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THE WASHINGTON GAZETH 1
YOL. XX.
AMAZING GRACE.
irk. Bquatter MmU a Kan Ha
Had Baen Looking For.
The conntcy advances; the light of
naw ideas ij. awns ; machinery lessens
the lull of wan. but the Arkansas
squatter sec no turn of the wheels
hears not the new hum of growing
industry, says the Louisville Courier
.Tamuttl. Cities and large towns
have sprung into existence, but rather
than become identified with their
civilization he follows the track of the
retreating bear, and again builds his
rude cabin in a domain free from hur
ry and at evening, when
he sita under the great tree that shades
his door, he can hear the howl of the
wolf and listen to the scream of the
inspiring panther.' lie docs not of
ten change the scone of his primeval
habitation, for civilization is not
a race horse, nor does enlightenment
lneake op.and surprise a c immunity.
A few months ago Col. W. I*. Grace
one of the most prominent lawyers of
the Slate, had occasion to make a
horseback journey into a wiki district
lying between two great mountains of
Ozark range. One day, while the
heat was intense, he came upon a
small log house surrounded by a fence
of poles. An old fellow with low yei
tow whiskers, like the dead silk on an
ear of corn, sat on the fence, engaged,
it seems, in llie v ork ef killing buf
falo *-n its.
“Ilow are you ?” said the colonel,
reining np his horse.
“Little peaßer than I wnz, but I
ain’t so power! jl peart yit,” slapping
at a gnat.
“Will you be so kind as to bring me
a flipper ot water?”
“Ripper?” he repeated contemp
tuously. “I ain’t seed a dipper sense
7 went dewn ter take a look at the
Legislator. If yer drink here, stran
ger, ver’ll hawevdrink outen a giurd.
Wan’t it?”
“Yes. I am thirsty enough to
drink ont of a straw hat.”
• The old fellow went into thee-shfii
and soon returned with a gourd drip
ping with water. The colonel took
the vegetable vessel, turned it up. but
only for a moment. Spitting out the
•water, he returned the gourd, and
said.
“Put a themometer in that water
and it would run up to 150.”
“Don’t know about that, cap’ll; bat
put a wiggletail in it, and he’d capor
round mightily.”
“When did.you draw it ?”
“Wasn’t drtwed ; it was foleh.”
“When did you bring it from the
spring?”
“Day afore yistiddy.”
“Whv haven’t you brought some
since ?”
Cause this ain’t give out yit.an’ an
other reason is, wife she’s down with
the chills.”
“Can’t you leave lier long cnengh to
get water?”
“ Tain’t that. She ain’t able to go
arter it. She ’tends ter the water.”
“How far is the spring?”
“’Bout three miles.”
“Which direction ?”
“Fnstonean’ (hen tother. Path's
powerful crooked.
“Why uon’t you dig & well ?”
“Weather’s too hot.”
Why don’t you dig one when it’s
■cold ?”
“ ’Cause the the ground’s friz.”
“How far is it to the next house?”
“Thar ain’t none.”
“What’s your name, my friend ?”
“Paterson. What’s your name?”
“My name is Grace.”
“What!” exclaimed the squatter,
dropping the ground. “Air ycr the
feller they sings about at church?
Yer ain’t old amazin’ Grace airyer?
Well, dog my cals! Git down. I’ve
been waitin to meet yer since I heard
’em sing about yer so much. I reck
on yer air a powerful hand at rasolin,'
hain’t yer? Jist git ofTn fling me
down once. I never were flung yit,
and daddy did tole me ’fore he died
that Grace would come ’long arler
while an’ fling me. Yer wus a
mighty long lime ccmin,’ but yer air
here at last, tyhat, yer ain’t gwine
ter leave? on’t reckon daddy
knowed what p man I’d lie agin yer
got here. Wall, /good-by Grace;
don’t reckon I’ll ever see you no mo.”
While brother Beecher’s pew rents
are smaller than for several years,
his congregations are growing larger
every Sunday, and often more people
go to Plymouth church than can be
admitted,
r
WASHINGTON, GA„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1885.
THE DAVIG-SHEBMAN MATTBB-
It is obvious that if the plans of
those who organized secession had
not miscarried, I hey would not now
lie described ns conspirators, any
more than treason, when it prospers,
keeps the name of treason. It is small
business, therefore, for senators to
wrangle over words which borrow
their whole significance from the for
tuitous results of war, and which
merc'y affirm iu an offensive way
the notorious failure of the attempt to
break up I lie union. We should add,
in simple justice to Jefferson Davis,
that from all tlie evidence thusfarbe
fore the world, he seems to have been
reluctant rather than eager to precip
itate the rupture, and to have held
alout for some lime from the active
measures taken to give effect to south
ern discontent by organizing a sepa
rate government.
As to the famous discovery which
Genera! Sherman bcltoves himself to
have made in a private letter, this
may be coarsely designated as a
marc’s nest. He alleges that in the
dying throes ef the rebellion, Presi
dent Davis threatened to coerce ene
of the confederate states (said to have
been recalcitrant) into forwarding
the help imperatively needed to save
Richmond, which, as the event proven
had come to be the sole bulwark of
the confederate cause. But suppose
this to be true of Jefferson Davis,
will any southern, or indeed, any
northern man think less of
him for Hint ? Amid tho
harrowing anxieties and par
amount demands of war, Mr. Liucoln
himself did sumo things which he
afterwards regreted and for which
the most inflexible opponents of ex
ecutive usurpation have cheerfully
forgiven him. Although the expedient
is sanctioned neither by our constitu
tion nor by that of the confederacy,
there are times when the instincts of
mankind justify resort to the old Ro
man practice by which in supreme
an officer k i.-iz.iw com
missioned to violate) alt laws. Sml
had Davis, iu his desperate struggle
lo break through the circle of fire
and iron that was tightening around
Richmond, coerced the state of Geor
gia into enforcing a conscription and
supplying him with re-enforcenioni,
he would have done no more than
Lincoln would have been praised for
doing under like appalling pressure
in New York or Indiana. There are
fewmennow living in this country
whodesireto slay the slain, or who
can derive any satisfaction from assail
ing Jefferson Davis. The difference
of opinion wtiicli, under the sharp
stress of invasion and exhaustion, are
said to hare arisen betceu the ceutral
administration of the confederacy
and the governors of Georgia and
North Carolina, will not, as we have
said, beheld by gcncrous'andj candid
men in any section of the union to
cast discredit upon any of the parlies.
Govenor Brown and Governor Vance
did their sworn duty in the posts
witli which their fellow citizens in
trusted them, and on his part Presi
dent Davis obeyed a law written in
the heart, and which overrides all
stautes —the law that bids a cause save
itself from annihilation.— New York
Sun.
Bov. Dr. J. P. Newman, Gen.
Grant’s old pastor, was the princi
pal speaker at the funeral services in
San Francisco recently of the late
Iceland Stanford, Jr., and it is announ
ced ex-Gov. Stanford paid Mr. New
man SIO,OOO for his discourse. The
services took place in an Episcopal
chapel, and SIO,OOO was expanded for
flowers for this occasion alone.
A Michigan boy ate a bar of soap,
drank a lot ol soda water and went to
bed cured his cold. The doctor had
a hard time to pull him through, hut
the boy now says the next time ho
catches a cold he will use Dr. Bull’s
Gongh Syrup.
So Near and Tet ao Far.
A story of a clerk in a Main st.
store, who had a dollar to invest in
the late drawing of The Louisiana
State Lottery. Two tickets were pre
sented to him, Nos. 58,282 and 58,280.
Undecided, he concluded to spend his
cash for ticket No. 58280. This deci
sion cost him $14,980. The moral is
when in doubt on a question that can
be decided for sl, always give your
self the benefit of the doubt. Pur
chase both tickets.—Memphis (Teun.)
Avalanche, Dec. 20,
aUEKE THINGS IN PAWN-
False Teeth, Skeletons and Babies Offered
by Impecunious Capitalists.
A well dressed man entered Mr
ket street pawn shop recently and
quietly putting his hand to i.is month
took out a full sot of upper teeth,
bound together witli a plate of pure
gold. After he had rubbed them on
his handkorcliief he handed them
shyly to the clerk, aud said iu a stage
whisper:
“Five dollars.”
The clerk handed the man the mon
ey and a ticket and he slipped quietly
outot tlie door.
“That man's been here three linn s
to-day,” said tho clerk. The first
time he left his watch and chain.
The second time he loft his diamond
stud and ring. I’vo advanced him
money on his raise teeth before. He
is a poker player. He will be back
for these and the Olliers things Mon
day or Tuesday.”
••Do you usally loan money on false
teeth ?'' was asked.
“No not often. Some pawnbrokers
do. A cjuple of medical
tuen used come
hero who got hard lip about once a
month. Once they had pawned ail
theirspare clothing and all their jew
elry and books and instruments. A
couple of ni*hts after
they came here with
a long bundle wrapped in a gossamer
coat. Tlioy told me they wanted $lO
very badly. I opened the long bun
•Ne and found a human
skeleton. All Un
bones were strung on silver} wire.
Knowing them well I let them have
the money and carried theskcloton up
stairs in the storeroom, where it stood
in a corner for a month before they
cuino after it. Several times I’ve bad
women try to pawn babies. It’s a
common thing for men to came iu
hero on bitter colds days and take off
their overcoats and pawn them. A
handsome young fvomen
walked in lioro this
morning. and, talking toff ■
sealskin sacquc, pawned, it fur $10.”
—Philadelphia Times.
STATISTICS ON MUBDEB.
Ohio is the wickedest slate in the
Union. Statistics ef the murders
committed in this country during Hie
year 1884 show that Ohio leads with
189. Texas following with 181 and
Rhode Island’and Delcwarc having
each 11, the smallest number. In
the prohibition states of Kansas,
lowa and Maine the numbers of mur
ders were 78, 58 and 16, respectively.
Besides Ohio and Texas, the states
having more than one hundred mur
ders were Kentucky, 178; Missouri,
146; Tennessee, 137; Georgia, 135;
New York, 125; Pennsylvania, 220;
Michigan, 109, and Virginia, 102. Of
the populous states Illinois makes,
by all odds, the best showing, having
only 63 murders in the year, one-half
less than the number in several slates
with populations one-third less than
hers. Compared with 1883 the mur
ders in this country have more than
donbled. The lumbers In 1884 being
3,377. Of ttiesc 315 were mysterious
and remain so. Forty-eight children
were killed by their parents, 83 wiveß
by their husbands, and 12 husbands,
by their wives. Only 103 legal exe
cutions for murder occurred, though
219 lynchitigs were reported.
The situation of the Blaines in
Washington is a happy one, Mrs.
Blaine is not magnetic, site is repel
lant. She has taken occasion to snub
many ladies in society there who
openly rejoice at her disappointment
and humiliation now. Mr. Blaine’s
course since his defeat lias
been such as such to estrange many
personal friends that ho had
among the Democrats. In (lie long
years of the new epoch that will
date from the fourth of March, 1885,
the capital of the United States ought
to be an uncongenial place for ma
lignant disunionists like James G.
Blaine.
Ayer’s Hair Vigor improvos the
beauty of the hair and promotes its
growth. It imparts an attracive ap
pearance, a delightful and lasting
perfume. White it stimulates the
roots, cleanses the scalp and adds
elegance ts luxuriance, its effects are
enduring; and thus it proves itself lo
he the host and cheapest article for
toliet use.
A HICK WOMAN’S WRETCHED
DEATH.
There ha*lived for many years at
Lake Mahopac, says llie Albany N.Y.,
Argus, a woman named Eliza
Baldwin, well known in that vicinity
for her eccentricities and stinginess.
She was the wife of “Uncle Henry”
Baldwin and the sister of the late Iten
i>en W. Baldwin, who for years kept
•he Baldwin Hotel at Lake Mahopac.
Ail hefs-ixlalives art well to do, her
husband is..wealtli she was esti
mated to ifo worth wßup). Yet sho
lived alone, apart (ram her husband,
who waslnable to endure her tem
per and arrogance. She had two sons,
whoyears ago went-West. Latelyono
of them returned to see his mother,
but was refused admittance by her,
she claiming that lie cams after her
motley, not to visit her. Her husband
at ane tiipe was desirous of selling
some property and required her sig
nature to the deeds. She refused to
sign until he had translerred her one
thinl of all his pijoperty. Mr. Bald
win indulged her in many ways, and
built for her, oil K farm of 30 acres, a
SIO,OOO house. aiJ| handsomely fur
nished it. She tisik possession, but
iiille by little soljl for cash the furni
ture and household articles. Sho lived
most wretchedly, denying herself
enough toeal anil using in winter tho
least possible fujl. The people of the
vicinity had grewn accustomed toiler
oddities, and tkenifore paid no atten
tion to the factitliat lately no signs of
life or activity! were manifest, in her
house. One oflhc neighbors, however,
had some btianess to transact with
her. She wenl to her house, and, af
ter repeated Knocking, was unable to
gain admittaire. The door was then
broken iu ana Mrs. Baldwin was found
sitting in ajehuir before an empty
stove, frozen to death. On a slool be
side her wa l a piece of paucako and
and a cup f containing some frozen
soup, the <sily edibles iu the house.
After tVg funeral, the Rev. Mr. Tut
tle ljun. aj x tpn Smith, the
only 'iXon*ln w hum Mrs. paid win
placed confidence, made a search of
the house, and $76,000 in cash was
found, and it is supposed as much
more remains hidden in undiscover
ed tiooks.
THX BIMPLH TRUTH OF HISTORY
Gen. Grant's downward career be
gan when he, the military idol of hi#
fellow-citizens, entered tho partisan
service of ths Republicans, and gave
up to the party what wao meant for
mankind. A* the Bxecutiveof the na
tion he became the victim of tho most
unscrupulous hand of political scoun
drels who ever fastened themselves
upon an American administration.
During the eight years he presided in
the White House there was scarcely a
month which did not disclose some
deed of rascality on the pan of those
whom he called to till some of the
most important offices in his gift.
One of his private secretaries, now
dead, barely escaped expulsion from
tho army and a cell in tho peniten
tiary. One of his Cabinet officers was
accused of high crimes and misde
meanors and summoned to tho bar of
the highest court known lo the law.
The name of another one has become
the synonym of all that is bad and
corrupt in a had and corrupt age.
■veil Gen. Grant’s own relatives do
not hesitate, in their greed for money,
to bring disgrace and dishonor to bis
name. Grant’s second administration
will lire in our history as the most
corrupt we ever had.
Corn doctors have been skillful
enough to kill two prominent citizens
of Brooklyn.
“Anted Like a Charm.”
This is what Mrs. Mayor, of Ba
ronne street, New Orleans, says of
Brown’s Iron Bitter. A “charm”
works quietly surely, promptly,
thoroughly and with delightful ef
fect. That is just the way this won
derful family medicine works on in
valids who have been suffering the
woes of liver complant, dyspepsia and
impoverished blood. Those who
know its worth say it is a complete
cure fordyspepsia, weakness malaria,
neuralgia, cot.
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is the most po
tent bleod purifier, and a fountain of
health and strength. Be wise in
time. All baneful infoctions arc
promptly removed by this unequalled
alterative.
W SI3VCS,
SUCCESSOR TO SIMS, IRVIN & CO.]
The Firm of Sims, Irvin Sc Cos. having dissolved, I will continue
to keep alwavs oa hand
LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS,
DOORS, SASH, BLINDS,
BRICK, LIME,
AND OTHER BUILDING MATERIAL.
My prices will bo low and CASH mint aacompany all orders. Call and consult
me before buying elsewhere. Will store Guano and other artieles at. my warehouse and
deliver the same. Charges reasonable. A small stock of Builder's Hardware at COST.
lam authorized to settle all claims dua by or to the old firm. OFFICE AT ARNOLD
OUSK sepl2-6m
L.. W. SIMS.
1884. COTTON BUSINESS SEASON.
W. jr. MERCIER,
COTTON FACTOR.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
MARBLE. ~~
A. R. ROBERTSON, Athens, Georgia.
MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER OF
Granite and Marble Monuments & Tombstones
A largo lot of finished work on on hand ready for lettering. I will pay
half freight on Monumoiits and Tomb Stones delivered in 'Washington, Ga.
1-1 V yi. R. ROBERTSON, Athens. On.
NEW STORE!
a NEW GOODS!
NEW PRICES!
B. M. WINESTOO K,
Formerly of Greenville, S. C.,
Informs the citizens of Washington and Wilkes comity generally, that ho hav
opened at the store on the west side of the public square, formerly
•ccupicd by Mrs. Stewart as a millinery store,
a well selected stock of
Clothing for Genta, Youths and Boys,
FROM THE CHEAPEST TO THE BEST.
A Good Assortment of—
Shoes, Boots, Hats, Caps, Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
JEANS, Cassimeres, Umbrellas, Tranks and Jewelry. Large lot of Underwear. Toilet
Soaps in great variety. Suspenders, Silk, Linen and Cotton Handkerchiefs, Hosiery
and Gloves. A nice lot of Ladies’ Cloaks, all of which we guarantee of Latest styles, and
at prices to astonish the natives. These Goods we offer to sell cheap for cash. Mu. G.
THOMAS POPE is with us and will be glad to see his friends and neighbors and let them
have Goods at VERY LOW PRICES. 30-ora
B: M. WINESTOCK, AG’T,
THEODORE MARKWALTER’S
MARBLE WORKS;
BROAD STREET, (NEAR LOER MARKET) AUGUSTA, GA.
lilin TOMBSTONES MO MABBLG WORKS GENERALLY
always on hand or made to order. A large selection ready for lette andrlng
delivery at short notice. Several hundreds of new designs of
The Most Modern Style of Monuments,
FINE PLYMOUTH ROCK
CHICKENS
FOR, SALE.
They aro pure breed mfl extra fine
Tho Plymouth is is very popular be
cause of their many superior quali
itics. PRICES REASONABLE.
Address
L. L. CHAPMAN,
Talbotlon, Ga.
Citation for Letters Administration.
GXOKQIA, WILKES COUNTY,
rrio all whom it may concern. Whereas,
JL Thomas A.Shank, having in proper form
applied to me for permanent administration
on the estate of B. (Jr. Paschal, late of said
county, this is to cite all and singular, the
creditors and next of kin of B. G. Pascha
to be and appear at my office within tho ti m
allowed by law, and snow cause, if any t he
can, why permanent admfnisttation sho ul
not be granted to Thomas A. Shank on H. G
Paschal’s estate. Witness mv hand and
official signature this Dec. 9th, 1885.
24t GEO. DYSON, Ordinary W. C.
NO. 4.
JOHN McPOLAND
Contractor & Builder,
Plans and estimates furnished a
short notice. Strict attention given
to all orders entrusted to me. AH
orders for stone and brick work in
any part of the country promptly at
tended to. Address
101 CARRIE ST., COR. MILLER.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
Citation for Letters Administration.
GKOBOtA, Wilkes county.
TO all whom it may concern : Mrs. Sally
Terry, having in proper form applied to
me for permanent letters of administration
on the estate of George W. Terry, lalo of
said county, deceased, this is to cite all and
singular the creditors and next of kin of
said George W. Terry, to be and appear at my
office within the time allowed by law, anti
show cause, if any they can, why permanent
administration should not be granted to
Mrs. Sally Terry on George W. Terrv’a
estate. Witness my official signature, this
Dec-2, 1884. GEO. DYSON,
49-4 t Ordinary W. C.