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MIDDLE GEORGIA ARGUS.
. -J. TKAXTON , Publisher. >■
VOL. 15.
JACKSON.
.TACKKON i (he conn tv site of Butts
•county, Georgia, situated on the East
Temiesnee, \ irgiuia <t**orgia Rail
way between Atlanta and Macon, on a
hitfb ridge, or water sited dividing the
Oerantgee and Towaliga rivers. The
Climate is very equable, and one of the
most healthy in the \vold, the at
immphere always being pure and brac
ing. All manner of out-door m.rk can
be performed any month in the yea
•without inconvenience from Kununep
beat or winter cold The town of
JACKSON now bus a population of near
two thousand with a nteadv increase. It
bai a male arid female High School
with a tine corps of Professors offering
unexcelled educational facilities. n*ver
al churches of various denominations,
all well huparted ; splendid hotel ac
commodations, large carriage manufac
tory, first-class shoe shops etc., uitli
over thirty business houses. It is now
one of the best cotton markets in the
State, us the cotton brokers here keep
close up to the Atlanta quotations, it
is situated in the home of the peach,
the gaape. the pear and all kinds of
fruit grow here in abundance, in fact
everything necessary to sustain the life
of man or beast can be grow n here in
large quantities. Property of a l kinds
cheap, and the inhabitants of the town
and county are cultivated courteous and
hospitable and will eagerly welcome all
emigrants a ho come among them to get
a home. There are numerous water
powers in the county lying idle, onlv
waiting the capitalist to take hold anil
build them up. Maim fact mies of any
Jcind of wood work to utilize the vast
quantities 'f valuable timber lying near
by thewe water powers would pay hand*
some dividens.
Any information in regard to town or
(Bounty will be furnished by addressing
the Minima Ueohoia Aaous, or H. 0.
Renton, real estate agent, Jackson, Ga
or W. F. Smith, real estate agent,
Klovilla, Ga
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
W. AN OKU SON.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Jackson*, * * Georgia.
P P. CATCIUNGS.
attorney at law.
Office in the Court House.
Jackson, - - Georgia.
Dr. J. LEE BYRON,
Offer? his professional service* to
the citizen* of Jackson ami suiTcniitd
jng country. All calls answered
promptly,day or nigh'. Night calls
answeied from the residence of Mrs.
Mollie Wolfe on Third Street.
Cannon House,
1C..4 MARIETTA ST.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Clean rooms and new furniture.
Board from $1,50 to *2,00 per uay
Single meals 35 cents.
Mu. & Mus. S. C. WEEMS, Prop's.
[4O-1 y.]
miPOLITAN HOTEL.
30 Yards From Union Fas
senger Depot, Corner oi
Alabama and Fry or Sts.,
Atlanta,, Georgia.
Reasonable Sates.
K. P. KEll'H
Proprietor.
[Late of Cannon House.]
Southern Hotel
88 IVjilai- u, near i’uMtinger Oepaf,
MACOW - - GEORGIA
WILE! JONES & CO.,
PROPRIETORS,
Kates: SI.OO per dv. single Meal
or Lodging
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
JEW LIKABLE!
H. J. COLLINS’ FEED,
AND LIVERY STABLE.
Jwlimb, ... Cvorgia.
-it V-
Htving contracted to carry the U. S.
mail from Jackson to Griffin, l am pre
wired to fumirh conveyance cheaper
f|tan can be bad on the R. R- Parties
going to and irom the Springs will find
|t |o their interest to see me.
o^Trips Wedu*?4*y6 and Saturdays.
LEONORA.
M. M. Folsom.
I have loved thee, Leonora,
1 have clung to thee alone.
Through these years of joy and sadness.
All the changes I have known.
I have loved thee, Leonora,
Heart and soul and strength and mind;
Ail life’s less sublime emotions,
Fancies all are left behind.
In youth’s springtime, Leon ira,
In thy womanhood’s pale flower;
Loved I and adored thee, claimed thee,
Fairest bloom m woodland bower.
In thine accents, Leonora,
Melody, the purest, dwells;
Softer than the echoes lingering
Round the chimes of silver bells.
And those bright eyes, Leonora,
Burns no star in heaven’s blue,
That can match the sparkling splendor
Of those eyes, so fond and true.
Through the dark days, Leonora,
Of the sorrow I have known,
.Lighting all the darkest places.
O’er my pathway they have shown.
And thy hands, my Leonora,
I can feci their soft touch now,
Tender, sootlrng, as I felt them
When the fever burned my brow.
Let them clasp mine, Leonora,
While with life, my pulses thrill;
Till mine eyes are clothed forever,
And my throbbing heart is still.
Let thy soft voice, Leonora,
Soothe and cheer my weary soul,
Just as long as death’s dark waters
On life’s farthest confine roll.
May thy fond eyes, Leonora,
Ream upon me, calm and sweet,
Till the last faint, flickering ember,
Falls in ashes at thy feet.
A Sensible Itimc.
A correspondent ot the New
Orleans Picayune writes: A lad)
benevolent to hfutes observed from
her eanieti gate ope day a miser
able horse, with a shoulder raw
and bleeding, attempting to gr.;ze
on an open spot adjacent; having
by means of some bread coaxed
the poor animal to the gate, she
then managed, with some assist
a nee, to cover the wound with ad
hesive plaster spread oo a piece of
soft leather. The man to whom
the animal belonged (one of those
ignorant and careless beings who
are indifferent to the sufferings oi
any but themselves) shortly after
ward led the horse away. The
next day, however, the horse made
his appearance again at the gate,
over which he put his head and
gently neighed. On looking at
him it was found that the piaster
was removed, either by the animal’s
master or I-v the rubbing of the ill
made collar in which he worked.
The piaster was renewed. The
third day he appeared again, re.-
quiring the same attention, which
he solicited in a similar manner.
After this the plaster was allowed
to remain and the horse recovered ;
hut ever after, whenever it saw its
benefactress, it would immediately
approach her, and by voice and aco
tion testify its sense of her kind
ness and notice.
Doubt has been expressed as to
whether persons die of “a broken
heart.” No doubt the muscular
pump physiologically known as
the heart doesn’t suffer rupture in
cases of death from griet, brooding
and the various forms of melan
choly ; but to all intents and pur
poses the old phrase hits off some
deaths to a T. M iss Charlotte
McOa mb ridge, of Jersey City, for
instance, has just died of “a broken
heart.” The drowning of her
brother and the death's of both
mother ami father °o preyed upon
her vitality* as to cause final ex.
haustion.
Five hundred shares of Augusta
factory stock were bought in Au
gusta Monday by one party for sll2
per share.
Parasol* ami Fail* just arrived at
Moo.v’s.
Devoted to the Interest of Butts county, and midd’le Georgia.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 3 1887.
HOME NEWS.
The English sparrows are out in
full force.
Spring slackens are beginning to
look quite toothsome.
Demorest’s Monthly for May is an
exceptionally interesting number.
Fishing expeditions are about as
numerous as fish are scarce, these
times.
The lightning rod men have done
a flourishing business in Jackson for
the past week or two.
The vivacious young ladies who
run the millinery store certainly can’t
complain of “dull times.”
We learn that aprotracrei meeting
was held at New Hope church, Hen
ry county, last week.
We could easily have sold two
hundred copies of our last week's
issue had we known before hand the
demand would have boen so great.
We hope the blooming young la
dies who gave us such a pleasant call
last week will repeat their visit.
Col. John Barnett, of Stark, gave
us a call last week, which was duly
appreciated. The colonel is one of
the best posted, men in the county.
The Hulk of the meal sold in Jack
son this year comes from Butts coun
ty mills, and was raised on Butts
county soil.
The wagon manufactory has se
cured the services of another good
blacksmith, to fill the vacuum made
by Duggar.
“Newt.” Harmon, the common
sense editor of our Jenkinsbufcg de
partment, gave us a pleasant caM lust
week.
Some of out peoples] oak of attend
ing the military drill at Macon on
the 10th and 11th, proximo.
I .yens' Tasteless Syrup of Quinine
is a? pleasant to the taste as letnou
syrup. Children love to rake it. 25
cents, gold by J. \Y. (.Torn. ij ]/.>
A young man in Jackson is wear
ing the same peart 3hirt buttons that,
his grandfather wore when he was a
young man—about sixty years ago.
t hey are slightly colored from old
age but are apparently as servicable
as ever.
Teacher—“ You should get a stan
dard work ou philosophy and famil
iarize \ ourself with its teachings—
make it, a special feature of your ed
ucation.’’
Roy—“ Can’t learn it; its too hard.’’
Teacher—“ Too hard ‘i What is too
hard ?”
Boy—‘‘PhUigritv.”
He was excused.
It would be a magnanimous acton
the part of some of our young men
who can rustle up a wagon to take a
crowd of children out to the High
Falls picnic. They are just as capa
ble of appreciating the scenery as
anybody, and ought to ;jo.
The Mercliaiit and the Printer.
A printer stood at the desk of a
business man the other day, and
noticed him using, lei ter and bill
heads bought of an eastern house.
Said the printer, who was a custo
mer, *‘what would you think of me
if I were to go east and buy your
line of goods for myself and fami
ly?’’ The merchant replied: “I
would think you a fool when I
know you cau get the same goods
a3 from me and aid a fellow'
citizen.” When the printer called
his attentiom to the imported letter
and hill heads the merchant cough
ed and went behind the counter to
wait on a customer. And the same
merchant only a few days before
asked the printer to give him a *ree
puff about his big stoak of new
goods.—Greenville (Tex) Herald.
Mr. Foley, the contractor who
made the tu tnel through Pin 6
mountain for the Georgia Midland,
has been awarded the contract for
grading the ground for the new
Central railroad compress at Co
lumbus, and work will begin at
once.
Straw Hat.-* and Seersucker Coats,
tk# cheapest at Ai.maxd 8f Moon’s.
BLiLVB TEU.ES A TRUTH.
We notice the following senti
ments from Mr.Blaine at St. Louis,
or- a recent occasion :
“But gentlemen, with all the con
gratulations which I feel it in my
heart to extend to you, which all the
compliments which your immense
growth calls from every lip, f fell
that I have one reproach against St.
Louis. [Sensation*] I feel that I
have one reproach against this great
trans Mississippi department. A
little over eighty years ago it be
longed to a foreign power, and hy
the narrowest possible cliar.ce it
was kept from falling into the
hands of England ; but the watch
ful care, the great nerve and cour
age, statesman like grasp of Thom
as Jefferson standing between the
policy of France and the aggressive
energy of Great Britain plucked
the whole territory of Louisa na
from the ambition of both, and
made it into an American state
[cheeis]; and that vast domain for
which Jefferson-gave $15,000,030 is
now represented in seven great and
prosperous states and three large
territories; which in the course ot
time will add four or five states,
possibly, to the American union.
Never w’as a conquest so great,
so extensive, acquired by peaceful
methods. Never was so great a
conquest made by war that cori
quoring power was able tc hold
Then, let me say that my reproach
*o St. Louis—my reproach to every
foot and every inhabitant of the
territory of Louisiana —is that on
i!s entire surface, which repsents a
third part of the United States,
there is not a statue, raised to the
honor ot Thomas Jefferson. [Loud
cheer-.]
St. Louis is the capital, the em
porium, and wilt be Lr 11 timeo.
that which was the territory of
Louista a. [More cheers.] I will
he forgiven, I am sure for re
minding vqu that gratitude to that
great man who has gone, grotilude
to that great man who, in the an
mils of American greatness, should
stand next to Washington ; I will
he forgiven, X am sure, when I say
that the duty of St. Locus and the
duty of the merchants of St. Louis
is to erect within your beautiful
city a statue of him when, more
than any other man, bv a scratch
of a pen created an empire. [Loud
cheeis.)
Genii men, I thank you very sin
cerely for your cordial reception.
Mr Presideut, I am profoundly in
debted for your words ot courtesy.
lam here simply as your guest,
and I am impressed so by it that I
shall not commit the offense of
trespassing upon your patience,
but with mv Cordial wishes tor your
increased and ever increasing pros
perity, I bid you go Yd morning.”
However impure the motive may
have beenlthat prompted Mr. Blaine
I to class Jefferson eeond to Wash
ington, we are glad to see such a
declaration even from the head of
the Republican party. The great-
I est difference between Mr. Jefferson
; and Mr. Cleveland is this :
I son sleeps beneath the daisies,
while Cleveland is president of the
United States.
John Bright, advocating the con
tinuance of free trade in England,
hag written a letter in which he
says that the reason other nations
maintain high tariffs is that those
who are protected are an organized
army while the consumers are
merely a mob. The United States,
under a system of protection, are
burdened with a large surplus rev
enue, yet refuse to lessen duties,
tiius promoting a system oi corrup
tion unequalled in any othereoun
lf You Want a Good Article
Of Put*. Tobacco, ask vonr dealer fo
Old Hip.
An Egyptian Funeral.
A funeral in Egypt 19 indeed a
strange sight, and the first one a vis
itor sees astonishes very much. At
the head of the procession march a
corporate body of the blind and a
certain number of men, who proceed
at a lively step, singing a most jubi
lant air, while swinging themselves
from right to left. Belaud them
comes the funeral car, or rather a
sort of bier, bearing a red shrwl, in
which the body is deposited. At the
extremity of the bier, ou a perch, on
which is placed the ttsvbati or the
tarbouelie of the defunct. Two men
carry this bier. They follow with
such high spirits the head move
ment of the head of the cortege that
the corpse, rocked in every direction,
seems to jump under the shawl that
shrouds it. The womeu bring up
the rear, some on a-ses, some on foot.
'I he first row is torrued of weepers or
rather screamers, who send forth to
ward heaven at each step the shrill
est notes. The weepers hold in their
hands handkerchiefs, with which
they are not solicitous of wiping their
eyes very dry, but which they pull by
the two ends behind their head*, with
a gesture that would be desperate if
it were not droll. On arrival at the
cemetery they take the corpse from
the bier and cast it, such as it is, iilto
grave. The grand funerals, however
take place with more solemnity. An
lingo, taut personage is hardly dead
in itgyyt before liis friends and ac
quaintances hurry to the house; dur
ing one or two days they eat and
drink at the expense of the dead, or
lather his heirs, indulging in the
noisiest demonstrations. When the
hour of interment arrives, a sceue of
the wildest character is produced.
The slaves and women of the house
hold throw themselves on the corpse
and feign a determination of hinder
ing it from parsing the threshold
This lugubrious tragedy is plaj r ed
conscieueiously; they snatch away
the coffin ; thev belay each'other with
blows, and the most violent clamor
is heard. At last the procession
leaves the house and repairs to the
cemetery, preceded by camels loaded
with victuals, which are distributed
to the poor hurrying in crowds along
the road. All along the road the
mourners and friends of the
family fight for the honor of bearing
the bier for an instant, and thus it
bounds from hand to hand in the
most frightful disorder. The inter
ment ended, every one returns to the
house of the dead to re-commence
their festivities, dancing and the
mortuary demonstrations.
F>r a hundred years slaves was
the .dam, the obstruction, ah more,
it was an unchained lion in the
path of southern advancement.
Our water power was wasted, our
wealth of forest disregarded and
our mines were buried talents
while the money of the land was
inyested in property necessarily
nr. aggressive. unproductive, stag
nant and perishing.
Emancipation was the magic
wand—no, not the magic wand,
but simply the natural hand that
shook off the nightsmare, waked
the sleeping g’ant and sent him
forth to dig, to build, to feel—to
set in motion the vast machinery
of Development alreaJy completed
and waiting impatiently for his ap
proach.
‘‘Do you think,” she asked
dreamily, as he sat beside her at
the circus, “that this is the same
elephant I saw when 1 was a child.”
“No,” he answered, with scorn
ful candor; “you know elephants
only live to be two hundred years
old.”
It won't be this year.
“Pa,” said little Jimmie, “I was
very near going to the head of my
class todav?”
“How is that, my son?”
“Why, a big word came all the
way down to me, and if I could
only have spoiled it I should have
gone clear up.”
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as benefit to man, is very delicate. A
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These glasses, by their imperfect
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What a truly beautiful world we lire
in! Nature gives us grandeur of moun
tains, glens and oceans, and thousands of
means of enjoyment. We can desire no
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Bargains In Music.
This Favonte Album of Song a tf
Ballads, containing thirty-two pieces c.
choice and popular music, full shed
music size, with complete words 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 Nothing
Else to Do; The Dear old songs of home
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;
Down 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
ightj One Happy Year Ago; Jennie In
he Orchard; The Old Bam Gate; Jack’*
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 82 pieces
would cost you $11.20. We bought a
job lot it a gi at tatrffee
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.
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NO. 13.