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MIDDLE GEORGIA ARGUS.
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VOL. 15.
JACKSON.
JACKSON is the county site of Butts
county. Georgia, Kitu&tcd on the Kani
runnesgee, Virginia 6c Georgia Kail
way between Atlanta nn<l Mar-on, on a
ingti ridge, or water filled dividing tin*
hynuigee ar.d Towaliga rivers. Tie
vfiinato is very equable, and one of tU<?
most healthy in >he wo* Id, the at
mosphere always beiiag pure and bfuc
•*hg. All manner of out-door work can
be performed any month in tne yea
without iuconveniftnce from suirnnei)
heat or winter cold The town oi
.JACKSON now haw a population of near
two thousand with a steady increase. It
has a male and female High School
with a fine corps of Froiqfjsors offering
unexcelled educational facilities, sevor
af churches of various denominations,
all well supported; splendid hotel ac
commodations, large carriage ummihte*
torv, first-class shoe shops etc., with
over thirty business houses. It is now
one of the best cotton markets in tiie
State, as the cotton brokers here keep
close up to the Atlanta quotations. It
is situated in tin* home of the peach,
the gaupe, the pear and all kinds of
fruit grow here in abundance, in fact
everything necessary to sustnia the life
mail dr beast can be grown hero in
large quantities. Property of a 1 kinds
cheap, and the inhabitants of the town
and comity are cultivated courteous and
hospitable and will eagerly v elc.ome all
emigrants w ho come among them to get
fl 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
feind of wood work to utilize the vast
quantities of valuable timber lying near
by these water powers would pay hand*
tiome dividend.
Any information in regard to town or
jeount'v will be furnished by addressing
the Midpi.k Gicokoia Argus, or 11. O.
Benton. rt al estate agent, Jackson, Oa.
ajv \V. F. Smith, real estate agent,
Flo villa, Ga ,
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
w. ANDERSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
- - Georgia.
P I*. -CATCHLNGS.
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in the Court House.
Jackson, - - Georgia.
Cannon House,
. 11 M.MttEI'TA ST.,
Atlanta. Georgia.
Clean rooms and now furniture.
JW).ml from $1,50 to $2,00 per day
Single meals 55 coins.
Mr. & Mrs. S. ('. WEEMS, Prop's.
[4O-1 v..]
IIETIOPOLITAH HOTEL.
30 Yards From Union Fas*
senger Depot, Corner of
Alabama and Fry or Sts.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Reasonable Rates.
R. P. KEITH
Proprietor.
[Late of Cannon House.]
Southern Hotel
f>s Poplar Sl., near Passenger I)ep9t (
MACON, - - GEORGIA
TO! 112 & and,
PROPRIETORS,
Rates: SI.OO per day. Single Meal
or Lodging 25 rents.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
E. VAN WINKLE ft GO.
COTTON GINS and PRESSES,
Cwtfen Aoed-Oil Mill*, Cotton Kk>e<l
Idntons Coup XMh, Saw Jfille,
Shafting, IPiilleys, Hangroj■,
Wind Mills and Castings,
Pcuil>s and Tanka.
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THE BACHELOR’S REVERIE,
Dreaming, I sat in my easy chair,
YV bile the log on the embers burn
ed ;
W bile I thought of the bibs of a
bachelor’s life.
With its freedom from care, worry
and strife.
And the sorrows each day to be
learned.
With grim delight I placed in the
scale
Of the balance my mind had form
ed
The tortures and srials that fall to the
lot
Of the man wao jumps into the
water when hot,
And finds himself More than wa.m-
The great expense came ilo my mind
In the shape of honeymoon bills,
Of lhe house to be found or tie flat
to be sought,
Of ike millions of things that have
to oy bought,
From sofas to bureaus and pills.
One side of the scale I heaped full,
Adding many a thought beside,
Of the gulf Twixt marriage and
bachelorhood.
As the subject I thought: l quite un
u *ders tood.
Ah tiie chasm appeared very wide.
When, lo! by weird and strange freak
of thought
QueO’cbanges came over my dream
A vision of white with the brown
interlaced,
And a glitter of blue could distinct
ly be traced.
With a shimmer of sparkle and
gleam.
Fondly 1 gazed the vision cleared,
And I watched the mist lake form,
When the brown, which resolved in
to wavy hair,
And *he snowy dress and the blue
eyes fan*
took completely my heart by storm.
Then l kissed iu thought those ripe,
AndsiAoolhed the rich brow n hair:
And t placed this maid in the oppt -
■ site scale,
When, lo! as in the old philoso
phers tale,
Tht*other flew high in the air.
—F. M. Cooper.
JPoor<er a* tlat* Y<*ars Roll By.
Savoyard in a recent communi
cation to the Louisville Courier-
Journal, says:
We have booms and booms in
the south. We hear of the new
south in the newspapers ; we hear
of it on the street, and 1 suppose
there are booms in the sunny laud,
and I suppose there is anew south
there. But the boom 1 want to see,
and the new south I hope to see,
have not yet arrived. The boom
we hear of is not for the many. It
is for the capitalist, not the people.
It is for the city, not the country—
the protected manufacturers, the
iron masters.
The boom I want to nee must
spread itself over the cotton field,
the tobacco patch and acres of golf*
den grain. Let it come to the farm
house oud not tarry and perch it
self on the smoke stacks of Birm
ingham and Chattanooga. When
that- boom comes the south wii 1
i.;ugh as Sarah laughed and become
ihf; home of America’s favored.
Pur twenty long years the hirmers
of the south have been awaiting
the advent of a boom that would
distribute prosperity, and during
that time the sun has made his an
nual round from the vernal equinox
to the summer solstice, and from
the summer solstice to the autum
nal equinox, from the autumnal
equinox to the winter solstice, unJ
from the winter solstice to the ver
nal equinox again, but no boom
has come to them. Their breth
ren of fh* northv.est have been
more fortunate, fr om the simple
and only reason that their crops ar
sown and reaped with the aid of
iabcjf-suying *naohinerv, but no
DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF BUTTS COUNTY. AND MIDDLE GEORGIA.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 19 1887.
machine has been no machine has
been invented to plant and gather
a crop of tobacco; consequently
the burden that has been imposed
upon the feourhern planter, bv
which he pays tribute to the more
favored manufacturer has kept him
poor and is making him poorer as
the years roll by.
EXPOSURE OF A BIG FRAUD.
The St. Andrews Bay Company,
which has advertisd to give away
free Florida homes to everybody,
has proven to be one of the roost pi-.;
gantic frauds or swindling schemes
ever inaugurated lor the duping of
an unsuspecting public, and one of
the managers of the concern has
been arres ed. The Florid? Talia
hassean, thus tells of its modes ©t !
doing business •
The St. Andrews Bay swindlers,,
of Cineinati, have been caught at]
lust in the meshes of the law. Oriel
of the principals of the concern, a
man by the name of Dues, has been
indicted by the United States
grand jury for using the mails fori
swindling purposes. His arres:
and conviction was made after a
long and tedious investigation by
the government as to the methods,
character and business transacted
by the men, and not until one of
the leading secret service officers
came to Florida and looked the
whole matter over in different,
lights, was the arrest made, lie
found, so he reports, that lots were
sold and resold, until as high as'
ton owners for a piece of property
could be found. False deeds were
made, and numberless letters found
that were never answered out
pigeon-holed. Over fifty thousand
dollars in five 'months were
scooped in by the company, and
the hind sold by them would cover 5
an acre fifteen miles square.
it is some satisfaction to
that justice has overtaken the ras
cals, who have, no doubt, perpetra
ted one of the most gigantic frauds
and swindles ever practiced upon
an unsuspecting people. The gov
ernment has issued a warning to
the public from sending any more
mail matter to the concern in Cin
einati, as their letters or orders will
be return. It is hoped that the
matter will be speechy settled, and
the selling of St. Andrews land will
come into a more legitimate chair
nel.—Warren ton Clipper, 9th inst.
The following is an extract from
Col. K. T. Van Horn’s address at
the annual convent! >n of the \a
tiona. Pinter’s Protective Fraterni
ty :
“If the manuscript of speeches,
sermons, law arguments, scientific,
or professional papers were printed
as they §oome to the printer's hands,
seven in ten ot great reputations
would be wrecked, ilie educators o t
the land, the very teachers of the
grammar schools, not excepted.
There is something in the process
of handling of types, of reading
copy, of correcting proofs, that be
gets an aptitud 3 that no other ino
struction can give. The mind is
so trained that it detects errors in
style, expressson and rhythm in
composition, as the trained ear dis
covers discords in music. The
printer is, after all, the real protect
or ofliterary reputation.”
Judge Jan Brunt, of the supreme
court, recently sentenced Peter B
Smith to be hanged Thursday, May
sth, and for this he was elected an
honorary member of Thiiteen
club. At a dinner of the club last
week a response to this honor wrs
received from the judge, in which
he wrote: I decided upon another
day than Friday, because I thought
it were time the slanders against
Fridnv were stopped, and that
other days ut the week should bear
their faT share of the burdens.
HOME NEWS.
Ileurv superior court is in session
this week.
The picnic season was opened in
Macon on the 12th, inst,.
The Ladies Aid Society lias pur
chased a handsome Bible for the
Baptist church.
A large Sunday chool lias been or
ganized at Liberty church with Mr.
11. C. Thaxton as supciintendent.
Mrs. J. T. Strange and Mrs. Dr.
Bryans spent last Wednesday in At
lanta. Mrs. Strange went to buy
millinery goods.
It is certainly a tact that al! things
were created for a good purpose, but
we have so far failed to see what good
the cut-worm does.
Capt Loyd seems to be accom
modation personified. lie delights
to carry messages for bis friends
trom the smallest paper ot pins to
the largest widows. The captain
is one of the men we read about.
Chaney Cawley recently killed
some very fine wild turkeys down
on Towaliga, There is said to be a
large flock out there now-and an ef
fort Will be made to capture it—
“dead or alive.”
Remember that old proposition is
still standing, to wit: We will give a
year’s subscription to the Annus to
the person bringing us the largest
watermelon this year. Prepare sonic
extra hills and secure the prize.
We will announce for the benefit
of our Northern readers that the
Indian Springs water is on a “boom”
and its medicinal qualities togeth
er with-the salubritv of the climate
makes this the most admirable
summer resort in the United States.
Mr. J. E. Weaver has lust comblet-
I-- 1
led the most handsome gin house in
Liu Us county. It is built of the very
material and covered .with tin.
|Mi*. Weaver lives in the best cotton
section of the county, and lie expects
to giu a large amount of the fleecy
staple next fall.
Wc nave ret eivod a note from Mr.
&0. Wynn, of High Falls, request
ing us to state that there would be no
public, picnic at that, place this year.
The reason is that public picnics have
grown to be a nuisance instead <;1
pleasure and enjoyment. Mr. Wynn
states that if any party of young peo
ple desire to gather there and have a
pi ivate picnic the place is open at
anv time.
A big anti meeting was held in
Milledgeville on the 15th, inst.
The object of the meeting was to
ferret out all violations of the pro
hibition law and present the offen
ders to the grand juryu Evidence
to convict two hundred cases has
been obtained. There „is no use in
arguing that prohibition will not
prohibit, II the people will assert
their power they can knock the
barrooms to a height that has never
yet been attained by the bald eagle.
“Let her roll” —let her roll from the
mountains to the seaboard!
We received the following intelli
gence from Mr. Cnas. O. Wynn, of
High Falls, on the 13th. inst:
Please “local” the fact that there
will be no public picnic at this place
this year. If a party of y oung peo
ple of anv place desire to Lave a pri
vate i ienie here, the place is open to
them any time; but a public picnic
has proven to be a nuisance to ail
ladies who attend.
Chas. O. Wynn.
Lovers of the romantic would have
been pleased to have witnessed tiie
cene that, transpired in Miss Virgin
ia Thompson’.* millinery store ia*t
Wednesday.' Having procured the
necessary license, Mr. J. C. Brown
and Miss Lula James, of Monroe
county, fleetly Wended their way to
Jackson and were dispatched—we
mean married with dispatch— V
Rev R. C. Munle% in the Mdihriry
store of Mi-- Virginia Thompson.
The y ung couple were ha fulsome
and intelligent, and their triumph is
fraught with good wislipsJiy many—
in trloch we heartily min.
Cn either end ot the long veran
das t the Lucy Cobb institute are
two large figures, representing dif
feren anlimals. For a long num
ber of years certain young fellows
make periodical visits to these ani
mals and treat them to a coat of
black paint. Nothing has hereto
fore been done with the parties, but
t ;s said that the nceut paintin
will receive the attention of the
grand jury.
Mr. Ogden, of Jamestown, Dak.,
has a natural curiosity in the shape
of a pig which came into the world
headless and hairless, but with a
horn sticking out from the end of
Rs neck like the tusk ol an infant
rhinocerous. Its feet are like the
hoofs of a horse, and there is a
hump sticking out from itsbac.v,
which is supposed to be the miss
ing head. The pig has one eye.
It Jived for a week and was appai>
entiy hearty, but is now preserved
in alcohol.
Queen Elizabeth, Roumania, devo
ted such a large amount of time to
singing that her attendants lately as
sured her that her voice entitled her
to rank with the most celebrated
of singers. The flattery tore fruit,
for the queen began to ask herself if
these rare vocal gifts ought not to be
dedicated to her people. She deter
mined first to have the unbiased opin
ion of a musical critic, and so went
incognita to the French professor
caused the queen to rim over the
scales and then sing a song and
opere air. Then, turning to her, he
said seriously : “You have no voice
at all, though plenty of musical feel
ing and excellent phrase. I would
train you for the operetta, but that,
to be sincere, you have not the right
lace.” r l he Queen handed the pro
fessor several gold pieces with h< r
card, buying, before she left, a dozen
opera airs for private study.
Many years ago in New York,
relates an old chronicler, ten young
dry goods counter jumpers
formed a society 7 to marry rich
girls. They swore to pret&ct and
aid each other, and all succeeded.
This society of young clerks board
ed generally at twenty-shilling
bonding houses, curled each other’s
ka.tr on Saturday night, went to
iS nday'-school us teachers, and be
came members ot the church that
had the richest members and the
prettiest daughters. They went
s'eadily and systematically to work
in the accomplishment of their ob
jects, conferring with and assisting
each other in every case that re
quired a&sistance. Their piety
game was the card that won in ev
ery instance. Some of the names
which figure in high society in New
York are the direct decendants of
these ten worthy ymung gentlemen.
Abused Wives,
Or maiden ladies suffering from anV
form of female complaint, sick or erv
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The organ of sight, tvhich is the
source of so much pleasure a3 well
as benefit to man, is very delicate. A
great many persons, not appreciating
this, are using cheap spe Ucjes,
These Masses, by their imperfect
construction an idem fishes, seriously
injure and sometimes almost destroy
the sight. If awkes’ Crvstaiized
Lenses art* the most perfect glasses In
the world, being especially adapted
for the preservation and sometime*
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The following gentlemen are our
agents , who will receive and receipt
for subscriptions to the Argue:
W. F. Smith, Flovilfa;
X. J. Harmon, Jenkinsburg;
T. J. Hunt , Towaliga ;
IF. H. Hammond , Elgin .
They Who Live in Ginas Houses
bait!it .Jlinil How They Cast
Stones.
t is amusing to see how tenderfooted cer
tain blood remedy proprietors have become
of late. They make much ado about “apes
and imitators” when none are in sight.
The proprietors of B. B. 8., would
say most emphatically that thei medicin
stands upon its own merit. Should we
attempt to imitate, it would be those who
do not understand modus operandi of that
which they offer. Our own long experi
ence in the profession precludes such an
idea. The field of blood remediee is large
and hr jad, affording ample room for all
present aspirants. We do not desire to
close the doors against others, neither
shall it be closed against us. B. B. B.
s the quickest remedy, does not contain
imiuneral or vegetable poison, does not
imitate, and is in the field as an honor
ab e competitor for public favor, and its
success is without a parallel.
The proprietors of B. R. 8., will "put
one bottle against 12 of any other blood
remedy, in remedial effects. A 32-ge h
Book filled with wonderful Atlanta proofs
mailed free. B. B. 8., put up in large
bottles at $1 00, six for $o 00.
BLOOD BALM CO., ATLANTA GA.
ENJOY LITE.
What a truly beautiful world we live
in! Nature gives us grandeur of moun
tains, glens and oceans, and thousands of
means of enjoyment. We can desire no
better when in perfect health; but how
often do the majority' cf people feel like
giving it up disheartened, discouraged and
worn out with disease, when there is no
occasion fo:' this feeling,as every sufferer
can easily obtain satisfactory proof, that
Green's August Flower , will make them
free from disease, as when born. Dys
pepsia and Liver Complaint arc the direct
causes of seventy-five per cent, of such
maladies as Biliousness, Indigestion,
Sick Headache, Costiveness, Nervous
Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpi
tation of the Heart, and other distressing
symptoms. Three doses of August
Flower will prove, its wonderful effect.
Sample bottle, 10 cents. Try it.
Bargains In Music.
This Favorite Album of Song artf
Ballads, containing thirty-two pieces
choice and popular music, full sheet
music size, with complete w r ords and
music anu piano accompaniment is finely
printed upon heavy paper with a very
attracting cover. The following are the
titles of the songs and ballads contained
in the Favorite Album, —As I’d Nothirjf
Else to Do; The Dear old songs of hon?<*
Mother, Watch the Little feet; Oh, You
Pretty Blue-eyed Witch; Blue Eyes;
Katy’s Letter; The Passing Bell; I Saw
Esau Kissing Kate; Won’t You Tell Me
Why, Robin; The Old Garden Gate;
Dow'n Below the Waving Lindens; Faded
Leaves; All Among the Summer Roses;
Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty
Louise; I really don’t think I shall Marry
Dreaming of Home; The old CottagJ
Clock; Across the Sea; A Year Ago;
Bachelor’s Hall: Ruth and I; Good
igbt; One Happy Year Ago; Jennie in
he Orchard; The Old Barn Gate; Jack’s
Farewell; Polly; Whisper in the Twilight.
This is a very fine collection of* vocal
gems, and gotten up in very handsome
style- Published in the usual way and
bought at a musical store, these 32 pieces
would cost you $11.20. We bought a
job lot nrn c &t a yrat
and as the holidays are past, we desire to
close out our stock at once. Will send
you the entire collection well wrapped
and post paid for only 40 cents. Send
immediately.
Address THE EMI RE NEWS Cos.
Syracuse, N. Y.
8/VED HIB LIFE.
Mr DI Wilcixon of BLrao Cave I£y.
says he was for many years afflicted with
iuliisic, also diabeiis; the pains were
almost unindurabie and waold almost
Jjrow him in to con vm dons- He tried
E.entrjc Bitters and got relief from Srst
bottle, and af er taking six bottles was
entirely cured andg lineand in
it-lieves he would have died had it not
een f jar the relief ufForied by Elec ric
■ters. Sold at 60 cents a bottle by
J W. Crum.
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