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VOLUME 11-NUMBER 43. goimial, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —A T— THOMSON. Q-A-, —b y H. C. RONEY. RATES OF ADVERTISING . Trausient advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for the first insertion, and seventy fire rents for each subsequent insertion. ~~ busixw Evans. UR. T. L. LAM.RSTKBT OFFKHS HIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the Citizens ol Thomson ami Vicinity. He c.u be found at the ilnom uvev Costello’s aheu Lot professionally absent. REFERS to Pro. J A. Evb. Pro. Wm. H. Pouhhtt, 1)r John S. Foreman', Dr. S. C. Evr. PAUL C- HUDSON, Jttorntj at Cato, TllO<iil24>RL;i.t. C4T Prompt attention given to the collection of claims. C4T Will practice in all the courts of the Augus ta, Middle and Northern Circuits. OJlf re. —At the Office formerly occupied by Jor dan E. White, Esq. Beplbm3 ~ n. c. lio.M n , Jttorn |) at 1 to, TUO.HSO r, o.t. tf*V. Will practice io the Augusta, Northern ami Millie Circuiis. oo 1-I}’ CHARLES S DuBOSE, ifffWflWli w. Wan*c‘mon, Wi’l practice in all the Courts of the Northern, Augusta & Middle Circuits. Central Hofei JS'Y' MRS. W. .11. Tfion is, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. sepl 1 ts M. W. COTTON FACTOR ■A-XsTID GEBERAL COMMISSION lifflffl No. 1 Warren Block, Augusta, Georgia *sdT Will give prompt attention to the selling of Cotton and other produce. G&T Commission for selling cotton, One Dollar Per Bale. »6p31m2 H. HOWABD. C. n. HOWARD. W. H. UOWAI’.D, JB. W 11. Howard & Sons, vunni i ranissm mntns. No. 2 Warren Block, Agnsta, (rfioi’ijia. GiT c .jinraissiou for Selling cottou One Dollar per bale, strict personal attention given to business entrusted. All orders strictly obeyed. Liberal Cash Advan ces made on Cotton. Special attention paid to Weighing of Cotton. Bagging and Ties furnished at Lowest Market Prices B«*p 11 f i, MzmJmF d> m Wholesale and Retail Dealers in mua hits fiim t c. c, vui —ALSO— Sc ni i-(In in a French Filina, Glassware, Ac. 244 Broad Street, Augusta, G-a aprlO ly. WX. 8. EOREETS. RICRD B. MORRIS. JJLS. A. SUITER Roberts, Morris & Shivers, Successors to Jas. T. Gardiner & Cos. WAREHOUSE <^rsiiD &OMM stfiou |||cvcltate, •IfcJ ifosft St reel Ga, 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. Thomas Richards & Sou, i Booksellers, Stationers AND Dealers in Fancy Goods, 2G3 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Established 1837. Keep a large stock of all kinds ami qualities of Blank Books, Fools-cap, Letter, Note and all sizes of Wmrt.YG m s And ever/ article of Stationery used in Counting llou-e and I? UTS LIC OFFICES : and a v.trie»y of F.mcy Coods, to suit the want- of Country Merchant-'. An Books wanted will be sent by mail free of expense on recept of Publishers' prices. Mi L L IN E R Y. MRS. WORRILL would respect Ladies of Thomson and vicinity to her well selected STOCK OF niIiIiLVGRV and white goods. Also a fine assort ment of LADIES’ BOOTS Ladies’ Hats made in in the latest style. Old Hats retrimed at the lowest prices. Call and examine. oct lGinR £J»! yc lhal arc BSarcloolcd Como to the Shoe Store. I HAVE just received the largest and best stock ot Gents’ and Ladies’ Boots and Shoes, Gaiters. Slippers and Rubbers and a general assortment of Misses’ and Children’s shoes Gaiters, BOYS BOOTS from SI 75 to $2 00. I propose to sell at as low figures «s can be. pur chased in any city, town village or hamlet in Georgia. Thanking my friends for past favors, I earnestly solicit their future pat ronage. Call and examine my stock , ui“\ ! ,ti i (..nifljt it rha-t yon wifi A fail to make pur. bases uud save expense. Take due notiee and govern yourselves accordingly! oct 2tf “ D. F. IRVING. J . A . SE^O^, HEALER IN | Men's, Boys’ and Vo Mis’ I OXjOX EE I TsT C3- , Gouty’ Furnishing Goods, Hats, Trunks, Valises, Umbrellas, &c. ! r vtT 224 Broad Street, 4 Doors below Central | Hotel, Augusta, Ga. oct !)ml FI33T CLASS OROCEBIES! C r . W. BKG leave to inform their old cus tomers and the public generally ! that they are constantly receiving and i have on hand a well selected stock of FIRST CLASS STAPLE HID FIIEY O-BO OIFJBIBS, And every article kept in a good grocery house. Having recently commenced business, we are determined to win patronage by buying our goods at very low prices and j SELLING THEM AT ’MALL P OFITS. Among our stock may found sugar cured arid canvassed hams, flour of all brands, and at prices to suit the people, smoked and bul/r meats, cheese, crackers, nuts, plain and fancy candies, sardines, oysters, fresh salmon, fresh mackerel, pickles, segars, tobacco, canned fruits | &c. i Cal! on us and we warrant to give i satisfaction. C. W. Arnold «.V C o. i Thomson, Ga. [mr 13y 1] oct2 Public Sale, WILL be sold at public outcry, at the residence of the subscriber, jin McDuffie county, on Tuesday, the I 29th inst., one Twenty five Horse Pow er Engine with Locomotive Boiler, Heater, &c., complete. Also, pulleys and shafting of different sizes, tools, &c. The machinery is first-class, and in per fect ordei. Oct IG 2t ISAAC ISELINE. Wanted. A good house woman, either while or black, to do light service. Good wages paid. Apply at this office. octlGtf j The Secret of Beauty. What is it? ; no longer ask, for the world of fashion and all the ladies know that it is produced by using a delight ful and harmless toilet preparation known as G. W. Laird’s Bloom of Youth. Its beautifying effects , are truly wonderful. Dept, 5 Gold street, N. Y. Thomson, McDuffie county, ga, October 30,1872. fodvu. “The JLfgw." Once upon an evening bleary, While I sat me dreaming dreary, In the sunshine, thinking o’er Things that passed in days of yore ; While I nodded, nearly sleeping, Up my back like w ater creeping, Creeping upward from the floor. “ ’Tis a cooling breeze,” I muttered, “From the region ’ueatli the floor” “Only this, and nothing more. Ah! distinctly I remember, It was in that wet September, When earth and every membor Os creation that it bore, Had for weeks and weeks been soaking In the meanest, most provoking Foggy rain without joking, We had ever seen before, So I knew that it must be very Cold and damp beneath the floor— Very cold beneath the floor. So I sat me, nearly napping, In the sunshine, stretching gaping, And a feeling quite delighted With the breeze from ’noath the floor, Till I felt me growing older, And the stretching growing bolder, And myself now feeling older, Older than I felt before, Feeling my joints were stiffer Than they were in days of yore— Stiffer than they’d been before. All along my back the creeping Soon gave place to rushing, leaping, As if countless frozen demons Hud concluded to explore All the cavitieß—the varmints— * i'wixt mo and my nether garments, Through my boots into the floor; Then I found myself a shaking Gently shaking, more and more— Every moment more and more. Twaa the Ager, and it shook me Into heavy clothes, and took me Shaking to the kitchen—every Flace where there was warmth in store. Shaking till the ‘china’ rattled, Shaking till nay molars rattled, Shaking, and with all my warming, ... -jp Keeling colder than before ; . " i >oLit had iahausfcod v if V '• y,- _ not GO mofe. Then it restqjj till the morrow, When it'ftktne in all the horror That it had the face to borrow, Shaking, shaking as before ; And from that day in September— Day which I shall long remember— l It has made diurnal visits, Shaking, shaking, oh ! how sore ! Shaking off my boots, and shaking Me to bed, and nothing more, Fully this and nothing more. And to-day the swallows flitting Round my cottage, see me sitting Moodily in the sunshine Just inside my silent door, Waiting for the Ager, seeming Like a man forever dreaming, And the sunlight on me streaming, Sheds no shadows on the floor, For I am too thin and sallow To make shadow son the floor, Narry shadow—any more ! IHiofcllancattf. From the Telegraph <fc Messenger.] Tlie Haunted Houtse. In the Telegraph and Messenger of Sunday, was given a brief account of some marvelous manifestations, that for several days have been transpiring in the house of Mr. A. P. Surrency, at Station No, 6, on the Macon and Bruns wick Railroad. The accounts that come from this place, though recieved on the very best authority, were so incredita ble and so like supernatural that it was very difficult to give them full credit. Wishing to arrive at the full truth of the matter, a reporter from this office went down Saturday night, spent Sun day in the infested building, and was an eye-witness to scenes similar in every respect to those that had been previously reported. Mr.Surrency, whose housj the de mons, human or supernatural, have selected for their revelry, is a gentleman of most, excellent character in his com munity. He is one of the leading men in his county, a quiet and goo I citizen, and has represented his county in the General Assembly of the State. He is the owner of one of the finest farms in the county. He is also agent for the Macon and Brunswick Road at No. 6. The train on which the reporter went down, arrived at the station about an hour before daylight, on Sunday morning. There being no other resi dence in Surrency, he in company with another gentleman, went straight to the house. Here he found everything dark and perfectly still. Finding the front door unlocked, they opened it and passed into a room where there had been a tire, of which only a few smould ering coals remained. They procured fue' tnd soon had a fire blazing upon the hearth, and prepare! to make them selves comfortable until daylight acd the family were astir. The house of Mr. Surrency is two stories high and weather-boarded. An ell runs back containing two rooms, one of which is used as a kitchen and the other as dining-room. In the main body of the house there are eight room—four above and as many below. The rooms are all plasteied and ceiled overbad. Between the time that the reporter arrived and daylight, nothing remarka ble occurred. There was an occasional rapping about the house and once or twice there were sounds as if some heavy body had fallen. But there were no very marked demonstrations. As soon as the family had arisen, an interview with Mr. Surrency was had, and he, in the main, confirmed the reports that have been previously cir culated in regard to the condition of affiuiß in his house. He made the fol lowing statement of what had bees witnessed by himself and other mem bers of his household: jSukbkncy, Ga., October 17, 1872. Editors Tcligrajih and Messenger'. — I’leaijV allow me a small s ace iu your 1 valuable paper to publish a freak of nature. On Thursday lap I returned from Station No. 8J to my residence at Station No. 6, Macon and Brunswick R ilroad, where I have lived for twenty years unmolested. On my arrival at home ab ut nine o’clock P. M-, I found my family and some of my neigh bors— among them Rev. Benjamin Blitch, Col. D. M. Roberts, my brother and several others whom I consider men of truth, very much excited. Iu a lew minutes after my arrivul at home I saw the gl iss tumblers begiu to slide off (lie slab auffithe crockery to fall upon the door and*break. The books began to tumble from their shelves to the floor, while brick-bats, billets of wood, sinm-ihjng-irons, buisouit, potatoes, tin pamnvwatef hue/rcG. pitchers, etc,, be gan to fall iu «l fie rent parts of my heuse. Neai !y v 3ll of my crockery and glasses have heieri broken. There has been many other strange occurrences about my Rouse. These facts can be established byvseventy-five ora hundred witnesses. Yours in haste, A. P. SUKKENCY. The first demonstration during the day occurred about 8 o’clock iu the morning, when a pair of scissors, that had been lying on a table in one room of the house, fell on the hearth, Iu another room a brick fell with a heavy sound Jliat was heard all over the premises. The brick was warm and was recognized as a brick that, a short while before, had been laying near the fire I# the room. The next manifestation was the fal ling of a piece of brick in the porch, coming from, no one knew where, The brick was crushed by the force with which it was thrown. Shortly after this a piece of chamber crockery that was under a bed iu one of the front rooms was thrown with great force against the. middle of the floor, and shivered to atoms. When this occurred Mr. Surrency, the reporter and a little negro girl were in the room. None of them saw the crock ery move, but all heard the crash and saw the fragments scattered about the floor. These were about all the occurrences that took place duri.ig the day. Late in the evening, however, while a num ber of the party which was at the house, were at supper, another crash was heard in a small room adjoining. The reporter was at the door immediately, so that no one could have passed out without being observed by him. The windows of the room where all closed and fastened down. When the room was ententered, upon the floor were found the fragments of a pitcher that had been thrown from a stand and broken. Shortly after this, a book fell upon the floor iu a passage of the house. Only a few minutes before the book was seen in a hook case in the house. This was followed in quick succession by a .parasol sliding from a dressing table into the middle of the room. Immediately after, three ears of corn fell at intervals of a few minutes, in different parts of the dining room. A vial and a tin cup falling in the floor, completed what was seen by the reporter, Other freaks were reported to have taken place during the day, but th* y did not occur in the immediate pi esence of the reporter. Iu ;.ll these transactions no one was present upon whom any suspicion rested. No one seemed to understand anythiug of the mystery, all seemed entirely innoncent of any complicity in producing the demonstration. The agent that was at work iu arousing so great a sensation kept himself so out of that no cliip was likely to lead to his discovery. The manifestations were not confined to any special room of the house. Sometimes they in the kitchen, sometimes in the parliV, and si metimes the sleeping-rooms were the scenes of the commotion. A spec’al train came jp from Bruns-' wick, bringing about severity five per- j sons, all eager to hear and; see the sight; hut operations Were en- I tirely suspended during the time that this crowd remained. Mr. Sunency's lamiiv will all leave the house to day, and full possesion will be given to a couple of gent emen who have volunteered to remain there twenty-four hours, for the purpose of ferreting out. if possible, the secret of the mystery. While the mystery is a deep one, con- 1 founding the whole community and startling many of the people, the repor ter adheres to the luith that human ingenuity, in some way or other, is en- j gaged in mystifying the people. Many ; persons have been there and have wit-! ness the things that luve been occur-! ring almost every few minutes since Tuesday evening; yet no one has evol- ; veil any distinct theory in regard to what is goin on. The reporter is con fident that the who e thing will ulti mately be fully explained. The reportor returnes his thanks to Mr. Surrency and his interesting family for the kind and hospitable manner in which he was entertained on Sunday, and for their forbearance and patience in answering his many inquiries. of the Ghost Story. From passengers, conductors and of ficers oi the Macon and Brunswick Rail loud,'who arrived iu the uty last night, we learn that the house of Mr. Surrency was yesteiday the scene of greater if not more excitement, than ever. Curious people were arriving upon every train, each one bent upon solving the mystery, and all coming away more mystified than when they went. Mr. A. P, Surrency, the owner of the house and his family, are represent ed to be thoroughly worn out with the strange occurrence and tt e crowds floc/ritig to their formerly peaceful home. They know nothing of the incompre hensible mystery farther than has al ready been told—that their household furniture has been ruined or is every day being destroyed by an unseen pow er. Fiom Conductor H. Id- Sharps, of the Brunswick road, who came up this morning, we learn that on yesterday whilst six or eight men and women were sitting in the front or parlor room, a hog deliberately walked in at the door and without showing the slightest signs of trepidation, advanced to the center ol the roota. Every one remained mo tionless—conversation ceased—all eyes were turned upon the strange visitor. — The hog stood fora moment, then made a short circle it) the middle of the floor, and after doing so walked into an ad joining’room. Every one folk wed it.— Whilst some were in the room, some in the door but all intently watching what j it would do, it instantly vanished like a vnpor or an apparition, leaving its au- j dit nee stupified with horror, with no J one able to tell how it escaped. The windows were down and no means whatever open for escape. Among the numerous visitors yesterday ! was an old sea Captain by the name of Burns, who has been around the world three or four times and who was deter mined to unravel the mystery if possi ble, or at least some poition of it.— Getting into the house, he was told ol j the smoothing iron tricks and selecting 1 that as a particular object to watch, he sat down befote it. He watched the iron for a long time without seeirg it move, and getting dry he longed for a bottle of whisky which he knew Sir. Surrency had in an adjoining room ; no sooner had he thought ol this than the bottle fell at his side; he picked it up and helped himself, set it down and continued to eye the iron ; it did not move, but the bottle left as mysteri ously as it appeared. An Alabama paper publishes the fol lowing notice : ‘Married, at Flintstone, by the Rev. Mr. Winstone, Mr. Nehe raiah Sandstone and Miss Wilhemina Egglestone, both o( Limestone.’ TERMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE A Railk >ad Romko and His Tale (sy Woe. —The follow is not from Ohio. About one year ago a young man nam ed John Doe became acquainted with Mary Roe, and after a protracted court ship she did not say, no.’ Hewas a rail road man, and most of the time on the go, while she stayed at home to bake and sew. She was also eighteen, or a little below. A day was also set when they to church were to go, and John spent about two hundred dollars for new ‘clo’ —wedding cards, and such things, you know. It had been announced in a church that was neither ‘High’ nor ‘Low,’ that the ceremony would take place in the morning, shortly after the cock was heard to ciow. John called the evening before, dressed iu his best from top to toe, and handing his bride the w edd.ng cards, smiled as if every thing was in statu, quo. He had only left the bouse but a few moments when a chap named “Joe,” an old lover of Miss Mary Roe, called and upbraided the latter tor going back, on hi » so, and pleaded his case in a voice so eloquent and low, that the other chap’s cake soon turned to dough, and the tickle Roe, ana the old lover “Joe’, to a one-horse justice of the peace did go, who married folks for a dollor or so, and in less than half an hour they were ou their way to Chicago The next morning the infuriated Doe was seen hurrying towards the depot, waviug a butcherknife to and fro, and when his coat-tail lifted so as to show, a brace of revolvers in his hip pockets below, those who saw him said that “Joe,” and the fickle Roe, had better lay remarkably low, for a few years or se.— Titusville Press. Misterious Affair. —The Sanders vilt Herald has arepoit of a mysterious affair, from a correspondent in Mount Vernon. A man by the name of John ! Smith, and anothei by the name of John Brown, both hailing from South Caro lina, had arrived there aod applied for employment. They went to work, hut Brown soon got tired and got 18-. loafing around. They quarreferfpinu Brown threatened the life of Smith. Smitfi".jrelated the tact to someone, when he was asked why Brown threat ened his life. Smith said Brow i was a rascal, and wanted to kill him for fear lie Would divulge his rascality. They met in the street, when Brown reques ted Smith to go down a hill a little dis tance with him. They went, but had hardly been there a minute when the report of a pistol was heard. People rushed to the spot and found Brown badly wounded- Smith escaped. Brown said Smith was named Willis, an escap eovuict from Grant, Alexander & Cos., aod. strange to say, Smith acknowled ged to parties that he was an escaped convict, ami his name was Willis. They were a brace of scamps that ha i gone to Mount Vernon to rob a gentleman named Mc.Millen, at whose house they stayed, but found him such a clever man they hadn’t the heart to do it, and left the place. kg [reculator! ii This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to contain a single p.uticU of Murcu y, or any injuri ous mineral substance, hut is l*ni‘el.y Vegetable. For forty years it has proved its great « alue m all diseases of \he liver, bowels and kidneys. Thou sands of the good and great in all parts of the country vouch for its wonderful and peculiar power iu puri-* lying the blood, s iinulatiug the torpid liver and bow el-, and imparting new life and Vigor to the whole system. 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