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itORANttK, UKUB0M, JUNK 7, 18J7
FOR TUB CONVENTION.
Thirly-«rvri*.li Htx.«torlal Dlatrl.t*
W. O. TTOaLE. "7 Troup
W. O. SWANSON of Troup
L. L. HAliDV, Sr. of Troup
B W. HARRIS of Carroll
B 1~ ROWK of Carroll
T. M. AWllREY of Hoara
Election Juno 12, 1877.
**All contracts made and not executed during
THE LATE REBELLION, with the intention
and for the purpose of aiding and encouraging
said REBELLION, or when it was the purpose
and intention qf any one of the parties to such
contract to aid and encourage such REBELLION',
etc., etc.”
So nays article 11 of aectiou 17, of the couBti-
tation of Georgia, enacted “by order ot General
Pope.”
The bloody shirt is wan hod at last.
The Bashi-Bazouks cut off tbo calves of their
prisoners’ legs.
There is a Methodist church in Colorado
Which has not a male member. Whew f
Home of the papers are spelliug J. E. B.
fHoarfc’s' name “Stewart.” Such is la me.
The “New Leander” in the Augusta Chronicle
is coutiuued so long that it has become an ole
andtr.
Is there a white man in Troup couuty who
will say by his voto that the Confederate dead
were traitors? ^
Was your brother, who lost his life in the
Confederate aroiy, a traitor ? The present con
stitution says so.
It is suggested that the Turku ought to get
tkeir revenge by blowing up the names ot Rus
sian Generals with torpedoes.
CONLEY'S ADDRESS TO REPUBLICANS.
another reason why democrats should vote
FOR A CONVENTION,
The present constitution brands the Confed
erate dead as traitors and the late war as a re
bellion. Will you endorse it by your voto ?
i Atlauta
Fatty Harris is publishing a paper
and fighting against the constitutional conven
tion. How would you like to fight with Fatty ?
The Warrenton Clipper publishes a war map
that lays all others in the shade, and it gives a
description of some members of the press gang,
that is almost inimitable.
Was the late war a rebellion? The present
constitution sajs so, aud if you vote for the
present constitution, you say so too. Are you
ready to say that ?
Hoa cholera destroys annually in the Western
States $20,000,000 worth ol the precious swine.
How about the turnip cure ? Has it gone to
join General Pleasonton ?—Augusta Chronicle.
Atlanta, Ga., May 22* 1877.
To the Republicans of Georgia: The General
Assembly, at its recent sesHiou, directed the
Governor to oall a oouveution of the people for
the purpose of revising our State constitution, if
the people, after voting upon the question, shall
decide that a oouveution shall bo had. This
question is submitted for your votes on tho 12th
day of Juue.
The day ot this election is close at baud, aud
the question to be decided is one of vital import
to us, not only as Republicans, but as good citi
zens of our State; aud it behooves us to take
such action as wo conceivo the interest of the
commonwealth requires; and what wo do must
bo done vigorously and without delay.
The Chairman of your State Central Coramit-
toeo, for whom few of us, and uono of our oppo
nents, have any respect, seems to have aban
doned the organization, and left tho State.
Therefore, os a member of that Committee,
having tho interest of the State at lieurt, I
have taken the responsibility of colling upou
you to organize to meet this great question.
It is unquestionably our duty to exert our
selves to the utmost to defeat this Convention.
Tho Constitution under which we now live
guarantees to every color, a fair aud equal show
ing in the race of life, embracing, as it does,
every provision coutaiued in any of the Consti
tutions of Georgia, which has, under the im
partial test of time, been found beneficial to
our people. Could auy Constitution to bo
made do more than this ?
A Convention once assembled, is beyond all
control, savo its own will. Alter overturning
the entire Government ol tho State, it might
put upon the people, at the cost of a quarter of
a miliiou of dollars, a Constitution made ab-
horreut by tho re-establishment of the whip
ping-post, and imprisonment for debt; by tbo
abolition of the homestead ; by the abrogation
of the right ot married womeu to hold property;
by the obliteration of all provision for the edu
cation of the children of the State ; by an elec
tive judiciary, under which system it is the in
terest of the judge to court favor with the
strong aud oppress the weak, and by mauy
other features unsuited to the enlightened age
in which we live.
If this Convention is called, it will be done
through the efforts ot the Bout bon element of
tho Democratic party, who will control its de
liberations, who have ever been dead to the
voice of progress and humanity, aud whose
chiel objection to our present C*. ustitution is,
that it declares Georgia to be a State of Ameri
can Union. If the Convention must assemble,
it is our duty, by our vigorous opposition, to
fix tho responsibility therefor upon this dis
turbing element ot society. The great conser
vative elemeut of the Democratic party, with
us, oppose this convention, because it is alike
expensive aud inexpedient.
The Cons'ltution of 18G8 may have its defects,
but we had
NEW8 ITEMS.
Cotton in North Carolina is not quite as good
as last year.
A Udul wave swept from Civllao to Chili. Eight
hundred lives were lost.
The Governor of Illinois lias vetoed the bill
makiug silver a legal tender.
A fire iu Baltimore, starting from a coal refin
ery, caused a loss of $75,000.
Tho Turks recovered Ardahan, after the Rus
sians had reduced it to ruins.
Wilmington, N. O., is under Democratic oou-
trol (or the first time since the war.
Tho Gruoks are preparing for war. The dis
tribution of arms has been ordered.
The Russians were repulsed on May 30th, at
Batnuni, after ten hours of fighting.
A Frenchman iu Hartford, who was bitton by
a dog April 30th, diod May 31st,of hydrophobia.
A large uieetiug of republicans iu Rome,Italy,
last Thursday condemned tho intrigues of tho
clergy.
The Standard says the corporation of tho city
of Loudon will tender General Grant the freedom
of the city iu a gold snuff box.
Three men were found near a mine,at George
town, Colorado, killed by an explosion ot pow
der. There was no Kurvivor to tell tho story.
MouRieur Fourtou, Miuister of the Interior iu
France, has resolved to forbid all political meet
ings of over tweuty peftous. There’s a republic
for you 1
The papers regarding the Chisolm tragedy in
Mississippi havo all been referred to the Attor
ney-General. It is said that one of the viotims
was a British subject.
The editorial manager of the MarsellAise, a
Freuch newspaper, has been sentenced to three
months’ imprisonment aud a fiue of 4,000 francs
for insulting President McMahon.
Orders have been issued to Gen. Ord, com
manding Uuited StuteB troops, iu Texas, to in
vite the co-operation of the Mexican authorities
in suppressing raids into Texas. In case tho
authorities do not join him, he is to stop the
depredations anyhow, even if he has to cross the
liue to do it.
The Cousul at Havre reports a mutiny ou
board the brig C. C. Sweeney, of Herrington,
Maine, May 16. A few hours after leaving Ha
vre, six men refused to obey the mate, Henry
Harris. They killed him, and attacked the cap
tain and second mate,wtio barricaded themselves
in the captain’s cabin. Through the faithfulness
of the cook and steward and two men the vessel
wab brought back to Havre.
FORAGING ON OUR EXCHANGES.
New Advertisements.
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Boutwell declares that the slave-holding dy
nasty has obtaiued control ot the fitteen old
•lave-holding States, the constitutional amend
ments are in danger, and everything is going to
the dogs generally.
In the General Pope constitution, article 33 of
Section 1, says “every citizen thereof [of Geor
gia,] owes paramount allegiance to the constitu
tion and government of the Uuited States.”
This is a lie; will you endorse it by your vote
next Tuesday?
Seventeen years ago Grant was hard up tor a
drink of mean whisky, and used occasionally to
interview the gutter. Now he is scrambled for
by Dukes and Princesses, as an “ex-sovereign,”
who fought against his own countrymen and
improved upou the absolutism of the Czar.—.4u-
gusta Chronicle.
McVeigh's letter to Butler, denouncing the
main statements of Butler's letter to Pitkin at
base and cowardly falsehoods, has this sentence
'T had no money of my own to spare, aud it is
only a military commandant of New Orleans in
time of war who enu safely appropriate any con
aiderable quantity ol the propei ty of others to
his own use.”'
Miss Hadlock, of North Troy, Vermont, ou
Saturday threw red pepper iu Mr. Hatch's eyes,
and daring his embarrassmeut cruelly cowhided
him. Hatch is an editor. The Courier-Journal
■ays he should take the New York Times’ advice
and insist that “the whole power of the United
States Government should be used to make life
and property respected”—in Vermont. The
outrage certainly demauds Federal interference.
The funeral of Fletcher Harper, the last of
the four Harper Brothers, the widely-known
publishers of New York, occurred last Thursday
in that oity. The great establishment ou Pearl
■treet, valued at about $3,000,000, and theim
mense income from the business of the firm,
tall into the keepiug of the numerous sons ol
the brothers. The profits from Harper’s Week
ly, Harper’s Magazine, and Harper’s Bazar aloue
are $400,000.
In the press telegrams there appears a state
ment made by General B. F. Butler, to the ef
fect that he neither owned or expected to own
an inch of laud in Colorado.
In the records ol Pueblo county appears a
warrantee deed from William Craig, to Benja
min F. Butler, for 71,638 aoresofland. The
dead is dated April 20th, 1877, and there is no
evidence to show that it is not bona fide. The
•onsideratiou was $30,000.
Article 25 of Section 1, of the Genertfl Pope
constitution, which wo are now living uuder,
■ays: “Treason against the State of Georgia
•ball consist ol levying war against the State
•r the United States.”
Are you prepared to sny by your vote that tho
brave men who fought during the Into war were
guilty of treason? Are you prepared to ac
knowledge yourself a traitor ? If so vote to con
tinue the present constitution.
••Rather bear those ills we have,
Thau fly to others we know not of,”
trusting their remedy to the patriotism of the
people uuder the mode now provided for
amending tho organic law.
Therefore let our friends, in every county of
the State, orguuize, and ou the second Tuesday
in June, poll our full vote against this Conven
tion; and insure its defeat.
Your fellow-citizen,
Jno. L. Conley,
Member Rep. State Ceu. Com.
PLATFORM OF THE CANDIDATES.
Fust Maine man, who has just murdered his
wifi: “I see by the papers that them infernal
Misaissippiaua have gone to killing each other
again. No man’s life is safe down there.”
Beoond Maine man, who has lately strangled
bia aged father: “It's my opinion that this
> Hayes is just as much a traitor as them rebels
is, the 'tarual sneak. I just wish Jim Blaine
••old be President lor about two minutes--he'd
straighten out them pisen sarpints.”—Courier-
JbumaL
The convention which framed the present
•OBftitution consisted of 172 members. Ol
tbeae, seventy-6even were native Georgians, and
sinaty-five were not. Twelve were iu sympathy
with Georgia, and one hundred and sixty were
■ot* One John T. Costin, a negro, who pre
tended to represent Talbot county had not lived
in that county ten days pi ior to the election,
nod savor lived there afterwards. He was a
specimen. Reader, do you want to live under
* constitution so framed?
A letter baa been received from Gov. Stone,
of Mississippi, dated May 18tb, in which he
elates that he bad twioe visited Kemper county,
ijnss tbe Chisholm tragedy. The utmost quiet
prevailed and he hAd assurance that an extra
term of court would be held iu order that the
fffih might have an early judicial investigation;
and ha shows that there was no necessity for
Iroopa to protect anybody after the unfoitunate
econrrence. That there was no danger of any
mob, and it was folly to mix up military and
tjvil law, under the circumstances.
By request we give the following outline of
our views :
1. Should the people call a convention, we
favor a short busiueas session ; $5 per diem
for members nnd for one secretary and one as
sistant, and limiting all the expenses of the con
vention to the $25,000 appropriated by the leg
islature.
2. A constitution representing the real princi
ples aud sentiments of our people, retaining all
that is good in the present instrument aud omit
ting such features as are objectionable, especial
ly such as admit that confederate soldiers were
traitors, that as citizens we owe paramount alle
giance to the Federal government aud similar
doctrim s.
3. General retrenchment iu governmental
expenses, abolishing all unnecessary offices,
prohibiting the increase of the public debt, re
straining taxatou in state, counties, cities and
towus, restricting the powers of all corporations
and requiring them to pay taxes like individuals
and in every way making the true welfare of the
whole people tho object of our state govern
ment.
4. Reduction of representation iu the legisla
ture on a basis just to all sections, fixing the
per diem ot $5, paying the cierk aud secretary
according to the work actually doue and requir
ing them to pay all assistant clerks out of their
own compensation. $27,000, have been expeuded
in one y« nr tor clerical work iu tbe legislature.
Bienuial sessions would save a considerable
amount. Iu 1876 the legislative expenses were
$111,183. So with many other practicable
changes which can be made without injury to
good government.
5. We are iu favor of a peramueut homestead
secured lor tho beuefit of the family, the fee
simple estate to descend to children. The con
stitution ought to protect it so that neither the
legislature nor the cjurts could deprive tho wife
and children of their homestoad rights. Iu
practical operation the preseut homestead law
has been rendered almost worthless.
These are our views ou the subjects referred
to, and are given by request that our fellow citi
zens may know our sentiments. Should we be
honored with seats iu the convention, we shall
endeavor to contribute our limited influence in
framing an organic law, liberal, conservative
progressive and acceptable to the people of Geor
gia.
Respectfully,
N. G. Swanson,
L. L. Hardy Sr.
June 6tb 1877. W. O. Tuggle.
Logan will be collector of customs at Chicago.
Key recently made a speech at Nashville, and
said he is 6till a Democrat.
Doun Piatt says “God might make a worse
man than O. P. Mortou, but he never did.”
Gen. Dick Taylor lives in London and plays
a remarkably good game of whist.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, formerly ol Virginia
delivered the memorial address over the Feder
al dead at Brooklyn.
Gov. Houston, of Alabama, will probably
succeed Speucer in the United States Senate.
Col. Pleasnuut Stovalle, of the Augusta Chron.
& Cou. is a capital news editor. This is proved
by tUe way he forages on the LaGrange Reporter.
Gov. Drew, of Florida, is trying to make sev
enty-five bushels of corn to the acre.
Does the head-line man of the Constitution
edit its war-maps?
Grant weighs 185 pounds.
Mr. John Deuu, the father of four children at
a birth, has laid dowu the axiom that a man
who would not get drunk uuder similar circum
stances is a “baste aud an infidel.”
Dr. Ayer never showed auy signs of insanity
uutil he abandoned pills for politics.
Rev. Mr. Peck, iu his address at Baltimore,
ou decoration day, alluded to Grant as “the
Iron Duke.” Jim Fisk, seme years since,
more properly described him as “the National
Hog. ”
The Sheriff of Kemper county, Mississippi, is
“a fat, one-legged man.” Perhaps this accounts
for his not catching those criminals.
President Hayes had a private Secretary
named R. E. Lee. He is uow Cousul at Frank
fort.
Vice-President Hendricks will sail for Europe
ou the 13th iust.
FOR AND AGAINST.
LOOK ON THIS PICTURE.
Here are some of tho prominent men iu
Georgia who are in favor of a convention to do
away with the present outrage:
John B. Gordon,
A. II. Stephens,
Hiram Warner,
Robert P. Trippe,
A. R. Lawton,
Rufus E. Lester,
Nelsou Tift,
Jus. H. Blount,
T. J. Simmons,
Eli W'arren,
R. J. Moses,
Porter Ingram,
Henry R. Harris,
Johu Collier,
James M. Smith,
E. W. Beck,
J. W. H. Uuderwood,
Win. M. Reese,
E. H. Pottle,
Warren Akiu,
Benj. H. Hill,
Charles J. Jenkins,
Herschel V. Johuson
James Jackson,
Tnos. M. Norwood,
Henry li. Jackson,
A. H. Hausell,
Thos. Hardeman,
Julian Hartridge,
A. O. Bacon,
Martiu J. Crawford,
A. H. Chappell,
Hugh Buchanan,
N. J. Hammond,
A. H. Colquitt,
A. M. Speer,
W. T. Wofford,
Robert Toombs,
Augustus Reese,
Wm.D. Alexander,
D. A. Vasou,
And hundreds of others of the best men in
the State who have only local prominence.
NOW LOOK ON THIS !
Here are souio prominent men who are op
posed to a convention:
Foster Blodgett, John L. Conley,
H. P. Farrow, A. T. Akerman,
Benj. Conley, Fatty Harris,
Johu E. Bryant, Tuuis G. Campbell,
Jesse W. Jackson,
And all the others of the Radical crew.
Reader, with which company will you ally
yourself ?
—The Wesleyan Female College has 180 pu
pils.
Mr. Thomas Wood, of Romo, died snddou-
ly of ora <>p colic, Tuesday night.
Mr. W. H. Sims, forinorly of Lexington, is
Lieutonant-Goveruor of Mississippi.
The Conyers pools have joined a baeo bull
olub, and have ceased from troubling.
The Columbus Times speaks of a certain
man as tho **uoeom pi titled head” of a picnic.
—A oar load of Mustang ponies pissed
through Cuthbert, Monday, eu route for Florida.
The wheat crop is splendid all over the
State. From all quarters come complaints of
dr«. uth.
A negro girl iu Taliaferro, proposing to
burn out some snakes, came near burning up
Mr. Mann’s house iu that county.
—W. F. M. Greenway, one of the informers
on reveuue raids in Gilmor, was shot in the heel
by some unknown person, a few days ago.
—A dwelling and an out-houRe ou tho planta-
tation of Mr. Conkling Brown, of Green county,
were destroyed by fire on last Monday morn-
iug.
—Mr. Green Arnold, an old citizen of Twiggs,
was killed on the 14th ult., by haviug adminis
tered to him by mistake a large dose of mor
phine.
—A beautiful young miss, of fifteen summers,
has been pardoned out ot the Atlanta chain
gaug to whioh she had been seutenoed for
twelve months.
—There is a lady living in Emanuel couuty
who has a silk dress of her own make through
out. She raised the silk, dyed it, wove it, aud
made the dress.
—Capt. C. W Henderson, of the Cadets, was
eleoted Major of the Atlanta battalion on Friday
night. He received 134 votes, Joe Sorutchius
ol the Blues, 100.
—Of Judge Aliuude Bradley, the Griffin News
says he has a face dark enough to pass for a
mulatto, aud mean looking enough to oount in
a half dozen fraudulent Presidents.
—A man in Burke county sued the Central
road last week for killing his dog, aud put the
damages at $75. The jury, after being out all
night, gave him a verdict for $15.
—A difficulty occured iu Johnson county, be
tween Thos. Logue and William Johnsou, in
which the former struck the latter with a pole,
breaking his arm and fracturing his skull.
—The Lumpkin Independent remarks: “Just
for a change we would like a Mister nominated
for the Convention just once. So far, no one
below the grade of Captain has been honored.”
—Dalton is to have a soap factory very soon,
a gentleman from Illinois having taken hold of
the establishment of this industry, which the
Euterprise thinks will probably pay a hand
some dividend.
—Jas. Williams, four years since, killed
young Marshall, i •• Wilkes county and fled to
Texas. He has now returned to Washington,
remorseful aud conscience-stricken, and will
stand his trial.
—Twenty dollars an acre for Georgia dirt has
an ante-bellum smack, but the Hawkinsville
Dispatch says Mr. Stetson, of that place, paid
it the other day for 100 acres aud a dwelling
house ou Piue Level, iu Pulaski couuty.
—The Mirror says that a large number of the
wells of Fort Vulley have almost failed. The
public well which has always afforded an abun
dance of good water, has about failed. All the
pouds arouud towu have completely dried up.
—A Cobb couuty wornau, who moved to Kan
sas a few years ago, writes back thut she has
done about as well out there as she could ex
pect uuder the circumstances. She has buried
three husbauds, aud had two pairs of twins and
the small pox.
—A sufferer from the depredations of flower
thieves iu Atlauta complains that the splendid
geraniums, fuschias heliotropes, etc., which
adorn the front yards of the dwellings, are be
ing stolen and sold at from ten to twenty-five
ceuts, and the vigilant police make no arrests.
—A statement of tho receipts of hog meats
at Atlauta, for the first four mouths ol this year,
as compared with the first fofir months of 1876,
shows that the excess in favor of 1877 is some
thing over tweuty per cent. The statement is
oompiled from the books of the Western aud
Atlantic Railroad, and is therefore accurate.
—Judge Cincinnatus Peeples, of the Atlanta
Circuit Superior Couit, died iu Atlanta on Fri
day night of Bright's disease of the kidneys.
His age was about fifty years. He was an able
jurist and a true Christian. He was appoiuted
Superior Court Judge by Gov. Smith in 1876.
He married a daughter of Judge Cabauiss, aud
was once State Senator.
—The Chronicle and Constitutionalist says it
is now a settled fact that the Augusta aud
Knoxville Railroad will be built “at no distant
day.” Also that there 6eems to be no doubt
that a “large cotton factory, with a capucity of
30,000 spindles, which may be increased to
100,000, will soon bo erected on the site of the
old Confederate Powder Works.”
—The Cartersville Express says that Acworth
a point of great interest just uow, of largo
gold iniaiug enterprises. In five miles from
the place operations have already been com
menced with approved machinery for crushing
the ore and gathering the rich deposits of gold.
Another company has been organized with a
capital of $250,000 to begin operations two
miles below tho town as soon as the machinery,
already ordered, can be shipped and placed iu
position. Both of these companies are composed
of Northern capitalists mainly.
“Systauiatlcamlporalatuut advertising In tho sure road to
success in business."
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it haB since added a reserve fund of $350,000. Its
(xi'unu SIiikIc Number Drawings will take place
monthly. It never scales or postpones. Look at the fol
lowing scheme
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Cloth casoB for each volume, suitable for binding, will
be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of $1 each.
Indexes to each volume sent gratis on receipt of stamp
Newspapers are not to copy this advertisement without
tho express order of Harper & Brothers.
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THE NEW YORK STORE.
^y^Etake pleasure in announcing to tho people ot La-
stand on the north side of the Public Square in
the well known houso of J. M. Beall A Bon, one of the
largest and best selected stocks of Goods ever brought to
LaGrange. Consisting in
LADIES’ DRESS GOODS,
PIQUES, LINENS, LAWNS,
JACONET8, 8WI88,
NAINSOOKS, MUSLINS
ALPACAS, Ac.
Togothor with the prettiest lot of
CALICOES
ever offerod for sale in LaGrango,
NOTIONS! NOTIONS!
Great bargains in Ladies’ Silk Handkerchiefs, Ladies'
Ties, Bows, -ichus, Ribbons, Portmonius, Belts,Gloves,
Ladies’ aud Children's Hosiery, aud other articles too
numerous to mention. So call and see for yourself aud
be convinced.
GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT,
during which will take place the
EXTRAORDINARY SEMI-ANNUAL DRAWING,
TO THE POLLS NEXT TUESDAY,
THE HOMESTEAD.
Many people are opposed to the convention,
for fear that it will iu some way interfere with
the homestead. We desire to suy to all
such that there is little causo to tear such a
thing. We have not seen a solitary utterance of
a convention man yet, which did not favor
a liberal homestead. There is no reason why
there should not be a homestead. The present
homestead was provided for in 1868, and every
contract made siuco that time, has been made
with reference to an exemption of $3,000 of
property from all debts. Ilence, ns this home
stead has entered into all contracts, made siuco
1868, no sane man would favor any law which
would upset all such contracts and throw them
iuto litigation. If any member of the convention
favored the abolition of the homestead, he
eould not carry out his ideas, for he would know
that such a constitution as he would make
would not be ratified by the people.
Mr. Hill, in his resent speech in LaGrange,
expressed the opinion, as a lawyer, that tbe
present status of property exempt by the home
stead law, oould not be effected by the conven
tion, because “the convention would have no
power to divest a vested right.” The letter of
Major Moses, whioh we published last week,
dwells on the same subject. No one need have
any fear that the convention will interfere with
rights they may have under the present home
stead law.
Tho Republican party aro scattering circulars
aguiust the convention, claiming that as they
made the preseut constitution, the people of
Georgia ought to let it stand. They have sent
thousands of tickets against the oonvention to
some of our best citizeus, who will hardly be
tools to distribute Radical documents. This
alone should ^ring our best citizens to the polls
next Tuesday. The expense of passing the act,
and voting on the question will be lost if the
convention is not called and as Mr. Hill says,
the agitation will continue till a convention is
called. Don’t stay away and let the Republican
party in Georgia claim a victory over us next
Tuesday. Go to the polls and tell everybody
else to do so, or you may regret it. A few good
citizens ought to stay at the various precinots
all day.
Mb. Hill's Speech.—We publish on the first
page, a portion of Hon. B. H. Hill's speech in
LaGrange. Not having room for the whole of it,
we published only that part whioh relates to the
necessity of a constitutional convention. The
arguments he makes cannot be refuted. Wo
commend his speeoh to those who doubt the
propriety or the necessity of a new ooostitution.
The speech was reported in short-band by Mr.
A. F. Cooledge, who is by appointment official
reporter for the couits in tbe Coweta oirouit.
Last year 150,000,000 postal cards were used.
It is estimated that lor tho next four years an
average of 250,000,000 wi>l be used each year;
and the contract has been made accordingly.
If however, the next lour years should show no
increase over Inst year, there would be 600,000,-
000 used. These would bring Hie government
$6,000,000, and would cq§t $417,240, under the
At New Orleans, Tuesday, June 5.
Under the personal supervision aud management of
Gen. il. T. BEAUREGARD, of Louisiana, and Gen.
JURAL A. EARLY, of Virginia.
CAPITAL 1*111/, Li $100,000. .
AyXotiec—Tickets are Ten Dollars Only.
Halves, $5. Quarters, $2.50. Eighths, $1.25.
LIST OF PRIZES:
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $100,000 $’00,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF
1 GRAND PRIZE OF
2 LARGE PRIZES OF
4 LARGE HtlZES OF
20 PRIZES OF
100
50,000 50,000
20,000 20,000
10,080 20,000
5,000 2O.000
1,000 20,000
600 25,000
380 30,000
200 40,000
100 60.000
10 100,000
APPROXIMATION PHIZES:
100 Approximation Priz -s of $200 $ 20,000
100 do do 100 10,000
100 do do 75 7,50‘J
?00
600
11,279 Prizes, amounting to $522,50,
Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD, of La. I rnmm i.«i nn <,rc
r.an inn a i a fariv n r v. > Commissioners.
Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, of Va.
Write for Circulars or send orders to M. A. DAUPHIN*
P. O. Box 002, New Orleans, La.
THIRD GRAND DOLLAR DRAWING,
Tuesday, July 3.
Capital Prize, $20,000. Tickets $1 each.
mylU-4t
CALL AND GET YOUR SUPPLIES.
The pamphlet publishing the official proceed
ings of the oonvention of 1867 and 1868 is thus
entitled: “Constitution, Ordinances and Resolu
tions of the Georgia oonvention assembled in
pursuance of the reconstruction acts and held by
order of General Pope." Perhaps some of our
readers like the idea of living under a constitu
tion made “by order ol General Pope.”
Those oharming sketches whioh appear in the
Atlanta Constitution every Sunday, signed “J.
C. H.” are from the pen of Mr. J. C. Harris.
The report of the County Commissioners, on
the fourth page, is published by recommenda
tion ol the grand jury of the first week.
OBITUARY.
Jesse Goss is dead l The aad Intelligence was received
last week. My acquaintance with Jesse began in 1869.
Wo were classmates iu the University. Our acquaintance
soon grew into friendship, which afterward ripened into
an intimacy that continued unbroken until he removed
to a distant State. He was a noble young man—high-
toned, honorable, blameless. Kind to bis associates, re
spectful to his teachers, dutiful to his parents, true to
his friends, he was laithful in all the relations of his stu
dent life. A favorite on the campus, honored in his Soci
ety, and superior in the recitation room, he had the es
teem and respect of all. When he left the precincts of his
alma mater to enter the arena where the realities of life
are to be met, he went, armed with all those qualities of
mind and heart that guarantee success. Choosing the
law as his profession, he was soon admitted to practioe.
He had already taken a prominent stand aa a young advo
cate, and had glittering prospects of a career of success-
fulness before him, when he was suddenly summoned to
another sphere, leaving a beloved wife and an infant
child. For his grief-stricken wife and parents we feel
the deepest sympathy. Oh, that we had the words to
soothe them in their bereavement I But language is in
adequate to turn away sorrow from the heart of her who
mourns the loss of the husband, to whom she has so re
cently plighted the affections of her nature; and who but
One can speak comfort to a grief-stricken father and
mother ior the loaa of their only child?
May the God who glv< tU and taketh away, pour the
' I balm of consolation into their bleeding hearts, and help
new contract, which Is at lower rates than the thcm lo bettr w ith pathmee this severe affliction,
old out). | A. r. T.
J. 3-. TBtT ITT,
GROCERIES, COUNTRY PRODUCE,
Plantation Supplies and Staple Goods.
East Sido Public Square, - - LAGRANGE, GA.
COLUMBUS PLOWS A SPECIALTY.
Highest Price paid for Country Produce.
atiou supplies, which I will sell at tbe lowest possible
prices. Give me u trial and you shall be satisfied.
12-ly J. G. TRUITT.
PACIFIC CUANO COMPANY,
CAPITAL 1*000,000.
sosiKTHKiii: jn*civic
«• RT JSL. JW «
DOMESTICS!
Wo carry a large lot of Bleached Domestics, Osnaburgs,
Drills, Checks for ladies Dresses, Striped and Checked
Ojuxb.irg-t, R)J-tickiuj.
CLOTHING.
Our stock of clothing has been bought uuder tbe tight
money pressure and we guarantee you a larger stock t<
select from and lower prices than you have ever bad oi
lered. Our stock of Piece Goods is large uu I will be sold
HATS! HATH!
8HOE8! 8HOE8!
HARDWARE! HARDWARE!
Table Cutlory, Pocket Cutlery, Bolts,* Bits, Augers,
Chisels, Files Saws, and iu tact everything else kept in ~
first class hardware store.
CROGKERY! CROCKERY!
We have a large stock of Crockery and Glassware
every description, and will sell it at prices to suit x
times.
FANCY GROCERIES!
All the above goods have been bought at the lowest
possible prices, and we are determined to sell, and
not be undersold by any fair competition. So call e
and buy your goods at bottom figures.
Messrs. W. P. Fitts and A. C. Beall wiU always be
ind and wiU
and customers.
BOYD & LIftCH
■A. 13A.IR & BROH.Ag'ts for the Co
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
T HIS GUANO has been in extensivo use for eleven
years in Georgia and adjoining States. Experience
demonstrates that 200 pounds per acre increases tho crop
from double to threo-fold the natural yield, thus making
one hand equal to two.
The policy of the Pacific Guano Company is to sell a
fertilizer unsurpassed for excellence at the lowest price,
and look to large sale and small profits for reasonble re
turns on capital .nvested, hence this valuable Guauo is
put into market at the present low price to customers.
Planters are requested to put iu their orders early to
Insure prompt delivery.
For Prices Ac., call ou B G. SWANSON,
Or ISAAC WISE,
7t LaGrange, Ga.
VICK'S FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS
BE planted by a million peoplo in America. See
4 EE ’
ViCK'l
'8 CATALOGUE—300 illustrations, only 2 cents.
VICK’S FLORAL GUIDE, Quarterly, 25 ceuts a year.
VICK’S FLOWER AND VEGETABLE GARDEN, 60cta,
with elegant cloth cover $1.
All my publications are printed in English and German
Address JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y.
o oOO'- CLOT «'*c. ( .
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GROCERIES! GROCERIES!
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u- net «e n-J n
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SUGAR,
COFFEE,
MOLA88B8
SIDE MEAT,
O. K. HAMS,
SYRUP
SHOULDERS,
FLOUR,
TOBACCO,
SMOKING TOBACCO,
STAPLE DRY GOODS,
HARDWARE,
BOOTH,
H 11 O E H ,
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HATH.
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YARNS,
J E A N H ,
STRIPES,
CHECKS,
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OUR TERMS ARB CASH.
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VARIETY MILLINERY AND DRESS"
MAKING ESTABLISHMENT.
MRS. H. F. STEPHENS
(At her old Stand,)
A NNOUNCES to her friends and sur
rounding vicinity, that her Spring
Stock of Millinery and Notions is full
and complete, consisting of all the late
styles and novelties of tho season. All
of which has been selected with care and
a knowledge of what a lady needs. Sho
is prepared to salt all both in prices and
quality, and would be pleased to have all
call aud examine her stock before pur
chasing elsewhere.
have on hand a full line of
BVTTERICK’S LATE STYLE PATTERNS,
And is prepared ior cutting and making dresses with
taste and neatness. Tho young ladies love to show and
sell goods cheap. Come and let ua fit you out for tha
season.
THRASH’S CONSUMPTION CURB.
R EV. DR. LOVIOKa PIERCE, of Sparta, Ga., writes
and says: "I have been taking Thrash’s Consump
tion Cure niue days, and can talk with some ease."
J. H. MEAD, of Atlanta, says:*‘Thrash's Cure la the on-
ly thing that will cure consumption.”
HUNT, RANKIN & LAMAR, of Atlanta, aay: "The de
mand tor Thrash’s Cure is iucreasing every day, and it is
giving universal satisfaction.”
W. M. WILKINSON, of Memphis, Tenn., says; "Ship
me another gross of Thrash’s Cure. Tho demand has in
creased wonderlullyv”
KINCAID, HENLEY & CO., of Nashville, Tenn., write:
"Thrash’s Cure will push itself.”
Trial bottles 35 cents. For sale by
CALLAWAY Si WATERMAN,
12-ly Druggists, LaGrange, Ga.
MERCHANTS AND BUSINESS MEN,
H AVE your Cards, Posters, Envelopes, Note Heads,
r — "— u, -‘- ¥ '~"—
vitations, Hand Bills, Placards, r to., printed at Thk La
Guano* Repobter Job Oefiok. The work always exe-
o tadia the best style, and aaoheaply aa desired.
J. T. WATERMAN.
$12 i