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VOL. XVII.
CITT DIBECTOBI
Katjlitl #1 Honor,
CHRISTIAN Lodge, No. 18*9, meet*
the IHi and 3rd Monday evening in each
ssertb. mt Masonic HU.
Wm. M. WEAVER, Reporter.
Jho A. OBirrm. Dictator.
Koyul Arenmim.
KINO COUNCIL, No. 408, meets the
Sad and 4th Monday evening in eacli
month, at Masonic Hail.
Wm. M. WEAVER, Regent.
J. P. Whjkjk, Sec’y.
American Leflon of Honor.
DAWSON COUNCIL- No. , meet*
lit and 2d Tuesday afternoon in each
month. . _ ,
J. M. STOREY, Commander.
Wm. M. Wavkh, Sec'y.
TIIE IDIOT UOl’.
Tliose who have heard till* touching ef
fusion recited by the celebrated tragedian.
Mr. Eorreet, will never forget either the
pathos with which he renders it, or his
simple, affecting introduction to it. Mr.
Forrest thinks the writer of it was the
brother of Southey:
It had pleased God to form poor Ned
A thing of idiot mind,
Yet to the poor unreasoning boy
God had not been unkind.
Old Sarah loved her helpless child
Whom helplessness nmd* dear.
And life was eTerything to him
Who knew nolioje nor fear.
She knew hie wants, she understood
Each half artic’late call ;
For he was everything to her
And she to him was alt.
And so for many a year they lived,
Nor knew a wish beside ;
But age at length on Sarah came,
And she fell sick and died.
He tried in vain to waken her,
He called her o'er and o’er;
They told him slie was dead; the words
To him no import bore.
They closed her eyes and shrouded her.
Whilst he stood wond’ring by :
And when they bore her to the grave,
He followed silently.
They laid her in the narrow house.
And sung the funeral stave;
And When the mournful train dispersed
lie loitered by the grave.
The rabble boys that used to jeer
Whene'er they saw poor Ned,
Now stood and w atched him at the grave,
And not a word wa%said. *
They came and went and came again,
And night at last drew on ;
Yet still he lingered at the place
Till every one was gone.
And when he found himself alone
He quick removed the clay.
And raised the coffin in his arms
And bore it swift away.
Straight went he to his mother's cot,
And laid it on the floor ;
And with the eagerness of joy
He barred the cottage door.
At once he placed his mother's corpse
Upright within the chair;
w<nd then he heaped the hearth and blew
The kindliQg fire witl/cara.
She no?/ was in her wonted chair,
It washer wonted place,
And bright the fire biased and flashed,
Reflected from her face.
Then bending down he’d feel her hands;
Anon her face behold ;
Why, mother, da you look so pale—
And why are you so cold t
And when the neighbors on next morn
Had forced the cottage door,
(Old Sarah's corpse was in the chair,
And Ned’s was on the floor.
It had pleased God, from this poor boy,
His only friend to call;
Yet God was not unkind to him,
For death restored him all.
“1 Am Coming.”
A little girl who was playing near
the edge of a precipice suddenly felt
the ground give way beneath her feet
end before she had time to spring back
to a place of safety had slipped over
the brow o( the terrible abyss. With
the instinct of despair and that of love
of life implanted in us alt, she snatch
ed at the grass and tall weeds within
her reach. Her little fingers dug deep
into the ground and stayed her down
ward c. urse. There she hung suspend
ed in the air. Moments seemed ages,
until the heard a voice which sounded
very far off, saying in a firm, ancoura
ging '.one, “I am coming; keep look
ing up!”
Instinctively she obeyed, she never
gliiDced downward, but clung faster to
her only chance of safety. Again the
voice—this time nearer—spoke hope
fully
‘I am couiing; keep looking up !”
In another moment two strong
had seized her own in a firm clap, aDd
•he felt herself drawn |ently and cau
tiously upward, Theo she was lilted
into two great loving arui*. and closed
her eyes upon her father’s breast.
ft was his turn now to look up. He
did so in thankfulness to the great
God in heaven who had preserved hi*
child.
Dear reader, where are you standing?
fs it upon the sandv foundation which
may give way at any time, or are your
feet upon the Ilock? If not yet safe
oh, let me urge you to look up t the
great Deliverer who ha* come, aad
whoso arms are outstretched in love,
anxious to save, and able to save to the
uttermost all who come unto Him.—
-[Ex.
■ • ■ ——
I'nss (lie liutlcr.
Ia it no longer danied by any
body who has good sense, that
there is more or less poison in al
most every article of food that is
sold in the stores. Ic is alleged
that the only edible thing that
science has not yet succeeded in
adulterating is eggs, but to make
up for this advantage tbe eggs that
are sold are generally of a kind
tiiat causes the would.be consumer
to regret thsy, too, have not had
something done to them. They
might be tampered with to their
advantage. But to resume. No
attempt is made to conceal this
wholesais'aduircf'ini-'n.
of all ages, and both sexes, are be
ing systematically poisoned; and
although many actually die from
the effects of slow poison, admin
istered in food, yet the government
never makes the slightest effort to
protect the lives and health of the
people, all of which, we suppose, is
one of the blessings of a freo gov
ernment. To a great extent the
profession of the assassin is a
sacred calling. It dues not make
any difference how be hurries pep-
pie out of this world as long as be
does it effectually. lie can take his
time to it. As for the poisoner
who manufactures adulterated food, 1
he is not only protected by law,
but is afforded unusual facilities to
become wealthy—land respected.—
The retailor, through whom the
poison is conveyed into the system
of the innocent jourchaser, is not
unfrequsntly a leading light in
the church, but tas stubborn fact
that people are being poisoned by
slow degrees, refiaios undisputed
all the samo.
If articles of food wera called by
their right name, the conversation
at the breakfast table would be
somewhat different from what it is.
Instead of the vetim being asked
if he would takea cup of tea, the
question should >e; “Allow rac to
give yeu disease of the kidneys
with this infusioi of copper and
willow leaves.” To this the victim
might reply : “thank you, my
kidneys are alreacy diseased, but
if you will give n* a little prussic
acid and glocoso--igolden syrup—
on my latter calse, I’ll try and
disarrange my stfiacb.
The coloring uatter used in the
preparation of Igars is rank
poison, and is ohtJned from tin.
Terra alba, orthite clay, forms
an important ingfdient of flour.
Terra alba has aplecsant habit of
forming itself int a solid ball as
plaster of Paris '% the stomach,
which results fatdy at ths end of
a few years, and l charged up to
caDcer of the stomch. The doc
tors never givs a certificate that
the victim of the grocer dies of
poison. It is alwys called inflara*
matton of the bwels, apoplexy,
geneial debility, ervoue prostra*
tion, etc, The dags and abonat
Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and llie Interests of the People.
GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1882.
nations that are disguised in wine,
beer, and cigars, are too numerous
and nauseating to mention. Ono
glass of beer, or a cheap cigar will
produce nausea, thirst and dizzi
ness, caused by opium, gloeose,
etc. - '
There is, however, one article
on almost ovary table that w# can
safely recommend. It is the bogus
butter called oleomargarine None
of the poisonous drugs mentioned
are used in its manufacture. The
ingredients aro simple, and, al
though some sensitive people may
object to them, thoy aro reasonably
healthy. It has now been discov*
tred that the oleomargarine estab
lishments in St. Louis, where a
pure article of country butter is
produced by a scientific process,
buy up tho careassea of horses and
dogs, and the fat of these second
hand animals is utilized in impart
ing consistency and body to the
country butter How singular.'it
is, that those two faithful friends
of man, the horse and the dog,
continue even after dissolution
dissolution is a very good word
to be useful to man ! It is possible
that t!0 kind of butter, which is
made to smell like new mown hay
by some drug, and is given the
genuine yellow color of cow-outter
by another drug, can be unhealthy,
for only a few days ago, a Mexican
woman died at Uvalde, Texas, at
the ago of 110 years, and in full
possession of all her faculties. It
ie true, she did not owe her ex
trorae age to oleomargarine,for this
delicious table relish is a triumph
of modern science, but she was
raised on tamales, chile con came ,
and other Mexicau dishes, the
chief ingredient of which is believed
to be the pelon dog. When peo‘
pie can live 110 years on canine
diet, there certainly can be noth
ing pernicious in St. Louis oleo
margarine made from dog fat.—
When your grocer asks you if you
waut some nice, fresh Western
butter, tell him to give you the
caniue variety butter. The oleo
margarine made of horse fat is vory
nourishing, but it is not so promo
tive of longevity as that prepared
from dogs.— [Texas Siftings
Tlie Yew Minister.
When the Bervantgirl went to
work for the family on Congress
street, the lady of the bouse sat
down and told her that agents,
book peddlers, bat-rack men, pic
tur#>sellers, ash-buyers, rag men,
and all that clas9 of people, must
be met at the front door and cold
ly repulsed; and Sarah sail she'd
repulse them if she had to break
every broom-stick in Detroit.
Ana she did. She threw the
door open wide, bluffed right up at
’em, and when she got through
talking, the cheekiest agent was
only too glad to leave. It got so
after awhile that peddlers marked
that house, and the door bell never
rang except for company.
The other day, as the girl of the
house was wiping off the spoons,
the bell rang. She hastened to
the door, expeeting to see a lady,
but her eyes encountered a slim
man. dressed in black and wearing
a white neck tie. He was the new
minister, and was going round to
get acquainted with the members
of his flock, but Sarah wasn’t ex
pected to know this.
“Ah—um is—Mrs —ih !”
“Gitexclaimed Sarah, point
ing to the gate
“Beg pardon, but I would like
to see —see”
“Meander!” she shouted, look
ing around fora weapon; “we do
not want any flour-sifters here!”
“You’re mistaken,” he replied,
smiling blandiy; ‘I called to— ’
‘Don’t want anything to keep
th away—fly!’ he exclaimed,
getting rod in tbe face.
‘ls the lady in?’ he inquired try
ing to look over Sarah’s head.
‘Yes, the lady is in, and I’m in
and you aro out!’ she snapped;
‘and now I don’t want to stand
here taikivg to a fly-trap agent any
longer! Come, lift your boots!’
•I am not an agon#,’ be said,
trying to smile. ‘I am the new— ’
‘Yes, I know you—yoa are the
new man with the patent flat-iron;
but we don’t want any, and you’d
better go before I call the dog.
‘Will you give the lady my card,
and say that I called?’
‘No, I won’t; we are bored to
death with cards aDd handbills and
circulars. Come, I can’t stand
here all day.’
‘Didn’t you know that I was a
minister?’ he asked, as he backed
off.
*No, nor I don’t know it now;
you look like the man who sol 1 the
woman next door a dollar chrome
for eighteen shillings.’
‘But here is my card.’
‘I don’t care for cards. 1 tell
you! If you leave that gate open
I will have to fling a flower pot at
you.’
‘I will call again,’ he sai l, as
he went through the gate.
•It won’t do any good,'' she
shouted after him; ‘we don’t want
tic prepared food for infants, no pi
ano music, no stuffad birds 1 I
know the policeman on this bo it,
il you come around hers again he'll
soon find out whether you are a
confidence man or a vagrant.’
And she took unusual care to
lock the deor —[Detroit Free
Press
A Y>w It rami.
A tall, lame negro has been in the
habit for a year past of calliag at a
Michigan avenue grocery and- begging
a few potatoes, a bit of codfish, or any
thing else like to be given him. The
other and j the grocer look a flour-sack
and made up a mixture of sand, meal
and flour, and when the uegro came
around he was almost pulverized to
hear the grocer say :
“Now, Sain, if you won’t cotne hero
again for three months you can ghoul'
der that sack and take it home."
“Am you in earnest boss ?"
“Yes I mean what I say.’’
“We! I reck n I’d better cotch on
to dat chance, an’ may do Lawd bress
you fur a hun’red y’ars to coaie !’’
He shouldered the sack and walked
off, and was not seen again for thr.c
days. Then he entered the store with
the remark
“Say, boss, I didn’t mean to come
back, only I want to ax a queshun,”
“Go ahead.”
“Its about dat flour you gin me. De
ole woman and me dorm’ taka de same
| view of it. I hold dat it am a new
way of grindin’ up wheat, ao’ (he says
it am anew process fur usin’ up gravel
banks. Kin you frow any light ou de
subjick ?”
“It’s anew brand of my own," replied
the grocer. “The wheat was raised on
sandy soil. Can you recommend it ?"
“N—not zactly, sah, but if you
should change wid me fur a peck of
beans raised on a side hill an’ put de
ole trees an’ stumps an’ atones in one
bag an’de beans in anoder.it would
-ave a heap of argument in de family.”
[Ex.
tin.lLL pox.
From exteuded and close observation
the following general deductions ireui
to be warranted .•
1. Infantile vaccination is an almost
perfect safeguard, until the fourteenth
year.
2. At the beginning of fourteen, the
system gradually loses its capability of
resistaoee, until about twenty ooe, when
many persons beoome almost as liable
to small pox, are it they had not been
vaccinated.
3 This liability remains in full force
until about forty-two, when' the sus
ceptibility begin* to decline and coo
tinues for seven year* to grow less and
less, becmiing extinct at about fifty,
the period of life when the general rev
olution of tbe body begins to take
place, during which the system yields
to decay, or takes anew lease of life,
for two or three terips. of seven years
each. \
4 The great practical use to be made
of these statements is : Let every
youth be re vaccinated on entering
fourteen. Let several attempts be
made, so as to be certain of safety. As
the malady is more liable to prevail in
cities during winter, special attention
is invited to the subject at this time.
[Hall’s Journal. •
Amos's Hook-Keeper.
We asked Amos how his boy was
getting on at school.
“Pleg take dat boy; I dun tuck him
’way from dat acbool !”
•• Why, what for V’
•‘Uh, oh Ihe wuz giftin’ nms’ too
smart down dar wid dat book lacuin’.
’Twon’t do for aouic niggers to be too
edgikatid.”
“Why not, Amos ?”
“Well, sab. js* t ike dat boy, frit
stance. I put dat boy to keep book?
for me ’bout de wellin' ob do garden
truck. Well, sab, ho jess writ down
charges dar in de book for all de truck
dat I tuck out de gardin, an' charges
for ail dat we eat in de house, an’ den
credit hisself wid de little 'mounts d• t
I let him hab ’long at odd ’casions, an’
den he go an* add do in ail up and
struck er balance, he soy !"
‘And how did yon come nut ?'
‘Come out ? ’Fore do good Master.
I didn't come out *t ail ! Dat boy
stuck me fer ’bout ihutty-fire dollar-,
’sides his wages as de book-keeper—
now dai'a whut de figgers aed.’
‘Well, what did you do?'
‘I jess born tip dat book right dar.
and den ’sukarged de book-keepab. uud
hire him ober again tar saw wood l< r
his board auu cl sc ?’
•You did ?’
‘Yes sab, I di-l dit 1 Why boss, if
dat boy hud kept dat book on till now
he’d done u dat hous’ and gyardin
patch an’ bin chargin’ ms and his ole
mammy for bed an’ bred 1 I tell yer
dis liyar bookdarnin’ is ruinin’ dis
young breed ob oiggirs—’tis, shore 1
[Atlanta Constitution.
.lack ami <*ill.
Every Jack is said to havo his Jill;
but ha does not always find her; thus
bachelors who would make model bus
bands, and old maids who would make
fxoelleut /rives, let gray hairs and
even the grave overtake them in their
single life. Not that they have failed
in courtship, as is invariably said of
them. Numerous are the chances they
have let slip through their fingers that
others were glad to catch even though
aware of the former choice of their
‘accepted.” But their ideas of the
partners who could make their life as
happy as they desire, are too exacting;
they tail to detect all their own pecu
liarities and faults, and make too little
allowance for the weakness and imper
fection of human nature in thoae they
would cherish above all other*. They
want to centre their life’s happiness on
the one of their choice; they feel that
a mistaken hope of connubial felicity
would be eternal ruin, and failing to
Cud the character answering to their
wn exactness, they fear to choose, and.
thus arc reduced to avoid tb*e tnatri
monial bonds. This scrupulous exact
ness in choosing a wife or husband is a
real misfortune to the sensitive ones
possessed with it, as they are self con
demned to a life of loneliness, —[Ex.
Athens Banner: The other day,
wbi!s a young man was indulging in
a quart chow of tobacco, lie ejected a
quart of au.ber out into the stie t
juat as a young lady came gliding by.
Her dress caught the entire charge,
and for a few second* the fair pedes
trian thought she had come in contact
with the nozzle of tbe Hope steamer.
At last accounts the young man had
apologised to five irate brothers, an in
dignant father, seven uncles and other
kindred too numerous to count.
the new Dress Good* received*
bv C. A. Davis k Cos.
Mgr The popular Milliner of C. X. Davis
A tto. wfJl t e at her jrh neat week.
tap Ratal Campy,
Office General Malinger, Augusta, On , March 11, f#ft.
Commencing Sunda.’ March 12th. 1881, Passenger Trni'ns'will i tin a* follows':’
.\o. I, Went- Dully. \o. •>, -DnitjL
Leave Augusta 10:30 £. m. Leave A l lam a 8:30 n. m.
Leave Macon 7.H1 a. ra. Leave Greeneshoro’ 12;18 pin
Leave Millodgeville 9:05 a. in. Arrive Athens 4:50 p m
Leave Camak 12:25 a in. Arrive Washington 2:56 pw
Leave Washington 11:30 a. m. Arrive (,'anmk 1 .-57 pm
Leave Athens 9:36 a. m. Arrive Mitledgeville 4:49 p m
Arrive at -01 p. m. Arrive Macon 6:45 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. m. Arrive Augusta 4.05. p m
• X, :i. W est -Dally. X<. 4 , East—Unify',*
Leave Augusta 5:55 p m Leave Atlanta 8:30 p m
,4r:ive Greeneshoro’ 11-03 pm Leave Oreeneshnro’ 1:4" am
Leave Macon, 7:ou p m .4rrive MillcilgeviUe 4:20 ain
Leave Milledgeville 9-15 p m Arrive M icon 0:30 a m
Athens 7:00 p m Airive at Athens. 8:00 a. rn
Arrive Atlanta 4:55 a m Arrive Augusta 0:30 ara
Close connection to and from Washington on Sundays
uperb Sleepers to Augusta and Atlanta.
El R. DORSEY,
• General Passenger Agent.
J. W. Udeenf., Genora! Manager.
CITY DRUB STORE.
oo
J" ALWAYS kccpaLaige ami varied assortment of
Chemically Pure IHUJ&S and
new goods Medici Ilf 8/
Arriving every week. |
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
COLORS, BRUSHES, etc.
Ai! Sizes WINDOW GLASS,
LAMP GOODS, CHIMNEYS, etc.
Buist’s Garden Seeds,
ONION SETS, POTATOES, etc.,
Crop of 1879, warranted fresh ; 1 Genuine. (O edit* papers sold at 5 OMI
strictly -*W e beat Seed tor (his climate.
Fine Cigars & Chewing Tobacco?
Toilet Soups, Perfumery, Pomades, Tooth-bruslies, and Druggist's sundries,
tar* rh ysicinns’ prescriptions enreful compounded and dispensed.
John A. Griffin*
Greeneshoro’, Ga., January 29,1880.
J. L BOWLES & (0.,
Wholesale and Retail
No. 717 Broad Bm-ct,
Augusta, - - - GA.
OUU Stock is complete in every particular. Chamber Sets froih SfiOO down to sl6
I’arlor Sets lroin S4O up to $250, Come and see us, or writs fbr prices. Vf*‘
have all the Latest Styles and Novelties in our line. We are *br the Woven*
Wire Mattress Company, and the National Wire Improved. The best two springs in ibw’
market. We have a full line of cheap. Spring and Mattresses: nlso fine feathers-
J.L. BOWLES & CO,
Jan. 20, ISBI No. 717 Jlroad {street, Augusta, w
ROMM, CAMPBELL Jflk
DEALERS IN
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And Stationery,
Office and Salesroom No. 29, Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, - <JA,
PLAIN WRITING PAPER. i WRAPPING PAPER.
FANuY do. do PATER BAGS of all sizes and 1
BLANK BOOKS, weight at
mTcLoe Hottomfigure#
PENS, PENCILS, etc., etc. flllflniin OollTlthlf
SCHOOL and Miscellaneous Books |||[|P|\ \|| 111 I I fill
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October 14, 1880—
Central Hotel*
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PROPEI EGRESS.
Centrally ’ocSted near Confederate Mmiutbenf 1 ,
Bread Street, AUGUSTA. Ga.
Comfortable ItoShi- Eieell-nl Fare Courte. us Clerk* and aUentiie fer^ai;*#
Sept. CO, ISB#^-
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t EDITOR.
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