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THE HAMILTON WILY VISITOR. VOL. II.—NO. 14. C|e|iamiltmtfisilor D. W. 1). BOULLY, Proprietor. ’cash SDB3CKIPTION BATES. One copy one year $1 50 One copy six month* 100 One copy three months 75 Any one furnishing five subscribers, with the money, will receive H copy free. Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one port- office to another, must state the nime of the post office from which they wish it changed, as well as that to which they wish it 6ent. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. The paper will be stopped at the end of the time paid for, unless subscriptions are pre viously renewed. Fifty numbers complete the year. CASH ADVERTISING RATES. Shack - 1 mo 3 runs 6 mos 12 moa 1 inch ..“ * 2 50 $ 4 60 $ 6 00 $lO 00 2 inches.. 450 725 11 00 18 00 8 inches.. 500 900 15 00 22 00 4 inches .. 650 11 00 18 00 27 00 ■ column.. 550 14 00 25 00 35 00 1 column.. 12 50 25 00 40 00 00 00 1 column.. 22 00 41 00 62 00 100 00 Marriages and deaths not exceeding six linos will be published free Payments to be nrade quarterly in advance, according to schedule rates, unless otherwise agreed upon. Persons sending advertisements will state tha length of time they wish them published and the space they want them to occupy. . Parties advertising by contract will be re stricted to their legitimate busines. LuOAfc ADVERTISEMENTS. fiheriffVsalcs, per inch, four weeks.. .$3 50 “ mortgage fi fa sales, per inch, eight weeks 5 50 Citition for letters of administration, guardianship, etc., thirty days 3 00 Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate, forty days 6.00 Application for leave to rell laud, four weeks 4 00 Bales of land, etc., per in h, forty days 6 00 “ “ perishable property, per inch, ten days 2 00 Application for letters of dismission from guardianship, forty days 5 00 Application for letters of dismission from administration, three months 7 50 Establishing lost papers, the full spnee of three months, per inch.. 7 00 Compelling title* from executors or ad ministrators. where bond lias been given by the deceased, the full space of three months, per inch 7 00 Estray notices, thirty days 3 00 Rule for foreclosure of mortgage, four months, monthly, per inch 6 00 Bale of insolvent papers, thirty days... 300 Homestead,*tWo weeks. 2 00 ' _ - ~~ 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 ”