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SOUTHERN BANNER: AUGUST 19, 1878.
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Tuesday, August 19, 1879.
Tlio Athens Banner
Speaker Bacon.
And
The last issue of the Athens Ban
ner contains an article on "Wholesale
Investigations ” that in some degree
reflects upon Speaker Bacon. By
insinuation the Boomer charges
Colonel Baoon with partisanship in
appointing the investigating commit
tees. Colonel Bacon is too well known
in Georgia to need any defense at
our hauks tor such a charge. Those
who have marked his course as the
prodding ofioer of the Honse in the
past, as well as now, will folly attest
his strict impartiality and his earnest
fidelity to the best interests of the
State.
The particular act complained of is
that Colonel Bacon appointed Mr.
Smith, of Oglethorpe, Chairman of
the committee to investigate the
Agricultural Bureau, knowing Mr.
Smith to be a violent opponent of that
department It would have been
very extraordinary for the speaker to
have doue otherwise. It would have
been enacting a pretty farce to ap-
point men to investigate who were
the particular friends of Dr. Janes
and who had already expressed them
selves soon the floor. If the resold
tion to investigate was made in earnest,
then men who had given the subject
their attention, and who had no friends
to serve, were the proper parties
to investigate. An official should
manage the affairs of his office, not
that his friends may be pleased, but
so that it can stand the severest cru-
tiny of an enemy. He who does that
is the best officer. As to the other
charge that Colonel Bacon did not
appoint Mr. Waiters, the mover of
the resolution, to be chairman or even
cn the committee, the Banner sim
ply shows its ignorance of the dream'
stances. Mr. Walters arose and
begged the speaker to excuse him
from serving on the committee, so
there is nothiag suspicious about the
failure to apppoiut Walter* on the
committee.—Atlanta Dispatch.
When the editor of the Dispatch
says, that our article “reflects upon
Speaker Bacon, and.that by insinua
tion the Banner charges Colonel
Bacon with partisanship in appointing
the investigating committees,” he
does ns great,injustice, ,and.makes a
statement that is not sustained by the
facts. In our article above referred to
and which the editor of the Dispatch
seems to think does snch great injus
tice to the honorable Speaker of the
House of Representatives, occurs the
following paragraphs:
•‘Since, Mr. Smith, has so recently
antagonized the department of agri
culture in a most pointed, earnest, and
unmistakable speech in the House of
Representatives, making in said
speech grave charges against the de
partment, and .the official who pre
sides over the same, also making a
record of opposition to him and his
department, which it is hardly to be
supposed, the honorable gentlemen
will very readily abandon, we, would
respectfully inquire was it not, to say
the least, rather irregular lor the
Speaker to appoint .him, the recog
nized enemy of (the department, at
chairman of the committee to investl
ga'e the State commissioner of agri
culture and his department ?”
“Far be it from us ,to do injustice
to any one, by insinuation, direct
charge or otherwise, nor do we (pres
sume to become the champion or de
fender of any public official or State
department, hot simply speak here in
behalf of justice and fair-dealing, and
would again cite onr legisltaors, to the
high motto of onr grand old Georgia,
“wisdom, justice and moderation.”
The Dispatch evidently shows
about as much ignorance of these
paragraphs, or at least their meaning,
as we did of the fact, that Mr Walters
had requested not to be pnt upon the
committee. As we never saw any
public or published statement of Mr.
Walters request, onr mistake was a
very natural one, and onr ignorance
of the fact, certainly far more excusa
ble than that of the Dispatch.
In our friendship for Colonel Ba
con, and in onr knowledge and. ap
preciation of the high qualities, which
he possesses in so pre-eminent a de
gree, we do not propose to yield to his
would-be defender of the Dispatch
nor to any other person. Bat God
forbid that onr friendship for Colonel
Bacon or any other man, should be
so blind, and onr appreciation of his
more excellent .qualities, so extrava
gant, as to indace as to shat our eyes
to, much less attempt to defend, the
faults and errors, to which he, like
all other public men and^offioers, even
the very best, are more or less sub
ject. Wc are not yet prepared to accept
09 our motto, “The King can do no
wrong.”
We simply said, that the appoint^
ment of’Hon. James M. Smith of
Oglethorpe, as Chairman of the com
mittee to investigate the agricultural
department, was irregular. We still
say so, even with the information giv-
en us, that Mr. Walters, the mover of
the resolution, liad specially requested
not be pat apon the committee.
The Dispatch says, “It would have
been very extraordinary for the
Speaker to have done otherwise than
appoint Mr. Smith ohairman, because
it was known to him, tJmt Mr.
Smith was a violent oppon
ent of the agricultural depart
ment.’’ We hold that for the Speaker
to have appointed as Chairman, either
an avowed and known friend or ene
my of the department is, or would
have been,as]extraordinaiy as thepov
• sition of the Dispatch, in the honora*
bio Speakers defense. Again the
Dispatch says, "It would have been
enacting a pretty fane to appoint men
to investigate who were the particular
friend* of Dr. Janes and who had
already expressed themselves so on the
floor.” We submit, by parity of
reasoning, was it not just as pretty^md
much more of a tragedy, "to appoint
men to investigate who were the
particular enemies of Dr. Jones and
who bad already expressed
themselves so on the floor!’
Talesmen who before hand have
made up their minds or expressed an
opinion upon a case, under the law
of onr courts, are not considered com
petent, admissable or acceptable
jurymen for the trial of said cause.
While we make no such charge,
yet we would like to ask, if such ap
pointment of either friends or ene
mies would not at least subject any
presiding officer to the
suspicion of such friendship,
or perhaps partisanship, as inclined
1»im to act either for or against the
party or department to be investigat
ed?
Wo have no reason to doubt, but
that "the resolution to investigate
was made in earnest,” and that there
were in the Honse of Representa
tives, aside from Mr. Smith, and Mr.
Walters, at least one hundred or
more members, “ who had given the
subject their attention,” who had
made no special avowal of friendship
or antagonism tp,Dr. Janes and his
department, “ who had no friends to
serve,” or enemies to avenge, and
who certainly, “were the proper
parties to investigate.’*' We grant
that. “ an official Bhould manage the
affairs of his office ** so as to need not
the defense of his friends, nor fear the
scrutinies or attacks of his enemies.
But, nevertheless, with the facts before
us, and being more fully convinced as
to the correctness of onr objestion by
the argument of the Dispatch, we
must still hold that our friend, the
.honorable Speaker of the House of
Representatives, acted somewhat irre
gular in appointing Hou. Mr. Smith
as Chairman of the com mi tee to in
vestigate Dr. Janes and his depart
ment.
The Census Question.
drive him from his, (Governor
Sprague’s) home, and the presence
of Mrs. Sprague. The intimacy be
tween Senator Conkling and Mrs.
Sprague was almost universally talked
of in Washington City, daring the
recent extra session of Congress.
Now what can possible be more dam
aging to the high, moral character of
society, and wc may say, of onr
government, than for such charges to
be brought against one occupying the
highest and most responsible official
postion within the gift of his consti
tuency, and presuming to represent,
the morality, the respectability, and
the intelligence of m great State?
In reviewing such conduct on the part
of public functionaries, we too often
hear it said, oh; well, such conduct
on the part of Congressmen, has been,
co-cval and co-existent with our gov
ernment, and it seems hardly worth
while to make a fuss about it now,
at this late day and time. In reply,
to all each, we would ask, can an ad
mission of such a corrupt, disgrace
ful, and lamentable state ot affairs, be
any excase or justification of such
conduct ? does it not show an unin
terrupted, increasing, and not to be
tolerated libertinism on the part of
our public men ? such as should be
condemned and driven ont by an in-
telligent, refined, decency-loving, and.
indignant public ?
is no part of pnritanisin, cen-
soriousness, or over-righteousness, as
some might say, to cry ont against
such departures on the part of those
filling high places, but the plain and
imperative duty of all, whose patriot
ism leads them to desire, good, honest,
just, pure, and respectable govern
ment, to place their seal of nnqnalifi.
ed condemnation and everlasting re-
tiracy upon all public officers, who
have outraged public decency, honor,
and respectability, and fatigued public
indignation and forebearance, as has
the senatorial libertine from New
York.
An Explanation.
True to that spirit of justice and
true manhood, which we have ever
believed, would at all times, move
our friend the editor of the Oglethorpe
Echo, to make the amende honorable,
when in the wrong, he comes out in
the following card of explanation
and withdrawal, which we are sure
the agrieved parties will as freely,
fully, and magnanimously accept, as
A Poem of the Heart.
The in memorian poem, written by
bliss Emma M. Long, a girl of seven
teen, and daughter of the late Dr.
Crawford W. Long, of Athens Ga_,
the famous discoverer of modern sur
real anasthesia by the us ; of ether
March 30, 1842, appeared in a late
number of the Southern Banner, pub
lished at? Athens, Ga., and edited by
Dr. H. H. Carlton, in whose house,
while attending apon a patient, Dr.
Long dropped dead in the sick-room.
While Mr. Stephens and other .of
onr leading statesmen have been giv
ing what they conceive to be the main
political question now before tho peo
ple, they have failed or forgotten to
state, that the next census, and its
probable results, constitutes one of
the gravest and most imporlont ques
tions for the consideration of, at
least, the Southern people. While
the new census bill was introduced by
a democratic member of Congress and
might bo regarded as a democratic
measure, yet the Republicans have
seized hold of it, hoping, by its re
sults, ' to make much strength for
their party. That the next census
will work material changes in the
representation of some of the States,
especially those of the South, there
can be but little or no doubt. In or
der to make this change as great as
possible, and of as much advantage
as possible to their party, the
Republican leaders have set to
work to encourage a wholesale exodus
of the colored people from the South
era States. If successful in this po
litical movement, the effect would be
to decrease the representation of the
Southern States in Congress, while it
would increase that of the Northern
States. To accomplish this purpose
the Republican party has no doubt
started out its pud agents in this
work, and we may now confidently ex
pect their presence and active work
throughout the South, to constitute
one of the prominent, preparatory
features of the approaching national
campaign. t.
These facts are too patent to every
observant mind, to even admit of
doubt, much less denial. Then, it
behooves the Demoaacy and indeed
every honest and patriotic citizen of
onr macli abused ard outraged South,
to look well to this matter, interpos
ing every possible obstacle in the way
of the nefarious, partisan schemes of
unscrupulous, designing and oppress
ive, Radicalism. Let our people, take
it upon themselves, to acquaint the
oolored people of the South with the
purely selfish, political aims of their,
only pretended friends of the North,
and who are only deceiving them with
their professions of philanthropy.
Then again, in order the more cer
tainly and successfully to protect the
interest of the South, in the next
census returns, let the whole people
of onr respective States and sections
rise up find see to it, that none bnt
the very best, and the most worthy
and responsible persons, be selected
to fill the positions of supervisors and
enumerators of the next census. This
certainly is a most important matter,
and should receive the prompt and
oneeasing - attention of onr. whole
people.
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The Sprague—Conkling Af
fair.
As investigation, and bringing
light, corruption in high places, seems
to be the order of the day, would it
not be well, and altogether in order
for the puhlio Blind to consider the
repent.conduct of Roscoo Conkling,
United States Senator from New
York ^ The Newspapers throughout
file country are no* full of startling
accounts, as to the too great intimacy
between Senator .Conkling, and Mrs.
Sprague, wife of * Ex-Governor
Sprague of Rhode Island. It is re-
ported,‘ .that Governor . Sprague re
cently finding.-Senator Conkling in
l^t'hSs resi<l.enceat Narrhgansett Pier,
It'j, i did with a .double barrelled'
shot-gun in hand, curMand abuse (ha
intrading and offending Senator, and
week we referred to those officials in
Atlanta against whom the gravest
charges have been made and who, we
were then under the impression, were
appointees of Gov. Colquitt and
confirmed by the Senate. Of course
no allusion was intended to the gen
tleman mentioned in bis editorial, as
no charges have been brought against
them and we heartily endorse every
word onr esteem friend has written in
theirpraise. We thank him for
lightening us npon the subject of
the appointing power of the Governor,
for we were laying at that official’s
door tins of which he is entirely
innocent. - Since being informed upon
the appointing power of his Excel
lency, we cheerfully withdraw the
obnoxious and unjnst paragraph.
We have always respected Gov.
Coquitt as an honest man and
Christian gentleman, and are trnly.
glad to have a wrong impression cor
rected.’’
it has been willingly, justly and man- It was written in ccmmemoration ot
fully given. [herfather a short time afterhis death,
“In onr reply to an inquiry from
the editor or the Athens Banner we
will state that in onr editorial of last
on the sixteenth day of Jiue, 1878,
and contains passages of remarkable
promise, pathos, and tender beauty,
revealing a poetic faculty of great
delicacy, facility, imagination, with
glimpses of power to reach the hixrt,
stir the profoundest emotions, and to
give utterance fitly to the most’ ten
der, noble and sublime sentiment*.
We do not remember any production
from a girl of seventeen of a similar
character comparable to it among the
present generation of writers in this
country. We shall be glad to have
^ the opportunity to see other poems
- tho flniYio hand. And fehall watch
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Portrait of D|r. C. W, Long.
Mr. Yancey of Clarke, introduced
on Friday the 15th inst a . series of
insolations accepting from Mr. H. L.
Stuart, of New York, the gift of a
portrait of Dr. Crawford W. Long,
the discoverer of anaesthesia, and
fixing yesterday, Monday the I8th
inst, at 12. M, as the li.nc for its
presentation by Senator Gordon.
The resolutions were adopted, and the
the portrait will be hung in the Capi
tal at Atlanta. |,,!
Abusive Journalism.
The “Liberty of the Press” is one
of the highest, wisest, and most thor
oughly guaranteed rights, under the
constitutional hw of our land. The
unrestrained, and not to be curtailed
liberty every person has to speak,
write, and publish his sentiments, on
all subjects, wc regard as one of the
highest and wisest constitutional
rights, in as much as, in this liberty,
when properly used, consists the
greatest safe-guard of society, the
greatest protection against evil, and
the greatest proniotor of good.
But, the abase of this liberty, as
too often seen, in this day and time,
in the wholly unwarranted and unres
strained tendency to abusive journal’
ism, finds no justification in law, in
justice, or even in the code of true
jourqalism ethics, and snch abuses,
should be as surely, .and as strongly
condemned, as t.ue, unabused liberty
of the press should be maintained
Snch tendencies in the journalism of
the present day, are not only unjust
and unwarranted, bnt if persisted in,
will, as surely prove damaging and
degrading to a high and responsible
profession, capable of much good, and
much usefulness, as it will prove de
moralizing and ruinous to society.
Abusive journalism, we repeat is a
growing and increasing evil of the
present day and time, and it will be
hailed with the greatest gratification
by a jnst and intelligent public, as a
much needed reform, when the true
journalist of the country arise to a
correction of these evils in their own
high, noble, most honorable and re
sponsible profession.
The Atlanta Constitution of the
16th inst, says:
Yesterday Mr. H. L. Stuart reached
Atlanta. He is the big-hearted New
Yorker who gave to Georgia the pic-
tare ot Dr. Crawford W. Long, the
discoverer of anesthesia. The picture
is a magnifident portrait, which will
probably be here to day. It cost SI,
:L00, and has been paid for out of Mr.
Stuart's liberality. Miss Long, the
confidential iriend of her father, will
reach Atlanta to-day to consult with
Mr. Stuart. He comes here to estab
lish a co-operative colony, to give em
iloyment to worthy persons out of
easiness.
A Southern Outrage.
The Detroit Free Press, has the
following piece of irony, whidi goes
for to show the true feeling of the
stalwarts of the North, in regard to
settling and harmonizing all sectional
differences. • .
“Dr. J. Marion Sims, of New York,
has taken up the cudgel in behalf of
the late Dr. Crawford W. Long, for
merly of Athens, Ga., for whom he
claims the credit of finth discovering
the application of anatofietics in the
performance of surgical operations.
The oldest date of discovery claimed
for either of the other contestants is
1844 or 1846. Dr. Sims shows, as
conclusively as testimony .can show,
that Dr. Long used sulphuric ether in
March, 1842, on a patient npon whom
he was operating for the removal of a
tumor. Ho intimates that the friends
of Dr. Long intend to petition cons
gress for an appropriation in recogni
tion of the services rendered to the
country and the world in making this
truly wonderful discovery. A more
p&lpuble case of southern outrage the
stalwart party has never witnessed.
It is a concerted scheme to rob the
north of honors, which it has hereto
fore held by undisputed title, and con
fer them on a southern state. More
over it includes an appropriation,
swelling of that mighty mass of south
ern claims whereof the organs have
discussed so fluently, and with snob
hopeless abandonment of arithmetic.
It is a matter that demands immedi
ate attention. If the stalwarts do not
awake at once’to the importance of
the situation, the honor of tho north
will be irrevocably in the grasp of
Georgia.”
from the same hand, and Shall watch
with interest the writer’s upward
straggles for recognition and fame.— 1
American Art-JsumaL
The Boston Sunday Herald says:
“We published on Thursday a let
ter from a colored citizen of Boston,
which contained some important sug
gestions. He says the colored people
are denied a fair showing In the race
of life by the great loyal element of
the North; tha‘. a line of caste and
ostracism is drawn against them;
that great manufacturing and com
mercial trades discriminate against
them ; that municipalities and cor
porations exclude them. Is this
charge true ? If it is what reason have
we to complain of the prejudice shown,
against the colored people in the Te
South, where they were recently
slaves? We have seen colored police
men in southern cities under Demo-'
cratic rule, but it is an almost un
known thing to have colored police
men in northern cities. Onr_ corre
spondent is correct. Legislation
cannot change this. Prejudices die
hard, and the colored race must make
its own way through the wilderness,
with the help of all who love justice
and fair play.”
The above should furnish food for
reflection for those colored people,
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Official Statement of the Pub
lic Debt.
The following figures are from an
analysis of the public debt of the
United States from July 1, 1860, to
July and August 1, 1879, recently
issued by the Treasury Department,
and may be accepted as authentic.
A dose examination of them will settle
many conflicting ideas held by voters
belonging to the several parties.
It will bo seen that the outstanding
principal of the public debt was larger
on tho 1st day of jnly, 1879, than on
the same dqy of any year since 1871:
1871.. .. $2,353,211,332 32
1872 2,253,251,328 78
1873 2,234,482,993 20
1874 2,251,690,468 43
1875 2.232,284,531, 95
1876 2,180,395,066 95
1877 1,205,301,392 10
1878 2,256,405,892 53
1879.. .. 2,349,567,482 04
Was the total interest bearing debt
larger on the 1st day of August, 1879,
than it has been on the 1st day of July
of any year since 1876 ?
1876.. . .....$1,710,685,450
1877. 1,831,888,500
1878 1,794,735,660
1879.. ..... 1,797.643,700
Was the debt not bearing interest,
United Sates notes, etc., smaller on
the 1st day of J.nly, 1879, than on
the same date of 1877 ?
1877.. .... .-. $476,764,031 84
1878 i... 455,875,682 27
1879.. . 410,835,741 78
These figures show an increase of
pnblie debt in times of peace, and a
contraction of the currency in times
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The Athens Banner when it has
occasion to use the word “damn,”
placates its pious readers by religiously
droping the final letter. ‘‘Damn,’’ tho*
bobvtaued, is shorn of its chief terrors*
Augusta Chronicle.
Thank* brother 1 we stand correc
ted, and are perfectly willing to admit,
that yonr education in “cobs words”
has not been as much neglected as
ours.
eruera as their best friends, and the
Southerners as their worst enemies.
Dr. Or. J- Orr.
Macon Telegre; L.
IIow preposterous the idea of find
ing any rottenness in the department
of Dr. Orr, who, by his most intimate
friends, has been dabbed “Socrates”
for his wisdom and calm philosophy,
and is equally entitled to be called the
Aristides of Georgia, for surely no
man was ever more “just” than he.
It makes us smile to fancy that dread
ful committee at work searching _ tho
pigeon holes of onr old college triend
for some damnable self-convicting
document, while his lieutenant, Mark
Johnson, as pure and high-minded as
any knight of King Authur’a round
table or Spanish Hidalgo, looks grim
ly on with daggers flashing from his
eye. 01), this is richness! But what
will the committee say when they
find that the doctor, albeit he was en
titled to his traveling expenses when
making the rounds of Georgia in be
half of the dear interests of her people,
refused to touch a cent ot the fund
appropriated to defray his expenses?
Out of his own means and with the
f enerous assistance of the agent of the
’eabody fund, has he devoted long
months, and traveled thousands^ of
miles as the avant courier and miss
ionary of free education, a dog law
and the Moffet bell punch.
The following resolution was
adopted by the Agricultmal Society.
Dr. Ed. Newton offered a resolu
tion to the effect that the convention
petition the legislature row^in session
to grant an annual appropriation for
carrying out the original assign in the
creation of the geologicsil survey of
Georgia. A substitute to this was
offered and adopted. The substitute
embodies regrets at the stopping of
the geological bureau and expiesses
the hope that ere long the general as
sembly will take action looking to the
establishment of a general geological
survey. ... i t
\V. H. Vanderbilt has given $100.-
000 dollars more .to the Vanderbilt
University for the establishing ’ of a
Gymnasium. This makes $1100,000
he has given to this University.
on'Steamen, and all Information apply to W. M.
Tixvxauva. Agent, Atlantic Coaat Line,
Augusts, Ga.
For ticket* to ail points North and Eavt, (uni
form rates with all other libev) Time Tablet, and
all Information, inquire at Ticket Office of the
Georgia Railroad.
. A. POPE,
jaly.LXm. General Phmenger Agent.
Manhood: How ost, How Restored
Jnat published, a new edition of DB. CUL
VER WILL’S CELEBRATED ESSAY on the
radical cure (without medicine) of Spermator
rhea or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Semi
nal Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physical
Incapacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc.; also,
Consumption, Epilepsy, and Fits, induced by
sell-indulgence or sexual extravagance, etc.
jW Price, in a sealed envelope, only six
cents. - - L
The celebrated anthpr, in this admirable Essay
clearly.demonstrates, from a thirty yean’ ano-
ccssfal practice, that the alarming oonseqoences
of setf-abose may be radically cured without
the dangerous use of internal medicine or the
application of the knife; pointing ont a mode
or care at once simple, certain, and effectual,
by means of which every sufferer, no matter
what his condition m*y he, may core himself
cheaply, privately,'and radically!
RT This Lecture should be in the hands of
every yooth and every man in the land.
Sent tree, under seal, in a plain envelope, to
any address.
Address the^Publishers,
THE CCLVEUiTELL MEDICAL CO..,
.41 Ann St., New York,
Post Office Box, 408(1.
junc2i.l-y. rcov.
S"SoJ£E
Hr DURHAM mm
TOBACCO
TUB
PRATT GIN 00.,
OF PRATTVILLE, ALA.
Agricultural Trustees.
Under a bill which passed the pres
ent Session of the Legislature authott
icing the Agricultural Society to elect
four Trustees of the State Univers ity;
that Society, which held its recent
session at Jonesboro, elected the fol
lowing, as Trustees Hon. L. F.
Livingston 4 years; Hon. L.M. Fel
ton 3 years; Hon. Jas. H. Fannin 2
yeatb and J. M. Byrd 1 year.
f the Daniel Pratt Gin. with
min
Boant
with which every publio.Ginn vr of Cotton in Northeast Georgia is familiar.
We use no Shoddy Stock in the Manufacture of our Gins, ;
And employ none but Skilled Meohanlea to do the work. The Feeder and Coodtnaer (bit we
npw offer with onr Gin we consider superior to any on the market. The above Cot represent*
the poaition of the Gin Feeder and Condenser when in position for work. \ 9 j. . .
Prices Reduced- to Suit the Times.
Liberal Discount to Cash (Purchasers. . Every Gin is Guaranteed
’’ to give Perfect Satisfaction.
• Agents, T., $142MING & ^ Athens,ftSSl
W..J. GOSS, Harmony Grove <»a.
Who will Skli oua GUIS AT FACTORY PRICES. q ' may ,27.4m. •
O conee sheriffs sALE.-wm be sold
before the Court House doer, in the town
of WatkinavOle, between the, legal boars of sale,
on the first Tuesday in Angnst next, the fal
lowing property, to-wit:. The tract of land in
Oconee county and State of Georgia, known aa
the Joel’ J. Morton place, whereon aald Morten
lived for many yean, and whereon the defen
dant, John MichaU has lived many years, and
now reside*, adjoining land* of Ann Ridgeway,
John 11. Lowe, J. E. Lowe, John W. Snow, and
William Lowe, containing five hundred and
eleven acre*; more or leas, aa the property o*
the defendant John Miehml, pointed ont b'
plaintiff, and served the said John MichaU wit]
written notice of this levy. Levied on to satis
fy a fl. fa. ismed from Clarke Superior Court,
returnable to Angumt term, 1869, ih favor of
John W, Harris and James A. Price, Executors
of James W: Harris, deceased, vs. said John
This jooelS, 1979. '
’■ • B.E. OVERBY,Sheriff
.‘ ' - june24.30-d.
july8-6m.
ADDRESS
LOWRANCE & MADDEN.
■rr Athens. Ga.
S5000.00 WORTH
— D E A L E R,-
HBADQUARTBUS
y FOR-
Cheap Crockery.
500 Dozen Plates Assorted Size.-.
5.00 Dozen Cups and Saucers, 35 to 75 cts. a sett.
100 Dozen Assorted Dishes, 15 cts. to 81 50 each.
150 Dozen Bowls, all styles and prices’
25 Fancy and Plain Toilet Setts.
25 Different kind Pitchers. - •
A good assortment of Plain and Decorated Tea Sets?.
French China.
25 Dozen assorted Plates.
25 Dozen assorted Teas .. : .
Dinner Setts 125 pieces $40.00 each.
in tiJfCWn^Lin& ent P,a *“ and Fa " Cy Tea Selt8 ’ and everything necessary
Glassware.
100 Dozen Goblets, 10 Different Styles, 40c. a sett up.
50 Dozen Tumblers, 10 Different Styles, 25c a sett up.
10 Dozen Breakfast setts 4 pieces 75c. a sett to 100.
20 Dozen Molasses Pitchers 25c. to 75c. each.
Preserve Dishes, Sugar Dishes, Pickle Dishes &o., Candy Jars, Font
!5j ® Ver £ con «avable article in the Glassware line, 25.
per cent, cheaper than any honse in North-East Georgia.
Lamp Goods. '
50 Dozen Lamps, 25 different styles, from tho German Student $6.50 to
the 16c. Brass Lamp.
25 Dozen Lanterns 50c. to $1,25. '
Hall Lamps, Swinging Lamps and Wall Lamps for Churches, Stores Ac.,
puces guaranteed Cheap as the Cheapest
2Toti.ce.
3t< .*''i..a .. .. ■ 1a h. :
Will be told before the CouitHouae door,
of Clarko County, on the fint Tuesday in
Angus: next, during the legalhome of sale,
thirty share# of the capital stock of th# Georgia
Bail Road and Banking ComE*dy,:tobe eold
the propertj of Frank Lumpkin, deoeaaed,
.utthobenefit of hi* legatees, and eold under
an' order of -the Court, of Ordinary of..said
Court^ior that pwpoee. .Term* cash. July
Ttil , ^KATHARINE D’WIT LUMPKIN,
!Jiily.8.S0cUySe Executrix.
•'i.i • . V lUs :*r ',-i
C LARKE SHERIFF SALE^-WOl b* Mid
before tho Courthouse door, in the Jolty of
Athena, Clarke county, on the first Tuesday in
containing ona acre, more or leas, bounded on
th# NoriJT by Broad Street, 8outh by lot of
rd Hill, Wot by lot- of Judy Brown, Eaat
©astssreiwa&’iS:
... ~ '* TnOmaq. Bold as
satisfy the above.
_______ served on-tenant
in possession. Levy made add retomedto me
by Joseph M. Konney,- L. C. Juhr.Jth, 1879.
i iik,T '.rib"; Jv^BEOWNlNy,Sheriff:
■: f j. J, i i—~rrr——! *—
r\ EORGIA CLARKE COUNTY—Whereaa,
\T William.Cttig Moor?, Executor of Eleaner
Moore, late of uud county deoeaaed, petition*
in' tarms of the law ! for a’ discharge from said
Executorship. . - -
These are therefore .to ate and admou»h all
concerned to show cause at toy office on 'or be
fore the. first Monday In October next, why said
dr
* - ASA.M. JACKSON, Ordinaryg
jruc.17.m3m. ;
te^y^d^^UlOtt.Jun,
ELIZA GREEN, I Libel for Divorce
vs. > in Superior Court,’
FRANK GREEN. J Oconoe county.
the above stated case does not reside in the
parteoted bypahttcaUec into* ‘Sonthar# Ban-
ueroneoa monthfor,four tnoo.tlta befor* the
next term of thia'Cbiut.
Granted T. W. BUCKKB, 1 Jt R. LYLE,
J,S.C W.C. : }- , Attorney-
for this case. j for Libellant.
GEORGIA, OCONEE COUNTY.—Clerk’e
above order is a true extract
of slid Court. . {
^<3iven under rayjiand and. official signature,
t h ‘“ MarLl ‘ 2 "’JOHN W. JOHNSON, Clerk,
march25,tn-tm. . c t., ■
-q -iCii .ili.-ti li ilri fi re aqnti it~?
;oi •"
Cutlery.
prfo^VeSw"*” 1 As30rtmcntT * bI *. Socket Cutlery and Scissora ever before offered a>
Hojjse Furnishing Goods.
Mata, Chimney
- rf , Groceries.
A complete stock of Family Groceries always on hand.
Dry Gftobs.
A fall Cue of Staple and Domestic Diy Goods a Nice and Large Stock of Hats.
Harness and Collars, Prices Very Low.
nm
&c.
BOOTS, SHOES, LEATHER,
, ■■ -•-Oils'. '
%rcring < Machine OU^oTh^i“ reCeiVed Tanner. Gil, Machinery Oil miff
Lime ! Lime ! Lime ! j
«?p*^^MLo^ < H|^. A * riC ^ ral pu * osealn . tha supplied in quantities to
M Kind# Btottr Bought and Highest Market Prioea Paid.
JAS. H. HUGGINS. No. 7 Droad St., Athens, Ga.
---• ■ - ' - • april.2J.3ia.
lota ataman, lasts, ha. fine, and
*ele*wmk .ret, dixxinaa^ faint
•mftbm aadprmatm chalk For
■MPTION
balsam known ton
-EEprShIL
•r.iiconrart^i feto a c
w direct to the diaetMd
and tb* lanes, vhm it mU m •
‘ lisC power i* f— _-
permanently ouraJ.
€r Mvomra j
AfidwtaHoaniMroii-i
k/ 1 ■ nug.20.ly.