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ie True Citizen, Llv* Weekly Paper on Live Issues Published Every Friday Morning, at Way nesboro, (la., bv the >ULLIVAN BROTHERS. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Copy One Year, .* $2.00 “ Six months, 1.00 “ Three months, 50 All subscriptions must be accompanied r the CASH. THE T Yol. 1. Waynesboro, Ga., June 16, 1882. No. 8. The True Citizen, Advertising rates liberal. Transient advertisments payable in ad vance. All contract advertisements payable quar terly. All communications for personal benefit will bo charged for as advertisements. Advertisements to occupy special places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates. Notices in local and business column 6 cts. per line; in local lOc's. per line,each insertion. For terms apply at this office. iCurrent Comments. Ithe spring the young man’s fancy, turns to lager in the glass. fWhile his daddy, in the garden plants the seed for early “sass.” —Editor L. Adams. i the spring the young girl’s fancy, turns to flowers in the vase, bile her mammy, does the cookin’ and the washin’ for the place. —The Drummer. It is said that if Mr. Stephens is nom inated, he will make a speech-making tour throughout the State. Savannah Times: Gov. Colquitt will deliver a literary address before I the Bunn Vista high school on Thurs day, June 29th, during the termination I exercises. Thus we note the first shot 1 in the Senatorial campaign. Mr. M. M. Smith, of New York, is at re Kimball. Mr. Smith visits the city kr the purpose of establishing an oleo- irgarine factory.—Atlanta Post-Ap- ^al. The farmers of Georgia, then, will ion be able to procure the misty stuff it home. A news item says “a Burlington, Vt., |ian got a divorce from his wife, a while [go, and now employs her as his hired irl. She has more money and better ilothes than when she was his wife.” We lo not doubt it at all. If you ever no- [iced it, a man invariably gives more Honey to the hired girl than he does to \vs wife. Atlanta Post-Appeal: Some idea of value of the Georgia peach crop |y be obtained from the Cunningham lard, at Orchard Hill, near Griffin, proprietor has for several days fen shipping an average of five car /ads per day, and Saturday shipped fcven, with 300 bushels to the car, on jjli he realized $2 net per bushel, or |per car load, or $4,200 tor the lipment of seven car loads. lugusta Evening News : “Col. W i Tutt, of Thomson, who is a candi- pe for the State Senate, makes fher novel proposition to his opponent, ler Fulton. The latter is opposed [the lawyers running the government thinks the planters should rule Itt is no farmer bv profession, but ps Mr. Fulton-that at the nextpubli ; |e day in r l homson they will harness Ben Gross’ hobtailed bull to a plow |d in the presence of a committee, the in who plows the straightest and best krow be duly entitled to the farmer rage of the district. Mr. Fulton is ^to hea^pfrom. of our exchanges have la'ely Tsed themselves over the lack of a late at large for Congress. The ting list of candidates which we from the Savannah Times, we , should quiet the anxiety of our contemporaries : Hon. Rufus E. 3r, of Chatham county; Hon. Pat llsh, of Augusta ; Hon. Thos. Har- |n, Jr., of Macon ; Gen. Henry II, of Savannah : H<#i. C. B. I, of Albany ; Hon. James M. ^ef Muscogee; Gen. A. R. Law- of Savannah, and Hon. W. A. irris, with several more counties to Sir from. Where only one can bo acted, with all this list before us, there sms to be a strong probability that imebody is going to “get left.” Washington Cor. Savannah News: re is a good deal of talk now about iment. Some say that Congress 111 get away by the 1st of July, and thers say that it will be the last of rugust before our friends leave us. I re simply to say twu ihiugs ou this bjoot: It is impossible, under the s of public business, for Congress romluflha 1st of July, and the in*jFyeathor will prevent herb' to August 1st next, prediction which was made some [ago in this correspondence that thoro t>e an adjournment about the luly, is borno out by present jffiat is about the- date on which l*t nationalj^^gerie will indi- W) jjieir hoini A dispatch from Atlanta, d;Ped 9th of June says : About fifteen hundred people assembled at the depot at noon to»day to meet Senator Hill. In addi tion to his son, Charles D. Hill, and his son-in-law, Dr. Ridley, and Edgar Thompson, were many city and State officials and distinguished citizens pres ent. Senator Hill was accempanied by his son, B. H. Hill, Jr., and his wife, and to the spectators was a mere wreck of his former self. His face and ne jk were in bandages, and his features showed signs of long and severe suffer ing. He simply bowed and shook hands with a few friends from the carriage window, but spoke no word of greeting. The crowd stood with uncovered and bowed heads silent and tearful, as the carriage moved away to the suffer ing Senator's homo. All along the route the same silent and tearful hom age was paid him. Mr, Hill was visi bly nff< cted, while his devoted wife, with her face hid in her handkerchief, wept freely. It is seldom that such a sad scene is witnessed anywhere, or a more tender and profound tribute of respect and sympathy paid to a public servant. There seemed to be but one feeling pervading the vast crowd pres ent—that Senator Hill had come home to die among his own people. There is probably not a town or city in Georgia which is not afflicted with a number of hale, hearty young men whose business seems to he to dress in fine clothes, stand upon the streets, and make uncomely lemarks about passing ! ladies. While Waynesboro has less of this nuisance than any town within our knowledge, she is not an entire excep tion to the rule. Some of these young men live on “the old man,” but how others manage to keep freui starvation would puzzle & war ways commit tee. How much more honorable, how much more manly it would be for these young men to take off their coats aud go to work at some honest labor which would exercise both muscle and brain. The whole country is full of work, and employers are willing to pay all that the work is worth ; aud if any man is idle it is his own fault The last number of the Atlanta Drummer complains of a failure on the part of its exchanges to give proper credit for copied articles. We fully agree with the Drummer that every journal should have full credit for its artioles, great and small. If, however, the Drummer will push its investiga tions a little further, he will disoover that the city Press is to blame for the whole matter. The city Press copies the articles of its country exchanges without any credit, and when the country editor sees this, he is in doubt to whom credit is really due, and so lets it pass wi bout any. This is the true explanation, aud if tho reform is made where the wrong begau, we have no idea there will ever bo any more cause for censure upon this point of the Georgia country Press. An extract from the Washington correspondent of tho Savannah Nows, dated Juno 11th, says: Representa tive Black is still confined to his bod. He cannot sit up without being prop ped into a sitting position. He re mains cheerful, with a bright and ac tive mind. Mrs. Black, who has prov ed herself toA)0 one of the most remark able of wonPn, is more than cheorful. She is confident in the final reoovery of her husband. Within the pasj# few days Mr. Black’s physicians oau- terized his back. This o ono of cxti^&e painfulness. howererj^^HDroved satisfy from there Blaok a The Curse of O’I-Celly. [The following lit erary curiosity, though old, we Imagine has been perused by very few of the readers of Tfie Citizen. One would seareely suppose there were so many Invectives in the whole English language ; and never before or since have so many been joined together.] Alas ! how dismal is my tale, I lost my wateli in Doneralo, My Don ill in watch and chain and seal Pilfered at once in Donerale. May fire and brimstone never fail To fall in showers on Donerale ; May all the leading fiends assail The thieving town of Donerale, As Hghlnlngs hash across the vale, So down to hell with Donerale. The fate of Pompey at Pharsale, Be that the course of Donerale; May beef or mution. lamb or veal, Be never found in Donerale, But garlic soup and scurvey kule, Be still the food of Donerale. And forward as the creeping snail, TIP industry be at Donerale. May Heaven a chosen curse entail, On ragged, rotten Donerale; May sun and moon forever fail, To beam their lights on Donerale. May every pestilential gale, Blast that curs’d spot call’d Donerale. May no sweet cuckoo, thrash or quail Be ever heard in Donerale. May patriots, kings and common weal Despise and harass Donerale. May every post, gazette and mail Sad tidings bring of Donerale ; May vengeance fall on head and tall From north to south of Donerale. May profit light and tardy sale Still damp the trade of Donerale; May fame resound a dismal tale When’er she lights on Donerale. May’Egypts plagues at once prevail, To thin the knaves of Donerale. May i rost and snow and sleet and hail Benum each joint in Donerale ; May wolves and blood-hounds trace and trail, The cursed crew of Donerale. May Oscar, with his fiery flail, To atoms terash all Donerale ; May every mischief, fresh and st May all, from Belfast to Klnsale Scoff, curse and damn you Donerale May neither flour or oat meal Be found or known in Donerale ; May want and woe each joy curtail That e’er was known in Donerale. May no one coffin want a nail That wraps a rogue in Doneralo. May all the thieves who rob and steal, The gallows meet in Donerale. May all the sons of Graniaweal Blush at the thieves of Donerale. May mischief, big as Norway whale, O’rewhelin the knaves of Donerale. May curses whole and retail Pour with lull force on Donerale. May every transport want to sail A convict bring from Donerale, May every churn and milking pall. Fall dry to staves in Donerale. May cold aud hunger still congeal. The stagnant blood of Donerale ; May every hour new woes reveal That hell reserves for Donerale. May ev’ry chosen 111 prevail, O’er all tho imps of Donerale. May the Inquisition straight impale, The vapparees of Donerale— May curse of Sodom now prevail, And sink to ashes Donerale. May Charon’s boat triumphant sail, Completely man’d fi'om Donerale; Oh! may my couplet never fall To find new curses for Donerale. And may grim Plato’s inner goal. Forever groan with Donerale. :\ JV HTJ J 5 AT hlltCrFlD CITY. CURIOUS DISCOVERIES MADE WHILE DIG GING A CANAL TO CONNECT LAKES EUSTIS AND DORA, FLORIDA. The following very interesting story of the discovery of a submerged city or town belonging to centuries long past, we find in the Travares Herald of last week: For the past six months the work of digging the canal to connect Lakes Eustis and Pore, in order to open up the more southern lakes of the “Great Lake Region of Florida,” has been prosecuted by St. Clair Abrams & Summerlin near Tavares. The work was undertaken and prosecuted in the interests. of commerce and the development of this portion of the peninsula of Florida. The history of the first digging ; the subsequent damning of the waters of Lake Dora, and the further prosecution of the work has already been given in previ ous issues of the Herald. The work, which was undertaken, however, with the view only of opening the channel between two of the larger lakes in the great chain of lakes which form the headwaters of the Oeklawaha river, has, in the comple tion of the work opened up to science a chapter in the history of Florida as yet unthought of and un written. A careful survey of the levels o: the waters in the two lakes last.November revealed the-f. ct that Lake Dora was nearly four feet higher than Lake Eustis, into which its day by Mr. Sprott, who promises to use his best endeavors ’to secure, if possible, more of these submerged curiosities. There are several theo ries by the “knowing ones” to ac count for this submerged building, or fortification. Some think a large house or fortification has gone down in a sink, such as has<boen known of in Florida, but the topography of the country around would seem to contradict such a surmise, as the land is high and rolling, and no de pression exists to warrant the belief that the ground has ever been sub jected to a caving in of any portion of the surrounding country, or this particular spot. About three-fourths of a mile east of the present channel between the two lakes is a natural depression with a bay head on either end (although the ridge between is several feet higher) which some think was the old channel of the river be tween the two lakes, and the gradual filling up of this old river bed forced Lake Dora to find a new outlet in its present channel, which is now the lowest land between the lakes. This would seem to be the correct'theory, as the discovery of the mound and wall, which may have sunk some what from the action of the water on its base, is about on a level of tho present ordinary high wate£ mark of Lake Eustis, the more northern of the two lakes and the last in the chain before the Oeklawaha proper begins. Further investigations will waters emptied. The northern mar- be made as soon as practicable into gin of Lake Dora for nearly a mile j the sunken mound, for the purpose on either side of the opening through 1 °f ascertaining, if possible, what is which it discharges its waters into the rivulet between it and Lake Eustis was a knoll about six feet high and from ten to forty feet wide, on which grew large pine, hickory and magnolia trees, while the decayed stumps of older trees that had fallen duriug past centuries, attested the fact of the great age of the natural barrier which kept back the waters into Lakes Dora, Orleton and Apop ka. The second cutting of the canal was finished l^st week, under the j supervision of Mr. T. H. Sprott,! who has been from tho commence- j mules 132,078, an increase « f 51 per meut one of the foremen of tho work. working oxen 50,026, a dtcres-e At the outlet of L»ke Dora the »an<l i f 8 .' ,er c «“-i .™' ch ■*" 315,073, , , , , . . , , , Ian increase ot 15 per oent • other bar had already been cut to the depth j Clit u e 544,812, an increase of 32 per of nearly or quite three feet on the I cent,.; sheep 527,589, an increase "of previous digging, and was dug about' per cent.; swine 1471,033, an in- really now hidden by the waters of Lake Dora. A spear head of mot tled flint, five and a half inches long by one and a quarter inches wide, nicely finished, is now to be seen at the Herald office, which was taken from the top of the sand mound, and about four feet below the water level of the lake. In the State of Georgia, as the compilation of the census report shows, the live stock on farms June 1, 1880, was horses 198,520, an in crease of 20 per cent, from 1870'; William A. Wheeler, of New York, has declin ed lb serve on the Tariff Commission. Mr. Julian E. Epplng, the new postmaster at Darien, Is announced as an Independent can didate for Congress from the First Georgia dis trict. Surgeon Woodward, of the United States army, one of the attendant physicians on tho late President Garfield, aud who lias been sick with brain fover at Nice, is reported bv his friends us lying dangerously ill at last advices, with little hope of recovery. two feet deeper last week. At a dis tance of over four feet below the old level of Lake Dora a mound was dis covered. Tho firsi excavations re vealed the existence of a clearly de fined wall lying in a line tending to es reuse of 49 per cent. The rate of increase in Indian corn produced was 31 per cent., and the rate ot mcroasa of population was 30 per cent. Middle Georgia Argus: The first murder arising from the stock law iu wards the southwest from where it I Henry county occurred la-t week.— Portland, Oregon, June 10.—The average Republican majority of the State ticket is 1,800. M. C. George, for Congress, will have about 3,000 majority In tlie State, which is the largest over given to a candidate. Moody, for Governor, will have about 1,000 less than Guorgo. Tho Repub licans have tho legislature by a certain majority of ten, which may be increased to 13. DAVENroRT, Iowa, June 10.—The magazine of the Oriental Powder Company hero was struck by lightning last night, and exploded with t r- rlflc force, hurling stones In every direction, one weighing eighty pounds a qunrtorof a mile. One was thrown into a house, striking a bed whore two children slept. Windows wore broken a mile away. Tho report and Jar were noticed eight miles off. Augusta News: Mr. Win. J. Blackston ploughed up on the farm of George S. Owens, near Stellavillo, Ga., a leaden medal, about the size of a silver dollar, ami brought it to this office to ascertain Its origin. On tho obverse side appears tlie figure of a six masted steamer, full rigged, over which is the ins iriptloii: “Tho Groat Brltlan,” and below tho ship Is the dimen sions, number of state rooms, etc. On the re verse side appear two msdulllou heads, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. This medal com memorates the launol ing of Tho Groat Britlau at Bristol, England, on July 10th, 18-13, and de notes an Important era in ship building, from the fact that she was built of iron and fitted with tho newly invented screw-propeller. Site as the seoond steamship erooted by the Cunard L ino to oarry the mails between Liverpool and ifax, a largo subsidy being paid by tho Brit- pit or that was first struck. This wall was com posed of a dark sandstone, very much crumbled in places, but more distinct, more clearly defined, and tho stone more solid as the digging increased in depth. The wall was evidently the eastern sido of an ancient bouse or fortification, as the slope of the outer wall was to the west. About eight feet from tjie elope of the eastern wall a mound of sand was struck, imbedded in the muck formation above and around it. This sand mound was dug into only a few iuches, as tho depth of the water demanded, but a slight increased depth of the chancel at that point, but enough was discovered to warrant the belief that hero, on the northwestern shore of Lake Dora, is submerged a city or town or fortification older by contu" ries than anything yet discovered in this portion of Florida. Small, curiously shaped blocks of sandstone, some of them showing traces of fire, pieces of pottery, and utemdls rar.de of a mottled flint were thrown out by the men while working waist deep in wator. The finest of these specimens jnted to We learn that Mr. Gray ? s mule got out and was impounded by John Welch, who refused to give it up un til Mr. Gray had paid $25, which ho claimed his crop v/as damaged.— Gray offered to pay $15, but Welch refused. He attempted to tako tho mule. Welch drew his gun, but Gray shot first, killing him instantly. Wiragrass Watchman : Mr. Rad ford Browning, of Telfair county, has a catfish in his well that his son put in there iu 1862, twenty years ago. They say it is nearly white. Every year or so, when Mr. Brown ing deane out his well, he places the fish in a tub of water until ho -gets the well finished he then places tho fish back again. Mr. Browning also has a goose over twenty years old. Montezuma Weekly: Some ne groes were working in a field near Oglethorpe when a lady’s fine under skirt dropped by them mysteriously from tho sky. The negroes could sen no cause for its appearance and tl belieyed themselves bewitched. Judge C. L. Battle has been elected Ordinary of Itohley county, received a mi vote* oyer