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About The gazette. (Elberton, Ga.) 1872-1881 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1876)
TERMS. SUBSCRIPTION $2 a year $1 for six months —when paid in advance. Orders for the paper unaccompanied by the cash will not receive attention, unless from ourau thorized agents. ADVERTISEMENTS insettid fti $1.50 an inch for the first insertion, and 75 cents each subsequent insertion. Advertisements are due for after first insertion; transient advertising payable in advantc. OBITUARY NOTICES, of ten lines of less inserted gratis, all in excess of that amount will be Charged at regularadvcr tising rates, READING NOTICES inserted at 20 cts. per line —no deviation. REMITTANCES can be made by check, draft or registered letter at our risk, No re sponsibility for moneys paid to other than the Publisher and his published agents j. t. McCarty, Editor and Publisher. Democratic Convention, In pnrsuanco of a resolution passed by the Executive Committee of the Democratic party of Elberty county, on the 24th of Juno, 187(5, a Convention is called to meet at Elbcrton on the 4th Saturday in July. Said Convention to consist of three delegates from each Militia District elected at the various election precincts on the 3rd Saturday in July. Said Convention is called for the pur pose of electing delegates to the Guber natorial, Congressional and Senatorial Conventions, and to decide whether nominations shall be mado for cither Representatives or county officers, and if either are to be nominated to either nominate on said 4th Saturday, or fix a future day for nomination. It will also bo the duty of said Con vention to elect a now Executive Com mitteo of the Democratic party. The members of the party will please attend promptly to this call, for the is sues at stake ate too precious .to bo lightly estimated. We have but to do our duty fearlessly and victory is ours. Emory P. Edwards, President. JonN P. Shannon, Sec’y pro tom. — Tko Washington'Mail. Hereafter this mail will leave Wash ington on Wednesdays and Elborton on Thursdays. Flatwoods Academy. The exercises of this school will close on the 20th insfc. Great satisfaction is expressed by the patrons of the school with the progress of the pupils under the able management of Prof. 11. P. Sims. Madison for Oolqnitt. Wo have information from a trust worth source that Madison county will go almost unanimously for Colquitt Ho is stronger thero to-day than ever before. --*• Our Madison Subscribers Aro mistaken in supposing wo have mado efforts to have their mail changed. On the contrary, but for objections urged by the editor of The Gazette the time of the mail would have been changed. Knowing their wishes in the premises wo insisted on their being carried out. Practicing Physician. Dr. A. E. Hunter gives notice in an other column of his return to the prac tice of his profession. We hope ’the Doctor will succeed in building up a large and lucrative practice, which would also be a source of gratification to his many friends in this locality. An Agricutural Editor. After long and patient effort ■wo have secured,. ns agricultural editor of The Gazette, the services of a practical and very successful fanner. His many ex periments in improved agriculture have' added no little to the progress of scien title and educated farming, and his con tributions to our columns may be relied upon as worthy of fullest confidence. The Collegiate Institute. The reading of original compositions by the young ladies of the institute will take place Tuesday morning next. The concert will take place that night at the Male Academy, and from the character of the popular and finished musician who has tlio affair in charge, one of the rarest musical feasts will bo tho result. Admission free. W. L. Cornog. The announcement in our Hart county column of the doath of this excellent gentleman will bo sad news to his many lriends and admirers in Elbert. He was a large hearted, liberal minded man, and vron tlio esteem of all who knew him. He was ono of tho most active men of our railroad, and as a Director took a promi nent position in all that was to be done for the furtherance of that enterprise. His loss will he seriously felt in this and all other enterprises for (he development of our country. To Whom it maj Concern: I am authorized by one of the Board of Trustees ,lo say that the Orphan’s Home of the North Georgia Conference would be glad to receive one or two or phans from this county. They must b 6 in a destitute condition. Such as are without both father and mother prefer red. Please make application as early as practicable, as the Home is nearly full. For further particulars apply to Bro. J. H. Jones or myself at Elbcrton, or Rev. Jesse Boring, Washington, Ga. W. A. Swift. “It is a terrible drag” to think that it will be a whole hundred years before a second centennial 4th of July rolls around. The contest in Fulton was between Nassau and Olustrce, and we regret to say that the Confederates were beaten. Thiß is a severe blow at Atlanta’s pride. The Andrew Male High School. It might very reasonably be expected that a population like that contained in Elbert county could sustain a school of high grade without assistance from any other source, but when we consid er that the school we have is under the fostering care of the District Confer ence, it is a matter of astonishment that the patronage of the school is so mea gre. The county can of itself sustain such a school for boys if proper efforts aro used to accomplish the purpose, and we do hope the trustees and friends of the school will make an effort to secure such an attendance as shall be a credit to the institution and to the town in which it is located. The need, and we might truly say tho necessity, of such a school, where parents too limited in means to send their children to college could have them provided with equally as good an education as is ordinarily ob tained in a collegiate course, is almost absolute. True, tho institution now lacks the proper paraphernalia of instru ments and books to furnish such an edu cation ; but with the patronage which the school, on account of its location and many other recommendations, richly de serves, it would not be a very difficult matter, in our judgment, to supply these deficiencies. We have parents in Elbert who send to school in other counties, but we have never heard it was because our school was inferior to any of them. Therefore there must be other objec tions. Ay hat aro they ? Let them bo discovered and removed. As we have said, the school is under the fostering caro of the Methodist Conference of this district, but it is not a denominational school. Parents of any faith or belief —or of no faith or belief, for that mat ter—can send to this institution without fear of any attempt to change that faith or belief. We do not think objections should be urged—and we do not believe they are—against a school simply be cause it claims a denominational parent age, or has denominational trustees, or is presided over by a denominational teacher. If good teachers are provided it cannot make any material difference what the religious belief is, and, like wise, if trustees discharge their duties faithfully and conscientiously, it cannot matter to what sect they belong. It is not out of place to urge, therefore, that if objections of this character have been or are being brought against the school that the folly of entertaining them will be seen and they be banished. AA'hat stands in tho way of tho success of the Andrew Male High School wo have been unable to discover. The un mistakable progress made by the pupils as exhibited in tho recent examination, shows the school to be provided with a suitable teacher—and his declaration that if he stood in tho way of its pro gress any intimation to that effect would be immediately followed by his rosigua tion, clearly proves his desire for its success. AVe believe if the trustees thought they were not zealously dis charging their duty, they would resign ; and we further believe if the District Conference were convinced its parent age was a stumbling block and a burden to its offspring it would be turned adrift. AVo write these lines as suggestive to tho conference which shortly meets in Elberton. We trust the school ques tion will receive that consideration which it deserves, and that the endow ment of some favorite college, or some other pet scheme, will not cause it to be lost sight of, and we earnestly call upon the trustees, who meet at the same time, also to resolve upon some course which will result in the success of an institu tion that must provide many of the statesmen and soldiers of the future. Killed by Lightning. • We are pained to record one of the most shocking deaths that we have ever, in our career as a journalist, had to pub lish—the death of one of our most promi nent citizens by a thunderbolt. On Saturday afternoon last, at about 2 o'clock, Mr. Enoch Bdl was preparing to shoe his horse at the blacksmith shop on his premises, in which he was assisted by Mr. Geo. Bolton. Mr Bell was stand ing near a tree to which the horse was hitched, and near him was standing Mr. Bolton with a drawing-knife in his hands. The lightning struck the tree and passed down striking Mr. Bell and also the horse. He fell and the horse also fell with his neck across Mr. Bell’s feet. The electric fluid also struck the drawing knife in Mr. Bolton’s hands, blistering both hands and stunning Mr. Bolton. A negro who was in the shop ran to the house, about seventy-five yards distant, for help, which he obtained, and in per haps five minutes from the time of the affair, the party were at the shop. The body of Mr. Bell was immediately taken to the house, and after a full test, life was found to be extinct. The horse was also killed, but Mr. Bolton was only stunned, and was recovering from the shock when the party came for Mr. Bell’s body. It is thought the lightning struck Mr. Bell on tho side of tho face and passed down as far as the chest. He was buried on Sunday last. Enoch Bell was ono of Elbert’s most prominent citizens, a man of wide influ ence, largely known all over this section of country, and highly respected whero ever known. Ho leaves a large and in teresting family to mourn his loss, with whom we deeply sympathise in this dread affliction. He was in his 59th year, of strong constitution, and looked as though life had many years in store for him yet. This dreadful calamity caused a shock all over the county, whose effect will be felt for a long time to come. We have no war to make on General Colquitt or Col. Hardeman. If either one is nominated he shall receive the cheerful support of the Chronicle and Sentinel. We have not a word to say against any candidate either personally or politically ; but we claim the right to have and to express a preference before the nominotion. All that we ask is a fair fight and no favors. I [Chronicle & Sentinel. Here and There. No preaching in town last Sunday. Cider is being made by our fellow citizens. Several packages of last week’s Ga zettes failed to reach their destination punctually. It was no fault of this of fice. The rain interfered with the match base-ball game to some extent Saturday afternoon. The century question has abated a little, and now the question is, “Where was Moses when tho candle went out I" Roasting-ears have come, and some folks are happy. “AVko’s Wkaves and Heeler, no how ?” asked an Elbert man the other day who had crawled on tho outside of about six gin-slings. Saleday, 4th of July, and the one hundredth anniversary of the declara tion of independence in town yesterday. AVo think it was also the 4tli of July in Philadelphia. Our prepossessing young friend, Mr. J. R. Stephens, had the misfortune Sat urday of getting his hand badly man gled in attempting to catch a hot ball. Slay he soon recover. Two of Elberton’s gallant and hand some sons visited Hartwell last Satur day, but then they didn't participate in the picnic. The original effusions of the young ladies of the Female Institute and the literary address on Tuesday the 11th, and the concert on the night of that day, will bo the entertainment of the season. So great a treat should not be missed by any one. The City Editor of the Augusta Chron icle & Sentinel, is an adept at fitting Elberton locals to his town. The Varieties of Crawford have ac cepted the challenge of the Empires, and the game will be played at Lexington Depot next AA r ednesday the 12th. The Empires were out in their uniform last Saturday Count Richard Bromberg, will accept our thanks for the nice lot of apples he presented us with last week. This spir it of remembering, tho printer is noble, and no opportunity for its commendation shall pass us unnoticed. Vividily does the recollection of the celebration of yesterday a year ago in Elberton spring up before us. How great the contrast between then and now. Some of our boys would have been in Atlanta at tho James whiskey deluge to have advanced the cause of temperance, but then it was too far. A fair sample of the beauty and gal lantry of Elberton will be represented at tho Oxford commencement. George C. Grogan, from this county, has a ju nior speaker’s place at the Oxford col lego. The funeral of the late Mr. Sidney P. Bruce, was preached m the Methodist church last Thursday, and the attend ance was very large. His remains woro interred with masonic honors at the Presbyterian church. Some of our citizens are speaking of visiting Franklin Springs in August. A suitable site to summer it. Hurrah ! for Hilden and Tendricks ! Wonder if after they are elected to the presidencies, they won’t have the court house fixed. Vegetation was helped by tho recent rains. There is no two ways about it, the Elberton string band produces as good music as any band in the State when it tries. The bridge across Dove's creok is be ing reconstructed. Now the threshers are separating the wheat frem the chaff atarate that makes a common man's head swim. An intricate problem fur solution is wanted to take the place of the great century question. The average schoolboy now amuses himself by playing hide and seek with apples, blackberries, etc. He first seeks the fruit and then with great dexterity hides it under his vest. The pupils of tho female school are longingly looking forward to the time when their vacation comes on. They “want a rest. It would be well or at least convales cent for tho man who expects to be suc cessful as a candidate to take under con sideration the propriety of a public an nouncement. The girl that wears a pull-back dress never enjoys constitutional liberty. A certain Elbert man is willing to bet half he’s worth that he can distinguish the scent of a pole cat from any other in a millionth part of a quarter of a second, and not half try. “To owo is human, to pay up divine,’’ is now the way they have it. We arc alarmed for the weal of our county. So little havo wo heard of the aspiring 117 lately. The sidewalks in some places are be coming quite rough on some of our main streets. The county poor house has now only eight inmates, Beven of whom are fe males. Since tho death of G. W. Center, of Athens, several of the clerks formerly employed by the firm of Center & Heaves, have been knocked out of em ployment, among whom we learn is our enterprising and clever young friend Mr. W. B. Vail. Don’t forgot our offer for the finest melon. Serenadcrs break out occasionally now, and the midnight air is filled with music. Some of our readers will be astonish ed to learn that the work on the Motho dist church has not commenced. Colquitt appears to bo in the lead in this section. The mineral -spring contiguous to town is being resorted to by some of our invalids. Col. James S. Hammond, was the first to lay a cotton bloom on our table. He had dead oodles of them the last day of June. It is being whispered around that there will be a “social entertainment” in town at the terminus of the girls’ SGhool. A. H. Colquitt for Govornor, Mr. Editor : The time is near hand when the citizens of Elbert county will be called upon to select delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention, to be held in Atlanta, on the 2d of August nest. It will be the duty of the delegates to that Convention to nominate a Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia. The nominee will of course be elected, and the race lies in securing the nomination. Among the distinguished gentlemen whoso names have been suggested as suitable men to become the standard bearer of the Democracy of Georgia, Gen. A. H. Colquitt stands tho most prominent, and is beyond question the choice of the masses. Meddlesome pol iticians may accomplish a good deal by trying to put old men in office, men who have served their time, and are now in the last stage of life which you all know is childlike, so by a course of nature their rank in the official lines must be vacated and filled up with better men, so as to suit tho people and be up with tho times. As old books become obsolete and new ones take their places, so old men become fogy and obsolete and new once are needed, and we must have them. But these meddlesome politicians will hardly bo able in this .instance to divert the people from the man their choice. General Colquitt is not a politician, has never been a political trickster, and has not been an office seeker. His re cord is spotless ; his private character is without a blemish. He was a true sol dier in the late war, and each man that was with him who fought for tho “lost cause” will testify to tho same. In pri vate life he is calm and dignified as a philosopher, and his moral character is as pure as a lady’s. For a number of years past he has been President of the State Agricultural Society, and has been more fully identi fied with the farmers of Georgia than any man in the State. He has visited almost every part of tho State, during the last eight or ten years in the interest of the farmers, and has mingled with them moro, and knows their wants bet ter, and has done moro for them than any man in Georgia. He is one of the people, and is the people's choico for ’Governor. He has but few opposers ex cept office-seekers and street corner pol iticians. One of the ablest writers in Georgia in speaking of Gen. Colquitt has well sakl, “It must boa cause of congratulation to every good man in Georgia to see in tlieso days, when nomi nees and demagagism seem to be the winning cards, the people in one mass, true to their best interest, moving far word to honor this calm, tranquil patriot, this simple, decorous gentleman, who never,’knew a politician’s trick, or dema gogue’s shift.’' It evidences that the great popular heart is right after nil, and that when a pure, upright man, fitly qualified in every respect, and not too old, nor too young, offers his services to the public, he can afford to scorn the devices of tho wire-pullers and grog-shops schemes, and still move on easily and honestly to success. An Elbert County July 3d, 1876. Voter. THE PLATFORM. We, the delegates of the Democratic party of the United States, in National Convention as sembled, do here declare the administration of the Federal Government to be in urgent need of immediate reform. We do hereby enjoin upon the nominees of this Convention of the Democratic party in each State a zealous effort and co-operation to this end, and do hereby ap peal to our fellow-citizens of every former political Convention to undertake with us this first and most pressing pratriotic duty. For the Democracy of the whole country we do hereby reaffirm our faith in tho permanency of the Federal Union, our devotion to the Consti tution of the United States, with its amendments universally accepted as a final settlement of the controversies that engendered civil war, and do here record our steadfast confidence in the per petuity of Republican self-government; in ab solute acquiesence in the will of the majority the vital principle of the Republic; in tho su premacy of the civil over the military authority; in the total separation of Church and State, for the sake alike of civil and religious freedom ; in the equality of all citizens before the just laws of their own enactment; in the liberty of individual conduct, unvexed by sumptuary laws; in the faithful education of the rising genera tion, that they preserve, enjoy and transmit these best conditions of human happiness and hope. We behold the noblest products of a hundred years of changeful history, but while upholding the bond of our Union and the great charter of these our rights, it behooves a free people to practice also that eternal vigilance which is the price of libeity. Reform is neces sary to rebuild and tstablish in the hearts of the whole people the Union eleven years ago happily rescued from the danger of a corrupt centralism, which after inflicting upon ten States the rapacity of carpet-bag tyrannies has honey combed the offices of the Federal Government ifgetf with incapacity, waste and fraud, infected States and municipalities with the contagion of misrule, and locked fast the property of an in dustrious the paralysis of hard times reform is reccessary to establish a sound cur rency, restore the public credit and maintain the National honor. We denounce the failure for all fthese eleven years to make good the promise of the legal tender notes which are a changing standard of value in the hands of the people, and tho non-payment of which is a dis regard of the plighted faith of the nation. We denounce the improvidence which in eleven years of peace has taken from tho people in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole amount of jthe legal notes, and squandered four times this sum in useless expenses without accumulat ing any reserve for their redemption. We de nounce the financial imbecility and immorality of that party wbich during eleven years of peace has made no advance toward resumption ; that instead has obstructed resumption by wast ing cur resourcos ;and exhausting all our sur plus income, and while annually professing to intend a speedy return to specie payments, has annually enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As such a hindrance we denounce the resumption clause of the act of 1875, and we here demand its repeal. We demand a judicious system of preparation by public economists, by official re trenchments and by wise finance, which shall enable the nation to assure t.be whole world of its perfect ability and its perfect readiness to meet any of its promises at the call of the creditor entitled to payment. We believe such a system well devised, and above all, entrusted to competent hands for execution, creating at no time an artificial scarcity of currency and at no time alarming the public mind into a with drawal of that vast machinery of’ credit by which ninty-fiv© per cent, of all business trans actions ate performed. A system open, public and inspiring general confidence would, from the day of its adoption, bring healing in its wings to all onr harassed industry, and Bet in motion the wheels of commerce, manufactures and the mechanical nits, restore employment to labor and renew in all its national soutcq the ' prosperity of the people. Reform i3 a necccssity i in the sum and mode of Federal taxation, to I the end that capital be set fVee From distrust : and labor lightly burdened. We denounce the ! present tariff, levied upon neariy 4,000 articles, i as a masterpiece of injustice in equality an® > false pretence, tt yields a dwindling, not a I yearly rising revenue. It has impoverished many industries to subsidize a few, It prohib* • its imports that might purchase the products of 1 American labor. It has degraded American commerce from the first to an interior rank up on the high seas. It has cut down the sales of American manufactures at home and abroad and depleted the returns of American agricul ture or industry followed by half our peoplo. It costs the people five times moro than it pio dnees jto the Treasury, It obstructs the pro cesses of production and wastes the fruits of labor. It pfdmoteS fraud and fosters smug gling; enriches dishonest officers and bank, rupts honest merchants. We demand that all Custom House taxation shall be on!y;for reve nue. Reform is neccessarv in tho scale of pub lib expetlse, Federal, State and municipal. Fed eral taxation has swollen from $00,000,000 gold iu 1860 to $450,000,000 currency in 1870 ; our aggregate taxation from $184,000,000 gold in 1860 to $?30,000,000 currehcy In 1870, or in one decade ;from less than five dollars per head to more than eighteen dollars per head. Since the peace, the people have paid to their tax gatherers more than tfriCe the sum of the national debt and more than twice that sum for the Federal Government alone. We derttand a vigorous frugality in every department, and from every officer of ‘ho Government reform is reccessary to put a stop to tho profligate waste of public lands and their division from actual settlers by "the party in power, which has squandered two hundred millions of acres upon railroads 'alone, “and out ;of more than thrice that aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth directly to tillers of the soil. Reform is necessary to correct tho omissions of a Republican Congress and the errors of eur treaties and our diplomacywhich have stripped onr fellow-citizens of foreign birth and kindred race recrossing the Atlantic of the shield of American citizenship and have exposed our brethren of the Pacific const to the incursion of a race* not sprung from the same great parent stock, and in fact now by law dnied citizen ship through naturalization, as being neither accustomed to the traditions of a progressive civilization nor exercised in liberty under equal law3. We denounce; the policy which thus discards the liberty loVirrg German, and tolerates the revival of the Coolie trade in Mon golian women, imported for immoral purposes and Mongolian men hired to perform servile labor contracts, and demand such modifica tion of the treaty with the Chinese >mpire;or such legislation by Cohgress within a con stitutional limitation as shall prevent the fur ther importation or immigration of the Mon golian race. Reform is uecessary, and can never be effected but by making it the controlling issue of the elections, lifting it above tho false issues with which the office-holding class and the party in power seek to smother it. The false issue with which they (Would enkindle sectarian strife in respect to the public schools, of which the establishment to support belong ing exclusively to the several Stales and which the Democratic party lias cherished from tho;r foundation and resolVed to maintain, without partiality or preference for anyjclass, sect or creed, and without contributing lioni tho Treas ury to any false issue by which they seek to light anew the dying etnbfcrs of sectional hate between kindred people once unnaturally es tranged, but nsw reunited in one indivisible Republic and a common destiny. Reform is necessary in the civil service. Exporieecc proves that efficient, economical conduct of the governmental business is not possible if its civil service be subject to change at every elec tion, be a prize fought for at the ballot box, bo albriefjreward of party zeal instead of posts of honor assigned for proved competency and held for fulclily in the public employ ; that the dis pensing of patronage should neither be a t.vx upon the time of all our public men nor the in stminent o'i their ambition. Here again pro fessions falsified in the porforuianee attest that the party in power can work out no practical or salutary reform. Reform is neceesrary even more in the higher grades of public service—in President, Vice-President, Judges. Senators, Representatives, Cabinet officers. These and all others in authority are the people’s servants. Theii offices are not a private perquisite. They are a public trust. When the annals of tills Re public show the disgrace aud censure of a Vice- President, a I2te Speaker of the House of Rep resentatives, marketing his rulings as a presid ing officer, three Senators profiting secretly by their votes as law makers, five Chairmen of the leading committees of tli* late Mouse of Repre sentatives exposed in jobbery, a late Treasurer forcing balances in the public accounts, a late Attorney-General misappropriatingpublic funds, a Secretary of the Navy enriched or enriching friends by per centages levied off tho profits of contractors with IPs Department, an embassador to England censured in a dishonorable specula tion, the President’s private Secretary barely escaping conviction on trial for guilty complicity in frauds on the Revenue, a Secretary of War impeached for high crimes and confessed misde meanors, the demonstration is complete that the first step in reform must be the people’s choice of honest men from another parly, le.t the dis ease of one political organization infect the body politic, and thereby making no'change of men or party we can get no change of measure and no reform. ;All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the product of sixteen years’ ascendancy of the Republican party, create a necessity for reform confessed by Republicans themselves. Rut their reformers are voted down in Convention and displaced from the Cabinet. The parties and mass of honest votes is powerless to resist the eighty thousand office holders, its leaders and guides. Reform can only be had by a peaceful, civii revolution. We demand a change of sys tern, a change of administration, a change of parties, that we may have a chnng e of measures and of men. The vote on the adoption of the platform stood—yeas, 657 ; nays, 83. _ <y<T> ♦ An absent Winded Ohio woman got the coffee pot ready for boiling and then carefully placed it on a chair and set herself on the stove. Al though the occasiou was dreadfully suggestive of some of the early martyrs she managed to derive some consolation out of it from the well improved opportunity it afforded her of obliging her husband to buy her anew dress, which, as soon as she wa3 well enough, she made up her self with the assistance of the "Domestic” Fashions and anew “Domestic” se wingraachine. Harden says the latest stylo of bon nets look like a big sunflower blown up against the female bump of self esteem by a passing gale. 177 ft CENTENNIAL TRANSPORTATION IQ7ft Kill arrangement 10! II Great Atlantic Coast Line! FOR tho ACCOMMODATION °' VISITORS to ALL POINTS SOUTH The Railway and Steamship Companies between Augusta and Philadelphia, comprising the ATLANTIC COAST LINK, will, during the progress of The Centennial Exhibition of the United States, present for the patronage of tho citizens of the South routes of transp irtation and forms of tiekr'R upon which to reach Philadelphia that will immeasurably excel all other lines in poirt of r)i- RECT DAILY MOVEMENT, COMFORTABLE ACCOMMODATION, VARIABILITY of TRANSIT, ECONOMY OF EXPENDITURE. To enablo this to he done, the combined Railway Lines gt nth ot Norfolk, together with those of tho Baltimore Steam Packet Company and the Old Dominion Steamship Company, will bo employed, and the individual tourist, the serial party Ot ten, twenty or more, or the civic or military organization ot 100 to 300, can each he eared (Or in a manner that will satisfy their desires. Price Lists, Time Curds and all needful information are now in hands of all Agents of this fine. It will be to the interest of every individual or organization proposing to make this trip to communicate with the undersigned ®gy*'A Centennial Exhibition Guide Book as authorised \>f the Commission will foe given to the purchaser of each Centennial Ticket. [myls-4m] • A. POPE, General Passenger Agen. 1 Corn and Cotton, Planted's report upland corn in gt > Condition and prohmifeg well. B< if corn, where Rot injured b£ the fi Ibo in a flourishing condition. W' ic the washed bottoms have been fopb.M Which is generally the case; the corn r up.and growing off vigorously Cotton is abdut two week* boUiiul, e cept in a few instances, but is growin; well, and, with good seasons, will tun out well, AA'o received last week a number o cotton blooms from various parts of tin county, and we heard of some as far back ns two weeks ago. These; however, aro from forward patches, and; are by no means a criterion of tho general crop. Notice. I iiave mislaid the following books, and if any person knowb of then - where abouts they will confer a favor by return ing to iliy ofice: Vanity Fair, Los Miserables, Wander ing Jew, Lothair; Frank Fairleigh, AVcnderohs Strange, Monto Christo, Cometh up as a flower, Scottish Chiefs, Childr&n of tho Abbef. , Doubtless fnany of fchfepo books’ have been loaned, nnd parties Jhavo forgotten the lender. I would be glad to get any or all of them. John P. Shannon. Fourth of July Celebration. The centennial anniversary of Amcri can independence was Celebrated in an appropriate manner by the people of Elbert county yesterday, but the great press of mattor previously made upon our columns prevents onr publishing tho proceedings this wock, they will appear in full next week. “\A r hy is it,” queried Quiz, “that When you notice a young married man who is bald headed, you turn to look imme diately at tho muscular power of tho wife’s hand ?” — • + A Texas man returned a napkin to a hotel waiter with thanks; saying that his cold was not very bad. 0 tlol ng to Ivansas or ( olnxia. The Atchison, Toneka and Santa Fc Railroad the new nnd popular lino from Atchison nnd Kansas City, via tho beautiful Arkansas Valley to Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Denver, Canon Ciiy, Carbarns, Del Norto, Trinidad, Snhta Fo and all Colorado, New Mexico, end Aiizonn, Special round trip 90 day tickets to Denver on sale May 15th, nt SSO, taking in . the famous watering places on the 1). Sc It. G. Road. How emigrant rates to tho San Juan Mines. Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars between the Missouri River nnd tho Rocky Mountians without change. Close connections made at Kansas City and Atchison in Union Depots. Fob maps, time tables and tho “San Juan Guide,’’ addreSs , T. J. ANDERSON, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Topeka, Kansas. Feb 9 ’76.-tf. ANJVOinttCteM fcSitfs. Tho friends of T. M Turner respect fully announce him as a candidate tor the (ten era! Assembly of Georgia. The many friends of Tiios. S. Gaines respectfully announce him as a candidate foe the office of Tax Collector, subject to a nomina tion beforo the chnvetitloff if one fs held. At Reduced Prices! Miss FANNIE RK’fc Respectfully announces that sfie #?fl fe'ave El berton on the lSth inst., and that,Until that time she will soil the goods remaining on hand at reduced paices. She will return in the fall with a FULL STOCIit of goods /suited to this market, of which due notice will be given. April 26, 1876—3 m. ECONOMIZE I MONEY SAVED IS MONEY MADE If Send us the CASH with your orders for the following goods : BEST FALCON STEEL PENS at 60 PER GROSS. Sent Id any address by mail fo'fi the price. Will sell e.ny Hooks, Stationery, ??!ark-board Crayons, &C:, &c., at less .Vhrtn flow York or Philadelphia prices, at retail for the CASH. Will order nnd deliver here WEBSTER’S UNABRIDGED DHJTIONAfef, New Illustrated 3,000 Engravings, nt SIO.O0 —the regular price is $12.00. HOUSEKEEPERS, LOOK! “Mow Wow Chop” Tea (rb, FOc. Tfl IT). “He No Chop” Tea (Mixed) @ $1 00 q? lb. "Tong Foo Chop” Tea (Green) @ $1.25 IJO lb. These Teas are fresh and just from China ii: original packages,and arc aajgood (perhaps bet ter) ns the Tens for which you usually pay sl.sGt~ to $2.00 per lb. Send us the Cash for sample pound and be convinced. E. B. BENSON k CO, mar—.ls, ’76.tf HirtWell, On. ®1 O a day at home. Agents wanted. Out 1/O fit and terms free. TRUE & CO., lj. . Augusta, Maine,
