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[he True Citizen, |.lv« Weekly Paper on Live Issue* Published Ever)'Friday Momitijr, at \N ay- neBboro, Ga., bv the LLIVAN BROTHERS. RATES Of SUBSCRIPTION: le Copy One Year, $2 00 1 " Six months, 1.00 Three no on the 50 All subscriptions must be accompanied the CASH. THE TREE the True Citizen. .-0:- , Advertising rates liberal. [ Tiam.ieul aOvertlsrueotti payable le «<i- i valu e. | All coni.ract adyei ti*ora«nti payable Lterly 1 A LI communli’aMons for personal benefit y'4-1 Yol. 1. Waynesboro, Ga., January 1*2,1883, No. 30. be charged for as advertisements, i Advertisements to occupy special places vGJt be charged 23 per cent, above regular rates | Notices in local and business column (i «ln. j per line ; in local 10 cts per line each Inset’t&o*' l For terms apply at this office. WONDERFUL INVENTION We take the following startling ac junt of a most wonderful invention rom the Atlanta Post-Appeal : A Post-Appeal reporter got an ink ling yesterday that Col. John G. Cald- jll, who, by the way, is a scientist of [rotound and enlarged views, had just irfected a much needed electrical [achine, by which packages can be ipsmitted upon the wires wi h an Pinary office battery as the motive lower. The reporter ca’led on Col. ddwell yesterday morning at hs ice, on Whitehall street, nnd cbiain- 1 H ,n perfection, hi the following in answer to his ques I Reporter U lien tions upon the subject of the colonel’s [invention; I Reporter—1 understand, coonelj hat you have been eng: god in pe.fecr - . [tg a machine by which packsg s may transmitted by wi.e; is there any! uth in the rumor ? ( ol. C. Yes ; it is an accomplished wi. Repor’er — Ilnw long have you been ’gaged preparing ihe machine? I ol. C.—Ever since the summer of >75 1 have been experimenting upon and now have it fixed jam up to my pofaction, having surmounted a 1 istacles. iRopor er—What were the greatest Col. C.—My tnaahine can b® made to 1 St. Louis is enjoying the rare excite- stop at any point desired, but that will * nenl of a new prophet, who propo- be the terminus of the line, It must' 8 *’ lo m»ke the dtv the l.irlhplnee . . , , , I of a to w religion. Hi* name l* \V il- thenbe placed upon another line which „ nn< „ watchmak-r, formerly of Ms- will be attached to the same telegraph comb, 111., but for a dozen yars a po'e. Wherever it is stopped there wanderer about the world, he says, must be a change of wires, and will ne-1 command of the Creator, who cessitate » ehanee of wires at every ! >' rovulM , hi8 Voowl and cl.rthipcr. l>«d has revealed to him that he is to go stop. There will be uo difficulty or | j n p, H three days’ preliminary trance trouble in this. You may rest assured in St. Louis, to be followed by one of that the machine will travel, bear bur- j forty days, during which the new dens cheerl’uhy, and with dispatch. It 1 c ’ mm unicH'pd t" him. , . , i ,. I Having secured a mom. lie prompt- wil be so simple that any ordinary ' i „ „ * f F 1 ly entered into the three days trnne , niincl will ea-ily compreh'iid and work and newspaper reporters, ‘-pfri'ird- ! tats, physicians and curious people will yon maVe a i public exhibition of your machine ? | Co'. C.—I have a few details to ar- MASONIC TEMPLE. Augusta, On Southern Headquarters for Fine Dry Good,**. We keep on hand at all times the finest and hist assorted stock, and w» range, and then I will app y fora pat ent, and by the time the spring birds warble their rondelays in the frrfsranl. breath of the ensuing springtime the world sha 1 know a 1 about, it. MAIMED SOLDIERS. LCol C—I considered the g e.nest Jieu'ty which I had to overcome was fe;otity at the tenuinii. This dif Cor. Macon 7'elegraph. Fonsr h, Ga., January 5, 1883 Col. Albert R. Lamar:—L)eai< Sih —We are the one-armed and one leg ged Confederate soldiers of Mouroe county. We write you pesonally for two reasons: are guarding and wa’chii g him wi’h great interest. There Me said to b» no strong external indicati ’its i>f inlo 1 - lect about him. but lay xpre^inn is] the most e i eg Hnt store for showing it in all the South. Velvets that ol a man bur .ened with a great : thought or great delusion. . r, , Plushes, Silks, Satins, Novelties, and everything desirable in Dress Goods. First. Knowing that you have been Tr aT g r a .’t 8 > soldier yourself, we believe that your .stac es that you had to contend with ?T7 3 , feelings must be of the kindest towards us. Second. We have through your ! co'umns noticed your fearless advocacy 5 80 * re »l ,b8t 1 once th "”S ht : »f the right, under eircumet.pcee th.t Id abendon the whole projevt; hut . woul( , have , iauntsd the boldest and I st I bare overcome that difficulty, ( orrcd lhe brave8t l0 cbBnge ,heir ,d I niu now confident that I c .n eon- i course he arrival of my machine with the j Yours is a high mission, and so far, ease that the engineer controls his j most nobly have you sustained it. May iiuotive. (jiod give you strength to kporter—There were other diflicu’- P«»*t Appeal; In the mntterof supplying stationary, letter head', e<c, for the Executive and other departmt ots of the State government, Gov. Stephens has decided to leave i f in the hands of the Secretary of te, Comptroller-General and Treas urer, just ms the matter of the public printing is committed to them under the acts ot 1878-9, with the request that they will, as in the case of the public printing, advertise for such atatioaary, with the proner headings as may be necessary for the different departments, and give the contract o the lowest bidder. All such con tracts the Governor will recognize and carry out. Washington, D. C. Jan. 7.—-Gui- trau, it will be remembered, curbed the jury that convicted him. He prophesied to them all manner of evil. The people here are commenting «n happenings to that jury siuce the tri al. To-day Thomas Henline, who wag a member of the jury, dice'. He makes the second member of the ju ry who has departed this life. Anoth- carry it to the end. You must know—other n vour way to the perfection of the j things being equal—that it is not a ! er named Sheehan has lost all his ioe, I suppose ? j fair fight for existence between a maimed property ^and is jiow a^hotel porter C. —Y oh ; another great difli ul- and a sound nn.n, and believing this, we Rented i self, which was to secure Lchine secuiely to the wire. '1 Iur ie done by means of a phi osophi - fprinciple which assures the certainty h transmission to any point desired principle he illustra’ed by a lead tail to which were attached two Jes which brought the centre of j should be done for us. fvity to the end of the pencil. This ■ ed our Representatives honestly think that both our State and our public institutions should do some th ng for us. W e have rested in pov erty all the years since the war, believ ing that our State was too poor to af ford us any relief. Rut the time is now come when we think something We have ask to introduce a id represented the point at which the Lictiine wi t be aitached to the wires, j Rep orter—Was there any other uiffi- idty still in the way ? Vo!. O.—Yes ; there was still another Jirticulty, whioh was the knots occa- ioned by splicing or uniting the reius to make one continuous line with out the ordinary laps. In this I have Lsucceeded with such wonderful per-, itectioti that there will not even be a jolt [in the passage over of the machine from A'lauta to New York, ihe telegraph companies would do well to # apply my [tiimple and secure method of fastening The ends of the wires in laving iheir Fines, whioh is as quickly and easily be a» to connect the air brakes to he different coaches of a passenger |traiu, Repoiter—How about passing the bill exempting us from taxation, but they answer that it is unconstitutional. If this is so, then give us your able pen to have the Constitution changed. Mr. Seney has given thousands to the Weseyan College for the women of the South, but where the benefit, when the daughters of lame soldiers, on a> Heiiline died <>f heart disease, which was supposed to have been aggravated on account of confinement ic the jury room. Washington, Jan. 7.—The Prin cess Louise, who is now in San Ar\to nio, Texas, will probably winter at CharU dt»n, S. C. She intended to <2‘> to the Bermudas, but does imt like lhe idea of a sea voyage. A tele gram was received to-day oy General Sherman from one of her party, ask ing if it would be safe for her to win ter Ht Charleston without the usual military escort ibat goes with royal ty. Gen. Sherman replied that the princess would be as safe in Charles ton as anywhere on earth. Fine Hosiery, Ladies, Misses and Gents’, Gloves, Laces and Notions gene rally. Underwear in great variety. Cashmeres, Kerseys, Jeans, Homespun*, * Linen and White Goods, Cloaks, Dolmans, Jackets, &e. Blanket* and Flannel*. Everything in the Dr> Goods line i» in our stock. We offer n« trash, but on good goods we GUARANTEE PRICES .against every market in the United State*. A strictly firet-cl*»s Dressmaking Department i» a feature of our business. Orders filled promptly and carefully. DALY & ARMSTRONG. oct20’82.am. DAY The Carriage Emporium of & T A N N A H I LL, Augusta, Georgia. ' ~ i > ar-r Several houses in Hepxibah have been entered during the early hours count of the high price of tuition, are 0 f night by burglars, and a number of sbut from her doors? It is like erecting a costly monument to the dead, who need it not, and asking the maimed to gaze at it and starve. The daughters of jgreachers are admitted free, while our daughters are foreed to pay the highest tuition. Is it right? [ And Mercer, which has received thous- . ands from your city, stands ou the same I p ane. We ask you to open these | doors to us. Is it possible that the , | “Lost Cause” is so soon forgotten, and ula ore, and what effect will the sag'. . , , ' ... 6 ’ . _ .l- i, her maimed left to mildew and rot m the wire have upon the machine you . . , , , l vo invented i poverty with a burden that no man can [ Col. C.—'lie inulator is of a peeul j appreciate until be has tried it, and de\i e 1 shall have uo trouble that a11 tbe 8 rand words ftr « but lip »ut that. My niachiue will pass? We thank your reporter for pr the insulator* without a gyration, ^^* nd *°rds, when he reproached 1 the council for turning out a ! ame sols dier, and ask his continued exertions in the oause of the right. The time [oecssary at the rate of a thousand per second. The sag in the wire, id by experiment, to be no imped- My machine will travel a cir- any curve that can be ma le by pe ou the ordinary le e^raph poles, right. may come when the State may pension her maimed soldiers, for by that time they will be few indeed. But till then we ask simply an exemption from tax- . . a . . . ation and that our publio institutions the wire to clear the ground, j opened to our sons and daughters juohment of the undone to tho perooraes all the difficulties of curvature natural in th>* w'ro le pole to another. .Tier— W ill your tuaohine be so •d ;n it* pnssago os to «top at iieo station and t’.O'i p.i-ceei; Fraternal y yours. Jambs D. PhoCtow, B. H. Napifr, Walkuk Hmith, Rl< *i \ug T. Mt’Mi't i,!■«*, Vv iLl.I vM M. 'Li.IAMAj kS HHi VVlM, AJWo, valuable articles stolen therefrom. It takes an early and enterprising burglar to get ahead of the good people of Hepxibah, and some of these early evening* a fine lot of burglariiers will be sprinkled all over with small shot, and get left and laid out in cold, cold blood.—Augusta News. Sumter Republican: Mr. T. G. Bryant, of Lee eounly, had nineteen Eosexs pigs five months old, that weigh ed 2,619 pounds, and others from fifteen to sixteen months old, which average 230 pounds. That is the good of those improved breeds, you ean fatten them at any age and on much less food. Montreal, Jan. 6.—Two »cboorers are ashore at the Shetland Inlands, near H»Ufax. The cr* ws are in the rigging freezing to death. A steam er has gone to their ansUtanco. The Post-Appeal announces that the small p*>x scourge is spreading in Atlanta. It <*tat*n that there are now pfobkvbly a dozen cases in tho chy pfot»\bly » dozen cases in t horelwere 1*27 criminals in t ton fiun'v j*il on Smird'v, Finest Stock and L >west Prices. Victories, Extension Tops, Canopy .« -ITups, Rockawsys and Buggie*, all Stylo* an I grades. The patent American Road-Cart. The easiest riding oud most perf’ot two wheel vehicle yet produced. Lends all others. Supersedes all other*. Three quarter Trotting Wagon*. Ladies’ Pheetons, elegant stylos. Coach Material. Fine Paints *nd Varnishes, Saddlery and Fine Harness. Leath er finding*. Best quality Seamless Gum Belting, pure artiole. Leather Belting. Lacing. Fine Trunk* and Valise*. Agent* for Wilson, Childs A Co’* Philadelphia Wagona, the lightest and best. oot.6,’82.ona. All Men Agree That the best is ch*af>e«t, and especially is this true in FURNITURE. Just see »onie of our nrices: P>rl> r Sets iTi Hair Cloth. Walnut Frame from $36 to $90. The best R»w Silk Set for $66 ever offered. Nice Wiilrfrit Chamber Set-, Marble Top, $56. The list Walnut Marhl® Top Set in the uiarkot f*>r $66. WE DEFY C OMPETITION FROM ANY AND EVERY QUARTER. WE ACKNOWLEDGE NO SUPERIOR, AND FEW EQUALS, IN TBflSQirTil. Who ever heard of Cane Srac Chnlrs for a*v*nty-llve ccnK Extension Tables one doIRr per foo». There Kultt which Anumbor 64 Si t t wi ntcriial Kt v«* We guarantee satisfiiotion in every case. Our * f ouk of M^ftressos **«t Spring Beils i» complete. S>cnm Dressed Festhnr*i siwaya on h**od A4l good* packed and »hipp»d free ot charge. Uph* lateHng te.rie i« *dl t* branch®*. Oor new Clatalo^Ue wi’ 1 1»> r sdv —1> ut OottJ’eT l.-t. oo„