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OOUN 0* ♦ ❖ • » i mui » r -~C vl \ il 0 “Our Ambition is to make a Yeracions fork, Reliable in its | I: Statements, Candid in its Conclusions, and Jnst in its Yiews. ” 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. aug U* W. STIiATTOK ---DEALER IN Phot Guns Rifles, _ . n Pis . r F i s hi n tOlS, , 1 L'UI" , Tackle Sporting^^ and igg 'izgL. I Mlery, A Gun . j II W all •>r* Cl J-jCjGIy r rtr* 1 ' Goods. Smith. Repairing* Promptly Done. 416 Cheery Street MACON, GA. ^ II—8-25—3m. aw new h am 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. N H—8—25—Sm. J. JOHN BON. JEFF LANE JOHNSON & LANE. ■to) MACON m h> G A. Hardware, Building Material, Belting. Cutlery, Wagon Material. -:o: Gruns, Pistols and Ammunition. MB-8m Subscribe Brimful of choice for reading matter This for everybody. Paper >[0W 10 T 813 subscription. TIjMSt Examine this paper and send us your IT WILL PAY YOU 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) ' " 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 [f \!i I 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 j ' ■"•"O-um. ■SSL.i_ ^ - i Jl. OF ills ihn ill 1 ! iili -AT 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 mm, mmmh N II— 8-25 —3tn. , ADVERTISE NOW. <o) We will insert yon a nice, well-displayed ad Yertisement at as low rates as any first-class paper can afford to do. Advertising’rates made known on application. SUPPORT YOUR HOME PAPER ELSE JOB PRINTING 1 SPECIALTY.