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£,L Es, Wing & Smith, Proprietors,
MAYOR HUFF’S RKFOKT.
Macon, Oct. 18ih, 1873.
To Ur- t'itiMn* and Tax Payer* of Macon: _
A vjttv and distim'uished Georgia politician
one,. ai.i. that the slanders and abuses heaped
s.n a man while in official position is the
nJimltv he pa\s for his advancement. Ana if
R n not mistaken the dubious honors enjoyed
bv me as Mayor of Macon, have all been more
Sau atoned for by the merciless attacks made
ut). >n me during the last twelve months.
Kn the fall of 1870, while pursuing the quiet
oven tenor of my business career unbiased by
political prejudices and untempted by public
honors, 1 was approached on the streets by a
prominent lawyer and Democrat of this place,
with the proposition that 1 should run for
Mayor. Within a week from that time I was
called upon by many of my white and colored
friends and solicited to make the race. I fool
i lily consented. A public meeting was called,
and 1 was nominated by acclamation. But un
fortunately for me and mv political record (a
thing 1 never had before) it was at the motion
or suggestion of a colored man in that meeting,
seconded by a good white Democrat, that my
nomination was made unanimous. And from
that day to the present 1 have been laboring
under the disability of Radicalism in the esti
mation of certain well known parasites of the
woul i-be Democratic party in Macon. 1 here
has been no escape for me. The presence at
that nominating meeting of the Chairman of
the Democratic State Executive Committee,
together with many of the more prominent and
loading Democrats of the city, as well as their
uctive participation in said meeting, all did not
serve to wipe away the odium and relieve me
of the suspicion. The work of political defa
ult! lion there began, and the snaky, slimy,
stenlthv tongue of filthy slander, has since
wormed its crooked way into every possible
no ok and corner where it was possible for any
he . ring to be had or any effect produced Some
men found it pleasant while others found it
necest-ary to give full credence to there insidi
ous falsehoods. Time passed on until within
three weeks of the election, when it was cur
rently reported on the streets that 1 had bar
gained with the Radicals, and had promised the
guard house keeper’s place—the street over-
Beei ’ - place, and half the police torce of the city
to the negroes. And I am sorry to say that
some men whose pretended respectability
should have saved them from such dirty work,
.ac tually assisted in the circulation of the rumor,
if in no other way, by making insinuating allu
sions to it. But these and other cowardly at
tacks made upon me did not influence pub
lic opinion and I was elected. 1 appreciated
the compliment. My pride and my ambition
were alike stimulated, and I went to work
earnestly and zealously in the interest of my
iialive city. For a time confidence und good
fail'd prevailed and there seemed to be peace and
harmony in the municipal camp and its sur
roundings. It was not until after the holding
of the Georgia State Fair here last fall that I
became cognizant of the violent attacks made
Kpon me and my administration. I was then
told that my private and official integrity had
been assailed —that my purest motives and
best intentions had been impugned and that
mv ability had been openly questioned. 8o
prevalent indeed was the opinion that I had
been overtaken by failure if not by fraud, and
so clamorous was the public for an exhibit that
certain anxious but well meaning scribblers
made open warfare upon me through the pub
lic press. And although my prompt reply
to these newspaper attacks provided the curi
ous with some temporary relief, it was not until
after my published official report was placed be
fore the public, that anything like perfect quiet
prevailed. The magic influence of that report
seemed to have acted like a charm on the finan
cial nerves of some men more suspicious than
honest, and more anxious than wise. They
found to their great astonishment and hitter
chagrin, no doubt, that the city had not been
robbed, nor,-had the administration disgraced
itself. The sneering, muttering, discontents
so common about the town were then hushed
up. The simpering sigh of the sorehead, and
the whimpering whine of the “outs,” and the
disgruntled were heard no more. A sort of
forced confidence und unwilling satisfaction
pervaded the city—even in its most warped and
prejudiced localities. At all events I was spared
h formal impeachment, and with the exception
of an occasional croak and hiss from a certain
old wounded “snake in the grass,” compara
tive tranquility prevailed until the recent agi
tation of the charter question, when to my re
fgretl found the old eruption breaking out in
i.ew places, and belching forth a perfect tor
rent of personal and official abuse upon me
with all its wonted power and volcanic force.
Political chicanery, personal defamation, party
intrigue and official duplicity were all summon
ed and brought into requisition against me.
Misrepresentation as to the past, and wholesale
pervertion of facts as to the present, have in
turn been resorted to, and—
“ Men have lied, who never lied before,
And those who always lied, have only lied the
more.”
Not content with home thrust?, some of
these poor disgraced and polluted disciples of
an infamous conspiracy have been induced to
carry this war of “stab in the dark” into the
Georgia Legislature and attack ine there. I
have been made the object of malicious and
cowardly attack at home and abroad. Promi
nent among my traducers are men here
in Macon, who meet me on the streets daily
with the 6iuile of the hypocrite beaming on
their perjured faces—men who would fain
teach ine by their pleasing patronising looks
to believe that no lurking slander lies shaded
under their foul lips. And yet these men have
sought, and are now daily seeking to injure me
in my private business as well as my official
capacity, by slyly whispering damaging re
ports and slurring remarks into the ear of
merchants and planters who visit our city on
business. Men’s ignorance is taken advantage
of, their political prejudices are appealed to ;
and what is even worse than all tins —the most
outrageous statements and slandeious asser
tions are allowed to be made by sneaking
hounds and dirty smut bags in the very pres
ence of these smiling, hypocritical, two-faced
counterfeiters of a pretended friendship,and not
one word of manly protest or contradiction
is ever heard to fall from their treacherous lips.
Such scenes of gossip and slander are of almost
daily occurrence,'and are often reported to ine
with the names of the places and c haracters
figuring in them before the villifying breath
ings are cold on the lips of these idle, vicious,
craven worms of political debauchery and
crime.
And theae men thus wantonly attacking me
are no strangers of mine or of my past history.
They have known me from my childhood;
they have, in days gone by, solicited, obtained
a-id enjoyed my kindness ; they have been tbc
recipients of my favors both personal and offl
i-ial. Some of them have eaten my provisions,
and borrowed my money, and the accounts are
still open against them on my books. And these
in -ii know full well the great violence done to
e nninon decency, common veracity, common
sense and propriety when they give utterance
to these dastardly reports and cowardly insin
uations. But I should, perhaps, not blame
t hem. Its a business and a profession with
t itm—lieing is-tbeir trade, indeed, it has be
c >me a sort of recreation with some men, and
is in reality the meat and bread and transpor
tation of others. It’s tile winning card in the
great political deck now being shuffled and so
cautiously dealt out by these gambling knaves,
and they must play it at the risk of all their
manhood’s pride and party honor.
Among the milder charges now brought
ag linst me are the following:
Firtt —that I belong to the Radical or Union
I.'-atrue here and furnish money and means for
it) support.
Skuwl —That I have bargained with the Rad
icals here, yielding and pledging to tin- negros
half the offices in the gift of the Mavor for
’heir united support in the approaching elec
tion.
third —That I packed the charter meeting
recently held at Ralston Hall with negros and
scalawags ; and that I employed money, whis
ky and other means in connection with the
united strength and support of mv police force
t bring in the negros from the adjoining
counties to accomplish my object. (This page
of my book of infarnv was read for four or five
days before the credulous members of the
Georgia Legislature, especially those in the
Senate.)
Fourth —That I but recently went to Atlanta
t> attend a Radical nominating convention,
and while there afljliated with that element,
only.
Fifth —That in order to have my claims prop
erly‘set forth in the coming city campaign, 1
have bought up and otherwise subsidized one
or two newspaper offices here, in the interest
of myself and friends, and that it has been
through newspaper influence that I have lived,
and moved and had my official being.
I say these are some of the milder form of
sins which are now laid at my political door.
And when I inform the public as l now do that
there is not the shadow of the shade of truth
in any one of these charges or anything similar
to them, I want it distinctly understood that
1 do not make the assertion or otter the denial
for the purpose of conciliating certain Demo
cratic influences, or of catering to the morbid
taste of a so called “straight-out” movement
here, headed as it is by presumptions ignor
ance, swaddling arrogance, catch penny peila
gogism, supercilious pedarianism and a sort of
youthful apprenticeship in bigoted legal prefer
ment—no feature of which has ever yet reach
ed tlie dignity and respectability of second-rate
demagoguism in the eyes of decent and well
informed men. Indeed I want it understood
that 1 am not just now cultivating the peculiar
taste or the special favor of any party clique
or clan. I have not yet entered the arena for
p flit cal honors—have not disposed of my
political birthright, and until I do I shall cer
tainly claim the light to an independent course
of action, politically and otherwise. There is
no obligation pending between myself and
any political party now in existence, except it
he such obligation as should be felt by the true
Democratic Conservative party for the uniform
support 1 have always given it. But as 1 make
no charge for services rendered in that direc
tion, I trust that honors will remain perfectly
easy. The correction now given by me to the
infamous reports already alluded to, is only
done in simple justice to iny friends and the
position 1 occupy. Personally, I care noth
ing for the sting of gossip’s tongua. I have
long since learned to regard with supreme
contempt that vulgar tiling called public opin
ion, fostered and led, as it too often is, by the
vilest food and the most corrupt and corrupt
ing influences that ever disgraced a people or
cursed the face of decent society. Politically 1
have never been much enthused —at least, not
to that extent which would induce a man to sit
up all night to vote next morning. Nor lias
tue voting privilege ever been abused by me—
my natural prejudices are all strongly against
too much suffrage. The few ballots voted by
me have all been east for the Democratic
party, or men in harmony with that party—
men whom I believed at the time to be most
liberal und Conservative in their views—and
voting in every instance, as I always have, for
men and principles, and In no case for mere
party faction, party power and party influence.
This has been and shall be the rule of my life;
and if there he any semblance or tincture of
Radicalism in it I hope my political admirers
will make the most of it. And whatever may
be thought or said of my course by a pander
ing set of political extremists, I here venture
the assertion that I have contributed more
genuine influence and more material aid and
support to the true Democratic party of Maeon
and Bibb county than any half dozen of that
mongrel crew which are now waiting and
watching like well trained puppies and wil
lingly wagging their truckling tails close at
the heels of bigger dogs with the lively hope
of being at la6t made full blooded “setters” in
the great political field of partisan spoils. 1
have been taught from my earliest recollec
tions to revere politics as a great humbug, and
my veneration for the thing has only increased
with my maturing age; and if the mellowy
influence of manhood’s years has taught me
nothing more, it has taught me not to dabble
in that dirty cess pool, where men like geese
are bought and sold for what they are worth.
And I am perfectly sincere and candid in say
ing that I had rather be defeated as a business
man for any office I might run for than be ele
vated as the representative of any violent or
extreme party faction. The special purpose
and fixed determination of my whole life has
been to avoid party strife, partisan issues and
political records; and it may surprise some of
my most ardent traducers to learn that I have
never yet attended or participated in a politi
cal meeting of any kind. That I have never
been seen or heard in a political caucus, pri
vate or public, Republican or Democratic, it
may surprise them further to know that 1
never had thirty minutes conversation with
any political leader in Macon, white or black,
prior to or since my election to the Mayoralty
of the city. And it may be news to some of
my kind slanderers to know that I have never,
in all my life, wasted one half hour in the dis
cussion of any political question. And I
might furthermore gratify the curiosity of
some and perhaps tickle the fancy of others by
saying that I am not now nor have I ever been
an active working member of that “nose
pulling,” “button-holeing” brigade, which is
now said to be marshaling its forces for a grand
straight-out Democratic movement here in
local affairs. lam to-day where I have always
been, in the ranks of the Liberal Conservative
party. That party to which all true men,
white and black, can look with an eye of po
litical faith, confidence and trust. That party
from which all peace, all restoration and all
amnesty must at last come. That party which
proposes to rule and govern the world, not by
duplicity, brick-bats, bludgeons and pistol
law, but by confidence, kindness, educational
influences and the equal protection to the
rights and interests of all. That party from
which must spring a fusion of sections, a re
conciliation of races, and a grand homogenicty
of interest—all of which must be obtained be
fore we can expect our peace to be permanent
and our institutions to be national and great.
This is my party, and while it is politically no
party at all, I have no sympathy for any other
party. This is unpopular doctrine I know.
Such doctrine as will almost buzzard a man’s
social as well as political safety in certain “red
hot” quarters. But these threatening ostra
cising influences now so pinch in use among
the party drill-masters of the day, have no ter
rors for me. I have studied business charac
ter and watched, tlie ill-fate and hard luck of
old party hacks too long here in Macon to be
come intimidated by their bickerings or enam
ored of their questionable honors. Observa
tion has taught me much, and among other
things it lias taught me tliut while some men
in Macon, blessed with more brains and better
opportunities than I ever had, have been plead
iug witli the fickle god of Democracy and
hunting after fat offices, I have been hard at
work, laboring for business position and in
dependence; and now after a lapse of strug
gling yeurs I am brought to look calmly
around me with mingled emotions of pride
and satisfaction while viewing the striking
contrast our positions present Party and
party men, party faction, and party power,
party rule and party patronage, have disgraced
us as a nation —dishonored us as a Btate, and are
now seeking our discredit as a municipality.
Corruption has triumphed over hanesty, chi
canery over integrity and vice over virtue,
until the whole political fabric seems to be
tottering and tumbling under the prostituting
hands of power and pelf. And as a conserva
tive man and tax pay .*r, I shall fight tuch in
fluences in whatever shape they may come. No
matter whether it be as red-hot democracy,
or rampart republicanism. From a business
stand point I eau recognize no difference in
these violent extremes.
All men are entitled to their personal and
political prejudices, provided they are honest
in them—and the stronger his personal likes
and dislikes, the tetter I like the man. But
the nearer a business man approaches total ex
emption from all political partisanship, the
nearer that man approaches perfection in my
estimation. I have but little confidence in, and
le*s sympathy for that class of men who are
openly known as avowed, declared, and pro
fessed politicians. And whenever the financial
interest and business management of a city is
brought under the special influence and con
trol of these men or their allies, I can hut irt
dulge in a feeling of insecurity and positive,
apprehension for the safety and protection of
all concerned. To say thAt appearances indi
; cate an early return to this policy of shame in
our city and that the tendency of thing#
is now* drifting that way is but to echo the
voice of tlmt powerful effort now being made
to accomplish the work. Men are enguged in
it who arc as unscrupulous as sin and as earnest
as hate. Men ready and willing to compromise
every principle of honor in the struggle for
peaife and the race for power. Men who have
fought bad politics, mean whisky and the
tiger here in Macon until they are actually with-
I out character or credit as respectable sports.
: These are the political architects, the partisan
MACON, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1872.
assassins of our municipal government. The
men who make and unmake city charters —elect
mayors and arrange aldunnanie boards at pleas
ure and then in turn, kill off*, depose and break
up at will. These scheming,time serving agents
of corruption intimidation and fraud have never
been thoroughly defeated and routed hero but
once and hence their love and admiration for
the man who did it, must necessarily he great.
These men come bravely up now and agaiu
propose to control our city affairs. These are
the little mean impecunious metal-faced gentry
who have done the dirty work and lying for
venal rings and petty placemen in our muni
cipal and county elections for years. And if
you will examine the city and county tax books
you will find that one honest hardworking in
dependent straight-forward business man pays
more revenue into the treasury annually, than
any half dozen of these political wire pullers
anil partisan popinjays. And yet these are
the men who would set themselves up as the
critics of a business administration. These
are the paid proselytes of a would-be bourbon-
Utic faith—a class of political Christians in the
South of whom it is said —“they forget noth
ing and learn nothing” —men who devote all
their leisure time and talents to the unprofit
able task of “digging up yesterday,” and who
accept nothing as orthodox, but the stubborn
teachings of their own blind prejudice. These
arc the surface exponents of.that party here
now which proposes to make it a straightout
fight between Democrats and Republicans—
white men and negroes in the approaching city
election. “No more citizen meetings” they
say; no more middle grounds; no more com
promise; no more peace measures for Macon.
Red-hot Democracy, or square out Radicalism
is now the proposition to be submitted to the
voters of Macon, without any regard whatever
as to the personal qualification of the candi
dates offering, or the amount of important fi
nancial and business interest involved. The
intelligent non-partisan reader, and the quiet
observing hard working business man and tux
payer, might ask why all thi i sudden and un
seemly blaze of devotion to party interest in
Macon. The broad and liberal minded merchant,
hanker and real estate owner might stop to en
quire why so much anxious watelifulness
about our local affairs politically, when our
whole nation is bending and concentrating on
one grand and glorious effort at compromise,
harmony and peace? The honest politician
himself might querry, how is it that as national
men we can preach, practice and proclaim so
much conservative liberalism, while in our local
affairs we affect so much rabid Bourkonism ?
Ah, gentlemen, this is what might be called
shaking hands over the bloody clmsm with a
vengeance! Shame upon such democracy, if
democracy it can l>e called ! But call it what
we may, such consummate mockery of principle
can never be set down to the credit of “wis
dom justice and moderation”—our proud old
Georgia motto would blush at the association.
AnTl the intelligent, progressive and unbiased
thinking men of our city will never he led astray
by any such specious pretext and political
clap trap. It is unworthy the dignity of men.
It can never be called Democratic Liberal
Republicanism. On the contrary it must go to
the account of factious intolerance: That in
tolerance which always proscribes: That intol
erance which dries up Conservative influences,
and keeps had men in office. That intolerance
which provokes anger, foments strife, and in
vites difficulties und broods dissensions be
tween men und races. Let the sober secoml
thoughted men of Macon stop und consider
well this question of local antagonism before
casting their ballots in the December election.
The cool effrontery of some men about Macon
who have recently been eminently officious in
our city affairs is put well nigh to the blush in
their awkward attempts to play—“straight
outs” at home—and “compromisers” abroad.
I suppose that in a modern political vernacular
wc might call them “Democratic straights”
and “ National crookeds,” —such conduct is
perhaps the happiest illustration of a virtuous
necessity which has ever been offered the po
litical world. And it teaches this wholesome
lesson to all aspiring partisan youths, that ex
pediency is after all the real quintessence of all
political faith, and partisan warfare. Really
the present political situation has the appear
ance of being an anomolous one in many res
pects. And I would like to inquire how it is
that we as white men, Southerners and Demo
crats can fallow the Father of Abolitionism all
the way round from New York, via Cincin
nati and Baltimore, and there jump upon his
platform and endorse his compromise meas
ures, accept his pledges, approve his peace
offerings and ratify his nomination with bom
bast, benzine and pyrotechnics as we have done
here in Macon—and finally in November vote
for him with all his ultra and ugly isms—and
yet when we come home and turn to look upon
ii local issue involving purely a question of
domestic business management in our mu
nicipal affairs, we at once declare open violent
warfare upon every thing and every body ten
ding towards peace, harmony and reconcilia
tion. Do we mean Greeley and compromise,
or do we mock the truth! Perhaps the only
true solution to my question might be found
in the remark of a certain prominent politician
made on the streets hero last week when he
said : “The manipulation in regard to the ap
proaching city election must and will have an
important bearing upon the county and district
election, and we must see to it that there is no
fusion, no compromise, no half way ground
taken* in anything.” Ah, gentlemen here’s a
part of the milk in the cocoanut. As the old
lady said when she handled the teat of her fa
vorite cow—“here’s richness for you, honey!”
Yes, the county and the district must always be
looked after, and the poor oppressed tax payer*
of Macon must pay the fiddler and furnish the
coffins while this great political county and
district dance gdcs grandly on. A few hun
dred men in Macon have the sagacity to under
stand and appreciate this trickery and double
dealing, while u few others have the boldness
and independence to speak of it. And I for
one had rather expose it, and be defeated for
the highest office in the gift of the people, than
pass it over in silence and he elected. In the
one case lain serving my city. In the other I
would he serving myself and quietly en
dorsing what I know to be a mean corrupt po
litical ring. And now I ask can such infamous
trickery be called true Democracy ? Is this the
standard by which this time-honored party
comes now to be judged ? Is this the doctrine
now promulged by our great National standard
bearer ? Are we fighting for peace, or do we
strike for war: a war of races and a war of
property, lias not the time arrived when we
should forget old hates, bury old revenges,
frown down proscription, obliterate the ugly
past, and boldly assuming a Liberal Conserva
tive policy in city as well as National affaire,
come proudly up to the rescue of manly prin
ciples and business like interest.
Htriet party lines may be drawn here to the
exclusion of all moderate men, and the busi
ness affairs of Macon may pass into the hands
of party men and party leaders. The earnest,
constant and successful efforts which have been
made here for the past two years to place our
city upon a true basis of business credit and
| financial prosperity may be forgotten and en
tirely lost sight of in the dirty scramble for of
! fice fiere this fall. But my great faith and abid
ing confidence in the practical business men of
Macon induces rue to hope and believe that
! this disgraceful thing can only he done under
the blackened seal of their honest and indignant
j protest. The better class of thinking men will
not submit to it tamely. But whatever may
! be onr fate I shall always point with a just
pride and satisfaction to the present adminis
j tration as being unmarked by partisan zeal or
! political influence. I point to jt with pleasure
as being untrarnelled by power—untainted by
j the smell of rings-and unstained by any Bern
i blance or color of clique. I refer to it proudly
as being unbiased by prejudice and unswerved
by monopolies. The general welfare and in
| terest of the public good has been watched
i over and guarded with that jealous fidelity pe
| culiar only to personal interest and private
trust. For nearly two years I have made
the financial feature of our City Government
rny daily study and special pride, and I think
it may be said without cavil that the present,
simple, easy and economical condition of our
finances, together with the business-like ad
ministration of our affairs gives some slight
. evidence of the success which has attended my
efforts. Arrogance is an ugly virtue in any
rn*n, and I do not propose to assume vanity or
affect egotism when I say that the city credit
of Macon has been improved ten to twelve per
rent, during the last eighteen month*
us review a little and see what the exact con
dition of affairs was when the present admin
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ers by muil or telegraph promptly attended
to.
•
I have in store and am constantly receiving
every description of
Fancy and Family Groceries,
WINES,
I.IQUOUS, and
CIGAKS,
FOREIGN ar.d
DOMESTIC EIUIIT,
KIHII,
GAME,
and every delicacy when in season.
liar and Restaurant up stairs, supplied with
tin 1 very haul in the market.
Parties purchasing goods from me can always
rely upon them ticing fresh and liret class In
every respect.
Will. I*. ( Alll.ON.
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Change of Schedule.
SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFCE, (
Macon Ac Brunswick Railroad Cos., r
Macon, Ga., Hepteinber 21, 1872. )
ON and after Monday September 22,1872,
trains will run as follows:
DAT ACCOMMODATION TIC A IN. DAILY.
Leave Macon H: 15 a. m.
Arrive at Jcsup 5:50 i*. m.
Arrive at Brunswick 10:00 i\ m.
Leave Brunswick 4:20 a. m.
Arrive at Jcsup 0:45 a. m.
Arrive at Macon 5:20 r. M.
Connects closely at Jcsup with trains. oj At
lantic and Gulf Railroad, to and from Havannah
and Florida.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN, DAILY.
Leave Macon 7. 15 i\ m
Arrive at Savannah 7. 15 a. m
Leave Savannah 7. 00 i*. m
Arrive at Macon 0. 45 a. m
HAWKINHVILLE TKAIN DAILY, (SUNDAYS EX
CEPTED.)
Leave Macon 2:5.5 i*. m.
Arrive at llHwkinHville 0;20 i*. m.
Leave Uawkinsville 7:00 a. m.
Arrive at Macon 10:20 a. m.
WM. MacRKA.
140 t/ General Superintendent.
INDIAN SPRINGS.
EI DER HOUSE.
i:i.l>i:u A soy, Proprietor.
ryMIIS well-known house Is now open to all
I who wish to visit the fur famed Indian
Sprint;. The Hotel Is nearer the Spring than
any other, with pleasant and shady walks lead
ing thereto.
KATES OK BOARD.
Per Day $ 8 00
One Week 10 00
One Month 35 00
Children and servants half price.
:>tr FEWER * SON.
MERCHANTS
AND
PLANTERS
WILL FIND IT TOTIIKIIt AD
VANTAGE TO GALLON US
BEFORE MAKING THE 111 .
BILLS.
WE HAVE IN STORE,
100.000 LBS. BACON CLEAR R.
SIDES.
25.000 LBS. BACON SHOUL
DERS.
10.000 LBS. BELLIES.
50.000L85. FLOUII, all grades.
500 ROLLS 2J BAGGING.
10.000 LBS. ARROW TIES.
10 BALES TWINE.
JOHNSON & SMITH.
JOHNSON & SMITH,
Have, and are offering ut- very
low figures:
100 BOXES TOBACCO, all
grades.
100 BBLS. WHISKIES.
150 BBLS. SUGAR.
50 BBLS. MOLASSES.
100 BALES IIAY.
1.000 BUSHELS CORN,
Together with a full stock of .'ill
all goods in our line of business.
118 tr
Brown’s Hotel,
MACON, GA.
IF long experience aiul a thorough knowl
edge of the business in all it# diversified
branches are essential to the keeping that which
the public It OH long heard of hilt Htidoin uteri,
A IIOTKI m
the undersigned flatter themselves that they
are fully competent to discharge their obliga
tions to their patrons; but they are not only
experienced in hotel keeping, they modestly
would claim to have the
BEST ARRANGED ani> MOST COMPLETE
LY AND EXPENSIVELY FUHNISIIED
house throughout, in the State, which is loca
ted exactly where everybody would have it sit
uated
IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT AND ADJACENT TO
THE PASSENGER DEPOT,
where travelers can enjoy the moat nhtjt and loss
liable to la*, Oft by the pcrplexingly constant
departure of the trains.
To all these important advantages is added
a TABLE that is well supplied with the best
and choicest dishes the city and country can
afford : nor would they omit to mention that
their servants, trained to tin*, business, have
never been surpassed for politeness and atten
tion to guests.
For the truth of these statements, we refer
the public to our patrons who reside in every
State in the Union.
K. E. BROWN <fc SON, Proprietors.
Macon, Gu., April 15, 1872. 78-104
DAVIS SMITH,
(Successor to the late firm of Smith, Wcstcott.
A Cos., and of Smith, McGlashait <fc Cos.)
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
SADDLES, HARNESS,
Jill IDLES,
SADDLERY AND HARNESS HARDWARE,
Carriage Materials,
Leather of al 1 kinds,
Shoe Findings,
Children’s Carriages,
KI.'BDCK. BAWDS, i:TC'„
Together with every article usually kept in a
auddlery house.
JO? ( IIIIRHV NT., MACON, UA
130-1 Mi
FOR THE FALL AND WINTER TRADE
LAWTON -Sc BATES,
I'onrtli Street, (Next Door lo Lnwlon * Willingham.)
Y UK prepared to furnish the trade with
GltOt tiltIDS, I-KOVINIOAM. IM.A.VI'ATIOA NI’PIMJBN. BAG
GIYU, TICS, FTC.,
on ns rciisomihle terms as any house In Georgia. Wo will keep constantly on hand, BACON:
I. \111), CORN, OA l'S, IIAY, SUGAR, COFFEE, BAGGING and TIES, and a acncral assort
ment of mui'li Lpmds ns urn kept ill a first class Grocery House. Givens u call. \Vc are running;
the UAGI.i: l'I.OI!KI.Y MIIXX, and
direi l special attention to our "CHOICE," “EXTRA,” “FAMILY" Flours. They will ho
found exactly adapted to tlm trade, and wo guarantee every harrol to yjivo satisfaction. Our
prices are as low as those of the same grades cun lie I anight 111 the Hontli.
CORN MEAD, bolted ami iinliolLed, always onhuiid, of our own make und of the host
■imility. 130-188
/^J.n.BANDY&CO.,
TIN AN# S,,EET 1 ,tO - v aoowNQ,
sjdkfW Bittniit Plirtiif art Bpriii,
Jiwfsk ffniH
wN 1 1 V tin and galvanized iron cornices
nSd// (/] I \ Executed at short notice and satisfaction
\ Eg \ m'l I guaranteed.
j) y* \ij l No. to Third Ntrcet, Macon, Gu.
\ i Particular attention given to Guttering put up
l \ with
\ JJOODRUFF’S
\ PATENT CAVC UAXTENINGN.
IMPROVE) CHI GEAR.
S< >MiTn ING NEW.
SUPERSEDES ALL OTHER HORSE POWER
IT IS NO HUMBUG!!
rCI 110 Hettlinn of the Gin House floor has no client on the Gearing. Kin)- Post of Iron and lilt
JL tile work bolted to iron.
IT IS MADE TO KART, AND TO RUN TWENTY FIVE PERCENT. LIGHTER THAN ANY
OTHER POWER IN USE.
(hill and see for youasclf.
I hulld a Portable Horse Power Hint challenges nil other MAKES, but It will not do the work
with tlie same Draft that my PATENT GIN GEAR will.
All kinds of Machinery made mid repaired at
CKOCUCTT'M IKON WORKS,
108-130 Near Brown House, Macon Georgia.
BROWFS GALLERY!
Ho. 8 Cotton Avenue,
Is the place where all the differ
ent styles of pictures are made
at greatly reduced prices.
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W. & E. P. TAYLOR,
Cor. Cotton Avenue and Cherry Street,
HEADERS IN
FURNITURE, CARPETINGS, RUGS,
OIL CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES, etc.
Metaiic Burial Cases & Caskets,
Fine and Plain Wood Coffins and Caskets.
70tf
li?"Orders by Telegraph promptly attended to. ..
.1A AEH It. BLOUNT. ISAAC HARDEMAN.
■ll.Ol Vr Ai HARMWAW,
ATTORNEYS AT ‘LAW,
MACON, GEORGIA.
OFFICE, at entrance Ralston Hull, Cherry
street. _ AD-.tGO
Barber Shop For Rent.
rp|)E Basement room, formerly occupied by
1 Mike Napier, In Brown’s Hotel building Is
for rent This is one of the best stands for a
M,,,,, I. u. My. „ mTTh
Volume I. —Number 169
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