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To tie People of Jones Cosily.
—WHEN YOU NEED—
Ite fUedieijioo, garden geedp,
FANCY and TOILET
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ARTICLES, STATIONERY,
GLASS, OILS, &c.,
in fact anything earried in stock in
a first class drug store. Do not
fail to call on us before buying. We
keen none but the best quality of
iverything, and in price defy coM
petition. We have been engaged
in the drug business for a period
more than 25 years and point to our
past record as a guarantee for the
future. When in Macon do not fail
to call and seo us.
RANKIN & CO.,
Mulberry aud Third Sts.,
Near Wadley Monument and New
Government Building. n4-3m
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TOWN AND COUNTY.
Local Editress.
Mr. Bert Middlebrooks is visit
ing his brother rear Hillsboro.
Hr. Joe Mercer lost one of his
valuable colored hands last Friday.
Mrs. Ben Rice, from Morton’s, is
spending a few days with her moth
er Mrs. Nivins.
Mrs. Justice L. Q. C. Lamar, who
lias been visiting in Macon, left for
■Washington Wednesday.
Miss Sallio Stewart who lias
been visiting here some time, has
returned to her home m Putnam.
There aro many good people in old
Jones who do not take their county
paper. This should not be thus.
Ten car loads of timber were
chipped over tho C. & M. last Tues
day to bo used for trestles above
Monticello,
Mrs. Henry Moore, near Gris
woldviltc, died of pneumonia on
hint Monday. She leaves a husband
and six children to mourn her loss.
Miss Essio Stewart of Putnam is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Wiley Jones,
°f this place. We wish her a pleas
ant visit.
We have been informed that Col.
L. C. Machen and other prominent
gentlemen, from New York, will
have an excursion up the C. & M,
today with the view of inspecting
the road,
M e have received some commu
R Rations this week without the
writers name. Each communication
should have the original name sign
al to it, using nny non do plume,
they prefer. Will appear next week
if the name is forwarded to us in
time.
3 here is an interesting freak of
nature at Marysville, Cal., in the
•■hape of a double-beaded calf, two
Lends being set on one neck. But
byron, a rival California town now
Foies down on Marysville because
it wonderful pig which has two
bodies and one head.
A horrible accident occured Thurs
^Ryon the Central railroad at a
point a half mile from Milledgeville.
^ ne gro woman, with ter little
four year old boy, attempted to
doss the track just as the train was
approaching. She got safely over,
!, t the engine knocked down the
httle fellow and his body was cut
in halves.
AT A BARGAIN.
I offer my Grist Mill and 15 Horse
bower Engine for sale.
Apply to
M. H. MORTON,
r i Gray’s Station, Ga.
CLINTON LOCALS.
This weather is bad for farming
operations.
We Clinton people arc revelling
in mud with rain nearly all tho time.
Mrs. A. S. Hamilton went down
to Macon Friday and returned Satur
day.
MrsJ. T. Finney ot Haddocks
still remains critically ill. Mr. F.
we learn, is also quite sick.
Mrs. J. R. Chiles and children
spent Sunday in Clinton. Miss
Maggie Bell returned to Monticeito
on the 23rd where she attends Prof.
Dumas’ school.
Mr Chas. Y. Roberts of this Co.,
was married in East Macon to
Blanche Sawyer of the latter placo
onThurday evonitig, Jan. 19th.
many friends of tho parties wish
them much happiness.
Mrs W. W. Barron has been put
ting her flower yard in order for
tho Spring. This yard
the finest and choicest varieties
flowers (with tho oxception of
Graves) in this part of the county,
and was a source of great pride
Mrs. Parks, and a delight to her
friends, who enjoyed the floral to
kens, she so often bestowed from
Messrs. H. S. Greaves and S.
Chiles have just had brought from
Atlanta a full-jersey bull, eighteen
months old, which they value at
8400.00. He was presented to Mr.
Chiles by Mr. ltobt. Winship of
lanta. The latter has ono of
largest dairy farms in the state
supplies daily the Atlantians with
seventy five gallons of sweet milk,
besides selling from forty-five
filty pounds of jersey butter a
The following copied from the
Jasper County News, has the right
ring, and voices the sentiments of
of the citizens of Jones County :
“On Saturday last a number of oin
leading citizeus met in the Court
house and discussed the C. & M.
R. R. situation. Much interest and
enthusiasm was manifested and
many thanks tendered Col. Machen
for His efforts to rescue this enter
prise from wreck and ruin. A feeling
strongly condemnatory of tho con
duct of certain attorneys in their ef
forts to prevent tho speedy adjust
ment of matters in the injunction
case against this road, from purely
selfish motives, was manifest, and
the hope was expressed, that tho
court would have tho moral cour
age, to let tho world know that
lawyers, in this country are under
the control of their clients, and that
the courts were organized to give
parties thbir just and legal right,
and not machines to extort money,
from those who come among us
with their money and means to de
velop and build up our country,
Well it does seem that a portion o'
the Legal fraternity, for the past
few years, have conceived tho idea
that, railroads ere bonanzas, and
the parties to extort money from.
This should not be so, our country
must bo developed, and nothing
tends so much to develop a country
as Rail roads and in matters of this
kind, the public good should pre
vail over selfish motives from any
quurterand publicsentiinent shou Id
be so moulded as to assure all who
come in our midst, with their mon
ey to invest in public enterprises
for tho public good that wc will
stand by them and see to it, that
they shall be treated justly’ and pro
tected in all their rights.”
The truth is the C & M. Road has
been of incalcuable benefit to this
county’, and wo mean to stand by it
and we want to tell it out that we
are sick, sore and tired of the efforts
that have been made to cripple and
check its progress and extort money
from its projectors and builders, by
persons who have no regard for
the public good.
We notice tho following in the
Jackson Argu3:
Col. R. V. Hardeman says he
will vote for repeal , o. „ revenue upon
paregoric, be’s sitting up these nights
with a “new girl.” This is leap-year
and the girls are taking advantage
of it.—Jones County Headlight.
The editor of the Argus some
times goes out and sits up beside
his “new girl” but we are always
particular to not let our better
s wives don't often
half bear of it, for
admire these things you call leap
years, Sometimes thed—1 is to pay
when we return.
RAINY-DAY SCRIBBLINGS.
“By thy words shalt thou be jus
tified and by thy words thalt theu
be condemned.”
When weassumned the responsi
clo position as Editress of tho wor
thy Jones County Headlight and
donned tho dignified robes tho office
demanded we endeavored then most
strenuously to impress upon our
“light head” an axiom, somewhat
thus: “It requires tact to know
what is best left unwritten.” We
havo striven to give offense to none
by our words and promise even
now again, in the future wo will
guard our every word. A friend
suggests that we discontinuro our
murderous reminiscences lest wo
make a too credulous public believo
that old Jones was once a Texas
fr ntier, en embryo. And indeed
it used to be noted for its many
brawls and numbers cf rowdy cit
izens. So we aro going to stop
writing up old time killings and
hangings. To vary this, we wrote
(a week or two ago) a little romance,
real and true, though it all was,
suggested by the old Lombardy pop
lar on the “Cook hill”. Tho tree
had afforded us many a rnoraen ts
recreation while viowing its tall and
solitary figure and wo wovo bright
romances and built air castles, and
yet our remarks upon its grandeur
and its story havo caused it to be
cut down. Our weary eye no more
rests upon it. We grieve to give it
up and fain would have exclaimed,
had we dreamed of its impending
doom: “Woodman, spare that tree,
touch not one single bough.” But
it is gone, is non est indeed! What
fatality rested upou tho spot? Did
our innocen t remarks cause it to bo
hewn down?
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
Here is an item from the Macon
Telegraph of Jan. 21st with a few
remarks of our own. When Slier -
mans grand army passed through
Georgia m its tri umphal march to
the seashore it was reinforced by
many negro men who enlisted as re
gular union soldiers among those
who joined them in Jones County
was a slave of Mrs. Lowthers, Henry
Anthony, who has relatives living
in Clinton and vicinity now. He
was given a legular outfit and
went into active service. Last week
there came to Macon, a petition,
from him, to be endorsed that he
might receive a pension from TJ. S.
Government. He, while on picket
duty contracted rheumatism from
which he has suffered ever since.
The petition was duly signed and
endorsed by Col. Isaac Hardeman
and Capt. Frank T. Johnson. These
gentlemen had known Henry m
Anti-bellum days, and both were
officers in the Confederate army,
and yet they were glad to be able to
accomomdateone whom they thought
worthy. This is a noble and gener
ous act and stamps these m en as
true Christian patriots.
In tho Colored Educational
Convention held in Macon on Wed
nesday, Rev. T. IC. Love addressed
tho meeting in tho following,
which is worthy of thought and
consideration of our colored people:
“lie said tho best thing for tho
colored was industry’, tcmporunce,
virtue,economy, union and courage.
That’s what I’ve come here for to
talk about 1 If you would be great,
get land, got education, bo sober,
be upright, and protect tho virtue
of your women. While voting
is all right, voting cannot do
for you what industry will.
That’s what I’m here for ! I’m here
to tell the negro that he can not be
collectively great until lie is in
dividually great. Tho constitution
will never make a home for you.
and you have got to dig your living
out of the ground. Establish co
operation stores. Como up like
men and tell the people what they
ought to be. We ought to be in
dustrious, temperate, economical,
arid virtuous. We havo drunk
enough whisky railroad since tho war to
build a from Atlanta to
Savannah. And if we must drink
it, let it be bought from oar own
stores. We can drink soda water,
but vtfe can’t go into a white man’s
store and drink it. We don’t mind
stepping on a grub worm, but it
won’t do to step on a rattlesnake.
That’s what I’m here for! Stick
that ternperaneo resolution there,
tie it on, sow it on and keep it
there.’’
FROM HADDOCKS.
Dear Headlight:-- It seems that
your corps of correspondents all fell
out ot lino at the same time. Pos
sibly from the same cause. “Us’’
had a bad case of the weather,
ibis, together with the uncertainty
ot negotiating oue or more drafts,
produced a sort of nervousness,
that finally developed into the Dol
drums.
Hope springs eternal in the far
mer’s breast, mostly about this time
of the year, and well it does for it
is about all tho capital he has to
build on. I notice a decided im
provement in the general good feel
ing during the last few days. Tho
sullen, gloomy manner, will vanish
right along from now. Short crops
and ruination seems to havo been a
case of wolf, a few who have been
on the “ragged edge” for some years
went overboard, but that class who
add a little every year, did the same
thing this, and will contiuuo to do
so.
Tho New Year has wrought some
changes in mercantile as well as
arcadian. Haddocks mourns tho
loss of two of its choico spirits, both
preferring tho independent planters
life to the “Pent up Utico.” Tho
real volume of tears are being made
ready, however, for tho departure
acouplo more, whoso ambition leads
them to greater deeds. 'Tis said
they are stuck on a showman's life,
and whilst ono thinks there is glo
ry enough in feeding candy to tho
Tattooed woman, the others choico
is to chunk mullet to tho Sea Lion
Our merchants evidently played tho
Christmas trade for all it was worth
for since then they have replenish
ed largely. Additional proof is,
ono ofjno. Anchors smiles reaches
from breakfast to dinner, and Jim
Finney, well, his lordly appetito
tells tho tale.
Our immaculato Justice is
winning a large sharo of glory in
clinching the nuptial bons.
ly when he gave tho command
“hands all around” in lion of
hands, the parties assumed a
of Prize fighters attitude, which
confused his Honor, that ho
to collect his fco.
“Fresh."
Public School Teachers.
OTICE is horeby given that I will
be in Clinton on the 27th and 28th
examining
licenses.'. Examination will bo had
on no other days. This notice is in
compliance with instructions from
tho State School Commissioner.
Govern your6olvcs accordingly.
This the 7th of Jan. 1888.
A. H. S. McKAY,
County School Commissioner.
ROBT. V. HARDEMAN,
CLINTON, GEORGIA.
Practices in Ocmulgee Circuit.
Office in Court House.
jr. e. coniioB
§imlt*acloc
AND
And Manufacturer of Brick,
MONTICELLO, GA.
Contracts for brick, stono and
concrete buildings taken in Jasper,
Jones and adjoining counties.
Contracts building also of taken chimneys. for plaster
ing and
References— W. A. Kelly & Bros.,
and N. B. VVhito & Co., Monticello,
Georgia. nl m3
Dentistry.
IDx* R A JONES
RESIDENT DENTIST,
Having permanently located at
is prepared to do your
work at rf.asonarle rates. Satis
guaranteed. A liberal por
tion of tho public patronage solic
ited. Office up stairs over Dr. Do
drug store. branch
6&-1 have established a
at Gray’s Station and the wil
my friends at that place
first week iu each month. nl
Planters Read,
We have this day contracted with Messrs. JOHN MERItYMAN & Co
to sell, at all stations on tho C. & M. Railroad, their
—CELEBRATED BRAND? OF GUANO—
Merryman’s A, D. 'Bones,
Merryman’s GEORGIA TEST.
Wo can say without any foarof contradiction that Merryman’s Fer
tilizers aro to-day, as they havo been for 30 yoars, at tho very top in
excellence, and tho perfect satisfaction thoy give to planters.
While most of tho popular brands on tho market in past years havo
cliangod tho grade ot their goods by lowering their grado, Merryman
has continually improvod. Wo do not make those statements at ruudom.
Wo refer to any planter in Jones and Jaspor counties who havo used
Merryman’s Guano, and will stako our reputation on the result.
-WE ALSO HANDLE—
SOLUBLiE BOHB DUST
for composting, which is tho highest grado acid on tho mnrkot. Wo sell
cheaper acid phosphates; also Kainit, and aro agents for tho Macon Oil
& Fertilizer Company for the sale of their Cotton Seed Meal.
We can give low prices on these goods, and aro ready to deliver now.
Our Agents will call on the good pooplo of Joues and Jasper coun
ties, and wo will trustreceivc their orders.
ROWS, WORSHAM & CO.,
420 AND 422 THIRD STREET,
NOVEMBER 16th, 1887. [ltf] MACON GtA
W 11 WARE 1 1L 8H1TI1
Head fixe Low Prices.
:o:--
FULL FATENT 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 barrol, 4 35
25 POUND SACK, 50
13 POUNDS GRANULATED SUGAR, L 00
4J POUNDS FINEST COFFEE, 1 00
SALT IN WHITE SACKS, 75
HADNUT GRITS, per pock, 35
BEST UNCANVASSED HAMS, Hi
BEST N. O. SYRUP, por gallon, O
25 BOXES MATCHES, i
1 DOZEN PAPER BOXES MATCHES, 400s - 45
J66T The way to malco money is to suvegit. Como and trade with
us and wo will savo you money.
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380 |VI.ACQplj
CAMPBELL & inn
o -o.
Warehouse and
Commission
Merchants
for the sale'and storage of Cotton. Farmers can buy nocccssary sup
plies either for cash or timojpnpcrs, with satisfactory security.
Calt and seo ns before making arrangements for another season.
CAJMnnBEXaXa JOH3ES.
to y.,
W. A. DAVIS. M. C. BALKCOM.
Davis & Balkcom.
Cotton Factorsand General Gro cers.
All Planters supplies at lowost prices for cash, or on timo with ap
proved paper. Agents for
CHESAPEAKE GUANO,
^ f u n W cll broke mules always on hand, llust proof Oats a specialty,
Jan. 21st 1888 3m. MACON GA.
1832. Established 1832
BE, JF*. BttjSg
Msmmm S 2 me Btove*
I have one of the largest and the best selected stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES.
the State, and offer them atpricea as low as tho lowest,
E. P STRONG
Octl3-3rno. tj MACON.GA