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TOCCOA NKWS. Mr. Coflln'* Spelling Match. The other evening old Mr. and Mr*. 0 >ffln, who live on Brush •tree!, sat in their cosy back parlor, be reading the paper and aha knit ting; and the family cat stretched eat under the atove sighed and felt aorry for cate not so well fixed. It was a happy contented household, j and there was love in his heart as i Mr. Coffin put down bis newspaper ) and remarked — “I see that tbe whole country is beeomiog exeded about spelling schools-” “Well its good to know bow to •pell,” replied the wit. “I didn’t have tbe cbaucs some girls bad, but I pride mysedf that I cm spell a!tno*t any word that comes a'ong.’ “I’ll see about that,” be laughed, “come, now, spt ,1 b “Hump! that’s nothing - b o g y, linggv she replied '‘Missed tbe His* Urns — ha! he roared, slapping his b.g. “Not much— that was right.” “It was, eh ? Well, I’d like to *■«« anybody get two g’s iu buggy. I would.” “But it is spelled with two g’s any shoolb >y will tell you so she nsr-ii- trd. “Well, I know a King sight he ter than that 1” he exclaimed, striking the table with his fist. “I don't care what you kn r she sque ked; “I Know ihat there are two g’s in buggy ” “Do you mean to tell me hat I have lorgotten how to ep^li?” li asbed. “It look* that way ” “It does, eh! Well I want yon and all your relations to enderstan i that I know more about eoeiiiug than ihe whole caboodle f y !; n strung on a wire 1” “And I want you to understand, Johnathan Coffin, that you are an ignorant old blockhead, when you don’t put two g’s in the word buggy —yaa yoa are I I can beat you ■yelling with my bands tied behind mo!” “Don’t talk to me that way !” be warned. ‘And den’t shake your fist a' it “Who’s shak fist?" ‘.You are 1" “That's not that’s not true!” “Don’t tell me that’s not true, <; old bazaar 1 I’ve put up wuh our meanness for forty years past, bu don’t lay your hand ou me !’’ “Do you want a dtv<»rc<i ?” ' shouted, sprtrigM)** n- : “y n now, this miuuii-1” “Dou’t you spa m .u . <at-.*—i . u you dare to do u, or 1 ’ii iu<tK*- a . <-a i mar*, of you!" she warned. “I haven’t spit iu your freektn i old visage yet, but I may if yon pro¬ voke m* further 1” “Wtio’a got a ireckied lice, you old turkey buzzard ?” That was a little too much. He made a motion as if he would strike, and she seized him by tbe neck -tie and chocked him tiil his tongue ran out. “Let go of ai^, i fiend !’’ “ let do wn ta y nr kiiuiAS au 1 b.!g my pardon, you old wild cat!” she replied. They surged and swayed anJs'rng gie i, au l toe j<ii ;•>! ii -v*s struck ur r.u« ,ivui ir.ii.ig aitie, and hao bar busk broken, and the clock fed o the floor and the pictures dinceri around. The woman finally shui h»r husband’s supply of air oft and flopped bun; and as she bumpel his head up aud down ou the floor sue shouted— , “You want to get Uo anotherjSpell- lug school, don’t you ?' Ha was seen limping around the yard the next, week, with a stocking piau»d round his throat, aud she hid courtpiascer on tier nose and oue finger tied up. He wore the took, of a martyr, wutle sue had the bearing of a vict.or; aud from this time out, “buggy” will be spelt with two g’s in tuat house. He told a frieu.i t.hat he had oftou heard of spelling “bees,” but bis wife was a regular old spelling hor- u«t “How came you to have such a short uusti T assed a city tlaudy of V. is .u .itry h *y. So iii it. I shoul 1 no be poking ■£ 1 i,li»r people’s busi- ii •»Hs tlpft TH}) i A Significant Incident. In one of the battles of the late young Doctor D—, then a vol¬ Captain in the Union Army, his mb. up to a hand-to-hand with a Confederate regiment. “I never,” said the Captain, “bad a man before. It was a mass men I fougb—an idea, the whole the individual. “When I found myself, therefore, away at a stout, blue eyed who might be some woman’, or some child's father, I my courage gave way. I t\c tually shut my eyes as I backed des¬ perately at him with my sword. His arm fell helplessly and he dropped from his horse. “An hour 1 iter, I s i him in the surgeon's tent T had been amputated and la I i he floor, As the man was <- way I saw on on o t he li i. carved oat of e.iniiftl coal. 1 '{■••A (o me like a child's work r f t of! and followed the lit r determining to restore t t in the confusion of the battle-field I lost, sight of him.” The «■ quei to this story is aft fol¬ lows: In tiie* summer of 1878 when the yellow f.'Vrr was raging in t.h< South, Dr D— was one of the Nort h¬ ern physicians who answered the call fur aid. He went to Memphis and labored for w.-rks among the sick and dym*. Among the pa'ieu's hr ii'M. t,> he hospital was a Colon I O— , a 5 an with but one arm. Something Uini' nr iu the man’s honest face troubled ourd-ctor. U bis constant care to him, bot !• nnr < ol and presortW«*l f >r bi d, o finally saw him recover The tv raoD bf-cnm** warrulv attached. On* v -mug when the CM nel e ivs hta bed, they took r Dr. D—snddi-nlv -t in? from bis p i ‘Vs, a black ririvr a d laid it on the table “W iv this is mine!” exclaime • tli • C eil -ei, “My bov Pick cut that U* !;♦«- irt< en years ago ” ‘■Tm ii it -m s I wh i cut off your ’ sH'd D— Themea arose arid faced each oth er silently a moment, and then tin it hands met. in a i.eartv clascn Tin- was ov f and the trne men re true brothers again. Thrott Clashos of Men. “Men,” said one of Theodore Wm- lu-.ip’s characters, “are divided into hr-e classes — 'hern as grabs their • m e e, hem as chucks away their .1 < ll.iin a- let s t heir ('ban and tifi wight have added ii ri*' t vvo .al'tfely «'Ut tiers e first Bovs are throw— 1 a iv r ohancee in life every d c «-irking and dwadling and I <J w > 1 ', and thev are letting them a I T hro-.tgh heed essuess, inatten- t|ou, au ■ I a fa* ii don’t care-ativeueas. T don’t care’ is one of the worst, mottoes a boy, or a man either, can have. It is tbe boys and men who do care, and care rightly, what win. In every dry, practical, material af¬ fairs, as trnly as in spiritual things, it. is they who are faithful over a few who are made rulers over maDy. Charles, the urignt eyed, is nearly four years old, and is distinguished f ,r an an’ipathy to crusts He ask- ed for a piece of bread, well spread, the other day, and stipulated that it be cut off clear acrostrlhe loaf, as iie was hungry. His mother cut th slice according to directions, ortln mooted it with butter and jelly, and ruiuded it to him. Ho looked at t distrustfully, and murmured that 1 had a “kwust all wound it.” “B 1 bread never grows without a crust, said his mother. “Well,” eai Charles, with a heroic Emile, “1 j take it aud eat the stomach out o it;” and that task he immediately proceeded to perform. “One of the grandest seusa’iout which tbrilIs the bosom of a twelve year-old boy is tne one which tr warmed into life us he surreptitious lv drives nails iuto a tree. Says Progress: “Nothing so quick- ly dries a woman’s tears as a kiss. ’ But how is a fellow to guard against giving an over-dose ? It. does not hurt it good man t. have his character investigated; neither does it hurt a go >d coin t ry i t’ ’"’tig on the o rioter. A fat man in maimer is like Oli« grupir.g in darkues i; he |,-)| 8 weigh. Don’t try to do too many thing.* at once, or you will do none of tht m well. When it fm nit r j ms it ring in •! bog’s nose lie strike., lit tin root o' the thing. A horse heir —K colt Akin for l*>vn—Old m^id*. YELLOW FEVER. BLACK VOMIT- It is too soon to forget tin- ravages of tbi- terriblo disease which will no doubt return to a more malignant and virulent form in the fall montlis of IS 7 !b Msrrell’s H epatins, a remedy discover ed in Sondieiin Nubia and used with such wonderful re.snits m fcsoutb Anierieu where the mos* aggravated eases of lev. r «.v found causes Inmi out to two minces of bile to be j it lillerccl or tliroil<jh straim d lli« from Li\ th<? blood loner tcli tiiu- ! passes is as nil rx tH*.ss of l»ih‘ exists. By it* 5 wonderful ny »u oil tin* l/tvor and Stomach the. HEP AH E >11 ovout r lo a cortainty any kin ot lack Vomit, hut also cures Hcjul- tell'- ( frpafion ot fli'i Bowels, D>>pcpsia si' 1 11 Malarial disiascs. N o me need tear Velbnv I'over who will expel the M.ilmiai I’oison and t xeess of bile from the blood by using MEKIiKLI.'ft UK PAT INK, w I,ifli is sold id! Ilruggi'ts in U.'> ami 5> I ■ bottles, or 1 be selil bv express bv ll li A. I’. s: inti t.t. & co. riiii Pi Ei ( '/ l(t( s Si/ligia CN Qta-’.EN’S 1J KLK.iHT. IS 6 Tli cporU of womlciiul cures of h’lion- n i uti.s S(>r Muhi, Salt K :cnni, Syphilis, Can of c<m\ U ccrs and Sore**, that li'*>m all pai fs I the ( ount.y, are not only remarkable Ion s ! imraeu’ous as to be doubted was it not Ilf ahuiiualice of proof Remarks >!e Cue of Scrofula. &c cam: ok c ol. j. c. iskansox. Kingston, Ca.. Sept. is. 1 srI Gent V-’or sixtes VI-J'S I have b n a givrtt sill eivr li-mti Se:"In!.-( in its most dis tn-ssino- It ms 1 lutvc been emifined to no room mid bed li liven s with scrivfiiUitif ulceration I'he most approved remedies foi such cases had been used, ami the most cmi ed limit physician consulted, without any d'-rid benefit I'll is pros!I 1. distressed, de spending. vv is advised t>\ Dr. At C n y, (in .to ( niiH’ice tbi* use C /<>ur Coin| oun \ Extr i tStillinpia. L:u 7-1 i* us il ilfii,*ii’)it to t] .s the r#*|ic obiameti from the use In- Sullingia n -■ to convey :tn ado unite ofilie int. 2 my suffering Wo e usi. g \ mr medic su: ficient to say, I abandoned ill other r-medies and continued the use of your Extract Siijlin gin, until 1 can truly say. “I am cured ol a! lin,” ofall d sease, with nothing to obs'ruc Ih ouetiie pu sui of my pro ess ion. M,nr than lit im nth have elapsed since this n— mark able cure without any i«mvn of :ho dis. ease. For -the truth of he. above statement. I re f»r to any genii, mm in Bartow county, Ga and the number* rite , to lei* lie'Che lick *e Circuit, who at< ae.N’.a' tied will me. I shall ever remain 5i',t gy tiide Y ant J. C. A MiRACf? West Point, Ga.. Sc|it. Its, 1870. Gents:—M y D.*iught«.* was .taken on the 25 th day of June. 186 : 5 , with »;,jit was stir- posed to ho Acute Rieiimatifin, and was treated for the same .uitli no success In March, following, pieces of ! nie began to work out of the ri- lit arm, and continued to appear till all the lone li)m ihcT'ihow to the shoulder joint came out. Mary pieces of bone came out of the right toefTiid leg. The case was then pronounced one. A white swell¬ ing. After having been contiuril about six years to her bed, and the case pronounced hopeless, I was induced to tr, t£liin 4 Rr. l’emher- I ton’s Compound Extract ol Ijria and ; Am . was so well satisfied with iW r.s t but I ! hare continued the use of i t if] present, j about My daughter was confinri lmr bed six years before sli- sa’.^up or even turned over without help, She now sits up all day, and sews mss*. o| hYr time— hui talked across tho room. Her general health is now good, and I believe she rill, as her limbs gain strength walk well. I attribute lmr recovery, with the blessing <f God, to the use of your invaluable medicine,. With gratitude, I am, Your* tiViv, W„B. BLANTON. West Point, G*., S ipf. 16 , 1 R 70 Gents :—The ahove eertificatt of Mr. W. B. Blanton we know 11 nd ciAvtify as being true. The thing is so, hundro-ts of goo-i citizens be will testify to it. As in tdi reference can given as may be'reqtiirod Yours tilth , CRAAVKORD * VV.Af.KES, Druggists 1 ION. H.D. WILLIAMS, - FF“Dr. Pemberton’ S tiilingia is me- piivnd by A. F MERRELL vV Phila.Fn. Sold by all Dniggi*t»i iu $>I -<><> bottle*, ov sent bv express. Agents wanted to cnnvnis everywhere. Send for bon —‘ C fir ions Sto- ry’’—free to all. Medicines sent to poor pro pie, payable in installments • Yh* Beat Agricultural Jauraal *^uWished is the South. M THE SOUTHERN Pi * m A LAHGE QUARTO of 85 ed, pages, filled handsqmel'y wiUa choice print- ing road of intercalate tb$ far fashion mer, with fui*tniietrated ladies. department for the ♦a a year, *1 a J.; year. Sample ropy 15 rents. AdtircM: J. H. ESTILL, 9 Whitaker street, Savannah, Sample copy of "Tht Savannah Weekly JVewj/’ arm tm moth newspaper, or of the '‘DaVy Morning News," (he leading daily at the Southeast, sent receipt of 3-cent stamp. Address as abort 3PEK0EB M AUorney fit l-iiivv, Toccoa, Ga. LIT ILL pvaetici'in tin- cmiiiiii-s of IL ■r VV sliniu, Ha ! Banks and Franklin. HP A IV'v t ( fO fIS PUBLIC. - n r HAVING SECURED THE AGENCY OF THE FOLLOWING Z7 1 .XU IFL r E* £ X_xXSTa HI 4. o a Messy man’s, ossa’ii Persons wishing f »r'i iz-rs «iil dr, well to nr. m •■for ptirihaM g O. ( . -GILDS. MARTIN, ( 1 1 ] $ V r i riii " I Vi ua liLAi h;:v) on hand thi fil owiiiT veil known and popTa • brands FERTIHS 1 RS: MEnRMAT OBER’S, SEa FOWL, r ilii’iflE, BRADLET'E SHIi IJ And hs Jatioxn! and Ober'j Ctemieik* I* \11 f’;5:< fit:yi nu r.\K<K ukanos taki 1SKM Kli; t’l«< THKY it \ V K !’■ t I l l.l.Y I lv’IKD. AND I A 1 .Mi AS ANY 1 M •ST CLASS J-’KKi DM/j-,H. KVii). sen,i k -» 9 / >S« kl> MOSKl I-:V. 1 AWaiiflSH, r-r ILL! "H WM 31 BiBDI Mil V ' J , ..e Brills3, folia rs, Whips. t- J F CL £V:RfFHlNC .__ -n >1 1 ait.h a fi 'st elits* S;d IDry, >5 e , ’ ■ on i in subscribers Fine Pock— et Cutlery u hand eh*itper than the chi-am si. s c w 1 x 1 x MAC MINI S if the Iv-sf make and style on hamt. ny Goals w irrant ul ns repra e itetl. Hides taken in exchange for good*, or c sb. Give them a call. ( TOCCOA, GA stra i K & GREEN. S-pt 3 3ni DIRECT j S From the Factory to the Wearer 8 A*. ry Shirts of Superior Mnsl i 11, Extra Fine Linen Shield Bosotn. \ French Yoke, and completely finished for i &7m&Q £k BeiEl! 1 It* for .tr uy n ’T I f * Mu 1. f i { 62 i!C 1 ?| $ wtits tTf en I MMimc r -hit rt- . jE#/j >j * tail trmlc, to make th-- f.»LloAviiii- o: | r iusliu, 1 i. h Ini* lied e g2 s -; " \ --i^;r f 4 ~r ", H’?!’ - warrant i Leaf •V r**;T»-c!. M h fnbsdaiit inliy > nppv »nn cc, «1 nr»bl tty ft J l« *■ f *‘ t “T flraf. P« 7 A r : iJ - d Vi § Cl • 'i- I 1 4 U 1 nil »C1«. ty < 1 «Ci»* 1 .ti w:: - - ($$ V4,;a :f*% Q m - ceariwg k ceneb ai :_^ <XFM JTJJf C/m/ZM & PJt/CE Z/S7. 10.I-IC71I % SOS' 17 *< Jp. y ^ t ./ 1 O if v <• * - » i l GRAY'S SPECIFIC TIXADE MARK The TRADE pyi /<^Rv \ ’OT yj iiliillt TAKIHu. t' i Self Ab.no; !<•»<* of Nf-m»ry I'niv r- a Lasxjt !!•!(*, } in tli« Back, l>;m U ** s s tf \' lVuinatittv OKI Age, mi».l niMiiy *th«-j Ithat Iva 1 to IiiKauity or C\>u- -juft!jjfion, ami x Pioinafun* (ir*vn. 11? Full partim! rain «»ir pamplil**-. which «<• dfsirt- ft» Mt iul !!»•«• hv mail to «vt»rv oil*. CiTTIm S|Hrirtr. Mcil.r i» sold by a’] dniH»rist u\ $1 i»-r pj»ch;»«:•' nr six patkafM r<;r * r will b** **n? tr«*; by in^ii on n»cs ipt »f ills. Ill ■ ney bv M«’ld * ,< sil^or Tho 3-rtx LTT IL-£sSd-LcL».«2 Co., M.-. ii or Itl.ck. I)' raoi r. Mich. Su'd in Tiirci.a Cilr .-.ml **L-wh*r» k- all truggisi. N.iri’j.'i.Mj Chicago Ledger. Established 1873. The Leading Literary Paper ol the West. Only $1,50 a Tear. SI' °L proachinsr Thb blJshcti of Chicago the existence, in close the I/edqxr winter of having flie \n of row gt-rea been 1 JT »p th 8 Ta* Ledgkb was started by its pres¬ . I Year. ent tngs prise. conductpra as Many to the literary suocess with some of the mlsglT- enter¬ kindred ventures of • character had b *en made hi the Western metropolis, and miser- CJS ably failed. The sea of journabsm was strewn with the wrecks ol I 8 trandeti newspaper ent^rpriswv Others that were living, but atmr- gling for a prorarlous eri-ibnc*. have since yielded to inevitable fate A Year. printed to-day and frone the down, only leaving weekly y The story Lkixtkk paper in Chicago CH^O. Thk I.edge n has not a # taine<l the plane of success upon i which if now CO solidly directed rests w ithout earn est. welV- ■ tO labored effort. earnestly I ta and coTidtictors persistent]/ have not o nly to make it an excellent lit- ■ erary journal, ioi but also t<> make tha YOdr ■{ reading world acquainted with ii, H A illo,18an ^* np»>n thousands of dol- I ufll i 1^1 P| its lars bave been expended in bringing merits to the attention of tha Pi reading public. In fac ? The Ledge* lias . ■B b *t n ii the most extensively -ad* vertised newspaper in the West, si CJI to The pride publishers at the success have that a feeling ha* at¬ of tended their efforts to b*ild up * " Ha^ai M first class literary paper in the nip- h B City of the ftvst. Tne .-irculv "QOf tion - al,e ^Tiy large. rapidly crow. n I CUI | Fa will an< be ^ by the 1 st day of January ■-publishers not lee* than 2.7.4*00. 7hi do not mean t relat k their efforts to make Ins I •iM ■ the best weekly nrwspaper in ♦he SI I es S work, will and We.-t, usefulness. still s but andd*-,ring further in end thecoTtiing t- increase • p* r*fvi its re m*inth« in vabta tha Year. Th e weekly cont> ntp of Tni lAfxr- A § kb novels, embra< several e. in sh addition ort stm je^; te its a Horn aerial brawfcg Doctor <U’P$ytmei>t, Kn- S' letters fruuiM'omen of «x- ’ g jB hold pet 'and 1 heads kitchen and n(tn.i*.yu hons*- S! lO adorn e< nemv. horn* men t the management o>f chiUlre and recipes for tbe cure of many of the t ills to which tl «h hi heir; a Yoi mg Folks" department: a 1 Year. dopartmen t devoted to Current Lit- erature.con s’Kting of choice e-toerpt* from the latest gaE>nea; a Scion- tific department, giving the l«te*t intelligence in reg ard to i «>w discov cries, mechanical invention*, etr.; CO to also biographical sk tchos. hbetoris I papers, travels, , poetry, and a mas* ot abort artiei ta on lultcellh UOOtt• topic*. 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