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K A SUBSBLL R KrBSI£LL
RUSSELL& RUSSELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
Will practice in all the State Courts
j)r- T. La jreni£.ixis,
HAMILTON, GA.
THOS. S. MITCHELL. M. D.,
Resident Physician and Snrgeon,
HAMILTON, GEORGIA
Special attention given to Operative Sur
gery and treatment of Chronic Diseases.
Terms Cash.
■W- IF 1 .
DENTIST, ;
COLUMBUS, - - GEORGIA.
Office over Chapman’s drug store, Ran
dolph st, near city terminus of N. & S. R. R-
Respecfully offers his services to the peo
ple of Harris county. ju2oly
CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE ,
By 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
raub—either way.
• J- FOGtlaX],
Dentist,
OLUMBUS, GEORGIA
Office in the building of the Georgia Home
Insurance Company. feb2l-ly
Rankin hotjse
COLUMBUS, GA
J. W. RYAN, Prop’r.
Fbikk Golden, Clerk.
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RUBY RESTAURANT,
and Billiard Saloon,
UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE.
J.W.BYAN, Pitop’B.
To loung Men.
The young man who has an ambi
tion to make a great noise in the
world should learn boiler making.
He can make more at that trade than
at anything else be can engage in.
If he believes a man should “strike
for wages,” he should learn black
smithing; especially if he is good at
“blowing.”
If he would embrace a profession
in which he can rise rapidly, he should
become an aeronaut. He couldn’t
find anything better “ for high.”
He certainly could do a staving
(and perhaps a starving) business in
the cooper trade.
If he believes in “measures, not
men,” he will embark in the tailoring
business.
If the one great object of his life
is to make money, he should get a
position in the United States Mint.
If he is a punctual sort of chap,
and anxious to be “on time,” he
should put his hands to watch mak
ing.
If he believes it the chief end of
man to have his business largely
“ felt,” why, of course, ho will be
come a hatter.
If he wants to “ get at the root of
a thing,” he will become a dentist—
although if he does, he will be often
found “ looking down in the mouth.”
If a man is a bungler at his best,
he should become a physician, and
then he will have none of his bad
work thrown upon his hands. It is
generally buried out of sight, you
know.
Should he incline to high living,
but prefer Jflain board, then the car
penter trade will suit him. He can
plane board enough at that.
If he is needy and well bred, he
will he right at home as a baker.
He shouldn’t become a cigar maker.
If he does, all his work will end in
smoke.
The young man who enjoys plenty
of company, and is ever ready to
scrape acquaintance, will find the
barber business a congenial pursuit.
The quickest way for him to as
cend to the top round of his calling
is to become a hod-carrier.
Avery “grave ” young man might
flourish as an undertaker.
Don’t ltarn chair-making, for, no
matter how well you please yonr
customers, they will sooner or later
get down on your work.
And don’t become an umbrella
maker, for their business is “used
up.”
If he would have his work touch
the heads of the nation, we know of
no way he could sooner accomplish
such an object than by making
combs.
The yonng man who would have
the fruits of his labor brought before
the eyes of the people, will become
an optician. The work, being easily
seen through, cannot be difficult to
learn,
A man can always make a scent in
the perfumery business.
If a young man is a paragon of
honor, truthfulness, sobriety, has
never sworn a profane word, and has
twenty thousand dollars that he has
no use for, then he should immedi
ately start —a newspaper. If, how
ever, be lacks nineteen thousand nine
hundred and ninety-nine dollars of
having the above named sum, he
cannot do better than to invest the
dollar be has in subscribing for his
county paper.
HAMILTON MALE SEMINARY,
HAMILTON, GA.
The exercifiesof this school will be resumed
on Monday, January 26, 1874.
Parents or guardians having boys to edu
cate may feel safe in Bonding 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 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 $16.00 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 m0nth............... $2.00
Beading, Writing, Geography, Arithme
tic, History, English Grammar,
English Composition, etc., per
month ;■■■■■ 800
University Arithmetic, Algebra, Geome
try, Latin, eta, per m0nth....... 4.00
The Higher Mathematics, Latin, Greek,
Maturaland Moral Science, etc., per
month,. > f 0 ?
Compositions and Declamations required
th^^Tem h >utinnM six months; second,
close of tbp first term. , ,
8, TANARUS, FULLER, Principal'
BnrEßjaics*: H C Kimbrough. A T Brooirs,
F Barnes, J M Mobley, Willis Jones, W W
Bruce. J T Johnson, President Board of
Trustees.
HAMILTON, HARRIS CoT^BI
From Pomeroy’s Democrat.
Nothing but a Granger, J
Too true, Mr. Bondholder. lam
nothing but a Granger!
So you turn up your nbse ! YotfP
papers, owned by your money-making"
rings, denounce us. We are all fools I'
We are nothing but clod-hoppers,
plow-holders, cow-milkers and poov
ignorant country jakes, with hay seed*
in our hair!
In Washington, you sneer at us,
and denounce those who hut teU the
story of our wants, as inflationists,
nincompoops and Western trash 1
In Wall street, you sit in yonr pal- ’
ace-furnished offices, drink your wines,
smoke imported cigars, plan, scheme,
10b and shave the entire business in
terests of the country, outside of yonr
special lines, and then haw-haw in
glee at the nice way you have fixed
things in Washington, in the treasury
department, so the bondholders will
hold the money, fix the rates of in
terest, build up monopolies and enjoy
the labor of honest men and women
without paying for such labor what
it is worth.
What do we intend to do ?
Asa Granger, I will tell you.
We intend to devote ourselves to
our own interests.
To fill the offices and places of.
power with honest men.
To send thieves to prison, or to
treat them to a concert conducted by
Judge Lynch.
To proteot ourselves, our wives
and our children.
To organize wherever the sound of
a dinner horn will awaken an echo,
and work together in the future as
you, the thieves, hankers, brokers,
bondholders, military robbers, Con
gressmen, Credit Mobilier swindlers
and others of your class do, for the
men, means and measures which will
fill our pockets and empty yours 1
We intend to vote for honest men
for office.
To prevent being delivered when
swindlers sell us to railroad aud other,
corporations.
We intend to harmonize, restore
the equilibrium of finances, and to
have laws, money, and such rates of
taxation as will give the plow-holder
the same chance for his life that the
bondholder has, or we will repudiate
the efilire national debt, and serve
those who come to collect taxes as
they do the surplus wives in that
country through which flows the Bos
phorus
I am a Granger.
I work for what I have, but do
not have that which I work for and
earn.
From morn till midnight I toil. I
cut down trees, burn stumps, build
fences, grub out roots, erect houses,
make roads, improve land, plant seed,
raise crops, pay taxes, and work like
a dog, from boyhood to the grave.
When I was minding my own busi
ness, you were inciting the people to
strife.
When I was swinging the ax, or
steering the plow, years ago, in the
land of the pioneers, you were pray
ing to God, lying about the people
of the South, distributing fanatical
books, and building tip a wall of prej
udice between honest men of differ
ent States, but of a common interest.
After you had plunged the people
into the red bath of war, you called
on me to help destroy the country.
While you printed notes and bonds,
we signed them in our blood.
While you, the bondholders, bro
kers, spoon-thieves, abolitionists, long
haired meddlers and prowlers for
plunder, were working to fill your
pockets, I was working to defend the
country from dissolution. While you
sat in yonr fancy offices in the East,
I was working in the West and South.
You sent your sons to Europe to es
cape the draft. My sons went to the
war, and were killed on one of your
damnable crusades for cotton, negroes
and silver-ware.
While your bods were dancing with
the fancy females of Paris, my poor
sons were dying in hospitals or being
bnried in trenches.
I am nothing but a Granger, but
that means a great deal t It means
an honest man who has at last awak
ened from the sleep he has ao long
been in, and who now proposes to
work fpr the good of his fellow work
ingmen, and not for the fbrther en
richment of an army of swindlers and
corruptionists, who live exclusively
by legislation.
While your wife wears her dia
monds ana jewelrr. “y
wife wears tears mZSt! ff* , ,
While your wife rides in her car- j
IDAS * i ..
the soulless wretch who smiles, smirks
hd rubs his palms as he reaches for
his interest of three per cents month.
I--- y r — -VUW
am a Granger.
A Plow-holder. VL
. . tu an
A man who has been robbed.
A freeman born, but now a slaW:
to the mouey power of the
A man who would release his chil
'dr6n from bondage. .
A man who pays taxes and build!
up a country for bondholders to owii.
A man who pays taxes upon every
dollar’s worth of property I have,
while the bondholder, whose
is counted by tne thousands, liv& at
hiease, ejpjoya* in idlpjfesfi tie fruits
of the property he has stolen, boasts
of bis loyalty, helps continue the pres-.
ent damnable Republican party in
power, and pays not a penny a year
to support the gowernmdht whose in
quisitorial machinery is grinding the
life, enterprise gnd happiness out of
millions upon millions of lamest met?',
and overworked tax payers eacfc year.
I am a Grmger, and an honest
man. It is true that I have no friends
at court—no influence with the great
reform party which came in power a
few years ago to abolish slavery! I
have no interest in the money of the
country, for that all belongs to the
bankers of the East. I have no in
terest in the laws, for I am not a
thief, a monopolist, a railroad owner,
a land grabber, or a relative of the
President, whose friends are partners
of thieves mid robbers.
I am Bfothiug but a Granger now,
but before the next Presidential elec
tion I will be one of millions who
united will stand, and who united will
strike to the earth, under the feet of
our horses and into oblivion, the army
of plunderers who now claim to be
the government.
When I see my wrinkled, over
worked wife, my hard-working chil
dren, my unfurnished home, my hard
hands, my empty pockets, accumula
ting taxes—when I see my lands be
ing sold, and all my years of labor
going by without profit to myself or
my loved ones, then I am glad that I
am a Granger, and one of a band of
brothers in interest, eworn to remedy
the evils and abuses which of late
have so cursed the industries and in
dustrious ones of the country.
I am a Granger to-day.
I will be a saviour of the country,
and an avenger of its wrongs, to
morrow !
nr a matron gives the girls the
following sensible advice:
“ Girls talk and laugh ahont mar
riage as though it were a jubilee—a
gladsome thing—a rose without a
thorn. And so it is, if it is all right;
if they go about it as rational beings,
instead of merry-making children. It
is a serious thing to marry. It is a
life business, and that of heart and
happiness. Therefore never do it in
haste—never run away to get mar
ried ; never ‘ steal a marriage ;* never
marry for wealth, or standing, or fine
person, or manners, but only for char
acter, for worth, for the qualities of
mind and heart which make an hon
orable man. Take time; think long
and well before you accept any pro
posal; consult yonr parents, then
some judicious friend, then yonr own
judgment. Learn all that it is possi
ble for yon to learn of your proposed
husband: when all doubts have been
removed, and not until then, accept
him.”
One-horse Power. —The Scientific
American thns explains it:
“The power of pritne movers is
measured by horse power. Watt
found that the strongest London
draught horses were capable of doing
work equivalent to raising 33,000
ponnds one foot high per minute, and
he took this as the unit of power for
the steam engine. The horse is not
usually capable of doing so great a
quantity of work. Rankine gave
26,000 foot ponnds as the figure for
a mean of several experiments, and it
is probable that 26,000 foot pounds
ia a fair minute’s average work for
a good animal. It would require five
or six men to do the work of a strong
hoi>e, Watt’s estimate has become,
by general consent among engineers,
the'standard of power measurement
for pnrposes.”
jfcy Iciness grows on people—
it tyegins in cobwebs and ends in iron
ehalns,i
•? had an aunt coming to visit "me
for tbejHttfroksmpe rqv marwg*
and I <sn’t ge&us
-prompted the which I
perpetrated toward iߧs-i(b and an-
U jVTy float. ” f Q Wife OD
the day aunf%> arrived,
“ you know Aagt Mary is coming to*
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althoggh, Bh i oan hear aty .voice,
yet you will be obliged to speak eje
trembly loud in prder to be heard.
It will be rather inconvenient, but I
know you will do everything in your
power; tp make her visit agreeable.”
Mrs.-~-*M**announce<i her determi
nation to make herself heard, if it
.yaf in hdfjSowdf. * w ’
I thePwefi&bo JpHh JT
JBps a |oke
Wdy l kuowof, told him
in thedioifttfgVO
compare vclyiihm>y T
Vw eupHl im rai l road
a jarrriajp next nigjk.'and when#
was on my,
I sarff: “ MjWeal-there, is '
rati# ann&vmg’infirnlnjg that Annie'
(toy wife)' l^*t^vhit , h LArgot to men-,
tfon hjifor he is v€jy deaf, ymd
although she can- toiog, to
whiclytfic js accustomed?
nary tones, yet yon 'win, he obliged
to spesflt extremely* Joud in m-der U>,
be heard. I armaovry fcA it.’* 1 * 5 ,
Aunt Mary, in thq gosdness of her
hearty protested that ranter liffko 1
speaking aloud, and' to do sp would
afford her great. Dlgasnre.
The carriage 'hp-Son we
steps waa,my the window
was John face alt
utterly solemn as if be had hurnld
his relatives that afternoon.
“I am delighted to see you,”
shrieked my wife, and the policeman
on the opposite side was startled, and
my aunt nearly fell down the steps.
“ Kiss me, my dear,” bawled my
aunt; and the windows shook as if
with the fever and ague. I looked at
the window; John had disappeared.
Hnnian nature could stand it no long
er. I poked my head into the car
riage and went into strong convul
sions.
When I went into the parlor my
wife was helping Aunt Mary to take
off her bat and cape; and there sat
John with his face buried in his
handkerchief.
“ Did you have a pleasant jour
ney?” suddenly went off my wife
like a pistol, and John nearly jumped
to his feet.
“ Rather dusty, ’’ was the response
in a war-whoop, and the conversation
continued.
The neighbors for blocks around
must have heard it. When I was in
the third story of the building I
heard every word.
In the course of the evening my
aunt took occasion to say to me:
“How loud your wife talks! ”
I told her deaf persons talked
loudly, and that my wife being used
to it, was not affected by the exer
tion, and that she was getting along
very nicely with her.
Presently my wife said softly—
“ Alf, how loud your aunt talks! ”
“Yes,” said I, all deaf persons do.
You’re getting along with her finely
though; she hears every word you
say.” And 1 rather think ahe did.
Exalted at their success of being
understood, they went it hammer and
tongs, till everything on the mantle
piece clattered again, and I was seri
ously afraid of a crowd collecting in
front of the house.
But the end was near. My aunt
being of an investigating turn of
mind, was desirous of finding out
whether the exertion of talking was
injurious to my wife. So-—“ Doesn’t
talking so loud strain your lungs?”
said she in an unearthly whoop, for
her voice was not as musical as it
was when she was young.
It is an exertion,” shrieked my
wife.
“Then why do you do it?” was
the answering scream.
“ Because —because - you can’t
hear if I don’t.”
“What!” said aunt, rivaling a
railroad whistle at the time.
I began to think it time to evacuate
the premises; and looking around
and seeing John gone, I stepped into
the back parlor, and there he lay flat
on bis back, with bis feet at right
angles with bis body, rolling from
ride to side with his fist poked into
his ribs, and a most agonized expres
sion of countenance, bat not utterinr*
I?LSO>A year
i a soffird.. Isiinmediatcly and involun-
Jtarily assumed 9 Similar attitude, an|
the relative position of
our feet and h?ada and attempts
to restrain oiir laughter, apoplexy
must ipevit#ly have ensued, if a
hokrihle giAan which John gave vent
to in his endeavor to suppress his
l risibility had not betrayed our hiding
j In rushed my wife and aunt, who
by this time comprehended the joke,
*bd Such a scolding as I got then I
before, afid I hope never
I know hot end woiild
have been if JjW, in his endeavors
to be respeotfyfaud sympathetic had
pot given vent to such a groan and a
hoarse laugh that all gravity was up
set, and we sosaatpei} ip eo^ceft.
"* I wot wrong, and all tMJ;
a "falsehood, but I
tt>ie liiplelf. would have
iy*e had seen Aunt Mary’s
wjien she was *Jnfarmed
defective. ( t
nWj tten forjths^Mtjy" j
Hoy ever sad if may he to coptem-
hqre are many who look pon
Jabor Asia degrading necessity, and
only submit to it ifrom the fact that
canne? escape its thraldom, de
ahjing- nothing more than to pass
tffough the world without toiling.
Had it been better for us, the Great
HgrdfcihwSould easily have faahioned
everything in beauty and splendor,
altogether
with la^or; but in so doing, all
man to improvement would
Virtue and heroism
would have been unknown. Exertion
hr far more noble than enjoyment;
because the man that toils’is far more
worthy than the idler. The history
of the world abounds with testimony
to prove how much depends upon
industry, and what wonders may be
achieved by proper application.
There are numerous instances in
which men of genius and ability, who,’
on account of their inactivity, and a
want of inclination to improve their
natural talents, have so degenerated
as to become wretchedly worthless.
On the other hand, the testimony is
equally as strong, that industry and
perseverance are always rewarded
with success. It is frequently the
case that young men from the same
family, and with equal advantages—
one may be admitted to the circles of
genius, while the other may be
scarcely above the point of mediocrity.
You see the one, by bis steady appli
cation, climbing the bill of science,
an ornament to his family, and a
blessing to his country; while the
other is sinking in poverty, and ob
scured in wretchedness. How inex
cusable, then, is idleness, and what
encouragement is given to the indus
trious.
While we advocate industry in all
the different avocationß of life, we
would also advocate a spirit of econ
omy. Nine-tenths of the people in
this country are forced, by the ne
cessities of the world, to gain a liveli
hood by the “ sweat of the brow,”
and yet, the larger part of our con
sumers are not producers. In this
we are entirely too extravagant;'
Many of our young men, instead of
going to work upon the farm, at
would be more suitable for them,
flock to the various cities, in order to
get light work, and to prevent the
summer nun from tanning and har
dening their delicate hands. It mat
ters not with them whether their re
muneration be great or small, so
they are in the shade , and have an
easy task. Occasionally we find
young men who reside in the country,
esteeming themselves of too much
importance to toil in agriculture, pre
ferring to spend their fathers’ money
in idleness. They should not be
ashamed of hard hands, scarred with
service, as they are far more honora
ble than the soft, glove-bidden hand
of the fop, whose very mfike-up is
conceived in ullenese, and fashioned
in vanity.
There is a class of “ sweet cutting
gimblets,” who group around the
store doors, endeavoring to excel
each other in whittling a piece of
soft pine to nothing, whose chief de
light is for someone to ask them to
drink, and whose highest ambition is
to own a sharp knife. The field of
industry is large and inviting, yet
these men fail to see it, and wonder
why it is they are pinched with pov
erty. It is treason to nature to shun
Industrial pursrils of any character,
and as agriculture is the driving
wheel, we should esteem it an honor
to toil manfully with our hands, and
not a menial service. Our prosperity
in the various
erned by its ■access.
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