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THE ANNUAL JAUNT
OF TUB QKO&CiIA PRESS-
Southwest Oeorgte and on to
Row Orleans.
•‘Well, how diil you Injojtynqr trip
to the Exposition ?” 1# the kindly
greeting from our goo and friends in
Washington. Hut ttiq hake asked a
question that requires a rather
leiruiJiy answer. Presuming upon
their good nature and patience, wa
make bojll to unfold I tic story in de
tail.
Wrill, if having Ihe best of every
thing between here ahd New Orleans
handed to you iu a silver waiter lined
with gold, and with the compliments
of those who extnwloil the courtesies,
constitutes a trip then we
had alt the pleasure that bo could
crowded into eleven days,
Ttn4o is only ono time iu the year
win l in we throw off all (bought of the
perplexities of the business o’ con
ducting a country newspaper, where
one man has to look alter every de
rail from type-selling all the way
through proof-readjflg, press-work,
job-printing, leoking after business,
up to writing editorials and local*.
That occasion is when tho ceaseless
roll of lln.o brings ns to another
meeting of the Georgia Press Asso
ciation.
On Ihe morning of the 16th ult.,
wo hied us away toward Rain bridge,
tho try sting place of tho Georgia nl-
Itors, accompanied by one each of the
most charming married ami single la
dles of the town of Washington,which
affords a larger number of charming
women than any loivn of which we
have any knowledge.
We went over the Georgia and the
Central railaorda to Albany, lil'le
thinking there would be any wayside
entertainments,before wo arrived at
Halnbrldge. Hut some distance this
aide of Albany, our party of news
paper men and their ladles, who
about filled the elegant Pullman coach
which bad been tendered tin, was met
by a delegation ofcilizens.They kindly
proffered us the hospitalities of South
west Georgia, and told us they had
tie idea of letting us wait till we
reached Hainbrldge before we
should put on tho wedding garments
and begin the festivities. Wo were
decorated with handsome badges in
which were gracefully linked the
press and Ihe artesian city.” HA
were met at tho depot in Albany by
a goodly number of citizen with
their carriages, and editors and their
ladies Iscerted to the Artesiau
House. After a short while there
wc were taken all over the beauti
ful city. Thus soyeral hours were
delightfully spent ou the J7th, Just
before dinner.
Albany i* (pulv ihe Artois of Geor
gia, for juit m thi)*uM||# o( boring
tplhe flowing streams in (be bowels
! tine oarlh, in that celebrated city
of France, set ill tho world agog
on the subject of artesian wells ;so
the groat belt*Bl derived from tlieaa
wells In Albany demonstrated tho
fact that South GoOVgia could, tbps
gain the one thing needed to make It
one tho most desirable lands on earth
—and that one thing was good
water. There arc seven artesian
wells in Albany, and fortunately
the finest one of them is in tho mid
dle of a cross street in the most pub-'
lie and desirable place in the city.
This water list very excellent med
icinal properties, Iseool enough to he
palatable without ice, and is as
sparkling and limpid a bereragt? as
can bo found in tho mountains ol
North Georgia. In foot we believe
that llio bead-waters of this stream
that rises so boldly in Albany, are
about on the Georgia and Tennessee
tins. After percolating through the
hidden parts of ihe earth, It spurts up
in Allmssy, unrhanged except in the
tnmoral it has gathered up In Its long
journey.
When the water had whetted
tip our api>otitfa we were invited
in to a maglfioent dinner which
had been spread for us at
the Artesian House. Here
we were formally received
by the mayor ami other prominent
citizens. The Interchange of kind
words and good feeling gave us many
happy thoughts by which we will
ever remember Albany.
Late in the afternoon wc teok the
train forTliomasville and arrived a
little afier dark, having been mot on
the road bv that prince of Jftmd tc‘*.
lows, Col. Jdim Triplett, and oth£r
citizens* \Yk’ irbfc imortalned at an
elegant hai ijm t given at tho Tiney
Woods Hotel in honor of ihe Georgia
press and ftislV tadies. There was a
world of pimple piescut from evory
pari of the 'Villon, for Thomuvllle Is
tilled with visiters, and her own citi
zen > turned out in large numbers.
The Pinoy Woods Hotel is entirely
new. built in the most elaborate and
beautiful stylo of modern architec
ture, and is fitted up and furnished
with an elegance such as can not be
surpassed by any hotel North or
South. We were simply astgunded
to find such a Hotel in a pTace with
a population „of only about three
tyoosaW J# AbitHjtta. ’ The,- carp|t
ou the parlor floor eOt eight jtyimlrdrl
dollars, ’ ,aud #ll tbojother furnish*
ingepl’ the ho#p ate in keepteg- with
this. .Ttwt hotel wMbullt by a stock
company which was formed in
Thomasrille. Her citizen understand
the secret of buildiug up a towjj. ijud
have been unceasing in theic efforts
in keeping up coinonnliouaaMMi nieiii-
Jent hotel*. ThcPimy Woods has
about ono hundred and fifty booms,
and every one 1s filled. The Mitehell
House, another magnlilce'it hotel is
just being completed in this flkniristi
ing little city. Col. Mitchell, a
wealthy citizen, who has demonstrat
ed the fact that a good hotel paya as
an investment as well as enhances
the value of the other properly of the
town, is now rebuilding on a grted
scale the Mitchell House which was
burned not a great while back-
We are indebted to Mr. Waller W.
Williams and his charming family
for kind hospitalities. Their home i
one of the many elegant new r*M
deiiccs that hare recently been erected
iu Tliomasvilte. The member* of tho
Georgia press and their ladies wore
given a most enjoyable ride over the
city!
The Savannah. Florida and Western
railroad placed a special train atonr
disposal, and hoarding this on the
morning of the 18th, we soon arrived
in Bainbrldgc, where the business
meollng of tho Association
was to be held. ThUdelightful town
is located on a high bluff overlooking
the Flint river. Her citizens met us
at the depot and extended us a most
Cordial greeting.
The Association soon assembled,
with its honored President Col J. H.
Esfdl.ofthe Savannah Morning News,
in the chair. Col. Kstitl was the
first president of this Association and
has been re-elected every rear for six
teen years. During tlißt time lie has
been unremitting in his duties ns the
presiding officer, and lias done more
than wo believe any other member of
the Georgia press couki have done, in
in lip tiding up the Association and
making its annual meetings the most
pleasant and profitable occasions of
the whole year. I.ittle formal busi
ness Is tran*#eted at these meetings,
Vhtllie Interchange ot ideas among
tho members give* ( an impel## to Ihe
business that nothing else could give.
I The following officers wore ro-eleoted;
IJ. H. Estili president; J. W. Burke,
vice-president; 8. H. Wcslon, treas
urer; J. W. Chapman, reeording
secretary; W. A. Knowles, corre
sponding secretary.
At llie close of the session, during
which there were several stormy de
bates. the members repaired to the
Sharon House, iuil with their ladies
were Invited In to a most elegant din
net*. Tl festivities were kept up till
a late bettr at night when the party
bonrdhd the Pullman sleeping conches
en route to New Orleans, at which
place we arrived next day.
New Orleans lias prrhups the most
diversified population of any city in
America. Originally settled by the
French, U people know but little of
the fomdsinepta) law# handed down
for centuries aud inherent iu oyof)
English community- The civil code
only goes so fl‘ as to keep tho peace
between man and man, taking no
cognizance of the morel code which
shapes the course of t,lio lives of men.
Sabbath-breaking, gambling, wiles
that catch theypuug and giddy, aud
ull such Iniquities hold high carni
val in New Orleans. On the other
hand it is the home of some of the
saintUost people you will meet any
where In this country.
The magnificence and extent of the
Exposition at New Orleans, is diffi
cult to comprehend. There is a
great maze of exhibits of the indus
trial achievements of this and many’
other cauutnes. It is impossible
to believe that the world contains
so great a variety of inter*ting ami
cartons things until one secs an ag
gregation of them at such a placo.
The main building which covers
thirty-three acres, ana Is filled up
and down stairs with innumerable
wonders of tho master hand of man
from all parts of the world, by no
means constitutes half of (be
Exposition. The government build
ing is a, t-Jyal of tins main building iu
extent amV’lhe variety ot its wonders.
H'sides these there are the horticul
tural hall and the art building, the
former made of glass and the latter of
iron, both mammoth structures. Then
there aro mtuUlner.v hall, with its
thousands of buzzing wheels;
the Mexican building, which iu
architectural beauty and elegance
of finish, stands unrivaled,
the life-saving station on the lake,
where all machines aud apparatus of
the regular service are ou exhibition.
The corps drills on the lake almost
fYCff day and gives tho public an
occular demonstration of how the ser
vice is carried on.n the coast. A lit
tfe cannon is fired and iu missile
caw ies a cord to a wrecked vessel.
AStrong rope is then drawn to the
ahty in distie## andlhe work of re
eding begun. Near-by U the elec
tric railway, carrying fifteen or
twenty people on a car anil running
as tast as the ordinary railroad train.
It rous between the largest boilpings
ou the grounds. It is but a forta-re
of what the world may oxpcct irom
electric motors in the near future.
Apart from all Ihe buildings is the
old “Liberty Bell” mounted ou an
open railroad car.
rime and space fail us in writing
of this gragd and magnificent
exhibition of the wonders of the
world. The display is of much greater
extent Ilian at tho Philadelphia
centennial, and the visitors at New
Orleans, who were also at Philadel
phia in 1876, nearly all say this ex
hibition surpasses the former, effcep*
ling the display in Ihe art Tall.
If we feel like it will interest oar
renders wo may w rite of
some of these things
that impressed us most, in our neat
issue.
We tal e this occasion to tendin' onr
heartiest thanks forcourtcsiesreecived
from the Georgia, the Central, the
Savannah, Florida and Western, tie
Louisville and Nashville, (he Western
of Alabams, aud the Atlanta and
West Point railroad. Those are lines
fiat are well known to the public for
tlicir niagifincent equipments and
their great accommodation. 7’liey
well dosorve tho prominence wuh
which iboy have been brought ima
public notice by tho gentlemen wo
are managing them so wall, f
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Griffin wants a good hole!.
The late oat crop is looking fine.
Newnan isto have a skating rink.
Small grain is doing spleudidly in
Hancock.
There is quite a flourishing liter
ary Hub in Sparta.
Hancock needs aboard oftaxasses
sors, and she needs them badly.
Now houses are going up in ovcar
direction about Covington,
Considerably over 1,000
commerclal*-f<4tflizer< liavv |pj
so)il in Covington the present
ion.
The Amorlcus Ttceorder has been'
sued for damages to tho extent of
110,000.
The papers slato that Judge Bran
ham "instructed tlio grand jury- qf
Floyd county to indict about 800 it
legal voters.”
Tho Grand Lodge of the Kuights
of Honor of Georgia will hold its
annual meeting iu Marietta uext
Wodnesdav.
Nearly every grand jarv in the
Btate that has hell a session tinea
the January elm ions has recom
mended a registration law.
The birdctyal pull up com are saiT
tube more destructive than usual
this year.
The guano trade in Hancock
thla'season is about on a par will
past years. It has been prclty
heavy. -
A petition to Major Green for a
Sunday mail train on the G. J. and
8. 11. H. lias bran signed ami for
wnrded bv Walton county citizens.
Dr. James S. Jones, Judge Wm.
Johnston and Mr. Joiiu E. Bcutou
whose illness was rntiouneed !at
week, are still quite sick Iu McDuffie.
Jacob S. Ligh'scy committed sui
cide in Macou between 3 and 4
o'clock, at hit residence, by shooting
himself wilh a pistol through t!>u
fight temple.
1 Savannah evidently stands high 1 in
tho estimation of the new Adminis
tration. Her cilixeus aro congratu
lating t'uemselvea upon the distinotipn
couferrod upon two of her aons. ,
Another Georgia rouuty—and lisa
time one of commanding iuflucncel
has deeroud that liquor mutt go. 4y
a majority of four hundred, DeKnfb
cottnty hat voted iu favor of prohibi
tion. e v
The Thomson Journal soys: “We
have nothiug of interest to report
concerning the smallpox tbia week.
No new case has occurred,and tho ne
gro child, reported last week, la got
liftg Welti’
'W ! 1
A o'tiren of tlie Quaker City, Mr.
1\ Fred, living at tine St., re
cently spoke p.s follows j "Being af
l!'...tcd with a diatVessing cough, Dr.
Bull's Cough Syrup wasrcccommcnd
ed to me for teliof. I am happy) to
say that a few doses not on’y gave me
last ant rciicf, but ejected a compjetc
cure.’’
Warren Leland,
whom ererybody knows as lbs sueeoMful
manager of the
Largest Hotel Enterprises
of Amsrioa, ssyt that while a pttsengor from
Kew York on board a ship going around Capo
Horn, hi the early days ot emigration to Cal
ifornia, he learned that Odd of the o nicer ot
the vowel bad - cured himself, during the roy
age, of an obstinate disease by the use at
Ayers Sarsaparilla.
Since then Mr. Leland hat recommended
Aye it’s Sausafabilla in nuMiy *lmi!ar
we*, end he hai never yet heard of Its Lui
uro to effect * radical core.
Some year* xgo one of Mr. Lelavd’s fxnn
laborers bruised Lis leg. Owing to the Lad
state of his blood, an ugly scrofulous swelling
or lump appeared on the Injured limb. Hor
rible itching of the akin, with burning and
darting paint through the lump, made life
almost intolerable. The leg became enor
mously enlarged, and running ulcers formed,
discharging great quantities of extremely
offensive matter. No treatment was of any
avail until the man, by Mr. Lalako’s direc
tion, was supplied with Aye as Saksapa
f.illa, Which allayed the patu and Irritation,
healed the sores, removed the swelling, and
completely restored the lliub to use.
Mr. Lxlaxd has personally used
Ayers Sarsaparilla
for Rheumatism, with entire success ; and,
after careful observation, declares that, in
bis belief, there is no medicine In the world
equal to it for the cure of Liver Disorders,
float, the effects of high living. Halt
Xtheuin, Sores, Eruptions, and ail the
various forms of blood diseases.
We have Mr. Lklamv'b pertnLsslou to Invite
all who may desire further evidence lit regard
to the extraordinary curative powers of
Arm's Sarsaparilla to see him person
ally either at his mammoth Oeean Hotel,
Long Branch, or at the popular Leland Hotel,
Broadway, 27th and 28th Streets, Ne*v York.
Mr. Lklakd’g extensive knowledge of the
good done by thL unequalled erndicator of
blood poisons enables him to give inquirers
much valuable information.
prepared by
Dr. J.C. Ayer A Cos., Lowell, Miss.
BoM by all Druggists; 91, six bottles for
EASTER CARDS!
NOW ON HAND
TaZEZNTIEtY CORDES.
Petition for Incorporation.
NOTICE OF THE FORMATION OF A COM*
CANY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A
RAILROAD FROM AffttrSTA, OA., TO
CHATTANOOGA. TKXN.. AND IT* TN
► TKNTION TO Al* I*l.Y FOR A CHARTER
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GENERAL
RAILROAD I.AW OF THE STATE, AP
PROVED axPNMttR $7. 1881 AND
EXISTING AMENDMENT:* THEREOF.
We tbi undersigned, Fhnl R. Pledge, W.
M. 1 imi'crlebe, Alfred lWlter, 7,. JseCord,
George T. Barnes; T. D . Casaw.-11, Clement
A, Kveus, rf Aurnsta. Ga., end Wm, A.
Cl,lirtenay, James B. Kilgerlon. George W.
Wiltiania, .tr , John It. t’eck, and J F. A tiger,
of Charleston, rt. C., do hereby agree tn form
a company tor the purtmae ol rotiatructinH, main
tainlng end operating a rattread C.r pnhlle nae.
In the eofcveyance of pnsaonaand prut- a.y imm
the city at Anguata, In the county of lUchmond_
aui date of Ucnrgia.an a tine aa near aa pnosteahle
as a atraighl this to a point in (fie enuuty of Ca-
Ipoaa, in aaid aiate. on th- toe dividing tho etalo of
Thnnesseo from tho etata of Georgia. and at that
piuukto ’-'e connected w.th a railroad to he con
atmeted under the taa at tba state of is our,-as,
either cpnneetiriß ellh aomc rallmat In the Mate
Of Tenneaeee. now entering Iherftyof Chat tail's
- lo arid State of T om-,---, or to be ouacrud, and
direst from said pointer hafanenUon lo the eaM
idly of Chattanooga, The following being "to
eomilieain ihia Slate thee* h whieh or inioae k i
the proponed railroad i *oi-u 0, ; to km gwue .
Hlehmout, Colnmbie. Vineohi Wilkee, Ogleih-'vpe,
Ktheil.Msdlsoajw a—ajiiwo'shu.k,:Jka.Hail# art
Lnmpkin. th,w, 'ii, (Miner. Fanum. P|ehena, On*,
ray. WhiltoH ant i'aauoaa. Said eflmpany to be
uigaataed and eoodaeted In ronformity with all the
reauUnona. pnortaieb- ad reqairemenla of the
elatnte of the state of Georgia, known aa the sen
era! tear tor the tn-sieperation of rallroade.appmved
September 47, l.'-'it. and entillad an act to peorade a
genesatl.w for the Incorporation of ralli-iada. and
to regulate toe soon-, and eat-ting amendments
theraof.
The Cora pang thns tanae.l abaft he knoom iu, the
Augusta and Chattanooga ttaile.ni Company, and
the railroad bßiirtrocted hr Bawl compenrt through
said eenntiea and between the foregoing dracnbvd
point# ahntl he. aa near aa ran now ts. aacertainml.
(no hundred and twenty rntloe tn length.
Th# capital atoek of said Company shed he fonr
millions ot (idlers, dinged Into feety thousand
shares of rut hundred dollars each. Thr principal
oflkmt and rraidenee ~f eeM Company fu this State
-hall he in the City of Augualnandconnlj of kteh
uiond.
11l witueas whereof we the Eaderaigaed. base
hereunto signed the foregoing artietea ofemoefa
tram said ham afltled eppoeito to oar signetnree
the nnrthev of nheree agreed to be taken Uj tie iu
said own pant, together with onr reapeetlde plaew
ofteaidcncc;
Paul U. Sl.ltxilt, fire shares, Augusta, ft a
W M Tiailli AiK.firn share*. -f uguata tin
4l.min JiaXEK.Ven shares, Atqruntn, Oa.
Mcl'oan. ten share*. .(ugnsta, Ga
Ge<*. T. ltansns. fire share*, dnguala, Ga
T. I> CvrrKi.t., fire shares, daguata. Oa.
t'LEUEN’T A KvAKg.fire shares, A ngnsta.fta
WM. A . CumVKKax, fire tharea, Chnrlea
lon. S. C.
Jas. K. Entirgro!*. (ire shares. Charles
ton. S. C.
Oro. W. WituAna, J*., fiTe shares, Char
leston, S. C.
ioHX B. I'gca. fire shares. Oha'-!eU;n. S C
.1. K. .fdurß. five shared, Charleston, ft. C.
O-'n hom Ike foregoing twelve persons shall
be the directors far the first year.
REMEMBER!
BENSON LEADS,
j jP A > 1
HUT NEYER FOLLOWS.
—
30 000 Lbs Bacon 3,000 Bu. Genuine Rust
10 Tierces Lard. Proof Oats.
500 Sacks Salt. 75,000 Lbs. Bran.
200 Packages SMackei el 50 Bbls. Sugar.
50 Sacks Coffee.
AND ALL THINGS ELSE AN THE GROCERY LINE AT PRICES
WHICH DEiTY ALL COMPETITION.
To Be Sold ffiA , tie Next 30 Dais
Regardless of Value, to Cash Purchasers.
150 Pr’s White and Grev Blankets.
36 Lap Robes.
10,000 Yards Sheeting and Shirting.
10,000 Yards Georgia Checks.
2,000 Yards Osnaburgs.
2,000 Yards Georgia and Kentucky Jeans.
A large lot cf Mens’ Hats, Trunks, Valises and Um
brellas at a Dread Sacrifice.
STOVES.
100 Stoves with all Fixtures complete, at less than
Atlanta Prices.
*
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just cill and see the greatest bargains ever of
fered in Georgia.
OIL PAINTINGS.
75 very Handsome and genuine Oil Pa nt
200 Beautiful Chromos, on almost every subject.
ONE FIRST-CLASS
15 HORSE POWER ENGINE
BOIIdEK,
FOB SALE ON EASY TERMS.
BUGGIES. WA GONS * HARNESS
*
IXJWEB THAN EVER BEFORE OFFERED IN GEORGIA.
It will pay every man to call'.and know what the
Leader’s prices are before purchasing. You will al
u'ays find it will be money in your pocket if even you
do not buy from him.
BENSON needs every dollar that is due him and
the only way to shun these hated duns is to pay'atlonce
All debts not settled by the Ist of March, will be
placed for collection in my attorney’s hands. BENSON
is patient, but it must be borne in mind that he has
debts to pay.
No honest man ’can conscientiously speculate on
BENSON S money by holding his cotton and not pay
ing his honest debts. Pay your debts so that those you ,
owe can pay theirs.