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Ptr Square (1 inch) first insertion £1 OO Per Square each subsequent insertion.. 75 Liberal contracts made with regular adver tisers, an l for a longer period than 3 months. Loeal notices, 20c. per line first insertion, 15c. per line, each subsequent insertion. business cards. KALVARINSKI & LIEBLER, Under Newton House, Athens, Ga., Cigar Manufacturers, And Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Tobacco, Pipes, Snuff, &c. Dealers would do well to price our goods before purchasing elsewhere. Our brands of Cigars are known everywhere, and sell more readily than any other. 0ct.30-tf C. S. HARGROVE CRAWFORD, GA., OKAI.EE in Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Boots, Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Etc. DrJ.K. McLEAN'S PATENT MEDICINES Be sure to give me a call and examine my itock if you want to Buy (roods Cheap I novl3-tf ~ YOUNG MEN AI7IIO WISH A THOROUGH PREPA f RATION for Business, will find supe rior advantages at Moore's Southern Business University, Atlantn, Ga. Tlu* largest and best Practical Business School in the South. Student* can enter at any time. Send for Catalogue to oct3o-ly B. F. HIOORK, Fres*t. J. M. NORTON, Contractor and Oilier CIR.VWFORD, GA., IS PREPARED TO J furnish all kinds of Building Material, such as rough and dressed Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Blinds, and Doors; also, Laths, Lime, and Plastering Material. Estimates given of all classes of Carpenter work, Plastering, Brick work, and Painting. oct3Q-3m BOOTS AND SHOES HENRY LUTHI, (CRAWFORD, GA., IS NOW PREPARED j to make, at short notice, the FINEST BOOTS and SHOES. I use only the best material, and warrant my work to give entire satisfaction, both as to finish and wear. REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also •tteuted to. oetß-ly ETA 7 WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER k JEWELER AT DR. KING’S DRUG STORE, froad Street, - - - Athens. Ga. All work done in a superior manner, and warranted to give perfect satisfaction, octl-ly 11. E. BKANNAN, House, Sign, and Ornamental PAINTER, Paper hanging, glazing, calso- MINING, etc. Would respectfully so licit the patronage of the public. Any one wanting a boteh job done can get someone else. octlMy IW. THOMAS, ATTORNEY AT J. LAW, Athens, Ga. Office with Judge A. M. Jackson, Ordinary of Clark county. Strict attention given to all business entrusted. Collections and searching of record* a specialty. ©lje #|jl.etl)®rjK Ceil®, Wholesale houses. TALMADGE, HODGSON & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS AND PROVISION DEALERS, ATHENS, GEORGIA. AUGUSTA & ATLANTA BILLS DUPLICATED. An As3’s Appeal. Pity the woes of a lmrd-worked ass— Whose sorrows are far from being o’er; Whose sides are mauled and thumped, alas; Who heartily wishes he were no more. Hard is the lot of my kith and skin ; Like postage stamps, we’re stickedand lick ed ; Though we strive mankind’s good will to win; We are only battered and bruised and kicked. Who marvels if we uplift our heels, And, stung with anguish, brood assault, As on we plod ’fore sluggish wheels— Forever beaten—and all for naught? Oh! thou hard-hearted wretch, wdiose craven back Would shrink with horror from the venge ful whip, Mcthinks thou wouldst the needed courage lack To seize thy human match with manly grip! Down from ancient glory am I hurled'; My raee may mourn its desecrated sway; Of old we bore the Saviour of the world, And writhe beneath a carter’s goad to-day! Is there no Power to listen to the cries Wrung from the tortured creature of the field? Is there no Arm on our behalf to rise, And e’en for us the Sword of Justice wield ? Ah! man, but look within—thyself behold— Is nought in thee that doth deserve the rod? Can’stthou the record of thy mind unfold, Nor fear the scourges of offended God ? Oh, let the gentle warmth of pity swell Within thy breast, and demon’s harshness flee, That e’en the brute may learn to wish thee well, And God, who made us both may pity thee! ♦ The Difference. MAN. If lie wears a good coat Lift him up, lift him up; Though he be but a bloat, Lift him up. If lie’s not common sense, And boasts a five pence, Lift him up. If his face shows no shame, Lift him up, lift him up ; Though crime is his name, Lift him up. Though disgrace be his sport, Let your daughters him court— Lift him up. WOMAN. If a woman once errs, Kick her down, kick her down ; If misfortune is her’s, Kick her down. Though her tears fall like rain, And she ne’er smiles again, Kick her down. If a man breaks her heart, Kick her down, kick her down ; Redoubling the smart, Kick her down. And if in low condition, On, on to perdition, Kick her down. The Diummer’s Last Call.—Dur ing Bonaparte’s famous march over the Alps, he encountered a terrific storm on the Splugen Pass. Among the fatalities attending this st-orm the death of a cer tain drummer was one of the most affect ing, Mr. Headley, in his book “ Napo leon and his marshals,” thus describes the incident: “One drummer, carried over the precipice, fell unhurt to the bottom of the gulf, and crawling out of the mass of snow which had broken his fall, began to beat his drum for relief. Deep down amid the crushed forms of avalanches the poor fellow stood, and for a whole hour beat the rapid strains which had so often summoned his com panions to arms. The muffled sound came ringing up the face of the precipice, the most touching appeal that could be made to a soldier’s heart. But no hand could reach him there, and the rapid blows grew fainter till they ceased altogether, aud the poor drummer lay down to die. He had beaten his last reveille , and his companions passed mournfully on, leav ing the Alpine storm tosiu? his dirge.” CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1874 AN INTERESTING BRIDAL TRIP. The train from Grafton due at Park ersburg, Va., at 11.40 a. m., stopped at one of the way stations, recently to take on a couple newly married. Both were young and both were ver dant; having been raised in the wilds of Western Virginia neither of them had ever been fifty miles away from home. They had heard of railways, locomotives, steamboats and hotels, but had never experienced any of the comforts of those institutions. Jeems and Lize had determined on this, the important events of their lives, to visit the city and see the world, par ticularly that portion of it known as Parkersburg. No wonder that they were amused and delighted when the locomotive, steaming and snorting, with the train of beautiful crimson cars fol lowing it, came in sight. “Arc these your trunks?” said the bag gage master. “Well, I sorter kalkilate them’s ’em,” said Jeems. The trunks —a spotted hair trunk and a very old-fashioned valise—were soon in the baggage car, followed by Lize and Jeems. “I’ll be darned ef railroads ain’t nice things,” said Jeems, seating himself on his luggage and carefully holding up the tails of his light-bodied blue, adorned with resplendent metal buttons, out of the dust. “Lize, sit here by me.” “Come out of that,” said the baggage man; “you are in the wrong car.” “The deuse I am! D’ye s’pose I don’t know what I’m ’bout? These are my traps, and I kalkilate to stay where they are. Keep quiet, Lize; they say we’ve got to fight our way through the world anyhow, and if that chap with the cap on wants any thing, why, I’m his man. Don’t won’t any ofver foolin’ round me.” Here the conductor interposed, and explained matters, insomuch that Jeems consented to leave his traps and follow the conductor. What was his delight when he surveyed the magnificence of a first-class passenger-car, into which he was ushered. His imagination had nev er, in its wildest flights, pictured any thing half so gorgeous. He was aroused from the contempla tion of the splendor around him by the shriek of the iron horse. “Jcwilikins ! what in thunder’s that?” exclaimed Jeems. “That’s the horse squealing when they punch him in the ribs with a pitchfork to make him go along,” said a sleepy looking individual just behind him. “Look here, stranger, said Jeems, “I allow you to think I’m a darned fool; maybe I am, but there’s some things I know, and one of ’em is that you’ll get your mouth broke if you don’t keep it shut. I don’t say much—” Just at this moment they found them selves in Egyptian darkness, and then was heard a scream, almost equal to the engine, from Lize, us she threw her arms around the neck of .Teems. “I knew it ! I knew it!” exclaimed the sleepv-looking individual; “we are lost, every mother’s son of us. We can just prepare now to make the acquaintance of the gentleman in black, who tends the big fire below.” “ 0, great heavens ! what will become of us! I felt skeery about getting on the outlandish thing at fust.” “Keep quiet, Lize ! hollering won’t do any good now. Ef you know any pray er, now’s the time to say it for both of us.” “What’s the matter here?” said the astonished conductor, coming once more into light. “That’s just what I’d like to know,” said Jeems, when he saw that Lize and himself were still alive. “We’ve just passed through Eaton’s tunnel,” replied our polite conductor. How far are you going?” “Wall, reckon we’ll stop at Parkers burg.” “Show your tickets, if you please.” “Sertingly. Lize, you got some with you ? Let this gent look at ’em.” Lize drew a piece of white paper from her reticule, and, with a smile, handed it to our friend the conductor, who read : “The pleasure of your company is re spectfully solicited.” “What’s this?” said the conductor. “Why, that’s one of the tickets to our wedding, that’s what you asked for, hain’t it,” asked the somewhat surprised Jeems. “Whaw ! haw I haw !” was the discor dant sound that arose from the sleepy individual. A bland smile passed over the face of the conductor, as he explained his mean ing to our verdant friend. He had no tick et, but willingly paid his fare, and the train sped on towards its destination. But wonders did not cease here. Presently our pert newsboy Billy en- tered the car, and, stepping up to Jeems, he asked; “Have a Sun, sir.” “Wall, if I have my way about it, the first one will be a son, sartain,” said Jeems. Lize blushed. “Don’t count your chickens afore they’re hatched,” said Billy, as he has tened on to the next car. In due time the train stopped at the big depot in Parkersburg. Amid confu sion of strange noises, and a Babel of discordant voices, our friends landed on the platform. “ Buss, sail ? buss, sail ? free for the United States,” said the sable porter of our up-town house. “Lady take a buss, sah ?” X “Wall, I rather s’pose she won’t from any but me; reckon I’m able to do all in that line she wants, and more too.” “Go to Swan House, sah ? Right cross de street—best house in de city. This way, sah. Any baggage? Have it sent to your room in a few minutes.” In a short time Jeems and his bride found themselves in one of those com fortable rooms on the second floor of that will-directed establishment, the Swan House. The baggage was sent up with the usual promptness, and our friends were soon making their toilet for dinner. Jeems had his coat and boots off in a jiffy, and Lize’s hair fell gracefully over her shoulders. “That’s a doused purty torscl,” said Jeems, eyeing the bell-cord; “wonder what it’s fur? (catching hold of it). Look, it works up there on some sort of a thingumbob! I’d like to have that torsel to put 011 my horse’s head next muster day. See how it works,” said he, giving it a pull. Presently the door opened, and the sa ble face of one of Afric’s sons was thrust into the room, with the inquiry of “Ring, sah?” “Ring ! Ring what, you black ape ? Ef you don’t quit looking at my wife and make yourself scarce, I’ll wring your head off.” “Stop a minit,” said Lize. “What’s the name of the man that keeps this tavern ?” “Mr. Conley, marm.” “Well, tell his lady she needn’t go to any extra fixing on our account, for we are plain people,” said the amiable bride. “As they used to say in our debatin’ society,” interrupted Jeems, “I’llamend that motion by savin’ you can tell ’em to give us the best they’ve got. I’m able to pay fur it, and don’t keer fur expenses.” “Tee he ! tee he !” was the audible re sponse from the sable gent, as he hurried down stairs. Dinner came, aud was dispatched with a relish. Jeeips and his bride took a stroll over the city, seeing the lions and. other sights, until supper-time, which being over, they retired to their room. The gas was lit by the servant, who re ceived a bright quarter for his services. Jeems was the last in bed, and, accord ing to the rule in such cases, he had to put out the light, which he did with a blast from his lungs. The noise in the street had died away, and quiet reigned in the Swan House. The young man on the watch dozed in his chair. The clerk (rather corpulent) was about to retire, when he thought he smelt gas. The guests (some of them) woke up and smelt gas. Much against his will, the clerk proceeded to find where the leak was. It seemed strongest in the room occupied by the bride and bridegroom. Clerk concluded to knock at the door. “Who’s there ?” came from the inside. “Open the door ; the gas is esc apings” “Gas ! what gas ?” said Jeems, opening the door. “Why, here in this room. How did you put your light out ?” “Blew it out, of course.” “You did a big thing.” Our clerk came very near saying a bad word ; but, remembering that there was a lady in the case, or rather in the bed, he checked his rising temper, and, hav ing lit the gas, proceeded to show Jeeins the mystery of its burning, as follows : “You see this little thing here ? Well, when you want to put it out, give it a turn this way. Serious consequences might have resulted if it had not been discovered. Be careful next time.” “Much obleeged. But how the deuse did I know the durned stuff was escap ing ?” responded Jeems. “ Didn’t you smell it ?” asked the clerk. “ ’Pears to me I did smell it,” said Jeems, slightly embarrassed. The clerk, after further explaining the matter to the newly-wedded pair, turned off the gas, and all was dark, and our friends were left alone in their glory. A sound of suppressed mirth was heard in the reading-room for a few minute-*, and then all wa -till. SENSE AND NONSENSE. Butler Bitters—S 1874-X. A fireside tail—The cat’s. A thorn in a bush is worth two in the hand. The three ruling powers of to-day are the Press, the Pulpit and the Petti coat. county: “Nobuddy hieh no husses 2 this fens.” Mrs. Verdy thinks a Congressman must be hard pushed for a cigar when he “ takes the stump.” What is the best way to kill aunts? Hit your uncle’s wife on the head with a hammer. The “ headless trunk” of a young lady was shipped to Lexington depot last week, sewed up in canvas. It proved to be a Saratoga trunk. We are told that the “ smallest hair makes a shadow.” And so it does. It throws a shadow over your appetite when you find it in your victuals. A debating society had under consideration the question—“ Is it wrong to cheat a lawyer ?” The decision arri ved at was, “No; but impossible.” A Michigan man has hit upon a happy expedient for getting rid of the rheumatism. He crowded it down into two fingers, and then had them ampu tated. “Please, mister, my father’s dead and my mother’s runned away, and would ye please let me and my sister suck eider through a straw out of that ’ere barrel o’ your’n ?” Chestnuts should always be cook ed before eating, as they are more healthy ; besides cooking imparts an im proved flavor to the worm, and stops its wriggling. There was a man in Athens, the other day, inquiring for Mr. Circum stances. He wanted some changes made in a book-case, and he had heard that “ circumstances alter cases.” An Illinois father offered his hand some daughter a cow for every Sunday night she would be without a beau, and how many cows do you suppose she earned in a year? Fifty-two? No, bub ; she cow’du’t see it. As a river boat was loading at Augusta, a large gray mule refused to go on board. The mate sung out to a deck band , “ Twist his tail, and he’ll come.” Like Cassabianea, that deck-hand obeyed orders, and, like Cass’abianea, lie nobly died. —— A four-year old went to Tucker’s blacksmith shop to see his father’s horse shod, and watched closely the process of shoeing until the blacksmith commenced paring the horse’s hoofs, when, thinking this was wrong, he said earnestly, “My pa don’t want his horse made any smaller.” Mrs. Vibbard suggested, in the Chicago Woman’s Convention, that the danger of wearing corsets may be obvi ated by the ladies having their husbands rub them after taking off the garment aforesaid. The idea is a good one. We have sent Mrs. Vibbard’a husband a ream of sand-paper. A Milwaukie man having heard that a piece of salt pork inserted in the ear will cure the ear-ache, pickled a pig and dropped it into the flap of his star board auricular appendage. As nothing was heard of it, he sent down a yearling porker, and then stuffed in a salted sow, with her unborn litter. At last accounts he was inquiring anxiously for a pickled elephant. * ■We noticed Friday, in Athens, an old darkey seated 011 the sidewalk, and emptying the gravel from his shoes on the street. Wonder if there is no or dinance against this; not that it was not right for him to get rid of his surplus ballast, but we tfould suggest that it be unloaded on some out-lot and uot direct ly opposite where a pile of dirt had already been thrown from laying a gas pipe, and making the street inconvenient ly narrow. Whose duty is it to look af ter such things ? District Commission ers or Board of Health ? A bachelor thus impeaches wo man : “ I impeach her in the name of the great whale of the ocean, whose bones are tore asunder to enable her to keep straight. I impeach her in the name of the peacock, whose strut, with out his permission, she has stealthily and without honor assumed. I impeach her in the name of the horse, whose tail she has perverted from its use to the making of wavy tresses to decorate the back of the head and neck. I impeach her in the name of the kangaroo, whose beautiful figure she, in taking upon her the Grecian bend, has brought into ill favor aod d’srepute. VOL 1--NO. 8. A Living Skeleton. The Liverpool papers announce th death of an extraordinary being in th : Prescott Workhouse. The deceased ha 1 been exhibited in a caravan in varior.; parts of the country. With a determi nation worthy of a better object, he ha 1 voluntarily passed through a proce ; which had rendered him nothing bu skin and bone. ITe was exhibited i * wondering clodhoppers at country fn at one per head, and there is r. son for supposing that, notwithstandir. ; the misery and wretchedness, the pa! i and weariness he suffered, his ambit io i was satisfied, as wondering bumpkins h ■ his caravan acknowledging that they h . 1 never seen anything so like a corpse wi. the life still in it. Shut out from t\ • clear light of heaven, voluntarily dep. 1 ved of the enjoyment of sufficient f<> I and raiment, with the certain knowleh that his privations would hurry him* . - the grave, this wretched creature consoY l himself with the idea that he lived for .. purpose. He was “ The Living Skele ton,” and in that respect he has as out-distanced all competitors as llu* greatest warriors, statesmen, painto; , philosophers theirs’. With sunken e>. and hollow cheeks, with arms and L s which were mere bones covered with a nd: -- eased skin, with the grave before him yearning to receive him, it seems imp< s sible to believe that this miserable s.m of Adam eould have any pride or sati - faction in the condition to which he lud brought himself. But he had. He had spent his energies in wasting them, and he received his longed-for remuneration in the wonder nnd alarm which wen exhibited on the countenances of tlu.se who beheld him. The workhouse dead house received the corpse of one whine, ambition had killed him. —i Bearded Women at Court.—Beard ed women are singular curiosities, no doubt, though, if very much bearded scarcely attractive objects. Two of these accentrieities of humanity are at present in Constantinople, affording a lively topic of conversation in Turkish circles, a id were presented at the palace of Dolina babhtche to the sultan, who had ex pressed a wish to see them. They came to the capital, in fact, with their father and brother Basorah, on the Persian Gulf, where they were bore, for the ex press purpose of presenting ape tition to his majesty, craving that some provision might be made for them. In other coun tries they would exhibit themselves, and make money ; but this, of course, Mus sulman women cannot do in Turkey. They are sisters, named Leila and Na harm, the elder being twenty-four and the younger twenty years of age, and each has been strangely provided by na ture with a full silky heard of considera ble length. Otherwise they are short in stature, with swarthy complexions and small hands and feet, and are unmarried. The bearded sisters speak the Turkish Kurdish tongues, and are for the present lodged in a house at Stamboul, at the. expense of the government, by the min ister of police. — A Numerical Paroquet.—A won derful performance is done by a paroquet in a street exhibition of trained birds in Baltimore. The bird walks to the center of this table, after bowing to the crowd, and seats himself in a small chair near a bell. To the clapper of the bell there is attached a small cord, and any one in the crowd is allowed to ask the bird to strike any number of times upon tin bell. If asked to strike ten times, he leaves the chair, seizes the bell-rope, and pulls it ten times, after which lit bows and returns to his seat. This was re peated a great many times, and with on.; exception, the bird made no mistake. The bird will strike twenty-seven times* but after that he refuses, and his owner states that lie has worked for nearly a year to get this bird to strike up to thir ty, hut it appears' that his memory gives out at that point, and he is unable to count further. . A Cure for Consumption.'—A cor respondent writes as follow? about thr sanitary power of a well-known plant. “I have discovered a remedy for pulmo nary consumption. It has cured a num ber of cases after they had com menced bleeding at the lungs and tin hectic flush was already on the chock. After trying this remedy to my own .sat isfaction, I have thought philanthropy required that I should let it be known to the world. It is the common mulieu. steeped strong and sweetened with coffee sugar, and drank freely. The herb should lie gathered before the end of July, it convenient. “Speaking of the various ages of the world, Jones thinks that none of them have given more real satisfaction than beverages.