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THE MONROE .Mmk ADVERTISER.
GEORGE .V. KING k CO.
VOL. XXJ 11.
Professional Cards.
§ a J.IIALEr
Attorney and Solicitor al I.a\v.
In office with Hon. T. B. Cabiness, Forsyth
Georgia. Collection of Claims a Specialty
Oct 1- lin
Wl>. S I O.VL.
. AXIOfiNEY AT LAW,
FORSYTH, OA.
Will practice in all the courts of the Flint
Judicial Circuit and the Supreme court of the
State. Strict attention given to collections.
EJF'Oflico lip-stairs over Ponder 6c Ham’s
Dry Goods store. BOvl’i ltn
T. It. CABAMsS. J- U- £i.RNEU.
Cabamss & Turner,
attokxeys at la vv
FORSYTH. GA-
Will practice in State and Federal courts
IIOV'I2 dill
1! I. BfU&KR C. A- TURNER.
BEKNER & TURNER,
ATTOKNEYS AT LAW.
FOtioi ill, : • : GLlihUiA
WILL practice in .all the courts. Prompt at
tculion giyeti to all business entrusted to
hum. The collection of claims a specialty.
Office Up stairs in Pye’s Hall. octl7
T. C. BATTLE,
AT LYYAA7,
t’OICM IH. CiUt.
\V ill practice in the Superior Courts of Mon
co, and adjoining counties Also in the Su
prtiu Coin t Y\ ill give close alh lition to all
Intsiii' -s entrusted to him. Collecting doubtful
aiai-. a specialty. tiS'Office ill Courthouse,
novid If.
T. W. KING,
Justice oX the Peace.
Ollict in the Court-house, up stairs.
Wifi attend to any collections intrusted to
his cure. febldtf
Lr. L. B. t Li XANDEIi
Oilers his professional services to the citizens or
FORSYTE!
aim surrounding country, (alls may he left
at his residence or at the Drug Store of F. 0
Mays and will receive prompt attention.
Dr. Alexander respectfully announces tliat
heretofore his plantation in Houston county
has required his absence from home occasion
ally for several days at a time, but his arrange
ments are such now as to enable him to devote
his entire time to the pradticc of medicine, and
he will always be tound at home oi at liis
office when not professionally engaged.
Forsyth, July 15. 1878. if
DENTISTRY.
I have opened in office in the Advkr
tiskii building (tirst room to tiie riglit, up
stairs) and am prepaired to do all hinds of
r;-iTQ DENTAL
Qs§§ WORK
in ft faithful and satisfactory manner. IPhen
parties are not prepared to come to my office,
if notitied 1 will cheerfully caU at their res
idences. . _ _ _ _
T. E. CHAMBtRS.
Rlisoeilareois Advertisements.!
Monroe Female College.
FORSYTH, OA.
Tliit. long established Institution of Learning
will resume exercises
.A, 11 trust 2G. 1878
A full Hoard of Instruction, a healthful and
pleasant location, the refining influences of
on. of the most intelligent and moral com
n uui t. i > in the State e xcellent facilities for
attainment in the tine arts, all tend to ccm*
mend it to iavorable consideration.
Hoar 1 and Literary tuition have la in reduc
ed till the expense of both for the fall tern.,
of four months, is only S7O.
Those desirous of procuring for their daugh
ters superior advantages of mental and social
culture would do well to s- ml at once for a
catalogue of the Institution.
Thankful to the public for the liberal patron
age of the past, the Institution looks with re
newed hope and confident c to the prospect of
the future. _ „
R. T. Afcßl'RX, Presuleut,
S. G- HILLYEK, D-D.
WM-H 11KAD
BANKER,
Forsvth. - Ga.
Dealer in
BTOOKS. BONDS. GOLD and SILVER COIN
Deposits Received, Commercial Paper Dis
* muted, Loans made on Stocks, Bonds or
other tirst-elass Collaterals. Advances
made on Cotton and Produce,
in st<re. Collections made in
all parts of the U. S.
OH.i e in corner under Py<* House
HOUSE and LOT
For Sale-
I .tier my lip use and lot situated on -Vain
Stmt, in Forsyth, within three minutes walk
<>! the court bouse square, for sale at a sxcar
kick Any one in search of a comfortable
h< me Humid see ue at once- There is a beau
tiful grass lawn iu front of the house, a large
garden in tlie rear, auu a strawberry bad and
l.t .• \imitg on hard on one side Ihe house
i as tour roon s on first floor and two ro< ms
no stairs 1 have expended a great deal of
n!. nty within the past three years to make
this a comfortable home- It is a bargain to
v. IU L,l gj w L caWICEXZU
New Advertisements.
45 Years Before the Public.
THE GENUINE
DR. C. McLANE’S
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS,
FOR THE CURE OF
Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
Symptoms of aßlseased Liver.
PAIN ift ilie. iigkt.. u4<r, -HHKfcY the
edge of the ribvtlifreases'on'presr
sure; sometimes the pain is ill the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the path is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the lop of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss of appe
tite and sickness; the bowels in gen
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied with a duii, heavy
•emotion in the back part', 'i here is
generally a considerable loss of mem
ory, accompanied with a painful sen
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
A slight, dry cough is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of.
weariness and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of a prickly sensa
tion of the skin; his spirits arc low;
and although he is satisfied that txenv
cise would be beneficial to him, yri
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts.,
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease,’Twit *ases
have occurred where few of them ex
isted, yet examination of the Lode,
after death, has shown the livek to
have been extensively deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
Dr. C. McLane’s Liver Pills, in
cases of Ague and Feylr, \. hen
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No belter
cathartic can be used, preparatory to.
or after taking Quinine. We woo'd
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them a fair trial.
For all bilious derangements and as
a simple purgative, they are unequal& i.
BEWARE OK l.i J ATUiXy.
The genuine are never sugar tea :-d.
Every box has a red wax seal on due lid,
with the impression Dr. McLamN Liver
Pii.ls.
The genuine McLane’s Liver Pii.ls hear
the signatures of C. Me Lane and Fleming
Bros, on the wrappers.
Insist upon having the genuine Da. C.
McLane’s Liver Pii.ls, prepared by Flem
ing Bros,, of Pittsburgh. I’a., the market being
Wli of imitations of the name AJcLanc,
•pclled differently but same proiuu . iation.
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bles, etc , with suggestions for keeping build
ings and farming utensils in repair. This is
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widely copied, under the head of
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giving receipts for practical dishes, hints for
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FORSYTH. GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1878.
Written ior tins Mosk >£ Aovsbii-er.
XELIJE GRAY,
—OR—
ISOLD FOU GrO Ll>
BY ECILA nikpmvl.
CHAPTER 111
Nellie Gray had been iu Buchanan two
weeks, and was the acknowledged belle of the
town. All the fashionables were raving over
her w-onderful beauty and accomplished
-graces. She tried hard to eradicate Wilbur
Lenore’s image from her heart and to drive
awa# every thought of him, but in vain.
Day by day those once elastic and joyous
steps became slow and weary, and that once
bright, smiling face wore a look.
She would often times go out on the vine
foycred terrace of her brother’s city residence,
epsconce herself ip the trailing vines, and
sit for hours thinking, and cast long, wistful
glances up and down the streets. It was at
one of these times she saw her stranger friend
pass down the street by her brother’s door,
stare at her, and pass on never seeming to
recognize her.
Seveiul evenings after this incident there
was to he a grand hall given in the parlors of
Colonel McGee’s mansion ip hoper of Mrs.
McLee’s brother, and to this Nellie had a spe
cial invitation.
She was standing before the mirror viewing
‘herself complacently in ii, and turning around
to shake out the shining train of her elegant
hall dress of white satin, she espied two en
vekipesiu the hands uf Flora, her maid, and
almost reeling towards her she grasped them
tightly. One was in her father’s bold hand
write, and the other bore a foreign post mark,
but instantly she recognized it, and with a
quick, neryous hand she broke the seal and
read as follows:
“Nellie—Miss Gruy—l have loved you, Go<T
ouly knows how dearly. I have been a woes
shiper at your shrine since iirst I looked upon
your beautiful face, and now must I give you
up'i Oh! Nellie, Nellie, never till I know
you are the wife of another shall I cease to
love you, and when 1, in my grave am sleep
ing, if this bright world still contains your
fair form, you will then know how dearly I
have loved you. Ido not blame you, Nellie,
for ray misery. It was not you, hut your
father. Since our parting in the summer
house I have seta you, though you did not
know it, and am nearer you at this time than
you suspect. Though this letter bears a for
eign post-mark, I am not so far from you as
you tuiuk, and if at any time you need assis
tance in any way, only drop a little “white
winged” messenger in your own post office,
and it will reach me, and it will ever be my
pleasure to help you iu any way or at any
time. Till then, God bless you, Nellie, good
by. Wilbur H. Leisure.
“There’s a sigh in the heart though the lipa
are gay,” and Nellie ve'ified this to the letter.
She was gay, and Seemingly light hearted at
the ball, and Mrs. McLee hastened at the
earliest convenience to introduce Nellie to her
brother. Mr. Harry Eronel, and in the face of
Hairy Lionel Nellie recognized her stanger
friend. Time passed by on golden wings to
Nellie. She could almost imagine she was
conversing once more with her lost Wilbur.
Wearied of the alluring scenes of the hall
loom Nellie took the arm of Harr} - Eronel and
walked out on the broad balcony, and they
both told their storys to each other As we
know Nellie’s we will forget and listen to
Harry Eronel.
“When I was sixlem years of age ipy
er, then a rich banker of New i ork, failed in
business and went to the ga\e with a broken
heart, leaving his two children moneyless, and
as natural almost friendless. My mother soon
followed father, ami Leolr shortly afterward
married Leom.r i McLee., who proved as true
ill poverty as in w'euilh. lie was Unmeiucly
rich, and as yet LeuU has never known what
it is to battle widi a told ands. ldsh world.
I was then all (done. My Lro.Lei-iu law
ottered me a siluutiu i with him in business,
but l declined, feeling th.d it would be best
for me to seek a home in a slrai.ge land, and
lcUiU while young to hear the sneers auu in
different looks of “natme’s God.” I left and
found a situation and a ph usual home in one
of our northern cities, and for some lime there
was not a break iu the happy, though une
ventful life I led. 1 soon gained the confi
dence of my employer, and one evening he
cordially invited me home with him I wont
and there met the destroyer of my happiness,
his daughter. My visits to his mansion be
came quite frequent, and before six months
we were betrothed.
Our lives ran smoothly as the gentle bub
ling brook until there came a wealthy tourit
to ibis grand city and offered his heart, hand
and fortune at the shrine of my enchantress.
He wood her with all the eloquence of his
soul, but it ouly fell on an irresponsive heart,
that could look calmly *>n him and bring ouly
a respectful esteem to meet his devotion- in
the hitter by and by, her father forbade it e
his house, and my sweet charmer was forced
to discard me by a father’s strict command,
and now I am wandtriug over the face of
this broad land not caring for or asking for
any tiling, for I shall never cease to love her,
my beau’s idol.”
it was late when Harry Eronel appeared iu
the ball room with Nellie leaning on his arm
They had become so much interested in each
others story that time passed by so quickly
they hardly knew it till the night was far
spent.
Nellie remained in Buch.m ui four months,
and at the expiration of that time she received
a letter from her father oidding her come
home, saying Charles Parker had entirely re
covered aud was anxiously awaiting tlie time
when he could claim Lur as his bride.
Nellie returned to St Paul, and in a few
weeks tin re was a gr ind wedding at ‘'Seaside
Rciieat,” aud Nellie Gray stoo l at the hyme
neal altar aud pledged herself to love diaries
Parker “till death do us part.” The bridal
party left St. Paul three days afterwards on
a tour to Europe, and in her rich tra eliug
costume, Nellie looked tlie happy bride.
The journey proved pleasant to N< Hie, and
Charles Parker, iu his lordly possession, coaid
ask for nothiug more. On board the vessel,
Mary, Nellie again saw her stranger
friend. Harry Erouel, but this time she only
glimpsed at him, fdf as soon as he recognized
Ler he left the part that she was in and went
out ou deck.
“In Q-od w© Trust 99
Soon there was a cry of fire, fire, fire. Peo
ple fled to the left and right. The curling
smoke and roaring flames told too plainly its
sad tale. There was a quick t browing on of
life guards and a splashing of the water con
tinually, and all the passengers was on the
bosom of the ocean except Charles Parker, his
fair bride and one other. This one stood
as calmly looking on at if there was notning
to harm his manly body. By aud by the
flames were very near them, a cry for help,
help, came from Charles Parker’s lips, and
w ith a hurried embrace aud a kiss imprinted
on Nellie’s fair brow, he lightly sprung over
the railing of the burning ship out oa the mer
ciless waves. Almost i.iisLudlyJSarry'Eronel
(for it* was lie) threw- on flic only life guard
left and throwing his strong arm around Nel
lie’s slender waist dashed out on the w ater
still-firmly holding his precious burdeii. “ w
Tile lifelessrbody of Charles Parker was
washed ashore, and Nellte returned ,tcfist. Paul
with this sad
Nellie Parker had ripened into a sad,
thoughtful woman, and was even more beau
tiful iu her womanly graces than when we in
troduced her to the leader seven years before.
She still reigned supreme iu her princely
home, and was tfle idol of her father and
mother’s hearts.
Mr. Gray had long since repented of forbid
ding Wilbur Lenore visiting his home, and
was now willing to give into his keeping his
eailhly treasure Nellie. She had never ceased
to love him, and one evening slie was sitting
in the summer house wheio he had left her
seven years before, humming, “Come back
my darling," and adding iu a low, sad tone,
“Oh, Wilbur come back, come back! I long
to be folded in your loving arms once more,
to again hear that sweet voice that I have so
often longed to hear. Sweet, dearest Wilbur,
ifome back Vo your own Nellie.”'
There was u shadow fell before her, a rust
ling of llie leaves, and Nellie was again folded
trr the true, “loving arms of Wilbur Lenore,
never more to be parted from him she had
loved so dearly.
Five years afterwards we again peep iu at
“Seaside Retreat.” Sitting on an easy chair
near the fire, we see grandma Gray with little
Bessie Lenore, her name sake, sitting on an
Ottoman at her feet. Opposite her sits grand
pa with two year old Eddie on his lap fondly
resting his golden curies on his bosom. In
the centre sits Wilbur Lenore with Nellie his
fideliswife by his side, listening to him while
lie tells of his disguise and meeting her on
the cars while on Her way to Buchanan, of
him pouring his Ule of misery in her at
tentive ear while at the ball in his sister's
home, of him following her when a bride,
of him seeing Charles Parker as lie kissed
her and left her to perish in the flames, and
of him risking his life to save her, and after
wandering in the wilds of Africa, and then
finding a miserable home iu fair Italy lie by
chance learned of Charles Parker’s death
and made his way through those fur lands
to claim her, Uis long sought bride. His
name, Wilbur Harry Lenore, he reversed
and made it Harry Eronel. And this Harry
Eronel, Nellie’s stranger friend, as we will
still call him, proved to be her lost Wilbur
Lenore.
Nellie felt that her patient waiting had
been fully repaid, aud though she had been
“sold for gold,” she had, iu the end, attain
ed unalloyed happiness-
marriage Fairs.
Among the mountains in the eastern part
of Hungary a fair of marriageable youths and
maidens is held every year. To the plain of
Kalinosa, parents repair with their sous and
daughters from a large extent of country.
They bring with them such cattle, furniture
an i money as they expect to give as marriage
pouloes. When tents are pitched or the wag
mi.- tanged in order, the match making begins
Toe girls, dressed in their best, are seated
among their treasures. The young men walk
around t i see what strikes their [ant y. The
fathers and mothers are more interested in
prying into the value of that property that is
to go with the several maidens. Every arti
cle is examined in order that its defects may
be noticed, if the respective parents are sat
isfied with the property that is to be given,
the young people are brought together to see
how they like the selection that lias been
made. If they are pleased with each other, a
priest is called, who marries the couple, chants
a hymn amksays a prayer. The bride kisses
her old friends, and starts out with a husband
sbe never saw before. We like this frankness
and luck of sham. Americans do substantially
the same things in order to perfect eligible
matches, hut are at a good deal of pains to
cover up their real intentions —Ex.
Wlihl to Tcucli tlie Buys.
A philosopher has said that true education
for boys is to teach them what they ought to
know when they become men.
What is it they ought to know then ?
L To be true —to be genuine. No educa
tion is worth anyt ting that does not include
this. A man had belter not know how to
read ; he had better never learn a letter iu the
alphabet, and be true and genuine in intention
aud in action, rather th in, being learned in all
sciences and in all languages, to be at the same
time false in heart and counterfeit in life.
Above all tbiugs teach the boys that truth is
more than riches; more than any earthly pow
er or position
2. To be pure in thought, language aud
life—pure in mind and body. An impure
man, young or old. is n plague spot, a leper,
who ought to be treated as were the lepers of
old, who were banished from society.
3. To be unselfish. To care for the feel
ings and comfort of others. To be polite. To
be just in all dealings with others To be
generous, noble and manly. This will includes
genuine reverence for tne aged and things sa
cred.
-4 To be seif reliant and aelf-helpful, even
from early childhood. To be industrious al
ways, and self supporting at the earliest prop
er age- Teach them that all honest work is
honorable, and that an idle, useless life of de
pendence on others is disgtaceful-
NVheu a boy has learned these four things;
when he was made these ideas apart of his
being, however young he may be, however
poor, or however rich, he has learned some of
the most important lie to know wbeu
he becomes a man. With these four properly
mastered, it Will be easy to find all the rest.
Written for the Advertiser ]
ECHOES FROM THE PAST,
—OR—
A Memory.
BY GENEVIEVE.
I wandered where the waves had been,
Aud heaid the sobbing of the sea;
A voice came o’er the years between
Since it had wandered there with me.
The stars gleamed in the zones above,
And trembled-in the-deptlis below ;-
I thought her# they-had watched our love,
And trembled seventeen years ago.
And where the moonbeams brightest fell,
I wrote his name upon the sand;
A wave cani'e up with sullen swell
And Washed the letters from the strand
I loitered; byjhe.muwiiag Mia* .
.1 That brqkejn.jjyi.urWilUis Mji llm.sbore
And thought the love he pledged to iuu
Was like the name this soft sand bore. |
A moment, or a fleeting hour, U
It lived, and then was gone for aye; {^
Or like a sudden blushing flower,
Thut blooms aud withers in a day, ‘ f
Aud still \ wandered on the shore.
Aud heard the sad waves sob below : ‘J
-A Dd still 1 pondered o’er and o’er
His promise seventeen years ago.
Yea, stand, ye beauteous sea-gh tb, stand, *F
A memory of thy chosen flower, *
\\ hose desert shoro and Tampa’s strand '■s
Bring back to me my girlhood's hour.
Written for (he Adcertmr. f
Gone Forever. —Like dropping, dying
stars, our dearly loved ones pass away from
our sight—the stars of our hopes, our ambi
tious, our prayers—whose light ever shines
before us. Their place is letf vacant, dark
and cold. A mother’s steady, soft and earnest
light thut beams through wants and sorrow;
a father’s strong, quick light that kept our feet
from stumbling in the dark and treacherous
w T ays ; a sister’s light, so mild, so pure, so con
stant, and so firm, shining upon 11s from gentle
loving eyes aud persuading us to grace and
goodness; a brother’s light forever sleeping in
our souls and illuminating our goings and
comings; a friend’s light, true and trusty
Gone forever! No, the light has not gone out.
it is shiuing above the stars where there is no
darkness forever and ever more. Ecila-
About Girl*.
[By a boy of the Savannah High School-]
“ This is an interesting subject for an essay.
We all think about it occasionally, and on
such a topic it is good to exchange thoughts
now and then just for variety. The human
race, as we all know, is divided into two great
natural divisions, boy and girl. We are all
very fond of girls. Why this is we are inno
cently ignorant. Be this as it may, we are in
sensibly attracted to girls—though I have seen
the time when the sight of a calico dress w >uld
drive a modest boy, coming down .the road, a
mile out of the way trying to avoid it Girls
may be classified in several different ways.
First into young and old. One does not like
a girl too young, or too old. Sixteen seems
to be the average sweet era in a girls life. For
this reason young ones always represent them
selves as just sixteen, and the old ones take
four or five years to pass this point. Girls, as
their years increase after the age of twenty,
in an inverse ratio their chances for getting
married decrease. Old maids should be sym
pathized with, rather than ’joked, on account
of their age and infirmities. After they lose
of wedded bliss, they turn their at
tention to the good of humanity, and try to be
happy by faith and good works as a proxy for
married happimss. That is if it don’t sourou
them. When hope is gone they say they
wouldn’t if they could The next division
of femenines is into fat and lean. Ol who
does not love the fat girl ? “ She can make
us,” as Sut Loviugood pathetically remarks,
“ slay old Bishop Soule hissclf.” I like to see
a fat one, for she is generally amiable and
sweet. Fulness and good nature are intimate.y
connected with each other. But lean girls are
not to be slighted- They are more frail and
delicate, they lean more towards us for sup
port. A broom stick in the hands of a lean
girl is a dangerous weapon; because Caisar
said he was afraid of those lean ones But iu
the hands of a tat one it is of no avail for
want of elbov room. Men should take tnese
facts into consideration when looking around
for spouses. While we are rambling over this
subject it will be well to uolic* the “ Fast
Girl.*’ This is a term that has its origin in
the present century. It is used to indicate a
girl who is in the forefront of the march of
progress —who is acquainted with some of the
observances of fashionable life, who has caught
all the slang afloat, who leads young men into
mischief, and who goes like s two forty mare
on a ruce track. Fast girls violate the first
principles of modesty. In seeking not to be
thought dull, they become too much its oppo
site. In avoiding Scylla they fail iutoClm
ryldis. They can exist only iu the very vor
tex of the whirlpool of pleasure, which is their
ruling passion in life. Tncy serve f amuse
us. Indeed, the boys rath, r like them. But
we cannot recommend tueui, for they do not
command our respect. I doubt whether they
have their own self respect- These are the
mothers of fashion, that tyrant who so unre
lentingly rules us all. It is by their eade.iv
ors to distort the forms which tlod gave them,
that such barbarous combinations as the chig
non, the Grecian bend, the bustle and the pull
back are produced. (Sally’s got one.) For
shame ! The dumb animals would blush nud
howl to acknowledge such thing, and yet the
“ human form uivme” is thus distorted ! Boys,
pass by the Fast Girl, and let her rip! These
things cost money.
A clergyman was annoyed by people bilk
ing and giggling. He paused, looked at the
disturbers, and said : “I am always afraid to
reprove those who misbehave, for this reason-
Some years since, as I was preaching, a young
man who sat before me was constantly laugh
ing. talking and making uncouth grimaces. 1
paused and administered a severe rebuke.
After the close of the service a gentleman
said to me, ‘Sir, you have made a great mis
take, that young man was an idiot.’ Since
then I have always been afraid to reprove
those who misbehave themselves in the chapel,
lest I should rcjx'at that mistake and reprove
another idiot.” During the rest of the service
there was good order.
A Juke on u Physician.
An amusing incident which impugns the
faithfulness of memory of our physicians, oc
curred a few days since.
The Esculapain referred to treated a man
for the yellow fever, and when his patient was
well and out, sent in his bill amounting to a
good round sum for professional services reu
dered.
The client, who considered the bill rather
exborbitant, called on the doctor. He told the
learned gentleman that be was not in.unusu
ally easy circumstances and asked the man to
make a discount amount of the bill.
“No, sir,” the doctor. “I never cut
down one of my bills. If you cannot pay it I
will not ask you for it-" Thia of course
touched the patient’s inner heart, but was not
what he anticipated. He therefore replied
that he did not *ask for charity, but only a
discount on bill. The doctor in answer
aguin said thoijie never cut down any of his
Mils. p “r Bifltr years he bad been treating
his fee was SIOO and noth
ing under. If the hill could not be paid, well,
his services freely. There was,
of course, no to be made, aud the pa
knew it waa-aseless to attempt to argue
the question. Resigning himself to the neces
sity of paying *v full amount, he changed
the conversation, and inquired from the phy<-
sician if a person ,who had been afflicted with
yellow fever during the epidemic of 1867
could again hare the same fever this year.
“Certaiuly not,” was the reply of the doctor.
“The gentleman in answer said that he had had
fit, or at ary rate he had been treated for it.
doctor then replied that the man who
him iu 1867 for yellow fever was an
incompetent, or very imprudent person. This
was too much for the patient, who, however,
did not loose his opportunity. He quietly re
marked that he would refer to liis papers, and
ascertain who was the medical celebrity who
had treated him for tl\e fever duriDg thut epi
demic. Pulling a bundle of papers from his
pocket, he looked over them and cooly handed
over a receipt for $75 for treatment of yellow
fever in 1867, and 10l it was signed by the
doctoi himself.
Grand tableau. It was uot ascertained
what the Esculapian answered and what was
the sequel to the comedy.— New OrUaii# Pica
yune.
Didn’t Want a Railroad Guide.
Yesterday forenoon a young muu whose
business it was to sell railroad guides to any
one who would buy, found u Jefferson avenue
clothing dealer sitting in un arm-chair iu front
of his door, and after a kindly salute the agent
handed out one of the guides aud s: id :
“There is '.lie handsomest little hook in the
world. It contains the name, time table und
route of every railroad in tills country."
“I neffer puys no such kind of pooks,” re
plied the dealer as he glanced through it.
“But you want that pamphlet, my dear sir.
You look like a man who travels around con
siderably. and no traveler can get along with
out one of these guides.”
“I elon’t care to guide no railroad,” said the
dealer, shaking his head und turning away.
“Hold on, now—just look through it once.
Suppose, for instance, that you want to go to
New Orleans.”
“I shall never go there so long as I am horn.”
“ Well, suppose you want to go to Omaha ?"
“Den I don’t go.”
“What do you do when y-u want to go to
Chicago?” asked the persistent agent.
“I stays at home."
“Well suppose you had to go; wouldn’t you
have to lcok at a railroad time table then?”
“No sir, I should go down Ly der depot, get
on der train, puy some apples off dtr boy, aud
I should step off' in Chicago like some grease."
The agent had no further argument to ad
vance.—Detroit Free Preen.
Fc-n-i'lelure uf Beaeuinlielti.
1 never saw u human visage so scarred and
scored w ith strange lines. Not the least strange
thing about them is that they are as full ot
power as they are of fantastic meaning. The
prchhn-h( which hides his skull is snafued
light us a drum over the pro'ruding t.oues'lie
iKHth the eyes, and ft in angular wrinkles
just below. Beyond tioulrt it is a thoughtful
face, mi . hcyuitd doubt, uko, profoundly con
temptuous of other people's thought*. There
is strength in the jaw and genius in ihe fore
head; with u mocking glitter in the gias.-y
eye w liieli belies both ; which almost suggest*
tuat lie despises hiiiiu.il only less than lie dc
apises lae luce w hom he governs. Vt ith ail
that, the face lias an immense fascination for
the lieiiolder. Lowell snid ilia; the Venus of
.Vlilo made all other Veil uses seem ignoble.
I'his man, with his i comprehensible mixture
ot great qualities, makes the greatest of his
rivals set iu commonplace. Even Lord Salis
bury, who is not unworthy, with his sallow,
unfathomable visage, to be the descendant of
Butliegh, looks as if bis chief ha l found him
out; and as if, with alt his pride of birth and
pride of intellect, he knew il, ami was tierce
with the fear that other jieople should know
it too.
Hold on Buys. —Hold on to your tongue
when you are just ready to swear, or speak
harshly, or use au improper word.
Hold on to your hand when you are about
to puucb, strike, scratch, or do any improper
act.
Hold on to your foot when you are on the
point of kicking, running off from study, or
pursuing the path of error, shame or crime.
Hold on to your tem|>er when you are an
gry, excited or imposed upon, or otuers are
angry with you.
Hold on to your heart when evil associates
seek your company and iuvite you to join in
their games, mirth and revelry.
Hold on to your good name at ail times, for
it is of more value than gold, high places, or
fashionable attire.
Hold on to truth, for it will well
and do you good throughout eternity.
Hold on to virtue —it is above all price to
you at ail times and places.
Hold on to your good character, for it is
and always will be your Lest wealui.
The Rome Courier says that about 3,000
more ballots were cast iu I e late election iu
the Seventh district than iu 1876 In Floyd
county alone there was an increase ol 4DO
votes The Courier thinks there was fraud
somewhere, and calls lor a registration law,
in order to keep the ballot-tux pure.
PUBLISHERS AN’l) PROPRIETOR
linuieiue Flour Wheel at Social
Circle, Georgia.
| Frank Leslie’s.]
W e have Lad frequent occasion to speak of
the remarkable advance in the industrial in
terests of the state of Georgia since the war.
While the recuperation of the Southern States
most devastated by the war has in general
been quite phenomenal, in several it lias been
particularly noticeable, through the conces
sions made bv state and local authorities to
encourage northern capital and manufacturers.
Cotton mills, heretofore monopolized mainly
by the east, now dot the fairest portions of
Georgia and Alabama, while industries never
before worked are in profitable operation.
That the general condition of Georgia is all
that we have frequently asserted it to bejis
proved by statistics just made public. To be
sure, there is a decrease in Hie grand • tax list
of the state Last year the reported total was
♦235,639,530, or ♦10,104,930 less than in 1876;
but this is explained by the shrinkage of val
ues. In live stock Georgia was ♦070,606 richer
in 18i7 than in 1876; in farming and mechan
ical tools, ♦438,851; and in bonds and stocks,
♦1,454,062. Population has increased, in spite
of the steady drain of tiie Texas emigration
fever ; whereui in 1870 there were i.i the state
204,50< men who paid poll tax, last year there
were 207,815. 'I he sum invested in cotton
manufactories in 1876 was $2,73° ,200; the
school fund was $150,225 The state tax’ was
50 cents on SIOO, and the average county rate
about the same. The colored people of the
returned taxable property reach nig au aggre
gate value of $5,430,844.
Every kind of industrial business appears
to he conducted on the largest and most liber
al scale. New buildings, new machinery, the
l est of material and the best “of workmen
characterize the operations of t‘6-day. The
latest instance of manufacturing innovations
to which we call attention is the Spencer
Flour Mills at Social Circle, in Walton county,
in which over $30,000 are invested. The mag
nitude of these works may be imagined when
it is said that they have the largest wheel in
the Lnited States. It is 45 feet in diameter,
weighing 16 tons, and is so nicely balanced
that a single bucket of water will turn it.
Iu her domestic industries and manufactures
Georgia is the most prosperous of the Southern
States, and this condition is due to the liber
ality, good judgment and cordiality of its rulers
and people.
1 ■ ♦♦*—
The Fast f ihe Davises.
Mr. Jtffeison Davis lias outlived all of bis
sons, and when lie di<s the fan hy name will
become extinct li is blest sou. Jefferson Da
vis, Jr., v. ho died mar Memphis the other day
of yellow fever, had scarcely passed Lis twen
ty first biiihday, and, though he did not in
herit the intellectual ability of his father, he
was a young mail of considerable promise.
Early in the summer, and before the yellow
fever broke out, young Jefferson Davis went
north with his sister amt her Luslemd. The
Utter returned for s.ine • purpose, and was
stricken down with the lever. W hen i.js wife
heard of it she insisted upon going to him, eml
youug Jeff accompanied his sister. Before the
husband Was convalescent bis wife was at
tacked Young Davis nursed his sister through
her illness, and iu a few days she became the
nurse and he the patient. Four days later lie
died. In 1864, while Mr. Davis was president
of the Confederacy, he returned to his resi
dence one day from a short visit to the capitol,
anJ found lying ia one of the halls, the dead
body of his second son. whom he had left but
an hour or two before the picture of health.
1 he child was but five years of age, and during
the absence of the family fell from a rear bal
cony to a paved yard beneath and crushed
his skull. He lived but a short while. This
boy. Joseph, was the most intelligent of the
family, audaspecial favorite with all the great
men who in those days frequented Ins father's
house- He was a bright boy, and the whole
city of Hichuiond mourned his death. Willie,
the youngest son of Jefferson Davis was born
in Richmond during the war, and died when
hut three or lour years of age. There are now
lett hut two luKiitn, l.oih girla. The oldest
Meggi.-, was n anieu i ■ ul iwoy ears ago, aiul
it Was While Caring lor her that young Jeff
met hi.- terrible destroyer. Miss W imi.t*. the
other d;.i;gliUj, is .-till at school
T II-t lor i. to.-
As Coufeeciate wai ivinii.Le* nces are al
ways in older, here is one too good to he bur
ied. The hero ol the joke was one Jim. ire
was attached to liotM-i’s cavaiiy, in Stewart’s
command, Jiui was noted for Ids strong an
tipathy to shot and shell. and u peculiar way
lie had of avoiding 100 close communion with
the same, but at last all his plans failed to
keep him out of the “row,” and lie, with his
companions, under a lieutenant, w as detailed
to sup; ort a battery that composed a portion
of the rear guard. The enemy kept pressing
so close, in fact, as to endanger the retreating
forces, and the troops covering the retreat had
orders *.o keep the enemy in check tor a given
period at all hazards, and ll** order was obeyed
to the letter under a galling fire. Jim grew
desperate. lie stuck behind trees Unit ap
]>< arc (1 to ids excited vision to be no large r
than ru lll -loils lie the-u tried lo lie down.
In fact he placed himself in every position
that his genius could invent, but the’* hiss ” of
the bullet still manned him. At mst, in de
spair, he called to the commanding officer:
*• Lieutenant, let’s fall back!” •* 1 Can’t <lo it,
Jim I” replied the officer. “ Well, I’ll be dr.u
ted il wt don t get cleaned out if w e siay ben!”
“My uruers, Jim, are to hold this place and
support that buttery of guns,” pointing lo toe
artillery close by. “It we fall back, the n< -
my will rush in and capture the guns.” Jmt
at that instant a well-directed bullet imprest* and
Jiln with the tact that a change of base became
necessary. Jim found another appireuiiy
protcteii spot, and, as soon as lie recovered
his mind, he sang out: “ Oh, lieutenant, whit
tlo you think them ’ere cannons cost!” ** 1
dou't know, Jim, I suppose S],UOO.” * VV eli.
said Jim, “ let's take Up a collection and ~.,y
for the darned guns, and let the Yuun< <. uuve
’em ”
Sam Smith, a colored biakesman on the
Selma, Rome and Dalton iabroad, who iiv.-.i
iu this city, was instantly killed last Fim
Batons, Ala., by being tun over by a car He
was engaged in coupiii g or uno.nplm_ tv <>
cars wt a iiaiu, anil main: a misstep . no li.,
with Lis neck ac.oss Ihe rail, due hull o;
ihe cai sivtieu his Lead horn his body’.— j
Courier.
NO. 47.