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DR. T. L, I.AU.RSTKDT
OFFERS IIIS
professional services
To the Citizens ol Thomson and Viciuity.
He can be found at llie Room over Costello's, a hen
not professionally absent.
Ri-FEIIS TO
Pro J V. Eve, Pro. Wm. 11. Oouoiity, Dr
John S. Coi.kman, Ur. S. C. Eve.
PAUL C* HUDSON,
Jttorncg at fM,
CiT Prompt attention given to the collection of
claims.
£iT Will practice in all the courts of the Augus
ta, Middle and Northern Circuits.
OA/irf.—At the Office formerly occupied by -lor
dan E. White, Esq. seplSmS
11. O BONEY,
Attorn i) at Into,
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Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and
Middle Circuits. s
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CHARLES S DuBOSE,
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WuiTOlltOll, C« <1 •
Wi'l practice bi aI) the (’juris of the Northern.
Augusta & Middle Circuits.
WM. 8. ROBERTS. RICH’d B. MORRIS. JA.S. A. SHIVERS
Okntral itjotcl,
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
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COTTON FACTO 11
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i\o. 1 Warren Blocl>,
Augusta, Georgia-
C-iT Will give prompt attention to the selling of
Cotton and other produce.
«8T Commission for selling cotton, One Dollar
Per Bale. sepl lm2
W. H. HOWARD. C. H. HOWARD. \V. H. HOWARD, JR.
IV. 11. Howard & Sons,
Iffliaißllfflliffiffi,
No. 2 Warren Block,
Ayiisfa, Georgia.
iJtT Commission f r Selling cotton One Dollar per
bale. Strict personal attention given to business
entrusted.
All orders strictly obeyed. Libera! Cash Advan
ces made on Cottoi.
Special attention paid to Weighing of Cotton.
Bagging and Ties furnished at Lowest Market
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V ’ W:2 A Silive'S.
Kur« lo
Eardiner & Cj.
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IPtssion UJevtaio,
.Tit ItSosh Street .Ittrjus a Cite,
Will give their personal attention to
the storage and sale of cotton, and such
other produce as may be sent to them.
Commission for selling cotton one dol
lar per Bale.
Cash Advances made on Produce
in Store-
Sept, 4th 3m.
ffoetrg.
JSTy Dream.
BY HORACE GREELEY.
I dream of a beautiful time
When the world shall happy be;
When elephants and hyenas
Shall blossom on every tree.
When tamarinds and potatoes
Shall cease their dreadful roar,
When turnip trees shall blossom
In the garden forever more.
I dream of a great Republic,
Whose people shall all go West,
Sow plums and reap tomatoes
In the land they love the best;
Where pig iron and molasses
Shall bloom on every hill,
And chickens low in the barnyard,
While gooseberries toil at the mill.
I’m weary of seeking the cabbage
Handle the rake and the hoe ;
I’m weary of watching and waiting
For the grasshopper bush to grow.
I long for the time when spinach
Shall cope with broad and milk ;
When hens shall lay tomatoes
And horses spin raw silk.
Oh, sweet the vanished hours
When I wandred down the glen,
And wreathed my brow with tomatoes
Or plucked the ripened hen.
When the donkey twined up the trellis
And the cucumber chirped in the grass.
And the sweet potato whistled
To its mate in the mountain pass.
But gone are the days of childhood,
And manhood's dreams are mine,
Yet I long for the bygone hours
As I sit 'neath the turkey vine.
Oh, wreathe your blossoms about me,
And soothe my aching breast,
While the gooseberry plaintively warbles
And lulls me into rest.
•^HisccUancans.
• —.—
Life Bomance in a Le
gal Document.
The Sou Pianuisco papers of the 28th
contain the court proceedings on the
application of Matilda Heron for an al
lowance out ol the estate of Henry 11.
Bryne, pending her claim as his widow.
Mr. E. R. Curpentier, executor, prayed
for a continuance to procure witnesses
from New York, and his allegations
brought out the following:
In the matter of the estate of 11. 11.
Bryne. and -ceased, Matilda Heron Byrne,
being first duly sworn, says :
I deny that I have a considerable
quantity of or any real or personal es
tate, either in the State of New York
or by Robert Stoepel and me—not even
our only living child, the possession of
which I have obtained through her fa
ther’s proclaiming her illegitimacy.
Since the dissolving of my marriage
with Robert Stoepel, helms refused to
pay one dollar toward the support of
either myself or his child. When my
sad illness, caused by suffering through
the overwhelming calamity of my do
mestic wreck between these two men,
Henry H. Byrne and Robert Stoepel,
overcame me, Robert Stoepel refused to
pay my doctors’s bill or that of his child ;
what, then, can be meant by his now
bol ting property for a.y benefit. I am
at a loss to know.
Before my leaving New York for San
Francisco, Mr. Stoepel sent a messen
ger to me offering to settle on my child
a large sum of money if I would sell all
right and claim to her; this when I
was on the bed where I had lain an al
most confirmed invalid for fifteen
months, and whence I arose to recover,
by act ol habeas corpus, my little daugh
ter, who was being kidnapped from me,
to be transported to an obscure and
remote place in the Pyrenees. So much
for the estate now being held for my
benefit. As to the suit alleged to have
been commenced by me in 1809 against
Robert Stoepel, if such suit was oris in
existence, I have no receollection or
knowledge of it whatever.
About eighteen years ago I was mar
ried to Henry H. Bryne, with the agree
ment that I should remain on the stage
for two years, in the hope, on my part,
that I might achieve as great a success
in the East as I had in San Francisco.
After my return from Europe, when I
had dramatized ‘Camille,’ studied under
the best masters, and purchased a com
plete theatrical wardrobe, there was
not one prominent manager who would
open his doors to me. It was failure
alter failure. The Large amount of
money 1 spent in Europe, and what I
sank in San Francisco under bad advice,
had now impoverished me. To Mr.
Bryne I faithtully depicted my disaster.
The two years passed. He came as by
promise, and as I thought to claim me.
I was in Philadelphia in the bosom of
Thomson, McDuffie county, ga., September 25,1372.
my family. Mr. Bryne remained three
weeks in New York without even wri
ting to me. Even this I forgave. At
this time an engagement in Pittsburg
was opened to me, whither lie at length
followed me, accompanied by two mem
bers of my family. Inquiring why he
so neglected me ho answered he had
been led astray by some California
friends. This also I forgave. During
the four days he remained with me we
discussed all my professional calamities,
wherein I told him my sorrowful convic
tion that I never could be the great
artist my soul had so long hungered to
become, and that now I was perfectly
resigned to follow him and his fortunes.
To all ot this the dear gentleman
most evidently thought a great deal,
but very little answered. The last
morning came. I was o tie red an en
gagement iti Buffalo, and I saiil :
‘Must I go to Buffalo or may I go with
you V To which he answered, ‘Go to
Buffalo.’
Then and there we parted—l to go
to Buffalo, he to his friends. One
other year passed, when Mr. Byrne’s
letters cuipe rarely. At last they ceas
ed entirely. 1 could not believe ho had
failed to write to me, and so I mention
to my brother, Alexander Heron, pres
ident ol Heron’s line of steamships,
Irom Philadelphia to Charleston and
Savannah, but my brother said : ‘Til
ly, if you had one spark of your moth
er's blood in you, you i would never speak
to that man again. He lias deserted
you !’
This was a hitter blow for the young
actress. A third year had passed since
our marriage, since which 1 never re
ceived a dollar from him ; not even a
letter token.
After the first slioc/r was over I wrote
to Mr. Byrne calmly, and under the ad
vice of my brother as/red for a divorce.
An immediate reply came to me in
which he used these exact words:
‘Place this letter in the hands of a law
yer and it will make you as free -is the
hour you were born.’ I placed the let
ter in Hu hands ol a lawyer, John Hop
per, of 11 0 Broad way, New York, and
told him to procure me a divorce.
About this time I had begun slowly
to succeed in my profession, and it was
not surprising that a young girl should
have flatterers and snares about her.
Often rehearsing Camille I envied the
humblest woman in the theatre who
had a husband’s protection.
In new Orleans I r/.et the conductor
of our orchestra, who was polite, res
pectful and/rind to me. We met again
in New York, when he presented his
parents, sisters an 1 brothers to me, also
iiis brother-in-law, William Vincent
Wallace, the composer. They hinted
a marriage, I told them I was poor. —
Robert Stoepel answered, ‘Wealth is
impertinent, we will be poor together.
I love you and will labor for you. It is
your love I would marry, not your
purse." I as/red lor time. Time passed
and I played Camille in Wallack’s
theatre for one hundred nights achieving
a great success. In that triumphant
hour I did not forget the poor musician.
After a suecesful trip all over the Un
ion, I sought John Hopper, who told
me my case was all right and that I
was a free woman. An inexperienced
girl, how could I then know the world
and its laws? I was away from my
brother. John Hopper urged my mar
riage, assured me I was free to marry,
ami engaged his brother-in-law, Rev.
Mr. Gallaudet, to marry Mr. Stoepel
and myself in St. Ann’s church, where,
in presence of a large number of friends,
Mr. Hopper and Ins wife, Rosalie,
[Raced Robert Stoepel’s hands and mine
together before the altar.
Years passed, honor accompanisd and
prosperity attended our mutual indus
try. Certain obligations called me to
San Fraecisco I left our happy home,
where I left my only child and her fa
ther, and arrived here. The day after
my arrival .lodge Freelon called on me
and informed me that, though an old
friend, he came on behalf of his cliant,
Mr. Byrue, relative to a divorce which
Mr. Byrne claimed. I was naturally
annoyed, and requested to see Mr. Byrne
in person, which the Judge [ ositively
refused. Worn by a long voyage, away
from friends and home, in a strange
land, I said it was not fair to bring me
in such a light before the public, to
which Mr. Freelon replied that the
matter coold be settled up the pountry
by parties there, who could be opera
ted upon to keep it a secret. I answer
ed that I did not know that that was
the way justice was dispensed in Cali
fornia, and asked on what grounds
could Mr. Byrne make so outrageous a
request.
Whereupon Mr. Freelon read me a
certain paper which I could not compre
hend until he came to the word ‘adul
ter}’,’ when I told him to proceed no
further. He then inserted for the
odious word desertion. Again I en
treated an interviievv with Mr. Byrne,
and ain was denied, the Judge adding,
‘Have you no pride? I tell you, it Har
ry was weak enough to see you, I as his
counsel would forbid it. The man de
spises you? Next day I met Harry on
my way to rehearsal. He turned ashy
pale ami exclaimed ; ‘Why Tilly /’.
I asked what he meant by sending
Tom Freelon every day to annoy me in
the midst of my severe labors. lie de
nied all knowledge of the allair and an
interview between us was decided upon.
The day after we had a long, serious and
affecting interview, explanation and re
conciliation. After that he came con
stantly to see me during my stay in San
Francisco. During our long conversa
tions Mr. Byrue’s constant theme was
my being his wife again. He forbade
Freelon ever to mention divorce to me,
but the industrious judge was not dis
heartened, for he reminded me that af
ter I was two months married to Harry,
the lattej- had sent me $1,009, and that
it would bU a graceful thing to repay it.
‘Well,’ I said, ‘you are so zealous in
your friend’s behalf 1 will pay it. Sell
that water lot on which you insist he has
been paying taxes, while I can prove
my brother-in-law has realiy been
paying them. Sell the lot, pay your
client, principal, and taxes and interests
on the same.’ The lot w'assold for *2,-
300. The purchaser refused to lay
down the money until I signed it iu my
real name, in presence of Dr. Harris,
Judge Freelon and some others. I took
the pen and ‘Matilda Heron.’ Then
hesitating, i said ‘What else ?’ and both
Harry and Freelon answered aloud,
‘Byr ie’ which, to the best ol iny knowl
edge, l then signed.
In our ue t interview I asked Harry
what on earth that signature meant,
atyldrg. td“You are notf Btoe
pel’s wife, hut mine; your property is
mine; that beautiful home of yours is
mine ; you are mine ; your very child
is minty you areiny wife; your divorce
from was either illegally obtained
or fraudulent.’
* This intelligence pained me exceed
ingly. Just then I received a dispatch
announcing my brothes’s death. I was
obliged, even in my double affliction, to
perform tbifee nights. At lust I broke
down ill, and all that tender respect and
love cou'd do, Harry Bryne did for me.
I had two physicians, but he sent his
own. He sent Mr. Freelon to assure
tne that il anything serious should arise,
frd.ii) my illness, he would send a faith
ful messenger to accompany me home.
/ got wdl and traveled up the country.
Not a oil' in; scarcely a
day passed out brought a .letter from
Mr. Bry.ne.
When it became necessary for me. to
go East, he became exceedingly mel
ancholy, even to weakness. I could
onfcy arouse him by expressing the hope
that I would return to hi in. He plan
ned. that we should go abroad for some
years. I told him th.it I would go
home and state my position frari/cly to
Mr. Stoepel; Upon parting with me
he exhibited great sensibility and deep
feeling.
On my return to New York, I im
mediately and frankly told Mr. Stoepel
•all, without a particle of roseve.
Then arose a question of property
between us; Mr. Stoepel saying, ‘Then
if you shogld die, Byrne can claim all.’
I answered, ‘These were Mr. Byrne’s
exact words.’ From that hour strife
an i contusion surrounded tne. Be
tween two husbands, my brother dead,
a daughter's honor and iny own involv
ed—l knew not whither to turn.
I made a retreat in the convent to
to compose myself. Leaving which,
[ was thrust into tile Supreme Court by
Robert Stoepel'to compel me to con
sent to a division of property as part
ners in business. I did not wish to di
vide our property, but to keep it to
gether for the child, so I engaged James
TANARUS, Brady to defend the case. Unfor
tunately, that gmtleman in a short
time died.
On requesting his partner to resume
the gentleman said : Matilda,
you will havjiitrouble with Stoepel, for
I have had & communication from Mr.
Byrne, who says you are his wife , that
your divorce from him was not legal.
Weary of publicity, disheartened,
desperate,* / left that office, and made
over to Robert Stoepel every piece of
property and every dollar I possessed j
on earth. From that time, too depress- j
ed to act, I was supporting myself and |
child by my education, when two years
ago, I was prostrated by a severe fever,
and kept iny room and bed for fifteen
months. I was convalescent, arid sent
in midwinter to the sea shore, where
the news of Mr. Byrne's death reached
me. Also te'egram and letters, telling
me to come to San Francisco. 1 have
come to claim my honor and my rights.
From the investiganon made bv my
lawyer in New York at the time of the
litigation between Robert Stoepel and
myself, I became fully satisfied, and do
now firmly believe, there never was a
legal divorce between Henry H. Byrne
an i myself.
Matilda Heron Byrne.
Subscribed and sworn to this 27th
day of August, A. D.. 1872.
Samuel Hermann, Notary Public.
Help Your Town.—The following
from an exchange is true as preaching
and our people should keep the views
contained in the article constantly in
mind. The way to make a town is to
help as much as possible every industry
in our midst. Judiciously aid every
enterprise that promises to add strength
and character to the place. If your
neighbor builds a house help him pay
for it. If you are a property holder,
every new house strengthens you, and
it is hut right to reciprocate. Don’t
hide a dollar with a penny. Look
ahead. Consider what is best for you
in the long run. Don’t he so jealous.
If you can draw advantage from an en
terprise forwarded by an enemy, sup
port it, even if it does enrich him.
Should a man start up a legitimate bu
siness in an obscure part of the town,
whether or no a friend or even acquain
tance, say a good word for him when
ever occasion piesents itself—it will
cost yon nothing, and may do him in
calculable good—always remember
ing that bread cast upon the waters will
return after many days.
Strob'cit! Advertisement.—There
is a very sensible suggestion in the
.Montgomery Advance-, in regard to tfic
contemplated tourof don’t-shake-hands
across-the-bloody-chasm- worth a-d n
Strobach. The worthy Paul, the Radi
cal sheriff of Montgomery county was
foistered into office by pandering to the
prejudices of ignorant negroes and
a handful of whites, the representative
of no class, repudiated and denounced
almost uanimously by the German citi
zens of liis own city. He was hissed
off the stage at the Philapelphia Con
vention ; and lie it was who urged the
negroes 'lo put their Jce't upon the necks of
the wlfite man of the count) y and grind than
into powder.' Now Strobach proposes
to visit the cities of the West and deliv
er speeches in the German language to
the Germans of that section. We give
him this advertisement gratuitously,
says the Advance, and hope that the
papers, in the section of country where
lie may go to speak, may extend the
same courtesy to this fellow who repre
sents no one but his master—Grant;
and nothing but the Gospel ol Hate and
the Revelation of Loot.
A Petrified Baby. —A petrified ba
by has been exhumed from a Chicago
cemetery. The Times report says :
‘AH, save the mother of the little in
fant, stood mutely looking upou it, but
she became nearly frantic with excite
ment from the first moment that the
body was exposed to view. She had
endeavored to take it from the coffin,
crying bitterly, and wilily insisting
upon taking it with her to her home.
Her husband held her back -and would
not allow her to remove it. The moth
er seemed nearly distracted with greif
at the thought of its being reintered.—
It looked so natural and beautiful, so
like the ba';y that she had placed in the
grave ten years ago, that it brought up
all sorrow afresh, as if she was but now
laying the loved darling in the earth.—
The body was removed, with others
which the family had come there to ex
hume, to Graceland, and reburied.—
The family are Swedes, and it was
learned reside a short distance out of
the city. The child, so remarkably
preserved, had been buried for more
than ten years.’
Since Senator Morton manifests so
much affliction about the bailing of Jeff'
Davis, the Cincinnati Commercial sug
gests that Jeff, is still within reach. If
Morton wants him taken and tried for
treason, why not have it done? He is
the man who puts things into the mes
sages of the President, and regulates j
matters generally. Perhaps this would
be a good time to call for old Jeff, and
try him. His bail bond is good.
New corn is already coming into
Thomaston.
TERMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE
Y\ e have seen no better cr more
damaging criticism of Grant’s adminis
tration than the following extract from
a leader in the N. Y. Evening Post:
But his (Grant’s) native tendencies in
these respects were overruled by his
adherents of the Senate, who, more in
tent on projects for the distribution of
patronage and the management of local
elections than they were to prepare and
perfect schemes of broad and generous
legislation, disregarded the signs of
public opinii n so glaringly obvious to
others, alienated several of their, most
powerful colleagues, resisted inquiry in
to alleged abuses, covered over corrup
tion that ought to have been corrected,
aided the monopolists of every kind with
a free hand, and exercised, or when they
could not excuse, justified themostenor
mous stretches of tfie Federal power in
to the concerns of the State. Down to
the last moment of the late session they
clamored for the passage of laws which
they ought to have seen were not only
an offence to the judgement of the na
tion, but an offence so serious that it
awakened alarm and widespread threats
of revolt.
And yet Mr. Bryant sup ports Grant
and the Radicals, because he allows his
jealousy of his old rival, Horace Gree
ley, to outweigh the enormities of the
present regime at Washington !
Didn’t Give It Up One of our citi
zens is blessed, or otherwise, with a
very stubborn wife. In his he
finds that when a woman will, she will,
you may depend ori't, and when she
won’t, she won't, and that’s an endon’t.
This peculiarity of disposition in his
wife is no secret among his associates,
and one of them meeting him the other
day, asked :
‘Well, do you know why you
are like a donkey ?’
‘Like a donkey?’ echoed W ,
opening his eyes wide. -No I don’t.’
‘Do you give it up V
‘L do.’
•Because your better half is stubborn
ness itself.’
‘That’s not bad. Ha! Ha! I’ll
give that to my wife when I go home.’
‘Mrs. W lie asked as he satdown
to supper,‘do you know why lam li&e
a donkey V’
He waited a moment, expecting his
wife to give it up, but she didn’t; she
looked at him somewhat commiserately
as she answered :
‘I suppose it’s because you were born
so.’
W has abjured the habit of put
tingconundrums to his wife. —Lawrence
(1 lass ) American.
Bill Arp on tiis Agricultural
Stump.— Bill Arp has once more plung
ed into activity; this time ns Major
Charles 11. Smith in a humorous sensi
ble agricultural address, that is a capti
vation me'ange of farming facts and
philosophical generalities, mixed with
considerable lively personal aiuobiogra
phy-
Sometimes a good thing happens even
in Oregon, as we are told by a corres
pondent in that region.
Lawyer B - called at the office of
Counselor F who has had consider
able practice in bankruptcy, and said,
‘See here, F , I want to know what
the practice is jri such and such a case
in bankruptcy.’
F , straightening himself up and
looking wise as possible, replied, ‘Well,
Mr. B . I generally get paid for tel
ling what I know.’
B • put his hand in his pocket,
drew forth a half a dollar, handed it to
F , and said, ‘Here, tell me all you
know, ami give me the change.'
The following racy allusion to his
youthful minority, and the maternal
aspirations as to his future is a clever
specimen of his personal experiences.
‘When I put on the Sunday face and
recited the Shorter Catechism without a
bobble, she knew that I would be a
preacher, she could almost see me in
the pulpit, and my congregation all in
tears from my eloquence. But when I
repeated Patrick Henry’s great speech,
and assumed a fighting attitude, and
looked fierce and said‘give me liberty or
give me death,’ my good mother would
shake her head in doubt Bbout the
preacher, and settle down upon the
presidency. She alternated between
the two so long that I became neither.
My nearest approach to the sacred call
ing was a remarkable fondness for wo
men and fried chicken, and for the
Presidency I never got nearer than to
write a few letters to Abraham Lincoln.’
The Progressive Age is anew Greeley
paper started at Opelika.