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Middle Georgia Argus PUBLISHED 'EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. TndTajTsPRING, QA. Mar23~1882.' LOCAL MATTErT Ice this morning. The Specialty at Daghtry & Bro’s is the tremendous bargain? in Laces, in over 150 different de signs, and is a curious sight to be hold? A REAL TREAT FOR TI?E LADIES. Neatly folded in bunches of 2 to 10 yds, warranted perfect, each price containing the full measure marked on the wrapper. Splendid prospect lor a wheat crop in Butts No 1 flour for sale at the brick store at this office. We promised our readers, the speech S? senator Vance, this week, but we had to hold our space for the Grand Jury Presentments. A nice line of Spring. Calicoes & Dress Goods, Shoes Hats &g. At J. G Daughtry & Bros. We learn that Wilson Smith started to Atlanta, yesterday to put Mrs. Smith (his wife) under the care of a skilled op tician We have on consignment, a splendid lot of flour, gaound and • purified by the celebrated Mills of Bosworth & Farns- Wbrth. Go to J. G. Daughtry, & Bro. for your Plow Goods They are the cheapest in the county. We expect to be able to giro a full re port of the progress, of track T ying (fee on the extension, next week, aA we in tend going down the line to see what is going on. AT COST. During the next 30 days I will sell Dry Goods, Hats-and Shoes at Cost. I desire to make some change in my business and mean what I say. T. J. Saunders. J. G. Daughtry & Bro. sells IT aim ax and Ferguson Plow Stocks, at $1,85 “Lorenza Dow" Read If You want To Know. If you want to know about the New treaty, between Gov. Troup and Mclntosh, and John Quincy Adams call on Dow Jr. If you want to know who made the motion in the legislature, tc name this county Butts, and how the patriotic and brave Butts, came to his death call on Dow Jr. If you want to know who has the best lot of shoes ever brought to Indian Spring., call on T. J. Saun ders. If you want to know hmv many Court Houses has been built in Jaokson and how they were burnt; ca 11 on Dow Jr. Jjfyou want to see the prettiest lot of prints you ever saw, at 5| cents and upwards; call on T. J. Saunders. If you want to know how many bridges has been built at Indian Spring, and who built them; call on Dow Jy, If you want to see the cseapest and preetiest doted Lawns you ever saw call on T. J. Saunders. Six fingered Grain Cradles at $3,00. Large lot of plow hoes just re ceived at Daughtry & Bros. We learn that Mr. Thomas Good rum of Monroe county, planted six rows, about 40 yds. long, in ribbon cane, last year, from which he sold S4O worth of cane, saved seed for this year, and made five or six gal lons of syrup. Just Received a large lot of Flour, Corn, Sugar, Bran Feed Oats Fresh Jnealat J. G. Daughtry & Bros. ' We are glad to note from our ex cliances that a heavy falling off, in the purchase of fertilizers is report ed from all parts of the state, and and the indications now are that there will not he exceeding half the usual amount used. Thurbers no 34 parched cof fee at 20cts per pound. At Daughtry & Bros. Mr Thomas Higgins has planted a good sized patch o f ribbon cane, and we hope to be able to give a good report from it next fall. It has already been demonstrated, be yond a doubt that it can be success fully raised in this climate. Married— At Fort Gibson, on the 14th mst. Mr Rilev Lindsay, of Cheauto, Indian Territory, and formerly of this county; to Mis? P, Cowan, o: Fort Gib son, Indian Territory, and formerly of Tenn. We Congratulate our friend Riley, on securing for a partner through life, one whom we know to be a lady of inte> jrenee culture, and refinement. May their lives be as bountiful decked with “flowers” as is the beautifut coun try, in which they have made their home. Eight Pounds good Rio Coffee for one dollar at J. G. Daughtry & Bros, The best Stock & Cattle pow ders ever made, for sale at this of fice. Col George W, Adair of Atlanta is here surveying the streets and lots around the depot prepatory to inmproving the new part of the town, The surveying corps will get through in two or three days, and everything will then be in readiness as soon as the road can bring lum ber, for East end to begin*to build up, and as it builds towards the spring, west End; of course, will build towards the depot, and then the^Argus office will be right in the centre of Indian Spring, in stead of moving as has been announced. Congress seems to be in earnest about anew bankrupt law it has a number of bills upon the subject under considertion. The late bank rupt law wi s was a farce and an outrage upon all parties interested, and it the wisdom of the national Legistlature cannot give us a beter act they had better leave the matter alone. We heard one of our farmers say he wouldn’t use a pound of Guano, this year. He says he has used it every year since he has been farm ing, except one, and he had more clear money that yeai than any other. After paying up he had five hundred dollars in cash in his pock et, and he has never had over one hundred dollars in cash on hand after paying expenses when he used fertilizers. This is a very poor in ducement to continue its use, and we think he is showing his wisdom by letting it alone. Edwin Belcher colored, editor of the Savanah Echo has denounced and abandoned the Felton coalition. He says that the colored voters of Georgia understand the trick of the coalitions to capture their votes and will not go into the trap. That game has been played long enough. He states that the negroes have just as much to hope for from the Dem ocrats as from the Independents; and that, if the former will adopt a liberal platform and pursue a wise policy in the coming campaign the colored voters will go with them. A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE STOCK LAW. Wilson Smith has adopted a Stock law, of his own, which him ar and his neighbors say, works like a “charm.”- He has obtained an animal that, guards his fields at night with about the same vigilance that the watch dog guards the yard,, and premises. This animal shall ■ for the present, he nameless, but its general make up and appearance, indicates about a half cross between a hull dog and a donkey ! except the length of its ears, which is out of all proportion to the hull-dog. Wilson lives in one of those pla ces where all the stock in the neighborhood, think they have a perfect right to roam at will. Now to put a stop to this ; something must he done, but what? is the question. Every body that knows wil son is apprised of the fact that he has too much charity in his big heart to vote for a law, that would be an oppression to the widowed women of landless tenant, by shutting their stock oft from the delicious fields of wild clover around, but something must be done, to meet the case ; and Wilson determined to get him an animal that would be a terror to the roguish mules. Now Bob Lawson is one of those fellows Who is supposed to he able at all times, and under all circum stances, to suppls the wants of every bodv;So Wilson at once “tackled” Bob;who with his usual business sagacity, reflected a moment, roll irg his cigar around m his mouth replied; “no Wilson I havent got one fff the critters but I have got a mortgage on one, and I think the trade can be arranged.” And so it was, Wilson returned home, so much delighted, that he showed his appreciation of his his new acquisi tion, by attaching to him, the dis tinguished name “McCracken.” In a few days “McCracken” had an opportunity to “tackle” the mule that had been lord of the realm, for lo these many days,’’those delicious oats, had grown to be so tempting that the depredator began to make his visits very frequently, and Wil son concluded to put his little ane m-u-l-e on guard. During the night when tke ane-m-u-l-e eave the alarm by sounding a terrific lonr, it aroused the natives, who sank back into their slumbers, believing it was the bosses sounding the bugle on the new railroad, and when they heard the rumbling sound as the rush of a mighty wind, at distant thunder, they exclaimed; “Irvin’s lifting them rocks this timed' but when day-light broke upon the scene, it developed a race in pro gress, that hasnt been equalled since Colquitt lead Norwood. At any rate that mule hasnt been seen there since, and its fears has been communicated to its neighbors, and when that bugle blows they hide out. The experiment is a succes, as a substitute for the stock law, and Wilson says he will furnish young ane-m-u-l-e-s tor ten dollars. For pedigree Ac call on Bob Lawson. A SAD CASE. ■ In the case of W, H. Head against Wilson Coleman last week Judge Willis ordered the sheriff to make a deed and put Mr Head in posses sion of Mr. Colemans lands. It will be remembered that Mr. Head levied a claim on the land last fall a claim of homestead was inter posed in behalf of the minor chil dren of Mrs coleman deceased. Mr. Head gave the sheriff an indemni fying bond and proceded with the sale, but the sheriff refused to make a deed until ordered by the court. Court now having ordered thedeed to be made the plaintiff in fi-fa has ordered the sheriff to throw the children and their effects out of doors tomorrow, (Tuesday). This edict of e jectment, has the sound of the Irish Landlord in it, to say the least of it. The case is about as follows ;At the Admr. Sale of the Gilmore lands Mr. C. purchased 200 acres of the land for $1,500 and to make the payment borrowed SBOO dollars from Mr H. at 20 per . cent interest whiehdias been running about ten years, Mr. C., claimsthat he has paid about two thousand on the claim sirce it was first bor rowed. Mrs. Coleman had the land set apart as a homestead for her and her children, several years ago. In early part of last year she was ta ken down with consumption and after a long period of suffering du ring which'her children caught the measles, resulting in a severe re lapse to some of them; She died. Mr. Coleman had nine persons in the sick bed at one time, and as a consequence, lost his crop and ex hausted his means, thus rendering him unable to meet his obligations given for supplies &c to Jive on. He now has no supplies to live on his children are small 'and all of them girls but one. It may be that a great deal of his trouble" may he attributable to bad management, but let that be as it may, the ffaet remains the same, his family is in a deplorable condition, more so, than any case that has come under our knowledge in a long time; ta ken altogether we doubt if Butts County ever had so sad a case. We have felt it a duty to inform 'ourselves as to the true cond.tion of these orphan children, and on Saturday night and Sunday, we find them left without any protector ex cept the all-seeing eye above; their father having gone to Griffin to see Judge Stewart and ask a hearing. The picture of this home is too sad to dwell upon, and too mortify ing to be held up before the public, while a great many will treat it with derision; but we can’t look in to that home bereft of a mothers care, with but a scant ration of bread, and not a morsel of meat for many days, with only two days to remain in the place made sacred by all the ties that bind them to the memory of a departed mother; the time so near at hand for that harsh injunctson, “throw them out of doors,” to be obeyed, and remain silent. We think if there ever was a time when that time honored brotherhood(The masonic fraterni ty) should aid an unfortunate broil - er, it is now. And the church at sand ay creek has a chance to bring the blessings of a just ruler upon them, by 7 giving aid to the orphans of a wor thy, departed member. Will they do it? Since writing the above we learn that Judge Stewart has granted an injunction restraining the sheriff from the eviction until the first of April, when a hearing of the case will be granted. We learn that Mr. Dick Brooks representing Mr. Head came over monday to have them thrown out that day and would have done so, but for the injunction. More Truth Than Poetrv.” % E, Lh Tavior, a correspondent of the Monroe Advertiser, in discussing the merits of those names sent up to the constitution, as successful corn raisers, closes wiih the following pertinant re mark’s. “I know, gentlemen, you think I desire to mention mvseif, cr desire some ose else to extol me. Not so. I am a failure as a farmer. Why? Be cause lam a type of too mauy others who are attempting to farm when God did not design for them to be farmers. Poets are born” farmers are born. Sense is wanting—God given tact. Too many farming that ought to be in the machine shop, behind the counter, or in the ehaingang. Too nauv behind the coun ter that ought to be farming or sent on some Foreign Mission. The cards need Shuffling and redealing. Five aces are too many for any deck. I endorse every word you say about the farmers you mentioned: hut one cause of their success was, tliev had the hard mule sense to know what to do with a dollar when they had made it. More in this than knowing how to farm. Give my friend Joe Howard my spend thrift ways and he would beg bread in two years. Let friend Sutton go to a ten pin alley a time or two and his engin would he shin-plasierod over with mort gages, A man in Borne is preparing to publish a directory of all the rnar riageble ladies of Georgia worth SSOOO, and upwards. It will give name.residence, style ot appearance blond or brunette, with age and anci fortune, in possession or pros pective. We predict that a great deal of unheard-of wealth will be deveiped among the women of Geor gia, by that directory. Many miserable people drag the nselves about with failing strength, feeling that they are staed ily sinking into their graves, when by using Parker’s Ginger Tonic, they would find a cure commen cing with the firs) dose, and vital itv and strength surely coming back to them. See other col urns, A “GEORGIA SCENE.” McDuffie Journal Last Sunday night was one of the darkest, rainiest, dismalest even ings of the nineteenth century, and why Mrs Mary Farr, colored,should have selected that occasion to knock the bottom out of Mr. Curtis’s well is one of those conundrums that has no answer. But she did. Mrs, Farr will be 53 years of age in blackbury time, is 5 feet 24 inches high, weighs 234 and has a corn on the little toe of her left loot. She got off the cars on the evening men tioned and started up to Mr Curtis’s to spdtad the night. She carried a fifty pour and sack of Hour on her shoulder and a basket on her arm, in which were her sewing thread, a ball of yarn, a pair of stockings big enough for a rhinoceros, and a sit ting of -qose eggs. When she ar rival avlvlr. Curtis’s she marched around th<^ back way, climbed up on top of the fence and jumped down—n the hack yard. Well, not much. She struck a sheet of water about ten feet below, and the wa fcer-spout that flew out of that hole in the ground deluged the face of the earth. When she got through ex ploring the bottom she came to the surface, formed the acquaintance of the well-rope and concluded to hol er. Soon a crowd of brave men and muddy 'women were gazing down at the undulating person of Mrs. Farr, as it moved on the face of the deep. A derrick was quickly improvised and a rope lowere—but here a great difficulty presented its self The fair dame was found to taper in every direction from the middle. In fact she was big fit lit tie and lof tom :1, top. No rope of ordinary intelligence could be relied on to hold its grip under the cir cumstances, and the bystanders stood in awe of another deluge in case of a slip. But they tarred and sanded the rope, tied it under her arms and the elevating commenced. The water immediately sunk five met and three inehees. The old la dy changed ends several times in coming up, but when they dumped her out in the mud she still held to the sack of flour; and her basket had lost nothing but the ball of thread. When they headed her up, like a barrel, she looked very much like ten bushels of mud in a, five bushel sack, and she was very moist. As Mr. Irving very forcibly remarked, “she was in a dam-p bad fix.” But they rubbed her down with kerosene and rolled her in hot ashes, and she is now receiving the congratulation of her friends. But she has taken a solemn oath never to get down off a fence in the dark again as long as she lives. Mr .F Phinazy prob aly the second richest man inGeorgia (an extensivie farmer himself) said recntly to the editor of the Contitution: “If the farmers will only take your advice Geogia will be the most prosperous State in the Union in a lew years The farmers will ba rich and they will enrich everythin eise On the cotton-raising plan they can soon be richer than the railroad.” ‘ it is the cotton-raising that give the railroads their monopoly. They. haul in the guano, haul out the .cot ton, and then haul in the provis ions. Now let the farmer make his own fertilizers —that keeps out, the guano freights. Let him raise his, own c’orn and meat —that kills the; promsion freights. I’ve had a good deal to do with railroads and have interests in them, but I had rather see them snffer and the people prosper, than see them prosper and the people suffer. • v GRAND JURY PRESENT MENTS. We the Grand Jury drawn cho sen and sworn for the March Term of Butts superior Court 1882. Make the following general pre sentment. We find the public roads throughout the county have received the usual atteution except those roads'crossed or appropriated by the .Macon & Brunswick R. R. and we recomend that the ordina ry coufer with the R. R. authority and have them put in order imme diately and so changed as to require as few crossings as possible. We find the Court House and Jail need ing slight repairs we recomend that the northwest room of the court house be hereafter used for a Grand Jury room. We have examined & approved the dockets of Maddox, Dogulas, Barnett, Lynch A Bankston J. P. But find the dockets of Bledsoe Neal Thurston Flynt and Brown incorrectly kept. The docket of Bell Smith & Evans not been presented./ On account of the limited time at the disposal of Grand Juries they are unable to properly examine books belonging to the several county officers therefore we recom end that his Honor. J. F. Willis appoint Mr. W. M. Mallett It. V. Smith M.V. McKibhen & Mr. John W Gibson as alternate as a commit tee to thoroughly investigate the condition of the records & other papers in the various County offi cers and report the result to the Grand Jury for the September term 1882. said committees to receive per day each for such, we recomend that the ordinary furnish each jus tice of the peace & Not., Republic with snitable Dockets. We recom mend that the ordinary have a Bridge built acros3 Wolfs creek near Edlemans mill provide that if all any change in the road should be made the same should be done without any cost to the county said bridge not to cost more than $2OO built upon rock abutments; an the ordinary have a bridge built across Sandy creek at or near a large rock near the simmons place in the town of Mclntosh said bridge to be about one hundred feet long resting upon rock abutments provided the town council of Mcintosh will secure the right of way for roads approaching said bridge & grade the same and fill in the abutments free of cost to the county, and also connect the Dublin road so that only one bridge \vill he required & that the ordina ry shall not let out said contract until the above terms are complied with. One third of the cost of said bridge to be paid in the fall of 1882 & balance in 188,3. We recomend the ordinary to have a substantial fence built aronnd the court house square & also take out an insurance policy upon the cou|t house to the amount of $5OOO, We recommend that the ordinary levy a tax upon the state tax twen ty five per cent for general funds ninety per cent bridge funds, eight per cent for jail funds, (25) Twenty five per cent for pauper funds Ten per cent for court house funds. Unon inquiring we find that terms of three members of the school board has?expired we have chosen R.V. Smith Obediah Hen drick & W. M. Mallett to fill the vacancies. In taking leave of his Honor Judge J. T. Willis & Solicit or General Worn mack we tender our sincere thanks. Samuel McKibben Foreman. • Georgia Butts County Office Clerk Superior Court. March Term 1882 I Larkin Watson clerk of the superior court for said county da certify that the above & foregoing is a true copy from the minutes of this Court Given under my hand & official Signature This March 18th 1882 L. D. Watson, Clerk. ,CARC ASS-EATINGr 1 . " - • —a*'- v -V Judge ■ Mangump comhiissionex for Arkansas who has .established his headquarters at Helena j says hd Las $5,000. persons on his list now being fed by the government on halt rations. He says the number will bo largely increased now, as he can reach from Helena a much lar ger number than from any other point, that being about the centre of the greatest suffering. He thinks the government will have to feed the people fora month. There is very great suffering in the region running about Helena, some of the inhabitants being reduced to eating the carcasses of drowned animals, and other presenting the appearance of persons going insane from star vation ALMOST in A STATE OF CANIBALISM. A special from Helena says the latest advices from the upper St. Francis river reports that the peo ple in that section are almost re duced to canibalism, that they have eaten carcasses for some days, and now have the appeoranee of persons about to become insaue from star vation. THE DEATHLY LEGACY. Colonel A, H. Johnson, president of tjie Arkansas Midland railroad who returned to day from Hot Springs, having come down to He lena by a skiff from the mouth of the St. Frauds river, savs the scenes along tne river were most dig. tressing. The stench from dead animals is sickening, and when the water declines it will be still more fearful. The earth is left covered with a thick slimy substance, with reptiles of every kind and miasma from decaying matter will inevita bly be serious in its consequehces The country south of Helena i.- swarming with buffalo gnats and much stock that was saved from drowning by the overflow is being killed by these insects. OUR NEW NEIGHBOR. We have before 11s the valedictory cl H. H. Cabaniss, of the Monroe Adverti ser and also the Salutatory, of J, T. Wa terman, the present Editor, and Propri etor. We regret the retirement of Mr. C. From the Advertiser, which had worked up to the front rank of weekly journal ism. He is an able and conservative writer, at all times working for the edi fication. and benefit of his readers; and best of all, he possesses the noble trait of character, to appreciate the condition of those dialing on a lower “round of the Ladder/’ than himself, and his ef foris was to pull them up rather than to to push them down We hope he has only severed his con nection with the Advertiser to slip uj: on a higher round, where his talent wil command a greater reward. As for the journal, he leaves to tho care of Mr. Watchman, we need have no fear for its future. His past record as a jour nrlist, is a sufficeent guarantee, tiiat it will be conducted successfully an to the nterest of the people of Georgia. We commmend it to our readers. How Much Cotton Can A Hand pick ?, We Have heard of some disputing on the subject of how much cotton has bee r. picked by one hand in one day, We hove often heard of one hand pick ing upwards of five hundred pounds in this State, hut 4ißlbs is the highest picked in this county that we have any. knowledge of. Ten thousand people are reported as.destitute in Tensas Parish, La. It is estimated that the number of actual sufferers by the Soutern flood 75,000 people- There will bemany 7 public question to be settled this year, but the Car olina Spartan strikesit right when it says: “The great absorbing con sideration, just now, is how to mak the best crop possible at least ex pense. DADY ET a : L -'y P*rfirav>l. J rmnivun W SnoresDndni& HAIR BALSAM* pne \ All Farmers, Mothers 3 Business men, Meehan- j les, &c., who are tired j andaTl who are misern-1 b!e whh Dp: Bowel, kidney or Liver < ? 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