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ik lewli l. ■_ " ■ (ESTABLISHED /.V THE TEAR 1845). _ o. HEARD,) PROPRIETOR. } V*)L. XVII. Mia MM Com, Office General Manager, Augusta, Ga., JULY Ist, 1 882. Commencing Sunday JULY 2d, 1881, Passenger Trains will run as follows: *o. I, West- la iy. Ao. 2. Enst-Ihiiy. Leave Augusta 10:30 a. m. Leave Atlanta 8 : 20 a. m . Leave Macon 7.10 a.m. Leave Greenesboro’ 1203 nm Leave Millcdgeville 0:05 a. in. Arrive Athens 3:45 p m L%ave C'amak 12:2o am. Arrive Washington 2:55 p m Leave Washington 11:20 a. ra. Arrive Camak 1-57 pm Leave Athens _ 9:45 a. m. Arrive Milledgeville 4:49 J, m Arrive at Greenesboro’ 2;10.p. m. Arrive Macon C:45 pm Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. m Arrive Augusta 3.55 pm IVo. Jl, West—lJaiy- I*o. 4, Knst-Iniy. Leave Augusta 8:50 p m Leave Atlanta 8:45 p m Arrive Greenesboro’ 1:44 am Leave Greenesboro’ 1;47 a m Leave Macon, 7:10 p m Arrive Milledgeville 4:27 a m Milledgeville 01.5 p m Arrive Macon 6:40 a m Leave Athens 6:00 p m j Airive at Athens, 8:30 a. m Arrive Atlanta 0:40 a m j Arrive Augusta 6:30 a m jplg-Puperh Sleepers to Augusta and Atlanta. EJ- R. RORSRY, General Passenger Agent. J. W. Green, General Manager. 7 CITY DRUG STORE oo J ALWAY’S keep a Large and variedassortment of Chemiealy Pure DK UtKS and new goods W Medicines. Arriving every week. Ful , s(ock of PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, COLORS, BRUSHES, etc. AH Sizes WINDOW GLASS. LAMP GOODS, CHIMNEYS, etc. Buist’s Garden Seeds. ON TON SETS, POTATOES, etc.. . *v 1879 warranted fresh and Genuine. SO cents papers sold at 5 CSIItS " r ’ strictly, The best Seed for this climate. iFine Cigars & Chewing Tobacco Teilet Soaps, riTfumery, Tomades. Tooth-brushes, and Druggist’s sundries. Physicians’ prescriptions careful compounded and dispensed. " f John A. Griffin. Greenesboro’, Ga.. January 29,1880. J. L. BOWLES & Cos., ► Wholesale and Retail " ' ■ ■ r &*&*** No. 717 Broad Street, Augusta, - - - GrA. OUI4 Stock i& complete in every particular. Chamber Sets from SSOO down to $25 *arior Sets from S4O up to $250. Come and see us, or write for prices. We knave all the Latest Styles and Novelties in our line. We are Agents for the Woven Wire Mattress Company,and the National Wire Improved. The best two springs in the Irket We have a full line of cheap Spring anOlattresses: also fine Feathers ■ J. L. BOW LBS & C 0. 20, 1881 —- No. 717 Broad Street, Augusta, G MM, CAMPBELL Hi DEALERS IN Rt, Paper Boxes, Books And Stationery, Office and Salesroom No, 29, Whitehall Street, ■IA>TA, - - - GA. ■aWWRITING PAPER, WRAPPING PAPER. Hlfv do do PAPER BAGS of all sizes and RJI?K BOOKS. weight at B s - Bottom figures ■CJLAGE, ** '* |r =“ ; '“ flriffi Mi. October 14,1880 - * Hotel, Mrs WM” THOMAS, PROPRIETRESS. Centrally located near Confederate Monument, to a 1 Street, AUGUSTA, Ga. rafortable Rooms. Excellent Fare Courteous Clerks attentive Servant*, feept. 'iO. rfP Devoted to tlie Cause of Truth and Justice, and the Interests of the People* GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1882. A fi.ost Key. CHAPTER I. Edgar Hrnton had made a high ly important discovery, and one that troubled httn. He was a sur geon, and one given to examining hearts. For n full hour, in the $ gathering summer twilight of the Park avenue, he had applied his sternest faculties to the testing, in another sense, of hi? own. The decision to which, very unwillingly, he came was that his suspicions of the past threo months were well founded. He was in love. The thrill which had gone through him as he clasped Kate Gerrow's band on leaving her uncle’s gate every evening pointed in that direction. The expansion of soul and the ex hileration of mind which he con tinually experienced in her pres ence, the longing that eften seized him in his moments of professional disgust and weariness to feast his eyes, if only for an instant, on Kate’s bonny face, all drove home the unwelcome conviction. In the course of his final turn along the broad path between the whispering poplars Edgar formed a resolution. Entering Brixby he encountered the very friend he had desired to consult. Mr. Treut was a solicitor, many years the young medical man's senior, and his only confident in all the country side. “If you are disengaged for ten minutes or so, Mr. Trent,” said Edgar, “J should like to have a talk with you about Mr. Gerrow’s niece.” % “I am entirely at your servico. You are smitten by a great appre* ciation of Miss Gerrow's charms. I have seen it coming a long time.” Edgar smiled a little sardonical ly in the dimness. “It’s a lawyer's business to be farsighted,” he said. “I have found it out now—the fact of which you speak—and lam afraii only just in time.” A harshness was in his tone which surprise the listener. “I do not understand,” said Mr. T rent. “Why, I mean that, had the dis ease gone further, I might have proved unable to overcome it, as 1 mean to do now.” “You astonish me mere and more. Miss Gerrow is beautiful, of good bnth, and well educated. She is an heiress into the bargain; and if she cares for you, and her uncle consents, what possible ob* stacle can intervene ?” “You have said,” returned Ed gar, moodily, “she is an heiress.” “The lawyer bit his lips lo keep from a loud explosion of misplaced merriment, “The very thing, that, whether she were pretty or plaiu, would make her quite an attraction to most suitors.” “I am aware of it. But I am not like the majority. lam poor, my prospects are barren enough; all the world would say I was for tune-hunting—marrying for money if it came to a marriage. She might learn to thmk so too, and that I could Dot bear. I have seen plenty of this already—in my own family.” The concentrated’pathog of the last sentence, and the involuntary 6igb which concluded it, touched the solicitor. His meditated words of bantering remonstrance were not uttered. “What shall you do, then ” he asked. “Shun the danger, fight the temptation, work the harder. I cannot run away as in other cir cumstances I might bo tempted to do; my living lies in Brixfcy. But you can help me considerably in tho struggle, if you will/’ “I ! flow ?” i “When you see me running any risk of a tete-a-tete with Miss Gerrow and you can possibly in terfere. do so.” “And make you hate me for it. I will not promise.” “I shall not hate you—l shall be very grateful. I must meet her frequently at tho houses of mutual friends. You will be ablo to make me your debtor in the way I say.” The route the pair had taken brought them at this point within the cordon of habitation again. With a few more words of less special interest they parted for the night. CHAPTER 11. As fate would have it, a week later he was thrown into Kate Gerrow's company even more con stantly and more intimately than before. Mr. Gerrow wa9 taken suddenly ill. Edgar had to attend him and to labor hard to ward off an attack of probably fatal apoplexy. They were a lonely couple, tho wealthy, eccentric owner of Brixby Lodge and the fair young girl who was reputed his heiress. Kate wa9 an only child, an orphan. Neither she nor her uncle hal any kinsfolk in the neighborhood. Cousins, Kate believed she had somewhere in the north; but there hal been an estrangement in the family and these she had never seen. “Is it anything dangerous. Mr. Hrnton ? My uncle will recover, will he not ?” Kate asked, as after a careful examination of his patient Edgar stood for a moment or two in the wide, old-fashioued hall. “I sincerely trust so, Miss Ger row,” he replied; of course. I dare not disguise freon you that there is risk—grave risk that is inseparable from such cases; but I see not the least reason for despair. Pray do not worry yourself unnecessarily.” •‘My uncle is the only relative I have living in the whole west of England,” she said. “You will not conceal his real condition from me at any time, I beg, Mr. Arn ion,” she subjoined. “Na, Miss Gerrow. I will bo quite frank, although it is medi cal privilege to be discreet, you know. But you will need a train ed nurse, the work will be too del icate for ordinary "servants and too wearying by far for you. May I send you one from the 7/jlstcad Infirmary ?” ‘lf you think that will be the best course to take. • But I shall certainly wait upon my uncle prin cipally myself.” Hod so Kate did. And day by day in his visits Edgar Arnton met her and fell more deeply in love. Not that he abandoned in any degree his determination tote frain from becoming Kate’s suitor. That resolve was as firm ns ever He simply elected to drift with tlio tide. The patient gradually recovered, and bore grateful testimony to Edgar’s professional skill. The mend was not for long, though, a message in the dead of night some few weeks after took Edgar hurriedly away to Brixby Lodge, to find that another seizure had proved fatal. Kate’s grief was intense Edgar must have appeared cold and dis tant in the dark days before her uncle’s funeral, for he new felt himself compelled to keep down his sympathy with an iron hand and to breathe condolence iri the most conventional of phrases. But for so doing he felt morally sure that his vow of personal stlenee would have been irretrievably broken. But in the course of time an odd rumor reached him. The old man’s will had been read, and Kate was not an heiress after all. With n chaos of conflicting emotions with in his breast, Edgar called on Mr. Trent and learned the truth. “The document is dated ten years back, before Miss Gerrow came to live with her uncle,” said the solicitor; “there is no doubt as to its gonuineness. Every one thought he had made a later one— I did mvself—but nono can be found beside this. I suppose he put the business off, as so many people do, until it was too late.— The property all goes to a wealthy Lancashire manufacturer.” “How does Kate—Miss Gerrow take it ?” “As quietly as you may guess. Some girls would have been almost killed by the disappointment, but not she. You had bi tter go up and see her; she is not an heiress now Indeed, she II have barely sufficient to live upon, un less this cousin does something for her." Elgar took his advice and went up to the desolate great house the same afternoon. Some commonplaces pass ed and then that old, old story burst forth which somehow alwrys seems to me far too sacred to be written in de tail. Edgar made full confession. Bnd not in vain. “The saddest experience of my youth,,' he said, “came through mar riage for money, aud through misplaced confidence. /ery early I vowed that that, mistake should in no shape ever be mine; that nobody should ever throw fortune-hunting of that kind in my teeth. And yet —with a smile of infinite content —"I am not certain, Kate, after all. whether love would not have beaten me in the end.” ‘T hope so," the maiden answered, shyly. CHAPTER 111. There was a hale at Rrixby Lodge, and in due course one of the Lanca shire manufacturer's sons, who had re ocntly married, came down aud was ins stalled as his father’s representative Edgar Arnton had arranged that Kate Gerrow should reside in London with his sisters, until such an interval had passed as etiquette prescribed. At the sale he was a large purchaser, and poor, as by comparison, he had once styled himself, the house he furnished was one of the best in the village. Wedding and honeymoon were both over, Edgar had just came iu from his day's rouod of visits, and was standing with his wife at the window, gazing out at the fast lulling snowflakes. Suddenly there was a crash behind that caused them to look rouod. A Persian kitten, gamboling mischievous ly on the top of an escritoire, had knocked down the plaster figure- of an an'ique cupbearer. The fragile article of vertu wa3 broken into a dozen frag' ments, amidst which a tiny silver key revealed itself. ‘•There is where tlie key of uncle’s Japanese cabinet went to, then,” said Kate; “the hand and arm of the image must have been hollow, and the key, once pot into the cup, slipped through into the interior." ‘•Odd. certainly," answered Edgar; "let us try if it is the one.” He went out, and from the next room fetched a small, inlaid oahinet of ex quisite workmanship. The key fitted at once. ‘ I was sure it would. I kuew it again at first sight, said the lady. “It is fortunate wc waited and did not trouble to force the box; that would inevitably have spoiled it. I doo t suppose there is anything in the cas ket, though. “Ob, but there is!” ejaculated Ed gar, as at that instant he poised up the delicate lid and caught sight of a tight little roll of paper. Kate watched in siTcnt surprise; Ed gar slowly undid the bundle, a shrewd suspicion of what he barf found flashed upon him and making his ordinary firm, white fingers lv>l and bungling. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARf *lt is uncle's real will, his last and legal will, I should say, rather,” said Edgar with a gasp, “found just where he might have been expected to have placed it. and where srarehefe might equally have expected to iii’ss it. • Quite a wonder I bought the cabinet I” And then lie read slowly, till the full moment of the discovery had been realized by both brains, how lands and houses and money snugly invested in consuls had all been devised, without reservation or qualification, to .Air Gerrow's beloved niece Kate, “the com panion of his old ago, and the faithful guardian of his interests.” “I)i spite all precautions you harp married an heiress, then, Edgar," said Kate, merrily; “the pity of it is it's quite too late in the day to disown hpr now.” “As if I emild possibly wish to!” Mr. Trent laughed likewise. “All’s well that ends well,” fie sod. lie was speedily put in possession of the recovered document, acquainted Mr. Mudbury with the circumstances, and convinced the manufacturer how futile it would he to contest his cou sin's claim. In a very brief space the Lancashire gentleman returned in dis gust to his own district. Brixby Lodge became the residence of the Arntons and their children. Both hu-band and wife treasure the once lost key above its weight in gold. Hut for its opportune disappearance two loving souls might have remained apart. An insane girl in Rochester gets out of bed at midnight and goes to Work sawing wood in the hack yard., 'lf she would, in addition to this, turn her at tentinn to writing editorials, collecting aecnnnfs. keeping books, ete., we wd\*ld marry her,yes, even if we had to Cwirmit polygamy and subsequently suicide. Avery old lady on her death f>ed> in penitential mood, said: ‘I have beco a great sinner more than eighty years* and didn’t know it,” An old colored woman, who had lived with her a long time exolaimed, ‘'Laws, I knowed it all the time.’ An exchange has an article on "bow to treat wives." This seems to remind ns of th old rale about cooking a rah bi<— 'first catch him.” It is the mark of nßgreat mind to he firm in matters of real weight and im portance, and of weak ones to be in flexible in little things. —mm** * “George,” asked the teacher of a Sunday school class, “who, above all others, shall you wish to see when you get to heaven?” with a face brightened up with anticipation, the little fellow shouted, "Gerliah !” (■ieorgiii Ituilromt 4'oiiipsiuy. SPECIAL ORDER. Augusta, Go. Sept. 23rd, 1882 To Loral Agent*: When necessary, Depots at Local Stations will be kept open for the re ceipt of Oottou or other Freights as follows, viz; From April Ist to September 30tn, inclusive, until Six (6) o’clock p m •From October Ist to March 31st inclusive, until Five (o') o’clock p. m. E. R DORSEY, General Freight Agent Tappan, Bro. & Cos., Are now receiving general DRY GOODS, B.VGQI N, TIES, GROCERIES, etc. All for sale al lowest market prices. Highest market price paid for Cotton, Where parties desire to ship to other mar kets, they will haul cotton to Railaea.l free. sept.l4.’B2 Powdered Sugar; Granulated Sugars; all grades of family Su gars.— C. A. Davis & Cos. a week in your own town Outfit free. No risk. Kea if yon want a business at which persons of eilher sex can make great pay all the time they work. Write for par ticulars to If. llALlbtt & Cos., Portland, Maine. jirty 10,1 BW-Jy Lula Bourne is selling qitsnt;- ties of new Millinery Goods at (\ A. Davis & Go's. Have you seen those rude brim Wats in her department ? They are very fashionable this season. j H. T- LEWIS, ( EDITOR. The (oustitiitioiir For ISKS-tt. Is bettor equipped in every sense rhart ever before to maintain its position IN THE FRONT RANKS OF SOUTHERN JOURNALISM. It rntlsflliu ulfeutioitf of llic rcnilhit: |Hillic to tlio loltim instpoint* that *an la*, rlaiuttal. Yainclv, (liat It is 1. The largest and best paper in Georgia, Alabama, the Carolines, Florida and Mississippi. 2. More reading matter than any paper in* the South' A'tm'nrtts States. 3. The fulitst telegraphic service and latest news. 4. The brighte t, best and fullest corres j pondence. .">. The oompletest election refurns: fi Verbatim Legislative reports, 7. Official Supreme Court reports. “ The Great Georgia Paper Heller Than Ecer, No intelligent Georgian can do with out it Every Georgian should take a paper froa the Capital during the next three months. The Daily Constitution $lO per annum: *2 603 months; SI 00 1 month'. Weekly $1 fiO a year; Club of 10, $1 25, with free copy to getter up of Club; Cluhs of 20 $1 00, with free copy. Address THE CONSTITUTION Atlanta, Gif. PATENTS obtained, and all business in flic tf. S. Pat ent tfffi'c'e. or in the Courts attended to for modererate Les. We are opposite the U. S. Patent Office, engaged in patent Business exclusively.* nnd can obtain patents in less timo thaw those remote from Washington. When model or drawing is sent we ad vise as to patentability free of Charge ; and! we make no charge unless We obtain pafetit. We refer, here. to the Post Master, the' Supt. of the Money Order Div., and to officials of the U. S. Patent Office. The circular, advice, terms, and reference to actual clients in your own state, or county, address— C. A. SNOW i 3.,.. Opposite Patent Office, Washington D. C. Sept. 20, 1881. gU Outfit furnished free, with full BP 1 1 ■instructions' for conducting the 188 ' profitable business that w|F B fepr ftn y one can engrge in. Th* business is so easy to learn, and our in structions are so simple and plain, that any one can make great profits from the very start. No one can fail who is willing to work. Women are as successful as men. Boys and girls cart’ earn large sums. Many lmve made at the business over one hun dred dollars in a single week. Nothing like it ever known before. All who engage are surprised at the ease nnd rapidity with which they are able to make money. You carr engage In this business during your spare time trt great profit. Yon do not have to invest capital in it. We take all tlie risk. Those who need ready money, should write to us at. once. All furnished free. Address TRUE & Cos .: Augusta, Maine. ap.7,’81 Look Out ! I WISH to notify my friends and cus tomers, that 1 have just received the best assorted stock of Liquors ever offered for sale in this market, I have three favor ite hrands of Corn Whisky, home made, as pure ns can he made In fire Southern States —“Maxey’s,” “North Georgia” and “North Carolina.” My Rye Whiskies are ntso of the best and purest brands. My Peach B rrndyl made u yself and I know it to t>o pure and all right. Fifty Dollars in cash, will be paid to any man tliat can find on*' drop of water in any of my Liquors. All I ask is for any otto wishing to buy, to call and examine for themselves. 1 will take pleasure in show ing my goods, as 1 know what they are.— 1 am ottering my stock at greatly reduced Drices. Keg Beer and bottle Beer always on linn 1. If you want pure Liquors call on me; if you want watered liquors go somewhere else, as my liquors ar- free from drnggs and water. Be sure to eall and get my prices. J. T. SUOTT. person wishing to buy any of tny Chi'i Wheat, to sow this fall, will do well to leave their orders with me at once, as I am shipping to other counties every week. I will sell the Wheat at a reduced price. J.T.B. Greene.-boro’, Ga', Oct. 12, 1882. A\ At I\ Notice is hereby given that an Act enti tled ‘An Act, to appropriate the proceeds of the hire of convicts from the county of Greene, to the payment, of insolvent costs due the different officers of sai 1 county will be applied for at the meeting of the next. General Assembly of the Plate of Georgia. Oct. Iff, 1882—It. E£g-isew Pistols, Guns Cartridges.—C A. Duv 4’ Cos. imm • jflwgp-Kentucky Jeans will be offered as low ns 10 cents per yard this season by V. A. Davis & Cos. Quite a good quality at 20t ami 25 cents. ftiy-Still another supply of popular suits for children, boys and young men arriving this week at C. A. Davis & Co's. ——♦ • ,Large line very desirable Jean* and Cassimeres.—0. A. Eavis & Cos. NO. 47