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The Weokly Democrat,
Ben.E. Rtmell, ; : Editor
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1875.
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Rules to Perfect Service in Di
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The above are the minimum rates of le
gal advertising no>v charged by the Press
of Georgia, and which T shall strictly ad
here to in the future. I hereby give final
loticc that no advertisement of this class
will he published inTiieDemocrat with
out the fee is paid in mlmwe.
Hen. F. Russell.
Editor and Proprietor.
Jan 7, 18751
The Thomasville Fair-
This, Fair was in every sense of the
word a grand success. It was a credit to
Thomas county, Thomasville and thi
cutire section of country. The quality-
quantity, and ^iety of the agricultural
products cxliilmed Jiave never been sur
passed at any Fair in the State since the
war.
The display made by the Roston,
Ochobcknee, and Eureka Granges was
perfectly magnificent, which showed how
bountiful our soil w'oukl produce if labor
were only expended upon it; and how
much our women can contribute to the
wealth of the country by their handiwork.
Every department was up to the requi
site standard, und the people showed
their appreciation by pouring into the
grounds by thousands. Old Thomas may
well be pround of this exhibition.
Rubers, from Bainbridge, was their with
a splendid disnlay of silverware, jewelry,
watches, etc., for which he took a diplo
inn. lie is an enterprising ir.an, and liis
stock cannot be excelled in all this coun
try.
We met at tlic Fair several country
editors and a few' also from the city.
They all seemed to CDjoy themselves
hugely. Triplett & Bryan of the Thom
asville piess looked as smiling as you
please, and contributed all in their power
to give their brethren a good time.
Providence, It. I., last evening nominated
Thomas Davis for Mayor.
According to the Collector at Boston
General Sherman will be the next Repub
lican candidate for the Presidency.
D. R. Anthony, editor of the Leaven-
W’orth Times and Postmaster, has bolted
the local Republican ticket and declared
in support of the Democratic nominees.
Malt Carpenter was announced to take
part in the Wisconsin campaign, but the
prospect created so much enthusiasm that
the Republican leaders had him inoculated
with sore throat aud safely withdrawn.
Tlie feeling among bett ing men with re
gard to the election in New York is illus
trated by two wagers made by Sheridan
Shook, the theatrical manager. The first
was $1,000 that Bigelow’ would he elected
Secretary of State over Fred. W. Seward,
aud the second, another $1,000, that Mr.
Seward would run 7,500 ahead of his tic
ket. Bets are being made on the election
of Recorder Haekett over the Tammany
nominee by 30,000 majority.
If there are any stray Indians but Chip-
peways, or forlorn Sauks, or bedevilled
Menomanees anywhere up in Michigan,
trust Chandler to find them and privide
them agents. When he was in the Senate
he had a witch-hazel wand and fouud
water and a River-and-IIarbor appropria
tion for it in every bog, swamp and blind
ditch from Menenee Bay to Isle Royale,
from White Pigeon Gut to Tequamenon
Creek, lie is the biggist Medecinc our
red brother ever dealt with yet, and in his
great heart he embraces all Michigan ex
cept the town of Coldwater.
Conjectures as to how Chandler’s res
pectable colleagues in tlie Cabinet will
feel about the new Senator are not in or
der. The Prime Minister of a petty Ger
man principality once said: “The South
Germans who want to be annexed to the
North German Confederation are folks
solicitous for the rheumatism because it
is a new disease to them. All the same,
when I have got it, this rheumatism, 1
mean to seem to find it delightful, for it
is the proper thing for a Statesman to
make believe his political lines fail in
pleasant places.” The esprit du corps will
induce Mr. Fish. Mr. Bristow, Mr. Pier-
repout aud Mr. Jewell to give the
of fellowship to Zack, even while
hold their disengage hands over
noses.
hand
they
their
The Florida Contest-
The Jacksonville Union of Thursday
understands that General Finley does not
intend to occupy the ten days allowed
him in taking rebuttal testimony in his
contested election case, He is quite well
satisfied to submit the case as it is now
made up. Ope of the singular phrases of
this contest U that Mr, Walls takes no
testimony in Columbia county,
“Won’t you gut open a penny for me,
father ?” said a little girl when she came
home from school one day. “Cut open a
penny ! What do you want me to do
that for ?” asked her father. “Cause”
raid the little girl, “our teacher says in
every penny there are four farthings, and
} want to see them.”
ALECK STEPHENS
Stephens and Bandolph—Dying for
Twenty Years—A Congressional
Beminiseenoe—A Victory Over
Grow-
[N. Y. Mercury.]
A dispatch from Georgia prematurely
announcing that this venerable, erratic
genius was suddenly attacked by danger
ous disease, and was in a critical condi
tion, furnished our correspondent an op
portunity to relate, from, his own experi
ence, some interesting reminiscences of a
remarkable man. Aleck Stephens has
been, 4ikc Randolph of Roanoke, dying,
for nearly thirty years, and yet continued
through ail tills time, and in spite of his
moribund eoudiUon, to take an impor
tant and prominent part in all the grave
public events that agitated the country.
It is now more than twenty years since
I first saw him on tlie floor of the House
of Representatives at Washington. His
physical weakness was so marked that
everybody spoke about it, and all doubk
cd his ability to live through the session
which ended March 4, 1857. But the
taackmen and undertakers in the city knew
him better. Tli*y all said that Stephens
was an imposter in Jhe matter of health,
that for ten years previous he lie j pretend
ed to he dying, raising the hopes of the
undertakers and cab drivers for lucrative
employment at a nig Congressional funer
al, but had always cheated them out of it
by ever seeming to be dying, and yet nev
er dying. He has thus lived on ever since,
passed through the fierce contest over sla
very, secession and tlie war, and managed
so well that, although Vice-President of
the Confederacy and author of the cele
brated manifesto that “slavery was the
corner stone of tlie new Confederation of
American States,” lie yet, of all Confed
erates, attained the most popularity in
the North, and was the first of them ad
mitted to a seat in Congress after the w ar,
and treated with the highest regard by
Republican members, though not acting
with their party. But all these things
are of recent history, and well known,
hence they need not be repeated here.
But one of his conflicts in the House in
ante war times, and in which a member
from the State of New York was person
ally concerned, is worth telling.
Orsomus C. Mnttcson represented the
Utica District, and served on the Com
mittee on Pensions. A Mr. Tripplett, a
pension agent at Washington, had com
piled a volume of the laws and regulations
concerning pensions, and of decisions of
Courts relating thereto, and this book he
was anxious to sell to the Government.
Congressman Matteson exerted himself
strenuously in favor of Tripplett’s work
and he carried t hrough Congress an appro
priation for its purchase, at a fixed price
per volume. It leaked out subsequently
that this price was a trifle higher than
(lie retail price at which the book sold at
1 he stores, and that the excess went to
Mr. Matteson as compensation for liis la
bors.—jCharges were preferred on these
facts, and a committee appointed to in
vestigate them. Aleck Stephens w’as the
Chairman of that'eominittee, and Galusha
A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, one of the
members. Tlie committee made tw r o re
ports, one by Stephens, to expell Matte-
son for corruption, the other by Grow, to
censure him only for careless conduct in
allowing himself to be found out. This
occurred in 1857. Grow was a new con
vert to Republicanism, having changed
over from a Democrat only in the previ
ous Congress on the Kansas-Nebraska
troubles, and lie determined to win his
spurs as one of the leaders of the new par-
House rested solely upon Stephens and
Grow, aud they were w r ell matched. They
are both, when under excitement, exceed
ingly passionate, the voice of each is
shrill and piercing, their oratory aggres
sive and even violent, but Aleck had the
best of it, as he fought on the side of hon
esty against bribery. Never did the most
robust and powerful man shine brighter
in debate than Stephens on that occasion,
though the hand of grim death seemed al
ready upon him. The denunciation of
t he turpitude of Matteson’s crime was a
burst of such fiery eloquence as is seldom
heard in Congress. His lithe frame shook
cervously, and appeared as if falling asun
der, as he turned his brilliantly beaming
eye upon Matteson and pointed his lank,
bony linger in crushing scorn at the ac
cused. The Republicans had a majority
and Banks was Speaker, yet all the efforts
of Grow were vain. Stephens carried the
House with him, and Matteson w’as ex
pelled. It was one of the most extraordi
nary parliamentary triumphs ever acchiev-
ed and will he long remembered by those
who were present at the time.
The Georgia Debt-
A New York financial paper having re
cently stated, on the authority of a bro
ker firm in that city, that the debt of
Georgia was 19,000,000, the Georgia pa
pers take pains to correct the statement
by explaining that the debt is only
105,500, as appears from the last official
statement by the Suite Treasurer. There
is a disowned debt $8,455,000, which the
knavish Governor of the State, Bulloclf,
pretended to contract; but this was prov
ed to be a fraud by a Legislative commit
tee, and the State has never recognized its
obligation to pay it.. At the time they
Legislature disowned the fraudulent debt
the proceeding was strongly denounced
in New York as an act of bad faith ; but
the failure of the house of Clews & Co.,
which tookTlace shortly afterward, and
the general rottenness of its relations
which an investigation revealed, have
completely justified the step. Clews &
Co., were the financial agents of Georgia
under Bullock—or rather they were Bul
lock’s financial agents—and the Legisla
live inquiry into the good condition of the
State's finances that followed the over
throw of the Radical party and the flight
of Bullock, showed strong reasons for
suspecting that the financial agents had
full knowledge of Bullock’s frauds at the
time they were committed. When the
asset| of Clews <& Co. were tabulated af
ter their failure, a large number of these
disowned Georgia bonds, for which the
Slate never a cent of consideration, was
included in the list. But these bonds are
utterly worthless ; the State of Georgia is
under no moral or legal obligation to pay
them than they are to make good the pri
vate frauds of their runnaway Governor;
and it is said that they never will pay
them.—<S(. Louis Republican
from the natives by a bargain that was
supposed to be satisfactory to both parties.
It is a very rich district. Gold is found in
abundance in the soil-, and pearl fisheries
along the coast. Its products are ginger,
gu ta percha, cocoa, coffee and other
growths of a tropical climate, and it has
long been a coveted field in the eyes of
English traders.
Those English traders are supposed to
be at the bottom of the present war, sure
it is that the chiefs in the disputed terri
tory suddenly appealed to arms against the
Liberian government. They summoned
all their allies from the interior, gathered
their crops and prepared to make an at
tack by thousands. The first onset occur
ed about a mouth ago. It should be borne
in mind that all these savages are well
supplieed with arms of good patterns,
which were furnished by the English tra
ders. The belligerents are in fact armed
with about equal weapons. But the na
tives can muster thousands, while the
colony can only oppose them with hun
dreds.
The Liberians have armed and forward
ed to the seat of war several hundred m«^g
perhaps great activity and skill may en
able them to rescue the dream of the col-
onizationists from destruction; but tlie
friends of coloftization in this country are
alarmed at the prospect. The whole his
tory of Liberia has not been a happy one.
The dupes of the carpetbaggers in this
country do not become statesmen or even
good citizens by crossing the seas. The
intrigues of the British merchants should
however be baffled, and we hope to hear
that the invaders have been beaten back
to the interior. Liberia affords the only
convenient opportunity of working out
the much mooted theory of African col
onization, and on that account also we
hope it may be able to withstand all the
efforts of the new and formidable army of
invasion.—Atlanta Constitution.
The Liberian War
Liberia is in imineat danger, or was st
the latest advices, of being overrun by na
tive savages and blotted out from the map.
The origin of the war grew out of » re
cent acquisition by the republic of some
new territory along the coast. This terri
tory was fairly and peaceably acquired
THE STATE-
John Bard goes to the public works.
W. S. Zeilin has left Macon for Phila
delphia.
3Irs. C. W. Hubner, of Atlanta, is crit
ically ill.
The widow of the late Wm. L. Yancey
is visiting Athens.
Much sorghum has been made in llart
county this year.
Richard Goulding, of Oglethorpe coun
ty, is seriously ill.
Hon. Thomas Crymes has purchased a
half interest in the Toccoa Herald.
Yesterday’s Macon paper reports the
very critical illness of Mr. S. G. Bonn.
Rev. Dr. Leftwitch will continue to fill
the Central Presbyterian Church pulpit
in Atlanta.
Mr. Roswell King and H. M. Hammett,
of Marietta, have formed a law partner
ship.
Dave Arnold, of Oglethorpe county,
picked 200 pounds of cotton by dinner tlie
other day.
They have had a singing convention a"
Rehoboth Church in Goshen district, El-
-‘“My citizens of Athens, mo’eorles ,
are mentioned in connection with the nexi
mayoralty race.
The Markham House, in Atlanta, will
be occupied by Col. Owens about the 10th
of December.
Robert Johnston, of the Rome planing
mill, had a piece of his thumb cut off by
the machinery.
The gin house of Mr. Cutler, of Baker
county, was recently burned with abou:
three bales of lint cotton.
Lovick Young, a white lad of Marietta,
stabbed and seriously wounded a negro
boy named John Williams.
Mrs. Elizabeth Crowder, of Louisiana,
is visiting Oglethorpe county, from which
she moved about 20 years ago.
The mineral spring recently discovered
near Washington has becomequite a place
of resort for the Washingtonians. \|
Mr. Josiah Sibley was throwm from his
buggy in Marietta,the other day and bruis
ed to some extent. The buggy was
wrecked,
In a difficulty in Louisville, P. H.
Smith was severely cut on the right side
of the neck. Sam Brown is accused of
doing the cutting.
The Fulton grand jury has found a true
bill against James Hughes and Geo Rol-
lifield, charged with the murder of John
Wilmoth.
A frightened horse in Thomaston turn
ed over a buggy with Augusta Harp aud
his sister in it and slightly iLjuring the
young lady.'
A young lady in the family of Mr. Tut
tle, of Rome, tvas wounded in the face by
the accidental discharge of a pistol in the
hands of Mr. Tuttle.
A new post office has been established
in Elbert county, on the route from El-
berton to Washington, known as Baker’s
Ferry, with Mr. E. Starke as postmas
ter.
The nurse of Mr. H. C. White’s little
child, of Marietta, is thought to have giv
en it ground glass to eat with persimmons.
No injury to the child has yet been ob-
-served.
The Atlanta Herald reports the mar
riage of Gen. P. M. B. Young. We will
wait a day or two for the confirmation or
correction of the report before we put it
in our list of marriages.
Oglethorpe Echo, 29th .- On Tuesday
last this section was visited by one of the
severest rain storms that has occurred
since the cyclone. No damage was done
that we could hear of.
An excursion train from Washington
will reach Augusta at 10 o’clock, Sunday
morning next, and leave Sunday evening,
8 o'clock. The excursion is for the ben
efit of the Catholic Church of Washing
ton.
In the United States Circuit Court 8t
Atlanta yesterday morning, his Hon.
Ju-’.ge Wood presiding, in the case of
Wiliiier and others, first mortgage bond
holders, against the Atlanta and Rich
mond Air Line Railroad Company, his
Honor derided in favor of plaintiffs and
decreed that the trustees shall sell the en
tire property. The first mortgage amounts
to $4,248,000, the bonds being held prin
cipally in New York city and Baltimore.
Accrued interest unpaid to date is about
$700,000. The road extends from Atlanta
to Charlotte, N. C., a distance of 2t»5
miles.
collected and condenctd, knows perfectly
well that the opposition to Tammany was
never so weak, distracted and disorganiz
ed as now, and that every Tammany nom-
inee on the county ticket is absolutely cer-
tain to be elected ; 2. That the Democratic
State ticket is equally certain to be elect
ed by an increased majority over the 50,-
000 majority of last year, and that John
Bigelow, who has been the cnief object
of the attack, will lead the Democratic
majority.
What Hicks is Doing in Florida.
A Florida correspondent of the Savan
nail News makes this charge against that
distinguished patriot and zealous Chris
tian, W. W. Hicks, in a late letter:
And 1 do charge Dr. Hicks, In this let
ter,with endeavoring to incite the negroes
in that portion of the State known as the
Black Belt, to rict and insurrection. He
is tiyiflg to inculcate, through the Fcrnan-
dina Observer, the doctrine that the mur
der of Johnson was tlie work of the
Democratic party, and the initatory step
to the murder of all of the Republican
leaders, and that they (the negroes) must
be prepared to murder aiid destroy tbe
Democrats. And I am informed, upon
the most undoubted veracity, that so
thoroughly lifts Hicks perforated his work
in and about Tallahassee, that, to-day,
should any prominent Republican of Tal
lahassee mysteriously die’ or disappear,
that the probabilities are that Tallahassee
would not be a town twenty-four hours
afterwards, and that murder, rapine, and
fire would hold high carnival in that now
peaceful and law-abiding town. And this
because such a demon as Hicks has been
schooling the blacks, that such a step
would probably be necessary for their
own protection.
A Gulf States Exposition-
The New Orleans people have resolved
upon a grand rfgricultural and industrial
exposition of the products of the Gulf
States, to be held in that city in February
next. As that part of the country has at
tempted nothing of the kind heretofore
on so extensive a scale, the fact may be
accepted as a satisfactory indication of
tbe reviving enterprises of a section which
has been laboring so long under so many
drawbacks and discouragements.
It is the intention, as we learn from the
New Orleans papers, to enlist a Mexican
ana Central American interest in the ex
hibition. It is also proposed to hold at
the same time a convention of representa
tives from Mexico and the Southern and
Western States to consider existing ob-
!-tacles to trade with Mexico. Letters
have been received from the Governors
of a cumber of States and from promi
nent officials of both countries, strongly
endorsing the proposition. There has been j
no revision of the tariff on exports to
Mexico for fifty years, and it is generally
felt that it is time to set aside the antiqua
ted and almost prohibitory system so long
in vogue.—Sa% Heirs.
neighborhood around Jfl^terly Hall, were
very greatly excited report that
a young lady in tlicA^m^Pborhood had
been
• RAPED.
It was soon discovered that the foul
crime bad been a victim in the person of
a young lady scarcely seventeen years of
age. The unfortunate subject of the vil e
creature’s lust proved to be Miss Boswell.
She resides with her brother on his plan
tation. It is said her mind has been im
paired, and that the scoundrel took ad
vantage of that fact, and committed the
heinous crime while she was out walking
in her s
brother’s fields.
No sooner had the crime been commit
ted, than tbe unfortunate young lady told
her wrongs, and pointed out as the man a
negro who had been jiving on the place,
named
EUGENE HOWARD.
Hot pursuit was made, but up (.o the
hour our informant left no- clue was ob
tained of his whereabouts.. He is sup
posed to have come in tlie direction of
COLUMBUS,
but of course this fact is not known.
Such crimes are unfrequent in this
country, because the punishment is very
speedy, and very certain. We are never
in favor of tlie people taking the law in
their own hands, for when everybody ap.
peals to the law for redress' then it will
surely come, but notwithstanding all of
this we would not ensure his life, if he is
captured, while the neighborhood are in
fever heat.
A DESCRIPTION
of the negro may lead to liis detection,
and we would like to see our police dis
tinguish themselves by liis capture. He
is described as a square built negro man,
about
TWENTY-FOUR YEARS
old, weighing 130 pounds, about five feet
ten inches high, and having a few scatter
ing whiskers.
The crime occured Thursday about
noon.—Columbus Times.
S^gio Jurors
In.the last issue of the Macon Te teg rap
we d%re not a little surprised to note the
names of several negro jurors drawn for the
October term of Bibb Superior Court. We
say we were surprised just because we were,
for we were unaware of the fact that a negro
had ever graced a jury box in one of our
State Courts. Kise and explain, Bro. Keese.
What's the matter with old Bibb ? — Grijjin
Hers.
An easy solution of the problem may be
given. Perhaps in Bibb county the Jury
Commissioners have complied with tlie Con
stitution and laws of Georgia. The Stale
Constitution requires the General Jftsembly
“to provide by law for the selection of up
right and intelligent persons to serve as
jurors.’’ The Code makes it the duty oftl e
Jury Commissioners to select from the books
of the Receiver of Tax Returns the names
of “upright end intelligent persons to serve
as jurors.” If the Jury Commissioners of
Bibb found upon the tax books of the county
the names of ‘upright and intelligent’ color
ed persons, 't became their sworn duty to
put such names in the jury box. No one
doubts the Democracy of the Jury Commis
sioners of this county, yet in obedience u
their oath, they have put the names of
several colored men on the jury lists—Au
gusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
Anti-Resumption Feeling 1 at the
South.
The New York Bulletin gives the fol
lowing as the opinion of an Atlanta mer
chant- as to the sentiment of Georgia in
respect to resumption and the currency:
Atlanta, Ga , October 23, 1875.
To the Editor of the New York Daily Bul
letin :
It may not be amiss to say that Georgia
votes almost solid for a national green
back currency. We know that specie
paj'ments cannot be resumed, and we do
not think it wise to attempt resumption."
We love greenbacks, and we insist, if the
government will receive them for all dues
that the wild speculation in gold will be
at an end, and greenbacks will appreciati
and soon the hoarded millions of gold will
find its way into the marts of trade, and
every industry, from Maine to California,
will be stimulated, and as a people we
will go on prospering and to prosper.
An Atlanta (Ga.) Mercant.
FALL AND IVINTi:!: nr |w
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W e are now receiving our usual stock of DRY GOODS cn nm -
BOOTS, SHOES. CROCKERY and HARD* ARE (bought ,? n f ° ERlEs - Htbl
at the low prices now current in all the loading markets), t 0 which oribl «tB^”l
tention of the purchasing community. 1 " e w oulii ,, l! i I
Honest Dealing, Full Weight at j
Measure
Fully guaranteed to all who favor us with their patronage. Wo can not h ■
l&rize, but wpuld mention as embraced in our assortment 200 nipt e °l? i
pieces Bleached and Brown Cottons, 50 pieces Eagle & Phoenix , ! r**
Jeans 25 pieces White, Red and Opera Flannels, 10 niece.* n Ken,t1 ^
Bleached Drills, 50 pairs White and Colored Biankets, 50 Died cl" , ,Bi
and Stripes an l a full assortment, ol staple and fancy , . **
general. In Groceries, we deal largelyiP **
Bacon, Floor, Syrup, Salt,
Rock Potash of the old fashioned kind as well as in the more modern sW., „ I
box. Soaps common and fine Toilet; Sugars, Crushed, Powdered , of ™i«il
Pnffee i „ .. ’ „ . uanlied and iu_l
Coffee, Tobaccos, chewing and sinokin
pertains to this department.
Goshen Butter, Crackers, Cheese and
all tin:
Oh 1
New York Election-
The World reviewing the vaticinations
of .he (braid upon the. New York elec
tion. next Tuesday, says:
Now the facts are—1. That every com
petent politician of either party in this
city, where information is accessible and
by this date iu the canvass pretty well
Monument to General Lee-
General Jubal A. Early, President of the
Lee Monument Association, writes a letter
to the Richmond Enquirer in Relation to the
merging of that with other organizations
having the same object in view, to wit: the
erection of a statue to General Robert E. Lee
on Capitol square. The popular idea now
seems to be that the great captain of the
Confederacy, should be honored by the most
heroic style known to art—that is, by an
equestrian statue, and this because, as the
Enquirer saya, the horse is the symbol of
war and the completement of the soldier,
and no military figure appears to advantage
unless mounted and in full warlike panoply.
But whether equestrian or not, our contem
porary does not think this matter should be
allowed to rest a moment.it should be press
ed at once, so that the t^hole of the money
may be raised at the earliest possible mo
ment ; for after the contract has been closed
with the artist it will take some time to com
plete the work in all its details, and the
task the people of Virginia have imposed
upon themselves to perpetuate the memory
of their most beloved chieftain in the man
ner indicated, should not be allowed to drag
or their zeal to grow cold. We hope the
appeals of General Early and the Enquirer
will not be allowed to pass unheeded, and
that the example of Virginia in thus per
petuating the memory of her greatest soldier
will not be Io«t upon the other States of the
South.—Sap. News.
A correspondent describes Ben Butler
as follows : “One who had occasion to
confer with General Butler at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel lately on business, describes
him as having greatly aged within the
past few years, and uncomfortably in ob
esity A crowd of suitors dance atten
dance in the ante-room wherever he is,
for he is carrying on a score of heavy law
suits, and is involved in innumerable rail
road schemes and corrupt jobs. The visi
tor being ushered into the presence, dis
covers an old, burly man, in a half reclin
ing posture in an easy chair. His eyes
are closed as he listens, and when he
speaks he raises the lid of the sound o
and stares horribly at ihe client. When
his tongue stops, he drops his eyelids and
is apparently asleep again. But that
busy, intriguing brain, that “devil’s wor
ship,” is wide awake, whatever the un
seemly old carcass may seem to be. But
ler is evidently out of politics. There is
not a deader politician in Massachusetts
than he, since his defeat for Congress last
year, and final bottling.
STOCK of BOOTS and SHoEsI
will be found large and unusually well selected, embracing all the styles of Me r I
and Children’s of Eastern make, aud a small consignment of Uis *
Georgia Made Pegged Goods,
HATS FGR MEN and BOYS FBOM VERY LOW GRADE TO BEST
QUALITY.
CROCKERY and GLASS WARE with a good assortment of LAMPS and LAMP GOOD?,I
will bo found on our shelves. I
HARDWARE, NAILS, and an ASSORTMENT of ih3 STAPLE SHAPES)
and sizes of TIN HOOP BAND, round and square IRON NAIL
RODS, AXES, WELL BUCKETS, Painted Cedar, Junipsr and
Brass Bound Buckets; Tubs YJaeh-boards and Axe Handies.
WHITE LEAD, PAINT OILS!
And n large Dumber of articles not usually dealt in by houses in this section. Wnfil
special inducements to CASIi BUI ERS, and those prompt in meeting their engapanml
Dp and Down Stairs.
Young mistress (at the parlor door:)
Eliza, what is the bell ringing for so vio
lently ? Cook (below:) It’s on’y me,
m’um. I want you down in the kitchen
a minute.
For Sale-
will be sold in Bainbridge on the 1st Tues
day in December at public outcry the plan
tation known as tlie Daniel Rambo Place ly
ing on the Chattahoochee river, 22 miles
west of Bainbride. Said plantation contain
ing 2,400 acres of land, 1,400 cleared will
be divided by lines running east and west
to the river and sold in three parts. Terms
of sale one third cash, balance in two annual
payments. Any information desired in re
gard to the lands may be had by address
ing, Dickenson & McElveen.
Steam Mill, Ga.
Nov. 4, 1875—lm
Administrators Sale.
B Y virtue of an order from the Court of
Ordinary of Decatur County will be
sold on the first Tuesday in December 1875,
before ihe Court House door in said county,
between the usual hours of sale, a brick
Store House in the city of Bainbridge, Ga.
Situated on Water St , and now occupied by
J. A. Jones & Co., and bounded as follows:
On the north by Water St., on the east by
Store house of W. G. Broom, on the west by
Store house now occupied by Steininger &
Smith, and on the south by vacant lot be
longing to tbe Estate of I. E. Bower, dec.,
late of said county. Sold for distribution
amongst the heirs and creditors of said
estate of I. E. Bower, dec. Terms cash
B. B. Bowes, E. C. Bowes,
n0T ‘4- Administrators.
T. J. PEARCE
T _ , I R. O. WILLIAMS
Late T. J. Pearce & Co.
B. j. benford, late with Briggs, Payne & Co., New Orleans.
PEARCE, BINFORD,*CO.,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS in GROCERIES PROVISIONS &C.
No. 20 Broad Street Columbus Ga.
Oaah advances made on consignments of Syrup, Wool, Hides Jtc
Sep. 30—3m.
egging:
Sen. -’0—Grn
and
Ties
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low as 111,11
owosi'
Kalvbit «f.r "W artioit!.!
Look out For The Circus!
Ann
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ill
?1.1U JA
-DN ACCOUNT 01
the AWFUL LOW PRICE’
NOW BEING ASKED FOR GOODS Y
SIMON A. WIEL,
—THE—
LEST FALL AND
BAGGING, ROPE, TIES, AS CHEAP AS ANYWHERE.
A, WISX*
WILL SELL GOODS AS CHEAP AS CAN BE BOUGHT IN BAINBBID^
I
’ CHEAPER.
Everybody invited to call including GRANGERS, MECHA^^’
YERS, DOCTORS, LADIES, and the WORLD generally-
HE CAN SUPPLY ALL,
Bainbridge, September 9—1875.
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