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The KcDufiio Journal. A Real Liv» Country Paper. Published Every Wednesday Morning, by Wlii PAO it COMBS. Terras of Subscription. Pne copy, one year $2.00 One oopy. six months LOO Ten copies, in aluba, one yc#r ; each.... 1 SO Single copi es ts. frW All subscriptions invarihlv in advance BUSINESS CARDS. | R. W. H . SEAL, ATTORNEY AT L A !V r , ! AND NOTARY mtlC, THOMSON, CtA. ~\\J ILL practice in tin; Courts of j YY Me Pnffie and adjoining Counties. C-rCoxTSIASCINfI a specialty. H. C. RONEY, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, THOMSON. GA. t'-;T Will practice in the Augusta. North era and Middle Circuits. nolyl ~ PAUL 0, HUDSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Thomson, On. Will practice in the Superior C ourts of * the AmjUiifca, Northern and Middle Circuits, and in tlio Supremo Court, and Nrill give , attention to all cases in Bankruptcy. Ang. 2.% 1*74. ts Central lintel MRS. W. M. THOMAS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA senlltf A1 Aad v at home. Agents wanted, r’j'i ] {f On Wit and terms free. TST'E &■ CO.. Augusta, Maine. I teA3XK'» grSAaBOIIEBa. I BMlbli 6KARIW6MAIIE I zmmzzM&Eßm ifTif.'S PULLEYS AND H/)kSEK> LED .TA3.IEFFEL BOVBLEJ mmMaMmssm POOLS & HUNT, K3E33&PB3S OEND 2.7 c. to G. P. ROWELL k CO., o Now York, for Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing lists of 3000 newspapers, and estimates showing cost of adveitising. PAYiLUai HOTEL, Charleston , S. C. (}. T. ALFORD it CO., Fates, per day Proprietors. I, S. & P. 0. TANTS’ M3 at House, Augusta, Ga. Fine CAROLINA. TENNKS3E and KEN TUCKY 33 ES U3 U* . Fork, Lamb, Veal. Mutton. 1 Tog-head Cheese, Sausage. Mixed, or ALL PORK, as ordered, Corned Reef. Porn, and longues. A full stock always on hand. A CARD. I AM frequently askod by my friends if I am doing a general practice, or only at tending inch calls as may be made in good weather or convenient to my office. In answer to the above. I would say to my former patrons and friends, that from this date I will enter upon the active duties ol my profession looking in part to those who may ask my services for my reward. Office on Main Street, in Holzendorfs House. May 10-ts. IAS- S. JOKES. LAND FOR SALE. {OFFER for sale on very reasonable terms a farm lying within one mile of Thomson, containing one hundred acres, one-half in woodland. Good dwelling house of live rooms, and all necessary out buildings, flood fences and good water. Good orchard. This is one of the most productive and conveniently situated places in the country. For terms apply in person or by letter to J. T. WEIGHT, Aug. 10-ts. Thomson, Ga. JOHN LEILAS, TAYLOR, RETURNS his thanks to the people of , Thomson and vicinity for the liberal encouragement and patronage heretofore received" and notifies them that he will he in Thomson one-half of each month (every other week) and will be pleased to see all in need of work in his line. He can be found at the store of A. I. Adkins. f!2, 1876-ts. TOWN PROPERTY' For Sale. I OFFER for sale, on terms suitable to the times, a lot in Thomson, on Lumpkin street, containing one acre. This lot is en closed with a good new fence, has a well of excellent water, a good barn, stable, buggy house, acd cow-stall. I will also sell with the same a lot of excellent seasoned lum ber, containing over 23.000 feet now' on the premises, sawed according to bill furnished by a contractor for a dwelling similar to the residence of J. E White. Also I.">,000 shingles on the lot. This lot is in one of the most desirable localities in town. P VT. C. HTHISON, Julv. •-N.tr ibo’oso" .pxSwJfk tkkeliln Jfowpl. VOL. VI. C. A. ROWLAND. AY. DANIEL. \ DANIEL Sc ROWLAND, COTTON P'ACTOBSj —AND— Ooiinnissioii 31 erchsi i CORNER JACKSON AND REYNOLDS STREETS, An * CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED- BAGGING, TIES AND FAMILY SUPPLIES JUR-; NISHED. Forest City Foundry and lac Mae Works, CJ-tEO* 11. Lombaui) «fc Co.* NO. 170, FENWICK STREET, NEAR THE WATER TOAVEfi, AUGUSTA, - - GEORGIA. Manufacturers ami dealers in PORTABLE it STATIONARY STEAM F.NGINI S AND BOILERS. CRTSTMTTIS AIILL ROCKS SAA\ r MILLS. AVATEIt AVHLELS. “SoiSSK BSS&, *=.. GINNING ENGINES, 1 Which we can sell at the following low figures The first column under dimensions imli- ! cates capacity and price of 4 Moras Power and the latter ti Horse 1 ower : Diameter of Cylinder, j Length of ! Stroke. Balance Wheel. Diameter. Face. 4 | r "21 I ** I 2«0 |2l |lO | 10 128 1 2 48 j 1«00 1 **» r, Ir, I 21 I r.J I 200 I 27 \22 i 24 138 I 2 48— 22A) , NO CAST IRON BOILERS i AVith our Eugines, but they are made of the bent Hotter Troll, (brought Iron,) with, lup welded boiler tubes. THESE ENGINES WILL LAST As long as any Engine with the same cavo necessary to the successful operation jfl Steam Engums || our works. CsUwialt them or writ*4«rasiiculars. H| Ct? All kinds of repairing promptly and neatly executed at low prices. • The GRAHAM GTN GEAR, the lightest running gear out. Lend for (lrcular. El7-U I < f 1 3* | <yg 'WTI KM! iIJSu V .IV 1 salutes the good and true people of McD iffie, and invites them when they, come to Augusta to call at his • First-Glass Shoe siouse, ! where they can find a stock inferior to none in the Southern States. The terrible hard i times now prevailing all over our country are keenly felt by all, and lie assures his cus ; toiners who buy for | O & IT , hat lie will sell them lower than at another period since the war, and be strictly responst i tie lor everyarticle that leaves his store. He believes in FE B B TnAl* B 9 and employs No Drummers, TK 33 OIST JB PRICE SYSTEM, and strictly FA IR I >EAI J.N O is the rule of the House. Don’t fail to call and buy your shoes at ,121-ts CENTRAL HOTEL BLOCK, AUGUSTA, GA JOSEPH I, PALMER, Auctioneer, ABGBSTA AUCTIOS t COMMISSOH STORE, Ir<<> Broad Street, nVUOTTS’X’A, G A. i Central location. First Class Accommodation for all kinds of Merchandise. Consign rnents handled with Dispatch. Prompt Returns made. Consign ments of Country Produce Respectfully Solicited. AND CASH ADVANCES MADE. FURNITURE AND ALL KINDS OF MERCHANDISE ATLOAVEST PRICES. REFERS TO | AV. E JACKSON, President First National Bank of Augusta, Ga. ! M. P. STOVALL. Cotton Factor, Augusta, Ga. | GEORGE P. BUTLER, Cashier Georgia Railroad and Banking Cos., Augusta, Ga. JOSEPH S. BEAN, Ja., Treasurer Augusta Savings Bank, Augusta, Ga. | Col. S. K. JOHNSON, General Superintendent Georgia Railroad, Cls-f*. 8. AX. PE B KIN 8, Lumber Yard and Steam Pinning Mills, CALHOUN BTRETT, below Central R. R. Depot, AUgTIStU Gel MANLFACTCBEK AND DEALER IN YELLOW PINE LUMBER, SAAVED SHINGLES AND LATHS, DRESSED AND MATCHED FLOORING A CEILING A SPECIALTY. ijiTA lar-m Stock always on hand. All orders filled carefully and with dispatch. ■1 -f 1 I | Fire Box Tubes Revolutions per minute. Diameter of Boiler. | Number. 1 Diameter. ! Length. i Diameter. I Height. THOMSON, G-A. SEPTEMBER 13. 1876. POETICAL. THE OLD SCHOOL BOOK. On tlio old school book, in its dusky nook, | AVith a tearful eye I gaze: Comedown, old friend, and an hour we’ll spend In falsing of by-gone days. I gaze once more, as in the days of yore, On the task that vexed the bruin ; The lesson doue, and victory won, And I feel I’m a child again. And I seem to stand in the youthful baud. In the old house on the green; I hear the fun ere the a-dool be -u 1, And I join in the gUwfcuu..- sic. I take my place, with ft sod,a- fv. ; i l ed 1 the well-carved desk 1 bend, And hourly pour o’er*the learned loro Os thy wonderful yana, old friend. Our cares were few and our friends were true, And our griefs were vara and light; And the world was nought (as we loudly thought) But a region of pure delignt. j >ut time has sped, and our path has 10l Through the dark and tearful scene ; And passed away, like the good and gay. Like the old house on the green. But we’ll sing no more of the days of yore, ! For the tear-drop dims the eye ; Sleep on old book, in thy dusty nm k, As in years that have glided h. No guilt we trace in thy honest face, But a mine of gold within Enriched the youth, as they sought for j truth, hi (lie old house on the green. A HE ROM' VGA It was when Win. C. Connor, the pop- I ular SherkrUwviis iry of Protection j Engine Company 5, and the Volunteer j Fire Department of New York city w u : in full force and in ad its glory that tin* subjoined incident, enough in compass upon which to build a romance, tranu pi red. It is not necessary to mention with particularity tlionuijjßfcpfUie street, , .isfldj - rU , CQBgJ On this occasion, HaVei shot suddenly upward, mid every one knew that the fire was on the East side of the town, and was certainly below Market street. It was, in fact, in Madi son street, in a four-story tenement house. The flames had gained considerable headway before the engines could get at their fitful work—-they were worked by hand then—and it was with no little difficulty that the inmates succeeded, losing their furniture, in escaping un scathed. But as the flames leaped with great, forked tongues from window to window and from floor to floor, it began at first to be whisper'd, ana then with loud cries asserted, that a little girl, between four and five years old, was asleep in a back room on the upper story. The mother of the child rushed fran tically toward the burning building, and in a vain effort, for such it would have been for her, to have thoughtlessly and recklessly entered it. One of ‘ho assistant engineers, how ever, stopped her. He even gemtiy pushed her back, finally placing her in the care of a policeman, and at the same time informing her that if it wore hu manly possible her little one should be rescued from the flames. AVliile ho spoke—not howover, believ ing his own words, for he thought no one could reach it—ladders were hur riedly placed against the front of the structure, aUfidMW*- wTanRH-ved up them in order to drive back the forked flames from the chamber in which, if not al ready smothered by the smoke, the child might be. While this work was being accom plished, a bright-eyed, haudsome-lookiug and resolute boy of about fourteen years, broke through the cordon, and running to the engineer said: “I can save the little girl. Her name is Lottie AVilso -, sir. I know which way to go and how do it. She’ll be burnt up or smothered before they can get water on the fourth floor. Just tell some of the men to play on the stairs and I’ll be all right. It’s the only way, sir.” “But, boy,” hurriedly returned the engineer, “don’t you see the stairs are already on fire.” “Play on them the%j) shouted the boy • as he ran forward. In another second—hardly shipping to elude failing bricks and pieces of burned and broken timbers that cam..- from the doors, windows and roof of tin; house— he was beyond human succor so far as could be given by those who saw him disappear. Amt now a great hush fell upon the vast assemblage. Many had actually seen—all had heard of the brave boy—and there were people who murmured : “God: save him I Who is he?” 1 Weight lbs. Price. And now the assistant engineer, in a j >ud voice, instructed the men who had, I ithe pipes to play directly upon the stairs j md, if possible, for a minute or two, j sonqner the flames that were leaping ; toward them, ecorchiug and eating into j them. Tlio excitement, though subdued, was j terrible —fearfully intense. Every one was on the lookout, ami now and again some person, whose nerves I were overwrought, would cry: “There! There he is.” But the ach'>ig multitude of men and 1 women, whose eyes never left the en trance to the fated house, knew better. They not only watched, but hoped ; and pra’-e 1. Ev.fi! the voice of the unhappy mother was hushed with expectation. All this while, momenta seemed hours, the firemen played in the direction of the stairs; and notwithstanding, the I flames n era steadily making headway. Aud the brave boy. What of him ? It was soon ascertained that lie was a ! “printer’s devil,” and that his name ivas ] Julius Franklin. That was sufficient just then for the j terribly excited throng of lookers-on. And Franklin ! His subsequent story j was nearly as follows : “When I got upon the lower stairs I j found that the flames were all around 1 me ; but that the steps wore yet strong i enough to bear mo upland that- if I hast- \ cued I might succeed in getting down j them with safety. “At the first lan ling a dense cloud of smoke swept down upon and nearly i choked me. There was no flarno in it, howover ; I immediatjly fell upon my | face and with my mouth to the hot ! boards I crawled to the next flight of j stairs. Up theso I succeeded in getting, j with much trouble. At the second land- j iug there was a window, this I burst j open and gasped for air. It was for a ] mouthful only that I struggled, when 1 Mul that I made another effort, and, nl -1 found tin! ever, line i touched mmind if just- ->i w kfßkj . -1 ■ft ssß?*?A, w , i , , ...... i -i Brongnt I wfis a loot, and had mado up j his mind to let mo perish in the flames 1 for my presumption. This made me ] feel awful, I toll you. But there was no j turning back; the little girl should ho j saved or I perish with her.” “When I made up my mind to this, I ! became as cool as a cucumber ; 1 had no j more fear, I rushed up the next flight, j and just as I was turning to mount the last oue a peice of rafter fell upon me. It was all aflame. It struck me on the head and then dropped on the floor. I knew, then that the cold water bad beou poured upon it. I kicked the stick out of the way, and the next minute I was at the door where I felt sure the child was, i I burst it open, and was, again struck in face by a dense volume of smoke. I felt as if the girl must have been smothered. “Just as I again crawled forward to find the bed whereon I had supposed the little one had been lying, I caught hold of a little foot, I drew it toward me, drew it and the body attached to it out on the landing. It was that of the child, Lottie Wiison. I was quite certaiu she was dead; buts took her in my arms and attempted the descent. Now, if the assistant engineer had not ordered the pipes to he turned on the stairs, I do believe it would have been better for us both—Lottie and I. “The water as it struck in great vol umes upon tlio stairs and iuto the pas sages, had the effect of driving the smoke toward us. “I had to stand on the upper landing, with the flames constantly and persist ently undermining me, until the clouds of smoke hud been driven past me. “When at l- st I saw my way down the terrible passage, I involuntarily offered a prayer for safety. At almost every step the flames would start up, and once or twice, as I descended, the steps broke in two, because they were nearly burnt apart by tlio licking, eating fire. It seemed an eleruity to me before I finally reached tlio last stairway. It was tromb- j ling and would presently fall ! That I i saw at a glance. Then, after so much, j was I to perish where I stood, with Lot- I tie Wilson’s body in my arms? “Suddenly there was a crash. “I looked to see the stair fall—for ! when they went, I thought my doom was j forever sealed. I was becoming, I felt, exhausted. “Bat there was something else gave way at that moment. “The upper part of a tall ladder was driven through a window within a foot j of where I was standing ; and then, just as I felt my consciousness going from me, 1 heard in a hoarse voice the single word. “Saved !” “Then there was a great roar, and, I knew nothing more, except that I thought I was falling into a deep dark pit. “They told me a week later, ’ contin ued Franklin, “at the hospital that I had been seen with little Lottie standing at the hea l of the stairs, and that i here wok only one way—js the stair,.- wciv NO. 37 sucsimbi ig to the lia:n:s, and would | pres ntly fall—to sire *n >, ai 1 that was i by putting up a la.Uer, ail a fireman I rushing up it and soiling and bodily ! lifting me out of the b id ling, which it j also was thought about to fall, and which ; did tumble down a minute or two later. I “Then that must hav.» bee 1 the roar I j heard. It sounded like the breaking of the tide upon the shore at Sandy Hook.” “Oh, no,” I was answered; “It was the mighty and delight ■ l cheer of the. people who were relieve 1 of their terri- j ble excitement when they saw you and 1 the reseaed girl. Why, Frankliu Jyou | are fclie hero of the day J” “Well 1 asked, desirous of turning the roar ir.tatiou from myself, “is the little girl dead ?” “So indeed,” was the answer of my frien 1 ; “slso’s as sound and lively as a crick 4. She is here to thauk you for saving her.” “A sweet-faced child, with a pretty mouth and dark blue eyei and auburn hair, here approached my pallet, and putting her lipa to min •, gave me a hearty kiss. “I love you ever r.o nine she said in her little, artier • way. “And wlmt am lin this pla o for?'’ I continued. “Why, yon had your sk ill art deal,’ ’ was the answer, “and the do lines ,v aider how it was done, and how you managed to retain consciousness un I>r it. for any time. They think it must have been caused by the falling of ab*i n, as the bones were crushed in quite Sat-like 1” “Thon I recalled tin: au iida.it w'liih happen 'd to me on the third story, when I felt the strange s. nsation of water lin ing thrown suddenly over mo, producing so peculiar n shook. In a m ufcii I vis discharged, convalescent, but it was a year i> tore the soreness really got ua: of my poor head.” “Well, years have com;: a i 1 gone sin : 1 then, I learned my trade of printer, while Lottie Wilsou grow into a* beauti ful young woman; and an.v, wli.it do you j think?’ cauiv^rruess,i|fc|UriMM|Ma^^^ “See’s Mrs; truest, sweetest wife an t mother in all this world.” A Subterranean Lake, At the Dickinson place, oil Bullard creek | near six mile .station, is a ten acre field : which is nothing more n >•: less than a | subterranean lake covered with soil about ! eighteen inches deep. Oo tiic soil is ' cultivated a field of corn which will pro duce thirty or forty bushels to the acre. If any one will take the trouble to uig a hole the depth of a spade handle, they will find it to till with water, and by using a hook and line fish four or five inches long can be caught. These fish are different from others in not having either scales or eyes, and are perch-like in shape. The ground is a black marl, alluvial in its nature, and in all probabil ity at one time it was an open body of water, on which has accumulated veget j able matter which has been increased ! from time to time until 1 now it has a crust sufficiently strong and rich to pro duce fine corn, though it has to be cul tivated by hand, as it is not strong enough to bear the weight of a horse. While nooning, the fiild hands catch great strings of delicite fish by merely punching a hole through to the water. A person raising on lii3 heel and coming down suddeunly can see the growing corn shako all around him. Any one having the strength to drive a rail through this crust will dud on releasing it that it wid disappear entirely. The whole section of country surrounding this field gives evidence of marshiness and the least shower of rain produces an abundance of mud. But the question conics up ; has n >t this body of water an outlet ? Although brackish the water tastes as if fresh, and we have no doubt but that it is anything else than stag nant. Yet these fi ill aio eyeless and scaleless similar to those found in caves. , It is a subject for study and we would j like to have some of our “profound” citizens inves’igate it.— Montgomery (A a.) U illeiin, A Boy’s Compaction on Hens.—Hens is curious animals. They don’t have no nose, nor no teeth, nor no ears. They swaller tliier wittles whole cud chaw it up in thier crops inside of ’em. The out side of liens is generally put inter pil lars and made inter featlior dusters. The inside of a hen is sometimes filled up with marbles and shirt buttons and sich. A hen is very much smaller than a good many other animals but they’ll di~ up more tomato plants than anything that ain't a lieu.—Hens is very useful to lay eggs for plum pudding. Bet yer life I like plum pudding. Skinny B ites eat so much plum pudding once that it set him inter the collery. Hens has got wings and can fir when they are scarf,. I cut my uncle William’s hen’s neck off with a hatchet it scart her to death. Hens sometimes makes very fine spi-ng chickens.” A cow was found last week standing ' stiff in a pasture in Maine. had been struck 'v lightning and killed, but < not i brown to the ground. r" ' . iKin*; , Jnv squurM. lirwr insertion i |.*ft ! Enoii sul‘sequent insertion.. ! One square three j One square six inontJiH.,.'..!..*’* » r , oq ; One .square twelve month?.,,. -Jt> uq ! Quarter column twelve months.....' 4U iflJ Half column six months nq ; Half column twelve months .75 Oa .' column twelve mouths {‘2.-, Teu linos or less considered a square All fractious of squares are counted as fait There’s Walking Ahead of Youj Thomas. The most amusing incident of tbo con troversy between Vauce and Settle, iu Ashville, was Vance’s “walking” auec-. dote. Governor Vance told the story of an old man who gave his sou a flue hone. The young man went off to some large gath - ring aud kept swapping. He swapped five times and came home with a lame, one-eyed, poor, sway-backeef old horse. Vance imitates the old man hob bling out on his crutches and examining tiie horse. He examined his teeth, then his eyes, ect., and nfter Home reflection lie looks over his spectacles aud says,’ “John, my son, there’s walking ahead' of you yet ?” . Vauce then told how his competitG. 1 Judge Bottle, had been swapping posi tions. “±'ir«t,” said lie, “inv competitor was Judge on the Supreme Court Bench.' He swapped that place off to become Minister to Pe-rengli (as Leacli would’ ’ call it). He then got tired of that place,' ! aud swapped his Peruvian Ministry for j his old place ou the Supreme Court I Bench. ” “Gentlemen,” said Vance, “he has' actually been foolish enough to resign his place on the Supreme Court Bench a second time to beat uie for Govern >r— me!” (Great laughter. )Tlieu turning to' Judge Settle—" There’s walking ahead of you, Thomas!” A gentleman present ays the inimitable way iu which Vauce said this created so much merriment that it was tea minutes before he could pro ceed. Mystery of Dreams. It is related that a man fell asleep as the clock tolled the first stroke of twelve. He awakened ero the echo of the twelfth stroke had died away, having iu the in terval dreamed that he had committed the crime, was detected after live years, tried and condemned; the shock of find ing the halter about his neck aroused him to consciousness, when he discover ed that all these events had happened in an infinitesimal fragment of time. Mo hammed, wishing to illustrate the won ders of sleep, told how a certain man, buiug a sheik, found himself, for his pride, made a poor fisherman ; that he lived us one for fifty years, bringing up a family and working hard; and liow, upon waking up from his long dream, so short a time had he been asleep that the narrow necked gourd bottle filled with water, which lie kuew lie overturned ns he fell asleep, had not time iu which to empty itself. How fast the soul trav els when the body is asleep! Often when we awake, we shrink from going back into the dull routine of a sordid ex istence, regretting the pleasanter life of dreamland. How is it that sometimes, when we go into n place, we fancy that we have seen it before ? Is it possible that when one has been asleep the soul has floated away, seen the place, aud lias that memory of it which so suprisea us ? In a word, how far dual is the life of man, liow far not ? To Fiud Out a Person’s Name. Let the person whose A b i> h <j name you wisli to know c c e i r tell you in which of the e p f j s upright columns the a a a k s first letter of his name t j i, l t is found. If it be found K K M n u iu but one column it is m x n n v the top letter; if it oc-o o o o w curs iu more than one q r t x y column it is found by s s v z x adding the alphabetical u v x x z numbers of the top let- w w w ters of these columns, y z and the sum will bo the number of the letter sought. By taking one letter at a time iu this way the whole number cau be ascertained. For example, take the word Jane. Jis found in the two col umns commencing with B and H, which are the second and eight letter down the alphabet ; the sum is ten, and the tenth letter down the alphabet is J, the letter sought. The next letter, A appears iu but one column where it stands at the top. Xis seen in the columns headed B, I) and H; these are the seoond, fourth and eighth letters of the alpha bet, which added gives the fourteenth or N, aud so on. The use of this table will excite no little curiosity among those unacquainted with the foregoing expla nation. An immense snake of the constrictor variety is committing ravages in Harden'* county, lowa. It has killed seven horses aud five cattle. Two hundred armed men have been searching for the reptilo ’ two days. One party came in sight aud 1 report that it is thirty feet long. Sau Francisco has a strong man who,, with 400 pounds on his back, 400 ou his breast, a 200 pound bar on his neck, and a ram oil each end of the bar, dancAs, • wearing shoes that weigh 75 pounds. A Frenchman iu h’rauElin county, Ohio, is iu his 125th year. He was mar-' ried in 1772, was once a prisoner of Ftlian Allen, fought for Scott at Lundy's 1 Lane, and has never voted. A Itochester man auU wile are each 7 feet lit inches in height, and weigh re-' ■pact. ,ul V ITJuU.I 41J pounds, ■