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JETHID THOMAS,
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FAMILY GROCERIES,
ind Clothing
( Oppoaite Patera 1 Hotel),
WAYNJfcORO, GA.
By James E. Frost. II
VOL. 111. I
A KENTUCKY ANECDOTE.
“She’s the finest lady in the Blue-Grass
Region, but she lacks taste, sir."
It was customary in former days for all
the ladies of the best families to atteud
the prominent barbecues, and this was
especially the case in the contest between
Mr. Breckinridge and Gen. Coombs, in
1840. Out of these affairs grew the
authentic story of the nicest widow in
the Blue Grass Region. Not far from
the Folks of Elkboru lived the pretty
little widow Fauntlcroy, and ono of her
nearest neighbors was Gen. Peyton,
j The General had looked upon the little
widow very much as he looked upou
his blooded horse Powhattan. The
finest horse iu the Blue Grass Region.”
The pretty Mrs. Fauntleroy had been
a widow more than a year, while the
Gen. having a great regard for etiquette,
had waited patiently for that time to
elapse, in order to declare himself. But
the widow with her woman’s art, kept
her lover at bay, and kept him to her
train.
He had escorted her to this barbe
cue, and when returning, had expressed
his satisfaction at the prospects of Gen.
Coombs and the success of the Whig
party.
The widow took sides with the De
mocracy, and offered to wager her
blooded saddle-horse Gipscy, or any
thing else on her place, against Powha
tan, or anything else she might fancy
on the General’s place.
The General's gallantry would not
allow him to refuse the wager, which
he promptly accepted.
By this time they had reached the
north fork of the Elkhorn, and were
about to ford it (bridges were not
plenty in those days), when John Pey
ton, the General’s only son and heir,
came up at a sharp gait behind them.
The widow turned and bowed to John,
and rode into the stream, but a little
behind her companion. The east bank
was very steep, and required the horses
to put forth all the'.r strength to reach
the top with their loads.
As luck would have it, good or ill,
the widow's girth broke when just at
the commencement of the steep part.
The lady, still seated on her saddle
slid swiftly back into the water, while
her horse weut up the bank like an arrow.
John Peyton leaped from his horse,
and in an instant caught the floating
lady and saddle, and before tbc Gen
eral had recovered from his astonish
ment was at the top of thebauk with
liia burden. The little widow was equal
to the occasion, for she begged the
General to ride on and stop her horse,
which Lad Dot begun to understand his
part in the mishap, and was beginning
to increase his gait toward home.
The General did as he was bid, and
soon returned with the horse. In the
mean time John Peyton had secured
his own horse, and when the Gen. came
back with the widow’s horse she and
John were laughing merrily over the
ridiculous aocident, but what further
passed between them is only koown to
themselves.
John Peyton repaired the broken
girth, fastened the saddle again on tho
horse, placed the lady in her seat, bade
her good evening, mounted his horse,
aud taking another road down the Elk
horn, rode rapidly home leaving the
General to escort the widow.
It is not uecessary to relate how he
entertained his fair companion with his
ponderous anecdotes of Mr. Clay and
other famous public men ; but when ho
reached the Fauntleroy place, he accept
ed the lady’s invitation to dismount aDd
take tea with her.
After having changed her wet cloth
ing, the pretty widow entertained her
guest with her brightest smiles and
some new songs. The General was de
lighted, and expressed his delight, as
Kentucky gentlemen of that day would
do. “You arc the finest songstress,
madam, iu the Blue-grass region.”
WAYNESBORO’, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1872.
When he bade her good night, and
shook hands with her on the porch, the
wicked little widow gave his band a
little squeeze, only a little, but it thrill
ed like an electric shock through his
great ponderous frame, while she laugh
ingly reminded him of his wager. That
night in his dreams, the little widow
Fauntlffroy was repeated so often, and
in so many bewitching forms, that he
resolved to propose to her at their first
meeting, nor did he dream that he could
be refused.
The next morning a letter from his
tobacco factor called Gen. Peyton to
Louisville, and before his return the
political contest iu the Ashland district
was over; aud, wonderful to relate,
John C. Breckinridge, the young Den
ocrat, was elected to Congress.
Gcu. Peyton was both astonished and
indiguant, “Mr. Clay's district, sir,
the finest congressional district in the
blue-grass region, has disgraced itself,
sir,” was almost his first remark to his
neighbor, Col. Beaufort.
To his son, John, ho communicated
his intention of bringing Mrs. Fauntleroy
to adorn the bead of his table.
“Sir, she is the finest lady in the
blue-gras.s legion, and I hope, sir, you
will always respect your future mother.”
John, with a quiet smile, assured
him that lie was pleased with his choice.
This pleased the General highly, for he
had been a little afraid John would ob
ject to a step mother younger than
himself.
The next morning the Gen. ordered
Powhatan brought out and led over to
Mrs. Fauntleroy’s. Calling John, he
requested him to call upon Mrs Faun
tleroy.
‘‘The Whig party has disgraced itself
in Mr. Clay’s district, sir, and I am
compelled to part with the fiuest blood
ed horse in the State to pay a wager
with that lady, sii.”
The servant thon led Powhatan to
the hitching rain in front of Mrs.
Fauntleroy’s yard, and having tied
him, had gone into the quarters to tell
his colored brothers and sisters of their
mistress’s good luck in having won the
tamous horse Powhatan.
When Gen. Peyton and John arrived
they found the pretty widow and two
young lady friends in the yard admir
ing Powhatan.
“Madam,” said the General, to Mrs.
Fauntleroy, “I have come, like a true
Kentucky gentleman, to pay the wager
I have lost. Powhatan, madam, is
rightfully yours.”
“But, General, I believe the wager
was conditional. It was the horse or
anything else on the place, was it not ?\
“Madam, you are correct, but I can
not permit you to select an inferior ani
mal.”
“You have another and superior ani
mal here,” replied the widow, blush
ing.
“Your son, John; if he would but
use his tongue. I think I shall choose
him.”
The General arose, and in his bland
est manner bade the ladies good morn
ing. To John he said :
“Sir, you will remain.”
General Peyton never forgivo his
daughter-in-law her practical joke. In
after years he used to say :
“Sir, she is the finest lady in the
blue-grass region, but she lacks taste,
sir.”
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Mrs. Stanton is lecturing on tho
“Coming Girl.” The St. Louis Times
wants to know, you know, how docs sho
know what it will be. Another paper
suggests that if she expects such an ad
dition she had better be at home mak
ing up a supply of small clothes, rather
than traveling over the country brag
giug about her expectations.
Somebody advertises in a London pa
per for “some old artificial teeth” which
can be “sent by post,” and for which
“tbcirvalue will be sent back per return.”
“SALUS POPULI SIXrPIkEM-A. XiB3L ESTO.”
Coi ncipencks. —The record of coinci
dences is now having a lively run.
A woman, writing to tho Missouri Re
publican calls attention to tho fact that
the burning of Chicago and the Michi
gan fires occurred on tho sixth anniver
sary of the burning of the Shenandoah
Valley by Sheridan with troops mostly
composed of Michigan and Illinois regi
ments.
Sheridan laid waste that beautiful
district, so tlmt “even a crow flying over
it would havo to carry his rations
with him.”
The burning of the Michigan towns
is said to have beer, terrible, and “the
flames seemed to leap from the sky as if
by magic, overtaking and destroying
people and cattle by the roadside.”
The Boston fire began on the 10th of
November. On the 10th of November
General Sherman issued his order to
burn Rome and Atlanta. —Atlanta Con
stitution.
A Feminine Swindler. —A robbery
was recently committed in Baltimore
which, for dexterity and cuuning, was
never supassed. Avery handsomely
dressed lady visited the dry goods es
tablishment of Hamilton & Easter and
purchased costly silks, laces and velvets
to the amountjof more than a thousand
dollars. After the bill was made out
she fouud she did not have half the
amount, at which she was deeply cha
grined, and asked that a clerk might go
in her carriage with her and get the
money at her bouse. She drove to the
Insane Asylum and there left him in
spite of remonstrances. She hadprevi
ously been there and prepared the way
for his reception, by stating the peculi
arity of his mania, and that they would
have trouble with him; therefore, when
he fought and struggled they only
thought him the more insane, and the
lady drove off. When time passed and
the young man did not return, bis em
ployers thought he had absconded with
the money. Of course inquiries began,
and through the carrfage driver his re
treat was discovered, and he was liber
ated. The woman is no doubt still
playing tbc confidence game somewhere,
but as yet she has uot been arrested.
Three Cheers for tiie Elder. —The
State of Ohio used to be famous for its
camp-meetings and religious revivals.but
if what we hear from there now-a-days is
true, it has sadly lost its prestige in those
particulars. An Ironton paper tells us
of a circumstance which lately occurred
in that locality which is a strong indi
cation that there is something wrong
either about the preachers or the people.
A revival preacher, who had achieved
considerable reputation as to his powers
in the pulpit, went to Ironton for a
week, to “start a revival.” He showed
great zeal, preaching every night during
his stay, got a double row of “mourners’
benches” ready, and called frantically
upon his congregation to come forward.
The last night there was an immense
gathering, and the preacher fairly out
did himself. He shouted, and pleaded,
and waited, but all in vain. Not a
soul rose. Finally, discouraged beyond
measure, he sat down. At that junc
ture, a long-faced, anxious looking man
got up, and said that the Elder had
been working hard and labored faithful
ly with them, and as a token of their
appreciation lie moved the congregation
give him three cheers, It was done
with a heartiness which made the pews
tremble, and the people went home sat
isfied that they had fully and faithfully
performed their duty. The preacher
has ever since been waitiug to see Iron
ton destroyed by fire. —New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
Some of the California papers oan’t
imagine why the jurors at the end of
Laura Fair’s trial crowded around her
and wept copiously. As long as rope
is cheap and abundant, i t would certain
ly have looked better if they had gone
out aud hanged themselves.
II 82 a year, in advance.
Duhabilitv or Oak. —At the annual
meeting of the Loudon and Middlesex
Archaeological Society, held recently at
West Drayton, those who assembled ex
plored the site of old Drayton Jlouse,
when the Pngets —now Earls of Ux
bridge and Marquises of Anglesey—
kept great state for two centuries after
the Reformation down to the demoli
tion of their mansion, nr.d tho sale of
their property to another family a little i
after the middle of the last century.!
The party next drove across to Har
mondswortii, where tho church and
magnificent barn of the adjoining farm
formed the principal attractions. The
barn is one of the finest in the kingdom,
it is nearly 200 feet long by about 40
feet broad and 40 feet high, and the
original oak timbers with which it was
built nearly 500 years ago, together
with its beams and even the oaken pins
by which it is fastened together, are
still perfeetty sound.
Commercial Value of Peanuts.—
On this subject the California Rural
Press, of June I,says: “The culture
of peanuts in California is every year
extending, at a large profit over cost
of production, simply as a nut to be
eaten in the theatres and rail-cars by
the boyish element, and by almost every
body else when and where they can get
a good chance ; and though agreeable
aud valuable as an article of food in all
countries, yet their greatest value lies
in the oil they contain. It is easy of
extraction and is equal to olive or al
mond oil for every purpose for which
these oils arc used, and* in many parts
of the world it is sold for pure olive oil,
and is fully equal to it for all the alimen
tary purposes. It is said to keep a
longer time without becoming rancid
than any other vegetable oil; and as an
illuminating oil is gives a superior light.
If cold pressed under favorable condi
tions, it yields a larger per oentage of
oil, but if heated before pressure the
quantity of oil ia increased, but its fine
flavor is somewhat impaired as a table
oil. The hotter the climate the larger
the per cent, of oil. The nuts, after
being roasted and ground fine, arc also
an excellent substitute for chocolate,
and large quantities are used in tropical
countries for that purpose.”
Good Words for the South. —The
Herald of Tuesday, speaks these kind
words—and as just os gent r ms—for
the South. We trust that the Presi
dent may indeed make the attainment
of these ends the crowning glory of his
administration. Jays the Herald:
Gen. Grant ewes bis re-election very
largely to bis immense payments of the
national debt and to his increased trea
sury savings from diminished taxes;
but how much of all this has resulted
from Southern cotton as a balance
against our European importations has
never boon fully acknowledge or com
puted. Now, let us have bona fide, the
reconstructed Southern States restored
to the Union; let the President lead
the way in this restoration by challeng
ing the Southern people in his generous
advances, and social and political har
mony betweeu whites and blacks will
soon follow with law and order. The
capital and emigration, with general
confidence, will pour into the inviting
fields of the South, and within the
period allotted to - the living generation
of her young men the cash products of
the South, in cottoo, rice, sugar, corn
and tobacco, may be increased a hun
dred-fold. “Manifest destiny,” we are
told, iuvites us to Cuba, St. Domingo,
Mexico, and to that half of this conti
nent over which still flies the flag of
England; but manifest destiny first in
vites us to that perfect restoration of
the South which will open anew em
pire to the world’s industry, which will
add millions of people to our wealth
producing classes and hundreds of mil
lions of money to our annual resources
as a nation. Here, then, lies the work
which General Grant may make the
crowning glory of his administration.
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Salts qf land, etc., by Administrators, Executors,
or Guardians art required by lav to be held on the.
first Tuesday in the month, between the hows ttf ten
in the forenoon and three in the iftsrnoun, at the
court-house in the county in trhich the property is
situated. Noticet of these salts must be given In a
public gazette, in the county trl-re the land lies, if
there be any. Noticesfor the sale of personal property
must be given in liter manner ten days precious to
talc tlay. Notices to Debtors and Creditors of an
estate mutt be published forty days. Notice that ap
plication will be made to the Court of Ordinary for
trace to tell lund, etc., must be published once a week
far four week*. Citations for Letters of Adminis
tration, Guardianship, etc., must be published thirty
days. For dismission from Administration and Ex
ecutorship, three months—dismission from Guard
ianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure if Mori
gags must be published monthly for four months.
For establishing lost papers, for the full space yf
three months. For compelling titles from Adminis
trators or Executors, where bond has been giron by
deceased, three months. Application for Homestead
must be published twice. | Publications will always
be continued according to these requirements unless
otherwise ordered.) VAT One inch, or about eighty
words, is a square; fractions counted at full squart s
I NO. 13.
Excuses. —Let others apologize for
us; if we can find an excuse for our
conduct we might have found a way to
act differently.
Thoughts and Actions. —Nothing is
more common than to try to reconcile
our conscience to our evil thoughts by
our good actions.
Choose Good Fkiknds. — There is
nothing which contributes more to the
sweetness of life than friendship; there
is nothing which disturbs our reposo
more than friends, if we Lave not tho
discernment to choose them well.
Kicking Against Facts. —The rhe
toricians have always held the begin
ning of an essay to be the most difficult
to manage. The New York School Jour
nal commences an article upon “Our
Physical Degeneracy,” with the remark,
“It is useless to kick against facts.”
We do not know when we havo seen
anything more appropriate. Tho ex
cellent writer must have been studying
tho election returns.
The Washington and Lee Univer
sity,—The Washington and Leo Uni
versity at Lexington, Virginia, has
twelve schools in operation, and is in
creasing the number as rapidly as its
funds will admit. It has received, with
in the last year, near, SIOO,OOO in be
quests and donations—s7o,ooocash from
tbe late R. H. Brylcy, of New Orleana,
and $20,000 Alexander city bonds from
W. W. Corcoran, Esq., of Washington
city, making its cash capital more than
$300,000, and its aggregate capital, in
cluding real estate, buildings, libraries
and apparatus, more than half a million
dollars. The institution is free from debt.-
— m
Fortune is the rod of tbe weak, and
the staff of tbo brave.
Those who misuse a tender hospitality
Are guilty of gross ingratitude.
One ungrateful man does an injury
to all who stand in need of aid.
Ink made from India rubber is tho
latest invention. It will be used main
ly by writers who are inclined to "stretch
a story.”
One of the participants in a gamo of
cards, in Kentucky, “nigged,” and after
the “scene that eusued,” there was only
one left to “take a baud.”
A huckster iu Stamford, Ky., has the
following warning displayed over his
stall: “Any Man or Boy that takes One
Apel Without Leafc is a litl Iloge in
his bartc.”
The editor of a Western paper writes:
“My wife and I have separated. As we
both wanted to be boss, and she was
likely to beat me, I left her. She says
she will ‘nail’ me yet, and I believe her.”
A man recently broke off a marriage
because tho lady did not possess good
conversational powers. A friend told
him he should have married her, and
then refused her anew bonnet to have
developed her power of talk.
Riches are not among the number of
things that are good. It is not poverty
that causes sorrow, but covetous desires.
Deliver yourself from appetite, and you
will be free. He who is discontented
with things present and allotted is un
skilled in life.
A Louisville man who has only been
acquainted with his girl two nights at
tempted to kiss her at the gr„te. In his
dying deposition he told the doctorsihat
just as ho "kissed her, the earth slid out
from under his feet, and his soul went
out of his^ mouth while his head touched
the stars.” Later dispatches show that
what ailed him was the old man’s boot.
A man by tho uame of Becker, who
resides near Quarryville, New Y.ork,
owned a couple of horses that had tbe
distemper. In cleaning out the man
gers the other day, the virus came in
contact with a flesh wouud in his hand.
In a short time bis band and arm became
so terribly inflamed aud swolleD, they
had to be amputated. Soon after the
amputation he died.