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'Middle Georgia Argus PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 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;--* • ...... -v*.. i 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. jßOWiij, BROWN’S IRON BITTERS ftrc a certain euro for all dleeodec requiring a complete tonic j espe cially Indigestion, Dyspeyeia, Inter mittent Fevers, Want of Appetite Loss of Strength, Lar-c of Enerjr etc. Enriches the blood, screngtu ens the muscles, and gives nest lifb to the nerves. Acts Dko & charm [on the digestive organs, removing all dyspeptic symptoms, such as tasting the food, Belching, Heat in the Stomach, Heartburn, etc. Tho only Iron Preparation, that will nnt blacken the teeth of give headache. Sold by all Drug gists at SI.OO a bottle. BROWN CHEMICAL CO. Baltimore, Md. . Bee that all Irca Bitters are ctade by Bworw* Onm4 Cos. and have drona*d red linns and trade mark on wrappsfc BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. As DOTObA; Maaufacturers of the original and only genuine * Star “Wood. Pumps s Champion Wind Mills, Iron Pumps, Boss Siciue Grinders, Patent Door ana Win dow Screens, Etc. W 0 ten ont tO jtoi experience In tfct wurafes toe of Pwtrtt uft Wisl Kite ti t will not cost you five ct 9. f \% day on the investment to p> wip water for all your otocl( With our Mill. i verv Mill warranted to blow down while the toft e* Sold by dealers everywhere. ,1 ta’-Send for Catalogue. Powsl! & Douglas, • Waukegan, 111, 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.