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JOHN C. YAH SYCKEL & CO,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE,
House Furnishing Goods
Tin-IPlate,
Stoves,
Hardware,
&c., <fec.
MAKtnrAoriJMRS or
TINWARE.
No. I 16 Third Street,
MACON, GA.
HOW TO SAVE MONEY
BUY YOUR GOODS
FROM
J. M. WOOD,
WrightsviUe, Ga.
5®“He deals in DRT GOODS and GRO¬
CERIES, and will sell as low as the lowest,
iisiiic. :(■«, Homespuns, Di tilings. Jeans, Boots
in.l shoes ot all kinds.
Bacon, Flour, Coffee, Rioe, etc., always on
land. Also a nioe selection of
Millinery Goods,
Juoh as Ladies’ Hats, Ribbons and Flowers ol
ill descriptions, aud various other things too
jumeioui to mention. Call and see lor you
.-■it.
CARHART & CURD,
DEALERS M
Hardware, Iron & Steel,
WOODENWARE,
Carriage Material,
Cotton Gins,
Circular 8aws,
SCALES,
>1
PAINTS, OILS, Ac.
Macon, Ga.
R. J. DAY ANT. J. S. WOOD, JK
DAVANT & WOOD.
114 Bay Street,
Savannah, Georgia.
Special attention given to sale ol
CQTTON.RICE & NATAL STORES.
▲GENTS FOE
DRAKE’S COTTON TIES.
Cash advances made on consignments.
SID. A. PUGHSLEY, Jr.
AGENT AND SALESMAN,
—WITH
I. L. FALK & CO •9
CLOTHIERS,
425 and 427 Broome St„ New York,
Cor. Congress and Whittaker Streets,
0ATANNAH, GA.
WBIGHTSYILLE. GA., SATUBDAY. JDECEMBEB 4. 1880.
DRUG STORE.
J. W. BRINSON & CO.,
DRU6GISTS,
Wtfghtsville, Georgia.
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Have on hand a complete stock ot Drag;
and all other artieles usually kept in a
First- Class
Drug Store,
Which they are selling at prices to suit th«
times, proscriptions and are prepared to fill all orders ani
on the shortest possible notice.
Dn. J. W. BRINSON continues to prao
tice his proiession in its various brances.
Office at the Drug Store.
W. B. MELL & CO.,
Wholesale and retail dealers in
SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS,
Rubber and .Leather
BELTING AND PACKING
French and American Call Skins, Sole, Har¬
ness, Bridle and Patent Leather,
WHIPS and SADD1.ERTP WARE,
TRUNKS. VALISES,
Market Square, Savannah, «a,
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
A. M. MATHIS,
Tennille, Ga.,
Horse-Shoeing a Specialty,
All work intrusted to my care will receive
prompt satisfaction attention. Charges reasonable and
guaranteed in every instance.
SMITH’S HOTEL,
W. J. M. SMITH, Agent.
WrightsviUe, Georgia,
Having lately undergone thorough repairs,
this Hotel is prepared to accommodate the
public with the fluest the market affords. produce! The
highest market prices paid for country
Miss Anna R, McWhorter,
Wkightsville, Ga.,
Keeps on hand a nice selection of
Millinery anil Fancy Goods
SUCH AS
LADIES’ HATS. RIBBON9,
FLOWERS and TRIMMINGS.
In endless variety; also a nice assortment ol
latest patterns, etc., all lor sale as cheap si
the cheapest. 1 am also prepared to out, fll
and make dresses at short notice. Call on mi
before purchasing elsewhere.
Z. SMITH,
Six miles irom Tennille, on WrightsviUe Road.
Is now prepared to make and repair
Wagons, Carts, Plows, Etc,
I keep constantly on hand a large stock ol
Plows and Chairs, whioh 1 am selling at
reasonable rates.
J. T. & B. J. DENT,
Eight miles west of WrightsviUe, Ga.
Keep constantly on hi nd a fine assortment
ol Pure
Liquors, Braijdies, Wines, Ales, Lager.
Etc., Pickles, etc.; also Tobacco, Sardines, Cigars, and Candies,
Oysters, a
toll Une ot lamily
GROCERIES!
All of which we will sell at inside figures.
Give us a trial. Respectlully,
J. T. & B. J. DENT.
A, J. BRADDY & SON
Wrightsv^lle, Ga.
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
I A specialty of Plantation Work. Wagons,
j Buggies, etc., made and repaired.
Plows and Plow-Stocks of all kinds, and
every kind of Wood and iron Work done by
A. J. BRADDY & SON,
WrightsviUe, Ga.
John A. Shivers & Son,
Tennille, Ga.,
Are now prepared to buUd, repair and
overhaul
Carriages, Buggies,Wagons, &c.
We also make a specialty of Ono
Hone Wagons.
Address to Winter.
Ha! here you come to make us wheeze;
l see your fingers on the trees,
And hear you shouting on the breeze
The storm elan’s slogan.
Tou’H soon be here to nip my toes,
And paint my cheeks with sunset glows,
And fresco this old chin and nose
With blue and purple.
I hear you’ve been, you roving fellow,
Among tho Australasians yellow,
And scaring with your blatant bellow
The Polynesians.
You're getting tough; I fear you pass
Tfour time too much with Boreas,
And that star-mantled gypsy lass,
The summer Solstice.
Old friend, together many a year
We’ve journeyed on through foul and dear,
And now, old comrade, lend an ear
To my petition.
This year, I pray thee, leave thy snows
In cold Arcturus with thy blows;
Oh! Winter, gently come to those
Who have no Bhelter.
Touch them kindly. Kindly deal
With those who most thy rigors feel;
In trembling supplianoe they kneel
And crave tby mercy.
Blaster around the rich man's door;
Make him unlock his golden store,.
Each year increasing more and more
His deeds oi kindness.
Roar 'round the miser till he quakes;
Nip him and strip him till ho shakes;
Freeze him and squeezo him till ho makes
A big donation.
And in the cause of science, pray
I Keep ont tho ice from Baffin’s bay,
So that Polar “ savants ” win their way
To frozen glory.
Lot those we love, though they abide
Far from us now, come to our side
Happy and well at Christma9tide,
And we will bless thee.
—Guy H. Avery.
MARKHEAD’S EXPLOIT
At Bismarck (Dakota) the mountain
men often tell the story of Markhead’s
exploit with the Blackfeet.
It is the same Markhead who, five oi
six years later, was treacherously mur¬
dered by the Mexicans, near Taos. At
the time of his death he was not more
than twenty-seven years old, and he
could hardly have been more than
twenty-two when he had this Blackfoot
adventure.
The old pioneers of the upper Missouri
speak of Markhead as a most remark¬
able boy, so muscular and of such
powers of endurance, that he would run
fifteen or twenty miles without appar¬
ent fatigue. Indians he held in trifling
regard, and delighted in a skirmish with
them; though lie bore the sears of not
less than a dozen of their bullets and
arrows.
At the time alluded to. he had gone
on a trapping excursion for beaver, up
one of the head creeks of the Yellow¬
stone ; a locality not much resorted to
W other trappers, on account of the
deadly hostility ot the Blackfeet, who
were very jealous of the white hunters,
and killed every hunter they could sur¬
prise.
As was his custom, he had his horse
with him, for carrying traps and pro¬
visions, and at this time had made his
cimp in a clump of cottonwoods, on
the bank of the creek, near the foot of a
range of bluffs which fronted the stream
on the east side.
That morning—it was in the month of
October—he had set off early to look to
his beaver traps, of which he had aline
both up and down the creek. He had
proceeded but a short distance, when
he found one of his steel traps missing
from under the bank where fie had set
it.
There were bear tracks 'in the mud
about the bank; very large ones, lead¬
ing back into the cedar bushes, toward
the bluff.
The trail was fresh, and Markhead
followed it cautiously through the
cedar.
Conring at 'length to the foot of the
bluff, he found that the animal had
turned aside, and gone further up the
bottom. But just at that moment he
tbought he heard it thrashing about in
the cedar a little way ahead.
So he carefully mounted the side of
the bluff, twenty or thirty feet, hoping
to catch sight of the animal over the
top3 of the bushes. From this point he
sa w a large grizzly, sitting on a broad
flat rock, not more than forty or fifty
yards distant.
Watching the creature a moment, he
found that it limped painfully, and that
it walked a short distance on three legs.
B'inally, it turned about and limped back
to the stone again; and Markhead now
perceived that the grizzly had his
beaver trap hard and fast on one of his
forepaws.
The bear was much annoyed by the
trap. It sat down on the stone again,
and from where he lay, Markhead could
see him examining it attentively, hold-
ing it close up to his nose and gravely
turning his paw over and over. Then
it would tip its head to one side and
look at the trap from ont the corners of
its eyes, in a most comical manner, ss if
at an entire loss to make out what the
novel and painful appendage could be
that had got such fast hold of his toes.
Anon, the pmfzled animal would try
to step on its foot; but instantly took it
up from the stone again, with a low
whimper, and would then commefice
licking the trap, as if wish ing to appease
its anger and coax it into letting go its
grip.
This pantomime so interested the
trapper that he could scarcely take aim
with his rifle. But ’not wishing to Jose
his good steel trap, he was on the point
of shooting the bear, when he was
startled from it by the neigh of|a horse.
Glancing out over the topa of the
bushes, he saw, some four or five hun¬
dred yards down the opposite bank of
the creek, a party of six Indians, sitting
on their ponies. They Shad reined up,
and stood among some little sand-hil¬
locks, looking across, directly toward
where his camp was, in tho cotton woods.
It then flashed to his mind that it was
his horse which had neighed. That
was why the Indians had pulled up so
suddenly and were staring across the
creek.
Markheed saw that, even could he
himself escape them, the Indians would
inevitably discover his camp and cap
turc his horse and provisions, together
with all the peltries he had trappei.
That was bad- But was was worse,
there was a heavy dew that morning,
and his own trail through tho grass
along the bank of the creek must, he
knew, be as plain as a pike-staff.
He knew that the Indians would not
fail to discover his trail, and that they
would follow him like bloodhounds to
his death. It is not strange that our
hunter thought no more of (he bear,
and that his merriment was cut short
by til is; by no means laughable aspect
of affairs.
But Markhead was a quick-witted
fellow, noteaEily."alarroed,and while he
lay there watching the Blackfeet as they
stealthily approached the place where
fiis horse was picketed, he hit on a ruse
for outwitting them at their own tac¬
tics.
Feeling sure that in a few minutes
they would be on Iris track, he slid
down from his perch on the bluff and
ran back to the creek, to the point
where he had left it in pursuit of the
bear. ,
Here he resumed his way up the
creek, taking care to leave a plainly
marked trail through the wet grass
with here and there a footprint in the
mud or sand, just as if he was leisurely
proceeding along the bank, lopking to
his Imps.
But he ran on fast, and never slack¬
ened his pace till he had covered a d.is
tance of at least ten miles from the
place where he had seen the Blackfeet
cross the creek. His surmise was that
the ^savages, on discovering his trail,
would pursue him, but would expect to
come upon him at every trap, and hence
would follow on stealthily, and at no
great speed..
Having thus planned out a ten-mile
chase for them, Markhead ran bacK
across the narrow meadow, and climb
ing the bluffs, made a detour for his
camp again, keeping a mile or over
from the creek, back among the sand¬
hills and cliffs.
Being a fleet and praticed runner, he
was not more than an hour and a half
making the trip back to the vicinity of
his camp, among the cottonwoods, ti>e
tall tops of which he could see at a
great distance.
After taking breath a few minutes,
and looking to his rifle, Markhead crept
out among the boulders on the crag
overlooking the camping-place; for he
expected the Indians would leave one
of their number to watch the horses.
That one he was prepared to deal with.
From the crag, he soon saw the six
ponies down among the timber. They
were hitched up near his own horse.
Nor was he wrong in his conjecture
about the savages leaving one of their
number with the horses. The packs
had been taken off the ponies’ backs;
and after looking a few moments, he
espied an Indian sitting in the shade of
a bush, on a heap of buffalo skins and
peltries.
Watching the Indian a little, Mark
head crept down, noiseless as a fox, to
a large cottonwood, rather nearer the
horses, and then, steadying his piece
against the tree-trunk, was just about
to shoot the unwary, sentinel, when the
Indian turned partially, and to his great
surprise, he saw that it was not a Black
foot warrior, but a plump and very
comely squaw.
Markhead often admitted that, for the
instant, he was quite nonplussed. He
did not know what to do, for he would
not shoot the squaw. At length, ha
gave a shout, and rushed toward her.
The squaw bounded from ber seat,
and seeing the trapper close upon her,
“yelled like a pig,” as Markhead said,
and started to run away. But she had
not got many yards before Markhead
seised her by her long hair; at which
the poor woman, thinking, no doubt,
that her last hour had come, crouched
on the ground, and begged piteously, in
choicest Black foot, for the white to
spare her.
Markhead led her back to uhs ponies,
and drawing liis knife, intimated to her
by most emphatic dumb show that her
top knot would assuredly come off if
she made the least attempt to escape.
With that, the squaw protested, with
every gesture she could devise, that she
would never try to get away; she
would be like a little dog, and run at
his heels; she would be like the pony’s
tail, always at his back, and inseparable
from him.
Finding that her life was in no im¬
mediate danger, the squaw rapidly re¬
covered from her fright, and in answer
to signs, gave her captor to understand
that the five savages had gone on his
trail up the creek, just as he had sur¬
mised they would, and had been so con¬
fident that they would find him, that
they had left only this squaw to sit by
the ponies.
Markhead thought over the distance,
and concluding he had a full two-hours
start of them, resolved to take it easy
He made the squaw unpack some cold
venison which they had in one of their
sacks; and the two strange com¬
panions lunched very convivially to¬
gether, for the long run Markhead had
taken had given him a good aopetite.
Assisted by the squaw, be next packed
up all the Indians’ peltries, and lashed
them on the backs of the ponies, mak¬
ing up a sort of pony train, at the head
of which he placed the squaw- Then
collecting his own property, he mounted
his horse and set off, driving the whole
train in front of him—master of the
situation—leaving, in fact, nothing ol
any value behind.
Once out cn the plains, clear of the
crags and timber, Markhead drove his
singular cavalcade on at a great pace,
and traveling all the rest of the day and
all that night with but brief halts,
reached a trading-post—Laramie fort,
probably—toward the end of the next
day. The feelings of the outwitted
Blackfeet on their return to the place
where they had left their ponies,
after their unsuccessful chase after
Markhead, may perhaps better be left
to the fancy of Hie reader.
The young trapper realized about six
hundred dollars from the sale of the
captured ponies, peltries, buffalo robes,
and oilier property.
The squaw was some time afterward
reclaimed at the fort by a Blackfoot
chief, whose wife she had been when
captured. On Markhead being pointed
out to him at the post, he said: “ He big
warrior. He play beaver on Indian.”
Guard Your Conversation.
If you say anything about a neighbor
or friend, or even a stranger, say noth¬
ing ill. It is a Christian and brotherly
charity to suppress our knowledge of
evil of another unless a higher public
duty compels U3 to bear accusing wit¬
ness; and if it be true charity to keep
our knowledge of such evils to ourselves,
much more should we refuse to spread
evil report of another. Discreditable as
the fact is, it is by far the commonest
tendency to suppress the good we know
of our neighbors and friends. We act
in this matter as though we felt that by
pushing our fellows down or back we
were putting ourselves up or forward.
We are jealous of commendation unless
we get the larger s hare.
'loo Courteous.
* Courtesy may suffej; from exaggera¬
tion. By too much courtesy ; become
we
discourteous, and excess of civility
makes us uncivil. A gentleman of in¬
finite complaisance was about to take
leave of another of like disposition.
The latter insisted on seeing him to
door of his house. The former refused,
and after many gracious words locked
the door on his host and ran down
staircase; but the host, opening his
window, lightly leaped into the
and was ready to hand his guest into
carriage. “You might’have
your neck,” said the entertained.
“ True,” replied the entertainer, “
better so than break the canons of
liteness.”
A Whirlwind Unhorses a Man.
A party went up the valley on a hunt
and whiie in one of the deep
east of Calistoga they met with an
citing experience. The members of
party were on horseback, when a
rific whirlwind, sweeping down
canyon, unhorsed Abram Gridley,
man weighing about 190 pounds,
carried him twenty or thirty feet
the large rocks and boulders. He
stained severe injuries. Several of
party while in the saddle were
with tbcii horsea twenty-five feet
more and a boy wjis struck on the
with a large stone.— Napa {Cal.)
ter.
NO. 29.
HUMOROUS.
Footpads—Cork soles.
Kindred evils—Poor 1 eiations.
A matter of course—A horse race.
Justifiable profanity—Swearing off'.
There are 3,000 miles of canaia in
France.
Back-yards—The trains on ladies*
dresses.
A hollow mockery—A mismatched
stovepipe.
The bump of destructiveness—A rail¬
way collision.
If you want to make your coat and
pants last, make your vest first.
The sign “Beware of Dog” is stuck up
that he who reads may rn v..--’Modem
Argo.
Isn’t it slightly sarcastic to tell a blind
man that he is looking well?— Fat Con¬
tributor.
We hrve seen a flight of pigeons. Did
you ever see a flight of stairs?— New
York Graphic. ,
The butcher complacently smacks his
chops as he meats the demands of his
customers.— Printer- Advertiser.
Damaged by water—The life insur¬
ance company when one of its policy
holders is drowned .—Philadelphia Her
a’d.
Why is the discovery of the North
pole like an illicit whisky manufactory ?
Because it is a secret still.—New York
Express.
Wuy is the letter r the most hopeful in
the alphabet? Because it is the end oi
error and the beginning of right.— Steu¬
benville Herald.
The man who was confined in the attic
of a jail swore he would bring an action
against the keeper for garroting him.—
Somerville Journal.
We are always told to put our best
foot forward. A mule always puts big
best foot backward, and he puts it
strong.— Meriden Recorder.
A cannibal who made a meal off his
scolding wife jocosely remarked that he
was a Roman prize-fighter, because he
was gladiator.— Waterloo Observer.
The American Indian readily ac¬
knowledges the civilizing influences of
the stovepipe hat, and he puts it on the
head of his squaw.— Picayune.
Opera glasses of tremendous magnify¬
ing power will be in demand this winter.
When Sara Bernhardt turns sideways to
an audience she is said to resemble the
edge of a razor.—Saturday Niy/U.
Whenever a single woman begins to
talk of the past, and says certaiD events
occurred so far back that she does not
remember them, you may say she has
arrived at the age known as old maiden¬
hood.
A New York publisher has issued a
book entitled “How to Pay Church
Debts.” It may fill a long-felt want,
but the idea of churches being in debt
will be new to most people. It is prob¬
ably intended for pew-holders who are
in arrears.— Norristown Herald.
Virginia has raised 1,400,000 bushels
of peanuts this year. Just about enough
to keep a gate-courting couple in ammu¬
nition tor a month, and nearly enough to
supply a circus for a thousand years,
making the liberal allowance of six nuts
to a giasslul.— Boston Transcn it.
The gold pig worm as a charm is re¬
placed by a spider of sapphires and em¬
eralds. Next we may expect the rattle¬
snake in rubies and pearls and then the
polecat in diamonds, and then the peo¬
ple will sour on the whole fashion.—
Boston Post.
The number of different dialects spoken
in the known world is 2,623, of which
587 belong to Europe, 396 to Asia, 376 to
Africa, and i,26t to America. Tins does
not include the choice expletives in¬
dulged in by a fat man when you prod
him with an umbrella.— Keokuk Gate
City.
If you ask a boy to break up a piece
of lump coal so as to keep himself from
freezing, he regards his lot as one of ex¬
ceptional hardship; but let him find a
torpedo lying around loose, he will ham¬
mer at it with a stone until the perspira¬
tion stands in great drops upon his fore¬
head or an explosion relieves him from
his self-appointed task.
In Breslau, Germany, there are three
thousand people who do not receive
their coriespondence until it has been
examined by the police. If any of our
readers are on writing terms with any
of these three thousand Bros ^rs we
advise them towriteaHor.ee Jieciey
sort of a hand, in order to compel the
police to earn their salaries— and per¬
haps to commit suicide.— Non is'jown
Herald.
What shall we say of that b "frighted
baohelor who, being called on for a
toast, gave “Our Future Wives-dis¬
tance lends enchantment to the view!”
And that other one, if possible a shade
more reprobate, who proposed,
“ Woman—the morning star of infancy,
the day star of manhood, the evening
star of age; bless our stars, and may
they always be kept at a telescopic dis¬
tance J”