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THETHOMASTON HERALD.
CIIAS. G. B£ARC£»
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
TIIOMASTON, GA., JAN. 28,1871.
fh«THOHLAtTOIVHBBALDIwit Large
C irralatton In l p«nn, Pike, Meriwether,
Talhot, Spalding, Monroe, Kilib, Muscogee
and Units.
A Canine Cnmlidate.
The Hon. Michael Kerr, of Indiana, has
been suggested by several influential journ
als in the West, as a proper candidate for
the Presidency. “What’s in a name ?” etc.
New Apportionment.
The House Judiciary Committee of Con
gress has at last agreed upon a bill for the
new apportionment, and fixed the number
of Members of Congress at 273. This will
entail a loss of one member to both Ver
mont and New Hampshire, and will give
Kentucky a gain of one.
Dcud Mens’ Shoe*.
Senators, Representatives, cx-Govcrnors
and politicians out of jobs, are particularly'
anxious about the health of Chief Justice
Chase, who is now in New York City suf
fering with partial paralysis. Several
hungering ones have intimated to the Pres
ident that the “collateral” is ready when
be does the handsome thing.
An Idea.
A Western paper says that should U. S.
Grant fail to be re-elected President in
1872, (and he will certainly so fail.) it is
understood that he is to be the great candi
date for Governor of Canada! The immor
tal Schenck, in his mission to the Queen’s
court, is said to be especially charged with
the perfecting of the arrangement with her
Majesty.
Removing the Capital.
The capital has been removed again
this time to Denver, Colorado. It was done
by a Mr. John S. Campbell, of some out-of
the-way place in the back woods of Michi
gan, through the instrumentality of an
eight-page tract which he lias taken par
ticular pains to scatter broadcast over that
part of the country. The only thing to
commend Denver, is that it would “make
a splendid summer resort! !”
A Report of tlie War.
At the recent meeting at Lynchburg of
the Executive Committee of the Army of
Northern Virginia, it was resolved to take
steps to procure reports from survivors of all
battles, orders, inspectors, quarter-masters*
and commissaries’ reports, etc., for publics.,
tion ; also, that Maj. R >bert Stiles be re
quested to collect the evidence and prepare
a memoir relative to the Dablgreen-Kilpat
rick raid on Richmond in the sping of 1864.
Ku Klu\.
Why don’t the Radicals send up one of
their periodical howls and demand the re
construction of Pennsylvania? “Masked
men” have been sneaking about after night
fait, in Lancaster, the home of the late
Thad. Stephens, waylaying people and
committing depredations of every nature,
but thus far not a solitary croak has escaped
from the Radical press. Pennsylvania be
ing all right (i. e. Radical) this will be
simply treated as a harmless ebullition of
spirit—“only this, and nothing more.”
Thf Income Tax.
The New York Times says: The income
tax seems doomed. The movement in the
House for its immediate abolition has de
rived strength from the statements of the
new Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
And now the Senate follows”with a two
thirds vote making the consideration of a
bill terminating the tax the special order
for Tuesday next. That vote does not abso
lutely determine the question of repeal, but
it indicates a decided change of opinion
where hostility to reduction of taxation has
been strongest. Mr. Kelley, we trust, will
not allow the subject to sleep in the House.
The income tax, always odious, has become
unendurable. Public opinion is united on
nothing more earnestly than in the demand
for its repeal.
A Phr nom c non.
The U. S. Steamer Tennessee, is to take
the commissioners appointed by the Presi
dent, to San Domingo, to examine the
island and report thereon, and if it can be
done without interfering with their other
exacting duties, stake out a few more build
ing lots for the President and themselves.
It is understood that positive orders have
been issued to search the vessel carefully
before she departs, to see that no intoxica
ting liquors are taken with her. When it
is remembered that nearly all of the ap
pointees are Radicals, the extreme cruelty
of the order will be seen. It is presumed
however that a few cases of ginger-pop will
be taken along, together with lemons and
sugar for the concoction of a mild lemo* 3
Bade occasionally.
Tally for Blair.
General Frank Blair has been elected
United States Senator from Missouri. This
gentleman, it will be remembered, was one
of the most prominent Federal Generals
in the late struggle, and won from Grant
the compliment of being “the best volun
teer commander in the army.” He is an
honest, high-toned gentleman, and will re
flect credit upon himself and constituency.
In a late speech delivered in the House of
Representatives of Missouri, he used the
following language in defining his position :
“My hope in going to Congress, if I
should attain that high position, is that I
may aid in withdrawing the troops from
those Southern States which are held there
to saddle upon the baoks of that people a
parcel of carpet-baggers and scalawags,
followed by an ignorant mass of negroes,’
The Tinker* ut Work.
The Hon. Richard Yates lute Senator
from Illinois, proposes to amend the Con
stitution so as to make foreign-born citizens
eligible to the office of President of the
United States. There is str mg opposition
to it. An amendment to mak* the Presi
dential term of office ten years instead of
four, lias also been mooted. Why not go
a step farther and patch up, darn, mend,
repair, tinker, cobble, calk, cicatrize and
refit the instrument, which has become
hardly more than a strip of worthless parch
ment, so that Presidents shall hold office
for life cr until deposed by ‘civil disorder’
as in Mexico; give each State a dozen or
mn-e Senators, who shall be permitted to
rifle the pockets of the people as long as
they will submit to it ; allow idiots, women
and babies the right suffrage ; make any
body and everybody eligible to offices of
importance and profit; render the will of
the President the supreme law of the land ;
give each State an independent army and
navy ; tip the Supreme Court into the mud;
increase representation a hundred fold;
create numberless Vice-Presidents of which
the best men shall win, when the
President dies, &c, &e. We see no impro
priety in suggesting these changes, and
those who are stretching, straiuing ard
warping the Constitution out of all shape,
are wejeome to them.
Presidential Candidate.
General Hancock is again being spoken
offer the Presidential nomination in polit
ical circles, and the nnmps of Hendricks,
Hoffman, Thurman, and J. Q. Adams are
also talked of by Democrats. There is a
growing opposition to Grant’s renonrnina
tion in republican circles and leading rad
icals in Congress estimate that his renomi
nation is by no means certain. None of
his opponents have yet shown their hands.
There is no telling on whom they will rally.
The disaffected republicans are very cau
tious in suggesting any names, and they are
probably waiting for the opposition to de
velop itself still more before attempting an
organization. Sumner is generally regarded
as not being a presi lential candidate. Ex-
Seoretary Cox, of Ohio, is thought by some
keen politicians to have aspirations in that
way, and does not want back rs. Well
informed politicians however, speak pri
vately of General William Tecumseh Sher
man as the man who will most probably
be sustained for nomination by the repub
licans, who look on Grant as a Jonah to be
thrown overboard. Sherman is said to be
quietly taking his own course in making
his friends. General Sherman does not
consider the personal relations between
himself and Grant are such as to preclude
his being a candidate for nomination, and
that he will certainly accept if he be the
choice of the national convention. It is
thought that if the opposition to Grant in
republican ranks concentrates on Sherman,
it will seriously endanger Grant’s chances
for a renomination. The military officers
around Grant’s person at the White House,
are said to be looking upon Sherman with a
jealous and unfriendly eye, regarding him as
a rival to their chief, and they are supposed
to reflect Grant’s secret feelings.
Hard Times and Dull Trade.
Notwithstanding statistics show a steady
expansion of the commerce of the country,
it is quite common to hear the cry of “hard
times” and “dull trade,” In a commercial
point of view, the cry is occasioned to a
great extent, in this section, on account of
there being too large a medium between
the producer and consumer. Such is the
case throughout the whole country. The
general trade is cut to pieces, or in other
words, overdone by mercantile aspirants.
In the South, we are sorry to say, there are
hundreds and hundreds of young men, who
turn their backs upon agricultural and
mechanical pursuits, and recklessly throw
themselves into the mercantile ranks, sim
ply because the business is physically light
and easy, compared to manual labor. We
admit that a great majority of this class,
from the cradle up to the commencement, of
the late war, were raised perhaps in afflu
ence and were strangers to manual work ;
but that day has passed ! The war has
brought about a different state of afiairs,
and they now find themselves thrown en
tirely upon their own resources. Such
being the case, too many turn their atten- '
tion the mercantile ranks as above stated,
and help to swell the medium between the
producer ane consumer beyond the limits
of success and prosperity. There is another
class, which with propriety, may be alluded
to. The war, it is well known, flushed the
pockets of thousands throughout the United
States, with just a sufficient amount of cur
rency to turn their heads and encourage
them to enter the mercantile business and
to forget their former occupations. The
ranks of the merchant, of the commission
dealer, of the broker and of all -classes
known to the commercial world, were sud
denly swelled by this class, the great ma
jority of which have proved tnemselves to
be incompetent supernumeraries. The re
sult from such a state of affairs we have had
in the shape of failures, bankrupts, etc.,
and the end is not yet. The ranks are too !
full, and time alone, will thin them and
reduce them to their proper sphere. Tam.
Advertiser.
Indiana. Divorces.
Governor Baker of Indiana, in his recent
message, dwells at length and with great
severity, upon the facility with which citi
zens of other States, after a pretended resi
dence in Indiana, obtain divnreep, and then
return to their homes from which thev had
fled for that very purpose. The laws under 1
which such schemes can he carried out, he
says, are a reproach to the civilization of
the age, and are in violation of the comity
of sister States. The Governor recommends
that the clause of the statute which author
izes divorces for any cause that the Court
may deem sufficient, should be repealed, and
that the clause making cruel treatment a
good cause of divorce should be so amended
as to require the treatment to be cruel and
inhuman or cruel and barbarous. lie also
recommends certain changes in the practice
in divorce cases, which would render im
possible the collusive or fraudulent separa
tion of husband and wife, and says that i
with sueh amendments Indiana divorces
would soon cease to be advertised in the
Atlantic cities os marketable commodities, j
A Straw.
In voting at the Orphans’ fair in New
York for the presentation of an elaborate
“meerschaum,” Gen Grant stood lowest on 1
the list of several candidates. Gen. Mc-
Clellan had more votes than all the rest,
combined. So our smoking President will ,
not have the felicity of coloring that meer- i
schaum.
The New TarilT—lts Effect Upon Duninr**.
As anticipated, the changes in the tariff
have caused some irregularity in the mar
kets for the various goo is affected thereby,
but hardly to the extent predicted, and
business adapts itse f to the new order of
things with comparative case. No violent
disruption of values occurred, as the pr.ibt
ble variation had been previously pretty
well discounted, but the wholesale business
has run rather slow. This, in a great
measure, is due to the very liberal pur
chases made in bond by local j >bber< and
interior dealers during the month of De
cember, and all attention is now given to
the withdrawal of invoices fr rn bond. As
fast as the papers are passed, however; and
the stock can be obtained from the over
crowded warehouses, it is distributed with
out difficulty, the small dealers and con
sumers cubing liberally for supplies, and
some of our principal jobbers are working
night and day to satisfy the urgent demands
of their customers for speedy shipments
Every freight line leading from the city is
besieged by an immense line of trucks and
carts, cf blocks in length, loaded to their
fullest capacity awaiting an opportunity to
get goods off. and the facilities for transpor
tation will be taxed to their utmost. For
many weeks the accumulations in the inte
rior having become so small that many
dealers can hardly fill an ordinary retail
call, and insist upon stocks being pushed
forward to some extent at almost any cost.
Some few complications in regard to the
proper construction of the law under the
new tariff, but, as a rule, the CusTom House
officials and the mcrocants agree*very well,
and in a few in-stances the deiiveries have
been larger and more expeditions than had
been calculated upon. The gr -atest irouble
is at the warehouses, goods U?ing piled so
closely that it frequently requires two or
three days to get at parcels for which per
mits have been obtained.
That Cotton Picker.
S ime time ago the Louisville press an
nounced the fact that certain parties in
that city were about to perfect a machine
for picking cotton. We confess that the
idea of a machine for sueh a purpose has
heretofore seemed absurd, and we set this
down a-* one of the many emanations from
the crazy brain of inventive genius, and so
discarded it from our mind • However, it
seems that we were too fast. Colonel T.
C. Flournoy, one of the largest plahters on
the Arkansas river, believes that it will
work a great revolution in cotton planting.
One machine, drawn by two mules, and op
erated by two hands will pick eight bales of
c-aton per day ! Or, in other words two
mules and two hands can house all the cot
ton they can produce on Arkansas river
lands in two days. If this be a fact, and
the machine do rot. yet prove a failure,
nothing has been invented since Whitney
put his gin in operation, which will so ma
terially effect cotton production. The pat
entees, Messrs, Pearce, Apperly and Shir
ley. will have an experimental mathine
completed in a few days, which they will
take direct to the plantation of Colonel
Flournoy, on the Arkansas, when a test
will be made of the most trying and satis
factory nature.
Wendell Phillips.
Mr. Phillips has aged considerably since
he last appeared upon a Cincinnati plat
form. Ilis baldness “has grown upon him.”
The faint suspicion of hair which now
adorns the top of his head would drive a
Cheyenne Indian, desirous of his scalp, to
madness. He was arrayed last evening <n
the traditional black frock coat of the old
est school, the garment being buttoned
closely, so as to show to the greatest ad
vantage the sharp New England outlines
of fiis person. His whole appearance was
rather formal for a professional ic moclast,
but this must be set down as necessary
compromise with the conventionalities cf
the Hub, from which, as a moral and in
tellectual spoke, he radiates. Ilis voice
has the sharp Yankee ring, in which the
head ton*s predominate, but which, by
effort and years of painful culture, is no
longer nasal. Ilis manner was angular at
opening, his gestures sluggish and ungrace
ful, but as he warmed with the progress of
his discourse they were characterized by
greater ease. The stiffness seemed partly
that of advancing years, which some time
ago began to do their appointed work.
English Opinion of our Army.
The London Times, speaking of our armv,
says :
“The theory of military organization in
the United States rests upon the principle
that a small regular army can readily be
made the nucleus round which an armed
nation may gather. Forty thousand men,
well discipuned and admirably officered,
may undoubtedly grow, in case of need,
within a few weeks, into a splendid army
of half a million of men. Unless opposed
by a nation drilled from childhood to the
business of fighting, such an army would be
irresistible. With an army of 37,('00 men,
the President of the Republic may he reas
onably sure that he has a farce sufficient
to oppose any that can be brought against
him. Even though he were to engage
wickedly and rashly in conflict with Eng
land for her Canadian Dominion, the force
at present under arms in the United States
is at least equal to any that this country
could send across the Atlantic in time of
need to defend Quebec. The Great Powers
of the European Continent are powerless
when, they face America.
The Georgia Senatorial Muddle.
The Judiciary Committee es the Senate
had another session to day on the case of
the Georgia Senators. The deeper the com
mittee gets in its investigations the snore
mixed the case becomes. It is difficult now
to tell which of the several braces of Sena
tors claiming seats from Georgia elec
ted legally, or whether they were elected
at all. One of the applicants, Foster Blod
gett, is accused of securing his election by
anything but honorable means, and, after
his election, of securing the passage of a
law, the effect of which is to prevent the
Legislature chosen last fall from electing a
Senator, and to make him Senator for six
years from the 4rh of March next. Blod
gett is one of the Bullock faction, and there
is evidence before the committee to show
that he played the little game with the
connivance of the Governor.— Washington
Telegram Sunday Herald.
The report of the President and Directors
of the Macon and Western Railroad, just
published, shows that ihnt road, with*gross
receipts amounting to §692,5' 0, has made
a net earning of $251,000. Yet the West
ern arid Atlantic Railroad, with a gross in
come twice ns large, has boon leased for
twenty years for only $300,000 per annum.
Something to Save Life.
Anew brake has been adopted on one of
the English railroads, in consequence of
the recent frequency of accidents, which is
able to stop a train going at the rate of
thirty inilesjna hour, in twenty-five seconds.
Synopsis of Telegraphic Kew*.
Washington, J n„ 18 —A committee
appointed under Morton’s resolution to in
vestigate the condition of affairs in the South,
of which Senat r Scott, of Pennsylvania, is
chairman, propose to go to work In a few
da - s they will issue a number of subpajnas
to prominent men in in the South, who are
supposed to be cognixent of alleged outrages
recently committed there ; am mg them
will be Gov. Holden, of North Carolina;
Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, and Gov.
Davis, of Texas. It is their intention to
make a report before the close of the des
cion if possible.
In the mass of documents from Gov. Hol
den, recently submitted to the Senate, is a
le'ter from Col. Hunt, who, in July, 1870,
was assigned to the command of the District
of N >rth Carolina. He says, under date of
Fort Adams, Rhode Island, January 2d,
1871. alluding to the inquiry as to murders
and outrages committed by disloyal organi
zations for political purposes, that he heard
of none such as happening while lie was in
the State, of those which occurred previous
to his assuming command. That whieh
created the most excitement was the murder
of Mr Stevens, a State Senator. He adds :
“Evidence of the existence of such an or
ganization in both political parties was
produced ; but nearly all the cases inquired
into proved, however that, other than politic
e-1 purposes were effect *d through'the facil
iiies ofFerded by these organizations, whose
machinery wots used to punish theft,, bur
glaries, insults to women, and other offen
ses in no wav connected with politics. In
fine, their principle business seemed to be
to do work usually performed by regulators
and vigilance committees.
These crimes were had enongh in them
selves, but in the bitterness of party feeling
they were greatly exaggerated and misrep
resented, and attained to political parties
as such. To what extent murders and out
rages werecommited for political purposes,
I am not in a position to state, for when
the Legislature passed laws to punish
the members of the secret, organizations,
they were to a groat extent, if not wholly,
dissolved, and this was before I assumed
command of the District.
Washington, January 23 —The Commit'-
tee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred
the credentials of gentlemen claiming to
have been elected Senators frutji Georgia,
say in their report, made to the Senate to
day, that the General Assembly of that
State, as organized in 18G8, of the time of
election of Hill and Miller, contained in
each house a constitutional quorum of legal
members. Three of the claimants, Ilill,
Farrow and Whitely have had their politi
cal disabilities removed by the act of Con
gress of July 1868. Miller never labored
under any political disabilites, imposed by
the third section of the 14th amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, but
it is admitted that he acted as a Surgeon
in tha rebel ‘army,-under an appointment
from a Colonel of a rebel regiment, and had
given aid to persons in hostility to the
United Q tates, and therefore he cannot take
the oath required by the act of July, 1862.
The act of July, 1868, prescribes a quali
fied oath to be taken by persons elected or
appointed to office, from whom political
disabilities have been removed. Miller,
however, is not relieved from taking the
oath prescribed by the act of July, 18G8,
and, in the opinion of the committee, not
entitled to a seat; and it follows, from the
conclusions of the committee, as to the pro
ceedings in the election of Hill uni Miller,
that neither Farrow nor Whirely is entitled
to a seat. The committee are of opinion
that Hill was d»!y elected by the Legisla
ture having authority to elect, a Senator,
and is entitled to take his seat upon taking
the oath required by the Constitution and
the laws. 11 the contestants maintained
the position before the committee, that the
ineligibility or disqualification cf individual
members of either house, not sufficiently
numerous to affect its constitutional quo
rum, was an immaterial issue. The com
mittee, therefore, have not deemed it neces
sary to discuss the question further than
to state the facts in regard to it.
The majority of the committee agreeing
to the report are Senators Trumbull, Ed
munds, Conkling and Carpenter.
Senator Thurmon agrees with them that
Ilill is entitled t> take his seat, and holds
that Miller is also entitled to take his seat
on takin’g the oath prescribed Kv the con
stitution. Senators Stewart and Rice, of
the minority, in the presentation of tneir
views, say the main question is, which cite
tion should be held valid, that of Hill and
Miller in 1868, or F irrow ana Whiteley in
187 In the determination of this question,
much depend> upon the point of time when
Georgia became entitled to reconstruction
in Congress. Alter referring to the recon
struction laws on this subject they s iy they
have been able to find no in the history
of the government where Senators have
been admitted from a State not entitled to
representation in Congress at the time of
the election. Congress has already in effect
decided that the necessary legislation, de
claring that Georgia was entitled to repre
sentation, was not made prior to the election
of Hill and Miller, nor has any snb«equent
Congressional act recogn zed as lega the
organization of the Legislature in 1868.
They recommend the adoption of a resolu
tion declaring in favor of Whiteley being
elected and entitled to a seat,
The captions, and first paragraph, of a
two-column telegram to the New York
Tribune are as follows: The return of
Southern Unionists to Washington with the
same old story of murder, intimidation and
oppression—crude ideas of the power of
Congress—what they ask —a pr >posed
measure of relief. By telegraph to the
Tribune, Washington, D. C. January., 22.
In one respect, Washington to-day wears
an a°peet similar to that which it wore du
ring the troubled days of Andy Johnson’s
efforts towards reconstruction, and that is
the appearance on the streets and in public
places of Southern Unionists. They swarm
in tho Capitol corridors now ns they did
then, and the burden of their complaint is
the same old, old story ot murder, intimi
dation and proeoriptivo oppres ion. “The
rebels have got t ho upper hand of us again,”
they say, “and wo arc suffering more than
you can imagine, and more than the North
ern people can bo made to believe.
FOREIGN.
London, January I'd. Severe nkinuish*
ing is reported on the Kionoh centre. The
French claim the advantage.
Paris advices id the 1S 1 1» state that the
number <•! deaths troth the bombardment
was estimated at fifteen on Friday.
Rumors insist that the German lire is
unequal to Gorman expectations.
It is stated that u general attack will he
Organized to morrow, to include St. Denis
and Valerien.
It is said that Trochu has decided to
commence a series of sorties on the 20th, to
continue incessantly, miles# there is peace
on thOtFreaoh term*.
Logan and tlic C liief.
The Wabash Virtley Times, a Radical
paper, is responsible for the following lie
had the story from a man who was there
and heard Logan tell it:
A short time ago a party of Congressmen
were conversing together in Washington,
and a prominent Western Democrat inquired
ot L -gin, “Well, General, have you called
at the" White House since your arrival ?”
To which the would-be Senator replied
in his characteristic language :
“Yes ; and'bv G—d, don’t you think they
‘mistered’ me up there.”
“Why, how was that?”
“They don’t know me up there any rnorf.
Even the black thief who opened the door,
and who has known roe for ten years, in
quired, ‘What’s the name sir V That was
done by orders, for he has announced roe
scores of times before, and never required
mv name. And when I saw the President,
he extended his hand with “llow do you do,
‘Mr.’ Logan ? Judge Dent was there, and
he ealh-d me ‘Mr ’ Logan ; and that lacquey,
General Dent, called me ‘Mr.’ Logan. But
d— n them, I snubbed them as well. I re
sponded, “Quite well, I thank you, ‘Mr.’
Grant; glad to see you, ‘Mr.' Dent ; and I
‘mistered’ everybody ah ut the place, in
cluding the whole Dent family.”
Logan is a contestant for the Presidential
nomination in 1872, which accounts for the
milk in the cocanut.
Caved In.
The collapse of the Home Fire Insurance
Campany, of New Haven, reveals a state
of things not calculated to inspire unbound
ed confidence in corporate management.
Thp Company has been one of the most ex*
tensive and popular in the country and its
outstanding risks are at this moment enoi
rnous. Suddenly, its managers confess
their inability to carry it on longer. All
its capital is gone, and obligations remain
unsatisfied. How loosely the business has
been managed, some of the facts adduced
at a stockholders’ meeting enabled us to
understand. Thus, the actual assets are a
small percentage of those which have been
reported : $160,000 in the hands of agents
dwindle down to $54,000 ; bills receivable,
valued at $35,000, yield less than $7,000:
and so forth. On the other hand, the real
ized losses are nearly double the est mated,
—and more are to come. There has evi
dently been almost inconceivable reckless
ness in the acceptance of risk* and in the
liberty accorded to agents. Fraud is also
imputed in connection with an unexplain
ed over-issue of stock of which r favored
circle reaped the benefit, Altogether, the
exposure isone of the most scandalous that
has recently occurred in the insurance
world.
Mr. Lincoln.
A correspondent writes : “Mrs. L ; ncoln
is at present in London. Her friends at
home would hardly recognize her. Reduc
ed in flesh, and impaired in health, he
seems completely rejuvenated—if indeed
rejuvenation may be affirmed without of
fense of one who had never yet been old.
She is in London for the purpose of placing
her son “Tad” at school. This purpose
accomplished, she proposes to join her
friend, Mrs. Bish >p Su'ftpson at Rune, and
make with her the tour of Italy. Mrs.
Lincoln, strange as it may s Hind to those
who knew her only through the slanders of
the Republican press, is a very intelligent
and agreeable woman. It is impossible o
know her without feeling that she has been
cruelly wronged by those who should have
been among the first- rn protect her.”
Keeping Out Southern Democrats.
The talk in radical circles is of keening
out Governor Vance, Judge G ddviir, arid
ail Southern Democrats elected to the Son
ate The plan is to go into the circumstan
ces of the election of the members of the
legislature, and raUe a cry f intimidation
and violence Radicals roedict'd that n >
Sou hern Democr.it’c Senator will be admit
t and to his si at.
Uncle Sam Must Take His Ragged Bills.
In a case in the United States
Court at Raleigh, in which a postmaster
was defendant, the Court held that all de
partmerits of the government were bound
to retain the currency of the g -vernment,
and the fact of a bill being more or less
mutilated was no justification for its b drg
refused by any official of any department
of iho government.
|N(ew
SHORT-HAND WRITINOT
ONE Hundred and Fifty Words per
Minute can now be learned in four weeks. This
Is new Lightni g Method. All that see it s yit is the
greatest marvel of the age. Send two 8-oent postage
stamps for descriptive circulars, testimonials and fu 1
information. Address Prof. A. GEEY, P. O. Box
4,547, New York. jan2B-3t
(and FOR IIA-Upson county—Elijah Per-
X due, of said county, has this day filed his petition,
as the head of a family, for exemption of personalty,
and I will pass upon the same at 12 o dock M., on the
11th day of February next, at my office in Thomaston,
jan2S-2t VVM. A. COBB, Ordinary.
PATENT CHAIR ATT AC HMENT !
USEF UL IV EVERY HOUSEHOLD,
OFFICE workshop, store—in fact, every
where. .T. C. ZIMMERMAN’S Patent
Cliair AttaeUment. A chair with this attach
ment will cntlast a dozen ordinary ones, is as light as
those in common use. and takes up no more room. It
is destined to be introduced everywhere. Persons
wishing to see this Ghair Attachment, and witness
trials to whioh it is subjected to test its strength, will
please call upon the subscriber. Territory for sale’
J. C. ZIMMER\iAN,
jan29-5t Thomaston, 6a.
Upson Sheriff’s Sale.
ILL be sold before the Court House
V V door, in the town of Thomaston. Upson county,
Ga , during the reeular and lawful hours of sale, on the
first Tuesday in March rest the following property
to-wit: Twelve cane-seat chairs, two rocking chairs,
two folding tables, one pair andirons, one bedstead, bed’
and furniture, f wo bedsteads, beds and furniture, one
small table, one looking glass, one bureau, one clock
two demijohns with five gallons wine each, four com’
men chairs, one large wash pot one buggy and harness
one bay horse nine or ten years 01.1, one black horse
one bridle and saddle, one cow and calf. Said piopertv
levied on to satisfy one fl la, In favor of John K. Hart
and l. Y. Allen, vs. James \V. Hightower, issued from
the Superior Court of Upson eounty, November Term
1870. Property pointed out by pi untitfs.
Also, at tho same time and place, one sorrel horse
mule Ift or 11 years old, one bbek mare mule 10 or 12
.v*«r» old, and one bay colt. £■ vied on to satisfy one
ft. fa. Issued from Upson Superior Court, November
Term, 187 ft, In favor ot lames M. Smith for the use of
the othcers of Court vs. Nathaniel F. Walker, N. M.
W alker, M. R. Walker, and June Walker, colored.
Property pointed out by plaintiff.
O. C CHARM AN,
J*»‘2S-td. Sheriff
DENTISTRY !~
r PIIK undersigned being permanently
1 located In Thomston,still tendersthier professional
service* In the practice of Dentistry to the citizens ot
Upson and adjoining counties Teeth inserted on e Id
silver, adamant*> eor rubber. All work warranted and
a go. and fit guaranteed. Office up stairs over WILSON
S A W Y KU S store.
dec!» ft, BRYAN A SAWYER.
$lO REWARD!
IHA \ E lost my Docket Bonk containing
papers worth several thousand dollars to ne, but
vulucleta to any other person. I will give the abo-e
reward to any one safely returning these papers.
doclO-tf JAMES SHATTERS
GRIFFIN CLOTHING STojJ
. LY
J. H. WHITE & CO
M
DIAUIS IX
MENS’, YOUTHS’ A\l> Boy
CLOTHIUq
FURNISHING GOODS, ETC
PIECE GOODS OF ALL KUfDg
Which we sell by the yard, or manufacture to
311 J. 1 • TV. II Aljj
superintending that branch of the busines* -
keep a good line of
HATS, CAPS, BOOTS AND sij ()}v
And with onr advantages and facilities tor bov
fear no competition. Very respectfully,
janT-tf J. H. WHITE & (()
Os Interest to the Farmer
The Eureka Ammoniated Be;;
SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LlM£
Is for sale at nil points of importance
ITT GEORGE
We hare sold it
FIVE SUCCESSIVE YEAHs
And know.it is the very article for
PLANTERS TO I *i :
DAVID DICKSON, Eaq., of Oxford, says It i* §„.
to any
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER
He ever applied, and
EECOMMENDS IT TO EVEHYEO::
We soM over Two Thousand Tons in Geoigalsiu
IT HAS BEEN Till ED,
And always
PAID TIIIS PT.ANTKij
The Eureka Ammoniated Bune Super-Thof-. y,
Lime will be sold for Cotton payable next fall.
Send fora Pamphlet. An Agent may be found i
almost every Depot, but Information can a!wavj l . i;
at F. \\ • SIMS tS. CO., Savannah,
or of J. H. LOGICS,
jan t-"m Tkomattoa, 0*
FURNITURE ! FURNITUEE
I>Y wholesale and retale at tin* La;;
y Furniture Rooms of
W. A. JOHNSON,
where you can get beautiful Chamber setts from I
•slfft. I am daily expecii g three carload of ct>-r
Furniture when I will be able to ***ll nlct. ftoiwti.
ate ids at from '87,'9 to SIO,OO and everything voqw
in the way of Furniture at Boston Factory price*, i
and examine my sp endid stock of fine Fnrnituc
janl4-4t W. A. JOHSSOS.
THOS. F. BETHEL,
DEALER IN
DRV (1(1 (IDS AMI (iIIOIBIE
\\f OULD inform his ensfnm'Ti* si
▼ t friends that his fall stock is now cnmplrtt.lT
solicits from them a continuance of their former p •
age. at his new tire proof store on Main e'feet, T •
ton, t?a decll- ’'.
J. J. HECHT.
(Xlonticello, Go.)
Watchmaker and Jewels
THO M ASTON, G A..
X'V 7 'OULD respectfully inform tin 1
f t of Upson and adjacent counties, that h
located in Thomaston for the purjio.se of carryingos*
Jewelry Business Will keep constantly on h;ind-:
supply of WATCHES, CLOCKS, etc., as the
will justify.
H E X 3 .V I If X ]V O.
of all kinds, in my line made a specialty. A rr
warranted. A liberal share of patronage esrn<-•.
licited. Rooms, first door North of Webb's Hotei
decl7 1 m
James w. atwater
DEALIf* TN
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES
OF ALL KINDS.
J- IX. ADAM.S,
West Room, W hite's BnlUing,
THOMASTON, GEORGIA.
oct22-3m
Gr. W. McKENNEY & CO
PEALFBS IN
GROCERIES, PRODUCE. U
THOMAHTON, GA
IN this Line we will not he tnU fr ".
We wUL-always keep on hand a good* l
COFFEE, SUGAR, TEA, SYRUP, M° L , A
FLOUR, BACON, LARD, BAGGING, TIES, TO
COS, CIGARS,
WHISKIES, BRANDIES, WK2S-
Also a large stock of CONFECTIONERIES.
thing found in a first class Grocery Store. oCi ' y
Dr. Radcliff’s Seven Sea :
or. GOLDEA
X challenge the world to JrT?
T t dy superior to Dr. RADCLIU v
SEALS ok. GOLDEN WONDER. ThP rr T> r
of ths age. For Sick Headache, T<’oCv t
Wounds, Burns, C-otics. Pains in the ‘ f- >
nothing has ever been found to e<fual it. B
to cure Rheumatism, however aggravate*
Read what Dr. J, O. Iluut says of t bl;i 54
remedy: .urf’
‘*l certify that I have need one small
Seven Seals, or, Golcen Wonder. purch 'S'' ll
W. A. Johnson, the agent, and with Vgb* 'I
it, cured a very severe case of Neuralgia 1 * _ ■
mediate relief in cases of this nature.
Price per bottle 50 cents and SI.OO- .
testimonials from all portions of the counir ' b , eS .
Store. • ome aDd be re ieved of your tri ,u
cure any case of Headache in three minutes
' W. A. JOHNSON,
For Upson. Pike, Talbot and Monroe
dec2A-tf