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ROBERT S. HOWARD,/
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VOLUME I.
fegat cflili’crtiscmnifs.
Notice to Contractors.
WILL l>e let. to the lowest bidder, before the
Court House door in Jefferson, on Tuesday,
the 6th day of September, 1881, the contract for
building the bridge across the Walnut Fork of the
Oconee river at the old bridge location near Mad
dox's mill, in accordance with the following.speci
fications : Said bridge to be built with one queen
post truss span fifty feet and two end spans;
length of end spans to suit length ofbridge. Tim
bers to truss span, 5 sleepers, 8 by 12 or 10 by 12,
fifty-four feet long; two bolsters, G by 12, 10 feet
long, to be placed one-third the length of span
apart, the same to extend across bottom ofbridge
under sleepers, and be supported by main rods
running through from top of trims to bolster.
(See plans.) Truss timbers, 8 by 10, length to
suit one-third length of span; to he wen notched
at the foot or iower end and well pinned and bolt
ed with iron bolts ; truss to be braced with two
braces on each side, extending from lower end of
bolster to top of truss, of 3 by 4 scantling; truss
to be framed 3 feet 3 inches from top edge of
sleepers to top of truss ; iron rods for trussing,
1$ inch best round iron, with taps and washers.
Said span to extend from arch of trestle in water
on south side of river to bank ; on opposite side,
trestle in water to be built on crib made of 10 by
12 inch timbers, notched in and well pinned at
each corner, extending up to surface of the water
and to be filled up with rock ; length and width
of said crib to suit heighth of trestle. Trestle on
bank to be let into the ground by digging trench
as deep as water will allow and filled in on with
rock and dirt. Each end span to extend from
trestles under truss span well out to short tres
tles, to he let into the ground three feet and filled
with rock and dirt; five sleepers to eacli span, 8
by 12 inches; two outside sleepers to each span,
at each end of sleeper to be rouded with 1} inch
iron rod, extending from mud sills up through
sleepers Trestle timbers, mud sills to he 10 by
12, length to suit heighth of trestle; uprights, 10
by 12, same length; cap sills, 10 by 12, fifteen
feet long, morticed half through, to fit on tenant
on upright, and well pinned; mud sill on crib to
he well pinned and handed with iron to crib legs,
as seen in plans. Hand-rail to be placed on each
side of end spans; uprights to same to be 8 feet
apart and morticed through floor and keyed on
underside and braced on outside. Flooring, 2by
12, 14 feet long, well spiked down with forty pen
ny spikes, two in each end. right and left in inter
mediate sleepers. All timbers to be good heart,
and if hewn, to be well and smoothly done. Said
bridge to he completed in fifty days from time of
letting. Bond, with two good securities, in dou
ble the amount of the bid, will be required imme
diately after the letting, conditioned for a faithful
compfyance of the cont ract. The work to be paid
for when completed in accordance with the speci
fications. Full and complete specifications can
be seen at this office.
Aug. 5. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale .
WILL he sold, before the Court House door in
.Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in Septem
ber, 1881, within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder, the following property, to-wit:
A tract of land, situated in the 242d District G.
M. of said county, containing seventy acres, more
or less, adjoining lands of J. E. Arnold, Lee Mor
ris, Robert Morris and others. Levied on as the
property of J. 11. Eads a. id S. J. Eads, to satisfy
a fi. fa. issued from the Justice’s Court of the
242d District G. M., in favor of J. R. Crane vs.
J. 11. and S. J. Eads. Levy made a>.d returned
to me by J. C. Williamson. L. C. Notice given
the tenant in possession as the law directs.
T. A. McELHANXON, Sh’lf.
HOKkilA, JiU-kson i'oiiufy.
Whereas, the Road Commissioners, appointed
for the purpose of reviewing and reporting upon
the public utility of establishing as one of the pub
lic roads of said county the road beginning at
Nicholson, on the North Eastern Rail Road, thence
by King's bridge, the residences of K. J. Wil
liams, T. W. Arnold, Crooked Creek church, T.
S. Smith, Lee Morchead, Mrs. Eades, J. E. Ar
nold, John Duncan and others, to the Athens and
Talasec bridge road. Also, the road beginning
near the residence of Jack Benton, on (he Jeffer
son and Dafeiulsville road, and running to the vil
lage of Nicholson by the residences of S. L. Bond
and Arch Venable. Said Commissioners having
reported said roads of public utility, an order will
be granted finally establishing as public roads the
same, on Monday, the 10th day of September,
1881, it no good cause to the contrary be shown.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 10,
1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
| IXHtbli, Jackson County.
Whereas, C. W. Hood. Executor of 7. S. Hood,
deceased, represents to this Court, by his petition
duly tiled, that he has fully and completely ad
ministered said deceased’s estate, and is entitled
to a discharge from said administration—
This is to cite all concerned, kimhred and cred
itors. to show cause, if any they can, on the iirst
Monday in September, 1881, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Let
ters of Dismission should not be granted the ap
plicant from said trust.
Given under my official signature, this May 30.
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. ‘
Q.EOR<i!li, Jackson Coilnty.
Whereas, J. 11. Maley, Administrator of the
estate of Johnson Maley, late of said county,
dcc’d, applies for leave to sell the land and real
estate of said deceased—-
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, on the first Monday
in September, 1881, at the regular term of the Court
of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should
not be granted the applicant.
Given under mv official signature, this Ang. 3.
1881. ' H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, John A. Booth makes application to
me in proper form for Letters of Administration
on the estate of Sarah Booth, late of said county,
deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors,-to show cause, if any, before the Court of
Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Sep
tember, 1881, why said Letters should not be
granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
M hercas, M. -J. Dowdy applies for Letters of
Guardianship of the persons and property of John
W. Dowdy and Joseph F. Dowdy, minors of W.
F. Dowdy, deceased—
This isTo cite all concerned, the next of kin.
Ac., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first
Monday in September, 1881, why said Letters
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
To Debtors and Creditors .
ALL persons having demands against Stephen
Wilson, late of said county, deceased, are
hereby notified and required to present them,
properlv attested, to the undersigned, within the
time prescribed by law. and all persons indebted
to said deceased are hereby required to make im
mediate payment.
Z. W. IIOOD. Adm’r,
with the will annexed, of Stephen Wilson, dcc’d.
August 5.
G DOKGIA, JacltNoii County.
Court of Ordinary. Sitting for County Purposes.
August 22d, 1881.
Ordered, by the Court, that four and one-fourth
tenths of one per cent, be assessed and collected
upon the taxable property of said county, as per
Tax Digest for 1881, by the Tax Collector of said
county, for county tax for the year ending De
cember 31st, 18S2, for the following purposes, to
wit :
One and 31-100 tenths ofone per cent., to
pay expenses of the Superior Court $2,500 00
One and OO.J-100 tenths ofone per cent.,
to build and repair bridges 2,035 00
One and 01-100 tenths of one-tenth of one
per cent., to pay County Treasurer's
salary 300 00
Two and 82-100 tenths of one-tenth of one
per cent., to pay jail fees 525 00
Three and 49J-100 tenths of one-tenth of
one per cent., for support of paupers... GSO 00
Two and 00-100 tenths of one-tenth of one
per cent., for contingent expenses 500 00
Five and 85-100 tenths of one-tenth of one
per cent., to pay the legal indebtedness
of the county due and to become due... 1,087 85
Total, for county purposes $7,807 85
11. W. BELL, Ordinary.
EORCiLt, JaeliNoii Comity.
Whereas. Martha J. Watson, Executrix of the
estate of Harriet A. Watson, late of said county,
dec’d, applies for leave to sell the real estate of
said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any', before the Court of
Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Sep
tember, 1881, why said leave should not be grant
ed the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’V.
EORfcJIA, .lack.son County.
Whereas, T. S. ShankleandS. S. Smith, Execu
tors of the estate of D. W. Smith, late of said coun
ty, deceased, applies for leave to sell the land be
longing to the estate of said cTeceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the
first Monday in September, ISBI, why said leave
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3.
ISBI. H. \V. BELL, Ord’y.
Q.EORGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, E. J. Sharp, Guardian of his minor
children, applies for leave to sell one share of
stock in the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Com
pany belonging to said minors—
This is to cite all concerned, the next of kin,
itc., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the iirst
Monday in September, 1881, why said leave should
not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
18S1. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, C. M. Wood, Administrator on the
estate of A. M. Loggins, late of said county, de
ceased, represents to the Court, by his petition
duly tiled, that he lias fully administered said es
tate, and is entitled to a discharge—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of
said county, on the tirst Monday in October, ISSI,
why said applicant should not have Letters of Dis
mission from his said trust.
Given under my official signature, this June 2S,
ISSI. 11. W. BELL. Ord’y.
EOIMiIM, Jackson County.
Whereas, W. P. Cosby, Administrator on the
estate of Frances C. Cosby, late of said county,
deceased, represents to the Court that he has fully
administered said estate, and is therefore entitled
to Letters of.Dismission—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of
said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881,
why said letters should not be granted the appli
cant.
Given under my official signature, this June 28,
1881. 11. \V\ BELL, Ord’y.
s)rofessiounf & business Sards.
jyt. It. IS. ADAISt,
DENTIST,
June 10-*Bl. Gatnesville, Ga.
JOHA a. STItM KLIAIk
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
* Danieisville, Ga.,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
him. dec 17, ’SO.
DR. IV. 15. ( IW!,
NICHOLSON, GA„
Tenders his professional services to the surround
ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis
eases of women a specialty.
Feb. 13th, ISSO. ly
HOW .4BE 1> TIIOJIPSOV,
ATTOIINEY-AT-LAW,
Gainesville, Ga.
Prompt and faithful attention given to all busi
ness placed in his hands.
WKIJHY V. HOWARD,
Attorney and C’oms*lor sit Law,
JEFFERSON, GA.
Will attend faithfully to all business entrusted
to his care. mch4,
SIIAIAV & THOm’SOV,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Jefferson, Ga,
Will practice in Jackson and adjoining counties.
LANDRETHS
M SEEDS EBESTIQQI
If not sold in your town, yon I fl f) I
can get them by mail. Drop II 11 I I
ns a m*tal Card for Cata
logue and Prices. The Oldest and most extensive Seed
Groirert in the United States.
UAVLU LAN Dll LTII & SONS,Philada..P*
Martin Institute.
Fall Term, 1881, Opens Angnst 25th.
IET the citizens of Jackson county, who would
J secure the lowest (possibly free) tuition, pa
tronize the School THIS FAJ L.
The Martin Fund pays a larger proportion in
the fall than in the spring.
To students from other counties we promise
lower rates of Board and Tuition than almost any
other Collegiate Institute.
For further information, apply to
aug 12 4t JNO. W. GLENN, l’rin.
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1881.
S'E.T.'E.C'V WXSCXJ.XAJO&'X.
The Guileless Farmer.
A farmer had seven daughters.
And but little else he had ;
And the girls all had good appetites,
And times were very bad.
He bribed the country paper
To say in his cellar’s mold
lie had hidden, being a miser,
Seven kegs of red, red gold.
He thought he knew' human nature,
That farmer, and lie smiled
When down the seventh rope-ladder he
Saw elope his seventh child.
But it is extremely doubtful
1 f at the time he foresaw
Their return with fourteen grandchildren
And seven sons-in-law.
[From the Atlanta Constitution.
The Coming Race for the Governorship.
Bill Arp Receives a Call from One of the Peo
ple, Together with a Request for the Tern
pornry use of Ten Dollars—lie
Makes Some Remarks on
Politics.
I’m not a candidate for Governor. No
body but one man has talked to me about
running, and before I left him lie wanted to
borrow ten dollars ; but I do want to say
something for the farmers of Georgia, and if
standing up to them forces office upon me in
the distant future, why I can’t help it. Tom
Hardeman is ahead on that line, and lie is a
great and good man, and I hope that some
day the people will delight to do him honor.
If long service, and good service, and abun
dant age, fit and entitle a man to official hon
ors, lie will get hi3 reward. I’m young enough
to wait myself, but when a good man gets so
old that the life insurance companies won’t
take him, the people ought to take him up
and carry him for the good lie has done. And
there’s Colonel Blount and Judge Simmons
and Speaker Bacon, all from Macon, too, and
if Macon is bound to furnish the Governor
I’m content with any of ’em, for they are all
good men. Either of’em can govern me, and
I wish that over)’ body was as tractable as I
am. The best school for a man to go to to
make a good citizen and work well in har
ness, is to get married to the right sort of a
woman. The General Assembly of farmers
lias just adjourned its session at Rome. I
wish they had power to make laws and en
force ’em—that is to say, laws about farming,
and fcncos, and crops, and stock and dogs,
and everything else that concerns the agricul
tural interests of the State. When farmers
get together in council they can talk sense,
and they do talk sense, but when they come
down to the Legislature they are overshadow
ed by the lawyers, and they feel sorter sub
dued because they can’t talk as glib and don’t
know as much about parliamentary law, and
so they don’t get their rights. The Legisla
ture is everlastingly legislating for merchants,
manufacturers and railroads, and cities and
towns, but it is mortal little they do for the
farmers. They protect every interest but the
agricultural interests. Hero is another bill
introduced to protect the warehousemen. The
farmer works, and plows, and hoes, and digs
all the year, and when he gets a bale of cot
ton ready for market and takes it to town,
they make him take it to a warehouse and
pay for weighing and for a month’s storage.
If he kills a beef and wants to peddle it
around town and sell it himself, they fine him
for doing it. It’s not so in all cities, but it
is so in some, and that right in the face of
Judge Lumpkin’s decision in Gen. Bethune’s
case, where he said. “God forbid that a man
who sweats and toils to raise the necessaries
of life in this land of liberty should be pro
hibited from sclliDg his products to whom he
pleases and when he pleases and where he
pleases, free from the limitations or restraints
of public or private corporations/’ Towns
and cities are getting too consequential. Be
cause they have got nearly all the money in
the land, they imagine they made it, when
the truth is known, the city merchants made
it out of the country merchants, and the coun
try merchants made it out of the farmers, and
every session of the Legislature they put in
some new bills for liens and dead falls until
they have got so many that a lawyer can’t
hardly tell which is the best remedy for his
client. The farmers want encouragement,
and they don’t get it. Here is a bill in the
Legislature to abolish the agricultural bureau
as a public nuisance, but the farmers’ con
vention says it is a good institution, and we
want it. Here are numerous bills to help the
system of general education and give them
money, but there is nothing done to encour
age the farmer or elevate his position. The
agricultural bureau ought to be enlarged and
have an experimental farm attached so as to
furnish us with the best cotton seed and the
best corn and wheat, and seed of all kinds,
and the best fertilizers, and be able to recom
mend to us the best plows and cultivators and
other implements. There is a little book on
farming, published by the Appletons, that
don't cost but ten cents, and it’s worth ten
dollars to any farmer, and it ought to be dis
tributed and put in the hands of every tiller
of the soil whether he wants it or not. Our
farmers must be persuaded to get out of the
old ruts. The State ought to offer a premium
for the best acre of cotton and corn and wheat
and rice and tobacco in every Congressional
FOR THE PEOPLE.
District. Kentucky gave a thousand dollars
for the best treatise on practical farming.
Tennessee has Appleton’s little book taught
in all of her public schools. The farmers and
mechanics pay nearly all the taxes and sup
port the State Government, for they arc the
chief consumers of all that the merchants sell,
and the merchant puts on the price to cover
his taxes just like he doc3 to cover rent and
clerk hire. It’s like the fifty thousand dol
lars that goes into the State treasury from
the guano dealers. The farmer pays it at
'ast, for the dealer puts just that much more
into the price. Railroads have their syndi
cates, and towns and cities have their cham
bers of commerce, but the farmers don’t have
anything. The dry drought may come and
go, and the only concern is whether the crop
will pay what the farmer owes the merchant
or not. The convention at Rome says we
ought to have a no-dog law and a no-fence
law, and why don’t the Legislature say it
too? Sir. Smith, of Oglethorpe, sa) T s I mis
understood him about freeholders voting, and
that anybody can vote, Well, if I did, ho
knows that that's wliat he ought to have said.
There are five hundred niggers in our county,
who have neither land nor cattle, and they
will vote every time for somebody clse’s cat
tle to run on my land and keep me everlast
ingly building fences. And they will vote
for their houn dog3 to kill my sheep. I
bought ten fine ones two years ago, and the
dogs killed ’em all in one night. I've bought
ten more lately, and if they are killed, 1 shall
charge ’em to Miller and John Branson, for
they might put in a bill and give us a local
option anyhow. It's a power of trouble
watching them sheep. Mrs. Arp and the
children are alwa) r s on the look out for dogs,
and if they see one a quarter of a mile off on
the plantation, they begin to holler and
scream, “ Here’s a dog ! yonder’s a dog !
come quick !” or they blow the horn for us,
and we run for the gun and go for him. I
tell you what, we have alarmed the settle
ment, and the dogs had better stay at Lome
in the daytime anyhow. Well, I had a big
time the other night. I got with some old
schoolmates that I used to run with nigh onto
forty years ago. We used to serenade the
pretty girls about Athens together, and so we
got a fiddle and some flutes and got round a
piano and we all got young-again, and the
wgy we did knock the harmonic juice out of
the good old times was a corsion. We had a
nice little audience of sympathizing wives
and mothers and astonished children, and we
played and played till the perspiration rolled
down our venerable cheeks, and people stop
ped on the sidewalk and listened and looked
in with wonder and admiration. There was
the Cossacks March, and Norma, and the
Devil’s Dream, and Billy in the Lowgrounds,
and the Arkansaw Traveller, and Run Nig
ger Run, and Bet my Money on the Bob-tail
Nag, and so forth and so on, and there were
some other sweet melodies that we had named
for our earliest loves, some of whom are away
up north, and some south, and some west, and
some in heaven. llow we did love those
girls. One of ’em kicked me three times, but
I always did believe she loved me, and I ain’t
right shore but that she has sweet and tender
thoughts about me yet; may be, if I had tried
her one more time she—but I won’t allow my
self to indulge such a thought, for then some
other fellow would have got Mrs. Arp, and
that’s a picture too horrible to contemplate.
I’m content with my destiny, and wouldn’t
change it if I could. Those Athens girls
kept books, they did, and every time they
made a victim they put his name down. My
friend Cole told me his name was down on
the same book nine times, for be loved her to
distraction, and popped the question every
three months until finally she made him prom
ise not to ask her again. So just before he
quit school he went to see her, and in the
agony of his soul, says he : “ Miss Susan,
heavenly creature, I won’t ask you any more
to have me, but as a last parting favor I want
you just to put my name down again,” and
she put It.
We wound up our frolic with some bur
lesque opera by the venerable patriarch, after
which the little boys fanned the baud, the
good mothers smiled, the girls clapped their
hands, and we retired, bearing our blushing
honors with childish modest}'. When shall
we three meet again ? Bill Arp.
P. S.—John Branson says that Kingston is
looking up. They cleaned out a well last
week, and the dog fennel crop is good.
B. A.
Big Water on the Mississippi in i844.
Life in the Mississippi swamps is unique
but perhaps never so much so as during that
memorable summer. The shallowest water
for indefinite miles in any direction was two
feet deep, the nearest land the “ Ilills of the
Arkansaw,” thirty miles away. The mules
were quartered on the upper fioor of the gin
house ; the cattle had been all drowned long
ago; planter, negroes and overseer were
confined in ther respective domiciles; the
grist mill was under water, and there was no
means of preparing corn for culinary purposes
except a wooden hominy mortar. The liog
and-hominy diet (so highly extolled by some
people who have never lived on it) >vas adopted
of necessity, the former being represented by
mere pork, saltier than tongue can tell. There
were no visitors, except now and then a
sociable snake, which, no doubt bored by
swimming around indefinitely in the overflow',
and craving even human companionship,
would glide up on the gallery of some of the
bouses. There was no means of locomotion
except the skiff* and the humble, but very
serviceable, dug-out—nowhere to go and
nobody within a day’s journey otherwise or
more comfortably situated. The only sense
of sympathy from without was had from remote
and infrequent glimpses of the gallant steamer
J. M. White, which leaping from point to
point, made better timg from New Orleans to
St. Louis than wa9 ever made before or for
many years after.
That year nineteen plantations out of
twenty failed to produce a single pound of
cotton or a single bushel of corn, and when
the flood was over and the Noahs came out
of their respective arks, they were, to say the
least, malcontents. They were not ruined,
of course, but they had lost a whole year’s
gross income. M*reaver, the prestige of the
swamp as a cotton country was wofully
diminished. The planters on the “ II'lls,” as
the uplands are denominated, began to hold
up their heads, no longer overcrowed by the
extraordinary crops alleged to have been
heretofore produced in the swamp.
The swamp planter set to work to redeem
the disaster, and to provide, as far as possible,
against its recurrence. With the purpose of
retrieving their financial fortunes, they took
some unique measures. There is a tradition
that, at a public meeting held in Greenville,
Miss., in October, 1844, among other more
commonplace resolutions, one was gravely
and unanimously adopted to the effect that a
demand of payment within twelve months
from that date of any debt, great or small,
upon any planter who bad been overflowed
that year, should be considered distinctly
“ personal”—a clear case for pistols and
coffee. The code was certainly a curious in
stitution, but probably this is the only instance
in which it was expected to do duty as a stay
law.—From Scribner for July.
Posthumus Palaver.
“At midnight las’ night,” said the old man,
in a solemn voice, as he looked up and clown
the aisles, “at midnight las’ night de speerit
of Brudder Charles Climax Goshport, a local
member of dis club, passed from y’arth to de
unknown. Only a week ago he sat in dis
hall; to night he am dressed for de grave.
What ackshun will de-club take?”
“ I s’pose, sail,” said the Rev. Penstock,
as he rose up, “ dat it am in order to present
a resolushun to de cfleck dat he was a man
of de highest integrity, liberal hearted, high
minded, an’ dat his loss am a sad blow to de
hull city ?”
“ Y'es, such a resoluslmn am in order.
Brudder Penstock, can you remember dat you
eber took Brudder Goshport by the hand an’
gin him a word of praise fur his hard work
an’ honest ways ?”
“ I—l—doan’t remember dat I cber did,
sab.”
“ Am dar a pusson in dis hall who kin re
member dat he eber put hisself out to favor
Brudder Goshport?”
Not a man answered.
“ Kin any one of you remember dat you
took any pertikular intercs’ in how he got
along ?’’
Not a voice Mas heard*in reply.
“To be a little plainer,” continued the
President, “am dar one single pusson in dis
hall who ever felt five cents’ worth of anxiety
for Brudder Goshport's worldly or spiritual
welfare ?”
The hall was so quiet that the sound of
Elder Foots rubbing his back on the sharp
edge of a window-case gave everybody a
start.
“ Not a man in dis hull city, so far as we
know, eber put hisself out to do a favor or
speak a word in praise of our lamented brud
dcr, an’ yet we have de cheek to talk of a
resolushun setting forth his many vartuesan’
our heartfelt sorrow. No, sir! We doan’
pass no sich bizness lieah! I should be
ashamed to look his widder in de face if we
did. It am de way of de world to let men
alone jist when a leetle help would give ’em
a broad an’ easy road. We li'ar of dis man
or dat man havin’ won de gratitude of de
people, but we doan li’ar of it until he am
dead. When a man has gone from y’arth de
papers and de public suddenly diskiver how
honest he was ; what a big heart he had ; how
much good he was alius doin’ and what a loss
to de world his death will prove. De time to
praise a man is when he am livin’ beside us.
Braise hurts nobody ; but many a good man
has grown weary fur de want of apprcciashun.
Heah am seventy-two of us in dis hall to
night, an’ we have to own up dat not one of
us eber went outer our way to prove to our
brudder dat his gentle ways, his squar’ deal
in’, an’ his upright life war any mo’ preciatcd
by us dan as if he had been a hoss-thief!
An" to pass a resolushun would be to brand
ourselves as hypocrites. Let no man dar’ to
offer one.”— Detroit Free Press—Limekiln
Club.
$ TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
} SI.OO for Six Months.
Fashion Notes.
Pointed shoes arc now the rage.
A yellow-green is called “ Dragon.”
Anew shade of red is called “ Lucifer.”
“ Mine d’Or” is anew brown shot with gold.-
Silver gray silks and satins are again tho
mode.
Milts arc still the fashion in black and
flesh color.
Natural flowers are worn on bonnets and
at the throat.
Small flat reticules hang from tho belt, at
tached by a chain.
Tussore silks and Japanese crapo arc"
among the novelties.
The fashions of 1820 and 1830 in bon
nets are again revived.
“ Dawn” is the name of anew shade:
it is a very pale gold.
Princesse gowns and jaetets arc trimmed* l
with military braiding.
A fancy or green enameled button i3
the figure of a camel.
Satin surah is used for the foundation of.
grenadine dresses.
Pearl, gilt and steel buckles are all fashion- •
able on dresses and hats.
Gold bangles arc still the only jewelry that-'
is much worn in tho streets.
Fans are made of cretonne to match tho
dresses and parasols also.
The fashion of going on the street without
an outdoor wrap has passed away.
Valenciennes lace is much used on white .
dresses. It is the suitable.
Coaching dresses arc now the rage. They
are trimmed to display the front breadths.
Children wear littie shirred hats and bon
nets of cream-whitc crape, and quaint is tho
effect.
A device made like a sword hangs at tho .
side and is used to fastpn tho parasol wheni,
not open.
The draperies of muslin dresses need not
be hemmed. They can be turned over and \
looped.
Black sewing-silk grenadine, trimmed with ,
crape and plaitings of grenadine, is suitablo .
for mourning.
Fancy colored satin sashes, cither striped,,
shaded or plain, arc worn tied in front with a
large bow.— Andrews* Bazar.
The Persecuted Negro.;
Last week Pleas Harper, a colored farmer
living near the Glade, paid Messrs. Powell
& Davenport $32,000 for 2,100 acres of.
land, lying on Broad river, in this county.
This is one of the largest purchases ever
made by a negro in Georgia, and it, occasion-.
ed a good deal of comment. We last Sun-,
day saw Sir. Powell and asked him if there .
was any possibility of Pleas ever liquidating ,
the debt.
“ I feel confident that he can and will pay
every dollar as it falls due,” was the reply,
“ and would as soon hold a note on Pleaa
Harper as the best white man in Georgia,
lie is worth now at least $15,000, and.
doesn't owe a cent. He can pay SIO,OOO if
lie wants to cash on the place, and I give
him ten years on the rest at 8 per cent. He
has this year a fine crop and will make .
plenty of provisions to run his farm. Pleas ,
has been paying us $1,500 a year rent for
about one fifth the land we sold to him, and (
by increasing his farming operations he can,
easily meet the claim.”
“But do you think hois competent to,
manage such a large business ?*’ was asked.
“ There is not a better business man in ,
Oglethorpe county than this negro,” replied ,
Mr. Powell. “ lie can tell you any day to a .
cent how he stands with the world, and a3 a
farmer I never saw a better. He is economical,
his family all work, and he can get more out
of a hand than any one I ever saw. Pleas,
too, is not an all-cotton farmer. He has been,
making from 100 to 150 bales of cotton a year
on rented land, besides growing enough,
supplies to run his place. In fact, his cotton,
crop is nearly all clear money. You just
ought to see the Bermuda grass hay ho has
saved this summer.”
“ The land you sold him must be very rich*
as it brought sls an acre ?” we suggested.
“There is not a better tract in Georgia*
and we would not have sold it for cash for
any less than Harper paid. Davenport and,
I have 1,500 acres of the same land left, andi
3’ou can’t buy that for sls an acre. It lays
alongside of Broad river, and crops seldom,
miss. It don’t take guano to grow either.
corn or cotton on it.”
“ John Davenport and yourself will mako.
a nice speck out of the land you bought about
two years ago ?” we inquired.
“Well,” remarked Mr. Powell, “about
$40,000. You see at that time the peopio
didn’t know how to appreciate these Broad
river lands, and so let them go for a mere
song.’’
This purchase conclusively proves what the,
colored man can do in Georgia, if he will but
go to work, and we think it will be about as
good a campaign document as can bo cir
culated in the North.
Pleas Harper is a bright mulatto, with a
good face and has always been noted for Ids
honest dealing and good management. The
little education he ha3 received was secured
since freedom, and lie has always been a
staunch Democrat. It is a singular fact that
whenever a negro begins to accumulate
property lie leaves the Radical ranks.—-,
Oglethorpe Echo.
NUMBER 28.