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About The Expositor. (Waynesboro, GA.) 1870-187? | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1873)
£rafeisiottal JuhiMßnncnt*. A. G. WHITEHEAD, M. D., WAYNESBORO, QA, ()(!(?• ftt old Hi mid of Burdri.l it WIIITKIIKAD. lUiidcnoe, corner Whitaker nnd Mjrric et.) Special attention given t Accouchement and Surgery; Thanking the public for past patronage, nolicits a continuance ol the same. jtl3—ly D KJNT ISTIiY. GEORGE FATER3ON, D. D. S., or r ice next to planters' hotel, WAYNESBORO’, QA. FAMILIES desiring his services at their homes, In Burke, or adjoining counties, can address him at this place. dec2B-ly U 9 o lovkttC ATTORNEY AT LAW , WAVNKSnORO', GA. vni practice in tlie Superior Court of tl e Augusta, Middle, and Eastern Circuits.— Special attention given to Justice Court practice. fehlo-ly A. M. RO l )( r ERS, ATTORNEY A T L A W WAYNESBORO, GA. OFFICE AT THE COURT IIP CSS. PERRY & BERRIEN, attorneys at law , WAYNESBORO, GEORGIA. Vfict in Ctmt House basrment—northeast room JOBS D. ASIITOS. | ttOMKR C. OLISSOS. ASIITON Ac GLISSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW , WAYNESBORO’ G EORGIA. Will practice in the Superior Courts cf tlio Augusta, Eastern, and Middle Circuits, the Supreme Court of the Stele, and in the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, at Savannah. Claims collected and •ns enforced. novlfi-lv MAT. R PER KINS, PROF. OF SCIENCE AM) LITBiUME OF MUSIC Wit.l. TKACH CLASS-SINGINQ, CONDUCT .MUSICAL SOCIETIES, AND Brs;irc and Drill Choirs, with special reference to th wants of the Church. Address, MAT U. PERKINS. jy22* Lawtonville, Burke co., Ga. JETHRO THOMAS, DE A I.IC It IN FAMILY GROCERIES, Ory Goods anti Clothing (Opposite Planter*' TIotel ), WAYNESBORO, GA. W, A. WILKINS, DKAt.KI. IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, DRUGS AND MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, ETC., ETC WA YNESRORO ’, GA. R. 11. BARR, DC AM’. It IN GROCERIES, LIQUORS, DRY GOODS. CLOTHING, ET€\, ETC., WAYNESBORO, G A. ar> TO S2O Per I) ty! Agents Wanted All cla-scs of working people of either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their- spare moments, or all the time, than at any anything else. Particulars free. Address G. STINSON & 00., Portland, M line. NOTICES rpflK MAGISTRATE'S COERT IX AND 1 fr the C'Otlt and f'2l U. M.. Districts, will ricreatter he held at Wayneshoro’on the Second Wcdncsdny in ev#-ry tnontli. . Is. F. DUKE, J.l‘. . February oih. 1873—8-tf NOTICE! VFINE LOT OF BROKEN HORSES AND MULES, always on hand, and for sale cheap by GOD DEE & ELUSION, ] febl-3ni At the Waynesboro Stable. Lumber for F ale ! ON AND AFTER THIS DATE I WILL keep for sale, at this plaee. LDMBER, of all sizes, quantity, and quality. Persons desirinz choice or sjiecial lots will have their orders promptly attended to by lenvinz the same with me. R. 11. BARR. Waynesboro, Jan. L 4, 1873—18tf NOTICE TO FARMERS! Plows!! Plows!! rpuis PNDUBSIONEP m v ON II AN f) A x Fine Lot of 4uiy-made S’l'j'EL.uid IRON PLOWS, which will he lolrf' at very reasonable rhtes, "‘ihe jniteriail from wbieh I'peso PLOWS <iremadqfact' il was selected with great care, (nd are 'well made. Person* who have been annoyed by having work badly done, as well as material wasted, will find it to their advantage to pall and es- 1 fimine utv tvork before making their arrange pienU. ' JNO. J. EVANS, £qj\ Pay and Centre streets, decl i Augusta, Ga. r po CANVASSERS. Fine Chromo lithographs. FINE ALBUMS. FURS AND MUFFS. PURE GOIJ) JEWELRY. • For particulars call at pur office. JOB PRINTING NEATLY EXECUTED AT TUls Office. By .lames E. Frost. II VOL. 111. ( Tl MIS IIS Mini Putting: flic Snlmls Wlicrc They will lo the Most Good. The High Priest of the Credit Mobilicr Receiving the Homage of Hie Delight ed Neighbors—Toasted as the Noblest Work of God—Butter's Telegram. Noiitii Eastern, Mass., March 13. • —The voters of North Easton had a good supper this evening. North Eas ton is where Oakes and Oliver Ames manufacture shovels for flic United States and the rest of the world. It is a pleasant village for Massachusetts. The factories are of stone, not too high, well warmed and ventilated. There is a park, a school house, a church, a bank and the usual corner stores—ail but a bar-room. Oakes Ames resides iu a pleasant old two-story wooden house, the one in which bis father, Oliver, the founder of the village, lived for many years. Oliver, the brother, and part ner of Oakes, lives in a modernized and handsome residence on the opposite corner. The villagers are nearly all Grant men, there being a few Liberals and a few Democrats. With the excep tion of the sixty or seventy employes in Gimmore's hinge factory they are of Oakes Ames. When Oakes smiles they all look glad. His frown is re flected in every face. A few days ago a number of the leading villagers appointed a committee to give Oakes Antes a reception. Citi zens and friends of Oakes Ames were invited to a complimentary reception, and a recognition of teu years’ faithful services in Congress, and as a testimoni al of pcr onal regard and esteem, and on the cards of admission was the motto, “Hut what you have where it will do the most good.” The reception was intended more as a sort of political make up than as an approval of Oakes Ames’ course. — Nearly all of the old neighbors attended. One of them remarked to me, “Absence would have indicated a lack of neigh borly feeling.” IN THE SUPPER ROOM. Tlie supper room was tlirongcd. Dr. Coggswell, Chairman of the Committee on Arrangements, Oakes Ames, and Oliver Amos occupied the prominent seats. A clergyman said grace, tak ing the opportunity to call down blow ings ou the head of Mr. Ames. Then i the party proceeded to put things where they would do the most good. Cold chicken was washed down with coffee, j and Dr. Coggswd rappel for order, j He proposed the health of their former representative. Mr. Amos, at the same ■ time extending his hand to the great! Credit Mobilkr manager. Ames arose with bowed head, and amid loud and hearty cheering. Dr. Coggswell said, : “While some liavo endeavored to throw a stigma on your good uame and reputa tion, we have all of us felt that you are the noblest pnrjj of Goo—‘an honest man,’” He proposed as a toast, “The lion. Qakes like gold from the crucible lie has passed fhrough the fiery 1 orfical and come cut pitFcr and brighter.” The collation,ists broke into wild cheers. After they had calmed down the IJon. Oakes Amos said : , . ■# t . OAKES AMES* SPEECH. My Friends aiitjl Neighbor*: I should be less than human not {.o be gratified ; and happy at this great gathering of my constituents to show their confid ence and faith in my honor, tryjth, and j integrity. I tun not in the habit of spepch-making, as you all well know. I have, as you nre aware, been the principal subject of abuse for tho last six months. Tho press of' the country has been full of tho Credit Mobilier scandal. The whole offense, if offence it can be called, is in selling $16,000 of stock to eleven members of Congress at the same price I paid for it, and at the same I sold the same “BALXJS P’OPXir-T SUPREMA ILEX ESTO.” WAYNESBORO’, GA.. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1873. slock to others; and if the parties pur chasing the stock had simply told the truth, and said they had a right to purchase it, that would have boon the end of it; but from the fact of their de nials the public suspected there MUST UK SOMETHING CRIMINAL in the transaction, and to find out what the crime was,Congress appointed a com mittee to inquire whether Oakes Ames had bribed any member of Congress. The result was the appointment of the notorious Poland committee. That com mittee wereengaged nearly three months, and the only result of all their labors was to badly damage the character of some men high in office for truth and veracity, but the object of the committee to see if Oakes Ames bribed any members was admitted not proven. But the com mittou made the wonderful discovery that I was guilty in selling stock for less tliau it was worth, that the par ties taking the stock and keeping it were very innocent, and that I had the extraordinary ability to give men a bribp without their knowing it, and to do they did not know what. THE ORIGINATORS OF THE CELEBRATION. One notable thing about the supper to-night was the absence of many old citizens of the village. The celebration was gotten up by the Postmaster, the editor of the Easton Journal, Gilmore, of the shoe factory, and one or two others. Old citizens were not consult ed. At first it was proposed to charge a doiiar and a half admission, but they found that it would not work. A com plimentary supper was then determined on. The tickets of admission, were pressed upon citizeus, and even upon Democrats who had never voted for Oakes Ames. The supper cost about S4OO. If the committee cannot pay for it all the Ameses will settle the hill. Mr. Ames will never, I understand, be put forward again for office. Ilis friends say he is too old. AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. AMES. Before the collation I asked Mr. Arnes how lie looked upou the coining reception by his fellow-townsmen. ‘ It is only a little home affair,” he re plied. “I supjiose my friends gave it to me to show me that they believe I have been truthful and honest through out this whole thing. I have been, too. Every man had a right to buy this stock; but it was brought against them as an electioneering dodge, and, not having time to explain matters, so close was the election, that they foolishly denied it. Then, when the cry was raised for an investigation, they all came to me begging me to shield them.” WHY IIE SHOWED FIGHT, “Why didn’t you do it ?” “Because McComb wanted this stock for his own friends, and accused me, in 1 his Credit Mobilier suit, of using his stock to bribe Congressmen. I had to 1 protect my sol f. At first, as 1 thought J l would shield them when I got to Washington. They all recollected things j so differently from ir ( c tljat I hardly felt liko setting up my recollection against them all. I was very lenient,; thinking Congressmen would show some gratitude. Bat when they want cd to push me against the wall and mako a scape-goat of me I backed up. J showed how thoy came to me and bought this stock, paid for it, grumbled because they coultjn’-i get enough of it, and then ran away and left it in my hands. sMii.Eit Colfax’s hake. I tell yojp sir, J sold the stook to Colfax as I dicj to otliors, and as I proved in the investigation. Tlio sl,- 200 was paid to liiiq by the Artp,s in groenbacks, and on tho “S. O.” check Sjohuyler Colfax deposited it in his bank. “Arc there any new proofs?” “I have learnod from my brother Oli ver continued Mr.-Ames, “that Mr. C. A. Rimkle. attorney for the New York Tribune, told Mr. William T. Hyatt, of Now York, that, months ago, Schuyler Colfax told him (Runklo) that ho had bought somo Credit Moblier Stock, and that he thought it was a good tiling. Now, if the Sun has any way to draw out Mr. Runkle on the subject, I hope it will do it, and if Mr. Runkle is a candid man, as they say he is, I hope he will say whether this is so or not.” “But it seems that General Grant has endorsed Schuyler Colfax,” I suggested. “No, sir,” continued Mr. Ames, “if you read President Grant’s note to Col fax vou will see that lie congratulates him on the fact that the charges impu ted were not sustained, and that bribery and corruption were the charges, and iu just as much for me as for him, for if there uas no one bribed then there was no briber. If Schuylerwas tree from bribery then I was. But the President don’t commit himself about Schuyler’s lying.” HE KNOWS HE LIED “This is plain talk, bit every mem ber of the committee told mo that in their opinion Schuyler had lied. There is not a member of Congress in Wash ington or a newspaper man but what knows Schuyler lied. Yes, and lied like a dog, sir.” “How did Mr. Colfax appear when you met ?” “Appear? Why ho always lmng his head and looked guilty. He could not look me in the face, neither could Kelly or Garfield. They would hang their faces and look rod, as if my pres ence troubled them.” A SUPPRESSED TELEGRAM. The following telegram, purporting to come from Benjamin F. Butler, was suppressed: To the Hon. Oakes Ames : The Commonwealth of Massachusetts honors you. Brooks and Schuyler have lied clear out. Honesty is worth two in the bush. My fee is as we talked. Be of good cheer. You placed it where it would do the most good. Yours, Benjamin F. Butler. History in % Rhymk.— Commit the following to memory, and you will have at your “tongue’s end” the names of the monarch* of England from the time of the conquest to the present date : First William the Norman, then William his son Ilenry, Stephen and Henry, then Richard and John. Next Henry the Third, Edward, one two and three. And ngam after Richard, three Henrys we see. Two Edwards, third Richard, if rightly I guess. Two Henrys, sixth Edward, Queens Mary and Bess. Then Jamie the Scott, then Charles whom they slew. Then following Cromwell, another Charles, too. Next James, oalled the sooond, as cended the throne. Then Wiliam and tyary together came on, Till Anne, Georges four, and fourth William all past, -God sent them Victoria, the young est. and last. The Fat Contributor goes back of Julius Caesar and digs out the origin of the practice qf parting tlie hair in the middle as practiced by male per sons : “It was first adopted by an an gry father who, from some show of weakness on the part of his son, so treated the hair of that youth in order to disgrace him in the eyes of his com panions. The operation was a oomplefe suoeess, for the hoy, unable to hear the stigma cf looking like a girl, went straightway and hung himself. ♦ The proof-reader of a Norwich paper was worried by something the other day, and, unable to read the editor’s hieroglyphics, allowed the phrase, “the most popular of dissyllables, woman,” to read, “that most popular of disagree ; able women.” II a year, in advance. [From the Lexington (Ky.) Press.] A PHYSICAL, WOINDEK. MICK AM) ALLIGATORS IN THE STOMACH OF A LADV. A curious case came to our notice ; yesterday, for which wc have the most 1 reliable authority, though at first sight it may seem either like a canard or a jest, designed to impose upon somo person of super-credulity. Our infor mant, however, tells us the story in all seriousness, and assured us that he was prepared to vouch for its accuracy. W c have no hesitation, therefore, in setting it afloat on the ocean of news- j paper commerce and exchange, in order to give the curious and reflective some thing upon which to exercise their mental faculties, and to furni.-h the faculty, physiologists and men interest ed in physical science generally, a marvelous subject for investigation. A certain lady residing in Frankfort has been very sick for somo time, and so very strange were her s_\ mptoms as to utterly set at uuught the .-kill of the physicians. She suffered from general debility, became frightfully emaciated, and yet possessed a most voracious ap petite, and people began to account for the latter phenomena by the old super stitious method of assigning the cause 1 to the possession of an “eating wolf.” The mystery was solved a ft w days ago,! however, when, after a sick spell and a violent fit or retching, she ejected from her stomach a mouse (dead,) and short ly afterward a living alligator, of j ‘small dimensions.’ Some of the physi cians have expressed an opinion that there .-ire more of those animals remain ing in the lady’s stomach, and that they i are being constantly generated there, j But as to how they had their origin ! there wc have not heard that any one I has ventured to risk an assertion or explanation. Perhaps some parties 1 who are investigating Huxley’s proto- j plasm and the Darwinian theory of the origin of animal life may be able to throw some intelligent light on the mat ter. We should be glad to receive some correspondence on this subject from any of our able students of nature ! and nature’s laws. Com mercial Value of Insects.— j Commerce brings into the market almost ; everything that has a being in the wa- j ter, on the earth, and in the air, from the whale that spouts and foams in the great deep to the smallest insect that exists in the land. “The importance of insects to commerce is scarcely ever treated of. Great Britian does not pay less than a million of dollars annually for the dried carcass of a tiny insect,! the cochineal. Gum shellac, another! insect produce from Tudia is scarcely ■ less in pecuniary value. A million and i a half of human beings derive their sole ' support from the culture and manufac ture of sijk, and the silk worm alone | creates an annual circulating medium : between one hundred and fifty and two j hundred millions of dollars. JJulf $ million of dollars is annually spent in England alone for foreign honey im ported into that country every year, Then there are the gall-nuts of com merce, used for dyeing, and in the manufacture of ink, etc., while the can thrnrides, or Spanish fly, is an impor tant insect to the praotitioner. In this way we sec the importance of; certain classes of tho insect race, while in another view the rest clear the air of noxious vapors, and are severally de signed by nature for useful purposes, though wc, in our blindness, may not understand them.” The Memphis liegister expresses the hope that the Congress which died on the 4th inst. has gone to heaven. The Register's hope is a vain one. If that Congress went to Heaven then there is no possibility that we shall oversee one strong enough to break its way into > H—ll. Courier Journal. SCOLDINU. Scolding is mostly a habit. There is not much meaning to it It is often tho result of nervousness, and an irrit able condition of both mind and body. A person is tried or anneyed at some trivial cause, and forthwith oommeneee finding fault with every thing and everybody within reach. Scolding is a habit very oasily formed. It is as tonishing how soon one who indulges in - in it at all becomes addicted to it and confirmed in it. It is an unreasonable habit. Persons who get in the way of seold ing always find something to scold about. If there was nothing else, they would fall a scolding at the mere ab | sconce of something to scold. It is an ; extreraly dUagreeable. habit. The constant rumbling of distant i thunder, catcrwaulings, or a hand organ under one’s window, would be less un pleasant. The habit is contagious. Once introduced into a family it is pretty cer tain in a short time to affect all the mem hors. If one of them begins al ways.find ing faultabout something or nothing, the others are very apt soon to take it up, and a very uunccccssary bedlam i created. JN0.29- The people in the country more readily fall into the habit of scolding than people in the city. Wc suppose it is because they have less to occupy and direct their attenton. Women con tract the bad habit more frequently ; than raeu. This may be because they iive more in the house in a confined and heated atmosphere; very trying to the nervous system and the health in gen era! ; and it may be partly that their natures are more susceptible, and their sensitiveness more easily wounded. Women are sometimes called divine; but a scolding woman never seems di vine. We will, however, say no more i on the subject, or some pretty creature may feel inclined to scold us for what wo say about scolding. —Home Farmer s’ ! Journal. ♦- ♦ An English religious publication has just made an attack upon Charles Dick ens for an alleged hatred of religious men, anu a disposition to draw their characters in the most unfavorable tight, The special instance of this mention la the letter writen by Dickens thirty years ago, and published by Forster, in which lie describes tho performances of a Non conformist minister at the funeral of Hone, the bookseller. This person is described by Dickens as having got into a state of mind during his funeral dia course about a newspaper paragraph stating that wheu “ Mr. Hone failed aa a bookseller, the said minister advised him to try the pulpit.” Thi. the minister according to Dickens, said “is false, incorrect, unchristian, in a man ner blasphemous, and in all respeets contemptible. Let us pray /” All this report of Mr. Dickens the clergyman now denies—which is extremely small business. The writer of the article goes on to accuse Thackeray, Mr. Kingsley, Mrs. Oliphant, and Miss Braddon of being unjust to religious people, and the editor observes that, “the thing is be coming so common as to amount to a nuisance, even in a literary point of view.” All this seems to us very stupid and silly. Dickens’ inimitable sketches of religious humbugs never did anything but good to the true material of the clerical profession, and everybody re members his manly and touching pro test against being oonsitjered its enemy. Thackeray’s pictures are nature itself, and can bring no harm to any save to the inflated beings be punctures. Tho days of priestly infallibility are over, theyc is no profession which may claim arrogant freedom from critioism at the hands of honest}' and genius. A project is on foot arnoung numer ous New York ladies for forming an insurance company having only women for officers, agents and policy holders, The \yives of eminent merohants and financiers, several well known literary ladies, and some of the foremost names in general society, are already on the list of those deeply interested. They have matured their plans with care, and a circular will be issued inviting the co operation of women thf-oughoMt the country, nnd subscriptions to a stock of a “-mixed 1 ’ company, but one in which nil the profits, beyond leg*! interest on the capital, arc to be return ed to tho policy holders. By employing women as ageuts and clerks, and allow ing low commissions, not to exceed svo percent,, they expect to make largo savings above any company lmweyistiug.
