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HENKY J. LANG,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Lineolnton, Ga.
H. C. RONEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
THOMSON, GA.
*ST Will practice in the Augusta. North
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
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CANING CHAIRS AND GLAZING
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VOL, VI.
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(Successor* to W. C. Jessup,
k2-Lc*. AUGUSTA, GA.
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FIaYING recently returned from the
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Groceries, etc., of the first quality, I am
now prepared to offer to my patrons and
the trade generally, the following at lowest
prices, and of which hall make a special
ty, viz:
Sugar, Coffee, Bacon
Lard, Flour, Butter,
Cheese, Molasses, Syrup
Pickles and Canned
Goods, Brooms, Buckets
Etc.
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ever brought into this market, and which I
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Ac. Commission for selling Cotcon, 50c.
per bale : storage, 2.5 c. per bale.
18-f*
GUANO!
Guano, Guano, Gnano!
<• o t t o y o r t i o v /
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adjoining counties the
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for 1 per ton cash, freight added.
s-W' IM) per toil ou time, with CotUm option,
at Id cents per pound, with freight added.
TRY tiik kuukka,
and von will always use it. It is a standard
Fertilizer, our ojathc very best sold.
I’AUUti HUDSON, Acs’t. ,
uo-c*. Thomson, Ga.
Atlanta Millstone Manufactory
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Address,
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ATLANTA, Ga.
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.,
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AND ALL KINDS OF
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No 186 Broad Street, Augusta. Ga.
Will offer during the next ten days a
large stock of Blankets. Shawls, Cloaks,
Worsted Dress Goods, Calicoes, Jeans, and
Cassimeres, Flannels, Bed Tickings, Dom
estics. etc., at prices that will make it to
the interest of the readers of the Journal
to send an early order if in want of any
thing in that line.
Fine white red bound 10-4 Blankets, at
$8,50 worth $5.00.
i*. < /).*(•)/ A lit*;*, it $2 worth
$3.50.
Fine white ribbon bound 11-4 Blankets,
at $5.00 worth $7.50.
All wool red, white and blue Flannels,at
20 and 25c.
Two yard square, all wool Shawls, at
$2.00 and $2. .50.
Good Jeans for Pants, at 20 and 25c.
Good Mattress 'licking, at 10 and 12}c.
Ticking warranted te hold feathers, at 15,
20 and sc.
B*h» heavy unbleached Drilling, at 10c.
Best undressed bleached Homespun yard
wide, at 10 and 124 c.
Children’s knitted Socks, at 40, 50 «fc 7.5 c.
Splendid black Alpaca, at 30. 40, 45 A 50c.
Good Calicoes, at 7, 8 and io<j.
J wide, heavy unbleached Shirting, at(»;{e.,
and many other goods at temptingly low
prices.
J. <fc P. Ceats’ Best Six Cord Thread sold
to the trade at 074 c. doz., at
C. J. T. BALK,
136 Broad-Bt., near the Lower Market,
Augusta, Oa.
THOMSON, GA. FEBRUARY 16,1876,
POETICAL.
THE OLD SWEET SONG.
I remember a song whose numbers throug
As sweetly in memory's twilight hour
As the voice of the blessed in the Bealm of
Rest.
Or the sparkle of dew on a dreaming
flower.
Tis a simple air. but when others depart,
j Like an angel whisper, it clings to my heart.
I have wandered far under sun and star.
Heard the rippling music in every clime.
From the carol clear of the gondolier
To the wondrons peal of a sacred clime;
I havo drank in the tones which bright lips
let fall
To thirsting spirits in the bower and hall.
The anthems bland of the masters grand
Have borne me alnft on their sweeping
i And the thunder roll of the organ’s soul
Drowns not the murmur of fairy strings.
Or the shepherd's pipe, whose music thrills
With the breath of monU'fc eY tlio sleeping
hills
| But none remain like the simple strain
Which my mother sang to my childish ears,
As nightly and oft o’er my piilow soft
fthe gently hovered to soothe my fears.
I can see her now with her bright head bent
In the light which the taper so feebly lent.
I can see her now, with her fair pure brow,
And the dark locks pushed from her
temples clear,
And the liquid rays of her tender gaze
Made eloquent by a trembling tear,
As she watched the sleep that is sweet for all
Like rose leaves over mj spirit fall.
And the notes still throng of that old sweet
song,
Though silent the lips that breathed them
to me.
Like the climes so clear which mariners hear
From the sunken cities beneath the sea ;
And never, ah! never can they depart
While shines my being and beats my heart.
Tlmt song, that song, that old sweet song!
I gather it up like a gulden chain.
Link by link, when to J sink.
And link by link when 1 wake again:
I shall hear it, 1 know, when the last deep
rest
Shall fold me close to the earth’s dark breast.
host to Use World.
In (lip summer of the year 1815, or
thereabout, n wealthy merchant of Now
York took charge of a little boy who had
been loft an orphan. The parents of the
little boy bad been actors of some celeb
rity in the theaters of the United States ;
but dying within a short period of each
other, they left behind them, in a state
of the eompleteat destitution, the young
children. Thu eldest of these was called ■
Edgar. He wh • ad-aqilsome hoy about
o.\ i.-.u-s eJ age .'iJj » .pn.-k eye an,.'
gent comifen^^^^ > l^ iff
whom we speak«ad known Vhc parents
of the child ; and out oiEpity for its help
lessness he and his wife, who had been
blessed with no children, adopted it, as
their own.
How happily the ardent boy passed
his days in the house of his benefactor ;
how he was beloved by those two oh ldless
people ; how he became the favorite of a
large circle ; how iu the strength of their
groat affection, the merchant and his
wife brought him to England, so that 1
nothing might be wanted to make him a
gentleman in mind and person ; how ho
spent some four or five pleasant years
under the care and teaching of a reve
rend gentleman near London , bow he
came hack again to the city of his birth
to finish his education , and how he was
generally looked upon as the rich man’s
heir, it would take long to tell.
But we would linger on this portion of ■
our story ; fain dwell upon his precocious !
wit and aptness for learning ; fain make
much of his feats of strength and agility
—his ease and gruoe ou horseback, his
dexterity in fence and race and stream,
and his success in all that seemed to
promise for him a brilliant career. But
the truth must, he told, no matter how
unwilling the teller. He was sent to the
college of Charlottesville, amply provid
ed with money. In those days dissipa
tion among the students of colleges was
unhappily but too common ; and among
the most dissolute aud extravagant, the
wildest rufflers of the town, the hardest
drinkers and most daring gamblers,
there was ever to be found one more
wild aud demwrate than them all—and
that one was Edgar, now a good-looking,
free-hearted young fellow of eighteen.
Frieffils advised with him, aud he made
fair promises in plenty ; tutors remon
strated, aud he declared that ho would
amend and win the highest honors yet ;
companions tempted aud wine allured,
anil he embraced the filthy siren, aud so
fell. Instead of coming home from the
university with honors, he was summarily
expelled.
One would think that disgrace so pub
lic would have broken his proud spirit ;
but it did not. Because his benefactor
refused to pay the gambling debts be
contracted at college, the willful young
man wrote him a violent anil abusive
letter, quitted his house, aud soon after
ward left his country, with the avowed
intention of joining the Greeks, who
were at that time iu the midst of their
struggle with the Turks. He never
reached his destination, and nothing was
known or heard of him for more than a
year. At last, however, he was found,
and in circumstances which left no doubt
as to the manner in which his European
exj>erience had been bought. One morn
ing the American minister at St. Peters
burg was summoned to save a country
man of his own from the penalties
incurred through a drunken debauch.
He came in time to rescue the prodigal
Edgar from a prison, and through his
influence he was set at liberty and ena
bled to return to the United States.
The first to greet him on the lauding
was his old patron, the merchant, wh ■>
was dow alone in the World, for his wife
had died while Edgar was away. But
he took the wanderer to his arms and
led him back to the quiet home he had
quitted so ungraciously. The question
then arose as to what should be done for
the youth ; and on his expressing a wish
to become a soldier, interest was made
with the merchant's in the military acad
emy at New York. For a little time all
went on well ; the young cadet was as
siduous in his studies, became the favor
ite of the mess, and was looked upon by
the officers and professors as one of their
most promising But alas, alas!
the old habits of dissipation were too
strong to be given up all at once. He
neglected his duties ; he drauk to excess
lie disobeyed orders ; he openly sneered
at the regulations of the academy—and,
iu ten months from his matriculation,
lie was cashiered.
Disgraced and humiliated, where
could the wretched mau find refuge but
in the home of his adopted father. Thith
er, then, lie went, and was again received
with opeu arms. Dining Edgar’s stay
at the academy the merchant had mar
ried again to a la.ly some years younger
than himself. Time passed on ; but just
us the sun of happiness seemed about to
shine once more upon him a quarrel took
place between Edgar and the lady, which
severed forever all ties of friendship be
tween the merchant aud his protege,.
Another circumstance which scarcely fit
for mention here, throw a dark shade
upon the quarrel and an ugly shade upon
the character of Edgar. Whatever the
cause, however, the merchant anil his
adopted sou parted in auger, never to
meet again ; and when the former died,
the latter shared no portion of his wealth.
Again thrown upon the world by his
own misconduct, the young mau tried
his Laud in a field common to young
men, and wrote several poetical pieces
and articles iu the American magazines.
These were so well received that he was
almost tempted to believe that he could
obtain a living by literature. But his
old habits returning, he despaired of
success in his new avocation, and enlist
ed as a private soldier in the United
States army. Ho was soon recognized
by a former companion the Military
.ViMKlem;,'; and great, interest begun to he
felt £or him among the Officers. It was
proposed to buy a commission for the
talented and handsome young man : but
just as friends began to rally round him,
and just as their plans seemed about to i
prosper, he deserted.
In 1833 however, the proprietors of an j
American magazine offered two prizes
for the best poem and tale which should
he suitable to their pages. Numerous I
manuscripts were sent for competition,
and a day was appointed on which the
arbitrators should meet to judge of tin
merits of the various productions. Al
most the first manuscript that was open
ed claimed attention from the remarkable !
beauty anil distinctness of the handwrit
ing. Ouc of the abitrators read a page
or two and was charmed. He called the
attention of his friends to the tale, aud
they were so pleased with it that it was
road aloud from beginning to end, and l
all admitted that it was worthy of the
highest prize. The “confidential envoi- ,
op” was opened—a Latin motto was j
discovered. No other tales were read, ;
and the award was immediately publish
ed. But, where to find the author, that
the prize-money might be paid ? The
publishers and arbitrators had not to
wait long. On the evening the announce
ment, a young man came to the office to
claim the prize. He was pale and thin,
even to ghastliness, aud his whole ap
pearance bespoke dissipation, want and
illness. A well-worn coat, buttoned up
to the chin, concealed the want of a
shirt, aud imperfect, wretched boots
discovered the absence of stockings. But
he looked a geutlennm, nevertheless ; for
his face and hands, though haggard aud
attenuated, were clean and spotless ; his
hair was well arranged, his voice and
bearing were those of a scholar. The
publishers and arbitrators were interested
extremely. They inquired into his his
tory, and finally offered him employment
on the magazine for which the tale had
been written.
A little money judiciously applied
soon altered the appearauce of the young
man, and iu a short time he took his
post as second editor of a monthly mag
azine, with the means aud position of a
gentleman.
Nowhere was an opportunity of retriev
ing his lost character. Here were friends
ready not only to overlook the past, hut
to assist in making his future calm aud
free from care. Here was a public ready
to listen to his teachings, aud a patron
ready to reward his labors. For a little
while all went on well, and those who
knew him began to congratulate them
selves upon the happy change. Those
who before admired his genius were be
ginuiug to respect his integrity. Ho was
happy and successful iu his new avoca
tion. He married a young and beautiful
girl, his cousin ; he found for himself a
cottage, which the care, economy and
geutle tpmper of his wife converted into
a home, and lie was begiuuiug to be n
happy raau. It would tie well if our
story could end hero ; but, oh for human
frailty ! oh for good resolutions made
without prayer to God ! oh for principle
which he assists not ! the young husband
of that fair young wife fell back again
into evil courses, and forfeited the re*
spect of employers, and the sympathy of
friends, thi'ongli his devotion to the ac
cursed bottle !
It were a weary tale to tell how often
repented, and was forgivou ; how he
passed from the editorship of one maga
zine to that of another ; how lie went
from State to State and from city to city
a hard-working, aspiring, sanguine,
talented man, bearing about him the
curse of irresolution, never constant lint
to the “seductive and dangerous beset
lnent” of strong drink ; how friends ad
vised with him and publishers remon
strated ; how at one time he had so far
conquered his propensity as to call him
self, in a letter to a friend, “a model of
temperance and other virtues,” and how ,
at another, he forfeited the occupation
which was the sole dependence of his
little family by frequent relapses into
his old disgraceful habits ; how he com
mitted, under the excitement of intoxi
cation, faults and excess to which no
I gentleman would plead guilty ; how hr
borrowed money of liis friends without
toe means or intention of returning it;
now he forfeited the esteem, even while
his talents commanded the admiration
of the public; liov. 1 iie succeeded in
bri-giug many literary speculations into
life which his vicious habits and inatteu
hon to business murdered in their youth ;
how he became a confirmed drunkard,
with only now and then a fitful hour or
so in which to throw off on paper the
vagaries of a mind rich in learning and
imaginative fancies ; how his young wife
died broken-hearted, and how he became
so reduced as t® be able no longer lo
make an appearance among his friends ;
how his wife’s mother corn-taut to his
falling fortunes and ever anxious to con
ceal his vices, went with his MSB. from j
office to office, and from publisher t° j
publisher, in search of tile means to '
support him ; how for a little whilo ho j
shook off the lethargy of intoxication,
aud again appeared in the polite circles j
of New York ; how he was caressed, ami
feted, and congratulated ; how the efforts
of his pen were sought by rival publish
ers ; how he was engaged to be married
a second time to a beautiful young wo
man, and how the engagement was fin
ally broken off through his return to Ins
pernicious habits. It were a weary tale
indeed.
The melancholy story of this man’s life
was soon to close—the golden thread to
be rudely snapped asunder—aud by his
own hand. He had partly recovered
from his dangerous courses, and was
engaged in delivering lectures indifferent
towns in the United S ates. They were
well attended, anti it was with something
like renewed confidence that the well
wishers of the lecturer watched his con
duct, which was.now distinguished by
extreme sobriety. He even appeared to
have renewed his youth and strength;
and it was with pleasure that his friends
again received him into their houses. At
one of these he met with a lady with
whom he had been formerly acquainted.
Their friendship was renewed, and they
were engaged to be married. Everything
seemed to promise well ; the dawn of a
better day appeared ; aud reformation,
so long in coming, Seemed to have come
at last. Hut it was not to Ik*. On a
sunny afternoon in October, in the year
1849, Edgar set out for New York, to
fulfill a literary engagement, and prepare
for his marriage.
He arrived at Baltimore, where he
gave his luggage to a porter, with direc
tions foa him to convey it to the railway
station. In an hour he would set out for
Philadelphia. Well, ho would take a
giaSs before lie started—for refreshment's
sake, that was all. Oh, fatal hour! In
the tavern lie met with some old acquain
tances, who invited him to join with
them. In a moment all his good resolu
tions—borne, duty, bride, honor were
forgotten ; and, ere the night were set
in, lie was inastateof filthy intoxication.
Insanity ensued ; he was carried to a
public hospital ; and, on the night of
Sunday, the 7th of October, lie died a
raving madman, without a friend or a
child beside his pillow. He was only
thirty-eight years old when this last
dreadful scene of his life tragedy was
enacted.
Not a single circumstance here related,
not a solitary event here recorded, but
happened? to Edgar Allan Poe.
One Hundred Years Ago.
Some wise wag has summed up the
changes that have taken place during a
century, in this way :
One hundred years ago wedding tours
were not fashionable.
One hundred years ago farmers did
not out their legs off with mowing
machines.
One hundred years ago horses which
could trot a mile in 2:14 were somewhat
scarce.
One hundred years ago it took several
days ta procure a divorce and find a con
genial spirit.
One hundred years ago every young
man was not an applicant for a position
as a clerk or l>ook keeper.
Advertising lintes.
One square, first insertion $ 1 O 0
Hath subsequent insertion 7a
One square three mouths <. 10 (X)
One square aix months 15 00
One square twelve months 20 0(i
Quarter column twelve months 40 00
Half column six months 00 (jO
Half coin on twelve m0nth5..!....... 75 Op
On« column twelve months 125 00
Kir Ten lines or less considered a square
All fractious of squares are counted as fail
squares.
One hundred years ago kerosene lamps
diii not explode aiid assist women td
shuttle off this mortal coil.
| One hundred years ago men did not
j commit suicide by going up in balloons
| and coming down without them.
Oue hundred years ago there were no
| third term millionaire bishops to stir up
the waers of partisan politics!
One hundred years ago there were no
Arm Elizas suing the nineteenth part of
a divorce.
One hundred years ago England was
not very far behind the United States in
all that goes to make a nstiou powerful
ami progressive.
One hundred years ago the Dutch had
1 alien Holland, but they hail not made
France “come down” with a handsome
pile of “smart money.”
Oue hundred years ago a young wo
man did not lose taste by wetting her
hands in dish w ater or rubbing the skin
off her knuckles on a wash-board.
Oue hundred years ago a physician
who could not draw every form of disouso
from the system by tapping a large vein
in the arm was not much of a doctor.
Out hundred years ago men were uot
running abont over the couutry with
million ,of fish eggs to be hutched to
order. Fish superintend their own
hatching in those days.
One hundred years ago the condition
of the weather on the first of Jauuaiy
was not telegraphed all over the con:in
cut on the evening of December 31,
Things have changed.
One hundred years ago people did not
worry about rapid transit and cheap
transportation, but threw their grain
crops across the backs of their houses
and uncomplainingly “went to mill.”
One hundred years ago every man cut
his coat according to his cloth, evoiy
man was estimated at his real value,
shoddy was not known, nobody hud
struck “ile” aud true merit and honest
worth were the only grounds for promo
tion.
Masonry in Georgia.
NO. . ?
The first mention of Free Masonry in'
j Georgia in history was in Preston's
Illustrations in 1733. It said, “The his
tory of the society at this time affords
■ e-.v leinaikable instances of record
Some considerable donations were col
lected and among dis'ressod .
Masons,/,; ihfHOti ,&the settlement of &
new coy (lisigt been estab
lirii.-d }n." In 173.'),
Be Jester
Eng... o— n new’
Lodge * | Tx-y-rpj.-g.'Georgia The
Free Mas... 1 J. W 1805 snid : The
Grand Lodge-*..* Georgia is tiolden by
virtue of the right succession, legally
derived from the Most Noble and Most
Worshipful Thomas Thyue, Lord Vi: -
count Weymouth, Grand Master of
England, by his warrant, directed to the
Right Worshipful Roger Lacy, aud by
renewal of the said power by Sholto
Charles Douglass, Lord Aberdotir, Grand
Master of Scotland, for the years 1755
and 1758; and the Grand Master of
England for the years of 1757 and 1758,
as will ben seen by his warrant directed
to the Right Worshipful Gray Elliot.
December 18, 1786, a convention < £
the smaller lodges holden in the State
assembled at Savauuah, when the per
manent appointments, which had been
therefore made by the Grand Master of
England, were solemnly relinquished by
the Right Worshipful Samuel Elbert,
Grand Master, aud the ether officers of
the Grand Lodge. Wm. Stephens was
the first Graud Master ; aud Solomon's
Lodge, No. 1, at Savannah, is the oldest
Lodge in the State. The number of
Lodges iu the State of Georgia is now
nearly three hundred.
“Rock of Ages Cleft for Me.”
In the pleasant town of Devon, in ono
of its sequestered passes, with a few
cottages sprinkled over it, mused and
sang Augustus Toplndy. When a lad of
sixteen and on ajvisit to Ireland, he had
strolled into a baru in which au illiterate
layman was preaching—but preaching
reconciliation to God through the death
of his Sou. The homely sermon took
effect, aud from that moment the gospel
yielded all the powers of his brilliant
and active mind. During his last illness,
: Augustus Toplady seemed to lie in the
very vestibule of glory. To a friend’s
I inquiry, ho answered, with a sparkling
J eye : “0, my dear sir, I cannot tell the
: comforts I feel in my boul— they are past
| expression. The consolations of God
are so abundant that he leaves m# uot-h
--iug to pray for. My prayers arc all
converted into praise. I enjoy a heaven
already within my soul.” And within
au hour of dying, he called liis friends
ank asked if they could give him up ;
aud, when they replied in the affirmative,
tears o£ joy rail down his cheeks as ho
added. “Oh, what a blessing that you
are made willing to give me over to the
hands o£ my dear Redeemer and part
! with me ; for no mortal can live after
having seen the glories which God lias
1 manifested to my soul I” And thus died
j the writer of the beautiful hymn, “Rook
! of Ages cleft for Me.”
Amherst College cannot afford the ex
pease of n boat club, aud will give h»i'
entire support to base ball.