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'Middle Georgia Argus
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MORNING.
INDIAN SPRING, GA., QCT 1&L
LOCAL MATTErT
SEED WHEAT FOR SALE.
I will sell seed wheat of my raising at
Ocmulgee Mills at $2.00 a bushel trietly
cash. H. J. Lamar.
We are pained to announce that
Mr. W. A. Elder ar. of our town had
his hand terribly cut while feeding
his cotton gin on yesterday, the
gniddle linger of his right hand was
cut entirely off and his hand fright
fully torn otherwise.
Mr. B. W. Collier is offering bar
gains in furniture, at the Mclntosh
<Honse, he will sell at private sale
until the 28th and sell at public
sale on the 29th insfc.
Eiiphalet E. Brown, Jr aged
eighteen year the son of Judge
Brown of Brown’s National Hotel
of Macon, Ga./was accdientally kill
by being on the top of a caboose car
as it passed under the Flint river
bridge, on the Fufaula Road.
THE procession has already
started in Atlanta. An Acworth
fnan was relieved of $l4O last Wed
nesday at the passenger depot,
Prof. Crumby closed his singing
school at Sandy creek, on Saturday
last, and the school and visiting
friends Assembled at the church on
Sunday fot an all day singing.
There was many good vocalist in
attendance and the sweet sounds of
melody floated in the breeze durinsr
the day, amlm n 3 T ia * aG f°
oy reason of the social en
joyment. We hear nothing but
.universal satisfaction expressed with
Professor Crumby’s school and all
tender him their thanks for his
kindness and earnest zeal in the
Conduct of his school,
a jail
We are getting in new goods at
the brick store, and ns our business
is such that we cannot give the
store our personal attention. We
ar rain gee] for Mr. Douglass or
ftobt. to attend to the store and
serve the public. One or both of
them will bo on hand at all times
to accomodote our patrons, new
goods now coming in and will con
tinue to order as the trade de
mands. ''
THE Mcßae Advertiser has the follow
ing:
A DIFFICULTY occurred in Tatnall
county last Sunday morning between
Charles IT. Morris and John R. McSwain
in which the former, having been sjabded
and cut In nineteen places expired on
the spot. McSwain is no relation of
Morris wife who was McSwain, hut
a desperado, who boasted over his
antagonist’s dead body that his knives
Wi orriml Kim through three different
3t:Ues. lie was arrested and lodged
We hear many expressions of sat
isfaction in regard to the manage
ment of the railroad contractors
long the line, we are very agreea
bly surprised at the good oontroll
of the employees, it being die uni
versal opinion that a chicken or hog
could not pass, when the work was
fairly begun, but we have been una
ble to learn of a single instance of
anything bel-onging to the farmers
dong the lino being disturbed,
fha contractors all seem to be clev
er gentlemen, and try to protect
the interest of citizens, and the
hands deserve great credit for their
cood behavior and orderly conduct
An important meeting of tne citi
zens of Monroe county was held at
the Court house in Forsyth on the
29th ult. to take such steps as was
necessary to have that county rep
-esented in the Cotton Exposition
and In alluding to the advantages
of the county, the following well
considered points was prominently
maintained:
‘‘Two competing railroads enter
her borders near the S E. corner.
One (the Maeon and Brunswick ex
tension) runs up the rich valley of
the Ocmulgee in h northerly direc
:icn, passing in a stone's throw of
water power capable of turning any
Amount of machinery. The other
the Central) running in a north
westerly direction, divides the
wounty nearly diagonally. Between
*he two runs Towaliga liver with
plendid water power near tliejunc
ion of North and South Towaliga,
while the High Falls presents ad
vantages for manufacturing purpos
es unsurpassed in the world. ‘‘See
ing is believing.” Then let us in
vite the miner to see our fields in
the Northwestern part of the coun
ty, the capitalist to inspect our
ater-falls and the farmer our fer
le hills and valleys. To accom
lish ‘this an organized effort is nec
*eafy,
The working-party erecting the
Telegraph wire, has reached Jack
son, and that city is now in close
connection with her “neighbor” the
city of London, and now brother
Harp of tbe News can give us fresh
dispatches from “over the wav”
let ’em come, let her rip, let her roll
Mr. John G. Saunders give us an
exhibition of his Panoramic display
at this office last Saturday night
creating mueh meriment
among the children, Johnie has
promised to give them another ex
hibition before Christmas
Notice. —My customers are ex
pected to come to the front do all
they can forme, I expect this much,
more I do not ask. I am willing and
able to assist next year, all who
satisfy me, they have made an hon
est effort and failed.
oct. 6-2 t H. J. Lamar.
Our young friend J. D. Rhodes of
Atlanta, traveling salesman for the
popular house of George J. Howard
& Bro. give us a call on Tuesday
last. His countenanca was beam
ing with good humor as usual and
made us glad to meet him, he is a
thorough business man and repre
sents one of the best drug houses
in the South, and knows just what
his customers need, and how to
treat them. Our friends may rely
upon fair dealing, and clever treat
ment in giving him or his house
their orders
One of the saddest deaths it has
ever been our melancholy duty to
chronicle, occurred last Thursday
morning, the 22nd inst., about two
—u o Auin Ferry on the Macon
road. Tommie, tfle eldest son of
Mr. Martin J. Nelson, a lad of ten
years of age, has been in the habit
of helping hig father pack cotton,
lie had so often and so efficiently
performed his part of the work, viz ;
catching and letting down the door
of the screw hex, that he was con
sidered quite £.n expert at the busi
ness. It happened, however, on
last Thursday that the person whose
business it was to knock off the
pieces which held the doors, instead
of knocking one end at the time,
knocked both ends oft’simultaneous
ly. The little follow was not pre
pared mr tun, ana was tnrown back
by the door, the hack part of his
head striking a sill that was under
him, and the heavy door falling
upon his forehead completely crush
ing the skull. He lived only a
short time, and was, perhaps, never
conscious after the fatal blow.
—Journal.
HYMENIAL.
On last Thursday evening the
Methodist church was filled with a
gay assemblage of people to witness
the marriage ceremony of Mr.
Diehard P. Brooks and Miss Dosia
Head. The affair had been talked
of, in social circles, for some tinn
and the many friends of the expect
ant bride and gro •••••’i
lend their presence to the c -
About 8:30 o’clock the party
fcered to the beautiful strains
wedding march, in the h.l]o,vin
order:
Mr. Will Stafford, of Barnesville,
with Miss Ella Gibson of F rsyth ;
Mr. C. A. Ensign of Forsyth, with
Miss Oct-avia Roddey, of Forsyth;
Mr. A. C. Roddey, Forsyth, with
Miss Sophia Collins of Bolingbroke:
Mr. R. J. Blalock, of BamesviPe,
with Miss Leila Dunn, of Forsyth:
Mr. R. Banks Stephens, of Forsyth
with with Mies. Hattie Dunn, of
Forsyth : Mr. S. B. Head, of For
syth, Miss Leona Holiinsworth, of
Macon
Rev. L. J. Davies of Barnesville
performed the wedding ceremonv
in a pleasant manner and with
much pathos invoked the divine
blessing on the young couple.
The bride was elegantly attired in
an exquisite dress of cream colored
brocade satin, trimmed with cash
mere iace beaded with pearls, with
garnitures of orange blossoms with
the uual veil. The brides maids
were tastely attired in dresses of
cream colored cashmere, beautiful
ly trimmed with satin of same
shade and Spanish lace. The orna
ments of the bride were pearls and
diamonds.
After the happy couple was made
one, they, with the attendants and
a few intimate friends, repaired to
the residence of Mrs. Laura Q. Dunn
where the brother of the bride, S.
Breckinbridge Head, had in waiting
an elegant supper, which partaken
of by the guests after the usual re
ception. ARer an hour’s pleasant
feast, the bridal couple took the 11
p. m. for a touroi xhe West, Cana
da and the East.
Mr. Brooks, the groom, is well
known in commercial circles as a
successful and rising merchant, and
the bride is a daughter of Mr. Wil
liam 11. Head, banker.
BervW:ii Hfw Rtoiit.— One morn
ing last week, while our friend An
drew Young, was at work in his
blacksmith shot) a tramp (?) came
up and asked if he could * get his
breSkfa&t. Mr. Young told hinaf
that he had eaten his, but would
send to his house and have some
prepared for him. The tramp, say
ing he was unwell, then asked for
something to drink. Mr. Young
told him that lie had some good
corn whiskey and would go and get
it for him, Mr. Tramp ? Med
that he cniibtu t chink whisky, but
wanted so ?no 1 *ra ndy. An drew told
him that he had son;? peaen brandy
he had made himself,, but as it had
never been gauged he could not give
him any of it. Whereupon the
tramp pulled a quarter from his
pocket and offered to buy some.
Mr Young at once saw that Mr.
Tramp was one of those scoundrels
who tramp around over the coun
try trying to induce people to sell
liquor without license in order to
report them for a fee, whereupon
Mr. Young seized a wagon-spoke
knocked him down and “wore him v
into a frazzle.” —Oglethorpe Echo.
Goon Corn. —Mr. Jasper F. Lewis,
of Dooly comity, made thisyearthr
ee hundred and thirty- six bushels of
corn on el even acres. This was a yield
of a little over thirty bushels to the
acre, and was ascertained by actual
measurement, this land has been
cultivated in cotton for fourteen ye
ars consecutively and had never be
en planted in corn. It made upon an
average about a bale to the acre. Mr.
Lewis had another small field of corn
that made twenty-nine bushels to
the acre. The corn crops along tne
road from Vienna to Montezuma are
said to be unusually good. Col. Joe
Hail, o f Macon, one of the lawyers
in attendance upon court, said he
saw the best corn after leaving Mon
tezuma that he had seen anywhere
in Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky
or Ohio, except on the Ohio river
and in the Willis Valley, in Dade
county, Georgia. But it is undoubt
edly true that the corn crops in
tlm section, of V--r crx j '
much reduced by drouth, and there
has not been enough made for The
snpport of the State.
The Boom in Real Estate.—We
have disposed of twenty additional
lots, for Mr. J. W. Heard at this
place, this week, to Capt. W. D.
Grant of Atlanta for the sum of
two thousand dollars cash, this is
certainly a handsome prize for our
friend Wiley, and although lie has
calls for lots the same figure by the
retail, we must congratulate ours el r
on having done him a great favo
in disposing of so much at who lesale.
Its an old saying, that Us better to
be born luckv T • n r eh. We have
alto, • >1 mee-ion with the
'em. Jr. . . D. ILntc . of
• aispossd of f. - : \c r.un be?
•t hurt tor ’ John McCord A
Jackson for seventy f ( ~
j • '
per acre.
Gurteau’s Case.
WASHINGTON 4 October 8. — The grand
jury to day at 50:45 with a full atten
dance, and immediately proceeded to the
consideration Charles J. Guiteau,
charged with murder Jame A. Garfield.
The, only witnesses heard were Genera;
Barnes, who testified as to the wound,
and Geo. W. Adams, who was at the
Baltimore and Poto mac depot at the time
the fatal shot was fired. Dr. Lamd who
conducted the antopay, was olso g iven
a hearing, but before his testimony was
concludeed, the grand jury, after a ses
ion of three hours, adjourned until to
morrow. District Atttorney Corkhill is
busy arawiug up the indictment, but
has not yet concluded his labors, and it
doubtful whether the grand jury can
complete thc-ir work in time to present
the indictment against Girteau "to-mor
row.
Col A. Wood Merrywether v/licm
everybody Scranton Pa knows
writes and says I had long suffered
from a derangement of the bladder
and kidneys; it hai made in;
general health Very poor. I also wa
trouble with severe indigestion;pill
gave me only temporary relief, and
I experienced great anxiety of mind
as well as physical distress. A friend
recommended Brown’s Lon Bitters.
I havo used it with most gratifying
results, and just now health never
was better, and I feel that the cure
is permanent.,,
BILL ARPr*' ‘
WAITING FOR THE ENGINE.
Dallas, September 17. —I’veHeen
bigger towns than this town, where
more thicker
EnomcSHpPUJibe says, Auman
told me got her© I cwhl
tell the town b$ a wide place in the
road, but I found several stores, and
some nice dwelling houses, and
plenty of flowers and a good court
louse, and a brick jail with nobody
in it. and that's a mighty good re-
for any people.
Paulding I as a voting population
whites nnd 300 negroes, and
.tudge Underwood gets through his
court business in three or four days
3i a session, Bartow and Floyd have
got about twice as many people,
and brag about their high civiliza
tion and refinement, and it takes
twelve weeks in a year to get
through with their court business
in each county, and the like of that
is what shakes my faith in these
big towns and cities, and wealth
and an over dose of education. I
like these primative old-fashioned
bar Iworkin’ country people,because
they arc honest, I want ’em all to be
able to read and write, but I would
not send them to college if I could.
Vow and then you might find one
who would profit by it, but in nine
cases of ten it spoils the boy and
a good citizen :b lost to the state.
I’v cen the ignorance of our coun
try people slurred at by Northern
New "papers, but I’m not ashamed
of’em. I’m'willing always to put
’em side by side with their masses
in .-very thing that constitutes
good citizens. The ; difference be
tween us is, they have got one and
we have got another. How to make
money is theirs—“get money, get
money; put money in thy purse
honestly if thou canst but at all
events get money, as I ago said.
oVlomon says “rejoice in thy labor
and do good in thy life for all else
is vanity;” and Ben Franklin never
said a truer thing than idleness is
the parent of all crime. So when I
see these humble farmers at work
io the field I’m not afraid to take
shelter under tlieir root. If my
horse gets sick they will- doctor
him. If my buggy breaks down
they will mend it. Constant indus
try is the salvation of a man. He
rejoices in his labor and has no in
clination to steal or cheat or take
the nigh cut to fortune, I found the
good people of Dallas all jabilant
and serene; a hundred souls made
happy by the prospects of a rail
road coming to their town. For
weeks they have labored, and en
lertreatied and reasoned with the
magnates; for they have lived in a
state of alternate hope and fear for
the New Hope line was O e short
U’t, and tha* iefi be a ut ’a the
cold. Do ■an- 1 mcooon
creek t lne&uuerco ’ - .rough rough
ravines and wild mountain gor ,
the surveyors hunted in aim
\ ftu easy route. Line after line
vre 3 run and at the ‘ last it was ru
mored that Dallas was doomed and
then the people were sad and town
lots were offered at twenty-five dol
lars with no bidders, and old Father
Foot said he was too old to move,
and should stand hv the flag, and
the preacher fixed up a consolling
sermon for next days service, and
his text was blessed are they who
expect little foi they shall not he
disappointed,” and Braswell—the
indefatligable, irrepressible Bras
well who like Colonel Jones, of
Rockmart, ha and pulled off his coat
and rolled lip his sleeves and put
on his seven league boots and pilot
ed the surveyors into a thousand
thickets, u pmuseadine vines and
down into dens and caverns, hunt
ing for away from Dallas to Rock
mart. Oh, Braswell, where was he?
There was the Braswell line and
fee Jones line and U c Sprinks line
and the wild turkey line and the red
fox line and various other lines
ranging from a thousand lo two
hundred Ibe 4 : **■*•* do rser rtvfle o->->/? I
saw a drawing of one of them which
■vent through a tunnel 1 and imme
diately crossed a bridge five hun
dred feet high slanting upward and
I arm mg m the mouth of anotner
tunnel, and a mule was pulling the
engine, and mere was a man on the
mule with a tarash pole ten feet
long, for you see the boys have to
work up at night all the giound they
have gone over by day and send it
to Mr. Famples’s headquarters wlV*
has to decide which line is the best.
About 2 o’clock in the afternoon
of Saturday a cloud of dust was seen
rising a far off on the Powvler Sprin
gs road and soon the form of a and
buggy and* iilian driving furiously
was seen and his driving was like
the driving of Jehu and his horse
was all in a sweat of perspiration
and his whip was wore off to the
handle and it was Ragsdale—Rags
dale the madman and his face was
all aglow and his eyes shone like
crystials as he opened his mouth
and spoke and sheuted they are
coming by Dallas. Hurah for Dal
asHV all settled. I heard the let
ter read the things happened, the
bullgine is coming shore. When he
had given all the particulars and
convinced the doubting, some of
f em cut the pigeon wine, and some
turned a summereett, and some run
round the court house, and some
threw up their hats and kicked ’em
a far off as they came down, and
hollered “All Hail Columbia, Hap
py Land,” and the married men
went home to tell their wives and
the boys run all around town blowt
ing like a locomotive toot, toot, to
oo-oot, pish, ish.'ish and shouting
“Ail abroad. Go to the Foot House,
air; carry your baggage sir; buy a
buy a Constitution, sir.”
But Braswelll! where was he? In
due time he put in appearance, but
nobody knew where he came from.
Going up to Dr. Foster he said sol
lernly: ‘ fi'Lj you say you would
take $6,000 for your farm —railroad
or no railroad.” “Yes,” said the
Doctor. Quietly pulling out a roll
of money as big as your arm he
handred it over to him and Said
“count it and make me a deed” and
then, and not till then were all
doubts removed and the railroad
question considered settled.
Dallas is-the high and dry center
of a good deal space, and as Judge
Underwood remarked Paulding is
the best county in the State to the
looks of it. They have got very
good crops and their cotton is mov
ing to market rapidly. Most of
their farmers will make corn
enough to do ’em and a little to
spare and it wouldent be a bad idea
for a man who is bad off at home to
take up winter quarters there on
the line of the railroad. He could
get plenty to do and work for his
teams, for it will be lively times
along the line this winter. Com
modore McKechney has got a wag
on load of money and is going to
scatter it, and if our people don’t get
their share it will be their own fault.
The people of this country have
lonesome for a long time. Some
'em never saw a bullgine, and the
Marietta folks thought they would
educate cm Dit bv degrees, and
they sent two young men over to
Powder Springs on bicycles,’and as
thcV came rolling down the street,
ucTrDss things slipped up on a
mle with a man on it, and the glit
ter of the silver spokes a whirling
around scared the animal and left
the man on the ground, and he fol
lowed ’em up for a fight, and they
apologized in most respectful lan
guage, but he took on powerful and
said that the next time teey come
a runnin 1 of their durned old spin
ning wheels along side of his mule,
he’d be dogond if he dident gewhal
lop, the spizirenktum out of ’em.
Thinks Ito my self if a little bicycle
is going to upset a feller that way,
what will they do when the loco
motive comes thundering along, and
tooting a horn that shakes the air
for a mile. But it will all work out
right in the long run, and as Mr.
Shakspeare says, all’s well that
ends well. Bill Arp.
GOOD ADVICE FROM A LEADING
MEDICAL PROFESSOR.
• ————
/The doctor says: ‘'Keep some kind
of a tonic medicine always in the house,
and if anyone feels unwell, make free
use edit. But first be sure that it is
ff ffh harmless? as well as meritorious.
Put no trust in alchoholic pre; ’<irations:
dieiruse will lead to intemperance; be
partial to any remedy that produces a
evere eat! arlie effect, for prostration of
he nervous system and digestive organs
? sure to ioilow. 'ihe mildest and best
medicine ever invented for strengthen
ing every part of the body and restorin'/
impaired or lost organ ; c functions to
ri having an unparalleled and vapidly in
■ ■ sa.e in tue Eastern Btates, is
Brown's Iron Bitters. Any druggist
will procure it for you request him to do
•to, especially when he finds you cannot
be persuaded to take some substitute. It
does not contain alchohol, and is the on
ly preparation of Iron that mires head
-u l.e and does not blacken the teeth It
sa sure revive, a true sirengtlieiier, and
V ’ * ’ r, ' H;--* •
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the very best medicine ey.ei m
for permanently strengthening the
monary, urinary and dilative ot A
and preventing consumption, 'k .
diseases and chronic dyspepsia, c
curing these diseases when air ’other
edies have failed ; for it is truly 'yktu
best assistant.”— Gazitte. ' ■ ""
• * ■■■ i
Warrenton - Clipper Y .“Our poo
pie have been arguing all the i.i •
that half crops of cotton wov
make prices better, but have prac
ticed that theory foy ’ grain inste i
until they have high priced j)ro\ -
ions sure enough.’ Blessed is t
man who has them to sell now a
none to buy. The fact is he car. <
provisions while they keep up, *
when they go down cotton wilt t
up, then this wise practical fai r
may turn in on the cotton mar;
and get the high prices of that t
But what will the short ration rs
get? Low prices for cotton, b A
prices for provisidhs fie must b ,
Exhausted and enfeebled cops 4 1 *
ution suffering from dysprk
nervousness and general weakm
cured by Brown’s Iron Bitty as.
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APPLICATION FOR PUBLIC L.JAI
ORDINARY’S OFFICE, Burn Cotr*
ty, Ga., October sth, 1881. —Notice is
hereby given that a petition is on file ir.
this office, asking that the road begining
nearli. J, "Woodward’s shop, on the Mc-
Donough road, and intersecting the pub
lic road at Leilen’s J oard on Tov/aliga
River, also the rc .1 commend: , a
point near the residenc ; of Dr. II- lley ’s
thance to the line of e counties* l
Butts and Henrv. b~ ’ ' public
roads of the se;er. and clas>. C a nission
r>rs having been appointee its provide*!
for, an .i repo .3d favorbly. This is to no
tify ail percuAii, that on and after the
Monday in November next, said or
der will be finally granted if no goc 1
cause shown to the contrary. Witness
mv official signature.
J. F. Cahmtchael,
octo-4t Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Butts County:
:il be sold at public outcry in town
oi Jackson, by the Court-House door be*
tween the legal hours of sale on the first
Tuesday in November next, all the real
estate of Jepthah Ball deceased oi said
county situated in the county of Butts.
Terms cash. Oct 4,18814 times
T. A. Sponger
L. J. Baijl,
Admr’s of Jeptliali Ball.