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mhmmhnhmmi •£1j( TlOUStOtt gOMC fOUMWl PEPRY, CA. S3-Published every Saturday by~*2t S uo- SOOi • 30:10 00] It 5 OOi 9 00 11 U0I17 OO 1 M 6 76-12 UO 15 UU 'll do' 31 3 50il4 5c*llS 00*35 UO: 37 !0 25ll7W);2100j®00{ 42 13 75]'29 (X> 3t 00:48 OOj St 12 00j4b 00|58 00|75 00| 110 Rates of Subscription, OSE Yeab Brx Months, Tubee Months . PERRY, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1874. NUMBER 43 VOLUME IV became ! tortured into compliance. One of the j A 'Woman s Heart He was ! methods is to tie the sinew of some j Sooner or later the crack will come. 10 reigDed ! animal around her fingers until she | That is what I used to believe, before nr the as- faints. Another gentle process, is to I knew what it was to be a woman; ;he Dutch I break a nrad-nest of ferocious ants j I don’t believe it now, I wish I did, re Dutch-! upon her naked person and these j for then I could prophesy a happy, [led fifteen sting her into a more reasonable sudden end to the trials and tribula- augle en- ! frame of mind. It sometimes hap-Jtions of more than one brave, little n the end [ pens that an old man of seventy with j body I know. harka dy- j a dozen wives takes a fancy to a girl ] I would say this: “Never mind lit- The African at Homs- j The Reverends Daniel Lindley and Alexander 'Wilson left the county of Mecklenburg, N. C., in 1834. Mr. Wilson lost his wife and returned to the United States for a short time, went back to .Africa and died there. Wilson, ra. /. asi*e9o;c, President W.E. Brown, Caahltr. Professional Cards. Cards inserted at one dollar a line per annum if paid in advance, otherwise, two CASH CAPITAL, $100,000. I. J. TRAYWICK &0 PLANTERS’ BANK Attorncv at Law PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GA. Office in tli4 Court House. Special attention giwn to buaineps in the Supc* rior and County Courts of Houston County, feb 21, IT. FORT VALLEY, OEOROIA. He was a brother of J. H. Esq., of Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Lindley remained until 1873, when the failing health of |Mrs, L- induced him to come back to As be spent Transact! a General Banking, Discount, aad Excliauge Business. Particular attention given to the rolUxttioa t Notes, Drafts, Coupons, Dividends, etc. j of fifteen. He may be noted for his savage character, the girl may loathe and abhor him, and she may be dread fully afraid of ill-treatment from his other wives; bnt if the father gets the ten cows he will sel her to the old pol ygamist and force her to go with him. The wives hate each other so cordially that the husband is forced to give each of them a seperate hut. He takes care that each one shall do work enough to pay him back for his ten cows. In two weeks after tLe birth of a child, the mother straps it on her-shoulders and goes to the-field t o work the corn, pumpkins and sor ghum, for the support of her leige lord, and her children. He loafs aronnd and chats with other idle men or goes to court to conduct his own law snit abont a cow AND COUNTRY PRODUCE,! 40 THIRD STREET, lithe United thirty-nine years in Africa, speaks the language fluently, and has traveled thousands of miles through the coun try on foot and on horse-back, there is probably no man living so v/ell ac quainted as he with the religion, the mental and- physical characteristics and the manners and the customs of the natives of Africa. We will, then, give some of the interesting facts re lated by him. Central and Sonnthem Africa are mainly inhabited by three nations or tribes, the Guineas, the Hottentots and the Zulus. The last named tribe extend for some six hundred miles on the eastern coast. They have never been guilty of the infamy of the slave trade, and when Mr. Lindley fonnd them forty years ago, they were un contaminated with the vices of civili zation. They were in a state of na ture and furnished a fine illustration cf what the light of nature, unassisted by revelation, can do for the elevation of the human race. They had no if ea of a God, none of the future state, rone of the immoitality of the soul, none of rewards or punishments beyond the grave. So completely ignorant were they of these momen tous truths that they had no words in their language to express them. Un like the heathen world in general, they were not even idolaters, for the simple reason that they had no idea of superhuman or superior beings.— They were afraid, however, of the ghosts of their ancestors, though they hud ill-defined notions of what these ghosts could do or could not do. A “ghost” they said, “is a shadow which cannot be seen.” They had (in 1834) no clothing, save an apron of untauued monkey hides, which was tied around the waist with sinews ta- aniinals. They bad no A. M. WATKINS, C. J. KARRIS, Attornov at Zj w, MACON GEORGIA. XTIIX practice Uw in litigated case* iu the OL1YER DOUGLASS & CO CURRIER. SHERWOOD & CO. 476 & C78 Broome Street, if counties of the Macon Circuit to wit: Bibb, Houston, Crawiord and Twiggs. BOOTS & SHOES J. A. EDWARDS, At tor n e y'at L aw, MARSHA LI.Vn.LE GEORGIA. TINWARE, AT WHOLESALE, are concerned. They are hospitable in their own way and are ever ready to welcome a stranger, give him a portion of their mash and a skin pal let among the sheep and cows in the hut. The two great obstacles which the missionaries have to contend with are superstition and polygamy. The ne groes believe in ghosts and witch craft. When a child has fallen in the fire, or an adnlt is taken sick, the ca- either to the W. H. REESE, Attorney at Law. J1ARSHAIXV1IXE GEORGIA. ja-Spedtl attention given to cases in anV ruptcy. JOHN B. COFIELD, HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. or a strip of land. The narative of Mr. Lindley sug gests two thoughts. 1. That the so- called light of nature can never teach man the character and attributes of God, and the duty man owes to him. Rome, when -mistress of the world, and at the head of the world’s civili zation, worshipped as her chief God Jupiter of Olympus. The dieties to whom the war-like Romans and the cultivated Greeks bowed down were all monsters of wickedness. Mr. Lindley gives it as his deliberate opinion that the Africans would never in all time have emerged from heath enism without aid and instruction from abroad. This proves beyond a'l peradventure the necessity for mis sionaries, and answers the objections to the missionary cause. 2d. The South has christianized and civilized more heathens than all the misriona- ries in the world for two hundred years. The North b; ought these heathens here, and when they were uprofitable to them as laborers, turned them over to the South. Our people have accomplished the work so well that even in the judg ment of our enemies, or “late ene mies,” (more appropriately?) they not only “fought nobly for the Union,” but are cow the only loyal subjects his Majesty, Ulysses, in all the South, and are the only persons in'all the South fit to be rulers and trusted offi cials, save the carpet-baggers and their allies of blessed memory and savory character.—Southern Home. Photocrcplcr & Portrait Pain sr Perry Georgia. TifZLL take all styles of picture* at the loirrs ’ * prices, and guarantee satisfaction. He in * rites everybody to call and examine liis speci mens, and to comparts Ins work with that of any other artist. In juice and style of work he defies competition. Gallery on Carroll Street, TTP Stairs, where he has good sky-light and a otherwise amply prepared to serve those who msy call Dec. IS. The Largett Stock of POCKET AND TABTE CUTLERY In Macon. DUNCAN & MILLER. Attorneys at Xiaw, PERRY and PORT VALLEY. GA. C. C. Duncan, Perry, office oh Public Square A. L. Miller, Fort Vslley- office In Mathew’s Hall lnmity is attributed ghest’s being oflended or to the effect of witchcraft. B. M. DAVIS. Attorney at Law PERRY. GEORGIA. ows, she sings of the sunlight, ana uo yon think her heart is broken? It so, blessed be the pieces! The smallest is more precious than the crown jewel of a.queen. Fool a woman in love, and before you get half throngh making a pocket memorandum of the sighs she sighed and the tears she has shed over the loss of your precious self, you will hear her singing and chirping away in a snug little nest with a tenderer and more constant mate than you could ever have been to her. Take away health and give her sick ness; she will say, “God’s will be done,” and bear it so sweetly and pa tiently that her sick bed becomes the magnet that draws her family closer together and makes her room the brightest in the house—the room where the children come with their playthings, and the older ones with their vexations and doubts. She gives a smile an* 1 a tender glance of approval to one, a cheery bit of ndvice or a soothing word to another, and her heart to all. Take away riches and give her pov erty; she will accept it with a gra- courtcsy—look up in your face There is a medicine man who decides that question. If ne says the ghosts have been offend ed by not being sufficiently well fed, the afflicted persons set aside a dou ble portion of food to propitiate them. If he says that witchcraft is the cause of the trouble, there is a solemn con vocation of the whole tribe, no one dare absent himself. The medicine man then picks cut the negro who has the most cows and sheep as the wicked cmjnrer. The wretched man is immediately run through with a New Goods! New Goods!! Mrs. C. F. Evans, H aving just returned with a fins Assortment of Millinery and Fancy Goods, is now prepared to exhibit to the Ladies of Perry and the surrounding county, her Stock of Fall A Winter Goods. I shall now be receiving weekly additions to ray stock, all or whi-h are selected with the ut most care. I would be pleased to have all call ana examine my Stock and Prices. My Stuck in Quality ia not inferior to Macon or Atlanta, and for yonr benefit I win enumerate a few of the many articles now on hand. PATTERN BONNETS of the Latest Importa tions. VELVETS of .U1 Kinds and Colors; BON NETS and HATS Trimmed and Untrimmed; FEATHERS, TIPS and PLUMES; ORNAMENTS of almost Every Description; RUFFS, -COLLARS and BELTS; also a Select Stock of Imitations for the Hair. HATS for Uia*e3 and Boys. Yon can only be convinced by calling and examining the many New and Fashionable Goods. r.T. practice in the Courts of Houston and adjoining counties; also in the Su- Court and U. 8. District Court. U. M. GUNN, Attorxxov «.* I»aw BYRON, S. W. H, R. GA. fiySpecial attention given to collections. MACON GA. ■ UR STOCK OF GOODS IS NOW OPENED AND ARRANGED. HAVING bought it for Cosh, we can and will sell ns low as c filers in the trade. We offer among other things,— H. Dutton's Saw Mill Goods of all kinds, l ools of every kind. Buggy nnd Wagon Material. Attoruev at X. c vr FORT VALLEY, GA. f ^-Collections and Criminal Law a speiiall; Office at Miller, Eicwn A- Co’s. Rubber and Leather Beltings, Fairbanks Scales. Wooden Ware, Hollow Ware, ken from knowledge of working cotton, wool or flax. They knew nothing of the met als, gold, silver, iron, etc. Their houses were made of long poles, an inch or'two in diameter, worked into the shape of a cone and covered with gnu-s. A hole to crawl in was the only opening in it; the hut having neither window nor chimney. The women, who did all the work for their lordly masters, dug a hole iu the middle of the hovei, made there the fire, and cooked in an earthen pot the mush for the family. When the meal was prepared all gathered round the pot and ate with paddles or w iod- en spoons. The dogs licked the pot Iron and Steel, Table and Pocket Cutlery Builders jJS&'In short, All Goods usually kept in such a business. Ths Parker Breech-Loading Gun, Togethtr with tbe best makes of English Muzzle-Loading Guns, Dupont’s and Hazzitrd’s Powders. Manufacturer and Retail Dealer in DENTIST, PERRY AND HAWKINSVILLE GA. H E WILL SP. ND tho first ball of each month in bis office in Perry, overthe old drugstore, rad one-fourth, or tho lattur half of each mouth TENT WARE, COOKING STOVES,, SHEET IRON, TIN WARE, ET CETERA. REPAIRING, ROOFING, GUT- _ TERING, &c., done at short no tice and in the best manner. T. T. MARTIN, tf. Perry, Ga. THe Pratt Gin And have them of oil sizes on hand. ^s3'CaU and See Us. cions with her sweet, soft eyes, and suy, “never mind, dear; if we can’t get a whole loaf, we can be happy on a half” —step out of her silk dress and look altogether so bewitchingly sweet nnd simple and hopeful in' her cotton print and house-keeper’s apron, that yon are ready to declare she was cut out—from the crown of her bright, quick little head to the sole of her springy little foot—for a poor man’s wife. Hunt her down with the blood heunds of slander, envy, malice and, uncbaritableness, and when yon think they have caught her, and stop your ears to shut out the death cry, she turns at bay, draws np her slender figure to its fnll height, and faces the whole pack with such a deliciously darling li t!e laugh that you shout bravolin spite of yourself. No, no, a woman's 1 e irt was not made to be broken. It was made to bear not break; to take love and to give it; to comfort and to be comfort ed; to warn, to brighten and to bless. To be as tender as the coo of s. dove— as fresh and breezy as the wild rose of May, and as pure and clear as the dew drop that sparkles on it. Of coarse there area land wearing the long rippling robes of a woman, who languish and faint, and wpuld break a dozen hearts (if they had little F. S. JOHNSON & SONS, No. 31 Third Street, near City and Central Banks, Macon, Ga. the Civil Code relative to marriages iu California. The law provides three distinct ways in which a couple may marry: First a contract, followed by a consnmation; second, the old fashioned method by solemnization; and third, by declaration of intention, signed, acknowledged, and filed like any other legal instrument. The firbt marriage under the third of these methods was recently made in Stock- ton, and has already created a very favorable impression as a convenient succeeded, however, and at length got out primers and portions of scripture for their use. But they were for a long time afraid to look at them, lest death should be the penal ty. Children, however, were at length persuaded to come to school and these influenced their parents. Now there are forty churches on that coast and a‘thousand professing Christians. Most of the preachers laboring there are converted Africans. The influ ence of k these native converts, and of the English residents, is felt for hun dreds of miles around Port Natal, which has been the centre of the op erations of Mr. Lindley and other missionaries on the coast. Over a laige belt of country, European civ ilization has been introduced to some extent. The natives in that belt wear shirts if no other clothing,'use horses and plows and cultivate sugar cane, sweet potatoes and the cereals, They have also leamed-tq handle the ^xe, the saw and the plane. In 1834, the negroes, as we have said, had no im plements save the spear and the hoe. When the latter was worn down al most to the end, they put a different handle to it and changed it into an axe, with which they ent down the reed-like poies that are used to make the frame-work of their houses. Over a large portion of Africa there is noth ing of the timber kind, except these reeds or bushes, which are somewhat like the cliapparal brush of Mexico — j The vast plains are covered with grass and are roamed over by herds of antelopes, gazelles, gnus, rabbits, etc., which are the prey of lions, ti- j gers," jackals, and other ferocious an- i imols The lion is less courageous and dangerous than the tiger. He never pursues men or animals, but lies in wait and makes a sudden | spring. If be fails in liis leap he | gives up and makes no farther effo:t. to catch his intended victim. The natives having no knives in I 1834, killed their beef cattle by run- ! ning a spear in the left side and then j cut them np, as best they could with i their spears and rude axes. They ate all the beef, including the entrails, j except the bones, and these were, AMERICAN CYCLOPAEDIA, New Revised Edition. and spoons, and that was all the wash ing they get. Many children were burned to death or seriously injured every year by falling into the pit where the cooking was done. Owing to the life of drudgery of the women and to their ignorance, improvidence and carelessness, a small fraction of the children borne by them lived to be grown. The, bedsjifi the huts were nothing but skins spread on the floors, tne pillows and bolsters were stones or sticks of wood. The natives owued sheep, cows and chickens.— These they took with them into their huts every night asr a protection against wild beasts, The heat, filth and stench from the. conglomerated mass were beyond conception. The Miiphana were raised only for their feathers, as the negroes would neith er eat their fiesh nor their eggs. The Zulus had obtained scraps of iron from Cape Town, and these were shaped into rude hoes ana spears..— FURNITURE FREIGHT FREE Entirely rewritten by the ablest writers on every subject. Printed from new tyde, and illustrat ed with Several Thousand Engravings and Mors. Warehouse and Commission Merchants. MACON, GEORGIA. A N entirely New and Elegant Stock of FTJjaKTITTmE Just received and for side at Foil Talley and Macon prices. ^®-BUY AT HOME. T O MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE TIMES, WE DETERMINED, EARLY IN in the Spring tot ttcrapta reduction in the rates of Storage and Commission on Colon, and now announce he following changes OLD R ATES | PRESENT RATES’ Commission 14 percent Commission 1} percent Storage 50c per bale. | Storage -. 25c per bale Thankful for theliberaliiy of onr friends in the part, must look to them for in creased patronage to enable us to adhere to the low rates we have inangnated. Mb. J. W. Stubbs, a prominent Granger and Planter of Bibb County, will bo onr Weigher the present season. \Ve guarantee onr best efforts for the interests nil who favor us with business. jSr-I he usual Advances made on Cotton in store. A Hearse can be fnrnished to order at any time, on short notice- I can be found in the day time at my store, next to the Hotel at night, at my residence, adjoining that MERCHANTS. READ IT! pro vid.es. * ‘Marriage is a personal re lation arising out of a civil contract 1 to which the consent of parties capa ble of making it is necessary. Con sent alone trill not constitute a mar riage; it most be followed by a sul- 1 emnization or by a mutual assunp- tion of marital rights, duties or obli gations. I ' ; 1 Pecnliorltirs of Negroes- Dr. A. W. McDowell publishes in the A merican Practitioner some obser- ; rations on ibis subject, which contain j some facts that are. news"to’ns.' The negro’s want of power of resisting disea se was abundantly shown in the j late war. Dr. McDowell states that the fine chests frequently seen among j the males are due solely to the great | development of the pectorial muscles. I and that the lungs are decidedly less i in weight than those of white men.—' ; The liver on the other hand is larger, j He goes on to say: “The negro’s low- I IT’S MEANT FOR YOU!!j Furniture Made to Order, and repaired at short notice. BURIAL CLOTHES, Ready-made, for ladies, gentlemen and children always on hand. GEORGE PERRY, GA., en of Africa. Tho great political revolutions of the last de cade, with the natru-al result of the lapse ot time, have brought into public view a multitude oi ! new men, "whose iuvxues are in every one’s mouth, aud of whose lives every one is curious to know the particulars. Great battles have been fought and important seiges maintained," of which tho do* taila are as yet preserved only in newspapers or in the transient publications -of. the day. bnt which now onght to take their places in perma nent and authentic history. In preparing tho present edition for the press, it has accordingly been the aim of the editors to bring down the information to tho latest possible dates, and toTarnish an accurate-account of the. meat recent discoveries in science, cf every fresh production in literature, and of the newest inven tions in tho practical aits, as well as to give a succinct mid original record of the progress of political and historical events. The worthasbeeii begunafter long and care- ful preliminary labor, and with the most ample" resources for carrying it bn to a successful termi nation. . • •• • - r , - V- _ None of the original stereotype plates have been used, but every page has been printed on new type, forming in fact a. new' Gydopiedia, with the same plan and compassas its predecssor. but vt itk a far greater pecuniary expenditure, ai.d with such improvements iu its composition as have been suggested by longer experience and enlarged knowledge. 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The cane and sorghum cane seed-were ground into a kind of meal by rub bing between two rocks, and this meal was cooked into a kind of mnsh.— This, with pumpkins, constituted the breadstuff of the natives. Their meat was either beef or mutton. Living on a coast abounding in fish, they did not know how to catch them, and would not eat them when caught by other persons. The government under which the Zulus lived was a hereditary monar chy. A king by the name of Charka had subdued many tribes and his kingdom covered many hundreds of miles. He v.as the Napoleon of Af rica, and by his bold innovations npon the old system of tactics became a crest conquerer. The Eastern room in their narrow selfish bosoms to carry so m ray). And other kind who have no hearts t- break. But these are not women— they are only females; or. amateur wo men at best. Believe me, there is nothing God basmade. that is so good and true, so hard to break as the gen tle, faithful-heart of a . womanly wo- J man; unless it be the big, staunch heart of manly man.—N. 0. Pica yune. ANOTHER CHANCE. ' FIFTH AND LAST GIFT CONCERT In aid of the Public Library, Kentucky Postponed to November 39, 1874, DRAWING CERTAIN AT Tii^t Time. LLST OF GH T3. One Grand Cash Gift $250,000 One Grand Cash Gift 100,001 One Grand Cash Gift 75.000 One Grand Cash Gift 50,000 i One Grand Cash Gift 25,000 5 Cash Gifts, $20, COO each, lOo’oOO Our Coodsare Fresh. They are Full Weight. They are Bought Right and will be Sold the Same Way. We Can’t be Undersold by any Honseinthe South. - Seymour, Tinsley & Co., ; MACON, GA. FIRST STREET, CORNER OF CHERRY. WABEROOMS; Poplar Street, Between Third and Fourth Street*. MAcON, GrA. i 10 Cash Gifts, 14,000 each, 140,000 j 15 Cash Gifts, 10,000 each, 150,000 20 Cash Gifts, 5,000 each, 100,000 j 25 Cash Gifts, 4,000 each, 100,000 ; 30 Cuih Gilts, 3,000 each, 90,000 | 50 Cach Gifts, 2,000 each, 100,000 ^ s 'b Gifts, LOGO each, 100,000 240 Cahh Gifts, 500 eacti, 120,000 500 Gash Gilts, 100 each, 50,000 19.SGG Cash Gifts. . 50 each, 950,000 Grand Total 20.00c Gifts all Cash 3450,000 PRICE OF TICKETS. Whol* Tick-.ts ten m Half Tickets QO Tenths, or each Coupon * 00 11 Whole Tickets for 500.00 224 Tickets ;or i 000 00 [GUERNSEY, BMTKpt & HENDRIX, j DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS, WINDOW AND DOOE FRAMES, BALLS- j TERS, NEWEL POSTS, SCROLL WORKS, BUILDEB8’ HARD- ! WARE, GLASS, OILS, PAINTS, PUTTY, ETC., Eld lint of the above always in ttoek, and supplied to eft* and country* notice * June 27, gm.» 2 ! 1 K 3 3 i 1 8828S88