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THE JEFFERSON HH NEWS & FARMER.
VOle 1.
TIHIE
Jefferson News & Fanner
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S. W. ROBERTS & BRO:
LOUISVILLE CARDS.
R.W. Carswell, W. F. Denny.
Carswell & Denny,
ATTORXEI'S AT LAW.
LOUISVILLE GEORGIA,
WILL practice in all the Counties in the
Middlo Circuit. Also liurke in Au
gusta Circuit All business entrusted to their
care will meet with prompt attention.
Nov, 3. 27 1 v
“HTW. J. IIAM.
attorney at law.
SWAINS BORO’, GA.
Will practice in the Middle and Augusta
Circuits. All business entrusted to his care
will meet with prompt attention.
Nov. 17th. M7l, 2 If.
faToAnF J. H. POLHILL,
CAIN I POLHILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
* LOUISVILLE, GA.
May 5,1871. 1 ly.
T. F. II AIIL 0 W
W atcli a, is. © r
—AND—
R33PAIHHR,
Souisville, C-r a.
Special attention given to reno.
vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES Ac . Ac.
Also Agent lor the Home Shuttle Sowing
Machine.
May 5,1871. 1 lyrt
DR. I. K "POWELL,
LOUISVILLE, GA.
Thankful for the patronage
enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of con
tinuing the offer of his professional services to
patrons and friends.
May 5, 1871. I lyr.
medical.
DR. .1. R. SMI TH late of SamVrsvilleGa.,
offeis his Professional services to the
citizens of Louisville, and Jefferson county.
An experience of nearly forty years in the
profession, should entitle hint.to Public Con
fidence. Special attention paid to Obstetrics
and the diseases of women and children, of'
ficeat Mrs Doctor Millers.
Louisville June 20, 1871. Btf.
MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
Look Out for the Sign of
THE GOLDEN BEE HIVE,
IF you Wish to buy your Dry Goods at the
lowest prices,
<»RORRi: WEBER.
No. 176 Broad Street,
Opposite, AUGUSTA HOTEL.
E F. Bryan, W. S. Mclntosh,
BRYAN A IcINTOSH,
RECEIVING, FORWARDING
AND
Commission Merchants,
No, 140 (KELLY’S BUILDING) BAY ST.,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Agents for sale of the “PRATT” COTTON
GIN.
Prompt attention given to the sale of Cotton
Wool, and Country Produce of every descrip
tion. Liberal cash advances made on above
when in store- Correspondence Solicited,
Nov. 17 29 3m.
£
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mission Merchants, 177 Broad S.fcet, AU
GUSTA, GA.
Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Thursday, March 14, 1872.
New Advertisements.
Dissolution
—OF—
€o®&EwwmmiF.
The Copartnership heretofore ex
isting between the undersigned, un
der lhe firm name of
SAMUEL M. LEDERER & CO.
is this day dissolved hy mutual eon
Messrs ISAAC M. FRANK and
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN are alone
authorized lo sett'e the affairs ol the
late firm, collect all moneys due,
and sign in liquidation.
SAM’L M. LEDERER,
I. M. FRANK,
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN
Savannah, July ISth, IS7J.
Copartnership Notice.
The undersigned have this da\
associated themselves together as
Partners for the transaction of a
! General
DRY GOODS
business in the Oily ol Savannah,
under the firm name of
FRANK & ECKSTEIN,
AT 131 BROUGHTON ST.,
where they will continue to carry an
extensive stock ot
8 T A IP IL H
AND
DBT GOODS
AND
g.Q T I Q 1 8 .
Possessing facilities to purchase
Jll NEW ST.
New York.
Goods
in the
Northern
Markets
on the very best terms, will contin
ue to offer such
IR.JDQOCHKIITS
as will make it the interest of
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,
FBAKK & ECKSTEIN,
X3l 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.
August 18,;iy. u
J-Walkrn Proprietor. R If. McDonald ft Cos., Druggist* and
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They are the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and
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of the Liver, and all the Visceral Organs.
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DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Headache,
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Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste
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J. WALKER, Proprietor. R. 11. MCDONALD & CO..
D-’gglsts and (ion. Agents, San Francisco, California.
BarJOLD BY ALL DRLUCUSTS AND DEALERS,
p M; y i:j, 1671, |y.
DARBY'S
PROPHYLACTIC
FLUID
rpUiS invaluable Family Medicine, iu
purifying, cleansing, removing ba
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rheumatism, and all skin diseases; foi
catarrh, sore mouth, sore throat, diphtheria,
for colic, diarrhoea, cholera; as awash tc
soften and beautify the skin; to remov:
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161 William Sheet, N. V.
p Dec24’7o ly. rMay2 njune3 ly
Wm. H. Tison. Wm. W. Gdrdan
TISON & GORDON,
(established, 1854.)
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants,
112 BAY STREET
SAVANNAH, GA.
Bagging and iron ties advan
OED on C.ops.
Liberal Cash Advances made on Consign
ment. of Cotton. Careful attention to all busi
ness, and prompt returns Guaranteed,
oct. and r Si n 4m.
T MARK.WALTERS’
f j
Broad St., Augusta, (la.
MARBLE MONUMENTS, TOMB
STONES &C., &C.
Marble Mantels and Furniture-Marble of all
inds Furnished lo Order. AM work for tiie
Country carefully boxed for shipment.
M’oa 12 p '7n ly. neb 1, ’7l ly
M. Dye, J. T. Bothwell, J M. Dy J
DYE, BOTHWELL <fc CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
COMMISSION MFICCIIANTS
NO. 143 REYNOLDS ST.,
AUGUSTA, - - - GEORGIA.
LIBERAL advances made on cotton and
other produce when required. Orders
for Bagtriug, Ties and family supplies prompt
ly filled. Ail business entrusted to us will have
our prompt personal attention.
Commission for selling Cotton , percent 11
Sep, 23 Bit fim
lllisfcllitncotts.
IN TWENTY YEARS.
“Anil so you really think there is
nothing serious in Margatet's naugh
tiness, my dear sir,” said a fashion
ably dressed lady of five and forty
summers to a gentleman filieen years
her junior, who stood behind the
ope n library window, regarding her
with tn amused smile.
“N dhing at all serious, my dear
Mrs. Gray,” said the gentleman
quietly.
“And v hat do you think I had
better do witli her?”
“Sen i her to me if you Ike,” was
the negligent answer.
‘ Would you really take her ?”
“If u will give pleasure 1 will lie
happy to do so.”
“Dh, it will he such a weight off
my mind, Mr. Strong. I cannot tell
you what I have suffered Irom the
girl’s peculiar ways since I came
into this house lo live. Fond as I
was o Judge Gray, 1 doubt it I ever
could have made up my mind to
lake him had l known as much ol
his only child as 1 know now. And,
since her lather’s death, she has run
wild—positively wild Mr. Strong.—
l have not the slightest control over
Iter. In tact, she s< ts every one at
defiance, and what—”
“Yes, my dear tiiudaur,” .aid Mr.
Strong, howi g politely, as ii he
thought stie had completed her sen
tence. “1 can easilv understand it
.11. But send her to me und
ae will sec what cun he done.—
! have had some wild natures in my
time. Good alternoon, madam.”
With these words a human destiny
Wits decided.
The next day saw Margaret, the
only daughter and lx iress of the lat*-
Judge Gray, sitting quietly at a desk
in the village academy among a
group of girls, who eyed her over
their school hooks as stealthily and
curiously as if she had been a newly
imported kangaroo.
Fust, because, with her clear,
• right brunette complex on,her large,
Ink eyes, and her curling, brown
.i.iir, she was ay far the handsomest
girl in the whole school.
Secondly, because she was an
leiress.
Third and lastly, because they
had heard many a taleofherhaughty
and capricious temper, and were in
daily aad houtly expectation ol a
strife for the mastery between her
and their grave and handsome teach
er, whose authority no one within
diose walls would ever dream ot dis
puting, unless, indeed, it would be
her.
But much to the wonder, and vert
possibly to the disappointment of the
school girls, no such outbreak had
occurred. Margaret, perched in the
library gallery at home, among her
well beloved books, bad heard her
step-mother’s accusation, and the
teacher’s laughing reply. Neither
of the sneakers had been aware ol
her presence, and she did not make
it manifest by word, or look, or sign.
But when they were gone,she clench
ed her little, white hand, vowed pas
sionately to herself, that she would
surprise them both, and make her
step-mother appear to others the
harsh, censorious, and unjust woman
she herself, in her own secret heart,
had always been willing to believe
her.
Accordingly? when informed of
theexisling arrangements, she utter
ed no word of opposition, much to
the astonishment of Mrs. Gray, who
could scarcely believe her own eyes
when she saw Margaret obediently
leave the house each morning, with
her satchel of books swinging from
her arm. Mr. Strong was also puz
zled. His deep blue eyesolten met
those brown eyes with a look of won
der itig inquiry that made Margaret
long to laugh. But the one asked no
questions; the other answered none.
And so the days went on, and Mar
garet passed' her first examination
triumphantly, and was proclaimed
the best and most promising scholar
in the school.
She ought, therefore, to have been
happy. But it was with a very sad
lace that she went into the familiar
hall, just dusk, on the evening o! the
great examirition day, to collect her
books, and take one last secret look
at a place she would never again see
tenanted as it had been tenanted of
late—the master’s chair.
There it stood upon the raised
platform, empty and desolate. The
stately figure that filled it like a
throne was absent; and yet, to her
dreaming eye, present as plainly as
ever. She saw the high, while brow,
and the curls of sunny brown hair,
and the deep blue eyes, and the
beautifully chiseled lips that closed
so firmly in spite of her beauty. She
heard the deep, sweet tones of that
beloved voice—beloved ! She start
ed at the thought.
“Oh! my dear, dear master!”
| she said aloud, and burying her head
in her hands, she sank ilmvn upon
the empty chair and wept.
A step crossed she hull hastily—
an arm was thrown around her wuisi;
that voice, all hurried and --igiiaied,
was speaking in her vrn o r!
“My pupil! Oh, il I w iv younger
or you older; 11 1 werenclx > or-Vou
poorer, 1 would dare s:t\ ‘.My Mar
garet, and do my best to turn this
girlish liking in n a woman’'- love :
Bui I am a poor man, ami I am fif
teen years older than you. lteinem
ber me in after days, and sav t<> your
self that these were the harriers that
rose between us. Heaven bless von,
dear. I dare not kiss your bps
You must keep them' for the man
you will love and marry one <I i\
when lam far away. But youi
hand ”
He raised it to his lips and a hot
tear fell with the long, lingeting kiss
and seemed to horn into ihe soft,
white (lesil.
Before she could speak or stop
him, he hurried Irom the room. Tlx
pleasant “summer term” was over,
and the handsome, stately “master”
was gone to return no more.
And twenty vears passed by.
To Margaret they seemed to btiug
little of I rial or eha mre
She still dwelt in her old home,
though her fashionable mother had
long since left it to shadi the man
sion ol a merchant prince upon Filth
Avenue.
Margaret felt no desiie to share
the splendor of which the late widow
was so inordinately proud. The
dear old homestead was grand and
good enough lor her, and all the
dearer, if the whole truth must be
told, since that jarring presence was
lemoved. So she dwell there qui
etly, with a maiden aunt for chape
ron and companion; and all her
-ehonhnates were married, ami she
alone tein iim and as ever, Margaret
Gray.
Il was not, however, for luck of
offers that she lived tins single, soli
lary file. Many a finer had came
to won; tin her brown curls and
soli, dark eyes, and rosy cheeks and
Grecian features, and a perfect lip
do not olt<*i go begging ibr a pur
chaser, when backed by such a fir
tune as Margaret possessed. She
had suitors by the score until il came
publicly to be known that she would
lar rather see the suitors at the dis
lance, or wooing someone else. Al
ter that no man ventured to try his
luck with Judge Gray’s heiress, and
the rejected lovers consoled them
selves as speedily as possible by
marrying the prettiest of her fiiends.
Margaret went cheerfully to each
wedding, wished the bridegtooms
joy, and gave to the brides some
beautiful and valuable gifts. Kvi
dently she was then “wearing the
willow” Ibr no one. What could the
meaning of celibacy so determined
be ?
And the days and years went on.
And a birth day came at last, which
showed how the school girl of fifteen
was now the woman of thirty five.
On that day Margaret arranged
her abundant tresses before the glass,
saw the first gray hair.
She stopped to look at il-with a
melancholy smile.
“Ah, he would not say 1 was too
young now,” she exclaimed.
And just then a tap came at the
door, and the servant entered and
brought her a card.
“The gentleman is below, Miss
Margaret, and would like to speak
with you, if convenient,’ 5 said the
girl.
Margaret looked at the card.
“Ellison Strong.”
The room reeled round and round,
and she turneJ so pale that the giri
was then frightened.
“Sure, Miss Margaret, itisili that
ye are, and I’ll go down and send
the gentleman away.”
“No, no!” said Margaret, recov
ering her composure with an effort.
“Help me to finish dressing, Kate;
L must see him !”
Kate, with all a woman’s quick
ness, guessed something of the truth,
and did her best to make ber mis
tress look a- pretty as possible.
With the old color in her cheek,
and the old happy light in her soli,
brown eyes, Margaret stole down
the stairs. But at the parlor door
a sudden thought startled and cheek
ed her.
“I am thirty-live years old to-day,
and he is now a man of filly. He
has been away tor twenty years.
How can 1 hope or lancy that he
has rememtx red me all this li.ne as
I have thought of him.”
A little sobered by this misgiving,
she opened the door.
She looked for a man almost a
stranger; a man bent and bowed
with the cares of twenty years; a
man whose brow was furrowed, and
whose sintuesque beauty gone as if
it had never been.
And she saw before her Ellison
Strong as she had seen him on the
very day of their parting twenty
years before. Stalely and as erect
! .is ever, with a b illianl color on lo
cheek, and hi- blue eyes lla-iiiiii
j wiih all the fne of early youth, an.
I not a trace ol care or sorrow ;o mat
j the beauty whii Ii she remembere
Iso Will. He sprang lo meet her,
j and took her by the hand, and look
j oil down into her eyes with a catch
! mg, almost iinpi-nous, glance.
“Margaret,” said the deep, swei
| voice, whose mus.c was unchanged,
j “1 have staid away from you a whole
J life time; and at last the craving to
j see or hear of you grew too stiong to
he denied. I came here expecting
to find you a happy wife, with your
childton at your knee, and here you
are, solitary and alone, though young
and beautiful as ever. How is that?”
She could not answer with those
and» ep-blue eyes searching her droop
ing (ace so inti'ii Iv. Bill a deep
crimson blush rose slowly lo her
cheek and neck and brow, as lie drew
her close to his sole, and spoke In
hei far more elopienlly than even
words could do.
“1 h Ii you twenty years ago, m\
darling, because I was a poor man
and tillet-n years your senior. lam
rich now—but what about years,
Margaretr” flxy have made me
no younger—l am fifty years old to
day.”
“But I am thirty-five,” she said,
in a low voice. “I see no gray
liaiis in your brown curls; they be
gin to come hi mine. Fifty y< or.-
old to-day ? You look not an Ii no
older iliuii when we parted in the
hall.”
He bent bis face down upon hers.
“Margaret, you liked me then—
can you love me now ?—will you be
my wife?”
For an answer she lifted lx r lip
to his.
Twenty years ago you would not
kiss me ; you hade me keep that first
kiss lor the man I was to love and
marry. I have kept it for you for
twenty years. Will you take it i o.\?
He held her closely to Ins heart m
.silence.
Thirty-five and fifty years ot ag' !
Does it seem absurd to you, young
lady of sixteen? Ah, me! 1 some
times wonder it people ever really
know how to love before gray hair
begin lo come to leach them.
A MI UNANIMOUS BUIKSMITII.
A one-armed horseman, reee ulv
traveling through Missouri, stopped
at a blacksmith’s shop to have bis
horse shod. The smith noticed the
empty sleeve, and asked him if he
lost his aim in the war. He re
plied, with a sigh, that he did, and
even more, going on lo relate how
he left home lo enlist in the southern
army, and at the close of the war,
on going back he found that his wife
who thought him dead, had moved
away, and he had since been una
ble to obtain a tiaee of her. “What
is your name ?” asked the black
smith. When the answer was “J.
M. Walrup,” he suddenly released
the hoof over which he had been
bending, and, without looking at the
soldier, cried : “Follow me into the
house,” and hurriedly led the way.
Result, lire discovery ot Mrs. Wal
rup with three new children by her
side. She had supposed Walrup
dead, and had accordingly been
married to the blacksmith. The two
men wisely came to the conclusion
to let the lady choose between them,
and she elects in favor of Walrup.
Then she says she cannot do with-
out the children, and the blacksmith
says, after a most painful pause,
“You shall take them my dear.”—
“When the steamboat St. Luke,’'
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, in a
most touching paragraph, “stopped
at the landing some hours later, Wal
rup on board with bis still weeping
and thick veiled wile, and the black
smith followed with his children.—
The boat’s bell rang for the starting,
and the separation was at hand.—
The crew, the passengers, the cap
tain —all who witnessed it—were
affected to tears by the touching
scene,
Willi great drops rolling down
his tawny cheek, the smith kissed
the children one alter another, and
in a choking voice bade their moth
er an eternal good bye.—The Uvo
men gazed wistlully at each other’s
faces, shook hands long and earn
estly, and then the blacksmith, by
a strong effort of iron will, released
the hand of Walrup, and walked
quietly to the shore. He never
turned his lace again toward the
boat, which soon passed out ol
sight around a merciful bend in the
liver, but strode on, with head bow
ed down, to the home whither the
voice of his wife and children should
welcome him no more.”
A loving heart and pleasant conn
tenanee are commodities which a
man should never fail to take home
with him. They will best season his
food and soften his pillow. It were
a great thing for a man that his wife
and children could truly say to him,
“He never brought a frown of un
happiness across his threshold."
No. 45
Wnat Ttwii
As 1 sit here in ihis q ~v
I seem In hear m , . ,
“ Wild llidu dm si, «lo i] , •.
what 1 may. think v. a,i J .;//
think, slill I hear ia •, •, ~
quiet a • >lie room, “Wimt tim.i ■
da q licklv.”
Why is ill camiat ra I Wnv
is it 1 cannot think whe I w:h To
think, uidiout these w,>r .. - ~ ;;.
I wing mi ? And u h it dotliev mean?
Wll.-t lllve [ld <|,, ? 11, , u ‘. ~( ) , lU
■MI, no oIIt of spt’cch, Hf i u of (
eadv wilier, no Iv.-miy of lac . ,
SWi ,In ss Ofv. ice. i have nothing (O
•o. Surelvtlle vo.ee i- . io: : ~ ■ |
■'hiv believe in the law <,f .-•> mi'ti
•alion, hat it, vi i■ is ih ex , ,
hint proves the rule. I mi i,. r ,.,
and he.-e I exjicet lo remain i
die.
“Ah !” you say, “ii -■ ems sad to
nuke in progress in li;.-, and to find
■ ae’s soil no timber at the day
>1 me denih, lit,-in :i ihe day of
•lie’s l>irih. v It i, sad. How'true
hai we cannot stait-l still ns regards
our physical development; we can
•t r,, w as the trees and .-lirubs grow,
i>eeause ii is our naliiii- la. hut us
in ao\ real deveiopm m | tin- im, e |-
■h'-. year afiei .. ar .. n ro/i around
uid limi ns on tin- sum, jdane ~i s dm
year before, or even low, - down.
Haw useless la spend I, lime |,|
I I mi k-s i xacriine,i s, i ( > fj. J( J~m (),[•
vhai we are host situ and.
w fiat sptendi llv !>., 1 1r ea-d,.., W ero
toppled over, when we found each
exp riiie-iit a litiiuie, a ,| tin- q e s
tion still unsolved. How many
times the vision glowed, and i>,;«(,[_
ened, and shaped it-.li'mio many
colored clouds of beamy, and we
watched the tints, so carefully a <1
e'osely, an I t ought we ,•aught
gl."loses of Ihe dawning ~| a ~'w
life, when Ihe gay clouds jiv w m
somber hue, fir-t grav, tin-i: Id,id.
.tud die vision faded. And ns we
-ill motionless in da dark a-;- we
only said Well; . ~j
been,” and thinking- it onlv the ex
plosion -1 a hull.a ou . tried buaitie
of anew experiment.
Anothet i si of la k of ia! • o| ; ft' J
had talent then l should see ih fruit
“I what and. , for “every tree is known
by ns fruiis." And,‘niter -owing a
tew seed hy the wayside of i -,i ~x .
perimentiii file of our-, we -b with
loldeil hands to watch if bapiy ih. v
might spring up. Tli.- s- eds w.- w
sown with little faith, little ira i and
little watching as to where they ie!:.
Bu l hey spran >up and bio'ught forth
fruit abundantly. Vvhnt.io y u - v ;
can see seed like dial bear hn ?
Yes it can, and will, and did. Bui
what kind of hint w, - u ? rjan v u
expect “lirs of thistle-,” oroi ‘ bram
bles gather they grapes?”
Wiiat was oureonstcriiation at be
holding great weeds of error g,own
up strong anil high, and -hutting out
the sunshine from the lew si kly
plants of truth that came up, and at
last we could see no truth at all.
But we have ro excuse; there is no
one who, it lie sets to work to do
“whatsoever his hand fin-.leih to do,
with all his might.”hut that will find
he had one talent (he it ever so small)
that he has kept buried in a napkin.
II you have been lamenting over
your unfitness, slop no longer; —
“What thou d.iest, do quickly, for
the night corneih when no man car.
work.” 11 you work well, you will
say with the soldier who hud fought
his last battle—
“ I lay me down to slei p,
With little thought or care
Whether my waking find me
Here or then-.”
B it if the batde of life h.-.s not
been fought, you have need to feel
alarmed. We are not ready “not to
do” until our halfday’s work is all
done ami our Fath.-r calls us income
up higher. Work, aud work quickly;
and, though often weary,
“ We'll grasp TTis banner still,
Though all its stars be dim ;
These stripes no less than stars,
Lead after him.”
s.
Moore's Rural New Turk r.
Tiie Gift of Tact What a
wonderful oil upon the machinery of
human affairs tact is. To know just
what to say-, and when to say ii and
io whom to say it; to know when to
he silent, aud when deferentially to
listen, is a great gift. No one can
fully appreciate thisqu tli v vvljoh is
not had the misfortune of livino with
a blundering person, who never
moves nor speaks without uninten
tionally wounding or off-mlingsome
body. Contiguity with such.a one is
fearful to the nerves, and temper
too. We doubt whether tact, in any
considerable degree, can be acquire
ed. It is born with some and
is natural to them as the col
or of theif eyes or hair. We have
seen little children who were
feet in it, without the slightest idea,
of course, of the diplomacy they were
enacting.