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t r s VII.—Number 35:.. THIS PAPEB gg. Newspaper Stroet)^whqre Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce adyerUsin^ contracts may be 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. — 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.. H B ENGINES, BOILERS SAW iff ILLS Grist Mills SHAFTING PULLEYS HANGERS Cotton Gins GEARING A Full stock ot Cheap and Good. Belting, Packing & Oil. At bottom prbces ANDOF IN STOCKR PROMPT DELIVERY. USf^Repaire promptly done Geo. Lombard S Co * f Foundry, Machine and Boiler Works, AUGUSTA, GA. ABOVE PASSENGER DEPOT, gdu 26-tm’ch 25, ’87, Clje y tor Pi t* iC * ♦ & Water Pipe & Fitting ■ Brass Valves SAWS ZETXULiIES INJECTORS ZF’-iXIO/pS Water Wheels CASTINGS Brass and Iron Wrightsville, Oa., Thii ay, January 6, 1887. DEAFNESS Its and causes, a new ami si CURE at your own home, tag* |l>y was deaf twenty-eight years. most of tlue noted specialists wilboi taetit. Cured himself in three month Full <d since then hundreds application. of others. P* -t-Wtrs sent on T - 8 E, No- 41 West31stSt., New Y ttt T Bran 4 iflKB _____ . r r * ^ -gt^ vw&tiirfcy, r Exposure Causes Coughs, f Rheumatism, Phoumonia Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache in a Tew lienra when no other application Physieians is of the feast and benefit, Druggists. Endorsed*? Beware of 5,000 im Rations under similar sounding names, such as “Capsicum,” “Capsicin” or “Cap sicine.” Ask for Benson’s and take no oth¬ ers. Examine carefully when you buy. All 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 cdy, cithef*fti that country or this, that will positively and permanently cure Con¬ sumption, al Carturrh Bronchitis, Astlima. Nas¬ and Nervous Debility, or break up aftwfifcold in 24 hours. $2.50 per bottle, three bottles $0.50. Craddock & Co., Proprictol's, 1032 Race St. Phila. “ w ' H&HABR ^ E1Wir PARKER'S BALSAM m >Uo popular favorite for dressing tne hair, Restoring color when gray, and preventing Dandruff. 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, ■-— 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. ---- -*«».-♦-- 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