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THE ARGUS.
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
O bblClAL ORGAN Ob JACKSON.
OFFICIAL ORGAN Ob BUTTS
COUNTY.
Entered, at the Postoffice at Jackson
as second class maimatetr,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
D. J. THAXTON, Editor.
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Jackson Ga. Jan. 6*
▲DY ERTISING RA/IES.
Idj. | 1 wk. J 1 mo. | 3 mos. J 6 mos | lyr.
1 | .60 | $1.25 | $2.50 | $4.00 | $6.00
2 | 1.00 | 2.25 | 4 .50 j 7.00 | 1150
t | 1.00 | 3.25 | 6.50 j 11.00 j 16.00
4 | 1.75 | 4.00 j 7.50 j 12.50 | 21.00
icl | 2.00 j 4. 50 j 8.50 jl4 00 | 27.50
icl | 4.00 | 8.25 I 15.00 j 27.50 | 52.50
coL | 7.00 | 15.00 | 30.00 | 55.00 | 100
ANNOUECEMENT.
This is to give notice that we
have associated with us as a gen
eral help, Mr. N J. Harmon. He
will assist us in every way per
taining to the publication of the
paper, soliciting subscriptions,
preparing news items, collecting
bills, making advertising con
tracts etc. We trust be will be
cordially received and given an
encourageing welcome by all.
His name we offer as assaciated
editor.
Fellow Citizens: I feel my in
ability to correctly discharge the
duties devolving upon me in ac
cepting the connection with this
paper I now assume. To be ex
pected to aid an enterprise that
is already a success is embarrass
ing to a novice. While this New
\ car finds me, in common
vuth mankind, promising my
neighbors and my God to be a
better man in the future, when
1 fully comprehend the truth,
behold I am a devil (I believe
that is the awful epithet given
an associate. If a young editor
is that, what would you take an
old one to be?) With no desire
to boast, but state a simple truth,
I can say the Argus is firm and
can be relied upon to champ l ”on
the cause of humanity in every
emergency, when the morals of
the young, or the fair name of
our glorious county is at stake.
The paper always has been, and
hopes ’ever to be, on the right
side.
Many good citizens will abso
lutely donate one dollar to a less
philanthropic work than we ex
pect to do, and if there was no
such paper in the county, there
are those of our neighbors, who
are chivalrous enough and patri
otic enough to give laige sums
to fill the very place we are try
ing to occupy, and yet, we ask
nothing but justice, your patron
age. We will give you value for
every cent you pay us. Breth.
ren, if you need us in time of war
love us in time of peace. A lit
tle effort on your part, and a big
one on our part, will make the
Argus just what you want in this
county. If you are a subscriber,
get your neighbor to be one too.
In conclusion I will say, if we
happen to say anything that any
good man does not like, remem
ber you sometimes do the same
thing and need the charity of
your friends. We are no better
than you are and need the same
from you. Tnat is a charitable
construction. Besides, if you
will call at the office and our sen
ior happens to be out, we will
take you back into the composing
room where there is no danger
of police interference and delib
erately take it back.
Yours to serve.
N. J. Harmon.
Nja', lei's relegate politics to the
rear for at least two years, and goto
work in unity for the building up of
our town, country a.nl aectfor.
Lat every man in an 1 around
Jackson who feels an interest in
th town oi prihe in their school,
put his shoulder to the wheel and
push, push altogether, nush with*
out ceasing for the upbuiling of ihd
•ehool and the town is sure to
hu Id vs- with it. Se. U y u boy* and
gtrls to school at home
as long ns they can he taught
here, th*-n it is ample time to send
them out in the world from under
the watchful care of parents and
home training. Build up your
home enterpr se first then if you
care to, branc.*: out, i
VOLUME TWENTY-ONE.
With this issue The Argus begins
>ts twenty-first year. With the
new year we start out with renewed
energies, renewed determinations
and bright prospects. We no lon
ger wear swaddling clothes, but
have reached an age when we can
put on long pants, support a mus
tache and stand up as a man.
Long experience has taught us bet
ter how to run a new*papar than
we once new.
Our motto being “upward and
onward,” we expect to aim higher,
do better work and more of it than
ever before. We havt emplo>ed
two new men to aid us in the office
and with their help and quite a deal
of new printing material to he
added soon we can conscientiously
promise a better and more readable
and interesting sheet thn before.
Several new features will be
sp*ead upon our pages, one of which
will be h bright news summary
lrom all parts of the county each
week.
We want everybody to read The
Argus and to that end we will put
a canvasser ia the field, who will
constantly travel over thia and ad
joining counties to solicit subscrip
tions and advertising ar.d collect
what is due the paper, This indi
vidual will be Mr. N. J. Harmon, or
ourself. When he calls on you pay
him a dollar for a years subscrip
tion, give him a few news items
and thus make two souls happy.
*" "Vi a * # .
Dont fail to examine our stock
of Dress Goods. Trimmiugs, No
tions, Shoes, Clothing, Gents
Furnishing Goods, Hats etc.
Everything new and stylish
We will save you money.
The Carmichael Co’s.
An honset Swede tells his stojy
in plain unmistakable language for
the benefit of the public. “One 01
my children took a severe cold and
got the croup. I gave her a teas
poonful of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy, and in five minutes later
I gave her oue more. By this time
she had to cough up the gathering
in her throat. Th>n she went to
sleep and slept good for fifteen
minutes, Then she got up and
vomited ; then she went back to bed
and slept good the remainder
of the night. She got the croup the
sacond night and I gave the same
remedy with the same good results.
I write this because I th ught there
might be someone in the same
need and not know the true merits
of thia wonderful medicine.”
Charees A. Thompson, Des Moines,
owa. 50 cent bottles for sale by
Dr. W. L. Carmichael.
McElree’B Wine of Cardui
and THEDFCRD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT are
for sale by the following merchants in
Butts county.
J, W. Lee &Son, Jackson,
Almond a Moon, Jackson,
R. G. Bryans & Cos, Jackson >
W. L, Carmichael, Jackson,
.A. Wright Indian Spring,
A. F, White & Cos. Flovilla,
J. G. Kimbell, Jenkmsburg,
J. M. Cain, Towaliga,
D, J. & F. M. Kinard, Towalig
F. T. Barns Woithvelle
G L.Washington, Worthviile.
The smallest known quadruped is
the pigmy mouse of Siberia.
Chinese control almost the en
tire shoe-making business in Cali
fornia.
In India there is a species of
crow that laughs like a human be
ing.
There is but one sudden death
among women to every ten among
men.
Tennyson is reported to be the
1,173d person whose body has been
deposited in Westminster Abbey.
Glass in oven doors is anew
contrivance. It enables cooks to
watch the food without opening
the doors.
The Dead Sea is nothing more
than a small but very old salt lake,
now in an advanced state of evap
oration.
The longest word in the new
Century Dictionary is palatophar
ingeolaryngeal. The next longest
is transubstantiationalist.
There is a tooth of Buddha, pre
served and worshipped in an
Indian temple, which probably all
the gold in the world could not
buy.
Herculile, the new French ex
plosive, is so powerful that half a
pound of it, in a recent test, dis
placed a stone weighing thirty
tons.
*The smallest inhabited island in
the world is that upon which the
Eddystone Lighthouse stands. At
time of low water it is only 30 feet
in diameter.
The Czar of Russia is the lai
est individual landowner in the
world. The area of his possessions
is far greater than that of the en
tire Republic of France.
VERGE OF THE UNKNOWN.
An Experiment that Makes Us Ask
“What Is Coming.”
Mr. W. H. Preece, chief engi
neer and electrician to ‘lie Post
Office, has put up a wire a mile
long on the coast near Laver ock,
and a shorter wire on Flat holm, a
little island three miles off in the
Bristol Channel. He fitted the
latter wire with a “sounder” to re
ceive messages, and sent a mes
sage througn the former from a
?)werful telephonic generator.
hat message on the mainland
was distinctly’ heard on the island,
though nothing connected the
two, or, in other words, the possi
bility of a telephone between places
unconnected by wire was conclu
sively established. There is a
possibility here of inter-planetary
communication, a good deal more
worthy attention than any scheme
for making gigantic electric
flashes. We do not know if we
can communicate by telephone
through the ether to New York or
Melbourne, with or without cables,
but we do know that, if we can
not, the fault is in our generators
and sounders, and not in any
prohibitory natural law.
Will our habitual readers bear
with us for a moment as we wan
der into another, and, as many of
them will think, a supra-sensual
region? The thought in a man’s
brain which causes him to advance
his foot, must move something in
doing it, or how could it be trans
mitted down that five or six feet
of distance ? If it moves a physi
cal something, internal to the
body, why should it not also move
something external, a wave, as we
all agree to call it, which on an
other mind prepared to receive it—
fitted with a sounder, in fact—will
make an impact having all the ef
fect in the conveyance of sugges
tion, or even of facts, of the audi
bility of words? Why, in fact, if
one wire can talk to another with
out connection, save through
ether, should not mind talk to
mind without any “wire” at all?
None of us understand accurately,
or even as yet approximately, what
the conditions are; but many of us
know for certain that they have
occasionally, and by what we call
accident, been present to particu
lar individuals, and that, when
present, the communication is
completed without cables, and
mind speaks to mind independent
ly of any machinery not existing
within itself.
Why, in the name of science, is
that more of a “miracle,” that is,
an occurrence prohibited by immu
table law, than the transmission of
Mr. Preece’s message from Laver
nock toFlatholm? —Spectator.
The Soldiers’ Pocket Handkerchiefs.
Some years ago puukobliduhkcr
chiefs were not considered a neces
sary part of a soldier’s kit, says
the Leeds Mercury.
Permission to carry these useful
articles will now probably be given,
for I see the War Office authori
ties have sanctioned a military
handkerchief being patented by
Lieut.-Col. Fulton.
On this handkerchief is printed
all sorts of useful information
concerning the use and construc
tion of the Lee-Metford rifle, the
alphabet used by army signalers,
general rules to be observed in
any position in which a soldier
may find himself on campaign,
the various bugle calls and other
things, many of which are so
nicely illustrated that it would be
a thousand pities to use it in the
manner naturally prompted by a
cutting “nor’easter.”
Vice-President Stevenson’s Daughter.
Yice-President-elect Stevenson
will not give up his residence in
Bloomington, 111. Mrs. Steven
son and her three daughters are
great favorites in Bloomington
society. Miss Letitia Stevenson,
the youngest of the trio, is a stu
dent at Monticello Seminary at
Godfrey, 111. Miss Mary E.
Stevenson, Mr. Stevenson’s sec
ond daughter, was born in Bloom
ington and educated at Mrs. Stella
Dyer Loring’s Prairie Avenue
School, Chicago. She has spent a
number of years in Washington
with her family, but has not ap
peared very often in social affairs
in this city.
A Cosy Custom.
In certain London restaurants
each customer is allowed to make
his (or her) own tea. The waitress
lights the gas-burner, which is
affixed to each table, and sets
thereon a silver kettle. Then she
presents to the tea-maker a silver
caddy, divided into compartments
and offering a choice of Souchong,
Cevlon or green tea.
Familiarity Breeds Contempt.
Judge Duffy— How dare you
come into court so? Take your hat
off!
Tramp—But. Judge, you know
Fm not a stranger here. — Texas
Siftings.
Natural Doubt.
“Hallo, Vanderloin; some of
your people coming on this train ?”
“Yes: I'm expecting a sister of
mine.”
“Sister, eh! By birth or refifsalr*
-Truth.
A Peculiar Apology.
A. —Sir, I must request you not
to stare at my daughter.
B. I beg ten thousand pardons.
I thought she was only your wife.
—Texes Siftings.
' How the Sound is Produced.
m Cumsc—what a loud dress that
m of ML Hojack’a.
i ijgTOunw—' Yn, ItbwfttwU
lew Millinery,
Mr.-. Bettie Gilmore is opening
an a select line of FALL AND
WINTER MILL INERY GOOD.-
in the first room of the Masonic
Building. She respectfully in
vites the patronage of the pubiic.
She will do her uttermost to please
Quality of Goods
and in prices. Give her a call be
fore buying.
LIIIEL F.IK DIVORCE,
John Aiken 'j Libel for divorce in the
VS > Superior Court of Butts
Ella Aiken. ) countv Georgia Feb’y term,
1892.
To the defendant Ella .-liken.
It being made to appear to the court that
the defendant Ella Aiken is not to be
found in said county and that sue is not a
resident in said state, whereupon au
order was passed authorizing and direc
ting the service thereof by publication as
required by law, this is to notify and re
quire the said Ella \iken in person or by
attorney to be and appear at the next
term of the superior court to be held in
for the county of Butts state of Georgia
on the third Monday in February 1893
then and there to answer and defend said
action or in default thereof the Court will
pioceed as to justice shall apportaiu.
Witness the Hon. Jcimes S. Boynton,
Judge of said court.
Tins 15th day of November 1892.
Joseph Jolly, C. S. C. B. C,
McKibbex & Lane,
Libelant’s Attys.
B. F. Gibson, applicant) Application
VS j to execute
R. G. Bryans ■{ deeds in Butts
11. L. Daughtry, j court of Ordi-
Executor* vs. J nary January
Tenn 1^93.
The above st tied application road and
considered, ordered that R. G. Rvans,
aud H, L Daughtry executors cf J. H.
i rvans, deceased, and Mrs. M. E, Bry
ans, wife of deceased, aod the fo lowing
children: Edith Bryans,Mrs, Florida ,-vT
Daughtry, Janie Rryaus. Bessie Bryans,
Qse<?r Bryaus, R G. Bryans residents
of the Btate of Georgia be served with n
copy of the above stated application and
this order fifteen days before the hear
ing ol thee, me, which hearing is hereby
fixed at the office of Ordinary of Butts
county on the first Monday in February
1893. In appearing to the court that
Walter H. Bryans, a child of said de
ceased, is a resident of tho State of
Florida, and that A. S. Bryans another
child of the said deceased whose domi
cile is unknown, therefore, ordered that
Service ur Bus appucaviou. Uo r -.rtc ,ta.i
upon them by publication of this order
once a week for four weeks immediately
proceeding the day fixed for the hearing
of the same by the court. Janurary 2nd
1893.
J. F, Carmichael.
Ordinary.
McKibben and Lane, Pets. At,tvs.
WANTED! NAMES!
,ou 200,000 su, ™s!uf" s
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Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus),
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We cwt TM. *• r=*x Y-s iL.it hiT©‘e
/car bITTr BsKfit, er sii yc*r *wts to th* work. '1 hU is an
r.iiimy rw !**4,aa4 hrisgs i trerr wrfe#r.
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end caorv after a iiiil rX7r;*i:ec:. 77e c-tr. ysu tbe
pi ay m "Hrt sr.a • 7 **u * ' V*- K- nwcohJ c x pit in here. Full
fe%fcunitir.it F-tJAL. T3S.V t-* A.Ui-Cfl i, JUI.N&
Pi.Xl.losf lOR CHARTER.
In Butts Su.erior Court March Teitu
1893.
GEORG/A—Bu'ts Couutf
To the Superior Court of said county:
7’oe petition of R. L. Daughtry, J. R.
Wright, S. O. Ham. J. B Settle, 11. L
Daughtry, and others of said county,
shows:
That they desire for themselves, their
associates and successors, to be incorpora
ted under the name and style of The Jack
son Mercantile Company. That tho ob
ject of their corporal ion is pecuniary prof
it to iu chare hold- rs. That the general
character and nature of the bnsiuess of
said corporation shall be the doh g of and
the carrying ou of a general Mercantile
bu-iuess. To buy, sell and deal in dry
goods, groceries, hats, boo; a, ahoes, hard
ware, miilinary and all other goods, wares,
merchandise, and other *itides or proper
ty dealt iu pertaimniag to, or in any way
belonging to a general mercantile business
at wholesale or retail; also, to buy and sell
•teal estate, stocks, bond#, and other secur
ttier. Also to import such goods as per*,
taid te theis business, and to hold and sell
goons on commission.
That the amount of the capital stock of
said corporation to begin with shall be
($18000.00) eighteen thousand dollars di
vided into shares of (SIOO.GU) one hun
died dollars each, the full amount of
which slu.ll lie paid in money *r its equiv.
olent, at the commencement of tho busi
ness of said corporation, and the peti uers
further ask the privilege of increasing
said capital stock of said cooperation to
(50000) fi.'iy thousand dollars.
And further that the payment of the
full amount of the capital stock subscribed
by each stock holdei, shall terminate his
personal liability.
That the principal office of said corpor
ation shall be in fht town of Jackson, said
county, where its main bu-iuess will be
transacted, but that they desire the privU
rege to tran-act business in and throughout
taid sta'e and elsewheie.
Petitioners farther s ow that they hare
complied with the provisions of lbs statu
tes pertaining to petitions of this nature.
This petition seeks all the powers inci
dent to a cooperation of this kind or tike
character and the right to do all such acts
as are necessary for the legitimate txecu
its purposes ia the business stated.
Anioiig these is the power of taking, hold
ing, granting and alieuating iu j-mccession,
propei ty, real aim personal, of contracting
obligations, of suing and being sued m the
same manner as au individual, and to make
and have a constitution aud by laws bind
ing on its members, and according to
which the directors and officers of the co
operate body, shall bo elected and re nov
ed, and the business of the corporation be
managed. Wherefore petitioners pray
the court, after the usual adver isement,
for a charter incorporating them for a pe
riod of fifteen years with the right of re
ilOmil o.t tli, usrtiirnfin.) of Hftift period.
Hud petitioners willever pray, etc.
Mokibbkn & Lane,
Petitioners’ Attorneys.
Filed in this office December 29, 1892.
Joseph Jolly,
Clerk Superior Court, Butts County.
GEORGIA—Zfutts County.
Clerks' Office Butts Superior Court.
I do certify that the forogoing is a true
copy of the original petition for charte r
which is now on file in my office, Decern
her 29 1892-
Joseph Jolly, C. S. C., B. C.
GEORGIA —Butt3 C >n try.
By virtue of an order from the court of
Ordinary 'ol Butts county will be sold on
the First Toe sday in February, 1893, at
the court house door in said county be
tween the legal hours of sale a tract, or
parse!, of land containing seventy five
acres, adjoining lands of B F. Watkins
on the South, the estate of G. S. Lynch
deceased, on the North, tl e Jar.de of
Hammond Brothers on the Fast and the
lands of J. H.' Pettigrew on the West.
Terms cash.
This January the sth 1893.
Mary E.
Administratrix of G. S. Lynch.
A Pla t of said land mcy be seen at
the office of McKioben a Lane.
HEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
BEATTY ORGANS
and PIANO? $33 up. Want agt. Cata
logue Free Address Darnel F. Beatty,
Washington, N. J.
sPftr Agents profits per month. Will
/norove or pay forfeit. New ar
y&Uticles just out. A $1.50 Sam
i' c and itains free. Trv us.
3 hide iter & Son, 23 Bnd St. N. Y.
If"**!?*? & NIAS BOISE* 6VRID hr
K SS 3 ® rfA E“' 9 - deck’s INVISIBLS TUBULAR EAR
I&SS tir*k S CtSK'Wt Whisper# heard. Com
tor:*- e. where all Kemedic# farL. Ille book*
X-rcOisino, Address S. Hle>( OX, 853 Zrecdwiy, Haw lark.
B^—^ARKE^S— 1
HAIR BALSAM
rtcauses 6nd hc-urtiftes the hair,
jg-* t 25 Promotes a luxuriant growth.
==_jjgp§-Never Pail# to He*tore Cray
Hair to it# Youthful Color.
=y—.Qfgg§ Cures_ scalp diseases & hair tailing,
s ,n ff-te.and3l-00at Druzgista
The Consumptive and Feeble %ta an who
riffcrfrom exhausting diseases should use Parker’s Ginger
Tonic. It cures die worst Cough, Weak Lungs, Debility, In
digestion. Female‘Weakness, lihcumatism anaPaiu. 50c. St g],
H I N DE The only sure cure for Corn*,
■tops all paia. biekta easy. Dels, at Druggists.
All First-Class Druggists
Fiom present date will keep on sale the
Imported Ea t Indiß Hemp Remedies.
Dr. H. James preparation ofthisherb
on its own soil (Calcutta), will positive
ly cure Consumption, bronchitis, Asth
ma, and Nasal Catarrh, and break up a
fresh cold in 24 hours. $2.50 per bottle
or Try it.
U ‘^^^^ML PitOl> l itr:rOßs ’
sJllife t'k. ItilaUt i 0
BUY THE
/ /
J"ackson 18l
manufactures^
J. K. CAR MS
Carriage Manufacturer afl
Jackson
The Jackson Buggy is equal tl
bnggy built in Georgia. See
convinced that they are of first-(H
labor.
NEW REPO*
I am now nnvitig my stoqjtjM
tons, Surrevs ere into i nxM
repostory. X. W. ohJ
across the street soutlJß
will have a line disphiß
lor you to sol et front, if
The ladies are esp
my stock of Haietons am
colors and make their ntm
Htmirsvillr l.iiggiil||i
I am in the buggy luism
mate competition, so ijgj
than the work 1 build,7l
price until you see me, iH
besides advising you of tlfl
Let me p*i ice you
on I rrnlhJl
J
made up a lot of these vM
buy them.
Old Hickory and Tenn
I handle in car load lots, and whil|
on hand I will have another td
So come to Jackson Carriage jfl|
pointed in getting what you^|
Guano
Having hud the largest gu*
I have been in the business, jfl
corning season, in lß'jgf*’
tons at a time from one facto*. 1 -'
being considered.
BUTTS cH
hich I have
ket in larger q i mties the u dl
office, read some certificates I have a (KV
guano with anv other on the market. |
I thank my numerous customers botM|
inessfor their liberal patronage this se-n-B
more prosperous year than the one just col
fair dealings I will merit a continuance ol
ing you that I wil! use my best indeuver'^*
J. R. Cl
J~ ackison T~n
J/IQKBOR
Spring term begins, Tuesday/January
ment day, Wednesday, June 2isUIBIM
solid basis than ever before. The currS
carefully arranged than in any pre Cr d
graded according to the most approved
is firm, requiring pei feet obedience to tl
which experienced and observation have
pupils to attain the greatest exa^ll unPe J
With a young, ambitious enerjetic fatl|
superior among our sister institutions. ' 1
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