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Wrightsville Recorder.
J. A. PEACOCK,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Published every Saturday
KATUIIDAY. AUG. IB 1881.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 A YEAR.
The Spirit of Monopoly.
It is impossible to conceive of any
good or sufficient reason for refusing
to graut a proper charter to the At¬
lanta and Rome railroad. The rea¬
son assigned—that of its injuring the
State road, is neither a good nor a
sufficient reason for refusing to grant
the charter. It is the assigning of a
reason that is not a reason. Do the
lease* of the State road w ish a mon¬
opoly of all the business of that sec¬
tion ? Is not the movement against
chartering the new road in the inter¬
est of monopoly? If so, it is contra¬
ry to public policy, and at war with
the constitution of the State. If the
movement is not, in the interest of
monopoly, then the reason assigned
for opposing the granting of the
charter has no existence in fact, and
cease* to be a reason at all. It will
lie remembered that the Macon and
Brunswick road was sold by the
{State expressly upon the condition
that it nhonld be extended to Atlan¬
ta. This was with a view to break¬
ing down a particular monopoly in
the hands of citizens of the State.
If now the Legislature should refuse
to charter another road, in another
quarter of the Slate, necause by so
doing it would destroy a monopoly
possessed by the State road, it would
he guilty of the meanness of making
the very reason for doing a certain
thing, in a given ease, a reason for
doing a thing diametrically opposite
in a parallel case. The refit..; 1 to
charter a road, on the ground that ii
would compete with a road alread)
in existence, would he to violat e the
spirit of the constitution—a spirit
that is at war with m *nop«ly—in
the interest of monopoly. The Leg¬
islature will do itself credit by refus¬
ing to endorse a policy which is an¬
tagonistic to the interests of the peo¬
ple of the State geneially—especial¬
ly when, in order to do so, it is com¬
pelled to violate, the spirit of the
constitution and the settled policy
of the State. This dog-in-the-man¬
ger business should not in et the en¬
dorsement of tir i« nerai A-scuilil v.
— Jshmaelite.
— ..... . - •—• ■
Platt will now have time to hunt
the North Pole and—get cool.
It is said that Maud S., the queen
of the turf, can make her half mile
in one minute.
It is said that there are now on
file at Washington Ii million appli¬
cations for office.
An Irishman, who was found guilty
of stealing coffee, was asked by the
magistrate what he did with it.
“Made lay with it," was the reply.
A certain member of the Legisla¬
ture said on Saturday, upon being in¬
formed that Joe Brown was a strong
advocate of the granting of the Cole
charter, if that was so “there was a
nigger iu the wood pile."
We think that after the general
assembly of Georgia takes into con¬
sideration the interest of the whole
people of Georgia rather than that
of auy railroad monopoly, it will
grant Mr. Cole a charter.
President GaaScld is reported as
saying that one thing encouraged
and pleased him especially, was the
warm feeling of sympathy extended
to him by the South. He had inten¬
ded, he said, to make his administra¬
tion broad and national.
C-oukling is said to he goiug to
Europe. Bad characters used to be
sent from Europe to the United
States; and it is proper enough now
to let the system of rotation have its
perfect work. Platt will go to
dogs at home.— Iskmadlte .
“When do dog days begin
Well, in Georgia, they begin on
first day of January, and end
the Slit day of December. As gooc
a band as David was at
•tonus oouldn’t fling one into
y«ar in Georgia without
|l>e red out of a dog day.—
(te.
Will Hie End of tlic World Come
this Year?
Well, yes, anxious, troubled ques¬
tioner, it will. We hope you will
feel satisfied to have the matter defi¬
nitely settled. And we can tell you
positively that it will. We know as
much about it as Prof. Proctor, as
Prof. Swfft, as the Smithsonian In¬
stitute and the National Observato¬
ry, and more than the U. S. Signal
Service. You have been tormented
and tortured no doubt by Mother
Shipton, and by the comet, and the
Canadian farmer who built him an
ark and had it all ready to launch for
the 19th of June—he can go into
the ferry business wit h it now, or
sell it to the Mississippi Rarge and
Transportation Company—and by
the Millerites, and one fool thing
and another, until your mind is dis¬
tracted and you can’t sleep,and don’t
think it worth while to pay your
debts. All the same you will have
to pay, or go out of business.
And if the world should come to an
end at ten o’clock to-morrow morn
ing up to 9:45 a m money would
eight per cent, on gilt-edge paper,
and none too easy to get then.
So you see the fact that the world is
coming to an end won’t make any
difference in your business affairs.
It won,t make any change shallow¬
ness of the strawberry boxes this
season; the good berries will all be
on the top the same as last year.
With eternity staring them in the
face mankind will go right on,
swindling and lying, and praying
and singing, and swearing and deal¬
ing dishonestly, and doing triekiny
things, loving and l a ing, laughing
and weeping, until the end comes
and the lips ou sed or prayed are
hushed alike in the qu et of death.
For the world is coming to an end.
And the comet can’t ha t, •» and a
million comets can’t retard its com¬
ing. It is bound to conic this year.
Thor is no help for it. If it scares
you we can’t help it. We must tell
the truth about this tiling, since
you have asked us what we know a
bout it. And indeed we know more
than we have told. The end of all
things terrestrial is coming to-mor¬
row, and you can’t stop it by climb¬
ing a titv or crawling into a
cave. Every day and every hour
the end of the world comes some
unsuspecting mortal who is only
thinking up liis plans for next sum¬
mer, or studying over a “boss trade”
he has in his mind for next week.
Every tiqie your heart heats the
end of the world comes for some
one, and just as sure as volt have,
or more surely if you not, paid
your newspaper subscription. It is
coming to you. And, good subscri¬
ber, fearful and troubled about
comets and many things, when it
does come, if it catches you off your
feet with your business raveling
out at the edges, your bills unset¬
tled, your notes protested your sub¬
scription not paid, your pew rent
overdue and your pastor run¬
ning into debt for his living, with
your conscience burdened with
wrongs and your life bristling
with uneorrectod and unrepentant
faults, you won’t need any comet
nor any long procession of peri¬
helia to scare you. You won’t think
of the planets then, good man. You
will think about the horse with
a spavin you sold to poor
wig; you will think about the shod¬
poor Hayseed for $13.75; you
will think about the quarts of straw¬
berries you sold every year in pint
boxes; you will remember the sev¬
en cent print you sold to old Mrs.
Thistlepod for fourteen cents; you
will think about the forkin of ax¬
le-grease you painted with butter
and sold fot thirty-seven cents for
table use;you will think of the mort¬
gage you forclosed on poor Rag¬
weed’s farm after he had paid you
thirteen per cent, for the money for
ten years; you will think of the
loads of three feet cord-wood you
hauled to town and sold at full mar¬
ket price; you will think of the
sand yon sifted in the brown sugar;
you remember how you sold 1, 70o
pounds of coal for a ton; you will
think of the paper you took for a
year and a half and never paid for;
you will recall a thousand little
meannesses and weaknesses of w hich
you have been guilty; you will think
how you made your, money, and how
precious little good it is going to
do you in the country whither you
are going; and, poor man, if you
have fastened your faith and trust
to nothing better than Mother Ship
ton or Vennor,or General Ilazen,
or some celestial tramp of a comet,
the sound of the trumpet, the voices
of the 1 mast, the seven thunders,
the hail and ‘ire mingled with blood
the darkened sun, the vials of
wrath and the voine of the eagle
could not add to your fears. When
the end of the world comes for yon
that will be the only end yon will
take any interest in. It will be
awful enough for you, if it comes
before you are ready for it, and un¬
less you know you have a dead sure
thing on eighty-nine years or more
—and you know whether you have
or not—you keep one eye open all the
time for the end of the world.
So, don,t you worry about two
comets, or conjunctions, or perihelia,
or eclipses, or the spots ou the
sun. They have nothing to do with
your case at all. You may not live
to see the world burned up, and you
pass away in the great final disso¬
lution of all things terrestrial, hut
you are going to live to your end of
the world, and don’t you forget it.
That’s ail you have to do with it.
You go home now, and quit wor¬
rying about prophecies. Admire the
comet without a fear. Study astro¬
nomy for its wonders and beauties,
and not for fanciful and ignorant and
superstitious terror. You go home
and sell dean goods by full meas¬
ures and honest weights; teach
yours clerks that a thirty inch stick
doesn’t measure a yard of dress
goods; don’t n eigh yourself on hay
and the wagon by itself; make your
ton of coal weigh twenty-hundred,
and cut your wood four feet long;
be honest and square m your deal¬
ings; pay your pew rent every week,
and your newspaper subscription in
advance; read the revised Testament
oftcncrund go to church regularly;
he manly and pay your debts as fast
as you can, and live so that you
can look every man in the eyes w hen
you meet him; give up swearing
and try family prayers as a substi¬
tute; don’t he afraid of any man
that ever wore a hat, and always
sand by your honest convictions,
and then, if some night a comet
with a tail like torch-light proces¬
sion, and the perihelion of Jupiter,
and an eclipse of the sun, and old
Mother Shipton, should file into
your front yard and kick and thump
at the door: We want you, old man!
you would cheerfully hop out of bed
and shout hack; “All right, wait till
I get on my trousers!” and go out
to join tlie procession with out a
tremor. Bless your timid soul, non
paving subscriber, the other end of
the world is nothing, if you only
shape this end as nearly right as you
know how.— Burlington Jlawlceyt.
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“Harnett House.”
The courteous and laborious pro¬
prietors of this house anticipating
the visits of merchants soon to the
Forest City, have made and will
continue to make improvement from
time to time as will contribute to
their comfort. Among other im¬
provements they have introduced
transom lights over every door, thus
giving perfect ventilation in all bed¬
rooms. Their House being only two
stories, guests are spared the neccs
sity of ascending several flights of
steps so disagreeable in hot weather.
The proprietors spare no pains to
render their guests comfortable.
Kates only $2 per
••--■
“Can pa make a circus, ilia?” “I
don’t know, Johnny, I suppose he
could if he had a great deal of liHm
ey to buy horses and wild animals;
but why do you ask Johnny?” “Oh,
nothing much. Only I saw that Gas¬
ton fellow, that you told sis not to
have nothing to do with,
with his arras around Herat the hack
gate last night, and he said to sis, T
s’pose if yer old man came around
now he would make a circus,’
sis laughed and said, ‘von bet’”
NOTICE.
All persons indebted to the firm
Barnes & Hightower for lumber, will
forward and settle at once. The 1 looks
iu my hands for the purpose of
settlement. You know who you are,
conic along and save cost. Aug. II th 1881.
auglS-tt E. O. BOSTICK.
NOTICE.
Bridge Builders.
A\7 * ILL be let to the lowest bidder
the v the Court first house Tuesday door in September
at in the town
Wrightsville, Johnson county, the
ing road of a new bridge big Cedaer where the
ry crosses creek.
cation of which, can lie seen by calling
M. U. Mason at Wrightsville, by order
the conuty Court. Aug. 3rd, 1881.
M. FI. MASON,
Clerk Court.
E. 0. BOSTICK,
Attorney * at - Law,
Wrightsville, Ca.
^"’Criminal Cases a Specialty.
febo-ly
A. F. DALEY i
Attorney at Law,
“W3?iglxtSAAille, GrSb
Will practice in tliis and adjoining
counties, and elsewhere by special
engagement. my*21-]y
J. L. WALKER. M. D.,
(JENERAL PRACTITIONER,
WkIGIITSVII.I.E, GkOHGIA.
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Galls Promptly Attended Day or
21 ly Night.
may
J. W. FLANDERS, M.D.,
Physician and Accoucheur,
Wrightsville, Ga. 3Jj
Obstetrics Special attention given to practice of
and the treatsient of diseases of
Bomcn.
Ollice at liis residence. m.’ 21-ly
CRIST MILL.
K. I*. Itedingficlil has had his mill re¬
paired and is now prepared to make as
good meal as can Ik- lmd in this country. I
respectfully solicit the patronage of the
people of this country. If you want good
meal he sure to call. Perfect satisfaction
guaranteed. days. Situated Grind six days miles Tuesdays North-cast and Fri¬
of
b rightsville on the Wrightsville and Ilid
dlcville road. Place known as the Lewis
Davis place.
E. P. BKDINGFIELI). Respectfully,
ju25-3tn
4 &
A.
Certain ani Permanent Cire
$OR
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Catarrh, Bronchitis,
GOLDS, GOUGES, INFLUENZA,
Sort Throat, Shortness of Breath,
CLERGYMAN’S SORE THROAT,
AnJ other Diseases of
PRICE, $1 00 PER BOTTLE.
LARGE SIZE, $2.00.
1881. 1881.
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