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SUNDAY MORNING N'-mber 8, 1868
Widow Cobb's First Love.
The fire crackod checrfnfiy on the
broad hearth of the old farm-house
kitchen, a cat and three kittens basked
in the warmth, and a decrepid yellow
dog, lying full in the reflection of the
ycilow blaze, wrinkled his hind feet
where his fore feet had been. Over
the chimney hung several fine hams
and pieces of dried beef. Apples were
festooned along the Veiling, and crook
ed-neck squashes vied with red pep
pers and slips of dried pumpkins in
garnishing each window frame. There
were plants, too, on the window ledges
—horse-shoe geraniums and dew
plants, and a monthly rose, just bud
ding, to say nothing of pots of violets
that perfumed the whole place whenev
er they took it into their heads to bloom.
The floor was carefully swept, the
chairs had not a speck of dust upon
leg or round, the long settle near the
fireplacoshone as if it had just been
varnished, and the eight-day clock in
the corner had its white face newly
washed, and seemed determined to
tick the louder for it. Two arm
chairs were drawn up at a cozy distance
from the hearth and each other; a
candle, newspaper, a pair of spectacles,
a dish of red-checked apples and a
pitcher of cider, filled a httle table be
tween them. In one of the chairs sat
a comfortable looking woman of about
forty-five, with cheeks as red as the
apples, and eyes as dark and bright as
they had ever been, resting her elbow
on the table, and her head upon her
hand, and looked thoughtfully into the
fire. This was the widow Cobb—
“relict” of Deacon Levi Cobb, who
had been mouldering in the dust in the
Bytown churchyard for more than
seven years. She was thinking of her
dead husband, probably because—her
work being done, and the servant gone
to bed—the sight of bis empty chairat
the other side of the table and the si-,
lence of the room made her a little
lonely.
“‘Seven years!” so the widow’s
reverie ran. “It seems as if ’twas
more than fifty—and yet I don’t look
so very old either. Perhaps it’s not
having any children to bother my life
out, as other people have. They may
say what they like, children are more
plague than profit—that’s my opinion.
Look at my sister Jerusha with her
six boys. She’s worn to a shadow—
and I’m sure they have done it, though
she will never own it.
The widow took an apple from the
dish, and began to peel it.
“flow dreadful lend Mr. Cobb used
to be of these grafts. He will never
eat any more of them, poor fellow, for
I don’t suppose they have apples where
he’s gone to. Ileigho! I remember
well how I used to throw apple pair
ings over my head when I was a girl,
to see who I was going to marry."'
Mrs. Cobb stopped short and blush
ed. In those days she did not know
Mr. Cobb, and was always looking
eagerly to see if the the peel had form
ed a capital S. Iler meditation took a
new turn.
“How handsome Sam Payson was.
and how much I used to care for him,
Jerusha says he went away from our
village just after I did and no one has
heard of him since. And what a silly
thing that quarrel was. If it had not
been for that”—
Here came a long pause, during
which the widow looked steadfastly at
the empty arm chair of Levi Cobb,
deceased. Her fingers playing care
lessly with the apple paring she drew
it safely towards her, and looked
around the room.
“Upon my word it is very ridiculous,
and I don't know what the neighbors
would say if they saw me.”
Still the plump fingers drew the peel
nearer.
“But they can't see me—that’s a
comfort—and the cat and old Bowse
will never know what it means. Os
course I don’t believe anything about
it.
The paring hung gracefully from
her hand.
“But still I should like to try; it
would seem like old times, and”
Over head it went, and curled up
quietly on the floor ata little distance;
old Bou se who always slept with one
eye open, saw it fall and marched de
liberately' up to smell it.
“Bowse, Bowse, don't touch it!”
cried his mistress; and bending over
it with a beating heart she turned as
red as fire. There was as handsome
a capital S as one could wish to see.
A loud knock came suddenly at the
door. The dog growled, and the
widow screamed :uid snatched up the
paring.
“It's Mr. Cobb; it’s his spirit come
back again because I tried that silly
trick,” she thought fearfully to herself .
Another knock, louder than the
first, and a man’s voice exclaimed ;
“Hillo, the house!”
“Who is it?” asked the widow
somewhat relieved to find that the de-
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parted Jjevi was still safe in his grave
upon the hill-side.
“A stranger,’' said the voice.
“What do you want?”
“To get lodging here for the night.”
'Fhe widow deliberated.
“Can’t yon go on ? There’s a house
half a mile further on, if you keep to
the right hand side of the road, and
turn to the left after you get by—”
“It’s raining cats and dogs, and I’m
very delicate,” said the stranger,
coughing, “I’m wet to the skin. Don’t
you think you you can accommodate
me? I don’t mind sleeping on the
floor.”
“Raining is it? I didn’t know
thatand the kind-hearted little wo
man unbarred the door very quickly.
Come in, whoever you may be. I only
asked you to go on because I am alone
woman with only one servant in the
house.”
The stranger entered shaking him
self like a Newfoundland dog upon the
step, and scatering a littik shower of
drops over his hostesss ami her nicely
swept floor.
“Ah, that looks comfortable after a
man has been out for hours in a
storm,” he said as he caught sight of
the fire, ami striding along toward the
hearth, followed by Bowse, who snuff?
ed suspiciously at his heels, he sation
ed himself in the arm chair-—3/r.
Cobb's aria chair— which had been
“sacred to his memory for seven
years.” The widow was horrified, but
her guest was so weary and worn out
that she could not ask him to move,
but busied herself in stiring up
the blaze, that he might the sooner dry
his dripping clothes. A new thought
struck her. Mr.- Cobb had worn a
comfortable dressing gown during his
illness, which still hung in the closet at
her right. She could not let this poor
man catch his death by sitting in that
wet coat. If he was in Mr. Cobb’s
chair, why should he not be in Mr.
Cobb’s wrapper ? She went nimbly to
the sloset, took it down, finished out a
pair of slippers from the boot rack be
low, and brought them to him.
“I think you had better take off
your coat and boots; you will have
rheumatic fever, or something like it,
if you don’t. Here are some things
for you to wear while they are drying.
And you must be hungry, too. 1 will
go into the pantry and get you some
thing to eat.”
She bustled away, “on hospitable
thoughts intent;” and the stranger
made the exchange with a quizzical
smile playing around his lips, lie
was a tafl, well-formed man, with a
bold but handsome face—sunburned
but heavily bearded, and looking any
thing but delicate, though his blue
eyes glanced out from under a fore
head as white as snow. Ho looked
around the kitchen with a mischievous
air, stretching out his feet before him,
decorated with the defunct deacon’s
slippers.
“Upon my word this is stepping in
to the old man’s shoes with vengeance !
And what a hearly, good humored
looking woman she is; kind as a
kitten and then he patted old Bowse
upon the head. The widow, bringing
in sundry good things, looked pleased
at his attention to her dumb friend.
“It’s a wonder Bowse does not
growl. He generally does when
strangers touch him. Dear me, how
stupid!”
lliis last remark was ad< trussed
neither to the stranger nor to the dog,
but to herself. She had forgotten that
the little stand was not empty, and
there was no room on it for the tilings
she held.
“Oh, I’ll manage that,’ 7 raid her
guest, gathering up paper, candle, ap
ples and spectables, (it was not with
out a little pmig that she saw them in
his hand, for they had been the
deacon’s, and were placed each night
like the arm chair, beside her,) and
depositing them on the settle. “Give
me the tablecloth, ma’am---I’ve learned
that along with a score of other things
in my wanderings. Now let me re
lieve you of those dishes; they are too
heavy for those little hands,” —the
widow blushed—“and now please sit
down with me, or I cannot eat a
morsel.”
“I had supper long ago, but really I
think I can take something more,”
said Mrs. Cobb, drawing her chair
near the table.
“Os course you can my dear lady.—■.
In this cold antumn weather, people
ought to eat twice as much as they do
in warm. Let me give you a piece of
tliis ham—your own curing, I dare
say.”
“Yes: my poor husband was very
fond of it. He used to say that no
one understood curing ham and drying
beef better than I.”
“lie was a most sensible man I am
sure. I null drink your health madam,
in this cider.”
He took a long draught and sat
down his glass.
“It’s like nectar.”
The widow was feeding Bowse and
the eat, (who thought that they were
entitled to a share of every meal ate
in the house,) and did not quite hear
what he said. I fancy she would
hardly have known what ‘nectar’ was,
so it was quite as well.
“Fine dog, ma’am, and a very pretty'
cat.”
“They were my husband's favorites,
and a sigh followed the answer.
“Ah your husband must have been
a very hapy man.”
Tiie blue eyes looked at her so long
that she grew flurried.
“Is there anything more I can get
for you sir !” she said at last.
“Nothing, thank von; I have finish
ed.”
She rose to clear the things away.—
' UGUBTA, GA„ SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1868.
He assisted her, and their
hands had a queer knack of touching
as they’ carried the dishes to the pantry
shelves. Coming back to the kitchen,
she put the apples and cider in their
places, and brought out a clean pipe
ami box of tobaco from an arched re
cess near the chimney.
“My husband alwas said he could
not sleep after eating supper late, un
less lie smoked,” she said. ‘Perhaps
you would like to try it.”
“Not if its going to drive you
away,'’ he answered; for she had a
candle in lier hand-
“Oh, no, I don’t object to smoke at
all.” She put tlie candle down-i-seme,
faint suggestion about ‘proairiely’
troubled her. Site glanced at the old
dock and felt reassured; it wtjs only
half-past nine.
The stranger pushed the stand back,
alter the pipe was lit, mid drew her
easy chair a little-nearer the fire —mid
his own.
“Come, sit down he said,pleadingly,
‘lt is not late-; mid when a man has
been knocked about in California, and
all sorts of places, for a score of
years, fie is glad enough to get into a
berth like this, and to have a pretty
woman to speak to again.”
“California ! have yon been to Cali
fornia?” she exclaimed, dropping in
to the chair. Unconsciously, she laid
long cherished the idea that Sam Pay
son—the lover of her youth,—with
whom she had foolishly quarrelled, had
pitched his tent, after many wander
ings, in that far off land. Her heart
warmed to one who, with something ort.
Sam's looks and ways about him, had
also been sojourning in that country,
very possibly had met him—pcrliaps
ha<l known him intimately. At that
moment her heart beat quick, mid she
looked very graciously at the Ixairded
stranger, who wrapped in Mr. Cobh’s
dressing gown, wearing Mr. Cobb’s
slippers, and sitting in Mr. Cobb’s
chair, beside Mr. Cobb’s wife, smoking
Mr. Cobb’s pipe, with such an air of
feeling thoroughly and Comfortably at
home.
“Yes, ma’am, live been in Califor
nia for six years. And before that
I went quite round the world in a
winding ship.”
“Good gracious !”
The strmrgtr tsent a puff of smoke
curling ghieefully over his head.
“It’s very strange my dear lady,
how often you fee ono thing as you go
wanderingwroat the world after that
fashion.
“And what is that?”
“Men without house or home above
their heads, roving here and there,
and turning up in all sorts of odds
places —caring very little for life as a
general thing, and making fortunes
just to fling them away again— -and all
for one reason. You don’t ask what
that is. No doubt von know very
well.”
“I think not sir,”
“Because a woman has jilted them.”
Here was a long pause, and Mr.
Cobb's pipe emitted short puffs with
suprising rapidity. A guilty con
science needs no accuser; the widow’s
cheeks dyed with blushes as she
thought of the absent Sam.
“I wonder how women manage
when they get served in the same
way,” said the stranger musingly.—
“You never meet them roaming up
and down in that style.”
“No,” Said Airs. Cobb, with some
spirit; “if a woman is in trouble, she
must stay at home and bear it in the
best way. And there's more- women
bearing such things than we know of,
I dare say.”
“Like enough. We never know
whose hand gets pinched in a trap un
less they scream. And women are too
shy or too sensible—which you choOse
—for that.”
“Did yon ever in all jour wander
ings meet with any one by the name of
Samuel Payson!” asked the widow
unconcernedly.
The stranger looked towards her—
she was ruinating at the table drawer
for her knitting work, and did not
notice him. When it was found and
the needles in motion, he answered
her.
“Payson ? Ham Payson ! Why he
was my most intimate friend. Doyon
know him?”
“A little—that is, I used to when I
was a girl. Where did you met him?”
“He went with me on the whaling
voyage I told you of—and afterwads
to California. We had a t,ent together,
and some other fellows with us, and
we dug in the same claim for more
than six months.”
“I suppose he was quite well !’•’
“Strong as an ox”’ my dear lady.
“And—ami happy?” pursued tho
widow beuding over her knitting.
“Hum, the loss said about that the
better perhaps. But he seemed to en
joy life after a fashion of his own.—
And he got rich out there, or rather I
will say well off”
Mrs Cobb did not pay much atten
tion to that part of the story. Evi
dently she had not finished asking
questions. But she was puzzled about
her next one. At last she Iwought it
out beautifully.
“Was hit wife with him in Califor
nia?”
“Bis wife, ma'am? Why bless you,
he has not got one.”-
“Oh, I thought—l meant —I heard
r ” here the little widow renient
bered the fate of Ananias and Sap
phire ond stopped short before she
told such a tremendous fil>.
“Whatever you beard of his marry
ing was all nonsense, I can assure yon.
I know him well, and he had u
thought of the kind altoufliND. Some
of the boys began to lease him about
it, but he soon made them slop.”
“How ?”
“He just told them frankly, that the
only woman he ever loved jilted him
years before, and married another man.
After that no one ever mentioned the
subject to him again, except me.”
Mrs. Cobb laid her knitting aside,
mid looked thoughtfully into the fire.
“Hr was another specimen of the
class of men I was speaking of. I
have seen him face death a score of
times qnitely as I face the fire. ‘lt
matters very little who Yhkes Die off/
he used to say; ‘l’ve aothmg to live
for, and there s do. one who Will .shed a
tear for me when 1 am gone.’ It’s a
sad thought for a man to have, isn’t
it?”
Airs. Cobb sighed as she raid she
thought it was.
“But did be ever tell you the name
of the lady who jilted him ?”
“I knew her fiinst name.”
“What was it ?”
“Maria.”
The plump little widow almost
started out of her chair; her name was
spoken exactly as. -Ham would have
said it. - • •
“Did you know her. too?” she
asked, looking keenly at her.
“Yes.”
“Intimatelv ?”
“Yes,”
‘hind where is she now ? Still
happy with her husband, 1 suppose,
and never giving a thought to the poor
fellow she drove out into the world.”
“No,” said Airs. Cobb, shading her
lace with lier hand ami sqieaking mi
st eadily—“No, her.husband is dead.”
“Ar ! but still she never thinks of
Sam I”
There was a dead silence.
“Does she?”
“How can I tell ?”
“Arc you still friends ?”
“Then you ought to know, and vou
do, Tell me.”
“I am sure 1 don’t know why I
should. But if Ido you must promise
me ou your honor, never to tell him, if
you ever happen to meet him again.”
“Aladamjj, what you ray to me never
shall be repeated to any mortal man,
upon my honor.”
“Well then, she does remeber him.”
“But how ?”
“As kindiy, I think, as he could
wish.”
“1 am glad to bear for bis sake.—
You and I arc friends of both parties;
we can rejoice with each other.”
He drew his chair much nearer hoi’s,
and took her hand. One monrnut the
widow resisted, but it was a magnetic
touch; the rosy palm lay quietly in
his, and the dark beard bent so low
that it nearly touched her shoulder.—
It did uot matter much. Was he not
Samuel’s dear friend? If he was not
the rose, had he not dwelt very neanit
for a long, long lime ?
“It ivas a foolish quarrel that parted
them,” said the stranger softly.
“Did he tell you about it?”
“Yes, on board the whaler.”
“Did he blame her much ?”
“Not so much as himself. He said
that his jealousy and ill temper drove
her to break oil’ the match; but he
thought somtimes if he had only gone
back and spoken kiudly to her she
would have married him after all.”
“I am sure she would,” said the
widow, piteously, “She has owfied it
to me more than a hundred times.”
“She was not happy, then, with an
other ?”
“Air.—that was to say, that her hus
band—was very good and kind,” said
the woman, thinking of the lonely
grave on’ the billside rather penitently,
“and they lived pleasantly together.—
There never was a harsh word between
them.”
“Still, might slie not have been
happier with Sam ? Be honest, and
say just what you think.”
“Yes.”
“Bravo! that is what 1 wanted to
come at. And now I have a secret to
tell you, andjou must break it to her.”
Airs. Cobb looked rather scared.
“What is it?”
“I want you to go rnnl sec her
wherever she may be, and say to:
‘Maria’ What makes you start
so?”
“Nothing, only you speak so like
some one I used to know.”
“Do I ? Well, tako-the rest of the
message. Tell her that Sam loved her
through whole; that is, when he
heard she was free, he began to work
hard at making a fortune; he has got
it, and lie’s coming to share it with her,
if shes'ill let him. Will you tell her
this ?”
The. widow did not answer. She
freed her hand from his, and covered
her face with it. By-and by she look
ed up again. He was waiting pa
tiently.
“Well?”
“I will tell her.”
He rose from his seat and walked up
and down the room. Thon he came
back, ami leaning on the mantel-piece,
stroked the yellow hair of Bowse with
bis Slipper.
“Make her quite understood that he
wants her for his wife. Sb&may live
where she likes, only, it must be with
him.”
“I will tell her.”
“And what do you think she will
say ? ho said in a altered tone.
“What can she say, but—come?”
“II urrah?”
The stranger caught her out of her
chair as if she had been a child, and
kissed her.
“Don’t—don’t!” she cried out. “I
am Sain's Maria.”
“well* I :mi Maria’s Bani!”
Off went the dark wig and the black
whiskers; there smiled the dear face
she had not forgotten. I leave you to
imagine the tableau. Even the cat
got up to look, and Bowse sat on his
stump of a tail, and wondered if he
was on his hqels or head.
gave one little scream and Ilion she—
Blit stop! Quiet people like you
and me, dear reader, who have got
over all these follies, and can do
nothing but turn up their noses at
them, have no business here.’ I will
only add, that two hearts were very
happy, that Bowse concluded after a
while that all was riglit, and so laid
down again, and that one week after,
there was a wedding at the liouse that
made the neighlioring fanners stare.
The widow had married her “first
love.” ' >
Richmond County.
STATE OF GEORGIA—
Richmond Counit/.
Whbrb is, James A. Gray, Administrator on
the eats** oif Franci-i Q'lJonper, applies to me
for Letter* of Disnii»sion.
Those are therefore tv cite and admonish all
and singnlar, the kindrod and creditors of said
deceased, to be and appear at my office on or
before the first Monday in November next, to
show cause, if any they have,'why said Letters
.hould not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,
at office in Augusta, this 2d day of June, 1868.
E. M. BRAYTON,
je;l—fim* Ordinary.
QTATE OF GEORGIA—
O Bichmond County.
Whereas, Rob. Douglass and 8. D. Williams.
Exeeulors on the EstaUsof Ira D, Malliews, late
of said county, deceased, apply to me f<u- letters
of dismissien : .
. These are, therefore, to efts and admonish nil
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased, to be and appear at my office on or before
the first Monday in February next, io show cause,
if any they have, why said Letters slnnd-i not bo
granted.
Given under my hand and official siirnature, nt
office in Auguste; this Augunt 15th,
SAMUEL LE’.’Y,
au 16—lamftin Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission,
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Richmond Cottuh/.
Whrheas, Wjlliam J. Karr, Administrator
de IfOHHn non of the estate of Georeff P. tlhma
daoeawd, applion to ine for Letters of Dismission 1 .
Those are therefore to cite Mhl admonish all
and singular, the kindred and, creditors of said
deceased, to be and appear at toy office on or
Wore the first Monday in March nett, to show
canee, if- awy they 4}ave, why said Letters should
nut be grafted.
Given uhdtr iny hand and official signature
at office in Augusta, this 7tli day of September,
1868. SAMUEL LEVY,
sep -linfim ' ' Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
OtATE OF GEORGIA
T liicltmtrtid County,
Whereas, John 11. Khodes, Adminintratcr on
the estate of William F. Malone, deceased, ap
plies tn me for Letters of Dismission:
These ate, therefore, tn cite and admonish, all
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
deceased,to be and appear at my ufl}oc on or be
fore the first .Monday in March next, to show
cause, if any they have, why said Letters should
not bo granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,
at office in Augusta, this 25th day of September,
1868. SAMUEL LEVY.
sep 26—law6rn Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
QTATE OF GEORGIA.
O /lichmond (tonnty.
WhercMl Timothy 0. Murphy, Administrator
on the estate of Phillip McGee, late of i-aid coun
ty, deceased, applies to me for Letters of Dis
inirtrion :
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish ail,
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to bo and appear at my office, on or
before the first Monday in April next, to show
cause, it any they have, why said Letters nhould
not be granted.
Given uue’er my hand and official signature,
at office iu Augnsta, this I st day of October, 1868.
SAMUEL LEVY,
oct 2—lam6m Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
STATE OF GEORGIA
Richmond County.
Whkheab, John 11. Fearey, Administrator on
the rotate of Hurry Hughes, Accented, applies to
me for Letters of Dismission—
These, are, therefore, to cite and admonish all
and singulai . the kindred aud creditors of the said
deceased, to be and appear at my office on or before
Hie first Monday in March next, to show cause,
if any they have, why said lowers alimihl uot- be
granted.
Given under ray baud and official bignature a
office iu Augiist.i, ibißtJStbday of September, 1868.
SAMt7£L LEVY,.
sep29- 6m Ordinary.
Letters of Dismisston.
EORGIA —
v.T Kickmond County.
Whet eas, (Jaioline Dubet, Aduiiuielradix,
with the will annexed on the estate of Antoine
Pi< qncl,_ deceased* applies to me for Letters of
Dismission
These are, therefore, to eke and admonish ail
ati<i the kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to be mid appear at my office on or
before the first Monday in October, to show cause,
if any they have, why said Letters should not be
granted.
Given under iny hand and official signature at
Augusta, the 16th day of May, 1868.
E. M. BRAYTON,
my 19 law6n»* Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA—
Richmond County.
Whereas, Edward O'Donnell, Adiuinietrator
ou the estate of Richard Quinn, late of said
county, deceased, applies to me for letters of Dis
miss nm.
These are, thawfiire, to cite and admouish all,
aud siugiilar tbc kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to be and appear at my office on or
before the first Monday in March next, to show
cause, if any they have, why said letters should
not be granted.
Given under my band and official signature at
office in Augusta, this SepteuUier I ith. 1868.
SAMUEL LEVY,
sep 12—lamGm Ordinary.
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Letters of Administration-
STATE OF GEORGIA—
Richmond County.
Wliweiu', James C. C. Black applies to me lor
Letters of Administration, with the will annc-ied,
ou the estate of Jane Odom, deceased.
These are, tlierefore, to cite aud admonish all
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
ilcceased, to be and appear at my office, on or
before the. first Monday tn December next, tosliow
cause, if ruiy they lidve, why mii'i letters should
not be granted.
Green tsHiler my baud and official signature, at
office, in Augusta, this 21st day of Octoliei. 1868.
SAMUEL LEVY.
0ct22~4t .Ordinary
Letters of Administration.
STATE OF GEORGIA—
Richmond County.
Whereas, Eliza Rebecca Clftke applies to me
for letters of Adiuiniatrazioii. with tb.- Will an
nexed, on qte Estate of Augusta Cocke, deceased :
These are, therefore, to dt* and ttdniqnisli >dl
and singular, the kindred -and creditors pf said
oeeeased, to he and appear at ray office on or
before the first Monday tn December next, to show
cause, if itny they have, why said L-tters should
not be granted.
Given under my hand and otlir ial xignatuu- at
office tn Augusta, this 20th dav of Oetimer, 1868
.SAMUEL LEVY.
ocl2l —lawlt Ordinaiy.
BOOK AND .mu PRINTING
Exeeuto-I at this office
At th • Lowest Terms and in the It-- t Style
R. R. R.
90
OCT OF
100
OF DEATHS, that annually
occur, are caused by Prevent
able Diseases, and the greater
portion of those complaints
would, if Radway’s Ready Re- •
lief or Pills, (as the case may
require,) were administered
when pain or uneasiness or
slight sickness is experienced,
be exterminated from the sys
tem in a few hours. PAIN, no
matter from cause, is
almost instantly cured by the
Ready Relief. In cases of Cho
lera, Diarrhoea, Cramps, Spasms
Bilious Cholic, in fact all Pains,
Aches and Infirmities either in
the Stomach, Bowels, Bladder,
Kidneys, or the Joints, Musoies,
Legs, Arms, Rheumatism, Neu
ralgia, Fever and Ague, Head
ache, Toothache, &c., will in a
FEW MINUTES yield to the
soothing influence of the Ready
Relief.
i
Suddeu Colds, Coughs, Influenza, Dip
theria, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Chills, Fever
and Ague, Mercurial Pains, Scarlet Fever,
Ac., Ac., take from four to six of Radway’s
Pills, and also take a taaspoonfnl of the
Ready Relief in a glass of warm water, sweet
ened with sugar or honey: bathe the throat,
head and Chest with Heady Relief, (if Ague
or Intermiltent Fever, bathe the spine also,)
iu the morning you will be cured.
How the Ready Belief Acts I
In a few minutes th* patient will feel o
•light tingling irritation, and the skin be
come* reddened; if there is much distress in
the stomach, the Relief will assist nature in
removing the offending cause,—a general
warmth is felt throughout tho entire body,
and it* diffusive stimulating propertiei
rapidly courses through every vein and tissue
of the system, arousing the slothful and
partially partly zed glands and organ* to re
newed and healthy action, perspiration fol
lows, and tho surface of the body feels in
creased heat. The sickness at stomach, colds,
chills, head-ache, oppressed breathing, th*
soreness of the throat, and all pains, either
kitpnially or externally, rapidly subside, and
!he patient Mis into a tranquil sleep, awake*
relrcßhed, invigorated, cured. •
It will be found that in using the Relle!
•xternally, either on the spine or acron th*
kidneys, or over the stomach and bowels, that
for several days after a pleasing warmth will
be Mt, showing the length of time it con
tinues its influence over the diseased parts.
13T Price of R. R. R. RELIEF, 50 cents
per bottle. Sold by Druggists and Country
Merchants, Grocers, Ao.
RADWAY A CO.,
87 Maiden Lane, New Y«k.
TYPHOID FEVER.
This disease is not only cured by
Dr. Radway’a Relief and Pilla, but pre
vented. If exposed to it, put one tea
spoonful of Relief in a tumbler ol
water. Drink this before going out in
the morning, and several times during
the day. Take one of Badway’a Pillfl
one hour before dinner, and one on
'piing to bed. ft
If seized with Fever, take 4 to 6 ol
he Pills every six hours, until copious
iischarges from the bowels take place;
also drink tho Relief diluted with
water, and bathe tho entire surface oi
the body with Relief. Soon a power
ful perspiration will take place, and
you will feel a pleasant heat through
out the system. Keep on taking Beuel
repeatedly, every four hours, alar, th.
Puls. A cure will be sure to follow.
The relief is strengthening, stimulating,
soothing, and quieting; it is sure tc
break up the Fever and to neutralize
the poison. Let this treatment be fol
lowed, and thousands will be saved.
The same treatment in Fever and Ague,
Yellow Pever, Ship Fever, Bihoiu
Fever, will effect a cure in 24 hours
When tho patient feels the Relief irrita
ting or heating the skin, a cure is posi
tive. In all cases where pain is felt
tho Relief should be used.
Relief 50 cte.; Pills 25 eta Sold
by all Druggists.
See Dr. Rad way’fl Almanac for 1888
Sold by PLUMB & LEITNER,
mm-I*. ' Augusto, G«.
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Official.
A. Proclamation
By the President of the United States
of America.
In tbey.ar which is now drawing to its end,
the art, the skill, and thelabor of the people of the
United States have been employed with greater
diligence and vigor, and on broader fields thhu
ever before, and the fruits of the earth have been
gathered into the granary and storehouse in mar
velous abundance. Our highways have been
lengthened, and new and prolific regions have
been occupied. W» are permitted to hope that
long protracted political and sectional dissensions,
at no distant day, will give place to returning
harmony and fraternal affection throughout tiie
Republic. Many foreign States have entered into
liberal agreements with us, while nations which
are far off, and which heretofore have been
unsocial aud exclusive, have become pur friends.
• The annual period of rest, which we have
reached in health and tranquility, and which is
crowned with so many blessings, is by universal
consent n convenient and suitable one for enlti
vatiug personal piety aud practicing public devo
tion.
I, therefore, leeommend that Thursday, the
twenty tixth day of November next, be set apart
and observed by nil the people of the United
States as a day of public praise, thanksgiving and
praverto the Almighty Creator and Divine Ruler
of the Universe, by whose ever watchful, merciful
and gracious providence alone States aud Nations,
no less than families and individual men, do live
amt move and have their being.
In ’vitness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand. au«l caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at llie city of Washington, the t welfth day
of October, in the year of our Lord,
[skvi..] one thousand eight hundred and sixly
t-ight, ami of the independence of the
United States the ninety third.
ANDREW JOHNSO-!.
Dr Uie President:
Wm II Sewxuh
o<-t IT —td Sec'ry of State.
NO 397
NATIONAL
PROBMm SAVINGS
AND
TRUST COMPANY.
A'hmqtered by Act <Jo*Krc*M.
O—T-
Buikking Hourq, Pennsylvania Avenue, corner
ol 19th street, Washington, D, C.
BRANCH AT .AUGUSTA, GA.,
MUUCtSMtT.
Open every day—Sunday? and Holidays ex
oopted—from 9 a. m. to 2p. tu., and Saturday
evening’ from 6 to 8 p. m.
DEPOSITS OF ANY AMOUNT FROM
FIVE CENTS UPWARDS, RE
CEIVED FROM ANY
PERSON.
Deposits --nil al way* bo withdrawn with-jut-no
lice. Deposits in specie are repaid in specie.
All other deposit* are repaid in “Gtconbacks’.’
or National Bank Bills. - r ysi
AU the profits belong - to the depositors.
Inv stments are only made in Securities of
tho United States. GEO.-11. HARRIS,
Chairman Advisory Committee.
11 OBERT T. Kr NT,
Secretary.
DAVID A. RITTER,
Acting Cashier
atifll -dAwtf
ASSIGNEE'S SALE
OF
REAL RS TATE. <
W ILL BE BOLD, FIJEE FROM ALL 1N-
C’UMBKANCES, in the city of Atlanta, on
the THIRD TUESDAY in November next, at
11 o’clock a. m , the following property, to wit:
City Lot Number Eleven,
On i-Mb, hide of Peachtree street., being pait of
land lot 78,1 ith district of originally Henry, now
b'clrow county, fronting rm Pem-htree street 3ij
feet, and extending back ‘JU feet.
On tlifi 10l is a
TBREE-BTORY BRICK HOUSE,
Besides a dry basement, 31 { feet front by 78 back,
and conridcred one of the beet-bthldings in the
city.
A LSO,
at the sarnu tune and place, a lot vs
Choice Wines and Liquors,
■ Cousuting of—
-1 Mil. OTA RD BRANDY,
A bbl. or ARD BRANDY,
I bbl. SCOTCH WHISKEY,
1 bbl. St. C. RUM.
I [iiiiichc-ju GIN,
2 bbls. SHERRY WINE,
I bbl. PORT WINE,
6 casks PORTER.
G packages CHAMPAGNE WINE.
Al.'jO,
2U one gallon Jugs, and sundry Notes and open
Accounts.
Immediately after which, I will sell on the
premises- •
ONE HOUSE AND LOT,
lloubc containing four rooina and basement,
floated on east bide of Peachtree street, on city
lot No. 31, containing one halt acre, more or leas.
ALSO,
CITY LOT NO. TfIIRTY-FOUR,
adjoining above lo* No. 31, and fronting 100 feet
on Ivy street, contains oue-half acre, more or
less.
All sold as the property of John H. Lovejoy,
bankrupt.
Possession given immediately. Terms cash. •
N. K. FOWLER.
octi-l—3w Assignee.
“Westward the Star of Empire Takes
Its Way ”
Secure a Homestead
IN CALIFORNIA,
THE
IISIHAH HOimW
OF CALIFORNIA,
'lncorporated under the Laws of the State,
November 30th, 1867,
For the purpose of providing
Homes for its members, and thereby induce
immigration.
CAPITAL STOCK $1,000,000
Divided into 200,000 shares, at $5 each, payable
in United States currency.
Certificates of Stock issued to subscribers imme
diately upon receipt of the money.
So Person Allowed to Hold
fflore Hum Five Shares!
A circular conlaiiiiiig a full descriptiou of the
property to be distributed inuoug shareholders v
will be sent to any address, upon receipt of stamps
to cover postage.
Information as to price of land in any portion of
the Stale, or upon any other subject of interest to
parties proposing to immigrate, cheerfully fur
nished, upon receipt of stainpe for postage.
All letters should be addressed, “Secretary
Imthigrant Homestead Association, Post Office
Box No. 82, Ban Fraueiscn, California.’’
an Hi—3m
IN THEDISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
1 Sto'es tor the Southern District of Georgia.
In the matter of i
GOODE BRYAN, VIN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. ) No. 163.
The said Bankrupt having petitioned the t’onrt
for a discharge froai all trie debts provable under
the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867, notice is
hereby given to all persons interested to appear
on the 2lith day of November, 1868,at 10 o’clock in
the tbrenvou, gt chambers of the said District
Court, before F. S. Hesselliue, Esq., one of the
Registers of the said Court in Bankruptcy, at
his office at Albany. Gar, and “how cause why
the prayer of the said jietiiiou <-i me Bankrupt
should not be granted.
Dated at Savannah. Ga., this 2«th day of Octo
ber, 18<i8. JAMEB MCPHERSON,
nov3—law3w _ Clerk.
< THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
U ailed States for the Sou the re District of
or- ia.
In the matter of I
MO.- ES H. BALDWIN, j- IN BANKRUPTCY.
Bankrupt. ) No. 218.
Tho said Bankrupt having petitioned the Court
for a discharge from all his debts provable under
the Bankrupt Ait of March 2d, 1867, notice is
hereby given to all persons interested to appear
on the,2sth lay
a. m.. at Cliamb-Myf said District Court, before
F 8 Ilesselline, Esq , one of the Registers of said
Court in Baiikruptev,at. his office at<’. B. Wooten*
in Dawson Ga., ami show cause why the prayer of
the aaid |>elition of Hi** Bankrupt, should
not la? granted. Aud farther notice is
given that the second and third meetings of
creditors will be held at the same time and
place
Dated al Savaiiii.ili. Ga., thia 30th dav of Octo-
ber. 1868 I
JAMES McPIIERSON, 9
n-vJ law3w Clerk.