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ONE OF THE "JIN ERS,” Miuish r of the Masons, and God- 1 ides of Hdpe of the Odd Fellows,I A Woman Who Thouoht Sui: and Sword Swallower of tlu Fmnigans, and Virgin Orns tin* Grange, and Grand Mogul of tin* Solis of Indolence, and wo-Edged Tomahawk of the She was about forty-live years! United Order of Blrtek men, find old, well dressed, lmd black hair, 1.ale-Bearer of the Merciful Man Had Jubt Grounds for Divorcr. [Manchester (A T . II.) Mirror.'] Two-1 1 rather thin, and tinged with gray, and eves in which gleamed the fires of a determination not to be easily balked. She walked into Major Huso’s office, and requested a pri vate interview, and having obtain ed it, and satisfied herself that the law students were not listening at a key hole, said slowly, solemnly and impressively: ‘1 want a divorce,’ ‘What fort I supposed you had one of tin* best of husbands,’ said the Major, ‘I s’pose that's what everybody thinls, if they knew wlmt I’ve suf- . fired in ten venrs they'd wonder 1 *'!, homo it, liopm ho d got l.ad’nt scalded him long ago. j •’•■H lm.*rl n.fhn* n h„t >tr ought to, but for the sake of the young ones I've borne it and said nothing. I’ve told him, though, what he might depend on, and now the time’s come. 1 won’t stand it, voung ones or no young ones; I'll have a divorce, and if the neigh bors want to blab themselves hoarse about it they can, for 1 won’t stand it another day.’ ‘Hut what's the matter? Don’t your husband provide for yon? Isn't ho true to you'/ Don’t ho treat you kindly?'pursued the lawyer. ‘We get victuals enough, and I don’t know lmt lie's as true and kind as men in general, and he’s never knocked none of us down, i wish he luu), then I’d get him into jail and know where he was nights,’ retorted the woman. ‘Then what’s your complaint against him/’ ‘Well, if you must know, he’s one of them plnguey jiners.’ ‘A wlint;’ ‘a ii,«T „„oofti,™ii«.Kiyfi» 1 ,i s v l ;;"', .ibiUf'ibd Mnollii"g.L| 1( . 11 !•„, (jil . u lf i here can t nothing come along that's dark and sly and hidden, but he’ll jine it. If anybody' should get up a society to burn his houseiVviien down, he'd jine it just as soon nsitheir iKins, nrid Skipper of tlm Guild of Cara tine Columbus, and Big Wizard of the Arabian Nights, and Pledge-Passer of flic Reform Club, and Chief Bulger of the Irish Machinists, and Purse Keeper of the Order of Canadian Conscience, and Double-Barrel ed Dictator of the Knights of the Brass Circles, and Standard Bearer of the Royal Archangels, and Sublime Porte of the Onion League, and Chambermaid ol the Celestial Cherubs,and l’ruis- sapt Potentate of tin* Petrified Pig-Stickers, and the Lord only knows what else, I 've borne it _ w 'em j all jiimd after a while,but 'faint' no use; and when he’d got into a new one, and been made Grand Guide of the Nights Horror, i told him I’d quit ; and I will.’ Here the Major interrupted, saving: ‘Well, your husband is pretty Well initiated, that’s a fact; but the Court will hardly call that good cause for a divorce. Tin most ol the societies you men tion arc composed of honorabh men, and have excellent Repu tations. Many of them, though ealT'd lodges, are relief associa tions and mutual insurance com- pains, which, if y our husband should die would take care of you, and would not see you stil ler if you were sick.’ I ^ ‘See me suffer when I’m sick ! Take care of me when lie’s (lead! Weil, 1 guess not. I can lake pare ol myself when he’s dead, land, if 1 can’t, I can get another There's plenty of ’em. And es NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS. S.\M'KiisNii,j,K, Ga., Jiui. 20th,1880, All persona are hereby forbidden n ofjUnder penalty of the law, from hunt ing and fishing or trespassing in any manner on t ho lands of the un dersigned : H. N. HOLLIFIELD, W. II. PARSONS, MAI. RAWLINGS, WM. MARTIN, nnr 3,1880—Oni L W. ^cSABTY. The Only FIRST CLASS PAINTER IN j- w 'ILL work for anybody that feels disposed to pay a rea sonable price for a good job. S3tt THE YOUR S P E CTAC L E s AUGUSTA STORE Till’ FROM People’s. TIE NEW &T€^ME! Mrs. S. Fannie ./ernigan, Has opened a JYotion Store, next JERNHiAN S JEirELRV want to be siek and suffer^ its none ol tlieir business, especial!\ ; a ft e r the still-ring I've had 1 ain’t sick because ol , ,, ...... , , - - carryin’s on. And yon h° coultl b re .' "!' U." 1 11 l he y. Il,ld h'jneeilu’l try and make me believe it’s all rig mt it is and ■Sam pay to get in, he'd go all the sud- dener. We hadn't been married Ry inoro'n two months before he jinotl;man that jim s the Know Nothin's. Wo lived onlthat he don’t n farm then, and e\ery Saturday home night he’d come tourin' in before sup u til\ per, grab a fistful and go oil’ knawin’ the last I'd scoot him till morning. And every other night he’d roll and tumble m his sleep, and holler, ‘Put none hut Americans on guard —George Washingtonand on rai ny days he'd go out into the corn barn and jab at a picture of the|art Pope with an old lmgnet there. I ought to put my foot down then; hut ho fooled mo so with bin lies about the Pope’s com ing to make all Yankee girls marry Irishmen, and to eat all the babies the Republicans"! that warn’t born with n cross onto make a woman their foreheads, a»d m I Ft him on, and encouraged him in it. »itlmr. I know to live with t so many lodges never hid go at signs his name,' Youi , Smith, M. M., I. O ot nut-cakes, 0. F., K. <). 15., K. of.p., p. 0 t cm, and that's]11R. A. 11. I. 1. P, K of Y, N. ( '., L. E. T., II. E. it., R. LP. , X. Y. Z., etc.’” ’Gii, that’s harmless amuse ment,’ remarked Mr. 11 use. She looked him square in the eye and said: d believe you a jiner yourself.’ //o tub that was mitted Hint lie was to a certain extent, find site rose and said, ‘J wouldn’t have tlnmgt it. A man like you, chairman ot a Sabbath School, and Superintendent ol It's enough t a Re piseii. go 1 But 1 don’t want anything lo do of you. I want a lawyer that ‘Then lie jined the Masons.■don't; belong to nobody nor to P'raps you know what them bcjuoiliin.’” And she boned out of but 1 don’t ’cept they think they're tin the same kind of critters that buiit Solomon's Temple, and took care of his concubines; and of all the darned nonsense and gab about w >.shipful master rid s quins and com passes and sich, tt.at we had in the house lor the next six months, you never see the beat. And he's never outgrowed it anther. What do you think of a man, Squire, that'll dress hissell in a white apron, big enough for a monkey’s bib, and go marching up and down, and making motions and talking office. M’EIIY MAxTlAS A (’llAN( K. “One day las’ fawl,” began the President of the Lime Kiln Club, as Elder Toots settled back tor his usual nap, “I war' passin’ up An toinestreet’an* I seed Cutwater Smith as siltin’ on de fence. Inde airly winter I passed dat way agin, an’ 1 saw him huntin’ de streets for wood. De odde- day I had "biz- the foolishest lingo at a picture oI ness wid him, an’ I found’ de f'am- George Washington in a green jack ct, and a truss on his stomach'. ly out o’ fewel ‘out o’ purvishune, an' wuss off fur cloths dan my ole' Ain t lie a loonytick ? Well, that’s cow ever was fur a blanket, my Sam, an’ I’ ve stood it as longjkcnw what would happ de fust time rs I’m goin’ to. ‘The next lunge the fool j I saw him roostin’on de fence. I made tell ye, cull'd men, de man who was into the Odd Fellows. I made roosts on de fence inde fawl will it warm for him when lie camejluig a cole stove an’ look into an home and told me he'd jined theinpemty cupboard all winter. Dis hut he kinder pacified mo by tell- j world owes no man a Jibin', jug me that they had ji sort of any member of dis c.lub has has got branch show that took in women, dat ideah under his kinks, lie and he'd get me in as soon as lie.wants to wollop it out right away found out how to do it. Well, one What de world owes a man, an' night he come home and said I'd what it gibs to ebery man, is a fair SHE WILL KEEP OX HAND A [J, THE TIME ZEPHYR, HOSIERY, NEEDLES, ZEPHYR NEEDLES', TOWELS / / A NK EIIOH / EES CO MRS, HUTTONS, IONS, SOAPS, CANVASES for ZEPHYR WORE, DOLLS, TOYS, MAHRLES, It ALLS, FINE & COM- MON DANDY, SLATES, PENCIL, PENS, HAMRURG EDGING, ,tc. Fans, and Gloves. HOW Cl I HAP I WILL SELL Buy The Improve Weed SEWING MACHINE, only $28 on k or’ rim I.DI'.ST .MACH INKS IX THE COUNTRY. THE LATEST OUT, . I TTAG11MENTS, STYLE CUT. FOR SALE II Y TIiopp wliolmvo -II Iisi'il T lie l'<njiU-.s Mneliliic "'ll! iiivlc i- it to 11!! iitliciK, mill AUK.VIS Mcllimr it 11 ’/'/>;r , , , iD"- 1 •' "it"! tin- i’Eill'I.E wiint. ltionki s till- II I l II vl // /.:-lintil, 1 ■ Mii-li. Hills -Ii.-llv, iloi-Hthi- Wlili-st rmim. / / Ik A l,n '^ " ^ |( ‘ ImiBBiih \\ it Ik m t running tint works ol Hu* Mn ltiug. Write lor (lmm>tiv<* dr- cularH uinl purlirularVi A. J.Jernigan If. .1 npr 'jo Ihso — ti -S: A. l'\ I J)KN FI LD. Agrnt*, 11 WatII»»y. da Comity Board of lion. IMucn- er Blacksmith, Machinist and WOODWORKER, W ishes to inform the public that he is still on hand doing noth- SANDEltSVILLE, GA. uk f Wishing to inform the citizens of Washington and adjoining counties tliat having again open ed a first class BOOT AND SHOE SHOP. I am prepared to furnish my oldi customers and as many newl ones as may come with boots and shoes of the best stock that can be bought and at prices as low as the “Butchers.” I am new receiving ui)’Summer styles and samples, and the citizens are invited to call and examine my stock and new fixtures be fore making other arrangement for summer shoes. Line Boots Shoes and Gaiters made on short notice, also 1 guarantee a fit or no sale. Repairing done with neatness and dispatch work warranted not to cut the eye, bind under the arms nor pinch around the toes, Plow nil blow vu gmitlo Breezes, All among the leaves ami, ITecsses, Mug all sing ye heavenly muses, WliiI.* 1 mend jour boots ami shoses. Call at North corner public square, up stairs, sign Premium Boot Shop. B. C. HOLT, Agt. apr 3—2111 1 he* Board of Education will meet in the Court House in San- idersville on the first Tuesday in May at lOlJ o’clock, for the trails jac ion of business. Trustees are . requsted to notify the Board eith-i'AYj 511 '- first class work in the above branches of mechanism. ;or in person or by letter of the number of schools required, and, names of Teachers recommended : for positions in- their several sub-1 j Districts. All persons having bus-J mess with the members of the j Board can meet them at the time designated. 15y order of 1 MACON WART HEN, 1 'resident, I Lira! 10 N’. 1 IolikIkld, I Secretary WATCHES,' CLOCKS and JEWELRY , REPAIRED BY Also agent for Liddell's Patent Portable t Engines; Saw JUlils, Corn and If heat -aMills And MACHINERY for Plantation, Custom or Merchant 'Mills. Call and see me on north end of 1 [arris street, Sandersville, Ga. apr 20-tl |J A a NEXT DOOR Jernigam * « 130’ ADAM’S LIVERY STABLE I am prepared to do all kinds of © TAX NOTICE—LAST ROUND. 1 will attend the following nam ed places on tb.e days specified for the purpose of receiving the Tax If Returns for the State and county Taxes for the year 188O: been .*eu in laek-br imposed, and somebody laid ehance airn his bread an’butter jailed me. Did it liisself, ol h’ar people groanin’ out dat luck want me round,is agin ’em. Out upon luck! Ifluck /x ' meansanythin,’ it’sbsteady work an’ bind .i.use. Didn't k wing to bis goings on. Of trse be didn't, and I told him so. takin’ care of de shillins. Oder Tut a be jined the Sons of Mal-jfolks am whinin’ aroun’ dat dey ter, Didn't say nothing to me about it. but sneaked off one night, pretendin’ he'd gut to set up with a sick Odd Fellow; and I’d never found it out, only lie came home looking like a man that had been X€&Jkm For Violins, Accordeons, Bows Strings, Rosin Boxes, 8cc. AT REASONABLE PRICES. ALSO DEALER IN BiiMat ©as©, Ootflss a»4 CASKETS, April, iotli 1880 tf At Prices to suit tlic“Tiiuc.s bev no show cben the dies an’ skee ters bev a show! Ebery man ha; a chance to reach up, but when, lu makes a saloon his headquarter; he’s got to reach down. 1 doan go much on public charity myself. Temiille 1 wo lie 0 from wusser, jim 11 and t’other, Tanner’s Monday may. 3 1 )avisboro Tuesday it. 4 Cato’s XYednesday (( .3 (files’ Thursday a 6 Clay's Friday ti f7 1 Robison’s Monday it iO McBride’s Tuesday a 11 Wammoek s Wednesday a i2 Lamb's Thursday a 13 Riddloviilc Friday a 14 Hebron Monday 17 1 TosscFs Tuesday a IS Peacock’s Wednesday a 19 Wartben’s mill Thursday a 20 Tabe made Friday a 21 Temiille Monday a 24 warfhens store Wednesday a 28 Fourteen c. k r Friday a 2U Jernigan, has nice new Jew elry, clocks and Sewing Machines foj Fresh Drugs, Medicines, Pin 4* iiATiirg',. ■ KEEPS ON HAND ALL THE TIME sale cheap. Chetpicals, 4*#*., 4*c. -A LSG F1NE- through a threshing machine, andjbut when I am gibin’ I’d sooner 1 wouldn’t do a thing for him t il) gib to a wideawake thief than to a lie owned up. And so it's gone'whinin complainin’ loafer. Dei In Sander,-ville every Saturday from bad to wus, and from wus to curtain will now be lifted on de reg- until the books are closed. tins and that Mar time table of bizness. Detroit 1 lie's Worship Free Press. HERMANN T, may 4 gars, Tobaccos, Lamps and Fixtures, Perfumery, TOILET AND WASHING SOAPS, AND EVERYTHING IN THE DRUG LINE. PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED AT ALL hours.