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* e rigfjtenilk <■ i II '7 V j ( or ♦ Yolums YII.—Mumber 19. 1 KATES OF ADVERTISING; square, first insertion,. •. .. 1 00 ft subsequent insertion,, 50 squares one month, .... 00 * squares sis months,...... 3 squares one year......... 20 00 1 column, ..... six months...... ...... 50 00 1 column, oue year........ ......100 00 For a greater or less spaccihe same pro¬ portion. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS, The rates of which are regulated by law, are Bills payable in advance. for advertising are due at any time after the first insertion, unless otherwise arranged. To Our ZEr’x’ierEACLs: We soWrtf ('bmmunifatiotu on all subject^ lit the general or local interest if authenticated be mime of the irriter. All Otrresjmndeitce should be addressed, ilfeCoitnEu, Wrightsville, Georgia. C5U We do not hold oursdres responsible tor the opinions expressed by Correspondents. TUTS i.niO P r tir A PVT? -DA Oiay c - be found on tile at - EO p Rowej.,,& Co’s Street), Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce where advertising contracts may be made for it in New York. 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: ed on Real Estate- at 12 percent, ncrotin lion. January 7. 1NH5 !• Wrightsville Tennille and Dub Hn & Wrightsville R. S, --to)-- W. B. TIf031 AS, Pres, tinti Oen’l To take effect Sept. 13, 1886. GOING NOJITII. NO. 2--NO. -1 A. M. P. M. I.v Dublin....... ....... . 5 : 25 .. Ar Condor........ _______ . 6 , 15 .. At Bruton Cr..... ....... . 6 : 05 .. Ar Lovett........ ....... .6:23.. Ar Wriglitsvilk*.. ....... . 6:55 I.v Wriyhtsville.. .......0:00 .7:00.. Ar Donovan...... ....... 0:25 .7:20.. Ar Harrison..... ...... 0:50 .7:00. . Ar Tennille...... .......10:40 GOING SOUTH NO. 1 —NO. 3 1*. M. Lv Tennille...... 2:30 ; Ar Harrison...... 3:10 ; Ar Donovan..... 3:0) . Ar Wrightsvslle.. .8:40 3:40 ‘ Lv Wrightsvilie.. 3:45 ; Ar Level t....... 4:10 . Ar Biuton Gr.... 4 .;:0 : Ar Condor .. 4 :50 ‘ Ar Dublin....... 5:10. . 9 % Ck 8 m m «jr>. to 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. ---— 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. —-— —~— 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. •----♦-«< 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. ----- ■* -*»»-•--- 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. - 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. •-----♦ -»« 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. --— “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.”