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About McDuffie weekly journal. (Thomson, McDuffie County, Ga.) 1871-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1872)
VOLUME II—NUMBER 28. ®hc HJclluffic journal, IS published weekly —AT— THOMSON. Q-^_, —C V— RONEY & SULLIVAN, RATES OF ADVERTISING, 'l'rausitmt advertisements Will be charged one dollar per square for the first iuscrtiou, aud seveuty five cents for each, subsequent insertion. m sixm dTunsT” E.S.HAR R ISO N , Physician and Harpoon Offers bis service? to the public. Oflice with Dr. J. S. Jones, over McCord & llardaw iv’s. aprlom3 Thomson, Ga. J. MlftfPHV dr CO, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Elffll WHITE BUM i t. 5. WARE —ALSO— Hcnii-China I'l’cnrh <!isna. IdassHisiT, .Li'. 244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga aprlO ly. 11. C. L’O.MbV, gjfonuij at futo, Tiso.Mso ?*. a.t. Will practice in the Augusta, Northern aud Middle Circuits, no 1-ly JAMES A. GRAY & 00., Have Removed to their IVttw li'on Front Slortt, BROAD STREET, AUGUST , GA aprlOtf C LOBE HOTtL. A S. IV. CORNER BROAD & JACKSON STS., .AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. JACKSON & JULIAN, Proprit’rs- Wo beg leave to call tlio attention of the travel ling public to thin well Known IT'L l, wbich we V r .ccntlv V Mined aivl placed on a footing Hc joud to none in the South. ino > xpenuo will oe spared to vr-ndor il :• fl*at class House in every respect, aud every attention is paid to the comfort and convenience of guests. m T. L LALLHS TOT OFFERS HIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the Citizens ol Thomson aud Vicinity, lie can be found at the Room over Costello's, when not proles ioually absent. REFERS TO Pro. J V. Eve, Pro. Wm. il. Do; duty, Du John Coleman, Du. S. C. Eve. O 3>T TIJMCE. TILL THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER. X WILL furnish planters and others in want of s is o i: s on City Acceptance, till Ist November next, at cash [trices. D. COHEN, apr .1 13m3 Augusta, Ga. CHARLES S DuBOSE, W, Warrenton, Gn. Wi'l practice in all the Courts of the Northern Augusta & Middle Circuits. J. M. KARF», Wholesale and retail dealer in S3 Sir E3S©S 3?] 3 ®aOa 9 LAMPS AND LAM_P FIXTURES, Manufacturer aud dealer in all kinds of TIN AUD SHfflT IRON WARE | GUTTERING, ROOFING, Anil all kinds of Jobbing done promptly and neatly. GmG 15S1- Broad St., Augusta, Ga. Established in 18-13. T. 11. MANLEY, —WITH— Geq, Moif&mw d? SQNs NURSERYMEN, * HAVE FOR SALE A LARGE ASSOR3IENT OF ORNAMENTAL TREES,- EVERGREENS, & roses; drape Vines and Small Fruits, DWARF AND STANDARD FRUIT TRUES, ___ Rochester, N. Y. JAMES 11. lari.SLY’S Steam Dyeing and Scouring ESTABLISH iMIiEUST I’, 123 iSroad 81:., Aiipitflii, Ga. Near Lower Market Bridge Bank Building for the Dyeing and Ceaning of dresses, shawls, cloaks, ribbons, »tc. Also gen tlemen’s coats, vests and pants cleaned and dyed in the best manner. Piece dry goods, cloths, mo rinoes, delane, alpaca, rep goop.s and jeans dyed and finished equal to those done in New York. £iF Orders by Express promptly attended to. Augusta, Ga. apr.omd T DOLLARS A MONTH to sell our Tlniver f)• • J sal Cement, Combination Tunnel Button* Hole Cutter, and other articles. Saco No vlliy Cos., Saco, Mu. Uortrn. Maud Muller. Mahd Muller on a summer’s day leaked tlie meadow, sweat with hay» Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Os simple beauty and rustic health. Hinging, she wrought, and her merry glee The mock-bird echoed from his tree. But, when she glanced to the far off town, White from its hill-slope looking down, The sweet song died, and a vague unrest And a nameless longing filled her breast— A wish, she hardly dare to own, For something better than she had known. The Judge rode slowly down the lime, Smoothing his horses chestnut mane, lie drew his bridle in tho shade Os the apple tree to greet tho maid. And ask a draught from tho spring that flowed Through the meadow, across tho road. She stooped where the cool spring bubbled up, And filled for him her small tin cup. And blushed as she gave it looking down On her feet so hare and her tattered gown. “Thunks,” said the Judge, “a sweeter draught From a fairer hand was never quaffed.” He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees, Os the singing birds and humming bees ; Then ho talked of the having, and wondered whether The cloud in the west would bring foul weather. And Maud forgot her briar-torn gown, And her graceful ankles bare and brown ; And listened, while a pleased surprise Looked forth from her long-lashed hazel eyes. At last, like ono who for delay Seeks a vain excuse, he rode away. Maud Muller looked and sighed : ‘Ah, mo ! That I the Judge’s bride might bo ! “Ho wool 1 dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast meat his wine. “My father should wear a broadcloth coat; My brother should sail a painted boat. “I’d dress my mother so grand and gay, Aud tho baby should have anew toy each day. ‘ 4 And I feod tho hungry and clothe tho poor, And all should bless me who left my door.” Tho Judge lookod back as ho climbed the hill And saw Maud Muller standing still. "A form more fair, and a face moro sweet, h. Ihdt lot towed. 44 And her modest answer and graceful air Show her wise and good as she is fair. “Would sho wore mine, and I to-day Like her, a harvester of hay, “No doubtful balance of rights and wrongs, Nor weary lawyers with endless tongues, “But low of cattle and song of birds, And health and quiet and loving words.” But ho thought of his sisters proud and cold, And his mother vain of her rank and gold. So, closing liis heart, the Judge rode on, Aud Maud was left in tho field alone. But tho lawyers smiled that afternoon, When ho hummed in court an old love-tune ; And tho young girl mused beside tho well, Till the rain on tho unraked clover fell. He wedded a wife of the richest dowor, Who lived for fashion as he for power. Yet oft in his marble hearth’s bright glow, He watched a picturo come aud go ; And sweet Maud Muller’s hazel eyes Looked out in their innocent surprise. Oft when tho wino in his glass was red, He longed for tho wayside well instead ; And closed his garnished rooms, To dream of meadows and clover blooms. And tho proud man sighod, with a secret pain : ‘‘Ah, that I were free again ! “Free as when I rode that day Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay.” She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and child birth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shono hot On the new mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring-brook fall Over tho roadside through tho wall, In the shade of the apple-tree again She saw a driver draw his rein ; And gazing down with timid grace, She felt his pleased eye read her face. Sometimes her narrow, kitchen walls Stretched far away into stately halls ; The weary wheel to a spinner turned, The tallow candle an astral burned. And for him who sat by the chimney fire Dozing and grumbling o’er his pipe and mug. .\ manly form at her side sho saw, xYnd joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again Saying only, “It might have been.” Alas for maiden, alas for judge For rich repiner and household drudge I God pity them both ! and pity us all, Y/ho vainly dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The sadeefc arc these: “It might have been !” Ah, well! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply buried from human eyes, And in the hereafter, angels may 801 l the stone from its grave away. THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA,, JULY 17, 1872. A liuiu of Uones-.-A Sti-smjj’o Plicuomonuu. If the statement of some of the resi dents of Louisiana are to be credited, Dame Nature has recently been playing strange pranks in that part of the coun try. A writer to the New Yor/c Jour of Commerce, whose veracity and good standing is vouched by the editor of that paper, gives the following partic ulars of a strange phenomenon that occurred in Carroll Parish last month; He says that a heavy stonn visited that parish some days previous to the date of writing, the 21st, and during the storm fish bones fell to the ground by the million. These hones seemed to come from an exceedingly large blae/r cloud that was passing at the time. The shower of bones was atten ded by a heavy fall of rain. The correspondent says that the bo nes rattled on the roof of his house like hail stones. This strange phenomenon extended over a belt of country ten .miles in width by many miles in length. Accompanying the letter were seven of tlie bones, varying from ono inch to two inches and one sixteenth in length, from seven-sixteenths of an inch to twelve and a half sixteenths of an inch in breadth, from one inch to one inch and nine-sixteenths of an inch in thickness. They are of an irregular diamond shape. One side of the bone is nearly fiat, hav ing on the under side, which is worn smooth, three small apertures, as il veins or tendons had passed through them. These specimens have been shown to experienced coast fishermen, but they are not able to ascertain to what particular kind cf fish tlie bones belonged. They all agree, however, in the opinion that they were veritable fish bones. Several theories have been advanced in explanation of this strange phenome non. It is generally conceded, howev er, that the bones must have passed through the air for hundreds, and per haps chousaiids ot miles. s The inhabi tants believe that they were brought by a water-spout or a whirlwind from the western coast of Mexico or Lower Cali fornia, across the continent, as the wind was blowing at the time violently from the southeast. We have heard of its raining cats and dogs, but fish bone showers arc some thing altogether unpresidented. Tho Kloetoral Yoto. We give the electoral vote by States and section, to facilitate the calcula tions which many of our readers delight to ma/re. It will be seen that the South is still strong politically, and will in all probability control tho com ing Presidential election : THE SOUTH. Alabama, 9 Arkansas, (j Deleware, 3 Forida, 3 Georgia, 1 1 Kentuc/ry, 12 Louisiana, 7 Maryland, 8 Missouri; 10 Mississippi, 8 North Carolina, 10 South Carolina, 7 Tennessee, 1 1 Texas, 8 Virgina, H West Virginia, 5 131 THE EAST AND NEW ENGLAND. New York, 31 Pennsylvania, 28 New Jersey, 9 Maine, 7 New Hampshire, 4 Vermont, 4 Rhode Island, 4 Massachusetts, 13 Connecticut, G 109 THE WEST. Illinois, 24 Indiana, 11 lowa, 9 Kansas, 0 Michigan, 12 Minnesota, 0 Nebraska, 3 Nevada, 3 Ohio, 23 Oregon, 3 Wisconsin, JO California, G 114 The total number of votes is 357 ; necessary to a choice 179. Bonds. From a New York paper we clip the following advertisement, which will show what is being done,with our Geor gia bonds: The State of Georgia, through her duly authorized agent, the undersigned, with profound regret, announces to the holders of her bonds maturing during the current year, her present inability to pay them in legal currency. The causes which have led to this result are too notorious to need recapitulation here. Acknowledging the sacredness of these obligations, and avowing her fixed purpose to redeem them at the earliest possible day, NOW tenders to the holders this alternative. First—She offers them bonds bear ing seven per cent, interest, authorized py the present Legislature and ready for delivery, j H equal exchange for ma tured six per cent, bonds. Secondly—To those who may decline this exchange, she pledges herself to pay, at her agency in New York, or at the treasury semi-annually, the contract interest as heretofore, on presentation of tho bonds, to be stamped with the payment, until tlie bonds can all be paid in full. Tho interests due on them at maturity, as well as all coupons, (falling due on and after the Ist July proximo,) of bonds issued by said State prior to Ist by the National Bank of Commerce, the financial agent of the said State in the city of New York. That ban/t is also prepared to ina/re the exchange of seven per cent, for six per cent, bunds as abovo proposed. C. J. Jenkins, Agent for the State of Georgia. Spectrum Analysis. In the whole history of science there is nothing more wonderful than the dis covery or invention (it would be diffi cult to say which is the moro correct term) of spectrum analysis. Thirteen years ago it had no existence whatever as a mode of scientific inquiry. Not lir* # years, hud passed from the day wfi'eu* Kil%h*HofF annouweed tlie true meaning of the darklines in the solar spectrum, before Huggins and Miller were telling astronomers of the terres trial elements existing in the stars. Then the great secret of the gaseous nebulae was revealed by Huggins, and soon after the structure 'of comets be gan tube interpreted. Tho importance of the new mode of research in all problems of chemical analysis, as a delicate test for determining the pres ence of poisons as a means of improv ing many processes of manufacture, and as an aid in almost every branch of scientific inquiry, become each year more clearly recognized. We have seen Sorby analyzing by its means the coloring-mat/er of plants, and the en tomologist comparing the spectrum of the glow-worm and the fire fly. The microscopist employs the powers of the new analysis to solve problems which the magnifying powers of his instru ments would lie altogether unable to cope with. Nothing, in fine, seem3 too vast or too minute, too dis tant too or near at hand, for this wonderful instrument of research, which deals as readily with the mass of Sirius, a thousand times larger and a million times farther away than our sun, as with ten-thousandth part of a grain of matter in a flame within a few inches of the spectroscopic tube.— Spectator. New York Harbor Def nces.— Among tin; appropriations made by Congress -before its adjournment was the sum of about 85-50,000 for the N. Y. harbor improvements and defences. The worms on Staten Island, under the the supervision of Gen. Q. A. Gilmore, consist in completing the slopes be tween Fort Tompjcins and Fort Wads worth, and in putting Battery Hudson in repair, and extending it westward. This cluster of forts and batteries is one of the most important harbor defences of this city. Fort Tompiiins, which stands on the high ground to the rear of Fort Wadsworth, has ten 15-inch guns bearing on the channel. Adjoin ing, at the north, is a glacis battery of five 15-inch guns, and at the south a glacis battery of ten 13-inch mortars. In front, at the shore, is Fort Wads worth, fi-ujKeil on each side with a wa ter battery, and having a little further at its right Battery Hudson, each fort and battery being provided with 15-inch guns. These worms completely cover the harbor, and any hostile tteeet at tempting to reach the city must stand the lire from these guns for a long hist tance, aud finally pass through the channel within half a mile of Fort Wadsworth. Atrocious Massacre Confessed.— The murder of the Cook family at Oak Lake, Minnesota, attributed to the Pillager Indians, has been confessed by one of their number known as ‘Bob olink.’ lie says: I camped alone the night previous to the murder, Started in the morning towards Cook’s place ; called at Little Sioux’s camp ; his boy walked with me a short distance; we talked about noth ing but hunting. They asked me where my partner was; I said I did not know. After leaving Little Sioux’s camp, I made up my mind to commit this crime, because I was poor and wanted clothing. I arrived at Mr. Cook's a little alter dark ; I opened the door without knocking and immediate ly shot Mr. Cook, who was sitting aud reading. Mrs. Cook seized Mr. Cook and held him on the chair until I reload ed my gun and shot her when they both 101 l together. I then went in the house, taking a stick in my hand, where I found three children. I sturok each of them on the head with my stic/c, and killed them. They did not cry or moan. I then took the furs and threw them out of dours. Mr. and Mrs. Coo/t were dead. I took the gold ring from .Mrs. Cook’s finger ; then went into tlie other room, where I got the clothing aud other things. I took these tilings all out of doors, and pack ed them to carry. I then put some hay against tlie door, and set it on fire. The house was old, aud was in flames before I got away. I do not consider tlie above a brave act, and have never felt brave until to-day—sine; I have told the truth. I know I will be hang ed, and I intend to give the warwhoop on that occasion. Murder and Manslaughter. —Clias. iteade has written a letter to the Pall Mall Uazette, in which, in his usual vigorous style, he attac/rs ‘verdicts with reccommendations to mercy.’ The par ticular occasion of this epistle was the trial, conviction, and sentence of Mar guerite Dixblanc for the murder of Mine. Kiel. Reade presents a graphic picture of the circumstances which led to the murder. He shows, indeed, as every one knew who read the evidence, that there was no ‘malice aforethought’ —that it was simply unpremeditated killing under provocation. And yet, as Reade confesses, Judge aud jury were in bondage to a word— manslaughter. He recommends that this idiotic word which means more than murder in ety mology, and less in law, be swept out of the legal vocabulary, and that utilaw lul killing be divided under three heads —homicide, wilful homicide, and mur der. The reflections with which he closes his letter are as appropriate to the United States as to England. Then let it be enacted that hencefor ward it shall be lawful for juries to un derstand all words used in indictments, declarations, pleadings, &c., iti their plain ane grammatical sense, and to defy all other interpretations whatever.— Twelve copies of every indictment ought to be in the jury-box, and overy syllable of those indictments penned, whether bearing on fact or motive, or else the prisoner acquitted. Neither the crown nor the private suitor should be allowed to exaggerate without smart ing for it in the verdict, just as in the world overloaded invective recoils upon the shooter. What Next? —In tho upper part of Leo county lives a gentleman who had a bull dog of the female persuasion which had five puppies. In a fight with a huge moccasin she was bitten several times and died of the wounds. The pups were only twenty days old. He prized them muchly, and devised the following for their support. He had a female goat which had lost her kids. He caught the goat and taught the pups to draw their daily lecteal ra tions from her. But he had to catch her first with another dog. She be came shy and wouldn’t come about the house, so he had to go with his dog af ter her, in a few days she learned what she had to do and now all he does is to see her and whistle for his dog and she makes for the house, leaps the yard fence and calls up her strange nurse lings, and while in the yard she will not allow the dog to approach them and appears very much attached to them.— The pups should be named Romulus and Remus. — Sumter Republican . A mother was amused tho other day to hear this bit of‘argument’ from her little boy : ‘Mama, I don’t see how Sa tan turned out to be such a bad fellow, there wasn’t any devil to put him up to it.’ TERMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE, Court-Room Scene. —The Aktoo, Penn., Beacon, gives the following ac count of a burglary which took "place some weeKs since, in whicli two broth ers, Charles and Joseph Aman, while in a state of intoxication, broKe into a house, and stole therefrom some sixty dollars’worth of property. Both par ties were arrested, and at the recent term of the Court of Common Pleas ar raigned for trial. Joseph is a young man,ag j d nineteen, Charles about twen ty-one, the latter having a young wife and one child. From tiie first, Charles' wife has made every endeavor to pro ■ure his release, devoting herself to the woiK with most u u,;,i 1 g zeal. Finally, in nsponse to her repeated solicitations, the prosecuting attorney, agreed not to prosecute her husband for burglary, providing the vounger broth er would plead guilty. To the surprise of every one the young man agreed to this, and accordingly, upon arraign ment, Charles pleaded guilty to petit larceny. \\ hen questioned as to his purpose in doing so, he signified his entire wil lingness to suffer the penalty for the saKe of his brother. This reply, unex pected as it was, yet given in a firm, unshriniving tone of voice, completely unmanned the Judge and when he came to pronounce the sentence of three years imprisonment in the penitentiary, his voice completely failed him, and his eyes filled with tears of genuine sympathy. End of an Abomination. —On Sun day lust, the 30th of June, the Freed man’s Bureau ceased by limitation of the law creating it The Secretary of War announces that the business will be wound up by the Adjutant General ol the United States Army, who will settle all accounts and claims connected therewith. Thus passes into oblivion one of the most sublimely loathsome mills of cor ruption that ever cursed the Southern people. It tolled the white and the black indiscriminately, where ignorance was sulliciently combined to warrant the plunder, and it was always found in com bination on the negro side. Hence he was universally fleeced, and the whites more or less. We hope to see the day when a few more of the same brood will be kicked oil by reason of the shame and reproach they bring on the Nation. If they could all die, the Boston Jubilee would never be heard of again, so great would bo the hozannas of the people. Bullock turned Brown. —The Sa vannah Advertiser learns from a relia ble gentleman, who has just returned to Savannah from a visit to Canada, that he saw the Ex-Pub F taw, of Geor gia, It. B. Bullock, at St. Catherines, ouly a few days since, where himself and wife are registered at the hotel as Mr, and Mrs, itulus Brown, Toruoto. Canada. Rufus, it is said, is looking well, and appears to have plenty of money. On the other hand, the Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Constitu tion says; It. B. Bullock has been heard from at Montreal, where he is living in exile. It is said that he is poor, too. * A Sure Cure for Dysentery. — An old man, who has known hundreds of cases of dysentery cured by it, furnishes the Atlanta Constitution with the fol lowing remedy : A spoonful or two of pure, raw wheat Hour, thinned with water so that it can be easily drank. Three or four doses* taken at intervels often or twelve hours* will cure any case not absolutely chron ic ; and from what I have witnessed, t j feel sure it is one of the best remedies in the world for chronic diseases. Td make the dose palatable for children, it can bo sweetened and flavored with some drops not acid. A western traveler came up to a log cabin and asKed for a drinK, which was supplied by a good looking woman. As she was the first woman he had seen in several days he offered her a dime for a /tiss. It was duly ta/ren and paid for, and the young hostess, who had never seen a dime before, looked at it a moment with some curiosity, then asked what she should do with it. He replied, what she choosed, as it washers. ‘lf that’s the case,’said she, ‘you may take it back and give me another kiss.’ ‘See there!’ exclaimed a returned Irish soldier to a gaping crowd, as he exhibited with some pride a hat with a bullet hole in it. ‘Look at that hole, will you ? You see if it had been a low-crowned hat, I should have been killed outright.’
