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•of rn CliAW 1VJlv r OUI)\ vl> t 1LLE r *1? and in { on the P * he surround¬ citizens
assortment ing country, that 1 am receiving a fine
of
SPRING AND SUMMER HATS,
—A I„SO—
a choice lot of
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fully d ______ _______ -
ask all those that are in want of«
SPRING and SUMMER HAT to give me a
vail before purchasing.
Very Respectfully,
mh30-t-o-o Mrs. L. S. GOLITCKE.
Few Tin Shop.
J V. B. HIGGS, P roprietor,
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA.
Takes this method to inform the citizens of
Crawfonlville and the people of tlie
surrounding ESTABLISHED country that he has
a NEW
Tin Shop
at this place, and is prepared
manufacture NEW TIN, or
REPAIR ALL KINDS OF OLD
Work, in best style on the very lowest terms.
1 am prepared to Execute
Roofing and Guttering
in very best style and at prices ts suit the
time. Determining to merit asks and hopes
to receive a liberal patronage from the pub¬
lic. Bring your work to my shop.
mhSU-t-d-o A. 13. IIIGGS.
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AGENT,
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wm n T ADDELL’S Life of
Linton _Stephens.
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The Democrat.
Vol. I.
POETRY.
A Post-Nuptial Ode.
We used to walk together in the twilight,
He whispering tender words so sweet and
low
As down the green lanes when the dew was
* alhnR ’..
. . Ive^cJiiL ,, . .
W ' rC “ WrrtS
gt
unn , . . u , .
But now no more we wLkTn^pwp'le gloam
ing
The time is past for such romantic roaming—
He holds the baby while I'm getting tea.
We used to sit—with lamp turned low—to¬
gether ;
And talk of love and its diving effects,
When nights were long and wintry was the
weather;
Far noble he than knight with knightly
feather,
And I to him the loveliest of my sex.
Now, oft when wintry winds howl round the
gable,
Immersed in smoke, he pours o'er gold and
stocks,
The fact ignored that just across the table
The loveliest of her sex sits darning socks.
Oft when arrayed to suit my hero’s fancy,
I tripped to meet him at his welcome call,
He looked unutterable things—his dark eye
‘glowing.
In fond approval at my outward showing
His taste in laces, dresses, jewels—all!
Now if perchance we leave the house to¬
gether,
When friends invite or prima donna sings
He scans my robes (bought new for the occa¬
sion)
And foots the bills—and looks unutterable
O, bygone days! when seventeen and single,
He called me angel as he pressed my hand,
O, present time .' wherein that self-same fei
low
To that same angel—grown a trifle yellow—
Calls out, “Matilda , do you understand ?”
Ah, yes 11 understand—one thing for cer
tain,
Love after marriage is a beauteous myth,
Which they who once have passed behind
Turn up their noses at—disenchanted with.
TRUE TO HER WORD.
Leonora Lonsdale’s most partial
friend could not call her pretty. Her
most impartial enemies—being possessed
of much cleverness, strength of character,
and hatred of shams it followed, she had
a few—declared her ugly.
For the benefit of those who have
never seen the young lady, and const;
quently Delong to neither one side nor
the other, I will describe her—beginning
with the most prominent feature of the
human face.
XT Nose of , no particular order, neither ,
aquiline, straight, pug, turned up
turned-down, but original and indepen
dent, and apparently in the right place ;
eyes brown with a glint of topaz-a
slight cast in the left one pronounced by
the friendly “bewitchingly cunning,”
and l»y the mimical “decidedly impish
mouth neither large nor small, with full,
red lips, closing firmly over two rows of
strong, white teeth ; complexion neither
blonde nor brunette, but clear and rosy
and her own, and chin that only escaped
being masculine by having a dimple in
it.
Her head, heavy with a quantity of
straight, black hair, was well shaped
enough, and well set upon a slender
neck, that was again well set upon her
sufficiently broad shoulders ; her hands
were small, but the fingers did not
taper; she was five feet six inches in
height, and looked as though she might
be taller if she chose; had a clear,
ringing laugh, a musical chest-voice, a
graceful walk ; had opinions of her own,
and whistled like a bird.
And yet, notwithstanding her want of
beauty—her many defects, I might say
—there were men who had expressed a
rediness to die for Leonora at need,
and more who had declared themselves
perfectly willing to live for her.
There was a wonderful atmosphere of
freedom, of purity, of bravery about
her.
And Leonora was a worker. Much
as she despised shams and hypocrisies
she despised idleness.
“Day dreaming I I don’t believe in
it,” she would say. “Do your dreaming
at night and work during the dayand
while she talked, in a bright, cheerful
way, each word clear and distinct, she
busilv plied her needle making little
dresses and jackets and aprons. “For
whom?” “Oh. for some poor children
around the corner. I bad nothing else
to do ”
It was while thus occupied one after
noon early in September seated on the
old-fashioned porch, shaded by a heavy
grapevine, that Clifford Cameron saun
tered in and threw himself in an easy
chair beside her. “Cliff,” had been a
chum of Harry Lonsdale’s since early
boyhood, and for just that period had
alternately tried to teaze and make
love to Harry Lonsdale’s sister.
Crawfordvilie, Georgia, 13, 1817.
He was a good looking, sw eet tem
pered, generous, lazy young fellow, with
no end of money. Grandfather had
died and left him money—father had
b *™ money ur, cle had
bad died and left him money, and lately
an olt S reat aunt, whom he had never
| seen, had departed this life, away off in
fTt C ° rner ° f the gl ° te ’ and
* nm moic money. He . had very
ftl" fui *1^“ hands aud'f©^ and feet, Iral* was SS’ rather stout
iaUS < 7 r,shorttbautall - wa3oneof
those infatuated , men who thought the
sll 8 ht cast & Sonora’s left eye perfectly
charming, and who had said they would
die of joy if she’d only graciously per
nut them to devote the remainder of
th f!™ her '
small ry apron ell, Bee,” and leisurely said . he, surveying taking up it. a
“W ell, Butterfly,” was the reply,
“what brings you back from Newport
sosoon ?”
“You.”
“Oh ! you’ve come here to talk non¬
sense again,” says the young lady, hold¬
ing another small aproi before her,
head on one side like a bird’s, as she
ponders on the effect of a bow of green
ribbon she has sewn on the pocket.
“Right, as you always are, my darl
* n 8-”
“I’m not your darling, and I’ll take
that apron if you're quite done with
it.
“Deuce take the apron, say I. Slop
sewing 1 beg of you, Leo—it makes ine
quite tired to look at you.”
“Clifford 1”
“Leonora!”
“Aren’t you ashamed of yourself ?”
“Don’t think I ant. Ought I to
be?”
With decision—“You should. Were
I a young man in good health, not
maimed or cripple—blesssed with the
average quantity and quality of brains”—
“Thanks !”
“I’d do something besides lounging at
watering places in the summer ana club
bouses in the winter—something in the
shape of work—yes, if five hundre
■ -.mt ^tMUUUlUicin, null <tu. ',8 —
“Couldn’t any way in the world, thank
Heaven ! my dear girl, have so many
relations.”
“Left me five hundred fortunes.
And if I fell in love with a girl, I’d
prove to her before I proposed marriage,
that I, myself—
“Myself! Behold me!” quoted Cliff.
“Could, if an emergency arose, and
life is full of them, support her, and
that I was not entirely dependent upon
the income flowing in from the coffers
tilled by my ancestors.”
“Bravoj lhat Leo last ! “You’re remark a about splendid the
«<fims of my ancestors was extremely
fine. I d like to have any one, in the
glow of my present admiration for you
dare to hint that you were the tiniest
speak long-nosed. He or she’d repent
in haste But most admirable of your
sex male ^hat fellow would so unfortunate you do if as you to were know a
nothing useful and wanted to propose
to the girl you loved and all the rest of
it ?”
“I’d learn a trade if I hadn’t talent
enough for a profession.”
“The average quantity and quality
of brain is scarcely sufficient for a
profession, and I’m too old to be taken
as an apprentice. If I were not and
could be converted into a shoe-maker, or
brick-layer—or—plumber, I think I’d
prefer being a plumber, they only come
and look at things and go away again.
I couldn’t give you a house like this
where you could sit on the porch with a
peach tree in front of you and a nice
grapevine over you, making clothes for
horrid children around corners.”
“Nonsense ! I don’t mean that.”
“What do you mean, then ?” reach
ing up and plucking a grape from a low
hanging branch.
“Cliff Cameron, you know what I
mean as well as I do,” and yet she
explains with great slowness and ein
phasis. “I mean that a man should Ire
able to support the woman lie marries
either by his bead or hands whether he
is ever obliged to or not. Go away, you
are putting me out of temper. ”
“Putting you out of temper ? You’re
mistaken. I never saw your dimple go
angelic in my life. But I say, Leo, he
continued more seriously, “if I prove to
you that on an emergency-that is jf
y° u with your luxurious tastes and
general extravagance should waste my
substance in riotous living after we
were married—if I prove to you that in
that case I should be willing and able to
give you bread with an occasional bit of
butter-would you name the day V”
“That emergency never could arise.”
“Well, imagine any emergency you
choose, only answer me. Would you
name the day ?
“What day ?”
“Leonora!”
“Yes, I would.”
“You would—fair . and square now?”
'd would. Isn't that enough ?”
“Qrite enough. But it must be an
early ue.”
‘ “wf, Mot ?”
my blessed.” j
‘Ae. j
Ciifit ameron arose deliberately, took
away i lie sewing, deftly converted it
into a fell and tossed it up among the.
made both small hands, little
gold tf.mible and all, prisoners, and
ki ' Sl<1 V "wn the left eye, and lastly
upon tf watm, red lips.
“Mi«‘ ameron, this is premature,”
said b. her cheeks glowing like two
pink r. ; a.
“Ne.U all, Miss Lonsdale, you are
mine. To-morrow I will take my place
among he workers. It will be a hum
ble om but sufficient to prove to you
that I ;u competent to earn the bread
and bn ar of which I have spoken.”
“Bui Cliff”—diopping her eyes for the
first tire.
“WV, Leo”—clasping the bright face
betwee his hands, and making her
raise tfym again.
“Amyou sure—-you know how you
admire pretty women, and I’m not
pretty.
“But you’re good—and to me the
lovelies! and sweetest girl in the whole
world A
One 'Thursday afternoon, two days
after LI dialogue on the back poreli,
Miss Leonora Lonsdale, aa she was wont
on Thtrsday afternoons, being the
execut e ability of some charitable
society. that met on that day, stepped
into a v.Bnowhat crowded street car,
lookingpeither to the right or left, but
straight before her, in her usual manner.
Once mated, she abstracted her pocket
book ft m her satchel and look from it
the mow ;;| h( e five cents, when she be¬
came n'. vart of a hand stretched out
toward J r —a man’s hand, a handsome
hand, a familiar hand, ller eyes rested
on it an ■distant and then traveled up
he ann ’ • which it belonged until they
met the ace—half hidden by a slouched,
broad- mint'd hat— of the conductor,
!ff ( 1
liana Jiervnennes pt-cwl-bor farcin have his
a. would said,
the cast!in hsr eye beams more impish
than evw.
1 he day ?” ^ said the conductor in a
low, film, business-like tone, not a
gleam of intelligence lighting up his
big, blue eyes.
“Six months from 1 ” replied
Leonora, in the same 5- , as she
dropped her poeketbook Sr in her
satchel,
The Great Earthquake at Huanil
j OB _
Cal , laill Charles Macloon, of the ship
GelieV a, which was sunk at HuaniHos
l)y the greut earthquake on the fill, of
Mayj recentIy iirrived in New York
and givt -the following description of
lh( , catilHtrol , 1]fi . A)(( „ lt 8;30 oYlock
ni>a gl . pat rumblillg 80UI)d arose ln tIl ,;
ak alld lt „, 8ea togan to fron , tlie
8h( , m Ships anchored in eight fathoms
of watcr were 8uddenly Mt hlgh and
dry 0 „ 8hore th( . commotioil was
terrific, a sulphurous light envebqied
the mountains, and huge rocks came
tumbling down their sides looking like
balls of lire. The ships anchored i„
deeper water were torn from liner
fastenings and dashed out to sea, de
scribing large circles as they went.
Then they were borne back by the tidal
wave, and many were dashed in
either against other ships or against th(!
rocks. The Geneva circled around and
around at the rate of eight or ten knots
an hour, and at last struck upon the
rocks and sank. Captain Macloon cs
caiHid in a small boat. On shore the
Governor’s house, the shute launches
and watvrtanks were swept away,
Captain Macloon had just completed
loading his vessel with guano, and
expected to sail the next morning—
w or id
. p . UC . 7 „ ervant (iir . . .
A tramp entered the house of D. B. ^
Dennison,itiGreat balls, N. Y., Wednes
evening, in the absence of the fam
ity, a «d ordered the only servant girl to
delivei the money and valuables in the
house or tie murdered. She begged
her life, and the tramp stood in the * la B
and allowed her to go upstairs u icier
th<! 1 ‘ietense of getting money, when
she procured Mr. Dennison’s revolver,
and, from tlie top of the stairs, she or
Acred the tramp to leave or she would
f,hoot Be made threats on her life, but
before he reached her she shot and he
fe!1 ; Two other tramps came to lus
assistance, and while taking him away,
he remarked : “John, I am hit.” The
Police searched m vain for the tramps
all night. The girl fed the one who at
tacked her, just before night. She is
only about 20 years of age .—Aew York
Tmes,
The remains of Mrs. Madison a sister
of Patrick Henry, lie in an almost un
marked grave at Bowling Green, Ky.
No. 21.
A Colored German.
A colored German is a rarity, al
though this is no reason why a colored
man should not learn German. Thom
as J. Dorkins, a young colored man, the
porter at the Fiftl* National Bank on
sixth Street, is a German, or at least it
was so sufrtntly reported ; but cm in
quiry we learn th#t he is au American ,
a , K | learned the German l intrcrure
eoi^le of years ago, while engaged in the
kitehen in one of the leading restaurants
in Pittsburgh. The proprietor of the
eating-house and all the employee*
except Thomas were Germans, and he
soon picked up the lingo, and speaks it
so fluently and correctly that all were
astonished, lie reads a great deal, be
i, lg a member of the Mercantile Libra¬
ry, and is studying up his German with
a view, it is said, going to the French
Exposition next year as a curiosity, a
colored German, lie has lieen urged to
do this by his former employer at the
restaurant, under whose protection he
will go, if he does conclude lo go to
Europe.— Pittsburgh Leader.
Overtaken by Justice.
In Newton county, Mo., Jesse U.
Lynch has been sentenced to an im¬
prisonment of sixty years and his wife
to one of thirty-three years. Lynch was
tlie founder ami preacher of a new
religion, and pretended to cure Vho sick
by the laying on of hands. The eouple
traveled with a child which was taken
sick. Lynch affirmed that it was
possessed by a devil, and to drive out
this evil spirit he and his wife pitched the
child across a room to each other. The
poor tiling frequently fell, striking the
floor, during this performance. At last
it struck a joist, which crushed its skull
and so killed it. The fanatics were
arrested, and though a plea of insanity
was set up they were convicted. The
woman is represented to he of pre¬
possessing appearance, and entirely
under the control of her husband’s will.
How Two Girls Paid Off a Debt.
Two county, daiethUre N. Y., of afnnswinSt, deified I**
rence I.. pay .the
debt 011 their homestead, but they pre
ferred not to do it by hard work. They
hit upon an idea Unit suited their pur
pose, and have made enough money to
remove the debt. They had a large
quantity of porous stone sawed into
small pieces and thoroughly soaked in
an odorous preparation, which imparted
to them a durable scent. These they
t tile state at 25
cepls each, representing that they Were
cut from the lock of a wonderfully per
fnmedfccave in South America. 'The
girls are so demure and pretty, and tell
their lie with such an appearance of
simplicity, that the sales are very large.
They have just put a fresh lot of stone
in soak, preparatory to a Western tour ,
The Detroit Post 1ms t he following ac
count of a narrow escape from death or
serious injury of a little nephew of
ward E. Powers, of that city : “The
child, who is 5 years old, was missing
V ^"^But, ° after w, " n calling *°oked him, for Hie at dinner family
dinner, and the child not appearing,
became nliutned and instituted a search
tl,rf > u fJ‘ 4l ' e neighborhood. His hat was
foi,,,d m tl,e yar ' 1 ' m,l, r «° m « liu '««
,na ' lIe trces - could be heard of
'jj* !i °’ c,oc ‘ k ’ a * ir '
.rid him hjj in one of t.«. limbs of
' h« maple trees, forty feet from Ul<<
^ The girl called him but
he f,i d not awake, and the situation lm
discovered, his aunt prevented ant
n,,iso bein « ,na,lft untn two cli m»«'d
tbe tree Mml awok(; ,lim > be Wiis
«ot down safely. It can not be ascer
tained bow long the child had been
a continuous search was made from
1 o’clock to 3 p. m. ”__
., Mow ’ Patrick’’said 1 1 k ’ aJua a Indue *®’ “what 1
, have you to say , he charge ; are you
guilty or not guilty ?” “haitl.!”
swered Patrick, “but that is difficult for
yer honor to tell, let alone meself. Wait
till I hear the evidence.”
Gen, Kerenyearit.ch would be the man
to bring the Russians up to the scratch.
A man in Collinsville, Ct., sold a cow
to a widow, and before delivering the
animal he took off the brass born-tips,
thereby saving six cents.
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A Moth-proof barrel in which clothes
can safely stored is a late invention.
Rut this leaves the moth at large. What
wanted is a barrel in which the moths
can be kept, and thus have the <dotl.es at
large.
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“How much did he leave?” inquired
a gentleman of an acquaintance, on
learning the death of a wealthy citizen.
“Everything,” responded the truthful
man, “he didn’t take a dollar with him.
The Macon ice factory is manufacturing
te.n thousand pounds of ice per day,
delivering ice at any point in the city for
one cent a pound
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fact and fancy.
A Woman's “No.”
O no! 1 cosidwot wed you. No;
But 1 hope you won't forget
I love you as a sister should—
—O,please. Will, don't go yet—
Yes, love you as a sister should.
But marry you? Ah, no !
I'm grieved you should have thought of
it—
—Oh, Will I Don’t leave me so—
Come back, sit down and talk tome,
Don’t) Don’t frown, when you go,
One cannot love just when she would,
Though she’s a girl you know.
And I don’t think you love me much.
I don't upon my life ;
But if I really thought you did—
~' V8 ’ " G’ll be your wife.
Kew wheat *1.50 per bushel in Macon
county,
1111 , lcou,lty ias just made the best
crop in its history.
Lanseer’s portrait of Sir Waiter Scott
has been sold for #10,000.
A band of would-lie train robbers werO
captured in Indiana yesterday.
An immense deposit of black lead has
been discovered near Warren, Va.
Lord Derby never delivers even art
after-dinner speech that he has not writ¬
ten.
New York eats a million bushels of
“goobers” per annum, at ten cents a
quart.
The cattle in Madison county are dy¬
ing of murrain or some other fatal
disease.
Caterpillars near Tuscumbia, Ala.,
have completely denuded acres of forests
of their leaves.
Tt is to be doubted Whether be will
ever find the way to heaven, who desires
to go thither alone.
A recent census of Nashville gives
that city a jiopulation of 17,503 whites,
and 0,582 colored,
An Irishman Jy says he can see no earthly
, kmkiii -:\ nmiitrj, aliMiin Hoftl ab
lowed to liecome medical men.
“Doctor, do you think tight lacing is
had for consumption ?” “Not at all,
madam ; it is wlmt it lives on.
Col mel AI boi l shorter has made n
donation of 820,IKK) to the Baptist
female college at Home, Georgia.
From nJPfittville, Virginia, and other
parts i •>f the State, comes intelligenco
of arrdfl MBBPrenleen-year locusts.
A million buffalo have been killed iil
western Texas alone for their hides.—
Buffalo beef would sell well in England.
The Prince of Wales will make a
museum of his Indian collection of arti¬
cles for the Paris exposition.
A negro girl was drowned in a sewer
pool in Macon recently, while several of
her race stood coolly looking on.
A number of prominent citizens of
Frederick, Maryland, were killed unit
wounded by a collision on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad.
Robert T. Clayton, of Georgia is
appointed Consul to Callao, anil Jno,
'J’. Quarles, colored, of Georgia is ap
pointed Consul to Malaga, Spain'
Import from the Western States
alimit the grasshoppers continue to bo
favorable. It is not now tielieved that
they will do much damage anywhere,
. 11 i.rko-Hnssran
oM J lady ' in 'l<'* I ,Imr b.'im county w,» war, «*
^ ' ™ ' Wheekr s cavalry has
chlckf ns a "' 1 'W at <mc0 '
A B0,n ' ,wb, ‘ t Kim l’ le WOI nan was askett
whether In* husband feared God, ami
replied, “I guess he. does, for he never
goes ofit Sundays without taking his gurt
with him.”
' rish coachman ’ ' hiViD * pMb
some fields, and addressing a smart girl
engaged iu 8hParill «, exclaimed:
o Arra)l( my darling j wiah ) wa8 ln jall
for stealing ye.”
Scene— anywhere — any lime—Old
lady—“Don’t drive fast, conductor, I’m
very nervous.” Conductor—“No fear,
mu’m.” Old gent who wants to catch a
train decides to walk.
I he five months of the present yea t
have been notably prolific of serious fires.
Insurance companies claim that the los*
to them thus far has been double the
ioSfi or he same time during 18i6.
Washington Cemetery, Hagerstown,
where the Confederate dead, killed in
the battles of Antietam and South
Mountain , are interred, was formally
dedicated with appropriate memorial
ceremonials, and the graves strewn with
flowers. An oration was delivered by
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia.
There was a time when Gen. Ben F.
Butler, in the evolution of crises, ap
proximated to statesmanship; but cir
cumstances have brought him to the
degeneracy of a snapping turtle, with a
large amount ... of to vast
viciousness a su¬
ptincial area of shell.—Clii-ojo Tnhunr.