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VOLUME II—NUMBER 6.
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IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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TFTOtvISOTXr. GA.,
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IICSINKSS CARDS, ~
PRIVATE & TRASSIEWT BSARDINa
Mrs. Lallerstedt,
UAVING located in Thomson, and taken tho
house formerly occupied by Mrs. Giles, is pre
pared to accommodate permanent or transient
boarders on the most reasonable terms.
She will have a conveyance at the depot to take
baggage to and from the railroad on the arrival of
every passenger train. Day boarders accommoda
ted. janlTml
GLOBE HOTEI7
S. W. CORNER BROAD & JACKSON STS.,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
JACKSON & JULIAN, Proprit’rs-
We beg leave to call the attention of the travel
ling publiq to this well known Hotel, which we
have recently leased and placed on a footing
second to none in the South. No expense will be
spared to render it a first class House in every
respect, and every attention is paid to the comfort
and convenience of guests.
1., a. , peacock:.
OO Gre*m Street,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Transient & Permanent Boarding.
j»ii3l ly
Br. Willoughby Barton
H HYING moved to Thomson, respectfully offers
his Professional Services to the citizens of the
place and surrounding country.
He may be found at all hours, when not profes
sionally engaged, at the residence of the late Mr-
Knox. janlTml
NOTICi:.
HAVING recently located in the town of Thom
son, McDuffie county, Ga., I offer my pro
fessional services to the people of McDuffie and
adjoining counties.
Can be found at my residence at all times in the
night, and at my office in the daytime, when not
professionally engaged.
All calls promptly attended to, day or night.—
Charges reasonable. It. C. JOHNSON, M. D.
janlOml
CHARLES S. DuBOSE,
jfTii/ririFjkfm
Warronton, On.
Will practice in all the Courts of the Northern,
Augusta & Middle Circuits.
UR. T. 1,. LALLERSTEDT
OFFERS IIIS
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
To the Citizens ol Thomson and Viciuity.
lie can he found at the Room over Costello’s, when
r.ot professionally absent.
REFERS TO
Pro- J A. Eve, Pro. Wm. H. I oitohty. Dr
John S. Coleman, Dr. S C. Eve.
H, O. If <>N 13 V.
Jttonug ;it sato,
TUOMSO «.l.
Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and
Middle Circuits,
no I—ly
R. B. PHILLIPS,
(43, JACKS' S STREET, NR AH NEW POST OFFICE,)
AUGUSTA, G. 4.
IMPORTERS & WHOLESALE
DEALERS IN
Foreign and Domestic Liquors,
Brandies, Wines On,
Hum, Whiskies,' Bitters,
X’orter, Ale, Etc.. Etc.
TobaccO and OigarS
Os Every Var i e 11/ .
as'isaira' ?®b tl*s
Celebrated
iioin>Ton\ca kit izks,
May 3,1871. nlO ly
SOUTHERN MASONIC
FEMALE OOLLSO-E
riAHE Spring Term of this institution opens on
£ the 13th instant. Having been fully endorsed
by the Grand Lodge at the last communication,
and the whole operation of the college being put
upon an enlarged scale, let those interested send
for circulars.
Price of board reduced to I*lo.oo per month.
Washing included 00
Entire cost for collegiate year, embracing
music and incidentals £312 00
Without music 232 00
A uniform and economical attire will be adopted
bv the middle of Spring term.
Address Rev. J. N. BRADSHAW,
Covington, Ga. janlOwfl Principal.
You are troubled with a bad breath.
It annoys your friends as well as yourself. You
would like to get rid of it, but scarcely know
what means to adopt. We will tell yon. Use the
fragrant Sozodont: it will cleanse and beautify
vour teeth and leave your breath pure.
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jan24w2
Manhood;
How Lost, How R<iStored.
JI'ST published, anew edition of Dr. Culver
w ell’s Celebrated Essay on the radical cure of
certain weaknesses, the effect of errors ami abuses
in earlv life.
The celebrated author, in this admirable essay,
clearly demonstrates lroni a thirty years’ successful
practice, that the alarming consequences of such er
rojs and ebuses may ho radically cured without the
dangerous use of internal medicine or the app/ica
tiou of tl»e knif< ; pointing out a mode of cure at.
once simple, certain aud effectual, by means of
which every sufferer, no matter what his condition
may he, may -cure himself cheaply, privately aud
radically.
This lecture should he in the hands of eveiy youth
and every mat) in the land.
Sent, under seat, in plain envelope, to any ad
dress, postpaid, on receipt of six cents, or two post
Also, I)r. Coulvcrwell's Marriage Guide, price 25
cents. Address tho publishers.
CH AS. .1 0. KLINK &CO.,
127 Bowery. New York, Post Office Box 4,580,
Jau24yl
IMFIMtWB
GROCER
JNJSTID
Commission iitmljant,
No. 284 Broad Street,
•.iuyuHta, GEORGM.
HAS on hand and for sale, at the lowest market
prices, for cash or good factor’s acceptances,
payable next Fall, a full scock of
Choice Groceries & Plantation
Supplies,-
among which may be found the following :
30 hhds. D. It. bacon sides
10,000 lbs D. S. shoulders
10 casks hams
100 packages lard
200 boxes choese
31)0 bbls flour, all grades,
300 sacks oats
40 “ soed rj’e
100 bbls. Irish potatoes
100 packages new Mackerel—Nos. 1, 2 and 3
100 “ extra mess Mackerel
10 bbls. buckwheat
100 chests toa all grades,
500 bids, syrup—ilifferent grades
200 cases oysters—l. and 2 lb. cans
200 cases canned fruits and vegetables
300 cases pickles, all sizes,
30 “ lobsters, 1 and 2 lb. cans
200 gross matches
200 boxes candles
30,000 Cliarleß Dickens segars
50,000 Goorgia Chiefs “
50,000 our choice
200,000 various grades “
5,000 bushels com
25 hhds. Demarara sugar
35 hhds. brown sugar
10 hhds. Scotch sugar
25 boxes Havana sugar
50 bbls. crushed, powdered and granulated sugar
200 bbls. extra C and A sugar
200 bags Rio coffee
50 “ Laguayra coffee
50 pockets old Government Java coffee
100 boxes No. 1 soap
200 boxes pale “
150 boxes starch
100 boxes soda
100 dozen buckets
50 dozen brooms
10 bbls. pure Baker whisky
50 bbls. Old Valley whisky
200 bbls. rye whisky, all grades
50 bbls. pure corn whisky
30 bbls. brandy, gin and rum *
10 qnarter casks imported Cognac brandy
8 quarter casks Scotch and Irish whisky
20 qnarter casks Sherry, Port and Madeira wine
20 casks ale and porter
10 casks Cooper’s half and half
50 cases Champagne
40 cases claret
50 cases Schnapps
100 cases bitters
200 boxes tobacco, all grades
100 cases smoking tobacco, all grades.
janSlyl
Notice to the Public.
{REGRET that circumstance* make it necessary
or in*- to give notiC« again that I am engaged in
the practice of rny profession. Some person or
persons have reported that I do not atten 1 calls at
night or in bad weather. Ido not know how this
r-porist a* ted, but this much Ido know, that it did
not come from me. As long as lam able 10 prac
tice, ii is rny int.en ion to serve the people faithfully,
and when unab’e to do this, I wiU give notice to the
public.
Please take due notice, and govern yourselves ac**
cordingiy. JAMES S, JONES.
Thomson, jun24w4
THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA., FEBRUABY 14, 1872.
IgisccUaufous.
Katie’s Strata jvem.
‘Well, Salie you may talk as long
as you will, but I really must adhere
to my first opinion—that Mr. Davis is
very timid, for a man. Oh! you need
not bridle up in that way/ I do not
mean that he is a coward, not at. least
as cowardice is generally understood.—
But I will maintain that he is timid and
bashful—else why does he keep beating
about the bnsh so long? Never mind
looking so innocent, sister mine—one
can see with half an eye that he is des
perately in love with you, and— well,
upon my word !’
This latter exclamation hurst in
amused wo: der from the speaker's lips,
as her elder sister suddenly swept from
the room—not so quickly, however, but
that hei tormentor caught a glimpse of
the crimsoned, agitated (ace which Sal
lie had in vain sought to conceal.
‘Upon my word!’ again ejaculated
the mischievous elf, as she gravely shook
her clustering ringlets hack from her
forehead. ‘Well, well !’ My ‘madcap
tongue as Sallie culls it has led to a
wonderful discovery ! So that proud,
haughty, stately young lady is in love
at last/ Well, Ido declare! Profes
sor Wragg wus quite right in saying
that many of the greatest discoveries
have been made by accident. Here
have I not been home a week from the
scene of my triumphant exit from school
discipline—when in trying to discover,
whether I was right in my surmise that
Mr. Davis is in love with Sallie, I hap
pen to hit upon the knowledge that
she is in the scrape. Instead of one
there are a pair of ’em.!’
What a condition ol affairs! Mr.
Davis loves Sallie, and Sallie loves him
but he, like the rest of mankind, is too
stupid to see that, so he holds back in
fear, leaving poor Sallie in uncertainty.
But I’ll fix him, that l will. Just let
me see now.’
And the young girl nestled down
into a large arm-chair, ana thought in
tent fur some half hour; how much
longer her reverie might have lasted,
had not the quiet which surrounded the
old farm-house been disturbed by the
sound of a horse’s feet advancing up the
avenue it would be difficult to deter
mine.
As it was, the crounching of the grav
el attracted her attention, and with one
bound she reached a window which
commanded a view ol the grand old
fashioned porch, and of the drive before
it.
“There he is now, just as I suspected,
come to spend the afternoon with Sal
lie, the bashful swain. Ah !he is bow
ing now, so Sallie must be on the porch.
That is glorious for me. llow fortunate
that I have not yet told Sallie how
nicely I deceived our whole class of
graduates, and even tho crusty., old
professor in the bargain. Sister will
no more suspect me in my fortune-tel
ler’s dress, than they did, and if I can
not manage to infuse a little more hope
and courage into Will Davis’s faint
heart, why then I am a disgrace to my
new profession, and shall retire in dis
gust. Now let me think—l must guard
against Sallie’s seeking me while I am
not here.
A vigorous pull at the bell-rope,
which hung conveniently near, brought
a neat waiting maid to the door. *
‘Mary,’ and ‘madcap Katie’struggled
in vain to assume a becoming gravity.
‘lf Miss Sallie asks for me, tell her that
I have gone to see that poor sick woman
in the village.’
The instant the servant’s steps died
away in the distance, Katie sprang to
the door arid locked it, even adopting
the precaution of hanging an apron
upon the knob, that no eye might by
any chance penetrate her secret'" by
means of the keyhole.
Then she danced across the room,
and throwing open a half unpacked
trunk, drew therefrom several articles
which seemed strangely out of place
amidst the tasteful, expensive garments
by which they were surrounded.
One by one Katie held them up be
j fore her, a low, musical laugh rippling
j from her lips as she looked upon them.
| A strange collection, in sooth, to form
j part of a fashionable young lady’s war J
| robe.
An old plaid colico sun-bonnet, with
| a full, stiff cape, a long, loose, green and
j white plaid sack of the same material,
an old pair of shoes, much lar er than
than necessary, a pair of bine spectacles,
; ragged gloves, and more incongruous,
if possible, than all these, a jed dress,
covered with sprawling yellow figures,
a dress such as would cause the eyes of
a genuine young gipsy woman to
sparkle with delight.
Ten minutes later our mischievous
friend stood before the mirror, fully
equipped in this strange costume, save
that her beautiful curls yet drooped
over the laughing face, whose clear
brunette was momentarily becoming
darker and redder under the skillful
manipulations of her busy fiingers.
•Now then, 1 will throw my large
mantle over this dress, tuck the stm
hoimet under my arm, and with my
hat on, no one who may chance to
meet me will suspect that 1 am not in
my usual costume. I told no untruth
wlien 1 left word that I was going to
the village. I am going there after 1
have told those two foolish persons on
the porch yonder their fortunes.’
‘There, Miss Sallie.’ exclaimed Will
Davis, ‘there comes one of the very
tribe of gipsies that I have been telling
von of. She is in haste to visit you, I
think. Her friends can scarcely have
pitched their tents yet ; for it has not.
been two hours since their chief asked
my permission to settle down in my
grove.’
‘She is and old woman, too,’ said
Sallie, and how fantastically she is
diessed—in real gipsy fashion, even
though she is so feeble that she uses a
cane. Hush / here she is.’
‘Day to ye, my leddy and gentleman.
Bless your young faces; and will ye let
the old gipsy woman tell your fortunes,
my dears!' It will be blithe fortunes
ye will have—that much I see in your
bonny faces. Come, now, let the gyp
sy tell your fortunes, gentlefolks.’
A few moments hesitation, and a
lowspoken consultation—and then,
while the gipsy rested her shaking
limbs on the steps, Will Davis, laugh
ingly, held out his hand for her inspec
tion ; first, however, crossing her own
with silver, ‘both for the lady and him
self.’
But the gipsy demurred to this mode
of prooeedure; the gentleman must
not come first, or bad fortune would
come to him ; his sister should precede
hi/"-
So Davis, without in the oast dis
claiming the relationship, stepped aside,
giving place to the half-timid maiden.
But again the fortune-teller objected.
‘Young sir, will ye just go further off?
It spoils a fortune to have two to hear
it ’
Will Davis, half laughing half vexed,
retired as requested, and then the old
woman without furtht r delay, took
Sallie’s white hand in her own, and
slowly traced the lines upon it.
Now, Miss Sallie Bergh was not at
all inclined to place implicit confidence
in any revelations that might be made
to her, by even the most skillful fortune
teller the world contained—nor what
ever were her feelings, was suppersti
tion included in the list—nevertheless,
when the old gipsy’s gloved finger trav
eled slowly over her palm, the pptid
sunbonnet, with its imposing cape, be
ing gravely shaken the while—the
young lady repented her rash compli
ance with the weired creature’s request.
Repented of it, even though she
learned she was loved by a tall, dark
young man, who was at that moment
not far distant, but who needed encour
agement from her to declare his love.
‘The stars never lie, Miss,’ concluded
the gipsy, ‘and they have written it j n
your rrnliT) ;', ia c y e will be married be
fore this time next year, and ye will
have a good husband and be happy.—
Blessings on ye Miss.’
Sallie now stepped within the house
and Davis advanced to the fortune-teller.
‘Be quick, t good woman he said,
casting an uneasy glance towards the
parlorwindow, whence the bright, girl
ish face that was so dear to him looked
smilingly out,
‘lt is a blithe fortune is yours, sir.—
A happy and long life is before ye.—
Ye will marry, and very soon. Ye have
met the leddy already,sir; and a bonny
leddy she is, with dark-brown hair, and
brown eyes, like your sister that sits
there at the window now. Ye have got
one fault, sir, ye are too timid. Ye
love the bonny leddy, an I she loves you,
but ye are too faint hearted to speak it
out to her, and hear her say ‘yes,’ and
so, inebbe, after all, ye will not get the
leddy, for someone else may snatch her
from ye. Be brave, speak out, sir, aud
remember the poor old gipsy woman
in your joy.
Leaving the bewildered young man
standing speechless on the steps, the
fortune teller hobbled slowly away, and
as she disappeared in the thick grove
that partially concealed the road to the
village, Will Davis drew a lort" breath.
‘She is right, that strange old crea
ture,’ he murmured. ‘Faint heart
never won fair lady. Yes, the gipsy is
right; I will no longer yield to rny un
manly cowardice. I will in and learn
my real fortune from that sweet girl's
own lips, and heaven grant that the
gipsy be right in this also, that she
loves me! But, ah ! that would be too
great happiness for me all unworthy as
I am. But away, faint heart! no more
hesitation ! I will be brave, and meet
my fate like a man.’
‘Here comes Katie from her visit to
the village,’ said Sallie an hour later.
She was standing at the window, and
as she spoke young Davis came to her
side and gently stole his arm around her.
‘Shall we tell tier now, my dearest?'
fie whispered. -Yes/ That is—well
then, for I am so happy that I long to
tell of it. But,’he added, doubtfully,
■perhaps she will not— ’
His words were interrupted by the
appearance of the young lady in ques
tion; rather more speedily than either
of the pair hail anticipated, for Will
Davis’s arm was still clasped around
Sallie’s waist, and very foolish they
both looked, as mischievous Katie paus
ed abruptly on the threshold, and
threw tp her hands in moeh horror of
the scene.
‘Sallie Bergh! Ido declare/— ’
But Davis interrupted her.
‘Sallie Davis, soon to be ! Congratu
late me. Miss Katie/'
And Katie did congratulate him, as
suring him of her belief that she would
by the exercise of that patience of
which she possessed so large a store,
he able to tolerate him ns a brother-in
law.
Her gray eyes sparkled with mirth
as Davis proceeded to tell her, how
during herabsencein the village, a gip
sy woman had foretold his present good
fotune, and in so doing had given him
courage to go forward and realize in
very truth the joy she had predicted.
‘I shall seek her out,’ concluded
Will, ‘and reward her; hut for her 1
have found it so hard to hear.’
‘What will you give her, pray V ask
ed Katie.
‘Anything she may choose to ask bo
that it be not too unreasonable.’
A few moments later Katie left the
room, and directly afterward? a slight
rustle at the door attracted the lovers’
attention.
Looking up they perceived, to their
surprise, the indentical old gipsy wo
man standing in the doorway.
She made a deep courtesey, and hob
bling across the Hoor, stood before them
in silence ; for an instant only, however,
then she extended one hand, while with
the other she cast off her sunbonnet,
revealing the laughing face of ‘madcap
Katie.’
‘Money, if you please, sir, for the
poorold gipsy’s village pensioners.’
And Will Davis, as soon as he could
sufficiently recover himself, assured the
‘poor old gipsy’ that she should be ‘liber
ally rewarded’ as soon as he could gain
access to his private drawer, in his
study, some two miles away.
‘l’ll trust you till then,’ said Katie,
and with a gleeful laugh she bounded
away to lay aside the fortune-teller s
dress which had done such good ser
vice.
Tlte Strang-e Story of au Ar
lfnnsas Xcgfo wlio was Bit<
ten by a Locust.
Sir. William Hardin, a well-known
gentleman of this city, returned a short
time ago from a tour through Arkansas,
and relates, among other things, that
he saw at Duval’s Bluff a full-blooded
negro who, ten years ago, was very
black and is now very white. The
darkey belonged, during slave times, to
Esquire Mann, of that place, and was
thought to be the blackest negro in the
neighborhood.
A locust bit him on the shoulder some
time during the first year of the war,
and a small white circle formed at once
around the bite. This circle gradually
extended itself, and finally covered the
whole body with the exception of a
small black spot on the neck, and also
narrow rings which gird round the
eyes.
The negro is still a negro in all other
respects. The hair, for instance, is
kinky, the nose flat and broad, and the
ips thick. His complexion, Mr. Har
din says, is exceedingly fair, and shows
a wonderful change wrought, as is sup
posed by the bite of the locust.
The medical profession tell us that
there are recorded in the books one or
two similar cases,with the exception that
tlte locust, bite had nothing to do with
them. White men thev say, have also
been known to turn black, and look, j
TERMS-TWO DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE.
as regards their skin, just like negroes.
The cause of the change is not exactly
known, and is a question for scientific
investigation.
The locust, if found to be so useful,
will be imported and cultivated by our
colored population, till the whole coun
try is inundated with them. The ne
groes will then all become white people,
and perhaps the white people will all
become not negroes, but colored peo
ple.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
mm
The Difference.
Carpet-bag government is a very ex
pensive luxury for Southern people to
indulge in, as witness the following
showing up of the State’s expenditures
in three years, as exhibited by a com
mittee of the North Carolina Legisla
ture ;
For the year ending Oct. 4, 1809....5tf 787,428 98
For the year ending Oct. 1, 1870.... 1,127,214 10
For the year ending Oct. 1, 1871 552,003 93
A solution to this mysterious inequal
ity of annual expenditures may be
found in a small scrap of Noith Caroli
na history: In July, 18G8, the ‘recon
struction’ cohorts took possession of
the State, and at the footing up for
18G9, we have the nice little row of
figrues above given. Next year they
had their hands fairly in, and, conse
quently, did much better, running
through with considerably more than a
million dollars—they would, doubtless,
have made it a clear million and a half
but for an unfortunate interruption
which took place in August, cuting
them off from the privileges of the bal
ance of the year. In August, IS7O,
the people of North Caroliua, despite
the war then waged upon them by
Grant and his pet, Iloiden, swept the
State, electing five out of seven Con
gressmen, and securing a majority in
the Legislature. The carpet-bag gov
ernment was clipped short, and under
the new regime we have an annual ex
penditure for la-t year running up to
the comparatively insignificant sum of
$552,602,93 ; showiug that a Southern
Commonwealth cannot use Northern
talent to run her goverment affairs at
less .than an extra cost of half a million
dollars annually. GWdenng the qual
ity of the article it may be low enough
at the figures, but few of the Stares
are able to pay so much. We have no
doubt but most of those still made the
subjects of Northern favor would be en
tirely satisfied with a cheaper grade of
wares; that is ns well satified as they
would be with any. —Mobile llcgistcr.
A NcgTO 1 Sank on the White
lrollcw’ Plan.
Sam Johnson, of New Orleans, was a
great authority on the levee, and one
day he called his satellites together and
addressed them on the importance of
adopting a fiscal policy more resem
bling that which had raised to opulence
their Caucasian neighbors. ‘Niggers,’
said he, 'if you want to get rich, you
must save your money. You must
have a bank. Dat is de way de white
jjolks does.’
These words fell on a propitious soil.
The project went into swift execution,
and the earnings q? the week were
promptly lorth coming.
‘Niggers,’ said Sambo, ‘I will be de,
cashier ; you must ’posite all de money
wid me, and when you want any you
must draw onto it. Dat is de way de
white folks does.’
All went merrily for a while, and the
depositors where highly elated about
‘de bank.’ But by aud by there began
to be trouble—not with the deposites,
but with the drafts. It was found ea
sier to get funds into this model institu
tion than to get them out again, ar.d
Sam was compelled to face his angry
customers and explain.
‘lt is all right,’ said he ; ‘de bank is
only suspend, and in a few days she
will again resume; dat is de way de
white folks does.’
This expedient lasted but a little
while, however ; suspicions of foul play
day by day increased, and the storm was
about to burst on the head of the great
operator, when he found it expedient
once more to gather his infuriated de
positors and face the music frankly.
‘Niggers,’ said he, ‘dar is no use
motivin' about it. De money’am spent,
and de bank am broke, and dat is de
way de white folks does /’
The Duke having killed one of Uncle
Sam’s bisons, the Chicago post publishes
the following telegram ffom Alexis’ fa
ther :
Sr. Pktertburg, Russia, Jan. 17.
“Ovcorsile pnyfer oneded heffer,
Shali desertmiboi ?, No-nefier”
“EMPEROR ALEX/
