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VOL L--NO. 23.
Clje Hamilton Visitor
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LIVERY AND SALE STABLE,
At the Brick Comer,
Within twenty steps* of the Gar-shed,
WEST POINT, GA.
W. L. WILLIAMS, Proprietor.
THOS. S. MITCHELL, M. D.,
Rwident Physician and Surgeon,
HAMILTON, GEORGIA
Special attention given to Operative Sur
gery and treatment of Chronic Diseases.
iar Terms cash.
LAW,
Jas. M. Mololoy
WiU continue to practice law in all the
State and United States Courts,
Office, Hamilton, Ga.
n. A. Russell,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAMILTON, GEORGIA
BT Special attention given te collections.
CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE ,
By J. T. HIGGINBOTHEM,
WEST POINT, GA
HENRY C. CAMERON,
Attorney at Law ,
HAMILTON, GA
DR. J. W. CAMERON,
HAMILTON, GA.
Special attention to Midwifery. Charges
moderate.
Zllnes Dozier,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
WAVERLY HALL, GEORGIA
Special attention will be given to all busi
ness placed in my hands. no 2 ly
w. J. FOGLE,
Dentist,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
Office in the building of the Georgia Home
Insurance Company. feb2l- lyr
RANKIN HOUSE
COLUMBUS, GA.
J. W. RYAN, Prop’r.
Frank Golden, Clerk.
RUBY RESTAURANT,
Bar and Billiard Saloon,
UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE.
jaulO J. W. RYAN, Prop’b
THE HAMILTON WEEKLY VISITOR.
E. F, & A. C. LANIER,
Successors to Lanier, Dandle & Cos.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS
AND
Commission Merchants,
West Point, Ga.,
Keep on hand a full assortment of
Groceries,
which they offer at prices that defy competi
tion. They possess unsurpassed facilities for
selling goods cheap, and will sake it to the
interest of their former patrons, and the
public generally, to buy of them. They ask
a continuance of the patronage extended to
the old firm. no 2
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The only Business School in the South con
ducted by an experienced Merchant and Prac
tical Accountant. 'J lie actual expenses of
stud- nts arc from fifteen to twenty per cent
lees than it will cost them to attend second
cla-s, or imported institutions.
The Course of Study ie conducted on Actual
Business Principles, supplied with Banking
and other offices, combining every known
facility for imparting a Thorough Practical
Business Education in the shortest possible
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The estahli-hed reputation of this Institu
tion, the thorough, practical course of its
study, and the success of its Graduates, ranks
it the leading
BUSINESS SCHOOL IN TUB SOUTH.
Our course of actual business training is
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vacations. Students admitted at any time.
No classes. Business Advocate, containing
full particulars, mailed to any address.
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DRAKE’S MAGIC LINIMENT.
This wonderful medical compound is a safe
and speedy cure for Erysipelas, Bone KeJon,
Ear-ache. Head-aelic, Tooth-ache, Neuralgia,
Rheumatism, Croup, Colic (in man or beast).
Sore Throat, Asthma, Dysentery, Diarrhoea,
and, in fact, for all diseases where ft remedy
is needed to act specially upon the nervous
system. Circulars giving full directions for
its use, free to all. Ask at all drug and
country stores for it—and take no other.
For sale in Hamilton by Ligon Brothers.
WM. C. HAUSER, General Agent,
Bartow, No. 11 Central Railroad, Ga,
Agents wanted. mar2B-fitn
DEBTORS & CREDITORS’ NOTICE.
Ail persons indebted to the estate of Am
brose Hunley, late of Harris county, deceased,
are requested to come forward and make im
mediate payment; and all those holding claims
against said estate are notified to present them
duly authenticated in terms of the law.
in;2-tit J. H. HAMILTON, Executor.
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1873.
1873 NEW 1873
SPRI.VC AND SL'MIIER MILLINERY
—AND—
STRAW GOODS
At S9 Urwul Street, Columbus, Ga.
MELS- LEE
Has now in store f he largest, cheapest and
PRETTIEST Stock of
MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS
in this section, mbracing the Latest Novel
ties in Flowers, Ribbons, Laces, Hosiery,
Gloves and Corsets, Parasols and Fans,
Jet and Faxoy Jewelry,
Real Hair bwiTCUES and Curls,
Imitation Switches and Ccris,
Ladies’ Underwear,
Children's Ready-made Clothing, &c.,
to which the attention of the ladies is res
pectfully invited. my2-3m
"Wm. TNT. Ha'WHS,
Brolier,
INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE AGKJfT,
COLUMBUS, GA.
Will give attention to purchase and sale of
Real Estate, placing Insurance in first class
Companies, and will invest funds, or nego
tiate loans, for those desiring it. feb2Bly
DRT GOODS,
CLOTHING, NOTIONS, <fc.,
You will find at low figures, if you call on
PEACOCK & SWIFT,
ap4-3m 117 Broad st, Columbus, Ga.
DoadL! Read!
The undersigned has on hand, and is con
stantly receiving, a supply of Family Groce
ries, such as bacon, lard, sugar, flour, coffee,
etc. He slao keeps a variety of Liquors, to
which he calks the attention of physicians
and others needing a pure article. Prices
low to cah customers.
mar 7 3m J. W. KIMBROUGH.
HARRIS SHERIFF’S SALES.
Will be sold before the Court-house door
in Hamilton, on the first Tuesday in July
next, within the legal hours of sale, the Bil
lowing property:
50 acres of land, northwest corner of lot
No. 74, in the 3d district of said county,
levied on as the property of Joel Culpepper,
to satisfy one fi fa issued from the Superior
Court of Harris couuty in favor of H. C. Gib
son vs. said Culpepper. Property pointed
out by defendant.
Also, at the same time and place, one
gray boric and buggy, levied on as the pro
perty of Thos. S. Mitchell, to satisfy one fi fa
issued from Harris Superior Court in favor of
Daniel P. Hifl vs. said Mitchell.
Also, at the same time and place, the west
half of lot of land No. 90, less 25 acres, in
southwest comer, in the 21st District of Harris
county, to satisfy a tax fi fa in favor of State
and county vs. W. P. Ramsey. Levy made
and returned to me bv W. B. Seats, L. 0.
B. H. WILLIAMS. Sheriff.
Also, at the same time and place, one
house and lot, No. 323, in the town of
Whitesville, Harris county, Georgia, 20th
District, now occupied by John Audrews, Jr.,
and known as the Moore lot, levied on
as the property of W. W. Moore
to satisfy a fi fa in my hands issued from a
Justice’s Court of 20th district in favor of
James M. Pratt, Executor, &c., of S. Pratt,
deceased. Property pointed out by plaintiff.
juneO M. D. ROWE, Dept. Sh’ff.
Will lie sold before the Court-house door
in Hamilton, Harris county, Ga., on the first
Tuesday in July next, within the legal hours
of sale, the following property':
Lots or fractions of land Nos. 280,-230 and
231, in the sth District of originally Troup,
now Harris county, containing 428 acres;
No. 407, containing 202 1-2 acres; south half
No. 40(i, containing 101 1-4 acres ; west half
No. 402, containing 101-1-4 acres; Nos. 409
and 410, known and designated as Jones’
fractions, containing 143 acres, and fractions
Nos. 411, 412 and 413; also islands Nos. 1, 2
and 3, containing 29 acres. All the above
described lots and fractions known as the
Grady plantation, wliereou Mrs. S. C. Grady
now lives, in the 20 District Harris county—
except Nog. 280, 230 and 281—they being in
the 6th District. The whole contsining 1212
acres, more or less. Levied on as the prop
erty of M. B. Grady, to satisfy a fi fa in my
hands, issued from Troup Superior Court, in
favor of James Baugh vs. Willie Duffee and
M. B. Grady, security. Property pointed out
by Sarah C. Grady. M. D. ROWE,
may 23-td Deputy Sheriff.
GEORGIA — Harris County.
Lucius C. Ramsey having applied for let
ters of administration on the estate of James
N. Ramsey, deceased:
This is to cite all persons concerned to show
cause, if any they have, why said letters
should not be granted on the Ist Monday in
July next.
Witness my hand and official signature.
myl6-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y.
GEORGIA— Harris County
Thomas J. Seats makes application for let
ters of administration on the estate of Willis
Seats, late of said county, deceased;
AH persons concerned are hereby notified
to show cause, if any they have, on the Ist
Monday in June next, why letters as afore
said should not be granted said applicant.
Given under my hand and seal this 30th
April, 1873. J. F. C. WILLIAMS,
my2-td Ordinary.
GEORGIA— Harris County.
Thirty days after date application will be
made to the Hon. Court of Ordinary of said
county, for leave to sell the land belonging
to the estate of Charles Hatchett, colored,
deceased.
juncC. lt. JAMES I’ATTILLO, Adio’r.
DIVORCED,
“ He’ll go to the dogs now.”
“Of course he will.”
“Ry all means. Only see how ho
acted when his wife lived with him!
Now that she has left him, and all
restraint is removed, he’ll go the rest
of the downward way in no time.”
“ I’ll give him just one year to be
buried.”
“ Pshaw! Half that time will finish
him.”
“ Well, I pity him, too, but I pity
her more. He brought the misery
on both.’’
Such was the talk of a half a dozen
villagers, who stood in front of one
i of the principal stores one summer
evening, while the subject of their
remarks went staggering along on
the opposite side.
It was evident that he was trying
to walk straight, but such endeavors
•always seem to make a drunken man
walk more crooked. However, it
proved he was not lost to all sense of
shame, and still retained an aversion
to being ridiculed and despised.
But Harry Rogers had carried on
at a fearful rate for a year or two
past. He had just one vice—drink;
but that was enough. He had mar
ried a worthy fanner’s daughter,
Nettie Ray, only a few years pre
vious, but such had been his conduct
for more than a year past that she
had been obliged to cut him loose to
pursue his profligate course alone,
and a legal separation had just been
effected.
Harry’s home was on a little farm,
a mile from town. He owned it, but
then it was heavily mortgaged, and
in another year foreclosure was cer
tain. It was not likely his creditors
would spare him when he made no
effort to meet his obligations.
A week passed after that summer
evening on which all had agreed in
predicting his early ruin—two weeks—
a month or two. What mystery is
here ? To the utter bewilderment of
the prophesying sages, Harry discon
tinued visiting the taverns, and was
rarely seen in the village. When he
did come to the store he speedily
transacted his business and then went
home—sober.
Wonders never cease when they
get a start. He was next reported
as actually at work on his farm. Had
but one man bold this in the village
he would have been marked as lack
ing veracity; but as several ladies
vouched for the fact, it was worthy
of credence.
The little farm began to look
healthier as the summer wore on.
The fences straightened up, the
weeds disappeared ; the animals look
ed fatter and happier, and the little
cottage looked neater.
Time wore on, and the great change
was more remarkable every day.
Harry’s charitable creditors called
and told him he might have his own
time to pay oft' the mortgage.
The fall came; and the farm yield
ed abundance of crops, and Harry
found himself beginning to drift with
the tide of prosperity.
And Nettie had begun to live
her young girlhood over again, as it
were under her father’s roof; hut
somehow it was not like the happy,
joyous girlhood of memory. It was
sober and quiet now, and she fell into
the train of musing; and every now
and then there passed through her
mind a certain thought—she was
neither maid nor wife.
She avoided the-vicinity of her late
home, nor had she seen Harry since
the separation ; hnt she had heard of
him occasionally—knew that he was
a changed man. Still this knowledge
brought but a melancholy satisfac
tion. The reform had come too late.
There was a wide gulf between them
now.
But one evening in the golden Oc
tober Nettie felt obliged to pass
Harry’s farm. It lay between her
futher’s house and the village. On
the evening in question, however, she
had been detained in the village until
it was nearly dark, and she deter
mined to hazard the nearest road
home. It would be fully dark when
she would pass his house, and the
chances were that he would not see
her. She wouldn’t him see
her for the world.
When she arrived opposite the
house she perceived a light in the
sitting room. Her first impulse was
to hurry by; but some powerful im
pulse prompted her to stop. She did
so, and stood timidly at the further
side of the road, gozingly longingly
at the house that had once been the
home to her—first of happiness, then
of misery. By-and-by she felt an ir
resistible longing to look at the in
terior once more. He was evidently
within, and there was no danger that
he wo fill see her. So she walked
hurriedly across the road, opened the
gate and softly stepped into the lawn.
Another minute and she was at the
window, looking in. What singular
behavior. But she could not help it.
The little room was as neat as when
she herself had watched over it. A
cheerful fire was burning in t he grate,
although the night was not cold, and
a lighted lamp stood oil * le table. It
was there that Harry was sitting.
How her heart bounded as she caught
sight of him. He held in his hand
a book from liis scanty library.
She recognized it at once ; but he
was not reading now. Was he asleep,
or was he buried in a sad reverie?
Nettie thought the latter was the
ease, and'her heart was touched.
“ I wish I had borne with him,”
she said. But a moment later her
heart was touohed, when she saw a
tear roll down his cheek and drop
upon the book. The lonely man was
not asleep—he was crying.
She could not help it. Ail the
woman in her heart was aroused, and
she was at the door in a moment.
No ceremony—she burst into the
sitting room, and was at his side.
“ Oh, Harry !”
Her voice quivered with emotion.
“ Why, Nettie I’’ he exclaimed, try
ing to hide his tears —men are ash
amed of them—“ is it you ?”
“ Yes, Harry, I was passing—!
looked in—l saw you sitting here
so lonely, and couldn’t help coming
in. I thought of the time we were
happy here, and——
Then her womauly tears could be
be repressed no longer. There was
no use trying to hide them. Besides;
her voice broke down, and she could
say no more just then.
He rose and took both her hands
from her face, and held them in his
own. “ I thought you had blotted
me from your memory.”
“No, no, Harry,” she sobbed, “I
could not do that. I could not help
leaving you; but I left you loving
you more than ever. Oh, I have been
unhappy,”
“ M ettio, you have heard that I—.”
“ Yes, I have heard that you have
changed—that you do not drink any
more—that again you are manly and
industrious as you used to be; but
how lonely you must be here!” and
the tears gushed forth anew as her
heart felt what her lips spoke.
“ Yes, I am lonely, Nellie—more
than you may think; hut I have de
served this punishment for the way
I acted. I had no discouragements—
I had nothing to make me do so. It
was only a passion for drink that
seemed impossible for me to overs
come. You were all a wife could be.
When you left me 1 thought I should
become worse than ever. Only a day
or two after you left me 1 was in
town drunk, and I heard some village
people—they thought I could not
hear them across the street —passing
all sorts of remarks about me, saying
I was a doomed man, and that des
truction was near. Although intoxi
cated, it startled me, and for the first
time I felt the full force of our sepa
ration, and realized that destruction
stared me in the face, v I had a bob
tie of whisky in my pocket at the
time; when tfht of town I smashed
it, and washed my face m a stream
by the roadside, and resolved never
to touch liquor again.
It was hard to keep my resolve for
the first week or two, but I stood it,
and soon my taste for drink disap
peared. I care nothing for it now,
and would not touch it if it ran in
streams. Now, Nettie, if you love
me as ever, and God knows I love
you the same —let us get married over
again, and the bitter experience of
the last few years will only enhance
our happiness. Nettie, dear, what
do you say ?”
She could not answer; she was cry
ing- as if her heart would break, and
her head was pillowed upon bis
breast. It was more eloquent “ yes ”
than the tongue could speak.
Tlfc moon was rising as he walked
home with Nettie to her father’s.
So Harry Kogers and Nettie Ray
were married again, and there is, no
divorce that can part them now.
t®” The mortuary statistics of
New York city show that within the
last twenty years over 6,000 persons
have been drowned in its adjacent
waters.
[Written for the Visitor ]
Facts, Figures, Fertilizers, and
Food for Body and Mind.
Prepared hy an Old Farmer, upon
Rainy Days.
EXTRAORDINARY POTAfOEB.
Two neighbors were telling me last
year of a peculiar red potato they
had, that beat anything I ever heard
of in the potato line. One said when
he dug his he took a double extra
rooter-scooter and the biggest mule
he could find, and ran it, the rooter
scooter, first on the larboard side
and then on the other starboard side
going down on the other side, but
going back was larboard side itself,
of the potato ridge, and then turned
and plunged it, the rooter scooter,
centrally in the potato ridge, and
they were so numerous and large
that they threw it, the rooter-scooter,
clean np than above, every three feet,
and the man and the mule and the
rooter-scooter at a distance looked
like some lone mariner and his boat
as they rode on the high crested
waves, of sunk into the troilghs to
rise and go down and mount againj
and plunge from billow to billow on
the storing-ruffled sea. The other
said he had them in hid house,- hang
ing up, a bunch of them from oilel
vinb hill, having eight potatoes at
large as a man's thigh and any num
ber of common sized,and didn’t know
how many of smaller size. I learned
after that the rooter-scooter man had
four acres, and made about one hun
dred Slid fifty biishels on the four
acres, It was never convenient for
me to go to see the other man’s
bunch, but I take it fdt* gfanted they
were both constitutionally, if not
conscientiously, in earnest.
PRICE OF A HORSE.
The price of a horse at a half cent
for the first tiail in his shoes of thirty
two nails, doubling every succeeding
nail, would be $7,460,618.24, if I didn’t
make a mistake. If you think I made
a mistake-, just try it;
OAT RAISING.
Last year I bought eight bushels
of oats called “none such,” and had
besides six bushels. I sowed the four
teen bushels on about twelve aores,
and gathered two-thirds of a two
horse wagon load. They proved ex
actly as represented.
Last fall I thought I would go it
on the Scotch plan partly. I bought
three bushels of “rust proof ” at one
dollar and a half per bushel, from a
house that had good oats at sixty-ftve
cents. I sowed them on fin acre and
lflOO square yards, on which I put
fifty bushels of cotton soed. They
were about as’ thickly sowed as I had
usually sowed wheft I sowed from a
bushel to a btlshel and a peck. I
found there was a heap of difference
between merchantable oat weight
meatsureJjMid old Brother Haril’s half
bushel, which he “ wouldn’t strike
and go to for nobody.” Old
Unale B:, wh6 was quite rich, had a
daughter named Ffinny, and a niece
named Betsey, and a nice young
man went to see Fanny and Beltfey.
The old man put up Betsey, who was
poor, to catch the young man, Betsy
asked him why not let Fanny catch
him ? Oh,” said ho, “ there’s a heap
of difference betwixt you and Fanny.”
It is said “ God made the country
and man made the town.” What
say you, Brother Hare ?
To get back to tbe oats, I did in
tend to put a hundred pounds of
Peru, but they are all stonj dead and
a proof against all rust. But lam
not discouraged; I believe we can
raise oals if we will sow them in Sep
tember, from foursto nine bushels,
merchant measure, pnt on fifty bush
els of cotton seed, a hundred pounds
Peruvian guano—all on an acre—if
we will remove all the stumps, ard
for five years previously, apply about
a hundred dollars worth of guano
per aore; until the soil has become
as thoroughly soaked with it. * the
altar and trench and sacrifice were,’
when Elijah slew Baal’s jirophets.
HOW ABOUT IT?
I have seen some few men who
never failed in anything they under
took. They did it in the very best
possible way. They had the most
complete and unfailing method of
doing everything, and yet, grown
old and still poor. It seems to me,
if I had succeeded in one of three of
my efforts, I should have been im
mensely wealthy, But it is a sore i
reflection that I have never had sense
enough to make even one in six sue*
eeed, though I have, in time, made a
little progress. Can any one explain'
the constitutional phenomena, in such
cases made and provided? I would
set down my failures to downright
bad luck and be content, if I were
not inclined to respect the law of
cause and effeot. But right here, I
am pegged.
$2 A YEAR
Wit autl Humor.
fruilt frames—Prison windows.
—Nature’s tailoring A potdto
pab'.h.
In teiits excitement—Panic in A
circiid.
—Pies that suit the Celestials—
Pup ]>ies.
—A sihgle fact is Worth a ship load
of argument.
—People who sell hay do business
on a “lnrgo Scale.”
—When a man’s necktie i8 iWtied,
how untidy he looks;
—•The stars are called Slacked be
cause tliey sin-til late.
—Hotel keepers are people We
have to “put up With.’*
—A kangaroo is a ctiriotis till dp {
when it’s awake its leaping.
—lt is not considered civil to asit
a milkman for a piece of chalk.
— ll DtictCrj is tiglit-lacing injuri
ous ?’’ Of cors-et is, mndatna;
—Why is the letter T like a yourij£
lady ? Because It make* pa pay;
—The worst kind of education— 4
To be brought up by a policeman.
—The Phoenix was raised in a H<ft
bed, and that’s what made him Soar.
—Bditdr—A poor wretch wHd
ehipties his brains to fill his stomach.
—Never have a wooden leg made
of oak, bofeUitsc the oak will produce
acorn.
—A Macksmlth can not only afttt
a horse himself; but he can make and
horse Shofi,
—lt is strange that so much coat
should be found when it is sough't
“in vein.”
“The Pacific slope”—The Quail!£r
Peace Commissioners running froth
the Indians.
—A Connecticut woman who thfffc
ited a large eel says she feels a great
’eal bettef.
—Smuggles says the most thrffc
ling tale lie ever listened to wa* tbrft
of a rattlesnake.
—Postal cards in England are a
perpetual annoyance to editors of
newsp’apters.
--London underwriters refused trf
insure a vessel because it was named
“The Devil.”
—ln what case is it absolutely inf*
possible to be slow and stft'e? if
the case of a watclV.
—“This is the rock of ages,” said
the father, after rocking for twef
hours, and the baby still awake.”
—Tlifi Indianapolis Sentinel harf
discovered a man “ possessing no in- .
stinct of manhood above tbeft of if
hog/*
—When .fonah’s feilow-passtfnger#
pitched hifp oVerbohrd they evident
ly i egarded him as fibither profhlft
not loss.
—lt is strange that when a man'
doefi" nftt dfisite td give ts a building
whose lease has run olit, a he releases'
it if he cair.”
—A printer fecetfily made fd
therefore steadfast,” the text-of #
minister’s sermon, “Be fe there fof
breakfast.’*
—Whin a naughty little boy brealc#
ar window,- he should be punished oiP
the principle'Uiatl phhci'ar add penal-'
ties go together.
—” Do you believe, sir, that the'
dead ever walk after death ?” “ NO'
doubt of it, Madam. I have hear#
the Dead March.”'
—Does it not seem ttfbfe strange"
that t|l|e public should find thriPCSW
more when the owners have Of
agreed to coalesce ?
—“ My yoke is easy, and niy burden!'
is liglit,” as a' youth stdif when frhf
girl was sitting on his I*£> with kof
arms around’ hfe ftbdlfc
■Jt-Teftelfer-A- “ Gertyy jrfiu fiW #
very good girl to ; day.” Gerty—
Yes, ma’an; I couldn’t help beihg
good, I have a stiff neck.”
—This is the affecting epitaph oif
a deceased Bock Island Captain’r
tombstone v “lib’s doSe
cod, and gone to tricet his Godr*
—Josh Billings says that if hs daff
have plenty of mackerel fbt broqk-'
first he can generally manage to tAak#
the other two meals oftt of water.
—Husband, I ddn’t know where"
that boy got his bad temper. I anf
sure, not from me.” “No, my dear,'
for I don’t find that you have loet
any.’* . .
—A New York rbhrwtfer, preaching
the funeral sermon of a famous skater, '
the other day, mud- Me. had “gone’
where there is no foe.” That was’
capable of very serious irtterpreta*'
tion. wH
—Thefblkrtriitfc-notico was found
posted on httgh-sized trunk, at a rail
road station, a few days ago: “Bag-'
gage si wishers are requested’ to hatfv
die this trunk witli care, as it contains
nitro-glycenne, Greek fire, gull Car
ton and two live gorillas.-