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About The democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1880)
The Democrat. A Lire Weekly Paper on Live Issues Published Every Wednesday Morning, ts'ttSnws, 9 A at Crawfordville, Ga. M. Proprietor. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single Single Cony, Copy, lone year,) . . . $ 2 00 (six months,) . 1 00 Single Copy; (three months,) . . so Advertising rates liberal. BOOK and JOB PRINTING a specialty. Prices to suit the times. Hotel Cards. cr RN0LD% i gt p n 2 - 4 GLOBE HOTEL, cohner Eioirra and broad streets, AuutsiA, AniJTTRT, ita. This is one of the leading first-class Ho tels in the City. It is centrally located, and connected by Street Railway with all places pa'rts*of B CityV° T^euhote 5 P w?th all the The Table is supplied with the best that our home and the Northern markets afford. tlon Rates, $ 2.00 and $2.50, according to loca of room. .___F &ANK ARNOLD, Proprietor. -A A UGUSTA HOTEL “ AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. f» n t~ii„ lUrns. building. da* Large, Airy Rates «2 00 l>cr EDWARD MURPHY, Proprietor. QLINARD HOUSE, CLAYTON STREET, NEAR POST-OFFICE, ATHENS, GEORGIA. Rooms all carpeted. Good sample rooms for Commercial Travelers. A. D. CLINARD, Proprietor. jyjAPP HOUSE, UBEENESBORO, GA. . I have now taken charge of the above named Hotel, already so renowned for con venience, pledge myself comfort to keep and neatness, it its ami high I up to reputation with the best by the keeping market my affords, table attention supplied to the comfort of my guests, and politeness to all. My charges will in all cases be equal and reasonable. By this course of conduct I hope to merit and receive a liberal share of the public patronage. A trial is solicited. Jan.l7,1879.t-o-o L. AGREE. Itailroad Notices. Georgia Railroad -AKD BANKING Co. Superintendent’s Office, fNOMMENClNQ Augusta, Ga., Mav 21, 1880. j the following SUNDAY, 23d instant, be Vj passenger schedule will operated: NO. 1 WEST—DAILY. NO. 2 EAST—DAILY. I.v Augusta 9:35 TaoSiEr aim!Lv Atlanta JSfilS 7 -u, a m Athens 12:24!p|ni “ W’sh’i’ii Milledg’ll 8:58aim Ar. “ Cwf’d’II Wash'g’n " 9:15,a m 2.oo p ut Ar.CTdvIl ;; Athens 12:20 *iJS;P«n pm “ “ Milledg’ll M«c«m 4:3u p to m “ A tlanta BJW’pim “ Auguste «p>;p 3:28;pfm NO. 3 WEST—DAI1.V. NO. 4 EAST—DAILY. Lt. ESS 35 Lv. Gr f’v‘11 2:01 ill; Ar. Atlanta Augusta 6:20 a = UST No connection to or from Washing- " ton oil SUNDAYS. H. K. JOHNSON, E. Tt. DOffsEV\ .Superintendent. Mays. Gen. I'ass’ger Agent. 1879. Magnolia i n assen^or IvOlltC. n i *_ Port Royai, & Augusta Rait.wav > FOLLOWING Auocsta.Ga., Oct. 4,1879. S rplfE X SCHEDULE will 187* be operated, on a nd after Oct, fist, 9: GOING SOUTH, j | GOINErNORTn. ~ Train No. 1. Train No. 2. Lv Augusta 8.00 pm l.v P't Roy’l 11.00 pm ArBUenton 9.51 pm Lv Beaufort 11.23pm Ar Allendale 11.23 amjArYemassce LOOam Ar Ve ma sse i.30ami iV charleston 8.30 pm Lv Yemassee 2.30auf £ v j' 30nv qi e 5.15pm Arbavannaii 6.35 ami ArSavannah 8.20am Ar rksnnvqie 7 sKiVmI^L i 4 am!V v ^ fi va,,ftah m aasee _l: 20alu at Arc■TiaTfpafnn ^lariMtonaroamiLv yemassee . 2.00 am KSrt AM am Lv Illenton 0 5H8aS Ar Port Royal 4.00 TH^vlK am Ar Augusta 6.36 • fi flvvr . T soiT n T oi in n. m i Ae wii fi Georgia Railroad for Savannah Charles ton. Centra! Beaufort, Railroad and Port Royal. Also, with for Charleston, Beaufort and Port Royal. GOING NORTH.—Connections made with foraii 0 rifintsNnrti. a »mi Also* Jtailroad for Atlanta and the West with South Carolina Railroad for Aiken and points on line of said Road. WOODRUFF SLEEPING CARS of most improved style and elegance will A AND SAVANNAH, ■charure Baggage checked through. Through tickets for sale at all Depot Ticket Office, Augusta, JjH Ga., and priucipal Ticket Offices. 6 Pwmtendent. • , i I S DAY ANT fassenger General Agent oct.l3,-t-f. 1,000 JIILE TICKETS. Gf.orgia Railroad Company, ) Office General Passenger Agent. S 1 ^ Vvi. 8 ^. S' mfuvvrrvo rfv f this Com Da will sell ONE THordl D MILE TICKETS, good o\er main Sine and branches, at DOLLARS each. These tickets will be Issued firms to individuals, and families firms or families, mot to combined. E. R. DORSEY, Mav9.1879. General Passenger Agent. 500 MILE TICKETS. •GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY ) 1 -Office Gener’l Passenger Aot’, /COMMENCING Aogusta, March 2,1880. this date, this V7 pany will sell FIVE HUNDRED MILE TICKETS, good over main line and DOLLARS branches, at THIRTEEN 75-100 each. These tickets will be issued to individuals, firms, or families, but not to firms and families combined. E. R. DORSEY, General Passenger Agent. Marchl0,1880. t-o-o ninpn IllKho , Improved Root ^ Beer ^ Package, 25 iIak ^ five gallons of a n ■ Address, gists, or sent CHAS. by E. mail HIRES, on receipt of 25 cts. 2 1 Mark ct Philadelphia, Manufacturer, n , Pa. reD.iijiaso.B-in Yol. 4. OUR Faded bouquet. - sweet, these faded flowers, ~ Thesl tvwfoAlwhaDDiesnieurs ; That have flown on rapid wings. With gentle hands we wave this token From childhood’s free and careless track, And the sweet spell cannot be broken That points our memories back. Wh£e tee ___ We printed these fair types of ours Types ' of days forever gone. In dreams we walk those paths of yore, And sing the sweet songs we sung; .. In dreams we meet and smile once more, As we did w n we we e young. Backward through childhood’s sunny path We can pass with footsteps light; 1 Hear our free, our cheerful laugh «e“eath the same clusters bright. Where the many careless little . feet lass to fro, free from care, ^ Grtherir^e Gathering lmre here andtlmre and there. ' one I Where the tender heart can feel no sigh ) Among the sweet roses wild, i We can look back with a tearless eye, i See ourselves once more a child. But soon we wake and end our dreams ; j Find Soou see have our faded crossed flowers childhood's ; clear we streams Into fields of toilsome hours. Where the fondest hopes must fade and Like pass, loved the faces we so well, And the brightest sun must set at last, Where life is one short spell, But another hope still points above, . Where all sing of festal joy, And flowers that bloom in fields of love No chilling frost can destroy. Where hope and memory will unite In a light that never fades, And memory will paint the old-time bright In Heaven’s unfading shades. —Mrs. Emma Fi.ynt. THE RACE. “My pet, Kitty Wells, was in daily training, and the jockeys told me confi dently, that she was sure to win money, “I visited her at her stable every day, and she was always glad to see me— would greet me from the stall, when she heard my voice outside. Gentlemen, you can hardly couceive how great an affection I had for her. To love and be '«ved, will soften, measurably, the hard est nature, though the object of that love be only a.horse. “Hear 1 hear 1” cried the President, “hear! hear 1” “I believe yomare correct—1 believe y ,„, ar »,” groaned Mr. Sqm 7 /.ie. “The race day arrived. She was en tered against the best running stock of Kentucky, and stood a new candidate for honors, without a record. With her light, muscular jockey ‘Jack’ in blue and white, upon her back, I thought she looked grand, while, with keen eye, she watched the preparations. She knew very well that it was her great day of trial, and when I approached her she Whinnied. She always greeted me so, and placing her nose on my shoulder, seemed to whisper in my ear : ‘Don’t be uneasy, Jim, I’ll win this race or die tryiig.’ “‘Do you know the horses entered?’ I inquired of Jack. “ ‘Yes ;’ he replied, ‘She’s got the best field against her I have seen on this yer course, but I reckon she’ll win.’ “ ‘And what makes you think so ?’ I asked. “ ‘Well, first, I know how to ride her,’ be remarked with pardonable vanity, for he did ride well. ‘Then she’s got good bottom, and last, which is the biggest card, she’ll keep cool. Why, she’s knowd this thing was cornin’ for some time ; but after you’d come and see her every evenin’, she'd rest jist as easy— onl y dreamin’ a little, and sleep as sound as if she was winterin’ over. Do you see that horse yonder ? That’s Light ning—one of the fastest. He’ll be the favorite, but he’s nervous. If you go up and examine, you’ll find the veins out the muscles twitching, and the ears jumping back and forward all the time. He didn’t sleep a wink last night, j Kitty isn’t troublin’herself—wish you’d just stand by her most of the time, he fore the bell rings—rank in the field. ! jj et your bottom dollar on the field.’ “The pools opened. I didn’t have much money ; but for every jive with which I backed the field, there were forty for Lightning and Flyaway, " first and second choice. . “My friends told me to go in heavy, and they would see me through. Well the polls closed for the first heat, the | i bell They rang, and wonderfully the horses gathered, were excited—some - stood quivering, with eyes full of fiery ! impatience. Six of them gathered for the start. I could see Jack patting Kit i tt on th e neck and talking soothingly to lier - ‘Now, quiet, Kitty, stand still.’ One car was bent back to catch his | tones, and the other forward on the track. “The flag dropped, and they galloped forward to the send-off. ‘Quiet, Kitty,’ I heard Jack say, as he reined her up. There were several lagging, while one i of the favorites anxious for the lead, dashed away foi a hundred yards before he could be checked, and returned much excited. Jack rode Kitty up to me, and I rubbed her nose, and she went back to the stand as cool as at first, There were two false starts, to which I felt sure Jack contributed ; but when the send-off came, the hones passed the hne m a bunch, and the race began. 6y rea, - ! 'f 1 second quar ter, there was a wide gap between three in front and three behind, and I saw through Lightning my glass that Kitty was leading ^ about by a behind headwind Flyaway was a neck the latter. .Jack was leaning forward in the saddle: he didn’t touch the seat; he used neither 'vhip nor spur, but just patted her on the neck nowana then, and 1 knew he ^a® ur 8 | Dg “®r only with the words, ; Now, Kitty. The Democrat CRAWFORD'VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1880. “Gentlemen, perhaps none of you have ever known what it is to be in love with a horse, and can hardly appreciate m 5' feelings when I saw her on the lead at the third quarter, untouched by whip or spur. I felt that she knew who was waiting to caress and feel proud of her when she came in. I was compelled to gulp down my emotion aud shade my eyes as I hastened from the stand and went beyond it to greet her. I heard the people talking and caught the ex pressions,‘Good mare ! ’ ‘Best rider on the course 1’ ‘Who owns her ?’ ‘What’s her name!’ Then a knowing fellow said, ‘Ah, Lightning and Flyaway are just knocking the bottom out of her. while they put her up in the pools for the greens to lose on.’ Then I saw f>' em straining on the homestretch, The excited crowds were hushed into silence—the race was so close. “I saw Kitty with a yard the advan f«ge, her neck stretched out and her nostrils aflame—twenty yards to and heard Jack say louder and stronger than common. ‘Now,. Kitty 1’ I saw Lightning’s rider strike him with the whip. But Kitty sprang forward at his word with new energy, and passed the line by a half length atiead amid deafen ing cheers of the assembled thousands. ‘Quiet, Kitty,’ said Jack, as she passed where I stood with water and blanket, She came to me with her neck stretched out, her panting sides and swollen and veins. I sponged her face and mouth put on her blankets, and as she walked about with me she put her nose on my shoul der again. She might as well have said, ‘How does that suit you, Jim ?’ I so understood her. “ ‘Jack,’ said I, ‘were they only press ing her for bets ?’ “He asked the time, and when I had informed him lie said ‘Flyaway was up to his best time and was running to win.’ “ .‘Pressing her ?’ said Jack contempt uously ‘Site’s the best bottom on the fl«ld. ’ - lhe first beat had the effect of send mg’up che field to par with the favorite, and second choice found few takers. Kitty had astonished them, and they hardly knew how to bet On the second heat there was two false starts again, and each time .Tack rode Kitty up tome, and I patted and talked to her. Ihett away they daited again and at the Hist quarter Llyaway and Lightning were neek-and-neck and Kitty half a length behind. They ve finished the mare, said a man near me,-and it’s between them !’ 1 watched them’ nervously. At tbe second garter the people shouted^ lhc male creeps ahe.u . I hen I saw her nose just peering past the favorites. IlmU no doubt it Would encourage her if She could .hear my voice and know that I witnessed her performance. then she did know. And now came the fearful home-stretch. I could see that the rider thrust liis spurs into the favor ite’s flanks, and slashed him with bis whip. Then I beard Jack, in the quiet that precedes the final outcome of so close a race, calling in louder tones of entreaty, ‘Now Kitty! Nbw!’ Her ears hogged her neck, Jack said, and sbe brought him six inches nearer the ground, as she made her final springs and passed under the line winner of the heat and race by a neck. How the peo l’lo cheered ! I ran toward tier with’ water and blanket. She saw me, and blown as she was, walked forward to meet mfe—yes, I gentlemen, caressed her, to meet me, and while the tears coursed down my cheeks. Since I have been a man, I never remember shedding them but twice, and this was the first occasion. When she had been sponged and blanketed, and had somewhat re covered her breath, she thrust her nose over my shoulder, and I laid my cheeks against hers. I was standing thus, when a Kentucky vender asked my price h«c. 1 ™red “g* SUte of Kentucky , she had won for me eight thousand, six hundred, and the stakes.’ The gentleman smilingly replied, that I didn’t want to sell very bad, and, after examining her flanks, said to Jack, ‘Did she do it without spur ?’ ‘I only wear her,’replied these for ornaments, jockey, when I rides the and, winding my arms about her head, I said to Kitty, “ ‘I’d like tosee the man who’ddareto put a spur into your flesh, pet.’ “After five years had elapsed, and my thoroughbred had won many purses, she ran her last race, on a Southern course, where she was a favorite. Onthatocca sion, a six-year-old, very like in her ai> pearance, called Revenge, was entered by a woman—one Madame Descartes, Madame was young—not more than twenty-four, and su|ierintended, person ally, all the arrangements regarding her animal. She went heavily into the pools, by her agent, against the favorite, whom I backed strongly, of course, During field most of the time she was on the in a close carriage, and just before the race began, drove down to the track and Revenge beckoned to her rider," who brought up to where she stood. Her back was toward me, as I watched her through my glass. I saw her rnare throw her head up and down, and Jack told me afterwards, that Madame had said: ‘You will win this race, won’t y° u i Revenge?’ and the animal had nodded at a wave of her hand. Then I saw her take tlie animal’s nose in her 1 delicate palms, and lay her veiled cheek ! against its face. Then when the bell rang, she patted its neck and it went off ! quietly to its place. “There was a send-off the first trial, and at the first quarter, Kitty was lead ing by half a length, with Revenge press ing her hard. Away rolled madarne’s carriage to a point midway in the last quarter, bhe got out and stood on the edge of the track I could see Kitty about a neck ahead as they passed the last quarter pole ; hut just when they were opposite madam. Jack said she shouted‘Revenge.’ The animal strained eyery muscle at her voice, and there was the novel sight of two thorough breds coming in on the home stretch without whip or spur. Their noses broke the line so nearly at the same in stent, that the judge pronounced it a tie. Away went snadam’s carriage . down the track, pud I could see her groom caressed sponging the and blanketing, while she animal. Then, while the groom walked her about a circuit. madame sat m her carriage, and each time the anitaal came round, it thrust its head in at the open door for white hands to ruj> its face. “This horse made me feel uneasy, Its disposi ion was too like Kitty’s, Jack share* nty shout’on fears, ‘You had better give Kitty .a the home,’ he said, ‘I'm ifral' she’s beaten, if that mare has as good bottom as Kitty had her age.’ ^Accordingly, in the next ; heat, I took my place behind Madame, The horses, were passing us neck-and neck, and wvk now (allowed my shout ‘Now, Kitty! Now !’ in Madame’s clear, riugmg V « wr«‘Now for Revenge 1’ There w - sometumg familiar in Mad . ante's toi •»>. I hardly knew why I thought We, o- her for whom she was named, Kitty s. It was only for an instant. The race was absorbing—Kittie was beaten by a head. I felt that the race was lost. Kit*$r Kitty 1 would be discouraged. Poor Gentlemen, I felt more for her, at that moment, than for my an financial ticipated loss of money—the prospect of ruin. “I had bet more heavily upon her than before. Again the veiled woman stood by the home stretch. The horses came ‘Now, sweeping Kittie 1 jiast 1’ neck by neck, Now I shouted once more. Dne ear went back at my voice, ‘Once inore for Revenge 1’ shouted Madame, and followed it with a clear, ringing but laugh. The voice so familiar again, the face was hidden. ‘A very close race Madame,’ I remarked, with as much composure as I could as sume, while I watched the horses near the line, i, i Yes, sir,’ sho replied, as she stepped into the carriage, ‘but Revenge has won.’ “Yes, she had, by a head, and my pet "' a3 Beaten. Before I readied where sne 8 ‘ 1 naught a glimpse of Mad nec jj ^ and the bystanders said she kissed her the face. But poor Kitty. She 8too d for a moment, very still, and then, ’ „ r aool . oachpd shuddered ., n ,i at „ £ gered toward me. I caught her by the ridle ’ ag ghe . h er knees Then her m usc i e3 rc i a xed and her body came trirned heayily to the ground. Her dull eyes upon me for an instant, as l sat ,i gT 0 \vn on the turf with- her head on niv She seemed to : ‘L have doi.e n)y best, Jim, Kitty'was L (lie trying.’ Another shudder and dead The tears, gentlemen, flowed fast. 1 baV e never wept so freely sinoa-1 never expect t.6 again. Kitty was d’ead—my , ny lover V'i Mv losses were r d i,i n » think of ’ '* , f tj 1 I- , 1 ; my companion. If Her p r - ’ frioinls - and mine gathered around us with sad faces, and the quiet that reigns about the dead body of a human. Among them stood the woman with the veiled face. I looked up, when she said, in musical tones and marked emphasis, ‘I’m sorry. I didn’t moan my Revenge should kill Kitty Wells.’ “I looked up—I saw, and knew hot*, Madame Descartes was Kitty Wells, and I thought of the words that she ut¬ tered years before : ‘You’ll rue it, if I live.’ But she was gone in an instant. I saw her enter her carriage and drive rapidly away. Then I got up, and one of.my friends said: ‘Gentlemen, the truest mare that ever passed under a line is dead, and if to he kind and gentle, and to do her whole duty always are Christian virtues, and if to know more than some folk, entitles her to respect, we’ll bury her respectfully.’ than “The suggestion’was no sooner made its execution was proceeded with. Permission was granted to bury her In the middle of the course, on which she had made many a splendid score.— Front J. W Shaw's New Novel, “Solomon’s Story." ’ Gradually Fading Out. A prominent resident of Washington calls attention to the fact, in connection with the presentation and acceptance of the Jefferson desk, upon which the Declaration of Independence was writ ten, that the instrument itself, now in the State Department, is gradually fading out, uncfpherable. so that its contents will soon become The same gentle man, in 1876, when the Declaration was deposited in the patent office, called the attention of Congress to the fact that the immortal document was becoming illegible, and succeeded in having the following law passed, wbicli was ap proved August 3, 1870 : Resolved, That a commission, con sisting of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti tution aud the librarian of Congress, be j ! empowered to have resort to such means as will most effectually restore the writing of the original manuscript of the Declaration of Independence with the signatures appended thereto, now in the United States patent office. Soon after the passage of this act the late Prof, Henry, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, had an inform a! Conversation with the Secretary of the Interior in regard to the best method of restoration, but nothing was done, ! and there the matter rested. He calls the attention of the officers charged with the execution of this law to its pro visions and to the well-known fact that the manuscripts in the British Museum are there constantly being restored, so that need be no difficulty as to ticability of the design. — To Our Girls. Now that you are being courted, well you think, of course, it is all very and it will b« nicer when you get married. But it won’t. He thinks he’s going to keep on this high pitch of love all the time. But he won’t. He doesn’t know himself and you don’t know him. can’t last It must cool down When he wa^T sees you atd as many ma^ times a day “ w^e^ as he to more he sees your head done up regularly every morning in curl papers and the bloom is all off the rye; when your home con tains a good deal of wash tub, cradle and No, 23. cook stoves, he won't stand for one hour in front of the house out In the cold watching your light iu your window. He’ll be thinking rather of getting out of the house. Young woman, protract this courtship as long as you can. Let well enough alone. A courtship in hand is worth two marriages in the bush. Don’t marry till Christmas after next .—Auyusta Netcs. A “N. York Orfun.” One of the little lambs nicked up in the streets of New York by Whitelaw Reid and sent West to find a home, was adopted by a Detroit family about two months ago, and ere this is published Mr. Reid lias receiyed a big postal card an¬ nouncing that his dear lamb has gone west to fight Indians and that lie needn't mind about sending on ajmther to take his place. This New Y’ork lamb was thirteen years old. He said so at the depot on his arrival, and half an hour later ho reiterated the statemeut at the house, and added : “And if you don’t believe it, then call me a liar I That’s the sort of spring-gun I am, and don’t you for¬ get it.!” They didn't forget it. lie gave them no chance to. lie ate with liis fingers, wiped his mouth on his sleeve, and gave the family to under¬ stand before supper was over that he didn’t come west to have his hair coinbed or his face washed as a regular business. On hfs first evening he slipped out, had three fights and stole a dog, and when hunted up he was about to take his beer in a saloon. The family expected to wrestle with the boy for a while and they didn’t sit down on him until it be¬ came iuminful necessity. During liis first week lro stole 95 in money, h gold chain, a revolver and a pair of ear-rings, and he got drunk twice, When reasoned with and asked to do better lie took a fresh chew of plug tobacco and replied: “Oh ! you Michigan folks are too soft I If a feller can't have a good time what’s the use of being an orphan ?” On Monday the second week be sold the family dog to a stranger for a quar¬ ter, throw tiie saw and ax Into the alley and when locked up in a closet he tore a Sunday coat to pieces. It was thought best to have a policeman talk to him, and one was called in. lie put on his fiercest look and lectured the lamb for 15 minutes, but as soon as lie stopped for breath the young sinner replied: “Now see here, old Duttons, you are wasting tithe! I know my little gait, I do, and if you think I’ve come to a vil¬ lage like this to bo bluffed by anybody, you’ve missed your train 1” # IIe was ta¬ ken to Sunday-school by the hand, Hu hadn’t been there half an hour when ho was taken out by the collar. He seetn Mimxious boy to punch the head of every good little within half a mile of him, unit he told the teacher of his class that when she could stuff Moses in the bul¬ rushes down him it would lie after she him had bleached Sunday out school her freckles. They gave a book to fit hit) case, but be iitted it to a crack in the sidewalk oil his way home. When moral suasion had no effect on the wicked youth his guardian tried the rod. He was bigger but than the boy, aud lie walloped bnn, within three hours two of the nuts we re taken off bis buggy and thrown away. There was a second fore seance in the woodshed, and be¬ dark a window-glass worth #8 was broken. That orphan was faithfully and duly and j<ei»i»tently wrestled with, lie was coaxed and flattered. He was licked and reasoned with. Ambition, gratitude, fear add avarice were alike appealed to in turn, but as he was the first day ho he was the last. A few days ago he was told that fie would be sent to the Reform School at Lansing if there was any further trouble with him That night he stole $o of the cook, a butcher knife from the pantry, a pie from the sideboard and departed the house, leav¬ ing lows on Ins bed a note reading as fol¬ : “This town ar’ no place fur a N. York orfun. I’m goin’ out on the planes to fite injuns. It will be yuseiess to toi¬ ler me, fur I can’t be took Alive 1 Z)e troit Free Press. The Bureted Bureau. Under tne heading I He H united inl¬ f<»u, urn Atlanta constitution says : ’The recent gold discoveries in North east Georgia and the increased activity in the older fields of the State has ex cited general interest among prospectors and capitalists in the North and Last, as well as at home, that there is an abundance of gold in our Mate, no one doubts, best look but for its it, exact location, not where to etc., are tilings generally known and cannot well be ascertain by the unscientific. A large number of letters received by State and county officials, by newspapers and by prominent citizens, concerning this gold area in Georgia and asking for definite information, demonstrates how useful and necessary in the development of the mineral resources of the State was the geological bureau. It was stricken down by the last legislature through its refusal to appropriate the small sum necessary to keep the bureau in opera t ion and the geological survey in pro K re83 i The bureau was just reaching a position to be of invaluable service to R |e State, and that our interests have suffered from its overthrow is beyond question. As it is, the records, speci mens, maps, etc., already accumulated the bureau are almost valueless for i reference, without great labor on the ; r ,art otthe searcher. We believe it be wise economy, at least, to put them in shape for use, even should the j op^tW^Om rainera^fiSS. ail 7le ^nw^WjStLB^stfturewiU and sr me « c h bureau there is a ' wSnthisregard tfimthe UaTone to 1 J 1 regard than the last one. ” , * rau ! 1 ^ill out. . The „„ fellow who c ‘ a)rns tJie frieat African giant, 1 has a foot over nlneteen inches !on » Wflsh him and see if he is not a Chicago man, blacked up. | “Ab, yes! Time flies!” said he, gaz ing on the thief running off with his i watch. Tlie Democrat. ADVKHTIS1NC KATfcS I One Square, first Insertion . f 1 0$ One Square, each subsequent insertion, T« One Square, three months . . 10 OU One Square, twelve months . . 16 00 Quarter Column, twelve months . . » 09 Half Column twelvemonths . . 60 00 One Column twelve months . . 100 00 One Inch or Less considered as a square. Wo have ho fractions of a square, all fractions of squares wilt be counted aa squares. Liberal deductions made on Con¬ tract Advertising. Gossip for the Ladies. A pair of lovers idljr strolled Adown an avenue j Said he, " Now tel) me what it !• That yon would like to do I" She tossed a chip into the brook Beneath the cooling stiade, * And said, “I’d like to shed shoes , An’ git in thar an’ wade." my Woman’s writes—postscripts. All the rage with the girls—marriage. A young man in pressing his own suit frequently wrinkles the girl’s. In our country’s cologne-ial days eve¬ rybody had plenty of common scents. It is said that an Athens girl feels big when she can make use of seventy-ore hair-pins at once. When you say that a girl’s hair is black as coal, it is just ns well to specify that you dou’t mean a red-hot coal. —Supiwso a sweetheart makes a pres¬ ent to her adored. Iu this case she gives the lover and ho loves the giver. While atari upon the emerald lea Now softly lieam, Meek Dora with her gallant he Devours ice cream. ” And oh, Edward,” said the girl he was going to leave behind him, “ at eve¬ ry stopping place be sure you write, then go ahead.” and Notwithstanding Joe Brown’s Gordon’s resignation States appointment as United Senator, Athens girls chew gum just the same. Foreign ladies presented to the queen do not kiss her hand, but merely courte¬ sy and move off sidewise so as not to turn their backs upon royalty. “ God bless our homo ” worked in dif¬ ferent colored silks on cardboard would be a good motto to hang over the desk of the judge of the divorce courts. A pretty actress settled her advertising bill with a Little Rock newspaper last week by kissing the editor. Arkansas editors don’t get very rich, but they have a heap of fun. When the professors at Yassar College desire the young ladies to be good, and prepare to become angels, they tell them that all female angels are permitted to slide down on sunbeams. When the young and tender school-girl Isn't thinking, Isn’t thinking, Of the tlmo when she will be allowed to vote, 'Lowed to vote, Tjio chances are that she H coyly blinking, At In Coyly blinking. some young man a zebra overcoat, Overcoat. At a church sociable at. Augusta, Me., five young ladies were sold by auction, bringing prices dollars, that ranged from thirty cents to two and they db say that things are dearer at auction than any¬ where clso. A woman had almost won the prize at a mum sociable, when sumo one hap¬ pened to remark that her baby was cross¬ eyed and hail a very big mouth. It was a mean advantage to take of her, but the villain bad bis reward. What is the woman who trusts to her paint aud patches and other patent arti¬ fices to increase her attractions or con¬ ceal the ravages of time but the incarna¬ tion of foolishness, seeing that It Is she alone who is deceived ? A young man in Maryland started out with horse and lance and battle-ax to champion damsels in distress. He had not gone live miles when a red-lieadcd school-ma’am pulled him off his steed and rolled him in the mud. Maud Mary Jane ntkington Flier, White-skirted marvel of duty: The wide world can never beguile her. My gold-hcadud, blue-belted beauty. An old gentleman with several mar¬ riageable daghters was heard to remark the other day with considerable truth, that the trouble with too many young men is that they want reserved seats ev¬ erywhere except in the family circle. Women can keep secrets. A Worces¬ ter girl, on a friend’s solemnly promising not to tell, told that she was going to have four new dresses costing six dollars each. The friend religiously kept her promise not to tell %nd the first men¬ tioned young lady doesn’t speak to her now. Miss-, of the-, dramatic com¬ pany, cast aside an old corset at a hotel in-> and had been away from that town a week before she recalled the fact that 8250 in greenbacks was stitched In¬ to that article of apparel. When she re¬ membered this a member of the compa¬ ny was dispatched post haste to-, and was lucky enough, after digging over a lot of rubbish in the hotel yard, to find the corset anil cash all right. Moral : Women should never change the time honored place of deixisit—tlie stocking— for such an irresponsible institution as a corset. CLOTHED IN WHITE. Clothed In white—a happjr child at play, Her face all radiant with the nue* of morning— With fairy step she trod: A creature lovely as the flowers of May, Who could bewitch us with her chilalili scorning, Or rule us with a nod. Clothed In white—with blossoms In her hair, A maiden whom to love appeared a duty— A spell around her hung ; A sense of all that Nature makes most fair, That filled with awe all who watched her beauty, Or heard her silver tongue. Clothed in-white—she heard the wedding chime, Blushing beneath her crown of orange flowers, soft As her answer flows Like music, with no prescience of the time Wiien o’er her life, which love so fondly dowers, The shadowy grave will close. Clothed in white—her form we seem to see Shine in the glory of a new existence, And from Defying all time and night, earth-born memories set free; While we, like travelers toiling in the dis¬ tance, Yearn for the coming light. —Joseph Vebet.
