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assuaging sorrow.
HOW AN OBITUARY TOET CHEERED
AFFLICTED FAillLIES.
j Alfred Brimmer, Esq., editor and
proprietor of the Morning Glory, having
ob'itirred tEc Aiaposifcioa of persons who '
have been bereaved of their relatives to
pvc expression to their feelings in a
poetical form, reflected that it might be
perhaps a good thing to introduce to
his paper a department of obituary po
etry. He considered whether if, when
an individual inserted fifty cents’ worth
of death notice, ihe establishment should
contribute half a dollar’s worth of mor
tality stanzas gratuitously, his paper
would not at once become the most
popular vehicle for the conveyance of
that peculiar form of melancholy intel
ligence to the public. And Air Brim
mer rightly estimated that, as most
newspaper readers seem to take a deeper
in erost in such sepulchral news than in
information of any other kind, the
journal containing the largest supply
would have the greatest number of
subscribers.
So that Mr. Brimmer determined
that he would, as an experiment at any
rate, engage an obituary poet for a short
time, with the purpose to give him per
manent employment if the plan seemed
to take with the public. Accordingly
he sent for Air. Remington Ott, a con
structor of verses, who had frequently
contributed to the columns of the Morn
ing Glory poems of what would have
been considered by a fastidious student
of English literature of an appalling and
revolutionary character.
Air. Brimmer soon effected an ar
rangement with the bard, by which it
was agreed that Mr. Ott should take a
position in the office for a short time,
and whenever a death notice arrived he
should immediately endeavor to grind
out some versos expressive of the situa
tion/ •
• You understand. Air. Ott,” explain
ed Kriuimcr. “that when the death of
an individual is announced, I want you
as it were, to cheer the afflicted family
with the resources of your noble art.—
1 wish you to throw yourself, you may
say. iuto the situation, and ton give them
a verse or two about the eorpse which
will seem to be the expression of the
emotion of the hearts of the living.”
“To lighten the gloom, in a certain
■sense, I suppose?” said Air. Ott.
“Precisely 1 Lighten the gloom. Do
not mourn over the departed; but rather
take a joyous view of death, which, after
all, Air. Ott, is, as it were, but the en
trance to a better life. Therefore, I
Would advise you to touch the heart
strings of the afflicted with a tender
hand, and endeavor, for instance, to
divert their minds from contemplation
of the horrors of the tombs.”
“Refrain from despondency, I sup
pose, and lift their thoughts to—”
“Just so I And at the same time
combine elevating sentiment with such
practical information as you can obtain
from the advertisement. Thrown glamor
of poesy, for instance, over the common
place details of the every day life of the
deceased. People are fond of minute
description. Some facts useful for this
purpose may be obtainfd from the man
who brings the notice to the office;
others you may readily supply from
your imagination.”*
“I’ll throw |off stanzas,” said Air
Ott, “in such a manner that people will
wanv*li»r friends to die lur the sake of
the poetry.”
“But fib&veall.” continued the editor,
“take a bright view of the matter al
ways. . Aiake the sunshine of smiles
hurst through the tempest of tears; and.
it we don’t make the Morning Glory
hum around among the mourners of this
town, my name is not Brimmer.”
He was right. It did hum
The next day Remington Ott went
on duty and Brimmer ran down to the
seashore for a breath of fresh air. All
through the day death notices came
pouring in. and. when one would reach
''u.die would seize it and study it up
to ascertain' particulars. Then he would
ru>h up-stairs, and lock himself in his
room, take down his rhyming dictionary,
run his fingers through his hair, and
hack htfny half ah hour at a piece of
paper until he considered he had that
pietry in a shape which would make
the stricken family feel proud of the
corpse. AYhen his day’s work was done
t 'tt went home with a conviction that
the Alorning Glory had finally robbed
d«.ath of its terrors, and made life com
paratively valueless.
In the morning ALr. Ott proceeded
va ndy to the office, for the purpose of
embalming in sympathetic verses the
'he memories of their departed ones.—
.As he came near the establishment he
BAINBRIDGE, GA., NOVEMBER 28. 1872.
observed a crowd of five or six thousand
people in front of it, struggling to get
ipto the door. Climbing a tree, he
overlooked the crowd, and could see
within the office the clerks selling pa
pers as fast as they could handle them,
while the mob pushed, and jammed,
and yelled, in frantic effort to obtain
copies—the presses in the meantime
clunking away like mad. Upon the
curbstone in f.ont of him there was a
line stretching down the street for four
squares, each man engaged in reading
the Alorning Glory with an earnestness
that A1 r. Ott had never before seen dis
played by the patrons of that sheet.—
The birnd concluded either that his
poetry had touched a sympathetic chord
in the popular heart, or that an appalling
disaster had occurred in some quarter
of the globe.
He went around to the hack of the
office and ascended to the editorial
rooms. As he approached the sanctum
loud voices were heard within. Air.
Ott determined to ascertain the cause
before entering. lie obtained a chair,
and placing it by the side door, he
mounted and peeped over the door
through the transom. There sat J.
Alfred Brimmer, holding the Alorning
Glory in both hands, while the fringe
which grew in a semi-circle around the
edge of his bald head stood straight
out. until he seemed to resemble a gi
gantic gun-swab. Two or three other
persons stood in front of him in threat
ening attitudes. Ott heard one of them
say:
“Aly name is AIcGlue, sir—William
AIcGlue ! I am brother of the late Al
exander AIcGlue. I picked up your
paper this morning, and perceived an
outrageous insult to my deceased rela
tive, and I have come around, sir, to
demand what you mean by the following
infamous language :
“Tlie denth-angel smote Alexander McGlue,
And gave him a protracted repose :
He wore a checked shirt and a number nine
shoe.
And he had pink wart on his nose.
No doubt lie is happier dwelling in space,
Over there on the green shore :
Ilis friends are informed that his funeral
takes place
Precisely at a quarter past four.”
This is simply diabolical! Aly late
brother had no wart upon his nose. sir.
He had upon his nose neither a pink
wart, nor a green wart, nor a cream
colored wart, nor a wart of any color.
It is a slander. It is a gratuitous insult
to tny family, and I want you to say
distinctly what you mean by such
conduct. " *
“Really, sir,” said Brimtner, “it is a
mistake. This is the horrible work of
an incendiary miscreant, whom I trust-
d as a brother. He shall be punished
by my own hand for this outrage. A
pink wart! Awful, sir—awful! The
miserable scoundrel shall suffer for this,
he shall, indeed!”
How could I know,” murmured Ott.
out there by himself, “that the corpse
hadn't a pink wart ? I used to know a
man named AIcGlue, and he had one,
and I thought all the AIcGlues had.—
This comes of irregularities in families.”
“And who,” said another man, “au
thorized you to print this hideous stuff
about my deceased son ? Do you mean
to say that it was not with your author
ity that your low comedian inserted
with my advertisement the following,
scandalous burlesque ? Listen to this :
‘ Willie had n purple monkey climbing on a
yellow stick.
And wheirhe sucked the paint all off it made
him deathly sick;
And in his latest hours he clasped that mon
key in his hand.
And hid good-bye to earth and went into a
better land.
Oh! no more lie’ll shoot his sister with his
little wooden gun ;
And no more he’ll twist the pussey’s tail,
and make her yowl for fun.
The pussey’s tail now stands out straight;
the gun is laid aside :
The monkev doesn’t jump around since little
Willc died.”
“The utter atrocious character of this
balderdash will appear when I say that
William was twenty years old; that he
never had a purple monkey on a stick;
that he never sucked such a thing; that
he never fooled with eats, and that he
died of liver complaint.”
“Infamous!—utterly infamous !” the
editor groaned, as he east his eyes over
the lines. “And the wretch who did
this still lives ! It is too much !”
“And yet.” whispered Ott to himself,
“he told me to lighten the gloom and
to cheer the afflicted family with the
resources of my art ; and I certainly
thought the idea about the monkey
would have that effect, somehow. It is
ungrateful.”
Just then there was a knock at the
door, and a woman entered, crying
“Are you the editor ?” she inquired
of Brimmer.
Brimmer said he was.
"\\ -w-well.” she said, in a voice
broken hy sobs, “wh-wliat d’you mean
by publishing this kind of poetry ab-
bout my Johnny ? Al-my name is Sm-
Smith. and wh-when I looked this
m-morning for the notice of Johnny’s
d-death in y-your paper, I saw this awful
and wicked, wicked v-verse :
“Four doctors tackled Johnny Smith—
They blistered and they bled him;
Wiih squills and anti-bilious pills
And ipecac they fed him
They stirred him up with calomel,
And tried to move his liver ;■
But all in vain—his little soul
Was wafted o’er the river.”
“It’s false! false! that’s what it is.
Johnny only had one doctor. And they
didn’t trv to m-m-move his liver, and
they didn’t b-bleed him and b-blistcr
him. It’s a wicked falsehood, and
you’re a hard-hearted brute f-f-for print
ing it r
“Aladam, I shall go crazy if you con
tinue,” exclaimed Brimmer. “This is
not my work. It is the work of a ser
pent whom I warmed in my bosom, and
whom I will slay with my own hand as
soon as he comes in. Aladam, the mis
erable outcast shall die!”
“Strange—strange !” mused Ott.—
“And this man told me to combine ele
vating sentiment with practical inform
ation. If the information concerning
the squill and the ipecac is not practical
I have misunderstood the use of that
word. And if young Smith didn’t have
four doctors, it was an outrage. He
ought to have excited his liver. Thus
it is, thought Ott, “that human life is
sacrificed to carelessness.”
At this juncture the sheriff entered,
his brow clothed with thunder. He
had a copy of the Alorning Glory in his
hand. He approached the editor, and
pointing to a death notice, said :
“Read that horrible mockery of my
woe, and tell me the name of the writer
so that I can chastise him.”
The editor read a* follows :
“We have lost our little Hannah in a very
painful manner,
And we often asked, ‘How can her harsh
sufferings he borne ?
When her death was first reported her aunt
got up and snorted
With the grief that she supported, for it
made her feel forlorn.
She was such a little seraph, that her father
who is sheriff,
Really doesn’t seem to care if he never
smiles in life again.
She has gone, we hope, to heaven, at the
early age of seven,
(Funeral starts off at eleven), where she’U
never more have pain.”
“As a consecpience of this infamy I
withdraw all the county advertising
from your paper. A man who could
trifle in this manner with the feelings
of a parent is a savage and a scoundrel.”
As the sheriff went out, Brimmer
placed his head upon the table and
groaned.
“Really,” Air. Ott reflected, “that
person must be deranged. I tried, in his
case, to put myself in his place, and to
write as if I was one of the family, ac
cording to instructions. The verses aie
beautiful. That allusion to the grief of
her aunt, particularly, seemed to me to
be very happy. It expresses violent
emotion with a felicitous combination of
sweetness and force. These people have
no soul—no appreciation of the beauti
ful in art.”
While the poet mused, hurried steps
were heard upon the stairs, and in a
moment a middle aged man dashed in
abruptly, and seizing Brimmer’s scat
tered hair, bumped his. prostrate head
against the table three or four times
with considerable force. Having ex
pended the violence of his emotion in
this manner, he held the editor’s head
down with one hand, shaking it occas
ionally by way of emphasis, and with
the other uand he seized the paper and
said :
“You disgraceful old reprobate! You
unsympathetic and disgusting vampire !
You hoary-headed old ghoul! What do
you mean by putting such stuff as this
in your vile sheet about my deceased
son ? What d’you mean by printing
such awful doggerel as this, you de
praved and dissolute inkslinger—you
imbecile old quill-driver :
“Oh ! bury Bartholomew out in the woods,
inn beautiful hole in the ground,
Where the bumble-bees buzz and the wood
peckers sing
And the straddle-bugs tumble around ;
So that in winter when the snow and slush
Have covered his last little bed,
His brother Artemus can go out with Jane
And visit the place with his sled.”
“I’ll teach you to talk about straddle
bugs; I’ll instruct you about slush; I’ll
enlighten your insane old intellect on
the subject of singing wood-peckers!
What do you know about Jane and Ar
temus, you wretched buccaneer, you
despicable butcher of the English lan
guage ! Go out with a sled ! I’ll carry
you out in a hearse before I’m done
with you, you deplorable lunatic !”
At the end of every phrase the visi
tor gave the editor's head a fresh knock
against the table. AYhen the exercises
ended. Air. Brimmer explained and
apologized in the humblest manner,
promising at the same time to give his
assailant a chance to pummel Ott.
“The treachery of the man,” mur
mured the poet, “is dreadful. Didn’t
he desire me to throw a glamor of poe
try over common place details ? But for
that I should never have thought of
alluding to woodpeckers and bugs and
other children of nature. The man ob
jects to the remark about the sled.—
Can’t the idiot know it was necessary
to have a rhyme for ‘bed V Can he sup
pose I can write poetry without rhymes ?
The man is a lunatic ! He ought not to
be at large!”
Hardly had the indignant and ener
getic parent of Bartholomew departed,
when a man with red hair and a fero
cious glare in his eyes entered, carry
ing a club and accompanied by a savage
looking dog.
“I want to see theeditor,” he shouted.
A ghastly pallor o’erspread Brim
mer’s face, and he said:
“The editor is not in.”
“Well, when will he be in ?”
“Not for a week—a month—a year—
forever! He will never come in any
more!” screamed Brimmer. “He has
gone to South America with the inten
tion of remaining there during the bal
ance of his life. He has departed—he
has fled. If you want to see him, you
had better follow him to tbe equator.—
He will be glad to see you. I would ad
vise you. as a friend, to take the next
boat and start at once.”
“That is unfortunate,” said the man
with the golden locks; “I called for
the purpose of battering him up a lot
with this club.”
“He will he sorry,” said . Brimmer,
sarcastically. “He will regret missing
you. I will write to him, and mention
that you dropped in.”
“Aly name is AIcFadden,” said the
man. “I came to break the head of
the man who wrote that obituary poetry
about my wife. If you don’t tell me
who perpetrated the followingl'U break
your’s for you! Where’s (fee man who
wrote this ? Pay attention j (,
“Mrs. McFadden has gone from this life;
She has left all its'Sorrowsand cares : ’
She caught the rheumatism in both her legs
While scrubbing the cellar and stairs.
They put mustard plast ers upon her in vain,
They bathed her with whisky and rum;
But Thursday her spirit departed, and left
Her body entirely numb.”
“The slave who hel«|^.hij lato> Mrs.
McFadden tip to the scorn of an un
sympathetic world in that shocking
manner,” said the editor, “is named
Remington Ott. He boards in Bank
street, fourth door from the corner. I
would advise you to call on him and
avenge Airs. McFadden’s wrongs with
a judicious intermixture of club and
dog bites.”
“And this,” sighed the poet outside
the door, “is the man who told me to
divert McFadden’s mind from the con
templation of the horrors of the tomb.
It was this monster who counselled me
to make sunshine of AIcFadden’s smiles
burst through the tempest of AIcFad
den’s tears If that sore-headed mon
ster couldn’t smile over that allusion to
whisky and rum; if those remarks about
the rheumatism in her legs could pot
divert his mind from the horrors of the
tomb, was it my fault? AIcFadden
grovels! He knows no more about poetry
than a speckled mule knows abort the
Shorter Catechism.”
The poet determined to leave before
any further criticisms were made upon
his performances. He jumped down
from his chair and crept softly toward
the back staircase. Arriving at the
lauding, he suddenly encountered Mr-
Brimmer, who was moving off in the
same direction. The editor had hardly
time enough to utter a profane ejacula
tion and to lift his hand to strike the
poet, when an old lady in a poke-bonnet
and silver spectacles suddenly emerged
from the stairway and pinned the edi
tor to the wall with the ferule of her
umbrella. After grinding her teeth
at him for a moment, she floored him
with her weapon, and seating herself
upon his prostrate form, she extracted
a copy of the Alorning Glory front her
bag. and, pointing to a certain stanza in
the obituary column, asked Ott to read
it aloud. lie did so—anil it ran in this
fashion :
“Little Alexander s detod;
Jam liim in a coffin .
Don’t have as good a chance
For a fun’ral often.
Rush his Body right around
To the cemetery, .
Drop him in the sepulture
With his Uncle .Jerry;
At the end of every line the indig
nant conqueror puuchet the fallen
Brimmer’s ribs with her unbrella, and
exclaimed: j
“Oh you willin ! D’you hear that,
you wretch! What d’you mean by
writin of my grandson in that way ?—
Take that, you set pint! 0, you—wil-
linous wiper you, tryin to break a lone
widder’s heart with such scand’lus lies
as them ! There, you willin! I kem-
mere to hammer you well tvith this ’ere
umbereller, you wicked willin, you
owdacious wiper you ! Take that, and
that, you wile, disgustin, indecent waga-
bone ! When you know well enough
that Aleck'never had no uncle Jerry,
and never had no uncle in no sepulchre
anyhow, you wile wretch, you.”
While she pounded the editor the
poet groped his way down stairs, six
steps at.a time, and emerged from the
front door with remarkable suddenness.
His journalistic career ended upon that
day. AYhen Brimmer’s employees had
dragged away Alexander’s grand parent
and carried her struggling and scream
ing down the street, the editor sent for
a carriage and was taken home to bed,
from whence he arose a week later with
an earnest determination never to per
mit another line of obituary poetry to
enter the columns of the Alorning
Glory.
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OR. M. L. BATTLE,
RESIDENT
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FOR TREASURER.
The many friends of Mr. William C. Dick
inson authorize us to announce his name as
a candidate for the office of Treasurer of De
catur county—subject to the Democratic
nomination. .
FOR TAX ASSESSOR.
We are authorized to announce the name
of Hardy Stricklin as a candidate for Tax
Assessor of Decatur county—subject to the
action of the nominating committee of the
Democratic party.
FOR SHERIFF.
We are authorized to announce the name
of Samuel G. O’Neal as a candidate for Sher
iff of Decatur county at the election in Janu
ary—subject to the action of the nominating
convention of the Democratic party.
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We are authorized to announce the name
of Robert E. Ledwitli as a candidate for tht
office of Tax assessor of Decatur county—
subject to the action of the nominating con
vention of the Democratic Party.
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We are authorized to announce the name
of Charles P. Hagood as a candidate for the
office of Tax Assessor of Decatur—subject to
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We are authorized to announce the name
of D. J. G. McNair as a candidate for Tax
Assessor of Decatur county—subject to the
nomination of the Democratic party—by
Many Voters.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
Editor Democrat:
Please announce the name of Josephus
Avriett, as a candidate for the office of Tax-
Collector of Decatur county at the ensuing
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of the Democratic Party. Many Citizens.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
We are authorized to announce the name
of Geo. D. Griffin as a candidate for the
office of Tax Collector, Subject to the nomi
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The friends of Mr. E. D. Hayes take much
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The name of Mr. James M. Coston is sug
gested as a suitable candidate for the office
of Sheriff of Decatur county, subject to the
action of the Democratic nominating conven
tion, in the approaching election. Ilis well
known energy and business qualifications in
dicate him as in every way well qualified to
fill the office in the event of his election, and
his nomination would be hailed with general
satisfaction by Many Friends.
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of W. C. Thomas as a candidate for Tax Col
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of R. A. Connell, as a candidate for the office
of Tax Collector of Decatur county. Subject
to the nomination of the Democratic party.
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of W. B. Freeman as a candidate for Tax
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of Col. Charles J. Munnerlyn as a candidate
for the office of Ordinary of Decatur county,
at the ensuing election—subject to the nomi
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Many Citizens.
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We are authorized to announce Landy
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lector of Decatur county, on the Grant Re
publican ticket, at the ensuing election. He
expects the colored rote.
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To the colored voters of Decatur:—In view
of the fact that you constitute the Republican
party of Decatur county, I think it high time
that you should have the benefits of its public
offices, which yon will never have as long as
you are in the leading strings of the few
white men who, for the sake of gain, claim to
be of you; therefore I announce myself as a
candidate for the office of County Treasurer,
and respectfully ask your suffrages.-
Owen Gants, (colored.)
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of Milo Donalson, colored, as a candidate for
Sheriff of Decatur county, on the Grant Re
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the colored voters.
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Editor Star:—You are authorized to an
nounce my name as a candidate for the office
of Ordinary of Miller county, subject to the
nomination. G. BOYKIN.
Look out for the engine When you hear the
whistle. Here he comes “Fat-and-go-last”
F. M, Platt, and wants to be re-elected Sheriff
of Miller county, at the next election. If he
is re-elected he will run his locomotive on all
violators of the law, if he gets on their track.
W’e are requested to announce the name of
Wm. B. Dancer as a candidate for the office
of Tax Assessor of Miller county - st the next
election.
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of Sheriff of Miller county. If elected I will
discharge the duties of Sheriff as the law di
rects. WM. BUSH, Jr.
e are authorized to announce the name
election for CTerk^F tfie Superior Court of
Miller county.
To the people of Miller county In re
sponse to the expression of a popular desire,
sufficiently general and influential to control
my action in the matter, I announce myself
as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector
of Miller county. If elected, I shall discharge
the duties of my office faithfully and impar
tially. JOHNE. DUCE.
We are authorized to announce the name
of A. G. Roberts as a candidate for the office
of Tax Assessor of Miller county, at the next
election. If elected, he will administer the
office fairly, impartially, without fear or favor.
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nounce my name as a candidate for re-election
to the office of Tax Collector of Miller county,
at the ensuing election. If re-clected, ns
heretofore, I shall discharge my duties faith
fully and impartially. J. S. BUSH.
W’e are authorized to announce the name
of James M. Riley as a candidate for the office
of Sheriff of Miller county, with J. W. Cal
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A. Bush, represents to the court in her peti
tion duly filed, that she has fully administer
ed David V. A. Bush’s estate, this is there
fore to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors to show cause, if any they have,
why said administratrix should not be dis
charged from her administration and receive
letters of dismission on the Fourth Monday
in December, 1872. WM. B. DANIELL,
Sept. 20th, 1872. Ordinary.
VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE.
I hereby offer for sale, to a cash custom
er, my plantation on Flint river known as a
part of the Hutchison estate, containing 250
acres of ridge and hammock land, 60 acres
of which are in good state of cultivation.—
The place has good dwelling, out-houses,
stables, cribs, etc., all new, and is situated at
a steamboat landing on the Flint river, 18
miles from Cambridge, and seven from Chat
tahoochee. Mrs. E. H. W. GIBSON.
Refer to Democrat office. [Nov. 14-tf
V. B. BAUGHN-,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND LAND AGENT,
Colquitt, Ga.
J. P. Dickinson. , a W. StegriL fT
DICKINSON & STEGALL, '
BANKERS,
Bainbridge, Ga.,
DIALERS IN
Exchange, Stocks, Bonds, and
Gobi.
Deposits received and Collect
tions made
And promptly remitted for at current rate of
exchange.
State of Georgia Decatur comity :
The undersigned have this day entered
into copartnership fcuqthe purpose of doing J
a Banking and Exchange business in the city
of Bainbridge, Ga., under the firm name and
style of Dickinson & Stegall.. , »
Joh-j P. Dickinson and Calvin W. Stegall
are tie general partners, and Arthur P.
"Wright, and Thornton- . C. Miteheil aie th*
special partners, who have this day contrib
uted the sum of Five Thousand dollars each’
to the capital stock. Said copartnership tor
commence this day and expire on the Sixth!
day 6f August, A. D., 1873.
JOHN P. DICKINSON,
CALVIN W. STEGALL,
ARTHUR P. WRIGHT,
THOMAS C. MITCHELL.
August 6th, 1872.—tf
Prospectus for 1872—Sixth Tear.
ISAAC A. BUSH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Colquitt, Miller county, Ga.,
Will practice his profession and give prompt
attention to business in the courts of law, and
equity in the Pal aula and Albany circuits.—
Office in the court house, up stairs.
THE PEOPLE’S JEWELRY STOKE OF
W. C. Subers
Is now replete with one of the finest“stocks
of goods in the line ever opened in Bainbridge.
We here enumerate a few of the valuable ar
ticles in the
JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE
DEPARTMENT."
Seal rings, Amethyst rings—plain and en
crusted with gold and diamonds—plain gold
rings, 18 carats from 2 to 8 dwts. in weight;
gents’ gold chains, from 18 to 55 dwts.; Tall
ies’ Nillson and Opera chains, from 25 to 35
dwts.; new style collar, sleeve and shirt but
tons of gold and pearl; Masonic pins and
key-stones in great parity; ladies’ sets of
jewelry (pins and ear-rings) from $2.50 to
$40; gents’ silver and plated watch chains,
from $1 to $18.
Silver-ware (quadruple plate); complete
stock of latest novelties, castors, spoons,
forks, tea setts, cake, fruit snd card baskets,
pitchers, goblets, waiters, etc., etc. Silver
thimbles (warranted the best), spectacles in
gold, silver and steel frames, from 50 cts. to
$11. Gold pens of the best makers. Solid
silver-ware (warranted sterling siver), gold
and silver watches. 150, 1 and 8 day clocks;
calendar clocks for counting rooms, offices.
CUTLERY DEPARTMENT.
The best and finest lot of cutlery in the
city, consisting of pocket knives for gents,
ladies and boys, and from the most celebrated
makers, such as Rogers and Wostenholm.
Dinner, breakfast and tea ivory handled
table knives (Rogers’ and Ells’ best); scissors,
of all kinds; razors. Call and give this cut
lery a special examination.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
We invite particular attention to this de
partment. Music boxes from $2.75 to $250;
violins from $2.50 to $25; banjos, guitars^
accordeons, tambourines, bones, harmonicas,
hand-organs, drums, fifes, flutes, etc. Violin
strings 3 to 4 lengths, best Italian; guitar
and cello strings in great variety.
FANCY GOODS, ETC.
Ladies’ jet, pearl and tortoise-shell pins,
ear-rings and neck-laces. A large assortment
of beads; ladies’ writing desks, work-boxes,
portfolios, etc. Photograph albums. Lubins’
and Atkinson’s handkerchief extracts. China
and marble vases; China ornaments and
toilet setts, China cups and saucers, China
dinner, tea and furniture sets for children.
Croqnet setts, spy-glasses, opera-glasses, etc.
Marbles, dolls and toys—largest stock ever
in this market. Walking canes, pipes and
smoking tobaccos, and thousands of other
things too numerous to mention.
A fine lot of Stationery always on hand—
best in the city. Call and see
W. C- SUBERS,
Broad St., Bainbridge, Ga.
Watches, Jewelry and Clocks repaired and
warranted. oct3-tf
THE ALDINE
An illustrated monthly journal, universally
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interest characteristic of ordinary periodicals:
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graceful literature; and a collection ot pict
ures, the rarest specimens of artistic skill, In
black and white. Although each succeeding
number affords a fresh pleasure to its friends
the real value and beauty of the Aldine will
be most appreciated after it has been bound
up at the close of the year. While other
publications may claim superior cheapness,
as compared with rivals of a similar class,
the Aldine is to unique and original concep
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without competion in price or character. Hjs
possessor of a complete volume cannot dupli
cate the quantity of finepaperand engravings
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ten times its cost; and then there are the
chromos besides.
Art Department.—Notwithstanding ther
increase in subscription last fall, when the
Aldine assumed its present noble proportions
and representative character, the edition was 1
more than doubled during the past year; >
proving that the American public will appre
ciate and support a sincere effort iif the cause
of art. The publishers, anxious to justify the
ready confidence thus demonstrated, have
exerted themselves to the utmost to develop'
and improve the work; and the plans forth*
coming year os unfolded by the monthly
issues will astonish and delight its most san
guine friends.
Tne publishers are authorized to onnoones’
designs from many of the most eminent art-
ists of America. In addition, the Aldine will 11
reproduce examples of t he best foreign mes 1 :
ters, selected with a view to the highest
artistic success, and greatest general inter- ‘
est; avoiding such as have become familiar,
through photographs or copies of any kind.
The quarterly tinted plates for 1873 will
reproduce four of John S. Davis’ inimitable
child-sketches, appropriate to the four sea-'
sons. These plates, appearing in the issues
of January, April, July and October, would
be alone worth the price of subscription- The
popular feature of a copiously illustrated
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the subscriptions of thousands in every ae©-'
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vance for the year 1873 will receive without
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ingly ahead of any that can be offered by
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ceive a certificate, over the signature of the
publishers, guaranteeing (hat the chromos
delivered shall be equal to the samples furn
ished the agents, or the money will be re
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grade, free to the subscribers to a five dollar
periodical, will mark an epoch in the history
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mos see November issue of the Aldine.
The Literary Department will continue'
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dard, assisted by the best writers and .poets
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ture always in keeping with the artortie at
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JAMES SUTTON & CO., Publishers, Mi
Maiden Lane, New York.
Thou. M. AJtl^u,
—WITH—
J. B. ROSS & S. T. COLEMAN,
Importers and Jobbers of
Dry Goods, Hats, CIo&ui&
Boots, Shoes and Notions,
96 CHERRY & 55 SECOND SIR,
oct24]
MACON, GA.
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