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THE MONITOR. D. C. SUTTON, Kditor. > Mt. VERNON GA. MAY 6. 1886. j Evtekfd at the PosT-orricE at Mt. • VeBSOS, Ga. , AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER. — SUBSCRIPTION BATES. (CASH IS ADVANCE,) Twelve months $1.50 Six months.... Pour montlis. 50 If pavmont is not made in nuance, or within the first month After the name is entered on our books, it will be charged for at the rate of ; two dollars per annum. i RATES* OF ADVERTISING. One inch one iusertio.u SI.OO Each subsequent insertion 50 One inch one month... 2.50 One iuch three mouths -> 00 One inch six months t 00 One inch twelve months 10 00 One quarter colnoin one month... o-OO Oue quarter, columu twelvemoflthß.2s.oo One half column one month 7.50 One half column twelve months. .40.00 One column one month 16-06 Oue column twelve months.. i 5.00 Advertisements from responsible par ties will be published until ordered out, when the time is not, specified in the copy, and charges made accordingly. Com inn mentions for individual benefit or of a personal character will he charg ed for the same as advertisements. Legal advertisements, the rates of which are regulated by law, are payable in advance. Announcements of candidates for office, five dollars, in advance. In accordance withnnset of the Legislature, legal advertisements wjll lie inserted in the Moxrron at the following rates For eafii 100 words, 75 cents for paeh in sertion for the first four insertions; for each eubequent insertion, 35 cents, for each 100 words. Non vcrtiHemcnt considered less than stj(lstj(l words. Each and every word and initial, including caption, date find signature will be counted* Every figure counted as aword. , LOCAL ITEMS. —Ltd the democracy of the East be i United and success is assured, —Rev. W. A. Jones left yesterday morning for S tv intiah, bj> way of Hazel hurst. —Messrs. George MeQueen and 15. F. Herring left Tensdiiy for the 3 ivan luih centtsnnia 1 . —'Mrs. Mattie Mason, of Macon, is vi-ting her parents Mr; & Mrs. Smith o! this place. —We will give the ebnl't proceeding at length in next week's issue—provider \ve can get them in time; —We will give a year's snhseription t> ] the Monitor for the luggest watermelon j rai<ed iu Montgomery county this sum j mer. —We will give thepresentmentsnf the if iraud Jury iu our next. They are long hud were received too late to he gottei iu this week. —Court is over now, and the ladies j can have free access to the photograph ! gallery. Call on Mr. Hnts, ladies, and get gooil pictures (mu! pretty ones) ! cheap. —R 'V. John A. Cargyle, Second Adventist, will preachlitLothairto-mor row night, nud at Shiloh next Saturday and Sunday. r i < 1 , —Mr. I. H. Hall is onr authorized ngeut at Seward Ga., duly nuthnrzed to solicit subscriptions «ud to receive aud receipt for money in our name. —A. 3. Mclntyre of Number Ten. this county, is onr general agent, with nulimited authority to contract and re ceipt for money for subscription, ndver tizing and job work. —Rev. J. 21. Bush is clothed with gen eral antboriy ns travelling agent fm the Monitor, with authority to contract for subscription, advertising and jol work, aud to receipt for motley for the snuie. —Mr. A. G. Douglas from near Lum ber City, is the champion draft player of these parts. He is on the jury this court, and during bis leisnre hours has bpaton Dublin , Darien, Spring Hill and Mt. Vernon. Iu fact he beats them all alike. Judge A. C. Pate has been mentioned as a probable candidate for Represen tative of Pulaski eonnty in the Georgia legßilatnre. —J)uhlia Pont. Well. No better selection could be made. Judge Pate would reflect honor upon any county in the State. —Col. Wash Roach of Savannah paid us a piensent call Monday. We desire to express our hearty thunks to Col. Hoiicli for tire good will and enconrage tnent expressed by him for the Monitor, os <well as for the material aid given. Sec the cnixl of Roach & Livingston. —lt has l«eeu suggested to «* that a rending club would bean interesting fea ture of social entertaument iu this local itr. and we heartily endorse the idea. Nothing is so improving and at the same time enjoyable as a reading club. What is oeceosarv to do to organize it, except to set a time and plac n ? Let the friends r.f the movement meet at some gr.it ible place one night nett week and pat the i.-il! - m-t'-r —Mr«. Mason’s child is quite sick. —Court adjourned Tuesday evening. —Row would J. T Langford do for Sheriff? —Trade is dull in towu since court has ad j ounnu! aud the farmers gone home. —We Methodist hold our quarterly meeting at this place Saturday anil Sunday next. Con ferenee on Saturday. We hear the name of onr friend John N. Miller of Lotkair favorably mentioned as a man suitable for Tax Collator. —The Sunday School at Adamsville appointed their delegates to the oounty Sunday School Association, last Sunday. The Masonic funeral ceremonies at the grave of Mr. Alexander Johnson will be celebrated next Saturday. —Col. W. F. DeLacey is spoken of as a can didate for the senate in his district. His bril liant talents eminently qualify him for the po sition, aud we hope to see him eleelod. —Read the card of Col B. B. Cheney, in to day's paper. He is every way competent and qualified to do justice to the cases in which lie may be employed, having integrity, legal acu men, and natural ability, iu an eminent de gree. —The County Bnnday School Association of Montgomery county meets Saturday week at Spring Hill. Our Sunday School has not ap pointed delegates as vet,, but it is not too late. It should be attended to next Sabbath. —Some of our correspondents will be disap pointed at the non appearance of their articles this week. They are crowded out in common with sohie of onr own editorial matter, on a subject of great importance. But these things will keep. —We had the pleasure of listening to a beautifully eloquent sermon at the Presbyterian church in this place last Sunday night hv the Rev. Sam. T. Smith, of the Methodist church. —Mr. Sieley Williamson who lives near Long Pond in this cofitity. had his stable burn, crib and all Ids outhouses, de stroyed by fire on Tuesday, with all tlieir contents. The fire was accidental. —Messers. M. D. Hughes, Alexan der Morrison and Thomas J. Conrsey, were appointed by the Grand Jury at its recent session ns members of the Board of Education of Montgomery coru.ty. —Messers. Gabriel M. C. Clements of the 39-ith Dist. G. M. and John W. Clements of the 393rd Dist. G. M. of this county, were recommended by the Grand Jury for appointment as Notaries Public for their respective districts. —Tube Jackson, the Cartersville dy namiter, was captured litst Week in Waco, , Texas, but escaped from the officers by jumping tiit-etigh the car window, at Chattanooga, Election of Officers. \ j The following officers for the etlsulng j i quat ter were elected by Star of Hope j ' lodge. No. 34 I. O. G. T., at this place, at the regular meeting last, week, viz; D. C. Hutton, W. C. T.; B. F. Herring, W. V. T.r Colin Mcßae. R. S.; M. D. Hughes, F. S.; Alex. Peterson, Treus., j Daniel Peterson, Chaplain; William C. | Mcßae, M.; Fontnin Carswell I. G.; |G. J. Stanford, O. G. These offi i eers will be installed by Rev. A. H. Baze | more, D. G. W. C. T., to-morrow night. j Sashes are very largely imported, and j are found in some guise on most of the i cotton dresses. They are used in con trasts of color that seem exaggerated to plaiu tastes, such as blight scarlet satin ribbons on dark blue, sateens, or somber brown watered ribbon on plain pink mull dresses. (Jody's Lady's Book. Bounds made eutirley of ribbon loops ire pretty trifles, but rather more costly , than they seem at a first glance, for the j ribbon is remorselessly cut, and is sewn j to the foundation regardless of quantity. However, they may be made cool by using a thin lining, and they ore not neur as heavy its many varieties of straw. Gody’s Lady’s Book. Book Notice. Goiikt'r Lady's Book for May opens witli a pretty engraving entitled “Re turning Home.” A quaint picture that j causes a smile when we note the diseom . fort canned to the party by a day’s picnicking in the woods. The serial, “A Coronet of Thorns, by J. V. Prich ard, continues in interest. A bright story entitled “Hastings)’ Retreat,” by Euphremiu Kaye, shows various glimpses lof character well drawn tip. The reader is anxious to see how it will end, the conclusion being promised in the next 1 issue. Several good short siorics appear j iu the hook, among which is “Miss Den ning’s Episode,” by Robert C. Meyers, | “Sister Ann,” by luoChurchill, “Mary's j Wedding,” by C. Leach, a Memorial , day poem by Marion P. Wheeler, and snorter poems by George Birdseye and others. The colored fashion plate gives a faithful iliustratiou of the new shades to be adopted for spring costumes; the numerous fashion pages giving plenty of designs for making tip different fabrics into Esater wardrolies. A pretty colored work design for a tidy, after the popular Mikado, aud nntnerons other illustra tions, complete the Dumber, which can not fail to please the severest critic. Godti's improves as the year advances, r.nd all w ho are not at present snbscribes will d'l well to «ond and T t ' nn .T'' it to *Ti 1 r*»i t: U L . *•• -1* Good Work Judge C. C. Kibbee is one of the most efficient Judges now upon the Georgia bench. During term of the court just closed here, he has made a final dis position of the following number o? cases, viz: Civil actibns 64. Criminal cases, 16. Total, 80. Since Judge Kibboe’s appoiutmeut iu January 1885, b 6 has, in three terms of Montgomery Superior court, tried and determined 137 civil cases and 48 crim inal eases —a total of 185 cases. Capacity of Boxes. A box 30 inches square, 16% inches' deep, will contain one barrel, or 3 bushels. A box 15 inches square, 14% inches deep, will contain bßlf-a-lmrrel. A box 17x14 inches, 9 inches deep, will contain ono bushel. A box 10x12 inches, 9 inches deep, will contain lialf-a b’uslicl. A box 8 inches square, 8% inches deep, will contain one peck. A box inches square, 4 3-16 in files deep, wil contain one gallon (dry measure.) IT «. McLEMORE, MT. VERNON* GEORGIA, IIEA DQUARTERS FOR 2DIEfYT G-OOIDS, HOTIOITS, Genera Merchanditsie BOOTS, SHOES, CLOTHING and HATS; CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, INCLUDING THE BEST COFFEE IN I’HE STATE CBOCKBBT, WOODEN WA RE. GARDEN SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, STATIONARY PACKAGES, JEWELRY, ETC., ETC. PLEASE ASK FOR WHAT YOU \V A N T . I LIKE TO SHOW MY GOODS. ALL LEADING FAMILY MEDICINES IN STOCK, INCLUDING 1 Dr. Clark’s Blood and Liver Pills, Ra mon’s Relief and Ramon's Nerve and Bone Oil. I SELL CHEAPER THAN TIIE CHEAPEST. Give me a trial before purchasing else where. [3-18-’BG.-lm. THE LARGEBT BUCCY* MANUFACTORY IN' TIIE AVORLD. c TIIIE2 BEST lIIJGGY WORLT) • FORoTHE MONEY Bend for Catalogue and Testimonials of Hundreds of Liverymen wh* have used C cm. • COLUMBUS BUGGY CO., Coi.rxD.es, Oi::o. j. f BRATTLEBOR®, VT J * A Larges; Manufacturer 5 of Fee- Or.janc in ihe World l , EjTEY organs are warranted, \ AJTD TEX KAXiVXACTDEZE? AH. KJtePQWP.rmx if* tt sure in Send lor Hlaslrald Cntotoß before Purely > L&BSMH inn PIANOS. LUU ORGANS, To bo Closed out Regardless of Cost. Our Annual Closing Out Sale, Prepara tory to Inventory. Listen to the Story. Stock Taking is the time forP.argains. Then, we clear out generally, and start nuow. 200 Pianos and Organs too many on hand. Most part with them. Sohte used a few months only; Some a year or so; Some five years; Some ten years. All in prime order ami some of them Repolished, Renovated, Rest rung aud made nice us new. Each aud all ure real bargains, such as pomes along but once a year, SPOT CASH buys cheapest, hut we give Very Easy Terms, if needed WRITE for CLOSING OUT SALE CIRCULARS, and MENTION THIS ADVERTISEMENT. B-A.IR, C - -A_ 11ST S IN Musical Instruments. MARK DOWN SALE TO REDUCE STOCK. The knife put in deep. Times hard. Stock too large. A $29,000 Stock to he Retailed at WHOLESALE PRICES. An Actual Fact. See these prices: ACCOHDKONW, Six Keys, . r ioi';B Keys, 65c; 10 Keys, 90c* 1 stop, #1,25; 1 stop, Trumpets and Clasp' l , $2,25. BANJO* —Ciilf-Hnad, I Screws, $1,75; eight Screws, $3,75; Nickel Kim, 12 Screws $3; Same, 21 Screw s, $5. VIOLINS, With Complete Outfits. Ilow, Case, Strings, Ilnsin, Instructor, $3,50 #5,00, $7,50, SIO,OO EITPIIONIA**,—W’itIi I Tunes, only $0,50. The latest Automatic Musical Instrument. ORCJA NF.TTK anil ORO.YNINI MUSH'. 35 feet for li dollar, post paid. Onr selection. fiiiit-irs, Cellos, Double Basses, Music Boxes, Organ-ties, Organinns, Titni'oorioes, Drums, Cornets, Trimmings, etc. ai i. Kkiiui i n Down, DOWN. Term's CAKH WITH OItDKK. No Credit. Moni.v refunded if the goods do not suit. A handsome illistrnted Catalogue (05 pages) free to al). MUSIC (HVF.N AWAY! Send ten cents in postage stamps, anil we will send you free of charge, FIVJS BIF.CKS of VOCAL and INSTUUMENTAL MUSIC!, full sheet size. Aliio, Catalogue of our 10-cent Mlundard Music, Better bnngniim from us that) any Nor thern Music House can give. Order Trade a Specialty. Customers in all the Southern States. Letters promptly an swered. Address Ludden & Bates, Southern Music House Sav’h Ga.* Or, A. L; RYALS, Ag’t. McYille Ga. I)r. A G I JOB IIS, 14 WiiiTEHAi.h St, Atlanta Ga. Eve. Ear, Throat, and Nasal Diseases, Write. opr 15 80-1 y. JAS. McNATT & CO. DILVI.KItS I.\ G-ENEBAL MERCHANDISE AM) LEADER IN LOW TRICES, MOUNT VERNON GA. Keep constantly on hand, a full lino of DRYGOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, CLOTHING, IIATS .V CAPS. BOOTS A- SHOES, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, GUANO. ; DRUGS, .V MEDICINES, GENTS’FURNISHING GOODS. Anil any anil every Other thing you (nay wish to buy. We sell Flour, (Extra Family) nt. !?(; 00 *p barrel. Bacon (bulk,) sides, at $7 00 T* hundred. “ •* hlionldorsnt $5 75 hundred. Prints 5 (/ft 7 cents 1* yard, P|utds 7( ceuly '*s yard. ('offeeN (n 10 lb to the clollnr. Corn 00 cents "j>i bushel, and everything else in proportion. ! HP),.Fresh Garden seeds kept always on hand. New Goods arriving) every week. We would say to the purchasing public that it will pny them to call nnd exntnihS | our stock before purchasing elsewhere. inch 18 86 om. i I McKAE A PRITCHETT, DEALEBS ITST GENERAL MERCHANDISE &. FARM SUPPLIES LOTT, GEORGIA, (AT THE 111 TUIUT'.NTINE WHTII.LEIIY, FIVE MTT.EB FltOM MT. VEONON, SOUTH.) PAY TOE HIGHEST PRICE FOB PRODUCE, AND ASK THE!LOWEST FOR GOODS, Os any Mercantile Firm in Montgomery County. We keep on hand j THE LATEST STOCK OF HATS IN THE COUNTY, ANI) SKI.L TIII-'.M FOR THE LEAST MONEY. Farming Implements, Hardware, Wood ware, Tinware, Fancy nnd Heavy Groce ries, everything in the way of Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Ready Made Clothing, | Ladies’ lints nnd Dress Goods, anil everything in the lino of Dry Goods, Notions | and General Merchandise. Our stock of CLOT'ECIISra-, I Is the largest nnd best in the country, and will be sold celiaper than tho cheapest. ! A. TV 1 > AS r r<> IIvYTS ATV I) DltV <;< M >1 >S y j We defy competition, cmne from what quarter it may. We will sell you Prints 5 (,V. 7 eta.; Plaids 7J 0> 10; Flour «(» 7;; Corn 85e; Coffee 8(m If) U.s ;to the dollar, ainl other things in proportion. Give us a trial. Von will find our ! wsalestnan Mr. .1. A. Duster, polite and ready to wait upon yoh. No trnnbbi I" sho you our goods, but li pleiisuro. All tiro iu'£ted, a|-rls 8:i Bin. JOHNSON s ANODTNE J-fUHIMEIff mr*f7TT7lFB —l)iphthorl.*i. Croup, Authin*, Bronohitin, Nouralfcla. RliotunaMPrt, TYlrtrtdlnr nt, theiluintpi, Hoarsenon*, Infltionra, Kooking Cough,Whooping Cough, Catarrh. Cholera Morbun, Dysentery* Chroniu Dlari hu a, K idnoy Tronhlew, and Bp Inal I aa«aa. Pamphlet frae. Dr. /. ft. Johnson & 00., Bortton, Mann. PARSONS’SPILLS TLono pllla want a wonderful diocovory. No Gt-hofa lfko thorn In tho world. Will positively euro or relieve all manrior of diucauo. Tho inronnatlon around uaoh box In worth ton times tho coat of a Lor of rliln. Find out about thorn and you will always bo thonkftil. Olio pill a doao. niuotratod psrnphb t rrf.it. BOM ovt’t yv/bero, or awT.t by mall for flow. In rt.«unpw. J)r. I. B. JQH NTBON Rt. OQ.,iiU O.H. Hi., I.owton. Condiuonm m mm mg qmw am* >j yama m « sm*. ana «« ‘ u f*^‘ i'owdur i a absolutely affl K'y jirt Wwt Wa 7i r* rt*T Va vO* V; Bn! uiako bans lay ptiro and hijfbly con-BR fiM iM [yf/ M E? ? mLj a “ R 3 ASQ Mflr Hko It. It Cure a contrat-4. OnoounooJCtt Jy Bin LVfl KL-, onlfj i/n M ZiJ It. worth a pound of nVfffi so ld KSfl RF B 0 ESSJ H M W all djamtses of hena. ftnvoM.orkfr.fi. It. .hWMJJ DM K®. K DD KI [u SyJ 3 A ti Btt DJ" worth Its WLhdit idrlofly a modlolno toH W fcl gvl *f%7N r 3 « fcra W J \vjJ ihjitft Sm E ? i i n Jf,°V' 1 Uustrata^l bo nlv.il v/lth food. JE2 SC Cl 801 Hoi W a W bo Jk by mail lYoe. Hold ov<-ry Whore, or nent h.y mail tor 'ls couU in atnmpa. 2 1-4 lb. slr-tiabt Hj' “ r ‘Vl by mail. bi.JU. bu tkiid hy axpreas, proyaid, nil tow iii a—w nn awi m/ xarwrrt mrrir i ATKJNS’ GUAP.ANTEEB 3UPIRKB X rl \r rCT band, WFINEST CIRCULAR DUPABLE SILVER STEEL U U U CROSS CUT I mffi' 1 Write to im for I‘hioks 1 "j™ ’ I and C*Tii«ae*«. saws, rnmmwmm*** E. C. ATKINS & CO., Indianapolis, Ind. Mwawntw im. '.at« am—WMMw*.-wngMinraoMN mrtmmr r fiNM avraa | GODEFS LADY’S MONTGOMKItY MONITOR. Both for one Y«*ar, • 1 f.- fVti O' S I.M>> » "tin >i)/| v. ]..-!)lit-:.will. "iitHin i o.i i; fully I li “fV. J j tioim «f |>r<'V*iiins h-liio'i'. **»<•».!**»' himM'l*''• anti whit.-. <i* Hip'/iH ill liiti-Mt non ■ *»** IM f.u» <»y work !M c'Msr i' - .*!:• I; n.n<l’% °» *'* l * lin work, i-roi'iiot, m -flriafl «oik, » n M , ' / - ; (lory, knituii; . k.i-fin k"i lii.ifrafri, In • ; netting, I' .iiu’ ,iuii 'inis M«1 ,!l U_’ l! s , r unr.h l' ;i;hlr'if ,io:i ‘i i i <■ armi . 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