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VOL III—NO. 50. Clje Hamilton Visitor n VC, |). BOULLY, PftOPHIETOB. - = CA! .n sinj-ciuntos rates. on On* COJ.V nc 'w V 'J Unccopv nr lunmlis ” ' One ropy thiec minllis \ny one fimiMiirn; live subscribers, with lhe men ry. v,hl re '. ive il copy free Subsea ibcnAvrlmic taoiv paper* ctinnwl or.e pa t efliie t > snotlic.r. .nim-t utile „„„e of the port office from which they winli it ihinsely.M "ell as that to which thev "i.-ii it rent. •Ml subscriptions must he p in! in advance The paper will he stopped at the eml of the n'd I ''..r ”■ less subsetiptfetiß arc pre viously renewed. Tiu> i.u.ohin.'COirpluU' they opr. r .\SH ADVEIITISINO^ItAIEh —sioCK 1 "in it mi" ti in on 1- llU >< rv,;rr sirs* stto oo $lO no i Li.m" 4.10 7 jl> lino 'IS no i . son oon Ir, oo 20 no . iIK .i IOJ SAO 11 OO IS (HI 27 00 1 cnhimn.. 010 U Oft 2100 1100 en'mnn 12 10 01 Oil 10 00 00 00 J r .,lann i 00 00 :1 on! 02 00 V 0 00 Ma’nicer and dev -n t exceeding six ;•. •• itl he publish-' 1 f r. >• I'avment-tn l.n m nh- (i tv'v in advance, , -carduu to schedule rates m ) ss otherwise , r, r-.(-.■ < upon. ' the 1- -.tth of line t’ ev wish tie lit pnhUahed and the spice t! ev want the n to oc ut-y. iarii a adve* * ts*n tbv ((aiti' ut w i.i l e re* gti-iite i to their t> .jiiioiote hujpmoi'S Tax', M, AIWKttTISKVftC- rs. Klit-rlfT* fairs, per inch, four week*. - .$3 50 mortgage fi fa sales, per inch, • right weeks .- • • 5 50 Cit.ii .n for letters of ailmiriiftration, *M-.r lianshin, etc., thirty 'lays 3 00 \eti-e to lie'-tors and creditors of on e<f .to. fortv (lavs 5 00 Aopli ">tion for leave to sell land, four Sides of land, etc., per in h, fortv davs 5 00 “ “ perishable property, per inch, ten dsv •.• • • • • " “ 00 Application for letters of dismission from imi irdianshin. fortv d-ivs 5 00 Apt lic.t’ou for letters of dismi-sion from ndmini tration, three month* 7 oO Establishing h st papers, the full space _ ■ of three months, per inch • • < 00 Compelling tides from executors or ad ministrators. where bond has been ei'-en hv the deceased, the full space of three months, per inch <OO E' r tv n. tices. thirty days A 00 Ku e for foreclosure of mortgage, four Month*. mon'Wv. per inch 0 00 P ile of ins dvent papers, thirty days. • • 8 ' ” If two WPk** no n uslness Caxdjg JOr. T- i_i £§& 'ey--- .‘<Tr D X T!ST, - •<* - '• HAMILTON, GA. TIJOS. S. MITCIItiLT, M. !>-. Pfsiilrtil Pliysifitin and Surgeon, HAMILTON GEORGIA Special aticntion'g’vrn to operative surgery Verms Ctsb '"/T **> PKESTON GIBBS, * SURGEON and PHYSICIAN, llA'inproyr, fi a. Will he found at tire hotel or the store of W H •!' lin ten unless profc-Rionally engaged. €IIA I'TA HO O CTIEE IlofrsE, By J. T. KIGGINBOTIIEM. A\ KST POINT, G A ALONZO A. DOZIER, Attohnf.y and Cow ob at Law, coir.v a a. i !'<•■ loefi in Shire pr.ti TV V 1 Courtf* in aiv ■. _in an f Ala 1 Tii'M. > Vnijn-ercia) low a RftciaHy. ovet A. il* oi & •.Oo’k More. Columlu .•• (: i. <] ■ •Mv 3E£ inCrS X* osifjiLor, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, 11A MILTjON, GEORGIA Will practice in the (’!hftttah / .och*e Circuit, or anywhere Office in the Northwest tiComer of tt e Coin t-hor.su, up-rt .iiF. j*iiß Columbus Dental Rooms, W. T. FOOL, .Proprietor, (lintpiß FcP’f r>’il(inp riilrmhns Ga. Ti A K KI jST ii OXJ SE COLUMBUS, G A. Mns..F. M. GRAY, Proprietress. /. A. Sklbfrs, Clerk. 0. A. KtEHNE, MERCHANT TAILOR, IS4 Broad FI., Calumbos, Ca-, on Vmti l a nFPortjncnt of G<*n tl**met* *i TVm* (if**'.#, ftn?lUh and French Cwsiroeres, Votings, etc. Cutting done at rea enable rate . Ffave your clothes made hy me. and T trisar wnt*** perfect mthfertinn in stvh* and pric e HOUSE AND SIG?r PAINT) \g7~ I tun now prepared to do ny kind of Paint in?—Hotifo. tiu-n cr Ornamental. I <*n m- nd vmir Umbiella.* and PaMSo!*, fi Dd mke them a* good a- n-w. Pnom low. Give on-a ♦rial. My shop i oPPowl.- the market-honee, Ooltitnlitt I *, Ga. Junll-Ciu W. D SMITH, >'atura! Artist. Hamilton „rt„ L l . .Li*i*Zu ' - f)„ d/i ©jlh.tX# , a fioht for life. n wits in the latter part ©f Novem ber IST4, o tsiat I found myself at sun set, i.ii ono of tho dreariest days I ever saw, waiting mv cLauees iiulo Arkansas station for a seat in a coach, which the telegraph operator assured trie would start in a couple of {hours for the town of C , my next destination. I sat in the opera t r’s cage, heating a tattoo with my for the first timo in a week f. ling utterly jaded and worn out. Tho door, facing the dense and gloomy forest outside, looked like some yawning aperture to a cavern, the oil lamp inside, seem ed naturally to intensify tho in’y backness on"side. TLo operator a weary, pale-faced man, seemed glad of company, as he no doub' was, a poor old [chap, and delayed mo with questions about lbe dreary world to which be was at tached only through his^iinstrument and un occasional newspaper. las certnint and hat the coach generally maduTtho trip"; in about an'hour'anl a half or* two' hours. I suggested the probability that, as the night promised so bad, perhaps tho coach would lay over. In fact I "rather hoped that this might be the case, as I began to hale the idea of being whirled through the dark woods with a fierce wind tw branches together overhead, and smashing the dry limbs and twigs with a great noise. The operator declared that, as it was the mail coach to C -, it would undoubt edly go, whatever the prospect; as to company though he fancied I would have pretty much my own way, as there did not seem to be any passengers besides myself. He walk ed down ihe ph.tform to the station room, and came back with the intel ligence that it was empty. Just at that moment a man pushed the door open and looked in; the glimpse I had of him was not enliv ening. lie was heavily wrapped and his face very nearly covered by a thick black beard. The operator, busy at bis table, had not observed the intruder, and I made no comment except a yawn of general di-satisfac tion. ‘‘There’s a house down the road a quarter of a mile wbe.ie you might s• ay all night,” ventured the operator, listlessly turning the pages of the last year’s almanac, not rais ing his eyes at all. Mine was not a suspicious nature, and yet I took no heart in his suggestion, and began to think all manner of things about the man with the almanac. A house down the road. I went to the door and lookhd out. The man who had looked in on us had been sitting on the step formed by the threshold. 1 was sure it was (he same, lie got up hastily and walked down the platform; not glancing back. I ob served then that he wore a heavy eaptoe 61oak and low hat. The wind blew’ a hurricane and there was not a star visible; as to road I could see none, nor irffact anything, bu! about twelve inches of the frosty rails on which the operator’s lamp light fell. I closed the door sud denly, as if I h I retired within. I can not sny thut it was my purpose, to watch the man in tlie cloak, but I closed the door. It was very dark on the platform, except under the] grimy window. Thy man came back softlj’, arid I scraped a wax taper to light a cigar. The black beard and a pair of glittering eyes were within two feet of me- Was ho disconcerted? He walked on the other side of the platform leis urely. The rain began to fall in big splashing drops, chilling me thorough ly in ten minutes. I went back into the operator’s room; he still idled ! over the almanac, scarcely looking up |as I entered. Soon after tin re was the distant rumbling of wheels, the trample of horses, arid a few bugle tones came drawn mournfully in the wind. “ There’s a coach,” said the opera tor, “and Bjll Woodford’s horn. There must be something wrong! This is not bis fun.” L’ghts gjeamed at the outer end of the platform. The clumsy ol I coach rumbled up, the driver iri a gray ovi rcoat wordy cap helped to get the i mail ban in tiie boot, shorn ing out, ! “This way, if you please, gentleman, and not an inch y’ time to spare.” “What’s tip, Woodford?” said a I deep >a‘s voice, “and where’* Sam i to-night ? ” HAMILTON, HARRIS GO.. GA.. FRIDAY, DECE ; “He's gone and give his ankle a baddish twist, that’s all. Come,look' alive there! ’’ I buttoned up my coat, foil that Imy pistol was all right; I had taken ii from tho black bag just, before the f arrival of ihe coach. I clambered in, leak a tor . ard seat, and as somebody swung a lantern backward and for ward, discerned that, save a very old gentleman, who seemed to bo dozing in the back, I was the only passen | ger- Tiio driver oraokod his whip, and with a terrific jolting, we started at a bilious rate of speed. We had, per haps, accomplished five or six miles in this way, when the rickety old affair gave a sudden lurch, before coming to a full stop, and tbe driver appeared at tbe window dripping with rain: ‘‘ W e’ll have to tumble here for ihe night, In okon, gents, for the storm last night has blown a tree right square in the road, and the leader has got a rock in his foot and can’t i go on anyway.” Pleasant prospect truly. “ There’s old ,T b Silvers’ \ cabin yonder; we can put up with ' him, 1 guess, until moruinV’ As the driver had already begun ; to unhitch, there was nothing to do \ but beg hospitality of Mr. Silvers, and the old gentleman and myself j scrambled out, the former growling sav igely when he found the road an- I kle deep in a sticky mire, and the ! rain pouring in torrents. “I should j like to throttle that villain, and shoot ! that cursed leader on the spot,” said i the old gentlemar making off towards the miserable shanty, to the right some thirty yards. Afier a supper of frizzled bacon, fried eggs and excellent coffee, which wms not so bad a supper, eaten before a spaking fire of birch logs, the host, a tall, grim old man, with the face of one of Napoleon I’s. soldiers, albeit with a certain look of simplicity im possible to a soldier, conducted me up a rude pair of stairs to a sleeping apartment. The room sloped low in the ceiling on two sides, being just under tlie roof, and was furnished with two narrow beds and two chairs. I took off my coat and waistcoat, and (lung myself into bed, putting my pistol and watch under my head. The grim old man excused bis pov erty and took away the candle, his cowhide shoes creaking on the stairs as he descended. On second thought I took my watch from under the pil low, and placed it between the mat tresses on the further side of the bed next to the wall, and soon fell asleep, lulled by the droning voices beneath, and the rain that fill on the shingled roof, a sound I used to love in my boyhood. I was awakened by the creaking of the board’floor under a st.ockened foot. The room undoubt— | edly owned another occupant than myself. Whether legitimately so, re mained to be discovered. AVliat, money I had, I carried in tlie right pocket of my trowsers, the safest place by all means. I also car ried a large, clumsy jack-knife, such as sailors cut tobacco with. I don’t know why I should have remembered the knife, but I did. i’he walking had c ased, but I fancied I beard a stifled luv tilling in the room; this might hnvi. Ins 11 only fancy. However, I gently drew my self to the side i ext to the w all, be tween which and the bed there was just room enough for a human body and slipped to the tloor. I think I smiled impulse, but at tl at moon nt'the creeping recommenced, followed by a smothered oath, and I knew that someone was softly ap proaching the bed. I had ceased to smile. I did not admire the idea of a fierce struggle in the dirk, and most unfortunately my taper* were in my waistcoat, which I had thrown on a chair when retiring. Nevertheless, I had no notion of being a quiescent party to a murder, and I began to work my way to the foot of the bed, which I had succeed i or] in doing very quietly. I thought of the knife again, and opening it stuck it in my waistband, a thing I would not do again under the same j circumstances. If I had only remov ed the pistol. As the novelist would s y, ail this ocenred in much le.-s time than it would take to write it, of to read it either, and only a very j few moments hail elapsed sii cc my first waking. My next move wa rather singular. I had noli ,-d a light print spread on the bed, a gaudy piece of calico like our attic window ] curtains at home. I snatched this from the be I and sprang to the side j whence he noise proceeded, A man leaped over tho bed; he turned with t>. growl of rage, but be ing lithe as a cat, I envelop.-1 his j head with the calico, mv hand: at ! his throat in a a instant. Then b- .an a fearful struggle as wo rolled on ! the fl Mir together. My assailant then dragged me rnstvr the bed, and it fiasbeO upon me in an instant that the recovery of the knife was in his mind. I fdt bow with my 101 l hand for mine; it was gone. It had slip ped out during the soufll.-, and I was thankful that I had not beeu thrown on its sharp point. The burly rulliau lmd lorn tho muf fler from his head, and was altogether fixing me in short order. The dom inant idea in both of us now was to seize tho knitv by the bed. And my chance was not worth the flip of a penny, yet if anything would be cal culated to lend a man supernatural strenmli, it was conditions like these, and I astonished myself. With a sti pur-human effort I got on top, and planted my right kneo on his breast, and again seizing his throat with lies iteration, soon had the satisfaction of feeling his clutch relax, until he was as powerless as a child. My strength began to fail now, and a eold, sickly sweat broke out of my body at every pore. My would-be murderer lay very still, scarcely a tremor betraying that there was life in him. There was a hurried tramping of feet be low, atnl a pale light glimmered on the ceiling as the grim old man and two or three others ascended the stairs, bringing candles. We had aroused the household, although nei ther of us had cried out. As lam not a fighting character, and my jour age nothing to boast of, 1 think I may safely acknowledge that I showed the white feather when it was all (—;i, and dropped over from exh" islim. and excitement. My man with the b! ?.1 b ird, w! o had followed me three (lavs wiili an intent to take my life, believing me to be another person (this T after wards learned), was held in charge until daylight by the coach driver, and the host, and at last astonished these worthies bv knocking them both down and making his escape. . I have his knife yet; a keen Italian stiletto, a perfect beauty in temper and curving, and keen as a razor. There are many pleasing adventures in the life of a commercial traveler, or drummer, as they are called, but tin re nro also draw backs. Paper Car Wiikxls.— The exper iment is about, to ho made of using paper for the cost fuel ion of wheels for drawing-room cars on one of the rail wav s of New York Slate. The advantages of paper over any other light material are said by the inven tor of the new wheels to be the l*oI— lowing: It is noiseless; it does not swell or shrink with the weather; it affords a stay to the tire and a latteral support in turning curv's; at the same lime it adapts itself to any trifling ine quality of the inner surface of which wood or iron fail to do; and, finally, it seems to he stronger than any ot her material—many times stronger than any material of the same weight—of which a wheel can possibly he made. In tlie-o. wheels the u-ual steel tire with its “rail Hinge” is used. Upon the axle, as a center, two h avey cast iron flanges are fastened parclloll to each oti.er at light angles with the axle, and in the plain of the diame ter. The inside one has an eight inch radius, the outside one com pletely covering tho outer disc, and overlapping the tire one-halt an inch. Through the compressed paper, from flange to flange, are passed strong holts of the best iron, secured by nuts “screwed home” firmly, and near enough together to hold the pa per in its place without unnec-ssary cutting away of its fibre or weaken ing the fl inges. S6bT The line of coniw: f no ' y a boy during the five _> ■ i. teen to t went / v i ■ • too. t cvi instance, dele: i atei for life. As i.e is then cardul or care less, prudent or inipru bait, industri j on- or ind >’er.s, truthful or dissimu lating, in!, iligein or ignorant, temper ate or dissolute, s-> wi he be in after years, and it needs nonrophetto cast his horoscope or calculate his chan ces. tarjfJe flerson <uy*: War is an in strument entirely inefficient toward.- rc lns-iiig wrong and muliipiie, in ! stead of idtrnnifying losses. What Not to than thorn' When t day to wt | brush the tho cvcidi: | Not to the room of the fir the motlu down. To trer as if sl o did not t vice. To ho sister as ters. Not t> asked to bo done, take the more to t To mal boys. To tit mothers friends. To tr) the eveni join in la To tak at home. To oul To lea tons. If the mothers all never done. To nr learn to re m end) not be ut terrible < necessitic To ren a vagabo i To lea ' invest it earn, an men. To obe arc sure Timur look in ll voice not g!e toucl by that of -it wlii precious mother, of tlioso that ton your pi have tri bal nt:V' express! idled a mother my stru sweet and an even listened to my unliriuj her sw< I upper pence ; away i fat he r still li grave, as I vi. to tho Mwaa any community, and the trouble is our young men are unwilling to com mence on a farm in a small way and work themselves up on a larger scale of farming. Strumming on a guitar or singing love ditties under a pretty giri’s window at midnight may do well if the serenader lias been stead ily at work during the day, but if the sun rises and sets upon the idler, it seems that any girl of any sense would rather sleep noundly than be awakened by a man “with an oper atic voic and ..ii on. -'j ~ ~'kel-uooii. S’isle id -m paid last veer for the sii| ,ort o f her war system, two thous and million of dollars. Christian.- ,l who profe and caM themselves by that name—paid for mi-.- ions in the same time, five tnil liotm of dollars. Young ladies who are accus tomed to read the newspapers are al ways observed to posseai winning ways, most amiable dispositions, in variably good wives, and al ways husbands. J3sS?“ Hanging u brisk, but with a filling tendency. ; Y People who sell coal do busi no.Mi ot. a “ largo t.eaic.” ft plljlPf Of pOfll/MtUol WliiAV m UUI strictly pure. What is jiiic Sun? —Prof. Ru dolph, in a lengthy paper on tho sun says: A molton or white hot mass, 856,000 miles in diameter equaling in hulk 1,0C0,000 worlds lito our own, having it surrounding icean of gas on fire 50,000 miles deep, tongues of il unc darting upward moro than 50,000 miles, volornic forces that hurl into the solar atmosphere lumi nous matter to the height of 100,000 miles drawing to itself all the words belonging to our family of planets, an 1 I I ling them all i" their proper placet ■ naming uh aoh aperior force he nr tons f rid end stray mass> that* are v, ami ring in the fail., unless abyss that they ruiih 1. jlp lessly toward him and fall into his fiery embrace. And thus he contin ues his sublime and resi-tless march through his mighty orbit, having a period of more than 18,000,000 of years. tlrjr A Detroit woman could think of but twenty-nine different ingredi ents to put into a (nince pie, and she wept at the idea of losing her powers of memory. on taking his departure stumbled on iho stairs and fell to the bottom. The lawyer hearing the noise rushed out and seeing the judge lying on bis back at the bottom of the stairs, has tened down and with great anxiety asked, “Is your honor hurt ? ” “No, but my legs are.” “My native city has treated me badly,” said a drunken vagabond, “ but •love her still.” “ Probably,” replied a gentleman, “ her still is all that you do love.” Japanese officials commit suicide when found guilty of theft or embez zlement. American officials retire to their farms and receive the congratu lations of friends. The Shelbyville (Ky.) Republican says that the worst case of scfiisbness that it has been permitted to present to tho public, emanated from a youth who complained because bis mother put a bigger mustard plaster on his younger brother than she did on bint after they bad been eating melons anil hard apples. A woman is composed of two hun dred and forty-nine bones, and jus* sixty-nine muscles, and three hundred and bixty-niue pius.