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THE HAMILTON WILY VISITOR.
VOL. II.—NO. 14.
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Business Cards
* A BUSSELL C It BUSSELL
RUSSELL & RUSSELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
Will practice in all the State Courts
JDr. T. Xj. J"©xi3s.l2as,
HAMILTON, GA.
TIIOS. 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\ TIG-KTEIiFI,
HENTIS T i
COLUMBUS, - - GEORGIA.
Office over Chapfnan’s drug store, Ran
dolph st, near city terminus of N. & S. R. R-
Rcspecfully offers liis services to the peo
ple of Harris county. ju2oly
CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE ,
Bv 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.
Sines Dossier,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
HAMILTON, GEORGIA
Will practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit,
or anywhere else. All kinds of collections
rusHsn—either way.
~w. T- FOGLE,
Dentist,
OLUMBUS, GEORGIA
Office In the bnilding of the Georgia Home
Insurance Company. feb2l-ly
kaShkhst house
COLUMBUS, GA.
j. W. RYAN, grop'r.
Golden, Clerk,
fcl/BY RESTAURANT,
&ar and Billiard Saloon,
UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE,
jmio* J. W. £YAN Prop’s.
J. W. STOREY,
Commission Merchant,
Southeast corner Public Sqjtare,
HAMILTON, GA.,
Keeps constantly on hand a full stock of Gro
ceries, Staple Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, at
Panic Prices. Seed Oats, Com, Flour, Bacon,
Bulk Meat, Lard, Virginia salt, Tobacco, Ci
gars, Snuff, etc.
Cotton taken at Columbus prices when
there is trade in it.
OUANOS-
I am prepared to furnish standard Guanos
in laree quantities st as low figures as they
can lie had in any market.
Farmers desiring to use Guano will please
call at my store, or leave their orders, that I
may form an idea as to the quantity needed.
PROVISIONS
As Low as in any Market,
For the CASH:-
" lI.U!ILTO\ HALE SEMIXARY,
HAMILTON, GA.
The exercises of this school will be resumed
on Monday, January 20, 1874.
Parents or guardians having boya to edu
cate may feel safe in sonding them to this
school.
Hamilton is centrally located between
West Point, La Grange, Talbotton and Co
lumbus, and accessible by railroad from the
latter place. Perhaps no loculi'y- can ex- el it
for its good health, fine society and excellent
church facilities.
Board can be obtained in the best of fami
lies at fiom $12,50 to $16.00 per month.
The course of instruction will be thorough
and practical ; the government mild but fii m.
The following are the rates of tuition, pay
able at the end of each session :
Spelling, Reading, Writing, Primary
Geography, Primary Arithmetic,
*tc , per month $2.00
Reading, Writing, Geography, Arithme
tic, History, English Grammar,
‘English Composition, etc., per
month... 3.00
University Arithmetic, Algebra, Geome
try, Latin, etc., per month 4.00
The Higher Mathematics, Latin, Greek,
Natural and Moral Science, etc., per
month 5.00
Compositions and Declamations required
throughout the course.
First Term coutiuucs six months; second,
four months.
There will be a Public Examination at the
close of the first term.
S. T. FULLER, Principal.
Rkfbrences : H C Kimbrough, A T Brooks,
F Barnes, J M Mobley, Willis Jones, W W
Bruce. J T Johnson, President Board of
Trustees. jan2
CARRIAGES AND HARNESS
on hand, and any style furnished to order.
The Old Carriage House is permanently
opened in Columbus, on Oglethorpe street, a
few doors north of the Post-office.
oct24-3m THOS. E. HICKS, Agent.
DEBTORS & CREDITORS’ NOTICE.
All persons indebted to the estate of lov
ick Graddick, deceased, are hereby notified to
make payment; and those having claims
against said estate are requested to present
them within the time prescribed by law.
feb2-6t W. I. HUDSON, Adm’r.
MEDICAL NOTICE,
All parties Indebted to me for medical
services will please call and settle Immediate
ly. Notes and accounts on hand and un
paid on the Ist day of February next, will
be sued indiscriminately. If you would save
cost and your feelings, come and make im
mediate arrangements, for I mean business.
I am willing to work for those only who
pay me once a year.
Turns cash — os bbsdbriko hy rkbviobs.
, T. S. MITCHELL, M. D.
Hamilton, Ga., Jan. 9,1374 —1 m
DEATH-BED OF GEN. LEE.
A magnificent 14x18 inch Engraving. TTie
family and friends are grouped sorrowfully
around the old hero’s death-bed. The scene
is so touchingly beautiful, the sentiment of
the picture is so sweet, aod the characters so
so lifelike, that everybody admires It. It is
truly a gem of art—one which should hang
Jn every Southern home. Sent by mail, post
paid, on receipt of 20c, or 3 for 50c. Address
W M. Borrow, 200 Main st, Bristol, lenn.
JW Agents wanted for this and a variety
of other fine engravings. From *3 to $lO a
day can easily be made.
Tub Maoic Comb.— Sent by mail to any one
for sl. Will change any colored hair to a
permanent black or brown and contains no
poison. Trade supplied at low rates. Ad
dress, Magic Comb Cos., Springfield, Mars.
HAMILTON, HARRIS 00., GA, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1874.
HOW TO EARN A HOME.
The other evening I came home
with an extra ten dollar bill in my
pocket-money that I had earned by
out-of-door work. The fact is, that
I’m a clerk in a down-town store, at
a salary of S6OO per annum, and-a
pretty wife and baby to support out
of it.
I suppose this sum will sound
amazing small to your two and three
thousand dollar office holders, but,
nevertheless, we contrive to live very
comfortably upon it. We live on a
floor of an unpretending liule house,
for winch we pay $l5O per annum,
and Kilty—my wife, you’ll under
stand—does all her work, so that we
lay up a neat little sum every year.
I have a balance of two or throe
hnndred dollars at the savings bank,
the hoard of several years, and it is
astonishing how rich I feel! Why
Rothschild himself isn’t a circum
stance to me! ,
Well, I came home with my extra
bill, and showed it triumphantly to
Kitty, who, of course, was delighted
with my industry and thrift.
“Now my love,” said I, “just add
this to our account at the bank, and
with interest at the end of the
year—”
Forthwith I commenced casting in
terest and calculating in my brain,
Kitty was sjlent, and rocked the cra
dle musingly with her feet.
“ I’ve been thinking, Harry,” she
said, after a moment’s pause, “ that
since you have this extra money, we
might afford anew rug. This is get
ting dreadfully shabby, my dear, you
must see.”
1 looked dolefully at the rug—it
was worn and shabby enough—that
was a fact. “ I can get a very beau
tiful new velvet pattern for seven
dollars,” resumed my wife.
“ Velvet I—seven dollars! ” groaned
I.
“ Well, then, a common tufted rug
like this would only cost three,” said
my cautious better half, who, seeing
she could not carry her ambitious
point, wisely withdrew her guns.
“That’s more sensible,” said I.
“ We’ll see about it.”
“And there is another thing I
want,” continued my wife, pntiing
her hand coaxingly on my shoulder,
“and it is not at all extravagant
either.”
“ What is it? ” I asked, softening
rapidly.
“ I saw such a lovely silk pattern
on Canal street, this morning, and I
can get it for six dollars—only six
dollars, Harry! it’s the cheapest thing
I ever saw.”
“ But havn’t you got a very pretty
green silk dress ? ”
“ That old thing ? Why, Harry, I
have worn that ever since we’ve been
married.”
“ Is it soiled or ragged ? ”
“No, of course; but wbo wants to
wear the same green dress forever?
Everybody knows that it is the only
silk dress I have.”
“Well, what then?”
“That’s just a man’s question,”
pouted Kitty. “And I suppose you
have not observed how old fashioned
my bonnet is getting ? ”
“ Why, 1 thought it looked very
neat and tasteful since you put on
that velvet winter trimming.”
“Of course—you men have no
taste in such matters.”
We were silent for a moment; I
am afraid we both felt a little cross
and out of humor with each other.
In fact, on my way home, I had
entertained serious thought of ex
changing my old silver watch for
a more modern time piece of gold,
and had mentally appropriated ten
dollars to furthering that purpose.
The savings bank reflection had come
later.
As we sat before oar fire, each
wrapped in thought, our neighbor
Mr. Wilmot knocked at the door.
He was employed in the same store
as myself, and his wife was an old
family friend.
“ I want you to congratulate me,”
he said, taking a seat. “I have pur.
chased the little cottage out on the
Bloomtogdale road, to-day.”
“'What I that beautiful little cot
tage with the piazza and lawn, and
fruit garden behind ? ” exclaimed
Kitty almost enviously.
“Is it possible ?” I cried. “ A lit
tle cottage home of my own, just
like that I had often admired on the
Bloomingdale road, has always been
the one crowning ambition of my life
a distant and almost hopeless
point, but no less earnestly desired.
Why, Wilmot,” said I, “how did
this.happen? You’ve only been iu
business eight or ten years longer
than I, at a salary a trifle larger than
mine, yet I could as soon buy up the
Mint as purchase a cottage like that.”
“Well,” said my neighbor, “we
have all beeu working to this end
for years. My wife darned, patched,
mended and saved—we have lived
on plain fare and done on the cheap
est things. But the magic charm of
the whole affair was that we laid
asido every penny that was not
needed by actual positive want.
“ Yes, I have seen my wife lay by
red-coppers one by one.”
} “ Well, you are a lucky fellow,”
“said I, with a sigh.
‘ { Times are hard, you know, just
now ; the owner was not what you
could call an economical man, and he
was glad to sell it, even at a moder
ate price. So you see that even hard
times have helped me! ’’
. When our neighbor was gone, Kitty
and I looked meaningly at one
another.
“ Harry,” said she, “ the rug isn’t
so bad after all, and uiy green silk
will do for a year longer with care.”
“And a silver watch is quite as
good for all practical purposes as a
gold repeater,” said I. “We will set
all imaginary wauts aside! ”
“The ten dollar bill must go to the
bank, said Kitty, and I’ll economize
just as Mrs. Wilmot did. Oh, how
happy she will be among the roses iu
that beautiful cottage garden next
spring 1 ”
Our merry tea-kettle sung us a
cheerful little song over the glowing
fire that night, and the burden was
—“Ecouomy and a home of your
own, amid the ro es of the country
air 1 ”
A Pup iu a Press-Room,
ybe Virginia, Nev., Enterprise re
lates this canine experience: “ State
Printer Putnam, who has been so
journing in this city for a few days
past, returned to Carson last Sunday
noon. He was presented with a fine
Newfoundland pup, while here. For
safe keeping this juvenile son of his
mother was placed in the Enterprise
press-ioom last Saturday night. As
he was now the property of a prin
ter he felt it a duty he owed his mas
ter to get an insight into the business
at once. After inspecting the run
ning of a job press for some time
with much interest, he went up to it
and stuck his nose between a pair of
cog-wheels. Leaving between the
wheels a piece of the skin of his nose
about the size of a trade dollar, he
retired to a comer and sat down for
a time to reflect upon the first lesson.
After he had for some time pawed
and licked bis wound his attention
was attracted to the bed of the
power-press, which seemed to be
shooting in and out in a playful man
ner. After this he started, encour
aged by seeing that it retreated from
him, but was almost instantly knocked
down by the swift return of the bed.
Here he thought he had found a foe
worthy of his steel. At it he went,
tooth and nail, and was regularly
knocked down as each paper was
■truck off, for about three hours.
He then sat down and watched the
“ thing ” the rest of the night, bob
bing his bead up and down, as the
bed-plate moved in aod out, but
cured of battling with it. Being
shut up in the room and left to his
own devices till noon on Sunday, he
found an empty ink barrel on its side
and made that his home, Being black
as ink himself, the condition of his
coat was not discovered until his
master bad taken him aboard the
train for Carson. It was then found
that he was as full of ink as one of
the ink-balls used by printers in the
early days of printing. Being an
affectionate and playful little cuss,
the consternation which he created
aboard that train can well be imag
ined. At last it was found necessary
to wrap and tie him up in a lot of
newspapers, and thus the printer’s
dog rode away with bis new master,
as newspaper carrier to begin with.
’SW' There is one word of which
four others can be made, which al
ternate onrlously between the gen
ders. “Heroine” is perhaps as pecu
liar a word as any in our language.
The first two letters of it are male,
the first three female, the first four a
brave man, and the whole a brave
woman.
jgy Editing a newspaper is very
much like raking u fire—every one
thinks he can perform the operation
better than the man whp has h..1.l “ r
the poker. /•
How Jones Hived his Rees.
An exchange tells the following:
“Our neighbor Jones is a good man
and an excellent neighbor. His walk
is as correct as that of most men, and
ordinarily he is a consistent member
of the Baptist Church. We have
known him long and well, and never
remember to have heard him make
use of a single expression that was
at all inconsistent with his Christan
professions—except once. On this
occasion Jones sent for ns to show
his manner of hiving a swarm of beeß.
The bees had attached themselves to
the limb of an oak tree, which limb
was about as large as yonr arm, and
nearly twenty feet from the ground.
Assisting Jones was a little buck negro
who was forever dodging when a bee
chanced to buzz by him. Jones tried
to strengthen his courage by telling
him that this was the month that
bees wouldn’t sting.
After arranging his table and hive,
and having sprinkled the swarm with
water, Jones, w : th his qnilt on his
back and broom in hand, commenced
to mount the ladder he had placed
against the tree. Arriving at the
limb he cautiously crawled out, and,
having drawn the qnilt well forward
over his head, he made a gentle down
ward stroke with the broom, expect
ing to soe the swarm fall on the table
and immediately march into the hive.
But Jones was mistaken. Every
bee in the swarm started for the
opening in the qnilt, and literally
covered every inch of standing room
on his hands, face and neck. Why
Jones didn’t turn loose and drop to
the ground has always been a mys
tery to ns; but he didn’t. Ho sim
ply shook like a fellow in a strong
ague and started for the ladder. Af-
ter he had touched the ground and
cleared himself of as many of the bees
as ho could reacli, he seemed to find
great consolation in giving vent to
his pent-up feelings. And when he
threw a chunk of wood at the darkey
for mildly insinuating that he must
have been mistaken in the month, it
seemed to help him.
But to this day we have never had
the courage to ask Jones to give us
a second lesson in hiving bees.”
What Perskvk ranch can Accom
plish.—The Macon Telegraph relates
the following of Mr. John Crib, a
one-legged ex Confederate of Twiggs
eounty:
“He was a poor man. After re
covering from his wound, and for
some time after the war, he supported
himself by shoemaking; but for the
last few years he has. been farming.
He managed to buy a wooden leg,
but it did him no good. He knocked
it to pieces, and made a leg which he
could use. He began to farm with
out means, and lias hired no hands.
He now owns 130 acres of land. He
raised enough corn and potatoes to
do him, and six or eight bales of cot
ton, He has two horses and what
farming implements he needs, all of
which are paid for. He owes no
one, and does not know what a crop
lien is.
Profanity.
We are emphatically in the age of profan
ity, and it seems to is that we are on the
topmost current. One cannot go on the
streets anywhere without having hit* ears
offended with the vilest of words, and his
reverence shocked hy the most profune use
of sacred names. Nor does it come from the
old or middle-aged alone, for it is a fact, as
alarming as true, that the younger portion
of the community aro most proficient in the
degrading language, Roys hare an idea it
is smart to swear; that it makes them
manly; but there never was a greater mis
take in the world. Men, even those who
swear themselves, are disgusted with profan
ity in a young man, because they know haw,
of all bod habits, tills clings the most closely,
mid increases with years. It is the most
insidious of habits, growing on so invisibly
that almost before one is uware he becomes
an accomplished cursor.
iy A distinguished (?) member of
the Kentucky Legislature is reported
in the Louisville Commercial as hav
ing candidly ‘acknowledged the corrt.’
Re-appearing, after an absence from
his seat of three days, he said he bad
been “sick.” “What’s been the maU
ter with you ?” he was asked. “Well,
some folks call it nervous chills; oth
ers pronounce it a kind of affection
of the heart; but, to be candid, I call
it a plain case of old-fashioned drunk.”
P32T* The use of canned vegetables
is becoming so common that the sea
sons are no longer marked by the suc
cessive productions of the garden, as
they used to be. Green peas, beans,
eta,, -jyy "'iu season” all the year
. ***
[.round.
$1.50 A YEAR.
.WIT and HUMOR.
Doctor—l am pleased to say, Mr*,
Fitzbrowne, that I sliall be able to
vaccinate your baby from a very
healthy child of your neighbor, Mrs.
Jones. Mrs. Fitzbrowne—Oh, dear l
Doctor, I could not permit that. We
do not care to be mixed up with the
Joneses in any way.
There is some talk of having a ge
ological survey of Rhode Island, but
the work may be delayed on account
•of its expensiveness. The professor
who is expected to make it says that
if he is expected to go over the State ?
it will take him at least two days, and
he won’t do it for less than $9.50.
The epitaphs of Dakotah papers are
most pathetic. Jim Barrett has been
shoveling snow, from which he caught
a bad cold, which turned into fever.
The fever settled Jim’s mundane af
fairs, and a local paper says most af
fectingly, in his obituary, “He won’t
have to shovel snow in the country
he has gone to.”
“Do you go to school now, Char
lie ? ” “ Yes, sir. I had a fight to
day, too.” You had !”—which whip
ped ? ” “ Oh, I got whipped, he ro
pli3d, with great frankness. “Was
the other boy bigger than you?”
“No, he was littler.” “Well, how
came you to let a littler boy whig
you ? ” “ Oh! you see he was mad
der nor I was.”
An old German, while traveling
from Indianapolis to Lafayette, had
his nose frozen. While they were
thawing it out for him at the hotelj
he sat by the stove and pnt his hands
to his head, and thought very sol
emnly for awhile, and said: “ I don’t
onderstan’ dis ting. I haf carry dat
nose fordy-sevin yere, an’ he nerur
freezed bisseff pefore.”
A fruit dealer caught a boy steal
ing nuts, find was about to punish
him, when the boy begged to be let
off, as he had recently been vaccina
ted with matter fresh from the cow.
“ What has that got to do with it ? ”
shouted the infuriated fruit dealef,
“ She was a hooking eow, and it got
into my blood,’’ was the whimpering
reply.
A Southern paper relates that dur
ing the war one of the colored troopij
ran away from a fight, and was se
verely reprimanded by a lieutenant,
who asked him, sneeringly, if he
thought the company would have
missed him much had he been killed.
Sambo promptly answered: “Not
much, boss. Dey dou’t miss de wite
fokc-s, much lessa a pore nigga. But
den I wood hab miss miseff—an’ dat’s
de pint wid me! ”
A mother who was trying to get,
her little daughter of three years old
to sleep one night, said, “ Anna, why
don’t you try to go to sleep?” “I
am trying,” she replied. “ But you,
haven’t shut your eyee!” “Veil, I
tan’t hep jt; um turns unbuttoned!”
In an advertisement of a baker’s
business for sale, the following ap
pears : “ Death the sole -reason for
leaving—the proprietor gone where’
ovens are not needed.”
At a funeral once, the minister had,
gone on with the service until he.
came to the part which says, “ Our
deceased (brother or sister),” without
knowing whether the deceased was a
male or female. He turned to one of*
the mourners, and asked whether it
was a brother or sister. The man
innocently replied: “No relation at
all, sir; only an acquaintance I*' .
A pious but uneducated judge
dosed a sentence with the following
touching reproaoh: “ Prisoner at the
bar, nature has endowed you with a
good education and * respectable fam
ily, instead of which yon go around
the country stealing ducks.”
A lady who offers to furnish “some
storys” to a Michigan phper, says in t
the postscript i “Jtf, b.—i can cnd
you sum pomes to, suqt real pretty
verses if you desire that i writ my
self, for i can writ pomes as well as
storys,” The editor is mean enough
to decline on the ground of poverty
superinduced by the panic.
An old, rough clergyman once took
for his text that passage of the Psalms,
U I said in my haste, all men are liars.”
Looking up, apparently as if be saw
the Psalmist standing before him, he
said: “You said it in your haste, Da
vid. If yon had been here, yOu might
have said it after mature delibera
tion.” t
“What comes after T?” asked a
teacher of a small pupil who was
learning the alphabet. He received
tbe bewildering reply —“You dozo
| to see Lize 1 ”