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THE POST.
WEDNESDAY, DEC- 11, 1878.
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOH AND PROPRIETOR.
IK. /*, Hick* i* the regular agent for the
POST in Johanna county, authorized to re
ceive mibxcriplion*, receipt for the name, amt
to make contract* for advertizing. All dure
thouUl he paid to him.
The Guano Iiupoxition.
A statement went, the rounds of
the |mpei*H a few weeks ago to the
effect that the guuno dealers had
had a meeting and decided to raise
the price of guano from 400 lbs. to
500 lbs. of cotton per ton of guano;
and ns a further exercise of tyranny
over the farmers they demand that
tlie latter shall pay lh» freights of
the guano from, and of the cotton
to, Savannah. Wo are glad to note
on the part of tho farmers a feeling
of indignation at this manifestly un
just proceeding. The price of cot
ton l#us gone down- -to be suro. But
tho price of tho material and labor
nsod in tho manufacture of guano
has goiio down proportionately.
Iiencd there is no snadow of justice
in this bulldozing game of tho gua
no dealors. These fellows have gotio
on from year to year imposing on
tho agricultural class of our people
till thoy have come to regard it as a
divine prorogativo to swindle the
farmer. Many of our most intelli
gent farmers believe that there is
prooious little, if any, pay in guano
at tho old pricos; and that to buy
undor tho now regeino is wprso than
throwing away thoir money. Un/u-
anoed crops look a littlo discourag
ing through tho spring and summer,
but when tho harvest comes and
your guuuo buying noighhor gets
through hauling off his guano cot
ton, your pile will not compare un
favorably with what lie has left.
Resides, ho has rnuoh more trouble
and expense in gathering the crop,
only a portion of which is his own,
to say nothing of tho injury dono to
land by those commercial stimulants.
Again, guano causes cotton to open
too early—picking cotton in August
and Boptembur is productive of much
Biokness.
In view of tho foregoing facts a
groat many farmors have decided to
uso no guano the next year unless
tho doalors come down from their
uujust demands ami let tho farmors
have guano on tho sumo terms as
last season.
In this matter, as in many others,
tlie farmors should not forgot the
maxim that “in unity thoro is
strougth.” Thoy should assemble
in mtiss meeting and memoralixo the
guano dealers on this subject. Say
to them plainly, “unless you can af
ford to soli your guano as 1101*010101*0,
wo cannot afford to buy it,” and let
evory farmer in the county plodgo
himself to stand linn by snob action,
and you will soo tho guuuo dealers
yield, for thoy can no more afford to
keep their guano than tho farmors
can thoir cotton, Rut should they
persist in their unjust course, why,
lot tho forinor go Yorward and make
his crop without guano. To bo sure
lainrons county cannot resist the
guano merchants singlohandod, but
if siio will take tho lead thoro will be
no lack of followers. And oven if
she should bo loft to make the tight
alone, after tho next orop is gather
ed she’ll tind sho has no cause to re-
grot hor action. Rnt whether uny
public notion is taken or not, one
tiling is cortain, via., that unless the
price of guano is put back to 4(50 lbs
of cotton per ton, not one half tho
lunouut will bo sold in I .aureus
county this season as last. Wo lur e
already learned of orders for a hun
dred tous boing countermanded.
While every business of the whole
country is “lookod in the paralysis of
‘hard timos,*” it is tho meanest kind
of tyranny to Attempt to force the far
mers to sustain all the losses, and wo
are glad to see that this spirit of tyr
anny has for once overreached itself.
Hon. A. li. Stephens came near
meeting with a serious noc'dent a
day or two ago. lu descending the
■tops of the Capitol his crutch slip
ped, causing him to lose his balance
und to sprain his knee so ns to disa
ble him for several days. His uttend-
unt caught him and thus prevented
a more serious catastrophe. The
telegram failed to state what lieeame
of his skillet in the scuffle.
MEETING OF CONGRESS.
[Saranmh Ncie*, Dee.. Hd.\
Yesterday the third session of the
45th congress began in Washington.
A call of the rolls showed a quorum
of both houses present. Several im-
jKirtant resolutions were introduced,
all of which were laid over for the
present. Among these was one to
provide for the retiring of the trade
dollars, and their rccoinage into
standard dollars. Anot her to muko
trade dollars a legal tender. Anoth
er (by Rhiine of Maine,) to inquire
into the alleged violation of the
rights of citizens of the South, and
three others in regard to the yellow
fever. About 3:20 j>. m. Mi* Hayes’
annual message was read.
Aftor the reading of Mr. Hayes’
message yesterday, Mr. Wood of
New York, made some very sensible
remarks regarding it. While up
proving the document as a whole, he
regretted that Mr. Haves “could see
violations of luw in elections in South
Carolina and Louisiana, while bis
oyes were closed in New York [Mr.
Woods own State be it remembered],
where thousands of voters wero out
raged.” Mr. Garfield attempted to
reply to Mr. Wood, and quite an ex
citing discussion followed. The
message was finally referred to the
committee of the whole, and ordered
printed.
The Democratic members of the
Potter Committee have agreed to
take the bull by tho horns, and if
Congress shall not in the mean time
older an investigation into the mat
ter of the much talked of cipher dis
patches. they will investigate them
under the general authority confer
red 011 the committee lust session.
The committe will also complete the
invest igation which was left untinish-
od last summer.
Mr. TIHlcn on tho Political Sit
uation.
A Nmv York letter says: “I met
ox-Gov. Tildon Saturday afternoon
coming down Nassau street, on his
way to tho Third National Rank.
The old gentleman expresses the con
viction that, there iH to he a bigger
breeze on tho silver dollar question,
when Congress meets, than the hunks
and the oleuring house people in
Now York anticipate. Ho talk* with
some misgivings about tho tendency
of some of tho Republican leaders
and journals to enter upon the next
Presidential campaign by inflaming
tho Nortliorn mind with reported
outruges on the colored population of
tho South. He thinks Mr. Conkling
and his friends have agreed upon
that as their programme, hut trusts
something will happen to upset it.
He does not like Gen. Grant, but*if
compelled to choose between the two
—that is, if he were a Republican
and a lover of peace— he would
rather have him than Conkling. He
is of opinion, howover, that the
country will have no occasion for the
sorvioes of either, as tho successor of
Mr. Hayes, notwithstanding tho ad
verse symptoms affordod by the recent
oloetions, is morolly certain to be a
Democrat, and’’then everything will
be union und harmony.”
Snmptor Republican: A cotton
establishment near Westminister.
Go., of which the machinery only
cost two thousand five hundred dol
lars, turns out about twenty-seven
dollars worth of manufactured goods
daily, and employs eight hands at
fifty cents a day. Neighbors use
t he products and the owners, also
planters, obtain a vastly higbor price
for thoir cotton than if they shipped
it.
Mr. Hayes* Message.
[Farannah A'eic*.]
We publish elsewhere Mr. Hayes’
annual message to the Forty-fifth
Congress upon the opening of its
third session in Washington yester
day. The document is very lengthy
and interesting, and treats quite
fully of the yellow fever scourge
last summer, flic question of
elections in the" South, the reports
of the different Cahinent officers, our
domestic affairs and foreign rela
tions,and various other subjects of
more or less general interest to the
country all of which are accompanied
by rocomcndutions to Congress.
The subjects especially interesting
to his section of the country which
are treated of, however, are two—the
yellow fever scourge and the alleged
intimidation of voters during elect
ions in the South.
Regarding the first, Mr. Hayes
dwells on the magnitude and fearful
desolation caused by the scourge, and
the aid and assistance rendered by
the government to the distressed lo
calities. About, eighteen hundred
tents and rations to the amount
of twenty-five thousand dollars
were sent to the afflicted dis
tricts. On this topic Mr. Hayes
reeomends that Congress takes step
to perfect the national quarantine
act approved April 26, 1878, and
to adopt whatever measures may
be deemed nesessary, by quarantine
and otherwise, for the protection of
our seaports, and the country gener
ally, from this and other epidemics.
It is to bo hoped that this suggestion
will ho duly considered by Congress.
Concerning tho alleged iutimidu-
tion of voters in tho South, Mr,
Hayes is neither so wise nor so just,
He dwells at length upon the fact
(which lie virtually assumes to he
true) that such intimidation was
generally practiced, and he recom
mends that Congress adopt such
measures as will enable him to bring
• t)ic offenders to justice. In taking
this stand, the conclusion is irresti-
hly forced upon tho mind that Mr
Hayes is only irritated because the
negro of the South—having been en
franchised with tho certain expect
atation that he would always vote
the Radical ticket—sees fit to vote
with the Democracy, re iooks very
much as if he was only preparing for
a bloody shirt campaign in 1880, for
though it is a well known aud ac
knowledged fact that Radical elect
ion frauds arc constantly perpetrated
in tho North, yet not one word in
tho message is directed towards the
necessity or propriety of bringing
uuch offenders to justice. A very
suspicious circumstance in this con
nection, also is tho roconunondation
of tho Secretary of War, (which Mr.
Hayes’ especially endorses,) that the
law forbidding tho use of the army
as a possee comitutus he repealed.
With these exceptions, tho mes
sage, as a wholoj is a very exhaus
tive and carefully prepared docu
ment, exhibiting tho condition of
tho affairs of tlio country in a very
plain manner. It bears a decidedly
pleasing contrast to similar docu
ments of the preceding administra
tion.
A Plucky WI«iow.
A correspondent of tho Eastman
Time# tells the following of a Dodge
county widow.
As an evidence of what may be
accomplished in our section by ener
gy and industry. I propose, with
your permission, to lay before your
readers tho result of a otic-horse
farm—the owner and manager being
a widow. Sho lives in Dodge coun
ty, and her only help in making and
gathering the crop was a littlo inva
lid son, except ‘.lie hire of a hand
three dajs to chop cotton. She
gathered 175 bushels of corn, three
stacks of fodder, and four bales of
cotton. Sho made, also, a fine orop
of peas, peanuts, ehufas, potatoes,
etc. She did hor own cocking,
washing and irouing, and, indeed,
all her other hoti*chold work.
“How few think justly of the thinking few,
llow many never think who think they do."
A Hint to Ueftigec Preachers.
N. O. Picayune.
If the preachers who niako them
selves refugees from New Orleans
during tho summer think this vine
yard too unhealthy for them to work
in, they should give way to oeoiima-
tod servants. If families over neod
spiritual consolution it is whon they
arc visited by sickness and death.
Mr. Spurgeon has declined to ac
cept personally tho gift of $25,000
which his congregation is raising to
commemorate the completion o$ his
twenty-fifth year’s work as a Baptist
minister, but will devote the amount
to the establishment of a permanent
fund for the aged poor of the Metro
politan Tabernacle almshouses, four
teen iu number.
Now York housekeepers leave dry
liewspaiMH* loosely unfolded on their
stair landings for burglar alarms.
You can’t keep the newspapers from
continuing to be the sentinels on
the watch-tower. Even the driest
of newspapers have their moments
of solemn warning.
Will Have to be Identified.
Chicago Times.
The Semite meets next week, and
Vice President Wheeler will emerge
from his obscurity, but as is remark
ed by the Oincinati champion of the
Ohio idee, he’ll have to get some
body to identify him before ho can
be permitted to take the chair.
The Talk ofGrnut Becoming the
Bulgarian Prince.
A cable dispatch, dated London,
November 2fltli, says:
“It appears that there is some
foundation for the report that Gen.
Grant 1ms been proposed as a candi
date tor the throne of Bulgaria.
Under the provisions of the first and
second article of the treaty of Berlin,
Bulgaria is constituted an automatic
tributary principality under the suze
rainty of the Sultan, with a Chris
tian government and a national mili
tia. The Prince is to he elected by
the population, and their choice is to
be approved and confirmed by the
Porte, and by England, France, Ger
many, Russia, Austria and Italy.
No member of any reigning European
dynasty is eligible to the post, and
this provision of the treaty has great
ly limited tho number of eligible
candidates.
“The far-spread and brilliaut rep
utation of Gen. Grunt as a soldier
and ruler, it is said, has led the Bul
garian nobles, who are now debating
among themselves the question of a
ruler and the details of a new con
stitution, to look upon him as the
most desirable Prince. It is urged
that he will be most eminently fitted
for this post. Under the provisions
of the treaty of Berlin perfect equal
ity in political and religious rights
is to he extended to all the inhabit
ants of Bulgaria, and it is thought a
wholly impartial foreigner like Gen.
Grant can best secure the execution
of the laws designed to secure this
equality. No formal proposition on
the part of the Bulgarian notabilities
has yet been made to Gen. Grant,
and if made it is thought tho Gen.
will decline the tumor.”
Of course we have no moans of
knowing whether the dispatch was
really sent over the cable from Lon
don or was manufactured in the New
York Herald office. Be that as it
may, we have no reason to wish for
such a calamity to Bulgaria, and we
dare not hope for such good fortune
to ourselves. What a God-send it
would he to this country if Grant
could he induced to settle down on
the Bulgarian throne and establish
a dynasty for himself by gathering
around him his loyal henchmen, the
.lluWwlw, lloluujw, (Sheppards, Sher
mans, Wellses, Andorsons, Mosbys,
et id mnne genus. But such a con
summation, while greatly to be desir
ed. is hardly to be h* ped for.—Savan
nah yews.
Decline of the Molfct Register.
Now Orleans Democrat.
The Moffet register has come down
like a rocket. A year ago this law
was in forco in one state, Virginia;
had been passed in another, Louisi
ana, but was not yet in force, and
was before the legislatures of Now
York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee.
South Carolina and Mississippi, with
evory prospect of beiug adopted in
these states and becoming a law.
But to-day the Moffet register has
fallen into disrepute everywhere.
A bill proposing this law was pre
sented before the legislature of
Georgia the other day, out there is
no hope or possibility of its passage.
The press and people of Georgia are
unanimously opposed to it, and it is
scarcely likely that it will get u doz
en votes in the legislature. That
our Moffet register law will he abol
ished at the coming session of the
legislature, the results of the late
election leave no doubt. Even in
Virginia, the originator of this new
mode of raising taxes, tho Moffet
register has proved a fraud and a
failure. The revenue derived from
this source has decreased from
mouth to month, until it now yields
little more than the old revenue
from liquor licenses used to return.
It is said that at the very next ses
sion of tho Virginia legislature this
law will be repealed and tho old sys
tem readoptocl As for the Moffet.
register bills now before the lcgisla
turns of New York, Pennsylvania
Teuuesseo and Mississippi, they have
mysteriously disappeared since the
failure of the law in Virginia has
been made apparout. and are to-day
denied aud repudiated by those who
advocated their adoption.
Salve for Radical Ula.
New York Siar.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Tribune, keeps constantly on hand a
full supply of its invaluable panacea
ulliteratively denominated tlie “Sol
id South Salve.” It is warranted to
heal all cuts, bruises, sores and other
ills which radical flesh is heir to.
AN IMPORTANT BILL.
A Method of Advertising Local
and Special Bills.
After a long difference the two
houses of the legislature have finally
agreed on the following as the bill to
prescribe the method of advertising
local and special bills:
An act to prescribe the manner of
giving notice of an intention to ap
ply to the legislature for the pas
sage of local and special bills.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
general assembly of the state of
Georgia, That the notice of an in
tention to apply for tlie passage of a
local or special bill shall be given
in the following manner, to-wit:
The title of the bill shall be pub
lished once in the newspaper in
which the sheriff’s sales are adver
tised and shall be posted at the door
of the court house in the county or
counties of the residence of the per
son or jicrsons, natural or artificial,
to be affected thereby, or in which
the locality or municipality is situated
thirty days before the introduction
of such a bill in the house of repres
entatives, provided that when there
is 110 newspaper published in the
county where ..he local legislation is
asked, that notice of said bill shall
he published in the paper where the
sheriff’s sales are published, and in
all notices which are published under
this act it shall not be lawful for any
newspaper to eh age more than one
dollar per square for said notice, and
in case of refusal to publish at said
rates, then a publication in any oth
er newspaper having a circulation in
the county where the local legisla
tion is desired shall be sufficient.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That, the
production of the newspaper dated
thirty days prior to the introduction
of such a hill into the general assem
bly containing the notice required
by tliis act, with the certificate
of the ordinary that the notice
has been posted, shall be sufficient
evidence that such notice lias been
given in accordance with the require
ments of the constitution.
See. 3. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That ail
laws and parts of laws militating
against this act bo and the same art
hereby repealed.
Riffs E. Lester,
President of the senare
Wm. A. Ha kris,
Secretary of the senate.
T. P. SARCHETT.
An old man has left Greenup
county. Ky., for Lincoln county.
Mo., dragging in a handcart, his
scanty lionsehould goods and two
little girls. Their eider brother as
sists him.
“Lcmmo down c-a-s-y, Sheriff,”
were the last, words of Mr. Griffey,
of Tennessee.
A hotel at Norfolk, Va., has just
been sold for $25,000 on which $85.
000 lmd been expended when it was
opened last spring.
William Corky, who won Sir John
Astloy’s groat walking prize at Lon
don recently, is by trade a vender of
cats’ meat, and is in the habit of
walking from twelve to fifteen miles
daily on his rounds.
ARE YOU DRY?
If so, go tr see Wusli Baker, at his
first-class Saloon on Beech St., where he.
keeps constantly on hand, and for sale,
Wines, Whiskeys,
Brandies Beer,
Cider, Champagne,
Aud in fact, everything in the shape of
Liquors and Drinks to be. foiiud iu a first-
class Saloon.
ALSO
TOBACCO, CIGARS ETC.
G ivc me a call and you shall he convinc
«d. , , WASH BAKER,
bept. 18-tf. Cochkan Ga.
The Strubiug House.
TOOMSBORO GA.
0. H. L. STRUBING Proprietor
Thanking the Public for their libe
ral patrouage m the past. I respectfully
ask a continuance of the same. My house
is near the Depot aud first-class iu all
its appointments.
Good Conveyance
always in readiness to accommodate the
Travelling Public who may wish to go
from Toomsboro to Dublin or any other
point.
R. M. ARNAU,
Scientific Blacksmith,
Southeast Corner Public Square.
All work done warranted to please or no
charge.
BUGGY WORK A SPECIALTY.
KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND
A Fisk Assortment of Plows
—ALSO—
THE CELEBRATED ARNAU SWEEP.
Which is superior to any plow of the
/kind made in this country.’ With thanks
for past favors, we solicit the continuance
' of the same. *c 2U, ly-
After overt wenty years experience in the
LIQUOR BUSINESS,
I flatter myself that I know a little aljoui
t, and wish to inform the public that l?nm
AT MY OLD STAXD
On the corner of the Court House Square,
ready to serve all who want to purchase any-,
thing in my line. I keep always «>u hand a
full stock of
ALL KINDS OF [LIQUORS,
ANE
St;- Hiotx±s Beer
on draught. Also a fine stor k of
Family Groceries.
All of which I offer to sell
Cheap for Cash.
Give me a trial and be convinced. I am alsc
Agent for the
“OLD YALLEY WHISKEY/
ie 20. T. P. SAnciiETT.i
The National Hotel.
(Nearly opposite Passenger Depot,)
Hsicoxiy Georgia,
TERMS PER DAY, *0 00
SINGLE MEALS,. . .‘.‘.‘.Weta
r phe Proprietor feeling thankful forth#
JL very lilwral patronage he has received
for the last ten months, now begs h ave to
say that this
FIRST-CLASS HOTEL
Is in perfect order in all its arrange
ments, and the most convenient of anv iu
the city, being only 100yards from the Pas-
senger Depot office, where are uhvavs
To receive Baggage aud conduct Pa
gers to and from the Hotel.
1 have made such improvements t
enable me to accommodate all who mi
pleased to give us a call. My fare slia
as good as the fare of any house in the 1
and my terms reasonable. Call and tr
L. C. CORBETT. Prupriofi
w. F. CEFFCKEW,
Pudding and liepairing done to
Order. All work entrusted to me
deafly and Promptly executed at pri
ces to suit the times. Shop on south
cast corner Court House Square.
Call and sec.
June 20, ly
W. J. SCARBROUGHS CO,
DA 71 ROOM,
IP-ulTdILxxl., G-eo,
Keep always well supplied with
Aurora Beer,
WINES LIQUORS AND CIGARS
Also a good assortment of
Family Groceries,
iVhich they will sell at prices to suit tlie
times. Give them n call. je 20, tf;
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