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Middle Georgia Argus PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. INDIAN SPRING, GA.. OCT. 13, ISSL Tocal MATTER. ‘ 'iu Arp” will deliver a lecture in Jackfaoh on the night of the 27th inst. Messrs. Shealion A Maddox art* 110 W organizing another forco to be gin, work at Stockbridge. Married, —Walter Andrews to Miss ElizaMcMieliael on the. 13th, Rev. Mc- Michael officiating. Wo wish them a happy vbvute through life. ' ' The railroad darkies and the town bucks Iried a little knock down and drag out, last Wednesday night, resulting in one stab and one head mash; such is life among the wicked. ~ “Mr. Smith” said a lady at a fair, “won’t you please buy this boucjuet to present toyoqr lady you love?” “Twouldii’i be right,'” said Mr. Smith ; “I’m a married mart.” 1 I “Come in Mr. Levy. What can 1 do for you?” “I waht a half a pair of hose for my poy.” The above conv©tf ition actually oceiur ed in a store in this city. He want ed a pair of half-hose for his boy. , We call the attention oil our.readers to the advertis< ment of J. Monroe Taylor. This house has been established nearly 40 years, and tluiir goods are celebrated i'or purity uul strength. We wouldyee pmmeud i\ trial of their Gold Medal brands to all who desire cookery. The paymaster on the Macon & jßrunsWick extension passed up the lines again this week paying offcon tractors for last months work, and now the Jiaiids sing lively, scatter ing the “shads” around does help tilings wonderfully, and when we see them come along with their car pet sacks .full of green-hacks it makes us feel like things is on a .solid foundation, and it makes us glad to see some of the green-backs that we have sent North coming hack to he divided up among our people. , “A beautiful young lady gave me my first glass of wine, and now I am in prison, condemned to be hung for the murder of wife while in a drunken .spree,”., .Thus spoke the poor criminal. Thot same beau tiful yonng lady was the murdered wife of this brilliant, but unfortu nate man. No wise woman who knows the danger of strong drink and the force of habit in men, will ever tempt a man, young or old, to the first glass of wine. . From , Wilmingron, Deleware, romei a xueer storey. A Mr. Long strreet courted a Miss Johnson and won tlio promise of her hand. His love for-hex of the boundless and brainless kind, and -rife an evi dence ;of this insane love be gave the lady daeds for all of his proper ty. Shortly thereafter the sighing sweetheart grew cold toward the young riiah, and then jilted him out right. Moreover, ilie keeps the deeds, and is going to marry anoth er youth. TO THAT GAL OF MINE. A young cuilud genmun from Jasper who is now working on the railroad gave our typo 15 cents, to write him a letter to his “gal” one day last week. He dictated the let ter, and the following is an exact copy of it: Miss Mary Lada Penn Oil! Lilia Gal , , Where 1... ,e you been long , T have been do>yn town, You know my name: Oh Lord, Miss Lula Gal What makes you do me so, Oh Lord, Miss Lula Gal What have I done to you, I'm going down the .lonesome road, To never return no more* There ain’t but one thing that grieves my mind 1 The time 1 lost with you.. ■I have got to die one of these day3 And my time will soon come, The laat word yon wil) hear me say: 1 wish that Gal was mine. William peyn. DIED. Its our painful duty to announce the death of a mo9t highly esteemed snd beloved ladies of our county. Hits Matt Ball an exemplary Chris tian a zealous worker in the ’cause of temperance, a perfect lady, and one who lived for the ghod'hf hu manity and the service ol God, was stricken down with typhoid lever, and on Sunday evening last suc cumbed to the dread monster and passed “over ttye river” to rest. May her rest be as sweet as her life was beautiful and may the bereaved ones emulate her goodness and vir tues, and meet her under the shade of t lie trees beyond the dark river. SEED WHEAT FOR SALK. £* , M ~ , , - I Will -eh spHM wheat of my raising at Ocniulgee Mills at $2.00 a bushel stricth cash. H. J. Lamar. Wanted. —Fifty good hands to work on railrojjfU, the highest wages will I>e paid, t all at camp near Argus Office. Maddox & Sheahon. Notice. —My customers are ex pected to come to the front do all they can forme, I expect tills 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. b-2t 11. J. Lamar. GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON. Nowhere in Georgia has the news of < : eneral (Jordon’s fortune, in mak ing a million or more ant of his railroad transactions, been received with more • genuine joy than in Southern Georgia. Our people have great admiration for the gal lant (Jordon, and when maligners were trying to blacken his fair name in the late hitter Contest in this State, they rallied around him as they did when lie led them in war. The people never had their confi dence shaken in Gordon. He was than, as he is now, their beau ideal of a chivalrous, high-toned, honora ble Southern gentleman. He has made more since his retirement from the Senate than lie would have made by remaining in that body fifty years'. Gordon was too clean a handed man to make money out of his position as Senator; oth ers have done so, hut not John B. Goidon. He was too poor and too honest to live in Washington. But he is rich now, nml we’re heartily glad of it. We are .sure that thou sands of old Confederates who fol lowed his towering form through the smoke and din <>f battle; who watched his scarred face light up with a smile ot encouragement, when footsore and weary they plod ded along; who saw his last hercu lean effort, as like a tiger at bay at Appomattax—we .are, sure that these will bid him Godspeed on the road to fortune. Fame he already has, and that of an undying char acter. Vive la Gordon. PPv ESI !> E N T"A R TIT UR’ S HOUSEHOLD. The household now called to the White House by the death of Presi dent Garfield has no lady presiding over it. President Arthur lost his wife a year ago last January, .and an acute feeling oyer her lossj is. among the sad reflections which press on the President at this time. /She was daughter of Lieatenant-Commander Herndon, of the United States navy, who went down on his ship, the Cen tral America. , A gold medal, in re cognition of his bravery, was voted by Congress to bis widow, and a monument to his memory was erected in the Naval Academy grounds at Annapolis. General Arthur married Miss Herndon, in the early part of his career ns a law yer in New York City. He has two children, one a youth of seventeen named after his father, but called Allen by the family; the other a girl of eleven, named Nellie. The President has one brother, Major William Arthur, of the regular ar my ; he has three married sisters, of these Mrs. Mary McElroy, has spent much tinto at his of late, and has looked as much after his house hold affairs as she could. President Arthur’s accession to his. new re sponsibility has 'been too recent for him to give any consideration' to family arrangements for his resi dence at Washington, but if the cares of her own family will permit, Mrs. McElroy will most probably be the lady who will preside in" the White House. A TRIP TO ATLANTA. r THE COTTON EXPOSITION, GEOR GIAPRKES ASSOCIA TIOX AC. On Tuesday morning, we had the pleasure of mounting, behind the “git up and .git” team of our Jolly friend Wilev. Heard in -company with Miss Bettie Moore and Miss Alice Smith for a ride to Hampton thence by rail to Atlanta, ‘'The de lightful change of the weather Mon day night was-very agreeable, and as we dashed along through the chilly breeze, the cotton fields that had been striped of the foilage by the catapillars presented such a scene in the distance, that Wiley exclaimed: “I knew it had been snowing when I felt the • cold wind from the north.” . Now there is nothing r< mautiol about a buggy ride ordinarily, but j now that our count; is slashed into cuts and fills for a railroad, and the w-iie being stretched that is to speed the news on the wings of lightning, the working parties coming and go ing, all kinds of railroad men, big railroad men and little railroad men. and feeling ourself one of the big railroad men, we could imagine there was something romantic in our ride. This busy coming and go ing, is only an index of the busy hum ot industry that the wheels of progress is going to put in operation in our county. Arriving in Hampton we learned that the the Gaorgia Press Conven tion would assemble in ihe cotton ex position building, next day we be gan to try to put on an air of*great ness preparatory to being ushered into the pi essence of the “knights of the quill.” As to the success of the Cotton Ex position, what it is and how it is, we can truthfully say it is a success, and worthy of Atlanta’s enterprise and the great state of Georgia. It would be superfluous to at tempt to tell what is to be seen there, but to give an illustration, wo allude to one quaint scene, that so very forcibly illustrates bur progress. In the Hall and in close proximity we see the old rusty country spinning wheel, the “whirl” fastened on with a broken suspender, while by its side we sec the puffing steam, driving the tliousimds of spindles with al most lightning speed. Passing up the Hall we. see the familiar scene, the old fashioned Georgia loom, with two old ladies drawing in the thread preparatory to weaving a peice of cloth, by their side . the whizing driving wdeel of.an engine drives the thousands of looms, the Coats’ Spool Cotton machine, the tape, embroidery, printing, binding, barb wire and other machines, too nu merous to mention'. . • • The Agricultural display is mag nificent and -while we would regret to see Gcorgja out done in the dis play ot her agricultural resources, we must admit the truth and say the state of Kansas stands head in that line at present. The work is not near complete and will be full 30 days before, everything will be in perfect order, apd Avhile we advise all our friends to wait till November to go, wo would advise all who can spare the time and means to not miss the oppertunity. SOME IMPORTANT WORK DONE. We print below, as.-found, in the. Atlanta Constituiion, a summary of some important lulls that were passed by the Legislature and are now laws. , } A GENERAL RAILROAD LAW. Probably the most important bill passed during the session was a gen eral railroad law, by which charters can be granted by the filing of ar ticles of incorporation. This . will prevent any such dealers before the Legislature 1 , as was witnessed ,in the Gordon and Cole charters, and as the theory of the present constitu tion is fo have only, biennial ses sions, great arid fatal delay might be caused to important enterprises if the projectors had to wait for a meeting of the General Assembly. This law, while ..if came from the railroad committee, is said to have been mainly the work of Hon. Lou is Garrard, of Muscogee. In its pro visions there is practically no limit to the charters that may be granted in the State. It, so to speak, takes the bridle off and turns every man loose. THE USURY QUESTION. Senator Hawes perfected- and passed a bill on the usury question which makes some important changes.. The. maximum charge is still fixed by law at 8 per cent., but under the new bill the lender has the right to charge whatever rate the borrower agreed-upon, and can collect the same if the borrower' ‘not appeal to the law against paying. -If this be done, the lender is mulcted orily for the surplus of the interest above 8 per cent, and not for the entire interest, as under the present law. It also becomes incumbent upon the borrower to show that the lender has violated the law, and it does not devolve upon the lender to bhoulaer the burden of proof as under the present law. THE CONVICT QUESTION. Senator Halves, who, by tlie way, introduced only-two bills and pass ed both of them, introduced a bill upon the oonvict- question, which passed. Although it came as a substitute from the committee, it was exactly as Senator Hawes drew it in all its essential features. It provides tor the appointment of an assistant keeper of the penitentiary at a salary m $1,200 a year .and traveling exoenscsl Either the as-, sistant or the princ ipal keeper shall visit ekcli camp once every month and report to the Governor. It they find that the lessc has been violated innny respect, the Governor is di rected to at once institute proceed ings to have the lease of the offend ing lessee forfeited, and the Attor ney-General is directed to represent the State in these prosecutions. All persons are forbidden whipping any convict, except the regular whipp ing boss, who is to be appointed by tho V eos oi each c amp, his appoint ing at U) be confirmed by the Gov ernor. Upon the discharge of each person, he is to be furnished with a suit of citizen's clothes, and provid ed with transportation ami expen ses back to the bounty from which lie was sentenced. TIIE "ELECTION* he JUDGES AND SO LICITORS. Air. Garrard, of the House, intro duced and passed a bili that will be of vast help ih expediting the busi ness of the Legislature. It provides that on the Monday after the as sembling of the Legislature, the two houses shall meet in joint session and then elect the judges and solic itors general. That the. name of each circuit shall be written upon a piece of paper and these baUots put into a hat. and shaken. The president of the Senate shall take one ballot from the hat when the hats are ready aiid the. officers of the circuit named on this card shall be elected first. This is done to pre vent combinations being made against the later circuits. This bill will prevent much lobbying and re lieve the members of a vast amount of worry and annoyance. THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION. While no general temperance bill of importance was passed, the sale of liquor was prohibited in a great many counties, by reason of the in crease of the license tax to such a fixurc as cannot be paid, Secretary Harris informs us that the counties in which the sale of liquor is now prohibited amount tq, forty-eight in . c Stune, ir chiding his own county oi "’Voxth. Brohibhion was asked foi a great many other counties but was hided or postpened by amend ments which allow the people of the various townships and districts to vote whether yr not the sale of liq uor should be .prohibited. The temperance people on the other hand gain a great deal in the pro hibition of the sale- of liquor within a certain number of .miles of certain churches, colleges and academies, and altogether the session has re sulted in very materially enlarging the circle of prohibition. THE EDUCATIONAL QUESTION. While the general educational bill on which Commissioner Orr de pended so much was defeated, the cause of education was very much benefited by special appropriation. The excess of taxes on inspection of fertilizers and the surplus receive ed from the hire of convicts was turned over for educational purpo ses, ii|ereasing the fund about eighty or ninety thousand dollars, which wili Bea very material benefit. An appropriation of $2,000 was mad© to the State University, which insures, we learn, its being made a free in stitution of learning, open to every youn : g man in the State -without price, if he can meet the qualifica tions set forth in its' curriculum. Various special appropriations were made to special educational enter prises, including SIO,OOO to the ag ricultural college at Dalonega, which will insure its being built. ABF'S AVERMENT. The President is dead, and I reck on the nation had better do like King David when he lost his child —get up and wash his face and think ot something else. It’s all very bad and very sad, I know, but there are thousands of homes in this happy land where death was a visitor at the self same hour, and the grief was just as great for the loved one and the lost. There is a skeleton in every eloset and death has nailed his sign over every door, and it had seemed to me from my own experience 1 that when such a trouble came I wanted it all to my self and family, and the less the fuss and parade and ceremony about it the better. There is a kind of sweet cecu solution about death in a household, when we can shut it in and look out tlie world, and have the misery all to ourselves. Even the three friends of Job were con siderate enough to set a far ofl in respectful silence several days, for they siuv his grief was great. A nation in tears is a very grand and effecting tableau if there is some thing grand and effecting t< cry about, but there is no sense in over doing the thing. I don t know what Mr. Garfield lias done as states man, a soldier, or a patriot more than ten thousand other men. I don't know what notable thing would justify us in saying as David did to Joab, a great man has fallen this day in Isreal. Not many months ago I know lie was be nounced as a bad man and a dangerous one tu the welfare oi the*country. 1 didn't believe ii then, and 1 can’t see tne propriety of denouncing a man as a .devil when he lives and adoring him as a saint when he is dead. I wish, our people would quit the like of that, it destroys confidence and keeps up political strife and bitterness. I don’t know much about Mr. Authur and I don't care If I don’t. I’m not afraid of him. If he can do Die any harm 1 can’t sea it. If he is going to cut up and abuse us down South, wo can abuse him just as bad. He can’t ruff over congress niiich nor defy the will of the nation ivhich will is now for peace and lull nl’ony and co-oper ation. I believe Sir. Garfield was a 1 letter and a man but the death of one man however great, can’t stop the wheels of the government from rolling on, nor bring a shock to its accustomed motion. A gov ernment that stood the test of four years Avar, and the assination of Mr. Lincoln (peace to his memory) and the election frauds of Mr. Hayes can stand any thing and it doesn’t matter at all whether Mr. Authur Avas born in Canada or the Feejee islands, it’s all the same, the consti tution is a sort of India rubber thing any lioav, and can accomodote itself to circumstanced softer like our own in Georgia that has tolerated in a year, and I reckon We Avill have a third to redistrict the Slat . Let’s wait and see >vhat Mr. Authur does before Ave pitch Into him. If he .is a good hearted fellow he is a coav ard, and Avon’t dare to defy us; so let him rip along. As Cube says Ave Avill all knoAV D.y. waiting. My Avife and children are all well, my corn is pretty good, my cattle are fat, and the barn is full of hay. My nabors are kind and Sunday comes once a Aveek as usual so let him rip. v < . What is the. matter with the peo ple anyhow. Some folks are killing one another for a little or nothing and some are killing themselves. When I Ava3 a boy I never hardly ever, heard of a suicide. It Avas con sidered a most ordinary circum stance. Wo read about ’em over in France and wondered what sort of a people they weje. - It’s aiiu every dad affair with us now. Four in a week. Four sane men well to do in the world, surrounded by good as sociation. I don't understand it and it worries me.- I was a talking with Judge Underwood about it, and says he solemnly, “Bill —William — Mr. Arp, my frieiid you have known me for thirty years, and I tell you now I have seen a sight of trouble aggravation and vexation of spirit — losses and crosses -and disadpoint ments, but if you ever hear of my being found dead under the peculiar circumstances, don’t you stop to examine whether I killed myself or not, but go at on©e and hunt for the feller that done-it. . I tell you Wil liam Arp,- I’m not going to die that way?” What is the matter with the men? There are no suicides among the women. Well there is now and then at long intervals and they are always -drowned —drowned in a well or a mill pond. Nobody ever heard of one using a razor, or a pistol, or a rope. : -When a poor wo mon kills herself she wants to hide. Of course” she don’t know how to use a razor or a pistol, but she might hang hers elf. I reckon she is afraid somebody will see her in her dis hoveled condition. The reeords set down ten men men to one woman as suicides,' and so I reckon it must be on account of whig key or disap pointed ambition in making money or amagsiiig ficlies. Women are not con cerned in such things. They are wr apt up in raising children and they love em too good to leave 'em. Domestic pleasure haye a ten dency tp calm the mind am£ keep it well Evc-ry day brings its cares and trouble, but it bring its comforts and pleasures too. There is nothing like living for a day; that is by the day anil for the day Blessings on the man or woman who gets up in the morning and de#j termins to get as much happiness before niglit as possible. Knjoy the day, Be content. Don’t be always hankering after something afar c:; that may never come. Don t and ' too much in futures. I don't mean of course, for a man to be like tie average nigger who takes do ( .id for the future, but there is no mid die ground to occupy. Some men say they are working for their (Li! clien. If they are straining them selves day and night for their chil dren as they ought to, they w m pay ’em more attention. They won and stay with ’em more and talk to cm more. Speaking about the inditler* u*< of niggers reminds me of my good neighbor Freeinan. He has a lot o' negro tenants, and after being go:: away from home a few weeks, In came back and fouhd every rascal of em gone to meeting. When the} returned says he: “Wllat you been to meetin for, boys?’’ “Well boss we is been dar to pray.” “Kray for what?” said he. . “Well boss we know its most tod I'ate in the season to pray for rain, for de crop is dim gone up, but we pray for the Savior to carry us all through the winter.’ “Well hit ain’t* that exactly,” said another one. “We goes to meetin. to fix for the next world. You whin folks done got this one and if wo can squeeze in a head of you in the next we is gwinc to do it, dat’s all." Na bor Freeman says it won't he a month before them darkies will be trying to make, a savior of him, for he has carried 'em all the year while they are running over the country and going to preaching. Calvin Lewis had quit his crop and taken the pulpit—sys lie heard dc Lord cah him while he was in de field, and Uncle Jeff says lie ; “Calvin dat is a lie—if you hear any body call you it was the devil and you is passin’ round do hat fur him every night, and deae niggers round, here is quit workin and some of em is gwiife to school dat ought to he in de cotton patch; and de next that a school nigger do is to quit the country and go to town’, and de next thing is to steal some thing in get in the chain-gang, and go to work in the coal mines wha l Governor Brown wants em. Dat’e wdiat’s de matter,, tfeee whitefolkg knows exzactly whar. an edicated nigger is gwine to land. I never knowed one to come to any good yit. You cant make sheep meat out en coon or chicken Out'on ciw, I don’t care what you feed ’em on ” Uncle Jeff says these young niggers will have to belong to somebody yet or quit the country. Well the darky is a conundrum and its hard to guess him. Bill Arp. A poet recently sent a cony ent iled “What Shall My Love Wear?' to an editor. The latter regard©'! the question wholly in his moral as pect, and set down and wrote a kind but firm article recommending her to wear clothes. /. MONROE TARSI ggggggggggg Cold Medal Soda* • Cold Medal SalcYatCS. 113 WATER ST., NEW YORK. Thousands, disgusted with the many poor articles offered in market, are ncy happy in using J. Monroe Tayt,or’s GoH Medal preparations. They are guarantee strictly pure and superior to any other iV market. Ask your grocer for them, and do not be put off with any others until you kave given theta a trial. APPLICATION FOB PUBLIC HOAD ORDINARY’S OFFICE, Butts Cow tv, Ga., October sth, 1881. —Notice i hereby given that a petition is on file ii this office, asking that the road beginim’ near R. J. Woodward’s shop, on the M Donough road, and intersecting the put lie road at Heflen’s Foard on Tcnvalif? River, also the road commencing at ■? point near the residence of Dr. Henley - thonce to the line of the counties e Butts and Henry, be declared publi< roads of the second class. Commission ers having been appointed as provideo for, and reported favorbly. This is to no tify all persons, that on and after the ijrst Monday in November next, said or der will be finally granted ii no goo o cause shown te the contrary. Witne mv official signature. J. F. (^abmiciuul, octo-lt Ordiuarv k>olA Rkouat biaistjag: Pouiltj, GeL A Medal ONUn Tartar* C.c'.’d I.jLuutti "iVashing Crystal