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TIIOS. It. PX.Mf, s : Publisher.
O’ray’s Station, Saturday, January 14.
Tua New York Sun advises the
democrats in congress to stand to
gether. The Sun is right. Unless
the democrats stand together, the
party will be defeated this fall.
After a rest of a year or more,
Mr. B. M. Blackburn has resumed
management of the Madisonian and
will make that jours one
the best in the State. . or Black
burn is a journalist of wide experi
ence.
Civil Service } Commissioner
Oborly has six handsome daughters,
but no son. Ho is the last male
representative of his family. Jlis
sister, who is dead, left no son, and
iiis of>ly brother never married.
When Mr. Oberly dies and his
daughters take the names of their
husbands, the family name will be
coniii extinct.
Life-size plaster busts of Au
gust .Spies are having a wide sale
in Chicago. Tho bust is from «
ett-t of his face taken after death
Piaster impressions of tho facos of
tho executed Anarchists were taken
by an unknown sculptor just before
tlie funeral. No bust o' Lingg was
obtained. lie Was aheudy too
busted, as it wore.
The suggestion lias boon made
that Congress should provide pen
sions for the families of postal clerks
killed on duly. This is another at
tempted raid on tho Treasury.
What Congress ought to do is fo in
crease the number cf leap years.
Every other yoar ought to he leap
year, and tho government ought to
offer a premium to the sex making
in its turn tho best record in secur
ing Iifo partners. In many’ instanc
es wives literally support their hus
bands, or, as a well known divine
bus put it, busbands board with
their wives. If there wore more
marriages perhaps thero would bo
fewer able-bodied men who have to
bo supported by tho government.
—Kx.
The Act passed by tho last legis
lature to revise and consolidate tho
Common School laws of the State
provides that tax collectors shall is
sue a separate fi fa for poll taxes,
and turn thorn over to tho Comity
School Commissioners, In accord
ance therewith tho Comptroller Gen
oral has issued a circular letter to
the collectors from which we quote
tbe following:
It has just como to my knowledge
that an Act of the last legislature to
“amend, revise and consslidate the
Common School laws,” “provides
that Tax Collectors shall issue sep
arate fi fas on Dec. 20th of each
year, for poll tax,” “specifying in
each fi fa that it is for tho poll tax
that year, and shall at once turn
them over to the County School
Rommissionerof his county, taking
his receipt therefor, and shall at the
same time furnish the President of
tho County Board of Education
with a list of the fi fas so turned
over.”
The famous Arbucklc-Cumpbell
broach of promise suit was conoltid
ed in New York yesterday in favor
of the plaintiff, who receives by the
verdict 545,000 oftho (M 00,000 dam
ages asked for.
Tho suit is a novel and interest
ing one. diaries A,buckle, tbe de
fendant, is fifty years of ago and is
immensely wealthy, having made a
fortune out of the well known Ar
buckle coffee establishment. In
18S2 he became desperately attached
toMiss Clara Campbell, now thirty
eight years old, and if the letters ho
wrote her at that time and later,
rightly expressed his emotions, he
had about as bad a case as there is
on record, and it is no wonder that
Miss Juliet Campbell was horrified
aud shocked
when she found that her great
American Romeo o.mo to the
elusion that he did not want to
marry. HU plea was a
*
ouo. He admitted his promise
mavriage, but suvs he made it at
her request. The jury ,| l0U ^ lt
Miss Campbell’s affections had been
trifled with to the extent ot
845,000, and rendered a verdict
cordiugiy. for ,
Look out a rise in the price of
coffee,—Atianta Con <tit u t i oft.
A TRIP FROM TWIGGS TO
JONES.
On Thursday, Dec. 23rd 1887, I
left home and lovod ones for a short
visit to my native county, and to
see relatives and triends, I took
dinner Thursday with a good broth
er, a bachelor, John Wood, on the
Myrick place, seven miles from
Gordon. He says be is happy (that
is, if a bachelor can he happy). I
went on my way rejoicing, by Gris
woldvillo and Pitts Chapel, and
spent a pleasant night with my old
friend, Jas. W. Slocumb. Bro. S.
is not only one of the solid men of
Jones, but one of the noblest Chris
tian men l ever met. I was glad to
meet his family again and talk of
other days. In passing the Chapel,
sad memories came up, yet they
were mixed with pleasant recollec
tions. Sad when I contrasted the
present with twenty-five years ago
when Bros. Christian and McGhee
were there and hud one of the great
est revivals ever known iri all that
country. In fact the revival re
sulted in building the church. I
thought too of Bros. Pitts, Slocurnb
and others who have gone to their
reward. But for Bro. Pitts the
Church would not liavo been built,
there and then, and bis death was a
calamity to Methodism in Jones, and
especially to the community in
which he lived. No beggar
went empty from bis door. He was
an intense Methodist. Pleasant
memories wore called up because it
was at this Church I was licensed
to exhort, by l)r. W. F. Cook, Oct.
15,1881. And it was here I w’as
licensed to preach, July 22, 1882.
Rev. R. W, Higham was on the Dis
trict, as Presiding Elder. \ A good
portion of Friday was spent at and
around Morton’s Station on tho O. A
M., visiting relatives, Wil
lio A Price and Sallio P. Wheeler.
In tho afternoon I went on through
Clinton and out by Gray’s to my
dear old friend’s, It. II. Bonner’s,
near Haddock. It was raining and
cold, but the light of Bro. B's coun
tenance, and the grasp of his hand
and hearty welcome by his good
wife, soon made mo forgot the un
pleasant surroundings outside. Sat
in day, It ralnod most of tho day, but
lutein the afternoon wo went down
to Haddock. Saturday night, I
spent at the comfortable homo and
with the kind linnily of my old
friend (anil now brother) J. I). An
chors. From Clinton to Haddock,
I passed the place where I was first
married, and where our oldest boy,
Ross, was born and whero I taught
school several years. Sunday’
morning, Christmas Day, a fow of
us were at old Fortville Church, 1
wont on to tbe “Ridge,” where 1
took dinner and spent a pleasant
hour at tho homo ofM. 11. Morton,
Esq. 1 found Mr. M. and his good
wife as pleasant and accommodating
as ever. Sunday p. m. I stopped
with bro. Winters a little while and
enjoyed their warm fire. Hero 1
met uncle and aunt, Mr. Nivens and
wife. 1 had left an appointment to
preach in Clinton Sunday night. 1
spent a pleasant hour, after service,
with Bro. W. II. Ilolsonbeek at bis
wilh Ko * s 1 8 lloand I f” t !'!° ,US
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l,avca of , "“ k,ng , °
fVo0 Mo ’ di ***>' * nd 1 h1U sett ttt ! ,on,e ’
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ho * ° r " ico 1 tluU * -°° d
‘ ,ioudlu,d bK ! ,ho " B ? nl " lf ° a " d
th « ohil ‘ ron for Chv.stmas, T I put
out for Macon I stopped over for
Uiuuor wUh U ™’ SU’Tlmg and lus
kind ,ami, Y> "' ,,oro 1 * mV ? S| ' e " 1
nmny pleasant hours. Monday was
Chrtalma* day in M”eon and the
noiso ’ U, ° no,8 °* Montb '- v m f h ‘ 1
lod tUo 8ervic0 at J 1 0 “ e8 C Mtt '
con Rro J tl , Hanson . pastor,
’ ’ ’ ’
This is his second year, and all are
1’ ia8vl u t ‘ l lin1,
Among the impiov*. incuts iu
J 0n08 I "® l ‘°S i l]‘° ; uuJ
lho& , w h,C * J8 '" 6 d “°
condition and doing a hue business.
1 had ileurd ° J 0,108 count ^ s new
» ia P er - bnt had novor 8oen “ C ° W ‘
1 c0,,fe8s U oxcoodcd ,
lio, ’ s -^ “ ,r > l “ il8 ntoeban.ea get
up, and general appearance 1 did
n.eet the Editress hut my
Um0 wa8 iimlted ’ lt
and incroaso in its number of suo
acribers and usviuliies^.
“Rom iniscencos of Jones County”
are carefully prepared and Wry in
j. s. l..
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A granddaughter ofCharles Dick
ens does » flourishing business with
a type-writer.
Fifty years ago the scriptures
were eirtulai ed in J36 languages
now they are circulated in 280.
Kalamazoo, Mich., is acquiring
quite an enviable reputation for its,
celery, of which this season 20,000,
000 bunches were shipped.
George Miller, of Akron, O., was
buried Thursday in a cofiin made
from the wood of a cherry tree he
planted for this purpose sixty years
ago.
Wildcats wildcats have nave been ueen encountered encountered
frequently in the mountain regions
ofldster county, New York, this
winter. A large one, which
ed over thirty pounds, was caught in
k trap at Shandaken recently.
* A number of young ladies in Hus
tings, Neb., met in council one day
laift week and passed resolutions de
clining to attend balls with the
young men unless tho latter consent
to supply thorn with invitations to
tho opera occasionally,
ij is estimated that pin factories
in New England turn out, yearly,
10,800,000,000 pins, and that other
facierios in the States bring the
number up to 18,000,000,000. This
i/equal to about one pin advy for
'every inhabitant of tbe United
.States.
A warning against wearing full
boards comes from Burlington, N J.
Gqn. Abraham Post., of that city,
waf talking with a friend noaraci
gaijstand, when his beard came in
contact with tho cigar-lighter. Be
fbiy the fire could bo extinguished
li/s face was badly burned.
A rattlesnake was discovered car
rying off a half-grown turkey near
Waukconah, Fla., and two dugs were
set upon it. It struck both animals
and both died, hut tho turkey was
released unharmed, which is
that snakes do not poison their own
food. Tho snake killed was 6 feet
7 inches long and hud fitoen rattles.
Berlin will soon bo tho most
brilliantly illuminated city in Eu
rope. Tho electric light is being
fitted all along the Unter den Lin
den, anG the Leipzig** stimsse,
which is upward of a mile in length,
is already illuminated throughout by
electricity, which is to bo introduced
into all the principal streets arid
San Francisco has mere repre
sentatives in the UuitcdStates Sen
ate than any two other cities in the
country. The California Senators
Stanford aud llearst have residences
in San Francisco, as liavo also the
Nevada Senators Stewart and Jones,
Stewart practices law at the San
Francisco bar and Jones is a mem
ber of the San Francisco Exchange.
A half-breed Indian has taken
possession of a tract of land near
Terryvilie, N. Y., and insists upon
living thero. Ho says that he owns
the land, because his fathers of the
Pequot tribo never gave up their
title to it. lie has resisted all efforts
to make him move on, has shot
dogs that have been set on him, and
says that he will defend his right
to tbe woods with bis vtfle against
ull comers.
On a farm in Covington, Tenn.,
a few days ago, a white oak tree
was felled, and on cutting into it,
about three inches from the surface,
a hole was discovered in which was
found a bunch of hair, driven in by
a wooden peg. Tho hair was a
genuine African kink, but Was red
and black in color. It is supposed,
from tho thickness of tho wood and
bark which bad grown over the
peg, that the hole was bored and
the hair deposited at least thirty
years ago. No doubt it was the
work of a voodoo negro.
A fine glass vase, just discovered
in an Etruscan tomb at Bologno, is
of a sea-green color, like a soda
water bottle, thick and of a unique
form, with two handles. It is
inches high and without
tion. There is not a single
flaw, crack or chip about it.
it was found an ivory’ chair,
after the fashion of a modern
stool, having all its screws and rivets
still in perfect condition, and
small casket containing beads and
some very elegant articles in bronze.
The articles ure supplied it Jate
from the fith eenturv.
TO THE
Traveling Public
—YOU CAN—
gAVE 2^r©2£E"Sr
BY STOPPING AT
J BI BEarxKih 1 *
RestaurartT
AMO L0DQI(tQ RoopS,
Opposite Hotel Lanier,
HACOIT Gcik
This house has recently been rc
fitte,i ar,d '’el'i' nished with elegant
NfiW pxjRNITUHB" and BEDS
througboot) contains 2 0 rooms, and
.), e proprietor the is now prepared public to
accommodate traveling
in a satisfactory manner and at
cheaper rates than can bo procured
elsewhere in Maeon.
ikodgisg S3 €feats
jJSjjP 1 Meals furnished at any hour,
day or night, and first class accom
modations insured at reasonable
rates.
4—tf J. II. BENNER, Prop.
4*-F4—4”4—+ +4*
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we call the attention of the puii
LIC TO TIIE FACT THAT WE
QajJ Sell Qgobs as Low
As any bouse on C. & M. R. R.
—OUR HOUSE IS —
Full of Nice Goods!
jit Price? to jiliit the Jipie?.
Catl and price our stock as wo will
take pleasure in
SHOWING THEM TO YOU!
We can safely say
OUR PRICES ARE AS LOW AS
any house in the
COUNTRY.
Our trade during tho year iia«
BEEN GOOD, Utul WO CXpCCt it to COU
tinue, IF LOW PRICES WILL
DO IT. With thanks for tho lib
eral t ado, we are
Respectfully yours,
UOL^IltCk, Wl)ITt»p&Cfl.
Sonltacloc
AND
And Manufacturer of Brick,
MONTICELLO, GA.
Contracts for brick, stono and
concrete buildings taken in Jasper,
Jones and adjoining counties.
Contracts also taken for plaster
ing and building of chimneys.
References—W. A. Kelly & Bi os.,
and N. B. White & Co., Montieello,
Georgia. nlmo
HIT. V. H:\IMM,
CLINTON, GEORGIA.
Practices in Ocmui.oee Circuit.
Office in Court House.
Macoc. Cotton: Market,
<q 00( \ Middling *D
n , y CD
j ny iq;j,|ij n „ -D
Subscribefor
your county
paper.
Clinton Alive.
THE RED FRONT STORE, OCCUPIED BY
Stands alona with his FULL STOCK OF GOODS, at unusual LOW
T 2 Tj?f5»4l I will make it to the interest of all passing through
Clinton to buy from me. This is
|gft$ I'vltt I# fgltttBMG
and I intend to build up and keep up mv trade by keeping poiite clerks
FAIR DEALING, house full of Goods, and LOW PRICES. Thanking
you for past patronage, aud hoping you will continue same,
I am truly yours.
itr W. H. B OLSEN BECK.
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—AND DEALER IN—
MACOU GtJZ.
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WATCHES CLOCKS JEWELRY,
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m Novelties in Holiday Goods
mT •f ^ORDERS BY RELIABLE MAIL WILL ATTENTION. RECEIVE
m PROMPT AND
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, MACON, GEORGIA
A Gold Fact.
— WE HAVE NOW THE LARGEST AND MOST—
T/ 0
FI J
IN THE CITY OF MACON,
kill af Salfant ntte!
Our stock is selected with great cave, with a view to wearing
We don’t keep a shoddy shoe at all, but
wo Save G OOD SOIilD SHOES
at prices you ordinarily nny for worthless shoddy shoes.. Give
us a trial and be convinced.
* AND govt*
are mado by the leading mano-’acturers of Philadelphia and boston, and
in this department you will find nothing but tbe latest fashions and of
tbe host quality. A large stock of CHILDREN’S SHOES.
Mix a* snraiaETT
107 (Old No. 3,) Colton Avenue,
&ZACQX? GrA ‘
(Successors to Mix & Kirkland, established 1840.) ltf
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The largest stock in the city. We have any article that can be called
for, and guarantee everything to be of the best quality and at the LOW
EST PRICES. Fine
Jewelry, Bronze Art Goods, etc.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS FROM MONTICELLO
AND JASPER COUNTY
WatchesandJewelrv Repaired
by”skilled:wcrkmen.
UgluREMFMBER THE PLACE 314 SECOND STREET MACON
GEORGIA.
J- H. & W. W. Williams 9