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M. WII.LTAMBON, ) N. H. PENDERGRASS,
President. | Vice President.
T. H. NIBLACK, Secr'y Sf Treas.
Executive Committee.
W. C. Howard t’h’m.
G. J. N. j R. J. Hancock*,
JEFFERSON, C3-A.
StTlltl>AY .II I.Y 8, ’76.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
For President,
Sami J. Tilden,
OF N E W YORK.
For Vice-President,
Thomas A. Hendricks,
OF INDIANA.
To the Readers of the Hews.
To some, our paper of this week may seem
dull and monotonous. We have deemed it
our duty to give the political matter furnish
ed in this issue, to the public, as early as we
possibly could. The same may be said of
the report of “ Commencement.” A large
portion of our subscribers arc interested both
directly and indirectly in the school here, and
a good many former residents, now in other
sections, take our paper for the sake of the
“home news,” hence, in justice to all these
we have thought it our duty to make as full
a report as could be done under the circum
stances.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Unlike the Republican platform adopted at
Cincinnati, the platform adopted by the Dem
ocrats at St. Louis, commends itself to the
admiration and endorsement of all liberty
loving people everywhere, be they Democrats
or Republicans, bßiek or white.
The Convention was faithful to the trust
reposed, and properly conceived its duty and
the needs of the hour ; hence, the first plank
in the platform, as well as those that follow
it, rests on the solid basis of reform. This is
right. Reform is, and should be, the watch
word of the party and the people. It is sadly
needed in all the various matters mentioned
in the platform. Oppression and tyranny,
enforced by the bayonet, is of too late an oc
currence to be forgotten by the people of Geor
gia, Arkansas and Louisiana.
We have received too little that was wise,
good, or beneficent from the laws passed by
the Federal Government, or their enforce
ment, since Lee's surrender, to not feel and
know that reform in that particular is needed.
We are to-day suffering from the effects of
an unsound, unstable currency, which makes
the rich (the bondholder) richer, and the poor
poorer, and from the terrible drain made on
us from day to day to meet the demands of
the tax-gatherer—while we sec and know that
our National debt is not diminished thereby
—on the question of finance, then, we need
and ask reform.
The result of the system of tariff in force
at present is, that we pay much higher for
articles manufactured and grown at home
than the same class of articles manufactured
and grown abroad would cost. We thereby
protect a class who are able to live without
it, and oppress the consumer, who is illy able
to bear it. The tariff is a legal fraud, and the
system should be reformed.
The system of fostering rich and powerful
corporations by granting them aid—giving to
them vast territories of land, to the exclusion
of the actual settler, is wrong in principle,
unwise in practice, and sadly needs reform
ing.
'1 hat system of Civil Service which makes
political opinions the test, instead of honesty,
competency and ability in the appointment of
men to office, is radically wrong, and should
and ought to be reformed. God grant that
the day may come, and that right speedily,
when the questions asked an applicant for
office will not be: How did you stand in the
election ? What did you do to promote my
interests ? With what party do you vote ?
and when party partizans will not be the only
ones who stand in the line of promotion ;
when the object and aim of the appointing
power will be to have the offices well and
faithfully filled, regardless of the fact that the
occupant acted or sympathized with this or
that party, and when the dishonest office
holder who uses his office for the promotion
of his own ends will be dealt with as strictly
when appointed by one party as when ap
pointed by another. In fine, when the primal
test shall be ability, honesty, competency and
faithfulness to trust.
This Democratic platform promises us re
form in all these things, and in fact in all
things connected with the laws—the policy of
the administration and the actual workings of
the Government, and the party has for its
standard bearers those who are well known
reformers and honest men. Will not the peo
ple—the bone and sinew of the country
rally to these standard bearers, on this plat
form ? The platform is all we could ask, and
Tilden and Hendricks must stand on it, and,
if elected, carry out its principles, or be faith
less to themselves and their past history.
They are well known reformers, and, if elect
ed, will not go back on the principles enunci
ated by the party. Let us, therefore, rally to
them. Let us make one long pull, strong
pull, and pull altogether for these men and
this platform—having for our watchword,
“ Reform.”
It is reported that the intrinsic value of
chicken feathers thrown awa} r every vear in
the United States is equal to the money we
pay for cotton. The plume of the feathers,
if separated from the stems, forms a down
which, it is stated, sells in Paris for nearl}*
two dollars a pound.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
We. the delegates of the Democratic party
of the United States in National Convention
assembled, do hereby declare the adminis
tration of the Federal Government to be in
urgent need of immediate reform, and do
j hereby enjoin upon the nominees of this
Convention and of the Democratic party in
each State, a zealous effort and co-operation
to this end, and do hereby appeal to our fel
low citizens of every former political connec
tion to undertake with us the first and most
pressing patriotic duty for the Democracy of
the whole country.
We do here reaffirm our faith in the per
manency of the Federal Union, our devotion
to the Constitution of the United States,
with its amendments universally accepted,
as a final settlement of the controversies
that engendered civil war, and do hereby
record our steadfast confidence in the per
petuity of Republican self government.
In the absolute acquiescence in the will
of the majority—the vital principle of the
republic ; in the supremacy of the civil over
the military authority ; in the total separa
tion of Church and State, for the sake alike
of civil and religious freedom ; in the equal
ity of all citizens before just laws oftheirown
enactment; in the liberty of individual con
duct unvexed by sumptuary laws; in the
faithful education of the rising generation,
that they may 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 character of these, our rights, it
behooves a free people to practice also that
eternal vigilance which is the price ofliberty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild and estab
lish 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 honeycomed
the offices of the Federal Government itself
with incapacity, waste and fraud, infected
States and municipalities with the contagion
of misrule, and locked fast the prosperity of
an industrious people in the paralysis of hard
times.
Reform is necessary to establish a sound
currency, restore the public credit and main
tain the national honor. We denounce the
failure for all these 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 the non-payment
of which is a disregard of the plighted faith
of the nation.
We denounce the improvidence which in
eleven years of peace, has taken from the
people, in Federal taxes, thirteen times the
whole amount of the legal notes and squan
dered four times this sum in useless expen
ses without accumulating any reserve for
their redemption.
We denounce the financial imbecility and
immorality of that party which during eleven
3*ears of peace, lias made no advance toward
resumption, but instead, has obstructed re
sumption by wasting our resources and ex
hausting all our surplus income, and while
annually professing to intend a speedy re
turn to specie payment, has annually enacted
fresh hindrances thereto, and as such a hin
drance we denounce the resumption clause
of the act of 1875, and we here demand its
repeal.
We demand a judicious system of prepara
tion by public economies, by official retrench
ments and by wise finance, which shall enable
the nation to assure the 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 bands for execution,
creating at no time an artificial scarcity of
currency and at no time alarming the public
mind into a withdrawal of that vaster ma
chinery of credit, by which ninety-five per
cent, of all business transactions are per
formed, a system open to the public and in
spiring general confidence, would, from the
day of its adoption, bring healing on its
wing to all our barrassed industries and set
in motion the wheels of commerce, manufac
tures and the mechanical arts, restore em
ployment to labor and renew, in all its natu
ral sources, the prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and mode
of Federal taxation, to the end that capital
be set free from distrust and labor lightly
burdened.
We denounce the present tariff, levied up
on nearly four thousand articles as a master
piece of injustice, inequality and false pre
tence. It yields a dwindling, not a yearly
rising revenue; it has impoverished many
industries to subsidize a few ; it prohibits
imports that might purchase the products of
American labor; it has degraded American
commerce from the first to an inferior rank
upon the high seas; it has cut down the
scales of American manufactures at home
and abroad and depleted the returns of
American ngriculture, an industry followed
by half our people; it costs the people
five times more than it produces to the Treas
ury, it obstructs the processes of production
and wastes the fruits of labor ; it promotes
fraud, and fosters smuggling ; enriches dis
honest officials and bankrupts honest mer
chants.
We demand that all custom-house taxation
shall be only for revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of public
expeuse, Federal, State and municipal. Our
Federal taxation lias swollen from sixty mil
lions in gold, in 1860, to four hundred and
fifty millions in currency, in 1870, and onr
aggregate taxation from one hundred and
eighty four millions in gold, in 1860, to sev
en hundred and thirty millions in currency,
in 1870, or in one decade from less than five
dollars per head, to more than eighteen dol
lars per head. Since the peace, the people
have paid to their tax gatherers more than
thrice the sum of the National debt, and more
than twice that sum for the Federal Govern
ment alone. We demand a vigorous frugal
ity in every department, from every officer
of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to the
profligate waste of public lands and their di
version 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, dis
posed of less than a sixth directly to tillers
of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omis
sions of the Republican Congress and errors
of our treaties and our diplomacy, which
have stripped our fellow citizens of foreign
birth and kindred race, reerossing the At
lantic, of the shield of American citizenship,
and have exposed our brethren of the Pacific
coast to the incursions of a race not sprung
from the same great parent stock, and, in
fact, now by law denied citizenship through
naturalization, as being neither accustomed
the traditions of a progressive civilization,
nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
Wc denounce the policy which thus discards
the liberty-loving German and tolerates the
revival of the coolie trade in Mongolian wo
men imported for immoral purposes and
Mongolian men, hired to perform servile
labor contracts, and demand such modifica
tion of the treaty with the Chinese Empire,
or such legislation by Congress, within a
constitutional limitation as shall prevent the
further importation or immigration of the
Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never be ef
fected but by making it the controlling issue
of the elections, lifting it above the false is
sues with which the office holding class and
the party in power to smother it and the false
issue with which they would enkindle the
sectarian strife in respect to the public
schools, of which the establishment and sup
port belong exclusively to the several States,
and which the Democratic party has cher
ished from their foundation and resolved to
maintain without partiality of preference for
any class, sect or creed and without contrib
uting from the Treasury to any; the false is
sue by which they seek to light anew the
dying embers of sectional hate between kin
dred peoples, once unnaturally estranged,
but now reunited in one indivisible republic
and a common destin)\
Reform is necessary in the civil service.
Experienc proves that an efficient, and eco
nomical conduct of the governmental busi
ness is not possible, if its civil service be
subject to change at every election; be a
prize fought for at the ballot-box, be a briefre
ward of party zeal instead of posts of honor
assigned for proved competency and held
for fidelity in the public employ; that the
dispensing of patronage should neither be a
tax upon the time of all our ambition. Here
again the professions, falsified in the perform
ance, attest that the party in power can work
out no practical or salutary reform.
Reform is necessary, even more in the
higher grades of public service. The Presi
dent, Vice President, Judges, Senators, Rep
resentatives, Cabinet officers—these and all
others in authority are the people’s servants.
Their offices are not a private perquisite.
They are a public trust. When the annals
of this republic show the disgrace and cen
sure of a Vice President, a late Speaker of
the House of Representatives marketing his
rulings as presiding officer ; three Senators
profiting secretty by their votes as law ma
kers ; five chairmen of the leading commit
tees of the late House of Representatives ex
posed in jobber}'; a late Secretary of the
Treasury forcing balances in the public ac
counts ;of a late Attorney-General misap
propriating public funds ; a Secretary of the
Navy enriched, or enriching friends by the
percentages levied upon the profits of con
tractors with his department; an embassador
to England censured in a dishonorable spec
ulation ; the President’s private secretary
barely escaping conviction on trial of guilty
complicity in frauds in the revenue ; a Sec
retary of War impeached for high crimes and
confessed misdemeanors, the demonstration
is complete that the first step in reform must
be the people’s choice of honest men from
another party, lest the disease of one politi
cal organization infect the body politic and
thereby making no change of men or party
we can get no change of measures and no
reforuij All these abuses, wrongs and crimes
are the product of sixteen years ascendancy
of the Republicans themselves, but their re
formers are voted down in convention and
displaced from the cabinet. The mass of
honest votes is powerless to resist the 80,000
office holders—its leaders and guides. Re
form can only be had by a peaceful civil rev
olution. We demand a change of system—
a change of administration—a change of par
ties, that we may have a change of measures
and of men.
The reading was frequently interrupted b} r
applause. The denunciation of the resump
tion act and demand for its repeal was re
ceived with special favor. At the conclusion.
Mr. Dorsheimer said the committee had
adopted and endorsed—though not as a part
of the platform—a resolution, which he read,
endorsing the action of the House of Repre
sentatives in cutting down appropriations.
Also, a resolution as to the just claims of the
soldiers and sailors and widows and orphans.
The Battle of Olustee, or Ocean Pond.
In his great work, “ The War Between the
States,” Hon. Alexander H. Stephens thus
refers to Gen. Colquitt:
“ The prospect upon the close of the year
1863, in a military point of view, was gloomier
for the Confederates than it had been at the
close of any that had preceded it. This heavy
gloom, however, did not rest upon their hori
zon long. The beginning of operations in the
fourth year soon changed the aspect of affairs
in this particular, and gave great encourage
ment to the Confederates. This year was
ushered in, even in its dawn, by the splendid
victory at Ocean Pond, Florida, on the 20th
of February, achieved under the lead of Brig
adier-General Alfred H. Colquitt, against
General Truman Seymour, commanding the
Federals. With less than 5.000 men, Col
quitt put Seymour to route with more than
6,000 men, killing, wounding, capturing 2,500
men, and taking three Napoleon guns, two 2-
poundcr Parrots, and 3,000 stand of arms.”
Vol. 11., p. 581.
It will be remembered, adds the Chronicle
<$- Sentinel, that in commenting on this pas.
sage some critic claimed the honor of this
victory for Gen. Finegan, whereupon Mr.
Stephens showed indisputably that while that
gallant officer was in command of the general
o o
military operations on the Confederate side
in Florida at that time, he had assigned the
entire command of all the Confederate forces
engaged in the action at Ocean Pond to Gen.
Colquitt, with but one limitation, namely:
“If hard pressed, fall back to the works at
Olustee Station.” That the gallant Georgian
was hard pressed, is well known, buthisonty
message to Gen. Finegan was: “Send me
ammunition.” The ammunition was forward
ed and the victory was won.
A young lady named Annie Wells, com
mitted suicide at Dalton, by shooting her
self, last week.
ATTENTION!
The Democrats of Jackson county will meet
in Convention at Jefferson, on Saturday, the
15th day of July, to select delegates to rep
resent them in the Gubernatorial Convention,
to be held in Atlanta on the 2d day of Au
gust next. It is hoped that all the people
who feel an interest in who shall be Governor,
will attend this meeting, and see to it that
the delegates represent their wishes. Let us
have a rousing meeting.
W. I. PIKE,
Chairman Ex. Cum. Juclsoa County.
Our Next Vice-President.
SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
OF THOMAS ANDREWS HENDRICKS.
In a sketch of Governor Hendricks, the
New York World informs us that he was
born in Muskingum county, Ohio, September
7, 1819. His father removed to Shelby coun
ty, Indiana, when the subject of this sketch
was only three years old. The fact that he
was born in a neighboring state has not af
fected his popularity in Indiana, since many
of the people are of the same stock, and Mr.
Hendricks, growing up from childhood with
the younger commonwealth, became identi
fied with all its interests —its prosperity and
prejudices. No man in the state is now more
generally loved, and certainly no one is less
hated. His youth was not a season of hard
ship and he received a liberal education,
graduating at Hanover college in .1841. lie
then studied law at Chambersburg, Pa., and
was admitted to the bar at that place in
1843. He returned to Indiana immediately
after and entered upon the practice of his
profession. His success was rapid and well
earned. There was always a charm about
him that won him hosts of friends. He was
pure in morals, and not merely upright in
character, but solicitous to preserve himself
from even the appearance of evil. He was
careful in money matters and slowly accu
mulated his present moderate fortune, al
though his practice was often interrupted by
political service and his expenses increased
to meet the social requirements of his official
station. At the bar he was distinguished for
learning, subtlety and eloquence. His tem
perament is such that at times he flings aside
his habitual courtesy and caution and gives
free rein to his aggressive impulses. He
was ever on such occasions a dangerous op
ponent.
In 1848 Mr. Hendricks was chosen a
member of the state legislature, and in 1850
he served in the state constitutional conven
tion. During the next fivt6 years he repre
sented the Indianapolis district in Congress,
and for four years after was commissioner of
the land office. He was defeated in 1860 by
11. S. Lane, for Governor. Lane was elected
United States Senator and O. P. Morton suc
ceeded him in the Governorship. In 1862,
Indiana elected a Democratic Legislature by
which Hendricks was selected as U. S. Sen
ator. He was compelled to act with a small
minority but made a national reputation.
His opinions were maintained boldly and
frankly. He opposed overturning the old
State governments, the imposition of test
oaths, the civil rights bill, the freedman’s
bureau bill and kindred legislation. He
shaped his political conduct upon the theory
that the prosperity of the white people of the
South, even though they had been rebels,
was a matter of more importance than the
prosperity of the negroes. If either race was
to go to the wall he thought it should be the
black race, but he held that in the natural
supremacy of the white race was a guarantee
for the safety of all. Exalting the freedmen
into a governing class and disfranchising
their masters he held to be as evil a system
as slavery.
In the National Democratic Convention of
1868 at one time, he lead all the candidates,
receiving the solid vote of New York and the
northwest.
His term of Senator expiring in 1869 he
resumed the practice of law at Indianapolis.
He barely acquiesced in the Greeley faction.
Against his earnest protest, he was nomina
ted for Governor by the Indiana Democrats
and after a bitter canvass, by his personal
popularity, he was elected by a majority of
1,128. Ilis course on the money question
has been wise and politic. He believes in
the Democratic doctrine of hard money. He
helped Allen in Ohio because he desired the
triumph of his party. He presided over the
Democratic Convention held in July at In
dianapolis, and in his address on taking the
chair urged that gold and silver were the
true basis of our currency and that the true
method of returning to specie payments was
through the growing up process—the devel
opment of the resources of the South, the in
crease of production and the retrenchment
of public and private expenditures.
He is thus described :
Governor Hendricks is a man of medium
height and symmetrical form. He is erect,
active and vigorous. His face is manly and
handsome. The features are large and ex
pressive, and while there is a soft, good-hu
mored expression in the large blue eye and
in the mouth and dimpled chin, the brow,
forehead and full heavy jaw show wisdom
and resolution. His complexion is florid,
and his hair and side whiskers are yet un
touched with gray. He looks like one who
has lived a happy life, encountered no great
sorrows and yielded to no great vices. Though
he has for years been taught to regard the
Prestdency as within his grasp, his ambition
has been rather a sort of rational longing for
the honor than an insatiable thirst for power.
His disposition is as sunny as his complex
ion, and in society lie is a great favorite. To
acquaintances he is affable and easy, to close
friends warm and lovable, to political par
tisans courteous, but cautious. He would
rather conciliate an enemy than oblige an
ally. His habits are such that he found
$5,000 a year ample for his expenditures du
ring his senatorial term at Washington. His
voice is a rather thin tenor, and has nothing
imposing in its tones, but is audible to a
great distance when he speaks with earnest
ness. He appears to the best advantage be
fore a crowd, for then he kindles with the ex
citement of the occasion, and an interruption
or a jest from some dissenting auditor is all
that is necessary to make him forget his ha
bitual deliberative cast of thought, and fling
himself into dashing and aggressive argu
ment. „
He is to be the next Vice President of the
United States.
Kendrick, the alleged seducer of Miss
Push, was found guilty of “adultery” and
fined SSOO and costs last week in Muscogee Su
perior Court, by Judge Crawford.
A Letter for the Afflicted.
Mr. Editor :—Dear Sir: —Will you be so kind
as to allow me space in your paper this week for
the publication of this brief letter, concerning the
most extraordinary cure that Dr. Greenwade, of
Jefferson, has performed on me. I was taken
some months ago with Dropsy, being swelled from
my feet to my face, as the people of Jefferson all
know, as they saw me when I appeared for treat
ment at Dr. Greenwade's office. The cure seems
to me to be miraculous, because I never thought
so complete a case of Dropsy could be cured, es
pecially one being in such bad health as I have
been in for the past several years.
I thought proper that the public should know
this, as there are so many dropsical people in the
county, and as Dr. Greenwade is having most ex
cellent success in the treatment of all old chronic
diseases. I know of a great many that he has and
is curing all over the country. I think the Dr. a
most excellent gentleman as well as a most ex
cellent physician. I will say further that the Dr.
used no strong medicine in curing me. lam now
able to labor in the field.
Yours, most truly, Jos. W. McEntire.
Jackson County. Ga.
1876 THE GREAT CENTENNIAL. 1876
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At the same old stand on College Avenue, Op
posite Post Office,
STILL offers a fruitful source to obtain plenty
of new and desirable goods, bought at the low
est figures direct from the manufacturers and im
porters, and will be sold CHEAP, viz : Watches,
Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, Musical
Instruments, Cutlery, Canes, Guns, Pistols and
Ammunition, Fishing Tackle, and many other ar
ticles usually kept in this line. Spectacles and
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MOSES’ ELECTRO-GALVANIC SPECTACLES
which are set with Lenses of the finest manufac
ture.
Repairing of all Kinds.
He gives liis personal attention to this depart
ment, and hopes by his long experience, with best
of stock and material, and untiring efforts to please
all, by good work at low prices.
Guns and Pistols neatly repaired, Remember
the place, and call and see.
Yours, very truly,
July 8 W. A. TALMADGE.
Morning News,
SAVANNAH, GA.
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principles which are vital to the prosperity" of the
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people.
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ple in Georgia and Florida will elect new State
governments. In Florida the campaign promises
to be unusually vigorous, and there is a proba
bility that for the first time since the war the peo
ple of that Radical-ridden State will elect a Dem
ocratic State government. Tn these campaigns
the people of the South are deeply interested; and
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Specimen copies sent free on receipt of 5 cents.
BSTMoney can be sent by Post Office Order,
Registered Letter, or Express, at our risk.
J. 11. ESTILL,
Savannah, Ga.
GREAT ATTRACTION!!
at
PENDERGRASS & HANCOCK’S.
A FRESII SUPPLY OF
New Spring Goods
Consisting of HATS, CAPS, BOOTS and SHOES
READY-MADE CLOTHING, CALICO
BLEACIING. ALPACA. LINEN
COTTOXADES, OIL CLOTH, ’
LINEN TABLE CLOTH,
SHIRTING, FAC
TORY CHECKS,
&c., &c.
Ladies' 1 Hats and
Bonnets , Artificial Flotc
ers. Ribbons , Sfc. Saddles and
Tr Bridle*, Crockery and G lass-Ware,
Hard-Ware , Table and Docket Cutlery , frc.
Full assortment of Notions and Toilet Articies
Drugs and Patent Medicines, Glass and Putty
School Books, Pens, Ink and Paper. ’
KEROSENE OIL!
FLOUR, MEAT. LARD, COFFEE, TEA, SY
RUP, SUGAR, &c., &c.
M e would respectfully invite an examination of
our stock. We charge nothing for showing goods.
. PENDERGRASS & HANCOCK.
Jefferson, Ga., June 3d, 1876.
Dr. w. s. amaamm h
SURGEON DENTIST
Harmony Grove, Jacksn*
July 10th, 1875. 6m SOn U m G a .
Q. EOR<jiIA, JacksonC^,^
George Gathright vs. Sallie GathrMn ii
Divorce Rule to Perfect Service* 1 f <*
It appearing to the Court that the
does not reside in this county, and it f i ( ‘*nt
pearing that she does not reside in *P
is, on motion of counsel, ordered that said it
ant appear and answer at the next ten* defe,l <l-
Court, else that the case be considered !?, i*,
and the plaintiff allowed to proceed I
further ordered that this Rule be publish,.is
Forest News once a month for four mon Uh ,n ,l *
suant to the next term of this Court ti■ s Pur
3d, 187 b. M. M. PITTMAN, Pl’ffvUS
Granted . s Mt y
GEO. D. RICE, Judge S. C.
A true extract from the minutes of
perior Court, Febiuaiy Term, 1876 Ks ° n S.
march2s NIBLACK, Clert
BIXBY’S
“BEST”
BLACKING
A COMBINED AND LEATHER J*.
Experts and Professional Bootblacks v,
York, and all other large cities where this V?
ing has been introduced, acknowledge its
ity over all imported or domestic
as an Elegant Polish and Conserver o/7 n ,i Se '
NOTICE. ‘ '
Bixby’s “Best” Blacking has a Red and m
Label. Do not be deceived by accent;., ” Ue
“Standard” Blacking in place of “Best""
Standard has the label stamped into the tin
This brand is made to compete with other \ ° XeT ‘
can and French Blackings, but is inferior te" 1 ** 1 '
“ Best.” 10r to our
Bixby’s “ Best” Blacking will save its
cost in the wear of your boots and shoes. r,r{
HOUSEKEEPERS TRY
Bixby’s French Laundry Blue
IF SIFTING BOXES. ’
The most convenient and economical packar.
and the only combined Bleaching and Blue?
Powder in use.
S. 3VC. BIXBY <sc CO.,
Ainu f during Clt •* mists
Nos. 173 & 175 Washington St., New York
April Ist.
SEND 25c. to GEO. P. ROWELL& C(T~nT w
York, for Pamphlet of 100 pages, contains
lists of 3,000 newspapers, and estimates showing
cost of advertising. mar jj b
NOTICE. —All persons are hereby warned not
to Fish upon the lands of the undersigned
under full penalty of the law.
May 13th. J. G. JUSTICE
Medical Card.
TAR. W. P. DeLAPERRIERE havingcomplet-
XJ ed his Medical course of studies at the Uni.
versity of Georgia—his native State—locates at
his father’s old stand, where he will practice
Medicine in all its branches, and will treat dis
eases with the most approved remedies known to
the profession. Returning thanks for the confi
dence manifested by the liberal patronage bestow
ed during his past course of practice, he hopes by
a careful and constant guarding of every possible
interest of patients, on his own part, together
with the assistance of his father, to merit a con
tinuance of the same. ©©“Special attention giv
cn to diseases of children and females. apl,i
INCREASES THE QUANTITyThHPROVES THE QMUTI.
LINCOLN BUTTER POWDEK,
Good Fresh Ituffcr nil (lie Year Komd,
Butter in 20 Minutes.
LINCOLN BUTTER POWDER is an entirely
harmless article made from a celebrated English
recipe, and now in daily use by many of the most
noted farmers in the butter counties around Phila
delphia.
In hot weather this Powder makes butter much
firmer and sweeter than it usually is, and keepsit
from turning rancid. It also removes the strong
flavor of turnips, garlic, weeds, cornstalks, cotton
seed, etc.; and the increased yield of butter much
more than pays the trifling expense of using it,
35 cents per package.
Wholesale Depot :
106 MARKET ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA
junc3
SIDDALL’S
MAGNETIC SOAP.
The Cheapest Soap that can be Used for Ihf
follovnng reasons:
Ist.—One bar will go as far as two of any other.
2d. —Only half the usual rubbing being required,
there is a saving of more than the entire cost
of the Soap in labor alone.
3d.—The clothes are made SWEET, CLEAN and
WHITE without Boiling or Scalping.
thus all injury to them is avoided. There
is a saving in fuel and hard work, and the
washing is done in about half the usual time.
It is also guaranteed under a penalty of tiny
dollars not to injure the clothes or hands, and w
one trial will enable any person to ascertain the
truth of these statements, it would never pay the
proprietor to engage in an extensive system ofw
vertising and claim such decided merit for his
Soap unless he knew from positive experience that
it would prove to be in every respect what is
claimed for it.
This is also a superior Soap for Toilet and Far
ing purposes.
WARNER, RHODES & CO..
Wholesale Fancy Grocers, General Agent'.
june3 Philadelphia, rA
DOBBINS’ STARCH POLISH 1
A GREAT DISCOVERY ,
.By the use of which every family maygi re
Linen that brilliant polish peculiar to fine la
work. Saving time and labor in ironing,
than its entire cost. Warranted.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND GROCERS EVERYWHti*
ASK FOR DOBBINS'.
DOBBINS, BROS. & CO.,
juncl7 13 N. Fourth SUJ^
PEABODY HOUSE
CORNER of LOCUST and NINTH STS*
Philadelphia, Pa.
Convenient to all places of amusement a® tb<
lines in the city. No changes to and tro
Centennial grounds. j 0( -st
Col. \\ atson, proprietor of the lIENR' nre se®l
Cincinnati, for the past twenty years, and V „(
proprietor, has leased the house for * ji
years, and has newly furnished and ,* cl* 55
throughout. He will keep a strictl L ° ue st*,"
house, and has accommodations for 300 B
Terms only $3 per day. . . . „ n <iP r<^
Col. Watson is a native of Virginia. irMpb*
ably the only Hotel Proprietor in I hl . e g
from the South,