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LAW ChBDS.
T. D. Hugh tower. F- A. Bush
HIGHTOWER & HIM,
Attorneys at Law,
Lumpkin, Georgia
*un. 1, 1884
WELLBORN F. CLARKE,
Attorney at Law,
Lumpkin, Georgia.
Will practice in Stewart Courty.
Special attention given to collections
Lumpkin, Ga., May 5. 18S3
E. G. SIMMONS
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMER1CUS, GA.
Will pra.-.tice in all the counties o'
Tbi* Judicial Circuit, in the Supreme
Court of the Stale of Georgia, and
tu thv District Court, of ibe United
Slates, and in- all other courts by
epecial.contract. jnly23-8l.
MEDICAL GAULS.
W. A. GREGORY,
Physician & Surgeon,
Lumpkin, Ceorgia.
Oct.20-ly
i. E. & w. P. CARTER,
Practicing Physicians,
LUMPKIN, - GEORGIA.
Office South Side Public Squaie.
Oct20 ly
J. A. THORNTON JR.,
Practical Dentist,
LUMPKIN, CEOItOIA.
Will do all kinds of Dental Work
in a neat and substantia manner.
Oct.23-ly.
LUMPKIN HIGH SCHOOL.
The Session .f 1883 84 will open
on Monday, 10th of September. The
Principal earnestly solicits a liberal
patronage from Lumpkin n%d Stew
art aud adjoining counties. You can
Dot fluff a better school in South
West Georgia. Terms as heretofore.
Board in good families uf satisfaoto
ry rates.
J. F. TATE, Principal.
Sept. 8tf
$100 DOLLARS A WEEK!
We can guarantee the above amount to
good, active, energetic
AGENTS!
Ladies as well as gentlemen, make a suceese
in the business. Very tittle capital requi red.
Wo have a household article as salable as
flour.
It Sells Itself.
It is used every day in the family. You do
foralT»•£> embrace tW«“o“en
opportunity. It costs you only one cent to
l.uru what our business is. Buy a postal
card aud write to ns and we will seud you
pur prospectus a: d full particulars
FREE!
And we know you will derive more good
than yen have any idea of. Our re putation
as a laaiiuiaclnriug afford toduceic®. company is such
we can k*t WriWious o»
ft receive postal mil and parti give calarH. yonraddress plainly and
UVCKEYEM’F’G OO.
LUMPKIN, GE0EGIA, FEBRUARY 9, 1884.
STOLE A FLOWER.
Aa old woman with long, “, gray
, vS
name was called, an<3 confronted the
police judge.
‘You are a very old women to be
in a place of this kind,’ said the
judge. ‘What is the charge against
berl’ turning to an officer.
‘Stealing a pot of flowers, your
honor.’
‘Who made the complaint ?’
‘I did,’ replied a man,stepping for¬
ward. ‘I know that it looks hard to
have such an old woman arrested,
but I am a law abiding citizen, judge,
and I don't, intend to be imposed on
This is the way the whole thing
came about : I keep a large flower
depot. Day before yesterday this
woman came into the stoic, and
when 1 asked her if she watfted to
buy unythiug, shook her head. Just
than a customer came in, and i paid
no attention to her, but after she
was gone I discovered that i pot
containing a fine geranium was miss¬
ing. I knew she took it, and what
she wanted with it is more than I
can tell. It she had stolen smie
thing to eat or wear, it would have
been a different thing.’
The old woman looked up and
.said : ‘Judge I stole the flower.’
‘Didn’t you know it was wrong?'
‘Yes.’
’Was the temptation so great that
you could not withstand it ?'
‘There was no temptation. It re
qnired more of a struggle to take it
thau it would have required not to
have taken it ’
‘This was a very singular occur¬
rence, madam. Tell us ali about it.
Don't think dial you are among
those who desire to see you punish¬
ed, and rest assured that I will stand
by you Law or no law, it makes no
difference. There is a court in the
human heart, old woman, whose vie
crees are nearer to justice than the
written declarations of uuy tribunal.
Thu old woman again looked up
Tears were in her eyes, but with p
corner of the old black shawl, drawn
around her shoulders, she wiped
them away.
'Oh, sir,' she said, ‘to make you
understand why I took the flower
might be a story too long to tell in a
court, and it. might be out of place
to tell it anywhere to strangers, but
as you have spoken so kindly I will
tell you. Years ago, I lived iu this
city. My parents were well situated
and I was carefully reared I mar¬
ried a man whom every one recog
nized as on elegant gentleman, but
to me, he proved to bo a drunken
brute. At last be took our little boy
aud went away, I ku >w not where,
leaving me with a baby just two
months old. My parents bud died,
and I went out into the country and
changed my name. I worked for a
living, heart broken as I was. One
day my little darling was token ill.
I took her in my arms and stnrted
toward town, where she might have
ibe proper medical attention, but
she seemed to grow worse. At last
I knew she was dying, and I sat
down uudev a tree. I held her to
my bosom a long time, for she ehiv
ered, and when I looked into her
face again, she was dead A man
who lived near by made u coffin, and
I bul led the lltt'e girl UDder the tree
where she had died. Then I went
away, J know not bow, and began a
ioug search for ruy husband, not. tbut
I wonted him, but that I wanted my
son. I must have gone eiatz , i.r l
wue seized one day and taker to the
madhouse. How long I remained
there I don’t know, but I could see
that was much older looking than
when I went in. From time to time
i implored the keeper to let me out,
but he refused. About a month ago
I saw an opportunity, and escaped.
I was not mad, for when again no
der th(J c,ettr fek L th « memory of ray
troubles were as though 'Y but a day
,, l u , paused, j r I ... turned, . , after much , in- .
quiry, toward my nutive place, aud a
few days ago I arrived here, but I
11 ot Stop until I found my way lo
the little grave under t he tree. I
, earned . , fclotie and built little
tt
wuli around it, out briars aud bosh
. , thickly, that I
03 £ rown U P 80
could hardly find the p ace. I clear*
A 'Weekly Newspaper, Published, in the Political, Social and Agricultural Interests of Stewart County.
ed the briars away, and came to
town. While passing along the street,
I saw this man’s flowers. I stole a
geranium pot, and it how sits on tbe
little child’s "grave.’
The flower dealer had sunk upon
a bench. ‘Great God, judge!’ be
exclaimed, springing up, ‘the woman
is my mother 1’— Arl-ansaw Traveler.
A Women Tells her Husband
About a New Society.
‘We’re bound to be equal to you
men,’ said tbe Mason’s wife; ‘we
formed a secret society of our own
last night.’
‘Indeed ?’ said the worshipful mas¬
ter, composedly ; ‘then I hope, my
dear, your peojeet will be successful
Is it a benevolent society or what?
‘That’s none of your business. It's
a secret society, and we have sworn
by solemn oath not to divulge any¬
thing relating to it.’
‘Very good, my dear,’ observed the
worshipful master, returning to his
paper ; Tm sure I do not wish you
to violate vouv oath.’
Tt wouldn’t matter if you did, I
wouldn't. You keep your secrets
close enough—and to think of that
stupid Mrs. Furl e!o-v 1 8he could
recollect neither the grip nor the
■sign. It took us an hour to teach
Der. When I gave her the sign she
would make it this way, hatha!
Her stupidity would huve been ex¬
asperating if it hadn’t been ridicu¬
lous, aud as for learning the grip,
why,slio would have it that it vv.is this
way-—give me your hand a minute—
there, she would nave it that way,
while it was Him way, and the. pass
word ! she couldn't keep it in her
mind for two minutes. Over aud
over again I told her it w as 'be just
and fear not,’ and jl.o would buve it
‘swear not, at all,’ or ‘do unto otbets
as you would be done by,’ ha! bit!
We almost despaired of getting it
through her head. But we managed
to make her understand at last. Oh,
yes, we are going to have a flourish¬
ing society, and wo can be as secret
about it ns yon men can be about
yours ’—New York Horning Journal.
She Relented.
‘No, George, I’m net going to take
my shoes off.’ ‘You’d better, dear¬
est.’ ‘No, I sban’t. Just like as not
tbo train will run < ff the track. What
a place this is for a lady to sleep iu.
Catch me tali it'g off my shoes, or
anyth.ng else this night. Why, any¬
body can come along here and pull
these curtains right back.’ ‘Why,
dear, it is just as private here as iu
your own room No one disturbs
anybody else on a sleeper. You
know I traveled a great deal before
we were mariiod. Now come, pet,
let me untie your shoes lor you?’
‘You shan’t, George. I tell you I
won’t Take my shoes off, and I won’t,
so there. I am going to sit up here
and lean against this pillow and look
out of tbo window all night, and I’ll
ho already dressed tor breakfast in
the morning. You can sleep down
there if you want to ’ He argued,
reasoned, entreated, and command
ed, but the six-hour bride remained
firm, aud it was evident that a dark
cloud was on Ibe face of the young
honeymoon. The last thing we heard
before going to sleep was the begin¬
ning of what he said was bis last ap¬
peal. We didn’t bear tbe end of it,
but woke next morning and found
all quiet in the next berth. All the
other passengers were soon up, and
tbs porter had then’ beds metamor¬
phosed imo seats, but still the bri¬
dal couple slept. Finally they were
roused bv tbe conductor, and after
forty minutes of floundering in the
lower bunk, and frequent whispered
injuries for sundry missing articles,
conspicuous among which was ‘my
other shoe,’ there appeared a plump
little woman with frowsy hair and a
pair of pretty blushes, which deepen¬
ed and widened surprisingly as she
met the gaze of her fellow-passen¬
gers, It was apparent that she had
at last relented.— Chicago Herald.
Dar’s two men wbut yer kain argy
wid ‘about wimmin. One whut's
fixin’ ter git married an’ one whut’s
been married fur some time.— Ar¬
kansas Iravclcr,
A Tale ot Ten Travelers.
Ten weary, footsore travelers,
All in u wofnl plight,
Sought shelter at a wayside inn
One dark and stormy night.
‘Sine beds—no more,’ the landlord sa d,
‘Have I to offer yon ;
To each of eight a single room,
But the ninth mnst serve for two.’
A din arose. The troubled host
Could only scratch his head j
For of those tired men no two
Could occupy one bed.
Tbe pazzled host was soon at ease—
He was a clever man—
Aud so to please his guests devised
This most ingenious plan :
: A I B I 0 I D i E I F I a I II I I I
In room marked A two men were placed :
The third he lodged in B ;
The fourth to G was then assigned—
The filth retired to D ;
In E the sixth ho tucked away,
In F the seventh man ;
The eighth and ninth in G and II
Aud then to A he ran,
Wherein the host, as I have said,
II id laid two tmvehrs by,
Then taking one—tenth and last,
lie lodged him safe in I.
Nine single rooms- a room for <ach—
tVere made to serve for ten,
And iliis it is that puzzles me
Aud many wiser men.
—Bcs'oii Tablet.
Items of Interest.
Luke Champlain is frozen its en¬
tire length and breadth, and can bo
traveled by horses.
A bill to prevent shaving and ha r
cutting on Sunday has been intro
duced in the Mississippi Legislature,
Queen Victoria’s new book con
tains eight portraits and numerous
full page wood cuts.
At the wedding of tbo Marquis of
Kildare with the Lady Hennoine
Duucombo be piesontcd each of tbe
bridesmaids with a specially ordered
watch.
Down in Virginia they call the
resolutions of the Legislature re¬
questing the resignation of one of
their representatives in the United
States Senate ‘Mahone’s Valentine.’
The charge against a California
Judge is of frivolity, and tbe speci
ficution is that he puts his hair iu pa
pars evcey night, wotnau fashion, to
uiake it cuil when he is on the bench
next day.
‘Fifty years hence,’ says a Detroit
lake Captain, 'the sight of bark, brig
or schooner on the inland waters
will draw a crowd as a curiosity.
Slea/n is knocking out tbe sail craft
by the dozen.’
Austin, Nev., has a curfew ordi¬
nance which provides that boys un¬
der 1C yeare of age must not be
seen on the streets or at any public
place, unaccompanied by parent or
guardian, after 8 o’clock during the
rest of the year.
Turkish customs officials recently
seized a copy of tbo Koran which
had been in the family of the owner
for 500 years. He had been offered
£6,000 for it, and is, it is needless
to say, somewhat enraged at his loss
which the government blandly re¬
fuses to make good to him.
A painter made a contract to fres¬
co the interior of a church in Michi¬
gan. Tbe design was left to bis own
taste, which proved unsound, for he
covered the walls with mythologi¬
cal and idolatrous pictures. The
trustees not only refused to pay him,
but demanded that he remove his
work.
A New Fa-hioned book-cover has
appeared. It is apparently solid
oak, beautifully g-ained and carved
with a pattern in low rebef. Tbe
solid appearance of the oak is a de¬
lusion, the wood being abont the
thickness of drawing paper, softened
so as to recieve tbe impression of
a stamped pattern, and then folded
over a binding of cardboard.
A convict who escaped from the
Louisiana State prison walked hard
all night, and by daylight was forty
niles away. Fearing detection by
means of his striped garb, he went
boldly into a negro farm house, told
tbe owner that he was a circus per¬
former disabled by rheumatism and
offered to swap the costume for any
old suit of ordinary clothes. The bar¬
gain was made, and the runaway con¬
tinued his flight in safety.
HEALTH HINTS.
In looking through the oceans
exchanges that low into this office
from every part of the country, we
have from time to lime noticed that
it is not common for them to tell peo
pie how to iook Rfter their health,
aud keep themselves in good, sound
condition.
This information iB usually given
iu items, which reads as if they were
condensations of articles. As health
is wealth, according to tbo average
philosopher and as every other pa¬
per in the land has had more or less
to say on this important subject, we
thidk it comes within the broad
scope of Puck to have a little toot.
In. diffusing this knowledge broad¬
cast over this great free land, it must
he understood that these careful ob¬
servations are not intended so much
for the benefit of the general practi¬
tioner as for the average man who
doesn’t Know how to take care of
himself.
Nover snore.
Never begin a dinner with pie.
Never sleep iu your overshoes.
Never sleep on tbe floor in winter.
Never ride a thin horse bareback.
Never walk fifteen miles before
breakfast.
Never carry a barrel of potatoes
on your head.
Never swallow your food before
you chew it.
Never jump out of the window for
ft short cut.
Never sleeo with yonr feet higher
than your head.
Never drink more than you can
carry comfortably.
Never give a tramp your summer
clothing in the winter.
Never jump more thau ten feet to
catch a ferry boat.
Never go to shop at night with all
the windows open.
Never leave the gas turned on when
you retire at night.
Never strain your eyes looking for
faults in yonr neighbor.
Never sit by a red-hot stove With a
sealskin cap and ulster on,
Never thrust your knife more thau
half way down your throat.
Nover wear eye-glasses to improve
yonr personal appearance.
Never break tbe iea to take a bath
during the winter months.
Never kick at an infuriated bull¬
dog when you have slippers on.
Never jump out of bed in tbe morn
iug before you hear the first bell.
Never let your clothes dry on yon
when you are caught in the rain.
Never put your head under the
grate when you want to blow tbe
lire.
Never leave the kerosene-can where
the cook may havo free access to it.
Never test the edge of your razor
on your thumb-nail or strop it on the
palm of your hand.
Never walk into a parlor at a re¬
ception and pnt yonr leet on the
mantel piece. It will cause the blood
to run to your head. These hints
will be found throughly trustworthy
and reliable. Therefore tbe invalid
would do well to cut them out and
paste them on the inside of his or
her cranium. — Puck.
Bright Bits.
Scanty costumes at a fashionable
charity ball in Philadelphia causes
comment by the newspapers of that
city. They forget how much Chan
tv covers.
The difference between a patent
non-tip overtable spittoon and an
editorial is said to be in the fact that
one will right itself while the other
wont.— Fort Wayne Hoosier.
A society young lady told her il¬
literate, but wealthy, lover that sue
was going to give a german, and he
said that he’d be sure to come, as be
was very fond of beer.— Philadelphia
Chronicle.
‘If you lay down ou a board will
you not have a selt bed ?’ a°ked tbe
joker of bis wife. To which she un¬
hesitatingly replied : ‘Of coarse it
will be soft if you lay down on it.’
She was used to him.—AT. Y. Com.
Adv.
A little girl in Rutland, Vc., be¬
coming wearied with the quarreling
of two younger children over a gla ; s
Terms $1.50 Per Annum.
of milk, exclaimed : ‘What’s the nse
of fighting forever over that mills
There's a whole cowful out in the
barn.’
When the Abbe Liszt was once
asked whether he thought a certain
pianist had talent or not, he replied,
smiling : ‘He is a good man, at
least according to Bible precepts ;
for it ean be truly said of him that
his right hand kuoweth not what his
left hand is doing.’— Exchange.
In playing a g*ine of seven-up
with a young lady from St. Paul, a
wicked Bismarcker told her that
every time sb* held the jack of
trumps it was a sure sigu that bet
lover was thinking of her. Then he
watched her face at each deal, and
every time she blushed and looked
pleased, led out and caught her jack.
—Bismarck Tribune.
An individual applies to the cab
company for a sit.uatiop. ‘Do you
know how to drive ?’ ‘Yes, sir.’
‘You know that you must be polite
with all your passengers?’ ‘Ah!
‘And honest. For example, what
would yon do if you should find in
your cab a pocket book containing
$10,000?’ ‘Nothing at ail! I should
live on my income !’—French Fun.
Ilather too young.—‘Papa,’ said a
little boy at breakfast, ‘yesterday, at
school, the teacher read something
from a book called ‘The Autocrat at
the Breakfast Table.’ What does
that moan ?’ ‘You are rather too
young yet, my eon,’ replied the old
man as he helped himself to the top
buckwheat cake and smothered it
with the cream intended for his
wife’s coffee, ‘to understand such
matters.’— Philadelphia Call.
To All Wanting Employment
We want Live, Euergetic and Ca¬
pable Agehts in every country in
the United States and Canada, to
sell a patent article of great merit,
on its merils. An article having a
large sale, paying over 100 per cent,
profit, having no competition, and
on which the agent is protected in
the exclusive sale by a deed given
for each and every county he jnay
secure from us. With a! 1 these ad
vantages to our agents, and the fact
that it is an article that can be sold
to every house-owner, it might not
be necessary to make an “ Extraordi¬
nary Offer" to secure good agents at
once, but we have concluded to make
it lo show, not only our confidence
in tbe merits of our invention, bat
in its salability by any agent that
will handle it with energy. Qur
agents now at work are making from
$150 to $000 a month clear, and this
fact makes it safe for us lo make our
offer to all who are out ot employ¬
ment. Any agent that will give our
business a thirty days’ trial and fail
to clear at least $100 in this time,
above all expenses, can return all
goods uusold to us and we will re¬
fund the money paid for them. Any
agent or General Agent who would
like ten or more counties and work
them through sub-agents for ninety
days, and fail to clear at least $750
above all expenses, can return all un¬
sold end get their money back. No
other employer of agents over dared
to make such offers, nor would we if
we did not know that we have agents
now making more thau double the
amount wo guaranteed, and that but
two sales a day would give a profit of
over $125 a month, and that one of
our agonts took oigliteon orders iu
one day. Our largo descriptive cir¬
culars explain our offer fully, and
these we wish to send to every one
out of employment who will send us
three one cent stamps for postage.
Send at once and secure the agency
in time for the boom, and go to work
on tbe terms named in our extraor¬
dinary offer. Wo would like to have
the address of all the agents, sewing
machine solicitors and carpenters in
the country, and ask any reader of
this paper who reads this offer, to
send us at once the name aud ad¬
dress of all such they knew. Ad¬
dress at once, as this advertisement
will loose the best chance ever offer¬
ed to those out of employment to
make money.
Keener Manufacturing Co.,
1C1 Sinithfield St.,Pittsbuvg, Fa.
I’oby. 9th-2m.
NO. 50.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
M. CORBETT,
DEALER IN
1 5 5
PEEFUM3SY, PINE SOAPS,
Fancy and Toilet Articles#
Cot. 16-1 y
CORBETT HOUSE,
M. CORBETT, Prep.,
Lumpkin. - Georgia#
Every Attention Given fo the Ac¬
commodation cC comfort of Guests f
Oct.16-1
E. M. SHERAM,
MANUFACTURER OF
PLANTATION WAGONS,
Plow Stocks, Etc.
Blaclsmituiko & Wagon Repairing.
Oct.20 ly
A. II. SIMPSON,
DEALER IN
Hi
I
STAPLE DRY GOODS, SHOES, &C
Coffins, Burial Cases, Bedsteads,
Chairs ?'.c.
W. W. STOKES,
Dealer Is
Family & Faicy Groceries,
CANNED GOODS, TOBACCO,
Cigar's and Staple Dry Goods .
Get. 16 ly
W. A. GREGORY,
DEALER IN
Fancy & Family Groceries,
CANNED GOODS, G0NFECTI0N*
ARIES, STAPLE DRY G000S,
Tobacco, Cioars, Snuff, Tinware Etc.
Cct.20
M. M. & W. H. GRIFFIS,
—PEA LEJIS LV
Family Groceries, Wlsiies,
BEES, WINES* TOBACCO, CIQABS
Splendid Billiaku and Pool Tables.
jES'Nortti Side Public Square.
w.s. onus,
DEALER IN
Family Groceries,
Plantation Supplies,
Country Produce Etc .
South Side Public Square.
Lumpkin, Ga. Jan. 1,1883.
FIRE INSURANCE,
Insure your dwellings, Furniture,
Merchandise. Gin Houses, and other
property. None but first-class Com*
panies represented. Rates low.
J. B. Richardson, Agent.
Sopt.2-itb-1881-tf.
Slicnim & Killer,
-DEALERS IX—
COFFINS, CASKETS AND
B urial Cases
Can furnish any style of COFFIN
wanted at reasonable prioes,
BS^-Ilepository at Shekam’s Shops.
Lumpkin, Ga., Sep 1,
SIRLE’S CARRIAGE
And Blacksmith Shops.
Having purchased the above well
known Shops from Mr. D. W. Surles
lam now prepared to manufacture
to order any kind of Wagons or Bug¬
gies that may be wanted. Skillful
mechanics are employed and the best
of material will be used in all work.
Special attention given to repairing,
and all work promptly attended to.
Terms Gush.
C‘ A. SURLES.
Lumpkin, Ga, Feb. 1,1884.
Globe Cotton Planter
The Best Now In Use!
Cull and see its perfect work.
S. S. EVERETT, Agent. -
Lumpkin, Ga. Jan. 26.