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l*<* 4•> stf Wnm ItjjtKu.*^. ,/. 1 < 'A’.SO.Y, GA ., At AIL 8~1 ss“. ' j 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. TIIK JAC'KNON rriiusm:n every erwav. i Jackson. Hull* County,<a. KATES OF SEHSORIPTIOX: Throe Month*, • .... ,W Six Months, ----- - $1 00 On© Your. - - - - - - -$l5O STRICTLY IX ADVANCE . IMTKS FOR ADVERTISING: AttvorTi-cmonu trill In* inserted for ONE DOLLAR jh‘i square, for the tlrst insertion* and FIFTY t'KNTS per .square for each *ul*©qut*nt insertion, for one month, or less. Kora longer period, it liberal discount will le made. One meli in length, or lea*, constitute* a square. Notieta hi t-he Kv'ftl column rrill he insert©*! at TEN t'KNTS |xr line Moh iuseriion. Marritigvs and death* will l*e published aa items of news, but ohitiuirie© will lx; charged for at advertising rates. JOB PIUXTING Of every description, promptly and neatly ejfcu ted at reuroHoW© ratri. Mccrctaric* for Senator*. -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. HOLD ! STOP THERE! 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. Our good arc new *ul fresh, and we will sell them tov'OU at railroad prices. Call and see us before going elsewhere* The “WHITE” Sewing Machine! Tlio Favorite! ®mm it is the uutot RUNKINO; 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 .1. I>. <V T. F. SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Denies, 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. ia _ _ i 111 JIM “IIS’ FOR im, OFFERS Important Inducements, TO SUBSCRIBERS AND •* To those getting up Clubs A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY fo Gel A Celebrated ’‘White Sewing Machine’ For Nothing, :o: The, NEWS a 28 column paper, published weekly at JACKSON, the COUN TY SITE of BUTTS county, centrally located between Macon and Atlanta, on the NEW Macon & Brunswick Railroad Extension. It is a live, local paper and gives the general news throughout the State, as well as Southern news items and the General Topics of the day, also a large amouiVt of fiteratue which will be found interesting to the general reader. Subscription Price 31,50 IFIEIR. AlTUrttM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. The Best ADVERTISING MEDIUM, in lueiiLG esoneu, Bring published in a section of country which is just being developed by tho building of anew railroad and being circulated among an inteligent and pros perous class, Subscribers are being added, ’every week, td onr Already Large List. which is circulated throughout a scope of country, 4(5 miles Square, tributary to Jackson. THE POIiLOW ITTC3- INDUCEMENTS Are offered to CASH subscribers, ONLY; at bNE DOLLAF AND FIFTY CENTS each; for a year’s subscription. For A Club of 5, We will give a fine pocket knife, or a year’s subscription to the NEWS. For A Culb of 15, We will give a good New Silver Watch, Sterrt Winder. 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The drawing will be conducted fairly, three or four disenterested gentlemen of Jackson, will be secured to conduct the drawing. The goods we offer you, can be seen by calling at the NEW 8 office. Ao humbug, but you may rely on our propositions.