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gljj |kson JAr&SOif-'GA., j . •*'• El 4KS*. ■ • |'lifor. r_--r r "r nmin——i mi —i m—imhi nm I TASK XKMS, FVBUSBED EVERY FRIDA cl Jackson. ISuH§ County,Ga. KATES OF StTBSCRIPTIO?: : Thrct Month*, ..... 50c Six -Month*, - - . . MOO One Year, - - . . - ?! 50 STRICT! 1 IX ADVAXCL. n.VTFS FOK Advertisement* will be Inserted for ONE DOLLAR per squire, fw th flrt insertion, and FIFTY - CEN f.i j*er sqai tor each auhe-equent insortior.. for one month, or lets. For a longer peri.*}, it liberal discount will he made tf<rC..eini± iu length, or leee, co..*tltutei a •oin. re. Notices In the Jco.l column will be Inserted At TKN ( ENTd pet lire, each ir cert ion. nnd deaths Wi’l be published At items of ne'w. but obruurie* will be charged for at udver.isu*g rales. jon PRjxrixG Of every description, promptly and neatly erect . ted at reaxonnbie rates. c SIiitiSWSWMWMWIt—MtUWI Hon. I. A. Wilson, prominent low yer of Alubmun, is dyad. Ten or fifteen miles of truck havo been laid on the Extesion. Mrs. Henry McKinney, of Griffin, died very suddenly. Griffin News reports damage from the recent freeze, to shmic trees $1,0.10, and fruit trees $23,000, in thnt section. Co’. CVc h ;ts bought the Griffin and Carrollton rai’road, and will gn direct to R >ns from Carrollton, and not from Atlanta. Tin* creditors of A. C. A R. F. Wy* ly of Atlanta, at a recent meeting, ar* ranged to settle for 30 cents in the dol lar, and it is thought the terms will be accepted. Ben Hill announces that he fears that another surgical operation will have to be performed on bis tongue. A lumnhas formed near the old wound. It is contradicted that Col. Cole has retired from railroad business. He has just been re-elected president of the new system of railroads. It is Mi-.] that Georgia will be entitled to ten congressmen instead of nine, tlie number it now has. It will proba bly be one of the next legislature to re-district tbo stale. Another big fire occured in Atlanta, on Monday evening of lust week on Whitehall street, between Hunter and Mitebel streets. Four or five stores and their contents were destroyed. Lost to property is estimated at $l5O-, 000. Insurance $95,000. Scoville appeals to the American peo ple for money to aid him in proceed ing with the (initeau case, and to em ply additional council. He claims that it has already cost him $300,000, and that his business b.as suffered from the want of bis attention, and if he docs not get some assistance bo will bo compelled to drop tbo case and look after tha interest of his family. At a recent meeting of the City Coun cil of Macon, they tendered the Cin cinnati & Georgia E. R., Company, ground on tbo commons ol Macon, free of charge, upon wh'di to erect their machine shops. It would be nothing more than Atlanta deserves if they loose the good will of this company. Our people are looking forward wit much anxiety for the time when they will have direct communication with Atlanta's market, and a kind of gloom was cast over their anticipations when the action of the authorities of Atlanta and the suspension of work on the Ex tension was made known. But if At lanta don't want our trade, let them stave off the railroad, and we will seek other markets to do our hundreds and thusaud* "( dollars worth of trading— Macon, Rome and Griffin, when they they build Brown's road for him. The work now progressing at Hell Gate covers about nine a res, which is honey-combed with galleries tunneled in the r ck nndbrthe sea and crossing each other with the regularity of city streets. It will take nearly two years to complete the excavations pre paratory to the gt’and explosion by which the shoal of rock covering these acres of Hell Gate channel is tv> he blown into fragments. The value of vessels passing through the trouble some channel is $ 1,03d,1KK) daily. Asa usual thing we do not attach much importance to the saying of un named “prominent politicians”—the prominent politicians and his sayings arc generally the airy creations of the correspondents who are so fond of quoting them. One of these prominent politicians has l>oon talking to the At lanta corespondent of the St. Louis Globe Democrat in regard to Georgia politics and politicians, and told him that at'.he end of his present term in the senate Joe Brown would be retired. Well, the people of Georgia can well afford to spare Joseph from the senate there are scores of better democrats with Clean records that the people had rather have there than Mr. Brown, llis attemot to boss the Georgia de mocracy in the Inst campaign came near tearing the party in talers, and should he attempt to dictate to the de mocracy again, he and his dependant* will he “retired” in so unceremonious a manner that they will not soon w ish tocome before the peopleagain. Mr, Brown crawled into 111 senate through a hole, ami, if re porta he true, he is try ing to pull the hole iu after him— Colquitt. Ben Hill may make mistakes, hut all Georgia will rebel when Brown and Colquitt undertake to displace him to farther their own scheme;'.—Griffin Sun. HOW IS IT NOW ? The Purchaie of lie CirroFiton Railroad Affirmed. A few days ago a special dispatch 'to this paper Atlanta stated that Col. Cine has bought the Griffin and Carrollton road and would build it through to Rome, using this route to Brunswick instead of going to Atlanta. XVccould get no farther information on the subject until! last night, when we met a gentleman just from Atlanta who said that it is generally understood that this purchase had been made. He got las information from an officer of the W. A A. road. This same officer said that Cole would build the Macon and Brunswick road on to Atlanta, as the law authorizing its sale demanded, but instead of building from Atlanta, to Rome, he would run fro u Monti cello, a point between Macon and At lanta, to Griffin and Carrollton onto Rome. The road beteen Griffin and Carrollton is now in operation, and the line between Oraiffin’and Monticello is graded allmost the entire length. Our informant, who aeenied thouroughly posted, went on to remark this route via Griffin would greatly shorten the route from the West to the seaboard, and ns part of it was nllready finished and in operation and another part gra ded, the entire line could be finished up at a much earlier date than the line by Atlanta, and a route many miles shor ter would be obtained. It is rumored that the Ritchmond A Danville railroad, which is building the Georgia Pacific, has bought from the Colo syndicate all the property ex cepting enough upon which to build a depot for the Macon A Brunswick, re cently bought by it in Atlanta. The Cole syndicate paid SIBO,OOO for this property. The Richmond A Danville has also paid back ta Cole the amount his people expended on the first 18 miles this side of Atlanta on the Geor gia Pacific. It waj intended at the apt set that both new roads would use the same track those 18 mile ß . “In this'dayan 1 time, when gigantic schemes aro concocted in one day, and the execution thereof begun the next, it is impossible to and ivine what great moves will bo made on tho Southern railroad chess hoard within the next twenty-four hours. The Flood in llml>iiiiii. At Gainesville every flat boat and skiff are in use savoing the people and their effects. Cabins, with fowls per ched on their tops, have been seon floating down stream. Mr. Good son of Gainsville, who farms in Green lost SOOO in stock & 160 sheep were drownep. Capt. Dew lost two mules aud prob ably other property. The saddest of all is the loss ofllfe four t fivo negroes reported drowned. Boat load after boat load of pm r no groos many of them lost their all glad tooscape with their lives. Others saved a low provisions and clothing. One wo man saved her children and one ham aud a peck of potatoes. A steamboat passed to day and persons on it said thero were cries for help all through the woods as they passed. One family was seen on top of the house and the boat tried to reach them but could not One woman was drowned by the skiff turning over. The steamer reported four men drowned at Warsaw, which place is under water. Dr. Groves parlor has two feet of water in it. Mr. Uoob son lost 1500 sheep. The floods as far as we can learn are widespread and destructive of a vasl amount of property and a number of lives. At a rough estimate we would suppose the loss of Pickens county cannot he less than twenty-five thousand dollars Hundreds of mules, shoep, hogs, and large quantities of corn and foddor are destroyed. At .Goose pond, near Fairfield a fami ly of negroes found themselves encircle by the water for two miles around. Four little children were put up in the loft of the house, while the older ones went after help, when they returned they found the little ones had dropped off and were drowded. The Spans Ishmalite says: “The wine tanner is now preparing t< raise tiia own provisions, knowing iliat oth erwise he will nev r he able to con trol liis own cotton croh, a">l that others w ill reap all the profits ot his toil.” Walton County Vidette: Mr.Boh Miller ot this countv, owns a goat w hicli has two perfectly developed tails. One is in its proper position and I 'cation, and the other is between its horns, on til top of its head Cer tainly a cure oily. The Perry Home Journal says: “False prtdi is the stumbling block in the way ot many tanners >ii Houston He who ran a ten mule farm sev eral years ago is actually ashamed to come down to two mules, even w hen he knows that two is all lie is able to manage.’’ The grading for the new building tor insan negroes, at Mi ledgeville, s about completed, and brick laying will so.,n tie put uuder way by the contractors. The M"nroe Advertiser states that it is report and that the worms are eat ing up the wheat and oata. Great Imvoc is being mad 0 , mid unes. a cold spell coiqi-s soon the loss will be irr< trievahlo. Senator Hill has ha Ia seoond op eisti ti pt-riotmed on Ins longue for cancer. T-e operation, which took place 111 Philadelphia yesterday, was eniiieiy snccesstus and the senator is pi enounced by the surgucu to be do ing fiue’y. fox'* Idea* of A Xew Par* j ‘J- LaGrange, Gi, -lannary It 1882.! Edit or Dougi n viile Star: My D*-ar ; Sir: Your valued favor has just keen rec-ive ami shall he frankly answered. I’ll not lie a candidate for any demo cratic nomination. If, as I believe, the independent party, bound by no pre text to the democrats and hound by no subterfuge to republicans—goes to the country against both—seeking support from all citizens an the pro> gressive principles outlined in the public prime, my judgement and my energies will be enlisted in its cause; convinced, as I am, tint neither dem ocracy republicanism can ever be made the instrument of the people's fraternity and Welfare—and believing that the independent movein-ut may be encouraged into a party of national proportions, after tho usual lapse of time for such a growth, and Hoping that if it becomes a geneial party, progressive patriots’ north arid south, may meet in it aid with it drive sec tionalism and corruption out of leder al politics. If this can be made its high destiny, the movement dea.-rves the prayers of every American Chris tiau and the efforts of every American patriot. Of course such a movement never comes from the leaders of o and parties. Such movements always have hum b!e beginnings because they bring from the people. The practical men America are trying to get tog.-th er—lin y will want some agent, with out precedent, distasteful to any, Borne party w'lbout a past, on which to concentrate and through which to fnt ward their views. If ih s movement is not made the vehicle of thi-ir f -forts, some other in much the Haute shape will naturally he originated. I see no reason for waiting for another, anil go into this proposing to east what little influence I have toward moulding it to that patriotic aim. It is with pain tl a' I can sec the campaign opened with denunciation It i.s bui a feeble step ttpwa din char iiy, nay even in well balanced inte * ligenoe. to be able to differ ami n-<t damn. It is evil enough >n govern' merits bv the few and tor Die lew when imputations of infamy not ovei public questions—obsoruring ad iva sonitig illuminating nothing, but in a govervment by the people and to: the people it ought never to be sig nally condemned. There is no reason why the opinions ot all the pi > p e about their own affars should not lie respect fully considered, and there is no man in Georgia, and no set of men in Georgia, divinely framed, that difference from him or them is any mark ot any sort ol infamy. Let me advert to one more thing An eminent citizens, eminent lor vir tues and eminent lor ial uls, has pro posed to this pan.y as pail ot -i pro gressive public policy, t 1 •nt ua*n of these times shall be put in charge ot some of liie affairs ot these uni s, young men, not one inhered by me luggage ot pa-t issues. Iho on! lea ders have pronounced it proioumi southern policy to have o.d issues buried ami old pas-ions allay'd, > 1 1h out ever dr anting that those on isstti sand passions are eni'odud n themselves and >hen eat ears ainl in the old political formation and their fee ids the lea lei's hay .•in--u inhered 'lie party and the pa'iy encumber, and tin leaders and both lyivn failed to drive sectional -mi out beo.use both turn sin I the ei emy wittwplausible proof adroitly used how.-Vi r lalse the conclusion, lliui the people ot the south, not a unit before our war but so idified by the war, still cling to the dangerous dogmas and follow 'he bulth-heaien ad cotlncil-f'lh and lead I’s ol die old re gime. The policy staled proposes an unincumbered party and unineuin be ed leaders, to forward otiv desti nies. It is p aiu that there is reasoning tor the policy and how is that reasoning inel ? Out of lepecl lo the yong men ol Georgia it not tor the propounder, it might be met. if met it ean be, by count, r rea soiling, li is met by denouncing it as a“hybred,” with nil the covertin-inua non contained in ll.e word aud i- a graceful return lord-voted adherence ihi.itlgh constant fiascos and tidhlui fighting under wavering generals li llio young men of Georgia will go . n masse into this new itioveui. nt, thev can control it to noole ends lor their country and ill turnre 1 Lei each one pause! Let each one ask himself is it not a solemn duiy he owes to hi* people They like no courage—they iiee.t nothing but. the ecu viol ion that ii ’a wise and patriotic. It they do ties, what is dubbed as a “hybrib’’ redouud to great good They will not lose as much for thetr people as has been lost. The old h adership has not left enough in tln oountrv on which tho.e who follow can possibly bankrupt as largely as they. In response to youi king enquiries regarding my personal a-ptrat ions, you know well that I stia I shirk no responsibility. It f tends an co worker* think it be-i tor me to make a race-why iny glove is in 'he lisis. It it's thought best tor me to work in the ranks, why then I can and wilt wroi k. I aiu looking too tar -bead to care a grest deal about any office now—looking at ptipbo <>’jflcts luuo . more important, even to me, than my humblxi individual tale. As yet I've consulted with no public inan, no party man ot a.iy party, this leu. i will strike no more surpii-e in any one than iu th- leaders ot the inde pendent party. I write it as one of the people—having come to Hits con clusions almost against my will—hut exercising a nlatu right aud fearless of all assaults. Your enquiries, so kindly expressed, have been fully answered. 1 make this an opou letter. Ever yours tru ly, A. H. Cox. It s rumoird Hi Atlanta that Judge Ge'ige H lly. r cont> rnpfates resign ing a* Judge of the Supreme Court. He ft*s been one of the best judges in the State, fearless and consui -H --tious. lie will lie a great loss to th* judiciary of the State A number ol applicants are awaiting his shoes, but tew can till them. Georgia polities are very peculiar. One d;iy Senator Brown writes a letter and says be i* a Democrat, snd the t ext day ex-Governor Bullock is in terviewed and c aims Senator Brown as a Republican. —Post Appeal Perry Home Journal: ‘ On h st Fri day Cephas Killett, a colored citizen of Petty, ate t wrfily-five oranges at one sitting, th- time c nsttmed while disposing ot the oranges being about an hour and halt. The feat us* un dertaken nt tne instance oftwo young no n, who wagered $1 each for an.l against the ability ot the negro to eat the oranges. Marceflug Thornton may now prepare to quail, as the fact is estab islied that he does not pos sess the only stomach in Georgia that does not regard quantity when being tilled.” Rome Courier: Will Elliott says on tiis trip down the river when the water had bucked over t tie h,w land, he saw a woman near Bogan’s ferry standing on a gait post with one end being attached to her husband, who was engaged in diving for turnips, lie would go down am! upon find.ng a good b>rgc one would jerk the rop.t and the wile would haul him in to shore. For fear this statement may be doubled we give ibe name of the author as above. Under the headof“ Initiated,” the BarnesviHt- Gazette says: “We learn that a gentleman in RarnesviHe in itiated a colored man as a servant last week. The negro was instruo ed as our ol the first orders to m ike n fire to tin* gran- iu the parlor. He aimed himself witli fuel and proceeded t<> the parlor. At er thoroughly ex min ing the room torn lire- p:i ce in which to raise the fire lie discovered the open apace in the organ occupied by the peddles, as tne on y thing n-s-m --blingn fire-place. He fixed in the fuel and was about to introduce the fii , when the gen Irtnan who gave t to- order for the lire happened io calk : t ttn- parlor. We will not iell wha en uej.’’ HOLD ! STOP THERE! NEW GOODS Arriving at the New Rock Store, A. Me. WATKINS & Son., Jackson, Georgia. WR invite the attention of the pooole ofHutts county, to our gencrai stock of goods, which we are offering at prices that will warrant them to trade with us. CTTJH T LISO-VEIN", Ladies shoes at SI,OO worth $1,50; Childrens shoes at*6o cents, worth 75 certs and a dollar. Boots a lid Shoes, Men’s boots atS-,36, worth 53,00; brogans at $1,25, worth $1,40. Ladie’s D J ess Goods. AI paean and worsteds at prices never before known in Jackson. Shawls at 50 cents, worth 75 cents aud SI,OO. STAPLE GOODS, Such as shirting, sheeting, bleaching, prints unu checks, at bottom prices. ZTsTOTI COSTS. Ribbons, laces, trimmings, fci<! gloves, silk ties, ladies collars and cuffs, combs, buttons, thimblo®, needles and threat!, and many other things too numerous to mention. CLOTHING. Jeans ol the Best Quality. GENTS UNDERWEAR, Shirts, collars, cuds, cravat*, suspenders, half hose, etc. GROCERIES. Good coffee 6 pounds, cheap at 5 pounds to the dollar. Sugar at 10 pounds to the dollar. Ba con, flour, lard, syrup, molasses, twh, etc., lamps* looking glasses, snuft, tobacco, blacking, ink paper, soap. Tinware Hardware, Glassware, woooden ware, buckets, etc. .... n „ , Our good are new and fresh, und we will sell them to<ou at railroad prices. Call and sec us before going elsewhere. The “Will IE” Sewing Machine! HTlio Ladles Favorite! ® RUNNING; the most quiet; makes the prttiest stitch; and has more conveniences than any It is warranted five years and is the easiest to sell, and gives the best satisfaction of any J. I>. & T. I". SMITH, AY liolesale and Retail Dvales, 3s, Broad Street: Georgia. According to the Monleiuinin VVeek ly, one bight last week a party at the residence of Mr. Hodges, al Turkey Greek, ended in a Moody tragedy. Mr. VV. E. Wilder and others while intoxicated went to the party. Mr Hodges requested tiiem not to interfere with the young peo ple in their enjoyments. This in censed tiie party, and calling Mr. Hrnlges out, they cut him op terribly, a Blade of a knife being broken off in his temple. The bi st of medical aid was summoned, but to no avail, as Mr. Hodges died last Thursday. From wiiat can he gathered the de ceased was perfectly innocent aud Ilia murder was cold flooded the only excuse the mnrderets having to give was that they were drunk, Griffin News: A f-w nights ago Mr. J 11. Logan, Sr., beard some cr.e in his smoke house, and liurryinir thitherward, saw a man niak'ng off with a load of me it on his shoulder Mr. Logan let him has e a load < f buckshot ft otu a shotgun, and heard the thief cry, ‘ Oli ! lordy !’’ If ho was hurt be left nothing to show it but the above words. We also learn that some t ime ago some rascal en tered the smokehouse of Mr Buntyn, some tour miles east of Griffin, arid took off several hogs that had just been killed, all the meat Mr. Buntyn had lor the winter. Still arotherease comes from ti e place of Oapt. M. L. Bates, who had the misfortune to lose in a similar manu< r a fine lot of pork some time ago. Hog stealing seems to be a lucrative business. Atlanta Post-Appeal; In the cane of the state vs- The Southwestern railroad a verdict was rendered late Saturday evening in favor of the State for $17,644,90. This case was a soit for taxes during the year IBl4and 18- 75. Certain branches of the road claimed to be exemp from taxation under the terms of their charter, Sparta Ishrraelite: The arrival f Western corn and meat, up to this time, indicates that this year’s sched ule is to be pretty much the same as hat if last year. The farmers wi. 1 never cease to lie involved until they raise their own supplies. It is impos sible for a 1 cotton farmers to become prosperous Bankruptcy must tol'ovv adherence to old methods. The Atlanta grain elevator is coins pleted. It cost $33,0u0 IE _ l Till JIM IE FOll 1882, OFFERS Important Inducements, TO SUBSCRIBERS AND" To those getting- up Clubs o A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY To Get A Celebrated "White Sewing Machine' For Nothing. 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