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INDIAN SPRING, GA.,Aug 3 th 1882.
LOCAL MATTERT
safest 2
Daugi ry & Bro., put goods down
to* conform'to the new era in trade,
The Southern Cadetts of Macon
will leave jMacon to spend a season
at the Spring on the 21st. *
We are sorry to learn that Mrs.
Emily Williams, of Dublin is T -.in
very bad health. .
Dyspepsia, the bug-bear of epi
cureans, will be relieved by Brown’s
Iron Bitters. • .
Daughtry & Bro., will compete
with other railroad towns, on prices
of corn, bacon, flour, syrup, and
other heavy goods. , .
We are glad to see our old friend
T. R. Watkins among us again, he
is on a visit from Miss., where he is
engaged in business. He says his
cnele Hill Nolen, who is also in
business in Macon Miss., is all 0.
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Mr. J. F. Kiser, of the tirm of M. 0.
&. J. F. &. Cos., of Atlanta,
died on Sunday evening last.
The new depot is nearly done. It
is sixteen by thirty feet, will
answer splendidly for the present
purpose. : * '• (
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We are authorized to offer for sale
some lots at Dublin, and parties
Wishing to invest cap do So on good
lbrms,and we d’ont see why busi
ifess houses’at this place wouldnt do
A good business as there is a splen
did teritory tributary to that place.
William fitter murdered a girl
at Hendereon, K y. and buried the
body. Nobody suspected him, and
Indeed it was not thought that she
had been killed, her disappearance
not causing much stir. Actuated
by some singular motive, he pro
duced her hat, saying that he had
found it in a field near his house.
Then search revealed the deed, and
circumstantial evidences fixed it
upon him.
Daughtry & Bro., proposes to
give their customers the benefit of
the advantages in freight, by the
new road.
i.i.iii. i
Oats areliMfiaffy' being shipped
from Middle and North Georgia to
the West. Last week a large ship
ment was profitably to Ghicinnati,
Ohio. Verily, the tables have turn
ed-
“We read in de good book,” says
a colored Baptist preacher, “of John
de Baptist, never of John de Meth
odist.”
LUMBER! SHINGLES! SHINGLES!
I now have on hand, and to arrive
at lowest market prices delivered at
either East or west End.
Indian Sprng.
B. w. Collier. If.
Col. Geroge w. Adair is now hav
ing his last pnrcksse at East End
surveyed into streets and lots, and
will be ready for auction sale at an
ear I }' day.
Now Ready— Mr. Edwardy, our
depot Agt., announced that ‘he is
now ready to recieve all kind of
fright, express package,or messages.
The colored breakman
hurt in the smash up yesterday,
died this morning, one “foot was
tom from his body and thrown
into the brush.
We cheerfully publish the card
handed to us by one of our promi
nent citizens, announcing the name
of I. W. Nolen as a candidate for
legislature.
Mr. Nolen had not been consul
ted, but the gentleman who handed
us the announcement, says that he
rs confident that be will submit to
the wish of so many of the people
of Butts when their wish is made
known to him, Mr. Nolen is a man
we can give our hearty support if
nominated, and all would prevent
us supporting him in the nomintion
would be that we could hardly de
cide between him and Mr. Gibson
•hould they both run.
Mr R. L. Daughtry of the firm oi
TrG: Ha eightry & -Burr ttfwrtow
is now in New york purchasing an
immense stock of well selected and
assorted goods for fall trade, and
they expect to be able to give their
patrons some splendid bargains.
Smash Up On The New Road.
1 The up freight that passed up
about 12 o’ clok yesterday, run * on
a bank.p feet high 2-j mile south of
Locust Qrove, under which a wash
out caused the track to sink ma
king a complete wreck of the train
and blocking the passage of trains.
At the telegraph Qffice we caught
the following as it passed over the
wire to Macon
Tank on top of boiler and broke
in two, six cars went on top of en
gine. lumber scattered all over pile
of cars and engine, noione severly
hurt except a colored breakman;
will need iron,ties,jacks, and cables,
to pull the wreck away, engine a
complete wreck. ,
Ayer & Son’s Manual gives just
the informrfion needed to make a
judicious selection of papers fb. a
ny newspaper advertising. , con
tains also many very advantageous
special offers. Sent on receipt of
Ten Cents. Address N. W. Ayer &
Son, Advertising Age...s, Times
Building Philadelphia.
A young man living in Oconee
county hired a cook last year, but
his wife put the cook into a cotton
field of her own, did the cooking for
the whole family, while the cook
made eight bales of cotton, with
fthich ‘this tyCung Wile bought a
handsome■phaeton. bl'Jfe lady
longs to one of the first families in
Oconee, and is well known in "Ath
ens. *O' ; *■* * -f
Mr. Means, of dOhio, and Miss.
Harrison,-of lowa, neither of them
more than fh?fce and* a "half feet
high, have jlistbeeirmarried. Miss
Harrison, like a good wife, will go
to keeping house and do what she
.can with her little Means, until she
gets other Means to assist her,which
she must do by all Means.
A man startedin the livery sta
ble business last week, and the first
thing he did was to have a big sign
painted, representing himself hol
ding a mule by the bridle. “Is that
a good likeness of me?” he asked of
an admiring friend. “Yes, it is a
perfect picture of you, but who is
the fellow holding you by the bri
dle?”
A young mail'tells us to inform
Hiram Bryant ; that if he hears a
ny more abou t a house being built
in which to cage a widow, he will
kick that house down, and |hot
leave one stick hanging to an other.
He says he will “peel” Bryants
head further back than what it is
if he hears an} T more from him on
that line.
A firm from Bibb County, com
posed of Mesrs. Kieffer an Lindsey,
who desire to open business at East
End at once, has induced Mr. Bry
ant to let them occupy his new store
when completed, and' he build for
himself another one.
We have been informed that the
Jackson News had an article last
week in which Cel. H. J. Lamar
was very roughly handled in refer
ence to the ground around the
Spring.
We have not read the article, but
learn that it is charged that he has
made, and carried away thousands
of dollars instead of invest
ing it in and around the Spring.
Injustice to Col. L., we would say
that we have every reason to be
lieve that he has brought consider
ably more money to Butts than he
has ever carried away. It is with
a feeling of indignation that the
people who have been the recipient
of so much kindness at his hands,
see him held up
as a “Shylockfor we dare say
that no man has more warm
friends among all classes of people
than he and his benevolent and
sociable family.
The Georgia Midland R. R.
length of the proceeding* of the meeting
held in our town last Saturday, prevent
us from publishing it, aud would say
that the matter stand about as follows.
Mr. Brown in a lengthy communica
tion to the meeting, propose to beein
work and push it to completion as soon
as SIOO,OOO is subscribed to the capital
stock.
The convention refused to attempt to
raise anything by subscription unless
the company will’agree to complete the
road beforfr'the money is due..
To some, this seems to be a great
difierenee, making a barrier that can
hardly be crossed, but we don’t view it
in that light.
In first place we dew not consider the
proposition of Mr, Brown so objection
able after all; and why? Because our
take
the resolution of the Directors of the
road, passed at a recent meeting in New
York ; in whioh Messrs George I. Senev,
Samuel Thomas, W. V. McCracken,and
others pledges themselve to build, and
equip the road so soon as the hundred
thousand dollars stock is subscribed for.
Now with this endorsement behind
Mr. Brown.
we consider the proposition a
bout as good as the assurance we
ask, in regard to haveing the road
completed before subscription or a
ny part thereof ts called for. Of
Course as Mr. Brown is not known to
our people as a railroad builder, it is
natural for them to doubt to some ex
tent his ability to handle the enterprise
successfully, but with the pledge of the
gentlemen referred to, as a backing to
his proposition, we can see nothing so
objectionable in. it. We think those
gentlemen have as much right to doubt
our promise to pay after, the road is
built, as for us to doubt their promis to
build while the money •is being paid in
we should consider'the word of either
one of these gentlemen as a sufficient
guarantee that the road would be built,
we would want ho better assurance
than for C’ol. McCracken to say he
would build the rbad, and if the hun
dred thousand dollars wa3 subscribed,
he would have, the road, ready by the
time we get the money ready: besides
we do not consider this subscription as
a donation; for a road built and owned
by those gentlemen would be a better
investment than farming.
Anew boat will - be-lanched near
Stark, on the Ocmulgee qjj Mon
day next, for the making first
trip to with the following
J. H. Dn&e. * CApta|n.
Thols. J. McMichal Treaa.
Thos. Redman. engineer,
wm. Shields,. r .
Cook McCord. A Clerk!'
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From Peter Parnipie.
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The sabbath School
Editor ArguA Last Saturday
was day*appointcd for the*Sun
day school Towaltgee
church. •'*’?
The* moping was usheied in
a bright-'akyj'irbrililmit iun, and
the sweet comihiftgßng of bird
•songs indicating bright arid ldvly
day but the Boon oVer
shadowed the* a feel
ing of disappointmentj'to many a
glad heart, (■ ■ \ v •
Rev. Quigg had been invited to
address the- ■ school, arrived
promply at the time ' appointed,
He was introduced by Judge Ham
mond, amid wreath °f flowers,
and breath le silence, we
were ntertained by Borne oi the
finest oratory We eyfer heard.
He give some good advice on the
training of children, his speach was
so plain that all could undestand it.
yet it was so toweling and eloquent
that we forbear to attempt to trace
it, for fear becoming involved in a
mist that floats above us.
Dinner.
John Kvins the efficient superin*
tendant of the school announced
dinner ready, and about one thou
sand people gathered around about
two thirds that many baskets, and
•were arranged in groups, it was a
:musing to' see them “fire and fall
back,” ’til the cpmbat was ended
and the victory won.
The evening services was an ad
dress by M. V. McKibbon, closed
by Dr. Qqigg returning thanks for
' such an appreciative Audience.
Our Mail Facilities.
Mr. Editor. As lam writing on
the celebration I will take occasion
to say a few thing about the trouble
we country people have in getting
| our papers, Thursday even
ing I met the printer going to the
office, X asked him for my paper
, and he said it was bound up in the
Jackson pack and would he hard
to get out, I called at the office two
days later and was informed there
was nothing; but by making two
or three efforts, 1 got it five days
after it was mailed. Now if a news
paper cant go five miles by mail
without being thrown off the track
we hud better do away with the
! mail route system. I hear some of
our best citizens complaining about
this, and some of them say they
have missed getting their Argus a
month and then get four, all reg
ular dates at one?, we have heard
complaint by James Petegrew,
Wm. Hale and others,and we would
like to know hoW it is.
I think the matter should be in
vestigated, and if those who have
assumed the delivery of mails wont
do it as they should, someone else
should be put in that wiil.
The accommodation of the reading
public, and the preservation of the
press demands prompt delivery
of mails. Nearly all the readers of
Butts county will testify that there
is a “Loose. Screw” somewhere.
P. P<
back to the land of
T ~~ ' childhood. z3Sr*
A Butts County Bov Returns To 'Tke Old
Homestead.; After 27 years The
Plains; A Life of Adventure That lrlMCicL
Fill Several Volumes t . *
About a halfc€ntury
Butts county was yet ?
primeval xorest, on a romantic eriai
nence overlooking the picturesque
waters of the Ocmulgee river, near
what is now , known ss Ocmul
gee Mills, was born the subject
of this sketch who
grew up to be a young man po
sessed of more than an ordinary
amount of ambition, and Laudibie
aspirations.
When the ax of thd increasing
population began to devastate the
iforests of his, childhood he turned
his eyes tpward thenritting.sun and
moving tide of civilization
westward he wended his way.
In the year 1855 when , a colony
under the care of Augustus Cargile,
started to settle cn the olains now
known, p the state\ af Kansas, he
made one of the party, and began
the arduous task of moving through
mud, rain, and snow, to their far
off horns. The railroad facilities
could earry -them than
Nashville;; Twin:, taking a boat
down the Cumberland to the Ohio ?
thence down; the Ohio to the Miss.,
and uu it to the city of StLoui?.
There being ffd railroad communi
cation beyond StLouis,abofeti : ide of
fifteen hupffrdd miles brought them
to the promised (Kahsgs) kand.
The'TCansas city of. today," ah that
time kiiew noeuch
graph-■orrailroad lifte.
Shor%'*aftet‘ ihe arrival in Kan
sas the famous ‘‘John Brown” war
brokekmtand he took’ ah' active
part And fought in the battles that
aroused the intense hatred, and
excitement, which in
the fraticidal etfruggle'th'at so
much precious blood.
Tjie over: he star-
in business-" in Kansas City,'
1 wher#hornet,'woed, Won, the
and accomplished daugh
ter of Col J. M. Bryans, a native
Georgian, who had acquired wealth
and prominence, iff his western
home. After marriage, he sought
a home in the Indian Teritory.
In a beautiful grove oil the banks
of the Grand river, a comfortable
home was built'up, and, the merry
prattle of children an accession to
sie happy union, and happy hornet
When the tocsin of war sounded
he of course cast his lot with the
land of Jh birth, and fought its
battles, as 4djut ant of Col. J. M.
Bryans Regiment, 2nd Cherokee
Being driven from the
Teritory, he fought on the soil of
Arkansas and Texas, until the
bloody, and dark curtain fell upon
the scene, With, his friends swept
"away by the red hand of war, his
• country prostrate beneath-the con
querors feet, his home pillaged, he
con • - nothing to bind him here
ore ,im to ask protection at
the „nd of the conquerors.
With spirit broken, health im
paired and fortune “gone where the
; woodbine twineth” he with a num
ber of friends gathered their little
families about them, and began a
long and weary march across Tex
as, reaching reaahifcs the Rio-
Grande after many dajls of fatigue.
; and suffering, and crossed over to
Mexico; here turning their eyes for
a last long sorrowful look at the
devastated hume, and country,
marebbd on to the state of Chihua
hua. An effort was mada to, recu
perate the shattered fortune; but
two years of turmoil in Mexico,and
a longing for cld home, prompted
them to again take up the line of
march, and after months of march
ing across the plains of Mexico,
Texas and the Teritory, reached
the old home on Grand river, where
he has succeeded in securing a
competence after many ups and
downs, and reverses of fortune.
When he settled on Grand river,
it seemed to his old friends in Butts
that the three thousand miles tra
versed to reach his home, had put
him almost out of the world; but
the 6trong arm of progress has been
stretched forth and brought it very
near to our door. The links in
the iron chain has been knit togeth
er, drawing distanse to a “focus,”
the opening of the St Louis and
South Eastern drew him nearer,
next the Missouri Pacific to Se-da
iia then lookihg South across the
Indian Territory toward Texas, r
nmtrpgn said LL.JL dL T vyas
a necessity, and s
jrtin bails' do'o? The. pi? pro
f:reWi<s6kiffg.’ i'Jutjfialcl exlen
klflS ?£ph Bars
tun’ ty^©l; : R door 1 . home
bf wanderer f ii brought in
ffbouT.one, hundred miles (horse
i , jrsvA'-'vfr • ..■* . ■ . . .
Jback of us,, and on last thur?-
day. evening he stepped upon the
cars at his home, and on Monday
evening step'.off at our door. He
came on the first passenger train
that ever ran our the long trestle
on the extension,,and it was but a
fit coincidence, that as he went
West with the first tide of civiliza
tion, that he should return on the
first wheel of progress that passed
over the entire link.
He can now Communicate with his
place in a few minutes, where it
took months a few years ago. The
name of this wanderer is R. W.
Lindsey* and he,has -returned ac
companied by his daughter Annie,
to find many friends who bid them
welcome ! welcome ! welcome !
.In his feelings, tone .and actions,
he is still a Butts county boy. ,
Ms llSeplir.
BY M. H. THOMPSON.'
There wAs such a ruslfbf business
at Smith’s Mill last Saturday that
that the miller forgot wb r Iher he
was a newspaper reporter or ti mil
ler. **V \ ,
Still ahead! The miller at this
place reports that he ground a turn
of new corif'on 2/th of July, who
-can’ beafit. *' v K?
! There are the finest crops in
Jasper county since the War. From
every quarter we hear that crops
are as gobd %s the land will pro
duce; 1 '■ ■ • ‘
Major A. W.* Lane an old and
prominent citizen of Jasper County
is very sick; but we hope not dan
gerously' sb. : '■ ' 1
Robert V 7. Gord the efficient tax
received of this county died Satur
day nighfrthe 29th of July. Mr.
Gordon had long been afflicted
with that 'much dreaded disease.
corisUiilption and his death was
not* unloosed for by his friends. *
Mr. W. B. Dozier our genial and
wide awkke merchant has just re
turned froth Atlanta, where he had
gone, to make a purchase ot goods.
-Mr. Dolieris always anticipating
the wants of his customers and it
would, be a difficult matter to call
for anythig He does not keep. He
is now shipping goods on ' thb rail
road, and-proposes to give all who
favor him * with their trade, the
benefit of railroad prices. He is
noted for his honesty and fair deal
ing and when he says he will sell
at railroad prices be sure he means
what He says.
The quarterly meeting of the
Griffin district of the methodist
church convened at gardis church
in this county on last Saturday.
As the Reporter did not attend on
Saturday he can only give the pro
ceedings of Sunday. On Sunday
morning the first tliiug in osder was
what the methodist brethren call a
love feast, the proceedings were en
tirely new to the Reporter as he
never had witnessed .anything ot
the kind before. After the love
fea9t was over an able and impres
sive Sermon was preached by Rev-
R. J. Bingham the presiding elder
of the district, after the serman by
Mr. Biaghrm the next thing in or
der was dinner. The reporter being
always on hand when there is any
thing to eat—managed to help him
self promiscuously, and acquitted
himself fully as a newspaper man.
The amount of good things to eat —
on the ground surpassed descrip
tion. In the aiternoon there was
services for the children. Lectures
were delivered by Maj J. C. Key
Col Jeff Smith and others. The
meeting in every Way was a suc
cess, and every-body Tvent home
feelingthat they had been benefited.
For Representative.
Editor Argus.
A number of the citi
zens of Butts County have been
canvassing for the purpose of de
terming who is the most available
man for a candidate subject to the
nomination of the Democra party,
and have reached the conclusion
that I. W. Nolen: is the most
available man therefore announce
his name we intend to elect him.
The People
Dyspepsia, heart-burn, nausea,
indigestion, etc., are always re
lieved by Brown’s Iron Bitters.
til 'ffgW-ffevjciHfeb*
~? • f Nteft’Tßiefcs* >
Mr. W. Bv'Dozier hfts’jusi receiv
ed a complete stock \of Nttg; Gqopv
over the ~New R R and : has pm *
them down to railroad prices. Tfie
people of Butts can cross ihei rive- 1
free to get thejbenefit of" bargains’
IX HIS NEW GOODS. , *'
He has marked them down tc*
sell, and and dont prppose to hold
them for big profits, as there h 1
plenty more where they came from
Call and see them.
SENATOR HILL
AWAITS DEATH WITH CHEERFULNESS
An Ail .nta dispatch says:- “L;
modern annals there has not been r
death so full of borrows as that
which Benjamin Harvey Hill is now
suffering, nor has ,the resignation
•and Christian philosophy exhibitec
been excelled., .sloly dying of one
of the most loathsome of diseases,
he is yet cheerful, patient and re
signed. The patient is put to sleep
every right a bout Bo’clock with hy,
podermic interjections of morphine
and does not awake until 11 o’clock,
the following* morning. Three,
grains of morphina &re administer
ed daily, the .patient never being
allowed to Comp thoroughly from
under its influence* His food con-
sists milk into which the Volks of
have been beaten and a little whis
ky added. Aboat ‘three quarts of
this mixture is passed into the pa*f
tient’s stomach every day through
a tube, no portion of the fluid 1
touching his palate. The cancer!
for such it is acknowledged to be by
all those who have not had any con-’
1 nection with the’ case, has distroy--
ed all the tissues of the throat anc
-mouth on the left side as well as the<
lower jaw or sublnaxiliary bone 11
iTheopeingid so large that two kr
three fingers* can pass freely up intc
the mouth from below, and the pal* 1
■ate can be seen whew the patient iz
lying 1 down' and one approaches
him from the feet. The outer ca
rotid artery is exposed and its pul
sation ii plainly seen. The solt or
connective tils sue has been eaten a-
way, and 6hiy such ’ tough, elastic
substance a6 composes the walls oi
artery are left intact. .Vhat is left
of the tongue is attached to the righ
side by a very slender ligament,
and constant and constant fear
is felt that if willßecome detached
ank fall into the patien'ts throa
when asleep, and thus end his sut-
while yet sufficient strengl:
exists for a further continuance of.
the contest with the dread destroy
er. His month is kept filled with
-absorbent’' and antiseptic cotton
which is frequently changed, as is
the dressing on the outside. No
internal remedy is now given,
has any been administer -nice the
abandonment of the French cancer,
cure, which consisted in the injec
tion into the blood ot purified car
bolic acid, the object being to. des
troy the cancerous germs in the
blood. The final change, it is now
thought, will come from sheer eA,-.
haustion. If the morphine treat
ment suspended he would soon sin#
from the effects of pain. Now all
that can be done is to alleviate suf
fering an prolong the few days
which, in spite of his condition, he
seems to prize more than those in
which he gained his glory.”
“Fresh fruit the year round. Reac
the advertisement of Messrs. Tatum,
Sims & Cos., Opelika A&m in this paper
headed “save your ekuit & see the proof
of their words.” C t.
Georgia ) Ordinarys Office or
Butts County. \ said County.
S. J. Lindsey Adminis
trator of the estate of Johnathan I).
Lindsey having petitioned to be dis
charged from said administration. A!;
persons who are concerned are required
within the time fixed by law to show
cause ii any. they have why the said
,S. J. Lindsey should not be discharged
according to the prayer of hie petition
Given under my hand <fc seal of office,
this Aug Ist 1882.
J. F. Carmichael
3m Ordinary
Georgia \ Notice is hereby
Butts County. > that at an election nek.
in and for Said County, cn the 19di mu
of july 1882 ifist., ®t which the question
of “Fence” or “No Fence” was subuny
ed to the legal voters of Butt3 County
The return of the different Precißty
show that a majority of the lawful vo.e'- -
in said election did cast their votes
“No Fence.” It is hereby declared tn-y
the provisions of section 1449, ’
1451. 1452, 1453, 1454, shal take effect on
the 20th day of January 1883.
Witness my hand Officially
Julv 22nd 1882
4 timer: <*.- F. €?r?nichae.
Ordinatv