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VOLUME n-NUMBER 52.
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fIJUSW GAUDS
R-W. H. NEAL
'Attorney ot Ctnn,
THOMSON GA.
Office.—in Court-House Building.
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Middle Cireuu*.
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Wi’l practire in all the Conrn of the Northern,
Aageat* A Middle Circuit*.
Stntrai |)otel,
SIRS. W. SI. THOMAS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Beplltf
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“1 -rat pnlilished, anew edition
VI I CtiWerwell’n Celebrated
WnWllII rJ I way on the radical cure
■H/ I vithout me iieine) of Spcr
tatorrhcea or Seminal Weak
new,, ......,u .a.-_, Seminal Losaeß, Importencj,
Mental and Phyaieel, Incapacity, lmptnlimonta to
Marriage, etc. altto, Conanmntion, Kpilepay and
Kitar induced by self indulgence or sexual extrav
agance.
Price, in It ceded envelope, only 6 cents
The celebrated author, in this admirable essay,
clearly demonstrates from a thirty years' success
ful practice, that the alarming consequences of
self-abuse may be radically cured without the
dangerous use of internal medicine or the appli
cation of the knife: pointing ont a mode of cure
at once simple, certain and effectual, by means of
whieh every sufferer, no matter what his condition
may be. may cure flimsely cheaply, privately, and
rfflScally.
This Lecture should be in the hands of every
Touth and every man in the land.
Sent, under seal, in a plain envelope, to any
address, postpaid on receipt of aix cents, or two
post stamps j
Also, Dr. CnlvorwoH’s ‘‘Marriage Guide,” price j
50 cents,
Address the Publishers,
CHAU 4.r. ki.ivf.
127 Bowery. New Y rk p. st tilli e Box 4 5H6
J. M- bar f i ldT
TAILOR.
Thom won, Georgia.
I AM permanently located it, Thom
son, and ant prepared to cut and
mak« 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 s*cre.
aovlStbtf J. M.BARFIELD.
THE OLD POPULAR
BURKE HOUSE
Corner of Broad and ttl t;i« i t litt tt.
August i, Georgia*
Has Re-opened for Public putr* isge
on the J st instant, by
J. F. KIEUISIJRR,
whose long experience enables him to
guarantee satisfaction to all who favor
him with their patronage. The Cen
tral Location and Moderate Charges
(which are less than regular hotel
charges), of the
33 JiRTSIF TTO US ,
are advautag -a to visitors to the city
that are worthy of their consideration.
■oY27m"
COLUfUBU INSTITUTE,
TB»».TI*O\, GEORGIA.
The Spring Term, 1873, of this
school, begins on Monday, January 6th,
and closes July 13th.
J. W. SHANK, Teacher in charge.
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thev have named and will be known as GERMAN
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used l»v the 1 ading phxsicim'' of other coun tUe
wi'h w nWerfu remedial resu'ts.
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re ief—lndigestion, fl.itnl-ncy and d>Bp»psia with
pil s »ndkiudr*d oiae*ses are sur« to Icllow thir
uee.
K ep the b ood pur* and health is aesur- and.
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sole Agent fer th* United Sk;*?.
Trice, Ob'! Dc , l*r par P-.pl*. c at 1 forCircul.r,
THOMSON, McDOFFIECOJNrr.OI., JAN OAST 22, 1873.
W.B. Shank.
AT THE BOS AS TOBE.
No. 1, Main Street, Thomson, Ga-
A (Splendid Assortment
OF
ussim & mm hiss
GOODS, 1
including shirts, drawers, handkerchiefs, Ac.—
Boots and shoes, of all sizes and qnalitios.
Ready Made Clothing
in abundance, Kentucky Jeans
a large stock of Hats and caps, Umbrellas
from SI.OO to $3.00, Gents’ oollars of the
latest styles, Gents’ socks from $1.25
to $6.00 per dozen.
Casßimeres from 75 eta. to $1.75.
For the Ladies he hss
Prints of »1] kinds and prices, from 7 ct«.
to 12} ets. per yard.
Whit», ootton hose from 10 cts. to GO ots.
Ribbed hose from 15 cts. to 30 ets.
Colored woollen hoes.
Ladies' merino vests.
Ties in great variety, from 40 cts. to 75. cts.
Ladies’ linen sets, from 75 cts. to sl.lO.
Toilet sets plain and fancy.
Fringed toilets, 50 cts.
Nottingham laces for curtains 30 cts.
I. .dies’ black vests, fiom 75 cts. to $1.50.’
Hamburg edging 30 cts.
Lace edging of all widths and all priees.
All kinds of Indies’ veila
Lidies' kid gloves, one and two buttons.
Ladies’ dress buttons, of all c010r.,, from 15 cts. to
40 cents per dozen.
Ladies' sleeves from 50 cts. to 75 cts.
I.ADIEV d»i;m GOO UK
Consisting of Alpacas, Mohairs, Poplins, Suitings,
Ac., a very large assortment.
Japanise silks at 60 eta., Velvet trimmings, all
widths.
Roval velveteen, silk finish, at SI.OO per yard.
Shawls from $2.50 to SIC.OO
Handkerchiefs from 50cts to $4 per dozen.
Toilet qnilts, from $3.50 to $6.00.
Quilts from $1.50 to S3OO.
fjomctfif tftootb.
Pleached cottons, |, ] and 1 yard wide.
Sheetings 42 and 45 inces wide.
Sheetings 9 quarters and 10 quarters wide, at 40 cts
and 45 cts per yard.
Brown oottons | to lyard wide.
Brown cottons 9 quarters and 10 quarters wide at
35 cts. and 10 cts. per yard.
The best bed-ticking at 35 cts. per yard,
Good feather ticking at 30 ots. per yard.
Matrass ticking from 15 cts. to 20 cts. per yard.
Note and Letter Paper.
Initial paper, a fine article, st 30cts. per box.
Letter paper at 25 cts. per quire.
A large and well assorted stock to suit the mar
ket, too numerous to mention.
W Call on SHANK.
Home Shuttle Sewing Machine.
THIS UNEQUALED MACHINE
uses a Rtraiuht needle, Mokes the “Lock
Stitch.” (alike on both side-), has a Self-
Adjusting Tension.
It will hem, fell, bind, cord braid,
earn, tuck, ruffle, hemstitch, gather,
ad sew on at the same time, and will
vrork equally well on silk, linen, wool
en, and cotton goods.
WITH *ILK, IJNBN OR COTTON THREAD.
W. B. B*l INK, AGENT.
Miscellaneous.
BOUND TO M.ktiUY
T’ai-livnliii-n of thu Strangest
Ilomlcida on Ht.e rib
Dubiqok, lowa, January B.—The
particulars of the homicide at. (Jedar
City, on Monday, as far as elicited a;e
as follows: About two months ago
Bvion ITrighf, a young man, ‘22 years
old. of Waterloo, lowa, was engaged to
teach so oel at C -darCity. Before eom
mencing school he was called on by u
young woman named Elmyra Stickley,
who asked him to board at her mother’*
house, which he agreed to do, and did.
After boarding there a short time
Mrs. Stickley began to talk to him
about marrying her daughter Elmy r«, t >
which he paid little attention, as he
' as not particularly impressed with
the surroundings. Mrs. Stickley re
turnv I frequently to the subject, but
no serious trouble resulted until after
the holiday vacation, whi n the place
became disagreeable to him, and he de
termined to seek another place. Mrs.
Stickley was informed by Wright of the
contemplated change, and threatened
to shoot him.
The girl on one occasion told him
while at breakfast, that she bad a no
tion to come in his room and blow his
brains out. Wright thought bir little
of these remarks, however, ami so mat
ters stood. On last Monday morning
Weight found his breakfast not ready,
and went and opened the school with
out it. At recess he returned for some
coffee, and while seated at the table the
young woman. Elmyra Stieklev, came
bel ind him and stood at the back of his
chair. He had just notified them of
his intent ion t,» leave on that
day. when the girl imrned ately drew a
revolver and fired, the ball striking the
hack of his head and passing round to
his forehead, where it lodged.
Wright arose to his feet and sank to
the floor. He arose again on I started
for the door, where R chard George, a
a man working for the Stickl-ys, push
ed him back. Wright exclaimed : ’Let
me oof; I am sm><t|>ering. and must
have air!’ George refused to lot him
out. Wright then turned to he win
dow. in which there was a broken glass
arid endeavored to pull some things
out to get his hand through the open
ing.
White engaged in this the hi r ed man
fired at h m, the ball striking him near
the left temple and lodging on the op
posite side. The old woman remarked
before the second shot was fi-ed, ‘lt
serves \on right, you l.ad no business
to make love to the girl.’ This impu
t.ation was promptly and emphatically
denied by Wright. After this Wrigit
succeeded in getting out of the house,
hut fell several times. He finally dis
covered one of th“ school boys, who us
sisted him into a neighboring house,
and medical aid was at o ce procured.
The authorities at C dar Fills were
notified in a short t me, an the Stick
leys and the man w re put under arrest,
and are now awHitiog the final result
ot their develi<h work before the exam
ination is held. Intensp excitement pre
vailed in the neighborhood where the
affair occurred, and threats ol lynching
were made, but better counsels pre
vail-d. The Stickley fan ilvare repre
seated as quarrelsome, disagreeable
people.and report >ays the daughter is
enciente; hence her great desire to get
a husband. The hired man is also mix
ed up in the girl’s affairs, but to what
extent I am unable to learn.
As far iis Wright is concerned, he
generally i* exonerated from all blame,
either in making love to the girl or hav
ing any criminal intimacy with fier
Ttiis morning If right is sti'l alive and
conscious, but the physicians give ne
hope of his recovery. Neither of the
balls have been extracted, for the rea
son that the wounda are considered fa
tal. hi and tlieic would he nothing gained
in taking them out. Tne murderers are
now confined in Waterloo jail to await
examination, which, owing to the pre
vailing excitement, has not yet taken
place.
I>oarl Heads.
w« cordially endorse tH9 follow.ng from the
Kome Commercial: “A newspaper man who pauses
the showman at the door without the formality of
banding him a ticket, is knowu all over the world
as a ‘dead heal.' A more foolish idea never pre
vailed. Newapaper men generally pay dearer for
their privileges than any other class of men. We
men ion a single instance in: point. On yesterday
the Commercial gave to Harry atkins tronpe
thirty dollars and twenty oeuts worth of local no
tioes—at our regular rates— for whioh we charged
them nothing. We were not under obligation to
give them a line outaide of their regular advertise
ment. We believe Mr Watkins did furnish this
office with three or four tioaste, whjoh at their reg
ular rate, would have amounted to less than one
seventh of what he receive 1. And thie is not the
only way in which the newipaper man pays dearly
for hi* ‘whistle.' They do more dead-heading than
any -ia** of men living.”
The Georgia Press.
Tim Georgia Press Association,
wiiich recently convened in Atlanta,
closed its labors on the 15th iuat.v alter
adopting the following Resolution :
/iesol ved, That the practice of solic
iting county advertising from comuy of
ficers, who are. ut the time, under an
nual contract or agreement with a par
ticular aper is exceeding the rule* of
legitimate competiti on, and tfiat the < f
feriug to do such a Ivertisiug at re luc
ed rates or to pay u per centnge or bo
nus to such oliice or officers as induce
menr to change his or their official jour
nal, is disreputable ami should subject
tlie offender to expulsion under article
VIII of the Constitution.
.Resolved, That the acceptance,
knowingly, of county advertising with
out advance payment from a county of
ficer who i*martearß with his former
publisher, is unjust, unprofessional, and
dishonorable, and that any member so
offending shall be expelled, published,
mid stricKen from the exchange hat of
the Association-
Resolved, That any member who
shall accept -uch advertising, in ignor
ance of such offic-r’s arrears, aud who
shall refuse or fail to discontinue the
same, on proof of the fact, by the publi
cation ot eu ;h officer as a defaulter,
shall bes .bject to like punishment.
Re olved, 7’hat the rates for legal
adverti.-ing agreed upon by this Asso
oia'ion. on the 9.h ol May, 187*J, in sec
tion 3 uf‘a bill to be entitled an act to
regulate the mode, manner and prices of
publishing the legal advertisements of
the several counties of ti is State,’ are
fair an I just, and that bidding below
said rates to ohtaiu patronage engageil
by another paper, is to all intents and
purposes ‘i uderbidding,’ and should be
c assed with tue ciime of ‘ratting.’
Resolved, That we urge wiui deep
earnest ess every publisher of this As
sneiation, and the entire press of ttie
State, to adhere strictly to the system
of advance payments on all subscrip
tions to theii papers, and so advise their
patrons from week to week.
Resolved, That any member of the
Georgia Tress Association wlu shall
hereafter in-ert advertisements, or enter
into contract *ith any advertising agen
cy, or any otner parties, to insert ad
vertisments for less the minimum
rates printed in our schedule of prices,
shall be expelle . from the Association
and dro| ped from the list of exchanges.
R s lived, hat any O' wspaper in
Georgia, whether a member of this As
socialion or not, violating the foregoing
resolution, shall be struck from the
mailhnoks of cVery member of the Asso
ciation. and that each member be re
quested to pu lish the above resolution
as often us praeticable.
Usi\Q the Weed —A writer telfs a
story ol two well-known southern clergy
m< n, one of whom un fertook to rebuke
the other for using the weed.
‘Brother G,’ he exclaimed, witho it
asking any question, ‘is it possible that
you chew tobacco f
‘I must confess I do,' the other quie
tly replied.
‘Then I would quit it sir.” the old
gentleman energetically continued- Tt
is a very unclericul practice, and I must
say a very uncleanly one Tobacco/
YVliv. sir, even a hog Would not chew it/’
•Father C,’ responded his amused lis
tener, ‘do you chew tobacco V
•1/ o, sir!’ he answered gruffly,
with much indignation
•Then pray, wuich is the mostli4ea
h ig. you m ( f'
As .4gkd Culp .k Imprisoned fob
Incest. —lMackof intention to lo wrong
has anything to do with making persons
innocent who commit crime, au aged
coii| !e now in the State Penitentiary
at Fort Madison, la., are as innocent us
if they were blessed babes. T i ecr ma
of which they were convicted and for
which thev were sentenced was incest,
which came about in this man er: A
bov and girl lived at their fathers house
in childhood, but when tne former be
came twelve years old he est home to
seek his fortune, an I never returned.
He marred, had children, and his wife
died. M antime his sister had married
and gone West, where her husband
died. She received an offer of mairiage
from a wealthy w dower with children
and accepted it. O.ie of her new bus
band’s so s happened one day to b •
looking over his step mo'hers family
1 record and discovered that she was his
father’s sister as well us wife, and so, us
his father refused to give him the bulk
of his property, the noble minded youth
brought suit on the charge of ncest, and
the innooent people, now over sixty
' years of age, w ere sentenced to prison
for one vear.
TEEMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE.
Tho rtloliCMt Boy tu Amorlon
-A MaarnUicent Inhoritanei .
Everybody has heard of the lats dfiSl
win A.Stevens, of Hoboken. His father,
Go!. John Stevens, invested near
liia wealth in Hoboken lands, and awn
became the possessor of the vast tract
that stretches from the Eiyauus Fd«Ue
to a point beyond the line of the tefth
inus of the Morris and Eeaex Road, end
from the river to Palisade*. From a
small village the tract became a town,
and from a town to a city; and lota |hat
were purchased by tiie Colonel for T*ae
than one dollar each, were soon wpith
fiv- hundred times that amount,
Colonel did Dot retire upon hit
lure Is. He projected the Camden and
Amboy aud iVew Jersey railroads, and
lived to s*e both in a fair way to com
pletion’ His hnad and fortune Were visi*
hie itr every improvement, and hitgifc
ius and disposition descend- and to ftfs son,
the late Edwin A. Stevens. Tne fiiC
ter was the principal manager of ifie
Camden and Anrboy Huilroad. and he
applied steam, then comparatively *c
it' infancy, to all the various uaea and
projects which had emanated from ISi*
busy brain. Forty two years ajp> Rl
war<t A. Stevens was regard'd at the
most active business man in the United
States, and. making due allowidite for
»ge, be preserved his reputation up to
within two or three years of his denth.
The great iron battery, which was the
last embodiment of hia genios, waa the
forerunner of our monitors.
Edwin A. Steven* left two son*. The
eldest is called after hirasel!. He is a
bright I. and of seventeen, unaffected in
his manners. The mother, who isotill
a young woman, reside* with her «hil
d-en in the ‘castle ’ above the banks of
the Hud on, n.-ar thehaart of Hoboken.
The boy doe* not seem to rhalixe that
he is heir to an estate worth $4,000.-
000, and that in four yeatb more he
will probably be the richest man in the
world.
ITuen tie reaches his majority, the
interest, un hi* fortune will amount to a
larger sum than the salary of *ny
crowned hea l in Europe (t would be
really difficult-to oo:nputc Jb*--
Stevens establishment will be Worth
in live years more A large number of
la sea ol valuable houses and lots, now
held at no mnal rents, will then revert
to young Stevens, and he will be the
sole possessor or bond* and other secu
rities which are now Valued at $4,000,-
000. .Should he live to the age of hi*
father, and be as lucky in his Venture,
hia wealth will be greater than Roths
c iilda The lad, however, seem* to be
unconscious of hi* destiny- Hs m>y
he seen daily playing on tha lawn in
front of the re tie where bis father pass
ed hi* msturer life-
Tux Ante rican Hotel Clerk.—A
hotel e'erk is the embodiment and con- r
centration of dignity. If their wealth
is to be judged by their dignity, they
must be possessed of several millions
apiece. Perhaps you are not aware
what I atn driving at. Just go and ask
one of these lodging house potentates
of the whereabouts of some friend of
yours who may be an inmate of the
house- Providing you are a Major Gen
eral or a Congressman you may receive
a satisfactory answer* If you are a
Biigudier you may get a vague aoe—
If a Colonel, it may be necessary to wait
three or four minutes- If a civillian
but words tail to convey as idea of the
manner fn which civllliant are crushed
and subjugated when they propound
their enquiries* Not that they are rude.
Oh. no! But there is a majesty, a lofti
ness, an exaltation, a consciousness of
power in their words, looks and gestures
which reduces the euquirer in bis o#r
estimation to the last verge of inferior! v<
Christians who are always too strong to
humble and abase themselves, whose
besetting atn is pride, just come down
here ami take a dose or t woof hotel clerk.
Whenever I feel that I need taking down
a peg or two. I have a never-failing
remedy- I merely step into one of
o ir first class hotels and ask, “Is Afr-
S iiith stopping here ?” snd the great
in in. after the necessary delay* lifts his
eyes, and I teel that lam a worm and
when, lie speaks I deem myself a China
man.
Fan him with your boots' is said by
those familiar with the subject to be
the latest thing in slang
Why does a freight car need.no loco
motive ? Because the freight ma&e#
the cargo-
Korn- n-Semoe is what a Troy to
bacconist culls the big Indian in front
of his store-