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MIDDLE GEORGIA. ARGUS.
D. J. THAXTOIi , Published \
VOL. 15.
JACKSON.
JACKSON is the county site of Butt
•county, Georgia, Kit Dated on the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Bail
way between Atlanta and Macon, on a
high ridge, or water abed dividing the
•Ociuulgee and Towaliga rivers. Tie
climate is very equable, and one of tin
niest healthy in the woild, and the at
mosphere is al ways living pure and brac
ing. All manner of out-door vu.rk can
be performed any month in the yea
without inconvenience from sunnnep
beat or winter cold The town of
.JACKSON now has a population of near
two thousand with a steady increase. It
inis a male and female High School
with a fine corps of Professors offering
unexcelled educational facilities, sever
al churches of various denominations,
all well supported; splendid hotel ac
commodations, large carriage manufac
tory, first-class shoe shops etc., with
.over thirty business houses. It is now
one of the best cotton markets in the
•Htate, as tbe eottoi brokers here keep
.close up to the Atlanta quotations. It
is situated in the home of the peach,
the gaape, the pear and aH kinds of
fruit grow here in abundance, in fact
.everything necessary to sustain the life
of man or beast can be grown here in
large quantities. Property of a 1 kinds
•cheap, and the inhabitants of the town
ami county are cultivated courteous and
hospitable and will eagerly welcome all
•emigrants who come among them to get
a home. There are numerous water
powers in the county lying idle, only
waiting the capitalist to take hold and
build them up. Manufactories of any
.kind of wood work to utilize the vast
quantities of valuable timber lying near
by these wutei powers would pay hand
some dlvidens.
Any information in regard to town or
county will be furnished by addiessim.
the Miiidi.k Gkoiuiia Aimes, or 11. 0
Benton, real estate agent, Jackson, Ga
•*rW. F. Smith, real estate agent
Flovilla, Ga
PItOFESSI(>NAL CARDS.
YY W. ANDERSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Jackson, - - Georgia.
Young A. Wright. Marcus W. Beck.
RIGHT & BECK,
LAWYERS.
Jackson, - - Georgia.
|7 P. CATCHINGS.
* ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in the Court House.
Jackson, - - Georgia,
HOTEL CARDS.
FRENCH S HOTEL.
CITY HAI.L SQUARE. NEW YORK.
Opposite City Hall and Post Office.
This Hotel is one of the most compete
. its appointments and furniture of
NY HOUSE in New York City, and
conducted on the
EUROPEAN PLAN.
Rooms onlv One Dollar per day.
Half minute’s walk from Brooklyn
Bridge and Elevated R. It. All lines of
Cars pass the door. Most convenient
Hotel in New York for Merchants to
stop at. Dining Rooms, Cafes and
Lunch Counter replete with all the lux
uries at moderate prices. aug-’-ly.
Wattles, ClotanlJrolrj
I have just recived a select lot ot
CLOCKS, WAMCHES, CHAINS
AND JEWELRY.
Come and see me at the Furni
ture Store.
All watch repairing done on
Lowest terms, and warranted for
twelve months.
41-2 m. B. F. Lunquest.
Cannon House,
10.* MARIETTA ST.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Clem rooms and new furniture.
Hoard from |'1,50 to *2,QO per day
jingle meals 35 ccirts.
Mr. & Mrs. S. €. WEEMS, Prop’s,
{4O- ly.]
If Imt Want a GoOd Article
Of pi.ua Tobacco, ask your dealer for
(Pit> l Up,
JACKSON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 1887.
Is There Justice on the Earth?
We do not mean to ask whether
there is anv cause in which justice
is done, for there are innumerable
such cases every d.iy. What we
mean to ask is this: Is there any
system of administering justieke in
this world which certainly accom
plishes the object at which it aims?
Without hesitation we reply there
is no such system. In this sense
there is no such thing as justice
on the earth. In the first place
the laws arc not always equal.
The law-making power may fayor
one party or one section mo. e than
another. It may be that one party
or .no section is taxed more than
another, or for the benefit of an
other. There may lie as much
tyaanny in republic or in a pure
democracy as any where else. A
majority is omnipotent and ir e
sponsible, and may bo despotic il
it be so disposed. If the minority
should become the majority the
despotism does not cease, it merely
changs liandcs. The only safety is
keeping the majority so small that
it will not dare to stretch its au
thority too far. When parties are
..early balanced each is a check on
the other, and in this way equable
legislation may bo secured; that
is to say, legislation which if in
tended to be < quable may he se
cured Laws vvhirli actually bear
with equal pressuie on all, have
nev r been made by me and never
will be. Christian Index.
BLw to Mane Yourself Unhappy.
In the first place, if you want to
make yourself miserable, be sol ish*
Think all the time ot yourself and
your tliingt. Don’t care about
anything else. Have no feelings
fr any one but yourself. Never
think of enjoying the satisfaction
of seeing others happy, but rather
if you see a smiling face, be jealous
lest another should enjoy what you
ha 7o not. Envy every one who is
better off than yourself, Think
unkindly of them and speak light
of them. Be watchful against it,
and if any should come near your
things, snap at them like a mad
dog. Contend earnestly for every
. hing that is your own that may not
I>e worth a pin. Never yield a point
Be very censitive, and take every
thing that is said to you in the
most serious manner. Be jealous
of your frie.uls, lest they should
not think enough of you, and if at
any time they should seem to neg
lect yoii; put the worst construc
tion upon their conduct.
Mrs. Logan, according to the
Washington Post, had to pay over
S3O lor messages of condolence she
received after her husband’s death.
Telegraph companies charged ten
cents for delivery because her
house was outside the city limits,
and many of the messages were
sent ‘‘collect.’' The some tiling
happened when Garfield was nomi
nated.
A decision by a Canadian court
will strike terror to the army of de
faulting refugees from the United
States who are reveling in the ill
gotten wealth in the Queen’s dr
minions. The court has decided
that Hoke, the Peoria cashier who
got off to Canada with 180,000.
shall be delivered up to the United
States government, and the Do
minion minister has signified his
intention to act accordingly.
A meeting of carpenters, plura
}>ers and others was held on Mon
day night in Augusta, at which a
number ot speeches by both
whites and blacks were made, all
favoring the nine-hou! system.- A
vote wr.s taken, and it was unani
mously adopted that workman
should a. k for nine hours' work
for present pay.
Devoted to the interest of butts county, and middle Georgia.
STATE NEWS.
The Darien Dragoons are talking
about getting new unifotms.
Dogget, a negro now living L
Athens, wears a shoe No. 14. Ilis
hands are of proportionate size.
Oglethorp county was first laid
out in 1793 and the first jury sat,
in April of 1794. The records are
still preserved.
The last of the rice crop of 1886
is being shipped from Darien to
Savannah.
The Georgia railroad now sells
tickets to Ilillnian, where those seek
ing the famous electric well leave
the train.
A Berrien county man arrived in
Quitman on Friday last with a
cart load of possums. They were
large and fat and showed that they
had been well fed in Berrien.
Twenty-seven life and fire insu
rance companies Saturday paid
their fees for the year 1887 and
were granted license by the Comp
troller General.
.The engineer corps of the Ga.,
Carolina Northern railroad has be
gun the survey oi the route from
Athens in the direction of Elberton.
Mr. W. G. Camp of Coweta has
soli one hundred, doliaro worth of
sweet potatoes out of one bed and
has some left. lie is one of the
farmers who m ikes money off of
(-varything lie touch.
As m’stress of the White House
Mrs, Cleveland serves wine. As
Mrs. Cleveland she serves water,
fn that way she observes the pro
prieties and maintains her temper
inee principles.
Mr. Randall’s head is level about
one thing, arid that is that Mr.
Cleveland will be, and ought to be
re-nominated. Probably Mr. Ran
dall sees the shadow* of coming
While one of the employes of
Dullaven's show was cleaning out
the lion’s cage at Blakely* last
Monday, the lion became enraged
aid got the man’s left hand in his
mouth, lacerating it severely before
he could be made to let go his hold,
which was done by prizing the
beGst’s mouth open with a crowbar.
The poor man suffered great pain.
Mr. Luke Mitchell, master of
the steamer Mitchell, has found a
new cave up in Gordon county,
about one-half mile fiom the
Oostanaula river. He is not exact
ly the discoverer, but it is known
only to people around the neigh
borhood. The cave, he says, is a
large one and he explored it lor a
a half-mile. Inside the great room
is beautiful, columns and walls
glistening like millions of dia
monds in the glare of the torch
light. Mr. Mitchell proposes to
get up an excursion next spring to
this cave.
y. 11. Williams, of the Sixteenth
district of Sumter county, has a
madstone which he says lie has
carried in his pocket thirty-two
yejrs. It has been in liis family
115 and is now perfectly
smooth. He also has a china
pepper box that has been a family
relic 115 years, which is as pretty
uow as when it was bought. How
much older it rs he cannot tell, hut
it was an heirloom when it came
inlo his family.
The particulars of a revolting
crime have reached Americus from
Webster county. It was rumored
in the community not many days
ago that a vvellknown young lady
ot resp ctable family was a victim
of a foul deed. The rumor was
ConSrmed when, a few days, aft in
wards, a 16-year-old negro tied
the county. How long those in
decencies have been practiced no
one knows, except the dead. The
peop’e residing in the community
; very iadignavt.
The Sandcrsvillc public school now
numbers on its roll 210 students.
A breakdown of the.engine at the
water-works caused a water famine
for four hours Savannah in Sunday.
There is talk of organizing a
stock company to buy
land for a private cemetery just
outside the corporate limits of
Macon.
It is to be hoped that the Savannah
coni mil tee now in Washington in the
interest of the Savannah harbor ini
provement will give the Senate Com
mittee on Commerce the best talk it
can.
The Baptist ot Griffin have rais
ed straight-out subscription during
the past two weeks some S4OO for
the support of missions. The
Methodist, on last Sunday, at the
call of their pastor, raised in a few
minute? $225 to pay an old debt
on the church.
The Rome Budarin refuse to ac
cept an advertisement from the Ad
amless Eden Company, but gave
it a half column notice on its editori
al p ige. The notice was not lauda
tory, but it perhaps advertised the
company in the way it'likcs best.
New York efty has a saloon for
every twenty-four voters. That
beats Philadelphia, which has ono to
every twenty-nine voters. The latter
city, however, is doing the best it can
to catch up with New York.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M Avera, of Mid
dle Berrien, paid Alapaha a visit
■Wednesday, Mr. Aver;, in ’B3 made
2.590 pounds of lint cotton on two
acres, or two and om -h lit* bales tu the
acre; and fur two successive years he
made thirteen 590-pouud bales of cot
ton on eleven acres.
It s expected that Judge Duvid Tur
pi e-, who has just been elected Sena
tor from Indiana, will be very popu-
.ii W ashington b'.cause in It dian
of*TUs ho is spoken of as 9a jolly good
fellow. 5 ' He is lazy and a good sto
ry-teller, but a very bright man.
lie prides .himself on wearing ready
made clothing and an antique beaver
bat. A year or two ot Washington
life, however, will be sufficient to pol
ish him up.
Willie, the 8-year-old son of
Samuel Hayes, of Senoia, came to
Ills death in quite a peculiar way on
Friday last. He was at work with
some bauds down in the swamps,
and through mistake got hold ot
scrim angelica root and ate about two
o'unccs of it, when his older brother
discovered him eating the poisonous
stuff and took it from him. A phy
sician was sent for immediately, but
it was too late, the poison had done
its cruel work and the little fellow
diedbe'ore assistance arrived.
Rome Curier: Every day some
thing turns up to give particular
emphasis to the assertion that
Rome is the best situated town for
the manufacture oi iron in the
country. Mountains ot iron are,
with the building ot the new rail
roads, easy of access, and on the
same lines coal is abundant, and
can be laid down here as cheap as
it is laid down at the furnaces at
other places. Yesterday we were
shown by Mr. Wingfield, fine
samples of coal, gotten out within
two miles of Rome. The indicati
ons aae that there.is a vast quality
at the place, as the outcroppings
rre line.
A protracted meetingis now be
ing c<. nducted at the Methodist
church at Banebridge by
Miss Jennie Smith, of
Ohio, a representative of the Wo
man’s Christian Temperance Uni
on, and Mr. Grumpier, the pastor
in charge- Miss Smith is a subject
ol the faith cure, she having been
entirely blind and confined to her
bed for twenty years. She gives a
very vivid description of her expe
rience, and is endeavoring to
accomplish miu-h co'-d. If permit
ted to return fPora the bedside of a
siv-k sister in Th imasville, she will
return and continue in the good
Tom Green county, Texas, is
named after a famous pioneer from
North Carolina, who din his share
of fighting against Santa Anna,
and was honoied when Texas se
cured her independence. Tom
Green county has an area of 12,000
square miles, and is larger than
the states of Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and Delaware combined.
The Southern portion of Grffin
is underlayed by a strata of hard
blue granite, which is about ter.
feet from the the surface. C. P.
Newton is having a number of ten
ant houses built just in the rear of
his Hill street residence, and in
boring for water this rock has been
discovered in that portion of the
' itv. Some particles of the granite
have mica in them in large quanti
ties. In*other portions of the city
this slone has been found in large
quantities.
The President is talked about
more than any other man at Wash
ington, and he knows it. The
talk Is not doing his prospects for
a second term ary harm, however.
In fact, it is thought the more
talk he occasions the greater the
probability is that he will be re
nominated. Mrs. Cleveland is
certainly the popular part of the
administration. Everybody has a
good word for her and she has a
smile for everybody. She is
thought to be prettier than when
she first apjreara at the White
House as a bride. She is more
mature in appearance and manners,
and is more charming in every
way,
At one time in Albany’s history,
during the time the law of imprison
ment for debt was in force, a gentle
man, who altenvards became a con
spicuous character as one of tier
most successful business men,
through untoward circumstences,
became m an dally invoiced, and his
property disappeared rapidly under
the hammer. Knowing that as long
as any personal property could be
pointed out on which to be ieivied
id execution could proceed agaiust
the person of a debtor, a friend gave
him a donkey of the most unprepo
sessing looks and vicious habits and
the most discordant voice that eyer
woke the echoes of the eternal hills.
When levied on a friend would al
ways buy him in for the harrassed
debtor for a mere song, which was
repeated until fickle fortune smiled
again on his devoted head, and he
effected a settlement of his most
pressing claims.
Athens TJanna "Watchman : Last Fri
day Mr. Wm. Roberts, an honest and
highly-respected old man, who farms
on Miss Sarah Turner’s place, on the
outskirts of Jefferson, started to Ath
ens in his wagon, driving two horses,
lie was in apparent good health
when he left home. As his wagon
passed Clarkesborc, he was seen to
be hanging over the front board ot
the vehicle, with his face cast down
and one hand and one arm swinging
loosely. The people who saw Mr.
Roberts in this position thought he
was only in deep meditation, or prob
ably watching some part of the ru na
iling gear of his vehicle, and did
oot <qieak to him. He passed ethers
m this position, and at last reached
Harrison’s, about eight miles from
Athens. Here the attention of sever
al parties was directed to the pecu
liarly uncomfortable position of Mr.
Roberts, and also to the fact that he
was very black in the face. The
team was stopped and on touching
the driver his held and face were
found to be *old and his heart stilled
in death, He was taken out and his
family of the sad discovery.
SAVED HIS LIFE.
Mr DI Wilcixon of Horse Cave Ky.
says he was for many years afflicted with
r tithisic, also diabetis; the pains were
almost unindurabie and wauld almost
:hrowhiminto coavuidons- He tried
E!e 1 trie Bitters and got relief from first
bottle, and after taking six bottles was
entirely cured andgained in flesh 18 lbs
Believes he would have died had it no
been for the relief afforded by Electric
Bitters. Sold at 50 cents a bottle bv
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