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This entirely new instrument possessing all the essential qualities of more expensive nnd higher priced Pianos is offered at a lower price than any similar out* now in the market. It is durable, with a magnificent tone hardly surpass ed and yet it can be purchased at prices ami on terms within the reach of all. This instrument has all the modern improvements, including the celebrated ‘Agraffe’ treble, and is fully warranted Catalogues mailed. WATERS' SUi t? SUA'NJi S-'AAilb'J are the beat made. The touch is elastic, ami a flno singing Lone, powerful, pure and even. VI all r*’ Concerto Organ* cannot be excelled in tone or beauty; they defy competition. The Concerto Stop is a fine imita tion of the Human Voice. PRICES EXTREMELY LOW for cash during this month. Monthly Installments received: On Pianos, $lO to S2O; Organs, five to ten dollars; Second band Instruments, three to five dollars; monthly after first Deposit. Agents Wastkk. A liberal discount to Teachers, Mi ulsters. 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Published by MERRIAM, Springfield, Mass, pREAT IMPROVEMENT, GIVING * 1 hemdit to every reader, is seen each week in The Gazette, as it carries the news t• the 1 arm homes of a thrifty ami widespread section. THE WEEKLY SUN. 1 770. NEW YORK. IrtVG Eighteen hundred and seventy six is the Cen tennial vear. It is also the year in which an Op position'House of Representatives, the first since the war, will be in power at. Washington: and the y< ar of the twenty third election of a Presi dent of the United States. All these events are su.ic to be of great interest and import ance, es poeiallv the two latter: and all of them und everything connected with them will be fully and freshly reported and expounded in The Sun. The Opposition House of Representatlves, taking up the line of inquiry opt mui years ago by The Sun. will sternly and diligently investigate the corruptions and misdeeds of Grant's admin I istration; and will, it is to be hoped, lay the foundation for anew and bet ter period in our national history. Of all this The Sun will con tain complete and accurate accounts, lurnishing its readers w ith early and t rust worthy informa tion upon these absorbing topics. The twenty-third Presidential election, with the preparations for it. will be memorable as de riding upon Grant’s aspirations for a third term of power and plunder, and still more as deciding who shall be the candidate of the party of Re form. and as electing that candidate. Concern ing all these subjects, those who read The Sun will have the constant means of being thoroughly well informen. The Weekly Sun, which has attained a cirou lation of over eighty thousand copies, already has its readers in every State and J erritory. und we trust that the year 1878 will see their numbers doubled. It will continue to be a thorough newspaper. All the general news <>f the day will be found in it. condensed when unimportant, at full length when of moment; and always, we trust, treated in a clear, interesting and instruc tive manner. It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world, and we shall con tinue in its columns a large amount of miscel laneous reading, such as stories, t ales, poems, scientific Intelligence and agricultural informa tion, tor whi'-M we are not able to make room in our daily edition. The agricultural depu intent especially is one <.f its prominent features. The fashions’ are also regularly reported in it - columns; and so arc the markets of every kind. 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Price 33 cents in paper covers; 05 cents bound in elegant cloth. Violf’s Floral Guidi; This is a beautiful Quarterly Journal, finely illus trated. and containing an elegant color*ul f rontis piwee with the fir t number. Price only 25 cents for the year. Address JAMES VICK, Rochester. N. V. 1770. 'die IW7. GREAT CENTENNIAL! ! Parties desiring information as to best routes | to the CENTENNIAL, or to any of tie.- Hummer resorts or to any other point in the country ! should address B. W. Wlti.NN, ! General Passenger Agent Kennesaw Route Atlanta, Ga. PATENTS. ~ ; Persons desiring to take out Patents, or desiring j information from the P. S. Pat ent Office, should consult I • A. LEHMAN, Solicitor of Amer ican ami Foreign Patents, Washington. J>. C. Examinations free NO PATEN 1 NO PAY, ! Send for Circulars. TJOtt TIIESr.M OF ONE DOLLAR ■ X 1 and seventy-five cents You can pay subscription to The Gazette for one year: no reductions made to clubs. One dollar pays for six months One dollar pays fur six months SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. NOVEMBER 2. 1876. Fortune Telling. From time immemorial many people who really know better have secretly placed faith in fortune-tellers, under all sorts of names. That the future may be predicted, is believed by not a few who are neither ignorant nor idiotic, and lias been believed, and will be believed until the end' Women more especially yield to this feeling; and thus mediums, clair voyants, astrologers, and common eard shuffling fortune-tellers live and thrive. While we must know that the mist that veils tlie future will only roll away little by little, showing us the one step wo are about to take, and no more, yet it is very certain there are people who, having look into another's eyes and held another’s hands awhile, can utter very startling revelations of that other s past history, and often prophesy what really does take place. They have penetration to an in tense degree, 't hey know the meaning of certain lined and expressions of the human face. One who lias loved,"bears the seal of that love on his brow to the grave. One wlie lias lost lias in bis eyes a look that tells of it. Expectation lias its brand; so has despair. You think nothing of saying: “That mail is a dtunkard.” The tokens of that state are manifested to all. After long experience, and with a natural gift of perception, it is easy to write all men what they are. Then, too, the fortune-toller by profes -1 sion observes other things —a ring, a locket with hair in it. the style of the dress. The hands of idleness and indus try are not alike; and many persons in certain trades can tell each other by the I shape of the hands. | Again, not only do people chatter too much when they go to fortune-tollers, mediums, or clairvoyants, but tint they j go at. all is an indication of some unusual | condition A married woman, whose husband is true to her, never tries to “speer her for tune," unless she has lost money or spoons. A girl, w-o knovvsjust what her beau’s intentions are, loses her intoiest in sorcery. But let a woman's lioart be troubled, let her believe her lover false, or long for the young prince who comes not, or have doubts of her worser half, then, according to her position in society, does she seek the prophetic Mrs. Swasher who keeps a greasy pack of cards in her pocket, in some fourth story back-room; or Mrs. Sphinx, “iuipressiona! medium,” who only goes into a trance on proper in iroductioii, and never for- less than live dollars an hour. Is it any wonder that sho goes home treuih'ing with visions of a “dark-haired gentleman, with his heart toward you; but, my dear, I’m sorry to say, a light' haired rival atwixt you,” troubling her sou,? Or, with awe-stricken remembrance conceding “spiritsonce united—now torn asunder!” The dingy witch well knew what brought the visitor with the blue vail and water proof cloak to her unpleasant home. And Mrs, Sphinx riddled the liddle well after she had said: “A dark-haired spirit is beside you; he wears a moustache;” and a trembling voice had whispered: “No, it never would grow!” On the whole, it is most economical to stay at home and tell one’s own fortune, with these clues, namely: J'iist, desire often a mounts to prophecy; what you want mostly you generally have. Secondly, nature not only prompts our longings, but works for i heir attainment. Thirdly, what you have done in the past, you will do in the future—it will bo only the old tune with variations. And lb, i t hly. a certain philosopher declares that if you really, earne-'ly wish for anything, you may sit on a rook in tin- middle of' the sea and wait, for that thing will conic to you at last. A True Story. Ic was a henutiful'night in June. The sky was studded with clustering stars, the air was bulled to a breathless stillness, the murmur of the waves icaehed arid rolled along the shore with a soothing ] leasunt melody that set one {Jijpking of the past, and so had lulled me into a dreamy, unconscious state of mind, when all at once broke upon my ear these wolds —“My baby! Ob, my baby!” “At first I thought it was my own over wrought fancy, but when 1 heard them repeated in the most agonized tones, I went down the walk in search of thp Ling who e whole life seemed flow owl vvkii, the words. In a few minutes 1 was ref warded. Thereupon the green, damp grass sat a young, fair gifl, with a small, oval face, on, so white; eyes that hud A? strange, weird and solemn look that be spoke volumes of misery. With a deep sign she rose to her feet, turned njy face round in the moonlight, and after siicdmd scanned it closely, -die said: “Oh, you, will be my friend, won't you? Yoijs wi/" help me to find him; you will not am crazy because I want my baby; In cause I cannot give i.p my search, and forget,' | forget.” I immediately led her into the house, : io. k her pale white hands in mine, and in stead of answering her mierrogatioris, merely said: “’Tell me all about it.” ' I hank you, thank you. Thank God for turning my steps here. I. will tell you, hut—” She did not finish the sentence, and soon broke out in the wildest and most unearthly screams I have ever heard; but becoming quiet, she asked: "You do not think I, am crazy? lam : not, only ju.-t heart-broken; only lost, only -trayed away from everything good, pure, loving, only a wreck drifted by lute arid circumstances, living but with one hope, clinging but to one remembrance, having ; hut one aim, and that is to find m,y lost 1 darling, my baby, my b iby! I must have him; I must find him. I cannot live with out him. I had nothing else left; nothing to live for; nothing to make one forget; nothing to nestle close to me; nothing to pray for; nothing but him.” “Oh!” she added, “if God would only lot me find him—if lie would give him to me once more—l would be so good, so good!” The force and energy that flashed from her eyes; th.i solitude that symbolized her peculiar case; the misfortunes that had overtaken her; the mystic utterances, the marvellous hopelessness, the despairing accents, the indescribable anguish, the sensitive appreciation of her fate; the impossible longing, the penitential pray ers, the characteristic innocence surround ing her with a something I cannot de scribe. The electric current that kept vibrating between her heart and mine has thrown about me an inexpressible and in teresting remembrance, _ and one that seemed to w'ar upon its face the accumu lated woes of a life-time. lint no words, no entreaties, could divert her mind from searching for her baby. And as she passed out into the moonlight 1 thought, May God pity all who wait, hope, trust and search without reason for 'he one joy they ha v o lost for ever. who grope, stumble, pray, wrestle with fate, circumstances and surround ings, till the heart sinks and dies by rea son of fruitless endeavor. Out of these come the wrecks of society, the spurned of men, the despised of wo men. Does God too cast them off? Does lie too deny them succor? Does lie starve at,d crush ihe poor, weary, hungry souls that cry unceasingly for love, love, love? No; to 1 In. at least, when all other slllines have fled, can the tried, tempted and long ing hearts id'this world go. and find, not only their Inst treasures, hut a rest and re pose fragrant with the rest and pence born of 11 is mercy. — Pomeroy'a Uainocrat. Waking Up the Wrong Man. It was reported to one of the chief physicians in the hospital of one ol our alms houses the other day, that there was a man lying in one ot the Wards iu a comatose condition. The nurse declared lliat he had been insensible for twenty four hours, ar.d that she bad tried ill vain tn lon e him. The doetorsaid that it wn probable that the, patient was under the influence ol some powerful narcotic; per haps had taken a large dose of laudanum. He said it was imperatively necessary that the unfortunate man should bo resusei tated at once by some powerful stimulant. Accordingly he directed two of his assist ants t<* lake a stronggalvunie battery and apply it to rive patient until lie recovered, lire assistants went to the hospital with the cattery, while the nurse stopped for a few moments in the laundry.. IV hen they reached the man’s bedside they placed the battery on the floor, and baring iho patient’s ankle, they wrapped the wire around it. When every!lung was ready they turned on the current full head. A second later—the prostrate form of riie patient bounded about four feet in the air, as it came down upon, tiio bed, a second shock sent it up again, the patient meantime exclaiming: “Yow-wow-wow! Oh, murdor-r r-r! Oh! O! Thunder and lightning! Mur der r-r-r! Yow-wow-wow! Another one of theta'll kill me! O, merciful Moses! Don't do that again.” When he came down the fourth time the doctor turned off the currentAviLh the remark that they guos>cd that would be enough. 'I lien one ol them the patient how he felt, anil attempted to feel his pulse. But the patient, furious with rage, said: ' “You diabolical scoundrel! what and you mean by hitching that thing to me in that manner, say? “Now, be calm,” said the doctor; it s all rigLt;you’ll be better directly.”. “But it isn’t all right; I've a mind to knock your head off for blowing me up wijh that infernal machine. Whutdyou do it for, anyway?” “My friend, don't excite yourself, said tiio doctor; “you’ve been in a very bad way, and we ran the current through you to briti" you hack to life.” , “Bring me back to life!. Why, you must be crazy. Buck to life? I was no more dead than you were ” “Now, keep cool. You haveUeen un conscious for twenty-four lmupirSarcutio poisoning, no doubt. We 1 utVii saved you tfom an early grave. It was the closest -have I ever saw. It was, upon my honor.” • “Well, well, if this don t beat all the-r - me for the man in WanlyfO. Why, I’m nne of the keepers of the-’asy lum and i lay flown on this bed Ibr imap- The fellow you’re after is over yonder. An early giave- Well, now, 1 have lick'd ot foolishness in my life, hut this takes the /fug right off. And l give you warnin’ if you come around with your appa rfatus again, try in’ experiments on uie, Vll wrench your biain pan for you ” This doctor moved off in search of the right man, while the keeper went out. to hunt a'duetto kick to relieve his feelings. 1 ’.hilitjTdyliM Bulletin. / ~ 4. *ip Every measure ol finance and taxation since the close of the war has been against labor and in favor of capital. The country is now suffering from a policy dictated by selfish and remorseless cupidity seeking to augment the advantages and power of wealth and taking from “the mouth of labor the bread it hath earned.” It is only through a reversal of this policy and the enactment of laws of final ee and tax ation equally just to every interest that our prosperity can be restored. Subscribe for The Gazette. COL. J. W. WOFFORD V r inlica.tes Himself"! An I7\|>l:iu:i t ion. Cautersvillk, Ga., Oct. 22d, 1870. To the Politic: Dr. Felton and his loading supporters seem to think bis election dependent upon the downfall of bis opponents. Where 1 have crossed their tracks in the upper counties of the district, I find this talo in circulation: “JohnW. Wof ford was nominated elector l'or the Slate at large by mistake; the members of the convention thought they were nominating Gen. William T. Wofford." I will tell the facts, and then let those who feci an interest in the question say how it is. The truth is, this is all pretense; Gen’l William T. Wofford’s identity was as well known tli the people of the State as that of any man in it. lie was alternate elec tor on the Seymour ticket in 18(3!3; was elector on the Greeley ticket in 1872; was nominated for the United States Senate in I8(>8 by the democrats of the Bullock legislature, and refused to run against Gov. Brown wlm was the republican can didate; had run against \ oung twice for Congress in the 7th district, and against Smith for Governor in 1872. And to the foregoing can be added, that when the convention of the 7th district assembled in Cartarsville in May last, for the pur pose of sending delegates to the St. Louis convention, when my name was proposed as a delegate for the State at large, Mr. JoliuC. Aycock ol the Bartow delegation announced the name of Gen. William T. Wofford as a competitor with me for the place; when the votes were counted, I received 27, and Gen. William T. Wof ford two. This convention was held in the county where we both live, and where a question of identity could not well arise. In the State convention, my name was announced as a candidate for elec-tor by Mr. McKibbcn of the county of Butts; Col. James D. Waddell who was secretary or the convention, and whose duty it was to enter on the record the name of each candidate as it wos announced, not under standing which Wofford it was, asked from the clerk’s desk which one was meant? C:;pt. Thomas J. Lyon, a mb" 1 ' her of the Bartow delegation, arose and j said in a distinct voice “it is John W. j Wofford and not Gen. William T. Wof ford.” The ballot proceeded and 1 was elected. It does appear to me that this plain statement of facts ought to put at rest this eilly story, but I have no idea that it will. John W. Wofford. A Small Hell Gate. They wore in the hack yard. One was a boy of twelve and the other had seen only half as many years. The younger one sat on a barrel, and older one had two ounces of powder in one hand and a burn ing stick in the other. “I limit want to he Mowed up,” whined the hoy on the barrel, trying to get down. "Keep right still bub,” commanded the other- “This thing lias been figured light down to science, _ If forty-five thousand pounds of explosives raised Ilell Gate twelve feet, two ounces of powder will raise you just exactly the fifteenth part of an inch- Don’t make an alarmist of yourself. ” “But it’ll hurt,” persisted the small boy “It can’t I say. Haven’t T figured on it,? You may unbutton your coat and keep your mouth shut, but that s safe guard enough. Now, then, keep quiet and listen for rumbling noises.” The powder was well confined under ! the barrel. Figures were at fault. The head of the barrel went up. the small boy went ui), the big boy went endways, arid when the smoko cleared away things were J badly mixed up. Tile big boy had sme | lugs, the little boy was black as coal and dnoWrig with tlie odor, and a Woman ran out anu shouted; A'tyil blow you, you good-for-nothing! There’s a shilling barrel all split to pieces, two pairs of punts to be patched, one coat-tail on the roof and the other just hanging, and the poor dog is wedged un der the house so that he will have to be drilled out by a machinist.” J . # W'ltbout tlie knowledge of right ami wrofig there can be no responsibility, and yet men everywhere own themselves re sponsible, if not to a power above, to one within. A lie is a he everywhere, and goodness is goodness even to the worst. Among the most degraded races some are found living pure and worthy lives, like j the Indian noticed by Bruinard, or like ; Soipio, Marcus Aurelius. Seneca or Epic tetus iu antiquity; mid they could only do so by light from God. Every missionary speaksofgood and bad among the heathen and of meeting at times with some who hail the truth as that for which they have long been waiting. There are flower-in the deserts as in our gardens, and the same sun has quickened belli, NUMBER 44. Gems of Thought. Bcw ire the fury of a patient man. Wc rise in glory as wo sink in pride. Indolence is the paralysis of the soul. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread. All luxury corrupts, either the morals or the taste. To know how to wait is the great secret of success. The higher we rise the more isolated we become; and all elevations are cold. Find earth where grows no wood, and you man find a heart where no error grows. Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another. Volubility in words is carelessness in ac tion; words are the wings of action. lie submits himself to be seen through a microscope wli > suffers himself to bo seen in a fit of passion. Often the grand meanings of faces as well as written words may lie childly in the impression of those who look on them. The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, or the crops, but the kind of men the countiy turns out. More hearts pine away in secret anguish from the want of kindness from those who should he their comforters than from aay other calamity iu life. Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than cither thought or theory. I havo always looked upon it as the worst condition of man’s destiny, that persons are so often torn asunder just as they become happy in each other’s society. Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent, but it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of tlui other two. The great buiness of man is to,improve bis mind and govern his manhood; all. otliei projects und pursuits, whether, in cur power to compass or not, ane only amusements. The books that make a sensation are those that are unreadable. They are like: indigestible dinners. The dinners that, are easily digested are never spoken of the next day. The church-yard Js the-market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it ' talk of the world and its-vanities with a, I wisdom ~ftve r known befoue. Observe mdi.hod in distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will bo lost. Idleness will then be shut out at overy avenue and witli that numerous body of vices that make up her train. Epicurus says gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it. ‘ And where is the virtue, say I, that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that at tends it. Ths hand that hath made you fair hath made you good; the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of your com plexion, should keep the body of it ever fair. To vility a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself at tain greatness. The crab might never have become a constellation but for the courage evinced in nibbling Hercules on (ho heel. We certainly ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household goods, which when worn out with use we throw away; and were it only to teach benevo lence to human kind, wo should be merci ful to other creatures. It were well were there fewer I'erneq for I scarcely ever heard of any. ■■ g Hercules, but did more misi. good. These overgrown mortals n will with their right, hand and t. son with their left. Tun reason why great men in t r. .'o so little pity or att„chiuoiii in :nlx • v, would s, ; i-ui to be this: the friends > a great man were made by his fortunes — his enemies by himself; and revenge i- u much more punctual paymaster than gratitude. But, for my own part, if I had ari in supportable burden —if, for any cause, T were bent upon sacrificing every earthly hope as a peace-offering toward heaven —1 would make the wide world my cell, and good deeds to mankind my prayer. Many penitent men have dona this, and found peace in it. “No; I desire not an earthly immortal ity,said I. “Wore man to live longer on the earth, the spiritual would die out of him. The spark of ethereal fire would he choked by the material, the sensual, There is a celestial something within us that requires, after a certain time, the atmosphere of heaven to preserve it from decay and ruin. Little thrce-yoarohl asked hismothorto let him have his building blocks to play with, but she told her darling that it was •Sunday, therefore not proper. But, mamma,” said the young hopeful. “1 II build a church.” He got the blocks*