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THli EXPOSITOR ■ WAYITSSBOKO’, O-A.. Subscription Price: SIOO Per Annum, in Advance. Ctmmnnieations marked thns l are to be paid for as advertisements. APPQINI HUNTS OF REV. €lO. S. JOHNSTON : First Sunday in the month—Wuynosboro’. Second Sunday, and Saturday before—Ml. Zion. Third Sunday, and Saturday before —Old Church. Third Sunday night—Waynesboro'. Fourth Sunday, and day before—Clark’s Chapel. Fifth Sunday—Waynesboro'. Meetings of Waynesboro' Lodg\ No. 271, F.\ A/. M.\ Waynesboro’ Lodge, No. 274 F.\ A.-. M.\ meets as follows : On Friday night before the Ist Sun day, and in the afternoon, at 2 o’clook, of Friday before the 3d Sunday in each month. Meeting of Waynesboro’ Lodge, No. Sit, I. 0. C. T. Tho WaynosWo’ Lodge, No. 254, of Inde pendent Order of Good Templars, meets every Thursday afternoon, at 3 o’clock, in the Court house. E. F. LAWSON, W. C. T. P. P. Johnston, W. S. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1873. Pleaching. —Providence permitting the Rev. Paul C. Morton will preach at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday next, the 11th instant. f Address. —On our first page will be found the address of Mr. R. O. Lovett, on the occasion of the decoration of the Confederate graves, April 2G, 1873. It is published at the request of the ladies of the Memorial Association. F Tax Receiver.— We neglected to mention in our last issue, that James Wright Grubbs, was elected to fill the vacancy in the office of Receiver of Tax Returns, caused by the death of Mr. E. H. Blount. — ■ - Too Much Rain. —The general com plaint now is “too much rain/’ In dry weather “the crop is ruined and when it rains, “too much, too much rain ; the young cotton and corn will drown,” or the grass will rise up and choke it.” Poor we. full of complaint, and always complaining. F Higher. —lt is with pleasure we see recorded, in one of our Savannah ex changes, the fact that our friend and brother, the Hon. Homer C. Glisson, has been admitted to. practice in the District Court of the United States for this State. Mr. Glisson is one of the rising lawyers of this section—honest, honorable,capable—and bids fair to still higher rise. We look upon his success with an admiration second to none. F. ' — - We published that four at one birth was Burke’s best. Since Columbia comes in with seven at two,-we tako in our report, but, for the benefit of Columbia county, we republish an ex tract from the Iloosicr State: The following concise and compre hensive note was sent to an Illinois merchant by a neighboring farmer the other day : “Send mo a trace chain and two hinges. Jaue had a baby last night—also two padlocks.” ft One Rev. William C. Moreau, says the Rome Commercial, now preaching in Sandersvillc, has bc(#i pretty freely handle by the Indianapolis Sentinel, and his past bad life shown up. Said Mo reau is out in a card to ,tho public in the Sandersville Herald , and closes as follows in his defense : “I have come here to stay ; no viru lent newspaper assault, prompted by hate and revenge shall drive me away. Somewhere, and at some time, my past sad and unhappy life must be met and lived down ; right here and right now, looking to God to help and sustain mo, asking only the forbearance and charity of good men and women, I propose to do it.” Wo know nothing of the above named Moreau, but we do say, that if he has profited by teaching he has an honest, upright, Christian old fahter, who lives in this county, that we can vouch for it, never gave him a solitary precept that would have taught him “ways that are dark.” t Something New Under the Sun. — A now era ig dawning upon the life of womon. Hitherto she has been called upon to sudor the ills of mankind and her own besides. The frequent and distress. ,ng irregularities peculiar to her sex have long been to her the “direful spring of woes unnum bered.” In tho mansion of the rich and in tho hovel of poverty alike woman has been the con stant yet patient victim of a thousand ills un known to man—and these without a remedy.— “Oh, Lord, how long!” in tho agony of her soul hath she cried But now tho hour of hor re demption i* come. She will suffer no more, for Dr. J. 15 radfield's Female Regulator—Woman’s Best Friend—is for pale by all respectable drug fists throughout the land at $1.50 per bottle.— or sale in Waynesboro’ by Wilkins A Cos. [Front the Gwinnett (Ga.) Herald.] A FATAL THUNDERBOLT. TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN LAW RENCEVILLE. killed by lightning. Ouc of the most sad aud heartrend ing scenes we have ever witnessed oc currcd in our village on last Monday During tho morning dark clouds had been gathering in the west and tho deep and heavy peals of thunder indi cated more than an ordinary air.oun 1 of electricity. About 10 o’clock Dr. Atkisson, Principal of Lawreuceville Academy, give his scholars recess; it was dropping rain. Several of tho young ladies and a number of the"small girls assembled in a house adjacent to the Academy. Miss Antonett Roberts was standing against or near the cor ner-post of the house, in the door, Miss Vesta Brown and Mary Born were near her, while behind aud very near them Ada Wilsor, Anna Lou King, Maud Russell, Katie Strickland, Elizabeth Herrington, Julia Brown, Fannie Byrd, Dora Ambrose, and Gippie Wilson were standing, little dreaming of the danger they were in. Suddenly there was a bright flash, as the electricity leaped from the overcharged clouds, followed by A TERRIFIC FSAL OF THUNDER. The whole bevy dropped as suddenly as if a bolt had struck each one. Some falling on others, while some of them were thrown clean out of the door upon the ground. There was nobody to give the alarm, and it was a minute o.r two before the teacher or other scholars knew what had happened. One of the little girls, not so much affected, got up and run to the door and told what had occurred. The whole school went to their assistance immediately, and carried those unable to walk to the school room. Every assistance in the power of Dr. Atkisson and the scholars was rendered. It was soon found that, there was no hope of their being able to revive Miss Roberts. She had been standing near the post down which the lightning passed, SHIVERING IT INTO SPLINTERS, and then passing along the sill. It is supposed that the lightning struck her head, part of the hair on the back end being scorched, although the skin was not broken. Miss Vesta Brown, Miss Mary Born, Miss Maud Russell, Anna Lou King, Ida Wilson, Elizabeth Her rington and Katie Strickland were all very seriously affected. It was thought at first that Miss Vesta Browr) was fa tally injured. The lightning passed down one side tearing her clothes and. scorching the flesh, and literally tearing her shoe up. She was wearing gaiters laced, and yet THE SHOE WAS TORN OFF. and a portion of the soles torn from the uppers. The other girls, with the ex ception of one or two, were prostrated for awhile from the shock, and the light ning seemed to have affected -their feet and legs more than any portion of their persons, which may be accounted for by the fact that they were standing near the sill along which tho current passed By tho time the girls were carried to the school room information had been carried over to the public square. It was rapidly convoyed from house to house, and the wild scene of excitement that ensued can be better imagined than described. All business was suspended. Fathers, mothers and friends hurried on through the rain, dreading the worst, yet hoping for the best. Who can describe the anguish of the mothers and fathers as they neared the school house, not knowing but the first oue they met would tell them that their child was dead ? SUCH A SCENE as that school room exhibited we trust we may never see again. Many wept as they clasped their children to their bosoms, while others nerved by excite ment, were applying restoratives with a vigor which showed they felt life was at stake. We would draw the curtain over the grief of that father and mother who found their only daughter, a lovely girl of twelve years old, tho pride of the household, who had left their door but two hours before in buoyant spirits, now dead. We are glad to bo ablq to state that all parties are doing well, many of them have about recovered, and others are entirely out of danger. Every attention has been shown them, and all that medical skill could do, was done. Dra. Mitchell, Shaffer and O’- Kelly. who happened to ba in town, were promptly at tho sceno of this sad calamity.* Dr. Mooro was not in town at tho time. While all rejoice that the kiss of life was no greater, yet it is a matter of astonishment that all were not killed. The house in which they were standing is very small, and the main current passed within two feet of each one, shivering anew sill, almost under their feet. There were some REMARKABLE PHENOMENA connootcd with this Sad affiir which we have not space to describe. 'One of tho most remarkable instances was that upon tho arm of one of the young ladies an oak leaf and blossom were daguerro typed with remarkable minuteness. It was g-adually disappearing, but could bo clearly distinguished late Monday evening, The body of the young lady who was killed remainded warm until long in tho evening, and some hope was entertained that she might be re vived, but all efforts proved unavail ing. Is the Enforcement Act Constitutional. It appears that the late opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States on what isf known as the New Orleans slaughter-house case, has surprised tho Republicans in more ways than one. ‘lt has not only established the Demo cratic doctriuo of States rights, but se rious apprehensions are entertained by Republicans in Washington, that it has indirectly decided the infamous Enforce ment Act unconstitutional. The Wash ington Republican , an administration ’organ, says in its issue of April 24: The recent decision of tho New Or leans slaughter-house cases by the Su preme Court has occasioned consider able excitement in political circles.— It has been discovered that tho decision virtually declares that the thirteenth, fourteenth, aud fifteeuth amendments to the constitution arc applicable only to the lately enfranchised colored citizens of the South. If this construction be correct, the enforcement act and other laws ena ted for the purpose of securing the reconstruction of the South, by vir ture of those amendments, are only con stitutional as applied to colored citizens, or in matters wherein that elass is di rectly interested, aud arc inapplicable to white citizens. On the other hand it is held that the decision, relating, as it does, to an en tirely political question, does not vitiate the force and effects of these acts, for the reason that Congress and the Exe cutive, being the political power of the government, will be enabled to construe them in their general application to the country at large, while the Supreme Court will merely be able to construe them in their special application to par ties interested in any suit that may be brought. It is not improbable that fur ther decisous on this may be sought by persons who arc inimical to the execu tion of these acts. At aDy rate tho political lawyers aro bothering themselves to no little extent about the matter.’ Our best constitu tional lawyers, however, hold in support of tho views of leading commentators that the Supreme Court has no authority over questions of a political character, or, having such authority, its execution aud effect are ephemeral. They hold, further, that Congress aloue has the au thority and power to construe political questions, the execution of which de volves upon the President, and that the judicial branch of the government is powless to interfere.” ♦ m ♦ Important Discovery. —Galileo invented the telescope ; Columbus discovered a no w world ; Harvey, the circulation of the blood, and to Prof. Morso is due the credit of teaching the lightnihg how to talk, but it was reserved to Dr. J. Rrad field to ponotrate tho mystic depths of soienco, and drag therefrom the wonder of our century. The victory has boen won, and woman is free! — The sale of Dr. J. Bradfibld’s Female Regu lator is unprecedented in the history of popular remedies,and th ousands of certificates are coming in from grateful women, throughout tho Union, attesting its powors and applauding its untold benefits to their sox. For sale in Waynesboro’ by WiLKifrs & Cos. myl-3m A son of the Rev. Mr. Thomas, re cently killed by the Modocs, evinces tho right spirit when ho says; “The Indians are what they are, 1 believe, because tho whites with whom they are in contact have been what they have been. We are to blame. Not the poor Modoos, but the rapacious, lawless, perfidious whites are guilty of his blood.” But for the men who have been permit ted to rob and ill treat the Indians, to madden them with whiskey and to drive them from their reservations, the recent murders Would not have been commit ted. The perfidy of the whi f e9 begets perfidy oa tho part of tho red men.— N. Y. Sun. [From tlio Danbury News ] How a Man and his Wife put up a Stove Putting up a stove is not so difficult in itself. It is tho pipe that raises four-fifths of tho mischief and all the dust. You may take dowu a stove with nil tho care in tho world, and have your wife put away the pipe in a secure place, and yet that pipe won’t oomo to gether again a it was beforo. You find this out when you are standing on a chair with your arms full of pipe and your mouth full of soot. Your wife is standing on the floor in a position that enables her to see you, the pipe and tho chair; and hero she gives utteranco to those remarks that are, calculated to hasten a man into the extremes of in sanity. Her dress is pinned over her waist, and her hands rest ou her hips. She has got ono of your hats on her head, and your linen coat on her back, and a pair of your rubbers ou hor feet. There is about five cents’ worth of pot black ou her nose, and a lot of flour on her cbm, and altogether she is a specta cle that would inspire a dead man with distrust. And while you are up there trying to circumvent the awful contra riness of the pipe, and telling that you know some fool has been mixing it, she stands safely on the floor and bombards you with such domestic mottoes as: “What’s the use of swearing so ?” “You know no one has touched that pipe.” “You ain’t got-any more patience than a child.” “Do be careful of that chair.” And then she goes off, and re-appears with an armful more of pipe, and be fore you are awaro of it she has got that pipe so horribly mixed up that it does seem no two pieces are alike, you join the ends, and work them to and fro, and take them apart again and look at them. Then you spread one out and jam the other together, and mount them cnce more. But it is no go. you be gin to think the pieces are inspired with life and ache to kick them through the window. But she dosen’t lose her pa tience. She goes around with that awfully exasperating rigging on, with a length of pipe under each arm. aud a lonp-bandled broom in her hand, and says she don’t see how it is some peo ple never have any trouble in putting up a stove.. Then you miss the ham mer. You don’t sec it anf where. You stare into the pipe and along the man tle, and down on the stove, and off to the floor. Your wife watches you in tently, and is finally thoughtful enongh to inqure what you are looking after, and on learning, pulls the article from her pocket. Then you feel as if you could go out doors and swear a hole twelve feet square through a block of brick buildings, but she merely observes, “Why on earth don’t you speak when you want anything, and not stare around like a dummy?” When that part of the pipe which goes through the wall is up, she keeps it up with her broom while you are making the con nection, and stares at it with an intensi ty that isventirely uncalled for. All the while your position is becoming more aDd more interesting. The pipe don’t go together, of course. The soot shakes down into your eyes and mouth, the sweat rolls down your face and tick les your chin as it drops off, and it seems as if your arms are slowly but surely drawing out of their sockets. Here your wife comes to the rescue by inquiring if you are going to be all day doing nothing, and if you think her arms are made of cast iroD ; and then the broom slips off the pipe, and in her en deavor to recover her'hold she jabs you under the chin with the handle, and the pipe comes dowu on your head with its load of fried soot, and then the chair tilts forward enough to discharge your feet, and you come down on the wroug end Jof that chair with a force that would bankrupt a pile-driver. You don’t touch that stove again. You leave your wife examining the chair and-bemoaning its injuries, and go into the kitchen and wash your skinned and bleeding hands with yellow soap. Then you go down the street after a man to do the business, and your wife goes over to tho neighbors with her chair and tells them about its injuries, and drains the neighborhood dry of its sympathy long before you get home. Jefferson Davis is rusticating in Texas. The Legislature has taken steps to ward protecting the frontier. This is a step in the right direction. If tho United States will not lend assistance, the people should take the matter in their own hands. Regular trains on the Texas Cen tral Road aro running to Denisofl. Advices from San Antonio report young grasshoppers by the million in that vicinity. Augusta’s stoofe of cotton on Friday was 11,500 bales, Receipts for tho week 1,006 bales. - Fears aro entertaiued that the late cold spell done some damage to crops in the northern part of"the State. Mr. Cotton, of lowa, has notified the Treasury Department Ufcit lie will not accept the back pay of a member of Congress. Tho Vicksburg Herald of the 18th inst. learns that tho cotton crop has been badly injured by recent frosts and cold weather. m ♦- Gold has been discovered at the head waters of tho Rrazos river, and a com pany is already formed to commence mining operations. A oolored gentleman recently elected to Congress from Alabama, has shown his devotion to the State by nine years’ service in the State penitentiary. Memplus,Tenn., belles have discarded the Grecian bend, and now assume the “ Set-up-Mary-Jane-and-sbow-your breastpin” attitude in pedestrianzing on the bully vards. m • The impression is gaining ground that the presence of United States troops will be required in every parish of the State of Louisiana, to enforce obedience to the Kellogg Government. A colored messenger in the custom house, New York, has been promoted to a $1,200 clerkship under the civil service rules. He is the first colored man to serve as a clerk in the custom service there. • -..♦■ A large wolf that has been giving the farmers Dear tho Cobuttah range of Mountains, in Murray county, consider able trouble for a year or so past by killing their sheep was recently killed by a party of hunters who were out deer hunting. ■ ♦ ■ The Memphis Ledger says: “The Judge said :‘Mr. Sheriff, fill up the panel, there is one juror required.’ The two professionals started for the vacant chair, and one of them, a German, got there ahead of his brother American, who fell back toward the clerk’s desk, and said, soto vocc, to the clerk : ;‘did you see that d—d Dutchman beat me out of my situation ?’ ” The hideous custom among Japanese women of blackening their teeth and shaving their eyebrows on their being married or reaching a fliarriageable age is likely to die out or become abolished. The Empress has set the example ot innovating upon this old fashion, dictat ed by Asiatic jealousy, and henceforth her teeth and eyebrows will bo allowed to remain ns fiature formed them. A rich scene occurred in a Dalton srorc on Monday last, the proprietor of which*is a childless benedict. A wo man stepped in the store aud deposited on the counter an infant, about five months old, saying to the aforesaid bene dict, “Here’s your baby,” and immed iately walked out, leaving the astonish ed storekeeper the sole proprietor of this, to him, new and novel piece of property. O’Kelley, the Herald chevalier in the hands of the blood thirsty Spani ards,although the subject of much anx ious solicitude to the Captain Oeueral of American journalism, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., is nevertheless a subject of jest to the Royal Household of Gen. Grant. Secretary Fish being interview ed on the subject of O’Kelley’s arrest thought proper to indulge in a •little humor at his expense, in a way in which the reportorial fraternity will surely re sent. W e take the account of the in. terriew from asp ecial telegram to the Cincinnati Gazette, which heads as fol lows : Correspondent--“Mr. Secretary,don’t you propose to demand tho release of Mr. O’Kelley ?” Secretary— “Who is Mr. O’Kellej? I have not heard of the case.” Correspondent—“ Why, Mr. Secre tary, he is the Commissioner of the Herald to Cuba, and has been captured by the Spaniards.” Secretary—“ Don’t you suppose we can persuade tho Spaniards to take more of them?” A NkW DrPARTUItR BY TUB WoRLD. —Tho New York World of April 22, in a long article on tho Democratic party, says: We fellowship all genuine free traders; we scorn political association with any protectionist. Every citizen who in unequivocally for freo trade is ft good enough Democrat for us ; no pro tectionist can boa Democrat at all. We stake all our hopes on making the De mocracy an out and out, thick and thin, aggressive, aye, if you please, intol efant free trade party, subordinating all issues to this, and thereby drawing to itself all citizens who have a true appre ciation of this great principle. A GenerAi. Indian War Threaten ed. —A dispatch from portland, Ore gon, dated 29th ult. says that 1,400 In dian warriors are camped at White Bluffs. Yaltuua river, above Walla Walla and are putting up breastworks. The settlers aro greatly alarmed. Tho Indians arc traveling about painted, and warn the whites to leave the coun try. The Spokane Indians aro threat ening, and are also warning the settlers to leave. Massacres like those by the Modocs aro feared. From Nevada we have similar threat ening accounts. The mail carrier ar rived at Elko, on the Ist inst., from the north, reports the settlers in Mountain City greatly alarmed at the threatening attitude of the Indians. Tho Snakes and Piutos are pouring in from all di rections, all in war paint. A public meeting was called in Mountain City to take measures to procure arms, and to be prepared for an outbreak. The death of Charles William Ma cready, the eminent English tragedian, is announced. He was born m London, March 3, 1793, and made his debut at the age of seventeen in Romeo, at tho Birmingham theatre. His success in duced him to adopt the histrionic pro fession, and for nearly forty years he occupied a conspicuous place in the dramatic world. His third visit to the United States occurred in 1849, and having excited the animosity of Edwin Forrest and his friends, his attempt to perform at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, in May of that year, occasioned a fearful riot. Mr. Macready made his last appearance on any stage at Prury Lane Theatre, London, as Macbeth, on February 26, 1851. It has ilDt been much more than twenty years since he appeared upon the boards of the old Charleston Theatre, so that, thought still the best actor in the En glish-speaking world, he was about sixty years old. There are numbers of peo ple in that city who remember him well, and who will recall the scenes of their younger days when they road the an nouncement of bis death. What better epitaph should his friends ask for him than that which the Baltimore Sun gives him—accidentally as it were: “He employed his later days in promot ing education among the poor.” Bkadfield’s Fkmai.f. Regulator.—Wo havo often road in the newspapers of tho grand success of medical compounds put up at tho North and elsewhere. Many of those medicines havo had thoir day, and wo hear no more of them. Their proprietors havo tnado fortunes, not so much from the curative powers and virtues of thoir mixtures, as from (lie notoriety given thor.. by advertising, by which people were made to believe all the good that was said of them. A preparation is now before tho puhlie, which is becoming very popular, and is known as Bradfield’s Female Regulator, put up by 11. Bradfield, of Atlanta, (la., at 51.50 per bottle. Such is its curative virtues that it has gained wide-sproad populari ty all over the country whero it has been made known, and it is being introduced everywhere. Wo aro informed that immense quantities of this modicine are beiDg sold in all sootions ef the South and Southwost. espeoially in the oity of New Orleans and in Texas. This much wo say in justice to its proprietor, who is a gentleman of integrity, and who would not engage in the manufacture and sale of a humbug. —LaGrange Reporter. U.W B- F. R. is for sale in Waynes boro’ by Wilkins & Cos myl-3m NOTH' I! to Debtors and Creditors:— All persons indebted to estate of DeWitt Clinton, late of Burke county, docoased, will make immediate payment to the undersigned; and those having demands ,against, said dec’d estato will present them, properly proven within tho time prescribed by law. STEPHEN A. CORKER, March 31, 1873—ap5-(iw Administrator. NOTICK to Debtors and Creditors— All porsons indebted to the estate of Dr. B. B. Miller, late of Burke county, deceased, will pleaso come forward and pay the same; and those having claims against said estate will present them, properly attested, within the time prescribed by law, to J. W CARSWELL, Executor, Or, JOIIN J. JONES, Attorney. March 21, 1873—22-6 w MRS, N, BRUM CLARK, 251 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA., HS NOW A LARGE AND VARIED STOCK OF Millinery and Fancy Goods, REAL HAIR SWITCHES, BRAIDS AND CURLS, New Goods received tri-weekly. Mrs. Clark will give personal attention to the milliuery department. Mrs. N. BRUM CLARK, 251 Broad street. Mrs. Clark will exhibit Pattern Hats and Bonnets on Tuesday. April 15. aplo-3
