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VOLUME II—NUMBER 7.
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jan3l ly
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Warrrnton, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of the Northern,
Augusta & Middle Circuits.
DR. T. L. LATLEBSTEDT
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
To the Citizens of Thomson and Vicinity,
lie can be found at the Boom over Costello’s, when
noi professionally absent.
REFERS TO
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John S. Coleman, Dr. S C. Eve.
H. C. RONEY,
Attorni) at C.ilu.
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Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and j
Middle Circuits,
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R. B. PHILLIPS,
(43, JACKS N STREET, NEAR NEW POST OFFICE,}
AUGUSTA, 0 1.
IMPORTERS & WHOLE SALS
DEALERS IN
Foreign and Domestic Liquors,
Brandies, W nes G n,
Rum, VVhi-kie%’ Bitters,
Porter, \!e, Etc.. Etc.
TobaccO and CigarS
Os Every Variety.
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May 3,1871. nlO ly
SOUTHERN MASONIC
FEMAL-J COLLEG-E
ri"SHE Spring Term of this institution opens on
the lath 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 $16.00 per month.
Washing included $lB 00
Entire cost for collegiate year, embracing
music and incidentals $612 00
Without music - 00
A uniform and economical attire will be adopted
by the middle of Spring term.
Add; ess Rev. J. N. BRADSHAW,
Covington, Ga. janlOwG Principal.
M*. O- DOWB
GROCER
A INTO
Commission Jit ml) ant,
No, 284 Broad Street,
GEORGIA.
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 :
50 hhds. D. R. bacon sides
10,000 lbs D. S. shoulders
10 casks hams
100 packages lard
200 boxes cheese
300 bbls flour, all grades,
300 sacks oats
40 “ seed rye
100 bbls. Irish potatoes
100 packages new Mackerel—Nos. 1, 2 and 3
100 extra mess Mackerel
10 bbls. buckwheat
100 chests tea ail grades,
500 bbls. svvup—different grades
200 cases oysters—l and 2 lb. cans
200 cases ciinned fruits and vegetables
300 cases pickles, all sizes,
50 “ lobsters, 1 and 2 lb. cans
200 gross matches
200 boxes candles
50,000 Charles Dickens segars
50,000 Georgia Chiefs “
50,000 our choice “
200,000 various grades “
5,000 bushels corn
25 hhds. Doinarara 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 coffeo
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
80 bbls. brandy, gin and rum
10 quarter .casks uftported Cognac brandy
8 quarter casks Scotch and Irish whisky
20 quarter 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.
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FURNITURE
OP ALL DKSCKI PTIO^S,
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PLATT BitOTIIFKS,
(Formerly C. A I’lalt & C 0.,)
1214 Broad Street, Augusta, (la.
1,000 Maple & Walnut Bedsteads,
$5 io $10!
We particularly call ihe attention of purchasers
to our Solid W Inut Chamber Suit* for Beauty,
/durability and Cheapness.
Our Manufacturing Department is atil/ in opera
tion. Special orders will he promptly attended to.
R -pairs cone in all its branches.
Upholstering Department.
Hair Clo‘h, Enameled Cloth. Reps, Terry and
Spring*,and al/ ..rticles Suit&b'efor manufacturers,
wo offer at Low I’rtces. jau3l mG
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If You Wisli to get the Best and
Most Reliable, you Must Buy
B RES )r
puKSEitner
WHO FSAI.E «KII(J«ISTS
212 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
Jan. 17, 2m
On Consignment.
30 Bbs- Choice Flour in Barrels
(50 ' ‘ Flour in Sacks (assorted
grades
Weed Oats
Prime White Corn
All for Bale at close figures, For Cash.
Cottosi Wanted.
janl7tf JOHN E. BENTON.
Jouvin’s Inodorous Kid Glove Clean
er restores soiled gloves equal to new. For sale by
and Fancy Goods Dealers. Price 25 cts.
per bottle. F. C. Wells & Cos., N. Y. janlOinl
Thomson, McDuffie county, ga., February 21,1872.
i’ocfvn.
Bear and Forbear.
Be careful, ye, whose wedded hearts
Are lovingly united ,
Bo heedful, lest an enemy
Steal on you uninvited.
A little, wily, serpent form,
With graceful, luring poses—
Or, coming in a diff’vent guise,
A thorn among the roses!
Be careful, ye, whose marriage bells
Now merrily ai*e ringing ;
Be heedful of the bitter word,
The answer keen ar.d stinging—
The sharp retort, the angry eye,
Its vivid lightning flashing—
The rock on which so many hopes
Are daily, hourly dashing!
“ Bear and forbear”—the only way
To tread life’s paths together;
Then come, and welcome, shining sun,
Or come, dark cloudy weather ;
Two wedded hearts, conjoined in one
That cannot live asunder,
Have put Love’s golden armor on—•
Oh, world, look on and wonder !
Out.
Out of tho darkness into the light,
Out of the shadow into the sun,
Never a day more fair and bright,
Than this glad day that has just begun.
Never a fairer sunlight smiled,
Tinging the mountain tops with gold,
Never a sweeter song beguiled,
Than tho song to my waiting heart just told.
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>IY WIDOW.
BY SHIRLEY BROWNE.
Jones advises me not to marry her—
he said she was too young and pretty.
Farnuin adv’sed me to remain an old
bachelor—told ine a man past forty
simply made a fool of himself by mat
rimony.
Tewksbury—a man who is notorious
for never minding bis own business —
told me she had made a love affair with
Harry Birmingham before he went
South.
Allen shook his head, and said Clara
Myers might be very pretty, but he
liked somebody maturer and more set
tled. (N B.- He married his liqutie*,.
keeper the next Week, and she is ma
ture enough for Mathusaleh himself/)
Every body thought I was trying a
dangerous experiment, but I din’t pre
tend to suit everybody—so I simply suit
ed myself, I went quietly to church
* with Clara Myers, and married her one
glorious January morning, when tiie
eaves of old St. Paul’s were fringed
with glittering icicles, and the brisk
wind was treiglited with particle of fly
ing snow, like a biittalion of diamonds
on tlie double-quick.
She was nineteen and I was mne-and
thirty. She was as beautiful as a rose
bud, with a shy, pretty way, like a
timid child, and lam a rough old cod
ger, sound enough at heart, but like
a winter apple, unpromising on the ex
terior.
In short, we were as unlike as May
and November, and the good natured
world shook its head, and said, ‘no
good could come of such an unequal
match.’ But she said she loved me,
arid I believed her. Nobody could look
into Clara’s blue eyes and not believe
her, you see.
And the next day I made a will, and
bequeathed all my property, uncondi
tionally, to my wife.
‘Are you sure you are doing a wise
thing, Mr. Folliott ?’ said Marilyn, the
lawyer,pushing his blu>- spectac'es up
on his forehead, until he looked like a
bald old gnome, with a double pair of
eyes, ‘You see, she is very much
younger than yourself, and—’
‘Please to be so kind as to mind your
own business,’ said I, brusquely.—
‘Don’t be offended, Marvyrr, but really
people seem to suppose I am riot able
to attend to my own affairs.’
‘Just as you please,’ said Marilyn, in
a luge. ‘I am a mere tool in your
hands.’
‘That’s it, exactly,' said I. So I
signed the will and went home to Clara.’
‘Oh, Paul, you must not die/’ said
Clara, with a sacred look, when I told
what I had done. ‘Nobody ever loved
me as truly and generously as you have
done, and I don’t know what I should
do if you were taken away !’
‘There was a young Birmingham, if
all reports were true —’ I mischievous
ly began, but the curl on Clara’s lip
stopped me.
‘A mere butterfly,’ she said haughtily,
‘without either brains or principle.—
Paul, Paul, I have found a shelter in
your true loving heart, and I mean to
nestle there a ways /’
And then she cried—this foolish
softhearted little wife of mine.
[ Jones and Tewksbury might have
called this policy. Farnuin would
have said it was acting. But it was
very pleasant, and I felt more than
ever like a man who has found some
.precious jewel, and wears it, like an
amulet, on his Lreast.
So things went on untill the firm of
which I was managing partner, needed
to send someone to Calcutta to see af
ter a turbaned scoundrel of an agent,
who had absconded with more money
than we could well afford to lose.—
Morrison was old and feeble—llevvit’s
wife lay very ill, so I was the one to
go I kissed Clara good-bye as cheerfully
as I cot.' ,— — \ expecting to be back
in three mouths or so. But—you
know the French adage—‘Themme,
propose, ot Dieu dispose !’
I had to follow the agent up into the
mountains of India— 1 fell ill of one of
those burning climate fevers in the
bungalow of an old native priest, and
months flew by, until it was more than
a year before I found myself on the
deck of tho ‘Blue-eyed Mary,’ steaming
into New Yoik harbor!
And, all this time, Clara had never
heard a word from me !
I hud written to her, to prepare her
for whatseemed almost like my rising
from the dead, but I had afterwards
found my letters in the pocket of the
neglectful native servant who had un
dertaken to deliver the mails to the
Calcutta office.
‘But it don’t matter so much, now !’
I thought, she will be the mere delight
ed, poor little girl.
And then a eoid chill seemed to creep
through all my veins, like aNovember’s
wind suddenly breathing across a bed of
flow. rs.
Clara had hoard nothing of me for
nearly fifteen months—what might not
have happened in that time? All that
Tewksbury, and Jones, and Allen, and
all the other prophetic ravens of my
acquaintance had said, recurred to my
mind, like the burden of an uneasy
dream. I had been counting the days,
the hours, the very minutes until we
should touch port; hut now that my
feet, run r once more upon the pavement
r>ohily**iaivxi not
go home.
T turned into a down-town restauiant,
where I had been wont to go, in the
days of my bachelorhood, and slunk
in that dark corner; the twilight was
just falling, and I was sheltered by the
partition.
Hush/—that was Tewksbury’s voice,
harsh and jarring as of old.
‘Just what migth have been expec
ted, said Tewksbury. ‘Pretty and
young widows don’t go begging in this
market /'
‘Fol.iott might have known it,’
growled old Farnuin. ‘Poor Folliott,!
there was some good points about h ; m»
too! Sad thing, that ! very sad thing !
‘We must ail die,’ said Tewksbury
gravely.
‘Yes, but a fellow would naturally
prefer dying in his bed to being carried
off by an East Indian fever and buried
in the jungles!’
I shuddered. Had I then come borne
to my own funeral as it were ‘l
‘And she’s going to marry young Bir
mingham, after all !’ added Farnuin.
The paper dropped from my hand.
‘I could have told Folliott so, when I
found out what a confounded idiotic will
he had made,’ said Tweksbury. ‘So
gold has fallen again. Just my luck ; I
sold out to night!’
I stayed to hear no more, but stag
gered out in the darkness with one idea
whirling thro’ inv dizzy brain—my
Clara was mine no longer !
It was quaslionable what Tewksbury
had said. I might have anticipated
some such end. She was too young,
too lovely for such a rough old fellow
as I was. Sty widow—what a curious
sensation the Words gave me as I men
tally pronounced them.
Under my own windows, with the
rubv-red light shining through wine
colored damask curtains, I stood there
feeling as Rip Van Winkle might have
felt in the play—like a dead man walk
ing on the earth once more. Voices
and lights were within. I opened
door softly, and crept into the hall.
The drawing room was ajar. Clara,
herself, stood before the fire, in deep
black robes, with a frill of white crape
on her auburn gold tresses—the awful
sign and symbol of her widowhood.—
Directly opposite, stood Harry Bir
-1 mingham, looking diabolically young
: and handsome in the soft, gas light.
‘Clara, Clara /’ he cried,‘you surely
are not in earnest. You will reconsider!’
‘My answer is final!’ she responded.
‘The time might once have been when I
fancied I had a childish liking for you.
Harry Birmingham—but that time has
long since passed away. I gave my
heart to the noblest man that ever
breathed—Paul Folliott—and in his
grave it is forever buried. I loved him
once; I shall love him on into eternity/
1 never was half worthy of him but—’
And Clara’s voice was choked with
sob;-.
‘My love—my darling—my own
precious wife P
How I ever got into the room—how
I managed to make Clara comprehend
that I was my own living sell, and not
a ghost arisen from the shadow of the
sepulchre, I cannot tell to this day—
neither can she! —butl know thatyoung
Birmingham somehow disappeared, and
I \va3 standing with Clara clasped to
my breast, the happiest man that ever
bresthed God’s blessed air. •
For Jones, Tewksbury, Farnhsm &
Cos., were all wrong—and to use the
words of the orthodox fairy stories,
slightly paraphrased, ] and my widow
‘lived happily ever afterwards !’
A Nabob’s Vi--.it to New
York.
BY SI AIIK TWAIN.
[As to!u by himself in his new book
entitled ‘Roughing It,’ now in pre33.
It is a sample of the good things con
tained therein.]
In Nevada there used to be current
the story of the adventure of two of her
nabobs, which mayor may not have oc
curred. I give it for what it is worth:
Colonel Jim had seen son: what of the
world, and know more or less of its
ways; but Colonel Jack was from the
back settlements of the States, had led
a life of arduous toil, and had never
seen r. city.
These two, blessed with sudden
wealth projected a visit to New York—
Colonel Jack to see the sights, and
Colonel Jim to guard his unsophistica
tion from misfortune. They reached
San Francisco in the night and sailed in
in the morning. Arrived in New Yoik
Colonel Jack said :
Wye heard tell of Carriages all my life,
and now I mean to have a ride in one;
I don't care what it costs. Come
along.
They stepped on the sidewalk and
Colonel Jim called for a sylcish ba
rouche. But Colonel lack said :
‘No, sir! none of your Cheap John
turnouts for nie, I’m here to have a
good time, and money ain’t any object.
I mean to the nobbiest rig that’s going.
Now here co lies the very trick. Stop
that yaller one with the pictures on
it---doi)’t fret—lll stand all the expense
myself.’
So C ionel Jim stopped an empty om
nibus and they got in. Said Colonel
Jack:
‘Ain’t it gay though? Oh; no, 1
reckon not. Cushions, windows and
pictures till you can’t rest. What
would the boys say if they could see us
cutting a swell like this in New York?
By George I wish they could see us.’
Then he put his head out of the win
dow, and shouted to the driver :
‘Say. Johnny, this suits me—suits
yours truly, you bet! I want this she
bang all day. I’m on it, old man. Let
’em out. Make ’em go ! We’ll make
it all right to you, sonny.’
The driver passed his hand through
the strap-hole and tapped for his fare—
it was before the gongs caine into com
mon use. Colonel Jack took tho hand
and shook it cordially. He said :
‘You twig me, old pard! All right
between gents. Smell of that, and see
how you like it.’
And he put a twenty dollar gold piece
in the driver’s hand. After a moment
the driver sai I lie could not make change.
‘Bother the change ! Ride it out.—
Put it in your pocket.’
Then to Colonel Jim, with a siund
ing slap on the thigh :
‘Ain’t it style, though ? Hi nged if
I don’t hire this thing every day for a
week.’
The omnibus stopped, and a young
lady got in, Colonel Jack started for
a moment, then nudged Colonel Jim
with his elbow.
‘Don’t say . a word,’ lie whispered.
Let her ride, if she wants to. There’s
room enough.’
The young lady got out her porte
moiiie, and handed her fare to Colonel
Jack.
•What’s this for ?’ he said.
‘Give it to the driver, please.
‘Take back your money, ma fam. We
can’t allow it. You are wt Icome to
ride here as long as you please, but the
shebang is chartered ; we shan’t let you
pay a cent.’
The girl shrank into a corner bewil-
TERMS-TWO DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE.
dered. An old lady with a basket got
in, and proffered her fare.
‘Excuse me,’ said Col. Jack. ‘You
are perfectly welcome here. Madam,
but we can’t allow you to pay. Sit
right down there, mum, and don’t you
feel the least uneasy. Make yourself as
free as if you were in your own turn
out.’
Within two minutes three gentlemen,
two fat women and a couple of children
entered.
‘Come right along, friends,’said Col.
Jack; ‘don’t mind us. This is a free
blow-out.’ Then he whispered to Col.
Jirt), ‘New York ain’t no sociable place.
I don’t reckon it ain’t no name for it.’
lie resisted every effort to pass fares
to the driver. He made everybody
cordially welcome. The situation had
dawned on the people, and they pock
eted their money, and delivered them
selves up to covert enjoyment of the
episode. Half a dozen more passengers
entered
‘Oh, there is plenty of room,’ said
Colonel Jack. ‘ Walk right in, and
make yourselves at home. A blow-out
ain’t worth anything as a blow-out un
less a body ha3 company.’ Then in a
whisper to Colonel Jim, ‘But ain’t these
New Vorker3 friendly • And ain’t they
cool about it, too? Icebergs ain’t any
where. I reckon they’d tackle a hearse,
if it was going their way.’
More passengers got in; more yet,
and still more. Both seats were filled,
and a file of men were standing up,
holding to the cleats overheard. Par
ties with baskets and bundles were
climbing up on the roof. Half-sup
pressed laughter rippled up from all
sid ‘6.
‘Well, for clean, cool, out-and-out
cheek, if this don’t bang out every
thing I ever ssyv, I am an Ingun,’ whis
pered Colonel Jack.
A Chinaman crowded in his way.
‘I weaken,’ said Colonel Jac/r. ‘Hold
on, driver. Keep your seat3, ladies and
gents. Just make yurselvesfree—eve
rything is paid for. Driver, rustle
these folks around as long as they have
amiind to go—friends of ours, you
know. Take them every where, and if
you want more money come to the St.
Nicholas, and we will make it all right.
Pleasant journey to you, ladies and
gents ; go it just as long as you please
—it chant cost you a cent!
The two comrades got out, and Col
onel Jack, said ;
‘Jimmy, it’s the sociablest place I
ever saw. The Chineman waltzed in
as comfortable as anybody. If we’d
staid a while I reckon we’d had some
niggers. By George, we’ll have to
barricade our door to night, or some of
these ducks will be trying to sleep with
us.
Another Stupendous Undical
llobbery.
The New York Sun publishes a state
ment from a responsible source setting
forth the startling fact that there is a
deficit of several million dollars in the
accounts of the Stamp Department of
the Internal Uevenue Bureau. In other
words, the stamps have been issued and
sold, but the money to the amount ol
the missing millions has not been re
turned to the Treasury. This state
ment, says the Sun, is fortified by a
considerable amount of evidence, and
we are assured that there is much more
no? yet produced. It is alleged that
the facts have been for some time
known to various prominent persons
who have labored steadily and hitherto
successfully to keep them hidden.
It seems that there is no limit to the
fraud and corruption, the plundering
and robberry in every department of
the Government. Every day biinga
forth its new developments of crime
until the people have become so accus
tomed to disclosures of official villainy
that they cease to wonder at the perpe
tration of the most stupendous frauds.
An intoxicated man saw two cars
passing him the other evening, with
red and blue lights in the front and
rear. His fuddled brain comprehended
colored lights, and he was heard to say
to himself: ‘Must be pretty sick—
sickly here ; they’re runingdrug stores
round on wheels.’
The greatest mau living may stand
in need of the meanest, as much as the
meanest does of him.
He that will be angry for anything,
will be angry for nothing.
A knowledge of our weakness creates
in us charity for others.
An honest man is always believed
without an oath.