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VOL. XIX.
Temperance Column.
THEJUG BUSINESS IN GEORGIA.
The adoption of the Local Option
law in eighty-seven of the one hun
dred and thirty-eight counties of
Georgia has transformed over one
half of the State into temperance
territory. This does not mean, how
ever, that the people became temper
ate. As the licenses expired various
devices were resorted to in order to
furnish drink for the thirsty. Wag
oners on visiting their market towns,
which happened to be located in non
temperance counties, would fortify
themselves with well-filled flasks on
their return home. Later the South
ern Express Company was resorted
to as the medium through which
jugs might be sent C. 0.1)., to such
persons as might need them. The
company insisted on its right to de
liver such goods, as being within the
privileges of its charter. The tem
perance people sought in vain for a
preventive, but all to no purpose. —
Seeing the demand for jugs, the
earthenware works of the State,
which had becu falling out of busi
ness, picked up enterprise enough to
meet the demand, and the result was
the manufacture nf thousands of
gallon and half gallon jugs, which
would he tilled and sent out to dry
customers.
Over 40,000 such jugs have passed
through the express office since last
January. The temperance people
made the point, that under the Uni
ted States laws, dealers could only’
sell at their place of business, and
that a sale 0.0.D. does not come
within the meaning of the law. In
order to settle this point, H. Myers
fc Bros, of Savannah, appealed to
the internal Revenue Commissioner
at Washington, and received in reply
the following decision :
“You arc advised, that the special
tax stamps which you hold as whole
sale and retail liquor dealers in Savan
nah, do not cover your salesof distill
ed spirits, wine or malt liquors at any
other piace than your place of business
in Savannah. The sales of those li
quors should, therefore, be completed
by delivery, either actual or construc
tive, at that place to the purchaser, in
every instance. They are not com
pleted at that place when you send
the liquors marked C.O.D. by express
to some other place, for the liquors re
main your property stiil upon arriving
at their destination, and do not be
come the property of the person who
ordered them until they have been de
livered to him there, after the pay
ment of the purchase and charges.”
This decision effectually disposes of
the jug business. Quite a flurry has
been raised in many counties that
the grand juries are about to indict
all who purchased as well as all who
sold such liquors since the adoption
of the Local Option law. —Ex.
The grand jury of Fulton
county, recommended that
the price for retail license
for bar rooms be raised to
SI,OOO. They also recom
mended that a bouse of cor
rection for children, be es
tablished, wherein these
young criminals, and many
older ones, may not only be
restrained from crime, but
reclaimed from vice, instead
of becoming, by contact
with old and hardened
criminals in our jails and
convict camps, confirmed
in vicious habits, and their
young lives rendered a
curse to themselves, a dis
grace to their families and
a stigma upon the commu
nity.
Senator Brown has intro
duced a bill offering a re
ward of SIOO,OOO for the
discovery of the true cause
of yellow fever.
of buse balls, from lOcts
to SI 00.— Copclan, Seals dc Armor.
B@uW. A. Kimbro’ & Cos., are now
ready with a full line of Dress Goods
to suit all. Plain Nunsveilings,
Checked Nunsveiling, Black Nuns
veiliug, Printed Nunsveiling, Lace
Bunting, Oriole Casameres-all shades,
Percals, Reversible Suitings, Seer-
Cloth, Barley Cloth, Figured and
White Lawns, White Goods and
Prints in abundance,
SELECTIONS.
THE MYSTERIOUS ORGANIST.
Years ago, in a grand old cathe
dral over-looking the Rhine there
appeared a mysterious organist. The
great composer who had played the
organ so long, had suddenly died,
and every person from the peasant to
the king was wondering who could
be found to fill his place. One bright
Sabbath morning as the sexton en
tered the church, he saw a stranger
sitting at the crape shrouded organ.
He was a tall, graceful man, with a
pale but strikingly handsome face,
great black melancholy eyes, and
hair like a raven, for gloss and color,
sweeping in darkwaves over his shoul
der. He did not seem to notice the
sexton, but went to playing; and
such music as lie drew forth from the
instrument no word can describe.
The astonished listener declared that
the organ seemed to have grown hu
man —that it wailed and sighed and
clamored. When the music at lengt h
ceased, the sexton hastened to the
stranger and said.
“Pray, who are you, sir?”
“Do not ask my name,” he replied.
“I have heard that you are in want
of an organist, and have come here
on trial.”
“You’ll be sure to get the place,”
exclaimed the sexton. “Why! you
surpass him that’s dead and gone.”
•‘No, no —you everratc me,” re
sumed the stranger, with a smile;
and then, as if disinclined to conver
sation, he turned to Hans and began
to play again. And now the music
changed from a sorrowful strain to a
grand old pcan and the mysterious
organist
“Looking upward full of grace,
Prayed, till from a happy place,
God’s glory smote him on the face.”
and his countenance seemed not un
like that of *St. Michael as portrayed
by Guido.
Lost in the harmonies that swelled
around him, he sat with a far-seeing
gaze fixed on the distant sky—a
glimpse of which lie caught through
the open window —when there was a
stir about the church and a royal par
ty came sweeping iu. Among them
might have been seen a young girl
with blue eyes, and lips like cherries.
This was the Princess Elizabeth, and
all eyes turned to her as she seated
herself in the velvet cushioned pew
appropriated to the court. No soon
er had the music reached her ears
than she started as if a ghost had
crossed her path. At last her eyes
met those of the organist, iu a long
yearning look, and the melancholy
lost its joyous notes and once more
wailed and clamored.
“By my faith,” whispered the king
to his daughter, “this organist has a
master hand. Hark ye! he shall
play at your wedding.”
The pale lips of the princes parted,
but could not speak —she was dumb
with grief. Like one in a painful
dream, she saw the pale man sitting
at the organ, and heard the melody
that filled the vast edifice. Aye, full
well she knew who lie was, and why
the instrument seemed breathing out
the agony of the troubled soul.
When the services were over, and
the royal party had left the cathe
dral, he stole away as mysteriously
as he had come. He was not seen
by the sexton until the vesper hour
and then commenced his task.
While he played, a veiled figure gli
ded in and knelt near the shrine.
There she knelt until the worship
pers dispersed, when the sexton
touched her on the shoulder and said :
“Madam, every one has gone except
you and me, and I wish to close the
door.”
The sexton drew back into a shady
niche, and listened. The mysterious
organist still kept his place, with his
head bowed upon the instrument, and
he could not see the lone devotee.
At length she arose from the aisle
and moving to the organ lull, paused
before the musician—
“ Bertram?” she murmured.
Quick as thought the organist rais
ed his head. There, with the light
of the lamp suspended to the arch
above falling upon her, stood the
princess who had graced the royal
pew that day. The court dress of
Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and the Interests of the People.
G lIEENESBORO’, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1884.
velvet, with its soft ermine trimmings,
the tiara, the necklace and bracelets,
had been exchanged for a gray, serge
robe, and a long thick veil, which
was now pushed back from the girl
ish face.
“Oh, Elizabeth, Elizebctli!” ejac
ulated the organist, as he sank at her
feet and gazed wistfully iu her troub
led eyes.
“Why are you here, Bertram?”
asked the troubled Princess.
“You arc to be married on the
morrow ?”
“Yes,” sobbed the girl. “Oh
Bertram, what a trial it will he to
stand at yonder alter and take upon
me the vow which will doom me to a
living death!”
“Think of me!” rejoined the or
ganist.
“Your royal father lias requested
me to play at your wedding, and 1
have promised to be here. If I were
your equal, I could be the bride
groom instead of the organist; but
the poor musician must give you up.”
“It is like rending body and soul
asunder to part with you,” said the
girl. “To-night I tell you this —toll
you how fondly I love you ; but in a
few hours it will he a sin. Go, go,
and God bless you !”
She waved him from her as if she
would banish him, while she had the
power to do so. And he. How was
it with him? He rose to leave her
then came hack, held her on his
heart in one long embrace, and with
a half smothered farewell, left her.
The next morning dawned in
cloudless splendor and at at an early
hour the cathedral was thrown open
and the sexton began to prepare for
the brilliant wedding.
Flamed colored flowers waved by
the wayside; flame colored leaves
came rushing down from (he trees
and lay in heaps upon the ground
and the ripe wheat waved like a
golden sea, and the berries dropped
in red and yellow clusters over the
rocks along the Rhine.
At length the palace gates were
opened, and the royal party appear
ed, escorting the princess Elizabeth
to the cathedral, where her marriage
was to be solemnized. It was a
brave pageant; far brighter than the
entwined foliage and blossoms were
the tufts of plumes which floated
from the stately heads, and the fes
tal robes that streamed down over
the housings of the superb steeds.
But the princess, mounted on a snow
white palfrey, and clad in snow
white velvet, looked pale and sad ;
and, when on nearing the church,
she heard a gust of organ music,
which, though very brilliant in sound,
struck on her ear likea funeral knell,
she trembled and would have fallen
had not a page supported her. A
j few moments afterwards she entered
the cathedral. There, with his re
tinue, stood the bridegroom, whom
she had never before seen. But her
glance roved from him to the organ
loft, where she had expected to see
the mysterious organist. He was
gone ; and she was obliged to return
the graceful bow of the king to
whom she had been betrothed from
motives of policy. Mechanically she
knelt at the altar-stone ; mechanical
ly listened to the service, and made
no response. Then her husband drew
her to him in a convulsive embrace
and whispered:
“Elizabeth ! my queen ! my wife!
look up!”
Trembling in every limb she obey
ed. Why did those dark eyes thrill
her so ? Why did the smile bring a
glow on her cheek ? Ah, though
the King wore the purple, and many
a jeweled order glittered on his breast,
lie seemed the same humble person
who had been employed to teach mu
sic, and had taught her the lore of
love.
“Elizabeth?” murmured the mon
arch. “Bertram Hoffman, the mys
terious organist, and King Oscar are
one ? Forgive my strategem. I wish
to marry you, hut I would not drag
you to the altar an unwilling bride.
Your father was in the secret.”
While tears of joy rushed from her
blue eyes, the new made queen re
turnod her husband’s fond kiss, and
for once two hearts were made happy
by a royal marriage. [From the
German.
SOUND DOCTRINE FOR ALL t|MES,
WORDS OF WISDOM FOR Ce-NGRESSES
AND CONVENTIONS.
From the Inaugural Address of
Thomas Jefferson, deliverd at
Washington on entering upon his
second term of office as President of
the United States, March 4, 1805.
At home, fellow-citizens, you best
know whether we have done well or
ill. The supppressiou of un necessa
ry offices, of useless establishments
and expenses, enabled us to discon
tinue our internal taxes. These cov
ering our land with officers, and i
opening our doors to their intrusions,
lmd already begun that process of
domiciliary vexation which,‘once en
tered, is scarcely to be restrained
from reaching, successively, every
article of property and produce. If,
among these taxes, some minor ones
fall, which had not been inconven
ient, it was because their amount
would not have paid the officers who
collected them, and because, if they
had any merit, the State authorities
might adopt them instead of others
less approved.
The remaining revenue, on the
consumption of foreign articles, is
paid chiefly by those who can afford
to add foreign luxuries to domestic
comforts. Being collected on our
seaboard and frontiers only, and in
corporated with the transactions of
our mercantile citizens, it may be the
pleasure and pride of an American
to ask, What farmer, what mechan
ic, what laborer ever sees a tax gath
erer of the United States ? These
contributions enable us to support
the current expenses of the 'govern
ment ; to fulfil contracts with for
eign nations ; to extinguish the na
tive right of soil within our limits ;
to extend those limits, and apply
such a surplus to our public debts as
places at a short day their final re
demption. —New York Sun.
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A Man Expresses Himself.
Horace H. Buell, of Chicago, not
having sufficient money to buy a
ticket, conceived the scheme of be
ing sent as express matter to Man
hattan, Kansas, and was successful.
He arranged a box so that he could
sit in it, and could, if necessary,open
it and release himself. He got into
his box, and was placed on board the
cars. He left Chicago last Thursday,
and arrived iu*Manhattan shortly af
ter midnight on Saturday morning,
and was dumped out on the platform
with other freight. His expectation
was that lie could escape in the dark
ness, but the box was set down bot
tom side up, with the lid against the
platform, and his scheme was frus
trated. When he was rolled into the
express office at the depot, still worse
misfortune attended him, for the box
was so placed that he stood on his
head. The clerk then began check
ing up, using the box for a table. —
Buell stood it as long as lie could,and
then made his presence known, great
ly frightening the agent, who was
going to shoot into the box. At
length, however, they released him.
lie paid the express charges, SD 25.
A ticket would have cost -817 54. —
Ex.
LAW-OFFICE DIALOGUE.
I have almost made lip my mind
to become a lawyer.
Indeed? What qualities do you
possess ?
Frankly ?
Y’es, frankly.
Well, I am studious, I have an ex
cellent memory, a good reasoning fa
culty and a love for the philosophi
cal. At college I took honors.
Superb. Forty years ago you
might have achieved celebrity at the
Philadelphia bar. But have you a
turn for tricks ? Can you measure
everything by the standard of a fee?
Could you become an adept at de
feating justice, framing excuses to
have cases put off for months and
years, after having sworn to delay no
person’s cause ? Would you brow
beat witnesses? Have you a com
mand of billingsgate ? Would you
use the court to further your own
schemes or gratify your own feelings?
Why, no.
Then go to Texas and raise cows.
How Prayer was Answered.
In bis Sunday morning prayer, a
Wisconsin minister prayed the Lord
that such of his congregation as were
speculating in wheat might be
brought to a realizing sense of their
iniquity by losing heavily. During
the next week, wheat dropped nine
cents per bushel, and twenty-three
members of the congregation had
such cold feet that they couldn’t stand
still. The week after that, there was
a meeting of the congregation to sec
about raising the minister’s salary,
and tlio result of the meeting was to
cut it down from $1,500 per annum
to $-800. As one of the kickers an
swered in explanation: “We had
them Milwaukee chaps right by the
short hair, and this feller had to jump
in and request the- Lord to knock us
endways. If he wants more’n 8800
a year, let him buy lottery tickets
and pray for ’em to hit.”—Wall
Street News.
OVER THE FENCE.
All's. Singleton put her head over
the fence, and thus addressed her
neighbor who™was hanging out her
week’s washing, —
“A family has moved in the emp
ty house across the way, Mrs. Clothes
line.”
“Yes, I know.*
“Did you notice their furniture ?”
“Not particularly.”
“Two loads and I wouldn’t give a
dollar a load for it. Carpets! 1
wouldn’t put them down in my kitch
en. And the children ! I won’t al
low mine to associate with them, you
bet. And the mother! She looks
as if she had never seen a day’s hap
piness. The father drinks, I expect..
Too bad that such people should
come into this neighborhood. I won
der who they are V”
“I know them.”
“Do you? Well, I declare. Who
are they ?”
“The mother Is my sister, and the
father Is superintendent of the Meth
odist Sunday school.”
A painful pause ensues.
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RESTAURANT.
MAIN STREET
OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE
GREENESBORO’, G
Meals at all hours. Oysters in any
style at 25 els, per plate. Evrytiling
neat anil orderly. Fresh fish and oysters
on sale.
L. O' GATLIN
February 1, 188-1.
Bf?LOur stock of spring Clothing is
now complete, and without doubt is
the most attractive assortment \ve
have ever before offered. We can soli
you a Knit from 10 to 20 iter cent,
cheaper than you can buy it in Au
gusta or Atlanta. We mean exactly
what we say, and you have only to
eail and have us show you through,to
be convinced, -opelnn, Seals & Ar
mor.
top Railroad Cnpf,
Office General Manager,- Augusta,- Ga.; April 6th, 1884.'
Commencing Sunday, Gth inst., Passenger Trains tfilV run as foliot a:
BQL.Truins run by 90th meridian time, 82 minutes sldWer than Augusta time
FAST
X. 27, West--Daily.
Leave Augusta, . . 7:40 a. m.
Arrive Athens, . . 12:30 a. iu.
Leave Greenesboro’ . . 10:10 n. m.
Arrive at Atlanta, . . 1:00 p. m.
I, W’cst—Dnliy.
Leave Augusta 10:30 a. m.
Leave Macon 7.10 a. m.
Leave MiUcdgeville 9:10 a. in.
Leave Cam alt 12:29 ra.
I,cave Washington 11:30 a. m.
Leave Athens 9:3') a. m.
Arrive at Gieencsboro’ 2;15 p. m.
Arrive Gainesville, 9:15 p. in
Arrive at Atlanta 6:45 p. m
Xo. :t, West-Daily
Lenve Augusta 9.00 p m
i.eavo Macon, 7:10 p m
Leave MiUcdgeville 9-t5 p i
Leave Greenesboro’ 1:48 p m
Arrive Atlanta 0:40a r.a
flgjyFuperb Sleepers to Angnsta ami Atlanta.
Train No. 27 " ill stop nt and receive passengers to and frritn the following Sta
tions, only,— Herzclia, Harlem, dealing, Thomson, Canink, Crawfordville,"
Union Point, Greenesboro’, Madison, Rutledge, !8ois! Cfruß, CoVington, Conyers,'
Stouc Mountain nnd Decatur. a
Train No. 2H will stop ret, and rcer-ive passengers fo and from the following
Stations, only—llerrclfa, Harlem, Dealing, Thomson, Cimirk, Crawfordville, Union
Point, Greenesboro’, Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone
Mountain and Decatur.
The Fast Line lias Through Sleepers from Atlanta to Charleston, and connects for'
all points West and Northwest, East and .Southeast.
General Passenger Agent.
J. W. Greuty, General Manager.
JONN C. FERRIS. CIIAS. 11. FERRIS.
FERRIS & SON,
Merchant Tailors,
820 Broad Street,
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plows', ■ : Wm cutlery,
LOCKS, BINGES,
BELTING, SCALES,
And
Agricultural Implements
OF EVERY EBCRIPTiOV.
AT LOWEST PRICES t t
IIi:\BV I'. MOORE,
September 28, 1883— AUGUSTA , Ga.
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Assignee’s Sale!
TIIE ENTIRE STOCK OF CARRIAGES. BUGGIES, WAG-?
ONS. SADDLES. HARNESS, LEATHER, etc.,
AT THE OLD STAND OF
R. H. MAT & Cos.,
WILL BE OFFERED FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS A4?
Greatly Reduced Prices ! !
I HF, above Goods are all clean, fresh stock, made by the Rest Manufacturers in (lie 1
United States, and comprise the well known makes of Studebaker, Wilburn and Stan
dard Plantation Wagons, all sizes. Best quality of Open and Top Buggies, Phaetons,
Victorias and Extension Top Cabrioletteß, made in the Northern nnd Eastern States,-
also seventy-five Open Top and Top Buggies of Cincinnati Work, Spring Wagons amf
Road Carls,
StooA
Of Single and Double Harness, Stage Harness, Plow Gear, Hnmes, Traces, Col
lars, Bits, Ruckles, l’fow Bridles, Umbrellas, Whips, Horse Blankets, Lap llobes,
etc., etc. Leather end Rubber Belling, ail sizes. Calf Skins, Sole Leather, Shoe'
Findings, Hemp, Jute, Reap Stone and Gum Packing, etc , etc. These Goods
MUST BE SOLD !
AND LARGE INDUCEMENTS will be offered to CASH Buyers. Call early ancH
examine the Goods and secure the Bargains now offered.
N. li. E-ery Vehicle sold subject to (lie regular twelve months guarantee.
John S. Davidson, Assignee,
704 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, Ga, Of ROB’T U. MAY & G.■
September 28, 1883—
(H. T. LEWIS,
(' EDITOR.
Tj INE’
IVo. 28, Hast—Daily.’
Leave Atlanta, . . 2:45 p. ti.*'
Arrive nt Athens . . 7:15 p. n .
Arrive at Greenesboro’ . 6:22 p, ns.'
Arrive at Augusta . . 8:05 p. it'.'
No. 2, Hast-Daily.'
Leave Atlanta 8:25 a. m.
Leave Gaiuesville, 5:30 a. in,
Leave Greenesboro’ 12;09 p m
Arrive Athens 4:40 p m
Arrive Washington 2:46 p m
Arrive Camak 1:57 p m
Arrive MilledgevillV 4:49 p m
Arrive Macon 0:45 p m
Arrive Augusta 3.55 p m’
X. 4, Kast—Dnliy.
Leave Atlanta 8:60 pm
' Arrive Greenesboro’ I;4G a m’
j Leave “ 1:47 a m
J Leave Union Point, 2:13 am
Leave Thomson, 4:28 a m
1 Arrive Afl&usia 0:10 am
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