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A. R. ROBERTSON, Athens, Georgia.
MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER OF
Granite and Marble Monuments & Tombstones
A la'rgclot of finished work on oujliand ready for lettering. I will pay
half freight on Monuments and Tomb Slones delivered in Washington, Ga.
My A. 1C BOBEUTSON, Athens. (In.
Pendleton Foundry and Machine Works.
(HAS. F. LOMBARD, Proprietor. * WM. PENDLETON, Sui/t.
MANUFACTURE AND DEAL IN
MILL MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES
No. 615, 017 null OI KolloeK. Street, tiifc'Usm, (In,
C'IASTINGS OK ALL KINDS EXECUTE!} I’KOMPTI.V, IN IRON OR BRASS, ITh-
J ley*, Gearing, fthaflitiK, Jourii*! Duxes,! Sugar Mills, Gin Ribs, Injectors, Wate*
Whee , Governor*, Kilos, Engine Supplier. Iron Front*, Ualcony Casting*, Ac., Ac.
Special Attention Given to Repaiis.
< ORUESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
Here You Are !
THE BEST
Plows, Harrows, Cotton Planters,
Feed Cutters, Disc Harrows, Reapers and
Separators in Town.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
It in nu early bird that rati nnjlersell FICKLEN on agricultural
implements. Don’t fool away yojnr money on second class imple
ments, but buy tile boat or none. ( LOVER AND GRASS SEEDS
at COST. UO tCE FICKLFN.
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, MATTINGS,
WINDOW SHADES, &c.
The larKa*t"iiouth °f Baltimore of Velvetn, lli usst-ln, 3-pljr* Jnjfrain,
VciU'tiftnx, ling and Hemp Carnots, Heart! UugH, Door Mats, Crumb Cloths. Nur
sery Sheetings, Window Shades, dado HtyU-s, Wall Capuys, Borders, Fire Screens,
Lace Curtains, Window Cornicea, Curtain JhimU, L’aper Shadwc, Fluor Oil Cloths,
all widths, Stair Oil Clotha, Table Oil Clutlis, Upholstery Oooda, Gimp*, Fringe*#,
Cauo, Moan, Hair Clotha. New Kancv Red mid White Cluck Canton Mat tings, <so
coa Matting* ujl widths, Plain And Stripe £tair Rods, Stair Pad*, Cedar Cheats,
liuntiu Wood Window Shades, Tacks, SlpplcS, Tassels, Mosquito Nets, Picture
t Frames, dliromoa, Engravings, Bracket*, picture Cords, Wire Nails ami Tassels.
Semi for samples and oircular of Low Prices to dO Cm
BAILIE A COSKEBY,
Masonic? Temple, Augusta, lx a.
CENTRAL TIOTET,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
Mi’h, W. 31. Thomas, Propriet rt-sis
This hotel so well known to th eltizonsol Wilke* ami adjoining coriutiea, la located lu the
iuWM of the bUHinvMH portion ot Augusts. Convenient to Pont Office, Telegraph Office and
Depot and oilers induoenunta to the phblle wueh 4s only flr*t-eliua hotels can alien!,
THEODORE MARKWALTER’S
MARBLE WORKS:
into AD STREET, (NEAR LOWER MARKET) AUGUSTA, GA.
iwim tokms mi iitiiiE inns ami
always on hand or nth> to order. \ large selection ready for lrtte aut’riug]
delivery at short notice. Sex oral hundreds of new designs of
The Most Modern Stylo of Monuments,
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GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Harris county stick* to fence.
Turner, ol Coweta, i* now named
for the Governorship.
The first brick on Randolph coun
ty’s new court house was laid Tues
day.
An association of-the cx-C'onfcder
alc soldier* of Houston county is to he
formed.
Col. Joe. Strother is now teaching
near Greenwood Church, lie lias a
very lull school.
The Dawson Appeal had been le
vied on lor debt and is advertised for
.ale by the blicriff.
Dawson shows more improvement*
the present summer, iu a general way,
than for several seasons past.
‘ James C. iloykiu, formerly editor
of the DeKalb News, lias received
an appointment as clerk in Ihe War
Department at Washington.
Mis* M. A. Rooks lias been Post
mistress at Monroe since April 27,
1805, and during all this time she
hasn’t lost a halt day out of the office.
An al tempt will be made during the;
summer session of the Legislature to
have an act passed prohibiting the
sale of seed cotton in Early county.
There is a project oil loot to organ
ize a joint slock company, with a
capital of $5,000, for the purpose ol
erecting a steam flour and grist mill
at Lincolntou.
At Albany a lw* marlin was seen
to light on the back of a buzzard ami
i ide 1100 or 100 yard, in l hut position
in spite of the frantic efforts of the
big bird to shake the little lellnw oil.
lloud* issued by the city of Cutli
bert for the completion of the arte-,
siau well have been sold to JJyr*. J
F. Riser, of Atlanta, the bonds bring
ing 10H,. and bearing 7 percent inte
rest.
John W. Murray, of Sumter conuh
has a daughter of If years, whose
head is quite gray now. In all pro
babilily it will be snow while by the
time she i- 18, a* it continues to turn
gray.
Tim Sunday School Convention,
which convenes in Rome July 22d,
promises to he Ihe most immense
meeting ever held in that city. Man)
of the leading men of Georgia will
Ire there.
To negro prisoners in the jail at
Jesup made their escape on Thuixiav
by rushing upon the sheritf when lie
carried their diuin r to them. They
secured his pistol. ami have not berm
heard I com since. k*
James M. J’attersou lots been paid
■flOO bp Gov. McDaniel, it being tin
reward olfered for llm capture ol
Monroe Jonas, the Gwinnett county
murderer. The alleged crime was
committed in 1882.
At Dawson a eat was bitten by a
large rat. A few minutes after the
bile was inflicted the eat began foam
ing at the mouth and .‘bowed other
signs of hydrophobia, and died in a
short time afterward.
The Dalton Citizen says: ‘The
Crown Cotton mills aro working up
to full time now with plenty of or
ders ahead. The grade ol goods man
ufactured is the best and the demand
for them is daily increasing.
A private letter received from
Wales Wynton, who left Macon un
der a cloud, states that ho has lately
hoon promoted to city editor on the
Rirmingham (Ala.) Iron Age, the
leading paper in that state.
We were shown a double-headed
watcr-nioeea in the other day. Both
heads were perfectly developed and
joined together just at the neck prop
er. It was a veritable freak of na
ture.—Henry County Weekly.
During a thunder storm at Carroll
ton Thursday lightning struek and
killed a horse belonging to Charles
Frix, colored, which was standing in
the lot. The skin was broken only
around one eye and one hoot.
Wednesday evening some kittens
were sunning themselves and asleep
when a large rabbit hawk swooped
dawn and carried off',me of them that
was almost halt grown, llis hawk
ship must have thought it was a rah
bit.—Lexington Echo.
R. 8. Mann, who forged a note and
obtained fifty dollars from John F.
Lewis & Sou of this place, was
brought from Texas last week by
sheriff Gilmore. He was about to
get married iu Texas and that is how
the sheriff heard of his whereabouts,
lte has a wife in Dooly county. He
was a Sunday-school superintendent
and pastor of several churches in
Texas, and was known as Brother
Jack Hambrick- Montezuma Record.
A German by the name of Amman
is at Brouwood, negotiating for the
place of Robert Edison, with a view
of establishing a grape vineyard. Mr.
▲ itman has had for the three last
years an experience in grape culture
in California and he proposes to raise
fourteen varieties the grape, from
which he will manufacture the best
kind of wine. It is said that a colony
of Germans under the auspices of Mr.
Autiitan fill settle iirag Bron Wood
and lidilj him engage In the maimlac
ture. of wine. Dawson Appdnl.
llilfcry Langford died in M'Bfctlie
comity a day or two ago aged HI
years,leaving the following posterity :
Living children S, children dead 5.
grandchildren living 96. dead 21, great
grandchildren living 126.grcat-grand
ohildren dead 21; total 278.
W. T. Lang, of the Armory Knit
ting Mill of Macon, ha* given a con-,
tract to have ihe machinery air the
mills increased so as to double the ca
pacity. The mill* will hereafter knit
half hose and lx: eqttaliii every re
spect to the; demands O’f the lime*
and the trade.
A negro girt fa* arrested ft Colum
bus Thursday, charged with robbing
four little girl* of sixty cents, which
they had made selling blackberries.
The crime is highway robbery, as she
overpowered tlie children on the
roadside, about three miles from tin*
city, and took I lie money trom them.
George Gil more, of Jasper county,
was badly cut on the arm and shoul
der by u negro hi-t Saturday. Mr.
(Elmore, i: is said, llireaienetl to w hip
the negro’s wife, and he revenged
hi niseil Ur Klipping up on M r.! il mon
while at work in ihe field and intrud
ed ihe wound with a knife.
Mr. M. Kossiuaii showed us theoth
i i-day thebigge*'. thing iu the way of
a snap beau we ever saw. It meas
ured 24',; Inches In length and looked
more like a green snake than any
thing else. The heart grows three
-hoots from each hlos-om and i- -aid
to lie very palatable.—Greenesboro
I lei aid.
Dopnty Marshal Cooper scored the
first blood timloi the new adminis
tration. Night before la-i hci apttircd
John Lewis Jonkin. of Gwinnett
county, who was taken to Atlanta and
put tinder.s3Po bond by (.'nimis*loft
er Haight. He i* charged with illieii
distilling and working in an illici.
distillery.
On lust Saturday al 12 o’clock Mr
George Wilson wa* precipitated from
ihe trucks of an engine al Red Bluff.
Brunswick and Western railroad, a
the mill of Mr. James McDonald, at
j let Ihe digit e was detached, anil tie
I wheels ran on him and crushed him
In death, killing him instantly, lb
was about 22 years old. and leant -;■
wife and little lmy.—Jesup Sentinel.
Mrs. W. (Barker, of Daw-on.
j itas eleven Texa- horned frog-, u hich
-he keeps in a wire cage. She Hi no
them out occasionally upon t bed of
red ants, and the ants soon disappear
down the capacious throats of said
frogs. They are also very fond ol
tiles. Tuesday afternoon, at a singh
sitiing, one of them laid seventeen
beautiful white eggs that were alum
half an inch long and a third inch
thick,and resembles the eggs of an al
ligator, lmt the shells were sett liki
l hose of a snake.
ItEtlef From t'Htnrrli.
Prof. IV. V. Johnson, Principal ol
the Public Schools of Benton, Arkan
sas. under dale Of March IS, writes :
Tills orrtitles that l have been r
sufferer from Catarrh for nearly 18
years, being a portion of the time in
capacitated from attending to mi
business. Tried a number of most
eminent physician- North mid Samtli
spent over 1500. 1 was partially deal,
i (piauity ol bone* resembling li-1
scales came out of mv nose and head
and I was at one lime reduced to 75
pounds. Ten boitles of 8. S. S. cured
me sound and well, and su I am to
day. It is ilie best blood purifier 1
have ever used. W. 1\ Johnson.
IMit obeli*.
My wife has been suffering for sev
en long years with what the physi
cians called inflammation of the veins.
I triad doctors time and again, with
out deriving any benefit whatever.
At the suggestion of my druggi*-
J. 0. Hightower, I was induced to
try Swift's Specific, which in an in
credibly short time restored tier
to perfect health. I might -ay a great
deal more about the medicine, and
w ill -ay that it ought to be in every
house. It i‘ a cheap docior: having
saved me hundreds of dollars.
Clayton, Ala. C. F. Di n, ax
March 28, 1885.
Swifts Specific is entirely vegetable.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Disease*
mailed free.
The Swift’s Specific Cos., Drawer
2. Atlanta. Ga.
New York's most gorgeously aris
tocratic hostelry,the Hotel Brunswick,
is to close because of bad business
Times aro hard with the spendthrift
class; and german banquets and ball-,
have not been frequent or extrava
gant enough to wsurant the continu
ance of this palace. The concern, it is
said, sunk $1,000,000.
1865. T. M GREEN. 1885.
Spring & Slimmer.
WAIT! WAIT I WAIT!
They are Coming’! They are Coining !
Box Mter Box. Case After Case.
ROLL, BOLT,
I*o LL. BOLT,
AND OX THEY WILL COME ,
Until Every Nook, Corner and Shelf is Filled.
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i am determined to have my stock complete in every sense of the wor t.
Excrytidng one could want or wish I will have. By ihe 25th of April I will
ha vein Store the Largest, Most Complete and Grandest Display of
Dry Good, Notion, Clothing, Etc.,
That it has ever been my pleasure to offer to yiy friends; all of which I will
-ell at s.tch fow* figures that the closest buyer will lx: startled. Will rail your
attention to some of my specialties:
DRESS GOODS.
Dress Goods ot every Description. Bunting and Nunsvciling all colors
and grades. Wm. Simpso- ,V Son’s lYitits. Ginghams, ('luimbray-. Cre
tonnes, Fiqt.es, IVreal*. Satins, Victoria Lawns. Linen Lawns, India Lawns
Figured L.wns. from .V up. Calicoes lie up. Eddystou Dress Patterns front
11 to 18 ; ards each, Cfijmc and see them.
“The Best Are the Cheapest.”
4’.Miies ,y Son’s Ladies’ and Misses’ Fine Shoes —Built"’, laced and foxed
in Calf! Bobbie; fill Goat,and Red Opera Slipper* and Newport TANARUS; for Ele
gance, Nealue— and Durabiliy they can’t be excelled. Gent’s Fine. Hand-
Made Shoes, ;il! -it 1,--. I have been telling the Miles Shoe ever since ihe war
Mv sales have Ix-en rapidly increasing, cou.-eijnci.’lly I can guarantee the
Miles Shoe to give you a good lit and perfect .-utUl-ivlioii. Give them a trial
and you will uewr wear any other shoe.
Remeber the Race of the Turtle and Rabbit
Autl Travel Slow.
Goiif!**. Box's* anil Childrens’Straw Hats. Lent>’ Xobby Felt ILtis. A
.npiiai lim? of ami Youths’ <’iotliiiif ol* ihe Latest Style*. Come early
uid -elect you a suit helore mv stock i> broken. My stock of (ients’ Fur*
ni-Uiox Cioo.U is coiupleie. There is money in a look. Come!
LOOK BErOFsS YOU LEAP!
For t’berk Tag.-dale and AYaiu-at (a IHeaHiing. 10 I sheet
iitof Drilling, Shining* l ' Kle. Toweling, Table Limn, Doyles, Harness, Tin
ware. (rocktYy* Haiti ware, Cutlery, Farming t’lensiD. Tobautos, Ele. firo
eries of all kind* or anything cT-e yon want. Come to me. Let my ]>ri<es
iml he louviueed mat our advertising is not “bosh ami mooii-liine.” Thank
nig you for pa-t favurs, I remain. Yours to command,
T. 3S/L. QEiEEE-.
FACTS!
—-MTE MEAN TO KEJCi* liEI'OKE
THE PEOPLE.
That cur trade this Spring is hotter than ever
boforc.
That the safest place to buv Drv Goods is where
everv article is put at the lowest possible price and
nothing is thrown in.
That “baits” and “premiums” are dearly paid for
somewhere else in the bn.
That we never lead up with trash with a view to
getting from the unreflecting' the name of selling
che’.p; but that on reliable, useful Goods, our prices are
always Lower than those of the “cheap” trash concerns
This has been proved so often bv actual demonstration,
that we can refer to hundreds, nav thousands, who
have tested the matter for themselves.
That cur Stock —alwavs the best —is this season
incomparably ahead of anv other in Georgia, and that
srer, thing New and desirable is promptly added on
ts first appearance.
That we depend on Fair Dealing and the Merit
of our Goods for our success in business.
That we provide Competent Salesmen to iwait
upon our Customers, and no pains are spared to
make shooning nleasant to those who visit our
Establishment.
.--Samples sent on application.
DALY & ARMSTRONG,
MASONIC TEMPLE l Augusta, Ca.