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PROPRIETOR. }
VOL. XVII.
the FAMILY CIItCLE.
I
IN DESPONDENCY.
lit Bom e time* (here conies within the life,
This chequered life of ours,
I So much of loss and pain and strife,
That our sad eyes, with tear drops rife,
Look up and see no flowers.
A sndden sorrow clouds the day.
And the tired heart grows faint,
Tor strength and courage die away,
And lips that have been firm to pray
Can only make complaint.
And life becomes at such a time
An unattractive thing'
There is no sound of cherry chime,
The days move on in dreary rhyme,
And bring no heart to sing.
If such a time should come to thee—
(And some where in the years
For every one its pain will be)—
Do not despair, but try to see
Some sunshine through the tears.
Ani know that he whom sorrows teach
Receives a gift from heaven,
His tenderness some hearts may reach,
To whom the glad in vuin might preach,
And joy through him is given.
Oh, then, be thou a comforter
To some more sad than thee:
And while thou thus dost minister,
Strange bliss in thine own heart shall stir,
And grief forgotten be.
fencilings and Sc-issorings
BY ONE OF ’EM.
— —o
• A I*o.ll 82.
Id like to be a edytur,
A u’ in my sanctum stand,
The door a standin’ open
An’ a big club in my hand ;
Then let the cuss who don’t like
Some article I’d writ,
€oine softly o'er tho threshold.
I’d reckon he’d get hit ;
I'd hand him one right on the gourd,
Among his brains and tilings,
And send him flumtnixin’ up thar
To sport a pair of wings.
•*• • • •
Some of our gills have the aesthe
tic craze, and are getting up their
hair so that it looks like a pile of
rat naps struck by lightning.
Now that the fact has been de
monstrated that the earth will con
tinue to revolve on its axis for at
least ten million years more, we
would request our subscribers to
hesitate no longer about paying up
for one year in advance. We may
be sanguine, but we think this op
portunity for displaying faith
should not be neglected.
A glutton of a fellow was dining
St a hotel, and in the course of the
“battle of knives ,and forks” cut
his mouth, which, being observed
by a Yankee sitting near by, he
bawled out: “1 say, triend, don’t
you make that air bole in your
countenance any larger, or we shall
all starve to death !’’
We fird the following in the Ea
lonton Messenger of the 27th ult.
It speaks for itself:
“Next Tuesday the saloon of Mr
J. Q. Adams will be closed. This
is the only saloon in Eatonton r and
.when it is closod we will havo en
tered virtually upon prohibition.—
Mr. Adan s’ license does not expire
nntil next September, but the Coun
ty Commissioners have agreed to
refund a thousand or twelve bun
•ired dollars of bis tax on condition
that he close out this line of his
business. Is there another in
itanre on tecord in Georgia where
prohibition was carried into effect
without resorting to an election?
The coumv loses '83,000 tax by
this action, but otherwise it gains.”
Some men and women talk by ]
the yard and think by the inch.
A saloon keeper named his re
sort “No-where,” so that when his
married customers went home late,
and their wives wanted to know
where they had been, they could
safely tell them the truth.
It takes hut thirteen minutes to
lead an elephant on a railroad train,
j while it takes at lease or.tv for
any sort of a woman kiss her
friends good-bye and loshe check
for her trunk.
i
j Eve was not afraid (the mea
sles, because she’d Adat
Ihe true way to mourthe dead
is to take care of the Mng who
belong to them Thee,are tho
1 pictures and statues ofdeparted
friends, which we ougl to culti
vate, and not such as%.l be had
for a few cents from a vunr artist.
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There is one thing toie said in
favor of knee breeches— ley don’t
bag at the knees.
Nature is never foud barking
up the wrong tree.
Persons desirous of lerning in
sect life should intervie the bee.
lie can always give youi point.
They are digging swef potatoes
in Putnam county, Ga.,nd Flori
da folks are eating ripe* peaches,
while we are eating patehed goo
bers in Greenesboro’.
Elections will be held in twenty
three States this year nineteen
electing Governors.
A good bank and a gyod woman
are excellent things for those who
know justly how to appreciate their
value. There are men, hower.who
J 'p r 1 ** *"*■' - ’■ r ’'
the covering.
Salt mixed with the earth above
the roots of pear trees is good to
prevent blight.
A doctor who won’t advise a roan
to leave off his flannels the first
warm day is no friend to the pro
fession.
A father wishing to dissuade his
daughter from all thoughts of mat
rimony, quoted the words; “She
who marries does well, but she who
marries not does better.” The
daughter moekly replied, “Father
I am content to do well/ let those
do bettor who can.”
People seldom improve when
they have no other model than
themselves to copy after.
A man’s time enn not be worth
much when he spends it running
around borrowing the local paper
to keep from subscribing.
Save lour Honey.
People take position in this world
according to the use they make of
i the little that is left after all the
necessaries of life are paid for.—
There is a novel, the hero of whioh
is n laborer who was blessed with
a family of twelve children but who
contrived to get sixpence a week
out of his wages erery Saturday.
That sixpence was a chance. If
he had saved it every week for ten
years, it would have planted hitn
and his numerous brood on a roll
ing prairie to grow up with the
country. He preferred to spend it
in a pot of beer, and so remained a
city laborer to the end of his days.
It is just so with most men. Here
and there, there is an individual
who has a strength of purpose to
invest bis sixpence where it will
do him good by and by. In twen
ty years his old comrades, still
treading their weary round of dai
ly toil begin to feel envious of him
as a rich roan. This is not the
way for them to act. On the con
trary, they should imitate his ex
ample and by and by they will
themselves be paying wages in
stead of receiving them.—[New
York Ledger.
Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and tho Interests of the People.
GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1882.
I3e!|)iirs Edilers .to Obtain
Hrws.
Some supposed friends of a news
paper have peculiar ideas as to
what kind of items a paper really
requires. Nut long since a gentle
man came into the Galveston News
sanctum and said: “Look “here !
You miss a he >p of live items. I’m
on the streets all day; I’ll come
up every once in a while and post
you.”
“All right, fetch on your items;
but remember, we want news.”
Next day he came up beaming
all over. “I've got a live item for
you. You know that bow-legged
gorilla of a brother-in-law of mine,
who was in business here with
me?”
“I believe I remember such a
person,” said the editor,, wearily.
“Well, I’ve just got news from
Nebraska, where he is living, that
lie is going to run for tho legisla
ture. Now, ju9l givo him a blast.
Lift him out of his boots. Don’t
spare him on ray account.”
Next day he came up again.—
“My little item was crowded out.
I brought you some news,” and he
hands in an item about his cat, as
follows;
“A Remarkable Animal.—The
family cat of our worthy and dis
tinguished feliowtown3rnan Smith,
who keeps tho boss grocery store
of Ward No 13, yesterday became
; the mother of five singularly-mark
ed kittens. This is not the first
mm uiu unuearu oi. event nas luX
en place. We understand that
Mr. Smith is being favorably spok
en of as a candidate for alderman.’
The editor groans in his spirit
as he lights a cigar with tho effort.
It is not long before he hears
Smith is going around saying that
he roado the paper what it is, but
it is not independent enough for a
place like Galveston.
Many readers will soy this sketch
is overdrawn; but thousands of ed
itors all over the country will lift
up their right bauds to testify that
they are personally acquainted
with the guilty party.— [Ex.
Texas Siftings: A Galveston
man told us the other day, that the
fashionable ladies of that seaport
are suffering from tho decoration
craze. Not. being satisfied with
painting their faces, they have now
tnken to painting plates and cups.
A fashionable lady, who had spent
a week painting a China plate,took
the work of art to a store where
they sell notions, and offered to
let the proprietor have it for forty
dollars. He shook his head, and
said he would give twenty fivo
cents. The lady artist was too
mad to faint.
“Why, it must be worth more
than that. Just examine that
painting.”
He looked at it carefully, and
finally said:
“If I knew that paint would wash
off, I reckon I could let you have
thirty cents for it.
She broke a ten dollar parasol
over his head.
Some years ago a very lovely,
but willful, Kentucky girl went to
her father, a celebrated lawyer,
and said: “Father, I want to mar
ry ” (naming a handsome but
utterly worthless suitor), “may ]?'’
“Well, my dear,” said her father,
with a sigh, “I can’t say no, be
cause I know you will have your
own way whether I give ray con
sent or not, but please give me
leave to make one remark.* There
are two things the wisest and most
learned man can never calculate
upon—the verdict of a petit jury
and the sort of a man a clover wo
man will marry.”
( F.S T. 1 HUSHED IX THE YEAH H’l'A
Hiisl on loin* Uiiweii,
I don’t often put on tny glasses to
examine Ksty’s work; but one morn
ing. not long since, I did so upon en
tering a room she had been sweeping.
“Did you forget to open the win
dows when you swept, Katy !” I in
quired; ‘ this room rs very dusty.”
“I think there is dust on your eye
glasses, mamma,” she said, modestly.
And sure enough, the eye-glasses
were at fault, and not Katy. I rubbed
them off, and everything looked bright
and clean, the carpet like new, and
Katy’s face said, —
“I am glad it Was the glasses, and
not me this time.”
That taught mo a good lesson, I said
lo myself, upon leaving the room, and
one I shall remember through life.
Io the evening Katy come to me
with some kitchen trouble. The cook
had done so-and scf, and she had said
so-and-so. When her story was finish
ed. I said, smilingly, —
“There is dust on your glasses,Katy,
rub them off, and you will see better.”
She understood me, and left the
room.
I told the Incident to the ohildren,
and it is quite common to hear them
say to each other, —
“Oh. there is dust on your glasses.”
Sometimes I am referred to,
“Mamma, Harry has dust nn his
glasses; can't he rub it off"/’'
When I hear a person criticising
another, condemning,(perhaps, a course
of action he knows nothing about draw
I ing inferences prejudicial to the person
! or persons, I think, ‘ There’s dust on
! vour glasses; rub it off.” The truth
I is, everybody wear these verv same
•' ' Y-
I said to John one day, same liit e
matter coming up that called forth the
remark, —
“There are some people I wish would
begin to rub, then,” said he. “There
is Mr. So-and-So, and Mrs. So an 1 So,
they are always ready to pick at some
one, to slur, to hint; I don’t know, I
don’t like them.”
“I tliiuk my son John has a wee bit
on his glasses just now.”
| He laughed and asked, —
“What is a boy to do 7"
“Keep your own well rubbed up.
and you will not know whether others
need it not "
“I will,” he replied. j
I think, as a family, we are all pro
fiting by that little incident, and
) through life will never forget the mean-
I ing of “There is dust on your glasses.”
I —[Ex.
:
llaine Without a Woman.
In the goodness of our hearts can we
not pity the occupants of a home with
out a woman 7 Such a home, haw
rayless, sad and lonely ! As bereft of
charms ns the rosebush without it*
crimson roses ! Desolate as the desert
without its cherry restful oasis ! Free
of love’s sweetest fragrance as the
garden without its darling dowers ! A
home without a woman ! As well might
day be without its blazing sun, or
night without its lunar and diadem of
dazzling stars ! Truly, are they to be
pitied who live in earth's isolated re
treats away from woman's loving
charms. Thrice blessed is he who
daily basks in the sunshiny smiles of
mother, wife or sister. His home
should be an earthly paradise, a fit
emblem of tho habitation beyond the
skies Fair readers, let your hearts
go out in the purest sympathy for those
poor, looe beings who have not a
mother’s loving counsel, a wife's holy
wooing, or a sister's twining effection.
Their homes are upon earth’s deset t
waste, or along the rock bound shores.
Blot woman from existence and the
world would be in midnight darkness.
She is the light of the world, man's
brightest flower, the poet’s grandest
theme. Where woman dwells not, the
home is without its charms and angel
of peace. Oh man, be not lacking in
woman's praiso; her sweet influence are
as vast as the ocean and as high as the
heavens. Let her name be inscribed
upon the scroll of fame, and every
home on earth eojoy her benighted
charms. So mote it be.— [Ex.
W3UAt C A Davis & Co’s is the place to
buy Fruit Jars and Jelly Glasses.
l>at Angel Gwir.
Matildy, a colored cook lady who
consents to serve in an Austio family
for ten dollars a month and what she
can steal, has two bad habits. One is
going to camp meetings and getting
more religion that she knows what to do
with, and the other is smashing crock
ery A few days ago, while singing a
hymn about
“When Ijinesdat angel choir,”
,she smashed a large cut-glass preserve
dish.
The white woman, who hires the
colored lady, remonstrated with Mat'll
dy and asked her to be more careful.to
which the incipient, tnahognny colored
, angel replied :
‘Ycr must learn nebber tor repine at
de chastenifl.s ob de Almighty, I bears
up under ’em wid Christian fortytude'
“O, when I jines dat angel band”
When the head of the family came
home to dinner, he said if he had been
about when she smashed the three do!
lar preserve di*h, and ha could have
laid hands on a hatchet, sho would
have jined “dat aogel choir” in sec
tions.—[Ex.
(Yords of W isdom.
Mystery always magnifies danger as
the fog magnifies to sun.
Consolations console only those who
are willing to be consoled.
We are never ruined by what we
want, but by what we think we wint.
Opportunity is a becon light by
which many are piloted to the harbor
of success'.
A wise man watches the develop
mi nt i•! his plans and then bends his
-i, ■ *- —:
If a man have love in hs heart, ho
may talk in broken language, but it
will be eloquence to those who listen.
Cheerfulness should be encouraged
The world is full of people who volun
teer to look sad and feel melancholy.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes
from the dirty tobacco pipes of those
who diffuse it; it proves nothing but
the bad ta-te of tho smoker.
The scar which an unkind word
leaves upon a large love may be invisi
ble, like that of groat sin upon the
tissues of tho repentant soul ; but for
one as fur the other, life has no heal
ing.
We may abound in energy, yet effect
nothing. Energy is a good steed, but
must be saddled and bridled with care,
and the reins placed in the hands of
prudence; then the goal of efficiency is
assured.
Too Smart to Live.
A dry-goodi house advertised for a
smart boy, and they got hiui. They
put the smart boy behind the counter.
The following is the conversation that
passed between him and his first cuss
tomer :
Customer (Pioking up a pair of
gloves) ;
‘What are these ?’
Smart boy—‘Gloves. ’
Customer—“ Yes, yes; but what do
you ask for them V
Smart boy—‘We don’t ask tor them
at all; customers do that;.’
Customer—‘You don’t understand
me. Flow do they come ?’
Smart boy—-Why they come in
pairs, of course.’
Customer—‘No, no; how high do
they come V
Smart boy —‘Just about the wrist, I
believe.'
Customer—‘But what do you get for
them ?'
Smart boy—‘Me ? I don’t get noth
ing for them. Boss pockets all the
oxttiey ’
Customer (losing patience)—‘What
is the price of theso gloves per pair V
Smart boy—‘O, that’s yer lay, is it ?
Why didn’t you say to afore ? One
dollar”
That smart boy is too smart to el
bale his smartness is a dry-goods store.
He should go to Congress right off.—
[Ex.
—
Hundreds are buying Clothing of
C. A. I>avis & Cos. who are opening two
new shipments this week.
— ■ ■ ■
BtSy*Twenty bushels of Rust-proof Oats
will get one of those Revolving Feed Cut
ters from C A i)avis £ Cos. —See advertise
ment. I
tenia Mroai tepy,
Office Geneva) Manager) Augusta, Ga., JUNE 3td, 18S2.
Commencing Sunday JUNE 4tli, 1881, Passenger Trains will run as follows:
No*!, West-!>.♦. j No. 2, feist-IMtlly.
Cents Augusta 10:30 a. m. I.cave Atlanta 8:30 a, m.
Leave Mncon 7.10 a. m. I.enve Greenesboro’ 12:W )>m
Leave Milledgeville 9r05 a. m. Arrive Athens 3:45 p m
Leave C'nmak 12:26 ft m. Arrive Washington 2:66 p a
Leave Washington 11:20 ft. m. Arrive Camak 1:67 pra
Leave Athens 9:3® a. m. Arrive Milledgeville 4:49 p m
Arrive at Gieenesboro’ 2:01 p. m. Arrive Mncon 6:45 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 6:46 p.m. Arrive Augusta 3.00 pm
No# :s, West—l>nily. No. 4. Kasl-Dnily.
Leave Augusta Rf6o p m Leave Atlanta 9:45 p m
Arrive Greenesboro’ 1'44 am Leave Greenesboro’ l;47ra
Leave Maeott, 7:10 p m Arrive Milledgeville 4:27 a m
Leave Milledgeville 9-16 p m Arrive "M icon 6:40 ara
L:vve Athena 7:00 p m |At rive at Athens, 8:00 a. as
Arrive Allantft (>:loam Arrive Augusta 6:80 a a
Close connection to and from Washington on SundtjS
Bfa-Puperb Sleepers to Augusta and Atlanta.
B R. DORSEY,
General Tassenger Agent.
J. W. Grkf.ne, General Manager.
"CITY DRUG STORE.
oo
J" ALWAYS keep a Large and varied assortment of
Chemically Pure 'Wpggs 14 R UaSS and
KE w oooes W 7 .Medicines.
Arriving every week.
T-Ss-tSSfesß? Full stock of
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
COLORS, RUrsiIES, etc.
All Sizes WINDOW GLASS.
LAMP GOODS, CHIMNEYS, etc.
Buist’s Garden Seeds.
ONION SETS, POTATOES, etc.,
Crop of 1879, warranted fresh and Genuine. IO cenin papers sold at 5 Cfttlg
strictly, The best Seed for this climate.
Fine Cigars & Chewing Tobacco
Toilet Snaps, Perfumery, Pomades, Tooth-brushes, and Druggist’s sundries,
fife*?" Physicians’ prescriptions careful compounded ami dispensed.
John A. Griffin.
Greenesboro', Ga., Jannarj 20,1880.
J. L. BOWLES & to.,
Wholesale and Retail
jyp j|p||
No. 717 llro.d SlK.'i,
Augusta, - - - GA.
OUU Stock is complete in every pa,tieular. Chamber Seta from $5( 0 down to $24
I'arlor Sets from S4O up to $250. Come and see , or write for prices. We
have aii the La!6,l Styles and Novelties in our line. We ore Agent* for the Wove*
Wire Mattress Company, and the National Wire Improved. The he.st two springs in the
market. We have a full line of cheap Spring and Mattresses; also fine Feathers-
J. L. BOWLES & CO.
Jan. 20, 1881— So. 717 Uroad Street, Augusta, (J
ROBIISf, CAMPBELL MO.
DEALERS IN
Paper, Paper Boxes, Books
And Stationery,
Office and Salesroom No. 29, Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, - - - GA.
PLAIN WRITING PAPER. WRAPPING PAPER.
FANCY do do PAPER BAGS of all sizes and
BLANK BOOKS. weight at
milage. Bottomjhfures
Icnw”in^l. k . Oriipre Qnljpjtpjl
of every description. Ul Uul U Ouilul (.Glia
October 14. 1880—
Central Hotel.
Mrs W M THOMAS,
PROPRIETRESS.
Centrally located near Confederate Monument,
Itread Street, AUGUSTA, a.
Comfortable Room?. EicelKnt Fare Courteous Clerks and atießtix e 3err.nl*.
Sept. SR, I??0—
JH. T. LEWIS,
* EDITOR.
NO. 23.