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Year, JIOXTHS, .... Months.. . Professional Cards. Inserted at one dollar a lias annum if paid in advance, otherwise, two dollars a line. A. S. GILES, r Attorney at Law PEBBY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. Office in the Court House, odal attention given to l/usinees in the Sups- and County Courts of Houston County. [ febM,. IT. C. J. HARRIS, JUSttoraov at 3j.rw, MACON GEORGIA. I practice- law in litigated cases in the ' counties of the Macon Circuit to wit; Bibb, Souston, Cmwioid and Twiggs. J. A. EDWARDS, Attor.n ey at Law, MABSHAU.VHXE GFOBGIA. W. H. REESE, Attorney at L a w. MAB8HALLV1LLE GEORGIA. #5*STpecisl attention given to cases in a ptcy. DUNCAN & MILLER. | Attorneys at Ii&w, JERRY and FORT VALLEY, G A. C. C. Duncan, Perry, office on Public Square |A.I*M* Uor *- Fort Valley- office in Mathew** Ball B. M. DAVIS. Attorney a» Law ' PERRY, GEOEGIA. W ILT, practice in'the Courts of Houston and adjoining counties; also in the Su- |p ron -e Court and U. S. District Court. NOTTINGHAM & PATTEN, a ttornevs at Law. PERRY, GEORGIA. PRACTICE in the Courts of Houston and oining connties. Prompt attention given to all I easiness entrusted to our care. ' | claims a specialty, aug 23. Collections of U. M. GUNN, | AttorneT at Law BYRON, S. W. R, R. GA. jjySpceial attention given to collections. E. W. CROCKER, /Lftornev at Laxv PORT VALLEY, GA. jy'Collections and Criminal Law a special!} Office at Miller, Ex own & Co's. JOBSON DR. DENTIST, PEEEY AND HAWKINSVILLE GA. H E WILL SPi ND tho first half of each month in Ids office in Perry, over the aid drug store, tnd oiie-fonrtb, or the latter half of each month will be given to his practice in Hawkinsvillo, at Mrs. Hudspeth'S. nug23 ! A. M. WATKINS, CURRIER, SHERWOOD & CO., Broome Street, TiTBW YOH.K. BOOTS & SHOES, AT WHOLESALE. Cash Saloon Re-Opened. C.V. MARKET, PERRY, GA. PINE WESES, WHISKIES,. BRANDIES, ETC. AT RETAIL. £S5"'The best cents a glass. Everybody is invited to give me a call at my new store next door to my •old stand. G. Y. MARKET. March 21 3 m. -D. H. HOUSES. W. H. HOUSES. STONEWALL MILLS. H AVING completed the repairs of our STONEWALL, late Carr & Jone’s, MILLS, we are now ready to grind for the public,, saw on.shares or sell merchantable Lumber at S>1 00 per 100 Feet. ^©.Hoping by strict attention, to give full satisfaction we solicit the .patronage of the neighborhood. April.26 At. SHODSER.& SON. S.L. DESSiM), dan.K The Webb of Deceptions. I keep a genteel boarding-house in a thriving country village. It is far away from any city, among the New England hills. My lionse is much sought after. It is the resort of peo pie who are neither fastidious wor shippers of fashion nor of that lower class whose characterand company are not desirabla. In fact, I keep a.qniet, unostentatious home for plain, honest people, who Eke to be well served with . _____ One spring day the mail brought me a letter. It ran as follows* Boston, May 1, 1872. “Dear Cousin: I am sick of being rich. I am heartily tired of being an- heixess. I am disgusted with the heartlessness of fashionable society. I have been longing for a little peace and quiet. I have come to hate my self for leading such a thoughtless, frivolous life, with snch a round of senseless pleasures as there is in this city. To tell you the truth, cousin Frank, I am determined to reform. I know the people here only care for me because I am rich; so I have resolved to become poor, Yes r cousin, I am determined to become penniless. “I am going to spend the summer with you, on one condition. You shall give out that I am a poor, very poor relation of yours,- and that lam coming to live with you. When I come I shall have the privilege of go ing into the kitchen, and working when I please. I am resolved to be come usefnl. And, perhaps, I shall find there some young man who is wil ling to marry me for myself, instead of my money. "Now, cousin, will you enter into my little plot, and keep my secret? If so, write me by return mail, for I am all impatience. But remember and keep my secret, cousin. Do not forget to write immediately, • "Bell Wyman.” I could appreciate Ball’s feelings. I bad seen enough of city life to be dis gusted with it myself. Moreover, I kuew Bell to be a noble-hearted, sen sible girl, and I did not- hesitate. I wro'.e her by return mail that I woo’d keep her secret. In my bouse she should have the privilege of being just as poor as she pleased, and I could give her full liberty in the kitchen. After I bad mailed the letter I sat down on the piazza and fell to imag ining wliat funny or curious adven tures might grow out of Bell’s plot. Not having a brilliant imagination, my progress was slow. But while thus engaged I was startled by the post-boy calling: “Letter, sir!” I went forward to the door and be banded me a letter. I opened it and read. Chicago, April 25, 1872. My Dear Friend:—I have seated myself to write you, but I don’t know how to begin. The fact is, I am tired, I’m sick, I’m digested. Such rumble and tumble as there is in city life!— such frenzy and fury! such a wear and tear, such a senseless going and com ing, it is enough to make one mad!— In fact, I believe the whole city is inad with fashion and folly, and I want to get out of it; so I have been think ing I will come and spend the sum mer with you. I shall start m about ten days. I write this to announce my coining, and to say that I am re ally disgusted with wearing titles; so you are only to know me as plain Charles Sidney, a poor man from the West I fancy I shall have a rich time escaping tho flattery of those who worship only money and position.— And then, perhaps, I can find a sen sible girl who \Mliall in love with i poor man, and make him a good wife. But I will tell you more about this when I arrive. Burn this letter as soon as I read it and keep my se cret. “Charles Sidney.” I fancy there was a broad smile on my face when I finished reading this confidential epistle. It struck me that it placed me In a novel position, where I might see and enjoy some fan. But I did not burn the letter. I prized it too highly- I P at ifc witl) Bell’s, and locked them up for future reference. -Something like a week after this I ■heard the depot coach rumble up to ;the door. I hastened to the entrance, when who should I see but my twp secret correspondents just alighting from the ■ coach and coming up the ciralk together. They Lad- arrived on .the same train.- I felt Eke laughter. Bat I managed to restrain myself, and gave then an awkward introduction: “Miss Wyman, Mr. Sidney.” And so the little-drama --commenced. "Frank, who is this Miss Wyman?” said Mr. Sidney, ah hour after, when I gave him a chance te talk with me. “Well, Charley, she is poor relation of mine from the city. Her father was very rich; but yon know that ships laden with merchandise some times go to sea and. are never heard •of again; stores b*irn. down, and insu- rance companies fail. In this way the richest men, through no, fault of their -own, may bo stripped of their wealth in a single day.' So she has come to live with me and work in the kitchen. She is well-bred, highly educated, and A BAY GUARANTEED using our ^fined. But it must- be very hard for well auger A drill in good ' ore like her to. become penniless in a territory. Endoraed by Governors s i E gl e flay. She bears up bravely nh- Mtehen. She iS-a brave girl; and as J Why lie Didn’t G<» to the Ball; , J Farming and Gardening, good asnhe is brave." ' “She is certainly very intellectual j button and he scorned the idea 0 ij ca f ioni1 correspondent, the great En- looking, andall fhebetter for being J wearing the conventional costume of fibsh farmer, J. J. Meehi, and . he afr poor. I shah be glad to become bet- I the bed masque. But what should he ter acquainted with her.” J wear? His brain seized upon the “But, Charley, I must- caution yon 1 querry, and shortly an idea was cvol- abont one thing. She is exceeding- {ved. He chose the character of a ly high-spirited. She is very sensi- monkey. The eventful evening was five if anything is said about her fa ther’s loss of fortune. So don’t men- donned his disguise. Bring a weal- firmt of what we are wont- to consider highly cultivated Old England, th it it is still “not half farmed.” “What! explain would we say, ” he adds, “who allows his flower pot without a hole in the athandr He went to his hotel and J - h ° ttom of ** to AUed with dense, nn- Wliat One Smart Doctor Can Do. j A Fortified Palace in Arizona. I know a city doctor, writes D o A careful examination of some ex- Lewis, who is wonderfully smart. A j tensive ruins found some miles east of PnrC COllCCIltl'llted PotlLSll great many learn the bright trick that j Florence, on the Gib River, has been J I am going to tell yon about, bnt Dr. made. Lieutenant Ward was the first A. knew it without learning it. I will I explorer who came npoa the desolate! | remains of a once imposing-architect- 1 B. T. BABBITT’S OR. X.YJE. Of double the strength of any other SAPONIFYING SUBSTANCE. Doctor A. was called to attend a I oral pile. It had been deserted per-1 * (ion tue subject, or ' anything that thy young man, or economical, it’s all the same, he concluded to walk. His first achievement was to frighten a chamber-maid nearly to death, and in the next hall his appearance gave a small child a fit. Reaching the street door he boldly went forth clad in his snug fitting suit, and playfully' swing ing his caudal appendage; bat he had not proceeded far when a little dog ran out and barked at him. This cal led out another dog, and soon anoth er joined their ranks in the pursuit of the strange animal. Finally a bull dog put in an appearance, and then the young man aid his courage both took flight. The dogs had the best of it from the outset, and they soon ran their quarry to earth; in other words the monkey man concluded that the better part of valor would be to climb a high board fence. He did •that, and for two long hoars he sat there in the cold night wind before he was released from his unpleasant position by people passing wit-bin hailing distance. C.D.ANDOSON, FORT VALLEY,-GA„ Agent for the'following high grades of •commercial fertilisers: EEESES .-SCEL. PACIFIC GUANO. SOLUBLE -'SEA ISLAND GUANO. March 14. -S. J. andeson, President WJB. Brown, Cashier. .CAST? nAPTTATy §100,000. FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA. Transacts a General Banking, miscount, and SfcrticTdar attention given' to -the -collection of STotes, Drafts, Coupons, Hividends/otc. ; DIRECTORS Wjl J. Akdebsos, L. 3d. Bexto ; W. A. Mathew would be likely to remind her it.” “I will be very guarded, Frank, must be a hard blow for lier to come from the highest circles of city life down to doing house-work in a coun try kitchen.” “That is true, Charley, but I think yon will find her society very pleas ant. Ten minutes after I walked into the parlor, where Bell was sitting O Cousin Frank, yon don’t know happy I am! I am glad to get oat of the city, with its dreadful brick walls the air is so sweet out here in the country; besides I can do just as choose. But I was afraid, cousin, yon would not sanction my little plot, and help me to play it out; but now you have promised to do so, it is all right. Won’t it be so nice, cousin? “Of course it will be, Bell; bnt how could yon doubt that I would help you? You know I like a good time, even if I am so much older than you.” “I know if, cousin. Father says yon always were full of roguery and mischief. He has told me enough of your roguish scrapes to fill a library, and I might have known that you would help me out with the plot.— Bnt cousin, tell me about this gentle man you introduced mo to. Who is he. anil what is he?” “He is a very intimate friend of mine, Bell, be if here from the West to spend the summer. He was once well off; bnt he has been unfortunate, and now he is in very poor eirenm- stances. He is here to recreate for few weeks. Poor fellow! I pity him for he is one of the finest yonng men know.” “He is real handsome, and he looks intelligent. I think lie will be good company, cousin, won’t he?” “Yes; bnt be careful yon don’t be come fascinated with him, for he is as poor as he is proud.” “Trust me for that, cousin. I im agine there is no danger.” “But there is, Bell, and be is terri bly sensitive on the subject of the for tune be he has lost. If yon were to make the least allusion to It, or to bis beiug poor, he would take great of fense. ” “Isn’t- it very strange he should feel like that, cousin?” “Yes, but it is his peculiarity, Bell, and yon must hnmorit.” “Poor fellow! I pity him, and I will be careful not to refer to it.” The next morning Bell was up with the lark, and down in the kitchen, singing ss merrily as a bird. Mr. Sid ney, or rather Charley, as we shall call him, took a ramble in the fields and woods,, and returned with botan icalan-1 mineral specimens. In the afternoon I contrived to plan a drive that included Bell and Gkariey in the party. Before the day was over I had the satisfaction of seeing that they had beome well acquainted and were the best of friends , Bell was true to her purpose. She did not neglect the kitchen.- No one could have guessed from her appearance bnt that she was one of my hired servants. She had resolved to become useful, because it suited her temperament. It was also surprising to see how rapidly Charley acquired a taste for household employ ments. It was not a week before I made the astounding discovery that Bell was washing dishes in the kitch en, while Charley was deeply interest ed in solving the problem of wiping and patting them away. The next day I found him kneading dough with an interest I never before thought him capable of. Bell stood by and directed the operation, and I could not but think their destiny was being kneaded into that pliable material. I distinctly remember that I chuck led to myself when I saw what was going on. Nevertheless, I was obsti nately blind, and did not see any thing. And so the same exercises went on four months, bnt delightfully inter spersed with music, moonlight rides and rambles. “That’s going to be a match, Frank, said my wife to me one day. ‘Pshaw! there’s nothing in that,” I replied. ‘1 don’t believe' a word of it” “Well, yon see if it does not prove true! I never saw two persons more in earnest in my life.” O, fudge, Mary!” I replied; “yon women see a thousand things that never existed.” And so, although Tsaw what I saw, still I was obstinate and wouldn’t see, and didn’t (to be continued.) disturbed stiff day, and then to pnt Into the upper half a few inches deep of friable, manured and cultivated The 15,000,000 or more of acres of drained agricultural flower-pots, (for all farmers’ crops bloom or flower,) exist as a great-national mistake and disgrace; and eqnally blameable is the miserable five-inch agricultural pie crust; for every one may learn by dig ging, and every farmer ought to know that the roots of cereals, and other farm crops, and especially antiimn sown wheat, descend deeply, and mnek beyond the ploughed soil, in search of moisture and food; and it is because this aubsoil.is neither ssrated or,so-manured that the wheats “go. off” in May. The twenty rods of la borers’ cottage garden, deeply culti vated and highly manured by one pig, or eight hundred pounds of meat per acre, is an example that may be safely followed on the -largest farming scale, provided, of course, that the necessary capital can be found.—Ru ral Carolinian. It’s What you Spends. ‘It’s what thee’ll spend, my son said a sage old Quaker, “not what thee’ll make which is to decide wheth er thee’ll be rich or not.” Tlie ad vice was trite—for it was but Frank lin’s in another shape: “Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take of themselves.” Bat it camot be too often repeated. Men are continually indulging in small expenses, saying to themselves that it is only a trifle, yet forgetting that the result is serious— that even the sea shore is made of petty grains of sand. Ten cents a day is even thirty-six dollars and a half year, and that is the interest of a cap ital of six hundred dollars; and if in vested quarterly, does not require half that. But ten cents a day is child’s play, some will exclaim. Well, tnen, John Jacob Astor used to say when a man who wishes to be rich had saved ten thousand dollars, he has won half the battle; Not that Astor thought ten thousand much. But he kuew that in having such a sum, a man ac quired habits of prudent economy which would constantly keep him ad vancing in wealth. To save is the olden rule to get lich. To squan der, even in small sums, is the first step toward the poor-house. Meat for Fowls. One subscriber asks what food will induce fowls to lay; another asks about scrap cake; another about bogs’ lights and similar offal. To those we would a ay: It is the nature of fowls to lay, and they cannot help it —the eggs will come. Scanty fare will re duce their laying propensities, and on very short commons, eggs cease alto gether. Rich food promotes the tendency: certain seeds, like buck wheat, sunflower and hemp seeds in crease, and meat of any kind does the same. All this, however, forces tho fowls into an unnatural state, and or dinarily shortens her life.. The eggs, besides, have often a p lor flavor.. Oc casional feeding-of fresh meat, like the lights of liogs chopped fine, are Very good in winter when the fowls find no insect food. They need; besides, hearty food in cold weather; especial ly if they are not kept in warm kou- In very cold weather, hens run ning about and roosting in exposed places, will not lay though, richly fed; their food goes to keepingtliem warm —Southern Farmer. Early Rising Made Easy. “My old friend,” said EoSsitor, says a writer, “fixed his alarm so that at the fore-ordained moment the bed clothes were dragged frem the bed, and Rossiter lay shivering. “I have myself somewhere the draw ings specifications for a patent, which arranges a set of cams and wheelworks under the bedstead, which at the ap pointed moment lifts the pillow end six feet, and delivers the sleeper on his feet on the now horizontal foot board . “He is not apt to sleep long after that. “Rossiter found another contrivance which worked better. The alarm- clock struck a match, which lighted the lamp which boiled the water for Rossiter’s shaving. “If Rossiter stayed in bed too long, tbe water boiled over upon bis razor, and clean shirt, and prayer-book his mother gave him, and Coleridge’s au tograph and his open pocket-book, and nil the other prtcions things he could put in a basin underneath when he went to bed; so be had to get np be fore that moment came.” Confiscation by Taxation. In Fail-field county, South Carolina, 19,999 acres of land, besides a num ber of town lots and many dwellings, is advertised for sale for taxes. This is equal to four hundred farms of fifty acres each, which will come under the sheriff ’s hammer in. only, .one county. More Indian On Ira gas. Captain Carleton of the Tenth Cav alry reports another outrage on Camp Augur, Texas, committed by reserva tion Indians. This is the third time that reserva tion Indians have fired into this camp and then retired to the protection of their reservation, where, under exist ing orders, the troops cannot follow them. In forwarding Captain Carle- ton’s report to Army Headquarters, General Sheridan indorses it as fol lows: “Respectfully forward to the Headquarters of the Army, requesting that-it be ascertained if there: is any objection on the part of the Indian Bureau to the troops pursuing-the In dians and punishing them.” “This is the third or - fourth attack made by the reservation Indians on the camp oh the Red River,- and it is time some measure be taken to stop ■them.” .. The Everlasting Juntel Case. Now that the celebrated Jumel will case is ended, and George Washing ton Bowen-ftraver restrained from in terfering with the present possessors, the Chases, it may be interesting to give a full outline sketch of one of the most prolonged aDd notorious trials in American jurisprudence. Madame Ju mel was originally a courtesan of Providence, Rhode Island. She came to New York with Monsieur Jumel, a wealthy Frenchman, and finally in duced him to marry her. When he died he left her all his property, which fact tempted Aaron Burr, then an old bean of broken fortunes to court her. One, evening, before she had accepted him, he brought a minister to the house, pressed his snit impetuously, won consent in a sadden freak, mar ried her, and was divorced soon after Madame Jumel bequeathed hermoney to an adopted child, who- married a Chase. George Washington Bowen claimed to be an illegitimate son of Madame Jnmel, and to inherit through his mother, and that the will devising the propervy to the Chases was ob tained through undue influence. He has been defeated. The estate is worth six million dollars. |, j, - . : f———p .iitfisb or Lye, and ..- patient in a pnvate hotel. Aon would haps for more than, a thousand rears,! packing it only in BALLS, the coating of ” ’ ' ” ‘ and has been crumbling away in the! ^'ch will “P* not injtr- wildemesa. Crops in Arkansas. Planters just across the Mississippi west" of Memphis, says the Appeal, say that tills last flood deposited over the cotton fields the richest, thickest layer of alluvium ever before brought down from the western mountains. It is a quarter of. an inch in thickness, and full of Time. Crops stimulated by such forces of feeunr ity grow and mature with-extra ordinary rapidity, and only vigorous energy in repressing weeds Pituse Stop my—TVh t. We clip the following sensible hints from the Baptist Watchman: “Times are hard, business is dull, money is scarce, retrenchment is neces please stop my—” whisky? “O, no; times are not hard enough for that. Bnt there i3 something else that costs me a large sum of money every year, which I wish to save. Please stop my—” tobacco, segars and snuff? ‘No, no, not those; bnt I mnst re trench: somewhere, please stop my—” ribbons, jewels, ornaments and trin kets? “No, pride mast be fostered, if times are ever so hard; but I be lieve I believe I can see a way to ef fect quite a saving in another- direc tion; please stop my—” tea, coffee and unhealthy luxuries? “No, no, not those, I mnst think cf something else. Ah, I have it now. My paper costs me two dollars "a year; I_ must stop that! That will cany me through the panic easily. I-believe in retrench ment and economy, especially in brains;” naturally suppose that ha would at tend bis patient and then go about bis business. That shows that you are not smart. In the elevator the doctor notices a pleasant young man, begs his pardon, asks his name, finds that he is a guest in the house; begs his pardon again, bnt notices that the yonng man’s breathing is peculiar; asks him if, when he walks rapidly up stairs, he does not suffer from beating of his heart, and then proceeds to as sure him that he is very sorry to in form him that he has at some time, by running or other effort, strained his heart. He knows it withoiu ask ing questions—just by looking at bis face; resided abroad for several years: made diseases of the heart a-special study; would be glad to examine his heart—would do it without charge.— That young man is now under Dr. A.’s treatment, with the comforting assu- ance that in three months he will be as well as though he had never strained his heart. When the doctor sitting by the bed side of his regular patient, who, he says, had three months ago the most fearful enlargement of the heart that he ever met- in all his practice, but whose heart is now the natural size, and will, after few more weeks of eareful watching, be as safe as his own heart—while sitting by bis pa tient’s bedside, feci his pulse and con gratulating himself that he conld now think off him without that shudder which came over him a hundred times a day when he was first called to see tbe case, he asked the patient who that tall, pale lady was that he passed in the halL Upon being informed that it was Mrs. M., a fellow-boarder and a particular friend, who had in fact just left his room as the doctor was about to enter, Dr. A. then pro ceeds to inform his patient with the Wonderfully reduced heart that he has been recently devoting all the spare hours which he could manage to take from his arcluons professional labors and necessary sleep, in examining the evidences of a new and singularly fa tal disease of the kidneys. In fact, the microscope which ho had been using in the prosecution of those studies (one he obtained some years ago in Vienna) was the most powerful in the country, and his devotion to its use had greatly weakened the optic nerve of his right eye, etc., etc.; bn* that be had noticed that the skin of that lady’s face showed unmistakable evidence that she was the victim of that disease in its incipiency. It took a little time and a good deal of management, bnt when the doctor now goes to that private hotel, he never fails to call upon that lady among his other patients. At this present writing, that doctor has six patients in that hotel, and ho sees them all daily, and watches them all with an interest which is touching, not to say painfnl. Now that is what I call smart. That doctor will always have a good busi ness, and indeed can make a good liv ing out of a single hotel, A lady told me the other day that he knew she had a peculiar aud dangerous disease of the spleen by just glancing at her face in the street. lYoman’s Rights. When the InD to establish the Terri tory of Pembina came op in the Sen ate, Mr. Sargent moved to amend-the bill so that the right to vote or hold office in the Territory should not be restricted on account of race, color or sex. This amendment developed the revolutionary tendencies of the Re publican party. Morton, - A Happy Life. Insects, we imagine, bare a happy- joyous life. Just to think bow happy they must be to sleep in the folds of Stewart, a beautiful lilly, or a sweet jesamin.— Fan^y the fun. and pleasure they en- __ D B — , -v - . , ... . ,joy in tucking themselves hi for the few weeks of summer, to assure tbe U** - the petals of a rose, and production with a favorable season,. spqk e opposition. The amendment j rocked to sleep in flie gentle zephyrs of an extraordinary cotton crop.. -n-as rejected—yeas 19, nays 27. . of a summer’s ere. Flanagan, Carpenter, Ferry, Anthony and grass is required, through the first Sargent championed the cause of A Woman Village. The long-talked of woman’s commu nity within the limits of the town of Wobnrn, twelve miles from Boston was actually begun last month, by raising of the frame of the first building. In this community all the land is to be owned by women; and, so far as the management of Ihe affairs of the vil lage is concerned, woman’s suffrage -will prevail, to the utter political dis qualification of men. The members of the community are obliged to as sent to a constitution which is to gov ern it, bnt further than this are not restrained; except that they are ex pected to attend, at least once a week, upon the uncertain religions. service to be held. This villige is t j be called Aurora. Each house is to have its gar den. The main reliance for moneyed success is to be on the co-operative scheme 1 *. One of -these is establish ment of a laundry, where fnll facnlties are to be afforded, for doing work on i scale, and competing with the famous Troy laundries. Men are not to be excluded from the village, nor from the ownership of property, nor from the opportunity of work; but widows and maiden ladies will likely be regarded as preferable to married women, even though' the man be only a kind of inferior adjutant to the wo- The Apache even never pitched his tent on the spot so thickly strewn with fragments of the work of a penshed race. The principal rain is a parallelogram fortification, six hun dred feet in width "by sixteen houdred feet in length. The walls, which were built of stone, have long been over thrown, and are overgrown by trees and vines. In many places a mere ridge indicates the line of the wall, the stones having disappeared nnder the surface. Within the enclosed area are the renhuns of a greate- structure, 200 by 260 feet, constructed of rough ly hewn stones. In some places the walls remain nearly perfect to a hight of some twelve feet' above the sur face. On the east side of the “grauda casa” there are two openings of an oval shape which doubtless served the purpose of windows. On the inner sides of the wall of the palace, for snch it donbtless was, there are yet perfectly distinct tracings of the im age of the sun. There are two towers, at the sontheast and southwest cor ners of the great inclosures, still stand ing, one of which is twenty-six and the otuer thirty-one feet high. These have evidently been much higher, as the broken tops and the amount of debris i-eur their base indicate. A few copper instruments, and some golden ornaments—one being an image of the sun with a perforation in the middle— and some stone utensils, and two rudely-carved stone vases, much like those fouud at Zupetaro and Copan, in Central America, are all the works of art yet discovered. No excavations have been made as yet to discover the character of these ruins. The ruins are situated in a small plain, elevated nearly two hundred feet above the bed of the Gila. Just west of the walls of the fortification there is beautiful stream of water, having its source in the mountains, which cross es the plain, and by a series of catn racts falls into the Gila about two miles below. The fragments of pottery and pol isbed stone reveal a condition of civi lization among the builders of these ruins analogous to that of the ancient Peruvians, Central American andMex lean nations. The country in the .. c-inily of this buried palace is particn larly wild, and unusually desolate. No clue to tbe builders of this great fortified palace, with its towers and moat, has been, or is likely ever to be discovered. There is one thing, how ever, made apparent, that is, that this whole country was once peopled by race having a higher grade of civiliza tion than is fonnd among any of the native tribes of the later ages. Bnt whether tins race were the ancestors of the Pimos, or some extinct people, is not, and cannot certainly be known! The ruins on the Gila are another un covered PaleDqne, another, Copan, an Atlan exposed at last to bewilder and confound. It is understood Hmf. these extensive ruins will be thoroughly ex plored within the present year. the Soap. It is packed in boxes containing 24 and 48 lb. Bolls, and in no other way.— Dir ctions in English and German, for ma king hard and soft soap with this Potash, accompanying each package. B. T. BABBITT. 64 to 84 Washington St„ N. Y. JOHN B. COFiELI). Photographer & Portrait Painter Perry Georgia. TyiLL take all styles of pictures at the lowest *• prices, and gnarsntee satisfaction. He in vites everybody to call and examine his speci mens, and to compare Ins work with that of any other artist. In price and style of work he defies competition. Gallery on Carroll Street, VTP Stairs, where he has good sky-light and m U otherwise amply prepared to serve those who T. J. CATER & SON, PERRY. OA., Are now receiving their SPRING & SUMMER STOCK DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, CROCKERY, ETC., ETC., ETC. A LSO ’ ON HAND: Practical Jake by a Fish. .A gentleman living on the Savan nah river, in Georgia, was in the hab it of sending his negroes down the river to fish with nets, as the tide served. On one occasion, two of his boys reached the fishing ground be fore tbe tide had fallen sufficiently for their purposes. Coffee always goes to sleep when he lias nothing else to do. So pushing a pole iqto the mud they tied the canoe thereto, and lying down intended to sleep unfcd the tide served. But along came a huge devil-fish, which nibbed up the pole, and tucking it under his flipper, began towing the canoe and its con tents toward the deep water. When the negroes awoke they were well-nigh terrified out of their wits. They were proceeding to sea at about the rate of four miles an boor, but the power propelling the canoe was whol ly invisible. The first impulse was to jump overboard, but it occurred to them in time, fortunately, that they were unable to swim. Finally the rope by which the devil-fish was tow ing them was cat, and they reached the land in-a pitable state of tei ror.. An individual of this species has been known to take up the kedge of a small schooner-and carry it for up ward qf a mile, towing the vessel that distance, when be dropped the- an chor; apparently fatigued with the amusement. 30 i casks choico smoked f IDES, with SYRUP, SUGAR and COFFEE. WHICH WE OFFER FOR SAL FAIR PRICES. T. 3. CATER. GINS! GINS!! GINS!!! To the Patrons of Husband ry and Farmers Of Houston and Macon Counties. Gin Repairing Done in all its branches. Satisfaction Guarranteeu to reliable partiov or no charge. No Money wanted until F;dl unless p.efered by parties heving work done. Fanner’s of Houston can leave all orders with W. L. Rainey at Perry. Farmers of Macon can leave orders with W. L. Vflnluiniingi^m, Marshallville. ^3ul have the best of references- Spec ial Inducements to Grangers. May 9. 3m W, J. GOLDEN, Toombsbora BETTER & CHEAPER THAN COFFEE" BUY AND DRINK Horse Shoeing. Never touch the bars, frog, sole or outer surfaee with a knife or rasp.— Shoe with light, thin shoes, that al low the sole, bars and frog to be brongbt in contact with the ground and thus bear their due proportion of the horse’s weight. Use small mile and -not;over five, of them. Never al io ft the points to be driven high up the wall of the hoof. For ordinary service in the country, daring the summer , months, use only tipp, which protect the toe, but leave the entire ground surface of the foot nnprotect- The United States Company’s Tea* and the cheapest. GFXUINEFntST CLASS; THEY EABXCTTHE Dried Drexs of Sew York Hotels and Chinese Tea Shops, hut are warrentsd to be what they am represented .They are sold in pound tin c' 81- and 8150- For Sale in PEEHYoniy by DR. 3. C. & GORDON, Want everybody to know That they have just received one of the choicest SPRING AND SUMMER Stoclxs DRESS GOODS. STAPLE DRY-GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS AND f — EYES -Also, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, CEO' A LL onr goods will be living Call at And there "apl 25. PUmglir