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THOS. It. PESX, : : Publisher.
Gray’s Station, Saturday, February 11.
The Kentucky Legislature is
considering the question of moving
the capital of that State from Frank
fort to Lexington.
A $4,000 monument to Gen. Gar.
field will piobahly ho erected in
Chicago, and tho money will be
raised by popular subscription.
After twenty-two years of the
abolition of the gallows, Iowa re
turns to it with vigor and hearty
enjoyment. One or two other
states liavo had a similar expe
rience.
Germany and Austria have pub
lished a treaty of an alliance for ag
gressive and defensive purposes.
Its tone is conservative and concili
atory, but it iH a warning to Paris
and St. Petersburg that the confed
eration along the Rhino is complete.
Congressman Martin, of Texas,
has introduced in the JIouso a reso
lution instructing tho Ways and
Means Committee to report a bill
repealing internal revenue taxation.
He will hardly meet with the suc
cess that bo did when iie blew out
the gas.—Savannah News.
The proposed celebration in New
York of tho one hundred anniversa
ry of Washington’s inauguration
will probably not tako place. Tho
committee having tho matter in
cdiargo is composed of 100 members,
A dozen good men might have ac
complished something, but a com
mittee of 100 is unwieldy.—Ex.
Miss Freeman, tho Omaha school
maim who, during tho blizzard
saved her pupils by tying them in
lino to apiece of twine and lending
thorn out of danger, has sinco re
ceived nine offers of marriago. Tho
men probably think she would keep
the little ones in the paths which
they should tread.—Savannah News.
Adxmna Patti never takes any
out-ot- doors exercise. Shoisvery
much afraid of cold air, and when
she goos oqt for a drive »n winter
howolf in furs, tiot up her
and even puts cotton in Ju“ r
ears. She never speaks in tho night
air, and when she runs from the
stage door to her carriage her mouth
is covered by tho scarf that goes
over her head.
Mr. and Mrs William B. Wright,
or Michigan, were married for tho
second time tho other day. Tho
pension business was at bottom of
tho affair. They were first married
in 1810, but lost their nmrrnigo cer
tificate. Mr. Wright is the recipi
ent of a large pension from tho gov
ernment, nod knowing that, in the
event of his death, it would bo very
difficult for his wife to draw the
pension without haring a certificate,
ho had a new ceremony performed.
Ho now awaits the comming of the
grim monster with composure.
There is said to bo a row in tho
First Presbyterian church, Wash
mgton, which tho President attends,
over a fiddle that lias deen intro
duced into tho choir. Since Mr.
Cleveland took a pew there that
old fashioned place of worship has
been looking up, and has become
tho favorite of fashionablo people,
who thought it would add to the
attractiveness of the services to
hire a full orchestra to support the
choir. Most of tho congregation is
pleased, but some members object
to that use ot such musical instru
ments in sacred worship.
Another foot race for a bride has
taken place, this time at Fulton,
Mo., and between a Texan and ’‘a
young Loohinvar” who came out of
tho West. The girl favored the
Westerner, but the father vote for
Texas, who was wealthy. Both
lovers procured a licenso, and, see
ing it was a matter of speed, started
out of the Recorder’s office on a
run. Tho distance to the young
lady’s the Texan, home was a half mile, and
whose wealth had ini
planted within him habits of ease,
eaiue the Westerner, puffing in 300 yards behind
just as the marriage
corcmony better was than completed. Poverty
was in
TAPI’IFF.
From the Jasper County News;
Mr. Editor:—I recently receiv
a specimen copy of the Atlanta
Constitution, in which they beg and
beseach each one, in whose hands it
reaches to subscribe for the great
family paper, and help them to raise
their subscription list to two hun
dred thousand and m this same ,s
sue they advocate a high protective
tariff, as the correct policy of the
government, and as strongly advo
cate the abolition of our internal
revenue system, and thereby hangs
their hope of retaining the iniquitous
import duties upon the necessaries
of life. I venture the assertion there
is not a fair minded gentleman in
Ga., that will say that it is better
for the masses, to cheapen the price
of whiskey, rather than the
rios of life, and yet this is just what
the Atlanta Constitution advocates.
Let us see what becomes of these two
taxes. Who pays the tax on whis
ky? the consumer, and the revenue
derived from it, goes into tho U. S.
Treasure, and this revenue goes to
the support of the government, and
just to the extent of the revenue de
rived from whisky, to that extent the
great body of the people are relieved
from taxation. Some of your read
ers might ask the question; why is
it, that the Constitution advocated
a policy, that in its operations upon
the masses, ten ds to make the poor,
poorer, and the rich richer; the ques
tion is easily answered. Mr. K. P.
Ilowcll and Henry Grady are inter
ested at Anniston Ala., one of the
great Iron Centers of tho south.
It is readily seen that the power be
hind the throne, is not the good of
the dear people, but the building up
of their private fortune, regardless of
the oppression which our odious tar
iff laws bear upon the very farmers,
who they ask to assist in building
up their circulation, such affrontery
is only worthy of the Constitution.
H hat lias boomed Anniston Ala. ex
cept. the Iron business and why
should the government with its
strong hand tax every citizen that
uses apiece of Iron manufactured at
Anniston, and then turn tile entire
tax over to the manufacture. This
is protection perse, and only goes to
fill the already overflowing coffers of
the monopolist, and this is what the
great family hivors, paper, tho Atlanta Con
stitution ' but the other
on
the tax from whiskey, which
goes to bear the expenses of the gov
ernment, and lesson the burdens of
taxation of the poor man, it favors
total abolitition. To illustrate this
issue more fully, we have recently
been beneficiaries of a Rail Road
through our county, (and all honor
to Mr. E. C. Machen indomitable
will and perseverance.) The tariff
on steel rails used by this road is
seventeen dollars per ton, estimating
about eighty tons per mile, wo have
$1350.00 per mile bonus to the man
ufacture of steel rails. The road
from Macon to Monticello being
about 50 miles, gives us $67,500.00
added to the oosi of construction, by
operation of our tariff laws. Who
pays this $67,500,00? surely not the
constructors of the road, the people
who patronize the road both in
freight and passenger trade will p:iv
every dollar of it, and this extra tax
robbery of the people, under the
guise of taxation, does not one dol
lar go to support of the government,
but every dollar of it goes into the
pockets of eleven manufactures in
the United States, who have a monop
oly rails. in the And manufacturing when take into of steel
we con
sideration the vast number of miles
of Rail Road in Ga., and that these
rails have to be replaced every ten
years, we are confronted with a rob-!
bory of over $2.500.000.00 dollars j
annually, Roads in Ga, that have the patrons and ol when Kail
to pay,
I say patrons of Rail Roads. 1 do
not mean the merchant and the man
who travels for pleasure. 1 mean
the consumer, the farmers who con
sume the freightage of these Rail that
Road. And when we reflect
this is only one, out of the 4000 ar
ticles which the government furnish
es protection to the manufactures,
whose we are confronted inestimable. by a stealage, And
enormity is
this same great and good farmers
paper, the Atlanta Constitution ad
and voeates deincgogery this policy suen existed deception
never even
in a ward politican. Why should
the farmers patronize a paper, whose
every issue is teaming full of protect
ion perse, when this policy of the
government is crushing to earth, the
very foundation stone upon which
the Prosperity of all nations are
baaed ou. h. L.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Scientists say that shutting
eyes makes the hearing more acute
lt is said that it takes every year
1 000,000 horses’ tails to keep „ il l
Pawtucket, R. I., hair-cloth factory
; n runn j n „ or j ei ., ‘ '
Tho British 0 verment is mak -
effort8 t0 eultivat0 oysters 7 on l lu
*
shores . of rrn Tasmania, . and J . issaid # • to , be a
’
meeting with . f good success.
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It is said that Alaska will become
a great mining country within *
few years, and will furnish caunel
salmon enough to supply all crea- ?
1
A Salt Lake mother arose in tho
night at the solicitation of her
‘laughter and rubbed 50c. worth of
C0U S h medicine on the latter’s rheu
malic limbs. The cure was immedi
ut0 > but ,be P a ' n8 returned as soon
W9 tbc mistake was discovered.
Among peculiar dishes which
form the food of Spaniards are odd
combinations in which black beans,
dried codfish and dried red peppers
are the chief ingredients. To al-.
mose evory dish a Syeniard adds
black, rod and white pepper and
onion, garlic and olive oil.
A mule that weighs 1,830 pounds
and a lacks onlytvvo and a half inch
es of being six ft. tall is owned by a
St. Louis firm. From morning until
night Jumbo tramps away the time
in a two-horse tread mill grinding
feed for hundreds of horses and
mules and grows fat with the ex
ercise.
A curious fashion of boring
through wot sand is being practiced
in Eastern Europe. A row of iron
pipes is driven through the yielding
sued a freezing mixture generally
chloride of magnesium cooled by
expansion of ammonia, is then
passed through the pipes, returning
is means of smaller tubes contained
within larger ones. By tho mix
ture tho wet sand is frozen for a
considerable distance round the
pipes, and is then easily excavated
and the pit shaft built. Tho same
plan was recently adopted in making
a tunnel under the city of Stock
holm..
Patrick Casey, of St. Paul, killed
one of his geese and found a peculiar
metal in its crop. His curiosity
led him to slaughter another goose,
tho crop of Wich contained about
the same quanity of tho same
metal. About a teaspoonful was
taken from the crops of tho two
geese. Tho mineral was taken to
jewelry store and rigidly tested by
the jeweler, who pronounced it gold
beyond all question. Tho geese
were most of the time in the river,
which is very shallow, or on the
gravelly bank near a spring, about
which is much gravel, tho accumula
tion of ages.
When the first vessel completed
the passage of the then Erio canal,
in 1825, there being no such thing
as a telegraph in those days, tho
news was communicated to New
York and to Buffalo by cannon
placed within hearing of each other
all tho way along from Albany to
each of the other cities. Tho sig
nal was passed along in this way
from Albany to New York city and
back again to Albany in fifty-eight
minutes. This is quicker than a
tolegraph message can be sent over
the same route and answered nowa
days, considering the time usually
consumed in tho delivery at each
end.
A railroad velocipede is at present
experimented upon by the military
authorities of Franco. It is a wag
on 0 f ver y liyht build and little
weight and has fouv wheels of 30
inches diameter, with runs eon
structed for running on rails, One
n ian can move it at a speed of forty
to fifty miles an hour. By means
of » brake lt can bo sto . pped . m . a
distance of five yards; that is, al
j most instantly. It can be easily
( j ifte d off the rails by one man to
1
get out of the way of a locomotive,
, lor and easily replaced
in8ta nce, as
! after the train has passed. By fix
! ing gutta-percha rings around the
wheels the velocipede can be prepar
ed to run ou country roads. The
durability .... of . theso machines,
as con
j structed by the French, is said
. be marvelous. Such an engine,
pnM5t ', icable. privet" might solve the prob
| CIU 0 f conveyances
Diu on ra Uroads as on
SHERIFF’S SALES FOR MARCH.
GEORGIA—Jones County,
flN the first Tuesday in March next
(/during the legal hours of sale be
the Court House door in said
1 wiU Hel1 at l mbuc 0Utc, T
hundred acres ot land more or
off of lot seventy faon * red two, . and ad .fj o
lot south of Long Slash, a? d
acres .off lot , . sixty, . . parallel n * to
n ; ne in the 6ixtb District of
, >state an(1 County and known
the Tom Stewart place—adjoining
al)ds of Jo hn Raker, Mrs. Nancy
and others. Levied on by
of a fi fa issued to the April
1888 of Jones Superior Court
favor of Elizabeth J. Lowe vs.
Balkcom, as the property
said Balkcom, tho same being in
possession. Written notice of
served said Balkcom as tenant
possession. This 25lh of January
W. W. BARRON,
Sheriff Jones County.
Printer’s fee $6.90.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
GEORGIA—Jones County.
ILL BE SOLD at public outcry
belore the Court House door in
town of Clinton on the first
in March next, between the
hours of sale, the following
property to-wit: One sorrel horse
mule, Rock, one black mare mule,
one black horse mule, 'Scott,
bay borsc mule, Pete, one sor
rel horse mule, Sam, one bay marc
mile, Beck, one bay horse mule,
one bay horse mule, Bill, one
sorrel mare Valley, one iron gray
mare mule, Jessie, one sorrel mare
mule, Ida, or-e light sorrel mare
mile, Duck. Levied on to satisfy a
mortgage fi fa issued from Jones
Superior Com t in favor j of W. B.
and O. G. Sparks’vs.^Sam Barron.
Property pointed out in
fi fa. This the 25th of January
1888. W. W. BARRON,
Printer’s fee, $4.95.) Sheriff.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
GEORGIA—JonesjCounty.
If BE SOLD before the
House door in Olintou,
Georgia, on the first
pay in March next, between the
Hours of sale, the
to-wit: One eight
engine, Talbott make and
saw eotto n gin and one
Levied on as the property
Lundy to satisfy a fi fa
from tho County Court
County, in favor of Talbott
vs. Robert Lundy. Also at the
time and place, one hundred
fifty acres of land more or
Hawkins District: Jones county,
as the Ivey Place, adjoining
of Mrs. Charles
Wimberly and others. Levied
as the property of Robert Lundy
satisfy a fi fa issued from
Court of Jones County, in
of Talbott & Sons.
out by Plffs attv.,
served on Defendant.
W. W. BARRON,
Jan. 25th 1888. Sheriff.
Printer’s ice.
TO THE
Public
—YOU CAN—
SAVE
BY STOPPING AT
jr II Belhk's
HestauranT
and Loaqtfjq R.oo^s,
Opposite Hotel Lanier,
This house has recently been re
fitted and refurnished with elegant
NEW FURNITURE and BEDS
throughout, contains 20 rooms, and
‘.he proprietor is now prepared public fo
accommodate the traveling
in a satisfactory manner and at
cheaper rates than can be procured
elsewhere in Macon.
Ixodgiag £5 Cent*
J3P” Meals furnished nt any hour,
day or night, and first class accom
modations insured at x-easonable
rates.
4-tf J. H. BENNER, Trop.
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00tf «Ht Sfinkfit
Good Middling
Middling 91
01 intent Alive.
THE RED FRONT STORE, OCCUPIED BY
• W, K« HOL9BHBEGK,
Stands alone with his FULL STOCK OF GOODS, at unusual XaQ.'W’
PRICES I will make it to the interest of all passing through
Clinton to buy from me. This is •
SP* I«% *
8U £S B
I intend to build up and keep up my trade by keeping polite clerks
AIR DEALING, house lull of Goods, and LOW PRICES. Thanking
for past patronage, and hoping you will continue same,
I am truly yours,
ltf W. II. HOLSENBECK.
A Gold Fact.
—WE HAVE NOW THE LARGEST AND MOST—
Farted Stock off SMCmS
IN THE CITY OF MACON,
3ln& alt al itoel Gallant pifts 1
Our stock is selected with great care, with a view to Wearing ’.veil.
We don’t keep a shoddy shoo at all, but
Wo Have GOOD SQXjUO SHOES
at prices you ordinarily pay for worthless shoddy shoes.. Give
us a trial and be convinced.
:« AND b US' " & \5
arc made by the leading manufacturers of Philadelphia and boston, and
in this department you will find nothing but the latest fashions and of
the best quality. A largo stock of CHILDREN’S SHOES.
mix a? iiiiiff,
107 (Old No. 3,) Cotton Avenue,
MAOaN ©A
(Successors to Mix & Kiris land, established 1840.) ltf
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Novelties in Holiday Goods
wmm SgrORDERS BY MAIL WILL RECEIVE
1111 I PROMPT AND RELIABLE ATTENTION.
320 Second Street,
MACON, GEORGIA
lpf> 0 f^T EI \ ./O'
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—AND DEALER IN- ❖
MACON GJA
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The largest stock in the city. IVe have any article that can bo 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
WatcheSand Jewelry Repaired
BY SKILLED WORKMEN.
BSuRE MEMBER THE PLACE 314 SECOND STREET MACON
GEORGIA.
J* H. & W. W. Williams,
Macon,- Ga.