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THUS. R. PEW, : Publisher
Orav’sStation, Saturday, February IS.
A young official of I'lurke county
mokes it a rule to give 10 per cent,
of all he makes to the church.
There are a number of gentlemen in
Athens who adopt the same policy.
Athenians are organizing a party
to visit tho Jasper Festival at Sa
vannah next week. President
Cleveland’s presence in tho city
will result in excursions from all
parts of the State.
In Atlanta the boot blacks are
charged 82.50 a year as license for
the privilege of blacking boots. In
consequence they havo formed
a union, and now tho price of a
shine is ten cents.
The Republicans of Charleston
aro making extensive preparations
for Fred Douglass’ visit to that city
in tho early part of March. They
want to rent the largest hall In the
city for him to speak in. The date
has not been fixed, but it will pro
bably be March 7.
The Rhode Island Legislature
has passed a bill in favor of free
newspapers for members. That is,
the State will pay for the members’
education on public matters. It
seems to be something of an impo
sition on Rhode Island, but it will
probably be a saving to her. News
papers can teach legislators a good
many filings.—Savannah News.
Some eastern genius Inis devised
a machine for cleaning cotton seed
of tho lint adhering to it, by means
of which the seed may bo put in
condition for shipment to Europo,
where it will bring $25 a ton, while
the price paid by the cotton seed
oil monopoly is 87 to $8 per ton.
This is an unexpected stumbling
block in the path of tho oil mag
nates.—Augusta Chroniclo.
Tiie will of Mrs. Otto Gold
schmidt (Jenny Lind) shows that
she was worth about 8200,000. It
bequeaths to her grandson tho[oobi
net ol books prosonted to her by
Now York firo companies, and the
estate purchased out of the 8100,000
sottled on her by an American
when she married is given to her
husband. Several legacies uro given
Swedish universities for tho educa
tion of poor students.
Gum chewing is said to have be
come almost as common among
Congressmen as among school girls.
Scores of them havo lately acquir
ed tho habit. It was introduced
by a new member front tho West
One day ho astonished some of his
brother statesmen by inviting them
to go out and indulge in a little
gum chewing. They had probably
boon accustomed to indulging in
something more exhilarating, but
Congressmen rarely refuse anything
that they don't havo to pay for,
and so they went. Now tho man
who keeps a little gum stand noar
tbo mam ontrunco to tho House
does a thriving business, and many
members are getting as particular
in their choieo of gum as in the
brand of cigars they smoke.
Amono tho burials in tho city of
Norwich, Conn., tho other day, was
that of an old and honored Laurel
Hill avonuo Plymouth Rock hen,
who had flourished ten yours un
der the immo of “Splend,” which is
short for Splendid. Sho was a giant
bird, weighing about fourteen
pounds, and had made a big egg re
cord. Had her owners been speeu
lating zoologists they could have
sold her eggs for ostrich eggs to col
lectors I«ntnr« without v ithn..t mush much danger of h, be
ing detected, She knew when it
was meal time as well as a regular
U«rd,r Mj»m. r.g.l»y forl..r
food, calling for her meal once a
day. i -u Ot a , brood , ot ,f lortj . she , was
the hen altogether lovely. She al
ways wanted a chat with her mis
tress dailv, and when she was not
feeling f,i'„, well ould iase t< in i held iii
in hor lap and rocked by pulling her
mistress’apron. She was apprecia
ted not only whiit for what she did, but
nlso for she knew When sho
departed . , .... this life ... the queen ol the
brood was dead, and a royal burial
was accorded her.—Ex.
ITEMS FROM STEVEN’S POTTERY.
Mr. J. R. Andrews is erecting a
new dwelling which will be
ploted soon. We hope ho will not
be so unfortunate as to have the
“fire fiend” visit him again.
The farmers are
their attention to cotton it* -
terest, looking forward to a
bright future which is seldom
realized by many. The farmer
tsandsthe racket pretty well till’ i
figuring time comes, and then wo I
aro reminded of the darkeys cal-'
“Nought „ , . nought, five ;
eolation. is !
is a figure, all for de white man
and nuffin for the nigger.” The i
merchant gets the cotton, the Sheriff
the corn, the lawyer the cotton
seed and the farmer gets his name
circulated in his county paper.
Wo know of a certain
gent who is desirous of
‘
the possessor of a first class buggy
animal, one that can make a mile
in three minutes. Now wo dont
know [exactly what lie is up to,
but rather suspect that some of the
havo gone back on him and
bis only chance at revenge, is, to
ride her so fast that her brain will
become addled. This is, all right.
It is rather monotonous around
Iladdox anyway, and guess when he
gets that fine horse, som e of the
ladies will propose a buggy
ride. Leap-year you know.
Mr. (J. L. Newton says he intends
to make one bale of cotton to
every one and a M>alf acres of
or he will never plant
more cotton. This wo pre
will be bis last year. lie
has however a largo quantity ol
fetilizers, of his own make, and
wo hope his undertaking may
prove a success. Mr. Joe. Hardy
says if ho gets a bale to five acres
lie will be satisfied. Joe has come
from behind the counter and is
pulling the bell line"over a mule
May the jingle of tho chains and
plow-hoes drive dull care away un
til they are superceded by a final
at the close of tho year, of
silver and gold. E.
Z. Iv.
HADDOCKS ITEMS.
Tho bright eyes of Miss Sallie
Woolfollc havo beamed upon her
friends at this place recently.
In liou of there being no services
at Fortvillo last Sabbath, Ed Cole
man wont to Macon to worship.
Tho handsome daughters of Mr.
Joo Glawson havo boon spending a
few days with their friends Mr. and
Mrs. 1). E. Norris at Oaklawin.
Owing to somo hitch in tho ar
rangements, Will Lester, instead
locating in the Halls of the Monte
zuma’s lias pinned himself to the
Finney Bros.
There has boon very little ma
terial upon which to build a corres
pondence lately, hence tho apparent
perfunctory style of recent essays.
It is a source of much regret how
ever, to have to chronicle more
changes, more departures. Mess.
Will Middlebrooks and Charley
Adler have shaken tho dust of
Haddocks from their No. 10’s and
will find homes abroad. We wish
thee well young gentlemen. There
is still much lott us, for the one of
all work, all emergencies, every
body’s agent is still on dock. The
genial Ed. C. is so indispensable to
Haddocks, that no matter what is
wanted anywhere in roach, they
simply call on the indefatigable for
it. Ho doubtless “feels like one
who treads alone some banquet hall
deserted,” so many of his conferes
now in search ot the Eldorads. Ed
can,t bo 8 l iarod and ho be for "
ever with U8 ’ Besides 1,0 is our
Uotharo’s and that again renders
him a noecessitv.
" 0 * mvc a vor Y u ! l 'fi ue ^'ago in
tins that we are minus the usual
eharaotor8 found arounu
stations-and who form a part of the
body politic. Thus wo are without
J ?L ta™ Item. ’
whose , km . . all ,, say, with ... much . pride • ,
slu)U | d bave studied law, for he uses
other people’s thunder to such an
advantage, the miller who gets in
toll on a bushel of corn and straight- such
wav lays it out in candy and
* and ill don’t omit the half
, ib 8t
doiien chair warmers, who pass ver
diets and occasionally Judge, salute Major,” one
another, “well now
nor the Doctor who is the family
confident and the intimate friend
M ^ to th0 individual who raav
| iave just dropped from the train.
* Fresh.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Strawberries are selling at twen—
ly cents a quart in Florida.
The Japanese hitch a horse in
zr 0 6treet b y tying his forelegs
o gather.
A Jersey City Butcher quarreled
with another tnan and struck him
with a sausage, breaking three of
b j g ribs.
It is a gr0 , v ing custom in Ger
many to place Christmas trees on
the graves of children. On many
of them are burning tapers and
rjch
A house in New Jersey, which
had been kept insured for eighty
nine years, burned up the other day
between tho lapse of one policy
and tho taking out of another.
Tho 7-year-o!d daughter of S. D.
1 ^ uvu!1 > °fOwnenton, Ky, the oth
erday completed tho task of oaling
one partridge a day for thirty con
secutive days. Her father gave
her 825.
A recording thermometer is the
latest mechanical curiosity. It has
a clockwork attachment, and re
cords the stage of temperature at
every hour and minute of the day
for a period of eight days.
A Portland, Me., woman has read
the Bible through eighty-five times;
she is 75 years old and began when
she was 7. She reads from the
same book with which bhe first be
gan, and has read it at least once
every year.
A young man in Davenport, la.,
a drug clerk, is well off for grand
parents. His present supply is
nine: Two great-great-grand
fathers, three great-great-grand
mothers, two grandfathers and two
grandmothers.
Over 850,000,000 worth of dia
monds are sold yearly in New York.
This does not include those worn
by hotel clerks. Tho reported
value of the diamonds alleged to
have been stolen from star actress
es aggregates a much iargoreum.
Henry L. Miller, of Burlington,
la., has a German Bible that was
printed in 152J. It is still in
original cover and in very good
shape. Tho lids are of wood,
ored with leather. It is said that
only thirteon Bibles of its edition
wore printed.
Farmers living near Bakersfield
Cal., built a jack-rabbit corral,
shaped like the letter V, recently,
and then scourod tho fields on horse
back, driving the animals before
them into tho trap. Then for two
hours a general massacre of the
pests took place, in which 5,075
them were killed.
A new fashion in bookbinding is
to have large sots bound in
ofdifferent colors. A Boston man
has just had Dickens bound in six
teen different colors, among them
red, brown, orange, light an 1 dark
blue, lemon, fawn, maroon and
black. Each novel was hound in
an individual hue, tho only
tion occurring when a story came
in two volumes.
An Albany club has a curiosity in
the shape of tho first Republican
ticket over cast for State officers
in that city. It was voted at the
fall election of 1855. The ticket is
printed in white on a black back
ground, showing that the voters of
that day had a fondness for the name
“Black Republicans” bestowed up
on them by their opponents. Tiie
ticket has been framed and present
ed to the Grant Club.
Tho only son of a tradesman in
Paris was playing in his father’s
room when he perceived that the
safe was open. In a spirit of boy
ish fun ho got into it. Presently
the father came into the room, and
before leaving his day’s work lock
ea the safe, tho child keeping / si
" J whilo Soon tl HuI( .
f low was missed; the police v was
an(J a huo iind cry raisod .
the safe '!' orlll to find ' 1 8 his >!» Ctther opened
son a corpse, r
A eat whoso general , appoarance
indicated great feebleness and gen
oral ill-hoaltn walked into a drug
store in Van Buren, Mo., tho other
day and began biting and scratch
ing at ft paper package poured of catnip. floor,
A quantity was greedily, on and the
and the cat ate rolled
on the leaves. She was a daily
visitor to the store, and got the
medicine regularly, until to all ap
ncarances she was quite well. This
is the story as sent from Van
Buren.
FROM BRADLEYS.
Mr. John Bradley iscn a visit to
Fla., this week.
Dr. Jones and lady of Monticelio,
visited their sister Mrs. Bradley,
of this place, last week,
The school at this plac-e opened
last Monday, and the good teacher,
- Ul '- Waller, expresses himself as
being highly pleased with his new
-
We were sorry to hear of Mr.
accident, that of falling in
the creek, while crossing a foot log
few days ago, on his way to the
Hunt graveyard.
Several of our young men went
to the river on a fishing ex
pedition last week. One caught
two very fine fish one of which (a
“scrap” cat) weighed 15!bs. Who
can beat that ?
We are glad to know the C & M.
is doing such a good business, haul
ing fine stock from Wayside, to the
Central City to secure mortgages.
We get money on ours without
shipping them.
A certain young gent, not a hun
dred miles away, went to Macon,
the otner day, got a jug of bait, and
paid Pope’s Ferry a flying visit.
He failed to catch the big fish he
intended, and when he returned
home his hat and donkey were
g° n0 - Sambo.
SHERIFF’S SALES FOR MARCH.
GEORGIA—Jones County.
[/during flN the first Tuesday in March next
the legal hours of sale be
fore the Court House door in said
County, I will sell at public outcry
two hundred acres of land more
less, being one hundred and fifty
acres off of lot, seventy two, ail of
said lot south of Long Slash, ai d
fifty acres off lot sixty, parallel to
lot fifty nine in the sixth District of
said State and County and known
as the Tom Stewart place—adjoining
lands of John Baker, Mrs. Nancy
Balkoom and others. Ley led on by
virtue off a fi fa issued to the April
Term 1888 of Jones Superior Court
in favor of Elizabeth J. Lowe vs.
Lafayette Baikeom, as the property
8: pfcksession. £1 Balkoom, tho same being in
Written notice
levy served said Baikeom as tenant
in possession. This 25lh ol January
1888.
\Y. W. BARRON,
Sheriff Jones County.
Printer’s fee $5.90.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
GEORGIA—Jones County.
£ts i House public door outcry in
the town of Clinton on the first
Tuesday in March next, between the
legal hours of sale, the following
property to-wit: One sorrel horse
mule, Rock, one black mare mule,
Kite, one black horse mule, Scott,
one bay horse mule, Pete, one sor
rel horse mule, Sam, one bay mare
mule, Beck, one bay horse mule,
Jeff, one bay horse inule, Bill, one
sorrel mare Valley, one [iron gray
mare mule, Jessie, one sorrel mare
mule, Ida, or.o light sorrel mare
mule, Duck. Levied on to satisfy a
mortgage fi fa issued from Jones
Superior Court in favor of W. B.
and O. G. Sparks vs. Sam Barron.
Property pointed out in mortgage
fi fa. This the 25th of January
1SS8. W. W. BARRON,
Printer’s fee,84.95,[ Sheriff.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
GEORGIA—Jones County.
\\ /ILL House BE door SOLD in before Clintou, the Court Jones
County, Georgia, on t he first Tues
P»3 ™ March next, between the le
L'al hours ot sale the following
P ro P ort Y ei g bt horse
power engine 1 albott imme and one
h ‘ l " c0 1011 &in * ni ' nc l " c 1
belt. Levied on as the property of
Robert Lundy to satisfy a fi fa is
sued from the County Court of
JonejJ CoilDt in farorof Ta)bott &
...Robert Lundy. Al.o.Ube
same time and place, one hundred
and fifty acres of land more or less
in Hawkins District: Jones count}’,
known as the Ivey Place, adjoining
lands of Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
Mrs. Wimberly and others. Levied
0 n as the property of Robert Lundy
to satisfy a fi fa issued from the
County Court of Jones County, in
favor of Talbott & Sons. Property
pointed out by Pitts atty., written
notice served on Defendant,
W. W. BARRON,
Jan. 25th 1888. Sheriff,
Printer’s lee, $5.75.
TO THE PUBL IC.
Clinton™ Alive.
THE RED FRONT STORE, OCCUPIED BY
W, H. HOLSER8BGS,
Stands alone with his FULL STOCK OF GOODS, at unusual LOW
F£lXC£iS I will make it to the interest of all passing through
Clinton to buy from me. This is
Ufe-’gttfg Hfwr t §#»**,
a nd I intend to build up and keep up my trade by keeping polite clerks
FAIR DEALING, house full of Goods, and LOW PRICES. Thanking
you for past patronage, and hoping you will continue same,
I am trul}’ ycurs,
ltf W. II. HOLSENBECK.
©SO. T. BESIjAND,
kwifgy . WATCHES CLOCKS JIMMY,
ffll Sjifclaclf % IfiolS ti§
n i % PENCILS ETC
.a Novelties in Holiday Goods
\ %s§§i .* mm J6SK>RDERS BY MAIL WILL RECEIVE
PROMPT AND RELIABLE ATTENTION.
320 Second Street,
MACON, GEORGIA
T. B. Artope, 9o
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6^ O If! 13-0
Jr —AND DEALER IN—
MACON GA
A Cold Fact.
—WE HAVE NOW THE LARGEST AND MOST—
■ farted Stock off SSMS
IN THE CITY OF MACON,
l&litfi alt al IWj 33offom jiticcs!
Our stock is selected with great care, with a view to wearing well.
We don’t keep a shoddy shoe at all, but
Wo Have G-OOI> SOLID SHOES
at prices you ordinarily pay for worthless shoddy shoes.. Give
us a trial and bo convinced.
l fitttttaMft’f £to*
are made by the leading manufacturers of Philadelphia and Boston, and
in this department you will find nothing but the latest fashions and of
tho best quality. A large stock of CHILDREN’S SHOES.
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107 (Old No. 3,) Cotton Avenue,
nSEACQtf GA
(Successors to Mix & Kirkland, established 1840.) ltf
JiH !. Still 4 ft ml« 1 L us m
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
Watches and Jewel rv Repaired
BY SKILLED WORKMEN.
Bffi-RE MEMBER THE PLACE 314 SECOND STREET MACON
GEORGIA.
J- H.&W. W. Williams,