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PROPHITT,
I* ‘ Covington Georgia.
■ ... niall uf a »>is celebrated
MEDICINES.
Consisting of his-
H,., u medicine,
BInODYNE PAI N kill it,
tills,
IIP* ifKJE PILLS,
■ DYSENTERY CORDIAL,
IS FEMALE TONIC, and
lift purifying pills, |
fvSs 4 w iU attend to all busing m
line, t' 1 " 1 f or patients when consulted,
H>Vill P[ eeCOl t)l at come to hi* office a* any
BUf'Sy exccptedO^
Bompl to all Orders.
» Remedies of DR. FROPHITT,
e<oe C jon—their well known power
fH'j ”° -°e Ihe diseases peculiar to our Sonth
remov inp j 1 . a ] ren .ly established for them
B" 01:0,1 Me rotation in Georgia and the nd
■"'" V 'Ctes As the majority ot persons hv-
Rmllhare predisposed to disease of
B e otit is granted by all intelligent pliysi.
, 6 0 f the pains and aches of our
'ine to organic or functional derange
BfrfS* important orgam
pßoriTiTrs
■ .^ or Modicino
edv at the root, of the evil. It cures
B C9 wi-h in nine cases out of ten, is at
Hie Liver, whn _ Cou hg Dyspep“ia, Colic,
H n tl Z’ he Rheumatism, Constipation, Men-
Hjj'oblmct’ions, etc,, so common among our
■ ° P I i v ? e r Medicine.
3 U , n f almost any other Prqiara
■“ th f e £i c iae that acts upon the Liver. 11 .a
I- Fluid Extract —ready for use at
» ll !'t 0 /A or nleht, and can be carried to
■ll times Americ a, winter or summer, as it
■"U 01 aw lour nor freeze at any temperature
Kill neithe can OCCU py with safety.
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to unstop the Bottle and drink it
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PARTICBLIU NOTICE.
Ilsreaftrt NO MEDICINE WILL BE DET.IV
[KUE D. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
I &-c aEC
Vou need not call unless you are prepared to
FAY CASH, for I will not Keep Books.
June 11, 1800. 0. S. PROPHITT.
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We are N owl Receiving
and opening, a large stock of
cOo D o
—Consisting of—
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Gentlemen’s and Ladies’
dress goods
GLOVES A HOSIERY,
Almost every Variety of
Not 1 o xx fit
Including BASE BALLS, and other l’lay Balls
Ready Made Clothing,
— —Gentlemen’s and Ladies’
HAT 8, BOOTS, & SHOES,
Hard w arc,
guns and pistols,
SIIJOE FINDINGS, JEWHLRY,
VIOLINS, AND VIOLIN STRINGS,
Cutlery, Crockery, &c.
Also a Fine Assortment of
family groceries.
©aeon, Lard, Flour, Meal, Molasses, o
Finest Syrups, Cove Oysters Sardines, the
FACTORY AND E. D. CHEESE,
And a great many other articles too tedious
mention.
Come and see us. We are determined
All at short profits, hoping thereby to sell
more.
CARR & CODY.
Covington. Ga., Oct.23d, ISGS.--48.tf.
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
NEW STOCK
—OF—
Spring and Summer Goods,
To be found at the Store of
B OWKER, HARRIS SCO.
. COVIXOTOW, GIOROII.
Selected expressly for this marks!, and sold
At as Low Prl cos,
-as the came Goods eaa be bought in this seotioa,
Our Stoek eoneiets of
ID IS V ®®®lß S ,
Os Every Description.
READY MADE CLOTHING
And Cents’ Furnishing Goods Generally.
BOOTS & SHOES,
Fine Lot J b: ATS Latest Style
We hare on Land a full assortment of
Embracing everything usually kept in a First
Claes Grocery Store.
Give n« a call, and examine our Goods.
BOWKEU, HARRIS & CO.
PACK, WOOD A ROGERS,
WAVs just urr.'En
A Very Large and Handsome Stock of
spaxttc ««e»s
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
We invite our friends to give us a call, as our
Stockevery Department is now complete.
PACE, WOOD A ROGERS,
, South side t-f Square, Covington, Ga-
COVINGTON GA., JULY 16 1869.
1 Am Dying.
Kaiso my pillow, husband dearest—*
Faint and fainter comes my breath J
And these shadows stealing slowly,
Must, I know, bo those of death,
Sit down close besido me, darling,
Let mo clasp your warm strong hand,
Yours that ever'has sustained mo
To the borders of this land.
For your God and mine—Our Father,
Thenco shall ever lead me on,
Whoro upon a throno eternal,
Sits his loved and only son ;
I’vo had visions and been dreaming
O’er the past, of joy and pain ;
Year by year I’ve wandered backward,
Till I was a child again.
Dreamed ofgirlhood, and the moment
When l stood your wife and bride,
And my heart thrill'd with Love’s triunudi
In that hour of woman's pride,
Dreamed of thee and all the earth cords
Firmly twined around my heart—
Oh ! the bitter, burning anguish,
When I first knew wo must part.
It has passed—and God has promised
All thy footsteps to attend ;
110 that’s more than friend or brother,
He’ll be with thee to tbo end.
There’s no shadow o'er the portal
Leading to my heavenly home—
Christ hath promised life immortal,
And ’tis lie that bids mo come.
When life’s trials wait around thoo
And its chilling billows swell,
Thou’lt thank heaven that lain spared them,
Thou’lt then feel that ‘‘all is well,”
Bring our hoys unto my bodsidc ;
My last blessing let them keep—
But they’ro sleeping—do not wake them—
They’ll learn soon enough to weep.
Tell them often of their mother,
Kiss them for mo when they wake,
Lead them gently in life’s pathway,
Love them doubly for my sake,
Clasp my hand still closer, darling,
This last night of my lifo,
For to-morrow I shall never
Answer when you call me “wife.”
Fare thee well, my noble husband,
Faint not beneath the chast’ning rod ;
Throw your strong arm round our children,
Keep them close to thee—and God.
Rather IIar«l on Growing Agriculturists.
The vicissitudes to which the agriculturist is
subjected are so numerous, that they are apt
to complain and look upon the “dark sido,’’ in
spite of tho aggregate successes which
they have achieved. We knew an accom
plished but eccentric gentleman, who be
ing a lawyer, and as he added flippantly, an
infidel besides, was very fond of amusing him
self over the real and imaginary sorrows of
his fellow citizens engaged in agriculture.—
One day on tho court house steps of .an
old planter, who was noted for his zealous
piety, was once complaining of the season, of
the prospects of his crop, and prophesying
that the people would come to ruin ; and no
ticing our “infidel friend” staring at him he
inquired, “Colonel II n,how s your crop.
The colonel straightened lu.mself up and re
marked, ‘Sir, I ant too religious in my nature
tp plant anything. J wouldn't plant even a
single potato.”
The pious planter was taken back. He
knew the coloDel w.as a professed scoffer and
an infidel, and after recovering from his aston
ishment, he said, “What do you mean by be
ing teo religious to plant even a potato?”
“Why , this,” said the Colonel, affecting to
be very serious, “at present I plant nothing,
and as a result, I no?ey have any ocoasion to
complain of the variableness of the season, or
rail as you do, sir, against the wise administra
tion of the working of Providence. But if I
plant a single potato, it would change my moral
existence and imperil my personal happiness.
If it were raining I should be miserable, be
cause the rain might injure my potato ; if it
were sunsy or bright, I should be unhappy,
lest a drouth might follow and destroy my
potato. If it were cold and bracing, I should
be feverish with indignation lest my potato
would be frost bitten. If it were intensely hot
I should smother with an extra fever lest my
potato would burn up. No, sir,” continued
the Colonel, “I am too religious by nature to
imperil, »y soul, if I have got any, by being a
miserable agriculturist.”—[Leslies’ 111. News.
Iloy. B. 11. Hill as a Farmer. —The Atlan
ta Intelligencer, of Saturday, says :
“We had the pleasure of meeting with tho
Hon. B. IL Hill, on yesterday. Mr. It. in
formed us that he had just been down on his
plantations in Loe, Dougherty and wo believo
Baker; that he will make oorn sufficient to do
him for two years; that his hands aio all
working well; and that his prospects for a
fine cotton crop is very flattering ; and that thi
crops generally down the country are promis
ing.”
Strange Accident.— Mr. Jacob Burnhard,
residing in the edge of Henry county, about
six miles from Griffin, had a strange accident
to befall him last week. His fine mare and
colt were grazing in a lot where were several
beegums. The mare accidentally turned over
one of the gums, and tho bees attacked her
immediately. Mr. White, tho miller, tried in
vain to drive the mare from the spot. In tho
effort ho was severely stung but could not
move the animal, who was etung so badly
that she died in an hour. The colt died soon
afterward. —Griffin Star.
The original Mrs. Bloomer is said to lmvo
long since become disgusted with the costume
that bears her name.
A Child Attached by a Snake*
The Boston Journal of a recent date has the
following t
An exciting and drngerous encounter with
a snake took place in Canterbury, N. 11., a few
days ago. Nellie Dodge, ngod about six years,
a daughter of Mr. James Dodge, a substantial
farmer in Canterbury, accompanied by another
littlo girl about the same ago as herself, went
out into a field near Mr. Dodge's house, in tho
afternoon, to gather strawberries.
They had wandered but a short distance,
when Nellie accidentally trod upon something
in tho deep grass, and instantly a largo black
snake sprang up at her, and immediately coni
mencod to wind itself around her legs. En
raged at having been trodden upon, the snake
lifted its head and showed its Ifnger by its pro
truding tongue and flashing eyes. The child
thus in danger was nearly overcomo with
fright j hut hor companion, with a presence of
mind seldom exhibited by ono of hor age,
quickly fuuml two sticks, and giving ono to
Nellie, they both commenced an attack upon
the reptile.
Again onraged, tho snake endeavored to
wind closer and higher upon the body of tho
child, and succeeded in biting her threo times
severely before he was driven away. The child
was assisted homo by her companion, and is
now under tho caro of a physician. One of
her limbs is badly swollen and inflamed, but
she will probably recover.
From the description given of the snake, by
the children, there is no doubt but that it was
of tho variety of the black snake popularly
known as the “ Racer.” This kind grows to
the length of seven, and sometimes eight feet,
has a white ring around its neck, and, when
running, carries its head erect from six to eight
inches above the ground.
Tho children spoke particularly of the
“white string tied around its neck,” meaning
its ring. They spoko of it as being what to
them seemed a fabulous size, and said that
when it ran off it kept its head up in tho air
and looked back at them. The bite of the
snake is not venomous, but is injurious.
Discoveries. —Judge Ware, a prominent cit
izen of Heard county, informs us that the
Jackson Mill Co.’s laborers, in cutting a canal
through a field, cultivated for the last forty
years, on the Chattahoochee river bottom, five
miles below Franklin, Heard Cos., discovered
between the blue and pipe clay (not made nor
wasliod soil) a walnut in a fine state of preser
vation 13 feet beneath the surface, and some
pine straw 17 feet beneath the surfaoe. The
question arises—what buried that walnut and
straw in the clay, and how long have they
been there ? for the river does not overflow at
that point oftencr than once in twenty years.
—[Newnan Herald.
ScAi.rED by a Locomotive.—A peregrinating
peddler by the name of Scott had his head
scalped by a railroad locomotive a few days
ago, near Dubuque, lowa. lie was walking
on the track when he was overtaken by the
engine, but ha luckily had time to squat in a
trench cut through tho road bed before it
rushed over him. He didn't or couldn't duck
his head low enough, however, and the result
was that his scalp was “ erased” as scientific
ally as if the operation had been performed by
a Pawnee Indian. When the conductor of tho
train came back to look after him, Scott blurted
out a few words of defiance, and intimated that
if thereafter the railroad company were not
more careful with their old steam wagon*, he
would sue them for damages.
Worms on Fruit Treks.—An oxperienoed
fruit grower, who possesses a beautiful orch
ard near Niagara river, in Western New York,
has used one simple method with success. He
takes lye from leached ashes, mixes a little
grease with it, heats it quite warm, and with
a syringe throws it up into all parts of the
trees, branches and trunk. He says it will
effectually kill all caterpillars, all kinds of
worms that are either infesting the trees in
nests, or running over tho bark. Trees treated
in this manner were exceedingly healthy,
beautiful, vigorous in appearance, possessed a
smooth, glossy bark, and bore the best apples
of the country. The remedy is easy and cheap.
—[Pomeroy s Democrat.'
A Heart-Rending Spectacle. —On last Sat
urday, the 3d inst., as a lumber train was
passing this place, going down, Richard Myd
dclton, a iittlfe boy ten years of age, from
Savannah, on a visit to his relatives here,
attempted to jump from the warehouse platform
to the train while it was in motion—missed his
footing—fell between tho cars and was literally
ground »p, from his hips downward. 110
survived only a few hours, lie was the son of
James W. Myddlcton, formerly of Savannah.
His remains weje tajten to-bis widowed mother
the same day.
If this is not a salutary warning to those
boys who make a constant practice of jumping
on and off the trains while in motion, we don t
know what can be.—Valdosta Times.
In Nashville the other day, while the Cor
oner was holding an inquest over the body of
a dead man, the dead man arose, knocked the
Coroner down, and rushed out of the room as
though tho devil was after him, leaving the
Coroner and his jury in a terrible state of de
moralization. This reminds us of the Democ
racy, which has so often been killed, but which
will soon show tho Republican Coroner, sit
ting on its so-called remains, a few things not
down in tho bills.
A, fraud has been discovered in the New Or
leans custom house involving a loss to the Gov
erninent of $300,000. With the exception o.
the ex-rebel Gen. Longstrect, all the officials
are carpet-baggers.
Where Woman’s Power Lies.
The true power of domain is in the resist'
less power of affection. In asserting this, ttm
I attempting to mask the great questions of ottr
day with ‘glittering generally?’ Am I dispo
sed to deny any lawful claims which woman
may make for a moro extensive recognition of
her rights, or a large field for her power? No ;
I uni not doing any such thing. Let woman
do whatever her faculties cib achieve—let her
do w hatever hor instincts demands—if sho fol
low hor instincts I am sure sho will not go
wrong. lam sure of this also, that, where
ever man inay lawfully go, women may law
fully go. Wherover a woman ought not to be,
it is a shame for a man, it is a shame for hu
manity to be. I merely insist upon this, that
whatover woman may accomplish in tho world
with brain or hands, will draw its vital effica
cy, its talismanic virtuo from the heart; and
that her entire strength in all these various
shapes of action and of influence, in its
root and cssenco, will be the strength of the
affections. The hiding of woman’s power
must over be in the fervor and steadfastness of
her love. And her most triumphant charac
teristic is love, culminating in its highest ex
pression—that of self sacrifice, A thoughtful
writer lias observed tho contrast between tho
sexes even in their play. ‘The boy,’ ho says,
‘gota together wooden horses and a troop of tin
soldiers and works with them. The girl takes
a doll and works for it.' That is woman’s
great peculiarity—the work of self-sacrifice—
working for others.—Rev. Dr. Chapin.
Return that Key.
The people of France after enduring many
reigns of oppression, near the close of the last
century, arose in their power, ended the rule
of the Bourbon Kings and tore down and de
stroyed tho instruments of their tyranny*
prominent among which was the Bastile.—
Thinking the Americans loved liberty and
despised oppression, they sent the key of that
great prison to our land for safe keeping.—
Those confiding Frenchmen in their enthusi
astic admiration of our government, thought
no Bastile would disgrace American soil, and,
that “leagued oppression and whiskered pan
dours” could not wrest that key from our cus
tody to nse it again to turn bolts upon in nr.
cent victims incarcerated to gratify tho whims
and caprices of wicked rulers.
Scarcely threescore years hare come and gone
ere Americans have erected not one, but many
Bastiles, in which men, arrested without war
rant or authority, not convicted of any crime
by a verdict of their peers; have been incar
cerated and punished in a mode and manner
that would bring a blush of shame and pity to
the checks of the officers of the Inquisition.
Tho reader of the statement of Edman Spang
ler, will agree with us, that the Dry Tortugas
(properly styled a parched bell) exceeds in
horrors the French Bastile, and that Ameri
cans have betrayed the confidence of French
men and should return that key.—Newnan
Herald.
EHPTr Jails. —The Geneva Gazette says:
“Seneca county has tvro jails, and both are
empty 1 The fact is a remarkable commenta
ry on the oft repeated assertion of our radical
opponents that in ‘democratic strongholds you
find the greatest prevalence of vice and
crime.’ No county in our State has proved
more steadfast to ths Democratic party than
Little Seneca. And it never has been the po>
icy—never been deemed necessary by her local
authorities, to put their constituents in a
straight jacket to keep them in tho path of
rectitude and virtue. Tho excise and other
laws of the ‘moral’ code are administered in a
liberal tolerant spirit, ar.d with as little re
straint as possible upon individual rights,
tastes and inclination. Tho result is before
us in the fact above stated—empty jails. It is
an exemplification of the saying, that those
people are the most virtuous, happy and pros
perous who are governed the least.”.
A small darkey of Montgomery, Alabnma,
sent out to pick berries the other day, button
ed himself closely in the remnant of a Yankee
overcoat. When he returned his mother ob
served it and accosted him : What do you wear
dat thick coat for, sich a hotday as dis ? Cause
mammy, replied the loyal boy—de yankees
1 does it. You’s a little fool, said the indig
nant old mammy—do you ’spose dem yankees
got as much sense as we 'Mericans has ?—Bos
ton Post.
School Examination.— John how do yon
pars granmother?
‘I doesn't pass her at all, but always goes in
to get a targ.’
‘What is tho singular of men?’
‘They is sisgaJar when they pay their debts
I without being axed to do it, a dozen or more
times/
‘Young women aro beautiful. What come*
after young women ?'
‘lt’s the fellers to bo sure—they aro always
after the young women.’
‘That will do; now you are dismissed.'
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The New York Sun, referring to Mr. Seward,
savs : “Before starting on his present tour he
stated, very explicity, that within a year there
would be a break up »f President Grant’s ad
ministration, which he pronounced the weak
est administration the country had ever had ;
and h 6 assigned as ore reason for going away
that lie wished to be as far off ns possible
when tho break up takes place.”
Rev. Henry W. Camp, a brevet Christian
from Vermont, for a long time doing a littlo
something as a Bible missionary among the
negroes of Washington, was caught the other
day lugging off a leg of mutton he had stolen.
It seems if he was not a ‘soldier of the Cross,’
he was a ‘follower of the lamb.’
VOL 4 NO, 35
Josh on rica*.
flic smallest animal of the brute creation,'
and tho most pesky, is the flea.
Thoy arc about the bigness of an onion *oed,‘
and shine like a bran new shot.
Thoy spring from low places, and can spring
furthet and faster than any of tho bug
brutes.
They bite wus than tho muskeetoze, foil
they bite on the run. Ono flea will go aul
over a man's suburbs in 2 raimits, and leave
him as freckled as tho tneazlcs.
It is impossible to do anything well with a
flea on you, except swaro, and fleas nint afraid
of that; the only way is to quit business of
aul kinds and hunt for the flea, and when you
have found him he aint there. This is one of
the flea mysteries—the fakulty they have of
being entirely lost jist as you have found
them.
I don’t suppose there is ever killed, on an
average, during onny ono year, more than 16
fleas in the whole United States of America,
unless there is a casualty of some kind ; onoe
in a while thore is a dog gits drowned sudden,
and then there may boa few fleas lost.
They are about az hard to kill os a flax
seed iz, and if you don’t mash ’em as fine aa
ground pepper they will start biznoss on •
smaller kapital, jist as pestit’erious os over.
There is lots of poople who hav never seed
a flea, and it takes a powerful smart man to
see one ennyhow; they don’t stay long in a
place.
If you ever ketch a flea, kill him, before
you do ennything else, for if you put it off 2
minite it may be too late.
Menny a flea has passed away forever iu
less than 2 minits.
Charging the Jury-
A Dutch Judge in the western country, pre
siding at a trial for murder, and on rising Jto
deliver the charge, observed that the prisoner
was playing chequers with his custodian,
while the foreman of the jury was fast asleep.
Replenishing the ample judicial chair with hi»
broadcast person he thus addressed the jury:
“Mister Yoreman and t’oder jurymen : Der
brisoner, Hans Vickter, is vinished his gam*
mit der sheriff, and has peat him, but I dbkoo
care he don t peat me. Hans has been tried
for murder before you, and you must bring in
dar vardick, but it must pe ’cording to the
law. Do man he kill't wasn't kill’t at all, aa
was broved he was in jail for sheep stealing.
“Put dat ish no madder. Der law says ven
dero ish a tou’t you give era to de brisoner,
put here dero ish no tou’t—so you see dor
brisoner ish guilty, Pesides he ish a great
loafer. I hav know'd him vifty year, and ha
hasn’t tone a sdtich of work in all dat dimer,
and der ish no ono depending übon him for
deir livin’ and he is no use to no boty. I dink
it would be a goot plans to hang him for an
example, I dinks Mr. Foremans dat he petter
be hung next fourt’ of July, as der militia ish>
goin’ to drain in anoder county, and deropo do
vun goin on here.”
It should be added to the credit of tho jury,
in spite of this ‘learned and impartial charge, 1 ’
they acquitted the ‘brisoner/
The Ages ot ‘Marrying’ People-
The records of tho bureau of vital statistics'
in this city, reveal somo singular facts a* to
ages of persons who gel married. Among
other facts, they show that the age at which
most men marry, is from 23 to 30 years; while
the favorite ‘marrying ago’ of women is from
20 to 25. The number of males under 20
years of age, who got married during the last
year, was 56, the number whose ages ranged
from 70 to 80, was 43 ; whereas, there were
1,256 females under 20, and only 1 above 70,
who got married during the same time. After
a woman has passed the age of 49 years, she
does not seem to stand much chanoe for mar
riage, unless she ie a widow. It is interes
ting to think that the chance for marriage of a
widow of forty is just about equal to that of a
spinster of twenty-five. The ‘old* boys’ hold
out well, away wp among the fifties and six
ties ; but in the matrimonial as in the bond
market, the five-twenties are the favorites.—
N. O. Picayune.
Remarkable. —The most wonderful instance
of lenm mtim m that we ever heard of is pub
lished in tho Decatur papers. A cow, it is
asserted, belonging to Mr. Kendall, near that
city, a few days since, gave birth to one kun »
dred m*d war calves, at one time, and another,
belonging to Mr. Edward Francis, in tha
same vicinity,"brought forth sixty. In each
instanco there was one large developed calf,
while tho others were about the size of large
Norway rats. The smaller ones were perfect
specimens of miniature caives in every respect.
Tho neighbors denominated this freak as “wild
calving.”
Tho parties arc all well known there, and
as there can be no doubt of the truth of this
statement, we think Decatur can head the list
in the way of prolific cattlo.—[LaCroese Dem
ocrat.
Deluge in tue West. —There sip pears ta
have been great loss of life by the late floods
in Kansas and Northern Missouri. A steam
boat captain reports having seen twenty-seven
dead bodies, of both sexes and all ages, taken
from the lowlands after the water receded.
The colony of Swedes on the Kaw river were
swept away, only thirteen of them escaping
without injury.
General John C. Breckcnridge is to he tho
orator of the day at the Mercer County fair,
to be held on tho 7th of.Saptember, at llarrods
burg, -Kentucky.
Thore aro 3,500 newspapers published ia
this country,, of which five sevenths are issued
in the Northern States. New York has the
largest, and Florida the smallest number.