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(Ip |chsen {jjetug, JACKSOtT, OA. t MAY. 17. 1882 w. k. iup, ■ . r.*tw. TUI* JkCKNoF MKnM, WBUMazD- irur rawsr <u JaelwMh Bait a. iwufj.Ga. rates OF SUBSCRIPTION 1 Three Month., Mo Mi Months, II 00 One Year, II M STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. RATES FOR ADVERTISING : Advertisements will be lnaerted for ONE DOLLAR perequare. tor Ui ftret meertton, end FtPTV CENTS per square for each sutwequrnt Insertion, for one month, or teas. Foj % longer period, a liberal discount will be made. One molk tu foagth, or ieaa, ooqaUtutea a square. Notices in the Weal column will be Inserted at TEN crvTsnM line, each insertion. Marti ares and deaths will Ire published ns Items of news, but obituaries will bs oharged foe St sdvertWng rates. JOB PRINTING Of every description, promptly and neatly execu ted at reatonnble rates. Notwithstanding the picnic at Snap ping Shoals, which had become gener ly known would be held on Saturday last, was postponed by the committee on account of rumors that smallpox was at Conyers and perhaps Coving ton, quite a crowd assembled at the Shoals and the progamme previously itrrar.gpt) for the day was partially car ried out. The welcome address was delivered in a faw appropriate re marks, by Master Bosworth, in a very creditablo manner for a boy of hi* age. The crowd was entertained until the hour of dinner with speeches from Col's Middlebrooks and Living ston, of Newton, and Col. Bryans, of Henry. Mayor Wright, of Jackson, having been informed that the affair had been indefinitely postponed was not prepared, aa were the other orators, and did not speak. We had the good fortune to meet with Capt. Walthall and his pleasent "little” family, of Worth vino, with whon) we enjoyed a nice dinner. The day vas disagreeably cool and windy, and the young ladies in theireU>ow fleaves, looked, ac they no doubt were, quite chilly, and but for the verdure of the beautiful growth that adorned the hills surrounding and lin ed the river banks whose branches kissed the rippling waters of the “South," and the (air niadens all clad ing Spring attire the occasion could have been osJled more appropriately by any other name than n May-day picnic. B'e had tho pleasurs of meet ing that pleasant and agreeable gentle man, Col. Che* T. Zachry, who in formal us that he regretted very much the occaaiu# would be detracted from oratorkialUf, as Brown of Hampton, and Ha>le<ef Conyers, speaking editors for the 4ay had failed to put in an ap pearenee, and he graciously asked us at what stage or part of the programme we desired to be heard. We felt com plimented at being called fill the places of men of the calibre of our brothers of the "fourth estate,” which of oourse was out of the question ; but AWeColonel’s interrogative demanded an answer and after due deliberation, wo cheerfully consented to respond to —it was’nt exactly a dinner born, but we all knew what it nieut whon the Colonel made the announcement from tho stand about one o'clock, and It was then as before stated, that our appeti tive faculties were demontrated to Captain Walthall. The editor of the Gainesville Eaglo has an auricular appendage, conmiou ly known as a bears ear. C. J. Barton, a young lawyer of At lanta, has been oonvictod of perjury and sentenced to four years in the chain gang. He leaves a wife in At lanta. He commenced his service on the Marietta and North Georgia R. K. Aided Doval, the Griffin murderer, has been brought to Atlanta and lodg ed in Fulton county jail fur asfo keep >• Hon. A. H. Stephens slipped, while ascending the steps of the House of Representatives on the 7th insl., and fell, receiving severe injuries. Though quite painful, his wounds are not dan gerous. Washington. D. C., May 12.—A tel egram received here this morning says that Senator Hill is very low, and has himaalf eivn ;•*- n b*** ?! ” LT, ~*‘ They expect his daughter, Afrs Thomp son, to reach Eureka Springs this after noon, and hope her presence will have aome cheering influence upon him. His physioiaus, however, think the end is not far off. Americas Recorder: Judge J. M. D. Green, of Lee county, possesses a duck which, n< *t to the goose that laid the goklsn egg, is the most remarkable and eccentric In the egg business on rec ord. A purple egg was found in the nest of thjs duck last week with the initials of his son’s name clearly mark ed in white. Henry County Weekly ; The Knights of Wise men is a colored orgenisation, and members are lod to believe that iimn their death their families will re ceive one thousand dollars in the way of insurance, or as a benefit. Joab Shelton, of this placr, who died last tall, belonged to the order, and upon his death it was believed that his wid ow would receive the money, as stipu lated in the certificate of membership. Hix months have passed, however, and the amount has never been paid, nor is it likely to be, and there is a growing impression in the minds of surviving members that the whole thing is a fr od from "beginning■twend. AfeusarJa attack live sheep, sml [fifjg and goats in the field near their roost at Cedgr Shoals. Vennor predicts a cool and wet summer. We await developments. Hydrophobia ia raging ameyg the doge in Wilkes county. Decatur boasts of s negro with the name of United Slates North. A young man in QnltmAn had a sweetheart. Her ma objected to his kissing her good night. So lie stayed until alter 12 o’clock ft ad kissed her good morning. Jacob Milner, colored aceidenty shot himself with a shotgun last week in the arm, in Schley county. Lock-jaw set in, from which he died on Monday morning. Mr. Felix Sloan, residing near Resa ca, lias a more which recently gave birth to two mule colts, both well form ed, one ordinary size and the other about the size of a rabbit. The editor of the Albany News and Advertiser is alarmed in reference to the small pox. lie says it is danger ous for people to ride on trains com ing from Atlsnia, or to come in con tact with anything from the Gate eity. The farmerg of Floyd county find that their guano bill will be at hast one-third loss than Inst year, and that the gram crops are far superior to anything they have had for twenty ycais. The Athens Banner reports that there are over a hundred negroes 1 living in Clarke county who are dis qualified from yo'ing on aooount of crimes, yet at every election they continue to exercise this privilege. According ti bulletin No. 280. just issued from the senatis office, it ia shown that Georgia has a population of 1,531,6)6 native and 10.564 foreign horn, making a (olal t f 1,545,180. Alfred B. Dnyal, the Griffin mur derer. was aentenoed to I e hung on the 29th of June, at bis request, aa he did not wish to be hung on the 80th, the day set for Guiteau's cxeonlion. The Dublin Gniette sttys Mr. G. W. Coleman, of Laurens county, was plant ing cotton, having the bag of seed over bis shoulder and stumbled and fell, breaking his collar bone. He ought to have had a cotton plantor. Atlanta Phonograph : Gov. Colquitt is off again. This time he is in Wash ington, probably to efftei t a treaty with the little sage of Liberty Hall. Won der if the seat of our great and glorious Senator, Ben Hill, is to he trailed. Stephens would no doubt retire from the gubernatorial slate to fill such an honored sent. Athena Banner-Watchman : Mr. Alsa Shackelford, of the Echo, was in the city yesterday, and he tells us that a negro quark, calling himself “Dr." Turner, and who has been for several years swlmlleing the negroes in lower Oglethorpe, was the other night waited upon by a delegation of hla race nd ao severely whipped that Its has since died of the injuries received. No ar rest have been made. Gen. Gordon sooms to have tired of the business of accumulating wealth and again yearns for Senatorial hon ors. In a recent interview he if quo ted aa follows : "I am not a candidate at present, but if friends urgs me to go to the Senate again, I don't say what I may do." Fort Valley Mirror : A merchant in Perry has diacovered that the stalk and leaves of live “Jimpson” weed is a weevil exterminator. He had two tubs of shelled peas in his store which had a great many weevils in them. He cut the limbs off of a single weed and placed them upon the peas. In a very short time the weevils began to leave the peas, and many of them died. The remedy is believed to be a sure and permanent one, but the experiment has been tried only a short while. The Constitution, referring to the rumor that Senator Hill had already forwarded his resignation to the Gov ernor, and that Senator Browa’s would soon follow, says that the rumor is in correct. Senator Hill at one time thought of resigning, but had reconsid ered, and would not do so, and that Senator Brown had no intention of re glirninn A Macon county gentleman writes the Mvinteiuma Weekly that he has succeeded in catching several crows from his corn field in the following novel manner ;“I arrange n number of large twine strings, with a slipnooae in each, and placed them on stumps in such a manner that when pulled the stump would not interfere with the closing of the noose. I stood hidden in such convenient distance and would almost invsribly catch the crow when he alighted on the stump. I caught eleven in one mornieg in this manner. Monroe Advertiser: “A gentleman front the country, who came to town the other day, reported a novel plow ing arrangement which he saw as he passed along the road. A negro man was opening a furrow with a mule hitched to the plow- Behind him came a girl dropping the seed, The man had a kind of man hsrnese on, and he was pulling another plow, which was guided hy a woman to cover the teed. Not having but ons mule, he put that oue on double duty, by making it help to pull him, while he pulled the second plow. This was not a bad tdea from an economic point of view, thoagh it must have pul the sturdy plowman’s strength to a soverc leal. NOTICb. All the people of the .county, that are interested in the Independent or Liberal movement of the State, are requested to meet inJackvon on Sat urday 27th inst in the court house at 2 o’clock p. m. for the purpose of selecting delegate* to represent Butts county in the mass meeting to be held in Atlanta the Ist day of June, 1882. I Many Voters. PubllrjMcliool The following resolution were adopted at the last session of the Board of Education : Resolved Ist. That applicants for licenses to teach in the public schools of Butts county, will be examined at Jackaon on Fri< lay the 26>h day of May, prepaiatory io opening the sehool on the 12th day of June, and that a higher standard of echolorsh p will be required. Resolved 2nd. That the County School Commissioner consult with the school trustees cf the respective district's, and report at the next ses sion of this body, the number and lo cality of schools in each sub-district sufficient to accommodate the chil dren of school age in the same. Resolved 3rd That teachers will be required to comply with the law, n carrying'oo their schools during a term of three months. On motion the School Commission er was authorized to renew the licen ses ot teachers of the third grade without further examination, observ ing the change required by the act of the last General Assembly. There being no further hu-iness the board adjourned to the 26th day of May. T. M. Harknkss Preat. E E. Pound Sect. /<ihn Quincy Adams a third cous in of the President of the United States of that name, died at Inde pendence, Tex., on tho 19ih nit , thir ty-one years old. Mr. Adams had re chived some injuries from a runaway team, and later Inking cold, his death caine after a few days confinement. The Memphis Avalanche, of Sun.- day, says : The St Louis sbamele-'s eloping pair, t/idm G. Curtis, aged eighieen’ and Mrs. Jennie Dixson aged twenty-eight, the faithless wife of Barnett Dixson, and mother ol three small children, arrived in the city by rail yesterday afternoon on their grand tour through the South The mountains <>| North Georgia were covered with sleet and'sh' w last week. The aggregate value of the proper ty Of colored people throughout the Stale is set down at $6,748,951, be ing an increase of $671,179 over the preceding year. We are Informed by Elder Charles Roberts, that Mr. Henry Jewell, age 96, and Miss Chsney, age lft, both of Ooflbe county, were united in matrimo ny a few days since. We fear their earthly tresanre will not be made up of jewels.—Berrian News. Bay Carmichaels Horse Powders Huy your Drugs at Carmichaels. Buy Carmichaels Vermifuge Buy Carmichaels Liver Pills. Buy Carmichael’s Horse Powders. Buy Carmiehnls Liver Pills. 2m Buy Carmichael’s Cologne. 2m Buy Carmichael’s Vermifuge. 2m Buy Carmichaels Eemale Tonio Kcliool Motive. Applicant* for licenM to Ictcli tn the public schools of Butte county, will be examined at the Court house in Jackaon, on Friday the Sfttll of Mav, preparatory to opening; the school on the 12th of June. E. E. POJWD, County School Commissioner. Bv ordeJ of the county hoard of education. fimwois, INOnt lOLRLD, J ACIkSOX, • • Qi. All Work Warranted. Carnaps, Babies, Wag ons, &c. overhauled and repaired on short no tice. ALL KINDS OF Job Work done with neatness and dispatch. CARRIAGE SMITHING DONE, UNDERTAKER. Will keep on band Coffins, Casket*, and Undertakers Hardware. A hearse will also he furnished, kft- Shop in are of TVike*# store. marl PROTECT YOIIH WIFI ft HIM BY JOHHXU THE OBDEOF THE HOME GUARDIAN* • HEADQUARTERS AT MACON,GEORGIA. Organized In LONDON England 188S. Division No, 12 Jackson Ga. The following is a list of the Officers and Charter Members, of the Order now organized in Jackson, B.utts county Ga. Y. A. WRIGHT, President, J. A. McMICHAEL, Vice President,. J. W. CRUM, Financial Sec’y. Dr. J. L. MAPP, Physician. executive COMMITTEE. G. W. Mann, J. H. Land. J- T. Land,. H. 0. Benton, J. W. Carmichael. At Yout Death, Your Wife and Children WDI Receive From 500 to 3000 Dollars. One Hundred Dollars Will be paid Immediately for Funeral Expenses. The citizens of Butts county will perceive that this plan of insurance is conducted by their friends, at horn*, and each metuiber has a voice in the man agement of the affairs—consequently it uo humbug;.. The gentlemen that com pose DIVISION NO. 12, at Jackaon, is a sufficient guarantee to the people of this section,, and should demand their attention. It is a regularly organized, Chartered Institution, with the most substantial nisid influential naen of Meo and Bibb county as its nyuiiagers. The Jackson Division meets on the third Tuesday night in each month, and by governed Constitution and By-Laws which may be seen by application toiany of its members. Any male or female between the age of 1G and 60, who can pass the Exami nation can become a mwnbetof the Order and insure their lives from SSOO to S3OOO ’ It is worth your atbentlwt to enequire Into the merits and benefits of “THE HOME GUARDIAN." Jackson, Ga., 20th, 1882. New Process Ml on— G 'J.DK.N BRr AD. o MANUFACTURED AT ISLAND SHOALS MILLS, mil F-SE MIIXS Uavq an entire outfit of NEW PROCESS MACHINEKY miuinfnolMrvtK'HiM'oiftHy for them. Thiw flour in hiKhly recommended hy Dr. Hay- Kood, l*?vddeiit of Emory College, who calls the broad uw.de from it “ Golden Bread,” from which the flour hike* its name and each sack will be branded GOLuEN BREAD. —FOR SALE— By BY KBS & MAI.I-F.TT amt A. Me WAT KINS HUN, Jackson, Ga. JOSi All BOS WORTH <fe CO. Sidedy Proprietor’s Mills. DR. R.G. BRYANS, —y— Fbysiciai and Surgeon. jkcmsoN, - - da. • OKFICUBUNDER MASONIC HALL, one Door South of IJrugStur,'. o*> be found at ni*;ht with V. A. Wright, flret door over J. J. F.aatou'a I)sqCALI-8 can be left with Y. _A. Wright, or James Harden.-tOt jan2s GUANO. I Have Reduced the Prlee Of the following HIGH GRADES And well established Fertilisers as fol lows. John Merry man A Co’a Uuano to 450 pound* middling cotton per ton. . . ... E. Frank Coe's (iuano to 450 pounds middling ootton per ton. ..... ...... .. _ I'limittMtkc Guano to 451) tha, MdTn notion. Walton Whan* <Va n..wßrand 450pomU Wal'on Whatm k Co'. Acid Pl;<i|>hato 35n lb". John Morrynum it* Cos a Acid 1 luwphate JWO Iba Call on me opposite the Hrlck are-hotMte or on Captain SLitan. at Plaulera' Wara-hoiiiw, where allniy fortiliaere arr alored and delivered. Jus. A. BEEKS, Agent, marts GrTffln. Go. MRS S C DUNCANS New MILLENERY Store , IS now OPEN At Jackson, Georgia. I take tbia method of informing the ciltoena of Jackaon and teMaeonsly. tnat I have opened a new and handaomr .lock of Mtllenery Good* in Jackaon, in the uo More, **xt door to M. L. t>uk*. coiuthtiitg of the latest atyle. Hats and Bonnets, Trimmings &c, Flowers, Feathers, Ribbons, Coloretts, Nsinsuks, Mwtlsi, Tias, Edgings, Insert ing, Laces, Veiling, Hsndkerchlafc, Fans Ac., My good* rst .11 new and of the latest style OtU end then, and set my S*4e® laa The “WHITE” Sewing Machine Tltp Ldidiefli F*nvorirc! ®* Became It is, tie Lightest _ RUNNING; the most q niet; makes the prttieet I s'itch; and has more conyenienoos than any I other Mai hint. It is warranted five years and ia the easiest to sell, and gives the best satisfaction of any machine on the market. Intending purchasers are eolciited to unine it before haying. Responsible dealers wanted in all aaoecoied erriterr. j. l) Ac T. F. SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Deales, Broad Street uAWTA,f#nli H. RBHBKICK. T. A., HENDRICK &WRIOHT. Attorneys At Law. JACKSON, BUTTS Ca„ GA. WII-I, practice in alt the COYKTy except in tho COUNTY COI'KT. Will attend to ail businesaFUOMPTLY. M. V. McKibben, A TTOIiNHY AT LA W, JACKSO.\, - . A. sep 9 E. P. CATCHINGS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. JAdkiAON, - - GA. WILL plead mud practice in Rutta and adjoin* ing counties, tS- OFFICE at Court House, 1 fob ’B2. C a LOWER, Jeweler, JACKSON, - - GEORGIA. Rcpairinf dons on flhett notice, Work guar anteed. Dealer ia eewlux taachiite oil end at- UoUineas lfeh ' HliiTDl nous. Jmlumh, On., THE ouly hotel edforinjr special accoan ioda>- tions to the Intveiinc public visit' kaon. Ths tables are tamlslMa with tlie very ..cel market afford*. Feed Stable*. Parties traveling by private conveyance can also luare their staok oared for at renaonable rater H O. BENTON, aephd-ly Paoreierea. To The Public. THK uikdurflinicd ia now prepared to carry paMenK+ra on the regular mail route between Jackaon and Cavinarton at renaonable rates. Will leave Jackaon every 'Fueeday, Thursday and Haturday morning at 7 o’clock. I will al*o carry higVKge orother lirtit freight. Your patronage Hoficited. Capt. J. P. 1..0YD, Mail Contraeior. P. S.—YVben in Jackson I can be found at the lieuton Huuae. ©p 2J-tf Honey! MONEY!! Honor!! Loaned to Farmers. Parties deeiring to aegntiate I/UN’S on five years time can make application thfcpjgrh me by calling at my office. I will act aa Attorney for nny funner who has Improved laiuka m eecuring Iloana to Uie value of one-third of their real ea tate. Y. A. WRIGHT. OflUw at CoAAvt Houm, mart Jackaon. Ga., m - T , ® foil lass, OFFFiIIH l Important Inducements, | TO SUBSCRIBERS AND To those getting up Clubs O A SPLENDID. OPPORTUNITY To Gel A Celebrated "White Sewing Wine 1 fir 1% —— ;o: ) V IT^ COIUW r Pn?er f P 1 l 1 ,b, l ißhcd JACKSON, the COUJf. v™centrally located between Macon and Atlanta an the NEW Macon & Brunswick Railroad Extension. It is a live, local par*, and gives the general news throughout the State, as well as Souther* ness Subscription Price $1,50 PER -AJSTTSrTXId: INV vRIABLY IN ADVANCE. The Best ADVERTISING MEDIUM, IS MIDDLE GEOUGU, Being published in ,-v section of country which is inst being developed hy the. binkhiig or anew railroad and being circulated among an inteligeiH and pros perotMi class. Subscribers are being added, every week, to our Already Large List. wrtich is circulated throughout a scope of country, 40 miles square, trihutary to Jackson, * THE FOLLOW ING ss£ 5Ui “ ° s * For A Club of 5 We will give a fine pocket knife, or a year’s subscription to the NEWS. For A Club of 15, W® wifigive a good New Silver For a Club of 3 0 We will give lEN DOLLARS IN GOLD, For A Club of SO We will give a celebrated "White Sewing Machine,” warranted, with th| Companay's written guarantee tp. keep, it ip repair for five years. For a Club of I 00, We will give a fine DOUBLE-CASE GOLD WATCH, Stem Winder, with a GOLD PLATED Chain pf .3 beautiful deaigp. For A Club of ■ 75* W® will giv- a fine Honip-ljdade Piano-Box Buggy, warranted to be aa good any that can be put up anywhere. II iwiimwi, We will give each CASH Subscriber, for this year, obtained through club or otherwise, a printed certifficate, pntithng them to a chancy, of in a drawing for one “White’s Sewing machine Wfth all the Extra Attachments, and Company's written tf'F it in repair for five years, the price of whiJh is 150,00 This hold good, provided as many aa 50 sulweriber* are ahhMued from this oaj*> . , uarv 17th, 1882, to December 31st, 1882. The drawing will be conducted if three or four disenterested gentlemen of Jackson, will b® secured. ’? xvWS the drawing. The goods we offer you, can te seen by calling ** the “k --office. No humbug, but vou may rely on opr propositions