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VOL XXIII spring opening ... '• ,-0~. mi mw lotnitio J" ackison, tdr-eorgia,. TTTHE arrival of our large spring stock will drive away the gloom and cheer the hearts of the peo pie that have so long wished for the breaking up of a most unusually severe winter. Spring, / \ the heralder of nature’s verdant garb, has brought with it all that’s beautiful and lovely in j (Easter Toilettes for the fair shoppers, and we can promise the ladies a feast in the display of our exquisite Spring Dress Fabrics. Our buyer has just returned from New York and other eastern markets, where he purchased the largest and prettiest Spring stock it has been our pleasure to show in Jackson. Our buyer, bacKed up by plenty of ready cash, was enabled to secure prices that are unpjecedented on all lines of goods. Our Millinery Opening. Will be an occasion long to be remembered in Jackson and Butts county for its array of beauti ful offerings. Mrs. Gresham, the manager of this department, than whom there is none more pleasing in manners and earnestness in her endeavors to please her customers, will bq assisted by Miss Dora Buchman, of Baltimore, a young lady rare experienced in the art of head adornments. Miss Buchman has charge of the Trimming Department, and her exquisite taste cannot fail to please the most fastidious. See The Bargains Offered you in The Opposite Columns. LEADERS. , LOCAL Tt HE TABLE. Below will be found a correct time table of the departure of trains from Jackson: NORTH BOUND. No. 82 —2: '24 a. m. (don’t stop.) No. 88—10:08 a. m. No. 80—7:06 p. m. (mail and express.) SOUTH BOUND. No. 81—1:14 a. m. (don’t stop.) No. 85—9:28 a. m. (mail and express.) No. 37—6: 47 p. m. 1 oople who advertise Are those who are wise, And do always rise, And surely wins the prize. McDonough is hound to have a cotton factory. Get you a Typewriter. The Yost is the best. Mi TANARUS) nald &. Kinard, Agents. The last issue of the Atlanta Looking Glass is a disgrace to journalism. Yost Typewriter! Accident Insurance! Yost! Accident! McDonald & Kinard. Agents. The great money crop of the south will s mii be planted. Cotton is king. For Seed Sweet Potatoes call at E. G. Gil more’s, at Hane’s Jewely store. There was nothing sold here Tuesday. Our sheriffs are having a rest spell. The latest in Hair Pins. Belt Buckles. Side Combs, Buckle Pins, etc., at Hanes, Jeweler. 2t The Atlanta Journal's Easter labor edition was a success in eyery sense of the word. The Yost Typewriter eclipses them all when it comes to rapidity and neatness of work. McDonald A Kinard, Agents. What few patches of wheat, oats and rye there are in this section look well at this time. Cotton Seed wanted ai the Oil Mill at 40 cents per hundred. mat 29- it Meade Hendricks. Guthrie says ho April fooled all the bill collectors who called oil him last Monday. Go to Hanes, the Jeweler, for youa Spectacles and Eye Glasses. Best Crystal Lenses fitted in nil style frames at lowest prices. mar29-2t Dr. 0 H. Cantrell and Capitalist I. W. Johnson made us a pleasant visit Wed nesday. Call at the Oil Mill and get Accents for your Cotton Seed. ma 1-20-41 Meade Hendricks. Dr. Heidt, the presiding elder of this station, preached a sermon at the Meth odist church Sunday night. The Oil Mill will pay 40 cents per hundred for Cotton Seed.Tf they are dry and sound. mar29-4t Meade Hendricks. Sunday week is Easter, and the poor, disconsolate father will groan way down in his shoes when he gets a bill for “that hat,” We received a communication this week signed “Trilby,” which w cannot publish, not knowing the author. Accident Insurance should be carried by averybody. There Is no telling when you may be hurt. McDonald & Kinard, Agents. Messrs. R. E. Strickland, G. S. Hares. J. W Jones and E. G. Gilmore, can give you any information you want on the man* ) question. What’S the use of getting hurt and lying in bed suffering, when McDonald & Kinard can fit you up in accident insurance, and you get from $26 to S6O a week while you are sick. A Mr. Willard exhibited a blue ca fish, he caught in the Ocmuigee liver, which weighed 1 sixteen pounds. Jabo Holtitield will want to go fishing again now. Hanes, the Jeweler, is receiving his new stock of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks and Silverware, and Novelties, and the prices are surprisingly low. mar29-2t Mr. R. N. Etheridge, who has been rather seriously ill for some time past, speut last, week visiting relatives at Perry, Ga. We are the only real estate agents in Jackson, and you will do well to let us know if you want to buy or sell prop erty. Harmon & McDonald, If you have a farm or any kind of land for sale, give it to Harmon & McDonald, who will advertise it free of charge and only charge you a nominal cost for selling it for you. Last Monday was April fool’s day, and Dr. Ellis answered numerous calls to the front door of the Morrison House for imaginary patients. “But they weren’t there.” We want all the Cotton Seed there is in this county at the Oil Mill. Bring them on before the 10th of May and we will give you 40 cents per hundred for them. mar29-4t Meade Hendricks. .Miss Estelle Thompson, of Rocky Plaius, Newton county, a charming young teacher of Worihville district, was shopping Wednesday at Gunn, Potts & Go. Don’i fail to attend the “Secret’’ Bargain Day—every Monday between 10 and 12 a. m.—at The Globe Store. aprs-tf Some time since Mr. Moore plowed up a little rabbit on his farm, near town, and tbiukiug it would be a feast for the old cat and the kittens, he carried it home and gave it to the cat. To his sur prise she tenderly carried it to the bed of kitteus, where it is nursing with them aud doing well. Accident Insurance will pay your doctor’s bill and leave you money in the pocket. If you don't have an accident policy you are out all ’round. McDonald & Kinard represent three of the best companies in the country. They pay $23 a week while you are sick and can’t work. The Carmichael Company, Proprietors of The New York Store, Jackson, Georgia. JACKSON, GA, FRIDAY. APRIL 5, 1895. Our people are talking about how much we need rain now. Only a few weeks since we were grumbling about the rain. We are all right, aud grumbling won't get lain. Plow, b.ys, plow! Better carry that Watch of yours that is not performing satisfactory to Hanes and have it cleaned. If it hasn’t been cleaned in the last eighteen months, it should be. mar2-2t if a man should be as partial as April showers in his business, we would con sider him selfish; but don’t say anything abou it, because the clouds rain where the wait r is most needed. The Star store is on a boom. See their halt page ad. in this issue, and besides we are printing some of he prettiest in vitations to their opening that was ever seen in this progre.'-sive town. Mr. C. R. Gresham is now at Winant’s old stand, near tue post office, where he will continue to keep fresh bread, fish, oysters, etc. Call on him aud get a fiesh loaf or anything you want. Jackson Institute now has afull fledged corn* t band . We hope the institute will be able to dispense sweet music, and add another prominent feature to their highly euji>yable fourth Fiiday even fig entertainments. Mr. James T. Prince, general agent for Georgia of the Travelers’ Accident In surance Cos., of Hartford, Conn., spent a few days of last week in Jackson as the guest of Messrs. McDouald & Kinard, local agents of the “Travelers.” Misses Elia aud Myrtle Pound, who have been in attendance upon their father since his stroke of paralysis, have returned to Cave Spring, where they will resume their duties in the school room of the Cave Spring Academy. Messrs Pack Watkins, Joe Carmichael and C. R. Gresham “done us one” las-t week. In this conned ion we would a-k if auoie for 25 ceuts with Mr. Joe Carmichael’s name as principal aud Mr. Pack Watkiu’s name as security, is dis countable at the bank ? We notice that the names of Oss e aud Maggie Bell Thaxton appear lu the roll of houor of Dublin High School. We knew Ossie would get his name in every thing honorable and nothing that is dis honorable. Ossie will make his mark in the world. Mr. J. D. McKibbeu, of Worthyille, came near losiug bis house by fire Tues day morniug. Mrs. McKibben was in the stove room only a few minutes before they were iuformed by a neighbor that the house was ou fire, and the ro *f was ablaze before the fire was discovered. Fire is a treacherous and dangerous ne cessity. THE NEW YORK STORE r McDonald & Kinard, Accident In surance Agents. They pay you $25 a week while you can’t work. The show windows of- Hie New York Store this week are yery attractive, and reflect great credit upon the artistic handiwork of Miss Lulu Browning, of Macon, who has recently accepted a po->. sition in the dress goods department of this live establishment. Mr. Joe Weaver says if the fellow who took bis four hens last week will send him the eggs he gets from aforesaid hens, tbat be may keep the liens and will not be prosecuted; otherwise the matter will take tho- course as the law directs. We regret to announce the death of two good old ladies *ho recently died in our county; Mrs. Compton, the widow of our former ordinary, and Mrs. King, of Jeukinsburg. These two good ladies have lived a long and useful life in ou* connty. Their relatives have our sym pathy. Mr. J. R. Ly. ns has been employed by the council to oversee the street force which began work on Wednesday. Ti is is a good step the council has taken and deserves the hearty commendation of our people, and the selection of Mr. Lyons insures the prettiest streets our town has ever had. Miss Higgins is one of the most eon secrated Christian girls in the World. Such a uoble and refined type of grace ful womanhood is seldom met with even iu this land of self sacrificing Christian women. May God give all the churhes such an. one to houor and assist th in in their religious work. The young maiden and youth of Jack son will hie themselves forth to services on Easter arrayed in the habilim >uts of the latest and most improved toggery. When it, comes to line diesses, and tailor made clothing, the residents of Jackson may be classed as standing on the top notch. The editors of the Argus will attend Easter services iu their usual ab breviated attire, with ameudments on the seat and knees. Of four prominent persons, well known iu this section, who have died in the last two weeks, two died of consump tion and two of paralysis. There are other well known and prominent people of this section who have had recent strokes of paralysis, more or less seri ous, right recently. Our people are really growing apprehensive of these deathly visitors, and well they may be, for it seems that every one who dies is carried away either by one or the other. Dress Goods Dep’t. Is replete with all the newest things in Spring and Summer fabrics, com prising a collection of dainty Spring Goods in Crepons, Dimities, Plisscs, Printed Organdies, Plain and Dotted Swiss. Novelty Dress Patterns in French and German Mixtures. Wool Goods in Crepe and Jaquard effects. Immense stock of Henriettas, Cash meres, Serges, Beiges in black and colors, at popular prices. Laces and Embroideries—we will show the most superb line ever brought to Jackson. • —i mm, liiisjt History. You will find anything you want in this department at exceptionally low prices. We have secured the control of Foster, Pane & Co.’s line of Kid Gloves, and you can find at all times a complete line of Blacks and Colors in the plain Kid and Swede as well, at most popular prices, every pair guaranteed. SILKS. Our line of Spring and Summer Silks can not be matched anywhere for variety, style and price. Silks in all the new and dainty colorings, for dress trimming and shirt waists. Mr. Saunders is teaching a flourishing writing school at the Institute, in the evening after school is out. The extreme low prices being quoted by our guano men are bringing custom ers from Newton, Henry aud Monroe counties. Mr. J. M. T. Mayo is not only handy behind the counter, but he is running a farm also, which he plows every morn ing before others get up. Notice the announcement of ,the mu sical operetta for April 12th, at the Insti tute. The entertainment will be man aged by Miss McKie, which insures its success. Jackson gives more for cotton, and eells guano and all kinds of goods as well as wagons, buggies, and all kinds of hardware cheaper than any other town. Come to Jackson and save money. The registration books are now open at the court house, and those who expect to vote either this year or next had bet ter register. Especially is this true in this district, for we have to elect a jus tice of the peace, and the books will be closed in 30 days. There will be no other opportunity to register until next fall, while the tax is being collected. The best and safest way is to register now, while Mr. R. L. Carter, our oollector, is in town. A Rev. Mr. Evans, a Methodist evan gelical preacher, gave a lecture at the Baptist church Sunday night on the con version of the Jews Our understanding of the scripture is that in the gospel dis pensation there is neither Jew nor Greek. “But of a truth,” says the apostle, “1 perceive God is no respecter of persons, for in every land and country he that worketh righteousness is acceptable to him.” That is, that religiou is a per sonal and not a national matter. “And whosoever will let him come unto me and I will abundantly pardon,” The ladies of the Baptist church of Jackson will give a birthday entertain ment at the residence of Mr. J. H. Car michael, Friday evening, April stb, at 7 o’clock. Refreshments will be served and a most enjoyable time is in store for all who attend. Each guest, both male and female, will be required to give one cent for each year of their age, which will be deposited in an envelope and propped in a box at the door. The pro ceeds of the entertainment will go toward paying for a beautiful set of banging lamps for the chuJch. Everybody is cordially invited to attend and assist in making the evening a most enjoyable occasion. t R. S. BROWN, Manager. DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT ’ A. F. WHITNEY. y f MISS LULA BROWNING MILLINERY DEPARTMENT \ ?{s?* c - GRESHAM, Manager. ) MISS DORA BIJCHMAN, of Baltimore, Md CLOTHING & FURNISHING DEP’T. { R. N. ETHERIDGE. SHOE DEPARTMENT { W. S. TENNANT. Remember OUR OPENING DAYS, THUMT & FIAT, APRIL 4th, and sth. also Friday Evening 8 to 10 o’clock. Dr. Randall has rooms at the Cleveland House, where he is caring for the sick free of charge. If you wish a Pheaton, Surry, Trap, or Buggy, you will do well to examine my stock, which Is very large, before buying. I have the nov elties of the season. Respectfully, aprs-2t j. r. Carmichael. The accomplishments of Miss McKie is a guarantee of a rare treat in any enter tainment she gives. Our people know this, and the Institute will be crowded with eager pleasure seekers Friday even ing, April 12th. If there is anything the matter with you call on Dr. Randall at the Cleveland House, and be cured for nothing, only your gratitude. The many friends of Dr. W. C. Bryant will be pleased to learn that he has con sented, upon the solicitation of his many friends in Jackson, to abandon the idea of locating at Locust Grove, and will con tinue to remain in Jackson. Dr. Bryant is one among the foremost of his profes sion, and this news will be heralded with gladness by his numerous admirers in this vicinity. This is the season of the year to have your Phaetons and Buggies Repaired and Painted', at the Jackson Carriage Factory. apr.s-2t J. R. Carmichael. Sir* John IHcKibbeii Dead. On Monday morning Mr. J. F. McKib ben received a telegram from McDon ough that his father was growing rapidly worse. He hurried to hi* bedside, and was there when the good old man died at 5 o’clock in the evening. Mr. John McKibhen was a citizen of Henry county, and was as instrumental in making old Tussahaw district famous as the banner rural district of tlie county, as any other living man. Tussahaw, though not pretty in orthography, is full of poetry and sweet recollections to any one who ever lived among its hospitable and chivalrous people, and Mr. John McKibben was the “noblest Roman of them all. But be has fallen. “What a fall was there, my countrymen!” The writer was a neighbor to him foryears, and has many times been the recipient of his unsophisticated and known gener osity. He never had anything too good for a neighbor, and bis very life seemed pledged to the security of the depend ent ones in his settlement. No man ever thought of buying a tool, either agricul tural or mechanical, that “Uncle John nie” had, for he knew he could borrow it. He leaves a wife and two noble sons, Si., of McDonough, and Frank, of our town, and many other relatives and friends to mourn his loss. We, in com mon with all our people, sympathize with the bereaved ones. Mi Goods Dep’t. Is complete with all the new and staple goods, beautiful Sheer India Linens. White and Cream Organdies. Persian Mulls, dainty Checked and Striped Dimities, Victoria Lawns, Check Muslins, etc., etc. M' Clothing Department. All the uew Spring styles in Men’s Youths’ aud Children’s Suits at rock bottom prices. Men’s Boys’ and Children’s Odd Pants at exceptionally low prices. Give this department au inspection before buying your Spring Clothing. SHOES. No concern in Georgia can match our styles, qualities and prices. We are headquarters for anything needed in foot wear. Remember our Opening Days Thursday and Friday, April 4th aud ,sth. Polite attention to all visitors, whether purchasers or not. LEADERS. SPECIMEN CASES. j S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was trouble I with Neuralgia and Rheumatism, his Stomac I was disordered, his Liver was affected to ai alarming degree, appetite fell away, and h was terribly reduced in flesh and strengtl Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, 111., had running sore on his leg of eight years’ stand ing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters an< seven boxes of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and hi leg is sound and well. John Speaker, Catawba 0„ had five large Fever sores on his leg, doctor said he was incurable. One bottle of Electrii Bitters and one box Bucklen’s Arnica Salvi cured him entirely. Sold by R. G. Bryans Druj store. OPERETTA*. TYROLEAN QUEEN. Jackson Institute* April 12* You must not fail to see and hear this mu sical treat. The eye, the ear. the artistic sens* and intellect, will all be entertained and en lightened. There will be lovely scenes, sweetei music by select soloists and a well trained chorus of 40 voices. The leading part will 1* taken by Miss McKie, and other roles by hei best vocal pupils, assisted by the chorus, bancb of Tyrolean Peasants, Gypsies and Fairies. Admission, 25 cents; Reserved Seats at Stai Store, 80 cents. A HOUSEHOLD TREASURE. I>. Wt Fuller, of Canajoharie, N. Y., says that he always keeps Dr. King’s New Discovery in the house and his family has always found the very best results follow its use; that he would not be without it if procurable. G. A. Dyke man, Druggist, Catskill, N. Y., says that Dr. King’s New Discovery is undoubtedly the best Cough remedy; that he has used it in his fam ily for eight years, and it has never failed to do all that is claimed for it. Why not try a bottle. MAY SHERIFPS SALE. GEORGIA—Butts County. Will be sold before the court house door in the town of Jackson, said county, on the first Tuesday in May next, 1895, within legal sale hours, for cash, the following described prop erty, to-wit: A tract or parcel of land contain ing Seventy-Two Acres, in the eastern portion of land lot known as the Stew'art Lee lot, in the Ninth District of originally Henry, hut now Butts, county, State of Georgia, and bounded on the north and east by the original land lines of said lot; on the south by land owned and possessed by the estate of Henry Barnes, and on the west by lands owned and possessed by W. F. Cargill. Levied on as the property of Wm. M. Roberts, by virtue and to satisfy one mortgage ft fa issued from the Superior Court of Butts county, at the February adjourned term, 1895, in favor of the Equitable Mortgage Company, against said Wm. M. Roberts, tenant in possession, given written notice. Property pointed out in mortgage execution. This April 4,1895. J. O. BEAUCHAMP, aprs-4t Sheriff Butts Cos. S3OO REWARD ! The above reward will be paid by this com pany for the arrest and conviction of the per son or persons who wrecked the passenger train of said company near Jackson, Georgia, on the night of the 20th of March, 1895. This reward is in addition of the S2OO already offered by the Governor. apr*-4t SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO, NO 15