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Early County News.
VOL. V.
PROFESSIONAL CARRS.
' DR. B. C. KNOWLES,
Blakely, Early County, Geo.,
Intending to make a permanent residence
in Blakely, offers his medical services, in all
branches, to the citizens of the place and
surrounding country.
May be found, at all hours, either at the
Drug Store, or at his residence, which is that
.formerly occupied by Dr. C. B# Holmes, un
less professionally engaged. vl-32-ly
PILES & FISTULA CURED .
Rr. J. A. Clopton, ,
Vrsrj&TjfHeu r aitoxms the public thuuire
baa returned to luaftwhe injluntsvillc,
aft.* an Snsuase ..- in Mobil?:,
and tenders his professional services to the
afflicted. I>r. C. refers to the hundreds of
• cures he has effected within the last few
years, as proof of his skill in the treatment
of these diseases. vl-22-tf
HARRELL, WIMBERLY & CO.’S
Livery and Sale Stable,
's. W. CORNER PUBLIC SQUARE,
B AIRBRIDGE, GA.
Horses, Buggies and Carriaoes kept con
stantly on band and for hire and sale. Am
ple accommodation for Drovers and others.
Nov. 7, 1860. 4-ts
WHEELER’S
CENTRAL HOUSE,
FORT GAIRES, GEORGIA.
The undersigned returns thanks for the
liberal patronage that has been extended to
him for the past two years, would also in
form the traveling public that he is still on
baud with the best the market affords, to
supply their wants.
As I have no blowers, wno bi,ow tor
their grub, attached to the Railroad to
blow poit me, please give me a call, and
judge for yourselves.
GEO. W. WHEELER,
v‘2-12-tf Proprietor.
Troy Manufact’ing Company.
*—
WOODEN Ware, Furniture, Mattresses,
Ac., Ac., for sale bv
TROY MANUFACTURING CO.
Spinning Wheels,
AT wholesale and retail, bv
TROY MANUFACTURING CO.
Camp Stools,
TX>R sale by the
X TROY MANUFACTURING CO.
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 24. 1802. v2-19-tf
' NOTICE TO THE *
Planters of Georgia.
Ortice Georgia Relief and 1
llosriTAi. Association. j
Those of you who have subscribed Cotton
to the otyvwts of this Association, and who
have not y«t put us in possession of the same,
will please forward the bales subscribed, or
their equivalent in money, as we propose to
invest immediately the funds derived from
this source of supply in Clothing for the des
titute and suffering of the Army.
By order of the Executive Committee.
JOSEPH R. WILSON, Chairman.
Oet. 15, 1862. I-ts
Tan Yard Notice.
HAVING purchased the interest of Mr.
Peter Howard, I am now sole proprie
tor of the Tan Yard heretofore owned by
Howard & Stewart. The Yard will be kept
up as heretofore. Hides will bo tauned on
shares as usual.
Thaukful for past favors, I invite all to try
me for the future, promising to do all I can
to please my customers.
1 JAS. M. STEWART.
Blakely, Aug. 5, 1863. 41*1y
~ o t x c E
HAVING established a Tan Yard at the
Peru Plantation in Early county, I
will tan Hidcß cn*shares, and will warrant
to mako as good leather as any Yard in tho
county. I have a No. I Tanner in my em
ploy. So bring along your Hides, if you
wish them properly tanned.
JOHN BOATRIGHT.
Oet. 7, 1863. 50-6 m-paid
Wool Carding Machine,
1 mile from Blakely, on Fort Gaines Road,
WILL card for one-fourth toll as usual, or
as low for cash as the times will admit of.-
Will also card Wool for Lard or Tallow, lb.
for lb. All persons bringing Wool to card
are required to furnish Lard or Oil, 1 lb. to
every 10 lbs. of Wool.
y HIRAM KINCHEN.
Oct. 7, 1863. SQ-ts
Notice.
HAVING been called upon to serve my
country in a military capacity, I leave
all my Notes and Accounts in the hands ot
3. S. 'Stafford, who will receive money and
rtwiDt for the same during my absence.
v B. R. POSTER.
Blakvly, July 16, 1861. 38-ts
Rev. F. M. Wilson is an authorized A
gent for the “ Early County News."
BLAKELY. GEO., NOVEMBER 95, 1863 ,
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What did ho say, Lydia?
Good old Mrs. (Jail was very hard of
hearing, being somewhat advanced in years.
Her daughter, Lydia, was a bouncing lass,
who loved a good frolic, and knew well
how to get up one. Lydia had arranged a
junket, and the young men and maids were
all on hand. Among the rest was the Gen
eral—one of ’em. In the midst of the fun,
in popped old Deacon L—: , to see how
the widow fared. This was a w*et blanket
to the merriment, and the deacon held on
till Lydia was out of patience. She wish
ed he would go, and by and by he gets up
to depart.
“0., Deacon,” said mother Call, “don’t
think of going before tea. O, do stop to
tea.”
The Deacon was so strongly urged, re
plied :
“ Well, I rather think I will, as the
folks will not expect me home till dark.”
“ What did he say, Lydia ? ” asked the
widow.
Lydia'had a ready answer.
• “He says he will not to-day, mother, as
the folks expect him home before dark.
Why how deaf you are mother ! ”
“ O, well, some other day, Deacon; won’t
you ? ” said mother (Jail as she showed the
Deacon out.
“ Smart girl. tb-i±2’ Deacon, as
be trudged along home. “ Shell find her
way through, I’ll warrant.”
In a communication to the Cotton Planter ,
Mr. W. McWillie says :
“ There is, according to iny experience,
nothing easier than to avoid tho skipper
and all worms and* bugs that usually infest
and often destroy so much bacon. It is
simply to keep your smoke house dark,
and the moth that deposits the egg will
never enter it. For the past twenty-five
years I have attended to this, and never
have had any bacon troubled with any in
sect. I have now hanging in my smoke
house hams one, two and three years old,
and the oldest arc as free from insects as
when first hung up. I am not aware of
other causes for the exemption of my ba
con from insects, but simply the fact that
my smoke house is always kept dark. Be
fore adopting this plan I had tried many
experiments, but always either without
success, or with injury to the flavor of my
bacon.' I smoke with green hickory—this
is important, as the flavor of bacon is often
utterly destroyed by smoking it with im
proper wood.”
A droll fellow was asked by an old lady
to read the and taking it began
as follows:
“ Last night yesterday morning, about
two in the afternoon, before breakfast, a
hungry boy about forty years old, bought
a big custard for a levy, and threw it
through a brick wall nine feet thick, and
jumping over it broke his right ancle off
above the left knee, fell into a dry mill
and got drowned. About forty years
after that, on the same day, an old cat had
twenty turkey gobblers; a high wind blew
Yankee Doodle on a frying pan, and knock
ed the old Dutch church down and killed
a sow and two dead pigs at Boston, where
a deaf and dumb man was talking French
to his aunt Peter.”
The old lady taking a long breath, ex
claimed, •
“Du tell! ”
“ Simkins, don’t you wish the next Con
gress will do something to establish a hard
currency among us ? ” “ Why as to that,
it is thought by many that the curreucy is
hard enough already, but for lay part, I
think it hard enough to get! ”
—♦ ♦ ♦
A sober man when drunk has the same
kind of stupidity about him that a drunk
en man has when he is sober.
When is a man not himself? When ho
is an ape of somebody else.
Frenchman and the Broker, y
Monsieur M —, with that perccpti-/
bility so characteristic of his countrymen,
determined, as he had more money than he A
needed, to add to the amount, in imitation "
of the many Yankee speculators in our
midst, by becoming an extortioner, and so ,'
bought largely of flour, tobacco, sugar, cof
fee, &c., which very soon realized him a '
large amount'd “ Confederate Notes.” ,
By the advice of a particular friend, (an j
Israelite,) lie plaoed the greater part of it f
in the hands of a broker, to turn to the best
account in other speculations, with an un
d*~ *‘.anding, that when ho '.wanted it, ho /
gold, silver, or greenbacks, at a '
-art* of premium. '
jtU things went*on swimmingly til! the
advent of Livingston, the prince of gentle
manly swindlers.
Monsieur soon heard that brokers gener
ally had been pretty severely fleeced by
this distinguished personage; and becom
ing alarmed for the safety of his money,
hurried to the office of his broker friend,
filled with fearful apprehensions of finding
him a used up man, but who had, howev
er, esoaped with comparatively small loss.
Hurrying into the back office, or the
sanctum sanctorum of tho broker, ho found
that individual seated at his private desk,
when tho following colloquy ensued ;
“ Good day, Monsieur M , I am
glad to sec you, sir; be seated : Have you
been sick ? you arc not looking well.”
“ Oui, Monsieur, I have been veery sick,
sick all ovare, I feels no veery good in my
mind.”
“ What’s the matter ? ”
“ Ze times, ze times is ze matter, Mon
sieur.”
“ The times! what aboutthe times, have
you had bad luck? have you lost in any of
your late speculations ? ”
“Oui, Monsieur, I have lost veery mousch
on ze tobaccare, and l is veery iiiousoh fear
ze times will break up all ze peoples; ze
confidance is gone; I loose ze confidence
veery mousch J’
“ You loose confidence! in whom ?”
oiu T*i t,n £ * n CVcr y podj sare.”
*' Well, Rufrie q| these Shyfocks around
here do deserve pretty close watching,* and
I would advise you to place no confidence
in any of them.”
“ But, zen Monsieur, I loose ze confidanco
in ze not speculators, and ze Shylocks, I
loose ze confidance in friends, iu every
pody F”
“ Youj have not lost confidence in me I
hope ? "j
“ Pardon moi, Monsieur, ze times is tam
ticklish! ze smart men git swindle and
scheatel out of zaro monies, zo we know
not at in whom to put ze oonfidauce in,
Monsiair.”
“ Wpll, I believe I hold some money of
yours.find I presume you want it ? ”
“ Chi, Monsieur, I loose monies in ze to*
bacca e speculation, ze stuff was rottane,
Mons< ur, I rnus make up ze loss, I goes
in wil a friend, he buys up zo flour, peo
ples njust have ze flour.”
“ lit, can’t you do without tho money, I
have € yours ? I can turn it to good ac
count! ”
“ .'b, sare, I can no wait von lcetlc min
nit logare. I must have him now.”
“ <|i, very well, I’ll draw you a check
for tfe amount and settle the matter at
once; what bank will you have it on, any
I suppse. (Writes, check.) Here,s ir, is
a ch«k, interest added, for 843,000 on
the larmer’s Bank; see if it is oorreot.”
(yhlnsicur with astonishment.) “It ish
all rirht, mon ami, it ish all right sare;
zo I lee you have monies in ze bank?
eh ? Monsieur Livingston, ze grand rascal,
he ncpwindle you zen ? ” >
“ Nothing worth mentioning.”
“ ,md you can spare ze monies to-day,
eh ?,
“&h, yes, and more besides, if you want
it.”/
‘JDh, Monsieur, mine goot friend, you
sbfl do me vot leetle favour, oh ? ”
1 Certainly £what is it ? "
“ You take back ze money, you keep
Jan zo long ?s you vants, Monsieur.” 4
“ Why, I thought you told me that you
.ranted the mofiey, particularly ? ” (Takes
back check.)
“ No, sare, no sare. Ino vant ze mon
ies, I vant ze grand confidence, Monsieur.
Suppose you no have ze monies, zen I vant
him veery mottscli, but you have got plea'
ty monies, zen I no, vant him at all, vo/
cotnprcnez, eh ? I not speculate nqw/n
zo flour, you keep ze monies, and B{/u*
late in ze gold, ze silvare, and ze g^ en *
backs, Monsieur; it is all right r sare/i oo d, j
day sare, I vish yon a veery good day,
(and with a bright smile of faction,
tho Frenchman one of nis politest
bows and departed; fully satisfied with |
himself and the r°at of mankind generally,
more especially 'the brokers, as they had
not cheated him.)** ... , r
Bidding Good-Bye under difficulties, '
“ Where were you going, air, yesterday
afternoon, when I met you ?**
“ I was going down to de ribor, masr"
to see a young lady off dat I used to pia,.,
my distresses to.” - - 1 -
W hy. didn’t you accompany her ? ”
“ Ifwas goin,’ but 5 didn’t have the price
of do fare wid me. She was goin' to Icab j
the United States.” r*
“To what country was she gq n cr ? ” * 1
i WJb ki^b- deck#
when I got town dar* v - f
“ You mean on tho hurricane daofc.”
1 oa, and she waved me a-Jews wid bet
pocket-snickering.”
“ She waved you an adieu with her hand
kerchief.”
“ So I got on de top db a barrel dat had
lard in it, and when i was* up dar wavin f
a-jews, and just as the steamer was goin*
off, de barrel oavod in,and I went kcr-chuuk
up to my neck in de lard.”
“ Then you were in a nice predicament.’*
“No I wasn’t—fur I was in a nice
greace.”
"“What did you say when you found,
yourself there ? ”
“ 1 didn't say much, only “ hard have
rneroy on me.”
Richmond in a Jfut Shell
“ Hallo ! friend Smith, is that you ? 1
thought you were down in Mobile.”
“ Y »o I have b.ecn, friend Simkirifv,
but having some husiness in one of the do
partitionts of the Government, 1 have jusp
coino on to attend to it. But how’s times
here in the canito! of the Confederacy—
eh <• ” 3
“Oh, bully for the speculators and ex
tortiohers ! Jiile- ing times, Ido assure
you ; everything goes cur-ling in the most
<foy-matical manner possible. The blood
hounds snap at everything that comes in
their way. crrttftsfi are' multiplying
rapidly from Dutch and Scotch herrings.
We are getting up a glorious school of
Sharks here. “ Shylorics ” are as thick
as blackberries in summer time, and each
takes his pound of {human flesh without
the slightest hesitation or impediment.
Stay a little while with us, and you may
learn the science of “ Row to do it; n but
if you don’t learn very soon, you will be
done for ! Everybody here'tries to make
a fortune by their wits. You cin scarcely
ask the price of an article without payiu<'
for it. The very air smells of cash.” °
. « ♦ »■
The Rockingham (\ T a.) Register pub
lishes the marriage of Miss Lucy F. Ho
lier, the daughter of a wealthy farmer in
that county, and adds:
She was what we call Pan independent
girl,” sure enough. Her bridal outfit was
all made with her own hands, from her
beautiful and elegant straw hat down to
the handsome upon her feet! Her
own delicate hands spun and wove the ma
-terial of which her wedding dress and
traveling cloak was made; that she had
nothing ijpon her person when sho was
married which was not made by herself !
Nor was she compelled by necessity or pov
erty to make this exhibition of her inde
pendence—she did it for the purpose of
showing to the world how independent
Southern girls are.
Among many other sensible things, tha
Chattanooga Rebel has the following j
“ The farmers and planters of our land con
stitute by far the largest class of our pop
ulation. Having a monopoly of the fruits
of .the earth, they can and do control tho
price ot living, depreciate ©r appreciate \
our currency, and fix and regulate the rates
of everything we buy. They have no right
to come in to our small traders (for there
are no merchants now) and p,retend that
their prices are regulated by those of the
latter, for such is not the case. The tail
of a cjrt or wagon loaded with produce
now in a worse extortiouer’s shop than -
* any trades’ place of business that wo know
of.”
New Oilcans papers predict that there
will he,much suffering in that./ity tfta
winfev' ,
\y -V._
TVhy are henpecked husband.) liko crin- J
olinc ! Because they are continually under
petticoat rule !
Why are ehinplasters exact.!/ Hke I
and silver ?, Because they art h<zrd*&'
repay.
NO. 7,-
