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PROFESSIONAL CAROS, ETC.
A. C. QUILL AIN,
Dent inf,
WILL be in Thomson from the Ist
till the 15th of each month. All
operations strictly First Class. Office
on Main street, first door scutb of A. B.
Thrasher’s residence. Private engage
ment* m the country promptly filled.
jan2!*-ly
PRICES 2 SUIT HA D TIM S
ri'HE UNDERSIGNED is better pre-
I pared than ever to make 800 TS
AND SHOES of all styles for Ladies
and Gentlemen, cheap for cash. I ket p
on band an assortment of the very best
material, and make Wedding and Party
Boot* and Shoos a specialty. I have re
cently learned anew process of prepar
ing soles from the best Baltimore Oak
and Slaughter Hemlock that make them
last much longer than t e old process.
Very thankful for past liberal patron
age. I solicit a continuance of the same.
All work warranted. (Jail and examino
etock and prices. Shop in back room of
T. N. Lewis’ store.
jau2i-ly W B. B. CASON.
J. 11. HARP,
Dealer in and Manufacturer all kinds
Tin & Sheet Iron Ware.
Aiso, Dealer in
CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE*
LAMPS and LAMP GOOD*. Gutter
fng and Roofing done at Lowest Rates.
The lowest prices guaranteed for every
thing. and I w ill not be undersold.
B*nd for Prioe List.
r NO. lU KhUD J3PB.I3T' -i
Opposite Mark waiter's Marble Works,
janl-ttm Augusta, Ga.
PAVILION Iffl,
Charleston, S. C.
G. T. ALFORD d* CO.,
Proprietors.
Hates. $2.00, <12..T0 ami <:S.O per day
JUSTICE’S COURT.
rpilE Justice's Court fur the BHth
1 District. G. M., (Thomson) will be
held ou the second Monday iu each
month. at the Court House. All eer
interested will govern thtmselvoa
according!v. All business intrusted to
mv care will be punctually attended to.
W. t . WORKILL,
feb U-.'ltn Justice of the Peace.
2 I si if CJuttiiitf
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UTEST AND MOST SCIENTIFIC
MANNER,
—BY—
E. D. AMONITTI,
on Ilmniiii Unit*,
(OrncE Undkb Central Hotel.)
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
niftrii-tf
NERVOUS DEBILITY
SEMINAL WEAKNESS, Lost Manhood,
Imnotency. Universal basitude. Enerva
tion of Mind and Body, and all diseases
that follow as a sequence of indiscretion
or excess, quickly and permanently
cured by Bate's Specific, prepared by a
physician, ands the result of years of
study aid practice iu treating these
special diseases, and sold at %'J per
package, three packages for #5. For
specific circular and full particulars, ad
dress Dr. BATE*. CO.. 201 dark St.,
Chicago, 111. feblO-’y
GIN GEARING,
Mm anil Bolts,
CHEAPER -HAN EVER
—AT THE—
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-AND-
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A ii<jiihl a . (ia.,
e-tf’Eugines, Cotton Screws, Mill
(tearing unJ Machinery of every kind
made mid repaired. raay23-a>
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feWly
Opium and Morptine Habit
\nd DRUNKENNESS absolutely and
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the worst case* of Drunkenness cured in
10 or 1.1 dayß. Send stamp for particu
lars to J S. CARLTON. MS 8. Clark
St.. Chicago. 111. feblit-ly
and Borvbil* hiiMtfvrM.
llrillm c*o*sr
SEEDS! SEEDS'.
GERMAN MTLLET, a very hand
some lot now on hand.
DENT GOLDEN CORN, for Field or
Garden crops—the earliest Corn to be
had.
Red Clover, Orchard Grass, Lucerne,
Red Top Timothy.
At J. H. ALEX ANDER’S Drug Store.
Augusta. Ga.
SMOKE CUBEBS
FOR ASTHMA. CATARRH. BRON
CHI-vL DIFFICULTIES, and all Throat
Diseases. Prepared Cubeb Berriee for
Smoking, at
J. H. ALEXANDER’S Drttg Store,
Augusta, Ga.
DOCTOR HUL-CEE.
HUIj-CEF/S Chill and Fever Cure.
HUL-CEE’S Bowel and Liver Medi
cine.
H t L-CEE’S D *-ase Eradicator
HUL-CIT S Excellent Cou-h Cut>
HUL-CEE s Pineapple Dyßpep-ui Co* -
dial.
HUL-CEE’S Beulah Cough (0i re f r
Children.)
HUL-CEE’S Superior T.iniiuent
HUL-CEE’S All-Healing Salve
For sMe, Wholesale ai.d lletail, at
J. 11. ALEXANDER’S L>rg Store,
Augusta. Ga.
POND’S EXTRACT.
Public approval is manifested by
largely increased sales of POND'S EX
TRACT OF WITCH HAZEL, the
GREAT PAIN KILLER of the Day.
A safe and convenient remedy for Burn .
Bruises, Ulcers, Boils. Soreness. Neu
ralgia. Toothache, Headache, EX I Ell-
NALLY or INTERNALLY, for ALL
INFLAMATIONS and for ALL HEMOR
RHAGES. Inflammatory Rheumatism
and Sore Throat. Bleeding of the Nose,
Gums, Lungs or Bowels. It is not a
patent medicine, but on y a genuiuc
EXTRACT of llaniamelis or Witch
Hazel, known and approved by PHY
SICIANS OF EVERY SCHOOL. Every
family should keep it in the House.
Nothing equal to it nothi.ig cheaper.
For sale at
J. H. ALEXANDER’S Drugstore,
1 ugusta, Ga.
BUY THE BESt7
Nathan Davis’ Cough Remedy.
Baker’s Cod Liver Oil and Lime.
Benson n Capcine Plasters.
Bradv’s Vaporizing Inhaler.
Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, Ac.
Scott's Palatable Castor Oil.
Keatings’ Cough Lozenges.
Allcock’s Porous Plasters.
Remedies well known and approved
iu every line. Information given in
every department of business,
At J. H. ALEXANDER’S Drug Store,
Augusta, Ga.
READ AGAIN.
I)UKANG’S Rheumatic Remedy.
HOLMAN’S Liver Pads.
MCCARTHY'S Asthma Remedy.
KNAPP’S Throat Cure.
WILBOR’S Cod Liver Oil aud Lime.
RAULEW’S Fiie Suppository.
TALLCOT n Magic Cure for Chill#
THRASH’S Consumptive Cur .
SALICYLIC A- for Rheumatism.
SALICYLINE Tooth Water aud Pm
der.
* ELEN’S Anti-Fat
DENNIS’ Georgia Saisaparilla.
Missisquoi Mineral Water.
Buffalo Lithia Water.
< ‘ongress Water, fresh arrival.
LITHONTKIPTIO-For the cure of
Stone and Gravel in Kidneys or Blad
der the prescription of Dr. Samuel H.
P. Lee, of New York.
AtJ. 11. ALEXANDER’S
I)KCG KTOHK,
niar2ti-*m AUGUSTA, GA.
m. I. O. Ml.
MOTTO OF
T.M.H.O.T.S.
.s upe it ion
Pianos & Organs
1H OF THE BEST MAKERS
The Most * (tractive Stock
South of Baltimore.
SSO to SIOO Saved!
FACTS AUD FIGURES,
With nutuerouK testimonials from Vir
ginia to Alabama, prove that the
iUGUSTI MUSIC HOUSE
—IS THE-
Music Saving Institution
OF THE SOUTH.
Purchasers will save money by visit
ing or corresponding with
G.O. Minson&Co.
Who sell the BEST PIANOS and OR
GANS at lower pricea than any houae
South.
LOW PRICES!
EASY TERMS!
QUICK SALES!
UOft Broad Street,
mar26-ly Augusta, Ga.
Bricks! Bricks!
Having purchased the weH known
Brick Yard of the late
IIIOMAS DIINSKGAN,
HAMBURG, S. C.,
I am now prepared to deliver any quan
tity of
First-Class Bricks.
The bricks made at this yard are of
THE BEST CLAY,
And known by contractors an the REST
IN THE MARKET. Address,
W. J. RUTHERFORD,
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
Feb.UMjn
THOMSON, GA, WEDNESDAY, MA.Y 14,1879
Congress hua Appropriated $5,000
for improving the grave of Thomas
Jefferson.
The Piuoe of Wales has been re
elected Grand Master of the Free
Masons of England.
In the German capital paper nap
kina are in common nae, and are sold
at about, five for a cent.
Mrs. South worth having written
sixty novels, a New York paper quite
properly remarks to her: “Whoa,
Emma!”
Georgia, Delaware ami South Car
olina are the only Sfca*.the; are
wholly represented by native lx>rn
CougreMtten.
It is ceiiaittlv a wetir crions fact.
• . a- it s stat 4 and, that the human
ai* iiiws t wice as fast in Europe is
•uj ?;<*• oontineut.
*Lv. Hampton will return home iu
a fo v days, to remain until his wound
ed 'eg improves It has given him
much pain since he has been iu Wash
ington.
The six largest States are: Texas,
aith 274,356 qua re mi es; California.
18*,981 ; Nevada, 112,090; Colorado,
104,500; Oregon, 95,274, and Minne
sota, 83,53;.
The secretaries of the wur and in
terior departments have agreed upon
a vigorous policy to suppress the an
authorized occupation of lands in the
Indian territory by white settlers.
The tomb of Charles ( onia Napo
leon Achille Murat, nephew of Napo
leon I, stands in the city cemetery at
Tallahassee, Fla. The body of bis
wife, a Virginia lady of great excel
lence of character, is eutombed by
liis side.
The United States Supreme Court
will be seven hundred and fifty cases,
or two years behi, and, when it adjourns
May 12. The oourt it. not gaining ou
its calender either, as the number of
cases involriug constitutional ques
tions is growing larger.
The American Bible Society of
New York are now offering neatly
printed Bibles for twenty-five cents,
and Testament* for five cents. To
the trade these Is oks art* *~Jd at a
reduction of ten per oact. On the oet
logue prioe. The books are wail
printed and arc a wonder of cheap
ness.
Thrae-fourths of the Kansas Leg
islature are Republicans, and they
have nearly all petitioned that Sena
tor Ingalls be investigated as to the
chsrgc of bribery, Ingalls should
certainly ave the b nelit o. such an
investigation, but lie has been labor
ing very hard to prevent that opera
tion.
It is oaf imte ed that tho reduction
in tho tobacco lax will cause a great
er increase iu receipts of the inter
nal revenue on the Ist inaia t than
lias been the case -iuce tlio system
was organized. The reason assigned
for this is that all ura iiifacturers have
allowed their so, oks to ren out so ns
to rap the bonefiis which Hie reduc
ed rates offer.
Forty-eight failures '-'ere reported
iu New York during [lie last montii,
the t< tal liabilities being $912,669,
and assets $393,066. This is a re
•etioii of five in numb- r an i $500,-
000 in amouut of liabilities compare.,
with Hie prt needing mouth. For the
coir, -non-ling month of the year
IB7S li-re were sixty-seven failures,
and lities $4,300,000.
He Kentucky Democratic. Oonveii
turn met al. Louisville last week, and
n..lllllll.textile fofowing ticket: Gov
ernor, Dr. Luke P. Blackburn; Lieu
tenant Governor, fames E. Cantrell;
Att. rosy General, P. W. Harding;
An litor, Fayette Hetvit. BesobiLioim
were ailopted approving the course
of the Democratic party a id denounc
ing Mr. Hayes’ veto of the army a|>-
propriation bill.
One of tbe features of the time ia
the spread of the Nihilist, or revolu
tionary and leveling faction iu Kuasia.
Scores of arrests are made dailv, but
tbeae only serve to show the vaat ex
tent of tbe conspiracy. A London
dispatch, an- onucing the news from
Russia, aays “tbe detective police
and Judges have come to regard their
lives as being held at the mercy of
the conspirators."
Tbe moat aristocratic colored wed
ding ever known in this country took
place in Cincinnati Thnrnday night.
Tbe groom was Geo. Jackson, a col
ored school teacher, and tbe bride
Miss Virginia Gordon, daughter of
Robert Gordon, a wealthy colored
coal dealer. Mr. Gordon is worth
several hundred thousand dollars.
Tbe bride’s presents from her father
consisted in sixty thousand dollars in
bonds and a handsome residence.
When the venerable Republican
Senators, who for many yearn have
had tie north and of the oepitol filled
with their retainers, see them leaving
one by one and setting their sad faces
toward rural reiirvment and short
commons, it is not strange that tbe
aged statesmen feel lonely and give
way to grief. But they needn't howl
“revolution.” It is nothing but the
simple process of rotation, which baa
always been a cardinal principle of
their creed.
LIFE IS TOO SHORT.
Life is too short to waste
In unavailing tears.
Too short to spend in bootless grief,
In coward doubts aud fears.
Too short to give it up
To pleasure; or to ow
One hour in guilt, to yield at last
Etertiity of woe.
Time lags not on its way.
But spans our days in Imste;
If life should laSl n thousand years
Twer** still too short to waste.
For. short-lived as we are,
Our pleasures yet. we see,
Evanish soon : they live, indeed,
E’en shorter date than we.
But ever with us here
Bides arrrow, pain and cure; — w
The shortest life is long enough
Its 'lotted gri*f to bem
To the old the end is nigh;
To i he young fur oft it seems:
Y’et neither should dre to toy with- life
Or wuste it in idle rtrt *ins.
For by each Time’s serv nt waits;
'though not for aervant’s wage;
A* and the same worm nibbles the bud of
youth
'That gun we th the root of age.
Live, therefore, as be liveß
Who earns his share of bliss;
Strive for the prize that Virtue wins, - I
Life’s not t >o short for thiH. *
Mark Twain’s Boyhood.
Some very nmuaing anecdotes
are related about Mar< Twain,
or Samuel Clemens, when he was
a small boy ; among others the
following:
Mark had a constnht playmate
and churn, a boy about his g3j
named Napoleon Pavey, or for
short, Polo Pavoy. One warm
spring day, the two boys having j
got a holiday, Mark ah >uldered J
an eld flint-lock musket and|
Pole an old squirrel rifle without
any lock at all, which he carried
along, as lie aaid, just for the
looks of the thing, and went
duck hunting over in Shy Bot
tom. The boys bunted faithful
ly for several hours and succeed
ed in killing a chicken hawk and ;
a or. iw, after which they com-!
raenced their homeward march,'
not very proud of their success,!
as in this region, at that day, i
game abounded. Finally, Mark 1
stopped suddenly, as an idea.
etruckjhim, and exclaim, and;, 1 >
“So* here, Foie, lotV got a j
—what d'ye call it? A rare
geological specimen for the
boss; y-u see, he’s got a great
hankering after these things.”
“What’s a rare geological
spocimon, Mark?' 1 said Pole, as
he openod wide his eyes.
“Why it’s a rare bird what
ain’t never been in those parts
before—sometimes very uncom
monly,” answered Mark.
“Where are yon going to g. t
it at, Mark? We ain't got
nothing but this old chicken
robber and egg-stteker, and they
ain't a hit uncommon,” queried
the skeptical Pole.
“We’ll git her up to ordi r,
Pole,” answered Mark, as ho
flung himself on the gr* en grass
beneath a giant old elm tree.
The boys went o work on
their ‘ geological specimen.” As
Mark would pluck a feather
from the tail of the crow, Pole
noiild hand him a corresponding
feather that had been taken
from the tail ot the hawk, which
Mark would carefully insert in
t.lie socket from which lie had
just pulled the crow’s leather
And thus, after two hours of
steady work, every one of the
long leathers of the hawk's tail
had been transferred to the crow,
and it would" have required a
close examination to have detec
ted the fraud.
“How is that for a specimen,
Pole?” said Mark, as be admir
ingly exh bited the retailed crow
to the gaxe of hi- companion-,
resplendent in the rich plumage
of the chicken-eater.
“She's a stunner, Mark; a reg
ular stunner. I guess they ain't
never seen a bird like that in
Hannibal before."
The hawk was thrown away
and the 1 oys trudged homeward
By the time they had arrived in
town the blood of the crow had
congealed and tbe taise feathers
in the tail had become firmly
fixed.
As Mark had said, Judge
Clemens, his father, was some
what of a naturalist, and had a
passion for whatever was rare
and strange ia tbe animal king
dom.
“Why, Mat k,” ho said, “where
in the world did you get that
strange-looking bird?”
“It’s my opinion," said Mark,
with an atr of greater import
ance than he was accustomed to
assume in the presence of his
| father, “that is tbe bird of Para
j disc; leastwise that it bolojigs to
that species."
That night the bird was care
fully laid away in a place wh re
it would be safe from tbe de
vouring presence of tbe old tom-
cuts, which Mark afterwards
wrote about as creating such
fearful destruction at his sister’s
candy pullings. The report soon
circulated through the town that
a strango bird, the like of which
had never before been seen, was
killed, and Mark and Polo be
came the heroes of the hour.—
The next day being Sunday
Judge Piemen* invited all the
wise men of the village of Han
; nib|d to his hou*e to examine
and pass an opinion on the new
“geological specimen,” They
jfc-- bird was exhibited
on a taWe, around which tho
savans gathered. One faction,
headed by Or. , maintained
that the bird was nothing but a
black crow, the tail of which
had been turnod gray by somo
accidental cause not understood,
having possibly hud salt, throwu
on it it; the youjg aud tender
days of the bird. The other
faction, beaded by Judge Clem
ens, scouted such an idea. It
was absurd, ridiculous, They
were willing to admit that tho
bird veiy much resembled a
crow; but, if so, it belonged to a
separate and distinct species
from any that hud ever before
been discovered.
The discussion was continued,
and became exciting. Neither
faction would admit themselves
wrong and the other right.—
Mark and Pole occupied a posi-
the door, and wore at
tentive and interested though
siFont auditors.
“What?" excluirtled Judge
Clemens, warming up, “do you
tell me that it would bo possible
by any exterual process to vurn
the feathers in the tail of that
bird from black to the colors
tbey are? These uniform rings
itpd spots would defy the skill of
t|ie greatest painter that ever
lived. No, gentlemen,” contin
ued the Judge, as ho rather
'vibleoMy togk hold of the bird
thStail to examine the spots
I'mply, “no gentlemen—”
.J't.-Aif djscusihin was cut
hflithe bird dropping on the
table, while the Judge held the
tail in his hand.
“Lot’s scoot, Pole,” said Mark,
“'ho show’s ended.” Aud the
boys vamosed.
'I lie Judge contemplated the
“rare geological specimen,” with
consternation, and then his eyes
wandered to the open door and
caught a glimpse of bis young
hopeful and his companion ill
mischief cutting across the buck
yard for high timber.
“Let us adjourn for dinner,
gentlcmoD; e ill renew the
discussion alter dinner,” said the
Judge; but he never willingly
renewed it with any person ex
cept Mark. That night, when
Mark had got into bod, after
creeping through tho hack win
dow, a vision of his fattier,
standing by his bed-side, ap
peared to him.
‘So it is your opinion is it,
you young rascal, I hat tho rare
eological specimen is a Bird of
Paradise, ’ said the vision, as it
tickled Hark on his naked logs
with u Keen cherry switch.
Mark said lie felt sick and did
not have any opinion, which was
probably true, as he had dined
and supped that day on greeo
radishes found in the garden of
Pole’s mother.
A Mystery.
Two darkiea bought a piece of
pork, and Bam, having no place
**ptHt liia intrusted the whole to
Juliua' keeping Next morning
they ru'd, when Julius said;
“A mot strange thing hap
pened at my house last night,
Sam. All a mystery to me."
"Ah, Julius, what was that?”
"Well, Sam, dis mornin’ I
went, down to de cellar to get a
piece of pork for br akfast, and
i put my hand down into the
brine, and felt all around, but no
pork dar—nil gone—couldn't tell
what went with it; ao I turned
up de barrel, and, Sam, as sure
as preaching, de rats had cat a
hole clear fru tie" barrel, and
dragged de pork all out."
“Why didn't de brine run out
ob de hole?’’
“Ah, Sam, flat’s le mystery.”
The late Prince Henry of the
Netherlands was one of the
wealthiest Pniiees in Europe.
His poperty has beon usually esti.
mated in Holland at $-11,600,000.
| The greater part of it consists m
1 State lands; there are ulso shares
: in commercial companies, landed
j estates and castles, and sim far
; property, some of it in the Netli
] erlands, the remainder in Ger
many and the Dutch oolonios.
DON’T LEAVE THE FARM.
BY CURA T. BRBBT.
Come boys, I have Something to tell you,
Come near, 1 would whisper it law—
You are thinking of leaving the home
stead,
Don’t be in a hurry to go.
The c.ty has tußuy attractions,
But think of viovs aud sine,
When in tb vortex of fashion,
How soon the course downward begins.
You talk of the mines of Australia,
They're wealthy in gold without doubt.
But ah! there is gold on the farm, boys,
If only you’ll shovel it out.
The mercantile li e is a ha turd.
The good are first high and thou low,
Better ri k the old farm awhile louger,
Don't be in a burry to go.
The great busy West has inducements.
And so has the busiest mart.
But wealth is not made in a.day, boys.
Don’t be in a burry to start.
Tho I ankers and brokers are wealthy,
They bike in their thousands or so,
Ah ! think of thr frauds and deceptions,
Don’t be in a hnrry to go.
Tha farm is the safest end surest,
The orchards are loaded to-day,
You’re free as the air on the mountains,
And monarch of alt you survey.
Bettor stay on the farm nwhite longer,
Though profits come iu rather slow.
Remember you've nothing to risk, boys,
Don't be in a hnrry to go.
REMINISCENCES OF COLUMBIA
COUNTY.
BY AH OLD OITUCH.
John Reid emigrated from
Virginia just before the old Rev
olutionary War, and bought land
and settled in new District No.
3, in Columbia county, not far
IVom Big Kiokee creek. He had
four sons and three daughters.
Betsy Reid married James Luke,
Sr., Gracy married Thomas Har
den, and Polly married Rouben
Luke. The. acn were John,
James, Ezekiel and Michaol.
Old uncle
MIKE IlEIT),
as he was familiarly called, the
subject of this skotch, was born
in Columbia county in 1789. In
1814 ho married Elizaboth Dixon
Tbey raised 5 children—2dnugh
tors and 3 sons. The daughters
were Jane, who married James
Heggie, and Mary Ann, who
married Charles Estes, so well
and favorably known to the poo
pie of Augusta as the able and
effictJ ( ut Mayor for sovorul years,
also as the bolf and enterprising
projector and nctive spirit In the
enlargement of tho Augusta ca
nal. The sons were James and
Robert, who are still living, but
the daughters sleep that sleep
that kuows no waking.
There was no citizen more re
spected than old Uncle Mike
Reid. A pcaceablo, quiet, good
citizen, he lived at peace with
all the world and died at last
without an enemy. These two
good old people were well match
ed, and from the time they were
hitched togothi r as man and
wife, in doublo harness, they
worked most harmoniously.
Their lives wore a beautiful illus
tration ofconjgual felicity. They
not only loved each other de
votedly, but each was proud of
the o.her. A few years before
the old mutt's death, I have heard
the old man say, when speaking
of any large collection of ladies,
and how beautiful such or such
a one was—“ Well, I never see
anybody as pretty as my old
woman.” It seemed that the s-x
months, h noy-moon with this
couple lasted from the night of
the nuptials to the lime that
death separated them.
Uj %tAi Mike was quite a char
acter. Though not a church
man, yet he was a moralist. 1
do not remember ever to have
heard him use a profane word.
The nearest to it was, “Pll be
dot blast." In philosophy he
was quite a stoic. If afßictions
came upon him in one way, ho
would derive comfort in some
other. The lightning once
struck an old dead pine in his
cotton field, killing the plants all
around Ike tree for more than
an aero. Someone sympa
thizing with him ou the destruc
tion of this bountiful plot of
O round, he replied, “Well, I’ll be
dot blast if it didn't kill many a
woodpecker.” Soon after pay
ing SI,OOO for a negro fellow he
was drowned. To a friend who
expressed sympathy at the loss
he said, “I’ll ho dot blast if I
haven’t a thousand bushels of
corn which I can sell and buy
another."
Uncle Mike was a successful
farmer, not a | rogres- ive one,
not a book farmer. He took no
new departures from established
usages. Ue did not believe in
hill-side ditches. He did not
lose time in frequent turning of
mules—tbe longer the row the
better it suited him. lie nover
bought a bushel of corn nor a
pouod of meat. His smoke-house
and corn crib wore always at
home. He did not usa tobacco
in any shape, and never touched
the intoxicating bowl; and yet
he lived in the famous District
No. 3, within a mile or two of
"Luke’s store," the great ren
dezvous for fun and frolic in tho
flush times of old Columbia. His
sons wore William, James and
Robort, who still lives in District
No. 3. Tho daughters, as before
stated, are both dead. Uncle
Mike died in 1863, aged 73 years.
Aunt Betsy, his wife, diod in
1873, aged 80 years.
DR. WYATT CHAMUMN
moved from South Carolina and
settled <n District No. 3, Colum
bia county, in 1835, and com
menced the practice of medicine.
Ho marri and Prudence, daughter
of old mau Humphrey Evans,
one of Columbia's best citizens.
Prudence was then the betlo of
the neighborhood, gay and fas
cinating. Dill Blount, John
Lamkin, Ambros J. Avery, Sr.,
and a host tf othor gay young
gailunts, paid homage at the
shrine of her beauty. Some fow
years since tbo Rev. Dr. Thomas
visited tins section, after an ab
sence of twenty-five years. He
came to Bethel church while
Mr. Hogan was preaching, and
took his seat in tho congrega
tion, no one present recognizing
him. His appearance struck me,
and I at once set him down as a
minister. Soon nftor tho servi
ces were over, Mr. Hogan came
to the door ard announced to the
congregation that the Rev. Dr.
Thomas would preach them a
short sermon if they would re
sume their scats. He commenc
ed by saying that, though a
stranger to most of the congre
gation, yet he was on familiar
ground, a spot sacredly dear to
him with the memories of Long
Ago; that he was one of tho
original corporators of Bethel
church. He preached a short,
feeling aud oloquent sermon aud
dismissed the congregation. 1
introduce Dr. Tnomas to sub
stantiate what I have written of
tho hello of District No. 3. 1
was introduced to the doctor,
who commenced inquiring about
the old residents, those who had
gone to “that bourne whenco no
traveller returns," as well as of
those who yet cortinued on the
shores of time. Re spoke par
ticularly of Mrs Ciiamblin, and
said he was on his way to visit
her, that he might, with her,
turn over tho pages of tho rem
iniscences of many years ago,
and talk over the scenes of the
past. He said that in those days
ho taught school in this neigh
bor!) od and boarded with old
Col. Jones, who theo lived where
Mrs. E. E. Lamkin now resides.
Speaking of Mrs Chamblin he
said she was then Miss Evans,
and was tho reigning hello of the
neighborhood, and that Cal.
Jonos once said to him that he
would hot him a hat that be, too,
would prove no exception to tho
gonornl rule, and would fall iu
love with the fascinating Miss
Evans. Jle replied that he did
not bet, bat would try to gain,
not, the lady’s hoart, but the hat,
which, bo remarked, was the
caso, for soon tho man of the
mortar and pills won tho prize.
Dr. Chamblin and old Dr. Han
son were the leading physicians
of this section for many years.
Dr. Chamblin had four child' en
—3 boys, Andy, William and
Wyatt, tho first and last yet liv
ing, the second being killed in
the late war—and one daughter,
who married and moved to Tex
as. Dr. Chamblin was very pop
ular as a man and a practitioner,
lie osebewed politics, but was,
without his knowledge, elected
one of tho Judges of the Inferior
Court. Hia widow is yet with
us and knows as yet no such
word as dull care.
A lawyer got mad with his
client at Oil city the other day,
and in the heat of passion called
him a liar.
“Wbat’s that?" yelled the cli
ent.
“You’re a liar,” vehemently
shouted the lawyer.
“A liar? How do you spell it?"
“Spell it, you idiot. Spell
what?”
“Liar. How is it spelled?”
“Why, you double back-action,
ignoramus," yelled the lawyer
in a ruge, “I spell in l-i•ft-r-liar,’' ,
and ho put about ten pounds of
.einphnsis on every tetter.
“Oh I That’s the- Way yon spoil
it. I didn’t know hut 'twas l-a>w
y-c-r-liar, and if it bad been. I’d. a
knocked you Into the seuond
week of May and sot down- on
you”
Subscribe for tbe Jooamx.
:no. 20.
Farm and Garden.
May on the Farm.
The furmor who expects to
reap a profitable harvest, must
loso no time now in the cultiva
tion of his crops.
Corn must be workod thor
oughly aud frequently while it
is young, or a good crop need
uot bo expected. If it suffers
for work while young it nover
recovers from the injury thus
sustained. Some of the north
ern agricultural journals have
had much to say recently about
“root pruning of corn, even until
it bunches for tasseliug.” This
may answer in Massachusetts,
but in our average seasons bi
the South w 11 authorize the use,
by the farmer who trios it on>
his corn, of the slang expression
“all shucks,” whon he comes to
harvesting his crop. Deep
cultivation is dosirablo at lb*
first plowing of our corn to furn
ish a loose open bed for tho roots,
but all subsequent cultivation
in our eliraute should be so shal
low as not to break the root*.
Cotton will demand the largest
share of the attention of the
Southern fanner during tba
present month, and though it
will wait for work better than
corn, hnviug a longer period in
which to grow, yet the thor
oughness < f its early cultivation
is of the utmost importance. A
mistake often made by farmers
who plant full crops of cotton is
in waiting until the cot on be
comes grassy before hiring ex
tra help in chopping and hoe
ing. A farmer can better afford
to pay one dollar a day for
bunds to chop cotton before ii
gets grassy than fifty cents after
the grass has gained a firm bold
among the plants. In the first
place a hand can boe twice a*
much clean ns grassy cotton, do
it belter at less sacrifice of the
stand, and the cotton being early
thinned makes better stalks,
limbs out nearer the ground,
and matures its crop earlier.—
Cotton should bo ieduced to a.
stand on ail red lands as soon as
it is well up, whether there is
giu-m or not, since the surplus
plants appro; riate just the plant
food that their neighbors need.
On light lands, on which there
is id re danger of the plants
dying from the effects ol oooV
nights, it is not safe to reduce t or
a stand very early.
We have no sympathy with
those who condemn iu such
unmeasured terms tie produc
tion of toUon. Wc are not in
favor of “making oetton planting
odious” in tbe South. We avoid
oxtrorocs on all subjects. Cot
ton is and must over ho the sta
plo money crop of the South,
and wo advocate its profitable,
but not oxclu-ivo, production.
Its profitable production im
possible on thoso farms on which
the supplies neces ury for the
labor and stock employed are
produced at home
Much nonsense has been talk
ed and written about cotton*
planting in the South by thos
who knew but little of tbe cir.
eu instances surrounding tbe
farmers of the South since tbe
war. No class of people ever
struggled more nobly agaiuet
such adverse circumstances than
have the farmers of the. Souths
during the last fifteen years.—
Left, by t >o results of war, with,
nothing but their lands and their
own indomitable energies; com
pelled to borrow money to corn
duct their business, and knowing,
that cotton was the only com
modity at their command on
which to predicate a loan, they
were compelled to plant largo
areas ia it, somewhat at the ex
pense of the provision crops.
They bad no choice in the mat
tor. They have now struggled
up the ladder by bard work and
close economy until they are to
day in a better condition than
for tea. years.
II not already done, plant
erops especially for the hogs to
gether next fail. Ground peas„
cbtifns, sweet potatoes, peas,
corn, etc.
Plant a patch of ca'-tull millet,
for soiling mules and milch cow*,
during dry spells in summer.—
And one of drilled corn to bo
used in the green or cured for
winter lorage. —Southern Enter—
prtis.