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- THE LINCOLNTONNEWS «* J. D. COLLEY & CO., VOL. I. WASHINGTON ADVERTISEMENTS. LORENZO SMITH & BRO., -OF WASHINGTON, GA.. IBS OITKEINQ K)B IBB FALL TRADE CincinnatiBuggies AT $50 TO $75. Columbus Buggies AT $100 TO $160. Baggies and Carriages of other makes and grades at various prices. Also STUDEBAKER WAGONS At $66 and $70. TENNESSEE WAGONS At $60 and $65 WEBSTER WAGONS $60 to $75. THREE 3-4 WAGONS AT $53. Ole-Horse Wapi,wim Seat, Own Make, at $40. KEMP'S MANURE SPREADERS, GRAI.\ DRILLS, ALBION SPRING TOOTH HARROWS, WINDMILLS, And a General Assortment of Agricultural Implements Also Single Harness from $9 up. Double Harness, parts of Harness, Hubs, Spoke; and Rims. 1 Good Buggy SHmessfor $60. Our similar prices house are guaranteed the Sontb. to be Give as low a? any in us a tall. Correspondence solicited. 0. M. MAY ? WASHINGTON, GA., GROCER, AND DEALER IN tX3 s=cj The liberal patronage which 1 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 at Double Branches, Lincoln Co., Ga. MERCIER’S STORE A First-Glass Store in Every Respect. A full stock of General Meicnandiae always on hand. J. N. Mercier. T. H. REMSEN’S STOKE! FINE WINES aM WHISKIES. GENUINE MONOGRAM, THE AUGUSTA, ELBEBTON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD. ESTABLISHED 1872. LOWE & BRO., RETAIL DEALERS IH FINE LIQUORS OP ALL SORTS, AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF NORTH CAROLINA CORN WHISK! APPLE AND PEACH BRANDY, FINE WINES, RUM, GIN, ALE, BEER, ETC., ETC , ETC., ETC. TOBACCO AND CIGARS. WASHINGTON. GA. AUGUSTA ADVERTISEMENTS. BOBT. H. MAT. ▲. B. GOODYEAB ROB’T H. MAY & C0.’S GRAND EXHIBITION OF And PLANTATION WAGONS. ALL SIZES. The largest and most complete assortment of One and Two-Horse Vehicles ever shown in ibis 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 yon that it cannot be purchased elsewhere at the prices we offer. Harness, Also, a Umbrellas, large stock Lap of Robes, Saddles, Blankets, Bridles Calf Skins, Sole and Harness Leather, Rub¬ ber and Leather Belting, Trunks. Bags, Hubs, Harness, Spokes, Wagon Reins, Harness, Axles, Trace Lowest Chains, Cash Pbices. etc., at THE EOAD CART (PATENTED.) The safest, lightest and most easy riding two-wheeled vehicle ever produced. Of ail the road carts made, use and experience has demonstrated these to be the best. The Adjustable Balance is a most valuable fea ture of our Road Carts. Buy no other. Price $50. N. B.—We warrant all the vehicles we sell. Remember onr prices are the lowest. ROB’T H. MAY & CO., BROAD STREET, Opposite Georgia R. R. Bank AUGUSTA, GA. ORDER YOUR Saw His, Cane Mills Grrist Mills, And Plantation and Mill Machinery Engines and Boilers, Cotton Screws, Shafting, Mill Pulleys, Hangers, Journal Boxes, Gearing, Gudgeons, Turbine Waterwheels, Gin Gearing, Circular Jndson’s Governors, Diss ton’s Saws, Gammers and Files, Belting and Babbit Metal and Brass Fittings, Globe and Cheek ValveB and Whistles, Guages, 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. {3?~Repairing promptly done at Lowea prices. CENTRAL HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA. MRS. W. M. THOMAS, Pbopbxetbess This hotel, so well known to the citizens of Lincoln and adjoining counties, is located in the eentor of the business portion of Augusta. Convenient to Postomce, Tele¬ graph oflice and Depot, and other induce¬ ments to the public such as only first-class hotels con afford. LINCOLNTON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1883. The Little Ones. Oh 1 when at dawn the children wake, And patter np and down the stairs, The flowers and leaves a glory take, The rosy light a splendor shares That nevermore these eyes would see, If my sweet ones were gone from me. And when at eve they watch and wait To fold me in their arms so white, My burdens, whether small or great, Are charmed away by calm delight; And, shutting out the world, I live The purest moments life can give. But when at bedtime ’round me kneel Wee, tender, loving, white-robed forms, With hands upraised iu fond appeal— Ah! then are hushed life’s weary storms ; And heaven seems very near to me, With my Bweet darlings ’round my knee! THE CURFEW HEROINE. lt lacked quite half an hour of Gur few toll. The old bell-ringer came from under the wattled roof of his cot¬ tage stoop and stood with uncovered head in the clear, sweet-scented air. He had grown blind and deaf in the service, but his arm was as muscular as ever, and he who listened this day marked no faltering in the heavy me talic throbs of the cathredral bell. Old Jasper had lived through many changes. He had tolled out his notes of mourn¬ ing for good Queen Bess, and with tears scarcely dry he had rung the glad tidings of the coronation of James. Charles I. had been crowned, reigned, and expiated his weakness before all England in Jasper’s time ; and now he, who under his army held all the com¬ monwealth in the hollow of his hand, ruled as more than monarch, and still the old man, with the habit of a long life upon him, rang his matin in sor¬ row. Jasper stood alone now, lifting his dimmed eyes up to the softly dappled sky. The walls of his memory seemed so written over—so crossed and recrossed by the annals of he years that had Cone before—that there seemed little mom for anything in the present. Little recked he that Cromwell’s spears men were camped on the moor beyond the village; that Cromwell himself rode with his guardsmen a league way ; he only knew that the bell that had been rung m the tower when Wil ham the Conqueror made curfew a law had been spared by Puritan and Round head, and that his arm for sixty years had never failed him at eventide. He was moving with slow step towards the gate, when a woman came hurriedly in from the street and stood beside him ; a lovely woman, l$it with face so blanched that it seemed carved in the whitest of marble with all its roundness and dimples. Iier great solemn eyes were raised to the aged face in pitiful appeal, and the lips were forming words that he could not under¬ stand. “Speak up, lass ; I am deaf and can¬ not hear your clatter.” The voice raised, and th* hands clasped and unclasped, and rung them¬ selves together palm and palm. “For Heaven’s sake, Jasper, do not ring the curfew to-night.” “What, not ring curfew! Ye must be daft, lassie.” “Jasper, Jor sweet Heaven’s sake, for my sake, for one night in all your long life, forget to ring the bell. Fail this once, and my lover shall live, whom Cromwell says shall die at cur¬ few toll. Do you hear? my lover, Richard Temple. See, Jasper, here is money to make your old age happy. I sold my jewels that the Lady Maud gave me, and the gold shall all be yours for one curfew.” “Would ye bribe me, Lily de Yere? Ye’re a changeling. Ye’ve na the blood of the Plantagenets in ye’re veins as ye’re mother had. What, corrupt the bell-ringer under her Majesty, good Queen Bess! Not for all the gold that Lady Maud could bring me! YVhatis your lover to me? Babes have been bom and strong men have died before now at the ringing of my bell. Awa’!” And out on tho village green, with the solemn shadows of the heavens lengthening over it, a strong man awaited the curfew to toll for his death. He stood, handsome and brave and tall—taller by an inch than the tallest pikeman who guarded him. What had he done that ho should die? Little it mattered in those days, when the sword that the great Crom¬ well yielded was so prone to fall, what he or others had done. lie had been seribe to the late Lord up at the castle, and Lady Maud, forgetting that man must woo and woman must wait, had given her heart to him without asking, while the gentle Lily De Vere, distant kinswoman and poor companion to iier, had, without seeking, found the treas¬ ures of his true love, and held them fast. Then he had joined the army. But a scorned woman's hatred had reached him even there. Enemies and deep plots had compassed him about and conquered him. To-night ho wa s to diet - ' - The beautiful world laid as a vivid picture before him. The dark green¬ wood above the rocky hill where Robin Hood and hi3 merry men had dwelt; the frowning castle with its drawbridge and square towers; the long stretch of moor with the purple shadows upon it; the green, straight walks of the vil¬ lage; the birds overhead, even the daisies at his feet he saw. But, ah! more vividly than all, he saw the great red sun with its hazy veil lingering above the trees, as though it pitied him with more than human pity. He was a God-fearing and God-serv¬ ing man. He had long made his peace with Heaven. Nothing stood between him and death—nothing rose pleading between him and those who were to destroy him, but the sweet face of Lily de Yere, whom he loved. She had knelt at Cromwell’s feet and pleaded for his life. She had wearied Heaven with her prayers, but all without avail. Slowly now the great sun went down. Slowly the last red rim was hid behind the greenwood. Thirty seconds more and his soul would be with his God. The color did not forsake his cheeks. The dark rings of hair lay upon a warm brow. It was his purpose to die as martyrs and brave men die. AY hat was life that he should cling to it ? He al most felt the air pulsate with the first heavy roll of the death knell. But no sound came. Still facing the soldiers with his clear gray eyes upon them, he waited. The crimson banners in the west were paling to pink. The kine had ceased their lowing and had been gathered into the brick-yards. All nature had sounded her curfew; but old Jasper was silent. The bell-ringer with his gray head yet bared had traversed half the dis tance that lay between his cottage and the ivy-covered tower, when a form went flitting past him, with pale, shadowy robes flitting around it, and hair that the low western lights touched and tinted as w ith a halo. .-Ah, Huldah, Huldah!” the old man muttered; “how swift she fliesl I will come soon, dear. My work is almost done.” Huldah was the good wife, who had gone from him in her eaily woman j hood his long and for life. whom But he the had fleeting mourned form ail was not Huldah’s, it was Lily de Vere, hurried by a sudden and desperate pur pose towards the cathedral. “So help me God, curfew shall not ring to-night! Cromwell and ins dra goons come this way. Once more will kneel at his feet and plead.” She entered the ruined arch. She wrenched from its fastenings the carved and worm-eaten door that barred the way to the tower. She ascended with flying and frenzied feet the steps; her heart lifted up to God for Richard’s deliverance from peril. The bats flew out and shook the dust of centuries from the black carvings. As she went up she caught glimpses of the interior of the great building, with its groined roof, its chevrons and clustered columns. Up—-still up—beyond the rainbow tints thrown by the stained glass across her death-white brow; up—still up—past open arcade and arch, with griffin and gargoyls staring at her from bracket and cornice with all the hide¬ ousness and mediaeval carving—the stairs, flight l>y flight, growing frailer beneath her young feet, now but a slen¬ der network between her and the outer world, but still up. Her breath was coming short and gasping. She saw through an open space old Jasper cross the road at the foot of the tower. Oh, how far! The seconds were treasures which Crom¬ well, with all his blood-bought common¬ wealth, could not purchase from her. Up—ah !—there, just above her, with its great brazen mouth and wicked tongue, the bell hung. A worm-eaten block for a step, and one hand had clasped itself above the clapper, the other prepared, at the tremble, to rise and clasp its mate, and the feet to swing off, and thus she waited. Jasper was old and slow, but he was sure, and it came at last. A faint quiver, and the young feet swung from their rest and the tender hands clasped for more than their pre¬ cious life the writhing thing. There was a groaning and creaking of the rude pulleys above, and then the strokes came heavy and strong. Jas¬ per’s hand had not forgot its cunning, nor his arm its strength. The tender, soft form was swung and dashed to and fro ; but she clung to and caressed tho cold, cruel thing. Let one stroke come, and a thousand might follow, for its fatal work would be done. She wreathed her white arms about it, so that at every pull of the great ropes it crushed into the flesh, it tore her, and wounded and bruised; but there, in the solemn twilight, the brave woman swung and fought with the curfew, and God gave her victory. ! The old bell-ringer said to himself: “Aye, Huldah, my work is done. The I pulleys are getting too heavy for my old arms. My ears, too, have failed me. I dinna hear one stroke of the curfew. Dear old bell, it is my ears that have gone false, and not you. Farewell, old friend.” And just beyond the worn pavement a shadowy form again went flitting past him. There were drops of blood upon the white garments, and the face was like the face of one who walked in her sleep, and the hands hung wounded and powerless at her side. Cromwell paused with his horsemen under the dismantled May-pole before the village green. He saw the man who was to die at sunset standing up in the dusky air, tall as a king and beautiful as Absalom. He gazed with knitted brow and angry eye; but his lips did not give utterance to the quick command that trembled on them, for a girl came flying towards him. Pike man and archer stepped aside to let her pass. She threw herself upon the turf at his horse’s feet; she lifted her bleed¬ ing anl tortured hands to his gaze, and onco more poured out her prayer for the life of her lover; with trembling lips she told him why Richard still lived—why the curfew had not sounded. Lady Maud, looking out of her lat. ticed window at the castle, saw the great Protector dismount, lift the faint j n g f orm j n armSi an( i bear her to her lover. She saw the guards release the prisoner, and she heard the shouts of joy at his deliverance. Then she welcomed the night that shut the scene out from her envious eye and sepultured her in its gloom, At the next matin bell old Jasper died, and at curfew toll he was laid beside the wife who had died in his youth, but the memory of whom had been with him always. ------ , jj tre fiHeir if we knew that every particle of stale> mU sty, or adulterated food not onlv poisoned but weakened bodv ' and brain; Ifwe knew that a musty egg for breakfast might cause us to make a bad bargain before dinner; ' if we knew that the milk of one un . healthy or feverish cow will infect with * its distemper the milk of twentv other Cc ,, j If we knew that our coal ! were continually sending forth metallic j j vapors If unfit knew to breathe; we that every useless mus cular motion, the result of habit, such j as leg swinging while sitting down oi walking nervously about to no purpose j is in expenditure of nerve force for | naught as is money - idlv - flung into the j - sea; j If « e knew that every tight-fitting binding and compressing garment was “ the expenditure of strength neees sary in wearing equivalent tojthe car rying of pounds of needless weight; If we knew that the person who can sit perfectly still and hold his or her mind directly to the present moment and the things of the moment, and not allow it to go straying off in longings to the place where it most desires its body to be, was hoarding up strength to be used as occasion shall require; If we knew that we who despise thus the day of small things and go on in all things as we do now, would in a few years’ time be vainly applying to some doctor to tinker up our worn out bodies; If we knew that every bodily pain, every feeling of lassitude, weariness, whether weariness of the spirit or weariness of the body, was a reproving and anmonishing sermon against somo act of disobedience either near or rernote; If we knew how blindly and stupidly we warred at times against our physical and mental happiness ; If we knew that tho mind, which schemes, j !ans, studies, buys, sells, makes bargains, builds houses, navi¬ gates ships, gets us into difficulties, gets us out again, acts in the drama, paints on the canvas, cuts out of mar ble the statue, thrills from the platform, writes the story, fights the battle, dis covers the continent, directs the voice in melody, manages the fingers on the piano, is not an unseen myth but an invisible power within us built up out of our bodies, improving as the body improves and influenced for good or ill, for quickness or slowless, for keenness or stupidity by every breath we inhale, by the quality and purity of what we buy, by the cleanliness of our bodies, by the fit and ease of our clothing, by the presence and influence of the peo¬ ple about us, by our habits of method and precision or the reverse ; If we knew, believed and realized fully all this, what then ?—New York Graphic. The famous Garden Gully united mine at Sandhurst, Australia, has de¬ clared its two hundredth dividend. The total profits distributed by this company reach the large sum of'£780, qqq The product for the last twelve 1 years was twelve<J>ns of gold. i PRIMITIVE PEOPLE. The Warlike Little Principality of Vfontene *ro—Its Women Little More than Beaatn of Borden—Secret of Ihe Ruler’* Power. A correspondent of the London Times, writing from the capital of 1 Montenegro, gives some interesting facts concerning that country and its people. He says: The traveler who wakes up in Cettinje will have diffi¬ culty in. believing that he is in one of the capitals of Europe. He will look out of his window down a straggling street. To his left, rising above the j cottages of Cettinje he will see the prince’s schloss. Above the schloss is the cloister, and above the cloister the belfry where the heads of decapi¬ tated Turks used to be impaled in days gone by. To his right he will see the hospital. Except these buildings all in Cettinge is squalid and unpictur esque. And yet to this village minis¬ ters are accredited from the leading courts of Europe, and the diplomatic communication between Vienna or St. Petersburg and Cettinje is even ; more vi g ilact and frequent than that j between those capitals and ^London, | If I am asked what is the present form of government in Montenegro, I would answer that it Is at once the most despotic and the most popular in Europe—despotic, because the will of the prince is the law of the land, and popular, because the personal rule of the prince meets all the wants and wishes of his people. No sovereign in Europe sits so firmly on his throne as the prince of this little state, and no sovereign is so absolute. The Mon¬ tenegrins have no army; they are j themselves a standing army. They go to war with the same zest that an Eng j lish schoolboy takes to cricket. We i should have to go back to times before j the Norman conquest to find an Eng lishman of the same stamp as the modern Montenegrin. In the late war the prince found a Montenegrin of eighty years of age in the ranks. The prince told him he was too old to fight; the man said, “No," and when the prince insisted, the octogenarian drew a pistol from his belt and shot himself. j Ths prince is naturallv proud of ids subjects, and often speaks of his capi j j tal as reing more secure than either Belgrade or Bucharest. The women of Cettinje are not beau ! tiful, except the princess, and her high ! ; ness confirms me in an opinion I have \ long formed, that feminine beautv is j the product of civilization. But how , can you expect beauty from women I who are used as beasts of burden bv the men? From such treatment yo ; can onlv expect premature age and ! ternatural llgliness The well-grown,! . handsome men who are playing at ball ; before the palace of the prince are the husbands and brothers of the poor creatures who are carrving wood and water to their homes'. This 1 j looking man that so civilly accosts us ; j s Navica Cerovio, the father of the j minister of finance, and a famous war rior who has slaughtered I do not»know how many Turks. It seems fitting to Montenegrins that heroes should rest! in peace and leave the work to wives and daughters. Montenegro is not a wealthy country. A Montenegrin who is worth £40, all told, would pass here for well-to-do. They are not ashamed 1 of their poverty. They have too much sense for that. A relation of the prince will frankly admit that he is poor; but ! unfortunately, from the highest down i ward, the Montenegrins expect and accept gifts from the stranger. They have not yet reached that point in civi lization when a man dislikes to receive favors which he cannot return. The Montenegrins are the flower and aristocracy of the Slav race. The Mon tenegrins have always paid special at tention to their weapons, but they are j satisfied with the same plow that their ancestors used a thousand years ago. It is hard for a Montenegrin to become a man of peace. The present postmas ! ter of Cettinje lost his leg in the late ; war. The poor man preferred dying as j a soldier to living as a civilian with one j leg, and it was only at the request of , the princess that he submitted'to am ; putation. Of this lady it is difficult to ! speak too highly. During the war she i used—in order to give courage to the sufferers—to be present at operations which drove every other woman from | the ward. Iu peace, and at all times, she is the cultivated lady and mother of her people. There are two newspapers published in Montenegro—one the official journal and the other a popular medical paper. Sixty copies of the latter are sold in Montenegro. When you read the paper and find that its articles are on the way to live in health throughout the year, the evil consequences of wearing ear¬ rings, the proper treatment of infants, etc., you are surprised, not that so few, but so many copies of such a paper should be bought by Montenegrins. It is earnestly to be hoped that the lauda¬ tions upon soap, which this paper {Health) contains may have some in PUBLISHERS. NO. 17. fluence on those that read it I regret to state that after their baptism tha majority of Montenegrins do not often come in contact with water, ex¬ cept when it rains. Perhaps the most interesting insti¬ tution in Cettinje is the tree of justice. Here the prince sits, and to him come the meanest of his subjects. Justice is well administered in Montenegro, but all who have, or think they have, suf¬ fered wrong, can go direct to the prince, and the prince will either de¬ cide the case himself or will direct a new trial. The expression “new trial is one of such ill-omen in English ears that I may at once state that Montene¬ grin law is cheap and speedy. It is needless to add there are no lawyers in Montenegro. From this patriarchial tree you see on your right the palace of the prince, and on the left a grass plot, on which several Montenegrins are lazily lounging. T hese persons are the criminals of the state. They are self guarded. Should any of these prisoners think fit to return to his native village before his term of imprisonment has expired, he can do so, but he will at once be recognized and reincarcerated. It is extremely rare for them to attempt to escape from the house and grassplot which has been allotted to them by their prince. Most of these men are homicides, but rarely thieves. There a few female prisoners. I am told the majority are in prison for murdering their husbands. As beauty is a flower that blooms but in civilized climes, so are marriages for love a product of civilization. An affair of the heart, culminating in marriage, is almost un¬ known among southern Sian. In Bulgaria, in Serna, in Bosnia, in Mon¬ tenegro, the parents arrange these mat¬ ters, and often a maid has not seen her fnture husband until she meets him at the altar. - „ 0 n Tn “ and a stout ?T* horse wagon m 3 a drove collar '° Uar up “J and attheea- lanmi J ra nee of a hotel in Lewiston Me. The b ffal ° comfortably tucked around a rudd ^ 1111(1 dowDy y0aBg ““j “£* Wlth J> ridel lj0nnet jj! a v * of W ’ d 6800 mto the und . *!', * r ° S 1 * 31 v! at St ble ° £ m ' ’ ed . kls mate “ , *!***“ * f rej01 “ ’ the Iandlord A ft, The latte * pres „ ®T;. A .. - seir ’ 31111 tae Juung man ® ? «" d Harriet was married tins momm^. " 6 ve started on a “ ttIe ex ^ xlTSlon - - B l°f " e le,t ho “ e * a Irttle dmner j and we brought a coffee pot along- Xow ’ we d like to heat the coffee and havea table to eat the din Iier on—and P erha P s a UtUe sllgar>n mUk ’” The landlord led the innocent P air int0 the di ning-room and seated, tnem at a table with other guests, and tke T took tke cover off fbeir little green box with celerity. They had a glorious tiaie > eating their doughnuts, carraway seed > cookies, squash pie and broad sbces of chc 'js. If their wedding tour bad taken them to Niagara, and they were dining at a fashionable hotel, "Tb the prospects of paying $3.50 per plate, they could not have eaten or laughed so heartily. The gray horse carried home two hearts that raptu rously beat as one, and as the landlord saw them ride off he felt almost as well in the radiance of their happiness as if they had paid him 75 cents a piece dinner and 50 cents for stabling, Introduced Animals. The bare enumeration of the animal org anisms that have in various ways enlarged the area of occupation through the direct or indirect agency of civilized maa would occupy the greater portion, if not the whole of the columns of an issue of the Record, and if to this were added the more or less exactly known data respecting the date and circum¬ stances of their introduction, the various countries they are distributed in, and other facts of interest, a thick quarto volume would not suffice to contain all. So, leaving out insects and invertebrates generally, as well as fishes and reptiles, many species of the former of which classes have lately been transplanted with success, we will confine ourselves to a short mention of some of the mammala and birds that have been brought into the hemisphere we live in. Our domestic .dog, cat, sheep, goat, ox, pig, ass, horse, fowl, guinea-fowl, peacock, goose and canary, are all natives of the Eastern hemis¬ phere; only the turkey is a native, taken eastward, domesticated and re¬ introduced, just as the Spaniards fig rein¬ troduced the cultivated Indian or prickly pear (a cactus.) All these and more man brought, but with them ■ came the black and brown rats and the common mouse—creatures which live with man and at his cost, in spite of all his efforts, aided though he maybe by cats, dogs, auxiliaries of other car uiv.erous tribes, and all the parapher¬ nalia of traps and poisonous foods.—, Philadelphia Record. £