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THE GRAVE.
The grave, all still and shadowy, .ics,
Beneath its hallowed ground;
A nd dark the mist to human eyes
That float to precincts round.
No music of the grove invades
That dark and weary way :
And fast the votive flowret fades
Upon its heaving clay.
And vain the tear in beauty’s eye,
The orphans groan in vain—
No sound of clamorous agony
Shall pierce its gloomy reign
Yet that oblivion of the, tomb
Shall suffering Man desire ;
And through that shadowy gateof gloom,
The weary Soul ret re.
TANARUS! e bark by ceaseless storms oppressed,
Runs madly to the shore ;
Ar.d there the grief-worn heart shall rest—
Tin re, where it beats no more.
Mr. Greeley’s Daughters—Mr. Gree
ley was a man of the intensest feelings'
After the strain of a hard-wotked life,
in his declining years, he watched al
most incessan ly by the side of a dy
ing wife. The anguish of a final sep
aration after a union with one long
loved, together with he almost con
stant strain upon his nervous s; stem
for months, necessarily by his position
and events, proved more than humani
ty could- Horace Greeley is a spirit
now, and has ere now met and been
united in the spirit world to her he
loved so well in this. But while he is
gone where he needs no human cen
sure, and where he needs no moral
praise, his orphan daughters yet re
main. Think of them. First, they
stood by a mothers’s death-bed and
then by a mother’s grave. While yet
the sod was sounding on the coffin’s
lid the fiance of the elder was perislf ng
amid the flames of the ill-starred
steamer Missouri. The sad news had
scarcely reached her when, with her
younger 6istcr, she was called to the
bed side of their rapidly sinking fa
ther. In a few days he, too, was not
of earth. Might not the strongest
mind succumb to such a pressure ?
The orphans are not friendless. The
world is full of friends to them, but no
words of friendly sympathy can at this
time do ought to mitigate the poignan
cy of their anguish ; that time and
changing scenes alone can alleviate.
They have our hopes— they have our
prayers.— Ex.
Just So.— When a man gives little
significant shrugs and mysterious in
sinuating elevations of the eyebrows,
and twists his mouth into a disdainful
pucker when the name of a pretty girl
is mentioned, depend upon it he has
tried to make love to her and been re
pulsed— Elm Orlou.
THE PALMETTO SHIELD.
(communicated)
Letter From North Georgia.
Calhoun, Ga , February loth, 1873
Editor Shield: —Doubtless some of
your readers would like to hear fr m
tbe northern part of the State oeca
siariallyi; therefore I make an effort o
pen a brief record of events lately
transpiring in this section, hoping not
to pmve altogether monotonous.
Bus ness on the line of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad has recently re
laxed to some extent, as we have been
almost totally deprived of outer com
munication, for a few days, owing to
the many misfortunes befalling this
road It would seem as though tlm
fates were against it scarcely a day
without some accident occuring. The
losses to the Company must be im
mense.
The first great, calamity was the
burning of tiie bridge across the
o"ster>anla River at Resaca, on the
night of the 7th of January. A con
siderable force of workmen, however,
succeeded in replacing the bridge so
that trains could pass safely over it in
a few days—but little time being lost.
They then intended to fix it up ar their
leisure, but a sudden and unexpected
rise in the river, brought against the
temporary pilla-s, or supporters, a
huged ift of i.eavy timbers with such
force that the supporters gave way,
and precipitated toe bridge into the
water which bore it down. The pa
tient workmen again succeeded in re
erecting it; but it was again washed
away, and again reared, when the
trains passed over as usual until Tues
day last, when the recent heavy iains
swelled the river to such an enormous
extent that danger was apprehended,
and a different plan was this time
adopted to save the bridge: a freight
train, heavily loaded, was placed on it,
which has thus far held ii to its place,
despite the madden efforts of the
swollen waters to carry it down.
The river is now falling, and no
further danger is apprehended. The
loaded trains will be removed as soon
as considered safe, and the trains
allowed to run until sortie other ca
lamity prevents.
Another accident befalling this seem
ingly unfortunate Road, was the burn
ing of the Depot at Ringgold, one
night last week, incurring great
losses. It is supposed to have caught
fire from the engine.
The late overflow has done consider
able damage to the wheat crop
throughout this section Many of the
fanners will have to plow up their
wheat on the lowest bottoms, and plant
tbe same ground in corn, so great was
the damage
The farmers generally, are prepai -
ing for the coming crop This is one
of the best grain growing counties in
the State;'there will he by far, more
cotton planted this year than any since
the war.
One portion of our county has been
recently scourged by that terrible
malady, small pox. A family of ten
persons,about ten miles from tiiis place,
was afflicted witli it. A young man of
the family caught the disease on a
boat, returning home from the west. —
Thiough the skillful attentions of our
physicians only two cases out of the
ten were lost. All fears of its spread
ing have subsided.
Having briefly endeavored to give
your readers all the current news of
this section, I will close witli more
anon, success to you and the Shield.
D. B F.
House Work. —There is not a girl 011
earth, whether the daughter of prince
or pauper, who, if made a perfect mis
tress of all household duties, and were
thrown into a community wholly un
known, would not rise from one station
to another, evidently become the mis
tress of her own mansion, while mul
titudes of young women placed
in position of ease, elegance aud afflu
ence, but being unfitted to fill them,
will as certainly assend from one round
of the ladder to another, until at the
close of life they are found where the
really competent started from. Mo hers
of America, if you wish to rid your
own and your children’s households of
the destroying locusts which infest
your houses and eat up your substance
take a pride in educating your daugh
ters to be perfect mistresses of every
home duty ; then if you leave them
without a dollar, be assured they will
never lack a warm garment, a bounte
ous meal, or a cosy roof, nor fail of the
respect of any one who kuows them.
PALMETTO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1873.
GOING HOME WITH SALLY.
A Little Sketch of Other Hays.
One bright moonlight winter’s night
in the days of “ling syne,” when
school-houses, cln ap schoolmasters
and blue beach-rods were the only in
strumentalities used for teaching the
‘ young idea how to shoot,” we
ced to attend a “spelling-school” in a
certain rural district, the geological
relation of which is not now necessary
to meulion. ’Twas there, however,
where 0111 eyes first foil pin a “fairy
from, that immediately set our suscep
tible heart in a blaze. She was Nix
teen or thereabout, with bright eyes,
red cheeks and cherry lips, while the
auburn ringlets clustered in a wealth
of profusion around her beautiful head ;
and her person, to our ravished imagi
nation was more perfect in form and
outline than the most faultless statue
ever chiseled by the culptor’s art. As
we gazed, our feelings, which never
before aspired girlward (we were
scarcely eighteen,) were fully aroused,
and we determined to go home with
her that night or perish in the attempt.
As soon, therefore, as school was dis
missed, and our “lady-love” suitably
bonneted and cloaked, we approached
to offer our services as c< ntemplated,
and we then learned an important les
son, viz : the difference between re
solving and doing As w neared her
to put our resolution into execution,
we seemed to be stricken with a sud
den blindness ; then red, green and
yellow lights flashed across our vision,
and appeared and disappeared like
witches in a phantasmagoria. Our
knees smote together like Belshazzar’s,
and our heart thumped with apparent
ly as much force as if it were driving
tenpenny nails into our ribs ! We, in
the meantime having reached Sally’s
side, managed to mumble over some
thing which is perhaps known to the
recording angel, but surely is not to
us, at the same time poking out our
elbow as nearly at right angles with
our breast as our | hysical contortion
could possibly permit.
The first feeling >-ver, what was out
delight to find the object of our love
clinging to our arm with all the tenac
ity a drowning man is said to clutch a
stia-'-. Talk of Elysium, or sliding
down greased rainbows, or feeding in
flutes, what are such “pheelings” in
comparison with those mighty ones
that swelled our bosom high unto
bursting oil our waistcoat buttons ?
Our happiness was simply ec.-titic,
and every young lady or gentleman
who has felt the mighty throbbings of
a newly-pledged love, will completely
understand that common word.
Well, we walked on pleasantly to
ward Sally's home, conversing very
cosily and sweetly as we passed along,
until so courageous did we become
that we actually proposed “to go and
sit awhile,’’ to which our dulcinea
very graciously assented. Aias for
us 1 how soon vve were to be reminded
that “the course of true love never did
run smooth !’’
“Sally hud a brother of some ten
summers, who accompanied us along
the way, and who was in wonderful
high spirits at the idea of his sister’s
having a beau ; and he would circa
late around us, every now and then,
giggling iu ttie bight of his glee and
examining us as closely as f Sally and
ourself was the world-ienowned Sia
mese twit s, and he was taking his first
look. Bill, by the way, was a stubbed
chuckle headed boy, whose habiliments
would have made the fortune of an or
dinary dealer in, mop rags.
At length we arrived at the bars,
and while we we letting them down,
Bill shot past us and tore for the
house, as it pursued by a thousand
bulls of Baslian. He flung open the
door with a hang, and shouted at the
top of his voice :
“Mother, mother ! Jim Clark is corn
in’ home with Sail !
“Is he ?” screamed the old woman
in reply. "Wall, I declare ! I didn’t
think the sapliead knew enough.”
Reader, we didn’t turn.
A sttuttering broker in New Yoik
lately asked another, who had a bald
pat e, why his head was like h-liash in
a ha hoarding house. The disgusted
friend, on admitting that he didn't
know, was infoi med that '(was because
th-there's a h-hair h-h-here and til
th-there.—Rowell's Reporter.
"Griffin ladies lead their husbands
out of bar-rooms by the ears.”
Eli Perkins on Insurance
I didn’t use to believe’ much in in
surance; I cnee had my life it suri and for
four years, and 1 never got any ben
efit from it Tlten I threw up the
policy. 1 waited patiently eveiy day to
get that SSOOO. I began to think it
was interfering with the Lord’s plan
this insurance to prevent deatii—so I
destroyed the wicked papers. After
examining till the policies I came
to the conclusion that honesty was the
best i olicy for me. That didn’t cost
much, then I felt more like holding
sweet converse with my tailor and
shoemaker. It wasn’t three days
after I forced up my policy before I
had my pocket picked, then I fell out
of a third-story window on to a pick
et fence. The fence was insured, and
of course, it wasn’t hurt. This discour
aged I tore up my honesty poliev,
scolded Mrs. Perkins, and gi t my life
insured again. Since then I’ve had
excellent health and an increased ap
petite. I’ve gained fourteen pounds
Now Igo for life insurance. I insure
everything : wife, mother-in-law, hor
ses, chambermaid and coach dog.
Mr. Smith, my next door neighbor,
don’t believe in insurance. He has no
policy. What is the result ? YVliy,
his chambermaid fell off the roof where
she was hanging clothes : down, down
six stories into a coal hole. Result :
killed, killed dead. No policy.
Ycsteiday my horse ran away. He
wanted to kick every thing to pieces
Smith screamed, but says I, “It’s all
right, Smith. Horse is insured, let
’im kick. So’s the wagon and myself
too.” lie kicked. Result: Smith got
kicked clear over the wheels into a
crockery store. No policy. Horse
came in all right and I didn’t have
oven my placid shirt bosom ruffled.
Insure in the Mutual. Don’t wait.
Delays are dangerous. Now I walk
up and down the stable by kicking
horses boldly and fearlessly. They
can’t hurt me ; I’m insured.
Yesterday two men, hitched tandem,
ran off with a horse who was driving
a dog cart. They collided with a lum
ber ln-rse and a one-horse market wo
man, smashing a conductor drawn by
a street car and twenty-four passen
gees loaded down with horses holding
to the straps. Ever)’ street car and
dug cart not insured were instantly
killed. The axletrce of the uninsured
men was broken, while an insured
man received only a slight scratch on
his dashboard, and grazed one of his i
wheels. Insured.
Many other accidents proved to me
the power of insurance to prevent
death or damage to character.
A small pox was violently attack: and
by a woman, and the whole family,
broke out; crying. Didn’t insure.
A man had a difficulty with his wile,
and in a moment of rage tore up her
policy. She lingered along five days,
and then died—dyed her hair Have
you a policy ? Do not hesitate, but
insure at once in the Lug Cabin Mu
tual.
A citizen of this county, a few days
ago, called at otic of our grocery
stores co purchase some meat, and
was told by the merchant t at, owing
to the burning of a bridge on the State
Road, he did not know when his meat
would get here. To which the afore
said citizen, who is a stutterer, re
plied : “Tli-tli that pl-plays th-the and and
1 wi-witli a fel-fel-fellow’s b-b-liel
ly !” Hamilton Visitor..
B*g” The gushing Miss Anthony, who
voted when it wasn’t her turn, togetli
er with the men who took her vote,
are said to he on thedimet road to the
State Prison W 2 hope the men when
they are alifeonfined will et Susan B
Mrs. Mary Miller, who rode from
Exeter to Pottstown, Pa., on louse
back, to attend the funeral ohseivan
ces ( f George Washington, in that
borough, on the 11th of January, 1800,
is still living at M. unt Airy, Bi lks
county, aged ninety-t wo.
A riiial gentleman standing over a
register in a stoie attracted genetal
attention to himself by observing to
his wile, Marion, I guess I’m going to
have a fever, I feel such hot streaks
running up my legs.
A Western editor says of a neighbor
with a quivering eyelid “ that he
stuters in the left eye “
A cow fell in a well thirty feet deep
at Jonesboro one day week before last
and was drawn out by freed men.
f k' p .
Wnirrtxc T. nui.ee,,
ether shrewd flien, nT,..,. s.- i<*vo-e/thi„
eyes open. A good story is told of one
wlio started a paper in a Western
town. The town was infested by
gamblers, the presence of sai I gan
biers was a source of annoyance
to the citizens, who told the editor if
he did not come out against them they
would not patronize his paper. He re
plied that he would give them a
“smasher” next day. Sure enough his
neat issue contained the promised
“smasher,” and on the following morn"
ing the redoubtable editor, with scis
sors in hand, was seated in his
sanctum, when in walked a large man
with a club in his hand and demanded
to know if the editor was in.
‘ No, sir,” was the reply; “he has
just stepped out. Take a seat and
read the papers —he wiil return in a
minute.”
Down sat the indignant man of cards,
crossed his legs, witli his club between
them, and commenced reading a paper.
In tie meantime toe editor quietly
vamosed down stairs, and at the land
ing he met another excited man, with
a cudgel in his hand, who asked if the
editor was in.
“Yes, sir,’’ was the prompt reply,
“you will find him seated up stairs,
reading a newspaper.”
The latter, on entering the room with
a fearful oath, commenced a violent
assault upon the former, which was
resisted with equal ferocity. The fight
was cortinued till they had both rolled
to the foot of the s’airs, and had
pound: and each other to their heart’s
content.
Squire Johnson was a model
lawer, as the following anecdote will
show :
Jones once rushed into the Squire’s
office in a great passion, and said.
“That infernal scoundrel of a cobbler,
Smith, has sued me for five dollars 1
owe him for a pair of boots.”
“Then you owe him five dollars?”
“To be sure I do, but lie’s gone and
sued me—sued nr:e 1 ’
“Then why don’t you | ay’ him, if you
owe him ?’’
“Because he’s 6ued me, and when a
tnan does that I’ll never pay till it costs
him more than begets. I want you
to make it cost him all you can.,’
ut it will cost you something too.’’
“I don’t care for that. What do you
charge to begin with?”
“Ten dollars, and more if theie's
much extra trouble.”
“All right! There's the X. Now go
ahead."
No sooner was his client gone than
Squire Johnson stepped across to his
neighbor Smith, and offered to pay the
bill on condition that the suit should
be withdrawn. The shoemaker gladly
accorded all he wanted was his pay.
The lawyer retained the other five foi
his fee, and as the case was not
troublesome lie made no demand upon
his client.
Ten days after, Jones came to see
how his case was getting on."
“All Right," said the lawyer; “you
won't have any trouble ah ul that J
put it to Smith so strongly that he was
glad to ithdra wtt suit altogether ‘
“0 apilal!" cried the exulting Joins.
“You’ve done it tip brown! You shall
have all my business hereafter!"—
Land And Law Advisor.
The naughty little boys of Franklin
have almost run the citizens crazy, by
their mode of serenading. The Editor of
the News says : That they charge
over town with tin pans, osy er boxes,
and unear lily appliances, beating the
sides of houses and kicking lip gener
ally.
Died in Selma, Alabama, on Tues
day, tin' 28th instant, at the resi
dence of her son-inlaw, William
Rothroek, Esq , Mis Anna Fitch, aged
seventy-five years, relict of Dmastus
Fitch, E-q , deceased, late of Pawlet.
Vermont Mrs. Fitch was almost a
saint on earth. She is now an angel
near the throne or God. Griffin Ear,
21s/., ull
A newspaper in Ottawa county,
Kansas, lias the following: “Last
week we announced tlie mairiuge of a
young friend, and now it becomes our
pleasant duty to announce that he is
the farlier of a bouncing lioy.’
Ji hn Roges is modeling a statuett
entitled the Fa ored Scholar. We
have not yet seen the deign, but sup
pose it represents a school-master
kissing a big girl behind the black
board.
VA 'N ■•* Dour.
j ..rn tiiijM . • ”
vailing at Hoga * L .
There is a negro boy in Fort Valley
so bcwh gged that he has his pants
cut by a circular saw.
The young men of Columhns fait.l l„
j church in order to attract the attention
! of the young ladies.
Small pox is reported in the vicinity
of Calhoun.
Fifteen babies were born in Carroll
ton week before last. Hurrah for Car
roll.
The jail at Franklin, Ga., has anew
coat of white paint.
Tbe Calhoun merchants aie three
handed left hand—right hand, and a
little behind hand, in advertising.
Dr. Reese of Newnan, has captured
a white rat,
“A Danbury sport wears a ten cent
silver piece on his shirt bosom, ui.d
calls it a dime and pin, which it cer
tainly is.”
“There is a man wTi i keeps a list of
all the banks in the country, so as to
be able to say that he keeps a bank
account ”
“Fifteen lies to the square inch rep
resent the editor ial power of a Kansas
Oily newspaper, if its rival is to be
believed.”
“A Virginia paper describes a fence
which is made of such crooked rails
that every time a pig crawls through
becomes out on the same side.”
“The Gainesville Eagle announces
with pride, that In r citizens do not en
gage in the pleasint pastime of eating
dirt.
“An old lady’s buggy broke down
in mud, auld deep, on Decater street,
in Atlanta a few days ago, and she
tucked her calico under her arms, and
waded out to the solid ground.
Five hundred negroes passed up the
State Road for Arkansas last week.—
File hundred more deaths will be
recorded in the Mississippi bottoms the
present year.— Ex.
A merchant advertised for a clerk
“who could bear confinement,” and
received an answer from one who bad
been seven years in jail.
The Indiana woman who threw a
burglar down stairs and broke I is
neck is very sorry now. She thought
it was her husband coming home tip
sy-
( Louns.-One of the saddest thoughts
that come to us in life is the thought
(hat in this ! right, beautiful, joy-giv
ing world of ours, there are so many
shadowed lives.
If differing came only with crime,
even then we might drop a tear over
him wl cue errors wrought their ow n
recompense. But it is not to, alas !
Then we should not have it to record
that the noblest and most gifted are
oft: n among those who may count
their fate among shadowed lives.
With one it is the shadow of a grave,
long, deep, and narrow, which falls
over a life, shutting out the gladness
of the .-onsliine, blight ng the tender
blossoms of hope.
Willi another, it is the wreck of a
great ambition He lias budded bin
ship, and launched it on the sea ol life,
freighted with the richest jewels of
his strength, his energies, his manhood.
Behold, it comes hack to him beaten,
battered, torn in some horrible terns
pest, “the wreck of a first rate.”
With some others, diseases throws
its trniblo shadows over the portals,
and shuts out the brightness and joy
of the outside woild from the sufferer
within. But this is the lightest shad
ow of all ; for it teaches the heart les
sons of endurance arid faith, aud
through its darkness the sufferer sees
ever the <-tar of promise shining with
lays that tell ol ttie glories beyond.
Of all shadowed lives, we find it in
oiii- hearts to feel most for those which
ar>- lai kened by an unhappy marriage.
I. nhappy marriages is the quintes
sence of human bondage. It wounds
daily our fondest and sweetest impul
se-', it trifles with and buries our liolis
est and dearest affections, aad writes
over ttie tomb thereof; “No hope.” It
embitters the victim with the thought
that lost forever to Ids or her life is a
glory of a great love; closed forever
to him or her, the portals of a happy
home—that fountain of freshness and
delight, at which the soul must needs
drink to gather strength for the heat
and burden of the outside battle.
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