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WASHINGTON GAZETTE
J. W. CHA Pi^o,
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AFTER HXB TOOB THROTJOH THB
•■ft* /at- ■< ■- yjjyr i'f|*Mi*** l *l
Thm Experience of a Lee taw -How the
Home Place Hu Improved During
His Absence, Etc.
A whole week of rcit—aristocratic;
real. I’ve been puttie g®n llie air* of a
gentleman and itruUlng around since
I came home, but my timo i* moil out.
Delicate bint* are made that varlou*
thing# need looking after, tiittle coop*
are wanted (or the spring chicken*,
gome blue grass sod mu*t be hauled
to cover anew square in the front
yard. . There 1* whitewashing,
whfth I understand, ha# got to be
done, and the carpet* must be taken
up and beaten and. put a war. Oh,
nty counlry, i*.there no rest for the
weary—l ll,id that the idea prevail*
In my numerous and interesting fam
ily that I have boon off on a long
frolic and havo feasted on the fat of
Texas laud, wiierea* I nover worked
ee had to get homo and rest. For
tpro long inontha I was on a per*
justntd strain trying to please—to
please new people, every day trying
l® play the philosopher and the wit,
aud feeling ultorly unfit for both—
trying to say smart things, and re
pealing them over and over and over
again to new folks nnt.il I foil
ashamed of myself of and the m and
wauled to beg pardon of my own
iqkos.
But the joke is a over now. There
is no joke in taking Op a ca.pet and
beating the dust out of it. My folks
hare done a power of work since I
havo been gone. There are three
acres of ground around our house—
Unco acres of grove and frout yard
and back yard and spring lot, and it
lias all been swept and garnished and
looks like it had been raked with a
fine tooth comb. Now steps has been
made at the front gate. Anew fence
at the foot of the hill. The old hon
house with its accumulated vermin
has been torn down and moved away,
'fhe old wood-pile cleaned up and
concent rated. Anew ash hopper
rigged up, and tho garden is a model
of nice walks and straight row# and
thrifty vegstahles. This gardening
business his always boon my work
aud aiy pleasure, and when Mrs. Arp
would come out hi her aunbonnetand
calico apron and sorter ovoraee and
enoouraga mo l was hapi>y. But she
had it all in charge (ids lime and want
ed to surprls* mo witli her horticul
ture. Well, I have known for over
•thirty years that she ■ could
do anything she sat her
hand to, but I didn’t know that sho
•would overset her head to gardening
considering how much else sho hud
to do. Of courso I praised it ami
went off into uxorinl rhapsody, hut
auddoniy I forgot my usual disn c ition
and happened to mention that cucum
bers should net he planted close to
squsalies, for thoy would mix their
pollen and—"ami what,” said she.
•“Oh, nothing much,” said l meekly ;
"only tho seed will degenerate, at
least the gardening hooks say so, but
reckon they aro mistaken.” I got out
of it as easy as I could but still I find
(but Iho garden lias been informally
turned over to me and 1 am expected
to finish it. 1 was rending the other
day about old Spoopendyke—how tho
•old sinner lorded it over hi* meek and
submissive wife about the gardening
■business, and when she suggested the
■planting some (lower seod for orna
ments he said: "What kind of
flowers—artificial flowers I reckon—
may lie you want to plant some old
Imiinet wire and a few rags ami raise
yon a spring bonnet.” And when sha
ventured to mention that a fountain
would be pretty, he said : ‘‘fountain I
how are you going to raise a fountain
—where aro vour seed—do you cxjiect
to plant a bucket of water and have it
ccincup* fountain, you Bid weasly
tiling." Well, I just want to get hold
of him xml help his wife civilize him
for fifteen minutes. I know some
wives who wmddent want any help.
The old brute. When a woman
tlcw* |ier best to please her husband
ho ought to appear pleased whether
he j# or not. I know some Spoopen
flykes and 1 liaye no reaped for them.
If the peas in my garden are sorter)
(scattering 1 am content, for I dont
care much about peas no how. The
Irish potatoes are splendid and I can
live on them.
And there are sonic female Spoo-.
pendykea toe scattered around. I saw
ono in the cars the other day over in
Arkansaw ; she and her old man got
Bboard at a station and took a scat
Just behind me in the, smoking car.
Tliey were right common people—
I that is, be was. She bad a snuff
•tfctfln her mouth, and Hrlieu be no
limited hjSrtolkinlthe feat flfst site
I shook jt# heaqhjnil moponed him m
go In. after wKethd|etkabdVcanp
|alo|g will cigarifcnd m took <Me and
■kinfcii wboft erwlsAeiHHt armrud
and asked the price. The boy said
ten cent*. He felt the cigar and then
felt for a dime. Thg old ’Oman
watched him silently until then but
Hit* cotrtd iwHMiyhitgtiiv
“You ant a gwine to give ten ennts
for that seegyar are you ?” “Believe
I will Sally, he aaid., “Je*i to burn
up,” aaid she. "That* what hits made
tor, Sally,”said he. “Well I deknow,”
said she, “I’d look at a dime a long
time before I’d give It for that thing
and then burn it tight straight up. If
I was gwine to be a fool I’d be
a fool some other way.”
By this time he had borrowed
Are from me and got tho thing to
burning, and as he puffed the smoke
upwards he said: “Sally, I haint
smoked a seegyar In three menth and
we are on a sort of a frolic now you
know. You bought a dime’s worth of
snnfT yesterday morning, and if you
haint burnt It up you’ve mighty nigh
aueked it up—o what* the diffunce,
Sally.” “Well,it was my money, “said
she— my snuff never cost* you noth
in’—nary cent.” “And my ecgjar
never cost you nolhin’,‘‘aid he,and he
elvated his chin and screwed up hi*
mouthed and Mowed the smeke away
up yonder.
Well, I was on hi* side of that, flglit
and I think she knew it, for when I
begun a conversation with hint! she
turned her head the other way.
For a few days past I tiave been go
ing Ashing. The creek Is dole by,
*nd the fish are spoling for the frying
pan, and fishing is such <|Uict, con
templative work of play or whatever
you call It. Tt is the only occupa
tion I know of that is common to
white folks and niggers, to gentlemen
and vagabonds. They are all equal
Oil the bank* of the creek, or around
the milt pond, and the lish are not
rcspecton ot persons. I had not en
joyed my usual spring fishing, and so
I Ihonght Iweuld make op for lost
timo. Hay after day I havo been
throwing bait to the finny tribe, hut
the wenf her has been cold and tho
wind all wrong and I have had* poor
luck. Carl ran beat me anvhow. He
entchea two to my owe and doe* not
try half so hard, nor watch
hi* cork *o earnestly as I
do. Nabor Freeman can
boat me. He hangs out a minnow
aaid goes back and find* a trout .nA
tell* me next day how good he wa
for supper. Bht nevertheless I like
fishing. Even if therido nibble and
nibble nntil they get all my halt.
I wonder What make* u* humans
love to catch things ami kill things
that are trying tododge ns. Nobody
want* to ahoot a chicken In the yard,
but we will hunt all day to kill a few
birds, or squirrels, er catch a rabbit.
Wo will wear out a dollars worth of
clothes hunting for a dime* worth of
game We tske no pleasure in pur
suing anything that is tamo and suh
diisslve, lint only hanker after that
whleh is wild and trying to escape.
I reckon it is nature, just nature; the
love of dominion. If tho fish or the
squirrel# would come at our call and
surrender, wo would turn them lose
and say, “go, gontlo creature, I wilt
not harm you.” The scripture says. “I
B ill give vou dominion over tho ii#h
Of tho rco. end tho fowl of the air and
tho beast of tho field,” and when the
fish ami the fowls and the beast say
catch me if you can, wo go at it. But
after all it looks ratlior small in a
grown np mail or a philosopher or a
preacher, to sit on a log half a day
frying to outgeneral a fow little inno
cent perch and drown them in the
air, and alt for sport most ail, we
wouldn’t give more than twenty-five
dents for tho average lot. But I like
fishing nevertheless and the business
i# both scriptural and apostolic, it
is the opinion at mv house however
(hat I am a poor fisherman and that
it does not pay and that somo other
things are more important just now.
So I shall quit for a time, that is un
til the water gets warm and the sweet
louth wind comes breathing upon
the Tiolet banks. I never did know
What fish had to do with the wind.
but Izaak Walton lias settled the
question. They will not bite when
the north wind blows. It will change
(heir appetite in a night. Neither
tv ill they bile in the light ot the moon
jike they will when tho nights are
I dark. A dark moon and a sonth
wind make fish hungry and eager
for bait. S'.’mo men are fishermen
by nature and instinct. Some wan
der up and down all day and change
: their base# every ton minutes, and
! and somo will sit in the same spot
all day long. I know a famous fish-
I erman in Rome a long time ago who
| would wager a dollar that ho could
catch a cat or a trout or a sucker, or a
bream st will. He would let you
name the kind and then he would
catch that kind on the tint trhd. He
knew theighaunts and hole*and hab
it*, and tgfcat bait they loved and
knew hMT to flap for therm I QBn'l
do that.yl have walthedSomething
nibbling atitay book for half an
hour and jerked a haif a dozen time*
and at last pulled up a little dirty mud
turtle. ThAt la disgusting gild! ag
gravating, but when a long suffering
fisherman accidentlyand unp£Sfodty
finds a trout has actaulty grabbed hi#
hooK and shows fight and (Art*
around and pitches and cavorts, And
lashes the water, and bends ypur
pele almost double and you bfoMe
yourself for the great occasion J|lfti
hope in your qye and your hearts in
your mouth and begin to draw Aim
in and up and ont, and just a(Jglbe
inexpressible moment of #ucce#snd
triumph he gives a flirt and alls
back. Oh, what a fall was tbatwiy
.countrymen. What gonenesa, eKat
helplessness, what crushing, subJle
ing feelings come over a man. mle
couldn’t smile if he was going to '.die
hung if he didn't. Ills worse then
to have a cow die, or to be left by the
trein. I have experienced that, and
gone home as humble as a wet dog.
It is a ten dollar grief ever the loss
of a half dollar fi*h. But such is life.
Little things affects us more than big
•nes when wc have onr hopes and
our expectation* wrought up to con
cert pitch. Bim, Artr.
Major Geo. T. J sera sow, of Au
gusta, was convicted of embe/.ztemeut
last Saturday and sentenced to six
years in the penitentiary. There are
two other indictments against him.
It seem* hard indeed that Major
Jackson should be scut to the peni
tentiary but the law must lie en
forced for I lie public good.
HlflS IVBY OUNVIOTKD.
She I* Sant W the Penitentiary lor era
Yanrs.
A dispatch of the lfith, from Louis
ville, Ga., say* : The jury hM juxt
brought in a verdict of voluntary
manslaughter against Mis* Elvira
Ivov charged with the murder of
Jack McCauley, in this county, on
Thursday, the 12th of December,
188-1. Since Thursdsy at noon, the
court room ha# been crowded with
spectators front Jefferson and con
tiguous counti*. Mueh of
tho time was taken up In arguments
on the adniissability of certain letters
claimed by tho prosectuion to Ifttvc
been written bv Miss Ivey to
|p,. e\|ii"-.ing affect ion tor
avowing her readiness to
him.though a married man. The let
ter# were admitted as evidence
though containing no address nor
signature. Mr# McCauley, bevai’y,
veiled with thederpest black, testified
as to said letters being in possession of
husband at tho timo of ids death.
Miss Ivov, in tier statement confessed
that she did the shotting, but under
fear that the murdered man intended
to kill her.
Few her* believe that Miss Ivey
committed the crime. The sentence
is for five years in the penitentiary.
Tho defense moved for anew trial.
H ■ nlr(' Countryman's Happy Feaol
There was sold a number of lucky
ti kets in tho Monthly Drawing of
The Louisiana State Lottery, Tuesday,
April 14lh, including a fifth of No.
50,075, which drew tho capital, #75,
000, held by a voting Dane named F.
Spcndrnp, assistant overseer on Mr.
ltidstcop’s Gom plantation, who will
return to hi* home across the sea witli
tho proceeds of his speculation.—
Donaldsonvilc, (La.) Chief, April IS.
Notice to Teachars of PHbllo Scho.,l
This I# to give notice that an exam
ination of teachers of public schools
will be hold in the court house in
Washington on the first Tuesday in
June next. F. T. Simi^on.
School Com. Wilkes County.
Georgia Railroad Company.
STONE MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Office General Manager, 1
Acocsta, Ga., Feb. 2S, ISSS. }
Commencing suutihj. Mrt h I*l.
l)r*u'li Trains will run a* follows, dally:
Trains rua Uy IMh moritliau lima, M ralna'.*
sfower than Atlanta tiros.
L?a>o Wa-’shtuytou a. h.
• Ficklen 11-4* **
** Raytown Vi.lS r. u.
Arrive at Barnett li.CD “
“ Athens **
“ Atlanta....... 5.40
• C r*-r *..5 ••
•* M e _e\oße M
Macon tS w , u
“ Arsmi>... 3.55 **
Led re An ,p-I. TO.wO a. M
4 Macon ; l.'O “
• Seville...* t.£B 44
*• Atlanta B.CO 44
44 G.iriiesvtlle **
44 Athena S.(XI *•
44 Barnett 1.10 ,4
44 Raytown 1.20 *•
44 Ficklen 1.49 *
Arrive at Washiugtocn 2.20 *'
Trains connect at Atlanta and Angus a (or ail
points Weat. North-west, East and Bou h-west.
j E. R. DORSET. JOHN \Y. GREEN
t Geu. pass. Ageut, OenerU Mtufj r.
AYER’S PELS*
s . A lATge proportion of tho diseases whieh
Catha#ic Pl<§o ac#rw*ly upq
thmo organs, MWt *r especially designed to
enre the diseases caused by their derange*
ment, Including Constipation, Indiges
tion, Djipepsla, Headache, Dysentery,
and a host of other ailments, for ail of
which they an a saA, W. proi*j>t, and
ptoamnt remedy. The eitoulre aof these
which they are held by the medical profee
•ion.
These Pills are compounded of vegetable
substances only, and are absolutely free from
calomel or any other injurious ingredient.
A Sufferer from Headache writes:
•‘Avek’s Pills are invaluable tome, and
are my eonetant companion. I have been
a severe sufferer from Headache, and your
Pills are the only thing 1 could look to
for relief. One done will quickly move ray
bowels and free my bead from pain. They
are the most effective and the easieet physic
I hare ever found. It la a plena are to me to
•peak in their gratae, and 1 always do so
when occasion offers.
_ W. L. Pack, of W. L. Page A Bro."
Frsnkiiu St., Richmond,Ya., June 3,1*82.
M I have used At kb’s Pill* in number*
less instances as recommended by you, and
have never known them to fail to accomplish
the desire*! result. We constantly keep them
on band at our home, aad prise them at a
pleasant, safe, and reliable family medicine.
FOR imPhPSJA they ave invaluable.
w _ J. X. Hayes.’*
Mexla, Texas, June It, IMS.
The K*v. Paawcis B. Harlow*, writing
from Atlanta . (la., says: ~ For some years
oast I have been subject to constipation,
from which, ia spite of the ese of mettt*
sines of various kinds, I suffered increasing
inctjuveriience, until some snooths ago I
began taking AYEA’a Pills. Tliey have
entirely corrected the eosSive habit, and
have vastly improved rny general heaUh.”
Atkb’s Cathartic Pill* oorrset Irregu
larities of the bowels, stimulate the appe
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whole physical economy.
FRYIMXirD BY
Dr. J.C. Aye r & Cos., Lowed, Mats.
Bold by sll Druggist*.
lOUNG. AH' wpmtam* tho wond—fa*
OLD MO SF** 1 *
MIDDLE- Ayer ' a Sarsaparilla.
,„ r - Children with Sol* Eye*. Sons
sotu. Em, or my ecrofulens or ryiJi
jtHle Mint, nwy be made lusltiiy md strong
Bold by all Druggists' fl. .lx bottlearfor IS.
Th. Lincoln County M.ctar,
Editor Gazette: Mv ttlentinn lias
been called to an article In your pa|K-r
of a w eek ago, over nom tic plume
■>f Ilorlcrick Dim, wliich I think
deserves some notice at iny hands.
In ihe first place, sir, I think your
criiui.ma were entirely Injuwt, lx
cause y>*tf knew nothing of lie evi
der.c* Isifore our Grand Jury and
therefore Could not say whether they
r did right or wrong in foiling to indict
the Dill Bros. We feel entirety able
to lusnagc our county affaire without
■ the aid ol' out#id*f*. Roderick Dliu
takca your paragraph fora subjest ea
which to write one of the mot
malicious a nd DtnderoVis artirio* tlutt
ever emanated from tho |>eu aud brain
•of a northern acalaWßy. He aacused
the Grand Jury with willfully ob
structing public justice- From
whence sprang this modern champion
of public justice? What mighty
■ haugc has come ever him ? Has be
been “born again”? God grant Ut
such a display of ignorance- aud
malic* i worthy aidy of a nincom
poop, anil had R. D. always been
only bait as ready to do justice to
others as to exact it from, them lie
wlioutd to-day be admitted by ad
mirers. By misrepresentation be
seeks to make the public believe that
our people are dissatisfied because iha
Dill Bros, were not indicted. Such is
.not the case. The dissatisfaction, if
,any, exists in the narrow, contrasted
selti-h mind of this cosmopolite dc
fsnderof public justice, wha perhaps
thrive* best, if he ihrivca- at all when
lie can foment discord, strife snd
Ittigalian, thereby increasing bis
chance* for reward. In jiciiniiig these
lines, Mr. Editor, I have onlv. ex
orcised that right which the God of
nature bath accorded to the humblest
worm—to turn when trod upon.
G" is, J cco a.
IJneotn County, Ga.. May 15# 1885.
Director Gf.nkksl Bi-rkk think#
that the merciless assaults of the
press during the period when the Ex
position was in aa incomplete state
did the exposition incalculable dam
age, The greater part of the press
of the country* did all It could to
lielp the exposition during its embwr
rassed period. The press abroad ivas
much more charitable towards the
the enterprise than some of the pa
pers published in Louisianna. Much
ot that which was unfavorable which
appeared ’.n the pres# of the country
was justified hr what wa laid by
people in New Orleans end by the ap
parently dissatisfied tone of ono of
the New Orleans papers. The expo
sition would not have paid expenses
even if it had opened under the most
favorable auspices. It is to® far away
from the thickly populated section*
of the country.
Althocoh there is a constant
stream of invalids to the Arkansas
Hot Springs, many *f whom get no
relief and die, yet 25,000 persons are
said to have been cured there within
the past ten years who were given up
by tho dectcrs.
KEMF.MBEU !
BEINSON LEADS,
BUT NEVER F OL OWS.
30 000 Lbs Eacoo 3,000 Bu. Genuine Bust
10 Tierces Lard. Proof Oats.
500 Sacks Salt. 75,000 Lbs. Bran.
200 Packages Mackeiel 50 Bbls. Sugar.
50 Sacks 1 Coffee.
AND ALL THINGS ELSE IN THE GROCERY LINE AT PRICES
WHICH DEFY ALL COMPETITION.
Be Sold Vitfem tie Neil 30 Bays
Regardless of Value, to Cash Purchasers.
150 Pr’s White and Grev Blankets.
36 Lap Robes.
10,000 Yards Sheeting and Shirting.
10,000 Yards Georgia Checks.
2,000 Yards Osnaburgs.
2,000 Yards Georgia and Kentucky Jeans.
A large Jot cf Mens’ Hats, Trunks, Valises and Um
brellas at a Dread Sacrifice.
STOVES.
100 Stoves with all Fixtures complete, at less than
Atlanta Prices.
FURNITURE.
if i
Just call and see the greatest bargains ever of
fered in Georgia.
OIL PAINTINGS.
75 very Handsome and genuine Oil ?n;
200 Beautiful Chromos, on almost subject.
O.Y7T FIRST-CLASS
15 HORSE POWER ENGINE
AND BOILER#
FOR SAIJE OX EASY TERMS.
BUGGIES. WAGONS: HARNESS
LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE OFFERED IN GEORGIA.
It will pay every man to call'.and know what the
*
Leader’s prices are before purchasing. You will al
ways find it will be money in your pocket if even you
do not buy from him.
BENSON needs every dollar that is due him and
■the only way to shun these hated duns is to pay'al]once
All debts not settled by the Ist of March, will be
placed for collection in my attorney’s hands. BENSON
is patient, but it must be borne in mind that he has
debts to pay.
No honest man *can conscientiously speculate on
BENSONS money by holding his codon and not pay]
ing his honest debts. Pay your debts so that those you
owe can pay theirs. .