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selor at Law, Wrightsville, Ga.
Vernon B. Robinson, Bachelor of Law
mid Solicitor in Equity, Wrightsville, Ga,
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Ga. Calls promptly attended. Office over
Arline & Daley* store.
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Surge m. Dublin, Ga.
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Most of the diseases which afflict mankind aro origin¬
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For all complaints of this kind, such as Torpidity of
the Liver, Biliousness, Nervous Dyspepsia, Indigos*
tion, Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation. Flatu¬
lency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach
(sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria,
Bloody Flux. Chills and Fever, Breakbone Fever,
Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diar¬
rhoea, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Foal Breath,
Irregularities incidental to Females. Bearing-down
» STADIGEB’S flURUNTl]
la Invaluable. It » not a panacea for all di-enae*.
but CURE all (Unease# of tho LIVER,
will ___STOMACH and BOWELS.
It changes tho complexion' from a waxy, yellow
tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely removes
low, gloomy spirits. It ie one of the BEST AL¬
TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THE
BLOOD, and Is A VALUA BLE TONIC.
6TADICER’S AURAHTII
Fes Bale by all Druggists. Price $ I q QQ pet bottle.
' STADICER, Proprietor,
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june U>, 1886-ly.
NOTICE.
I will be in Wrightsville about the
1st of October, and shall expect all
who owe we to settle at that time.
J. L. Walker.
Wrightsville, Ga., Thursday, September 23, 1886.
THE CHESTNUT BELL.
Of nil the charms my lady wears,
The one she values most
Is not a gem of beauty rare,
Nor a jewel of priceless cost .
Upon her bosom, half concealed,
She carries a potent spell
That turns joy to woe, makes pride to kneel
’Tis her little chcsnut bell—
That small, tyrannical bell.
It tinkles at morn, at noon, at night,
And on the following day,
And the music of her toy so bright
Drives many a bore away.
For its sound is known to young and old—
To me, alas! too well:
And a lover must needs be overbold
To brave her ehesuut bell—
That tantalizing bell.
When, with fine intent, a compliment
I pay to my beauty fair,
The lady throws in the air her nose
And stuns me with a stare.
And when to the maid I have essayed
To propose, there comes a knell—
And her laughter gay brings me dismay
As she touches her chestnut bell—
That imperturbable bell.
Tqball, or party, or rout I vow
. It is useless to ask her more,
For there’s scarcely a place I go to now
Where she hasn't been before.
To try to amuse her it is no use;
I’ve been wondering, for a spell.
Whether, if she were asked to go to the duce
She still would tinkle her bell—
That saucy, impertinent bell.
How oft at morn I have only sworn
To tempt her lie'll no mote;
But at night again I renew my pain’
Forgetting what erst 1 swore.
Puns, jokes, and quips would fall from my
lips
With hardly a breathing spell,
But mv courage drops and l quickly stop
When my lady tinkles her bell—
That confounded chestnut hell.
There be bridal bells and funeral bells,
And bells on land at sea;
At church, in school, on the cows, in
cars,
But the dearest bell to vie
Is the little ringer my lady wears,
For last night I broke itx spell—
I tempted joy fate, she blushed, and—yes,
•She forgot to touch the bell—
That sweet little chestnut bell!
“I ToidYou So,"
Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 10.—Prof.
II. Stone Wiggins, of this city, has
submitted documentary and 'other
proof to the Minister of Marine, go¬
ing to show that he predicted as far
back as March of last year the earth¬
quakes which are prevailing in the
South, lie also announced in the
Ottawa Journal of May Id last the
approach of subterranean disturban¬
ces in the same locality. The pro¬
fessor declares that the worst lias
not yet been reached, and claims that
the greatest strain will bo felt be¬
tween this period and the middle of
October. The Southern States will
again be visited by earthquakes, and
the disturbance will extend to Cali¬
fornia and South America.
On being asked for bis reasons for
making the predictions. Wiggins
said: “Eartnkuakcs are caused by
the shifting of the earth’s centre of
gravity. Suppose this centre of grav¬
ity to be moved, say one mile from
her normal cent re of gravity, or from
her centre of volume; now what
must happen? Why the parts of
her surface at the end of the longer
axis will be heavier and the parts at
the end of the shorter axis will be
lighter than normally. These disks,
therefore, will grind upon each other,
generating heat and lava. Hence
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
If our little visible satelite were
brought down and slid around the
earth from cast to west, in 24 hours
earthquakes would occur of such vi¬
olence as to render our globe unim
habitable.” Prof. Wiggins claims
that these forces were in action at
the end of August. Both the earth’s
satelites, two of which he says exist,
were then i'n perigee. Jupiter was
also near his inferior injunction,
which in limited degree increased
the strain.
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Ben. Sherman, when asked what
he thought of the Cutting case, said:
‘‘Yon may say that Cutting is a con¬
temptible littlo ass, who thinks be
can carry the jurisdiction of the Un¬
ited States in his pocket wherever
he goes; that is all there is of it.” Of
the action of Gov. Ireland he said:
“If Gov. Ireland attempts to act for
the Federal government and com¬
mits an over act we will try him and
hang him for treason. The question
of States’ right was settled years
ago,”
Fraternal Sparring
I have just returned from a little
two-handed tournament W'tli the
gloves. I have filled my nose with
cotton waste so that I shall not soak
this sketch in gore as I write.
I needed a little healthful exercise
and was looking for something that
would be full of vigorous enthusiasm
and at the same time promote the
healthful flow of blood to the mus¬
cles. This was rather difficult. I tried
most everything, but failed. Being
a sociable being joke I wanted other
people to help me exercise, or go
along with me when I exercised.
Some men can go away to a desert
isle and have fun with dumb-bells
and a horizontal bar, but to me it
would seem dull and commonplace
after a while, and I would yearn for
more humanity.
Two of us finally concluded to
play billiards, but we were only am
ateuis and the owner intimated that
lie would want the table for the
Fourth of July, so we broke off in
the middle of the first game and I
paid for it.
Then a younger brother said be
bad a set of boxing gloves in bis
room, and although I was the taller
and had longer arms, I 10 would hold
up as long as he could and I might
hammer him until I gained strength
and finally got well.
I accepted this offer because I had
often regretted that I had not made
myself familiar with this art, and ah
so because I knew it would create a
thrill of interest and fire me with
ambition, and that’s what a hollow
eyed invalid needs to put him on the
road to recovery.
The boxing glove is a large flat
mitten with an abnormal thumb, and
a string at the wrist, by which you
tie it on ,so that when you feed it to
your adversary lie cannot swallow it
and choke liimself. I bad never seen
any boxing gloves before, but my
brother said they were soft and
wouldn’t hurt anybody. So we took
off some of our raiment and put them
on. Then we shook hands. 1 can re¬
member distinctly yet that we shook
hands. That was to show that we
were friendly and would not slay
each other.
My. brother is a great deal young¬
er than 1 am so I warned him not to
get excited and conic for me with
anything that would look like wild
and ungovernable fury, because I
might, in tlie beat of debate, pile bis
jaw upon his forehead and fill his
ear with sore thumb. lie said that
was right and ho would try to be
cool and collected.
Then avc put our right toes close
together and I told him to be on his
gaurd. At that moment I dealt him
a terrible blow aimed at liis nose, but
through a clerical error of mine it
went over his shoulder and spent it¬
self in the wall of the room, shatter¬
ed a small liollywood bracket, for
which I paid him $3.75 afterward. I
did not wish to buy the bracket be¬
cause I had two at home, blit lie was
arbitrary about it and I bought it.
We then took another athletic pos¬
ture, and in two seconds the air was
full of poulticed thumbs and buck¬
skin mitten. I soon detected a chance
to put one in where my brother could
smell of it, but I never knew just
where it struck, for at that moment
I ran up against something with the
pit of my stomach that made me
throw up the sponge along with some
other groceries, the names ol which
I cannot now recall.
My brother then proposed that we
take off the gloves, but I thought I
had not sufficiently punished him.
and that another round would com¬
plete the conquest, which was then
almost within my grasp. I took a
bismuth powder and squared rriy&elf,
but in warding off a left-hander I
forgot about rny adversary’s right,
and ran my nose into the middle of
his boxing glove. Fearing that I had
injured him, I retreated rapidly on
my elbo ws and shoulder-blades to the
corner of the room, thus giving him
ample time to recover. By this means
111 y younger brother’s features were
saved, and are to-day as symmetri¬
cal as my own.
I can still cough up pieces of box¬
ing gloves, and when I close my eyes
I can see calcium lights and blue pro
sporescent gleams across the horizon
but I am thoroughly convinced that
there is no physical exercise which
yields the same amount of health and
elastic vigor to the puncher that the
manly art does. To the punchee, al¬
so, it affords a large wad of glad sur¬
prise and nose blood, which cannot
be hurtful to those who hanker for
the pleasing nervous shock, the spin¬
al jar and the pyrotechnic concussion.
That is why I shall continue the
exercises a F ter I have practiced with
a mule or a cow-catcher two or three
weeks, and feel a little more confi¬
dence in myself,—Bill Nye, in De¬
troit Free Press.
——
HIS LABOR LOST
A HOUSTON COUNTV l-’ARNER MEETS
WITH MISFORTUNE WHILE GOING
HOME.
Mr. J. B. Dyer, who lives two
miles from Perry, Houston county,
came to Macon Tuesday, bringing
six bales of cotton. Yesterday morn¬
ing he sold bis cotton, and with the
proceeds of four bales in his pants
pocket and the proceeds of the other
two in bis vest pocket, started home.
The weather being warm, Mr. Dyer
pulled of bis coat and vest and sat
on them. In the inside pocket of the
vest was a pistol, and in another, as
the reporter was informed by Mr.
Dyer liimself, was about $62,00. II<
says he remembers having the pistol
in his hand where the survey of the
Florida Air Line crosses the Hawk
inville road, near Captain John T.
Brown's place. Proceeding 011 Ins
journey, he did not discover the loss
of his vest until near Tobesofkco
creek. lie remembered after the dis¬
covery that lie had passed only two
parties between the point where he
remembered having the pistol and
the point where he had stopped. One
of the parties was the driver of a
wagon loaded with cotton, and the
other a negro who drives a cenimis
sary wagon for the working force ol
the new railroad. Retracing his steps
he overtook the cotton wagon and
soon convinced the driver thereof
had not found the lost vest. He re¬
turned to the city, and while stating
his trouble to officers Wood and
Johnson, espied the driver of the com
missary wagon passing along the
street, lie bailed the negro, who in¬
formed him that he had found a pis¬
tol, but had seen nothing of a vest
or any money. Mr. Dyer recognized
the pistol as his own and took pos¬
session of it. The officers were anx¬
ious to arrest the negro on the spot,
but Mr. Dyer said his wife was very
sick at borne, and as lie would be de¬
tained if the arrest was made, lie
would first go home and return to
investigate matter.
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IS IT WAR?*
WHAT WAR FOUND YESTERDAY AT A CON¬
TRACTOR’S SHOP.
Atlanta Constitution.
War!
That is what a spider web says at B. F.
Longley & Co’s, shops. 285 Decatur street.
Yesterday Mr. Longley, who is an old
and well known citizen, came to The Con¬
stitution office in his carriage and asked
tiiat a reporter he allowed to go with him
to his shops. The reporter bounced into the
carriage and asked;
“What is it';”
“Don’t know,” was the reply,
“Life is short, and time is fleeting. What
is it?’’
“A spider and its web. If you don’t think
it is worth the trip after you see it then I
will pay the damages. ”
When the reporter reached the shops la¬
wns carried into the back way of the office
and running from an old piece of boiler to
the house was a large spider web upon whih
was the word “war” as plainly as could be
made.
“Now, what do you think of that?” ask¬
ed “Don’t Mr. Longley. know,”
was the reply.
“Well, a little of this goes a long ways
with me. I don’t like for .spiders to lie cut¬
ting any such capers around me. I would
like to know why the blasted thing could’t
have spelt spider somthing else?"
The was still on the web, and the
many people who visited the shop express¬
ed it as their belief that they had never be
fore seen with a spider black like it. It and was of a deep long
yellow, black legs. stripe, very
Terms—$ 1.00 annum
How a Minister’s Wife Came Back
from the Tomb,
Easton, Md., Sept. 11 . —White
marsh church rs located in Talbot
county, near a cross road village
known by the singular and not cu
phonius title of “The Whole in the
Wall.” The village name is said to
date from the ancient days when Ox¬
ford was a port of entry. The smug¬
gling sailors would bring their crook¬
ed liquors from the port at night,
and deposit the bottles of cognac
and bollands in a bole in the wall of
the trader’s shop, returning in the
morning for their payment,. White
marsh church dates back beyond
1090, and here ministered jCommis
sary Bray, one of the originators of
the famous Society for the Propaga¬
tion of the Gospel, through the agen¬
cy of which the Church of England
lias spread its influence into every
stronghold of heathenism. A build¬
ing used by them as ajfcmale semina¬
ry yet stands about a mile away to¬
ward Oxford. In some unexplained
way it long since, with the land on
which it stands, became alienated
from the church, and is now the
county alms house. In 1711, the
Rev. Mr. Mayadler was rector, re¬
siding at the parsonage on a farm a
short distance from the church, and
a singular story is told of bis family.
The tradition is that his wife died
after a brief illness, and was buried
with rather unusual haste. 'Hie wor¬
thy man, overcome by grief, retired
early, but was aroused from bis slum¬
bers shortly before midnight by a
knocking at the frontdoor. Imagine
bis feelings, when on opening it,
there stood his wife, faint and terri¬
fied, but alive and in the flesh. She
had been hastily coffined without the
removal of a valuable ring, and one
of the attendants, aware of the fact,
had exhumed the body just after
nightfall fertile purpose of robbing
it. But the ring clung to the finger,
and an effort was made to sever the
joint, blood flowed, the corpse groan¬
ed, moved and recovered conscious¬
ness. The would-be robber of the
dead fled in terror from the sceuo,
and the lady, thus happily saved
from the grave, made her way thro’
the night to the desolate home from
which she had been carried a few
hours before. She lived to tell tin
story for many years afterward.
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HUGE TRANSACTION.
A ROOM FOR RIRMINGHAM—THE I-ROT
ERTY INVOLVED.
Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 8 —One
million dollars of the stock of the
Pratt Goal and Iron Company lias
beensold to John II. Inmun and oth¬
ers, of New York, and Nathaniel
Baxter and A. M. Shook.
The company lias the largest bitu¬
minous coal mines in the world. Nine¬
teen-twentieths of the stock is own¬
ed, besides the persons named, by
Enoch Ensley, ’J’. T. llillmann, John
II. Inmaun. Nathaniel Baxter and
A. M. Shook, of Tennissee, The com¬
pany to-day determined to expend
one million-dollars in the erection of
four furnaces and Basie Bessemer
steel works, at the town of New
Pittsburg, six miles from Binning
ham.
Three more coal mines are also to
be opened. This assures to the Bir¬
mingham district—within a radius
of ten miles—twenty large hot blast
coke furnaces, seven of which are
now in blast, one repairing and
twelve in process of erection. Besides
these the Pratt Company will also
make steel experiments with two
million dollars capital at the town of
Bessemer City, ten miles south of
Birmingham.
A Boston wlnsky dealer bought a
cheap coffin, 'put a 4£ gallon keg of
rvc whisky inside, screwed a plate
on the lid of the coffin, on which
were engraved the name, age and
birthplace of the alleged corpse, box¬
ed the coffin, as is usual, and shipped
it to a town in Maine. There an un¬
dertaker took charge of the box and
drove ten miles into the country bc
foru the coffin was opened and the
liquor removed.
The Bad Boy Reforms.
“Hold on a minute,” said the gro
ceryman, as lie wound a piece of
brown paper round a cob and stuck
it in a syrup jug be bad just filled
for a customer, and then licked his
fingers, “I want to ask you a ques¬
tion. What das caused you to change
so from being bad? You were about
as bad as they make ’em, up to a
few weeks ago, and now you seem
to bare a soul, and get in your work
doing good about as well as any boy
in town. Wbat is it that ails you?”
“Ob, sugar, I don’t want to tell,”
said the boy, as he blushed, and wig¬
gled around on one foot, and looked
silly. “But if you won’t laugh I
will tell you. It is my girl that lias
made me good. It may be only tom
porary. If she goes back on me I
may be tuff again, but if she contin?
ties to bold out faithful I shall bo a
daisy all the time. -Say, did you evr
er love a girl? It would do you good.
If you loved anybody, regular old
fashioned, the way I do, people
could send little children here to
trade, and you wouldn’t palm off
any wilted vegetables on to them,
or give them short weight. If you
was in love, and felt that tlia one
you lovt'd saw every act of yours,
say something offul, and Fjcould see
my girls bangs rise right up and there
was a pained look in her face, and a
tear in her eye, and by gosli, I just
smiled and looked tickled till her hair
went down and the smile came back
again to her lips, though it hurt me
like blazes where I struck the side¬
walk. I was telling pa about it, and
asked him if be felt as though his
soul was going right out towards
somebody, and he said lie did osce
on a steamboat excursion, but I 10
oat a lemon and got over it. Pa
and you could see her eyes every
minute, you would throw away ev¬
erything that was spoiled and not try
Vo sell it, for fear you would offend
her. 1 don’t think any man is fit to
do business honestly, until lie is in
love, or lias been in love once. Now
I couldn’t do anything wrong if I
tried, because I should hear the still
small voice of my girl saying to mo,
‘Hennery, let upon that.’ I slipped
upon a banana peel yesterday, ami
hurt myself, and I was just going to
thinks it is iny liver, and wants 1110
to take pills, but I tell you, boss, it
lias struck too deep for pills, unless
it was one that weighs about a hun¬
dred and forty pounds and wears a
hat with a feather on. Say, if iny
girl should walk right into a burn¬
ing lake of red hot lava and beckon
me to follow, I would take a bop,
skip, and jump, and--”
“Oh, give us a rest,” said the gro
ccryman, as he took a basin, of water
and sprinklod the floor, preparatory
to speeping out. ‘‘You have got the
worst case I ever saw, and you bet¬
ter go out and walk around a block,’
and the boy went out and forgot to
bang out any sign.—Peck’s Sun.
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A Rare Sight.
Nashville American.
Chattanooga, Soptember 13. —A
rave sight, which perhaps may not
be witnessed again for centuries, was
seen at the Head House, in this city,
to-night. Hon. R. L. Taytor, Demo¬
cratic nominee for Governor, and his
brother, Don. A. A. Taylor, Repub¬
lican candidate for the same position,
occupied the same room at the hotel
About 10 o’clock a crowd of 100
Democrats and Republicans called
on the gentlemen, and, after a gen-:
oral hand-shaking, two violins were
brought into the room. Both Bob.
and Alf are fine musicians, and when
the musical instruments were placed
before them each took a violin and
played a number of tunes together.
It certainly was a novel sight, two
brothers sitting sido by side, and as
they warmed up and the violins gave
forth the delicious strains cf the old
familiar tunes, the enthusiasm of the
audience of the distinguished broth¬
ers knew no liounJs, and applauded
vociferously. The music was highly
enjoyed by everyone present.
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Anthracite coal lias been fdiin<|
near Austell.