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Editor and Publisher.
Tho Executive Committee of the Dem
ocratic party orf Elbert county are re
quested to meet at Elberton on the 24th
inst., to consider, among other things :
Ist. Shall we order a convention ? If a
convention should be ordered, 2d.
When shall it be held ? 3d. If the con
vention should be determined by the
committee to be called, how is it to be
called —en mass or by district repre
sentations ? These are the questions
which I hope will prove portent enough
to draw you hither, especially in view of
the impending troubles that threaten the
country, and other matters that pertain
to the party which have selected you and
I to look after its interest, requires this
of you, and you, as patriots, should
gratefully yield it, to those who have
confided tho trust —your countymon—
your party. E. P. Edwards, Ch’n.
J. L. Clark, Sec’y.
Died,
On Friday, the 9th inst., Mrs.
Hansford, wife of Patrick Hansford, of
asthma.
The Jury List
Will bo revised, by Commissioners
appointed for that purpose, on tha 24th
inst. The Commissioners are: 11. P.
Mattox, J. L. Heard, Jas. M. Willis, J.
A. Andrew, T. A. Chandler.
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Gusiiings.—J. P. Shannon, Esq., El
berton’s accomplished lawyer, and Prof.
Dillard, of the Elberton Collegiate Insti
tute, paid a flying visit to Lexington
Depot last week. Their return to their
friends the next day was warmly wel
comed.
Don’t fail to bo at tho block when the
bell rings to-morrow morning, for Mr.
George M. Maxwell will have a fine beef
neatly butchered for sale.
•
Oltango of Postmasters.
It is said that a change of postmas
tors has been, or is about to bo, made in
Elberton by tho department—Dr. A. E.
Hunter retiring and tho position to be
filled by J. 11. Duncan, with J. A. Dun
can as assistant, the office to be made a
money order office.
“Betwoen two Days.”
Jacob Mohr, a German who has been
staying about Elberton for several
months, left suddenly and unexpectedly
on Sunday night last, with divers 'and
sundry little bills unpaid. “Dntchf Jake”
is about live feet fivo inches high, very
black hair and eyes and very dark com
plexion, and has been complaining for a
week or two of his left hand being sore.
No reward will be paid for his return.
♦
The New Methodist Church.
The contract for the construction of
the new Methodist church at. Elberton
was awarded last Wednesday to Mr.
Norton, of Oglethorpe county, the
work to be done for tho sura of SI,GOO.
The dimensions of the building will be
35x50 foot, with an 3 foot vestibule, 18
feet from floor to ceiling, and will be
finished in modern style. There will be
four windows on each side, and two at
each end, with two doors at tho front
for entrance. There will be two rooms
cut off from the vestibule—one for libra
ry and one for lumber. Tho steeple will
rise 70 feet from the ground.
Mr. Norton, though comparatively un
known among our people, comes highly
recommended from his county, and no
fears are entertained but that the job
will be properly done.
Tho Ladies’ Sewing Socioty have ap
pointed a building committee, consisting
of J. H. Jonos, T. J. Bowman, T. M.
Swift, R. M. Heard, and liobt. Hester,
which is a sufficient guaranty against
failure.
No time has been fixed for the com
pletion of the work, but it will be push
ed forward as rapidly as circumstances
will permit.
The 11. I. Kimball House was sold by
the sheriff of Fulton county, under the
John Rice mortgage fi. fa., subject to
the balance due Dr. Jos. Thompson for
purchase monoy for the ground. This
sale stops all litigation about this valua
ble property, and tho house and fur
niture is now the property jointly of
Col. G. W. Adair, Mrs. Mary C. Kimball
and John Rice. We also learn that tho
unfinished portion of tho house will be
completed at an early day. Gen. Robert
Toombs was present during tho sale;
also Judge Hopkins. Those gentlemen
were the attorneys of Adair and Kimball.
Col. N. J. Hammond, Col. Rice’s attor
ney, bid ©ff the property for the sum of
$l5O.
On tho 27th instant the Democatic Na
tional Convention will assemble at St.
Louis. It will be composed of seven
hundred and thirty-eight members. Of
the delegates, two hundred and twenty
six will be from the Eastern States, two
hundred and twolve from the Western
States, two hundred and seventy-six
from the Southern and twenty
four from the Pacific. Under the two
thirds rule, four hundred and ninty-two
votes will be necessary to a nomination.
A Tribute to the Ladies.
For a great many years the question
of providing a more commodious and
Suitable building for the Methodist de
nomination in this place has been talked
of, and for a long time it lynounted to
nothing more. In 1870 to have heard
some of the men of Elberton talk, you
would have believed that before the
lapse ef ’7l a church would have been
completed second to none in Georgia.
We remember how they spoke of it. An
edifice of granite of no mean dimensions
can and must be built, they said, and w©
shall dedicate it to the memory of the
lamented Bishop Andrew, (a great and
good man) and it shall be a structure
that the country will be proud of. Now,
this was all well so far as it went, but
it didn’t go far enough. It proved to
be a bubble from some effervescent indi
viduals that are always overcharged
with such gas. We would not under
rate the imaginary conceptions of these
visionary persons to properly estimate
the character of the ladies more practi
cal and substantial manner of thinking,
but as yet no one has walked the aisles
of that magnificent temple projected in
’7O and finisded in ’7l.
Over two years ago a little baud of la
dies set out with firm hearts and fixed de
terminations to do something toward
building the much needed house. 'Twas
a great undertaking, but having seen
the ignominious collapse of the splendid
air-castle and having been prompted
by motives of the purest type—hon
oring God and His cause—they with un
swerving energy and zeal pressed on
with their good work, plying the needle,
soliciting subscriptions, and procuring
funds in every honorable way possible
to advance their project.
Difficulties numerous and various rose
calculated to dampen their interest, but
with indefatigable earnestness and un
tiling manual effort did they continue
through adverse winds and inauspicious
surrounding until now their church is
about to be erected, their hopes realized.
Is this nothing f A $1,700 improve
ment to be put upon a church in a town
like Elberton by the exertions mado sole
ly by a few ladies"? It is a grand, mag
nificent achievement, and paeans for
time to come will be given by genera
tions yet unborn to these nobles ladies,
and an extra star of resplendent glory
will be placed in their crowns when
they reach the home beyond the skies.
We are proud of our women and the
names of tho ladies of the Elberton Sew
ing Society will bo handed down to pos
terity surrounded with honor and per
petuated for ages with unstinted es
teem.
The work on the church we under
stand will commence now in a short
time.
The Negro in Politics.
We publish in this paper a sensible
note from Rev. A. W. Watson on tho
propriety of lugging politics into tho
church, which we wish every negro in
tho county could read. W r atson takes a
proper view of the question and his po
sition will bo endorsed by the thinking
people of the county.
Wo learn that political clubs have
been organised by the negroes through
out the county—one of which meets at
Wyatt Jeter’s shop in Elberton—and
that one Nathan Thompson, a county
negro, travels around among them, do
daring himself the “Chairman of the
Executive Club,” whatever that may be,
claiming his appointment from Gen.
Grant, and says it is made his duty to
visit each organized club, and read to
them the Civil Rights Bill, and also to
urge the negroes generally to demand
their rights—ono of which is the right
to be placed on tho jury, and much more
of the same nature.
We are glad to see that we have among
us some negroes who are capable of see
ing through the schemes of the designing
politician, and the day is past when they
can be led like sheep. Let them thrust
out from among them those who would
array them against Southern people—
their only true friends—and the time
will then have coma that frees them
from the thieves and vagabonds of their
class, and places them in position of
prosperity for the future.
Accident.
A little son of Mr. William Pulliam,
who lives a few miles above Elberton,
was seriously, and it is feared fatally, in
jured on Saturday last by being thrown
from a wagon. The facts of the sad oc
currence, as near as we can learn them,
are about as follows : The little fellow,
about 13 years old, hitched tho horse to
a wagon to haul some wood, taking his
little sister with him. The horse being
imperfectly hitched, ran away with the
wagon, and brought it up against a tree
with such violence as to throw both
children out. The little girl was stun
ned for several hours, but her injuries
aro considered slight; but the boy was
insensible from the time of the accident
until Sunday morning, when we last
heard from him, and it is very much feared
that his injuries will prove fatal. His
breast is badly bruised, and his head is
badly mangled.
Yesterday morning we learned from
Dr. A. C. Mathews, who had \isited the
patient, that he was still in a comatose
condition, which he thought proceeded
from an injury to the skull. He does
not, however, consider the little fellow’s
case hopeless, but that he has hopes of
his recovery.
Small Grain Crop.
Tho complaint among farmers is gen
oral since harvesting commenced that
wheat is turning out badly, more so even
than the least confident expected. Too
much straw for the grain, is the general
cry, and about half a crop is the esti
mate.
The oat crop is turning out well, es
pecially of the fall sowing, which will af
ford much relief to those who have been
buying corn.
With the breaking up of tho present
wet spell, tho threshers all over the
I county will start out.
Here and There.
Commencement!
“O, pull down yer vest,” is now the
popular slang.
Some mischievotTs boys have been go
ing into the Methodist church and trou
King the organ lately. Hereafter a close
watch will be kept about the premises,
and if the depredators are caught they
will ba punished by having umbrellas
run down their throats and spread.
Mrs. Capers is to continue as princi
pal of the E F. C. I. The institute has
improved and flourished under her man
agement.
And now the shrill tones of the bugle
and the buzz-buzz of threshing-machines,
reminds us that just one year has elaps
ed since the fourteenth day ox last
June.
Not far distant in the future there is
to be a pic-nic at Almonds’ mill. We
have heard it.
Hurrah ! for the building committee
of the Methodist church. They have at
last let the contract for this edifice to
a builder by the name of Norton. We
knew all they wanted was time.
Potato slips set out at this season of
the year are said to produce better po
tatoes for seed than those planted ear
lier.
The blackberry crop is said to have
the rust to some extent, though not
enough to injure it seriously. A failure
in this crop would bo something unu
sual.
The “Empires” are becoming thor
oughly acquainted with baseballism. But
few have been ao lucky as not have re
ceived a “foul” somewhere on their per
son.
Commences the A. M. H. S. commence
ment next Sunday week.
Tho Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion is said to be in a prosperous con
dition.
Rev. J. B. Morton, is absent on a visit
to his relatives in Virginia, in conse
quence of which the pulpit here was not
filled by him Sunday. May he enjoy the
trip to the Old Dominion.
The man who started the century
question for pasttirce during the sum
mer months ought to have been drown
ed in his youth. Its discussion about
here has been pestilential.
Jacob Mohr, has vanished sure, to
be seen no more in those parts oh. Last
Sunday night he left, it is supposed for
the centennial.
When you see a crowd of canines
solemnly grouped around a departed
brother, you need ask no questions as
to the cause of his death. He has baen
pisined.
Persons having cribs and smokehous
es with any thing in them, had better
keep a sharp lookout on their premises.
There are many negroes in the country
to day that do not know where their
rations are to come from to-morrow, and
a body seldom ever loses much by be
ing cautious.
Mr. Girard W. Allen had plenty of
cotton over a week ago that had three
squares to the stalk. But this is noth
ing—every other farmer in the county,
now since it’s been mentioned will say,
“Oh, pshaw ! I had ’em over three weeks
ago.” So wags the world.
The negroes had a debate in town
the other night arguing the question,
“which is the most beneficial to a coun
try, a rogue or a liar ?” Being well
acquainted with the practices from experi
ence, wo presume both sides was thor
oughly sifted.
Ice, raspberries, junebugs, cream, pa
per collars, catnip tea, and bacon are
much in demand.
If tlm times are dull and hard, need a
body worry to death talking about them.
Lifeis too short. Why not take it as it is
without a murmur ? Does a continual
blow about it help matters ?
We dreamt the other night the court
house had fallen down, and killed the
Clerk of the Superior Court, the Ordi
nary, Judge VanDuzer, Notary Public
Carpenter, and tho County Commission
ers who happened to be in session. See
here! let’s have tho old shell fixed up at
all hazards.
A little girl passing this office the
other day came to cur window and with
a sweet smile on her face presented us
with a boquet of rese3 and jasmines.
May pleasures surround with its en
chantment, and the beauty of life with
its witchery all her days.
“Where’s that bottle of paregoric !”
bawled out an Elberton father about 12
o’clock the other night to administer a
dose to his precious little boy who had
the day before eaten a peck of green ap
ples. “In the pantry,” replied his wife.
"Without a light he made for that apart
ment, and just as he stepped in the
room he slipped up on a meat skin, over
turning a kit of mackerel falling with
such a jar as to knock a pickle bottle
full of Cayenne pepper in his face, and
got one hand caught in the rat trap. It
is needless to add that the boy has held
up ou apples.
The tiny boquet that was thrown to
Gen’l. Colquitt last Wednesday, by a
school miss, was worn off by that gen
tleman in the button hole of his coat
Wall, 'what of it?
The wheat crop is not as good as was
once thought by many of our best farm
ers.
Some of the boys are pining for the
mountains.
The terminus of the present session
of the Female School will be of much
interest we learn.
The railroad barbecue is a certainty
we understand, and will be made an en
joyable affair.
The wild turkeys in the Ruckersville
section of the county set themselves up
as targets for Uncle Sam Stoniker to
practico on, and wo know it’s aggrava
ting to the old gentleman when, just for
fun, one falls as if wounded until he
comes up to catch it and then gives him
the slip. We wonder if he’s found his
hat and shot pouch !
There’s been a protracted meeting go
ing on at tho Methodist church for near
ly a week.
We suppose there will be but one as
pirant if that for each couuty office the
next election, judging from announce
ments.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
FROM OCR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
Washington, D. C., Juno 5, 1870.
There appears to be little of interest stirring
this morning. The Blaine investigation lias not
of course developed any new features since the
adjournment .of the committee on Saturday.
Whatever may bo the result, it now seem3 to be
all sufficient to blast Mr. Blaine’s prospects for
the Presidential nomination at Cincinnati. This
letter writing seems to be a risky business. A
single foolish letter ruined poor Fitzhugh and
now fifteen of the Lord knows what kind have
ruined Mr. Blaine. This by the rule of propor
tion seems but fair, taking as it did one to ruin
a doorxeeper, fifteen ought to be sufficent to
have the same effect with an ex-Speaker and
prominent candidate for a Presidential nomina
tion. The full committee held a secret meeting
on Saturday morning lasting two hours, but no
decision vras reached as to what courso the
committee would recommend in the event of
Mr. Blaine’s refusal to produce the letters he
took from Mulligan, the witness. Since Mulli
gan’s sworn statement, revealing the dishonora
ble manner in which Blaine procured possession
of the letters, the latter has felt that he stood
in a sorry attitude before the country. After
sacrificing so much to procure the letters, he
could not well surrender them to the commit
tee. Bis refusal to do so only complicated af
fairs and wrought additional injury to his Presi
dential prospects. Quick to comprehend this,
the active mind, boundless in resources, cast
about for some expedient through which, by a
bold stroke, he could restore himself to the good
opinion of his admirers at least. It seemed
probable that the golden opportunity would be
afforded him by the Judiciary Committee. He
refused to deliver up the letters.JJwas brought to
the notice of the committee for action, and the
question of bringing him to the bar of ibe
House was discussed. The committee wisely
concluded that Blaine courted just such an op
portunity as this, as it would give him a chance
to proclaim to the Republicans of the country
that he was. persecuted, by the Confederate Con
gress for the manner in which he bravely wared
the bloody shirt at the beginning of the session.
He was informed of the action of the committee
by hi3 spy, Frye, of Maine, and, as lie could not
appear in the role of a martyr, be would appear
as a persecuted man, pursued by the malignity
of ex-rebels, who were eager to ruin him to
avenge the insults he had offered them. It was
current rumor last night that Blaine intended to
produce the letters and have them read in the
House during the week. When the House met
at twelve it was evident that some devilment
was afloat. Contrary to custom, Blaiue was in
his seat, to the left of the Speaker, and most of
the Republican members were present. llunton’s
committee had met at lento coatinuo the inves
tigation of Blaine’s cash, but Blaine was not in
attendance, lie bad misunderstood the time,
his man Friday (Frye) said, but his being
promptly in his seat showed that Blaine had
other ’fisli to fry. As soon as the morning hour
was over Blaine procured the floor, Cox being
in the Chair, and began one of the most extra
ordinary harangues ever permitted in a legisla
tive body. Under the question of privilege he
began an assault upon the Judiciary Cemmittec,
arraigning it for its course in investigating, im
pugning the motives of members, and charging
that the course had been pursued through the
malice of cx-rebcls. The new3 that Blaine had
the floor seemed to sweep through tho Capitol
on the wings of the breeze that surged through
the great edifice. From every floor and every
room persons came in breathless haste to hear,
drawn by the magnetism of the name and man.
Senators from the Senate, lobbyists, San
derson’s clerks from the committee rooms, spec
tators and members from the investigations,
idlers from the corridors, all streamed in at tho
doors pell-mell, eager to catch every word and
mark every act in the thrilling drama about to
be enacted. Among tho Senators were Morton,
Sherman, Hamlin and McDonald. Tho full fig
ure of Dan Voorhees, and Charley Eldridgc and
his friend Hallet Kilbourn were noticeable
among the dense throng that found in the outer
circle seats like spectators at a prize fight. The
galleries were crowded to suffocation, and eager
crowds were gathered about the doors. Cor
respondents were so piled upon each other in
the newspaper gallery that the vast audience
were all connected by contact and forrnod a cir
cuit for the magnetism that emanated from
Blaine as from a great battery. He had tho
audience completely at his power and played
upon them as skillfully as Rubinstein upon his
piano.
He reached his first culminating point when
he defied an ex-rebel committee to drag him
before the bar far his insolence, and applause
went up from the negre galleries and Republi
can side of the House. He reached his second
when he drew the famous packet of letters from
his inside pocket, and shaking diem nervously
high above his head, he announced his intention
to read them, round after round of applause
went up, and some Republicans even shed tears
of admiration at the boldness of this miscreant
man who had been assailed by rebels. Mr. Cox
struggled hard to maintain order, but he was
only a ship tossed about upon the turbulent sea
that Blaine bad agitated. It was a supreme
moment in Blaine’s life. His boldness and elo
quence carried everything before him, and reas
on could not find a place to stand in the confus
ion that he had excited. But the tide began to
ebb when he concldcd the first letter. He read
the last letter written first, and mixed the dates
purposely to destroy the effect of reading them
iuj their regular order. A buzz of comment
went up after each letter. The effect produced
was far from favorable. There are confessions
in every letter that would ruin any public man
but Blaine. But he did not allow time for com
ment. There remained one more grand exhibi
tion, which was the climax of this exciting
scene.
Advancing boldly and rapidly to the open
space before the Speaker’s stand, in loud tones,
with sweeping gestures and irresistible manner,
he faced Proctor Knott and Hunton, and charged
them with having received a telegram on Thurs
day last from Josiah Caldwell completely ex
onerating him, which they had concealed to in
jure him. The scene that ensued defies the
pswer of words to portray. First came a brief
pause, as if all were catching breath, the faint
ripple of applause, clapping ef hands, and then
an outburst, grand as war, that swept every
body’s sensos away, like the tornado that sweeps
everything in its progress. Men stood on their
feet and sent up yells that almost shattered the
glass in the ceiling, women wept, strong men
tried to conceal tho moisture of their eyes,
handkerchiefs waved, some laughed for joy, and
all looked startled at the outrage that had been
offered to the dignity of the House, while Blaine
enjoyed the greatest triumph of his life. Poor
Cox' He hammerod and pounded the desk like
a base drummer at a township meeting. He
called for the Doorkeepers, Sergeant-at-Arms
and police, and summoned all the forces at his
command to awe the storm. Outsiders were
excluded from the floor, the galleries warned,
Blaine subsided and silence followed. In the
wake of this unexampled outburst, if Blaine
could have shut off all further debate right then,
and prevented all further debate, to-morrow’s un
would have shown upon twenty millions of
Americans—who love cheek, courage and au
dacity, even in a public thief—worshipers oi
one who has been false to every duty entrusted
to his charge by a confiding people.
But, alas 1 he was followed by nunton and
Knott, aud his bubble was .burst. Hunton was
cool, calm, fair and judicial, and slowly, step by
step, lie proved Blaine’s exaggeration in every
particular, and did not leave him a single doubt
to seek refuge under. It was necessary to add
variety to the scene by numbering humor among
the list of persons and feeling that had been
proved by the heated words in this wonderful
debate. This was done by Hunton’s allusion to
Blaine’s subterfuge iu inducing Lawrence, of
Ohio, to move an adjournment of the committee
ou account of sickness. This brought Lawrence
to lii3 feet, but his attempted explanation only
made matters werse, and he subsidedamid roars
of laughter that were a happy relief to the in
tense excitement of the agitated assembly. As
llunlon retired the short, comical figure of Proc-
tor Knott, the immortal orator of Duluth, came
to the front, and he began in the most biting
sarcasm that ever fell from the lips of a man in
debate. The Republicans wilted under his keen
retorts, that cut deep, like flashing claymore in
the band of a Highland ehief. Etery son fence
was a crnel stab, and the Republican nature
could stand no more when he asserted that in
all things Hr# rebels on the sub-comnrittee he
had appointed to invegtigate were Blaine's
equals, and in honor they were Blaine’s superi
ors. This was greeted by hissing from such
public men as Garfield, of Ohio, and a dozen
others. But this most unual demonstration was
quickly meet by a retort that speedily silenced
it, and those who participated in it looked
sneaking. This concluded the excitement, and
the debate was concluded by a reference of
Blaine’s defiant resolution to the very commit
tee that be was trying to impeach. This closed
the scene of brazen impudence well in keeping
with the gilded age in which we live.
Dkm.
Miss Fannie Rice, oar excellent mil
liner, has just received a nico assort
ment of dress goods, consisting of Mns
lins, Poplins, and Grenadines. She
desires a call from her many lady friends
for an inspection of her new stock.
JUDGE POTTLE FOR CONGRESS.
“We see the name of Judge E. 11.
Pottlo suggested as a good man to
represent this District in the next
Congress. It strikos very favorably.
In looking over the District wo do not
think of an available man who would
make us a better representative.
Although the people delight to hon
or Alex. Stephens, we do not beliovo
he will allow hi3 name to go before
the next convention, for reasons so
plain and well understood that their
mention is unnecessary.
Judge Pottle is a clear-headed, cool,
conservative man, a deep thinker, an
able debater, and as true a Democrat
as ever breathed the balmy air of the
South. He is not the man to enter
any scramble for office—in fact wo do
not know that he has ever had a
thought in that direction, but wo do
know that he would mako an able and
trustworthy representative.”
We copy the above from tho Spar
ta Times & Planter of last week. —
Whatever has been said on this sub
ject has been entirely gratuitous on
the part of the journals making tho
suggestion, at Judge P. cannot be
numbered among those who are “can
didates” for tho position. He has not
nor will not seek it, but if there should
arise circumstances under which the
use of his name would herd discord
in the party, and be of real benefit to
his State and section, Judge P. is too
much of a patriot to refuse his consent
to such use. If that docs not come to
pass he will remain in the discharge
of tho duties of his prosent position,
which he has filled so ably and acccpta
biy.
For ourself we would like to see him
nominated, and we aro satisfied the
interests of the District could not be
committed to better hands.
[Warrenton Clipper.
BLOOD RELATIVES.'
A number of letters are published
from persons claiming to be relatives
and heirs of tho late A. T. Stewart.
Some of the letters are addressed to Mrs.
Stewart and some to Judge Hilton, and
all toll the same story of hitherto undis
covered relationship, and a desire to
share the wealth of the deceased mer
chant and millionaire. The letters come
from all parts of the globe. One i3 from
a wealthy vicar in Ireland, urging the
claims of James and Annie Carrick.
Another is a rather cheeky epistle from
Mrs. Mattie Stewart, Watertown Now
York, claiming to be a niece of Mr.
Stewart’s. She says she workod eleven
years under an assumed name. Another
communication comes from tho spirit
land without signature, and recommend
ing to Mrs. Stewart the charitable dis
tribution of certain quack nostrums.
Still another comes from a cousin named
Alexandor Stewart, of Proctorsville,
Vermont, who, unfortunatley, was too
late to see the late Mr. Stewart person
ally. Several are letters from orphans.
Several letters have certificates of per
sonal idenitity and character attached.
Some are intensely pathetic, as in tho
case of Mrs. Hull, of Manchester, who
says she hasjexperienced intonse grief cn
learning of her cousin’s death in the
papers. These aro specimens of hund
reds of letters received by the exocutors
of Mr. Stewart during the past few weeks.
The Herald’s Washington special says
Blain's friends feel coufident that he will
bo tho nominee of the Cincinnati Con
vention. No other candidate has been
so thoroughly investigated. They claim
that fewer new charges could be brought
against him than against any other.
The same special says there is an under
standing between Bristow and Morton
that the latter’s strength shall go to
the former in case he i3 compelled to
abandon the field himself.
ASKOSIiXEM ENTS.
The friends of T. M. Turner respect
fully announce him as a candidate for the Gen
eral Assembly of Georgia.
177( CENTENNIAL TRANSPORTATION SO!
1 A AHiIANGBIttENT |f}| SI
Ah ■ of the
Great Atlantic Coast Line!
FOP. the ACCOMMODATION of VISITORS to ALL POINTS SOUTH
The Railway and Steamship Companies between Augusta and Philadelphia, comprising the
ATLANTIC COAST LINE, will, during the progress of
The Centennial Exhibition of the United States,
present for the patronage of tho citizens of the South routes of trnnsp irtatiou and forms of tickets
upon which to reach Philadelphia that will immeasurably excel all other lines in point of DI
RECT DAILY MOVEMENT, COMFORTABLE ACCOMMODATION, VARIABILITY ot TRANSIT,
ECONOMY OF EXPENDITURE. To enable'this to be done, the combined Railway Lines south
of Norfolk, together with those of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company and the Old Dominion
Steamship Company, will be employed, and the individual tourist, the social party ot ten, twenty
or more, or the civic or military organization ot 100 to 300, can uacli be cared tor in a manner
that will satisfy tbeir desires.
Pries Lists , Time Curds and all needful information are now in hands oj all Agents of this Line .
It will be to the interest of every‘individual or organization proposing to make this trip to
communicate with the undersigned K@f“A Centennial Exhibition Guide Book as authorised by
the Commission will be >iiveu to the purchaser ot each Centennial ticket.
[myls-Am] A. POlMl], General Passenger Agent.
Liver Com plain r.- By R. V Fierce, M. D, cf
(he World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N Y-, Au
thor of “The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser," etc., etc.
Tile Liver is the profit depurating (purifying)
organ of the system, and lias very appropriately
hern termed the “housekeeper” of our health.
I have observed in the dissecting room, and also
iu making post-mortem examinations of tlio
bodies ot those who have died of different dis
eases, that in a large proportion of cases, tho
liver has given evidence of having at some time
been diseased. Liver affectierts are equally pre
valent in beasts. Every butcher knows that tho
livers of cattle, sheep, swine, are ten times as
frequently diseased as any other organ. A
healthy liver each dry shefetes about two and a.
half pounds of bile. Whn it,becomes torpid,
congested, or if, from any cause, it I># disabled
in the performance of its duties, it is evident
that the elements of the biTe must remain iu
tho blood, ths irritating, poisoning, and per
verting, every vital process. Nature attempts
to rid the system of these noxious materials by
moans ef oilier organs, as the kidneys, lungs,
skin, etc., which become overtaxed in perform
ing their additional labor, and are unable to
withstand the pressure.
The brain, which is the great electrial center
of all vitality, becomes overstimuh to Jwitb un
healthy blood, and fails to normally perform’ its
functions. Hence there is dullness, headache,
impairment ot tho memory, dizziness, gloomy
forebodings, and irritability of temper. When
the blood is diseased, He skin manifests discol
ored spots, pimples, blotches, boils, carbuncles,
and sciofulous tumors. Thepstomach and bow
els, sooner or later, bccomo affected, and con
stipation, piles, dropsy, dyspepsia, or diarrhoea,
is the inevitable result.
SYMPTOMS OF LIVER COMPLAINT.
A sallow color of the skin, or yellowish
brown spots on the face and other parts of tho
body ; dullness and drowsines, with frequent
headache; dizziness, bitter or bad tasto in tho
mouth, dryness of tho throat, and internal heat;
palpitation of the heart, a dry, teasing cough,
sore throat, unsteady appetite, sour stomach,
raising of the food, and a choking sensation in
tho throat; sickness and vomiting, distress,
heaviness, and a Ideated, or full feeling about
the stomach and side ; aggravating pains in tho
sides, back, or breast, and about the shoulders ;
colic pains and soreness through tho bowels ;
constipation, alternating with diarrhoea ; piles
flatulence, nervousness, coldness of tho extrem
ities, rush of blood to the head, with symptoms
ef apolexy; numbness of the limbs (especially
at night) and chills alternating with hot flushes;
kidney and other urinary difficulties, dullness,
low spirits, and gloomy forebodings. Only a
few of those symptoms will be likely to be pres
ent in any case at one time.
Treatment. —Take Dr. Pierce’s Goldon Med
ical Discovery, W'th small doses of his Pleasant
Purgative Pellets, which act as alterative on
the liver. For Liver Complaint and the various
affections caused by a diseasod liver, tlieso
remedies aro unsurpassed. The Goldon Medical
Discovery docs not simply pall’ate tho disease,
but it produces a lasting effect. By its use, tha
liver and stomach are changed to an active,
healthy state, tho appetite i3 regulated, tho
blood purified and enriched, and the entire sys*
Lem renovated and restored to health.
The Discovery is sold by druggists. R. V.
Pierce, M. D., Proprietor, World’s Dispcn3aijr,
Buffalo, N. Y.
♦n2D>* ———
The boiler of the steam saw mill be
longing to Perkins & Cos., exploded on
tho Bth, at Lawton, Ga , killing Thomas
Wallace and Joseph W- Hawes, and
wounding Henry Sexton.
ELBERTON BONDS.
Notieo is hereby given that all persona who
obtained bonds from the town of Elberton will
be required to pay interest on the samo prompt
ly on or by the Ist of July, 187 G, to
3t. R. M. HEARD, Tieasurer,
Ordinary’s Notice#
Notice is hereby given to all executors, ad
minist ators, etc., that their returns must be
made to this office on or by the Ist Monday in
July. All thoso who fail to make their returns
promptly may expect to be served with a rule.
•It] JAS. A. ANDREW, Ordinary.
1 O a day at home. Agents wanted. Out
1 JL X*' fit and terms free. TRUE k CO.,
ly. Augusta, Maine.
Wl, H. HOBPP ~
FASHIONABLE BARBER.
Will open a first-class barber shop in Elberton
on the Ist of June, where he will attend person
lly to ovory thing in the way of
SHAVING,
HAIR DRESSING,
HAIR CUTTING,
DYING, &C.
A trial solicited.
may 313 t.
BONES WANTEDr
CLARK MATTOX
Will buy dry bones. They can bo delivered at
his plantation or at the stores of Gairdner &
Arnold or R. F. Tate, Elberton. [may3l-lm
CENTRAL HOTEL
MRS. W. M THOMAS,
FROPKXEIRES3,
AUGUSTA CIA
(ttfpA mn diion P er and:l .V at home. Samples
1u
Augusta, Maine. hv
“ MISS FANNIE RICE
Has just arrived in Elberton with a beautiful as
sortment of
MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS
HATS, BONNETS, RIBBON'S, FLOWERS, TIES,
RUFFS, FANS, BELTS, KID AND
LISLE GLOVES, TUCK COMBS,
HAIR BRAIDS, EMBROID
ERY'S AND TRLMINGS,
CORSETS
and many other articles too numerous to men
tion. All of which she offers low for cash.
Stamping done to order.
* April 20, 1870.—3 m