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te I i to SiiT — VVBSiS YOU KEEP — ufip, Nicips, ( apJcji Seed?, Fancy and toilet AR'JTCLBS, STATIONERY, GRASS, OlL:>, &n.. in fact, anything carried in stock in a first class mum stork. Do not fad to call on us before buying. We keep none hut the rkst qua i.itv or EVERYTHING, and ill price URi'Y COM PETITION. Wo have been engaged in the drug business for a period of inure than 25 years and point to our pust record as a guarantee lor flic future. When in Macon do not fail to call and see us " RANKIN&&2CO ■» Mulberry and Third Sts., Near Wadloy Monument and New Government Building. u4-3m ssms*. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING AT GRAY’S STATION, GEORGIA, —BY T. It. PENN.— Subscription Rates—111 Advance. One Year. SI.00 Six Months. 50 Three Month. 3(1 Entered at the Postoflieo al Gray’s Sta tion, Ga., as second class mail matter. Postoliice orders, drafts, etc., should be made payable to T. It. Penn. Kates for advertising made known on application. Communications for individual benefit, the or of a personal advertisements. character, charged for same as Marriage and obituary notices, not ex ceeding one square, inserted without for charge —over one square will be charged same as advertisements. responsible for opinions’ Correspondents expressed alone tiy them are through these columns. TOWN AND COUNTY. Mrs. E, G. HARDEMAN, Local Editress. We now write it 1888. What has become of our corres pond cuts ? Fiend us One Dollar ami get the Headlight for all this year. It is claimed as a fact that the Piedmont exposition cleaved 858,000. Tom Wooli'olk lias been taken back to the Macon jail for meat. Mr. Eugene Morgan reiurnetl last Monday from a visit with relatives at, Montirello. There wore 80 arrowtl ar drunk enttess . and disorderly conduct, in Atlanta, Christmas. Miss Lula Hurst,, the wonderful electric girg of this state, has aban doned the stage forever. 8he is now Mrs. Paul Atkinson, ami lives in Chattanooga, Tenn. Mayor Cooper, of Atlanta, par doned 60 convicts out of the city chain gang, on Christmas morning. He made a clean 'weep oftho gang, and they wove all made happy. Three colored prisoners escaped from. Covington jail on Saturday night. They were all in for minor offenses, and their escape leaves • the empty. The family of Mr. T. W. Dim mock of Carrollton, has a part of a china tea set that is over three hundred years old. It has been handed down from generation to genera tion through Mr. Dimmoch’s moth er’s family. The Century Magazine is exclud ed from Russia because of its re cent articles on the horrors of Rus sian prisoners. It seems to us this is very bad policy. A man who has read these articles is likely to be an exemplary citizen for fear 01 getting into one ot the horrible places described.—Macon Telegraph Both the marshals of Conyers were severely cut, by a trioofdrunk en negroes, on Christmas eve, and have since been in a very critical ,-condition. Two of of the negroes .iiive been arrested and lodged in jail, but the other succeeded in making his escape. The negroes were drinking ard boistrous on the streets, and tho marsiiail asked them to be quiet, when they set up Oil turn and stabbed him severely. The deputy marshal seeing the the marshal was having trouble with the negroes, rushed to his as sistanee, when he was likewise set upon by the negroes and severely ent. They have since been suffering greatly from their wounds, but it is recover. v LlA f’Ok IOvALK. Oapt. R. T doss is quite, sick will, pneumonia at his in, me. Wasn’t New Year’s day a gloomy one? But the 2nd dawned beauli fully, and continues so. Rev. J. >S, Lewis of the Jefferson ville Circuit held s rvroes at the school house on the night of Bee. 25th. Tuesday was regular sale day, hut the dullest over known. There has been so much property sold by Sheriff's sale heretofore this fall, it is lime for'a quietus. Shorriff W. W. Barron has bought the house and lot of Mrs. P. M. Parks in Clinton, and moved Tues day. There are three vacant bous es only in the village now. Dr. S. C. Purstly, o: Clinton, and Di. Ohio Gibson, of James Station, were presented with girl-babies as New Years presents, and. are con g’atulal ed accordingly. Farmers are busy contracting and arranging for a coming crop. The farm hands and house servants in and around Clinlon"areexeeptionul' ly faithful, taken as a whole. Aleck Anderson (the Swede) who lias lived in the county for sixteen years or more, removed with his children to Brunswick Ga., on the 5th. We believe this will leave no Swede in the county. ft- bert H. Kingman, who is in business with Campbell & Jones, of Macon,| was in town Wednesday lie reported his firm as having re ceived about*,1800 Jor 2''00”hales ot cotton from the fanners of Jones ot the crop’87, says the farmers us a general thing have met their drafts with more promptness than for years. The Macon Telegraph has donned a New Years gown and comes to us ever so nice, with print and appear ance greatly improved. By the bye we receive no exchange more sub stantially interesting, and contain ing all the pure and best news of tne day, than the^&U'ar.nah Jtorn ingNu^’s. "•"Ft is a magnificent pa per. Editor Estill ranks high in Georgia. Clinton circuit lias been reduced to four different churches by last Conference, withrone minister, Rev. M. A. Phillips, whereas last j ear we had two ministers serving eight churches. Bro, Phillips preaches in Clinton on the 1st Sabbath, Hound Oak the 2nd Sabbath, Pitts Chapel the 3rd Sabbath and Fortville the 4th Sabbath in each month this year. Those churches have good Sabbath Schools connected with them. Mrs. J. It. Chiles is the champion butter maker and housewife of this county, and there canJbe found more substantial housekeepers in Jones than anywhere in Middle Georgia) Mrs. Chiles has made and sold one hundred dollars worth of butter since the 1st of October, besides having used all the family needed at home, and divided with neighbors and friends also. She has not Jer seys either, but believes in good feeding and close attention to dai rying. The Angora goat seems to be raised in great perfection in Texas. A skin of the most beautiful de scription came from the' ranch of tho Messrs Arnold, in Uvalde coun ty. The hair is brilliantly white, and very long and silky. They also possess the art down there of di ess ing these skins in a manner to make them as useful for rugs as they are agreeable to look at. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTMENT. I am offering the finest Custom mill and ginnery in the County for sale. Situated in Clinton. Consist ing of a STATIONERY ENGINE With Locomotive boiler, one new fif ty saw PRATT COTTON GIN, Con• denser and Feeder ant! one 40 saw cotton gin with condenser, a SPLENDID GRIST MILL 44 in. rock, including gin house, mill house, cotton press, shafting, pul leys. etc., with a regular Custom of 10,000 Hu. Corn per annum and 300 to 500 Bales during a season. Will sell CHE A P FO R CASH. Call and look at it or write me at Clinton, Ga. R. V. HARDEMAN. 'REMINISCENCES OF JONES COUNTY. EV S!tlS. k u. n. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER. “When winter nights grow ’.mg, And winter winds blow cold, We sit in a ring round tho warm wood fire, And listen to stories old.” Many long years ago Rwas an oft-Umo thing to see at any time a peddler, with pack strapped to his back, trudging the roads and by paths of old Jones. Those wander ing Bohemians were mostly from the North-east, and were dubbed by our Southern people as Yankee ped dlers. Their packs contained a gen eral mixture of every thing in de mand by a country housewife or vain country lassie—sort of a hab erdasher establishment on a minute scale. There was usually to be found in them one or two table cloths, several patterns of dress goods, a calico bedspread or two, toilet soap, needles, pins, spool cot ton, cheap huie, handkerchiefs, ho siery, “piochbuck” jewelry, some cigars and a few plugs of tobacco perhaps. These Yankee peddlers were never patronized by the bet ter, but the poorer class of whites and negro slaves. Buying cheap goods they were said to “coin mon ey’’ as they always sold at exorbi tant rates, and were considered to have plenty of mottev. One bright day in late Autumn, more than 40 years ago, there was seen on tho busy streets of Clinton a peculiar looking top wagon, drawn by two sturdy horses and contain ing only the driver, a regular •‘down Easter Yankee.” No one noticed the turn-out closely, though a country man standing iu a crowd remarked : “That is a Yankee ped dler, who has been around the neighborhood for several days, he seems to be better off than those who have preceded him, navvies a finer assortment of goods, and goes about in grander style.’’ He drove from tho town Arid was entirely forgotten by’ every one, un til by a strange and horrible uis eovery ho was brought to mind several months afterwards. Foui miles from Clinton fa situated a grist mill, run by tho waters of Walnut Creek. This mill has been run for years. About the times oi which we write the miller lived near the mill with his family. In this family was one daughter, a poor thing, with blunted intellectual faculties, whoso mind was almost a blank. She had the sympathies ol the family and being entirely harm less was allowed to take cure of herself, wandering around the fields and woods alone, troubling no one, nor molested by any. The Spring had already thrown her mantle on the budding woodlan 1 surrounding 1 the mill, the banks of the creek were thick with tho bright green undergrowth and the half-witted was tho woods as usual when she noticed a hog busily en joying a meal, of what looked strangely to her. Going closer she found it was eating part of a human body, which it had pulb d from a de cayed log, in the loneliest part of the wood. Frightened greatly, she ran to tho mill and the miller with others on going to the place found, it but true that it was a man’s body, greatly decomposed, and al most flesh less upon which the hog was feeding. Who and what was he? a wad silence revealed not. The hair and beard indicated a white person, but there had been no person in the neighborhood missed Closer search revealed a faded pice'* of gay calico in which, it seemed, tho body had once been wrapt. Some one recognized it as a piece of bedspread prints, of an unusual pattern and color that a Yankee peddler (who was In tho vicinity several months before) had carried in his pack. Soon after this discovery tho pack, broken and weather beaten, but recognizable, was found near by, rifled of course of its contents. The remains were then identified as those oftho ped dler, who drove tho top through Clinton almost six months before. TI10 poor murdered nn kr.ovvn was buried near where he was found , , and , »t .. , has always , noon a mys-oryas to who committed the foal crime of taking an innocent life. '>-r paltry S ain and what dh ait ion was made oftho her- es ami cui'voyanco. To the half witted girl, un i u bright bit, nl cotton prints was left the discovery of the body, bat. a grim silent Past reserves to herself nil traces of the crime and the murderers. II fff ■; rb • iHf f IfH ms -M AM I 3 W imn Absolutely Pore* This powder never varies. A. ma r vel of purity, strength ::nd whote someness. * More economical than the ordinary in competition kinds, with and cannot the multitudes be gold low test, short weight, ahimn orphos pha'e pnwdero. Sold only in cant 1 ROYAL BAKING POWDFKCO 106 Wall Street, New York. I\a£LI^Q’ 4D fipB T^BLS. COVINGTON & MACON R. R. Fvjm and after Tuesday. Nov. 1st 18SJ, trains on the Covington & Macon Railroad will be run by the following schedule: GOING NORTH—MAIL THAIS. Lv Macon...... : ....4 30 p m ML; ssev’s Mill.. i .... 4 45 p m Roberta........ : .... 5 00 p m Morton........... .... 5 25 p in G rays........... : .... 5 33 p m Bradley .... : .... 5 43 p rr. Wayside........ : . .. 5 53 p m Round Oak....... .... 0 13 p m Hillsboro ....... .... (5 20 p m Ad;ato........... : . .. Q 38 j' -in Alin net a.......... : ..... 0 59 j> rn 4 r Mouticellf).J .... 7 11 p m GOING SOUTH—MAIL TRAIN. Lv Mon tied lo f l*- 00 a m .fttinneta/.^ l> 13 a m Adgate...... t- 34 a rn Hillsboro ... 4G a m Round Oak X 08 a in Wayside ... X 21 a in Grays....... Bradley...... x- 32 a rr, x- 41 n in M- rten...... co 53 a in Roberts..... oaC5 00 a n>. Massey’s Mill. 22 a m Ar Macon...... 40 a m GOING yORTH—ITlEiaiiX Tit A T N. Lv. Macon...... 7 30 a m Lv. Grays........ 9 tri a m Ar. Mouticello.. .. 12 in GOING SOUTH—FREIGHT TRAIN. Lv. Monticollo... .. 12 30 p m J.v, Grays......... ... 5 00 p rn -rr. Macon..... .. ti 30 p m S. Refj> Stoney, | f Ree’ers. A. OitAia Palmku. Tiie Morning steam PHnmira house Printing, Lithographing, Binding, Engrav ing, Store typing, Book and Blank Book Manu facturing. TtiC Largos* Concern oi Use Kind SJoniJi Thoroughly equipped and com plete within itself; tiic latest ma chinery and the mo.-t skillful workmen. Corporations, Manufac turers, Banks and Bankers, County Merchants, Officer-, Mechanics Farruera and BBSISUSS GJJSKffiAMiY. About placing orders for any thing in the above line, from a visit ing card to a mammoth poster, or from a memorandum book to a mam moth ledger, trial. are requested to give this house a J. II. Estill, Prop ri of or, 3 Whitaker St., - - Savannah, Ga ‘fi’J!!!™ 5 1 !* IO e> nxt ±® tirjy‘- a JPL J!*- J’OTffia® RESIDENT DENTIST, Having pcrmanohtly located at. MontiowiJ.’> is prepared to do your work lit I’.EA'OSAULB KATK.S. f>tt’ l.« , ?Baru „tt.ed. A liberal por tion of ibe public patronage s«lie Rod. Offiao up stairs over Di. Do zier s drug itore. tfrl have csfr.hhshcd a branch ofe ,. a „ t (J . rf , Sut ;„ n md -• weJk s K tfeat p | aoc -2- ,. in each wouth, 111 ”V"V1 I- | ps ft r,p|»a "I"* »». JL Xj 4 0b«/ Jsu lk3 Xm. &J UU Vi ,1 w,> have this day contracted with Messrs. JOHN MERRY .MAN & CO. to soil, at nil stations on the & iVf, Railroad, their -celebrated brand? of guano— a i J a Bones, arryman iJ a I t» ierrvman’s j GEORGIA TEST ■a e can say without any four of contradiction that Merry man’s Fer tilizi vs are to-day, as they have been for 29 years, at the very top in excellence, and the perfect sittisfncti >n they give to planters. V, bile most of the popular brands on the market in past 3'ears havo changed tho grade ot their goods by lowering their grade, Merrymuu has c.-.'-ntinnally improved. We do not make these statements at random. We refer to any planter in Jones and Jasper counties who havo used dayman's Guano, and will stake our input a: ion on tho result. — WE ALSO handle — SQiH.t3P23i2.-a sostjai rraSST lor composting, which ' s the higho.it grade acid on the market. Wo sell cheaper acid phosphates; also Kain t, and are agonts for the Macon Oil & Fertilizer Company for the side of their Cotton Seed Meal. Wo can give Sow prices on these goods, and arc roady. to deliver now. Our Agents will call on tho good people of Jones and Jasper coun ties, and wo will trustivccivc their orders. MBS, WllSffi ’4 GO., 429 AND 422 THIRD STREET, NOVEMBER lfrm, 1887. [Ll] mJSkttwwt oa W 12 WAR® a a, mm ran Hs3.iL tli© I*©w Fs»i©©s» :o: FULL PATENT FLOUR, per barrel, 85 50 25 POUNDS PATENT FLOUR, 70 1-2 PATENT FLOUR, per barrel, 4 50 25 POUND SACK, GO FAMILY FLOUR, per barrel, 4 35 25 POUND SACK, 50 13 POUNDS GRANULATED SUGAR, I 00 4J FOUNDS FINEST COFFEE, 1 00 SALT IN WHITE SACKS, tTATi.VJiT GRITS, per peek, w« BEST UNCAiUHSSKD HAMS, BEST N. O. SYRfJP' (icy gal on, i S 25 BOXES MATCHES, '*c 3 1 DOZEN PAPER BOXES MATCHES' 490s - 45 Stay The way to make money iu to save it. Como and trade with us and wo will save you money. WAHS ate 380 P^cof!, Qea^qiA. Jeff ©a?i§ IS 0 ----AND BSRG Invjteh Everybody to the EXPOSITION STORE, 114 MULBERRY STREET. MACON, GA. With a business eye to the fact that time 1 are hard, and hard cash scarce, prices of cotton low, our buyer has visited tho Eastern markets, supplied with hard cash, nml at last has returned tyith a large and elegant Stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, SHOES, BOOTH, HATH, CAPS, NOTIONS, TRUNKS, VALISES, Ladik.,’ and (Hints’ FURNISHING GOODS, RUBBER GOODS, UMBRELLAS and an elegant lino of —rsr— Tbeso goo hi have been bought direct from the factories for hard cash and at the lowest cash i*uigk*. I to also has attended tho largo sheriff sales and bought from under the atsolioneer’s hammer at his own price a large ipianGiy of goods which enables ns to offer our goods at lower prices to the. consumer than even other merchants have to pay lor thorn. LOOK AT OUR EXTREME LOW PRICES! Prints ........... _____2j'; per yard Standard Skints . lie per yard Brown Shorting........4£n per yard 4 4 Brown Sheeting......60 per yard Rod Linen Table Dutnar-k 30e pr White 1!aukereluo!<*...25c }su‘ dozen All Wool Red Flannel... 1 ie per 7-8 Bleaching............“Ie per yard 1-1 Bioaehing............5-i« per yard Ail Wool Red Worsting...7c per vd LadiohfcJernei h .................25« up Wo have also the largest line of Ladies’ Mis-rf .and Childrens’ CLOAKS, WALKING JACKETS AND WRAPS, Jn«t received from the Eastern markets, at prk lo V'-r than tho lowest.. Also just iveeiveo 150 cases of Men’s, Ladies',_ Aiis;.-‘;>’ and Chil dren's SHOES, direct from the Eantorn Factories, which wo offer at 25 per cent, less than any house in tho oily. MONARCH SHIRT, tho Best Shirt in tho World, at 75 Gents. * All goods at ruinons reduction i he short times. Bo to k-i 1, t on p Sure to Cnii before making your purchases t Is.-where, for it is ho trouble to i-!iov»- goods. Gome one, come at!, be convinced and save your money by buying your goods at tho IS zk. jp <0 m 11 :l o 3TJ 1 Si t o jc o eo PIS* M« EB'JESSlI?r©5M*3 4i4 Mulberry Street, near tho Fair Store, 2V£«,c023. Ocorgln OTIS CO. TER wi! be pleased to wuitt ti you. lwe J runs....... ......... 1 Oe per yard All Woo! Kentucky Jeuns 25e pr yd Ladies' mid gents’ Undershirts 25o All V.’oni Scarlet UnUorshirts....60ij Good Working Muiis ............ S3 up Business Suits from ............ It up All Woo! (.lussimure Suits .... Sfi up Dress Suits......................$6.50 up Overcoats from ...............11.75 up 1 diildreii’a Suit;,. ............$1.35 up Tailors'Opera Flannel'S 30e, w’th 0U0