, and only calmed down when Bidel, after having had his wounds dressed, came forward aud bowed to the public. WANTED, A REVIVAL OF HONESTY. Yes ! we do need a revival of common honesty. The church needs it; and her preaching, her discipline, and her wholo religious force ought to be turned with unyielding rigor in this direction. And the world needs it—in full proportion to its overwhelming numbers and resources and interests. For this very reason the world needs revivals of religion, pure and undefiled before God and man.— Business may revive but unless there shall come with it a great revival even of the ordinary morals of trade, anew term of prosperity will only produce a greater harvest of frauds. For this reason the very best friends of religion and of genuine revivals of religion should be our men of business. The good work should begin in their stores and shops and counting rooms and fac tories Let the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount be the rule of their business and they will do more to spread righteousness and to hasten the coming of heaven on earth than they have ever done before. An Ohio editor sat down the other day and commenced a powerful editorial headed, “How Shall we Rise?” After writing half a column he left his chair for a few minutes and when he sat down pretty emphatically on a bent pin place ed there by the “devil,” he soon as certained “How to Rise,” but he finished the article in the manner ha designed when starting out, notwithstanding. Then he made the “devil” rise.— Norristown Herald. The French do not bury in single graves like their English breathren. They buy or hire a plot of ground four or five, or nine or ten feet square, if they are rich, and there d;g one grave deep enough for all the family. Over this is built a little house in stone —a chapel—in the sides of which aro written the names of the dead below. Statistics are given to prove that of the sum totaUof human misery, physic al and mental, women have to bear two thirds. PLANT CORN! PLANT IT NOW! CONTIN UE TO PLAN r, AND THEN PLANT MORE. Planters gem rally kno 7 their own business better than other people do, but we have no fear of being snubbed by them for using a common sense aud self evident proposition. This country cannot bo prosperous cr independent while it depends upon tho West and other sections for tho prime necessities. The system of reising cot ton to buy provisions has been suffi ciently tried to satisfy every man engag ed in agriculture, that it is a fallacy aud disastrous. No people ever yet pros pered who did not produce their own provisions, and none have ever had sad der experience of this fact than the planters of Middle and Southern Geor gia. Then, we say, let 11s try this year to produce enough to live upon. If every planter will add thirty p r cent, to his corn acreage, and make a provision crop the paramount good, plenty will smilo all over this goodly land of ours, and. tho cotton crop will be a clear profit.— Our appeal is to plant corn ! continue to plant corn ! and then plant more! put every available rich acre ip corn, and put corn in poor places under cot ton seed and other fertilizers. Corn is the cry! Lot it go round. [Albany News. HUNTSVILLE, ALA. On a late Sabbath, a very interesting service was held in the Presbyterian church of Hnutsville. llev. Dr. Ross, who has been its pastor for over twenty years, resigned tho pastorate in a few feeling and appropriate words; and Ruv. J. I). Bulkhead, of Georgia, assum ed the responsible position so long and ably filled by his venerable predecessor. It was a spectacle sublime in its severe simplicity, and one calculated to awnk en in the mind many sad, as well as sol emn emotions. Dr. Ross now retains the position of Emeritus pastor, as well as tho love and reverence of his entiro congregation. Air. Burkhead is a man in tho prime of lifo, educated, eloquent, full of originality, and of a nature earn est and active, and his presence here promises not only to benefit bis own church, but the entiro community. [Huntsville Paper. A SLY OLD FOX The Reese River (Nev.) Reveille tells the following: “There was an old fox which for a period of several years had continually evaded tho fleetest and keenest-scented hounds, the scent being invariably lost in the vicinity of a bouse situated in the woods and far removed from any habitation, and which jvas used as a storehouse for pelts. Atf last one day the hounds started the old fox, and away ho went in the direction of tho bouse, with a pack of young hounds in full cry after’ him, but on nearing tho house he disappeared leaving the hounds and huntcrc non-plusscd as usual. While the hunters were gathering in and around the house discussing the frequent mysterious disappearance of the fox, a veteran hound cmno limping up, and, entering the door, set up a vig orous burking and tried to jump up on the wall. His singular action attracted the attention of the hunters, and an ex animation being made, tho old fox was found suspended by his tail to a nail in tho wall, keeping perfectly still, and looking, unless closely observed, like the pelts with which tho walls were hung. This plainly showed that the old fox, when too closely pressed, bad taken refuge on tho nail by his tail, which was the reason for the dogs al ways losing the scent at that particular place.” 4. + —— HI9 LITTLE GROCERY. Ho was a clean-colored man of advanced age, and when lie entered a wholesale house on Vese.y street, N. Y , one of the clerks politely informed him that the situation of porter was already filled. “Does I look like a man who’d be regarded as a porter ?” demanded the stranger. “Ah! excuse me.” “You is discused, sail. Whar’ is do foreman? Over dar, eh? No, sar, I don’t want to be porter. I’zo one ob the solid men ob Newark, and I’ze here on ’portant business.” He wanted goods There were lots, of goods there, and it was very easy to suit him as to prices, lut he had no money and no recommendations. “De pay is sure in sixty days,” ho urged. “But you can’t give no security .” “Wllat you wants of security ? Won’t de goods bo dar ?” “You may have sold them ! ” “Den won’t the money be dar, all counted out on the counter? And if de money ain’t dar, anti do ole woman s gone, and de childron, can’t Ibo frowed into bankruptcy and all smashed up ?” But ho didn’t get any goods. Billings succeds Durell as United States District Judge in Louisiana. This appointment, remarks tho New York World, and this confirmation re news and refreshes the responsibility of President Grant and the Republican party for their crimes in Louisiana. It was becoming possible for them to expel that issue from the approaching ejections. It is not possible now; and tho Ro publican party goes on trial before tho people of the United States for crime 1 against a republican self-government without parallel in our history—now endorsed anew in the promotion of tho authors and abettors of thoso crimes. Yon Bulow recently s id: “Another thing about American women whioh de lights me is tho size and character of tho ear. That is one of tho first tilings I look at. A handsome ear is a wonder ful feature about a woman. When it is well rounded and finely chiseled it is a | magnet to any man of taste,"
