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VOLUME I.
THE INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER ‘4O, 1 *?U.
J. C. GALLAHER, Editor and Proprietor.
PuhlUhril Weekly at 00 prr Annum
In Advance.
Hhtflr < oplr 5 rents.
TilK PLAVI'EUS STOHV.
BT I'AIL PLUME.
1 [i one of my journeys through the State
of Kentucky, I chanced one evening to
find myself at the State lino, and near a
email farm house, before whose open gate
a couple of fox hounds were dismally yelp
ing. About a half mile in advance of me,
the thiu blue smoke was curling upward
from the chimney of a yellow liouso that
stood on a little elevation.
The most trivial circumstances frequently
change our purposes. I gathered up the
reins and was about to touch my horse with
the spur, when a voioo dose by my side,
said:
“You need go no farther, stranger, un
less you are unwilling to accept a gener
ous welcome, hut not a very fat larder.”
I turned in my saddle, and behold di
rectly behind nie a tall and well-propor
tioned mail of about forty-five years of ago
who had come up so noiselessly in uiy rear
that 1 was not aware of his presence until
1 beard him speak.
“For one who has traveled over half the
world,” I answered, “it matters but little
what I cat or wliat I drink, so long as I
have a crust and a place to stretch my
limbs. I pay more attention to the
provender of my horse than I do to my
own appetite.”
“Such being the case, follow me,” he
said, leading the way lip the lane that led
to his habitation. “I've plenty of good
corn, and your animal w ill find a rack well
stiill'ed with fodder. Hero, you Jim,” he
shouted as I alighted at the door; “come,
take tliis horse, rub him down well, und
give him plenty of corn. ”
At the sound of his voice a dwarf-like
negro boy came out from the kitchen, and
led my horse to the barn.
Helden Bates (for that was the name by
which my host introduced himself), re
marked as ho gazed after the lagging stops
of the boy, who had stopped ami was hulk
ing about apparently at nothing, “Before
the rebellion, 1 owned that fellow, but
from the way he obeys me, 1 sometimes
think he owns me. There is a sad change
lureubout since the new order of things
came into vogue. But conic in the house-,
4*, anti Jet me see what can be clone to
ward procuring yon a meal. ”
I followed him into u room, the furni
ture of which was of the cheapest and most
plain material. A stained pine table stood
in the miudie of the floor, several wooden
chairs were ranged against the wall, und u
wtll worn mg-carpet was upon the floor.
Aud this was the best furnished room in
the house.
In a short time the wife of Slieldon
Bates appeared, and i was duly introduced
She wur a pale faced, lueek-iookiug wo
man, with never it smile upon her counte
nance, and reminded one that she was per
petually brooding over some domestic ca
lamity. In answer to her husband, she re
plied that she would endeavor to get up a
meal, and forthwith she started for tin
kitchen, and I never saw her again until
she came in with some fried chicken, corn
bread and eollee, which to me seemed tin
best dinner I ever enjoyed, fur I was terri
bly hungry.
While (iiuuor hail been preparing, I hod
leisure to note a number of volumes that
were hanging upon the shelf in the cor
ner. 1 ran ray eye hastily over them.
“Ah," 1 thought, “there is some taste
about this place after all," as I saw the
works of Sterne, Smoliet, Fielding, a well
worn copy of Shakespeare,Junius’ Letters,
Milton, Homer, and, dually (oh! shade of
murdered Hamilton), the Life of Aaron
Burr.
When I hod concluded my dinner, Mr.
Bates asked me if I smoked, and upon ray
replying in the affirmative produced some
corn-cob pipes and tobacco, and we were
both soon enveloped in a cloud of Ken
tucky smoke.
I always feel communicative under the
influence of the weed, and have generally
found it the ease with pretty much every
one; but Sheldon Bates' pipe seemed to
seal his bps. He puffed vigorously, and
replenished his corn-cob several times,
only deigning to reply to my remarks by a
simple “yes” or “no," and i began to
think that, after all, though he might
chance to be a well read person, there did
not appear much variety in his conversa
tion.
I have neglected to inform tlie reader
that 1 have an ugly scar running from my
cheek bone down t,o the corner of ray
mouth. It was received when 1 was a boy
by nsy falling from a barn loft upon a
scythe, which lay upon the floor. The
wound healed, leaving a purple seam on
my visage, and sis I never had any beauty
to spare, ibis accident in nowise improved
ray personal appearance. As evening drew
on and the lamps were lighted, 1 several
times detected Mr. Bates regarding me
with a peculiar stare. There was a look of
pain and unhappiness in his countenance,
that was at variance with his previous rosy
nud uiiui/ncemed demeanor. After a little
he moved hi* scat upon my right side, and
simultaneously with his act I unconscious
ly changed my attitude, so that I again
brought my left cheek to his view. Sud
denly his countenance became very pale,
and laying his hand upon my arm he
said:
“Pardon the request I make, but I will
esteem it a favor if you sit with your right
side toward me.”
“Ah! I see,” I.replied: “the left side of
my face is more repulsive than the right.
Certainly,” and I turned in my chair with
a laugh.
Hi* (teemed offended at my reply, and
while the blood mounted in his cheeks lie
quickly corrected me.
“I should be sorry to think that you
sould deem me capable of an act of dis
courtesy. Believe me, your face has noth
ing in it that in the least degree is repul
sive to me, but that scar upon your cheek
recalls one of the most bitter epochs of my
life. So bitter, bo hopeless is the remorse
X feel that I would he content when I
sometimes lay down to sleep, ii I knew
that I would'never more awaken to the
pangs I must ever experience while I live.
Oh !it is a fearful thing to have sorrow so
deep and remorse so great, that they can
'Vrnot, they will not, be cast out by even a
(fcontrition that grovels at the feet of Mercy
in sackcloth aud ushea.”
THE INDEPENDENT.
I looked at my host with an air of amaze
ment. 1 could scarcely believe 1 laid heard
him aright.
“What great crime can you liavo com
mitted.”
The words came slowly from my lips. I
did not know I had littered them until 1
heard lijs reply.
“Nothing,” ho said, “but what almost
every man, woman and child over the
entire South will tell you 1 laid a right to
do. Nothing for which the law of the
land can lay fingers on me, and yet God
onlv knows whether I have not done that
winch robs me of my peace in this life,
and for which flic tortures of hell may be
my portion in the life to come. But when
this spell comes over mo (and it does so
frequently), I must speak, or I think 1
should go distracted. Would you like to
hear a story ? It may do you no possible
good, for it contains no moral. Vet it
may answer ono end, and that is, it will
cause vou to remember me.”
“Proceed,” I replied, “I am very mueli
interested, and believe me, I sympathise
with your distress; and here allow me to
assure you that 1 use no set phrase or
idle expression when I positively declare
that my heart beats responsively to all
sorrow, for 1 have -had my full share of
trouble.”
“Very well then,” he responded, listen,
and you shall judge whether I liavo
real or fancied griefs:
"My father was a planter. This house
audthefew acres that surround it is all that
is left of a plantation nearly a mile square.
The mansion where 1 unshorn was rndueed
to a heap of charred ruins in the second
year of the Rebellion. My father died
some years previous. It was well ho was
not. alive to see the havoc, for lie was a
sensitive man, and never would have borne
up under the trials that befell his children.
My brother Edward and myself were joint
heirs in the estate. He was my junior by
seven years. He was n. thoughtful fellow,
a great 1 took-worm, and very retiring in
his disposition.
“My father was a man who was very in
dulgent to his children, and humored
them in everything consistent with their
welfare. It was one of my whims to be
educated at Vale, and my father accord
ingly took me to the land of pumpkin pies
and left, me at the great institution to com -
plete my education. Now murk how sin
gularly my rliuiaetcr developed as com
pared with my brother Edward’s, who, af
ter my return home, went to a Southern
college and staid there until ho graduated.
1 went to Yale with only moderate South
ern prejudices (my mother was Northern
born, and was very strong in her pro-sla
very sentiments), and came out of it the
Worst fire-eater in the class. No epithet
was too bitter for me to apply to Yankees.
1 was glad to get home again, and had no
desire to see the North any more. .! passed
inv time in amusing myself, and occa
sionally giving an ey e to the plantation
when my father chanced to he absent.
“Edward came from college a very dif
ferent fellow from his brother. lie was
eternally poring overbooks, and, to my
horror, 1 one day discovered him in pos
session of a pile of ant: slavery pamphlets.
I will not relate my discussions with him.
nor atop to inform you how -Mortified 1
was when 1 loond that his mind was deep
ly imbued with the pernicious teachings.
I reasoned with him, hut in vain; and
when I found I could not produce a change
ill his sentiments, 1 gave the matter up,
aud new r w illingly referred to it again.
“One day he was at a political meeting,
and an incautious expression ho uttered
involved him in n difficulty with u young
planter named Styles. Edward was of a
veiy peaceable disposition, and, although
no coward, nothing could induce him to
engage in a quarrel. I fueling was then
fashionable among us, lmt ho would never
countenance it. So when he was challeng
ed by Styles lie positively declined to
meet him. The consequence was that
Styles watched lii.s opportunity, and made
a personal assault upon him. Edward was
a robust fellow, and soon gave his antag
onist a drubbing, hut during the melee
Styles drew a knife und stubbed niv broth
er ill the face, leaving a scar very much I
like the one on your cliook.
“My notions were not so straight-laced I
on the subject of the code. I went after
Styles, found him, soon managed to get
npa quarrel with him, the inevitable chal
lenge passed, we met, and I shot him.
Notoriety and satisfaction came to me the
same day.
“My brother was shocked at what I had
done, and preached me a very sensible
sermon on the occasion, though I didn’t
heed it at the moment. Howard wasn’t
again insulted, for the neighborhood con
sidered me the fighting member of the
family, and respected ray relatives.
‘ ‘l'll skip the intervening years of our
lives, and come down to the period of ray
sorrow. It won't cost your memory much
|to recollect the troubles of '6l. Father
j had not been long dead, and a heavy
| gloom rested orer our house when the
i thunders of civil war broke upon our ears,
] and added another pang to our hearts.
“We had a good deaf of money owing
|us at the North. Hi: lost every penny of
! it. The first calamity that we were forced
to undergo, was to sell one lialf our plan
tation. From that time it seemed that it
went acre after acre, until there was noth
ing left of it save what you see here and
about you.
“It was in the second year of the re
bellion that my brother one night quietly
saddled his horse and rode away. The
following morning, finding he did not
appear at the breakfast table, we sent up
to his room to ascertain the cause of his
absence. The servant returned, saying
his bed had been unused. 1 sprang up
stairs, and, true enough, it was so. On
going to his bureau 1 found a note written
with pencil, and evidently in haste. It
ran in this wise:
“Mi DeabMotheb and Bbothkk ; My
country has need of all her children, aud
I can no longer witness her woes unmoved.
My action is not the result of impulse.
May heaven protect you all in my absence.
Should I ever live to return to you once
more, I trust I may find the old affection
you always bore me. Edwabd. ’
“This was p. bitter blow to my mother,
and a source of very great disquietude to
myself, for I loved Edward very deeply.
His country and my country were not the
same. I blush to confess it, but I consid
ered every man outside the revolted States
as lay enemy. A year later found me
with a rifle on my shoulder, and a butter
nut suit on my back. I never could hear
where Edward had gone, but I knew he
was among the Union forces somewhere.
“Many a Yankee prisoner hud I interro
gated upon the Subject, hoping i might
find someone who knew my brother’s
whereabouts* but all in vain. Twice I wu;:
QUITMAN, G Y., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1873.
taken a prisoner, but by good fortune I
managed to escape, aud rejoined my reg
iment.
“The changes and chances of war at
length found mo at Corinth. In all the
scrapes l had engaged J never was wound
cd until 1 stood up to tight there.
“By some means, 1 do uot recollect how
it occurred, but during the battle I discov
ered that about a dozen of our follows and
myself were separated from our regiment..
In our endeavors to get hack, we got en
tangled in the Federal lines, and had to
conceal ourselves. At length, however,
wo were discovered, and the Federal*
commenced to fire on us from alow stone
wall where they lay.
“There didn't seem to me more than
twenty of them, so some of our boys pro
posed that wo should charge through
them. \Ye iustantly agreed to it, and in
live minutes more wo were dashing for
ward under their tire. We never reached
them, for before we got half way nearly
all our fellows were killed or wounded.
"Two comrades and myself got behind
l an old pine stump, and as an act of brn
j vado, commenced to tire on our foes. There
was a fellow in a blue blouse only a trilling
distance directly in my front. 1 saw him
j level liis piece at me, and before I was
■ able to ling the ground ns closely as I
i should have dune, I got his musket-ball iu
: my left shoulder.
‘“l’m hit,’ I called to my comrade, ‘and
1 I can't tell how badly, but I want you
to steady my rifle while 1 wait for that
Yank who has shot me. I’m determined
| to leave my mark on him if possible. ’ As I
I uttered those words my foe rose to my
! full view, and 1 pulled the trigger. He
I staggered and fell, and as 1 gave a cheer 1
! saw the Eedcrals running for us. A few
minutes more and I was dragged within
i the Union 1 tvs.
"A surgeon soon had the ball out of
I my shoulder, and while I was waiting to
!be taken to the hospital, 1 thought 1
would indulge iu a little bravado. Ho J
j inquired:
“ ‘Where’s the Yank I shot?’
“A tierce, red-bearded fellow sprung in
; front of me.
“‘Are yon the Johnny that shot Ned
Hates, you infernal hound, ’ amt he would
have taken me by the throat had he not
remembered that 1 was a prisoner and
wounded.
“ 'Ned Bates,’ I screamed. ‘Tell mo,
where did he belong ? Where is he ?’
“ 'Carried up to the hospital tent,’ re
plied one of the Eedcrals; ‘but what’s that
to you ?’
“'A great deal if lie eamo from Ken
tucky,’l answered; 'for 1 have a brother
by that name somewhere in vonr army.’
“‘By George !’ exclaimed one of the
number, ‘I believe Ned does come from
somewhere in the South. But here you
are, you’ll soon find out. Jump in,' and 1
was tumbled into an ambulance and car
ried off.
“I had great pain in my shoulder, but a
greater one in my heart. As soon as 1
got. to the hospital 1 wont to the surgeon in
charge. He was a kind-spoken man, with
a white head, aud glasses on Ids nose, I.
stated my ease to him, and asked him if he
would not allow me to go to the bedside of
the man who had been shot.
‘“My God !’ he exclaimed, ‘this would
be a horrible incident, if true, for the, sol
dier you are seeking is already dead. Go,
but I hope for the sake of humanity it
may not be any kin to you.”
‘‘The firing bud ceased, the judo stars
were coining out on tins evening sky, us
with bowed head and hot, unavailing
teal's, I knelt at the couch of a dead Union
soldier, and held hi. hand within my
own. Would to God I had died ere that
hour, for then 1 could have gone to the
grave with scarce a regret, and certainly
without a brother's blood on my hands.
Now, tell me, ” he added, “do you think a
man like mo has cause for grief V”
“Moat assuredly 1 do.”
“And do you think I ever can bo happy
again ?” he continued.
"I do not,” I replied.
He caught me by the hand, “You are an
honest man,"hesaid. “(Lotus go to bed,
for I feci very miserable.”
Miscellaneous Items.
—There is only one brewery in the large
territory of Alaska, at Sitka.
•—Baltimore is building the most mag
nificent Catholic cathedral in the United
States.
The French Protestants number less
than one million out of thirty-six million
of people.
- A platform philosopher says that a
man falls in love as he falls down stall's—
by accident.
-When the policemen find a man full
they take him to the station house and Ins
friends bail him out.
—A lazy editor in Ohio reads all his ex
changes in bed. He finds it the easiest
way to till up his sheet.
—An armless musician has arrived iu
this country from Europe who plays the
fiddle with his toes. Wonderful feet.
—A New York moralist thinks it is easier
to run a needle through the eye of a camel
than to hang a rich man iu New York.
—Theodore Hook, once talking of a
man just buried, said: “Yes, I was out
that day and I met him in his private box
going to the pit.”
—Jenkins told liis son, who proposed to
buy a cow in partnership, to be sure aud
buy the hinder half, us it cat nothingand
gave all the milk.
—A silk blanket for a fashionable poo
dle in New York city costs 81(5, and more
than 30,000 laboring men and women
thrown out of employment in that city.
—An exchange says that a wife’s social
position in Biain is so low that her husband
can sell her or trade her for a yellow dog.
But the husband himself is generally a
yellow dog.
—A consequential young fop asked an
aged country sexton if the tolling of a bell
did not put him in mind of his latter end.
“No sir,” replied the grim old grave-digger
“but the rope puts mo in mind of yours.”
—A Dutch Congressman remarked: “Ven
I vas elected, I thought I vould find dem
all Solomons down here; but I found de.re
was some as pick fools here as I vas mine
self. ”
—The editor of an Illinois paper thinks
that fishing, as a general rule, doesn’t pay.
He says: ‘ ‘We stood it all day in the river
last week, but caught nothing —until we
yut home. ”
—An Irish paper concludes a biography
on Robespierre with the following sen
tence: “This extraordinary man left no
i children except his brother, who was kill
ed at the same time.”
—A Western paper, iu describing an
accident, recently, says, with considerable
candor: “Dr. Crawford was called, and
under his prompt and skillful treatment,
the young man died on Wednesday night.”
—A female lecturer in Boston said, “Get
married, young men, aud be quick about
it. Don't wait for the girls to become
angels. Yon would look well beside an
gels, wouldn’t you, you brutes?”
A Saratoga Bello has put on deep
mourning for the loss of her poodle. Home
men ought to bo thankful that they have
twelve children, and liavo to work for a
dollar per day.
—Josh Billings says: “I will state for
the information of those who haven’t had
a chftiieo to lay in sekrit wisdom az freely
az I have, that one single hornet who
feels well can break up a whole camp
meeting. ’’
—“My Dkak,” said a husband to liis
wife, on observing now red striped stock
ings oil his only heir, “why have you made
harbor’s poles of our child's legs?” “Be
cause he is u little abn' - was the neat
reply.
—Cincinnati was listening so intently
for the accustomed squeal of dying swine
at her slaughter houses, that she gave a
very meager reception to Theodore
Thomas. Bristles have a premium over
horse hair at Cincinnati.
—A lager beer house in Hudson county,
N. J., was formerly a church, The shrewd
Teuton who now keeps it was about to
erase an inscription painted over the door,
but on second thoughts he left the last
line untouched. It is; “Let him who is
athirst come.”
—As a lawyer was arguing liis case, the
judge interrupted him, saying: “The
court, is against you on that point, coun
sellor.” “Very well,” responded the
lawyer, “Ido not rest my ease on that
point alone; I have several others equally
Conclusive 1”
—Mr. and Mrs. Crotis, of Bridgeport,
Conn., who celebrated their golden wed
ding recently, have beou remarkably for
tunate during their married life. All their
children and grand children were present,
no <'■ utli having occurred in their family
for ii fly years.
A Missouri girl on her wedding day,
sold her piano and bought a sewing ma
chine and material enough for a suit for
her husband and herself, and t, once set
to work making them up. Her husband
bloived it. Li two weeks her four sisters
were all married.
—“Wlnit do yon nsk for that article ?”
inquired un old gentleman, of a pretty
shop girl.
“Five dollars.”
“Ain’t you a little dear ?”
“Why,” she replied, blushing, “nil the
young men tell me so.”
A Mr. Robert A. Cheosboro, of New
York, bus issued a pamphlet in which he
makes a singular proposal, it is to keep
the canals open during tho winter by
meshes of pipes conveying hot water along
each side of them. A little sugar added
to the hot water, with a “stick,” would
make the proposal much more “taking.”
At present we can’t s.vallow it.
—A man was recently arrested in one of
the St. Louis cemeteries under suspicion
of being a body-snatcher, but he was dis
charged when it transpired that lie was
only a directory man, canvassing the
tombstones for assistance in getting up a
directory that shall lay Chicago’s 465,000
in the shade. St. Louis was unfortunate
in publishing her directory first.
—A certain lawyer had bis portrait ta
ken in bis favorite attitude -standing w ith
one band in bis pocket. His friends and
clients all went to see it and everybody I
exclaimed: “Out how like ! it's tho very
picture of him !” An old farmer only dis
sented- —“’Taint like !” Exclaimed every
body: “Just show us W'hereit 'taintlike.”
“ ’Taint—no ’taint!” responded tlie far
mer. “Don’t you see, he lias got his hand
in his own pocket; ’twonld boas like
again if he had it in somebody’s else.”
—Some captious readers of n South
Carolina paper complained of the editor’s
inconsistency in acknowledging the re
ceipt of a milk-punch in one column, and
publishing a “temperance department”
in the next. But that gentleman, believ
ing in a fair and amicable division of labor
explains that ho “has nothing to do with
what goes into the temperance column of
his paper, nor have the gentlemen who
conduct that department anything to do
with what goes into the editor !”
—The man who answered an advertise
ment to tho following effefct says his curi
osity is satisfied:
“if you would learn how to make
home happy, send a postage stamp and
twenty-five cents to F. O. Box No.—,
Cincinnati.”
He did send tho necessary cash, and
soon received the answer .
“If you are as big a fool as wo think
you must be for giving us your money,
you can make home happy by leaving it
and going West yourself.”
—A justice of the peace in lowa, before
whom a citizen bad prosecuted his daugh
ter's lovers for ejecting him from his own
parlor the Sunday evening previous, sol
emnly decided as follows: “it, ’pears that
young feller was courtin’ tho plaintiff's
ga! in plaintiff’s parlor, and that plaintiff
intruded, and was put out by defendant.
Courtin’ is a necessity, and must not be
interrupted. Therefore the laws of lowa
will hold that a parent has no legal right
in a room where courtin’ is afoot, and so
the defendant is discharged and plaintiff
must pay costs.”
—A good anecdote is told of a well
known and witty lawyer, who was in his
younger days “one of the boys.” His
father was a r Baptist minister and after
sowing a great many wild oats the son was
converted. Tlie day for .the baptism in
the river was fixed, and on the occasion
many of the lawyer’s old friends were pres
ent. Ti. young man was taken down into
the win r, aud the father, taking hold, of
him i , the usual manner, before immersing j
him said. “This is my beloved son who]
was lost, but is found; who was dead, but j
lives again.” “Yaast, ilominte.” said a]
voice in the crowd, “and it’s my opinion
of ye don’t put a hell around his neck ye’ll
lose him again.”
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C. M. BROWN, of Florida,
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WEILLER & BRO.,
274 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md,
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BUSINESS CARDS.
JAS.H. HUNTER,
VTTO KX E Y AT LA W ,
QUITMAN,
BROOKS COUNTY', GEORGIA.
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WiUjirautico in the Counties of tho Rout-horn
Circuit. Echols and Clinch of tho Brunswick, and
Mituheil of tho Albany. ASrOffico at tho Court
House. "feDt Juno2B-tf
W. B. BUN NETT. B. T. KINUKDEUUY
BENNETT & KINGSBERRY,
Attorneys tat Law
Q UITMA X,
Brooks County, - Georgia.
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EDWARD R. HAIDER.
Attorney at Law,
<£ulT M A N ,
BROOKS COUNTY, • - GEORGIA.
La to an Asrooiatc Justice Supreme Court IT.
S. for l'trill and Nebraska Territories; now Judge
County Court, Brooks County, On.
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DENTIST,
Quitman, ----- Georgia,
Office Up Stairs, Finch’s Corner.
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PRACTISING PHYSICIAN,
<|uitinan, Ga.
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Messrs. Briggs, Julies & (To., Screvon street.
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TRUNKS, VALISES,
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TEN 1I N" ALLEY,
At the Old Stand, 174 Bryan St.,
OPPOSITE THE MARKET,
Continues to keep on baud the best of
Brandies, Whiskies, Wines, Ales,
AND ALL OTHER LIQUORS,
My Foreign Liquors are all of my own Impor
tation.
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(WITH LATEST IJIPOVEMHKTS.)
roll 20 YEARS THE
Standard of Excellence
Tiinouaiiour the would.
Over 750,000 in Use.
If you think of buying: a Sewing Machine it will
pp.y you to examine the records of thoo now in
use and profit by experience. 'The Wheeler
v Wilson Htaiiils ttlom; UH the only
Illuming Machine, using; tin- Ilotary Hook,
making a Lock Stitch, -alike on both sides of
the fabric Hewed. All shuttle machines waste
power in drawing the shuttle back after tin
Htitoli i formed, bringing double wear and strain
upon both machine anti operator, insure, while
other machines rapidly wear out, the Wheeler
& Wilson linsts n Lifetime, and proves an
economical investment. Do not believe all that
in promised by so-called “Cheap” machinea, you
should require proof that vean* of use have tested
their value. Money once thrown away cannot he
recovered.
Send for our circulars. Machines sold on easy
terms, or monthly payments taken. Old machines
put in order or received in exchange.
WHEELER & WILSON MFG CO.’S OFFICES:
Savannah, Augusta, Macon and Columbus, Ga.
W. B. Cllviuj, Gen. A;;t., Savannah, Ga.
to ay 31-11 m
(S’.-11/1 XX AII A I>U. ER TIS EM EX 7’N. J
L. DxWITT. £ MOIWAN.
T. H. SANFORD.
DeWITT, MORGAN 1 C 0„!
130 CongrcsH Ht.,
SAVANNAH, - - - GEORGIA,
DEALERS IN
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
DRY GOODS,
IT niff. ON Ist OF SEPTEMBER, COM
YV MENCE opening their Fall atm Winter
stock, ami will offer tho same for CASH on the
lauat reasonable terms.
DRESS GOODS,
SHAWLS and CLOAKS,
QUILTS and TOWELS,
EMBROIDERIES and GLOVES,
WOOLEN GOODS, for
GENT’S and BOYS,
Full stock of
PLANTER’S SUPPLIES.
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JOHN M. COOPER A CO,
Hnvannn li, On.
WHOIJIBALE AND RETAIL BKAMM IN
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
Keep constantly on hand a large assort
ment of
M ISC ELL ANEOITS, ST AND AR D
AKD
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Sunday School Libraries furnished on the
most liheral terms with the latest
and best English Publications,
B IBLE S,
Pocket, Eiimily and Pulpit,
In Great Variety.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, SCRAP BOOKS.
Aliy hooka sent by mail on receipt of price.
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DR. I). COX,
LIVE STOCK, SLAUGHTERED MEATS,
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-1 11 O J> U C E
COMMISSION MERCHANT
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PURCHASING AGENT,
SA VANN AII, GEORGIA.
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Stock Lots,
WILLIAM AND WEST BROAD STEETS.
Produce Depot
IN BASEMENT OF CITY MARKET.
COBTSIGNMEiMTS OF
BEEF CATTLE,
MILCII COWS,
SHEEP, HOGS,
GAME,
DRESSED MEATS, Ac., Ac.,
—ALSO—
POULTRY, EGGS,
VEGETABLES,
FBCITS,
MELONS,
SUCIAR,
SYRUP,
HONEY,
HIDES,
TALLOW, Ac.
RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED.
NUM HER 30.
N. lI ’A XXAII Al> VER TISEMEXTS,
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Wm. 11. STARK. H. P. RICHMOND.
WE H. STARK i CO.,
Wholesale Urofrri,
Commission Merchants and Cotton Factor!
Corner if Day and Lincoln. Street*,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.,
Asents Per
E. FRANK COE'S BONE SUPERPHOSPHATE,
Magnolia Light Draft Cotton (tin*,
PRINCETON FACTOTY YARNS.
ARROW TIES.
Careful Attention (liven to
Sales or Shipment of Cotton
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ALL KINDS OK PRODUCE,
nvrLiberal ADVANCES made on Consignments*
angl6-3m.
J.N. IIGHTFOOT
COTTON FACTOR
—AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
10(5 Bay SI., Savannah, Ga.
Agent for the sale of
*
MEURYMAm AMMONIA TED BONES,
Liberal cash advances made on consignments
for Hale in Savannah, or on shipments to reliable
corn-Hpondents in Liverpool, Now York or Phila
delphia. oot4-3tn
JAS. R. SHELDON,
COTTON FACTOR
—AND—
GenT Commission Merchant
No. 102 Bay Street,
Savannah, ... - Georgia.
Liberal Advances made on Consignments.
BAGGING, IBON TIES and ROPE Furnished,
Correspondence and Consignments Solicited.
PROMPT RETURNS G UAKANTERD,
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INMAN, SWANN & €O.,
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
96 Bay St., Savannah, Ga., and Cotton Exchange,
101 Pearl St., New York,
Will make 1 literal cash advance* on cotton ship
ments to either our Bavannab or New York house.
Will buy aud sell futures on liberal terms.
Qct4-:lm INMAN, SWANN k CO.
N. FITZGERALD,
(ESTABLISHED 1800.1
Manufacturin' and Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in
CANDIE S,
CORDIALS, SYRUPS,
Fancy Confectionary, &c.
180 Bryan St.,
Between Barnard and Jefferson Streets,
Savannah, Ga.
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TO Tin: PUBLIC!
SALOMON COIIEN
Corner Huy aud Jefferson Sts.,
SA VANN All, GEORGIA,
OFFERS TO THE PUBLIC THE LARGEST
and best stock of
Two ond Four Seated Buggies,
ltockaways, Carriages,
Express and Plantation Wagos,
AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
—ALSO—
ALL KINDS HARNESS AND WHIPS.
Terms moderate. Enquiries promptly at
; tended to.
Agent for the Btndebakcr Plantation Wagon,
The same have taken the premium at the Fair at
Savannah, (in. ■*' (WtA-8m
BKKS.N AN’S
EUROPEAN HOUSE,
Nos. 156, 158, 160 and 162, Bryan St.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
rpHE niOHRIETOR HAVING COMPLETED
1 tlic uoeowtary mldßiou. ami improvement*,
cun now utter to Kin guoftfi
ALL THE COMFORTS TO HE OB
TAINED A T OTHER HOTELS
AT LESS THAN
HALF THE EXPENSE*
A Restaurant on the EUROPEAN PLAN lias
been added, where guests can,
At teVll Hours,
Order whatever can be obtaiued in the market.
Kooiiis, with liuorri, $1 50 per day.
Determined to be
OUT DONE BY NONE
all r can ask is a TRIAL confident that complete
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