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MIDDLE GEORGIA ARGUB.
X>. J. 7HAXTGN t Publishes.
VOL. 15.
JACKSON.
JACKSOX thf coanty site o! Baitt*
Ooorjfia, *tbatsl r* the Ea.-t
TUM*K§#e # Mrgtttla A Gmirgia- Kail-
Atmnia aa4 Macon, on a
high ridge, or water tht*l dividing the
u4 Towaliga rivers.
ruinate in ruty equable, And omr of the
moat healthy is tho woild, the at*
fuoaphaftt ukrqr* being pure and brac
iA(. All manner of wtft-door m.rk can
ha parlor wed any rooutK in the yea
without inconvenience auuitaep
£•#l orwiatff cold. The town of
new Km 4 population of near
I*# thousand with 4 ateadv inrrvnse. It
U* mala mi female High School
ctfftd Prpttemor* offering
*im called adueat iacat faeflitioe. mjvct
l cfcuK'hee at Tgrtoun dafevtamari*"*,
aupportatfr epiendfat hotel ae
manufac-
wy, iW Idwi tfla pftop* etc., with
#fpf thirty feMhMi feoaec*. It is now
elr and the beet cotton mark eta ir< tive
44 the cotton )*>re keep
ulMt up to the Aflanta quotations. Jt
i eitoated in the home al the peach,
Ik* g*qt*. xfi pear and all kinds of
Iruit frow here in abundance, in fact
UNrytUii aweaury to sustain the life
Af aaan or boast can be grow rr here In
faWftqfeilUitiaa. Pr<}n>r!y ofa.l kinds
efceep, and Mm inhabitant* of the town
pad county are cultivated cmirteou* and
Meepitnbki Und Will e&gerty welcome all
•vnlgruffte trim name among them to get
WWma Than* are nutneroua water
power* in At count v lying idle, dnlv
waiting the eapitahat to take hold And
feih§(b**a up. MannbwmrUs of any
fciai aTeruad work te utilize tlie vast
qnaatllM Of valuable timber lying near
by tbeee W*t*a ymt> would pay liand
ffantc divide***.
Any Information in mgard to town or
eomP will be fur nibbed by addressing
ite lltontU Gecko;a Aftau*, or H. 0.
Waggon. ral eetate agent. Ja*Vson, Ga.
•Dtp, F. South, real estaie agent.
>k vUia, Cta
m m suns!
H. J. * COLLINS’ FEED,
AND LIVERY STABLE.
i • ♦ * 4>cir(ia.
. -<* u
-4vwfr*ctt*d it carry the T*. f*.
Jftu'i! from Jffckcon to Griffin, l him pre
• KNit to fe?ath cheaper
itvjvecao W the u. Ic rau'-
g ifi* t apt ffum th* M il', find
si^t’rtjl*W'*H>a and Saturday*.
H&QTfiSStOK AL CARDS.
gg. j, ,-rzs.’: x: Jcieg-,—^—--*? ■
W. ANPISfcfON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
- - r.KOROfA.
J 7 ?. CATCHINtfS.
*** ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in the Court House.
J*etson, -- - Georgia, |
J)r. j. ice byuon,
Offen liU prot>a*H>nul service* to
th* citizen* <*!'Jackson mid auiTotmd-
Jlg country. All calls answered
promptly, dav or nigh*. Night calls
fftaaweied XrtMii the rosidefice of Mrs.
Mullle Wolfe on Third Street.
Cannon. House,
Id* MARIETTA 6T.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
CUou rooms and new furniture.
)i<Mrvi from $1,50 to $2,00 per uay
fHogle meal* 35 cents.
Mtt A Mbs. S. C. WEEMS, Prop’s.
[4O-1 Yv]
IBTSOPOUWI HOTEL.
30 Yards From Union Fas
aenger Depot, ..Corner of
Alabama and Fryor Sts.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Reasonable Rates.
R. P. KEiiH
% - . Proprietor.
[Late of Canfcon House.]
Southeri! Hotel
M., urar Pam*>s* llcpt,
MACRON. . - fiKOIMW#
v&e? m & co.,
PROPRIETORS*
SI.OO per d*. M*
*r iwaiftiiy cent*.
GCAHAXTEED
JACKSON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 40 1887-
WAIT A Bli.
When Joknycame a courting,
1 thought him overbold,
For * but a young thing,
And he n.v very old.
And tku* I liked him well enough
i Kent him on hi* way,
With “Wait a bit, bide a bit
Walt a week and a day !’’
When.To!niv passed mein the lane.
And pleaded for a kiss.
And vowed he’d love ine eye* more
For granting of the blis-;
Although I liked it ower well,
1 ran from him away,
With “Wait a bit, bide a bit.
Wait a week and a day !’’
When Johnv fell a ranti’rg.
With vJemiM, be my wife?”
4ud vowed I never should regrer.
However long my life;
Although I liked it best o’ all,
I turned-from him away,
With “Wait a bit, bide a nit,
Wait a week and a day
Oh, Juhny was a ninny,
lie took me at mv word!
And he was courting another.
The next thing that l heard.
Oh, what a iiiunv was Johnv,
To mind me w hen I’d sav,
“Wait a bit, bide a bit,
Wait a week and h day ? ’
Heigh-ho, I’ve met my Johuy. .
I gin him a blink o’ my <ye.
And ttven he fell a raving,
For w uut o’ my love he’d die !
J ne’er could be po-micl.
So l set the w edding day.
With “Hast a bit, nor waste a bit,
There‘i dutiger in delay 1”.
—Jewik. K. 'LL Dowk.
The slate qiuurk* in Hoik conn- j
tv are ail bu-y. j
:. . i
A grad nuts of the NavaJ Acade |
my ut' Annapolis is now selling'
hef in Athens. \
!
* crnmtiy on** m&\
Wheat are much more promising i
siiu-e trie recent rains.
. v .v • . * 4 f ' •
Col. Jim smith, of Oglethorpe
com ty, had riiry hands planting j
watermelons Friday.
Col. .lohn l’ waterman, former,
editor And proprietor of the Gridin
Sun, h* purchased the Thoimnsuoy
t%nes.‘
William Lowery, of Polk county,
experimented with a lump ot dirt
recently that came out of u cave
on his place by putting it under his
cotton last year, and he says that
the cotton manure with this dirt
produced more cotton than that
containing guano.
A runaway couple passe! thr Uih
Rock mart Sunday making their
j way to Cartersville to get license to
i marry, the officials of Poik having
| been notified not* to grant them,
i Hovever, the young 15-year-old
chap was captured hv his father
: before the license were obtained,
j Thus the young widow lost ier
j prize.
A printer arrived in Macon one
day last week. For the abort time he
worked n.ttde $7. When Irp drew
his pay he found three tilings nec
essary-—to send some ot the-money
to his family, to pay his board
here and to replenish his ward*:
robe. To aeconiph&h the three
things he did what perhaps was
never done before. lie started out
in town to see what he could do in
tlie veav of making himself pre
sentable, and at one .store he
bought a pair of shoes and a pair
hf .*k ks tor &>.; at another store
he bought e coat, vest and pants ol
midsummer pattern for $1 id, mak
ing the cost of the entire ontiit $1 o 0
It is only n the Sunny South thai
such extreme economy eat: be prac
ticed.
“Man w ants but little here below',”
But it the man be wise,
To get that little,“don.t you kimw”
He’ll always advertise.
Fresh-ground men! from Wearer’s
tniU always on hand at Son:*!
KiLe>idgr*-, and W }i. \JU.L-n'-. li
DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF BUTTS COUNTY, AN D MIDDLE GEORGIA.
lIOME NEWS.
II in I .
Mr. Ed Huso 11 Is now attending
M 00 re’s Business College.
Parasols ana Funs just arrived at
At.mand& Moox’s.;
There is not a liver or more accom
modating hotel man in Georgia than
; 11. O. Benton.
Straw llats and Seersucker Coats,
the cheapest at Ai.mvxd & Moon’s.
We are pleased to notice that there
will be a small crop of peaches. Tht
apple crop will be. tine.
1 ,* fj/ .
If Yen Want n Good Article
Of Pliu. Tobxuoo, ask your dealer To
Old Itip.
There arc more tisii caught out of
McCord’s pond than from any ocher
i pond of it* ai/.e in the state.
Lyons’ Tasteless Syrup of Quinine
is as pleasant to the taste as lemon
strop. Children love tevtake it. '?S>
cents. Sold hy J. W. Crum. 17-by
Another homicide nvas committed '
■ i
in lleiuy county on Saturday of hut
week. , A negro aml a write man foil '
out about some land when tho negro i
assaulted the white man with a stick
and was shot-dead in his tracks. The
coroner’s niry returned a
ju*Uliable houncidc. L,/
Mr. R. T- Watkins has broken dint.
And began the erection 0 1 a large Itiki
story brick building on the coratr
now oc.cunicd bv lir. Carmichael and,
others, 'i fie house will be 10j by *J,R
feet two stories high witli a luCe
menr. W.e are proud to note this as
such a building as Mr. Watkins con
templates erecting will add greatly to
the appearance of that portion of the
town.
“Forma A uoys I notice a State- j
merit in your ppper in whivh yotirte- |
ciine to st*nd the .Auous anv- Linger |
* * kv
< those who are in.- a rears.. 1 am i
iiiilehte.‘l in you for your paper, :Uid
Tun >oitv l luivy Dot the money-* to
pay up and renew*, It you wilt wait
with me nnnj fan i inti witling .to -f%v
ini toe [u%n.‘U'al. • l dr 11
to read the' A' iklftffSy' sh’ccituse it ;"yivei
9 > i-mich more home ue-vs than any
other paper/’
The above is a sample of similar
letters received at this office recently.
Nobody but a gentleman would ask
the imltilgeme of a publisher hi this
i way. We shad make it a point to
; see that nidi men as show their ap
; predation of our work shall he bene-
I filed, but we are sick and tired of
J spending money on “dead heads.’’
Mark Twain in the War.
At, a banquet of war yetcrans in
Baltimore Mark Twain gave his
war history as follows :
When your secretary invited me
to tiiis reunion of the union veter
ans of Maryland he requested me
V> come prepared to clear up a
matter which h** said had long
Keen a subject of dispute and bad
Mood in war circles in this coun
try— to wit: the true dimensions of
ray military services in the civil
war, and the effect they had upon
the general result. 1 recognize the
importance of this thing to history,
and i have come Here
i-the details r I was in the civil
war but two weeks. In that, brief
time I lose from private to second
.lieutenant. Tne monumental fea
j tore of my campaign was the, one.
I battle which mv command Might
■ —it was in the summer of 01. li'
iI do say it, it was the bloodiest
; battle ever fought in history ; there
I nothing approaching if for des
! traction to human life in the field
lif you take in consideration the
i engaged and the proportion
of death to survival. And yet you
; do not ever, know the name of that
battle. Neit her do l. It had a
name, but I have forgotten it. It
: no use to keep private information
which you can't ah cm cff*. Now
look at the wav history does. Its
takes the battle of Boonville, fought
near by, about the date of our
slaughter, and shouts its teeth loose
• over it, and vevdoes not mention
| our* : does not even eff! it an ‘*af-
H f a’ v : don't c.t'l it cnvtbjng it s!l:
r - . - y. *
, never cv*n heard, F it. Whereas.
wbat are the facts? Why these :
in the battle of Boonville there were
2,<J00 men engaged on the union
side, and about as many on the
other —supposed to be. The casu
alties, ail told, were two men killed
and Lot *ll ot these were killed
outright, only hlaf of them for the
oilier man died in the hospital next
day. I know that, because his
great uncle was second cousin to
my grandfather, who spoke three
languages, and was perfectly hon
eruble and upright, though he had
warts all over him, and . u-ed to—
hut never mind about that, the
facts are just as I say, and I can
prove them. Two men killed in
that battle ot Boonville, that’s the
whole result. All the others got
away—on both sides. Yow, in our
battle, there were jmt fifteen men
engaged on our side—ail brigadier
generals but me, and I was a sec
ond lieutenant.. On the other side |
there was one man. He was a j
stranger. We killed him. It was
night, and we thought he was an
army of observation; he looked
.ike an army of observation—in
fact, he looked bigger than army of
observation would in the daytime;
and some of us thought he was try
ing to surround us, and some
thought he was trying to tern our
position, and so we shot him. Poor
fellow, be probably wasn’t an army
of übiervaijoii, after all, but that
wasn’t bur fault; as I say, he had all
the look of one >n that dim light It
was a sorrowful eirctmi&tanire, bid he
rook the chances Of war and he drew
the wrong card ; h&Tovef estimated
his fighting strofikMlK aiidsuffered the
likely result: but he-fell as the brave.
T * x* -
should full—with hts tare to the li ont
Tml his feet to the field—so we bur
\ , 1. ?)*.'■ !
iml him with the h/mors of watvanu
took his'things. f bejyan.apd yn.d
efi the only battle in the history of
hii6 worhi where lh.i t>ppO?l|C foreC
: was utterly exterminated, swept
I from the fare of the earth —t > the last
man. And yet you don't oven know
the njirne of that bat'lej you- don’t
even know the. man. Now, then, for
the argument. Suppose I had r.on
j tinned in the. war, and gone on as I
j begun, and exterminated the oppos
ing tone every time—every two
weeks— where would your war have
been? Why, yon see yourself the
contest would have been too one sid
ed. There was but otte honorable
course for me to pursue, and 1 pur
sued it. I withdrew to private life,
aod gave the union eause a chance.
There, now, you have the whole thing
in a nutshell; it was not rny presence
in the civil war that decided that
tremendous contest — it was my rer
jtiremenUrom it that brought the
I crash- It. left the Confederate side
! too weak.
A Timely Topic.
Many things are done in the
name of religion and by men who
pietend to he extremely religion?,
that tend to injure rather than ad
vance Christianity.
The religion taught by our Savior
has been of immense benefit to the
human race. Ic has spread civ
ilization, made man happy and
better, elevated woman, and purifi
ed and redeemed millions. But
many things have been done in the
name of Christianity that have
brought great inhery and suffering
into the world.
We must expect to see history
repeal itself. The terrible scourge
of war that followed the strife be
lt ween the puritan and the cavalier
in England, and the contentions
I between the Catholic and the Pro
testant, in various forms in Europe,
[involved great nations in a war o*
thirty years’ duration. This car 7
I nival nf blood brought pestilence
anJ famine, and men wer* Fedmed
to the extremity of cannibalism a*
! the result of a strife originated in
j religious differences. It is uncec-
J essary to mention similar calami
ties and excesses. Tbev stain The
records of every Christian ruitiem.
The ck-vi! wa abroad in land
when our Bavior set tip His kiog*
dom on earth. He wes found fre
quently thee in the company of re
ligious people. He wanted Christ
to attempt many things, and he
succeeded frequently in getting
Christ’s followers to do many
thingsthat were wrong and product
ive ot evil.
When our Savior performed the
miracles of the loaves and fishes
He found the devil in the
gation and quietly withdrew and
went away from the multitude.
They followed him and our Savior
told them plainly that many of
them were following Him ior the
loaves and fishes. It takes a poor
judge of human nature to fail to
recognize the devel in many al
leged religious manifestations at
the present time. Ha is abroad in
the land, and nothing pleases him
better than excesses ot any kind,
lie preferred a place on a high
mountain, more than eighteen cen
turies ago, simply because he wan
ted to pass the world in review.
He has been at it ever since. He
sends his evangelist into the great
cLies, not to preach the gospel, but
to say sharp things that will cap
ture the congregation, and he nev
er fails to take up a collection. He
will not hesitate to defile the true
aud holy religion of Christ by an
nouncing that he “will have a Holy
Ghost ot a time at his next meet
ing.'’ Ho will run into ar<y excess
and deceive the people by tailing
them he is fighting himself. Good
people sometimes say : “Well, per
haps a class is reached in this way
that cannot be reached in any oth'
er way.”
Christffifty will suffer for all
this. It ps sure to come, as it baa
in the past, and we have only to r®
for back to the history of Euglish
speaking people to sec what th*ae
exeosse*; To- i#ir
reign of James the First. Jt will
be recollected that just before the
wave of licentiousness, wheu virtue
had no reward and everything was
debased, when the word bvpuerit
was synonymous with religious
zeaL just such actings and doings
were witnessed. “Praise-God-Bare
bones” was a name that marked
ihe ear we ailude to. This crowd
had tVmir evang list, a man who
[said funny tlnngjs, and took up
collections, arid cut many queer
antics. He had peculiar waj r s of
making himself conspicious.
There were many such false lead*
ers, and they succeeded in disgustp
mg the good and sensible. It
was a fruitful text lor the infidel
and it retarded Christianity.
There is but one form of religion,
and it is the pure and simple one
taught by our Savior. It fits the
. rich anti the poor alike. It is
based on Love, not money; meek
ness, not noise; purity, not fun;
truth, not jokes; forgiveness, not
; reviling. The simplest minded
man in the Aorld cannot tail to un
derstand it, and because it is so
simple the devil attempts to couu.
terfeit it. Even Paul marveled
from this gospel to another which
he said was not another,‘‘But there
be some that trouble you and
would prevent .the gospel of Christ.*’
It is not uncommon in this dav
to hear the expression from Chris
tian tips that it is right to fight the
devil with fire. This iff the nat
ural sequence to aootler famous
saying, that the end justifies the
means. When men take up fire to
fight the devil they are apt to get
burned. Their next step is to re
gard anybody who tails to approve
their course as a devil, and then
somebody eke ia bTrded, add so it
goes, r of consequences.
We have no right to judge men’s
motives. But we have our prefer
ences, and one is that we prefer to
go to heaven with good, true Chris
tians, than to go with noisy fellows
wno waut loayds and fishes every
fifteen minutes, who make them
selves contpicious by their sharp
savings ond iheir queer acts. One
comforting thought in the midst of
it all h that in the ecd ttuih will
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Bargains In Music.
This Favorite of Song aid
Ballads, containing thirty-two pieces u
choice and popular * npjsic,. full sheet
music size, with complete words and
music ana 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 Nothin/
Else to Do; The Dear old songs of hor**
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; J 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
ight; One Happy Year Ago; Jennie in
he Orchard; Th** Old Bam 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 , ai a grat 4o< i iJice
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*" • • Syracuse, N. Y.
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