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IHE JOURNAL
KIJGKNE GRANHKRRY. Editor
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Friday, March Iflili IH“7.
Mr* Jnsknr of ;'gnstn kl*r
Ull, b*onn*e being eighty ycai a old
* nnd fifiy year* a widow, **ho rlniputr—
cd cl ever geiin;* another tniibftnd,
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The Georgia young men's Christ
ian Association will moot in general
assembly at New nan on the IS ti of
April. There nrc now about tilly as*
locution* in ihe Stale.
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Texas wants it distinctly understood
that no more lawyers need enter that
stale, unless it be to kill £.(T the doc
tors, of winch the supply seems inex-
Rttstible.
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Haves is simply plotting to detach
the old whig and Douglas democrats
whom he expect* to organize into a
strong administration party of white*
to whom the black* ere expected
lo adhere. It is a beautiful plan bill
It won’t fill.
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Mi*. Ilayo ’ obi' f charm*, accord
ing to the corespondents, are her w in
i.ig manners and wonderfully sweet
•mile. A woman hose husband is
counted into ihe highest office 111 the
land by one yoto can afford to smile
sweetly,
Emery Spear is an independant
candidate for Congress in tho Oil)
Dial. B 11, tho regular nominee is
using hi* clapper right lively, and
tho indication* are that he ill uo it
in the next Congre. Give Spear a
back seat, and ring in the Bell.
Dr. A. J. Sage slates that hit friend
Haves is possesed of a very sympa
thetic nature, and that, the story of
any wrong dmio to a child “will stir
lii* heart through and through.” ft is
a matter of profound regret that n
heart which is so easily stirred by :
the wrongs of a child, is not big
enough lo ho stirred by tho outrage
of a nation
" The devil bath power
To Rumo n pVnftlntf nh*po.'’
Knowing ibis the southern people
w ill not find it. difficult to discover
the e.loven foot of the radical*. A'l
their hvpoc.ritiml cant about kindness
to the South is assumed. They have
robbed nnd plundered so long, that
it will be impossible for them to quit
right off They are laying plans to
steal into power again. A thief
never reformed in a day. Some
never do.
The radical* have broken al! (lie
other commandment*, Including the
eighth, which they have smashed be
yond recognition, wound up by break
ing the Sabbath in awoonng in Rot
ten Ibirrnttgh Hnye* on Sunday
evening nt 7 o'clock. Like nil other
dntnnnble deed*, tl was done private
ly. —The dispachea say that tiiere
were no witnenses preoant. Chief
Justice Wait administered the oath.
——
Tn li speech before the Grand
Commission, .Tndgo .leramiah Black
mid: ‘‘l take no pride in cnlling tny
•elf nil American cittern, I feel de
graded and belittled; when we mine
to n*'< for a alight recognition of our
right*, I thought that wo might as
well have prayed to Jove, Mars or
Apollo.’’ And wound tip with the
quotation, “The mil!* of tho gods
grind slowly, hut they grind exceed
ingly fine.
The Demoornic Lion is asleep with
one paw upon South Carol ina and
the other npon I.ouisannn. If Hayes
awakens Idtn hy an attempt to with
drnw either state from Ins keeping he
will rroan the nation with a roar
thru will shake the returning
boards from < fT the bnyonettes which
now anpport them and fatten bis tang<
into the vital* of rcpnbHtian -rule to
such an extent that it will at once
cease to exist. Let frauds beware of
that lion, be is not dead but sleepeth.
Grxffin Sun.
Tltomasvtllt Time*. —“The Tilden
nnd Hendricks banner which has been
floating from the flagstaff over the
Time* office since the 4tli of July,
yielded to the inevitable, and the
w inds of March on the morning ot
the 3d. It proudly floated over the
month* ot summer; was whtped and
frayed by autumnal winds; was float
ed by (be storms of wtn’er, and li*-
ed by the sweet breath of spring,
but on this dark morning, with sky
o’er cast hy scudding clouds; noath a
torrent of rain, and stained by the
fiercely driving blasts, the old flip
went down with the names of onr
standard bearers upon it. The last
stitch have given way.
•Tts strange that this flag should
have withstood the stormy elements
and defil'd the whipping winds until
the morning, and in nhe the very
hour, when the last hope of our gal
lant leaders vrerej. lasted, put to i*
waif. *
Tho Constitutional Convention.
A subject which has long agitated
ilio public miml is the calling if
a constitutional convention. The
object of the convention is to retire
the old, or mace entirely anew con
stitution for the State, The people
of Georgia eonsidev the proaout con
stitution as framed by aliens, carpet
bagger*. scalawag* and llio*® mimi
cal to the interests of the State, and
they htivo grown tired of tho dis
graco attached to it..
We approve of the bill railing for
a convention, and also approve of the
Senate amendment leaving it to a
voice of I he people, as the people are
to have the convention, and it nhould
he for them to say whether they want
it. There are many reason*, nnd
good ones too, why we should have a
convention.
In 1 lie first place the Legislature i*
too large and meets too often. It
now consi*’s of lortv four Senators
and one hundred nod seventy-five
Represent alive*, and they meet once
a year. The number Mould bo re
duced one-half and hold biennial
seas ons, thlis saving the State an ex
pense of about $50,000 yearly.
Again, tho patronage of the Gov
ernor is enormous and altogether too
large. Let the people say who shall
hold (iflle.es of trust and honor.
There are too many judicial cir
cuits in the Stile. F.ei th<% lit cm
down so as to give the Judges some
thing to do. nr.d thus save thousands
to the Stale.
The homestead nnd personal ex
cnip'ion, under the present law, is
entirely too large, It ought to he
cm. down at least u thou*atul dollars
and then give heads of hnmehohls,
man and wife, the privilege of waiv
ing that, if thev want to.
The pay of the member* should
he fixed nt. five dollars per day. This
is enough pay nnd saves tho State
$420 per day in their perdiein.
Hie State should be prohibited
from ever paying tho fraudulent
bonds, outstanding. This can be
done effectually only by a constitu
tional convention.
There are many other good rea
sons for the calling of the oonvention,
hut those enumerated are some of
the most prominent. We are not in
formed ns to how thi people of this
cotifity will vote, but we feel that
they will be very nincti against their
own interest if they fail to call the
convention.
Our Schools.
Wo are glnd to learn that hotli
the Female nnd the Male schools are
doing very well, and on the increase.
They are both supplied with as good
teachers ns the country affords and
the advantages ..fibred in Hanoi n
arc inferior to nono in this entire
section of country. Thorn is no
tidier legacy that a parent an leave
a child than a good education, and it
is strange that some parents u i!l allow
tlio weeds of ignorance and vice to
spring up in their children’s heart,
rather than deny themselves ot their
time amt labor at homo. A good ed
ucation has a tendency to teach them
erlf-goveriiinevt and to correct their
faults. If a child is passionate, it
taudios him to curb his temper; if he
is greedy, it cultivates a liberality in
him; it he is selfi-li, it promotes gen
erosity; it has a tendency to make a
gentleman out of material, a tit sub
joel for a profligate. And above all
parents should remember that they
are training and educating a soul tor
eternity as well ns everyday life. A
fearful responsibility rests upon eveiy
parent, nnd they should take advan
tage of every opportunity of giving
t heir child ten a good .duration.
Hayes’' (.’ itoluct
hVcrctnrv of-State. William M.
Kvarts, of New York; Secretary of
the Treasury, John Sherman, of Ohio
Secretary of war, George \V. Mi’ Ira
ry, of Iowa; Sooretai v of the Navy,
K. Al. Thompson, of Interior, (fail
Schitrz, ot Missouri; At'orney Getter
al, Charles Devons, of Massachusetts;
Postmaster David M- Key, of lYnno-
See
It is said that the extremist ato
conslderbly put out at the complex
ion of the new President's constitu
tional adviser*. Rvart*, Seine z and
Kev. are known to be conservative
in their view®; the latter claiming to
he a democrat. Sherman is known
to be the very essence~of vindictive
ness towards the South, though it i>
anid that lie wil support a conserva
tive policy. Of McCrary and Thomp
son but lufte is known, though it is
presumed thtfPWtthur Hull Morton is
at the bottom of Thompson’s ap
pointment, being from- his S ale.
This is enough to condemn .Thomp
son with a, p, in ndv nee.
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Mrs. Hayes hr.a an extra high
foicUet l, and never wear's a low neck
dt as.
Talbot County Notes.
Mrs. -S. T. Harvey, of Talbotton,
died last Saturday week.
The Standard rays twenty.five
wagons passed through Talbotton
last Monday from .Mcrri wether, go.
mg to Getteva for guano.
About one and a half columns of
the Standard ih taken up in adver
tising lax filar.
We clip this from the Standard:—
“A novel right was witnessed hy
some of tho citiz >na of Taibotton last
Thursday evening, during tho rain.
A negro man matched with an ox,
was seen pulling a wagon loaded with
guano. The mate of the ox having
given out three miles from town, the
negro left him and hitched hy the
side of the other. How far ho mis
taind his assumed part we cannot any.
hut when la-t seen by our informant
he w as braced ngain*t his end of the
yoke, sliding down Keller’s hill.”
Troup County Notes.
We have not seen it stated that
the J importer is a tri-weekly, bin it
only gets to our offico once in about
iliroo weeks. We suggest the death
of the mailing clerk.
Stealing goes on at a l’vely rate in
LaGrange, hut the stople from tho
Baptist church hasn't been stolen
yet.
There is an increase of fifty per
cent in tlieattendance of tlie South
ern Female College over the fall term.
There is over ninety catalouge names.
A large number of oitizms ot West
Point have nominated Col. C. W.
Mabry to repivseut them in the Con
sti aitional Con vent ion.
Till* from ilie Reporter: —“A gen
tleman informs us that one morning
last week, he saw twenty-five loads
ol com leaving Whitfield’s station.
This looks like living at home doesn't
it? It is cheaper (they say) to buy
corn than to make it; hence they buy
it. Ii is cheaper to buy cot'on than
lo make it; hence they make it. Here
is a Mile that ecerneAto work three
or four wav*. It works tho fanner,
his mules and hir hands nearly to
death to make the cotton to p v for
the corn; works the merchant nearly
to death to collect what is due him for
supplies; work- financial distress and
bankruptcy mn rig the people; ami
will nkimatlv work the ruin of our
country it persisted in.
MeniwTfhtT County Notes.
The I 'indicator doesn’t boast about
it, but says Greenville can beat the
world lor loud and ptufano swearing.
The name paper says.—“ The Clm-
Ivbeate Springs piouerty sold last
Tuesday for #5,000. There are SU)
acres of land belonging to the tract,
for w hieli the sum of (50,000 was once
paid. The property was purchased
by Mr. Aquilla J. Cheney, of Upson
county.
Vindicator. —“Conversing with
several of our farmers last Tuesday
they nil informed us that the people
of tho county were in a better condi
tion than t hey were otto year ago.
One friend from the Tenth s id that
lie had hired moro hail Is than usual
and had corn and meat enough to
supply all liis laborers without buy
ing a pound ora bushel of cither.
W'o have heard of several instances
where largo quantities ol guano have
been purchased nnd paid for in cash.
\Vo hope for anew era this year in
the plating interest of Momwether.
Mnsci’sfw Uotiny Notes.
—Our former townsman, Mr. Win .
Griggs, is a candidate for (he posi
tion of a delegate to tho constitu
tional convention. Wc would bo
glad to *OO Mr. Griggs get tho place.
—Mr. C. 11. Williams is an appli
cant for secretary of the constitu
tional convention, ntul is eminently
qualified to fill tho place. It would
afford us ranch pleasure to see him
elected.
The young men of Columbus all
wear watches. A prominent mer
chant of that place ordered a few
barrels of Irish potatoes, and among
them came a barrel of watches. The
merchant wrote to the shipper ol hi*
mistake, and was told that lie could
keep them as the potatoes and
watches were tho same price. AH
the Inn * of Columbus wear watche*.
The Golombns H.iquirer stales
that the venerable Dr. I.ovic Pierce,
now in his ninty third year, is writ*
it:g a serin of reminiscence of the
century. * He i* the oldest Methodist
minister living on t’ e continent, and
probably the oldest of any denomina
tion. lie points to the groat differ
etuv that exist between Methodist at
th" 1 eg’nins' of this eentnrv and now
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ami e.mclndos that cither primitive
Methodist were morti religious than
was mcdfnl, ot o' e the modgrn
Methodist arc It * so. j
Around In Urorgin.
AMOKO HIE TEOrI.B AND TUB I'AI*F.KH.
—The West Point Press sayi:
“Willio H. Divides Ids time between
i Greek, g recedes, girls and gustatory
matter*. Ife la also a poet.” It that
P Wiliio Hunt, wo are sorry indeed
to hear that lie ha* taken to poetry.
—Tho Savannah „V.wa rays that in
South western Georgia, ordinary com
is four or five blades high, while
somo of tho early varieties are as tall
ns an ordinary man’s shoulders.
Over cue hundred tons ot guano
was sold in Millcdgeville last Sat
urday.
—Swinging on the fiont gate is all
the rage among the young bloods' of
Katonlon.
—“Tho Hamilton Jouii.vat, is the
only p'>per in the State, outside ol
the Atlanta ( 'Constitution , that in
dulges in the luxury of a belle edi
tor.”— Carroll County Times. There
are probably more belles in II nn.lton
and Atlanta than any other towns in
the Slate, therefore they are entitled
to belle editors.
—Wood sells in Donglasville, ac
cording lo the Medium, at ten cents
a loa I, rich pine, fifty cents for a
tw o horse wagon load. The Medium
mentions this fact as an inducement
to immigration.
—Mr. John Underwood, familiiar*
)y known as ‘ Big John,” ditd at
Rome last Saturday. He was a his
torical character in ixorlli Georgia,
and played a conspicuous part in 8.1 l
Arp’s writings. The universal testi
mony of all was that lie was the no
blest work of God —an h most man.
Christopher of the Fort Valley
Mirror . has stumbled upon a cormun
drum that has puzzled tis for a long
time. He says: “We can’t under
stand how some men can find money
enough to get drunk on every time
thei’come to town, but are always
too poor to pny what they owe the
ne \ spuper man.”
—Popping tho question is some
times done under difficulties, aud
thus it was with Mr. l’opp, Popp
ville, in Popp county, who fancing
himself to be very popular with his
lady-love, “popped the question” lo
her under a poplar tree, when she
referred bun to poppy, who, when
-,*ked tor his consent, laboring under
the influence of ginger-pop, politely
popped him oat of the door to the
tune of “Pop ,”,008 tho weasel.”
Of nine hundred and seventeen bills
introduced in tho general assembly,
five hundred and eight were lost, nnd
four hundred nn;l nine passed. Gov
ernor Co!quit#lias approved all that
were sent to him. .
—The Newnan Herald advises tho
young men not to go West but get
married. This reminds us of a little
story wa once lead about a fox that
happened to get his tail cut oft'.
—lt our recollection serves its
right, the moon changes about once
a month, nnd in humble imitation
thereof the South-western railroad
schedule dots likewise.
—Christopher has recovered from
liis late attack of modesty and says
that striped stocking* are like cow
pens “'because they hold little coos.’’
It was ignorance and not stupidity
that prevented our guessing,
—They are catching shad in Pu
laski conuty, and they would catch
more but, as the Ilawlunville Dis
patch •somewhat profanely remarks,
there is a dam dilliuulty in the way.
—At the recent convention of the
Stale Agricultural Society a resolu
tion was ad op' ed appointing a com
mute to investigate tho practicabili
ty of establishing an experimental
'l'm under the exclusive auspices of
the society.
Mr. J. 11. Estill, of the Savannah
Ntxca, wil! pay £ for tho best
original story, and #SO for tho second
best—the storios to bo founded on
incidents of the war between the
states and to bo front the pen of a
resident of Ueorgia or Florida. The
story is to make not less than forty
eight columns of the Morning News,
and the copy-right is to bo reserved
to the author. Manuscripts should
bo sent in by the first of June.
—Tilden says he had rather be
right than President, and, according
to the Sun, Ike Wright, ofGriflin, is
of the same opinion. lie says he
had ra'.her be Wright than Presi
dent. -
—The devel of the Griffin <Mm has
had a time of it, and tho Sun tells it
tbnsly: “Our devil @ too many peas
for dinner one day last week and it
required an ounce of paregoric, a
tablespoonfui of oil, with several ap
plications of spirits turpentine and
twenty-four hours in his little bed to
relieve him* from pressure. He says
he wants to employ a returning
boat i to count lii.n out the next .tune
peas are a conspicuous e’etnent on
(he bill * late.
WO H N-O UT LANDS RESTORED
Z-ioadtlnsr Fnrcillzsrs xx
Georgia, .Alabama, Koith and South Carolina, Virginia and
.Mississippi.
No Fertilizers which have over been upon this market have undergone more severe test*, and oome out of them
with reputation more firmly established, than
SOLUBLE PACIFIC CTMO!
An D
Compos; lid Acid Phosphate
IFOR COMPOSTING WITH COTTON SHED.
THE MOST POPULAR FERTILIZER IN USE-SOLD BY ME EVERY SEASON SINCE 1860.
MS I'year I*7ll there wore 112 •HfTorcnt brands sold ir. tho State of (Forgm,, tbo ilo sguregntlng nbout 70,000 tons, and ot'that
onantily tho Pantile Oimivi Coninnnv sold 13,000 ton*. After passing through a t tho continseiu ie- of varying soisous in eleven year-’ line,
iho ont-Kt-on of 11 .ifonn reliability iio longer exists. They nrc unanimously acknowledge I as Htan laid guano*. I hew- well known
VVi'tiliz’*rrt arc f-r pule by my anciit.i at IVjt’or, Geneva, *JonB Wimborlv, II million, Cat uilaHiil I*lui'unoo, Gisoigia; Iroy, Op>
ka LR’.iyotto, AWhi-na. and v irlo .1* station* on tho r.illr-n I* comioctlug with Opelika. _ ......
A H SLAUGHTER. my duly accredited agent at Opelika, Ala , will aiford all necessary infoimation to parties residing m hi
district a to Cotton Option p ivincii'a . . . .
W W J f NKINS- Ant * I -nrvft, has removed to that point and will cheerfully answer all inquiries relating to the business in Tal
hot, Meriwether un i adjaceut counties.
ATTENTION PLANTERS!
•READ THIS CAREFULLY!
Soluble Pacific Guano
- „ and
Compound Acid Phosphate
FOR COMPOSTING WITH COTTON SEED, STABLE MANURE &C,
PRICES AT KINGSBOitO AND CATAULA, GA.:
SOLUBLE PACIFfG GUANO cash on delivery, per ton of 2,onopound* $32
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO, tim ■, w ill 14 cuts cotton option, 610 p Hind* middling cotton, do.
livered in Gohimba.* fro- 1 of I’n-igh', Dray age and Storage to the Planter
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE, oasi on deliv ry, par ton s* 2
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE, tim;, 14 cent*, e-i ton option, 4)0 poua is middling cotton, de
•livered in Columbus, <!a., free ol freight, dravage, and storage to planter $35
Time sales payable by the 15ih October, 1877, without interest, with option of paying in cotton of a grade
not, .below middling, at fourteen cents per pound.
The above v. 11 koowij brands lia*e been sold by me during the past eleven yeirs wfch general fjatisfacti in, an 1 sire as usml, one red
or silo Oil FAVtfIJAiiLK J Eli MS.
W. H. T Off Kf Q,
. No. 12 8r.0.u) Street, COLUMBUS, Ga,
l have made arrar.gctnen (s with
Blanclxai’d., YTUilliams eb Cos.,
ALABAMA WAREHOUSE, Cou mbi s, Gnoitorv,
For storage and disposal of tlie above Ferti'iz rs to their customer*.
"W"- O. Jolin.Ston, Agent at. HAMILTON, GA.
■3?- XX- BLirn torougli, Ag.-nt at cataula, oa
Professional Cards.
T. K. Mill hi 11, M 1). j A I!. Cop-'lnvl, M l>.
MITCHELL k CO POLAND,
He si dent
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
Hamilton, Cl a.
Oo uik Nobtu-Wi it Cor.xxii IYm.ic Square.
JNQ. TANARUS, WILLIAMS,
ATIORXEY AT LAW
AND
Just ice of the Peace,
HAMILTON, CA.
Oflieo with Dr. T. S. Mitchell.
J M Mobley V L IMy
MOIILEY * DENDY;
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
HAMILTON, aA.
Will continue to practice law in nil the
State anil United States Court*.
J. T. 13locst. H. C. Cameron
BLOUNI tf: CAME li ON,
ATOKNEYS AT LAW.
HAMILTON, GEORGIA
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office !n tho Cjurt House
Xlinca Dozier,
ATTORNEY-AT LAW,
HAMILTON, GEORGIA
Will practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit,
#r anywhere else. Office in tiio Noithwest
corner of the t Vurt-liguse, up-stoirs. j*ug
ALONZO A. DOZIER,
AtTOKNEY asp fOtPfgELOR AT LiW,
COLUMBUS. GA.
f'nulkrs ill St RO’l l-Vileral A'**uits in
r u ali i Ainioiiiid. Commercial
! .w as‘ orLjlty. Oiliue over No. T 26 Coimn- i
buSfe (iii. dw4-ly
COLUM3US ADVERTISEMENTS.
FERTILIZERS!
*G. OBER & SON’S
. SOLUBLE AMMONfATED SUPER PHOSPHATE OF LIME.
Pearce, Binford. <3c Cos,, agta..
COLUMBUS, GA.
To the Planters of Georgia and Alabama:
COLUMBUS, GA., January, 1877.
Phr universal satisfaction siven by tho above Fertilizer last season as attested by certifl
Oates now in our hands justifies us in claiming for it the first place on the ii.-t of Standard
Manures, luivit.-- no superior in the market. W offer it as low and on us reasonable terms
os any Staudaid Fertilizers. Yours truly
PEARCE, BINFORD <fc CO
' 1,1 1 1 ■ 1 T-I.LL" l .'.•■!. J. sCT
THE GREAT FERTILIZER
For Cotton, Corn and all Other field Crops!!
Whann’s Maw bone
Siaper-pho^hatei
FOR SALE FOR
CASH AND COTTON OPTION.
BY
"W. SWIFT.
COLUMBUS, GA.