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1 Volume 2. 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. Doors, Blinds, SASH, Mouldings. Brackets. Stair Fixtures. Build ers’ Furnishing Hardware. Drain Pipe, Foor Tiles. Wire Guards. Terra Cotta Ware, Marble ond Slate Mantle Pieces. SSg* Window-glass a specialty. Circulars aad price lists sent free, on application, by P. P. TOALE, 20 Haync and 33 Pinckney sts., actg-iy Charleston, S. C. Rates of Shaving. Single shave. 25ets.: hair cutting, 50cts.; dyeing moustache, 50cis: dyeing moustache and Whiskers, $2 50. dyeing head of hair, $5; hair dressing. I5cts.; boot blacking, 10c. Gentlemen, as the City Ordinance requires us to close up at precisely 10 o dock, please come in time for us to serve you before that hour, which we are always ready to do. W. D. WASHINGTON. OR. M. L. BATTLE, RESIDENT DENTIST, Bainbridge, - - Georgia. Office over Rockwell & West, where he can be found every day except the fourth Satur day in each month. When absent at other times previous notice will be given through the Democrat. [jy20 tf H. F. Abell. C. E. Hochstrasscr H. F. ARELI*& CO., GENERAL C dll MLS MERCHANTS, And Dealers in Plantation, Family, Steamboat GROCERIES. Consignments of Florida syrups solicited. Particular attention paid to all orders and consignments. [oct24 6m 116 Broad St., Columbus Ga. CANDIDATES. All names inserted under this head will be charged Ten Dollars for. 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. FOR TAX ASSESSOR. • 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. FOR TAX ASSESSOR. We are authorized to announce the name of Charles P. Hagood as a candidate for the office of Tax Assessor of Decatur—subject to the action of the nominating convention of the Democratic Party. FOR TAX ASSESSOR. 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 January election—subject to the nomination 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 nation of the Decatur Democratic Nomina ting Convention, and if elected he will do his duty faithfully, impartially and honestly. FOR SHERIFF. The friends of Mr. E. D. Hayes take much pleasure in putting his name before the Dem ocratic nominating convention as a candidate for Sheriff of Decatur county, in the ensuing January election. FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT. Eiutor Democrat :—Please announce Mr. R. M. Johnston as a candidate for Clerk Su perior Court of Decatur county, at the ensu ing election, and oblige Many Voters. FOR SHERIFF. 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. FOR TAX COLLECTOR. We are authorized to announce the name of W. C. Thomas as a candidate for Tax Col lector of Decatur county,- at the ensuing elec tion—subject to the nomination of the Dem ocratic convention. FOR TAX COLLECTOR. We are authorized to announce the name of R. A. Connell, as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Decatur county. Subject to the nomination of the Democratic party. FOR TAX COLLECTOR. We are authorized to announce the name of W. B. Freeman as a candidate for Tax Collector of Decatur county, at the ensuing election—subject to the nomination of the Democratic convention. FOR ORDINARY. We are authorized to announce the name of Col. Charles J. Munnerlyn as a candidate for the office of Ordinary of Decatur county, at the ensuing election—subject to the nomi nation of the Democratic party—by Many Citizens. FOR TAX COLLECTOR. We are authorized to announce Landy Jackson, colored, as a candidate for Tax Col lector of Decatur county, on the Grant Re publican ticket, at the ensuing election. He expects the colored rote. FOR TREASURER. 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.) FOR SHERIFF. We are authorized to announce the name of Milo Donalson, colored, as a candidate for Sheriff of Decatur county, on the Grant Re publican ticket. He expects the support of the colored voters. ANNOUNCEMENTS. 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. Editors Star:—Yov are authorized to an nounce my name as a candidate for the office 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. Editor Star:—You are authorized to an 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 houn as his Deputy; and if elected he and Calhoun will discharge their duties as the law directs. GEORGIA—Miller county. Whereas Re becca Roberts, Administratrix of David V. 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 admitted to be the handsomest periodical in - the world; a representative and champion of American taste. \ Not for Sale is Book or News Stores.—• The Aldine, while issued with all the regu larity, has none of the temporary or timely interest characteristic of ordinary periodicals: It is an elegant miscellany of pure, light and, 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 tion—alone and unapproached—absolutely without competion in price or character. Hjs possessor of a complete volume cannot dupli cate the quantity of finepaperand engravings in any other shape or number of volnmes for 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 “Christmas” number will be continued. To possess such a valuable epitome of the’ - art world, at a cost so trifling, will command the subscriptions of thousands in every ae©-' tion of the country; but as the usefulness, and attractions of the Aldine can be enhanef. . ed in proportion to the numerical increase fr its supporters, the publishers . propose to' make “assurance double sure,” by the fol lowing unparalleled offer of premium chromos for 1873. Every subscriber who pays in ad vance for the year 1873 will receive without additional charge, a pair of beautiftil of! chromos,- after J. J. Hill, the eminent Eng lish painter, Tlie pictures entitled “The Village Belle,” and “Crossing the Moor,” are 14x20 inches—are printed from twenty five different plates, requiring twenty-five impressions and tints to perfect each picture: The same chromos are sold for $30 per pair in the art stores. As it is the determination, of its conductors to keep the Aldine out of the reach of competition in every depart ment, the chromos will be found correspond ingly ahead of any that can be offered by other periodic Is. Every subscriber will re 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 funded. The distribution of pictures of this grade, free to the subscribers to a five dollar periodical, will mark an epoch in the history of art; and considering the unprecedented cheapness of the price for the Aldine itself,- the marvel falls little shortof a miracle, ereit to those best acquainted with the achievemtyitS of inventive genius and improved mechanical appliances. For illustrations of these ehre- mos see November issue of the Aldine. The Literary Department will continue' under the care of Mr. Richard Henry Stod dard, assisted by the best writers and .poets of the day, whp will strive to have the litera ture always in keeping with the artortie at tractions. Terms ;—$5 00 per annum, in advsniee,- with oil chromos free. The Aldine wl)! here after be obtainable only by subscripfinii.—" There will be no reduced or club rates,-' cash' for subscriptions must be sent to the' pub-' Ushers direct or handed to the' local Igiaf, without responsibility to the publisher*, ex cept in cases were certificates arO given,- bearing the file simile signature of JSdMf Sutton & Co. , , Acexts Wanted.—Any person, wishing to' act permanently as a local agent will 1 receiver full and prompt information by applying W 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. [«»