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/OHM C. ¥AH SYCKEL & CO,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE,
House Furnishing Goods
Tin-3?late,
Stoves,
Hardware,
<&o., <feo.
MAxtnr AoruucKs or
TINWARE.
No. 116 Third Street,
MACON, r,A.
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OARHAHT & GUKJJ,
DKALKHS IK
Hardware, Iron & Steel i
WOODENWA.RE,
Carriage Material,
Cotton Gins,
Circular Saws,
SCALES,
fT=> i
PAINTS, OILS, &c.
SVT n eon. On
R. J DA V ANT. i. >. WOOD, Jit
DAY ANT & WOOD.
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114 Bay Street.
Savannah, Georgia
Special attention given to sale ot
COTTOH, BICE & NATAL STORES
Aocrr* fob
DRAKES COTTON TIES,
n'**9r)*t* rw <w*n»?^nrnAnt<».
SID. A. PUGHSLEY, Jr.
AGENT AND SALESMAN,
-WITH
I. L. FALK & CO.,
CLOTHIERS,
425 and 427 Broome St., New York,
Cor. Congress and Whittaker Streets,
SAVANNAH. GA.
A. J. BRADDY & SOM
Wrightsville, Ga
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
Baggies, A specialty ol Plantation Work. Wagons,
etc., made and repaired.
Plows and Plow-Stocks of ail kinds, and
every kind of Wood and iron Work done by
A. J. BRADDY & SON,
Wriehtsville, Ga.
SMITH’S HOTELS
W. J. M. SMITH, Agent.
WrightsTllle, Georgia.
Having lately undergone thorough repairs,
this Hotel is prepared to accommodate the
public with the finest the market affords. The
highest market prices paid for country produce
John A. Shivers & Son,
Tenniixe, Ga.,
Are now prepared to build, repair and
overhaul
Carriages, Buggies,Wagons, 4c.
We also make a specialty ot Ono
Horse Wagons.
WRIGrHTSYILLE, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1881.
DRUG STORE.
I
J. W. BRINSON & CO.,
DRUGGISTS,
Wrlghtsville, Georgia.
Have on hand a complete, stock of Drug*
and all other articles usually kept in a
First* Class
Drug Store,
Which they are selling at prices to suit tlu
times, and are prepared to fill all orders ane
: prescriptions on the shortest possible notice.
j
Dr. J. W. BRINSON continues to prao
| hi® profession in its various brances.
Office at the Drug Store.
W. B. MBLL & GO
Wholesale and retail dealers in
SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS,
Rubber and Leather
BELTING AND PACKING,
French and American Calf Skit;*, Sole, Her
ness, Bridlo and Patent Leather,
WHIPS and SADDLERY WARE,
TRUNKS, VALISES,
Market Square, Savannah, Ga
Orders bv mail Dromotls attended to.
A. M. MATHIS *
Tekkille, Ga.,
Horse-Shoeing a Specialty,
All work intrusted to my care will receive
prompt satisliuitaou attention. guaranteed Charges reasonable ami
in every instance.
Miss Anna K, McWhorter.
WRiGirrsviLUt, Ga.,
Keeps on hand a nice selection of
Iliny M Fancy Goods
SUCH AS
LADIES’HATS RIBBONS,
FLOWERS and TRIMMINGS
In endless variety; also a nice assortment oi
latost patterns, etc., all lor sale as aheap >|
the cheapest. I um alao prepared t/' out, fli
and make dresse* at shori notice. Call on mi
bclore purchasing elsoivuere.
J. T. & B. J. DENT,
Eight miles west o f Wrightsvi.le, Ga.
Keep constantly on h nd a fine assortment
of Pure
Liquors, Brandies, Wines, Ales, Lager.
Etc., Pickles, eto.; also Oysters, Tobaoao, Sardines, Cigars, and Candies,
a
lull line ot lamiiy
GROCERIES!
All of which wo will sell at m-ide figures
Give us a trial. Reqiectlully,
J. T. & B. J. DENT. |
It was May Brinley’s wedding day,
and sho stood fully dressed before her
mirror, taking one last look, with a little
pardonable vanity, at the pretty figure
reflected there.
In another hour she should be Mrs.
John Hargrave. How hard it was to
realize!
Around her clustered a bevy of girls,
each one anxious to put some finishing
touch to the beautiful toilet.
“I quite envy you, May,” of Jack. said one; H8
“ and I just caught a peep Is
looks, oh, so awfully handsome, and
waiting impatiently to the see church.” you one
minute before you go to
“Have you made up your mind to
say ‘obey?”’ mischievously inquired
another. “ You know you always used
to say you never would.”
“ Oh, yes, I shall say it,” answered the
bride-elect, “ because I shouldn’t want a
scene at the altar. Butit’s all nonsense;
Jack doesn’t expect mo to obey him. He
knows I have had my own way all my life,
and I am sure he will always give it to
m °; He h ° Iove * to s P oiI “, e '”
not bijin ° fife’wit fotale^or'” . said oil .
who had words'were not yet spoken. interrupted
Her by a quick,
impatient rap at the door.
“It’s Jack!” exclaimed May. “Open
the door, girls, and then be off with you.”
“I thought they would never let me
in,” said the tall, handsome fellow who
advanced into the room. “My own. dar¬
ling ! How beautiful yon are!”
He came toward her with outstretched
arms.
“Don’t!” she said, a little petulantly,
receding as she spoke. “ This is not the
time for bear-hugs.”
The handsome face clouded a little.
“ I won’t and do the gently finery encircling any harm,” her he
answered, with
his arm he drew her to him, uplifting
the crimson lips on which he pressed a
long, loving kiss. “ God grant I may
evei make made you as happy, to-day!” darling, he whis¬ as
you have me
perer. But just then there call for the
was a
bride. The carriages were in waiting.
It was quite time they should ho at the
church. .
How solemnly Jack made all the re¬
sponses, thought May. For her part she
repeated them after the minister scarcely
conscious of the import of the words,
but quite conscious of the sea of fac&s
through which she must pass; quite
conscious that her marriage was the
event of the season, her toilet such as to
bar criticism, and her husband young
and rich, and handsome enough to make
her the envy of half the women present.
But way down in the depths of the
ittle worldly Jack. heart she was had a well had of true
ove for If to give
up all this outside show she would
have been quite with content him, and to have proved gone off
all alone
true a wife she could be; but there was
no occasion for this, and I don’t think
mere Cattle Plagues Begin.
The great plagues that from time!
to time have devastated the stables
and pastures of Europe, sparing neither
cattle good or bad, have all had definite
starting places, and these on investiga¬
tion lave proved that the diseases
found their origin in fitlh. Such
plagues are always to be feared. Bad
food impoverishes the blood of the
stock, while which the poisonous emanations
of the filth, also has an injurious
effect when absorbed by the physiques
continually in contact with it, complete
the work, and the general deleterious
influences finally localize themselves in
some organ of the animals that survive
at all. The causes of cattle plagues are
exactly analogous to those of cholera
and other human scourges, and there
effects, when they similarly attain to contagion
or infection, are unsparing in of
all Severer with whom and they come alert officers contact.
laws more are
necessary to the prevention of a cattle
plague in this country .—New Y< rk
Herald.
Au Unfortunate Mistake. I
A young man had his girl out riding
in a no-top buggy the other afternoon.
In one pocket he carried a bottle of
spirits of ammonia for the headache, and
in another he had a bottle of cologne,
just along purchased. he asked her As they take were smell riding of his
to a
new placed perfumery, the but bottle unfortunately her he
wrong to nose.
She took a wholesale sniff, and remark¬
ed. “Gugug—ugug—huh—huh!” of the backwards, and
went over out instant carriage the of
and for an the air in rear
the buggy was filled with*high-heeled
shoes, flourishing arms, a choking girl,
and so forth. She escaped serious in¬
jury, but she hasn’t spoken to the young
man since. Some girls get mad at the
least little thing.
Be as Thorough as You Can.
WhatsonVr ion find to do,
Do it, boys, with all your might!
Never be a little true,
\ Or a little in the right.
Trifles even
Lead to heaven,
Trifles make the lifoof man;
So in all things,
Great or small things,
Be as thorough as you earn
Let no speck that surfaco dim—
Spotless truth and honor bright
I’d not give a fig for him
■Who says any lie is white!
He who falters,
Twists or altera ____
Little atoms when tvo speak,
May deceive mo; J
But believe me,
To himBclfho is a sneak!
Help the weak if you aro strong,
Love the old if yon aro young,
Own a fault if you are wrong,
If you’re angry hold your tongue.
In each duty
Lies a beauty,
If your eyes yon do not shut,
! Just as surely
And securely j
As a kernel in a nut!
Love with all your heart and soul,
Love with eye and ear and touch;
That’s the moral of the whole,'
You can never love too much!
’Tis the glory,
Of the story
In our babyhood begun;
Our hearts without it—
Never doubt it—
Are the worlds without a sun.
If you think a word will please,
Say it, if it is but tme;
Words may give dolight with ease,
When no act is asked from you.
Words may often
Soothe and soften,
Gild a joy or heal a pain;
They aro treasures
Yielding pleasures
It is wicked to retain.
Whatsoe’er you find to do,
Do it, then, with all your might;
Let your prayers ho strong and true—
Player, my lads, will keep you right.
Prayer in all things,
Great and small tliingR,
Like a Christian gentleman,
And forever,
Now or never,
Be as thorough as you can.
MAY’S FOLLY.
even May herself knew just how spoiled, wholly
she loved him. She was a
petted child, and that any solemn duties
were entailed in the estate upon which
she was just entering she did not
pause to think.
For four weeks she and Jack traveled;
then they came home to their own beau¬
tiful home—her father’s wedding gift to
her. Here a round of festivities awaited
them, so that the young couple for three
months had no single evening to them¬
selves.
“I am tired, May. Let us stay at
j home to-night, darling,” said Jack one
: evening after dinner as May was about
j -to leave him to make her toilet for some
party; “Absurd, JackI You’re not growing
old already, surely! Besides, I promised
Mrs. Armstrong wo would come, and I
cannot disappoint her.”
“ I don’t like Mrs. Armstrong, with May. I
wish you were not so intimate her;
and really my head aches to-night. Stay
at home, like a good little girl.”
For a moment May wavered. She
looked within the library, She which could seemed
so warm and inviting. she fancy
Jack stretched on the sofa, while sat
beside liim, bathing his brows with some
fragrant cologne, and thought what a
nice, cozy evening they might have. Then
she remembered something Mrs. Arm¬
strong had said about spoiling men, and
how easy it was to begin, and bow selfish
they grew. enough for Jack to spoil
It was well
her. That was to bo expected; So but as
to spoiling him—no, indeed! she
ran on up the stairs, calling back over
her shoulder as she went:
“ Come, Jack; we’ve no time to lose.
And as to that horrid prejudice of yours,
do try and get over it.”
There came a temptation to the man
— a temptation to carry out his own
manly will; but a softer, tenderer feel¬
ing swept over him as a mental vision
of the pretty, laughing face passed be¬
fore him; and half an hour later ha
stood in full dress, waiting the advent
of the beautiful girl, who all uncon¬
sciously to them both was steering her
frail vessel on to the quicksands of mar¬
ried misery.
#
A year passed, and Mr. and Mrs.
Hargrave were still in the gay vortex of
fashionable Hfe; but to the man’s spirit
it had grown unutterably wearisome. May,” he
“ I married for a home, said,
one day, in geutlo home expostulation; ?” “but
do I see of
“ Quite enough to satisfy a reasonable
man. Why, I shouldn’t want to be alone
with you all the time, Jack! Think how
awfully 1'” tired we should get of each
other
The thoughtless words stabbed like a
knife, but he made them no reply. Only
that evening, for the first time, Mrs. Har¬
grave went to some gay assemblage alone.
Her husband had refused to accompany
her.
“I am tired," he said. “But do not
let me detain you. Mrs. Armstrong is
seen constantly without her husband.”
“ Because he is a bear,” answered May,
pouting. Nevertheless sho went, and after that if
was no uncommon tiling for Jack to spend
his evening with his books and thoughts,
while his beautiful young wife went out
alone.
“ May, I wish you to give Mrs. Arm¬
strong up,” ho said to her one evening
as they sat at dinner.
“ Nonesense, Jack! I cannot do it, if
I wished it ever so much.”
“ But you must do it. I will not have
you to go to that woman’s house again.”
“ But, Jack, I have already accepted
an invitation to a dinner-party there for
Thursday evening.” decline. I do
“Then write and not
ask you this without good cause, little
girl; but things have recently come to
mv hearing regarding this lady, and I do
not wish my wife’s name coupled with
hers.”
May answered nothing more, but in
her own heart her decision was unaltered.
Begin to yield to a man'.! whims, and
where should she end ? Of course she
should go. She had been married more
than a year now, and so far had always
had her own swefi will and way.
T his time the litter was unexpectedly
made easy to her, for as Jack kissed her
good-bye on Thursday morning he said to
her:
“ I shan’t be home to dinner mother’s. to-night,
May. You had better dine at
By the way, this was Mrs. Armstrong's
night. You have sent that regret ?”
The first fear she had ever felt of Jack
crept into her heart at a new, stern look
she saw in his eyes, and it drew her first
falsehood to him from her lips.
“ Yes,” she answered.
He stooped and kissed her more ten¬
derly. make it to yet, darling.
“I’ll up you without
Believe me, I did not ask it good
cause.”
She stood quite still after he had left
her. She was half tempted yet to it obey was!
him; but—pshaw! what nonsense
So, at seven o’clock, the coupe stood
at her door, and in a bewitching dinner
dress she was driven to the houso her
husband had forbidden her to enter.
But the dinner dragged—not chef had done but himself that
Mrs. Armstrong’s that her guests failed
infinite credit, or
in their part. The trouble lay only with
Mrs. Hargrave’s sejf. In vain she strove
to rally; compliments palled on her; the
lights tired her. One thought weighed
on heart and brain—suppose J ack
should be seriously displeased? Well,
what if he were. Mrs. Armstrong
had told her how she had man
aged her husband’s first displeasure,
“ Never yield!" she advised. “Never
j show learn that not to you’re feel sorry.” sorry, and you’ll soon
So, when at ten o’clock she bade her
hostess good-night, she determined not to
show that she felt any regret.
A light in the library told her that her
husband was at home. She hesitated an
instant at the door then went boldly in.
Jack stood with his back to the fire, his
eyes fixed upon her, but not her Jack.
'The sternness had gone from Ms eyes, but
no smile was on his lips. Over all his
face was an expression of withering con¬
tempt. evening,
madam “You have said; enjoyed hod vour for it the
?” he “ you
relish of your falsehood this morning.”
Oh, how wrong Bhe had been! Sbe
was tempted to < rawl up *<< him. and
creep into Iris arms and beg him to for¬
give her, but she remembered Mrs. Aim
strong’s advice.
“ Yes,” she said, “ I had a charming
evening ; but I am quite sleepy bed.” now.
Good-night! I am going the to in
She turned to leave room, but
one stride ho was beside her and held
her arm in a grip of steel.
“ Coward, you hurt me 1” she said, in
sudden anger.
He dropped her aim then as though
sho hod stung him.
“You meant that word—you have
ceased to love me? Why did you diso¬
bey Because me, May ?” I do not to be
“ propose a
slave to your caprice—because I have
had my way all my life, and I intend to
have it.”
“ And I say you shall not have it!
Choose between Mrs. Armstrong and me
—between your unworthy friend and
your husband—between your own will
and our future happiness—on this in¬
stant, choose!”
“I have made my choice; I abide by
it. When you aro more reasonable, I
will listen further. Now, good-night!”
He made her no answer. She lingered
a moment at the head of the stairs
hoping he would speak again, but all
was silent.
Oh, and how unhappy door! she was Strange as she
shut barred her aa
it may seem she had never loved her
husband so well in her life. His pale,
handsome face haunted her.
“ How hateful I was!” she said to her¬
self. “ As if 1 would not give up fifty
Mrs. Armstrongs” for ono Jack. I wii]
give her rip, too,’ but I’ll do it in my
own way.” unlocked the door
Once she to go
down. But no—it would undo all that
her firmness had accomplished; sleepless so the
night passed, to her a one.
In the early morning a servant brought
her a note. It was from her husband,
and ran thus:
“ At nine o’clock I sail for Europe, to
he absent three months. During that
time my lawyer will consult you in re¬
gal’d to our separation, and make it as
easy for you as possible. I have known
for a long time that our tastes wore
diametrically opposed, that all my sweet
hopes of home were wrecked, but not
that you could defy and outrage the love
wlrich I so freely gave you. Do not think
me harsh in leaving you without a good¬
bye, but I thought it would be less pain¬
ful tous both.”
With tear-blinded eyes she glanced up
at the clock. It was just eight. She
had one hour in which to act. It was but
the work of ten minutes to order the
carriage, make a hasty toilet, swallow a
cup of coffee, then issue her commands
to the coachman to drive at any speed
but reach the pier before the clock struck
nine. One hour to undo what might be
a life’s fatal work.
But time waits for no man. It was
ten minutes past the hour when the pier
was reached, and already sMp. far out in the
bay stood the gallant •
With a low cry of agony May realized
the whole; then the strain relaxed, and
the fair young head fell back upon its
silken cushions in a dead faint.
“ A lady fainted!” was the cry which
reached a gentleman giving some direc¬
tions about the baggage which he had
countermanded being put upon the ves¬
sel wlrich had just set sail.
He turned quickly. There stood his
own horses, his own carriage, and within
it the lovely face of Ms unconscious wile.
It was the work of an instant to spring
beside her and lift it on his breast, trying
to revive her with his passionate kisses.
At last the beautiful eyes opened with
wild, incredulous recognition.
“ Oh, I am dreaming!” she murmured.
“ Jack, Jack! don’t leave me!”
“ No, darling—no I At the last mo¬
ment my heart relented. I thought
perhaps I had misjudged you, or that I
had been too severe, and I ordered my
baggage taken off the steamer and let it
sail without mo. My wife, I thought
you did not love mo—that you had
chosen the world; because, my darling,
no time woman finds it hard to yield to
the man whom she can respect and love;
and surely, May, you did not find mo a
tyrant.” she only sob out her plea for
But can
forgiveness—a plea all too easy to grant;
and even tears are sweet when kissed
away by love’s lips.
But May home never forgets her lesson.
Each year grows sweeter, more
precious, and some of the jostling, out¬
side world is shut away; but May misses
nothing. She has found her world
within Jack’s heart, and knows that he
is well content that she should nestle
there.
Marie, the late empress of Russia, had
» mania for collecting prayer-books, and
had a great many of them at her death.
The czar has distributed them among
the various regiments glass at St. Petersburg
to be preserved in oases in the
regimental libraries.
Society never finds out that a woman
is lovely and accomplished until her
husband becomes rich.
m. so.
The Unexpressed.
Could all the love within one liesrt be spoken
Could all the sorrow of one soul be read,
Or could the ice that hidos one joy be broken,
What need that aught again be sung or said ?
But mute we stand when most we would reveal,
Nor may the mystic bander be past;
Words but the deep and struggling thought
conceal,
And Bilcnco must our refugo be at last.
—Laura Winthrop Johnson .
HUMOROUS.
“One Lung” is a Chinese laundry
man in Brooklyn.
A true republic should bo a custard
pie—no upper crust.
Joy is the feeling that you are better
off than your neighbor.
The only way to make a boy sit still is
tell him not to stop squirming.
Tlie milk train does not stop at whey
stations. Except to take in water.
The Egyptian emblem of a snake with
its tail in its month was the earliest sign
of the “swallow-tail."
Some Milwaukee people ask the ap¬
pointment of female police officers.
Well, a pretty woman could capture
almost anybody.
Now that the army is fitted out with
cork liemlets, it will be necessary to fur¬
nish the Indians with corkscrews instead
of scalping knives.
The Boston Journal says “the Princess
Louise is fond of music and a good
singer,” but it does not give tlie singer’s
name.— New York Post.
“Do American industries thrive
abroad?” asks a correspondent. Cer¬
tainly; one industrious young American
has recently married the richest woman
in England.
The canary had begun to twitter
little after molting, but was unable to
sing his entire time. The little four
year-old, after listening to one of the
bird’s vain attempts to master his tune,
said, very composedly: “Mamma
birdie only sang half a verse.’
A soft voice in woman always goes
with a gentle spirit. A gentleman sit¬
ting in a friend’s parlor engaged in con¬
versation with him was startled by a
noise downstairs and paused to ask:
“What’s that; a crash of crockery?”
“ No, that’s only my wife calling to me ”
Coleridge has written that pedantry
contists in the use of words unsuited to
the time, place and company. And yet
you wouldn’t call the man pedantic on
account of the remarks he made when he
slipped down in the midst of the crowd
coming out of church last Sunday.—
Lowell Citizen,
From a French paper: “ Mv husband
is a brute, ” declared Mme. X. to an in
timate dear, friend what tlio is other the matter?” day. “ Why, “He
my little vivacity
found fault with a of mine
Iris yesterday, and I what threw a candlestick at
head; then, do you suppose ho
did?” “I don’t know.” “Why, he
stood before the mirror so I couldn’t
throw the other." Both ladies in chorus:
“The brute.’
“ I guess I’ll drawer out!” exclaimed
the burglar, as be pulled out a bureau
drawer in a young lady’s room, and
stole her jewelry. The noise was just
sufficient to draw out her father, and the
sight of the burglar caused him to draw
hours out a pistol. draw It took a big physician three
to out four bullets from
the burglar, who then took an oath to
draw out of such aflairs in the future.—
Philadelphia Sun.
Little Fred refuses above all things to
be pitied, will all the energy of his four
year-old concentrating itself upon
keeping up his dignity in misfortune.
The other day he fell downstairs and
waB picked up badly bruised, and was
pitied accordingly. “It is too bad,”
his mother said, “really too bad. Poor
fellow!” “’Taint too bad !” exclaimed
Freddy, struggling I’ve to keep back the
tears. “ been just dying to fall
downstairs this long time !”—Boston
courier.
The Growth of Children.
Dr. Percy Boulton, of the Samaritan
hospital, London, has made interesting
studies of the health aid growth of
children. Instead of taking the average
of a large number of children measured
once, he has found it more profitable to
measure a number of children of normal
growth, brought up undor average cir¬
cumstances, many times, thus ascertain¬
ing their rate of increase. The annual
rate of growth was found to vary between
two and three inches for each child per
year. The following working table,
though not exact, is an approximation
to the statement of a law. The weight,
it will be observed, normally corre¬
sponds with the height, rising by steps
of one inch:
Feet. Inches. Pounds. Foot. Inches. Pounds.
8 0 3d 4 I.... ...62%
3 1 38 4 2....
3 2 40 4 3 67%
3 3 42 4 4 70
3 4 44 4 5 Z2%
3 S 46 4 6 75
3 6 .48 4 7. 77%
3 7 50 4 8, 80
3 8 52 4 9. ?2%
3 9 54 4 10. 85
3 10 56 4 U. 88 %
3 11 58 5 0. 90
4 0 60
Dr. Boulton believes that when a child
varies more than a quarter of an inch
annually, or when his weight does not
correspond margin of safety, with his height within a
the danger signal put should at seven be pounds,
Then it is safe to conclude put child’s out.
the
diet is not good, or possibly some disease
is lurking in his system. It is a curions
fact that loss of weight always precedes
the development of consumption.