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THE HAMILTON WEEHM VISITOR. VOL. II—NO. 25. C|( Hamilton Visitor D. W. D. BOULLY, Propeietor. CASH SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Onecopjone year .$1 50 One copy six months I w one copy tlnoe months to Any one furnishing five subscribers, with the money, will receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one po-t-office to another, must state the name of ‘he post oflice from which they wish it changed, as well as that to which they wish it sent. All subscription must be paid in advance. The paper will b, stopped at the end of the time paid for, unless subsciiptiens are pre viously renewed. Fifty numbers comjlete the year, CASH ADVERTISING RATES. Space Imo 3 mos 6 mos 12 mos 1 inch .77 s24os 450 600*10 00 2 inches.. 450 725 11 00 18 00 * inches .. 500 900 15 00 22 00 4 inches .. 550 11 00 18 00 27 00 1 column.. 650 14 00 25 00 35 00 | column.. 12 50 25 00 40 00 60 00 lcolumn.. 22 00 41 00 62 00 100 00 Marriages and deaths not exceeding six lines will be published free. 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S., Bboad Street, COLUMBUS, GA., Will visit Hamilton and vicinity once a month during the summer. All cal's prompt ly attended to. Plate work and filling done in the best nnd latest styles. Satisfaction guaranteed, or no charge. mayß-6m R A BUSSELL C a EUBSKLL RUSSELL & RUSSELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Will practice in all the State Courts JOr. T. I_i- J'emls.ixis, HAMILTON, GA. THOS. 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\ ticshstejuu, DENTIST. I 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 O. CAMERON, Attorney at law, HAMILTON, GA I>R. J. W. CAMEROIT, HAMILTON, GA. Special attention to Midwifery. Charges Moderate. Bines Dossier, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW HAMILTON, GEORGIA Will practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit, or anywhere else. All kinds of collections rcMED— either way. BANKINHOIJBE COLUMBUS, GA. 3. W. RYAN, Prop’r. f’IiANK Golden, Clerk. ruby restaurant, Bar and Billiard Saloon, TNHEft the RANKIN HOUSE. t w dvn;d.— NEW GOOES. We have in store a full and well-selected stock of SPRING GOODS, BOUGHT VERY LOW. Hoods, Notions, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Clothing, Crockery, Hardware, Drugs, etc which we will sell at the Lowest Prices fob CASH. A nice lot of Ladies’ and Misses’ Hasp, which we will sell vert low. Prints, best brands, 10c. Coats’ Thread, 80c. a dozen. Brown Homespun, 7 to 16c. Bleached “ 7 to 20c. Clothing.—Coats, $1 to $lB. Pants. $1,25 to Sfl. All other goods ns low as they can he bought in any market South, All we ask is, Give us a call. COWSEKT & KIMBROUGH. Hamilton, Ga., April 17, 1874—3 m TO THE TAX-PAYERS OF HARRIS COUNTY! The following is a list of my appointments for my second and third rounds, for the pur pose of receiving tax returns: Blue Spring, May 4th and June 15th. Hamilton, May 5, June 2 and 22, July 1. Ellerslie, forenoon of May 6th aDd June 9, and at Mt. Airy in the afternoon. Waverly Hail, forenoon of May 7th, and all day on June 10th. Milner’s X Roads, afternoon of May 7th, and all day on June 11th. Valley Plains, forenoon, Barnes’ afternoon of May Bth and June 12th. Goodman’s X Roads, May 9 and JuDe 13, Cataula, May 11th and June Bth. Lower 19th, May 12th and June 16th. Upper 19th, May 13th and June 17th. Whitaker’s, May 14th and June 18—Har gett’s in forenoon, Billingslea’s afternoon. Whitesville, May 15th and June 24th. Davidson’s, May 16th and June 19th—Flat Top in forenoon, Johnson's Mill afternoon. Cochran’s X Roads, May 18 and June 20. By an act of the last Legislature, Tax Re ceivers are required to lay before the Grand Juries, at the fall terms of the Courts, tlieir returns ; and if, upon examination, they find any property given in under market value, said Jurors are required to re-assess the same. JOHN M. WISDOM, apl7-7t Receiver of Tax Returns. HABILTOM HALE SIMMY, 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 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 tiie latter place. Perhaps no locali'y cun excel it for its good health, fine society and excellent church facilities. Board can be obtained in the best of fami lies at from $12,60 to $15.00 per month. The course of instruction will lie thorough and practical; the government mild but ft in. The fo lowing are the rates of tuition, pay able at the end of each session : Spelling, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary Arithmetic, etc , 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., pier 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 ooutinues six months; second, four months. There will be a Public Examination at the close of the first term. S, T. FULLER, Principal. Rbfebences : H C Kimbrough, A T Brooks, F Barnes, J M Mobley, Willis Jones, W W Bruce. J T Johnson, President Board of Trustees. jan 2 THE BEST OFFER YET! $2 FOR THE Illustrated Christian Weekly FROM NOW TO JANUARY 1, 1875. Tbe best and cheapest, most profusely il lustrated, instructive, and entertaining fam ily paper published. We announce the following additional fea tures for the coming year : William of Orange, a serial history hy John S C Abbott, (just commenced.) My American Holiday, sketches by Rev. Jos. W Parker, of London ; Modern Unbelief, hy Professor Theodore Chiisllieb of Bonn, Prussia; Occasional Contributions, from Bcv Wm Arnot of Scotland; Papers on Popular Science, hy Jacob Ab bott, illustrated; Familar Letters on Preaching, by Rev. S H Tyng, D D. Talks on Health, hy W W Hall, M D, edi tor of the “Journal of Health.” The monthly Illustrated Sabhatli-school Supplement will continue to he furnished to suhscrilicrs free. All those features which have rendered the Weekly so popular in the past will be con tinued . In tho ART DEPARTMENT the Illus trated Christian Weekly is conceded to 1* the finest weekly paper in the world, and it will not suffer itself to lose the reputation it has earned. TEEMS, $2 A TEAn IN ADVANCE. Special rates to Sahbath-schools. Speci men copies free. The largest cash commis sion to canvassers Premium circular mailed free. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, Pub lisiiebs, 150 Nassau st., New York. VIC K’& 200 Pages; 600 Engravings and Colored Plate. Published quarterly, at 26c a year. First number for 1874 just issued. A Ger man edition at same pi ice. Address, Jambs ' • •• - v "~ . : HAMILTON, HARRIS CO, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1874. A CALIFORNIA ETCH-^C. The district attorney of-Murderer’s Bar stood up to his, Ruees in the Yuba. But as his rubber boots came fis bigb as his hijw there was no fear of his getting wet, as he made the muddy rivet' niuddfer by his unteas ing labor at the rocker. Distance hnt beauty and pictur esqueness to the district attorney. A new view disclosed several dpiails that were not creditable to the guar dian of the legal honor of Murderer's Bar. His red shirt that a hundred feet off would have set an artist to sketching incontinehtly, at ten wajfccj have made a laundryman greas— photograph distance his mother M ould have wept, for although the district attorney had only been away from Yale two years, and in California one, his nose had acquired a color that, like the hue of a choice meerschaum, could only have been gained by steady effort. If the parson of hiV native town could have been con cealed on the bank of the Yuba, he would have changed bis opinion of the district attorney’s natural piety, for although the young man was of excellent family, he took a clay pipe I from between his teeth and swore ably at the poor results of an hour’s! hard washing, lying in the bottom of, the rocker. Then he looked up at) the sun and transferred his profanity to that body, as he took off his' slouched hat and wiped his forehead with his sleeve. As the district at torney thus stood scratching his matted head, a bravely arrayed fig ure, bestriding a gayly caparisoned mule, trotted down the bank and cried out: “ I say, sur, are ye the boss lah yer of tho Bar ? ” “I am,” said the district attorney, putting on his hat. “Are ye on the marry?” the stranger asked pleasantly, as he got off the mule and took a seat on the rock by the water’s edge. “Eh?” “ Is marrying in yer line ? ” “I don’t, catch your meaning,,?! said the district attorney, anxiously “I mean have yer iver marryin’ yerself,” explained the slrarf ger, leisurely cutting a pipeful froi*; a plug of tobacco. “Well, no,” said the distijet at torney. “ Why ? ” “ Bekase I’d like you to splito my-, self an’ Mary Brady over at tie Flat to-night—Mary, ye know, daughter of Ould Brady what keeps th dead fall—kin ye do it ? ” “Oh, certainly,” said tho listricl attorney without hesitation.” j “Well, come on, thin—thfre’s ; horse fur ye at the cabin beyait.” Brown, who is a distinguish law yer now, with no bad habits, had hij doubts abetut it. lie had nevef heard of a district attorney mtrryinj people before. And he rdnorsely reflected that his studies in |s pro fession had not been ppfouud. Anyway, it was reasonableito sup pose that law, like morals a|l relig ion, might relax in the Califonia at mosphere on this occasion. \nd so Brown has said, “I made up try mind to risk it, and go with Finneg.n over to the Flat. Besides, I have always prided myself on a good memory, so I hadn’t any doubt, after my pious bringing up, that I could remember the marriage service perfectly!’ ■ The wedding was to be cel&rated at the Cosmopolitan saloj/i—Mr- Finnegan had been irrevereutiin call ing it a deadfall —and the district at torney found a large and tijsy com pany making a tremendous n)ise and pledging the expectant bride in raw rum, pending the arrival of tic bride groom and himself. The company was larger than select. Tty whole male population of the Flat tyd come out as a matter of course, Aapising the formality of waiting fol invita tions. There were only thrte ladies —the bride and her mother aid Mrs. Gen, Ilardinge—the wife Gen. Hardinge, who was stopping for a few weeks on the Flat, with a view to investment. Mr. Bracy having got ten money and lands by means of the Cosmopolitan, tock an interest in the General, and tfs beautifully dressed lady got an invitation. There were several oher ladies living at the Flat, but I rejret to say they were not such as coujl be invited to a wedding. It was a very assemblage, indeed. Old Bradt himself could hardly keep his feet an< 3 refused to charge for liis rum 4 something that is handed down in ,he Flat to this da* for Jthfjijyr C.. ica<bc'M^ulUi£ or even ordinarially drunk, he was a great skinflint. The boys were sit ting round the tables playing cards or standing at the bar in knots. Everybody was speaking at once, and everybody was anxious to driuk his glass with everybody else in honor of tho bride. The healthy young lass sat between her mother and the General’s lady, who were perfect batteries of sorrowing sym pathy. Poor Miss Brady was red as a piece of cinnabar, with the excite ment and the attention, and an occa sional bashful sip of watered rum, a dozen tumblers of which beverage were ocßstA-ntly. extended by gallant hands. General Hardinge, the only man present who wore a white shirt, and his was very large and white in deed, kept near the blushing Miss Brady, and roused tho envy of every Flatter by his suave manners aud handsome person. “ Gintlimin, come to orther 1 ” cried Mr. Brady, thickly, and knock ing a glass on the counter in a sham bling way; “ the lahyer’s come,” A deep silence fell upon the bar room of the Cosmopolitan, asthisira ) port ant truth was given forth. And a great many jaws dropped, and nu merous pairs of arms bacame burdens to their owners, as the district attor ney gravely followed Mr. Finnegan, who, looking neither to the right nor left, stalked solemnly to the side of he bride. Everybody felt oppressed md uncomfortable, somewhat as one would feel on being presented at jourt if ignorant of the etiquette. 3eneral Hardinge, in his slight em barrassment smilingly lifted a pack if cards and shuffled them mechani cally. One-eyed Jim, the gambler, nok advantage of the occasion to up an ace up his sleeve, and winked it General Hardinge, when he saw bat gentleman observing him. “ Hould on,” murmured Mr. Brady, swaying behind the bar. “ Mr. Lah fer, have a sup before the work.” ‘ Thank you,” said the distriot at torney, glad of any excuse for delay, Tor he found with alarm that his Miierr.ory, was not near so strong oj ithe church service as ho had thought. ißut he knew that it wouldn’t do at all to look embarrassed, so ho drank gracefully to tho bride, and taking on a grave frown he buttoned his shirt at the neck, and turned to the gaping assemblage. “ The friends will please gather in a circle.” While this was being done on tip-toe, the district attorney scowled impressively. “ The lady and gentleman about to be united in the holy bonds of matrimony will now please to stand up—the gentle man on the right and the lady on left —so. We will begin at your conve nience, madam.” This was addressed to the mater nal Brady, who, as if to add to the agony of the purple bridegroom’s position, had thrown her arras about her daughter’s neck and set up a howl. The general’s lady came to the rescue, and drew off the fond mother in the nSidst of her lamenta tions, and soon the fearfully con strained silence was restored. “Dearly-beloved brethren, (hem)!” began the district attorney in a sepul chral tone —“ dearly beloved breth- ren 1 ” he paused again to blow bis nose and scowl around at the Flatters, who looked guilty—“ dearly-beloved brethren, we are gathered here in the sight of God, and in the face of this company to —to —to —in fact to marry Mr. Finnegan and Miss Brady.” The district attorney cleared his throat, and seemed to challenge con tradiction. “This is commended of St. Paul to bo honorable among all men.” Here the attorney looked seriously around again. One or two of the Flatters nodded assent, arid Lanky Tom went so far as to mur mur “ You bet, yer.” “ And, there fore,” cantinued Brown, “is not to be entered into slightly, but rever ently discreetly, advisedly, soberly* and in the fear of God, the laws of California —and—.” The district at torney being in the mess again, had recourse to his pocket handkerchief. The Flatters improved the opportu nity to relieve themselves, by chang ing their positions and sighing. Mr. Finnegan also drew out a colored handkerchief to mop his brow, and the bride accepted a sip from the tumbler offered by the gallant Gen eral Old Brady smiled stupidly be hind the bar and nodded approvingly. “As I have said,” resumed the at torney desperately, “ it should not be entered into lightly, but reverently, discycctly, and —and—in shorty Miss Brady, wilt thou have this man to bo tby wedded husband ? ” Miss Brady, after an anxious look at the General’s lady, murmured that she would, “And you, Mr. Finnegan—wilt thou have this woman to bo thy wed ded wife ? ” “ Ay,” said Ml*. Finnegan stoutly. Again the district attorney ’ was hopelessly stuck. lie scowled and pulled his handkerchief once more, “And aoyou both say you will, do yon ?” Brown this as if clinch ing some damaging admission of a Witness. “ Yis, sur,” said Mr Finnegan, with the air of standing by his colors at all hazards. “You do?” “Yis, we do.” Mr. Finnegan was becoming nettled. There was no time to lose. “Then hold up your hauds. You, Michael Finnegan, and you, Mary Brady, do solemnly swear that you tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth, and the truth only, so help you God.” “Yis,’’ gasped Mr. Finnegan. “ Then, according to the laws of California and tho United States, I pronounce yon man and wife. And,” added the district attorney, with his eyes rolled up—“ What God hath joined let no man put asunder— amen! ” No calm or decorous pen can de scribe the extravagances of congrat ulation that followed this impressive ceremony. Mr. Brady half an hour afterwards was carried up stairs, and forty minutes later the bridegroom was also borne to his chamber insen sible. After these to-be expected pre liminaries the company settled down to solid enjoyment. In three hours after tho retirement of tho bride, every table was a roof to at least one deeply slumbering Flatter. By mid night only a party of four had not succumbed. Their employment was poker. Gen. Hardinge had One-eyed Jim for a vis a-vis , and the District Atl*rjr Lanky.,, Tom. They were playing with that self possessed excitement and quick-eyed eagerness belonging to old poker devotees. “ Bet an ounce,” said the General, in the professional low tone, and reaching over to snuff the candle. “ I’m out,” said the district attor ney, so softly as scarcely to be heard above the enores and gasps of the sleepers, who covered the floor. “ So’m I,” said Lanky Jim, giving a sharp little kick to a gentleman on whom ho was warming his feet, for moving. “See your ounce and raise you two,” said Ouo-eyed Jim. “ Five better,” quoted the general. “ See it—call.” “ Four kings.’’ “ You stole ’em,” said One-eyed Jim, drawing his revolver and laying his hand on the pile of gold. “Yon lie,” answered tho General, and 6hot him through the head. It was done before poor One-eyed Jim could raise his pistol, and as tho General would in all probability have been killed himself but for his promptness, nobody can blame him. Whether or not he stole the kings is auotherd an irrelevant question. This was the view taken of it by the Flat, next morning, and, as a public manifestation of confidence in the purity of the General’s motives, every Flatter felt it a duty to ask tho General to drink. And then, poor One-eyed Jim had not been a favor- ite at the Flat. His profession hav ing been poker, many of the Flatters recalled sundry losses, and had their private belief iu an overruling Provi- dence strengthened. . But there was nothing mean abotft the Flat. It cheerfully voted a holi day to bury One-eyed Jim. The district attorney was again pressed into tho service as master of the ceremonies. A party was detailed to and g the grave in an old claim that had once been the property of the deceased. One-eyed Jim, in life, bad a habit of cursing this possession as a means of driving him to poker, for ho had never seen the color in it after months of patient working. Another party knocked up a rough coffin for the body, and then, after a solemn drink all around, the funeral cortege left the Cosmopolitan —the coffin on a rough bier, and General Ilardinge following, as chief mourner—for the General feelingly declared that no one more than himself regretted the General’s mUfortuuo. $1.50 A YEAR The district attorney began to think he bad mistaken his profession. Previous to the funeral, and while drinking at the ljar with thq General, he had confided to that gentlemail that the ministry might have been a more congenial field. Ho nlio made a secret resolve to brush up on the sacraments. We may write it to, the credit of the district attorney that he made no pretence of follow ing tho burial service over the body of poor One-eyed Jim. He spok,e movingly of the increased uncer tainty of life and the many accidents incident peculiarly to this pew Wes tern civilization. “.The gentleman who has been the unwilling cause” of this unfortunate fellow-citizen’s deoease,” said, the district attorney, looking soberly a.ionnd among the solemn crowd, and indicating the General, who stood at the head of the grave, hat in hand, with! a woe begone expression, “ must, while re gretting the necessity, thank God that no lower law than that univer sal one of self-preservation has—” At this instant, to the astonish ment of every one, the General threw up his hat with a shout of joy, and jumped into the grave. In a second he stood up with his head just above, the surface, and called aloud to the amazed crowd, as he exhibited a half ounce nugget: “Gentlemen, 1 give, notice that I take up this claim for sixty yards, two hundred feet each side, with all its dips, spars, etc., according to the laws of the mining district of Brandy Flat.” Tho body of poor One-eyed Jim was not buried that day, nor the next, for all Brandy Flat was wRd with tearing up tho ground oif t new diggings, and taking out the chunks of gold that have made the Flat famous. Then the disagreea ble duty was done by tho distriot at torney and Mr. Finnegan at night," in ground that they made sure was not auriferous. “ That marriage of Finnegan was a lucky speculation for me,” Mr. Brown says, when talking of ’4o,' dollars from llie bridegroom services, I had a* quarrel with the rascally General. He wasn’t so quick with me as he had been with poor Jim, 60 I had the satisfaction of burying him beside that poor fellow two days after, and I jumped his claim and made my fortune. WIT and HUMOR. A Scottish minister being one day. engaged in visiting some membera of his flock, came to the door of a house where his gentle tapping qould not be heard for the noise of the conten tion within. After waiting a little, ho opened tho door and walked in, saying, with an authoritative voice, “ I should like to know who is the head of this house.” “ Weel, sir,” said the husband and father, “if yo sit down a wee, we’ll maybe be able to tell ye, for we’re j’ust trying to settle that point.” They tell a queer story about the doctors in a certain Texas town, who, were all away last summer lb attend a medical convention. They wero absent about two months, ahd upon their return found all their patients had recovered, 'tile drug stores had! closed, the nurses had opened danc ing schools, tho cemetery had been cut up ipto building lots, the under takers had gone to making fiddles,' and tho hearse had been painted and' sold as a circus wagon. A country postmaster, in making a' requisition upon the department at Washington for three thousand postal cards, apologizes for the unusually large number ordered, by sitying: “You may think that this amount of postal cards that I send for afe great’ (our office being small), but ,I will explain it to you. We want (hem to* advertise for a man that was our town treasurer* ant! absconded.” A clergyman stopped bis prayer to lead an unruly man out of church by the ear, and then went on: “As' I was saying, oh, Lord 1 ’* An amateur farmer wonders “why,' on all this fair earth, the ground is spread bottom side up, so that it must be turned over with a plow befortf crops can be raised! ” Wanted—A boy who esn spear cockroaches. Wo want him, and wo must have him. None but experts, however, need apply, as ohr bock roaches are sly—devilish sly. “ Kissing your sweetheart,” says ft trilling young man, “is like eatinv soup with a fork—it takes a lung; to get enough.”