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METHODIST.
Ktv. T. T. CiiBisnixs Presiding Elder.
Jttv. J. W. Simmons Pastor in Charge.
D‘reaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p.
li-gular weekly prayer meetiugs Wednes-
r. f evening at 8 p. m.
punday School, at 4V£ o'clock p. m.—J. E.
Ickenaoii, Superintendent.
FltEsnVTEBlAN.
Rev. J. A. McKee, D.D Pastor.
Treadling on tho second, third and fourth
Ways at il a. m. and 8 p. m. Regular
«l.v prayer meetiugs every Thursday even-
_g at 8 o’clock p. m.
■Sunday School at 8 o’clock a. m.—J. E.
Tm»uion, Superintendent.
EPISCOPAL.
an ices every Sunday morning at lOo’clock.
1 take this method of informing the peo-
!e of Rainbri-Ige, that I will supply the
’srket every day with the very best beef
country affords, and at most reasonable
’ices.
"ill also supply all other meats in their
stson. Thankful for past liberal patron-
re. re-pectfully ask a continuance of the
JOHN M. INGRAM.
Aug. 24. iggo.
M. KWILEGKI.
AT THE OLD
^ Store.
A NEW SUPPLY OF
Groceries and Grain,
M . Hardware & Wagon
Material, Paints,
Oil and Putty,
A gent for Sashes and Blinds, “©g
WD smith.
Baker and CojifecHoner
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^ 6 Sharon'House Block.
■sh I
r eads. cakes, fruits, candies, nu*s,
wav ". on hand. Also, best stock of
? *®nes in town.
t >rsold by uo one. Give him a
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The
BY BEN. E. RUSSELL.
Democrat.
BAINBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1882.
YOL. 11.—NO. 45.
OUt IIASIII t*. f’UIENI).
A Con vcrsallon Overheard
Between an Antenian ItacUe-
lor and an.Oconee Belle.
Banner- Watchman.
There is not a more modest youth in
Athens than our geuial young friend
Charl.e Baldwin. While he can talk
down a regiment of stags, just let ten
yards of calico and a section of bangs
come in speaking distance and he wilts
li£e the bashful two-legged masculine
violet that he is. Give him a telescope
and he will stand off at a distance and
watch a pretty girl all day; but the
moment she starts in his directi in Mr.
B. takes to his beds. He tells us that
wh'le he knows they won’t hurt him
somehow wheu he tackles a young lady
his tongue ties itself into a hard knot
and his knees knock together like an
old second-hand battering ram.
But last Wednesday in Watkinsville
Charlie was caught on the fly by Tom
Foddrill, and before he knew what was
up our friend found himself seated in
a buggy beside one of the most viva
cious and charming of Oconee’s fair
daughters. We saw a spasmodic twitch
of unutterable misery o’erspread his
face, and he cast a libgering look of
longing at a pine thicket on the brow
of a neighboring hill, which clearly
showed that he seriously contemplated
tuking to his heels and fleeing from the
angel at Jiis side. We got in ear-shot
of the buggy with the philanthropic
intention of either heading him in case
of a break or immersing him with a
bucket of ice lemonade if our friend
faiuted.
But Charlie emulating the noble ex
ample of the boy on the burning deck,
bravely hid one foot under the buggy
body and polished the other boot with
his pocket handkerchief. He lit a ci
gar, and then suddenly recollecting
that this wasn’t etiquette, threw it out
and started to offer his fair companion
a second but happily thought of him-
self in time. lie knew he was expect
ed to say something, so after making
enough faces to swallow a ton of quin
ine, shot out:
“A pleasant day. Miss Polly ?”
“I think it rather warm,” was the
reply.
“Yes’m, it’s the hothest weather 1
ever saw. It would melt the horns off
of a dilemna.”
“This breezes pleasant I think.”
“Yes’m, it mighty nigh freezes me
to death. I wisn I’d brought my over
coat. Don’t you?”
“Oh, no, I’m not at all too cool.”
“Yes’m, it’s powerful hot. Don’t
you think so ?”
“Rather warm.”
“I expect it will snow this evening
—no, I mean hail—I—l—I started to
say rain and Charlie’s face turned
crimson as ho realized the full extent
of his mistake.
“Why, you must be a Vennor ?”
was the sweet response.
“No ma’in, my name’s Baldwin. 1
ain’t no kin to the Vennors that I know
of.”
“I intended to say that you are a
weather prophet ?”
“Yes’m : I’m a great believer in
the prophets. When 1 used to go to
Sunday-school I heard a heap about
’em- I’m hungry ain’t you ?”
“Oh, do ; not at all so. But they
will soon have dinner. The country air
must have sharpened your appeute.”
“No,ma’m; my appetite is always
sharp. 1 never ate no country air in
my life. Do they bile it with preens!’
“You seem to be quite an epicure,
Mr- Baldwin,” smihd the lady.
‘I’ve epicured around a good deal,’
explained Charlie, not exactly taking
in her meaning ; ‘but I have a brother
turned Jim who can heat me all holler
at epicuring.’
‘Are you fond of poefy, Mr Bald
win ?’ asked the lady, trying to draw
him out on some other subject.
‘No ma’tn ; but the way I can «at.
mud cats is a sin. Did you ever eat an
eel ?
‘Certainly not! Do you intend to
stav-jivoi to our danse to-night ?’
'Y’What’s'tte-pficS of admission !’
“Oh, it’s fiee of course. W<“ would
be glad to have you ?” .
“Yes’mexclaimed oar friend,
brightening up, “and I would like
mighty well to have you.”
At this instant the young lady beck
oned to Tom Foddrill, aod we saw her
leave Charlie and the buggy alone in
their glory.
The Necessity of a Good School.
Editor Democrat: —We regret the
Railway, in its Western march, passing
S >uth of our city. But there is mnch
left us. We must look to our own
culture and independent growth. Our
wants are many, but we have not the
resources at hand by which some of
these can be supplied.
Nothing will conduce so much to the
permanent growth of our city and en
hance the character of our people, as an
enlargement and improvement in our
educational facilities.
A stranger ri ling over our ci'y would
naturally conclude that there was uo
public spirit on this subject. The
little dark house on the out skirts,
hardly creditable for a back woods vil
lage. can scarcely be dignified as an
academy building ; and yet, this is all
the showing we have to offer learned
Professors to make polished and refined
scholia;s of our young gentlemen and
ladies.
The freedmen’s children are schooled
in a more sightly and imposing building.
Have the outside appearances no im
pression on youthful minds? Do they not
give inspiration and stimulous to study
when the pupil is seated in a building of
elegant fiuish ? Does it not matter that
home is made attractive and beautiful
to the child of refinement and ta-te?
Shall observation in travel humiliate
our children as they contrast the mean
facilities provided for their culture at
home ? Do not these scant provisions,
indicate a low estimate in the commu
nity for education ? What man having
children to educate would be drawn
here by the apparent facilities offered?
Several have moved from our county
to adjacent cities to educate their chil
dren. Would it not have been lesss
expensive and more convenient to have
come to their own county site? Sup
pose we had an elegant building of
large rooms well furnished and scholar
ly professors of vi^hand enteprise;
Suppose the spirit to thoroughly edu
cate the youth growing up should come
over ouv people; how long do you sup
pose before a voice of en'erprise would
extend over the county, and we would
see well-to-do farmers moving here to
educate their sous and daughters.
Would not real estate be increased ?
Would not merchants feel the impulse of
trade ; and educated sons and daughters
going forth as teachers; and the spirit
of education he turned up th;oughout
the county, and a spirit of progress and
improvement dawn upon laud; and igno
rance and thriftless indifference be ban
ished from the masses? But those we
have not. In the meantime let the com
munity rally to the Professor now in
charge of the Academy. He comes
hightly recommended by gentlemen of
known integrity and judgment Why
may not the school be increased to such
patronage that he may gather around
him a full corps nf competent teachers
in the spirit to educate both rich and
poor? Why should not the rich, the
fatherless and the bochelors pay tuition
for the poor children ? One lady in
our city never allows a school term to
pass without having some poor child
educated at her expense. Who will fol
low her example, while we talk up a
hotel, college or high school budding.
The city wonld realize good profit on
such an investment; so wouid our
merchants. Much wou'd be saved by
not having to send off our sons and
daughters to educate them. Who will
live to see it—a fine structure for edu
cational purposes in Bainbridge (?)
Yours, West Marvin.
A Bothers Work-
“My mother gets me up builds the fire
and gets my breakfast, and sends me off.”
said a bright youth. “Then she gets my
father up and gets his breakfast.and sends
him off. Then she gives the other children
their breakfast and seeds them to school;
and then she and the baby have their break
fast.”
‘•How old is the baby ? asked the report
er.
“Oh she is ’most two, but she car, talk
and walk as well as any of os.”
“Are you well paid?”
“I get two dollars a week, and my father
gets two dollars a day.”
“How much does your mother get ?”
With a bewildered look, ‘he boy said :
‘Mother ? Why, she don't work for any
body”.
* I thought you said she worked for all of
you.“
“Oh, ye*; for us she doe?. Bat there
ain’t any money onto it.”
Education.
,Vr. Editor:—A* you published
“Black Jack’s” article on “Public
Roads” you will please treat my article
on Education with like consideration.
I hope that I will be able to present
my subject with as much variety; and
I hope to tell the plain, unvarnished
truth; and I hope to do it fully and in
the spirit of kindness.
Education is the oue thing needful!,
and should be the thing sought for
earnestly and perseveringly, bat I re
gret to say that in our section there is
a very poor effort to that end. I have
talked with many of the citizens, and
from what I can fiud out, there is a
great diffidence shown. I find that
there is no unity of action, but disun
ion. Here is a little school, and there
a little one, and yonder another; two
or three of the trustees have little side
schools. One has gone so far as to
build a school house for his own special
benefit. To all appearances, a bad, bad
showing for an enl'ghtened community.
We have new railroads, and new en
terprises spring up all around, and yet
our Academy neglected. When I say
Academy. I mean it oue as beautifully
situated, aod with a little repairing, as
commodious as is necessary; surround
ed by as dense and beautiful grove of
oaks ami magno'ias as could be found
in the south. Surely nature has done
all she could for the place. Here does
this picturesque spot appear desolate.
There is not to be seen, smilling chil
dren in the morn skipping along on
their way to school. You do not see
them playing beneath the shade of the
majestic grove at noon, or hear them
on their way home in the evening.
No; you see none of this desolation,
dessolat ion. Arouse from your lethar
gy citizens ! Make friends, shake off
all differences, and let us revive the old
place—let us cause the cat-squrrels to
chatter at hearing the ringing voices
of our children as of old. Yes! let
passengers on the first cars see that
there is life in the land. Yet. you
may di?ide and split up, and be con
tentious, tut remember—it is at the
expense of your children. You are
resilitative against their education; and
they are the sufferers.
In conclusion I will assert this : that
unless we turn over a new leaf, the col
ored children will in a very short time
outstrip ours in education. They unite
and have schools. But we for a whim,
pull off to ourselves, a few together, and
in doing so, diffuse prejudicial notions
in our children ; hence disunion works
detrimental to our children in two ways
No wonder we have bad roads, as
Black Jack states. We have lost
quite, if not all, bublic spirit. Mr.
Russell, can’t you help us revive our
school? Green Shade.
Qualification* ot u. Brag (lerlc.
‘Want to hire a drug clerk ?’ arked
a bright eyed youth stepping into the
office of a prominent apothecary on
Deaboin street.
‘Are you a competent man ?’ inquired
the proprietor, rising and closing the
door with an air of secrecy.
‘Well, 1 should say, yes,’ replied the
youth.
‘H*d any experience ?’
‘Three years.’
‘Where ?’
‘In Milwaukee.’
‘Ahem—what would you do for a
plain wink at the soda fountain V
‘Dash with our mash.
‘Two short winks and the tongue in
the left cheek V
‘Fill the glass half full with Jamaica
^ tf
rum.
‘In case a man calls for banana syrnp
with a doleful look, and his hand on
his watch pocket ?’
‘Give him cognac and ginger.’
‘Three winks and a jerk over the
left shoulder with the thnmb?’
•Put in Old Tom gin, and have the
same ready for a friend of the man’*
who will be in directly-’
‘What if the mau says ‘Baraboo’ and
spits to the left ?’
‘Fill with old crow dashed with pep
permint and tansy.’
‘The examination iasatifactory. You
may come on in the morning. The new
international code of signals is not pub
lished yet. If any change is made I
will give you a key. We Lave to be
very strinct in the examination of pre-
seripiion clerks where the health yes,
even th^ lives of individuals are at
stake.
‘P
A Woman With A Whl
Detroit free Press,
In hooting up the battlefield of Jones
boro, I came across the usual score of
bliod roads leading no one knew where, and
in following one through the woods I came
to a point where a fence blocked farther
progress. On the other side of the fence
was a farmer hoeing corn, and after the us.
eal talk about the weather I asked :
“Say, Colonel, is this the end of this
road f”
“This is the end t”
“Don’t go any farther ?”
“Not a rod.” m
“And I've got to ride back ?”
“I reckon so ; but you'd come over to the
house and have a bite first.”
“Won't it put you to any trouble
“Not a bit. Ride down into the scrub
and you'll fiud a low spot where you can
jump the horse.”
When I had followed directions aod
reached his side he continued :
“Stranger I want to post you in advance.
When the Yankees came down here they
ripped open our feather beds, broke open
our chests, smashed our crockery and stole
our chickens. 1 never laid it up agin em.but
my wife cant’ forget it. When we reach
the house she'll take a squint at ye and ask
if you are from the north. You'll say yes,
and then she’ll ask if you was in the Yan
kee army. You'll say yes, and then sbe’l*
open on you anj) call you all sorts of hard
names. Yon won’t pretend to hear a word,
aud she'll heave chairs and bootjacks and
flat-irons at ye, and yell at our four dogs to
chaw ye up. That’s a whim of hers, you
see. bat she can’t hit ye if you are good at
dodging, and the dogs dasn t bilo any.
body.”
“But I don’t want to be greeted in that
way.”
“You never mind. It is only a whim,
and after she has tired heiself out jawing
and throwing and tearing around she’ll set
to and cook the best di/inerin the btnteof
Georgia. There wus tfehap here irorn Chi
cago only last week, and after be had dodg
ed three chairs, a dozen sticks of wood,
and six milk pans, the old woman pulled
him off his boss and made him feel so mnch
at home that I reckon he may marry our
oldest gal this fall.”
I postively declined to take dinner with
him, and I think I hear him calling yet as
I galloped away :
“Stranger, if ye can’t face one old wo
man with a whim now, I don’t reckon
you bothered our folks much during the
war.”
A Sad Mistake
From the Walton, 6a, Neics.
A few days ago a lady visited our town,
and soon a young gallaul of the place called
tosee her, aud as is often the case, fell blind
ly in love at first sight. The lady seemed
to be ol the same tniad, andau engagement
soon followed. The lady, after she return
ed home, the following letter was writteu
by the young man, aud her reply follows be
low. Tbe names of the parties and just
how we cams in posession of the letters we
cannot state, but we pledge our word for it
that the letters are genuine and were real
ly sent:
Monroe, tflP, July 23, 1882.—Miss :
It has only been a few hours since I was
with you, but it really seems a year. I am
a long ways from you, but my mind is with
you all the time. You are tbe subject of
my daily thoughts and midnight dreams.
Since you left I have heard that you are a
married lady. I cannot aod will not be
lieve it. You promised me you would
marry me, and 1 am making my arrange
ments to come aftei you. Tell your pareuts
about it. I will be down next wsek. Think
of me.
Your own, .
W .July25,1882.—Mr. : Your
letter received and carefully read. I am
sorry if I ever caused a single pang 'to
pierce yonr noble breast, but I really
thought you were better posted. I have
been married several years ; have a hus
band now living, who sends his kindest re
gards to you, 8nd soys that if ever in life
he should meet up with yonr wife he will
show her the same kind favors you have
shown me, with interest. While my hus
band. lives I cannot entertain any proposi
tions from yon, but after be dies come down
and we will discuss, the matter,
Yonr friend, Mbs.
Coming; Politicians.
Two boys on a back street were playing
marbles.
“Yonr fudging is an outrage,” said Jim.
“You can't gag me,” says Dick.
“You’re a liar.”
“You're another, doggone you.”
A gentleman passing said : “Go it boys ;
in less yian tea years you will be prominent
Georgia politicans.”
Bonn fool Yerself.
“Ob all animals,” says Uncle Joe, “a cow
can tarn aroun’ an’ look at a mau de most
pityfu’. De cow nat'rally ’cites de
sympathy ob de human family. Butdoan
fool yerself ’bout de cow. Jes’ when yer
thinks dat she’s grievin' ober de loss ob a
frien' she lifts her foot kicks sideways, an
comes mighty nigh splittin yer wide open.”
WIT AND HinOR.
It is giving a xtao a hard name to call
him a brick.
'Hie man who failed to find his match
went to bed in the dark.
Lies multiply so rapidly that the supply
ot nails for nailing them is getting low.
The hog may not be posted in arithme
tic, bat wheu it comes to square root—the
bog is there.
Unbiased kisses may cause dissatisfac
tion to the young ladies, but it is the un
remitted remittance that worries the col
lege boy.
A Kentucky man is the owner of a jar
known to be 300 year* old. It must have
been a terrible family jar to be remember
ed so long.
“Man was made to mourn,” and woman,
Heaven bless her—was made to attend
Saturday matinees aud flirt with the bad,
bad actors.
The youDg woman who sneeringly re
marks .that men are all alike, generally
shows her sincerity by taking the first man
that offers himself to her.
Young lady: “What, doctor, do phil
osophers also fall in love?” Doctor:
“Can you for a moment doubt about that!
Think you that women are loved by fools
alone ?”
The Columbia Spectator knows a n.an
in Adair county, Kentucky, who never
heard of the murder of Garfield until after
the execution of Gniteau. Some men
have enormous good luck.
A fashion article beaded “What becomes
a stout woman,” is going the rounds of the
press. Anybody cau answer that question.
The slim, gigglinggirl becomes a stout wo
man.
“Can a policeman lawfully flirt?” asks
the New Nork Herald. Don’t know about
tbe law of the case, but, by Judas, il be
doesn’t he’ll have to get his meals some
where and pay for ’em !
Arabi Bey may twist the caudal excres-
ence of Fnglisb the lion os much as he feels
disposed, but if he gets to trampling
around on our grand old bnld-headed
American eagle, well paralyze him with one
fell stroke of our navy.
“Where is your father, mychild ?” “Oh,
mamma, I suppose he's gone to take a
drawing lesson from Mr. Gaiboy, for I
heard him tell pappa if he would come to
his room for a little draw we would show
him how to catch any card in the deck.”
The extraordinary advance of what has
developed into the human race is showu in
the fact that Darwin left an estate valued
at $730,000. Eighteen millions of years
ago no monkey then oxtant wts worth
half that number of chestnuts.
“Avoid contradicting your wife,” said a
recent writer. A very good idea, and it
would be well for wives to avoid contra-
dic^jng their husbands, also. There is al
together too much of this sort of thio
goiug on and every married man knows it.
It is said to be pleasant to be a parent,
but when your child has a predilection for
thunder storms, and cries because you
den’t set one going, you must think
that the fun brings along its aggravations.
“What inspires love?” asks a poet
“Grub,” young man. Without “hash”
there is very little affection in this world.
A hungry kiss is hollow mockery. The
embrace inspired by beef and onions is
strong.
An old citizen of Austin, returning to
bis home from a banquet, meets another
old citizen of Austin coming from the op
posite direction. “Ish tbish tbe avenne?'
asked No. 1. “How should I know?
wash at the banquet myshelf.”
Quiet table talk at a seaside boarding
house: “Did the ancient Egyptians know
how to make butter?” asked young Mr.
Yardstick. “Of course they did,” growled
old Mr. Cumagin from the other side of
the table, “or how could they have made
this ?” Aud he slashed off a large slab of
the fame for himself with hi* own kniie.
“ You advertise that there is a fine stream
of water on the place, but I don’t see it,”
remarked a stranger who waoted to rent
the place. The landlord said: “Just
work that pump handle a little and you
will see a fine stream of water. You don’t
expect to have the Niagara Falls on the
place for fifteen dollars a mouth, dy you ?”
Gus De Smith called at a very fashiona
ble bouse on Austin avenue a few days
ago, and acted so qneerly that when the
lady's hasbaad came home she said:
“What is the matter with young De Smith ?
He acts so strangely. I think there must
be a sere w loose abont him somewhere.”
“Reckon not. I saw him this morning
and be was tight all over.”
'llte most startling parasols exhibited
thus far are those of vermillion satin, lined
with old gold silk and trimmed with doa
ble ruffles of old gold lace. ILe ferrules
are surrounded by a wreath of brilliant
scarlet roses, mixed with yellow sunflow
ers. A goat ba3 to study a long time to
decide whether the thing is to be batted
or eaten.
RAILROAD PROGRESS OT THti
SOOTH
The New York Herald says the rsilrosd
building and railroad business last year warf
unprecedented in the Southern States.
About fifteen hundred mile* of road were
put in operation, which is nearly a thous
and more than were built uuriug the pre
ceding year. The gross earnings of South
ern railroads bast year reached sixty-three
million dollars. In 1880 they amounted to
forty-eight millions and iu 1879 to forty-
three millions. l'he net earnings increaced
from fourteen millions in 1879 to eighteen
millions in i880 and more than twenty-
four millions in 1881. These figures speak
volumes for the industrial aud commercial
growth of that part of the country. The
natural advauuiges and resource* of the
Southern States are unbounded, yd their
development must result in a Agree of
prosperity hither uukuown in the South
Tbe extraordinary railroad progress which
we have noted indicates a marked activi
ty in tbe process of development.
A NATURAL INK
W men Flows from tiib Bosom of Moth-
f.r Earth
Atlanta Constitution.
Marietta, Ua., Aug. 14.—Tbe country
around ‘be foot of Kennesaw mountain has
ulways been noted Tor the richness of it*
mineral deposits, but it seems that has
never been turned to any advantage until,'
of late.—About ayoar ago Judge Ham met.'
the Ordinary of Cobb county, being at
tracted by the wonderful showing of rich de
posits ou tbe laud of Mr. G. W. Kirk, with
that gentleman started the working of •
mine for copper aud sulphur, and bus it to'
pay well. A short time since, at the depth
ot about thirty feet, Mr. Kirk, while em
ployed in the work ot blasting away tho
rocks, noticed collected at the bottom of
the well a water of a very peculiar color, re
sembling very much a rich wine, and hav
ing a puckering, tongue-tying taste to U»e
mouth,evidently being very strongly im
pregnated with alum and copperas. Ho
observed the flow to be about five gallon*
per day, and noticed that the further down!
the well wus dug, the mote abundant bo-'
came the flow.
Being struck with the peculiarity of the
water, he brought a specimen to Marietta,’
where it created quite a sensation among'
the citizens. It was found that, with the
addition of a few drops of what is knowrf
as “nut gall,” it became of a very black col
or, and m >de a capital writing ink.
In speaking on the subject, Judge Ham
mett remarked: “We find that it will not
corrode at all, and that in the severest
weather it never freezes. We found a lit
tle of it last year, bat nothing was said
about it, and during the coldest weather,
when the thermometer was at zero, I left it
out in the air, and it never froze. We
haveu’t had it analyzed yet but intend td
soon.”
It is estimated that the cost of the man-'
ufactureof ink from the water is about one
cent a gallon, and a revolution in the cost
of ink seems imminent, if this mine tnrnU
out what it promises.
They Come nigh.
A young lady was looking at some hosi
ery, and asked the blushing clerk :
“ How do you sell these T” at the same
time holdiugup before him' a long pair of
zebra-colored ones.
“ Those are worth $5 a pair," he answer
ed.
“Oh, my I” twittered the giddy creature;
“they come pretty high, don't they ?”
‘“Y-y-yes,” stammered the bashful youth?
“th-th-tbey come p-pre-pretty high, bu-bu-'
but you're tall, you know.”
fa 1#11
Is still ahead with a full line of
HARNESS, SADDLES,
BRIDLES, WHIPS;
MATTRESSES,
BLACK OIL, &c„ &C.
Harness $7.50 a Set 4 Gp I
All of my w«rk is under my personal su
pervision, aud is strictly
FIRST-CLAS^
When you want anything in my line, call
at my store on South Broad Street, next to
F, L. Babbit’s, and I am satisfied I cad
please you in a4Mialitv and prleeg.
• ~ : ■ JACOBBORltr^
Proprietor City Harness Store.
ATTENTION FARMERS i
—THE—
IS ROW HI TOLL BLAST.
We want to buy 1.000 bales of
cotton by 1st of December at our
warehouse. The highest prices
paid.
Will advance all tbe bash wanted
on cotton stored at our warehouse.
The farmer pays no drayage at
our warehouse.
Our scales are new, latest style,
and true.
Good house for the accommoda
tion of patrons,; and stables for
stock. Water convenient.
Thankful for past favors we so-'
licit ^ continuance of same.
POWELL &. McNAIR,
Aug. 17, ’82. Bainbridge, 6a.
