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VOLUME II—NUMBER 33.
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E. S. HARRISON.
Pliywician and
Offers liis services to the public. Office with Dr.
J. S. Joues, over McCoul & Hardaway's.
aprlOni'i Thomson, Ga.
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Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
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—ALSO—
Mcmi-Ciiiita French China,
CilasHvmrc, Ac.
244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga
aprlO ly.
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SUturneg at |/ato,
thomso r ;
Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and
Middle Circuits*
no 1 —ly
JAMES A. GUAY & CO.,
Have Removed to their
New I i*oii Front Store,
BROAD STREET, AUGUST, GA
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GLOBE HOTEL.
S. W. CORNER BROAD & JACKSON STS.,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
JACKSON & JULIAN, PropritTs-
We beg huwe Umull tilt;' the? travel
ling public to this well known 1 ToteT,’*"' which vve
have recently leased and placed oil 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.
DR T. 1. L VLLHSTEDT
OI’FKKS III!-*
professional services
To the Citizens ol Thomson and Vicinity.
He can lie found at the Room over Costello's, when
tot professionally absent.
REFERS TO
Pno. .1 V Kvb. Rho. Wm. 11. DounHit, Dii
Jons S. Coleman, Dr. S C. Eve.
O IST TIIVEE.
TILL THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER.
J WILL furnish planters and others in want of
S S3 O 12 8
on City Acceptance, till Ist November next, at
cash prices. D. COHEN,
apr 3 13xn3 Augusta, Ga.
CHARLES S DuBOSE,
drTomwtfvir'L.'i m
Wnrrcuton, Ga.
Vfi'l practice in all the Courts of the Northern,
Augusta & Middle Circuits.
J. 3VE. FTATRT3>7
Wholesale ami retail dealer in
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LAMPS AND LAMP FIXTURES,
Manufacturer and dealer in all kinds of
TIN AH SHIT IROU WARE,
guttering, roofing,
And all kiuds of Jobbing done promptly and neatly.
OinG 1 -38i Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
Established in ISlo.
T. 11. MANLEY,
—WITH—
Geo. Morns on* & So.y?
NURSERYMEN,
HAVE FOR SALE A LARGE ASSORMRNT OF
ORNAMENTAL TREES, EVERGREENS, &
roses;
Cirapc Vines ;uul .Sinai! Fruits,
DWARF and standard fruit trues,
Rochester, N. Y.
JAMES lal HUES El’S
Steam Dyeing and Scouring
23 STABLISHMENT,
123 Broad St., Augusta, (ia.
Near Lower Market Bridge Bank Building for the
Dyeing and Craning
of dresses, shawls, cloaks, ribbons, Ac. Also gen
tlemen’s coats, vests and pants cleaned and dyed
in the best manner. Piece dry goods, cloths, me
rinoes. delane, alpaca, rep poops and jeans dyed
and finished equal to those done in New York.
■ST Orders by Express promptly attended to.
Augusta, Ga. apr.SmS
Svapnia—is Opium purified of its
siknening and poisonous properties, It is a perfect
anodyne, not producing headache or constipation
of the bowels, as is the case with other prepara
tions of opium. John Farr, Chemist New York.
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Saturday JN t.
Placing the little hats all in a row,
Ready for church on the morrow, you know;
Washing wee faces and little black fists,
Getting them ready and fit to bo kissed;
Putting them into clean garments and white;
That is what mothers are doing to-night.
Spying out hides in the little whito hose,
Laying by shoes that are worn through the toes,
Looking o'er garments so faded aud thin—
Who but a mother knows where to begin ?
Changing a button to make it look right—
That is what mothers are doing to-night.
Calling the little ones all ’round her chair,
Hearing thorn lisp forth their soft evening
prayer;
Telling them stories of Jesus of old,
Who loves to gather the lambs to his fold;
Watching, they listen with childish delight—
That is what mothers aro doing to-night.
Creeping so softly to hike a last peep,
After tho little ones all are asleep;
Anxious to know if the children aro warm,
Tucking the blanket round each littlo form ;
Kissing each littlo face, rosy and bright—
That is what mothers aro doing to-night.
Kneeling down gently beside the white bed,
Lowly and meekly she bows down her head,
Praying as only a mother could pray,
“God guide and keep them from going astray.”
Going*; After The Cows.
Tliay wailed there, by tho pasture bars —
Dapple, and Dolly, and Dun,
So I slip the bars in the well-worn posts,
And drop them one by one ;
But I do not go, as I always go,
To see the milking done.
I lean my cheek on tho pasture bars,
And watch tho stars come out;
Perhaps they will miss me, up at the house,
And wonder what I am about;
But I’ve something to think of hero to-night
While I watch the stars come out.
Last, night when I came to the beauties,
Willie was walking with me,
And he asked me if I thought ever
A farmer’s wife could be ;
For I jam a citygirl, you know,
And a fa finer j son is he.
Willie wears homespun trowaers,
And such a coarse straw hat!
But the face that looks from under tho rim,
Is handsome and bravo, for all that;
And his eyes, they look at me so quoor
That my heart goes pit-a-pat.
Every night when the work is done,
We sit in the twilight, gray—
Willie and I, in the ivied porch,
And sing the hours away ;
1 think it's lie tier than opera,
Or theatre, any day.
He said last night that the summer
Is brighter because I am here,
That his work was novor so easy
As it is when I am near —
And he said—but there, I won’t tell,
Such words are too sacred and dear.
How pure is tho breath of the clover,
That comes from the meadows mown !
How holy the sky above me,
With twinkling lights full sown!
No wonder that Willie is better
Than men who live in town.
bo I think I will stay in tho country,
With Dolly, and Dapple, and Dun ;
Perhaps in the far, sweet summers,
They would know should I fail to come,
In the dewy-eve to the pasture bars,
To drop them, one by one.
sfUmUimcaitSu
A Dutch.-Irish. Duel.
[The following rich anecdote, which
appeardin the Journal some time ago,
is republished by request. It will bear
reading many times.]
Id vash a loafly nighd. On accound
id vash dark, gasses vash lighded in der
sbacious abardiflends of Madam Schmid’s
barlors. In von of der' mest spacioudest
blaces in dot barlor vash a lady dawk
ing mid herself likes dees :
‘Boody soon Chaky Sullivan villcorn’d
undaskme my hands in marriage. I
don’d likes dot vord a cend. Bud (und
here she blushed ub herself üb) I IHes
bedder to see Myge! Schneider. I loaf
him awful.’
Vile she vash dawking dot, you can
have blainly dime to have been exprised
ad her ogorbidant beauty.
She had der nicedesd gomplexion,
und her cooble of eyes had a bright gol
or, likes der rose in der spring, not un
like der belluck—belluci: (I can’d
schbell me dot vord) exbression of der
heafenly gazelle.
(I vonderish dot righd.)
She vash dressed widout some regard
to exbense, (so ish rag-bickers, bud I
don’t mean like dot.)
Thomson, McDuffie county, ga, august 21, 1872.
Boody soon goom’d a knock ad der
door.
She shivers herself and says mid faind
ness:
‘Stheb out in.’
A man righd avay sthebs oud in.—
Dot’s Chaky Sullivan.
He vash dressed in exdreemely goot
clothes. He says li/ce dees :
‘O, Loweesar ! I loafs you like soab !
Vill you loaf me like scab too ? Oh.'
vat you dink aboud id my raosd darliu ?"
Und she drew herself uh, und say :
‘Vat I dink aboud id, eh ? Vy, I din&s
me dot you are nod goot for somedings,
insuldings heebies dees vay, und blease
god yourselfoud in righd avay.’
He got? himself bale mid madness.
‘Go aheat out in, vill you V says she.
•No, Madomisselle; no, sir; I voond
go oud in: I,’ said lie, mid rage on bees
eye, ‘I go me oud in ven 1 blease me,
und nod afder.’
‘All righd, sir; den I galls my fader
dot he vill boosh you oud in, said she.’
Und he dakes him his oad, dot py
heafens she vood nod do dot, und she
schwear, py jinks, she vill do dot.—
Undsherund herself mid her vinder,
bud he sthid/rs him oud his feeds oud,
und she is gloomsey, und dumpies over
deni, und bids her scluiood on der
corund, und he says:
‘Ah! Oh! Didn’t I said so you
voodu’t V
Und mid dees insulding brobasition
he holts up herjheatjund gifs her acouble
of hunches on der moud, und he is
shoost aboud to kig her ear, ven a feller
chumbs in der skylighd, und says ;
‘Ah 1 ho!’ Bevendeen dimes, und
chumps on Chaky’s back, und mosd
choges oud his deeth oud. Dot feller
vash Loweesar's dru# /tiifij
Schneider.
Loweesar hollers :
‘Oh, Mvgye, now blease geese Chaky
a murder—cad oil'bees eye oil a leedle,
on accound he vash so ruii'do me.’
Und Mygel say ;
‘Dot’s so ; id bees bedder ven I do
id righd avay.’
So he dakes o(T his cnad, und begin
to grope his hair, so dot lie fighd de
bedder, hud Clia/ty says:
‘Blease stop your brebarations. I ox
cuseyou dot you fighd mid me. I don’d
like such dings. I been a shendlemans.
Blease holt ub your horses üb. I ac
commodades you mid a duel. Dot’s my
card.’
Und lieschucked his card in Mygael’s
eye.
Mygael schucked his de same vay,
saying.—
‘All righd. Do-morrow mornings ad
der proke mid dwilighd. Bisdols und
bidders for a couble. Adieu.’
‘Adieu, yourself,’ said Chaky.
Und deybarded tp see/r deir reshpecd
ive gouches, und berchance do troam of
do-morrow’s awful grin, und der fanad
icalities ol man’s uncontrollable hash
ions againsd der holy laws, ordained—
(l bedder sthob me here, on accound ven
effer I rides mo dot I alvays gods me
sthuck.)
Nexd morning, before der brighd
Oalroarer—(dot’s der sun) —had yed
shedded his refulgent rays on der eruh
—durn id—l mean to say peforc der
sun vash üb, dwo bardies mighd have
peen saw schooding along dowards der
dueling cround.
De oder hardy god dcre first.
Brebarations was immediately gom
menced lor der dwo handed massager—
yes, sir, I galls it massager, for vad else
is id, ven dwo of Nature's own nople
men vill in goold bloot, shdar— Veil,
dot’s enough of dot.
Ve go on.
Der brincibles vash sthood up, und
der seconds gife dem der bisdols, vile
der thirds und der fourds vash mixing
der medicines.
Choost a3 dey vas all ready, Chaky
said he been dake some bills, und he
musd been excused for von leedla mo
mends.
Vile he vash gone pehint der bushes,
de oder dogtor, a chovial feller, said
some beebles venever dey gots in dan
ger, vash act choost like dey been ead a
box of bills.
Veil, Chaky coomed pack, und dime
vash galled for der first rount, afder der
brincibles hafe made a lasd abheal to der
secods dot dey cood been allow to make
id up, hut der first second said wid
stern faces:
‘No, no, nix.. Go liedt mid der muss.
SheiuUemens,der hafe been an insulding
insult gifen, und neider barty can bo
satify unless he got killed. Now, lis
den, I vill cound von, doo, dree, and
den you musd shooted oud your bistols
oud.’
Den he retraded himself back, und
der brincibles dried to done der same
dings, but dey been ordare back.
Der first second now pegin counding
like dees :
‘Von.’
(You could heard some bins drop.)
‘Doo.’
(So you could now)
‘Dree.’
So you could now; no firing vash
hear, und lie efon bounded ‘Four,’ hud
stliill you could hear some bins, und I
belief if he co'unded a coupld of hundred
you could have hear some Luds drop.
‘Vy der tyfel dond you shood oud
your bistols?’ roared der first secod.
‘Oh, you go by der tyfel,’ said Cha
ky, ‘my honor dot is blainly sadesfy.—
If you vond do been shooted ad, come
oud here yourself.’
‘Yes, dot ish so,’ said Mygael ; ‘I pe
satisfy dot you pe von shendlemans; ve
poth bees shentlemans.’
Und peforo you could speak von
Meester Sbous Roppinson, dey vash
]ock in de odder’s arm, und vash
■ gl;k«U,.a;aogGdile,
•Oli,’ said Chaky, ‘how ve coulds
fighd aboud von tarn gal !’
‘Dot ish so,’ said Mygael, ‘let dot gal
gone ; ve go off do-nighd and have von
pul!y olt drunk.’
‘1 head you,’ says Chaky, und oil'dey
vends, which vash not a galland, bud a
sensiple action.
1 . \;»*>
A young gentleman /Coin fire rural
districts, who had' not seen much of this
great vvorlcl of ours, started on his trav
els that lie might rub offthe rust. A few
days journey by rail brought him to a
certain famous tunnel, into which the
engine with a scream pitched head
long, dragging the train upon which
our youg traveller was riding at a high
rate of speed. The darkness was instan
taneous and intense, hut lasted only a
moment when the train came forth from
theother end of the tunnel like some
huge monster coming from the deepest
bowels of the earth. The transition
from light to darkness, and from dark
ness to light again was too much for
the usophistocated young traveller, and
lie concluded that some direful malady
had stricken his vision. Looking about
him, he spied a physician with whom
he was acquainted on seat but a little dis
tance from him. He immediately arose
and and appoached the doctor, and with
the most woe-begone looks and whining
voice, said ;
‘Doctor, doctor, somethin’s the mat
ter with me:’bout five minutes ago I
was blind as a hat.’
Villiers, the witty and extravagant
Duke of Buckingham, was saying one
day to a friend, ‘I am afraid I shall die
a beggar at last, which is the most ter
rible thing in the world.’ ‘Upon my
word, my lord,’ said his friend, ‘there is
another thing more terrible, which you
have reason to apprehend; and that is,
that you will live a beggar at the rate
you go on.’
Two neighbors living in Westchester
county, had a long and envenomed liti
gation about a small spring which they
both claimed. The Judge wearied out
with the case, at last said :—‘What is
the use of making so much fuss about a
little water ?' ‘Your honor will see the
use of it,’ teplied one of the lawyers,’
‘when I inform you that both the par
ties are milkmen.’
Georgia
The wild and luxuriant tales of the
Ledger are equaled if not excelled by Ja
lovely strain of romance which comes
mellifluously up to us from Georgia.
Thus it runs ; At a lonely station on the
Chattanooga Railroad recently appear
ed, mounted on two gallant but ex
hausted steeds, a beautiful damsel and a
gorgeous cavalier. Agitation was on
their fair young brows, depseration in
their mood. The knight with an impe
rious gesture of his mailed hand, ex
claimed, ‘Ho there / minions ? Up with
the portcullis, down with the draw
bridge ! To me lescue, Sir-r-r-s !’—
No, by the way, he didn’t exactly say
this— which would have been a most
natural and proper thing under the cir
cmstances—but he did demand, in im
patient tones, where was the train.
The railroad retainers intimated that it
was not quite due, whereupon the noble
pair rode on in a prodigious hurry, the
masculine part of it calling under his
breath upon—all the saints. The re
tainers gazed after them in amaze, when
the loud gallop of a third powerful
steed was heard, and an enraged gray
heard, in short, the maiden’s haughty
and unremorseful sire, thundered past
in pursuit, armed with a horrid scowl.
As he disappeared the train tooted and
arrived at tho station. The tumultu
ous tale was quickly told, and cliivalric
engineer and passengers resolved to do
or die in the lovers’ defence. Extraor
dinary steam was applied, and presently
locomotive, knight, and damsel, and
steely pa were careering o’er the fateful
plain all together. Every car window
was filled with excited and admiring
faces, and hats and handkerchiefs and
«Wmt»g yells were, flung to the $u ai
mer breeze. But all seemed in vain.
The calmness of despair sat upon the
maiden’s lily-white face; a burning
challenge shone in the cavalier’s eye ;
their spent chargers could no further go,
and the prospect of the grim pursuers
brightened to tbdu: closr. '’Twhs to 6
-rrmeh. The'ftying'spectators'fell in a
body upon the engineer, and demanded
that it should be stopped. Stopped it
was ; the tender and devoted pair were
received on board by the enthusiastic
multitude, and with one defiant screech,
/he locomotive rattled away while the
tyrannical and highly unpleasant parent
sat panting in the distance, brandishing
sharp weapons, and swelling the din
with some dreadfully bad language,
such as ‘sel-avos’and varlets’ and things.
Who says that the marble realities of
the nineteenth century have crushed
the airy toes of romance ?—N. Y.
Tnb.
Gen. Batik’s letter gives rise to the re
port that several other Congressmen are
about ready to make anew departure.
Among the doubtful are said to be
Dawes, Hooper, Buffington and Butler,
of Massachusetts, Garfield, of Ohio, and
even Kelley, of Pennsylvania. The po
litical news from the North is lively,
and the indications are that the North
Carolina election will cause a stam
pede’ from the Administration ranks.
Two brothers were to be executed
for some enormous crime. The eldest
was turned off first, without speaking ;
the other, mounting the ladder, began
to harangue the crowd : ‘Good people,’
said he, ‘my brother hangs before my
face, and you see what a lamentable
spectacle he makes; in a few moments
I shall be turned off too, and then you
will see a pair of spectacles.*
The world moves, even in New Eng
land. Elizur Wight, a man of mark
among the Massachusetts Rndicals
when Secretary Bout well was playing
chameleon between the Democrats and
the Know-Nothings, indignantly collars
the Secretary in the Medford Journal
and asks him what ‘the Administration
has given the Southern States in com
pensation for the $200,000,000 it has
robbed them of by keeping swindlers
in power by the aid of Federal bayo
nets.’ This is a question which we ad
vise Secretary Boutwell to answer, if
he can, before November next.
TERMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE
Governor Vance’s Last- —When
Gov. Vance spoke at Newburn the Rad
icals true to their low instincts, con
cocted a plan by which the speaker was
to be mortified and disturbed, but
somehow, as will be seen, it rather mis
carried. The bomerang hit the ones
that threw it. While Va ice was speak
ing a certain animal with long ears was
led as near the stand as the crowd would
allow, and presently he began to send
forth some alarming sounds, which, once
heard, are never forgotten. Vance
paused for a moment and then, waving
his hand toward the animal, said : ‘Now
you just hush, you old Radical- -1 never
promised to divide time with you.’—
The animal and its deeper Vamoosed the
ranche, and the crowd yelled and hal
-1 oed.—• Raleigh Sentinel.
Union Down.— lt is stated that the
negroes of Macon, at Jeff Long’s ratifi
cation meeting, Monday night, had their
flag hoisted union down. A lady who
passed through Butler on the train last
Saturday, says the negroes there were
holding a ratification meeting, and had
their flag union down too. The coinci
dence gives rise to a doubt whether this
exhibition of the stars and stripes was a
blunder, or designed to hangout a sig
nal of distress. A leaky ship at sea, in
danger of foundering, reverses her ensign
—and as the Radical party just now is
iu an extremeiy lea/ty condition, and in
iminent peril of the same result, the
Grant negroes think it well to hang out
the signal.
Cirr This Out.—J. D. T. gives to the
New York farmers’ club a rule of esti
mating the number of shingles requited
for a roof of any size, one which he
thinks every mechanic and" Tamrer
should remember. First find the num
ber of square inches in one side of the
roof, cut off the right hand or unit fig
ure, and the result will be the number
of shingles required to cover both sides
of the roof,‘Maying five inches to the
weather. The ridge board provides for
the double course at the bottom. Illus
tration; Length of roof, 100 feet;
width of one side, 30 feet—l oox3oxl44
—432,000. Gutting off the right hand
figures we have 43,200 as the number
of shingles required.
Someuody to Vote for.— A Boston
colored man of Southern birth, writes to
the Post .*
‘At last the blacks of this broad land
have a man to vote for whose record
as their friend and the friend of labor
is unimpeachable. God blcsss the day
when the great Democratic party nomi
nated the man who dared be just and
true to all—blaci and white aliZe—in
spite of opposition. Every man of col
or who values his manhood will vote
for Horace Greeley. Ac all events,
the world may bet its life that I will.*
An Eloquent Thought. —J. L. Pugh,
in a speech last Saturday at Eufala, Ala.,
made use of the following sublime idea.
In speaking of the absolute certainty of
Greeley’s election, he said: ‘I feel it
in the air around me. It comes in au
dible whispers through the key holes of
the great iron doors that now shut out
the future from our vision. It speaks
to me in most eloquent language of
that bright dawn when those massive
doors shall be thrown wide open, and
we shall once more stand a united, free
and happy people in the glorious sun
shine of peace and national prosperity.’
A tall, slim fellow in trouble. lie
wants to know what character to as
sume at a masquerade. A kindly jour
nal advises him to bind his legs anil go
as a whip-lash; swallow himself round
and round a few dozen times, and go as
a role of tape; wrap himself in the
American flag, and go as a barber pole;
bristle his hair up and go as a white
wash brush ; swallow a few marbles
and go as a rattle-box ; put an insula
tor in his mouth, and go as a telegraph
pole, or walk on his hands as a pair of
scissors. He is in worse trouble now
than before.