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W. L, GLBSSNER, Editor.
TUKSDAY, DKCiUlBEK SO, '81.
TO POSTMASTERS.
When newspaper* arc not called for it f« :r„
bodntyof Pottmaatcr* under the lair to notify
tho proprietor* of this fact. Cauls, already print*
«d, arc furnished on appllcii.'Ion to tho Postmaster,
whoso only duty will be to till out with tho namo
of tho party not getting the paper.
Three of Gulteau’s jurors ore
sick. We should think the whole
twelve would I)o sick by this time.
The report of tiic Agricultural
Department at Washington indi
cates that the cotton crop of the
present year will be the shortest in
yield since 1800.
It is said that Speaker Kiefer
leans to the Stalwarts. Stalwart-
ism will rise to the top beforo long.
Conkling, Grant, Cameron, Logan
and Arthur have long heads, and
aro using tho influences placed in
their way.
Tho Don. A. II. Stephens has
lived to see his obituary published
at three separate and stated times.
It must be very encouraging to
rend all tho good things that may
be said of one after his death.
Perhaps this accounts for some of
Mr. Stephen’s egotism.
Tho only professor of any college
in America who is opposed to free
trade is Prof. Itobert Thompson, of
tho University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Thompson may look lonesome
but wait till you hear whether lie
hasn’t a barrel full of stock in some
lieaiitiful manufactory devoted to
tho interests of tho working-men
An Knglish cotton buyer claims
that in one halo received from
America he found ahput seven
pounds of old iron, and in imothcr
“some dark loamy substance weigh
ing more than the cotton itself.”
If he flattered himself that lie
would find nuggets of gold and
rough diamonds in his American
cotton, lie was greatly mistaken.
A religious journal, in scouting
Guitcau’s claim to have been im
pelled to his act of nssassination
by tho Deity, observes: “A crimi
mil once said to n Judge that God
had foreordained that lie should
commit the crime for which lie had
been arraigned. To which the
Judge replied, that God had also
foreordained that lie should sen
tence the criminal to death for the
crime."
Representative Morrison pro.
posese to make tho high protec
tionists show their hand, if lie enn,
during the present session. He
has introduced a bill providing for
n general reduction of tariff duties
10 per cent. The Republicans
made tills reduction in 1812, but in
1875, oil the plea of a threatened
deficiency in the Treasury, they re-
stored the former duties, ill 1 .
Morrison will ask the Republicans
of tho Ways and Means Commit
tee what excuse they can now have
for retaining the 10 per cent., in
view of tho present condition of the
Treasury.
The German post-olllee lias adapt
ed and uses postage stamps whose
eolors can be cancelled by water.
This prevents fraud, for as soon us
the stamps are used their color is
obliterated. Hero is a hint for the
United States. Every tiling that
forestalls dishonesty mid barricades
honesty is worthy the attention of
every honest citizen,and the device
of Germany is of little moment to
us in America. Probably there is
nothing in America, public or pri
vate, upon which even the best of
consciences arc so universally
asleep as upon matters connected
with the postal service. Wo have
known the most conscientious
church members (as to ail other
matters great and small) to put u
long letter'inside his town paper
and mail it to his daughter, with
out a twang ofconscierce.
A tariff tax is a tax upon peo
ple in accordance with their necess
ities, and not in accordance with
tlicia wealth. It is a tax which
makes the poor poorer, and it puts
money into pockets of the large
manufacturers. It protects thorn:
but it docs not protect the laborer.
It is not a tax levied ouee a year,
but every day. The government
is supported by that kind of tax.
Mr. Riddleberger.
Mr. II. II. Riddleberger, who
lias received the Readjnster caucus
nomination for United Stntcs Sen
ator from Virginia, and which is
equivalent to an election, is a na
tive of Shenandoah county in that
State, and is but little over forty
years of age. lie entered the Con
federate army at the beginning of
tho war ns an infantry private, and
was promoted to a Lieutenancy,
but receiving a wound in the foot
was so lamed as to render iiim un
fit for that branch of the service.
He then entered tho cavulry, raised
a company of wdicli he was made
Captain, and did service in the
Shcnandoali Valley. Some years
after tho close of the war, Mr. Did-
dlcbcrgcr commenced the publica
tion of a Democratic newspaper at
Kdinlmrg, Shenandoah county,
which he afterwurds removed to
Woodstock, the county seat.
Whilst thus engaged in journalism
he rcud law, and shortly after lie
ing admitted to the bar wus elect
ed Prosecuting Attorney for Shen-
undoali county. He rapidly devel
oped us a fluent and eloquent speak
er, and was ulectcd to the Virginia
House of Delegates, from which
lie was promoted to the State Sen
ate from the district composed of
Shcnandoali and Page counties.
Mr. Riddleberger was one of the
first Lo rally to the standard of
readjustment, and has been one of
its most conspicuous champions
Anil during the lute cxcitiug can
vass in Virgiuiu ho wiis consider,
cd the most elfective speaker on
the Rcadjuster side.
Says the Washington Star
“Postmaster-General James lias
forwarded his resignation to the
President, to take effect about the
1st of January. Tho Lincoln Na
tional Rank, of which Mr. James
was elected President, notified him
a short time ago that it would open
fdr business on the 12th of next
January, and would require hisser
vices. Ho went to New York to
endeavor to make some arrange
ment with the Rank Directors
whereby lie could remain in the
Cabinet until the end ol' the fiscal
year. Tlicy would not consent to
any such arrangement, ri.d Mr.
James bad either to resign his
bank presidency or his cabinet po
sition. He concluded tlml lie could
not sacrifice Ms personal interests
for tlie sake of a short service in
the Cabinet, mid so tendered iiis
resignation, which will be accepted.
Nobody, excepting possibly the
President, knows whether James’
successor will be nominated before
the holiday recess or not. Rumor
still makes Fillcy the next Post
master General.
“The solid south is henceforth
bygone,” says the New York Trib
une. Glad to hear it; hut wlint will
the republican pnrty.do now for a
bug-n-boo, to scare the people into
voting for its candidates? Will it
adopt “repudiation” for its shibbo
leth, as a substitute for the “bloody
shirt?”
Mr. W. L. (Ressner, from. Illi
nois, has recently become editor
and proprietor ol the Americiis
Ukcordku. We welcome him to
the State, are glad to know he is
delighted with the hospitality ac
corded him. and wish him much
success ITashiiiffton Gazette.
Spurgeon says that when von
meet a mad dog you should never
argue with him, unless you are sure
of your logic, it is better lo get
out of Ids way; and ifnnyhodvcnll
you a coward you need not call Mm
a Ibol—everybody knows that.
An eye-opener When a girl who
lias encouraged a young man for
about two years suddenly tells him
that she can never be more than a
sister to him lie can for the first
ttme see the freckles on her nose.
Hahonelzlng the Noatli.
The success of the Mahone move
ment in Virginia seems to kavc’liad
the efTcct to bring to the front all
over the South a lot of adventur
ers who propose to do for other
States what Mahone and his party
of repudiators have done for Vir
ginia. If it is intended by this
that the cry of repudiation shall
ho raised in other States of the
South, and that a systematic
scheme of repudiation like 'that of
Malione’s party in Virginia shall
be inaugurated, it is much to be
deplored. If, however, it is intend
ed to he an honest movement to
break up the solid South, and to
give progressive examples to bour
bon ism where Rourbonism exists,
it will meet with very hearty and
very general approval.
There arc now no indications
that the movement will assume the
latter character. Malione’s success
wus tlie success of dishonesty; a
dishonor and a wrong to tlie South,
it has been an encouragement only
to dishonorable people and advent
urers,and these aro in great measure
tlie kind we are now hearing from.
They nave been waiting for some
thing to turn up and this seems to
them exactly tho thing. If the
cunning management of ail the
worst elements in a State like A'ir-
ginia can carry it for any sort of
political adventurer, us has been
shown possible, any political ad
venturer anywhere lias a right to
hope for preferment.
Hundreds of characterless peo
ple, who have no purpose but to
live on tlio energies of some one
else, will arise and como to the
front with the expectation ofbeing
careu for by the administration, as
it has cared for many of Malione’s
repudiation adventurers in A'ir-
ginia. If they are not disappoint
ed tho South may again be subject
ed to partial domination in its way
as disgraceful and ruinous as the
old carpetbag revel. AVIietlier tlie
scheme can be made tlie success it
lias been made in A r irginia will de
pend very largely upon the skill
and management of fhosc who
manipulate it.
That tiic honest people of the
South—those who have property
to protect and are in any way re
sponsible—arc against such move
ments tins been shown in Virginia,
and when repudiation and dishon
esty seek to make an issue they
will not be found in any uncertain
position. Tlie South is constantly
advancing and liberalizing It
makes very little difference wheth
er a man votes the Democratic
ticket or the Republican ticket if
he is seeking honest results, blit
no movement based upon the Mn-
hone scheme in A r irginia enn be
honest. The conditions in other
Southern States arc not sufficient-
ly like those in A r irginia to make
sucli a movcmcr.t a success in gen
eral and probably there is no State
in which it could get much of
foothold Philadelphia Times.
Georgia Tews.
Cotton Avenue
New York Store.
HALL’S
TO THE FRONT.
Seed. Seed. Seed. Seed.
JUST RECEIVED:
5 Bushels Early English Pens,
10 Bags Early Snap Beans,
15 Bushels Onion Sets,
50 Bushels Adams and Dent Corn,
MILLIONS
Of Cabbage, Turnip, Radish and
all kinds of Early Garden Seeds.
Plant something in your
vacant gardens.
All those who exhibit tiic best
varieties of vegetables grown from
my seeds this year I will furnish
ail their nest year's supply of seeds
free of cost-. AVm. I. Murray and
John A. McElroy won the prize
last year and I now have a splendid
lot of seeds for them free open to
inspection. Call soon before my
assortment is broken.
tad Closing Out Sale
OF
.1. E. HALL.
Dec. 20w3
“Arc you feeling very ill?”nskcd
the physician; “let me sec your struc k Forsyth not long ago,* and
tongue, please.” “It is no use,
doctor,” replied the patient; “no
tongue can tell liow bail I feel.”
A lot of New York maidens re
cently got up n fair for the poor,
and as quite n number now wear
engagement rings the enterprise is
now spoken of a biliiant success
The Albany artesian well, says
tlie News of the lfith, had reached
a depth of two hundred and sixty-
five feet at four o’ciock yesterday
afternoon. A note from Mr. Jack-
son received at that time, stated
“I am on a very hard rock just
now. May get through it soon,
lint cannot tell.”
Of druggists Georgia has 278.
Rome is to have tlie electric
light.
Thoinasvillc has a new Hotel
ready to receive guests.
On last sale day nl Hincsvillc,
Liberty comity, land sold from 25
ecr.ts to $2 50 per aero, tiio aver
age being 70 cents.
Coup’s Circus paid tlie railroad
agent at Jonesboro $uOO tlie other
day for transportotion from that
place to Senoin and Newnnn. Pret
ty lively freight bill, that.
Jessie AViliinuis was sentenced
in Savannah tube hung on the 10th
day of January, 1882, for the mur
der of Toby Locke on the 10th of
July last, in that city.
The Macon Telegraph complains
that burglaries are unpleasantly
frequent in Hint city, and scarcely
a night passes that some house is
not sacked of more or Mss valua
bles.
Tho voters of Cobb county will
decide ou the lGtli of January
whether they will keep up miles of
useless fence or not. This is tlie
question before the farmers of Geor
gia to-day.
Rev. G. R. McCall, says tile
Hawkinsvillc .At’ir* lias been pas
tor of tlie Baptist Church of that
city for fifteen years. He now sev
ers his connection there to accept
tlie pastaralu of tlie Gridin Baptist
Chucli.
Bill Cain says tiiat a cylonc
New Prices!
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, FllB
mum hoods and
UMBRELLAS.
Having opened up the prettiest, most complet
nnd substantial lot of good** ever selected by any
house in this section, whi-h I n selling at ,
BOTTOM FRIGES.
I Invite tho inspection of tho public generally;
satisfied that nil who purchase,' will bo pleased.
Those who do buy will be convinced! that 1
will undersell any home In Amcricus or any tuA"
away from wholesale markets, ns 1 keep only
New Hoods, and New Styles.
Geo. S, Watts.
December 16,-lm.
Merry Christmas !
the wind came with such force that
it took up an iron wash-pot and
turned it wrong side out without
cracking it. With tho exception
of the legs inside, the pot was as
good as before.
Did you ever bear a grand juror
being indicted by the grand jury
of which lie was a mebiber? It
was done the other day in Atlanta.
Air. Joint Stephens, a merchant of
Atlanta, was a member of tlie grand
inquest of Fulton county and a
true bill was found against Mm, as
one of the directors of the defunct
Citizens’ Bank, by Ms fellow mem
bers. Ho was excused irom serv-
in connection with that investiga
tion. however.
W. 33. CLAES,
LAMAR STREET.
purebasd rnmic of his j
FINE FRUITS.
NUTS AND RAISONS,
CANNED FRUITS,
JELLIES AND PRESERVES,
FINE CONFECTIONS, Etc., Etc.
plcklo* in jura aud barrel*, and ;ho would call c<-
pedal attcutiou to hi*
TEN CENT DEPARTMENT,
presided over by Must I.UI.A DUHIIAM where
can be found
TOYS BY THETIIOPAAND,
and u largo variety of u*eful aud ornnmeutal ar
ticles suitable for holiday prerents. Call and see
them licfor you make your selections.
December 10,1881.
LEESBURH 10 THE FRONT
H. C. ODOM
Groceries,
Dry Goods,
Whiskies,
The Finest
And Best
Brands.
OXGtAR© J*X7T>
TOBACCO.
Tlie citizens of Lee ami the siir
rounding section arc invited to
inspect my FALL AND WINTER
STOCKS. I will duplicate prices
from any point.
My motto is quick sales and tiic
smallest profit. Call and covince
yo raclf.
H- C- ODOM-
nor 30w l nro
Gins for Sale
vrry rbr»p. Uotb warranted.
apply •» r. l. Mize,
ao*iS-tI .0! Tills OFFICE.
Clothing
DRY GOODS!
AW® «AJMW0W8.
Owing to an entire change in our business
avo Avill sell after this date
mwm mrnwMmm .stock,
AT AS D BELOWIEW YORK COST
This is not a penny catching advertisement,
but a real fact that avo will SELL between
iioav and the first day of January any AR
TICLE in our store at real
New York COST
FOR CASH!
Jtaxd Nadar No Goaaeideratiorv
Will Goods bo Charged at
Those IPrioes-
Call and examine our prices and he con
vinced that we mean business.
S. WMEU1I & CO,
PROPRIETORS NEW YORK STORE-