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WASHINGTON GAZETTE J. W. CHA Pi^o, FRIDAY, |tf A 1^2271^5. SUBSCRIfeIOy $3.00 , RESTING. 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 tite and digestion, and by tbeir prompt and thorough action give tone and vigor to the 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. .