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VOL- 11. rates of advertising. One Fquare, fust insertion $1 OO To each subsequent insertion 50 One Square, six monlbs 0 00 One Square, twelve months 12 00 Liberal deduction will be made for con t ract advertisements. Enough to pay for composition will be charged for change of advertisements, ;£&** All articles published for the benefit o parties or individuals, at their twn solicitation will be charged for as advertisements-. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Jne copy of the paper one year, $ 2 00 Three copies of the paper one year, 5 00 " *ve copies of the paper one year, 8 00 • v.O copies of the paper one year, 15 00 Invariably in Advance. Communications solicited from all sec- Hons, but in no instance will they be inserted jri hout the name of the writer accompany hem. piT' Address all communications to 0. A. CANTRELL. RAILROAD SCHEDULE. Atimt.s 6c West Point Railroad: S5 NtUUT PASSENGER TRAIN— (Out ward .) Leaves Atlanta 11:30 p.m. Arrives at Palmetto 12: 0 A m Arrives at West Point 4:10 a. ji NIGHT FREIGHT AND PASSENGER —(Inward. Leaves West Point 2:05 A vi Arrives at Palmetto 7:1(1 a.m Arrives at Atlanta !) 3la si NIGHT FREIGHT AND TASKING R—(Outward.) L'avei Atlanta 12:30 r y Arrive at PuhueUo 2 30 p m Arrives at West Point. 8:20 p J DAY Passenger—(lnward.) Leaves West Point 1 40 r m Arrive at Palmetto . 4:31 p M. Arrives at Atlanta 5 4't P M PROFESSIONAL CARDS, DR. S, VV. PALMER rpEXDERS Ills services to tli 1 citizens of 1 l’ulmetto nod surrounding country, in thermions brunches of his profession. Office in the Garrett and Wa'fhall buiidingr, Palmetto, Ga. [ r aS-An* DM. A. S. WHITAKEU, OFFERS lIIS PROFSSIONAf, SERVICES in all the branches of the practice of liieificine to the citizens of i'nhiietto and v cinity. lie tenders his thanks fi r fo-mer patronage an I solicits and increase in the futitro. /til- Resi fence at the late ittidtt.ee A . II La ham. into f,-- DU. F. M . H \ HUEI.U Propose* to offer hi < sshvigea To tfie citizens uf P.vi.mkTto. an 1 the om nunity at 1 uge Unit prepared to prac tice in Campbell, Fayette, Doug! ,sand Coweta. lie sol cits a share of the pub’ic patronage pS" Give him a call. febl4-ly DR. W. S. ZELLARS, Having: re:nmed the practice cf nv dicine rrspectfully ( ft' rs his s< rvic p to the citizens of Palmetto and surrour.dirg vic : nity. Office in J. F. Ellington’s building on Toombs street, may 151 f. DR. ,T. H. WATKINS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Palmetto, Georgia. BOG Office at Rosi leneo. fap23tf. LAWYERS. \V. 11. ANDBEWS, ATTORNEY AT LAW Fail-Hum, Georgia. Q. C. G U I CK , A T 1 0 R N E Y A T L A It Fail-burn, Georgia. js£3~ Office in the Johnson Building. TllO3l AS VV. la AT 11 AM Attorney ,ev£ Xjax\ Fairburn. Georgia. Will practice in (tie Courts of Campbell, Coweta. Douglas, Fayette,Fulton and Mer rbvether counties, an l in other counties by special contract; In the 8 preme Court of Georgia, and U. S. Courts at Atlanta, her eon* orderirg suit will pleas' furnish Chris tian names ot Plaintiffs and Defendants. Prompt attention given to cases in bank riiDtcy, and discharges obtained for debt ors. Special attention giv-n to collection Of debts an:l prompt returns made. Office in the Court House. E. FJLOYD HAS erected a number of row buildings suitable forjearrying on his large anc extensive business, on the east side ol Cnmpbellton street, adjoining the rcsidenct of Russell King. FAIRBURN, GEORGIA And he is now prepared to do all kind of work. Su h as making and repairing Wagon*, Carriages and Buggies. Also Pa it; ting of every discretion, exe cuted in the neatest style SIGY IMIVTiXG X SPECIALTY. And Blacksmithing executed with neat ness and dispatch. Hav ng had several yours experience in the business, he is the-efore capable to judge when work is executed in a voikman like manner, lie employs rone but expe rienced workmen. Call and seeliim. New Wagons and Buggies always on hand and for sale. Work done on lime. ftdj7 4 m f*Y*R NOIEItOL"S TESTS HAVE IIMVED I-H Si. F, Burnham's Sew Tut blue t 1 WA T E R AV II E E L tprj To he Pie Best Tver Invented, t=j Pamphl tree. Address, York, Pa 1 THE PALMETTO SHIELD. EVERY CORNET BAND In tDo country will receive a splen did piece of band music free by se d ing a a two cent stamu to Edward A Samuels, Publisher, Boston, Mass. Farmers, Look to Your Interest. The man to patronize is the one who will do your werfe weil and cheap, and at short notice, and that m n is K N 001 l ST KICK I, AND, Who lias jnst established a wood shop in con nection with his black mith shop at East end of Railroad street., FAIRBURN, GEORGIA lie has a full complement of experienced weiltmen and is prepared to do all kinds of work iri his line. lie makes new Wagons, Buggies, and repairs old’ones, keeps new Wagons and Bug gies constantly on hand for sale, jif 31 Grn NEW HAVEN ORGAN COMPANY^ manufacture the Celebrated Un IL E E AND IE MP L E OBLOANS, fTRIESE ORGANS are unsurpassed in 1 (pialdy of tone, style of finish, simplicity of construction, and ilurabi ity. Also, MELODEONS in vatious styles, and unequalled in tone. Send for illustrated Catalogue. Address NEW HAVEN ORGAN CO., Ne' [laven, Conn. SSP’Agants Wanted. ANDERSON & WELLS, ATLANTA GEORGIA. GUANOS IMPLEMENTS, FIELD & GARDEN, Seed Pendleton Gna-o Cash ft “ “ Credit Ist Nov. 76.00 N' voss a “ C sh (OAO “ “ Credit 70.03 Farmer’s Choice Cash 63.03 “ “ credit 65.00 253 Flu Rust. Proof Oats. 50“ COOLEY Early corn. Clover Seed, Timothy Seetl-CBlue Grass Seed Orchard brass Seed, and large stock assorted garden seed. Also, one and Two Horse Plows and other Implements which we.offer eheip to the trade. A vent 5 , For Cotton Gin s . Cotton Presses. Reapers and mowers, Thrashers, i-Ingiues, Suw mil s, Mill Stone-, Plow ng Machinery &o. • An’OKRBoM & Wells, PA METTO SCHOOL PALMETTO, GA..A. &.W. P, R. R, rr-n.s ISST.TEnos is non under the mas' j sueeis-l-il l.t-i.dw'iy.theie b ng in attend ance ow r 100 yuiii'g gi ntlemen and U< irs till of Hie iim st order of inteK 1 1 ct : the young gentlemen, hightonetl, dignified, mora! ; the yi ting ladies, chaste, modes! stud neeorii| lis'.ed. The Spiing Teitn will close the first week in July. Two months and a hall of the fini st portion nf the year foi successful study, still to come. Those who desire to pursue P.ny branch of st vubj will have the very best oppor tunity guaranteed them in this School, and at less cost according to the progess students make here, than at any other school in the State. Board only §l2 per month, in the very best of families; and tuition as published in citcular. The town boasts better water and better health than any other town or village in Middle Georgia. Those who try us a month, and he not thoroughly pleas' and, will hr allowed to withdraw (tee of charge lot tuition For that month. Fur particulars address G. C. LOONEY, Principal. April 23-1 ni. OPENING OF Spring Goods* rpilE attention of the citizens of Palmett l and the surrounding country a’-e gen"' erally and respectfully invited to call in and examine our stock of SPRING GOODS, now being received and opened, Which con sist in part of Ladies’ Dress Goods, White Goods, Prints, Blenched Goods and Domes tics, Millinery- Goods and Yankee Notions of every description. ai.=o The largest and best stock of Boots mid Sliocs Ever brought ti this market, which wo buy for Casli direct from the Factories at Lynn and Haverhill,Massachusetts. We also keep Huts, Caps, Umbrellas, Parasols, Fans and Toilet Articles. Always on hfnd, a large lot of BACON, CORN, HAY, FLOUR, LARD AND MOLASSES, Which we will let out for Crop Liens to re, sponsible parties. We are also Agents for the sale of CARROLL’S COLD WATER SOAP, Which will Wash your Clothes clean and white without rubbing or betting. This Soap is verily the WOMAN’S FRIEND; GARRETT & WALTHALL Palmetto, Ga., April 9,157N McK JS N NEt & CO,, Claim and Patent Agents, Claims of Census Marshals of IS 10 collected without proof of loyalty. P, 0, Fox 129, Washington City, !>. f, PALMETTO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1573. SI M’S LITTUK G IIIL. MARY HARTWELL. “Come oi.t here, George Burks. I’ut that glass down— can’t wait a minute. Business particular— concerns the com pany. “Now I’ve got you by the arm, boy. I want to toll you something. Then if ton want to go back into that saloon, yi u may. “I don’t often meddle in other folks’ business, do I ? Win n a tough old fel low like me sets out to warn a body, you may know its because he sees sore need of it. I’ve had an eye on you ever since the company promoted yon to an engine, and I want yon In make a fair trip of your life. You’re a line, blight youngster, 1 and m‘t never say tilings to compliment. “Just takin drinks for good fellow ship Yes, I know all‘bout thal. Been there myself. Sit down on the edge of the platform here. “Of all men in the coild, I lake it, engineeis ought to be the last to touch the bottle. We have life and property trusted to our hands uncommon. Ours is a grand business, 1 don't think folks looks at it as they ought to. Remem ber when I was a young fellow like yon, just set up with an engine, I used to feel like a strong angel or somethin* rushiii' . ver the country, maltin' that iron beast do just as I wanted him to. The power sort of' made me think fast, square up and feel much of a man. ‘'l was duii/ well when I married, and I did well long afterwards. We had a nice home, the little woman and tne : our beat Is were set on each other and she was a little proud of her en gineer. She used to say so anyhow. She was sort of mild and tender with her tongue. Not one of your loud ones. And pretty, too. But you know what it is to love a woman, George I3u ks, I s.,w you walking with a blue-eyed little thing last Sunday, "And after a while we had Hie little girl. How I felt when 1 came helm and they put her into my arms the first nine ! ] look'd sort of silly and sort of glad ! .My wife, she just iangheo out loud, to see me hand'e that little thing so oihardly. "I never liked little children much, bull took totliatiun powcif.il. Every body took lo her. "George, boy, did you ?vor take tine to go and peep at young ferns in the spring? You see Vrn all doubled to gether, like a tenuity fist. That’s what she was tit first: all fist and squirm : beauty curled up tight. Then they unfold and spread out, and come up bright ard delicate, and finer'n you can pot into words. Thai’s just the way she did. Every night I come home, 1 found her grovved add plumpened out more. Used to toss her up, and she’d squeal like a squirrel, and come down on my face in fits of laughter ‘‘Oh, I daresn’t think about Iter cun ningness 1 But the Very first word she learned lo say, was ‘Papa !’ ‘‘We talked a g. od deal about what vve should call her, my wife and I. We went clean through the Bible, and set down all the fine story names we heard o But nothin'seemed to suit. I used to puzzle the whole length of my route to find out a name fur that little girl. My wife wanted to call her Eudora Isabel. But that sounded like fulderol. Then we had tip IlebecCur, and Maud and Amanda Ann and what not. Fi nally, whenever I looked at her, I seemed to see "Katie." She looked Katie, I took to callin' her Katie, and she learned it, so Katie she was. “1 tell you, George, that was a child to be noticed ‘ Sbe was rounder and prettier made ,n a wax figger, her eyes was bigger and blacker'n any grown woman's you ever saw, set like stars under her forehead ! and her hair was that light kind, that all runs to curls and glitter. "Soon's she con’d toddle, she used to come dancin' to meet me. I've soiled a many of her white pinafores, buryiii' my face in them b fore I was washed, and sort of prayin' soft like under tin.- >ool of my lieai t, ‘God bless my baby God bless my little lamb !' "As slio grew older, I Used to talk to her about engird—even t' ok her into ray cab., and showed hoi the ‘tach ments of the engine, and learned her signals and such things. Sue luck such an interest, and was the smartest little tiling ! Seemed as if she had always kunwed 'em She loved tli<- oad. Remember once heating her siy to a playmate, ‘ There's my papa. He's an engineer. Don't you wish lie was your | apit V “My home was close by the track Often and often the little gill stood in our green yard, waving her mite of a hand to me as we rushed by. “Well, sir, them was happy years. It most kills me to lm k over 'em now. I was oin too well. Had an idea I was a man made lo prosper, I felt good to ail the world, and that 'nd b-rn vveli i( l‘d showed my good fellowship some other w..y. But men are fools, I was so easy I couldn't refuse a social glass, ami I was always fee toasting others. Many's the tune we've stood, three or four fools ol us, clinkin' our glasses and di inkin' to brotherhood—drinkin' thj very tin ig that m ule us fit for anything but brothers It pie sed me most, to have-tliem pledge my little girl. And (lie more they'd toast her, the deeper .I'd think. And was drinkin' death lo her and damnation to me. “I'll cut it i ff slinit. Didn't mean to say but a few words to you, but I got to tliiukin' so. Can't spin it out much longer, or there'll be no man left of me. “Well, one day I started on my home trip, full of that good fellowship you was imbibing awhile ago. Made the engine whizz ! We was awful jolly, the fire.nan at.d me. Never was drunk when I got on my engine before, or the company would have sliij ped me Wasn't no such time never made on that read before nor since 1 had just sense enough to know what I was about, but not em ugh to handle an emergency. We fairly roared down on the trestle that stood at the entrance of our town. “I had a tipsy eye out, and, George, as we wait: filin’ through the subuibs, I see my little girl on the track ahead, wavin' a red ll ig and stalnlin' stock sliil I “The air scorned full of Katies, I could have Stopped the engine, if I’d only had sense c: ongli to know what 'o lake I oij of to reverse hei I But I was t o if. link. And that grand little marl stood up~to it, trying to Warn us in time, and We just swept right ahead into a pile of ties s mi:; wretch had laid on the track !—right over my baby ! Oil n y baby !Go away, George. “There ! And do you want me. to tell .you how the sight of that mangled lil ilo mass killed her mother ? And and . yon want ms to tell you I walk alive to-day the.murderer of my own child, who stood up to save me? And do you want me to tell you the good fel lowship yon were drinkin' a 'ldle ago brought all this cn me? “You'll let this pass by’ makiti' up your mind to be moderate. Hope you will. I was a moderate ‘an. (0, God ! Oh, my baby !) “I cah knock down any man twice my 7 size for a good reason, George Burks, but my heart just melts Lo wa ter for that little girl. “Dat Isii Gout.—As a gentleman from New Yoik was taking a glass of wine at the “St. Louis," corner of Freeman and Hopkins streets, Ciuciri nvtti, about three weeks ago, and ob 8-rved at another table, with sevetul others, a Germ in who seemed uneasy and anxious, as if there might have bean a Franco-Prussian disturbance between the beer and himself. Present ly in ran a little girl, her face radiant, with smiles, exclaiming: “Oh, father! we’ve got a little baby at Inline/" “Dat ish gootf' said the Dutchman as the anxiety disappeared from his countenance. ‘ Fid up dor glasses* Not many minutes elapsed befote in rushed the little girl again with the announcement: “Oh, fathei! we’ve got two little boys at home 1,, The Dutchman looked a great deal astonished, ami at all satisfied at this family redndancy; blit rising at length to the magnitude of the occasion, he said: „Yell, den, dat ish also goot. Fil tip dor glasses’" In a few niinutcts again appeared the radiant messenger, with the as st ouiiding proclamation: “Oh, fathei! we’ve got three litt’e boys at home!" This vv is too much even for Teuton ic impossibilities There was no fur ther call for glasses. “Yell, den," says he, “I gees up dere and stop dec w ll ii.e rassess!' A Defence >f Pretty Woman. After all, is (lie world so very ab- I surd in its love of pretty women? Is i woman so very ridiculous in her chase i after beauty? A prtt y woman is doing j a woman’s vvoik in the wot Id, bet rot j making speeches, nor making pudding, but nuking 1 if: sunnier and more beautiful. Man has fjn sworn the pur suit of beauty altogether. Does he sei k it for himself, be is guessed to b frivo- i Intis, he is guessed to be poetic, there are whispers that iiis morals are no better than they should be. In >oei< tv resolute In be ugly there is impost f.,i I an Ad nis, but that ol a model oi ; gu aid-man. But woman dot s for man kind what man has ceased to do. Her aim from childbeo I is to be beautiful Even as a school girl site notes the pro gress of her charms, tit • deepning color ni Iter hair, the growing symmetry ol her arm, die ripening color o' her cheek. Wo wa clt, with silent interest the mysterious reveries of the maiden; she is dreaming of coming beauty, and panting for the glories of eighteen. In sensibly she becomes an artist, her room is a studio, her glass is an a cademy. The joys of her toilet is the joy of Raphael over his canvass, of Mi chael Angelo over his nimble. She is c eating beauty in the silence and lone liness of her chamber; she grows likt any part of creation, the result of pa tience, of hopes, of a thousand delicate touchings and retouchings. Woman is never perfec 1 , never. A restless night undoes the beauty of die day ; sunshine pirns the evancsent col "ring of her checks; frost nips the ten der outlines of her face into sudden harshness. Care plows its lines across her hr > w; motherhood destroys the elastic lightness of tier form; the bioom of her eyes fide and vanish as the years go by. Bat worn in is still true to her ideal. She invents new concep tions of womanly grace; she rallies at forty, and fronts us with the beauty of womanhood; she in ikes a stand at sx ly, with the beauty of age- She lads like Crctar, wrapping her mantle a - round her“bnried in w.oileji! ’twould a | saint provoke!’’ D.’iUh listens pitifully to the longings of a lifetime, and the wrinkled face smiles with something of die prettiness of eighteen. Too Much f>r Dim. -A Gorrespi ndent at Christiana, Pennsylvania, sends us the following of an aged negress, very pious, an inveterate smoker ; who dropped in to pay a visit to a neighbor who was equally well kn nvn as a tem perance man and a hater of tobacco. On setting down, the old aunty pulled from her pocket a long pine and com menced smoking, to the infinite disgust of her host Ttie man maintained bis composure several minutes; but the fumes became too powerful for him, and rising he said: Aunt Chloe, do you think you are a good Christian? Yes, br udder: I speck I is D > you believe in the Bible? Yes, brulder, Do you know there is a passage there which says that nothing unclean shall inherit the kingdom of heaven ? Yes, I lias heard of it. Do you believe it ? Yes. Well, Cliloe, you cannot enter the king dom of heaven, because there is noth ing so unclean as the breathof a smoker What do you say to that? Why when I goes to heaven, Ispelis to leave my brt.ff behind me! A Jins ol twelve, daughter of Mr. Rootes of Rolling Prairie, Indiana, is as "horse craZy” as any man of onr acquaintance. Site is so Strut: gety af fccted that she imagines herself the very animal, and eats grass and stamps and kicks Then she will get up in the night, harness her father’s team and drive miles away until she is overtaken and brought back. What is more in convenient, sh; uses the neighbors’ teams in the san e way. An attempt was made to send her t-> a lunatic asy lum, but the committing juslic couldn’t see that Miss Rootes Was any crazier than many “horsey*' men who are al lowed to go at large and refused to commit her. A cat, relying Upon his nine lives to save him, allowed his tail to swell, his spine to curve, and with the "banner cry ofheb“ emanating from his juvs, waded into a buzz saw in rapid motion. The cat was never seen again. Gut the boss sawyer, who always stood with his mouth open while at work, re marked to his assistant that he could taste fiddle sti ings ands usage meat in ihe a. I liia t Hloi long, Tlie Man vvf<> Wins. \>e have learned from persons who “c acquainted with him, the following particulars regarding Mr. Lewis Homy Keith, of Kings!..-, Mass., who is said to have drawn the $ 100,000 in the re el nt 1 iibiio Library Lottcrv. •Mr. I*. 11. Keith is the only son ol Mr. liem\ Keith, win. was formely proprie-. t 'l' of the principal dry goods store in Kingston, and one of that town’s most respected and esteemed : nhabitants. Smic yea: ago the eider Mr. Keith Milo l.is establishment and removed to Boston, in which city he wis rapidly ce .mm. a ling ni mey wml nfifurtuntit wa burned re t by tlegr a fire, w! i-h calamity lift him a comparatively po r man. Mr. L. 11. Keith, who was boin a id educated at Kingston, entered bis ladiei’s store some years ago, and lias continued in that e t * bli.-li nent since the removal of the I t er to Boston, lie is about twenty years of age tall, daik good 1, oking, and is universally well spoken of. About a year, ago lie em barked in married life, and will now be materially assisted, in defraying the expenses of Inuisek, c ing by the bide of money wli ch lie will tect ivc from this city. He has orto sister, who is younger than himself and unmarried. The Keith family are old settlers in the Bay State, and are very numerous at Kingston Campello, in which latter place they constitute a very large part of the population. Mr Keith has several relatives resident in this cily. Among oth ers, Mr. Sanford Keith, the prominent boot and shoe merchant, who is a cousin of the pi ;ze takei ‘s father. Alabama News, Tiif, Alabama and Chattanooga Road. The latest intelligence concerning this road is that J. G. Stanton lias resigned and has nothing whatever to do with the read, and that 0. L Fitch is the | Genetnl Superintendent of the Aiu bania an ! Chattanooga Road. Citpf. \Y. B. Brannon, an old citizen of Eufanla, is dead. The Talladega Reporter says more fodder can be saved from one acre in millet than from twenty acres in corn, ami with n. uch less labor. Several persons in Bullock planted buckwheat this s p’b g. The Union Springs Times says it mine tip icadih , grew off luxuriantly, : nd is now (Juiy 9th) in full bloom. On the morning of the 15th ir.st , by Rev. 1. F. Maiigum, at the residuum of the luide’s mother, Mr. Walter A. Douglas to Miss Mary A Sinclair, both of Tuskegee, Ala. At the Magi ncer House, on Tuesday, loth inst , by \\ . G. Brewer, Esq., Mr. Egbert Reynolds to Miss Eiiiina Hug gins, all of Macon county, Ala- Robot t 0. Brickell, lately appointed to the Supreme Court I eneh of Ala bama rose from the printer’s case. His father was a printer, and Mr. Brickell himself wo ked several years at tile trade lefore he commenced tlie studv of law. He is said to be a fast com positor. Cos!. Saffold, editor and p-nr.ricfor of the Selma Times, is confined to his bed witli the chills and fever. Thomas Winavs, of Baltimore, th : well known railway contractor, rnachin ist, etc , is building, for his private mu sic hull in the above city, a gigantic i rgati. It is to bo worked by steam power. It will In ve twenty-five l>a; s pipes each two feet sq tare and thirty two feel long. It is to l)e finished within a year, and it is expected that it will be a roaier. Compared with it, (In gres t org nof 80.-tou will dwindle into insignificance. We clip the following from the Tti * pek a Times: Riley Driver, :i colored mm, desires iofomition of his son, who before the war, w is CaMe I J If. Prior He live and oi I’.ke counts, Georgia, when hist heard from, about three years ago. A’s ’, would be glad to hear from Ins si.- ter, Ibis uia Diver, who lived in the fane county. Riley Driver lives in Xoi th Topeka, Kansas Georgia papers please notice or copy. The local editor on a Wilmington, N T .C o tper went away and his substi tute almost went mad trying to limit, np news. lie was happy at last, when this suggested itself to him: “Just nineteen hundred and seventeen years to day, since Brutis gave his friend Julius Cressr a poke under the tilth rib It is sai l that there is a barn tn Ohio that has been struck by liglttniii'' eleven times. The Government would no doubt take that barn for an Indian reservation, if it were not a well estab lished I ict that lightning never strikes twelve time in the same place, A physician advised a patient to take a walk on an empty stomach ‘ Whose stomach V feebly asked Uw iil V t; Ivi. NO. 6.