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THE HAMILTON WEEKLY IISITOH.
VOL. 11. -NO. 15.
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Business Cards
x a Kcssirx c r rdssell
RUSSELL & RUSSELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
Will practice in all the State Courts
TDr- T- X_j. Jenlsilns,
HAMILTON, GA.
THOS. S. MITCHELL, M. D.,
Besidell Physician and Surgeon,
HAMILTON, GEORGIA
Special attention given to Operative Sur
gery and treatment of Chronic Diseases.
Terms Cash.
"W. in. TIG-JSTKIIFk,
DJENTJS TANARUS,
COLUMBUS, i- GEORGIA
Office oyer Chapman’s dnie store, Ran
dolph’st, near city terminus <f N. &S.E. R.
llespecfully offers his services to the peo
ple of Hania coonty. ju2oly
CHATTAHOOCHEE BOUSE,
By J. T. HIGGINBOTHEM,
WEST POINT, GA
HENRY C. CAMERON,
Attorney at law,
HAMILTON \ GA
HR. J. W. CAMERON,
HAMILTON, GA.
Special attention to Midwifery. Charges
“ode rate.
Hines Dozier,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Hamilton, Georgia
Will practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit,
•r anywhere else. All kind? of collections
hjk —either way.
"W. jr. Foaiiß,
Dentist,
OLUMBUS, GEORGIA
Office in the building of the Georgia Home
insurance Company. feb2l-ly
Rankin house
COLUMBUS, GA.
J. W. RYAN, Prop’r.
*'*axk Golden, Clerk.
RUBY restaurant,
Bar and Billiard* Saloon,
under the rankin house.
janlO J. W. RYAN, Phop'ii.
J. W. STOREY,
Commission Merchant,
Southeast comer Public Square,
HAMILTON", GA.,
Keeps constantly on hand a full stock of Gro
ceries, Staple Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, at
Panic Prices, Seed Oats, Corn, Flour, Bacon,
Bulk Meat, Lard, Virginia salt, Tobacco, Ci
gars, Snuff, etc.
Cotton taken at Columbus prices when
there is trade in it.
. ■
GYITAXOS-
I am prepared to furnish standard Guanos
in large quantities at as low figures as they
can be had in ant 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 tlxo CASH.
HAMILTON MALE SEMINARY,
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 sale in sonding them to this
school.
Hamilton is centrally located between
West Point, La Grange, Talbotton snd Co
lumbus, and 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 be obtained in the best of fami
lies at from $12,50 to $15.00 per month.
The course of instruction will be thorough
and practical; the government mild but fiim.
The following are the rates of tuition, pay
able at the end of each session :
Spelling, Beading, Writing, Primary
Geography, Primary Arithmetic,
etc, per month $2.00
Beading, 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 continues six months; second,
four months.
There will be a Public Examination at the
close of the first term.
S. T. FULLER, Principal.
Rkterexcrs : 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 Poßt-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.
Ail 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.
TeBHS CASH—OH BRHDHMNO WY SBBVICIS.
T. 8. MITCHELL, M. D.
Hamilton, Ga., Jan. 9, 1674 —1m
DEATH-BED OF GEN. LEE.
A magnificent 14x18 inch Engraving. The
family and friends are group' and sorrowfully
around the old hero's death-bed. The scene
is so touchingly beautiful, the sentiment of
the picture is so sweet, and the characters so
go lifelike, that everybody admires it. It is
truly a gem of art—one which should hang
in every Southern boms. Sent by mail, post,
paid, on receipt of 20c, or 8 for 60c. Address
W. M. Bcbbow, 200 Main st, Bristol, Ijgjjn.
*sar- Agents wanted for this and a variety
of other fine engravings. From $3 to $lO a
day can easily be made. ieol*-4
PM Magic Cojab Sent by mail to any one
•for SI. Will change any colored hair to a
permanent black or brown and contains no
poison. Trade supplied at low rates Ad
dress, Magic Cciub to., Spnegficd. Mars.
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1874.
THE MANIAC.
The maniac was a giant. lie had
broken his heavy chains as Sampson
had broken his withes—had torn
open the doo'r of his cell—torn the
keeper literally to pieces—burst open
the door—killed the watchman with
a heayy iron bar he wrenched from
the door—and escaped with his for
midable weapon into the city. The
whole place was aghast at the news;
and we students at the hospital and
dissecting-room, who were connected
with the asylum, had to nerve our
selves to help capture the escaped
wild beast.
I had gone to the dissecting-room
alone, and was about to begin using
the knife on a subjeot. There was a
storm raging, and with a low sob
the wind swelled through tho long
aisle of forest trees, and flashed with
the gathered force of an ocean wave
against the dead-house. Simulta
neously a hand struck the light door,
and the yell of a maniac rang through
and through my brain.
Above the door, through the small
ventilator, the face of the madman
and the murderer peered down at
me.
“ Ah, ha! I have caught you at last
—here—and alone. I have been
waiting for you. You took me once,
didn’t you? Ha, ha! Let me ini”
The coolness of imminent peril
brought my powers to action. I
held his eye an instant; but it was
evident he was too wild for that:
his blood was up, and it roved with
eager ferocity through the room and
over the frail walls. With the light
bound of a leopard I gained the door
and shot the double bolt. A gleam
of rage darted from his eyes; but he
laughed, “Ha, ha! you think that
will keep me out ? ’’
He leaped to the ground. In an
instant the light was out.
“ YYait,”l cried. “I have a wea
pon in my hand keen as a razor. It
is poisoned by the dead body I have
been working on. Burst the door,
and I’ll plunge it into your heart.
If it but touch you, you ate a dead
man. You may kill me, but I’ll kill
you also, as certain as fate! ”
The swarthy giant shook the door
until its hinges creaked and groaned
beneath his hand. Then, laughing
again low to himself, muttered,
“ Fool, I’ll outwit you yet,” and stole
off in the darkness. I heard him,
for an instant, pressing against the
wall of the building, and it swayed
and bent inwards with the weight.
Then silence. The din of my pulses
made thunder in my ears, as 1 tried
to hear his stealing tread, and the
sobbing wind rising anew with weird,
unearthly shriek, made my efforts
fruitless.
A thousand times I heard his low,
murderous laugh. A thousand times
I felt his brawny strength against
the door, and saw his wild face look
ing down at me through the gloom ;
but still he did not come. I tried to
think he had abandoned the design,
and slunk off discouraged; but I knew
it was not so—l knew he was crouch
ing in some corner, on the watch to
spring on me when I passed.
Cotfld I stay there all night ? No,
certainly not. An hour more, and
Harry Leigh (my young wife's
brother) would come to seek me—
come unconscious of the danger, un
til a bloodhound at his throat would
choke the brave young life down
there forever.
I listened in the intervals of the
now fitful storm to hear if he was
breathing near me; I waited for the
next lull. It came—that deep hush
that follows the gusty wind. I put
ray soul in the sense of hearing, but
no human shadow of sound greeted it.
When the storm swelled again I
drew the bolt and looked into the
night; a black pall hung over the
earth and sky. I had as good a
ohance to pass him in the obscurity
as he to catch me. With my knife
in my teeth, and the massive thigh
bone of a skeleton to fell him with,
if I must, I drew off my shoes and
stepped out into the darkness, A
sudden whirl of the tempest almost
took me off my feet, and a brick, dis
lodged from one of the Chimneys,
grazed my head in its passage and
broke in half on the pavement.
With bated breath, and a step like
the troad of a panther scenting his
prey, I parted the thick darkness and
turned my face towards the hospital.
He might be either here—at any step
along the passage—or hid in the an
gle of the wall at the door through
which I must enter. This seemed
most i■ roliftli.l.i"
door known only to the doctors.
I thought I would elude him.
With infinite caution 1 began to scale
the high wall, dreading horribly lest
some sudden break in the sky might
re'veal me to the wild eyes that
watched for me—but no.
Safely passing the summit, I threw
my leg over the descent, and felt my
foot seized. It was but the climbing
tendril of a wild vine, skirting the
waH. Grasping my knife in my right
hand, I crept along the bushes for
fifty yards, then struck across the
lawn for the side entrance. The
darkness perplexed me, but I thofight
I wa®steering straight. Suddenly
my “foot Btruck bricks. What was
this? I tried to recollect. There
was no pavement round that part of
the hospital.
I pushed on uncertainly; and feel
ing a weight in the air, put out my
hand for some clue to my wherea
bouts. I was in an alley—flanked
with stone walls far above my head.
I gave a sudden turn. In an instant
I knew I was. in the subterranean
passages of the asylum. Turning
to retrace my steps, the opaque dens
ity of some heavy body crouched be
tween me and the outer air. I heard
its stifled breathing—its stealthy
tread approach me from the very
door of tho dead-house here! A
struggle for life with a madman in
these narrow, gloomy vaults—to lie
in the pool of one’s own heart’s blood
in this undiscovered tomb—and my
young wife, Constance!—was mad
dening.
For an instant my brain was on
fire. Then 1 thought there might be
an exit—other devious windings in
which I could elude my deadly pur
suer. Going deftly backwards, I
turned the angle in the wsll, and
then plunged at the utmost speed of
a young and activo man along the
back passage. Instantly I - knew I
was pursued. Meeting another cross
path, I struck into it in the opposite
direction. The maniac instantly fol
lowed me. What a race through
those cavernous depths of the mad
house! What tragic pitfalls might
lurk at every step 1 What black and
stagnant pools lie waiting to engulf
me I What deeper depths of inky
blackness into which to fall—and fall
forever!
The passage grew narrower. We
were, perhaps, under the very cen
tre of the building, and farthest from
the outer air. I had tried to breathe
noiselessly; the effort exhausted me.
I knew nothing of the labyrinths;
could only guess at our position by
the distance from the entrance. I
bad counted the turnings we had
made. I thought I could retrace
them. My strength was failing. I
was the fleetest, but he was most
enduring.
Presently he would run me down.
It was a terrible venture, but the ne
cessity was imminent; I would try it.
Gathering all my force, I darted like
an arrow on into the darkness. The
suddenness of my increased speed
baffled him. I succeeded in putting
fifty yards between ns, gained and
turned the next angle; then, drawing
myself against the wall, with every
nerve and muscle strained into pre
ternatural tension, with the mighty
heaving of a spent chest crushed into
silence by an iron effort of despair
ing will, I awaited for him to pass
me. I heard him coming rushiDg on
with new strength through the black-
ness, reach the angle, turned it, strik
ing his massive body against the jut
ting stones. I heard him spring like
an animal along the track. I felt his
hot breath like steam —the foam of
his set jaws flung across my face—
and be stopped. I felt that he was
feeliDg for me I—that he was crouch
ing on the stones. I saw the red of
his eyeballs glare up to me through
the darkness. I felt the touch of his
icy flesh on my hand. Like light
ning he raised himself and throwing
his vast weight against me, pinioned
me to the stones. And the mirage
of a madman at bay surged upwards
to my brain. I clasped my knife con
vulsively, and seized bim by the
throat, resolved to die hard. It was
hairy—it was shaggy. The hands
against my chest had a thick coat of
fur. I clasped him to my breast. It
was Lion—my dog, Lion.
“ Great heaven, Keene f what kept
you the whole night in the dead
house? It is near day; the door
has been opened ibis two hours, and
Derby and King have been asleep.
I was getting on my boots to look
. 11- I'il—lll '
“ Why in the name of common
sense did you let this dog out. after
me? Will you tell me that? ”
“W r hy, he howled like a maniac,
and clawed at the door till I thought
you were in some danger, and I could
not keep him in.”
“Danger! Well, we can’t talk
now. Rouse yourself; I have had an
Interview with your maniac, and he
is prowling around the grounds after
me now. Call up the men. I must
go after Philip immediately.”
“You don’t say so?”
" Yes; don’t waste a second.”
In five minutes the whole force of
the hospital was out in tho grounds.
Wo took him in the angle of the
great door, crouched behind the jut
ting wall, waiting for me! He drew
his lips back over his teeth; in tjie
dumb ferocity of a mad brute, as he
saw me, and his eyes settled into a
dull, lurid glare, impossible to de
scribe, as ho hissed out, “ Ha 1 this .is
twice—twice you triumph; wait till
the third time 1 ”
Around the blazing grate, in tho
closing hour of the tempest-tossed
night, we shook hands over the glad
ness of our reunion; and after the
story was over, and tho horror first,
and the laughter after (at the close
of my adventure), and Derby and
King had left, and Hairy Leigh and
I stood at the window watchiug the
young winter day rise over the hills,
there was something very like tears
over the hold, bright blue of his eyes
as he pointed to the granite walls of
the mad-house, and said, “ Constance
would have gone there*, Keene, or
died, and mine would have been a
heavy, heavy life after.”
Personal Appearance of Jeans
Christ.
The following is said to be a cor
rect translation of a letter written by
Publius Lentnlus, President of Judea,
and sent by him to the Senate of
Rome, when the fame of Jesus be
gan to spread Abroad in the world.
These are his words:
“There lives at this time in Judea
a man of singular virtue, whose name
is Jesus Christ, whom the barbarians
esteem a prophet, but bis own follow
ers adore him as the offspring of im
mortal God. lie calls back the dead
from their graves, and heals all sorts
of diseases with a word or a touch,
lie is tall and well shaped; of an
amiable, reverend aspect. His hair
is of a color that can hardly be
matched, falling into graceful curls
below his ears, and very agreeably
touching on his shoulders, parted on
the crown of the head, like the Naza*
rite.
“ His forehead is smooth and large;
his cheeks without other spot, save
that of a lovely red; bis nose and
mouth formed with exquisite symme
try ; his beard thick, and of a color
suitable to the hair of his head,
reaching an inch below his chin and
parting in the middle like a fork; his
eyes bright, clear and serene. He
rebukes with majesty, counsels with
mildness; his whole address, whether
in word or deed, being elegant and
grave. No man has seen him langb,
but be has wept frequently. He is
very temperate, modest and wise; a
man, for his excellent beauty and di
vine perfection, surpassing the chil
dren of men,”
ter In the Lunatic Asylam, on
Ward’s Island, anew regulation has
lately been made regarding the dis
tribution of books from the library.
Previously the keeper-librarian exer
cised his own judgment aa to the
works best suited to the patients.
Now the patients are allowed to
enter the library and select for them
selves. The result is that the pa
tients seem better pleased, and the
physicians, in noting the selections,
sometimes gained valuable informa
tion as to the mental condition of
patients. About 200 volumes com
prise the library.
Staetltng Facts. —At a temper
ance meeting in Brooklyn, a short
time since, Rev. Dr. Reed stated that
100,000 wren were engaged in the
work of drink; $1,600,000,000 was
spent for it annually; and the liquor
shops th the land would make a doable
wait from Brooklyn to Philadelphia.
Georgia is reported as having con
htimed about $25,000,000 worth of
liquor last year, and Alabama about
$23,060,000 worth. About one hun
dred million bushels of corn and other
grain were used in its manufacture.
$1.50 A YEAR.
' WIT and HUMOR.
When the last “ little event” in a
household was announced by the
doctor and nurse, the happy father
was only restrained from committing
suicide by the reflection that he’d
leave twenty two helpless half or
phans.
“Do you enjoy going to church
no w ? ” asked a lady of Mrs. Parting
ton. “ La! me, I do,” replied Mrs.
P. “ Nothing does me so much good
as to get up early on Sunday morn
ing and go to church, and hear a
populous minister dispense with the
gospel.” , .
A Kehtnuky farmer refused to look
at a sample sewing machine, as he
always “ sowed ”by hand. He is re*
lated to the man who did not want a
thrashing machine on his farm; “for,”
said he, “ give me a harness tug or a
barrel stave, an’ I can make my fam
ily toe the mark accohlin* to law an*
Scripter.”
Two little girls were comparing
progress in the study of thoir cate
chisms. “ I’ve got to original sin,”
said onel °How far have you got?”
*• Me 1 Why, I’m away beyond re
demption,” said the other. At which
her mother, who happened to hear
the conversation, thought she had
gone quite far enough.
The editor of the Baltimore
zette, after years of experience, says :
“ A woman is like tar: only meli
her, and she will take any form you
please.”
It is suggested, that in building
railroads, the rails should be heated
red-hot, so that the workmen will lay
them down rapidly.
A great drinker being at a table,
they offered him grapes as dessert.
“ Thank you,” said he, pushing away
the plate. “I don’t take my wine in
pills.”
A party of young men dined sump
tuously at a restaurant, and each one
insisted on paying the bill. To settle
the matter, it was decided to blind
fold the waiter, and let the firat one
ho caught pay the bill. He hasn’t
caught any of them yet!
A missionary among the freedmen
in Tennessee, after relating to some
little negroes the story of Ananias
and Sapphira, asked them why God
does not strike everybody dead that;,
tells a lie, when one of the least in
the room answered, “ Ease dar wood
not be en'body leff.”
When they told Jim Oxford, of
Virginia, that he was dying, he re
plied, “Wall, don’t forgit to put
them shioguls on the mule pen afore
it rains agin.”
“Doctor,” said a lady to her phy
pycian, “don’t you think the small
bonnets the ladies wear now a days
have a tendency to produce conges
tion of the brain?” “No, madam.
Where yon see one of those bonnets,
there is no brain to congest.”
“ Father, did you ever have another
wife besides mother?’* “No, my
boy. What possessed you to ask
such a question ? ” “Because I saw.
in the old family Bible where you
married Annie Domini, 1848; Mid.
that isn’t mother, for her name is
Sallie Smith.”
“How now?” said a friend to
Jones, finding him looking unusually,
sprightly, net with standing he had
been up nearly all night. “ Yon don’t,
seem to be affected by the crisis.”
And Jones remarked: “No such
thing—it’s a boy.”
The Grangers, like the Httle boy
at marbles, are trying to plusap out
tL middle-man.
A country paper exclaims: “Live#
there a man with soul so dead, who
never to himself bath said, ‘ I’ll pay,
before l gp to bed, the debt I owe.
the printer’? Yea, there are some,
we know full well, who never such a
tale could tell, but they, we fear, wilt
go to—well, the place where there’s
no winter,”
A Western man, who bad been ait
ting on a waap, and the wasp bid
just noticed it, arose partly, to his
feet, and with pathetic tenderness re
marked, “ Ouch 1 ” just at the time
that the lecturer intended to have the
people laugh.
A physician courted, a young lady
for nearly a year, and when she re
jected him, be sent her a bill for h>*
visits—l 64 visits, at $1.60 eaeb. He
says business is business, and that bin
time must be rewarded in some wey.
A young fellow recently got off •
smart thing. It was a mustard plas
ter he sat down on just before refir-