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THE JEFFEESON NEWS & FARMEB.
Vol. 1.
Till E
Jefferson News & Farmer
B Y
S. W. ROBERTS & BROI
LOUISVILLE CARDS.
K.W. Ci.r.well, W. V. Denny.
Carswell & Denny,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA,
\T7-ILL practice iu all the Counties in the
W Middle Circuit. Also Burke in Au
gusta Circuit All business entrusted to their
care will meet with prompt attention.
Nov, 3. 27 ly
TTW. J. HAM.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SWAINSBORO’, GA.
Will practice in the Middle and Augusta
Circuits. All business entrusted to his care
wili meet with prompt attention.
Nov. 17th,
J G. CAIN J. H. POLEILL.
CAIN a POLHILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LOUISVILLE, GA.
May >,1871. 1 ly.
T. F IIAIIL 0 W
W atcli Mi a. Ls. e r
—AND—
H.EPAIB.ER,
Louisville. G a
Special attention given to veim
vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES Ac , &c.
Also Agent for the Home Shuttle Sewing
Machine
May 5, 1871. 1 lyr:
DR. I. R. POWELL,
LOUISVILLE, GA.
TIIANKFUL FOR THE PATRONAGE
enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of con
tinuing the offer of his professional services to
patrons and friends.
May 5, 1871. 1 lyr.
DR. J. R. SMITH late of Sandersville Ga.,
offers his Professional services to the
citizens of Louisville, and Jefferson county.
An experience of nearly forty years in the
profession, should entitle him to Public Con
fidence. Special attention paid to Obstetrics
and the diseases of women and children. of
fice at Mrs Doctor Millers.
Louisville June
MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
Look Out for the Sign of
THE GOLDEN BEE HIVE,
IF yon wish to buy your Dry Goods at the
lowest prices,
GEORGE WEBER,
No. 176 Broad Street,
Opposite, AUGUSTA HOTEL.
E F. Bryan, W. S. Mclntosh,
BRYAN A IcINTOSH,
KEC'EIVIMh FORWARDING
AND
Commission Merchants,
No, 140 (KELLY’S BUILDING) BAY ST.,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Agents for sale of the “PRATT” COTTON
GIN.
Prompt attention giver, to the sale of Cotton
Wool, and Country Produce of every descrip
tiou. Liberal cash advances made on above
when in store. Correspondence Solicited.
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Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Thursday, February 22, 1872.
New Advertisements.
Dissolution
—OF—
The Copartnership heretofore ex'
isting between the undersigned, un
der the firm name ol
SAMUEL M. LEDERER & CO,
is this day dissolved by mutual con
sent.
Messrs ISAAC M. F HANK and
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN ere a'one
authorized to settle the afiiiiis of tin
late firm, collect all moneys due,
and sign in liquidation.
SAM’L M. LEDERER,
1. M. FRANK,
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN
Savannah, July ISih, 1871.
Copartnership Notice.
The undersigned have this day
associated themselves together as
Partners for the transaction of a
! General
DRY GOODS
business in the City ol Savannah,
under the firm name of
FRANK & ECKSTEIN,
AT 131 BROUGHTON ST.,
where they will continue to carry an
extensive stock ot
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AND
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AND
I©TI 0 I S .
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on the very best terms, will contin
ue to offer such
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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 slock 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 3S,
Savannah, Ga.
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p Mjy 13, 1871, ly.
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catarrh, sore mouth, sore throat, diptheria;
tor colic, diarrhoea, cholera; as awash to
soften and beautify the skin; to remove
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ternally as well as applied externally; si
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Wm. 11. Tison. Wm. W. G iiidah
JISON & GORDON,
(established, 1854 )
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants,
112 BA7 STREET
SAVANNAH, GA.
Bagging AND ikon ties advan
CED on Cr, ps.
Liberal Cash Advances made on Consign
ment of Cotton. Careful attention to all busiS
ness, and prompt returus Guaranteed,
oct.!) r& n 4m.
T MARRWALTERS
Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
MARBLE MONUMENTS, TOMB
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Marble Maal.ls and Furniture-Marble of all
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COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
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AUGUSTA, - - - GEORGIA.
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other produce when required. Orders
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our pn nt it. persi nal at ention.
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FOSTR To
fSf" The little poem below, contains
a world of truth, sense, experience, phil
o ophv and theology, expressed plainly,
wisely, modestly, tersely, forcibly.
tep by Stop-
Heaven is no* reached by a siugle bound ;
Bit we build the ladder by \rl i;h w © rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
Ami wo mount to its summit round by round.
I count these things to be grandly true,
That coble deed is a step toward God
Lifting the soul from the common sod
To a purer air and a broader view.
We rise by tho, things that are u.iderour feet.
By what we have mastered in "reed and
pain,
By the pride deposed and the passion slain,
And tho vanquished ill wo h >url> meet.
We hope, we resolve, we aspire, we trust .
When the morniug calls t > life and light,
But our ho irt grows weary and ero the night
Our lives are trailing iu tho sordid dust.
Wings for tho angels, but feet for fie men ;
We must borrow the wings to find the way
We may hope, at and resolve, and aspire, and
pray,
But our loot must rise or we fall again.
Only in dreams is the lad lor thrown
From the weary earth to the sapphire wall;
But the dreams depart an! the visions fall.
And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone.
11 1 veil i- not reached iu a single bound ;
But we buiid the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies
And we mount to the summit round by round
—J. G. II Hand.
Hlisctllancous.
Just for Fun.
BY S. ANNIE FROST.
It was rather a lavorite excuse
with Willie Goodwin, whenever he
was deep in ntischiri, or had lo plead
guilty when accused of sou e boy
ish scrope, that it was done just for
fun.
Many a time he resolved lotry to
he more orderly and let boyish
pranks alone, bui the next prospect
of Inn would banish all his good res
olutions, unlil the penally iccalled
them again. He was nearly fifteen
when the tragedy I am about lo tell
you sobered him lor life. He was
a middle-aged man when he told me
the story, hut even then he could
not speak without emotion of his
last piece of “fun.”
“We had neen out for a walk,” he
told me, “Frankie Ford, Tom Lee,
and I, and were coming home at
twilight, when we met Sammy Wil
lets, who was rather a favorite but
for teasing, with all the boys. He
was a very timid, rather sickly boy,
of about fourteen, peevish and easi
ly irritated, and the rougher, strong
er bovs said, a coward. As soon as
we saw him coming, the spirit of
mischief seemed to possess us all,
and each one planed how to tease
the poor timid boy.
“Let’s hide and jump at him,” one
suggestc and.
“Lei’s tell him his house is on
fire, and see him run,” cried anoth
er.
“i’ll tell you what we’ll do,” 1
said. ‘We’ll coax him down to
Ruthland’s barn (or a game of
romps, and shut him up!’
Kuthlatid’s barn was a large barn
standing alone, at some distance
from any other building. The farm
house to which it had belonged had
been destroyed Ly fire, and the
great barn had been left standing
when lluihland deserted the place
and went West. It was a favorits
play room lor all the village boys
who spent long Saturday afternoons
m it, making it a gymnasium and
recitation hall, as occasion required.
“Although it was twilight, the
summer evenings were long, and
Sammy was not surprised to be told
we were going to Rulhland’s ham
for an hour of play before bed-lime.
He was quite willing to join us,
and we were soon in the old barn,
making it ring with our shouts and
laughter.
“The hour passed rapidly, and it
was getting quite dark, when we
sent Sammy imo the hay-loft on
some errand, ran out ourselves
and drew the big doors after us. It
was harder work to fasten them
with the rusty iron latch, hut we
aacomplished this, 100, and then ran
off
“Just as we were at the edge ol
the field, we heard one fearful
scream, but we only hurried on,
laughing at the thought of Sammy’s
discomfiture.
“1 must say in our defence, that
passing one night in the old barn
would have been no great misfortune
to any of us. We were all hearty,
country boys, full oflife and health ;
free from superstition or morbid
fears, and we could none of us real
ize what the dark loneliness was to
a timid, sickly hoy with rather a
weak mind.
“It must have been nil* r midnight
when wc we re roused at home by a
a violent knocking at the door. My
father spoke from the window, ask
iug what was wanted, and I hcaid
our neighbor, Mr. Wdieis, asking
anxiously :
“Is Sammy here ?’’
“No. Is lie lot at home I
“He has not been home since sun
set. lam very much umncil, be
ciuse he is not well.”
“I'll ask Willie it he inis seen him.”
“In another moment fin her was
by mv be,l, and I told him where
they would find Sammy. Never
shail I target the father’s cry ol hor
ror :
“it will kill him ! M v poor, timid
boy. He is afraid of the dark, and
the doctor has told us we must hu
mor him, because he is not strong
enough to hear fright. Will you
come with me, Mr. Goodwin ?”
“I was dressing as rapidly as I
could, and was by my father’s side
when lie lighted a lantern anil joined
Mr. Willets.
“Let me go!” 1 begged. “I nev
er meant to hurt him. 1 wouldn’t
mind staying there all night a bit.
and 1 did not think it would really
hurt him. Oh ! sir do you think it
will kill him ! h was all a joke, just
fur fun.”
“God forgive you boy,” he an
swered me in a choked voice. “I
am afraid it will Ire he dear fun fai
ns all. Sammy, my poor hoy ! Who
will tell his mother if harm h is come
to him? Our only one—our poor,
sickly boy!”
“So he lamented as he hurried
across the field, every word increas
ing my terror and remorse. It was
m\ proposal, and I felt inysell the
only guilty one, though the others
had helped me to carry out the cruel
joke that seemed anything hut fu
now. We reached the barn at last,
and undid the heavy fastenings at the
door. Mr. Willets called his bov by
name ever)’ moment, but no answer
came, li seemed to me hours Indore
the heavy doors swung back. One
ot them would not open wide, and
looking in lo sec to see the cause, we
found poor Sammy, white and sense
less, lying on the floor behind it. His
father lifted him.
“ He is not dead ! ” ho said, “Can
we get water ?”
“1 hurried to the well and brought
waler, but the boy was 100 far gone
for that. Oh 1 the long distance it
seemed to Mr. Willets’, and beyond
that to the doctor’s, where 1 ran at
once. Never shall A’brgct the lace
ol Sammy’s mother as she look the
boy’s lace in her hands, and look
ed into it. It was so white and
still, 1 dared scarcely believe he
really lived as I hurried to the doc
tor’s. He did live, recovering his
health after a long, dangerous ill
ness; hut his mind was gone forever.
Some fright in those lonely hours of
darkness gave a shock to the weak
mind that was never cured, and he
lived only to he an idiot.
“It is some years now since we
laid him in his quiet grave, the vic
tim of a boyish prank. I tell you it
was the last piece of mischief l ever
did ‘just for ia\\."—-Methndisl.
To Disappointed Ticket-Holders.
Gentlemen, we congratulate you.
You did not win the Academy of Mu
sic, nor the one hundred thousand
dollais, nor the ten thousand dollars,
nor any other considerable prize.—
Nevertheless we congratulate you.
You have had a good lime. During
ihe [>ast four', five, or more months,
you have dreamed delicious dreams.
Hope, the siren, was ever present
with you. Welcoming you with
radiant smile In the morning, she
followed you thrrough the toil anti
worry of the day, accompanied you
to you to your couch and flattered
your rest with golden anticipations.
Your waking moments were more
blissful even than your hours of re
pose. How often has the town clock,
striking after midnight hours, dis
turbed you in the disposition of your
property! What good follows you
intend to be—how much wiser and
Letter than all the mean creatures
who had drawn the capital prizes
before you ! So much for father and
mother ; so much lor poor relatives
and needy friends; so touch for ob
jects of charily—the rest to be care
fully invested so that you could not
waste it if you tried ever so hard.
And oli! such a present for the sweet
heart! The widow's heart should
leap lor joy, and the orphan should
shout with rapture. The pleasant
surprises you planned would have
made your own life‘and the lives of
others a romance.
Think of this and be thankful.
Months of bliss, and only five dollars
to pay for it all. Confess, it is the
cheapest, sweetest and most lasting
pleasure you ever had. Remember,
too, that nobody ever did make
good use of money drawn in a lot
tery, and lip gi.itclu! that you have I
escaped becoming a spendthrift fiioi j
on the one hand, or a niggardly i
knave on the oilier, despised L • vour
triends and contemned liv the world.
\\ ho does not prefer the fine of Al
na-char lo that of Mary Russell M
lord’s father? And now that ill*
same old solid, si. ady, life-long ex
isti nee of hours! labor lies before
you, iejo:ceainl be exceedingly glad,
j Man was made to earn his bread bv
die sweat ot his brow, and for die
remaining years ol your probation on
carlli von will have the proud con
sciousness that you are fulfilling the
nbj cts nl your creation. And ifihis
does not make yon happier than a
thousand opera houses, dn n you are
not the men we lake you to b•. Per
haps you came wilhia a hi%dred of
drawing die capital prize. If so, you
have only lo keep on fora century
I longer, and a g rin o! a single num
j her per annum vtili bring you m lasi
Itol he golden goal audio utter mis-
I cry. Remain poor, and he happy.
[('harieslou News.
An infidel was lecturing on his
favorite topic, against the Bible ai,<l
C/instiiiiiih/, in one ol die large lowns
in the north of England. He wns
peculiarly hitter against the word of
God. At the conclusion of die lec
ture, feeling much delighted with
his effort, he said, “It any one wish
es to reply, let him come forward
and speak.”
Alter a brief pause, a middle aged
woman came tip to the stand and
said, Sir, l wish to ask you a tiues
tion?”
“Well, mv good woman, what is
die question?”
“I'en years ago,” said .-lie, -‘I
was left a widow with eight small
children; my husband died poor; h
left me not much except a Bible.
That book has b-en read daiiv, and
I’ve found swet t com oil and great
support in its gracious tiuths. God
has blessed me and mv eliildn n
and has mercifully . applied m,
wants and theirs. I have a good
hope in Jesus Christ, and expeci
when I die to dwell with him forev
er. Now, sir, what has your be
lief done for you?”
Rather confused, die infidel re
plied: “My good woman, I’ve no de
sire to interfere with jour enjoy
ment.”
“That is not the question. What
has your way of thinking done lor
you?”
Much confounded, the man heat
a retreat amid the laughter of a
large congregation, who felt the
willow had surely and effectively
silenced the infidel.
LIFE’S PICTURES.
A story is told of a ricli landlord
who once oppressed a poor widow,
who was unlorlunate enough to he
his tenant, finally turning her out
into the street on a cold day in Win
ter. Her son, a mere child, les_-
than a dozen years old, remembered
the cruel scene, and in alter years
became an artist, and painted the
scene in a vivid manner, placing the
picture where the landlord could see
it, who turned pale at having his for
mer infamy brought to mind so forci
bly, and offered large sums of money
for the picture, that he might hide it
from his own and other people’s gaze.
But all in vain ; he could not buy
the picture, and lor a long time it
remained at his very threshold, as
it were, a silent evidence ot his for
mer infamy.
So has each human being an in
visible painter at his elbow, painting
on the soul’s canvas a record of the
acts and scenes oflife, depicting the
passions of his career with an inten
sity that at some future day will
haunt with their truthful denuncia
tions and biting rebukes.
Happy lo: us, then, if such dark,
sombre scenes are few, and their
smouldering fires are eclipsed by
fairer and more holy scenes, when
we gaze hack on the panorama of
our [last lives, and review our ca
reer before entering upon another
one of greater capabilities! Happy
for us, then, if our race after happi
ness, has not been a mere scramble
after riches, anil il we had nut grov
eled so long in the earth benealli our
leet that we have lost sight of the
beautiful skies above us. Yes, hap
py indeed if we had no haunting
picture of glaring misdeed, or pei
verted aspiration to point its ghoul
ish finger ever at us, or gieet us with
its sickly grin or malicious torment,
as we turn ibis way and that in a
vain endeavor to escape its upbraid
ings.
An Amherst Sophomore has de
vised anew way of telling bad news.
He writes home to his lather, “I
came near losing thirty-seven dol
lars last week.” Anxious parent
writes hack that lie is thankful the
money was not lost, and wains to
know “how near.” By return maih
“came within one of it—less thiriy
six.”
No. 43
Humorous.
A cynic remarks that ;Sit* only
lime a woman forgets to be vain is
when she is sea-sick.
Josh Billings says: “Knowing
how to sit square on a bile, without
hurting, is one of the lost arts.”
A cemetary seubunr lately pub
lished this card: “As ihe holidays
are approaching, and the time lor
presents is nearing, I beg to call at
teniion to my stock of tombstones.”
An experienced boy says he re
gards hunger and the chastening rod
as about the same thing. They both
make him holier.
Brisko advertises as follows :
“Will the fellow who stole mv hat
at a college sociable oblige me by
weaiing the same i:i broad daylight.”
It is said that if you take two let
ters from money, there will he but
oue left. We have heard of am m
who took money from two letters,
and tlieie wasn't any left.
W hen a man and a woman are
made one, the question is, which
one? S rnelimes then- is a long si rug
gle between them before die mailer
is settled.
An Indiana cooper put his son in
side a cask he was finishing, to hold
the head up. At last accounts he
was trying to find some wav lo get
him out through the bung bole.
“How would you like to sit on a ju
ry?” asked a gentleman of a strong
minded old maid. “I'd as soon sit
on a haiehet,” said the spmsier, with
a shake of her bombazine skirt.
A gentleman traveling in Ireland,
said to a very importunate beggar,
“You have lost all your teeih.” The
beggar quickly answered, “An it’s
time I parted with um, w hen I’d
nothing for um to do.”
“You can’t do 100 much for your
employers, man,” said somebody to
a big listed, strong backed man-of
ull-work, on ihe wharf the other day.
“Arndt,” replied Put, with emplia
sis, “neither will J.”
A little girl not far from Schenec
tady, after noticing lor some time
the glittering gold-filling ui her
aunt’s front teeth, exclaimed, Aunt
Mary, I wish I had copper-toefd
teeth like yours.”
A past >r was leaving us at tea
o’clock on Saturday night, remark
ing: “I have hall of my sermon to
write yet; don’t you pity me?” To
which we responded : “6, no ! Not
you, but the people.”
This was fair. “Would you be
lieve it,” said Rev. Mr. Ulihmngue,
to one of his elders, “1 never thought
of that subject till I got into the pul
pit.” To which his elder replied :
“That’s just what wife and l were
saying on our way from church.
At the late Ply mouth church pie
uic, Mr. Beecher was askr-d why he
did not dance. “There is but one
reason,” he replied, “I don’t know
how. The only dancing lever did,
was when my father furnished the
music, and used me as a fiddle, I
look all the steps then.”
A Pennsylvania editor, in ac
knowledging the gift of a peek of
potatoes, says: “It is such kind
nesses as these that bring lears to
our eyes. One peck of potatoes
makes the whole world kin. We
trusted in Providence, and this is
our reward. We would like a little
wood and some turnips, but that
would be asking too much, so we
wili try lo do without them.'"
At an annual examination recent
ly of a certain school not more than
fifteen miles from Boston, the mas
ter asked one of the scholars, “ Wiiat
the Pilgrims came over to America
in,” and had his equanimity some
what disturbed by the reply: “Two
steamers.” Turning to another
scholar, he endeavored to set mut
ters right hy asking“ When the Pil
grims landed,” and was again floor
ed by the answer: “1S60!”
A celebraied preacher of the 17th
century, in a sermon to a crowded
audience, described the terrors of
the last judgment with such elo
quence, pathos and force of action,
that some of his audience not only
burst into tears, but sent forth pierc
ing cries, as if the Judge himself had
been present, and was about to pa-s
upon them their final sentence. In
the height of this excitement the
preacher called upon them lo dry
their tears and cease their cries, as
he was about lo add something still
more awful and astonishing ihan any
thing he had yet brought before them
Silence being restored, he with an
agitated countenance and solemn
voice addressed them thns: “In one
quarter of an hour from this time the
emotions which you have just now
exhibited will be stifled; the remem
brance of the fearful truths which
excited them will vanish; you will
return to your carnal occupations or
sinful pleasures with your usual
avidity, and you will treat all you
have }ieard ‘as a tale that is told J ”
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