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Professional Cards.
ULUS A. IIAWKIXa. RCQKKK A. HAWKINS
Hawkins & Hawkins,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
IMERICUS, GEORGIA-
jan 11 tf
B. P. HOLLIS,
ornoy eat Xjaw«
AMEIUCUS, GEOll'JIA.
ice iu Hawkins’ Building, Cotton
janS-tt.
N A. SMITH.
A.tt ^ rxx ■>y e%t Xja w
VMERICUS, : : GEORGIA.
fTTILL practice in tlio Court* of Sumter and
W »'ljoiiiii)|; Conn tics, and in Circuit Court ol
on College street, noxt to Rcpnbli-
fob35tf.
uiteil State*.
trOt&ei
MERKEL CALLAWAY,
Attorney at Law,
AMEEICCS, ax.
aarOffica over Kendrick A Wheal ley’s Store.
oooh; db caisp,
ATTONEYS IT LAW.
AMEiUCUS. GEORGIA,
Macoi
t of Georgia and the U. s!
Oflici
or Georgia and the 1
partnership doe* no
-riminal business.
>ver National Bank. april 8 ly
U. II. OCKRBV. t DUPONT OOXXKT
Guerry & Son,
A.ttornoy« at Ziaw
Then I coaid sit most meekly at hi* feet,
* Tery child before his goodness and his
.nj>T*n
ICITORS IN EQUITY
America*. Georgia,
ILL practio* in the Snparior Court* of
- ‘chley, Macon, Dooly, Leo, Ter-
nd Marion counties; in the
Schley, Macon, Dooly, Leo, Ter-
1 Marion counties; in the
i Oeorgia and in tho United
lavannan.
W. Felder, and Bon comer
And while be stooped to kiss my shining
hair,
Or smooth its clusters from their clinging
rest;
A sweet unspoken language in his touch
i and Cotton Avenue.
young,
Sarah, with reverence, mid to Abraham,
My lips would call him “Lord.”
•*-EX FOOT. J. R. MCCLESKEY.
Fort & McCleskey,
Attorneys at Laic and Solicitors in Equity
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
yjjriLL practice in the counties of tho South-
•nit. In the Supreme Court ol
o District and Circuit Courts
■ in Bank-
Schumpcrt Pickitt and King’s
Lraiding, head of Cotton Avenue.
Dr. W. A. GREENE,
G RATEFUL for tho liberal patronage bestow
ed upon him during the past ten yean,
will continue to set re those desiring his Pro-
frxMonal Sendees as heretofore, and solicits a
« of their patronage.
Dr. W. J.
fTENDEIW hi*
A people of Ai
Professional Services to the
Americas and vicinity.
Al*o offer* a good STOCK of DRUGS, togelh-
nth GARDEN SEEDS, Ac.. Ac. Next door to
W. Hhcm ” * ~ "
old friend*
Dr. G. F. COOPER,
Will gin hi*
To the Practice of Medicine, and solicits a share
of public patronage. Calls left at ths Drug
Dr. J. B. HINKLE.
Uliyslolan and Surgeon.
H ALLS left at ths Drag Store or Dr. E. J. El
dridgo or at his residence (to front of Col
. Maxwells), will receive prompt and faith
Dr. S. B. HAWKINS.
a v OFFICE at Dr. Eldrktgs’s Drag Store.
Residence near the MethodUt Church.
•My services I again tender the good people ol
American and country generally.
Dr. W. M. HARDWICK
H AVING resumed the Practice of Medicine,
offers hi* service* to hie old friends ana
patron* and to tbs paying pnbbe generally.
Np<s*ial attention will be given to all Chronic
particularly those' of Females. He will
prescribe for and treat ordinary cases at bis
■SSL
Col- T. M. Fur low.
, street,^
Dr. B. J. HEAD,
JTAYING again located in Amerkma, offer* hi*
f* professional serrioes to the citixena of the
datiee of his profession, and therefore feel* as
sured of riving satisfaction. He has for many
yean made the study and treatment of chronic
diacMes a specialty, particnli
particularly thoae diseases
peculiar to females) and claim'to have discov-
remodiej.and treatment ^peculiarly adapt-
of this dass of a
Re»idenco oo the East side or public square, h
U *f<;b£uao formeriy occupied by Mrs. MeCrsc.
D. P. HOLLOWAY,
DENTIST,
PERFORMS all operations on ths natural
* teeth, and fnakrt. artificial teeth, on ths
teeth, and inserts artificial teeth,
t and moat improved methods.
®°u> Faunas $100 to* 5 00
4**amata.T*MXU.'Full 8*rs 90 00 to 310 00
UrmaooLowxa Sxw 19 DO to 150 00
J pmvidsd himself with the latest im-
^oaitwhomay few him with their pat-
^ D.P. HOLLOWAY.
rt A Smith’s Drug Store.
’ NETTIE POWER HOUSTON.
IlfS*** oar,ra Eingvisions—I have mine,
W?* y0Ung ’ mad fancifal » counted
fair,
1 lomctimes dream of lor.;
KSsatasfasiffi
love,
“ 001(1 team to lo
If my sail hewt could wake to life,
How would I love, and how be loved;
* °T. 1 »m weary of idolatry.
or&HEm faintWithin “®” ha ® 1 thlnfc
Of aU tho fierce, strong passion
1 Bright and knowc ' H resistless in its
As some rock-cleaving stream—
Iwonld be loved in calmness •
Trusted, and not feared; ’
He whom I love should be my king
And not my slave. 9 5
“*fkebe proud aud cold.
But calm, and grave, and very strong;
*t mj alighteat frown,
Teacher—Parse man.
Pupil—Man is a common noun of the
feminine gender.
T. What’s that, air ?
P. _ Blan is a common noun of the
feminine gender—common cause he can
be bought cheap; and feminine gender
Glad m the dust before my feet to lio—
For I am weary of aervillity.
I would not rule, nor would I vet be rultd-
icorn the It rani .. T —
- uur wuuiu IVCID
I scorn the tyrant as I scorn hisslav
There is a love of sweet equality;
The love God gave and smiled upon,
Vn '-' t erjr good.
'cause he’s always got women
brain; eighth person ’cause his wife and
&ix children come, first—is in the objec
tive case and governed by a woman.
T. Go to your seat, sir, and put a wet
cloth on your head. •
T. Next, pane woman.
P. Woman is a female nonn of the
mascnlioe gender.
T. Mercy on ns! what do yon say,
sir?
P. She’s a female noun of tho mas
culine gender—masculine, ’cause she
wears the breechaloons and is determ*
iued to vote; she’s compounded of cot
ton, whalebone, starch, smiles, sunshine
and thunder clouds—is in the first per-
He whom I love must be my king,
till T Tnnal V — VI- - "*
But I must be his queen,
yield me as my tribute due,
And be should U , UUI
The reverence I had earned,
Not only by my womanhood, but by all
gentleness,
Long suffering, the patient sweetness
Only love can teach;
For looking on me he shpuld feel and know
That peace and rest should follow after toiL
jto me Ms heart should in such safety trust
That he should have no need of spoil.
I do not claim for him the world’s applause,
The blaze of heraldiy, the pomp of fame;
His deeds the annul* of a nation*, nwia.
,oimj, in, pomp oi nme
His deeds the annals of a nation’s pride,
IIis name upon the lips of men,
But I must feel bis power;
Must know that' he could be what earth’i
heroe’s are;
I could not love him were he not great.
ti- u— : “““ were nr not great.
His hand must be both safe and strong;
A hand to shield, to trnst, to lay my o
within;
To stake my life upon.
A hand that might have fought with Her
cules,
Yet would not harm the won* in his path;
For tho’ the heart of woman lovetb oft
A thing she doth unwillingly despise,
uuwiiiiugiy uespise,
It is a pitiful, imperfect love, that bath not
For its corner-stone the ropk of Faith.
His heart must be most tender and true;
A heart that loves, and pities, and befriends
Earth’s suffering children, whether higtr,
o» «ww».g the lowly and the
love me perfectly.
—i—io»o me peneciiy.
If from the first fruits of my heart's fair
wealth,
I bring an offering for a love-crown made,
* unug on uiicrmg lor a love-crown maue
He must not mock me with a paltry love,
Nor stoop to cheat my soul.
If ever I should meet such a man,
This king I only dream of and
Asweet uaspoaea language in nis touen
Would lift my dark eyes to the dark of bis,
And, as in fair Judea, when the world was
BdBT*He was drank! and the little boyi
palled his coat-tails and laughed at him us.
he reeled along the sidewalk, mattering
words to himself. His hair was gray, and
his haggard face was outlined with wrin
kles ot age. His eyes were bloodshot anti
dim, while his aged frame seemed too wick
to support itself, and everybody laughed
at him as he passed. I’oor old man! Laugh
at him! Ah you should have gone and
pittied him. When he fell with a heavy
thud upon the sidewalk you should have
gone to him and assisted him to his feet,
and not stood off and laughed at him.
Perhaps that poor old man was a homeless
wanderer, a man who had seen better days,
and whose wife and children and friends
cither dead or far away; and as you
stony-hearted rascals stood and langhed at
him in his hour of misfortune, you didn’t
stop giggling long enough to think that
you might be like him some day—laugh
ed at because you were a drunkard. Oh!
you little, thoughtless vagabonds, yon
don’t know what the devil has in store for
you; yours may be a worse fate than that
poor, old helpless drunkard’s is. Laugh,
will you? When that old frame, once the
proud image of youth and manhood, be
comes a lifeless thing in death, find oat
where it lies, and go stand around it then,
and langh and jeer at it like yon did yes
terday. And who among you all had the
heart to go to tho old man and say, “I’ll
help you sir.” Not one! No, you’d rather
laugh at his sad condition; and, while yon
were laughing, did yon go close enough to
the drunken unfortunate’s face to see the
tears trickling down those furrowed
cheeks of his? Did any of you venture
near enough to hear him sigh and say,
“Ah, little boys, look at me, and learn a
lesson. I waa a little boy, like-yon, once,
aud no doubt I have laughed at somepoor
drunkard, like yon are laughing at. me.
God spare you from such a fate as mine!”
Aud at this moment a little diTty-faced,
barefooted boy came along, and seeing the
sitnatioD, was moved to pity for the old
roan. Planting himself in front of the
drunkard, and fitting the boys, he
poor dri
lookedt
them in the faee and, shaking his
fist, said. “Say, look a-here, the first one
of you that bothers this old msn agin I’ll
pat a head on him,” and, pointing, to one
red headed boy, oar hero said to him, “It
J ou want to laugh at anybody drunk, go
ome and langh at your own father,” and
the boys all weak away, and left our hero
standing near the poor old man, who had
gone to sleep.—Courier Journal.
Tkbriblr—A Danbury girl received
a porous plaster in a gorgeous envelopo
hairing a monogram. About ten o’eloek
that night the owner of that monogram,
standing disrobed before bis fire, prepar
atory to applying a remedy to his chest,
fainted dead away on drawing from a pa
per a mass of paper, mottoes and flowers.
There was no fire in the parlor Sunday
evening.
Bill Smikcs came home mellow the
other night, and when his wife asked him
what ailed him he said he had been to the
' .... fool of
hip-pi^—]
hip -pop hippityhop—-hinms—happi-
mus—hip—-hip—hip—hippitymus—hip*
opytimus—or some such(hic) confounded
word, aui it had given him one of his
‘•spells."
she lifted np her voice and wept. It is
common, ’cause it is peculiar to all sexes
and ages, specially to young girls, preach
ers and widowers. Kissing is derived from
bussing, and of various kinds, 1st
There’s Echos which is bussing again
2nd. There’s Omnibus, which is buss
ingall the girls in the room. 3d. There’
blundorbus, which is one man kissing
another man’s wife: and 4tb. There’s
syllabus, which is one girl kissing another
where so many.boys are spoiling fbr a buss.
It is second person, ’cause it tikes two
persons to perform the operation; plural
number, ’cause they generally take more
than one, when they get the chance—is
in the objective case and governed by
surrounding circumstances.
Just here the teacher aud vast auditory
broke down. A heavy of red headed giris
rushed upon the rostrum and demanded
that tho little imps be hnng instantcr, if
not sooner, and order was not restored till
the Marshal assured them that all the lit
tle reprobates should be hung at sunrise
next morning. The teacher wss token off
on a window shutter.
SOME TERRIBLE SCENES AND
THRILLING INCIDENTS.
son, ’cause she’s always the person speak
ing; plural number, ’cause she makes
more noise than a half dozc-n parrots—
is in the. objective case aud governed by
the fashions.
Sit down, sir, and rinse your
month with prophylactic fluid
T. Next, parse boy.
P. Boy is an uncommon noun, of the
gosling gender and female persuasion.
T. Tbnndcr and blackjacks! What
is that sir ?
P. Boy is an uncommon noun of the
gosling gender and female persuasion—
uncommon ’cause he’s hard to find now-
a-days; gosling gender, 'cause he soon
enters the goosehood; female persuasion,
’cause he’s always got the heartsick
about some female; first person, big
Ike ; singular number, ’cause there’s
nobody but himself, iu the objective
case, and governed by his embryo mus
tache, Schiedam Schnapps, and the
length of his daddy’s purse.
T. Go home, sir, and bathe your feet
mustard.
T. Next, parse girl.
P. Girl is an angelic nonn, of the
Grecian bend gender, and masculine
tendencies.
T. Save us from sudden death!
These boys will never be raised. How
that, sir ?
P. Girl is an angelic nonn, ’cause
she paints her cheeks and loves in
gun’s; she’s compounded of cosmetics,
flowers, fuss and feathers; is of mascu
line tendencies, ’canse she wears shirt
bosoms, paper collars, and always has
her head fall of boys; singular number,
’cause the boys are afraid of them, and
matrimony has played out; third person,
’cause she is much spoken of; in the ob-
, cctive case and governed by a gipsy
>onnet.
T. Next, parse com.
P. Corn is an uncommon nonn of the
neuter gender.
T. Bless my life ! Go
P. Corn is an uncommon noun, ’cause
farmers havo well nigh quit raising it—
it is used as an adjective and belongs to
Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. When
parScd as a noun, it is in the objective
case and governed by cotton
T Next, parse cotton.
P. Cotton is a royal noun of the starv
ing gender.
T. Listen at that!
P. Royal ’cause it is king (but only
er the Southern people); starving gen
der, ’cause it has well nigh starved oat
the South; in the objective
governed by lazy freedmen.
T. Next, parse fashion.
P. Fashion is a tyrannical noun of
the common gender.
T. Catfish and blunderbusses! What
is that, sir ? ^
P. Fashion is a tyrannical
’cause it must be obeyed aud laughed at
poor man’s purse; common gender;
use all people bow to it; it is com
pound of flounces, flimsies, ruffles, souf
fles, bubbles, troubles, ruffs, culls, scuffs,
higgles, giggles, sniggles, curls, furls,
hairs, snares, Grecian bend, fuss and
feathers. It was once in the objective
case and governed by Engenie, but it is
now iu the nominative case, indepen
dent.
T. Go home, sir, and go to bed.
T. Next, parse baby.
P. Baby is obstreperous musical noun
of the neuter gender.
T. Moses aud the prophets
from, destruction! What do you say,
you little imp?
P. Baby is a mueica! noun, ’cause it
sings a soft tune between midnight and
day, especially of a cold night—it’is
neuter gender,’cause it's neither male nor
female until it is big enough to wear
breeches. It weighs according to size,
and measures according to proportions.
Is compounded of milk and lungs, and
especially of longs, grows at a rapid
rate, and soon learns to smoke cigars,
drink spirits, talk short to dad, and
make love to the gals. It is also of the
spoilt gender, 'cause it's allowed to pat
its foot in the gravy whenever it chooses,
is in tho objective case and governed by
candy and sugar plums.
T. Go home, sir. aud tell your mother
to rock you to sleep.
T. Parse matrimony.
P. Matrimony is an ancient
the defunct gender.
T. Hear him! You littlo vagabond,
what did yon say?
P. Matrimony is of the defunct gender,
’cause its played out. Girls are plentiful
as blackberries, but they’ve got nothing,
they toil not, neither do they spin, yet
Solomon in all his glory oouldn t dress
like ’em. Matrimony is compounded of
the words, mate and money, but when
there’s a match now a-days, it is nothing
without the money. Third person,’cause
it’s spoken of much by the girls. In the
objective case and governed by tbespon-
doolicks and the girl's daddy-
The other evening old Mr. and Mrs.
Coffin, who live on Brush street, sat io
their cosey back parlor, he reading the
paper and she knitting, and the family
cat stretched out under the stove, and
sighed and felt sorry for cats not so well
fixed. It was a happy, contented house
hold, and there was love in his heart
Mr. Coffin put down the newspaper
and remarked:
that the whole country is be
coming excited about the spelling
schools.”
“Well, it’s good to know how to spell,’
replied the wife. “I didn’t have the
chance some girls had, but I pride my
self that I can spell almost aoy word
that comes along.”
‘I’ll see about that,” he laughed;
come, now, spell ‘buggy.’”
Humph! that’s nothing—b-u-g-g-y,
buggy,” she replied.
“Missed the first time—ha! ha!” he
roared, slapping his leg.
"Not much—that-was right.”
It was, eh? Well, Td like to
body get two g,a in buggy, I would.”
“But it is spelled with two g's and any
school boy will tell you so,’’she persisted.
“Well, I know a darn sight better than
that!” he exclaimed, striking the table
with his fist..
‘I don’t care whit you know!” she
squeaked; “I know that there are two g’s
buggy!”
“Do you mean to tell me that I’
gotten how to spell?” he asked.
It looks that way.”
‘It docs eh? Well, I want you and all
your relations to understand that I know
more about spelling than the whole caboo
dle of you struug on a wire!”
“And I want you to understand, Jona
than Coffin, that you arc au ignorant old
blockhead, when you don’t put two g’l *
the word buggy—yes you are!”
’Don't talk that way to me !” be wai
ed.
T. Take a seat, sir, and rub your head
•ickf
with a bricl
T. Parse kissing.
P. Kissing is a common, labial noun ol
the explosive gender.
T. Sakes, alive! What do you mean?
P. Kissing is tho explosive gender,
’cause it is usually attended with various
explosive sounds; sometimes like the
bursting of torpebo; sometimes like the
sucking of a calf; sometimes like unto
I weeping, for Jacob kissed Racbel and
MR. COFFIN’S SPELLING MATCH.
‘And don’t shake youHist at me !”shc
replied.
‘Who’s a-shaking his fist ?”
‘You were!”
‘That’s a lie—an infernal lie!”
‘Don't call mo a liar, you old bazaard!
I've put up with your meanness for forty
years past, but don't call me a liar, and
don't lay your band on me !"
Do you want a divorce ? v he shouted,
springing np; “you cau go now, this
ute ! v
Don't spit in my face—don't you dare
do it or I'll make a dead man of you ! v she
nod.
NEWS FROM ALL THE DEV ASTA-
FED COUNTIES.
Homes Lifted Bodily Into the
Air.
PROSTRATED
REEDS. *
IltfliOISM OP A YOUNG GIRL.
In addition to oar reports already pub
lished. we present this morning supple-
mextaLcccounts, showing more com
pletely tho damage done, tho direction
and sweep of the terrible storm fiend :
IN ALABAMA.
[Colombo* Enquirer.]
Bol x rt*. Esq., a very old man, lost all his
outhouses. His frame dwelling was saved,
bnt several shed rooms were tom away
from it. Mr. Morgan Murrah lost his
dwelling and outhouses, and all of his
S revisions were destroyed. His family
ed to an old field on hearing the ap
proach of the tornado, and were thus
saved. Mr. W. 0. Davis’ houses were
torn to pieces aud the timbers scattered
far and wide. He and bis wife and child
were badly injured by the falling planks.
Mr. R. G. Hood lo3t his blacksmith shop,
his gin-house, aud all out-houses. They
were completely destroyed. His dwelling
escaped. At Mr. M. H. Spence’s place
the desolation was terrible. Three ne
groes were killed. All the onthonses
wore destroyed, the dwelling unroofed,
and three rooms torn off, The forest
aroond was torn to pieoes and made a
scene of destruction.
Beech Spring Church, just in front of
Mr. Spenco’s honse, was blown down,
and several negroes who were in and near
badly wounded. Mr. John A.
rw>V*. • ‘
Middlcbrook’s gin bouse and other out
houses were completely destroyed. . .
The tornado cmtppd Monatoin creek no
The cyclone evidently moved from
above Opelika in Harris and Talbot oonn-
tics, Ga., for it was first observed three
milee above Opelika.
We have reports of its track from Good
Water, the terminus of the Savannah and
Memphis railroad, to West Point. Nearly
everything in its track, which was about
quarter of a mile wide, is demolish-
than six times. . . ~The
is iu Harris and Talbot is not as large
that which resulted from the tornado
of March, bat the destruction of farms,
forests and fencing is very general. Crops
have suffered considerably, and many of
the farmers are almost mode prostrate by
this blow.
IN TALBOT COUNTY.
ed.
Near Good Water a lady was killed and
her husband is not expected to live.
The principal sufferers near Oak Bow-
Abner Allen (brother of Major A.
The tornado struck Talbot county, at
the place of J. D. Meyer, about 3*30
o’clock v. m. Here it destroyed all the
timber on the land it passed over, made
a complete wreck of fencing and demol
ished all the grain crop.
The last four places mentioned were in
the track of the tornado of March, and
almost everything lost by it was de
houses destroyed, except his dwelling,
and that seriously damaged. Two ne
groes killed and two badly injured.
D. Hightower’s houses, mill aud fenc-
g were all destroyed, and one horse
T. J. Williamson’s mill waa destroyed.
J. T. Harris’ (State Senator from Lee)
got honse, barns, fencing and negro
cabins destroyed.
Fletcher Tac-er, Wm. Tucker, Wash
burn, Ferguson, Menifee, and many oth
ers whose names are not remembered,
bad everything demolished.
storm next passed Sim Deloach’s
plantation. A white boy and a negro
were in an old field; they lay flat on the
ground to save themselves; a sill from a
honse near by was blown upon them; the
negro was killed ontrigbt and the white
boy was severely wonnded.
Mr. M. V. Wilson lost all of his houses.
His wife was severely wounded, and he
FOBCK OF THE 1
Parties report that largo trees, two feet
diameter, were torn up by the roots
and carried several hnndrcd yards.
When the cyclone dipped down,
the grass and sarface of the earth, down
to tho clay, were torn np, and large trees
twisted off to their roots. Baggies and
wagons were carried away, and much
stock killed.
West Point, May 4tb, 1875.
Editors Constitution :—In addition to
tbo account of the cyclones that I have
already given, there are other facts,
thongh painful to relate, yet your read-
bers were carried a considerable distance,
and the whole place was laid waste. Mr.
Weaver was badly hart. A negro on the
place was killed, and several were badly
want to know the worst, however dis
astrous it may be. The most fatal
passed south of this place and
wounded.
Two churches and an academy were
blown down at Valley Grove.
Dr. Owens’ place, near by, was occu
pied by Rev. J. J. Harris. He and his
family had been to church. They were
all in the kitchen eating dinner when the
tornado reached the place; the kitchen
was blown down. A young man named
Kendrick, and a yonng lady named Ken
nedy, were killed. Among the white per
sons wonnded here were two daughters
CROSSED THE CHATTAHOOCHEE HIVES
at Houston’s ferry. From tbenco it trav
eled almost in an easterly direction,
sweeping everything in its course, from
the smallest stalk of wheat to the largest
object that offered any resistance. Those
who lived in reach of its fury suffered
terribly.
After laying in waste the entire build
ings of Mr. Collins, it passed on in rapid
speed uprooting all vegetation, demolish
ing the houses belonging to Mrs. Billings-
lea, but occupied by negroes, and leav
ing the inhabitants almost as bare as were
Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.
Onward it marched, bringing low the
of Mr. James W. Weaver, whose place
was damaged as stated above. Elev
persons are known to have been killed ...
Talbot county. The destruction of crops
is general and distressing. Great want
prevails in the section of ooantry through
which the storm passed.
I haven't spit in your freckled old vis-
ago yet, bat I may if you provoke me
further I”
“Who's got freckled face, youjold tur
key buzzard ?
That was a little too much. He made
motion as if he'd strike, aud she seized
him by the neck tie. Ho reached out
and grabbed her right ear aud tried to
Cal. Davis, dropping a sad memento
hurrying to Judge Spence, we find the
same etory, not sparing even the house
of God, the Beach Spring Church, tumb
ling the majestic trees of the forest, winds
its way to the mountain, where we at
present lose sight of its unearthly career.
The one that passed within a mile and
a quarter of West Point was visible to
many of onr citizens. The descriptions
of it are varying and interesting.
lift her off her feet, bnt she twisted np
the neck tie until his tongue ran ont.
Let go of me, you old fiend!" she
screamed.
Git down on yonr knees and beg my
pardon, you old wild cat I* he replied.
They surged and swayed and struggled,
and the peaceful cat was struck by the
overturning table and had her back broken
while the clock fell down and the pictures
danced around. The woman finally shut
her .husband's supply of air off and flopped
hint, and as she bumped his head up and
down on the floor and acaUered his gray
hairs, ate shouted:
“You wan’t to get up another spelling
school with me, don't you
limping about tho yard
yesterday, a atocking pinned around his
throat, and Ac Jiad court plaster on her
nose, and one finger tied up. He wore
the look of a martyr, while she bad the
bearing of a victor, and from this time
out “Buggy n will be spelled with two g's
that house.
jgyThe Shelbyville (Tenn.) Gazette
says: There is a weed growing in
two gardens of this place which is possess
ed of wonderful and valuable curative
properties aa regards that terrible disease,
gravel in the bladder. It is claimed by
those who have given it a thorough test,
and know whereof they speak,that it will
cure the worst ease of gravel in twelve or
twenty-four hburs; that it will give instant
rclcif, and will dissolve the worst gravel
in twelvo hours; that it has been tried in
hundreds of cases, and waa never known
to fail in effecting a speedy and permanent
cure. Iu one case iu this county, where
it was administered, and under tho ob
servation of an old and regular practicing
physician, it passed from the bladder of
» patient, within twelve honrs after it was
given, three tablespoonsfnl of gravel and
sand. It is good alike foie man and beast,
and is a splendid diuretic. There is a
” (uantity growing in the garden of
W. Barrett in this place. It is
known here by no other name than the
“gravel weed, ” and was brought to this
country in tho summer of 1834, from,
Morgan county, Ala, by Mr. Thos. Knott
an old citizen, of this county, and who
now resides near this place.
e describe it a
L LOFTY SCENE
r like so many leaves in a whi
i blown down and
his throat being cat by a plank.
Mrs. Winn suffered immensely, losing
everything she owned. Herself anu
daughters all snffered bodily injury. One
of her daughters was
\ AX APPLE TEES.
The scene is too heart-rending to say
more. The neighbors are nobly assisting
those who snffered, by aiding in every
conceivable manner.
of this kind, news spread rap
idly and frequently erroneous, os in the
case of Hal Moss. I stated in mj last
that he lost all his stock except one. I
am glad to say that he loat only fonr.
Fortunately for himself and family, and
for others who live in Harris county,
when the storm was seen coming,
r OF BZFCOE
at band. In time of sach storms,
cellars has been dag, and to these are in
debted the preservation of many precious
lives. Mrs. Moss was slightly injured
before she reached the cellar. I hope I
may never chronicle such another scene.
tare. We raise onr hands and say,
enough.
IN HARRIS COUNTY.
[Columbus Tune* ]
The tornado seems to have entered Har
ris county at Collins’ ferry, on the Chat
tahoochee river. Before this time it
supposed that was merely a strong wind.
Its course was directly from the west to
east The first place it struck, so far
known was that of Mr. Hal Moss. For
tunately the family took refuge In a cel
lar and were all saved. The whole place
waa a scene of desolation, and it is re
markable that no lives were lost.
At this point the cyclone crossed the
mountain, directly north of Hamilton. It
seems to have been characterized by oil
the peculiarities of its predeoessor. A
citizen saw it about four miles from Ham
ilton. It crossed the mountain where
the North and South railroad track
reaches that locality. The roaring sound
of the tornado could be distinctly hoard
five minutes before it came. This en
abled the people to seek refnge in ditches,
and thus the lives of many* were saved.
rpu„ n i ir.-.K'. «:u
The roaring of Mnrrah's mill prevented
the negroes there at work from hearing
the approach of danger, and consequently
several lives were lost, and some of those
who escaped were badly wounded. On
Mr. R. B, Mobley’s place a number of
cabiu’s were destroyed. The gin-house
was blown away, and a general havoc
made of tho fencing on the place. Mr.
ia so badly injured he is not expected 4r-
livo. Many farms are to badly damaged
that it will be impossible lor the owners
to make a crop this year. The hail wss
veiy heavy, and the rain fall in almost a
solid sheet, washing away the corn and
cotton seed that were planted.
AT GREENSBORO
^ It touched the place upon the north
side, doing its work vigorously and se
verely and marking its visit by the prompt
and ready uprooting of many of the ven
erable and ancient oaks that have made
beautiful and lovely it* shady cemetery,
its private residences aud its public
streets. The chimney of Dr. W. M. Har
ris, tumbled, and the pale-cheeked mem
bers of his household thought the honse
was falling and it was too late for the
physician to heal himself. Mr. L. Wheel
er, a well known resident, planter of
Green county, aged some fifty-fivo years,
living right miles north of Greensboro,
near Scnll Shoals, had been to Greens
boro, and having started home in a buggy
drawn by a pair of horses, bad gotten
two miles on his return trip home when
the storm broke upon him. He took
shelter on the east aido of ^b.gin house ££K were^WdowS.IS the
of Captain John Branch. The Bng& dwelling turned around and unroofed,
building was precipitated upon bim, cov
ering Mr. Wheeler, bis horses and bis
vehicle. Mr. Wheeler managed to extri
cate himself, having miraculously escaped
with only a severe ent on the head and
some bruises, aud cut loose his horses.
The vehiele was hopelessly smashed.—
The gin house of Captain Daniels was
also blown down. Torrents of rain fell,
succeeded by s bail-storm.
In the fork of Apalachee and Osonee
rivers, Mr. Adams’ plantation was devas
tated, houses demolished, fences scatter
ed and trees laid low. Other sufferers
are there. A little negro girl on Mr.
Adams* place was carried two hundred
yards and returned to mother earth
scratched.
NEAR MAXEY’S.
The cyclone crossed the line of that
road at Brightwell’s store, some mile and
a half south of Maxey station, which is
fifteen miles from Union Point and
twenty-five from Athens. When the cy-
honr was between 3 and 4 o’clock p. u.
The edifice was at once wrenched from
its foundation, the stock of goods within
it being scattered to the four winds of
heaven. The falling timbers canght and
crashed to death Mr. G. W. Maxey; a
negro man was lifted in tho arms of the
tempest and borne fifty yards and his
brains dashed oat against a huge pine
stump. Quite a number of persons were
more or less seriously wounded, some al
lege at least twenty. The breadth of the
cyclone was frera a quarter of a mile to
a mile and one-fouith when it crossed
this railroad. Every building bnt Mr.
Brightwell'a dwelling honse was de
stroyed.
Fontenoy mills, formerly Scull Shoals,
on the Oconee, was very seriously dam-
aged; it is asserted. The residence of
Mr. Redmond T. Asbury, near Fontenoy,
was blown away, the fences and houses
his plantation scattered, and immense
iojnry inflicted by
IN HOUSTON.
Fort Volley was visited by tho tornado.
The damago to property was very great.
AU the booses of L. B. Luster's place,
and all the buildings except tbe dwelUng
on tbo Bird place, owned by E. Fagan
and occupied by Mr. Goodwin,
died; she was the wifo of Elder A.
King, late of Tennessee. All the out
buildings on this place were also destroy
ed. George W. Allen’s mill house was
blown down, some of tbe shingles being
of tbe factory hands are said to havo been
rained, with one exception.
AT BAIRDSTOWN.
The tornado passed at 4 r. u. The
lumber shed of Neal Newton & Co., went
to.the ground in the terrible tornado, tbe
w id outhouses of Wm. R. Wilson fol
lowed suit, and daring the five minutes'
prevalence of the hardest blow shingles,
twigs, limbs, sand, planks and other de
bris danced and scudded through the
angered air. Mrs. Sunsford, living on a
p’aco of John Armstrong, some two miles
horn Bairdstown, had all her onthonses
and fences prostrated. The shade trees
in the ehnrch yard at Bairdstown were
destroyed. Mr. James Lloyd’s residence
terribly shaken, the bricks from tho
chimney falling inside, through it, and
the top of the edifioe, and scaring the
carried over a mile. All the buildings
Mack Thompson’s place except the
dweUing were swept away.
All tho negro honses and outbuildings
Jim Hill’s and Mrs. Wynn’s places
frightened inmates to a loftier acme of
terror. Mr. Wm. R. Wilson, being a man
of extraordinary nerve, when the tempest
envelo]>ed his home, placed his entire
family in tbe cellar, with the exception
were destroyed. Very little fencing is
left standing, and vast quantities of tim
ber is nprooted and broken off. Gardens
and crops of corn and cotton that wasnp,
wiU in many instances have to be re
planted.
[August* Constitutionalist.]
Jonesboro, in Clayton county, may be
from beyond West Point and the Chatta
hoochee. Passing through Clayton oonn-
ty with local damage, now not ascertain
ed, it entered Henry county and tra
versed it with remarkable devastation as
reported. Edging Rockdale, a small new
county, it demolished the dwelling and
onthonses of Mr. Thomas Oglesby, kill
ing cow*, horses and hogs, and injuring
fencing and destroying trees on his place.
The limits of Now county were entered
at Judge Joseph Regan’s on South river,
blowing everything away in its path.
IN NEWTON COUNTY.
A white man and two negroes a:
liably reported to have been killed here,
and Mr. Treadway, living on Cotton
creek, to have been caught up and car
ried away and to be yet missing in spite
of search. Widow Holloway’s boqae was
blown down and that lady very isrribly
bers, aud several of. Hr. W. F. Harden’s
children were seriously hurt Mrs. E.
M. Melton was badly injured by broken
rafters.
AT RUTLEDGE.
It struck the right end of the town at
Dr. J. J. Montgomery’s residence, tear
ing it all to pieces, not leaving
house nor a panel of fence on his place.
fences and several
earth. Mrs. Crittenden’s house was blown
down. The masonic hall and academy,
all in one building, was scattered and
leveled with the sills. The hardest por
tion of it passed just north of Rntledge,
nuroofing several houses, striking a heavy
- aI A.I- llmtuniil l.nil
piece of oak timbered land, tearing down
every tree—some by roots and some
twisted off eight or ten feet high; smash-
nnroofing tho residence ot Mr. H.
Tomlin, and rained his farm. His loss
in outbuildings, timber and other dam
age will amount to over two thousand dol
lars. The next honse was Mr. John Hill
Davies, which was demolished entirely,
not leaving a shelter on his place. On
his farm, the yonng corn and vegetation
were swept off smooth to the ground:
Mr. Tomlin’s. The hardest poi
three-qt
fences level with tbe earth.
The farms of Augustus Stoddard, Mrs.
Staling*, Mr. Harper, and many others
on Hard Labor creek and Sandy creek
were laid waste. There* was no ono se
riously hart that I have heard of, except
Mr. J. H. Davis and family were all in
jured, and Mi. Rcnben Allman, on Sandy
of his eldest daughter, Miss Belle, a
dauntless lassie of eighteen. Her
posted against the front door, whili
charge ,
time the fierce fury of the tornado broke
tbe fastenings and pushed tho door open
despite the unremitting opposition of the
DEATH AND DEVASTATION 1
A Sectioc of the County Laid in Waste.
We hear the particulars of a terrible
tornado in Stewart oonnty.which occurred
last Monday night about 9 o’clock. Thu
tornado passed over a section of oountry
from west to eait, and destroyed almost
everything in itz path.
It crossed tho Chattahoochee and eu-
tered Stewart county at Dr. Rattlo’s plan
tation, known as the FTcwellen place.
Hpro houses were blown down and e _
ry thing devastated. A negro on tho place
was killed.’ Two mules in the lot were
also killed,
Mr. T. B. Lawson suffered heavily.
His place waa badly blown to pieces. All
ing turned around aud unroofed.
Nobody seriously hurt.
One of Mr. G. Y. Bank’s plantations
suffered very much. The houses aud
fencing ore almost all gone, and the
woodland torn to pieces.
In 1836 a remarkable cyclone passed
through Stewart county which destroyed
much life and property. This tornado
followed the identical track of its prede
cessor. It was about a hundred yards
wider, being about half a mile wide! This
a remarkable coincidence.
Mr. William Chambless lost every
thing, His onthonses aud dwelling wero
completely demolished. His wife is so
badly hurt that it is feared she will die.
Two of his sisters are badly hurt. His
farm is left a perfect wreck. Judge H.
M. Jenkins lost all his houses. Two
rooms of a largo dwelling are all that is
left. Everything else is swept away.
Dr. Griffin’s honses and fences wero
blown down and destroyed. He and his
wife were badly hurt.
Mr. W. G. Ward lost heavily. His
dwelling and outhouses was destroyed
and he was badly crippled.
Beulah Church was toon to pieces and
scattered far and wide.
Henry Gordy, who lives at Green Hill,
lest all his outhouses and his dwelling.
Fences and trees were blown in all di
rections, Particulars of the ravages of
the storm beyond this point have not yet
been received. It is feared it did much
damage in other parts of the county.
During the tornado the hardest rain
rer known in tbe county fell. There
was also some hail. Tbe farmers in tho
tornado’s track suffered terribly. Tho
tornado wa* a terrible calamity to t'
county. It is impossible to estimate t
damage, thongh it is known to have been
very great. It is remarkable that there
waa not a muoh greater loss of life. Tho
storm was at night, and the effect is de>
scribed as terrific. The soeno of tho
storm is said to bo one of desolation.
Truly, this was a calamity to Stewart
eounty, aud we fear to hear fuller do-
tails. It seems that those terrible torna
does are never to cease. The farmers in
this section have suffered* terribly and
spring from tbo ravaged* of wind this
storm.
A Large Family.
Yesterday wo had tho pleasure of au
introduction of Mr. B. G. Willis, of
Ladd's Springs, Polk county, Tenn., who
is tho youngest of seven brothers, ho
weighing 225 pounds. Mrs. Gaskins, of
Carterctt county, North Carolina, his
grand mother, weighed 640 pounds, and
one of her stockings held ono bushel of
shelled corn. We append tho following
in relation to his oonsin:
brave girL At the critical moment of
danger her father came to her reinforce
ment, the door was re-shut, ami tbe
house saved doubtless from instant de
struction.
IN BURKE COUNTY.
The tornado passed through the mid*
Tnn tornado passed through the mid
dle portion of Bnrke county, from south
west toLuorthe?st, entering near Bethel
church, which is about on the line of -Jef
ferson. The places of Messrs. Henry
Greenwood, A H. Roberta, A. T. Car-
sou, S. Hudson, Henry Dawson, J. H.
Duke, W. H. Dickinson and Wesley
Jones were in the path of the terrible de
stroyer, and more or lees suffered. At
Mr. Hudson’s place several houses were
thrown down, and one woman was killed.
All but two houses on Mr. Dickenson’s
place were destroyed, one house being
moved ten feet away from its foundation
and tom in two, and five or six persona
were severely injured. Mr. Duke had
one house broken np and all his com and
fodder scattered—np to last night hat
four bandies of fodder had been recov
ered. At Mr. Wesley Jones’ one house
was blown down on an entire family, but,
strange to say, but one man was injured
—the children crawled out from beneath
tho flooring.
BEPOBTED CASUALTIES,
East Alabama—5 killed, 5 wounded.
Harris county—5 killed, 20 wounded.
Talbot—26 lulled. 10 wonnded.
Houston—1 killed, 4 wonnded.
Maxey’s—2 killed, 10 wounded.
Bnrke—1 killed, 5 wonnded.
Henry—6 wonnded.
Troop—5 killed.
Total—killed 54, wonnded 63.
After leaving Georgia it continued its
work of devastation in South Carolina
and North Carolina.
THE LARGEST MAH OX RECORD.
Durden Miles, probably the largest
man on record, bom in North Carolina in
1798, died in Henderson oonnty, Tenn.,
Jaunary 23, 1857. He was seven feet
eight inches high, and in 1845 weighed
781 pounds. At his death his weight was
a tittle over one thousand pounds. Until
1843 he was active and lively and able to
labor, bnt from that time be was obliged
to stay at home, or be hauled about in a
two horse wagon. In 1839 his coat was
buttoned around three men, each of them
weighing more than 200 pounds, who
walked together in it across the square at
Lexington. In 1850 it required 13J yards
of clotb, one yard wide, to make him a
coat His coffin was 8 feet long, 35 inches
deep, 22 inches across the breast, 18
across the head and 14 across the feet;
and 25 yards of black velvet were requis
ite to cover the sides and lid. He waa
twice married and his children are very
large; thongh probably none of them will
ever reach half tbe weight of their fath-
“ Wilmington Journal.
_ Onr office was made all fragrant
yesterday afternoon by the glorious per
fume from a bouquet made of the Cloth of
Gold rose. It was sent with the compli
ments of Mr. F. Cogin, and colled from
that renowned specimen of the Augusta
factory of thia the most splendid flower
that ever come from the hands of the
Creator. The bush was planted all cf
thirty years ago, is now sixty feet ii
fiSfDavid Crockett, after returning
home from his first trip to New York,
gave his backwoods audience his idea of
the first gentleman in the metropolis:
“Phillip Hone is the most gentlemanly
man in New York, boys, and I’ll tell you
how I know it When he asks you to
drink he don’t hand you a glass—he puts
the decanter on the table, and walks off
to the window and looks ont until you
have finished."
$65*Boston would like to know, _
women persons?” It’s of no consequence
however; if they are not they are very
excellent substitutes.
JG3y*Sonic men don’t get enthusiastic
over Spring, There’s old Sorghum, for
instance, who swears his wife’s feet
height, with branches fifty feet wide, and
the main trank fifteen inches at the base.
The flower is an exquisite oommingUng,
in color, of white and gold, the most del
icate perception failing to detect where
the one hue ends or the other begins, so
perfect is the blending of the whole.—-
Augusta Constitutionalist.
C&*The 100th anniversary of Daniel
O’Connell’s birthday will be celebrated in
Ireland, and wherever Irish are, August
6. At Dublin, Monsiguor Dupanloup of
Orleans, Bishop Perrand, and other dis
tinguished Roman Catholic prelates are
to be present, and all the poverty-strick
en parishes of Ireland ore raked and
scraped by the priests to get contribn*
tions from people who can hardly keep •
roof ever their heads, to pay tho expenses
of the show. About £8,000 to £10,000 is
required.
The Pennsylvania KcKlx.—Advices
from the upper coal regions are worse.
Coffin notices hove been' served on those
who resumed work. A two and a half
inches rope, used on incline plane, was
cut in several places with tho intention,
doubtless to kill the policemen. Tho
tamperer was discovered. Thero are logs
placed across the track, but trains are
tun with caution.
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