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A CARD.
Augusta, Ga., December 10,1878.
fo my Friend* <*>mJ tie PuUk:
1 have opened an office, and engaged
rooms on Jackson street, in rear of Pout
Iain’s corner. I propose, after the first of
January , dev»A«! my e *Urs attention
to mvean-f**! shall attend'Vccuiariy^eaeh
tenu of the Superior v Courts and Glascock, in the Augusta
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Northern of Circuit, the Middle and Circuit. Washington and Jef
ferson, all fnenrt?
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a a mo' arUeSt bU
January " agent' wm GIBSON
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Crawford ville, Georgia, October 10, 1879.
Poetry.
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Tile l.ittle Tow n ol Tailholt.
You can boast about your cities and their
And stidily brag about crowtli and size, and
business enterprise. your country seats
And railroads and factories and all sich
But foolery—
the little town o’ Tailliolt is big enough
for me.
You kin harp about your churches, with
their steeples in the < juds,
And gas about your graded streets, and
blow about your crowds ;
You kin talk about your theaters, and all
the you’ve got to see—
But little' town o’ Tailholt is show
enough for me.
They ain’t like and no style in our town—hit’s little¬
small—
They ain’t no churches, nuther—just the
meeting’ house is all
There’s no sidewalks to speak of, but the
And the high-way's little alius free,
town of Tailholt is wide
enough for me.
Some finds it discommodin' like, I'm will¬
To liev ing to admit,
but one post-office and a women
And keupln, the drug-store hit,
ail three— and shoe-shop and
But tiie grocery
little town o' Tailholt is handy
’nough for me.
You can smile and turn your nose up, and
And joke and hev your fun,
laugh and holler “Tail-holts is better
holt '11 none I”
Ef the city suits yon better, w’y, It’s whur
But the you'd ovtcrbe,
little town of Tailholt is good
enough for me. —Indianapolis Herald.
Miscellaneous.
THE FACTORY FOREMAN.
It rf was just . , such . an American , village
as you see in pictures. A background of
superb, bold mountain, all clothed in
blue-green cedars, w ith a torrent thun
dering down a deep gorge and falling in
billows of foam; a river reflecting the
azure of the aky, and a knot of houses,
with a church spire at one end, a thicket
of factory chimneys at the other, whose
black smoke wrote ever-changing liiero
glyphics against the brilliancy of the sky,
This was Dapplevale. And in the rosy
sunsetof this blossomy June day the
% °v Ut % U ‘ e d °° r '
way, while Gerald Blake, the f foreman,
sat behind Ins desk, a pen behind his
ear, and his small, black thsiSBtjfe
hh "*<'>•, ii» Mis *
precipice One 6i ftiaggy eytsDiDws. re-1
by one the girls stopped and
ceived their pay for one week’s work, for
this was Saturday night. One by one
they filed out, with fretful, discontented
faces, until the last one paused in front
of the high-railed desk.
She was slight and tall, with large
velvety blue eyes, a complexion as deli
cately colored grained and transparent as rose
wax, and an abundance of glossy
hair of so dark a brown that the casual
observer would have pronounced it black,
and there was something in the way
the blue ribbon at her throat was tied
and the manner in which the simple
details oflier dress were arranged that
bespoke her of foreign birth.
I fc Well, Mile. Annette,” said Mr.
Blake, “and how do you like factory
life V”
“It is not disagree;!We,’’she answered,
a slight accent dinging to her tones,
like fragrance to a flower, as she ex
tended her hand for the money the fore
man “You wa3 have counting out.
given me but $4,” she
said. “It was to be $8 by the contract.”
Mr. Biake shrugged his shouldersdisa
greeably.
“Ilumph !” he grunted; “you ain’t
much accustomed to our way of doing
things, are you, Mademoiselle? Eight
—of course ; but we deduct two for a
fee—”
“A fee!—for wliat?” Annette de
manded, with flushed cheeks and spark
hug eyes.
‘For getting you the situation,
Mademoiselle, Blake, to be sure,” said Mr.
in a superior sort of way. “Such
places don’t grow on every bush. And
folks expect to pay something b for the
privilege.”
“I did not,” flashed out Annette
Duvelle.
“Oh—well—ali right. Because,
0bllg<<1 t0 8tay
‘•Do you mean,” hesitated
“that if I do not pay you this
money ,n
“You can’t expect to stay at
works,” said Mr. Blake, hitching up his
collar.
“But the other two dollars?”
“Oh,” said Mr, Blake, “that’s a per
eentage the girls all pay.”
“But what is it for ?”
Mr. Blake laughed.
‘‘Well, it helps out my salary. Of
course, you know, the girls expect to
pay something every week for keeping
their situations in a place where there’s
so many anxious to get in.”
Blake.
“Hehasn’t much to do with it. I am
master at the Dapplevale Calico Works.”
Elderslie owns it, I believe.”
the age'eyerytbi’ng utmost confidence 6 °Mg SiftSS, ^
in my capacity,
ability, and— and—responsibility. Mr.
Elderslie is a good business man. He
understands bis own interest. And
now, if you've any more questions to
“I have none,” said Annette wistfully,
'‘But—I need this money myself. I
work hard for it. I earn it righteously,
I cannot afford, an? more than the
others among these poor laboring girls,
to pay it to your greed”
“Eh ?” ejaculated Mr. Blake, jumping
h » as if some insect bad stung
11
“And I will not pay it,” calmnly con
eluded Mile, Annette.
j like, “Very Mademoiselle,” well—very well. Just as you
j i turning r-d cried the foreman,
in the face. "Only if you
won’t conform to the rules of the Dapple
vale Works-—” "These
“Are the rules ?” scornfully
demauiit-t Annette.
“Pray book!” consider your name crossed off
the went on Mr. Blake. “You
evening,*' are no longer Mademoiselle in my employ. Whatever-you- G <oa
may-cali„vourself. ”
And Mr. Blake slammed down the
cover of jiis desk as if it were a patent
guillotine weft: and poor Annette Duvelle’s
neck under it.
Two or three of the factory girls who
had boyreil til- around the open J or to
hear discussion, looked with awe
striekeuTaces witrf at Annette, as» she came
out “Youfve £4 which she had received from
th your°pl'ace,
whisper/d lost Ma’mselle,”
little Jenny Purton, a pale, dark
eyed thing, who supported a crip
pled mother and two little sisters out of
i0 wi ».»
added Mary Rose. “He’s as vindictive
as “It possible.” BRitters not,” said Annette. “He
&3tfc»sa.sF’ ‘Tiutiou can’t starye,” said Jenny,
“Look ‘ here, Ma’mselle. home
come
witi- m'. It’s a poor place, but we’ll
wSe tiyo U urftt C ndT’ till-tU1 y ° U ^
Anmlte turned anil impulsively kissed
Jenny “I"thank ai her lips. she said “but r
you,” ; do
And Annette Duvelle went back to
the little red brick cottage, all thatched
with the growth of the woodbine, where
TJXt IXpX
vale vrviks.
“Does be cheat you, too, of your
money ?” she asked, when Simon Pet
tengill ftftuie home, smoke-stained and
grimyeat his supper.
“Oii-sixtlt I have to pay to him,”
said Slnon with an involuntary groan,
as he boil'd. Loked at the five little ones around
his “Yes, Miss, he’s a villian,
butrtiif world is fuii of such. And I
find it a pretty hard world to get on
with, i Mr. Elderslie never comes here
or ma.'be things would bea bit different,
Mr. .’ilderslie lives abroad; in Paris,
they sty.”
“He is in this country now,” said
Annexe. “I intend to write to him.”
“’^T ,tdo , , ° fi od mis 8 ;”
“Ye4 it will,” , , said Annette, t quietly. im
*< * * * * * *
,-etals of the Juue roses had
wd t»ip.T)aj^levaie’'Vi’‘6yitg along .tlie edge
drttiiVwoodl, ,
wore their holiday guise, even down
to Simon Pettengill’s newly brightened
steam engine, for Mr. Elderslie and bis
bride were to visit the works ou his
tour.
“It’s a pity Ma’mselle Annette went
away so soon,” said Simon to his assis
taut; “’cause they say the master’s
kind-hearted in the main, and she
might have spoken up for herself.”
Mr. Gerald Blake, in las best broad
cloth suit, and mustache newly dyed,
stood smiling in the broad doorway as
the carriage drove up to the entrance,
and Mr. Elderslie, a handsome blonde
browed man, sprang out and assisted a
young lady, in a dove-colored travelling
suit, to alight. you!” said, with
“Blake, how are he
the carelessness of conscious superiority, Blake,
“Annette, my love, this is my
foreman.”
“Mademoiselle Annette ?”
And Mr. Gerald Blake found himself
cringing before the slight French girl
whom he had turned from the factory
door a month before.
“I must beg to look at the books,
Blake,” said Elderslie, authoritatively,
“My wife tells me some strange stories
about the way things are managed here,
It became so "notorious that the rumors
reached her even at Blythesdale Springs,
and she ch <se to come and see for her
self. Annette, my darling tiie best
wedding gift we can make to these poor
working girls is a new foreman. Blake,
you may consider yourself dismissed.”
sir ”
“Rot another word,” cried
slie, with lowering brow, and Mr. Gerald
Blake crept away, with an uncomfort
able consciousness of Annette’s scorn
fid blue eves following him.
Elderslie turned to his wife.
“You were right, my love,” said be.
iS SU “ eVid * aCC
And a new reign began for poor Jenny
Purton and tiie working girls, as well
as for Simon Pettengill.
And Annette never regretted her
week’s apprenticeship in the Dapplevale
Calico Works
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The Coming’ . Russo-German
According to the Mmiteur Universel,
tiie coolness which has lately arisen be
tween Germany and Russia has been
partly caused by the discovery of a care
fully prepared plan for tiie invasion of
Russia by the German army. Details of
this plan were contained in some private
Petersburg Colonel Von Liegnitz, and it
is regarded as a signibcant fact that, al
though many things of value must have
It is also alleged that in sp/te of the rep
resentations of tbe German Government,
the Russian authorities have displayed
but little zeal in endeayoring to trace
and arrest the culprit. In Germany it
j, contended, tbe Monileur Universel
adds, that it is the duty of all military
attaches to assume that a conflict he
tweeu their own country and the one to
which they are sent may at any moment
arise, and that, therefore, tbe fact that
the stolen notes contained a nuinlier of
observations made apparently in
templation of a war between the empires
does not in any way indicate that
many at the present moment is
by any hostile feeling toward Russia.
No. 40.
An Unskillful Rope-Walker Drops
a Boy Fifty Feet.
A few day's ago the Herald casually
mentioned that an Ogden tight-rope
walker would undertake the feat of
breaking his neck if a sufficient collection
could be raised to pay his funeral expen¬
ses. Though tiie intimation did not
prove true, it is rather a matter of re¬
gret, as one younger and proportion¬
ately more innocent suffers from the
foolhardy exhibition. Last night was
the time set for the feat, and, in addi
J height, 10 ”, „ 10 , Megginson, .. Walkln ... « _ 4 .. he the. ro P° rope at professor, “ K roat
itfomised to tarry a twelve-year old boy
on bis back across this rope, ti> stand on
|' is head u j* m !t > ta lie dnwn on his face
balancing the pole over his back, aud to
carry two pails of water from one build
ing to an other. The rope was stretched
“"“"‘'-v"*"»«< «■
exhibition, and while endeavoring to
carry the boy across he lost his balance
and dropped him to the pavement fifty
*“ in
ten feet of the end. The lope was on
an incline of about three feet. In step
ping on this incline the Professor seemed
to Io8e his balrtnce ’ his P ;de ringing to
*"* ie Perpendicular, and almost instantly
after the immense concourse of people
who had assembled to witness the affair
,h. whlrtlw,
enough tiie an, striking his head with
a sickening thud. Megginson threw
himself over, catching the rope with one
few i"*» d <- °nds "* mid Wn* a
sec in air succeeded in
gaining a window, going hand over
hand. The boy, whose name is stated
as William Allen, ’ is ’ said to be a sou of
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u e Giiy Maisiiai or Junction .. City, Kan
sas - It is alleged that he ran away
from home and was taken up by the
traveling J “' Del-former ** manv “ any evt.ihlHnnn ^
been , given , successfully. , Tli#
hoy struck the pavement on the right
shoulder and head, partially dislocating
the neck and causinc eonciiasion of [ ' }
a l ' ile iS 81,111 «hve, hut no hopes
are entertained of his recovery Meggin-
30 » is anested.-M Lake (Utuh) llerald.
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I How a 850 Bill Was Returned in
! Halves to ♦« Ita r*. n Owner.
we-bur* the romance of a
#Ml bill!
Several years ago Mr. Camp died and
left a comfortable estate. Dr. E. J.
Camp, now of Rome, Georgia, was the
executor of the estate. A few weeks
ago he noticed an advertisement in the
ten cent column of the Atlanta Consli
Camp tution asking for the administrator of the
estate, signed by no one, but ask
ing that tiie address be sent to the Con
stitution. Mr. E. J. Camp advertised his
address.
In a few days he received a letter
signed “Amos” and written inatremn
lous hand, enclosing a half of a fifty
dollar bill. The bill had been neatly
clipped in two, and the writer desired to
pay $50 to the Camp estate, and that
as soon as the receipt of the first half of
the bill was acknowledged, lie would
send the other half. He asked that ac
knowledgment be made in the ten
cent column of the Constitutwa. Mr.
Camp advertised as desired, that piece
of the bill had been received, and asked
that the other half be forwarded. The
advertisement was put at the foot of the
column, but in a few days Mr. Camp re
ceived another letter in which waswr.t
ten: “I inclose you the other half of
the fifty dollar hill.” Signed “Amos.”
Mr. Camp has no clue to the sender of
this money, or to the occasion of it.
He supposes that it comes from some
person who, during the life of Mr.
Camp, had defrauded him of this money,
and who took this secret method of re
turning it after years of remorse or pen
itence.—Atlanta Comlitutvm.
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A Burglary Story from Texas.
A rr Texas newspaper gives the follow
in . 8 news paragraph from Johnson
<: ' n ! nly - 1,1 that State: “A lady was
V1 *>fcd by two other lady friends, who ;
SZml a ;
BUW * ^oney, and that the
absence of * ,er husband annoyed her j
because she was afraid of being robbed.
hou8e n ’K and hl a during granger the stopped night, at being ! 1,jr
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awakened by a noise in the lady’s room,
he looked through the window and saw
two negroes choking her in her bed. He
fired on them and killed both, and just
then two persons fled from near the
house. On investigation it was found
^}&t disguised, the negroes and it were is supposed the lady’s that guests tbe
two who tied were their husbands.”
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An Electric Light for the Dome,
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placed in the dome of the Capitol has
been completed, and will be placed in
potion in tbe next two months. It is
grounds, ^ hiectnc lights are also ^ to be
placed in tbe .Senate Chamber and Hall
0 f tbe House of Representatives For
,fl years an me gas jets in the Gapi- .
_ any
tol building have been lighted with
electricity; consequently there is a
j ar r, e quantity of electrical apparatus. ‘
UAIU , ,„ ,au< uea • clre toe th , largest t
'
in the country, and are sufficient to
keep the new light burning.
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»how wbe „ Sait Artemu8 Lake Ward City, waa his complimentary exhibiting his
in
I—“Admit , tickets to the city officials read as follows
bearer and one wife.”
The Democrat.
advertising maths :
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Gne Square,eachsul>se*)uent.insertion . .
'in*' Square, ,'.T
three months 10 <10
One Square, twelve months IS 0<»
Quarter Column, . .
Half twelve months . . 20 00
Column twelve months . so 00
Oui- Column .
twelve months . . loo oq
BT One Inch or laws considered as a
square. We have no fractions of a square,
all fractions of squares will be counted as
uhvral deductions made ou Con*
tra#t Advertising.
• Interesting Scientific Facta.
Air is about 81B times lighter than
common water.
The pressure of the atmosphere upon*
every square foot of the earth amounts
to 4,160 jxiunds.
An ordinary sized man, supposing his
surface to be fourteen square feet, sus¬
tains the enormous pressure of 30,840
pounds. Heat
rarifles air to such an extent
that it can be made to occupy 5,300 times
the space it did before.
The violence of the expansion of water
when freezing is sufficient to cleave a
globe of copper of such thickness as to
require a force of 23,000 pounds to pro¬
duce like effect.
ihiring the Conversion of ice into
water, 140 degrees of beat are absorbed.
water, when converted into steam
increases in bulk 18,000 times.
One hundred i<ounds of Dead sea
water contains forty-six pounds of salt.
The mean annual depth of rain that
falls at the equator is ninety-six inches.
Tiie explosive force of close confined
gunpowder is six and a half toils to tba
square inch. *
The greatest artificial cold ever pro¬
duced is ninety-one degrees Fahrenheit.
Sound travels at the rate of 1,142 feet
p r second in the ail, 4,960 in the
water, 11.000* in cast iron, 17,000 in
steel,.18,000 17,000 in glass and from 4,036 to
in wood.
Water obstructs one-half of the per¬
pendicular rays of the sun In seventeen
feet and three-fourths in thirty-four feet,
and less than one-thousandth part
Teaches the depth of 200 feet; hence the
bottom of deep water is in total dark¬
ness.
A Mysterious Murder.
Information Columbia, S. C., September 27.—
from Edgefield Court House
says a report of a gun was heard by one
of the neighbors in the direction of the
farm house of John Simpkins, in that
found locality. Upon examination it was
that Simpkins and his wife were
both in bed, the woman dead with a bul¬
let hole through her brain. The hus¬
band is a confirmed invalid. When
questioned declined about the murder, he
nation. answering A or giving an expla¬
the bed few shot-gun was found under
a minutes after the discov¬
ery of the crime. This morning Simp¬
kins said to his father-in-law that he
did not shoot his wife, neither did she
shoot herself. The matter is enveloped
in mystery .—Augusta Hews.
The depth of the water in the gorge
below Niagara Falls has just been meaa
ured for the first time. The swiftness
of the stream baffled all previous efforts,
'tut n corps of government engineers ae
complislied thereat! The£ embarked iff
a small boat not far below the falls. An
old guide accompanied the party. With
great difficulty they approached within a
short distance of the American falls,
which darted great jets of water on
them. The roar was so terrible that no
voice or sound could be heard. Thft
leadsman cast the line, which rapidly
passed down eighty-three feet. This
was near the shore. Fussing out of the
friendly eddy which bad enabled them
to get so near the falls they shot rapidly
down stream. The next cast of the
lead told off one hundred feet, deepen¬
ing to one hundred and ninety-two feet
a little further down. The average
dojith to tiie Swift Drift—where the
river suddenly becomes narrow, with a
velocity too great to be measured—is
one hundred and fifty-three feet. Just
under the lower bridge the whirlpool
rapids set in, aud so violently are the
waters moved that they rise like ocean
waves to the height of twenty feet. At
this point they computed the depth at
two hundred and ten feet.
—
As an indication of the increased
« P tlvitv y in various ' ' flM.artmpr.tK J ‘ ( .f bn«i.
ness . throughout the country, it is stated
the Western Union Company has sent
and received at Its principal office in
Aew New York York city r-il v Horni from 4 «.W0 K«ki to to 4 48,000 H ikki
messages per day, and the present week
was inaugurated with tiie handling of
5^541 messages on Monday. The
*v<*age »«« been 10,000 Per day above
the corresponding period of hunt year*
when the business was considered large.
tliisi Is doubtless due to the
steady sieauy mowth g owin of 01 the uie leiegrapn teleeranh business Dusmess,
but much of it must be attributed to 111
creased activity in trade.
A singular freak of nature is shown
in a marble mantel at the Cincinnati
Exhibition. In one of the onyx pilas
seen the ou tunes of a womans
form, produced ages ago, when the
marble first assumed its growth and
consistence. Its discovery was the re
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men turned tbe pilaster upside down,
and the strange beauty of the features
of the face at once attracted his utten
anu “J' the pilaster reversed ™ is now the
chief ornament of the mantel,
The Washington Post says: “While
SO me of our people are growing red in
the face in their terrible excitement over
the fact that we have nine hundred tons
silver dollars on hand, vre don’t bear
of any row among tbe T rench although
there are nine thousand tons of .silver in
the Bank of France. Our silver is
doing its extended work quite effectually,
A good deal of it is working into tbe
^"" C0unl3 el Lli?f. B'® same as e Lu gold in tiie coin re
serve, there is no occasion for any
agony on this score.”