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VOL. XIV.
EDITORSAL NOTES.
Boutelle of Maine is not receiving
much sympathy from the northern
|jres « i„ his effort to revive the war
.assions There is no money in it,
and your northern press doesn’t en
those in a cause that holds no hope
c ■
ol gain.
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Tnhr Tackson the Cartersville
dvnamiter was still at lar*-e a Wednes
dav nkdit although the bl c od hounds
iiad been on his track tor five days,
Several of his friends have been
caught and thought caged during the chase,
and it is that a lew more
wiU have to be jailed before the cul
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pri 1 5 c 1
Griffin seems to be a little afraid
that Atlanta will take the Georgia
Midland away from her. We pro
•• ose that Atlanta compromise the
matter by building the twenty mile
gan between Newnan and Greenv.lle.
T nis will give her a lighting.chance
for the 15,000 o 1 > V.«
cotton, with aeon espon1 . f ^h*’ulcd oun t
of merchandise and pioduce hauled
by the Columbus & kome road.
It was quite cold 1 3 Boston last
e ? A Boston dail >< presents the
7 .
C five stones
________ D icicles,
high, covered with ice and
upon which the fire engines had been
playing for a whole week in anineliec
tea attempt to stop a fire raging in the
basement. This story is hardly crcd
ible, but the paper had the picture
the building to substantiate it. Very
appropriately it was designated the
ice palace.
Columbus has sold her franchise
in the southern base-ball league and
now wants to get in again. Atlanta
and Macon both threaten to sell to
her and quit the business, if their
citizens do'not plank down the requi
s ite cash. If Columbus fails to get
back into the league we suggest that
the $7,000 she is understoo to ia\e
raised for base-ball be devoted to
running free excursions to ^con
during the season. I he ui rai
road will doubtless make lioera con
cessions to releive the Colum us as
sociation of its spare cash.
The Sylvania Telephone is respon Tues¬
sible for the assertion that on
day of the cold spell a gentleman out
hunting for his hogs, ran fight. up on^ The an
alligator that showed
man ran and the gator followed and
overtook him as he slipped up m
crossing a pond. Growing desperate
by the situation the man caught hold
of the animal’s jaws, pulled his mouth
wide open and field it so until the
negro boy with him couid fix a prop
in it, so that the gator was helpless
and harmless. Any of our readers
who choose may disbelie/e this story
until the proofs are educed.
Senator Sherman has introduced a
bill into the senate providing that the
B : and bill be repealed and that the
secretary of the treasury purchase
monthly silver bul ion m bars, not
less than two million ounces nor more
than four million, at its market value
and issue for its payment coin cer
tificates in denominations ot not less
than $10, which may be redeemed at
the pleasure of the holder when pre¬
sented in sums of not less than $50.
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
Nothing short of free coinage ot sil
ver ought to satisfy the bi-metalists,
as nothing short of this will reduce
gold to the silver level. So long as
silver is handicapped as it is, or even
as Mr. Sherman proposes, just
long will the bullion value ol the
™eta m a silver dollar be manually
'css than that in the gold dollar.
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An outed dealer in the “ri^event,"
late of Chipley, is endeavoring to
establish a rum hole m the north
eastern part ot this county. J he
place he proposes to locate at is just
within the Harris county fine north
of Pine mountain. Nobody lives on
the mountain and m this county.
within a radius of three miles, there
are n0 ^ above a dozen resident free
holders, and the gentleman thinks lie
will only have to secure eight signa
tnres to his petition for license to cm
able him to close out the remnant ol
his Chipley stock. In two things we
think he has miscalculated. 1 he law
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holders resuDnt within three tirdes,
whether whether in in Mei^ Meriwether Talbot or
missioners wheter they shall
cense, and two o thc» o have assured assured
us that they would gr P nt no more
whiskey licenses. So our esteemed
riend might as well resume his in
vestigations as to Florida s desirabilty
a s a place of residence. 1 he day of
cross roads groggeries in Harris we
believe is at an end.
RUM AND RUIN.
What the Whiskey Traffic is Doing for and
With the People.
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A young lady in Manchester, New
Hampshire, recently procured evi
( j encc sufficient to convict seventeen
j.; quor dealers of violating the Sunday
j aWS
At Mobile, on the 24th, inst., Officer
^ Harrington, in arresting Wil
n am Ma-llone, who was intoxicated,
p- ai about the body and after
war( j | ia d him locked up in a cell,
v , j ^ erc j ie was found dead next morn*
j The coroner ’ s jury returned a
verdict of death from ill treatment by
Harrington.
The Sharon, Ga., correspondent ol
the Atlanta Constitution gives the
following particulars of the suicide of
Jefferson Overton : I
“The suicide of Jefierson Overton
has a tragic feature not hitherto re
ported. He sent his sixteen year old
son to Rayton, two miles distant, to
buy a quart of whiskey. The boy
got the whiskey and started home,
but on the way he would tap the jug
frequently,and by the time he reached
home he was entirely under the influ
ence of the liquor. The father met
him at the door, and seeing his con
dition, exclaimed:
“I would rather dig my own grave
and get into it than see my son in :
this fix.”
The son was put to bed and the
father sat down by a table and began
writing, when, all at once, he reached
to a shelf near by and took therefrom
a Smith & Wesson revolver, which he
placed behind his right ear and fired.
In one room lay the son dead
drunk; in the next was Mrs. Overton
dying from grief over her husband s
HAMILTON, GA.. JAM ARY 20 . 1880 .
art. and in the other lay 1 1 1^ suicide,
IV. Moran has but slight hopes of
the mother's recovery.”
OVER THE STATE.
Over 3,000 lots in Naval City have
been sold in twenty seven states.
In T Amencus, w Monday. , Mr. h. A.
Hawkins si pped and tUl from a vva
gon. dislocating his knee,
Mrs. William M. Austin died at
the -Jesup House in Jesup Sunday of
pneumonia, after an illness of a few
days,
Idle Hendricks Cornet Band, °1
Wrightsvilie, . billed give burnt
is to a
coik exhibition in Dublin 1 uesday
Old records show that the cold
weather was more s vere in 1885
than the recent sped. In Februa
ry of that year the mercury went down
to 8 degrees below zero at Milledge
ville.
Thomas Johnson, the Montgomery
county moonshiner, implicated in the
trouble in that section last October,
has been sentenced to one penitentiary. year’s im
pri.ona.ent in Albany’s
'Vhebarn and outhouses on the
place , of Mr. J. B. Lambert, on the
Milledgeville road two miles from
Augusta, were burned Monday night,
qq lc i ()Sgj inclusive of insurance, is
$1^200. Incendiary.
Charles A. MaxweU, „ re,.resent,n .
S
It M. Coates, ot 1 ’b, adelphia, is m
Augusta, preparing plans and .ipecui
cation for a new yarn mill. The mill
will be 265x70 feet, and will employ
10,000 spindles and about 200 hands.
Mr. Tom Wigly, of Ac worth, who
has been afflicted with a spinal affec
tion for some time, while in a fit of
temporary alteration of mind,
took to destroy himself with a razor
last Tuesday night, but was prevent
ed from doing himself serious injury.
Q n Sunday, near Katonton,a negro
boy, while riding a horse belonging to
Mr. Nat Raney very rapidly over a
we t bridge, the horse slipped and fell,
sustaining injuries that caused his
death. The negro was thrown, off
but struck on his head and was thus
saved.
Mr. Dill, contractor for building
Fast Georgia and Florida railroad
q ie engineers and superintend
entSj Calnan Minehan, have gone to
Waynesville to locate the line of road
and comnlence operations. The •
unc fi on G f tfi; s roa (l with the Bruns
w j c ^ anc j Western road will probably
^ near Waynesville, twentyfive miles
from Brunswick,
Jake Moorman recent'y died in
Laurens county. Henry Fucker, an¬
other negro, having a grudge against
Sam Reynolds, taslor of the church,
circulated the report that Reynolds
had bewitched Moorman and hence
his dea’h; he further said he had tak¬
en snakes and lizzards from Moor¬
man that Reynolds had put in Itim.
Reynold grows indignant and will
sue Tucker for slander.
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Jordan’s Joyous Julep, the only
infallible cure for Neuralgia and ner- |
vous headache. For sale by aii •
druggists.
Hood’s Fiureka is a perfect fault-.
less family medicine. Try a bottle. ’
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
TEMPERANCE MEETING.
ble Owing to the cold and disagreed*
weather last night the Temper¬
ance meeting was not as largely at¬
tended as usual, but those present
had a very pleasent evening. The
selections read by Terri! Brooks,Miss
Mollie Barnes, and Mr. McAfee were
excellent, and the music, vocal an 1
instrumental, rendered by Mrs. Me
Oregor Misses Dozier and Sparks
and McAfee, was exceptionally good
and much enjoyed. Mr. McAfee
sang “Annie Lauiie’ 10 guitar accom¬
paniment, with such tom hing sweet¬
ness that it elicited an cr.cote from
the delighted audience, but he niou
estly declined to respond,
The program closed with an cx
cellent address on Temperance from
Rev. W. I). McGregor. We regret
^at every man and woman in town
did not hear it, but some would not
yield to convictions of duty on this
subject “though one rose from the
dead.”
At the closff °f the address a com
ra * ttce was appointed to arrange for
a P ublic meeting for the purpose of
organizing another temperance or
ganization in this place.. Notice of
pT^wheTthe' arrangements are
completed
PERSONALS.
Miss Tinic Dozier is yisiting her
sister at Bostick.
Mr j J ,. uckie j, ovcUce visitcd Co .
lumbus Wednesday. J
Mr. F. B. Gordon, of Columbus,
" as 111 town * uesday. ,
Mr. R. R. Bren, a Baltimore cloth¬
ier, was here 'Tuesday.
Mr. R. P. Butler, ot I.aGrange,
was in the city yesterday.
Hon. H. C. Cameron made a bus
iness trip to Columbus 1 'ucsday.
Mr. B. C. DeLeon, a guano agent
of Savannah, w as here yesterday.
Justice W. 1). Roberts, of Talbot
county, was in our city Thursday,
Mr. E. F. Dell, of Philadelphia,
was registered at the hotel yesterday
Miss Rebecca Stern returned to
her home in Columbus this after
noon.
Soerdit . B. IT. Williams and justice
/; I uesday. Livingston went to Columbus
I) r . J. W. Mitchell, of Pleasant
Hill, is in town visiting the family of
\) r 'p g Mitchell,
Mrs. Robert Traylor, of Chipley,
spent Wednesday in town, the guest
of Mrs S. R. Murphey.
Mr. Fd Isaacs, of Macon, was here
Wednesday in the interest of his har¬
ness factory.
I)r. J. W. Mitchell contemplates
moving his family from Pleasant Hiil
to this [>lace, at an early date. Ie
will enter upon the practice of his
profesf ion of his profession in part
nership with his father, Dr. T. S.
Mitchell.
A party of both sexes were out
serena ding 'Tuesday night. They
ma d c ti)e n j g | lt a j r nng w ; t fi t j ie
sweet melodies they sang to the ac
companiment. or guitar and harp.
They remembered us in their rounds,
for which they have our thanks.
NO. 8.