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THE HAMILTON WEEKLY VISITOR. VOL. II—NO. 29. lljt'Jmiulton Visitor D. W-D- BOULLY, Proprietor. = cash subscription bates. One copy one year. $1 60 One copy six months 100 Obc copy three months 75 Any one furnishing five subscribers, with tke money, will receive a copy free. subscribers wishing their papers changed from one post-office to another, must state the name of the post-office from which they w ish it changed, as well as that to which they wish it sent. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. The paper will be stopped at the end of the time paid for, unless anharaSjpU—• **• r~ vioasly renewed. Fifty numbers complete the year, cash Advertising rates. —I mo 3 mos 6 mos 12 mos rbh $2505450*6 00 $lO 00 ouches 450 725 11 00 18 00 4 inches" 500 900 15 00 22 00 inches'. 550 11 00 18 00 27 00 iroTumn 660 14 00 25 00 85 00 \ “ “mu'.. 12 50 25 00 40 00 60 00 1 column.. 22 00 41 00 62 00 100 00 Carriages and deaths not exceeding six lines will be published free. 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S., Broad Street, COLUMBUS, GA., Will visit Hamilton and vicinity once a Month during the "umraer. All calls prompt ly attended to. Plate work and filling done in the best and latest styles. Satisfaction guaranteed, or no charge. mayß-6m * L RUSSELL c R RUSSELL RUSSELL & RUSSELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Will practice in all the State Courtß. TDr- T- 3_i- iT©zils:lxis, 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, V7V_ in. CDIC3-3SrE!I=l., DENTIST, COLUMBUS, - • - GEORGIA, Office over Chapman’s drug store, Ran dolph st, near city terminus of N. & S. R. R. Respccfully offers his services to the peo ple of Harris county. ju2oly TTAHOOCHEE HOUSE , Be J. T. HIGGINBOTHEM. WEST POINT, GA HENRY C. CAMERON, Attorney at Law , HAMILTON, GA HR. J. W. CAMERON, HAMILTON , GA. mode**** a ** ent^,n *° Midwifery. Charges Blues Dozier, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Hamilton, Georgia Will practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit, r anywhere else. All kinds of collections fcibkp —either way. Rankin house COLUMBUS, GA. J. W. RYAN* Prop’r. Ebatto Golden, Clerk. RUBY restaurant, Bar and Billiard Saloon, UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE, janio J, W. RYAN, Prop’s, DOMESTIC’ fashions. All of the latest stylos in dress furnished m patterns cut to any measure —price from ten to thirty cents each. Send for Catalogue, which is free to all. ‘DOMESTIC’ SEWING MACHINE. The most perfect and reliable machine in the world, and capable of doing work that no other machine can. Send for prices and directions how to choose. ‘DOMESTIC’ MAGAZINE. A beautiful Family Journal, published monthly at $1 50 a year—intended to make home happy. Send for specimen number price 25 cents. Address DOMESTIC S. M. CO., ju!3 6m 27 Marietta st, Atlanta, Ga. NEW GOODS. Wc have in store a full and well-selected stock of SPRING GOODS, BOUGHT VERY LOW. .Dry G00d.,-nations. Hats.. Re.**** — 1 Clothing, Crockery, Hardware, Drugs, etc., which we will sell at the Lowest Pbices roa CASH. A nice lot of Ladies' and Misses’ Hats, which we will sell very now. Prints, best brands, 10c. Coats' Thread, 80c. a dozen. Brown Homespun, 7 to 10c. Bleached “ 7 to 20c. Ceothino. —Coats, $1 to $lB. Pants, $1.25 to $9. X©'All other goods as low as they can lie bought in any market South. All we ask is, Give us a call. COWSERT & KIMBROUGH. Hamilton, Ga., April 17, 1874—3 m TIFF. T- MOORE, At Van Riper’s old Stand, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Offers his services as a Plxotograplier to all wanting Pictures from card to life size. Old Pictures can be copied, enlarged and colored in a satisfactory manner, in oil or water. Long experience and unsurpassed facilities enable me to offer as good inducements as any Gallery in the State. All work guaran teed to suit customers, or no charge, at rates as low as any. jul3-6m GEORGIA— Haems Cobntt. Wm I Hudson, administrator of Lovick Graddick, dec’d, makes application for leave to sell the land belonging to said deceased— All persons concerned are hereby notified to show cause, if any they have, by the first ”— *-y-A ngnst next, why said applica tion should nor LYrgTaiuLur -mreo under my hand officially, June 16, 1874. junl9-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y. DEBTORS & CREDITORS’ NOTICE All those indebted to the estate of John McKay, deceased, are hereby notified to make immediate payment; and those having claims against said estate are requested to present them duly authenticated within the tinie prescribed by law. . jullO 6t THOMAS J. NEAL, Adm’r. DEBTORS & CREDITORS’ NOTICE. All persons indebted to the estate of John Pattillo, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment; and those having claims against said eßtate are requested to present them within the time prescribed by law. jullo-6t R. 8. PATTILLO, Ex’r. GEORGIA— Harris County. Thomas J. Neal, administrator upon the estate of John McKay, late of said county, deceased, applies for leave to sill the real estate belonging to said deceased — All persons concerned are hereby notified to show cause, If any they have, by the first Monday in August nqit, why said applica tion should not be granted. Given'under my hand and official seal, July C, 1874. jullO-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y. GEORGIA— Harris Couxtt. Whereas the estate of Philip Richardson, late of said county, dcc’d, is unrepresented, and not likely to be represented— ' _ All persons’ concerned are hereby notified to show cause, if any they have, by the first Monday in August next, why some suitable and proper person should not be appointed. Given under iny band officially, July 6, 1874. J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y. HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., <M„ FRIDAY, JULY 24,1874. MAGGIE AND THE BURGLARS “You are not afraid, Maggie?” “Me afraid!” said Maggie; “I’d no fear born with me. As for the house, it’s the strongest fastened ever I was in. You say yourself there’fi no lock a burglar could force, an h lin not the one to let tramps or the like in of my free will. God know the place will be safe enough wlieri you come back—as safe as though there were a regiment of soldiers lii it: and I’ll imvo all bright for ytjpr hew wife, Mr. Archibald.’ 4 She called her master Mr. Archi bald still, this old woman; but she was the only one who still used htST Christian name. He was an elderly man himself,, and had few intimate friends, hospitality not being one (f his virtues. He was rich, and tuerd was much that was valuable in the house; more ready money, too, than most men keep about them; but then it was as secure as a bank vaetft —patent locks and regular alarms that first sent a bullet into any one who sought to enter by stealth, and then rang a bell to wake the house hold, were attached to every door, and a furious watch dog, that lived on raw meat, was in the back gar den. The Van Nott mansion could have withstood a siege at a moment’s notice. Mr. Van Nott was a money-dealer. He had ways of accumulating prop erty which were mysteries to his neighbors, and they were suspicious that the little back parlor, sacred to business had even seen such lesser dealings, as the loan of money on good watches, cashmere shawls, and diamonds of genteel distress. Two or three mortgages that he had bought up had been rather cruelly foreclosed: and ho was a hard landlord, and a bad person to owe money to alto gether. On the whole, he was dis liked in the place, and, rich as he was, would have found it hard to get a wife to his liking among bis neighbor* at Oakham. However, having resolved to marry again— there had been a Mrs. Van Nott, who died years before—he had sought out a wealthy widow of a saving dis position, who lived on a small farm some miles out of town, and, having already disinherited her daughter for espousing an estimable man of small means, and turned her only son out of doors for equally prudent reasons, was not likely to bring any trouble some generosity into her household, and had offered himself to her, and had been accepted. And now, though both their economical souls revolted against it, custom decreed a wedding of some sort, and a honeymoon trip somewhere, and they had decided to do it as cheaply as possible. For this brief time Mr. Van Nott must leave bis business and bis house, and it was upon the eve of his departure that he held the above conversation with his old servant, standing with his portmanteau in his band, and re garding her gravely. “ Yes, yes,” he said, “ I presume it is all safe enough. And I’ll speak to the night-watchman, and give him a dollar to take a particular look at this house. Well, good-by, Maggie: make things as neat as possible, for if they look dirty my wife may think the furniture old, and want some thing new for the parlor.” And Mr. Van Nott departed. “ Yes, yes,” said old Maggie, “no doubt she’ll have fine, extravagant ways. Poor master! What a pity he snouia Ujawy, .ftar fill™—.hilt old ’ fools are the worst fools. A young thing of eight and forty, too, when he has a sensible servant, sixty last January, that knows what belongs to good housekeepings. If he wanted to marry why didn’t he ask me ? I’d not have gone gallivanting and spend ing. Ah, well, he’ll suffer, not 11 ” And Maggie trotted sway to begin her sweeping and dusting. She had said truly that there was no fear born with her, but as the night drew on she began to feel some what lonely. Her master’s presence was strangely missed out of the great house, and there was something ghostly in the look of his empty chair when she peeped into the little back office. “If I was superstitious,” she said to herself, “I should think something dreadful was going to happen. I feel chilly up and down my back, and keep thinking of funerals. I’ll make myself a cup of tea, and see if I can’t get over it.” And accordingly old Maggie shut herself into the snug little kitchen, and lighting two candles, drew a pot of the strongest Young Hyson, and putting her feet close to the cook jig stove, began to feel much more comfortable. ; The old clock ticked away on the mantel, the hands pointing to half 'past eight. “I’m going to bed at nine,” said Maggie. “I’ve worked well to day. Much thanks i’ll get for it, 1 doubt. Hark! What's that ? ” It was a sound outside the door— a sV>w, solemn grating of wheels. Then feet trod the pavement and the bell rang faintly. “A carriage 1 ” cried Maggie: “has he changed his mind and brought her homo at ono.o ? But that can’t be : he’s not married yet.” Ana ing one of the candles she trotted to the door, hut not before the bell had rung again. “ Who’s that? ” she cried, holding the door slightly ajar, “ A stranger,” said a voice—“ one who has something particular to say to you.” “ You’ll have to wait for to-mor row,” said Maggie, “ You can’t come in to-night.” “ My good woman,” said the stran ger, “ you are Margaret Black ? ” “That’s my name.” “Mr. Van Nott’s housekeeper for twenty years ? " “ Yes.” “My good woman, if you are at tached to your master, I have very bad news for you.” “ Gracious Lord 1 ” cried Maggie, but did not open the door much wider—only enough to thrust her head out. “ Don’t scare me, mister. What is it?” “The worst you can think of,” said the man. “ Mr. Van Nott trav eled on the railroad. There has been an accident.” “ Preserve us 1 ” cried Maggie, let ting the door fall back, “ and him on his way to his wedding. He’s badly hurt then ? ” “ He’s dead,” said the man. “ Dead, and we’ve brought him home.” Maggie sat down on a chair and began to cry. “We’ve done what wei could,” said the man. “The lady he was to marry and her friends will be down to-morrow. Meanwhile my instruc tions are that you shall watch with him, and allow no strangers to enter the house. There are valuables here, I’m told, and Mr. Van Nott’s law yer must take possession of them, and seal them up before strangers have access to the rooms.” “ Oh! dear, dear,” cried old Mag gie. “ That it should come to this. Yes, I’ll watch alone. I’m not afraid, but —oh, dear!” Then she shrank back and let two men carry a horrible coffin into the parlor. They came out with their hats off, and the other man held his also in his hand. “ I regret to leave you all alone in the house,” he said. “ I don’t mind that,” said old Mag gie, “ but it’s terrible, terrible.” “If you’d like me to stay,” said the man. “No,” said Maggie. “I’ve no fear of living or dead folk. You can go.” Then she locked the door and went ipto the parlor, and putting the can dle on the mantel, looked at the oof fin through her tears. “lie wna good enough to me,” she said; “poor Mr. Archibald 1 And this comes of wanting to marry at this time of life, and gallivanting on railroads. I wonder whether he is changed much. I’ll take a look,” and Maggie crossed the room and lifted the lid over the face of the in closed body. “ I’ll take a look,” she said to her self again. “ I’m not afraid of dead folks.” In a minute more Maggie dropped the lid again, and retreated, shaking from head to foot. She had seen within the coffin a face with its eyes shut, and with bandages about the head, and the ghastly features of a clown in a circus, minus the red mouth. Hut it was a living face, well chalked, and not her master’s, and Maggie knew at once that she had been well humbugged—that the story of her master’s death was a lie, and that a burglar lay within the coffin, rca<ly to spring upon her and bind her, or perhaps murder her at any minute. She could of course open the door and try to escape; but the accom- plices of the man were doubtless out sidi\ It was a long distance to the nearest bouse, and even if they did not kill her, they would execute their purpose and rob the place be fore she returned. “ Master looks natural,” said Mag gie aloud, and tried to colleot her thoughts. Mr. Van Nott’s revolvers were in the next room, she knew, loaded, six shots in each. Maggie could use pistols. She had aimed at trouble some cats wuth, great success more than once. If she could secure these she felt safe. “ Poor, dear master,” she sobbed, and edged toward the back room. “ Poor, dear master; ” she lifted the desk-lid. ow them safe. She glided back to the front parlor and sat down on a chair. She turned up her sleeves, and grasped a pistol in each hand, and watched the coffin lid quietly. In half an hour the lid stirred. A cautious hand crept up the side. A wiry eye peeped’ out. It fell upon the armed figure and closed again; “You’d hotter,” said Maggie to herself. Again the head lifted up. This time Maggie sprang to her feet. “ You are fixed quite handy,” sbe said coolly. “No need of laying you out if I fire, and I can aim first rate, especially when I’m afraid of ghosts, as I am now.” The head bobbed down again. Maggie l’e-seated herself. She knew this could not last long—that there must be a conflict before long. It was as she supposed. A moment more and the coffin was empty, and a ferocious young fellow sat on its edge, and thus addressed her: “ We meant to do it all quiet,” he said, “ and I don’t want to frighten old women. Just put them flown,” “I’m not frightened,” said Maggie. “ I’m coming to take them things away from you,” said the man. ' “ Come,” said Maggie. He advanced one step. She took aim, and he dodged, but a bullet went through bis left arm, and it dropped by his side. Furiona with pain, he dashed to ward her. She fired again, and this time wounded him in the right shoul der. Faint, and quite helpless, he staggered against the wall. “There, you’ve done it, old woman,” he said. “ Open the door and let me put. My game is up.” “Mine isn’t,” said old Maggie. “ Get back into your coffin again, or this time I’ll shoot you through the heart.” The burglar looked piteously at her, but he saw no mercy in her face. He went back to the coffin and lay down in it. Blood dropped from his wounds, and he was growing pale. Maggie did not want to see him die before her eyes, but she did not dare go for aid. To leave the house be fore daybreak would be to meet this man’s companions and risk her own life. There was nothing for it but to play the surgeon herself, and in a little while she had stopped the blood and saved the burglar’s life. More than this—she brought him a cup of tea, and fed him with it as if he had been a baby. Nothing, however, could induce her to let him out of his coffin. About one or o'clock she } l( .fi P J -ceps outside, and knew that the other burglars were near, but her stout heart never quailed. She trusted in the bars and bolts, and they did not betray her. The daylight found her sitting quietly beside her wounded burglar, and the milkman, bright and early, was the ambassador who summoned the officers of justice. When the bridal party returned next day the house was neat and tidy, and Maggie, in her best alpaCa, told the news in laconic fashion.' “ Frightened! ” she said, in an swer to the sympathetic ejaculations of her new mistress. “ Frightened! Oh, no! Fear wasn’t born in me.” 1 3T In Oshkosh, Wis., lately, two drunken men got into a dispute con cerning the qualities of a pistol. One took off his coat, doubled if up before him as a target, and told the other to fire, which he did, killing him in stautly. C3T A handsome young white girl at Port Gibson, Miss,, recently mar ried a negro member of the Legisla ture. 13?" Cald well, the Radical Gover nor of North Caroling, died at Hills boro on the 11th. $1.50 A YEAR. WIT and HU^OR. “Why don’t you get married?” said a young lady toa.bqchflor friend, “ I have been trying for the last ten years to find someone who t is silly enough to have me,” he.xgplipd, .“ I guess you haven’t been up our way,” was the insinuating rejoiuder. - - A consequential young fop aske<| an aged country sexton if the ringing of the bell did not put him in mnw| of Mb latter end. “ No, sir,” replied the grim old gravedigger; “but the rope puts md ill mind of yours.” A man in New York met an Irish man, whom be asked if be was half way to Central Park. “Faith anl I’ll tell ye,” replied Pat, “if ye’ll tell me where yes started from.” ■< , A *eacbor asked a pupil what the sin of the DWiaees was. “Rating camels,”, replied the child. She had read that the Pharisees “stcauied at a gnat and swallowed a camel.” Josh Billings says: “Diogenes hunted in the daytime with a lantern for an honesf, man. If he had lived in these days, he would have needed the headlight of a locomotive!” A New York paper defines a jour nalist as a man who spends the best days of his life in conferring reputq-, tions upon others, and getting none himself)* “ Who’s there? ” said Jenkins, one cold winter night, disturbed in his. repose by someone knocking at the street door. “A friend,” was the reply. “What do ypu want? Want to stay here all night.” “ Queer taste, ain’t it? But stay there, by all means,” was the benevolent reply! „ An Idaho teaoher has introduced % new idea in his school. When one of the girls misses a word, the boy who spells it gets permission to kiss her. Asa result) the girls are fast, beooming poor spellers, whilst the boys ate improving. . f . A versification of the old joke has. been attempted with much success: “ The pilgrim o’er a desert wild should ne’er let want confound him, for ha, at any time can eat the sand which is around him. It might seem odd that* he could find such palatable fare, did not we know the sons of Ham were bred and mustered there,” • The pilgrimage mania is spreading.. A Bostonian has started off on on 6 with his neighbor’s wife. * A Vermont postmaster received a letter direoted as follows: Wotjd John . Mass# r , a•V '-• ■ r After puzzling over .it for some, tirqp, he made it out to be, John Un derwood, Andover, Mass. “If this jury convicts my client,” said a Missouri lawyer, rolling up his sleeves and displaying hia ponderous fists, “I shall' be compelled to meet, each one and hammer justice into his soul through his head.” . , j No State but Massachusetts, coulJ hold a summer session of tl\p legisla ture ; but there the members are too lean to sweat, and too stingy, if they weren’t too lean. ■ . , . .. . An Atlanta firm has named anew. braud of whisky after a female eras*-, der. It wiil empty a man into the gutter af* a lew drinks. A Nebraska m*q and bis wife hap pened to elope on tfie same night;' and. each left a npte for tiie other. The moon that is made of' green cheese—the honeymoon. “ Oh, grandma t ” cried a mischiev ous little urchin, “ I cbeatpd tljc liens so nicely just now. f threw them your gold beads, and they thought they were corn, and ate them up as fast as they could!” • * ; y, * r * $•/ A .young lady desires to know whether a girl may he sure a man loves her unutterably when he sits in her presence for an hour without speaking. . . An Irishman engaged in fighting a duel insisted, as he was near-sighted,! that lie should stand six feet nearer to his antagonist than his antagonist did to him. It only takes three hours and about hall a cord of wood to put a million aire iiito a very small bottle. The only difficulty to be apprehended is the inevitable increase of family jars. If you are in a hurry, never get behind a couple, that are courting. They want to make so much of each other that they wouldn’t move quick if they were going to a funeral. Get behind your jolly married folks, who have lots of children at home, it you want to move fast.'