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MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Henry S. Jordan^
738 BROAD STREET, AIGLSTA, 3KORBIA.
KCLOTSIRfi,
BKAOTIKiII, STYLES.
lJot tom Prieew.
' Boys Clothiug
hrisliflg Goods
The Best and
GOODS IS THE
W HANDSOME FALL and WIXTEII SUITS.
Fall Announcement
FIRST CLASS BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS
ARE THE CHEAPEST.
G'HIS ISA DAY OF LOW PRICES, AND IN THE ATTEMPT
X to reduce them, the qnalhj ha* been continually dinmiiHhed until
% sun out amount* to exchanging money for Browu Paper and Glue.
We will not Attempt to eell all tbe SHOES, bnt the quality ve vu
Maintain, and Stand For
GOOD, HONEST uid DURABLE BOOTS k SHOES.
0r stork oow in firt-cl-H Rood* of *ll kinds i* seooud to Done in tli<-
Hmrket, We kep *ll the BEST MAKES, and are Sole Agents in Angust
For Edwin C. Burt’s Now York
Fin* Shoe* lor Ladies, Misses sod CiliUirru, They need no recommendation
M the, *w well known to be the BEST Roods mamtfaetmed in America,
All aiww and width* lwn,s on baud. We keep lo the only Slew Pol iso
that softens and preserve* leather. There is uotkiilg like it msnufaotured
ASK FOR
Button's Haven Gloss.
Give us a trial when iu the City. Politeness cost* nothing, and we
deal it oat freely to all.
McCORD & DILI,
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914, BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA GA.
P. 8, —Remember we prepay express* on ■ all orders orerOO , an $8
guarantee satisfaction, or yonrgooil* i tour nod at our expense.
IRVING & CO.
•A.t Sliield.es 5 Old Stanch Main
Street,
THOMSON, GA.
announce to the people of Thomson and vicinity that we have commerced
" busmen* at tbe old stand of J. F. Shields, on Main street, where wo will
keep ooestantly in .ttock full lines of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
CONSISTING IN PART OF— -
Corn, Meal, Floor, Rice,
Sugar Coffee. Cheese, Starch,
Potash, Salt, etc, etc.
TINWARE, HARDWARE, CUTLERY.
£480)
THE BEST GRADES OF TOBACCO, CIGARS AND SNUFF.
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes and Hats.
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cordially inrite everybody to cal’ and examine owr goodw, whether they
wish to pn/ehtse or not. We hope, by clone attention to bnsinea*, small profits
snd fair and botieet dealing, to merit and receive a liberal nkare of patronage.
Keipeetfu 1y ,
Irving & Cos.
MAIN STREET, THOMTON, GA.
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E. R. SCHNEIDER
WhuimMe and Retail Dealer m
File Wtees. Cigars. Brandis. Tobacco, Miner
eral Waters, Whiskies, Gins. Porter,
Ale, etc., etc.
601 and 802 Broad Stred, : :: Augusta, Georgia.
-AGENT FOR -
Ten re CVqno' Ponsa-rtin. Urbana nine Company
An lieu er-Hunch It re ring Association,
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FB&TM&L HOTEJ<t
Augusta Georgia.
MRS. W. M. THOMAS, Pcpbietor
rpHIS Hotel, eo well known to the citizens of MeDulße and adjoining eonnDea
•ia 10-auiei in the centre of the business portion of Angusta, convenient to Pen
o*c, Telegraph o*oe and Depot, and intluoeaient* to the pnWic nn
,ua.ied t<\ her ay otffoto! p the City.
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VOL. XIII.
FOR LOVE’S SAKE.
Sometimes I am tempted to murmur
That life it Hitting away.
With only a round of trifle*
Filling each busy day— ,
Dusting nooks and comers.
Making the hous* look fait,
And patiently taking on rae
The buraea of woman’s care,
Comforting childish sorrows,
Anti ebartning the childish besrt
With the simple song and story,
Told with a mother’s heart; *
Setting the dear home table.
And clearing the meel away,
And going on little errands
In the twilight of the day.
On* day ia just like ano'her!
Sewing a id piecing weU
Little jaekets an troneern,
So neatly that none can tell
Where all the seams and joinings—
Ah! tbe seamy side uf life
Is kept out of sight by the magic
Of many a mother and wife!
And oft, when I am ready to murmur
Thet timeis flittiug away
With the self same round of duties
Filing each busy dny,
It Comes to my spirit sweetly,
With the grace of a thought divin*:
“Yon are living, t iling f <r love’s sake.
And the loving should never repine,
Yon aro guiding the little footsteps
In the way that they ought to walk;
You aro dropping a word for Jesus
In the midst of your household talk;
Living your life for love's sake,
Till tne homely cares grow sweet—
And sacred the self.dcnial
That is laid at the Master’s feet. ”
TOO MAN! DEGREES.
J(k middle aged lady with a
II Black alpaca dress, worn
|g shiny at the elbows, and a
cheap shawl and a cheap bonnet,
and her hands puckered up and
blue, as though she had got her
washing out, went into the office
of a prominent mason a few mor
uingß since, and took a chair.
She wiped her nose and the
prespiration from her face on a
blue check apron, and when the
mason looked at her with an in
terested, brotherly look as though
she was in trouble, she said :
“Are you the boss mason’”
lie b.ushed, told her he was a
mason, but not the highest in the
rand. She hesitated a moment,
fingering the coiner of her apron,
and cuned it like a boy speaking
a piece in school, and asked :
“Have you taken the whole
333 degrees in masonry!”
The man laughed, and told her
there were only thirty-three de
grees, and that ho had taken only
thirty-two. The other degree
could only be taken by a very few,
who were recommended by the
grand lodge, and they had to go
to New York to get the thirty
third degree.
The lady studied a moment, un
pinned the safety pin that held
her shawl together, and put it in
her mouth, took a long breath,
and said:
“Where does my husband get
the other two hundred degrees
then 1”
The prominent mason said lie
guessed her husband had never
got two hundred degrees, unless
he had a degree factory. He said
he didn’t exactly understand the
lady.
“Does my husband have to sit
up with a corpse three nights a
week?” she demanded, her eyes
flashing Are. “Do you keep a lot
of sick masons on tap for my
husband to sit up with the other
four nights ?”
The prominent mason said he
was thankful that few died, and
occasionally was one sick enough
to call for masonic assistance.
When a mason was sick away
from home, or . when his family
desired it, the brethren were only
too glad to sit up withhim; but
there were so many masons and
so few sick that it was only once
in two or three months that a
bi other was called upon to sit up
with anybody. “But why do
you ask thesecpiestions, madam?”
said the prominent mason.
“The woman picked the fringe
off her shawl, hung her head
down, and said:
“Well, my husband began to
join the masons about two years
ago, and he has been taking de
grees or sitting up with people
every night since, and he comes,
home at all times of night, smel
ling of beer and cheese. 11ho light
at first that the cheese was the
resuit of his using to the morgue
to help carry brother masons
home, after they had been found
in the river. He has come home
twice with a strange pair of draw
ers on, and when I asked him
how it was, he said it was a se
cret he couldn’t reveal under
penalty of being shot with a can
non. All he would say was that
he took a degree. I have kept a
little track of it, and I figure that
he has taken 233 dogrees, includ
ing the grand Sky Fugle degree,
which he took the night he came
home with his lips cut and his
1 ear hanging by a piece of skin "
THOMSON, GEORGIA,. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1883.
“0, madam,” said the prominent
mason, “There is no Sky Fugle in
masonry. Your husband has lied
to you.”
“That’s what I think,*’ said she,
as a baleful light appeared in he /
eyes. “He said he was taking the
Sky Fugle degree and fell through
the sky-light. I had him sewed
up, and he was ready for move
degrees. After he had taken, I
should think, about a hundred and
fifty degrees, I told him I
should think be would let up o*..
it and put some potatoes in tne
cellar for winter, but he sa ’
wheu a man once got started on
the degrees he had to take thoi.
all or he didn’t amount to or y
thing. One time I had wank' £
hat io weal’ to church, with 'V
feather on, and he said feathers
were all nonsense, and the next
day he brought home a leather
case with a felt coal-scuttle in it,
and a feather on it that couldn’t
have cost less than ten dollar’s,
the way I figure millinery. And
when he put it on and I laughed
at his ridiculous appearance, lie
began to throw his arms around,
and I asked him what was the '
matter, and hfi said that was the |
grand hailing Bign of distress, and :
if I didn’t look out an avenger
would appear from a dark closet
and run a toad-sticker through me
for a scoffer. He must have spent
a fortune on the last hundred and
fifty degrees. One morning he
came homo with his coat-tail split
right up the back and his pants
torn just as though a dog had
chawed him, and one eye closed
up and a wad of hair pulled right
out of his head, and he said he’d
been taking the 200th degree, but
he wouldn’t tell me how it hap
pened, because it was a dead se
cret. Sometimes a brother mar
son comes home with him early in
the morning, and they talk about
a “full flush” and they both act
full as they stand on the steps
and talk about their “pat hands
raising ’em out," and “calling" and
bob-tail flush.” One night when
he was asleep I heard him whis
per : “I raise you ten dollars,” and
when I ask him what ho meant,
he said they had been raising a
purse for a poor widow. Anof hor
time he raised up iu bed after he
had been asleep, and shouted: “I
stand pat,” ami when I asked him
what he meant he said he was
ruined if I told of it. Ho said he
had spoken the pass word, and if
the brethren heard of it they
would put him out of five way, ev
en as Morgan was put out of the
wav. Mister, is “I stand pat”
your pass word !”
The mason told her it was not.
That the words she had spoken
were expressions used by men
when playing draw poker, and he
added that he didn’t believe her
husband was a mason at all, but
that he had been lying to her all
these many years.
Sho sighed and said; “That’s
what I thought when he came
home with a lot of ivory chips in
his pocket. He said they used
them at the lodge to vote on can
didates, and that a white chip
elects and a blue chip rejects, a
candidate. If you will look the
matter up and see if he has joined
the masons I will be obliged to
you. He says he has taken all
the 233 degrees, and now the boys
want him to join the Knights of
Pythias. I want to get out an
injunction to prevent his joining
anything else until we get some
underclothes for winter. I’ll tell
you what I will do. The next
time he says anything about .Sky
Fugle degrees and consistory non
sense, I will take a wash-board
and make him think there is one
degree iti masonry that he has
overlooked; and now good-bye.
You have comforted me greatly,
and I will lay awake to-night un
til my husband comes homo from
the lodge with his pat hand, and
I will make him think he has. for
got his ante.”
The lady went out to a grocery
to buy a bar of soap, and the
promincut mason resumed his
business with I footing that
all are not truly good, and there
is cheating going on all around.
Built for White Folks.
The other day a colored man
went to the insane asylum and ap*
preaching the superintendent
said :
“Boss, is yer got a spair room
fur me in dis big house?”
“Ale you insane ?”
“Yes, sah, do wust you eber
seed a man. Bein’ left a bache
lor, sah.”
“Are you a bachelor!”
“Yes, sah, been so since yis
te’day.”
“How did you become a bache
lor so suddenly!”
- “My. wife run away wid a buck
nigger, sah.”
“That doesn’t make you an old
bachelor, and, besides, this is not
neeessarially a bachelor# asylum.”
“Wall, wheu a man’s wife leahs
him ain’t he ’titled ter a ben in
dis house !”
“No, sir."
“Den I'se misunderstood de
law I'se said so befo’ an’ I say
so again, dat dar ain’t no usen a
uiggar kyiji ter make a libin. I
see de game. Dis house is built
'."or white G'ks."
Beginning to^Squeeze.
Two or three years ago a Jersey
City pension lawyer took the case
of a widow who wanted about
f2,000 back pay, and the papers
went to Washington to be hidden
away among the cobwebs until
some clerk had nothing else to do
but examine them. After three
months had passed, a young far
mer called to ask about the case,
and every thirty days since that
time he has dropped in with his:
“Well, any good nows for the
widow Jennings!”
At his last visit the other day,
the lawyer replied after the same
sterotypod fashion, and added :
“Do you live near the widow?”
“Only one farm between us."
“And she has told you to watch
for the money?”
“Well, not exactly that, but
I've kinder taken it upon myself
to do so. If the widdeT Jonnings
gets that 82,000 before the first
of April, my heart is going to
yearn t 6 marry her. If she don’t
get it, I’m going to marry an old
maid wiih twenty-one uc-res of
land and a yoke of oxen. I
wouldn’t have come in to day, but
the widdor she’s a winking and
the old maid is looking party as a
bed of onions, and things is be
ginning to squeeze on me.”
A Knotty Problem.
* I? Was a severe rdtort; and yet
a merited reproof for a piece of
uncalled-for asperity and uukind
uess, if not of downright indecen
cy.
They were in the small cabin of
a rivor ferryboat. Two young
ladies sat together, one of whom
had just, had an ambrotypo like
ness, or miniature, of herself tak
en, which she was exhibiting to
her companion. She was an or
dinary appearing girl—she of tho
ambrotype—with one exception :
she had a very large nose—an
enormous nose for such a face.
On the seat opposite sat a mid
dle-aged, fatherly-looking man, to
whom (in ambrotype was some
thing new. His garb and general
appearance bespoke a man of the
rural district. As the owner of
the picture was about to put it
away, this man put out his hand,
and asked if lie might be permit
ted to look at “that ere piotur!”
jTbe girl looked at him indig
ittntly. “What is my picture to
you f” she retorted, angrily. ‘Just
you mind your own business 1”
For a moment the man was as
one thunderstruck; then he seem
ed hurt, and pained ; and, finally
his honest face was stamped with
disgujt.,
After a time he caught the gaze
of the .damsel fixed upon him ns
though half ashamed of herself;
but she would not break the si
jetfee. He, however ventured :
‘‘You’ll pardon me, miss ; but I
had a particular season for want
ing to see that .ere "pictur o’
yourn.”
“Well,” sniffed the gill, with a
determined effort to maintain her
assumed dignity, “what might
'that particular reason have been ?”
“Wall—it might a’ been a good
many things; but really I was
cur’ous to see bow in the world
the mail ’at made tho picturo ever
contrived to get that nose on to
sq. small a plate 1”
At that moment the boat
touched the landing, and the
countryman picked up his bundle,
bowed politely at tho choking,
quivering dalnael, and moved on.
A naturalized Chinaman, Tom
Dee, agent of the Six Companies,
who keeps a tea and grocery store,
and is worth $200,000, lias been
chosen a deputy sheriff in New
York.
There is a man at Plattsburg
New York, whose name is Con->
stant Agony. He must boa cheer
ful companion.
STATE NEWS. tJ >
Atlanta has decided to make
war on the English sparrows.
The Gordon monument in
Wright, Square, Savannah, has
been completed.
An aged lady in Gainesville has
some relies of old furniture which
were brought from England over
350 years ago.
Cochran Banner: Mr. W. A.
Sherrill has employed Eev. G. C.
Clark by the month to marry off
the inmates of his house.
A woman in Hart county, Ga.,
has given birth to twenty-one
children and does not seem to
have had any graveyard luck. She
has raised them all.
A white woman in Macon is
wrathy over the discovery that
her husband has seven wives,
Sho proposes to make it lively for
the old man in the courts.
Atlanta is consuming largo
amounts of Chicago refrigerated
beef, and the demand is growing
daily. Dealers in that city also
furnish Macon, Montgomery, Ala.,
and Jacksonville, Fig
Athens Banner: The two Stan
ley boys are in jail at Lawrence
ville, and both charged with mur
der—one killing a white man and
tlie other a negro. This iH some
thing unusual.
There is a dog near Dalton that
obeys all oral commands of his
mistress, runs neighborhood er
rands, goes to the post office, etc.,
only carrying a note to make his
wants known.
An unknown woman threw her
infant from the car window be
tween Macon and Atlanta, while
tho train was running at full
speed. It was picked up by the
road hands badly bruised, but
will probably live.
The enthusiasm of the farmers
of Dougherty county, Ga., on tho
subject of truck farming increases
in volume. One or two of the
largest planters have already en
gaged the services of skilled veg
etable growers at large salaries.
It promises to work an important
revolution.
The Banner says there is a
young man in Athens about 20
years old, and who is bright and
well educated, who never heard of
Alexander 11. Stephens, and didn’t
know that such a man was Gov
ernor of Georgia.
Covington Star: Mr. John
Lindsay, one of the oldest citizens
of our county, died at his home
on last Sunday night, aged about
78 years. For many years Mr.
Lindsay has suffered with exces
sive obesity, and would probably
have weighed 400 pounds at the
time of his death,
Mr. Bob Price came in from the
country yesterday with a petition
signed by 108 citizens, asking for
another election on the fence ques
tion. It was filed with the Ordi
nary. The no fence men will no
doubt carry the day this time as
they seein more than ever deter
mined.—Telegraph and Messenger
Commencement day of Wesley
an College this year will occur on
Wednesday July 11. On the Sun
day preceding, Rev. Wf P. Har
rison, D. D., of Nashville, will
preach the commencement sermon,
and the visiting committees from
fraternizing conferences will meet
at the college on Friday July 6,
at 9 o’clock, a. m.
Thursday afternoon last, a ne
gro boy about fifteen years old,
on Mr. R. W. Hardy’s place, near
Sen oia, returning from plowing,
attempted to dismount from a
mule at the gear house. The mule
became frightened and ran. The
boy’s feet were entangled in the
gear, and he was dragged down
hill to the creek, the injuries re
suiting in death. _______
A little girl, an eight year old
daughter of Mr. Heath, near Jack
son’s flour mills, Augusta, was
rescued from death by drowning
!by a brave colored man, Monday
morning on the second canal level.
The little girl fell into the water
from the bridge on Kolloek street
and had floated under the bridge,
when B. P. Hibbler, who works
at VV I. Dolpli’s store, jumped in
and bravely rescued the little girl.
t MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
.lAMKS IS.NKAI.,
hi st, nmsu, si.
Having SOLD MY INTEREST IN THK DRY OOOOS STORI
James B. Neal <&- Hon,
WILL GIVE MY ATTENTION TO MY
Grocery Store,
FAMILY GROCERIES & PLANTATION SUPPLIES.
- FULL LINE OF-
DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, SHOIS UNO BITS,
HCA.ORID WARE,
GLAw WARE,
WOOD WAHE,
CROCKERY, Etc., Etc.
All of which i win sell for cash, come
ONE I COME ALL ! and give me A TRIAL. My motto is LOW TRICES.
QUICK SALES, FAIR DEALING, GOOD MEASURE and FULL WEIGHTS.
I will continue to Hell the—
Chain Water-Elevator,
WHICH IS SUPERIOR to PUMPS for RAISING and PURIFYING WATER.
A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT
JAMES B. NEAL.
McDUFFE MILLS
TllOMSOft, (JEORRIA,
W &• Curtis,. Proprietor.
Having purchased the above property from J. F. A J. L. Shields, and
iniidc a number of improvements and repairs, I announce to the people of
McDuffie and neighboring counties that I am now operating as flee a set
Mills, for both
Whea t and Corn
as can be found in Middle Georgia, Everything being of the latest and
most improved patterns I hope to merit and receive a libera) share of miblie
patronage
COTTON GIN.
With a large and commodious Gin House, aud one of the anet Gins
ever manufactured, I am now ginning an t packing sot ton neatly aud expe
ditiously f-ir all of my customers. I guarantee good sample anil good retak
ing. M\ Mill aud Gin are ou Railroad street, below tlie depot
.A. GOOD DRAY
beslwatM nidy to haul grain to my mill to bo g,o r id and will deliver
a same in the corporation free of charge. I will also haul goods of any
ud for parties iu town at reasonable rates.
Walter S. Curtis
S| T. MARKWALTER
if MARBLE WORKS,
i broad strfet, near lower markh.
2? AUG PSTA, GKOKOI t
MONUMENTS, Tombstones, and Marble work generally always on h&nd and
made to order. All work for the country carefully boxed, and delivered
he Railroad depot in Augusta, free of (“targe. Specimens of tbe work can til
con at tbe manufactory marlß.7B-b*f
J. TRUMAN NEAL
AT THE
Post Office
Thomson, Ga.
KEEPS CONSTANLY ON HAND V SELECT LINE OF
School Books, and School Stationery.
Fancy Box Paper, boxes of choice cards
and Envelopes, Autograph Albums.
Juvenile and Standard Books,
Novels, Pomes, etc. School
Satchels, Ink, Pens,
Slates, copy
books etc.
ELAN! BOOKS OF AMU KINDS*
Gift Bibles, Diaries, Pocket maps, Blank Drafts, Homestead waiver note*,
Receipts, Time books Fishing honks and liues, and a full line of Envelopes.
Note, Letter, Fool Cap. Bill and Legal cup paper.
A nice liue *f Cigars always on hand.
Januftry24-1883-<'3m N
THE BBT IS THE CHEAPEST!
DAVID F. IRVING
—n
ii.HK I*3 CONSTANTLY IN STOCK A FULL LIN* OF KAMI
LY GROCERIES,
—AND—
Plantation Nnpplies
CONSISTING IN PART OF
B A CON, CORN, MEAL, FLOUR, SUGAR, COFFEE, RICE, SOAP,
POTASH, TIN WARE, CHEESE. CROCKERY, STARCH, HARD
WARE, CUTLERUY, etc, etc.
The Best Grades of Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff
Boots and Shoes and Hate!
Dry Goods and Staple Goods 1
And Everything Usually Kept in a First-Class <3e leral Store !
PRICKS MODERATE AND GOODS GUARANTEED.
B, F* IMT IMG,
MAIN STREET, THOMSON, GEORGIA. .
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