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WEEKLY BANNER-WATCHMAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1886
PROF. WHITE’S PEASANTRY.
Prof. II C. White delivered one
of his very able addresses before the
las; meeting of the State Agricultu
ral^) Society, and this time he
took for his theme the labor of the
South., Ptof. White contends that
tl,e nejio is wo thless, thriftless,
ami iuc’i a ‘le ot any advancement
or improvement. His plan i» o
substitute for the African a white
peasar try, and thinks the railroads,
associations of farmers and the state
should unite and import good white
laborers trom the North and Lu-
tope- The Professor's proposition
reads ve-y nicely on paper, but it is
entirely impracticable. In the first
place, no reliable class of white la
bor will consent to come to Georgia
and compete with the negro, who
can live on a mere pittance and oc
cupy a stick-and-dirt hovel; and
then again we seriously doubt if a
Southern larmer and one of Prof.
White’s -peasantry” would get
along for si:; weeks together. You
won't find any white man willing
to get up in the night and catch
your horse, to black your boots, and
ever ready to be subject to your
beck and call, as is the negro. Our
farmers have always been used to
commanding the most implicit obe
dience from servants, and hence it
woidd take no time for them to
clash with white labor. Then our
lands have been badly worn and are
very thin, and the planters are not
able and would not pay the wages
demanded by these imported labor
er. They had sooner go out and
pick up two or three negroes, even
if thev aie slow and uncertain. Gov.
Colquitt tried this “peasantry” busi
ness to perfection, and made a most
disastrous failure. He collected
thousands of dollars fiom the far-
meis of Georgia, and piomised in
return to fill the state with skil eJ
while laborers from the Old World.
After sending out agents and flood
ing Europe with the most glowing
circulars, the Governor .succeeded
in getting to Georgia an old Dutch
man and his wife, who opened a
beer saloan in Augusta. And this
will just about be the •ntcome of
Prof. White’s peasantry. Just as
fast as they can rake together $^o
or $100 they will move to some
town or city, where it is easier to
make a living. A European or
Northern— don’t like to face tl ■
hot S0110 < in sun any im 'e th.Mi
the native whites, and will find
some way to avoid it. We ate op
posed to pauper emigrants,
but will welcome any for
eigner who voluntarily comes among
us. When we import into Geor
gia the serfs of Europe, we bring
among us communism, nihilism,
and every other infamous doctrine
to distract our country. Put
so long as there are such broad do
mains of fresh and fertile lands in
the West, that can be had on such
easy terms, there is no danger that
the old fields of Georgia will be
overrun by a white “peasantry.”
Now, we will admit that if the ne
gro was out ol the way, there would
be some reason in Prof. White’s pro
position. But the Atiican is firmly
fastened on the South, and like the
Old-Man-of-the-Sea, he cannot be
shaken ofT. Ite is a fixture on us
arid will inhabit this country just as
long as the white man. His very
presence will keep away other la
bor, and hence our farmers had just
as well make up their minds to grin
and bear with the darkey. If these
people were kept out of politics,
and from the control and bad coun
sel of unscrupulous white men, they
will make a very good class of la
bor—at least the best that the South
can get. We know of a number of
men who have made money farm
ing with “free niggers,” and what
one man has accomplished another
can also, if he uses the proper exer
tions. We won’t take any of Prof.
White’s peasantry in otirn’n.
THE BASTARD SILVER DOLLARS.
Since it is a settled ‘matter that
congress will insist on the continued
coinage of the bastared silver dol
lar, that now fills every government
vault to overflowing, and which no
body wants, it behooves Secretary
Manning to make some disposition
of this idle money, and not let it re
main an expense on the govern
ment. If Mr. Manning will only
do his duty, it will be a very easy
matter to dispose ot this surplus
s iver, and at the same time put up
wards of two hundred millions more
in circulation. Let him take those
idle millions, now locked up in the
vaults ,in Washington and New
York, and call in enough of the
three and four per cent, government
bonds to use up the last dollar.
Uncle Sam has reserved the privi
lege of paying these bonds at any
time, and as these silver dollars have
oten made a legal tender by con
gress, the bondholders cannot re
fuse to receive them. Besides put
ting such a vast amount ot money
in circulation, with its attendant
good results, we get rid of an ele
phant on the hands of the govern
ment, and save to the people vast
sums in interest. But will Secreta
ry Manning do this? We are afraid
not. He is in full sympathy with
the New York gold bugs, and such a
step on the part of Mr. Manning
would be a severe blow to the bloat
ed coupon-clippers of the North,
who prefer their government bonds
to the cash. If they were forced to
accept this silver they could not use
it abroad, so would be obliged to in
vest it in developing the country.
It would give a tremendous boom
to new enterprises, and infuse fresh
life into every branch of business.
Then, in order to keep this contin
ued coinage of silver in circulation,
and to prevent such blockades of
dollars as are now in our vaults,
when the silver miners bring their
bullion to the mints, instead of giv
ing them silver certificates, let them
pay the government a toll tor coin-
ing, just*as they would at a corn
mill, and then give them their part
in silver dollars. This will always
keep the money in circulation, and
enliven things up. Fill a man’s
pocket with silver dollars, and he is
not apt to hoard them up, but will
keep the money circulating. We
-ec no sense in or necessity for this
continued coinage by the govern-
men of a bastard coin that no one
ants, but lies idle in the vaults;
but since congress has declared that
the mints must continue to grind
them out, we want to see this idle
money put to the best use possible.
The only question is, will Secretary-
Manning carry out this plan? We
are afraid that he is too nearly allied
with the Wall street gold bugs to
make so patriotic a move. It is his
duty to do so, and is fully empower
ed by congress to call in those three
and four per cent, bonds and re
deem them with silver.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
Those neighborhood correspon
dents in the weekly papers are get
ting to be a nuisance, unless they
ate boiled down and the trash
skimmed off. Sometimes a half
dozen different writers will give the
same news items, and each one is
published. One will fill half his
space with something that no one
but himself and a Iriend under
stands. Cut out this ttash, and give
only tht news items.
It is as-cited
that if Geo gia’ 1
FRANKLIN COl'NTY.
IKlbertou Leader.)
Mr. L. J. McConnell and Miss
Cora A. Nelms, both of Carnesville,
are married.
Two more militia districts of the
county have filed their petitions
asking for an election on the “Stock
Law.”
McFntire & Nelms have sold
their mill property on North Broad
river to the land owners on the
stream above, and the dam will be
removed at once and the land drain
ed.
The turn the Tabor & Bro. failure
has taken was the best thing that
could have been done for all parties
at interest,as the chances ate good
now for the creditors getting very
nearly or quite all their claims, and
Messrs. Tabor will be out of debt,
or abouCso, when the matter is fully
settled up—when, had it gone into
the hands of a receiver who was
not posted as to the business, and
the goods sold at auction, there
would have been a shortage ot sev
eral thousand dollars.
ns a positive fact
negro population
was transierred to either Pennsyl
vania or Rhode Island, they would
nil be disfranchised by the property
qualification required in these two
states.
' At-
IIow the mighty has fallen!
lnnta has not as yet succeeded in
raising that pitiful $100,000 to build
the Georgia Midland, and now has
its eyes turned on the little county
of Fayette like a dying calf.
The fertilizer business in Georgia
is still on a boom. Up to the pres
ent date about one million tags have
been issued, representing 100,000
tons of fertilizers.
Vermont is talking about estab
lishing a whipping post for drunk
ards. Several Georgia prohibition
towns have established leaning posts
for them.
The Waco Enterprise says Judge
Simmons, of Georgia, has held
court for every Judge in the state,
we believe, except Judge Lynch.
The Bell Telephone stock has
been watered seven times and the
shares, which were originally worth
$30. are now-worth $1,200.
Athens has no tied-out horse to
enter in the next congressional race.
We will quietly wait until our time
comes.
The liquor men in Atlanta have
at last deeided to hang their harp
on a willow tree.
Dallas, Texas, has twelve thous
and inhabitants ’and; Fort Worth
twenty thousand. J
Pennsylvania statutes allow a man
to marry hit mother-in-law.
Baldwin’s prohibition election
(takes place March aa.
THE FINEST STOCK.
Toomer & Hazelton have the fin
est stock of pianos, organs and sew-
‘ng machines south of Baltimore.
They are on a big boom, and it will
be necessary next year to have their
already extensive businecs enlarged.
WILKES COUNTY.
v. [Chronicle]
Each issue of the Washington
Chronicle improves. It is a model
paoer—[Ed. B.-W.
Father O’Bryan is quite sick with
erysipe'as
A change of postmasters will be
ma 'e at our post office in luly.
Mr. James Wright, of Mallorys—
ville, died on Friday night last.
The farmers say that oats are all
killed and wheat badly damaged.
Eddie Newsome killed three
fine turkeys at a blind on Capt.Bar
rett’s plantation.
Mrs. Polly Cofer died last Sun
day, near Ueaverdam. She was in
the 80th year of her age.
Many Oglethorpe farmers do
their trading in Washington this
year. No whisky in Lexington.
Miss Lula Cosby received a let
ter the other day from Eiberton,
which had been on the road nearly
two months.
Mr. John O’Neil’s little thorough-
b-ed terrlei, about eight inches
high, was swallowed by a larger
dog, and Mr. O'Neil was compell
ed to take a cork screw and pull
him out.
The Sale Mining Company has
nearly abandoned the hydraulic svs
tern of mining, and are now dig
ging ore on the old style. We learn
•hat they have a good vein of pay
ing ore.
Mr. T. L. Gantt, the editor of the
Banner-Watchman, who has been
so dangerously ill for six weeks, is
slowly recovering. Fora longtime
he hovered at death’s door, and it
was only by the most careful nurs
ing and attention that he was saved.
He is a born journalist, and is per
haps the most popular editor in the
state with the press gang.
[Gazette.]
It is pretty generally conceded
that the oats are all dead.
Mr. Thomas Gtanade and Miss
Alice Fanning are married.
Messrs. Hogue & Quinn, of this
place, have just shipped a bill ot
goods to China.
Mr. Samuel R. Sims and Miss
Sallie T. DuBose, of Washington,
are married. It was a brilliant af
fair.
Miss Woodie Moon, from near
Watkinsville, is visiting the family
of Mr. John Gilleland.
Mr. Marcus Pharr, Jr., sent in his
application for the position of post
master in this place, to the authori
ties in Washington City, the first of
the week.
One of our fish dealers stuck up a
sign, “No charge made for fish.”
The first man who came along said
he would take half a dozen at that
rate. Not till then did the dealer
take in the real meaning of the pla
card. He then stuck up the plain
old meaningless sign, “Terms Cash.”
The news of a very sad case of
drowning came in from the country
yesterday. A little girl about three
years old, daughter of Mr. Thomas
Sisson, fell into a spring, and when
found had been dead for some time.
The little child was missed and a
search for her was instituted with
the above result, which shocked
the family to an incalculable degree.
ELBERT COUNTY.
TE OLDEN TIME.
Mr. Harrison Sanders, grandson of
Elias Sanders, of whose burial place we
made mention recently, says that when
liis grandfather began farming in this
■tion the farmers used ploughs made
entirely of wood. Iron ploughs were
unknown. They would get out plow
iinlier a year beforehand which they
,'ould thoroughly season for the coming
ear. Wagon bodies were fastened to
gether with hickory withes instead of
nails, and plouglilines, traces, etc., were
made of the ssnic material.—Hartwell
Sun.
[Qaz-'ttp ]
Cnpt. J. J. Burch v\ants to sell
liis place one mile fiom Eiberton.
Jim banders advertises that he
will ship whisky to Eiberton from
Gainesville, Ga.
No cotton seed will be received
at the Eiberton oil mill after this
week.
Miss Fanny Henry, daughter ot
Capt W. B. Henry, of this place, is
sick with typhoid fever.
The stock law contest will be
heard by fudge G. L. Almand, Or
dinary, at his office in Eiberton,
commencing at eight o’clock, a. m.,
on the 27th day February, the pres
ent month.
Marshal Colson is a crack shot.
He shot two wild turkeys, Tuesday
morning; “on the wing.” The tur
keys were flushed and Marshal
brought them down almost at the
same time.
Mr. I. S. Davis informs us that
the dog that bit Mrs. Davis, his wife,
a few days ago, is thought ti be a
diflerent one from the dog that bit
the mule which went mad and died
about ten days since. Mrs. Davis
has experienced no serious conse
quences from the effects of the bite
as yet.
A very progressive farmer of
this county, getting out of sugar
recently, and being out of monev at
the same time, and doubting his
ability to get it on a credit, con
cluded he would make some at
home. He therefore took his brace
and bit and started for the creek
bottoms, where he bored into some
maple trees, introduced forcets and
tapped them until he had procured
as much of the juice as he wanted.
He then carried it home and boiled
it down until he had reduced it to
sugar, and says that he made a con
siderable quantity of it in a short
time. He believes that large quan
tities of sugar could be made in this
section if the people would only
take the trouble to do so.
GREENE COUNTY.
Home J '»rn»! tnd Herald.
Benjamin E. Spencer is dead.
The wheat will turn out much
better than expected.
Miss C. Blanche Ledbetter was
married to Mr. Columbus J. Park.
George Hall last week caught a
catfish weighing 17 pounds.
The Greenbackers hold weekly
meetings in Stonewall academy, at
Wood ville.
Lots for building purposes in
Wood ville now bring more than
$200.
Mr. Hardy Caldwell has about
recovered from the terrible blow
which he received in his encounter
with the negro a few days ago.
Mis.Jas. Simpson, whose hands
were badly burned in the fruitless
effort to save her child from being
burned to death, is getting over
her injuries. At first it was feared
she would lose several of her
fingers.
Mr. R. E. Davison, of Woodville,
has invented an attachment for a
cotton gin to improve the sample.
It is claimed to add one-half cent
per pound to the value of the sta
ple. Mr. D. says he has been of
fered S300 for the right.
Mr. fisher, of North Carolina,
who has been staying on the planta
tion of Col. Tom Saffold, near
Buckhead, got into an altercation
with a negro by the name ot Tom
Tones, and gave him one dose of
knife. Mr. Fisher was justifiable.
Mr. P. A. Fluker, who lives near
Bethesda, says there is hardly a live
oat in his neighborhood, and that
his wheat is entirely killed out.
HART COUNTY.
[San.]
Boon Bowei s, Esq., has located
in Anderson county, S. C.
Missjulia Johnson, of Walhalla, | " e
will teach a music class in Hart- Mrs. McClellan,
DAYIS’ DARK DEED.
-- ' ^ ■’ ’
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.
well.
Married, Mr. James Jordan and
M ss Mollie Heard; also Miss Tex
Adams to Mr. Bud Sewell, of
Franklin county.
Dr. George Eberhart removed to
Harmony Grove this week. Dr.
Eberhart is a capable, carelul physi
cian, and we can conscientiously re
commend him to the peopleof Har
mony Grove.
We are glad to learn that Mr. T.
L. Gantt, the fearless and able edi
tor of the Athens Banner-Watch-
man, is fast regaining health. As
editor of the only daily newspaper
in the Eighth district, his trenchant
pen could illy be dispensed with in
this the election year, and the peo
pie have been very anxious for him
during his severe illness.
On Wednesday Yance; Carter
arrested one Jordan for infringement
of the revenue law and put him in
a room in his dwelling, secured the
windows and locked the door, tell
ing Jordan to go to bed and he
would wake him'up when the long
whistle blew. But when Yancey
opened the door Thursday morning
he found that the bird had flown
and the nest cold.
HARMONY.GROVE.
[Signal.]
Tho Harmony Grove dramatic
club gave an entertainment in Mays-
ville last night.
Mr. W. D. Purcell, of Banks
county, weighs 2S4 pounds. He is
the largest man in Banks.
Mr. Jerry Ritch has a fine school
at Bushville academy. He has 62
scholars at present.
A man who lives in our town and
who served four years in the war,
says he did not see a buzzard dur
ing the whole time of the war.
Mr. Hugh Henderson, who com
mitted suicide at his home near
Maysville, we learn had some two
thousand dollars buried under his
house. The money has been dug
up and turned over to his relatives.
Mr. Washington Strickland, of
Madison county, is at the Butler
House, quite sick.
Mr. C. W. Hood is preparing to
make considerable improvements
in his already commodious dwelling.
Mr. Marcus Jacobs has sold all
of his real estate and personal prop
erty in the Grove, and intends to
cross the Atlantic Ocean in March
or April, to nay his parents and
kinsmen a visit, after an absence of
ten years or more.
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
SWEEPING THE FIELDS.
The New Home and Domestic
machines are sweeping the fields in
every direction. Everybody almost
is using'hem. Toomer & Ilazelton
also have the finest organs and pian
os that can be bought in the United
States.
The Fitz John Porter relief bill
having passed the House, will go
through the senate also.
MOST PERFECT MADE
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO..
CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS.
JACKSON COUNTY.
[Echo.]
On Saturday, the 13th inst., Miss
Mittie Reynolds, aged nineteen
years, second daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. I. Reynolds, died in Lex
ington.
Col. R. B Matthews killed 4S
birds in 53 shots.
Messrs. Jim and Wright Brooks
have bought Judge Platt’s planta
tion in Simston.
W. J. Knox will probably estab
lish a tan yard in North Georgia by
fall.
When the old court house was
built corner stones did not receive
papers and the like as they do now
adays.
The fence around the Baptist
graveyard caught fire on Tuesday
and about ten panels was destroyed
before the fire was extinguished by
some ladies.
[Herald]
Brooks has
left for
Mr. A. E
Texas.
Work on the new Institute is
moving right along.
Old Uncle Ephraim Jackson, aged
eighty seven years and seven
months, died last Saturday.
Married, Mr. William Smith to
Miss Vinia Cronic.
Judge Bell says he will build a
new jail this spring and summer, as
recommended by several grand ju
ries. He has boaght a lot on Hill
street for this purpose.
Last Saturday, the 13th inst., Mr.
Thomas D. Cartledge removed the
remains ofh is infant from Hebron
grave yard where it was buried
sometime ago, and deposited it be-
side its mother in what is known as
McDonald’s graveyard near here.
There was something very mysteri
ous about it. W hen they were open
ing the grave and came to the case
that contained the coffin it was
turned up from the vault at one
side and some one or two of the
screws gone. We are told there
were no signs of water about it to
solve the mystery. The question is
what turned up the case.
How a Plena in Human Form Taka* an In
nocent Life--George D»vl* Brutally Har
der* Arch Beams'.
. Columbus En«utrer-Sun.
News of one of the most horrible
murders that it has ever been ot»r
duty to chronicle reached the city
yesterday. The murdered man
was William McClellan, commonly
known as Archie Reams,. and the
murderer is George Davis. Both
have lived on the plantation of Mr.
J. E. Fitzgerald, in Russell county,
Aia. Davis waa soverseer of the
place and Reams worked under
him. The story of the brutal mur-
dsr as told by Davis, is as follows:
Wednesday about noon Davis
sent Reams down to the river to
look up some cows. Immediately
ajter givings the order Davis pick
ed up his shot gun and started for
the river by different routes. In a
few minutes Davis overtook Reams
near the bank of the river and shot
him in the back of the neck. Da
vis says that after shooting Reams
the first time hs fell upon his knees
and begged him not to kill him, and
they talked for several minutes,
when he told Reams that one of
them must die and shot him again.
Seeing that Reams was still alive,
Davis drew his knife and stabbed
him in the throat twice. He then
knocked him in the head wi*h the
butt of his gun breaking his skull.
After committing this most hor
rible of murders, Davis returned to
where the negroes were at work
and told them he had a secret to
tell them which they must not re
veal to anybody. He then related
the story of the horrible crime as
given above. When asked by the
negroes why he killed Reams, he
replied, “That is my and Reams
business?”
Davis then went to the house of
tne mother of his
victim, where he boarded, and ate
dinner. He told her that Arch was
sick and would not come to the
house, and it she would fix his din
ner, he would carry it to him. Mrs.
McClellan prepared the dinner in a
bucket and Davis carried it dowrr
to tloe field where the negroes were
at work. About 1 o’clock Mr.
Fitzgerald walked down from his
residence to the field, and as soon
as the negroes had an opportunity
they told him what Davis had said.
He approached Davis and asked
him where was Reams. Davis re
plied that he had gone off. Mr.
Fitzgerald told Davis it was no use
to deny what had occurred, as he
knew all about it. Davis then con
fessed that he had killed Reams,
and took Mr. Fitzgerald ta where
the body laid. The sight was ghast
ly and sickening. The body lay
there stiffening in a pool of blood,
with two loads of shot in the back
of the head and neck and shoulders,
two knite wounds in the throat and
the skull broken in by blows from
the butt of a gun. The heavy blue
shirt which Reams wore had been
taken off and his coat put on again,
and it looked as though Davis had
used the shirt in trying to drag
the body to the river.
After showing Mr. Fitzgerald the
evidence of his awful crime, Davis
had the supreme gall to ask him to
help him put the body in the river
and conceal the murder. Of course
Mr. Fitzgerald indignantly refused.
He asked Davis why he killed
Reams, and the brute made the same
reply that he had given the negroes.
Davis then went to the house of
Mrs. McClellan, who was still in
ignorance ot the awful fate of her
son, and told her that he had killed
one of the negroes and would have
to leave. He asked her to loan him
Arch’s valise. She not only con
sented, but helped him to pack hit
clothes, and he left. Where he
went no one knows, but it is said
that he was seen in this city Wed
nesday evening.
Columbus. Ga., Feb. 19,—Geo.
Davis, who murdered Arch Reams,
in Russell county, Ala., Wednes
day, was arrested near the scene of
the crime last night. He had a
preliminary trial to-day, and was
committed to jail without bail. He
confessed the killing but said he
did it because Reams had threaten
ed. Davis was too intimate with
Reams sister.
BEQABSIHO THE FUNCTION OF AN IHFOB-
TANT ORGAN.
Of Which the Public Know* out Little
Worthy Careful Consideration.
To the Editor of the Scientific American.
Will you permit us to make known to
the public the facts we have learned dur
ing the past 8 years, concerning disorders
of the human Kidneys and the organs
which diseased Kidneys so easily break
down? You are conducting a Scientific
paper, and are unprejudiced except in
favor of Truth. It is needless to say, no
medical journal of “Code” standing would
admit these facts, for very obvious rea
sons.
H. H. WARNER & CO.,
Proprietors of “Warner’s Safe Cure. 1
SYSTEMATIZED SUICIDE.
JUG TAVERN.
Extraordinary Precautions for Death—The
Sharpened Claap Knife.
New Orleans, Feb. 15, 18S6.—
This morning J. W. Asthur Warnot,
a Frenchman, who came to this city
two vears ago from San Antonia,
Texas, committed suicide at his
boarding house by forcing the blade
ot a huge clasp knife through his
heart. He had carefully prepared
for the act. The 5 inch blade had
been ground to a sharp point, and
the suicide had caretully spread a
rug across the bed to catch the flow
of blood. Upon this he lay, back
down, after giving^ himself the fatal
thrust. He withdrew the knife from
the wound. Death did not result at
once,{and Warnot’s groans attracted
the attention of the people in the
house. He only lived a few moments
after he was found.
WALTON COUNTY.
EXTRACTS
MOST PERfECTMMB
tJ&ssz-Juati
[Now*. ]
The gin-house in Monroe came
near being burned.
The wheat crop was damaged
considerably by the cold.
Mrs. R. K. Reaves is improving
again; is able to walk about the
house and yard.
The new jail was placed in charge
of Sheriff Ammons last Tuesday af
ternoon. The fii st bird caged there
is Sam Robertson, put in on Tues
day.
Along the line of the G. J. & S.
railroad may yet be seen an occa
sional cotton-picker gathering the
last of »he fleecy growth of the past
[Walton News.]
Mr. Mark Whitehead and family
have moved to town.
Jug Tavern is soon to have an
other school. Miss Yerby is to be
principal.
Robert L. Carithers has sold his
house and lot to Mr. Mack House.
Mr. William Johnson and family,
from Washington county, have
moved to town. ,
A bar-room was opened just out
of the incorporation one day last
week. The firm is Johnson &
Hodges..
The trustees have secured the ser
vices of Miss Ola Thrasher, of Wat
kinsville. as assistant in the Jug
Tavern high school.
W. H. Bush has returned from
the lower counties, where he has
been traveling in the interest of
“Mrs. Bush’s Specific” and of the
Crossley plow.
Little Lonnie Hodges, son of
Thos. Hodges, left home one day
last week and has not yet returned.
He is thought to be in Oconee
county, where his father came from.
Little Harvey, son of Mr. J. M.
Rogers, one day last week, swal
lowed a piece ot a ten penny nail
—about one inch of the point had
been broken ofl—the little fellow
swallowed the balance. He has re
covered without injury.
Gilbert White records in his “His
tory of Selborne,” that in 1741 he
saw a shower of spiders, which con
tinued for nearly a whole day. Mr.
Darwin saw one in 1832, while at
sea, and each spider was supported
by a tiny parachute, composed of a
few threads ot almost invisible gos
samer.
Covington, Ga., Feb. 17.—A
telegram received From the sheriff
of Morgan county states that the
thief who lately scooped in Cov
ington was to-day arrested in Mad
ison. We learn that the
scoundrel entered several dwell
ings in broad open daylight and
stole a large amount of jewelry and
fine clothing. This it the boldest
thief on record, and his capture is a
great relief to the country . He will
be brought to Covington to-mor
row and placed in jail. His name
is Doc. Brisco.
year s crop.
Messrs. Radford and Prior have
bought the store-house formerly
occupied by Cook & Bro., and
have opened up a new stock of dry
goods and groceries.
IMMENSE BUSINESS.
Toomer & Hazelton are doing the
largest business of any house in
North-East Georgia in sewing ma
chines, organs and pianos. They
exchanged for 1.21 singer sewing
machines last year. They are sell
ing these second-hand machines
Irom $8 to $12 apiece.
There is, so the Figaro avers, in
one of the outlying quarters of Paris
a building in which corpses are
boiled in huge cauldrons until the
bones are perfectly free an d white.
An English nobleman has assist
ed at several hangings.
The Goverument of Ontario has
greatly raised the liquor license.
That we may emphasize and clearly
explain the relation the kidneys sustain to
the general health, and how much is
dependent upon them, we prepose,
umtaphorically speaking, to take from the
heman body, place in the wash-bowl
before us. and examine it for the public
benefit
You will imagine that we have before
us a body shaped like a bean, smooth and
glistening, about fourinches in thickness
It ordinorily weighs in the adult male,
about five ounces, but is somewhat ligh
ter in the female. A small organ? you say
But understand, the body of the average
size man contains about ten quarts of
blood of which every drop passes through
these filters or sewers, as they may be
called, many times a day, as often as
through the heart, making a complete
revolution in three minutes. From the
blood they separate the wast material,
working away steadily, night and day’
sleeping or waking, tireless as the heart
itself, and fully of as much vital impor
tance; removing impurities from (!5
gallons of blood each hour, or about 49
barrels each day, or 9,125 hogs-hoads a
year! What a wonder that the kidueys
can last any length of time under this
prodigious strain, treated and neglected as
t.iey are!
We slice this delicate organ open length
wise with our knife, and will roughly de
scribe its interior.
We find it to be of a reddish-brown color
soft and easily torn; filled with hundreds
of little tubes, short and thread-like, start
ing from the arteries, ending in a little
tube about midway from the outside open
ing into a cavity of considerable size which
is called the pelvis or, roughly speaking,
a sac, which is for the purpose of holding
the water to further undergo purification
before it passes down from here into the
ureters, and so on to the outside of the
body. These littte tubes are the filters
which do their work automatcaily, and
right here is where the disease of the
kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amout of work which
they are obliged to, from the slightest
irregularity in our habits, from cold, from
high living, from stimulants or a thousand
and one other causes which occur every
day, they become somewhat weakened in
their nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion or
stoppage of the current of blood in the
small blood vessels surroundiug them
which become blocked; these delicate
membranes are irritated; inflammation is
set up, then pus is formed, which collects
in the pelvis or sac; the tubes are at first
partially, and soon ara totally, unable to
do their work. The pelvis sac goes on
distending with this corruption, pressing
upen the blood vessels. All this time,
remember, the blood, which is entering
the kidneys to be filtered, is passing
through this terrible, disgusting pass,
for it cannot take any other route!
Stop and think of it for a moment. Do
you realize the importance, nay the vital
necessity, of having the kidneys in order?
Can you expect when they are diseased
or obstructed, no matter how little that
you can have pure blood and escape
disease? It would be just as reasonable to
expect, if a pest-house were set across
Broadway and countless thousand were
compelled to go through its pestilential
doors, an escape from contagion and dis
ease, as for one to expect the blood to
escape pollution when constantly run
nine through a diseased kidney.
Now, what is the result? Why, that the
blood takes up and depositt this poison as
it sweeps along into every organ, into
every, inch of muscle, tissue, flesh and
bone, from your head to your feet. And
whenever, from hereditary influence or
otherwise, some part of the body is weaker
than another, a countless train ef diseases
is established, such as consumption, in
weak lungs, dyspepsia, where there is a
delicate stomach; nervousness, insanity,
laralysis or heart disease in those who
lave weak nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects of
the poison, as it requires pure blood to
keep it in right action. It increases its
stroke in number and force to compen
sate for the natural stimulus wanting, in
its endeavor to crowd the impure blood
through this obstruction, causing pain
palpitation, or an out-of-brcath feeling
Jnnatural as this forced labor is, the heart
must soon falter, becoming weaker until
one day it suddenly stops, and death from
apparent “heart disease” is the verdict!
But the medical profession, learned and
dignified, call these diseases by high-
sounding names, treat them alone, and
patients die, for the arteries are carrying
slow death to the affected part, constannly
adding fuel brought from these suppura
ting, pus-laden kidneys which here in
our wash-bowl very putrefaction itself,
and which shoud hare been cured first
But this is not all the kidneys have to do
for you must remember that each adult
takes about seven pounds of nourishment
every twenty-four hours to supply the
waste of the body which is constantly
going on, a waste equal to the quantity
taken. This, too, the kidneys have to
separate from the blood with all other
decomposing matter.
But you say, “my kidneys are all right
I have no pain in the back.” Mistaken
man! People die of kidney disease of so
bad a character that the organs are rotten
and yet they have never there had a pain
nor an ache!
Why? Because the disease begins, as
we have shown, in the interior of the kid
ney, where there are few nerves of feel
ing to convey the sensatiou of pain. Why
this is so we may never know.
When you consider their great work,
the delicacy of their structure, the ease
with which they are deranged, can you
wonder at the ill-health of our men and
women? Health and long life cannot be
expected when so vital an organ is im
paired. No wonder some writers say we
are degenerating. Don’t you see the great
the extreme importance of keeping this
machinery in working order? Could
the finest eagine do even a fractional part
of this work, without attention from the
engineer? Don’t you see how dangerous
this hidden disease is It is lurking about
us constanly, without giving any indic
ation of its presence.
The most skillful physicians cannot
detect it at times for the kidneys thmselves
cannot be examined by any means which
we have at our command. Even an analysis
of the water, chemically and microscop
ically, reveals nothing definite in many
cases,even when the kidneys are fairiy
broken down.
Then look out for them, as disease, no
matter where situated, to 93 per cent., as
shown by after-death examinations, has
its origin in the breaking down of these
secreting tubes in the interior of the kid-
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ON CQLLEGE AVEMUE;
G. W. RUSH,
Mgs, Patent Medicines, Cologne,
proprietor
h now «P«n tg>j 1, I
GDI ttoekdj 1
Extracts, and in fact everything to be found in a City Drug tore. Trussi
Braces of every.description,m $ 1 up. Fine Stand Lamps, only
; e8 acjl
price, $2. At the New Drug Store you will find nothing but
re gnlJ
New Goods. No Old Stock on Hand.
Every one will find it to their interest to call at the New Drug; Store and get prices before buyino
ing the public will give me a liberal sharge of patronage, I am, respectfuy, y *'
G.W. RUSH.
Notice to Tresspassers.
Anyone fishing, hunting, passing^ through j
otherwise tresspassing c
ww.x.* w>, s u.v>— the lands ot T E. Mid-
dlebroom, J. T. Hester, H. C. Parish, D. K. Mur
ray and Z T. Williams, of Ocoueo County, will
be presented to the full extent of the law. U62t,
Notice to Tresspasers
All pcraonn are warned against either fishing
hunting or In any manner trespassing od any o
my tanas, under the extreme penalty ol the law
MRS. CARLOTTA SMITH.
JESSEDSN1EL, Agent.
University of Georgia.
THE CHAIR OF
NATURAL HISTORY
And Agriculture in the University of
Georgia will be filled in July 1886.
SALARY S2.000.
$2,000.
And residence on the Experimental
Farm. All applications must be sent to
LAMAR COBB, Secretary
feblSwJfcsJm. Athens, Ga.
FIRE I
On acclunt of the damage by fire we will sell all damaged Jgoodg ,.
REDUCTION
GUN AND LOCKSMITH.
I would announce that I have purchased the
s pi
entire outfit ol Mr. W. A. Talmadee, dec-ased
and will continue the business in all ill branches
GUN. LOCK AND TRUNK REPAIRING,
Will also visit hooes to do special work. Satis
faction guaranteed. Respectfully,
JUUUri DuMBLATT,
At W. A. Talm edge’s old stand.
janxS&9w3m.
PRINTING AT PANIC PRICES.
CASH WITH ORDBft.
PKE 1.000.
Business Cards, Bill-heads and EnTelopes....$2 50
Letter-heads and Letter Circulars, 4 00
Note-heads. Note Circulars and Statements.. 8 00
Handbills, 9 x 12 inches. 00; 12 x 18do ... 4 00
Law Blanks, in 5 quire lots 50c n quire.
Note books, waiving all exemption, . 35c.
Every description railroad and pamphlet print
ing. Orders solicited and filled promptly. Satis
faction guaranteed.
feb7.sd.4t. B. F. BENNETT, Atlanta, Ga.
of 40 to 50 per cent. The commercial nnd not the intrinsic value
fore we can sav we offer you BARGAINS in Glassware, Crocf
Table Cutlery, Baskets, Plated w re, such as Castors, Spoons Kt
Forks and a great many other plated goods, Wooden ware Inc -
Buckets, Brooms. Seives, Trays, Tubs, Coft'ce Mills, Rolling Pins
will he so'd at a Reduction jf io to 50 percent. In Fancy Vases To
Setts. Chamber setts, Cups and Saucers and a great variety of Ft
Goods, slightly damaged. We will offer at from ioo to 2^ per cent
duction. 2, 3 and 3 light chandeliers at cost and less than cost. '
wholesale as well as retail trade on Crockery, Glassware, Lamps Ke
sene and Machine Oil, and Lime is respectfully solicited, ilemtmbi
now is your time
J. H. HUGGINS
HODGSON BROS
Desire to call attention to their large assortment
TOBACOS.
Gossypium
Phospho!
THE GREAT
COTTON & CORN
FERTILIZER.
Manufactured by
GEO, W. SCOTT & CO.,
ATLANTA, GA.
AS A
Special Hanure for Southern Laud and Crops,
To encourage a friendly rivalry among
our customers, and to " determine the
quantity ot Gossypium, mode of appli
cation ’and culture that would pay the
farmer best, we have for the past "three
years offered l*reniiinns for the best crops
of Cotton, Corn, Wheat and Oats made
on land on which Gossypium only was
used as a fertilizer. These contests
have resulted in such a remarkable de
velopment ot Georgia soil, and created
such an interest among the thousands of
farmers who use Gossypium, that we
hnvc concluded to offer as
Premiums for 1886,
$1,200 HI fiOLD
20 TONS GOSSYPIUM
For the largest yields of Cotton, Corn,
Wheat and Oats made by use of Gos»*p-
ium only.
Send for circulars giving award of
miums for 1885, with Reports or Contest
ants, showing how they prepared the
land, applied the Gossypium, mode of
., togethi
culture, yield, etc.,
her with a full
LIST OF PREMIUMS FOR 1886
and the Official Analysis of Gossypium,
showiog it to be one of
THE HIGHEST GRADE FERTILIZERS
ney.
As you value health, as you desire long
life free from sickness and suffering, give
these organs some attention, Keep them
in good condition and thus prevent (as is
easily done) all disease,
Warner’s Safe Cure, as it bocomes year
after year better known for its wonderful
cures and its power over tho kidneys,
has done and is doing more to increase
the average duration of life than all the
physicians and medicines known War
ner’s Safe Cure is a true speefie, mild but
certain harmless but energetic and agre
eable to thetasto.
Take it when sick asa cure, and never
lei a month go by if you need it witout
taking a few bottles as a preventive, that
the kidneys many be kept in propea order
the blood pure, that health and longlife
your blessing. ^ H WARNER & CO.
FBT SHAVES.
At Maxeys we saw Bob Gilliam’s rat
tlesnakes which he has kept in a common
wooden box for two years, without food.
They are now torpid and have every ap
pearance of being dead. Mr. Gilliam has
1 great fancy for snakes.—Washington
Chronicle.
on the market. Gossvpinm will be sold
for Cash, or on Time for Currency or
Cotton, by Agents at every prominent
depot In Georgia. For further Informa
tlon and circulars address
GEO. W. SCO'iT & CO ,
feb23dw5c. Atlanta, Ga.
/T EORGIA, OCONEE COUNTY.—Luo, Oliver
VT having in due Jorm applied to the undersign
ed for the guardianship ol the person of Emanuel
Oliver, a minor child of Autnell Oliver, late of
said count j deceased: (whose lather is also dead)
notice is hereby given that her application will
be heard at my office on the first Monday in
April next. Given under my hand and official
signature, this 27th day of January 1886.
Tebi 30d. B. E. THRASHER, Ordinary.
VJI at UiBJ wuveau nuwpo V/. UICESQ, dUB *•
Mathew O. Dicken deceased, has in due form of
law applied to me for letters of dismission firom
said aamiaistratlon. and I will psss upon the said
application on the first Monday In May 1886.
Witness my band and seal, this the 21st dayoi
B. E. THRaBHER, Ordinary,
G loKutIa, CLaRKJ£ COUNT XWhereas,
Thomas . Hampton, administrator of Eliza
A. Hampto , late of said oonnty deceased, ap>
G iles tome or a discharge from said admlnistra-
on, Tb cse are therefore to cite and admonbh
all concerned to show cause st the regular term
of the Court ot Ordinary ot said countv, to be
held on the first Monday in May. IBS*, why such
discharge should not be granted. Given under
my hand and official signature. This 28th day
of December, 18x5.
A. P, HENLEY, C. O. C.
Iac5m»m.
G EORGIA, BANKS COUNTY._W bereft*. ap
praisers appointed by me for tho purpose of
appraising aud Betting apart out of the estate ol
Stepheu C. Smith, late «>! said county, doceased,
the twelve months support and household fur
niture to which by law Mr. Arminda Smith,
widow of said deceased and her five minor chil
dren. Elisabeth, John, Lueila, Rosa, and Robeit
B. Smith, are entitled, have made their report to
me which report is now of file in my office. These
are therefore to cite and admonish all concerned
to show cause at my office on the 10th day of
March next, why said support aod household
furniture as appraised and set apart should net be
granted to said widow and children. Given
under my hand at my office this 1st day of Feb.
ruary 1886.
tebOlOA, T. F, HILL, Ordinary.
U J
EORUIA. BANKS COUNTY.—To all whom It
m»y concern, John R. Chun bum hs* In dua
form *ppU*d to th. uodenlgned tor pormanent
letter* of Administration on tho citato of 8, C.
Smith, teU of t»ld county decc**ed,*nd 1 will
PM* upon **td application on the «m Monday in
batch. IMS. Given under my hud tod official
"SEEl
T. F. BILL, Ordinary.
THE CELEBRATED
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HOME COMFORT
WROUGHT IRON RANGE
COOKING APPARATUS.
Below will be found some of the certificates froir parties iu the two large cauntiei of
ton and Wilkes, who have bought thete Ranges.
S. C. HOAK, Superintendent
WILKES COUNTY.
This is to certify th«lwe have each bought a Home Comfort Wrought Iros Ringe^
pleased to say that It elves entire satisfaction; we think it superior m every rea»»wc$toaay‘Wj*
stove we have ever used : Mrs T V Sbipp, Mrs D J xdams, W T Hudson, firs <* 1* *‘**1,
Wm Fouche, Mrs M M Waltou F H Cooper, Mrs A J Pharr, Mrs C E Florence. MUi D®* *-
Mrs J B Burdett, Mrs A F Wansley. Mrs W O Tatnm. R L Rnaith. Mrs J H tirubsm.
Harris, JamesCarlyon. Mrs W L Wootten, N L McMekln, Mrs U A ShePper.I, Vrs LJ ^baak*
C Thomas, Mrs TJ r.ravea, Mrs J N McKeklu. John * - -- - —
J ioOgm. Mrs Hose Hall. Mrs B D Butler, Mrs J J Cr
Standard, Mrs J LBurdett, E BraulettG W Buidett.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Mr, E 8 Smith, Jamei K Smith. Mr, M V Muon. 8 Van Brtkle. R G Und,«j-. 1 T—“
Mr* E G Williams. Wm F Martin, W H Hart, S T McAFee. J R Rod,cs. J < Wobb. H C Aod£
CM Franklin, M G Wood, Sr.. Singleton Bud, »J McCoy. B S Boatrijbt. DiuMJKt’-
Motile McCoy Ell. L Pearaon, W H Avant, T G Brook,. James R Cox. W K Hall, 8 >
Mollie McCoy Ella L Pe.raon, w H Avant. T G Brooks. James R Oox. w K Hall.» rn~
Burgamy, William Jones, William Caio, W W Hall, T R Dtwns, James Webster. HrsJ»w“ ;
A mason, Mrs M M Turner, Mrs K F Cato. Ella i Newsome, M L Horton, Mrs R H Wicfcth^
M M Mathis. A A Morrison. Mrs B Tanner, i« W Mills, Lu*iy Ann Dye, Bryant Watklna.^-
ingfield, David Bailey, T B Smitn, T J Madden. Daniel -New.
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HELP FOR W0M AN
THE GERMAN AND AMERICAN
DISPENSARY AND
FEMALE INFIRMARY,
HISS ROSA FREUDF.NTHAL. M. D.,
Proprietor.
ALL DISEASED PECULIAR TO THE SEX
TREATED.
This Dispensary and Infirmary has
all the advantages and facilities found
in such institutions in Europe. Every
department is perfect within itself.
Uterine diseases; all diseases of the
bladder and bowels; of the skin; piles,
wens, tumor, nervous diseases, etc.,
especially provided fo- and cured gently
and quickly. Special apartments for
ladies who may desire to remain in the
city for treatment. All remedies and
appliances superior; correspondence
strictly confidential. Write full history
of your case, and direct to myself at
the Dispensary.
RUSA FR
IEUDENTHAL.M.D.
County will D. sola heltre tne conn tmu,, <™r
ot wad county on tho flnt Toeod ty to Maroh next,
within the l«c*l hour, of *^o. tb, following pro
perty to-wit: one tract of land lying on the
water* ot Hudson RlTtr.wnUinlnctwo hundred
and sixty acres, more or Ire*, .dloimrw land* of
the retain of Joshua Owen deceased. Alfred
■mmIi, Borders, Mawton ToUhra and
others. Known aat
aty. Sold for the purpooe o.
distribution among*! the heir*. Termaeaah. Thla
“S£SSr r,lM4, J. O. SHAHHOH. Executor.
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