About The Northeast Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1872-1875 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1873)
Ill) :s.j -i-i&risiitifriA Y 11'; EVERY DESCRIPTION OF tTOB WORKt 11 A«T<ny T5tfifaU !iiMkl of 19 if sSd feet and T W<? iSiK r t^ trod stlUkm tlio* rise. _ " The'PrincesH' Beatrice.^ of England, has told the Earl of Albeftfoerito BXBCUTBD AT THR SHORTEST NOTICE. For tht Northeast Georgian. THE MARRIAGE VOW. '• BV M. MORRIS.-f -i v t' dollars per year to dregs a fttfuoaabiJe ‘ fogs or bis patrol 1 .dangUter. lIL ,, j,,.* **.-, ■(.!». ? VI At what period of his sprrow db«S* Speak it not lightly; tis a holy thing— A bond, enduring through long distant yean When yon o’er yonr abode is hovering. Or when your eyes is wet with bitterest tears; ’• ■ - t a . Recorded by an Angel’s pen on high, It must be questiened in eternity. Speak it not lightly; though the young and gay Are crowding round you now with tones of mirth, Let net the holy promise ol to day Fade, like the clouds that with the mom hare birth; Hat ever bright and sacred may it be, Stored in the treasure—cell oi memory. Life wiil not prove all sunshine; there will come Dark hours for all; oh, will ye, when the night Of sorrow gathers thickly ’round your house. Lore as ye did in days when smooth and bright Seemed the sure path ye trod, untouched by care, And deemed the future, like the present fair! “asktnama.'V- A woman has .been condemned, to WrtANDfiCMML * /. To men* bfcd- f ^sherry—Hava sherry cobbler*.7? *,» k y/< The only persona who really enjoy iUhwr bhd btesllharethe-doetoff. fot# DifBciritJ ’pttncfontfow ' potting' a f ’ > f Btop to A'gddrijfttohgtie. _ Qtedley hats pro bow used for set* i-Aliss Landon, inhejJ had two drosses at n time If at were i A tr-Mth -•makuIv bod o*.u|*n mwrlB.i'ri to wcah The Grecian ladies count*! their age from their marriage;' boC their birth. , , v‘* • i *‘«L nA 2 i A Paris'lady was recenty. married in deep mourning. Complimentary. to the bridcjyoom,. An 'American belle abroad is report ed to have aeceptdd the hand and neart of flismai&’s AbiiU* l * ,J Airs. Betsey Knight;•of ^Harrishn/ Me, has during her ninety-first years, knit sixty pairs of. stockings. ; , , I e roit h: 8 a girl nine years old who can tell a lie a minute for a full Hour. She a'so steals and is obstinate. A French lady; 1 of' eighty-five, lia.4 eloped; supposed because the old folks wouldn’t consent to her marriage. Joties wrote to a friend, and cl isod by saying, '.‘.lam glad to bo able,to say that my wife is recovering slowly “ Bridal trips arc going out of fashion. A week or two at the country residence of one of the.families is the substitute, The new style of bonnet is a cross between the smokestack of a locomotive and a'custard cup. neer’a wife. Age, with its silvery looks, comes stealing on. And brings the tottering step, the furrow ed cheek, The eye, from whence each lustrous gleam hath gone, And the pale lip, with accents low and weak; Will ye then think upon your youths’ gay prime, And, smiling, bid love triumph over timel Speak it not lightly; ohl beware! be ware! Tis no vain promise, na unmeaning word I Before God's altar, now, ye both do swear, And by the High and Holy One’tis heard; Bo faithful to each other till life’s close 8eek peace below and gain heavens’ sure repose. A HOOD STORY’FROM ARKANSAS This story is taken from a long, rambling letter to “ Old Times,” who lives in Arkansas I was living at Squire Jones’. He had a gal, and she was pretty, you bet. I used to think she* was pretty enough to be no but tdl her about it; and to make matters worse, there was a feller coming to see Hally; but he came once a week just AS regular as the cows come up, and he’d buck ri ‘ “ " ' right up to Sally and'set up * ‘ II half the night. Ihated him, of course, and nobody could blame me for it. 1 determined to stop him or bust. I fell on a plan, and told Sally’s brother of it; his name was Ike; lie was pleased and we went to work. They Were ■cane of houseroom, had a front room and s backroom, which was used for a kitchen and smokehouse. Me and Ike slept in this back room The floor was made of puncheons, and immediately under our bed, and also under the floor, was the big soap trough. It bad about ten bushels of soft soap in it. Bally’s bean was to be Aere that night I told her that I 'wanted to sleep with her sweetheart that night She said all right. He came dressed up in his best. He had ono ef those hign-oollarc d, long, scissor- t&iled coats, new copperas pants, awful tight, a high beegum hat, and a square yard of red cotton handkerchief around his neck. He soon cornered Sajly, and me and Ike went to bed—but not to sleep. We raised the floor over the ioap trough, took the boards off the bed, till only on the foreside where I tvas to just enough behind to hold u ~ bed without e feller. Ike lay before the fire on a pallet. I lay on my plank, holding very still. 1 began to think they would set up all night, bat finally he came in about one o’clock. I snored violenUy. ’ He hauled off his linen, and over he crawled, And in he went, down into the soap trough. Of all the snorting and kicking you ever did hear, it was there. I began to yell at the top of my voice. JUte was making a light, and just as he pet a flaming pine knot in full blast, the old folks came tearing in, in their right clothes—the old man with his f in and the old woman with the poker. had Sally’s beau drawn put by this time and stretched out full length before the fire. The soap was half an iuch thick all over him. Of all the. eights I ever saw, he looked the most terrible. A Ku-Klux wasn’t nowhere. Sally came with her dress in her hand, and as she entered the door he broke. The <log> all went after him out of hwwing^he didn’t come back au, inpre, ' . . ) VI VIA) And House-Fnruishing Emporium! Am -.HSATfStr STAVES IN UNBLESS lAmW Broadband Thomas Sts., Athens, Ga. MY CONSTANTLY increasing BUS :i RAYS IN: MAKING .PCRC lower recover' the'fosa'of his dear A poet has sent a puearto this paper, ill wluoh he alludes to the dew as ” the ati I—-.i. sri' > ■ i a. ANftTttE FACILITIES. WHICH , ENABLE; 1IE ; TO .pFFER „ , CUSTOMERS So says an engi- A charge of 25 cents for admission to church weddings in Missouri furn ishes a fund for the young couple to start housekeeping with. A young lady of Gratiot, Mich., still a minor, has two husbands living, each of whom she has married to twice within a few months. A philosopher who married a vnlgar, but amiable girl, used to compare his wile to brown sugar, because, he sad, ehe was sweet but unrefined. Montreal youmr ladies play the sobthing air of “ Home, Sweet Home,” about the hour of retiring, when their sweethearts show sings of lingering. Upon the marriage of Miss Wheat, of Virginia, an editor hopes that her path may be flowery, and that she may never be thrashed by her husband. The people of , a town in Rhode Island are shocked because one Mr. Ames popped corn and made molasses candy while his wife lay dead in the house. Maxim, for the benefit of lady readers: Never turn round in the street to see what another girl wears, because you will always find her doing the same thing.” : n-s-. A Western editor came to the con elusion that the young todies in his vil lage are not all like St. Paul, because they pay so much attention to “ things which are behind.” A one-armed man in Salem lately applied for a divorce on the ground that the hand he had given his wife in marriage was lost, and that the con tract was therefore void. verything now. b sacrificed to jolitics,” murmered a wretched youn" ' Brooklyn . wife, whose husband had pawed her back bair for money to use at the late primary election.. , . | Two burglars, recently entered house at I.acona, New Hampshire, and were captured .:by a-plupky womap. who kept them imprisoned until aid came and they were taken to jail Mrs. Barnett, of Boone county, Ky.-, is a mourner because Janies, her ' band, hunglhiropelf. She doesn’t care anything about him, but be spoiled hqr best clothes-line in the operation.' Miss Cobbe, an Epglish female adi in mental philosophy, has lately pul ed long and well-written articles in two London magazines, ip which she.con- tends that, dogs os well as. men have immortal souls. , • , A Philadelphia prodigy is reported in the person of a young lady who, having lost both arms by a railway ac cident, has singularly selected fine sewing as a means of livelihood, using her mouth to manage a Singer ma chine. i riiigihjuia Hi *>Jt A young lady at a recent fashionable church wedding in New, York, seated herself on the back of a pew for better observation,.but seriously interrupted the ceremony by an involuntary somer sault and attempt to stand oh her head in the pew just behind. A maiden of sixty lately died in Westmoreland, England, and left $500,000 to a gentleman who had cap-' turod her mature affections. The will is now being contested on the ground of irregularity, incapacity and ignor ance. \ perspiration of.the. rn;>on; 5 A,Cincinnati youth advertises for a situation, saying that: '♦ * Work is not so When of au "object as good wages.” |. Why is a dressing-gown the most Jasting garment in a gentleman’s ward robe ? Because he never wears it out. A political opponent, mentions an' Iowa paper as “ being printed on a cheese press,, with shoe pegs for type.” If a spoonful of yeast will raise fifty cents worili of flour, how much wiil it take to raise funds enough to buy another barrel with ? A tailor, speaking of the winter fashion, says correctly; “ There’s not much change in gentlemen’s pants this month.”' ' • At; Pittsfield, Mass., recently, a.man with’a child under one arm, and A pig under the other, joined in a funeral procession. , What is the difference between a postage stamp and a mule ? One you lick with a slick, and the other you stick with a lick. The Baltimore Sun calls Harper's WeeHy~otherwise known as the ‘Journal of Civilization”—the “pic torial pole cat 1” . . A Florida exchange regrets that its space is so taken up that it is com pelled to omit all telegrapltic as well as other news.” If his satanic majesty should loose his tail, 1 where should he go to supply the deficiency ? To a gin-palaco, for there bad spirits are retailed Why W the blessed state of matri mony like an invested city ? Because when out of it we wish to be in it, and when in we wish to be out of it. “An enthusiastic student Of zoology has been supping on Welsh rabbits for a week, in order to ascertain whether nightmares, were subject to the horse disease.. TO js I offer GALENA LEAD, at |0 per hundl NASSAU LEAD at |J4 ncr hundred.. Raw and Doited LINSEED OIL, * TOLOR8 OF ALL KINDS, CRANSFER PICTURES, fob u j m . PAIN T&UVERSITY LEAD; $12 per hundred. [ The UNBQUA LED ATLANTIC, .918 - *PuRE VARNI8HE8. E COLORS, SIIK^ find eyetythipg jn their. Une, .ants, RADWAY’S; VINEGAR BITTERS; FONTZ’S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS, and a full line of other Patent Medicines, at .* A very moderate advance rtu cost. A FULL STOCK OF SOAPS, From SO cents to. $3 per dozen and everything olwj in my line 'PERFUMERY, from 00 cents to $10 per : at prices satisfactory to afiy reasonable bin dozen TO tiycr- >• A foil stock of every needed MEDICINE. SYRUPS, TINCTURES, EUKERS, CHEMICALS. PURE POWDERED DRUGS. &c., &c„ all of PURE QUALITY, arid CHEAPER THAN CAN BE ■4 purchased elsewhere. ~ TO MY GENERAL CUSTOMERS, I offer at retail, a complete stock of CHOICE COLOGNES, fine. .EXTRACTS for Handkerchief, Colgate’s COLOGNE, CASHMERE BOUQUET, and other TOILET SOAPS, Genuine BROWN WINDSOR, INDIXICAL, and many other varieties of SOAPS, Thc'liest COOKING EXTRACTS, WHITE GINGER and SPICES, of all kinds, TOILET SETS, I, and a variety of article* which roust be seen. KT 7 Frequent calls are earnestly solicited, and satisfaction guaranteed In every instance. , • .*: t The Elevated Oven Cook Stove, with all Utensils, tor Mag ini Warranted the Verr Beat. Operation Guaranteed or no Male A. K. CHILDS, B. NICKLBSON, Y. H. IVYSN. WM. KING, Jr, M, D. GUILDS, NICKERSOM CO WTTnT.P.aAT.U! Axrn duitatt ni? at.tt'tis tat & CRANE Washington’s tomb is adorned with beg one of the neatest cod-liver oil signs that a gifted fence-dauber ever slapped on any -prominent object in that vi cinity. .. What positive proof is there that King David and his son Solomon were tail ors? “And Solomon mended the breaches which David, his father, had made.” • ■ n LEAVE TO ANNOUNCE TO THEIR CUSTOMERS THAT THEY ARE READY TO SERVE THEM AGAIN WITH THE LARGES1 STOCK OF STEEL, NAILS, IHOESE & MULE SHOES Staple Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes| H0ESE SH0E nails . a01U cultdial imple ments, CARRIAGE and SADDLERY HARDWARE, A person complaining of a drink he! once had occasion to indulge in, said i he could not tell whether it was brandy I ora torchlight procession going down j his throat. Pats and Groceries THAT WE HAVE EVER OFFERED. A soldier, telling his mother of the terrible fire at Chickamaoga, was asked by her why he did not get be hind* treie.. “ Treel” said he; “ tl wasn’t enough forithb officers. A good deacon being asked to sub scribe for buying a chadeller for the church objected, saying: “ Now what is the use of a bhandefier? After yon get it you can’t get any body to play onit. ,f ! Several people : who have answered an advertisement promising a “correct likeness of, yourself, and your fortune told,^for two shillings, have received a peniiy mirror, and been informed that they can tell their own fortunes by counting their money. • Barnum wants to get a nightmare to exhibit at his Museum. Let him eat a mince-pie, three sausages, half We are ready to receive all money due us. No customer) shall be turned away who wishes to pay his account, as we[ ^® r ® I liave plenty of time to serve tliem. nrt< tf FELLOWS, HUBS, SPOKES, AXLES, SPRINGS. &c„ RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING, BUGGY WHEELS, MILL SAWS, MILL ' FINDINGS, ANVILS, BELLOWS, VICES, HOLLOW-WARE, &c. TONS OF Dicksons SOLD THIS SEASON. This Shows what the Plan ters Think of it. MORE OF IT USED THAN ANY FERTILIZER IN MARKET. Received! ALARGE AND WELL SELECTED STOLE OF v.'l «©* Manufacturer’s Myetits for t/ie Sale of * Brinley’s Steel Plows, Peacock Steel Plows, Fairbanks’ Standard Scales, “Sawyer’s Celebrated Cotton Gin, Waiter Elevators and Pumps, - j/ ; Circular-Saws, &c., &c, L. Planters who used a few sack* this season have already put in their orders for a few TONS for next. 15*1. Look to your own interest, and buytFES* TILIZER that is made in yonr own State, ui that ou know is good. &c« the once to bed. He will get one oi animals in two boors or less. A St. Louis gentleman took a room at a Cincinnati boarding house recent ly, .and was aroused early the follow ing morning by the chambermaid, who remarked that as it was near time to set the breakfast-table, she would have to trouble him for the top sheet. A physiciau, on presenting his bill to the executors of the estate of a de- as!i|iSP«| A'C~K.$.$f v W AGrQNS replied 'the executor; the death of the | ~ 1 j ** > >. rrl rt rfT- -• * » ’ — * -- - I ■ > *1 »lt* *. rtoo • -r. deceased is sufficient evidence that you attended him personally.”, Receipts which some wag has con cocted for the special benefit of farm ers: To prevent Hoof-Ail in cattle—Cut their legs off just above the boois. To make butter yellow—work in scraped carrots tuid pounded butter cup flowers. To make bens lay—Cut their heads off. To fatten hogs—Own a grist mill. To keep cattle free fromlice—Singe the hair off close to the roots. To prevent a cow from sacking her self—Suck her yourself, or milk her % A North Adams womans, bereft of her husband on Wednesday of last week by one of the; conventional acci dents in the Hoosac Tunnel, was o» Friday, immediately after the funeral, married to,his next .friend, who ypu her heart by his kindness iff arranging the obsequies. There is jn Cedar Rapids; Iowa, a lady who hwi'a perfect genius for mak ing- rare and carious things. She has invented ja machine for making lace, consisting of one hundred bobbins, ape, on this has manufactured handker chiefs and collars and lace equal to any imported from Paris. “I am a princess in my own right, for in my country the people are j sovereigns and I am a daughter of the people,” was what a bright and plueky | American gul said to the Pope when I he bade her kneel and receive bis blessing. He sasfr the point and bless ed her standing. A forgetful young woman out West the other night aroused the inmates of a hotel to vbioh her bridal 1 trip bad led, on acco wife. ingamanm her room, The trifling circumstance ’o make a good garden—Get a good of her marriage that morning had quite neighbor’s pou time. . poultry—Call at your iltry yard in the night ^‘why “Johny," said a teacher, did’nt you wash y8Ur face V “ I did wash it, sir." V You didn’t wipe it all over, then." “ I did wipe, it as high up as my shirt would go.” The " Sisters of Silence ” is a valua ble Michigan association of women. hoc memOry, and it wOs -not until summary jhsndo/was about to- be visited on tha offender tjuit .:«be .hap pened to recollect it. ■k -ttnle akjsa. Ac a pretty girl was figed by a magistral horsewhipped by her brother, and bi ried 'iOto thS'brain levbr by hlrwi The clergyman also alluded to' t affidr in ansrtnoa, the local editortook rides with the clergyman and reviewed; the case in.p: ‘ ate up ever^ dozen pickles, a plate of salad, and i few pig’s feet, at midnight, and go at if s STOVES and r 4ny article in our line not in stock mil. he ordered when desired, with the I tad possible delay. Call and examine h\iir stock and prices. nov8-tf BS, We Lave non- on fanud, and vUl eonUautt keep a GOOIi STOCK, so that farmers can hul H away before the busy season. a Yuli stock of those Famous ‘Payments on 2 tine } Purchase not due until Novem ber Ist, IS 73. CHEMICALS Which we are offering at very low prices. We will alst keep during theseason is Su: ’ " ” " " " ' “ Hake tlieir Own Fertilizes ummey & Newton. AXES, at reduced prices. Corner Thomas & Clayton Streets. A fellow has been blowing out the ras again at Auburn. His room was woken info in time to save his life. In the morninghe came down and re marked: ' “That gas must have leaked consifletfcly last bight* Upon being assured that it had, be innocent ly inquired: “Did it,run over and spoil the carpet anywhere?” A traveller, among other narrations of wonders of foreign parts, declared he knew a cane a .mile Ipng. 'The company looked incredulous, and* H was evident they Were not prepared to swallow it, even if it should have been a sugar cane. “ Fray what kind oi a cane was it?” asked a gentleman,, sneeringly.' “ It was a hurricane,” re plied the traveller.' Two gentlemen having a difference, one went to the otlieris door, and wrote ** Scoundrel” upon It The other called upon Ids neighbor, and was answered by a eeryOJlt that his master j was not pi home, '* No matter,” was 1 al SJPEC1MITY. THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING FORMED A PARTNER SHIP, would mpoctfully Inform our fotraer patron?, anil the public generally, that we have ........ .. . I now in (tore, and wUleontlnu, to kocp, oneof the finest stocks of me following over bought to Athens Ilnfjlund Orr AGENTS. SUMMEV & FfEIVTOJf,: j. H. mums & t;o. ... ;>v .:' r ',v r. i- ••••t wi I'l aii . . , _4,« .. ' ;i*J,oti - -W-v'i i.... Broad St, Athens, Ga^ STAPLE DRY GOODS, HATS BOOTS, SHOES, MORRIS Sc FRFEMAN) Agents, Carnesvill*- OCt25-tf A' GENERAL ASSORl ED STOCK OF CHOICE the reply, “ I only wished to return, his I visit, as bei left lus name At my door . f* in the morn fog. A Danbury man; whose wife kindles ] the fires, and gets-the room warm enough for . him to move around com* I fortably without putting on bis nether! garments, .sat down Sunday morninj on a chair which was already occuj by a scalding hot lid holder. He hoi I had p new tdaster put on himself find some . on the ; ceUum just above the chair; abd now kindles the fire himself. A few days ago the inhabitants of a country town in England were filled with conjecture at the following sigh, painted in large capitals on the front of » house recently fitted up Ond to- sorts'of Ladies, All was copstepna- :ion. Inquiry was immediately set oh foot is’to"' who this Mrs. Brown might be, but no one could tell She was a town. The second week after the mystery was upravi The house painter returned .fo his work, and'concluded by ‘ a “ and Genffeman’a Wearing Apj And everything else found in first-class establishments of the kind. To any one. wishing to STORE, COTTON, we have * FIRE-PROOF , where tne charge is only 25 cents per month, and Insurance as low as any other - Warehouse. : - * ;> Pitner, O’Farrell Sc Jackson, 7 . - ? Corner Thomas and Clayton /Streets, MJthens, Ga< Give usa call before purchasing any where else. AnA Kerosene Lamps. , 205 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, r " “ US — DON’T FAIL TO GALLON YOUR CARPET DEPARTMENT. English Velvet Carpets, English Brussels Cnrpets, Three Ply and Ingrain Carpets, VeneUan Carpets, sBacon, Flour, Lord, Kingston, S;isS.: Y ™ . • 1 .■**.? :5r;jr: ! r '-" 1 « ^ ^ uiw • r '' and einent* otha. Stair 1 Oarpetaand Hi Mattings, Drugget* & Beapectfally Aalc Vour Attention to n Fnll Line .of . tfc* Following Goods - -twistels will be Sold sso K>own» any othe* Uonaei GROCERY DEPARTMENT, Curtain Materials. Cornice* and Bands, Lace Curtains, ■tta&allslm*, Hair Cloths, aU widths, Choice Family Groceries, no*iv«d weekly, WaU and Borders,! Beautiful Chfoaioa? Carpels, Oil Oaths and Curtains short notice. made and laid at very Sack is Wariranled Cenaine WE CAN ALSO SUPPLY' ' TO THOSE DESIRING TO Those Buying Note will yd on as lervr.s as those who Buy in the Spring. he Chicago Farm Pumps Are Cheap. Biaitta «aA Effletak _ OVUB 100,000 eOTlH. EVERY PUSO* WARRANTED Ay-tan (h» MS*>. CHILDS, NICKERSON & t** General Hardware Steals nov8-tf AOEHTS. DANIEL’S MAGIC OIL A SBRK CUBE FOR RUSCXATB*- _ Certificate from the Rev. Mr. Omlaad. White County. reby cerufy that twelvemoatbs I hereby severe attack of which I sufihredae .Spersoni in most Of say that no nofXt*t