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Middle Georgia Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
MORNING.
Indian SPRING, PA., June 8 th 1882.
LOCAL MATTEkT
We learn that Sam Oxford has
been trying his shingle machine on
his hand again; bad cut this time.
We recieved three communica
tions too late for publication this
week will appear next week.
A party from Macon, will make
an excursion to the Spring on the
loth and have a grand ball and sup
per at the Mclntosh House.
Remarkable for overcoming disea
ses caused by impure water, decay
ing vegetation, etc., is Bmowu’s Iron
Bitters.
Prank Gunnels say he choped two
acres of cotton and tied 150 bundles
of oat one day last week and would
have chopped more, if theCeld had
> been “bigger”
Mr. McCracken after announce
ag that passenger trains would be
put on the road Monday, passed o
yer "he road last friday and decided
the .rack was to uneven to run pas
**anger trains unti 1 1 few days work,
vould be done, le\ cling up.
On our second page, we publish
the part of Governor Colquits mes
sage that has reference to the M. &.
db L. R. There is not a worTi in ita
bout the extention. our readers will
see how groundless is the claim of
“So Lo” that Gov. C. first sugges
ed extending, the road to Atlanta.
The first murder, arising from the
otock law in Henry occured last
’.veek. We learn that Mr. Grays
mule got out and was empounded
by John Welch. Who refused to
give it up until Mr. Gray had puid
$25 which he claimed his crop was
damaged ; Gray offered to pay sls
but Welch refused, He attempted
to take the mule, Welch drew his
gun, but Gray shot first, killing him
instantly.
ATTFNTION.
I heieby call a mass meeting oi
the Democracy of Butts County to
be held at Jackson on the Ist Tues
day in July to appoint delegates to
the State convention to be held in
Atlanta on the 19th of July, to nom
inate a canidate for Governor ' and
j>tate House officers and a candidate
jbr congres for the State at large, and
furthermore to appoint an Execu
tive commitee for the county.
E. E. Pound.
Chairman Executive Committee.
The dam to Mr. Jeff Preston fish
pond gave way, lust friday night
and some of his carp was lost, sev
eral ware caught in the branch be
low and returned to the pond. His
carp was about a fingers length when
put in just before last Christmas,
and those caught this week weighed
one pound and upward.
While Miss Bettie Lindsey and
Miss Allice S nith was returning
home from the Spring, last frid ay,
their horse became frightened at a
dog chasing a cow past them, ran
away and overturned the buggy:
but they were fortunate enough to
jump from the buggy without gating
hurt. The hcre lett the road cle
cending the hill near where Mr Jase
Moore lived on Mr Plymales place,
and jumped down a bank that
seemed impcsible for a horse to go
without breaking his neck; but he
did ito damage except smashing up
the buggy to some extent.
Mother s ! Mothers ! 1 Mother !!
Arc you disturbed at night and
broken of ycur rest by a sick child
'ruffering and crying with the ex cm
giating pain of cutting teeth! If so,
go at once and get? a bottle of Mi's
wINSLOwS* soothing syrup. It will
elievc the poor little sufferer irame
diately-depend upon it; there is no
* mistake about it. There : nc; a
mother on earth who has eve? used
it \vho will not tell you at once that
Wf, will regulate the bo we] is. and
* give rest to the mother, and relie r
and health to the child, operating
like magic. It is perfectly sale to
use in all cases, and pleasant to
•taste, and is the prescription of eny
of the oldest anti best female physy
ians and nurses in the LnilOd
States. Sold everywhere- 2oeents
* & bottle.
* FENCE OK NO FENCE.
READ THIS AND HAND TO
YOUR NEIGHBOR.
Ed, Argus. —The question of
fence or no-fence, is indeed a grave
one, as stated by you in your issue
June the first, and while we are
surprised at the position taken and
the interest manifested, by our good
local, we accord it credit for its
consideration of the opinions of oth
ers ; the most of whom we believe to
be in opposition to his own. We
know that neither town council
troubles, and the opposition of oth.
ers, will keep our local from doing
what he thigks right, or cause him
to do what he thinks wrong. Your
conclusion my friend have all long
sincebeen exhausted except per
haps the railroad part of it and leav
ing that out, except as to opinion I
would venture that two thirds of
the citizens along the line would
rather take care of their own stock,
being protected from others, than
have them go at* large under the
circumstances. To my mind there
is but one question to be considered
in this simple question of policy.
That is; is this an agricultural, or
a stock country 9 if a stock country
then adapt yomselves to stock and
Stock-raising, draw your farming
operations into a smaller compass?
turn out more of your lands and
make Ait one grand common . but
if an agricultural country then
adapt yourselves to agriculture.
A change has to be made, for under
the present system there is no pro
tection, cithel to farms or stock, and
the privilege of stock running out is
certainly worth very little.
Now as to burning the bridge be
hid us, there being no way of escape;
what way do you want? true a
change would have to be made
something like this one; but no one
could desire that, for it is an entire
and terribly expensive failure now,
and how could any change make it
practicable then? surely Mr. Editor
the question of damages was as ami
ably adjusted as circumstances
would allow : at least much more so
than under present rule.
I never knew a cow to stay in a
cotton, corn, oat or wheat patch all
night, and do it good under the
fence system.
I don’t know how it would be un
der no-lence. You say my friend
that widows bear the same relation
that men do, then if its beneficial to
men it is equally-so to them. Our
sister counties are all enjoying the
happy effects of no-fence our coun
trymen all around our lines are put
to much trouble and inconvenience,
it is obliged to be done sooner or la
later, so let us cross the stream, and
burn thefbridge behind us. We can
afford to do it.
June 3rd 1882. A Subscriber.
Sandy l\idge Ga.
May 21st 1882
Ed Argus, I promised a friend that I
would publish through your columns, the
particulars of my trip to Sand Mountain;
but I have put it oh So long, and the
memory of it makes me feel so bad, I
had rather write about something else,
I was living in Butts County, And raised
hog and hominy at home, was doing
tolerably well; but somehow I took the
‘‘Sand Meuntain fever” and I sold out,
and moved to Gadsden Ala. I lived there
ten mouths, and cultivated land that
would make one half bale of cotton to
the acre, but the drouth came on, and a
very poor crop was the result, I lost all
I had: sold my waggon and mules to pay
Dr’s, bills Ac. I lost one ol ray children
and think if 1 had remained two months
longer would have lost another one and
perhaps mo own life. I travelled over
the Sand and Lookout mountains, ‘con
siderably and think the Sand mountain
the pretties country I ever saw after rea
ching the top; but one needs a windlass
to draw him up. Its well timbered r:vl
level, produces well, but water is v-w
scarce during the dry season, some
to haul all the water they use.
I could writ* a great many
about that county, bu t dont s A
would interest your readers as L kx Ino
entereat in it roy ex-.,ui a few
friends and neighbors that I think is all
right. I have some old notes that I nev
er expect to get the money on, to remind
me of mv trip, I hunk it a very good
country lor those v. no have health and
are satisfied, but i think there is men
• hero who moved iront Middle Georgia
12 years ago that SJrc.net satisfied.
But enough of Ala,
There is some tiicvghhs I wis* * '
cuss. The;e is tuo.thiags tb
’convince the.farmer; bn •'
making cotton : y • y. • .•
Fc ilms to a sieery! . to trv ro
get the farmer tc step too ver produe
[tion of cotton, Oh that they would stop
and thinkXWhy will-they pay four-or-fiv©-
dollars rent per acre on their own land,
when they can make a better fertilizer
at home? Wby will the farmer persist in
being the slave of every other class of
people, when they should be the most
independent. It will be bo as long as
we continue to plant the corn patch and
cotton field, and continue to send men
to make lawß for us, who will make a
law for a man to pay his debts, and then
make another to keep him from paying
them if he wants to. Just a kind of re
volving machine for awver to grind their
living out of the farmer, and it will con
tinue so just so long as we nominate
good men to office, and then remain at
home and allow a few white men, and
Africans (who ought not be allowed to.
vote) to defeat them.
Well we have a stock law here in Hen
ry. I live near the line, and would like
to hear from your county. Will you
have the stock law or not? It places me
in an awkward position as my neighbors
on the Butts side think they are under no
obligations to keep their stock up, and
I hate to put up my neighbors stock when
he lives in a county that has no stock
law. A few of our people are down on
the stock law and curse it, when they
should praise it> I suppose anybody
will admit there is as much justice in
getting timber off the land of another
as for his stock to graze ok. the land cf
anothenfcH could say a great deal about
the stock law, but for fear of the waste
basket, I will close, hoping to'hear from
Some of veur good farmers on the ques
tion of stock law and farming.
J, T. Cook
Ml's Mill Repter.
BY M. E. THOMPSON.
Since the last issue of the Reporter we
have had fine rains and the farmers are
now in high spirit and to use a favorite
expression of ours, everything is quite
Lovely. ;. ••
Last week w r as rather a bad time to
thresh out wheat, blit the prospect now
is that both the farmers and owhers of
threshing machines will have a favorable
time for the next few clays tc thresh and
house their wheat and oats; the yield we
are proud to say is excelent.
Mr. Gus Dozier a rising young man of
our county sowed one and a half bushels
of wheat and made sixty, and yet some
people say farming will not pay.
Mr S. L. Thompson undoubtedly has
the finest crop of corn in this section.
Mr. Sandy Freeman reports a cotton
field half leg high with plenty oi'
squares.
The Irish potato crop is very fine.
Garden vegetables of every kind in
abundance’'.
We have a gall-baby at our house but
we are not disposed to brag about it;
Everybody says its the prettiest baby in
town, so much like its pappy yon know.
We have received a copy of the Trump
published by Messrs Strozier and Saun
ders. we pronounce it a first class week
ly, it runs on the same line of the Repor
ter —that is to say it does its own blow
ing,
“014 cullwell who lives at Smith’s Mill
has a eat fhst has just recovered, from a
genuine case of the mumps. “Old Cull
well says he knows that it was mumps
because only one side of the cats face
was swollen at one time, and if anybody
knows anything about cats and peculi
arities old Culwell certainly does.
Some mills have been boasting about
makeing forty pounds of flour per bush
el and if dont give satisfaction he will
give you a turn of wheat and furnish you
a sack to put it in.
Somebody from Butts County has
been writing to the Telegraph and Mes
senger, and heading their communica
tion Smiths Mills and attempting to de
ceive the public by signing Smiths Mills
Reporter to said communicatic n. Now
we don’t kkow who wrote it nor do we
care so far as what we have to say about
it in this article. The contents of the
communication nvey or may not be true
we have no means of knowing but from
the fact the writer has attempted to de
ceive the public as to who wrote the ar
ticle, it looks very much like he or they
as the case may be was trying to deceive
the public as to the real facts in the ease,
we contend that no one lias a right to
sign the name of the Reporter to any
newspaper article and all such attempts
at fraud on us will be fully exposed
through these columns and don’t you
forgot it 1
WE TAKE IT BACK.
NVO suppose Yr o RTS duo me Jackson
‘I an apology, inasmuch as an outsi
- j *.s thoivht.it necessary to defend
, against an article we publi.h
about a call for a meeting or Inde
pendents Ac, our friend R. W. lv£., says
be. would not have noticed it had he m i
thought it would injure the News.
If what we said, .viewed from an outsi
der who .Vi aims to be a friend of us both;
seemed to be calculated to injure any
one, we are sorry we said it. we proiefis
to be cno who wants to live up to the
ruby, “do unto others as you would wish
v., b 'r be-done bv. We can say with a
ricn - conscience that we had rather suf
injury at any Limedhan to fee: that
. . inflicted one, on oui fellow man.
1 ■ • squib ; w£s Intended for a little fun
wUh the News, on account o i the burst
np oi the mass meeting in Atlanta : but
as Bro. Harp and his friend view it in a
different light, wtake it all back.
—■Wtuhave hoped interest siiu
feelings of the News and Argus wonld be
reciprocal and mutually beneficial,know
ing each others cares and responsibili
ty, could have much social enjoyment,
and each exert our influence for the pub
lic good: and our united efforts would
be more availing. I once wrote an ar
ticle commending the Editor of the News
and his paper to our friends in which we
said we did not believe that he would do
us or our paper a i injury, or do anything
to the detriment of any part of our peo
ple but since we have had such unmis
takable proof that he has no regard for
our interest, nor respect for our feelings;
we take that back too.
We would sav to Bro. Harp; that the
rule that applies to the tongue is good
for. the govrnment of the pen, and as we
have anpearantly reached that place
where we cant say anything good about
eac h other we best say nothing at all.
you take the liberty to ridicule me as
much as you wish about Joe Brown, and
my “Bourbon pets” but when we put
the “boot on the other leg,” it seems to
hurt. If you see propper to differ with
us politically, thats a free mans privile
ge: there is no man living will accord it
to you more freely. We cant quarrel,
nor wouldnt if we could. No matter what
may be yuor treatment of __ us, there is
.nothing tliat would mortify us more,
than to feel that we had willfully, thrown
an obstruction in the way of your mov
on to success in your business or an
honest support for your family.
I am one who believes the world large
enough for a man to make a living, with
out puttia ■. his foot on his neighbors
head to do it. I intend to try to live the
the life of a Criiistian whether the pa
per lives or dies.
When your wifs health is bad,
when your child m are sickly, when
you. feel worn ,us : Brownes Iron
jpfcteis.
We publish he caption fence
or no-fence a comm; oi cation in reply
to us m that subject last week. The
waiter produces some good sound argu
ments, and writes in a was that shows
he has given the matter-due donsidera
tion.
We want this important subject thor
oughly discussed, and then every voter
in the count) vote one way or the other.
Let us see what-the majority wants; and
then abide by their decision.
Ed. Argus.t— l see in a late issue
of your paper “Peter Parnipple”
makes an issue with me, on the sub
ject of extravagance of young men;
or defends them in the extravagant
use of the
PICNIC AND BUGGY.
He says : any young who has en
ergy industry and sobriety can af
ford it. I will agree with him, that
these enjoyments can be indulged
in, to a reasonable extent, if these
three requisites; that God has
placed in the hands of every man
has been applied: but, if they have
not been made use of, and the young
man who indulges in these luxuries,
by flattering some old “foggy” into
“boring out the pin” to get some of
his hard earnings, and then pay it
back with excuses and nromises;
JL 7
then I say such luxuries had better
be let alone.
When you hear it hinted
that a certain young man has got
a fine turnout, but its not paid tor,
he is on the wiong track.
The young man who does n i com
bine energy, industry and sobriety,
(unless he is fortunate enough to
have a father or relative able to fur
nish him with a fine turnout) is not
worthy to possess such things ; for
it is very often the case that they
will be guilty of a greater sin than
borrowing the old “foggies” mouey.
With that same smooth tongue they
will induce the beautiful blonde
(daughter of the old foggy) to m;.r
ry him. Wouldnt it be a sin for
the old foggies daughter to be haul
ed around in the new buggy until
flattered into the happy un n and
then have the fine turn' nr
the Sheriffs Hammer?
Now P. P, I will agree ou,
that the young man who musters
his business can have a fine {urn
out, and lam not much for argu
ment I will -ay like the girl that
kissed the calf “everybody to their
own notion.”
POLITICS.
Black Ankle endorses Jack Moor
for tax collector, and nominates
Charles R Cork;/ for Deceiver,
I am no; persona; ly acquainted
with Mr. C., but v a i: row that
when Black Ankle District says
anything is solid its so, And ro
we can take him on . • 'r recoinen
dation, an-’ miAu. ong pull
end a strop . r.uii i.u C. it. Carter.
Peter Hunt.
WINFCRD DOTS.
Mrs, Sarah E. Thomson has just
returned from Missis .-ippi where
she has been spending several
months with relatives. Mr. S. L.
Thompson, and lady on a visit in
our ville, also Mr. G. W, Thompson
of Miss, is stopping with his brother
at this place.
A day of thanks giving is talked
of here, could not our Excellent
Christian (A >venter. q\ y vint a Bay
foe that-Purpose. H
_ T iLMmMovfo
We would say to friend Robt,
that when turned loose our lit
dle,single barrel pistol at the inde
pendant mass. i-neeting, we didnt
think that a double-barrel, cannon
■would be turned loaae on tis. We
■would beg leave to say u-thaic/e nev
er have been .a; ; ce,nida!iai>r. legis
islative honors, a nor nen, 7 etr expect to
be, bujwe will admit ws have some
independance. We like- independ
ence, but dont approve of it when it
becomes a ‘‘hobby.’ 7 We would call
the Hon. Robt’s., attention to the
fact that the administration at
Washington has took control of the
independents in Georgia, and is go
ing to use it to perpetuate the great
republican rule.
Such things as an independent
Democrat can no longer exist. All
that are not for us, are against us.
If you believe that the Republican
party is the best, and wish to aid it
in keeping its power, we have i?o
complaint to make: that is
your right, and no man slioulcS be
ostracised or condemned for exer
cising the right of a free man;
“b-u-t” the time has past for a
man to tight democracy in this
country and remain a democrat.
The independents in Butts have al
ways contended that their indepen
dence should never injure the Dem
ocrat party.
Now shall we make good this asser
tion, and prove that we are now and
always have been democats, or will
we go in with this coalition and
aid the republics party to defect the
party to which we claim to belong.
there cannot be another indepen
dent eanidate elected in Butts Coun
ty, as it has narrowed down to the
point where there can be only two
graund parties ; the republican and
Democrat.
We will be represented next by one
or the other, Republican or Demo
crat. Which will you support?
THE GLORIOUS COUNTRY.
AS SEEN BY POET BILL AEP.
Written for the Constitution.
. Just now the country is most glo
rious. You city people ought to shut
up your doors and come out and
see the smiling land, and luxuriate
in beauty and innocence peace. A
sure and beautiful harvest is in sight
everywhare and the farmers are a
bout to redeem. Nature is in her
teens just now a blushing maiden
wearing pantalets and preparing to
bang her flaxen hair. How,s that
for high? If I was a poet I would
sit in my piazer this lonly evening
and breath a poem or on ode or an
idle or a pastoral song and say
How sweet the sunlight rests upon the
land
the woods are happy in their summer
clothes
The waving grain by the gentle breezes
fanned
Gives token of good pickings for the
crows.
The fields are proud and “feeling of their
oats”
Or of being “just as goo 1 as wheat”
The jaybird sings his adamautine notes
And kine with swelling fat stick out a
feet.
Jesso. Age knocks the poetry on
of a man just like manage knocks
the music and romance out of a wo
man. She quits playin’ the piano
in about two years and takes the
sewing machine. She quits singing
around. I don’t like that. It always
make me sad to see an anxious care
worn mother, and it won" 1 seem
like enough scare c h her own girls
from marryn’, but somehow it don’t <
The longer a man can keep up his
boyish feelings and hilarity and
play horse with his little boys, and
the longer a woman can laugh and
frolic and picnic and rorat vth her
children the better for’em. When
Mrs. Arp condescends to put on her
long-eared sunboimet and go with
me and the children to tire dew'-ee
ry patch I am happy, ticks or no
ticks. That’s an event, that is. Dew-
berry are ripe now. and we eat ’em
: with sugar and shore enough cream
and mgke pies out of ’em and if su
gar was cheap or easy to get, we
would all be happy. No family of
size and appetite like trineou-ditto
i go through the berry seasoe with
out a barrel—for their are black her.
! ries and huckleberries rasherries
and cherries for tarw. and pwwhes
and apples fordnu Wings and every
thing for jelly and preserves and a
dollars worth of sugar at a time is
just an aggravation. Mrs. Arp said
yesterday she had “rather be stinted
I in any thing than gugar’—wmd
! ceffee”-gaid I. ‘‘Well , yes,” said ?he
’ “1 cain’t do without coffee”-—“and
-plenty-W'gootHmttur^satd'lr << Ysi?
and butter/ksaid ; ushe, Band good
flour,” said X,.“and Yard, and rice
clothes andoittrakter 2 shoes? and sc
on and so forth and so on, all o
which ends in'wanting plenty o
money. Jesso. ...
The clover is blooming high thie
yoar and looks to lovely to cut down
but such is life and the end of al
things. j
Time cuts down all
Both great and small.
Old father Time used to go abou
in summer clothes with nothing of
but his bones and a scythe blade k
his hand, hut now we can cut down
ten acres to his one with a buckeye
reaper They ought to get up anew
picture with the old feller sitting up
on a machine and driving a pair of
Kentucky mules in a wheat field at
harvest time. There are a heap the
good old primmer and spelling book
pictures going out of date. Nobod}
ever uses an hour glass now. No
body ever sees an old-fashioned be
hive with a roud top and made of
straw. The old farming pictures
look curious to this generation—the
humpbacked man cutting his wheat
with a crooked sickle, holding a
bunch in one hand and cutting it
with the other. And there was twe
men plowing—one was driveing the
steers and the othe holding the plow
and that’s where Ben Franklin got
his maxim—
“He that by the plow would thrive
Himself must ether hold or drive.”
But now one will sit upon a cultiva
tor or a pulverizer and do ten times
the work in a day. I dont see how
them old time fellers did make a
living, for with all our improvements
it is nip and tuck to get along an<J
keep even. But of those old spellin
book pictures stick fast and dont
degenerate a bit. That rude boy
still climbs the apple tree, old dog
Tray still gets in bad company, the
bull gores the ox and the milk
maid has vain expectations and
turns over the bucket just like they
did in the olden time. We can
mend up machinery andjinvent new
ones but our old hapits and traits
of character remain about the same.
I dont no that our people are any
hapier than they were 4, 000 years
ago and the same old truth prevails.
Man that is bom of a woman and
there are no other sort that I know
of, is of few days and full of truble
Bill Arp
THE HULL VAPOR COOK STOVE. I
'‘"‘'qfTß 111 * fy 1 V *'fn now in nee,
' nrt growing
■’a / \ jl overused. Do-j
/ \ 111 mostic work|
: in summer!
j _7S® t &B*r rendered easy I
A),; Z and delightful!
... through this!
Ui* ’ comfort - p-'-J
'r.g .k-vi.-e. Fend for illustrated circular and price list. I
:.-i inducements to agents iu unoccupied territory,!
HULL VAPOR. STOVE CO.. f
Seneca St., cor. Champlain, Cleveland Ohio j
WANTED.
The undersigned wishes to pur
aso all the yearlings, the people of
Butts County have for sale, suita
ble for beef, X am now located at
the Argus office and have arrainged.
with Mr. Douglass for enclosure,
and will give a good liberal price
for calves, yearliugs, sheep or goats,
all desiring to put such things or,
the market can make it to their in
terest to bring them to me. I will
be prepared to do better by you
than one who doe3 not make the
business a specialty.
J. B. Edwards
A COUGH COLD orSore Throat should
be stopped. Neglect frequently resulb
in an I; curable Lung Disease or Consum
ticn. BROWN,S BRONCHIAL TRO
CHES does not disorder the stomach
ike cough syrup and balsams’ but act
directly on tiie inflamed parts allaying
irritation, give relief in Asthma Ueo.\
Bronchitis, Coughs, Catarrh, and the
Throat Troubles which singers Public
Tpakees are subjec to. For thirty years
Brown,s Bronchial Troche:, have beer,
rccommonde by phyicans, and have
olwavs given perfect satisfaction. Lav
ing been tested by wide and constant use
lye nearly an entire generation, they
1 are attained well merited rank among
tl ; e few staple remedies of the ago. •Bid
ah 25 cts a dox everywhere.
cns -i te'T'tji\r r mrW
oUJYi£L i JLNEV*
LEMBEEI LUMBEEi!
The undersigned has on hand and r;‘
.>O,OOO feet of Lumber, and in ayy
rior. 1 the above the mill is now in ‘
condition, and is daily supplied
mams regularly employed, wi:n yk
very finest of Forsst Pines from " nr -
is being sawed an excelent ana '
choice lot of Building Material such
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Pickets-Pailings-Fengin-&c-&c
Orders solicited and pronviF ” : .V,
make out bill for whats wanton :i --d
ward them to me —will write you ''
the 1 umbel is ready if not already
yard, —Satisfaction guarantee h "B
now sawing some of the finest tnu*
I .’dle Georgia!
Lumber Yard at this place. „ ,
Or amss Ga. { Yerv Respect,any.
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