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oct24-3m THOS. E HICKS, Agent,
GEORGIA-Tlarhis Cowty.
J B Janes makes application for letters of
administration Bpob the estate of Mrs. Mar
tha Waro, late of said county, deceased—
All persons concerned are hereby notified
to show cause, if any they have, by the first
Monday in March next, why said applica
tion should not be granted. Given under
my hand officially, Feb. 2, 1874.
febfi-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS. Ord'y.
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-ick Graddick, deceased, are hereby notified to
make payment; ahd those having claims
against said estate are requested to present
them within the time prescribed by law
febTGt W. I. HUDSON, Adm’r.
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., 0A„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1874.
J. W. STOREY,
Commission Merchant,
/Southeast cottier Public Square^
Hamilton, Ha.,
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Will keep constantly on hand during the
cool season Fre-li Bones and Ribs,
Cotton taken at Columbus prices when
there is trade in it.
atTAKTOS.
I am prepared to furnish standard Guanos
in larue quantities at as low figures as they
can be had in any market.
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call at mystore, or leave their ciders, that I
may form an idea as to the quantity needed.
PROVISIONS.
Special to my Customers.
I will be i repared to furnish Provisions on
time to responsible Planters.
Running the Provision business with my
Guano trade, it will obviate the necessity of
Farmers loading their crops to different par
ties. J. W. STOREY,
j :n2-2in Hamilton, Ga.
A PROCLAMATION.^
GEORGIA:
RV JAMS 31. SMITH.
Governor of snid State.
Whereas, Official information has been re
ceived at this Department that on the 28tli
day of Decernl>er, 1873, the common jail of
Hairis county was broken open and one W.
B. Seats and five-other pri oners confined
therein effected their escape under circum
stances which raise a suspicion that they
were aided In so doing by outside help;
I have, therefore, thought proper to issue
this, my Proclamation, hereby offering a re
ward of TJHREE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
the apprehension and delivery of the person
or persons who assisted or in any wise aided
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dence sufficient to convict, to the Sheriff of
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vigilant in endeavoring to apprehend the said
person or persons, In older that he or they
may be brought to trial for the offense with
whicli he or they stand charged.
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the State, at the Capitol, in Atlanta,
this fifteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the
ninety-eighth.
JAMES M. SMITH.
By the Governor:
N. C. Barnett,
Secretary of State.
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HAMILTON MALE SEMIMBy,
HAMILTON, GA.
The exercises of this school will be resumed
on Monday, January 26, 1874.
Parents or guardians having boys to edu
cate may feel safe in sondlbg them to this
school.
Hamilton is centrally located between
West Point, La Grange, Talbotton and Co
lumbus, ahd accessible by railroad from the
latter place. Perhaps no locality can excel It
for Its good health, fine society and excellent
church facilities.
Board can he obtained in the best of fami
lies at from *12,50 to *15.00 per month.
'lire course of instruction wid lie thorough
and practical ; the government mild but fi>m.
The following are the rates of tuition, pay
able at the end of each session :
Spelling, Beading, Wilting, Primary
Geography, Piimary Arithmetic,
etc, per month $2.00
Reading, Writing Geography, Arithme
tic, His ory, English Grammar,
English Composition, etc., per
month '. 8.00
Unis fruity Aiithmetic, Algebra, Geome
try, Lstin, etc., per month 4.00
The Higher Mathematics, Intin, Greek,
Natural and Moral Science, etc., per
month , 5.00
Compositions anil Declamations required
throughout the course.
First Term continues six months; second,
four months.
There will lie a Public Examination at the
close of the first term.
8. T. FULLRR, Principal.
Rmnunarss : H C Kimbrongh, A T Brooks,
F Barnes, J M Mobley, Willis Jones, W W
Bruce. J T Johnson, President Board of
Trustees. jan2
LOVED TO DEATH.
SV BED JHJNTLINK.
“ Charles, will you do me a great
favor ? ”
It was Irene Grey who thus ad
dressed her only brother, a fine, man
ly-looking young man, whose dress
and carriage told his position to be
that of a gentleman, in the common
acceptation of the .term.
It was the day before the New
Year holiday of 18?0.
“ Yes, dear lister, if in my power.
You know it is ever a joy to me to
add to your pleasures when 1 can.
What is it now ? v 'Do you wish me
as an eecort to the theatre or a ball ? M
“No, dear brother, it is this. Do
not make any New Year’s calls to
morrow.” i
“Heavens, Irene! You astonish
me. What possible harm is there in
this dear old custom of visiting one’s
lady frieads, and, wishing them a
Happy New Year?”
“ Charles, do you remember in
what condition yob came, or rather
how you were brought home last
New Year’s day, and the long, terri
ble sickness wfyioh followed ? ”
•‘No, sister; nor the tender care
which most likely aalld my life, for
you were the watcher by my side.
But sweet one, I signed the pledge at
your request as soon as I got well. 1
have kept it ever since, tor I, as you,
feel, that my character and my very
life both depends on my total absti
nence from alcoholio drink.”
“Yes, Charles, you signed, and so
far, with God’s help, have kept the
pledge. But to-morrow will be a
day of terrible temptation. Wine
and hot punches will disgrace many
a table where you would visit, fair
lips will tempt you to taste, and—
“ Stop one moment, dear Rene—do
you think any lady will ask me to
break my pledged word ? ”
“ Charles—yon will iirid, even as I
have found among our Acquaintances,
those who will laugh at what they
term the folly of abstinence, the fan*
aticism of temperance. You will be
pressed to take one here, or one there,
and then, excited by a single drop,
will become the tyrant, and you are
lost! ”
“Nonsense, darling sister! lam
firm! I will make my usual calls
and show them all that I am and will
be a man 1 ”
“ Charles, I tremble for the result.
At least promise me not to go to the
house of Mr. TinshopJ’
“ Why, sister—of aTI places not to
neglect, that is the one. I don’t think
much of old Tinshop, for he is a
whisky bloat; but I love Flora and
she loves me. We are as good as
engaged now, and were I not to call
on her, it would seem like a cruel
insult.'’
“ Ah, Charles, you know as well as
I that the table there will contain the
deadly temptation, and that her fath
er will laugh at your scruples, and
that she, his pet and heiress, will
have to coincide iu his views.”
“ Yet for all that, my sister, I will,
for in keeping it I know exists all
my safety. If I break it, honor, char
acter, all that make l.fe worth pos
sessing, will go. Do not fear for ine.
I love you, and I will not swerve
from the path you opened out for me
when I lay upon my sick-bed.”
She said no more. She saw that
argument was useless; she could but
pray to her Heavenly Father to save
the brother of her love from a drunk
ard’s death.
“ Ah, here comes a welcome visitor,
Floe,” cried Mr. Tinshop, -when
Charles Grey entered his parlors,
early on that New- Year’s Day.
“ Mr. Grey, I am glad to see you.”
“Charles, you are very, very wel
come ! ” was the warm, tender greet
ing of Flora, as she clasped his ex
tended hand in both of hers.”
“ Dear Flora, I came to wish you
a happy New Year, and I never saw
you look so lo'velv as now! Oh, how
beanliful you are! ”
This was in a low tone, for Mr.
Tinshop at that moment was busy at
the table.
He came to them a moment alter,
with a silver salver in his hand. On
if three glasses of sparkling wine
stood but too visible.
“ Here is to a hundred New Years,
as bright as this!” cried Mr. Tinshop,
as Flora took up one glass, and he
another.
“ Hardly can we expect a hundred,
but I will say many,” said Flora with
a smile.
“\V T hy, Charlie, what is the matter?
You do not touch your glass,” said
Mr Tinshopi “ You’re not sick ?’’
“ No, sir, but I signed the* pledge
about eleven months ago, and have
kept it ever since.’’
“Pshaw! I did not dream that you
were sueli a spoony. 1 believed you
to be a young man of spirit and manly
independence. As such I have re
joiced to seq an apparent attachment
springing up between you and Flora.
But if you are one who can sign
away your own rights and privileges
and join in a fanatical crusade against
the luxuries of life, I hope you will
forget each other as soou as you
can.”
This was spoken In a tone and with
an expression which brought from
Flora a tearful look aud a word of
remonstrance,
“Oh ! papa, do not Ask .Me to for
get him. He loves me.” ,
“Not enough to even drink yonr
health on' a day like this, when all
the world is rejoicing.”
“Yes, he does;’ 1 and nbw
Flora, With a look of unspeakable ten
derness, whispered:
“Dear Charlie,'humor him. He
is so set. Just one glass for ray love.
You know that you are more than
liffe to me.”
“Your love, Flora. Oh! I wDuld
die for you.”
And the young man, gassing into
her eyes, no longer hesitated.
He raised the glaHs, pledged her
health, he wished her happiness.
“Ah, that is cried Mr.
Tinshop. “ I thought your manhood
had not perished. Now you sttit me,
1 can’t endure these milk-sops who
call themselves temperance men.
Take another glass, Charlie, and the
’color will come to your cheeks and
the fire to your eye. Fill our glasses
once nware, Floe, while we are in
the humor.”
“Oh, Charlie, how kind it was in
you 1” she said, as, with his seoond
glass emptied, she stood by his side,
whiic her father Went to ittTCtrft to
the brewing of some puneb,
“It was for your love l” lie mur
mured. “And since you rejoice, Ido
not regret it. Will yon excuse me
now ? I shall make but a few calls,
and then go home.”
“Do not go home, Charlie, but re
turn here to spend. the evening.”
“ I will if you desire it, Flora.”
He was gone, and Flora now had
her hands full in receiving new visi
tors.
“ Papa, what has become of Charley
Grey ? He has not been here since
New Year’s morning, and he prom
ised to come back that same even
ing!”
It was Flora Tinshop who asked
this question, and it was the second
week in January when she asked it.”
“ I heard to day that he was very
sick—-dangerously ill 1 ” said her fath
er, unguardedly, for he did not know
how deeply his daughter loved.
“ Dangerous 1 ” she screamed. Dan
gerous, and I not near him. Why
father, dear father, take me to his
house instantly. I shall die—l shall
die too if he dies l ”
Raving wildly, Flora hurried to
dress for the street, and taking no
denial, she forced her father to escort
her to the residence of the widow
Grey.
Trembling from head to foot father
and daughter stood upon the door
steps, when they rung the bell at
that house, for the hand that rang
the bell touched the crape which de
noted death within.
The door was opened by Irene
Grey. Her face was white with grief
till she saw who was there, then a
flush came upon it.
She did not speak, but site opened
the door for tlvem to enter, and she
pointed to the parlor.
They went in, father and daughter,
and the next instant with a wild,
soul barrowing shriek, Flora bent
over the coffin which held all that
was left of Charles Grey.
The day before he had died ol de
lirium tremens.
Shriek after shriek broke from the
lips of Flora, as the full conviction
came to iter heart, and she cried out
in the agony of her soul: •
“lie loved me! He loved me!”
“Yes—to his death!” said his
sister sternly.
Then turning to Mr. Tinshop, she
said in a low, solemn tone:
“ Murderer I Behold your victim I
You.made him bteak his pledge, and
there he lies. A widow’s curse is on
your head! His mother is on her
death-bed, heart broken. I, soon to
be an orphan, uud now brotherless,
through you, add niy curse to Lets.
Take your child and—l ”
William Tinshop could not take
his child alone from that room, felie
was a raving maniac amt it took strong
men to tear her from the coffin of the
loved* and lost.
She now raves itl hti asylum for the
insane, and her cries and curses fall
all the time upon the tell spirit, nun.
A Drover and his Child.
jg
-1 TOUCHING STORY.
My bame is Anthony Hunt, lam
a droVbr, and J live miles ari* miles
away, out on tljc Western prairie.”
Oue day, about ten years ago, I
went away from home to sell some
fifty herd of cattle—fine Srikttftefe ftA
I ever saw. I was to buy some gro
ceries and dry goods before I went
back, and, above all, a doll for oifr
youngest Dolly. She had never had
a store doll of her own—only therag
baby her mother had made her. 4
Dolly cottld talk of nothing £ls<s,
and wtnt down to the very gate to
call after me to “buy a big one.”
Nobody but a parent could under
stand how full Inf mind was of that
toy, and .how, when the cattle Wife
sold, the first thing I hurried off to
buy was Dolly’s doll. I found a
large one, noth eyek open
and shut when you pulled a wire, and
had it wrapped in paper, and tucked
it under my arm while I had tHi par
cels of calico aud delainfe and sugar
aiid tea put up. Then, late as it was,
I started for home. It might have
been more prndont to stay till morn
ing, but I felt anxious to get back,
and eager to hear liolly’s prattle
,abputjier toy.
I was mounted on a steady-going
old horse of mine; and pretty well
loaded. Night set yi before I was a
mile from town, and settled dark as
pitch whi& I was in the middle of the
darkest bit of road I know of. I
could have felt my way through, I
knew it so vyell, and I was doiug so,
almost, when the storm that had been
brewing broke, and pelted the rain
in torrents, while I was five or Bix
miles from hrime.
I rode as fast as I could, but all of
a sudden I heard a little cry from a
child’s voice. I stopped short- and
listened. I heard it again. I called,
and it answered. I couldn’t see a
thing—all was dark as pitch. I,got
down and felt about the grass—called
again, and again was answered. Then
I began to wonder. I’m not timid,
but I was known to be a drover, and
to have money about mo. It might
be a trap to catch me unawares, and
rob and murder me.
I’m not superstitious—not very.
But how could a real child be out ou
the prairie in such a night, and at
such an hour 2 It might be more than
human.
The bit of a coward that hides it
self to most men appeared to me then,
and I was half inclined to run away,
but once more' I heard that cry, and
said I:
“If any man’s child is hereabout,
Anthony Hunt is not the man to let
it die.”
I searched again. At last I be
thought me of a hollow under the hill,
and groping that way, sure enough,
I found a little dripping tiling, that
moaned and sobbed as I took it in
my arms. I called my horse, and the
beast came to roe. I mounted, and
tucked the little thing under my coat
as well as I could, promising to take
it home to mammy. It seemed tired
to death, and pretty soon cribd itself
to sleep against my bosom.
It had slept there over an hour
when I saw my own windows. There
were lights in them, and I supposed
my w ife had lit them for my sake;
but when I got into the door-yard, I
saw something was the matter, and
stood still, with a dead fear at heart,
five minutes before I could lift the
latch. At last I did it, and saw my
room full of neighbors, and my wife
in the midst of them, weeping.
When she saw me, she hid her
face.
“ Oh! don’t tell him,” she said; “it
will kill him I ”
“ What is it, neighbors?” I cried.
And one said: “ Nothing now, I
hope—what is that in your arms?”
“ A poor, lost child,” said I. “ I
found it on the road.”
I then lifted up the sleeping tiling,
and' saw the face of my own child—
my little Dolly.
It was my darling, and none other,
thatl had picked up on the drenched
road.
My little child had wandered out
to fneet “ daddy ” and the doll wliile
het motherwas at work, and they
were there lamenting her as one dead*
I thanked Heaven on my knees be-’
fore them all.
It is not much of a story, neigh
bors, but I -think of it often is the
nights, and woitder how I coulMaear
to live now, if I had not stopped
when I heard the cry for help upon
the road—the little baby cry, hardly
louder than a “squirrel's chirp.”
|U>O A YEAR.
Be*t Point* (him Josh Blllliipi
Pride is cheap and kontmon ; you *
kan find it all the way down from
the monarch on hiz throne tow the
rooster on hiz dungliil.
There are exefepohuns, to all tuleS,
no doubt, but the exoepshuns don’t
win often enuff tew make theUfil fnSJ,
The same time spent in learning
tew pliiddfe a passable tune on one
string wild enable * man tew bekum
an elegaut sluuritiket
Man iz the only tllfjjg treated witk
reazon, and still he iz the most un
reazonable thlrtg
Happiness konsists pi havnlg
we want, and wanting .wlidt vre havi
There iz lots dV eddikated people
in the world who, if it want lor theft
learning, wouldp’t kno anything;
I kno wliait it it tube a grandpa—
its fun alive.
Respectability in theze hdrd times
depends a good deal upon a man’s
bank account. * ,
Everybody but the knssid phools
are tew work for themselves.
There iz a kind ov kuriosity wnwh..
iz very common Alfirittgst pholks,
which promps them tew see how near
they kan go tew a mule’s h&i!l and
not get hit.
H Silence -iz safe. The man Arhd
hasn’t spoke alwus liaz the advantage
ov him who hai.
” The parrott iz not a game bird, al
tho they bite good, hang on well and
di hard.
A parrott will live 200 yearH Afld
grow cross tew the last.
They hav no. song, bat kan hel&rnt
tew sware korreotly.
A parrot 6 in a private fiynilf iz
about az useless az a seckond attack
ov the meazles, and makes more trub
ble than taking a scnoolinom tew
board.
Whatsoever knn happen may hap
pen* and we hav no excuse ror being
surprized at enything in this life.
Menny people are viriewous for the
roputashun of it.
In a square fite, the heart iz ftlwuri
tew much for the head, arid lam glad
ov it.
A regular old fashioned, thorobred
He don’t do much hurt; it iz the half
breeds that do the mischief.
I cater for little luv
them—i believe they have been a suc
cess thus far, and ain’t going to ran
out as long as pholks last.
I find plenty ov people wto fife
willing tew tel! you .all they kno, if
you tell them all you kno, but the
tnizery ov the trade iz, doA’t
kno much.
It iz just az natral for an olt pliel
low tew give advice az it iz ttw
grunt.
.Tharo iz only one impulse ov the
human harte that iz alike in us all,
and that iz, self-luv. ‘ :
The Eucalyptus ob Fever '/bee.
One of the blue gum trees of Austra
lia has been planted out at Kew, near
the house, and is flourishing, Wa
question, however, whether it wilt
stand the seventy of the English
winter. But in the south of France,
and more especially in Portugal,
these eucalypti have been introduced
(find cultivated with extfaordibtttrr
success. We have seen as matty it*
200 varieties of them in the Botanio
Garden in Coimbra, and the impor
tation of this tree is a national benc
fit to the Peninsula. It grows very
fast, even in dry and hungry soil;
it affords excellent timber; 1t acts M
a disinfectant for unwholesome places j
the bark contains an alkaloid febri
fuge ; the leaves may be smoked; and
its uses appear to be Innumerable.'—
Edinburgh Itevieilk
“Him, '■** "'—•—-
83T* A MeWspaper correspondent
tells of a Company of Federal cavalry
in Missouri during the late war £hdj
hearing that 14 company of “rebels’*
were CnCantped not far oftj went out
to find them, and were attacked and
nearly all killed. He adds that the
whole country around there wsfc#
thrilled with horror at the coldbldocf
ed arid inhuman bntchery. And nor
wonder. This saddling doWnf of £
party of Federal soldiers, armed only
with such pcaoefuliiiipk-tOenU as ear*
bines, sabres and navy sixes; wfkf
had gone out to the’ " rebel ’’ Camp
merely to enquire the pride of patty,
was certainly the most inhuman thing
this world has seen sine* the inno
cents were slaughtered iy “Herod
of Jewry.’’ — Courier JuUmali
A HeW Weekly paper) dulled the Jim
and Elisa Journal, has been started In
Mississippi: Jim and Eliza art the
editor and wife.