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VOLUME n— NUMBER 49.
Site |sc|)nffic §onral,
18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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THOMSON. C3-A.,
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BY
MRK. n. ill. THO.IIAS
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
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W. H. HOWARD. C. H. HOWARD. W. 11. HOWARD, JR.
IV 11. Howard & Sdiis,
WAiiiiiii % triitimi aiMiiiK
No. 2 Warren Block,
Agusta, Georgia.
c«*m mission frr Selling cotton tine 110 Inr pet*
bah*. m»ict personal attention given to batmen
t-nti iiKied.
AM orders strictly o*v ycd. Liberal Ca>h Advan
ces made on Cos too.
Special at'eulion paid to Welg’iin i of Cotton.
Magging ana furnistic • at Loa-.st Market
Price#. B‘pll f
M l I L I i\ K II V V
MRS. WORRILL would respect*
fully ca’l the attention of the
Ladies of Thomson an I vicinity to her
well selected
STOCK OF mtiIJICRV
and white goods. Also a line assort
ment of
LADIES’ BOOTS
Ladies’ Hats made in in the latest
style. Old Hats ret rimed at the lowest
prices. Call and examine. oct lGrriti
Thomas Richards & Son,
Booliscilcrs, Stationers
AND
Dealers in Fancy Goods,
263 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.,
Established 1837.
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TAILOR.
AM permanently mealed in Thom-
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make to order suits on the most reason
able terms, and in the very latest styles
and fashions. An experience of thirty
years in the business satisfies me that I
can guarantee satisfaction in every in
stance.
Call and see me, next door above
J. H. Stockton’s store.
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oon *i« p »ny iuiuri.
«.ua m« n<*v,l R.d<etanei’, **m
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For lort* yeara the pr.iw.i no grrai »-(*iue •« all
d*e»~*a of vie live . b..weln a*»d knb.eys. Thou
. md- ot ii«e «o<hl ana great :• ail p«rt« of ih* ««*uotr;’
vurcli t**r i a *on terfu| aud p culiar pow**r in pnri
lying iha Hlo«al. h imu «i<ii( the torpidbvvrand U«a
--• 1 , and iuipr.niog n**w Ine fetid Vigor so tb*» wholt*
pyi* # t*n». Simm Live Regulatoi i» ackuuwiedg-d
to have it.* eqn-%1 n*'. ft
t LIVER MEDICINE,
It contain* four mode itl -Iritienm, nrve< u üb-d in
in me eftiiir hippy pi.qe.n ou iu any <» h* r p*epftra
lion, vis •• a K e...1,-C- h .rt <•, « •and-.fol Ti.dat.
an m***x«t‘pi«oi* .M«» I'ifraiive u?iii a oo'-.eot
ivr *»i all inipMiit of me b dy. '•ncli oignal mic
c«*»« tin aPvudrd iis use lhal i is m. w revar l«*l a*
i ho
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lowii: Con. ip.riHii, J.imSee, HI.
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Sp<r t«. Bour Si«» m ,ch, 'Lari Burn. Ac, \c.
llognUt** th Liv r and p,ew-.,l
CHILLS ANO FtVcR. SIMMONS’ LIVER
REGULATOR
!h mauut.»« tur-«* cti'y by
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Price $1 03 par p.M-k ; a-ul U ’ IHall, p.nßftS**
P«id. Prepared ready l.*r use iu buiilrt,
_ "SOLO BY AIL DRUGGISTS
” ware tfad Counterfeit*and luiiiaiioas.
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ene, »-x»i pit-and mil .I*l/ <l*atrovft'l p» i»aii
<l K »«Im UiiO-4 |n f»|- P,l ml mu I will r*ff o idly <1 H
l*e! h 1 pr,-.li p »a.i , M ni ious and r*u t e went.
la th. r»* waut I c ohi <u y • r Liver A Spleen 1
Uni rs-l»* ve<l the Ulnu*! be«*mii>*a <mpu e hv
<lfDiii«»<i** B<*cre icu t urn lueiug *-c dttlmia or km
p, k'olttllr*, |idoj , cuslalv , c uker, pim
l H. , Ac.
II ive *■ u a Dy rp ic S «*mnc*i / U Dm di ;<■?-
ii L p •»**« .|'y iI <i tl<- x mi- .'ol-ii.ai and w.h
poverty i»f i‘t«» 11-ml. Di"p* C4l l« udeu«*y. g -«e»«l
and H**»r i *
llivm you »v#iku of »h« /.♦♦••tior ,? Fo-i r
in and mg-r of Chrouii; |> urrh u a or 1 fl tmiuattaii of
t s • itoffr’-fl
llnv- yen we«koe*a . f fh.* Ui* lue « r Or,
jr *ii«! Y •»» a**«xt>used iu in iti m 0..:
a'itf.nrated f • m.
Are ymi d»*j*rjt •#*. dreway, dn'l, i*r il**.
p e i€«l in s «'» *. w» h heit 1 hC *e f hack achr, coul
»-d »•* *nd bid tniins m *h h ?
F«»r ft «**»rf in r-m-dy fur all of these and
«•*»!*kn*-a»*.i a »and »or c eaumi* and purit.-
ing ih<* vs luted ♦«•*»/» i and imjrir.mg v jfnr to alt Ihr
vital so e»* ; fur s»i lng up «ul 'wao.iug the
Wfftkoned C »u-f *U i**i| IT-#
JURUHEOA
which if* proiinutic • I by ih l**a 'inf n»ed cal au««*ri
iioa nf l.md ».i nod Pud* ‘*i|»m wi«».i pnw fdlm ic
ad fttfera i/- knuwa in the m died wu-ld.” I’miu
i l * no e# nnd u ri**-l il xjo*-ry hit l*:i be-H long
ia<l h v the I adin t p*, ait*' u* ( if o'he- coun rit*s
with w -n.l-rfu' retiiedbil im uitg.
Ih.n'i w-uken an I iuqirir the dis «tiVf* orfana h*
oathur i.-•% ai I I'hy rc'*, **u'y letup irgry
relvf— |..rti<rr-iio i t fl juVnoy a»d d>a,r-|-sia with
p'* j Hnd kindred i?sa«» scs are suro lo It llow thir
u^e.
K ep t *• b ond pur® ar. l heabh is asmiri*.
JOHN Q. KEMJW/G. IHFlati M . N. Y.
.>ole Agon fur th- Ui.ited Sta ea.
Pri« e, One DoHar per Bottle. Sml f >»ua
Imjiorlnut fliolico.
TO
HDTcLs, BUDin mm
AND PRIVATE FAMILIES
rIIE Undenognoil are now Prepirol to Supply
Hotels, Boarding Houses, and Private Fami
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Choicest Beef,
Veal, Mutton, Lamb,
Pork, Spare Itibs,
Pork San sage,
Boasting Pigs,
Gama, Etc.
IN ANY QUANTITY DK'IRED.
All our Meats are warranted Fresh, and of
the Best Kind.
OUR CORNED BEEF,
Put up by oua Mr Lawbesce, is superior to any
from New York Fultoa Market.
CB~ Also, wo keep a First-Class
Family Grrocery,
wel Istocked with all kinds of Family Supplies
inclu ling Canned Fruits, Fish, Meats, Pickles,
Jellies, Etc.
O' Send your Orders or Baskets to us, and
we will fill them and ship by earliest train direct,
at the Lowest Market Prices.
We will, also, fill any order from customers
for articles that are not in onr line—such as Fish,
Oysters, Vegetables, Bakers’ Brea-1, etc.
Wo are confident of giving satisfaetion and
ask only a trial.
LAWRENCE & RIGSBY,
114 Broad Street,
And stull lO Lower Market
Augusta. Ga.
misttUanronj?.
Bel ore the Flood.
Antediluvian life had its advanta.’ea :
there is no denying that. With an ex
istence of nine hundred and sixty and
nine year* before him, a man could do
much. He could be his own “oldest
inhabitant." and “never remember nny
thinif” of a Shakspeare, he could cele
brate liia own tricentenary, he could
look back with ’■ ride upon at least two
hundred Constitutional .rises, and nine
liundrt and successive seasons which
brou”htt he green pea of the spring
and the fre-h oyster of the fall. In
those blissful ages, when time was teck
oned by months instead of hours, and
men set their eight-year clocks by the
sixty-tbrec years con efs, a fellmv could
il lazily inclined, lie in bed till Septem
ber, or to on a tea year’s drunk. \Vher
lie went out to make a Iriendly enll.be
could say to the family : “I »m just go
ins to drop into Methusaleh’s lorn
couple of years, don’t wait dinner fi r
me.” or, adilressin.; his toddling infant
of eighty, Ins might give him permission
to go out and play till l>9 », but insist
on his coming borne then, so ns not to
keep bis fond parents sittinir up for
him. Li!e assurance would lie cheap
under such a system, and the rate ol in -
tereat when a man gives notes at. six
hundred years, renewable lor three hun
dred more, must necessarily have been
propot I innately low.
The peculiarities of pre-Xonchic ex
istenee would ha»’e been made must
strikingly manifest had three or four ol
these old sinners paddled their own
canoes through the Hood, survived, in
creased nad multiplied.
“So,” wouid observe a hide old man
of nine hundred to his compiniun. n
jolly midille-atfed septicentinuti.io,
••they are at it again, pratinif about re
form* and amendmenti ami constitu
tionality, to us who remember the Hep
tarchy. Allred died the year I w>*«
horn. but. I remember William as wcliC
iis il it was yesterday. I was only a
child then. Well well, Bill was a
good fellow. Once"—
"Yes,” might here interrupt a beard
less youth of lour hundred and eighty,
•‘mV uncle often told me that*’—
“.imall boys,” would interpose the
see' >r, in tones ol dignified rebuke,
“must be seen, not heard. It' you can
not keep still wtiile your elders are
speaking, Elem, my son, the nurse
must put you to bed. Well, as I was
saying"—
“True, true,” here would interrupt
Lantech, “an wlrti; st;obb : diness it is
Ibr folks to talk of their lung disccnt
and Norm .in or Knickerbocker ances
tors. We remember all tint, don’t
we ? IfVII, well, everybody had ances
tors then, only they can't all trace
them.*’
“Parvenu*, Lamech, pavenns. all cd
them. Talk ot your old families to me,
whose great giami fathei remembers
Admit, ff'e have seen it tiling or two
iu our century. (loufound this rliema
ti-.u ; i caught cold sitting in a draft
a Boat the end of the fifteenth century,
atnl every hundred years ot so I have a
twitch of it.”
“That was about the time Christo
pher Columbus sailed to discover Amer
ica.”
“The same year. Poor Chris! I
knew him well. You knew Smith ?”
“KirSiy 1”
No: John. The f llow that Poca
h mtus got struck with. But you were
only u boy at that time.” And so these
old fogies would prattle on. It is. per
haps just as well that Noah hoi no
spate state rooms in ttie ArA, as a survi
ving antediluvian would have been as
a Ily in precious ointment. A man sit
ting at your table whose memory went
back to thirteen hundred odd—who
commenced his anecdotes bv moraliz
ing : “It was jus; seven hundred years
ago, io-day, when I”—who bad dandled
ttie founder of an aristocratic family on
Ii is knee ii 171*2, and distinctly recalled
the autnor ol another noble line iu the
junk business— with a ich a man ut large
society would be unsafe.
The manners and cu loins of that age
wouid peculiarly impress us. Fancy a
blushing and awkward girl of 290, in
paritlcts. listening lo the avowal of a
promising young lawyer of 4"0. or a
clever young sophomore of 37-5, or un
antediluvian “old family.” Into
insignificance would sliri :k the purpled
cen.uries of Nassau, Hupsburg, Guelph
or Bourbon / And as for antediluvian
Susan B. Anthony, the mind recoils at
the thought «3 of something entirely
beyond conception.
The revival of these happy days has,;
however, not yet come. It is the error, j
not the lault, of many truly great and
good men and women that they discount
the fiilur •, and are abused for laboring
under what appears to the vulgar and
unsentimental a hallucination. To
play the antediluvian under a post dilu
vian dispensation is nous use. It would
be well, lor p.*w-holder and p'eacher,
reader and writer, could a'l remember
that tlieie has been a flo-d, ami the
duration ol human life is dwindled to a
span.
A Camici.'s Kkvknor.— A lad about
fourteen years of age bad conducted a
large camel, laden with wood, from one
village to another, at half a ■ hour’s
distance or so. A* the animal loitered
or turned out o' the way. its conductor
stiiick it repeatedly and harder than it
seems to have thought lie had a right
to do. But not finding the occasion
favorable tor taking iuiin *diate quits’ it
“bud i its time;" nor was that time long
coming. Aft vv days Inter the lad had
to reconduat the beast, but unladen,
to bis own village. When they were
about, ball way on the road, and at
some distance from any habitation, the
camel suddenly stopped, looked delib
erately round in every direction to as
sure himself that no one was within
sight, jind, finding the road, far and
near, clear ol passers-by, made a step
forward, seized the unlucky boy's head
iu his monstrous mouth, and lifting him
up in tile air, filing him down again on
iheenrth, with the upper part if his
skull completely torn off, and his bruins
scattered on the ground. Having thus
satisfied its revenge the brute quietly
resumed its pace toward the vi.lage,
as though nothing were the matter,
till some men who li.-i I observed the
whole, though unfortunately at too
great, a distance to be able to afford
timely help, came up and killed it.
Slkkp.— Rev. Mr. Dali, the Unitarian
missionary at, Calcutta, in describing
the way of life iu summer, with the
thermometer at It) > ilegrees in the day
rime, and So and S3 degrees iu the
i • fit, siys that wakefulness is the ex
eeption, and drowsing the rule. The
poor, old or vc i.ig, who brings you »
note train bis‘master’ (a word iu which
Asiatic revenge delights), no sooner
delivers it. than he Dings himself oil
his link at full lengih, and is sound
asleep in thr»e-quur . rs of a minute ; so
t' .it i' is bard to arouse him il you are
live minutes [ enning your reply. The
idian faculty of literally falling as!cep
n ed to make me untile ; but I have got
tried to it. I now expect to see Bengali
.e.itlem n asleep in tliu.r carriages, on
their wry to office: and the less wealthy
as a .Y. itter ol course adeep in their
palankeens, which, by the way, aie
never called palankeens here, but pa 1 -
keys. When the rnj Jis, etc., see Eng
lish people and (icing at Government
House, they ink in wonder, ‘Why not
make your servants do this?’ Eternal
sleep is the bli is of God ; ‘never be born
again !’ i ; H'ndoo.sm, is Buddhism, is
A-i mUm. is the oriental as contrasted
with our idea of religion. You see it
in all normal Asiatic life.
Sam Bice’s Explanation. —Sam
Rice, of Alabama, is well-known as a
ready and witty man, though somewhat
erratic. Here is the last good story
told upon him, and it is very cliaiacter
istic :
About the commencement of the war
lie •nude a speech in North Alabama iu
which lie said that the S mt'iern soldiers
could whip tlie Y nkees with poo-guns.
Since the war he chanced to make an
oHier speech at the same place. A big
double jointed fellow was present who
beard ami remembered the former
speech, and being in no amiable frame
ot m ml concluded to go for Sim. Boll
ing < p bis sleeves and poping bis fist
in the palm of his hand he propounded
the tearful question :
••Sain Rice, didn't you make a speech
here in fSO2 V”
‘ I did.” said Sam.
“And didn’t you say that we could
whip the Yankees with pop-guns ?”
“Ceitainly I did, but the and and ras
cals wouldn’t fight us that w .y /”
The smallpox is said to be raging fear
filly among the negro population of
Washington, and is beginning to take a
ve r y ominous ami threatening form
among the crowded populations ot the
northern cities geneialiy.
To cool a room, wet a cloth of any
size, the larger the bette*, and suspend
it then in. Let the ventilation be good,
and the temperature will sink from ten
to twenty degrees ia a short time.
TERMS-TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE
rriiAT tfi•• Reason Was.— A band
of rustic worthies were seated round
the tavern fire, one winter’s evening,
consisting of the blacksmith, the bar
ber, tt e constable an I the shoolmaster.
After they bad smoked and drank to
their heart's content, as well as exhaust
ed all the ordinary topics of conversa
tion, the pedagogue proposed anew
kind of game, in which each one was
to propose a qu stion, and whoever pro
posed one that he h mself could not
solve, was to pay the reckoning for all.
Dick Dolt, whom ev. ry o e though a
fool, was picked out for the first ques
tion.
“Neighbors." said Dick, drawing out
his words, and looking ineffably stupid,
“you have seen the squirrels dig their
holes; can any of you tell why they
don’t throw any dirt ?”
That was a poser, ami after a long
cogitation, even the schoolmaster was
obliged to give it up. It devolved ou
Dick to explain.
“The reason is,'' said he, “that they
begin at the bottom of the hole.”
“Stop—stop!"cried the schoolmas
ter, surprised out of all prudence by so
monstrous an assertion ; “pray, how
does the squirrel get there.” “Ah !”
answered Dick, “that's- a question o*
your own proposing. You’re, in for the
drinks, master.”
Literary Pov i.-ty.—The all night
walks of Dr. Johnson and Richard Sav
age iu the streets of London from want
of a place to lay their hpads find not
•infrequent paralelis in New York.—
There ere hundreds of men of good lite
rary abilities. who are often pressed for
the means of getting a supper and a bed
in this city.
It is well known that men of the most
creditable scholastic attainments—men
who know Greek, Latin and other
tongues besides their mother tongue—
may be found in that city who are glad
of an opportunity to write advertise
ments lor patent medicine proprietors
and shopkeepers. The men who make
literature “pay" are the rare exception.
One of the most prosperous writers now
on the press was three years ago so
“hard up” that he went without food
for forty eight hours, too proud to ask
for help, and too empty-pocketed to
h ive the mean i for purchasing a meal.
This is not fiction but fact. During
the pre ent year this gentlemen has
helped a score of people ill distress from
his full pockets.
In Philadelphia, one pleasent Satur
day evening, an old lady, whose failing
eyes demanded an unusally large pray
er book, staried for church a little ear
ly. Stopping on the way to call on a
friend, she laid her prayer-book on the
center table. When the bells began to
chime she snatched what she supposed
to be her prayer book and started for
church. Her seat was at the chancel
end of the gallery. The organ ceased
playing. The minister said.—
“ The Lord is in His Holy Temple,
let all the earth keep silent before Him.”
In her eiiort to open her supposed
prayer-book she started the spring of
the music-box she had taken instead.—
It begin to play. In her consternation
she put it on the floor. It would not
stop : she put it on the seat; it sounded
louder than ever. Finally she carried
it out while it played the “Washing
Day,’’ an Irish jig tune.
An Old Lady. —There is living in
Kanawha ecunty, West Virginia, Mrs.
Rachael Stanley, who was born in Bed
ford county. Va., 1774. She has a
grand daughter silty-six years old, and
lias 14 children, rrntv-nine grandchil
dren and two hundred and twenty three
£«eat-gruiid-children. The Charleston
Courier says: “IFithin that period of
9S years the Revolution came, Corn
wall s surrendered, IFusliington and
fourteen other Presidents presided and
and ed, Napoleon began and ended his
military career, Byron came into the
world, startled it and died. And yet,
here is old Aunt Rachael, perched upon
the summit of a Kelley’s creek moun*
tain, in her old urm chair; like Ten
nyson's eagle, ringed with the azured
world she sits, and breathes that pure
upper air as if she intended to live right
on in defiance of rime.”
A young man who went West from
Danbury, Connecticut, a few months
ago, has sent only one letter home. It
came on Friday. It said : “Send me
a wig.” And his fond parents don’t
know whether he is scalped or married.
I wish you were my own dove,
And sitting on my knee:
I’d kiss your smiling lips' love,
To all e-ter-ni tee.