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OCTOBER.
flow brilliant the woods in October!
like the uose of a man sever sober ;
Like the red of the juvenile mitten,
Or the coat of a calico kitten;
Like tbsfNHetiß huesof a nice dream,
or the tiatiof a iiarle<iui ice-cream;
Like chanceful, t’*vehau*;i ng mosaic,
\\ith nothin#SMMi duller prosaic.
But everywhere gleaming in splendor,
like the sky in the west at day’s end, or
1 he [sisters whose charms never Irk us,
Thai tyh f the forthcoming circus;
Like the noao of a tuan never sober,
Uovr brilliant the woods in October!
—[Bostou Transcript.
EX FL A IXIXO A JOKE.
He came into the office modestly
and ulijrly, ns was befitting, aud ask
ed to see the man who put joke* in
the paper. The joker was engaged in
reading soiuo very exciting table# of
trade and navigation returns, in or
der to inform “Au Old Subscriber”
bow many gallons of beeswax bad
been exported from the province of
Prince Edward Island in the year
1871, and was consequently in a very
hilarious mood. The visitor took off
liis hat, mopped liis forehead with a
dirty handkerchief aud placed before
the newspaper man a scrap of paper
on which was written :
“When Sir Joseph Porter dies tho
company will be treated to half and
half—Porter aud bier."
newspaper man read it, looked
and exclaimed, “Wiiot is it all
about?
joke, you sec."
"Why, tbe piny on words—a pun,
you know—Porter and bier. ”
“Oh, nb, yes—Porter and bier.
Woll, did yon nsk Mr. Porter aliout
this? Will be bo pleased to see bis
name in tbe paper ia that connec
tion
“Why, there is no such person.
Sir Joseph Porter ia a character in
‘Pinafore.’”
“Well,” mused tbo newspaper man,
“if there is no such person I don’t
see how he can die. A person who
don’t exist can't die very successfully.
Any attempt to kill a mnu who don’t
exist must necessarily prove a fail
ure.”
“But you don't understand,” ex
plained the ametenr joker. “Yon
see the whole whole point is in the
play on the two words—porter and
bier. Porter and bier mixed is called
half aud half. Now you catch the
idea, don't you?”
“Well, I understand it so far. But
where’s the joke ?”
“Why, I explained—”
“Yes; I know that you explained.
You said porter aud beer mixed is
called half and half. But that kind
of porter is not a man—it is a liquor,
and anyhow, you don’t spell beer
right.”
'•But that’s the point- Yon notice
■ftete, the wnni h have different mean- j
and the same sound. It is to
bring out the different idea that the
■word itself conveys that I have tried,
and I flatter myself—”
"No, no,” interrupted the newspa
per man, “not flatter. Your gram
mar is at fault. The joke is flat, not
flatter.”
At this point some of the people in
the sanctum interfered, and the ene
my beat a graceful retreat without
any casualties.
•John, take this slate, you rascal,
and work out this sum. If a eat
falls in a well, sixty feet deep, and
crawls out six feet each day, falling
back eight every night, how much
time would the cat require to get out
of the well ?”
John set to ciphering, and covered
both sides.of the slate with figures;
then placing the edge of the slate on
his knees, and resting his chin on the
other, he gazed in vacancy.
‘Well, John,.how about the cat?’
‘Father, I ain’t got any room on
the slate, but if I had another square
inch, I would have that cat in fire
and brimstone in three minutes.’
A preacher in a suburban town,
while instructing a class of urchins in
the catechism, told them that God
could do everything, whereupon one
of them asked: “Can God make a
rock so big that He can’t lift it?”—
The boy’s question remained unan
swered.
"When a young man has climbod
over the fauce into the back-yard in
order that he may sit there and muse
and watch the light in her window,
nothing pleases him so much as to
run against the clothes line and dis
cover that she only had one pair of
stockings in the wash last week.
Old farmer B. is a stingy man.
Who keeps all he gets ami gets all he can.
He goes to church aud he rents a paw.
But the dimes he gives to the Lord are few. i
If he gets to heaven with the good and great.
He will be let In at the smallest gate. m
-—-
Sir Henry Bessemer's new tele-1
scope cost him 3200,000.
A patch on the seat of a boy’s trow
sers is something now nuder the sou.
The cotton factories in and around !
Augusta Ga., use $1,500,000 worth
of raw cotton per annum.
Cervantes has said : “Every one is
,son of hie own works.” This makes
the great Krupp a son of a gun.
The richest university in the world
is that of Leyden, in Holland. Its
real estate alone is worth over four
million dollars.
. Now we’ve got a good one. Kero
seuo oil will fuddle as.well as whis
key. Anyhow, it makes a locomo
tive’s head-light.
There are 30,000 deaf mutes iu tho
United States, and 50 places of wor
ship where services are conducted in
the sign language.
Leadville nlready has three daily
newspaper, four church, and a public
school system ; but there are, nlso,
108 gambling houses.
A western oaper coarsely calls the
Chinese immigrant a beat. Regard
ing him as a vegetable, we should
pref-jr to speak of him as a quoin -
comer.
The French artillery has been
doubled since 1870, and now uambers
gun for gun and man for man, exact
ly tho same as that of the German
Empire.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company purchase about 20,000 miles
of wire annually, which gives us some
idea of the enormous extent of their
businoss,
Richard Grant White is after the
public again. He says the expression
“dun gone” did not originate with
Homer, aud that it contains several
■pounds of bad grammer.
A Canadian couple, ou their way
to Dakota to settle, weigh 614
pounds ; the tumi 310 and tho wife
JpM. Let ns hope that they will be
Tftreful what they settle on.
The wife of a New York German
tailor, mother of an eleven-months-old
child, gave birth to twins, where
upon the father fltd from home, and
has not since been beard from.
Teamsters along the Gila River,
Arizona, complain of the large herds
of wild camel that have of late taken
possession of the main road, to the
consternation of horses and mules.
Experiments recently made on the
Lake Shore Railroad prove that pe
troleum can be successfully used as
fuel for locomotives with a groat
saving of money besides doing away
with smoke and cinders.
Miss Maud Banks, daughter of
(fen. Banks, has made her delmt at
Brookline, Mass., as an actress ia an
ameteur company. She intends to
go on the professional stage. The
General was once an actor.
Mary Bean, who made her entry
into Indiana six years ago in a Bloom
er costume, with a revolver displayed
at her belt, and became a public
speaker on woman’s rights, now re
tires to a prison as a thief.
In February next there will be five
Sundays. The fact occurs but threo
times in a contury. Thus, after 1880,
we will have to wait until lt)20 before
the shortest month of the year can
again boast of five Sundays.
“Eye-glasses make a young man
look like an idiot.” “Quite true,”
replied grandfather Lickshiugle, “but
nine young men out of every ten
who wear ’em would look like idiots
any way; so where’s tbe harm ?”
At the next lotting of mail routes
it is proposed to increase weekly to
semi-weekly and semi-weekly to tri
weekly routes, and give all country
towns wherever possible a daily mail
service. This will add much to the
convenience of the country in gen
eral.
A Washington paper casually ob
serves : “In the midst of all the lion
ors lavished upon Gen. Grant, it is
pitiful to see his only brother going
about town, dirty and ragged, a
harmless imbecile, borrowing a quar
ter or a half dollar from anybody
who will give it to him.”
It is a generation of old men which
troubles the peace of Europe to-day.
Prince Gortschaoff is 82, Lord Bea
oonsfield 74, Prince Bismarck 65,
Count Von Moltke 79, and the Em
peror William 83. The youngest of
the leading figures in diplomacy are
old—Count Andrassy 56 and Count
Schovaloff 52.
David Dixon and Mary Swinton
were ta have been married at two
o’.clock in the afternoon, at Embar
ras Wis. An hour earlier, he and
others were in her room, where the
finishing touches were being put on
her toilet. An old pistol lay on her
bureau. He supposed it unloaded,
playfully snapped it at her, and shot
her dead.
THOMSON, GFY.* WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1879.
AUftUSTA ADVERTISEMENTS.
LOW PRICES
—FOR—
Boots, Shoes and Mats.
-I
We have now in store a very large and complete stock of
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS,
which lias been purchased direct from the manufacturers at the*
LOWEST PRICES TIP GASH WILL COMMAND,
aud ns our motto is *1
Large Sale sand Small Profits
our customers and the puhlio can rely ou
GOOD BADGAIKTS.
A large stock of Philadelphia and
Baltimore fine shoes on hand.
A liberal discount to the wholesale
trade.
WM. MU'IISSW,
293 if ito:io Sr., dectmra, Gsoaeta.
epl.7S-ly
Masonic Hail Building, 244 Broad Street, Angaria Ga
GEORGE A- BAILIE,
[LATE OF J AS. O. BAILIE A MtO. ]
Respectfully culls the attention of the public to a beautiful lino of the above
Goods, which he is fast openiug in the Musoniq Hull building, No. 244 Broad
Street, consisting of beautiful
Brussels .‘1 Ply and Ingrain Carpets. Rustic and Paper Shades, all sizes
Hearth Rugs, Door Mats, Crumb Cloths, 'Perrys, Reps and Damasks, all coirs
Floor and 'Pablo Oil Cloth, all widths, Cane and Upholsterer’s Trimmings,
Lace and Nottingham Lace Curtains,, Wall Papers in great variety.
Curtain Bands, Loops, Gimps and Tassels, Borders, Fire Screens and side lights,
Window Cornices in variety of patterns, Chromos, Picture Cord,
Window Shades, nil colors and sizes, Picture Tassels and Nails,
Window Hollands, all colors.
I respectfully solicit an examination of my Goods by the public, whom I have
been among aud waiting upon for the past twenty-fivo years, guaranteeing to all
that they will be waited on pleasantly and promptly.
Besides the front door main entrance to my store, I have securod a private
entrance through the main lmll of the Masonic Hall.
GEORGE A. BAILIE,
2tl mtOAI) STREET, MASONIC HALL BUILDING.
•HTOarpots made and laid promptly. I will open in two weeks a full stock of
choice FAMILY GROCERIES, under charge of one of Augusta’s most competent
and reliable young men. GEORGE A. BAILIE.
sept-H-Dm
1843. ESTABLISHED 1843.
o. voi/;s^r,
Importer of and Wholesale and Retail
- DEALER IN—
Segars, Tobacco, Pipes, Snuff,
WHISKIES, BB ANDIES, BUMS, GINS. KHINE,
CLAKET, and CATAWBA WINES, CHAMPAGNES,
MINEIIAIj WATEH, etc., a specialty.
Itoltlcd Beer, Much jim
ST. LOUIS, CINCINNATI and MILWAUKEE. Domestic.
TAAIKF.It, BitEMElt ank PILUMEIi. Imported.
Prices, “Lower Than the Loivest.”
M fa 254 Jtrtoxn sp,g fife*.
aept-tf-Cra
Jambs ۥ llailije,
—DEALER IN—
Carpets, Oil Cloths, Window Curtains
and Shades.
—ALSO—
Choice Family Groceries
AND
Plantation Hupplies
205 BROAD STREET,
.} AUGUSTA, GA.
sept-il-hiH
$1.50 STOP AT $1.50
THE AUaUSTA. HOTEL,
Cornet ■ of Broad and Washington Sts., Augusta, On.
CONVENIENTLY LOCATED TO BUSINESS.
With" Telegraph Office in the Building, and Southern Express Cos. Office
next door to Hotel Building.
Summer Bate of Board per Day, $1.50,
SINGLE MEALS 50 CENTS. ] SINGLE LODGINGS 50 CENTS
August 6-ilm W. >1 MOOHE, Proprietor.
Subscribe for the Journal.
COTTON FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
JT. 31. HI HDrj Ji,
Cotton JißtMMid sommisotott gUvchatfi
Continues Business as heretofore at Old Stand,
Q *vffersni vsi,
SELLS STRICTLY ON COMMISSION.
Best attention to all consignments, and Prompt Remittances.
i;r: YOUNG & HACK,
Grocers and Commission Mentals
296 BROAD STREET, CORNER CAMPBELL,
aUWSTtft (sEQ®Gm,
We' have in store and are constantly receiving a large stock of all goods
usually kept in a first-class grocery store. octß-3ra
ANTOINE POUIXAIN,
c@wwm fnctqji,
Corner Jackson and Reynolds Streets,
dVGVSTX* &EQEUIM*
Consignments Solicited.
oct-l-dm °
Z."Mo€OBD,
WMQLEBdIB Gm§€Bm
—AND—
Dommission Merchant,
No. 294 Broad tr a 3t, Aigjst a, Ca.
oet-t-ttin T
W. DANIEL,
>: COTTON FACTOR
•••, , _ .
(joMMrssioN Merchant,'
Augusta, (Georgia.
Commission for Selling Cotton, 50c. a Bale.
oct-1 -Rm
BS. A. STOVALL,
Gottßn Factor and Commission lerchant,
lfi.l and It;.-. REYNOLDS STREET,
Augusta* ©eoroia.
Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to liis care.
ocfcß-3m
F. V. BURDELL. | L. E. WOOD, Barnwell, H. C.
Bijroell & Wood,
, COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
GENERAL COMIMSSION MERCHANTS,
Special attention given to the handling of
COTTON <b ALL OTHER PRODUCTS OF THE FARM.
COMMISSION FOB SELLING COTTON, !)() CENTS PER BALE.
Quick Salon and Returns.
Cotton Advanced On In Store.
FIRE PROOF WAREHOUSE.
Corner Mclntosh and Reynolds Streots, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
Kfcpt-ft-om
A W. BENSON. -■- W. N. MEKOIER
BENSON & MERCIER,
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
3 WABBEN BLOCK, AUGUSTA, GA.
Will give personal and undivided attention to the Weighing: and
Selling of Cotton,
LIBERAL GASH Advances Made on Consignments
sept-iG-l'm _______________
FOB SELLING, 50c. I STORAGE, 25c.
M. O’DOWD,
COTTON FACTOR
—AND—
Commission Merchant,
Corner Campbell & Reynolds Streets.
Opposite Sibley & Wheeles,
Augusta, Georgia.
Personal Attention Given to WEIGHING AND SELLING.
Bopt-17f*
THOMSON ADYERTLSBM ENTS.
GO TO THE CASH STORE !
o
B. 11. BUSH,
At his old stand, raoeutly occupied by A. J. Adkins, is now receiving a
LARGE STOCK OF NEW GOODS,
Direct from the North, consisting in part of
Dry Goods, Notions, Boots
and Shoes, Plats and Trunks,
Saddles and Harness, &c., &c.
AND A. FULL LINe OF
Family Groceries,
Plantation Supplies,
Bagging and Ties,
Confectioneries, etc., etc.
Call and see me. Buy For CASH
and S-A.V.E Nloney.
M* M* BUSK, Thomson, C&a.
P. S. Highest Market Price Paid tor Cotton.
aept-24-8m
J. TRUMAN INEAL,
—AT—
THE POST OFFICE
HAS A GOOD LINE OF CDEFECTIONERTES OF ALL
KINDS. TOU A OCOS AND CIGAItS.
STATION ERIES,
BLANK BOOKS, LETTER AND i.tAP PAPER EVVEL
OPES, PENCILS, PENS, INK Ac. '
Fancy Boxes of Paper and Envelopes.
J. 0. Watson*
O
Informs the public that he has opened a
NEW OROCERY STORE
In ti e old MolCinney house, next door below the Post Office, where he will
keep a full liuo of
FAZttXry KnOCEIUES AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES
TOBACCOS, CIGARS, ,£•<;, Ac., CONFEC
TIONERIES, TIN and WOOD
WARE, Ac., Ac., Ac.
All ■•{ ' wil - !! at %i,res f- • rr ""H- vp?
Full Wciffhts o
Call and examine my Stock, TJ™
J. O AA r A.TSOIST,
sept-24-4m MAIN STREET, TH M.4ON, GEORGIA.
1879. STILL WE LEAD. 1879.
1,000 Bushels lied Bust Proof Seed Oats.
500 Bushels Winter Grazing Outs, slightly mixod.
500 SuokH Liverpool Suit.
Don’t buy elsewhere until you price the above goods.
Owing to the short corn crop just liar'ested, there will lie a large aero ■
age sown in Outs aud the prices will rule much higher in the near future.
We have in store, aud will continue to receive, u largo stock of Sugars,
Coffees, Teas, Bugging, Ties, Molasses, Syrups, Bacon, Bacon Shoulders
and Hams, besides a thousand and one other good things in the Grocery
Department which we agree to sell as close as they eau bo bought in any
Market
Now wo want to say a word about, Shoes.
We have just received 25 cases of Shoes dir et from the Manufacturers
embracing Btogans from 99e. to gl. 50, aud we agreo to givo a belter shoe
ten per cent, less money than any other house in town.
Gent’s Calf Balmoral Jersey Ties, and other stylos of Dress Slices.
Ladies’ aud Children’.. Shoes in great variety.
A full stock of Till Wire always on hand.
I’riceH in Tin Ware lower by fifty per cent, than ever before.
Tin Pie Plates, Ic. each ; Large Block Tin Wash Pans, 10c., &e.
We bought One Hundred Kegs of Nails before the advance in iron Rnd
will give our customers the advantage of it together witli as complete line
of Hardware as was ever brought to this market.
A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF CANNED GOODS.
O -■
Hides, Wool, Wax, Rags, Tallow, Wheat, Oats,
Ac., taken in exchange for goods.
Wo have plenty of Competent Assistants, and are fully prepared to fill
all your wants, so don’t forget to call on us when you couie to town.
,1. JB\ SHIELDS,
jyj-l.y THOMSON. GEOKGIA.
J. It NEAL & SON.
171I 71 OR the liberal patronage bestowed upon us during the past year we ten*
’ del-our thanks to thy public; to continue to merit their patronage and
to increase it is our eudeavor.
Our Fail and Winter Stock
Is how completo in all the different departments, and the goods will he sold
at the very lowost living prices.
CALICOES, BLEACHED HOMESPUN,
SEA ISLAND, TICKING, CASSIMERE3,
GENUINE KENTUCKY JEANS,
BLACK ALPAOCA, CASHMERE,
Water Proof, Table Damask
ATHENS’ CHECKS and STRIPES, ’
SHIRTINGS, FLANNELS, CLOAKS,
SHAWLS, BALMORAL SKIRTS, 40.. Are. "
DRESS GOODS of VARIOUS STYLES.
A LARGE STOCK OF CLOTHING—CHEAF
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Quit Bay Htatk Shoes
Are the Beat Shoes ever mado, and at low prices. Wear them ouoe and you
will nuy them again.
Bay State Boots, $2.00; Frenoli Calf Boots, $2.75.
Wo have Brogans for 70c., SI.OO and up.
Women’s High Cut, Henvy Shoes, 75c, to SI.OO.
A Good Stock of Ladies’ and Gent’s Fino Shoos,
Hats very ohoap, from 20e. up.
Tli© Celebrated Pearl Shirt, the
best and cheapest in
AniGrica> I
Call and seo J R ife SON.
sop-21 3m MAIN STREET, THOMSON, GEORGIA
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