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GEORGE V TERSON, D. D. S„
OFFICE NEXT TO PLANTERS' HOTEL,
WAYNESBORO’, GA.
FAMILIES desiring liis services at their
homes, in Burke, or adjoining counties, can
address hiiu at this place. dec23-ly
'R. O.
ATI O RNE Y AT LAW ,
WAYNESBORO’, GA.
Will practice in the Superior Court of tl e
Augusta, Middle, and Eastern Circuits. —
Special attention given to Justice Court
practice. lebl s—ly
A. M. RODGERS,*
ATTORNEY AT LAW
WAYNESBORO, GA.
OFFICE AT THE COURT HOUSE.
PERRY & BERRIEN,
A TTORNEYS A T LA W,
WAYNESBORO, GEORGIA.
Office in Court House basement—northeast room
JOHS n. ASUTOM. I HOMKII C. GMSSOX.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW ,
W A YNEBBORO’ G BORG I A.
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Supreme Court of the Stele, and in the
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MAT. B PERKINS,
PROP. OF SCIENCE AND LITERATURE OP MUSIC
Wlt.r, TKACII Cl. ASS-SING I NO,
CONDUCT MUSICAL SOCIETIES,
AND
Organize anJ Drill Choir*, with special reference lo th
wants of the Church.
Address, MAT B. PERKINS.
jy22* Lawtonville, Burke co., Ga.
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HpyGoodS and Clothing
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WAYNESBORO, GA.
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DEALER IN
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
TOILET ARTICLES, ETC., ETC
WAYNESBORO', GA.
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DEALER IN
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DRYGOODS, CLOTHING,
ETC., etc.,
WAYNESBORO, GA.
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H. S NOW A LARGE
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New Goods received tri-weekly. Mrs.
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VOL. 111. f
[From The Aldine for June.]
AT THE LAST.
•
Three little words within my brain
Beat back and forth their one refrain,
Three little words, whose dull distress
Means everything and nothingness,
Unbidden move my lips instead
Of other utterance: She is dead.
Here, lingering, wo talked of late
Beside the hedge-grown garden gato;
Till, smiling, ere the twilight fell
She bade me take a last farewell.
Those were the final words she said—
But yesterday—and she is dead !
I see the very gowu she wore,
The color I had praised before;
The swaying length, where she would pass,
Made a light rustle on the grass ;
There in the porch she turned her head
For one last smile—and she is dead !
Could I have known what was to come,
Those hours had not heeu blind and dumb !
I would have followed close with Death,
Have striven for every glance and breath !
But now—the final word is said,
The last look taken—she is dead.
We were not lovers —such as they
Who pledge a fairtTto last for aye ;
Yet seems the Universe to me
A riddle new without a key :
What means the sunshine overhead,
The bloom below—now she is dead I
So new my grief, its sudden haze
Bewilders my accustomed ways;
And yet so old, it seems my heart
Was never from its pain apart: —
What was and is aud shall be, wed
With that one sentence—She is dead.
THE iHIRMIKG OF COLUMBIA.
An Unintentional Conti ssion by one of
“Sherman's Hummers.”
The Columbus Sun and Times pub
lishes the following letter, which was
found in the streets of Columbia imme
diately after the army of General
Sherman had loft, and the original of
which has been preserved and can be
shown and substaniated :
Camp Near Camden, S. C., Feb.
26, 1865.—My Dear Wife : I bare no
time for particulars. Wo have bad a
glorious time iu this State. Unrestric
ted license to burn and plunder was
the order of the day. The chivalry
have been stripped of most of their valu
ablos. Gold watches, silver pitchers,
cups, spoons, forks, etc., arc as common
in camp as blackberries. The terms
of plunder are as follows: The valu
ables procured are estimated by com
panies. Each company is required
to exhibit the results of its operations
at any given place—one-fifth aud first
choice falls to the share of the comman
der-in-chief and staff, one-fifth to the
corps commanders and staff, one-fifth to
field officers of regiments, two-fifths to
the company.
Officers are not allowed to join the
expeditions without disguising them
selves as privates. Ono of our corps
commandors borrowed a suit of rough
clothes from one of my men, and was
successful in this place. He got a large
quantity of silver (among other things
an old-time milk pitcher,) and a very
fine gold watch, from a Mr. DeSaussure
at this place. DeSaussure is one of
the F. F. V’a of South Carolina, and
was made to fork over liberally. Of
ficers over the rank of captain are not
made to put their plunder in the esti
mate for general distribution. This is
very unfair, and for that reason, in or
der to protect themselves, subordinate
officers and privates keep .back every
thing that they can carry about their
persons, such as rings, earrings, breast
pins, etc., ot which, if I over live to get
home, I have about a quart. lam not
joking —I have at least a quart of jew
elry for you and all the girls, and some
No. 1 diamond rings and pins amoDg
them. General Sherman has silver and
gold enough to start a bank. His
share in gold watches and chains alone
at Columbia was two hundred and sev
enty-five (275.)
But I said I could not go into par
ticulars. 4D the general officers and
“S ALUS P OPULI SUPRBM A LEX ESTO.”
WAYNESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1873.
many besides had valuables of every
description, down to embroidered la
dies’ pocket hankerchiefs. (I have my
share of them too.) We took gold enough
from the d—d rebels to have redeemed
their infernal currency twice over.—
This (the currency) whenever we come
across it, wo burned, as we consider it
utterly worthless.
I wish all the jewelry this army had
could be carried to the "Old Bay
State.” It would deck her out in glo
rious stylo, but alas, it will be scatter
ed all over the North and Middle States.
The d—d niggers, as a general rule,
prefer to stay at home, particularly af
ter they fouud out that we only wanted
the able-bodied men (and to tell you
the truth, the youngest and best look
ing women). Sometimes wo took off
whole familiesaud plantations of niggers,
by way of repayiag secessionists. But
the useless part of them we soon man
age to lose—sometimes in crossing riv
ers—sometimes by other ways.
I shall write to you again from Wil
mington, Goldsboro, or some other
place in North Carolina. The order
to march has arrived, aud I must close
hurriedly. Love to grandmother and
Aunt Charlotte. Take care of your
self and the children. Dou’t show this
letter out of the family.
Your affectionate husband.
Tuos. J. Myers, Lieutenant, &o.
P. S.—l will send this by the first
flag of truce to be mailed, unless 1 have
an opportunity to send it to Hilton
Head. Tell Sallie I aui saving a pearl
bracelet and earrings for her; but Lam
bert got the necklace and breastpin of
tho same set. lam trying to trade
him out of them. These were taken
from the Misses Jamisons* daughters of
the President of the South Carolina
Secession Convention. We found those
on our trip through Georgia.
This letter was addressed to “Mrs.
Thomas J. Myers, Boston, Mass.”
An Ingenious Fuaud. —The ancient
Roman Emperor who was rash enough
to offer a reward for anew pleasure,
and who has suffered for his sins by be
ing more ‘quoted’ than any potentate
of any age, might have been more suc
cessful iu his speculation if he had
called for anew crime. Among the
joint-stock companies recently wound
up iu London, was one which for sim
plicity and ingenuity doserves praise
beyond its own immediate circle. • Its
promoters, directors, and shareholders
numbered only two, and they based
their operations on a regulation of the
Metropolitan Board of Works. That
body has been frequently troubled by
the bad conduct of contractors and their
men, who, instead of removing street
mud, have simply shot it down the
next sewer—an operation that, if not
detected at once, leaves no clew to the
offender, though there may be many
traces of the crime. To deter the con
tractors from such bad habits, the
Board has been in the habit of giving
a reward of 2 lb. IDs. to any informer
who helped to prosecute any person de
filiug the sewers with mud, and, on con
viction of the criminal, a fine of 10s.
was usually imposed. On a basis so
simple, two ingenious persons built
their scheme. One of them put down
the mud,the other gave the information;
the first was fined 10s. the second ob
tained 2 lb. 10s. Uniting their forces
the fine was recouped, and then each of
the conspirators had a pouad for him
self. By repeating the operation in
several parts of the metropolis, and
changing the parts, a very sufficient
livelihood was earned. Unhappily the
plan has been detected, and the Board
of Works has inconsiderately reduced
the reward to 10s.—tho exact amount
of the fine—thus leaving no margin as
a stimulus to exertion. Wo only hope
that the talents of the invontor of this
scheme will not be altogether lost to
society.
A Negro in Mississippi.
Tho ceremonies had already begun
when I arrived. A uegro preacher, as
sisted by two attendants who only ap
preciated the importance of their posi
tion, stood in the edge of the stream,
and one by one the tho candidates, or
"seekers,” as the negroes have it, do
cendcd to the water from a tent on tho
slope abuve. The sacred'formula was
pronounced over each one, then camo a
little splash as the sinner was "buried”
a moment in baptism, and then that
shrill and to me almost terrifying shriek
which constitutes an orthodox religious
"shout” was beard as the regenerate
darky emerged from the water and was
led back shrieking and struggling to
the shore, wuerc the older "brethren”
aud “sisters” were waiting to* receive
him. As soon as the preacher had
pronounced this formula the whole as
sembly, led by a magnificent bass voice,
set up one of those wild, weird, negro
choruses which, once heard, can never
be forgotten. The music continued till
the next candidate was about to be
immersed, and then ceased only a mo
ment to rise again as soon as the preach
er’s voice was hushed. Those who have
neTer heard a chorus of this sort don’t
know what music is. Such a magnifi
cent volume of sound, such a grand roll
of human voices, as some favorite strain
such as “Let’s go down to the water,”
or "Stand on the walls of Zion,” came
surging and swelling over the river,
uever greeted my ears before. It beg
gars all description. The grand organ
at Cologne is but a penny whistlo to it;
the Boston Jubilee but a piping of spar
rows. There was not a single false
note, not a slip in time or tune, as the
wonderful chorus came swelling over
the water, making the very heavens
ring with melody. AU four parts—
tenor, bass, alto, soprano—were carried
in such perfect harmony that it was as
if one n.ighty voice were hymning its
praise to heaven. How they manage
it is a mystery ; not one of all that sable
multitude was acquainted with even
the first rudiments of music, yet no
trained orchestra ever kept more perfect
time.
We kept our station on the raft for
over an hour, while some thirty “seek
ers” were converted into “professors”
and then, at the suggestion of my friend
proceeded further down the stream to
have a nearer view of the ceremony. I
was sorry afterward that I had done so,
for all the solemnity of the occasion im
mediat ly departed. Some of the ges
tures of the negroes as they came up
out of the water were ludicrous in the
extreme, aud their language often irre
verent, even blasphemous. Negroes
consider some violent physical demon
stration a necessary evidence of the
validity of their conversion; indeed one
old woman informed me that she “never
had knowed nobody to come through
all right without they went into a
trance.”
The effect of the music was decided
ly spoiled by too close proximity. The
voices which bad sounded so grand and
sonorous from a distance wero harsh
and coarse close by, while a distinct
hearing of the words did not contribute
by any means to the grandeur of the
music. Who, for instanoe, could re
press a smile at the following, though
sung to the most exquisite melody:
I weep, I mourn, what make I mourn so slow 1 ?
I wonder if a Zion traveler has gone along
before.
Mary and Martha feed my lambs,
Feed my lambs, feed my lambs,
Mary and Martha feed my lambs,
Set tin’ on the golden alter.
There is another specimen, the effect
of which I leave to the reader’s imagina
tion :
I meet my soul at de bar of God,
I beerd a mighty bumber;
It was my sin fell down to hell
Just like a clap of thunder.
Sharks in Florida Waters Thcirc
Exploits in Man Fining.
In a letter from Florida to the New
York Sun, Mr Amos Cummings writes :
The water fairly boils with sharks. I
counted 112 within the space of an acre,
none of which w.cro less than 8 feet long.
Indian river people say they have seen
them 20 feet in length. I saw one that
measured over 17 feet. They would
frequently break under the bows of our
twenty-one foot sail boat, careening her
to one side and at times half lifting her
from the water. They flocked about
the boat by dozens, and cast hungry
looks at the hugo yellow dog on the
forecastle. At one time I struck a
twelve-foot fellow over the snout with a
heavy boat pole. He made a great
swirl through the water as if surprised,
but saucily darted back to the craft to
see what had hit him. Occasionally
boatmen plunge lily irons into them,
and tow them about the river against
wind and tide for miles. Some of the
natives declare that they are man-eaters,
while others deny it. Jim Paine, of
Fort Capron, told me that he had stood
in the water for hours while these big
sharks were nosing about his legs, but
Dr. Fox, my guide, seemed afraid of
them, and*declared that he had known
them to pull an estimable young lady
from Savannah out of a boat while she
was dragging her baud behind the-stern.
She was cut into mince meat in five se
conds. During the war, it is said that
a boat containing 14 men was upset, in
Jupiter Inlet, about 20 feet from shore.
There was a foaming of the waters, and
in a half a minute 12 of the 14 men dis
appeared. The water tinged with blood
marked the spots where they had been
drawn under. Two of the sailors got
ashore, but so bitten and in shreds that
they died soon afterward.
I was told another story of four men
who started to walk up the beach from
Cape Florida to St. Augustine. They
managed to get across New Inlet upon an
improvised raft, but on arriving at Lake
Worth Inlet they attempted to swim
across. Three of them were gobbled
up by sharks. The fourth reached the
shore, and traveled on to Jupiter Light,
where he told of the fate of his com
rades. These reports show that many
of the sharks are man eaters. The
most of them are of the shovel-nosed
variety. As they are more lively and
voraciousan the summer than in winter,
it is probable that they would attack a
man in July or August when they
would not touch him in December or
January
The Peoria, (111.) Review has its own
old man who reads that paper and no
other, and thus describes him: “ Chew
ed tobacco sixty years and got fat on it.
Then he took to hard drink and follow
ed it for twenty-five years, and grew
younger every day. Now he reads his
paper by moonlight alone, through an
inverted microscope, to make the type
appear smail enough for his eyesight.
Walks four miles every morning for his
drinks before breakfast. Chops a cord
of wood between each meal. Tried to
die of old age thirteen times and failed
every whack. Attends to the wants
of his old and feeble grandson, and su
perintends the funerals of his posterity
with a decency becoming his years.”
The incorrigible Donn Piatt, contem
plating the po sibility that Capt. Jack
will exterminate the American people
at the rate the very one-sided Modoc
war is going, throws a sop to that fero
cious chief by saying that ho desires to
be distinctly understood, before this
thing goes any further, that Capt. Jack
has always been his first choice for
President.
♦——.
A tailless calf was born in Warren
county, Indiana, last week, who is en
joying life now—but wait until fly
time.
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or Guardians are required l>y ’ate to be held on the
firet Tuesday in the month, between the hours qf ten
in the forenoon and three in the eftsmoon, at the
court house in the county in which the property is
situated. Notices of the le sales must be given tn a
public gazette in the county where the land lies, if
there be any. Notices for the sale if personal property
must be given in like manner ten days pervious is
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plication will be made to the Court of Ordinary fir
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three months. For compelling titles from Adminis
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must be published twice. Publications will always
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1N0.40.
The Fatal'Hemlock. —Experiment
at the New York State Lunatic Asylum
have resulted in proving tbo great value
of conium—the hemlock of the ancients
—in the treatment of insanity. The
concurrent testimony of the cases in
which it has been tried is that it soothes
and mollifies the moter oentres, opera
ting on the motor tract as opium ope
rates on the brain, thus quieting and re
novating the whole muscular system,'
and acting indirectly as a tonic and ner
vine. It is now largely used in oases
of epilepsy by New York physicians.
n—n m-
Taxes for tub Construction of
Rail-roads Unconstitutional. —The
Supreme Court of Ohio has pronounced
unconstitutional a law of that State em
powering cominunites to levy taxes fox
the construction of railroads. The
grounds of the decision, which was unan
imous, are, that such taxation is not for
public purposes, for which alone taxes
can be constitutionally levied, and that
the State Legislature is forbidden by
the constitution to authorize any com
munity to engage in this way in private
enterprises, directly or indirectly. As
the Constitutional Convention of Ohio
is now in session, it is probable that this
matter will receive their attention.
Watteuson’s Visit Explained.-
“Maok,” of the St. Louis Democrat,who
plays poker himself, thus alludes to
Mr. Wat ter son’s trip to Europe: “From
the large number of Louisvillians
booked for Europe this spring, we in
fer the winter poker season at that
point was very successful. One promi
nent citizen was heard to remark to
his wife a day or two since. ‘My dear,
if I hadn’t filled on that last hand yes
terday we would have been obliged to
skip Italy, but it is all right now ; that
last ‘raise’ Of Higgins just pays for the
Vesuvius and Pompeii trip.’ Thus do
the fine arts of the present assist in
diffusing a knowledge of.the past.”
o-
A. Faithful Dog. —Among the sec
tion men mentioned caught out in the
frightful Minnesota storm, was one who
lived several miles from St. James. He
was unable to reach homeland his wife
became alarmed for his safety, and he
was uneasy about his family. On Thurs
day, a shepred dog belonging to him
came bounding into St. James with a
little leather bag to his collar, in whieh
was a letter from his wife containing the
joyful intelligence that they were “all
well at home, ’’and asking for news of
her husband. Another letter was writ*
ten informing the wife that the husband
was safe and would return home as soon
as he could reach there. This letter
was placed in the leather bag, and the
faithful animal told to “go home.”
Away started the almost human animal
through the fearful storm and snow
drifts, and arrived safely at home with
the precious news so anxiously looked
for by the weeping wife and mother.
The next day the husband reached
home. This dog was also 9ent with a
letter to a sick neighbor, and brought
back an answer. The dog is not for sale.
A Good Toast. —Here is a Quaker
toast that has a thought in it.
“This is me and mine to thee and
thine. I wish when thee and thine
come and see me and mine, that me
and mine will treat thee and thine as
kindly as thee and thine have treated
me and mine.”
This is anew version of the old
compliment, which runs sometimosafte
this wise :
“I wish theo and tby folks loved
me and ray folks as well as me and my
folks love thee and thy folks. For sure,
there never was folks, since folks was
folks, that ever loved folks half so well
as mo and my folks love thee and thy
folks.”
* .
The devil is the father ov lies,bath*
failed tew get out a patent for bis in
venshun, and his bizzniss is now suffer
ing from competishun.