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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: OCTOBER 31, 1876.
Lined on a Skeleton.
This poem was found on a skeleton of re
markable beauty of form in a London college.
Every effort, even to the offering of n rewnrd of
titty guineas, was vainly mode to discover the
author:
llehold this ruin! ’Twos a skull
Once of ethereal spirit fu'l;
This narrow cell was Lite’s retreat;
This space was thought’s mysterious seat.
tVhut beauteous visions tilled this spot,
What dreams of pleasure, long forgot:
Nor love, nor IIopo, nor Joy, nor Fear,
Have left one trace of record here.
Beneath this mouldering canopy
Once shone the bright and busy eye;
But start not at the dismal void—
If social Love that, eye employed:
If with no lawless fire it gleamed,
But through the dews of kindne-s beamed;
That eye shall be forever blight
When stars nnd situs are sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern here,
■The ready, swift nr.d tuneful tongue,
If Falsehood’s honey it disclaimed,
And when it could not praise was chained.
Ifbold in Virtue's esnse it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke !
This silent tongue shall plead for thee
When Tiuic unveils Etcrnitv.
Sav, did these fingers delve the mine ?
Or with its envied rubles shine?
To hew theroek or wear the gem,
Can little now avail to them.
But if the page of Truth they sought,
Or comfort to the mourner brought,
These hands a richer meed shall claim
Tuan all that wait on Wealth or Fame.
Avails it whether bare or shod,
These feet the paths of duty trod i
If trout the bowers of Ease they lied
To seek Affliction's bumble shed,
If Grandeur's guilty bribe they spurned,
And home to Virtue’s cot returned,
These feet with angel’s wings shall vie
And tread the palace of the sky.
From the lh.ihvdelphia Bulletin.
The Champion of All the
Wives—Mrs. Smith kept a
Sinking—Gave a Kinder
Sudden Jump, and.Then
Her Spirit Flicker
ed—Passetl into An
other World.
tie was tiili .1:1*1 slender, and clad
it: tiie habUianieuts <>f woe. He en
tered the office and took :t c
Removing.' his hut, he wiped the
moisture iVom his evfcs, rubbed his
nose thoughtfully for a moment, put
his handkerchief in his hat upon the
ll.mr, and said :
" You •.livin’. know Mrs. Smith?”
“I batin’! that pleasure. Who is
sh j ?’’
“ She was my wile. Slic’d been
sick some time. But day before yes
terday she was took worse, and she
kep’ on sinking until evening, when
air.
she gave a kinder sudden jump a
couple of times, and then her spirit
ffickered. Dead, you know. Passes!
away into another world.”
“ I’m very sorry.”
“ So am 1; and I called around to sue
if I couldn’t get come of your litearv
people to saw out some kind of a po
em describing her peculiarities, so that
I can advertise Iter in the paper.”
“I dunno; maybe we might.’’
“ Oh, you don’t know her, you j
say ? Well, she was a sing’lar kinder *
woman ; had strong characteristics.
Her nose was the crookedest in the
State, all bent around sideways. Old
Captain Binder used to say that it
looked like the jib-sail of an oyster
sloop on the windward tack. Only
his fun, you know’; hut Helen never
minded it. She said herself that it
aimed so much around the corner that
whenever she sneezed she blew down
her hack “liaii. There were rich
depths of humor in that woman.
For I don’t mind if you work into the
poem sopicturesque allusion to the
condition of her nose, so her friends
will recognize her. And you might
also spend a verse or two on her lame
eye.’’
“ What was the matter with her
eye.”
“Gone, sir; gone. Knocked out
with a chip while she was splitting
kin’ling wood when she was a child.
She fixed it up somehow with a glass
one, and gave her the oddest expres
sion you ever saw. Tho false one
would stand perfectly still while the
other was rolling around, so that
’bout half the time you couldn’t tell
whether she was studying astronomy
or whether Bhe was watching tho
hired girl pare potatoes. And she
lay there at night with the indisposed
eye wide open, glaring at me, while
the other was tight shut, so that
sometimes I’d get the horrors and
kick her and shake her to make her
get up and fix it. Once I got some
mucilage and glued the lid down my
self, hut fshe didn’t like it when she
woke in the morning. Had to soak
her eye in warm water, you know, to
get it open.”
“ Now, I reckon you could run in
some language about her eccentrici
ties of vision, couldn’t you ? Don’t
care what it is, so that I have the
main facts.”
“ Was- she peculiar in other re
spects ?”
“Well, yes. One leg was gone;
run over by a wagon when site was
little. But she wore a patent leg that
di*l her pretty well. Bothered her
sometimes, but most generally gave
her a good deal of comfort. She Was
fond of machinery. And then, you
know, she could take it off at night
and stand it on the hat rack in the
entry, and go to bed 1 with only one
cold foot. She was very grateful for
her privileges'. Although sometimes
it worried her, too. The springs
would work wrong now and then >'
and maybe in church her leg twould
give a spurt and begin to kick and
hammer away at the hoard in front of
the pew, until it souaded like a boiler
factory. Then I’d curry her out, ami
most likely it’d kick at me all the
way down the aisle, and end up by
dancing her around the vestibule,
and the sexton would rebuke her for
waltzing in church. Seems to me
there’s material for poetry in that,
isn’t there? She was a self-willed
woman. Often when she wanted to
go to a spelling-bee, or to gad about
somewhere, maybe I’d stuff that log
up it) the chimney, or hide it in the
woodpile, and then wouldn’t tell her
where it was. Do you know what
she’d do.”
“ What ?”
“ Why, slttfd lash an umbrella to
her stump and drift on down the
streets as if that umbrella was hor
there! You couldn’t get ahead of
her ? She was ingenious! I’ve
known her, when the hahv was
playing with the potato masher, to un
buckle that leg and use it for mash
ing—take it by the knee and work
tup joint backward and forward
splendidly.
“Sol thought I’d mention a few
facts to you, and you can just throw
j ’em together and make them rhyme,
and I’ll call round and pay for them.
What say? Tuesday? Very well;
I’ll run in bn Tuesday and see l:<Tw
you’ve fixed her up.”
Then Mr. Smith smoothed up his
hat with bis handkerchief, wiped the
accumulated sorrow from his eyes,
placed his hat upon his head, and
sailed serenely out and down the
stairs toward his. desolated hearth
stone.
Commercial for the amount, aud
handed it to his visitor.
“Vat is dis, monsieur?”
“ A check for five thousand dollars
with interest.”
“ Is it bonsaid the Frenchman,
with amazpinent.
“ Certainly.”
•* Have you de Par gent in de bank?’’
“Yes.”
“ And is it parfaitmient conve
nient to pay the sum ?”
“ Undoubtedly. What astonishes
you?”
“Vy, dat you have got him in
dose times.’’
“ O, yes, and I have plenty more.
I owe nothing that I cannot pay at a
moment’s notice.”
'•The FrenchmaiL-TtM^perpld'ccd.
V Momy.etin^op slum ItlWnm one
leetlc fat of* elf^’
“ With all my heart.’’
“Veil, monsieur, you shall keep de
Paryent for me some leetle years
longer.” ♦ ,
“ Why, I thought you wanted it.”
“ Tout an contraire. I no vat it de
Paryent; I vant de grand confidence.
.Suppose you no got, de money, den
I vant him ver much ; suppose you
got him, den I no vant him at all.
cornjtrenez, eh?”
A Tough Story.
SILENCING T1IE ENEMY WITH DOUBLE
SHOTTED DUTCH CHEESE.
The greatest ammunition we have
heard of lately was used by the
brated Commodore Coe, of
Montevidian navy, who in an
gageinent with Admiral Brovn, of
the Buenos service, fired every
front his locker.
“ What shall we do, sir ?”
the first lieutenant; “we’ve hot a
shot aboard ; round, grape, ca inis-
tcr’an ! double-headed all gon
‘Powder gone,,eli?” asked Coe.
“No, sir—got lots of that.”
“ We had confounded hard cheese
—a round Dutch one for dessert at
dinner to-day, don’t you remember
it?” said Coe.
“I ought to—I broke the curving
kipfe in trying to,cut it,.sit;.” u '
“Are there any on board?’\
“ About t wo dozen—took ’em
from a drover.’’
“ Will they go into the, 18 poun-
Great Reduction in Prices
For the next thirty davs. Brackets.
wSrkfwmMd m kI “ dsof °™* raeQtal Wood
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Now Is the time to moke your houses beautiful
at low figures. Great bargains given lu everything
at 26-tf BUBKE’S Bookstore.
STotice!
In eonscguoiMse of my unexpected absence
from the city, the Auction sale udvertised Tor
the benefit et the Yellour Fever sufferers, for
IV euaosday, is postponed until Saturday, soth
inst., my regular sale day. This will not inter
fere with my regular sales, aud all articles con
signed for salo on that day, will be sold as
heretofore. Parties are invited to call and see
contributions for tho Sufferers’ Sale now on
exhibition at my store. K, E, Joxrs,
scpt25-lt.
Hera for You!’
Being the City Constable, I have concluded to
doaguneral collecting business, all parties want
ing notes or recounts collected I will give them
prompt attcut ion on commission. Also buying
and selling propert *• at private or public sale.
septl2-tf. W. A. ENGLAND, L. C.
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University of Georgia,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
T3S E27£HTY-:i”?E A17SUAL SESSION!
WII.L open on October fourth with n full
Faculty in all Departments. Tuition in the
Academic Department $75, payable in udvanee,
viz; $35 ou October 4th, with $5 library fee,
and $40 on March 1st, 1877.
Fifty beneficiaries admitted free in tho Aeaac-
Dopartmeut.
S The State College of Agriculture and the
Mechanic Arts forms a part of the University,
aud opens oik October 4th.
Free scholarships in the State College are
granted to ui* many students, residents of Ga.,
us there are members of the Genera! Assembly.
rue Law School opens, the first term on the
third Monday in Au; rust; the second term on
the tmrd Monthly in February following. Fees
$*iv) per term. Instruction afforded in every
branch of a liberal and professional education.
Good board umy le had at $13 to C-20 per
month. For catalogue, eic., mlress,
w. if. WADDELL,
Secretary of the Faculty
scptl2-0t. ' Athens, Ga.
IN THE STORE OF
s. a. DOBBS.
EVERY MAN WORKS, PRINCIPAL AND CLERKS,
Tha undersigned having j ust returned from the
NORTHERN MARKETS,
With a full and varied stock of,
very description of Goods,
Want of Confidence Illus
trated.
A little Frenchman loaned a mer
chant five thousand dollars when
times were good. He called at the
counting house some time since, in a
state of agitation not easily described.
“How do you do?” inquired the
merchant.
“Sick—very sick,” replied mon
sieur.
“ What is the matter?”
“Detimes—what disease is that?”
“ De maktidc what break all de
merchants, ver much.”
“All! tho times, eh? well, they
are bad, very bad, sure enough; but
liow do they affect you ?”
“Vy, monsieur, I lose de confi
dence.”
“ In whom ?”
“In everybody.”
“ Not in me, I hope.”
“ Pardonnez moi, monsieur; but I
do not know who to trust at present,
when all de merchants break several
times, all to pieces.”
Then, I presume you want your
money ?”
“ Qui, monsieur. I starve tor want
of Vargent.’’
“Can’t you do without it?”
“ No, monsieur, I must have him.”
“You must?”
“Qui, monsieur,” said little dimity
breeches, turning pale with apprehen
sion for the safety of his money.
“And you can’t do without it?”
“No, monsieuP; not von other
leetle moment longer.”
The merchant reached for his bank
book, drew a check on the good old
“ By thunder, Commodore, that’s
the idea ; I'll try ban,” cried the first
luft‘
And in a few minutes the fir: of
the old Santa Maria (Coe’s ship),
which had ceased entirely, was
opened, and Admiral Brown found
more shot flying over his head. Di
rectly one of them struck his main
mast, and as it did so it scattered in
every direction.
“ What the devil is that the ene
my arc firing,” asked Brown; lmt
nobody could tell.
Directly another one came in
through a port and killed two men
who stood near hitn ; then striking
the bulwarks hurst into flinders.
“ By jove, this is too much; this is
some ncwPaixham or other—I don’t
like ’em at all!” cried Brown ; and
then as four or five more of them
came slap through his sails, lie gave
the orders to fill away, and actually
backed out of the fight, receiving a
parting broadside of Dutch cheese.
This is an actual fact; our inform
ant was the first lieutenant of Coe’s
ship.
CA.82S FOB, WOOS,
—on—
CLOTH FOR WOOL.
Tiie Athens Maim foot uring Company are now
making a much larger variety of Woolen Goods
tuan ever before, and propose to
Exchange them, for Wool,
believing it to be •more to tho interest of the
Hauler to Exchange the Wool for Cloth, rather
ta:m have it Gardetl nnd Span at home. Call for
Samples and Terms ot Exchange.
U. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent
nniv 19, 1375-29—tf
KKY ANH SALE STABLE.
L ,v
Cnri-lnfces, HuprpeloK «<fc horses
for hire. Terms reasonable.
, E. 11. WHITEHEAD,
Washington, Wilkes county, Ga.
nov2G-lS“5-tf i .
SAW, FLOUR AND GRIST MILLS.
w. OH
/•£?/ mill gearing made
k WfMES!ainss
^P^KAFTWO. PULLEYS AND HANGER
BBSS
The UNEQUALLED JAS.LEFFEL DOUBLE
Address, POOL/E & TTTTTMT 1
EL, 7000 ill .use#
D-TOniCrngULASS. BALTCMORE MW
»pril.ll.ly.
iXTOTICEi.
4 FTEP. THIS DATE, COUNTY ADVER-
i\ tisements which have heretofore been pub
lished in this paper, will hereafter be published
in tho Sun, a Gazette published in Hartwell,
Hurt county, Ga.
r. C.STEI’IIENSON, Ordinary,
aug.29.tf. Hart county, Ga.
BOUGHT AT LOW AND PANIC PRICES.
Consisting i;, part 0 f
50 Barrels Sugar, 50 Bags Rio Coffee,
200 rolls bagging,
1,000 Bundles Iron Cotton Ties,
10,000 POUNDS FLOUR, 10,000 POUNDS BACON
4,000 lbs. Hemlock Sole Leather, Upper Leather & Harness Leather,
2,00 2B02SS3 ^QBACQQ, ASSOBT2S1D,
200 SACKS SALT,
1,000 Pair Hand Made and Northern Brogan Shoes,
200 Kegs Assorted Nails, 20 hales Factory Thread, Su«ar
Cured Hams, Leaf Lard, Boots and Shoes, KerosiniT
Oil, Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Hats, Caps,
READY MADE CLOTHING,
Crockery and Glassware, Saddlery and Harness, Cotton, Hemp,
and Jute Rope, and various other articles too tedious to
mention, all of which lu* offers to the trade of Athens
and the surrounding country ior cash,
Cotton and Country Produce,
At as low or lower prices than can be bought in tlie State of Geor
gian. He makes a specialty of looking after country merchants who
wish to buy goods to sell again. He offers goods to the jobbing
trade generally and guaranties satisfaction.
sepl2-3m
C. DOBBS.
Mrs. Tillotson, the dress reformed
says: “ If I was a betting man I’d
be willing to bet 810,000 that these
dry goods merchants hate us because
we are likely to spoil their business
by shortening our skirts.”
Genuine Rust Proof Florida
Camp Oats for Sale
At Reaves & Nicholson’s, at 90 cents per
bushel, neatly sacked.' Sown in Com nnd Cot
ton or Stubble, from 1st September to 20th
October. Very prolific, can bo raised with 1-4
labor of Corn or Cotton,
J. N. MONTGOMERY.
ung29-2m. Fort Lamar Ga.
CAROLINA CENTRAL DiSPATGH LINE
We find no cause for special wonder
at the Saltan for serving up at Eu
genie’s dinner “ a dish of eyelids.”
Why, on the contrary, If the sheep
could talk, and were asked what they
eat every day, each one would an-
wer, “I browse.” Turkey ain’t
ahead on that tack, no how.
What metre is best for a valentine?
Meet her by moonlight alone.
XToticel
taken up and impounded.
H.COBr
oeU7.lt.
inst. will be
BB DAVIS, Chief of Police.
Thorough. Slates
TO IPOmSTTS SOUTH,
Via Wilmington, N. C.
For bills lading nnd full lino of informa
tion. apply to either of the following Agents of
the line:
New York, Clyde’s line to Wilmington. L.
C* Duncan, 6, K. A,, 345 Broadway.
Baltimore, Baltimore aud Southern Steamship
Co., Jno, D. Lipscomb, Agent C. C. D. Line.
Philadelphia, Ericsson Line, A. Groves, Jr.,
34 South Warvea.
Boston, Old Colony and Clyde’s New Line*
D. D. C. Mink, Agent 136 Wtmhington St
Providence, Clyde’s Line, D. D. C. Mink,
Agent, 92 Dyer St. ' Mink ’
Inmrance always Guaranteed Low
as by Competing Lines.
„ „ F. W. CLARK.
General Freight Agent, Wilmington, N.C.
Agent Athens Go.
Having taken tho agency of above line, I am
give any information concerning
i or any business appertaining to
e, and hope by strict attention to the
convenience of shippers, to secure for the line
a liberal share of the patronage of shippers in
Athens and vicinity. E. E. Jonas.
sept.26.tf.
* Having take
prepared to g
through rates <
the line, and
©lton Hotel,
Selfeoxx Gfoorgieu
Sitnated 66 miles on the Atlanta, Richmond
and Kir Line Railroad from Atlanta, and within
one mile of the junction of the North East Rail
road of Ga. The Proprietor is now prepared
road of Go. The Proprietor is now prepared
to serve all who coll upon him with meals at the
following rates:
Single meal 50c. | Per week $6 00
Per day ...$1 501 Per month $20 00
jnlyl8-ly S. H. HUGHEN.
‘OB WORK OF ALL DESCRIF
tion neatly done at this office.
IDZRriZ- GOODS I
AT
JAMES A. GRAY & GO’S.,
J&.'ULgruLsrtea', C3rOo>:r®io, 0
WE ARE NOW OFFERING TIIE FINEST AND BEST SELECTED
stock of
Fall and Winter Stock of Dry Goods,
- V
Ever shown in the South. Our stock of Silks, Dress Goods, Hosiery, No- f
tions, Calicoes, Gentlemen’s Goods, Blankets and Domestics, cannot be
matched in Georgia. We have the largest and best assortment of
Cloaks, Suit*, Shawls aud Underware ever offered, in this
market Every department is replete with the
CHEAPEST AMD MOST DESIRABLE GOODS,
And we invite the people of
Atbens and of Goorgia in General,
Whether they‘want to buy or not, to call and examine them and pronouncj
tLeir own judgement. It has never been our custom to try to impose
on the public by
Quoting Low JPrices on TJssless Goods-
We offer them honest value for their money, and when quotations are
made on standard or useful articles, we are always ready to match and
beat them. We can do it and we will.
James A. Gray & Co.
1S4 and 19S Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia.
sept. 19.8m.
“REAVES & NICHOLSON,
Successors to Center & Reaves,
Agents for Hazard’s Kentucky Rifle & Blasting Powder
-j A LARGE STOCK ON HAND WHICH WE OFFER TO THE
- r\ PUBLIC AT Manufacture’s prieffs, freight added.
* ang.29.1m.
REAVES & NICHOLSON.