McDuffie weekly journal. (Thomson, McDuffie County, Ga.) 1871-1909, October 09, 1872, Image 1

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VOLUME II—NUMBER 40. ®he fffcffoffie gonrnal, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY , —A T— THOMSON. G-_A._, <r —b y H. C. HONEY. RATES OF ADVERTISING . Transient advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for the first insertion, and seventy fire cents for each subsequent insertion. DR. T. ULI.RSTKDT OFFERS 1118 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the Citizens of Thomson and Vicinity. He can be found at the Room over Costello’s, when not professionally absent. REFERS to Pro. J \. Eve, Pro. Wm. 11. Doughty, Dr John S. Coi.kman, Dr. S C. Kvk. PAUL G- HUDSON, Ittoninj at fate, . TiIO«S«V, OEOKOM. S?T Prompt attention given to the collection of claims. fi'MT Will practice in all the courts of the Augus ta, Middle and Northern Circuits. O/W re. —At the Office formerly occupied by Jor dan E. White, Esq. * seplßm3 H. O RON^Y, at Into, TitOMSO V, f*V#. s<%„ Will pract cc in tiie Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits, no 1— 1 y CHARLES S DuBOSE, &TTQIIY%¥.'ITL.'IW, WaiTontoii, Ga. Wi’l practice in all the Courts of the Northern, Augusta & Middle Circuits. wm. s. non Cars Rich'd- b. uojtim. jas. a. shivers drntral jjotel, ZB~¥" *6 55*. IV. U. THOIMS, ‘AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, seplltf COTTON FACTOR .A. IST ID GESEHAL COMMISSION MEICHAIT, IVo. I Warren Block, Augusta, Georgia **aT Will give prompt attention to the selling of Cotton and other produce. «&“ Commission for selling cotton, One Dollar Per Bale. sepllm2 W. H. HOWARD. C. H. HOWARD. W. H. HOWARD, JR. W. 11. Howard & Sons, vinmsitnusHiHuiiin. No. 2 Warren Block, _A.g-u.sta,, Greox*gia. *HT ComniHsion f-r Selling cotton One Dollar per bale. Strict personal attention given to business entrusted. All orders strictly obeyed. Liberal Cash Advan ces made on Cot to Special attention paid to Weighing of Cotton. Ragging and Ties furnished at Lowest Market Prices. s p pl Its j. mmpmr & co. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in EIUSS WHITE GRMiITE Si E. C. WAHE —ALSO— Seini-Cliuiu French China, Glassware, &c. 244 Broad Strest, Augusta, Ga aprlO ly. Roberts, Morris & Shivers, Successors to Jas. T. Gardiner & Cos. WAREHOUSE tfEmwmistfiatt Igertate, Jtlclntosh Street Augusta Ga, Wiil give their personal attention to the storage and sale of cotton, and such other produce as may be sent to them. Commission for seliingcotton one dol lar per Bale. Cash Advances made on Produce in Store- Sept, 4tb 3m. _____ •» Girls I Pass Along! ' BY JOHN G. SAXE. Bless me, what a rosy row* Os girls at me their glaneess throw As they gaily come and go, The light.coquettish throng Can t the darlings hear me sav : “I have had my youthful day ; Now, I put such things away?” Girls, pass along. Ah, my Zoe, pray desist Sooth, I care not to be kissed ; Ask vour moth.--- ' if T list To Cupid's siren song ? that is entre nous— Know-s what Love and I can do; Her advice you'd best pursue— % Girls, pass along. Laura, you would hardly guess How your grandam use to press Lips of mine—well—l confess— We didn’t think it wrong; Look I she’s coining. Tempt me not In gay saloon or shady grot; A jealous eye the dame has got; Girls, pass along. You smiling too. you naughty Bose I wonder now if you suppose I’m not aware what sort of beaux Around.your beauty throng? I know the husband-hunting crew, And all the prettty tricks they do; I’m old—but much too young for you. Girls, pass along. Away, away, you madcaps, fly; Your roguish arts why will you try To bind a graybeard such as I With Cupid’s slender thong? Yet, like a powder magazine, My heart from flying sparks I screen, The sparks that shoot from wanton e’en. Girls, pass along. V Sou- for oid’kinj; Winter. BV OATDKAUi. Hurrah! hurrah ! for the old frost-king, Who comes with snow and chill; Hurrah ! hurrah! let your vocicas ring, And cheer him with good will. Hurrah—hurrah! once more, Old Winter’s at our door. His flowers are on the window pane, Ilis carpet upon the earth ; The bleak North wind is sounding uis name In its wTTd ufifsy nilffli. v. loudly, loudly cheer. Old A'inter again is here. What though he makes us shiver and shake, Still hail to him, say I; And let us strive if we cannot make His reign pass rnorily. So loud let us sing— Old Winter is our king. And o’er the frozen lake aH wo glide, To him we’U gladly sing : We’ll leave all thoughts of the cold aside, And hail him as our king. Yes, yes, merrily sing, Old Winter is our king, Yes quite a jolly old king is he, Though his a frosty crown; And he dearly loves to see our glee— Should we, then, be cast down ? No, no, we’ll gladly sing, Ours is a jolly king! IflHccUancowjs, An Otl(l Praetx-al .J01t,,. A Swiss court has had before it a case originating from a practical joke of an equally daring and ridiculous nat ure. A sapper, with a bushy head, who was returning to his native village from his military duty, staid a night in the chiel town of the canton. He was found drunk in a ditch on the roadside. Two wags passing by, according to Swiss Times, took the drunken man first to the house of one of them, who owned an old monk’s cowl and a ton sure, shaved all thejhair off his face ; and dressed him in the habit of a monk.— They then too h him to the nearest con vent, and said they had found him lying drunk on the roadside, and brought him there in order to avoid the scandal which might ensue if he were found outside. On awaking the sapper was not a little astonished to find himself in the cell of a convent, with a monk’s cowl on, and that he had no hair left on his face or on the crown of his head. To his protestations, the fathers replied that he must be still laboring under the effects of drink, and advised him to go to sleep once more. At length they consented to send for the priest of the parish where he said he resided, in order to clear up the mystery. On the priest arriving he recognized in the psuedo monk his parishoner, whereupon he was permitted to depart. Means were found to discover the two wags, and the sapper, thus extemporized into a monk, as well as the brotherhood who was so fooled, intend to bring an action against them. As in religious matters, the canton of Friburg is very strict, and is not likely to see the point of the joke, the two wags wiil probably get the worst of it. THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA., OCTOBER 9,1872. Greeley at Newport. Cincinnati, September 21.— When Greeley arrived at Newport, Kentucky he spoke as follows : Citizens of Slew port —There was a time, and that not many years ago, when I would not have been welcomed to the soil ol Ken tucky as I am to-day ; and there was a time when Kentuckians did not think as they do now, and I believed it was be cause they did not understand so well as they do now ; for in olden times I was an humble but zealous friend of Kentucky’s noblest statesman, Henry Clay. I loved, I trusted and followed that mao tV, i.,,.ny ye«ri, a.-; i sere v.S.s my heart when the news came that our fondest anticipations were blighced, and he was not chosen President. But what matters it ? The fame of Clay is world wide and he is revered and loved by millions of his countrymen and will be for generations to come. What mat ters it whether he filled one office or another, or no office ? The office does not make the man. It is men like these who dignify and glorify the of fice. He concluded as follows: Many times I was told fifteen or twenty years ago you can come down South, and nobody will hurt you. I said why should any body huVt me V There never was a moment he wished ill to the South and I never sought to do them harm. Why should you tell me I should be protected in the South? 1 have never been there because my duties did not call me there. But I felt certain always that no gentleman of the South would lava hand on me, and I don’t believe they would let blackguards do it. They were talking as if it were but charity to let me pass through. That has passed away, fellow-citizens, You may have been one of the most effective Confederate soldiers of the late struggle, and you may travel all over this country, and I think—no one except low, xulgar persons, will offer you any insult I traveled to the further part of the South, to Texas, last year, and I was received. I have no i»%’ wWf tviro went South, minding his own business and giving nobody cause of offense, was treated, perhaps, as I was, and his person and property were just as sa credly respected as mine were. Now, then, we have opened anew era in this country, but there was a time wfien it was not so, that every Northern man, whatever his principles, could not travel through the South. Now they can do so, and lam glad of it. Think no more ol our triumphs in the late struggle. Let us rejoice to-day, that these triumphs have tended to produce good to the whole American people. There were actually men in the North, who believed, when Lincoln was assas sinated, that the Southern people, as a people, rejoiced in that assassination. 1 am sure it was not so ; but here is a black, bloody deed done, and a whole people suffered lor it. It was for a long time impossible to make a large portion of that class believe that this assassina tion was not the work of the whole Confederate people. There was injus tice done them through prejudice and j through passion. We must try to dispel that prejudice I and that passion. We must try to j make the whole people feel that the | American name is dear to us ali: that j even in our struggle we were friends, and did not tear and rend each other— we did not destroy. Prisoners were not unjustly treated; but I really believe the people on both sides meant to treat them with humanity, so far a3 they 'could do so, and when cruelties took ! place they were not understood to be ! approved by the great body of people j North or South. Now, then, let us all resolve that we shall be nearer to each other next year than this [Applause.] lam demand ing universal amnesty. Why? Peo ple say there are only three or four hundred disfranchised. Suppose there were only two hundred ? I object to this disfranehisemt and this proscrip tion. It puts a stigma on the whole people. Blendin, the acrobatic hero of Niag ara, is delighting the Englishmen with his astonishing but fool hardy feats.— The other day at Sydenham, he walk ed a rope 500 feet long and 80 feet 'from the ground, clad in heavy armor. Although a high wind was blowing he was daring enough to walk the rope blindfolded, afterwards in a sack, then with his ageut on his shoulders, capping the whole by cooking an omelet while poised on the middle of the rope. The Panormo Murder. New York, September 29.— The i cruel murder of Professor Panormo, a Brooklyn teacher of music, in the public streets of that city ’n January last, will be remembered. A man named Hig gins has, it appears, turned informer; and, according to his story, the crime was committed by four thieves, an Eng lishman named Kane, alias Cockney, and three others, Cassidy, Seaty, and .Michael O’Brien, all of New York. Disappointed in an intended burglary, and resolved not to return empty handed, they laid for somebody to rob. Seeing of the four said ‘let’s go for tins man coming up and see what he’s got about him.’ One of them grabbed him by the collar and said in a-rough voice, ‘Whit have you got about you ? Come, pony up,’ at the same time shaking Panormo. As soon as he felt that he was grasped, he cried out, or he made an attempt to to cry out for help, and another one of the four pulled out a large pistol, jobbed him in the neck with the muzzle, and said, ‘damn yo; r dirty soul, if you yell out again, I’ll blow your brains out.’ Feeling the muzzle of the pistol at Ips neck, Panormo stopped, and a third man proceeded to go through him, and was just on the point of taking his gold watch, when the man who pulled the pistol on him, thinking Panormo would not dare to-try out. replaced the pistol in his pqAet. Seeing the pistol disposed of PanOTmo agiiu cried out for help, and that cry cost him his life, for, with a terrible oath, O’Brien struck him in the temple with a club, and as the unfortunate victim was reeling backward from the effects of the blow, he again strung him with the club, hitting him over the left eye and flat along on the face to the upper lip, .and this blow was the one which made the terrible woijiid which was so fully described at Ahe time. Only two blows were struck, and the man who was rob bing himofihis watch grabbed it, and, seeing him relied and bleeding, they all ran off and/-cached New York in differ ent directions. 4d - * Guano YlepoPt op Paiur.— Harry Meiggs. thcjgreut, railroad operator of South Arn( l iv°a, has discovered, on the main land of\tlie west of Peru, the most immense depost of guano ever seen any where. llnf- deposit is said to extend for several fi\iles along the coast and reach far inland. The Chinca Islands have heretofore b on considered the richest in guano production, but this last discovery shows conclusively that this is of much better quality and much easier to handle than the former. Mil lions upon millions of tons can be dug cheaply and transporte 1 to all parts of the world at a much lower figure than heretofore. This valuable fertilizer will no doubt be used much more extensive ly in this country, as well as Europe, as the price at which it can be furnished will place it within the reach of all. This discovery alone is worth more to the Peruvian Government than all the money they are to pay Mr. Meiggs for constructing railroads. Piercing this Andes. —The railroad now constructing from Lima to Oroya, piercing the Andes, will unquestionably be, when completed, one ol the proud est monuments of human power and enterprise. The tunnel, which is 3,U0) feet long, is being executed at an altitude of 15,000 feet above the level of the sea, and with extraordinary ra pidity. Numberless lives have already been lost among the workmen by pe culiar diseases brought on through the effects of the climate, and the coolie In dians are the only ones capable of being employed upon the works, as it is found that no other race can withstand pro longed labor in the rarefied atmosphere of those lofty regions. MAtciius.—Although friction matches are as common as nails, a very small proportion of those who use them un derstand the princip'e on which they operate. It is, in fact a very simple idiaif. The tip of the match is a com bination of sulphur and phosphorus.— The phosphorus ignites at the heat of one hundred and twenty degrees, which a slight friction will produce, and this in tbrn ignites the sulphur, which re quires four hundred and fifty or five hu up red degrees. The flame of the sul phi)t sets file to the pine wood, of which the match is composed, and which ignites at about six hundred de grees. The combination is necessary, because the phosphorus alone would not kindle the match, while the sul phur alone would not Lignite with the ordinary friction. Ex-Presiilent .Johnson and Mrs. Surratt. A New York Herald Reporter had the other day an interview with ex- Presieeut Johnson,at Jonesboro,Tenn., in which the ex-President explains his action in Mrs. Surratt’s case. Says the correspondent: Speaking to ex-President Johnson, this evening after the meeting was over, I asked him : ‘How do you intend to meet this clamor in Western Tennessee about jmiir action in Mr. Surratt's case V ‘I have no fear of that clamor ; if there are people still so ignorant as to believe I compassed or am in any way responsible for the death of Mrs. Surratt, I leave them where they are.’ ‘What is the exact fact, Mr. Johnson, about Annie Surratt’s attempt to reach you at the White House, and being repulsed, either through your order or by the order of Preston King ?’ ‘I never knew until after Mrs Surratt had been executed that her daughter had been seeking to see me. Preston King had nothing to do vvi'h repulsing her. There was a fellow named Muzzy (I think he is in Washington still) tacked himself on to me at the White House in some way or other, and finding this girl looking in a frantic way for me, and unable very likely to understand her, refused her admission. Os this I knew nothing until some time after. Now as (o the case of Mrs. Surratt, Mr. Lincoln, asyou may know,'wasassassina ted atatime when he was commander-in chief of the armies and martial law pre vai'ed in the District. The opinion of the Attorney General was taken as to the mode of trial for the conspirators, and lie decided that tiiey were liable to the ju risdiction of a Military commission. They had a full and fair trial, and all four were found guilty. How was Ito know that Mrs. Surratt was innocent? All I could do would be to pardon her. Could I pardon her without pardoning the rest, where there was nothing but sympathy for hersex to justify it? As for the Surratt clamor. I shall meet and answer it whenever it conies up.’ The Story op a R ,ss.—A rose with so pretty a title and so full US tlli -■ i 111 i■' t ‘ !>D !)".1 <ll.l • I '. "i" ■i. -. ii *. -vEhBBHHI told ol it : An Indian chief of the was taken prisoner by his enemies, the Cherokee, and doomed to torture, but fell so seriously it became neces sary to wait for his restoration to health before committing him to the fire. And, as lie lay prostrated by disease in the cabin of the Cherokee warrior, the daughter of the latter, a young dark * faced maid, was his nurse. She fell in love with the young chieftain, and, wishing to save his life, urged him to escape. But he would not do so unless •she would flee with him. She consent ed. Yet, before they had gone far, im pelled by soft regrets at leaving home, she asked permission of her lover to re turn for the purpose of bearing away some memento of it. So, retracing her footsteps, she broke a sprig from tiie white rose which climbed up the pole of her father’s tent, and preserving it during her flight through the wilder ness, planted it by the door of her new home in the land of the Seminoles. And from that time to this the beauti ful flower has been known between the caves of Florida and throughout the Southern States by the name of the Cherokee rose. One op Grant's Pets. —Wm. T. Clark, of Connecticut, who was so unani mously kicked out of the present Con gress, where he assumed to represent a district in Texas, and who was imme diately rewarded therefor by Grant with the postmastership of Galveston, has been obliged to retire from that position by the pressure of outraged political and public opinion. Grant turned out an entirely worthy official, against whom not a single objection had ever been urged, solely to make room for this chap. Such fellows are the spe cial pets of of the Grant Government, and we are surprised to learn that it has had the decency to get rid of him. We shall be very much surprised, however, if Giant does not promptly heal his wounds with the plaster of another office even slitter than the Galveston P. O. ‘My dear sir, I will pay you in time; and since time is money,, the longer you wait the surer you are of your pay,’ Five natives of Europe made appli cation for naturalization papers yester day.—r- Constitutionalist. TERMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE Poultry Keepiiifjjfoi' Woman. There are many women who, espe cially within the last half dozen years, while the price of eggs has been so high, ma/te money much faster by tend ing poultry than by sewing. It is an occupation especially suited to woman, because it involves patience and con stant attention to details rather than strength. Then again, the hardest thing for many men to learn, in handling either poultry or bees, is gentleness, ilow many times we have seen boys, and men with no more sense than boys, jerk hens roughly from their nests, en ter the poultry houses abruptly and frighten the occupants till they rush iti a fluttering mass into the farthest cor ner, and keep the poultry community in constant agitation and distress. But all domestic animals appreciate thff manners of women attendants when they are fortunate enough to be cared for by them. Now that there are wo men gardeners and florists, who by commendable industry and business' qualities have riseu to eminence in these callings, and wiiiie one of the most suc cessful bee-keepers in the wo-ild is a wo man, we hope to see others give poultry more attention than it has hitherto re ceived. Aside from profit the keeping of fine poultry for fancy is an elegant pastime, very popular with English ladies, and we see no reason why the fashion should not be adopted beer.— Poultry JVorld. Hints about Flowers. —House plant? ought to be stimulated gently once or twice a week. Rain water, so refresh ing to summer flowers, always contain ammonia, which also abounds in all liquid manures, if you take an ounce ot pulverized carbonate o! ammonia, dis solve! in one gallon of water, it wilt make spring water even more stimula ting to your plants th m rain water. If you water your plants once in two woe/rs with guano water (one tablespoonlul to a pail of water) they will grow more thrifty. Chicken manure dissolved in water is excellent. Always keep the soil in your flower pots loose. A cony mon hair-pin used daily will stir the esrth sufficiently. —Boston Journal *°f JJfuimislry. was yesleday Democrats who are with the Louisville move* , inent. James Worrell, of Pennsylvania, presided, and J. 11. Wilson, of Alabama, was made Secretary. Worrell made a speech favoringthe support of Grant and Wi son. Resolutions were subsequent ly adopted urging Democrats to vote for Grant and Wilson, calling on the' national committee to organize in their several States and to unite in behalf of the candidates approved by this confer ence. The nomination of Gerfbral Dix for Governor of New York and oth-rs on the Republican ticket were com mended, and an address in their interest ordered to be issued, Tub Buautv of ‘Golden Silence. f The New York World makes this hard hit at the great North American Grist- 1 Taker : In a strong defense of Grant, a Rad ical organ dwells tenderly on the beauty of ‘golden silence.’ Respecting our* friends, we never knew a man to have so golden a silence as he. He says nothing and grabs all lie can. Put to gether, the record in his four years’/ term of words disbursed and gifts re ceived would mai-e as pretty an account current as any lover of a heavy balance could care to see. “Hurrah for Jackson !”—Tiiis| was the old battle cry when some of us were very young. It very naturally arose to our lips when we wore informed by Mr. J. R. Nicholson that sir. families in Jefferson have twins, and they are all sos Greeley. He also states that a negro woman in the same town gave birth to three in» fonts, one day lust wee&, and that they are all well and doing well.— -Athens Banner. A little thing in Sabbath school was asked by her teacher ‘if she always said her prayers night and morning.’— ‘No, Miss, I don’t.’ ‘Why, Mary, are you not afraid to go to sleep in the dark without asking God to take care of you, and watch over you till morn ing ?’ ‘No Miss, I ain’t—’cause I sleep in the middle.’ A quarrelsome couple were discuss ing the subject of epitaphs and tomb stones, anil the husband said: ‘My dear, what kind of stone do you think they will give me when I die ?’ ‘Brim stone, my love,’ was the affectionate reply.