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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.
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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.
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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,