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THET LINCOLNTON NEWS J. E>. COLLEY & CO., VOL. I. WASHINGTON ADVERTISEMENTS. LOBENZO SMITH &BR0., -OF WASHINGTON, GA., ABE OFFERING FOB THE FALL TBADB CincinnatiBuggies AT $50 TO $75. Columbus Buggies . AT $100 TO $160. Buggies and Carriages of other makes and grades at various prices. Also STUDEBAKER WAGONS At $65 and $70. TENNESSEE WAGONS At $60 and $65 WEBSTER WAGONS $60 to $76. THREE 3-4 WAGONS AT $53. f & •5 Own Make, at $40. KEMP’S MANURE SPREADERS, GRAIN DRILLS, ALBION SPRING TOOTH HARROWS, WINDMILLS, And a General Assortment of Agricultural Implements Also Single Harness from fO up. Double Harness, nnd Rims. parts of Harness, Hubs, Spokes ft Good BaggyaHarnessfor $60. Our prices are guaranteed to b3 as low as' any similar house in the South. Give us a call. Correspondence solicited. C. M. MAY, WASHINGTON, GA., GROCER, AND DEALER IN The liberal patronage which I have ob¬ tained from the people of Wilkes and adjoin¬ ing counties, I intend to hold by continuing to sell my goods at the very lowest prices, and by fair dealing in all things. Also C. M. MAY & CO. Will carry on a General Mercantile business alzDouble Branches, Lincoln Co., Ga. MERCIER'S STORE A First-Class Store in Every ‘Respect. A full stock of General Merchandise always on hand. €- TV. Mercier. T. H. REMSEN’S STORE! FINE WINES and WHISKIES. GENUINE MONOGRAM, THE AUGUSTA, ELBERTON AND CH ICAGO RAILROAD. ESTABLISHED 1872. LOWE & BRO., RETAIL DEALERS IN FINE LIQUORS OF ALL SORTS. AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF NORTH CAKOLIH CORK WHISKY APPLE AND PEACH BRANDY, FINE WINES, RUM, GIN, ALE, BEER, ETC., ETC. ETC., ETC. TOBACCO AND CIGARS. WASHINGTON. GA. AU6USTA ADVERTISEMENTS. BOBT. H. MAT. A. B. GOODIEAB* ROB’T H. MAY & GO.’S GRAND EXHIBITION OF ! ;i 8 s, Phaeti And PLANTATION WAGONS. ALL SIZES. The largest and most complete assortment of One and Two-Horse Vehicles ever shown in this section. All first-class work, and will be offered for the next sixty days at prices way below their value and lower than can be duplicated. Do not lose this opportunity. On exami¬ nation this work will prove to you that it cannot be purchased elsewhere at the prices we offer. Also, a large stock of Saddles, Bridles^ Harness, Skins, Umbrellas, Lap Robes, Blankets, Calf Sole and Harness Leather, Rub¬ ber and Leather Belting, Trunks, Bags, Hubs, Harness, Spokes, Wagon Reins, Axles, Trace Chains, Cash Pbioes. Harness, etc., at Lowest THE ROAD CART (PATENTED.) The safest, lightest and most easy ridin g two-wheeled vehicle ever produced. Of all the road carts made, use and experience has demonstrated these to be the best. The Adjustable Balance is a most valuable f ea| ture of our Road Carts. Buy no other. Price $£ 0 . N. B.—We warrant all the vehicles we sell. Remember our prices are the lowest. ROB’T H. MAY & CO., BROAD STREET, Opposite Georgia R- R. Bank AUGUSTA, GA. OR.DEB YOUR Saw Mills, Cane Mills Grrist Mills, And Plantation and Mill Machinery, Engines and Boilers, Cotton Screws, Shafting, Boxes, Pulleys, Hangers, Journal Mill Gearing, Gudgeons, Turbine Water Wheels, Gin ton’s Gearing, Circular Judson’s Governors, Dies Files, Belting Saws, Babbit Glimmers Metal and Fittings,' and and Brass Globe nnd Check Valves and Whistles, Gnages, Iron and Brass Castings, Gin Ribs, Iron Fronts, Balconies and Fence Rail- * ing. Geo. R. Lombard & Go., FOREST CITY Foundry and Machine Works, NEAR THE WATER TOWER, 1014 to 1026 Fenwick Street, AUGUSTA, GA. 2 ^“Repairing promptly done at Lowest prices. CENTRAL HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA. MRS. W. M. THOMAS, - Propbietrkss This hotel, so well known to the citizens of Lincoln and adjoining counties, is located in the center of the business porti ion of Augusta. graph office Convenient to Postofflce, other indue, Tele¬ meats to the and public Depot, such and only first-class ce as hotels can afford, LUSCOLNTON, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1882. Give. Thanks. Git« thanks! for the changeful seasons, Forthe "the fruitage That the summer blossoms bring. Give thanks ! for the autumn harvest, For the ripened fruit and grain. Gi>e thanks ! for the winter season, „ j ent e ays are short again. Give thank?! for the harvest garnered; j And we’ll gather roundthe fireside With the dear ones we love best. Give thanks ! that the Master knoweth When the thirsty soil needs rain. G t QkS t tOU Ch >i0eStbl035inS3 Are th d -- ° ° W th f pam ' Areteli^at for°ood 31 ^ 9 ^^^ 1 * 1183 That no care or raiment' Have the flowerets of the field. Give thanks! for the midday sunshine, For the glory of God’s light, For the social hoar of evening, For the silence of the night. Give thanks! that the hand of friendship Hath no sinful, selfish taint. Give thanks ! that the earth is lovely; Give thanks,' that each life is blest With its trials or its blessings, For He knoweth which fire best! Mrs. Sardwell’s Tramp. “Are you going to meeting with me, ma?” asked Mr. Bardwell, laying down his Sunday boots as he spoke, reaching after the blacking brush. “No, I guess not,” she answered slowly. “ It wouldn’t do me no good, and I should be worriting all the time, for fear the turkey was burning or the water done out of the vegetables.” “ It will be a lonesome Thanksgiving without Samuel,” he continued, pol¬ ishing vigorously on the rough leather. ~ There was no reply. Ti e clock ticked solemnly in the corner and the old gray cat purred loudly in the rock ing-chair. She was not unused to filling domestic interludes with her unchanging song. “ A 1-o-n-c-some Thanksgiving!” he repeated. “Sam was a smart young chap, but high-strung. I’m most afraid we were too harsh w'ith him, Semantha. It is ten years since he went off.” “Ten years since you turned him out of the house,” she answered, shortly. “No, no. Don’t say that, Semantha. Of course I was riled up about his taking that butter money, though I don’t believe the boy meant to steal and perhaps I faulted him more than I ought to, but I never meant to drive him away. Well, well, it is too Lite now. Like as not he is dead and buried before this.” Mrs. Bardwell went hastily into the pantry, and there was a sound as of some one sobbing; though, perhaps, it might have been only the rustle of the dry leaves upon the dead grass. A little later a dim-eyed, sorrowful¬ faced man clambered into his rickctty wagon and jolted uncomfortably down the street. Steadily the hands swept round the dial of the clock in the old brown house at the Four Corners, till both pointers stood at twelve and the din ner was an assured success. The turkey was done to exactly the right shade of golden brown and with the plum-pudding and its rich sauce flooded the kitchen with fragrant odors. The cranberries, with their perpeiual blush, were flanked by mince and tart and custard pies, each a won der of culinary art, but dwindling into insignificance beside the mammoth chicken pie that overshadowed them all. A plate of snowy biscuits stood upon the dresser. Some passing im¬ pulse had led Mrs. Bardwell to make one of the “ dough men ” that little Sammie used to delight in—a creature with an impossible head and arms that stood out like a sign-post; but, ashamed of the* momentary weakness, she had hidden it, as soon as it was baked, on the high shelf in the pantry. “ I’ll lay the table in the sitting-room,” she soliloquized— “it will seem more like Thanksgiving; but I will put on the blue plates, be¬ cause they are easiest to wash.” She drew out the old-fashioned cherry ta¬ ble and covered it with a spotless cloth. The quaint blue earthenware, with its pictures of tall young sliep herdesses with their crooks, of ragged boys chasing butterflies across the meadow, and of strange birds, whose anatomy would have astonished Audu¬ bon, were disposed upon'it; and as she worked she sang, in a high, cracked voice, her favorite tune of China: Why do we mourn deper-ar-ting friends, Or shake at Death's alarms ? ’Tie bu-ut the voice that Jesus sends, To>oo ca-all them to-oo his arms,” rolled forth in well-known quavers. Just as she gave the finishing touches to the table there came a knock at the outside door. Opening it in a me. chanieal way, Mrs. Bardwell saw a young woman, in a faded calico dress, with a little boy beside her, standing on the threshold. “Please, may we come in and rest a asked little while and get voice. a drink of water ?” j a pleasant | hesitating, “Weil, yes,” absent-minded she answered, in a j way. “ I don’t, as a general thing, harbor tramps, but seein’ it is Thanksgiving, 1 you can come in and stay awhile.” : “Asa is hungry,” remarked the child when, seated beside the fire, he surveyed the good things in prepara t ’ on - “Hush! hush! Asa!” whispered his mother, quickly. “That is my husband’s name,” said Bard well, peering curiously into tlle b °y’s face. Something she saw there—it may have 1>een the in nocent look with which childhood always wins its way closest to our hearts, or it might have been some fancied resemblance to the boy lost ten years ago; but it sent her into the pantry to take the dough-man ** ««» sMt - Asa. A moment later she heard the rumble of wheels upon the frozen ground, and, fearing lest her husband should come in before the child had finished eating it, she went to the door and called to him that he had better put out the horse at once, as by that time dinner would be ready. After he came in and had sat dow n near the stove, he held cut his hand to the boy, who, bribed by the promise of a red apple, climbed into his lap. Stroking the baid head softly with his dimpled hands he asked, with childish wonder: “What makes your head so funny ? Did God forget b to } plant apv hair - x 1 ou can . have some of mine. . Can ,., the, mamma v , % “I had a little boy once about your size,” began Mr. Bardwell. Then, at a s, " nal from his ^ he put down tb e. child , anrt f °liowed her mto * he slt tmg-room, closing ihe-door behind him - “ Seeing they are here,” she said, in a timid way, quite unusual for her, “ hadn’t we better ask them to have dinner with us ?’’ “ That’s just what I was a-thinking myself,” he replied. “ We shan’t be none tho poorer for it, I reckon.” So the w r ayfarers received a cordial tnvitatiou to sit at the hospitable board. As the woman took off her old, weather-beaten hat, she gave it a fit t,e shake in front of the window, as dislodge some possible bit of dust ; but the action must llave been understood by some one outside, for ln a m °ment ^ the door opened J and a taU > bearded y° un S man entered, “AVh—what?” began the old far raer > in unconcealed surprise. But his wife> with the mpther instinct which is never quite dead in any woman, dropped the dish of mashed potatoes on the floor, as she cried out, “Oh! Samuel.” And so the whole story came out. After his boyish folly, ten years before, he had gone West, burning with re¬ sentment at his father’s last words— “that their house was no home for a thief.” He had been fortunate in at mother whom he had left alone in the old brown house at the Four Corners, Bllt no re l d y came. The letter was lost on the way and had never glad¬ dened the eyes of the sorrow j in g couple, who norance of Ins whereabouts. Day after day, week after week, month after month he waited, till at length he con eluded that his parents were inflexible in their determination to cast him off. Life prospered with him. He married the daughter of his employer and tered into a business partnership with him. Before the wedding he wrote home again. Probably the clerks in the dead letter office never guessed with what a burden of love and hope the missive was freighted. He had named his little son Asa, after the dis tant grandfather, and this last year the longing to see the old homestead had been so strong upon him that lie had persuaded his wife to do a in order to '? a * n admittance into the house, *-’ be events of the day had come to pass as he had planned. “And the Prodigal has come back, father,” he said, as the old man took out a red silk pocket-handkerchief under The shallow pretense of a fold in the head. But what need is there for me to toll what followed ? Of course, the table was reset with the best green-sprigged china, and the little Asa had the seat of honor, and was allowed to eat all manner of unsuitable food. He liked the turkey dressing so much that he passed his plate the second time, say¬ ing modestly: “ Please give me some more of the clothes.”— Independent. There are over 600,000 acres of to¬ bacco fields in the United States. The crop is valued at about 145,000,000, Stories. ! Frog The supposed reappearance from time to time of the sea serpent is not a more open subject for credulous ad miration or scoffing ridicule, as the case may be, than are the innumerable Stories of frog 3 or toads said to have been imprisoned for centuries, if not for unnumbered ages, in cavities in sandstone or in coal, or in the heart of a tree, and living through their long confinement seemingly in the enjoy ment of excellent health. The cred ulcus or incredulous respectively be li,ve in or utterly reject all such stories. Among the latest of these remarkable accounts is one given in Times of India, where we are told that a live frog was recently exhumed from among some Buddhist relics which had lain buried for seventeen hundred years near a place called Bas sein. * Supposed cases of toads being found alive in the heart of living trees, or in sandstone, or coal, have be en very numerous, and it is needless to point out that a fcog only seventeen centuries old must feel that it is a mere raw you th in the presence of a toad wh ieh has watched the formation o£ the coal beds> UnfortU natelv it can rarely be possible to get scientific evidence of a case of this kind There may be no quest ion that a toad has beea found ia the center o{ a solid bloek of stonQj but the stone wag broken before it wa3 foimd> and ^ there wag no crevice leadi ^ to ite P sition ^ be bv J fittl ° the „ pieces carefuUy . „ together , .. again. «,. This • , has generally . become impossible . ... before any scientific man hears of the case . In 1825 Dr> Buckland made a j series of experiments to test the pos sibil , ties o£ toads surviving lon periods of confinement without food or air He made twelve eells in a large block of porous limestone and put a toad into each, covering the j mouth of a cell with a plate of glass j carefully cemented on. The block was then buried three feet deep in his gar den. After more than a year it was dug out and examined, when most of the toads were found still alive. Some | were emaciated, but in two of the ce p 3 £be pr i SO nera had actually grown heavier. In one of these the glass j plate was found to be cracked, so that minute insects might have entered, but the other cell was quite sound, and yet the toad had gained a quarter of an ounce in weight. To explain this Dr. Buckland is driven to the hypothesis that there must have been some flaw in the cement with which the glass was fast¬ ened. All the surviving toads were buried again, and before the end of the second year they were all dead. Twelve toads were also immured in much smaller cells in a block of hard sand stone, not pervious to air or water, and they all perished within one year. Dr. Buckland was evidently not quite satisfied with the result of these ex periments, and indeed they prove a 1 good deal in favor of the toad’s pow ers, while thev disprove nothing. They the same thing for a century under better conditions. For Dr. Buckland admits .that he had caught the toads two months before . lie experimented 1 . - with ... them, and that , . they were in a ™ eageF or Un Uealth >' condltlon ; and there is a point f even more important which he does not touch on, namely, that they may not have been at that particular time disposed to torpor. There must be a very great difference between the state of an animal impris oned against its will, and that of one prompted by its own instincts to seek retirement. A bear in a cage dying for want of food does not i prove that bears never hibernate, And Dr. Buckland himself men tions casually that when he examined the toads, as he frequently did, during the second year, he found them always wide-awake with their eyes open. This alone seems to deprive his experiments of all the value as evidence of the kind required, for the very possibility of any animal surviving long without food depends upon its being in such a state of torpor^that all vital functions are entirely or almost entirely sus¬ pended. In that state the need for food is reduced almost to zero, and, considering a toad has been known to live an active fife in captivity for forty years, and then did not wear out, but met a violent death, they must be made of good wearing material, and tliere may be no assignable limit to the time for which one, nyoperly put to sleep and hermetically sealed, will “keep.” I do not know how long frogs five. The Mormon recruits that have ar¬ rived in New York from the Old World during the past year number more than 4,000, * Myths About Plants. With cotton a strange legend is linked in Brazil. The first of men was a demigod. He had a son of ^liom be wa nted to get rid • - so he formed 311 arma diUo and b e ried it in the S round alfbut its tail. Then he sent his S0Q to £etch it; - No sooner had the youth seized the armadillo by the tail thaa il Ponged into the bowels of the eartb ’ drugging him after it. On emerging from the lower world the y° un g man told his father there existed down bclow men “d women who m *ght cultivate the soil if they were brou g bt to the surface. The demigod created the cotton tree and formed out of il a cord with which he hauled up some of the inhabitants of the sub terranean region. The first specimens of the race were small and ugly; but they improved as the extracting process went on. Unfortunately, the cotton ro P e broke before the best types were br0U S ht U P—a fact which accounts, 3a T the Brazilians, for the rarity of hull,an beaut - v u P on eartb - To find it in its perfection one must go down be low ’ A more P 0 ^ 0 belief is that of 501116 bereaved German mothers who, U P to St. John’s day, abstain from eating strawberries, for they think that at that time little children who have died recently go up to heaven concealed in those fruits. It seems strange that the rush, which ought to be considered the friend of man, should have acquired in some lands a diabolical character. According to a little Russian legend, the dead ha3 taken up his abode in it. Having met the Lord one day, the devil asked for oats and buckwheat as his reward for having taken part in the creation of the world. The request was granted, whereupon the devil began to dance for joy. The wolf came up and sud¬ denly asked the meaning of this friv¬ olity. In his confusion the devil for¬ got what had^ been given to him, and replied that he was daneing for joy at having received the rush and the thistle; which P lants he stm ad * heres. The creation of the tea plant is due, says a Japanese legend, of which the Chinese appear to be unaware, to the piety of a Buddhist priest who visited China about A. D. 519. order to dedicate his soul entirely to God he avow never to go to sleep, but to medi¬ tate uninterruptedly day and night. After some years of watching he yielded to a severe, attack of sumn<* lence and went fast asleep. On awaken¬ ing he became so remorseful that, in order to render any similar weakness impossible in future, he cut off both his eyelids and threw them on the ground. Returning to the spot next day he discovered that each eyelid had become a shrub. From these two shrubs is descended the great family of tea plants. The story throws some light on the fact that tea-drinking often prevents the fall of “ tired eye¬ lids upon tired eyes.” By way of conclusion we may men¬ tion one of the stories connected with tobacco. The tobacco plant fully de devil’s hero, and in Little Russia the following legend is current as to its origin. Certain virtuous Little Rus • • . danger , of ... being sian carriers were in £ led <ast b a heatUen woman . voice from heaven ordered that she should be put to death. The carriers obeyed and buried her alive. Her husband planted a twig above her re mains; it grew and grew and became a large-leaved plant. As the Chris tian carriers and the heathen widower passed that way, they say that lie broke off some of the leaves, filled a pipe with them and smoked it. They followed his example, and smoked what has since been known as tobacco. So de lighted were they that they went on smoking without ceasing; until at length the smoke gave way one day to fire, which burned them all up.— Lon¬ don Atheneum. i Boy’s Prayer. Little 'Willie L—, aged three years, had the misfortune to lose his father a few weeks ago; the other evening, about twilight, he saw his widowed mother weeping over her great be¬ reavement. Little 'Willie ran out into the front yard and climbed up on the gate post, and turned his cherub face up to the stars, just beginning to peep out: “ God ! God!” he cried, all his little earnest soul in his words and his eyes, “send my papa back from heaven! Send him right away! We want him now! Send him right quick, for mamma is crying 1” But, alas ! for that widow and tha cherub boy, although the prayer came from as sinless a heart as ever be^t on earth, it can never be answered.— Memphis Weekly. PUBLISHERS. NO. 10. The Divining Usd.. The London Times publishes several letters on the working of the divining rod. Mr. T. Sherwood Smith, F. S. S., writing from Bristol, says that some years ago he was carrying on mining operations in Somersetshire and had a workman who professed the power of using the “twig.” He tested him and found that the twig certainly turned up sharply between his hands, while in his own it made no sign. On an¬ other occasion one of Mr. Smith’s men was pointed out as possessed of the power. A number of hats were p i aC ed in a row, and under one of them (known only to Mr. Smith and two scientific friends with' him) a number of copper coins. • The man was called in, and, by means of the twig, identified the right hat. The experiment was several times re¬ peated, and in most cases with success. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Cocks,*in a letter written from Montreux, says that at Cannes and other places on the Riviera certain Italians constantly travel aboutt the country for the pur¬ pose of finding concealed springs to sup¬ ply houses in course of building. In place of the usual hazel twig in use in . Cornwall the Italians use a twig of olive. When water is indicated the loop gives slight jerks upward, ami eventually becomes upright and turns tow ard the breast of the person opera¬ ting. Cocks gives an instance of the suc¬ cessful employment of the t wigjmdsays that he himself has often tried to trace a drain as a mere matter of Ca rS with invariable He doubt whatever of its truth. On the other hand Mr. T. K. Taplin, of Mil¬ verton, Somersetshire, writing with ref erenee to some _ said to have been made with Hie in a field near 'Westbury-sub-. says that the field in question, generally surface dry, had abun of water below, and he had li S doubt that the spring saidtu betappeii could have been tapped at say part of the field or even in the adjoining " ” The men, no doubt, knew very IT ' that they were practicing a joke, laboring men born and bred in ai trict, he adds, know well the nat the land and where water is to obtained. Captain mg from Paris, says thalT the X Paramelle, who died four years of - possessed the power finding wt ^ and through it conferred great ben in various parts of the cqpntry. He wrote a book on “ The Art of Discov¬ ering Springs,” in which he describes the merit^ of the divining rod. The Abbe says the rod turns spontaneously in the hands of certain individuals en¬ dowed with a temperament of & nature to produce the effect. The movement is determined by fluids which escape our perception, such as electricity, magnetism, etc. The rod turns indif¬ ferently over places where there is not the least thread of water as over those where water is found, and consY quently it cannot be depended upon Some Small Things. The shortest verse in the Bible is the thirty-fifth verse of the eleventh chapter of St. John. The mule has the reputation of hav¬ ing the smallest and daintiest foot foi^ its size of all hoofed animals. Watches made as early as 1700 were so delicately constructed by hand and so small as to easily fit on the top of a lead pencil. It is worthy of remark that a mos¬ quito has concealed in its bill six com l de *- e surgical instruments, each so ndmde as be indiscernible to the na ked eye. The sting of a honey-bee, when com¬ pared with the point of a fine needle under a powerful magnifying glass, is scarcely discernible. The point of the needle seemed to be about half an inch in breadth, A very curious little toy is the mi¬ croscope containing the Lord’s Prayer. The whole prayer is on a piece of glass not larger than the head of a pin, yet it is magnified to such an extent that it can be read easily by looking through . the microscope. The smallest hogs ln the world are quartered in the Zoological gardens in London. They came from Australia, and are known as the “ pigmy hogs.” They are well formed, are frisky, good, natured and make excellent pets. They are about the size of a wild hare. An ingenious mechanic of James¬ town, N Y., has constructed a perfect locomotive, said to be the smallest in the world. The engine is only eight and a half inches long, with a tender twelve inches long. The pomps throw a drop of water per stroke. As many as 585 screws were required to put the parts together. The engine itself weighs a pound and a half and the tender two pounds a half ounces. The mechanic was at work upon the locomotive at intervals for eight years,