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T- WATERMAN,
PROPRIETOR.
Athens, Skitkmber 28, 1880.
run I'HKSIDKNT OF TIIK UNITED STATES,
W. S. HANCOCK,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
W. H. ENGLISH,
OF INDIANA.
Presidential Electors.
TOB Till STATE AT LASOK?
C. C4BLACK and R. E. KEN NON.
ALTERNATES
LUTHER J. GLENN and A. P. ADAMS.
district electors:
Tirst Diatiiot—Samuel D. Brad well, of Liber
ty. Alternate—Joseph ns Camp, ot Emanuel.
Second District—Wm. M. Hammond, of
Thomas. Alternate—Win. Harrison, of Quit*
man.
Third District—Christopher C. Smith, of Tel-
»r. Alternate, James Bishop, Jr M of Dodge.
Fourth District—Lavender R. Ray, of Coweta.
Alternate—Henry C. Cameron, of Harris.
Filth Diairict-—Jno. 1. Hall, of Spalding. Al
ternate—Daniel P. Hill, of Fulton.
Sixth District—Reuben B.Nisbet,of Putnam.
Alternate—Fleming D. Dnbignon, of Baldwin.
Seventh District—T^o*. W. Akin, of Bartow,
alternate—Peter W. Alexander, of Cobb.
Eighth District—Seaborn Reese, of Hanoock
• w ernate—James K. llioes, of Wilkes.
v i«th District—Wm. K. Simmons, of Gwin
nett. Alternate—Marion C. Boyd, of White.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ALFRED H. COLQUITT.
4 of DeKai.u.
,n> iicxmiT or state:
n\ C. BAUNEfT, of Baldwin.
IOn COEITROLLIE-OCNEJIAU
WM. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond.
ron treasurer:
D. N. SPEER, cf Troup.
ron attorney-general:
CLIFFORD ANDERSON, of Bibb'
A ITU, AND FAIR ELECTION.
The election to be held on the 6th
of October next, should be a full and
fair expression of the wishes of the
people. Every man, who id entitled
to vote, shou'd be allowed to quietly
go to the polls and deposit his ballot.
Of lmll dozing ot buying there should
be none. A big question has been
referred to the democracy—the ques
tion whether the man the majority
want shall be governor. To settle this
question, the aid of the republicans has
been called in. To a great extent they
are the arbiters of this question. Self-
respect, then, if no other motive,
should impel the white..—who
have the clear majority in the
state—to give the blacks a fair show
ing and an easy time. Let them vote
as they will; but put no obstructions
in their way. A lull vote of all the
legal electors ought to be had. The
colored man, aud the not-well-in-
foimed white man have both been
contested over, with the utmost zeal;
and they will be “ labored with ” till
the day oi the election. Then let
them alone; and let us have all over
Georgia a peaceable election, >uch a
one as shall be a credit to ns as n
people, and a satisfactory settlement
of the matters at Issue.
FOR CONGRESS—NINTH DISTRICT:
HON. EMORY SPEER,
’’F CLARK.
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY.
FOR SENATOR 27tH DISTRICT,
ii. d. McDaniel,
OF WALTON.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
POPE BARROW.
Mr. Enulisii thinks Indiana will go
Democratic by 15,000.
Tiik political temperature of Indi
ana is said to be 190 in the shade.
The Atlanta Constitution of yester
day came out as an eight page trade
issne.
Judge Warner, it seems, claims
that he was driven from the bench.
Poor man! Will he run before the
legislature for vindication ?
It is folly to try to make the col
ored people believe that Colquitt is
not their friend. They have known
him too long for that.
Some people are sanguine enough
to bet that Illinois will go Democratic.
rer contra, the Republicans have
hopes ot carrying North Carolina.
The ‘ floater’ in Maiue is having a
rich time. Both sides are going to
bid heavily for his vote in the No-
vember election.
Sam Jemison has got down into
Dooly. That accounts for Charley
Hill’s recent departure for South
west Georgia. He’s going to fish for
Jemison.
The Norwood men talk a great deal
about ‘straws.’ After the election
they won’t bother themselves about
straws, except those that arc used for
purposes ot suction.
No man can blind liiinaelt, says the
Courier-Journal, to the growth of the
South in wealth and in numbers.
Large crops and good prices are
changing the whole face of the South
cm country. This growth was im
possible under the dominion of the
carpet-bagger. It is to tliat extent
due to the Democracy ; it is a vindi<.
cation of its principle of local self-
government, or home rule. One cone
sequence ot this material pr< sperity
will be to increase political influence
in national affairs. This may be un*
palatable to the malignant editors of
the Republican party organs, but we
do not know what they arc going to
do about it.
All the progress made by the South
from 18G0 to 187G does not compare
with what has been done in the past
four years. The center of empire is
changing to the South. It is now too
late to adopt the suggestion ot the
Cincinnati Commercial and wipe out
the State lines. The opposition of the
Republicans can nut keep the South
down; there are forces at work stron
ger than any party. For a while a
theft like that of 1876 may succeed in
retarding real progress; the spectre of
a solid South may alarm enough oclo.
genarians in Ohio to keep that State
in line with the Republican party!
“Southern claims” may have a terror
for the weak minded and the timid,
but these are merely temporary hind
ranees; the tide can not be turned
back.
The South can well afford to wait
for justice—it is less concerned in the
verdict in November than is the
North. It will aid in purifying the
Government; but if Ephraim is join
ed to his idols, it once more fraud and
chicanery are to triumph, if the will
of the people is to be disregarded, if
the vote of Indiana is to be stolen,
as was the vote of Florida, Louisiana
and South Carolina, then the South
can wait for the slow grinding mills of
the gods. We believe that the right
will triumph now,that nationalism and
patriotism will bear down all sectional
animosity and official corruption re
presented by the Republicans.
The average number of documents
now sent daily by the Democrats from
campaign headquarters in Washing
ton is 400,000. Most of them go to
Indiana,
The appointment oi Mr. Longlcy
judge of ilio Coweta circuit gives
satisfaction to the Aogusta News.
Bravo I It admits that Colquitt has
done one thing right.
“ The average Colquitt sympathetic
speech creates disgust,” says the Col
umbus Enquirer. You’ll be worse
disgusted than that, old fellow, in le-s
than three weeks.
Last Saturday, Prof. Grimlev, at
Montreal, went np in a balloon 4000
feet, mud came down into the river.
On the 6th of October, Col. T. M.
Norwood will go np a long, long dis
tance, and finally land in a river—
Salt river.
WHAT OF THE PROSPECT?
Whether or not the Maine election
was a democratic victory, it was cer
tainly a republican defeat. It is an
interesting question whether the result
there will benefit roost the democratic
or the republican party. It may h ive
on the latter, the same effect that the
first buttle of Manassas had on the
United (Rates. It was the completes!
defeat of the war—a genuine ront;
bat the Confederates never won an
other such victory. This election in
Maine may produce over-confidence
among democrats, and thus cost them
more than it brings to them. On the
other hand, nothing is more probable
than that it will prove a most power
ful stimulus to the republicans. They
will act upon the idea that work, and
not confidence, wins victories; while
the democrats may forget it, in the
exultation for the time being.
There are already evidences of the
stimulating effects which the Maine
election is having on the republicans
generally. Rumors are afloat that
they are going to put 81,000,000
more into Indiana; and it is asserted
positively that Bob Ingersoll proposes
to be one of a thousand to contribute
81,000 each, to the campaign fund.
The republicans can raise all the m<>n
ey they need, and they are resolved
to have New York and Indiana at
any cost. Such a result, it need not be
said, would be fatal to the democracy
there is no possible chance to make
gains which would offset the loss of
those states.
In New York, New Jersey, Con
necticut, Indiana, and we may add
California, the fight on the part of the
republicans is going to be of the fierc-
est character. Everything that can
be done, by means fair or foul, will be
done; and if the democrats content
themselves with hurrahing from now
till the day ol election, they will wake
up to find that ttey are left far be
hind. A more vigorous effort four
years ago, in Oregon, would have car
ried that state for the democracy, and
saved the country from four years’
rule of a fraudulent president.
It is very generally admitted by
those who can look closely into the
inner side of the present campaign,
that the republicans havo thoroughly
organized themselves in Florida, for
a still hunt, with concealed weapons.
To understand the importance ot
Florida, it Is only necessary to go into
a brief calculation. The 130 Southern
votes, with New York 35 and Indiana
15, would give the democrats three
votes more than they need; but if
Florida’s four are lost, the election is
lost. Again, should the democrats
carry the South and New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, and lose
Florida, the result would be the same.
So there are other possible contingen
cies, in which the loss of Florida
would be fatal.
The policy of the democrats, then,
is to be up and doing—firm in seifs
reliance, but taking nothing for grant
ed ; determined to win, but working
as if victory depended on every vote.
We do not consider the situation
alarming; indeed, it is full of hope;
but hope which causes over-confidence
is as bad as despair.
POLITICAL P0IST8.
Col. Black the nominee of the first
district, was not a * dark horse.’
The Colquitt boys expect to put the
beer on the Norwood men, by putting
Norwood on the bier.
If you thirst for knowledge, run
for office. You’ll find out mors than
you ever dreamed of—about yourself.
Come, now, is it really true that
both men now running for Governor
ought to be in the penitentiary ?
If Coffee county goes for Colquitt,
some reckless paragiapher will ray
that there was Brown sugar used in
that coffee.
‘Tom Norwood is a careful man,’
says an exchange. Would a careful
man put himselfin the way of an ava
lanche?
Positively the latest—by the Macon
Herald—that Gov. Colquitt claims to
be a primitive Baptist, while among
people of that belief.
' A storm of flies was encountered
on the Hudson river last Satnrday
afternoon;’ and a storm of lies, is
what your uncle Alfred jPo'quitt
DR. BLUNT’S PATIENT.
If ever a mortal man was fitly
named such was the case with Dr.
Blant; the name expressed one of the
strongest characteristics. Had he been
called Dr. Skillful, the same could
have been said of him with truth.
I UAndjhen the expression on 'his fac -1
II was a faithful index of another equally
strong point of character, viz: ereat
kindness of heart. So quick spoken
was the doctor on ordinary occasions,
he uot only abbreviated sentences, but
words themselves frequently suffered
a veiy perceptible clipping.
All the village of L was very
much exercised one morning by the
intelligence that the two liest rooms
in Mrs. Lowell’s elegant house, which
had been unoccupied for a year or
more because the rent was so nigh,
bad been taken by a young lady who
was a real live heiress, having uo one
"but herself to support and she was go
ing to furuish the rooms witli.no end
of costly ‘pieces’ and lovely orna
ments; anu furthermore, Lawyer
Peckb un who had charge of her es
tate, said she was a beauty, but in
very poor health, he believed. So the
good natured gossip ruminated as to
how sad it was that one couldn’t have
everything in this world. If you have
' 8 i fofiglth, likely as not you have no
* 1 | P with wipch to en,oy it; things
been encountering for wirne month:??pretty even dealt out, after all*;
ana so after the manner of news veil-
Whenever a Norwood man goes
to a place to make a speech and
doesu’t get a crowd, the Norwood
papers speak of it as a “discourtesy;”
and may be it is. ' Anyhow it is some
thing to feel bad about.
A Toronto paper, alluding to
Arthur’s Custom-house crookedness,
asks Mr. Goldwin Smith, who believes
in the absorption of Canada by the
United States: “ How would he like
to have such a niau reign over him?”
The Thomasville Times is of the
opiuion that there is one spot at any
rate where Colquitt and Norwood
men can meet in perfect harmony and
anlty ot seutiment, and that is at the
circus.
Judge Buchanan, the nominee in
the fourth district, is making consuls
erable reputation as a stump speaker.
The people know him and admired
him as a jurist, but this is the first
time—at least, in many years—that he
has been on the stump.
Some of the Norwood boys are very
much troubled about the condition of
the penitentiary. Doubtless the re
mark made at LaGrange, by their
chief—‘none of us know how soon
we may get into the penitentiary ’ -
has made a deep impression on them.
Treasurer Reufroe was ignorant
once; so ignorant that he used over
822,000 of the State’s money without
knowing that it belonged to the State.
He might be ignorant again; if not on
this point, on some other. We prefer
to vote for a man who is not ignoraut,
Major Speer, the candidate ot the
party, is not only willing to cariy out
the law, but he knows what tfcft.lgw
is—being a lawyer, of large practice.
The state is now suing Mr. Renfoe
for the very money which he tock
w through ignorance,’’ and he is re
sisting the payment.
THE RIGHT THIXG.
Yesterday the Banner told of an
attack which had been made in an
Atlanta paper the day before on Gov.
Colqnitt, by Hon. Ben. C. Yancey, of
Athens; and also of Gov. Colquitt’s
summary and satisfactory way of
dealing with it. As soon as Col.
Yancey read Gov. Colquitt’s defense,
he immediate'y sent the following
telegram to the Constitution :
Athens, SepUrabei 24.—Governor
Colqnitt satisfactorily explains his
disposition of the seventy five hundred
dollars of agricultural money. I
promptly reuder him justice.
Ben. C. Yancet.
This was the right thing for Col.
Yancey to do, and it b what every
man who knew him expected him to
do. While bis attack on the Govern
or was very severe, his reparation was
as prompt as the case demanded.
Answering Akermau’s charge,
Governor Colquitt says: “So far
from my being opposi d to the colored
people buying land, I believe It is the
way to make them the best citizens to
give property right to lands. And I
should sell land to them if I had the
chance.”
• It is funny to see how hard the
Colquitt organa labor to show that to
the minority alone are we indebted
for the disruption in the Democratic
party in the late convention.’—Wal
ton County Vidette. Bless your life,
sonny, the party isn’t disrupted.
You’ll all get aboard the old ship
again, when yonr uncle Alfred ro>
sumcBlho helm.
The Athens Banner is supporting
D. N. Speer, regular nom inee for
Treasurer, and Emory Speer, Inde
pendent, for Congress. ' To be con
sistent, brother Waterman should
Invert one • of his Speen.—Augusta
Chronicle. /
Just so; hut how?-Messrs. Bell and
Renfroe are..trying to invert those
Speers, and if, two saoh accomplished
politicians can’t do it, how can yon
expect a poor little orphan, like our
self to succeed?
Tux World hits off the very com
mon course of a republican merchant,
of New. York, who has just returned
from Europe as follows:
Republican merchant—Well, liow
baa business been since I went to Ea-
rope? Clerk—Brisk, sir; beyond
anything we have dreamed of. The
Southern cotton crop is a wounderful
one, and our business with oar Souths
era customers Jias increased fully 25
per cent. All cash, too. Republi
can merchant—Good! 1 And now take
this 810,000 round to Mr Jewell for
the campaign fund. There is no hope
for the. oonntry while the solid South
remains as at present— poverty-
•tricken, hungry for public plunder
and rotten with repudiation.
Ah exchange alludes to Senator
Brown as a devil-fish, and then says:
“ Down with the octogus P To be
called an octogus is an indignity
which Joseph has never had to submit
to before. We can but think of
Aretmus Ward, whan some one said
he was obtuse. Said he: "Ians
non-rcsistautcr, as a general thing;
but I kin nevertheless leave any man’s
hed that calls me » obtuse 1**
The Madisonian is a capital paper.
Why don’t the Madison businessmen
support it better?
A STltAMiE PRINCIPLE.
There is a principle involved in the
approaching election, which has not
been much stressed by the papers or
by the publie speakers, but which has
impressed itself indelibly on the minds
of the people, and it will havo a large
influence qn the votes. It is the ques
tion of majority or minority rule. The
fair-minded people—those who have
not allowed their judgment to be
warped by the heat of the present
contest—have an abiding conviction
that majorities are entitled to rule, as
well In nominating conventions as
popular elections; that that which will
elect a man ought to be sufficient to
nominate him. The objection is urged
to this, that in s convention where
the two-thirds rale prevails, that
which nsually constitutes a majority is
not a majority; but this-objection is
technical, an A honest, plain people
will not accept it.
Iu his recent speech in Athens Geo.
Lawton sdvanoed the strange doctrine
that no other man than Gov. Colquitt
had the power to produce harmony in
the recent gubernatorial convention,
because no other man had a majority
of the votes. This is hardly true, as
s matter of fact; for if either Col.
Hardeman or Col. Lester bad with'
drawn, enough of their votes would
most certainly have gone to Gov. Cal-
quilt to nominate him, and thus har
mony would have been brought, about.
But look at it not as a feet, but as
political doctrine, and where will H
lead ? No man can accomplish any
thing by yielding, unless he lias a
majority of votes I That being the
case, a majority of votes is not desirs
able; a candidate before a convention
ought not to want a majority; a ma
jority is the worse thing he can have;
it should be the aim of every candi
date to have only a minority. This
virtually give* the minority the con
trol of n convention and entirely sub*
verts democratic principles.
This theory baa bsen practiced un
til, among Urn masses of tba people,
there has grown np a deep-seated,
unalterable opposition to conventions
—more especially to oawv notions rating
under the two-thirds rule. The prin
ciple which gives the minority control
of a convention, in most cases defeats
the will of the people. The democrat-
io party of Georgia will never submit
to it again.
DRIFTWOOD.
Strapping fellows—the school mas
ters.
Could not the doctor’s fee be justly
called ill-gotten gains ?
What does every bald headed man
put on bis head ? His hat
An old bachelor says that the sea of
matrimony must mean the Cribb-ean
The man that was struck by a lo
comotive raid he felt very much run
down.
The grate file iz fust for bread then
butter on the bread, and then sugar
on the butter.
Advice to bald-headers—Join the
Indians, who are the only successful
hair-raisers.
There are three good aids to the
devil in his life—poverty, politics and
the toothache.
The laziest mm in the State lives
in Macon. He needs a corkscrew to
draw his bteath with.
‘Such stirring times as there,’ said
the spoon to the cap, in a confidential
tone ‘I never before saucer.’
It was the man who tramped on a
young Indy’s dress in the street, who
ripped where he did not sew.
When the prudent girl takes a no
tion to make over an old dress, what
is the best to let her do? Let her rip.
Party (who had been to a lecture
on astronomy and a little sapper after
wards)—Gailileo’sli perfly right—tb’
earth doesh move I
Grandpa—“Now, Tommy, can yon
tell me where port comes from ?’
Tommy—'No, sir; but I know where
it goes to* The question
pressed.
Various key notes: The baker’s
key note, dough; the sailor’s key-
note, sea; the attorney’s key-note,
law: the egotist’s key-note, me; and
the key-note of Sol, ray.
“ What is the reason that your wife
and yon always disagree? asked one
Irishman of another. “ Because we
are both of oue mind. She wants to
be master, and so do.”
* I have three children who are the
very image of myself.’ ‘ I pity the
youngest,’ replied bis interlocntor
• Why V • Because be is the one
who will have to reaeinble you toe
longest.’
It is said that a woman’s voice can
be heard for two miles by a man in a
balloon. That may be the reason so
few men go up in balloons.—Peck's
Sun.
Mr. James Mutton had a chum
which he could not collect, and asked
bis friend what he mtot do about it?
Hereplied ‘ Mutton suet.’
Three gentlemen were at dinner.
The writer said: * Will yon all have
egg plant?’ ’One said: *1 lay I
won’t;’ another ‘ Heus-forth I’ll go
without it:* and the third ’pullet
over hero, John.* -
Reporter •*,! had a vara important
interview with Col. Soandsothe other
day*
‘Did he enable you to get an in
sight into State politics ?*
. ‘You bet he aid; he treated four
times’
dors.
Dame Rumor seems, for once, to
have heard only the facts iu the case,
lor in a few days the rooms were re
ally furnished and occupied as pre
dicted. aud Mrs. Lowell was highly
elated over the good looks as well ns
affluent ciicumstanees of her new
boarder, though in describing her she
had said:
‘Put something ails the poor girl;
she is so nervous, my dear, but fresh
looking as a daisy, and not the least
mite pale or wasted, and my 1 the way
the dresses!’
One morning, as Lawyer Peckham
was coming out of Mrs. Lowell’s
house, he met Dr. Blunt going in
‘Morning Peckham,’ said the doc
tor, in his quick way.
‘Good morning, doctor. Guess my
client is about to become your patient,
eli?’
‘Yes, yes,’jerked out the doctor,
‘riiouldu’i wonder,’ and he disappear-
ed*
A moment later Dr. Blunt entered
Miss Lacey’s room. A very fair young
lady reclined languidly in the sumpt-
nous depths of a ‘Sleepy Hollow’ chair,
but the quick experienced eye ot a
medical man knew at a glance that
something was wrong ; although, as
Mrs. Lowell had said, she was rosy
and plump, the expression of the eye
was troubled, restless and morbid-
The doctor seated himself beside his
fair patient, felt her poise, and then
ventured the remarkable query:
‘Was it me or the young doctor
you wanted ?’
‘Oil, you, by all meaus,’ said Miss
Lacey with a smile, but instantly the
troubled look returned. She added,
*1 want all the experience possible
brought to bear upon my case.’
‘Any parents ?’ queried the doctor.
‘No, sir, my mother died of con
sumption when I was very youi’g; my
father died when I was a mere child.’
‘Humph 1 Have any local pains ?
Buffer from headache or nausea.?’
No, sir; nothing of tlie kind. There
seems to be n fear of something all the
time, an undefined apprehension;
sometimes I think I may die, as moth
er did, of consumption.
•Got any religion ?’
‘Why, ceitaiuly, doctor. I should
hope so. I am a church member, aud
have been for years. I love my re
ligion.’and quick sympathetic tears
affirmed the truth of the prompt as
sertion.
‘Ever seen Jesus Christ sick and
visited him, or naked and clothed
Him, or ministered to the thousand
and one wants ot the ‘little ones’ for'
ever representing the Saviour’s sym
bolized sufferings?’
‘Alas, no!’ sight'd poor Miss La
cey, ‘I have wauted to for years, but
this nervous weakucss unfits me for
anything useful or practical. I give
regularly to several charitable objects,
ana hope some good is done in that
wav.’
‘Humph! Well, I’m going now.
Don’t know just what I shall prescribe,
but feel confident I can help you.
Perhaps I’ll ran in again before night
with directions, bless me, what look
ing glows I Will you mend tbeso for
for me, my dear ?*
‘Certainly, with pleasure,’ laughed
Miss Lacey, and for that instant there
was no trouble in her clear eyes.
You see, raid the doctor apologeti
cally ‘my housekeeper isn’t much on
mending, according to my idea, and
then there’s only my boy, the young
doctor, as people call him—the most
graceless piece. As for wife,’ and the
voice grew wonderfully tender—dear
wife has beeu singing in Paradise,
these dozen yean or more.
The door opened and closed softly,
and the doctor was gone.
‘What a funny doctor 1 What a
queer dear old gentleman 1’ thought
Miss Lacey; *and these gloves 1
Well, I have a piece ot work here, no
mistake; must get out my pieoe-bmg
but pray the gude God to spare me
one ewe lamb an’ it be his will He I
has practiced w : th his father the year
or more, and how the auld doctor
loves him * He has a funny way of
calling him all kind cf funny names,
irot iveryone knows he is the light of
the old man’s eyes.’ And soon after
Mrs. Cameron gathered up her basket
and departed. 1 J*
Miss Lacey had succeeded in dos*
ing up the gaping rents in the doctor’s
gloves, the tea hour had come and
gone, but no doctor bad re-appeared.
‘ Ob, he thinks me too comfortable
a patient to need much attention,*
she thought rcpiningly, * but he might
have at least have told me what my
complaint was. There! the bell rings;
perhaps that is he now.’
And that moment a rap at the door
being answered, Dr. Blunt entered,
nurriAdly flushed, and more abrupt iu
manner and speech than before.
* Say, my ai-ar girl, will you help
a poor woman in great extremity ?>
4 What do you mean, doctor ?»
* Oli, get your hat and shawl, and
come now. You’ve no hnsband to
consult, no children to leave, and a
poor woman is in danger of losing
her only child this night, and some
one must watch with her. I must be
off in another direction. My dear
child,* again that leader tone,
• wouldn’t you like to hear your Savior
say to you to-morrow mof uing: ‘ In
asmuch as ye did it unto one of the
least of these ye did it unto me?’
1 Oh, I’ll go doctor; I’ll be ready
in a moment.*
‘ Better take off that long trained
dress and don a good sensible calico;
I’ll go down to the parlor,’ added the
doctor ‘ and wait and take you right
along in the buggy with roe. Quick,
now; I couldn’t wait long for the
Queen of Sheba.’
‘ Well, of all things!’ thoight Miss
Lacy. ‘ I don’t know but that doctor
will be the death of me, or, perhaps
his strange method will be the making
of me.’
She flew about the room in a sur
prising mauner for her; donned a
good warm morning dress, and in an
other moment the doctor’s horse was
tearing along the road as it to outrun
his master’s impatience. Yet during
the ride the doctor explained to his
companion how she must be very
calm—‘and you canjie,’ he added
w'uh convincing emphasis, for the
child was suffering from spasms quite
violent, distressing and dangerous.
He told briefly how the baths must
be administered, and the water kept
hot all night; and finally in mention
ing the patient’s name, surprised Miss
Lacey by revealing the feet that it
was poor little Janie Cameron, who
had been taken ill that very after
noon, during her mamma’s absence.
Arrived at the house, the poor, dis
tressed mother became very much
comforted by the presence of ‘ the
dear, sweet young lady who was too
:n '"
The Laader oi Stylos and Prices.
JOHN RYAN,
61 Whitehall and 6S and 70 Broad Sts.,
.ATL A.NT A., GEORGIA,
Offer* *or the FA LL TRADE of 1880, the Largest and Host Con plete Stock of
EVER OFFER'D SOUTH OF PHILADELPHIA,i
-I
This immense warehouse of four stories, running through from Whitensli to Urasd snoot
literally ersmmed wi h uveryihing pert&iniug to a first class store. Tlie»-' T . '
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
Hm been extended double i former size, and in it can now be found all the latest novel tie* in fine
UamiHse, Velvets, Silks and Satins, in the latest and moat fashionable shades. Special attention
has been paid to this department o that everything that is new and desirable can bo found here
aud at unapproachable pr ces. _ It is no exaggeration to say that yon can find hero more Silks and
a greater variety than you can in all the balances of the houses combined in Atlanta.
130 cases Novelties jiut received embracing some of the handsomest sty its in French and
German Dress Goods over imported.
7(>0 pieces ol Black Cashmeres, Bombazines, Heruiettas and Tamise.
lhe greatest bargains ever offered in 50 pieces all wool French Cashmere—all ah ids*.
Beautiful plain Mohair Dress Goods all shades at 15 cents.
Cashmeges all shades at 20 cents. Cashmores all shades at 25 cents."*
Brocades and Fancy Dress Goods at 20 aud 25 cents—very cheap. J
A big drive in
lEEC O S X 3H IR, “ST
Eleven «tyle» at neary your own prices—everything ir Misses’, Children’s, Ladies’ and Gents’
Fancy Hose—all new styles for the Fall.
Hundred* of cases ot Bleachiupi, Calicoes, Cotton Flannels, Lindsays, Sheetings and Shirt
ings at inanafactarcr’s prices.
15 cases of Ticking at 8c, 9c, 10c, 12c, and 15c.
Blankets, Flannels and Cassimsres—An Immense Assortment,
i of silk
-and find some
thing,’and, forgetting her fears and
weaknesses, she was soon doing her
best toward repairing the doctor’s
well-worn driving gloves.
Presently there came a knock at
the door, and Mr*. Cameron was ad.
milted, the ‘very respectable Scotch
woman whom Mrs. Lowell bad rec
ommended as a first-class laundress,
neat, honest and a church member.
The .woman bore in her arms a
goodly-sized basket in which were
various articles of clothing beautifully
done up. As Miss Lacey rose to re
ceive them, Mrs Cameron remarked:
‘Perhaps some one is side in tlie
house. 1 saw the doctor gang away
just as I was cornin’ in.’
‘I was not feeling well,’ answered
Mira Lacey. ‘He came to see me.’
■Oh, did he, miss! an’ isn’t the auld
gentleman jis’ lovely ?* and in most
enthusiastic terms she told of the great
goodness and kindness experienced at
the doctor’s bands. Told how all her
never been strong since the first time
she had convulsions, caused by indi
gestion, and bow ‘money was the night
the gude mon had staid until the
morning, and niver a penny of pay
wonld he take for it*
‘Do you know tlie yonng doctor,
ma’am V
‘No, I’m a stranger here, and 1
know but very few persona*
* Well, miss, the young doctor is a
winsome lad, and a Christian indeed.
He tells me oft I shouldn’t fret for
fear my lassie will be taken from me,
:*ood to show such kindness to a poor
oody like mysel’ 1’ The doctor gave
most minute directions to be followed
through the night, theu left with the
cheerful observation:
* I’ll send that young doctor aronnd
about midnight, if he makes his ap
pearance at the family mansion be-
fore that time. Oh, the most grace
less biped!’ and be was gone.
Miss Lacey reflected with great
satisfaction the next day that not one
thought oould she remember having
bestowed upon herself during that
long, painful night, with its new ex
periences of real snfiering. All her
energies and sympathies were diiected
toward helpiug and comforting the
agonized mother and relieving the sick
child.
About midnight as she was beuding
over a warm bath, iu which she was
firmly holding the convulsed frame
of poor Janie, the door opened and
the young doctor entered. There
was uo sort of an iutroduction between
the two; who thinks of formalities at
such a time ?—but at once they work
ed together over the suffering child.
Miss Lacey was vaguely aware that a
young man, bearded and mustached.
with a calm, deep voice and shapely
white hands, gave orders which she
promptly obeyed, and spoke words of
hope aud encouragement to the poor
dazed mother. It did not once occur
!o her that there was anytbiug novel
in her position, as, holding the child
in her arms, (Quietly at last, the young
doctor sat dose beside ber, askinj
questions and giving advice, now and
then turning down a corner ot the
blauket to watch the changing ex
pression of the little sleeper’s face.
Bnt he, more accustomed to such
trying scenes, after tlie first moments
of intense application to the case,
began wondering who this angel of
iB'Tcy could be, working as if her
whole soul were bound np in relieving
this poor little oliild ot a lowly mother.
How long he might have remained is
uncertain, had not a messenger from
another quarter summoned him away.
The next morning Janie was bet
ter, and continued to improve until
the anxious mother was again relieved
concerning ber.
The next day bat one, Miss Lacey
received a call from three bright, ins
teresting young girls, who, to her ot
ter astonishment, informed her that
Dr. Blunt had recommended her as
just the person to become the Presi
dent of a Dorcas 8ociety.
• Ob, yon must, you must!’ they
chirped in concert, and before they
left she had partially promised to ao»
oept the position, to her own dismay.
But when tlie miuister called, a
few days afterward, and said old Dr.
Blant had insisted that a class of un-
tuly boys in the Sabbath school who
beetled a teacher, was just the work
adapted to her case, she succumbed
* surrendering at discretion any right
to decide for herself.
Miss Lacey finally wrote the doctor
a spicy little note, telling him she
believed any more prescriptions would
nndo the wonderful euro already ac.
complished.
But of late the village gossips could
not foil to notice how continually the
voung doctor called at Mrs. Lowell’s
hou e.
One morning as the elder doctor
was coming out of the house, he met
Lawyer Peckham. when the following
characteristic colloquy ensued:
Silk Fringes in
500 pounds Zephyr in all si
Tremendous bargains in
p’ain and fancy color* to match the New Dress Goods,
ihyr in all shades ju»t received from Berlin.
Laeies', Gents' and Childrens' Marino Shirts and Drawers.
Bargains In G-nt’s Uulunudried Shirts at 50c, C0e, 75a. aud |t.00.
CARPETS, CARPETS.
60 pieces of Body Body Brussels just received.
140 pieces Tapestry Brussels just roccived.
200 pieoo* Super Ingrain Cerpels.
60 pieces Cotton Cham and Wool Fill Carpets, all 1
petition.
Lambrequins, Lace Curtains. Cornioes,Oil Cloths, Window Shades, Rug**, Reps, Hair Cloths,
Tasels, Fringes and everythin? that bdorgs to a Carpet Stock.
100 Elegant Mattresses at #2.00. 90 better Mattresses #2.50.
50 of the best #4.00 Mattreucs in America.
I new designs, and at prices that defy com-
SHOE DEPARTMENT.
. * -» **» *«**“**“| svcuuiou. CM- ixu ■uuuuy lUlllllllCU W> III IS BLOCK. o iurge Dar-
gain shoe counters on which are placed daily shoes worth double the money. Don’t (ail to visit
this stock when in the city as bargains are being offered.
COMPETITION DEFIED!
Prices Lower than Ever!
An Inspection Solicited.
* Those who cannot visit Atlanta can obtain samples ot any goods free by dropping the
house a postal card and stating what they wish samples of. J h
JTOEONr KJ.-STA.3Nr.
life was bound np in her *000 wee ‘ Hi! Good morning, doctor. ‘Well,
girlie, her bonny Jennie,* who had I hear the_ young doctor is about to
bring a daughter for you to the
* family mansion? **» •
‘ Yes, yes l*—very quickly ‘ Well,
well, there’e room ebougn in the
boron and my heart for the precious
girl, the good Lord knows, and as
for young Blunt M. D.—who actually
presumes to believe that be lotes and
appreciates her better than I do—the
renegade! if she can do anything to
ward reclaiming that reckless case—
theie! forgotten my gloves, true as
the world, must go Kick for them.
Morning Peckham.* |
THE UNIVERSITY
CLOTHING EMPORIUM
Has just rooem^ and opened for
S’At>L AND WINTER TRADE
AN ENTIRELY NEW
AND WELL SELECTED STOCK,
And has 4 now on hand a
FTTXJL. JLtJTD COMPLETE JLSSOHTMENT
OF
MEN’S,’ YOUTH’S, BOY’S
AND CHILDREN’S
CLOTHING.
AXaSO STURTTSOTO NSW <& &T08B 1 ?
Gent’s Furnishing Goods
and Hats,
‘tnThich. are offered for Sale a/b
BOTTOM PRICES.
Clothing and Shirts made to Order.
Evcrbody invited to examine onr Goods, which we will show with
pleasure. * " .
‘ , S1M0S HERTZ, Athens, Ga
iBlg Slsn,