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Middle Sbcrgia Aryns PCBLIBHXD EVEKT IBEHoDaY MORNING. INDIAN SPRING, GA.. NOV. 10, 1881. LOCAL M ATTER* In cur la*t issue our typo made an error in the notice for election, .which will he held on W*d neaday the 30th of this month* ♦ Improper medicine only aggravate numan diseases. Don’t experiment with your heltb. If yon don't just knew alia you, use Brown’s Ir6n Bitters. It will strengthen you and asssiet nature n re jnoving every symptom of distress. When you sfo to the cotton Expo sition call on Broomhead & Cos., in Atlanta and got your supply of Poors, Baah, Blinds &c. See their advertisement. Vfe raised a potato that weighed 5 pounds from a cutting of vines set out after the young drought in Ju ly. who can beat it? We showed it to Jacob Vickers and be thinks its a good tlfing that we dug without wait* •ing for frost or they might have mehed the fence down. TO OUR CUSTOMERS. ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO uS EITHER BY NOTE OB AC COUNT, ARE REQUESTED TO COME FORWARD AT ONCE AND SETTLE, AS WE NEED THE MONEY, AND MUST HAVE IT. WE MAKE NO EXCEP TIONS TN THIS CALL. J. G. DAUGHTRY & BRO. NOV. 10th 1881. t : • i'htcld reliable Vineburg of For. 3jth has got heme again in his new brick etora, and is now ready to rc \ air your watch or clock, or fit you up with any kind of jewelry Because it add* to personal Beauty by restoring color and lustre to gray or faded hair, and beneficial to the vain, igwhy parker’s Hair Balsam is au<-b r popular dressing * ' It is a foolish Mistake to con found a remedy of merit with the quack medicines now so common. We have usedjmrkdr’e GingerTcnic pith the happiest results for Rheu fltism and Dyspepsia, and when worn out by overwork, and know it ♦o be a stilling he a th restorative rimes. adv nov.3-m ’ ’’Lay off your overcoat or you won't feel it when you go out, ’’said the landlord of a western inn to a guest who was sitting by the fire. — That's what I’m afraid of,” return ed the man. ‘‘The last time I was here I laid off mv overcoat. I didn’t >el it when I went out, and haven’t felt it since.” fr when you go the the cotton expo sition stop at the Brook* House .Hampton Georgia, and get a good nights rest before icing to the city, and then return at night in pr f erenee to staying in th® over crowd ed hotels of the city. J The Brooks House gives first class enter;ain mtnt in every particular l ord $2 00 per day. Dim. —Just before geing to press the sad news reaches us that Johiiie Ogdtn, a highly esteemed young naan, died at Ills home in this place last night, after severs! weeks suffer ing with fever, v are truly sorry to hear o i- h ; 3 death, and tender our sympathies to tbs bereaved f&nrlr. fwo four mule teams passed th* office this week, surer;, t for F’tcck bridge, losded with drills findother equipage belonging to the convict force of capUin Grant, t::y were moving up the lines from viiere they Via jt been doing seme i aavy work be >w Icabnrg they report their work nearly complete on that tion and we may look for the ‘‘charm flrinjr t pa*js ti. ? way in & few days. 'km Bette, the negro who mur dered an old man, Mr H. J. Moore, near Jonesboro, some months since, for hie money, war, hanged on Fri day last in Jonesboro, in the pres- of many thousand? of p •c'ple, in a confessed t-L'* rnvw tvev. 'featnMonp* “the valist” has been conducting a very interesting meeting at ,)acLon this week .J Dr. Seam fin had his arm broken by a fall from his buggy one day last week. Read the notice of E. E. Pound, “ye whom it may concern and gov ern yourself accordingly. ! See head ing “Last Call *’ Mrs. Lucy F. McCormick, Covington, Ky., writes': “My constitution Vas completely *h altered by rheumatism. . ! suffered intensely; stimulants only gave me temporary relief. 1 tried Brown’s Iron Bitters.’ It had cured me complete ly, and I believe permanently. After using two bottles. I felt better and strong er than ever I did in my life before. 5 ’ Kill by a Gin On Friday last as Mr. Wesley Cooper was ginning cotton on the plantation of Mr. J. W* Roberts in Jones county, he got his hand entangled in the saws in some way, and in- a second his arm to the elbow was cut and the unfortunate man bled to death and was buried yesterday. Mr. Cooper was well liked by all who knew him, and had the reputation cf being a skilled workman. rln this issue we publish a com munication on the stock law, and think the Argument veFy good, we say hoWevor there can be some good arguments produced on the other side and our columns are open to discussion by both sides of the question and as for our-self we are inclined to think a stock law properly enforced would be a bene fit under existing circumstances, but if it is going to be like the laws we now have, not enforced, we can’t see much good it will do. We have a law on the subject of fences, but wlmt good does it do? May be our people would take some pride in anew law. J TAX NOTICE. My Tax receipt book will be open a\ the court House in Jackson on the 14th loth 16th 17th 18th and 19th days of this month for the purpose of collecting state and county Taxes According to in struct ons I will be compelled to close my book the 19th inst., and turn over the fi-fac to the Bailiff for colic- ction. My instruction! will not allow me to make another round. W. C. Nutt, T. C. B. C. The oldest brother of the late pre sident Garfield lives away up in the northeast corner of Ottawa county Michigan. He is a poor farmer, so that when his brother was shot he could not raise the money to go to Washington tojsee him. Ho, is fif ty-nine years old and his name is Thomas. When Mrs. Garfield, his mother, was left a widow with James, a baby of eighteeen months, Thomas used to chop wood at two bits a ccrd, and, with his small earnings buy meal for the family. Ha told a reporter of the Chicago Inter Ocean that he had to go two miles and a half for the meal and then carry it home on hie back. He al ways believed in the future of his brother and that James had all the brains of the family. Died. —Departed this life in Grif fin, on Thursday Noeember 3rd, at the residence of Mr. J. 0. Stewart, Miss Zue Dillon. That our dear friend is no more on earth, causes deep, and poignant grief, in the hearts of many who knew her well, and loved her fondly. Shi was a lady of cultivation, manners, beautiful person, native modesty, truthful; and honorable, in the full sens* of its meaning,— indeed possessing the qualities, that form the character of a true Chris tian woman. In this village, the years of her earliest childhood were spent, and thi recollection of the joy* her year ly visits gave j maket us wretched indeed, that she will come to us no more. For twelve weeks she lingered and suffered with typhoid fever, heart, rending, to her sisters, and friends, being the fifth occurod in thiir im mediate families, in the last months. Weep not, sorrowing friends, no happier angels throngs the court of Leaven than our loved one, who has only gone before us. * \V# call die attention of our readers to j>q advertisement of J. Monroe Tavlor. This bouse has been established ready 40 years, and their goods are celebrates ior purity and strength. We would m - ommend a trial of tbe'r GoM MHai brands to a!! who desire cockerr - MEN.-- There wa3 a young man of Damascus, ~I wonder,” he **id wold a lass kiss While the giHs they all sighed, And giggled and cried * ‘ The and enkey 1 Why dosen ’he ask u?” And his cousin, who lived in Odessa, Tho 5 belonged to his bosom to pressa, Yet when ehe, somewhat bolder Reclined on his shoulder Tho dunce was afraid to caress*. And the other one, down at Dundee, Was as bashful as bashful could be, When his girl, in palaver, Asked him if he’d have her, He stammered, and said “he would see. 55 <ga> THE COST OP FENCES The coat of protecting the crops of a section from its live stock— of one classsof property from another— is attracting a great deal of atten tion. The discussion of the subject became brisk after ei. census office buplished some fence statistics that are as unanswerable as they are val uable as they are valuable and sugjestive. These statisticts are as yet incomplete, but they are already sufficient to open .the eyes of all in telligent farmers to the nature of the tax that fences create. It is es timated that the farmers of New York are taxed fin acre on account of fences, against 33 cents an acre On account of state and count The people cf Geor gia paid, in 1879, $1,824 652, on ac countof fences; enough to have paid the interest on debt of. the state, and the expenses of the state government, with a liberal margin towards the support of an 5 efficient school system. This £nnual expen diture in the state is simply waste. It is money and energy expended without adequate return. It is so much addition to the expense of crops that at the best are not very remunerative. The annual wear and waste of fences is put at ten per cent. This would show that the value of the fences in Georgia is in the neighborhood of eigteen mil lions. or something more than all the live stock in the state is worth. To expend eighteen millions for the purpose of protecting the crops from ten millione of liifo stock, is clearly wasteful, especially when the expense does not promote the live stock interest —does not in fact accomplish anything whatever ex cept the imposition of an unneces sary and unfruitful tax. The farm ers of Georgia are naturally restive under such taxation, and several counties have already decided that a farmer may restrain his own stock, but he shall be under no obligation to protect his crops from the stock of his neighbors. Stock, in other words, must be herded as in mest European counties, or else kept ii/ small enclosures. A ten-dollar scrub cow shall not be permitted to compel the building of one hundred dollars’ worth of fence/ in a r rfitb borkood. Economy and ne w cir cumstances damand a change, and when the full extent of the fence extravagance is made known, the people will not be slow in finding one that will commend itself to the publie mind. AN OLD WOMAN’S ADVICE. Tunt Rachel, writing to the Cincin nati Enquirer, says: When you feel un well and think you must take medicine, for goodnesS’ seke ‘get the best.’ If you need a remedy that will make von regu lar in your habits, give you a good nat ural appetite, make your skin clear and remove all spots ana blemishes that in dicate health; if you wi*h to be free from mental depression, fruitfulness, peevishness, wakefulness and other dfs ordeis, use Brown’s liv*n BitUrs. LAt'T CALL. Teachers of Public--Schools who have not handed In thPr noils -r ust -lo 3c immediately. I can’t settle without them. E E Pound C. 8. C. B. G. MILLINERY. Mrs. M. C. Wright, IwniaK Bprtng, - - Ga. Has just received her Fall and Winter stack, consisting of, ladies’ and chib dren’s Hats, feaques, Shawls, Cloaks, Dolmans, Hosiery. Brass Goods, Jewel ry, Stationary, *Ld various other articles too numerous to mention. She is also age at for the improved “Wheeler and Wils” semn? machine. October 20-1 moeth AGENTS WANTED for the Standard REVISED NEWTESTAMENT. i T -2 S 1 \ l * f"K'-egart Ed; tio n li.. - £ bot : t 600 pagaa. From SIOO to S7OO C omparalive Eli i- f ion, over 1100 pages ‘Tlietory of the Bible aid the New Revision” giver io anbr.cn Oers. The secret of -i tcessful canvaasing given ev ery agent Send for our liberal term*. ’Mention this paoer. The Fen r v Bii! jPublishing Ocu-.p&iu-, h „ i Fatal .is!** : ‘ REASONS FOR A STOCK LAW. The queetion of “Fence or No Fence” seems just now,, to be at tracting considerable interest es pecially in Middle Georgia—and well it may, for it is a meat impor tant cne-to the farmer. The cost of fences la simply enormous —so much bo, that it is the heaviest tax the farmer has to pay—at tax with out adequate compensation. The fanners of Georgia are aroused at the heavy expenses of fences and are rapidly abolishing them,-,the sooner the better, for it is only a matter of time—bofor© many years the stock law will be in operation from to the Chatta hoochee. Already, Coweta, Cambell, Rock dale, Henry,; Spaulding. Monroe, Putnam, and other counties are ag itating the question and no doubt will adopt it. The Stock Law is decidfdly in the interest of both landed aa well aa the stock —farm- ers will have better stock, it will cost great deal less to keep them and wnat stock the farmer keeps will be more profitable, It is a well known fact, that farm ers who £ave the bast stock general ly keep them pastures—another fact now generally accepted by pro giessive -agriculturalits, is that where stock are allowed to run on cultivated lands, tho land is injured thereby, it being hardened and all the vegetable substance taken from it, Without an equivalent in return. As it is now, stock are almo*t with out any pasthre,' only the : rbad and fence corners being allowed them— that is where stock are allowed to run M large for all faring are now surrounded by one out.side fence which generally includes the entire place, hence it is that the stock are mostly poor and scrubby, almost wer'hlese, besides, these scrubby cows, hogß &c., destroy more pro of the farm during tha year, than they are worth. When a county votes the stock law, then the adja cent county will have to fence in it* stock,* especially for three or fosT miles or els* reap the conse quences—a ceuniy that is surrounded by “No Fence” coun ties virtually 1 m: a stock Law —and thus it who -piead from county to county until entire Middle Georgia will threw off this heavy expense and will be rewarded with better stock, less destruction of crops, bet ter fee l ing among neighbors, better and more fsrtila lands,greater pros perity generally will be the result . Nov. 14th “Subscriber 55 JACKSON’S BOOM, Tno sound of the saw, hammer and trowel, indicates that art is now | begining to do for our countysite ■what nfc'U 't intended, make it the most beautiful town in Georgia, and when the little white cottages Lsgin to spin up s. r o unu w® will begin ho reauze some oi our pordic tipns in regard to the future of our county. We were not drawing on our imagination when we wrote of the commercial importance of Butts county, and when we said that Jackson was the moat beautiful lo cation in Georgia for a town we didp’t except no place nor w® don’t yet, and the nice tastefully arrang ed residences of our Ordinary and Mr. Wm. Shields now going up and the large substantial and perfectly arranged Livery stall® just com pleted by Brother Watkins, is only an index to the new life that will spring up with the completion of the new read. We think the editor of the news is mistaken in hia idea about the sale of let? in Jackson and the Spring to Col, Grant haring ? tendency to retard trio growth of these places, but on the other hand will give an impetus to the new life of each place that will be. the mak ing of them. Wo know something of the plans of these gentlemen, and know that we only need to wait for develop ments to convince u.s, that their coming will benen. u? / We expsc iooao s boom at our town that will astonish us at the proper time. We expect to sea a hundred thousand dollars worth of machinery running at Smiths Mills, and a likl amount st L•mar’s Mills, then we can pay, “I told you ~0, -et us hew tfo more about we can t do to >s or that. foj* cur poop c hfe- e got t e energy to •do frrfythiftg and the money in mtn ey is coming to help us. Our towns will grow, our country house will be beautified, the power that rushes wildly over our waterfalls will be chained, and put to work, and then we will be a more prosperous inde pendent, and we hop* a better and happier people. The Monroe Advertiser tells of a desperate encounter with an eagle, as follows: On last Thursday morning Mr. John Abernathy bro ught a monster eagle into ?own. which he had killed on hia place, four miles from For syth, tbs day previous. He had gone to a field to work, carrying hi B Jitttlo son, two and a half years of age. with him. It happened that he had his shot gun in his hands, thinking that he would need it to kill game. Suddenly he heard a sound in the air which he describes as equal to the roaring of the wind, and saw a shadow on the ground. Looking up he saw a huge bird swooping down upon his son. As quick as possible he rained his gun and fired and was fortunate enough to bring the eagle to the ground, He picked him up and started home wards, carrying the bird on his shoulder. Suddenly the eagle bur ied his talons in his right arm and seiz ed his left with his bei*k. Mr. Aber nathy called for hplp and some neighbors four in number cam* to his assistance. It required their united effort to release the bird from his firm hold. when relieved he found that his arm was badly lac erated, the flesh being torn from the bone in several places. The beak was sunk to the bone in the ’right hand. The eagle measured seven feet and four inches from tip to tip and weighed seventeen and-Half pounds. He was never, seen in the neighbor hood before, and it ii probable he strayed from the coast. Mr Aberna thy says his etrengt h was prodigi ous, He would haye readily carried off the little boy, bad it not been that hi*father was'fortunately arm ed with a gun. Present in tho car which was hauled over tho Macon and Brun swick railroad a day or two line?, were Henry Fink, general manage of the whole system, of road now run in connection with the East Ten. neesee, Virginia and Georgia rail road ; F. J. Kimball, vice-president of tho Norfolk and Western, and president of the Shsnanda&h road and John F. O’Brien general super intendent of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad. The party was upon a tour of inspection. The trip from Macon to Brunswick was made in five hours. A section of ten miles waa run in eleven min utes. The gentlemen expressed themselves as well pleased and per fectly satisfied with the r oad and its management. Mr. J, M. Edwards is making a fine record as superin tendent of th* Macon and Brun swick division NOTICE. Hezekiah 0. McEihenny has applied Tor exemption cf personalty and setting apart valuation of homestead and I will para upon the same at 10 o’clock A. M. on the 26th November 1881 at my office, J. F. CcRMICHA*t, Ordinary B. C. ne\v~stoee! Wo have moved into our new stone building and have on hand, and to arrive, the largest stock of goods ever brought to Jackson, and offer them at prices that defy com petition. HARDWARE, TINWARE, QUEENSWARE. Groceries and plantation supplies, Bacon, Flour, Syrup, Mol&siss, Su gar, Code and, Plows. TracechainSjJand many other things tea numersui to mention. DRESS GOODS. Ladies dress goods. Calicos, Trim mings, Ac., & full line of notions our goods were purchased with an eye single to the interest of the people of Batts and eurounding counties our assortment is too lar/re and varied for general enumeration Messrs. G Frotwell and J. E. Watkins will as heretofore, act as salesman and Respectfully solicits the patronage of their friends and the public g .norally. Call and examine our stock be-1 fore purchasing elsewhere and b* convinced at lon- price#. A. M. C. Watkins it Son. REVENUE OFFICIAL KILLED Washington, October 29. —In April, 1880, A. J. Lane, a special deputy collector under Internation al Collector Clark, of Atlanta, Jk, whose bravery in gpoMCuting 41:3 illicit distillers had ma ie h l . : 4 spicuous, w3 arrested by fits ? pi> on the information cf -an illicit riller whose distillery he had raid ed. Lftne was taken to the county jail at Cl&rkesville, charged via carrying concealed weapons. r .h<? collector and district attorney, f vex ceeded, after great difficulty, in pro curing his release on bail, the cci lector and district attorney rigning his bond. To-day Collector Clark telegraphed to Commissioner Re vn that Kane had been killed neer Montgomery, and that his appear ance bond had been fortified by and : State court. , An Armed Camp. Dublin is captured city. From the London journals we learn that v con tains over 5,000 soldier cavalry artillery and inf antry besides about 2,000 palioe, who are soldiers in 4! but name, being armed with rifi-p swords and revolvers There art 1.000 horses and sixteen guns. Ever? sentinel ia provided with tweu-y rcundj of ball cartrige. Troops in garrison are confined to barrack, ready to turn out at a mcr cut’i notice. Five military magistvatosand three civil magistrates h;;o hecA specically appointed, and f._o coy has been dividend into threr dis tricts, for the more prompt •admin istration of justice. All ther-e ?-• ;r goment indicate the serious swale o affairs anchtha strotg resolution of the government. ■ JK Tell Your wives.— A woman’s advice is generally worth having: so if you are in any trouble, tell your mother, or your .wife, or your sister all about it. Be assured that light will flash upon your darkness. women are too commonly adjudg ed verdant in all but purely woman ish affairs. No philosopher student of the sex thus judge them. Thaii intuitions of insight are the most subtle, if they cannot sea a cat id the meal, there Is no cat there. A man, therefore, should keep none of his affairs a secret from his wife. Many a homo has been hap pily saved, and many a fortune re trieved by a man’s lull confidence in his wife, woman is far more and prophetic than man if ehe be given a fair chance. Asa general rule, the Wives com fide the minute* of their plans and thoughts to their husbands, why not reciprocate, if but for tho.pleas ure of meeting confidence? The men who succeed beet in life afe those who make confidants of their wives. Chicago man visiting Cincinnati was being shown round by a citizen, who said: “Now l6t’s go and see th© widow’s homo.” The Chicago man put his finger by tho side of his nos© and winked, and then said: “Not much, Mary Ann. I saw a widow home once and it cost mo $16,000- ghe sued me for breach of prmi** and proved it on mo. No.iir; send tho widow home in a hack. IRON’ ft oes!tda cax© tons 2S dSeoftßft a ocjsftlafte tonloi Dyspepsia. Bittent Fweia Want of AppetWi boos of Streagtih* look of Bacr&ii Cso> Bavio&ec the Mood. strengths ns the smsaolea. and cite* nerw Bib to the nerve*. Acts Hke a charm fon tho digestive avganft removing all dyspeptic sympSoma, each cc testing the food. BclohinA Hoct in the. Stomach. HearttiWß* e&o. The only Iron Prepare-tk* that will not blacken the teeth <*r pive headache. Sold by all Dvsf• Fists at SI.OO a bottle. BROWN CHEMICAL CJX Baltimore, BEd < fw <a* • Cfoß WWI4M ■oil fcy B werr* Qk V 2 *" t*i >M mmti tni* c*ri at .--v - * pswars ow <Mrr/*TiQ*s.