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VOL. IR-NO. 5. CljePamiltaniisitfft D. W. I). BOULLY, Proprietor. CASH SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One copy one year $2 J® One copy six months '•••• 1 .J™ One copy three months < 5 Any one furnishing ftve subscribers, with tlie money, wifi receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing their papero changed from one post-office to another, must Ftate the name of the post office from Wlridh they wish R changed, as Weil as 'that to which they wish it scit. .. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. The paper will be stopped at the.end of the time paid for, unless subscriptions ate pre viously renewed. Fifty numbers complete the year, CASH ADVERTISING RATE-?. Kpacb \ rr.o I 3 inns 6 mos 12 lima 1 i n ch 7 S 2 60 FTSO * 6 00 $ 10 00 2 inches.. 450 725 11 00 18 00 g inches .. 500 900 15 00 22 00 4 inches .. 550 11 00 18 00 27 00 t column.. 650 14 00 25 00 36 00 | clams.. 12 50 25 00 40 00 00 00 ! column.., 22 00 41 00 62 00 HftP 06 Marriages and deaths not exceeding six lines will be published free Payments to be made quarterly in advance, according to schedule rates, unless otherwise agree I upon. Persons sending advertisements will state the length of time they wish them published and the space they want them to occupy. Parties advertising by contract will be re stricted to their legitimate busine.-s. LS'IAI. ADVERTISEMENTS. Sheriff's sales, per inch, four weeks... $3 90 “ mortgage fl fa sales, per inch, eight weeks 5 50 Citation for letters of administration, guardianship, etc., thirty days 3 00 Notice to debtois and creditors of an estate, forty days 5 00 Application for leave to sell land, four weeks 4 00 Sales of land, etc., per in :h, forty days 5 00 “ “perishable property, per inch, ten days 2 00 Application for letters of dismission from guardianship, forty days 6 00 Application for letters of dismission from administration, three months 7 50 Establishing lost papers, the full space of three months, per inch 7 00 Compelling titles from executors or ad ministrators, where bond has been given hv the deceased, the fall space of three mouths, per inch 7 00 Estray notices, thirty days 3 00 Buie for foreclosure of mortgage, four months, monthly, per inch 6 00 Sale of insolvent papers, thirty days. .. 300 Homestead, two weeks 2 00 33 ugineas Cards ,= XDrTL£’ri3rj‘ enkms, ttct, HAMILTON, GA. ~CHA TTAHO O GHEE HO USE, By J.T.HIGGINBOTHEM. WEST POINT, GA ALONZO A. DOZIER, ~ Attorney and Counselor at Law, COLUMBUS, GA. Practices in State and Ft deral Courts in and Alabama. Office over C. A. Redd & Go’s, 126 Broad st. dec4-6m SANDY ALEXANDERS ~ BARBER SHOP, Oglethorpe street, Columbus, Ga. Give me a call when you come to town, and 1 will do my best to please. decll-6m Hines Dozier, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Wilt practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit, or anywhere else. Office in the Northwest comer of the Court-house, up-stairs. janß ED. TERRY'S BARBER SHOP, COLUMBUS, GA. Go to Ed Terry’s, if you want an easy shave, and your hair cut by first-class bar bers and in a first-class bartur shop. Loca ted under the Kankin House. seplly RANKIN HOUSE COLUMBUS, GA. J. w. RYAN, Prop’r. RUBY RESTAURANT, Bar and Billiard Saloon, UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE. janlO J. W. RYAN, Prof’r. Read This Twice. The People's Ledger contains no continued stories, 8 large miscellaneous reading matter every week, to gether with articles from the pens of such well-known writers as Nashv, Oliver Optic, Rylvanug Jobb, Jr., Hiss Alcott, Will Carl ten, J. T. Trowbridge, Mark Twain, etc. (Or 1 will send the People's Ledger to any address every week for three months, on trial, on receipt of only 50 c. The People's Ledger is an old established and reliable weekly pap-r. published every Saturday, and is very popular throughout tile New England and Middle States. Address HERMANN K CURTIR, Publisher, dec2o-3rn 12 School st Hogton, Mass. notice] Having heretofore held stock in the Geor gia Home Insnrauee Cos., of Columbus, Ga. I hereby give notice that I have sold said stock and transferred the game, and under section 1496 of the Code of 1873,1 am hereby exempt from any liabilities of said Company. aug7-fcn A. WITTICH, Trustee. HMiiETONma Visitor. A FORTUNE FOR SIJ One Gift is guaranteed to one of CveryelcVCn -consecutive numbers, $50,000 for ONE DOLLAR BOW IS YOTE riKS. Eorhme helps those -who help themselves. 500,00© Tickets, at $1 each, num bered from 1 tQ 500,000, inclusive. The exceedingly low price of tickets brings it within the reach of all. In aid of Public Improvements in the city of Denison, Texas. O? 13123 TEST.AS Gift Concert Association WILL GIVE A GRAND CONCERT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1875. • And will distribute to the Ticket-holders $250,000 IN GIFTS. DEPOSITORY. FIRST NIT. BANK, DENISON. Distribution to commence immediately after the Coiicert. Managers of distribution chosen by Ticket-ciders and promiuent citizens. LIST OF gifts: 1 Grand Cash Gift £ 50.000 1 “ “ “ 25,000 1 .. j 15,000 1 L 10,000 l .- V 5,000 1 2,500 1 1.500 10 .. .. .. SSOO each.. 5 000 20 250 .. .. 6,000 30 150 .. .. 4.500 50 100 .. .. 5.000 100 50 .. .. 5,000 100 .. .. .. 25 .. .. 2,500 200 20 .. .. 4.000 500 10 .. .. 5,000 1.000 6 .. .. 5.000 1,500 .. ... „ .. 3,760 40,250 1 ".... 46 250 49,767 Grand Cash Gifts'am’nt’g to $200,000 22 prizes in real estate am’t'g to 60,000 49,789 Gifts, amounting to $250,000 Please address us for circulars giving ref erences and full particulars. A statement of the distribution will he pub lished and forwarded to ticket-holders, and all gifts promptly paid, after the distribution. GOOD and RESPONSIBLE PERSONS WANTED to work for the interests of this Association. Liberal Commissions Allowed. * HOW TO REMIT TO US. Money rhcmH be sent by Express or Draft-, Post-office Money Order or Registered Let ter. Address all communications to ALPHEUS E. COLLINS, See’y, oct23-td Denison, Texas. ESTABLISHED 15 YEARS. A STANDARD INSTITUTION. LARGEST, CHEAPEST AND BEST IN TOE SOCTO. The only Business School in the South con ducted by an experienced Merchant and Prac tical Accountant. The actual expenses of students are from fifteen to twenty per cent less than it will cost them to attend second class, or imported institutions. The Course of Study is conducted on Actual Business Principles, supplied with Banking and other offices, combining every known facility for imparting a Thorough Practical Business Education in the shortest possible time and at the least expense. Graduates of this institution, as practical accountants, stand pre-eminent over those from any other Busi ness School in the country. The established reputation of this Institu tion, the thorough, practical course of its study, and the success of its Graduates, ranks it the leading BUSIJTESS SCnOOL IN THE SOUTH. o* r course of actual buhixesb training is the best, and most practical of the age. No vacations. Students admitted at anytime. No classes. Business Advocate, containing full particulars, mailed to any address. B. F. MOORE, A. M., President. MOTHER’S MAGAZINE Is one of the oldest and best monthlies for the family circle within our knowledge. It is ably conducted,and its pages well filled by talented and experienced writers. —-Christian Observer & Commonwealth. Louisville, Ky. It is a very useful and instructive maga zine, and should lie in the hands of every mother. —Haverhill Gazette, Mass Terms, SI .60 a year, postage paid. Care fully selected engravings to subscribers, at cost. Send ten cents for specimen copy and terms. AHdreai, Mother’6 Magazine. P. 0. box 3157, New York. declß-8t SPIRITUALISM. The recent extraordinary attention the subject is attracting, and its investigation by eminent scientists, increases the demand for curient lit nature devoted to the subject. In order that all may become familiar with the mosSfcbie fearless and widely circulated ex ponent of spiritualism, we will send the Rc ligio-Philosophical Journal three months for thirty cents postage prepaid by ns after .Jan. 1, 1875. The Journal is a large 8-page week ly paper, regular price $3 per year— now in its ninth year. Address S. S. Jones, Editor, 180 E Adams st, Ititoatjn. deelfWm HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1875 ‘DOMESTIC’ FASHIONS. All of the latest styles in dress furnished in patterns cut to any measure—price from ten to thirty cents each. Send for Catalogue, which is free to all. ‘DOMESTIC’ SEWING MACHINE. The most perfect, and reliable machine in the world, and capable of doing work that no other machine can. Send for piices and directions how to choose. ‘DOMESTIC’ MAGAZINE. A beautiful Family Journal, published! monthly at $1 50 a year—intended to make j home happy. Send for specimen number— price 25 cents. Address DOMESTIC S. M. 00., jul3 6m 27 Marietta st, Atlanta, Ga. TIFF. T. MOORE, At Van Riper’s old Stand, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Off.rs his services as a Plaotograplier to all wanting Pictures from card to life size Old Pictures can be copied. enlarged and colored in a satisfactory manner, in oil or wale.r. Long experience and unsurpassed facilities cn ible me to offer as good inducements as any Gallery in the State. All work guaran teed to suit customers, or no charge, at rates as low as any. ju!3-6m J. & J. KAUFMAN, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN GROCERIES, Provisions, Liquor, Tobacco, BAGGING AND TIES, And all articles in the Grocery Line and its branches. We sell as low as any other House in this city. Nos. II and 16 Broad St., COLUMBUS, GA. Mr. JOHN W. HODO, of Harris county, is with us, and will be pleased to see his friends and acquaintances, and take pleasure in serv ing them. J. & J. KAUFMAN J. H. BRAMHALL, WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, and Singer Sewing Machine Ag’t 99 Broad St., Columbus, Ga. XtP&IHHBIBIAfmS MAGIC ERASIVE SOAP, For removing Pitch, Paint, Tar, Grease and Rosin from Clothes and Carpets. I This soap will also cure nearly all diseases of the skin that flesh is heir to. It will cure a hum or sdodd quicker than any other known remedy. Use it for tetter, ringworm, salt rheum, fev# sores, ulcers, rough skin, tan and freckles, pimples or blotches on the face, erysipelas or neuralgia ; also for shaving and shampooing. It is undoubtedly the finest article for keeping the skin white and soft that has ever been manufactured. I also manufacture a superior article of Laundry Soap, which I sell at the unprece dented low price of four and a half cents per pound—warranted to give satisfaction. Address M. McKEIGHAN. sole proprietor sad marrufaobues, Ail&nte, Ga. octUO-ifcu THREE PINT BOTTLES. BT A DETROIT REPORTER. There’s many a young man of twenty who would prefer an easy situation and good pay to laboring at his trade. Therefore, there are many who will say that the following ad vertisement would insure a dozen ap plicants wherever published: NY anted. —A gentleman of moans, who intends making a trip to Europe next month, would like to engage the services of a smart young man, to go along and render himself use ful in caring for the baggage, paying hotel-billls, etc. &!ary, 1100 per month and n’l ep't.•.-i* Apply to Charles Sherman, Park avenue. I was type-setter In the office of the Boston Nows, a paper which went to the sheriff years ago,. and when the above “ad ” was laid on my case to be put in type, I read it over three <or four times. I was working hard, and making seven dollars per week. Seven dollars jer week was good wages rn those old silver dollar times, when first-class board could be had at two and a half, and doeskin pants find French calf hoots were only four or five dollars a pair. But here was a chance to make twenty-five dollars per week, clean thing, and the work was all travel and sight-seeing Why, a man in my situation would have been little short of a blockhead not to have looked at the matter just as I did. It was 7 o’clock in the evening, and the advertisement would appear in (he morning issue. I read it over once more, set np the word “wanted,” and then put down my “stick” and washed np. “ What’s up?” inquired the fore man, as he saw me washing my hands. “Nothing particular—be back in half an hour,” I replied, as I slipped on my overcoat and started down stairs. Of course, I had made Up mv mind to apply for the situation, I thought I might fill the bill, if he was not too exacting, and if ho refused mo, I would be no worse off than before. Park avenue was a long way out from tlie licart of the city, and I went hy stage. I did not know Mr, Sher man even by reputation, but the driver knew whore lie lived, and that was enough. It was a March night, with considerable snow, and my en thusiasm lin'd cooled off considerably before the stage dropped me down in front of a large, fine brick mansion, standing back a few rods from the avenue. In going up the path I no ticed that the lawn was ornamented with statuary, and could see at a glance that the gentleman was pos sessed of wealth and good taste. There was no light below that I could discover, but a couple of pulls at the bell brought a woman, past the middle age, to the door, lamp in hand, To my query as to whether Mr. Sherman was in, she made no di rect reply, but asked if my business was very important. It was, I said; but she replied that I had better come again in the morning; Mr. Slier man was in, but was not well. I was turning away when a gentleman came down lire hall stubs, and said: “ Did the gentleman wish to see me, Jane?” “I did, sir," T replied, and he im mediately invited me into the parlor. The lamp was turned up, we took seats, and then I slated ary errand. “If you can pass the test, you shall have the place?” lie exclaimed, slapping his hands together, and breaking me off as I was giving him references. “ Ask me any question you wish,” I replied. “But it is a test of a different char acter, he continued. “Come up to my room.” As we passed through the hall on our way np stairs, the woman stand ing in the library door laid her hand upon my arm and whispered some thing which I did not catch. I thought it a great piece of imperti nence on her part, and wondered if she was not half drunk orabitdaaed. The room which v. r as entered was about twenty feet square, without carpels, chairs, pictures or any furni ture, except a table and a row of shelves. There was a smell similar to that encountered at the photo grapher’s, and I saw a dozen glass jars and a number of bottles on the shelves. On the table was a galvanic battery, having two handles for one to take hold of, like some of the ma chines seen on the street corners of large cities. “ Beg pardon for bringing yon into such a cheerless place,’* said the mart, locking tho door and pocketing the key, “but I could not demonstrate my ideas elsewhere.” 5 made reply that T was perfectly satisfied, and ho put his ear totpno of the panels of the door, and lis tened to learn if the woman had fol lowed ns np Stairs. “Do you know,” ho whispered, placing his hands on my shoulders, “that the old waraa'i down stairs in tends to poison me ? ” “Impossible 1 she would not dare,” I replied. “ Oh 1 yon don’t know her ns well as I do,” lie continued, arching Ills eyebrows. “It’s a tnero question of time, ot will be, if you can’t aid me, She can’t poison my food, nor my lea, wine nor coffee, but she has another way.” “llow—what?” I added, for the first time noticing something strange in his looks. “You see, I don’t live as other folks do,” lie whispered; “I am com posed of cast-iron, and have to bo very careful what I eat and drink. I drink a great deal of spring water, because that prevents mo from rust ing; if my inside should got rusty that would be the last of me!” lie was insane! I could detoet it in every look, now tint his words had betrayed the secret, and a chill crept up my back at tho discovery. I felt for a moment as if my legs were going out from under me, but the man smiled and appeared so pleasant and gentle that my norvo soon cam" back. “She will poison one of my bottles of spring water,” he continued, reach ing down three bottles from tho shelf and placing them on the table. They were all nearly full of clear water, and all looked so exactly alike that one could not be told front the other. “What poison do you suppose sine would use?” he asked. “Arsenic or strychnine, probably,” I answered, feeling rather nervous, “Perfectly correct; I think you will pass the test,” ho said. “Now here arc tho two poisons, and I shall put one in this bottlo and one in that!” He reached down two ounce pack ages, one labeled “ strychnine ” and the other “ arsenic.” The name of the druggist was pasted on each pa per, with a death’s head and cross boncs. He carefully emptied the centents into the different bottles, shook them up, and then asked me to go to the other end of the room. I heard .him handling the bottles, but was not prepared for what fol lowed. He came over to me after n few minutes, bringing tho lamp and placing it on the floor. Now, the real test Is for you to pick out the bottle which has not been poisoned ! ” he whispered, rub bing his hands together. I went forward to the table, exam ined each bottle, but there was noth ing by which my judgment could be guided, lie had brushed them clean, and would not allow me to tako the light so that I could look for sediment. “ I cannot tell,” I said, going back to him. “You are a liar ! ” he hissed, draw ing a revolver from his Ik :oin and cocking it. “I know you the mo ment I saw you; you are old Jones’ son, and you came here on purpose to poison me! ” I tried to soothe him and to reason with him, and he finally grew calm. I told him that I was a detective, come to arrest the old woman, and requested him to unlock the door so that I could seize her, Ile6eemed about to comply, when he changed his mind and whispered, “ Help me to detect the poison, and then we wili go down and chop the woman to pieces! ” “ I cannot pick out the bottle!” “ You roust 1 ” Ho drew the revolver again, and I saw that he would shoot me if I did not comply. Thinking that he might be satisfied if I selected one of the three, I made a choice and handed it to him. ♦ “ There is no poison in this ? ” he asked. “ Ho—this is only pure water,” I replied. “I shall not believe you until you drink!” bo said, after a sharp look at the bottle. “ Let me see you taste I ” He had me there. One good swal low from one of the poisonous bot tles would have been death. I put the bottle back, took another, put that back, and finally gave up in de spair. “T knew youl” lie hissed, “you wanted to poison me but I have trap ped yon! Now yen must drink from one of the bottles!” I beg,pi trying to get bis mind on something else bnt it was a failure, lie went to the door, listened, and then I saw him look at the galvanic battery, and then at me. “Take hold of those handles! ” lie ordered, flourishing tho revolver. I knew that ho would rack mo se verely, and so, after taking the han- ! dies, and whilfi he was making ready* T wrenched them off. Ho did not discover it, being on the other side of the table, and when ho found that he could not shock me his eyes gleamed with new malice. “ You arc % devil!” he said, com ing around the tablo. “Yon mast choose a bottle or I will kill you ! ” I put him off in one way or another 1 for about fifteen minutes, and then lie forced mo up to tho table, presenting the innzzle of the revolver against my hack. I shiver as I think of it now, for there was his every chance that carelessness would discharge the weapon. “ Choose! choose 1” he fairly yelled, and finally I picked up one of the bot tles. “ Now drink !” ho whispered, hold ing the weapon not a foot from my face. I could see by the gleam of his eyes and compressed lips that he was determined, and I uncorked tho hot-, tie. There was one chance in throe 1 if I drank, and death was certain if I refused. Holding tho bottle in my right hand, I suddenly resolved to strike hitn with it. I cannot tell how I did it, but I know that the bottle catne down on his temple, that his revolver was discharged, and lie foil on the floor. I hunted around the room a dozen times to find the door, although the lamp was burning, and then I crouched down in a corkier and was near crazy when a couple of men, whom the woman had sent for, came and burst tho door iti. The truth was, that Sherman had beon gradually becoming insane for months; he had no idea of going to Europe, and probably wrote tho ad vertisement in order to got someone to practice his wild trick on. lie was sactlly injured by the blow, but recov ered after a few months, and I heard several years afterward that the doc tors had cured him of his malady. Tho bottles were examined a day or two alter the event, and tho doctor found that I had taken the one with tho arsenic in it. When to Advebtisk. —There is no season of the year when it is safe to discontinue advertising. When business is dull it is needed most and should be most energeti cally used, because people are most attracted at all times to the houses who tako most pains to invito their trade, and advertisers then get the largest share of what is doing. “ Dull times,” it is said, “ are the best for advertisers.” Because, when money is tight and the people are forced to economize, they always read the advertisements to ascertain who sells the cheapest and where they can trade to the best advantage. If your goods hove special seasons, build up a name for them when out of season; and that reputation will largely aid your sales when the season arrives for putting them into the mar ket. Il “no pent up ” season limits the demand for your wares, it is clear that there is no time when you can judiciously withdraw from the public eye yottr announcements.— Toledo Commercial. Can’t do it sticks in the mud, but Try soon drags the wagon out of the rut. The fox said Try, and he got away from the houuds when they almost snapped at him. The bees said Try, and turned flowers into honey. The squirrel said Try, and up hft went to the top of the beech tree. The snowdrop said Try, and bloomed in the cold snows of winter. The sun said Try, and the spring soon threw Jack Frost out of the ssddle. The young lark said Try, and he found that his new wings took him over hedges and ditches, and up where his father was singing. The ox said Try, and plowed the field from end to end. No hill too steep for Try to climb, no e'ay too still for Try to plow, no field too wet for Try to drain, no hole too big for Try to mend. $2.00 A YEAH. WIT and HUMOR. The Georgia negro has no more faith in banks. Ho lays his money out in sfaM-e clothes and hair oil, and tho news of a bank suspension oa-tses him to exclaim: “ Bust away wid ye, bnt you can’t hurt dese lavender pants.” “Conductor, why didn’t yon walcß me up as I asked? Here lam miles beyond my station,” “I did try, sin, but all I could get you to say was ‘all rigat, .Maria, get the children their breakfast, and I’ll be down in a minit.’” An Irish glazier was putting a pane of glass in a window, someone began joking him, telling him to put !ti plenty of putty. Said the Irishman: “ Arrah, now, be off wid ye, or else I’ll put*a pain Ift your head without any putty.” A Memphis young woman offered to darn the stockings of a oity editor by “ weaving among tho meshes goh den strands of her own nuburii curls.” In her secret soul she meant to use her old curls, that had gone out o! style, but tho editor was an innocent youth, and did not know the guile of woman. A Syracuse girl declined to engage herself to tho object of her affection* until his father had given her a writ* ten guarantee that his son was not only sound “ in wind aud limb,” but of good morals, gentle, and warranted to behave both in “single and double harness.” This girl did not intend to be semi in a divorce court. “ Voluntary abduction " is what a Western newspaper calls an elope ment. Tho way to get rich is to spend loss than you earn. If you earn noth ing, don’t spend it, A Maryland man whose wife drop* ped dead a few days ago, had the fu neral put off one day longer to get the balance of his corn husked. He said it wouldn’t mako any difference to her, as she was always good na tuved. Talk about stamina in female cha actor, hut there is a mother in Detroit who will sit on the corner of the bu reau and read a dime novel through before she becomes aware that her baby has been howling for thirty-five minutes. A country editor used his old bill* to wrap papers in. One was a hilt from his druggist, and read, “ total for whiskey, $106.30; total for drugs, $5.60.” A Virginia City butcher told a painter to make him a sign which should read, “ Multtun in Pacw> Sau sage.” When he got it great flam ing letters showed him “ Mutton in Porko Sausage.” Tt took three men to got the cleaver out of his hands. Miss Fay, of Baltimore, who, with thin slippers on her feet, walked ft blo ;k to attend anew year’s eve hop, made a leap into eternity in fonr days thereafter. * Kre’s the way they get up jokes in hold Ilengland: The London Ad vertiser says that the subject of chris tening ships with bottles of wine is about to be taken up by the temper ance people, who assert that the roll ing of vessels at sea is mainly caused thereby, “Do make yourselves at heme, la dies,” said a lady one day to her vis itors; “ I’m at home myself, and I wish you all were,” A Danbury man who bought a now pair of boots on Saturday, says a ship may stand on one tack all uight if it wants to, but he finds an hour and ft half an elegant sufficiency. There is nothing half so sad iu life as the spectacle of an auctioneer at tempting to sell flfi,ooo worth of goods to an audience whose aggregate and tangible assets foot np to thirty cents. The jewelry for the sea shore is un doubtedly salt-aire diamonds. Many opinions go for nothing—it costs nothing to “ ex press them.” There is nothing more depressing to a thermometer than cold weather. A Wisconsin man recently killed six skunks in one day. After inter, viewing the first one, he became reckless, and so went on. It is never too late to marry or to mend. If yon want to get more than one hundred cents for a dollar, invest in a bottle of porfumery. A little girl being asked what dust was, replied, ‘’mud with the juiao B queezed out.”