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Col.E.C. Maclien’s Victory.
The injunction case of the C. and
M. which has been pending for the
last few months, has finally been
settled, and tho road will be pushed
an to Athens at a rapid rate. Col.
l. C. Machen was untiring in his
efforts to place the road on its feet,
and “proved his faith by his works”
as will he seen from tho following
1. item clipped from Wednesdays Tel
egraph.
“Previous to the adjournment
and while the orders were
written out, Col. E, C. Machen turn
ed over to Capt. F. S. Johnson
checks, one for 817,069,18, and the
ether for 87,950.82, on Atexndder
Brown & Sons. Baltimore, signed
“J’B, C. Machen, and indorsed by
•Alexander Brown. These checks,
roriung the required 825,000, as
previously I. agreed upon, were cashed
»>' C. Plant, and so the stipula
tion? of the agreement were carried
to the letter.”
Ad along the line we hear rejoic
.
mg over the termination of
^junction Lead in its case favor, against and to the know C. & that M.
’ ?/ roa d will now progress rapidly.
-dexantler ; j !e * r,1 th is Brown Col. Machen has accomplish- with Col.
J • H ii the history K ran dest of financial this country feat known and
‘heir names v ill be cherished by the
D'ople along the line ot this road as
f, se‘aetors to our section. They
“Hr the intrinsic value of this road
“ Bd that it was a sale and sure in
'estment and they did not hesitate
“invest their money in it. Ail
1;fuse to Messrs. Machen, Alexander
Lfctwn and. their associates.
he copy the following from tho
a sper Connty News,
The fire works displayed last night
J,. ,
X- B. White’s in the honor
“‘^victory and success of the C.
', road - v.as most heartily en
-"Til i , by all of citizens. The
our
“ ’Hi'sal toast was, “Machen, Alex
U Kail / r ,V rown -Fiobel. and the C.
Road!”
CLINTON LOCALS.
Capt. Ross is not so so well as
ho has been.
Our communication from Franks
will appear next week.
Maude and Wallis Hardeman are
visiting friends in Macon this week.
Col. Hardeman paid a profession
al visit to Buena Vista last week.
Mrs. M. A. E. Penn, of Monticello,
is visiting Mrs. John Morgan, near
Grays.
The bright days since the 2Gth
have been a boon, and the sun
shine is as welcome as can he. May
it continue!
The moon was much observed
Saturday evening. The eclipse was
more plainly 7 perceive than at any
previous time.
Reports from Mrs. Finney, of
Haddocks, are very discouraging to
her many sincere friends in Clinton.
She grows weaker all the while.
I). P. Griswold is in Clinton male
ing necessary repairs upon R. V.
Hardeman’s boiler. Pratt is an ex
pert machinist and knows just what
to do with an engine.
Alex McKay spent Friday and
Saturday in town examining appli
cants for teachers license. Wc un
derstand several of the colored ap
plicants stood splendid examina
tions.
The eulogy upon Chancellor Moll,
in Saturdays Tolegrah by Co!. N.
E. Harris is a gem of heartfelt sen
timent and is a beautiful tribute to
a great man, most eloquently ex
pressed.
We see that Maj. A. \V. Gibson,
well known and former cotton
of Macon, has reeievod
lucrative position in Wash
city, from Congress, at a
of §2.000 per annum.
A gretna green marriage would
have taken place in this county “so
has it/' had not the tender
of the prospective bride for
bidden the worthy Ordinarys issue
ing the license. Thereby ye Repor
ter lias been cut off an item.
Master Ross Holsenbeck cele
brated his tenth birthday insb Fri
day evening by having an enjoyable
party, at his homo. The little ones
had a fine time, and a nice supper.
Ross is a bright boy, ana one very
popular with his playmates.
Mrs. Smith, wife of Rev. Wesley
F. Smith who served our church in
1886 and now stationed at Culver
ton, visited Mrs. Finney last Satur
day. She is a dear and exclient wo
man, and her friends in Clinton
would have been glad to have had
her visit them.
The Headlight is promised the some and
rich “reminiscences” of gay
festive order by an old citizen
Clinton now living in Macon. The
writer (to be) is a most Johnston’s piquant
writer with Malkeom
keen sense of the ridiculous. We
await them impatiently.
Will Meeks of Coffee county one
day last week killed the famous
Jones county belled buzzard. The
letters C. E. are on his bell, below
these are engraved “Jones Co.. Ga.,
1853.” This buzzard has been no
ticed by tlio Georgia press for last
four or five years. Mr. Meeks has
the bell in bis possession. Who
belied him? Let us know.
ITEMS FROM STEVEN’S POTTERY.
Mr John T. Summers will make
Baldwin County his future
He has recently moved from
County.
It has been predicted that
prsent year will be a favorable
Dons ‘ may prove traf U ‘° pU<
Mr. J.W. Black and family
moved to their future home in
Preston, Webster County. We
gret exceedingly to lose such
/.'•IW and wish them much
and prosperity.
We are pleased to note that
Master Ben Finney, a son of the
! widow Tom Finney is
very rapidly from a wound received
in one of his shoulders lecently
from a gun shot.
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No locomotive is comp
out the headlight, neither is a
husehold. Send and get the Jones
County Head Light. It will afford
enougii light for the whole family
and lighten your pocket but very
Mr. R. W. Bloods worth was the ,
lucky man, of tho Dubingnoi
Volunteers Ho wore off the bluo
ribbon at our prize shooting the
25th inst. Mr. Lewis McCollars
was tho second best, Mr. If. 1 .
Newton third. Tho boys alt did
well. of
Mr. W. C. Stevens, one the
firm of the noted Stevens Bro's, ; -
recovering from a severe attack of
pneumonia. 1 More Anon
E. Z. K.
FOR THE HIRES.
A Bit of Experience and Advice.
When twenty three years ago. we
“launched our frail bark upon the
matrimonial sea/’ we thought we
were about as smart as the average
girl, and fully-capable of undertaking
the responsible position of house
keeper to a financially crippldd young
confederate soldier, who by the wars
ravage had lost all he possessed, ex
cept health and brain. But, alas!
little dreamed we of the many mys
teries connected with housekeeping,
and nothing knew we of that most
essential part, in fact most important
to tlie masculine idea, the art of
cooking. This branch of our edu
cation had been mostly fearfully neg
lected. We soon disesvered that
the dear men cannot retain his se
renity and auniability while break
fasting upon half cooked unsavoury
steak or fowl, weak raid muddy coffee
with poorly made buscuit. Ho won
der he soon grows not only dyspep
tic but despondent, and irritable,
while the poor, and to-be-pitied
young housekeeper wonders why she
cant “cook (or have cooked) rigid”
and soon began to believe her John
or Tom or Joe “never did love her
any how,” or he wouldn’t “fuss so!”
We have trod this thorny path, and
tod well know “whereof we speak,”
we want to detail a little of our ex
perience in the art cuisine, ludicrous
now as it appears, hut distressingly
Owen Meridiths apt words in Lucille
apropos the subject but our memory
has grown wonderfully poor with ail
the wory incident upon a tutelage
twenty years in kitchen, lose. This
poet “clinches the nail” when he says
we “can't live without cooks.” Noth
ing pleases and appeases a man more
than an appetizing well prepared
meal, and we count that women
tunate indeed who knows how
prepare or have prepared a well cook
ed meal, be it ever so plain or frugal.
Bear you in mind that we clout
liete it womans whole duty to bo
cook, and slaye away her host and
brightest hours in a hot kitchen
a steaming pot, oh! no wo deem
endowed with mental porters too
ble for such menial service, but
that she should be thoroughly
miliar ...... witn the culinary , art, , that ,, , ,
’
could ... instruct . , those to , whom ,
delegates , . the ,. important . , , duty , , of
°
the ,, dishes .. , and ,
paring ° many
ceteras demandeu . . . , by a.family. „ .. ... We
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have , shed . , bitter
never more
than ,. these ,, that bathed our
cheeks, , , one day . in 1866. . ,
young
why fmo? Jnst this, and oh! it
awful to us then. We had been
sented with a splendid piece of
led beef, a piece which
prepared, would have tickled
palate of an epicure, but which
proceeded to murder in the
manner, a mode which we think
never heard of before. Why, we
unllv put it to boil in a pot of
without soaking over night, and
added to it and the pot about
quarts of dried corn field peas.
for a family of three, myself,
and the servant. Had not tho
water so soon permeated and
ed the peas, we think there
have been enough of them in
little kitchen to have fed half
coivs in the settlement, though
the sequel proved the -longer
cooked the harder they grew,”
being forced to make way with
somehow, we had the “mess of
tage” (or lather tho potot
dumped into thc cow lot, where
j a y f or da yg a monument, as it
to our ignorance, so salty the
and cows just turned their nose
them. Then . when
at again,
good husband hunter, brought
, 0 ntan y beautiful
winged ducks from a successful
upon the pend near our borne,
J M at ,, th upon * the
leney of baked duck with apple , . „
we could in our minus eye see
ready baked the nicely browned
dr epsed fowls, and donning an
maculate berutffed and
apron wo proceeded to the kitchen
to help piepare the mallards. ’Ac
began the leurtul task without scald
j n g them in boiling water and liked
liever to havo gotten them in shape
for cooking. With our nice white
apron all rumpled and soiled,
( tience worn threadbare, we wished
: never u duck was killed, and
•shed it harder and louder before
t! ey were baked for dinneer, and frit
a we looked upon the dry looking
c reasses that they were but afright
fi homily upon baked duck that no
o: e could eat. and yet it had taken so
n my hours hard work tao to pre
p: re them. If we had only just
k own how to cook! Do girls, in
v nr leisure hours step in the old
c< ok room and take “a dot” or two
evry day. It may seem “awful”
prosy and dull but learn the art, it
will pay you in the end u hundred
foil. What a treasure a good smart
ccuiomical wife can prove to a man,
rf i he knows how to cook! 1! If we
wo ‘c a gentleman candidate for mat
rimony the first question we would
propound to our “best gnl” after she
hal consented to link her destiny
wip ours, would be : “Do you know
h( w to cook ?” and supplement by
sa dug: “li‘ not learn how before you
m irry 1”
FR03I HADDOCKS.
Sditor Headlight :—At this time
thire is an all pervading sadness
throughout our little village. “The
oWi hooteth!” “The whangdoodle
mdurnoth!” for tho Band is busted,
anf the Haddock’s Harmonian Club
is l thing of the past. Our only
solicc is to recall tho many hours of
pleasure derived from that magnifi
eerit Quartette. Never again will
thqviilage and district be awakened
by music so melodious, so enehant.
ina. Hot ashes and scalding wa
tec need never more have a place
n4u- the open window, but will be
megated to the back yard. The
witch dog will do no more snarl
ing, nor tho moon bo brought to bay
aa an offset to soothing music,
Want of appreciation in the way of
cake and wine caused the collapse,
‘was not unfreqncntly said that
personal pulchritude of this coterie,
when assembled under Dunn’s light,
brought to mind the noted
Troubadoun of far away Venice.
We t the depai . ture of Mp#
Wj „ Leste] . who t0 8Cok thc
, and of ,. b boardin g houses. Lc
a Holt cxpected t0 accompany
^ I but lbe ilailro „j 9 aro m)t 80
u ° retnrn ticket8) 1Io wasn’t
bn 0 M his { who burned
,, |8 ,, gljios behiud kim by buying
t j cket .
Ed _ Lester alter months ,
some
with , Messrs, ,, Finney Bros., will
uckle ... the , tor „ , large
sou a crop,
Likewise Will Moughen retires from „
°
John Anchor s house, where , he , was
the , idol ., . ot tll the fair. In lien of „ smiles ..
and , . it wui be tlio
sugar plums, 1 ca
ressxng . of „ one ot ..., the long eared, ,
°
,J ' li0 G ual, ° trado has a,rottd J KCt
in > and lhoae wbo )lv0 a £ roat dis
UlllC0 havo commenced to haul.
Last 8tjason markcd tho ora of l ,cr '
collections in this branch to the
utter surprise of dealers. 1 hoard
0U1 ‘ l a, ’S 08t dealer say that ovcij
10,1 waa P aid - Heretofore, it has
boon the rule, to make it last or
not at a ‘ k
A bad citizen in thc person of
Moso Blount colored, camo to grid
last week in the Justice Court,
Mose has hankered after a place on
the chain gang for some time, and it
is now more than probable that ho
will bo gratified. From his promis
ous murderous actions l.o seemed
to include the officer b, spectators,
witnesses and all present, as he
pointed a shot gun in the door
the court room. In durance vile,
he thinks people are getting mighty
particular about going security,
In ancient days all roads led to
Rome; with us, all muddy, slushy
deep bole roads lead to Haddocks,
j Wilt tile gentlemen of tho Board
Commissioners look to this matter
; or allow „ them to grow a ,. little wl worse
! and then become impassable. Mr.
j Editor allow a suggos lion, and that
j is urge of good upon highways, tiio county tho necessi
i ty even to tax
ation “Fuksh.
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to one post office,) and send us 810,
will/ receive a copy of Headlight
for one year.
AT A BAKU AIN.
I offer my Grist Mill and 15
power Engine f or sale.
Apply to
31. H. MORTON,
G. & M. U R. Gray’s Station, G
Head,
Wo havo this day contracted with Messrs. JOHN MERRYMAN & Co
to sell, at all stations on the C. & M. Railroad, their
—CELEBRATED BRAND? OF GUANO—
f erryman's A. 3. Bones,
ferryman’s GEORGIA TEST.
Wo can say without any fear of contradiction that Merryman’s Fer
are to-day, as they havo been for JO years, at tho very top in
and the perfect satisfaction thoy give to planters.
While most of the popular brands on tho market in past years havo
the grade of their goods by lowering their grade, Merryman
has continually improved. Wo do not make tlieso statements at random.
Wo refer to any planter in Jones and Jasper counties who have used
Merryman’s Guano, and will stake our reputation on the result.
—WE ALSO HANDLE—
BCXbJm»X»33 ©3.2ra BWSTP
for composting, which is the highest grade acid on tho market. Wo sell
cheaper acid phosphates; also Kainit, and aro agents for the Macon Oil
& Fertilizer Company for the sale of their Cotton Seed Meal.
Wo can give low prices on theso goods, and aro ready to deliver now.
Our Agents will call on tho good people of Jouos and Jasper coun
ties, and wo will trustrcceivo their orders.
BOV, WORSHAM & (JO,
420 AND 422 THIRD STREET,
NOVEMBER 16tii, 1887. [W] EiKiJLCJOfff OtJBk
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ih.® Low
•:o:
FULL PATENT FLOUR, per barrel, §5 50
25 POUNDS PATENT FLOUR, 70
1-2 PATENT FLOUR, per barrel, 4 50
25 POUND SACK, 6<i
FAMILY FLOUR, per barrel, 4 35
25 POUND SACK, 50
13 POUNDS GRANULATED SUGAR, l 00
4,1 POUNDS FINEST COFFEE, 1 00
SALT IN WHITE SACKS, 75
IIADNUT GRITS, per peek, M
BEST UNCANVASSED HAMS, -rr
BEST N. O. SYRUP, per gallon, O
25 BOXES MATCHES, 25
1 DOZEN PAPER BOXES MATCHES, 400s - 45
J 3 £ 5 "The way to make money is to save|it. Como and trade with
us and wo will save you money.
WASISJ ae SMfHj
300 Il‘ir V D, Sy^EEj, QecF v qiA..
1832. Established 1832
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Mae©n Shoe IStef®*
1 have one of the largest and the best selected stock of
in the State, and offer them at prices as low as tho lowest.
E.P STRONG
Octl3-3mo. MACON G A
(JAMPIIBLIj k JON IS
O-o.
HI apelieiise and
Ssmialsslon
Merchants
for the salc and storage of Cotton. Farmers can buy nocccssary sup
plies either for cash or time papers, with satisfactory security.
Cal! and see us before making arrangements for another season.
CAMPEKLI. WHES.
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i w. A. DA VIE. M. C. BALK.COM.
Davis & Balkcom.
Cotton Factorsand Cone nil Grocers.
All Planters supplies at lowest prices for cash, or on time with ap
proved paper. Agents for
CHESAPEAKE GUANO.
A full lot well broke mules always on hand, ltust proof Oats a specialty,
j Jan. 21st 1888 3m. 31 AGON GA.