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if)f lacbctt sjen>a. JACKSOtr, GA.,MAtt 2ft 1882 W. K. HARP, ■ - F.inor. O. W. Speigle's SIOO dog was poisoned in Barnesville th# ©tker night. The Secretary of War has ordered 600,000 rations issued for the flood sufferers. Every Territoy in the United States lias applied to Congress for admission into the Union nrs a State. Some of the flood suflTeiera in Ar*> kansas are almost reduced to canni balism. Col. Boynton, of Griffin, is counsel in a Butts county case that lias been tending in court twenty-throe years. The whistle of the locomotive on the Georgia Pacific ; s now heard in Cobh county. The ordinary and county oom mission* rs of Bibb comity ha.<e been mandamtised by the liquor dealers be cause of their relusal to issue licen ses. The House Commitee oo postal af fairs rscomraemls a bill which pro vides a fl ip for postal cauls that can be folded over the writing and sealed. The recorder ot Augusta lias fined a little girl $25 for plucking flowers in the cemetery on Sunday. Mr. W. B. Nowells, ol Bibb coun ty. shot his son the other day, woun ding hwu severely. The two had t quarrel, and the voting man was im pudent. Mr Nowells is in jail. We again appeal to our farmers to plant every nook and corner of their farms that will produce com, wheat, oats, potatoes and such productions as will make food for man and beast —then the balance in cotton. This is the Only way out of financial tumble next fall. —Gainesville Southron. Montezuma Weekly: A man may borrow money, steal from a widow, discount hiri own whisky bill or nip a prayer book from a dying heathen and still have some chance of pardon; buj, when he swindles a poor printer out ot a bill, we think the devil has such a firm grip on the waist of his pantaloons Hint repentance and for givenesa uro utterly out ol the ques tion. Miss Kosa Beck, ofGrifltn, happened *0 a serious accident while on a visit to Covington, several days ago. Mr. Charlie Moorc„’of Atlanta, and Miss Beck went out for pleasure ride, and both were thrown from the buggy. The young lady sustained injuries that con fined her to her bed for several days. Her sufferings came in paroxysms and spasams, says the Star. She has since recovered. Sumter Republican : A week or two ago two negro men got into a fight on the plantation of Judge Har rell, in Webster county, and one of them bit oft the ear of the other, 'flic man of the crop-cat then went to a juslioe of peace, swore out :t warrant against Ins oppein nt, and had him bouud ov**r to appear before the next term ot the Superior Court for steal ing his ear. The wnter is fulling so slowly, if indeed it it is tailing at ail, from the overflowed districts in Mississippi aud Louisiana, that the cry of aid is as urgent now as it has ever yet been. The distress has been very great, notwithstanding all the efforts of the government and paivate parties to relieve it. After the river commences to fall, it will require some weeks for the watvr to drain off from the farm ing lauds. Much apprehension is felt that the m’lgnifioietit section now unde water, will bo lost this year to agriculture. Guiteau has raised his rates for au tographs and photographs. lie stuck up a ourd at the door of his cell to-day, with this inscription : Hereafter my autographs will l>o sold for 12,50 per dozen, or twenty-five cents each. No extra charge will be made for adding religious sentiments to them, such as “In God we trust or something like that. My large-size photographs, with autographs on them, will he furnished for ill each or $0 per dozen.” Little Rock, Ark., March 28.—Ter rene, at the mouth of White river, caved in last night. All the business housoß and saloons in the town, which were not many, tumbled into the river. Terrene is the coaling point for Miss issippi river and other steamers. The eoal barges are safe. Terrene was built after Napoleon tumbled into the Miss issippi thriteen years ago. The river is felling an inch every twenty-four hours at Arkansas city. The Columbus Enquirer sayst “A ooontry papa writes that his two daughters have been spoiled by news, paper puffing in the town where they went to school. “They have come home, M he says, “ with three or four notices ot the charming Misses in tlieir scrap-books, and they hatn’l been worth a fo’ penny bit since,’ Western papers state that the de* mand for hreatfotiiffs from the South is remarkable for this season of the year. The elevators arc kept busy bagging grain on orders flora the in terior towns of '.he South, which have sent in round orders for oats and corn. The activity is explained by the drought of last year, which not alone parched up cotton and destroyed the plants, but likewise killed the produce required tor domestic consumption. There alighted from the Piedmont Air-Line railroad, at Gainesville, a tew days since. 30ft people, who came to settle os 5,0.i)0 acres ot laud near there, purchased by them threogb the inline net- of General LongslreeU They are Germans and Swiss from New York suburbs. A petrified aljgator is said to have been found imbedded in a solid rock, twenty feet under the ground, in a quarry tvo miles from Saratoga Springs. It is five feet seven inches in length, and measures, two feet back of the hesd, nine inches in diameter. Atlanta Constitution: Yesterday Commissioner Henderson said to a ConstitiUron reporter: “The decrease in the sale of fertilizers this year sur prising, there lias been, tees sold so far than for the same period at any time in the last eighty years. The price va ries in different localities, and in some places sUiidanl fertilizers sell as towns 4 hundred pounds of middling cotton par ton. In Lawrenoevillc last week, Miss Collins took out a warrant against Mr Cox lor seduction. Mr. Cox then mania*) the injured young lady, and alter the ceremony stepped out lo see a friend. At last accounts be is still “stepping," and his bride will probably never see him again. The Home Corn ier is occasionally a little naughty as will appear from the following : “A party of filly per sons leave Koine this morning tor the West, they are from Floyd and Polk counties, and have recently embraced the Mormon religion, As the major ity of this p-rly consist of snuft dip ping women perhaps we would be more accurate in saying that the Mor mons had embraced them.’’ l'ublin Gaxjtte t To many farmers perhaps it is not known that china berries will kill hogs Mr. Maddox, cf this place, had a lot ot fifteen or twenty pigs about two or three months old shut up in a lot, and iaal Wednesday turned them out to root about. This was about tan o’clock in the forenoon. They began at once to eat the berries that had fallen from the China trees on the streets. With in two hours the first died, and in two hours more five were dead. The berries act a a deadly poison. Hogs arc too dcarco in this county to be thus killed. It would be bet'er to do-troy the Inst vestaga of the China tree. Savannah Recorder: Yesterday morning about two o'clock Policemen White and Corker* who were on duty in the magazine ward, heard suspicions noises in a vacant house on President and Randolph street and determined to investigate. They discovered three suspicious colored characters named Butler Perry, John Williams and Rob ert Oourdin in the house creating a disturbance and acting suspiciously. They opened the door to arrest them, when the trio sought a large fireplace, and concealed themselves therein. When the officers approached, the trio ascended the chimney, and although the house was a two-story and a half one, yet one of the fhgitives managed to get up the chimney and out on the roof, when l>e was caught and held. The other would not come out and a fire was resorted to for the purpose of smoking them out. The fire was kept up in the chimney for nearly three hours before the two would give in, when finally they dropped down and gave themselves up. They looked like rabbits that were burned out of a log, and smelled awfully. - One reason now given for pension ing General Grant is that he is poor, and that he is poor because he gam bled bis substance ia Wall street. This calls to mind the story told of one of Govoruor Claib. Jackson's Missouri Confederates. When the rebel Missouri troops reached Mem phis in 18G2, arrangements were made to pay them off lor the past year’s service. Many of the boys who hud been honorably discharged had not regarded their certificates of the State’s indebtedness ot any spe cial value, and in the vicissitudes ot camp life had lost them. Governor Jackson instructed the Slate Paymas ter that where a man had lost his certificate, and the fact could be sat isfactorily shown, payment should not be withheld. Among those who presented themselves at the office of the paymaster was a central Missou rian without the proper documeul proving his service to the cause. He was questioned as to where his o*-r --tifkute was. lie had lost it. How had it been lost ? Lost it, he very promptly replied, playing poker. Campbell County News Letter; The first case under the new stock law sys tem came before Justices James and Lee for a hearing last Monday. The facts are, in substance, as follows : Mr. Joseph E. Brown is u tenant on Mr. Creel's place. Miss Fannie Vincent and W. R, Vincent, who live on ad joining lands, had some cows which trespassed on Mr. Brown’s land. He took them up and impounded them, and notified the parties to come after them and pay the expenses and take them away. Misses Fannie Vincent and Ella Thonsas went over and drove the cows away, without Mr. Brown’s consent, and without offering to pay damages. Brown cans* to town and issued possessory warrants for the cat tle, nud the sheriff went up and arres ted the parlies and brought them to town to try the once. After hearing the evidence in the ease the court decided t<t|reau>re the possession of cattle to Mr. Brown. The parties will now have to either pay the costs of the suit and the damage and expenses of keeping the cattle or py the costs of this suit and give bond furtive expense and damages to be assessed at tlte next regular ses sion of thf- intiee court. Adulterating <CM ton There is much complaint made in English manufacturing districts of the adulteration of Amercan cotton. It is charged that the cotton is not only wet with water and steamed, in order to give it extra weight, but that dust and sand are mixed with it for the same purpose. Mr. Albert IX Shaw, the Uinted S’ates Codbul at Man chestc-r, has carefully investigated these complaints, and the result is set forth iwb's report to the State De partment for 1881. the moat serious cb;irge is that uf the mixing ot the (dust ami sand with the cotton. Mr. Shaw says some of the cases which have been brought to Lis attention are of a shameful description. In the course of his inquiries he was told: “Oldham has to pm chase, at the price of cotton, thousands of tons ot white and red sand every year.” lie ex presses the opinion that hundreds of tons, instead of thousands, would be nearer the troth, but adds : “The un doubted presence of sand and damp in large percent age, in bales ol our cotton, is a scandal that cannot be ex posed and the frauds done away with a day too soon " In some cases the sand is evidently thrown into the cotton during the process of packing in shovelfuls. One ot the largest consumers of American cotton in Lancashire, whos supply is mostly from New Orleans, mentioned a case in which nearly one hundred pounds of sand waAJbund in one bale ot cot ton. Caaes were brought to Mr. Shaw’s attention, in which from twenty to eighty pounds of sand was found in the middle of the bales There was evidence from the packing and discoloration that the cotton had also been wet. A Warrington firm reckoned their average loss from sand' in American cotton at 10 per cent, in some cases the sand is so very fine and white that it esuopes detection at tbe first glance. An Oldham spiir ner thinks sand and dust must be blown into the cotton by some pro gress at the time ot or prior to the pack ng. In other cases red sand is distributed so evenly through the bale as to give the cotton a deep red color. It is alleged that the amount of dnmp in American ootlonis increa sing and sometimes the cotton is oskod i layers, as though water Lad bsea thrown in during the process of packing. There is also complaint of the mixing of different grades of cot ton in the same bale. This becomes more important in view ot the fact that tbe use of Indian cotton is in oreasiog, since it, as woll as the Egyptian cotton, is better packed and freer from damp and sand than the Americau cotton. Formerly much complaint was made of the adultera tion cf Indian cotton, but now’, as the result ot careful inspection by the farge houses purchasing from the i>a live growers, the cotton of India is noted for its purity. Air. Shaw says he is satisfied that the fraudulent practices are limited in extent, and that the great body ot American cot ton is honestly put upon the market. Yet, he thinks, the frauds which are perpetrated are far too numerous and inexcusible, and a remedy should be sought at once. Upon the question of remedies he has sought suggestions from large cotton spinners. Some of them advise that laws be passed here making fraudulent packing pe nal. Others suggest that the plan lew and packers be compelled to stamp their names and addresses on every bale, both inside and outside Seeing wlr’t has been done by care ful iaspection in India, Mr. Shaw suggest that honest dealers should insist on the adoption ot such gener al regulations or inspections on the part of packers and first purchasers as will put a stop to the frauds. Mr. Shaw who has been very ener getio in his investigation ot this bus iness, and who has rendered valuhle service to the American and British cotton trade, points out that in Old ham, whence come the most com plaints about- damp cotton, the prac tice exist of dampening cotton yarn which, he says, goes to show vhst two can play at the same game ot fraud, and that there is need of re form in cotton trade in England as well as in America—£N. Y. Sun. About tl,00l\00t).0tx) of our public debt has been pax! since the war ended. France has now nearly treble the debt of the United States and Great Britain more than double. Even Spain has a bigger debt now than we have. The State Babtist Convention, Rev. P. H. Mell, of Athens, President, will assemble at Americas on April 20th. There will be about 800 delegates pres ent. Only the State mad will grant a reduction of fare, one fare the round trip, the other roads maintaiug three cent rate. Since the sale of whiskey has been stopped at Augusta, Ark., the people find nonse for city marshal, and are contemplating the question of abolish ing the office. At Greenville, Si C., next sale day the sheriff will sell the silverware cf the late Foster Blodgett. It wss pro ted to Mr. Blodgett by the citi zens of Augusta in 185f>. Columbus Enquirer: A singular case of poisoning occurred at Hurtsbofo, Ala., last Sunday morning. Mot. Long sent Mrs. Dr. FaecbaU a pitcher of sweet milk and Dr. Vase ball, bis wife and children Were poisoned, St is sup posed, from drinking it. They were made very sick, and sent for Dr. Hurt who gave them medical attention, and they were soon relieved. It is thought that the cow ate something which thus affected the milk. They can account for it in no other way. A tramp umbrella mender was found asleep on the street Sunday nignt. He had a spring mattress made of the ribs of old umbrellas spread upon the ground. His sheets were covers strip ped from them ; while he used a par asol to break the wind and shelter his faee.—Kx. M. Y. McKibben, A TTOIiNEY A TLA W, JACKXO.V, - - CJA. ep Money! MONEY iTModgy !l Loanedto Farmers. PfirtlM desiring to negotiate LOANS on five years time can make application through me by calling at my office. I will act as Attorney for any farmer who lias improved lands, in securing loans to the vaLus of one-third uf their real es tate. Y. A. \Y RIGHT, Office at Court KmMl mar& 4 Atefeson, MRS. S C DUNCAN’S New MILLENERY Store IS IVOW OPEN At Jackson, Georgia. I take this method of iiiforminKthe citisena of Jackson and Butts county. tnat I have opened a new and handsome stock of MUlenery Goods in Jackson, in the new store, next door to M. L. Duke, consisting of the latest style, Hats and Bonnets, Trimmings Flowers, Feathers, Ribbons, Colorelts, Nninsuks, Muslins, Ties, Edgings, Insert ing, Laees, Veiling, Handkerchiefs, Fans &c., My goods are all new and of the latest style. Call and examine them and get my prices. lam offering them at short profits. Soliciting a liberal slinre of the patronage of the people of this sec tion, I am Respectfully Mrs. S. C. DUNCAN. HOLD! STOP THERE! JSTIEW- GOODS Arriving at the New Rock Store, A. Me. WATKINS & Son., Jackson, Georgia,. WR Invite thattei*ti<Mi of tike people of Butts county, to our general stock of good*, which we are offering at prices that will warrant them to trade with us. CTXJST XiIBaVEiET, Ladies shoe*at SI,OO worth 81/A'; Childrens shoes atJf<> cents, worth 75 cei .ts and a dollar. Boots and Shoes, Men’* boots at $2,35, worth 85,00; brogaus at 81,25, worth 81,40. Ladie’s Dress Goods, A Tpueas ami worsted* at prices never before known iu Jackson. Shawls at 50 cents, worth 75 cents and Bl r o*>. STAPLE GOODS, Such ns shirting, sheeting, bleaching, prints and checks., at bottom prices. UOTIOUS. Ribbons, laces, trimmings, kid gloves, silk ties, ladies collars and cuffs, combs, Hiltons, thimbles, needles and thread, and many other things too numerous to mention. OLOTHIITG. Jeans of the Best Quality. GENTS UNDERWEAR. -i<l- Fhirts, collars, rafts, ora rats, suspeiulers. half hose, etc. GROCERIES. Good cotter 6 pnnnds, cheap at ft pounds to the dollar. frhg*r*t 10 pounds to the dollar. Bh con. Hour, luni, syrup, molanaes, liali. etc., lamps, looking glasses, snuff, tobacco, blacking, ink (taper, soap. Tinware Hardware, Glassware, woooden ware, buckets, etc. Our gitod are new and freak, and we will sell then to-* cm at railroad prices. Call and see us before going elsewhere. The “WHITE” Sewing Machine! Tlio Lindies Favorite! ® RUNNING; the most quiet; makes the prttiest stitch; and has more conTenienccs than any other Mat hint. It is warranted fire years and is the easiest to sell, and gives the best satisfaction of any machine on the market. Intending purchasers are soiciited to amine it before buying. Responsible dealers wanted in all n'.jceuied erritery. J. I>. Ac T. F. SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Deales, 9. Broad Street: Ceorffla. *9 •t. at.-iw.rcK. a. v. sututiiT. HENDRICK & WRIGHT, Attorneys At Law. JACKSON, BUTTS CO., GA. WILL practice in al) the COURTS Mtcept in tli COUNTY COURT. „ Win attend to all businessPROMPTLY. To The Public. THE undersigned Is now prepared to carrj passengers on the regular mail route between Jackson and Covington at reasonable rates. W ill leave Jackson every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning at 7 o’clock. I will also carry baggage or other light freight. Your patronage solicited. Capt.J. P. LOYD, Mail Contractor. p. s.—When in Jackson I can be found at the Benton House. THE JU KSOS X JEW’S, PUBLISHED E VER Y FRIDA Y. al Jackson, Butts County,Ga. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Three Months, - - •50° Six Months, - - - - - -81 00 One Year, - - -- - - -81 50 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. RATES FOR ADVERTISING : Advertisement* will be inserted for ONE DOLLAR per square, for the first insertion, and FIFTY CENTS pet square for each subsequent insertion, for One month, or less. For a longer period, a liberal discount will be made. &tj One inch in length, or less, constitutes a square. NoticesSn the local column will be inserted at TEN CENTS per line, each Insertion. ‘Marriages and deaths will he published os items of news, hut obituaries will be charged ft* at advertising rates. JOB PRINTING Qfe-very description, promptly and ilfeatly execu ted at reasonable rates. 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