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jgjje |otksoii JACKSON. GA. JULY 19 1882 W. K. HARP, - - Editor. THE JACKOOST SEWS, PUBLISHED EVPKT FRIDA V. at Jackson, Balls County,Cla. nATRfI OF SUBWWPTWKfr Three Months, * ' * We Bix Month*. - - - - - ■ SIOO One Year, $1 SO STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. rates FOR ADVERTISING : Advertisement* will he inserted for (JSK DOLLAR per square, for the first insertion, and FIFTY CENTS per square for each snlsequeii insertion, for one month, or less. For a longer period, a liberal discount will I* made. One inch in length, or loss, constitutes a square. Notices in the local column will he inserted at TEN CENTS per line, each insertion. Marriages and deaths will lx- published as items of news, but obituaries will be charged for at advertising rates. JOB MINTING Of every description, promptly and neatly exeou ted at rramonnMe rates. JACKSON. JACKSON, the county cite of Butts Cotsty, Georgia, nw lias railroad eomunication with the outside world, taiiig situated on the E. TANARUS., Va., ' Macon and Brunswick Railroad Ex- V A few facta on COvnfnfng town of Middle I, and the fertile soil surrounding it is of lortnncc among the many other ftdvanta huve to offer persons wit king health and tent Southern homes. Jackson is situated in 0 f (|, r county within three-quarters of Jitpun „ t j r j V c to Georgia's famous summer re ®n,oß.idian Springs, noted for its health restoring which tuts made it famous throughout country. We have a thrifty community and public spirited citizens. The climate is unexcell ed fn any country. Free of public debt. Ourcit- Isens are alive to the best educational facilities and advantages charactcrist hr; of a growing, en terprising town. This section of the country Is finest in Georgia, adapted to raising a great va* riety of agricultural and horticultural products. All kinds of out*door work can t>e performed at all —aeons of the year. We are situated In the fruit growing region of the South and cotton eountry. Property of all kinds ia very cheap though rapidly advancing in value. The inhab itants are cultivated, courteous and hospitable. We have a large area of country to support busi ness enterprises of any kind and invite emigrants to settle among us; no better opportunity Is of fered mechanics, tradesman and juditouscapital-. Ist to invest and build up a prosperous business Any information will lx* gladly furnished by addressing the News or 11. O. Ilentoi , real es tate agent. Hee directory of county officers Ac., in local column: Sore eyes prevails among the ohil. dren ot Macon. Tbe “fence” side carried the elec tion in Hall county. In Savannah 556 people have died within the last six months. A furnitore factory will soon be boiltnt Midway, Newton county. A Northern gentleman thinks of furnishing Americas with gas and water works. There will be a grand soldiers re. union and barbecue at Monroe on tho 10th of August. Weslrva.. V —.u 0..1 Jit can* cinnati, is to be sold at Shutiffa sale. London publishers bribo school teachers with theater tickets and champagne suppers to buy and recoin mend the buying of their books General E. P. Alexander first Vico President of the Louisville & Nash ville road has resigned that office and tbe res'gnaliou has been accepted. A Woman in Wright county Mis souri, has written the board of health to please send her a certificate to practice medicine ts she is too poor to take a course of lectures. Yesterday the up passenger train ar rived on time with about one hundred passengers principally delegates, en route for Atlanta to the gubernatorial convention, which assembles to-day. Butts county delegates, Col's. McKib ben, Wright, Harkness, accompanied by Geo. Afann, disguised with green goggles ami beaver lints, joined the crowd at this place. As the train mov ed off at a lively speed, the picturo was a beautiful one, and filled our hearts with joy, to look upon, and made us feel like “Peace and plenty crown tbe smiling land." Passenger trains run regularly between Afacon and Dnllis, some 30 miles beyond Atlanta. West bound train arriving here at 11.30 a. ni. Booth bound train at 2.30 p. in. Wo have learned nothing definite regaol ing freight trains, but it will be several days before freight is conveyed, as the side track etc., are not quite completed. Everything i* being rushed to the last notch, and will continue so until the road is pul in fine order and the vari ous trains to running by schedule. Pas senger trains meet at McDonough. A Hound Sleeper. Quitman Free Press : A Quitman darkey went to sleep while fishing one night recently, and tumbled off a log into deep water. He sank and rose a couple of limes, when his com panion, old Uncle I)tek Lewis, see ing that he made no effort to save himaelf. got hold of him aod succee ded in drawing him to the bank. It wa*theu discovered that the negro wag at ill ae'eep, hia cold bath having no effect on him whatever. Uncle Dick managed to awaken him by rolling him in the mud and wearing out two or three light.wood knots B|ver hia head. When the darkey Hwoke he expressed much surprise to find hia clothe* wet, and he aaked Uncle Dick to explain. We think that Brooka county ig entitled to the roedal for having the drew Meat dai-> key in Amei ica. Will Col. Wad ley Retire ? One of the greatest railroad organ isers and operators in the country, says the last number of the Railroad Record, iaWin. M. Wadley, Presi dent ol the Georgia Central Roil road of Georgia. Many statement, are be ing printed concerning hia alleged resignation, of which the following is owe of them: •‘lt seeina to be the general under standing among those in position to know, that at the next annual meet ing of the Central railroad of Georgia, the present President, Wm. M. Wad ley, wi'l lender his resignation. lie is failing in health, and has, for some years, signified his intention of retire ing to private life, and be relieved from the arduous duties that have crowded upon him during his Presi dency. When such action is taken it is understood that his son-in-law, Mr, W. G. Raoul, the present Vice President and General Manager, will be President. In that event, it will not be unlike that General Superin- tendent Rogers will be made Gener al Manager. As to who will be made General Superintendent to succeed Mr. Rogers, nothing is yet known. “Any owner of Central Railroad stock will tell you that the resigna tion of President Wadley would not be accepted, that the honor of being President of the great property be did so much toward creating shall be his so long as he lives, which, it is hoped, will he many years, but his closest It tend- fear that the time will be short, as it is asserted that ho lias heart disease, and is liable lo bo call ed away at any lime.” Dallas has just had u visit from a singular character—Jack Ilall, alias No arm Jack—en route to Stephena villejail, from which institution the prisoner escaped six months ago, af ter receiving a sentenoe of ten years in the penitentiary for horse stealing. Roth his arms are off above the el bow, having been crushed in a sugar mill when ho was a child, but the bones grew out several inches from the flesh, and their surfaces are rough like oorn-cobs, and .Tack can wiite a beautiful hand by holding a pen be side his chain and pressing (he pro truding hone against it. lie shoots a pistol or fire-arms expertly, and manages a horse as well as the aver age two -handed man. The height of his ambition appears to have been stealing horses successfully, lie ie about thirty years of age. Ho was arrested in the Choctaw Nation, Montezuma Weekly : A family in town, while sitting fit dinner, were surprised to find the letters “W. T.” imprinted upon a loaf of bread reoent ly baked. Tho baking pan and every thing connected with it was <-XBmiu ed, but no clue to the mysterious let ters could be found. Superstition began to creep into tbe minds of tbe family, when the lady remembered that the bread had been placed on the alove for a moment. Search was made and the mystery solved. The letters were upon the stove and had iinpressid themselves into the soft bread. Angusta Evening News: The leaves of the castor oil plant are said to givo out a properly deadly to iu •ects. This fact was accidentally discovered by a plant ot this apt cits being placed in a room which was swarming with flies, and immediate ly the flies all disappeared, and num bers were found clinging to the leaves or under the plant death The Brit ish Medical Journal suggests that cast >r oil may prove an efficient weapon against mosquitoes as well as flies. A darkey called at one of tho city drug stores last Saturday and said he wanted “a Dickie's wuff of jack o' clubs." The clerk scratched bis head a moment and then put up some jock ey club for the darkey, audit seemed to be what he wanted.—Griffin Daily News. A Vermont girl corresponded with a stranger in California, made a mar riage engagement, and went across the continent to get, as she suppos ed, a young and wealthy husband. She found instead a giay and ugly crank, whoa 9 aole property was a leaky hut in a lonely canon. His neighbors offered to pay her tare back hoipe, but tbe declined it and marred him. Perhaps the most heartless crime of tho age was committed last week by a North Carolina uegress. Desiring to get rid of her b*be she placed it in the fire in her stove and burned it to a cinder. The fiendish mother was arres ted and is now in jail. A larger stove should be found and she should be put in it and baked alive. The first bale of new cotton, was shipped from Houston, Texas, on the 6th inal., to New York. It weighed 470 pound* and graded low middling. The producer obtained $2,500 for it in Texas, b.aides a premium ol $250. Some girls havn’l got n parlie’e of politeness. Yesterday when we told one that her petticoat was com down, instead of thanking us and stopping and fixing it, she turned up her nose, and said it was none of our business, and walked into a dry good store.—Post Appeal. A correspondent writes to know if it is wicked to shoot at pigeons from a trap There is no positive ain about it but it is not right to bet the mon ey your wife gave you to pay for her bonnet, that you will hit three pig eons out of five, and miss them all. That’s where most of the sinfulness comes in. There are 112 species of woods in North Carolina, and if this number 104 weie on exhibliioh at. Atlanta, In the entire southern states thrre are only fourteen other varieties which are net fourd in the state. During the Storm last Saturday two horses belonging to Mrs. E!:za bctli Bohannon, widow of the late •Tames Frank Bohannon near East man were killed by lightning. These were the only horses Mrs. Bohannon had, and she now has no stock with which to finish cultivating her grow ing crop. Gadsden News : Gajsden is crazy on the subject of marriage insurance. Ono of our friends has insurance in forty companies, arid is as nervous about it us a small hoy at his first, party. One young man has $150,000 in marriage policies. 11 that young man marries soon he will strike a bonanza. Fort Valley Mirror: On Wednes day evening Mr. J. \V. Hardisou, who was sitting on a bench near the baseball grounds received a most painful wound from a baseball. llis left band was resting on the bench when a fly ball, knocked by Mr. Holt, fell squarely on his hand, mashing it almost to a jelly. What he was suffering from: "Poor man," exclaimed the physician as ho opproached the pa'ients bed, "he seems lo be suffering from neu ralgia.’’ “You’er mistaken,” said the sick man. “Her name isn't neu ralgia, i:’s Sophia, and we’ve only been married six months,—Brooklyn Eagle. long siperteac* In curing disease* f the lilood, Bkln and A follow* apcmlaMy treated *n sclanUflo principles, nith safe nnd sure remedies. Call er writ* for List of Qm Hon* to bn answered by thee# desiring treatment by mail. IPMMissfsHu from liuptvm should seat their aHma\ and tear* eomethtnftn their ad vantage. It is aet a tnm. # Addraa, DU. HITTS, 19 R. Stb Bt., St. Lnwla, I* FREE! SELF-CURE' .a. nu. |.r n-rtpiion of one of the ■fcodt noted and successful specialists In the U. 8. liow retired > for the cure of AVrt’ow* Hrbdldty. E>nf MenAond, IfeaftnrMtml Hrcae. bent 1b plat a sealed eiiTelopc/Vae. Druggists can fill it. AJdrw DU. WARD A CO.. Uni.l.n.- Mb. ■on 'sinoi us *sxn xa onv umsvm I A. a 3 MISS SIMHVHj qow® indmMe* m fitxjsn aoj nonßl Nk H*j; -s.iadds.iA upi|d uj iiwiuD^ XrVlCs. it |o*g rnonipaoo two* SMI S|fnl a. arotsna ||fn syiuoui ssjqi jsao V # *1 insassusd n m£H JS**•*>%.°**>* m tuspuin.) t *w S mm V > ‘i • in ntv.*? .“i 1 •")in wSmm H 3S3MXV3AA oinvouo wr' JBr BnoAUSR i voiavu I wir iHIWWVH -johj VARIETY WORKS, non HOLIFED, J\CKSON, • CA. All Work Wananted. taps, Billies, Wai ns, etc. overhauled and repaired on short no lice. ALL KINDSOF Job Work done with neatness and dispatch. CARRIAGE SMITHING DONE. UNDERTAKER. Will keep on hand Coffins, Caskets and Undertakers Hardware. A hears, will also he fumieshd. #f*k.Shopin .tcttr of Duke’s store. nr.ttl-i COTTON GINS AND STM ENGINS. C. H. Johnson & Son., 10 HILL STREET GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Invite* the attention of tli* citizen* of Butts and adjoinine counties, to their stock of Hardwfcre* Cutlery, Gins, < umage and Paints Oils ana Varnishes, which are being offered at lowest prices. They are selling the fd.r'upest good quality Steam Engines, manufactured. Also the Van Winkle Improved (sin and 1*?. v-.iilsothe J. Al, Gin, Cull and see them. I9julyly 13, 'W. PATTERSON", NO. 9 EAST SOLOMON STREET, Griffin, Georgia., m, ENGINES, GROCERIES AC. 13-riHG 13 FS.ITIT, We are making a rpeei'dty in dried fruit this season, and will make it to your interest to bring us all your dried fruit. Highest nutncet price paid. Ifyuly Ladd’s Lime Works, A. C. la A. J >l>, General Agenf, 16 S. FORSYTH STREET, ATLANTA, GKORGIA. LADD'S ALKALINE FERTILIZER, A ” * LADD’S AGRICULTURAL LLVE, * £ X* Ladd’s Building and Plastering Lime. P Portland, Rosendale, Louisville, cements - Vod v,„, \ Plastering Hair and Calcined Plaster 19J,,1y,y PROTECT YOGH WIFE & CHILDREN. BY JOIYIXU TBS ft ORl>|] OF THE HOME GUARDIAN, HEADQUARTERS AT MACON, GEORGIA. Organized In LONIION England Division No. 12JaeksonGa. The following is a list of the Officers and Charter Members, of the Order now organized in Jackson, Bu tts county Ga. i Y. A. WRIGHT, President, J. A. McMICHAEL, Vice President, J. W. CItUM, Financial Sec’y. I>r. J. L. MAPP, Physician. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. G. W. Mann, J. H. Land, J. T. Land, 11. O. Benton, J. W. Carmichael. At Your Death, Your Wife and Children Will Receive From 500 to 3000 Dollars. One Hundred Dollar# 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 home, and each member has a voice in the man agement of the affairs—consequently it no humbug. The gentlemen that com pose DIVISION NO. 12. at Jackson, is a sufficient guarantee to the people of this section, and should do muni their attention. It is a regularly organized Chartered Institution, with the most substantial and influential men of Macon and Bibb county as its managers. The Jackson Division meets on the third Tuesday night in each month, and .by governed Constitution and By-Laws which may l>e seen by application to any of its members. Any male or female between the age of It! and 60, who can pass the Exami nation, can become a member of the Order and insure their lives from SSOO to S3OOO. It is worth your attention to cncquire Into the merits and benefits of “TilE HOME GUARDIAN." Jackson, Ga., 20th, 1882. CHERRY’S EVAPORATER IS THE BOSS. Will ck twice the work of any iTot Air Drvor in America. References, A. J. While, Milner, Ga.; Hniniblctt <R Bro., Forsyth, (.*%{ W ii. Murphy, Btirne.ville, Ga., anti many others. Owned anil manufactured by Me BRIDE fc CO., Atlanta, Ga., !9july t’>w The “WHITE” Sewing Machine r no Ladioiu Favorite! t stitch: and has more conveniences than any It is w.iv ailed five years and ; s the easiest to sell, a id gives the be ;t satisfaction of any machine on the market. Tntendinj parcharers ave eoViited to ' amine it before buying. Responsible dealers wanted in all nnoccuied erritory. jr. i>. *v t, F. smi rn, Wholesale and Retail Pcalcs. ,19 Broad Slreei ITLAITA, Georgia .19 CT. Y3L. A.2STI3EPLSOIT, GO Bread Street Atlanta, Ga. GENERAL.KENT FH! GEMfill AND FLOREDA IIEGE’S SAW MILLS Have now IN STORE Two 2to 4 horse power engines on wheels. Four 3to 4 horse power on wheels. Four 4to 6 hors* power on wheels. Two <to 8 horse power on wheels. One 10 to 12 horse power on wheels. On* lo to 20 horse power on wheels. Two liege’s 2- r foot Saw Mills, Corn Mills, Circular Saws, Separate!* Cotton Gins of various makes, Feeders find Condensers. Fruit Driers, Water Wheels, kc. Please give rue a call before making your purclms. J. H. ANDERSON, Iffl IB 18 MSM “IB FOll 1882, OFFERS Important Inducements, TO SUBSCRIBERS AND To those getting up Clubs A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY lo Gel II Celebrated "White Sewing Machine' Foi Nothing. The. NEWS a 2S column paper, published weekly at JACKSON, the COUN TY SITE of BUTTS county, centrally located between Macon pod’ Atlanta on the NEW Macon & Brunswick Railroad Extension. It is a Jive, local paper and gives the general news throughout theSdnr, as well as Southern news items and the General Topics of the day, also a amount of liicrauie which will be found interesting to the general reader. Subscription Price 51,50 IPIEJIR. -AIsTTSrTTIM:, INVARIABLY in advance. Tlse Best ADVERTISING MEDIUM, is BiDiiLE c;iumr.u, Being published in n section of country which is just being developed by the building of anew railroad and being ciicnlated among an inie.'gent and pros perous class. Subscribers are being added, every week, to oor Already Large List. which is circulated throughout a scope of country, 40 miles square, tributary to Jackson. TIEIZE FOLLOWHsTO 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 give a fine pocket knife, or a year’s subscription to the NEWS. For A Club of 15, We will give a good New Silver Watch, Stem Winder. For a Club of 30 We will give JEN DOLLARS IN GOLD. For A Club o fSO We will give a celebrated “White Sewing Machine,” warranted, with the Companay’s written guarantee to keep it in repair for live years. For a Club of I 00, • We will give a fine DOUBLE-CASE GOLD WATCH, Stem Winder, with a GOLD PLATED Chain of a beautiful design. For A Club of 175, We will give a fine Home-Made Piano-Bo:: Buggy, warranted to be as good any that can be put up anywhere. iHimnnM. M e will give each CASH Subscriber, for this year, obtained through a club or Otherwise, a printed certificate,entitling them to a chance, FREE of charge, in a drawing for one “White’s Sewing machine \\ itVi all the Extra Attachments, and Company’s written guarantee to keep it in repair for five years ; the price ot which is $50,00. This proposition tc hold pood, provided as many as 50 subscribers are obtained from this date, Jan uary 17th, 1882, to December 31st, 1882. The drawing will be conducted fairly, three or four disinterested gentlemen ofJacksou, will be secured to conduct the drawing. The goods we offer you, can be seen by calling at the NEWS office. iVo humbug, but vou may rely cn our propositions. wmr£/?s\ ILNTLKMEN: 1 have used Im. Haktek's Ikon Tunic in mv practice, and In an experience ot w twenty-five Tear* in medicine, have never found anything to prtve the results that Dr. Harter’* Iron Tonic doe's. In many cases of Nervous Prostration. Female Diseases, Dyspepsia, and an im poverished condition of the blood, this peerless remedy has, in my hands, made some wonderful cures. Cases that have baffled some of our most eminent physicians have yielded to this great and incompar able remedy. I prescribe It in preference to any iron preparation made. In fact such a cotrmoaafl. as 1)R. Uajitu's lfios Tonic is s necessity in my practice. DR. BOBBITT SAMUELS, br. T nui*. Mo.. Nov. ytb. tio4 Wash. Avs—. It gives color to the blood A natural healthful tone to ) the digestive organs and I nervous system, making it applicable to General‘ Debility, Loss of Appe- \ titt. Prostration of Vital I Dowers and Impotence.! MANUFACTURED BY THE DR. HARTER MEDICINE CO., 213 N. MAIN ST, ST. LOUW. tttttt\MEMM 1 1A combination of tojride of Iron, Dcvusimn Bar k and Phosphorus in a palatable form, Tho only preparation ofiron that urill not blacken tho teeth,so characteristicof other icon preparations.