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YOI.
Of Jlt|ens d§forgiau.
jj h. CARLTON & CO., Proprietors.
A. K. CHILDS.'
XICKKKSON.
CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO.
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Il.vm.u: Conn. IIoweli. Cobb.
l. & 11. conn,
Itornejys til la if,
Athens, Ga.
(ifliec in Deuprcc Bunding.
Idi.ly. __ _
ALEX. S. ERWIN,
Attornej' at .Law,
Athens, Ga.
lulii'e nit Broad Street, between Center Jc
Heaves mid Orr «lt Co., upstairs.
Ji. E. 111 11AS11ER,
A / / O'JtJV'UT A 7 1A w,
watkinsville, ga.
&c., &c„ &c. - c tof
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
GINS DELIVERED IN ATHENS AT MANUFAC-
; \ TUBERS PRICES, . j
’ Sfri. ao^i-tf, f ; j i 1 f !
T. T. TAUM9C*.
—DEALER IN—
Amtrifw ati) Import^ Waters, Clods, Jewelry, 1 ■ •»«*»'»*>«.
[For He Sunday Chronicle and Sentinel.]
A BLACK BIRD THAT COULD SINC BUT
- i j WOULDN’T SING.
Rovisod and CorrecW by Poe E. Tatter.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak
and wean',
O’er the War of the Rebellion and the thloga tliat were
before;
While 1 eat absorbed in thinking, brandv cock-tail,
slowly drinking, |
Suddenly I enwa blliidhig, one eyad figure at my door—
Saw a nasty, stinking, blinking, one eved figure at my
door,
Standing up as atiff as steelyards, just across my cham
ber floor,:.' 1 I * if
Peeping in, and—nothing more.
Alt! I never sliall forget it, bow, in glancing round. 1
1 met it,
And 1 ever ahull regret it that 1 look’d towards that
door,
For I saw a monstrous figure—like a giant, only
bigger—
And there stood a big buck nigger, with bis back
against the door,
Darting, with a hideous snigger, glances right across
lay floor.
A reeking, lantern, jaw'd buck nigger, bolt upright
against my door,
Glancing in, and—nothing more.
Quick, Instinctively espying where ray bam
Tberra^^'lyin^klbU,
floor,
Ana with most determined vigor seized nnd hurled it
at the Rigger,
But so quick was he on the trigger, as he jump'd it
ATHENS; GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1876.
—-4-—-r>
BANGOR’S SAS'L
nd eggs
rth upon the
SILVER AND PLATED WAKE,
Musical Instruments, (Inns, Pistols, Etc. I
WATCHES, CI.rtCK. AND JEWlIllY REPAKXD IN A MAT, |
WORKMAN LIKA MANNER,
And warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ornamental and Plain fatter Fnyraeiny a Specialty.
COLLIDE AVERSE, sae Imt fca Stilt Eton Career, ATHSSS. DA.
fcb.l5tf.
W I^a ML.-
Th ?r 1 ^ e democrat* Inviu Ben
H. HU1 to Break Bread With
Them.
, -■ .
Which Mr. Bill Answers I* • Masterly Pics
for Concession^
The Democrats of Bangor will celebrate
Ibe <*ne hundred and forty-fourth anniver
sary of the birth of Washington, hy a sup
per at the Bangor house, on Tuesday even
ing, February 22, 1876. ; ‘~*’>
You are cordially invited to be present
and participate in the festivities of the oc
casion.
The Reception Committee will be in at
tendance at the parlors .and reception
rooms of the Bangor hoose, at 8 o'clock.
The supper will bo served promptly at
nine o’clock. • -Vi; v
M^uceuxs Emery,
Josksph P. Bass,
FeKDEUIC IL K •jr.HTON,
Committee on Invitations.
Bangor, Feb 14, 1876.
To H..n. Benj. II. Hill, M. C.
Accompanying the above invitation was
the following private note from a promi
nent Maine Democrat, which elicited Mr.
Hill’s reply:
Bangor, Me., Feb. 14, 1876
My Dear Si it—Should youreongressional
no mortal ever staked or quaked ; duties prevent your acceptance of the on
ly sinner mutter forth the** word.: | >'>vit:ttio», ca . n . v f*“ " ol *»VOr US by
| Struck beneuth him, aa he bounded just like lightniug
• from the floor,
j A» like u Urr’d und leathered mercury, up he bounded
j from the floor,
Grazed his heel, und—nothing more, :
; Rack toward my heart li'.stouc looking, where my ham
and eggs were cooking.
Shaking, quaking,
belore,
| Soon 1 heard the ugl
I “ tome dinnsrP
letter with such werds of counsel and cheer
Looking stilly more ga*nt and thinner, nvea than be I ag your feelings may prompt?
These the words ’the heathen m iter’d—the sole and j Gur eelebration will be att
doer.
• Never quit them nig
‘ ‘ very sure.
JAU2
»i;!i v in former Ordinary’* Office.
REMOVAL!
/. A. A Ale 12. DJ2JV2IS2,
|I AS l: KM< >YKD to the office lately occupied by Dr. J.
ruarantced in l>oth AV«>rk and Trices.
C. 1). JIILL,, ~~
\A/7071V2JY A1 HAW,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
1‘rompt attention given to all business and the same
sj uctfuUy Hoheted. janlt-ly.
ROPE HARRO W,
A Z7 07t\Yin • A 7 1A It \
ATHENS, GA.
**iVkc in Mr. J 11. Newton’s new building.
>i.l K.
A I’G UST DORR,
V K It C IIA X T r A I LOR.
Imm’Rtlr of Fink ('lotus and Dovskins,
its, kkady-made clothing, and GENTS-
FURNISHING GOODS,
«’bir>.3m. Broad Street, Augusts. G:v.
ir. li. LITTLE,
At to r nejy at la it',
CARNESVII.LE, GA.
J. S. DORTCH,
A tto r n ej> at law,
oaknesvh.le, a a.
A. (i. McCURRY,
•I TTO it .YE IT .€ T L.4 W,
HARTWELL, GEORGIA.
i' II I. give >:rit*t ivrsonal attention to all business cu
*.<•1 ?•> his care. Aug. 4—40— ly.
a M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas.
JACKSON & THOMAS,
■A ttorneys at Uiaw»
.llAc/w, Georgia.
JOHN IF. OWEN,
Attorney at Law.
TOCUOA C1TT, OA.
i' ill practice iu all the counties of tho Wastern Cir-
lbrt und Madison of the Northern Circuit. Will
>i*vei a i niteniou to oil claims entrualed to his care.
tfaowiy.
P. (L THOMPSON,
‘Vttorney at La\v,
"d attciiliun paid to criminal praetic*. For refer-
v *it v to Kx. Gov. T. 11. Watt, and Hon. David
M mtiomerv Ala. Offloe over Barrr’* "Storr,
i. Frb.J—tf.
FRA NK HARR A LSON,
ATTORNEY AT AW,
CLEVELAND, GA.
‘11 practice in the counties of White, Union, Lum-
: n ’ r »wn^, and Fanning, and the Supreme Court at
Will give special attention to all claim* en-
11.» hi* care. Ang. 11 1871^-41—tf._
Boo) and Shoe Manufacturer
COLLEGE AVENUE,
Xext Door to Pont Office.
hand, Uppers for making Low Quartci
\nti pSS^lly Minted.’ a ‘“ l l r “' C ° BAlhert ’' Bep “ r " j Nev ?.c¥ clMned the pI:lt,cr ' lho ^ h • vou bcat ,ne
!xend ten ilollnra, per moil nr expres.-. and vou shall re ‘ 4 ^roar,
ccive a fimt clans pair of boots.
June SO, 1875. 35-tf.
Great Reduction in Rrices
F or the next thirty days. Brackets, Wall
Pwcketfl, and all kinds of Ornameutal Wood Work,
will be told at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Now is the time to make your houses beautiful at low
figures.
rest bargains given in everything at
BUKK
attended by the
only noinid then uttered, j prominent Democrats of our State and by
As Slrm^oMm” 1,igl ‘' iU "‘ 1> b * fluttr ’ d ’’ Ii « l,,in « on I leading democratic members of the Legis-
Dinner!’’ said be, nothing more. j hi ore, ami it is designed as the beginning
Then Me impudence beginning, he dl>played hU gums j which, \vt*
in grinmug, ! trust, will ho fruittul of good results in our
And with eye* angbt eke but winning, leer’d upon ine l next September election.
Speaking thuidy : “ ’Tis your treat man, l’il never go ( ^ ,)llr cfFeetit e answer to Diattic llUS made
into the street man, | you hosts of friends atiiont? the Democrats
™ is? *° me Kr “ b ,0 **' , * i “ 11 ’•“*'*’** y oar of Muine, and there is no man from the
and bacon now just done I’m j Sotith troiii whom they would more gladly
the political situation then? Our father*
Itad waged no war, save against a common
enemy. They had won victories—the vic
tories of liberty; and not the triumph of
.strifes. They were bat three millions in
thirteen States, snrronnded by enemies and
struggling to lay some foundation for free
institutions amid the jeers of a monarchical
world. They were gladdened bv common
successes, animated by common hopes and
pressed together by common, dangers.
Yet, even then, the immortal Washington
himself tells us that the spirit of amity and
of mutual deference and concession was in*
dispensable to the formation of oar consti
tution. And what is oar present political
situation ? We are over lhrty millions in
nearly forty States. We have’ had a war
which was not a struggle for our common
liberties. Wc have bad strifes in which
there were surrenders, but nc victories;
results, but no successes. Our war was but
a fraternal butchery. In fifteen • years we
have slain more of our brethren, burned
more of our homes and cities, wasted more
of our country, and created heavier bur
dens for generations of honest toil than
were wrought by all the wars with ene
mies, not only since the declaration of inde
pendence, but since the foundation of the
colonies!
How inexpressibly important, then, is it
tliat every patriot in our land should re
invoke, for its preservation, that spirit of
amity, and of mutual deference and conces
sion, which Washington tells us was imliss
pensable to itsjformation! How unworthy
MARK TWAIN’S DUEL.
His Wonderful Escape,
Mark Twain contributes the following to
Tom Hood’s Annual.
The only merit 1 dsirn for the following
narrative is that it is a true story. It has a
moral on the end of it, but I claim nothing
on that, as it is merely thrown in to carry
favor with the religious element.
After I had reported a couple of years or.
the Virginia City (Nevada) Daily Enter-
prite they promoted me to the editor-in-chief;
and I lasted just a week by the watch. Bu;
I made an uncommonly lively newspaper
while I did last, and when I retired I trad a
duel on my hands and three horse-whippings
promised me.
The latter I made no attempt to collect;
however, this history concerns only tho for
mer. It was the old “flush times” of the
silver excitement, when the population was
wgnderfully wild and mixed; everybody
went armed to the teeth, and all slights and
insults had to be atoneil for with the best ar
ticle of blood your system could furnish. In
the course of ray editing I made trouble
with a Mr. Lord, the editor of a rival paper.
He flew up about some little trifle or other
that I said about him—I do not remember
now what it was. I supposed I called him
a thief, or a body-snatclied, or an idiot, or
something like that; I was obliged to make
the paper readable, and I couldn’t fail in my
duty to a whole community of subscribers
merely to save the exaggerated sensitiveness
of an individual. Mr. Lord was offended.
Treat me, or I’ll charge ’era sure.”
HKE’S Bookstore.
Then toward the fire-place marching, where my eolFce,
too, was pareiting,
Boldly ftalk’u this sassv nigger, right across my cham
ber floor. t
Never stop’d to bend or bow, sir, then I knew thcre’d
be a row, sir.
For 1 made a solemn vow, sir, be should soon recross
that floor,
BANKRUPT BLANKS.
f >HlLlP«fcSOLOMAN’$ AUTHORIZED EDITION,
the only complete edition published. Sent bv
For safe bv
T. A. BUtfKE, Bookseller and Stationer.
ii! at *1.
febS.tf.
C.1SH FOR WO Ole,
—on—
CLOTH FOR WOOL.
Athens Manufacturing Coinuwv
" * Good;
larger variety of Woolen
and propose to
Ex
iy are now making a
1* than ever before,
Ixchange them for Wool, *-
believing it to be more to the interest of the Planter to
iixehangc the Wool for Cloth, rather than have iMJard*
ed and Spun at home. Call lbr Samples and Terms ol
Exchange. R. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent.
May ll», 187. r —29-tf.
Miss C. Potts,
i- , 'ashionable Dressmaker
(Over University bank.)
Rroatl Street, - - Athens.
Would resjteetfully inform the Ladies nnd her friend*-
generally, of Athens and vicinity, that she is now pre
pared to do Dress making in the Neatest and most
fashionable styj.es.
With lic-r experience in the business, she feels snre of
giving satisfaction. May 14, 1S77>—28-tf.
U. S. Internal Revenue.
Deputy Collector's Or nor, |
Fourth District, Georgia, J-
Athens, Jan. 15, 1876.)
A ll parties desiring ixfor-
mntion as to TAX imposed by the United Statrs
Internal Revenue Laws, can obtain the same by apply
ing to
W. S. MAYFIELD,
Deputy Collector.
Office over Jacobs & Michael’s Store, Broad Street,
Athena, Ga. * janlJMf
cMrmrwicr
RAILROAD TICKETS
For sale, hy nil routes, and to nil principal points in
the * . ——
UNITED STATES.
Buy your Ticket® before leaving Athene, and get all
information from
Capt. WM. WILLIAMS,
Agent Seutliem Kxnress Co., Athena, Ga.
. . L 28-tt .
R R* SAULTERf
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
WINES, WHISKIES and LAGER BEER,
ALE, GIN, CIGARS,
CALL AT SAULTERS EXCHANGE,
Jackicm Stuct, Atufm, Georgia.
Iur.tr tlutn from the Representative of the
Ninth District of Georgia.
Yours truly, **
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.,
February 19, 1876.
Gentlemen—I have received your very
kind letter of the 14th inst., informing me
Anil 1 kicked liitn through the room, air, back attain ' that “ the Democrats of Bangor, will c.le-
... toward the door, . ! brute the one hundred and forty-fourth
Kick’d and ciiflcd turn in my anger, back at-aii»t uiv .... , ■ ,
chain tier dour, • . anniversary ot the birth of \\ ashmgton, l>y
Thcii I kicked him yet once more. a supper at the Bangor ltottse, on Tuesday
Rut this midnight bird beguiling my Mirr’d spirit into cveitetluig, February --id, I816,” and cor*
amiiiug, j dially inviting me “to he present and par-
' ’ K ‘ 1>id ’ ruv " K ' u ' 1 Iook ,;L " U ' wr - Y ! ticipate in the fc tivities of the occasion.”
" Tuo’," 1 >aid, •• thou art a l'rccdman, thou La.t gone | It is a matter of painful regret that iny
.o much t« seed, man, duties ltere will not allow me the gratiflea-
That lil give you one v<xxl feed, man, as you seem to i .. • * # * .. „ r **
be so poor— j tion ot being with you. I was never north
'hiegood iced in yoor *ore need, man,- as you eecm »o 1 of the Savannah river until after the fra-
Thes'e el-g^ni meat eiaU be my treat, if,‘with light j war began, and I was never i.l S
work, yon’ll pmy the score.” i northern State until alter that w ar (of anUs)
Quoth the nigger—” Work no more.” ' was ended. And yet, I know I do not eu-
Mncb I Tnurrelied this ungainly Nigger should refuse j tertain a political sentiment, feeling or de-
so plainly ^ - ) sire, that would not find a cordial response
s£e do * itU * work ’ tM food 1,e crmTod * ad nccded from every true patriotic union man of eve-
For we cauuol help a^feeu^r that no Uviug human
beiiiij ^
Should decline to labor, seeing that lie was so blasted
of public confidence, and how criminal must «an tnutvauat. ar. uara was.
he be who would invoke the spirit of discord ! and . re P l,ed v '« orou * , y h ! s PfP*- Vigor
and of mutual distrust and coutumelv! ; °" i]y 'T"?.* dea ' wheu 11 refeM to a
And now let me say, I speak as a "repre- I C5 rs ?. t ! a lin a frontter newspaper,
tentative man of the tkrath.'when I sav our t>uel ,llg wa ' * U ‘ he f l ; l,,on a, ," on S
S.uthetn people, with unprecedented tma- P er i f a ^ es,n tlmt couutry, an, a very few
niinitv, are ready and willing to meet the f wouW th £ ,w the "PP^tum-
Xorthem people in this spirit of amitv, i * y 7 ono ^i 1 " 11 one ma ", "J a
deference and concession Wlmtevw , due * T“ "5f» t0 be even >‘! okcJ
might have been the wright or wrong of UP . .V* 0 'T !' >e ° rd,nar - v
slavery, the Southern people thought that I We", out there if you abuse a man
th, provision of the colistitution regarding ! *!“' that ‘"TJ-'n .? “’ ^'° U had ‘°
it ought to have been obeyed until the ' 1 “ m ,.° Ul “ d kdl h ‘>«’ otherwiae you world
constitution should be amended as provided i?jbuf' , era lettged Mr. Lord,
therein. Thev were made to believe those ? nJ 1 d,d 1h °? e '>e won d not accept; but I
provisions w ould not be obeyed and that k “ew Perfectly well hat he dtd not want to
the disregard of one provision of the con- * ud 8 “ 1 ? hal ^ •'"« >" the most
stitution tvould result In the abandonment, I i' ,ol f u , t and 'T k * nia 1 ni,ner - , Aa( th f"
by the North, of the constitution kaelf j 1 sat down and sal .f^ »" d 8nu ® iJ *«»
They did honestly believe they had a | an3W ® r came. All the boys the editors—
right, and that it was their duty, to take "T‘ he '•> the disk
tliat constitution and go unto themselves. I bu . snl ® 38 > a, “ l telhng about, duels and
I did not concur with ...v own people in ‘^^tug ihe ^de wttha lot of aged ruffiatts
the wisdom of their conclusion, but I knew j f 0 had e , x 'P enence ,n . « a ch matters, and
they were honest in their conviction, and ?>‘«fether there yvas a loving mtere.-t taken
- 1 ..... . ’ - in the matter that made me unspeakably un
comfortable. The answer came—Mr. Lord
declined. Our boys were furious, and so yvas
I on the surface.
I sent him another challenge, and another,
and other, and the more he did not want to
fight the more blood-thirstier I became.
But at last the man’s tone began to change.
He appeared to be waking up. It was be
coming apparent that he was going to fight
me after all. I ought to have known how
when they decided for themselves, they
leeidcd also for me. The Northern peo
ple denied the right of the Southern people
to - o, and war resulted. No intelligent
man can doubt the sincerity of the South
ern people when he views the courage,
privations, and sufferings they exhibited
and endured in defence of their conviction.
But they’ were overpowered in the struggle,
and like brave men they have accepted,
poor;
Should rvt'rtisc to earn a dinner, which he hungered for
I’m »u e.
And would have damned his .soul by stealing, had he
hoped to make the door;
Escaping thence, to—work no more.
ry party in the northern States. That great
constitutional system, embracing State and
Federal governments, which makes our
American union, is regarded, and has be n
regarded, by me, as the grandest contribu
tion ever made by human intellect and pa-
| triotism to the science of government and
Awhile, I sat absorbed in muainjr, what meant he by I Welltire of mail. With all the earliest-
this remsinjr, j ness of my nature, I opposed secession ; a
T ' ll 'R , |' i .ckui‘ooi- rlieJ 111,0 ld,u:du * t,le °’ loruu< \ war of subjugation and reconstruction,
Sure,” .aid I, “you roust be enuty, to be so internal lbr the same reason, and that reason was,
and do accept tho results. In every form .,, , ,
iu which it could be expressed, they have ^T 1 '* ™s anran who couldnever
expressed their abandonment of secession. 1 ^ oepended upon. _ Our boys were jubilant,
both as a theory and as a remedy.
‘ .he
They admit tac freedom of their slaves,
and ask no compensation for their property.
They concede the citizenship tuid en
franchisement of the co.ored race, and
■hM*.
K. SCHAEFER,
corrox n uyer,
VOCCOA CITr, o*.
I: . 'a*' 1 1’rire paid f ur Cotton.
Agent for Win
octSOwti.
Lively. Feed and Sale Stable,
ATXXSfTS C3-A.
GANN * REAVES PROPMETORS
Will bo fonnd at their old Mnnd, rear Franklin limine
building, Thomas street. Keep always on hand good
Turnouts and careful drivers. Stock we!l cared for
when entrusted to our care. Stock on hand lbr sale at
all timea. declStf.
BOOTS AND SHOES
;ro ORDER./
N W* HAUDRUP,
ARTIST,
moved hi* Show from the old Lombard Briton* TbatTlT raanl lib verv lights
opposite aide of College A venue, next door tn^ the that door
• Building. I rice* Liberal, *=J Firet Cla»* W ork Ue slul || workj or _ tt
ID* removed
to Uie
Lexter
guaranteed.
June 16, IS* 5-—ll-tt
li.ri- and i
F. A. W ILLIAMSON,
PRACTICAL
•VTCHMAKER AND JEWELLER,
B, 1 *’-‘“I*'" I’rog Store, Brood Street, Athens, Go.
linn* ,« . anperior manner and warranted to
Jan. A— tf.
. .4. WINN,
—With—
(HOOVER, STUBBS & CO.,
Cotton Kactors,
—And—
Commission Merchants,
Savannah, Ga.
J"'*. i Rope and other *dpplie» furnished.
F* °t «h * 0 * S|1 »'' v <“iee« made on consignment* for
| I 'lictu to Lircrpool or NortLern |£ort*.^_^
UVf *Y AND SALE STABLE.
t 1 !Triton y. i j I injr been Remodeled, Enlarged, thoroughly Ren-
Hun tiles and Ilorsts for Hire, orated, Repainted and Newly Furnished during the
* Sommer of 1875, is now opened, with increased facili-
TKRMS pp a env A 7*T P the accommodation of the travelling pnblic.
\bAoONAJSLlh. fcbi.iy 1% CHATFIELD, Froj*rietor.
lazy,
So vussudly, outrages lajey, ns to want to work no more;
You uglv, grim, ungainly, ghastly, heathen, savage
Blaekiunoor.
Will yon even work for wages—food, and clothes nnd
payment sure I”
Quoth the Nigger—“ Work no more V
“ Nigger,” said I, horrid demou! Xigger still, if slace j
or fretmau.
Pause and ponder, crc you answer this one question 1 j
implore :
Have you got no senaa of feeling ! do yon mcau to live
by Htealing!
Or by working and fair dealing i teii me truly, i im
plore,
On your honor, as a Nigger, will you ever labor more ?
Flow in coru or hoo iu ootton as you did in days of
yore'.’’* 1 *
Qootii the Nigger— 4 - Nevermore V 1
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so flatly
spoken,
44 Doubtless,” said I, “this big Nigger once could eat
enough lor four.
When ou some grand rice plantation, he could out eat
•11 creation,
Until his corporal situation warned him, he cox . .a.
- - " lip wore, ~ * T" •
Scorning any caculation of how much cash it cost 1’iu
sure
For his master paid the piper in the good old days of
Days he’ll revel in no more!
44 Nigger,** said I, “ tluog of ovil!” quit my sig’.it! go
to the Devil!
Or even yet, pause, rcconsid. r terms I’ll ofler you uo
more, :
Tell me truly, 1 implore yon, for the last time, I con
jure you,*
If good wages 1 insure you, and clothes the best yon
ever wore.
Will you work three days in seven, at tasks far lighter
than of yore ?
Only thr ® short days in seven—-labor light and pay
ment sure ?
Quoth the Nigger— 44 W ork no more.*’
4 Be that word our sign of parting, Nigger man,' I said
upstarting,
4 Get you gon*; to where you came lrom, let me see your
face uo more,
Quick, vamose, cut dirt—skedaddle—seek some far-off,
distant * “
Uasto^reBr
* dm*■
Join the army —go to Texas! Never come back here to
vex ns,
Take your gaze from off my vituaU—take your carcase
from my door—
Quoth the Nigger— 44 Nevermore.’*
Bore; ’
s me of that vUagc—darkc
i not again my
And the Nigger, never working, still is shirking—3till
is shirking
Every kind of honest labor, in tho house or out of
door.
And his eye haa all the seeming of a vulture’s starved
and d"earning,
And mgr bacon gently steaming, tampta him stiD to
cross my floor,
But 1*11 gamble, with tliat poker that 1 hurled at him
before,
out. If he dares to poos
ork, or—eat no more!
prompt ..ttention.
jmiA.lf.
EDWIN W. PORTER.
[^ ,llTEHEA D, Washington, Wilka, Co., G i,
,Uri ‘e the lClUt,on nun y ** »y Conner patrons, I
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medical notice.
BhlStillg and Digging W ells ! The Rev. Dr. Ritchie, of Edinburgh,
*,% 1TII AN EXPER1ENCEOF TWENTY YEARS, i though h very clever man, once met with his
v T 1 hereby tender tnj service* to the citiieii* o , match. When examining n student as to
itexidenoe'st Ib^ TriJd^U^e, n^*,’ | the classes lie had attended, he said, “ And
bridge und Check Factory. All order* will receive i yon nttendeil the classes for mathematics?”’
“Yes.” “How many sides has a circle?”
“Two,” said the student. “What are
they ?" What a langh in the court the stu
dent’s answer produced when he said, “An
inside and an outside 1” The doctor next
inquired, " * nd you attend' <1 the moral phi
losophy class also ?” “ Ye3.” “ Well, you
would hear lectures on various subjects. Did
! yon ever hear one on cause and eftect. ?”
, “ Yes.” Does an effect ever go before a
cause ?” "Yes.” “ Give me an instant*.”
A man wheeling a barrow." The d-vtor
Planters* Hotel. Augusta, Ga.
'PHIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL UAV-
I ins 1
Blacksmith Shop.
FEW A MKRIWEATIIER.
because I believed they were each and all
terribly inimical to tbe preservation of
that glorious constitutional system. I have
submitted to each, as each in its turn took
its place in our bistory as accomplished
tacts, precisely as I submitted to the death
of raj father— only from necessity ami never
from choice. Widle my humble record will
lisclose the severest invective of which I
was capable against each of these errors
and heresies, no delver in personal records
can ever find a single line, word or syllable
ever uttered by me against this constitu
tional system, nor against our union under
that system. True, there have been limes
in the raging conflict of passion, when I
have almost despaired of the preservation
of onr constitutional union, but there is not
man in America, to-day, who can rejoice
more sincerely titan I do, that, in spite ol
lecession, war, and reconstruction, our
mien still lives; nor one from whose breast
the aspiration ascends more Warmly to
Heaven that bur union sliall live forever.
How tntiy it live? The answer is plain :
we must Irallo.v the constitution as it is
with the spirit of tbe union as it was We
cannot undo the past. We may never
agree upon the relative errors and respon
sibilities of the respective parties to the
conflicts ol the past. Let the past die;
and let its passions be buried with it!
Whatever doubt may exist as to who was
vise or unwise, patriotic or unpatriotic, in
com.cction with the abuses which produced
secession, war, and reconstruction, all must
admit that he is neither wise nor patriotic
who would keep alive the aniinosties of the
strife after the strifes themselves have
ended. The man pr the party, who, tor
personal advantage or party ends, would
call back the retiring Moloch o( hate, and
keep sections divided in feeling which
must be united in fact, deserve, and, I be
lieve, will receive, the anathema maranatha
of the American people. No noisy preten
sions to exclusive aud superlative loyalty
can prevent such a man or such a party
from being adjudged, at an early day, as
the real euemy of all sections, and the most
dangerous foe to every right of every color.
No patriot, for even the crown of the
Ctesars, could become such a criminal.
That the errors of the past may be aban
doned, and its strifes forgotten, and that
we may have fraternal union again aiul
forever, let us all indulge the habit of re
verting to the feelings, the sentiments,
opinions, and acts of our common fathers
which e abled them to frame and adopt
that great constitutional system which form
onr union.
In the letter with which, he, as the organ
of the convention which framed it, trans
mitted the constitution to the congress of
the confedera.ion, the noble Washington,
whose birth you cclehrtte, used the follow
ing language:
“ The constitution which we now pre
sent, is the result of a spirit of amity, and
of that mutual defense and concession
which the peculiarity of our political ait-
uation rendered indispensable.”
If the political situation then existing,
aeuiiist it. i think it is a bad, immoral
thiug. It is every man’s duty to do all he
can to discourage dueling,
Ifa man were to challeuge me, I would
go to that man and take him by the hand
and lead him to a retired room—and kill
him.
THE HOMESTEAD. //
An Important Amendment.
It was time to go out and practice. It
was the custom there to fight duels with navy
six-shooters at fifteen paces—load and empty
till the game for the iuueral was secure. We
without stopping to discuss the wisdom of went to a little ravine just out of town and
their enfranchisement, they will do, as it is ^ ,r r rowcd a harn do<>r * ,ra Wget-borrow
their interest to do, all in their power to ^ fr , on, 1 a f f? n ,ema " who "as abseu-and
make the race worthy of these high privil- j we ’‘T 1 th .» do Vr “P’ aml 8toi,d a
jreset.tatives cheerily vote an ead a « a,n9t t,le m,ddle of “ repent
Lord, and put a squash on top of the rail to
represent his head. He was a very tall,
lean creature, the poorest sort of material
for a duel; uothiug but a line shot could
fetch him, and even then he might split
your bullet. Exaggeration aside, the rail
was, of course, a little too thin to represent
the body accurately, but the squash was all
right. If there was an intellectual differ
ence between the squash and head itwas in
favor of the squash.
Well, I practiced and practiced at the
baru door and could not hit it; and I prac
ticed at the rail and could not hit that; and
I tried for the squash aud could not hit that.
I would have bwn entirely disheartened but
that occasionally I crippled one of the boys
and that gnve me hope.
At last we began to hear pistol shots near
hr in the next ravine. We knew what that
meant! The other party was out practicing
tot). Then I was iu the last degree distressed,
for of course they would hear our shots and
then send over the ridge, and the spies would
find my barn door without a wound or mark,
and that would simply be an end to me; for
of course the other man would immediately
become as bloodthirsty as I was.
Just at this moment a little bird no larger
than a‘sparrow flew by and lit on a bush
about thirty paces away, and my little secoud,
Steve Gills, who was a dead shot with a pis
tol—much better than I was—snatched out
his revolver and shot the bird’s head off.
We all ran to pick up the game, and sure
enough, just at this moment, some of the
other duelists came reconnuitering over the
little ridge. They ran to our group to see
what the matter was, and when they saw the
bird Lord’s second said:
That was a splendid shot. How far off
was it?”
Steve said with some indifference:
“ Oh, no great distance. About thirty
paces.”
" Thirty paces 1 Heavens alive! Who did
it?”
“ My man—Twain.”
“ The mischief he did ! Can he do it
often?”
Well, yes. He can do it about four
times out of five.”
eges. Their representatives cheerfully
to tax the lame confederate soldier to pen
sion the lame union soldier. In a word,
they accept the constitution as it is, and
offer to imbue that constitution with the
spirit of the union as it was. Wliat more
can brave men demand ? What is in the
way of peace and fraternal union? The
answer is known to all meu : There arc
men at the North heralded, and heraldiug
themselves, as the leaders of a great party,
who insist that the Southern people were
not actuated by honest convictions, but
were moved hy wicked purposes aud crim
inal desires and intentions, and even assert
that their action was not only causeless,
but without provocation, and that they are
therefore to he treated as criminals! Nay,
they demand that the Southern people shall
confess themselves to be criminals! And
all the sufferings inseparable from the war
are paraded by these loaders o. discord—
these bold beiigerants of peace, and are
magnified, distorted aud exaggerated iu
order to excite aud keep alive the spit it of
hatred towards the Southern people.
The great question now is, “ Will the
Northern people, after eleven years for re
flection, concur in this demand of their
leaders? If so, the spirit-of amity and of
mutual deference and concession in which
the constitution was made, was also slain
in the cruel war, and can have no resurrec
tion. If so, the union may live, but the
spirit of its beauty is dead. A people who
were bravo enough to fight for their eon
victions, will never he mcau enough to sur
render their honor and confess themselves
criminals. The confession, if made, would
lie false. But if the people of the north, »n
this auspicious year of our history, can rise
above their ignoble passion, aud tebuke
those who make their ability to promote
strife the evidence of their titles to office,
they will achieve a victory in the preserva
tion and perpetuation of our constitutional
union far more glorious and more replete
with blessings for onr posterity than that
which was achieved hy our fathers who
won independence and oraained and establish
ed the constitution.
That we may win this victory, let ns cele
brate the hirth-day of Washington; let its
gather around the cradle of our liberties;
let us rehearse, and rehearse the teachings
of our fathers, and invoke a return of the
spirit of the founder of onr republic 1 Let
the voice that would divide be rebuked;
let tbe ambition that would feed on strife to
get power, be despised, an<T Id the party
that would live on memories that harrow,
rather than on works that would rebuild and
reunite, take its place with the memories
and the strife in the pi
With sentiments of fraternal regard I
am, yours, very truly,
Bevj. H. Hill.
Messrs. Macellus Emery, Joseph P. Bass,
Frederic M. Laughton, Committee on In
vitation, Bangor, Maine.
twill few AVD WESLEY MERIWF.ATHER, then sat down and proposed no more que* relllll . re j foe spirit of amity and of mutual
15 defence and concern indispensable to
inc’countrv. that thev or© prepared to Jo all unmncr of • —■ • • r the tomiiUiou OI tnC ' Constitution, must
_«il. it.* Q! .*I,.m^I> T !•>« «nd at rascnnshlo * . - . . - • . ? fi! *-!.* _A !* *1 m
wnrk in »"* Hi '<-V*mlth Line, »n«f at reasonable chares*.
They b*w tfvs host workmen aud use nothin* bnt the
he*t‘m»! riqi. Cnrriaxo work, plantation work, horse
shoeing »nd hny lUfficnlt job* a specialty. Shop op'
poslte Mm,re G inn At Reave*’ Lively Stable.
janUy.
A recent visitor to the Dismal Swamp
describes it, in Forest and Stream, as having
lost none of the characteristics which c
it its name. Bears are not so plenty tl
as when the region was rarely penetrated by
man, yet they still afford sport for hnnters.
Lake Drummond, once believed by tbe ig
norant to be bottomless, is not really ih any
place more than fifteen feet deep- Its
An exchange *ava: ** In onr obituary j riot overy intelligent patriot admit, that _ ,
notice, in ve-iddav’s issue, for the phrase * our present political situation, renders that ter, impregnated with the juices of j
lie was a m>blo and pig-hea led man, read, spirit tar more indispensable to the proser- and gum leaves, is of the color of wine,
Vation of that constitution? Whit was is drunk hs a remedy by consumptives.
1 lie was.a noble and pig-hea-ied i
1 he was a noble and big-hearted
I knew the little rascal was lying, but I
never said anything. I never told him so.
He was not of a disposition to invite confi
dence of that kind, so I let the matter rest.
But it was a comfort to see those people
look sick, and see their jaws drop when
Steve made that statement. They went off
and got Lord and took him home; when we
got borne, half an hour later, there was a
note saying that Mr. Lord perehipterily de
clined to fight.
We found out afterward that Lord hit bis
ma.k thirteen times in eighteen shots—if he
had put those those thirteen bullets into me
it would have narrowed my spere of useful-
nessa good deal True, they could have
put pegs into the holes aud used me for a
fiat-rack; but what is a hat-rack to a man
who feels he has intellectual powers?
I have written this true incident of my
history for one purpose only—to warn the
yoatb ot to-day against the practice of duel
tog, and to plotd with them to war against
it I was young and foolish when I challeng
ed the gentleman, and thought It 7ery fine
and grand to be a duelist and staud open
the “field of honor.” But I am older and
more experienced now, and am inflexibly
opposed to the dreadful custom. I am
glad, indeed, to be able to lift up my voice
We give the full text of the bill tp amend
the homestead laws introduced-by'Senator
Reese amended in the house.
Sec. 1. That every person seeking the
benefit of exemption of personalty and realty,
unaer the act of 1868, und other acts amend
atory thereof is hereby required to make the
application for the bemsfit of said exemption!
hy a petition iu writing, signed b]L tbe ap
plicant, stating for -whom’ the-exempttofPlr"'"*”
claimed, aud if for minora their ages and
namts must be fully set forth, und if for a
wife her name and age must be fully set
torth, and said petition must be accompanied
with a schedule c ntuining a minute aud ac
curate description of all real and personal
property belonging to the person from whose
testate the exemption is to be made, to that
persons interested may know exactly what is
exempted und whutuot; and also, with a
list of his or her creditors, and their post
office if known which must be sworn to hy
the applicant, or his agent. For a failure to
comply with this section of this act, either in
the original petition or amended petition,
which may he amended at any time pricr to
final proceedings before the ordinary, the or
dinary shall dismiss the petition.
2. That, in addition to the notice by
publication required to be given hy section
20f 6 of the code, the a; pheatit, orjhis agent,
shall give notice in writing ot the filing of
such application, aud of the day of hearing
the same, to each of his creditors residing iu
th ■ county, at least five days before the hear
ing, which r.o’ice shall he served personally
or by leaving a copy at the residence or
house of business of his creditor, anti the
tact of such notice sliall be verified by oath
of the applicant or his agent; said applicant
shall also notify creditors residing out of tho
county of his application hy preparing writ
ten notices of his application, aud the dsy of
hearing, which uotice shall be delivered by
trim to the ordinary with stamped envelopes,
and shall be hy said ordinary directed and
mailed to said persons so residing out of said
county, it the residence of such creditors be
known to the petitioner at least fifteen rla'ys
before the day of hearing, us provided in
section 2007 of the code and the same is
hereby so alterated as to be not less than
twenty nor more than thirty days.
3. That the deed of investment to be made
under section 2013 of tbe code shall Ira re
corded with the order which is required to be
recorded under the last three lines of said
section 2012.
4. That section 2014 and 2015 of the code
are hereby repealed. • ’
5. That section 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021
of the code he and the same are hereby re
pealed.
6. That section 2024 of the code be and
the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu
thereof the following section shall be inserted;
•Said projrarty so set apart for a wife, or for
a wife and minor childrden, or for minor
children alone, shall upon the death ot tho
wife or her marriage, when set apart to her
alone, and upon majority of the minor child
ren or their marriage during minority when
so set apart for minor children, and upon the
death or marriage of the wife aud majority
or marriage of the minor children, when set
a part to a wife, nnd minor children, revert
to the estate from which it was so set apart,
unless sold or reinvested in pursuance of the
provisions of this act, when the same pro
vision as to reversion shnll follow all rein
vestments, unless the fee-simple is sold as
herein provided.
7. That section 2025 of the code be and
the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu of
tbe same, the following provision shall be
iuserted : Said property, so set apart, shall
bo and is hereby considered as liable to the
debts enumerated in the constitution ; and
whenever the parties interested desire a home
stead to be sold for reinvestment, the appli
cation must be made to tbe judge of the supe
rior court of the circuit iu which said pro
perty is situated, unless he is interested,
when application may bo made to the judge
of the superior court of the adjoining circuit
for the sale thereof. Said judge shall order
a sale of no greater estate than the home
stead estate, and the proceeds of said sale
shall Ira reinvested in the same kind of pro-
perty, real or personal, as that which pro-
duced the atnouut of money to be reinvested,
and no other. Said judge shall order the
whole proceedings to be recorded by the clerk
of the superior court, where the parties ap
plying for the sale reside, on the book for re
cording proceedings in equity—except the
reinvestment, which shall be recorded in the
book for registry of deeds. Said judge
shall have all the powers ot a chancellor to
provide the means and mode of sale afore
said ami reinvestment, and when all parties
interested consent, the homestead estate and
fee simple estate may be both sold at the
same time; and in that event, said judge
shall provide fully for the protection of all
parties.
8. That at the end of section 2032 there
shall be inserted tho following words: Un
less the homestead and exempted property so
elected is lost by virtue of a rale under an
outstanding claim, in which event such elec
tion shall not bar an application for a home
stead and exemption not liable to such out
standing claim. When the party has elected
to take a homestead or exemption he shall
not, after such election, supplement or in
crease the same by adding to it.
9. - That when a receiver is appointed
under section 2033 of good bond and securi
ty shall be required of him by tbe ordinary
for the performance of his__duty. Said re
ceiver shall be subject to rule in the superior
court of the county where appointed, as
sheriffs and bailiffs, and shall pay out mon-—
eys received by him as sheriff and bailiffs,
when there are conflicting claims to moneys
in his hands, under rule of said court, nnd
not under the order of the ordinary; and
when there are no conflicting claims, tne re
ceiver shall settle all the claims and taro the
excess, if any, to the legally entitled to the
same. „ s
10. That sections 1047 and 2048 of the
code be and the same are hereby repealed,
and in lieu of the same, that the provisions
of this act as to the duration and quality of
exempted
the same,
and control property
virtue of laws in existence before tbe act of
1868. ■
11. ThatidUans parts of laws in conflict
with the provisions of 'this acl
same are hereby repealed.