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STORY COLUMN.
THE COMMONER OF GEORGIA.
SOME OF THE REMINISCENCES OF THE HON. ■
A. H. STEPHENS’ AN'TI-BKLLI'M DATS.
It is not Ions; since the ex-Con Federate
Vice-President. Alex. 11. Stephens, was in
New York, willing to he interviewed, and
met with the usual Gotham courtesies of"
l*eing as much interviewed as a man can
bear, and live. 1 would like to give you a
few reminiscences of him. It was not so
safe when he was this side of Washington,
because his memory is so wonderful and his
observation so keen that to mistake the color
of one of his dogs, seen ten years ago per
haps, or to misname a character in one of
his stories, is to insure being quietly scalped
the next time vour legs and his are under
the same mahogany.
I once had an invitation from him to run
away from the dust, of the Georgian Augus
ta, and the cares of the daily Constitutional
ist, to the shadows or the great oaks and the
more hospitable roof-tree of Liberty Hall. —
He does not so call his home with any Flag
of-the-Free flourish, but as a notice to all
comers that they are at liberty to do what,
they like inside the bounds of ordinary civil
ity. I had last shaken hands with him at
the close of his great speech to some ten
thousand souls. -In!}' 2, on retirement from
Congress in 1839. and I had mainly seen
him at the time of great triumphs in political
or legal debate. Hut 1 had the usual expe
rience of stranger guests, who approach the
great Georgian with the awe that is due to
one of the few surviving giants of the days
of Benton, Clay. Calhoun. Webster. Douglas
and Lincoln, and who soon find themselves
in easy jesting or sober intercourse with one
who might be mistaken for a happy-looking
‘ school-boy save for a wrinkled face, faded
hair, iron jaw and wonderful eves.
Another of the Johnsons is one day to be
bis Boswell, but some of his words may be
given now, with no risk of impoverishing the
material.
One of the memories of the Georgian bar
with which he likes to amuse his visitors is
the Peter Bennet speech. I have seen an
other report of it, with the names mostly
wrong, and will try to come nearer Mr. Ste
phens' own relation.
A doctor named Roys ton had sued Peter
Bennet for his bill, long overdue, for attend
ing the wife of the latter. Alexander 11.
Stephens was on the Bennet side, and Rob
ert Toombs, then Senator of the United
States, was for I)r. Rovston. The Doctor
proved Ids nnmherof visits, their value accord
ing to local custom and Ids own authority to
do medical practice. Mr. Stephens told his
client that the physician had made out his
case, and as there was nothing wherewith to
rebut or offset the claim, the only thing left
to do was to pay it. *• No." said Peter ; “ I
hired you to speak in my case, and now
speak.”
Mr. Stephens told him there was nothing
to say; he had looked on to see that it was
made out, and it was.
Peter was obstinate, and at last Mr. Ste
phens fold him to make a speech himself, if
he thought one could bo made.
“I will,” said Peter Bennet. ‘‘if Bobby
Toombs won’t be too hard on me.”
Senator Toombs promised, and Peter
began :
“ Gentlemen of ttie jury: You and I
is plain farmers, and if we don't stick togeth
er these ’ere lawyers and doctors will git the
advantage of us. I ain’t no objections to
them in their proper place ; hut the}' ain’t
farmers, gentlemen of the jury.
“Now this man Royston was anew doc
tor. and I went for him to come an' doctor my
wife’s sore leg. And he come an’ put some
salve truck onto it an’ some rags, but never
done it one bit of good, gentlemen of the jury.
I don’t believe he is no doctor, no way.
Thare is doctors as is doctors sure enough,
but, this man don't earn his money", and if
you send for him, as Mrs. Sarah Atkinson
did, fora negro boy as was worth SI,OOO, he
just kills him and wants pay for it.”
44 1 don’t,” thundered the doctor.
“Did you cure him !” asked Peter, witn
the slow accents of a judge with the black
cap on.
The Doctor was silent, and Peter proceed
cd :
“As I was savin,* gentlemen of the jury,
we farmers when wo sell our cotton has got
to give valley for the money we ask, and
doctors ain’t none too good to bt* put to the
same rule. And I don't believe this Sam
Rovston is no doctor, no how.”
The physician again put in his oar, with,
“ Look at my diploma if you think I am no
doctor.”
“ Ilis diploma!” exclaimed the new fledg
ed orator, witli great contempt. “His diplo
ma ! Gentlemen, that is a big word for
printed sheepskin, and it didn’t make no
doctor of the sheep as first wore it. A good
newspaper has more in it, and I pint out to
you that he ain’t no doctor at all.”
The man of medicine was now in a fury,
and screamed out. “Ask my patients if I
am not a doctor !*’
“ I asked my’ wife.” retorted Peter, “an’
she said as how she thought you wasn’t.”
“Ask my other patients,” said Dr. Rovston.
This seemed to be the straw that broke the
camel's back, for Peter replied with look and
tone of unutterable sadness: “That is a
hard sayin’, gentlemen of the jury, and one
as requires me to die or to have power as I’ve
beam tell ceased to be exercised since the
Apostles. Does he expect me to bring the
Angel Gabriel down to toot his horn before
his time and cry aloud, 4 Awake, ye dead, and
tell this Court and jury your opinion of Roys*
ton's practice ?’ Am I go to the lonely
churchyard and rap on the silent tomb and
say to urn as is at last at test from physic
and doctor bills, 4 Git up here, you, and state
if you died a nateral death, or was hurried
up some by doctors ?’ lie says ask h?s pa
tients, and, gentlemen of the jury, they are
all dead! Where is Mrs. Beazeley’s man, Sam?
Go ask the worni9 in the grave-yard where
he lies. Mr. Peak’s woman, Sarah, was at
tended by him. and her funeral was appoint
ed and he had the corpse ready. Where is
that likely Bill as belonged to Mr. Mitchell ?
Now in glory a' expressin’ his opinion of
Roys toil's doctorin'. Where is that baby gal
of Harry Stephens ? She are where doctors
cease from troublin’ and the infants are at
rest.
“Gentlemen of the jury, lie has et chicken
enough at ray house to pay for his salve, and
I furnished the rags, and 1 don’t suppose he
charges for makin’ of her worse, and even he
don’t pretend to charge for curin’ her and I
am lutiiibly thankful that he never gave her
nothing; for her inwards, as he did his other
patients, for somethin’ made ura all die migh
ty sudden”
Here the applause made the speaker sit
down in great confusion, and in spite of a
logical re statement of the case by Senator
Toombs the doctor lo9t and Peter Bennett
won.
Mr. Stephens has many stories to tell of
negroes, and one is of a famous cotton and
chicken depredator, who since the war met
the ex-Vice-President in the road. “ Well,
Thomas,” was the kindly salutation, “I was
sorry to hear that you had been in trouble
abr ut, Mrs. Tripp’s chickens,”
“Yes, Mars Alec, but I done quit all dat
now." said the negro, very penitently.
“ How many did you take, before you stop
ped ?’’ asked Mr. Stephens.
“ I tuck all she had,” was the perfectly"
innocent reply.
Before the war. Mr. Stephens had a body
servant named Pierce, who had become so
used to the silent endurance of the gnests. in
whose chambers his depredations were made,
that it seemed a chronic habit. However, a
little anplication of hickory was resolved
upon in attempt to reduce the disease.
The lad exhauste 1 the usual mixed denials
and promises in vain, but at last stayed the
uplifted hand of his master with one final
appeal :
“Just stop one minit, Mars Alec. Now.
Mars Alec, if you had a dog, and you loved
the dog, and he did steal something, would
V‘n whip your dog ?”
Mr. Stephens turned away with dim eyes,
and it is doubtful if the plea has had its full
parallel since the famed one of the Svrophce
nician woman. “Truth. Lord, yet the dogs
eatof the crumbs that fall from the children’s
table.”
Mr. Stephens has had few equals in either
political or legal debate, and some of his say
ings and repartees have passed into South
ern proverbs. In a speeeh upon the acts of
James K. Polk, he compared Democracy to
a terrapin, which has all kinds of meat inside
of it—hog. turkey, bear, chicken and beef.
He slso said that its hold on office was like
the bite of a mud turtle on a negro’s toe ; it,
never lets go'till it thunders. When defeat
ed, it had its own thunders of disunion. Of
course he was a Whig then, or he would nev
er have said that Polk went into the Mexican
war as the fellow with the new suspenders
went into a fight—“just to show them,” he
said.
A story of the transition from Whig to
Democrat is told, but I do not know truly.
On one occasion Dawson, of Georgia, was his
opponents, and as his name is Andrew 1L H.
the nickname Hard Head, framed on the last
two letters, seemed earned on this occasion.
Mr. Stephens had spoken with his usual
power, and his opponent began with the words :
“Fellow-Citizens: In the davs gone by,
we had a great party called the Whig party
in this land, and it had giants on its roll, such
as Henry" Clay. Daniel Webster, Crittenden,
Fillmore ; and head and front of the illus
trious was the Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens,
of Georgia. And to-day, fellow-citizens, we
have a great Democratic party; and it has
such chiefs as Douglass, Buclmnan, Breck
enridge, Cobb ; and again head of the host is
Alexander 11. Stephens, of Georgia. The
old Whig party is dead and gone to Hades,
and Stephens buried its carcass, and if he will
only lead his present party where he led the
other one, I will be entirely satisfied.”— N. Y.
World .
A Prudent Man.
Mr. Elijah Hitchcock, a Connecticut con
stable, whose character being under scruti
ny, Deacon Solomon Wakely was inquired of
about him.
“Deacon Wakely.” said the questioner,
“do you think Mr. Hitchcock is a dishonest
man ?”
(Very promptly.) 44 Oh, no, sir ; not by any
means.”
“Well do you think he is a mean man?”
“Well, with great regard to that, said the
Deacon, a little more deliberately", “I may say"
that I don't really think he's a mean man;
I’ve sometimes thought he was what you
might call a keerful man—a prudent man, so
to speak.”
“ What do you mean by a prudent man ?”
“Well, T mean this: that one time he had
an execution for $4 agin the old Widder Wit
ter back here, and he went up to her house
and levied onto a flock of ducks; and he chas
ed them ducks one at a time ’bout and round
the barn pooty much all day, and every time
he ketched a duck he’d set right down and
wring his neck, an’ charge mileage ; an’ his
mileage ’mounted to more’n the debt. Noth
in’ mean ’bout it. as I know of; but I always
thought after that, that Mr. Hitchcock was
an alfired prudent man.”
That Fetched Him. *
In one oTthe Western States a man was
brought into court on a charge of assault and
battery, presented by his wife, and His Hon
or asked him why he struck her.
“ She called roe a worthless, lazy loafer ;
but that wasn’t it.”
“Well?”
“She said our whole family weren’t fit for
fish bait; but I didn’t get mad at that.”
“ What was it, then ?”
“She shook her fist under my nose, and
said I was too lazy to die, but I know’d she
was excited and I let that pass. She’s got a
fearful temper, j our Honor.”
“I wish to know if you had sufficient cause
for provocation.” said the court.
“ I guess I had. Judge. She came close up
and spit in my face, and said I was meaner
than pizen ; but I didn’t bit her for that.”
“ What then ?”
“I knowed her temper, and I sot there and
whistled “Hold the Fort,” and I was bearing
with her, when she turned round and gin my
coon dog the stnashingest kick—lifted him
right out’n doors onter his head. That fetch
ed me. Judge, if there had been forty lion 9
and a camel in the road, I’d have skinned her
or died trying.”
Longfellow was presented to Mr. Long
worth, of Cincinnati. The latter remarked
to the poet: “There is no great difference in
our names.” “ Yes.” replied Mr. Longfellow,
but “ worth makes the man, the want of it the
fellow.”
Don’t run after phantoms.in the great
world around you. where you are only as a
grain of dust in the balance, and can effect
so little; but mind conscientiously and ear
nestly the things tiiat lie next you.
There is said to be a man in Louisiana
who has had four wives to run off and leave
him. He is a conjugal phenomenon. He
seems to shed wives as a duck’s back does
water —wives run from the one ns water runs
from the other.
RELIGIOUS.
Passing By.
“ And they told him that Jesus of Nata-rdh
passeth by .”
0 rich man, from your happy dooy,
Seeing the old, the sick, the poor,
Who ask for nothing, scarcely'weep.
To whom even Heaven means only sleep;
While you, given good things without measure
Sometimes can hardly sleep for pleasure ;
Let not the blessed moment fly,
Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.
Ts there a sinner, tired of sin,
Longing anew life to begin?
But all the gates of help are shut.
And all the words of love are mute;
Earth’s best joys sere, like burnt-up grass,
A nd even the very heavens arc brass,
Turn not away so pitilessly- -
Jesus of Nazareth passes by.
! Self-hardened man. of smooth bland i lile?
Woman with heart like desert isle,
Set in the sea of household love,
Whom nothing save the world can move;
At your white lie, your sneering speech.
Vour backward thrust no sword can reach,
Look, your child lifts a wondering eye—
Jesus of Nazareth passes by.
Oh. all ye foolish ones, who feel
A sudden doubt, like piercing steel.
When your dead hearts within y r ou burn,
And conscience sighs. Return, return,
Why let ye the sweet impulse fleet,
Love’s wave wash back from your tired feet—
Knowing not Him who came so nigh—
Jesus of Nazareth passing by.
1
IHe must not pass ! Hold Him secure;
| In likeness of His helpless poor;
I Of many a sick soul sin-beguiled ;
In innocent face of little child ;
Clasp Ilim—quite certain it is He—
In every form of misery';
And when thou mcct’st Him on high,
Be surtvlle will not pass thee by.
Joining the Church.
Emerson says that the poorest poem is bet
ter than the best, criticism upon it; and so we
may sav that the poorest really conscientious
life is fathomlessly better than the acutest
worldly sneer concerning it. Men outside
the church, when asked to unite with it, some
times complain that there are many stunted,
fruitless growths in the church. Poor native
spiritual endowments in Christians are the re
sult of poor soil in which they grow ; and the
world that sneers, is itself the soil. It will
he noticed tlwt, as I am not in charge of any
church, I have not the slighthest interest at
stake in anything I may say of the value of
church membership.
Every true church is a contract, not be
tween two parties only, but three. It is not
only an agreement of men with men, but one
of men with God. In disbanding a church,
men alone cannot annul the contract. This
is the scholarly idea of the bond of Chris
tians in fellowship with each other and with
an invisible head. Thus the Christians of the
world are really and confessedly members of
a theocracy. You think Gromwell’s and Mil
ton’s dream of a theocracy" failed. Many an
archangel pities you, and all the deep stu
dents of science among men smile, if you say
this seriously. God governs, and his king
ship is no pretense. Our best hops for Amer
ica is that it is, as every other part of the
universe is. a theocracy. A true church is
the outward form among men of God’s king
dom in human history, and it illustrates his
kingdom in all workD.
We must look on every true church as real
ly a divine institution, for it is a contract
with the unseen Power that is filling the world*
just as the magnetic currents of the globe fill
all the needles on it. Our Lord was, and is,
and is to come ; and in all true believers lie
is as much present as the magnetic currents of
the globe arc in the balancing needles that
point out the north pole rightly, if they arc
true to the currents that are in them, but not
of them. The church is our Lord’s body ; the
the church is our Lord’s temple ; the church
brings every true believer into contact with
the deepest inmost of our Lord’s present life
in the world ; and this is the supreme reason
for uniting with it. It is painfully evident
here, I hope, that I am speaking of a true
church, and not of a Sunday club !
Experience has shown that most men who
do not unite with the church drop away
from their early religious life. The two great
reasons for uniting with a true church are that
you are likely to grow more inside the church
than out of it, and that you can probably do
more good in it than out of it.
To which church do I ask you to join your
selves ? I wish you could find out. Am I
making a party plea ? 1 wish you would find
out on which side it is made. I know, per
haps, five hundred young men who are mem
bers of churches, but I do not know twenty of
them to which evangelical church they be
long ; nor do I care. It is not a partisan
plea 1 am making in asking you to become a
member of the visible church ; and if you are
a member of the true invisible church, you
will assuredly wish to aid in making some
part of the visible church a true olatrch. *
********
There is a power in the closs contact with
illumined souls which will come to you no
where outside of God’s house. Why is it
that there is such strange power exerted by
a great assembly all of one mind ? Go to the
little gatherings where some rneu of the class
that neglect God's house spend their Sundays
—fire-engine rooms and secret clubs for drink
ing—and all the sentiment runs one way
there. ‘Men are like eels in pools of the mud
dy sort, and by-and-by come to think their
pool is the whole ocean. You are transfused
with the spirit of any company that moves all
one way. Put yourselves into the chris
talline springs and streams.
Somewhere in the church you will find crys
talline waters. There is a church inside the
church. Move in that! Live enswathed in
that! Let that be the transfusing bath of
your inmost life: and very soon you will
find in the power of that interfusion of soul
with soul that assuredly God is yet in His
holy temple.— Rev. Joseph Cook.
A countryman got mad because a waiter
handed him a napkin the other day. He
said he kuow’d when to use a han’kercher
without havin’ no hints thrown out.
fMessiamif & business Cards.
WII.
• Attorney at Law,
Associated with .I. It. SILMAX, Esq., Jeffer
son, Ga.
iSpSpecial attention given to the collection of
claims. Jsnuary ">th, 1878.
R'l'. A El.VI*. .tltorn<7>ai>l4iw,
• Harmony (Jiwvk, Jackson Cos., Ga.
Will practice in Jackson and adjoining counties.
Prompt attention given to all business entrusted
to him. Refers to lion. John ]). Stewart, Griffin,
and Hon. J. T. Spence, Jonesboro*, Ga. oct6
EMORY SPEER, j W. S MORrTs.
Athens, Ga. ] Jefferson, Ga.
SPEER & MORRIS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW ,
JettVrMon, Ga.. will practice in Superior,
Ordinary's and Justices* Courts. fcgCOtficc in
building with Col. Silinan. UP-STAIRS. aug2.>
BF. IVOFl'Oltlb itllurneyat>ljtw.
• Harmony Grovk, Jackson Cos., Ga.
Will practice in all the adjoining counties, and
give prompt attention to all business entrusted to
his care. Collecting claims a specialty.
March 3d, 1877.
WILEY C. HOWARD. ROlfT S. HOWARD.
W. C. iV R. S. HOWARD,
A T TORN FA'S AX&CO i XSFLL ORS A T
LA J r,
f24 Jefferson, Ga.
Medical and Surgical Notice.
Dll. W. A. IV.VIXO.A respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens of
Jefferson and surrounding country. Residence,
at the old ** Watson Homestead," Sycamore st.
Office, in Col. J. I>. Silman's law office. When
not professionally absent, can be found at one or
the other of the above places. Jan 27 Iy
J. J. FLOYD, j _ J. R. SI I,MAN,
Covington. Ga. , Jefferson, Ga.
tMiOYI) At MIJI l>.
1 ATTORNEYS-A T-LAW.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts oi
the counties of Jackson and Walton,
j unci 2 —lv
STANLEY & PINSON,
JKFFEItSOX. (*.!..
DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June 13 1 v
DK. H. S. AEEY IMMII.
SURGEON DENTIST.
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., (in.
July 10th, 187*>. (5m
Dr. J. R. Pendergrass,
RESPECT KEEL Y tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Jefferson and surround
ing country ; and by strict attention to his studies
and profession, hopes to merit continued confi
dence. He can be found at his office, north end
of Pendergrass A Hancock's store, up-stairs, at
all times, when not professionally absent.
January 13th. 1877.
DU. 0. It. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
the office recently occupied by Col. Mahatley.
Jan. 22. Is7<s—tf
Dr. J. M. BURNS
HAVING resumed the practice of Medicine.
offers his professional services to the public.
Thankful for all past patronage, lie solicits a lib
eral share in the future. The Dr. can he found at
his residence, three miles east of Jefferson, when
not professionally engaged.
Augll ' JOHN M. BURNS, M. D.
Charles Corbett,
PLALY AM) GB A IM.YG
PAINTER,
OFFERS his services to the citizens of Jackson
and surrounding counties. He is preparer
to do all kinds of House-Painting, inside and out
side—plain and ornamental. Special attention to
•tainting Buggies and vehicles of all descriptions.
Charges to suit the times. Address. CHARLES
CORBETT. Camp's Mills, Gwinnett Cos., Ga.
May 20th, 1877.
MARBLE!
TOMBSTONES
Slabs, &c., &e.
Great lief taction in Prices !
A. R. ROBERTSON,
Di:au;u in Monuments, Head aim Foot
Stones. Slabs, Marble Box Tombs and Cra
dle Tombs. Specimens of work always on hand
and for sale, it is a saving of money to buy your
Monuments and Tombstones in Athens. Ga.
fiQyMarble Yard adjoining Reaves A Nichol
son's Cotton Warehouse. flO 3m
Dr. H. J. DONG,
—DEALER IN—
Drugs, MedidncN, Paints, Oils. &v
WEST SIDE OF PVBLTC SQUARE,
Gainesville, Ga.,
HAS on hand. and will constantly add thereto,
a full line of Drugs and Medicines, Paints,
Oils, Varnishes. Ac.. Ac. A specialty made ofthe
most celebrated and thoroughly tested
MIXED PALYTS!
Laudnitm. Paregoric. Ac., put up in suitable
quantities for country merchants.
Full stock of Lamps, Kerosene Oil, Lamp
Wicks, Ac.
Machine and Train Oil
on hand constantly.
At this establishment will be found a choice as
sortment of Perfumery. Toilet Soaps, tine brands
of Cigars and Tobacco, Paint and Whitewash
Brushes, Patent Medicines, and everything kept
in a first-class Drug Store. Having made special
arrangements in the purchase of his stock. Dr.
LONG offers his goods Low for Cash 1 Pure
medicines, quick sales and small profits, is the
motto of this house. Call as above.
prescriptions filled by a careful
and thoroughly competent Druggist.
March 24th, 1877.
W. P. Daniel,
In his New Building, Har
mony Grove ,
HAS just opened out with a full and complete
stock of
FRESH COX FECTIONKR IKS,
And FAMILY GROCERIES of all kinds ;
FIRE*WORKiS of every description, together
with a varied assortment of goods suitable for the
Christmas holidays, in the way of Fancy Notions.
Nuts. Candy, Oranges and other fruits, Fine
Chewing and Smoking Tobacco. Cigars of all
brands. Lager Beer. Ale, Soda Water. Grape
Wines. Hitters of all kinds, and, in short, every
thing kept hi a first-class Confectionery and Fam
ily Grocery Store.
goods fresh, and prices to suit
the times ! Dec 15 lm
To Rent, for 1878,
A GOOD TWO-HORSE FARM, one mile from
Jefferson. Dwelling and out-houses complete
and in good order. For particulars apply at
Jan. 12. TUTS OFFICE.
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