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Americas, Ga.,
ISSUES THIS. HIS
Fall Proclamation!
Hereby Inviting tverybody, and more Particularly
the Ladies, to call and see his
GRAND DISPLAY OF NEW GDIS
Which have recently been added to his Stock,
WITH A LARGE LOT ON THE WAY!
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I Diphtheria, Sell-
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“RPLL SEE ITWHEM HE WAKES."
At the battle of the Wilderness a gallant
Mhsteipplsn bad fallen, and at night, jnst
before burying him, there came a letter from
her he loved best. One of the group around
| his body—a minister with womanly tender*
black vomit had taken place.
cases of Diphtheria yield to it.
V*TmdudSkkr»r.| SBAIA-POX
•oaa refreshed and ; and
Bed Sores prevent- . PITTING of Small
«d by hathine with |>ox PREVXSTED
Datbyl^ *1“^. , A member of my £uo-
Amid the clouds of battle smoke
The sun had died away.
And where the storm ot battle broke
A thousand warriors lay.
A band of friends upon the field
Stood round a youthful form,
Who, when the war-clouds'thunder pealed
Had perished in the storm—
Upon his forehead, on his hair,
The coming moonlight breaks,
- J - h dear brother standing there
ily was
COUNTRY MERCHANTS
Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot
and Matches! I
ss money than they can order.
GLOVER A PERRY,
Itf AVEKICCS, Ga.
Rosser & Gunnels.
New Bar aid Billiard
SALOON.
. ROSSER and 1
_ .ened a Ear and
loon in the new building of Hamil Bros.,
Cotton Avenue, where they have - , ‘ s
itock of pure
Brandies, Wines and Whiskies!
Also the National Drink,
ANHUESER BEER,
the best in the land. The best Cigars aud
Tobacco always on hand.
Our Billiard Saloon is one of the best in
he city—everything new and good. W
dte the public generally to give us a 1
In a few days our RESTAU RANT will be
ipened. and we premise that it shall o<
>aru with the bestand be surpassed^* n<
ROSSER & GUNNELS.
septatt
Americus, Ga.
OLl> BUG
COMES TO THE FRONT THIS SEASON
WITH - 4.
DRINKS.
FINED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR
TEN CENTS.
OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON II AND
AT ALL TIMES.
MEALS
FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE AND AT
ALL TIMES—DAY AND NIGHT.
BILLIARDS
5c per game two games for 23cts—casl
POOL
CENTS PER CUE-ALL CASH.
c 0 me one, come all, anil see if you don’t get
the best-nothing charged at these rates.
BOTTLED LIQUORS
ALWAYS ON HAND IN FRONT ROOM.
J, P. CHAPMAN.
Americus, Ga., Sept. 5th, 1882. C.lm
A tender farewell takes.
But ere they lap him in his home,
There came a comrade near,
And gave a token that had come
From her the dead held dear.
A moment’s doubt upon them pressed.
When one the letter takes,
And lays it low upon his breast—
“He’ll see it when be wakes.”
Oh, thou who dost In sorrow wait.
Whose heart in anguish breaks,
Though tby dear massage came too late,
“He'll see It when he wakes.”
Ne’er more amid the fiery storm
Shall his strong arm be seen;
No more his young and manly form
Treads Mississippi’s green,
nd e'en thy tenuer words of love—
The words affection speaks—
Came all too late; but oh! thy love
. _ them when he wakes!"
. .— disturb his gentle rest, '
No noire his slumber breaks.
But thy words sleep upon his breast,
“He II see it when he wakes.”
No jai
ilel an, J. MAlUO^f
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Jos. LcCoim,Columbia. Prof, Unirtrsity.S.C.
Kev. A. J. Barru, Prof., Mercer University;
Rev. Gso. F. Pure*. Bishop M. E. Church.
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Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Umbrellas,
CLOTHING !
LADIES CLOAKS,
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International Cotton Exposition.
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Mrs. M. T. Elam’s,
Americus, - - - Georgia,
SCHOOL HATS!
septsotf
Mrs. M. I RAINES
NEW LINE OF
CONSISTING OF ,
Lace Straw Bonnets.
Leghorn Fats,
Round Hats.
inll Urn,
LACES AND FLOWERS;
. Those who have not yet purchased their
Spring Bonnets will find it to their Inter ‘
to examine her new goods. She has ate
FRENCH CHIP HATS
i IS WDITE 4X» BUCK.
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h/W Bieslyis
THE WRONG PICTURE.
“A pretty face—a very pretty face-
indeed!”
I turned the little photograph upside
down, held it off at arm’s length to get
prospective view, and scrutinized it-
closely with my eye glasses.
Darwin Wallis looked pleased; a man
naturally likes to have his finance duly
admired and appreciated.
“So this is the Bessie Armitage T
lave heard so much of; really, Wallis,,
the does credit to your taste. A blonde,.
I suppose?”
“Fair as a lily leaf, with blue eyes:
and the sunniest golden hair!”
>11,1 must say I prefer the-
brunette style, so far as my individual ;
taste goes; but then, fancies differ, you. 1
know.”
ry well for Darwin Wal- i
stacies about his pallid,,
fair-haired little Bessie Ararilage; he i
had never met. the glance of Cecilia-
Vernon’s magnificent dark eyes. What
did he know about the true type of
feminine beauty?
“As yon say, fancies differ,” Wallis:
returned lightly. “Bat I wish von-
on Id select a handsome frame for it
hen yon go to It next—bine vel-
et, with a gold rim on the margin, or
>me such tasteful arrangement.”
“I’ll see to it,” I said, depositing the
picture iu its envelope, and returning
my inside breast pocket.
’ll be very careful of it?”
ELISCAR
CONDENSER.
‘'Cap.fnl? Of Mur.. 1 .tall!’
I smiled a little loftily at Wallis’
•olicitnde, and we parted
After all, Darwin Wallis was better
off than I was, for he was securely en
gaged to the dimpled, yellow-tressed
little object ot his affections; while I
was yet as it were in outer darkness,
whether my peerless Cecilia returned
my ardent devotion, or whether she
secretly inclined toward that unprinci
pled scoundrel Fitzhugh Trefoil. A
score of times I had resolved to settle
the question; a score of times I had
gone to the old Vernon house with the
very formula of declaration on my lip
and as often had the words died away
on voiced and unspoken.
If fate had oniv gifted pro with one
thonsandeth part of Fitzhugh Trefoil’i
off-hand audacity! I don’t think any
thing short of the Deluge could check
that fellow’s cool self-possession; an
earthqnake wouldn’t, and I don’t think
that the millennium coaid.
However, love inspires the feeble
heart with a sort of fictitious courage,
and I was a new roan since Mias Ver
non had smiled npon roe. What wsa
the use of doubting, hesitating and
trembling? Why not decide my fate
intent
sparkling champagne! a pale violet in
tho shadow of a royal rose! pearls
eclipsed by the fiery flash of diamonds'.’
I exclaimed. “Darwin Wallis* taste
may be very correct and classical, but
give me my radiant brunette! These
bleached-ont beauties do not corres
pond with my ideal of perfection.”
It was a lovely spring night as I en
tered the wide gravelled path that led
up to the wide porch of the old fash
ioned Vernon mansion.
Squire Vernon eat there smoking his
meerschaum.
Won’t yon set down and have a
smoke?” he demanded hospitably.
It's a real luxnry to take a wbif out
’doors, after bein’ shot up in the house
all winter. Or may be yon’d prefer
goin* in to see Cecilia.”.
Sensible old gentleman! be had for
gotten his own yonng days. I inti
mated, not without considerable awk
wardness. that the special object of my
' lit had been, to “see Cecilia.”
“Wal, she ie in the parlor, all by
herself,” said the squire- good hnmor-
edly, motioning me in. “Walk in;
she’ll bn glad to see ye.”
Cecilia Vernon was sittin in the par
lor .alone, as her father had said,', the
bright centre of a cheerful circle of
lamplight. A bit of crochet work
lying in her lap, and an open volume
of poems—poems. I had sent her-
was on the table*
Cecilia Vernon was always fair to
look upon, in my sight; to-night, how
ever, she seemed more than ordinary
heantifnl.
I sat down, and began hesitatingly
upon the never-failing topic of the
weather. A proposal had seemed the
easiest', thing in the world as I walked
along the dewy edges of the peaceful
starlighted road, contemplating it from
afar off; bnt now that I was face to face
with it, Alps npon Alps of difficulty
and perplexity seemed to sarronnd its
accomplishment. I would have given
all that I was worth to postpone the
evil day but twenty-fonr hours—all
bnt my self-respect, and that
periled now.
Cecilia tried her best to keep the
hall of conversation in motion; 6he in-
introduced new subjects, asked leading
questions, and feigned deep interest
the most abstruse or politics. 1
even Cecilia couldn't talk on forever,
and presently, with a little sign of des
pair, she subsided into silence. Now
was the eventful moment of my destiny.
“Cecilia!” I said softly.
She raised the liqnid brown eyes
“I want to confide in you to-night—
have I your permission to speak?”
“Certainly, Mr. Markham!”
“I am very much in love, Cecilia; in
fact my heart has long gone ont of my
own possession into that of—”
I stopped, with the fatal husky feel
ing in my throat. Cecilia was blush
ing divinely! I drew my chair closer
mp to hers, with the sensation of a man
who has just palled the string of a cold
shower-bath.
“Who is the lady?” faltered Cecilia
—as if she didn’t know perfectly well
“Shall I show yea her picture, Ce-
I would fain have been e
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SAD OLD ISSUES.
Tub Sis* ov Sonfcor oca Early Poli
tics—Bill Arp Decides to Elect
Alex. Steprcks Akyhow, Notwith
standing his War with Old Issues
—Morals Drawn From Some of the
Dead Schemes of the Fathers—
Educated Hog.
Atlanta Constitution.
I think Mr. Stephens will make a
good Governor, and I am for him for
the sake of peace at home and his con
servative influence in the nation, I don 1
e anything about his peculiar view*
the sin of secession and the know
nothings and reconstruction and who
saved the State, for these things are all
barred by the statute of limitations and
won’t come np before him. The speech
with which he opened the campaign
was a very good speech for vote mak
ing and will suit most all the people l
reckon for I believe all the original se
cessionists are dead or have left the
country, and it is jnst as bard to find
original know-nothing now-n-days
i Greely man or a member of a ku
klnx klao. A man of such foresight
to know in 1843 that the junction ot
o railroads in a passel of chinkapin
bushes would make the great city of
Atlanta and to know that secession
would bring on a terrible
would get terribly whipt is the kind of
man we want to govern ns and to keep
ns ont of impending trouble. I never
read those kind of speeches but what 1
feel my insignificance—sorter like I wai
on trial for a great crime and there wai
the hill of indictment, and the prosecn
tor had me arraigned at the bar and
made me to stand up, when be said
“Juror, look upon the prisoner; prison
er, look upon the juror,” and sometimes
I am about to plead guilty and throw
myself npon the mercy ot the coart.
For you see, I was about everything
that Mr. Stephens vraseUt, and now I
stand almost alone in my glory, forT
was a secessionist, and I was a know-
nothing, and I was a Greeley man, aud
worst of all I belonged to the infamous
ku-klux klan. Lord help me, and I
reckon if the great fight between i
rights and consolidation comes
Mr. Stephens predicts, 1 will make an
other blunder and get on the wrong
side of that. But sometimes when I
get to ruminating over the past \
help wondering how long the war wo«ld
have been put off if we hadent seceded,
for when one people hate another peoph
for half a century it has always ended
in a war, according to history, and al
ways will I reckon, and it looks like
> give up the niggers or fight
sooner or later. Jesso!
And then, again, I get to ruminating
er the possibility that if all
pie had stood up to the war li
r people did how easy we could
conquered an honorable place.
Bnt this is
and nobody Lnt Lhe Lord and two
three men can tell anything about
Then, again, I was a know noth
ing and thought U a right good insti
tution at the time, and I’m fool enough
think so yet, for its principles were
handed down to us by general Washing-
i in his farewell address, but I reck-
theold gentleman was in his dotage
he v
“There is no sense in procrastinating
matters any farther,” I said, half
alond, as I walked np and down the
rather limited domains of my little law
office. “I have been a doubting fool
quite long enough.”
I’m afraid I wasn’t a very amiable
member of the domestic circle that
afternoon.
•I think Paul is growing crosser
every day,” said my sister, shrugging
her little plump shoulders. “Mother,
I wish yon’d speak to him!”
Bat my mother, bless her wire old
soul, knew better than that. She only
looked at me over the rims of her spec
tacles and wen‘. on darning stockings.
Paulis worried about business mat-
1, I suppose,” she ea ; d apologeti
cally. “Paul will do well enough, if
you only let him alone.”
I went np to my room after supper
and made an elaborate toilet, but all
the pains I bestowed upon it, served
only to heighten the general effect of
awkwardness!
“I’ve two minds to wait, until
morrow night,” qnotli I to myself, ab
ruptly stopping, my cravat half tied.
look at the little carte tie visile I dre’
from my pocket. I skilfully stole
ie atm around her waist.
“See, dearest!”
But, to my horror and dismay, she
snatched hep hand from my clasp,
sprang up, and started away, like some
' ! 'enging goddess!
>w dare you iu6ult me thus, Mr,
Markham?”
“Cecilia how—what—”
“Don’t presume to call me Cecilia,
r!” sobbed the indignant girl, barst-
g into tears and sweeping from the
I sat like one palsied. What had I
done? Why was the gracious mood of
my enchantress thus suddenly trans
formed to gall and bitterness? Surely
she would presently return and apolo
gize for her capricions exit!
Bat she did not return; and after
waiting long in vain, I sneaked ont of
a side door and crept dejectedly home,
my heart burning with wonder and re
sentment.
I had no mind to meet the assembled
family group, so I a'droitted myself with
the night key and stole noiselessly np
stairs, where my lamp still burned—
the lamp I bad lighted with such high
and bounding hopes!
I threw off my coat vicionsly; as ]
did so the forgotten carte de vis tie drop
ped from my pocket. I stooped to pick
it up. It was the portrait of Bessie
Armitage!
And there on the mantel, where ii
my heedless haste I had left it, was th
divine countenance of my qneen Cecilia!
I had shown her the wrong photo-
g r »pii.
s clear now! Her indignation
and resentment—the whole tangled web
of mystery was nnraveled now! I caught
np my hat to rush back to her, bnt at
that moment the clock attack eleven!
too late now. All apology
and explanation must be deferred until
the morrow. And with a discontented
ipirit I sought my couch.
Early the next morning I walked
>ver to the old Vernon mansion; but,
sxpeditions as I was, Trefoil had been
there before me. I met .him coming
liistling down the walk as self-pos
sessed as ever.
“Good morning,” I said briefly, en
deavoring to pass him, but he detained
I would call the attention of fanners and
all others wishing a good meal, to the fact
tLat I am still tunning my
RESTAURANT,
Under the Barlow House, where I will serve
you up a warn meal at any hour. OysteTS,
Fish and Game served in their season. I
also keepa full line of
CONFECTIONS!!
THE PLAGE TO TRADE
I have on hand the finest stock ot
gK&ceaiis &ia cosfEmosER
In the city. Ten big OSes of toys, looking
like young houses, in store, and. more on the
road, and by Christmas the finest stock of
Toys will be tn store that bas
shown in Americas.
Macon Commercial, College,
Macon, Gn.
(JUM21-1# -ptoL W.:
Cigars
Ue tote
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tries th
of-the
stock of Chewing Tobacco-guidon leaved.
Atner&u*; Ga.. Sept
No—I might be a coward, but I was
not such an unmitigated poltroon as
that. 1 had begun the enterprise, and
I would carry it through, if it cost me
the last drop of my heart’s blood!”
Moreover I had had an inspiration'
An entirely new and original method
of patting the momentous queny—
“popping the question” is a vulgarism
that I, for one, could never tolerate—
had occurred to me.
Hang Fitzhugh Trefoil!” I
claimed gleefully, half alond, though
there was no ear to hear my ejacula
tion. “I'll win the dark eyed treasure
t in spite of all he can do!”
I opened my writing case and care
fully took ont a little carte de visite
wrapped in tissue paper and carefully
laid away with a pink silk perfnme
sachel that Minnie had made for me
i. It was Cecilia’s picture, she
had allowed me to steal it away from
her, with scarcely a remonstrance, a.
week before. Then was the time I
ought to have proposed, bnt like »
timorous, doubting moon-calf as I was,
I had left the golden tide of opportuni
ty slip unimproved away from me!
I drew Bessie Hermitage’s vacant,
doll-like face from its envolope and
compared the two with a thrill of tri
umph in my heart.
i ‘Colorless water beside crimson
“Congratnlate me, my dear fellow.
I am tlm happiest man in the world.
Cecilia Vernon has jnst promised to be
my wife!”
I stared blankly at him, and with
one or two unintelligible mm iunrs,turn
ed short round and walked home again.
Mr rival had improved the propitnons
opportunity and canght Cecilia’s heart
in the rebonnd.
Well—so goes the woild, and I
a bachelor yet. There is bnt one
cilia, and she, alas! Is married to Fitz-
hngh Trefoil!
Mobal.—When yon go courting, be
certain, be certain tchose picture it *
ire carrying next to your heart.
when be wrote it. He said beware of
foreign influence, and I recon it is that
inie influence Mr. Stephens is fearing
ill bring on an empire now, for Gen
eral Grant is at the head of that party
and they say he traveled all
foreign empires to prepare himself for
the kingdom. There was only one thing
the know nothings that I never
liked, and that is because they didn't
succeed and this country is now over
ran with the senrf and offcasts of all
nations till we have hardly got a . na
tionality of onr own and are fast los-
identity as a people, and if
that consolidation comes at all, it will
be because we can’t manage these
tuobt by any other kind of govern
ment. I was a Greely man hecaase
I thought he was a good man and a
for the Sooth and never
wanted to fight ns, hat said: “Erring
sisters go in peace;” and thought we
conld elect him, bat yon see I was
mistaken, as nsual, and* they elected
General Grant, Mr, Stephens' man, 1
recon, for I know he wssent mine and
never will be, and I can’t help rumi
nating how smoothly onr reconstruc
tion would have gone along if Mr.
Greeley had have been elected instead
of Giant. Bat after wq List onr liber-
was very necessary to find «m
again, and so there was a number of
patriots and statesmen who came to
the front to tell ns exactly what to do
in order to save the state. Mr. Steph
ens told ns one thing and Ben Hill
anothsT and Joe Brown another and
they all.had conservative views, and
somehow or somehow else the state
was saved and I don’t know who saved
it, only I have an opinion, and that is
that it was the conservative views
of the kn-klox that saved the state;
leastwayB I will say that
THE XCKUJX XErT DOWN
lawless niggers and plundering carpet
baggers, and there was no other power
at the time that conld save onr wives
and children from their outrages. Bnt
it was all wrong I reckon—all wrong,
and I’m a poor sinner because I
help it. The great trouble is wo
all see alike and feel alike at the
When one man is ready to fight
another ain’t. Judge Wright, was op
posed to fighting iii 1861, bnt in 1876
he came ont in a ferocious and bellyeo-
fight all by
the • tramber of candidates for tho chain
gang. , There are but ,few of ’ent any
account now except the old time dar
keys and they don’t get in the chain
gang. The new set get some schooling
and then lie aronnd town and go to
stealing and doing devilment for a liv
ing. Of conrse there are a few of ’em
who will make a good nse of an ednea-
tionand sol knew an edacated hog that
wks mighty smart add conld tell the
time of day on a watch and add np the
spotson
And so on, and its a wonder to me
that some of there northern philan
thropists did’nt find a new field for
their sentiment, and go regularly
io the business of educating all the
hogs in the country. Jest-oL I know
I have some pecnliar views, which you
do not indorse, but I can’t help think
ing that races of people differ just like
races of animals, and you can’t make a
good literary citizen out of a negro,
any more than yon can wean an Indian
from the* woods. So let ’em alone, I
say; let ’em learn to read and write and
figures little if they waut to, bnC don’t
spoil ’em with hook learning. T.be
plow .and the plane and the trowel
anvil suits ’em better and makes ’em
happier. There are enough poor
white children in the land who need
attention, and they are not getting
ranch of it to-day as the negro, and it
ia all becanse politicians are playing
for the colored vote, or else are trying
please the yankees with zeal tor the
nations pet. There is another thing
that I don't beliere. I don’t believe
that Dr. Felton is trying to break
down the democratic party any
to-day than Us was two years ago when
Mr. Stephens was pattiog him on tl
back and saying, “go it my friend, I’i
betting on you.” I think that Dr.
Felton’s mission as a party purifier has
ended and his time is ont and he ought
to retire, but he and Emory Speer have
been following some illustrious exam
ples in toting their own skillets and
taking more thought for themselves
than tor party or consistency, and n
body needent rise to explain on th
matter. It is uot harmonizing our pe
pie in the seventh to denonnee Dr. Fc
ton for he made a good representati'
and has got a host of friends in these
parts, and the only mistake lie made
was in not coming back to the fold at
the right time when he was invited.
Bnt he raised a powerful rntnpus, I tell
foa he did. And now we have got a
nice kettle of fish in this county, for the
independents have played the same
game aa the organized that the organ
ized played on them wheu they stole
Mr. Step head from ’em. They got Dr.
Baker nominated for the senate by the
democratic cotwantion and he has been
a Felton man ail she time and wont say
now <hat he is fur Clements and
there is another ruiupaa going on, and
there are ....
MX C ANDIOATt*
for the house and one of ’c
key and they aay that all thedarkeyi
are going to single shot him aud s<
here she goes and there she goes and the
devil is turned loose again and ’*
becanse there ain’t many oflicess .
pie who want’em. But the hairot the
aog is good for the bite and I reckon
our people will learn some rense afi
while. When a man’s candidacy
ban-asses the people and puts the party
peril, if be is a patriot he will with
draw and he is the truest patriot who
docs it first. We have had no county
ndmination for the house but we ought
to have and the .organized and the in
dependents' ought to join in it rather
than have old Bsrtow represented by
a darkey. And as to the senator for
this district it seem* to mo that if Dr.
Baker wonld come ont and declare for
Clements for congress we ought to in
dorse him and elect him Cot he is a
capable and 1 n fearless roan tad wants
the office mighty bad. Bill ,A«r.
Dates Worth Remembering,
1110—Glass windows first used for
light.
1238—^Chimneys first pot to houses.
1252—Lead pipes lor carrying water.
1290—Tallow candles first used for
light.
1296—Spectacles invented by
Italian.
1332—Paper was ftefc made -from
linen.
1335—Woolen cloth first .made
England.
1440—Art of printing in oiL
1449—Art of printing from znocvoble
type.
Always endeavor to speak to
purpose. It wonld be well sometimes
to ask onrselves if what we are about
to say will impart any valuable infor
mation, whether the one addreaaed
will receive any profit, whether it ii
anything worth saying, or whether
there ia any object to : be
speaking Mach useless
tiros be avoided.
Tcethlna (Teething Powders) is
fhst taking the place of all other rem
edies forth© irritations'of Teething
Children. ' ’
cions letter and wanted
himself, and had like to have tore his
shirt. So it seems there is a time
life when lie wants to
shoulder his musket and blaze away,
aud the mistake we secesh made was
that onr time didn’t suit some othe"
folks’, time. Maybe Mr. Stephens
would fight rather than consolidate,that’
ia if he jnstifies fighting at all, and if,
ho don’t then the revolution of *76 was
wrong, and we wonld have been living
nnder a monarchy now,and maybe that
ia not so bad after all for there are some
good monarchies and some very bad re-
f ublics, and vice versa, and so on, bnt
reckon wo will all do the very best
re can.
Mr. Stephens has given a good many
reasons why the people, and especially
the niggers, should vote for him, and
I’m going to do it bnt not exactly for
his reasons. The faith that is in flie
is that bar good people who have got
estranged can bury their animosities
vr wuciuc, and hhrmonize on him ad'a go between,
«.«*•« i» iSr
talk will *“>*? aD . d 1 know te 18 » man
and a patriot.' 'I don't appreciate his
zez'l for the . po(>r darkey and he may
have ’em all.Ipr bis pets so far as T
concerned but to,my opimqn^yid
he stains ’em on books the raore he
weakens ’em on muscle and takes away -ikJ 0
l thei'rinclination for work and iUorew£ S&-33b.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Music foT the Saratoga hotels costs
640,000 for the season. ' '"
Always remember that it ie bolter
late than later.
Little children are the lilliea of the
valley of life.-
Wanted.—An artist to paint the
very picture of health. '
Indolence is the rnst of the mind and
•the inlet of every vice.
Laziness travels so slowly that pov
erty soon overtakes her.
In summer what aggravates are the
ce; in winter it’s the flues.
A foreigner, myyorng friend, is a
who comes from fit and near,
A deep thinker—Tl e submarine ex
plorer.
Conscience is a terrible punishment
the villain who believes in a here-
after.
The intellect of a truly wise man is
ce-’a glass; it admits the light of
heaven-and reflects itV *' ' * '
Grain is'qradled when*it is ra the sfre
and yellow; rain is cradled only in hie
yeller days.
Yon never hear of a strike- among
the astronomers. There basinets ie
always looking np.
The chief properties of wisdom are
to be mindful of things past, and careful
of things to come.
“Father, have gnns got legs?” “No.”
"IIow do they kick .then?" “With
their breeches, my son.”
Men usually follow their wishes until
in fiering compels them to follow their
judgment.
Whims are harder to remove than
sorrows; for time, instead of weakening,
itrcngthens them.
Be always at leisure to do good;
lever make business an excuse to de
cline offices of humanity.
He who is puffed up with the first
gale of prosperity will bend beneath
the first blast of adversity.
What is that which a person likes to
have and to get rid of as soon as possi
ble? A good ap[«tite.
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultiva-
>n.'_ It is exceedingly rare among
politicians and tramps.
Matrimony is a great blessing, bo
use even a blind man has his eyes
opened after a little while.
home tuen are like oil poured on the
troubled waters of life, and other men
are like oil—-the oil of vitrol.
Who prolongs bis work to aa great
a length as possible, aud still com
pletes it iutime? Therope-okaker.
Correction docs much, but encourage
ment docs more. Encouragement after
censure is as the sun after a shower.
The incapacity of men to understand
each other is one of principal causes of
their ill temper toward each other.
Happiness is something lo hope for
and something to love. The bachelor
if he owns a dog, has the first as well
a8 the second.
With love the heart becomes a fair
and fertile garden, glowing with sun
shine and warm hues, and exhaling
sweet odors.
“Love,” says a writer, “lightens the
heart.” It has been known to have
precisely the samo. effect upon the
pocket-book.
Men and women. A contrast—Men
like to 6ec themselves in print* Women
are modsst. Women like to see them
selves in silk or velvet.
“Don’t yon think Miss Brown is a
very sweet gitl?" asked Henry. “Oh,
yes, very sweet, replied Jane—“that is,
she is well preserved.
Every man is occasionally what ha
mght to be perpetually, and per con
tra, perpetually, that which ia only
oxen sable occasionally.
one overload you with favors;
yon will find it an insufferable burden
if yon should not unburden them as
they come in and lay them by for a
rainy day.
General Sherman say* he cats bean
soup every day when at home, if he can
get it. Tfce General is supposed to be
smoothing the way for a statute of him-,
self in Boston.
injurious to eat before going
to sleep?” asks a correspondent. Why,
no, not fatally injurious; hat yon jnst
try eating before yon go to sleep if you
14fes—Watches first made
1546—Pine first used in England.
1550—Variations of the compass first
1603—Theatre erected in England
by ShakeRpeare.
1610- —Thermometer invented by
Sanctiferons.
1690—Telescopes invented by Por-
i and Jansen.
1690—Jupiter’s satclites duMuered
by Jansen.
1704—Tea brought to Europe from*
China.
1540—Circulation of blood discover
ed by Harvey.
1625— Bricks first made of any re-
1626— Printing in colors invented.
1629— Newspaper art established.
1630— Shoe bnckles first made.
1630—Wine first made of grapes it
England.
1640—Pendulum clocks were invent
ed.
1611— Sngar cane cultivated i
West Indies. — ,
1646—Air guns invented.
1649— Steam engines invented.
1650— Bread was first made with
yeast;
1662—Fire engines wbt® first in vent-
want to tee a circus.
A new work on etiquette says,
'Soap mast he eaten with a spoon,”
Ger-fj Persons who are in the habit of eatiog
senp with a fork or carving-knife will
be slow to adopt snch a newfanglcl
ed.
1658—Steam engine improved by
Watt.
1759—-Cotton first planted
United States.
1648-Stereotyping invented in Scot
land.
1728—Animal magnetism discovered
by Mesmel.
1832-—The telegffbh invented by
Morse. '' * :
1881—Telephone invented by Bell.
Mb. W. H. Babbett, Augusta,Ga.:
•ear Sr—1 have soldDr. GILDER’S
for the past two years, and
find that all in this neighborhood ap
prove them. The physicians
recdmrpendod them, and tho t
wfll have none other. They are
LIVER PILLS than any I hav© any
knowledge of. **
’cry respty,
Henry Mcm
lAjtull assortment ot Toilet Articles, Fe
Dri’r.Wirfics, Drug Store.
“Well, old fellow, what are you doing
,*■?" ’-Nothing; but I’ve a l>ig
schemer on foot- Lots of money in it.”
“A-ah! What is it?” I’m going
into a ban.'ring-house.” “After dark?
I suppose.”
Little Artie came running in the
other day, exclaiming:' “Ma, ma! I
see saffin’ down here that aticked his
head down in his monf.’.’ Investiga
tion proved that be had found a rami'
turtle.
Seventeen indictments have Ix-en
found against a notorious counterfeiter. '
The panishment for esoh is fifteen
years in prison, dr two hundred and
twenty-five years in all. His frieml#
hope to get it reduced to for life.
A yonng girl being asked recently,
she retnrned from the circulating
library with the last new novel, i» *Le
had ever read Shakespeare, tossed her
pretty head, and answered: “Sinks- .
pear? Why, of course I have—I read
that when it first came out.”
It Is stated by scientists , that only
the female mosquitoes bit*. Now, wei
presume folks’ll he expected :io offer no
resistance, bnt let the skeats chaw
away, on the principle that n fe
male most he allowed to do a* *>he ?
chooses. .
Mother! Mother!! Mother!!!
Are yon disturbed at night end br» c. o.
yonr.restby s sick child suffering and cry-
ng with' the exerucUting pain of cutting
eeth? If so. go ‘at one# sifa get s bo««ie o
Mbs. Wixslow's soothixo strui? If ini
relieve the pooriittle sufferer immedintiy—
depend upon it; there is no xsUtike i’.
There i* not» mother on earth-who !*»*
used it, who will nottell Jon stonec-'f
will regulate the bowel*,end gi*'
mother, will relief aad health t
ip.nUnj lit, m.,1. Ill, ^
o use in *11 esses, sod pleasant
and is the prescription of oae <
end best fem*Ie physicians and n
United States. Sold everywhere.