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MIDDLE GEORGIA ARGUS.
D. J. THAXTON , Publisher. >
VOL. i5.
JACKSON.
JACKBON is the county site of Butts
eouim, Georgia, mtuaud* on the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Rail
way between Atlanta and Macon, on a
high ridge, or water sited dividing the
Ocmulgee and Towaliga rivers. Tue
climate is very equable, and one of the
most healthy in *he woild, the at
mosphere always being pure and brae*
fog. All manner of out-door work can
be performed any month in the yea
without inconvenience from sumtncp
beat or winter cold The town of
JACKSON cow’ has a population of near
two thousand with a steady increase. It
has a male *nd female High School
with a fine corps of Professors offering
unexcelled educational facilities, sever
ed churches of various denominations,
all well supported; sp'endid hotel ac
commodations, large carriage manufac
tory, first-claws shoe shops etc., with
over thirty business houses. It is now
•one oi the host cotton markets in the
Htate, • the cotton brokers here keep
close up to the Atlanta quotations. It
ia situated in tho home of the poach,
the gaape. the pear and all kinds of
fruit grow here in abundance, in fact
everything necessary to sustain the life
of man or Least can be grown here in
large quantities. Property of a 1 kinds
cheap, and the inhabitants of the town
and county are cultivated courteous and
hospitable and will eagerly welcome all
emigrants w ho come among them to get
a home. There are numerous witier
powers in the county lying idle, only
waiting the capitalist to' take hold and
build them up. . Manufactures of any
kind of wood work to utilize the vast
quantities of valuable timber lying near
by these watei powers would pay hand
some dividens.
Any information in regard to town or
county will he furnished bv addressing
the Midm.k CikOKotA Akocs, or H. 0.
Benton, real estate agent. Jackson, Ga.
*r W. F- B'uilh, real estate agent,
PlevUls, C*a
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
W. AS PERSON,
C ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Jackson, - Georkta.
p P. CATCHING**!'
~ ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in the Court House.
Jackson, - - Georgia.
I>R. .T. U'E BYRON,
Ofloiv his professional services to
th citizens of Jack sou and surround
ing comftry. All culls answered
promptly, day or nigh*. Night calls
anttweteit from the residence of Mrs.
Mollie Wolf*; on Third Street.
Cannon House,
16 h MARIETTA ST.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Clean rooms and new furniture.
Board from $1,50 to $2,00 per uay
Siugle meals 35 cents.
Mr. & Mrs. S. C. WEEMS, Prop's.
[4O-ly.]
METROPOLITAN HOTE.
30 Yards From Union Pas
senger Depot, Corner ot
Alabama and Fry or Sts.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Reasonable Rates.
K. P. KEITH
Proprietor.
[Late of Cannon House.]
Southern Hotel
68 Poplar Si., Wear Passenger
MACON, l ~ - GEORGIA
HI! JB & CO.,
PROPRIETORS,
Kates : SI.OO per day. Single Meal
or Lodging 25 ceuts.
W A TIB FACT ION G CAR AN TEED
... . - _ ■ ■ -
II OT! ME!
i. J. COLLINS’ FEED,
AND LIVERY STABLE.
rcUi * Georgia.
*~(t a-
Having contracted to carry he U. S.
Dail from Jackson to Gridin, l aui pre
iafed to furnish conveyance cheaper
vm can t>e-b*d on the R. U. Parties
oiac to and from the Spring will find
l- to tboir interest to see me;
gjf'Tripa Wed ne - day e an. i Fot ar-'a.v r.
HOME NEWS.
Black belies are bloom tug.
Mr. Pluuket lost a fine cow ia*t
week.
The farmers report splendid stands
of orn.
The tin shop has teu thousand
fruit caus. for sale.
The loafers have begun to seek the
shady side of the houses.
The trees have put on their green
foliage and are beautiful.
Terracing is the best thing the far
mers ever did for their lauds in this
country.
•Spring oats are looking finely, and
if there is plenty of rain a good crop
w ill be made.
A little son of Mr. C. R. Carter had
the misfortune to break his arm one
day recently.
Next Sunday is the 'lay appointed
for the big singing at Macedonia
church, “We’ll be there.”
Mr. George Mann has a garden of
the finest cabbage that we have seen
in Jackson at this season of the year.
Capt. Watson is ahead iu the oat
line. He exhibited a sample a wpi k
ago, that was sown since Christmas,
which were in full head.
We learn that larger c.owds are ex
pected to visit Indian spring this
summer than have been there since
the railroad was built.
We ire pleased to see Itev. T. H.
Timmons able to be up after his long
and trying spell of sickness. '
Mr. Cook McCord has bttlU a daisy
fish pond near the brick yard. Sen
sible move.
It is rumored that every trestle on
the E. 'l' V • & G. R. 11., between
Macon and Atlanta will be filled in.
We are requested to announce
that there will be one of the most en
joyable singings* of (lie season at Tow
aliga on the fifth Sunday in
May.'i:?^
* Mr, R. K. StanfieldiMJeure.il
ion rates for thouse who attend the
McDonough ball. Getting a reduc
tion of -40 cents on the round trip.
Base ball has started up in other
parts, but we hear ho talk of a club
being organized in Jackson this sea
son.
Judging from the indications both
abroad and at, home, we are appre
hensive that this w.li be a noted year
for mad dogs.
Dr. Key has three partridges in a
pen trying to domesticate them. He
says that he fully believes they can
be domesticated, though it may take
five years continual breeding to do it*
Mr. O. 11. B. Blood worth informs
us that the annual picnic will be
held at High Falls on the first Satur
day in May, 7th. We notice the same
announcement in the Monroe Adver
tiser and suppose the fact has had
due publicity.
Mr. C. G. Heflin takes his recreation
fishing. On his last trip he got num
berless bites, saw a white crane and
caught a genuine tadpole that was
flouncing about in the last stage of
its tadpolean life.
}t was decided, during the session
of the Atlanta Presbytery here a
week ago, to erect a suitable monu
ment over the remains of Rev. Re
membrance Chamberlain which lie
in Col. M. V. McKibheirs garden.
We are m favor of removing the re
mains to the cemetery, which is a
much more suitable location and
where the grave will always be
looked after.
Henry Bergh has furnished diree
tiori “how to approach a kicking
horse.” \Yho the thunder wants to
approach a kicking horse? Give us
directions for getting out of the
neighborhood of a kicking horse
quicker than greased lightning.
Forsyth, Ga., April 10,1857.
Editor Argus: —Please announce
that whatever may be said or writ
ten to the contrary, the annual May
picnic at High Falls will be on the
first Saturday in Mav, 7. And oblige,
O. H. B. Blood vorth.
If ton Want a oed Article
Of Pet ci Tobacco, ask your dealer fo
Old Kip*
Devoted to The Interest of b utts County, and middle Georgia.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 26 1887.
A Tans Partridge.
Some time durhig last fall a young
partridge was noticed to be following
a heli and chickens in the yard “f
Judge T. S. Hamniont at Elgin in
this county The Judge being v.
lover of pets, gave the young bird
special care and it continued to live
with the brood of chickens and learn
ed the habits ot domestic fowl* until
it was full grown. He fights the
roosters, whistles “hob white” and
at night flies up into the trees and
roost on a limb like a chicken. IJ is
partridge highness is still living a do
mestic life and prides himself at be
ing the “cock of the walk,” as he
easily whips all the roosters in the
Judge’s poultry-yard. He is fully
domesticated and is as gentle, as a
common chicken. Mr. Hammond in
formed us that he would not sell him
at any price.
Two Very Wiciai Birds.
A gent eruan living upon a smull
farm on Long Island purchased h
tame crow Irorn a bird fancier of
this eitv. Although as tame and
affectionate as a pet dog, the bird
possessed all the inborn thieving
propensities af ito kind. Scarcely
had it become domesticated in thr
house before small articles were
mis.-ing. First a bright gold neck
lace ; next a silver pepper box and
whatever possessed shining quad
ties attracted the bird's fancy. Foi
u long time one of the domestics
was suspected of tbe thefts, and
finally was openly accused. She
protested her innocence without
avail and was dismissed. Several
weeks alter this occurrence it be*
came necessary to make some re
pairs upon the roof of a barn on
the premises. A cupola had to tie
removed, and there the missing a
- were fo. nd, together with
harness buckles, pewter-spoons and
bjri^h!-cthv>e- It w<i tile
pet crow’s treasure house, where-tie
had secreted ail tbe articles he had
stolen. Subsequently the bird had
to be killed on account of his de
predations.
Another good story is told of a
trainedcwl owned by the proprie
tor of a sale m on Houston street.
All day long the bird remained
perched upon the antlers ot a stag
over the bar, and many were the
bets made as to whether it wa*
fluffed or alive. When night come
it whuld fty down and peareh npmi
the shoulders of the proprietor, eat
ing small pieces of raw beef from
his hand, it kept the p lace entire
ly free from rats and mice, aj •
proaching them noiselessly tr.mi
celling anti killing them with one
of its powerful daws. When whip
ped for misbehavior it would feign
death, lying upon the broad of its
back without the slightest motion,
with its eyes closed and claws set
rigidly. It would remain in this
attitude until the attention of tho
bystanders was distracted, when it
would stealthily fly to its perch
above the bar. Thestrai gest char
acter! Stic oi tbe creature was the
love of drink. It, would waddh
up to the pail which contained 'he
drippings from the beer ksgs. and
sip and sip until completely over
come by the liquor, when it would
stagger into a corner to sheep off
the debauch. It was finally killed
by its over-indulgence in alcoholic
beverages.—From the New York
Mail.
Senator Beck, or Kentucky, de
clares that President Cleveland will
be the nominee ot the Democratic
party in 183S. “This is the only
administration the country has hud
since the war,’’ the Senator says,
“that has not tolerated corrupt
rings, a fact that all honest think
ing men appreci ite. Then, to., Mr.
Cleveland s economic -principles
are right. The Southern people
ought certainly to be solid for
Cleveland, for he turned the ras
cals out and give th offices to
good Democrats.” The Senator
thinks that Allison, ol lowa, will
be tlie Republican candidate.
llis JLast W or Is.
The following article written tor
the Brooklyn Magazine a few days
b fore his duath is among the last
contributions of lleury Want Beech
er:
i Old age has the foundation of its
jf>y or its sorrow laid iu youth. Ev
ery stone laid in the foundation takes
hold of every stone in the walls up to
the caves of the building, and every
deed, right or wrong, that transpires
!in youth reaches toward, and has a
relation to all the after part of man's
lift. A man’s life is not like the con
tiguotts cells in a bee's honeycomb;
ills more like the separate parts of a
plant ihat unfolds out of itself, every
part beaming relation to ail thatinter
<e le. That which one docs iu youth
is the root, and all the afterparts,
middle age and old age, are the
Oraches and the fruits, whose charac
ter the root will determine.
Every man belongs to an economy
in which he has a right to calculate,
or liis triends for him, on eighty years
as a fair term of life. His body is
placed iu a world adapted to nourish
and protect it. Nature is congenial.
r lhere are elements of mischief in it
if a man chooses to find them out. A
man cn wear bis body out as quick
ly as he pleases, destroy it if lie will;
out after all, tbe great iawsot nature
are nourishing laws, and, compre
hensive! v regarded, nature is the
universal nurse, tbe universal physi
cian of our race, guarding us against
evil, warning us of it by incipient
pains, setting up signals of danger—
not, oimvaidly, but inwardly—ami
cautioning us by sorrows and b}
pains for our benefit.
Everv immoderate draft which is
made by the appeiites passions is so
mudi sent forward to -be cashed in
old age. We ma> sin at oiler end bu t
God takes it oil at the other. Every
man has stored up' .'for him so-me
eighty.years, if lie knows how to
keep litem, and those eighty years,
like a bank of deposit, are full of
JpejLSure?.; but youth, through ignor-.
ailCO Vi*iluT,Ugli I
is wont coutinuuhy to draw checks
in old age. Men do not suppose that
ihey are doing ir, although told thai
tiie wicked shall not live out halt
their lives.
Men are accustomed to look upon
the excesses of youth as something
that belongs to time. They say that
oi course the young, like colts unbri
dled will disport themselves. There
is no harm in colls disporting them
selves, but a colt never gets drunk.
Ldo not object to any amount of
gavety or vivacity that lies within
the bounds of reason or of health:
but I do refect and abhor, as worthy
to be stigmatized as dishonorable and
unmanly, every such course in youth
as lakes away strength, vigor and
purity from old age. Every man
that transcends nature’s laws in
youth is taking beiorc hand those
pleasures that belong to old age; be
is taking tl:c food that should have
been his sustenance in old age, and
exhausting it in nototis living in
youth. Mere ga\ety and exhiieia
tion are wholesome; they violate no
law, moral or physical.
I do not object to mirth or gavety,
but i do object to any man’s making
an animal of himself by living for the
gratification of bis own animal j as
sious. People frequently think that
to require in the conduct of youth
that w’liieli we expet in later life has
something of Puritanism in it. Men
have an impression tnat youth is very
much like wine, crude and insipid
until fermented : but it has feameul
ed and thrown down the lees and the
scum has been taken off, tbe great
body between i3 sound and whole
some and beautiful.
I am not one ihat thinks so.
I think that youth is the beginning
of (he plant life, and that every wart
or excresetiee is so much enfeeble
ment ot its fruit nearing power. Ido
not believe ihat any man is tiie bet
ter for having learned the whole ca
rper of diuiikeness and list, or the
ball} ing- r indulgences of a morbid
life. A young man that lias gone
through these tilings may be saved at
last, hut iu after life he Ins not the
seusil i tty, nor ihe purity, nor the
moral stamina that he ought to have.
He has an experience lut for which
his manhood would have been both
stronger and nobler,
Birmingham's B)}jn.
The Baner- Watchman months
ago advised the people to fight shy
of Birmingham and its soocailed
boom. We admit we were not
alone in giving this advise. The
safe and prudent editor everywhere
cautioned his readers that the in
flated values that ruled Ala
bama’s magic city could not last;
that the crash was as certain to
come as the night comes after the
nay. The histoiy of such booms
has invariably been the same.
Enormous paces, unus . 1 aciivi v T
inflation everywhere, is genera ly
tol owed by rapid an 1 startling
va ue j , busine s s'.ajnatioa, and
commercial ruin. This has bee
so often tbe story in Wall rtreet
and in other great trade centers
that it would seem that prudent
and thinking men would know that
such ventures wera not in keeping
wiih business sagacity, Thatßirm
ingham was the place for specula
tors to go has been proved by the
enormou® fortunes that have been
mude in real estate transactions
there. That it was not the scene for
the operations of the moneyed man
who sought permanent investments
is shown by the rapid decline in all
values, and the great dificulty now
being experienced in getting a hv-
mg return for investments, and the
almost imposibility of obtaining
value received, fui the lots a lew
weeks ago could havabeen sold ten
limes during the Jayi .
The Banner Watchman was talk
ing a few days ago with a genii
man who has made a large fortune
in Bi mingham *speulatu>nß, and
who was wise in-his day and gener
ation by getting out before the
crash came. • He was a speculator
by profession and when interview
ed i>y a representative of this jour
na* was <m hi& way to New York
to double or lose all iu Wall street
operations. This gentleman told
our reporter ‘‘that property in Bir
minghain had declined within the
past two months at least twenty"
five per cent. The people there re
alize that the boom has collapsed,
and try to keep up appearances
and prevent the truth from being
known by refusing to offer their
Holdings f,r sale. This is, howeVr
er, cheating nobody but themselves.
This almost pitiable effort to bol
ster up their own courage and in
spire confidence is easily seen
through, mid were they today to
offer proper y that a few weeks ago
was bringing enormous prices, I
doubt, very much if they could real-
ize half what it cost them. But
they will not lose much, the gentler
man went on to say, for property
in Birmingham has nearly
ail been sold on the option
plan. When the crash comes, as
it must before lor g, the result wi'i
he that the original owmr will re
sume the proprietorship and the
othar fellows will have lost their
margins in the capacious pockets
ol the speculators and real estate
agents.”
“There has not been within the
past eighteen months anything like
a fair sale of property in Birniing-
When I say a fair sale, I
mean a sale where the price and
the value weie equal. Everything
has been forced speculation has
been rife, and the better judgement
of men has been lost in the mad
race after gain. I do not suppose
that hardly any one lought proper
ty in Birmingham as an investment.
No one really believed that lots
were wpith he enormous price
obtained. The idea was that ore
could buy and sell again at a big
profit. No ore ever thought for a
moment that be would be the last
holder. But somebody had to be
and perhaps thote who had the
least idea ot becoming so got caught
at last.”—Frsrn the Athena Banner
Watchman.
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Ballads, containing thirty-two pieces c
choice and popular music, * full sheet
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titles of the songs and ballads contained
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Mother, Watch the little fed; Ob, Yog
Pretty Blue-eyed Witch; Blue Eyes;
Katy’s Letter; The Passing Bell; I Saw
Esau Kissing Kate; Won’t You Tell He
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Down Below the Waving Lindens; Faded
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Touch the Harp Gently, My PtVtty
Louise; I really don’t think I shall Marry
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ig‘it; Oae Happy Year Ago; Jennie in
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