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VOL. II.
ROBERT COLEMAN. JOHN N. BIRCH. - BCLIViSR H. RAY.
COLMAN, it A X & CO.
Bacon, Ca ■ J
Dealers in Groceries, Planters’ Supplies,
Bagging and Ties.
After i£any years' practical experience Georgia that in nundling and selling for Cotton,
we announce to the Planters ci wo are now ready the
coming season, with every facility and convenience for satisfactory hand
,ling of all Cotton that may be entrusted to us Without any favorites
among the buyers, but treating ail alike, we make it our special aim to get
the very highest market price for each Planter, selling to the very best ad
vantage each individual bale of Cotton- For the convenience of our
friends m the Country ,we have in connection with our warehouse a store
supplied with a full stock of Groceries, Provisions and Bagging and Ties,
which we will sell as cheap as any one. In season we also have handle a full supply of
Mules, which we will sell for cash or on time. We Guano of
the best grade, which thank we will be glad friends to furnish of the to all wishing for it for cash
or on time. We our many past years their liberal
patronage, and to au new ones we guarantee satisfaction. V\ e solicit your
Cotton and trade. Respectfully,
N H. 25—3m. OOLEiflN, BAY & 09.
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U* W. STIiATTOK
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Goods. Smith.
Repairing* Promptly Done.
416 Cheery Street
MACON, GA.
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451,453 and 455 mulberry st. macon ga.
Just received, One Car Load Dixie and Ludlow Bagging.
n <i « “ Arrow Ties.
a « Two “ “ Flour.
We also keep A. Seed Oats, Rye, Meat, Corn and everything
else . kept , . . First , Class Grocery t, Business. • Can rs •
m a give you
Bottom figures ou such goods.
V25—tf. DAVIS & BALKCOM,
451, 453 and 455 MULBERRY ST., MACON, GA
E. L. BURDICK, Agt.
Dealer In
Corn, Meat, Flour, Hay, Oats, Meal, Wheat
Bran, Sugar, Coffee, Laid, Syrup, Salt,
Tobacco, Lagging and l ies, etc,
When you come to Macon, eall and see me and get my prices.
E. L. BURDICK, AGT.;
452 POPLAR ST , MACON, GA.
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J. JOHN BON. JEFF LANE
JOHNSON & LANE.
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GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1888.
WORDS OP WISDOM.
Deal with the fortunate.
Silence is the fence around wisdom. •
?so man is impatient with his cred
Itors.
The amenities of life make the true
beauty of living.
Life is a continual routine whatevet
guise it assumes.
A smile through tears is the soul’s
rainbow of peace.
The simple faith of a little child is the
world’s truest homage.
Good breeding is like affection-one
cannot have too much of it.
Dreams are ofttimes the fulfilment of
a prophecy within ourselves,
The power of forgiveness is the no
blest astribute in the human character,
To be autocratic is to be unjust to
ourselves. No man is “sufficient unto
himself. ’
^ e *P ail ’Jl at ' and each happiness is riven are tlle so closely vualtl)
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" er '
r thowrld”" ... 0 YoJf’an' . . ... nofdo
tlng either
without more or less self-denial
Where a dam is weakened the water
flows more freely—so a great flow of
words may be the result of mental weak
ness.
It is a curious fact that man will
condemn all the faults in others and ex
cuse whatever habits he may possess
himself.
With many, life is like a kettle of sap
in maple sugar time, each bubble trying
to swell up higher than the other, until
itbu »ts.
do Fools may by say them—so wise things, wise but they
not profit men may
sometimes err. In either case the nature
is not changed.;
Theories may truth, be beautiful, they may
contain some but experience
knows all their romance on one side,
and brings them to a test of their real
value.
The Aquatic Spider and Its Diving
Bell.
While their nearly constant abode is
the water, they are, like most other
spiders, air breathers; consequently they
need some special provision while for provid
ing themselves with air living
under the water, and for this purpose
they possess the art of constructing a
kind of diving-bell. It is an interesting
sight air-cell. to witness Clinging one of the them lower making side of his
to a
few leaves, and securing them in position
among the hairs with which its body is
covered. Then it plunges into the water
and appears as in the first stage of the
making of its silvery robe. Going im
mediately to the spot it had chosen, it
brushes its body with its paw.-, when
the air detaches itself and forms a bub
ble under the leaf. The spider sur
rounds this bubble with the impermeable
silky matter furnished with its spinners,
Returning to the surface, it takes in an
other layer of air, which it carries down
and adds to the first one, The also extending
the envelope over it process is kept
up till the “diving-bell” and is finished. has reached The ideal tho
proper size
form of the construction is that of a
thimble, but it often assumes an ir
regular shape, like an inverted sack.
its When redoubt the spider it remains has taken quiet possession in it, head of
down, watching for the appearance of
an insect. Perceiving it, it seizes it and
returns to its lodge, which it has secured
against intruders by spinning threads
across it, to devour its prey at its leisure.
—Popular Science Monthly.
Popularity of the Spanish Onles.
A few years since 5000 crates of
Spanish Wegrnan, onions were of New shipped York, from Spain
to 1). found says the
Sun, who it almost impossible to
dispose of them at a profit. The other
afternoon the same gentleman received
40,000 crates of these delicately flavored
onions “that shine in all their fatness
like Spanish friars," and about the same
number of packages are on thair way
from Spain to this port. Each crate
contains about fifty pounds and the job
bing price varies from 30 to 73 cents
per crate. Some physicians claim that
a ing raw Spanish month onion will eaten check every if morn
for a not per
manently cure almost any kidney trouble.
They are said to be very efficacious in
cases of worms in children, and no epi
cure can deny that they are most appe
tizing in a saiad. It is a pity they can
not be raised in this country. American
hot-house gardeners have tried to cnlti
vate them, but they degenerate into a
most insignificant seeds the variety degenerated of onion. Yet
the very of onion
planted in its native country will pro
dues an onion equal to the original.
An Arctic Railroad.
An important engineering railroad enterprise
now in progress is a in the Arc
tic circle. The Swedish and Norwegian
railroad now building from Lulea, on
the Gulf of Bothnia to Lofoten, on the
North Sea, is partly situated within the
Arctic circle, and is some 1200 miles
further north than any railroad in Can
ada. An interesting in relation meteorological
fact stated to this work is
that the , snowfall , „ is . found , ... to be actually ,,
less than in some more southern lati
tudes, while the darkness of the long
winter nights has been partly compen
■ated by the light of the aurora, fhe
object in view in constructing this line
is to tap the Gelbvara enormous Mountains, deposits of iron
ore in the the ap
proximate exhaustion of the ore in the
Bilboa district rendering very desirable
a new field of nou-pho phoric ore suit-
1 able for otoel mil making. —Mew York
Hua.
TIE PROUD LADY CONS.
Away 'rom the noise ami clatter,
Theiinof the busy street,
Is a cniaret, shaded and silent,
When at evening we ofteu meet.
She is «proud, rich lady,
Beauifu], wealthy and grand,
And sojety’g legions marshal
At tl» wave of her jeweled hand.
Yet fai from the glamor and glitter,
From revel and rout and ball,
She sees hor old companion.
Whet the evening shadows fall
I read it her eyes of azure
A wecome tender and strong,
And he- greeting to mo is the musie
Of a tweet, old fashioned song.
She sitswhor.i the fading sunshine
Falls m her pure, sweet face,
About l«r, draped and twining,
An aura of shimmering lace.
We chat over old excursions
By woodland and stream and shore;
We clitk our glasses, the wine flies;
“Cons, waiter, and bring us more."
I open uy eyes, the waiter
Is befsre mo, bottle in hand,
But alatj the rich, proud lady
Has pne to the shadowy land.
For although I weave about her
This veb of an ancient time,
The laqr long since has banished
Her aiustrel and his rhyme.
i —San Francisco Newt.
Pli'll m POINT.
Gramoar students advance by declin
luff. 1
The $$t vacant lot has a “common”
place apparance.
A part} “hemmed in" by the Indians
is likely be basted.
“Pleast : I want to buy a shilling’s
worth “Oh, ojfjiay.” rit’s for “Is the it horse.” for your father?”
no
The left bower —The man who isn’t
his recognizij by the lady to whom he lifts
hat. urlington Free Press.
“ThereJwill be a domestic storm," he
murmuqpl, kitchen; “The as he heard is failing a crash ."—Potion in the
glass
Post. *
AYhenaman pays $5.00 for a little
piece ofquinine, it is hard to convince
him thaiit is a drug in the market.— The
Idea.
.. ??, q ™lhUm def ’" e r th - e word “ d T
pulls ou i other people’s teecu to
sonH>A’« by great 0,1,1110 reached bite.” and
The higljits men
Were |not attained by sudden flight,
But they while their companions slept
Were put among the boys all night.
—Merchant Traveler.
JMamie—“What are you writing, Min
nie; your will?" Minnie—“No, proposed I’m
writing my won’t. George
last night and I told him I’d answer to
day.”
“That’s it!”exclaimed Mrs. Bascomat
the concert, as the singers came out again
In response to an encore. “Make ’em do
it over again until they get the thing
right.”
Never use a crow-bar to get a railroad
cinder out of your eye. point A will lead work pencil it
sharpened to a fine
out 'if you jab hard onougli .—Detroit
Free Press.
Old Mr. Bently (reading the paper)— j
“I see that the King of Spain is ill." ;
Old Mrs. Bently—“Goodness, Joshua, I ;
hope he hasn't got a cant cer, too!" Old
Mr. Bentl?--“No, he’s teething."—
Philip II. Welch.
There is a yell that scares them all,
The pag/n ami believer;
For hear it wow in Florida,
It is the yell o'fever.
—New Yorl: Mercury.
The distressing news comes from Eng
innd (hat the i rince of Wales loses lus
wind too quickly to make a good successful tenuis
player. He wouldn’t make a
member of tho United States Congress,
either.— Norristown Herald.
There were a lot of Italians Broadway. sorting
over a waste heap on lower
“Why are those people like women’s
dresses?” asked Plugly; and when h a
friend couldn’t tell he said they were
gathered at the waist.— Siftings.
“Did you ever shoot a cross-bow?"
asked an enthusiast! archer of Miss
Ethalinda. “Ever shoot a cross-beau,”
she replied. “I should say I had.
George- got so cross last night that I
fired him right out of the house.”— Pitts
lurj Chronicle.
She (flaring up)—“What do you mean
by kissing me, William Henry Smith?”
W. H. S. (humbly)—“I-I-I-meant She (angrily) no
disrespect, I assure you." do
—“Well, I should like to see you
it again, that’s all." W. H. S. —“Here
goes, then." S. (smoothing her ruiiied
plumage)—“You’re Courier. just awful."— Ho*t//n
To Save Firemen From Asphyxiation.
appliance An English which inventor be has of perfected an
will great value to
firemen. It is a respirator with an India
rubber enable the mouth-piece, breathe and is designed to in
wearer to and work
comfort in dense smoke and poisonous
gases. The device is fastened securely by
a band around the head and a flange lying
between the teeth and lips, while a small
projecting- teeth. The piece inhaled may be is grasped drawn through by the
air
a series of small filters containing wet
g p 0D g eg) cotton wool dampened with
glycerine, and animal charcoal. Tho
fleers are provided d with valves so that
tbe brcath erpire from the lungs is
Mnt direct to the external atmosphere,
Spectacles, with india-rubber rims fit
ting tightly to the cheek and brow, pro
tect the eyes. A-J---
It is announced that Mrs. Cleveland is
getting tired of answering notes from
people who name their babies after
NO. 5.
RODGERS, WORSHAM & CO.,
420 & 422 Third Street,
MACON, GEORGIA. f
Wo offer our services to the farmors of Jones and Jasper counties for the season
of 1888 and 1881).
We have now in stock pure--
Texas Rust Proof Oats, Georgia Rust Proof
Oats, Rye and Barley.
We also have a large stock of
BAGGING AND TIES,
FLOUR, GRAIN, BACON. TOBACCOS, ETC.,
AT THE LOWEST PRICES.
Wo have made the best trades of our lives in
FERTILIZERS,
And we assure planters that their interest will be served by calling on us before
buying elsewhere.
FOIl NEXT SEASON WE ARE
Q" IE 1 ST IE IE?/ _A_ Xj _A- Gt IE IN" H? S
IN MIDDLE GEORGIA FOR:
H. S. MILLER & CO.’S Famous Bono Fertilizers;
“PLOWBOY’S BRAND” a Complete Fertilizer;
“SOLUBLE MACON BONE DUST,” tho Best Acid Sold;
OIL AND FERTILIZER CO., Cotton Seed Meal.
Wo have also Imported a very large lot of genuiuo
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Estimates made to ALLIANCE CLUBS. All farmers are cordially invited to
call, or write to us for prices, etc.
RODGERS, WORSHAM & CO.,
: 429 and 422 Third St., MACON, GA
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AT SCHAU’S, 1 SI! CHERRY STREET,
Macon Georgia.
Special Offers to the Public.
I offer ns inducements from now until Jan. 1st 1889, to advertise my good*
Best Hand Sewed Shoos $3.50 Former 1’i'iee, ?6.00
“ Machine “ Calf “ 2.50. • ( £ 3,50.
2nd Grade “ “ “ “ 1.75. U - 2.50.
Ladies Sowed Button Shoes 2.50 “ r 4.00.
a u «« r 1.25 H - 1.75.
“ Calf Skin Lace 1.25 2.00.
Best Boots for Men 2.GO It 3,00.
“ Brogans 1,00 and 1 25 a (t 1.50 and 1.76.
Children Shoes and Hats at your own Class price
All of these goods I guarantee to be strictly first and
everything waranted to be as represented, we respectful!?
invite you to give ns a call. Remember the place.
Scliall’s No 513 Cherry St
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