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if paid in advance, otherwise, two
dollars a line.
A. S. GILES,
Attome-e at Law
Y, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA.
Office in tbi Court House,
f Special attention given to bumneps in the Supe-
- * and County Courts of Houston County.
VOLUME rv
PERRY, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 23, IS74.
[ ieb 21.
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C. J. HARRIS,
Attorney at L w,
MACON GEORGIA.
actice law in litigated cases in tbe
' counties of the Macon Circuit to wit: . Bibb,
Houston, Crawioid and Twiggs.
J. A. EDWARDS,
Attorn ey at Law,
MAR8HALLYILLE GEORGIA.
W. H. REESE,
Attorney at Law.
SIAHSHALLV1LLE GEORGIA.
•^-Special attention given to cases, in at
uptcy. . .
DUNCAN & MILLER.
attorneys at
PERRY and EORT VALLEY, GA.
*»_c. c. pnnean, Perry, office on Public Square
■A. L. Miller. Fort Valley- office in Mathew's Hall
B. M. DAVIS.
Atto rney at Law
PERRY, GEORGIA.
W ILL practice In the Courts of Houston
and adjoining counties; also -in the Su
re me Court and U. 8. .-District Court.
NOTTINGHAM & PATTEN,
| attorneys at Law.
PERRY,. GEORGIA.
PRACTICE in the Courts of Houston and a
oining counties. Prompt attention given to all
enslneaa entrusted to our care. Collections of
claim, a specialty.
ang23. tf.
U. M. GUNN,
Attorney at Law
BYRON, 8. W. B, R. GA.
Os-Special attention given to collections.
E. W. CROCKER,
Attornov at Law
FORT VALLEY, GA.
Collections and Criminal Law a special! j
Otl'.cr at Jlil’er, Eic-vu & Co’s.
JOBSON
DR.
DBKTTIST,
PERRY AND HAWKINS VTLLE GA.
H E WILL SPl ND the first half of each month
in bia office in Ferry, over the old drug store,
tad ane-fonrth, or the latter half of each month
sill be given to his practice in Hawkinsville, at
Ura. Hudspeth’s. aug23 .'
A. M. WATKINS,
CURRIER, SHERWOOD & CO.,
Broome Street,
WEW TORE.
BOOTS & SHOES
AT WHOLESALE.
Cash Saloon Re-Opened.
C.V. MARKET,
PERKY, GA
FINE WINES,
WHISKIES,
BRANDIES, ETC.
AT RETAIL.
{©“The best LAGER BEER a 5
cents a glass.
Everybody in invited to give me a
call at my pew store next, door to my
old stand. G. V.MARKET.'
March 21 3 m.
T. T. MARTIN
Manufacturer and Retail Dealer in
T3JST WARK,
COOKING STOVES,
SHEET IRON
TIN WARE,
ET CETERA-
best manner,
tf.
T. T. MARTIN.
Perry, Go.
C.D.ANDERSON
FORT VALLEY, GA,,
Agent for the following high grades
of commercial fertilisers:
HEESE’S SOL. PACIFIC GUANO.
SOLUBLE SEA TsLAND GUANO.
March 14.
tf.
i. iSDESoy, President Brown, Cashier.
CASH CAPITAL, $i^,@C0.
PLANTERS* BANE.
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA.
Trsuractr a General Banting, Discount; and
Exchange Business.
Fiiticnlar attention given, to the collection of
Notes, Drafts, coupons, D^jjdends, etc.
directorst*
lf£J. Asaiaror,
B.I. Dawrss, L- IT. arre
W.H.Hci.Hvwv,T, TV .. VT,rwvy
The Old Saw Mill.
Oh, that blessed day!
Whafwaa that? Fourth of July?
General training day? Thanlcsgiv-
mg? Christmas? None of all these.
Far more important to onr heart was
the day when we first went a fishing
alone.
Whether we had permission we can
not at this late petiod certainly deter
mine, We presume from the recol
lection'of tile' anxiety, and the dis
tinct remembrance of the general ex-
hiliration, that we had a dispensation
to roam. ’
There is a vague impression, too,
of digging worms, of putting a piece
of twine to a pole! Then went we
forth toward the river Bantam. Now,
the river Bantam was to our young
hearts what the Jordan was to a good
and patriotic Jew. It was the chief,
stream in onr neighborhood. It was
the chief resort for swimming purpo
ses, For thorigti it war hardly knee-
deep, and in many places easily jump
ed across, yet there were pools, and a
notable one' ballad‘“Lord’s' Hole,”
(doubtless from a Litchfield family of
the name of Lord) wLere a s nal
boy could go in “over head.” It was
one of those, clear brooks—a mere
brook which mostly brawls over peb
ble stones, now and then widening in
to quite a sheet, and then, like men
who have been too generous, growing
narrow and deep. Along its banks
grew alder bushes in abundance, and
here and. there great trees reached
their branches over the stream, and
and watched themselves below.
Not a great way above Lord's Hole
was the “old saw-mill,” not that there
was then a mill, or even a mill-dam,
bnt tradition said there, bad been one
and the legend was probable, inas
much as two steep banks on either
side sloping up some twenty-five feet,
and seemed to have formed' the wings
of'a dam; and the water made a fall,
as ff underneath, there was the re
mains of some obstruction.
On the blessed day above men
tioned, a barefooted boy might have
been seen on a jnne afternoon, with
his alder pole on his shoulder, trip
ping through the meadow, where dan
delions and wild wild geraniums were
in bloom, and steering for the old
saw-mill. As soon as the meadow
was crossed, the fence scaled nnd de
scent begnn, all familiar objeets were
gone, and the over-powering imagina
tion of being alone set one’s iifiagian-
tion into a dance of fear. Could we
find our way back? What if a big
bull should come out of those bush
es? What if a great big man should
come along and carry ns off? To a
six year old boy these were very se
rious matters. As nothing could have
so well tested the eargernesn of our
purpose as perseverence of these sottl-
bewildering suggestions! For reali
ties in after life are seldom so impres
sive as imaginations are in early life.
A child’s feors are cm el. They are to
him the signs of absolute realities, and
he is quite unable to reason on them,
and is helpless to repeat or endure
them. The fears of our own ehild-
hood constitute a chapter of mental
philosophy.
Bui no sooner did we see the spar
kle of the water than our soul grew
calm again, and happy.
Now for the first time in our lives
we put on a worm. We threw in the
book and trembled all over
The hook and but fell quietly upon
the wrinkled water, went quietly down
the stream and swept in near the
shore, where some projecting stone
roofed over a little pool. Ont of that
pool onr little eyes saw something
dart, and our little hands, all a trem
ble, felt something pull. In an in
stant with a spasm of energy, we drew
back the line, there was a flash in the
air, a wiggling fish, and something
smote the rocky, gravelly bank be
hind. Scrambling up, found a shiner,
but, alas, smushed to . pieces. Our
conrnge grew every moment. What
did we care if there was a bull in the
bushes? What if a beggar-man should
come along? What if a great black
doff should—bnt that thought was a
little too much. Black dogs were a
terror not to b i lightly thought of,
even by a sixteen year old urchin, who
had caught fish, alone, tool. So gath-
ing up roach and three shiners, we
started home: Up tbe sloping hill
we ran, till our father’s house shone
out- from among the trees, and then,
with the dignity and nonchalenee of a
conqueror, we prepared to make a tri
umphant entrance Buthere, so often
happens in the reminiscences of-our
childhood, the vision falls. We can
recollect nothing of our reception.—
Since then we have fished, tn many a
strange stream and Like, and in the
deep sea—but never with half the ex-
biliration of that first joyful hour op--
on the Bantam!
Not even there again would the fire
be rekindled! For, not long after,
taking a younger brother, to be s
marveling witness of onr success, tre
went again to the old saw-milL The
air was disenchanted. The road and
bushes hushes had no spirit in them.
bjpok gurgled and rushed. We
caught our fish, a few, but without
craze, and came solemnly home, won
dering what the reason •coulcl be that
the first time could be had bur ones.
Since then we have seen many
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An Exti’A'orcfnary Case-'
The Channel Passage. Make Home Attractive*
For not many years back Williamson j Within the lattitndes of his ledgers' A new suggestion for improving the Many newspapers especially those. The case cf official burglary ai j
county, Illinois, has been the scene of |a man is king. Woman is princess J English Channel .assage is offered by of the cites, are «*l*vays doing good Washington is perhaps one di the [
marij (feeds of outrage, violence and j at home. With all that pertains to i M. Ronmieu. As the shallowness of work, the valne of which tan hardly most extraordinary anu disgraceful
be overestimated, in warning the youth i events that ever occmred in this conn-
of the country homes of the risk they j country. The United States Dis-
run in rushing to towns and especially ; trict Attorney is named Harrington,
murder, many of them bloody, and all the supreme sacredness of its atmos- the French and English shores and
of them dark and mysterious. Men phere and the charms that go to make | and the constant shingle drift offer
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A DAV GUARANTEED using our
WELL AUGER & DRILL in good
territory. Endorsed by Governors
have been waylaid and murdered on
the publicTifghway: they have been
cruelly assassinated in their own yards
and on their own thresholds; they
have been dragged from their beds
at night, hanged upon trees, and
their lifeless and ghastly forms left
suspended in the- air to startle the
travelers and drive terror and appre-
lienrions to the hearts of friends and
neighbor. In nearly every case the
perpetrators have managed to conceal
themselves from the knowledge of the
public; surrounded with a vaiil of mys
tery which neither the officers of the
law or the just revenge of the survi
ving friends of the murdered victims
have been able to penetrate,' they
have eluded justice and escaped the
penalties their crimes so richiy de
serve.,
-Not long-since a party .of hunters
were out at night. Iu their rambles
they met another party, who, they
were horrified to see. were carrying a
dead man: The hunters, who had-es-
caped the oyservation of the others,
coucealed themselves until the party
with the dead man had passed on,
when they followed, keeping at a safe
distance behind, for perhaps a mile,
when the whole party, dead man and
all, suddenly disappeared. The pur
suers searched, but could find no trace
nor sign of the party. The next day
they returned to the search, and were
rewarded by discovering a cave, the
opening of which, large enough to ad
mit the body or a man, appeared in
the cliff of rocks overhanging a small
stream of water.
The explorers procured lights and a
reinforcement of three or four resi
dents of the vicinity, and returned to
the cave. Just before they reached it
two men were observed running away
from it in Laste. Two of the party
entered the cave and found themselves
in a large-room, oarpeted and furnish
ed, and showing.evident signs of the
recent occupation. The sides of the
room showed openings which they
felt assured led to other rooms. The
possibility that they might be occu
pied made the searchers feel uncom
fortable, and they quickly vacated the
pljce. The party concluded they had
come upon the rendezvous of a bond
of de*speradoes, aud on their way
home stopped at the house of an old
farmer and told their story. The far
mer became excited, left the room,
and soon returned with f,ur men,
masked and armed, who made party
of explorers kneel and take a solemn
oath never to reveal what they had
that day discovered, The families of
the men who made the discovery are
leaving the country, nnd others are
preparing to follow; and the greatest
excitement exists on the borders of
Jackson and Willinmson counties in
the vicinity of the caVe.
“Is Yunr N te Good:”
A city lawyer was called on by a
bay, who inquired if he had any
waste paper to sell. The lawyer had
a crisp, keen way ot nskiog questions,
and is, moreover, a methodical man.
So pulling out a- large drawer, he ex
hibited his stock of waste paper.
“■Will you give me twenty-five cents
for that?”
The boy looked et. tbe paper doubt-
iugly a moment, then offered fif
teen.
“Dope,” said the lawyer, and the
paper was soon transferred to the bag
by the boy, whose eves sparkled as he
lifted the weigh ty mass.
Not till it was safely stowed away
did he announce that he had no mon
ey-
No money! How do you expect to
bny paper without money?”
Not prepared to state exactly his
plan of operations, the boy made no
reply.
“Do you consider your note good? ’
asked the lawyer.
“Yes, sir.”
“Very well; if yon say your note’s
good, I’d j list as soon have it as the
money; but if it isn’t good I don’t
want it.”
The boy affirmed that he consider
ed it good; whereupon the lawyer
wrote a note for fifteen cents, which
tee-boy signed quite legibly, and lift
ing tlie bag of papers trndged off
Soon after dinner the little fellow
up its influences, she is the prime
dispenser and minister of grace aud
beauty. Does if not, therefore, "be
hoove her to make it a thing of such
loveliness and the center of such at
tractions that the outside world may
weigh in vain its illusions in the scale
^vith its pure delights?
There has never been a time when
so many beautiful accessories were
fashioned for this purpose. It is pos
sible to furnish tastefully and eom-
fortably npon a marvelously small
amount.
Suits of painted pine furniture, dec
orated with floral desigus prettily col
ored; may be bought as low as 535,
with a few slight additions, enough
for two small rooms, such as as com-
poso the lesser altitudes of the “flats”
which in New York, as in Paris, are
rapidly becoming an institution.
By attending the numerous auction
sales which are incident to moving- form tlie outside slopes of the har-
time, one may btfy really excellent
upholstered furniture for a trifle in
comparison to the first cost. Even if
it is a little dinged, a covering of buff
er drab linen, bound with blue or
scarlet, will render it more desirable
and just the thing for the warm sea
son. A little tact and economy in
such matters go a great way, but taste
and poetry go farther.
We would recommend to the dwel
lers in this great, gay city the benefit
of a window garden or greenery to re
mind them- of the beauty of the living
kingdom beyond the river which girds
the brick and mortar of life. Even
though they are fenced in by bard
high walls whieh shut ont the sky and
sunlight, ferns aud mosses grow just
as well in the shadow, and are as
ovely.
They cost bat — 52 per one dozen
pots! Enough to brighten : several
rooms. They are thrifty and grow
rauidly where flowering plants would
perish, and their exquisite feathery
fronds cannot fail to brighrer. the
most unattractive -quarters. Parlor
tvy*is H blessing also^nnd even a small
nandfull of wheat put into raw cotton
and placed as a floating island upon a
vessel of water will produce t n effect
strangely pleasing.
Even those who have money and
can surround their homes with all that
is costly, do not disregard the agency
of these pleasing and tasteful-adjuncts.
For those who have space to exercise
their fansy Sor» flcvrak^clacorations, we
would suggest geometrical designs as
more suitable, especially if the dwel
ling be in the English cottage style
now so prevalent for suburban resi
dences.
A flower-garden, however small, is
always preferable to g< ass-plats; and
by‘making proper selections it may be
so arsanged as to have flowers from
March until December.. They are
without and within of all things the
very loveliest.
The fancy for decorating a table with
flowers is suggestive as it ; s exquisite.
White.china, silver or frosted glass.Rre
are all desirable to show, off -their
many tinted charms to advantage. A'
tall stand fer a center-piece, flanked
by.smaller vases matching, the still
for these decorations.
Fruit-stands e« suite lend an- addi
tional charm to the dessert. Every
variety should be served on its. own
leaves, arranged to appear fresh and
natural: This -fact adds mnch to their -
tempting lusciousness.
The baskets of silver wire with a
gloss center-piece are eminently adap
ted for either purpose, and are charm
ingly inexpensive.
In selecting a table-service, one is
divided between the desire for Majol
ica, Dresden and'Parian. Each has
its own peculiar merit.-. Then, too,
there is such lattitndes in china and
glass, one is at a loss just bow and
what to choose. The main point is
to have all things In keeping with the:
surroundings and each other. Harmo
ny is the great principle in fnrnishing
'hronghont.
Sets of Limoge or Florence ware
are shown in design and color precise
ly like French china,, and cost one-
third as much, evsrything necessary
for an ordinary tea-set being furnished
for So. There is a fashion in these
things as well as in others, and this
style of ware is now the ruling caprice.
Ugly little Japanese tea-pots, which
nave nothing to recommend them bnt his habits of predatory esetrisions af-
.. . • - the largqp portion'of jibrYfiiwnyWyBgtZ
grown up boys seeking to re-produae j. — , . , ,, , _
the first sensations and to irake nov- h°g several stores and. the post-omee.
reappeared,- and, producing the mon
ey, announced that he had come to pay
his ..
“Well,” said the lawyer, “this is the
first time I ever knew r note taken up
the day it was given, A boy that will
do’Sh'at is entitled to note and money
too;”anl giving him both, sent him
on his way with- a smiling faec and a
happy heart.
The bay’s note represented his hon
or. A hoy thus keens his honor
bright, however poor he may be in
worldly, things, is an heir to an inher
itance whieh no riches can b&y—-the
choice promise ot God.
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No Insurance.
A destructive fira hirokfe bi&in Corfc-
1 and, Ala., last week, which destroyed : within a floral design upon one side
and a tea-pot upon the other, done
their qnaintness, are quite the vogue
for Kettle-drnm and Russian teas, so
prevalent in the first society last win
ter.
This caprice hae set every lady to
work upon a “cosey,” whieh has.
grown to be essential to the comfort
and happiness of every housewife. It
is simply an arrangement to' cover
great hindrances to Jie formation on
the coast of harbors which will receive
large steamers at any time of the tide,
this engineer proposes to construct an
harbor two or three miles o^t tot sea,
approached by tunnels” from each
shore. Accommodation would thus
be provided for vessels drawing such
a depth of water as would insure
steadiness of motion' in any except
stormy weather. The harbors (he
said) would present no engineering
difficulties. They might be formed
upon the s ime principal as the Ply-
moth breakwater, concrete rocks -be
ing placed by divers below the sea-lev-
eL Upon the superstructure a light
house would be. raised which would
also form a ventilating shaft to the
tunneL Access to tlie railway tunnel
would be gained by sinking a large
caisson to the necessary depth, and
the. excavation from it would help to
bor.
The tunnel on either side would not
be of a length to require ventilation,
except at the two ends, particularly as
M. Boumieu proposes to dispense with
engines, and the air would not there
fore be deteriorated by smoke or
steam. An inclination of the raiIs sea
ward would carry the trainto the deep
sea harbor; an endless rope, worked
by a stationary engine, would draw
the train back again. The passen
gers ;&nd their .luggage would be
brought to the water-level by a pow
erful lift, and they would then embark
on hoard large swift steamers, which
wmlld perform the passage of, say,
sixteen miles in about an hour, the
transhipment being no more than is
ndw necessary, and toe liability to sick
ness being reduced to a minimum.—
Such is the compromise suggested by
M. Ronmieu between the proposal to
tunnel all the way and not to tunnel
at all.
High Farming. m
A noted farmer of New England,
a&er visiting England and examining
with the critical eye of an experienced
agriculturist the system pursned there,
says:
l am thoroughly confirmed in my
old faith that the only good farming
of our future is to be tbe “high far
mer.” widely prevailing
chtipathy*among the common farmers
of onr State, against not only the
practice of high farming, bnt against
the use of the phrase by agricultural
writers. This is all wrong and should
at once be corrected. Through some
misconception of the meaning of the
phrase, and also of its application,
they have come to believe it synony
mous with ' theoretical “book farm
ing,’’ “new-fangled notions,” boasted
strides of progress, followed by dis
appointment and final failnre. This
is all an error. High farming simply
means thorough *pultivation, liberal
manuring, bountiful crops, good stock,
good-feed, and paying profits there-
irom. It is not strange that miscon
ceptions have; arisen in the minds of
doubting farmers who have been eye
witnesses to some of the spread-eagle
experiments of enthusiastic farmers,
better shpplied. .with money obtained
m a business they know how ^3^man
age than with practical expesSenctTon
a farm. Bountiful crops and paying
profits of course are what all tarmers
who are dependent upon the farm for
an income are striving to obtain; And
every year as it passes is confirming
the opinion that tlie profits are small,
'and. will grow “beautifully less”
where high farming is not practicecL
—Amer. Far Tier. t -Q £
Mr. Lo as a f’itizen. ^
It has been proposed in the United
States Senate to. confer eftitizehship
upon the-Indians., ..Caligula conferred
a coi sulship upon his horse, and why
should we not made Mr. Lo a citizen
by act of Congress? Bat 4 theucitizen
ship has its duties and responsibilities
as well as rights and privileges. If it
were not to be expected that the no
ble red man, after ^reading the record
of his promotion in the Congressional
Globe, would immediately throw rtf
his breech-clout and blanket, and as
sume the pantaloons oi civilization
and the neck-tie of enlightenment; if
it could be hoped that under the in
spiration of kis new-born palitical con
dition he would cease going for the
of large cities, where they too often
have to eke out a miserable existence
or suffer absolute warn-.
By way of preventing calamity, it is
well to look at its cause. Now, What is
the attraction to young men in large
cities? They are simply bewildered
and dazzled by what they see and bear.
Dress is one of the first things that at
tracts and secures attention; then
comes all tlie fascinations of places
of amnsement, and thewpossibility of
great wealth, which so few, after all
win. These things coq|rast strikingly
with the life of many country homes,
where yonng men and young women
(who, till experience teaches them,
can see only the bright side of city
life) are mere drudges—“hewers of
wood and drawers of water,
we say drudges, whose lives are no
better than the poorest dray-horse.
Now, it won’t do for Press and Pul
pit to preach to such people that their
condition will be injured by coming
to tbe cities; for in fact with some of
them it has much improved; yetis.well
known that the ydnth of the conn try
have rnshed to the cities till variouB
kinds of trades and professions seem
likely to be overcrowded, aud hence
come.want, “poverty hunger and dirt,”
suicide, and other crimes too horrible
to mention. The reader may now
natnrolly ask, What is the remedy?
The answer is simple enough. Lethome
be made attractive by culture of
mind and heart, as well as sod. Dai
ly and steady toil, without any relaxa
tion, breaks down body nnd mind.
But it will be said we have to work
like slaves to live. No doubt, many
starting with little if any capital in a
new couhtry, have hard work and
great privations to undergo, which
unfit their minds for effort; but there
are the winter evenings when the farm
er and his family Burround their own
fireside to cultivate the affections and
improve the mind. Health, temper
ance and well-directed industry, soon
secure to even the poorest in our fa
vored land a comfortable competency.
Then by degrees, home can be made
happy by the proper management of
a fruitful soil. It will yield not only
what is necessary to sustain life com
fortably, but pleasures also to gratify
the most gif ted mine's. They of all
others, who till the soil, come into
closest relatiofis with Nature. Ail the
scieeces are more or less connected with the
soil. There is no lack of food for the
mind or body. Tnus, while we have
an enlightened mind, so long will the
young men of the conn(jj w flee ’from
the mnsic of nature to the cities din,
to drag ont, perhaps a miserable exis
tence in to exacting toil of traders,
who are bnt the agen’s of tbo tillers
of the soil. Let ns have enlightened
agricnlture, nnd a jnore equal distri
bution of wealth must necessarily fol
low the producer and the consumer
will then shake hands; the farmer will
wear as smooth coat as the merchant
and be at least as well educated; and
above all, his relations will be directly
with the Giver of all good, whenever
cheats 5is children, thus his home
will be enriched, and made happy and
beautiful.
If alHhis be true of those with little
means bow much more quickly can it
be reached by those who are better
off! •
Many a bard-handed farmer has his
lands all paid for, plenty of money at
interest and yet not only denies his
family, but liimself, the necessaries of
life. Such people are not the bene
factors .of their race. It is they who
drive the yonng men aud madens to the
cities; who rob the soil of Goft’s-bonn-
ty, taking all they can get and pnttihg
nothing back; and who Wring from
their • offsprings , their very . heart’s
biog^,-££idthus exile them frosft homes
—if such they can be called—to whitS-
er they know not. While the hard-
handed farmers sqneeze out the life
blood of* the young, and cultivate
neither mind nor seal, so long will the
young flee from the homes of their
fathers. Through this bright
land—the home of the weary and op
pressed of all nations—many peop le
especially in the We: tern and North
western States, ltave already not only
tor the mules and cattle o% the pale
face, would turn his xttention to the
study of domestic economy and of the
laws of the glorious republic of whose
whose national blessings he had been
invited to participate, then, we should
say,-by all means, confer upon Mr.
Lo the precious boon of American
civilization, and do it in time to ren
der his vote available at tbe next- elec
tee tea-pot so as to preserve the aroina ! tion. It would be a cheerful pnd in- fruitful soil.—Pen and Plow.
intact. I spiring mission: for some of onr poli
ticians to go down among the Apa
ches and entreat their sweet voices in
Two pieces of canvas cut- in the
form of a semi-circle, the diameter
the first- sensations ana to nrase nov-1 *?
elties perpetual. But each day must . -Loss supposed to- be 57 5,000, and no
_ produce its own first times. Those af i , . . , , ,
- yesterdayare shrunk and fcdafc- ^snranee It is supposed to have
Skhlueiiitai. W.KKS,SAisi,.tlai* ' ChrisUam Vnia’Cc. ^zeeu 4&SSG.I ay sc incendiary.
measured lengthwise, sixteen inches, favor to tee respective candidates.— 1
i ^3 £»£ /ndians have already had con
siderable practice at tee polls:-there
in tinted flosses or pretty braid work, wwuld be very little difficulty hr iaa-
is one style of making it. Though king voters of teem. Ana how graryl
many prefer the initial or monogram
to tee family as more elegant and sag-
l gestive.—-V Y 3erx~.
a thing it would be to haws real' In
dians in Tammany and sgannine war
dates over the spoils!
life.
Few, if any, till the soil intelligent
ly. For tbe most part of the soil is
frontiersman’s scalp, and giving up robbed, bte* a sad day of reckoning
will come if this lasts. It has already
come to Virginia, and it will come to
her sister States, if the application of
useful knowledge to agriculture be neg
lected. We look for better results.
General education will settle the ques
tion; and if the i?flers of the ground
will be'frae to-it and tbhmselves, all
that- ean wish will follow. The young
will'then stay atjhome, enjoying: all
the blessings that ean come from a
So C’rediL
We notice tbe Mlfledgevilie Recor
der prists oar editorial on “Th#Fro-
posed S«a of Sahara” without credit, i Pontiff.
and he has been acting as Counsel for
some of the officials implicated its the
examination, into the affairs of the Dis
trict Government ;• "Conspicuous
among them who memorialized Con
gress to order this investigation was
Mr. Columbus Alexander, a respecta
ble citizen of Washington. Mr. Al
exander, had represented that the or
iginal papers in a certain case wonld
throw mnch light on the transactions,
bnt these papers have never been pro
duced.
Last week a citizen named Ives, go
ing home after midnight and passing
the office of the District Attorney,
was startled by tee sadden appearance
of that official in partial disguise.
Presenting a pistol at the head of tee
official tbe latter disclosed himself antf
begged Mr. Ives not to shook Im
mediately tee Superintendent of Po
lice and a brother of Gov. Shepherd
appeared on the scene, and the result
was teat Ives was ordsred to “move
on” towards his home. Instead of
doing this, however, he went around
tee block, returned to a point where
unobserved, he conld watch these of
ficial actors in the strange scene. In
course of time an explosion was heard
in the office of the District Attorney,
and a man with a tin box came ont.
This man was afterwards discovered
to he a professional Imglnr, who had
blown open the safe in the office.
With this box he proceeded to Mr.
Alexander's residence, bnt mistook the
door, and, after waiting n long time in
an endeavor to wake Alexander, he
left From the office where the bnrg-'
ary was committed, tbe burglar was
followed by Harrington, tbe Superin
tendent of Police, and tipepherd.
This is Ives’ story. Now tee expla
nation of all this is, that the whole
thing was a plot, Harrington and
the others, it is said, had hired the
professional burglar to blow open the
safe, take tbe box and deliver it to
Alexander; they were then to pounce
upon Alexander, find the box in his
possession, prove tee box had been
locked np over night in tee safe, and
thus environ h ; m with circumstantial
evidence of having committed the
burglary in order to find the missing
papers.
The last part oi tee -plot failed to
work successfully, and, moreover,
Ives was a witness to tee presence of
Harrington and the Police Superin
tendent at the time of the blniglaxy.
An attempt was made next day to bal
ly Ives into an admission that be was
drunk the night before; and did not
know what he was doing; bnt Ives re
fused to admit anything of the kind.
Instead of putting Alexander in the
toils of burglary, the party themselves
were caught in what looks very mnch
like a conspiracy. So Richards the
Police Snperintendent, carefully con
sidered his position, has, it is said,
made a clean breast of tbe whole mat
ter.
The House of Representatives, by
an unanimous vote, instructed tee
Committee to investigate this affair,
and, if tee facts turn out as slated, it
is without parallel in the records 6T
official rascality. Here was the’ Dis
trict Attorney, representing the Uni-
ed States , engaged tfith a profession
al thief in the burglarious robbery of
his own office, that he might falsely
accuse and convict a respectable citi
zen of felony. If upon investigation
this crime be established, tee officials
ought to be not only promptly dis
missed from office, but should be put
within prison-walls for terms equaling
their natural Ryes. The whole affitir.
is of so desperate a character that it is
difficult to believe tbe version which
has be@if giver? ik' * 3&t it to' be
sifted to’ tbe bottoinr. ami, if ft is prov
ed to be what it is represented, the
guilty parties should suffer te penalty
of the law.—Chicago Tribune.
L J, CATER ft SON,
PERRY. GA.,
Are now receiving tear
SPRING & SUMMER stflGR
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING, * y
BOQTft; shoes:
CROCKERY;
ETC., ETC., ETC'
A LSO,
ON HAND:
30 l casks choice smoked SIDES'.'
with SYRUP,
SUGAR and
COFFEE;
w
HICH WE OFFER FOR SAJ.
-AF
FAIR PRICES*
T. J. CATER.
F. S. CATER.
THE BESf INVESTMENT
YOUNG MElfr
W HO wish to obtain a thorough Practi
cal Business Education, and prepare'
themselves for the.dotiesof Actual Business
Life, under the instruction and advice of
Experienced Accountants, should attend
l/} 0Ads,t
A STANDARD INSTITUTION;
Asi> Cg&MsG
Business School in the South.
'conducted* on.
ACTUAL BUSINESS PRINCIPLE;
Supfriied With banking and 61
combining every know facility for impart
ing a thorough practical and systematic
knowledge of the science of accounts, in the
shortest possible tipe, and at the least ex
pense. Students receiYecT ioi ^Telegraphy.
No_ vacation. Students admitf&f ai
tifire. Circulars containing Terms,
mailed on application. Address
B. F. MOORE, A. W.
Feb. 28. 1871.
Superior Court.
At the approaching May Term of
this Court the dockets Wilt 1(9 &ffe£
in' the following oidel;
i*t: COMilf&S'Li-fr DOCKET.
•2.1. APPEAL DOCKET.
3rd. EQUITY DOCKET.
4th. CLAIM DOCKET.
5th. CERTIOltAEI DOCKET.
CRIMINAL & MOTION DOCKET^
to be called' as fli'ay shit' the Cbh'rtf
Tlie Clerk will hate the foregoing
published in The Houston Home Jour
nal each’”?66k' ’till the next term of
this Court; B. Hill,
March 6, 1871, Judge.'
A true extract from the minutes. •
D. H. Culler, Clerk.
B. T. BABBITT’S
Pure Concentrated Potash'
OH. XjYE.
Of double the strength of any other
SrAPbNrfYING SUBSTANCE.
dai
ye, i
Scientific Information,
Tne natives of Java extract poison
from bamboo canes.
Among euriosities sent to Italy by
an African explorer are two dwarfs
belonging to the dwarfish tribe of Afc» *
kas.. They are 28 inches high, light
packing it only in BALLS', the c‘oc?iH)f if
which will saponify, and does not injure
the Soap. It is packed in boxes containing
24and48 lb. Balls, and in noother way.—
Dir ctions in English and German, for ma-
"H ■ Wt PoiMtt?
copper col rtf,’Very prominent stom-
tbe necessaries, but the luxuries of zihn and small limbs. Lfps large,
nose Sat, hair long and kinky, and
they are very agile.
All the chocolate Bold in the stores
is said to be mc-jb adulterated.
It is said that the bottom of the
North Atlantic Ocean has been slow
ly bnt continuously sinking ever smee
£ie miocene pgpod, ftttased, prob
ably by tbe attraction of gsavita-
tion eonfiled wifhkhe centripetal force
of tee ekrfh-
B. T. BABBITT. -
G4 to 84 Washington 8t„ N. Y.
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CENTENNIAL RUFFS
TRIMMED BONNETS,
FLOWERS, RIBBONS,
FEATHERS* MANY
r OTN^RAWTYCLES
To nunleron& to StintiorL
No 3, COOK’S RANGE, Perry, Ga.
II It tf - ••
The Catholic Coiif&retice. /■
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,
erplains through his Official orgar, -
the Ghthblic Telegraph; the cause of J0M B. C0FIEJLD.-
the recent:meeting of prelates in that'
city; The main object of the visit Wa.- J PhotofrrarW A Portrait Prtbrtsr
to nominate the cities where they I p0frV Georgia
thought t expedient to have Metro-; •
tjo itan Sees erected by'the Southern W 1 ^ T** v-.t&sx it ie. jmi;
5. ,— _ . . ‘ mi eairttcr.ee. E* fe
lt is nnderstood that Santa.
Milwaukee. YYI?
fiSaycodv « ctS. mH,. y* m—
; astot. lie to coicpire his work Witt tk»t e?K!7
ct-ierarfcet. In price f— -
papers; Then eoines ' P ec *> New Mexico, AmwauKee. i\ n>-: ct;er arfcrt. In pr.c* »o4 «t7l» of worth* deflaii
tbe Hawkinsville Dispatch with our ^^I^and Boston. are -|«‘-“-
< the choice of the Bishops who met in ; CaHSry OH OsUTOli StfStf,
recent editorial “Shall the Dead belci x — i T ’“i
|fefc. Lonis and Cincinnati. Peona, H-
Burned” incorporated in its local oo!- j lino’s, ie v^rdeS for ac Episcc- lA*
amns. Ai! right, bresiiret;
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