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A Sure Appetizer.
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Pot Sold as a Beverage.
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the stomach. Consti¬
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to the wants and inform.
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rely on Hop Bitters.”
“Read of, procure
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you be strong
healtby and happy.”
•‘Ladles, be do yon
want healthy to and beautiful? pfrong,
Titen use Hop Bitters.
“The greatest ap
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IIop Bitters daily.”
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a
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Travelers and the public generally are in¬
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strengthens the mus¬
cles, aud gives new life
to the nerves. To the
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utio n, this valuable
remedy highly can not be too
recommended.
It arty like a chann
on the digestive organs.
A teaspoonful befo efore
meals \vl remov e all
dyspeptic symptoms*
TRY IT.
Sold by all Druggjsti,
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ror ir a * case _ that Hop
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cures
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Band ir t-.-ahie cure
gfor dr * kenne ss, use
B opann. tobac ico and
and uarcotics
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Circular.
he Democrat.
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'arsapl^illa 'P
Is a compound of the virtues of sarsaparilla,
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from impure blood. It cures Scrofula, and
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vellous who have experienced benefits from its mar
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Practical and Analytical Chemists,
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SOLO ST ALL SBCaSUTS ETZBTWHXSa.
Mayl6,1879.i-V.
A CARD.
Acgusta, Ga., December 10, 1878.
To my Friends and the Public:
I have opened an office, and engaged
rooms ou Jackson Street, in rear of Poul
Iain’s corner. I propose, after the fir.-t of
January, such 1879, Business to devote my entire attention
to Legal 1 as rnay lie entrusted
to my care. shall attend regularly each
term of the Superior Courts in the Augusta
, o-int: “ also, ’ Warren and Glascock, of tin
Nortriern Gire ■nit, and Washington anil .Jef¬
ferson, of the'Middle Circuit.
i ask all my friends to give my successor
a fair trial and earnest support.
January.'ijiSfy. WHf GI8S0X.
Sanford’s Liver InviooratobJ
lia a Standard Family Remedy lu meJ for Io r »j«ff
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MMi"ncLNG U tjNI)AY! h 7
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tin following passenger schedule wiU
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8. K. JoliNSoN, E. If. IMfRSEV,
Gen. l'.us'ger Agent.
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110 w ?»rokt*t»-do\vn, Debilitated i
f'oiietitutiuuK. botl* male ana |
,for"'whi’eb nowheru relief canbt'.'obtMiwd
TO else, found to be so
bv undeniable facts ; NO UK
lEl'TlON. A Tniin Thboky.
The practical results of forty
(JET to years’experience invalids will be shown
in pamplilet and
"eminently circulars, by addressing the
... ,, i tiilj, - - successful Dr. Geo.
11 IV. Forbes, 1J t U'lsT FouiriH
St., (JlN’lTNN \TI.O. Aug.2il.1879.i-y.
1,000 MILE TICKETS.
Geougia Raii.hoad Company, (
Office General Passenger Agent.
A ROUST a, April 5tl», 1879. ,
/~10MMENC1NG MONDAY, 7th inst,.,
j A, fr* 1 ?’ * ' wdl sell ONE TII0US
AND MILE TICKETS, good over main
anti branches, at TWENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS each. These tickets will be
issued to individuals, linns or families, but
not to firms anti families eomhim-d.
May9.1879. K. 1 !. DORSEY
General Passenger Agent
©K f n ®OAper day at home. Samples
^ 'worth S5 free. Address Stin
scn & Co., Portland, Maine. novl4,’79-j-y
W. D. TUTT
Attorney at Law,
Thomson, ga. j
Will practice in .be Northern, ............., Middle and „„„ ;
Augusta Circuits. Prompt attention given
to all claims and collections. apr4, 79-i-y
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OI~ t Q7Ga week. S12 a day at home easily
trbe’&Co r „ ade> CostIy ()utflt 'mJIiip frpp Addr( . s ,
u ' " ’ Augusta All - U ” ta . Maine, novl4,’79-)-v
REMOVAL.
m. WE M. DURHAM.
-Late of
Afdxcys Oglethorpe Ooiiniv Ga.,
rixAKBS 1 this method to inform hi- friend
and:,:! who ti-.-ire hi- profe -ional ,..■
vice.- that he ha, removed his office from
.’I A\ I. V- to
ATHENS, GA •s
where he i- better prepared than ever to
] treat successfully chronic Diseases.
l-/r Prompt attention given to all corn
munications.
Lori- pomlents will plea ■■ enclose
janl4,’80-iidn_
Large and tint- lot of Ladies’ Cloaks ’ !
cheap, at C. MYERS’.
\ •Tust received a large lot of very fine
ladies* skirts, at Myers’.
Just received, a large lot of £d"iu<fS ”
and Insertions, at C. M vers’.
hhwhingn from 5 t* to 1.7 f*ts. Kits-'" 1
v M V
>i\\: IT - rchiefs. alarge iot and a
1 great vaiiety— 2 d ct .., at C. Myers*.
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i Miscellaneous.
TH’| j |
WRONG PASSENGER.
“Ge ^ fi,i) St. Albans _ is coming here,’'
----*!»• said T Marsh, a bright smile light
ing u, + ttie soft, languid beauty of her I
face.’®,
“OcVnel St. Albans ?” cried Annie
Grey, ; j young and lovely cousin of
Mia rsh. “How delightful! It is
P. . .. since he went away to that
hir i< din and T was fifteen then— a
men ’ ’,ool girl—Amt still 1 remember
that ’ Vas one of the handsomest men
in U'T place ! How pleased his sister
He !a W-ill be!”
sayiii- “tfrtainly. This note is from her,
that they— herself and Colonel
St. Albans—will do themselves the
pleasure of calling here the day after
to-ng]rrow,”
f lt *yeudid! I’ll set my cap at once !”
Cl tie gushing Annie.
nit be alisurd, cousin 1 Colonel
St.t^ibans is a traveled man, and quite
; fan i! :u with pretty faces by this time.
| Beskin, he is an artist of no mean abil¬
ity, aid his character for gallantry in
j actj*4 stood yery high when lie was in
: tbetwroy.’*
I “Leighol Well, I only wish there
' had 1 en a hero in our family ! But
wbtti makes you look so grave, Aunt
i LeU”a?” addressing a serene-faced,
lifted lior Bud brown eyes,
soft md beautiful still, and glanced at
hir voung relatives from beneath the
long[t'luck lashes.
“L i let Aunt Letitia alone !” said
Isabl,half pettishly; “she is working
and dreaming dreams as usual. And
she it too old to care about brave and
iiaiiisomo gentlemen like Colonel St.
Alb ni.”
L.'titia’s pale cheek flushed red; her
eye, /gleamed with fire ; for the moment
she las far more beautiful than either
of t it girls beside her. She made no
, r.cp’^bnt directly gathered up her work
fill l.e room.
ed after her with open
o.’ ( • '
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‘•fSrv^r gracious! AVlmt have I said ?
stolboi^d like a young girl who has
just met her lover. Hid you see that
red on her cheek, Isa? Brighter than
the rouge in my toilet-case 1 AlllitLeti-
1 ,l ‘ avo i,„-„ Laeil i handsome ..... once!
“She was tlie beauty of the neighbor
.«
knows that Kite is jnum.
There was time gossip about tier and
Hus Colonel St. Albans onco, you know.
She s ayed him from drowning on one
occasion, and lie was the prince of devo
tion for a wcelc 1 Ulen - man-like, ho for
got liis gratitude and sailed for India.
Men are very consistent creatures, my
dear.”
Meanwhile Letitia Marsh, who was
the sister of Isabel’s father, went to her
chamber qnd laid her work carefully
away in its neat basket ; for she was an
old maid, and old maids, you know, al¬
ways do everything with care if we may
credit tradition.
She unlocked a drawer and took from
thence a small escritorie, which opened
to the touch of a key which she wore
always attached to a slender gold chain
round her neck.
The lifted lid displayed a few letters,
a bunch of faded flowers tied witti blue
ribbon, and a miniature case of dead
gold. The case she did not open-per
haps even yet she could not trust her
self to look upon tiie face hidden there,
but she pressed the faded flowers to her
lips and held the yellow letters a mo
moot again-t her heart.
“Yes,” she skid sadly, “I am too
old. The girls were right. And I am
so very slow to h*rn the lesson of grow
i„ K away from youth. Too old for love, ’
- . . , - s,lffenu „ . . ! 1I(;av,ai „
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hel “^ereseend ime l”
looked in the glass. h A
stranger would . . have pronounced 1 the
face Reflected there fair and sweet and
youthful still; but Letitia Marsh-stern
critic upon herself—saw “• only the lines
of „ the white , brow and the ,
care on tran
sient . ... threads , of , silver . the ,,
in dark,
bright hair ’she
Acs J, ” said ’ wear.lv ' y t,.mine K
away, “I am too , o rt. And yet, desp te
it all, I love him still! Oh, Gerald
Geraldl why did you win my heart and
then cast it back to me desolate and un
blessed 1 Oh, Heaven 1 why are women
created with these intense lorigi igs of
love, always love, and then suffered to
dra g out a dull existence, missing al
wa y s ;t " that can make existence life ?’’
Mie papm ... trie lioor » soiuy, ner eyes
tears bitterer tlian those wliicli
come to younger eyes, her woman’s
heart wrung with a pain fiercer than
anything which comes to her sex in
carelesi girlliood. But when tiie storm
wasover—and that was soon, for Leti
^' a -'‘larsh's nature was a well-disciplined
she went down to the parlor
just, as serene and quiet and self-pos
stbosU as usual.
The Democrat.
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And when, three days later, Colonel i
M. the Albans young ladies called and and coldly was devoted to j
courteous
to herself. Miss laititia met him with
■‘’lately grace, and no feature of her face
^« lr:, yerl that any old, sweet memory
of ,lim 1: *5' hidden in her heart,
Nobody minded her, and after the
first P olite greetings St. Albans did not
address her. She was very glad of this,
'oasmucli as it saved her from the neces
s '^- talking, auil slie knew that there
would be a suspicious trembling in her
1 voice, and iiesides she wanted to soothe
* lor sore * iear t with watching St. Al
^ ans -
lie had grown very handsome ia those
tivc y Rars of absence, but she saw that
tlipre were wrinkles around his eye and
white hairs among the brown on bis
temples. ,
This first visit of li is was like all the
J’^ corned. K ‘ rs ’ 80 He ^ ar as courteous J*etitia to was con
was her, but
n(m ‘ r friendly, and some fine self-con
Piousness of tier weakness for bim
ma, * e frotitia avoid him.
lie visited at Mr. Marsh’s frequently,
and Miss Isabel Marsh was very gen¬
erally supposed to lie tho attraction. In¬
deed, the young lady hefself was very
sanguine of her success in winning the
gallant colonel, and on one occassiou
she was gushingly girlish enough to as¬
sure Aunt Letitia that when she was
the mistress of the new house which the
colonel was building about live miles
off, nothing would afford her more pleas¬
ure titan to give lu r “dearest aunt” a
home there.
When the snow fell, Colonel St. Al¬
bans invited a party of his friends to
the new house for a sort of “house
warming” supper, Letitia among the
list. At first she thought site would not
go, Isabel declared it would “look odd,”
and people would think she had not for
gotten that “old romantic episodeand
Miss Letitia decided not to givo “peo
pie” any chance to talk.
The colonel proposed to introduce the
American amusement of sleighing, for
he had several sledges on purpose. Isa
* K 'l went with tho colonel in his own
Tiled^ and all nod the other girls ns bjtony as a queen.
were ready to die
of envy. The sledging was none of the
best, for a new snow had fallen, and the
weather had not yet cleared. The wind
was blowing furiously, and the air was
thick with Hying snow. Somehow, in
tliu darkness tho colonel’s horse man¬
aged to upset the sledge, and in conse¬
quence a half dozen other sledges shared
the same fate, and half the merry
party were mixed up together in inex¬
tricable confusion.
The re-embarkation, was, of course,
hurried, particularly on the pait of
Colonel St. Albans, who had a restive
horse, and one quite indisposed to wait
patiently for passengers in such a furi¬
ous wind as was then raging.
They had gone fully a mile, the colo¬
nel holding the reins with Isitli hands,
when lie heard a low tremulous voice
saying : “Pardon] me, Colonel St. Al
buns, but I fear you have taken the
wrong passenger.”
“Good Heavens 1” he cried, in strong
agitation, “Letitia 1”
“Yes. l)o not 1/e offended ; I was not
to blame for it. The snow blinded me,
and 1 thought surely you wore brother
John.”
Through the tiger skins which he had
wrapi»ed around her, St. Albans was
sure he felt her tremble. Ho drew
closer to her sid( . t moved ,, y Bome un .
(:on( ro llabie inqmise to speak what was
j n pj* heart
he said |loar8cl ,t once
we were not stran ,je r s.”
“But that time is past.”
„ Y „ , ,. ,. iUcllv . ’ » vour
nC e ‘ “"'f '? y h aw, " a " Hnd . mad e H “ !
H ' “My , caprice!” an J | U she f 888 said, slowly. , , , “I r
do not understand.”
L ff !t L a ’ Wii8 Kr ' ,wU ‘« ^ T" ^
world of snow' spun round and round
, before P her , bewildered . , , , eyes. He ,. turned . .
U ,, . . ,‘ , Kr
you don undmtand , Thcn let me
explain. , • ,,,. W hy did ... you not . answer my
, letter?—the . letter ,, in which I told you
that , I ,, loved , you in which , . . T , asked , , you
to bc T<i y wif ‘” 1 was f ‘ c,lW “ n >. 1Mi
tia. Love made me distrust myself,
f 1 , * * , " , , “ uM ,, ^ ty , . T, 7 , ? , V’V
^ "‘t Tv'I ^ u i tiv r i,
and I told you v ■ that * it you v , rejected me
you need only keep silent. And you
kept silent. ”
“That letter never reached me,” she
said, faintly.
“It did not ? But if it had—if it
had ?”
His hand sought hers, ali unmindful
of his lion \ ami the animal took the
lilwrty of \ ling on its own comit.c
and went off In; very opjiosite direc
tion from tiie right one ; hut 8t. Albans
did not ol/serve it. He was too intent
oil Letitia to observe the horse. *
“I loved you, Gerald,” she said,
softly. “My answer could have been
nothing but that.
*‘My darling, change that form of ex
press inn p» he cried, eagerly. “Say, ‘i
love you, Gerald !’ ”
And she said It, with his lips hold*
ing hers so close they dared not make
a mistake in the words he dictated.
But she added immerliately, “It is too
late to dream these dreams, Gerald. I
am too old.”
lie laughed gleefully.
Just four years younger than your
Methusaleh of a lover I” said he, pre 3 S*
ing her closer to bis heart. “It is all
right now, dearest, and I thank Heaven
for sending me the wrong passenger, for
she is the right one after all.”
Of course the girls were all greatly
surprised at the turn affairs had taken,
and were ready to exclaim against the
imprudence of that “awfully designing
old maid hut Letitia was so happy
she could afford to lie talked about;
and love, the great rejuvenator, made
her young again,
A Building of Other Years novir
Turned to Solid Itock
A We»t Senora (Ohio) correspondent
writes as follows : “I visited one of
tho most remarkable remains of others
years which has ever been unearthed
and discovered in this State. It has
been found near Germantown, a village
a few miles south of hero The follow¬
ing are the facts, as ascertained by us
of Lewis Tranter, on whoso farm it was
first noticed : A few weeks ago a gen¬
tleman from Richmond, Ind., passing
by Mr. Transer’s residence, drank from
a spring near the roadside. Being an
old coal miner, of course any indications
of such minerals would be discovered by
him, ami ho observed to a bystander
that there was surely coal in those hills,
lie was so confident or the truth of his
assertion that ho obtained permission
of tho owner to investigate It, and set
to work on the following Monday.
He searched all week with pick and
shovel without finding arry frtrtlier signs
of the mineral, but on^aturday evening
his tools struck upon what wtis once a
stick cliimhey, popular many years ago
with * pioneers, Jmt
our now evidently
petrified. This discovery so aroused
h/* curiosity that he procured the assis¬
tance of several neighbors, and they
continued tire excavation all night, and
on Sunday, when a large crowd collec¬
ted at tho spot, and the Work was sfr
vigorously pushed that befortT
there stood before the astonished
titude a complete log house, twelve by
fourteen feet, now solid root. The
house is in perfect condition, with slab
roof and “clinked” walls. Its height
is about twelve feet, and it is a mass of
white rock. Every stick in the chim¬
ney, every log, every piece of bark on
tho roof, and every hickory withe,
binding tbe logs together at the door,
are perfect stone, hut as distinguishable
as they were originally. We entered
the house through a low door, which is
tho only aperture in the walls except
the fireplace communicating with the
chimney.
The light from these enabled us to see
in one corner of the only rtann a rude
bed, also perfectly petrified, formed in
the usual manner of the pioneers by
placing poles in holes in the logs, and
supporting them with upright posts.
It was covered with clapboards, and
further with skins and jielts. On this
rude couch is the skeleton of a man
about six feet in length and entirely
petrified. Behind tho open doer is the
sitting skeleton of a dog, evidently his
last faithful companion, and oyer this
entrance, supported by iiegs, is a rusty
rifle-barrel of the old-fashioned flint¬
lock pattern, the stock having rotted
aud fallen to the floor. Reudiiiy E ujh.
Railroading on the Ice.
Montreal, Jan. 23.—A railroad on
ice across tiie hi. Lawrence River will
probably be completed on Monday next.
The first train will contain a number
of Directors of tbe Southeastern Rail¬
way, the contractors of the road aud
members of the press. The river at
this point is about two miles wide. The
total length of rail on the ice will be
about three miles, aiul cost 80,000.
The track is constructed as follows :
Cross pieces of plank, 12 feet lone by »
inches thick, are laid flat on the ice,
which wmen is is tested u swu to wi tbe me inieKiiess thickness at at rverv every
^ On these cross pieces stnog
These stringers consist of
,jf Util " U>l k '**"» »
inches square, 15 feet long, laid parallel
the entire route 2 ft. 8 in. apart. Ties
four feet long ami three inches thick
ure laid on the stringers, and are in
tended to receive tiie rails. Af tw the
track is finished water will he purtqied
Ijetwecn (lie stringent, wbii-h as soon
a > frozen, will have tin? wime strength
in effect that sand aiul ornv. l si oitaiiy
applit tl have on ordinary railway*. E'.
isuts in charge cA t: • * , ..jnv.-s
therudelvea confident \ v its -ha a.uv*y
and perfection of t.'.i, .••«.•«. 'L.e en¬
gine used at first i*. ■ *’ ■ > i eign.reu
tons, tin- lightest in t.s •. o it if ...oiu-.tl
a twenty-six ton loeoiinniv salely.’ . 1iu-_, siavu,
can be used with petted
