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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.
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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
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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.