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AURANTII ; i j
Most of the diseases which afflict mankind are origin*
sklly caused by a disordered condition of the LIVER*
For all complaints of this kind, each rs Torpidity of
the Liver, Biliousness, Nervous Dyspepsia, JLi<li{?ca¬
tion, Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation, FI
lency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach
(sometimes called Heartburn), Miasms, Malaria,
Bloody Flux, Chills and Fever, Bi >akhone Fever,
Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic l) ; ar
rhoes. Loss of Appetite, Headache, Foal Brerch,
Irregularities incidental to 'females. Beariapr-down
it invaluable. It is not & panacea fur ail dissasos,
but CURE all diseases of the LIVER,
will STOMACH -.ndBOWELS.
It changes the complexion from a waxy, yellow
tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color, ft entirely removes
low. gloomy spirits. It is one of the BEST AL“
TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THE
BLOOD, and is A VALUABLE TONIC.
STADICER’S AURANTI I
For »I© by all Druggists. Price 31 nOO per bottle.
C. F. STADICER, Proprietor,
*<0 SO. FRONT ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
juni-jio, 1880-ly.
NOTICE.
I will be in Wrightsville “ about
lst of „ October, _ and shall expect
who owe we to settle at that lime.
J. L. Walker.
Wrightsville, Ga„ Thursday, September 30, 1SSS.
Leaves of tlie Fall.
From the Boston Courier.
THE SMOKER’S SONG.
Oh! cry no more, fill up, fill up,
Fill up the goblet fo the brim,
For ruin lurks within the cup.
Though pleasure sparkles on f ho rim.
If, till we must, then let no ill
Lurk iu the bowl of you and me;
With choice tobacco let 11 s till
The meerschaum, corn cob or T. D.
And sit and whiff our cares away
And ne’er be to remorse a prey.
TIT. SKATING CRAZE.
The craze will last for years, they said,
And so they all supposed,
Alas! alas! their hopes are fled—
Tlu> skating rinks are closed.
No more the maiden fair and bright
Doth around the ellipse spin,
She sits upon the stoop at night
And plays the mandolin.
THE OLD STOlSY.
’Twas on tlie beach he met her.
And they oft sat hand in hand
L'pou the cool piazza,
As they listened to the hand.
lie told her that he love her,
Praised her hair, her cheeks and eyes.
And she listened, blushing redly,
And slie answered him with sighs.
Then they parted. In the city
Now lie meets the maiden sweet,
But slie does not recognize him
As she sweeps along the street.
Tis the same with most flirtations
That occur beside the sea;
She was an under housemaid,
And a dry goods clerk was lie.
A DRUMMER’S ESCAPADES.
HE LIVES IN BOSTON IN STYLE AND
HAS THREE DEVOTED WIVES.
Boston, Sept. 19.—James T. Keat¬
ing, a drummer fora New York house
came here a few months ago from
Gotham. When lie came to Boston
lie determined to furnish himself a
room such as n>> hotel could hope to
equal. With this purpose he inter¬
viewed some of the city’s prominent
manufacturers, and a firm
was selected to fill bis order. In a
gorgeously furnished apartment, at
No. 1C Cazenove street. Keating
soon afterward received his friends
and held pleasant levees. Then he
began attending Dr. Swett’s church,
His gentlemanly demeanor won for
him many friends, and it was not
long before he had made hirnself sol
id with the prominent pillars of so
ciety. When lie became short of
funds he called upon his church
friends, and some of the members on
asked fora temporary loan
loosened their purse strings, little
thinking that the loan in reality
would be a permanent one.
To a young lady connected with
the same church Keating paid mark
ed attention, and to supply his temi
porarv wants she loaned him jewel
i v on which she claims he obtained
£125. How large an amount of mon
ey Keating obtained through his
church-going will novel perhaps be
known, as ifie members would ratio
er quietly bear their loss than he iu
any way indentified with the case.
It was not through his misdoing in
connection with the church, howev¬
er, that Keating came to grief. When
Special Officer Iloffman, of the
Fourth division, placed him under
arrest last Thursday afternoon, it
was 011 a complaint charging him
whith conveying property held un
der conditional contract. At the
time Keatir.g furnished his room he
paid only £38. The remainder, £117,
he l|was to pay on the installment
plan. It was a greed that the prop
should net be removed without
the consent of the owners. In No
vember last Keating again became
short of money and he mortgaged
the furniture to Cyrus \ N. Campbell
1,1 consideration of 890. . nn Latci 1 . 1 he
obtained a loan of £25 011 some por
, tion of it from Proctor & Woodman
: where Keating said yesterday the
: gi.o Is were stored.
1 According to the officers the de¬
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fendant has three wives, one at New
j Haven, Conn., with three children;
j one. Helen Alexander, to whom he
was niarraied in Lynn, in 1883, and
another Lulu Charters, a Lowell
dressmaker, whom it is said ho
ri ? d j’! 18 84 ;, Thf ; latu ‘. r h “
with him . this . during the
| while in city thought
nyjr her parents
; W as spending a vacation at a
1 resort.
TWO RUNAWAY NEGROES.
FORTY YEARS AGO—A REMXXSCENCK
OF SLAVERY DAYS.
From the Ilaickhwyille Dispatch.
Last Saturday morning, while we
were seated in the shade discussing
some trivial matter, a citizen, well
posted in the affairs of llawkinsville
for the last forty years, said:
“Do you see that old colored man
in the buggy driving around the cor¬
ner? Well, that is old Dempsy
Clark. About forty years ago he
and his brother Bristow were as like¬
ly young negro men as could be found
among the slaves on any plantation.
'1 hoy were put on the block and sold
at public outcry to the highest bid¬
der before the court house door in
llawkinsville.
“Among the bidders for Dempsey
and Bristow was old Jonathan Co
ley, who was rich in lands and slaves.
Denipse and Bristow said to Mr Co
ley:
“You needn’t buy us, Mr. Coley,
case we air.t agoing to live wid ye.’
‘Ob, well,’ replied Mr. Coley, ‘I’ve
got plenty of dogs;’ which meant
that if they should run away he
could capture them with the keen
scented hounds used in those days.
“Sure enough the old man Coley
bought Dempse and Bristow, and,
as good as their word, they took to
the woods as soon as they could es¬
cape from his plantation. They
were captured once or twice, but
made their escape again, and imme¬
diately took up their life in the woods
“I remember that on one occasion
a party of hunters with their negro
dogs struck the trail of Bristow and
Dempse anil chased them into the
cypress jungle and among the la¬
goons just below Big creek, for miles
from llawkinsville, where the creek
empties into the Ocmulgee. The
swamp was almost impenetrable, hut
the hunters followed their dogs, and
approached’within fifty ora hundred
yards of ‘the runaway niggers,’ as
^ K> y werc caded- They proved to
,je Hcuipse and Bristow, who by some
means had obtained a gun or pistol
and defied tlieii puisticis. Dempse
and Uristow were stout men, and
tIlL ‘Y swore they would die before
they would be auested.
“Among the hunters was Tobe
McGriff, a brother of the piescnt
Ordinary of this county. Mr. Re¬
Oriff fired one shot at the fugitive
slaves and they returned tlie shot.
It then became evident that they
were armed, and had determined not
to bo captured alive.
“The hunters withdrew and left
Dempse and Bristow in the swamp,
and they remained in the woods 3
years. At last, old man Coney, des¬
pairing of getting any service out of
them, sold them in the woods to
Bryan W. Brown, of Houston coun¬
ty. Mr. Brown told his slaves that
he had bought Dempse anil Bristow,
and they at once left the woods and
went to his plantation, where they
remained faithful slaves until the
close of the war.
“I don’t know where Bristow is—
whether living or dead, but that is
old Dempse out there in that buggy,
and is now known as Dempsey Clark.
He owns a plantation of four or five
hundred acres in Houston county and
has several good mules and horses.
He is a good fanner, is very indus¬
trious, and manages well. He has a
good credit among the merchants of
llawkinsville and Perry, and he has
two dan an liters attending college in
Atlanta.
' Ve J®™ only a bit of advice to
offer old , Dempsey: If he is out of
and owns a farm, just keep often out
0 f ^ebt. A good credit has
ruined many a good man.
• ◄ ► •------*
Dolly’s Uncle
,y “Indeed, miSlvlm? mada you think
of him?”
“Oh, I felt him.” “Nonsense, Dol
ly; you could not feel him, for he is
hundieds of miles an ay
“Yes, I did, mamma, and lie is a
jewel of an uncle, too.”
“Then you must think a great deal
of him, Dolly?” for he
“No. I don’t mamma, is
carbuncle.”—National Weekly.
What He Saw in Charleston
From the Chicago Herald.
“I was down in .South Carolina du¬
ring all of the earthquake troubles,”
said a commercial traveler, “and I
never again want to be a witness of
such scenes as I saw there. I’ll not
attempt to describe the incidents to
you—they have already been suffi¬
ciently touched upon in the daily pa¬
pers. But there is one little phase of
the thing which the newspapers have
not even mentioned. You know bus¬
iness was suspended in Charleston.
All of the stores excepting grocery
and provision stores were closed.
The hanks were not open. The thea¬
ters closed their doors. Even the
newspapers suspended publication
for an issue or two. But the day af¬
ter the first terrible quake 1 liappem
cd out by the baseball grounds, and
I’ll he durned if there wasn’t two
clubs in there a playing, and quite a
crowd sitting on the benches cheer¬
ing the players. I looked through a
crack in the fence, and just then an¬
other earthquake shock came. The
umpire motioned to the players to
go right along, but the pitcher, who
was then in the box, asked to have
the game called foi a few minutes,
because the home plate was wobb¬
ling so he couldn’t put the ball in
straight. The umpire acceded to this
reasonable request, and after a delay
of ten minutes I heard the umpire
call out, ‘play ball—batter up!’ Then
I left, satisfied that baseball is the
one American institution which even
an earthquake can’t knock out.”
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The Hum an Family,
The human family living to day
on earth consists of about 1,450,000,
000 individuals; not less, probably
more. These are distributed over the
earth’s surface, so that now there is
no considerable part where man is
not found. I 11 Asia, where he was
first planted, there are now approxi¬
mately about 800,000,000, densely
crowded; on an average 120 to the
square mile. In Europe there are 320,-
500,000, averaging 100 to the square
mile, not, so crowded, but every¬
where dcnsce, and at points over
populated. Iu Africa there arc 210,
000,000, lu America, North and
South, there are 110,000,000, rela¬
tively thinly scattered and recent.
In the isk-nds, large and small, pro¬
bably 10,000,000. The extreme of
the white and black are as five to
three; the- remaining 700,000,000 in¬
termediate brown and taivby. Of the
race, 500,000,000 are well clothed—
that is, wear garments of some kind
to cover their nakedness; 700,000,000
are semi-dothed, covering inferior
parts of the body, 250,000,000 are
practically naked. Of the race, 500
000,000 live ia houses partly furnish¬
ed with the appointments of civiliz¬
ation; 700,000,000 in huts or caves
with no furnishing; 200,000,000 have
nothing that can be called a home,
are barbarous and savage. The range
is from the topmost round—the An¬
glo Saxon civilization, which is the
highest known—down to naked sav¬
agery. The portion of the race lying
below the line of human condition is
at the very least three-fifths of the
whole, or 900,000,000.
»-4 ---
Speaking of the Taylor brothers,
and their remarkable campaign in
Tennessee, the following good story
comes from that direction:
During tlie session of the demo¬
cratic convention in .Nashville, Bob
Taylor’s name was before the con¬
vention as a candidate. Bob was in
Knoxville. A report was put in cir¬
culation that Boh only desired the
honor of a nomination, and his am¬
bition being gratified, he would de¬
cline to run.
One of his ardent iriends becom
yoifwiU ac^lhe
nomination if tendered you.”
Bob was i little puzzled how
ans wer such an inquiry, hut
the following " answer over the
" A V°° r 0,d man oncc dra , S?g ed ,
himself twenty miles to see my
er, When he got ready to leave
said: “Madam, if you dont believe
1 can tote a ham home just try me!”
Terms—$1.00 per annum
FOR HIS MOTHER’S SAKE.
AX IXGT.XIOr.S TRAMP WHO UNDER¬
STOOD HUMAN NATURE-HE GOT MONEY
People who crowded City Hall
park the other day might have no¬
ticed an ill-dressed and sad-visaged
man down on the curbstone industri¬
ously pecking away with a pocket
knife on a piece of stone. The stone
was six inches square, and the man
with the knife was carving its face.
An inscription all penciled out was
before him, and the first line of rais¬
ed letters was complete. The 011 c
word of that first line was “Mother.”
Below it the pencil marks read in
this way:
The boy you loved remembers you
even in dire distress.
In common with other folks I
stopped and looked at the oddity of
a tramp at wark. He didn’t obtrude
himself, but he held the block of
stone so that it was not hard for the
passers-by to eatoli that first word,
“Mother,” And he was willing to
talk. He had a sad story. He was a
nice boy once, but he went to war,
was shot at or shot into at most of
the prominent battles, spent a year
or two in rebel prisons, went through
hospital tortures and generally had
seen tough times ever since. There
wasn’t anything particularly novel
or new in the tale he told; most
tramps have had similar experiences,
but this individual had testimony in
the half-carved block of stone that
somehow lifted him above the com¬
mon herd.
“My mother died while I was fight¬
ing down south,” he said, “and I nev¬
er have been able to get her a tomb¬
stone. ’Three or four times I’ve scrap¬
ed together almost enough only, to
sec it slip away from me before I
could use it for the sacred purpose
of marking her grave. Now Tin try¬
ing to cut just a little*bit of a tomb¬
stone myself. God bless the dearau
gel’s inomory.”
The dirty hands of the talker went
to his eyes; no listener could ques¬
tion that he was much agitated. This 1
is a busy, rushing, careless town, but
men don’t cry oil these streets any¬
where or any time without getting
sympathy. And this man, in grime
and in rags, with that little bit of
human nature showing in his desire
to h vnor tlie mother dead-—that fel¬
low’s tears moved the crowd who lis¬
tened. He got money, a lot of it.
A healthy man never gets pleasure
out of exciting distrust. But truth is
to he told, and that tramp with the
penknife, the half carved stone, the
sad history and sentimental reminis¬
cence—that tramp was a fraud. But
what a clever scheme lie had! What
c student of human nature he was!
He was an artist, a genius. And the
old thraadbare lecitals that other
tramps begging nickels obtrude up¬
on us, how paltry and poor they are
If an American citizen must he hum¬
bugged it is a happy thing, perhaps,
to York he humbugged Times. artistically.—New
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A Story About Uncle Rube,
From the Chicago If era Id.
Here is a story which was written
out by ail esteemed reader of the
Herald, and slipped under the door¬
mat of the Train Talk department
during Saturday night’s storm:
Two men were standing on the
sidewalk near the Northwestern de¬
pot on Wells'street the other morn¬
ing, waiting for the Wells street
bridge to close, conversing in an idle
manner, when old Uncle Rube came
sauntering along. One of the men
said to him. “It isn’t so, is it uncle?”
“vVhich am not what?” askt-d the
old darky.
“Well, this gentleman here says it
costs more for a married man to live
than it docs one not married. I say
no! Now, what do you say?”
“Well, am you a married man,
sah?”
“No, I am not.”
“Well, sah, wlieneber you heali
married man make do remark dat
(loan cost him no mo’to lib
lie was jined in wedlock, doan
hesitate to calkolatc dat dat man
a base fabrictator or dat bis
' takes in washin’, Mornin’,
Rights of Prisoners.
Augusta Cor. Atlanta Constitution.
Sometimes a prisoner doesn’t like
the amusement of breaking rock and
declines to work. To compel all such
mutinous spirits to earn their salt
and put in the required number
of days of hard work, it has been
the custom heretofore to arraign
them again before Judge Anderson
who would add a new penalty or in¬
creased number of days to their sen¬
tences.
This sometimes would be repeated
several times, but as there was no
chance to get out until the work
was done, and the average man ob'
jected to life sentence for a plain
drunk, it always resulted m his final
surrender. Monday, however, a
prisoner was arraigned for refusing
to work, and it was sought to add
an additional term to his sentence,
lie resisted it and secured counsel.
Ilis counsel soon convinced the Re¬
corder that though the law allowed
a new sentence for an escape, it did
not provide that additional time
could be added to the sentence of a
prisoner who refused to work.
Judge Anderson so decidend and
the defendants were liberated.
This was a sockdolager for the
stockade keeper, and lie was con¬
vinced that if any such precedent as
that was established henceforth all
his guests would fold their hands
and laugh at him when lie pointed
to the rock pile.
lie told the Judge of his dilemma
and said henceforth there would bo
no work.
Judge Anderson told him in case
a person refused to work to apply
the lash. Ho thought thirty-nine
lashes would bring a fellow around
if properly applied.
This ruling will open up an avenue
for wide discretion, or else frequent
injustice from indiscretion. To say
that a man can be whipped for get¬
ting drunk, or rather fur refusing to
break rock because he was drunk, is
a thing that will probably cause
some sensational developments.
• •
The State Fair.
From Vice-President Nisbet and
Secretary Grier the following news
about the coming State Fair has been
obtained:
The school children of Macon will
have*a day in each week to visit the
fair.
Prof. Leon, with his performing
birds and rope walking, has been en¬
gaged for the second week of the fair.
The premiums for county club dis¬
plays have been increased from £200
to £800,
Orer £.300 has been offered in pre¬
miums in the needlework depart¬
ment alone.
F. G. Wilkins, of Waynesboro,
will bring twenty horses and mares
to the fair. S. A. Hughes, of Tliom
asville, has 7 aleady on the grounds.
The track will be in better condi¬
tion than ever before, anil the racing
will he the best ever seen in the South
Space Las been assigned to agri¬
cultural clubs from three counties
and to Mr. W. O. Wadley, Premium
Hall will be divided between these
four displays, and they will form one
of the largest and most attractive
features of the fair. , I 11 fact it will
be a show in itself.
Farmer Wadley, of Bollingbroke, Premium
will build a cottage near
Hall for himself and attendants.
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Proacher on a “Tare-”
Front the Fort Gaines Star.
It is a rather uncommon liiing in
this section to see a minister of the
Gospel in a state of intoxication on
the streets, but such a sight was seen
here last Saturday. He is a resident
of Early county and had come up to
do some trading, and, strange to say,
found the barrooms instead of dry
goods stores. Thinking it would
never do to go out of a store with¬
out trading some, soon was “loaded
for bear” with the “rosy.” He then,
began to admonish his wayward
brethren, and with his protecting(?)
arm gently entreating entwining one after am
other, them to reform.—
Just as he was “getting there” good
fashioned he was spied by our mar¬
shal and very cordially invited to
leay«* or get locked up. He left,