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W A. SIftGLETC'N, Editor & Pro’p. voniflK ill. [Written for the liuena Vista Annus ] The Dew. BX ISUJJNE. liuh by inch tho shadows lengthen ; Slowly creeping o’er the plain ; jjow the rugged hillsides climbing ; Now the mountain heights they gain. TwUigbt deepens Night’s dark mantle Wrapps the earth in gloom profound / vied dm gentle, sighing breezes Waken but the faintest sound. Then the dew, with blessings freighted, Comes its mission to fulfil; Nature’s face, and strength, renewing, While the e rth lies wrapped and still. Bathing every trembling leaflet From a fount ot silver spray ; Circling every tiny blossom With the purest crystal ray. filrength’ning every tree and tendril Through the watches of the night; Then, when morning burst upon ua, j.o! it glitters in the light. Tee.a it is to read the lesson, Traced in drops of pearly dew ; '1 hat “Our Father's” loving kindness Is, with every morning, new. LOVE BEF RE THE MAST, Touching Yarn — A Sailor Followed to the Forecastle by his Young Wife—She Stores Herself Away in jSfale Disguise —A Fatal Blow from a Yard-arm —The Husband Com mits Suicide by Jumping Into the S a. >*S;vi F.anc'.eco Mail, Tim captain of an. English ship, just jii'ihetl in port, iCates a singular rtoiy. which is worth adding to the niri adyv.iun.-ivc budge olTiuuvclou "tides of the -.11. Th tmir.es oi vapHdn and slop are not given, as Mjihji'S are proverbial y sensitive aix, at their veracity, ami tlicieisa s ;oiig flavor of rouuinee in the tsk>p } e. 'a anecdote. The official log contains this on I try: "August 15, latitude —, longitude—, James Colton, a stowaway, fell from tbe loretopgallant yard to the duck, -mid was instantly killed." 11 August 10, latitude —.longitude—, William Bean, an ordinary seaman, while the funeral service was being i ciiii over die body of Colton, jumped ■from the topgallant rail and sank im mediately. * Ship hove to at tlmtim . A boat was lowered, but no traces of the man were discerned." ‘•That, ’ said the captain, ‘ is un entry to the yarn I’ll sj in you,” as a 31 ail reporter sat in his cabin yester day. “I shipped bean in Liverpool. He was a tall, good-looking \ouug fel low, and did not appear to be much of a st aiming man by his appearance, but had a couple of good dischaiges and I ;ook him. After he went for ward among the men, I did not notice him again until the second day out. The mato c ime aft lugging along a little bit of a fellow with snort curly hair and a round face, whom he had lound stowed away under the tore batch. A lot of the men got around to see what I was going to say about it. “Wnat the blazes made >ou hide in my ship? I said, lie didn’t an swer a word, and seemed scar, and to death. Then Beau stepped up and said : ‘I know that, young man, Captain ; ht: is an old chum of mine. He want ed to get a passage to Callornia, and had no money.’ I swore some at them both, and then sent Colton off' in charge of the third mate, who soon got him to work on a broom. He handled the broom pretty well, and took sort of polishing up the brass work, and seemed so in clined to be industrious that I let him out of the mate’s Watch, and gave him odd jobs about the cabin, lending the steward a hand and so on. He had a!l night in, and better grub than they got in the forecaslle, but he used to always slip some of it forward to Bean. Those two were a great deal together on Bean’s watch and Colton ■would sometimes stay up all night with him. Then ho got to like going up aloft, and used to liandh the roy als as well ns any ordinary seamen on board. One day the mate said to me, 'T heard those two men, Bean and Colton, talking together last night, so, and there is something queer about it. Bean was t< lling hint that his mother and brothers would never forgive him, and the best thing to do when tic got to San Francisco, would be to writ to some friend ai Lome, but not let his people know where he was. Colton w. s crying and seem -1 to feel very bad. I’ht-o thev saw me and shut up. I think Ban Iyas made that boy Col on fgu away lie Itteia Uisfa aeps. from school, or something ot tho sort.’ I t< HI tho mute t>> nuke work ns light ns lie could f r It m, and once, wTien he brought me up a cup of tea on the poop, 1 asked him if his friends knew that lie had started lor (Julilor nia. ‘0 no,' he said, ‘but 1 could not ge along well at home unit 1 thought it best to go away.’ You knew Bean well at home, ddn’t you ? I asked. ‘Yes, sir,' said he and looked red and confused. ‘Did lie induce you to run away?’ ‘No; no,’ said lie, ‘but he told me In was corning in this ship.’ That was all I said about it then. A w.-ek or so afterwards, when ho was clean ing up my cabin, he got bold of a photograph of my 'ife, wi ich an ar list in Liverpool had undertaken to co'or ari l had made a botch of it. ‘Dal yon ever do any pamting? I asked. H< said h<- could paint a lit tle, and I got a box of water color paints from the third mate and some brushes and gave him a f. w photo graphs to color. You see how wed he did it. He surprised me.” Then the captain opened his album and showed the reporter some pho toginphs which were v ry skillfully and artistically re-toucherl. “I saw him once,” continued the, captain, “painting the photograph of a tine old lady. He told me it was Bean’: mother” Well, to cotne to the day tho accident occurred. I was sitting on deck at the time, and Bean and Colton w.s si. ting for’nrd. I was just going to call the young chap a F t to help the sail-m ker, who was work ing on the poop, when a squall came along. The mate sang out, the roy al halyards were let go and Colton jumped into the (ore rigging to get aloft and stow the foreroyals for it was darkening up to windward. Bean also got into the rigging and seem, and to want to got up, but Colton got ahead of him." ‘‘He laid out on the yard, go! hold ot the canvass, and the next thing we knew, something came whirling down on deck with a thud that made me shudder. The first one at the poor fellow's side was Bean. He turned him over, for the face was toward the deck, and then he fell down in a fit, and the boatswain attended to him. The watch carri. il Colton’s body aft. llis neck was broken. I nulled oil t lie shii t. and I knew the whole story,” and the skipper look a glass of sherry and his eyes were moist. “What was the mystery?” asked the reporter. “Well ’’said the captian,“just this: Colton did not belong to our side of thx deck. The body that was sewed up and launched in o the deep was a young woman, and die was Bean’s wife, for 1 found the marriage certifi cate in Bean’s trunk, wi ll some let ters that, partially esp'aiued the mat in.. But I’ll tell you about that after wards. As soon as Bean got right h< value alt, looking like a ghost, and he knew bv my lace that I had discov ered the secret. “Captain,” said he, taking off bis hat, “would you have any objection to letting me stay alone with it this night ?” ' . “I let him stay all night by the body, and I can imagined what the poor fellow suffered. 1 never saw such a despairing face on a man in my life as that wh eh met me when I opened the cabin door and the bands were summoned for the funeral services. He stood be un il the last moment, ami when the body slipped off into the sea, and til shot carried it down, down into the blue depths, be watch ed until it disappeared. Then he jumped on the topgallant rail, and be fore any one co tld grab him he was gone.” -I hunted through bis trunk,” said the skipper, “and I found a bundle of letters which I am going to inclose to his friends at borne. From what I could learn from tnera ft appears that Bean (which was an assumed name) was a young fellow of good family, but v.ry wild The girl’s people were also well off and reput ab'e. She knew him from a boy and ran away with him, and they were married. He went to sea after that and sir wen' back ‘o school. When be returned lit y tried o make it up w uj the old lolks, but they would not have it. So the young fools, wit .out a sixpence to bless them selves with, came on boiud my ship. Sounds like a novel, but it is all just as I told you, and here uro the proofs. ” "Uave you any objection to my giv ing the name of the ship V said the reporter. “Well,” said the skipper, “I don’t like that sort of a sensation, and the owners don’t wan those sort of things about, the ship in he papers. Here is the bo t hong side, said the Cap tain, ami tiie reporter took a seat, in the stern-ala ets, and was soon at the landing. MENA vm lARION COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER It, 1877. Home-Life a Hundred Years ago. One bundl ed years ago not a pound of coal nor a cubic foot of illuminating gas had been burned in the country. No iron stoves were used, and no con trivances for economising In at were employed until I>r. Franklin invented the iron-framed fire-place which si ill bears his name. All th>- cooking and warming in town and country were done by tl e aid of fire kindled on the brick oven. Pine knots or tallow candles furnished the light for die long winter nights, and sanded floors supplied the place ol mgs and car pels The water used for household purposes was drawn from deep wells by the sweep. No form of pump was used in this country until after the present century. Ther wore no fric tion matches in those early days by which a fire could b easily kindled; and ii tne lire went on upon the hearth ov. i nigh , and the tinder was damp, so the spa k wouid not ca cli, the alternative remained of wading through the snow a miie or two to borrow a brand from a neiglibo . Oulv one room m any house was warm unless one of tne family was ill; in nil tho rest the temperature was at zero during many nights of the win ter. The men and women <fa hun dred years ago undressed and went to their beds in in a temperature colder than tha of our modern barns and woodsheds and they never com plained. A Phenomenal Y/ell. Pittsburg Dispatch.] Situated aOout four miles south west of Clintonvi ie, Venango county, there is a well, which lor volume of production, surpasses anything yet discovered .n that county. The well was sunk by ssrs. M. Brown-on, E. Emerson, Penn and Benson, arid was completed upward of amon'h ago. No oil was found, but an im mense vein was found at the place where the oil was expected. Before abandoning the well tho owners te solved to draw out the casing. Tins wa attempted iu the usual way, but it must be stated that the Casing i a m a ills in statu quo. except ‘ha i stuck about a fo t above its former resting p ace. As it was elevated to its present position, the fresh water from tha upper portion of tne bole rushed into the ’.veil at tiie bottom of the casing in great quantity. As ii did so, the gas took hold of it, and landed i upon the surface of the earth, •alter s. siding it forty feet above the top of the derrick. There, in that condition, it continues to gush and blow to this day, and urn;, for all time to come. It is estimated tb.-.t at 1-asi twenty diousaml barrels of water is thrown ou dai y. It is trill, a re markable phenomenon. A Curious Fl;eiiieiim Mr. Van Dorn complained Saturday that i' seemed to him that som-thing was wrapped lightly about the thumb on tho arm which was removed by am putation Saturday, and on oxamin rig the aim, which had been laid by I)r. Siannaid on a board in the rear room ot ln store, it. was found that a thread had accident ah v become entangled about the thumb and that in ihe swelling of the thumb the thread had made a crease around it. The thread was remove and Mr. Van Dorn, without knowing that the string was wiapped mound the thumb, (said hat it felt much better. Soon niter Dr. Stennard made an expe • iment to further test the curious phe nomenon, and tied the thumb and little finger firmly together and laid a ha'ch , on the hand. Van Dorn soon com menced to complain of pain in the hand and firmly, ilia", it seemed that the thumb and finger were tied together. The string was removed, and the hand straightened out again, when die pa tient wi li no knowledge of what had been done, said that the arrn fed be'er than it had any time since the amputa tion. The above are the facts, on which we have i.o theory to advance regarding the matter. —JClmgria Falls Exponent. Kovel Surgical Operation. A novel operation for consumption was lately per formed upon Archibald Chatterson, at Cunpoelton, New Brunswick, IBs right lung was sof'- ened and broken down, with the ex ception ol a sm i 1 portion at the to Dr. Balcom of that town, thinking that be probably could not recover, made a deep incision in the young man's chest at the lower end of 'he shoulder blade, and inserted a silver tube, through whi It lie and c\> out a largo amount of matter. Ho after ward washed out the cavity with dis infectants. The patient was imme diately relieved, bis strength and ap petite increased, and he was soon able to leave his bod and walk about. His left lung being comparatively sound, strong hopes are entertained of a prolongation of his life for many i years, A. D-EMOC-RAITIC VA.MIJLY JN’ Id WSl* APIC I{. ITEMS OF INTEREST. There are 26,109 moro females in Georgia than there arc males. It is claimed in llaloigli that there tiro now eighty muio gold mi ms in operation in North Caro lina. 1 lie new municipal hospital of Paris—tho Hotel Diem—has cost near $7,000,000 —about $15,000 a bed, A North Carolina man has been five times married and has just ob tained his fourth divorced. One wife considerately died. Tho net debt of the six New En - land States in round numbers is $38,000,000. Four little daughters of a resi dent of lio be, on county, North j Carolina, died of diphtheria and were buried in ore grave. The San Francises Alta esti mates that tlie dr ■light Ins cost Ual ifonia $20,000,000.” The white whale at London ate a lot of eels, and after his death they were found eating him. Two cranberry raisers near I’er 1 in, Wisconsin, will realize nearly a quarter of a million dollars on this year’s crop ■ . Local papers are reporting the discovery, in Lancaster county, /’enn., of a cave that rivals “the dazzling subterranean v ultsof the Arabian Knights.” In Yir i* iii ui and North Carolina I ; the acreage planted in tobacco is fifty p r cent, larger than last year and the yield promises to*be better in the same ratio. R me has twelve obelisks, chief ly captured and donated by twelve Caesars and their successors. Over one. hundred Ro.fb.-n majilfc. facturers mean to exhibit at Paris next year, whether Congress helps or not. A Na-hvibe napei publ she* a list of e-ghty criminals u i ne-see now at liege, am! lor whoso si.*st rewards i amounting to 830,000 are offered. Mr. Moore, of C'rawf rdvi.le, Ga., bus a pig that weighs 759 pounds. 217 hew patents were issued in week before last; 8 reissued; 5 de signs; 40 trade marks; and 9 labels. Lar e demand is manifested m Germany for American hemlock tanned leather. It is mudh dheap er than home-tanned. The exports of the United States to Germany last year amounted to 277,000,000. The archives of the government are in constant danger of fire from some careless s; ark and of having to pay any millions oi dollars for fraudulent claims, wbib might be occasioned by their destruction. Large sums of money are being si lently withdrawn Torn the Parisians banks by many of the French fami ly s oi distinction, who ure in and ead of another revolution or coup d’etat be lore ' h winter sei in. The mom yis for thv most part being st-nt to Eng land. L mpkin Ins a r ailing club. Beard’s Cotton Mills, at Oldman, ~ ii.h $4,000 soindl s were burned. Gen. Toombs and Col. Matthews had a li.tle professional spat the oth er day. It is claimed that the public debt which has been rep u ted as dimininh ing for several years, Ims actually been increased $100,000,000. Mr. B. F. Hardy, of Harris county, whs rohbed oi slo7 oh tffi 20th nit. He was crossing the tucintain when he whs stopped by two whue men and three negroes and robbed. We saw a sweet potato last Sun day that measured font feet and a half in length, a portion left in the ground not being measured. W. (J. Opting raised it.—[Montezuma Weekly. The telephone has been successfully introduced in the police department in Albany, N. Y., In plac of the tel egraph. No battery is used. The current is generated by an electro magnet revolving across > o poles ol a permanent magnet. The Titusville (Pa.) He, aid reports tliai a gentleman in that city, highly educated and a master of seven lan guages, he lately been compelled in order to support his family, to work at unloading cars for $1 60 per day. The German government has a “black list.” It is the names of per sons who fai ed from any cause to obey the compulsory service in the army. Ir. that list there are 398,000 i persons officially disgraced (?) Some months, ago Dr. Uphatn of Salem, Mas:., in order to explain to his audience llie variations of the pulse in certain diseases, caused the lecture mom to be placed in tele graphic communication with the city hospital of Boston, distant fifteen miles, and by rn ana of special ana rains the various pulse Heats were exit bited by vibrating rays of mag nesium iighL upon the wall. These experiments have lately been repeated at Par ; 3. • A man wit h Ids leg almost petrified died at New Haven, Sunday, named John Feat hot atone aged 71, who for many years suffered from elephan tiasis arabum. Ho had a “crick” in his back ten years ago and took to bis bed, and lie has never since been out of if. About a year ago the soles of his lect began to harden and look like s otic, ami ins leg swelled until at bis death thev measured some 35 inches around the calf, and web;ho i about 80 pounds. The case has at traded wide aft nti m froc plmi eians, and is thought to be the firs" of the kind in New England. L is thought that over 3,000,000 bottles f champagne were packed for market in J nuc last. New wine must actually bo put in new bottles. Fer mentation weakens the glass so that ii is not fit tor re use. The Deputy Maiahalship of the Southern District of Georgia has been tended to Cuoiain John \V. Anderson. The new free bridge across lie Flint lived at Flat Shoals, betw-en the noun i.-s of Pike and Meriwether, has been completed. Dr. Randolph, living near Jefferson, lost Ins dwelling home by lire on Saiur day nigh', including two bales of cot ton. Messrs. Malai<* & M*nnary lost their wearhouse, sixty hales of cot 1 on arm two new gin hours lasi week in Pike county. Incendiary fire. Senator Morton leaves an estate val u, i at JioU.GoO to hi* wife and time sons. Henry 8. Sandford, of Florida, has been selected as Minister to Belgium. A monument in oomemmoranoti of Gen. Lee will be erected in Tri oh Circle m New Orleans. Its cost is esdina ad to be $30,000. Boston, November 3 — E. 11. Hay wood, prominently known as a leader of free lover* in this state, lias been ar rested oil the charge of circulating ob scene literature He was bailed in $15,000. W\i an# gunrn*. A man near Maxeys was badly in jured recently bv a spiti>,r -it was an iron ore, and his wife had hold of the handle. Children born at sea are rooted by the cradle of the deep, to be sure : but that doesn't prevent them from -qua 1- inar. When Cleopatra’s hair begun to turn gray, she use to stand before the look ing glass with a bottle in one hand and a hair brash in the other, and sing: “T am dyeing, Egypt, dyeing.”—Oil City Derrick. A St. Louie dentist has mysteriously disappeared. It is thought bv hi* friends, that while plugging n Ohic <go woman’s tooth he lost his balance fell into ibe cavity. Miss A would lie a beauty if her month were a trifle less imposing in its dimensions. ‘lt’s a pity,’ said a young man, ‘that her mouth is so large.’ ‘Why, not at nil,'returned another. It is a decided advantage.’ ‘How so?' ‘7v r tiy, she can whisper in her ear with out trouble.’ Two little giiie were heard discussing the war in the East, one contending that Turkey would win, and the other assert ing that Russia would be the vic'or. At last one settled the question. ‘I know,’ said she, ‘that Turkey will win. My pa is a Russian, an I my tea a Turk. They have a fight every night, and ma always licks.’ Avery tall, (bin Highlander said that ‘he had a cold in his head, originating in wet (net.’ 8 m looked at him slowly from head 'o foot and back again, as if raea-uring the distance the cold had to travel ; and then ejaculated, ‘Gracious me! vou must have got your feet wet sotn- 4 lime last year. Never chastise a bov by striking him over behead. Nature has indicated to every, parent the true seat of punish ment. So enforce the rule of Solomon that the lad will go forth feeling as if It > had a base-burner in the bas-mentof his pantaloons. They tell us that a horse can only pull his own weight. How is it then that a hornet, only weighing six ouc.es, can draw a Inmp weighing about a pound and a half on the surface of the moat obstinate tnau that ever called for camphor. A MERIC US ONE PRICE STORE . - —— :o: 7 We are now recieving our Fall Stock of I DliY UOODB, HATS, SHOES, UMBRELLAS, LADIES & GENTS MERINO VESTS, GENTS LINEN SIIIRTS AND COLLARS, -BON TON” CORSETS— an extra article. , KNITTING and SEWING THREAD, SODA, POTASH, POCKET Js TABLE KNIVES, “RAZOR STEEL” SCISSORS, &a, &c. THE LARGEST AND BIST ASSORTMENT OF CARPETING jy SOUTH WESTERN GEORGIA , AXV AS low as they >an be bought ia our larger cities. Besides a general and we’l assorted stock of IF I. UN T CM* AS H Cl O r ff Iff I AG. W r e are now having manufactured to order, in New York, a fine lot of SOUTHERN-MAJS DOESKIN JEANS SUITS. WHICH WILL BE VERY CHEAP , AND SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER GOODS AT THE SAME PRICE. We also have the same goods in the. piece. While wo do not propose to neii a few items at less than cost,for of feet, v/o do intend that our average profits shall boas low as those of any house in Georgia, . _ , G-ranberry &. Barlow, Americus, Ga,, September 10,1877 -2ma Mew Stock. WE ARE NOW RECEIVING A Large & well selected stock of Groceries, To which K 4 sk the attention of the Surroundiny Country, and respectfully solicit a por tion of the patronage of all who buys their supplies in this Market — a i UA 71AIHON, WEBSTER and SCHLEY COI \Tir>. We will give PERSONAL and PROMPT ATTENTION to all business en trusted to us—Loping thereby to merit the confidence of all. We have in Store to which we are making additions dailv—— 'SB. BACON, I,AIU>, HAMS. COFFEE. SUGAR, SYRUP. MOLASSEES, OBACCO Actf JS&~ FLOUR, SALT, CHEESE, CRtCKERS, MACKERAL, BAGGING & jser- TIES, SODA, POTASH, SOAP, SHOT, POWDER A CAPS, -@SR - SMOKING TOBACCO—WHOLESALE & RETAIL, ar,d ALL OTHER .03f •W3. ARTICLES USUALLY KEPT IN A GROCERY STORE. HrN We wilt Keep a Complete Slock, and will he tudcnold h)i Thanking our friends for past favors, we ask a trial in future, to prove what we saj to l e true. A. J. EUCHANSAN & BRO. Ist and 2nd doors south of Grange Warehouse, Cotton Avenue, Americus, Ga. sept 12-tf CII V1 3 N£A JSJ 3 S mmmm , r mu mQMs riH.ST~CJ.ASS P.IBE, AND OPEN AT ALL 1101 BS. BAR AND BILLIARD SALOON CONNECTED WITH THE HOUSE LAMAR STREET, AMERfCUS.GA. 3* p* ißmmmi, - - mvmnwx. nua o 33; Y&- 3E* 3YS; j\. jjt . Who never shuts up late or soon. Who cooks good things mom. night and noon, Who keeps a number one Saloon ? Bwjg Chapman. Who has good Oysters, Crabs and Fish, Beef, Mutton, Turkey, or any dish, From Sausage. up to what you wish ? Beau Chapman, Who night end day stands there to sell, Plant Oysters on.the big halt shell, With *tws and Fries as hot as well? sept 12-3 ms Bugs Chapman. To Those who wish for Piety reset any hind The Minnis Gallery, Americas, is now doing the finest work of any one in this section of the Country. PRICES ARE LOWER THAN AT ANY OTHER PEACE, and NO CHARGE Made for Work, Which Does not Suit the Customer. Copies of all Sizes and Styles, WARRANTED TO SLIT OR NO CHARGE. Do not tend Copies away to be done bp strangers, for trhik you hxtve to jyly, WHETHER 11 PLEASES YOU OR EOT, but have it done here in your own section, WHERE OOD FAITH AT D FAIRNESS IS SHOWiV YOU. Give me a call when you visit our town, and you will be satisfied J. BYRON JEWELL, for Minnis’ Gallery, Americus, Ga. Bept 12-2 ms, w. j. licoh & no., GENEVA, G^Y. 30.000 yds. Bagging, 50,000 lbs. Iron Ties, One Car Load Liverpool salt, One do. Virginia Salt, 50 kegs Nails, all sizes. 10 bids, “a” Sugar, 10 bids. “C” Sugar. 10 bbls. ex, ‘-G” Sugar, 25 Sacks Coffee, all grades, 50,000 lbs. Bulk Sides, 10 Casks Canvassed Hams, 20,000 lbs. Btu-on, with a complete stock of DSY GOODS BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPs, and MSA®"? MBS dMDWESS'S. We have secured tlie servicos of Mr. J. C. Candler, and all'Ootton entrusted to us will receive his personal attention, ottiTSow W. U UGON & CO.. Annual Subscription $2 00 Who meets his guest with fripndly smile, And for his friends will go his pile, And give them grub iu any style? Bugs CuififAß. And when at night he sits well fed, With Bngg’s “Log Cabin,” and level head, Who’ll put him in his little bed ? Bl’go CiApaLiH Oh ! good old bouse on Lamas street, Oh ! good old ltye—good things to eat, Oh 1 best of places where you’ll meet Bdgg Cuapjuw. No. 7