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MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENT.
X. I. BESSMAN,
(SUCCESSOR TO i. W. BESSMAN, AGENT,)
Wholesale Liquor Dealers,
908 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Sole Agent for JOHN GIBSON’S SON A GO'S,
Celebrated Old Monongahela Rye Whiskies!
Aleo will keep in stock a full line of the LOWER GRADES of Goods, together with
Imported Wines, Brandies, Gins, Etc.
And *ll other Good* ueual to a FIRST-CLASS WHOLBBAL* HOUSE, which will
be sold at the lowest Price*. Orders and correspondence solicited.
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1,000,11 Galois Api Bit Nits.
S. B. WRIGHT.
TVo, 934. liroad Ht., Augusta, Ga.
to; ———
AfUr an experience of fifteen years in the Retail Liquor Business feels justified
in offering to the public by Wholesale the Largest and Finest Stook of
Liquors in the South, specialties among whioh are
Brandies, Wines, Bums, Gins, &c.
California Brandies and Wines, Old Scuppernong Wines, North Carolina
Grape Wines, Finest Blackberry Wines. Mountain Com Whiskey.
Agent for KENTUCKY BOURBON BONESETTONIO and OLD CROW
WHIBKKY.
Case Liquors of all kinds.
All orders from the country promptly filled and satisfaction guaranteed.
Send your Demijohns, Jugs or Casks and bare them filled and returned.
S. J3. WKiaHT,
S-10-ly-'BO 834 BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA Ga.
DR. W. BARTON,
NOTIFIES the citizens of McDnfilo and adjoining counties thst he has on ban
and is to reoeiya a full and complete line ol
GLASS, DRUGS, PUTTY, OILS,
PATENT MEDICINES, PATNTS, MEDICINES,
PERFUMERY, TOILET SOAPS, DYES,
Tooth Brushes, and Toilot Articles of all kinds
Lamps and Lamp Fixtures, and Garden
Seed always on hand.
Kerosene oil cheaper than anywhere else
Swift’* Syphilitic Specific—B. S. S —Russel’s Soothing Cordial, for infsn
gee in tine, Hepatine, Bradtield’s Female Regulators, and all Loading Patent A1
Vice*, Mixed Paint*, White Load And Linseed Oil.
I will keep constantly on hand TOBACCO and CIOAKB of all grades.
All my goods will fee mid CHEAP for CASH.
Pres* options filled at ill hours of the dky and night. Professions! calls
answered it any time in th; town.
B. Seely's Truss and Bandage, for Hernia or Rupture, made in every sty.e
F. A. BRAHE.
702 BROAD STREET, - - - , i • AUUSTA, GEORGIA.
HAS JUST RECErYED A VERY HANDSOME STOCK OF NEW
WATCHES,
JEWELRY,
STERLING SILVER PLATED WARE.
o—
Weald respectfully call altontion to his magnificent stock of
lieed & Barton’s Celebrated Triple Plated Ware.
COME and SEE!
NEAL, PEARCE & CO.
NO. 4, RICK ROW, MAIN STREET.
Have in stock and are constantly receiving a Jflno assortment of DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING, and HATS, which they are offering at Bottom Prices.
Boots and Shoes a specialty. We handle the very beßt brands and at aston
ishingly low prices.
Domestic, White, and New Home Sewing Ma
chines, which are of the best make known to
the trade.
GROCE. iIES
We have and will hereafter keep in stock lour, best brands, Bacon, Lard, Molasses,
Jtioe. &*., Lv. A .complete line of fancy Groceries and Canned Goods.
Tobacco, Cigt.rs and Snuff. We cordially invite our friends and the public to call
and examine our Stock. We take pleasure jn showing goods and comparing prices.
NEAL, PEARCE & CO.
„NO. 4, BRICK ROW, THOMSON GA. ,
<£ljc JWcPufjffc Urrklij Jounml.
VOL. Xlll.
A SUMMER DAY.
There's a gaping rent in the curtain,
That longs for needle and thread;
There’s a garment that ought to l>e finished,
And a book that- wants to be read.
'There’s a letter that ought to be unswered,
There are clothes to told away,
And I know these tasks are waiting,
And ought to bo done to-day.
But how can I mend the curtain
While watching the silvery cloud?
And how cau I finish the garment
While the robin is singing so loud?
And the whispering trees are telling
Such stories above my head,
That I cannot but lie and listen,
And the book is all unread.
If I try to read the letter
I am sure one-half the words
Will bo in the curious language
Of my chattering friends, the birds.
The lilacs bloom in the suushine.
The roseH nod aud smile —
The clothes that ought to be folded
And ironed, must wait awhile.
I lie iu the cooling shadows.
And gaze at the Summer sky,
Bidding the cares and troubles
And trials of life pass by.
The beautiful Summer blossoms
Are fading about my feet,
And the dreamy air is laden
With their odors rare and swoet.
The honey bees hum in the clovor,
The grasses rise and fall,
The robin stops and listens
As he hears the brown thrush call.
And the birds sing to me softly^
The butterfly floats away—
Oh, what could bo sweeter than living
This beautiful Hnnimer day?
ENEiHfISS OP TIIK OYSTER.
liow the Starfish ami other Pests
Destroy the Hi valves.
Two oystermeu were sitting on tho
end of tho wharf at the foot of Spruce
street, around whioh were anchored a
dozen or more oyster boats.
**l)id vou ever see a star tncklo nu
oyster?** asked tho older man of tho
younger, who evidently didn’t under
stand tho quostiou, for ho replied:
“No, I can’t say an 1 ever did.”
“Well, then, you’vo missed some
thing. They’re the most destructive
creatures you ever put eyes on.”
Tho reporter, who only caught this
scrap of the conversation, paid a visit
to Thomas I*. Covington, an old oys
ter dealer, who explained fully the
wily, wicked ways of tho “star.”
Tho term “star” is only one of tho
nicknames given a kind of star Fish,’
one of the oyster’s most deadly ene
mies. Mr. Covington furnished a des
cription of tho star fish.
From the central disk of small di
mensions radiate five pointed arms,
very strong and tough. In the center
of the under sido of the disk is tho
opening for tho mouth, which contains
no teeth, but is surrounded by au elas
tic tube and guarded by the edges of
the armor plates which hem it in.
From the Center run live furrows, one
down each of tho arms. The stomseh,
which itself is not very large, has livo
annexes or pouches extending down
each arm.
This large internal capacity explains
tho gluttony of which tho siar lish is
capable on occasions. The destruct
iveness of these voracious pests has
been long recognized alike by natural
ists and fishermen, and many years
ago the Euglish Admiralty Court laid
penalties on oyster fishery who did not
destroy all the star lish they drew up,
“because that fish gels into the oysters
when they gap and sucks them out.”
The idea that tho “star secures his
meal of oysters by strategy still pre
vails among those oystermcn who have
little knowledge of natural history.
One of these latter thus duscrioes tho
mode of tho “star’s” attack.
“Crawling around on the bottom the
•star’ accidentally gets foul’of a bed of
oysters. He don’t know what they aro
tnebbe, lavin’ in their shell* all a-gap
in’ open like oysters does. Ho pokes
about till he accidentally gets the end
of one of his arms into an open shell
and tho oyster closes ou him. You see
he can’t get away, but the oyster can’t
livo long with his shell open, and in a
few hours he is dead. Then he lets up
and the 'star’ makes a square meal
offen him right on the spot -takes him
on the half shell in his own gravy.”
A similar theory is uselul in attempt
ing to explain the numbers of “stars”
found with an arm missing. The star,
according to this theory, inserts a
tentacle into the open shell for the pur
pose of whipping out the oyster,
bom* times ho au coteds on tho first
trial, but sometimes the proverbially
dumb oyster is too quick for the “star’
and shuts down on him. Jf the “star”
is not too hungry lie waits until the
oyster relaxes. But all “stars” are
not so patient and prudent, and very
often tho luckless robber gets mad
and, tearing off* tho imprisoned arm,
gains freedom at tho cost of amputa
tion.
Modern science and observation have
proven, however, that the “star” is
not so great a fool as his enemies
would make him appear to be. ‘ Tlifl
true version of the story says that
when the “star” concludes to have
oysters, scollops, or other moliusks
for dinner he goes about getting
them in a v *ry different way. Having
met his destined victim, ho treacher
ously embraces him, folding all five
arms about the unhappy victim of his
deadly caresses. Protruding the
strong muscular ring about tho mouth
of the stomach through the mouth, lie
seizes the newly grown edge of the
shell, called tho “nib” or “bill,” and
breaks it off iu bits till an entrance is
made. Tlu burglarious star forces
into tho opening thus made the disten
sible mouth of tho stomach aud seizes
upon the body of tho oyster within,
which he at once begins to draw into
his stomach. As the process goes on
the star’s stomach is pushed farther
and farther into the shell of the oyster,
until, if the oyster is especially large,
the auxiliary pouches are brought into
requisition, and by the time the large
oyster is consumed, the star has prac
tically turned liimsclf inside out
These pests have been dredged up
while engaged at dinner, with the
stomach hanging out half the length of
one of the arms. If put Into a bucket
of salt water he will gradually resume
his normal condition, but if used with
any violence he wiil throw away his
dinner and draw in his stomach in
stantly. An illustration of the destruc
tive powers of largo numbers of “stars”
is given in an invasion of Provideuce
river, Rhode Island, in tho latter part
of the summer of 1858.
They came in great schools and to
tally destroyed nearly all the beds of
the river, occasioning a loss of nearly
$150,000 to the planters. They re
mained until winter, when a heavy fall
of snow and rain so freshened tho
water as to kill them all. but tho beds
THOMSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1884.
destroyed were not replanted tor years
aftef tils dire visitation. Another in
sidious too of the oyster is the “drill”
or “borer,” a moUttsk equipped with a
ribbon-shaped tongue, whioh is armed
with teoth. Tile borer drills a hole
through tho shell ol tho oyster, and,
inserting his sucking tube, feeds upon
the oyster at leisure. Tho drum-fish,
another relentless foe, hits what may
be termed a cobble-stone pavement in
each jaw, that being it fairly accurate
description of the way tho teeth are set
in his mouth. They grow to weigh 100
pounds, and with their formidable
teeth can crush up youilg oysters at an
alarming rate. Tho drum-fish visit
tho Chesapeake Bay, Staton Island and
Keyport beds ovory summer, and de
stroy thousands upon thousands of oys
ters. The tatitog, slieopahead, toad
lish and the sting-ray, or "stingaree,”
are still other disturbers of tho oyster’s
peace aud the destroyers of his life.
Even these are not all the fatalities
to whioh the oyster is yubjoQt, Boforo
he gets out of the egg statolt is esti
mated that there is only ono chance
out of 1,115,000 that ho will survive
and have a chance to fall into the
mouths of some of tho rapacious foes
enumerated and described, or failing
that, to reach a salt old ago of perhaps
20 yoars, when old oystermcn believe
that death is finally caused by contin
ued growth of shell, until it becomes
too heavy and thick for the venerable
inmate to handle properly, whereupon
he starves to depth.
With all those chances of dissolution
staring into wliat face the oyster lias
(as a matter of fact, uothing but
mouth). It will bo seen that tho oyster’s
lot is not an entirely happy one.— I’hil
addp/ua Times.
Cloves.
If you will look ou your map of Oce
anica, in tho division of Malay sia, you
Will find a group of tiny islands nestled
in botween Celebes and Papua, known
as the Molucca or Spice Islands, from
tho groat quantity of cloves, nutmegs,
and mace obtained from them. Al
though they look so small to you, they
are of groat value on account of the
spire trees.
The Portuguese and SpnniaMs both
found them about the year U2l; but
Antonio de Brito, a PorliguesXnavign
tor, took possession of them' in tho
name of hts king, and that nation hold
them until the Dutch (assisted by the
natives) drove them out*iu the first part
of tho seventeenth century, aud took
possession of them themselves. This
they have held until the present timr,
with the exception of a brief preiod in
1796, when the English conquered them
from the Dutch, hut soon restored them.
Tho clove-tree was found on only five
islands in its native stale, and on the
Island of Amboyna, where tbe natives
had begun to cultivate it. As soon as
the Dutch obtained possession they be
gan to destroy all the clove-trees ex
cept on the Island of Amboyna, in or
der to make the spice scarce, and so
increase the price. KvorV year, until
1824, an expedition of solmerssmd la
borers were sent from Holland to the
Moluccas with ordf'rs to destroy .every
clove-tree there except -those on Am
bovnn.
During tho short timo the Knglish
held possession of tho islands, they
carried clove-trees to Bourbon and
Mauritius. In 1830 they were planted
On the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar,
ami from the latter Island about 7,000,-
000 pounds arc exported every year;
these are worth over $400,070. .They
are also raised in Sumatra, Malacca,
Cayenne, and Brazil; but tho bat still
come from Amboyna.
Tito clove-tree is from fiftocn lo forty
feet high. It, lias a perfectly straight
truuk, covered with a smooth, olive
colored bark. From wltero the
branches begin, it has the form of a
pyramid; the loaves are a dark green,
and very glossy; the flowers grow in
clusters, and are of a reddish hue; the
fruit is about tho size and shape of an
olive, perhaps not quite as large, and
wlion ripo is dark red. The part that
wo use as spice is the flower-buds,
which aro gathered just boforo they
open. They aro dried by tbe smoke of
wood fires, or by bring exposed to the
rays of the sun. By drying they are
changed from red to a deep brown.
They look so much liko a nail witli a
round nead that both the Portuguese
and Spaniards gave them a name which
meant nail in their language, and which
has since become our English word,
clove. The French called them fra
grant-nai!, on aocount’of their delicious
odor. All parts of tho, tree aro fra
grant,—bark, leaves, flowers and fruit,
Cloves are used in cooking, in medi
cine, or for embalming or preserving
bodies from decay. An oil is also ob
tained from them, which is much used
in perfumery.
A (fraud Stairway.
Baron do Thomsen to a New York in
terviewer: The Calvario llill, just west
of the city of Caraccas, the scene of
the battle between tiic Spaniards and
the patriots in June, 1821, has been
made into a beautiful park. Going up
the mount is what I believe to lie the
most magnificent stairway in the world.
I havo never seen any thing approach
ing it in stateliness and beauty in Eu
rope. It is of sandstone, 100 feet wide
and eighty feet high. The park cost
$2,000,000. The eresr is 600 feet higher
titan the level of tho city, aud is sur
mounted by a statue of tho “Grout
President,” Guzman Bianco, tho “Il
lustrious American” as be is called,
who has done so much to pacify and
build up the country, lie may have
'>ade money during this working, but
the people certainly have the improve
ments. Ho is worth about, $16,000,-
000.
They Shook.
At Toledo a sharp-looking young
man boarded the Dotrolt-bound traiD,
and after looking ovor the passengers
in one of the coaches, he took a seat
beside a traveler with a face as honest
as a four-dollar bill. Just as the train
was about to start tbe young man sud
denly said:
“My friend, I am on my way to De
troit to see my mother die.”
“Eh! that’s too bad.”
“I haven’t got any money with mo,
hut I’ll give you my watch for security
if you’ll lend mo S2O until wo reach
Detroit”
“Let’s see tho ticker.”
The watch was a galvanized affair,
worth about fifty cents per pound:
The man with the iour-doilar file* ex
amined it. shook it, and put it in his
pocket. Then he slowly drew a S2O
bill from his vest poeket and handed it
over to the young man. Tho latter
simply glanced at it, and then tho two
smiled. Then they shook hands.
Titen tho watch aud tho bill changod
back.
Tho watch was a dead swindle and
the bill a counterfeit; and both belong
ed to tho “profesh.”
A Doctor’s Tribulations.
The individual who imagines that he
is going to give satisfaction to tho gen
eral public in anything he may under
take, is certainly tlto victim of a delu
sion. It is impossible to pleaso every
body. Tho man, be Ilia station in life
what it may, who conies up to the ex
pectation of tho multitude, has not yet
been born. Tbe editor iu particular
soon makes this discovery. The cler
gyman, also, knows that there are
people in his congregation who are
never satisfied with what lie does, or
leaves undone. Tho doctor is another
professional man who lias a hard row
to hoe.
If a doctor dresses well and wears a
high hat, people say that lie is a medi
cal dude. if, on the other hand, lie
pays little or no attention to his toilet,
then lie is accused of lack of dignity.
If ho goes into society, attends balls
and parties, then the impression is that
he is fishing for popularity.
If tho physician visits' his patienls
while they aro in good health, he is
accused of attempting to spoil ire. Ho
como to thu house in order to be invit
ed to dinner. If, on tile oilier hand,
ho never comes unless he is called, the
inference is that the only use ho has
for his patients is to make money out
of them when they are sick. If tho
doctor attends church, of courso lie is
a hypocrite, who is trying to work on
the religious feelings of the communi
ty. If ho does not attend church,
nothing can bo plainer Ilian that lie is
nu infidel, or a socialist. If tho’doc
tor’s wife does not return tho calls that
tho other ladies make on iier, then she
is putting ou airs, turning up her nose
at iter bettors, etc. If she docs return
the calls, thou sho is plucking pationts
for her husband to shoot at.
If the doctor's horse is fat, that Is a
sure sign that ho lias not got much lo
do. If the animal is emaclatod, ho is a
brute for not taking bettor care of his
horse, if lie drives fast, ho is trying
to eroato the false impression that ho
has boon called to tho bedside of some
Important patient. If ho drives slowly
he docs not care a cent whether or not
his patients die bofore ho gets to them.
If tho patient recovers his health, ho is
indebted to a kind Providence, or a
strong constitution, or to the cara that
was taken of him during his illness.
Iu no case is tho doctor entitled to any
credit for tho recovory. If tho patient
dies, ho was undoubtedly murdered bv
bis physicians. If the medical man is
Jocmble and talkative, the people say
w*rdo not want a doctor who tells
everything he knows. Is he is a silent
man then they say a doctor should en
courage his patients to be communica
tive. If ho talks politics they say a
doctor should have no politics; and if
he does not talk politics, thou lie is a
sneak and a time-server, who either
has no opinions, or is afraid to own up
as to what his politics really are. If
the doctor docs not om his horse to
death when ho is palled, he is not tak
ing inton'.'4jn the case. If
ho does not objoct
is lo prevfflk 1 insistierrt rrqpg'ng
another doctor. If lie does sencHn his
bill, bo is in a hurry for his ruonoy,
and so on to the end of the chapter—
Touts Siftings.
Matrimonial Peace of Mind.
“Are you as happy now us you wero
boforo you were married?” asked Mrs.
Yeast of young Mrs. Criinsonlieak.
“Yes, indeed,” replied the lady;
“and a great deal happier.”
“That’s sirango,” suggested the phi
lanthropist's wifo.
“Not at all strange,” camo from tiio
youilg married woman. “You see, be
fore 1 was married I used to spend
half my time worrying about tlm dross
I should wear when Daniel called.”
“But don’t you try jusL as hard now
to look well when your husband re
turns homo at night?” interrupted
Mrs. Yeast.
“Well, you sec,” went on the bride
of two summers, “I don’t worry any
about it now, as I have only one drusr
to my r.aiuu— Venters (hue la.
Smuggling Coolies Across The Idee.
Although little has been said recent
ly about the smuggling of Chinese into
Washington Territory from British
Columbia, the business of running
coolies ovor the border is still being
carried on. This is tho headquarters
of tho trade on the American side, nnd
Victoria and Westminster are the
points from which the little companies
of Chinamen, varying from eight to
forty in number, witli ono or two pilots
or guides, set out. Little is heard now
of the business, because it is so well
organized, and tho silent passing of
the coolies across the lino is unnoticed.
In this town there is a Chinese com
pany organized to smuggle coolies into
tho country. This fact is well known
to the custom house officials here, but
the iimited foreo at tho disposal of Col
lector Bash makes it impossible for
him to break up the illicit trade.
Tbe Coolie Smuggling Company
here employs daring and reckless
white men iu Victoria to bring canoe
or sloop loads of Chinese across the
Sound to Dungeness, Point Discovery
or Point Wilson. Tho distance is only
about thirty miles, which can easily be
covered during the night. The com-
Kltas its outlooks along the coast
eon these points, and signals are
given to the approaching Itonts in case
of danger. When once landed the
coolies pass into the logging camps,
and as it is impossible for most persons
to distinguish ono Chinaman from
another, the presence of tho new com
ers excites no suspicion. Tho price tho
smuggling company pays per head
varies from sls to S2O, which is not
paid till the coolies tiro safely put
ashore. ’The favorite boat for trans
porting them is tho Indian canoe.
There are a great many of these boats
at Victoria, built, or rather hewn, out
of a solid log by the Indians. From
five to seven coolies, with two smug
glers, enter a canoe at nightfall, and
with tbe aid of tho tide cross to Wash
ington Territory before morning.
Tliero aro some signs that the traffic
will be carried on raoro extensively in
tho spring than ever boforo.— San
t'rancisco Chronicle.
■—
A Home Market.
Several gentlemen from different
States were discussing tho morits of
their particular homes.
“Kansas is a great Slate. Wo raise
sixty bushels of corn,” said a man
from Kansas; “and 200 bushels of po
tatoes to tho acre.”
“But have you Kansas people any
market for your produce?” asked a
man from Connecticut.
“Certainly they have,” responded an
envious Texan, “they raise enough
grasshoppers and potato bugs to eat
up ten times the corn and potatoes
they cun raise. Texas Siftings,
Hard Worked Soldiers.
Our little army, tho greater part of
which is always *‘iu tho field” in tho
vast west, is called upon, besides much
marching' and often hard fighting, to do
much hard work or manual labor, and
also much menial service. The.so last
two features destroy all soldierly feel
ing aud esprit du corps, rendering tho
men sullon and discontented. Take tho
following as au example, habitually
witnessed in the army. After a long,
day’s march, with musket on his shoul
der, forty rounds of ammunition in his
cartridge box, and a day's rations of
pork and hard tack in his haversack,
the soldier rouehos camp and longs to
rest his weary limbs after putting up,
with his mates, the little tents and
bringing his share of wood for tho camp
fire. This is dono cheerfully. But
tliero is no rest for him. The sergeant
calls for details of half a dozen men
each to put up tho tents for the officers,
another detail to unload tho officers’
wagons and another to bring an amplo
supply of wood for each officer’s tent
tire, and also wood nnd water for the
officers’ cook. In tho meantime tho
officer for whom the soldier performs
those gratuitious services, and who
bore no musket, ammunition or rations
through tho broiling sun, and who ma
terially reduced tho fatigues of tho
march by alternately ruling aud walk
ing and thereby remaining compara
tively fresh, sits on his stool sipping
his toddy in sight of tho tired soldier.
To refuse to perform these “menial”
duties, tho soldier would incur tho risk
of boing tied to a wagon wheel, or to
be bucked and gagged or, in tho mild
est case, to get nu extra guard and bo
subjected to all sorts of unpleasant
treatment. Again, a soldier is called
upon to do too much hard manual la
bor. He must be, or is made to bo,
also a carpouter, machinist, wagon-ma
ker, axeman, etc. Hundreds of so
called “forts,” consisting of officers’
and soldiers’ quarters, quartermaster
and commissary storehouses, stables
and guardhouses, havo been built by
soldiers, some of whom receive a few
cents “extra pay” daily, while the ma
jority are detailed ns “fatigue parties,”
without more than their scant soldier
pay. There have been built thousands
of miles of roads through the wilder
ness, and bridges as well, by our pio
neer soldiery, who aro often sadly over
tasked.
The Japanese women advertise tho
number of their years by the arrange
ment of their hair. Girls from nino to fif
teen wear their hair interlaced with red
orupe, describing a half circle around tho
head, tho forehead being loft free, with
a curl on onch side. From fifteen to
thirty the hair is dressed very high on
the forehead, and put up at the back in
the shape of a fan or butterfly, with in
tcrlaoiugs of silver cord and a decora
tion of colored balls. Beyond thirty a
woman twists her hair around a shell
pm, placed horizontally at the bank of
the head. Widows also designate them
selves, and whether they wish to marry
again.
Points for Florida Tourists.
Don’t gather palm leaves; they with
er.
Don’t say that you camo from Chi
cago.
Don’t expect tho beds in the hotels
lo stand up and tho carpets to lie
down.
Don’t say that Jacksonville is tlio
dullest, St. Augustine the oldest, and
I’alatka the most delightful plaeo in
Florida.
Don’t acknowledge to having eaten
frozen oranges until safe in the north.
Don’t pay street-oar fares. Bo trans
ferred, as the JacksonviHers are.
Don’t mistake Ya’.-la-lin-at-maks
(Seminole for sour orange) for Yai-la
lia (sweet orange).
Don’t expect alligators to crawl out
of tho St. John’s when called.
Don’t look for real live alligators on
Bay street, Jacksonville, except in wire
cages, or suppose that any but real na
tives wear them as ornaments.
Don’t take a live “gator” home with
out tying a nice, blue ribbon round his
neck.
Don’t expect fhe trains to wait for
you, or the steamboats to be on time;
and don’t bo surprised at anything you
hear or sec.— Harper's Monthly.
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NO. 25.
The encumber graceth the festive board*
Masking its juices rure,
And th© mouth of the small boy water© tha
while
He vieweth the treasures there.
The doctor smiloß a wan, sad smile,
And heaveth a crocodile moan;
And the marble man goeth into his yard
And polisheth up a s-ono.
And the undertaker mounfully aska,
“What will his measure be?”
While the sexton labels a spot '‘resorted,”
Under the willow tree.
Tho Thomasville Times received the
first cottou bit orn ou the 28th.
A ratHesnnko seven feet one inch In
length was killed near Trout croek,
Florida, last Wednesday.
Congressman Wolford claims, and ia
prepared to prove, that Blaine was born
in Koutnoky.
Manila Hall, a colored woman, was
committed to Putnam jail au Saturday,
31st May, charged with the murder of
iter child, about two years old.
On seventeen seres of peanuts a
Houston county former last yesr made
$l5O clear money, besides fattening
thousands of pounds of pork.
It is estimated that 400,000 alligators
were killed in Florida last year to sup
ply the demand for aligator skins.
The Btnte Agricultural Society havo
determined that tho Fair to bo held in
Macon this fall shall bo the best ever
known in the State. Every article ex
hibited will be carried to the Now
Orleans Exposition aud returned free of
oust.
Mrs. Harsh F. Tignor, aged 75 years,
died ill Oohimbus last week. She was
formerly Miss Sarah F. Tinsly, of Co
lumbia county,
Waynesboro is still boring for artesian
water. Two wells have beeu abandoned,
and tho third one is now 633 feet deep.
Mr. James Jonkins, who lives about
five miles from Preston, Webster coun
ty, fell from a wagon he was riding iD,
near his home, last Wednesday, aud
broko his neck. He died instantly.
Mr. Isnno Kenny’s mule, in Carroll
county, died on the first instant, aged
forty years, six months and sixteen
days. Hu worked him thirty-three
years and turned him out to rest.
A teething child of Henry Hook, of
Albany, put a stick covered with a dry
crust of vermillion red into its mouth,
und died iu convulsions a short time af
terwards.
Michael T. Conner has brought suit
against thu Central railroad for five
thousand dollars for getting his thumb
mushed in tho service of the company in
Savauuuh.
Mr. T. T. Willieit, an old and highly
res|)oted citizen of Lmoolnto% attempt
ed suicide Sunday night by cutting the
jugular vein. No cause assigned. It is
supposed ho was laboring under mental
überutiuu.
St. Louis girls tie their ears together
over the crowns of their heads with a
piece of blue ribbon, stick a sprig of
straw and a few pansies iu the knot and
havo u bonnet.
Mr. B. H. Phil'ips, of Douglass, has
a Jersey calf eight or ten days old, that
ts hare-lipped, deaf, dumb aud bliud.
There have been thrxe fratricides in
Laurens county within a year.
Tito famous Shorter will cose, involv
ing about $750,000, has beeu decided by
the Supreme Court. The decision sus
tains the will.
During the late war, Judge Bryce, of
DeKalb county, hid bis ailvor-waro by
burying it so effectually that he whenev
er able to find it. It was recently un
earthed by a negro while digging a
ditch.
Tho building of the new Presbyterian
church at Waynesboro is progresing
rapidly. The foundations have all
been placed iu position, and it will be
completed about- the first of-August.
A cruel stepmother, about five miles
from Eatonton, becoming enraged with
a small step child, hiiug it with a rbpe
by tho neck, and bat for tho tim. ly ap
pearance of C-ipt. B. F. Johnson, who
cut it down iu uit unconscious state, the
child would have died.
Jack Dannelly, who was shot in the
neck by Childs, iu Atlanta, a week ago,
will bo paralyzed for life even if he es
capes death, and the grave would doubt
loss be a welcome retreat for the pocr
follow. He con barely move one arm
now, all the rest of bis form being com
pletely paralyzed. He says that he was
to blame iu tho t-booting.
Among the noted preachers visiting
Philadelphia of into was Dr. H. H.
Tucker, of Georgia. A tablet may be
seen to day in the First Baptist Church,
at Broad aud Arch streets, in that city,
placed there years since in memory of
Dr. Tucker’s distinguished grandfather,
Dr. Holcombe, whose name, as pastor,
is intimately blended with the early his
tory of the First Church.
The Hawkinsville News gays that a
Reutleman residing on Pine Level, near
town, owns a sow that has given birth to
33.) pigH, and from that number she has
Hnccieiledjiu raising for it 'rViwner just 300
fine pork hogs. The sow is now 15years
old, aud bus nut a tooth in her head.
She is justly entitled to a natural death ;
and should receive a decent burial and
an uninterrupted entrance iuto “hog
heaven."
The last issue of the Union and Re
corder says that, on Mr. Jeukins’ place,
ip that county, last week, Henry Eth
eridge killed Tom Clements, both ne
groes. Both were in love with the same
negro girl, but Clements was the favored
suitor, and was on his way to the oburch
witli her to lie married, when Henry fol
lowed and shot him in the baok ot the
head, killing him iußtautiy. Ethercdge
made itis escape.
Mr. Blaine in the first presidential
candidate from New England since the
days of Frank Pierce. In 1852 the East
had two men iu the field, both citizens
of New Hampshire—Pierce and Johu P.
Hale. Tine latter was run by the Free
Seilers. He carried no States aud re
ceived only 156,000 votes, as against
1,386,000 for Geu. Scott and 1,601,000
I for Mr. Pierce. But four years latar
I the Republican party, inheriting tbe
! Free Soil traditious, gave Fremoet elev-
I eti States nnd almost ns many popnlar
, votes as Soott received in ’52. The two
' Adamses wore New Euglaud President*
before Pierce.