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Middle Georgia Argus
PUBLISIIEB EVERY THURSDAY
MORNING.
INDIAN SPRING, GA. ; June Is'
LOCAL MATTEir
him—■■ riwiwn in mmm m —— ill■■ mu mi
Henry Byars who is farming for
ns, has corn tassles.
There fvil 1 he an all day, singing
at Sandy Creeh Churck, the third
sunday, in this month.
The letter from ’’Peter Hunt’ - '
came in to late for this Issue, also
the one from J, TANARUS, Cook, Sandy
Ridge, they will appear in our next-
From information recieved direct
from Major. McCracken, we are glad
to state that on Monday next trains
will run regularly between Macon
and Jackson on the new road.
Mr. Robert Mayfield handed us
the first ripe peach, we have sean
this season. We dont believe we ev
er saw as perfectly ripe peaches in
May.
Mr Chaffee, of, Madison sent in
his omnibus, and ten horses, to his
new stable, in our town this week.
Mr Randolph Person, of Jasper
County, shot and killed a young
inp.n name McCur ldy in Covingtou,
one night last week.
We saw a lady w T ho has seen fifty
summers, Make a race with the
train, a quarter heat, one day this
tveek, to reach a place where she
could see it cross the trestle.
From the looks of the hides hang
ing around it seems that Mr. J. B.
Edwards, is outing a good many
cows out uf the way. He is a pub
lic benefactor. It beats the stock
law, so we think.
One hf our good neighbor s who
delivered us an argument on yester
day in favor of the 3tock law, passed
our office this morning, on his way
to the marshal, to pay his hogs out
of the pound. He exclamed if fhe
marshal wont compromise I am go
ing right strait after a lawyer. Thats
it gentleman if you want more work
or the lawyers, vote for the stock
law.
We learn that the ’’Trump” lias
made its appearace. We hope
Bro’s Strozier and Sanders will put
us on their exchange list.
Since writing the above we have re
ceived a copy of the Trump, and
must say there is mpre said, in less
space than anything we have seen.
The cut illustrating the. Ocmulgoe
Mills is a master-piece oi genius for
a novice.
We respond to the motto, “Let ’er
roll.”
• It DibVr Work —ln the Dixie
Farmer we .received last week was a
biographical sketch of senator
Browu. We read of his plowing
the hull calf, when he was a hoy, in
the mountains neai Gaddestown,
and other acts of his life with much
interest; until we reach the point
where it told of his being in the har
vest field binding wheat, when the
commitee called and informed him
of his nomination for Governer.
When we reached that paragraph
westoped and began to meditate. We
could remember that we too had
ploughed a bull, so we at one droped
our pencil and started for the har
vest field, and have been binding’
wheat nearly all the week ; watching
for the committee but they did'nt
arrive. So we will have to continua
tn plough the bull. But taking a
Bill Arp” view l of the matter, we
conclude its all right, for we recon
■here is about as much pleasure in
one position as the other.
Mothers ! Mothers J! Mother I!
\ Arc you disturbed at night and
broken of your Test by a sick child
ruffering and crying with the excru
dialing pain of cutting teeth! If so,
30 at once and get, a bottle of Mrs
vINSLOwS’ soothing syrup. It will
elieve the poor little sufferer imme
diately upon it; there is no
mistake about it. There is not a
mother on earth who lias ever used
it who will not tell you at once that
it will regulate the bowslls. and
give rest to the mother, and relief
and health to the child, operating
like magic. It is perfectly safe to
use in all casos, and pleasant to the
taste, and is the prescription of ony
of the oldest and best female physy
•ians and nurses in the Unitea
States.- Sold everywhere- 25c,ents
% bottle.
FENCE OR NO FENCE.
READ THIS AND HAND TO
YOUR NEIGHBOR.
The issue that now presents it
self is a grave one. The questions,
who shall be President or Governor,
who shall represent us in the legis
lature or collect our taxes ; sink in
to insignificence; when compared
to the question that now presents
itself, whether or not we shall have
fence or no fence.
In this, every man woman and
child is interested. No question of
so much importance, has presented
itself to us, since the war, not even
the reconstruction problem.
Then does it not demand that
we reflect calmly, dispassionately,
prudently, and cautiously.
Before I attempt to put my ideas
betore the public, I will preface it
by saying 1 am open to conviction,
and will admit that both sides pre
sents good grounds for argument,
and while we discuss the import
ant matter; let us render due re
spect to the opinions of others.
I had been of the opinion, for sev
eral years that a well regulated
stock law, would be a benefit to our
people, hence hen the petition for
election on the question was presen
ted to me, (for the last election) I
signed it: but when the question
was :d, I found so many of
our - , pposed to it; I would
not vo r * election. I, like a
great many others, who was worried
with the bad stock that ream at will
over the county, thought only of the
stock law, that would give us pro
tection from such intrusions. We
did not investigate, to see if the law,
as it is, if put In operation, would
be what we want; and here is where
the trouble comes in ; so few of our
people have read the law, and do
not know what it is. I have inves
tigated the law, and will confess it
is not what we want.
ONE GRAND OBJEOTION
is it provides no means of escape.
We often heard men say we will try
it, as an experiment, and if it dont
work well we will vote it out again.
Let me say to those who are not in
formed, that the law provides no
opportunity to vote it out. Should
we dislike it, and petition the Ordi
nary for an election, he would have
no power to order it, nor would it
avail anything if an election was
held, because there is no law by
which it can be undone, when once
fastened up on us, our only means
of redress would be through the
Legislature, and those mostly effec
ted by it never could be heard in
the legislature, our people should
know before they adopt it, that
when they do so, it is upon them for
all time, good or bad.
ANOTHER OBJECTION
is because this law says; when
stock trespass upon a crop the ow
ner of the crop may impound them
and keep them impounded until the
owner of them pays what the im
pounder claims thst he is damaged.
Now everybody (that farms)
knows that a cow, or horse, may
slash around in o growing crop, and
if they destroy corn enough to make
a bushel it will look like they.have
destroyed a wogon-load.
We have often heard men while
under the vaxing excitement of
cows iii their crops, affirm positive
ly, (and if they had been put on the
stand would swear, honestly) that
he believed a wagon load of corn
had been destroyed, when further
development would prove that a
half bushel would cover the dam
ages.
Let your cow get in the field of
a neighbor, no matter how, whet bar
by flood or storm, and spend one
night nipping leaves and buds, (no
matter if the topping was advanta
geous to the cotton) many a man
would swear she had destroyed
more than she was worth, and if
you was to give him' your cow, it
would not satisfy him. Its natural
for us to exagerate and magnify
our losses when under the excite
ment incident to haveing our crops
invaded.
Its true, if you cannot agree as to
the damage done, you ran resort to
the courts, but giving up your cow
would be preferable to paving jus
tice fee’s bailiffs fee’s jurors fee’s and
attorney’s fees.
ANOTHER OBJECTION.
is the attitude our people will occu
py in connection with the railroad.
I had the good fortune to gst the
position of taking the right of way
tor the company. Our people gave
the right ot way across the entire
county, except a few instances
where the damage was too great, a
charge was made, but the charge in
each instance, was limited by a spir
it of liberalitv : everv one gave the
right of way with the understand
ing tnat the crops should be pro
tected by “cattle guard,” and the
farmer have the right to cultivate
up to the track. Every-body wan
ted those who lived along the line
line to give the right of way, that
we might aid m getting the railroad.
I know enough about the matter, to
to say that if the right of way had
not been given, the road would have
went beyond the river. Now would
it be right for us f o force upon the
men who give so much to secure it;
such burden as the stock-law will
impose? whats the burdens? well we
will explain. As the law now
stands the railroad co., is responsi
ble for the stock they kill; they
built the road with the fact before
them, they knew it to be a part of
their responcibiiity due to those
who give the right to run across
their farm. Now pass this stock-law
and you reverse the entire thing,
and make us responsible for dam
age done the railroad by stock get
ting on the right of way. “Otwhat
use is the cattle guard” if you
adopt the stock law? Oh, you say !
every man will keep his stock on
his own farm.
Well how is the man to keep
bis stock on his farm, if lie has giv
en a strip of land a hndred and tit
ty feet wide clear across his farm
that his stock must be kept off of, if
this law is adopted? must he build
a lane across his place to protect
this railroad and keep his stock off
it? it so how is he to cultivate this
right of way: you say he can run
his fence along the track and culti
vate the right of way. Now don’t
any man know if you build a fence
on another mans laud it is not your
fence when you get it done? Put
your fence on the right of way, and
the employees of the co., have a
right to tear it down and turn vour
stock out on your neighbor at any
time it suits their convenience.
THE WIDOW
We hear a great deal about the
injustice to the widow’s in adopt
ing fine stock-law, now we do not
propose to attempt to arouse gym
pathv, but to discuss their claim on
the grounds of justice.
Ever)’ widow or woman, who
stands at the head of a family, bears
the same relation to this matter, as
does a man; her cares arefhe same,
and she will be affected the same :
Now does she, have that highly ap*
preciated prerogative ot casting abal
lot on the subject, which is of such
vita) importance to her? No, she
does not. Then, inasmuch as she
does not, have this same, privilege
of defending herself at the ballot
box : isnt it but justice, that we re
gard her wishes very tenderly, and
bold her interest very sacred? Inas
much as all the widow’s are op
posed to the stock-law, should, not
their wishes, have a great deal to
do with shaping our verdict!
Oh well ; some will say - they will
soon get over their predjudice and
will be pleased with the change:
but we sliould remember this is no
experiment. When we cross the
stream we burn the bridge behind
us. Can we afiord to do it?
SMITH'S MILL GA. May 27th 1882.
Editor Argus.— -Sir thinking you
would like to hear something from this
point and knowing tbe calamity that
happened to the Editor of tbe Reporter
we therefore write otherwise fear you
will get nothing from here forjthis week,
but before we leave the Reporter we
must,say he is getting on very well as
its a girl we would like to puff him; but
he forbid it by others and does it himself
—for fear he would not get justice per
haps. He says it is still spreading far
and wide that lie is a great man: renew*
ed evidence came to him this week
through Col. Tom Burney wanting him
to send in bis reports to the Telegraph
and Messenger.
The w heat crop is being harvested, we
are still hopeful ot an abundant crop,
wheat threshing will commence soon,
osts was never better, k large area being
sown the crop will no doubt prove a help
to the planters. I had occasion to make
a trip to Milner on yesterday and I was
never more surprised at anything than
to see such fine fields of wheat and oats
on the white lands of Pike we have been
under the impression that white sandy
land would not make small grain but
this is our mistake, we bad a gentleman
to ride with us a short (list ance who in
formed us that he would make 20 bu of
wheat per acre on his crop this year, and
says he mad el 5 bu per acre last year.
The crops in the 4th Bis., of Monroe
county is extra good and John Saunders
at the Viola mills lias put all things in
order to meet it, lie sends us a cut ot
his mill of his own drawing, John fs a
perfect genius as w ell as the best nuller
in the state and he don’t tske anything
but the toll out of vour grain, that is it
you buy of him your confectionerys ci
gars and tobacco, w e find some com
plaint about bad stands of cotton, but
thats no bad sign, I lever saw a man
but what has made the best crops with
thin stands of cotton, corn looks well as
the raid has been needed, but while we
write the blessing is coming, the Repor
ter man says he will return 40ibs of flour
to every sixty pounds of good wheat if
he has to grind it free of the toll.
Mr S. F. smith is to have a second
flouring mill put in order at his mills
here. 8. L Thompson will commence
the work of equipping it on tomorrow.
All the sehoo Is in our neighborhood
has vacation Miss Mollie in com
pany with Mrs. S. L. Thompson and
daughter left for Pike on last Saturday
to spend two or three weeks, we wish
them a pleasant trip, lookout now for
all the children to see the railroad, ho
ping the Editor of the Reporter will be
on hand for tne next issue. We are yours
Jack in the Rush.
Corkhill, the ignorant and ill- man.
nered shyster whom Haves prose,
cuting attorny of the Criminal Conri
in Washington, says lie “has deter
mined upon an examination of the
brain of the assassin by a board of
the most eminent medical ex pets
in the United States, to put at rest,
as he believes, by such an examina
tion forever the question of his san
ity. After the the body
Will be delived to the relatives of the
doomed man if any of thenq call for
it.” The fellow,who prosecuted Guit
eau, nbw admits a doubt as to his
sanity, and proposes to test the
question after he is hung by the ex
amination of a board of medical ex
perts, Had not the government
best dismiss Corkhill or lock him
up? If an examination as to Gui*
teau’s insanity is to be made, it
should be made at once. Popular
opinion is by no means satisfied up
on this point, but if the government
Lange a cr: zy man it will be placed
in an unpleasant position if this im
maculate ass, Corkhill, should de
velop the fact.
Macon ..telegraph.
Jackson Herald : Jim Randolph
made quite a novei experiment with
bermuda grass last week. He dug
lip the grass, roots and all, off of a_
bout twenty square feet of surface;
took it to the branch below his
house, to vp here it runs over a shoal;
started the grass in at the top and
let the water wash it down strain
until all the dirt was put of it. He
then dried it, and found that he
had eight hundred pounds of hay
that his mules would eat in prefer
ence to fodder. In tact, they jusr
long for it. And it only cost him a
bout one-fourth of what Western
hay docs.
Sumter Republican : On last Tues
day a fisherman, whose name we
withhold, and who lives near Dan
ville, on the Flint, went to run his
nets, and on hauling up one of them
discovered entangled in it a human
hand, in shape and form similar to
that of a womans, and containing
two gold rings. It scared him so bad
that he droped the net and would
not venture to it agan until lie se
cured another fisherman to go with
him. When the net was again
hauled -up; there was not a sign of
a hand to be seen.
Will Take Frank in When He Re
turns.
new york, may 26—It has been
ascertained from a member of Gov
ernor Crittenden’s-party in this city
that on his return to Missouri he
will negotiations . for the
surrender of Frank James and pos
sibly other members of the James
gang and thus put an end to the or
ganization of the brigands in Mis.
souri. Frank James is nowin Jack
son count} 7 , and instead of medita
ting more mischif is represented as
being anxious to make the best
terms possible for himself. Gov.
Crittenden is fully informed as to
his whereabouts and means to have
him in custc dy inside of ten days,
It is asserted that the whole James
gang will be broken up. The plans
are all laid and only await the Gov
ernors return for execution. The
Governor and party will return to
morrow.
Through the kindness of our
Sheriff J. O. Beauchamp, we are en
abled to give our readers a list of
Jurors for next term of our Superior
Court.
LIST GRAND JURORS.
F. L, Walthall DJ Thaxton
J J Barnes T N Brownlee
IT J Ham J P Neal
ItV olen T S Hammond
O W Moore WT C Redman
II B Fletcher T P Hunt
R V Smith 0 Hendrick
B J Jinks I) M Bell
T J Higgins J Jolly
A J Roberts G W Ray
J B Watkins J L Bavkeley
II L Brown W D Compton
T J Slaughter Wilson Smith
J O Andrews J N Gray
Wm. Hodges sr. TL Williams
THAYERS JURORS.
J C Moore Joe Weaver
G B Heath John Tollerson
JMHolifield Frank Lawson
.T B Carmiohael Wm Saunders
R J Woodward R B Harkness
J C Gunn ,1 C Meridith
S W Tingle W B Col lins
G W Washington J M Barnes
Joe J( Uv H J Thaxton
W B Aikin Joe Wright
EPNewton ATI Dodson
J A King Ransom Jester
J W Saunders W H Maddox
D F Thaxton Alex Wilkerson
Still J C Carter
W H Vickers .T S McDaniel
J M Fears W D Gilmore
T E Fears B T Deason.
Ladies and sickly girls requiring
a non-alcoholic, gentle stimulant,
will find Brown’s Iron Bitters bene
cial.
LETTER FROM BLACHANKLE
CORN BREAD AND WESTERN MEAT.
POLITICS &C.
Editor Argus. —We are up to our
eves in harvest, and will make
about enough wheat to do tis ’till
corn gets hard. It seems that the
poor farmer has all his good things
at once : they can’t make the thing
lap over. When they have corn
the have no wheat, and vice versa;
And while corn is bringing $1,40
cash and $1,75 on time, we will eat
biscuit, though I dont like all the
good things at once. lam like the
old woman, one said she wished all
her children were boys, another said
she wanted all girls, the third said
she didn’t want all of either she
wanted tc mix am. I have lived
on western, meat and coffte without
sugar, ’til lam as gant as a race-!
horse.
Well they say corn-bread is heal
thy, but it dosn’t feel very healthy
to a follow who works hard all the
week, aiid .sleeps’til hour by sun,
Sunday morning, and sits down red
eyed to corn-bread, western meat
and coffee with no sugar: it goes
mightily against the grain but when
a fellow works hard all day and sits
diwn at night to about a half gallon
of milk and a big pone of corn-bread
he can go for it Til you would think
it was healthy.
Joking aside: we would say if
the seasons like they have been the
harvest will enable us to keep out of
the “grabaii stores,” and be enabled
to pay for what we have already
bought.
. . politics.
We are enthusiastic over the an
nouncement in the Argils, that John
AY. Gibson will be pushed forward
to a seat in the next house of Repre
sentatives. Let me say that ho is
the best man Butts county has for
the position; he can tell you as near
what is in the cede of Georgia as
any lawyer in the county, and draw
any instrument of writing, with as
much dispatch and in as good form
as any lawyer.
He is one of our men who lives
within his means, and does a quiet
unpretentious business. With his
good sense and business tact; If he
like many others who worship the
thousands and skinned as he went
he would to day been worth a mill
ion, but his generosity prompts him
to noble ambition. I have noticed
that Whenever a petition would be
going aiound John W. Gibsons name
would be attached, with as much
subscribed as any one, if it was for
public good or charitable purposes.
He aspires to no office or position
in the gik of the people, and has
persistently refused, time after time
to allow his name used as a candi
date.
Mr. Editor: the manner in which
he stood by the old Argus, (accord
ing to the article you published
some time ago) while it was going
through the mill of financial disso
lution, shows a slighfftype of what
manner of man. lie is.
When tbuujpcQgle around the
Springs want any advice whereby
litigation may be avoided they call
on J. W. Gibson, and they have
found out what is in the man.
We do not press his qlaim because
he is a clever man, nor
because he is generous
and liberal; neither do we ptess his
claim because he is an aspirant; but
we put him forward because he is
the man the people needs. We have
determined that he shall no longer
remain in private life.
Peter P armpple.
“00-co-ee! Go ’Way NiggirW
From the Brunswick, Ga.,- Advertiser.
00-00-ee ! go ’way nigger J You low
country marsh-tack} darkies don’t
know nuffin ’bout.possum sop an’
tater. You des gim me one of de
up-country possn ay fo’ yere
ole — been king .1 range sence
’simmon time; you iakevodog,run
him ’bout five mile, fill he git ten
der, an’ den tree him. cut him down,
cotcli him, and bring him home :
clean him all ober nice, salt him
down, let him lav zactly two days
and t’ree nights; den on de third
day in de mornm parbile him by
de watch t’ree 1 : den you take
him onten de L . Mm onto dc
stew; den you b l butter 5
pepper and bar" 5 r o more
hours ; den pw rmi taters
all roun’ him nour on
de butter an’ cue all
over de tatm tei. it all
smell like tate . ./ ike pos ;
sum Cook it tv,. it up
de road an’ down de , ad, in de
house an’ out o’ door, in de cellar
an’up in de lofFair so you kin tae
it at eb’ry breff ; den you take him
up, place him in a grate big dislq
wid de taters an’ sop, an' you bring
along de half gallon pot, rite full
an’ hot—den, nigger, you go out air
cles she! de door arter you, an’ wate
telll calls vou.”
Nervous debility, the curse of the
American people, immediately
yields to the action of Brown’s Iron
Bitters.
dressAlaklyg.
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people of Indian Springs, aa •! surround
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wantelT
The undersigned wishes to pur
ase all the yearlings, the people of
Butts County have for sale, suita
ble for beef, I am now located ai
the Argus office and have arrainged
with Mr. Douglass for enclosure’
and will give a good liberal price
for calves, yearlings, sheep or goats
all desiring to put such things, on
the piarket can make it to their in
terept to bring them to ,me. I wi!’
lie prepared to do better by yot
than one who dee? not make the
business a specialty.
J. B. Edwardk
A COUGH GOLD orSore Throat sbouk
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SOMETHING NEW
LUMBER! LUMBEE!
The undersigned has on hand and fo
sale 30,000 feet of Lumber, and in addi
tion to the above the mill is now in fine
condition, and is daily supplied by
teams regularly employed, with the
very finest of Forest Pines from which
is being sawed an excelent and very
choice lot of Building Material such • -
Sill - —Sleepers— J gists— Scantlf n
Flooring Ceiling—We atherbo aria n
Pickets- Pa ilixgs-F excin-.&c-acc
Orders solicited and promptly Die 1—
make out bill for whats wanted and for
ward them tome —will Write you wher
tho lam bet is ready if not already on tin
yard, —Satisfaction guaranteed, —ar.
now sawing some of the finest timber r
Middle Georgia !
Lumber Yard-at this place.
Cabaniss Ga. ) Very Respectfully.
May 10 1.11 1882) J, T. Castlebury.
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