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gije gafksen s]tnjs. JACKSON, OA~Al'l ?. lb 1 W. I IIARI 1 , - - Editor. wmmmmmmmmmMXZJmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm THE JA( KM>.\ HEWN, PURLISUt.It KVKRf MID AY. at •lnckHon, Bulls I'ounty,f^a. RATES OF iI'BSCRIPTIOKi Three Month*, * *oc hii Monti**, $1 W One Year, - - -81 00 STRICTL r /-V ADVA NCE. RATES FOR ADVERTISING: Adveitiaemend will be inncrtnl for ONJ* IX>I,I.AK |Mir mjiiHre, for tle first insertion. „ml FIFTY <’KNTB per square for each Nubj",.|wenl insertion. for out; month, or Icm. For longer MritMl, a liberal dtacount will be tund*. J#'One inch* in length, or le*s, count it u tew a ■qua re. Nxrtkw* In the local column will be in*wrt*l at TF-S CKNTB per line, each insertion. MjuTiHgvw Hiul death* wi’l lie published its Itema of newM, but obituaries will l>c ehurged for at advertising rates. JOH PRINTISO Of every description, promptly and neatly execu ted at rrattonnhlc rate*. Gadensden, All., has tliirty seven cases of typhoid lever. There is now only one white woman confined in the State penitentiary. The Stale gold mine, of Wilkes coun. ty, is considered very rich. A gentle man recently saw from one pan of dirt #4l worth ol gold panned. Athens has an old maid who wll not oven let her servants admit a man in to the yard- Thc last word of an Indiana felon, who expiated his crimes ofmurder on the gallows, was “hang me decent.” lie was aesthetic to the last. Western men do not await the tedi um of the courts to punish horse thieves, but swing them up to the first limb they find after arrest. Miss Jackson, the daughter ofStone wall Jackson, has a will of her own. “Remember,” she once said to her mother haughtily, “that I am a Jack son.” “Yes,” said Airs. Jackson, "and I am your mother..'’ H'ork on Gainesville, JelTerson and Southern railroad is progressing rapid ly. Eighteen miles of the track have been laid, and that division is open to passenger traffic. Coup, the great circus man, has pur chased two suits of clothes from Giiit* cati which he uses in his exhibition. One is the suit he wore when lie shot Mr. Garfield, the other was wore dur ing h'is trial for murder, A two weeks old bubo of Mr. Colum bus Bridges, of Randolph county, was blown out of the house and 1 between two logs, without being hurt or even waken up, during the recent cyikmc. The crop prospects are good from nil portion of the country. In Minnesota the acreage in wheat has increased ten per cent, in Dakota it will bo from thir ty to forty per cent, and in Kansas one hundred percent. Ver.w onA... man.. has. jnysn tel a of President Garfield.” A train runs ■ into the depot, Guitean fires the shot, the President is carried off, his funer al is carried on, and the assassin is fi nally hung, which, as a matter of fact, he isn’t yet. Enterprising people are hoginning to loam the value of advertising the year round. The persistency of those who are not intimidated by the cry of "dull times,” but keep their names ever be fore tlie public, will surely tilaco them on the right sido in the enu. Sarah Bernhandt married Mr. Ds mala, a celebrated Greek, in London last Tuesday. She will, however, not abandon the stage’ She loves the in come which it brings her to much to relinquish it. Tho lion tamer, with Coup’s circus fell dead last Saturday morning, in Au gusta, just as he started to enter the cage containing two lions, llis dentil was caused by the heart disease. The disease probably saved tho lions from attending to the job. Tlus’nt it Ben Hill’s favorite that re ceived the appointment of post master at Athens ? However, it is farfetched and simply rediculous to charge Emo ry Speer, or any one else, with the re sponsibility, indirectly or in any way, for tho muder of Uoundtree, except those who committed the outrageous deed. Rome Tribune: We believe we understand General GartrellVcandi dacy when we slate that he is simply an independent democratic condinate for Governor. lie is notan inde pendent, hut a democrat of tho old school and depends upon democratic votes for election. An exchange says it ought to bo more generally known that wheat Hour is most probably the best article to throw over a fire caused by thespilling and igniting of kerosene. It ought to be known, because Hour is always in convenient reach, and often valuable articles of clothing, blankets, etc., are destroyed in extinguishing such tires. Asties tuid sand are equally as good. A man named Thomas F- Johnson oemniitted suicide, in Do Kalb county jail, s few days since by hanging him- Bclf with a piece of blanket, fastened to a stick, in his cell. lie had been con fined in (he jail since last August on a writ of lunacy, and his confinement bore very heavily upon him, which probahlv caused him to commit the dretfclAti act. Richard Garland, son of Mr. T Garland, of Jasper etMinty, died last Saturday, April Ist after a protracted illness of typhoid feer. He was just twenty years af age, and irp to the time ol his recent sickness was one of the heartiest and most promising youths of the oouoty Mr. W. E. Chandler has been ap pointed by President Arthur as Secre tary of the Navy. He is rerognimf as one of the hoes stalwart poKticans, and his name is fragrantly tainted with the Hayes fraud. The whole Cabinet has been changed, with the exception of Mr. Lincoln, and is fnllv stalwart. It is as follows: Secretary of State, Fre lir.ghuysen ; Secretary of the Treasury, Folger; Secretary of War, Lincoln; Secretary ofthe N f avy,ChadVr. P. M. General, Howe .Secretary of the Interi or, Teller; Attorney General, Brewster. Atnericus has oats five fret high. Griffin wants the Staleßapllal Con vention next yew. The Augusta papers speak ol last Suaday as an ideal Kastse. The Griffin ffre department will celebrate on the 7th of June The Lighlfoot Ball Club of Grif fiu will soon begin their season. On Thursday, the 20tb, the State Baptist Convention will bold its annu al Bcs-ioo at Americus. W. L, Moon and Jas. E. Hanvey, the Carroll county murderers, have been setenced to hanged in public on the 2<l ol June, Several gentlemen of llizlehurst offer softo reward for the arrest of J. It. Curry, who i alleged to have murdered Geo. W. Wilcox. Tho Mormons have signed an agree ment not to trade with the Gentiles. Jmnbo, the largest captive elephant iu the world, landed in New York Sunday. Six masked tnen robbed a frain at Blum, Tex.. Friday night. The pas sengers yielded and gave up all they had. Another Charlie Itoss has been found in Florida. lie will be sent at once to Philadelphia. A pretty girl in New York recent* ly swallowed a leu dadar gold piece set apart for rent money. An “at* tachinent” for the girl would be the proper remedy for the landlord. A. B. Doyal will be tried for mur der at a special term ofSpalding Su perior Court the first Monday iu May. The hearing iu Guileau's appeal for anew trial to the court in banc has been set for 241 hof ibis mouth. Mr. Reed, who will make an argument for the prisoner, says he has strong hope of securing such rulings as will eventually lead to granting anew trial. Gridin Sun : “It is probable that the candidate Mr. Colquitt may se lect to succeed himself may find “Jor dan a hard load to travel.” The peo ple ol Georgia—the democracy will not stand idly by and let the sulf-con stitnted bosses of Atlanta select their candidates for tliein r and Messrs, Col quitt <fc Cos. arc respeclfuliy advise ed to put that fact in their pipes and smoke it.’’ Jessup Sentinel : Two nogroes got into a difficulty at a colored festival -- HT.* riilKnwt ’a flltlnn Qf, 7$ M. A 11. railroad, lilsl Saturday night, in which one shot and killed the other. Mr, Gilbert sat up until quite late to keep pence, but not long alter he left, two of tho mgroes pot to quarreling, and one of them waked cut in the yard and told the other to oume out and ho would whip him, whereupon, the one challenged pick ed up an axe and started out, when the one in the yard drew his pistol and fired, killiug his antagonist in stantly. They lived in the same than lyand had been intimate Iriends for a long whilo. Post Appeal: Swift- Archer, ol Jonesboro, came to Atlanta Saturday afternoon and proceeded to lialey’s saloon on Broad street, near Hunter, where ho found John Waldrop, and employed ol Hailey, whom betook to Jonesboro. A young lady, Miss Flor ence Venable, daughter of Dr. Vena ble, a higly rospeotabfe gentleman of Jonesboro, accompanied them. There are various stories nfloat ns to her presents here, among them one Jtbat she eloped with Waldrop trom Jones boro last Wednesday. Another that she accompanied him here to be mar ried to Hailey, and still another that she was Waldrop's paramour, she hav ing been seduced by him. Wald fop has a wife. The young woman, who is said to be only abotft seventeen, was living over the saloon on Broad street when found Saturday allcfnoon. Waldrop is also said to be highly con nected. Fort Valley Mirror; We learned yesterday of a wholesale poisoning; in Crofford county, which came near causing the death of Mr. Yancey /or dan aud family. It seems that Wil liam White, colored, had bound his 13 year old son to Mr. /ordau for the prerent year. The boy grew tired of workiag for Mr. Jordan and deci- ded to poison the whole family, and enable himself to chanjfe his home. Accordingly he emptied a box of rat poison into the family coffee pot, Jorst before the breakfust hour on Tuesday morning last Mr. Jordan, wife' and children, all diank ot the coffer 1 , and •oon began to grow sick. Concln ding that they had all been poisoned, emetics were quickly administered, and the family soon got relief. Mr. Jotdkn suspected the negro hoy of the crime and he was arrested and was taken before Justice Roland for trial. He was convicted and after the trial acknowledged’ taking the rat poison from a shelf in the cook room and emptied it into the coffee pot. lie was taken to Knoxville yesterday and placed in jail. JACKSON, The Butts County Town, on A Bootu The Founder of the Towk-Thk First Hanqing-The Oldest Living Inhabitant—l ncrF.ase in Valves—Atlanta’s Interests—The IkTLInxoOTTHF First House, Hpectft) Correspondent?© of the Constitution Jackson, Butts county, Ga., April 8, 1882.—’’Yes, sir, I am the oldest living inhabitant .f this place. It was in 182 b that I came here, and here have my fortunes been cast ever since. I remember well when the Indians had been h<-re, aud when I came they had only been gone a few years.*’ The speaker was Mr. John v\\ McCord, an old man whose silvered locks told the tall of pfobably eighty winters that had passed over his head. He is now the only one living of the first settlers of Jackson, and though his step does not possess elasticity of his earlier manhood, the old man is quite spry for ohe of his years, and bids fair to outlive even another gen* cration. I had called on him at his house While on route to Indian Springs, and found him in the front yard by tho old gate that probably had held on its worn hinges, the young lovers ot several generation* who had grown Up aroUlid his decay ing years, Continuing, he Raid : “It was on the 12th of April, 1826, that a few men gathered here one day to sell lots tor the town of Jackson. My father was among the number, arid I was then a young man. Fifty six years is a long time, but heie I have lingered since then, constantly hop ing that something would bring us belter means for growing attd detel’ oping into a oily, but it Would ftol come until now I am ready to drop into the grave.” “Do you ri member nhy of the no ted men who used to visit this sec don ?” I asked. “Yes I used to know them all, but my memory is faring now, ami their identity is gradually slipping away. But I can recall the lime when Wil-. liatu C. Dawson and Charles Dough erty, Judge [.ongstreet, Mr. Stephens, the Crawfords and others used to eottie this way to attend court. The first court holfso was built in 1827. and was burned some years later. Tfren nnothcr'was Infill, whiqfi Sfibr ill.lll \rc;ati uyCU Ull Ills uituui •, sea. The present Court,-hoUSe is the third one since the town was founded, and was built since the war.” “Did Sherman do much damage through here?’ “Well, he simply ruined the coun try for a time, that’s all. Everything I had was taken by his soldiers, and all the stores of the town were burn ed by the torch of his men. His mein army passed Jackson, and it took them three days to go through,’’ “When did he enter ?” ‘ On Thursday, the 17th of Novem ber, 1864. All tiist dfty, Friday and Saint day following the army Went through and Seem tieV.r to have an end. He burnt the jail, also, With the and stores, besides ta king all the supplies within reach.” “Who was the founder of the town ?” “A Mr. flobinel. lie sold the lots from his estate, expecting a lively town to spring up in after years, but we lacked facilities and the town has never amounted to a great deal. This was all Henry county in those dajs.’> A DESI’GttATK PRISONER. “I re (Member when tbe first hang ing occurred here in 1828. It was intended to be a double h ingiuss, but one of the doOTffod men resisted in bis cell and only one of them swung then, laid Watte aud Tout Let ere tt were the fnett, tffuf they were hung right out there in that field! before you,” pcinling to a field iff lVoYlt of Ids house. “Both of them were mur defers ol the deepest type, but when the sheriff went for Watts, he made tight with vVertpmis he had concealed in his cell, ami it becfKSe so desper ate and lasted so long that the legal hour passed, and he fvifd to be resen teooed by the Judge, wffcr, by the way, was C. J. McDonald. Watts was hung the following Monday, Mod I believe that is the first man eter hung on any day but Fiiday in the United States.' 1 JACKSCN ON A BOOM. Kvetr since the war Jackson has been progressing with little or no ra pidky Cut off from the outside world, with Griffin as the nearest railroad* stmkrn, sonre twenty miles distant,- she has dragged her slow length along quietly and silently,- al most asleep. Wften the Griffin Mon - ticello and MoJison railroad was gra ded to Jackson, property looked np a little, but soon fell back to - former values when the scheme fell through. Now however, the times have chan ged. aud as the Brunswick extension passer right through the town the prospects Rre that the boom already started will contirfhe It is estima ted that the population, which is now about 300. Will thrlbble itself witb ! n twelve months, sthd as a consequence property is going tip at a bound. *’Yoa will be astonished,” said Captain L. D. YVa'scn, the clerk of the superior court, “tor know bow things have changed (ieie within a few month’s past.” “What lias been the increase if! real estate values you suppose!” “I can hardly say, but fully 816,000 or 20,000 worth of property has changed hands since the new railroad was an assured thing. New houses are going up every day, aud we think we see the light of day dawning at last.” “What can you buy good town lots at now?’’ "Well there isn't a single lot left on the square, btlt lots that could be bought a few months ago for twenty five dollars are now selling For two hundred and fifty dollars. This will give you an idea of how the things is moving, and 1 am sure the values are not increasing on an inflation ba • 4* sis, }' Captain Watson seemed thorough ly alivetothe interests of Jackson, and teels sure that the town will be a little city in a Rliort while : “Why,”said he, “we have nrle bf the finest sections in the cotton belt to back us, besides as fine a gtiiltl growing county nH is to be found In middle Georgia. Tim farmers arotfrld here are not deeply in deb', and the pre entViom is on a solid foundation to start with. Business rtien ol sdgacs ily are waking up to this fact, and are coming in very fast. Since the boom started, everything has an up ward tendency. Colonel George W. Adair, of Atlanta, has bought a num ber of lota Bfotinil the depot here, and will offer any one a bargain who de sires to come here and invest.’’ The prospect are that the business will gradually work towards the de pot, of course but that will not in jure tlie general value of other town property in tho least. Tho fact that the fallfoad is here is quite eftongh to put ft spirit of enterprise into the people which will keep the thing go ing. 1 util very glad to see these ev idences of Dickson’* prosperity, and as tlie clever citizens afe pulling to. gc-lher, no fear is entertained that fie growth ol the place will bo retarded. Already men of means here are talk ing ot manufacturing elite prises, ttnd ere long it may be confid.-m ly expec ted that the “music of the spindles’’ Will chaffa the eftV of the Jacksolibl- v ! POINTS Colonel Van Mclvibben is one of ruling as well as Me shining light of ./lu-kson. He is a property owner to a considerable extent, and is also bnildirt" a nuiribei 1 of hones. Colo nel McKibhen is a member o't tfro legislature, ami is one of the ablest men in this section ol the state. His f line is a lawyer h'efb aboffls is sec ond to none. He speafes hopefully of his town. Jackson's live young mayor, ME* Y. A. Wright, is satisfied that the town will have 1,500 inhabitants iu less than two years. V. Editor Harp, of the Jackson News,’ is publishing a lively paper, lie came here less than a year ago, end is work ing like a Trojan in tlie interest of Jickson. Ilis newspaper office is an unique allair, and is also somewhat of .1 curiosity. 1 Went in to see him and found hirfl ilia sftiall cottage near tlie square.- His pretty young wife was assisting to set typb wllifa he was do ing rt sirhilay work with unrolled sleeves, 'fhe News lids a good Circu lation I am glad to stat& Land that Was woith S2O per aciS five years ago is worth novt. There Is ati ordinance recently en acted by tlie town council that no more frame stores are to be erected. Hereafter nothing but brick houses will be allowed. C. T. L. MRS. S C DUNCAN’S New MILLENARY Store IS NOW OPEN At Jackson, Georgia. I take this method of informing the citizens of Jnokaon and Butt* eounly, tnat I have opened a new and handsome stock of Millenery C*ood in Jacksdi, m the new store, next door to M. L. Duke. connistitiK of the latest style, lint* and .Bonnets, Trimmings Ac, Flowers, FeatfierS, Ribbons, Coloretts, Naitisuks, Muslins, Ties, Edgings, Insert ingS Laces, Veiling, Handkerchiefs, Fans <fcc., My goods are all new and ofthe latest at vie. Call and examine them and get my prices. lam offering them at short profits Soliciting a liberal share ofthe patronage of the i>eople of this sec tion, 1 am Respectfully Mrs. o, C. DUNCAN. The “W HITE” Sewing Machine! Tlie I iadios Favorite! 1 a'^ .T. I> Ac T. F. SMITH ■Wholesale and Retail Dcales, Broad Street: ALA AT A, Georgia. 39 H. HXXDBICX. V. A. WHILST. HENDRICK & WEIGHT, Attorneys At Law. JACKSON, BUTTS fco., CfA. xfti.fi Irfnctie* in all the COURTS except in the County court. _ Will atten.l to all t>u*inraPROMPTLY. M. y. McKibben, ATTOIINEY ATZA If, JACKS©*# - CIA. sep 0 _ E. P. CATCHiNGS, ATTORNEY if LAN. JACKSON, - - GA. WILL plead and practice In Butts and adjoin ing counties, OFFICE at Court Houae, 1 feb ’B2. C J LOWER, Jeweler , JACKSON. - - GEORGIA. Repairing done on abort notice. Work guar anteed. Dealer in sewing machine oil and at lathhient*. lfeb ’B2 BtiMTON UOVBE. Jarksou, Ga., f piIE only hotel offering special acconimoda- L tions to the traveling public visiting Jackson. The tables are furnished with the very best market affords. Feed Stables. Parties traveling by private conveyance can also have their stock cared for at reasonable rates. II O. BISNTON, sep 30-ly Pkopkijcto*. To The Public. TIIE undersigned Is now prepared to carrj passengers b’ri tlife regdlar mail route between ftncl CttViHktbn at PfcaKbniffile rates. Will leave ifticftSdn >‘V**fy Tueadtif; . T!j)|hK|ay and Saturday inoPnlng at 7 o’clock. I dill 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. sep 23-tf MonByTMONEY!! Money!! Loaned to Farmers. Parties desiring to negotiate LOANS on five years time can make application' through me by calling at my office: will act as Attorney for any farmer whelms improved lands, in securing loan.? id th 6 Valf/e of one-third of their real es tate. Y. A. WRIGHT, Office at Court House. iuars Jackson, Ort.'j GUANO. I Have Reduced the Price Of the following HIGH GRADES And well established Fertilizers ns fol lows. Jfjlio M’errj'niiiii k Co's Ouano to 430 pounds nrfddffug cof?6Yf pWf toV. ... ; -a,- E. Frank oo6s Guano to 450 pounds mulalirrg ootton |K*r ton, . . . Chesapeake C*nano lbs, MdTnfir cr/tton. Walton Wjtad (V 8 Plow Bi'aita 450 pounds Walton W 1 ii^nh* &.Co’a Add Phosphate 350 lbs. Jr.i.tv \fx.iM vV.,'nrl & Co’s Add Phosphate 380 lbs Cull on incopposite me nrioK wart-nuiise ox in Captain Slaton, at Planters’ Ware-house, where all my fertilizers are stored and delivered. Jas. A, BEEKfcf, Aj;ent, marlo Griffin, Ga. New Process y mill!, \G( JLDKN BREAD. I\ —- * MANUFACTURED AT ISLAND SHOALS MILLS. MILLS bar* an entire outfit ot NEW PROCESS? MACHINERY manufactured especially for t (hemY This flour is highly recoinmfjpded by Dr. Hay eood, President of Emor£ who calls the oread made from it “ Golden Brecna/’ from which the flour takes its name and each sack will be branded GOLDEN BREAD. —FOR SALE— By BYERS A MALI.ETT and A. Me WAT KINS dr SON, Jackson, Ga. JOSIA& BOS WORTH & CO. 2ldecly Proprietor’s Mills. Brass it is tbe Lillies! RUNNING; the nUosf qniet; makes the prttiest stitch; and has mors cob-fchiencoi thai} any other Machine. It is warranted five years and is the easiest to sell, and gives the best satisfaction of any machine on the market/ Tnteuding purchasers are solciited to amine it before buying. Responsible dealers wanted in all nnoccnied erriterj. ib m Foil im, OFFERS Important Inducements, TO SUBSCRIBERS AND ' To those getting up Clubs A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY To Get A Celebrated "White Sewing Machine’ For Nothing, ~ ror Tho, NEWS a2B column f'hp'pf, published weekly at JACKSON, the COUX. TY' SITE of BUTTS county, OfenLrally located between Mac6n afid Atlanta, on the NEW Macon & Brunswick Ritfjrolid Extension. It is a live, loial paper and gives the general news thfo'ffghqtlt th 6 State, as well its Souther* news items and the General Topics of frft d;i,y, also a large arrroifnt ofliteratne whiett will be found interesting to the gehirdl feader- Subscription Price Si,so PER INVARIABLY IN advance'. The Best ADVERTISING MEDIUM, IN niQOlifi CFiORGIA, Being publiilie.l in a section of cWtfntfy which is Just being developed by the building ol anew railroad and being circulated among an intcligent and pros-’ perous class. Subscribers arc being added, every week, to our Already Large List. which fa crrcuhrted throughout a scope of country, 40 mites square,-tributary ttf Jackson; THE POiLOWfHO INDUCEMENTS Are offered to CASH subscribers, ONLY, at ONE DOLLAF AND FIFTY CENTS each, for a year’s subscription. For A Club of 5 We will a fine pocket knife, or a year’s subscription to the NEWS; For A Club of 15, We will give a good NeW Stiver \fatctr, Stem Winder; For a Club of 3d We will give TEN DOLLARS IN GOLD; For A Club of 50 We will give a celebrated “White Sewing Machine/’warranted’/ with thf Compafray’S *ftMr gfrtffitn'tfee to keep it in repair for five years. For a Club of I Od, We will give a fine DOUBLE-CASE GOLD WATCH, Stem Winder, with i? GOLD PLATED Chain of a beautiful design/ For A Club of 175* We will give a fine Home-Made Piano-Box Buggywarranted t 6 bs as goo<r any that can be put up anywhere/ H UinraM, We will give each CASH Subscriber, for this year, obtained through a Club otherwise, a printed certificate, entitling-then* 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 for five years r the price of which' is'sso,oo. This' proposition tr hold good, provided as many as 50 subscribers are obtained from 1 this date. Jan uary 17th, 1882. to December 31st, 1882. The drawing will bC Conducted fairly,’ three or four disentefested gentlemen of Jackson, will be secured to conduct the drawing. The gObds we offer* you, can be seen by calling at the NEWS office. iV T o humbug, but you may rely on our propositions/