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(ESTABLISHED IX TUF. TEAR IMS).
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PROPRIETOR. j
VOL. XVII.
Other Fellows Think so, Too.
There’s just one thing a man can have
In all this world of woo and strife,
That makes the business not too bad,
And that one thing’s an easy wife.
Dost fancy that I love my girl
For rosy cheeks or raven hair ?
'V she holds my heart because she laughs-
Bccanse she laughs and doesn’t eare.
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I Jmt my bootsjust where it suits,
And find them where I put them, too ;
This is a thing, you must allow,
A chap can very seldom do.
1 leave my papers on my desk ;
She never dust them in a heap,
Or takes to light the kitchen stove
The very one I want to keep.
On winter nights my cozy dame
Will warm her toes before the fire ;
She never scolds about the lamp,
Or wants the wick a trifle higher.
On Sundays she is not so fine
But what her ruffles I can hug ;
I light my pipe just where I please
And spill the ashes on the rug.
The bed is never filled with “shams,”
A thing some women vilely plan
To worry servants half to death,
And spoil the temper of a man.
She lets me sleep to any hour,
Nor raises anv horrid din
If it just happens, now and then,
To be quite late when I come in.
I tell yon, Jack, if you would wed,
Just get a girl who lets things run ;
She’ll keep her temper like a lamb,
And help you on to lots of fun,
Don’t look for money style or show,
Or blushing beauty, ripe and rare ;
Just take the one who laughs at fate—
Who laughs, and shows she doesn’t care.
You think, perhaps, our household ways
Are just, perchance, a little mixed ;
O, when they get too horrid bad,
Wc stir about and got things fixed.
What, compensation lies a man
Who earns his bread by sweat of brow,
If home is made a battle ground,
And life one long, eternal row ?
Pencilings and Sc-issorings
BY ONE OF ’EM.
o
Tlie man who cheats the printer
Out of a single cent,
tVi!l never reach the heavenly land
AVliere old Elijah went.
He vill not gain admission there,
By devils he’ll be driven,
And made to loaf his time away
Outside the walls of heaven,
Without a man to greet him,
Without a pleasant grin,
The happiness that he will reap
AVill be almighty thin.
lie’ll have to cat his thistle
Of sorrow and regret;
He’ll have to buck around right smart
With cusseduess, “you bet!’’
*••••
A Tennessee man, we under
stand, has commenced building an
ark. If he is going to take a pair
of all living animals with him, he
ought to turn over the command of
his ark to some body else and go
along as the jackass himself.
*• • • • • •
—At a country church not long
since, one of the members prayed
after this fashion; “Oh Lord assist
mo to be a better Christian. lam
determined to try to lead a more
correct life, and I think I can suc
ceed, for since I have sold my oxen
and got a horse, I don’t have to
cuss so d—d much.”
A boy having been told that a
reptile is an animal that creeps,
and being asked to name one,
promptly and triumphantly replied,
“a baby.”
•••••
It is the fashion in Florida to
wear gloves out at the tips of the
fingers, in order to better scratch
the flea bites.
The popular business with young
ladies is husbandry; and many of
them make a bustle about it too.
Ati old bachelor is a traveler on
life s railroad who has entirely fail
ed to make the proper connections.
Swinging is said by the doctors
to be a good exercise for health,
but many a poor wretch has come
to his death by it.
Give every man the credit of
sincerity, notwithstanding it may
be a slight strain on vour creduli
ty to believe tho doctor means what
ha says when ho tells you, “I am
glad to soo you well, sir.”
A Texas paper has an obituary
notice headed; “Died—An Honest
Man.” What was tho trouble,
loneliness ?
Hypercritical folks will have it
that it is not proper to say "stop
ping” at a hotel. “Staying” is
the right expression. In the name
of common sense, why? A person
“stops” where he “stays,” doesn’t
he ? And, if there is any choice
between the words, “stop” should
be preferred. A majority of the
patrons of hotels remain but a sin
gle night. To stay at a placo im=
plies a long poriod,
‘The day I was married I quit
chewing tobacco, and I tell you it
was pretty hard on mo that ■ day,
but the next day I was all right
again.’ ‘Ah, how’s that ?’ ‘Well,
the next day I commenced chew
ing again,’
They stood at tho gate beneath
tho starlight. In a few hour3 he
would bo whirled away across the
prairies, and she would return
alone to wander wearily and sadly
amid scenes endeared by a thou
sand tender recollections—if it
hadn’t been that sho wasn’t that
sort of a girl. “One last kiss,” he
murmured fondly, “one last look
—one last word—what shall it be?
She gave him the Klsb, she gave
him the look, and she gave him
these last words, “Remember your
promise to mo not to eat any more
onions,”
We read in the Bible, in the 13th
chapter of Ist Samuel and the 19th
ver3e, that “There was no smith
found throughout the land of Is
rael.” Of course not. All the
Smiths wore living in this country
at that time, and they have won
derfully increased and multiplied
since then.
We recently heard a most touch
ing instance of the resignation of
an affectionate woman at the funer
al of her husband. Though she
adored him, she did not repine at
this dark hour. Lacking at the
remains of her loved and lost hus
band for the last time, she thus
spoke to the gentlemen whose sad
duty it was to officiate as pall
bearers: “You pall-bearers go to
tho buttery and get some rum, and
we’ll start him right along!”
A Chicago ycuDg man broke in**
to the room of the girl he loved, te
carry her away, as she refused to
marry him. She was absent, but
left the bull dog asleep on her bed.
Tho room was dark. Tho dog did
not bark, but worked. In about
seven minutes the remains of the
young man came out and said that
he wouldn’t marry that girl for
$70,090.
Tlic Xetv Sisti industry.
The greatest incentive to engage in
silk culture is the knowledge that there
is a home market for §15,000,000
worth of floss, which American inarm*
facturers are obliged to import from
foreign lands. Tho other considera
tion is, that silk culture furnishes wo
men and children in the rural districts,
with a congenial occupation that does
not require constant attention, and so
will not interfere with household du
tics.
In view of these facts the Women’s
Silk Culture Association of Philadel
phia was organized two years ago, for
tho purpose of calling tho attention of
the women of the country to the op
portunity given Jhem to establish a
new industry, both suitable and profit
Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and the Interests of the People.
GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1882.
able: and also to give tho necessary in
structions to all desiring to eDgage in
silk culture.
The success of this pioneer associa
tion is remarkable; there has been
aroused a wide spread interest in the
cultivation of cocoons, that must go ou
increasing until tho aim of the assooia
tion is fulfilled.
This fact was most forcibly present
ed at the last exhibition of tbe associa
tion, at which the display of oocoons
was very fine and interesting. The
chief feature of the exhibition was the
display of specimen cbcoons by tho
twenty-six contestants for the Straw
bridge & Clothier premiums. .The first'
one of which, by the way, was carried
off by Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, (mother of
the late Bayard Taylor), who is over
82 years of age, and a sufferer from
paralysis.
Tho association announces that
through the liberality of Messrs. Straw
bridge & Clothier the well known dry
goods merchants of Philadelphia, it is
again enabled to offer to the silk cul
turists the sum of five hundred dollars
in ten premiums, as follows: first
premium, $100; second premium, $75;
third premium, SOS; fourth premium,
$00; fifth premium, SSO; sixth prem
ium, §ls; seventh premium, §10;
eighth premium, S3O; ninth premium,
$25; tenth premium, $lO. For these
premiums any resident of the United
States may contest. From the ten
largest amount of cocoons, one pound
will be taken, without selection, and
the test of reeling applied; the quantity
and quality will be the conditions for
premium. Application for competition
must bo indorsed and the amount of
this year’s cocoons raised by the cul
turist, testified to by some responsible
person. Stock must be sent not later
tivAa Poen>bci 1, I©OQ.
Any one with sufficient land to grow
a few mulberry trees can add the rear
ing of silk worms to the daily care and
find it a source of pleasure and profit.
The work occupies but a small portion
of the year, and a child can attend to
the daily gathering of leaves and feed
ing the worms. If a supply of mul
berry leaves cannot be had, an osage
orange hedge will answer every pur*
pose. The osage orange leaf is ad
mirable food for the silk worms, from
which they spin splendid silk.
Avery interesting event of national
interest, connected with this subject of
silk culture, has just occurred in Phil
adelphia. The Women's Silk Culture
Association selected silk from twenty
six families living in fourteen states;
had it spun on a “Yankee” reel, made
into a web of twenty-eight thousand
threads of silk, and woven as a brocade
on a Jacquard loom, requiring three
thousand six hundred needles to form
the original and striking design. This
is the first brocade ever woven in
America of American silk; and prob
ably the heaviest in texture of any
brocade ever woven. It is known as
the Garfield dress, as it is the inten
tion of the association to present this
magnificient fabric to Mrs. James A.
Garfield.
OUR WASHffifiTON LETTER.
Slow Worko in Congress—The
Tariff Commission—“ The Law’s
Delay”—About Guiteau’s Un
soundness—The Star Routo Ju
ry-
(From our Regular Correspondent)
Washington, D. C., June 10.
What Congreßshas not done this
session would fill many a volume,
and it is tho opinion of the appro*
priative committee that Congress
can not do what must be done to
keep tho National Machiue oiled
and running before the 20th of Ju
ly. The new fiscal year will be
gin on the Ist of July, and the np*
propriation bills have not been pass
ed for the support of the Govern
ment during the coming year. If,
as it is expected. Congress docs not
adjourn much before August, there
will be a very short vacation, for
it must assemble on the first Mon
day in December for the short and
final session.
The anaouucomeut of the names
(ESTABLISHED IX THE YEAR ISfifi).
of tho Tariff revision committee is
not received with favor by those
Senators who are in favor of tariff
reform, and it is doubtful if the
President’s Dominations will be
confirmed. Brown of Georgia,and
Jones of Louisiana, it is said, are
the only Democrats who will vote
commission, and, it is also
said, that Ingersoll and Van Wyck,
Republicans, will voto against it
The vote indicated will throw the
decision of tbe question upon tho
two soscalled Independents, Davis
and Mahone,
The long talked of, and often
postponed, trial o< tbo Star Route
men is, at last, under way. There
has been much dissatisfaction, on
the part of the prosecution, with
the jury selected. It is not charg
ed that tho jury has been corrupt*
ed, or is susceptible of being tam
pered, that a number of
men are on it whd predisposed
to be lenient with onjor another of
tho defendants. The decision of
Judge Wylie, that tho defendants
had each of them a right to four
peremptory challenges wa9 what
first upset the calculations of tho
prosoeution and sent them all to
soa. The regular panel was quick
ly exhausted and a large lot of
talesmen became necessary. It
was in the selection of these tales
men that tho defence are charged
with having overreached the Gov
ernment. It is assorted that no
sooner were talesmen ordered than
a goodly number were found to be
on hand and convenient for tho
M.arskol’a o ■--a, .. - 1 4-
fendant Dorsey, the ez-Senator,
was seen to shave the ear of Mar
shal Ilenry in a secluded alcove.—
There is no doubt that Marshal
Ilenry was subsequently brought
before Attorney-General Brewster
and subjected to a rasping examin
ation, but, as no overt act could be
designated, it was finally concluded
tbe wisest policy, by Gen. Brews
ter and his associates, to make no
fuss about it. For a time, howev
er, it was seriously contemplated
to demand of tho Marshal his resig
nation in spite of the fact that he
was one of President Garfield’s ve*
ry personal appointments, but this
determination, after a long confer
ence with the offondiDg official, was
abandoned.
The calendar of the Supreme
Court of the United States is three
years in arrears, and no special
effort has been visible, on the part
of the Bench, to stem the rising
tide of its business. Tho Judges
are waiting relief frern Congress
which Congress delays giving, and
meanwhile they goon long eummer
excursions. The law’s delay is in
flicting untold misery on thousands
of litigants. The supreme Bench
it is believed, will finally be divid
ed into throe or more benches
which will sit as a court in banc,
only on a limited number of ap
pealed cases.
A carofully planned systematic
effort is being made to spread be
lief in Guiteau’s insanity, and thus
furnish a basis for the exercise of
the pardoning power on the part of
the President. There is no doubt
but Guiteau is insane (unseund) iu
the etymological sense of the word;
his mind, like his body, is rotton,
but that he knew the difference be
tween right and wrong was fully
established by his trial, and is be*
lievel by all but kindred cranks.—
The sooner such mental and physi
cal corruption is put under the
ground, the bettor. S.A C.
*-.
Palmetto Post: On Sunday even
ing last, while parson Jenkins was
conducting services in Zion’s Afri
can Baptist Church, a very strange
occurrence took place which has
been the cause of much comment
ainoug our colored fellew-citiaens.
While the minister was earnestly
calling upon those who were in
need of prayer, to come forward
and be prayed for, a cow mounted
the steps of the church, and kneel
ing down at tho entrance, bellowed
piteously.
(lien. Toombs mid Uil'e.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
While tho current rumors as to
the health of General and Mrs.
Toombs are exaggerated, thero still
remains ground for anxiety regard
ing the distinguished pair. Mrs.
Toombs is now GS years of.age, and
thus outnumbers the years attain
ed by the other members of the
family. Her physical health is
good, but her mental condition is
very unfavorable. In conversa
tion her mind ofton wanders from
tbe topic under discussion. The
General’s eyesight has been failing
for some time, but this does not
keep him at home. An adjourned
term of Wilkes Superior Court is
now in session, before which the
Genoral is conducting a very im
portant case. On Wednesday he
read a pnper connected therewith
to tho jury. lie spends a couple
of hours down town every day;
still, it must be admitted that he is
more feeble than he was a couple
of years smeo. A few days ago
tho General refused to leave town
to argue tho case of a prominent
railroad official, being unwilling to
leave his wife alone. The railroad
President went to see the General,
however, got the advice he wanted,
and paid $ 1.5(H) for it. While
their advanced age should prepare
us for the worst, yet it is the wish
of every true Georgian that the
venerable couple should be spared
for years to come.
What Broke a Printer.
The publisher of a weekly news
paper iu Michigan before the war was
under the saddle and hitched to a wag
on to boot. lie carried a load of doubt,
debt and anxiety which would have
crushed the secretary of the treasury
in one brief week. A dollar was a cart
wheel in his eyes, and two cart-wheels
in the eyes of his employes. It is
vividly remembered by tho writer how
a certain publisher in an interior town
felt as happy as a king when he could
sond for two bundles of paper at once,
and it is more vividly remembered that
he never saw the week when ho could
buy ono bundle of paper and pay off
the hands, too, iu cash.
One day a printer died. Perhaps
he gradually starved to death, or may
be the anxiety as to how he could buy
both wood and Dour the same Saturday
finished him off. At any rate anew
printer came up from Grand Rapids to
fill the gap, and his wages were to he
812 per week. On the first Saturday
he got an order oo a hardware store for
810 and §2 cash. On the next he got
a boot-and-shoe order for SO and a S3
order on a grocery. On the third he
had to take a 86 order on a livery
stable and let the balance go over. His
fourth Saturday had arrived, and he
had 818 due him. An order for that
amount on a saw-mill man was quietly
laid nn his case and the books balanced,
but he protested;
“Why, I can’t use this order."
“Why rrttt ?"
“I don’t want any lumber/'
“You don’t ?”
“No, sir.”
The publisher looked blank, scratch
ed his head, and after a minute hurried
over to the desk with the remark:
“1 see—all right. I’ll tear this up
and give you one on a cooper for 810
and another on the undertaker for IS.
You had better arrange to get married
and settle down here."
The printer went out of that town
that evening by a very muddy high
way, having disposed of his orders for
$2 cash Cnd a satchel to hold his spare
shirt.—[Detroit Free Press.
BF%„Another Invoice of Gents mixed
Straw Hats just received by C A Pavla &
Cos.
Georgia Mroai Coin
Office General Manager, Augusta, Ga., JUNE 3td, 1882.
Commencing Sunday JUNE 4th, 1881, Passenger Trains will run a* follWif
.\o. I, West- Daily. \o. a, Ikist-llnily,
heave Augusta 10:30 a. m. heave Atlanta 8;30 a. m.
heave Macon 7.10a.m. heave Greenesboro’ 12;)8 pm
Leave Milledgeville 9:05 a. m. Arrive Athens 3:45 p m
heave Cnmak 12:25 am. arrive Washington 2:56 pm
Leave Washington 11:20 a. m. Arrive Cnmak 1*57 pm
Leavo Alliens 0:38 a. m. Arrive Milledgeville 4:49 p m
Arrive at Greeircsbore’ 201 p. m. Arrive Macon 6:45 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. m. Arrive Augusta 8.55 p m
IV. Went—Wally. No. 4, Fast- Unify,
Leave Augusta 8-’SO p m Leave Allan!* 845 p m
Arrive Grecnesboro’ 1:44 am Leave Greencsboro’ 1:47 * m
Leavo Macon, 7:10 p m Arrive Millcdgevillo 4:27 a m
Leave Milledgeville 015 p m Arrive Mico* 6:40 • m
Lave Athens 7:00 p m ! Airivc at Athens, 8:00 a. m
Arrive Atlanta 0:40 am i Arrive Augusta 6:80 am
Sleepers lo Augusta and Atlanta.
FJ R. DORSRIT,
General Passenger Agent.
J. W. Green, General Manager.
CITY DRUG STORE.
; . , fe . 5 I#(7o"T'f !{I ot
ALWAYS keep a Large aiid varied assortment of
Chemically Pure %ilgg£ DRCtfilS and
NEW GOODS W Medicines.
Arriving every week. ASS' V.
Full stock of
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
COLORS, BRUSHES, etc.
AH Sizes WINDOW GLASS.
LA ALP GOODS, CHIMNEYS, etc.
Bu.ist’s - Garden Seeds.
—SETS liOTATAXAfi tn , ?_
Crop of 1870, warranted fresh .UrAJn’i.n.-. lO ceill.s papers sold ot a cents
strictly. The best Seed for this climate.
Fine Cigars & Chewing Tobacco
Toilet Soaps, Perfumery, Pomades, Tooth-brushes, am) Druggist’s suadriw.
JGfctT Physicians’ prescriptions careful compounded and dispensed.
John A. Griffin.
Greenesboro’, Ga., .Tanu.irj 29,1880.
J. L. BOWIES & CO.,
Wholesale aryl Retail j
No. 717 Broad Street,
Augusta-, - - - GA.
OUR Stock is complete in every particular. Chamber Sets from SSOO down to s2*
Parlor Sets from S4O up to $250, Come and see us, or write for prices. W*
have a!! th. Latest Styles and Novelties in our line. We are Agents for the W.v.*
Wire Mattress Company,and the Naiiona! Wire improved, The best two springs in Mm
market \Yc have a full line of cheap Spring and Mattresses; also fine Feathers-
J.L. BOWLES & CO.
Jan. 20, ISBI- No. 717 Broad Street, Augusta, ®
ROUSH, CAMPBELL &CO.
DEALERS IN
Paper, Paper Boxes, Books
And Stationery,
Office anil Salesroom No. 29, Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, - - - GA.
PLAIN WRITING PAPER, ;!WRAPPING PAPER.
FANuY do do PATER BAGS of all sizes an 4
BLANK BOOKS. we j g ht at
mucilage, UoltomJUfurcs
Mm \n|jpjtPll
of every description. , Ui UUi U fjUllullUUl
October 14, ISBO—
—n ■ n h ■■■■——O
Central Hotel.
Mrs W M THOMAS,
propri etress.
Centrally located near Confederate Monument,
It road Street, AUGUSTA, a.
Coratortable Rooms. Excellent Fare. Courteoua Clerk* and attentive Servant.
Sept. 30, 1?80
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