The Barnesville gazette. (Barnesville, Ga.) 187?-189?, February 21, 1878, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextpncsviUc tf>*iscttc. GEORGIA. V, r - FEB-.M^ for tl* Gazette. „ P BED Dio,2ebulon,Ga. D ‘-VV WiLUAM.HollonvilleGa. DB- J • A * - t |H K< II DIKEC’TORY. , lT ~• CHURCH.—W. P. Rivers, Pas jjTUODlsi • sabbath at 10tf A. M. and I W r. f ' in tne evening. Sabbath , camne s S- k. Cook, Superintendent; "Assistant. Prayer meeting M. Wood, Pastor. BAPjPy■ .err sabbath at luj* a. l. and early profiling' • t prayer meeting Thursday i' auJle vibbatti school A. M. C. W. Brown J- M. Turner, Assistant. The travelling umbrella repairer races our streets. Meriwether county supports thirty two paupers. I j pope of Zebulon was iu attendance ou Meriwether Superior Court lust week. (See t he advertisement of Messrs. I) Fryer A Cos. clock manufacturers, Cincinnati Ohio, iu this issue. Col. Fudisill who taught iu Barnes ville last fall, now has an excellent school in Monroe County. A car load of mules each week for ihe past three weeks. The mule trafic is certainly on the increase. The Monroe Advertiser wishes to know whether Barnesviile is a third class post-office. Long since. Mr. M. Livingston, we learn has purchased the unfinished residence of Dr Blalock on Elm Street and will at once proceed to complete it. An auction was the excitement for two or three days and nights lust week. Sold out and gone back to Ma-' coo. Hou. Seaton Grantland of Griftiu. has been appointed by Governor Col quitt special Commissioner from Georgia to the Paris Exposition. We introduce you to “Rusticus,” our Upson county correspondent. He wields a cutting pen and will keep you posted in Upson affairs. Dr. W. P. Wriglic having sold his stock of merchandise to Mr. West, will at once engage in the practice of medicine. The citizens of Burnes ville and surrounding country can claim his services at will. Mr. O. S. Higgins has had the weather-boarding and the inner work of his residence torn down prepatory to overhauling his entire residence ami for the further purpose of adding to it. Mr. Cape Dozier was so unfortunate as to lose his only child, only two months and four days old, last week. The remains were interred at the Methodist cemetery in Barnesviile. When the gentlemen who are work ing up the enterprise get to operating, the editor of the Advertiser can come up and see what a Foundry is, if lie does not know. It is convenient to have the hatter visit your town and repair the totter ing beaver. He has been iu Barnes ville several days. Fora few minutes last Thursday morning, there was an immense rain fall. The wind blew and the ground was covered more than an inch iu water. In the country, welearu that, Rev. J. M. Wood la-t Sabbath wock commenced a series of sermons on the fundamental doctrines of the Bap tist denomination. By an oversight v e have failed to note that there is preach ing at the Baptist church every Sab bath 1 For the benefit of the Monroe Ad vertiser we will state that we were at Thouiastou two weeks since when tlie compositor made us spell it Foundary. The a should have been au e or left out entirely. Last week Dr. W. P. Wright sold his stock of merchandise to Mr. J. F. West, one of the live men of Barnes** ville. Mr. West now has an over crowded house and will make it to the interest of the trade to call on him. W e have been requested to tell the road commissioners that some direc tions to the overseers would now be iu older. Complaints are made against the loads in all sectious of the county. Court is but six weeks oft, and the guild jury may take the matter in hand. The Baruesville Literary Society, asf I ril lay night decided that it ""lid not be mutually beneficial, P"liticaJly, for the United States to acquire Mexico. Therefore Mr. Hayes had better look out. t apt. A. J. White of Milner has bought Mr. W. D. Willis’ stock of goods and will from this time supply theueeds of those who call on him for merchandise. Capt. White cau do ‘mi ll for Milner, in fitting up a store 1 * !ta a iarge and varied stock of goods, i will have au advertisement in the Gazette, in a short time. Washington’s birth day, last v riday "as celebrated in Baruesville by the arnesville Blues being called, the '■‘OSing of the Baruesville Savings ;Ul k, and suspension of exercises at CunJou Institute. Otherwise there * ere no indications that the day was 'national holiday. We have been requested to rattle "ekettle drum, and ascertain there whether the Baruesville Blues, Vl - not winter-quartered long j ';h, and whether a parade cannot '[ *‘%ced to break the monotony of ‘ Wty life in Baruesville. at Hamer La. on Feb. 6tlr 1378. losephus Barrow 1 . He was county Ga. 1811 and , Alabama about 25 years 1 from there to La. Mr. Bar- i a useful citizen and au able “"Ulster of the Primitive Wiatth. Hig death will be relatives and H. H. I Goods purchased of James F. West will be delivered, at the residence of customers if desired, free of charge. Mr. B. G. Truitt aud Miss 3. F. Mc- Lendon of Meriwether county aru married. Married on the 14th inst. at the resi dence of the bride’s mother, by Rev. Jones Bush, Mr. J. T. Hanson to Miss Sarah A. Whatley all of Pike Cos. Ga. We were favored Tuesday by Mr. Louis Hamburger with a pleasant ride into Monroe county. We noticed that considerable fence repairing had been done, but very little preparation of the soil as yet for planting the crop. Will some country editor tell us how a man who was nine months old at the close of the revolutionary war, can now be one hundred ami two years old? The Monroe Advertiser can have the first say. We learn that a negro girl, living ou the plantation of Mr. John Cauthen near Milner, was killed by being thrown from a mule. Her body was much maugled, aud as she was riding the mule with its plow gear on, it is supposed tier feet became entangled iu the gear. Ou Friday night last a large black dog disappeared from Mr. J. G. Smiths premises in Barnesviile. He had ou his neck a leather collar. Mr. Smith will liberally reward any one who will deliver Bull to him at Barnesviile. See advertisement and description in another column. Why is the meeting of wicked per sons in the next world like a certain style of hats now iu vogue? We,ll send a chromo to the country editor making the best answer to this conun drum. — Gt'iflin Sun. Because they are Hell-met. We’ll take the “Floral Cross” m walnut frame. A fastidious young man from town visited his sweetheart in the country last Sunday. By some means the poo die got hold the young mans hat aud it being highly perfumed the poodle made fringe of it. The young man takes it as a serious omen as to the fu ture result of his visits. We regret to chronicle the death of a little daughter of Mr. John Lynch, who lives in the neighborhood of Mar tains Mill, iu this county. The moth er had gone visiting, a short distance and the little girl’s clothes caught on tire aud were burned off her person. She was burnt so badly that she died iu two hours. The Barnesviile Silver cornet Band will soon discourse sweet music again on the public square. Sometime since all the instruments save one or two were sent off to be repaired. Pro fessor Gutteuberger, the leader and instructor of the Baud informs us that the instruments will soon be repaired and ready for use. We hope for an uninterrupted progress in the future. Last Friday one of the oldest men in this section was buried. Mr. James Robinson, aged 96 years, died at his residence near the line of Pike and Monroe counties. He was born while the American revolution was burden ing this country. Ilis father was a prisoner at some time during the rev olution and escaped execution by the enemy, by escaping from prison. His sister was the mother of General Brax ton Bragg, whose reputation is well known to most of our readers, The re mains of Mr. Robinson were interred at Union church, near Gogginsville last Friday. The following we take from the Talbot ton Register which applies as well to Barnesviile: “The State of Pennsylvania is per fecting a law by which each citizen will get a reduction of one dollar from his taxes who plants out four trees along the public highway in the State. It strikes us that some incentive should be held out by the Council to tax payers of the town, to plant shade trees where they may be needed throughout the corporation. This can be effected by reducing the town taxes, and making it obligatory on the tax payers to plant a given number of trees each year. Last year the Marshal of Albany, by instruction of the City Council,planted out fifteen hundred live oaks iu that town. Why cannot a movement of this sort be set on foot in our town? Our natural advantages are great. Nature lias done very much for this section of Georgia. Now let us inau gurate a movement which will add greatly to the beauty aud desirability of the town, and make it more attrae.. tive to ourselves and to strangers. The investment would be a payiug one. The plan proposed is of comparatively easy execution, equalizing the work, and adding beauty, order and freshness where now is nothing but the absence of these desirable thiugs. We submit the above to the Council and to the tax payers as both practicable and of easy performance.” Anniversary. Last Friday was the fifth anniversa ry of the Lysiau and Eunomian Soci eties of Gordon Institute. The pupils were, permitted to enjoy the day as a holiday. Early in the morning the colors were hoisted at full mast and were fanned all day by a gentle breeze. In the afternoon the patrons and friends were invited to the Insti • tute, to hear the anniversary address delivered by Mr. O. IT. B. 8100 i worth, He was chosen as the orator of the occasion by the two societies. After music by the class, President Lainbdin introduced Mr. Bloodworth who delivered a very interesciug and well written address. He was followed by charades aud music. The charades were well executed and the music was a splendid treat. The entertainment was seasoned just before the close by some exceedingly sensible and well timed remarks from President Lamb din. He begged the cooperation of the patrons, that not only the high reputation of the school might be continued, but that a still higher one, to which he was aspiring, might be attained, We would that every parent in Barnesviile aud the sur roundiug cou"try could have heard the suggestion of President Lambdiu. The Ryans, Owing to Senator Hill’s speech tak ing up all our space last week, sev eral communications aud all local and editoiial matter were crowded out. Professor Ryan and Holla, his son en tertained our people at Granite Hall Monday aud Tuesday nights of last week. They were very liberally pat ronized both nights and their enter tainments were ver3 r satisfactory. Professor Ryan’s lectures were highly interesting and instructive, while Rolla’s facial representations and im personations were highly amusing. They lett last Wednesday and made Monticello the objective point from this place. >Xail Contract. A few days since the contractor for the mail line between Barnesviile and Oakland, Mr. E. H. Parker of St. Louis Missouri, was in town and contracted with Mr. G. M. McDowell, Jr* to carry the mail twice a week. He wrote to more than one party here, before he came asking them to make a contract, with some party, at a small figure, but no arrangement was consummated until Mr. Parker came. He represents a large and strong company from evidences pro duced by himself, and Mr. McDowell may have no trouble in collecting the money for his services. It is rather uufair that a nothern company should get a large amount of the profits ac cruing from this branch of the gov ernmental patronage. Mr. Parker claimed that his company had several hundred contracts. The party who obtained the con tract for carrying the mail over the line from Barnesviile to Woodberry Meriwether county has acted in bad faith. \ Every effort was made to em ploy someone at the end of this line to carry the mail, and a failure was the result, because the amount offered was too small. Application was then made to Mr. Jones at Woodberry the other terminus of the line. An agreement was entered into by Mr. Jones to carry the mail once a w 7 eek. We learn that Mr. Jones, fulfilled his agreement by carrying the mail last year and received no compensa tion for the services rendered. We learn that Mr. Jones has entered suit against them and that this year he has the contract from the Government. Now such matters should be remedied Whenever a contractor proves to be a swindle, the Department should trans fer the contract to an honest and re sponsible party. Dear Gazette: It may appear simple folly for a plain common man, to essay toanalize and expound the complicated financi - al questions which are now and have been for some time past engageing the deepest thoughts of our wisest States men; nor shall I undertake this hercu lean task, but will only express a few common sense thoughts, which,if they should be error, are none the less hon estly entertained. While it is but just, wise, and emi nently prudent, for common people to repose almost implicit confidence, iu (lie good judgement and pure States mtißMliip, of aucli talented anil honora ble public servants, as Lamar, Hill, Chandler and Warner, on all ordinary political topics, yet it may not be un wise to scan closely their reasoning ou any question of financial policy, ere wo follow blindly their eouncel. This is prima facie advisable when we re member that these great men uueeas iugly devote their talents, their extra ordinary mental powers, to a field of study entirely disconnected from fi nancial affairs ; so much so that some of them gained an extended reputation as being no financiers. Instead or their erroneous views, oil financial question furnishing any reason for censure and loss of confidence either iu their purity or ability, they are high evidences that these gentlemen, having given the fil thy lucre of this world but slight atten tion, are better qualified to couneel the nation upon questions of deeper im port and are the farther removed from bribery aud corruption in other mat ters. There are a few stereotyped argu ments in common, if not universal, use by the advocates of resumption. They portray the unmitigated evils resulting from the uncertainties of an inflated and fluctuating currency, the blessings aud benefits to the 1 iborer and producer from solid money, and conclude by appealing to our selfish ness by telling us, that our surplus produce cotton will always command gold aud is the next best thing of val ue to specie. All of these arguments, with due regard for their authors, may be characterized as simple falacies so far as they are applied to the present financial problem. To refer to the unmitigated evils of an inflated and fluctuating currency, iu the discussion of resumption, is to assume that our present national cur rency is iuplated iu volume and un certain iu value. Neither of these as sumed facts are true; but the opposite of each is strictly true. The volume of greenbacks is already contracted, until it is inadequate for the purposes of out extended and increasing com merce. Its value is almost equal to gold, so nearly so that it is much safer to use it at its present value than to enact by law that our Government .-hall do a demonstrable impossibility, that is redeem the paper cureucy with gold. As to the present value ofgreeu back, that is satisfactory to the resump tiouist, for Judge Warner attempts to utilize this fact by telling us, that the reason why greenbacks have not de preciated more than they have, is due to the fact that the Government has constantly kept on had a large amount of specie collected from import duties. Ifit be true that the Government has kept on hand a large aruouut of specie, how has that fact kept greenbacks from depreciating, when the world knew that not oue dollar of that specie could be ob tained in exchange for a greenback dol lar, that it was not there for that pur pose, and that it was needed and kept there for the purpose of paying the in terest on the national debt. If the mere keeping of specie in the Treasury vaults will enhance the value of greenbacks, j without redeeming a dollar, would it not be wise to continue the same policy until the mere presence of the precious metal shall make greenbacks worth one hundred cents iu the dollar? The many advantages and blessings to be derived by all honest people from a sound and not uncertain currency, are appreciated alike by friends and oppo nents of resumption, but where is the advantages of a specie currency over a paper currency of equal value? The ad\ antages are universally conceded to c m favor of a paper currency, arising chiefly from its greater convenience and adaptability to the requirements of com mercial transactions. The value of greenbacks has gradually i.icreased for the past several years; if this be true without resumption where is the neces sity for resumiug? Why run the risk of mjunng tlieir value by exposing the in ability of the Government to redeem them. The effort to delude the people of the oouth by telling us that resumption will work to our special iuterest is cer tainly unwarrented by the historical tacts ot specie resumptions or by any peculiar circumstances of our people. L hey say that onr surplus product will always demand gold and is the next thing of value to specie. Strictly speaking we have got no surplus product A large amount ot our produce is sold but it is uot an actual surplus. We sim piy exchange cottou, directly or indirecty for other produce, and this latter we consume aud after paving tor it there is uo surplus cottou to” ex change for gold. In fact if a correct balance sheet was kept (and they are kept iu great numbers,) our farmers might have to draw ou some other na tural resource of our State, to procure the gold with which to make their ac counts with other States ballance. T’is well enough for us to heed the counsel of the resumptionist when they tell us to go to digging gold aud develop the hidden resources of our, mother earth. T is certain we will need them if we re turn to specie payments aud continue, to raise cottou at a cost of 12 cents per pound aud sell at five to ten cents per pound. It is exceedingly difficult to compre hend how cotton (_if there is any sur plus) will bring gold from a foreign country more readily than the great loud crops of the west. The same countries to which our cotton is sold for clothiug and for the purpose of manufac ture, also purchase largely of surplus grain and meat of the west. It is not improbable that a return to specie pay ments will have its effect upon our for eign, as well as our interstate com meice; and a nation like an indivual will be'more certain to purchase food than clothing, or raw material to manufac ture. Cotton will bring gold like any other product or species of property. If any nation pays gold for it, it is because specie is the only currency used in its commercial transactions and not because cotton is cotron. There is no more affinity between specie and cottou than between wool and specie. Any given article of commerce that is in demand, aud the supply is not in excess, will bring gold just as as readily as cotton or any other article with like demand and supply. If cotton is priced in gold iu any coun try it is becausein that country allthing priced in gold and not on account of auy peculiar charms of cotton. The ba sis of all prices is specie, and when any product, article, or property is offered for sale it is priced high or low in pro portion as the money in which payment is to be made, is valuable as compar ed with specie. This price is also affect < ed by the supply and demand of the thing sold, as well as by the supply and demand of the particular kind of money paid. Cotton is not free and independ ent of these rules, no more so than any other species of property The ancient addage that “Cotton is King” is a the oretical palacyjthat has long since ex ploded. Different nations, or seetions, posessing each its peculiar product, in abundance, aud offering to exchange one with the other, one nation may force a bargain with another by stub bornly holding their own aud demand ing terms, but of all sections on the globe the South is the least prepared to do do this. Our food is not raised at home. Our clothing anil almost ovrrV thing we need must be bought, and we are in debt for food we haye consumed, and clothing worn out. It may not be amiss, for even com mon people, to enquire into the effects, likely to result from resumption; and the very contemplation of this enquiry, compells all men to instinctively appre hend a general shrinkage of values, in ail property. This shrinkage will be produced by redeeming and retiring a portion of our paper currency, thus con trading the inadequate volume. In other vi ords, by decreasing the supply of a kind of money, which is already in sufficient and without supplying its place with any otheer currency; for a certain thousand dollars of gold which has been used in redeeming a simular amount of greenbacks, must find its way back to the Treasury repeatedly and be ready to redeem other thousand of greenbacks, else resumption is im possible. By decreasing or contracting the volume of thatcurency, the purchas ing power of that currency is propor ately increased. Thus one dollar may be made to purchase as much as two or three formerly could . Property offered for sale under such circumstances, would bring only one half or one third as much, as it sold for before contrac tion. It remains to enquire how would in dividuals or the Nation be affecUii by this contraction of currency and conse quent shrinkage of values. He, who is in debt; and his property drereases in value, must saerafice a greater amount of his propei ty to meet his obligations; and if he undertakes to work out, he must sell more pro duce, aud apply the proceeds to the payment of his debts. His debt is a greater burden to him, and harder for him to pay, than when he contracted. This burden is increased in the same ra tio as his property has decreased If his property lias lost half, or two thirds, of its former value; or if the purchas ing power of the currency lias heen doubled or thribled, aud consequently, requires twice or three times as much of the product of his industry, to ob tain the money then theeffect of these changes on the debtor is to multiply his debt by two or three, as the ease may be. The same is true with a na tion that is in debt. The United States being largely iu debt, and as the burden of paying that debt falls upon the people and their posterity, we may expect in the event resump tion takes place, for the national debt to be doubled or thribled. in propor tion to the contraction, and for tiie taxes in the sliaoe of duties and reve nues to multiply in the same propor tion. The creditor of the individual or nation is, in the same degree and like manner, benefited as the debtor is injured, unless such a creditor is also a debtor. The bondholder is cer taiuly benefited by doubling the pur chasing power of the currency, for which he can so readily exchange the gold, that he receives in payment of his bond. Uxus. We can recommend our readers to use Dr* Hull's Cough Syrup in all eases of Cough, Cold, &c. It only costs 25 cents a bottle and ia warranted to cure. It Our Milner Letter. ; Mr. Editor. So long has been the time since I have had anything to say through your columns I feel almost a stranger 1 o the Gazette. Much of local incident has transpired since last I wrote you, much of it has happened so long ago it is out of date. For fear my exordium will prove too lengthy for the body of my communication, I will leave it just here. The most notable event iu busi ness circles is the sale of the entire stock of merchandise of W. D. Willis, to Capt. A. J. White. Major Willis is doiug the leading business in the sale of guanos at this point. His neighbors are conscious of his munificence in flavor ing their residences on damp days with such a delightful odor. The trade in fertilizers is decreasing per ceptibly this season. Black’s formulas aud oth er compounds have probably contribu ted in some degree to this decline. Our trade for some time past has ranged from boO to 800 tons—even last season Major Willis sold upwards of 450 tons. Capt White, I am informed, will do an extensive mercantile business. There have been some important changes in real estate. Willis Head, contractors aud builders, aie putting up a first class grist mill,to be run by steam pow er. Quite a number of maarriages have taken place in our town, but all of them date so far back I will only mention one. On the evening of the 24th ult. at the residence of the bride’s father, Miss Eoline only daughter of B. D. Martin, Esq. was married to Mr. Simeon M. Perdue, of this county. On the same evening in the city of Macon Mr. I. B. Irvin was married, by Bev. A. W. Olisby, to Miss Sallie Anderson, both of. Macon. Mr. Irvin is the oldest son of Col. Samuel D. Irvin of this place and on the day following', his marriage came with his bride on a visit to his parents. The Wallack Tripologue Troupe visi ted our town last week, exhibiting two nights. Ihe entertainment was very good, surpassing anything of the kind ever before seen in our community. Messrs. Goldsmith Lewisa nd Hoddoway are said to be the happiest men in the State this morning—cause unknown— wonder if'twill always be sol Miss Lula Belle Howe, well known in Atlanta, Griffin and Barnesviile society has been quite i'l for a few days past. I learn this morning she is thought to be improving in the opinion of Dr. Juo. P. Hunt, their family physician. At the instance of quire a number of our people Miss Olivia Thompson, of Macon, came up last Tuesday morning and organized a dancing class Miss Thompson comes highly recomended to us as an instructress in the Terpsico rean art, She also has a class in Forsyth. If there are any of our friends in Barnes viile who would like to join us we would most heartily welcome them. It is au admirable opportunity for those who are fond of dancing to acquire the art. There are other reasons upon which I might urge the cultivation of this pleasing accomplishment. There has been much sickness in our town and vicinity during the new year, principally colds or the results produced thereby. There are no cases worthy of mention here most persons having recovered or in a fair way to do so. Tins deponent himself has suffered much from the most serore cold he ever had. (On last sabbath our newly elec ted pastor of the Baptist Church. Itev. A. L. Moncrief, filled the pulpit for the 2nd. time.) Our church goers are highly pleased with Mr. Moncrief as our pas tor. He is an earnest, faithful minis ter, and brings to the discharge of his duties more than ordinary zeal, fidelity and ability. His sermons are instruc tive aud entertaining, without being filled with a tedious pertinacity, irk some personal allusions, or wanting in the impulses of a pure gospel faith. His points are logical, clear and forcibly put;at times his subject carries him in to the regions of eloquence itself. As to argument of his sermons they show the beautiful application of system when directed by intelligence and labor, Mr. Moncrief uses no manuscript. Before closing I will note the improve ment iu our school. Our High School for males aud females,under the superin tendance of Prof. Garland Head, is in quite a flattering condition, numbering now upwards of 50 pupils. The in crease of patronage came so fast that it soon became known that Prof. Head wanted an assistant teacher. Several applications were received from parties here and elsewhere. After carefully looking over the situation, Prof. Head sought the services of Miss Bessie 8. Irvin, who is eminently fitted for the duties that lie before her, having com pleted her education asliort time since at the Southern Masonic Female College Coringten, Ga., a most thorgugh and excellent institution of learn ing, under the management of Rev. J. 2s. Bradshaw, President. Miss Irvin is an accomplished and justly popular young lady, aud her many friends and admirers in Macon, Albany, Griffin and North Georgia will note with pleasure her new vocation. With such an ar dent, resolute aud a young lady so cul ivated, apt and well prepared as an as sistant educator, the present session must make anew era of increased pros perity and give to the cause of learning such au impetus as will be sensibly felt by our citizens and all people within the soope of it insfluenco. * * T WENTY-FIVE CENTS will buy a bottle of Shriners Indian Vermifuge, the most reliable agent in destroying and ex pelling worms from children aud adults. Try it. Every bottle guaranteed to give satisfaction. 11 ART OF PROPAGATION. Is a highly illustrated practical work on the rapid increase and multiplication of stock. Published by Jkskixs’ Gkape and Skedlixo NrEskY Wiona, ColumbiaDiia Cos. Ohio. Price prepaid by mail, 50 cts. Agents wanted. Address as above. Thomaston, Feb. 18, 1878. Mr. Gazette : Here’s your few lines from Thoinaston. Nothing has occurred since the Schco Fair and the suspension of the “Herald” to break the dull monotony of life here, ’till the arrival last Thursday of Prof. Ry an and his gifted son. Their entertain ments on Friday and Saturday nights were well patronized. In the absence of a Her ald to puff them, some of the city fathers assumed the role of puffers, and perform ed their parts like old professionals. A dancer in the shape of a complimentary ticket did the work. The trustees of the Thomaston High School, with the mem bers of the town Council were all thus complimented ; hence the Professor was saved the corporation tax on exhibitions and the rent of a hail. His entertainments were held in the school house. Some en vious persons say that those functionaries abused their trusts in thus appropriating the public property and perquisites to in dividual use and advantage. But you know some people will talk, and the sta ple thereof is their neighbors’ faults and fol lies. The matrimonial fever has subsided. It was widespread and violent while it lasted Now that it is past and its fitful fever over, may the Lord in his mercy grant that its victims may “sleep well.” There has been an unusual activity in the mule market, since Christmast, in Thomaston. E. B. Thompson is autocrat yet, though he occasionally vouchsafes a kind or civil word to a buyer who has the ready money. He is a fair and honorable dealer in his line of trade, which cannot be said of all that deal in horse flesh. The suspension of the Herald has caused some inconvenience to some, especially county officers, and its demise would have called forth expressions of regret from all, but for the disgustingly silly utterances of its local columns. When such slang as “tanky tee times,” “two hundred and tooty times,’’ “foin,” “noice,” &c., to say nothing of that which was perfectly nauseating, as “pinky winky,’’ Ac., fill the columns of a newspaper sensible people will not expect the editor to speak of pub lic questions with any degree of intelli gence or dignity. Mrs. Beall (wife of Gen. Beall) is very ill, and it is thought that she cannot re cover. Farming operations are backward, and Spring and planting time will be upon the farme rs before they are prepared for it. The people of Thomaston are yet a church going people. Could we inquire into motives,we would ascertain that more go from custom and habit than from in centives to devotion and piety. Yesterday being Sunday, Rev. J. Y. Allen preached, at the Baptist church, a good sermon, in the main. When Bro. Allen shall have thought more, learned to discriminate more clearly, he will not then say that all nature and her operations and her laws are mysteries. While spiritual phenom ena and psychological manifestations are mysterious, practical phenomena are sus ccptible of simple and philosophical cx olauatiou. Mr. Johnson preached at the Methodist chuch at night, lie did not talk as if he was “seeing through a glass darkly.’’ He maintained his place well on a high plain of thought aud did not a single time, as is Ids wont, drop suddenly from the sub lime to the ridiculous - It is rather abrupt to la.ll from a position where one is listen ing to the “music of the spheres,” hack away to earth, aud in the vicinity of a jug factory become interested iu the mechan ical process of making jugs. I have set down naught in malice, if I have nothing extenuated. Rusticus. Thomaston, Feb. 26, 1878. Editor Gazette: Mv last week’s missive must lmve been crowded out by Ben Hill’s speech He talks as if he was impressed with the idea that lie is “set for the defense” of the nation’s honor. Mr. Hill’s course is too severely condemned by some in Georgia. I concede honesty to him, and think he spoke aud acted his convictions. He had no instructions to trammel him. Not so with Lamar. No matter how well grounded his eon victions may have been, how sure he was acting in the best interests of the peole of Mississippi, he ought to have obeyed the clearly expressed wishes of Mississippi. In the earlier aud purer days of the nation, Mr. La mar’s resignation would have been de manded by an indignant people. Then the doctrine prevailed that all the powers of government being derived front the people, that the people’s voice on important matters was the supreme law - , and the instructions of the “As sembled Wisdom” of a State was im perative on a Senator, and he had but one honorable and rightful alternative, aud that was to resign or obey. Power and the pride of place are now defiant of the popular will. We are yet in that dull, monoto nous state here, barren of accident or remarkable incident, that comes upon the closing up of the trade of the sea son. There has been no burglaries, wed dings, elopements, or other immoral developments that were successful here in several weeks. Weddings may be immoral, you know. Thomaston is infested by a number of juvenile darkies of both sexes that are nuisances. Some of these of the male persuasion are in the habit of crawling under houses and effecting an entrance through the fire-place, us ually built of brick. Last Friday night there was an unsuccessful attempt of this kind made to enter the store of Gibson & Adams. The work of get ting through the hearth was too big a job. The guano trade is lively. There will be about the same quantity sold iu Up son this year. There is one kind sold by Mr. Thos. Matthews, which is called Eureka. Someone must have found it by the smell. Full many a pound of it is now wasting its sweetness on the passing air - Rusticus. Letters remaining in the Post-office at Barnes ville, county of Pike, state of Ga., not called for Feb. 27th 1878, and will be sent to the Dead Letter office if not called for in 30 days. GENT’S LIST. Ruben Adams, L. Bamder. R. Gotes Win. Clark, Deunis Pleger. R J. John son, Virgil B. Lovett, A. J. Pound Pall Smith, Adam Palmer, Prof. G. Ry an, J. L. Richmond, VVesley Withas, W. H. Wells, George Thrash. LADIK’S LIST. Marietta Bussey, Matilda Bussey, l'aunie Buffington, Louciuda Browu, col, Martha Brown, Mrs. M. S■ 6'han* dler, Mrs- E. Chandler, Mrs. Clara Jo* sey, Mrs. Sarah McKinly, M. J. Mar tin Sallie Sherman, Maud S, M. E. j Whatly, Lilly Willis (2). Cresby U illis. ! Sallie " alden. Thos. L. Cauthen, P M. HrilSClUltK FOR IT. The most Popular, the Cheaj>est, ami one of the best Magazines published in the VN orld is Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. The March number, now ready, contains, as docs every copy of this publication* over 100 illustrations and 128 quarto pages filled with excellent matter. The articles on “Celebrated Light Houses, Ancient and Modem,” by Professor Charles A Joy, Ph. D (17 engravings) A visit to the Chinese Quarter, Sau Francisco,” by Mrs. Frank Leslie. (7 engravings); “ Victor Emmanuel, First King of United Italy,’’ by W. Slaughter Chase, (15 cn gravings); “ The Court of the Grand Mom arque,’ by Henry Barton Baker (9 en gravings), are highly interesting. The stories are excellent, especially “ The Old Stonef Staircase at Oglethorpe, - ’ by the author of “ That Lass of Lowrie’s.” and the continuation of “ The American Coun tess.” by Etta W. Pierce. There is also a large amount of carefully selected mis cellany, including History, Science, Trav els, Fun, etc., and a pretty chromo fron tispiece. Tin* price for single copies is but 25 cents; Auuual Subscription, $:!, postpaid. Address Frank Leslie’s Pub lishing House 537 Pearl Street, New York. Bishop Marvin’s “To the East by \V ay of the West.’’ Marvin’s Lectures on the “Errors of the Papacy,” and Rev. Eugene 11. Hendrix’s “Around the World with introduction by Bishop Marvin; price of each book $2. 00. AGENTS WANTED everywhere. Send amount named to Logan D. Damekox, Agent of the Advocate publishing House, St. Louis and get sample copies of either, or all three with terms to agents. The books are selling rapidly. Some agents have 6old 50 copies in a single day. “Bishops of the M. E. Church, South/’ a Steel Engraving of Bishops Paine t Pierce Wightman, Kavanough, Dogget, Me Ty iere, Marvin and Keener; size for framing 16x20 inches, price $2, also separate en graving of Bishop Marvin for framing 11x14 inches, price 50 cents. AGENTS WANTED everywhere to sell these splen did portraits. Send price named for sam ple copy of either or both, with terms to agents. Address The Advocate Publish ing House, Saint Louis, Mo. T. B. Lyon wants one thousand bush. Sweet Potatoes. Also one thou sand bush. Peas. Dr. Harter’s Liver Pili.s should he kept in the house so that on the first indi cation of sickness th y may at once be re sorted to; one dose then is better than a dozen after the disease is established in the system. 2t We assure out readers that Dr. Har ter’s Iron Tonic is just the remedy necessary for brokendown vital powers, nervous and mental prostration loss of sleep, anxiety, heart irregularities, indig estion convalescence from fevers. 2t YJIB We can change a fifty dollar Dill if you want a bottle of Globe Flower Cough Syrup, the greatest Cough aud Lung Rem edy in the world; or if you want to try it first aud see if what the Hon. Alex. H. Stephens,Ex Gov. Smith, Fx-Gov. Brown and Hon. Rodert Toombs of Georgia say about it is true you can get a Sample Bot tle for ten cents at J. W. Hightowers Drug Store, that relieves an ordinary cold. The Globe Flower Cougii Syrup never had an equal for Coughs, Colds and Lung Affections. It postively cures Consump tion when all other boasted remedies fail. Sample Bottles, ton cents. Regular size fifty doses, sl. 00. NEXT TOwN Ahead where they loan you a dollar and chalk it down till to-morrow, for a bottle of Mkrrei.i.’s Hepatine for the Liver. The enormous expense of importing tire ingredients of this great liver medicine in to this country is why our Druggists, J. VV. Hightower sells but one sample bottle to the same person for ten cents; hut as then "are fifty doses in the large size bot tles it is cheap enough after all at two cents per dose for a medicine that has nev er been known to fail in the cure of dys pepsia and all diseases of the liver. It has never failed in the cure of liver complaint when taken as directed, no matter o. how long standing the disease. It cures Chills and Fever, Constipation of the Bowels, Dyspepsia aud liver Complaint. Sample Bottles ten cenls; regular size, fifty doses sl. 00. tf. DEAFNESS and Catarrh cured. No Medicine. Book free on receipt of stamp. Address Geo. J. Wood, Madison, Ind. —tf •‘German Syrup.” No other medicine in the world was ever given such a test of its curative qualites as Boschees German Syrup. In three years two milion four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine were distributed free of charge by Drug gists in this country to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonia and other diseases of tlie Throat and Lungs, giving the American people undeniable proof that German Syrup will cure them. The result has been that Druggists in every town and village in tlie United States are recommending it to their curtomers. Go to your Druggist, and ask what they know about it. Sample bottles 10 cents. Reg ular size 75 cents, Three doses will res tore any case. COMMERCIAL. Corrected 44e*kly for tlie Uazaite by Staflord, Blalock Sc Cos. Baknesvili.e, Ga., Febuary 7,1878. COTTON—Middling 9y. “ Low Middling 9 CORN—White 80 MEAL- “ 80 BACON—Clear Ribbed Sides 9 “ Shoulders 7 % “ Bulk Clear Ribbed Sides.... 6’/ “ Hums—Sugar Cured 13 “ Country Cured.... 12V, FLOUR—Fancy 4 50 “ Extra Family 00 “ Family 3 75 LARD—Choice Leaf Tierces 11 “ “ “ Tin Cans ISJ£ “ “ Buckets 15<a14 MOLASSES—Cuba 60565 “ Sugar House 50 “ N. O. Syrup 551565 SUGAR—Granulated % “ N. O. Fancy “ N. O. Medium lltjj. 12 COFFEE—Rio 26®?8 CHEESE—Extaw Cream 16@18 CANDLES 17(318 BEESWAX 25 FIELD TEAS 75 RICE B(s'j STARCH C,V(§B SALT—Liverpool ! 50 “ 4'iiginia 1 >0 SHOT—Per Bag 275 NAlLS—Bls.oflU's 3 50 BAGGING— 15@11 TIES—New Arrow g 53 TOBACCO 60@90 VINEGAR c EGGS BUTTER aj SOAT-Per Box.. 60 Now is Your Time! TO GET BARGAINS!! J. F. MENDES 1 Will sell, for the next sixty days, his | entire stock of Woolen Goods at cost j for cash. These goods are needed in every family, such as Flannels, Lin seys, Blankets, Cassimere, Cloth my, Waterproofs, etc., etc. Immense Bargains in'll he offend. Goods are all new. We v anl a revi val in trade, and therefore offer our goods at cost, for a limited period. Call at Men ties' for a good trade. Call at Meades' 1 for goods cheap. fall opening of millinery. 44 e are now opening up our Fall Stock ol 4111.1,1 NEKY AND FANCY GOODS, wbirh we will take great pleasure in sliowia k our Friends and Customers. 44'e have a alee, entirely new, well selected stork, at Low Prices. Thankful to our many e list out era I'or liberal patronage heretofore, and prom. Uing to DO writ BEST TO PI.EAsE ALL, who may lavor us with their trade, 44 e are 4’el'y Resp’ly, MRS. DAVIS A C HAMBERS. Consumption Cured. —An old physi cian, retired from practice, having had placed in his hands by an East India missionary the formular of a simple vege table remedy for the speedy and perman ent cure of consumption, bioneliitis, eata uah, asthma, and all throat and lung uff a.itious, also a positive and radical cure for pervous debility and all nervous complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative cowers iu thousands of casts has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuate dby this motive and a desire to relieve human suffering I will send, free of charge, to all who desire it this recipe in German, French, or English, with full directions for preparing and us ing. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper. W. W. Sherar 120 Powers’ Block, Rochester, N. Y. 4w A- Gout le Hint. In our t tyle e f Climate, with its sud den changes of temperature, rain, wind and sunshine often intermingled in a sin gle da}-, it is no wonder that our children friends and relatives are so frequently ta ken from us by neglected colds, half the deaths resulting directly from this cause. A bottle of Boscbee’s German Syrup kept about your home for immediate use w ill prevent serious sickness, a large doc tor’s lill, and perhaps death, by the use of three or four doses. For curing Corn sumption, Hemorrhages, Pneumonia, Severe Coughs, Croup or any disease of the Throat or Lungs, its success is sim; ly wonderful, as your druggist will tell you. German Syrup is now sold in every town and village ou this continent. Sample tottles for trial, 10c. ; regular size, 75c. T. B" Lyon has just received one car lead J. M. Veaeu’s Fancy Flour. Oranges. Apples, Onions and Cabbage at T. B. Lyon’s. 1 OOOths Asst. Slice Candy just received at T. B. Lyon’s. I want every man woman or child to pay me wlmt they owe me. I can use the money, come and pay it at once. J. F. West. “T. li. l.yon Is ready for All.” lie lias just received One ear load of C, It. Sides. 1 car Choice White Corn. 1 car, all grades, Flour. 100 Bu. Choice Rust Proof Outs. He also has a laarge stock of Lard, Hams, Mackerel, Nails, Hoes, Axes, Traces, Humes, Sugar, Coffee, liice, Tobacco, Cigars, and Wines and Liq uors ot all kinds. He will keep in stock the alio\'e goods iu large quantities, which he will sell as cheap as any one in this market, FOR CASH. Also agent for that popular and well known Sea Fowl Guano. T. B. Lyon sells 2 good cigars for oc. Fresh Beer for 5c at T. B. Lyon’s. Country Merchants will do well to call and get T. B. Lyon's prices at once. Select cream cheese at T. B. Lyon's. T. B. Lyon has on hand the best as sortment Fine, Medium aud common chewing Tobacco in town. T. B. Ljon will sell candy andcrack cts in job lots, at Atlanta and Macon prices. Sweet oranges and Fancy Candy at T. B, Lyon. Buy your Christmas Goods from T. B. Lyon, for he has the largest and best stock in town. T. B. Lyon will have for Christmas, Dressed Turkeys and Cranberries. Speak for your Christmas Turkey at T. B. Lyon’s. T. B. Lyon has in stock 25 Boxes of all kinds of crackers. T. B, Lyon has the largest stock of Whiskies, Brankies and Wines ever brought to Barnesville, which he will sell cheap. Fresh mackerel just received at T. B. Lyou’s. Fresh Beer at T. B. Lyon's, Fresh Fisli and Oysters on hand every day at T. B, Lyon. T. B. Lyon lias 200 doz. Eggs. T. B. Lyon has a laige stock of Fancy Apples on hand. Fresh Oysters at TANARUS, 15. Lyon's, 25c per qt. Fresh Fish and Oysters Every day at T. B. Lyou’s. Buy your Hardw-are. Stoves, Tinware coockery House furnishing Goods, Ac., from 11. R. Chambers, very cheap for cash, and reasonably cheap on a credit when credit time comes. I offer for sale (1000) one thousand acres of land in (Jpson couuty in one hundred acre farms. I will sell it cash or ou time to responsible men. J. F. West. For Sam:. —I will sell (60) sixty ; acres of fine level land, lying between my residence and J. R Jenkins, Esq . about half of it in the town of Barnes vilie. (15) fifteen acres in the woods, all under good fence. Gome soon if , you want it cheap. J. F West. A good assortment of Axes at viry ! low figures at 11. R. Chaml-ers. I want to sell by Jan. Ist., 1878, I (5,000) five thousand dollars worth of ! sugar, coffee, cheese, candy, bacon, lard, flour, salt. &c. Also 5,000 worth •ofboots, slioes, hats and caps, dry goods, &c. I must sell them, come and buy from J. F. West. If you owe 11, R. C. anything, and : tis due, you ought to go and pay him just as soon as you can get there, weth er you’ve sold your cotton or not, and < hen buy a great m ny more goods tluap, and make him feel happy. County merchants and farmers, will ! save money, by trading with J. F. I West. I have a fine lot of clothiDg that I will sell at cost, all new ami fine. I 1 moftu wLmI I say. J. F. Wesu