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Asso<-iaii *n.
SE9|HV> hold iu 1884 a errand exp^si
the auspices of that body.
faSpno be <*alll the World'* Cotton
Exnositioivnd will he to the
country the<*vent< f tbedecade,and
►o far as colum interests are concerned
<the event of the century. Never before
in the history of the South was amove-
more* ethusiastically inagurated.
"The idea was hailed with universal ap
probation at its announcement, and not
a doubter of the feasibility of this colos
sal enterprise has bee found among
the numerous planters and mauufactnr
rs with whom we have since discussed
#t. Even at this early day a number of
have signified their eag
erness to be among its exhibitors, and
letters of inquiry concerning it have al
ready been received. Although cotton
will form the chief exhibit, yet it is pro
4qsed to make its scope universal, so as
to include not only everything apper
taining to cotton culture and manufac
ture. but whatever improved imple
ments may l>e necessary for the most
approved methods of diversified farm
ing—in fact, all inventions, devices and
fabrics that may possibly prove of in
terest to the people of the South or
promote their general industries.
The resolution of the convention au
thorizing this mammoth exposition pro
vides that it shall be held at such city
as nni v offer the greatest inducement,
and it is a privilege well worth contend
irg for. Nearly all the leading cities
have had successful expositions, sup
port r*d only by local or quasi-local inter
ests vid n.-ttrouage, and have found it
profitable to invest large sums in such
-entrrprijMfs; but this proposed World’s
’'Cotton Exposition will command the di
<ect and united support of the entire
aeotton producing territory os America.
In view* of the vast extent of this terri
tory and the commercial importance of
-its leading staple, it is a self evident
proposition that any city could afford
4o expend ten-fold more in order to se
cure such an exposition than upon any
tnere local affair. So far as exhibits are
'Concerned, it cannot fail to attract
them from the w hole Union, aye from
the four quarters of the globe. The
tact that it is to be a Centennial Expo
sition will likewise give it great and
world-wide prominence. It may inter
est the public to know that in the year
1704 eight hales of cotton w r ere export
ed from this country to England, where
ppon arrival, it was condemned as con
traband, and seized by order of the Pri
vy Council, who held that so large ail
amount of cotton could not possibly
have been raised in America. Thus
4theyear 1884 will be both an agricultur
al and commercial centennial in the his
~tory of cotton. What a contrast be
tween the opening and closing year of
this cotton century! No enterprise
Could be too stupendous to do justice
to the celebration of such a centennial.
South will be organized
°* < * Oll tributing to its
;< hdeed all produc
in the wWlFvvill doubt-
in swelling its attrac
#are fortunate in its location
an|n secure men of sufficient bread
th 9 view to compass 'so gigantic an
undertaking, it will prove but little, if
magnificient than the Nation
al iflntenniul Ex position of 1876. A|lo
Jar7s its lection is concerned, w r e
inclined to the belief that New Orleans
ifi the most eligible site but the claims
of all competing cites will be carefully
feud impartially considered, Correspon
dence in this direction will be immed
lately instituted, and a month given to
the various cities in which to make
-known what inducements they may
have to Executive Commit
tee has action on this
T>oint, but among the cities that will
probably be invited to compete are
■sails Baltimore, Cincinnatti,
e. Richmond, Memphis, Nash
irlcston, Mobile, Savannah,
lery and Atlanta,
oposed to raise not less than
possibly over three millions of
ml there are several cities
Eer should not be less than five
hundrd thousand dollars of this amo
unt. fe
We may appropriately close this, the ini
tial unpn the World’s Cotton Centen
nial Exposition, by promising the citx
be so fortunate as to
Ignited support of the entire
'ing interest. We feel that w r e are not
transcending the bonds of prudence in
-predicting that it w r ill at the same time
prove a lever of incalculable pow r er in
promoting the industrial progress and
-bring an immediate ret®n commensu
rate with the extent,
CR UEL TY OF ENGL IS// Tr£)PS
Ilerr Janson, war correspondent of
“the Stockholm Dagbald, lias addressed
a letter fromJjpme to the Colonge Ga
icettee on theflnbject of the accusations
by the representative of the lat
ter journal in Egypt as to the massacre
•Of wounded EgyjMans at Tel-el-Kebir,
V)f which the Swedish writer, among
fethers, was cited by his German collea
gue as a witness. Herr Janson writes:
“When on the morning of the 13th, 1
arrived at Arabi's fortifications the
-struggle within the intrenchmeuts was
over, and not the least resistance was
2>eing offered. Hundreds of dead and
“Wounded covered the ground. As I
passed in through one of the fates’ by
which the entry is made there l saw’ on
vuy left several English foot soldiers
who had remained or been left behind
8m order to pick up their
iow-coiintry-men. They were
paces distant from me. Several fallen
likewise lay there along the
ramparts. At this moment an English
vnan discharged his rifle at one of t hese
Egyptians, and a comrade said to him.
• Why did you do that? 1 and added. ‘lt
was not he who moved, but that mail
’there.’ The first mentioned soldier
then look a saber and plunged it in the
<1 of the second Arab, who was ly-
ing on his stomach. I saw the body
move, and the man’s shirt become dy
ed with red. The Englishman quietly
drew back his sword and said. **l think
he has enough.” Almost at the same
time soldiers a little further away from
meffired several shots-six,seven or eight,
1 can not of course, tell precisely how
many—in order to give the quietus to
the foe. This incident had caused me
to stop, but I was in a hurry and ac
cordingly left the spot in order to catch
the advanced troops and cavalry. lam
certainly not the ouly person \vho was
witness of such occurrences. An 'office
of the Khedive attached to the staff re
lated to me that when he found the En
glish killing the wounded he saved sev
er a l of the latter. But to establish one
fact only of this kind I required
what I saw with my own eyes.’’
THE LATENESS OF THE AV
TUMN FROST.
The progress of the season, judged
by the extension of the frost belt south
ward, is remarkablyj slow. In October
of last year “killing frosts” visited New
England as early as the sth of the
month, causing great destrifttion of the
crops, and on the 6th extended to Vir
ginia, North and South Carolina and Ten
nessee, wdtli very disastrous effects to
tobaco and fruit crops. During the pre
sent month, except in the Northwest,
no killing "frosts have been reported,
and those which have occured fell most
ly after the 16th inst., north and west of
the Ohio Valley. The ouly very severe
frost so far reported this month havP
been those of the 19th inst. in Wiscon
sin, unless we go further north and into
the Western plateau regions. The ex
ceptional immunity which the tobacco
and cotton growers have enjoved from
frost this fail will ao douot enable
them, as it will farmers generagy, to
make the most of the growing season
and considerably enlfe’gelheir crop pro
fits. M
COURTSHIP FRAUDS.
A wealthy widower in Pennsylvania
three or four days before the formal en
gagement which preceded his second
marriage transferred to trustees all his
real estate to be held in trust for him
self during his life, and sifter his death
to be conveyed to his by
his first wife. When tnewrust deed
wasexeciTOfe it was understood be
tween him and hisuntended bride that
they were soon tdj become engaged m
be married. She knew that he was pflL
sessed of a large amount of property/
but at the time of her marriage she
was ignorant of the secret transfer that
lisid been made. Soon sifter they were
married the husband died, when the
trust deed, whose effect if valid would
have ||en to depriw the widow of her
dowe®was brought to light, fefefe spite
of thedeed she claimed her sham in the
estate and sued the truste“ The
of Common Pleas has just de
cided in her favor and allows her dow
er. It holds that the secret convyan- (
ce made by her suitor during their
courtship and “on the eve of his mar
riage*with her was a fraud in law upon
her just expectations and the conjugal
rights which mire about to be acquired
by her. ” Aim this, the Court remarks,
would be eqiMly so underlie circum
stances of whetlAr fraudfewas
intended or tlm property was conveyed
in good faith.
A MAN'S jfklllT TO BEAT HIS
WFFZF.E.
The wCffesome opini byjthe
General Term of the inN
Ylast spring a womanmay
maintain an action against her husband
for been overruled by
tbs Court That decision of
the the first to
affirm in doctrine their
advanced JkWaa before been the reep
ognized Mle that married
might sue any man IA - assault an|n
tery except her husband, but that 'to
give her the to the courts
against his be “contra
ry to the policy of the law and destruc
tive of that conjugal union and tran
quillity which it has always been the
object ot the law to guard and pro
tect. ’’
This view is in entireAarmony with
the baipoimis principlßßd practice of
the cmflhß law, whienrooks upon a
nonentity when it does
not twat her as a slave.* But the Sup
remeffourt, in the case before it last
wherein ‘‘conjugal
union” and tranquility” are
promoted by accWding a man the right
ro beat bis wife, and refused to hold
that the people of this State are govern
ed in this matter by an ancient and inhu
man rule of the common law which they
had never made nor accepted. Un what
ground the Court of Appeal krules
the Supreme Court does
since the former tribunal
have rendered its decision without giv
ing in the custoimiry opinion,
elaborate and issuing opin
ion, written by Judge Dan
forthi^P
The New Orleans is very
much concerned about “posterity’s beef
steak,” for it believes that the rise in
the cattle market is not a mere transient
fluctuation, but is the result of an in
creasing demand, with no correspond
ing increase in the sources of supply*
Reflecting that the Chinese lost their
beefstake centuries ago honied cattle be
ing too valuabtoJn China to use as food
it concludes tlB our fellow-citizens,
fifty years hencemfell not be very fami
liar with beefsteak, or else will “get it
ont of a cuijfe
new in
family of a alien
papa essively proud over the
event. to the old black nurse,
he. stroking the little
pate. * BPBw seems to have a journa
listic head.’’ “Oh.” cried the untutor
ed old aunty, soothingly, “never you
mind ‘bout dat, datll conie all right in
time. "—Louisville Courier-Journal.
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR FOR
NOVEMBER.
Truly we can say each visit of this
standard Southern agricultural journal
gives increased pleasure. We emphas
ize the fact of its being a Southern pub
lication. because the prosperous North
sustains many valuable agricultural pa
pers, and it ;is meet and proper that
Southern farmers should not only have
a journal devoted to their interests, but
should have one that is first-class in eve
ry respect. Aside from the fact that
its columns, richly laden with informa
tion on all subjects connected with agri
culture, is inva uableto the progressive
farmer, it sliouid be maintained because
it is the exponent and representative of
farmer.
number contains an
interesting description of Col. Peters’
Jersey herd and his “Thirty Years’
Experience onaNorth Georgia Stock
Farm.” His sB cess demonstrates that
such ventures will pay South as well as
North and every farmer should read the
article. “Green Manuring I’or 1 ’or how to
renew a run down farm, is an article
alone worth the price of subeription.
“Economy in Feeding,” by the Hon.
T. J. Moore, of South Carolina; “Plan
tation Life in the South,” by Prof. D.
C, Harrow 1 of Athens; “The Fence
and Stock Laws of Georgia,’’ are only
a few of the interesting articles.
Dr. Jones’ “Thoughts for ’’
and his two full pages of answers to in
quiries are of inestimable value.
The publishers have shown enterprise
■alieatl of anything ever attempted in
the South—illustrating the lettters of
their conrespondents. “J. O. A.,”
of Charlotte, N, C., contributes an arti
cle on “Hillside Ditching,” and the pub
Usher? have made designs to illustrate
his methods; Mr Louis Dubore. of
Vicksburg, Mississippi, has written
another article on “Straw and Fodder
Barracks,” and Messrs. Harrison &
Cos., had their artist to draw’ sketches
to illustrate the cheap
ed. And so it is to the
ment is the watchword of tTHßmblish
ers. VWill tiiey be sustainea? Asa
matßr of course. Now, they say, they
prmmhree times as many papers as
a year ago and the volume is
constantly swelling. Everyfefejbrmer,
not a suberiber. should send
P. Harrison Cos., Atlanta, (jßßfor a
year’s subscription. (
Peterson’s Magazine 7JF December is
on our table: as usual, ahead of all oth
ers. It is one of the most elegant issues
► of thisjghe cheapest and best of the la
dy’s books. There are two beautiful
steel-engravings, of which one, “Be-!
ware,” is alone w’orththe price of the
number: a superb steel, double-sfte,
colored fashion-plate; and two
patterns, both exquisite, in anew *yle
of work. “Arrasen Embroidery. * A
bright, witty story, ‘True and the Pro
fessor,” admjMfety illustrated, leads off
Dae stories. number contains a
Supplement, with a full-size dress-pat
' tern, and numerous patterns in embroide
ry. Theatherßre some fifty other en
gravingsf faWiions, work-table pat
terns, ettpThe very best stories are also
to be fouwl in “Peterson.” Its regular
contributors are Aun 8 Stephens, Jane
G. Austin, Frank Lee Benedict, Rebec
ca Harding Davis; and that unrivaled
humorist, the author of “Josiah Allen’s
Wife:” besides hosts of others. The
price of the Magazine is but Two Dol
lars a year. To clubs, it is astonishing
ly low, viz: six copies for nine dollars,
with an to the person gett
ing up the cwßPr seven copies for ten
dollars and a half, with both an extra
copy and the large size premium steel
engraving, “Christ Before Pilate,” or a
Photograph, or Illustrated, Album, gilta
to the person getting up the club. Sub
scribe to no magazine till you have
a of this. JSpeci mens are seßt,
to persons wishing to get
Klubs. Address, Charles J. Peters*.
*306 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia
Pa.
The law students at Columbia Law
School a Brained a few days since
that they had to associate wdtli a col
ored student in their midst.
Those who felt themselves affronted
by the colored presence meet
ing a few evenings since a
resolution that the
ought to be removed, and propolßg
febliat the expel him. Aror
the matter had gone on far enough to
the friends of the colored man.
]By offered a resolution,as a substitute’
djjfctingthat “the negro, by his gentle
manly conduct and excellent ability, is
entitled to a seat in Columbia or any
other college. ” This was adopted amid
applause and another added, suggest
ing th;Bstudents who find themselves
peai*e with the colored
then selves places in oth
er col^Bs.
The season just passed has been so
damp and warm that insect lit# has been
greatly promoted. In many cases
worms the leaves froraßees,
and the redundant sap has
blossoms to open, so that apple trees in
full bloom (November 1) are reported in
many parts of the country. It is pre
sumed|fc| all such cases, next voar’s
crop wmbe“discounted.” f
Count von Moltke, thjßeteran Prus
sian Field Marshal. spent October 26,
his eighty-third birthday •in strictest
retirwnent at his country home, as has
been his custom since the death ol' his
wife.
An exchange shrewdly remarks i§far
mers would all procure shepherd dogs
and destroy the droves of worthless
curs throughout the we would
so much aboidßheep killing.
a Alfred Hopkins’ United Sta
. will be tried ;on a charge of
ng his post at dur
ing the prevalence of yllow fever.
An Edinburgh journal says that city,
having an outward righteousness, is
commt, hollow, and to the
coißß
Ivons: *vity of Monroe County citi
zen*.
Our venerable fellow-citizen, Mr Mil
es G. Turner, has compiled the names
of citizens of Monroe county who have
reached an advanced age, and has given
it to us with the privilege of publish
ing the list, which we give below.
Pressley Nelms, aged 105; Thomas Bat
tie. aged 96.
From 85 to §0 years old—Alexander
Perkins, George Driskell. Daniel Tingle
A. L. Notley Samuel Thomas Leonard
Hamlin, Alfred O’Neal.
From 80to85—Benjamin Haguewood
Cyrus,Sharp, Thomas Dewberry, An
drew Zellner, John H. Phinazee
James Holder Solomon Hobbs, John W
Johnson.
About 80—8. B. Maddox, Hiram Phin
azee. William Y. white John Green, iqa
H. Walker William Dewberry M. (2
Turner. y
Between 70 and 75—Judge Bankston,
Newton Owens, Glenn Ow’ens, Daniel
Sanford, Henry Stump, Charley Sutton,
"W illiam Walker, of Culloden; Wiley
Roberts, William Westbrooks, Peyton
Harp. Jesse Callaway, William Watson,
Alfred Middlebrooks,Thomas WilUams,
I ascai Watts, William
Butler Daniel Searcy, Orlando Ilfnaud.
Jehu Cates, John Anderson, James
Clemmons, Smith Abernathy. J. B Mul
lins, John S. Parham, Washington-
Shearman, Green Webb, William In
grant, George W. Goodwin, Morgan
Blood worth, Richard Wills, John Mor
ton, Wilson Clark, Vinson JLasener
I homas Freeman, Isaac Vineburg,
George Smith, John P Carson.
It will be seen from the list that
there are, -in this county, sixty-three
men over seventy years old: and that
one of them is over a hundred, and an
other nearly jlliat. In the few month
that we have lived in Monroe, |we have
recorded the death of several whose
names would have appered in this list
if they had lived till now. One of them
Mr. Archibald Learv, died while the
list was being made, Most of those
whose jwimes are printed above are
amongßo early settlers of the county,
and then- long lives Ifeve been spent in
Monroe. This speaks well for the health
fulness of our county and for the ex
cellent physical constitution which
these gentlemen possess. Nearly all
of them are stßactively attending to
business, ahd give evidence of
BBt vigor. Wonder if another coun
tVcan beat this—AdvertiiJf
Freezing! a Corpse.
Every corpse that is taken to the Paris
anorgue is now quickly converted into
Ji block almost as hard as This
result is obtained by Carre
refrigerator, which is capablemf reduc
ing temperture of the conservatory,
where each body is laid out in some
thing closely resembling a camp bed
stead iffctone. to fifteen degrees below
zero centigrade. At the back%of this
room is a row of stove-like compßk
njßs. in which the corpses are boxM
tfffaiid frozen hard before being expos
ed to public vfesv. As an illustration
of the intenseWld thus artificially se
cured, a Paris journalist, in describing
a recent visit to the morgue., says that
in opening one of the compartments
the attendant took the precaution to
wear a glove lest his ‘ ‘hand should be
burnt by contact with the| cold iron.”
The corpse, which was taken out of its
receptacle, had been there nine hours.
The doctor who accompawd the visitor
struck Lie dead man on til breast with
a stick Bid the sound was just as if he
had struck a stone.
Nil" Honor to An Amerhan Wo
J
From the Washington star.
An honor not often paid to one of our
country women was conferred upon Mrs
BiWl A. Lockwood by the invitation
extended to hto address the Interna
tional Conference to Promote Arbitra
tion as a Substitute far War, held at
Brussels on the 27tli, 18th, and 19th ulti
mo—an assemblage to
gether distinguished womon
from almost every civilized country, as
will be understood Ben it |is stated
that the list- of Presidents inclu
des the Duke of Westminstor, the Earl
of Derby, the Earl of Shaftesburg, and!
Sir John With her lettter re|
grettuig her irjgßEty to attend the con
ference. Mrs. jßßflcwood sent a brief
statement in regard to the growth of
the peace arbitration (movement in
America, which was received with
many interest and
plesaure. o^^
Postmaster General Howe wants st aja
ed en velopesgeneralh |i ntrod need instßp
o’f postage stamps, his reason being that
the careless persons who drop unstamp
ed letters into the mail-boxes Vill be
prevented from thiußfereasing the busi
ness of the Dead To this
end he proposes to popularize the stam
ped envelopeby reducing their price
to that of the He thinks
that this will force the people to buy
them to such an as greatly to
reduce the letters
mailed.
The emoluments of of the
officers of New’ York county exceed the
salary of the President of the Unitl
States. Those ofjhe Sheriff and Coun
ty Clerk are estimated at more
than a hundred thousand dollars a
year.
The Rev. Dr. Bartlett, a Western im-|
portation into a pnMt, fin a
sermon recently
States as “a country boußprton the
north by an iceberg soutli by
a banana. ” n W 0 ;
In the case of BA. Palmer, Presi
dent of the Broadway Bank N. Y.
Judge Van Brunt has decided that bank
stock held by an individual may be tax
ed separately from the banbfe* proper
ty - . f i
The gift of Mr. Paul Tulane to Louis
iaua for educational purposes is expect
ed to yield an annual income of about
msm. • a*
rrofessional gards.
Stephen N. Woodward,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
THOMASTON, GA fc
Prompt attention give a to *ll budiuf , s!B .
t4d to Lis care. Correspgndence soUcitelßflH
J. S. POPE,
ATTORNEY AT
ZEBULON, GEORGIA.
PROMPT attention given to business In aU tbe.
courts. Criminal law a specallty.
Joseph . Rogers,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
BARNESVILLE, GA.
Resp Afully tenders his services to the publto
nsuring prompt and Immediate attention te aU
business intrusted to his care in State and FedeM
at Courts. t-& Collection and Criminal Law.
cialtlea. novs-y^B
A. A. Mnrphey,
AITORNEY AT LAW
BARNESVILLE, GA.
OFFICK OVER W. R. MUBPHEY k UPS
qgu j tf
W. R. TAYLOR, TANARUS, E. MURPHEY
TAYLOR & MURPHEY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BARNESVILLE, GA.
rvompt .mention given to buinoss entrusted
them. Collections a
~jTa7hunt,
ATTORNEY AT L Aw/
BARNESVILLE, GA.
Will practice In the counties comprising thn
Flint Judicial Circuit,And in the Supreme Courl
of the State, Office uP-stairs In Bank Building,
decs °
K-f. Whitaker j
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BARNESVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the counties of the Flint Cir
cuit and in the Supreme Court of tha State.
SCpt2B
IT. PERDUE, M. D.
BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA
OFFICE J. W. Hightower & Co’s Drugstore.
Residence on Thomaston Street.
Jan2-ly
Dr. W. Wri^h.t,
PHYSICIAN M‘D SURGEON,
Officb atGjpDKDS Stork—A. Mpkfhbt,
Proprietor. qua ’
When office, I can be found atmv
residence on Railroad St.
Or- will use Magneto Electricity* and Galvan
sm when ■ lOJunly
▲ 0 Pft uw, ■ *
SRATIYE AND MECHANICAL JffiNIIST,
(Q£ce Up-Stairs in Bank Building.)
Banßville, - - - - Georgia. I
J olin Moyer, Tailor, j
HAVING returned to Baraesvllle. will be I
found up stairs, near the post office. Work '
warranted. Perfect satisfaction given. Call on
me. jan26
BABBER SHOP.
Robert f. miller and eli c. stewabt
having consolidated the Barber business, fo
the convenience of customers and themselves
wish to announce to the public that they are bet
ter prepared than ever to prosecute the Tonsorla
art. Every be kept in first class order
no pains will to please all who patron
ize them.
MILLER k STEWART.
THE undersigned has located In BarnesvlUe
with a view to conducting a
Icrchaitt Tailor ins Business
Is to supply the demand for
EigM aid French Cassini,
Broadcloth, Doeskins,
such goods. Old clothing repaired, cleaned
MADE NEW.
In short everything in the tailoring line will b
Promptly Supplied.
A TEST OF
AND WORKMANSHIP
Is respectfully asked and
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Call at the room opposite Gazette office, in
,-lck building. Respectfully,
jans-ly c. H. CORBIN.
Notice
t
All the persons indebted to the estate of Ben
jamin Trite debased are hereby requested to
present their accounts in accordance with the
law. And all who are Indebted to the estate
will please come toward and settle.
C T. TRICE.
Administrator oetu*.