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PROFESSIONAL CARDS, ETC.
A. C. QUILLAIN,
. Dentist,
WILL be in Thomson from the Ist
till the 1 fifth of each month. All
optrationa strictly First Claes. Office
B Main street, first door scuth of A. B.
Thrasher’* residence. Private engage
ment* in the oouutry promptly filled,
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PRICES = SUIT HAr D TIM S
HPIIE UNDERSIGNED is better pre-
I pared thau ever to make BOOTS
ANI> SHOES of all styles for Ladies
and Oentlemen, cheap for cash. I ketp
on hand an assortment of the very bent
material, and make Wedding aud Party
Boots and Shoes a specialty. I have re
cently learned anew process of prepar
ing Holes from the best Baltimore Oak
and Slaughter Hemlock that make them
last much longer than t old process.
Very thankful for past liberal patron
Age. I solicit a continuance of the same.
All work warranted. Call and examine
stock and prices. • Shop in back room of
T. N. Lewis' store.
jan2*;-ly W B. B. CASON.
J. M. HARP,
Dealer in ancl Manufacturer all kinds
Tin & Sheet Iron Ware.
Aio. Dealer in
CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE
LAMPS and LAMP GOOD*. Gutter
ing and Hoofing done at Lowest Rates.
The ioweal prices guaranteed for every
thing. and I will not be undersold.
**M4Jcr Price List.
NO. 144 BROAD STREET,
Opp Miita Markwalter's Marbie Works,
j mil-Gw Augusta, Ga.
PAVILION HOTEL,
Charleston, S. C.
a. T. ALFORD CO.,
Proprietors.
Hates, £2.00. £2.50 and£3.oo per day
Hair Outtlna;
-IN THE—
LATEST AND MOST SCIENTIFIC
MANNER,
—BY—
E. D. AMONITTI,
ArtiHt on fliunitn Ilnir,
(Orricit Un;>, it Cektbai, Horn..)
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
MiaHotf
Planters, Attention!
► ••■A $
We could not supply the demand for
the Gullet Gin last season owing to the
yellow fever quarantine. To prevent a
similar occurrence during the coming
heason, we have been instructed to offer
.the
Improved Gallett Gin,
ALSO
Feeder and Vondenxer*,
At a very low price to all who will pur
chase this Bpring for cash or good paper.
Now is your chanoe to purchase the
fluent Cotton Gin ever offered to the
trade, at prices that any planter can
afford. To get the largest discount yon
should purchase between now and May
15th. We are also offering the celebra
ted
Bigelow Engines
of eve* j style; also,
SWF.P.PSTAKE SEPARATORS. SAW
MILLS, THRESHERS, GRIST
•MILLS, Ax., Ac ,
At greatly reduced prijes. Give ns a
call or write for circulars. Extra low
figure* made to those who purchase
their entire ginning and threshing out
fits through us. Address,
• 0. M. STONE & CO.,
.General Agents for Plantation Machin
ery, Augusta Oa. apl?B.ftm.
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SEMINAL WEAKNESS, Lost Manhood,
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that follow as a sequence of indiscretion
or exeewt, quickly and permanently
cured by Mate s Specific, prepared by a
physician, and a the result of years of
atndy and practice in treating these
special diseaaoa. and sold at $2 per
uackage. three packages for $5. For
tpeeiic circular and full particulars, ad-
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And DRUNKENNESS absolutely and
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the worst cases of Drunkenness cured in
10 or 15 days. Send stamp for particu
lars to J. 8. CARLTON, 2<W S Clark
St., Chicago. HI. feblO-ly
f can make money faater at work for
|| us than at anything else, capital not
|| required; we will start yon. sl2
per day at home made by the industri
ous. Men. women, boys and girls want
ed evervwbere to work 4 %t us. Now is
the time. Conti, outfit and terms free.
1 Address. TRUE A CO., Augusta,Me
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South of Baltimore'.
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Purchasers will save money by visit
ing or corresponding with
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Who sail the BEST PIANOS and OH
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South.
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Bricks! Bricks!
Having purchased the we’l known
Brick Yard of the late
I HUMAN MJNNKGAN,
HAMBURG, S. C.,
I urn now j ’vpp.md to deliver any quan
tity of
First-Class Bricks.
The bricks made at this yard are of
THE BEST CLAY,
And known by contractors as the BEST
IN THE MARKET Address,
w. j. mmm,
AUGUSTA. GEORGI*.
Feb. 12-4n
Change of Scheinle.
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY,)
Superintendent's Opfice.
Augusta, Ga., April 5, 1879 )
/COMMENCING Sunday, the tth inst..
\J the following Schedule will be oper
ated. Trains run by Atlanta time, ten
minutes Flower than Augusta time:
NO. 1 WEST—Daily.
Leave Augusta 9:45 a. in
Leave Thomson 11:18 ft. m
Arrive Miliedgeville 3:30 p ui
Arrive Macon. 5.20 p. iU
Arrive Wushington 2:00 p. in
Arrive Athens 3:30 p. in
Arrive Atlanta...., 5:00 p. in
NO. 2 EAST—Daily.
Leave Atlanta 7:45 a. m
Leave Athens 0:15 a. m
Leake Washington 10:45 a. rn
Leave Macon 7:10 a. m
Leave Miliedgeville 0:08 a. m
Arrive Thomson 1:31 p. m
Arrive Augusta 3:18 p. m
No connection to or .’rom Washington
on Sundays.
NO. 3 WEST Daily.
Leave Augusta 5.30 p m
Arrive Thomson 7.50 p. ni
Arrive Atlanta 5.00 a. m
NO. 4 EAS I— Daily.
L<*ave Atlanta 6.00 p. rn
Leave Thomson 4.05 a. ni
Arrive A ugiista 0.25 a. in
NO. 15 WEST-Daily.
Leave Augusta 8.30 p. m
Leave Thomson 11.01 p. in
Arrive Camak 11.41 p m
Arrive Miliedgeville 4.05 a. m
Arrive Macon 6.10 a. m
NO. 16 EAST—Daily.
Leave Macon 9.00 p. m
I/eave Miliedgeville il-45p m
I.eave Camak 440 a. m
Arrive Thou son 5.25 a. rn
Arrive Augusta 7.50 a rn
Trains Nos. 1, 2. 3,4, 15 and 16 will
not stop at Flag Stations.
S. K. JOHNSON,
Superintendent.
E R. DORSEY,
Geu’l Passenger Agent.
REDUCTION OF
PASSENGER FAKES.
GEORGIA RAILROAIK
IB SELLING
Straight auc Excursion Ticket*
Between all Stations on its main lii e
and tranches, including the Macon and
Augusta &jlrood, at the following great
ly reduced rates:
straight Tickets At 4c. per mile
Excursion Tickets at 6c per mile.
(Good for ten days).
Minimum for Straight Tickets, ten
cents; for Excursion Tickets, twenty
cents.
To secure the advantages of the re
duced rites. Tickets must be purchased
from the Station Agents of the com
pany. <'ondntors are not allowed to
charge less than the regular tariff rate of
five (5) cents per mile.
Excursion Tickets will be good to re
’ turn ten days, from ard including the
date of issue. No tay-over privileges
attach to these tickets, nor will any
.be granted. Tho Company reserves the
j right to change, or entirely abrogate
1 these rates at pleasure, and without
notice. E. R. DORSEY,
oct2s-tf Genl Passenger Agent
I
Notice to Debtors.
ALL who ate indebted to the firms of
White & Combs, or J. E. W hite & Cos. 4
former proprietors of this paper, for
subscriptions., advertisements or job
work, are earaw/Jy requested to make
immediate payment to the undersigned.
The hnsioesK of the old firms must be
settled up without delay.
I J. E. WHITE.
Thomson Ga., Jan. 22, 1879.
THOMSON, GA., Esr>A_Y, JUNE 4r, 1579.
Sometimes in spring there comes a dav.
•Vhen nobody hasn’t got nothing to sny
Shad are how plentiful in the Ouach
ita river.
Two colored men hare been elected
Aldermen in Yazoo City.
The Afghan difficulty has already cost
England about ten millions of dollars.
*> floe new theatre has been built at
Statford-on-Avon in honor of Shaks
peare.
A colored woman in Kenton, Ky.,
gave birth to two boya and oim girl last
-Monday. - '' *
A white man taken by the Zulus, who
escaped, saw a Zulu reading an English
newspaper.
The war in . outh America has tem
porarily ceased until the Bolivian army
can mend its suspenders.
Voss, the Richmond swimmer, lately
hw ud seven miles, and then rowed a
boat buck against wind and tide.
Kit Carson, a son of the famous icout
and a very witty and intelligent person,
it is reported is making tempernme
speeches.
Since fly time has come, the Now
Orleai s Times saya the Society for the
Suppression of Profanity has suspended
operations.
Brother Wong Ching. in full Chinese
dress, officiated ns den con at a Congre
gational communion service in Hartford.
He is a deacon at home in China.
'fihe Frond government recently paid
the last installment of the debt of 1,-
•500,000.hm>f, to the bank of France, in
curred at the time of the war with
Germ my.
The Wheeling Democrat avers, as a
fact unprecedented m the history of
West Virginia, that not a dollar of dc-
Hnq ent taxes, fines or licenses is due
from any Sheriff for 1877.
The work of reconciliation between
the North and South, so says Harper s
Weekly, at least among Christians, was
much furthered by the late Baptist Con
vention, held in Vtlanta.
Burglars in Clayton county lighod a
lamp and ronsaeked the house of Rev
J. S. Dodd while he was asleep, stole
£i,*;oo and departed., The money was
‘ f the Confederate variety.
A contemporary employs two hun
dred and fifty words in describing how
to ram en oil barrel. The old method
of taking a hole and putting staves and
h ops around it is much more simple.
A Mr. Kennedy was bitten by a rat
tles. .ake, near Wakulla. Fla., tl e other
day. He applied the white ol an egg to
the wound and drank abundantly of
whisky at once. The next day he was
as well as ever. ♦
The 8 -nth Carolina memorial shaft to
Stonewall Jackson, taken by the Feder
al army and now to be returned, was
presented to the State by West India
islanders. It is made of shells, and is
exceedingly chaste and beautiful. *
The Georgia Baptist Convention
which recently met in Columbus, nbol
ished all missionary agents, and it is
probable other denominations will fol
low suit. the agents gener lly get
mre of the money than the heathens
do.
Mi sC. L. Wolfe, of New York, thir
ty-five ears old, at tract ive, and the
richest single woman in the United
States, has arrived at Newport, R. I.
She is worth over £10,000,000, and has
just returned from a two years’ visit to
urope.
While a boy was digging for fish bait
near Sunbury. Pa., he discovered iu the
san 1 the body < f Fredrick Wilhelm, who
with his son. was drowned in the river
ut Danville about the Ist of December
last. The body was iu a remarkable
state of preservation.
The use, of telegraph wires for mes
sages from one part of Paris to auother
ceased on the Ist of May. Pneumatic
tubes are in operation. Blank faints
lor messages are sold to the public, and
may contain any number of words. The
charge is ten cents if the form is left
open, and fifteen cents if it is closed.
The project of laying a cable from
the ' alifornia coast to Japan by way of
the Hawaiian Islands has reached the
point where subscriptons to the stock
are invited, and Cyrus VV Field has put
his name down for £IOO,OOO. It is ex
pected that the Hawaiian government
will subscribe $ 1,600,000, and the re
mainder of the requisite capital will be
raised in London, Paris, New York and
San Francisco.
Miss Maud Miller, the daughter of
Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras,
has be n arrested at Portland. Oregon,
for complicity with her step-father,
l homos E. L. logon. in the abduction
of a twelve year old girl named Alice
McDonald. A letter from Miss Miller,
which the police captured, reveals not
only the fact that she was the instigator
of the abduction, and induced Logan to
become her accomplice, but also that
the daughter of the great poet is aston
ishingly illiterate and unpoetical.
Over to the Vidow’s Home, on Web
ster street, Allegheny, Pa., lives Auntie
Baker, who lias records and papers
which show her to be oDe hundred and
twelve years old. She was born in
Shippenborg. Her family are all dead
except a grandson. 'J he eid woman is
in capital health and spirits, and, as
Tuesday was her one hundred and thir
teenth birthday she was visited by a
number of people, who left little pres
ents with her as evidences of their good
will. She thinks she is good for sever
al years to como.
TIME TURNS THE TABLE.
Ten years ago, when she was ten,
I used to tease and scold her;
I liked her, and she loved me then,
A boy some five years older.
I likeu her, she would fetch my book,
Bring lunch to stream or thicket;
Would oil my gun, or bait my hook,
And field for hours at cricket.
She’d mend my cap, or find my whip,
Ah! but boy s hearts are stony!
I liked her rather less than “Gyp,”
And far leas than my pony.
She loved me then, though beared 1
knows why,
Small wonder had ahe hated.
Fur scores of dolls she’d had to cr.
Whom I decapitated.
I tore her frocks, I pulled her hair.
Called “red” the sheen upon it;
Out fishing I would even dare
Catch tadpoles in her bonuet.
Well, now I expiate my crime—
The Nemesis of fables
Came after years—To-day old Time
On me has turned the tables.
I’m twenty five, she’s twenty now.
Dark-eyed, pink-cheeked and bonny,
The curls are golden round her brow; .
She smiles and calls n e “Johnny.”
Of yore I used her ohristiau n me.
But now, through fate or malice.
When she is by my lips can’t frame
Five letters to make “Alice.”
I, who could joke with her and
Stand silent now before her;
Dumb, through the very wish to please,
A speechless, shy adorer.
Or, if she turns to mo to speak,
I’m dazzled by her graces;
The hot blood rushes to my olieek,
I babble commonplaces.
She’s kind and cool —di! Heaven knows
how
I wish she bid* bed and faltered;
She likes me, and l love her now ;
Dear, dear! how tilings have altered.
MA qUERADING.
BY FLORA.
[Written for the Journal ]
A beautiful May morning, tliat
Bright Reason when the fluwerß
wake up ami nod their areh
faces right in the face of t'io
sun; when birds begin to rejoice,
and the fragrant, balmy winds
blow back and forth over the
earth, and when happy little
children all over the land laugh
aloud in the sunshine. Sealed
around the breakfast table, in a
cool and pleasant morning room,
three persons. Kind iwnd-,
or, allow me to introduce them.
First, Robert Wayne, a portly
looking old gentleman, and u
gentleman iu every respect, as
all who are u qu ,ii ted with him
wdl tell you. Refined and eulii
vated, wit a tender, loving
heart, and there is a gleam of
mischief and .rling from his twink
ling gray eyes which denotes a
keen relish for a good joke, and
lie never allowed an. opportunity
for practicing one to pass unini
proved.
His daughter und only child,
Clara, is like him in many re
spects. Bright, sparkling und
joyous, with u woman's impul
sive heart, filled to overflowing
with gladne-s, she was a daugh
ter to be loved, ayo, worshipped
—a daughter such as many a
man would sacrifice all his pos
sessions to win. To these lova
bto traits of character was added
that rare typo of brunette beau
ty, so often ami eagerly slight
and so seldom found. A wealth
of : aven tresses crowned her
shapely head, her gazelle eyes,
large, lustrous and brown, that
seemed to penetrate beneath the
surface and gaze into the soul,
and her c< tuploxion a delicately
tinted olive- Such was the only
daughter of a wealthy lather,
ller cousin, Janet, the other oc
cupant of the room, was not so
very different from her. Both
were graceful, hut Janet was
somew hat taller and more sleir
per than her cousin, and both
were as sweet and araiablo as
beautiful.
Mr. Wayne had been left a
widower when Clara was but
eight years old, and bad fill <J
th'c place of father and mother
to her ami to Janet a-< well, who
had been left an orphan in his
care by the death of a dear and
only brother, am! she had in re
turn given him a daughter's love.
The two girls were near the
same ago and as devoted to each
other as twin sisters- Clara,
when six years of age, was be
trothed by hor pureuts to Fred
rick Kingston, the son of two of
their beloved friends, Judge
Kingston und his wife. Fred,
too, had been so uuforlunate as
to loose both of his pureuts soon
•after the betrothal, but ho had
promised bis mother on her
death-bed to fulfil the contract
and marry Clara when he arriv.
ed at the ago uf twenty.two
yea s, at which time Clara
would be eighteen.
Mr. Wayne had jus, finished
reading a letter, and Clara and
Janet could see that ho tvus
much pleasod and their curiosity
was hard to restrain. At length
Clara said:
“Well, papa, what is it that
ipleases you ho? Let us share
the enjoyment, will you not?”
| “Aye, that I will, and gladly
J to). We are going to have com-
Jjjtony at Elmhurst. Fred, who
t has becd travelling in Europe
j fm eight years, writes me that
ihe arrived in New York last
j week and will he hero on Thurs-
I day. Ah, ho has grown to he a
j hoarded man in this time, I sup
Lpuse, and will lo wanting to take
Kmy littlo daughter away from
~ ,
am. sureYAfioii't know, >apa.
Fie may have changed,,his mind
its- all these year*,”
“Then ho will change it back
again when he secs yon ordvc is
do son of Leonard Kingston.”
“Papal”.exclaimed dura, after
a brief pause, “1 have an idea.”
“Indeed; no very range
thing with you, I believe "
“My idea is V’is," continued
Clara. “Janet, you will help mo,
will you not?"
“If it is nothing wrong, and,
of course, you would do nothing
of that kind, certainly, Clara
(fear.'" .
“Then listen. Fred Kingston
has boon travelling abroad so |
long that ho will not recognize!
me and lie has never seen Janet.
Besides,” she added, blushing, j
“when 1 merry, 1 want to be j
sure timt the man f wed really :
loves me. So, with your permis
sion, pupa, Janet und I will ex
change places for awhile—say a
week or two—and Janet, shall
ho the daughter uni I the niece.
It will he capital fun.”
‘‘Yes, no doubt,” answered
Mr Wayne. “You alvvgys man
age to have things your own
way, pet. Upon the whole 1
rather like the plan myself. But
you did not wait t’’ hear the
last of the letter. Fred writes
that he will bring a friend of his
with him j what if he should
prove to be an acquaintance of
oars ?'*-
• “SVv'&in risk tbit, uncle,'" soid
Janet, laughing merrily; “I am
of Clara’s opinion, and think it
will I e just jolly.”
“It is settled then,” said Clara
“Now, papa, you must remember
to (1111 mo Janet, and to end Ja
net Clara, when you introduce
tts. 1 must go now and see that
the rooms are made ready, for
to morrow is Thursday.”
“And I will galhe somo flow
ers and urrungo them in the va
ses,” siti-1 Janet.
The next day, according to
appointment, Fred Kingston and
his friend, Frank I'hnrnc, arrived
at Elmhurst, the latter gentle
man, fortunately for their plot,
proving to he a stronger. The
young gentlemen were handsome
and very agreeable, and t lie days
passed pleasantly. There were
rides, drives and walks. Frank
Thorne was very attentive to
the supposed Janet, ami Fred
Kingston was equally persistent
iu ms attentions to Clara, the
true Janet, much to the annoy
atico < I Mr. Wayne, who began
to wish he had not allowed Clara
and Janet to change their names
It mis three weeks after his
arrival that Fred Kingston and
Clara (Janet) wended their wav
slowly down the avenue of elms
which bordered the carriage
drive through the park at Elm
hurst. The sun was sinking be
low the horizon, hiding himself
in a ploud of gold. Too birds
“their tiftoditg
hymns, while the lowing of the
gentle Aldernoys and the tink
ling of the sheep bolls .wore
heard in llio distance. They
were alone, silent and thought
ful, lulled into a sweet uud
dreamy abstraction and repose
by the gentle whitmen’ gs of the
fragrant evening breeze, as it
rustled softly through the ohns.
Flaeh was thinking of the other,
and both were dreading the
words that were to bo spoken ;
for, though neither tiad spoken
of love, each know that the
heart of the other had been won.
Have you nevor looked into an
eye aod read there the emotions
of the heart? Among mankind
generally, but more oortainly
with the generous and gifted,
there exists a sec-rot, silent, sub
tie, but inscrutable sympathy,
unknown to the world, unfelt
save by those who participated
in its enjoyments, a chord that
reaches to the heart—a vrioo
sweet as the song of Miriam,
• hat responds in tones of joy and
gladness—a light brilliant as the
beauty of an Esther, reflected
bnck pure and lustrous as the
gorgeous rays of the sun—u
somethin.' that sWOuten* and
soothes the way of the weary pih
grim in the path of life
Just so it rvas \y}tb those two.
A glance from the eye had re
vealed to each the love of the
other, and it created in the
hearts ot both a sweet pain—
sweet., because it is sweet to bo
loved by the one whom you love
—painful, because both thought
tho other was being deeievod.
And so they were, ns we shall
see.
“Clara,” said Fied, “I know
I that I have no right to speak to
| you thus, for you are betrothed
to another. But I have learned
U> love—”
“I am betrothed to no one;
you are deciovod”— began Janet.
“I ill light,” said Fred, “that
! is, 1 heard yon were betrothed
in your childhood to Fred King
slon.”
“You speak strangely. Are
you not Fred Kingston?”
“I seo 1 must toll you all. No,
I am not Fred Kingston, hut
Frank Thorne. Forgive me tor
decieving you, though I am not
wholly to blame. When Fred
asked me to come here with him
he proposed that wo should ex
change names for awhile, and I,
thinking it would be amusing,
consOntod. 1 regret now ever
having done so, though I would
have loved you all tho same if 1
had retained my own name. Oh,
forgive me, my darling. I can
not help it, but 1 love you, I love
yon, and I have even been so!
w ild as lo think my love was re- j
turned. Oh toll me, is it not t
HO?"
‘ TANARUS, tob, have a confession to
make,” sai l Jnnot. “I ant not
Clara, as you suppose, but Janet.
We did it all for fun at Clara's
suggestion, and I have been so
miserable under the belief that
you were Fred Kingston, though
1 think Clura has Buttered quite
as mu h as I, thinking Fred
Kingston is Frank Thorne, for I
beliovo she loves him with her
whole heart.”
“And you, my precious queen,
do you not care k litllli, -a very
little for mo?”
“I think I do, ’ murmured Ja
net her lovely face sufftis and with
blushes, and the hand she placed
in his slightly trembling.
“ Then e me, my heart's own,
let us go and ask uncle’s consent
to out' union.”
Meanwhile let us return toother
actors in the liU le drama. Clara
had kept her room all tho after
noon, complaining of a headache,
and when Frank and Janet wont
to walk Fred Kingston had
gone into the library where Mr.
Wayne sat reading. 110 took
up a hook and tried to read, but
could not got his mind fixed tip
on it, and lie laid it asido with a
sigh.
“Well my dear Mr. Thorne,
what is the matter? I thought
it was for love-sick maidens to
heave such sighs, not strong, do
termined young men, like your
self.”
“My old friend, if so I may
call yo.i, I will tell you, for I
love candor. lam in trouble.”
“1 thoro any thing I can do
for you, my young friend? If
so, tell mo and I will do all in
my power to help you.”
“Alas, I lour you cannot help
mu in this. I must strive to
overcome my feelings as best I
can, hut I will toll you. I love
your neice, Janet.”
Mr. Wayne's brow clouded.
“1 am not Frank Thorne as
you think,” continued Fred*
“Forgive me, I beg, for having
deceived you, hut I am Fred
Kingston, the affianced husband
of your daughter, Clara. 1 '
“And you wish mo to release
y u from your engagement to
my daughter, do you?” asked
Mr. Wuj no, with a humorous
twinkle in his eye.
“No, sir. i trust lam a man
of honor, and I will carry out io
the letter the wishes of my pa
rents, with your approval; and,
if you do not nform lara, she
will never know that she was
not my heart's choice.”
At this point Mr. Wayne burst
out laughing, “Really the joke
is too good to ho kopt longer,”
said he. “My dear fellow, whom
do you suppose you aro in love
with? Not Janet, not my ueioe,
hut Clara, my daughter and
your betrothed. Ah, you have
been playing with your match,
my boy,”
“Heavon he praised I” ejacula
ted tho young man. “Where is
Bho now—Clara, 1 mean. Lot
me go to her.”
“You will fiud It or in the par
lor, I think,”
110 rushed eagerly into tho
parlor, and there, we supp se,
ho soon made everything right,
for when Mr. Wayne, aecompa
nied by Janet and Frank, who
had been a short time with him
in the library, entered the par
lor thoy found Clara’s head rest
ing confidingly on Fred’s shoul
der and his arm around her
waist. The “Masquer; do” was
over, and “All Is Well
Well.”
AFTER ANIJ OVER.
Alter the shower, the tranquil sun ;
Silvery staia when the day is done.
After the snow, the emerald loaves ;
After Lho havv-uni, gakka a <
After the clouds, the violet sky;
I Quiet woods when the wind goes by.
After the tempest, the lull of waves;
| After tho battle, peaceful graves.
j After the knell, the wedding bells;
j Joyful greetinga from sad farewells.
After the bud, the radiant rose ;
After our weeping, sweet repose.
After the burden, the blissful meed;
After the furrow, the waking seed.
j After the flight, tho downy nest;
Over the shadowy rivor—rest.
REMINISCENCES OF COLUMBIA
COUNTY.
r AN OLD'CITIZBN.
John Ramsey was one of the
earliest settlers ho>e. Born in
Virginia in 1755, ho moved there
from and settled on Euchre
creek, or, rather, near it. ills
wife, Mary, was born in 17(ill.
They raised two sons and two
daughters. The oldest daughtei
j married Mr. Heggio and they
; were the parents of I. N. lleggie,
! recently deceased, James, living
in Mississippi, and Malho, killed
in tho late war. John Ramsey,
tho oldest son, married a sister
of Jesse Walton and Laac who
married a Wolborn. Old John
Ramsey settled hero soon after
the old Revolutionary war, and j
was a good soldier during that!
war. He died in 18015, his wife I
in 1818.
18AAC UAMSKY,
tlie subj et of this Sketch, was
horn at tho old homestead in
1796. Ho married a daughter
of Johnson Welboin, of Wilkes
county, s brother to Armor and
Elias. They had thirteen chil
dren h rn unto them hut raised
only four—one son, Phoeion,
who married Miss Emma Hill,
daughter of Theophilus Hill, of
Monroe county, whose wife was
Salena Welborn, daughter of
Elias Welborn, of Columbia coun
ty. I’ll cion still lives in Colum
bia, owning the old Shady Grove
Goodnor Place. 'J his old house
was burned down a few years
smico. It was in this house that.
Knownothiugisrn had its birth
in Columbia. Isaac Ramsey,
Sim and Cuff Crawford and Cur
lis 11. Shockloy were its patron
saints. In tho attic of the old
mansion th -so gentlemen, with
their friords, who had met there
for ordination, assemdled, when
Gen. Geo. W. Evans and Foster
Blodgett, of Augusta, adminis
istered tho oath which bound
them to this socrot political or
ganization.
Isaac Ramsey’s throe daugh
ters were very beautiful, and all
married well. Parlbcnia mar
ried Mr. Moborn, of Macon,
Ophelia married Dr. Reese, of
Houston county, and Eudocia
marriod Mr. Bonner, of Hancock.
From my first acquaintance with
Isaac Kantsoy up to tho time of
his death ho was the most prom
inent. and public-spirited mao in
the county. He was a man of
marked habits and decided char
acter. Whole-souled and goner
ous, with largo means and liber
ally hospitable, his house was
always open to his many friends,
who were always 'uro of a warm
welcome from both himself and
liis household. Theyertertained
in a princely style. Mrs. Ram
sey was proverbial for being one
of the host, of housewives, and
knew well how to serve tip the
best viands of tho table.
There was nothing mn"ll about
Isaac Ramsey. Thoro was no
half-way ground—no com; ro
mise ah ut him To use a slang
phrase, “ho wont the whole hog,”
or he wouldn't go at all. He
was an active, enterprising, busy
man, of iron will and nerve, and
quick decision. Ho was busy
about his houso and his large
planting interests; but he liked
rocreation, and would seek on
joyment on tho race course, and
sometimes at cards, with gentle
men in a sooinl game of whist
and othor games. He loved ox
citement, and was always on
hand to aid the young people in
their sports. These were tho
“flush” times of Columbia. In
White’s Statistics the question is
asked, “What is Columbia coun
ty remarkablo for?” Auswer,
“For her fine-looking moo—the
No. 2: j.
.two Hamilton*, Turn r Clanton,
Moody Burl, Isaac Ramsey und
others.” These gentlemen, with
•Turiah Harris, the Lukes, and
James Lam kin, worn Columbia’s
largest and n ost successful plant
ers, Vorking t heir lauds by the
thousand acres with their slaves.
Columbia llte-n was a gicat
feeder to Augusta, sending thero
annually her thousands ofcotton
bales. These were the halcyon
days of Columbia—day* when
money was handled us if it grew
“on trees. Those were tliV money
days of Columbia, but how
changed her citizens to-day, As
a comfort to those who love the
good and eschew the evil I* will
say that Columbia of to day has
as little iiiienifier nee and caru
playing as any county iu the
Suite. J often visit old Appling,
once the reudezvorz for gameiug'
and drinking, and can hardly
realize life great change. It is
now tho dry eat place tins side of
Salt Lake, kheard an old ouo
urmed soldier say, a few days
ago, that lie couldn’t oven buy
an ounce of whiskey iu Appling
to make a little tincture ot cam
phiro; and us to a dock of nr Is,
I do not suppose one has been
sold there in two y ears. Some
three years since, duringouenfo.tr
Courts, somo of our visitors, tired
of the dull rotino of the law,
concluded t■* have a little game
of cards. All preparations were
made, ilie table and chairs, tho
| (layers had taken a social drinc
and had seated themselves at tho
tat le when tho porter, who had
been sent for the cards, announc
ed that not a dock of cards could
ho bought or borrowed in Ap
piing. I rarely over see a game
of cardi)in those days even for
file, and never for monoy. It
may be that, t! e hoys haven't
tho “tin” to unto, and they
haven’t time to play for amuse
ment. They now drive their
business, knowing that, if they
neglect it it, will drive them. It
was once their custom to invest
their year's earnings in a certain
bank—a queer sort uf a hank—a
bank that seldom declared a div
idend to those who put money in
it. No “wild cat bunk,” but,
somotimes called the “Tiger.”
But I have wandered from toy
subject, and will now return to
the. kind, hospitable noble Isaac
Ramsey, whoso like t shall never
see again, lie was no ordii arv
man. He served one session iti
the Legislature but could not ho
induced to repeat, saying that ho
was not made for a lawmaker.
He was for JO years cither Sher
iff or Deputy, and all for the
Rftko of his friend Dick Jones
lie was a progressive man —did
not like to see things taking a
downward teic'ency. Ho was
the popular auctioneer at most,
of our public slew, and as ery
apt to get good prices for all ur.
tides. In fact, if llie'G was not
lively bidding ho would hid him
self, even lln.u o li lie had no use
for tho article.
Isaac Ramsey was originally a
Clarkist, but became an ardent
Whig, and subsequently an on
thusiaslic Kiiownothing. Some
years previous to his death ho
built a magnificent mansion near
to the Washington is ail, in sight,
of Jesse Walton's. He turnMieil
it handsomely and gavo to it all
the attractions and enmfor's
that money could supply. Hero
he died in Jam.ary 1860, of
pneumonia, eoriplieated with
othor disease.'. I [i j ifo follow
ed him just twelve inou lis uftu
wards. At tho time of Iris and. a •>
ho was possessed of some o,oot>
acres of lan I and lbl slaves.
When deal It closed Uni eyes
of J suite U;uuM/y in that long
sloop Columbia comity lost her
most public spirited citizen.
The pro Miction ut' iho salmon
canneries of the Pacific coast
last year was 581,000 cans, or
128,032,000 pounds. Specimens
weighing from sixty to seventy
live pounds w ere caught by the
Oregon fishermen. A peculiarity
of the Oregon salmon is their
con to nipt for all the anglers’
lures. There is no sal mm ang
ling on the Oregon rivers. They
arc sometimes caught ny trolling
at tho mouths of the rivers, but
they never lake the angler’s fly.
Peer, who jumped from tho
suspension bridge at N iagra
Kalis, a few days ug >, woie a
rubber life preserver, to lesse t
the depth of bis penetrate n ii:t >
the wale"; a sponge over his
mouth and nostrils, to prevo t
the water from being torrid in• • ■
them, and a thick cloth over h.s
loot and legs, to pr teet them
from concussion, A brass win,
attached to his shoulders, was
reeled out t.s he fell, with just
enough tension to keep him ii
an upright position, fo strike
lliu water flaiwiss would be cer
tain death. Poor dropped 132
feet in four seconds. !!■ wuscs
cecdingly nervous just baton to *
feat, ami it was thought that hid
courage had given out.