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MsMs Weekly kraal, Subscription SI.OO A Year. An X opposite jour namo shows that voui •ui>*cripti uis about to expire, and, if not re newed jour paper will be discontinued. No Lewd Adver. Dement will be inserted üb ie paid for in adranc \ The Editor is not res]xnsible for ?Ut menta or of C> rrespon'f castoria for Infants and Children. *‘Castoria is eo well adapted to children that I recommend itas superior to an/jirrecription known to me.” IT. A. Archvji, *T. D . 11l So. Oxford St., Brooilvn, S. Y. “ The use of ‘ Castoria * is so universal and its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the mtelHfcent families who do not keep Castoria w thin easy reach.” Carlos Marttm, I>. IX. New York City. Late Pastor Bloomingd&le Reformed Church. Twn CawTArn Compaky, 77 Mcrkav Strbkt, New York, n THOMAS*. If. IjBWIB No. 4 Brick RoW, Thomson, Ga, T)RY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, NOTIONS. ROOTS and SHOES and HATS. 1 carry a Large and Select Stock of Flrst-L'la*+ C3-roce-ri.es, —CONSISTING OF Bacon, Flour, Heal, Bard Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Tobacco. ALSO PLOWS. SHOVELS, HOES and all Farming Implements. Seller, stationer and printer. IBBster’s Unabridged Dectionary. New Edition with Supplement. School Rooks, Pens, Inks and Pencils. BLANK BOOKS, SEALING WAX, WHITING PAPKK ENVLBOPE.S Kio. The Finest JOB PRINTING in the Booth No. 82!) Broad Street. Augusta , Ga. ’ H. N. REIB. MACHINERY BROKER 6 COMMISSION MERdlii DEALER IN . STTGA.M KisrailSTES, Agricultural, Portable and Stationay Btcam Boilers; .Saw, Corn and Flour ,Vil|s; Turbino Water Wheel, Cotton Gins and Cotton Preasea, Wood-Working Machinery of all kind*, Harvesters and Twino-Biuder ° Heap.ru, Mowers and Horse Hakes. ASBICVLTVBAL IMPLEMENTS. ear Cal) or write for Illustrated Circulara and Special Pnoos. 738 Reynolds street, AUGUSTA, GA. A LEX. H. CURTIS, ThoniNon, (>a, Ha. 'he Shop* foroerl. orul By J. T. Smith. In BranchriUe, and i. prepared to carry on the different branches of the business. Carriages, Wagons and Buggies Made and Repaired. Blacksmithing in all its Branches Undertaking in all its Branches. The Beat Work, el] gnerrnteed, end the lowest price* By a'r ct ettention to Bnsinea. he eeka e liberal share of patronage. THE Phoenix ©be© Stoke Is fnll In every department of the PURENT *lll rt REST Onlx EVERYTHING NEW since the memorable fire. h’O OLD and WORTHLESS DRUGS. Fullest and BEST stock in the connty o) DRUGS and PATENT MEDICINES Lamp Good* and Firtnrea, White Lead and Wiled Paint., Choice Perfumery Ipilet hoops, Garden and Field Seeds, also Oils of nil kind.., Eto., Etc; Come to us for PRICES. WE ARE THE LEADERS IN OUR LINE. DR. A. J. MATHEWS, (Successor to DR. J. TV. QUILLIAN,) MAIN STREET, THOMSON, GEORGIA T ’ MARK WALTER, ! MARBLE WORKS Ujj- BROAD BTRX2T, NEAR LOWRS* MARKET, } ? AUGIJSTa, GEORGIA. Monuments, Tombstonee and Marble Work general!) always on hand and ■Bade to order. All work for the country carefully boxed, and delivered at the railroad pepot in AuguaU. free of charge. Specimen* of the work can hr •*BL at the roaeufaotory. <l\)c licdili) VOL. XX. Caatorla cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, DLarrhcra. Eructation, KilU Worms, gives sleep, oud promotes di rest ion, Without injurious medication. “ For several years I hare recommended your 4 Castoria, ’ and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results.'* Edwin F. Fardbb, M. D., “Tho Wlnthrop,’* Street and 7th Are., New York City. THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1892. LOVE STRONG AS DEATH. tfay, say not. Sweet, that Love has turned away Because one day He gathered alien flowers whfi-3 it was May, For Love is Love, and eautiot go that way. Tlio’ little loves there be that dauoe and sing, m And kiss and cling, And praise the light an 1 laughter of the Spring, But on dark days, like birds, forbear to sing. Shall Love that bore the blast .and did not fail Now cower and quail - Strong Love that blanched not then, to-day turn pale? Nay, Love is l/ove, my own, and cannot fail. Oli, could Love . ease, or change, or pass a way, Then the sou's day Would turn tonight, unlit by any ray; But bow, Sweetheart, eau never pass awav —Philip Bourko Marston, in Independent. A BUFFALO HUNT. tr —~ BUFFALO is - more timid than liJli f h° 8 e calves mfHi b, ' ovvsil *3 there > ||j 1/ and more power- WJJ ful than a liou. the wits out of y '\tr him; but unless * ou kirn in a KjKffiMSp vital part you can ’ almost put a whole cartridge box into him before you will bring him down.” The speaker was a raw-boned frontiers man, who for more than thirty years had lived in the West. He had taken Groj ley's advice and gro.vu up with the country, lie had swuii; through a wide range, and had lived among tho mount ains, but now owne 1 a largo ranch on the plains. Though engaged extensively in the cattlo business, there was a time when he was us well nigh as largely en gaged in the buffalo business. “Yes,” ho resumed, “you can send them flying as easily as you can a brood of chickens, but it will not require the wdnd of a thoroughbred horse to catch up with them. And when a buffalo runs lie is the most uugaiuly, luiuberiug crea ture going. “Just about twenty years ago I was along here when down from the north east rolled a big herd of them, contain ing fully 30,000 buffaloes. It had been a dry season. I was amoug the 'hills yonder when I heard the thunder of thoir heavy gallop. The earth fairly almok beneath their tremendous movement. Great clouds of dust rose above them, ns though a cyclone was tearing up the earth and filling the air. That .small stream wc crossed a short distance back was not near so full of water as it is now. But the buffaloes had scented it, and had come from miles away for it with a mad rash. “It seemed as they approached that their speed quickened. Tho herd was Jed by a uumterof great, powerful hulls. Their eyes rolled, while thoir tonguc3 hung from their open mouths. I had watched herds approach and pass me be fore. But, hidden behind a rock, so as not to disturb them, I watched with an entirely new interest the sweep of this herd, impelled by the fiery torments of a consuming thirst. I quickly perceived its object, and, as the channel of the stream is a trifle deep, i judged that there would be a sudden increase of speed for a brief moment when the banks were reached. “I had witnessed a comparatively dry river bed quickly covered by u looming toirent, whose rising tides soon swirled and boiled up to the very top of th? shores—a result of heavy storms nearer their source. I concluded from the im petuous rush of this turbulent stream of buffaloes that the channels of this river would soon be covered and quite filled. But a moment later iny conclusions were more than realized. For when the lead ers reached the very brink they plunged down the steep bank, and they would have suffered no particular iujury from the sudden and swiit descent, because u buffalo, though awkward and weighing a ton, when he goes down almost a pre cipitous decline will so combine a tum ble with a slide and roll and leap that, much like a cat, he will soon be right side up at the bottom. It was what cause after them that prevented the leaders from getting the best of the bargain rn reaching the water tint. “For this great herd was almost a solid, compact mass, and it bad acquired such a momentum iu its headlong career that considerations for the fate of '.he leaders were not of sufficient force, if even they had been entertained soon enough, to perceptibly cheek its move ments. Bo down the banks they tumbled on top of the leaders, rank after rank, until the channel for a quarter of a mile was lull and overflowing with them. “Yes, the momentum was so great and the stop so sudden that from my point of observation it seemed like an enormous blah wave, whose edge had suddenly swollen higher than the suc ceeding body, and it was rolling over and over because of the undertow. Pushed ou by the great mass behind, the buffaloes which reached the bank had to leap upon the backs of those ahead for tneir lives, and so mass rolled over and over, throwing many the opposite bank. You would have sup i posed that fatal consequences would have resulted to great numbere. “The rush was soon stopped. Then herd widened out, those in the rear hur ryingMip and down the stream, and those tumbled into a heap into the bed -of the stream rapidly extricating themselves, until, iuan almost incredibly short; space ol time, every buffalo was comparatively free. Ido not suppose taerc werrt more than half a dozen that were seviousUy injured. It is simply remarkable, the toughness of the buffaloes which Used to roam in this great West. the buffalo is existing sport. To an old hunter, though, it is usually a simple affair. For a long pe riod during my life tho commonnoss of the hunt rubbed off about all the novelty there was in it, and it carno to be re garded as quite an ordinary event. “I want to say, too, that tho whole sale way in which these huge animals were slaughtered by speculators is some thing which always riles the bbod of u Westerner when it is referred to. Aud l cannot recall these grand old beasts without being reminded of the brutality and unpardonable Moody work of many a white man from the East. “I remember a chase which took place down near the Arknsaas River along in tho early spring of the year 1860, I think. Our camp was beginning to suffer for provisio is. One afternoon I mounted my pony, intending to wing somc.duck in a bead of the river, wlioro there were . dgy marshes, and where they found af > vorite resort. But I was uuable to cUpcovor the faintest sign of their presjpcc, and, after ex hausting both mfrsqtf. and my pony in a long search beiout I concluded to stop where tho night. The next morning myllunt for ducks was made to appear a smll and insignificant pursuit, uuworthy am \ strong man; for there in the distance? vas a great herd of buffaloes feeding. & t . was to the wind ward and consequenty I ran no risk of being sceutod. Hastily eating wharf’ little lunch I had remaining from tho previous night I started. Luck favored me. 1 discov ered the serpentine Jiue of a narrow hollow formed by the.waters when great rains fell, moving to the river.- This lino wouud arouud in a long and circuit ! ous fashion until it came near tho herd. I was soon into -this hollow, and my pony picked his way down it on a fast walk. As I came near l could heir dis tinctly the ripping sound which innum erable mouths made as they tore the green grass from the sod. “I had not reached quite the point where 1 determined to mouut tho batik and make a charge upon tho herd when I came unexpectedly into au opouiug whero the banks lowered away, exposing me to tho full view oi' tho cows that happened to be browning in that direc tion. They irntautly tossod their heads aud started. Tho attention of others was drawn aud then somo bulls gnvo a sharp snort, which was a signal for a general stampede. A way tho whole herd plunged. It was then or never. So spurring tny pony tip tho grade I tore after them. They were in good condition for load rug mo a long race, and swept away like the wind. Rut my pony possessed qualities of speed and I gained oh tlxuu gradually. I • .i.rt.fc.loso * but, ;u> I was after some tempting steak, I had no dis position to shoot down anything that I could reach. Bo pressing on I saw some line cows ahead, aud reaching them 1 put a couple of balls in tiio first and three in the others, which brought them down. Then a couple of rods or so further in advance I saw a magnificent bull. lie was the biggest fellow I had yet seen, with tremendovs shoulders and a mane which was immense. I urged on my pony as the enormous fellow, then on the edge of the herd, a stalwart pro tector, lumbered swiftly along, As 1 drew nearer his great proportions excited keenest admiration, and I at onco re solved that if 1 got nothing else l must certainly secure him. Jlis magnificent head and his huge hide would lie tro phios that any hunter might well be proud of. “It was a nip and-tuck race. The big fellow seemed to catch on to my purpose, for lie stretched himself out and tore up the earth as his gait increased, making a spurt of speed which lengthened the dis tance between us. “But my pony caught the full excite ment of the race and bent himself with new energy to his work, and it was but a few minutes whoa wo came up to the big fellow's aide. I took careful aim, and blazed away. Instinctively my horso swerved away just in time to escape tho outward, lunge of the beast, who tossed his he id and came charging after. But he made only several leaps, when he resumed his pace and went tearing aheid with still greater speech Evi dently my bullet had only grazed him, stimulating him rather than damaging him. My horse was at his best and rapidly came up, so that we soon were tearing along neck an l nock again. “We were a little further off this time from the auimal, when, on ft line with him, I shot again. He turned quick as a flash toward me. My pony, attempting to leap aside, struck a uumber of prairie dog holes and lost his footing. Before he could extricate himself the enraged bull was upon us. His head was down and lie caught the horse beneath. His rush was so great that his hea 1 was pre vented from being thrown up as highly as it might have been. As it was, ray pony was lifted from his feet, gored, and thrown to one side in a heap. I was jerked from my seat, and went sprawl ing over the beast. Iu the intense ex citement of a chase like that, one does not stop to calculate the risks he runs. “In rny condition any one of a dozen incidents would seem to be the occasion of instant death. Behind me cimo a score of these large fellows right ou a line of my fall. It seemed that l would be trampled to piece?. But I lauded on all fours and was at once on my feet shout ing and brandishing my arms. The mass parted, and I ran to a distance. But the wouoded bull, catching sight of me, came charging upon me with a furious bellow. My bad luck was bound to con tinue, for I stumbled and fell. “Down in tremendous plunges at me came the monster. I cirald not rise quick enough, and falling at the side of an old buffalo trail—a narrow path worn into the ground by the marching of countless buffaloes moving in single tile I rolled into this. The beast tore up the ground with bi 9 hoofs in trying to stop and hdoked ferociously at me. HU sav age eyes burned like coals of fi#, and froth, stained with blood, dripped from his mouth. When in the saddle I had noticed the great sue of Ms head; but lying there, with that tossing and clash ing head above me, it see nedto be three times as large and ugly and terrible ia the extreme. I expected every instant to feel tho awful thrust of his horns. His head bumped against me. His enormous mane brushed mo. His nose struck me. The froth from his mouth spattered me. His tremendous breathing puffed like a steam engine again and again into my face. Rut his horns were too short to catch on readily. I knew that my ouly safety was to lie low and say nothing. Just as I was about to congratulate my self that the fellow could not get at mo lias horn tore a rent in my trousers. Tho ripping noise maddeued him if possible still more. He made a deeper scoop for me and caught inv buckskin coat in the shoulder, jerked me up from the ground, and threw me to the right. I fell side ways, but mostly on my feet, and started on a run in a direction opposite to whero his head pointed. “lie swung around and was after me in a trice. Of course I could not hope to outruu him. He gained on me. I stopped, facing him, and had by this time dn.wu my revolver. On he camo like a hurricane. His grizzly and awful front, his fiery eyes, his mighty, head long, plunging gait, which seemed the very embodiment of an overwhelming forco—all this has been iudelibly photo graphed on my brain, though the process was about as iustantaueous as could be. When lie was within about four or live feet of me I leaped to ouc side, and his impetuous rush, swung him straight along. But as he tore by me, the very ground shaking with his jumps, for he woighei over a ton, I sent a bullet into bis side. It penetrated his lungs. Too others had been effective. I could see him roe!. “Ho stopped, turned, was about to make another charge, staggered, sauk on his knees, his tierce eyes rolling iu mad fury at me. Ini ived around to his side and put, ball into him, when ho went clean down and stretched himself in tho last struggle. “Come down and visit me, and as you step across my threshold there in tlio vescibulo confronting you will bo his enormous head, as lifelike as the art of taxidermy can present. Look at that grand head an 1 you will be compelled to give credence to a part of my story, at least, and your regrets will join miuo that no more of tho noblest American game is to be found on thoso great plains. ” —Chicago Tribune. Wliftt to Bo in Case of Accident. Professor Wilder, of Cornell Uni versity, gives tho following short rules for-action iu case of accident, which will be fouud useful to preserve or remem ber : * J\>r dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing; dash water into them*, remove cinders, etc., with the round point of a load pen cil. He move matter from tho ear with tepid water; never put a hard instrument into the ear. If an artery is cut compress above the wound; if a vein is cut compress below. If choked get upon all fours and cough. For slight burns dip the part in cold water; if the skin is destroyed cover with varnish. Smother fire with carpets, etc.; water will otton spread burning oil and in crease danger. Before passing through smoke take a full breath, and then stoop low; but if carbonic acid gas is sus pected walk erect. Buck poisoned wounds, unless yoiu mouth is sore; enlarge the wound, or, better, cut out the part without delay; hold the wounded part as long as can be borne to a hot coal or end of a cigar. In case of poisoning excite vomiting by tickling the throat or by warm wator and mustard. If iu water, float cn the back, with tho nose and mouth projecting. For apoplexy raise the head and body; for fainting lay the person flat. —New York Herald. Have Variety in Your Food. There is a source of ill health in many rural homes which certainly should not exist. The cause here referred to is lack of variety of food. It may sound strange to some to hear such a cause of ill health is existing on our American farms, but such is actually the case. It is true that really good vegetable and fruit gardens are lacking at a great part of our rural home?. There may be a few vegetables growing in the * garden at the height of the season, but such a thing as an effort to have fresh vegetables in abundance uiuc months in the year is almost un known oq a Northern farm, and the same is true in reference to fruits. While it is possible to have fruit on the table every day in the year grown on a farm in the North, there is not one farm in ten thousand so supplied. Vegetables and fruits take the place o' medicines in maintaining health and vigor of the body. Indeed, it is doubtful if people supplied with an abundance of fresh vegetables and ripe fruit have much need of medicine or medical aid. More and more attention to this matter is needed. —Now York Independant. A Relic of tho War. The following, says Harpers Weekly, is a copy of a bill, written in lead pencil on coarse yellowish “war paper,” for second-hand crockery-ware sold at auction in Raleigh, North Carolina, January 7, IB if. Toe war was still nearly a year and a half from its close,so some idea may be gained of wnat prices rose to in the last days of the Con federacy • 2 waiters, each $4 00....... $8 00 1 sifter 5 O ' 2 stone crocks, each 92 46. 4 s'/ rt caps and saucers 7o 00 6 tjocups and saucers hi Oj 12 plate?, each 96 2$ . 75 00 1 glass rung 0 25 2 steak dishes, oaca sls OO 3'J 00 2 steak dishes, each s2l 00 40 00 Teapot,bowl, and cruet 85 00 2 pickle dishes, each $4 50 0 0 0 salt-stands, each $2 0 J 12 00 1 soup tureen.. IB uo 1 gravy ilisu 10 U 0 1 gravy dish (cracked)., - 2 00 5 dinner plates, eacu $• 25. 81 8- 2 vegetable dienes, each *ls 25....... 8o :x T0ta1.,,,,,,, |540 00 NO. 18 THOMAS & BARTON daWT DFI^-InTO Organ House k IfJmb^ THOMAS & BARTON, 714: Broad Street. AUGUSTA, - - - GEORGIA •*rN. B. —Special! attention given to Piano Tuning and Repairing. J. H. ALEXANDER’S DRUG STORE, Bus, Medicines and Chemicals, PM Medicines, Paints, Oils, AND' ALL PAINTERS' GOODS, BRUSHES, COMBS, TOILET a' TICLES, FANCY GOODS, ETC. GARDEN Al\ D G RABB SEEDS. MOrpM! Well Stocked! Well Served! In all Department, re],resented here we claim to be a thoroughly Equipped Family Drugstore. Over four thousand artioles of common use and necessity. Prompt answers to all enquiries. Ordersaocompnnied by esah are executed at once. No delays unless for unavoidable cause. Every family needs sometimes to deal with ™°“ 11 store. I' a indy trado solicited, Cush must accompany every order or danoait accounts open. Address, J. H. A I.EXANDEIt'B Df UO 8 I ORE. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. fc. K. SCHNEIDER, —WnOTxESAL AND R ITT AIL DBALIR IN — fine Wines, Cigars, Brandies, Tobacco, Mineral Waters, WHISKIES, GINS, PORTER. ALE, &C. 501 an<l 802 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. AOENTB FOM fme Clipt’s Ponardin, Urbana Wine Company. Anhenser-Bnack BREWING ASSOCIATION, Wild Bogs in the North. In the Lake of tho Woods country, which nmy be described us a wilderness of forest, rock, and brushwood, a race of dogs have established themselves and arc increasing iu number so rapidly that fears nr.: entertained that tho ani mals will yotbeeo.notroublesome. When ( tho Canadian Pacific Railway was under construction tho cutups <>£ tho workmen, had, of course, to be frequently mo'cd, and dogs wore often left, behind, and eventually, liko wolves and foxes, found moans of susftiiniug themselves. The ani mills arc large, lenu, short haired, and generally rod, or red and white iu color. They aro exceedingly wild and fly on tho first approach of man. In winter they live by catching rabbits that abound in tho wilderness of brush wood; in summer tho wild dogs catch fish that crowd the smaller streums that count ct inland lakes. The Indians de test the wild (logs, ns they purmie game and tako the bait from tho traps, and are a general nuisance. Sometimes a wild dog is taken in a trap that has been set for other animals, but the boasts are ex ceedingly cunning, swift and watchful. A race of wild dogs is said to exist in Newfoundland, keeping neat' the coast and subsisting on wlmt tho sea ousts to tho shore. —[Pilot Mound Sentinel. To Dress Ordinary Hides. To dress ordinary hides, such us coon muskrat, and even sheep skins, it is only necessary to stretch thorn on a board, with the hair or wool side down, and then smear the upper sftirfaco with a paste made of equal part sof alum and suit dissolved in a weak solution of sulphuric acid and watefr, adding suffi cient wheat bran to thicken tho paste. The proportions should he about two ounces of alum, two dr salt, and one drachm of the acid to ‘ r.cli pint of water used in making the pna*te. Spread this fiuste over the flesh sidle of tho skin and Save it in two or thiWdavs. then scrape off, und work the skin /Until it is soft. As for dressing skins witnthe Imir removed, it depends somewhat (ipo.i the use you ro t< make of the j dressed hides, und their kind, whether thick or thin. If you want tho skins to cut lip for strings, they would bo dressdd differently than if to be made into gloves or other similar artioles,—[Now Yoi/k Bun, McDDFFIE WEEKLY JOURNAL Rates of Advertising: One inch, on insertion ...$ 1 01 Booh subfiequent Insortion W One Inoh, one month 3 61 One inoh, three month* 5 64 One inch, six months 7 One inoh, twelvemonth* 10 Or One quarter column, one month 6 Oo One quarter column, twelve months 55 OC One half column, one month 10 00 One half column, twelve months 60 00 One column, one mom h 15 00 One column, twelve months 100 00 <§“Loc&l notioea 20c. per line each insertion THE LABOR WORLD. Drum corps all over the country talk of forming a union. There are more women bookkeepers than male ones in France. Laundry work is now being taught in some of the schools of England. Paris labor leaders decided not to make an outdoor demonstration on Labor Day. Philadelphia, Penn., is tho greatest carpet manufacturing centre in the world. The Lehigh Valley Railway shops at Easton, Penn., have boon put on half-time. Bread riots have occurred m the North of England owing to the shutting down of tho cotton mills. Throughout the West there is a stir in the implement, tool, wagon, carriage an i other trades. In Germany and England a girl in service gets |9O a year, and does cleaning, nursing, sewing or whatever she is told. In spite of the introduction of machine lace there are at least 1,000,000 workers in the various European countries In France elections aro held on Sunday, in order that as largo a number of workingmen as possible may get to the polls. A bill fixing ten hours as a day’s work for railroad employes passed the Lower House of the Massachusetts Legislature. Nearly half of the broom makers of Lockport, N. Y., have been thrown out of work by the syndicating of the business by tho manufacturers of the country. Melbourne, Australia, is just emerging from Jbhe overwhelming effects of a land boom. All trades are stagnant and the unemployed are clamoring for work. The trouble caused by the anti-script and screen laws has been settled for the time being at Charleston, IV. Va.; the minors re turn to work until the Supreme Court settles the case. It is estimated that the lo?s in wages.to the Durham (England) miners during the five weeks that they were on strike was SO,- 250,000. The condition of the miners and their families was deplorable. A steamer is fitting out in San Francisco, Cal., for the Gilbert Islands, to secure laborers for the Guatemala coffee planta tions, thus practically reviving the labor trade, which is really another form of slavery. The London (England) women who make shirts are no better off now than they were when Hood wrote his “Song of the Shirt” for them. They are paid four cents for each shirt they make, and they average six in seventeen hours. M. J. Tierney, a freight conductor on the Louisville and Nashville road, recovered 920,000 damages from the Standard Oil Com pany for injuries reoeived through the ex plosion of a barrel of naphtha improperly labeled.