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the mercu;ry,_ Published Every Tuesday WM covwwfc&wn* intended far thji* POP 1 ? ^ Mllt be accompanied with tye full naf»e of the tor iter, not neces- ttrily for publication, hut as a guaran tee of good faith. We are in no way responsible for the vipifor opinion of correspondents. THE MEIUIHY A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND a GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. *1.50 PER ANNUM Vol. 1. Sandersville, Ga., August 3, 1880. No. 18 SANDERSyiLLE & TENNILLE RAIL ROAD. On and after to-day the Passenger Train on this rood will run as follows: f DAY PA88EMGEK TRAIN, leaves Sandersville daily 9:15 a. m. 1 leaves Tennille daily 9:41 a. m. heaves Sandersville daily 3:30 p. m. leaves Tennille daily 4;10 p. m. To insure disjxdch all articles destin ed for (his point should be marked to Sandersvifo^ instead of No UPS as.here- yfore. ^ aon J - L WlN ' apr 3 * oon NO 13, C. R. R. ARRIVAL OF TRAINS AT Vndau Passenger train arrives 3:54/).m iLnday " “ “ >•„ tJioht “ 4:41 a. m jlown Sight “ " » 10:43 p. wi ' POS'JL’ OFFICE HOURS. 7 to 11:30 A. M. 1:30 to 6 P. M. E. A. SUL hi VAN, P. M. B, D. EVANS, attorney at law. SVNDERSVILLU, GEORGIA. April 3«1. 1880. TTVV. 11, Whitaker, detsttx^T* ‘SANDERSVILLE, GA, Twk** Gash. Office at bis resilience on Harris St, April 3rd, tf 1880. Dr. Wm Rawlings, PHYSICIAN & SURGRON Sandersville, Georgia, Office at Sandersville Hotel spy 10, 1880-Ay E./. Sullivan, NOTARY PUBLIC, Sandersville, - » Georgia, Special Attention given to the Collection of Claims. OFFCE IN THE COURT HOUSE O. If. lingers ATTORNEY at LAW, SANDERSVILLE GA Prompt Attention Given To All Business. Office in north nvest room of COURT HOUSE, may 4th i880 ly ATTORNEY AT LAW. faniiwsriUi, to Will pracjticc in the State ami United State Courts, Office in Court House. sandersville, ga, Office next door to Mrs, Bayne Millinery Store on Harris street. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Sandersville, May be consulted at his office Baynes St. in the Masonic Lodg< pudding from 9. A. M, to 1 P. M and from 3 to 5P. M,; during otli- «r hours at bis residence on Church St, when not professionally engug April 3rd ly 1880 80 A Speudid Offer 80 Y^u can get yoqr county paper THE MERCURY", THE LOU ISV t LLE WEEKLY False. As pure m gold, and better, Was the love I gave to thee; As dull an dross, and darker; Was the love you gave to me, As pure ns the heavens above me Was tire life I hope to live; Ab dark ns the world below mo Is the life you choose to give. As cruel ns dentlr the nuguish Of this heart once wholly thine; Yet 1 would not have thee languish Iu vaiu for a love like rniuo. With Clasped Hands. Let mo feel your hand in mine, Graceful, slender, soft and warm; Lot me see those blue eyes Bhine— Let me olasp that girlish forq— And tho onreB that fill my breast, Sore snddened and distressed. Will, like sleepy birds nt evening, Sink to rest. Let »ne feel your hand in mine, Nestling like a frightened dove— Like a honison divine, Fluttering downward from above, By- tho touch I’ll surely know If you love mo >vell, and so shall see your oheeks’ warm blushes Brightly glow. Let me feel your hand in mine! Darling, may I ever hold This great, treasure nt Love’s shrine, Which is more than genjs of gold? Do you give a warmer press To my flugors’ close uaress? Then, sweetheart, I know your answer— It is "yes.” KATE'S ADVENTURE. I am Kate. Of course 1 can tell my own ad ventures a deal better than any one can tell thorn for me. That stands to nature, I’m not a practiced writer, and I don’t know how to produce what the fashionable au thors call “grand pen-eff cts,” but I believe I can make you under stand how it was. And that is all hat is necessary; Leeman had sprained his ankle —that's my brother.—and he could not go to town with the load of russet apples that was already piled into barrels, and stood waiting un der the big red shed. ‘It’s too bad,’ said Ho. ‘Those russet apples are worth a dual at this time of the year—and wo shall miss the market day.’ Can’t you ask Neighbor Hutton to take them?’ said my mother. ‘Neighbor Hutton is a deal too sharp a practitioner for me,’ said Lceman. ‘It’s a hard tliiug to say about a neighbor; but I can’t trust )iiB honesty.’ Mr. Hall?’ Hall would be casting it up in my face for the next six months, 8S e ? earfor TWO PA- I + LRS fpr little more .than the price of one. 8eml us $2.50 and receive your |f.° mc P n pcr with the Conrier-Jourual, le test,brightest and ablest Family [Weekly in the country. & Mery, repaired by Jernigan. ;hat, I had asked a favor of him, said Lccuian. ‘No, I’d rather lose the apples than lose my indepen dence. But it is too provoking that I must needs must have slipped on that piece of orange-peel, now, of all times in the world. I have been saving up these apples all the win ter with a special eye to this par ticular market day.’ ‘Leenmd,’ said I, ‘I’ll go.’ ‘NonsenseJ’ said Leeman. <But, why not?’ said I. ‘Old Romp is as gdntlc as a kitten, and I know ever inch of tho way.’ (But there are the lied Swamp Woods—that desolate stretch of three miles, with never a house on either side of the way, except the deserted cabin where the old negro hanged himself, twenty years ago,’ argued my mother. ‘Who carep for the lied Swamp Woods?’ said I, valiantly. ‘I nev tier was aftaid of fp°g s nnd whip- poor-wills, and I’m not going to begin now. Lil, will you go out gncl help me harness, early in the morning, and—’ ‘Oh, I wish I was going, too. Can’t I go, Kate?’ pried Lil, my hoyden younger sister, with her blue eyes glittering with delight at the idea of anything unusual. Stuff!’ cried I imperiously. ‘Of course you can’t. Hasn’t Pomp a heavy load enough, without your ninety pounds "of mischief loaded on? Besides, you must stay at homo and take pare of mother and Leeman, and finish the chintz cur tains for the bjg west chamber} for Colonel Hay may come at any time now,’ Colonel Hay was our city boar der—a gentleman who had been re commended by his physician to try the fresh pine-scented breezes of Shawaugoenta Mountains, and whom our rector had recommended to the Icy Spring Farm. We wore not rich, although mother and Leeman had managed the farm economically and well since father’s death, and the week, ly addition to our income would be something worth considering. Tho idea of a city boarder was very pleasant, too, and Icy Spring Farm was a very lovely spot, al though wo seldom allowed our selves to think of that. So, aftoi a little, I coaxed mother and Leeman to consent, and the next morning Lil and I were up long before daybreak, harnessing old Pomp, and getting ready for the day’s journey, By tho time the red, level light of the rising sun {touched old Pomp’s gray mane with radiance, 1 was driving through tho Red Swamp, where the maplo^bees from which it took itf. name were all aglow with crimson blossoms, au<J the thrushes and robins called to one another with flute-like notes. Well, 1 managed splendidly, knew where I was going to when I started. 1 sold the six barrels of russots to the man who kept tho Park Hotel for four dollars apiece, and that was more than Leonjun himself anticipated. Be careful you don’t got robbed now,’ said the man, ns ho watchful me put the bills into my little lea ther portinonnaie. ‘Robbed!’ said I, with a laugh Why, who should rob me?’ •‘Oh, I don’t know,” said the landlord. “There's always tramps and burglars around. They've a crop that don’t belong to any par ticular season of the year.” As I turned away—f did not notice it nt the time, but it came buck to me afterward, as things do pome back, like a sudden Hash across the dark shield of memory —a man who was lounging on the steps looked bard at me I colored a little, and thought to myself, “W ell, he will know me the next time he sees me,"and then forgot all about it; for I Had mother’s black bombazine to match, and Lil's spring lmt to buy and some dinner china to select, and the doctor’s prescription for Leeman to fill out at tho drug gist’s, so that it was well on to seven when I turned old Pomp’s head homeward, in the suburbs ot the town, with a feeling of elation which was quite pardonable,when one considers my inexperience in the marketing line and my excep tionally good success. The sunshine was warm, and still on the high-road, and I was ather glad when at last we came to the shadows of the Red Swamp where the birds were all silent in the noon-beats, and sweptest of odors came floating up from the tangled recesses of fern and cow slip, on either side of the solitary, railed-in-road. All at once, old Pomp gave a sidewise start—his ancient idea of shying—and then I saw a man, pale, dusty, and tired-looking, sit ting on a fallen log, just outside of the road, I felt sorry for him ; I was like mother—who never would let the shabbiest or meanest looking vagabond go past our house without a draught of milk, or a piece of fresh-baked pie, or ft slice ot her home-made bread-cake —and without stopping to think I drew in old Pomp’s rein. “Are you going toward Leno$ Cross Roads ?” said I. “Yes ? Then jump in; I’m going in that direction, too, and I’ll give you a lift.” He thanked me in a silent,droop- self on the board at the back of the wagon, toward which I point ed with the handle of my whip. “You look ill,” said L “I’m not 111,” bo said, with a smothered cough, “Only tired with my long walk. I didn’t know it was so far to Lenox.’* “I suppose you arc going for work ?” said I. “Deacon Briorly has a good many hands just now in his tobacco factory.” “No,” auid lie; I am not going to w.ork.” I asked no more questions. 1 did not like tins idea of a man’s shrouding himself in mystery in i bat sort of way ; and,ns I glanced around once more, o sudden rev elation came across me, like a blaze ot light. It was the same man who lmd eyed me so keenly on the steps of the Park Hotel. Then I remembered my moth cr’s words of caution, Leeman’s reiterated exhortations, the land lord's friendly words of warning. And, in spite of it all, I had de liberately thrust my Billy head in to the jaws of danger. There was only one thing remaining for me to do—to get out of the scrape us well as I could, I cast about in my mind how to lo this; and presently, with beat ing heart, I dropped a little pa lter parcel of blue ribbon into the road “Oh,” I cried, cheeking old Pomp, “I’ve dropped my parcel. Would—would you mind getting out after it ?” “Not in the least,” maid the stranger,and ho climbed laborious ly out of the wagon. Ho had'scarcely sot his foot on the ground before 1 laid the whip on old Pomp witli a will, and rat tled away over the long, straight road at a pace that seemed posi. tivoly marvelous to me and Ponq both. So we left our passenger behind in tho middle of the Red Swamp. T could sec him standing there blank and astonished, the sole figure in the long perspective, as 1 ventured to look buck; but I on ly whipped Pomp the harder, and never let him 'bate his pace until we stood well out of the Red Swamp. “I’ve out-gcnrallcd ldm,” said I, to myself, “and I’ve saved Lee mans’ s twenty-four dollars. I'm sorry about tho blue ribbon ; but it was only a yard and a quarter, after all, and 1 can trim Ld’s hat with something else."’ They were delighted at my prow- uess when I reluted my adventure at home. Leeman declared I was a capital {little market-woman ; mother shuddered ftt the idea of the despearate tramp alone with me in the tangled wildernesses of the Red Swamp; Lil declared that I was a horoinc. (‘Wasn’t it a good idea for Kate lo drop the blue ribbon, and send him after it ?” said she. Kate was a goose ever to let him get into the wagon,” said Leeman, knitting his brow, “Kate musn’t go by herself such a long distance again,” said moth er. And I drank a onp of tea, aud rested myslef, and went out after ward to see the new brood of darling little yellow chicks, which old Speckle had brought off' the nest during my absence, I was ;on my knees in the lien house, feeding tqem with scalded meal from the palm of my hand, when I heard mother calling me “Kate! Kate! come up at once Colonel Hay has arrived.” “Colonel Hay?” I started up, looking in blank dismay at my calico dress qnd the nftoahatains on my hands. However, there was nothing for it but to qbey the summons; so went up to the house. A sort of blur seemed to come before my eyes as I entered the sitting-room “Colonel Ilay, this is my eldest daughter, Kate.’* And then the blur cleared away, and I knew the man I had twice before seen that day—the pale, tired traveler, whom I had so recklessly abandoned in tho mid dle of the Red Swamp. “I—I beg your pardon, Colonel Hay,” I cried out, impulsively “I thought yon were a thief.” The burst of laughter that fol lowed from every inmate of the room effectually scattered nil em barrassment. That wus my adventure. And Ilay has long since forgiven me that unkind desertion of him. In fact—this is quite private and con fidential, mind—wo are to be married soon, and I am going with him to Florida, to try the effects of a Southern climate on his health. That is all. Isn’t it enough ? TANNERS* MAIL [Now York Him ] - Dr. Tanner's mail increases rap idly. Yesterday lie received thirty letters at one time. After being opened, these letters arc handed to him, A good many of thorn are oxtremely silly, and the Doc tor tears them up and impatiently flings thorn on tho floor. Otto of the first letters that camo into tho fasting man’s hands yesterday was the following, purporting to come from Mr. Hays, of Washington, D. 0.: Washington, July 16—Du. Tanner: A bright, idea has just occurred to me, The Pi t mine water is filled with invisible fish at this season of the year. Have a gallon sent you daily, and it will not only enable you to fast 4 0 days but forty months. Try it, and it will work wonders. I am living on it. Yours truly, If. B, IIayes. Another of similar purport, nnd signed ‘ •Passaic,” contained the following. To client the doctors, you should have drunk Jersey City hydrant water, which is both meat and drink. lyn, accused the faster of living on dust: I think I have discovered the reason of your increase in weight. The Clarendon Hall, not having been swept since the beginning o/ your task, contains plenty of dust which is in part absorbed by your clothes and lungs. Sarah K. Wilson, ofTon>s Riv er, N. J., bolieves in the fasting man, as the following shows: I am not uneasy about you, for | verily believe you can endure all you have undertaken,and more too. There is nothing impossible with God. 'Flu's is no miracle. Fast on 1 Teach people to feed their souls, and not their stomachs. In the afternoon the Doctor re ceived another challenge, this time from Prof. J. Lcybournc. It! was as foljows: Friend Dr. Tanner—Proud of your endurance, but in regard to your forty days’ fast, 1 can produce a man >vbo is capable and has fas ted fo- a complese summer of three months. If he fails, I can back any actor on Union square to fast you a match for |i,Ooo a side dur ing any summer scasotp “J. W. K.,” of Brooklyn, sug gested prayer as an accompaniment to air and water: THE MERCURY. Entered as second-class matter, at the Sandersville post-office, April 27, I860. Sandersville, Washington Co., 43a, Published By JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. Subscription, $1.60 per year. Dear Doctor: You have my best wishes and kindly sympathies. You say, “We need less religion and more humanity.” Yes ! Much of the religion of this day is a sham, a fraud, a lie 1 We need more humane Christians, who will feed the hungry poor. While you are lasting, a 1 low mo to suggest pray er as a good accompaniment, and while you draw demijohns of water draw also water from the wells of salvation. Feed on the bread heaven, and hunger no more, ing sort of way, and seated him- and heard my mother saying: The following was dated Brook lyn and signed. “An Eye to Business,” and is given as written : Dear Sir you are holding out well and will win the pile no Doubt you are a Brick Every incli ofyou i see solid for Garfield the Next president of these united States. Attend strictly to your work and you will come out with flying Collora and in Novenibor Next yon Can walk to the poles Cast your vote for Garfield and Arthur. After reading tho following the fasting man said this was the most unique of the lot: My dear Doctor Tanner; If you fast in this manner And live without hash Our business will mash. With tears in my eyes, I see with Surprise That you live upon air — I ask is tins fair ? Supposo every guest Should just do his best To accomplish your feat And ask nothing to eat? I’m sure they wouldn’t pay For each one would say “My last week is paid And board bills are played.” But if you’ll die in season They’ll come back to reason, And then they will take All the hasli I can make. Therefore, my dear friend, Bring this fast to an end, And prevent the grief deeper Of—, A Loading-house Keeper. Another correspondent,wi i Iting from Washington, pointed out how the Irish famine might have been prevented as follows: You are setting the world a valuable _ example if you succeed in your forty-days’ task. If such a feat could have been demonstrated one year ear lier there would have been no need of the Irish famine, and hundreds of thousands of dollars would have been saved to the noble people of this country. I am with you. An other, who wrote from .Brook- of Uniting at Gettysburg. To die Editor of die Courier-Journal OrEi.icA, Ala., July 19.—In the columns of your paper a short time ago there appeared an article written by Gen. Alphcus Baker suggested the propriety of holding a grand Hancock and English rat fication at Gettysburg. The effect of such a meeting would be whole some and salutary. Let Demo erftts cotne up from every part of our broad domain and bury nation al hate and local rancor side by side with the gallant soldiers that fought under eacli flag on the heights of Gettysburg, and swear allegiance to one banner, one con stitution, one country. Let the blood that was shed in the late in ternecine war serve to cement the stronger the union of the States The prosperity of every part off our common country fills me with ordinary satisfaction. My heart dilates and glows at the thought that prejudice and passion are giving way before theonwad march of virtue and intelligence. Gen. Baker is a brilliant orator, and would rise to the height of an occasion like thiv J. J AllERCROMniE. DIRECTORY. SOCIETIES. Hamilton Lodge, No. 68 F. A. If. neels on the. Second and Fourth Wed- ncs lays of each month. Sandersville Lodge, No. 8 A. O. U. W. meets on the First and Third Mon- lay nights of every monfh. Neuman Lodge No 1551, Knighisof Honor meets on the First and Third Thursday nights of eixry month. Harris Council No. 114 Legion of Honor meets on the Second and Fourth Monday nights of each month. Washing/on County Agricultural So ciety meet's on the first Tuesdays in each month. The. County Grange meets every Month. The Library Association meets at the ••all of the. Directors. RELIGIOUS. Baptist Church.—Rev. J.M. Adam, Pastor, regular services every Second Sunday and Saturday before. Prayer meeting Tuesday nights. Methodist Church.—Rev. Geo. O, Clarke, Past *, services every Sunday morning except the. Second when h* holds services at Tennille. Prayer meeting every Thursday nig hi. Christian Church.—Rev. J. M. Am mons, Pastor, services every Fourth Sut\day. Prayer meeting every Wed* nesday night. MUNICIPAL. Mayor.—J. N. Gilmore, Clerk and Treasurer,—Wm. Gallon her. Oily Council.—S. J. Smith, J. 0, Pace, 'Dr, J. B. Roberts, J. T. Tapper, M. Newman. City Marshal.—J. E, Weddoy, COUNTY OFFICERS, Ordinary.—H<>><^C. C. Brown, Sluriff.—A. M. JiiSyo. Clerk Sup, Court.—S. M. Northing- ton. Tax Receiver.—I. Hermann, Tax Collector.-—W. R. Thigpen, Treasurer.—O, H. Rogers. Surveyor.—Morgan L- Jackson, Coroner.—John Layton. SUPERIOR COURT, Convenes on the Fourth Monday in May and September. Hon. H. Y. John son, Judge.. Hon. J. K. Hines, Solics itor General, S. M. Northinglon, Clerfe, COURT OF ORDINARY, lion. C. C. Brown, Judge, sits on the. First Monday in every month. Til PEOPLE’S TRY IT The Lightest Running Machine ever Made. THE MOST POPULAR AMD BUT OF ALL The Bobbin, ere Wound without Running at Unthreading the Machine. NO GETTING OUT OF ORDXX. Tha Best Machine for Agents te Be*, Send for Illustrated Circular to Watlley 1H1YY0UK lustrum From the l ., TJ. 8• JL, MUSICAL -mentSt Store of JERNIGAN. On hand and for sale at all times Violin Strings, Violins, Boxes, Bows, Rosin, Harmonicas, Ao- cordoons, Bridges, Pegs &c. McClc’.ljin to Hancock. Orange, N. J., June 30.—1 am very glad to-day, and not at all surprised to learn that so many of your old comrades are going to support Hen. Hancock. The Gen eral did so much to insure success of the war, knew so well what it was for, and perceived so clearly when it was that he deserves the hearty and enthusiastic assistance of all the old soldiers. That he will receive the support of the great majority of them I do not doubt trust that the lqiqarity in this State will be too small to be coun ted, and that we shall work with the utmost energy for the success of o ur gallant comrade, With very cordial greetings to my old companions in arms, and my best wishes for the complete success for the organization, I ftiq sincerely yours, Geo. B. McClelan F DYEING! OR the benefit of inquirers Dresses, Coats, Pants Vests, Ac., dyed; below will bo found a sched ule of prices. Thankful for past favors I solicit a continuance of the same: Coats, Pants 75 Vests, ..... Ladies’ Dresses. Childrens’ “ . Shawls, silk, 1.00 “ wool Cloaks, waterproof. 1.50 Saeques 25 Mittens Feathers,... 10 Silk Ties Kid Gloves, black,, Stockings,3 pairs., Ribbon per yd Handkerchiefs, silk Dying left at either the Mercury office or at Mrs. Bayne’s Milliuery store, with instructions as to color^ will he attended to. MRS. C. SCARBOROUGH may 18, 1880. 11.00 to $1.50 75 “ 1.00 60 “ 75 1.50 “ 2.0Q 75 “ 1.00 1.00 “ 1.50 50 “ 75 1.50 “ 2.00 25 « 50 10 “ 15 10 “ % 10 25 25 n 10