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AT GOODYEAR’S
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY
CAN RE FOUND TIIE LARGEST STOCK OF
CARRIAGE, BOGGIER, BRITONS, PLANTATION WAGONS
All sizes, 1 to 6 horse. Road Carts, Single ami Double Harness, Sail
tiles, Belting, Leather ot all Kinds, Wagon Material.
Fqa the Next Tnmvr Far&
I WILL OFFER SPECIAL BARGAINS IN A LOT OF
OPEN AND TOP BUGGIES
At less than manafaeturer's prices. These Buggies arc all fine Northern and
Eastern makes, which I will guarantee •equal to the beet. Call and
examine them and convince yourselves that they
are absolute bargains.
A It. GOODYEAR, Ao’t,
(Successor fo H. H. Maj & Cos., opposite Georgia R.R. Bunk)
tt-lcsarooms <u4, Broad St. Augusta Ga. Factory 70.5 Ellis St.
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, MATTINGS,
■ WINDOW SHADE, &!.
The largest south of Baltimore of Mequettes, Velvets, Brussels, 3 ply, Ingrain,
Venetians, Hag and Hemp Carpets, Hearth Rugs, Door Hats, Crumb Cloths. Nur
sery Sheetings, Wiudow Shades, dado styles, Wall Papeys, Borders, File S-rccns,
Lace Curtains, Window Cornices, Curtain Bands, Paper Sliadec, Floor Oil Cloths,
all widths, Stair Oil Cloths. Table Oil Cloths, Upholstery Gimps, Fringes,
Cane, Moss, Hair Cloths. New Fancy Red and White Check Canton Mattings, Co
coa Mattings all widths, Plain and Stripe Stair Rods, Stair Pads, Cedar Chests,
Rustic Wood Window Shades, Tacks, Stapled, Tassels, Pojquito Nets, Picture
Frames, Chrouaos, Engravings, Brackets, Picture Cords, Wire Nails and Tassrls.
&cod for sarnp’.es and circular of Low Prices to 400 u
Ad COSKERY,
Masonic Temple, Augusta, Ga.
FINEST IN
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Our Immense New Fall and Winter Stock.
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AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS.
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PLATT BROTHERS,
708 and 710 Broad St., AUGUSTA. GA
'Eclipse Engnes,
FOR SALE r
C. A.. ALEXANDER
WASHINGTON. GA.
W. Ay GARRETT. W. A. LATIMER.
Gra,rrett & Latimer.
COTTON* FACTORS,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
63 Reynolds, and 25 & 35 Seventh Sts.,
Augusta, Cr/x. •
Liberal Cash Advances made on Consignment in store. Bagging and
Ties at Lowest Market Prices. 38-3 m
The Time Has Come
Use time has arrived when it is my pleasure to state to the public
that m/ stock of
Dry Goods, Notions, &e.,
For the Fall and Winter of 1884,
la now complete. And the prospect* and opportunities for securing the NEWEST
CHOICEST, and most desirable styles and qualities cannot be excelled in this Market,
Experience has taught me * bat to buy and hour to select so as to please any and all win
may f* VO r me with a call. Careful and judicious buying at bard pan prices and for CASH
enables me to
Make Prices as Low as the Lowest.
I most Earnestly Invite an inspection of my stock. Polite attention shown to 411.
SAMPLES SENT PER MAIL WHEN REQUESTED. 41-3 m
JAMES MILLER.
MILLER’S .CORNER, 801 & 803 BROAD ST.
LATEST IN KIYI.K '
l owi st i\ i’i:i< k!
A A T o. 1.
IMMORTALITY.
[Schiller. J
“What shall I do to be forever knownf*
Thy duty ever.
This did full many who yet sleep unknown
Oh, never, never 1
Tbtak’st thou perchance that they remain
unknown
Whom thou know’st not?
By angel trumps in heaven their praise is
blown;
Divine their lot
“What shall I do to gain eternal life?”
Discharge aright
The simple dues with which each day is rifa
Yea, with thy might.
Ere perfect scheme of action thou devise
Will life be fled;
While he who over acta a* conscience cries,
Shall live, though dead.
Above ami Below.
[Munich Cor. Texas Siftings. |
In this country, as in England, only
more so, society is divided into classes.
Each class is abjectly polite to the class
above it, and extremely indolent toward
the classes below. The nobility that sur
round the king, grand duke, or whatever
the rank of the ruler may be, do not asso
ciate with anybody except those who be
long to their own peculiar circle. The
government officials worship the nobility
above them, aud so it goes all the way
down to the peasants, of whom the
wealthier ones look down with evu tempt
ou the poorer peasants.
1 saw the class predjudice amusingly il
lustrated in a picture in The l liegeude
Blacttcr, the comic paper published in
Munich. When a person sueczcs, it is
customary for those present to My “Zur
Geuosuug, ” which means “may you re
cover. ” This curious custom is supposed
to have its origin during the middle ages,
while Europe was desolated by fearful
plagues, and the people died like sheep.
When a person afflicted with the plague
sneezed it was almost a sure sign that the
crisis was passed, and the patient would
recover, lienee the expression of saying
** may you recover " on a person sneezing
is kept up to the present time.
The caricature to which 1 referred,repre
sented a series of pictures in which a
nobleman, n merchant, a mechanic and a
peasant are sitting at the same table,
drinking beer. Nobody ever saw such in
timacy on the part of people who belonged
to different social circles, except in an
imaginary picture. In the first place tfic
nobleman sneeze* violently, whereupon
the merchant, mechanic and the peas
ant stand up, bow, and most obse
quiously say: “May you recover.” In
the next picture, the merchant sneezes like
a good fellow. The nobleman remains in
his seat. He pays no attention whatever
to the sneezing of the vulgar merchant,
but the mechanic and the peasant recog
nizing that the merchant ranks them as
far as social status is concerned, arise,
and go through the unusual formula.
When the mechanic sneezes in the next
picture, the nobleman and the merchant
are utterly oblivious to his recovery, and
the peasant alone says Zur Genoaung. and
finally, when the peasant, who is at the
bottom of the social ladder, sneezes, no
body says a word, or appears to care a
cent whether he recovers or not.
Profanity Among Women.
[Louisville Courier-Journal.]
More women swear Ilian Is generally
supposed. They Iry to bo alone when
they indulge in this sort of relief, and,
therefore, proof agninst them Is hard to
obtain. Many a husband would be aston
ished if he could hear some of the ex
pressions that once in n while escape Ids
wife in moments of severe domestic trial.
Few women Begin with regular swear
words. They become profane gradually
I When a woman begins to say “confound
it" und “duru it,” let any person over
hearing her administer nt once a strong
caution. From these comparatively Inno
cent outbursts may grow a round, plump
oath that will get fatter and fatter v and,be
followed by others, until the poor woman
becomes as Uni as her husband. Let all
womankind licware of the first small cuss
word. no mutter how harmless it may
seem.
Society .Note.
(Whitehall Times.]
Mra Bnoberly, a very aristocratic New
York lady received a visit from a friend,
who. among other gossip, said:
“Do you know that your son has been
seen seveial times in company with a
seamstress? Everybody is talking about
it. ”
“Oh. tlmt doesn’t amount to anything,”
replied Mrs. Bnoberly, smiling.
“Hut I am told that the young lady is
respectable ”
“iforrible! Horrible!” shrieked the
agonized mother. “He may bring disgrace
upon our family by marrying her. ”
A Sweet Consolation,
(Norristown Herald.]
A German scientist says that the brain
and spinal cord are conductors, “and
hence a lightning stroke on the head does
not materially injure the brain beyond
shattering the nerves, and causing tempo
rary derangement ” This is a sweet con
solation; but all the same, during a thun
der storm ninety-nine women out of a
hundred will shut themselves up in a dark
room or take refuge in a cellar.
Statues of Zinc.
(Scientific Journal.]
Monuments and statues cast from refined
zinc arc given a sparkling appearance by
directing a sand blast under steam pressure
upon them so that the sand cuts tlie sur
face but does not adhere to it A thin film
of oxide is thus formed, which standi
atmospheric exposure admirably: yet the
film is so thin that it scarcely admit* of
ordinary measurement.
Early Domestic Trial*.
[Punch.]
Young wife (in great trepidation—to
her brother:) “Tommy, I’m going to
give the cook warning. Just ii-len at
this comer, and os soon as you hear me
nay, ‘Cook, I give you a mouth’s warning
from to day,’ mind you call me, aud say
I’m wanted immediately. ”
A Kouth Carolina Hull.
The Charleston News and Courier, speak
ing of the obstructions of the Wateree,
says: “In many places there are great
rafts of logs, old trees, stumps, etc.,
drifted together, and lodged along the
river, so as to make it dangerous even for
an ordinary canoe to go through safely. ”
SttCCflM.
If you want (access, do not expect to
get it by chance, but seek it through the
open doors of the things that lie next you,
and seek it as if your soul depended Upon
your finding it.
Y'ork (Pa.) Daily: In everyday life it is
much more important to he an accurate
observer than a mere book learner.
Lunatics' Ledger: When a couple are
making love by moonlight their feeling is
one of in fine night bliss.
Nothing is really small All works for
all
OUR NATIONAL MONUMENT.
Will It Outlast the Ages?— The Fate of
Other Structures.
[Washington Cor. Cleveland Leader.]
Standing by the Washington monu
ment one is greatly impressed with the
mechanical skill required to build it. Its
stones are great blocks, in some eases
nine feet long, two feet thick, aud threo
and more feet wide. There are more
than 18,000 of them. They are of white
marble, and weigh several tons each.
The ingenuity which can raise such
stoites several hundred feet above the
ground seems tho triumph of mechanical
skill, and one is inclined to pat himself
on tho back in that ho belongs to an
age so far advanced in tho march of
progress, lie is inclined to sneer at tho
works of the past, and to think that tho
massive structure before him will outlast
the ages. A second thought bids him
pause. He remembers the raying in re
gard to tho Roman Coliseum. ’
While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall
ataud,
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall,
And when Home falls, with it shall fall tha
world!
Still the Coliseum, when it was built
at tho beginning of the Christian era,
lmd a better chance of lasting than tin
Washington monument. It was a far
more wonderful structure, and the me
chanical skill required in building it
was quite ns great. Tho largest theatre
to-day in tho world will not seat 7,000
spectators. The coliseum has scats for
87,000 and standing room lor 20,000
more. Its walls were made of
heavier blocks than tlioso in tho
Washington monument, and they run 157
feet high. Its interior was so largo that
the Washington monument could have
been laid in ido of it without disturbing
its masonry, and of the one-third of tho
gigantic structure which remains after
Romo has been building from it and
ravaging it for centuries, tho materials
alone nro said to be worth 12,500,000.
This is twice as much ns tho cost of tho
Washington monument, aud $500,000
to spare.
It, was a greater work than this to
erect the Colossus of Rhodes, that im
mense l-ra>en stntuo, 140 feet high,
which stood at tho entrance of the
harbor so Hint tall-masted boats could
sail between its huge legs without injury.
This statnc weighed nearly 800,000
pounds, and after an earthquake OYor
threw it, ns ono indeed may sometime
do tho monument, its ruins lay for nine
centuries, and at the end of that time it
took a caravan of WOO eumels to carry
the metal away.
Look at l’onipey’s column which still
stands overlooking tho Mediterranean
on the outside of Alexandria, in Egypt,
A solid shaft, sixty-seven feet high and
nine feet in diameter, of the heaviest of
red granite, raised upon a pedestal 104
feet high. The mechanical skill required
to elevate that immense shaft anil to
bring it 1,000 miles down the Nile, is
quite equal to anything of tho present.
And then the pyramids! The top of
the groat pyramid has a platform thirty
two feet square, only three feet less
than this Washington monument whnro
its pyramidal top begins. The blocks of
which the pyramids are constructed are
much larger than those in the Washing
ton monument, and it is said it took ten
years to make the road over which to
carry these heavy stones.
It took whole cities of men to build
the pyramid of Cheops, and according
to Herodotus the radishes and onions
which the workmen ate cost once and
one-half the price of tho Washington
monument. This pyrumid has an area
of thirteen acres at its base and its
height is 48U feet. It must tiave cost
billions to build it, and resting ill tho
dry atmosphere of tho desert one would
think that hero at least would he a mor
sel too hard and dry for the tooth of
time. But the wind nud tho weather
have eaten even into tho pyramids, and
their beauty and sphindor show the ef
fect of decay. Tho Washington monu
ment in the humid atmosphere of
America, as it breathes year by year tho
exhalations of tho swampy Potomac, will
have a fur shorter career. Tho seeds of
nature, invisible to the eye, will creep
into its crevices, and time will crumble
its now solid marble.
Still the monument will, whilo it lasts,
he considered one of the wonders of tho
world, it is now tho highost thing, in
the world—forty-threo feet higher than
the spires of the Cologne cathedral, and
so tall that the Hphyiix could he put on
the top of hit, Paul’s and still be more
than a hundredJpet below it. It wilV
attract travelersrrom far and near. I
do not agree with those who say it—.is
nothing hut a great chimney, it is a
work of massive, symmetrical and won
derful immensity; and no man can view
it without being tilled witli great
thoughts of man aud nature in their in
finite fiossibilities.
Trader-Hearted Carlyle.
[Edmund Yates' Recollection*.]
The crowds of children growing tip in
London affected Carlyle with real pain.
These small plants, each with its head
just out of the ground, with a whole life
ahead, and such a training! Noticed
another trait, too! Scotch thrift show
ing itself in hatred of waste. If ho saw
a crust of bread on the roadway he
would stop to pick it up and put it on a
stop or a railing. Some poor devil might
bo glad of It, or at worst a dog or a
sparrow. T> destroy wholesome food
was a sin. He was very tender about
animals, especially dogs, who, like
horses, if well treated, were types of
loyalty laid fidelity. Horrified him
with a story of my Oxford days. Tho
hounds had met at Woodstock. Tlicy
had draw n tlie covers without finding
a fox, and, not caring to have a blank
day, one of the whips caught a passing
sheep-dog, rubbed its feet with aniseed,
and set it to ran. It made for Oxford in
its terror, the hounds in full cry behind.
They caught the wretched creature in a
field, and tyre it to pieces. I never
saw Carlyle more affected. He said it
was like a human soul flying for salva
tion from a legion of fiends.
Making It Eiwy for Them.
[Chicago Herald.]
After much experimenting, Dr. Rich
ardson has found a satisfactory means
of causing painless death, and has intro
duced it into the Home for Lost Dogs in
London. The animals to be killed are
placed in a chamber charged with a
mixture of carbolic oxide and chloroform
vapor, when they tranquilly fall asleep
and wake no more.
MASONIC TEMPLE!
AUGUSTA, GA.
rho A<*knoAvled" cd Headquarters
in the South Atljuitie StatON
for YUne, Reliable
Dry Goods and novelties.
Our Stock this Season is far Ahead of Anything evor Brought
Here Before mid Comprises Every Article Connected
With llie Dry Goods Business. We Give an
ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE ON PRICES
AGAINST EVERY MARKET IN THE UNITED STATES.
Foil* dealing and polite attention insured for everybody. filled,
promptly aud carefully, and samples sent on application.
DALY & ARMSTRONG?
N. B.—ln writing ior Samples, please specify the
particular goods wanted. 4i-3m
MARBLE.
A. R. ROBERTSON, Athens, Georgia.
MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER OF
Granite and Marble Monuments & Tombstones-
A large lot of finished work on on hand ready for lettering. I will pay
half freight on Monuments and Tomb Stones delivered in Washington, Ga,
i- 1 ? A. K. HOBEItTSOS, Athens. Ca.
Pearce’s Warehouse Established 1847.
I'. V. PEARCE. 11. L. WILLET. C. 11. HALI/AliD;
PEARCE, WILLETT & BALLARD,
COTTON FACTORS,
No. 19 Jackson Street, AUGUSTA, GA,
Our ware-house has been recently remodelled according to
the latest insurance plans and wo have cotton
insurance at lowest rates.
WHELEBS & CO.,
Cotton Factoits,
Augusta, Ga.
Our warehouse having been recently rebuilt with all modern improvc
nrenls, o are prepared to handle Cotton upon very favorable terms.
Social Persona) Attention Given , . ii, i 1( , inp.
WE AKE GENERAL, AGENTS FOR THE CKT.KDKATED
Dauiel Pratt Revolving Head <^ii*
> _ 3C-3m
HENRY FRANKLIN,
[SUOCEBSOUjro FRANKLIN KUOS.]
€Ol TON COMMISSION MERCHANT,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
GENTS for Baldwin Ar Co’* Diunlvcd Bone*, Soluble Sea Island Guano, and the Atlantic PhovphaiW
Liberal advance* made on consignments. '6l-wx
F. W 7 fos T eh,
COTTON E-ACTOR,
And Commission Merchant,,
(ftce and Warehouse on Campbell Street,
Between" Broad ancl Reynolds, AUGUSTA, GA
Consignments Solicited. -Personal Attention Given to Business.
3fl-3tn Tho Instruction of Consignors Promptly obeyed.
PencMon Foundry and Machine Works.
CIIAS. F. LOMBARD, Proprietor. TVM. PENDLETON, SupJ,
MANUFACTURE AND DEAL IX
MILL MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES.
;No. 015, 017 and Oil# Bollock Street, Augusta, Ga,
CASTINGS OF ALL KINDS EXECUTED PROMPTLY, IN IRON OB BRASS, Pul
leys, Gearing, Shafting, Journal Boxes, Sugar Mills, Gin Riba, Injectors, Wata
wnee s, Governors, I lies, Engine Supplies. Iron Fronts,Balcony Castings, Ac., Ac.
Special Attention! IGiven [to Repaiis.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
*
A 20 H. I*. Boiler and IS 11, P. Engine for Kale at u Buigain
Now Located at IHagruder mine.
GEO. R. LOMBARD & CO.,
Foundry, Machine ajyi Boiler Works,
AND MILL AND ENGINE SUPPLY HOUSE.
Manufacturers and dealers in Engines snd Mill Mainer/, Boilers and Piping andl
all kinds of Fittings. Shafting, Pullers, Hangers, Boxes, Elc., in sock fer prompt de
livery. Genersl agent in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama for Kortiaf-
Injectors sod Van Den Jet Pumps. We bare tbs most sxler*iye shops in tbs Routfe
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