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315 Jv.jK~a3~~lßK! 11AKI>, - - Kditor. Congressman Black is still olive, but his case is regarded as homeless. Mr. Joseph Sledge, a diurumerllom Lagrange, tin,, < instantly hilled by the„iraiu near Cussela, last Mon day. A beautiful yonng lady in Atlanta is n shoemaker and works regular at her trade. The liquor license in Ea’onton is $3,000 the towu is only able to sup port ono bar-room. Mr. John. A McWhorter, a prom, inetit Atlanta lawyer died in that ci ty last .Monday week lie was a law partner of Gm. Garlrell. Stephenson the mnrderer oi Air.*. Clementine Stephenson was found guilty, and sentenced to he hanged, in ti a imielt Superior ( ourt last w eek. Failures for the week throughout the country, reported by Dunn rfe Co’s agency, 130 —Eastern States, 17; Western, 38 Middle. 20; South’ eru, 35 ; Pacific, 13 ; New York City 0. Our attention has more than once been called to the extraordinary num ber ot people in Georgia who are suf fering from cancerous affections. The Watchman states that there are not less than thirteen eases ot this horri ble disease around Athens. Sumter llvpuhliacn; W learn that the wln at crop ot Sumter and counties adjoining, i < entirely mined by rust. Mr. ti. W. Glover, ot this city, says he considers it entirely gone, ami has commenced plonrvng his un der to pul the laud in cotton or corn, ilu says that quite a number of far mers arc doing likewise. The man who shot at Guitenu, has recently been tried and sentenced to be dishonorably discharged trom the army, wit out pay, and to he impri*. oned iu the penitentiary lor eight years. Col. W&ttrimin has sold the Ath ens Banner to Messrs. Yaney, Craw ford and Gantt, who will consolodate it with the Watchman, under the name of B inner-Watchman. Col. Watchman has bought the Monroe Advcilist r. Eatonton Messenger: A fnrtneroftliis county sends us the following : “Tho Lest method of ripping cotton stalks is to take a small upturn blow and rip with it. It is the best implement for the purpose that 1 ever tried, and will save many hard day’s work for man and beast. The citizens of ftenoia are agitating the project of changing the boundary lines of Fayette county so as to make that place the centre and county scat. It is proposed to take pm thins of Cow - eta and add other portions of Fayette to Clayton, thus throwing everybody nearer to Court House. Mr. J. T. Barkesdale, of Baldwin county, cut a pine tree measured four feet and eleven inches in diameter, t>B l'cet to the first limb, 130 feet high ; 81 feet used for timber made 4,000 pail ings 4 feet long, from onc-half to one inchin thickness. If sawed iu weather boarding it vyould make at least 5,000 feet of lumbar worth SSO. i Congress seems in earnest shout a ’new bankrupt taw, and lias number of l bills upon (be subject under consider ation. Every .business man, with a thimbleful of Mains, admits tho abso lute noceasitvßf a bankrupt law, the only trouble being the exceeding diffi culty in framing a law that will give justice and equity to both debtor and creditor. Washington Gazette ; A silver half dollar one of only four-made by the Confederate government, sold in New York Monday for SB7O. Capt. Erwin, of till- place, has a silver half dollar from the lot of money tlint was thrown into General Toomb’s yard when the Confederate treasure was hero; and he would not take a considerable amount fi.rit. A number of soldier* were paid $2,50 each, and the Captain was one of the number. There seems to he some danger ot a war in Europe, growing out of the nev er-ending Eastern question, if so, it will he a war with Russia, and proha Idv France,on one side, anil Austria and Germany on the other. \\ ith the vast armies which these powers can bring into the field, and the interests at stake, and national antipathies aroused, it would Ih> one of the blood iest of history. It might revolutionize the map and the dynasties of Europe. Reports arc conflicting with regard to tin* condition of this distinguished Georgian ; hut the moat reliable infor mation inclines us to belief that his condition is extremely critical. Dr. Westmoreland, of Atlanta certainly an authority in medical matters, says of .Senator Hill: “He may live two weeks or possible two years, hut the cancer is necessarily fatal.’’ Mr. Hill has had three difficult and painful op orations with great fortitude, and says that while he himself is confident of a cure, lie is resigned to the will of his Creator. The loss of a man of Mr. Hill's endowments would certainly be a heavy ono for our State and the South. WOMAN A kemkdy for iifr OXl.y. Chmix-r tluui t>ill. and to h* uixst by wouirn exclusively. It is |>r*i>ur<-<t for them only, mid mill issisH-mlly *l|>l**<l to ensn* wlirrr the womb i disordered, nd will etire all irretr ulantka of Ilia 'iiieusea", or monthly * ■norm's , wlietlior aeutc or chronic, by resturiuK the di eliart;*' This yreat boon is Ir. J. Brudlteht's Fe male Regulator, and known and rwogtdoed as • Womans l'asi Friend' Prcntrod by fr. J. Hrads ,tol Pru-* . trial six*', Zx; large sixe fl. a®, ror do by uli druKista. GUANO. aiavc Kt‘dii<*el the ■•rice „ /Of the following HIGH GRADES ' And well established Fertilisers as ful i lows. * Jolm Merryman it Co's tiuano to 4SO pound* middling cotton j>er ton. K. Frank foe’s Ou*uio to 450 pounds middling ° < ThmuimwkV G utino to 430 lbs, Md’ I*ng cotton Wa<ion Wtian ACo s Plow brand 0 pounds Walton Wlmuih & Go’s Acid Phosphate ikjj lbs. *nhn Merryman A Co’s Acid Phosphate dNO Ha* -J on me opposite the Brick Warc-houw or on pun Hinton, at Plau/ers* Ware-kouae, where tov leriilizen* are stored ami delivered. .'at. A, ti££&S. Agent, ■usaris tfrlffln (3*. A coi respond f ery Advertiser, * ~'m f ot>t y* o<t4 gee, says: lhe inn. < J of air. K. Y. Ware, Jr., who liven ?*ur miles below this place, was poisoned hy the nuisc on lire evening of the 13th instant, and it died in ten hours after the fatal dose was administered. The child was attended by that eminent physician, Dr. James K. Hushing, w ho, not heisg *bie to account for the alarming symptoms otherwise, suspected poisoning, and, upon in quiry, the muse, a negro girl, aged shout thirteen years, very soon ac knowledged that she had given the child a drink of water out of a vial. This she was ordi red to produce, and she at once brought it from its hiding place in a cotton patch near hy, which via’, upon investigation, was found to contain morphine. The girl eventually acknowledged all, saying she stold the morphine from a book-ease in the house, poured wa ter in it. mile the child drink of it, and, as she supposed, emptied the remainder on the ground. No reason was assigned for this diabolical deed except that she was * tired nursing and wanted to go to school.” We learn that a coroner’s inquest was held and a verdict tendered in accor dance with the above. The Times says the nurse, named Henrietta rown, was cariied to Welumka and committed to jail, without bail, by Love Godwin, Esq , J. I’., of Tallas sec beat The mother of the nurse, and the girl who advised the nurse to poison the child, wore also arres ted, but the mother was discharged and the latter was also committed. The prisoner will be tried at tie May term of the court. A colored gir’ met tho nurse with the child in her arms, and remarked : “If I was in your place I would t be carrying, that heavy child about in my arras : I’d gel lid of it.” The nurso asked flow it could be done, and the other sug gested the poisoning of the child. After conferring together, it was agreed between them that the nurse should make the child take a tea spoonful of morphine iu water. And to make assurance doubly sure, the nurse’s acc mphee was to give the child paragorio nr laudanum. Thu in nocent little victim was made to take 'he deadly drug, and died in u few hours alter. Waycroßß Reporter: We warn the people of the South against insuring their property or lives in any New York company, as their is a special law in that State against the colleo* lionot any and all claims for insur ance by a non resident. Messts. Twit ley ib Culpepper, of Camilla, tia., were defeated iu their tluim against ibe Long Island Insurance Company, under the operation of said law. Augusta Chronicle aud Constitu tion aiiat: The trial ot the ease of Wm. 11. Johnson vs. the Georgia railroad for SIOOOO, suit for damages, was oonoludod at Morgan Superior Court on Wednesday last. The ease giew out of an incident which occur red in the passenger train of the above company one day last July. Among the passengers on that train was Wiu. 11. Jolmson, a druinmor, Pittsburg Pennsylvania. While sit ling in the ladies car he pulled oil’his coal, and was requested hy Mr Harry Hill, conductor, to pul it on again. Phis he retuse to do, when the train was stopped near Madison and John son pul off. The case has since exoi ted considerable interest in railway otolcs. The trial of the case resulted in n mistrial. It is generally under stood. however, that the jury stood nine tor no damages, and three for SIOO damages. It is not 'bought that the road would have stood a cent damages, ns they were contesting the spirit and principle of the suit. It is not now believed that the suit will he pushed lurther. Mr. Fred C. Fos ter, ot Madison, and the Messrs. Lewis, of Greensboro, represented Johnson, while Messrs. Joseph 11. Gumming, ot Augusta, and Joel A. Billups, ot Macon, appeared lor tjie road. a. ■lunam. t. a. aaiosr. HENDRICK & WRIGHT. Attorneys At Law. * JACKSON, BUTTS CO., GA. Wtl.l. |>raeiiee in all Um COI'RTS ncri* In th* 001/NTY iXll BT. Will attend to all hoMnMPROMPTLY. To The Publie. THK underaigned t* now prepared to earn Suttavug'eraon the regular mail route between luck mm and Covington at reamMiahle rule*. Will leave Jaekaon every Tuemlay, Thursday and Saturday morning at 7 o’clock. 1 will aim> carry Utgvage* or oilier light freight. Your patronage (solicited. Capt J P. LOYD. Mail Contractor. P. 8. —When in Jaokaou 1 u be fouud at the iknton House. aep 38-tf M. V. McKibben, ATTORNEY AT LAW, JACKSON, - • A. are lorty three ihou-and made entirely destitute by the Mi-bissippi flood Mr. Scoville has subraitied to Dis trict Attorney Coikhill has bill of exception in the Guiteau case. It is a voluminous document, and will require seveisl days in its examina tion. Governor Colquitt has decided not to convene the Legislature to redi* Irict the slate. He also states that lie will not be a candidate under any cir cumstances. •♦ • - Over twelve thousand Emigrants have left Hamburg for the United Slates in the pass two months. Mrs. D. G. McCormick, of our town, killed eighty-nine birds one day recently She is a splendid shot, and hm it comes to using a shot gnu she cannot be excelled.—llawk insville News. Augusta Evening News: Who ever heard ot a dog with the tooth ache t Well, Augusta tan boast of tli** novelty The poor old ti How has been howling for a week with neural gia of ttit* jaw . and whet; his master, who is a thoughtful considerate sur geon as well as an artist, Discovered the cause of the canine’s grief, fie set to work to extract a whole row of decayed teeth in the dog’s mouth Now ihi- may seem absurd to some very ignorant people, but it is all true, and the poor dog held his mouth open and sal perfectly quiet while the teeth Were being drawn. And yet some people think a dog has no sense of appreciation. Sumter Republican : A specific for the chills as used by a negro woman near Mils place upon a child ot tier's is ahead ct any specific known to the medical fraternity. The child was rubbed over with pounded cayenne pepper and turpentine poured upon it until it blistered and burnt, then a and cociion of the pulp or a gourd was given to the child as an emetic. The remedy was an “awful’’ one hut. it cured ilie child. Anything else but a nigger would have gone to the grave yard under such an heroic treatment. I his is a tact, and can be established by many wii nesses. This is a medical liliasc in the life of the negro un mowu to the whiles. Senator Joseph E. Brown voted with the Republicans again Inst week. I’his, the third vole lie fins cast re cently wit li the republicans was on the passage of the bill to restrict Chi ne-e immigration which was passed by a vote of 29 to 15. The bill re oeived :he solid democratic vote ex cept Senator Brown. Columbus, Mar. 15.—A must lior ribh tragedy occurred on the Mobile * tiir aid railroad yesterday which caused a negro man to lose his life. Yesterday morning at 6’oclock No 5 freight train going nest lift this ciiy tor Montgomery. When it reached a point near Suspension’ between the 45th 40ih mile posts, the enginer saw a man on the ira> U lying with his head on the rail. The man was asleep, but the train had just climbed a grade and was so near him that it was im possible to stop before reaching him. The train passed over him, culling off the top of his head. His name was Allen Cunningham and yesterday morning be was in Suspension trading. He bought a hot, ie of whiskey and this was found in his pocket at the time ol the killing, lie sa' down on the side of the track and soon was in a drunken stupor Wlien the train came along it took off the entire top part of hi- head and scattered the brains mound tor some distance. A coroner’s inquest was hold and a verdict found in ac cordance with the above tacts, and exonerating the railroad officials from any blame. Here is another strong temperance sermon and another warning against the careless and inexcusable habit ot sitting down on thernilroud.—Enqui rer- Sun. Everybody is tamilisr with the his tory ol the daring capture of a Con federate train at Big Shanty, on the S'ate road, in Apt it, 1861, hy a parly of disguised Federal soldiers, led hy one J. J. Andrews, Seven ot these raiders were hung in Atlanta, seveial escaped, and the whets were finally exchanged. A bill is now before Con g'css granting a pension of S2O p>-r mon 11) to Wilson \V. Brown and others who were members of this par ty ands 1 ill survive. It is probable that the bill will pass—Post Appeal. THK JU KNOV NKWN, PUBLISHED eUßier FkIDAY. at Jack mom, KulUt ounly.Ga. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Three Months, .... - -50 c ftis Months, fl 00 One Year, •• - - - *slso STRICTLY IS ADVANCE . RATKB FOR ADVERTISING : Advertisements will be Inserted for ONE DOLLAR per square, tor the flrrt insertion, and FIFTY GENTS per square ft>r each subsequent insertion, hw one month, or leas. For a longer period, a ltlieral discount will be made. Ad* One inch in length, or less, constitutes a MUMS. Notice* in the local column will be inserted at TKN f KNTS per line, each insertion. Marriages and death* wiM he published as items of itewa, but obituaries will be cliarged for at advertising rates. JQB PRINTING Of every description, promptly aud neatly execu ted at rftuosrtNf rdiM. Mow! MONEY!! Money!! Loaned to Farmers. I'arties desiring to negotiate UIANS on five years time can make application through me by calling at my office. 1 will act as Attorney for any fanner who has improved lands, in securing loans to the value of one-third of their reel es tate. Y. A, WJUOBT, Offiot at Court liouse x bur# vg. A JletupliyMical t'oiubat. The great colored preacher of the Baptists is pitted against the Meth odist divine. The first says; “De Meihodiss, my bruddren, is like de grassi.opp' r—hoppin’, all do lime hoppin’—hop into heaven, hop out, hop into heaven, hop out. But my bruddren, de Babtiss, when he gets to heaven he’s dar. De Babtiss is like de ’possum. Hunter get after him; he climb de tree; lie shakes de limb, one foot gone; he shakes de limb an odder foot gone ; he shakes de limb’ epbery foot gone ; but think you my bruddren, de ’possum fall* You kuow my bruddren you notch too many—you know 'possum hang on 'ay de tail, and de berry debbil can't shake him off.” Then M°tbody fell pelow par in de colored folks’ heart, until sometime afterward, when this particular belief again had admit er H for the opposition cleric demolished the Bahtists as follows “His text was ‘My sheep hears my voice and I know them, and dey follows me.” “Den,“ he said. “In de Bible de Christians is de sheep. Bo had a heap of Bible in dat print, and he preached a mighty long time, ani made dat so strong no nigger can ’sttute it. Now, my bruddren and sisters ycu will knows you can’t gel a s’’eep in de water, nohow, ’less yon notch him ar.d carried him in.” The Met body had its great and final triumph. New Covering For Cotton. — Mr. F. D. McMillan,ot Elberton has filed in the United Slates Patent office at Washington, a caveat, for a patent that is calculated to work quite a change in the haling of cotton. The patent is for a covering for cotton. The covering is to be of sheet iron so covering the cotton and so fastened as to prevent the lint being injured by the weather, or by any amount of handling, or by st ock.—Savannah News. HOLD ! STOP THERE! USTEW GOODS Arriving at the New Rock Store, A. Me. WATKINS & Son., Jackson, Georgia. WF! invite the attention of the people of Butts county, to our general stock of goods, which we are ottering at prices that will warrant them to trade with us. JTIBT LISTEU, ✓" Ladies shoes at SI,OO worth $1,50; Childrens shoes atJW cents, worth 75 cei.ts and a dollar. Boots and Shoes, Men’s boots at $2,35, worth 53,00; hrogans at 51,25, worth $1,40. '( Ladie’s Dress Goods, Alpacas and worsteds at prices never before known in Jackson. Shawls at 50 cents, worth 75 cents and SI,OO. STAPLE GOODS, Such as shirting, sheeting, bleaching, prints and checks, at bottom prices. HOTIOHS. Ribbons, laces, trimmings, kid gloves, silk ties, ladies collars and cuffs, combs, buttons, thimbles, needles and thread, and many other things too numerous to mention. CLOTHIISTG. Jeans of the Best Quality. GENTS UNDERWEAR. Shirts, collars, cuffs, cravats, suspenders, half hose, etc. GROCERIES. Good coffee ti pounds, cheap at 5 pounds to the dollar. Sugar at 10 pounds to the dollflr. Ba eon, flour, lard, syrup, molasses, flsh, etc., lamps, looking glasses, snuff, tobacco, blacking, ink (taper, soup. Tinware Hardware, Glassware, woooden ware, buckets, etc. Our good are new amt fresh, and we will sell them to<ou at railroad prices. Call and see us before going elsewhere. The “WHI I E” Serving Machine! Tli* Ixiidics Favorite! Bocaoie it is lie Latest RUNNING; the most quiet; makes the prttieet stitch; and has more conveniences than any other Mahine. 1 It is warranted five years and is the easiest to sell, and gives the best satisfaction of any machine on the market. . Intending purchasers are eolciited to ■ amino it before buying. Responsible dealers wanted in all unoccuied erriterj. JT. I>. &: T. F. SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Deales, 9. Bread Street: ALAATA, tteargla. A® Davenport has 160 licensed saloon*. They pay less than SBOO per year tax. The city contains about $23,000 in habitants ; so that it has a saloon for every 134 of its population. The city paid out during the last year sls - to snstain its paupers. Its 170 saloons that largely male its pauper and criminals paid $81,67 toward the $2,200 pauper and criminal taxation ihat they made it necessary to levy on the city. But then this is only a practical view of the workings of the license ourse. Who can estimate the profanity, the obscenity, the domestic brawls, the squalid wretchedness, the sorrows ot mothers and chilJren, the waste of time, the ruin of health, the immorality, thievery and degrading poverty engendered by those 170 hell holes that the mayor and council ol that city licensed to flood damna tion over that community for honest businesssnd temperate industry to support. Bui such are the workings ol the license system everywhere. — The Luthrian. A New York clergyman, in a ser mon on courtship and marriage, said he believed “that there is a mate for every one if they will wait till the right one comes along.” The female porton of iiis congregation who have passed two score years said they never heard such nonsense, and that the man didn’t know what he was talking about- If (lie right one doesen‘l come along be fore a woman reaches forty, the chan ces are nine times out of ten that he is snowed under, or dead, or, worse still, has married the wrong woman. The long standing Sprague divorce case has been settled; both parties with drew all charges and counter charges of a scandelous charactei and they were eased from the bills before the court. By the agreement Governor Sprague retaines the son, and Mrs. Sprague the three daughiers Mrs. Spra gue does not want to resume her mai den name, but asks alimony untill the Sprague estate is settled up. This settle ment will doubtless disappoint the lovers of scandalous sensations, hut the country at large will commend it as right and proper. Iffl _ IB Till JIM “SIB FOR ISS2, OFFERS Important Inducements, TO SUBSCRIBERS AND To those getting up Clubs O A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY To Get H Celebrated “White Sewing Machine' For Nothing, The, NEWS a2B column paper, published weekly at JACKSON, the COUV. TYSITE of BUTTS county, centrally located between Macon and Atlanta on the NEW Macon <fc 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 amount of literatus which will be found interesting to the general reader. Subscription Price $1,50 PEB -A.TsTIDSTTJ'JVC, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. The Best ADVERTISING MEDIUM, UK RiOßLii (wFiORGIJk, Being published in a section of country which is just being developed by the building ot ;i new railroad and being circulated among an inteligent and pros perous class. Subscribers are being added, every week, to onr Already Large List. which is circulated throughout a scope of country, 40 miles square, tributary to Jackson. THE FOLLOV7ING- 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, Stem Winder. For a Club of 30* We will give TEN DOLLARS IN GOLD. For A Club of 50. We will give a celebrated “White Sewing Machine,” warranted, with the Companay’s written guarantee to keep it in repair for five years. For a Club of 100, ooM&IS t&JSSBSaSiSSf WATCH ' *“ Wtod -*“ * For A Club of 175, We will give a fine Home-Made Piano-Box Buggy, warranted to be as good any that can be put up anywhere. H ADDITION TOTIIE ABOVE, We will give each CASH Subscriber, for this year, obtained through a clnbor otherwise, a printed certificate, entitling them to a chance, FREE of charge, in a drawing for one “White’s Sewing machine With all the Extra Attachments, and Company’s written guarantee to keep it in repair fur five vears ; the price of which is $50,00. This proposition to hold c<>od provided as many as 50 subscribers are obtained from this date, Jan uary 17th,’1882, to December 81st, 1882. 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 NEWS office. „Yo humbug, but you may rely on our propositions.