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HOB’T S. HOWARD, Editor.
JEFFERSON, G J±.
Fiiu MOinnc;, s*pt. 10, is*o.
Democratic} Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT:
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
WILLIAM H. ENGLISH,
OF INDIANA.
F!ii:sii>!:vriA(, f.lcitokn.
* J, FOR THR STATE AT LARGE :
■ .t v c.c. BLACK, R. E. KEN NON.
: ALTERNATES :
LUTHER J. GLENN, A. PRATT ADAMS.
district electors:
First District—Samuel 1). Bradwell ofLiberty.
Alternate—Josephus (.’amp, of Emanuel.
Second District—Wm. M. Hammond, of Thom
as. Alternate—'Win. Harrison, of Quitman.
Third District—CiiristophcrC. Smith, of Telfair.
Alternate—James Bishop. Ir.. of Dodge.
Fourth District—Lavender R. Rav. of Coweta.
AUeniate--Henry (J. Cameron, of Harris.
Fifth District—J >hn i. Hall, of Spalding. Al
ternate—Daniel P. Hill, of Fulton.
Sixth District—Reuben B. Nisbet. of Putnam.
Alternate—Fleming (J. Pußignon, of Baldwin.
Seventh District.—Thomas VV. A I-: in, of Bartow.
Alternate—Peter VV. Alexander, of Cobh.
Eighth District—Seaborn Reese, of Hancock.
Alternate—Jamef K. Hines, of Washington.
Ninth District—Wm. E. Simmons, of Gwinnett.
Alternate—Marion G. Boyd, of White.
'i'lie Now York Democrats have united
at last.
—The Cuban sugar crop is twenty per
cent, short.
—Most of the daily papers are getting out
the usual trade issues.
—The big nations of Europe are still at
work on the careas of Turkey.
—China and Russia now propose to settle
their differences in a friendly way.
—General A. E. Lawton, of Savannah, is
slumping the State of Vermont for the Dein
oerats.
—The Senatorial Convention of the 27th
Senatorial District endorsed Hon. Joseph K.
Drown for United States Senator.
—Capt. John S. Wise wanted to fight a
<lue! because he was black-balled by a social
club in the city of Richmond, Vs.
—'F!ie Empress Eugenie will leave Eng
land in the autumn to take up her permanent
residence at her chateau in Switzerland.
—lt is thought in Atlanta that Col. Willis
A. Hawkins, of Americas, will he appointed
to fill the vacant scat in the Supreme Court.
—The giving way oY a pontoon bridge in
Spain caused the death fd* some ninety-odd
soldiers who were marching across it at the
time.
—Beast Duller lies t urned completely over,
and'ls now a first-class Northern Democrat,.
’ Tis said, you know, that rats always desert,
Ac., &o.
.—Ex-Gov. Hendricks is confident that the
Democrats will carry Indiana in October de
spite the various fraudulent attempts of the
Republicans.
Jonathan Norcross advises the Republi
cans to encourage the split in the Democratic
party, and to this end he wants them to vote
lor Norwood.
—Hon. A. H. Stephens has been re-nomi
nated, without any opposition, from the Btb
District. It is asserted that he is the choice
of all parties in his District.
—lt is funny to see how hard the Colquitt
organs labor t-o show that to the miuoritv
nbm* arts wt*'indebted for the disruption in
the Democratic party in tlio late convention.
V .
—Gen. Toombs will vote for Norwood be
cause Colquitt hml used the public patronage
for, a private end in appointing Gov. Drown
as Senator in order to get him to help to elect
him Governor.
—Ben lii'ii will take no hand in tho cam
paign against Colquitt, lie says the race is
one in which the people will choose between
the two irr-n according to the popularity of
each candidate.
—Tndge James Jackson, Associate
of the Supreme Court of Georgia, has been
appointed Chief Justice of that. Court by Gov.
Colquitt, to (id the vacancy caused by the re
signation of Judge Warner.
Gen. Gordon went down to Columbus
last week and made a Colquitt speech. It is
charged that the crowd treated him rather
badly by hissing at him during his speech.
This was wrong, of course, but then General
Gordon must leuiember that those Columbus
people loci badly about the Senator business.
—A French paper claims to have received
letters from this country, from good authority,
charging that Tanner went through his fast
by fraudulent means. It is claimed that the
water he drank was an infusion of the well
known mate, or Paraguayan tea, which is
i.utniious,in a high degree. It is now in or
der for the faster to explain.
—Gen. Cook has been re-nominated, by
acclimation, for Congress from the Third Dis
trict. The Third and the Eighth are the only
harmonious Districts in the State. We pre
sume the Convention adopted resolutions
thanking Gen. Cook for his manly defense of
the people of the Ninth District while our
immediate Representative was out.
•—The Republican District Convention met
in Athens on the 28th of last month, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the situ
ation in the Ninth Congressional District.
After deliberation, it was decided not to put
forth a Congressional candidate from their
party. A resolution endorsing Hon. Emory
Speer was adopted, and the meeting ad
journed.
—There was a heavy gale on the South
Atlantic last week, which resulted in the de
jßt.rnction of a large amount of property, hoth
on the coast and at sea. The most serious
loss yet reported is that of the steamer City
of Yefa Cruz, one of a line running from New
1 ork to Havana and Mexican ports. From
articles that have floated ashore upon the
Florida coast, it is supposed that she went
down in the gale with all on board. The siale
also extended tovJamaica, and did a large
amount of damage, running up into the thou
sands of dollar?.
Judge Warner's Leller-
Greenville, Ga., August 30, 1880. j
Messrs J. R. Jenkins and others, Committee ,
Etc.
Gentlemen :— I am in the receipt of your
letter inviting me to address the people of
Barnesville on the political issues of the day,
on Friday, the 31 of September. My prior
engagements will prevent a compliance with
vour request, but you can say to mv Barnes
•ville friends that 1 am for Tom Norwood and
good government. I know him to he both
honest and capable, and too good a lawyer
not to know that although the governor may
make a contract with lawyers to represent
the State, yet that officer cannot touch a
dollar of the people’s money to pay such
contracts until the general assembly shall
have had an opportunity to judge of and pass
upon the reasonableness or unreasonableness
of such contracts, and to appropriate such an
amount in payment therefor as in their judg
ment tbs services are reasonably worth, and
then the governor can draw his warrant for
the amount so appropriated, and no more—
for the constitution expressly declares that
j “ no money shall be drawn from the treasury
except by appropriations ma le by law.” Tom
Norwood is too good a lawyer not to know
that if the Governor of the State can make
contracts with lawyers to pay them SIO,OOO
for their services, and can then thrust his
hands into the treasury and clutch out that
amount and pay them without an appropria
tion having been made therefor as required
by t.Le constitution that he could make con
tracts to pay lawyers $7)00,000 for fees, and
thus bankrupt the people's treasury without
as much as saying by your leave or tlie leave
of their representatives. A man acting for
him self in his individual capacity may make
a contract with a lawyer for fees, and the
lawyer will have a lien upon the money col
lected, for the simple reason that the money
belongs to him who made the contract, he
having the power and authority to create a
j lien upon his own money by his own contract,
i hut Tom Norwood is too good a lawyer not
Ito know that the governor has no power or
authority whatever to make a contract with
a lawyer and thereby create a lien on the
people's money, and that the lawyer acquires
; no lien by any such contract until the general
i assembly shall approve and lat-ify it. Making
| contracts with lawyers by the governor, at
i extravagant fees, is one thing, hut thrusting
! his hands into the people’s treasury and
j clutching out their money to pay such fees
without an examination or appropriation
; having been made therefor by the legislature,
! is another and very different thing which Tom
I Norwood will never do. Torn Norwood has
not held the (Trice of governor for the last
four years, and did not leave his seat in that
! high office and travel ail over the country
| clothed with all the power and patronage of
! the Stat e government for the purpose of stock
ing a convention by the Boss Tweed process
of primary elections with a majority of dele
gates to vote for iiis nomination and for no
body else; he did not crack his executive
whip over that convention of stocked dele
gates and compel them to remain stocked and
vote for his nomination and nobody else on
the assumed ground that his stocked dele
gates represented a majority of the people,
whereas not one-tenlh of the voting popula
tion of the State had spoken at the Boss
Tweed primary election. No, Tom Norwood
lias not forced himself on the people by any
such proceedings as that to vindicate himself
from the alleged persecution of the legislature
and judicial departments of the government
worse than Lattimer ever endured, and it is
to he hoped he never will, if his official
record won't vindicate him, no frantic appeals
to the people can. Very respectfully”, your
obedient servant, lliram Warner.
Mu. Editor: —Having been travelling
around through Banks, Hall and Jackson
counties very recently, and talking with the
people, I thought it would be of some inter
est to your readers to hear something fioru
the people about the Congressional - race be
tween Messrs. Bell and Speer, and I can as
sure you that, from information obtained
from the people in the country and lh towns,
there is no tidlc wave roiling toward Speer,
as his organs would have us believe, but. on
the contrary, X find the people becoming
aroused and enthused for the standard-bearer
of the Democratic party —How. 11. I\ Bell.
What persons I have met with who have
changed since the last election, have changed
from Speer to Bell. In one neighborhood I
found four men who voted for Speer before
that will now vote for the nominee. If mat
ters are working in other counties as they
are in those above named, my judgment is
that the twenty-five hundred majority claim
ed ior Mr. Speer will be fur the other candi
date, viz : Mr. Bell. I found a great many
life long Democrats and thinking men who
told me that there never was a time when it
was of more importance, to the party in this
District to rally to the standard-hearer, as
the party in the State was now threatened
with disruption and ruin.
No, Mr. Editor, Bell’s record in the army,
where men's souls were tried, and his record
in Congress are so deeply imbedded in the
affections and minds of the people'of this
District that Speer’s easy walk over the track,
as claimed by the clerks in his newspaper
establishments at Athens and Gainesville,
is all a mistake.
I also find that Mr. B. F. Suddath. candi
date for State Senator, will sweep the Dis
trict. liis candidacy being based on the re
commendation of three hundred voters, at a
time when it was thought that there would
t>e no nominating convention in the District,
makes his chances much better than Mr.
Bush’s. Tho people think that when Mr.
Suddath was recommended by the people of
Banks as their choice for Senator, and offer
ed to the other counties, it. was not right for
one or two delegates to present the name of
Mr. Bush.
Colquitt is already elected where I have
been. Citizen.
Valuable Facts from a Safa Source.
The affairs of this country have become so
extended that it is only by a care full}' pre
pared synopsis in the form of figures that one
can hope to understand what is really going
on. lion. A. R. Spofiford, the Librarian of
Congress, is the only man who has the facil
ities at his command for collecting complete
national statist’es and he does it with the
greatest care and accuracy. His latest is
sue, “ The American Treasury of Facts,”
has been sent us by Messrs. 11. FI. Warner
& Cos., proprietors of the valuable Warner
Safe Remedies. This book is a miniature
cyclopedia in itself, containing, in addition
to a vast amount of national matter, about
all of value that has transpired in this coun
try during tlie past year, and reflects credit
upon the compiler as well as upon tho enter
prise of Messrs. Warner & Cos., in selection
it.
beech Creek Glimpses-
Messrs. Jackson & Oshields, with their
steam saw and shingle machinery, are turn
ing out lumber and shingles rapidly', anti of
the best quality. This enterprise has long
been needed in the community, and all should
avail themselves of the opportunity to improve
tlieir homesteads.
Top-buggies are getting to be as common,
and nearly as numerous, ns black gnats.
They are as yet, however, not quite so great
a nuisance.
The Rev. Mr. Eakes talks from the pulpit
with the bark on. And while the plain truths
lie utters in regard to the degeneracy of so
ciety are not altogether wholesome to many
of our young bloods and “ fast” young ladles,
he is nevertheless striking the key note, aftd
we hope to see it sounded from every pulpit
in the country.
Recent continual showers have checked
the rapid opening of cotton, yet many patches
are white with the “fleecy king.”
The road from Oshields’ bridge to I)r.
DeLaperriere’s is in very bad condition, and
if we have been correctly informed has never
been worked since the bridge was built.
Repeated complaints, both private and public,
have been made in regard to the road, and
it is time for 3omc action in the premises.
• Politics at a standstill.
Salary-Grab Grant salary Fraudulent
Bond Norwood, the choice of a minority of
the minority', spells and pronounces the first
syllable of his name the same as Uncle
Jonathan Norcross, and we predict for the
champion of the insurrectionists the same in
glorious defeat as befell that worthy.
Mr. L. J. Johnson is now in Gainesville.
Sometime since Mr. J. had an operation per
formed on his leg, which was in bad condition
from an old wound received in the war. We
learn that the operation was exceedingly
painful, but that Air. Johnson is now easy
and doing well. We trust that he may finaliv
recover from his injury.
Bingham Pendergrass lias the finest colt
wo ever saw, and it will not be long before
he takes Ins place among the “ fast ones” of
the country.
Bill Wages and A. P. Pendergrass caught
two fine beavers in Oshields’ bottom last
week. They will move their traps lower
down the river.
Glad to sec Dick Medlin back with the
New-. Dick is a valuable adjunct to any
newspaper. Glad indeed, also, are we to see
that the News has again donned home colors,
and the people should stand by our county
paper henceforth, and not compel its pub
lishers to resort to a “ patent outside’’ to
keep agoing.
The candidates are riding through our
District now. Messrs. Ilaynie, Sr., and Sey
mour were with us last Saturday.
We compliment Gosa on his last array of
items.
The writer will be “on the wing” for some
time, but you shall have a line now and then.
Fed. A. Gogue.
Apple Valley Dols.
Several changes have been made in the
Valley in the last few days. Mr. W. S. Mat
thews has sold his farm to Mr. B. T. Shirley,
of Franklin county. Mr. Matthews being too
good a citizen, and not being inclined to
leave us, has purchased a part of.Mrs. Greek’s
farm and the town property of Pro (V Erwin/
upon which 113 will build a commodious
dwelling soon.
As no account of the Lazy Club’s conven
tion has appeared in your paper, front the
fact that the Secretary is too lazy to write it
up, I will give you a short sketch of its pro
ceedings.
After the usual preliminaries in organizing
such bodies, the Chair announced the fact
that the Convention was ready for business.
A committee of three was appointed to pre
pare business. During the absence of the
committee the body was entertained by some
very eloquent v.hitling. The committee pre
sented the following resolutions:
1. we pledge ourselves to the support
of the nominees of this Club, provided every
body can get out his “pet” and it does not
require any effort on our part to elect him.
2. Our platform—Greenbacks without la
bor. We invite all persons who like ease
and quiet, and especially G reenbaekers, Dem
ocrats, Independents, and the balance of
mankind, to set flat down on this platform
and save the country from—we don’t know
what.
0. That Maysville is the pioneer Club of
this county. We therefore accord to it the
first place on our ticket —that of selecting a
candidate for Senator who is in full sympathy
with the principles of our Order, and would
suggest that they select three—one from each
county —and that they serve a week at a time,
so there will be no grumbling.
4. That we request W. J. Go3s, of Har
mony Grove, and W. M. Morgan, of Apple
Valley, to take the field as candidates to rep
resent this count}' in the next Legislature.
5. In order to make things look convention
like, we recommend that there be a minority
candidate brought out, provided there can be
one found who is not too lazy to accept.
G. That there be a meeting called at an
early day to bring out a Congressman and
recommend Bill Arp to run for Governor.
And we recommend Clayton, in Rabun coun
ty, as the most suitable place to hold said
meeting.
All of which was adopted by a majority of
two and a half votes on the 187th ballot.
Now, Mr. Editor, as your Harmony Grove
man is out of babies, let him write up a boom
on his experiences in the campaign.
Vande Linctum.
Something for Musicians.
The August No. of the Southern Musical
Journal , published by Ludden & Bates,
Southern Music House, Savannah, Ga., has
besides its great variety of musical reading
matter, Mendelssohn’s beautiful song, “ The
Frst Violet,” which true musicians will ap
preciate ; “ Pleasant Thoughts,” mazuka, by
Runnel, easy and pleasing ; and the lovely
sacred melody, ‘‘Flee as a Bird,” which has
given comfort to so many sin-sick souls.
All this music in one monthly number, price
Ten cents. Yearly subscription only $1.25,
with >I.OO worth of Sheet music as a prem
ium. Send $1.25 before you forget it. Ad
dress the publishers.
C3 I 20 RC* I A * EWS.
A countryman in Dalton was buying his
first glass of soda water the other day. As
the foaming beverage was handed to him. he
remarked : " I wish you’d skim offthe sknm,
boss. I ain’t paying for no froth, you bet.”
The Milledgeville Recorder records a re
markable freak of a Baldwin county man, in
his crazy thirst for drink. After pawning
every article of personal property he could
dispose of, he tore the lightning rod from the
chimney of his house, and actually pawned
that to get money to buy liquor.
George Thompson, colored, was tried in the
Superior Court of Walton county last week
| for the murder of Jeff Patrick, also colored,
at Social Circle on the 27th of February last.
The result was a verdict of guilty with a re
commendation to mercy, and the prisoner
•was sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
According to the Sumter Republican, the
cotton business in Americus has been quite
brisk for the season. Up to the hour of six
on Friday last, seven hundred and fifty-two
j bales of the new staple had rolled into the
warehouses. This is a pretty good showing
at that place. The price received, ten and
a half cents per pound, makes the farmers
feel happy.
The Dublin Gazette states that a few nights
since Mr. Ford ham, a barkeeper at Stephens
ville, Wilkinson county, was walking in his
sleep and fell from a second story window and
badly hurt himself. He dropped on an old
table which was lying with its legs upwards,
or the fall perhaps would have not been so in
jurious and painful.
The Dublin Gazette announces the death
by lightning of Mr. Hugh Gill is, a very old
and highly respected citizen of Montgomery
county, lie was in the field with his little
son pulling fodder when the disasteroccurred.
His slices were tom from his feet, and one of
them has not yet been found, llis little son
was knocked down by a splinter from a tree
which was struck at the same time.
“While in Walton la3t week,” says the
Athens Watchman . “ we learned that valuable
discoveries of asbestos, corundum and gold
have lately been made on the premises of
Thos. Stone and C. P. Blasingame, in that
county. The specimens are very pretty in
deed. If the new mines should turn out to bo
as rich as is thought, the new railroad will
have ample employment for some time to
come.”
The Monroe Advertiser says that Mr. J. D.
Proctor, of that county, has been for a few
years past developing a particular kind of
cotton, with a view of getting an improved
seed that will give an increased yield. Careful
attention has already given excellent results.
He exhibited eleven bolls last week that con
tained eighty-six locks. This is nearly eight
locks to the boll, when the average is four
locks. The great benefit of using such im
proved seed is readily apparent.
Speaking of Colonel J. C. Clements, who
has been nominated for Congress by the
Democracy of the Seventh District, the Rome
Tribune says : “ Colonel Clements is a native
of Walker county, a lawyer of marked ability,
and will, if elected, prove himself a faithful
and efficient Representative. He will enter
the canvass nerved for the conflict, and will
leave no stone unturned to carry the Demo
cratic banner to victory. His friends and the
party are sanguine of success, and hope to un
cover and defeat certain well laid plans
which the politicians have laid to cause the
canvass to be barren of results. Ilis trium
phant election is confidently anticipated.”
Says the Newnan Herald: “ Saturday last
was a lively day in Coweta in the cutting and
shooting business. Wm. Powers, in a quar
rel out in Citesville between him and Joe
Wilkinson, as they were going out of town
Saturday afternoon, cut his opponent in the
nrro with a knife, and was bound over under
a bond to appear before the City pouijciL for
tria,lr At Sharpsburg, Joe Lumpkin stabbed
a negro man whose name we have not learn
ed—but understand that the negro is badly
if not dangerously cut. He had collared
Mr. Jack Lumpkin, Joe’s father, when Joe
attacked him with a knife. We have not
learned any of the particulars. Scab Mc-
Combs shot Alf Ector, colored, in a difficulty
which occurred between them two miles from
town Saturday afternoon. Ector, we learn,
is believed to be mortally wounded.”
The I)eK;ilb News says: “ A negro man
brought in from the country a fine looking
lot of watermelons and offered them for sale
on the streets. Johnny Scruggs bought one,
out it open and found it green. lie went
back to the negro and asked him to replace
it. Tiiis the melon man refused to do, and
the fun began. Scruggs took his stand be
side the melons, with a half of tiic green
melon in his hand, and warned all comers
against buying, exhibiting his as a sample
of the lot. Saturday was a public day at the
Mountain, and melons were in demand, but
so successful was Scrugg’s plan that only
two or three were sold during the entire day.
• From early morn till dewy eve’ Scruggs
nursed his wrath and his watermelon, and
turned away scores, if not hundreds, of would
be buyers. A crowd gathered around the
spot, and whenever anew man turned away
he cheered t lie plucky boy and laughed at the
annoyed darkey. The latter offered to re
place any melon that proved bad, or return
the money; but the silent testimony of the
green sample was powerful, and they wouldn’t
sell. When we left late in the afternoon, all
things remained in statu quo —the melons
unsold, the crowd hilarious, the negro mad
and anxious, and Scruggs serene arid persis
tent.”
A correspondent of the Athens Chronicle
writes that paper as follows : “ Bartow coun
ty during the past year has shiped six thou
sand tons of manganese, valued at $lO per ton.
From this one mineral, therefore, $60,000 has
been added to the wealth of that connty.
The specimens of this mineral from Monroe
county, we are informed by Dr. Little, are
very much inferior to those of Bartow. The
former yields seventy-two per cent of pure
manganese. The writer has seen specimens
from Madison county which, while not tested,
appeared to be nearly pure. He has also
seen nearly absolutely pure specimens of
plumbago from the same county. These min
erals are sold low, of course, but when found
are easily mined, and are in large quantities.
A large deposit of either is better than a gold
mine for profit. It was a great misfortune
that the Geological Bureau was discontinued
last fall. It was one of the most valuable
departments of the State. Our part of the
State has never been examined systematic
ally, and we are satisfied that when it is done
very many sources of wealth to our people
will be developed. We will take occasion
to refer to the matter of this geological sur
vey at another time, believing that it will
greatly profit the State, aud particularly our
own immediate section.”
T. FLEMING. J. H. FLEMING. „ rT
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Address D. N. JTJDSON, Atlanta, Ga.
To the Voters of Jackson Cos.
Having been solicited by man}’’kind friends
to submit my name to the people a9 a candi
date for the next Legislature, I adopt this
means to make my candidacy known.
Believing that the people have a right to
know what are the sentiments of those who
aspire to represent them, I define my posi
tion. as to certain matters, as follows :
First. I will support, if elected, Ex-Gov.
Joseph E. Brown for United States Senator,
in place of Gen. John B. Gordon, resigned.
Second. I will support the best measures,
in my judgment, submitted to the General
Assembly, to carry out both the letter and
the spirit of the Constitution, which provides
that “There shall be a thorough system of
common schools for the education of children
in the elementary branches of an English
education only, as nearly uniform as practi
cable,” and that “The schools shall he free
to all the children of the State.”
A free school system is made the policy of
the State by its organic law. The liberal
purposes of this policy are, that all the chil
dren of the State, both white and colored,
shall have the opportunity afforded them to
be taught the elementary branches of au
English education ; that there shall be schools
enough, and terms holding long enough, to
enable all the children to secure these ad
vantages, and that such schools shall be free
to all the children of the State.
Third, Believing that the present system
of farming out the convicts of the State is
subject to great abuses; has exposed our
people to severe criticisms, and has given
occasion for serious charges of inhumanity
towards this unfortunate class of our people,
I shall use my best exertions to utterly
abolish it, at the earliest practicable day, or
else impose upon those who control and
manage the convicts such conditions as will
effectually prevent any cruel and oppressive
treatment. The sexes should be separated ;
necessary clothing, wholesome and plentiful
food should be provided for them; they
should have comfortable quarters—such a3
are consistent with their safe keeping ; proper
medical skill in sickness, and moral and re
ligious instruction. And for every failure to
provide thus for the convicts, there should
bo annexed such penalties as, when once in
flicted, will prevent any future violation of
such humane regulations. Our State is too
grand and noble to expose herself to the im
putation of being cruel and oppressive merely
for the sake of a little money ; to estimate
crime and its inhumane punishment as one
of her resources for revenue. That the con
victs of the State can be worked without loss
to the State, the management in other States
abundantly illustrate ; and that, too, without
a foundation for serious comblaint as to the
healthful and moral treatment of the crimi
nals.
Fourth. Serious complaints in other com
munities and some dissatisfaction in our own
county as to the working of the present jury
system demonstrate that there are imperfec
tions in the jury law. Our own Jury Com
missioners—too faithful to slight a public
duty, too high-minded to be influenced by
personal considerations in the discharge of a
public trust—have failed to give the satis
faction that their high character as men, ard
their patient labors in this matter as officers
of the law, entitled them to receive.
It is no fault of the Commissioners. No
commission composed of five men, however
well the names may be distributed over the
county, can, with reason, be expected to know
that all of those who are selected as jurors
corme up to the requirements of the law, or
that they have placed in the jury box all
those who, on account of their intelligence
and uprightness, are entitled to a place on
the jury list. Th?3 law needs amendment.
Other matters might be mentioned, but I
shall not risk wearying the reader.
I shall not hesitate, both in private and in
public, as occasion may offer, to present my
views frankly and fully.
I will take pleasure in addressing the peo
ple whenever an opportunity ir. afforded me
on the subjects hereinbefore alluded to, and
other matters, the subject of legislation.
Very respectfullv,
J. lb SILMAN.
Jefferson, G Sej.t. ith, 1880.
Is it possible.
That a remedy made of such common!
simple plants as Hops, Buchu, Mandrake!
Dandelion, &c., make so many and sucJ
marvelous and wonderful cures as Hop BitterJ
do? It must be, for when old and younoj
rich and poor, Pastor and Doctor, Lawyer anl
Editor, all testify to having been cured bJ
them, we must believe and doubt no longer*
See other column.
Hi 1 it) iUocrtiseiHHits. I
List of Dead Letters
1 } EMAINING in the Post Office at Jefferson J
JLL Ga., August 31st, 1SS0:
IT. C. Green,
G. M. D. Moon,
W. N. Straynge,
James Green. A.*ll. BROCK, P. M. I
Jackson County.
Whereas, a petition, signed by fifty or mt7 , j
freeholders, citizens of said county, has been filed I
in this cilice, asking that the question of Fence orl
No Fence be submitted to the lawful voters of said I
county—
If no counter petition is filed on or before the I
first day of October, ISBO, said election will be]
ordered in accordance with ,tho statute in iufib
case made and provided. ’*
Sept. 2d, 1880. ■' H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas. W. S. Flanagan applies to me for
Letters of Administration on the estate of Jul>
F. Burson, late of said county, deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first
Monday in October, 1880, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of" said county, why said
letters should not be granted. _
Given under my official signature, October7th,
1880. seplO 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Northeastei'n Railroad.
WINTER SCHEDULE.
Superintendent's Office, \
Athens, Ga., Aug. 31, lw.J
ON and after September Ist, ISSO, trains on th.3
Road will run as follows :
fNoTjl^-j
I p. M. I A.M.
Leaves Athens | 3:45 | 5$
Arrives at Lula 0:15 j ‘; 1
Arrives at Atlanta | 10:50 |
JNoJjjy
ra. m. | p. M -
Leaves Atlanta I 4:301
Leaves Lula I 8:55 1
Arrives at Athens | 11:251 A^
Nos. 1 and 2 daily, except Sunday. ,
No. 3 runs on Monday, and No. 4 on Sa.ur
only. . c n.
All trains connect closely at Lula with >- 0 “ ‘
and North bound passenger trains of the - ■
Line Railway.
Passengers from the Georgia Railroad connu*
closely with evening trains for all points on - *
Line Railway. LYMAN WELIA
sep 10 Superintendent^
FOR SALE!
TWO FIXE PLANTATIONS!
rpWO farms, adjoining each other
A situated about two miles from Jefferson,,
the Athens and Jefferson road. One coutft' -.-
about 250 acres, the other nearly 400 acres,
very good frame dwellings on both places. j
place has some good bottom land. The o
place has a gin house and running gear. * ’ L
them separately or together on reasonable t
but would require at least one-fourth cash P
ment in advance. Address
JOHN W. NICHOLSON,
sep3 4t AthensA^
Collins l Colons!
T WILL keep on hand, in Jefferson, a full s u P*
A ply of
GOF'FTN &
BURIAL CASES,
of all sizes, and at priees to suit the times. j
effort will be made to serve parties prompt 1 ,
satisfactorily. Respectfully,
sept 3 W. A. WORSHAM^
LIGHT JOS AV"°4G.
Executed promptly, at this of