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THOS. S. MITCHELL, M. D., Resident Physician and Surgeon, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Special attention given to Operative Sur gery and treatment of Chronic Diseases. Terms Cash. •W. F. TIQ-lsrEirFU DENTIST, i COLUMBUS, - - - GEORGIA. * Office over Chapman’s drug store, Ran dolph st, near city terminus of N. & S. R. R. Respecfully offers his services to the peo ple of Harris county. ju2oly R. A. Russell, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Special attention given to collections. CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE , By J. T. HIGGINBOTHEM, WEST POINT, GA HENRY C. CAMERON, Attorney at Daw, HAMILTON , GA DR. J. W. CAMERON, HAMILTON, GA. Special attention to Midwifery. Charges moderate. Slues Bossier, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, WAVERLY HALL, GEORGIA Special attention will be given to all busi ness placed in my hands. W. JT. FOGIiE, Dentist, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Office In the building of the Georgia Home Itmumnce Company. feb2l-ly Rankin house COLUMBUS, GA. J. W. RYAN, Prop’r. Frank Golden, Clerk. RUBY RESTAURANT, Bar and Billiard Saloon, UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE. janlO J. W. RYAN, pßor’R. THE HAMILTON WEEKLY VISIT!*!, From the Randolph (Ala.) Enterprise. A TALL DUEL. BY SANDY HIGGINS. Of all the barbarous, inhuman, un christian, and altogether “cussed” customs which have been handed— or kicked—down to us from the days of darkness, wickedness and general devilment, it seems to me that duel ing is about the top of the market. When men fought with swords, spears and other cutting and jobbing instruments, and when they had no more sense than to be killed at such foolishness, there might have been some excuse for fighting. Then, there was a chance for the best man to whip t’other fellow, and to be done with it, but when “ villainous saltpe tre” was invented, things changed, and men can no longer fight on an equality, for a rascal or a fool is just as apt to shoot straight as a good tnan, and a little more so, because “ the devil protects his own,’’ some body says, and I’ve heard of more good men being killed by mean ones than the other way. Besides, we are a Christian people, now, as the last Congress most effectually proves, and suould set a better example to pos terity (whatever that is) than to be killing each other in any but a legiti mate way. The wars and the doc tors can kill off all the surplus popu lation, if we’ll only give them a fair chance. But I’ll stop moralizing, which I’m not good at, and go on with my “ continuation.’’ There was a crowd of us assembled iu a bar-room of a country town, and as is usual with men when they have nothing to do, we got to talking, and each one spread himself to see which could tell the biggest tale, but I got beat at it, of course. Among the crowd was a half fool lawyer, who thought he knew more than all the rest of us, but who really didn’t know more than half as much as I did, which is putting his talents pretty low, you think. Another of his pecu liarities was that he had no more spunk than a green frog, hut would talk as big as if he lived on nothing but gun-powder and hornets. There was also a big Kentuckian, of the alligator breed, who was real grit, and as quarrelsome when he was drinking as a bee-martin. The law yer had told a huge tale about his adventures in the Seminole war, which we all knew was a lie, and then “old Kentuck’’ did “a tale unfold ” that so completely knocked Blackstone’s pins from under him that he got mad about it, as any other fool w'ould have done. “ That’ll do very well,” said he, “ if there was any truth in it.’’ “Do you mean to insinuate that I would tell anything that isn’t true ?” “ Oh, no,” replied Blackstone, “ but then, you see, none of us don’t be lieve the tale.” “ See here, my friend,” roared the other, getting up in a hurry, “no man ever gives me the lie without getting whipped, so I’m going to wallop you till your mother wouldn’t own you.” So saying, he made a drive that would have demolished the lawyer, but that gentleman made a hasty retreat behind the counter, while the rest of us interfered. Find ing there was no chance to get his hands on him, Kehtttck opened his mouth-piece on him in a style that I’ve never heard equaled. He cursed him from head to foot and back again, till there wasn't a spot on him as big as a postage stamp that hadn’t re ceived its proper share of the bless ing. All this time the lawyer was undergoing a shaking process that threatened to dispose of all his teeth, and eventually, he stepped out and made himself scarce. Then I took Tom Beasely out, and said I, “Tom, there’s a chance for some good sport.” “ Thar’s no sport in old Kentuck,” replied Tom. “Jest listen how he roars! A bull ain’t a circumstance.” “That’s just the thing.’’ Kentuck is mad through and through, and would fight a locomotive. Now, yon know the lawyer is always bragging about his spunk, so we’ll persuade him to challenge Kentuck, and have guns or pistols loaded with powder only, and there’ll be a rich time.” “Yes,” assented Tom, “we might have a rich time, if it could only be done, but don’t you know what a coward Jack is ? He wouldn’t chal lenge a tarrapin.’’ “ I’ll bet a quart of red eye, I can persuade him to send the challenge before bed-time,” said I; “and as HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1873. you and Kentuck are pretty thick you can act as his second, and we’ll fix it all right.” After some more palaver, Tom agreed, and went back to the bar room, while I hunted up lawyer Jack. I found him in his little oflice, still scared half to death. “Jack,” said I, “if I had been you, I should have walked into that gen tleman, boots and all.” “ Oh, hang it, Sandy! ” said he, “ I wouldn’t fight such a chap unless I’d had my pistol.” “If you’d had your pistol,’’ said I, “ you’d not had the chance to shoot him unless you took him ou the wing, lip’s the worst coward about bullets I ever saw. He was shot once, and says he’ll never give a man a chance to make a target of his carcass again.” “Is that so, Sandy ? ” he inquired, brightening up. “If I had only known it I might have settled him.” “It ain’t too late, yet,” said L “ He’s been cutting up entirely too high anyhow, and I want somebody to make him drop his feathers. You just challenge him to fight a duel, and that’ll be the last of his ripping and snorting in these diggings.” “By George!” replied he, “if i wasn’t afraid he’d shoot me, I’d do it.” "Never fear,’’ said I, “I’ll go bail that you never hear a bullet whistle from him, and stand by you.” A little more argument and a stiff drink of brandy, brought him to the point, and the challenge was written in due form, with which I proceeded back to the bar-room. I found Ken tuck, with one or two others, talking over the affair; he was still in a boil ing condition. When he had glanced over the paper I handed him, he broke out: “ Yes, by the Eternal Jupiter! Tell him I’ll fight any lime, anywhere and with anything, from a spaying needle to a battery of artillery! Tom, will you be so good as to settle the ar rangements for me! ” To this Tom agreed, and he and I quickly settled the preliminaries.— They were to fight next morning at sun-rise, with rifles, at thirty paces, at the quarter race track, near the river. “Good!” said Kentuck, when we informed him of the terms. “ I can cut out a crow’s tongue and not touch his bill, if he opened his mouth to crow!’’ With this comfortable information I posted back to Jack, who was still wide awake, but not “ duly sober.’’ “ Well, what did he say?” inquired he, “ and what is he going to do ? ” “He says he’s going to fight,” I replied, “ but I don’t believe a word of it, for he’s the worst scared fellow you ever saw.” “What sort of weapons did he choose ? ” he asked. “Rifles, at thirty yards,” I replied. “Why, God Almighty, Sandy!” said he, “what did you do that for? He’ll bor6 a hole through me the first pop 1 ” “Narry hole,” said I. “He can’t hit a bed quilt thirty yards, and chooscd them because he heard me tell Tom that you could kill a bumble bee with a pistol every fire.” “Well,” said he, with a long sigh, and a face as loDg as the twenty-sec ond day of June, “ he’ll kill me, sure, and that’ll nearly ruin me.” “Don’t you be uneasy,” said I; “ he’ll not be in this country in the morning. If he does, he’ll not stand to be shot at, and couldn’t hit you in a week. All you’ve got to do, if he comes to taw, is to blaze away like you was shooting a squirrel, and you’ll fetch him.” After a good deal more of such talk I got him somewhat pacified, hut I could see plainly that he’d rather loose a good fee than take chances at the Kentuckian. Telling him to be np iu good time next morn ing, I left him to his reflections, which were not very pleasant, I imagine. Next morning I called at his office about daybreak, and found him up, for he hadn’t been down all night, and looked as though he hadn’t slept any in a month. He was in no mood for conversation, so I provided my self with a bottle of brandy, saw that his rifle was in good order, and we set out for the race-track, where we arrived before sunrise, and Upmd no one there. “ Well, old Kentuck don’t seem in much of a hurry to be phot. I expect he’s out of the State by this time,” said I. “ We might as well go back, hadu’t we ? ” inquired Jack. “What! and have no fun?” I asked. “Fun be hanged!’’ he replied, “I’m no man for foolishness) nohow. Do you believe in dreams, Sandy ? ” “None to hurt,” I answered. “ I do,” said he, “ and I dreamed last night I saw my grandmother. I was nodding in my chair, and sho came up and tried to wake me, and I believe I’m going to be shot to death, if that fellow comes. I’ve a great notion to go back home, For the sun is just about rising, and he won’t be here.’ ’Yes, yonder they are?’ replied I, as the Kentuckian, Tom Beasely, and half a dozen others came up. ‘ We’ll have our sport yet.’ * Don’t talk that way, Sand}',’ said he, his face getting longer and whi ter, while his teeth fairly rattled. I was almost sorry for the fool, but didn’t let on. * Let us measure off the ground, Sandy,’ said Tom. ‘Yes, and be in a hurry,’chimed in Kentuck. ‘I want to pink him and get back to breakfast 1 ’ ‘Sandy,’ whispered Jack, ‘don’t you think it would be a good idea to put one of us at each end of the track, and let us advance and fire! ’ ‘ Thunder! ’ said I, ‘ you’d fire away all your ammunition before you got in two hundred yards of each other. You musn’t show the 'white fea! her at thiß stage of the game.’ ‘lt don’t make no difference,’ said he. ‘ I’d rather bo called a cow ard than a corpse, anyhow, and if you hadn’t told me he was a coward I’d never sent him that infernal chal lenge. If he does kill me I’ll haunt you! ’ * All right—l’m not afraid of spir its,’ said I. ‘Go on Tom and step it off.’ Thereupon Tom placed a peg in the ground, and stepped very deliber ately down the track, while Jack watched the proceeding with un bounded interest. * Look at the fool! ’ muttered he. ‘ He don’t step ten inches at a time 1 ’ ‘ Here’s the place, Sandy,’ said Tom. ‘ Take your places, gentlemen, and I’ll give the word.’ ‘Hadn’t we better wait awhile, Sandy ? ’ inquired Jack, as the Ken tuckian advanced to his post. ‘No—time’s up,’ said I, ‘Take a pull at the bottle to steady your nerves.’ He grabbed tho bottle and drank about half a pint, and handed it back to me, saying: * I’m a gone goose, Sandy, certain. You’ll find my will in my desk.— Tell Molly I died like a man.’ ‘ Pshaw! ’ said I, as I helped him to his post. ‘Take good aim and you’ll bring him the first fire.’ He managed to bring his rifle to a present. Tom commenced, ‘One— ’ when bang! Jack’s rifle went off, fir ing straight up in the air, while the Kentuckian took deliberate aim and blazed away, and down tumbled Jack. * See where I’m hurt, Sandy,’ said he instantly. ‘Get up,’ said I; ‘you’re not touched.’ ‘Load up again,’ said the Ken tuckian. ‘ I’ll pop him next time 1 ’ ‘D’ye hear that?> said Jack. * There was a double handful of slugs in that cussed gun of his’n. llow I wish I hadn’t come here!’ ‘ Never mind,’ said I, as I loaded his rifle; ‘you’ll have better luck next time. Here’s your piece.’ ’ I’ll hit him right between the eyes this time,’ said the Kentuckian, as Jack staggered to his feet. ‘l’ll be hanged if I stand this!’ said Jack, and throwing down his gun, ho put off down the track like a yearling deer, jumping about ten feet at a bound. ‘Come back and be shot!’ yelled the Kentuckian, raising his gun and banging away. This seemed to add wings to his feet, and the way he flew was amus ing. The Kentuckian gave a whoop that would have shamed a Mohawk, and started after Jack; bnt he might as well have been whistling to a March storm. Jack jumped higher and farther every time he heard that awful voice behind him, which he seemed to consider the voioe of doom. He ran as never man ran before, and the Kentuckian soon gave up the chase, and earne hack blowing like a porpoise and swearing he’d have him yet. When wo got him cooled down a little, we went bnok to town, for I was anxious to know what had be come of Jack. I found that he’d already got to his office, where he was lying on the floor, breathing like a tired cun ‘Where is he, Sandy?’ he en quired, as soon .ns he could speak. ‘Gone,’ said I, ’and glad to be out of it.’ ‘Do you think I came any ways near hitting him ? ’ he asked. 'Yes,’ said I solemnly; ‘ho says your ball went by his head like a grape-shot.’ ‘He’d like to been the death of me,’ ho continued. ‘ I tell you, the way his bullets sung was distress., ing 1 ’ I could hardly help laughing at tlio blockhead, and had a good notion to tell him aU about it, but didn’t. As soon as ho got over his fright, he commenced bragging about his spunk, till I got disgusted, and left him, telling him he’d better say aB little about it as possible, for duelling was against the law, and we might all get our feet into it. But we had a harder time with ‘Old Kentuck,’ who was the moat unreasonable man I ever saw. Even tually, however, we persuaded him to let the matter drop, and a few days afterwards be -left for home, never having seen Jack sinoe the row. As for the latter, he couldn’t keep his mouth shutf Finally somebody told the affair, and threatened to havo it put into the'papers. This finished him. ‘The Duel’ was in every body’s month, and they carried him so high about it that he actually left the country. That was the only duel I was ever interested in, or ever expect to be, as long as I keep what little sense I’ve got now. Curious Story about a Hawk. A curious incident occurred a few days since a short distance from this city. One of our well known mer chants had gone out on a visit to a friend, at whose house there was a bright little boy, and one day, to please the child, he manufactured a very large kite, and as the wind was strong enough, the kite was raised at once. After it had gone up nearly half a mile, a large crowd of country people collected to admire it, aa such a magnificent toy had never been Been in that section before. While tho spectators were admiring it, a very large hawk was seen to fly slowly out of a neighboring grove and go directly toward the kite. The hawk approached within a few feet of the strange looking object, and then circled about under it for, per haps, five minutes, when he flew just above it and again circled around several times. Suddenly he hovered directly over the kite, and after look* ing at it intently for a short time, darted downward, and striking the paper, passed directly through the kite, coming out on the under side. After this strange experience, which no doubt puzzled the hawk vastly, he flew off a short distance for reflec tion, but still keeping the kite in view, Not being disposed to give it up so, he quickly returned to the charge, and this .time fastened to the long string of rags that were used as a tail to the kite, which ho tore and scattered in the air in a savage man ner. Finding however, uo resistance on the part of the kite, he became disgusted or scarod, and flew away toward the woods from whence lie came. The gentleman says that whenever the hawk made au attack he would retroat a little, as if he ex pected the strange bird was going to return the assault. —lialtimore Amer ican. Thb Sanguinary Duel. —Two men fought a duel. Let us distinguish them by the names of A. and 8., re spectively. It was a real, bona fide, powder and ball affair. A. meant business; so did B. It was a terrible encounter. A. had all the local part of his jaw shot off, and several useful portions of his epiglotis carried away. To tally unfitted for his business as auc tioneer, he died some years after of dyspepsia of the brain. B. parted company witli his left arm, so he was compelled to pass himself off as a disabled hero of the rebellion, and accept a snug little of fice in the United States custom house, where there was nothing whatever to do. That is nil. The dispute grew out of something A. had said about B. B. said A. said that B. said something, and B. said he hadn’t said it. Moral: Don’t duel. From the Tans (Texas) North Tcx;in. CODE OF ETHICS. Duties of Physicians to Patients. A physician should not only be ever ready to obey the calls of the sick, but his mind ought aiso to be imbued with the greatness of his mis sion, and the responsibility he habit ually incurß in its discharge. The obligations are the more deep and enduring because there is no tribunal; other than his own conscience, to ad judge penalties for carelessness and neglect; Physicians should, there fore, minister to the sick with due impressions of the importance of their oflice; reflecting that the ease, the health; and the lives of those commit ted to their charge, depend on their skill, attention and fidelity. They should study, also, in their incnt, so to unite tendei*ii||s and firm ness, and condescension with author ity, as to inspire the minds of their patients with gratitude; respect and confidence. Every cose submitted to the Charge of a physician should be treated with attention, steadiness and humanity* lieasonable indulgence should be granted to the mental imbecility and caprices of the sick. Seoreoy and delicacy, when required by peculiar circumstances, should be strictly ob served ; and the familiar and confiden tial intercourse to which physicians are admitted in their professional vis its, should be used with discretion; and with the most scrupulous regard to fidelity and honor. The obliga tion of secrecy extends beyond the period of professional services: none of the privacies of personal and do mestic life, no infirmity of disposition or flaw of character observed during professional attendance, should ever be divulged by the physician, except when he is imperatively demanded to do so. The force and necessity of this obligation are indeed so great, that professional men have, under certain circumstanoes, been protected in their observance of secrecy by courts of justice. Frequent visits to the sick are, in general, requisite, since they enable the physician to arrive at a more per fect knowledge of the disease—to meet promptly every change which may occur, and also tend to preserve the confidence of the patient. But unnecessary visits are to be avoided; as they give useless anxiety to the patient, tend to diminish the author ity of the physician, and render him liable to be suspected of interested motives. A physician should not fee forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his ser vices in the treatment or cure of the disease. But he should not fail, on proper occasions, to give to the friends of the patient timely notioe of danger when it really occurs; and even to tho patient himself, when it is absolutely necessary. This office, however, is so peculiarly alarming when executed by him, that it ought to be declined whenever it can be assigned to any other person of suffi cient judgment and delicacy. For the physician should be tho minister of hope and comfort to the sick; that, by such cordials to the drooping spirit, he may smooth the bed of death, revive the expiring life, and counteract tho depressing influence of those maladies which often disturb the tranquility of the most resigned in their last moments. The.life of a sick person can be shortened not only by the acts, but also by the words or the manner of a physician. It is, therefore, a sacred duty to guard himself carefully in this resjmet, and to avoid all things which have a ten dency to discourage the patient and to depress his spirits. A physician ought not to abandon a patient becanse the case is deemed incurable; for his attendance may continue to bo highly useful to the patient, and comforting to the rela tives around him, even in the last pe riod of a fatal malady, by alleviating pain and other symptoms, and by soothing mental anguish. To decline attendance under such circum stances, would be sacrificing to fanciful deli cacy and mistaken liberality that moral duty which is independent of, and far superior to, all pecuniary con sideration. Consultations should be promoted in difficult or protracted cases, as they give rise to confidence, energy, *d more enlarged views in practice. The opportunity which a physician- $2 A YEAR not unfroquently enjoys of promoting and strengthening the good resold lions of Ilia patients, suffering ttnd. r the consequences of vicious conduct, ought never to be neglected. Ilia counsels, or even remonstrances, will give satisfaction, not offence, if they be profferred with politeness, and evince a genuine love of virtue, act compafaied by A sincere interest in' the welfare of the person td whom they are addressed. Some general rtiles should be adopted by the faculty, in every town* or district, relative to pecuniary ac knowledgments from their patients j. and it should be deemed a point of honor ti) Adhere to these rifle* wit If as much uniformity as varying cir cumstances will admit. By order of the Board; J. F. Hooks, SeCrGlarJfc The Meanest Yet. —Some gentle men were talking about meanness; when one said he ImeAr A man off Lexingtoli avenue, who was the meanest man in New York! “How mean is that?” asked t friend. “Why; he is sd mfeari that ke keeps a five cent piece, with a string tied to it, to give to beggars,' ana, when their backs are fumed, jerks it out of their pockets 1 ’’ “ Why, this man is so mßatl, (s cOii tinued the gentleman, “ that he gave" his children ten centß apiece the night before the Fourth of July, but during the night; when they were asleep, he went up stair*; took the money out of their clothes, And then whipped them in tho morning fof loosing it! ’’ “ Does he do any thing else ? •* “ Yes; the other day I dined witli him, and I noticed the poor little ser vant girl whistled gaily all the wa/ up stairs with the dessert, and when' I asked my generous friend whrft made her whistle so happily, he said: ‘ Why, I keep her whistling so she can’t eat the raisins Out of the cake.” An editor discussing “col leges,” mentions an instance where a far-seeing parent proposed to make* a great international lawyer of his son, and at Harvard and Heidelberg his whole attention was turned in that direction; He studied law in the best schools in Europe and Ameriba/ graduated with the highest honors, and is now a wealthy and successful machinist, and plays the organ id church every Sunday—the one valu- r able remainder of his German school* ing. The final product of ill this legal and linguislio lore is a gentle-' man; a mechanic, and a musician, ac tive in all the better paths of life/ ripe in scholarship, but not s law yor. ty A dispatob tt> tie New Yor* Sun says there is an excellent author* ity for saying that President Grant has determined to offer the place of Chief Justice of the United States to the Hon. Roscoe Conklin, Of He# York. This compliment he ers to be only a due reward for thrf services of Mr. Conklin in list year’s presidential campaign and for his un<s hesitating support of the administr**’ tion in every respect. Whother Mr. Conklin will accept this honor is regarded as doubtful/ He is a Senator and a politick#, in<| is believed to have his eye fixed u]ponf the pole star of aU American states!* men. A Portland sea captain, who hi# been absent from home some eighfr years, arrived tho other day. Call-* ing upon a lady friend soon after hie arrival, he was pained to see what btf supposed to be the result of somer terrible injury to the spine. He del-* icatcly questioned her on the subject, but she was apparently at a lew fo* comprehend his- meaning. Finally after much canvassing at cross- purr-* poses, the lady discovered that the’ salt seriously supposed her panier to* be a tumor or some other unsightly uxcresence caused by disease of the* spine. The latest verdict recorded was upon a gentleman who expired in a fit of inebriation. The jury re-- turned, “Death by hanging—round a rum shop.” This was savage, and devoid of regard for the gentleman’s fainily. In a similar case in Califor-- nia the verdict was more gracefully' and considerately put: “Acciden tal death while unpacking glass.” B&T A Connecticut paper solemnly' asserts that a man fractured the eeii--- ing just above a chair in which there- 1 had been placed a hot poker.-