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VOLUME XX. M ¥ .CHil,u t , Ni == 2S-=2|-2 ====:! t< Lane ATTORN EYS AT LAW* •UCK- N Ga. LIKIEIIL Rif. CLSUDE C. RAY, luri "“ • BAY & RAY, A.. r JO R N EYS. * egotmte loans on real estate lower than any Loau Broker in Georgia. Superior adiia# In co'’ u •,gc'.\ us and the South. lactic,, in ail Cuu. A boll' v soJ ° a,e: Also Sopre.ne c&- 4 rt of U. S. A hv spec al con ; ract. WRIGHT & BECK, Attorneys at Law. (OFFICE IN COURT HOI BE.) JACKSON, . - O-A. M. M. MILLS, Counsellor & Attorney at JLaw. Will practioe in all the court*. Mo-ey oand on r al estate at low rate of inter <st. Long tme gmnte-t with small pay ments. Money obtain* lat once w.thout ielay. (office ih court house.) Dr. 0. H. Cantrell, DENTIST. Jackson, - _ Georgia. Up stairs over J. W. Bun’s Rock Corni r. J. W. LEE, M. D. JACKSON, GA. Will practice medicine in its various branches. Office at J. W. Lee & Son’s d;ug store. Residence first house west of Mrs. Brady’s. 110 / ELS. STOP AT HIE Morrison House. E VEH Y. LL &EE \V .y\ I) FI&H % / 'LA SS Conveniently Located* Free Hack to Depot. MR- 1 . E. MORRISON, PhopiUETOr. Wilkinson s-s House. Ft i it a~s tu Ev ry Particular. Th only brick hotel between Atlanta .nd A t co . C nvef> ent to all business. Mrs A. E. Wilkin our, Prop. Ifit. T. B. MOORE, PitonuETOß. Board Re sonxble, and Table supplied w tu ti.e beat. j Corner Public Square. ETHERIDGE & KINARD. FIDE 11SURA1CE AGENTS. Risk taken on nil classes of Insur ance. We insure Colon, Colton G’ns Satv miltSy Country *S *or-r, Dwelling*, Bams &c. We represent so.nc of ’he at an l oldest companies in tne Uni ted S.a.es. MOAKY TO LOAN. Wc are prepared to nego iate loc.11? for nj amount on real estate on the most favorable teims. Cbl. on us and investi nate before borrowing elsewhere. Office an the court house. Sept. Ist 189—. Thai on & Mi n . Pure, Briliiaiit, Perfect, Authentic living testimonials from dis tirguis ed generals and statesmen m rtr ror of Hi-'W Now Crjstalixed L* • •Ter ah others. Oar Neat IJ. • t>ator Saj.i Mr v. K. Hawks-' O ir Sir: l “* ou - rcirjz'™ * ar. un q'W iu >•*•■ and bril unev hj any that I h.TO worn. H f-p cttuA J^ ns B Gordon, of St to of Georgia. v Y 'k City, April 4, >9.S. „ a K HvWKns-De.r Sr: Your M*. A. K. .. iTt d s. me tim3 r ,,DI .mTerj mud. ratiflu.i at tue am- e, and ani oTer my •£; Vt.STw -r ° ld ™ -“KTr^. fACVZPOX. ggggggggggggittibbk #cot§k 9trgm N**w t psolve*. Ibff rabbit bunts. L*'a „f „tock ill town. Don t forget The Abqus. Mr. W. W. Hightower has moved to McDonough. I h masons will enjoy a g*an feast <>n i he mghl of 271 h. Mis Haiti* Buttrill has returned. I ho school children get ten da vs of rest. Miss Do!lie Rogers of Bartlesville is visiting in Jackman. Rev. , H Cartel, the neipasto. ol the Baptist church wili, ar ive dur* * n g the holiday*. Dr. C. B. Chius and wife of Frank fort Ky are visiiina Mr. and Mrs C. 11. Gresham at the Morrison House. KgTWINEOF CAROUI, a Tonic tor Women. Ords.a for dry pin* or green oak and hickory wood promptly attend ee to if left at Alliance Warehouse Dec. 19, 92. 8. C. McCandless. Charlie Pinkney is said to be one of the us st liberal men in town to wards Christinas trees. Young ladies getting up subscriptions for .such things will do well to make a note of this Th * police-force in all parts of the country bear unifotm teslimo nv to the great value of Dr. Bull's Cough Svrup as a remedy foi cough, cold and incipient consumption, they all emphasize the fact that no one should he without it. J >KE ON THE EXPRESS COM PANY, One o 1 lie coolest actions I ever observe i in the course of my express expeiiei.ee, so and an express messen ger loan potter of Ihe Cincinnati Times -Star, was that of a rough fell >w from New Mexico, He whs poor]v dressed, and boarded our irain at T-mib-done on a second’ class 'icket, depositing at the same torn m onx in l lie re of the express ageni, ialelled “Rattlesnakes— fiat die with care ** It was a small soap fox, and not vy heavy, but uni c..n bet that box was zealously b and. At Kamas City he came and got 1 he box and carried it off to a bank. The bar ker was a hiend of min®, and meeting him the next day, I ask*d what the lellow did in the bank with rattlesnakes “Rattlesnakes! Well that’s a good joke u, the express company” ne replied. “Tliat box bad exactly SBO,OOO in $lO gr- nl a< ks in it.’* If ihe money had ben enteied as m we weuldih* ve cha* ged him a neat sum for its transportation but by labeling it rattle' s, lie had it car ried for a trifle, and 141 vemuie Jt was more secure from robbeis under that simple title than it would hay been in the stoutest safe. THE KING OF PASSENGER AGENTS. The Macon Evening News says: “The passenger business of the East Tennessee has been in Mr. Wrenn’s hands for a long time, and it is a well known fact that in that service the East Tennessee is second to none of the great trunk lines in the country. The travel to Florida, the south and the Southwest over the East Tennessee has increased with each succeeding year. The magnificent vestibule trains over the lines are moving palaces and cannot be resisted by pleasure and health seekers when they desire comfort in their voyages. Mr W reun has just returned from the North and Last. On this trip he brooked a large volume of tarifflu for the coming tourists season and w : lh very little trouble. Arrangemts have al-o been made for th*< through travel to the West and East Tennessee is the popular rout every time Mr. Wrenii is the King of pas senger agents and presides over a mighty popular road.’ 7 When yon have over-exerted yourself by running, jumping, or working, there is nothing that will relieve the soreness ot your joints and muscles so quickly and effect* ually as Salvation oil, the greatest cure on earth for pain 25 eta. JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1892. TEE FINAL COMMAND. CAME TO DR. TANARUS, PRESTON GIBBS YESTERDAY MORNING. And he Answered the Summon*— Another of the Old Guard Sur renders to the Conquerer Death —•And Join* the Silent Majority. The following article is taken iromtne Madisonion of Friday Dec. 16tn and is published at the request of Dr. W, L Carmichael, who is a brother-in law to the deceased. Another of the Old Guard, who “dies but never suirenders’’ an sweied the fL.al summons ycsier day inorniug, and joined the “innu merable caravan that move* to the pale resins of shade.” Another of the ardeat followers of the stars and bars has laid down his a; ms and surrendered only to the great conqueror, Death. A man who has never yet acknowL edged the defeat of the Southern cause, and who cherished the names of Lee, Jackson, Johuston and Gor don as sacredly at the time of hi* death as he did on that memora ble Apiil day when the whole south was in tears because of Lee'* surrender at Appomattox, has passed away. Dr, T. P Gibbs died at his resi dence yesterday morning at 3 oclock, from lung troubles, occa sioned by a severe attack of la grippe some time age, For several weeks he has been gradually sinking, and the eud came at the hour named above. The funeral will occur to-day at 11 o’clock from the Baptist church, Rev S. A. Bur ney officiating. SKETCH OF HIS LIFE, Dr. T. Preston Gibbs was Dorn in Social Circle, G . forty five years ago. He was reared and re cieved his eaily education in Ham ilton, Harris countv. He lost bis mother when quite young, and his father when only fourteen year* of age. The sterling patriotism that has rtlways characterized Dr. Gibbs prompted him to cast bis lot with ihe Confederate ary, serving un* dvr Gen Joe Wheeler. After the war he was thrown on his own re sources, and he, with h’B brother, farmed several years in Merriweth" er eounty. Hsviag chosen medi cine as his profession young Gibbs graduated from the Mobile college of Medicine, and practiced Lis pre tension fur eeyeral years in Kamil ton. Dr. Gibog then removed to S cial Circle, and conducted a cus cesfcful drug business for four years, moving from there to Mad ison in 1880, where he continued the drug business up to the time of his death. August 14th, 1884 Dr. Gibbs was married to Miss Fannie Martin, daughter of Felix B. Martin, and sister of our esteemed citizen, W F. Martin. Dr. Gibbs was aa intense and un compromising democrat. He rep resented ably tne 28th Seer>atorial district of Geeegia in 1888 and 18S9. He was chairman ef the Demecratic Executive Committee ef Morgan county for one term. Whether in office or in private life he was ever on the watch-towers of pure democracy. He was a liberal, devoted survivor of the Lost Causa—a friend to the Confeder ate veteran that stuck closer than * brother. One by one the ''Old Guard’* are passing oyer; and no ruer i.eart has yet joined the Bi leDt majority than that which ceased to beat at 3 o’clock Thursday morning when Dr. T. Preston Gibbs answered the great roll call. He leaves a devoted wife and three vsry sweet and interestii g iittle daughters. Resides his im~ mediate family he leaves a friend in every man who knew him in life, and who, as they read these lines, will say, “ A true Southerner has gone from among us.” Dr. Gibbs was insured in the G#ldD Chain for $9,000, and in Provident Saving Cos., for $2,000. CORNS, WARTS*and BUNIONS Removed quicidy and surely by using Abbott's East India Corn Paint. THE BOON OF SILENCE. And so Peter Martin rel uctantly came to the conclusion that he would have to consult a physician. He had never been to a physician in his long life, and to have to go now was bitter to him. It was a luxury. He felt he couldn’t afford it. A man who keeps a $lO-a -week family on $8 has a hard time of it in this worhl. For 30 years the roar of the c ; ty had been in his ears, and he had had no vacations. So it was just hi£ luck to stumble into the office ol ’he most expen sive doctor in the metropolis. If the servant had seen him he would not have got into the presence of the great doctor, but Martin, knowing nothing* of how a man whose time is worth $lO a minute is hedged in, and happening to come when the last patient was undergoing examination, walked right from the street, and by good iuch., to the infinite astonishment of doctor and patient, stumbled into the consulting room. “There is something wrong with me,” he said, fumbling with his hat. “I don’t know just what it is, so I thought I should see a doc tor. Which of you is it?” The patient his hand to ward the great specialist, and Martin turned his pathetic, appeal ing glance toward him. “See what’s wrong with him,” said the patient in a whisper, who was evidently* impressed with the humor of the situation. He thought it funny that so evi dently poor a man should con sult a physician, whose fees amounted into the hundreds. The doctor asked many ques tions, and examinM his new pa tient carefully’, 'fuen he stood away and looked at him for a mo moment. “There is nothing radically wrong with you. A 7hat you need is absolute quiet. -Medicine will not do y r ou good. diet out of the roar of the city for a couple of weeks or a month, ii possible. Go into the country o some farm house. That’s ail ou need.” Peter Martin sa down with a sigh of exhaustion. “1 cannot get aC'jy,” he said; “I would lose ray Jfhcei aud. be sides, T can’t 1 get only $8 a week.” “Ah, I am sorry for y’ou,” said the doctor; “we have no prescrip tion for poverty.” „ The wealthy patient put his hand in his pocket qnd drew out some money. “Here,” he said, ‘That will help you to a little vacation.” Peter shook his head. He was too nervous and shaky to draw himself up indignantly, as perhaps he should have done. ‘*l have never taken any money that I did not earn,” ne said, “and I’m too old to begin. How much is your fee?” he asked, look ing at the specialist A' “I usually get 25 cents,” an swered the great man; “that is, of course, where I don,’t give any medicine.” “Of course,” said Peter simply, drawing out his lean purse and pay’ing over the coin. “Good morning gentlemen.” And with that Martin tremulously departed. “You did that nicely’,” said the Eatient, rising. “Lunust follow im and try to smooth over my blunder.” “Are you going to experiment with him?” * “Perphaps.” Martin, as he walked slowly down the street, felt a touch on his shoulder. He turned and saw the man who had been with the doc tor. If you come with |ie, I think I can help you. mil you step into my carriage?” Somewhat reluctantly Peter did so. He did not like the man, but there was something in his dark glance that compelled obedience. When the carriage stopped Mar tin was taken into a house that was luxuriously furnished. “Sit down,” said the stranger. “Now let me understand thor oughly about your occupation.” Martin told him afi about it and the stranger listened patiently. “If I understand you, then, your hearing is of no use to you in your business—that is, it depends on your sight only. If you were deaf y’ou could still hold your place. Am I right?” “Quite right,” answered Peter. “Well, then, I want to try an experiment on you. 01 think it will help you, in any’ case it will do you no harm. Do you consent?” “If it will help mef “l think it will. Now fix your eyes and attention on this.” The machinq referred to was a small box with a thin, upright rod on which were two horizontal arms, each with a small, round, shining mirror at the end. The dark man touched a string and the mirrors rapidly revolved. Peter iooked at the whirling mirrors in tently for a moment, then leaned slightly forward with his eyes widely opened. The stranger, watching him keenly for a few moments, at last fctqpped_the machine. Peter’s eyes remained gazing fixedly at noth ing. _ “You are asleep,” said the man quietly, passing his hand over Peter’s face. The evelids closed and Peter answered not. “When you awake you will be stone deaf—you will hear abso lutely nothing, You will have to be very careful at the street cross ings, and wherever there is danger. Now wake up.” A shiver ran over Martin’s body and he looked around wildly for a, moment. “What have you been doing to me?” he asked. % “Can you hear me speak?” said the man loudly. “What have you done to me?” repeated Peter. “Everything seems unnaturally quiet.” The dark man drew a writing pad toward him and wrote on it, handling the result to Peter. He read the words: “You are stone deaf. Try the effects for two weeks and then come back and see me. If at any time before you wish to have your hearing restored, come to this ad dress. Try the effect for two weeks if you can stand it.” Here followed the man’s name and address. Peter folded the paper in a dazed sort of way and put it into his pocket. He went out into the street. The traffic was as busy as ever, but an awful silence was over the city. There was something unearthly in the appearance of bustle and the ab scence of all sound. He was in a city of phantoms, and it frightened him at first, but finally there •seemed to come over him a sweet peace, because noise did not exist. When he went home that night his good wife received him as she had done these many years. “Now, you old good-for-nothing, what’s kept you? Here I am toil ing and moiling and getting some thing to eat for an old fool that doesn’t know enough to come home before it’s cold. Nice sort of a family man, you are, you dod dering old —say! what are you looking at me like that for? What’s the matter with you? Been drink ing again ?” Now Peter neither drank nor smoked, which no-one knew; bet ter than Mrs. Sally Martin.- He couldn’t afford either, but, as he always winced when she accused him of it, she accordingly flung it at him. “Sally,” he said quietly, “I am deaf. I suppose you are speaking to me, but I cannot hear a word. You’ll have to write it down.” “Write it down I” cried the good woman aghast. She had some idea that he was shamming, but as she watched him she saw that this was serious. She broke out occasionally in wrath, but quickly subsided and murmered: “Oh, Lor’!” And Peter Martin spent the first evening of peace at his own fire side for twenty years. In two weeks Peter Martin called on the dark man in the fine house. He was looking very much better in health than he had done when he left that place a fortnight before. The far-away look of the deaf was already be ginning to appear in his eyes. A sweet serenity sat upon his coun tenance. “I am pleased to see you look so —” Then the man remembered and drew his writing pad toward him. , “If you will sit down in the chair I will take away your deafness,” he wrote. Peter read it with a smile. “I merely came to thank you,” he said. “I will not Bit down.”— Detroit Free Press. I Wall-Paper of Postage Stamps. The village of Bersted, near Bognor, possesses an unique curios ity in the form of an inn room papered with postage stamps. The apartment is fancifully decorated with many descriptions of used stamps, and even the passage lead ing to the room is similiarly pa pered. Some gve years was occu pied. 1 in making the collection, which numbers some thousands of stamps. The room being com pleted in 1887 received the name of the “Jubilee Stamp Room.” Indeed, some members of the royal family, interested in the col lection, are said to have added to it a number of stamps ou their own account. Not a Doable Life. Gazzam—There’s a marrie* man paying marked attention to Mrs. Blloobumper. Mrs. Gazzam (shocked but in terested) —You don’t say ! \V ho is it ? Gazzam—Mr. Bloobumper. —Judge. Sympathy. “What's the matter?” said the artist to the medical student. “Been having trouble?” “Yes; somebody has stolen my skeleton.” “I don’t blame you for feeling badly. There is nothing more an noying than a bone-felon. SMIIKS! ■ A. G. HITCHENS, Jackson, - Georgia. Now is the time to get your goods cheap! I have a large stock, and am Determined to Sell! Crockery, Glass ai CMnaiare. I have a few more of those beautiful French Obina Tea Sets (44 pieces), worth $lO, but I sfyall close them out at $7. And those Iron Granite Tea Sets (44 pieces) handsomely decoMMgi, at $4 and $4.50 —worth $0 to S(J 50. I also have a few haoieome Bed-Room Seta (10 pleocs). They are lovely goods, Latest Styles and Beautiful Designs—worth $lO and sl9. They will be sold this week at $3.75 and $4 75 to make room for other goods arriving daily. My Crockery line is fuH and complete In all the latest novelties, both in plain and decorated. As I buy them direct, and in largo quantities, I will save you TEN PER CENT ! Lamps! Lamps! Lovely Stand Lamps at 95c —worth $1.25. Handsomely decorated Parlor Lamps $1.45 worth $2.00. Lovely Vuse Parlor Lamps, $2.50 —worth $3.00. My stock of Swinging Lamps is perfect, and prices lower than ever. Aud, remem ber, I am headquarters for Church and Bcbooi Lamps, etc., etc. STATES! STOVES!! SMS!!! Stoye-Pipe, Tinware, etc., Orates and Orate Fixtures. In this department I carry the best line ever brought to Jaokson, in Eastern and Southern makes, frord the finest to tKc. common atpp stove * and I will guaran tee to sell you as good stoves, aud asVjuick to cook, and in every way'so give satisfaction, and save you ten per cciit , over any house in Georgia. My Tinware is of best heavy, double-tinned goods, guaranteed not to leak, and at Prices to suit the times. Oils! Oils! Oils! Georgia Test Kerosene Oil, 15c. per gallon. Walter White Headlight Oil at 80c. GINNERS and MILL MEN: lam headquarters for Cylinder Oil, Machinery Oil, Harvesting Oil, Neats-foot Oil, Black Harness Oil. In fact, I carry g full stock of oil, and am selling oil from sc. to 20c. pur gallon less than any oae else, If you have not been buying your oils from me, you are the loser. Leather 1 Leather I Harness Leather, Whang Leather, Sole Leather, Belting, Rubber Hose, Etc., Etc. lam carrying a full line of Rubber and Leather Belting, and Rubber Hose. H yon will call I will convince you that my prices are below Atlanta or Macon, 1 buy from the manufacturers and pay spot cash, aud my expeases beiag light, I am able to sell them close. HARDWARE! Nowhere in Georgia is there a better assorted stock than I carry, and as } buy direct and in quantities with the r&aiy cash, I can assure you that my pridds are right, and this means a big saving to you. Harness, Saddles, flips, Etc. In this Department I will surprise you. I haye ope of the Largest and fiapgt stocks of Single and Double Buggy and Wagon Harness It was ever my ple|s* ure to offer to my customer*, and this Is saying a good deal when you ooft# aider that I have always carried a large and fine stock of Hanes*. But ten and see me, and you shall be pleased, both in style, quality and price. JLaf parts to replace the old worn-out parts to your harness, you oan nad here fer less money than you will have to pay for having the old one repaired. Bridles, Lines, Halters, Etc. WAGONS! One $c Two-Horse Wagons. I sell the colebrated White Hickory Wagons, made of best material and fully war* ranted to give satisfaction la quality and workmanship. I have sold hundred# °/ them in Butts and adjoining counties. They have given universal satisfaQ* tion. They are the lightest-running wagon now in use, and are made froi Best of Material, and guaranteed for twelve months. Buggies, Pbaetons and Carriages. I carry a complete line of all the best makes in Phaetons, Oanopy-Top Surfer? Open and Top Buggies, made by Summer & Murphy, of Barnesvillc, Ga. Thl original celebrated Barnesville Buggies: also the fiae Indiana work. I iliO carry a line of cheaper buggies, every job of which I warrant for twelve months. See me before you buy. TO SHOPS AND REPAIR MEN: I now have to stock Long and .3 iort-Arm Axles, Tires Bolts, efcq., also a complete line of V\ heels, Spokes, Skeins* and will make it to your interest to srive mi your trade - w . TO SPORTSMESTi , GUNS! GUNS! GUNS! ETC. - ptitsitatse Shalh ,nd ’ io fart - Wo “ % Thanking yon for past patronage, and asking your future trade I remain, yours respectfully. * >A. G. HITCHENS. NUMBER 51.