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Jhff ^ ■ *** A-H' H * t % f i Ti 4 PUBLISHED EVERY i ; A’ Uit 0 A V MoRNIN AT GRAY, GEORGIA, —BY T. R. PUNY.— Subscription Bates—In Advance. One Year. ..... 1.. Six Months...... Three Month,..... 30 Entered at the Postoflice at Gr a ) Ga as second class mall matter. Postoffioe orders, drafts, etc,., should be made payable to T. II. Pen's. Rates for advertising made known ou application. Communications for individual benefit, or sf a personal character, charged for the fame as advertisements. Marriage aud obituary notices, not ex seeding one square, inserted without charge —over one square will be charged for same as advertisements. opinions Correspondents expressed alone them are responsible through for by these columns. TOWN AND COUNTY. Mrs. E.G HARDEMAN, Local Editress GRAY LOCALS. Keep your town rushing. A crowd in town every day this week. Mrs. J. A. Jones is reported some better than she was iast Sunday. Monticello will hove her Op -ra Troupe Show on next Monday night Mr. D. D. Holsenbeak smiled upon his many friends of the Central City last week. Mr. J. \Y. Jones is erecting a nice dwelling which wo hope will soon be completed. Mrs. Sam Barron, of Macon, has be n spending two weeks at her home near R and Oak. It is rumored that a competent teacher has been secured to take charge of the school at Pine Ridge this year. We publish Prof. W. T. Dumas, of Monticello, poem, entitled, “The L ist Ear Of Corn,” which cau be found on first page. On our t’ii d page today wiT be found a st nlnngand instructive illus tration of the comparative worth of the various kinds of baking powder now iu the market. Misses Saiiie Barron and Kate Morgan passed through town several days ago calling on frion is in the 'Country. On their return they spent a few hoars pleasantly in our midst, Wo would bo glad far some one to send us tho dot • from their local ity at least once a mouth. Why mot take an interest in your county pamper? We will bo pleased to hoar from friends in other counties also Tiie Farmers’ Alii unco of Jones County met at Gray, Thursday. Jan. 31st. Him. W.J. Northern Pres ident of the State Agricultural So ciety was picsent and delivered quite an interesting address, after which a basket dinner was served. We have considerable complaint about the Headmghl failing to reach some of its subscribers. We are unable to explain how it is as the papers are mailed regularly ev ery Saturday afternoon. In many instances we believe the trouble arises from other parties taking the papers from the office and failing or neglecting to deliver them to the subscribers. This is wrong and works a. hardship upon us as well as the subscribers who fail to get their papers. We hope to get the matter remedied soon. TO OUR FARMER FRIENDS. We offer a portion of our space to our farmer friends to be used as they think proper. If the ies of each sub alliance in the ty will send us in the names of their •officers and dates of their regular monthly meeting, we will get up a:i alliauce directory for Jones county. Our columns are open and we cordi ally invito coi'resdpndence. CLUB RATES. , . . ,. , r onOL da FARMER is -,0 0 cents, T To any one getting us a Hub of ten at 35 cents each we will sen i the Farmer free six months, an 1 for a nlnb-of twenty will sen 1 the Farmer wee one year. Address, GEORGIA FARMER, Barnesvilie, G». ^ CULMOS LOCALS. Mon,lay and Tuesday were cold ' *’ Next Tuesday is regular Sheriff sale day. •Several cases of chicken pox in the village. The beautiful snow visited us a a little while Monday, Preaching in Clinton next Sunday. Let all who can attend. School Commi ssioner Alex McKay was in Clinton Tuesday. This is rather uufavo. able weather for an early start in gadoning’. Little W il'ie Li else n bock has been , 'l ,li ' J ‘ ,Jl ' past, ten days, but is improving now. Mrs. David Lester and daughter, Miss Annie, of Hadd >cks, were in Clinton Tuesday. Mrs. Fannie Grier Cook and son of Atlanta are v.siting her mother on Mulberry street in Macon. Rev, E. R. Cook preached at Fortvilie Sunday and had quite a good congregation. The ro ids throughout the county are in an awful condition owing to the recent spell of rainy weather. Next Monday, Feb. 4th, promise- 2 to be a very busy day for the County Ju Igo, the Attorneys, and the Ordinary. Miss Maude Phillips returned home last Saturday from a weeks visit to her sister, Mrs. Tom Brad ley, near Franks. 'Vo cal! attention to tho curd in this issue ot Messrs. I'li'-nec & W il lingham, of Macon, who are offering to lend §50,000 to farmers at the ] >w rate, of six percent. Mrs. (Jus Bragg’s family enjoyed a nice birthday dinner (whose \v e doot know) last 3 .uduy. she is one of the best “cuisines’' : n. Georgia and wo know everything was nicely served. Messrs. Edgar Woo l, from Social j Circle, and Comer Baldwin, of l’aib >t County, were the guests of Ye E ii tress last Saturday and Sun day. They are students of Mercer University, and came over with “Robert N.” expecting a brighter : day, but wasn’t Saturday “ i a watery’> one? They must come again. Col. II. H. Jon s, the efficient staff correspondent of tho staunch and popular Macon Te'egraph was in Clinton Tuesday, a:i 1 gave us a caff. For a long time we have en joyed tho pictures drawn by Co] Jones’ ready pen, but thB was o*i r first personal meeting. Wo found him affable, intellectual and a worthy representative of a grand old daily, Mr. James A. McOool, a promi nent railroad man living ne>r At lanta committed suicide on Wed nesday by hanging himself. Finan cial embarrassment is a-'signed as the cause. The Augusta Evening News says; There is a gentleman in ibis city who carries life insurance to tire amount of $56,000. ,Should he un fortunately die, the young laiy he, is to wed m March will be solid Intending to continue giving you a good paper lor the money we are again compelled to urge all who arc indebted to us, to please come foi ward and settle. You know you owe the money and it ought to be paid, Capt. J. E. Morgan of Barnesvdle smoks a pipe which he has owned for twenty six years. He picked it up on one of the battlefields of the seven days’ fight during the late war. It has been broken several times, but it is hound nicely with silver, and it is now likely to console the captain for years to come It look s almost new, and is a valued relic of Mr. Morgan, This is the way Bro. Hi Hawkins of the Covington Enterprise sizes up a person who will not settle for I 113 county paper, and we have faitji in his opinion on such an important dl ' t j : U l,iV0 tlse Strir3 in a na!I keg, hang the ocean on a rad f nee a! : to dry, put the sky to soak in gourd, and unbuckle tho belly band of eternity and let the sun and m ,o» out, but don’t think you can e-cap tb< place thru ,i on rfo- other side of purgatory if you don’t pay ior your paper. A merit’ s wants a racetrack. V-ilentii.o day wm soon be here. The cold wave struck us last Mon day. Good weather tor killing hogs, is it not? Pe-.cli trees are blooming in Carrol county. Read our clubbing rates in another column. K +■ Buena Vista has now two sets of municipal officers. Never allude to a dressmaker as Mirs Sew-and-Sew. Overcome difficulties—never let them overcome you. The winter has been so mild that cold weather hurts badly. Even the thriftiest farmer allows much manure to go to waste. The recent session of the Georgia legfs'ature cost the state $57,527,87. Two Atlanta ladies have been e’ected bank directors—Mrs. John Keely and Mrs. Ida Ilill Casey. During last year 6,430 miles of '•ailp-ad were laid in the United States. Kansas heads the list, of slates with id", miles of new track. Rev. T, J. Hied so, of Henry coun ty, possesses a package of Confeder ate cartridges which "he brought from the war in 1805, They are in a line state of preservation. — <*- — •— —Mother : ‘ !)o stop eating those apples, Tommy, dear; you will have no appetite lor youi dinner.” Tomjny: “Well, if I have no appe tite I don’t s’peso I shall want any —‘‘Ouc of you bays lias been steal raisins again, 1 have found the on the lloor. Which one of was it ?” Tommy: ‘‘It wasn’t me. Iswal «.-d a 1 the seeds in mine.” “You ought to writeup this coun and send your pa or all over the every week,” remarked a to tho editor of the Liberal few days ago. “And who is going pay f>r all this?” wo asked, “Oh, ought to do that much your - e'f, for the good of your town and And tli.-.t is about the way most people look at the newspaper But it takes money to a newspaper—cash money—and g-’Oti deal of it.—Cuthbert Lib.-r al. Honor to Whom Honor is Col. E. C. Machen has good to bo proud and happy. In Let should bo the proudest and man in the State of Georgia. Covington and Macon railroad is islued and he is lesponsible for it. Few people know the difficulties un der which lie labored in carrying this enterprise through. Besides the natural obstacles, and the trouble re quired to raise the money to over come them, bo had to face a succcs sion and variety of obstructions such as few rueu could have contended with successfully. The progress of the road was impeded by over two hundred and fifty law suits and sixty five in junctions. But with bis indomi table pluck and energy, Col. Machen made his way through the courts a steadily as ho cut the path of his rail road through the Georgia hills. No thing stopped him, and he never seem ed so bouyant and confident of suc cess as when difficulties clustered thickest around him ; but he “got there.” at last, and the Covington and Macon railroad is a monument to his never tiring energy and pluck. The people who live in that section of the country through which the road runs are under many obligations to Col. Machen, for ha d it not been fur him, and him alone, tho Covington and Macon railroad would have been a dead cock in the pit.” Col. Machen deserves the many congratulations which its completion has brought up on him. Three cheers for Col. Machen and the Covington and Macon rail road, CLUBBING RATES. We will chib the Jones County Headlight and Macon Weekly Telegraph for $1.75 per annum; A so tho Jones County Headlight a,ld A ^ imta Weekly Constitution ,or * ‘ " J ,r ' ‘" ,num 8 i K,t cash, Also the Farmers'Alliance Advo cate and Jones Con.YTf fur $1.00 per annum. Terms cash in advance; Flam mure shade trees' ‘"Chrysanthemum ton” is the vorv latest. Greensboro wants t.heevperiin«*ntu] farm located in Greene county. Mrs. Sarah 0. Craigg, living near Ellijay, has jiDt received a pension check for $1,557 27. Judge Persons of Coweta issued 252 marriage licenses last’ year eight v-nine for whites and log for colored. The chaplain of the Oliio legisla turefeit. it to be hhuluty tho oth**r day to remind the members, in a prayer t hat there were ‘‘no free pass es to heaven.” This will be bad news to the members of'several other state legislatures, Oscar Kedlich, who lived in Ma con for some time, but new resides in Birmingham, Ala. has recently received L tiers of credit for $24,000, which he inhcnled from his father’s estate. Ifewiil in a few days re turn to Charleston, 8, U. his former home. One of the best benevolent socie ties in the Slate is the Georgia Rail Road Non-Secret Benefit Association. There are about 300 members iu the association, and each member pays one dollar upon the death of one of its members, which goes to the fam ily of the deceased. PIMP LEU, SORES, ACMES AND PAIN’S. When a hundred b-ttles of .sarsa parilla or other pretentious specifies fail to eiadieato ir-born scrofula or cqnlagfou.-i blood poison, remember that B. l’>: B. (Botanic Blood Balm) has gained many thousand victories, in as many seemingly incurable in stances. (Send to the Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga., “Book of Won ders,” aud b; convinced. It is the only T ltUK BI.OOD imiFIER. G. W. Me. ser, IT;weh’s N Roads, Ga.. writes; “I was afflicted nines years with sores. All the medicine I could take did mo no good. I then tried B. B. B., and 8 bottles cured me sound.” Mrs. S. M. Wilson, Round Moan tain, Texas, writes: “A lady friend of mir e was troubled with bumps ai d pimples ou her face and neck. She took three bo'tits of Ii. B B,, and her skin got soft and smooth, pimples disappeared, and her health improved greatly.” Jap. L. b’oswoi'tb, Atlanta, Ga.. writes; “Some years ago I con tracted blood poisou, J had no ap petite, my digestion was ruined rheumatism drew up my limbs so I could hardly walk, my throat wa> cauterized fivo times. Hot Springs gave mo no benefit and my life was one of torture until I gave B- B. B. a trial, and surprising as it may seem, the use of five bottles cured me,” SAMPLE on iciceipfc >£ .U’iO <:uo JDrthar. discount aiii'V.ed to 1 <n-t?nrhto.rtt, Avontfi o f MAi hv’A i Cltnnato IllUBtvatcd - an 0 arniioti.mal Journal run|wk.-a i hi the American cnatinvut. jji p jp | Clciisrd II. 1-ox, TrasUla S-iuaio, Kurv lurk. $50,000 |-TO LEND-| To Farmers on long time at G per cent interest. Apply to TURNER & WILLINGHAM. Mulberry Street - - Macon Ga. BUY YOUR Trunks, Satchels- Pocket Books- and Fancyeather GOODS, FROM THE FACTORY AT FACTORY PRICES. Macon Trunk Factory, Yah & Co. 410 fiaii St. Macon OH. R. A. JSfiES. @ IiESID ENT L) ifi N TIS T HOSTICSIiLO GEORGIA CO i ■“ \R: ■ ' r VE V'CR?” .a.:BAKING POWDERS. • r SCTAT. (AbaaluM, Pc:rX. - ^ 3K 2SS M i ::.tNT'S«lewder)*. liUSlFOuB ii, when fteen.. ZlZJZtUZi, ,N- A ^ EANFOBD’S, when fresh... ,. REDHEAD’S....... / CHARM (Alnm Powder) *... E7^S^S3S&SSI!SBK2E3B A 31 AEON (Alum Powder) #. gSamggg^Jgggggg iWait / ; ! CLRVEIAND’Scshortwt.irtt.^GZISSSSESCTSSfli PIONEER (SailFre.uclr.co)... K. r U :: ‘':L : ’U ' . CZAR......... ......... Wk .I’- A> »R. PRICE’S............... ►. * 1 EaiBBgaafaB^ •i---’ SNOW FLARE(GroffV)... iY*4" Ll; nit)’........ ......B£S25S?S?Sai - -■ PEARL (Andrews & Co) F BECKER’S........ ...... fssgmm • i fill. LET’S......... ....... AN IWFWSaC0, , ‘Begal rt *^3a t Mth . aakM , ( Co . it.Uij xiuro .) > I BULK (Powder sold loose).... L'i3 .1 U U 51 i r GIL L*’J, when not fresh L-3 BEPOETS OF G07ERNKENT CHEMISTS X ' i As to Purity aud Wholcsomeness old he Ito jalBakingPo wilep. “I nave tested find a package posed of Row! of P ikin» Powder, which I purcbaaect In ilia open market., and ii enui pure aud wtiolesomc ingredients. It Isacreaci of tartar powder other of a injurious hiaii degn-e substances. of merit, amt does net contain eilher alum or phosphates, or E. G. Le ra, t‘h. t).’ 1 “ It is a scientific fact that the Royal Baking Towdcr i.-- nbsolut.t’lv pnro. “ II. A. Me tt, “ I have examined entirely a paokajro of from Royal Baking Powder, purchased hy myself in the market. I find it •> .ilmn, terra oltri, or any other injurious sub stance. Uukht Moiiton, L J h.D., President oi ilteveus Institute of Xechuology.” “I have analyzed a anil pack-'go wholesome. of Royal Baking 8. Dana. Powder. Hayes, Tho materials of which It is composed are pure State A Mayor, Mass.’’ The Roval Poking Powder re -,-ived tlio highest award oyer nit competitors a* the Vienna World’s Exposition, 1S73; at the Centennial, Philadelphia, 13TB; at tha rf.nMwir.in Inetitutc, Hew York, and has at State Fairs ibroughont the country. Ho other article of human food ever received such higti, emphatic, and uni vr--n! endorsement fro u cuiiucut cheiuists, pi... siciaus, scientists, and lijards of IlealtU all over the world. « Note—Tho above Di.vct-am ntusti-rtc? th-j comparative worth of various Baking Powders, as shown hy Chemical Analysis and experiments made hy Prof. Scbcdler. A pound can of each powder was taken, tho total leavening power or volume lu ca’-fi can ctdculated, tho result lnwn.g as ind’eated. This practical lest for worth hy Prof. Seliedlcr only proves what every observant consumer of tho Boy d Bakiugf Powder ltnowa hy practical experience, that, while it costs a few cents per pound wore than ordinary kinds, it is Ur more economical, ar.d, besides, affords the advan tage of la iter work. A tdnfje. trial ua’ the Royal Baking Powder will convince any ■fair-minded person of these facts. * Vi'hile tho diagram shows some of tho c!t:m powders to ho of a higher degres of otrongth thaw oilier powders ranked below them, it ;.i i.ot to laj taken as Ii# tog that they have any value. Al! alum py.v dors, no matter fiu>v Uiwir etf* ate to Ic avoided as dangerous. WOOD & BOND. SUCCESSORS TO THOMAS WOOD. (EbtabSsshcd! J03I-) m$m lili S Siiiiisiii 9 UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT. TJext to Hotel Lanier. 553 56l ^iiltCfH t'ijiifii, JMacep, qeofgla. 8-30—1888. SHIP YOUR COTTON TO f F. PM, HXE1E Hi*,!(. He does strict!}’ a COTTON BUSINESS And will got highest market price for cotton. HE LENDS MONEY In Spring at low rate of interest.— N-H-9-20-3m. T. W. BOND’S IIS IllSIlIISli Beds Free to Customers, yim wqvpv jjlQARp AND ^OBACCO^ -AT THE BAR, FILLING JUGS AND BOTTLES A SPECIALTY. Come once anil you’ll come again. Morgans Corner, Mactn, Ca d—8—ii.