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Middle Georgia Argus PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. Indian spring, ga., Mar 2 issi LOCAL MATTER? Go to J. G. Daughtry, A Bro. for your Plow Goods They nre the cheapest in the county. Mr*. Jain 63 Grcbr will teach school at our “Oak Vale“ Academy commencing the second Monday in thin month. The heavy laborious stone and earth work on the section near this office has been finished and the working forces moved out on Tues day. Deowked.— On Tuesday evening last two colored men employed by Mr. W. B. Dozier, while crossing the QfiMulgeo river at Smiths -Mills ferry the bateau dipped against the chair:, while near the centre of the stream, the bout cap sized and both were drowned be fore an usr-istancc could be rendered. AT COST. During the next 30 days I hill sell Dry Goods, Hats and Shoes at Cost. I desire to mak e some'change in my business and mean what 1 say. T. J. Saunders. i >0 vou want the best literary paper in the world? If you do be sure to lead the offer of the publisher of the New York Ledger in another column, every body is acquainted with tiie ledger, and it needs no argument from us to prove it the best family paper in the world. Several bills of goods has been shipped up the Extension by the merchants of Macon. We are glad to learil that the construction Cos., are thus willing to accommodate the people along the line before the road is cohlpleted J. Q. Daughtry & Bro. sells Haiman uul Ferguson Plow Stocks, at $1,85 , A Screven counly man sold his wife for fifty centt under the im pression hat he had a perfect right to do so. Mr J. W. Heard left for Macon, last-Tuesday morning, to join the work on the extension. Eight Pounds good liio Coffee fpr oiie dollar at J. G. Daughtry & Bro3, Some shingle naiis at cost at this office. ; There is Mure Strength restoring power in a 50 cents bottle of parker,s Ginger Tonic than in a bush of meal or gallon of milk. As an appetizer blood purifier and kidney corrector, .there is nothing like it, and inval ide find it a wonderful invigorant for minds and body. See other 1 column. i i 7. , ; • i Read what Mr. T. J, .Saunders has to say. ;Hp is too ~old> reliable and well* known for any one to doubt what he says, , ? . - O't ii * \Vb learn from ‘parties who have )eejn' dow die line, for some distance .that the excessive rains, has done ago h- 1 r damage to the fin ijphr' n g which will of <n - , .he track-laying par r , ,i deal of work, •• & Bro. have juM • ,ly of Oat hr. i. c which they are m price. \ uur City fathers r " ; "hideout” to day, • luw went into ef fect and our efficient Mai>h ' > execute the law by • uv. .scry cow that could be i’li j ■ ling in the corpora tion "T bv twelve o’clock had .. : ii in pound, when w hr t thrown into con >- ' vjiie ot the suburban ' down with brooin sti. ” and cleaning out the 14 b. , i now if you want to tb . oouncilmen skeedadle, iu-. .ds.-'Oi Miss Mary is coming. • A a u:- L’tv us farmer caught a ne gro or trap, who was rob b.in, 'itaio bank. The theif said h< ,was ' Lbung in I\U deep. ; Mr. Boolii3 Adams, of Dodge county, has well-matured water melon’ now ripe, which were grown in the jopen air. The ol tthe .girls of the . are email, tapering and beautiful ly shaped, her II are as beautiful as the **, and she .is without a jj; her frown is a t and bar figure ex cites '!! ot surprise and a hanker* pig to^^^^her. A negro horse tiieii was tound hanged by the "heck with a* trace chain to a black ack tree in Gwin * nett county, last week.—The citi zens had lynched him. THE MISSISSIPI FLOOD A fforrowing Picture of Suffering — The Effect on the Future. Friar’s Point, Miss., February 18. —[Special Correspondence Con stitution;] —A week ago I left AP lanta to make a business trip down the Mississipi river to New Orleans I had heard of the high water be fore leaving, but none save an eye ; witness could understand it. That ‘oldest inhabitant” has surrendered and instead of telling you of how if was in 1832 and 1867, is now hang ing on to a rickety platform built in the boughs of the cypress -trees, waiting for a “skiff” to come and take him to high ground. It woulc scarcely be safe for anyone to inti that the like had ever before befell seen. Since leaving Memphis the river has Steadily contineeato rise, and piow reaches a point perhaps never ‘before attained since its discovery by JieSoto. Citizens of all classes work day and night cn the crum bling levees in the hope-of saving life /aid property, while the treach ero is sand a are actually melting baneaih their ieet. The water don’t have to rise still higher in order to' I run over these fraii banks of mud J and sartd, but is already at the very top. A wave caused by a passing boat or an accidental kick of the foot, is folhved b\ a break and im mediately great vl lmn'es of water arß pouring over with the roar of a fearful storm, until this vast valev —averaging 40 miles in width—is an ini mid sea. Houses, farms, fen ces anc| stock are being swept away. Few of those living away from this valley can appreciate the distress and The suffering which al ready Exists, and the losfi which must be sorely felt hereafter, only occurs* t imagine, only once or twice in a century. It is not uncommon to see de fenseless families upon .platforms built up among the branches of the trees. Upon these hurriedly built platforms ttrfc- children in the tit most fnght-i clinging to their par ents. By tneir side are a dozen wet mules; together with a few shiver cows and pigs.. ..The. chickens are in the tree tops. In the, town* goods are hoisted to the second sto ry, and many one story .stores and dwellings are abandoned, leaving only the roofs visible. An old colored man retired last night with hi* cabin floor barely covered with water. By midnight he had to climb upon the joists. This morning a hole was knocked through the gable and a wet darky slid ‘out to .a “ski#.”. ,_ , ' I am writing upon a wharf-boat which is tied up among the trees’ t irteen feet above the level of the town of Friar’s Point, waiting for a boat to come along and take us off. Were I to be impudent enough to talk .agricultural implement I shonld probably be drowned'an the spot. Imagine a farmer floating about on a board, nine feet above his farm hunting for the place where his g|n house and stables were, and then imagine another man approac hing pn another board.vtQ.know if he wanted to buy any agricultural emplements. I am not this last man by large odds, and don’t know of anybody that is. Truly vours, T. M. B. Passengers arriving at Memphis this afternoon from At. Frauds'; iv~ cr report-' that on 'iV-nn?, a small bayou which empties into the it. Francis river about twenty miles above Madison, Arkansas, high water had overflowed lao lands bo longing to a Mr. Jamison, and while engagsd in removing wife and six oh : Id run to a place of ede ty on nigh land the dug-out which conia.ned them capsized 7 drowning, ail the children, two of whom were grown young ladies, the remaining four being aged from oto 1-l years. •Jamison saved his wife, cut could render no assistance to the drown ing children. A s2o= Bible Prize, Tho publishers of Rulkdges Monthly in Lie prize puzzle de partment for their Montdily for March ofler the following easy way for someone to make $20,00: To the person telling us which is the longest verse in the New Testa ment Scripture, (not the new New Revision) by March 10th 1882, we will give $20.00 in gold as a prize. Should two or more cerrect answers be received the prize will be divided The money will be forwarded to the winner March 15th 1882, Those who try for the prize must send 20et: in silver (no postage stamps uken) with their answer, for which thev will receive the April number of the Monthly, in which will be published the name and address of the winner of the prize, with the correct answer thereto. Citt this out: it in ay be worth $50.00 to you. Address RuTLBDGS PUBLISiIIX U C).M?AXV Easton. Pa. w Wiith Mills Reporter, Sunday Feb. ,26th 1882. By M. IT. Thompson. By way of an apology to our rea ders for not getting out the last two or three Issues of the Reporter, we will state that we were like the old woman who dreamed the day of Judgement had come, and when called on to give an .account of her self, said that she had so much of o'her people’s business tb attend to that she had forgotten her own, our case is similar to herb. Local Items. Business in the various branches of Industry at this place has been lively for the past week. The landings at the Ferry which has here-tp-fore beeii in very bad condition ha* been greatly improv ed by the building of jock abutt mente for the flat to land or., we hope to hear no more complaints about the ferry. Some Very important repairs have bVen made at the grist mills, and every thing is now ia line running order, and we hope by a strict at tention to business to be able to command a fair share of the pat ronage of the surrounding country An attempt was . made one night last week by one Haywood Johnson col., to break into Ivinard’s grist mill but he was, caught by the miller Mr. Jones, and. turned loose on his recgnance to appear before .a justic of the Peace next day and has not been seen since. ■ l Mr. S. L. Thompson has done great deal of new fencing, ■ but it is all on the puplic road. He is. car rying out the idea the girl expressed when she told her washer-women to hang all the; nicest clothes on the front paling a. . . hr \\ . B. Doris r has the finest fie hi cf oats we have eeen tins year. II • is a successful farmer, as well as a merchant, talent and energy will tell. The many friends of Mr. A. 0. I' Ljlicn will rejoice to learn that he is boon to come in possession of a. very large fortune,' and a very ac complished young widow thrown in. Thu school at Lane’s Academy near this place, presided over by by Miss. Mol lie Erwin, has opened with a very flattering- prospect; We congratulate the patrons of the hod on having secured the servi ces of a teaoi t ho well qualif. and to teach, “the young an idea how to shoot.” The Bridge Question. —Tlic ques tion of building a bridge over the Oemulgee river lie s been again agi tated and it has been suggested by some, of the knowing ones about Monticello, that Lamar’s Mill would be the place to -build the bridge, While we are in raver of having a bridge we are not prepared to say where it ought, to -be iocatech but we are prepare ! to say that if one is ever,built by the county, that La marW-mjil is not the place to build it, everybody who knows any thing about the roads leading to the river on the Jasper side will agree with us. Whenever the time comes for commissioners to be appointed to locate a bridge we will have no hes itancy in printing the claims of Smiths mill’s. . * We hare an idea s of. sending the Gas Manufacturing, maq .rL&niths mills to the * Legiel at ul o p vi Jed can keep Brother Acree ♦he race, SOME THINGS THAT A GREAT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT SEEM TO KNOW. The Mistake of Vaccinating the Whole Family at once-A De termination to Get Even- Some Specimens of Rural Science not Generally Fnownto the People. Bill Arp to The Condition. I’m not afraid of small-pox my self for it’* not a disease that has a fancy for old folks. It lets them alone because they have no beauty to spoil and because out Father Time will cut ’em down anyhow be fore long. Sma 1 1-pox had rather feed on l velier blood and smoother flesh, and that’s whv the young folks have such a horror of it, es pecially good looking young ladies, and eveil married one* who some timec entertain a fleeting thought that posSibly she might he left a lone -width* some of these days, and a widow with a pock-marked f?. v would be inapproppiatc. Ther a triimp some four miles from 1 penned up in a pest house. • folks keptdingclonging ah • til I'got some bovine or vnr • whatever you call it, ard sha p-. up the budding blade of my pru ning knife, and went to v orb oH, from the oldest- to the you It was a terrible operation— • mg fhe flesh down to t! quick, and some of 'em h . have fainted j ust for the .fro ; and now you see what ti fix lam o. for nobody can do anything bid me their arms are so eote, and can’t touch them with a feather what it’s Oh my vaccipat'e-r-don’t touch my yoecinate,’ and so I have to bring all the wood a id water and make the fires and do the cooking, and I beg to perceive what a mis take it was to disable ’em all at one time. When they convalesce I’m going to vaccinate myself in both arms and both legs and lip up for a month to get evferi. But I’m sorry for that poor tramp. He took the disease,away down on a railroad in Alabama and took the track for home, and they got after him all along the line,.b.yt he kept a movin, for it ientmapy folks will take hold of thaksort ot a feller, and so he, got to Rome, and they sent a po lice after him, but the police could not get- in seeing distance, and the tramp<kissed his.hand at ’em and walked, and then the Kingston folks made out they waute.d him but they wanted him didnt bad’, and eo hy the time he w v as wore out and tired out he .sorter put on the brokes at Cartersviikuand wecotch ed him. Ho was making for Atlan ta, where.he came lrotn, and if }mu folks want a 'first-class sensation just say so and we will turn him loose. We have been rriovihg ole fences and cleaning up the hedge rows, and I thought it -would b s fine to go ahead of the briar cutter with a little finq-and the first thing I knew it took after some broOm eage and grass and leaves and ~ got’ into the. woods, and I fought it with! pine tops.till the smoke nearly put; mv eyes-out,;and while I headed ij. at one place it headed me off at an-j other and at last I had to holler for; help and it. took all hands to stop it, and when I got home I was so smutty-and sweaty and played out they did not 1 ♦••cognize me and wanted to know wher 1 came from and who I belonged to . There was some old iogs in the fence row {.hat I wanted to roll into a gudv and X prized at one with a rail for an hour trying to get it out of its Led, when one of the darkies came along with Lie mule and 1 low and he put his mule on one side and his plow or, the other and moved ’em all iu five minutes without a bit of trouble, but I’m a learning and I dent care who I learn from. I’ve never seen anybody yet that didn't know some things that I didn’t 5 and "here is many an old farmer who knows things that wise men like professors in college don’t. They learn from observation and experience. Some folks go throhgh a long 1 ie and ob serve little or nothing, and most of the boys never stop to think but learn ail they know from books. Nature is the next study. Dr. Jen ner was a close observe,. He was the first man to find out that the cuckoo never built a nest hut al ways laid her eggs in - other birds nests. Do the boys know that when a horse crops grass he eats back to him, but a eow eats outward from her because she has no front teeth in nor upper ]aw she lias to gum it. Do they know that some kinds of snakes lay eggs and some don’t, but give birth to their young. Do Do they unow that a cane gets its full growth in a year, whether it is large or small, and the limb of a tree never gets any higher from the ground no matter how high the tree grows. • Th<3 boys have seen many a whit§ horse, but did f key ever see o white eolt?Do tlim know how old the twig is that bears the peaches, andjbow old the vine that has the grapes hung on to it? Do they know that the hop vine winds with the course of the sun, but a bean vine always winds the other wav? What timber will Mar the most weight*; whatdsMhe most elas tic ■ what will last Hripest vater and what out of water; what is the best time to cut down trees tor fire wood, how many kinds of oaks can you count up that grew in this re gion and what are they specially good for; how does a bird fly with out moving a feather or flapping a wing; howdoes a snake climb a, tree or a brick wall; what is the differ ence between a deer’s track and a hog’s track, and how often does a buck shed his horns and what be- I comes of them ; which ought to be the largest the throat of the chim ney or the funnel, and ought it be wider at the top or draw in. Books are a wonderful help, but a man ought not be satisfied to go through life and be always on the borrow from other people's brains. He ought to to find out some things himself and leave a little to posteri ty in payment for ail that he has 1 learned from others, t was down in the piney woods not long ago and saw thousands of little salamander bills alongside the road, and asked a good many people about them, but nobody I asked had ever seen one or knew anything about them except one man, and lie said they were liko a large rat with a short tail and had a pouch or pocket on each side of the neck to carry roots mdbugsaud nuts in. I thought at every boy in t. at. country would have dug after them just for , m , like we used to dig after a :.mi or a bumble bee’s neat. But hr. are bigger things for boys a days, I reckon. They don’t ■:c nto have near as much time as , used te-time to nla v bull-pen or. 1 cat and town ball and shinny at/ 1 go a seining and coon hunting a. m set traps and coops for parfrid ? nd break the colts and mix up good deal of work with a little Sc idy besides. A boy is a young gentleman about five yeaas sooner than he used to be, and I think the legislature ought to change the law and set’em free and let’em vote at sixteen instead of twenty one. Well they do let’em work the roads at 16, and thait is ( about the only playing they do generally, which is all right, I reckon. Bill Arp. A Acrrible Duel. Mcduffie -Journal.—lt is a great mistake to say that the days .of chi valry, iri Georgia are past and ,gdne\ and That.the code duello has vanis hed betore the advancing gaslight of a-'higher civilization —Only a few weeks ago, as we are informed, on the plantation of hir. Booker Sutton in this county, an affair of honor took place,between two sable citi zens,, that was peculiarly remarka ble for its singularity, sto speak. It seems that Gene and Lewis, col ored gents’, bffd, some unpleasant ness concerning a,-, certain dusky virgin’, as.it were., for whom both had sf rqng but tender .drawings, pr words to. that ■ effect, and agreed Jo settle the trouble *between themsel ves. They loaded up .their double barrel shot guns, measured off nine ty yards and faced each other, thirs ting .for gore. .By agreement Gene was to shoot' first ..and Lewis after wards. Lewis gave the word', and as Qene'raised the -gun, turned his hack and received th charge in his winter clothes, without inflicting any: serious injury. It was.now; Lewi As time time and a happy thought struck "'no. lie had .of ten heard tha 1 . aPiH dew should jump the yar : * rush at you; if you wi •.. .? ode to wards him, s. • 1 1 1 fiiercely at him ' logs, lie will break to climb the dw' n Lewis lifted hi, 'T Gene-doubled ovn .in.. and his antagonist. Lew' m ished,but promptly 'ith both barrels of his we the scene of the disaster \ to behold. A hole the s h pan was tunnel and i- *’g ! duster, and his wi; iter 1 - v in ruins, while the re: ■ sac-' red person looked, lik oack ; door of a san-age far 7 hey! both announced they • satis- j tied, and shook the frie . 1 ! ship ; but Gene is Comp" ako his meals from a high 'Tr o .m l sits down standing up. .bistic-e to Mr. Sutton we will sta it lie knew nothing of this re.- .ble transaction until Gene st. . fled into the yard, using an emp . ,a no sack sack for a bustle, an old him that “he had sot down .11 a hornets uest and got hurt-” An old darkey who was asked it. in his, experience, prayer was an swered replied : “Well, sah, some pra’ers is ansud an’ some ain’t— ’pends on w,at you axes fo’. Jest arter de war, w’en it was mighty hard scratchin’ fo’ de culled bred dern, I ’besarved dat w’enebber I pray de Lord to send one o’Mars9 Peytqn’s fat turkeys fo’ de ole man, dere was ro notice took of de perti tion ; but we’n I pray dat he would sen’ de ole man fo’ de turkey, de matter was tended to befo’ sun up next mornin.” •* ' * y An iterant minister of the Mor mon persuasion called at a farm house at the close of the day, and desired lodging. On being refused he ihristed saying: “The Lord ap pedrld to-.me and told me-to tarry all mSht at this house.” “Indeed?’ said the mar of the house. “What time did the Lord appear to you?’’ ‘‘About an hour by the sun.” “Very well.” said the man, “I have seen Him since that, and He told me : o send you on.” “Yes,” said the Denver editor. “1 think I must have got, out a ver y readable paper this morning, I've been licked by three prominent citizens to-day, another chased me with dogs and a gun and the police had hard work too keep a mob from wrecking my office.” Oil, give me back niy boyhood's houM Thir truant escapades, Tiieir stolen sweets in orchard bowers Their watermelon raids. Their {eastings on the pantry ‘Tinn-l.,’’ That made one’s palate tingle; But ah! you need’t give me back The slipper or the sihngie. “My dear child,” obsened a goo ! deacon to an urchin who was poll shing a cat’s back with a blacking brush on the Lord's day, “have you never attended Sunday school?” Naw,” responded the gamin frank ly ; “I dent go to places of amuse ment on Snnday.” Griffin Sun : From Mr. E.w. Ilam mo ml, who was in AtlanVit Fri G.-y .- ! had a talk with Mr. Julius Brown rlk- a cent puchascr of the Griffin, f -iiiieellb and Madison railroad, we hear that gem tieman has decided to chartge the rout of his road and carry it to Locust Grove; loving the oiiginalline at Ringold Lodge Only six miles oi grading would ba nec us sir y to carry out this scheiim. and it ha |ar more sense in It than subsidy” pl&il tiu’t Mr. Brown has been talking about for some time past. S1 ib RIFF SALit. STATE Gi GEORGIA, Butts County . WILL BE SOLD before the cour? house door id the town of Jackson said county and state, on the first Tues day in March next 1882, within the Je : gal hours of sale, the following describ : ed property to-wit: All the,One-eleVenth undivided inter est in all that property lying and being in said county, town of Mclntosh and .Indian Springs reserve known as the Mclntosh Hotel property, containing eigght (8) acres more or less, being hd number 3(1 on which the Mclntosh Hotel garden, out-houses and stables are situa te i, being four acres less a strip on West side of Mid lot, 3fi, cf 80 feet front by oO feet, upon which Lamar’s store house and a small wooden building are situat ed, and about two (2) acres each off oi lots Xos. 49 & 50 lying south of lot 3(1 and separated from it by a street; the said eleventh undivided interest .being lev; fed on as the property of Brvan A. (-oi lier, one of the Defendants, by virtue <> one fi-fa issued out ol the Justice Court of the 9-]sth t District G. M., Dougherty countv, Georgia, In fayor of Charles A. Shandal & Cos .; vs. Collier Chevcs. Tenant in possession notified. Thb February Ist, 1882'. , . J. 0. Beauchamp', Sheriff B. C. STATE OF GEORGIA, Butt* County ItTlr.L BE SOLD before the coin? VV door in the town of Jackson s;iT.‘ county and State-within the legal honq of sale,.on the first Tuesday in March next I§B2, the following described prop erty to-wit: All the one-eleventh undivided inter est in all that, property lying and being in said county, town of Mclntosh ano Indian Springs reserve, known as the Mclntosh Hotel property, containing eiglit (0) acres more or les , being lot No. 36 on which tho Mobil "--.h Hotel, gardens, outhouses and staid os are sit- Ufi!d, being four acres a p the Westside of said lot ID, o: •• bc, front by.. 50 feet, upon wish h i ' - sa re ’lou-e <i’<i a s/".a:. \vora.i --:> ' . . iug are si mated, and abort'- 2 t",rei (■-..c1), o?i‘ f !<■ >ts TJ and 50. I’ in-j Aouti of lot 35 I, pt Fl 1(1 in • - ;ureet; tio snif'i oiev'-nih m-di.> •: and; L-rest being levied on a.s the ■ ; - r>. i f v of Bryan A. CoHLer, Defendanls in f-f Issued out of "die Lupo.ior Court Q ;)ougher;_v county. Georgia, in f.vor #,-i J.M. Fretchin & Cos., Vs. B. A. Collier, 7 ;:;cUit in possession notified, i his id* : - <h;y of January, 187:1. - J . O- mL L UOil.i, y l\ S’ :riff i; C. pf; 1> CAIF { KJi\ , c hhiters S: Shelves fo' hoi:.-■ in good condition, suite l u. Louse 20 by 30 feet. For particulars call at Inis office ■rev.-.- mraßH jssit r. , vniu. - I PARKER’S ■ r ;^f HAIR BALSAftI. TLJIbvLL: ; a 1! Farmers, Mothers /t : . 1 Bnsiness.ir.tn. Meehan- • : A ics, • v.ho are tired j N° rk or prry ' ; thrlgE&Z fsitAd and ail who are ir.istra-. 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