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THE JEFFERSON fgjk NEWS & FARMER
Vol. 1.
THE
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ot ad ninistration, guardianship, &c. $ 3 00
Homestead notice —. 2 00
Application tor dism’n from adm’n.. 500
Application for dism’n ofguard’n 3 50
Application for leave to sell Land.... 5 00
Notice to Debtors and Creditors 3 00
Ssjes-pf L*»d, per square of ten lints 500
Site ra personal per sq., ten days.... 150
levy often lines,.... 250
Mortgage sales of ten lines or lets.. 500
Tax Collector's sales, (2 months 5 00
Clerk's —Foreclosure of mortgage and
other monthly’s, per square ... 100
Estray notices,thirty days 3 00
Sales of Land, by Administrators, Execu
tors or Guardians, are required, by law to
be held on the first Tuesday in the month,
between the hours of ten in the forenoon
and three in the afternoon, at the Court
house in the county in which the property
s sitnated.
Notice ot these sales must be published 40
days previous to the day of sale:
Notice for the sale of personal property
must be published 16 days previous to sale
day.
Notice to debtors and creditors, 40 day
Notice that application will be made of
the Court of Ordiuary for leave to sell land,
4 weeks.
Citations for letters of Administration,
Guardianship, &e., must be published 30
lays—for dismission from Administration,
nonlhly six months, for dismission from guar
litnahip, 40 days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages must
be published monthly for four months —for
establishing lost papers, for the full space of
\iree months— for compelling titles from Ex
seutors or Administrators, where bond has
teen given by the deceased, the fall space
of three months.
Application for Homestead to be published
twice in the space of ten consecutive days.
LOUISVILLE CARDS.
J 0. CAIN J. E. FOLSHL.
CAIN I POLHILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LOUISVILLE, GA.
May 5,187 L 1 ly.
H ARLO W
Watch Maier
—AND—
IH-BIPAIHBm,
Louisville, Oa
Special attention given to renc.
vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS,
jEvnELRV. SEWTNG MACHINES &c., &c.
Also Agent for the best Sewing Machine
that is made-
May 5,1871. 1 lyr;
DR. I. R. POWELL,
LOUISVILLE, GA.
Thankful for the patronage
enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of con
tinning the offer of his professional services to
patrons and friends.
May 5, 1871. 1 lyr:
"WV H. FAY,
LOUISVILLE, OA.
S A X> X> Xjs El
—and-
Harn'ess Maker.
ALSO ,
BOOTS tto SBEOXW
ade to order All work warranted and aat
ishetion guaranled both as to work and pri ee
Hire me a call.
May 5,1871. 16m.
MSDIOAL.
DR. J. R. SMITH late of SandersvilleGa.,
offers his Professional services to the
citiaens of Louisville, and Jefferson county.
An experience of nearly forty years in the
profession, should entitle him to Public Con
fidence. Special attention paid te Obstetrics
and the diseases of women and children, of*
ficeat Mrs. Doctor Millers.
Louisville Jnna 20,1871 ■ 8 ts.
New Advertisements.
Dissolution
—OF—
eo&MBWNEmmiFn
The Copartnership heretofore ex
isting between the undersigned, un
der the firm name of
SAMUEL M. LEDERER & CO.
is this day dissolved by mutual con
sent.
Messrs ISAAC M. FRANK and
FUSTAVE ECKSTEIN are alone
authorized to settle the affairs of the
late firm, collect all moneys due,
and sign in liquidation.
SAM’L M. LEDERER,
I. M. FRANK,
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN,
Savannah, July ISth, 1871.
Copartnership Notice.
The undersigned have ibis day
associated themselves together as
Partners for the transaction of a
General
DRY GOODS
business in the City of Savannah,
under the firm name of
FRANK & ECKSTEIN,
AT 131 BROUGHTON ST.,
where they will continue to carry an
extensive stock ot*
§1 T A IP IL S
AND
1
BUY BOOBS
AND
1 : Q T I 0I S .
Possessing facilities to purchase
Goods
in the
Northern
Markets
on the very best terms, will contin
ue to offer such
INDKI® SHUTS
as will make it the interest of
BUYERS
to deal with us.
Thanking you for the kind favors
bestowed on the late firm, we re
spectfully solicit your patronage in
future. Also an early examination
of our stock and prices.
Yours respectfully,
FRANK * ECKSTEIN,
131 Broughton St-
Parties desiring to send orders for
Goods or Samples of Dry Goods will
find them promptly attended to by
addressing
P. O. BOX 38,
Savannah, Ga.
August 18, ly. n
Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Friday, October 6, 1871.
R. J. Davant, Jr. W. D. Waples J. Myers.
Dayant, Waples & CO.,
FACTORS
—AND—
COMMISSION 39ERCHAIVTS,
BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
Are re pectfully solicited for the erection of a
MONUMENT
TO THE
Confederate Dead of Georgia,
And those Soldiers from other Confederate
States who were tilled or died in this State.
THE MONUMENT TO COST $50,000.
The Corner Stone it is proposed shall be
laid on the 4th of July, or so soon thereafter as,
the receipts will permit.
For every Five Dollars subscribed, there will
be given a certificate of Life Membership to
the Monumental Association. This certificate
will entitle the owner thereof to an equal inter
est in the following property, to be distributed
as soon as requisite number of shares are sold,
to-wit:
First. Nine Hundred and Ono
Acres of Land in Lincoln
county, Georgia, on which are
the well-known Magrnder
Gold and Copper Mines, val
ued at--. - $150,000
Aud to Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four
Shares in One Hundred Thousand Dollars of
United States Currency; to-wit:
1 share of SIO,OOO $lO 000
1 •• 5,000 5,000
2 <• 2,500 5,000
10 “ 2,000 20.000
10 '■ 1,000 10,000
20 “ ’ 500 10,000
100 “ 100 10,000
200 “ 50 10,000
400 “ 25 10,000
1000 10 10,00
SIOO,OOO
The value of the separate interest to which
the holder of each Certificate will be entitled,
will be determined by the Commissioners, who
will announce to the public the manner, the
time and place of distribution.
The following gentlemen Lave consented to
act as Commissioners, and will either by a
Committee from their own body, or by Speoia
Trustees, appointed by themselves, receive and
take proper charge of the money for the Mon
ument, as well as the Real Estate and the U.
S. Currency offered as inducements for sub
scription, and will determine upon the plan for
the Monument, the inseiption thereon, the site
therefor, select an orator for the occasion, and
regulate the ceremonies to be observed, when
he corner-stone,is laid to-wit:
Generals L. McLaws, A. R. Wright, M. A.
Stovall, W. M. Gardner, Goode Bryan, Colo
onels C. Snead, Wm. P. Crawford, Majors
Jos. B. Cumming, George T. Jackson, Joseph
Ganahl, I. P. Girardev, Hon. R. H. May, Adam
Johnston, Jonathan M. Miller, W, H. Good,
rich, J, D. Butt, Henry Moore, Dr. W. E. Dear
ng
The Agents in the respective counties will
retain the money received for the Sale of
Tickets until the subscription Books are clos
ed. In order that the several amounts may
be returned to the Shareholders, in case the
number of subscriptions will not warrant any
further procedure the Agents will repast to
this office weekiy, the result of their sales.
When a sufficient number of the shares are
sold, the Agents will receive notice. They
will then forward to this office the amounts
received.
L & A. H. MoLAWS, Gen. Ag’ts.
No. 3 Old P. O. Range, Mclntosh sts.
Augusta, Ga
W. C D. ROBERTS Agent at Sparta, Ga.
L.W. HUNT & CO., Agents Milledgeville
Georgia.
rp an May, 2,1871. 6m.
Ulisrellaiumis.
Man as Husbands-
A Glimpse of our Domestic Life.
Without reference to St. Paul,
who commanded wives to obey their
husbands, or lo the ancient marriage
ceremony of the Egyptians which
demanded a promise of obedience
from the husband to the wife, in
stead of the reverse, the present
every-dav relations of men lo women
it) the marital state ate of so great
importance that nothing can be
greater, and yet do not receive from
men a lithe of the thought anti hon
est attention the subject demands.
There is a common-sense justice
that ought to govern the relations of
human beings, that has both sub
stance and essence in the “Golden
Rule,” and is as high above all civil
and legal enactments as heaven is
above earth. That this beautiful
and perfect law of relation as cloth
ed in words by Coulucius, and af
terward revised and incorporated
into the Christian religion by Christ,
does not rule in the mairiage state,
is without doubt due to the unequal
estimation held by the parties in re
gard to each other.
That husbands, as a rule, do
their wives intentional injustice, 1 do
not lor a moment believe, but that
wives suffer immeasurably from in
justice born of heediessness, of
thoughtlessness, and a lack ol heart
fulness, I know to be only 100 true,
if the knowledge that comes from
unprejudiced observation and the
unsought and voluntary confidences
of many a wife are to he relied up
on. One is not to infer from this
that married women are given lo
turning their hearts out like a pocket
and unfolding their wedded rela
tions—the most sacred of all—to the
gaze and criticism of even very dear
friends. The reverse of this is the
rule. But there are scores of con
fidences which are “escapes” rather
than positive confessions, that are
foiever revealing to us a great deal
more of dissatisfaction than we want
to know about. It is a wifely
“weakness” to endeavor to conceal
the husband’s faults; to manufacture
excuses for his shortcomings; and
try and cheat herself into believing
she is all in all to him, when every
indication points to the reverse; in
Short, she fancies, somehow, that
she was born lo be his moral and
spiritual waterproof. The recotds
are full of women clinging to hus
bands who are worse than beasis,
while many a widow wears the
mournfullest of black, and observes
with dreadful solemnity the anniver
sary day of the death of a husband
who was a brute, and whose life
seemed specially devoted lo making
her miserable. These things sim
ply illustrate the fool a woman will
make of herself when governed by
idiotic but customary notions of
duty.
That women are not alone in see
ing and feeling the “fatal lack” of
husbands, 1 bring in proof this ex
tract from a gentleman’s letter to me
hoping the violation of the confidence
may find pardon in the end to be
subserved: “I find it hard to believe
that intelligent, honorable men do
so invariably look down upon their
wives and hold them in ‘subjection.’
Yet I can not be in a family circle
half an hour without, in most cases,
seeing evidence of it in snubs, or
worse yel, in that kind of complais
ance which is a fiction of the first
water. It seems to me that a man
of decent pride and self-respect
would loathe the idea ol marrying an
‘inferior.’ Even (he human fondness
for using or abusing power would be
no temptation to give oneself ullerly
to a person whom it was possible to
look down upon. I suppose that
men do look up, or think they do, in
courtship, but have to little knowl
edge either of their sweethearts or
themselves, that after marriage they
make disappointment an excuse for
selfishness.”
In that final word “selfishness”
he struck a key-note. That women
were born entirely for the use ot
men; that the success or value of
their existence is proportioned en
tirely to their help and value to men,
seems to be an ineradicable idea
among husbands. Bui that men
owe just as much to women; that the
husband’s relation to the wife is a
compensatory and mutual one, and in
bo respect a one-sided affair, is a
truth that seems to be ever falling by
the wayside, as it so seldom if ever
finds lodgment in the hearts of
men.
Not long since a prominent New
York journal made record ofa wife’s
servitude in a foreign land; enlarged
upon her care tor her husband; do
ted upon her attention to him when
he would come home drunk; com
mended her infinite care in screening
him from well-merited justice by
suffering in his stead; detailed at
length incidents illustrating her self
denyir.g qualities, her meekness un
der insult, her sweetness under biu
tal treatment, and above all her mod
esty —tier “true, noble, womanly
modesty” which would never admit
of her being the recipient ol anything
pleasant, when iL was possible for
her husband to receive it in her
stead. This sanctimonious journal
published the account with the add
ed regrets that those faithful, unsel
fish wives were now only a memory
of the past, and that the women ot
the present day no longer practiced
those sell-denying virtues thal so a
dorned the sex, but were constantly
striving to augment their own happi
ness and importance ! How strange
ad awful!
We all know how sweet and good
it is to deny ourselves for the sake of
those we love; lo suffer in lheir siead;
to minister to their happiness; to
shield their faults. Then we also
knowhow bitter, how hard, how cruel
it is, to do all this and receive for
compensation neither smile of appre
cialion, nor a word of approval; only
a cold, careless exterior, and a man
ner demanding and expecting all
these things from the right of superi
ority!
Many husbands seem to think—if
they once stop to think at all—that
what to them would undoubiedly be
distasteful and unjust will not be re
garded by their wives as such, be
cause they are women. This is a fa
tal mistake. What hurts a man
hurls a woman all the same, only
more. The deprivation of enjoyments
no matter of what kind or degree, is
as keenly felt by women as by men.
A wife needs loving demonstration,
honest regard, and thorough re
spect from her husband just a3 much
as he needs thesame from her; and
more even, for her range of employ
ment is more limited. What is
more, no wife can thrive in heart, in
mind, and in body without it. If a
man wants the best wife in the world
lie must be to her the best husband.
And in order to fie to her the best
husband, he must place himself in
her place—imagine the exchange of
personality a dozen times a day it
need be-so be may know how to act.
How few husbands can look back
over this single, solitary day per
haps, and alter diligent introspection
truthfully say, “I have been to my
wife this day just what I would have
her be lo me, if I were she instead.”
You may try to soothe your con
science and justify mailers by say
ing, “Oh, well! women haven’t been
used to these things, and they don’t
expect them.” Oh, but, sir, they do
expect them. They have a born
right to, and need of them equal with
yourself. Every girl born into this
world comes into it with a soul and
heart as full of fresh i.eed and love
and right as did Eve. She does not
inherit a preparation for injustice be
cause her foremolhers may happen lo
have had it for six or sixty thousand
years.
If girls didn’t have men for their fa
thers, it is possible they might be
born with naluial propensities for
“subjection.” But now a man in
expecting submission and obedience
from his wife is oftimes made aware
of the fact that he is simply walking
rough-shod over the natural-born
rights of his high bred old father-in
law, manifested in a temple more
refined and delicate and sensitive.
What then ?
But aside from the “odious” help
of sharing toil, the cares of the
household and children, there is the
help of development. Many wo
men haye less education from books
and the world than have their hus
bands ; and is it not the duly of the
latter to aid their wives in making
up the deficiency ? Asa mere mat
ter of selfishness, men should do it.
The compensation would more than
cancel the task, it it could be class
ed among tasks.
Someone has said that a “family
man” has no rigtit to be off evenings ;
neither has he a right to demand a
style of housekeeping which will
make it necessary for the wife to do
nothing but attend to purely domes
tic affairs, which would be a great
“affliction” to men who regard the
gratification of their especial stom
achs of more moment than the thri
vmg graces of a wife’s mind and
heart. As domestic partnership is
now mostly conducted, the man
starts ahead of the woman, or if even
with her he soon gets ahead and
keeps ahead. Burdens come upon
her which he can not or will not
share, often upon the ‘I-am-bolier
than-ihou" principle. Business swal
low3 him up, or keeps hirn socially
so far removed from his wire that
she almost forgets she has a husband.
She is either thrown back upon her
self for companionship, or accepts
it from outside sources, which are
not always safe or best.
A great deal of nonsense has been
talked and written about the happi
ness of the home depending upon
the wife. Just as much depends
I.non the man, and indeed mom
when lie assumes or demands in
super-balance o! power. Home is
where women thrive or perish ; and
that it be a garden of love and sun
shine, or a desert of ill-winds, and
barieri of love and sympathy, de
pends upon the husband more than
he rnav at first imagine. He stamps
domestic life with its vital, charac
teristic principle. To suppose that
the reflection or utilization of this
principle will be more beautiful and
worthy than the prototype is to ex
pect figs to grow on thistles.
If all marriage bonds were irrerib-1
ed with the “Golden Rule” for an
inflexible law, would there not be
harmony where now is discord ?
Would not at least civil courtesy a
bound among married people as well
as among mere friends?
Do husbands ever consider how
supremely, disgustingly hateful it is
to a wife to be treated, held, ami
considered like a child; to lie en
trusted with no dignified trust; to
have money doled out in certain a
rnounts; to be heid accountable for
every expenditure made ; to be al
ways obliged to deler lo the bus
band’s sense of propriety and expe
diency; to regard her just rights as
a husband’s kind and loving indul
genceto be consulted simply for
the sake if appearance; lo be the
recipient of smiles and courtesies
before strangers, and just the reverse
when alone ; to feel that she is sup
ported by her husband, like a fine
carriage hor.-e ; lo carry the baby
while he trots on ahead ; to mend
his stockings while he smokes in her
face and reads to himself; to slay ai
home while he goes abioad; tube
“my dear” and “my loved” only
when he wants something he never
deserves; to never know the state of
their mutual finances; if a working
woman to cary wood and water,
while he leans by the hour over a
gate post talking politics ; to be up
night after night with sick children,
while he sleeps as sound as a brick;
to be ignored when the homestead is
sold ; to be hungry for sympathetic
companionship; for tender, loving
caresses as of the courtship days ;
for hearty expressed appreciation,
but never getting these; to hear a
hundred limes a year, “My wife, my
darling, God bless you!” and never
hearing it? Ah, well! the catalogue
is too long. The remainder stands
in long columns in your own soul, ii
you will only open it and look in.
Think what li'e would be to jrou
without the woman you love best—
without her who gave you a foretaste
of heaven—without her whose all
sacrificing love is the highest expo
nent of Divine Love—without your
wife—the mother of your children,
whose precious file has been once
and again and again placed in the
very jaws of death, all for love ol
you, and then ask yourself if you
love this loving, self-sacrificing soul
even as you love yourself.
Mary E. A. Wager.
The following story is related by
Mr. Jefferson concerning the first
Continental Congress : “Delegate
Harrison, of Virginia, desiring to
stimulate,’ presented himself arid a
friend at a certain place where sup
plies were furnished Congress, and
ordered two glasses of brandy aud
water. The man in charge replied
that liquors were not included in the
supplies furnished Congress. ‘Why,’
said Harrison, ‘what is it, then, that
I see New England members come
here and drink?’ ‘Molasses and wa
ter, which they have charged as sta
tionery,’ was the reply. ‘Then give
me the brandy and water,’ quoth
Harrison, ‘and charge it as fuel.’ ”
A gentleman in Alabama, in ex
erting liimselfone day fell a sudden
pain and fearing his internal ma
chinery had been thrown out of gear,
sent for a negro of his plantation,
who made some pretentions to med
ical skill, to prescribe for him. The
negro, having investigated the cause,
prepared and administered a dose,
lo his patient with the utmost confi
dence of a speedy cure. No relief
being experienced, however, the gen
tleman sent for a physician, who, on
arriving, inquired of the negro what
medicine he had given his master.
Bob promptly responded—
“ Rosin and alum, sir.”
“What did you give them for?’’
continued the doctor.
“Why,” replied Boh, “de alum to
draw the parts togedder, and the
rosin to sodder ’urn.”
The paiient eventually recovered.
Every hour that a child lives a
quiet, tranquil, joyous life, of sueh
sort as kittens live on hearths, squir
rels in sunshiue, is just so much in
vestment in strength and steadiness,
and growth ol the nervous system.
Every hour that a child lives” a life
of excited brain-working, either in a
school-room or in a ball-room, is just
so much taken away from the re
served force which enables nerves
lo triumph through the sorrows,
through the labors, through the dis
«nse:i nt laler lile
No. 23.
The bright spots ol a man’s life
cro few enough without blotting any
out; and since, for a moment of
mirth, we have an* hour ol sadness,
ii|were a sorry policy to diminish
the tew rays that illume our cheq
uered existence. Life is an April
day—sunshine and showers. The
heart, like the earth, would cease to
yield good fruit, were it not some
times watered with the tears of sen
sibility; and the fruit would be
worthless but for the sunshine of
smiles.— Age.
An Outback, and Summary Punish
ment of THE Perpetrator. —On last
Friday as a party of school giria were
returning from school to their homes
near Madison, Georgia, thoy were at
tacked by a negro who seized one of
their number, a girl of about sixteen,
daughter of a Methodist miuister near
that place, and dragged her into the ad
joining woods. The others fled scream
ing to their homes, a mile distaut, and
informed their parents of the affair. A
party of men immediately made all haste
to lue scene of tbo outrage, where they
found the poor girl in convulsions the
Hen dish perpetrator having made his es
cape. The girl was taken up and car
ried to her home, where she has been
lying at the point of death ever since.
Saturday the negro who had been rec
ognized by the other girls, boldly walk
ed into Madison, and was at cnca arrest
ed and taken before a magistrate by
whom ha was committed to jail for tri
al befor the Sup.r.or Court.
Saturday night a party of disguised
men proceeded to the jail, but were un
atde to eff 'ct an entrance, the Sheriff
who had the key having hid himself.
Monday night another band, about fitly
iu number, surrounded the Sheriff, took
tho key from him, entered the jail, and
riddled the negro who had committed
the outrage with pistol balls. They then
departed quietly. The Sheriff, who
went to the jail after they had left,
found the negro lying iu a corner of bis
cell, dead. Bis heart was perforated
by several balls.
There was much excitement atnoue
the negroes of the town for awhile, but
we understand that it has all subsided.
While we must coudemii all viola
tions ol the law and order by men who
undertake to punish criminals without
any appeal to the- courts, yet some ex
cuse can be made for the act when we
consider tho heinousness of the offense.
The pardoning power has been so abused
by the Chief Executive officer of the
State that men have been tempted to
take the law into their own bands in
regard to criminals. We confidently
look forward to the time when this state
of things will cease forever, and the
power and majesty of the law reign su
preme- Coniiitutionali*/.
lee nearly half an inch thick formed
in the open air in Bangor, Me., on Wed
nesday night, the 16th ultimo.
Hon. John Quincy A’ams, of Massa
chusetts, was in Columbia, S. C., on
Thursday last.
Atlanta, September 20.—Foster
Blodgett, late Superintendent of the
State Road, was ariestr.d jesterday,
charged with frand, 11. P. Farrow, At
torney General of the State, was arrest
ed to-day, charged with cheating and
swindling.
The State Road investigation has
reached an interesting point. Foster
Blodgett is under arrest.
Atlanta negroes are getting to be ea
tirely too smart. The other day. Uie
trousers of one were eanght in the shaft
tng of a rolling mill, and, instead of
working bis way through in the usual
way, be unbuttoned his suspenders end
let the breeches go.
A free American family of color has
recently emigrated from Decatur county
to Massachusetts.
The Americus Republican says : The
low price of cotton lias somewhat disap
pointed our farming friends, who expect
ed, from the report of the great falling
off iu the cotton crop, to realise a better
price. There seema to be a disposition
amoug planters to hold the staple for a
better prio.
Mayor Huff, of Macon, has offered a
silver service premium with fifty dollars
to the Prettiest Girl in Georgia, under
seventeen, who appeals at the State Fair
in a homespun dress. We have it on
the best authority that the P. G. in G.
doesn’t wear homespnn.
The Telegraph says: We learn that
the cotton crop from the western border
of the Chattahoochee to the Ocmulgee,
as seen on the road traversed by the iron
horse, is a dead failure. There will be
no four millions of bales this year.
The princess Louise is making heraalf
papular at her highland home. Ata Mo
an try ball recently, she was the partner
of a farmer, and weot ‘'down the mid
dle” between a hundred eouple in a eoa
tra dance.
The Palatka Herald begins to feel a
little bopeAll about the present neaafe
crop. The thinning oat of the crop in
the gale of the 17tn August presented
a disheartening spectacle. But the
growth of vegetation sinoe baa bean so
rapid that the orange fruit will he mneh
larger aad of finer quality than last
year. All fruit growers will realise a
small income but the vigor of the trees
may be increased thereby.
Salt Lake City, September 88.-
There is much excitement here to day
by the reported arrest of Brigham
Young. No arrest has been made, al
though it is expected. It is stated on
good authority that Brigham Young w.ll
meet all charges brought against him as
a lawahiding citizen, and will offer JM