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VOL. XIX.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1877.
NO. 295
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dickenm in camp.
BKKT HART.
Ai>.>vc the pines trie moon was slowly drift-
ins,
Tlit* river sang below ;
XI,.-dim Sierras far beyoml uplifting
X; ; elr minarets of snow.
XIjc roaring camji-flre, with rude liun
painted
Tin- ruddy tints of health,
iw haggard faee and form that drooped and
fainted
In the tleree race for wealth.
Till one arose, and from his pack’s scant
treasure
\ hoarded volume drew.
And curds were dropped from hands of list
less leizure
To hear the tale anew.
And then, while round them shadows gath
ered faster.
And as the tire-light fell,
lb- read aloud the book wherein the Master
Had writ of Little Nell.
j‘. rhaps ’twus boyish fancy—for the reader
Was the youngest of them all—
Hut, as he read, from clustering pine and
cedar
A silence seemed to fall.
The fir trees, gathering closer in the shad
ows,
Listen in every spray,
While the whole camp, with Nell, on Eng
lish meadows
Wandered and lost their way.
And so in mountain solitudes o’ertaken
As l>y some spell divine—
Their cares dropped from them like the
needles shaken
From out the gusty pine.
Lost is that camp, and wasted all its fire;
• And lie who wrought the spell ?
All, towering pine and stately Kentish
spire.
Ye have one talc to tell!
Lost is that camp! hut let its fragrant story
Blond with the breath that thrills
With hop vines’ incense all lhe pensive
glory
That fills the Kentish hills.
And on that grave where English oak, and
holly,
And laurei wreaths entwine,
Deem it not all a too presumptuous folly—
Tiiis spray of western pine.
THE MfiKAL.
Tiifee short whistles, sharp and shrill,
Gives for his wife the engineer;
Out on the porch above the hill
She comes, as they fall upon her ear.
“Farewell, sweet, under my feet,
I feel the heart of my engine beat.
Holds she there the answ’rlng light.
Waving her hand above in air;
Over the lield it meets liis sight,
ltc knows it full well, it is a pray’r.
-•Farewell, dear, true love sincere.
Wilt wait at home for thy coming there."
Pawn the road, with roar and dash,
Gomes the next night the swifttrain back;
First the three whistles, then the Hash,
The headlight is sending down the track.
Perils past, sweet home at last;
Around his neck her true arms are cast.
God he with thee, engineer,
Guard with His watchful care thy life;
Ever thy track from dangers eiear,
As prays in tliy home thy fair young wife.
And at lust, all perils past,
( poll H is love may you both be east.
An Embroidered Stocking.
She was very pretty—but there
came a time when I don’t -think I
eared in tiu* least for her beauty—her
soul was so much more attractive than
her l»pdy. She Avas no humble wild
flower maiden, but a woman who had
received a magnificent dower of blue
blood, including talent and the high
est attributes of character, and all
that culture could develop in a beau
tiful and intellectual woman was hers
—all that wealth could bestow upon
her site possessed. She had the good
fortune to have no singularity of na
ture, hut all was a symmetrical and
harmonious whole.
1 loved her, and I possessed the
humbleness of true love. The more
intimately T knew her,*she made me
conscious'of things that were mean
in myself. Out of this feeling greAV
jealousy of other men.
A bitter jealously. She was of too
sunny and generous a temper to pick
for flaws, nor could she know a man
as other men knew him.
She could not understand that Dr.
Cosgrove was irritable in private as
he was suave and agreeable in public,
and I would not tell her that Captain
Langdale seldom pays his debts.They
were but two of her many admirers,
lmt they were both handsomer and-
showier than myself. In time, I was
miserable on their account.
I cannot iioav, in cold blood, accuse
her of coquetry; but Stephenie St.
.lean was of 'French blood on her
father’s side. Besides speaking that
language perfectly,she had the French
woman’s secret of fascination. A
trifle more in vivacity, when sur
rounded by gentlemen, made her ut
terly irresistible.
1 saw and felt the charm, and could
not content myself with the thought
that in the quite hours we passed to
gether I knew myself dear to her.
Many a winter evening had we sat
together on the little velvet sofa be
fore the drawing room fire, secure
from intrusion, her beautiful head
resting on my breast, content in her
eyes, happiness in her smile, And
yet swearing her to be the proudest
and most delicate of women, I was
madly jealous of other men.
For months I would not see her
alone. She was one of a large family,
and she had a favorite cousin, Lily
Lawton, who was her constant com
panion.
She was very young, and a bright,
sweet, little tiling; but of late she had
seemed drooping, as if ont of health,
and Stephenie hail been unusually
protective and kind.
For Steplienie’s sake I often took
Lily out to drive, though her exceed
ing simplicity .often bored me.
I eould not but wonder that Ste-
phenie associated with her so con
stoutly; but Lily worshipped her
magnificent cousin, and the latter de
lighted in being kind to those weaker
than herself. “Kitten,” she called
Lily, and there had been something
especially kittenish in the girl’s round
bright gray eyes, and playful, grace
ful ways.
Her special charm was gone now.
She was a pale, faded, spiritless little
thing. Stephenie kept her constant
ly under her wing.
“Kitten must have green fields and
pastures new,” she said. “The May
suns are "getting strong, and I, too,
long for a country trip. We are go
ing to Branch ville, and shall bp ab
sent a week. Mind you are a good
l*oy till we come back.”
i smiled, but on the wrong side of
niy face.
“A week ?” I murmured.
“A week and one day,” she laugh
ed.
“I shail be gray-headed when you
come back,” I said, smiling at my
own vexation.
-She laughed more gaily than ever:
then a shadow fell over her face.
“It is for Lily’s sake,” she whisper
ed. “Look at her.,”
Lily lay in a hammock on the pi
azza, her hands lying listlessly in her
* a Pi not a shade of color in her cheek.
The thought came to me that the
child was bouud for the land of shad
ows.
“8he must have help soon,” said
htephenie.
“Yes,” I auwered.
t saw them off in the morning train
p,Bitten with her cheek on Stephen-
!? 8 shoulder. I carried the picture
neynmde before my eyes all the
eek—my magnificent generous bru
nette supporting the failing strength
of that pale, fair-faced child. And I
had never loved her better in my life
than in this new phase.
A week anil a day Stephenie had
said; therefore I had no expectation
of seeing her, when, at the end of
five days, 1 entered the drawing room
of her father’s residence to find an
opera glass I had left there.
I had told the servant at the hall
door what my errand was, and that I
knew just where to look for the glass
But on the threshold of the apart
ment my steps were arrested by the
sound of Stephenie’s voice.
A rush of delight went over me. I
was about to spring forward, when I
discovered that Stephenie Avas seated
in the alcove of an inner room be
side a gentleman.
I stood irresolute. A curtain of
blue silk fell across the upper part of
the figures, hut upon it their shadow’s
lay as they sat against the sunny
window beyond and plainly outlined
Stephenic’s beautiful head and Capt.
Langdale’s profile.
I aid not mean to be a listener to
their conversation, but as I demurred
about going forward I distinctly
heard Stephenie say:
“I love you utterly, with all my
heart. I am not ashamed to say this,
because you will never see me
again.”
She continued talking, but her
voice fell to a low monotone, and I
realized my position and stumbled
backward out of the room and found
myself in the street, going dizzily
home. Like some hunted thing I
rushed to my room and hid myself
from all eyes.
I remember throwing myself upon
a couch and then starting up and
walking the room, looking at mypale
tace in the glass, taking up booksanil
opening as if to read them, doing all
sorts of unintentional things in a me
chanical way, trying not to think of
the revelation tliiat had come to me,
because it seemed I should go mad
if I did. But a haunting voice was
crying in my ear, “Stephenie—
lost Stephenie!”
“No, no, she is mine!” I cried, in
despair. “I have loved her so long
ana so well, and she is my only dar
ling! What could I do without her?
Oil, God! what can I do?”
For the truth would not be gain
said, and must be faced! With mine
own ears I had heard her say to an
other man, “I love you,” and what I
may have murmured in moments of
impatience, I knew in my soul that
Stephenie St. Jean was no coquette.
Capt. Langdale iiad been ordered to
his regiment, and she had probably
returned home to hid him farewell.
A soldier’s life is always in peril, and
in the moment of parting Stephenie
had confessed to him what I had nev
er suspected.
Heaven know s that I had no rea
son: and I had good cause to think
differently. She had never plighted
her troth to me, hut by w r ord and
look and sweet privileges she had ac
cepted my love, and I had such utter
faith in her truth that the possibility
of her deceiving me had never occnr-
red'to my mind. The, warmest an^
tenderest intimacy'existed between
us, and yet she had never given her
promise to marry me.
- Sick at heart, I realized it now, re
viewing the past in the hateful light
of my sudden discovery. I was a
lawyer, and in the long hours of that
utterly sleepless night I studied the
case untiringly as if it had not been
my own.
It was not a matter of mistaken
identity. Leaving oat the considera
tion that my heart would neA r er in
this world mistake Stephenie’s voice,
I distinctly saw the outline of her
bust, and her dress, revealed below
the curtain, was very familiar to me.
It was a cream colored silk, trimmed
with black lace. On her foot she
wore a pretty black satin shoe, with
a silver buckle, and the instep showed
a cream-colored stocking, embroider
ed with silken buds and vines.
The dress and stocking, with its
embroidery, were all of the same tint
and the whole costume revealed but
two colors—cream and black. As she
sat within the blue curtain the artis
tic effect was very beautiful.
Ah, no! it was Stephenie, peerless
among women, and in heartsick mis
ery I at length gave up the lost cause.
- The gray daw n was stealing in at
my windows, its sweet breezes bath
ing my aching temples, when I
sat down at my desk and penned my
farewell letter:
“Stephenie—I cannot trust myself
to see you again. I am as w*eak as a
child, and worn out with such suffer
ing as I pray you may never know.
Inadvertently, yesterday, I heard you
confess your heart to Captain Lang
dale. I heard you say that you loved
him. Then you do not love me!
God only knows how utterly I believ
ed you did, and what fervent grati
tude and happiness there was to me
in that Belief. Oh, my darling! how
could you let me wreck my heart on
the shoals of your mere careless lik
ing? I w as only a congenial friend,
a pleasant companion. Your heart
was liis; and yet—farewell!”
This passionate, incoherent letter I
directed to her, then called my valet.
“Pierre, pack some trunks. We
will go down to Black Rocks for the
summer.”
The man stared.
“Pardon, Monsieur, it is very dull
dow n there. No gunning, ho fishing,
and no young ladies !”
“And' consequently no waiting
maids for you to ogle!” I answered,
with a dreary attempt at ease aud
lightness of spirits.
But the fellow still looked at me.
“Monsieur looks very ill. I will
bid the doctor call on you, and if he
consents we will go to that horrid
place to-morrow.”
“Nonsense! I shall be well enough
after a bath and some breakfast,Don’t
be impertinent, Pierre. We start on
the 10 o’clock train.”
Black Rock was not frequented by
fashionable society; this was my only
reason for choosing it. The Neptune
House, where I took up my abode,
was a large, rambling, old-fashioned
inn, not the least in the world like a
modern sea-side hotel.
My valet, of course, arranged all
the conveniences of my life; conse
quently I did not know the dark-
skinned old woman who one day
presented herself at the door of my
apartment, with a long covered bas
ket upon her arm. My man was
dusting a coat upon the back of the
piazza.
“There is some one at the door,
Pierre,” I said to him as I sat at the
window witha book which I was not
reading.
“It is the w’asherw’oman. She is a
very nice laundress, Monsieur.”
“Yes,” I said, indifferently. “Pay
her.”
He received the curiously covered
basket, settled the bill, aud the w o
man departed.
Pierre prepared to arrange my nnen
by opening a bureau drawer. I turn
ed a page of my book as he withdrew
the white cloth from the basket,when
my attention was again arrested by
his exclamations:
“Mon Dieu! Laces, ruffles.”
“What is the matter, Pierre ?”
“These are ladies’ things. Here is
a wrapper with fluted ruffles, white
skirts, and—ha, ha!—embroidered
7
stockings. Mees Betsey, Mees Bet
sey, come back.”
He dropped the basket on the floor
and rushed after the old woman. I
glanced within and saw a mass of
snowy lace and embroideries, beauti
ful as a bed of lilies. The clothing
was too dainty and expensive to be
long to any but a lady,and I wondered
idly w r ho the owner might be. In
one comer was a pile of hosiery. The
stockings were not all white—one
E airwasof cream color,with asilkem-
roidery of buds and vines; and while
I was carelessly considering how r and
where such exquisite needlework
was done, the thought flashed across
me that I had seen that very pattern
of silken rosebuds on Stephenie St.
Jean’s foot.
My hand trembled. I dropped my
book as Pierre came rushing back
with the panting old woman.
“Yes, I have left the wrong basket.
The other, outside, is yours, sir.
Hope you’ll excuse me. I’m getting
old and forgetful.”
“Stay!” I said, breathlessly,
“Whom are the lady’s things for?”
“For the young lady down stairs
wiio came last week, sir—Miss. St.
Jean. I’ll take them away directly “
Unheeding the wondering eyes of
the two, I snatched up a handker
chief on which I saw a name mark
ed. Yes, it was “Stephenie !”
I grew faint and turned away to
Hide lTiy emotion. My band shook as
I snatched up my hat and rushed out
of doors.
The sun was setting across the wa-
ter. The wave danced blood red in
its light. The air had groAvn cool,
and a pair of singing shore birds flew
before me as I sought a favorite seat
of mine, retired among the rocks.
I had not composed my mind,Avhen
there Avas a rustle of silk, and a soft
hand Avas laid oil my arm.
“Forrest!”
“Stephenie!”
“You know I am here now, and so
I haA r e come to speak to you.”
She sat down close beside me, fa
cing me, her aim across my knee, her
clear eyes steadily meeting mine; and
before she spoke a Avord, I took that
fair hand tenderly, feeling that
she Avas to be restored to me.
,‘Forrest, I have been here a week,
Avishing to see you, yet repelled by
your determined seclusion. If the
old woman called Aunt Betsey, Avho
frequents this place, had not told me
to-night that accident had reA’ealed
my presence to you,I should have lost
My last remnant of courage, and re
turned t home without speaking to
you.”
“What have you to say to me now
Stephenie ?”
“You OA’crheard me talking, as you
supposed, to Capt. Langdale, Forrest.
I Avas reading a letter.”
“A letter?”
“IhaA’ea startling story to tell.
Listen. All the spring my cousin
Lily’s malady had seemed strange
to me. I could not understand her
loss of strength and color, until I
learned by occupying the next apart
ment to her at Branehville, that she
spent her nights in Aveeping. While
I wondered that she should have kept
a secret trouble from me, and per
plexed myself hoAV to gain her confi
dence, I entered her room one morn
ing,and found it to be full of a strange
sickening scent, while Lily lay sense
less upon the bed. She had taken an
opiate powerful enough to produce
death, and upon the table lay two
letters. One W T as addressed to me,
the other to Capt. Langdale.
“As soon as I had procured assist
ance, and a physician’s help had
saA r ed her life, I read the letter the
poor child had addressed to me. Poor
Kitten! her heart was breaking, for
she had set it upon one friend,and she
believed that he loved me. I am
speaking of Captain Langdale. He
is handsome, gay and debonaire, and
the poor girl believed him necessary
to her existence. So she confeesed to
me, yet her heart seemed to hold no
bitterness for her supposed rival.
‘She had always loved me, she
said, and I was more worthy of her
hero. But she was so pitifully mis
erable, poor little thing! Well, I
considered the matter carefully. I
Avas only an hour’s ride from Captain
Langdale, and resolved to see him.
Lily was sleeping a restorative slum
ber, and I could go to the city and re
turn in about three hours. I did so.
When I reached the depot I sent a
carriage for him to come to our
house. He came and read the letter.
Our soldier has a tender heart; he
was affected to tears. He gaA’e me
the letter to read, bidding me to read
it aloud. As I did so you entered
and heard the words which so mis
led you. ”
Her eyes were swimming as they
met mine; but after an instant she
went on:
“Capt. Langdale showed deeper
and more delicate feeling than I had
supposed him capable of.
■‘ ‘If little Lily thinks such a ha
rum-scarum fellow as I am Avortli dy
ing for, I ought to make myself wor
thy the blessing of such love,’ he
said; and added: ‘I will give myself
to Kitten to-morroAV, if she wants
me, and I Avill be a better man than
I ever have been, for her sake.”
“So,” said Stephenie, brightening,
“there is to be a marriage in early au
tumn, My Lily is quite happy in
the prospect of sharing a soldier’s
life, fand—and”—blushing radiantly,
and flashing one beauteous look into
my eyes—“there may be a double
wedding, if you please, dear.”
I tell my wife my happiness was
saved by such a fragile thing as an
embroidered stocking—certainly for
this world, and, I believe, for the
next.
The U|ht House.
The watchman at Calais light house
was boasting of the brilliancy of his
lantern,which can be seen ten leagues
out at sea, Avheii a visitor said to him:
“You speak Avith enthusiasm, sir,
and that is well. I like to hear men
tell what they are sure to have and
know; but what if one of the lights
should chance to go out?”
“Never! never! Absurd, impos
sible!” replied the sensith’e watch-
man, with a sort of consternation at
the bare supposition of such a thing.
“Why, sir,” he continued, and point
ed to the ocean, “Yonder, where
nothing can be seen, there are ships
going by to every part of the world.
If to-night, one of my burners were
out, within six months would come a
letter perhaps from India, perhaps
from Australia, perhaps from some
port I never heard of before—a letter
saying that on such a night, at such
an hour, at such a minute the light
at Calais burned dim and low; that
the watchman neglected his post;
that vessels were consequently put in
jeopardy on the high seas. Ah, sir,”
ana his* face shone with the intensity
of his Brought, “sometimes in the
dark nights, and in stormy weather,
I look out upon the sea, and feel as if
the eye of the whole world were look
ing at my light. Go out? Bum dim?
That flame nicker low or fail! No,
sir, never?”
“Captain,” said a son of Erin, as a
ship was nearing the coast in inclem
ent weather, “have ye an almanik on
board?” “No, I haven’t.” Then,
be jabbers, we shall have to take the
weather as it comes.”
X.U OHTA', BI T NICE.
She stood beside my high-backed chair,
Her curls against my face.
And turning round to see me fair—
My A’ery thoughts to traee—
She put a dimpled hand in mine,
To hide it in a trice,
And blushing just a little, said:
“X really think you're nice.”
8uch words a heart of ice would touch,
. . . Aud melt away in bliss; .
In fact I think I said as much.
And hinted at a kiss.
The winsome maid began to pout.
To seem a trifle sad—
“That's very naughty, sir," she said,
“And now X think you’re bad.”
I told her, while I clasped her waist,
Where iong dark tresses curled,
I Avould not have her love displaced,
No, not for all the Avorld;
And kiss without her sweet consent,
I never, never would—
“I’ll tell you when you may,” she said,
“Aud now I thfnk you’re good.”
She stood beside my high-backed chair.
Her curls against my face,
And turning round to see me fair—
My very thoughts to trace—
I took her dimpled hands in mine,
Like cunning little mice,
And kissed her—when the maiden said,
“It’s naughty, but it’s nice.”
—A good thing to put in practice—
A young lavvyer.
—Is lie coming home? No! No!
“On, Stanley, on!”
—Savings bank presidents’ motto
Give us a (r) rest.
—Bland’s silver bill ought to be
styled the “golden fleece.”
—Naturally liglit-hearted people
Those in the Emerald I’le.
—In Europe General Grant’s reti
cence don’t extend to his appetite.
—The best throw of dice—Throvv
them away.
—Genius is man’s lost soul looking
for itself in life and nature.
—Brigham’s widows are to bring
out a book. It will be called “That
Husband of Ours.”
—A blunder in manners is a blot.
An apology is an attempt at erasure
that always makes it Avorse.
—Fools and their money soon part.
It’s worth while being a fool to have
the money to part vvith.
—A parrot is said to liA r e to be two
hundred years old. A barber does
not live so long, but he talks more.
—Detroit Free Press: “The English
say corn Avlien they mean Avheat, and
Ave say orator when avc mean a one-
horse Congressman.”
—A Roman remarked the other
day: “I try mighty hard to be hon
est, but sometimes a poor man cannot
,he honest, unless he steals the money
to be honest with.
—“That parrot of mine’s a wonder-
ful bird,” says Smythe; “he cries,
‘Stop thief,’ so naturally that every
time I hear it I Always stop. What
are you all laughing at, anyway?”
—Georgy! do you know that your
Uncle James found a little boy-baby
on his door-step last night, and that
he is going to adopt him?” “Yes,
mamma; and he’ll be Uncle Jim’s
step-son, won’t he?”
—Was it not rough on Ella, just as
she was telling Frederick at lunch,
hoAV ethereal her appetite vvas,to have
the cook bawl out, “Say Avill yer have
yer pork and greens now, or vvait till
yer feller’s gone!”
—A gentleman had occasion to cor
rect his daughter^ aged four, recently.
After it was over and she sat awhile,
she went to her mother and inquired,
‘Don’t you think it Avould do papa
good to go out doors.”
—“Quite correct, my dear; the na
tives of South Africa do not require
clothes to keep them warm, because
they are Hottentots, don’t you see?
Coolies are a different sort of people
altogether. So are the people of
Chili.”
“Oh, yes,” said an old lady, “the
modem cook-stove is a great inven
tion; and when my boy James gets
through his studies in practical engi
neering, so he can come home and
run it, I’ll buy one of ’em, but not
afore.”
—A tall tramp looked in at a bro
ker’s office the other day. His im
posing height startled the broker.
“Bless me,” said he, “my man, Iioav
high you do stand in your stockings?”
“Stockings!” was the reply. “I
ain’t got none.”
Tavo ragged little urchins vvere
standing in the gutter looking at a la
dy who had just fallen down on the
pavement. ? ‘It isn’t so much that I
like oranges,” observed one of them,
“but what a lot of people you can
bring down with the peel!”
—A company has been established
to manufacture weather bureaus for
the European market, A large
sized bureau that will predict
sixteen kinds of weather a vveek can
be had for $800. The typhoon and
westerly wind attachments are extra.
—“My son, would you suppose the
Lord’s Prayer could be engraved in a
space no larger than the area of a
nickel cent?” “Well, yes, lather, if
a cent is as big in everybody’s eye as
it is in yours, I think there would be
no difficulty in putting in on four
times.”
—The question arising in a Sunday
school as to why God created all the
animals of the fields and sea and air
before he created man, no one gave a
solution of it until a little boy said:
“I know: it’s because he didn’t want
man hanging around while he was
making ’em.”
—The Omaha Herald says that in
a recent scandal ease in Smith coun
ty, Kan., a lady witness declined to
answer a question, and the attorney
demanded her reason. “Because it is
not fit to tell decent people.” “Oh,
well,” said the lawyer, ‘just AA’alk up
here and whisper it to the judge.”
—“But I pass,” said a minister in
the West, recently, in dismissing one
part of his sucject to take up another.
“Then I make it spades!” yelled a
man from the gallery, who vvas
dreaming the happy hours away in
an imaginary game of euere. It is
needless to say that he went out on
the next deal, being assisted by one
of the deacons with a full hand of
clubs.
—A little squint-eyed Chicago boy
pranced up to his mother one day and
said, “Ma, hain’t I been real good
since I’ve begun to go to Sunday
school?” “Yes, my lamb,” answer-
ed the maternal fondly, “And you
trust me now, don’t you, ma?” “Yes,
my darling,” she replied again.
“Then spoke up the little innocent,
“what makes you keep the cookies
locked up in the pantry the same as
ever ?”
—“The baby has got a new tooth
but the old lady is laid up with a cold
in the head,” remarked a gentleman
to a defeated candidate. “What do I
care?” was the reply. “Well,” said
the gentleman slowly, “before the
election you used to take me aside
and ask me how my family was com
ing on, and I’ve been hunting you
all over town to tell you, and that’s
the way you talk to me. But it don’t
make any difference. I voted for the
other candidate, anyhow.”
Seeing Marriage with Different Eye*.
What friendship is in its degree, so
is marriage to a still more striking
extent. We sometimes see the sweet
est and dearest little woman married
to a bluff, burly, cross-grained fellow,
Avho goes through life like a perpetu
al thunder-cloud from which the
slightest shocks bring angry splut-
terings, sullen murmurs, and nery
outbursts, destructive of all peace and
comfort. Yet Titania worships her
rough-skinned treasure; he is her
“gentle joy” to her, and she finds her
happiness in wreathing garlands for
his long-eared head, and in idealizing
him—dull as he is—till she has made
him into a god by whom all men
HMghfrtake a pattern. Her sistei mar
ried to Hyperion, as good as he is
beautiful, and as clever as he is good,
finds her lot in life is a hard one, and
thinks every wife is to be envied
where she is only to be pitied. She
talks feelingly of the dreadful pun
ishment which falls on women who
make the one great mistake of their
li\’es, and waxes eloquent on the sin
of parents in suffering their daugh
ters to marry before they know their
own mind or those of the men whom
they take for better or worse. Her
eyes fill up vvitb tears Avhen she
speaks of Titania’s happiness, and
Iioav good and kind, for all his rough
exterior, is that long-eared Bottom of
hers, who shows his rough side to the
world but keeps only his down and
velvet for home. And then she sighs
and looks out into the distance as one
whose heart is full of sourness, and
Avhose tongue might say bitter things
if she would, but she will not. If
unhappy, she is loyal; if unapprecia
ted, and not fairly dealt by, she un
derstands the holy reticence of mar
tyrdom; and though her marriage
has been a mistake, she will make
the world the confident of her griefs.
Nevertheless, she gives the same
world clearly to understand that she
is unhappy and has been taken in,
and that man, Hyperion does not
come near to Bottom, and Titania is
to be congratulated, while she is only
to be commiserated. This is glamour
in an iirverted form—glamour dealing
with poison not ambrosia, but quite
as general as the other, if somewhat
more distressing.—[London Journal.
Bloody Brother*.
Louis Fey, brass finisher, and Ru
dolph Fey,' an iron moulder, were
brothers, and lived with their mbther
in Ncav York. Louis drank a good
deal of whiskey and did A’ery little
work. Tavo months ago Rudolph
told him that he was a disgrace to the
family. Louis then left the house
and said he would never return again
to trouble them. Lately, one - even
ing he came in Avet, and cold, and
AA’orn, and hungry, and sleepy. His
brother Rudolph had not returned
froiii Avork, but his mother took pity
on him, warmed and fed and put
him to bed for a good night’s sleep.
Presently Rudolph came home, and
seeing a strange pair of shoes at the
fire drying, asked Avhose they were.
His mother replied that they
belonged to Louis who was
up stairs in bed asleep. Ru
dolph took a flat-iron ip his hand
and went up-stairs, saying that he
would attend to “that drunken
loafer.” He roused Louis and asked
him what he was doing around there
again. Louis said that he thought
he might have one peaceful night’s
sleep in his mother’s house, and he
got up and commenced dressing him
self to go. Rudolph taunted him
about his drunkenness and worth
lessness until he could stand it no
longer. Then he dreAV a knife and
commenced to stab his tormentor
furiously. This was more than Ru
dolph expected from the aroused and
maddened underling. While he Avas
being stabbed he managed to hit
Louis on the head with the flat-iron,
Avhich knocked him doAvn senseless.
Then Rudolph went doAvn stairs,
fainted and fell from loss of blood.
He was taken to a hospital and the
physicians say that the stabbing Avill
prove fatal. Louis was arrested for
killing his brother. He shoAved no
grief for the act; on the contrary, he
seemed to rejoice th at he had taken
such ample vengeance for long-suffer
ed Avrongs
Chinese Funeral Notices.
On the death of any parent, it is
customary in China, at any rate with
persons above a certain rank in the
social scale, to forward to all friends
and acquaintances, however slight, a
formal notification of the fact, Avritten
in mourning-ink, and on mourning
paper of portentous dimensions. On
the present occasion, this document
(in Avhicli, be it observed, the family
name of the parties, iShcn, is omitted)
ran as follows: “Be it known that the
unfilial Pao-chen, who, on account of
his manifold and grievous crimes,was
worthy of sudden death,has not died,
and that instead, the calamity has
fallen upon his Avorthy father; upon
whom the reigning Emperor of the
Ta-Chung [lit. great pure] dynasty
has conferred the first order of rank
in the Civil >Service, and that in the
Imperial Body Guard, and the gov
ernorship of the Province of Kiangse.
In the tAvelfth year of the reign, styl
ed Tao-Kuang, at the competition of
the literati, he gained the rank of
Chit-jen [that is, M. A.] The Avri-
ter’s father, Tau-lin, fell sick on the
ninth day of this month, and linger
ed in great pain until the twejfth,
when he passed aAvay. He was born
about two or three in the morning of
the ninth moon, of the fifty-second
year of the reign, styled Chien-Lung,
and was therefore somewhat over
eighty-four years old. Immediately
lie expired, the family went into
mourning, and iioav, alas! have sor-
roAvfully to communicate with you.
We have chosen the 18th, 19th and
20th for the return presentation of
this card [that is, will then receive
visits of condolence.] No funeral
presents can be received. The wri
ter and his brother are kneeling Avith
forehead in the dust, Aveeping tears
of blood. The sons of the writer and
his brother, nine in number are
kneeling with downcast faces, Aveep
ing tears of blood. The relatives and
descendants to the number of nine,
are on their knees (before the coffin,)
beating their heads upon the ground.
[From] the residence of the writer,
named the Ancient Grotto of the
the Fairies.”—Chambers's Journal.
—At the criminal court yesterday a
colored man stoutly pleaded not guil
ty to a charge of burglary, and as he
had no money, Judge Jones beckon
ed towards one of the young and
rising counsellors present and re
marked:
Mr. , I appoint you to de
fend the prisoner.”
The colored burglar rolled his eyes
with horror when ne heard the name
of the hero of a hundred convictions
mentioned in connection Avith his
case, and eagerly cried:
“No, Jej, no. I guess not. I pleads
guilty if yer don’t make it more’n
two years in de pen.”
The prisoner was sentenced accor
dingly, and the young lawyer tallied
one more lost ease.—[Pittsburg Com
mercial.
—The United States now use more
postal cards than any other nation.
mao a. b itbie is.
A Sketch of the Marshal’* Latest
Choice tor Brest deat of the Couaeil.
Paris Oorrrespondence Few York Times.]
Ailselme Polycarpe Batbie was
bom at Seissan, Department of Gers,
on the 31st of May, 1828. He studied
law, and after a brilliant competitive
examination in 1849 Avas named Audi
tor of the Conseil d’Etat. In 1852 he
he was named Assistant Professor of
Law at the University of Dijon, but
was soon after called to the Faculty
of Toulouse. In 1857 he was made
Assistant Professor of the Law
School of Paris, and in 1862 he was
named Professor of Administrative
Law. At the same time he gave
a course of lectures upon political
economy, and the broad liberalism
shoAvn by him soon attracted atten
tion. He obtained a prominent place
in the Faculty, and Avas \ r ery popular
Avith the students. He did not oppose
the Empire in an open manner, but
contented himself with sly hits at it,
after the manner of M. Beule in the
School of Beaux Arts—hits loudly
applauded by the students—and kept
himself aloof from politics. After tne
reA’olution of the 4th of September he
ran for the assembly in his native de
partment, and took his seat among
the Monarchists on the Right. His
profound knowledge of laAv, the au
thority with which he spoke and his
habit of speaking soon made him one
of the most prominent men in the
Chamder. Besides, he is one of those
very large, ponderous men, of the Dr.
Johnson type, avIio impose their opin
ions upon other men with a seeming
facility. One day he was named re
porter of a reactionary measure, and
some curious revelations were made.
It was found that the Batbie Avho had
ostentatiously held himself aloof from
politics was the same Avho made rev
olutionary speeches in the “Red
clubs of 1848. He then declared that
the Monarchy was overturned for
ever, and that “henceforth the orily
possible legitimate government in
France Avould be the Republic, the
irrevocable fruit of the revolution just
accomplished.” This was in 1848,
when everyone Avas more or less car
ried away by the revolutionary ideas
of the day; and besides, Batbie was
then a young man, and young men are
nearly always naturally carried away
by extreme Ropubliean theories. They
have faith in themselves and in hu
manity ; they honestly believe that
there exists a perfect theory for the
transformation and perfection of man
kind. Alas! when years roll over
their heads they learn by experience,
by treason and treachery, by innu
merable chagrins and disappoint
ments, that the errors of the Avorld
cannot be corrected in a day, and that
time is required for the perfecting of
humanity. Batbie ended his revolu-
tionary speech by clying: “Vive la
Republique.” In the reA’olution
twenty years later he Avas one of the
strongest enemies of the Republic.
His experience is that of thousands.
M. Thiers, at the commencement of
his Presidency, Avas exactly like Bat
bie. He had begun his career with
reA’olutionary ideas and had come to
believe the Republic impossible. At
Bordeaux he had not the slightest
idea of founding the Republic in
France, and as the laAv professor’s
ideas Avere similar to his own, he
made M. Batbie a member of liis
Cabinet. The Hercules of the Gov-
ernment had great weight and au
thority up to the day when Thiers
once more came to the conclusion
that the Repnblic Avas the only form
of government possible. In the end he
fell from power, distrusted alike by
the Repulicans and the Monarchists ;
but he Avas always a moderate man,
and noAv the Marshal is trying to
form a Cabinet of moderate men.
Payment or Bonil* in Silver.
Courier-Journal.]
Hon. Stanley Matthews made a
A’ery strong, logical and unanswerable
speech to-day (loth) in support of his
resolution declaring that the bonds of
1870 are payable in gold and silver
coin, at the pleasure of the United
States. This Avas Mr. MattheAVs’ first
public effort in the Senate. FeAV
members succeed so Avell in their first
speech. His deli A’ery Avas marked by
good taste, and Avas cool and com
posed. His A’oice easily filled the
Chamber. The argument was -close
and compact, and so clearly presented
as to elicit a very fair share of the at
tention of the body. Mr. Matthews
took strong grounds for restoring the
old silver dollar. His speech greatly
annoyed and disgusted Messrs. Ed
munds,Morrill anil Conkling, the lat
ter of Avhom offered an ingenious
amendment, designed to embarrass
the resolution and break its force by
sending it to the President for signa
ture. Mr. Thurman easily and ably
exposed the trick of Mr. Conkling.
The resolution Avill probably lead to
an interesting debate to-morrow, and
be brought to a A’ote. Its passage - by
a large majority is deemed certain.
The silver bill Avill also be debated
this Aveek. The best policy now
seems to be to favor the bill reported
by the committee, as the one most
likely to pass over an executive veto.
Mr. Matthews’ speech to-day showed
that he Avas his OAvn master and the
representative of the sentiment of the
great West, instead of being a mere
mouthpiece of the President and Sec
retary Sherman.
Schenrli’s Mandrake Pills
Will be found to possess those qualities
necessary to the total eradication of all
bilious attacks, prompt to start the se
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tone to the entire system. Indeed, it
is no ordinary discOA’ery in medical
science to have invented a remedy for
these stubborn complaints, which de
velop all the results produced by a
heretofore free use of calomel, a min
eral justly drerded by mankind, and
acknowledged to be destructiA’e in the
extreme to the human system. That
the properties of certrin vegetables
comprise all the A’irtues of calomel
without its injurious tendencies, is now
an admitted fact, rendered indisputa
ble by scientific researches; and those
who use the Mandrake Pills will be
fully satisfied that the best medicines
are those provided by nature in the
common-herbs and roots of the fields.
These Pills open the bowels and cor
rect all bilious derangements without
salivation or any of the injurious
effects of calomel or other poisons. The
secretion of bile is promoted by these
Pills, as will be seen by the altered
color of the stools, and disappearing of
the sallow complexion and cleansing of
the tongue.
Ample directions for use accompany
each box of pills. Prepared only by
J. H. Selienck & Son, at their principal
office, corner Sixth and Arch Streets,
Philadelphia, and for sale by all drug
gists and dealers.
Price 25 cents per box. decl codim
“Twice is he armed Avho has his
quarrel just.” — [Shakspeare.] And
four times he Avho gets his bloAv in
fust.—Cincinnati Breakfast Table.
—It is well enough to have everything
understood, and a New York judge has
decided that wedding presents belong
to the bride if they were given to her
before the marriage took place.
—A little girl who had great kind
ness of heart for all the animal crea
tion, saw a 'hen preparing to gather
her chickens under her wings, and
shouted earnestly, “Oh, don’t sit
down on those beautiful little birds,
you great ugly rooster!”
A Neav Life Boat.—Mr. J. Manes
of New Haven, Connecticut, has hit
upon a plan which meets every want
of shipwrecked people. His boat
consists of a hollOAV globe, ballasted
at the bottom, so that it can never
capsize even in the roughest sea.
This boat has compartments for water
and provisions, brdl’s-eyes, a porthole
for hoisting signals, and a double
hollow mast for supplying fresh air,
and for carrying off that which has
become vitiated. It is, in fact, a gi
gantic bulb about the size of the ball
of St. Paul’s. The apparent difficulty
Avould be Avhat to do with it when not
in use.
Utilization of Wave Power.—
An invention Avas inspected last week
designed to take advantage of the
enormous force of waA’es for the pro
pulsion of vessels. This has been
tried before but never with success as
to secure its general adoption. Mr.
Henry Gerner, the inventor, has a
Avorking model oh vieAv in Barclay
street, N. Y., and to all appearance
the machine needs only to be applied
to a large A'essel to assure its success.
The pitching and rolling motions of
the vessel are both utilized to revoh’e
an ordinary screw propeller, and the
gearing is so adjusted that the strain
is regulated for storm or calm, as the
case may be.
The Placing of Windoavs.
There are three practical considera
tions that influence the placing of
AvindoAVs in any building. These are
—their use in lightingand A'entilating
the building, constructive conveni-
ence, and architectural effect. They
are all legitimate and important con
siderations, in their due order, in
Avhich of course the first is the chief.
He takes a foolish part who essays to
determine a question of windows
without regard to them all; but there
are limits within Avhich each may
reasoably yield to the other. In rooms
which are to be used as sitting rooms
or liA’ing rooms,especially Avhere there
is any view to be seen, it is a crying
fault to set windows so high that
people in their chairs cannot look out
of them Avith comfort. But in places
set apart for special services, as
churches, or where any occupation
Avhich requires concentrated atten
tion is to be carried on, the case is
quite different. In a room that is to
be used only for study and Avriting,
the important requisites are that there
shall be plenty of light, that it shall
come from the proper quarter, pre
ferably from the left hand, and that
it shall not be too low, These condi
tions secured, we should be inclined
to say that between three feet and
five, the latter Avas, on the whole, the
better height for the windersills in a
school room. The light that coines
in beloAV that leA’el is not serviceable,
and there is no reason for tempting
either teachers or scholars to turn
their attention out of doors. The
limit, hoAvever, is one within which
architectural effect may reasonably
be alloAved to rule.—American Archi
tect.
The Phonograph.—Mr. Thomas
A. Ediion has astonished the scien
tific Avorld by the announcement of a
mechanical device whereby words
spoken into a mouthpiece are perma
nently recorded on a strip of paper.
So far there is nothing especially
startling, but the process works both
ways, as it Avere, and the strip of
paper when it is again passed through
the machine reproduces exactly all
the original sounds. The device is
simply an arrangement of vibrating
plates. The discOA’ery is made known
through the Scientific American,
Avhich duly credits it Avith wonderful
promise for the future. Not only is
the human A-oiee, Avith all its tones
and inflections, put upon record for
future use, but music can be perfectly
recorded and preserved in like man
ner. If one of these instruments had
stood in the Roman Senate chamber
Avhen Ciesar delivered the oration
against Cataline Ave could to-day pass
the strip through the machine and
hear every word, settling forever the
vexed question as to the proper pro
nunciation of Latin. The invention
is still in a crude state, but the fact is
regarded as settled that it Avill record
and reproduce sounds as Ave have
stated. The invention is unlike the
telephone, but may be used in con
nection with it. The possibilities of
such a discovery are sufficiently sen
sational. If Ave leaA’e wholly out of
sight the probability that what is said
to-day may be repeated a hundred
years after the speaker is dust, and
consider only its relations to present
eA’eryday life, it is evident that a revo
lution may result. What is the use
of writing letters if by talking into a
mouthpiece at a strip of paper Ave may
prepare all that we Avish to say for
the mails without the intervention of
of pen and ink ? The telephone was
wonderful in its day, but the phono
graph threatens to overshadow it.
A Neav Academy.—Dissatisfaction
Avith the National Academy of De
sign has been growing for years, and
not Avithout reason. The tendency of
such organizations is to fall into the
hands of elderly men, who naturally
discriminate in favor of their own
artistic circles to the disadvantage of
younger men. Old academicians
have been heard to aigue that the
pioneers of American art should have
ex-officio privileges, no matter wheth
er the rising school is encouraged or
depressed. That they should have
privileges is well enough, but it is
certainly wrong that by the exercise
thereof younger artists should be hin
dered. A resolution was last year
passed granting eight feet “on the
line” in every exhibition to each
academician, no matter what is the
quality of his work. In view of the
trash which some academicians are
capable of painting this was an un
wise proceeding. The result of the
dissatisfaction promises now to be the
formation of a rival society, compos
ed mostly of young artists, which will
have an exhibition of its own. O
course such a society will make blun
ders at the outset, will find that all its
pictures cannot by any possibility lie
hung “on the line,” and will bring a
storm about its ears by rejecting or
accepting work that somebody will
think should have had different treat
ment. Nevertheless,the establishment
of such an organization is an encour
aging sign of the new artistic era that
is dawning for America. May the new
society have the best of luck in its
undertaking.—Christian Union.
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soon becomes prostrated an<j indiffer
ent to all surroundings. Her cheeks
are no longer aglow, her robust consti
tution is feeble and emaciated. But
there is a wonderful medieine known
as English Female Bitters, which is a
quick and powerful female regulator
and uterine tonic, and cures all such
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ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
U NDER and by virtue of a decree of the
Chancery Court of Russell county, I will
sell, at public outcry, to the highest bidder,
ON TUESDAY, THE IStii DAY OF DE
CEMBER NEXT,
tlie following Lands belonging to the estate
of James Wright, deceased, situated in Rus
sell county, Ala., to wit:
Section one (1) and a part of section two (2)
in township fourteen (14), and range thirty
(30); tlie south half of the south half of sec
tion thirty-five (35), and a part of section
thirty-six (36), in towhship fifteen (15), and
range thirty (30)—containing one thousand
(1,000) acres, and constituting what is known
as the
MILL TRACT.
Also, the southeast quarter of section nine
teen (10), the whole of section twenty (20)
fractional section twenty-one (21), fractions
section twenty-two (22), fractional section
twenty-six (26), fractional section twenty-
seven (27), section twenty-eight (28), section
(29), and section thirty (30), all in township
fifteen (15) and range thirty-one (31)—con
taining four thousand two hundred and
forty-five (4,245) acres, and constituting what
is known as tlie
Oswicliee Bend Plantation.
The Sale will take place at 12 o'clock K. t
on tlie premises.
TERMS: One-third cash, one-third at
twelve months, and one-third at two years,
with interest on the deferred payments at
eight per cent, interest.
W. H. CHAMBERS,
nolSsEim Administrator.
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Under Springer’s Opera House,
CORNER OGLETHORPE and CRAWFORD STS.
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$10,000 WANTED
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A T MY STORE may be found a large, va
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Ware, Saddles and Harness. A Good line
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and Notions.
These Goods were bought for Cash, and
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and citizens generally will find it to their
interest to call on me before buying else
where.
m „ J. E. DEATON.
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To prepare for getting up a
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I will close out
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“ “ VESTS, 1.60;
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EXTRA DOESKIS COATS, $5.00;
“ PATSS, 2-50;
“ “ VEST. 1.75;
FULL SUIT, 9.00.
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blue strip trade mark with words “.Tack-
son’s Best” on it. Sold wholesale by all job
bers. Send for sample to C. A. JACKSON &
CO., Manufacturers, Petersburg, Va.
A
WORK FOR ALL
In their own localities, canvassing for the
Fireside Visitor (enlarged), Weekly and
Monthly. Largest Paper in the World, with
Mammoth Chromos Free, Big Commissions
to Agents. Terms and outfit Free. Address
P. 0. VICKERY, Augusta, Maine.
d> I c\ a day at home. Agents wanted. Out-
^1,4 fit and terms free. TRUE & CO., Au
gusta, Maine.
A A Extra Fine Mixed Cards, with name, 10
‘HI cents, post-paid. L. JONES & CO., Nas
sau, N. Y.
Notice to Agents.
,New Organs, lOstops
$>125; 13. 896; 12,885; 9, 865. Pianos retail price
8650 only 8175. Dan’l F. Beatty, Washington N.J.
Cl?OriA MONTH made selling the Gyre-
«P/4Ul* scope or Planetary Top, Buckeye
Stationery Package, Magic Pen (no ink re
quired). Catalogues of Agents’ Goods free.
BUCKEYE NOVELTY CC
CO., Cincinnati, 0.
Lawyers.
ALONZO A. DOZIER,
Attorney and Connsellor-at-I-nn
Office Over 126 Broad Street, A
Practices in State and Federal Courts V
both Georgia and Alabama. mb 18,’77 ly
CHARLES COLEMAN,
Attoney-at-Law.
Up-Stairs, Over C. E. Hochstrasscr’s Store.
febll,’77 tf
BENNETT II. CRAWFORD,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Intw.
Office Over Frazer’s Hardware Store.
jaM,”;? ly
REESE CRAWFORD. J. M. M’XEIKL.
CRAWFORD «fc MeNEILL,
Attorneya and Connsellora-at-Jhaw,
128 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
jalC,’76 ly
C. E. THOMAS,
Attorney and Connscllor-at-lsaw.
Office :
Over Hochstrasser’s Store, Columbus, Ga.
jy9,’76 ly
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Jf ARK. H. BLANDFOD. | LOUIS F. GAgB&ftfL
RLANDFORD A GARR'AkD,
Attorneya and Counaellora-at-Eaw.
Office, No. 67 Broad Street, over Wittich &
Klrtsei’s Jewelry Store.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts.
sep4,’75
Piano Tdining, Ac,
E. W. BLAU,
Rapairer and Tuner of Pianos, Organs and
Accordeons. Sign Painting also done.
Orders may be left at J. W. Pease & Nor-
man’s Book Store. &epr> ’7.3
Tin and Coppersmiths.
WJl FEE,
Worker In Tin, Sheet Iron, Copper, dke.
Orders from abroad promptly attended to.
jyl, ’76 174 Broad Street,
Doctors.
»K. C. E. ESTES.
Office Over Kent’s Drug Store.
ju3 ly
Watchmakers.
c. If. LERl’IN,
Watchmaker,
134 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
Watches and Clocks repaired in the best
manner and\%arranted. jyl, ’75
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Georgia Home Building, next to Telegraph
Office, Columbus, Ga,,
Beal Estate, Brokerage and Insurance
Agenej.
LAND WARRANTS BOUGHT.
Refer by permission, to banks of this city.
nov3,75 tf
WEST
ALADDIN
i SONS’! SECURITY OIL,
The Best Household Oil in Use.
Warranted 150 degs. Fire-Test.
Water WhiteJn Color.
Fully Deodorized.
Will Not Explode!
HIGHEST AWARD AT
THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION
FOR EXCELLENCE OF MANUFACTURE
And High Fire-Test ?
Endorsed by Insurance Companies!
Read this Certificate—One of Many :
HowardFire Insurance Co. of Balti
more, Baltimore. Dec. 23d, 1874.—Messrs C.
West & Sons—Gextlemex : Having used
tho various oils sold in thia city for illumi
nating purposes, I take pleasure in recom
mending your “Aladdm Security Oil” as
ever U8Cd iu our 1,oust -
(Signcd) ANDREW REESE, Pres’t,
MANUFACTURED BY
C. WEST & SONS, Baltimore.
TV It. and You will Use no Other.
oc20 dGm
TAX EXECUTIONS!
Mnscogee County—1877.
A LL who have not paid STATE AND
COUNTY TAXES, 1877, will save «>sts
advertisement, levj/ and sale by settlin'’ fi fivs
with me in ten days from this date (Dec.
I-.th, 1877), after which books will be closed.
„ ., I>. A. ANDREWS,
sep2 eodim Tax Collector.
FOR SALE:
27 Shares Eagle & Phenix Fac
tory Stock;
30 Snares Georgia Home Insu
rance Company Stock.
JOHN BLACKMAB, Broker.
salary. Permanent nalesmea
| wanted to Dell Staple Goods to deal*
era. Kopeddliug. Enwtc* paM.
' Address S. A. GRANT A CO., ^
1 9 Home 8t.. Cincinnati. U
V
AaOOLD FLATED W ATIHKM. Cheap-
Nh Cejt in the known world. Sample Watch Free to
MrXJAgenh. Addreit, A. Coult«k&Co., Chicago.
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