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k \ i is 4 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. --- 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.