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A. F. Daley, Attorney at Law, Wrights
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•nd Solicitor in Equity. Wriglitsvilic, Ga,
Moderate fees charged, and satisfaction
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Surgeon. Dublin. Ga.
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AURANTII
Most of the diseases which afflict mankind are origin
ally caused by a disordered condition of the LIVER*
For all complaints of this kind, such as Torpidity of
the Liver, Biiiousueso, Nervous Dyspepsia. Indiges¬
tion, Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation. Flatu¬
lency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach
(sometimes called HeartbuA). Miasma, Malaria,
Bloody Flux, Cliilla and Fever, Broakbone Fever,
Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diar¬
rhoea. Loss of Appetite, Hoadache, FguI Breath,
Irregularities incidental to Females. Bearing-down
STADIGER’S flURflWTII
is Invaluable. It is not a panacea for all diseases,
but AimC VUrfE. all diseasesof the LIVER,
will STOMACH and BOWELS.
It changes the complexion from a waxy, yellow
tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely removes
low, gloomy spirits. It is one of the BEST AL¬
TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OP THE
BLOOD, and Is A VALUABLE TONIC.
STADIGER’S AURANTII
Fee sale by all Druggists. Price SI .00 per bottle.
C. F. STADICER, Proprietor,
**0 SO. FRONT ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
. june 10, 1880-ly.
Take Notice.
This is to forewarn all persons not to
■ hire or harbor my son, Enoch A. Oliver,
a minor who lins left his home wiffiout mv
i* rmission. The law will lie enforced on all
those so doing, J. P. I). OLIVER.
inne 10 4) ■# )Vi ightsville. Ga,
YYrightsville, Ga., Thursday, September 9, 1SSS.
A Queer Patient.
a doctor’s story.
I am a doctor. I live in Ngw York
City, and in one of the most crowd ■
ed localities. I am not ashamed to
say I live there, because I find it a
better place for a young physician’s
practice than the more fashionable
streets. My patients were little shop
keepers, poor mechanics, laborers
and even beggars. The latter, of
course, paid me nothing, though they
showered blessings on me by the
bushel. The poorer they were the
oftener they sent for me, and on the
smallest pretenses.
I had been in my present office 2
years, and had never had a patient
from the more aristocratic circles,
when one night I was startled by a
violent ring at my bell, and having
just composed myself for a nap, af¬
ter a hard day’s work, I can’t say the
summons was agreeable.
However, I ran to my window at
once and cried:
“Who is there?”
A voice answered:
“Only I, doctor. It’s an urgent
case. Please come down to the door.’
Thu tone of the answer surprised
Hie. The form “only I” was still
more astonishing, for grammar was
not a favorite accomplishment in
that neighborhood. That a lady
spoke I felt sure—a lady of educa¬
tion and refinement.
I hurried down stairs and opened
the door. There stood an elderly la¬
dy dressed in mourning. Her face,
though wrinkled, was very fine in
feature. Her hair was arranged in
elegant puffs under a handsome bon¬
net. *
She put out the smalles of hands
in a fine black kid glove, and said,
piteously:
“Are you the doctor?”
“Yes,” I said.
“Then come with me,” said she.
‘Don’t delay. It’s life or death Come.’
I hurried on my overcoat, caught
up my umbrella, and offering my
arm to the old lady, walked down
the street with her.
“You must be my guide, madaiue,”
I said. “I do not know where you
live.”
She instantly gave me a street and
number that surpised me still more.
It was the most aristocratic quarter
of the city.
Who is ill, madame,” I inquired,
“a grown person or a child?”
“A young lady—my daughter,”
she said.
“Suddenly?”
“Yes, suddenly,” she answered.—
“Do you keep a gig? You should
have had it out if you do. We would
have been able to go faster.”
“I keep no conveyance,” I said.
“Perhaps you are poor,” she said
eagerly.
Certainly not rich,’ I said.
“Cure her and I’ll make you rich,”
she said, in a sort of suppressed
shriek—“cure her and I’ll give you
anything you ask. I don’t care for
money. I’m rolling in gold. Cure
her and I’ll shower it on you.”
“You are excited, madame,’ I said,
“Pray, be cairn.”
“Calm!” she said—“calm! but you
don't know a mother’s heart.”
We reached the street she had in¬
dicated, and were at the door of one
of its finest mansions, The old lady
ascended the steps and opened the
door with a latch-key. A low light
burned in the hall, another in one of
three parlors, the furniture of which
was draped and shrouded in white
linen.
“Wait here, sir, if you please,’ she
said, as she led me into one of these.
“I’ll see if my daughter is prepared
for your visit.”
And with a sweeping courtesy, she
glided away. used being kept
Doctors are not to
waiting long. I waited wliat I
thought a most unreasonable time
in iliose gloomy parlors, when a step,
very different from the old lady’s
was )|eaf4 upon the stairs, ani} a
stout, short, red-faced woman busr
tied into the parlor.
•‘I beg your pardon, sir,” site said,
in a singular tone; but my lady, the
lady who brought you here, is very
nervous, and was needlessly alarmed.
•She begs your acceptance of the cus¬
tomary fee, and there is no need of
your services.”
Thus speaking, she handed me a
five dollar gold piece, courtesied and
opened the door for me.
I bowed, expressed my pleasure
that the patient was better, and dc
parted.
It was a queer sort of adventure,
but rather amusing than otherwise;
beside, I had my fee. I went home
and slept souudly.
I arose early next morning and
made a visit before breakfast. Re¬
turning, to my my astonsnment, I
found sitting in my office the lady
of the night before. She arose as I
entered.
“What must you think of me?”
she said. Rut no matter. My daugh¬
ter is |very dear to me, and I have
heard of your skill. She is worse
again. Can you call sometime today,
as early as possible at my house,?”
“I will bo there in an hour,” I
said.
The old lady took out her purse.
“I am an Englishwoman,” she said.
“I retain English habits. In my day
the doctor received bis fees on the
spot. It was in ordinary cases a
guinea. Will you receive it now?”
I did not know- what to say, but
she laid the gold piece on the table
and departed.
I eat my breakfast and made my
way to the old lady’s house. I rang
the bell. The door was opened by
the stout female who had dismissed
me the night before.
“The doctor,” I said, by way of
exglanation.
“Ah!” said she, lias missus call-.d
yon in again?”
“Yes,” I answered.
“There’s no need, I assure you,
sir,” she said. “I can’t really ask
you in. There’s no one ill here. It’s
a whim of missus’s. I’m a better
judge of illness than she. No need
of a elector.”
“Rut since the lady called me I
must see the patient,” I said.
“Reg your pardon, I’ve orders to
admit no one,” she answered, and
shut the door softly in my face.
I left the house of course, partly
in dungeon, partly in amasement.
Could there be some plan on the
part of this old woman to keep med¬
ical assistance from some unhappy
patient whose death would serve her
purposes?
I asked myself this question for
several days; then I forgot the mat¬
ter. Two weeks passed by, when
lo! the old lady again.
She walked into my parlor, dress¬
ed as before, as greatly agitated, as
carefully polite.
“.Sir,” she said, “again I trouble
you. My poor, poor daughter! Come
at once.”
“Madam,” I answered, it is the
physician’s duty, as it should be his
pleasure, to obey such calls, but you
are aware that I have been sent from
your door twice without seeing the
patient? Allow me to ask you a
question: Are you the mistress of
that house?”
“Heaven knows I am,” said the
old lady. “I have lived there for
foity years. I own it. I am the
only person under that .roof who ba¬
the right to give an order. V
“And the person who sent ine
away?”
“My old servant, Margaret.”
“Did she do it at your order?”
“No, sir; it was a piece of pre¬
sumption. But Margaret means
well. She loves us.
“Then, madam, if I accompany
you I shall sec the patient?”
“Assuredly, sir.”
I put on my hat again and we went
out of the house together. At the door
of her manison the old lady paused.
“Don’t mind Margaret,” she whis¬
pered. “She means well.”
Then she ascended the steps.
At the last one the door was open¬
ed to us by the woman I had twice
seen before.
“Tjp: doptor inqst see mv child,
Margaret,’ said the old lady.
Margaret stepped back.
“Walk in, sir,’ she said.
The old lady beekonod me to fol¬
low her. I did so. She went up¬
stairs and opened the first door we
came to. It was an empty bed-room.
She closed it with a sigh. The next
room into which she led me was also
empty. So were all the others. In
effect we visited six apartments, on¬
ly cnc of which seemed to be regu¬
larly occupied as a sleeping apart¬
ment; and at last the old lady turn¬
ed to me with a strange glitter in
her eyes.
“Stolen,’ she said; “stolen—some¬
body has stolen my girl. Sir, do yon
know I think it must be Satan?’
Then a steady step crossed the
sill. Margaret came in and the old
lady, bursting into tears, suffered
her to lead her away.
As I made my way down stairs
Margaret rejoined me.
“You understand it now,’she said.
“You sec my mistress is not in her
right mind.’
“I do, indeed,’ I said.
“She had a daughter,’ said Mar¬
garet, “and the girl—a pretty maid¬
en of sixteen—ran away with a bad
man. She came back heme one day
and begged forgiveness; her mother
turned her from the door in fury.—
It was night. The rain and hail beat
heat down on the poor thing, and
the wind buffeted her. There is no
knowing what happened to her that
night; but the next morning she lay
dead ia the police office. Ilcr moth¬
er’s address was pinned to her baby’s
clothing, and t hey brought her home.
From that awful day, sir, my mis¬
tress—who in her remorse and de¬
lirium, called in twenty doctors to
bring her dead daughter to life—has
always boon doing what she has
done to you. I try to keep the se¬
cret generally, but some find it out,
and others* think odd things of us.
I thought I would let you know Un¬
truth. If she contrives to come
again to you, you can always prom¬
ise to call, and so bo rid of her.—
Poor soul! she lias nobody in this
world lmt me now. She’s punished
for her hardness, at any rate, and
you’ll excuse her conduct.”
I bowed. I could say nothing.—
Margaret opened the door for me,
and I walked out into the fresh air.
As I looked back upon the house,
with all its elegance, it seemed to me
to have a haunted air, as though the
ghost of the poor girl still hovered
about it. “God only knows how
many fearful secrets such splendid
homes may at times shut in,” I said
to myself, and I turned my backup
on it gladly.
I have never seen the poor old la¬
dy since that hour; probably Mar¬
garet has kept too close a watch up¬
on her.
Grateful fora Favor.
From the San, Jfrancico Call.
A tough-looking man entered the
sanctum of a San Francisco paper re¬
cently and said to the inmate:
“Arc you the editor?”
“Yes, sir,” was the reply.
“Well, I have come to sec you
about a piece in your paper one day
last week, which says that my wife,
who keeps a candy store on
street, is rather fond of the society
of young men.”
“I assure you.” said the editor, as
he east his eyes around the room in
search of some weapon of defense,
and, seeing none, looked out the win¬
dow to calculate the distance to the
ground, “I had nothing to do with
the publication of that article, and
the reporter who wrote that article
was discharged last Saturday. But
I will have the false publication cor¬
rected, with pleasure.”
“Corrected! Why, I wouldn’t have
it corrected for $500. I expect to
make a fortune out of it. My wife
sold more candy this week than she
did the whole six months before, and
as I am not the man to forget a fa¬
vor, I just came around to pay for
the advertisement. Here’s $25, and
if you will put In another piece next
week an4 make it a Jittlc stronger
I’ll pay you $50,”
Terms—$ 1.00 per annum
m SLAVERY DAYS.
NASHVIU.K NEGKOES W1IO OWNED
NEGRO SI.,WES.
From (he Nashville Union.
The venerable night clerk of Scott’s
Hotel, Mr. Ira Stont, is a veritable
storehouse of local historical infon
mation. He was born here some sev¬
enty years ago, before the village
dropped its swaddling clothes and
stepped into the serious responsibili¬
ties of a metropolis. His father was
ono of the early mayors of the town
and be himself was for many years
a leading business man. What he
doesn’t know about old times in
Nashville is hardly worth knowing.
“I’ll venture to say,” he remarked
to a reporter last night, “that few
people know that fifty or sixty years
there lived in Nashville a number of
well-to-do free negroes who owned
slaves, bought and sold them, and
without compunction dealt in their
own blood and nationality.”
Encouraged to continue bis curb
ous and interesting reminiscences
concerning those “good old slavery
times,” sometimes called “the flush
times of the republic, the narrator
said:
“I call lo mind old Christopher
Kit, a free negro who owned quite a
number of negro slaves, and also
owned the property- on Market street
where Morris <fc Stratton’s warehouse
now stands. There was also‘Old l’or
ter,’ another free negro and slave¬
holder, who owned Cutter’s corner,
at the junction of Broad and College
streets, laised his framily there, and
there lived and died. Then there
were Reuben Graham, Stephen Lytle
Dick Tate, and Ruck McNalry—
boss liackrnen, who not only owned
their turnouts but the colored jolius
who drove them. Phil Thomas, fatli
er of the negro barber. Thomas, who
died a few years ago, had some of
his hard-earned ‘shavings’ invested
in colored flesh and blood. ‘Old
Rlack Rob,’ who kept a tavern here
as early as 1800, on the corner of the
alley opposite the St. Charles Hotel,
on Market street, owned the ‘mokes’
and ‘coons’ who waited on his table.
Thomas 11. Fletcher, who became
the celebrated criminal lawyer, was
a clerk at ‘Old Rlack Rob’s tavern’
when a young man.
The lynching of Moore by the mob
in Macon, on Monday night, last
week, was an outrage against law
and order, which all the powers and
force of the law and the courts should
be biought into play to punish. True
it, may be that he had been guilty of
a grave offense against the laws of
the state, and should have been se¬
verely punished, hut mob law should
never be allowed to l-.old sway in a
civilized and ' enlightened comm uni¬
ty. The officers of the law in Macon,
it seems to us were derelict in their
duty in not, protecting the prisoner.
How could it be possible for them
not to have been ready to protect
him when h!s life was known to be
in jeopardy from the mob fc two oi
three days? There is no excuse under
the sun for their negligence, and the
blood of Moore is as much upon their
hands as upon the mob .The law
must be upheld for the protection of
the innocent as well as for the pun
ishment of the guilty, and Judge
Lynch must be compelled to abdicate
in favor of the lawfully constituted
authorities of the state.—Sylvania,
Ga., Telephone.
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A Musical Hen
J. G. McDonald, of Portage, Wis.,
owns a musical hen. The hen delights
to steal away to the house of a mu¬
sic teacher adjoining Mr McDonald’s
residence, and at odd times while the
mus<c is going on has succeeded in
laying an egg under the sofa or some
other equally unusual place.
The other day the music teacher
heard notes sounding from the piano,
and going into the music room pre
ceived this curious inhabitant of the
henhouse walking np and down the
ivory key-board, tumbling out thirds,
fifths and eighths to her hen ship’s
great delight.
As the tinkling melody leaped
forth the hen curved and arched her
neck from side to side in apparent
delight, and chicked it) a musical
\vay,
EXPLAINED AT LAST
A. WOMAN SUFFERS SEVEN YEARS
WITH A LIVING BAT IN HER STOMACH.
The medical fraternity of Cam¬
bridge, Mass., are deeply interested
in the case of Mrs. Mary Powers,
residing at No. 21 Grant street, who,
seven years ago, swallowed a bat
while drinking water pumped from
a well. The creature has lived in her
stomach and bowels* until last Mon¬
day, when it was emitted. Mrs. Pow¬
ers substantiates then-port very post
itively, and gives the following ac¬
count of the manner in which she
came to swallow the animal and of
the trouble it lias caused her: Seven
years ago she lived in Arlington, and
one evening went to the pump for a
drink. It was dark, and she drank
the water without examination. She
was conscious, however, that she had
swallowed something which she
thought might bo a fish or a toad.
A week or two afterward she was
taken sick and had a physician. lie
attended her several times, but could
not understand her case. Her body
and limbs became swollen, and she
was in great distress in her bowels.
She finally got better for a time, on¬
ly to be taken with another similar
attack. Alternate periods of sickness
and good health have followed from
that time to this, and she has tried
numberless physicians, even being
sent to Massachusetts General Hos¬
pital at one time, but nobody could
understand her case or give her re¬
lief. She gradually lost the use of
of her limbs, and had been given up
as incurable. Last Monday she felt
much worse,and the pains in her bow¬
eis were worse than ever. She was
greatly relieved when the bat passed
away from her and has since picked
up rapidly in health. The bat is now
quite a large one, measuring from
tip to tip about six inches. Its head
is the most peculiar feature about it,
but slightly resembling an ordinary
bat in that regard. It has a large
mouth and nostrils, which look more
like those of a miniature rhinoceros.
The head is nearly an inch in length,
from the lower jaw of which hangs
several tufts of long hair. The eyes
and nostrils are very clearly marked,
as is also the snout. The rest of the
body is like a bat, with booked w,ings.
and other characteristic. The animal
is still alive and very active. Mrs.
Powers has it confined in a largo
fruit jar, and has exhibited it to
more than three hundred curious
callers.
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Hanging Tis Boy to a Post Because
He Went out to Play Without Per¬
mission.
Chicago, August 27. —Charles
Vcllck, aged 10 years, living at 15
Zion place, was tempted to run out
and play last evening without his
father’s permission. The neighbors’
boys with whom he had been playing
not bearing any sounds of chastise¬
ment, peeped in at the back yard to
see what had become of their play¬
mate after he bad been dragged in
by bis father. They were shocked to
see the little fellow hanging to a post
in the wood shed, apparently dead.
A rope had been passed around bis
neck and chest, and his arms were
extended and tied to other points of
the wall. He wag black in the face
and unconscious, A cry that Charley
was dead or dying went up from the
horrified children, and a domestic
employed at the adjoining house
went out to see what the matter was
She seized a hatchet and cut the
child down. lie w-as senseless. The
girl carried him into her house,
where means were taken to restore
him to life: When these were parti¬
ally successful, he went into violent
convulsions. It was an hour before
he could stand up. His father had
tied him up as a punishment for not
getting permission to go out and
play. Vellek, who is a Bohemian,
spent the night in the police station,
and this morning Justice White held
him in $1,000 bond until to-morrow,
to obtain the testimony of the phy#
iucinu who attended the child before
fixing the penalty or sending the
case to the grand jury.