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VOL. I.
JOHN l TAN SYCKEL & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE,
House Furnishing Goods
Tin-Plate,
Stoves,
Hardware,
&c., &c.
KiKirriOTUBnsov
TINWARE.
No. 116 Third Street,
MACON. Rt
CARHART & CURD,
XNB1XEZLS Ilf
Hardware, Iron & Steel
WOODENWARE,
Carriage Material,
Cotton Cine,
Circular Saws
SCALES,
PAINTS, OILS, &c.
NT--,r»rvn. On
it. J da v ant. j. s w od, ,ru
DAY ANT & WOOD,
114 Bay Street,
Savannah. Georgia
Special attention given to sale oi
COTTOH,RICE & NAVAL STORES
AOKXT6 rOK
DRAKE’S COTTON TIES.
Cash advances made on eoniignments.
SID. A. PUGHSLEY, Jr.
AGENT AND SALESMAN,
-WITH
I. L. FALK & CO.,
CLOTHIERS,
425 and 427 Broome St., New
Cor Cor. Coneress Congress and and Whittaker Whittaker Streets Streets,
SAVANNAH. GA,
A. J. BRADDY & SON
WRiGnTsvn.LE, Ga
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
A specialty ol Plantation Work. Wagons,
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,
WnghtsvUle, Ga.
SMITIFS HOTEL,
W. J. M. SMITH, Agent.
Wrightsviile, Georgia.
Having lately undergone thorough repairs
this Hotel is prepared to accommodate the
public with the finest the market afibrds. The
highest market prices paid for country Produce
John A. Shivers & Son,
Tennillk, Ga.,
Are now prepared to build, repair and
overhaul
Carriages, Buggies,Waps, 4c.
We also make • specialty ol One
Hone Wsgons.
WEIGrHTSVILLE, OA •9 SATUKDAY, APEIL 2. 1881.
DRUG STORE.
J. W. BRINSON & CO.
DRUGGISTS,
Wrightsviile, Georgia,
Have on hand a complete stock of Drug*
and all other articles usually kept in a
«
First- Class
Drug Store,
Which they are soiling at prioe3 to suit th«
times, and are prepared to fill all orders ant
proscriptions on the shortest possible notice.
Dr. J. W. BRINSON continues to prao
tice his profession 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 Amoricau Call Skius, Solo, Har¬
ness, Bridle and Patent Heather,
WHIPS and SADDLERY WARE
TRUNKS, VALISES,
Market Square, Savannah, Da
Orders by mail nromotly attended to.
A. M. MATHIS,
Tenniu.e, Ga.,
Horse-Shoeing a Specialty,
All work i at rut tod to uiy cure will receive
prompt iHi tfalfict ioit attention. ntfixl Charges in reasonable instance. and
g natn every
Miss Anna E, McWhorter,
Whiguts vii, i.e, Ga.,
Keepa on hand a nice selection ol
SUCH AS
BADIE3’ HATS. RIBBONS,
FLOWERS and TRIMMINGS.
In endless variety; also a nice assortment oi
latest patteras, etc., alt tor sale as cheap i t
the cheapest. I am also prepared to out, III
and malio dresses at short notice. Call on m<
before purchasing elsewhere.
J. T. & B. J. DENT,
Eight miles west o ( Wrights vile, Ga.
Keep constantly on h ed a fine assortmoni
ol Pure
Liquors, Brandies, Wines, Ales, Lager,
Etc,, etc.; also Tobacco, Cigars, Candies,
Pioklcs, Oyst ers, Sardines, and a
lull line ol lamily
GROCERIES!
All of which wo will soil Rospectiully, at inside figures
Give us a trial.
J. T. & B. J. DENT.
The Sweet Uses of Ventriloquism.
I, i behalf A bondon of a lady i ewele1 who ' was wanted a PP to lied make to
a
! choice from several watches, rings and
other valuable articles. An assistant of
l C Jew ' acco “P amed the young man
, came on this mission back to a
, l °t e P in order to let the ^ ladv make her
^ ^ T]je
was, perhaps, in bed, or tov some other
reason could not appear in the outer
room, and her emissary went into the
inner room. The jeweler’s assistant
presently heard two voices discoursing as
to the choice of articles. Then the ernis
sary came out and said that the lady had
made a choice . of certain articles which
he retained in the inner room. He
went back to make arrangements about
payment, leaving the jeweler’s assistant
still in the outer room. Time went by,
and the voices were heard no more,
The emissary did not come out rom the
inner sanctuary Rowing and the jeweler’s assist
ant ended by impatient, going
to the inner room and finding that it
was as empty as that which the Prince of
Breffni, in Moore’s ballad, entered after
‘ its loving tenant had lied.” There was
apparently no lady in the case. The two
voices were seemingly but the ingenious
reproduction of one voice, and the
watches and rings were gone .—London
Bail., News.
In review of the past lesson at a Sun¬
day-school the question was asked:
“What did God do on the seventh
day?” Answer: “Herested.” “What
else did He do?” Promptly a little
eight-year-old boy, “ He read His news¬
paper.”
We Love the Absent Best.
Oh, the absent are tho dearest
To a mother’s loving heart; i
And the depth of our affection
Is not known until we part.
We may view our sleeping darlings,
With a watchful pride and care;
And may breathe an earnest blessing
O’er each dusky head and fair.
But if there remains 1
" a pillow
Too uncrumpled, and too white;
And the chair a-noar the bodside ;
Hold no garments for the night- ‘
tf we miss the shoes and stockings, j
A torn jacket, or a dress— J
If we miss a “Good-night, mother!”
And a dear one’s warm caress—
Then our hearts yearn with affection
For tho rover from our nest,
And we feel of all our darlings
Tnat we love the absent host.
Ah, tho absent are the dearest—
Mot lies hearts will answer yos!
Tho dear lips by far the sweetest
Are tho lips wo cannot kiss!
THE ECCENTRIC BACHELOR. |
!
F - was a living specimen of the!
typical old bachelor, a personage more j
often met with in the pages of fiction i
than in real life; lean and sliarp-visaged j
of aspect, crusty and evnical of temper.
He was, moreover, an avowed oddity;
one of the privileged class who, by vir¬
tue of this reputation, can do what oth¬
ers dare not without exciting surprise or
giving offense; whose eccentricities are
met with a shrug of the shoulder and
the remark, “ What else could you ex¬
pect of an oddity like him ?"
He was an unpopular man, receiving
scant sympathy; yet capable, neverthe¬
less, of kind and generous acts, performed
on tho condition that they were to be
kept strictly secret and that he was never
to be thanked for them. Woe betide
the recipient of a favor to whom it was
brought home that he had mentioned
the same to any one, or extolled the
kindness of his benefactor! The un¬
lucky wight once detected in thus giving
vent to his gratitude had taken the sur
est metllod oi ' cutting himself off from
further help. He never, got another
.
! chance.
Our old bachelor enjoying, as we have
said, the privileges of eccentricity, it
excited no surprise when on one occa¬
sion, after an absenco from home, he
wrote to inform his servants—an old
couple who had lived with him for years
—that on liis return he would ho ac¬
companied by a widow lady who was
likely to make a long stay in his house,
and for whom apartments were to be got
ready.
“ And a pretty upset she’ll make!” ex¬
claimed tho dismayed old housekeeper.
“A fussy, middle-aged party, no
doubt; ordering and interfering and
wanting to have everything her own
way; which she won’t get, John, as long
as yon and I can prevent her. She’ll be
a clever madam if she gets her foot in¬
side my storeroom while there’s locks
and bolts to keep her out, I can tell
her!”
“Don’t you make too sure,” said
John. The old man could not resist
now and then teasing his helpmate, as a
little set-off against sundry naggings on
the part of that good old lady. “ May¬
be it’s a mistress of the house and of
yourself that’s coming to it. Them
widders are great at wheedling. It’s
time, if the master is ever to marry
that—”
,, Ah> Rtop yom . croaking uow ,» crk . d
Mrs . Joll „. This dire suggestion was
too overpowering for her feelings. 6
. . , , ,
K a Pj )om e< a ‘im , am w ion
the ,, cab drove to the door, the two old
? ac 0I f £s U;1 ’ ' ‘ “P> we,d faces to and receive their
^ ,. i0n . mas * el aiu ^ unwelcome guest,
‘ lls
glimpse oi the latter showed
^ ie y might have spared their fears
and h° 8 tilu intentions. Out from the
cab, before their astonished eyes, sprang
a girlish figure, whose bright, happy
face contrasted curiously with her mourn
‘“g garments.
“Mind the step, uncle!” (“Oh, liis
niece, she is!”) she cried,tripping up to
the hall doin’. Don t trouble, please,”
with a smile to the old housekeeper;
“ that bag is too heavy for you; ’ I’ll !
'
carry it.”
And when the stranger came down to
breakfast next morning with a morsel of
a cap perched on the top of her widow’s golden
braids of hair (not my idea of hn.llZ a
cap ” said the dame to her
“ and would vou believe it ,' Tolin sinn! ®
; no . n wnv { Hk^ n Kiwi ' ,n 1 ° S 1 ' vas 1 ‘'css
mg! ■ ,»> J like .* 6 , l00k gal , , ed . “absurdly her teens than young ;
more a in an ex
perienced, “settled matron.”
The advent of his pretty niece made
some change in the habits of the old
gentleman. He had friends at dinner
more frequently than of yore; and in
addition tj the elderly fogies that*formed
his usual society, younger guests were
invited, suited to the years of liis visitor.
With great amusement, her uncle ob
served the attraction her comeliness and
winning ways were for these. “ Swarm¬
ing round—like flies about a honey-pot!
Scenting, I dare say, a fat jointure. All
widows are supposed to be rich; and
just because she is a widow, and for no
ether reason, making up to her, the
fools! ’’ This to himself with a cynical
chuckle. Aloud; “Nice little woman,
that niece ot* mine. Plenty of good
looks ; but hasn’t a sixpence—not a six
pence to bless herself with.”
It was wonderful how the old
was brightened up by the presence of
its blithe young inmate. But by none
was its pleasant influence more felt than
by the domestics, who had vowed such
hostility before her arrival. The old
woman especially was devoted to her;
loving her for her own sake as well as
for the kindly,help and good ottiees she
was always receiving from the deft and
willing hands of the young girl. In the
s^oom-that sacred retreat which
hel ‘ foot was never to mvade-the latter
was to be found on “company-days,”
bns ? and ™ a bee; with sleeves
tucked iab " av n P 101 ' l dum P arms >
hor lieav Y cra P° skirts stowed awa v
v -
under one of the old lady’s capacious
Holland aprons, and laplets pinned high
over her head, while, laughing merrily
at the queer figure she had made ol' her¬
self, she worked away at cakes and
sweets, taking a world of trouble off the
housekeeper’s hands.
“ And so thoughtful she is, and gay ;
bless her!” his wife would tell old
John. “ She’ll come tripping up to
me, and ‘ Now, do as you’re bid,’ she’ll
say, playfully, forcing me down into my
big chair. ‘ Sit you down and rest,
there’s an old dear, and take your tea.
I’m not a-going to let you do a turn
more.’ And then she’ll weii. away, her
tongue going all the time t*s fast as her
fingers; running on about her mother
and her home, her flowers and pets,
dogs and birds, and what not, but never
a word about husband-or married days,
And if I touch upon them or ask a ques¬
tion, she’ll get quite silent and strange
like in a minute, and turn off the sub¬
ject as if it burned her. Perhaps for
all she’s so merry outside she’s fretting
in her heart for him that’s gone, and
can’t a-bear to talk of him.”
“ Nothing of tho sort!” cried old
John. “ Don’t you go think such stuff.
She’d take a husband to-morrow; mark
my words. And it’s my opinion there’s
a young gentleman comes to this house
that has a fairish chance. He’s desper¬
ate sweet upon her. I haven’t oyes in
my head for nothing, and I see plain she
doesn’t dislike him, or hold herself up
distant from him, as she does from
others.”
Old John was right. Matters were in
due time so far satisfactorily settled be¬
tween the young couple that an appeal
to the uncle was deemed expedient.
The old gentleman received the an¬
nouncement with a half-pleasant, half
satirical grimmace.
“ Ha, I thought so,” he muttered.
“ But are you aware, my friend, that
there is no money in the case? The lady
hasn’t sixpence, and—”
“I know it,” indignantly interrupted
the suitor. “Yon have made that re¬
mark before. I want no fortune with
my wife, my own being ample; and my
love—”
“ Oh, spare your raptures, young sir.
Not so fast. Don’t be too sure of the
prize; for when you hear wliat, I have to
tell you there may be, perhaps, a change
in your views. I have no time to go
into the matter now; but come to-mor
row, and be prepared to hear what will
surprise you;” and the old gentleman
went off, nodding back—malevolently,
the lover thought—over his shoulder,
leaving tl , ( , „ >..,1 • f > ,
taintv
VUiM could this dark hint
ZxJ it Te possible tiuT was”lny
tl oubt, any mystery as to the demise of
the loved oae ’ s husband ? He could not
S.rt! f! “ ^ f r" U1K '? T*™*. a cc>1 ^ am .
nf ’ •* "V a ,
rassmen t , ll . v n „ !°t
an
y oun K man realize as lie had not before
done llow deeply his affections were en
gaged. He spent a miserable night,
awaiting in vain conjecture and sleep
less anxiety thp tidings wlliclj the mor .
row m jgj d > )r j n g f 01 f j,
i n order to explain matters it will be
necessary to go back for some months
previous to the arrival of the young lady
at her uncle’s house; as well as to change
the scene from it to a country cottage in
a remote part of England—tho home of
the widowed sister of the eccentric
buclielor. In it we find him pacing
up and down the small drawing¬
room ami listening to the querulous
complaints that its occupant, a confirmed
invalid, is uttering from the sofa
on which she lies. “ I think but little
of my bodily sufferings,” she is saying;
“ tlie y cannot now last long. Every day
I feel more plainly that the end is not
far, and my doctor tells me the same.
The distress of mind that torments me j
is wliat is so hard to bear.” !
“ And what may that be about, if I
might ask?”
“ The future of my child when I am |
gone. All I have, as you know, dies with I
me . She will be penniless, and the
thought of what is to become of her
cast on the world without a home, j '
haunts me night and day. It is too j
dreadful J” I
■•A girl and young and not bad- j
looking. Where’s the tear ? Some- |
body’ll marry her. Men are such I i
fools!”
The sick woman could not forebear a i
smile. U Ah, but there are no men, no l
fools here ! In this remote corner we j
see no one, and the poor child, taken
up with nursing me and tied to a sick
room, has made no acquaintances. It
is killing me to see her young life sacri- j
ficed and to think of the future."
The mother’s tears began to flow.
Her hearer, never very amiably inclined
toward the weaker sex, or, at least in
its company, increased liis quarter-deck
pacings in much discomfiture as these
symptoms of “ water works turned on ”
became apparent. His hurried steps
soon subsided, however, to a steady
march up and down the little drawing j
room, while with frowning brow and
•occasional chuckles, he seemed to be
concocting some scheme. After a few
minutes lie came to a sudden halt be¬
fore the invalid’s sofa. “ Can the girl
act V” he asked, abruptly.
“ Act! How do you mean? I—”
“ Oh, you needn’t look frightened;
“Tin not going to propose sending her
to the Gaiety or the Criterion.”
“ Well, except in the little make be¬
lieve plays and dressings-up that chil¬
dren delight in—all children are, I think,
actors born” [“ Ay, and men and women
too,” growled the cynic]—“except that
sort of thing she never has seen or had
any opportunity of acting. Why do you
ask ?
Anil in reply her brother unfolded the
l dan bf! bad keen concocting namely,
that his niece, laying aside her “ frip¬
pery and her trinkets and other girl’s
nonsense,” was to put on the mourning
garb and act the part of a widow, in
which assumed character she was to
come to stay with him in his London '
home. ;
But I don’t understand—”
And you’re not wanted to under
stand,” lie snarled. “It’s my whim; i
and it may be for the girl’s advantage. |
If she’s willing, and can hold her tongue, |
I’ll come hack for her when she’s ready, j
And I’ll pay for her outfit. Crape and
weepers. Ho, ho, ho!” ■
When the first surprise at her uncle’s
strange proposition was over, the young
girl jumped eagerly at the prospect of a
change from the dull home she never
Ve | bad *' die was young and
'
s P bded ’ ld an when love of va-;
riet y and a Longing to see the world and :
plunge into its unknown delights are j
natural. Die playing the widow she |
thought would be excellent iun. There :
was a spice ol adventure in it, and it i
would be like the private theatricals ‘
and acting charades she-had read of and
imagined so pleasant. The old gentle- |
man’s reasons for wishing her to do so j
was a puzzle ; but then who could won
der at anything lie did > absurd oddity
tllat be " as ! Perhaps it was to avoid ;
111 iiaicci lames so, enteiiy outs t.s -1
l l,!( ' ildl y
The result of the scheme we have j
originate! proceeded divulge toriie j 1
would-be husband when that individual
presented 1 himself with considerable |
. . . d - Ration ., . the ,, appointed .
" U8gl Ving «“ on
.
S 1C a y ias ‘‘° mne on to 0
T f «•’ ^ *1 , ?° T *"{ 1 f “ lact * “
be oil A disappointment i no doubt,”
wound up the uncle with one of his
grim chuckles; “but ’twas only right
to tell you in time. Young man, if you
can pardon the deceit, take her.”
“ Well,” exclaimed the young man to
his tiancee > when > a11 thin g s cleared up
and satisfactorily arranged, the engaged
I ia ‘ r were talking over the queer cir
cumstanco that hail brought them to
getlier, “ I always knew your uncle was
eccentric, but this surpasses anything
1 could have imagined even of him.”-
NO. 46.
TIMELY TOPICS.
There has been a congress of auriats'
in Italy, at which a Heidelberg professor
said that experience had convinced him
of the importance of examining the
organs of hearing of engineers and fire¬
men on locomotives, both before ap¬
pointing them and every two years or
so while in service. The sense of hear.
mg becomes impaired from various
causes, and often without the knowledge
* ke P el ’son suffering from it. Defects
Heuso are not less dangerous than
c<do1 ’ Mhulness, and sometimes more
dlfficnlt to discover,
The death of Richard Jackson, a prom¬
inent business man of Richmond, Ind.,
was the result of a strange case of blood
poisoning, which he firmly believed was
caused by acchlentally crushing a potato
j u ],j 8 hand last spring, and touch
j ng p] le inside of his ear with it.- The ear
immediately gathered and deep-seated
abscesses followed, which baffled the
skill of the best physicians in New York
and Cincinnati. He suffered terribly,
Recently the poison began to spread
through his system, and it reached his
heart, causing death.
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Edison promises that great things shall
happen with the electric light in ninety
days. There are .‘>00 sets of men, he
says, in 300 different cities and towns in
this country ready to begin work, with
plenty of capital, as local Edison elec¬
tric light, companies, as soon as he says
the word. “ There will be 300 machine
« k <>P« working exclusively , . , on our ma
tmal 111 dlfferent l mis ot the couldl '- v
witlim nmety days Four hundred
milll0 l s ave "‘vested m gas in this
count% idou,>- ^ ‘ s * kc Ingest manu
lactlirin o interest in the world, and pays
the best. The dividends average more
than ten per cent. When we move on
the enemy we’ve got to move quick,'and
we are ready to. Every plant will be
put in by our own engineers. We shall
have to enlarge our works.”
The United States treasury build¬
ing in Washington contains over four¬
teen hundred thousand dollars of
unclaimed interest on government
bonds. This sum is getting larger every
day. This vast sum of money, or much
of it, can be drawn by simply applying
for it by whoever is entitled to it and
has the registered bond on which the
interest is due and not paid. There are
thousands of persons who have bought
bonds, and not knowing how to get the
interest on them, prefer to lose the
same rather than to expose the fact that
they have the bonds. Others have
interest due them and actually forget
die * a °t, and d bes * n die treasury
vaults waiting for them to apply for it.
Should one of the clerks of the bond
diviHion infomi a P erson to whom in¬
terest is due of the fact ’ aud Sesame
be di ” ed ’ lie wmld l,e instantl >'
dlS( ia ‘S tl ■
Few towns in the world can boast of
a more rapid growth than Kimberley, '
the headquarters of the South African
diamond diggings. Eleven years ago
not a hut stood where now about 16,00U
people, with a trade of more than $10,
000,000, form one of the most thriving
communities on the African’ continent,
j t j ias j^ently discovered that the
town is built upon land which promises
to be as productive of diamonds as the
neighboring “diggings,” which have
j JC0U tj ie source of its wealth and the
very origin of its existence. Kimberley
j 8 identical with the (‘New Rush” dia
moJu t settlement of 1870; and the
tlLcmsamls who flocked to the
locality to setmi . e a “claim” in the
valuable reefs, which have been worked
further and further to the east of the
K q e 0 f tkc future town, were in such a
gmgs that they lovgot to inquire whether
the soil on which tliey pitched tents or.
orected thcil - log-huts was not equally
diam J )ndifeions - As tbe wooden shan
^ ™ Sdlf bu ldlu f f lias been 1 t °^ d iT't thftt
Kimberley itself has , been built on a
diamond tteld> U nd that the west end or
residential part of the town is as full of
g ems ag tj le ac tual d iggings themselves
at the eastern or working end of the
town. New claims are being taken up
in all directions, and land which was
beginning to acquire considerable value
as building sites has suddenly assumed
fresh importance as possibly containing
some new “ Star of South Africa.”
Bee culture is becoming a profitable
industry in "Texas, especially in the
Brazos and Colorado valleys, where
quite a number of .enterprising men
have found that it pays vastly more than
cotton raising.