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KATES FOR ADVERTISING: fVicrif Sale*, per square $ 3 00 Mortgage i/a sales, per syttar*.., ~f , , 5 OU Ta-c GolUetor't *•.'#, per-square . 3 00 Citation for Ihitqrs Admiitfstration and OiartutmslUjn |. J... 400 Application far letters distil issurg fro <n Admin!Aral inn and ftfaciUurskip. 680 Application for Utters Ulsmissory from Guardianship 5 00 Application for leans to sell land, per sqr 400 Notice to debtors arul creditors 5 00 Land sales, per square ........ *3 00 Sales of ittrisfiabU properfy, per square 200 Estray notices, sidy days (i 00 Notice to perfect service . ...s 7 00 It alts nisi tofarteb.se mortgages,pef sqr 300 K’sUs to establish lost papers, per square 500 Hates roMpellini f titles 5 00 Rules to perfect serrice in divorce cases 10 00 Application for h0me5tead. ........... 2 0® Obituary Notices, pe fs/juare. SI.OO Marriage Notices. * 1 00 of Transient nd vertUemonts, lirnt insertion..® 1.00 .SuhMM|iient ln.ierrioiiii.TT. 7. 75 Announcing Candidates, in advnnoe 10.00 No adrortisament taken for lew than one dollar. Monthly or semi-monthly ndrertuemonte iusert • 4 at the aaino rate* ncwadcoriiacments, each insertion. Litoral deduction* vrtif he mivdft with those ad vert wing by the rpiurter or year. AU transient advortuemento must b® paid for when hnuded in. Payment for oontnmt advertisements allrays due after the first Insertibu, unlew otherwise stip ulated. &rrms of j^tbsmption: One eopy, in advance, one year $2 00 On* oopy, in advance, six 1 00 'hr* oopy, in advaneo, th>ee rnontlis 50 A club of six will be allowed nil extra copy. £rofrssiomit A. G WHITEHEAD, Iff! 3>., WAYNESBORO, GA., (Office at old stand of Burkrm. A Wwiteukad. Residence, corner Whitaker and Myric sts.) Special attention given to Aceuupheujent and Surgery. Thanking the public lor past patronage, solicits a continuance of the same. jaitl’3—ly DENTISTRY. GEORGE PATER39N, D. D. S., OFFICE NEXT TO I‘ LAXTERS' HOTEL , WAYNES BORO’, GA. FAMILIES ile-iring Itis services at their homes, in Burke, or adjoining counties, can address him at tiiis place. deo'id-ly NOTIG K. DU. THOMAS BURRELL OFFERS his Professional services to the pub lic. Office at the Drug-store of Messrs. Wilkins &, Little, during tlie day ; and at night can be Sound at ids plantation, two mile* from the village. janl3-tf NOTICE. Dlt. 11. W. BANKS OFFERS HIS PRO FESSIONAL services to the citizens ot Waynesboro’, and Burke county geotv rally, in the practice of Medicine and Den titt'j. Calls left at Tub Expositok oflice will meet with prompt aueutiou. novg3-ly j .us a. as it Ton. | inn: i u i: owssos. ASIITON & GLISSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WAYNESBORO’ GEORGIA. Will practice in the Superior Courts cf the Augusta. Eastern, and Middle Circuits; the Supreme Collit of the State, and in the District and Circuit Courts of tho United Matos, at Savamiah. 01a. 1116 collected ami iens enforced. novlO-ly PERUY <fe BERRIEN, ATTORXKni AT LA IT, WA Y NESBORO, GEO 11G lA. OJiet in Court Ilona hnse.mrnt —nnrtheast rom A. M. RODGERS, ALTO RX E Y AT L A W , WAYNESBORO, GA. OFFICE A T THU COURT HOUSE. imu *. HOOK. j JA'IES GAIIDXISIt. HOOK Sc GARDNER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AUGUSTA i GEORGIA Will praetieo in tho Augusta Circuit and in the United States District and Circuit Courts for the State of Ooorgia. Cases attended to in other counties and in South Carolina by special eon tract. jaul3-6w MAT. K PERKINS, PMP. OP BGMW| AM) LlHjUmi OF MUSIC wru, TEACH ChAaS-SINUIXO, CONDUCT MUSICAL SOCIETIES, AND and Drill Choirs, with special reference to th wants of the Church. Address, MAT B. PERKTNS, jj22* Lawtonville, Burke co., Ga. — ! EVERY' STVIE OF JOB PRINTING NEATLY, CKKAI’LY, IKD # EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. W. A.. WILKINS, DEALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, DRUGS AND MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, ETC., ETC. WAYNESBORO', GA. JETHRO THOMAS, DEALER IN FAMILY GROCERIES, UiyGoods and Clothing (Opposite Planters' Ifotet), WAYNESBORO, GA. By .Tames E. Frost. II VOL. ITT. i T3 LIT, IHJOT TI LIT! BY AMY BA.NDOLI’ir. “I’m not going to let my house to everybody,” said Miss Jerusha Brown, cmpatically. Miss Jerusha was forty, but she was neither fat nor fair. On the oontrary, she was spare, but her brown eyes were clear and bright, and there was a certain quickness and elasticity in her move ments which betokenod that the springs of youth were still fresh within her. She had posted up the bill “To Let,” and she now sat in the shadow of the parlor window curtains, waiting to see what luck might betide her—a modern “fisher of men,” her bait gleaming in the wistful eyes of all house hunters. “No,” repeated Miss Jerusha; “I must be very particular in my choice of tenants.” And slic started nervously to her feet as tho bell wire sharply reverberated. It was a rusty widow, in crape, bom bazine, and faded complexion, who eyed Miss Jernsha, as woman in the abstract, eyes her fallow-woman—as a natural enemy, to be got the better of, if such getting the better is a possible thing. “This bouse to let?” said the widow. “Yes’in. it is,” answered Miss Jeru sha, unconsciously catching the acerb tone of her interlocutor. “How much rent?” “Eighteen hundred.” ' “Too much!” said the widow, closing Iter lips tightly. “My family is quite small,” went on the widow; “only nine children, my step-son, and three or four friends as boarders!” “Nine children !” gasped MissJeru .sha, vaguely reminded of Rogers, the Martyr. “And one at—” “And one at college yos!” said the other lady. ‘ But he stays nights with us.” “I object to so many children,” faint ly interposed Miss Brown. “Then you’re no better than King Herod !’’ said the widow. Good-morn ing, ma’am !” And away she went, the crape bows on her bonnet quivering with agitation. “Nine children!” repeated Miss Je rusha to herself, with a grasp at the cologne bottle. “I don’t know what would become of me, if—” But hero the door-bell pealed again. “It’s a man this time,” said Miss Je rusha to herself. “I hope lie hasn’t got nine children! I’ve a great mind to have the bill brought in, and add to it, ‘No one with over six children need apply!’ ” While she was turning over this pre caution in her mind, a tall oily-faced gentleman entered with his hat under his arm. “Your house pleases me, ma’am.” “Indeed ?” “The rent is somewhat high, but the premises are airy and commodious.” “Glad you think so, sir,” said Miss Jerusha, with an air which said rather, “It is a matter of indifference to me whether you do or not.”- “I was thinking,” went on the gen tleman beuuiily, “of renting these prem ises to open a Home for Young Desti tute Delinquents, under the age of ten years. Childhood, my dear madam—” “I object to childhood, on any terms.” “But, madam, your duty—” “My duty don’t lie in that direction, sir. I’d as soon furnish a cage to a lot of juvenile hyenas!” The oily faced gentleman withdrew, murmuring to himself something about “poor human nature.” “Upon my word,” said Miss Jerusha, ‘it behooves me to look about a little. I didn’t know that renting a house was such a dangerous business. Who is that coming now ?” A tall, solemn female, with the un (comfortiible expression of face which generally means dyspepsia, with a gush* “3ALU3 POPULI BUPREMA LEX ESTO." WAYNESBORO’, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1872. ing girl of sixteen at her side, wished to know “if eighteen hundred was the very lowest rent Miss Brown could be induced to take ?” Mi>s Brown signified her immutabil ity on the suhjeot of price. “I think it’s a damp house,” said the dyspepsia-faced lady. “/think it isn’t!” flashed out Miss BrowD. One’s house is like one’s baby—it is hard to hear it decried unjustly. “I’m quite sure I smell green mould,” said the lady, with a wrinkling of her nose. “Nothing of the kind,” said Miss Brown. “This is a very unhealthy neighbor hood, I’m told.” pursued the rentee. “I really don’t see, then, ma’am, what you’re in it for,” retorted Miss Jerusha. losing all patieuce. “Come, Amanda,” said the tall lady, in the tone of a suffering martyr; “there’s no reason we should stay here any longer to be insulted.” “No reason at all, ma’am,” said Miss Brown, courtcsying very low. “I was a little too much for her,’’ said Miss Brown. “Green mould, indeed! I’ll green mould her! Well, ma’am, what do you want ?” There was au uncouscious infusion of defiance iu her voice, as she confronted a plump, showily dressed female, with a profusion of curls, and a glitter of jet chain, who was rustling into the room. “You are the owner of this house?” she asked smoothly. “Yes, I am.” “Ah ! then perhaps you wouldn’t ob ject to taking pare of the rout in gen teel board for yourself, if I like the premises ?” “Genteel hoard, eh ?” said . Miss Je ru.-ba, rubbing her no e with her ball of yarn. “My family are all of the first posi tion in society,” assured this blaudly spoken lady. “I have about a dozen of the most agreeable boarders. Professor Soldo, whose devotion to art is such that ho practices the violiucello eleven hours per day. Mrs. Major Perkes, whose delicious voice enchants the neighbor hood—” “That’s enough,” said Miss Brown, with a little shudder. “The board would be quite too genteel for me!” “I am not sure that I entirely com prehend you!” said the lady, putting her gloved baud to her ear. “I prefer not to let my house for a Bedlam broken loose!” said Miss Brown, with more sincerity than politeness. The curled lady rustled her flounces away in a towering rage, and our heroine was once more left monarch of the field. “I didn’t know before that I was ner vous !” she said to herself. “I almost wish I hadn’t bought the house! Mr. Smith said I was a fool for my pains, and I believe he was right—the great unmannerly fellow!” Now, Mr. Smith and Miss Brown had lived next door for ten years, quarrelling all the while with unremitting assiduity. Miss Jerusha scarcely ever sat down to a comfortable cup of tea without the Banquo’s ghost of “Mr. Smith’s com pliments, and your macaw has picked all the blossoms off his early cucumbers;” or, “Mr. Smith’s compliments, and if you don’t keep your eat iu your own yard he’ll shoot it!” While Mr. Smith himself lived in a perpetual state of siege at the hands of Miss Browu and her fern iuine corps of maids. “I’m glad of it,” Mr. Smith had vfn- j dictively remarked, when Miss Brown had told him of her new investment. : “You can’t be more glad than I am !” she retorted brusquely. But when a family of ten boys moved iuto the vacant premises next door, and commenced scientific onslaughts on the neighborhood, Mr. Smith bethought him self of auld lang syne, with a shadow cf regret. “I’ll movel” raid Mr. Smith. So it befell that Miss Jerusha, sitting in her parlors and bewailing the dignity of her landed proprietress-ship, found herself face to face with Mr. Smith, who was vigorously hunting houses. “Is this residence to— JTullo /” cried Mr. Smith, as he recognized his quon dam neighbor. “My goodness gracious me !” ejacu lated Miss Jerusha. “Don’t squetze my hand so, therc’s a good fellow! How are the cucumbers?” “Hot-bed smashed in—young fiends of boys. Can’t stand it any longer!” said Mr. Smith, dolorously. “Don’t you want to buy a house?” said Miss Jerusha, with a gleam of hope. “Who wants to sell ?” asked Smith. “I do r “ What for ?” “A loDe woman has no business with a house! Smith,” lowering her-voice to a confidential whisper, “I should go to a lunatic asylum if I faced the tide of house-hunters much longer!” “I thought you were equal to any thing!” observed Mi. Smith, satirically. “I thought so, too!” said Miss Jeru sha, dejectedly ; “but I find I’m not.” “How is the macaw ?” asked Smith. “He is well.” “I hadn’t an idea I should have missed the macaw so,” said Smith, abstractedly. “Come, buy my house,” urged Miss Jerusha. “Keep it yourself,” said Smith. M ss Jerusha was too well accustomed to the abruptness of her old neighbor to take any umbrage. “It’s too lonesome ” said she. “Get married,” suggested Smith.— “Two heads are better than one, if one is a wooden head.” “Pshaw I” said Jerusha. “Marry me!" went on Smith. “I’m not young; hut then neither are you.” “Your manners don’t improve, any way,” said Miss Jerusha, half vexed, half laughing. “And they never will,” said Smith. “Come, old girl, you know the worst of me, and the best, too, if there is any best. I miss the macaw, and I miss the yeilovv cat, and I miss you." “What nonsense F’-said Jerusha. “It it nonsense, I know,” said the frank wooer, “but we’re no worse fools than the rest of the world, Jerusha.— I’ll buy the house—but I won’t buy it without you’re thrown into the bargain.” “You were always a quarrelsome fel low,” said Miss Brown, relentingly. “But you always held your own,” pleaded Smith. “Corm—l can’t stand here courting for ever. Yes, or no?” “N—n—” began Miss Jerusha, but just then the bell pealed sharply, and a shrill voice demanded of Betsy Jane : “Is this house to let?” “No !’• shouted Miss Brown through the door, which stood ajar. “No, it’s not /” And she looked at Smith, half fright ened at her own temerity. “It’s a bargain, eh ?” said Smith. “Yes, it is," said Jerusha. “Then let’s go up stairs and see the macaw," observed this strange suitor. “Let’s go and take the bill down first,” said Miss Jerusha. And they did. A Game Two Can Play At. —ln all the books of Advice to Wivei, “good humor” is especially and primarily in culcated. This looks suspicious. Is it possible that the wife is obliged to have enough for two ? In this con* ncction we may mentiou an anecdote: A young man was telling a young lady what he should require of the wife he should marry. ftor enumeiating a long list of perfections, the damsel in* quired, “And pray, sir, what have you to offer in return fot all this?” Just then he found it convenient to leave. For a wedding song—Love knot. - The head man in France is the Guil* lotinist, II S3 a year, in advance. bessie ™ prairas. BY NATALIE. The cold November wind played drearily around the house where Bessie Allyn sat gazing, mournfully, on the bright grate-fire. Now, a grate-fire is always calculated to make one feel either very happy or very sad. When we arc in a cheerful mood, there we find brightness and warmth ; when we are melancholy, we muse in our easy chair, and the flicker ing flames recall the sad Past. All its pains and trials rise up to greet us from each red-hot coal, reminding us of the time when Grief burned her memory within us. So, as Bessie had been low-spirited all day, it was no wonder that when night came on she sat down alone in the library, and let the long-pent tears flow freely as they would. Bessie had a deep sorrow all alone. It was her own secret, which she never meant any one else to know. When ihe tea-bell rang, she went to the table as radiant as ever. “Here are cur invitations for Thanks giving,” said Mr. Allyn, producing a large euvelopc. “Ob, gQodie ! goodie !” ejaculated the younger members of the family, with whom any holiday was thoroughly en joyable. “We always have a delightful time at John’s,” remarked Mrs. Allyn. “I wish we could stay at home,” broke in Bessie. “Why, Bessie ! I thought you, above all, were so. fond of Thanksgiving day, especially when it was spent at your uncle John’s.” Bessie, thus pressed, had to say some thing ; so she merely replied that it was so long since they bad spent a Thanks giving at home, she longed for their turn.” The Allyn family was an unusually large and affectionate one, and held it a sacred duty to meet at least once a year. The family gathering was held in turn at the house of each brother and sister, and it was now four years since they had been at uncle John’s. He was a jolly fellow, particularly fond of his nephews and nieces, since he had no children of his own. His wife’s nephew, Frank Howard, had been left to his guardianship whon a boy, and they had come to look upon him as a son. Handsome, bright, and talented, he gave promise of becoming a fine man and they looked forward with confi dence in his success. But Frank had a strong will, and be surprised them all by suddenly announc ing his determination to go to Chiua. “Go to China! and you not out of college! Why, Frank, what do you mean ?” exclaimed uncle John, when the news was imparted to him. “Mean that I intend to go, sir, with all respect to you,” bowing as he spoke. “Well, well—this is a matter for serious reflection, my lad, and I hope you are not doing it hastily.” “I am going, sir,” said Frank ; and he went. A party of seniors in college were to start as soon as they graduated, and Frank had strangely determined to ac* company them. No persuasions or re monstrances could induce him to give it up. It was now four years since the last Thanksgiving had been kept at uncle John’s and then Frank was the gayest of the gay. Now it would be dreary without him —at least to one of the party, and she dreaded goiug, Bessie Allyn knew why Frank How ard went to China, and for four years had shrunk from these parties as are minder of it. Now, to go to the very spot where they had parted was almost RULES FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING : Mates of land, etc., by Administrators, Use raters, or Ouardiarui are required by law to be hold on the first '/Snstlay in the• month, between the hours of lm in the forenoon and three in thi afternoon, at Iks court house in the county in irhich the property is situated Notices of these sales must he given in u public gazette in the eaunty where the Inrut ties, there be any. Notices for the sale qfpersonal property must he i itsh in tike manner fen days previous to sale tlay. Notices to Debtors and Oreditms qf an estate must be published forty days. Notice that op SUcation trill be made to the Court of tjrdinary for are to sell land, etc , -must he jntblished once a week for four weds Oitu/iems for Letters of Admin is teat ion, Guardianship, etc., must be published thirty | days. For dismission from Adr,.(mstration and fix ; erutinskip, three months dismission from liuard isenship,forty days. Rules for Foreclosure tjf Mort gage must he published monthly for four months. \ For establishing tost papers, for the full space qf three months. For compelling titles from Aaminis■ ' trators or Executors, where band has hern firm by diseased, three mouths. Application for l lorries feud must be published twice. [ Publications Writ always be continued according to these requirements unless othenrise ordered J txr One inch, or about eighty words, is a square; /ructions counted as full squares jN0.12. intolerable, but she could not escape from it. With trembling hands Bessie made her toilet that day, but she never looked sweeter. Her pure complexion was ad mirably set off by her dress of pearl poplin, with rose-colored sash, and rose coral ornaments. These last, a Christ mas gift from Frank, she had not taken from their box siuce he had been gone; but a strange impulse seized her to wear them. Her spirits rose as they drew neat their journey’s end, and the merry wel come received from the host of guests I drove thought away. Gaily the hours flew with cheerful laugh, song and games, until the great dinner was announced. Uuele John : would have everybody nt dinr.et to gether, and the long tables laid in the elegant saloon were filled by as happy a party as ever were gathered. Vases and urns, heaped* with lovely flowers, hanging baskets with trailing .vines, beautiful canaries in their gilded cages, with the table adorniueuts of rich china and silver were reflected back in the mirrors which lined the walls, and formed a scene of brilliant beauty. For a time there was great laughter and confusion, while the process of carving was going on. Every one felt happy in the prospect of a good dinner, and laughter and jokes reigned supreme, while the waiters flew around serving the guests. Bessie alone remained quiet. She felt more lonely amid all this cheerful ness than she would if she were entirely by herself. I rank sat beside her before, Frank toasted her in his wine. Frank whispered words to her in the dance that she had laughed at, the while her heart was bounding with joy. She shuddered as she thought how stern his face grew as he replied, “I thought you were above trifling, Bessie,” and led her to a seat, leaving her so agitated that her lips refused to speak. Thus they parted, and she had borne the load of grief and despair which many a heart knows. Musing thus on the wretched subject, she iost all con sciousness of where she was, until heav ing a slight sigh she recalled herself, glad to find her abstraction unnoticed. As her eyes wandered around they happened to light on th<j mirror oppo site, and—oh, Heavens ! what did she see! With a quick cry she sprang to her feet, pointing to the mirror, and as every head was turned, astonished to sec what it was, sho fell back iu the arms of Frank Howard ! She could not faint though, for as he strained her to his heart, her blood ran swiftly over face and nock. Then such huggings aiid kissiugs all round, such real pleasure at seeing the wander er, gave new deligh to the toccasion. Uncle John ordered in a hot turkey and a fresh baked pig, and tho Waiters vied with each other in serving their young master. Never did chicken-pie taste bo good bdbre, never was there such cranberry sauce or delicious coffeo. It was almost worth a sojourn in a foreign land to come back with a better appreciation of home. Only one thing was wanting to make Frank perfectly happy. He glanced at Bessie’s forefinger, and saw she wore no ring, and he was relieved. But he must end his impatience quickly; so, when they had returned to the drawing room and, dancing had be gun, he claimed Bessie’s hand for the first Redowa. How warm and soft it felt as she placed it in his, and how he longed to snatch it to his lips. But he kept quiet till they had reached the end of the room ; then “Bessie 1” he whispered. She looked up with her lovely eyes, and he asked ; “Have I come back to you ?” doftly her “yes” floated to his eager ear, and in a tumult of bliss they whirl ed on. S . At the next Thanksgiving party Mr, and Mrs. Frank Howard were the hap piest of the happy.