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UBLISIIKO KVEUY .-A l lY MoH.N IMI AT OKAV, OKOIUIIA, -CY T. a. MiSX.— KuLscripllou Lutes-.In Advance. One Year..... j, a Fix Months. ..... * Three Month,..... ^ Entered at the Postotttee at Gray Cu •* cvcouil class until mutter. Pttstuftk-o orders, drafts, etc., should be made payuhie to T. It. Pcs*. Rates'for advertising made known on application. C’ouuiHmicp.tinns for individual benefit, or of a personal charac ter charged for the •nine us advcitisrim-uts. Marriage and obituary notices, not ex tceding one square, inserted without charge —over one square will he charged for same as advertisements. Correspondent* atone are responsible for opinions expressed by them through these columns. TOWN AND COUNTY. Where, oh where me our corres pondents? Mr. I). D. Hollenbeck is recover ing from a severe attack of illness. Mr. Wiley Jones is adorning his now residence with a neat coat of paint* The Mao .in Pub’ic Library will celebrate the 4th of Julj m grand style. Mr. R II. Barron, of Mrtcon, vis it'd Gray Monday aud gave us a pleasant call. Mrs. J. W. Jones ha* been suffer ing witli neuralgia this week, we me sorry to learn, \V T e nr* muchly indebted to Mrs. Annie Stewr.rt, of Clinton, fora basket of delicious peaches. The corn crop was never better or finer, in this section, at this fcivwoii, than it is at present. Tho gii>t mill which is being erected at Gray by Col. I*. V. Hardeman is nearing completion. There will bo a union meeting of ibo Jones County Alliance at RlonnUnlle July 4th, so we are in formed. Every one is invited to attend Sunday School in the II eadmoiit building, Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. Mr. J. R. Hightower is hauling stone from the quinvy to the depot and w ill soon have a large quantity ready for shipment. Wo call attention to the new ad vertisement of the Macon Baking else powder Co, which appear** wli“re in todays issue of the Head light Miss Minnie Hightower, the high ly accomplished daughter of Mr. ,1. Ri Hightower, who has been teaching in Quiltran for some time, has returned home. 1 hose who arc indebted to us and who can possibly spare the money, wo would like to have it now. Our expanses lately have been very heavy. Thomany friends and admirers of that excellent young lady, Miss Belle Stewart, will be glad to know that sho has closed her school at Mt. Vernon and is now at homo agai n. The avorago lemalo darkey adopts some of the mn*tcaptivating costumes when sho comes to toA*n. •It would be a stroke of enterprise for Puck to send a representative lure to get sonto caricatures— natural ones—and Georgo Wlton could get numbers of original ideas —Millfcdgevii'e lor minstrelsy by simmering here, Chronicle. We take pleasure in calling atten - tion to the new advertise mot of Mr. James T< Campbell, Sr., which appears elsewhere in this paper. Mr. Campbell secured a patent sever al years ago for his famous horse collar, and is well known to us and the trading public throughout the United States, and a more honorable ao<l accommodating business gentle man would be difficult to find. By enterprise and hard work he has firmly established biia-ie'f in the confidence of splendid tho people, bnsinoss. and has He built up a needs no words of reeao.n n nidation from u» as the uumeorous testimon ra's will speak for themselves- This oilar U given up to bj far superior i n quality and make to any other thit has ever been invented. It you are uotalread convinced try one of t be.n and-you will never use any o thsr. i. CLIN TON LOCALS. Clinton is a’ive with visitors. A re fresh lug ra n fell here Thurs day tvght. Col. 11. V. Hardeman visited the Central City this week. Mr. It. L. Finney spent several days in Macon this ivoek. Wo regret to learn that .Mrs. G. T. Purseley is still quite sick. Mis. II. S. Greaves and Mrs. Jack Barron visited relatives at Pine Hid go Sunday. Misses Harriet and Kaytc Morgan visited the family of Mr. Jab Stewart at Pino Ridge Tuesday. We are pleased to learn that Mrs. K. G. Hardeman has recovered from h' r recent spelt of illness. Miss Lucia Brantley, a charming and beautiful young lady from Alii ledgcvillo, is visiting Mies Maude II urdeman. Mrs. A. P. Penn and daughter, Miss Mattie, of Monticollo, visited relatives and friends at Clinton and Gray Satin day and Sunday. Miss Berta llardomnn, ono Macon’s sweetest and most accom plished young ladies, is spending some time in Clinton, tbo guest of Miss Lois Johnson. Mrs. Julia Kendrix, after an ex tended visit to relatives at Union llill, returned to Clinton Wednes day evening and will spend some time with her brother, Mr. 11. T. Ross. The many friends of Mr. E. M. Landrum, of Emory College, will learn with pleasure that lie will spend his vacation iu Clinton. At present, he is the guest of Mr. U. A'. Hanlcman. ITEMS OF NEWS. It :r estimated that 40,000 per sons will bo employed in taking the United States census of 18J0. Two eases of genuine leprosy have develop >d in Now York city, which are causing much excitement. It is expected that- the total cost of the Paris exposition will he about ten million dollars. Most of this 1 contributed by the government, and tho city of Paris pays nearly all the rest. An cel suicided iu Forsyth county the other day. It hooked itself, and failing to effect its release, deliber ately tied itself around the rope in a hard knot, thereby choking itself to death. Birmingham offered the National Alliance a building sitoand the sum of $100,000 if they would locate their warehouse and contval office in that city, and the offer has been accepted. A dispatch from tho city of Mex ico says it was rumored there that the Mexican congress, in secret ses sion, was discussing tho question of adding Lower California to the United States. It is said that tho receipts of the Southern Presbyterian church dur ing tho year just closed wei e $96,000, an advance of $8,000 on any former year. Seventy-three missionaries are in the field. A Kentucky man who was dying alone left his will in lead pencil on the head of a whiskey barrel, and it is held to be valid. The only thing he left, however, was a gallon of whiskey in tho barrel, and that isn’t worth fighting over. A sharp lakir is making a good income by advertising a sure meth od of killing all insects. When you send him 50 cents you will receive a printed card on which are these words: f‘Got your insects to smoke cigarettes, and they will die within an hour. So long. ” The furniture and decorations in ()nc room in New York city cosl §»00;000. It is not uncommon for such, places in large cities to cost as muc |, aB $50,000. Moreover, last the hear consumed in the United SU tea averaged thirteen gallons to every man, woman and child iu the com) try. An Austin inventor , has devised . a steel corn hunker, which, drawn a toatn< picks and busks tho corn «t , me t , rate . o f c W • » ,t , or ,. Vl .i V( . .aces a „.. ( . F “ according to tue capacitj ol tho team. Tho team and machine move astride the row, one horse on each side,- and every oar of corn, largo or small, is picked up. C »m Ijnskin^f threshing can K now lasting bo but done tew ju-t days. as a THE GEORGIA EL'ITO. S, I-eiving Nashville Monday tiiglit. Tuesday niornin; found in in Chattanooga, the trip from Nash ville having been n.ad > over the Nashville, Chattanooga & St, Lints R. !{., by special train. Arrange tuonts had been made at the Palace Hotel and all repaired there until 9 o’clock when a trip was made up Lookout Mountain over the Chatta nooga & Lookout Mountain Rail way. Or. arriving at the lop of the mountain, we found the scenery to be profectly gran I. A picture of the Association (in a group) was tak en on that roman.io spot, Lover's Leap. In the evening a great many visit ed the pretty* lakes, and battlefields and o'her po nts of interest iii and around the city. All were charmed with the hospi tality received in Chattanooga and the day there was spent as pleasantly as any during the visit. A nights run or night us to Atlan ta over the Western & Atlantic H. R. and we arrived in the Ga e City Wednesday* morning in time to enjoy a good breakfast. A gr« a t many of the party left us here for their respective homes ami the re mainder reached Macon at 11 o’clock that morning feeling none the worse lor the trip, Friday was tho longest cay ivthe yar. Griffin lias doubled her population since lb'80. Tho 4 th of July will bo a big day in Atlanta. It will be hot when the legislature gets ot work. The cheek rein has been abolished in England by law. Two children were oaten by wolves near Rosier, Mo. Washington and Lincolnton aro to beeonneutel by telephone. The days will now begrn so short en a little, as they grow hotter. A 39 days’ to Europe and return, is advertisod from New York, for $150. Tom Wool folk wu found guitly and 8civ»cncel to be hung Aug. the 16th. The drouth in Dakota has almost totally destroyed the wheat and oat crops. The only way to keep a ben out of the garden is to go blow but shoo’er. A farmer m Forsyth county, who is scarce of "took, works his son in stead Of a mule. The Masons of Franklin are mak ing arrangements to build a two story brick temple. Thu price of everything in Paris is now like the great Eiffel tower— the highest in the world. An insect resembling the lighten ing bug is playing havoc with the corn in Randolph county. Mrs. WhiteUng, who poisoned her husband and two children, was hung in Philadelphia the 25th inst. There are two biothers living in Pickens county whose names are rep*ctive!y Je-uis (Jurist aud John the Baptist. A milk-white horse that was rid den by Gen. Grant during tho war is now owned by D. B. Flint, of Boston. The anhnul is 29. Rev. R. >S. Lumsdca, of Carroll rounty, now has the third crop of tobacco from one setting. Tho tobacco sprouts out every year from the old stalks. A ncgio was a candidate foi school commissioner in Indianapolis, a few days ago The Democrats did not participate in the election, leaving tie Republicans a clear field. The whit? Republican was clc.-ted, and it is said that the negro candidate, though a very respectable man. did not get a single white vote. How dearly the Republicans do love the negro! YOU CANNOT AFFORD A t this season of the year to be without a good reliable diarrhoea balsam in the house, a-* cramps col ic, diarrhoea and a'.l inflammation ol gt , imach , bowels are exceed ingly daugerous if not attended at one**. One bottle of BEGG.S DIALRIHL V BALSAM will more goodiu cases of this kind than any otlcr medicine on earth. B niarantue it. For sale by I). D > LSEN-BECK. Vi o would like to have a few ot the watermelons .it this plufcc that arc being shipped on the U. & AI. 11 H. I)r. A. J. lint tie win* has hold the h iuo.-uMo position ol‘ President of Mercer University for the past seven teen years has tendered his re-iguu tion to the faculty. A RAT WITH THE FACE OP A CHILI), A singular freak of mituto is on exhibition at tho rooms of tho Nat ural History Club of Houston Tex. It was brought in a few days ago by a German family ri’uAod’Sohwoin feldt, living in the suburbs of that city, who tell tlm following remark able story in connection with the strange creature. A few months ago they were aroused one night by a shrill scream of pain from their year old baby. Hushing ti tho cra-lfo nothing was aoea or heard, but the next morn ing, while bathing the child, the mother observed two red spots on the arm. nhar the brachial artery, looking as if they had been punct ured by a needle. The arm win swelled a good deal and was still very sore. In about a week tbo baby was found dea l in its cradle and bathed in blood. The jugular vein had boon bitlon through. Tho physician who was called in, on seeing tho small but fatal wound, which consisted of a nolo the size n darning ncod'o might have made, and hearing the history of the swelled arm, immediately said that both bites had been inflicted by* a rat. After tho baby’s burial, the Sellvvcinfeldts natuia'ly determined to rid the house of the dangerous rhodouts, and consequently traps ol every fashion were placed about. Many rats were caught and drown ed. One night, several mouths after tho death of the bah}*, a rat wns heard running about its narrow prison uml simultaneously the cry- J ing of a child was hoard near by The head of the family, pr. curing a light, rushed to Ihe place whence tho cries seernod to come. To Ids astonishment it proceeded from the rat trap, iu which could be plainly seeii one of those animal*. Taking up the trap he examined tbo rat cl"sely, and was further amazed to find that the creature’s face strangely resembled that of a human being, whilo yet it rctainod tho characteristics of a ra*. It cried piteously and so much like a but t chil l as to bo easily mistaken for one when out of sight. It is tin* rat which is now on ex* hihition at the Natuial History Club’s rooms at Houston,Tex. lis eyes are much larger am] more hu man looking and have more dis tinctive lids than are usual. The nose, however, is the most remark able feature, being de -idedly marked aud prominont, with swelling nos trils. The mouth is small and has unmistakable lip*, but the teeth are long, keen and ra’-Iike. Tho foot show a slight resemblance to the human hand, although tho nails are curved like claws. Dr. Pinning, presidont of tho Nat ural History Club and a noted nat uralist, agrees with tho Scliwein fel Its in thinking this must he tho offspring of the rat that killed tl « baby, and the phenomenon is duo to her milk being formed from the child's blood, which she Slicked. Mr. L J. M. Bell of Heard county was bitten by a mad dog last week, and on Friday he had the mudstone owued by J. A. Brett applied to the wound. The stone a llierod three hours and thirty minutes before falling off. It was then cleans jd by bemg boiled in sweet milk and again applied, and adhered two hours and ton minutes. On being applied tbo fourth time it would not slick. The milk, afteri-ho stone was toiled in it, had a green, poisonous appear ance. THE PRIDE OF WOMAN A clear pearly and transparent skin is always a sign ol' pure blood, and all persons troubled with dark, greasy, yellow or blotched skin can refit assured that tlimr blood is out of order. A few doses of B]£GU3 PURIFIER & HI,001) MAKER wi'l remove the cause and skin will loecotue clear and tram parent. 'J ry if. and il satisfaction x: iven it will cost you nothi 3 ‘i. i l JO II IX IX MACON BAKING POWDER Is made in Macon Ga. , of STRICTLY PURE CREAM TARTAR AND SODA. Ail is 1APBANTED to lie Superior to all ota. If you want the BEST ask for and insist on having MACON BAKING POWDER. Address, Macon Baking Powder Co. Macon, Ga. I -18 a* BAKING, COOKING and ROASTING. . -IS ATTAINED BY THU USB OF THE CELKBltATED NEW SUNSHINE RANGE, Whl *ti wo m*ik « In fo nr *l«o « *rlth or without W>TE»-B»0K.’ RESERVOIR »i SHEL F, H16H 8L0SET, LOW CLOSET * Wills £an HEALTHFULLY heat your house thorough- ECO- "Tf"" V l?rW "*"* ^ «y» and W NOMiCALLY with the pi 4 Those who use the TORRID always praise % J ing 4 * Send capacity for FURNACE and prices. BOOK giving heat- J QRR ****«. PAINTER — ________ & _ C _ 0 — BEADINQj PA. •/ -ll -A «j THE EXCELSIOR fir COTTON GIN :: V V # I J • . i i FEEDEBS i Axn * „ i CONDENSES H! SB is [Uaarnnteed III.* to bo El)Ul to t»»l. Pirk* th« M«ct| Ctvoa, UlmFut Vino omt Motu* • If to pie. .. [■••••■ The Clrculnr Roll Box ip Patented, and no other mu* nufafcturcr can one it. Bond for Circular. No j! trouble lo communicate with 1 parlies chines. wanting these ma | Old Gins Repaired at abort notice aud cheap. Massey Cotton Gin Work* JHACONs taw. Henry Smith, another white mur derer, has been sentenced to hang in Birmingham. This maks five mur derers under, sen ten eo of death iu that town. On the heel of the sentence of Smith, two dead bodies were found murdered hi different poitions of Birmingham. Mr. Marion Tatum who lives near Trenton Ga.. Insdi*cover?d a <-avo on his farm in which ho thinks the Cherokee ImUaiu buried an immense amount of va'uabh s. He says he has already found several old bayonets, etc. The cave was entirely covered with rock when found, The largerst artificial body of watt in tho United.States is said to Ik; neat* Glean, N. Y. It is a third huger than tho Conem utgli reser voir wus, and it is said to be liable to break its banks at any time. This reservoir was formerly used to fee J tin; old Gonno«*e valley canal, but it is now used only by fishetn.cn. If not attended to, there may bo un Oletin horror after awhile. In the trial of a criminal case at Lexington. Ay.. 1 iuirsday last, Judge Morton ruled that the fact of his having formed an opinion should uot dt.oiualify a man as a juror, • , lie n, su'd , ./ that , one ot { the h, , . he3t q'ta'.ifi ctions for o a juror was the fact that he had formed an opiu-on Iroin what h ; had read in the papers, and that a man who was not capable of forming an opinion was notqualiii-d !o ./.in tin. lox. A TRUE TONIC. When you don’t feel well ahd hardly know what nils you, give B B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) atrial It is a line tonic. * T. O. Callahan, Charlotte, N. O.. writes; “B. B. B. is a line tonic, and has done mo great good.'’ L. W. Thompson, Damascus, Ga., writes: “I believe B. B. B. is the best blood purifier male, It has greatly improved my general health.’ An old gentlemen writfs: “B. B. R. gives me new life aud now strength. If there ia anything that will make an ohl man young, it ia B B. B .” P. A. Shephard, Norfolk, Va. August 10th, 18-38, writes: “I depend ou B. B B. for the preser vation of my health. I have had it in my family now nearly two years, and in ad that time have not had to have a doctor/’ Thus. Paulk, Alapaha, Ga., writes “I suffered terribly from dyspepsia. The use of of B. B. B. has made me feel like a new man. I would not take a thousand dollars for the good ii lias done me,” W. M. Cheshire, Atlanta, Ga., writes. “I had a long spell of typhoid fever, which at last seemed tosttle in my right leg, which swelled up enormously. An u!c*r aho appeared which discharged a euo ’ full of m titer a day. I then •v * ?). B. 11 a tU .1 ard «t cured *