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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A. F. Daley, Wifrpractice Attorney at Law, Frights/
ville. Ga lsewkerahyaspeesaf in tl.lsand adjoin
ing count iee, and [January
gagement 7, 1886-ty,
sdor Waiter Law, R. Wrightsville, Daley, Attorney and Coun- \
at Ga.
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Iin*CaHl^l 1 , t° Wer ' Attorney at Law, Dub
Dr. » P » M. Johnson, . . . -
n Lovett, T Ga. _ Calls _ ,
promptly atumdcA d afror ^fc
Hr. J. jhigery, M. Page, PraMStiriner of MedU
cine and Wrighb^ ille, G%
Ariine & rpromptly lev’* attendt-fL Office over
store.
Dr. C. Micks, Physician and Consulting
Burgeon, Dublin, Ga.
ANNOUNCEMENT S
For Clerk.
This is to notify my friends of the eoun
ty, awl others as welt; that I tun a candi¬
date for re election to the officjMjf Clerk of
Court, aiKl respcetfully astytjtjuf jpflASON. support.
Truly, etc., J
For Clerk Superior Court.
I announce myself ns a candidate for the
office of Clerk Superior Court of Johnson
county. I Asking Very the support of my friends,
am, Sept. 80. 1880 respectfully,
S. MEEKS.
For Sherift.
lignin offer myself as a candidate for re
election to the office of Sheriff, and respect¬
fully friends, and and earnestly solicit the support of my
the voters generally of John¬
son county. J. W. ROWLAND.
For Surveyor.
1 take this occasion to announce to the
people didate of Johnson county, Surveyor, that I am a can¬
for the office of and if
elected 1 will faithfully perform the duties
of the office. \V. B. POOL.
Sent. 30th 1886.—td.
For Tax Recylrer.
After many solicitation from friends, to
try my speed for Tax Receiver, I feel it my
duty der to yield bead to their solicitations, and un¬
this I announce myself, a candi¬
date for Tax Receiver fur Johnson county;
Hoping to have a good support, 1 am yours
Respectfully, F. THOMPSON.
J.
For T&x Collector!
t ion to the office of Tax Collector. Thank¬
ing favors, the voters of Johnson county for mist
I respectfully and earnestly solicit
their support at the ensuing January elec
tion, and if elected, will faithfully perform
the duties of the office. Yours, very re¬
spectfully, JOHN F. NORRIS,
WrightBville & Tennille and Dub¬
lin & Wrightsville B. E.
W. B. THOMAS, (o) Presi
ami Gen’l
Supt.
To fake effect Nov. 13, 1886.
GOING KOUTIl.
NO. 2 NO. 4
Lv Dublin.... .10:30 AM 4:50 P.M.
Ar Condor.... .10:55 “ 5:15
Ar Bruton Cr. .11:15 “ 5:30 “
Ar Lovett.... .11:35 “ 5:50 “
Ar Wrightsville..-12:05 P M 6:15 “
Lv Wrightsville... 12:10 “ 6:16 “
Ar Donovan.. .12:30 “ 6:35 “
Ar Harrison.. .12:50 6:50 “
Ar Tennille.. . 1:30 “ 7:20 “
GOING SOUTH
... NO. 1 —NO.3
A. M. P. M.
Lv Tennille. 7:00 2:20 ;
Ar Harrison H ;45 2:50 *.
Ar Donovan 8:10 3:10 :
Ar Frightsvslle...........8:40 8:30 ;
Lv Wrightsville 8.45 3:31 ;
Ar Lovett.....'. «£> 3:55 ;
Ar Bruton Cr.. ec 4:15 :
Ar Condor.,. . — 4:30 ;
Ar Dublin..... 10:15 4:45..
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At bottom prbces
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most of tlue noted specialists
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month Full <d since then hundreds application. of others.
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druggists. -
8EABURY & JOHNSON, Proprietors,
, New York.
Plca.se Don’t Forget It
That Dr. H. James Cannabis Iudica is pre
pared in Calcutta, India, from the purest
auh best Na.tX.Hemp, and is the only rent
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Co., Proprictol's, 1032 Race St. Phila.
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m >Uo popular favorite for dressing
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2 T It cleanses the scalp, stops the
hair failing, and is sure to pleoso.
Me. and $1.00 at Druggists.
HIN CORNS.
to cure. 15 cents at prueuiats. lliscox & Co.. N. Y.
Life’s J5ol«ittice sheet.
A bright eyed, merry boy he came,
Fresh from the fields where grasses roll—
Tagerly hoping to carve his name
High on the list of Honor’s scroll.
Armed with the armament of Hope.
Shielded by the fihifcid of Trust—
Thus was the hero ready to grope
'Long Life’s Highway, strewn with dust.
“Debit -styyxed thep-^ -
Heading the coliTuhfs bright and fair;
Dealing in figures of speech which men
Oft’ have set in the same place there.
White was the page of his boyish lot:
Fill it ever be like this, pure?
Ah, trust heaven, no stain or Wot
Will blemish its fairness to obscure?
Steadily, along Life’s way,
Toiled the toiler over his page,
Frora early dawn till the close of day—
Wrinkles will come at an early age.
Still the column is plainly placed—
Never the sign of a blot or stain;
Never an entry was erased;
This is the worth of Honor’s gain.
“Ah me! will I never win?” he said,
Dropping the pen from his nerveless hand,
Wearily lifting his aching head.
He gazed fromjhe window on the strand:
“To-morrow I’ll cast the balance sheet;
Time will not always wait for me.
Hours are gliding, and years are fleet,
Soon will come eternity, ”
Silvery-haired and wan lie sits
There in the gloam of the office light:
The golden gleam of the sunbeam flits
Round tiie aged accountant knight.
“Debit and credit plain 1 see—
Figures all of a past time fled:
Balanced! Heaven, I—thank thee!—
They found him there in the morning dead
‘The proof -sheet balanced clear and true,
Sucli was the verdict of all men.
Deeds of the past are ©per.ed to view—
Every trace of the faithful pen.
Balanced aright: how grand a fame!
Place it high upon Honor’s scroll.
Enter, servant, thy grace to claim;
Well done, thou good and faithfifl soul!”
II. S.Kkllkh,
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Alapaha Star: Mr. Hard Giddens,
of this county, went into the army
at the commencement of the war and
fought through till the dose. In the
battle of Chickamauga his clothing
was torn into twenty seven places by
bullets, only two of which touched
his flesh, cutting the skin on the left
hip and grazing the little finger on
the left kand. One bullet cut his
shoe string in two, another burst his
canteen, one cut his cartridge belt in
two, one tore tho leaf of his cap off
and one shot the breech of his gun
in two while shooting. His regiment
the Twenty-ninth Georgia, went in¬
to the fight with about 700 men and
came out with twenty-seven. His
company, Company K., were all kill,
ed, wounded and captured, except
one, and his clothing was riddled
with bullets. Mr. Giddens is now 46
years old, is bale and hardy, and is
one of Berrien’s solid farmers.
CAUSES OF INSANITY.
From the Augusta Chronicle.
Dr. T. 0. Powell’s report of
Lunatic Asylum of the State, is
remarkable document.
Dr. Powell asserts that there
been a slight increase of insanity
among the white people of
but that several important
must be considered at the same time.
Before the war many *
wcre abl °. to take care of the barn
less lunatics among them. I hie
not the case, to the same drrgree,
As . , lum fvee , to , a11 ,, , bona flde ~ , citizens
y
of Georgia has helped swell the list
» . .
01 inmates,
Before the war numerous persons
were able to send their insane rela¬
tives and friends to institutions out¬
side the State. * This is not the ease
now, as a rule.
Hospital treatment in these times
has become so approximately perfect
and sonservative that many persons
are sent to institutions who, under
old prejudices or conditions, would
have been kept at home.
The removal from the minds of
many persons that insanity was a
disgrace, when treated in an asylum,
has also caused the apparent ini
crease of patients.
Physicians are likewise more in¬
clined than formerly to advise the
removal of insane psrs®ns from their
homes to the asylum.
Quite a number of insane individ¬
uals, who were once tolerated and
kept at large, on the supposition that
they were simply cranks or oddities,
are now put under restraint.
Wherefore Dr. Powell concludes
that insanity among the whites of
Georgia has not actually increased,
in proportion to population, during
M?® creaselm j>*et twenty years, or tb ip
been very little. *
The causes of insanity arc sug¬
gested by Dr. Powell. They are
numerous. The largest percentage
of patients had a hereditary tendon
cy in madness. Next came those
who complained of ill-health. Next
came the victims of alcohol. Next
came the epileptic. A very consider
erable number of women had been
afflicted with diseases incident to
their Bex. There was but one case
of an overtaxed intellect. Certain
youthful bad babits bad brought
woe to their victims. Religious ex¬
citement stood well up in the list.
Farmers, housewives and laborers
headed the list by a very great per¬
centage. Merchants, stone-cutters,
teachers and cooks, came next in or¬
der, but a long way behind. Not
an insane editor was recorded among
nearly forty kinds of occupations or
professions.
Dr. Powell, like Dr. Eugene Fos¬
ter, condemns the wilful transmis¬
sion of defective organisms as the
prodisposition of insanity, Prof.
Maudsley, on the other hand, shows
that often one unhappy member of
a family is the martyr, draining away
insanity from the rest, and produc¬
ing uncommon intellect and even
genius of the sanest character. Prof.
Maudsley also ascribes much of the
insanity of the day to too practical
starving the imaginations of the
young. Dr Powell and Dr. Foster
may have noticed these facts, but
not, we believe, touch upon them.
Alcoholism is argued out as the
chief transmitter or producer of in¬
sanity, especially when both parents
are intemperate. If the children of
such parents escape absolute mad¬
ness, they frequently become morbid
epileptic or morally depraved.
Dr. Powell summons tremendous
evidence to prove his point that
about seventy-five per cent, of the
insanity of the world comes directly
or indirectly from alcoholic abuse.
Vioiations of the laws of health, pro¬
ductive of a low nervous condition
and insomonia, are also potent fac*
tors in mental alienation.
A very interesting portion of Dr.
Powell’s report is a discussion of the
outbreak of insanity among the ne¬
groes of Georgia. In 1860 tberc
5 s»" insane blacks. There
were nly 44
were' ii in 1880.
Pfffpowell attributes this out¬
burst . insanity to the removal of
health ul restraints that obtained in
si*'"*' , Alcohol and sensuality are
chi tb blame. The suicidal ten
denc. . pot uncommon now among
the |*o insane. It was not known
up W B82. The Doctor thinks that
a 4Sil -<\k ^Tf a evolution of the mad ne¬
gro be a development of all the
idiosj^ yj rasies of the white insane.
a - e been able, at this time,
fea^Vs shy ^ te glance at the more salient
\ lliif valuable aud.inten
dsfci.j j/docu men t.
What to Do with Criminals.
But what should we do with the
thugs, sluggers, assassins—men who
revet ,in blood and wounds and death
T&s:
Let the United States government
in conjunction with the state govern¬
ments, buy an island in the Pacific
oceatf, guard it with gunboats, and
thereto send great host of murder¬
ous scoundrels who have been con¬
demned to the scaffold, who have
been sentenced for life to the peni¬
tentiary for bloodshed, who lurk and
lie in Wait in our cess poolsjand slime
pits, jvith revolver and dagger; all
wliOfire known to the police as “dan¬
gerous characters.
Lei all rape devils bo sent there,
and il’il who spit upon and trample
the eternal laws of God and man un¬
der jj>ot.
“They will kill each other,” you
may /protest.
Lit them kill!
YvW, nor I, nor any of us will be
responsible for that. Our govern¬
ment blooil. will not be responsible for our
Tre better element that is in all
men),will assert itself in the felon
comp, wbive and ip time they will ati tb
State or Civilization eqakl
their own.
In mercy, let us do this, remem¬
bering that the environments and an¬
cestry of these scoundrels were not
the same as ours, and their respecta¬
bility is many degrees less than onr
own.—Will Hubbard Ivernan in
Chicago Jounah
He Did not Walk.
Jabo Mathis, ©f the Thirteenth
Georgia, was a good soldier, hut one
day when the Confederates were re¬
treating from the gory field of Get¬
tysburg Jabe threw his musket on
the ground, seated himself by the
roadside, and exclaimed with much
vehemence;
I’ll be dashed if I walk another
step! I’m broken down! I can’t do
it! And Jabe was tbo picture of de
spair.
Get up, man, explained his Cap¬
tain, don’t you kuow the Yankees
are following? They’ll get you sure!
Can’t help it, said Jabe, I’m done
for. I’ll not walk another step!
The Confederates passed along
over the crest of the hill, and lost
sight of poor, dejected Jabe.
In a moment there was a fresh rat¬
tle of musketry and a renewed crash
of shells. Suddenly Jabe appeared
on the crest of the hill moving like
a hurricane, and followed bye cloud
of dust. As be dashed past bis Cap¬
tain that officer yelled:
Hello! Jabe; thought you wasn’t
going to walk anymore.
Thunder! replied Jabe, as he hit
thexlust with renewed vigor, you
don’t call this walking, do you.
“Mamma’s” Boy Saved.
Bayou Sara, Dec. 17.—A little
boy, 3 years old, who was on board
the ill-fated steamboat J. L. White,
was saved by a colored woman who
was fortunate enough to get hold of
a floating log and landed about a
mile below the wreck. Although the
woman made every endeavor to as¬
certain who he was, her efforts were
unsuccessful. He was undoubtedly a
deck passengor, and the remainder
of his family were lost. The child is
too young to give his name. When
asked: “Whose boy are you?” he re¬
plied. “J/amma’s.”
Terms—$1.00 perannurh.
A Modern Financial Venture*
From the Chicago llambler .
He was a wise youth, although
not very old. One day his father
brought him home a little bank to
keep his shvings in.
“Now, Willie,” be said, “we’ll
start a bank.”
“I choose to be cashier,” inter¬
rupted the boy.
“Very well, you can be the cash¬
ier, and I will be the board of di¬
rectors. Then you and your two
sisters and your mother and I will
be the depositors. Now, I’ll put
these ,5ve now nickles in to start
with. What will you do?” -i*
“I’ll put in seven pennies and a 2
cent piece,” he responded.
His mothei droppied in a couple
of dimes, and each of his sisters a
nickle. During the next two weeks
numerous deposits were made, and
all ran smoothly. Then one morn¬
ing pater familias found himself
short of change, and abstracted a
dime from the bank for car fare.—
But the eagle eye of the young cash¬
ier detected the shortage, and he
promptly took what was left.
The next morning the young fi¬
nancier’s father, wishing to instill a
little more business knowledge into'
his head, said:
“Now, Willie, suppose one of the
depositors wished to draw out some
money; what would you do?”
The boy simply pointed to the
bank, on which was the following
placard:
< PAYMENT SUSPENDED. y
“Why, TFillio, what docs this
mean?” inquired tho father.
“Directors overdrew their accounts
so the cashier skipped out with the
rest,” was the laconic response.
“You don’t mean that you have
taken the money that was in there,
do 'you?’ r lh a' tone of' pain'Jxi Sur¬
prise.
“Yes.”
“But don’t you know that this is
not honest?”
“Huh!” exclaimed the boy scorn¬
fully; “did yon ever hear of a cash¬
ier letting the directors get ahead of
him? Well, I guess not. You bet
I know a little business. When the
directors begin fooling with the fi¬
nances, the cashier ‘guts’ the Lank
every lime.
“My boy,” said the father, admir¬
ingly, “some day you will be a great
financier; but first you have a few
things to learn. Never wait for the
depositors to prosecute. Now edmo
with me to the wood-shed.”
“Father,” replied the youth pen
suasively, can’t wo compromise this
matter some way? If you won’t
prosecute, I’ll see that the hank re¬
sumes payment, and won’t say any¬
thing about the directors drawing
out money on the sly.”
IFilliam M. West, a prominent cit¬
izen of Fayette county, committed
suicide at his home, some ten miles
east of Fairburn, Tuesday morning.
The deceased has been insane tor
some time, and has but recently re
tuined from tho asylum. Since his
return he hns been closely watched
by the family, but in spite of their
vigilance, he has made repeated ef¬
forts to destroy his life, once by cut¬
ting his throat in a terrible manner.
Tuesday morning about daylight
some of the family missed him from
Ins bed. Some of the neighbors were
called in. After searching for some
time his shoes were discovered near
the well. It took but a glance into
the well to tell the sad story. He had
escaped from the bouse while the
balance of the inmatas were wrapt
in slumber, and, approaching the
well, cut off three or four feet of the
rope, securely tied his feet together,
fastened the rope firmly to the wihdi
lass, allowing ten feet to suspend in¬
to the well, made a noose, slipped his
head through it, p.nd dropped him¬
self into the well. 1 he weight of his
body, it is supposed, broke his neck.
Life bad been extinct but a short,
while when the body was found, as
it was still warm.
Father and Mother.
Up to the time a child can talk
and say funny things she—it is gen¬
erally particularly so with female
children—she is her mother’s pet.—
Then she is taken possession of by
the male parent. A little while af¬
ter she is born the new made parent
likes the novelty of dandling her,
but that does not last long. Then
for a while she is a nuisance to the
father, but when she begins to get
“cute” and cunning, when her moth¬
er has with infinite care and affection
developed her infantile brain, the
father steps in and begins to monop
olizo't^f:! credit. JV|rv^«
the mother always lets him, and con¬
tents herself with lavishing affection
on her and attending to the details
—the uninteresting details—©f keep¬
ing her clean.
Fond parents come to me and tell
me of their precocious progeny. It’s
thing especially in mothers; but I
notice that whert Mlady tells me a
story of her baby,jfhe says “our ba¬
by,” but when a father talks he al¬
ways begins about my little girl,”
and generally says, “I have a little
daughter.” I never met a child yet
whose best ideas were not derived
from the mother. I have beard of
children who had been petted by
their fathers, but they generally
talked slang, which their fathers
thought awfully bright.—San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle.
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An Attempt to Corner Ingrersoll.
I heard a new story of Robert G.
Ingersoll and a conversation he had
with a lady on his great topic. The
Colonel was a guest ata Virginia
mansion where there was also as a
guest a lady who*, undertook to dis¬
cuss religion with him. She was both
beautiful and talented, and the Col¬
onel was impelled to be exceedingly
courteous until she persisted in
plumping at Uhqaa question as to his
belief in the existence of God. ‘No,’
said the Colonel, “I do not believe
in God.”
“What will you do,” asked the la
dy, “if you are brought into the
presence of God when you die?
TFbat will you say?
The Colonel replied: “I shall tell
God that He ought not to blame me
for having been ignorant of His ex¬
istence, and that He ought to have
let me know more about Him.”
“But suppose, Colonel Ingersoll.”
the lady continued, ‘that He reminds
you that I told you to-night of His
existence and that you failed to ac¬
knowledge it?’
The Colonel smileu and responded:
“W®11> I shall tell Him that I got
my information late in life, and that
from the manner of your conversa¬
tion on the subject I think He ought
to have let you know a little more
about it.”
Au Unsuspecting Wife
The Boston Transcript is entitled
to credit for the annexed good thing
“I used to think men had an awful¬
ly easy time,” said Mrs. Franks, “but
I’ve changed my mind, and hereaL
ter I’m going to take all the care of
Charles I possibly can. You see the
other morning, I tjbld Charles vyo
wanted some wood, and to be suife
and order some. Bell, I waited all
day, and that wood didn’t come, and
I was almost angry, for, said I, be
has forgotten it, as usual, Charles
didn’t come home until late; long af¬
ter I had retired. He had to go to
his club and it seems he was detain¬
ed until after midnight. He was aw
fullv restless, and kept talking in his
sleep, saying every once in a while,
‘give me another dollars’ worth of
chips.’ So you see I knew his mind
was troubled about that wood. How
much it must have worried him, to
thus disturb liis rest! Hereafter I’m
going to attend to all house matters
myself. Poor man! he has enough to
bother him without doing home er¬
rands.” .
-•-<«*>«
“And then, gentlemen of the jury,
I must appeal to your sense of jus¬
tice. You must remember thar you
are 12 strong, well-fed men, opposed
to this one miserable, puny defendant