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A LxNVykr Btn.i.nozr.n. A law yer had a case on liis docket, in|Mi which, muons other things lie wi ed to prove that his client lmd no money, and to that end he crossed questioned one of the opponent’s witnesses us follows: ‘You asked inv client for money, did you not?’ ‘Well—yes, sir.’ ‘Answer promptly sir. Let us have no hesitation. You asked him for money—now what was his an swer!! ‘1 don’t know as 1 cun tell?' ‘But surely you remember.’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Then out with it. What was his answer! 1 ‘I’d rather not toll.’ ‘Ho! ho! You are upon the tack, are you? You won’t tell.’ ‘1 should rather not, sir.” Emerson, meekly. he wish-|“ You never go out of the house that you don’t forget to put. on your hat or hoots, and you never taken letter of mine to mail that you don’t cury it in your pocket for six months or n year unless I ihappen to find it sooner. During |the past thirty days you have car ried out of this house and forgot j to bring back no lesa than seven- Ityflve or eighty umbrellaspuid you I know yourself the last time you went to church you took out your false teeth, because, as you said, they hurt your corns, and came away and left them in the seat. 1 say you are u nice man to talk ‘But l should rather you wohUI 1^ a cu iturcd audience on ‘M J . .— ;4* <l.i imf iinuti’ui' inv! So, sir, if you do nut answer my questions promptly and truthfully, I’ll call upon the court to commit vou tor contempt.’ ‘Well if 1 must tell tales out ol school here you have it. I asked yesterday if lie couldn't lend mo half a dollar, and he told me he could not.’ ‘And you believed him, did you not!’ • ‘Yes, sin for he suid you had robbed, him ol' every cent of his remly ulflheV, and if ho didn’t got out i>f your hands pretty soon his wife and little ones would come to” ‘That will do, sir. You can stop down off the stand.’ ()\E \VlitTWON’T GO. There are some men who do not lose their presence of mind when confronted with startling political news. One of this class and easy-going, lionest-minded elector,was mysteriously approach ed the other day by an .Unknown,’ who carefully lockup tlio office door and whispered : JoAl; deputized to wait nwy that the hoys arc (’ongression- ■‘'SHbtt i vbn rtml s ory,’ and if you don’t trot right ofi to the grocery, I’ll expose you be fore you're twenty-four hours ol der.’’ Mr. Emerson started on a jump for the grocery, and when lie got there he couldn’t for the life of him recollect what he had come for. liow The Democratic nun Talk tougress- jh) l»e honest say a talking you up as a al candidate.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘'j^op are kp and reliable,' anil if you are nom inated 1 'yoU will curry the masses.’ •J’erhaijaJ AU .V^’ve trot to do is to keep still.’ continued the unknown, ‘.lust let tin work the boom for for you. You are put man. You have our respect and ••'’eon fide nee. Mum’s the word—we’ll fix things You’ll accept V ‘ Well, I guess so.’’ ‘Hood! You are in the hands of your friends. Don’t word.’ The unknown left the office on tiptoe, hut in ten minutes turned, and then carelessly ob.» served: ‘Oh ! by the way, I’m 85 short on a little bill to-day. If you could spare it, I’d he ever so much obliged, and I’d return it on Sat urday.’ | ; . . ‘Say,’ replied the citizen in a whisper, as he beckoned the other to the doorg-hdl you’ve got to do is tiwj^qp.sHll ! You are in the baud* jifydur fried ns 1 Don’t say a witj^dP Bet me fix this boom for you.’ lie shoved the unknown gently out, locked the door and went back to his*-desk, with the firm 'Ihe Herald Washington corres pondent gives the following as the substance of the positions agreed on umong the Democratic Congress men in relation to the l’resiilon- cy: 1. The Western and Southern men agree that the candidate ought to he uu Eastern man. 2. They favor either Governor Seymour, if ho will accept, or Sen ator Bayard, for whom it is under stood that Massachusetts will ask, Senator Randolph, of .New Jersey, is regarded by a good many Wes tern and Southern men as the next man to Bayard if the latter should not carry. Jud^o Church was highly thought of and his sudden death is generally moured hero. 3. It is taken for granted that Mr. Tilden will not be a candidate. *1. A military candidate finds ittle favor. A prominent Western Democrat said to your correspon dent:— “1 like Hancock, and think him a great man, but his country wants civilian, not military rulorfi. 5. An Eastern man for tin E. W. McCARTY. \nd wliv not, my love!’’ said which grow in savory lnuuor week by week. "Old Si’’ will add his quaint fun to the collection of good things, « > i i u ■ n m ami “Uncle Remus lms m prepara-, Tfl 6 UHiV f ifiSi CLaSS fAINTfifi tiou a series of negroes myth legends! ' illustrating the, folk-lore of the old plantation. In every respect The Constitution for 1880 will be better than ever. The Weekly Constitution is a car- fully edited compendium of the news of the week and contains the host and freshest matter to he found in any other weekly from a daily ollice. Its news and miscclln- aneous contents are the freshest and its market reports the latest. THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR This, the best, the most reliable and most popular of southern agri cultural journals is issued from the printing establishment of The Con stitution. It i.y still edited by Mr. \Y. L. Jones, and is devoted to the best interests of tlio farmers of tin j south. It is sent at reduced ratesi with the Weekly edition of The Con- stiiutiou. Tl.UMS OF SUUQOnirriOX Daily Constitution $10 00 a year. ....3 00 six mouths, j “ “ ... .2 50 three months Weekly Constitution .... 1 50 a year.| “ ... 1 00 six months. “ "Clubs of 10, 12 50 a year.I “ "Clubs of 20, 20 00 “ .Southern Cultivator 150 “ “ “ Clubs of 10, 12 50 “ “ Clubs of 20, 20 00 “ i Weekly Constitution and Cultivator to Baine address 2 50 for one year, i Address THE CONSTITUTION, IN ILL work for anybody that feels disposed to pay a re a. sonable price fora good job. 0sjai-n t3trt*crsat THE AUGUSTA STORE THE People’S. THE NEW STORE ! Mrs. S. Fannie Jernigan, Has opened a JYotion Store, next J Ell MIG• 1JV’ S JEWELRY (INK OF Till. ul.IlKST MACH INKS IN 111 K COUNTKY. Tliocc wbulinvt, mi c list'd TIip IVoiilt', will prtTrr It tn nil utlicni. mill AJihNTH t ■ 11.1 it tnwt It lull I 111* I * !•’. 11 * I . !•' nut I f ». Atlanta. Ga , un.i it just wimt tin- l’l-Mi’M-: wunt ' uliiitlloluck Ktit'lt. I'll WATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELRY , REPAIRED RY Jernigan. _____ Telegraph tV Messenger [Macon, G koikma,] for 1SS0-1S8I The present year is pregnant with stirring and important events. Gen eral elections are to be held for Na tional, State, and county ullices, and the interest and excitement, (involved by the contest will bo intense. Mcas- head of the ticket supposes a Wcs-j ,,re ” 1110S *- 'ital character, also, 1 1 . i., it.,, r., i *,. .. v . i , . Macliln •■ IliiiK It Itimikrs tlm iis riisllv, dm stlic wiili'st mnue wnrk. inwl wills till' IiiiIiIiIiis without iiiiiuinn tlm work* of tlio .Miii'IiIiik. Write for iteMuri|>Uvu eir- culars and [iiivtlnilnr to It. .1. k A. F. EDKXKU.n. Aut'nta, tipr k’O 188(1—(ini Wiidiey. tin NOTICE TO TRHSPASSERK. Sandf.iismeu:, Ga.,Jiui. 20lh,l8K0. All persons are hereby forbidden under penalty of the law, from hunt ing and fishing or trespassing in any manner oil the lands of the un dersigned : H. N. HOLLIFIELD, W. H. BAUSONS, WM. RAWLINGS, tVil. MARTIN, nor 3,1880—Gm torn man for the second place, and there is a very general feeling that Mr. Morrison, ot Illinois, would be the best man for the place. He has been a consistent and unflinch ing hard money Democrat. lie served with honor in the army and he is very popular in his State, and Illinois is one of those States which, if the ex-Prosident is nom inated, the Democrats will hope to carry. Finally, the Democrats are not quarreling among themselves, and they sec clearly that to succeed they must nominate a ticket which will secure at once and without ar gument the confidence of the best sentiment of the country. “Wluit we need is to nominate a ticket which shall deserve the support of those Republicans who do not want to vote for the ex-Prcsident,” said a Western democrat to your correspondent to-day, “and most of our people are agreed upon this.” This is the Democratic situation in brief, tiH it. nppoars here. Buy The Improve Weed SEWING MACHINE, only #28 SHE WILL KEEP ON HAND ALL THE TIME ZEPUYll, HOSIERY, NEEDLES, ZEPHYR NEEDLES, TOWELS, II AN KERCHIEFS COMRS, HUTTONS, PINS, SOAPS, CANVASES for ZEPHYR WORK, DOLLS, TOYS, AIA RULES, RALLS, FINE & COM MON CAND Y, SLATES, PENCIL, PENS, HAMRCRG EDGING, tie. Fans, and Gloves. COME AND SEE IIOW CHEAP I WILL SELL. J T Tapper Blacksmith, Machinist and WOODWORKER, Wishes to inform the public that he is still on hand doing noth ing but first class work in the above branches of mechanism. Also agent for Liddell’s Patent Portable Engines, Saw Milts, Corn and THE LA TER T O UT, 117 Til A L I. j AT'TAUllMESTS, STYLE LIKE, CUT. FOR SALE RY Wheat Mills to the future of the country, melt as the modifications sought to he inaug urated in our system of finance, the, projected revision of ti e tariff, ourj Indian policy, «lo., are to bo discussed before the people,hud every intelli gent pert-oa should take a newspaper. The proprietors of tlio Tej.eohaph and Mkssknoi It are resolved to fulfill all the require ments of their position by keeping abreast of the news of the whole world as tast as it can be transmitted by ocean cable, or the 1 olographic lines of the country. They will alsi spare no pains to advance the inter ests of Georgia and the sections es pecially in which it so largely circu lates, and while advocating, with all tho zeal and ability they possess, tile principles of the Democratic party, will yet i lu'suo a conservative and moderate course upon all questions. Anew dress, just purchased, wilij make all of the editions handsomet than ever. Our mammoth weekly' contains sixty-four columns, and is! one of the best and cheapest publica-i tions south of Ra.ltimore. It will be 1 made even more interesting to far-j YOUR mers by the addition of an i And MACHINERY for Plantation, Custom or Merchant Mills. _ j Call anti see me on north end of Harris street. j&ku 1 ti> €£!8?EE!l§50il!l Sanclersville, Ga. apr 20-tl 111 i-onvjathhi* that some 011c else would be tendered the nomination. —M. Quad. EM KRSOX **XxT> * I1 IS XE\V LECTURE. One evening, when Ralph Wal do Emerson was engaged in pro paring his new lecture, Mrs. Em- ersonAuhoniiUl thafiiumient flat tened nor ffhgur while trying to drive a nail with a smoothing-iron, thrust her head into liis study and said: ‘Sec here, sir ! I want you to drop that everlasting ponufyours f..i- a minute or two at least, and go down to the grocery and get a mackerel tor breakfast.’ ‘ jL- ,de#r’^replied Mr, Emer- eft lVnJkmg -lijY from his work, ‘my dear, can’t you go ? You sec I’m billed in a dozen places to de liver this j,lecture on ‘Memory and it iQii’t half finished, yet.’ ‘And that’s what you e.dl your infernal lecture, is it V said Mrs. Emerson, sharply. ‘A nice party you are, to deliver •M emorv.’” Atlanta Constitution. During the coining year—a year that will witness the progress and culmination of the most interesting political contest that has ever taken place in this country—every citizen and every thoughtful person will be compelled to rely upon the newspa pers for information. Why not get the best ? Abroad The Constitution is recognized, referred to and quoted from as the leading southern journal —as the organ and vehicle of the best southern thought and opinion—and it home its columns are consulted for the latest news, the freshest comment md for all matters of special and cur rent interest. Thf. Constitution con tains more and Liter telegraphic news than any other Georgia paper, and this particular feature will be largely added to during the coming year. All its facilities for gathering the latest news from all parts of the country will be enlarged and supplemented. The Constitution is both chronicler commentator. Its editorial opinions its contributions to the drift of cur rent discussion, its humorous and satirical paragraphs, are copied from one end of the country to the other. It aims always to be the brightest and best—newsy, original and piq uant. It aims particularly to give the news impartialy and fully, and to keep its readers informed of the drift of current discussion by liberal but concise quotations from nil its contemporaries. It aims, in short, to more than eyer deserve to be known as “the leading southern a lecture on newspaper,” Bill Arp will continue to contribute his unique letters, AGltlCULTURAL DEPARTMENT edited by General Win. M. Browne, Professor of History and Agriculture in tho University of Georgia. The terms of tho Telegraph and Messenger remain unchanged, and are as follows, payable in advance : Daily, one year $10,00 Daily, six months 5.00! Daily, three months 2.50 Semi-Weekly, one year 0.00 Semi-Weekly, six months 1.50 Weekly, one year 2.00 Weekly, six months 1.00 Wo respectfully ask for a continua tion of the present generous patron age of the public. CLISBY & JONES- SANDERSYILLE, GA. dfib S P ECTAC LE S, FROM JERMIGAW J.T.Laveigne, NEXT DOOR TO ADAM’S LIVERY STABLE I am prepared to do all kinds of mrrluge Blacksmith & Pl«w fro RM AT REASONABLE PRICES. ALSO DEALER IN Biiuial ©as©* ©©film® aM CASKETS , At Prices to suit the Time.® April, 10th 1880 tf On hand and for Sa'e SEE OTA ORES, NOSE GLASSES, <t-c. Sandersvlle DRUG STORE it„ a* wotMS* Notice to Trespassers. All persons are hereby forbid den under penalty of the law, from hunting- and fishing or tres passing in any manner on Mrs. Susan I. 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