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1878.
Athk-.s, Ga., M*y SOtli, 1878.
Ki> tor Banner: 1 have found among old
family paper*, in my wiles possession, quite a
number of fugitive pieces of poetry written by
her father, Judge Augustus S. Clsytcn. Borne
of tlo'in filled with tin tendercst pathos and
others glittc-ing with the keenest sarcasm,
lie has been dead nearly 40 years, so that even
his name is lost to all except some of our older
citizens. Bui these pieces are as bright and
fresh us when inspired by his genius, and
therefore from time to time, With your consent
1 will re p • '.t ea <omcof th in. Yt*zs Ac.
Wx. Kino, M. I).
Say what you will, ’tis flat’rys strain
1 most delight to hear ;
Though some believe ’twill make me vain,
’Tis music to my car.
Let no one think to make me blush
Because they laud my eyes;
j.et no one strive their praise to blush
But praise me to the skies.
Call my cheeks rosy—luir my neck—
Mv lips as rubies bright;
1 have soothing strains I will not cheek
For they my soul delight.
Talk of my mind nnd say ’tis stored
With every gift diviue;
Say that my gait and torm* adored
And does each graco combine.
Si y this, nnd mort, for more will plsase,
If decked in flat’rys strains;
That woman does not live in ease
That loss than this obtains.
Athens Minstrel
Tub 1 ate Jcdqe Clattok.
u
4 HILL ARP.”
William Smokes the Pipe of
Peace.
REFLECTIONS AND DEDUCTIONS—
DUOS AND THINGS—TDK RISE AND
* FALL OF PRESIDENTS AND PREACH*
BRS—A HIGH-MINDED MULE—A
LITTLE POLITICAL DISCOURSE—
SOLDIERS OF THE CAMP AND
SOLDIERS OF TUB CKOSS.
jFpecial Correspondence of the Constitution.}
Mr. Editur : I love to meet a
nabor ami hear him say, “ how’s
craps.” I continue to like fannin. I
*ike it hotter and belter, exsep that
wheat is sumwhat doubtful about
makin a crap. A little long bug
with a tail at both eepds lias got in
the joints and sucked the sap out,
and its fallin do wn in patches. Looks
like there is always sumlhiu preyin
on sumthin, and unthin is safe from
disaster in this suhloonary world.
Plies and bugs and rust prey on the
green wheat. Weevils eat it up
when its cut and put away. Rats
»at the corn—moles eat the gubbers
—hawks eat the chickens—the
minks killed three of our ducks in
one night—cholera kills the hogs—
and the other night one of my labors’
mules cum along with the bliud stag
gers and fell up a pair of 6even steps
right into my front gate and died
without kiekin. Then there is briars
thd nettles and tread safts and
smartweed and pisen oak and Spanish
needles and cuckle hurra aud dog
fennel and snakes, thats alwaya in
the way on a farm and muat he
looked after keerfully, especially
•makes which are my eternal horror,
and I shall always believe arc sura
kin’ to the devil himself. I can’t
tolerate such long insects. But we
■ farmers hav to take the bad with the
good, and thare is more good than
S^ad with me up to the present
time.
My corn begins to look splendid.
These warm nights it grows while I
wm asleep—just like the intrust on
them darn little just debts you owe
—excuse me, Mr. Editor, I don’t
know for Berlin that you owe any,
but it’s a reasonable presumption,
Ronsiderin your bisness, and its no
disgrace, nohow. Most everybody
owes em from the United States of
\meriea down to the noblest individ
uals, of which last I am whom. I
look upon it as a charitable act to
i>orrow from a man who has a sur
plus. I think a heap of Gov. James
and Gen. Austel, and all such, and it
*would greve me to hav their money
get musty and would rust and rot
for lack of borrowers. I sometimes
take a little just to encourage ’em,
fer they are human beings, and just
ns much entitled to a livin’ as the
best of us.
Mr. Editor, its a great comfort to
nte to set in my piazzer these pleas*
ant evenings and look over the farm,
nnd smoke the pipe of peace, and
marinate. Ruminate upon the rise
and fall of empires and parties and
presidents and preachers. I think
when a man has passed the Rubicon
of life, and seen his share of trouble,
smokir.’ is allowable, for it kinder
reconciles him to live on a while
longer, and promotes pliilosofic re
flections. I never knowd a high
tempered man to be fond of it. Old
Aunt Patience told me she had been
smokin, for fifty years, and I heard
her advisin’ Mrs. Arp to try it awhile,
for, sez she, “ missus, it makes a body
so quiet and peaceable.” But my
wife, yon know, was raised a Metho
dist, and they are foment it. Just
like all other denominations, they
make a close run on sum things, and
on others a little loose in the socket.
I’m now livin’ in a Methodist settle
ment right under the drippins of Dr.
Felton’s chapel, and they are a good
people around me, and I’ve been
wonderin how the doctor kept em all
so strait while he was so far away. It
does look like a pity to see his meet-
in house closed every Sunday, and
maybe, when he comes home again,
a kind Providence will conclude to
lei him abide with his flock. But
then, on the other hand, it may be
more important for the doctor to use
his influence with the rascals at
Washington to keep em from stealin
and lyin, and at the same time attend
to our political iulrust and continue
to send us reliable gardin seed, it
may be all for the best. The good
Lord knows, I don’t. Therefore I
haven’t made up my mind about
sending him back again, You see
there is Gen. Wofford, who is my
friend, aud he moul want to go, and
he built a finer meetin’ house than
anybody, and anybody is welcome to
preach in it who is heavenly minded
and a good democrat. The general
is no ^preacher, bnt then he can run
the camp while the doctor is runnin’
the cross. Then there is iny friend
Gns Wright, and he mout want to
go. He aint get any meetin’-honse
of his own, but then he preaches all
around generally, and dips *em add
washes the* - saints’ teet, and so forth,
lie was] a genera), too, and can run
the M cainp aud the cross both, and I'
always wondered' why he dtdent
build him a sinnygog or sumthin’. I
like to see every man work up to the
full measure of bis capacity. Yon
sec the preachers nnd the soldiers
have got the country sorter in a
swing, aud no other sort need-mt unr
for office till the thing wears out.
Nobody needent try to get in on the
eternal principles of the Jeffersonian
democracy. Therefore, if we hav
got to take ’em, lets take the very
best we can git.
Mr. Editur, I read the other day
that there was'thirty-seven preachers
in congress, and they was all Metho*
dials and Baptists, and it dident look
exactly fair to me. Cant we have a
few Presbyterians and Episcopalians
sent on just to keep the scales on a
balance? But then they couldent
go, for their churches won’t let ’em.
I’ve ruminated a power over these
things, and aiut hide bound about
it neither, for my doctrine is not to
fuss about what you cant help. I
recken its as proper for a soldier of
the cross to go to congress as a sol
dier of the camp, and them two sorts
seem to be a gainin’ ground among
the people every day. I wonder if a
soldier of the cradle will ever stand
any chance? Solomon said if a man
had his quiver full of children he
should stand in the gates, or words
to that effect, and Solomon was a
smart man, but it looks nowadays
like a poor feller with ten or a dozen
dident hav mutch time to stand
aronnd a gate or swing on it cither.
But I forbear for the present. Yours
truly, Bill Arp.
P. S.—Ax Harris if he can tell
why a hop vine winds round a pole
with the sun, and a bean vine climbs
it the other way? He never answered
my first conundrum yet, and, in my
opinion, he’s basted. B. A.
N. B.—Take notice.—I had a sick
mule yesterday, and seven men cum
along and told me what to do for him,
and so I give him lie soap and para-
gorio and salt and whisky and butter
milk and molasses and sweet milk
and epsom salts and keroseen oil and
lard, and bled him in the month and
rubbed him with a rail and he got
well. Please ax Harris what cared
him. B. A.
European Congress.
A Specialty, by the best Slioer in Georgia.
G-imssnithing.
Guns. Pistols, locks, etc., repaired at short
notice aud satisfaction given.
STF.EL WORKING.
Axes, Mill Pioxs, Hoes, etc., of the finest
temper.- Work warranted.
PLANTATION WORK.
Plows, Wagons, Carriages, etc., repaired in the
best manner and at short notice.
Solo patantee of Bassett’s plow stock.
JoT-lt-l Basseti.
irarcli20-ly.
T. S. X-TJQAS,
DEALER IK
It is said that the Congress.will be
attended by the following delegates:
Prince Bismarck and Count Von
Bulow, for Germany; Lords Bea*
consfield, Salisbury and Odo Russell,
for Great Britain; Count Schouvaloff
aud M. d’Oubrie, Russian Abassador
at Berlin, fur Russia ; Coant Andras-
sy aud Von Haymerle, for Austria;
M. M. Waddington and de St. Val-
Iier, for France, and Count Corti and
Count de Lnunay, for Italy. It is
not yet known who will be the rep*
resentative of Turkey.
Attention Boys. — We lean; from
the Rome Courier that there will be
sold at the Presbyterian festival on
next Thursday evening about a dozen
young ladies of our city. The sale
will be at auctiou and delivery made
to the highest bidder. The purchaser
has the privilege of taking the prop*
erty bought to supper, and just as far
on life’s journey as the parties 'ran
agree upon. This is a fiue opportun
ity of getting’a geod|bargain at much
less than its true*worth, more espe
cially as the adinisson to] the festival
is free. All young men desiring
partners for a short time or longer,
are invited to hid.
The young ladies will be disguised
by wrapping each in a sheet and
drawing a pillow case over the head,
leaving only the eyes’visible through
two small holes in the pillow case.
Yonng men, youjean piow exercise
ingouuity in finding outj whom you
aro bidding for.
The auction will commence at 9
o’clock precisely.
An Aged Man.
And now the story comes of a
living man 180 years old. Hi* name
is A^iguel Solis. He is a hardy far
mer in the toot hills of the Sierra
Mesila, New Granada. No one
earth 1 ever knew Miguel when be was
not a white-haired parchment skin
ned old inau. When the octogen
arians of his district were hoys Mig
uei soiw was» famous couteuari^^Had Aslhjn a Thirty Years
tlim and known llim r .... . Baltimore, February3,1S75.
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Ia the most genial balsam ever used by
•offerers from pulmonary diseases.
It Is composed of herbal products,
which have a spec! He effect on the throat
and tones; detaches from the air cells all
nammatlnn which produces the conch.
Asingle dose relieves tbe most distress
ing paroxysm, soothes nervousness.
It tones the weak stomach, and is
specially recommended for children.
What other* *ay about
TutVs Expectorant,
They have seen him aud known him
living on ever since, and there can be
no mistake about their knowledge"of
eighty years, a The year that *weut
before cannot be traced and counted
so certainly. Miguel acknowledges
himself to 180 years of lite. The name
of Miguel Solis appears iu a docu
ment still preserved naming the con
tributors to the building found of a
Francisco monastery, near San Ses
bastin, which was founded in 1712,
and the present abbot is positive this
Miguel Solis is the same man. In
fact Miguel himself says he is. He
says his secret of life is never to (get
drunk and never to overfeed. He
eats hat one meal a day and drinks
much water as he wants. His
teeth are as good as ever and his
eyes as bright. Ho still works his
farm and does not feel his age.
“I have had Astlnna thirty year*, and never
found a medicine that had Midi a ha-pv efleet "
W. F. HOGAN, Charles St.
A Child’s Idea of Merit.
New Orleans, November it. 1876.
M Tutt'f Expectorant is a familiar name in my
house. My wife thinks itthe best medicine in the
world, and the children say it is ‘nicer than
molasses candv.* ”
NOAH WOODWARD, 101 N. Poydru 8t.
“Six, and all Croupv.”
••I am the mother of six children; all orthem
have been erouny, Without Tull's Expectorant,
I don’t think they could have survived some oi
the attacks. It is a mother’s Idcssing.”
MARY STEVENS, Frankfort, Ky.
A Doctor’s Advices
“In my practice, I advise all families to krep
Tutt’a Expectorant, in sudden emergencies, tut
coughs, croup, diphtheria, etc
Tl P. ELLIS, M.O., Na/vsrk, N. J.
foU by alldruggists. Frlrr / ««. ojjice
35 Murray Street, AV.e l urk.
SXMMONS
Liver Regulator.
Hepatine Comp. Cathartic Pills.
Tutts Pill, Porus Plasters.
Worm Candy and Vermifuge,
Sarsaparilla, Buchu.
Tutts aud Hambleton’s Hair Dye.
Aniline prepared for use.
Long’s German Cologne.
Long’s Cologne.
Lead, Oil, Glass attd Varnish.
Morphine, Opium, Chemicals. (
Hair Brushes and Combs.
Perfumery, Toilet Soaps.
And everythin* in the Drug
Line, at lowest prices at
C. W. LONG & Co.’s
Drug Store,
Athens, Ga.
septll.ly.
LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE,
oar care. Stock on band for sale at all times.
declStf.
SAM HARRIS
Boot and SHoe-Malcer,
ATHENS, GEORGIA,
(Orkb Jacobs & Michael’s Stork.)
*£Flnt class work turned oat on short notice,
til liberal prices. Give me a call and get goo*
material and fine work.
Fetgos
marchlS-tt
“THE TREE IS KNOWN BY ITS FRUIT.”
“ Tutt's Pills are worth their weight in gold.”
REV. I. B. SIMPSON. Louisvitts, Ky.
“ Tutt’s Pills are a special Messing of the
nineteenth centurv.”
REV. F. R. OSGOOD. New York.
“Ihave used TutcTTITIs for torpor of f -
liver. They are superior to any medicine tar
biliary disorders ever made.”
I. P. CARR, Attorneys! Law, Augusta, Ua.
“I have used Tutt’^Ml^Rve yars in mv foo
dy. They are nneqnaled tor coMivnivss a • d I .!-
lousnesa."—F. R.WILBON, Georgetown,Texu.
“I have used 'I’uJT^hledirine wi’h prvt
benefit.’’-W.W. MANN, Editor Mobile Register.
“We sell fifty hoxSTTntt's Piils to fivr of
aU others.”—SAYRE_&CO., Cartersville, Ga.
“Tutt’s Fills hav?*oul7 to he tried to e««
tablish their merits. They wotk like mauic.”
W. H. BARRON^98_Summer St., Boston.
“ There is no medicines!, well adapted to the
C-irc of bilious disorders as 1 nil’s Fills."
JOS. BRUMMEL, Richmond, Virginia.
AND A TflbOSAND MORE.
Sold by druggists. 85 rente a bar. Ojjice
35 Murray Street, J’ete York.
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wbleb re*tures youthful beauty to the hilr.a
That eminent chemist has succeeded Ini
producing a Hale Dvo which Imitate..;
nature to |ierfrrtlnn. Old huchelor. m.vvl
now rejoice.”
Fries $1.00. Office 85 Murray Nf.J
Xfexe York, Sola by all druggists.
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Watchmaker and Jeweler,
(8inger Machine Office, College Avonne)
ATHENS, - GEORGIA.
I havc opened at the above place, where 1
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