The Northeast Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1872-1875, October 18, 1872, Image 1

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[the NORTHEAST GEORGIAN tt.vfES OF AOVJiKT»SIXG : , u , rli W ilini' «niWiiw<i‘"'»IlUrc P«H«rand ' i 'hH ujr S iilRfe-ofll Hoes, fur the firsthand > •iv.Tron^r.-r cadi subsequent Insertion, j |"j "v'tliue unJ.-t eno mouth. For a longer period { —»•— j will be luaJc. OKUV lKSCBirTIOS OF Id 013 ‘WORK \t Tin: 'Imi’.test xotice. k\k< i tki> JTeut. Hack J)Cun’s Censupe y but '-Reserve 1bio % jud/j mail.” VOL. 1. ATHENS, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 18,1873. ' ; NO. 4. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. •_ i .iT.d • i V; v ! * BY T. W.&T. L-GANT^, PHOPRIETOHS, AT TWO D6LLIB8 PER INVARIABLY IS. ADVAKCIL' Office, Broad Street, Granite Row* O Mtcii Ly Bear Hunt witli Gen. Wade Hampton. It now more tli:tn fifteen years kinte I ]<a.-ecd through that soul-har- clot lies-tearing, brain-exciting rxi enenee yclept “a bcarliuutand ain frank "to confess that I never felt kinxious t«> go on another. Not that cl m’t like the “ bear” iu the abstract. ,lo, but m the conercte! . J say it .oleiiinlv, give me the chances uf sliip- t'wrcck, a lighted segav in a powder- 11, the rattling volley of a line of [battle, a kerosene lamp explosion, anything, iu short, tliat has a reputa- ♦;„n ot being dangerous, in preference to four hundred or five hundreds ,, muds of wild meat that runs riot wiilmut chart or compass, ignores till miles into the cane-brake, and to spend the night. Three or four negroes, old attendants of the Colonel in these hunting expeditions, followed with the dogs and provisions for the trip. Ah ! it was an occasion not to be forgotten; and it eomes hack to me now, albeit nearly a generation of years have swept by, crowded by grander incidents of life, as fresh and sharp-cut as if it were a picture of yesterday. The balmy air, ihat gave tone to every nerve and lux ury to every sense; the rich low-laud growth, sending forth from jessamine and magnolia, the‘perfume for which my old wife used to pay 81 30 a bottle, and lie satisfied with a third-rate imita tion ; the stately steps of our blooded horses, as we now and then broke into a gentle canter; the coursing of the dogs, who, free from leash, roamed through the woods at will, stirring up clothes torn, and bis fine face lighted up w ith tliat keen, bold expression which I can fancy illuminated it onmany another occasion in the hour of danger afterwards, stood face to face with me. It was but a second. He took in the situation at a glance. Like myself, he could almost feel the presence of the hear now twenty steps behind. Seiz ing me by the breast, he pushed me back into the wilderness of canes per haps three or four feet—at any rate, out of the narrow path—and exclaim ed, as I fell backward, “ Stay there, as you value your life. Don’t move an inch!” At the same moment, darting/orward, ho dropped on his knee, and cocking -his -rifle, waited. I can’t describe the.interval it was so short; but it seemed as if before I could -gasp, the heat* was oh lira* He ’ -• - \ - l»r<da«iO From the Charleston News. > ( THE WORM THAT DIETH SOT. A New Horror-—A Ferocious-Parasite Taken from a Man’s Leg. A short time ago a sailor was sent to the City Hospital from the British bark Georgians, who was supposed to he suffering from a sore leg. The man diad been ailing for near three months, hut none of his shipmates supposed that there was anything serious the matter with him. Accordingly, when, a few days before his remo\‘sd, to the hospital, lie declared himself unable to walk about, the captain of. the ship supposed that he was endeavoring to make an excuse for getting away from the vessel, that he might he left in ~ ‘ " ruies of legitimate sports and requires j the smaller game, and making the a flask of powder, a score of rifle j neighborhood musical with their glad shots, and the salient argument of a notes; the jolly cac-hinations of the 1$ nvie-knife, before you can enjoy the j old time servants, who, while not satisfaction of knowing that vour game is so eminently dead as to deserve an ■obituary notice. 1’il tell you all about it a< a rest from my summer labors. I determined to devote a couple of the autumn months to a jaunt NVest- ward. 1 did so. Kille in hand, I had forgetful of the homage they owed their master, still enjoyed a freedom from restraint and an equality with him that would have made an Abo litionist look in wonderment on the spectacle. These and a thousand other details came hack to me with a spent a considerable portion ot the fall j power that sends a gush of young blood ill’ 183G on the prairies; I had hob-1 to every microscopic extremity of my >!>c<l with Indiens until I could j sanguineous system. We reached our • a Camanclie war whoop like a i hunting ground about 2 o’clock in the [native; drank “lmir-trigger” liquid i day, lunched, loaded our lilies, and ^lightning with the trappers until they j in an hour more were ready to “take ed 1 was entitled to vote, and shot j to the hush.” Ihmlalo from my mustang until it J “ Now,” said the Colonel, “ if you p coined like murder to kill any more, j ;n - e n ,,t familiar with the bear, he care- In tact t was tired of spore, and had . Don’t take into close quarters, reached .St. Paul on my journey Last, | a hall through his heart before he Iwlieii who should unexpectedly turn ■ can reach you with his paw ; but il |up hut my old friend, dim Kavanagh. j you fail to’do this, stand not on the for years afterward a delegate and order of vour going—leave 1 And, by bnemher of Congress from the new ! t | le way,” he added, “ whatever Western Territories and States—a I ,i (li «. aV e the do«s.” •orn pioneer. The meeting was mutu ally cordial, and after exchanging the fired, coolly and steadily as if he were | days. When removed to the hospital, shooting at ducks. The hear gave a j the man’s right leg was very much groan, but the pace was urn lacked. lie i swollen, aud manifested all the synip- daslied on, up to the very muzzle of toms of erysipelas, for which malady the remaining gun 1 arret. The Gen-1 his affection was at first mistaken. At era! was in the act of pulling the trig- j the end of a few days, however, an gc-r, when a cane, slipping from under | al»ce>s formed upon "the inner side of his feet, flew upward, like a spring, j the ankle, from which, after it had and striking, the weapon, the gun was ■ burst, protruded about three inches of discharged high in the air. In the , a white, membranous-looking sub- twinkling of an eye, the General was ! stance, about an eighth of an inch in on the ground, struck down hv the [ diameter. This singular munifesta- fore-paw of the enrngee brute, hut lion induced a careful examination of knife in hand, and as cool as is pro- 1 the leg, which developed the fact that mending his own piarzn. I sprang I the man was afflicted with the-dracun- forward to his assistadee, hut he shout-j cutus, or Guinea worm. This is a ed to me to stand hack. lie was lying ; horrible parasite, found only along the almost at full length with the hear, : shores of the Indian Ocean, lied Sea while the latter was being torn and • and certain portions of the Med iter- distracted by the dogs, now in full 1 ratiean. it iniests damp and muddy force, and doubly frantic, seeing their | soils and impure water, and generally master in his power. It was but the attacks the feet and legs, hut some- work of a mo.non', l.u’ 1 shouldn't j times other portions of the body. At forget the scene in a month of cento- the time that it forsakes its native ries. The General’s right arm and element for the more luxurious liabita- knifo were under the animal, but with tiou of fle-h aud blood, it is scarcely ”* •■"I V-! «:u»- WlT AND WISDOM. , An editor^-pocket was picked at* Litchfield, lUinois, and he tried to make the piibjic believe he lost §2. One of our bachelor readers supposes that - a lady’s bridal day is that on which she first takes the rein. Few ladies are so modest as to be unwilling to sat in the lap of ease and luxury. ; - > - : - Chricle cere^ro spinal mendacity is the latest phrase to.designate the qual ity of a constitutional liar. A guest at a western hotel, finding a long hair in the blotter; ordered the waiter to bring in “bald-headedbet ter.” _ Josh the vessel, that be might be left in port, * J . ua ‘.l. J 2‘,^ ul ff gii ysdhat opera mcrfic the ship beingprepared*to sail iliWiMW *-liras. h.m than castor oil would oh a graven-fra yon i-ual saludatory compliments, our con versation ended in my agreeing to KTompany him on an expedition (down the Mississippi on the following Uay. lie was going to look alter some land along the river; knew all the [planters worth knowing, anil could 1 pro niso any amount of pleasure that would make me feel as happy as Adam I and Eve before they knew anything at original sin, so he said. This was certainly a change, and it suited me. l’ast St. Louis, past, Memphis, pa.-t all the pretty idamls that have doubt less once been in a state of solution ; past great bends and binds, against which the Father of Waters had writ ten the wrinkles of age; past great plantations where thousands of acres, decked with the snow of .Southern s im mer, foretold the wealth, that would, in a few months, pour into the cotters of the successful cotton planter, until at last we reached Helena, Ark. This was my friend’s destination—a quiet, inconsiderable frontier town at tliat I knew as much about hear hunt ing as l did about elephants ; had seen the beast tame in menageries, and once or twice encountered a live one; hut no rifle-shot of mine had ever yet pene trated the shaggy coat of a bruin, and my ambition was on edge to he grati- I’ud. Besides, Iliad just come from “ the plains,” and felt big with the roputiuLi; which all fledglings innately enjoy who have knocked down a dozen or twenty buflldo. Well, we separated and got to work, I taking the stand , which the Colonel had assigned tome, I to await Ids movements and tin>se of the flogs, who wore to drive up the : game while he made a circuit. Whither ! he went or what he d d, I have no ; knowledge. 1 only remember timt for I nearly two hours 1 waited patiently, | listening to every sound, trembling i with expectation, and brave down to j the pulp of my index finger, that rested [ on the trigger of my trusty rifle. In I fact, I had begun to grow dreamy, and my thoughts were wandering among | the scenes of home life far eastward. Suddenly, there was a long halloo—a age. The best way to improve the lot of woman is to put a good house on it, and a good man in it. Beauty, should not he a sufficient cause to make one marry a silly girl, no more so than it would do ‘o cat a mocking bird for its sweet singing. Julius Kolliek has been arrested in Detroit for heating his wife. She said it was the worst attack of Kolliek she ever had. An insane Pennsylvania editor im agines himself a mule. The insanity consists in assuming that he is half horse. Il you can arouse curiosity by an advertisement it- is a great point gained. The fair sex don’t hold ail tho curiosity in the world. Take two letters from money, and ( there will he one left. We know a chap who took money from two letters, Legal Notices. Notice. E , A FTER THE PUBLICATION x-X of this notice for four weeks, and at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary* of Fnwklia county, to be held oa the first Monday in Novem ber next, application will be made to said Chart for leave to sell the lands lying in Franklin coun ty, Ga., belonging to the minor children of John A. Holley, of Franklin countv. JOHN *M. TREEMAN, octll-4fc/ , , ;i i_ -** 4 y t’-.,.. Guardian. rTEQRGIA, HA-RTA PUUTY.-^ vA Whereas, R. T, Galnesftnd John M. Brown administrators of Richard s. Gai nc*. deceased, pe titions for u discharge from said administration. Therefore, all persons concerned are hereby re- required to show cause, if any they have, why said aduiLiidnitora should not, at the regular term of the t’oiirt of Qrdinary of said county, to.be held on the first Monday in January next, be discharged from said administration. Given trader my! hand at inyoffiw, this the 7th day of October, 1372. F. C. STEPIIKNSON. octll-td Ordinary. tmi co^ atom? of said district has exhibited before, us estraya lit£ a sorrel more male, it has some collar marks and saudlc niarkos, smartly gray In the face with a knot under the chin almost where the eurbe chain marks, a scare on the right hind leg suppos ed to hare been cut^with a plow, four feet seven ami a half inches high, and almost twelve years old The above described mule we b Here to bo worth seventy-five dollars. This 4th day of September 1372. Z. W. liOOD, J NASH. scopt.27-r.OJ. j- Free holders. T. L. ROSS, Ord. ;i motion quick as a flash, he threw the j larger than a common flea ; but, hav- an '^ t \ ,ere "i 1 * 111 anything left ot! ler arm over the body, and dutch- j ing once buried itselt beneath the skin, ing the knife, drove it deep into the! it grows with alarming rapidity, and heart of the brute. There was a spas- 1 will attain a size varying from six in- ciodie stroke ol the paw in the direct- ! ches to six feet in length, by one- ion of the stroke of the blade, lor a | twelfth to one-eighth of an inch in ciia- liear always strikes out in the direct- meter. It lies dormant until it reaches ion from whence it experiences pain— 1 the age of maturity, after which it 1 sped ; one must take a drop to live— a fact, hv the way, which saved the ! commences a series of wanderings and ! the other takes it to die. 1 ‘ 1 •— J ~i. ... .i— * 1 ' I want to know,” said a creditor A little girl of eight or ten summers being asked what dust was, replied, “ that it was mud with the juice squeezed out.” A habitual drunkard differs from a man alxmt to lie hanged in this re- ace and body of the General—and ; meandering* ah iut the muscles and after a short convulsive spasm, the j bones, which cause intense pain to the monster lay dead. And that is all. j unsuspecting v etiin. It always travels The dogs, with their jaws all bloody, j downwards, and with such rapidity were called off, save one, who lay in ! that it will sometimes travel the whole the brake panting in its death agony i length of the human frame in tweuty- from wounds it had received. The I four hours. It will sometimes come to not been at the hotel hour, when who >!k , .hot, and llien another. The dogs time, where boats wooded up and mer- j woru having, and evidently in full por- int> landed supplies. Our traps had j su ; t of game. What it was, whether ,, * or<J 1 !UI j of deer or hear, of course, I iiad no i , i,r 1,8 ’ I means of knowing; hut instinctively I pe.trance hut Colonel Wade Hampton j p ( ,i t ; t vvas coming toward the —-like ourselves, a temporary sojourner, | | )ran( .l, whereon I had been he having come up lor the nonce nil g a d on ed. It was aeiucst’onoflcss than m errand from his plantation several , jj ve niinutes, but in that interv al 1 | in .es below. j enjoyed the keen zest of a sportman’s To describe tire man is scarcely noces- j exj>ectr.:ion. I had it settled in my sarv, for pen and ink descriptions, as j uiind where I was to send my rifle-hall, lie has appeared in the diameter of j where I would bleed my trophy whon I the leader of the C’onfederatcavalry down, and w hat I would do in vari- iht late im-civil war, have made ous triumphant contingencies that were Uiis jKTson familiar to almost every j pictured in my mind. But, alas! the Bietvsjmper in the country. At that j schemes of men “aft gang agley.” iime. however, he was the plain South-! Bruin—for it was a full-sized beast ot [ern planter, a perfect type of his class, j that nomenclature—made his appear- pm I never a better exemplitieation of ■their hospitable characteristics than [when, flailing us to he gentlemen of [some culture, (!) he pressed us to •nipany him oa his return home- k'v.ird and partake of such pleasure us j his place ntlorded. I rememher that, inmong other things, lie proposed “a (‘hear limit,” and I, fool-like, jumped at [the idea like a school-hoy. But I won’t anticipate, mice w ith a rush, tearing through the cane-brake, a hound hanging to one ear, and the pack close on his heels. I raised my rifle and fired, and have long been satisfied that the bullet sped at least fifteen feet above its mark. At any rate, it didn’t hit him, while the sound of the discharge served to draw his attention to a new and unex pected adversary, and that was your humble servant. Despite the fact that the surface and lie under the skin like j a long white cord, hut should the surgeon attempt to extract it with the j I knife without first securing it w-'th a I I nipper, it w.'I elude his grasp and | j scamper away with the agility of an j If a portion of the worm is re-' ie moved, the remaining portion will not|P lec ‘; wus aniHKinccd, “Strike the p ! die, but continues ns gay and Kvelv aSffM' ^ of shouting “ lvu- Mux.” ie j ever. The first symptoms of the made sure tliey were after him. General recovered his lect without a scratch ; gathered his gun, wiped the bloody knife in the dark turn ; sheat hed it in an every-day sort of fashion ; the negroes canto up and after ex travagantly pouring forth their con gratulations with true Ethiopian en-! e< thusiasm, secured the carcass, and the whole party reunited around the cam) fire at night fall, well satisfied with the adventures of the day. I Guinea worm arc a disagreeable iteli- We killed another bear the next' ing and irritation of the infected parts, morninir, shot four or five deer, and j After it begins to move about its paths two of the negroes got a fox. As for j are followed by external abscesses, mnl your humble servant, he wits satiated i when the paths lie along the stomach, with that kind of sport. As it faith-1 internal abscesses also. It always ulti- ful chronicler, I am hound to say that J niatoly emkaTors to leave the system I was scared all the way through from j by working its wav through the skin, 1 copperas pat in a bed of ants would my (ts frontii to adralajus, and since generally near the ankle, but this is j cause them t» leave, put some in his that time have respectfnly declined all | only after it has left from ten to fifteen moth-in-law’s he l to see it she would invitations to meet bear on his native ; young behind. The usual number of! go. He says she was there at last ac- Miscellanooiis. THE NORTHEAST GEORGIAN i -il - ■ Is Ou. T y $2 Per Annum. srxscftfxi? ro2i it. JSTOW IS TUB TXlwCE. Executor’s Sale. W ILL BE HOLD, on the first Tuesday ii> November next, rrithin tlie le^al hoursol’sale, b^loro the *A>urt liuutie door iu Jofierson, Jackson county, the follon-inr pir?el t.r tract of laud, belonging to tlie estate of >oImnon than,Her deceased, to wit: that tract of land on which Mrs. Nancy Chandler, the wuh.w lived, ad journing Alexander Swan and chntxlnim; one hundred and ninety five [1 ( J5) acres in one parcel, ami three and one li.\U Cl\£) acres'ln an- «»tln r parcel, making one hundred and ninety eight and one half acres in all, more or less, s:iid lauds lying on Cobh creek iu Jacks ni county. Sold hy virtue of an order of the court of Ordinary of Jackson county for the benefit of the heirs uml creditors. Terms cash. K. M. fHANDLER, Exrj*of SOLOMN CHANDLER, dee’d. ra EORGIA, FRANKLIN CO.— V_ A Court of Ordinary ol said county. Whereas Larkin 1>. >.-weli,in<l William J. patrick Hthuiuistrators of Willis Chock, late of Haiti county, deceased, petitions the court fur a discharge from sai l administration : Therefore, a’l perwjns conccred, are hereby rc- t|iiired loslmw cause, ifauy they have, whv raiid Administrators should not, at a regular term «»f sai l court, to lie held on tho first Monday in De cember uext, be discharged from said admiuistra- t*on. By order of sai l court, at a regular term thereof, held this the 2d. day of September 1872. sept. 14 A. J. MORRIS,ordinary. Executor,s Sale. THE. SOUTH, WEBKL£ EIGHT PAGE PAPER, PuUidiedAntJu Cityqf flew J$k, K $3 A YEAR. , , TABDREW & CO.,21 PARK ROW. Devoted to the material interests oftho Southern States, and laboring for the developin'ent ofall the wonderful resources bvc neon ran pg iuunigra- ti‘«» and giving full ami reliable iuforumlioii con- ceruing, every.^irt efthe t^ovth. i J .;[* tOie cor dial approval and ■'Up- com- ■T tl , . j —, r-. als, trade—m fact everything—all over the South. Thousands of copies are every week distributed through this couutry. North and.Soulh, and in Europe. To make it especially valuable to every bu.sjucss nwn aud household in the South we have d; |ia:t- ments each week, giving full re views of the markets ami quotAtU'we of stocks and produce, aud also mat ters ot intciest to every hemsekeeper. lAery Southern man should give it his support. Kverv other man that wants to know anything about the South would find it worth the subscrip tion price. It is an unsurpassed medium for advertising all descriptions of .Southern property for sale or rx- change, or for inviting labor or cai«tai iu anv de sired channel. Subscrili** for it at once, and induce ns many to uo so as you. cau. inducements in Club rate* And premiums for those \vl»o will canvass for us. Specimeneo[*ics sent on application. Address TABDREW & CO., nov 29 21 I‘.irk Bow, N. V. Miscellaneous. .NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SCHEDULE i GEORGIA and MACON and AUGUSTA RAILRODS. S«porlntea4»nC» WO«, ) UcorsU and iMim & Aagajite Ualtnnd, > i AognMa, Of., June 5,1*72. ) CAN AND AFTER WEDNES- V J DAY, June 5tli, l$72, the Pa»*onger Train* on the Georgia anti Macon auJ Auguat* Railroad* will run a. follows : GEORGIA RAILROAD. J t\> Day Ptmmi-jer Train mill Leave AugusUat........ .8 20a.ra* Leave Atlanta at..... .~.8 19 a. tu* . Aniveat Atlanta at 6 40p. uf. Arrive at Augusta at...., 30p. vj* ffiglit Passenger Train. t Au.-u-l* at 8 Ml m. nr. XACOX&XD AUGUSTA R.. R, fiercely, “ when yixj are going to pay roe what you owe me “When I’m \ G REE ABLE to an orfler from going to pay you? Why, you’re U a.A. the I'ourt of Onlinjry ..f l'ra-.iklin Couuty pretty fellow, do you take mo for a prophet ?” A wag, ob’erviug on the floor ,of a house the names of two physicians, re- marked that it. put him in mind of a double-barreled gun; if one missile the other would he sure to kill. A Radical editor attended a musical entertainment; hut when the first The Savannah Republican. Edahlithcd in 1802. Day Passenger Train. Leave Augusta at U 00 a. in* Leave Macon at... G 30 m. iu. Arrive in Augusta at *2 45 p. m. Arrive iu Macou at.. 7 40 p.m. Night Passenger Train. Leave Augusta at * 8 15 p. m. Leave Macon at 10 00 p. tn. \ Arrive in AugtwU at...... >* ;. 0 00 a. m. - Arrive iu Macon at 4 15 a. iu. P*c«s?ngera from Atlanta, Athens, Washington, and stations on Georgia Uailnxid, by taking th« l>av l’a^enger Train will make connection ut Ca rnal: witli the Train tor Mncon. * Ibillmau’stFirst-Chts^lSleeping Carson all Night l’as-csj^. r Trains «»n the Georgia Railroad a id Fir>t-C*!a.s- sleeping Carson all Night Trains on the Macon and Augusta Ueilroad. S. K. JOHNSON.. S„,,i. SI BY HARDEE & SCUDDER. S. HARDEE. H. \V. SCUDUEK. On Jerms: Invariably in Advanc • Year iths, ,.$lo 00 isi.x Mor Monthly i no The Weekly RKprnr.it an is published every ^atunlay, at 52 a year; tor six months, 75 cts. for three ino:it«is—invariably in e. aunts The cclebnC.ed Henderson, the ae heather. In less than sixty days'worms tliat are found in one person after the events I have recovered, I! varies from one to fifty. There is one commenced to use hair dve, and grew j case on record, however, of a roan prematurely bald. I have remained | dying from the effects of the Guinea igj on> When at Oxford he was on “ bare-footed on the top of my head” | worm, whoso body aud skin were noth-1 ( ) a „ debating with a fellow student, ever since, and whenever I want to tell | ing hut a net work of these horrible | w!l0t , 10 t keeking his temper, threw a ray grand children an old-fashioned creatures. Death rarely results from j „] ;lss (J f vv ; nc j n lfi s f aec . y[ r . Hen- story to make their blood curdle aud ; the ravages of this worm, and when it Tlerson took out his handkerchief, give them a first-class night-mare, I! does it i-generally the result of some point to my denuded cranium and ! disease produced by the inflammation recount mv adventures with General j and other eflects of the worm’s wander- Wade Hampton and that four-footed 1 mgs. ihe Guinea worm docs not con- On. Will lie sold I to; ore ih»j Court house <1 C.irucsville sai«l county ou the first Tuesday November next, within the legal hours of sa the folb>*#lng property to wit : One hundred ait 1 f *ur iHH j acres of l a ml, nw or less, lying in said county on waters ot leustan lo? creek, adjourn ing lauds’ of Daniel Moseley. II. 11. Farrow aud otuers, being the pl.ieo wuereon Anna Smith lived «v. the time of her death. The place is well improved au«l has some branch bot tom land and about seventy-five (73) acres iu ori ginal forest. Sold as the property of sold Anna Smith dee’d, for the dLstributiorvamung tfie heirs at Law. Terms cash Wm.,1 ULLIVEK) ■ Kxr’s JOS IX UILBXUT. 1 Sept lSUv Administrator’s Sale. ATTILL BE SOLD, before the Court \ V lions? dtK>r In Carnesvillc, Franklin Co. ' * ’ * on the first Tues- ving property to V tract of land containing 234 acres more or less, lyin ; iusaid county on waters of Middle River ad journing land of John M. Freeman, M Nliackclford, J. fi*. Jones and others, hein^ the place whereon Gradon Adair now lives. There is alj«»ut fifteen acres uf branch bottom on sail tract of land, the balance Is original fore>9 and upland in a state of cultivation. There i* a good dwelling, out houses and orchard on the place, situated one ami a half miles from CarncssilU ,»n the Athens Road, con venient to cIiutcIh**, so hook* Ac. Sold as tlie pro|>- erty of Abrauv A Icr!i*d«l dee’d late of Franklin Co. £or tlto-purpose of distribution. Tonus of sale one hatf cash, the balance on twelve months crcd t. , . rurehnser to receive bond lor titles till purchase tor, was seldom known to be in a pas- money u paid. Also at the s.inie time an 1 place, will be sold all of Admitting: Out? ?*'j wire, inoteriioiv 81. Kueh sul*se- gtient intieilioii, 55 els. A :«pmre is Id iimsn.m- j<irei\^ All ad vert ordered Inserted weekly itFd.iily p:ip.*r will Ihj ch irg«sl SI per s.puirc each vuserti>ui, imIe«sotherwis«» contracted. The U.:i*i;hlu an Ls the oldest paper in the South, and \* earnestly dev.»tc«l to her interests. It contains the latest m.mvh hy telegraph and by let ter, on alNubjeet* nf gcsoTtl Intered—commercial, ;vgricitltu.*aK scientific ami unscellanoous—thetebv adapting it to every * of the rcixling jniblic. No l»nins 4 or expense will l»e spared to maintain its rep utation as a first class paper in every respect. PROSPECTUS FOE 1*72. IT FT II VHTAIt. Remember wlu> you are talking to, sir” said an indignant parent to a facetious boy ; “ I am your lather sir !” “ Well, whose to blame for that ?” said tin; young impertinence; ’taint me!” A man out West, herring tliat dry A li'l A n J’JUnhated ALjnlhlg Journal claimed to br the handsomest Paper in the 1 Vorld. “Give ltiv love to tin A LIU Si: who are strivii sdon worth** of admiratio ways be ,-n for usefulness orkmen of THE for beautv, as it !• '—Usury Uard IN, her. quadruped of the wilderness. Greybeard. THE PHANTOM TRAIN. A writer in the Albany (N. Y.) fine its ravages to man, hut will also attack dogs and horses. The sailor in question made a voyage to the eastern coast of Africa about six months ago, and while there received the parasites into his svstem. One of these worms Evening Times relates a conversation ! lias already been extracted from his with a superstitious night watch uiau on | right leg, but another lihs made its ap- the New York Central Railroad. Said pcarance in the left, lie is doing as thowat-hman: “I believe in spirits i well as can be expected under the and gho-ts. I know such things exist. ] circumstances. This is probably the If you will come up in April I will con-; first ease of the kind ever known in tom train that every year comes up the | Ono of thfi dreMfd a „d most road with the body of Abraham Lira j brillinilt voun mcn in Chicago, who 7 ;, gU r ' y , , 1 ? n .“ ,nth ,i 1'^ts his hair in the middle, essayed to : f April, about midnight, the air on ibe.J^j , u a wlect partv of l afl ie.s and wlthout B mansion pack from the river, on high ground, pud as we approach there are a score for more of hunting dogs, of various I reeds, that gather from their sleep- pug spots to give us welcome. The house servants stable, boys, garden |aiK held hands mingle witlj quad- I. 11 * 10 s ’ an ^ there is a wagging of "’Vs?mg of tails that un it) a ,ly !Ut<>s t the earnestness of Phe welcome that is accorded to *n ^ , * u e an( l I J c fren.” Extern- M»v the house "omeCS." UllSCUI)turcs to,nak ° 11 k "'"‘j 1 s rost °n the downiest of an»lf i ° broken by the appear- fi, of ^y, servant with a cup of backs *Poii l!? i" e " cra >' ot 011 our ornn * ky a plato of fresh ranges and figs, and wo were refresh- prepareil to dress. A breakfast vr^e tho , usnnl lux «r>es of plantation life, for which, bv the wav r® tC ^ n P ro P a rod b y ’ old-fashioned infusion ot “peacl honey”—what planter’s l.oure is We were ready h0 ™' »* a» doo, tJZ «'« „ r an and is com one of those narrow openings which are sometimes worn on the Mississippi bottoms hy animals making their way to water. But, horror of horrors! I had not proceeded fifty yards before I heard close behind the sound of the pursuing bear. Frantic with the pain of the chawing bites every instant penetrating his flesh, and unable to shako off the faithful dogs. Bruin had doubtless taken one of his old routes, and instinctively hoped to brush or* shake his tormentors off in the thick undergrowth. On lie came —closer and closer—the brittle reeds cracking under his feet; the hounds giving their short, sharp, ugly yelp, and I dashing forward as best I could through tho almost impenetrable mass. It seemed as if I could feel tho hot breath of tho bruto upon my hack, and I realized, as only a man in such an emergency cau do, tliat if once he laid his claws upon me, I was a dead man. My knife was already drawn. Life seemed to hang but by athread, and I was prepared to do battle over that thin tie while there was a muscle left to put fourth its strength. Yet stay! Suddenly—in less time than I can describe it—there was a crashing of reeds in front of me. In an instant more, General Hampton, hot arid flushed with pursuit, his track becomes very keen and cutting, i f, , ,, , ... ... ., •. J . , ..g gentlemen last evening bv a few flashes On either side it is warm and stilIJ ■ ,, • , ;n _ Every watchman, when he feels this w,t *. most not.ceable scmtdla- air, steps off the track and sits down Ulon of lus ' Vlt " as « conundrum: hi,aneG 5 T nT Wn .°r “ ,^ U , thern ' !' e 1 f rr I ! e<1 ,h f wcS S ht .°J, n ll, « and 11 vince you.” He then told of thephan-i Charleston, jplantuion m old times, before the decree . bullet frem the gun of General Hamp- *- 1 - ■ fwns promulgated as a part of our mod- ton, lie turned his blood-red eyes on ftern declaration of independence, that a | me, and with au ugly expression around white man is as good as a nigger, and i bis mouth, which I regarded at the witnessed the working of the vast ! time as physiognmically dangerous, social machine? If not, let me tell j mado directly for the position 1 oceu- VOU the story in a few words. Here | pied. At tho same in=tanc, a brace are 980 slaves, tlie property of one i of hounds, God bless them 1 dashing person. We land from the steamboat ! through the cane with a glad yelp soon after they have finished their j aud a hound, seized the bear, one by respective tasks for the day, and as we ! the haunches and another by the flank, i pass through the little village which j The digression saved me. I had uo they constitute there is not a man, other resource than to a tree or the lwoman or child who docs not come I bush. I never was good at climbing, [rushing from his cahiu to Iww or cur-! and chose the latter, plunging pell- sy, “ How’dy, Moss’ Wade,” with mell into the cane, with au impetus tall the enthusiasm of unadulterated ; like unto'thnt ofa demoralized locomo- |iiflection. The mansion itself sets i tivo. Fortunately, I struck a patli— wiped his face, and coolysaid: “That, sir, was a digression; now the ar gument.” v A physician having visited a sick lady during a storm, she expressed concern at his having come so far in such had weather, to which the doctor unluckily replied: “ Oh, madame I havo another pa tient iu this neighborhood, and by this means, you know, I kill two birds with one stone.” “Doctor,” replied the lady, “ you are too good a shot for me,” and dis posed with his further attendance. “Did the minister put a stamp on you when you was married, Mary?” “ A stamp, Charlie! Wlmt for, pray ?” “ Why, matches ain’t le.al a stamp, you know!” the i»er*oual prv one Ir.ty horse, c-nv ai furniture Ae Ac-—Term* cash. LEVI SKW’ELL, > HENRY D. AD^RIIDLD, > st-pt V*. •tmg < “ I w:jiitIdIidffl”S’tvtHg”machhte; a - said an old lady, eutcring a shop. Do you wish a machine with a feller?” iri- Haw—” said he, “ Aw—when is a quired the clerk. “ Bakes, Mo! don’t <2 *1 * * I flaw MIDI III?, WIIUIl lo U HIV Vtvia. *. v . * with long hhJsfriers^nd aland ! ,ad /“ ot a lad V ^7 cnUuAl; j want any of your fellers about me and the propounder of the conundrum with black instruments, playing dirges, ’ and grinning skeletons silting nil about, ?. a ', e , ine „ , .. :n . : i i 7 .i i httlo buggy, liesaid. A dead silence will pass up noiselessly, and the verv I ..,, ,. ' i',„ -V . , - fell on tho company, and the funny air grows mack. Jf it is moonlight, .i J c • . i ,, ” man was tlie locus of many singular clouds always come over the moon, i , r - , „ J °. , •• ... ... ’ glances. He soon became conscious and the music seems to linger, as if fro-: , ,,, , . „ c zen with horror. A few moments' 1 some one had blundered. So after and the phantom train glides hy., he dlved ,ut0 a Vest P ock , et ; ‘ ,nU 'F ht Flags and streamers hang about. The 1 ® u “ ;r P’ e - vedl att f nt1 ^ track ahead seems covered with a Mack l T or ’".W 1 : carpet and the wheels are drapeil with : eno< P', - 10 sai • u tho same. The coffin of the murdered n t . , . , . , e when she s a ll'.tle snlky. Knew it was Lincoln is seen Ivtng on the center of _ ... , , ,, i. f.. . some kind ot wagon, a car; and all about it, m the air mid j the train behind are vast numbers of At a town near Boston three young blue coated men, some with coffins on ladies, residing iu tlie same house with their backs, others leaning on them, a well known physician, recently de- It seems then that all the vast armies' termined to play a practical joke upon of men who died during the war, are; him, They made up a bundle of escorting the phantom train of the dainty linen, embroidery, &c., in the President. The wind, if blowing, dies j shape of an infant, the total value of away at once, and over all the air a the fictitious child being probably about solemn hush, almost stifling, prevails. If a train were passing, its noise would ho drowned in their silence, and the phantom train would ride over it Clocks and watches always stop, and when looked at, are found to be from five to eight minutes behind. Every where on the road, about the 20th of April, the time of watches and trains is found suddenly behind. This, said, fifty dollars. They put the make-bo- lieve infant into a basket and tied the basket to the door-handle. Ring went tho bell, and the young ladies stood at the wiudow above to see the physician take in the child and be taken in him self. Their horror nmy be imagined when they saw a man deliberately walk up to the bundle and as deliberately walk off with it. They are now tnourn- Atlaiinisirtiror’s Sale. A GREEABLE to an order from x A. the court of Ordinary of Franklin county, will be sold on the first Tuc>d ty iti Norembrrnext, in tho town of Carnesville. Franklin county, be tween the le^al hetfc* of sale, the following t»roj»er- ty to wit > *375 acre* of land more or less lying in sard coun ty on the waters of the Little Uaatauollee Greek, adjourning lands of J. F. Langston, John Gilbert and others. Sold as the property of William W. liunter decased, for th* benefit of heirs and credi tors** with the widows dower excepted. Terms Cash. J. N. I£Yl)K, > Adm’s septntd SARAH HUNTER. ) Adui’x Administrator’s Sale ^~\F VALUABLE lands in Banks V_/ County Ga. Pursuant to an order from the Court of Ordinal y of Frinkiin county. WiW he ld liefore tfie court liov?se door in Homer Rank? county Gn, within t l>e legal hours of sale on the 1st Tuesday in November next, the following tract of land to wit: One tract lying three miles North of Homer on i?;ul waters of Webbs creek adjotuing kinds of icetu iu A. Garrisou, George Wilson and others, j^ntoitiing one hundred un<i fourteen ^114) acres, more or loss, and known us the “ William Ward pi ice.” One tract adjoining laudsoi John Johnston, Mrs.- King aud others, lying on Webbscrcek, containing one hundred aud forty G i«i) acres .more or less, and known :» the Mire old store place. One tract containing three Uundre«l and fifty (U50) acres more or less, lying on Webb creek, adjoining lands of II. V, 1 leaden. Har.uou and others and known'asthe “ IK»trey place.” All tjie above lands are improved, and lie ad journing ea^h otl*cr. Also, one lot of fcnid (improved) containing five (5j acres monror loss, lying three mitcsfnun Homer on tlie roa'l leading to Gainesville, and known :ie the 44 Auburn Ilill place.” Also* the one undivided half Interest iu n tnv?t of luid lying in said county of Hunks containing tw«» hundred and eighteen acres more or 1«*ks, ati- joinihg lands of Macillia Davis, Stephen A Cash. F. (1. Moss arid others, known as the “ Wofford old tho leading watchman, was from the ing the loss of twenty-six yards of fine passage of the phantom train, linen, twelve yards of thread lace, fjur hemstitch pocket handkerchief's One Missouri editor says of another that, “ his ears would do for awnings to a ten-story wholesale hog-packiDg establishment To boil a tonge—Drink scalding coffee. and other valuable property. 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Here is the last good story told upon him, aud it is very characteristic: About tho commencement of the war he made a speech in North Ala bama in which ho said that tho South ern soldiers could whip tho Yankees with pop-guns. Since tho war ho chanced to make another speech at the same place. A big double-jointed fellow wa3 present who heard and re membered the former speech, and be ing in no very amiaWe frame of mind, concluded to go fbr Sam, . Rolling rip his sleeves and popping his fist in the palm of his hand, he propounded the fearful question: “ gam Rice, did’t you make a speech here ip 1861 r I did,” said Sam. “ And didn’t yon say that we could tm ffin Ynntww with nnivdiins ? w Also, thu untilvtal half interest in a t tael of latwl In Honksconnty containingoueliuudredand twen ty (120) acres mure or less, lying cn Middle River adjourning lands uf L. M. t a»b, C N. Wofford and others, known as part of the “Nancy Wofford obi place ” said tract of laud is well improved and con tains between 40 and 50 acres of good river bottom land. Tlie other halfiutcrcst in said tract of land belongs to V. Chitwood. All sold as the properly of Thomas Mize dee’d late of Franklin Co. Ga. for the puiposcofdistribu- months credit with interest from datw. Purchasers will receive bonds for titles til! purchase money is paid. TIIOS. R. HTGOINS, \ Adni’rs of T. C CHITWOOD. j Mize dee’d Administrator’s Sale. A GREEABLE to an order of the _£A_ Court of Ordinary of Madison county. Ga. Will bo sold l»efore the Court House d«or iu said couuty at DaahdsvUh*, on the first Tuesday In So* vemb'T next within the legal hours of sale the fol lowing property belonging to the estate of George Patton - late of said county deceased, one tract of laud lying in said couuty on thu waters of South Hroad River adjoining Min. Moose Mlllican Jacob P. 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