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About The Expositor. (Waynesboro, GA.) 1870-187? | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1873)
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Special attention given to Justice Court practice. ffebl s—l y A. M XIODGkERS, A 1 TORNEY A T LA W WAYNES BORO, GA. fit'FIVE at the court house. PERKY & BERRIEN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WAYNESBORO, G KOIIGIA. OUce in Court House basement -northeast room JOHN I). \RI-ITC)N. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WAYNESBORO' GEORGIA. Will practice in tlie Superior Courts c f the Augusts, Eastern, and Middle Circuits, tire Supreme Court of the State, and in the District and Circuit Courts of the United j States, at Savannah. Claims collected and liens enforced. Special attention given to . cases in Bankruptcy. . jel'J-lv HOMKJI a. OLIBSON, ATTORNEY AT I AW. , LAW T<) X VIL Li: GEORGIA. Will nraction in the Superior Courts of Hie An- | K ,„U Last* n, au.l iJ-110 Circuits, the Su preme Oow*tC the State au-1 in the Uisinot j and Circuit Court* of the I'niteG tales, at Sa vannah. Claim* collected and liens enforced Special attention given to oases in Bankruptcy. i Huggy Huiidiiig RE PAIRING. 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DEALKIt IN GROCERIES, LIQUORS, DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, ETC., ETC., WAYNESBORO, GA. $5 TO S2O Per Day! Agents Wanted All classes of working people of either *ek, youri or old, make more money at work for us in tjie'ir spare moments, or all the time, ‘than at any anything else. Particulars free. Address G. STINSON & CP-, Portland, Maine. JOB PRINTING NEATLY EXECUTED • vl ' ' AT OOToe. ®Jte Hi nos if nr. BY FROST, LAWSON. OOIiKEII <fe O W.VY. VOL. 111. i POOR LUCILLE. Sitting this afternoon at iny window, listening vaguely to all the sounds which make up “the sad music of humanity,” a face was lifted for a moment to mine, which, like a talisman, opened one of the forgotton wards of memory and gave me back again (Oh, Death in Life!) a form whose beauty has long been hidden : by the dust. I Poor Lucille! That was my first thought. It came a strain of sol emn, mournful music into my heart, and so I let it staud. Poor Lucille ! driven to the wall—nay, driven over the wall into the grave by the cruelty which saw only in her weakness and her helpless ness legitimate prey. Our acquaintance was the result of one of those inexplicable attractions which are none the loss interesting for their mystery. It began in church, where I first noticed her In charge cf four or five children, to whom site was evidently governess. Her beauty was very great, but this did not influence me so much as the hopeless desponden cy which shadowed it, relieved on ly by an eager, questioning look, like that of a little child lost and bewildered in s crowd. A kind feeling is a species of mental telegraph, and she soon understood that I was a friend, and in quick, intelligent glances showed ine her comprehension and her gratitude. Do you wonder that for many weeks I contented myself with this silent sympathy? I wonder, too, now—but then, all was so diff'e-ent. I was among a people who never shook hands without a social license to do so. and whose acquaintanceships were always prefaced by the most ccreni j mous initiation. I was very young, too, and had been just admitted, by right of marriage, into a circle which resented alike my country and my religion, and barely tolerated the mistakes l was constantly making, either through my ignorance or my im petuosity. -So. in my peculiar position, there was some excuse for me allowing many weeks to pass over and still *to have learned nothing of the girl except what her position and her sorrowful face reveale One Sunday, however, when we came out of church, it was snowihg furiously. It had been snowing at intervals slight ly all the morning, but now the air was dark with the thick driving flakes.— She had come alone to church, and she j stood now at the door looking into the ; stormy air with shivering and dismay. | 31y good angel whispered, “Take her home in jour carriage and never mind ; what 31 rs. Grundy will say about it.’’ j Acting on this impulse, I touched her j hand and said, ‘‘Conic with us, we will , leave you at home, dear.' 1 • | She accepted the offer at once with j that true politeness which disdains all apologies, because it pays your courtesy the compliment of sincerity, and I im proved my opportunity as far as possible. When we parted she promised that she would waive all ceremony, and call on me at my residence as soon as she could. Thus our friendship ripened gradual ly, and I was soon the confidante of a story so pitiful that the hardest heart might have giveu it tears and sympathy. A .story of petty cruelties and irritat wrongs ; little troubles that kill by slow torture, work that was never done; crav iugfor loveand recreation never satisfied; no books to read, no music to practice; not one hour of that blessed solitude which is the soul's restorer. Without anger, without much demon stration, but with a weary, hopeless manner that was almost despair, she poured out all her poor, breaking heart. Fast from my eyes dropped the angry tea r s, but hers were sad and dry. Hot indignation gathered in my breast as 1 beard of the polite taunts, the cruel sneers, the cold indifference, the wretch ed pittance which rewarded her toil some life. Poor child ! She had no homo and no friends who acknowledged her claim.— Her father and mother were both dead. The former had been a captain in a fine cavalry regiment, but having married a poor French lady, had been disowned and disinherited in consequence. There was no one to see auy justice done to her, and after admitting this she said with a miserable attempt at indifference, “You see it is evidently my duty to leave a world iu which 1 am so much out of place.” “Why do you not leave the Mouteiths j instead?” I inquired. “Whore shall I go? 1 have no friends, |no money, and but little clothing. If 1 left her, Mrs. Montoith would do her utmost to prevent my getting another home, and I cannot go into the market place and the newspapers and detail pay wrongs as I do to y<u.” * “BALUS POPULI SUPB EM A LEX E 9 T O WAYNESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1873. | What could I do for her? Some Quixotic idea of appealing in her behalf to her employers occupied uty thoughts, until the following Sunday, wheu I nar rowly scrutinized them, after which I gave up the notion at once. What charity could I hope for in that cold passionless face, whoso gray, petrifying look made me understand that the Medusa’s head might be more than a fable. There was less to fear iu Mr. Monteitit’s face, but no more to hope. The thin, light hair, the small cunning eyes, and the long sharp nose i indicated keen business tact, lie was ! evidently a man to whom “books” would i ouly mean “ledgers,” and whose whole life would rcsolvo itself into a question j of £.. s. and. How <lsc could he have sat daily under the reproach of those mournful jeyes? How else have listened every Sabbath day to the decalogue and “that I other commandment,” and yet feel no reproach ? Then I wrote in Lucille’s behalf to several of my frieuds in England, and was generally treated as a harmless en thusiast in other people’s affairs. In the meantime summer came on and we were preparing to leave town for the sea-coast, The last time I saw her alive was where I had seen her first—at church. A stranger preached, nnd he took for his text these words : “And went and told Jesus.” The sermon seemed to affect her profoundly, and I rather blame myself because that in all my efforts to comfort, her I had never named this friend above all other*. I had not been many weeks at the coast before I received from her the following letter: “My Only Fkikxd— Wheu you receive this l shall have solved the great, sad mystery of iny life. I snail know the grand secret then lam going to “tell Jesus about it.” He will not be as hard to me as men have been. My life here has been all wrong some way, but I think there will be no mistakes there. Farewell!” I knew at once what it meant. I never hoped to see her again. Yet I took the first steamer I could get, and late in the afternoon arrived at Mon ! tcith House. They were holding an iu i quest on the body when I arrived, and 1 was rather rudely refused admittance. But I declared I was possessed of im portant evidence, and insisted on being permitted to give it. To the stupid, ignorant, prejudiced jury (who looked on the beautiful corpse as if they expected Satan every moment to claim it), I poured out in fervent words the story of her sufferings and her wrongs. They shook their heads, and evidently considered that I needed a church session on my own case; then they solemnly decided that “Lucille Morton had come to her death by her own bands.” “God will reverse your verdict, geu tlemen, at the Great Assize,” I answer ed, passionately. He will pronounce her ‘done to death by slanderous tongues and cruel hearts;’ and in that day there will be neither laudanum nor nepenthe for her murderers. They made her grave far from all human habitations —deep in the yellow ribbed sands, where the perpetual hills hang over it, and the gray solid granite flings back without ceasing the tumult of the stormy Atlantic. All alone in Death as in life ! So young !so ! beau tiful ! yet so weak and helpless that Earth could give her no inheritance but a grave. Poor Lucille ! Cicero, in his hatred of Augustus, wished to kill himself on his hearthstone, so that lie might become his evil genius 1 and pursue his doccndants with unro ■ ienting disaster. I am sure Lucille never thought of this, although in the I continual misfortune which after her death followed the Montcith family nn | old Roman would have acknowledged 1 this agency Asa Christian woman, however, I ! recognized a higher authority, and was well pleased to sec that He who said “Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child ; for if thou afflict them ! in any wise, and they cry at all unto 1 me, I will surely hear their cry,” was not slack concerning his promise. A Memphis lawyer fell down while speakiug the ot’icr day. It will make i the case clearer to say that an inkstand 1 thrown by the opposing counsel hit him just before lie fell. i A Baltimore clergyman writes to a friend concerning the frequency of fires in Boston as follows: “In the rapid whirl of events, the motion of the uni verse becoming accelerated, the hub is evidently overheated by friotion,” bcnce the numerous coDflugratjops. TWO DOLLARS A YKAU, IN ADVANOE. MIRRORS. To the inherent vanity of the human race must doubtless be attributed the invention of artifical mirrors. In the primitive ages of the world, tranquil lakes and springs furnished natural re flecting surfaces for the gratification of this passion; but advancing civilization suggested a more convenient agent for its indulgence. The introducing of mirrors is ascribed to the Egyptians, with whom originated so many appli ances* of convenience nnd luxury. For many gcnturics mirrors were manufactured exclusively from the va rious metals, skilfully elaborated nnd highly polished, copper being first used for this purpose. They were fashioned into spherical shapes und united to handles highly finished, either with at tractive representations or with fright fully repulsive figures, which would, by contrast, heighten the attractive ness an observer’s features. It is said that such was the inordinate vanity of the ancient Greeks and Romans, that even the interior surfaces of their wash ing basins and drinking vessels were highly burnished, and so constructed that the countenances of those using them would be distinctly reflected. In process of time tin nnd lead were com bined with coppcr.in their construction and subsequently silver was substituted and in the fourth century (B. 0.), mir rors manufactured from the latter metal were iu very general use among the Greeks and Romans, constituting an extensive branch of industry. By some authorities gold is also mentioned as being used for this purpose, but the better opinion seems to be that it was employed in decorating the frames in which the plates were enclosed, rather than as material for the reflecting sub stance. They were usually of sucli dimensions as could bo conveniently held by servants before ladies and gen tleuieu while attiring themselves, al though allusiocs arc frequent to mirrors sufficiently large to extend from the ceiling to the floor of an ordinary ap portment. A species of a lava, resem bling green bottle glass, and semi trans parent, was al.-o succes.-fully applied in the prosecution of this industry, and continued to be employed until glass was substituted, during the second cen tury. In the first experiments with this material black glass was employed, and at a later period transparent glass, on the back of which a coating of po lished steel foil was placed. But, for some reason unascertained, the use of this substance appears to have been abandoned, as writers make no further allusion to gla.-s minors until the thir teenth century. About the middle of this century iron, stefl, glass coated with lead, and even highly polished marble were u-'od as reflecting surfaces for mirrors. In the sixteenth century convex glass mirrors were manufactur ed in Germany which reflected a very small but well defined image. In this century, also, the Venetians introduced the art of manufacturing mirrors by coating glass with a composition of tin foil and mercury, aud so successful was their enterprise tiiat, at the present day, no marked or substantial improvement has been made upon the process they originated. Though many inventions of new methods have been introduced, and uumcrous improvements suggested, such as precipitating silver, gold and platinum upon glass, yet the process of the artists of Venice still holds its place on account of the cheapness and dura bility of the coating aud the brilliancy of the reflection. - The news of the death of Junius Brutus Booth, in Paris, Domes to us rather circuitously by way of Manches ter, England. The •deceased was an actor of some note, hut was chiefly re markable for having as a sire one of tho most illustrious tragedians of the first half of the nineteenth century, and as brothers one who is the brightest or nament of the American stage to day, and another who became immortal through the commission of one of the darkest deeds in history. His life was ,not very eventful. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1821, soon after his fathers arrival in this oouutry, and made his debut upon Abe stage as Tyrrcl, in Richard 111, in Pittsburg, before he was twenty years of age. The priuoipal of a Massachusetts academy on tuc approach of a tempest insulated hisjehair on four pieces of glass, and as he thought, politely invited a young lady to sit iu his lap for safety. To show the popularity of tho man of letters, the young lady replied she would rather be struck by lightning OVER-POPULATION. The Rev. T. R. Malt bus, one of tho ablest writers on political economy dur- I ing the last century, held that popula tion iu a given county tends to increase faster than food, so that tho people are constantly pressing closely on the means of life, and hence that poverty and wretchedness arc unavoidable unless tho ‘Surplus population,” beyond the number that can be well fed, is dimin ished by war, pestilence, or other causes | sweeping in their effects. While this view is ingenuous in the suggestion of a useful function of dreadful evils, it was evolved before steam had revolutioniz ed commerce. The fucility with which food and men arc now transported to lands where either is greatly needed, ! put a different face on the matter.— j While it is true, as Malthus and subse quent writers have pointed out, that : in many families there are more child ren ibail the parents can pr. pcrly pro ! vide for, aud that this fact lies at the bottom of much social trouble, the bar riers between countries are now sc fcro keu down that the world is, for such purposes, but one country ; and the vast tracts of arable land, as yet scarcely trodden by man, uegative, for ages to come, the effect foreshadowed by Mal thus ; while improved methods of cul tivation may yet yield tons where we now harvest bushels. The lack of fuel, too, need neither prevent nor check manufacturing where food is cheap. Transportation of food aud of manufactures cau largely be ecouomizcd without the action of government, simply by utilizing the power of the air. Now that windmills liaTe beeu so perfected that they catch every breath that blows, and that vari ous contrivances for storing up power cau be adjusted to the vanes, this great power, the cheapest anu most inc-xhaas tible in the world, can be made to work with regularity; and all over the world manufactories, as well as agreat variety of minor mccbauical operations, can be conducted in the midst of farming pop ulations. or where farming is impracti cable, with equal facility ; so that the need of fuel for manufacturing purposes is unlikely to operate either favorably or unfavorably on the distribution of population. The Altitude at Which Hen euti Live. There has been a great deal of dis cussion as to the altitude at which hu man beings can exist, and Mr Glaisher himself can tell us as much about it as anybody. In July, 1872, he and Mr. Cox well ascended in a balloon to the enormous elev ation of 37,000 feet. Pre vious to the start, Mr. Glaisher’s pulse stood at seventy-six beats a minute; Coxwell’s at seventy-four. At 17,000 feet, the pul.-c of tho former was at eighty-four; that of the latter at 100. At 19,000 feet Glaisher’s hands and lips quite blue, but not. his face. At 21,000 feet he heard his heart beating, and his breathing became oppressed ; at< 29,000, he became senseless; notwith standing which the aeronaut, in the in terest of science, went up another 8,000 feet, till he could no longer use his hands, aud had to pull the strings of the valve with his teeth. JErouauts who have to make no exertions have, cf oour.se, a great advantage over mem ber* of the Alpine Club, and those who trust their legs ; even at 13,000 feet these climbers feel very uncomfortable, more so in tlu Alps*, it seems, than else where. At the monastery of St. Ber nard, 8,117 feet high, tho monks be come asthmatic, and are compelled fre quently to descend into tho Valley of the Rhone for—anything but “a breath of fresh air”; and at the end of ten years’ service arc obliged to give up their high living, and come down to the usual level. At the same time, in South America, there arc towns (such as Potosi) placed as high as the top of Mont Blanc, the inhabitants of which feel no inconvenience.' The highest in habited spot in the world is, however, the Buddhist cloister of Hanle, in Tibet, where twenty-one priests live at un al titude of 16,500 feet. The Brothers Seglagintweit, when they explored the glaciers of the Ibi-Gamin in tho same country, encamped at 21,000 feet, the highest altitude at which a European ever passed the night. Even at the top of Mont Blanc, Prof. Tyndall’s guides found it very unpleasant to do this, though the Professor himself did not oonfoss to feeling so bad as they. The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest (Himalaya,) 29,003 feet, and the condor has been seen “winging the blue air” 500 feet higher. The air, bv the by. is not “blue,” or olst, as De Saiiisufe pointed out, “the RULES FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING: ■Sale* qf lanti, etc., by Administrators, Ext tutors, or Guardians art required ay tor* to bt held on tho ■ first Tuesday in the month, between the hours qf ten | in the Jurinuvn arid three in the after noon, at the ‘ court house m the county in if A iri the property is , situated Aotices <d thter tales truest hr given in a public gazette in the county ,chirr the land lies, if there be any. Notices for the sale qf pi rsunal prupsaAu must hr given in lthe manner ten days prerioußp sale day Notices ’u Debtor* and Creditors of JR estate must bt published forty days. Notice that ap plication trill hr made to the Court if Ordinary fir IruTc is sell hptd, etc .' must be published oner a week for four teeehs Citations for letters of Admonish trahon, Guardianship, etr , must be published thirty days Fur direr, ission from Administration and Ex ecutorship three, month*-Dismission from Guard ianship, forty days /tutor for Foreclosure cf Mart gage must be published monthly far four months. For establishing lost papers, for the full space of three, months. For compelling titles from Adminis trators or F.xteutors. where bond has been given by declar'd, three months ApfiHcutton for Homestead must be published twice Publications wilt always be continued in rinding to these requirements unless otherwise orjrrerf y-f One inch, or about eighty words, is a squurr; fructions cuunltd as full square* JN0.47. distant mountains, which are corered witli snow, would appear blue also;” its appnreut color being due to the reflec- I tion of light. What light can do, and does, is marvellous; and not the least is its power of attraction to humanity. Chamber* Journal. MODF.R.C EGYPT. The la: and of the Khedive is likely soou to rival in greatness the ancient kingdom of the Pharaohs aud the Ptol emies. Modern Egypt cannot, it is true, compare with ancient Egypt in the number of its inhabitants, for Diod orus tells us that tho latter contained 30,000 towns and villages, while He rodotus says that in the reign of Ama i sis there were in Egypt 20,000 cities. What successive sovereigns, however, from Sesostria to the caliphs failed to effect, or aecomplishe J only in part, hu : been completely achieved under the I rule of tile Khedive by the opening of the Suez Canal, while Alexandria and Cairo are List becoming cities of palaces, and the wealth of the country is every day increasing. Western prejudice attributes the present ignorance of the Mussulman population of Turkey to Islatnism, and concludes that the religion of Moham med is a bar to all bumau progress. Any one, however, who visited Egypt ten years*ago, and could now see the vast improvements that have been and are still being made by the Khedive, would at. once have his prejudices very much modified, if uot altogether re moved. He would see the harbor of Alexandria, the finest, probably, in the world, crowded with the shipping of all nations, with a new breakwater and new docks in course of completion, ware houses filled with cotton, grain and oth er agricultural produce ready for export, railways in ope r ation or in course of construction—everywhere, in fact, the signs of increasing civilization and pros perity. He would see Alexandria it self moro like n European than an Eastern city, with its magnificent buildings aud its “Place des Consuls,” that exceeds in size and beauty any square to be found in Europe. He would see the land, iirigated by the Nile’s overflow or by means of machine ry, every where teeming with rich crops of wheat, maize, barley, beaus and peas, elovtr and flax, rice, sugar-cane, tobacco and cotton, coffee, iudigo and madder; the gardens producing apri cots iu May; peaches, plums, apples, pears and carobs in June ; grapes, figs and prickly pears in July ; pomegran ates, lemons and dates in August; or anges in October, sweet lemons and ba nanas in November, and the mulberry and Sevilee oranges in January. In old times we know there was “corn iu Egypt;” now there is also •'cotton in Egypt,” and cotton too of the best de scription. Even six years ago there were not less than two hundred steam ploughs at work in cotton cultivation. Every mechanicalaid to production has, in fact, been made use of, and the re sult is an enormous increase of wealth both to the people and their ruler. The romance of travel in Egypt is fast disappearing. Anew bridge has been recently built by the Khedive over the Nile, so that travelers can now go direct in carriages from their hotol to the pyramids without being obliged, as formely, to cross the river in boats and finish the excursion on camels or don keys. The old “dahabeah,” or Nile boat, is giving way to the comparative ly luxurious Nile steamer, and the charms of that dreamy Epicurean life, floating up and down tho great river, will soon become a memory of the past. No more encampments beneath the my riad stars and tho wondrous sky of an. Egyptian night, amidst the labyrinth, of pillars, obelisks and fallen temples of Luxor or Karnalc. Instead of, as heretofore, passing tic night on land! under a tent, the traveler now sleeps in his comfortable berth on board: the Khedive's steamer, and “docs” the Nilo in three weeks, instead of three months, as in the palmy days of the dfc habeahs. During the winter of 1871* before the steamers began to ply, the price asked for a firSt-clnss boat was from $l5O to S6OO a month for throe or four months; while now the voyagb —585 miles—from Cairo to philsp, a few miles above the first aataraet, and back again, can be made by the pas senger steamers on the Nilo belonging to tho Khedive administration at a cost of $220, included steamer, living, guides, and all other neoessary expense. — N. J. Mechanic At the present time there are over 25,000 Americans iu Paris, who spend > on an average nearly, if not quite, > $500,000 a day.
