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VOL. VIII.
RESTAURANT !
FROM AND AFTER THIS DATE
L. W. WHITEHURST
W til take the greatest pleasure in serving the
Squarest of Meals,
THE BEST THE MARKET CAN AFFORD,
To all who may honor him with their patronage.
Meals at all Business Hours
Bay and Night.
BARNESVILLE, GA , Feb. 23d, 1877.
mehl-lm
FURNITURE! FURNITURE!
(ASTI.KIStUY & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers,
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Corner Marietta and Peachtree Streets.
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CHAMBKR, PALLOR AND DINING-ROOM SETTS
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Manufactured in Atlanta, Ga !
OF THE BEST AMERICAN, ENGLISH AND FRENCH WALNUT.
Bed-room Setts complete, $25 00 ; Bed-room Setts complete, Walnut, $33 00 ; One-half Marble Setts
complete, Walnut, S4O 00 ; Full Marble Setts, ten pieces, SGO 00; Parlor Setts from SSO 00 to $l5O 00;
Bedsteads, 2 00—Mattrasses, $3 00 to $6 00. We arc running our
STEAM FACTORY,
CORNER HARRIS AND BUTLER STREETS,
And propose manufacturing all the Furniture AT HOME. Encourage Home Industry, and give em
ployment to *• Y ouv lAii-itl.** No trouble to answer inquiries. Goods shipped free of charge,
CASTLEBUJtY A CO-,
nov23-tf ATLANTA, GA.
fished 1856^
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B UILD ER S O F
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Manufacture work expressly for the SOUTHERN MARKET ,aud
from long experience are thoroughly conversant with the requirements
of the country. The work itself used in every Southern State is its
own recommendation, and lenders a detailed description unnecessary.
We also manufacture the CELEBRATED
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The Singer Sewing IVSachine!
THE PEOPLE’S FAVOR iTE!
The Largest Sales!} Because {The Most Popular!
(ggPTHE Most Popular Because The Best!
VERDICT OF THE LADIES.
rnilE STUBBORN FACT, shown bv Ihr official returns, that the SINGER SEWING MACHINE
L is the only one whose sales have largely and steadily increased every .war, uninterruptedly
—that last year’s sales more than doubled those of the next highest competitor, and nearly
equaled the sales of all other companies combined, demonstrates beyond all controversy
that the
Singei* Sewing; Nltioliine
Is the most popular because, In the estiinafio,. of the ladies of he country,‘ll.is super i;ur
any other manufactured.
The following returns of sales tell the story:
Stiles ill 1871 1872 1873 1874 1870
BY THE SINGER 131,260 210,753 232,444 241.676 240,§52.
Sales still Increasing! All Competition Distanced!
Needles OH and all parts can be obtained from the agents. “Live,” aeti\ e men wanted In both
city and county—liberal inducements. Address
The Singer Manufacturing Company.
B. F. STO N E , A o ext,
80 Mulberry Street,
LIVE, ACTIVE MEN WANTED TO SELL. mchs-ly
THOM ASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 24, 1877.
Medical Dispensary.
Dr. Geo. AY. Marvin again ten
ders his professional service to his
old friends and the public. Dispen
sary and consultation rooms, No. 1
AYliite hall street, in Centennial buil
ding, Atlanta, Ga., where patients
can get reliable treatment for all
diseases of the Throat, Lungs and
Catarrh. The above diseases treated
by inhalation.
The Doctor treats all diseases of
long standing, such as ! Eruptions,
Gravel, Rheumatism, Go*
itry, Dropsy, Biliousness Diseases of
the Kidneys, Erysipelas, Nervous
Depression, Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plaint, all Diseases peculiar to Wo
men, all Private Diseases, Heart Dis
ease Swollen Joints, Coughs, Gout,
White swelling, St, Vitus Dance, eie.
Eleotricity’npplied in cases where
it is required. The Doctor is per
manently located, and persons who
ha> e been under the treatment of oth
er physicians and have not been cur
ed, are invited to call, as he treats all
curable diseases, and cures guarnteed
or no pay. Call and see the Doctor
without delay. Ilis charges are mo
derate, and consultation free. Office
hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m
feb22-ly
THE LIL Y OF THE VALLEY.
I thank my God, I feel that not alone
On mountain peaks Ilis blessed sunshine
glows
And dews drop sweetness ; even here, far
down
In meads, a lily grows.
I am Ilis work,who made the evening star;
Wherefore I lift'to Him 'my flowerets
bright,
They die to-morrow, but Jto-day they are
Beautiful in Ilis sight.)
I look upon the hills, and sometimes dream
llow they rejoice in morning’s earliest
light;
And how serene, and strong, and still they
seem
To guard the] valleys all )the gloomy
night.
’Tis said the heights arelcold—it mayf|be
so;
The winds are keener there, and winters
drear.
I know not how it is—l only know
My God hasjjplaced mejliere—
Here in this little nook of earth—my own,
And sent a sunbeam—mine —to cheer my
heart;
He bids me]l)loom —perhaps for Him alone
Is there a belter part ?
I bloom—stars shine—we bloom and shine
for Him,
We give our best —grand world and
humble flower,
A light through ages never growing dim—
The fragrance of an hour.
The following is a conversation be
tween a reporter and General loombs
on the subject of convention:
“What changes do you think
should be made ?”
“Sweep the deck, sir—sweep the
deck. r i lie people of Georgia want
a constitution of their own, out and
out—a fundamental law that will
represent at once the intelligence and
the necessities of the people.”
“There is talk in'some'quarters of
opposition to a convention owing to
a fear that the homestead clause will
be repealed.”
“It is practically repealed now, if
the decisions of the supreme court
are worth anything. 1 am for a
homestead m lee simple. I stand by
my record. I introduced in the
Georgia Legislature, when I was
twenty-six years of age, the first
homestead law ever placed upon our
statute books. lam in favor of it
\ et—not v-one t’cars, but
forever. lam in favor of prohibi
ting State aid ; I am in favor of re
stricting municipal corporations in
the matter of contracting debts.
There is no safety where there is no
responsibility. I tis not capital we
want in Georgia—it is safet3 T for cap
ital. Big bonanzas, as you newspa'--
per men call them, are unmitigated
humbugs. Financiers despise sensa
tionalism. They arc not going to
invest until they see their way clear.
Confidence is the thing. Strip enter
prises of the humbuggery of what you
call progress, but what I call villainy,
and you have no need to invite capi
talists to invest. They will be eager
enough.
An extra session of Congress seems
absolutely liccessarv.
Senator James McDonald, of
Thomas county, died on the 14th
inst.
There were four colored men cn
the United States Grand Jury, that
was organized last Monday.
New Hampshire elected one dem
ocrat to Congress. Mr. Jones got
in on a plurality vote of 14.
The Macon Telegraph says, “we
understand that the Central Railroad
Bank Agency will be discontinued on
the first of April.
Sun Set Cox lectures in Atlanta
next Friday night. Subject “Just
Human.” He will doubtless have
the largest audience of any lecturer
that ever entertained an Atlanta au
dience.
Captain Stephen Hopkins of Ac
comack county Virginia, has shipped
Mr. Hayes a trained goat with wags
on and harness.
Milledgeville, Ga.,
March Oth, 1877.
Editor Herald:
It was raining when we left
Barnesville. and it did not cease till
night. Near Howard’s station we
were detained for five hours, waiting
for a track to he built around a
freight train that had flown the
track. Those of us who could,
would doubtless have slept if it had
not happened that Mr. Jeemes Y.
Carmichael, the incorrigible member
front Coweta, was aboard. Mr. C.
kept the whold crowed carriage in a
roar of laughter at his recital of his
fruitless efforts to patent his “levee
ditching,” his Baltimore secession
speech of 1872, breakfasting with
Gov. Hoffman, his ideas about the
usury law, politics, rust proof oats
&c,
At 12.20 a. in., we backed into
Macon. It was difficult to pro jure
rooms in the crowded hotels. Hun
gry and tired we began to beat the
the slippery streets m quest of food.
After a walk of a mile we found the
Brilliant Saloon, and were soon en
joying a supper that was tempting to
the full man.
Tuesday morning broke upon us
fair and pleasant. The cars were so
crowded with declamatory delegates,
themselves as crammed and stuffed
for the convention as were the cars
with them, that many had to stand
all the tv ay to Milledgeville. The
train from Gordon to Camak seemed
tos mcll and feel its way along, as
though it were dark, and the engine
was blind from loss of the drum
moncl light, and reminded me much
of your branchjroail to Thomaston
At Stephens Pottery we saw a
sight entirely new and novel. Be
fore reaching this station the exca
vations of earth made in hunting the
white clay used for tile making, sug
gested to one that gold hunters had
visited the bare old hills. We re
gret that we did not have time to
examine the machinery and the plan
of making the tiles. Tiles are of all
conceivable shapes and sizes from the
pipe of one inch diameter to two or
more feet in diameter. The labor
used in their manufacture is chiefly
chain gang convicts, who are draped
in the stripes adopted by peneteniia
rics, Avitli the letters 0. P. (County
Prisoner) stamped in the bosom of
their shirts. We saw them piling
lumber, throwing dirt 4c., Avhile
the guard tvalked his beat with gun
ever in hand. Their sleeping and
eating apartments are enclosed in a
stockade of pine trees, some thirty
or forty feet in height, which are let
into the earth in similar manner to a
gatepost. The proprietor at first
leased the state convicts, but after
a trial of one or two years, abandon
ed their use for the county prison
ers.
\\ her, we armed at Milledgeville
the Central Depot was crowded with
delegates, citizens &c. Open hearted,
welcome beamed from every eye, and
few there were who did not feel “at
home" in that old hospitable, distin
guished, classic place. The delegates
all had their places assigned them,
and were soon pleasantly situated in
their various home *. Quite a laugh
able incident occurred in one assign
ment. There was a delegate that
arrived after the large overflow had
reached the place. This delegate
stopped temporarily at the hotel.
He registered his name and asked
for a room. The hotel proprietor
scanned the list of assignments and
found thereon the name of the dele
gate that had just registered, where
upon the land lord told the delegate
that he was to go to the Asylum.
With a warlike attitude and emphat
ic speech the delegate gave vent to
the hottest wrath. The onslaught
collected quite a crowd, and all en
joyed heartily the momentary dis
comfiture of delegate and landlord.
Early in the session the convention
were invited individually or as a
body to visit at their leisure the
State Lunatic Asylum. The invita
tion was accompanied by a note to
the effect that the invitation had no
other significance than that the del
egates should lie regarded and treat
ed as visiters. A large number of
the convention rode over to the asy
lum, two miles from Milledgeville,
situated upon a high hill, the top of
which is on a level with the cupola
of the State House. It is a brown
grim looking pile, capping like a
huge hat, a very large hill. In go
ing through the building, which now
contains over six hundred patients,
one could but be struck with the un
exceptional cleanliness and neatness,
on every side. The patients were
clean, the floors bright, the walls
free from spots. The dining rooms
even were surprisingly cleanly.
Quite a contrast, however, exists
here as elsewhere, in the keeping of
male and female apartments. With
true womanly instinct the female
patients take a pride in keeping their
rooms and hall in nice order. To
the women should be ascribed the
honor of cleanliness in men, for it
was learned of women.
It is useless to speak of the many
patients. 1 will only mention one,
and that for the sake of the joke
she perpetrated upon your correspon
dent. Asa party of us were passing
through the hall on the second sto
ry quite a number of female patients
were grouped in the hall. Two of
these seemed to be unusually jolly.
One would walk backwards immedi
ately in front of us, the other by our
side. The front one was giving the
rear one, a few lessons in etiquette,
as regards the accomplishment of
laughter. Number two was an irre
pressible and rather loud clucker.
The preceptress would sav, “no !
no ! Fine cluck shows fine stock.
Don’t cluck so loud. This is the
way to cluck, He ! he ! he !*’ Of
course this could not prove otherwise
than amusing. As we reached the
end of the hall, and were about to
ascend to the next floor, our guide—
a very accommodating and obligeing
gentlemen—in a very pleasant man
ner asked the preceptress if she
knew him, “yes.” said she. “Do
you know any of these gentlemen ?”
She replied—singling out your cor
.tespondent, who never felt more at
ease as regards his personal appear
ance, than just then. “Yes, 1 know
'em, and I know this one too ; and
he thinks he is mighty purty , but
he ain’t. He’s got his hair painted.”
I proarious laughter from the party
deafened me. Your correspondent
could retort only by saying “madam,
I could only expect such treatment
from envious rivals, and of course
would not care forjit, but it is over
powering to have a lady tell me so.”
This angered her, and she threaten
ed by motion to strike me with a
piece ot arbor vitae that she held in
her hand. I escaped however, and
was somewhat revenged on my
friends for laughing at me when she
struck one of them with the cedar
switch. I vented my remaining
spleen by being sarcastic, when I
was behind her back, and fairly out
of hearing, by saying “gentlemen, I
was under the impression'"when I
first saw that woman that she was
one of the matrons ; but so soon as
she said I was not good looking, I
could but appreciate the wisdom dis
played in placing her in the asylum.
A woman who has the hardihood to
confront the universal verdict of the
most tasteful and intelligent ladies
of the land in regard to a fact of
such grave importance to a gentle
man as his personal appearance is
surely insane. Gentlemen, such a
woman is dangerous and should be
manacled and placed in a dark cell.”
I felt better after saying that. How
could I help it ? The approving noa
of my teasing friends so appeased mo
and puffed me up that I thought it
would not sound badly on paper. It
is but just to “your correspondent,
however, to say that the above loses
no little in not having’ his gmanner
along with it. Poor woman ! how
that must have cut andjstung her.
Do not tell me that“revenge is not
sweet !
As to the convention. In order
that as large a number of delegates
as possible might be present, cx-
President A. 11. Colquitt did not
convene the convention until 11 o’-
clock a. m., of Tuesday, 6th inst.,
President Hardeman was present.
The convention was called to order
by (Jen. Colquitt, and was opened
with prayer by Ilev. George T. Goet
chins. Mr. Goetchins in a fervent
and simple manner the
Lord’s prayer. Too often such an
occasion provokes, especially from
young men, spread-eagle efforts.
The convention was tired, and no
doubt looked for a long wearying
prayer. Scores pronounced it “afine
prayer.” 1 will not say that some
of his hearers did not know but that
it was original.
The address of welcome from the
city of Milledgeville was delivered by
the Mayor Col. Wm. McKinly. lie
assured the convention that the citi
zens were warm hearted and hospita
ble and ready to receive the conven
tion to their hearts and homes. Al
luded to Milledgeville as a market
controlling fifteen thousand bales o
cotton. Spoke of the curse that had
rested upon the country, at the inev
itable result of the lien law &c., and
now that it was repealed—that
farmers were awakening to the ne
cessity of making their farm self sus
taining—our future was brightening.
Reply by Mr. Hurt of Oglethorpe,
said it was good to be there, was
grateful for the hospitality manifes
ted and for the opportunity that af
forded the privilege of
ledgeville. Was in favor whether
the capital was removed to Milledgei
v'lle or not, of keeping up the State
House at the expense of the State, as
a relic of former greatness and glory,
and to perpetuate the love of our fa
thers for all time, *
Gov. Colquitt after delivering to
the convention some sage and most
practical advice, and his farewell
address—which lie did in a very un
pretending and most feeling way—
presented to the convention the new
ly elected vice-president and mem
bers of the executive committee of
the Georgia State Agricultural Soci
ety. He then in a graceful manner
introduced the new President,
Hon. Thos. Hardeman Jr., of Bibb.,
Col. Hardeman made a very happy
effort in this his first inaugural, lie
never hesitated fur one moment in
his decisions. He is a ready parlia
mentarian and perfectly at home in
the chair. He sees and hears every
thing.
Prof. 11. C. \\ bite read a very in*
teresting essay on the procuring
Phosphoric acid from compost of
stable manure, cotton seed &c. Dr.
E. M. Pendleton had read his last
report from the experimental farm at 1
Athens.
Sect. M. Johnson, read a very vo
luminous, and highly gratifying and
instructive paper on hog and chick
en cholera causes, preventive and
cure.
Dr. SteVviis of la-c, was paid fine
attention while reading his essay on
importance of educated farmers, and
agricultural literature Ac.
Mr. P. J. Berckma .s excelled
himself, which is saving mu h for
that sensible gentleman, in Ins arti-
The orkat hard tixks pai*e i
The Bwt, tha Cheapest end the mnet pojni- 11
Ur. You cent effort! to be without it.
CRICKET K*. HEARTH.
It la e mammoth 16-ue*e lUtutreted peper (etre of
Herpet'e Weekly.) filled with the chotreet reeding
fur old end young. Sertel end short tterie*, (ketch
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cle on pea-vine hay. Dr George Lif
tie, State Geologist, was prevented
form being present by severe illness of
bis family.
Measures taken to establish e\|x.r
imental station. MrJJCoheu,of l*lojd
proffered 50 acres as a donation to tho
station. Dr. 'V. - L. gv*f us some
chaste, elegant and per.tiuent re
marks on a farmer ! W bat should
he be ?
Col. Sam Barrett, as it is bis cus
tom, was logical, earnest and accu
rate in bis essay on “does farming
in Georgia pay ? *
These are some of tbe prominent
topics under consideration.
The experience meetings on Teus-
Uay and Wednesday night were large
ly attended, very pleascnt, and 1
can’t see why not beneficial.
Tuesday] night the ladies of the
Presbyterian church gave a dime en
tertainment, which was liberally at
tended.
Wednesday night there was a
ball given in*|the Senate Chamber.
Toe old Senate Hall was crowded,
bat not so much as at the entertain
ment. The latter cost a dime, the
former nothing.
A visit to the old penitentiary
buildings was very interesting.
When we reached the wall enclosing
the building, we found the doors
fastened on the inside. Some of the
party began to knock at the fasten
ings, whern Col. Bob Powel, lever a
pleasant companion aud affable gen
tleman, as well as a successful busi
ness man, remarked “I have heard
of men trying to break out of the
penitentiary,! but never before of
their trying to break in. This is
only one instance of many, during the
convention, of his fine wit. Govern
or’s Mansion was taken* in review.
Judge Dußinnion resided in the
mansion, which is in bad repair.
Only the carpeting and curtains of
the saloon and sitting room, with
curtains and two handsome mir
rors, a few‘|‘chairs] and old sofas
are left, Bullock took all the rest.
The cemetery is well kept. Ma
ny handsome monuments rise on the
graves of those whose names are fa
miliar to Georgians, as distinguished
in field and forum, and commerce.
The most magnificent is tho one
over Benjamin S. Jordan —father of
Mr. Lee Jordan. This monument
cost $15,000.
These are ouly a few things of in
terest. Many others equally attrac
tive must be omitted.
D. B. Auk.—
Macon lias a total* banking *eapi
al of $877,000.
Sentence of death has been passed
on the Mexican General Cortins.
Oil in*’large quantities’ has been
found in Dickens county, Tennessee.
Two thousand acres of choice
land near Moulton, Alabama, were
recently sold at Sheriffs sale for one
cent per acre.
The Spanish ministry is engaged
upon the draft of a treaty of com
merce with the United States.
Eight prominent Pennsylvania
iron men are prospecting about Chat
tanooga.
A fatal disease, resembling small
pox in humanjbeings, has broken
out among the horses at Montreal,
Canada. The veterinary surgeons
do not know what to mate of it and
the fatality is very great.
Mrs. S. Al. Fastell, a Washington
artist, is painting a historical picture
of the Electoral Commision.
The area of the public domain of
Texas is now 57,63*4,320 acres, out
of which must come the 13,392.000
acres of the Texas and Pacific rail
road reservation.
'Flie Cincinnati Southern railroad
bridge over the Kentucky t river/?
said to be the highest in the’ world.
The distance from the bed of the
river to bottom of the bridge is two
hundred and seventy-five feet. It
consists of three spans of tlire
hundred and seventy-five feet each.
The structure was commenced in
October and finished Saturday, Feb-*
:uary 17th.
The Picayune states that in Louis
iana there is a very wide disposition
on the part of planters to cultivate
this year those necessaries of life for
which they have heretofore been
compelled to draw upon the west.
The growth of grain promises to be
more extensive than It has ever been
before, and the increased raising of
hogs and cattle is very marked.
The farmers ofColorado are exer
cised and justly so, over an attempt
to divert the 30,000 acres of land for
each representative and secretary
granted for Industrial education, to
a school of miners. Thus virtually
diverting 130,000 acres from their
legitimate use, to a special class ed
ucation. It would seem to behoove
the farmers of Colorado, to look
well to their legislators, national as
well as state. These grants in ol
der states have only been measurea
bly saved lo their legitimate use by
persistant watching, and checkma
ting of interested legislators and
schoolmen.
Gov. Hampton respited one of the
five negroes condemned to be execu
ted on the 16th for the murder of
Horzrnan and Portman in Aiken
last .November. The remaining four
will be hung next Friday.
It is stated that the expenditures
of the forty-fourth Congress, were
$50,000,000 less than those of the
forty-third.