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XV. K. 11 4 Hl*. - - Kililor.
The Hissianily lias appeared neat
15 irnesville.
Russian emigrants in .Augusta are
doing well.
Mr. Stephens is uiging the coinage
of the goloiil dollar.
Mr. Thomas Adams, of Btroesville,
died Monday night.
Clifford Henderson, of Covington,
son ofUt-n I{. J. Henderson, IS dead.
Morgan county adopted “no fence”
by 223 majority, on the 1-t instant.
From Memphis to Madison, Ark ,
the river is 10 miles wide.
The people* have all been driven
out oi Riverton, Miss., by thu over
flow. Benj I Tyne was drowned,
Chas. Albeit Iteado of Newton,
Mass, in his will leaves §30,000 to
be appropriated to the reduction ol
tho war debt ot the United States.
The Augusta medical college has
turned loose twenty three more doc
tors.
Jacob Harrell, Decatur county’s
tax collector, lias skipped with four
thousand dollars of publieftnoiiey
The President has nominated Hon.
Koscoe Colliding to he an associate
justice ol the U. S. Supreme Court,
in the place of Hun', retired.
Rev, Sam Jones says religion is the
cheapest thing that we have. In fact,
Christ is running an excursion train
to H eaven, but still somo people are
clamoring tor dead head tickets.
. J. L. Tucker, of Jasper county, sus
tained a total loss of H I bales of cot
ton, in tho burning of the warehouse at
Madison recently.
Our exchanges, for tho past week,
note no less than 20 or .30 instances
where people have been shot at by un
known parties, while travolingtho road
and through windows, after night.
Mr. J. Jones, a commercial drum
mer, who has been engaged with Ham
ilton it Hudson of Atlanta, formerly
with Merchant & Mosely, committed
suicidont home in that city, Inst vveok,
ly taking poison. Financial trouble
said to be the cause.
yOol. Farrow charges Governor Col
quitt with going to Washington recent
ly, and tendering Alexander Stephens
the nomination ofa certain political
combination foy pic next Governor
ship.
Sen nto has passed the apportomner.t
bill precisely us it passed the House.
The number of representative# is
now fixed at 325, and the Stale Legis
lutures who have been waiting for this
result, can now proceed to lay oil'the
districts. Georgia has ten Congress
men instead of nine as heretofore.
The inundated district of Mississip
pi, IjOusiana and Arkansas covers liun
di\d#*'of square miles. People arc
drivefi from their homes. Nothing
like it has been seen for many years
The distress in the Hooded region is
beyond the power of words todeseribc.
Houses, fencing, stock, and property
of every description has been swopped
away. Thousands of colored people
are homeless and will starve without
immediate aid. Relief is wanted and
must be had from all portions of tho
country at once. Appeals for help from
every quarß-'V is being made.
> Joe Brown co-operated with the Re
publicans and voted for Grant in ’Oo,
and as an evidence lb his fidelity to
bis old comrade, lie casts another bal
lot for him, with the Republicans in
Congress, recently, placing Grant on
the retired list with the rank and pay
of General, ltv this vote Brown jollies
in taking $13,000 unnuallg out of the
treasury for Grant, who is worth hun
dreds of thousands, aud who does noth
ing to earn this sum. This is tljosec
ond time ho has voted with Republi
cans, But it was “Uncle .loo” and
what he does is alright, you know.
Wonder if brother Harp will take
liis Jackson brass hand to tho press
convention in May I —Jasper News.
Our efforts in the past to furnish mu
sic for tho press, was so highly appre
ciated, especially on the Rome trip,
we ought to be encourage to keep it
up. O, no, brother Horton, please
don't mention it again. But the time
is drawing utany and if there is a band
iu the state deirous up putting in a bid
to furnish music and pay their own
expenses, and eat at the second table,
now is the time to put in for it, and if
Christopher ar.d a few others, whose
souls are immovable by ‘concord of
sweet sounds’, don,t object, may bo
their services will be accepted.
Three Mitchell boys, Horschel, Dink
and Tom, were allowed to plead guilty
to simple larceny a lesser crime than
charged with, m llook dale Court and
were fined $50,00 ajiiece and cost or
six months in the county jail, with the
promise that they would refund 70 odd
dollars, the remainder of the money
stolen from Mr. Harper, a citizen of
Conyers. They were 6011s of the sher
iff of the county, who weppod bitterly
in the court room, during the touching
and well directed remarks of Judge
Stewart in sentencing them. A solum
scene, with profound stillness through
out the court room. The young men,
with a weeping father at their side, and
the sympathetic appeals from the lips
of His Honor, with countenance of the
guilty they stood firm and untouched
without a single tear.
Mrs. W. It. Allen, of Jasper, is
dead.
Jug Tavern will have its railroad
completed by the 4th of July,
Two large whales were stceM-ly cap
tured near Brunswick,
The ‘fence’ side carried the day in
Bibb county by nine votes.
Preparations are being made in San
Francisco for c. -crusade against the
Chinese.
ThcstoreofSbiomon Bros., in Savan
nah, was destined by tire last week
boss,s9o,oo. Insurance $54,000.
G'iggM warehouse, containing 800
bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire
al Madison, one morning last week.
A company with $50,000 capital has!
been formed in Gridin for the manu
facture of the Brooks automatic car
Coupler.
A mob -bung a man named Doering
near Gainsville, Tex., the othei night
fur alleged horse stealing.
All the stores of Many’s Station, oni
the Georgia railroad, was burned last
week, with the exceptions of one.
Under Senator Logan’s hill Gen.
Grant will receive $12,750 a year for
tho remainder of his life.
The organization of the Exposition
Cotton Mills Company was effected Sa
turday, in Atlanta, with u paid up cap
ital of $2.50,000.
The widow of D.micJ Webster died
at Rochelle, N. Y., a few days ago.
She was his second wife.
Over 70 miles of the Atlanta exten
sion of the Macon and Brunswick rail
road have been graded.
R. D. Itaven shot James Gook
through the heart at Omaha. Neb.,
the other day in a dispute over the
propper spelling of the word peddler.
A Congressional committee will pro
bably report in favor of purchasing the
papers of Benjamin Franklin, at cost
of $35,000.
It is thought by many that Rev. Dr.
Adieus J. Haygood will be elected a
bishop by the Methodist General Con
ference in May.
A man name Tunnage, in Wilkes
county, is reported as having married
the wife of a convict who is serving out
a life sentence.
Jomes Johnston, of New York, offers
$10,OO<) to the Garfield memorial fund
ifGuiteau is hung on a tower 100 feet
high, so as to allow thousands of peo
ple I lie satisfaction of seeing the as
sassin meet his death,
l’ostAppoal: The question of Gui
teau’a insanity will lie ro-oponed if the
persistent eflorst of his council can ac
complish it. A paper on insanity from
Hr. Hammond will appear this week
in a medical journal, and other articles
will follow. It is thought that this will
awaken public interest in tho question
of Guiteau's insanity, and that a pres
sure will cause tho case he re-opened.
“Chilli” concludes his recent letter
in the Cincinnati Enquirer with tho
fo lowing:
"Joe Brown has just had a five dol
lar history published to show that his
enemy, Boh Toombs, was the anther of
secession. In that case secession ought
to ho ashamed of itself, for a more in
continent, windy swaggerer of a man
has never been Hont lip to the Senate.
Joe Brown onco resigned from the
Baptist Church to accommodate Boh
Toombs with a duel, and Toombs‘took
water" like Ancient l’istol taking the
leek. Howell Cobh did go manfully
into tho army and was subordinate to
authority ; Toombs insulted his supe
riors. The young men of Georgia may
ns well understand that their public
men gave away their negro property
to become Presidents, Vice Presidents
and Senators. A. H. Stephens lias
the best record of any of them, and
when they resolved on breaking from
the Union he frankly said : “We build
on slavery, rejecting liberty for our
corner stone,” That was the fact.’
The Wilmington, Del., Every Even
ing gives the following indorsement of
a now Georgia enterprise :
An enteprising Georgian is about, to
publish a descriptive catalogue, con
taining tho name, address, complex
ion, general style mid approximate age
of every woman in Georgia who owns,
oris the expectant heiress of property
to the amount of S3,(XX) or upwards.
The id >a is a good one, being a tardy
recognition of that thinly veiled fact
that fashionable society is.afterall, on
ly a great matrimonial exchange,
wherein men and women are quotable
stocks. Persons of property, of course,
are always above par while the values
of beauty, brains and other personal
advantages are variable,
Barnosvillo Gazett: Saturday after
noon of last week, Mr. I*. F. Foster,
who resides near Zebu lon in Tike coun
ty, attempted to sever his connection
with this world by attempting suicide.
Ho took two vials of laudanum, wo
learn, blit yet lives. Certainly he lias
a better hold on life than most men.
What caused him to make such a des
perate resolve, we have not learned,
further t han that it was something per
taining to his father's estate. He
stands quite well in commercial oir
circles in Barnosvillo, as we heard one
ofour leading merchants any Monday
lie was crlitiiig him for all he asks.
But a short time since he insured his
life with Major Cook, who represents
the Peoples Mutual Company, of At
lanta, for the sum of five thousand
dollars. When last heard from he
was getting over the effects of the laud
anum, and will live.
Barnesvillo Gaxett. : The Hessian
fly has appeared in a small way in some
of the wheat fields of this section. In
dividimllv they are hut little conse
quence, lmt collectively, they are quite
destructive. This serious nest of the
wheat plant, is supposed to have come
with those Mercenary hired soldiers
who fought upon the side of enemy du
ring the revolutionary war, who were
known as Hessians. It is a small two
winged fly, and was brought here, it is
said by thotae Keasiunesohtiers. Wheth
er this be true or not they were not
unknown in America before the year
1776, when they were found on Staten
Island and Long Island, near tbs bind
ingplace of some of these Hessian sol
diers. This tly is a species ofgaii-gnat.
They spend their larvae stage, for the
most part, in swolen enlargements, or
galls, on the stems, leaves and buds of
plants, upon which t ie eggs art' depos
ited. Somewhat different from the oth
er members of its family the Hessian
fly deposits its eggs upon the stem of
the young wheat plant, near the ground
and the maggots, when hatched,instead
of penetrating the stem merely punc
ture it and suck out the sap from it.
This weakens the plant, it turns yellow
and then dies.
This insect has two broods—one in
the spring and the other in the fall.
Convict Labor.
The New York Sun. of Sun lay
last, contains the following local item,
says tho Macon Telegraph Messenger;
Ari anti-prison lab ir association
was organized yesterday, with John
■). Midigan as President, in Pytha
goras Hall. Only shoemekeis were
present. They claim that great inju
ry to their business is caused by the
prison competition, where the con
tractors pay the Stale only 50 or 55
cents a day per capiu tor convict la
bor, The shoemakers say tint they
mean to drive shoemakers out ol the
prisons. Ttiey will see wbai can be
done, and in case they catmol succeed
alone, they will ask. for help from the
moulders, the hatters, the tailors, and
others whose business they say, is al
so affected by prison competition.
The shoemakers say it is their inten
tion to organize throughout the city,
and that at the next election of S'ate
officer they will make themselves felt.
We commend a careful perusal of
it to those persons in Georgia who
are becoming so hysterical over the
convicts of the Stale, that they pro
pose the building of a penitentiary at
a cost of & million of dollars, and the
incaiceralion of convic's within lour
walls to be worked by the State at
mechanical trades ot a heavy annual
cost.
The experiment with ns is not an
untried one. For many years the
convicts of Georgia were kept in a
penitentiary and were emplyed in
shoemaking, h irnessrnaking, carpen
ter work and other mechanical em
ployments. They cost the State
$l4O per capita per annum, over and
above tho proceeds of their labor,
and the mechanics were constantly
complaining of tho competition. To
repeal the experiment in the face of
such a results, it strikes us, would be
singularly unwise and unfortunate.
It will not do to say that this rude
labor cannot compete with skilled
mechanics, for it does to a certain
extent. New and experienced hands
cannot make good shoes, good har
ness and do good cabinet work, but
it makes something cheap and unsat
isfactory at a heavy cost, which has
to be sold at a very low price, ari 1 in
this way it interferes with competent
outside labor. Its perhaps true that w>o
may not have a sufficiency of goed
shoemakers, carpenters, or hatness
mokers, but under the system propos
ed wo can soon have too many poor
ones of each class.
There is ohsolutely nothing in the
complaint that the convicts, as now
worked, compete with general day
labor disadvantageous!)'. Georgia
needs more hands to hold the plow,
to handle tho hoe and axe, to pick
cotton, to dig coal ahd make bricks.
If she had many thousand o n viols,
they might ho profitably employed
in these industries without interfer
ence with any man black or white,
wno makes his daily bread by his
daily labor. If the convicts are to
be penned up in a large costly build
ing and worked by the State, then
every man outside, rich or poor, will
have to bo taxed to support them.
A system which makes them sup
port themselves is a Wise one and
should not be changed, because hys
terioal people will howl, and demago
gues will engage in a wild hunt for
the ballots of tho man and brother.
Fort Valley Mirror: what this
county needs just now is more hard,
coolant woik, less grumbling and
talk about hard times; more saving
and less spending. More genuine el
bow grease between the plow handles,
and less standing around s ores and
depots. Strong hands and a good
grip should he the pass woid along
the Hues, with evey man at his post
doing duty. The pressuro is upon
us and we are obliged to grin aud
uidure it, and “don’t you forget it.’’
A gentleman iu tho Newetead
neighborhood has killed aoine hoes,
and lhey were gamhrelied and left
hanging on a pole in the yard Dur
ing the night a negro stold one of the
hogs and walked off with it. In at
tempting to pitch the hog over a
fence, some distance from the house
1 _ >
the thief hung the gambrel stiek over
his head ami broke his neck He
was found tho following morning
on one sielu of the fence aud the pork
on the other, hanging by his head.
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-g Senator M organ, of Alabama, had
the pleasure of seeing his resolution
to provide for a private secretary for
each Senator, vot'd down las6#week,
Like Senator Drown, of Georgia, lie
would run the government to an
enormous expense in tho way of fur
nishing Secretaire to do the wotk
that the government pays them to
do. Senator Morgan’s resolution
provided that each Senator, not
chair mat of a eommittee, should
have the iight, to appoint a messen
ger to-nssi-t him in the discharge of
his public duties, when such messen
ger is not engaged in the service
of the senate, and that such messen
ger should receivesl per diein dur
ing the session of the senate, to be
paid out ol the eon ling out found ol
:h ■ senate.
This was nothing more than the
proposition of Senator Brown—to
provide each Senator with a private
secretary at the public expense. In
support of his resolution Mr. Morgan
presented the overwork'll condition
of Senators and drew a graphic picts
tire of their terrible condition. We
are glad to see that other Senators
than the Georgia- and Alabama re
presentatives, loooked at the matter
in its true light.
Mr. Van Wycli, of Nebraska, as
sured tlrem that there should be few”
er secretaries or commitee clerks in
the service of the senate rather than
increase the number. Ho asserted
that clerks were appointed to com
mittees when there was no accessity
for their appointment. The position
was regarded merely as a perquisite
of the gentleman who wis chairman
of the committee. He said money had
been paid to clerks, of committees,
that bad not held a single meeting
since congress met. As evidence ot
the correctness of Mr. Van YVych’s
position the final vote on tho resolu
lion stood 31) to 10 against its pass
age.— Barnes'ill "Gazette.
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MEW GOODS
Arriving at the New Rock Store,
A. He. WATKINS & Son.,
Jacksoß, Georgia,,
W E invite tle ;ittcnt*r,i of llw people of Butts county, to our gQUBMj stock df goods, WhloU we
are oUcrfng at price's that Will warrant them to trade with u.
J“OrST ILISOJEIST.
Ladies shoes at §I,OO worth $1,50; Childrens shoes cents, Worth T 5 cei.ts and a dollar.
Boots aed Shoes,
Men's boots at $2,35, worth $3,00; brogans at $1,25, worth $1,40.
Ladie’s Dress Goods.
Alpacas and worsteds at prices never before known in Jackson. Shawls at 50 cents, worth to
cents and SI,OO,
STAPLE GOODS,
Such as shirting, sheeting, blenching, prints and ohoohs. at bottom prices.
ICTOTIOIfcTS.
Ribbons, laces, trim*tings, kid gloves, Alik lies, ladies collars and cuflfs, combs, buttons, thimbles,
needles and thread, and many other things too numerous to mention.
CLOTHING.
Jeans of the Best Quality.
GENTS UNDERWEAR.
Shirts, collars, cutis, cravats, susj*<*nders, half hose, etc.
GROCERIES.
(lood coffee t pomyia, cheap at 5 pounds to the dollar. Su gar at 10 pounds to the dollar. Ba
eon, flour, lard, syrup,molasses, fish, etc., lamps, looking glasses, snutf, tobucco, blacking;, ink
paper, soup.
Tinware Hardware,
Glassware, wooodoi ware, buckets, etc.
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Itroad Street: ALVATA, ftcWTsla*
The wied yesterday afternoon
broke tbo glass doors ol the Slate li
brary entrance,and partially raised
the roof of the Opera House.—Post
Appeal 20—ull.
Sometime ago John Tyler married
Miss Ardeli.t Price, of Stewart county.
A few months afterward it was discov
ered that he had another wife, lie
was driven off, and went to Alabama,
where lie lias just married a third wife.
Dr. Jas. N. Brandon, of Caney villa,
K v., on his death bed confessed t hat in
18S1 he and John and Bill Whitting
hill eblorifornaed Wily Embry and bis
six children, robbed the house of sl,-
600, and then set tire to it, burning the
inmates. Brandon is dead and the
Whittinghills have fled.
Feist Appeal: Not many weeks
since a lady came to Atlanta anil reg
istered at one of the hotels, from Col
umbus. Before she had been here
a great while, it is said that she got
on very intimate terms with a colored
porter at the bote 1 , and he being a
married man, tho green eyed monster
seized hold of his wife and threatened
to raise the tnischiel in the family.
As lime wore on matters began as
sume a more Suspicious phase. The
lady seetiaed to be infatuated with
the colored man. How tire affair
was kept secret is a. profound my stery.
But such things cannot remain
forever hidden from the reporter’s
prying ard inquisitive mind, and now
it leaks out that about two weeks
ago two tickets to Cincinnati were
purchased, and on these tickets the
foreside lady arid colored porter took
their leave of Atlanta. The presump
tion is that the couple contemplated
marriage, but knowing that the laws
of Georgia positively prohibit inter
marriage between white and colored
persons, they determined to go where
the laws on this subject are less
stringent. At any rate their beha
vior indicated such a purpose, and
they have not been heard fretn since
leaving the city.
Mississippi has Anew law prohibi
ting the sale of tobacco to minors
without an order from their parents or
guardians.
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