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$• ** '' ' * " ! -m ? 7 fJ V w HI. *-J II IF' W ' ¥W . V l, y TV* E. MiIMFOItD. YOLUME.X-NQ. 7. GQRJU IXSTITL-TE, A., ttntX OPEN pally in Sej tend .r 1878. with t il c-t, *<>• earnest. successful teacher* Vj determined to keep up the wi<ics| nad awl derived reputation ot this Jhstly ccle ended ►.• hoed. Garden Inetitnte offer* superior indue >men'- to parents desiring to educate their hh and daughter*. It ha* all the tnod. m apph .w* s. apparatus and furniture, and a record nor uneceHsfnl teaching unj aidehdin tl •• State. It- music department i* 4ttrd b? Pjof. Oultcnt>er • r. who has no eup. ri< r and hut tew equals m hi* profession. Boirieijrillji is the most enter) using city r*n the tc *n ami Western Railroad, and kjntlv the reputation of having the m moral, hhtral and enlightened commnbity • Georgia Taition sll 50 to $lB 50 p r Term. Bo rd $lO 00 to sls 00 per mouth. Mtf For Catalogue containing lull iufonmtion address CHARLES E L*MRDRTN, Pitas., or W. H. WOODALL, Secretary. i jlySotf Barnesvulle, Georgia. I ML A. Gibson, NO. 19 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. . . , 11 holcumlo mill 1 let nil Denier In] BBT GOODS, GI OOOIIS, KCTIOrS. CEOCKERT, AC. fC —ANT/ A FT'LL STOCK OF Plantation Supplies, ALL of which we are now rfl. rieg at *he very lowest market prices, and guarantee all •f oor guod* as represt W.- r ii.il> invite the fe pie of 1 sfbot county. and •'••■bar* to give ns a cull when thr> vo.it tie T.v. Mr L. \ Philips, formerly of Har n* eaantr, is with me ami •-‘ill In 1 -o *ee 1 s many friends. ATTE ETS3TBCJnJ IS MOW INVITED TO Oi R LAB E STOCK Piece Goods, < 'lot bs. < ’nssimores nix! TVim mingfß, including; L'liylmli, and Amei'ican Make*. ALSO * good up)>iy of the vm . - k-k of Home Good*; all of which w,< get ap la order iu the beet a; viron Or eh -real notice An ezlenmve and eiioioa lot of TEXAS CASSI MERES J*t in, to which we cull particular no ; *i- id. .1. PEACOCK, Ci 'THING Mani rAdoBY, 64 Broad Streit In ©or ready-plade atock we have a lot of ‘ (Ott-mitt Suiu” we will close out at prices Wprkringlv low. Kep24t> 0. G. Sparks & Son, THIRD .STREET, MACON, GEORGIA, WAREHOUSE, COTTO", AI D C: KffISSIOH BEECHABTS. \ITJS agaiq effer our service as Warehouse ar.d ConmiiaeLon Merchant* to our planting friends ol Ta'bot and a.ij Img < pities. l?lnttion S*upplios, Haggiingnnd 'l’iew tinvahed at lowest market rate*. PST* Adw made on Cotton is store, * Low ns by iiyfeouac in the city O. G. SP x KKB A ~£L- *-S ■s, 114 Bread Street, COLCMEDS, OA. * WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IX Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Umbrel las, Ready-Made Clothing, 1300 TS, SHOES, Etc., OF TIIE LATEST AND BEST STYLES, ALL onr Goods arc of the latest Tyßs and fresh from the Northern Market*. We defy competition in style and prn-e of G •• Is Give u* % <mll when in the city, we f-el j certain • can Polite* and attentive salesmen to show goo ssf>24tf < FOR CLOTHING --GJO TO VIISHir & CALLAWAY THE LEADING CLGTEIKG EGUEE CF BIIEEIE GFCRGH They keep the best goods and sell at the lowest prices. Onr Dollar* Shirt is of the best material and fits well Agents for Keep’s Shirts and Umbrella*. W. Pitt Baldwin is w ith us, and will be glad, to hare a call from bis frinds. WINSHIP & CALLAWAY, No. 50 Second St.. Macon* A COCKTRY NEWSPAPER FOR THF MASpIiS-ff 1> t’O CIV^ifNATION AND MAINEY-JJ AJCEfti. TALIOTTON TALBOT COUNTY, GEOItOIA.I'BURSUAY; FEBRUARY 13.1879. A fomiieraiici' 1 ennrr LOOK sot rpou THK MIMOK-VIK WHEN' It is red\ ' My friend*, there is m>tb*r rock 1 wish you to guard against. It i* liiddeu by the still summer sea, but upon it many liutnau b#rk lias split. I ' refer to mince-pie. Yes, ray herfreniidlA’ jninqs -pie is a rock that hits brought thousauda to watery graves, exactly, bnt—you Un derstand what 1 mean. The mince pie is the curse of the land. It is alluring your youth from the path of virtue and sabriety, and lending thorn down to ruin. It. begets an appetite for strong drink that sweeps everything before it. Look not up on the accursed thing. Shun it as you would a riper. Sit on it; tram ple it under your feet, as it wore. I once knew n brilliant young man, loved and com ted by all who knew him. His is the story of thousands. This young man used to visit liis aunt in the f ill, that futal time of the year when the mince-pie stalks up and down through the earth, seeking where it may devour some body. This young man's aunt could make a mince-pie till you couldn’t rest, and her nrt lured him to de struction. That insatiable monster! At first he ate stight'y of the dam ning food; as Ins appetite grew bv wliat it fed upon,'he ate deeper and deeper, until after every meal he would sink into a heavy sleep, only to awake willi a head on him bigger than Daniel Webster’s. He would chew cloves and cardamon seeds for hours, and yet yon could smell his brentli across the biggest county in the State. He saw that he was be coming a slavi; to the accursed pie. His affianced bride, who to h m was the one fair woman beneath the sun, and she would never marry a man ( that smelled like a distillery that | employed tlnrr hundred hands, and was in full blast nil the time, and unless he reformed she would bo nothing to him but a sister. The young man had all the sisters he wanted, and falling at her feet, -he , registered a solemn oath, and had it copy-rightejl next day, that a mince pie should never pass his lips again ! 118 long ns he lived. But, alas! he was already a slave to strong pie, | and in less than twenty-four hours he tore himself away from his sweet heart, who made a franjic grub at his coat fail. *nd fled to his aunt’s in the city, and said ha hoped she would have some of her excellent mince-pies for dim er. The good mint, ignorant of the fact that she was putting an enemy in bis mouth to steal away his brain, and set 'em up so to speak, and in less than two hours the young man was tap roaring, staving drunk, as nenal. Ab, my friends, the storv is a ghastly one, and needs no embellish ment. While in this condition the young man, the pride of his parents and the hope of a woman’s heart, was arrested for drunkenness arid disordeily conduct. On the way to the mayor’s office he shot the officer dead in his tracks, blew out his own brains with another barrel of the pistol, and then went bank and kil'ed hiR aunt and a dog that he had paid three dollars for. My friends and fellow sufferers, from the mince pie to the tomb is but a step. If mince-pie must be made, I demand in the name of the youth of our country, that people who manufacture them be compelled to take out a license. If they must be eaten, I Irg, for your soul’s sal vation, do not eat them straight. A serpent lurks in every one of them. Ten thousand devils lie beneath ev ery crust, be it baked ever so nicely. Every currant hides a demon with a forked tongue of flame and a seven pronged pitchfork. The suet, the citron and the chopped meat are the broth ol hell, and the whole bus mens from stein to stern is a mock cry. and strong drink is raging. In conclnsion, my beloved hearers, touch not, taste not, handle not— enter not into temptation; or, in other words, look ,not upon the mince-pie when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cupboard. Smart, those Frenchmen. One of them said to the other who was ma king fun of his ears:-'My ears may bo of unusual size for a man, but you | must oonfess, sir, that, vours "are ex tremely smaHJor an ass!’ \Vtto All Awfv.'OSlil Mat Gut Rich. —lt is nt true that the great victo ries of life ore to the sharp and cun ning man, as a rule. Here and there by a degree oi sharpness and cun ning men rise into wealth, lmt that wealth is not of a kind to remain. It takes a certain amount of virtue, of self denial, of morrulity, to lay up and keep money.' la the iivou of nearly All rieff metr fhttreTiave been periods of heroic self-denial, of pn tient industryj of Christian prudence. Circumstances did make these men rich. While their companion* were dancing away their youth, or drink ing away their middle age, these men were devoted to small economies —putting self-indulgence entirely aside. If our readers will recall tlici” companions, we think the first fad they will be impressed with is, the measure of equality with which they started in the race for competence ur wealth. The next fact they will l>o impressed with is the irregularity of the end. Then, if they make in ijiiiry into the widely \ a:\ving results, they will bo profoundly impressed with the insignificant part circuit), stances have played on these results Circumstances 1 Why, the rich man’s son who had nil the ‘circumstances of tho town, has become a beggar. The poor, quiet lad, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, who could only earn money enough to procure for her boy the commonest education, is a man of wealth, and has become a patron of his native village. The man who possesses and practices virtue makes his own cir cumstance. The self-denying, pru dent man creates around himself an atmosphere of safety where wealth | naturally takes refuge - -provided, of I course, that the man has tho power jto earn it, either in production or J exchange, or by any kind of manned ! or intellectual labor. Postal Rkoilitions. — We pub lish for the information of our read ers some of the rulings of tho Post Office Department during tho last y ar. The first, one wo give went into effect, very recently, on January 1, 1879, and to if wo would call apes eial attention: 1 Any description of matter produced by the typo wri ter, olectron pen papyrograph and manifold process shall be charged letter rates of postage when iiout in the mail, and first class matter shall bo held to embrace manuscript —ex cept book manuscript passing be tween nutlnv-s imd publishers, and proof sheets or a facsimile of the same, except lithographs ami photo graphs. 2. Printed cards filled in with a pen, are subject to letter postage. 3 National bank notos, with writ ten or facs mile signatures, are sub ject to letter rates of postage. 4. A printed circular is rendered subject to letter postage, by the in sertion of a written date. !>. Any printed matter containing additions made with a pen is sudjoct to letter postage. 13. When circulars arc sealed up with postage stamps, postmasters cannot, determine if there be any ad dition to tho original print, for which reason they arc subject to letter postage. 10. Any letter deposited in a post office, no matter to whom addressed, prepaid with one full letter rate (three cents) by stamps affixed, no matter how much it may weigh, must, be forwaided to destination, the same being first rated up withamount due, to be collected on delivery. My neighbor in the adjoining chair at the opera fair glued his eyes on the performance, and his face was full of delight. ‘There,’ says I to myself, 'lie en joys the opera even more than I do.’ Between the acts we went out; I ventured to say to him that he seem ed to be a having a splendid time. He paid no attention to me and then I noticed cotton in his ears. I asked him in loud tones, what that was for ? ‘What for 1 Why, so as not to hear the music, to be mire.’ Samuel Bowles says that if he were captain of a canal boat, and a lame woman Rtooil on the bank and made fan of him, he would murder her if he knew that she had twenty orphans to support. Siulbinnii A light emyloyuieat—Cleaning windows. Transported for life. Th man who marri** happily. “I’ll take the responsibility,” as Jenks said when he held out his arms for tho baby. The most sentimental exercise yet known i said to be women’s swim ming In tsars. A stupid exquisit, at a recent wod ding, wished the bride “many happy returns of the occasion.” Rheumatism is always a joint af fair, and yut there is only one party to it. Vermont conundrum: If nil things are tor tho best,, where do the rations for the second best come Irom. The post mast er-Goneral’g now fast train is called the “Widow” it fetches tho mails so much quicker than any other train. Bystander: “Keep the lid on old man, or you’l make it weak!” Milk man: “No fear; reckoned on rain, and brought, it out over pYoof.” A New York vagrant, who had been fined regularly every week for begging, requested the magistrate to fine him by the year at reduced rate. “Was not her death rather sud den?” paid a condoling friend to a berioved widower. Wall, yes,rather, lor her. ‘•Milligan, bo careful how you swap nags with that thar man: bo’ll cheat yon. “Never do you mind, Bquire; 1 guess I am a judge of hoss pilali‘y." ‘Alfred darling,’ tenderly observed a young Milwaukee wife to her hus band, ‘I wish you’d take down your ears now, Muriar wants to dust the coiling. ‘lsn’t your husband a little bald?’ asked one lady of another, in a store yesterday. ' There isn’t a bahl hair in his head,’ was tho hasty reply of the wife. Itinerant photographer (from mi dor the clot lx)-‘Will you keep ouietf How do you suppose— ’ Subject (who is evading the focus) —“Bo jabers, man! Will I sit still to be shot at!’ There is a married woman with four legs in Connecticut, and because she wont have two of thorn sawed off her husband is obliged to work six teen hours a day in order to keep her in stiped stockings. “V/as the crowd tumultuous?” in quired ono man of another who had just come from a mass meeting, ‘Too luuituonsl oh no: just, about iniiltnous enough to comfortably fill the hall.’ Over fifty thousand tea plants have been distributed to farmers by the agricultural department during tho past year, and liberal distribu tion is to, be Continued. The com missioner is said to he confident that, tea culture will flourish in this conn try, and several persons of experi ence have no doubt that a fair arti cle, can be produced at a cost not ex ceeding fifteen or twenty dollars a pound. ■• -* Nine-tenth* of the thousand mil lion dollars which France borrowed of English bankers in order to pay Germany are now held in tho shape of national bonds by Frenchmen at home. As fast as the foreigners would sell, the bonds were bought up on the Paris market, and thus though France still owes that vast sum she owes it in bulk only to her own people. Liver is King. The Liv.-r is Ihe imperial organ of I lie whoio human *yslen.,aß it coulrots th lile, health ami hnppinoß* ol man. When it is disturbed in jlm prop.r action, all kind -of ailments are flie natural result. The diges tion of food, the movements of the heart and blood, the action ol the brain and ner vous system, are all immediately era,le-c --led with the workings nt the Liver. It lias hecn MH-eee-fully proved that Green’s Au gust Flower is unequalled in curing nil persons nflieied with Dyspepsia or Liver Complaint, and ail the numerous symptoms that result Irom an unhealthy oonclilion of tile Liver and Siornach Sample bottles to try, 10 cents. Positively sold in nil to -ns on the Western Comment. Throe doses will prove that it, is just what you want. For sale by Dr. -E. L. Bardwell. ffO. Two Dollars and fiftt cents will the otanjmiid and Godey'r Lady's Book for the year 1879. Now is the time to -ejbbcribe. tf. $4 20 Four Dollars and 20 cents will get the .Standard and Scribnf.r’h Monthly foi the year 1879. The regular price of gcrih nei it four dollar*. tf TJGIUIS SI.OO 11 Vein-in Ailvnnee ™e CHEAPEST HOUSE FOR CLOTHIftG Xu Macon, —lni- J. H. HERTFS. A full Stock at tho Lowest Figures. Fine Ntiil s At $9; $10; *11; sl2 fiO; and sls. Dress Suits sls 00 to $25 00. Kim RTS all coraplote. Made of t,be best Irish Linen and Wamsnttu Muslin only 75 Cents. Full Stock of all Goods for Mm and Bays at prices lower than any house in Macon or Columbus. (Quality as good as over. T. 11, llei-tz, 90 Cherry Street, oof 11 f Macon, <*orfin. GOOEY’S LADY'S BOOH. RKDiJCKD TO $2 I*Kit YEAR TERMS GASH IN ADVANCE. P. STAGE PREPAID, We offt:r no Cheap Premium*. But give you the Bent Magazine pnhliKhed. CLUB TERMS Ono copy, one \ oar, „$2 00 Two copicH, ono year, .. T{ 80 T,hree copieff, one year 5 40 Four copies, one year 0 80 Five coi iori, one 3 ear, and an extra copy to tho person getting up the chii>, making six copies 9 GO Eight copies, one year, and an extra copy to the person getting up tho cl 11D, making nine copies, 14 25 Ten copies, one year, anti an extra copy to the person getting up the club, making eleven copies 17 00 Twenty copies, one year, and an extra copy to Iho person netting up the club, making twenty-ono copies,.. .31 GO NOW IS Tine TIMK TO MAKE UP YOLK CLUBS. HOW TO REMIT. Get a Post OfQee Money Order on Philadelphia* or a Draft on Philadelphia or N< w York. It you <mm uot get either of these send Bank notes,and in the latter < .se register your letter, i’ajiies desiring to gel up clubs send for a specimen copy, which will be wilt free. Address, Godex’s Lady’s P.o- k Pum.rui ino (Jo., (Limited) 1000 Chestnut. St., Philadelphia, Pa. xotht: ! All kinds of TIIHNIIVG DONE, both wood and iron. GINS wbeted and REPAIRED, at J. F. \\ ALKEIi'SJ Steiun Mills 'wo miles east of Tqlbotton. w}2ltf WHOLE NUMBER 445 Qlcl Reliable. W. A. JUHAN & CO., DEALER* IN i ri Best grades Foreign mid Boinestio Staple & Fancy Dry Goo TRIANGULAR BLOCK MACON, GEORGIA. Black ft rid Colored ' ocl Press Goods, in ad the lalrat styles and most fnsli ionnblo designs'. Cloak.-, 3iuni.s Hosiery, Colts'LTß, K H>-Gi,o ri;.S, RIUBONS, Neck-Wk.vr and Fancy Goods. Prompt and can fill attention paid to orders. Samples sent on applica tion ninl express paid on all orders of I en Dollars and upwards, ‘" •Ilf W. A. JUHAN A CO. LANIER HOUSE. ~ S 5. Dl n't. Proprietor MACON, GEORGIA. * I 'FITS IJi -l’: F, is now provim-il with every I neecs’s try convt nienee lor the accnnimo ddlDHi iind coin.'ort of its patrons. Tho lo < tti'>ii is de-ir.d h; and convenient to the businoi h portion of tho city. The Tables, have flirt best the market offords. Omni bun to and Irom depot Ire,- of charge, baggage bandied free of charge. s'The T’AH in supplied with the best Wine ami hirj'icr-. Jesse J . Bull* J ATTORNEY AT LAW, TALBOTTON GA. \ \ r IU; pv.icti" m all flie Courts of tho -O.iiir.tl circuit. Prompt at tention given to collections. Oflicc over C. W. Kimbrough's Store, oc 122 1878.' B. H. w<>mtlLL, J. H. wnpkihL, E. H. WORRILL & SON. Attorneys & Counsellors at Law. Talbotton, Georgia. Prnctic* in Supori r ami Supreme Court* of (iron ia. mid th P. S. Court.* at Savim* > -di. BJp'.'ul attention given to all matters in ikinliiuptey. .fan 8-ly. JAMES S- McCORKLE, Attorn my and ( J<unsfllob at Law, (ionovsi < m eorftln. Will practice in tho countie* of Talbot, Mmimi. (JhiittiiliDoohcc. Harris, in id Taylor, m the (Jli.alliihoocheo t'ircnit.and Schley in. Id* Soutlnvestci 11 t.’ircuir, Special attention paid to the collection of claims. Bf.F'iiknces. W. J. Ligon o' ('<>., Paschal £ Heidingafel d'-r, J !>. Hon h. If. A. Paschal, Ansell Turi-r, A, I . Candler, Oapt.. Henry Per sons, I if. McCrnrv, all of Geneva, tlu., Lowe A Ifi sliiu. Pin .L. Rogers,of Buena i dit, l A. Re il V Cos., o| Columbus, (in. Wir.. A. Black, S. W. It. R.Agt,at Amori j.m 8-tf. VV. i;. MfJMFORD, Attorney at Law 'lYilbof ton Will primKcc irf all flic conrfs of tho rbt tnhoocln c Cnc-nir. ainl vlsewhero by special contact. Prompt ;i fculiou given to all ba*l in .; entrust* and I" him. J. M. MATHEWS, ~ ATTORNEY AT LAW rF;)I I<l f on Ga., Pi -mpl attention to all business. Prae ti - in Sup- nor Courts, of Chattahooche* Circuit, and Supreme Court of Georgia. Jan 8-ly. J. H. MARTIN, ATTOIiNKY AT LAM, TON, GA. \T7fLL pract. >■ 1) c Courls of tlie GhaU V V i.ti - ! cr- c,j mi ui I fhe Supreme Court i < ( the . '1 1.0 olleciing I usines* a specialty. janßtf H. M. WILLIS. J. T. WII.LIS, WILLIS & WILLIS, AiTOIINKYS AM) roUNUXLLORS IT LAW, TALIiO'I'JON, (jA, JAllS'f W. I'L TIGNER, DiONTiST. o*-'KI< OVI3B MASON’S Drug Ston, H iiididph .--knit, Goliirabns, Ga. * ,y- •' n-ft yonr “Teth;“ they nro All i i-■ "-f-A <‘t thf* Teelh anil G< ' r 1 1 *..1. Ariltici,il i u;Ui pat in a-hao U-.a l u