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PROFESSIONAL (’ARI)S.
A. F. Daley, Attorney at. Law, Wrights
ville. Ga. Will practice in ties ami adjoin¬
ing counties, and clsewlu-re by special en
gageiHi-ut. [January 7, 1886 ly.
Walter R. Daley. Attorney and Coun
selorat Law, Wrightsville, Ga.
Vernon B. Robinson, Bachelor of Law
and Solicitor, in Equity. Wrightsville, Ga,
Moderate fees charged, and satisfaction
guaranteed. Collections and Criminal Law
specialties.
J. E. Hightower, Attorney at Law, Dub
lin, Ga.
Dr. P. M.'Johnson. Lovett, Ga. Calls
promptly attended day or night.
Dr. J. M. Page, Practitioner of Medi¬
cine ami Surgery, Wrightsville. (.la, Calls
promptly attended day or night.
Cl. W. McWhorter, M. 1).. Wrightuville,
Oa. Calls promptly intended. OiUeeover
Arline & Daley'.-: store.
Dr. C. Hieks, Physician am! Consultin'.
Sursre >n. Dublin. Ga.
F. II. SafFold, Attorney at Law. f und
ersville. Gi. Will practice in all rite Courts
of the Middle (’in nil, ami in the countio
surrounding tion given Washington. fqu-< in! atten¬
to commercial Inw. Money !ocr:
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lion. January 7. 1NH5 !•
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AURANTII
Most of the disease* which afflict, mankind are origin*
* ally caused by a disordered condit ion of the LIV E R •
For all complaints of this kind, auch aa Torpidity of
the Liver, Biliousness, Nervous Dyspepsia, Indiges¬
tion, Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation. Flatu¬
lency. Eructation* and Burning of the Stomach
(sometimes called Heartburn) Miasma, Malaria,
Bloody Flux, Chills and Fever. Breakbone Fever,
Exhaustion before or after Fev^r*. Chronic Diar¬
rhoea. Lose of Appetite. Headache, Ih.nl Breath,
Irregularities incidental to Females, Bearing-down
STftDiGEB’S AURflNTH
hi Invaluable. It is not a panacea for all diseases,
tmt Aime vUftgi aU diseases of the LIVER,
Will STOMACH and BOW ELS.
It changes the complexion from a waxy, yellow
tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color, ft entirely remove*
low, gloomy spirits. It is one of tho BEST AL~
TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THE
BLOOD, and Is A VALUABLE TONIC#
STADICER’S AURAHTII
Vet sate by all Druggists. Price Cl c QO per bottle.
C. F. STADiCER, Proprietor,
**0 SO. FRONT ST.. Philadelphia, Pa<
pint-jto, ioBo-ty.
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. Wai.ker.
Wrightsville, Ga., Thursday, October 7, 1836.
The Fraud Wiggins and hia Pre¬
dictions,
Ntnv Orleans Timcs-Demoernt.
No oiio who knows anything about
tiie so-called ‘‘Prof. Wiggins” doubts
that Prof. E. E. Barnand, asD’onn
mer of the Vanderbilt University, is
correct in dubbing him, as he does in
a telegram published elsewhere, as a
‘‘fraud,” utterly unknown to astron
omeis, and whose predictions arc the
“vilest nonsense.”
H iggins publishes an almanac in
Canada, in which he guesses at the
weather, Jtid lie shrewdly uses his
astronomical predictions to advertise
this publication and put money in
his pocket, Recognized as a charlat¬
an and a humbug, his almanac lus
rapidly fallen off in circulation of
late. He has undertaken to work it
up again by taking advantage of the
universal excitement and alarm caus¬
ed by the awful disaster which so
lately befell Charleston. The contin¬
ued shocks in iliac vicinity have nat¬
urally excited the public mind on
the subject of earthquakes. Hero is
Wiggins’ opportunity which he siez
es with avidity, and unfortunately
the telegraph and press of the coun¬
try E nd him their powerful aid.
We entirely agree with Prof. Bar
nard that it is the duty of the press
to expose such charlatans and to re¬
fuse to give cireulat'ou to their ab
surb an ! damaging predictions. If
the press should cease to give these
fellows notoriety it would he but a
short time before their almanacs and
other schemes for robbing the public
would fall through. 'Faking this view
of the matter, when the Times-Deni
ocrat was offered tire Wiggins pre¬
diction from Ottawa, a couple of
nights ago, in advance of the Asso¬
ciated Press, we very promptly re¬
fused to give circulation to .the mis¬
chievous predictions, which every
sensible man knows to be < h<- hIicci
est nonsense, but which we felt
might unduly excite and frighten
the superstious, the nervous and ig¬
norant. We cordially agree with Mr.
Barnard that Wiggins and frauds of
his ilk ought to be exposed and their
silly vaporings ignored.
In our opinion the Associated
Press should have refused to dignify
ike predictions of the cranks Wig¬
gins and Smith, and to lend itself to
their palpable scheme of advertising.
It seems to most people a waste
of time *and words to refute IFig
gins’ predictions or to expose their
absurdity—appears so self-evident;
—hut experience has taught us how
great superstition is, how strong is
ignorance even in this nineteenth
century. Those whose memory goes
back several years will recall the fact
that a similar prediction by a burn
bug very much like Wiggins in all
respects. Tice, created quite a panic
here over a great tidal wave that
was to sweet over and destroy New
Orleans. Nor should it be forgotten
that even the comet of four years
ago caused no little excitement
among the negroes.
Hence, it is safe to assume that
the most absurd predictions will
frighten a large number of people
With the awful disaster to Charles¬
ton still fresh in their minds, with
the seismic shocks repeated there on¬
ly yesterday, it can readily be under¬
stood how the predictions of a char¬
latan like Wiggins, whose character
and reputation are not fully under¬
stood, can frighten nervous women
and superstitious and ignorant per¬
sons.
Several learned physicians of the
city declare that the fright caused
by scares of this kind is injurious,
physically and otheiwise, especially
in cases of nervous and heart diseas¬
es. The experience of Augusta, .Sa¬
vannah and other towns, where, in
the late earthquake excitement, sev¬
eral persons dropped dead from
fright, proves the truth of these
statements.
The case, therefore, comes down
to th s: That an ignorant
and fraud, seeking notoriety and
money, advertises himself with ab
predictiens of terrible
which are to overwhelm entire cities;
that his predictions are circulated by
the Associated Press to terrify com¬
munities and frighten affect nervous
and sick people.
A foci and a charlatan like Wig.
gins can do vast harm if the tele¬
graph and the newspapers aid him
in it. If they will but drop him, re¬
fuse to advertise or circulate his ab¬
surdities, he will dis-appear from
view forever, with his almanac and
predictions.
it The Times-Domocrat has thought
wise to-day, in view of the wide
spread alarm among certain classes
ignorant of Wiggins, to produce tes¬
timony from well-known scientists
showing how ridiculous arc his pro¬
phecies.
Stonewall Jackson’s Ways
From the October Century.
Talking with him once about some
subject of casuistry or prevarication,
I put the question directly to him:
“Did you never tell a lie?” Pausing
as was his invariable manner before
giving a categorical answer, as if for
an introspective review of his con¬
sciousness, lie said:
“Yes, hut only once, so far as I
can remember. I was leading my
men through a rank chapparal, in¬
fested by Mexican guerrillas. The
balls were flying incessantly, and the
broad leaves of the tropical plants
went being riddled through and thro.’
They became panic stricken, and,
notwithstanding my repeated order
for advance, they hung back. Step¬
ping some distance in front of them,
into a narrow pass, where the bullets
were whizzing round my head, and
the foliage was being cut to ribbons,
I called out:
“Follow me, men! Don’t yon see,
there is no danger?”.
lie never posted a letter without
calculating whether it would have
to travel on Sunday to reach its place
of destination, and if so, he would
not mail it till Monday morning.—
Still further did he carry his Puritan,
ical observance. Unnumbered times
have I known him to receive impon
taut letters so late on Saturday night
that he would not break his fixed
resolution never to use Lis eyes,
which were very delicate, by astifi
cial light; lie would carry the letters
in his pocket until Monday morning,
then rise with the sun to read them.
In the winter of 1861-G2, while
Jackson’s forces were at Winches¬
ter, he sent a brigade to destroy the
canal leading to Washington. The
expedition proved a failure, and lie
attributed it, in some measure, to
the fact that Sunday had been need¬
lessly trespassed upon, so when a
second expedition was planned he
determined there should be no Sab¬
bath breaking connected with it that
ho could prevent.
The advance was to be made early
on Monday morning. On Saturday
lie ordered my husband (Col. Pres,
ton, at that time on his staff), te seo
that the necessary powder was in
readiness. The quartermaster could
not fmd a sufficient quantity in Win¬
chester on Saturday, but during Sun¬
day it was procured. On Sunday
evening the fact in some way got to
Jackson’s cars. At a very early hour
on Monday he dispatched an officer
to which Shepherdstewn brought. for Then other powder,
was summon¬
ing Col. Preston he said, very deci¬
sively:
Colonel, I desire that you will sec
that the powder which is used for
the expedition is not Sunday.” the powder that
was procured on
A recent romantic incident, the
story of which comes from Dakota,
reverses the usual rule. A yuung la¬
dy in one of the older south coun¬
tries, in packing a barrel of eggs for
New York, put her name and address
upon one of the eggs, with the re¬
quest that the finder, if eligible for
matrimony, should write her. As a
sequel, a young man named Frank
Nolan will become a resident of Da¬
kota and the young lady will not
teach another school.
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It is said that in all sections of the
South the sale of snuff for dipping
purposes is annually increasing.
A HOME OF YOUR OWN.
GOOD ADV1CL TO A YOUNG MARRIED
COUPI.K. A CASE IN POINT.
One of the very first things that a
young married couple should think
of, is t he getting of a home of their
own; a house which is theirs “to
have and to hold” for lifetime, if pos¬
sible; one that shall be to their child
red a place around which all their
youthful memories gather, and bring
a glow to their hearts, no matter
what may come to them in after
years; one in which each room will,
in process of time, become endeared
through its associations. It, may seem
far away in the distance at first, hut
persistent thought and effort m that
direction will bring it to pass in time
and much sooner than at first seem¬
ed probable. Necessity or expedien¬
cy mav make renting the only thing
to do for a season, but I still adhere
to the opinion.that it is the truest
ecoroniy and highest wisdom to get
a home of your own at the earliest
moment that you can make it prac¬
ticable.
These peripatetic people have rare¬
ly much of value that they can call
their own, for in the very nature of
tilings they could not have. The fam¬
ily lack the sense of permanency in
regard to a home which is always so
desirable, and especially when peo¬
ple are upon (he down hill side of
life. While young and vigorous, with
brains busy with what is going on in
the world, its absence is not felt so
much, but the day must come when
the interests will he gradually with¬
drawn with the waning strength from
purely outside mattes and center
within the home, and it is then that
the heart longs for arid is best satis¬
fied with what, long habit has made
dear and familiar.
Another tiling is true. Your ex¬
penditures are much more likely to
be carefully looked <*tier if yju liave
such an object in view'. I knew a
couple w ho boarded for some years
after their marriage, then rented a
house and went to housekeeping.
They lived up to every cent of their
income, though never running in
debt. Finally they concluded to have
a home of their own, and took ad¬
vantage of the installment, plan; ilia -
is, they had a house built for them
by persons who make that sort ol
tiling their business, gave a mort¬
gage upon it to secure the builder,
arid paid for it in monthly install
ments. The undertaking caused a
complete change in their wav of liv¬
ing. Without being niggardly, they
looked closely after expenses, and
found that they could enjoy life just
as well as ever, and even better, be¬
cause they had a definite object in
riew which absorbed their thoughts,
and for which they were planning
from day to day. They go without
many little luxuries to which they
were accustomed, hut they do not
feel the deprivation in the comfort
they take in what is to he really a
home, not just simply a temporary
place to live in.—Cor. Toledo Blade.
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He Felt Hurt.
“See here!” said a farmer as he en¬
tered 3 restaurant the oilier day. “1
don’t like the way I have been used.’
“What’s wrong?” asked the restau
rantcr.
“Last March I bought a can of
oysters here.”
Yes, I remember.”
Z When I took -► homo my wife
suggested that ws put it away down
cellar for Fourth July, IFhen we
opened it on the glorious Fourth—”
“Great Scots!”
“Yes, you’d have said great Scots
fnd little Soots and all other sorts of
Scots. You said they were fresh oys¬
ters, and I took your word for it and
paid forty cents cash.”
'Flic restaurantercounted out forty
cents, placed the change in the man’s
hand, and motioned linn to go out.”
“Thankee,” said the farmer as he
hacked out, “yen arc a square man,
and I told my wife you were proha
bly deceived in the oysters yourself.
One of my neighbors said he smelt
’em seven miles down the road.—
Thankee—this is k’rt-ct,”
Terms—$1.00 per annum
ALETTEK TO THE PUBLIC.
Swainshoro Pine Forest.
The following is a letter that I
sent to the editor of the Wrights¬
ville paper to be published on July
2d, 1886, which was give!. tD ir.o in
a vision, October, 1885. I also notn
fled the editor of Swainsboro, con¬
cerning this great destruction which
has just torn Charleston up.
“I will say to you, as a servant of
Charist Jesus, who has chosen me as
a servant of His, logo forth and tell
the people of his great destruction
that he was going to send into our
land.”
I heard a voice say unto me—“Ye
go and tell my people of the great
destruction that I am going to send
into the land before long, and the
name of it shall he Groat Shock and
the Quivering of the Earth, and there
will be thousands of people)wdio will
sicken and die from its effects.” •
Mow', my friends, you all see that
it lias come to pass, and I will notify
you all, whether you believe me or
not, that there will be another one
in Florida and Alabama, before long
of which I will notify you again.
The shock of this last one was not so
severe as the one yet to cento, and
you may begin to prepare your¬
selves. Respectfully,
JULIUS GRUBBS.
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The Conductor’s Satire
A man was hounding around in a
car on a new Dakota road when the
conductor came through.
“Gan you tell me,’’said the man,
witli a great show of sercasui, ‘ whetii
or tnis car is on the track or nut: ’
‘Sir!’ repiled the conductor* reach*
iug into his pocket, “here is a volume
of the rules and regulations of this
ro!| d- ’
“But what do I want of it.'"’
“Look it over and sec if you can
find any rule saying that I route
spend my time running alongside of
the train reporting its position to
the passengers. See if there is any¬
thing m that volume that compels
me to go humping myself along on
the prairie and yelling through the
windows “Four wheels off now!” or
“Hind trucks‘dragging on the ties!”
or “Gentlemen, the baggage car lias
just roiled into the ditch?” or “Pas¬
sengers will please remain seated
while we turn off here and scoot
across the prairie after a jack rabbit!’
Look over them rules, sir, and see if
you find any of these directions. If
you don’t, in the future please take
yourown observations on the wheels.
—Esteliine (Dak.) Bell.
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After heating a Horse Heads law¬
yer down ‘o $6 “for a few words of
opinion,” an old farmer stated Ids
case as follows:
“I sold a feller 100 bushels ol cid¬
er apples for 20 cents a bushel, and
nowjcidcr apples have gone and riz
to 30. Kin I legally hack out?”
“No, you can’t. The only thing
you can do is to give him all the
windfalls and wormy fruit.”
“That’s what makes mesohoppin’
mad, you know. Idon’t believe I kin
skoer up over ten bushels of sich
fruit. Hain’t there any legal way to
induce the worms to come in on the
other ninety?”
The lawyer will probably try to
find some plan to help him out on.—
New York Sun.
The Jury Acqui’ted Him
It was a case of broach of promise
Thu defendant was allowed to say a
word in his own behalf. “Yes,” he
said. “I kissed her almost continual¬
ly every evening that I called at Iier
house.” '
Lawyer for IMaintiff—“Then you
confess it?” - . . •• - - -
Defendant—“Yes, I do confess it;
but I had to do it.”
Lawyer—“You had to do it! TV hat
do you mean?”
Defendant—“That was the only
way I could keep her from singing ”
The jury gave a verdict for the
defendrut without leaving their
seats.
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The women of the Salvation Army
in Bristol, Conn., have armed them¬
selves with cayenne pepper to throw
in the faces of tho ruffians who are
accustomed to annoy them in their
street parades,
Little Things
Man is prone to overlook of disre¬
gard the value of little things. They
may appear little but in fact they
aio not little. Human life is made up
of little things. The nerve of a tooth,
not larger than a cambric needle,
will drive a strong man mad. A most
quito can irritate and make an ele¬
phant furious. Here floats the beau¬
tiful ship like a thing of life, and yet
it founders on the coral reef made
by a very small insect. The TFar of
the Roses in England was decided
by the want of a horse shoe nail, the
shoe fell off for ilie want of the nail
the horse failed for want of the.shoe,
the King failed for want of the
horse, and the battle was lost.
Dimes make dollars and dollars
make wealth. Moments are the gol¬
den. sands of time. Every day is *
life in minaturc and our whole lifo
is but a day repeated. Springs are
but little things but they are the
sources of immense rivers. Nails are
little things, but they hold together
large buildings. The bridle bit is a
little tiling, hut is essential to the
control of the horse. The helm of a
ship is a little thing, but there could
he rio navigation without it. “Take
care of the dimes, and the dollars
will take care of themselves,” is an
old saying. Little are the elements
of true greatness, and like the straws
on life’s current, show which way
we arc lending. The heart conu-s out
in little things and moves on the dial
of character and indicates the true
character and destiny. It matters not
to where we arc, the important point
; s v , Ii.it we are. Moral heroizm is
ra ve, the real herdism of life is to do
a || little duties promptly and faith
fully, there is no such thing as trU
tics in the history of life. Drops
make the seas. The aeon makes ths
am ] oa ] ; :na k e * the navies
Q f the ocean. lie who travels over a
must do so step by step,
One who writes a book must do so
sentence by sentence, and he who
masters a science must do so fact by
fact and principle by principle. Life’s
happiness is made up of little cour¬
tesies, little kindnesses, pleasant
words, a genial smile, a friendly let¬
ter, good wishes and good deeds. If
we make the little wants of life Beam
tiful and good the whole life will be
beautiful .arid good. T.ook well then
to thcdetaails and follow the injunc*
tion of the wise man, “Despise not
the day of small things,” and all will
be well.
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Counting the Hairs of the Head
An eminent German has under,
gone the enormous labor of counting
the number of hairs in heads of four
different colors. In a blonde he found
140,000 hairs; in a brown, lo9,440;
in a black, 109,962, and in a red one,
89,740. What the red and black
heads wanted in number of hairs was
made up, however, in the greater
bulk of the hairs individually, and in
all probability the scalps were pret«
ty equal in weight. It is to the fine¬
ness and multiplicity of tlie hairs
that blonde tresses owe the rich col¬
or and silk-like character of their
flow, a circumstance which artists
have so loved to dwell upon.
Marshes in northern Indiana ustt*
ally covered with from one to four
feet of water hare become dry ow¬
ing to the continued drought, *and
sportsmen complain that hundreds
of poisonous snakes have taken pos*
session, which not ( only have eaten
nearly all the young water fqwl as
fast as hatched, but make it abso
lately unsafe for any pno to walk
over the masshes.
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“One of the great problems of tho
South,” says the New-Orleans Times
Democrat, “is education. It is the
immense amount of illiteracy in this
section that has held it back in ma¬
terial progress, With a largo propor¬
tion of its population unable to read
or write, the heritage of war andde*
vastatiou, it is difficult for the South
to advance in prosperity, to improve
its agriculture, or besome great in
manufactures.”