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THE HAMILTON WEEKLY IISITOH. VOL. 11. -NO. 15. (Flic |)amilton Visitor I). W- J). BOULLY, Proprietor. ' CAHII SUBSCRiraON KATES. One copy one year • • 51 50 On* copy six months 1 w Oh* copy three months • <5 Any one furnishing five subscribers, with th money, will receive a copy free. Subscriber* wishing their papers change*!, from one po-t-office to another, must state the name of the post office from which they ■wish it changed, as well as that to which they wish it seut. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. The paper will be stopped at the end of the fim* paid for, unless subsciiptions arc pre viously renewed. fifty numbers complete the year. CASH ADVERTISING RATES. Sfack 1 mo 3 mos 6 mos 12 moa 1 inch '77 TTbO $4505606 $ 10 00 2 inches .. 450 725 11 00 IS 00 • inches.. 600 900 15 00 22 00 • inches.. 550 11 00 18 00 27 00 i column.. 650 14 00 25 00 35 00 I column.. 12 50 25 00 40 00 60 00 1 column. ■ 22 00 41 00 62 00 100 00 Marriages and deaths not exceeding six lines will be published free. Payments to be made qirarterly in advance, according to schedule rates, unless otherwise agreed upon. Persons sending advertisements, will state th* length of time they wish them published and the space they want them to occupy. Parties advertising by contract will be re atricted to their legitimate business. Legal Advertisements. Sheriff’s'sules, per inch, four weeks... $3 50 “ mortgage fi fa sales, per inch, eight weeks 5 50 Citation for letters of administration, guardianship, etc., thirty days 3 00 Notice to deiitots and creditors of an estate, fottv days..... 5 00 Application for leave to sell land, four weeks 1 00 Hales of iand, etc., per inch, forty days 5 00 *• “ perishable property, per inch, ten days 2 00 Application for letters of disipiseion from guardianship, forty days.. . 500 Application for letters of dismission from administration, three months 7 50 Establishing lost papers, the full space _ of three months, per inch < 00 Compelling titles from executors or ad ministrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months, per inch 7 00 Estray notices, thirty days 3 00 Buie for foreclosure of mortgage, four months, monthly, per inch 6 00 Hale of insolvent papers, thirty days... 300 Homestead, two weeks 2 00 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-