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determined to keep up the hi ;■ sj nad and deserved reputation ot this justly cele
Mjited school.
Gordon Institnt*-off rs sup< ri<.r i-due dm >.*s to parents desirinc to educate their
•amand daughter*. It i all i 1 .p; , apparatus and furniture, aud n
record nor *'• errs* ful tc-.m! i* v< urd'iled. ;. 11 > ite. It* music department is cou
4etrd by Prof. Gutti i t i !. v. j * • ■ r >..l but lew equals in his profession.
Harnesville is the u • at* -rj i ■ tv on the Macon and Western Rail nad. and
ks justly the r< putatiou ot l.a\ii libiiai and enlightened community
B (£orgi*.
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CHARLfeIS K LXMBDUIN, Finn.,
cr \V, il, WOODAhh. Seer tarv.
jolyJOtf BarneuviUe, Georgia.
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. xn. i9 coixmbus, Georgia.
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DET GCCBF, GIGCIEIF?, KGTIOf S, CROCKERY, AO. ?U
A NT’ A rn.fj STOCK OF
Plantation Supplies,
ALL of which we are w < ft- m ♦' .\iy I>t market prices, and guarantee all
A•’ our gr and; ns r | r-s i.v-.!. \ • 'Le i *ph . f l ailtot county, and
•!*•* here to. give i;s a <•„,! v\ I --n >\ \ t v Mr L \. Philips, formerly of liar
rtc coonty, is yith i and "LI !••■ t. i. . . s m w friends.
ATTE FIOM
IS X' AV INVITED T • OIK T.AH E STOCK
I’it‘oo (ioods, ( 'loth' ' -siincrf's and 'l’rira
ininas, - ’i-.-iwli Kiitjlisli, and
Amcricati AI. i Icoai.
A LRO n good supply of ?1> v : : ■ hi ds; all of which we get up to
A older .u die Li st t_\L- , t ii ... >u .ive and choice lot of
TEXAS CASS I MERES
Jut in, to which we rail parti . <*, .J. I’EACXK’K,
M - v i V r o i KY, fll JIUOAD STREET.
I *nr ready-made stock w- 1. a lot f • na '* S iilh” we will close out at price*
•Brpneingly low. se;2ttf
0. G. Sparks &Son,
THIRD STREET, MAI UN, GEORGIA.
WAEEHCDSE, COTTO ’, iED CCICSISSIOH MERCHANTS.
\\’F. again off. r our wn idt -minion Merchants to our planting
* friend* ot Talbot and ■ j i
Plantation Siipjilins, and Ties
lareiebed at lowest market r.tte ' n n . C >ttrm is store, as Low an by
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114 Ercatl Sti'cct, COLL r 2I3US, Q-A.
WHORpSATE AND KET.Uf, DEARER IN
Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Umbrel
las, Ready-Made Clothing,
800 I S, siioi:s, Etc,
OF THE LATEST AND TEST STYLES,
ALL onr Goods arc q f the lat--‘ vf v '. and fre - x ; *r m the Northern We defy |
. competition in style md yi ! 'W i * ■. . us a II •> lieu in the city, we feel
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FOK €LOTIiL\G
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TBELEADINGCLCTKiEGECEE CF MIDDLE GEORGIA
They keep the best goo.ls an 1 at the lowest prices.
Onr I >olla ]• Shirt is of the best material and fits well
Agents for Keep’s Shirts and Umbrellas.
Pirr Baldwin is with us, and will be glad tohav# a call from his
friends.
WUVSIIIP & f'ALLA WAY,
No. 50 Second St.. Macon.
A COUNTRY NEWSPAPER FOB THE MASSES DF.VOTF.I) TO CIVILIZATION AND MONF.Y-M \KING.
TALTOTTON TALBOT COUNTY, GEORGIA,THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1879.
The Uiiiicm ian l.ov-r.
LOVI-, small-pox, blindness, and ulti
mate FELICITY.
Perhaps tliarc arc few more touch
ing events than that which occurred
about the beginning of the present
century in Hungary, and for the
truth of which there is ample testi
mony. The parties of whom the tale
is told are now living happy in each
other’s affection, Lnit under very sin
gular circumstances.
The son of Count Haydrk wns
brought up veiy much in the society
of the daughter of nis father’s most
intimate fti.ml, Count Amody; this
produced such habits of regard for
each other that the strongest possi
ble attachment existed between them
by the time they had ceased to feel
as children. .
The parents, delighted at their
mutual affection, affianced them in
marriage, and a statc-J period was
fixed for the nuptial ceremony; but
iho rupture between France and
Austria, which tool, plage in 1809,
post polled the event. Francis hesi
tated about the Erst step, but at
length, yielding to the open solicita -
tions of England; and the secret in
sinuations of Russia, and biased by
the subsidies of Great Britain, ho de
clared hostilities again:.t Napoleon.
’L’lio emperor of Austria, accord
ing to nccicnt customs, called in the I
aid of hisdlnngnriuu troops; and the
Hungarian nobility are bound to
take a personal part in every war in
which the national independence is
at stake.
Young Enric Ilavdik was, there
fore, obliged to forego his promised
felicity and obey the emperor’s sum
mons. Ho remained in military em
ployment f.u- nearly two.years, but,
I dining the period of his absence the
young Countess Amody became Clio
victim to that most distressing dis
ease, the small pox, which committed
such direful ravages on her hitherto
| blooming lace, that she herself expe
lieucda feeling of utter horror
when she first saw in the mirror the
dreadful change. So powerful was the
impression made on her mind by the
sad event that, resigning herself to
Providence, she resnlv and and vowed
never more to suffer her lover, the
young Count, to set hu eyes upon
her, fully convinced that she could
not hope, under the calamity, to be
an object of his admiration and af
fection. This argued considerable
strength of mind and “elf-abandon
ment; but, before she hid been al
lowed to execute a plan of retreat
from the woild which she had form
ed, her ardent lover returned.
Count Knric Haydik was shocked
at the tidings of the severe illness of
his beloved affianced.
1 She nt length consented to see
him again, but for the purpose of
declaring to him that, as it was im
possible to expect happiness from his
union with orio whose ngpearauce
had undergone so sad a change, she
released him from his engagement,
and had determined to fiass her days
with the consolation ol religion in u
convent.
When the lovers were brought in
to each other's presence the young
countess kept her face concealed in
her handkerchief, and could not for
a long time prevail on herself to raise
her eyes on her beloved Enric. At
length, venturing to stoiil a furtive]
glance, she discovered that ho had
been led into the room by his father
and that lie wis deprived of sight !
Enric then tremulously narrated
that, by the accidental explosion of
a gunpowder canister his powers of
vision bad been utterly destroyed
and that the melancholy intimation
was withheld from her that it might
not, during her dreadful il ness, in
crease it. The young Countess Amo
dy experienced a mixed feeling of
sorrow and delight, but she vowed
at once that she never more would
stir from from his side, that she
would be his companion and conduc
tor through life.
They were immediately married,
and the bride is l;hppy in having sea
cured the continuance of her lover’s
affection by his loss of power to ap
preciate the loss of beauty; while the
young and fond husband’s joy is
complete in finding a companion and
constant partner in one whose for
mer love for him was not likely to
be diminished by his own severe mis
■ fortune.
The Winter ol'lhc llv<ii*t
Let it never come upon you. Live
so that good ungels uiay protect you
from this terrible evil—the winter of
the hunrt.
Let no chilling influence freeze tip
the foundations of sympathy and
happiness from its depths; no cold
burden settle over thfe withered
hopes, like snow on iho fading flow
ers; no rude blasts of discontent
moan and shii.de tlr >ugh its de-o'ut
chambers.
Your life-path may lead you
among thorns, which, for a time
seem utterly to impede your prog -
ress, and shut out the very light of
Heaven from your gaze.
Penury may take the place of ease
aud plenty, your luxurious home
may be changed for a single lowly
room—the soft conch for the straw
pallet, the luxurious faro for the
course food of the poor; your friends
may forsake yon, aud the nnpilty
mg world pass you with scarcely
a word of compassion.
You may be forced to toil wearily
and sadly on to obtain a livelihood;
you may encounter fraud and base
avarice which would extort the last
farthing, till you well-nigh turn in
disgust from your fellow-beings.
Death may sever the dearest tics
that bind you to the earth, aud leave
you in fearful darkness. The noble,
manly bo}’’, tho side hopo ol your de
clining years, may bo taken from
you while your spirit clings to him
-with that wild tumidity, which even
tho shadows of the tomb cannot whol
ly subdue.
But amid all these sorrows, do not
come to the conclusion that no body
was ever so deeply afflicted as you
arc, and abandon every sweet antici
pation of ‘better days’ in the un
known future.
Do not loose your faith in human
excellence because your confidence
has been betrayed, nor believe that
friendship is only a delusion, and
love a bright phantom which glides
away from your grasp.
Do not think yon are fated to be
miserable because you are disappoin
ted in your expectations, and baffled
iu your pursuits. Do not declare
that God Inis forsaken von, when
your way is hedged with thorns, or
repine sinfully when Ho calls yonr
dear ones to the laud beyond the
grave.
Keep a holy trust in Heaven
through every trial, hear adversity
with fortitude, and look upward in
hours of temptation and suffering.
When your locks are white, your
eyes dim, and yonr limbs weary;
when your steps falter on the verge
of death’s gloomy vale, still retain
the freshness and bouyancy of spirit,
which would shield you from the
winter of the heart.
Da uxor oiim
A young lady passing through
a hull in her father’s house, perceived
a suggestion of fire, annihll of some
thing burning, sufficiently out of the
common course to arrest her atten
tion. Finding tho furnace fire and
soft coal sitting room fire, with no
thing unnsnal to account for the
smell of fire she proceeded to tho
front drawing-room. Now the fore
noon was bright, the curtains and
shades were withdrawn, so that the
rays ol tho sun were streaming in
upon the centre table, where rested
a common, round-top glass paper
weight, under which a mass of pa
pers lay. Here was tho fire. The
papers were burning Bmartly. She
disposed of them in the grate, and
taking up the glass found it burning
hot; acting as a burning-glass it lmd
concentrated the rays of the sun
sufficiently to cause combustion. It
should be told that tho paper bottom
of this glass was gone—either worn
off or torn off.
Josh Billing’s Philosophy. —Thar
iz nothing so skurso az originality,
even an original pbool would be a
great relief just, now.
The man who never makes enny
blunders iz a very clever piece of ma
sheenery, that’s all.
The best thing I know ov iz a first
rate wife, the next best thing, iz a
second rate one.
Luv between wimrnin iz impossi
! ble, even friendship is merely pructu •
; kabel.
Wimrain are elegant kreatures,
but I never saw one yet who could
| expectorate gracefully.
| What a disgusted and disappoint
ed race ov kritters we should be if
we couid oniy see ourselves as olh
i ers see ns.
of I’rosjicritY.
1. Let every youth be taught
some useful ttrr, and he trained to
industry and thrift.
2. Let every man lay aside aud
keep sacredly intact a certain pro
portion of his earnings.
3. Let every youth set out in life
with the fixed determination to go in
business for himself, and let him put
his determination into practice ns
early iu life as possible.
4. Begin in a small safe way and
j extend your business as experience
shall teach you is adv lntageous.
5 Kuepyour own books ami know
constantly what you are earning and
just, where you stand.
fi. Do not marry until in receipt of
a tolerable certain incotno—sufficient
to live on comfortably.
7. Never get into debt. A man
who owes nothing cannot fail.
8. Let every man who is able to
buy a farm on which to bring up his J
sons, do so. It is on the farm that
the best men, morally and intellectu
al's turned out.
9. Bear iu mind that your busi
ness cannot be permanently prosper
ous without, you share its advantages
equally with your customers. An
all-turkey- nil-buzzard system can
not, succeed in the loug run. Both
parties to a transaction must be mu
tually benefittod it tho trade is to
keep up.
10. Experience Ims shown that a
scrimping policy with employees is
not tho most profitable for tub ern
j ol oyer.
11. Never got yonr business so
j much extended that you are forced
to tako in a partner.
12. If you find yourself incoinpes
tent to manage a business success
fully, settle down contentedly to
work for wages, do your best for
your employer, make bis interests
jour interests, and shape your ex
penditures so as to live within- yonr
income.
19. Don’t seek a political office.
14. Aim to bo just and fair in all
thing ;, and cultivate a reputation for j
paying promptly.
Killed by a Meteor. -Leonidas
Grover, who resided in tho vicinity
of Newton, Fountain county,lndiana
met his defltli the oilier night, in a
way that iu probably without parallel
in this or any other country. Mr.
Grover was a widower, living on his
farm with a married daughter and
her husband. In tho evening tho
married couple had beer! absent on a
visit to some neighbors, and upon
returning at a late hour, entered
the house, finding everything, to all
appearance in usual order and sup
posing that Mr. Grover had already
retired, went to bed themselves.
Next morning the daughter arose,
aud having prepared breakfast, went
to the adjoining room to cal! her
father, and was horrified to find him
lying upon his shattered bed a mu
tilated corpse. Her screams brought
tho husband quickly to the bed room,
and an inspection disclosed a ragged
opening in tho roof, directly over the
breast of the unfortunate man, which
was torn through as if by a cannon
shot, mid extending downward
through the bedding and floor; oth
er holes showed the direction ta
ken hv the deadly missel. Subse
quent search revealed the fact that
the awful calamity was caused by the
fall of a Meteoric stone and the stone
itself pyramidal in shape and weigh
ing twenty pounds and a few ounces,
avoirdtipoise, and stained with blood
was unearthed from a depth of near
ly five feet; thus showing tho fear
ful impetus with which it struck tho
dwelling. The position of corpse
with other surroundings, when found
showed that the victim was asleep
when stricken, and that, death to him
was painless.
In Mobile-a man srezed a diction
ary to settle a dispute about a word
and was shot through the heart by a
pistol lying on the book. “It’s dan
gerous to be safe” when even the
dictionaries have to go armed.
An (Jmleninble Truth.
You (li-servo to safii-r, and if you lead n
miserable,unsatisfactory file in diis beauti
ful world, it isi entirely yonr own fault and
•.here is only one excuse tor you, -your un
reasonable prejudice and skepticism, which
has killed thousand-. Personal knowledge
and comiponsense reasoning mil noon show
you that (Iroeu's August i'iower will care
you ot Liver (iomplaiut, or Dyspepsia,with
all its miserable effects, such as sick head
ache, palpitation ol lin- heart,sour stomach,
habitual cosliveuess, dizziness ot the head,
nervous prostration, low spirits, &e. Its
sale now reach every town on Ihe Western
Continent and not a Druggist but will tell
I you of its wonderful cures. You can buy a
j .Sample Bottle tor 10 cents. Tiiroo doses
} wnl relieve you. For sate by Dr. I. L.
' Rr<l veil' jo -t.
T!i<- Times flint fey Man's Soul.
When ho pops the question.
When his wife wants to talk aud
ITS doesn't.
When he writes to his best girl
and lias to wait two Weeks tor a re
ply.
When his hash is placed Before him
live successive mornings at his board
ing house.
When ho pokes his head through
his last clean shirt and find no but
ton on behind.
When lie buys a now pair of shoes
and discovers two big nails sticking
iu the heels.
When he takes his girl out and
discovers that he lias left his pocket
book at home in his old trowsers.
When lie comas horn o early in the
morning and his wife wants to hold
a littlo debating society m tho lower
hall.
When in his dreams ho is standing
upon tho verge of a precipice, and
his wife suddenly reminds him that
ho isn’t but is jerkiug her “banged”
hair nil to pieces.
When be dives down into the
bottom of his trunk, jerks out what
ho supposes is a clean pair of socks
but finds only an old table-napkin,
with four white neck-ties put away
for next summer.
Wiiat Seitled Him.—A gonuine
Yankee in San Francisco, having
bored anew comer with every con
ceivable question relative to his ob
ject in visiting the gold country his
hopes, his moans, Li3 prospocts, at
length asked him if ho had a family.
‘Yes sir, I hnvo a wife and six
children, and I never s,iw one oi
them.’
After this reply, tho conpio sat a
few minutes in silence, then the in
terrogator again commenced: ‘Was
yon over blind sir ?’
‘No sir.’
‘Did you marry a widow, sir ?’
‘No sir.’
Another interval of silence.
‘Did I understand you to say, sir,
that you had a wife and six children
living in Now York and had never
seen one of them ?‘
‘Yes sir, I so stated it.
Another and a longer pause. Then
tho interrogator again inquired:
‘How can it bo sir, that you nev
er saw one of them
Why, one of them was born after
I left. 1
HOUSE FOR
lii Macon. '
—its—
J. H. HERTZ’S.
A full .Stock nt tho Lowest Figures.
Fini! f ’si sisii mere Suits
At $9; $10; $11; sl2 50; and sls.
Dress Suits sls 00 to $25 00.
XII fItTS
fill complete. Made of the, best Irish
Linen and Wumsutta Muslin only
75 Cents.
Full Stock of all Goods for
Hen and Boys
at prices lower than any house iu
.Macon or Columbus.
Quality as good as ever.
.1 - 11. Hertz,
90 Cherry Street,
oftltf Mucod, Georgin.
TEIIiMS, SI.OO n Yrar in Atlvanc*
WHOLE NUMBER 446
Qld Reliable.
W. A. JUHAN & CO.,
DEALERS IK
Best grades Foreign and Domestic
Staple & Fancy Dry Goo
TRIANGULAR BLOCK
MACON, GEORGIA.
- 0*
BlanTs nnd Colored
Silkh., Black and Color,
©fl. Dress Goods,
in nil the latest styles and most fash
ionable designs. -I
Cloaks, Shawls Hosiery,
Cousin.;, Kid-Gloves, Rmnoss,
Neck-Wear anil Fan or Good*.
Prompt aud careful attention paid
to orders. Samples sent on applica
tion and express paid on all orders
of Ton Dollars and upwards.
ortllf W. A. .in IT AN A CO.
lanTep v house.
IS. I >IJI S., ri-oi>i-ietor
MACON, GEORGIA.
'TMIIS HOUSE is now provided with every
•I necessary oonvt nienoe tor the acooturuo<
d.itiou tuul comfort <>l its patrons. The Id*
cation is desir,title and convenient to thl
business portion of tho city*.
The Tables i
Imvo flic best tho market offorrls. Omni bn*
Li ami from depot I roe ol charge, baggug*
handled free of charge.
The 1A It is snjfpliod with the best
Wine ami Liquors. *
Hesse J. .Bull, ~
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
TALBOTTON GA.
UJ ILL piuctice in all flic Courts of th
Omtffthooeln-c circuit. Prompt nt
tontirtn given to collections.
Office over O. W. Kimbrough's Store.
oct‘2‘2 1878.
E. H. WORItILL, .J. H. WOIUULL.
E. H. WOMILL & SON.
Attorneys & Counsellors at
Law.
Talbotton, Georgia.
Practice in Superior and Supreme Court*
of Georgia, and the V. S. Court* at Savan
nah. Special attention given to nil matter*
in /bankruptcy. Jftn 8-ly.
JAMES S McCORKLE,
Attohney and Counsellor at Law,
Geneva Geer^ia.
Will practice in the counties of Talbot,
Marion. Chattahoochee, I [arris, and Taylor,
in the Chattahoochee Circuit.ftnd Schley in
the Southwestern Circuit, Special attention
paid to tho collection of claims.
Keferenoeh.
\V. J. Ligon Cos., Paschal A. TlcidingKfef
der, I. 1). Hough, It. A. Paschal, Ansotl
Turner, A. I . Candler, Oftpt. Henry Per
sons, 1. It. McCrary, all of Geneva, (la.,
I/mvo A Kashin, Tims. L. Rogers,of Buena
Vista, C. A. Reed A Cos., of ColumbuH, Ga.
Win. A. Black, S. W. R. It. Agt.at Ameri
cus, Ha. jail 8-tf.
U . E. MUMFORD,
Attorney at Law
’TVilDottoii <ji eorgia,
Will practice in all tho courts of the Chat
tahoochee Circuit and das*where by p*ou>l
contact. Prompt at tent ion given to all basj
news entrusted to him.
J. M’ MATHEWS, ~
ATTORNEY AT LAW-
Talbotton Ga..,
Prompt attention to nil busings*. Pme
tice in Superior Courts, of Chattahoochee
Circuit, and Supremo Court ot Georgia.
Jan 8-ly.
J. H. MARTIN,
ATTOUNEV AT LAW,
TALUOrrON, GA.
V\7ILL practice in tho Court* of the Chat-
VV tuh'ioch'<■ C r mu', and the Supreme
Court of the Slate, iho colluding buintKK
a specialty. janßtt
U. M. WILLIS* t, % wu.Lis.
WILLIS & WILLIS,
ATTORNEYS AND COl’Nftl LLOr.S AT LAW.
TALBOTTON, <;.A.
janftff
!W. F. TKiNFIt,
DENTIST.
OFFICE OVER MASON’S Drag Store,
Kuudolpb attest, Columbus, Go.
JK*r- Save your “Teeththey aro better
Hun Jewels. All diseases ol the Teeth and
i lain* treated. Artificial Testli |dt m n
dwired. aa„G-tJ