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HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
R. T. HARPER 4 CO.,
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JAH. E. BROWS, Editor.
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' RAMPTOtf.GA.. MARCH 7. 187*
Editorial BwtltlM.
Mvsboi OOfHTT to M>t of debt.
f aZi. the poet, to 83. and to 111 health.
T*« toft cold timp did but little damage.
S*H#w lo Liberty coanty a few davs ago.
Firwrm Rtah, the bard of the Bo®th, to
Bl at hto borne in Mobile.
Ccvbtv lots withdrew* from the conteet
for Batter's seat. Sensible.
Twa Georgia Pta'e Traebera’ AeaociatloD
a 111 meet this year la Rome.
Pittsboroh. Pa , produce* more than balf
Ate gins* made in the United State*.
Sawckl J. Tn.DM» ha* many friend* in
Aogosta. How many has h# to Henry ?
Jaw**, the Atlanta banker, my* money is
bringing a higher price now than lix month*
ago.
Ta« United Stato* ha* 78 members, and
171 employees, at a coat of 9227,770 an
nually.
Taa people af Atlanta are boasting that
anather coffin factory will seen be atarted in
that city.
Last year there were in the pablic schools
*» tbis State 207 000 children, af whom
73.000 were colored.
Rev. Mb Hott hae been called to the
pastoral charge of three churches— Leesburg,
Newton and Albany.
i. Rrcdss Brows hae been elected Pres
ident of the Columbus Manufacturing Com
pany, vice R. H. Chilton deceased.
OWgrrs« adjoorned on Tnesday, and the
President has i*sned bis proclamation calling
for an extra session on the 18th inst.
Thh Democrats of Reading, Pa., bare
elected a colored man constable. He de
feated two Radicals and an Independent.
Ar in staled that the Dahlonega and Geor
gia Western Railroad to an emaiod foot
Operattons have already began, sbd will go
•n rapidly.
Th* situation in California to critical just
now. on accoont of the inflation o( its popu
lation by coolie immigration. Secession
from the Union to talked of.
Thu Judgea of the United States Supreme
Coart are so disgruntled at the action of
Congress in admitting women to practice
before them that they talk of taming their
consulting room into a nursery, where the
practitioners can leave their babie*. The
dodges are very considerate, truly.
CoWKLIKO AND BURNSIDK*—two first-clftSS
Republicans—had a delightful tussle in a
secret session of the Benate recently. Quoth
Burnsides : “I say to the Senate and to the
Senator from New York, with whom I have
served on committees for several years, that
I speak from personal knowledge when I say
that I know of no one who can, with so
much readiness and aptness, equivocate and
falsify matters to suit bis views ea the Sen
ator from New York ”
Cikciknatt to to have a game of chess
with living pieces. Gentlemen and ladies
appropriately and richly dreased will person
ate the kings, queens, bishop*, knights, rooks,
ate. The pawns will be represented by
yoaug ladies tastefully dreased. All the
paraphernalia incident to a tournament in
Ibe Middle Ages, such as lances, spears,
sbields, banners, trumpeters, marshals and
attendants, will be faithfully imitated. Two
•f the most skillful players will tight the
mimic battle.
That Mistake. —Tb* mistake that Mra.
Felton made ia in assoming it to be her duty
to defend ber husband or heiself from attacks,
re»l or imaginary, in a newspaper. To em
phasise what we mean, we hep the reader to
imagine (if he can) tba possibility ot Mra
Gordon replying to an attack upon General
Gordon Aod yet Mrs. Gordon followed
her bnsband from the comforts of home to
the hardships of the camp—from the bard
abips of the camp to the nutold horrors of
tba battle-field—and upon one occasion at
least received him in bcr arms, shattered
with shot, bleeding and almost dying.—
Comiitutton.
The reader can imagine no snch thing as
Mra Gordon entering into a defense of b*r
hasbaod She knows the General can take
care of himself. Besides, ber natoral good
•rase —a faculty of which many women are
destitute—teaches her that when wires enter
iot« newspaper quarrels they become tainted
with a somethii g akin to notoriety. It
sometimes leads to worse than that.
Ms. Stephens. —We notice that Mr
Stephens is ‘ justly” indignant at comments
of some Georgia papers on “bis* political
future as to State and uatiooal politics.”
Precisely; and so, no doubt, Fettoo and
others are; But fast does Dot alter the
ease. Hr. S epbeus’ indignation will not
•bet out the truth that be did more than any
mao id Georgia to strengthen the Independ
ent movement, aod the readiness—to call it
by do harsher name — with which the people
sf bis District be«ed to bis threats, accom- j
A Mowing People,
Every day demonstrates the fact that ours
to a moving people. Formerly it was char
acteristic Of the n.en only ; but in these days
women are moving too. It is tbe age nr
time of grand pedestrian undertakings. Not
only do tbe moat noted walkrnt* of the world
make »tartling developments in the way of
locomotion, but men of emu Her calibre try
.lo excel each other in getting over ground,
and female* have now entered the aiena, and
#re really doing some wonderful walking.
Well, this proves that soma things can be
done as well as others, and at present to the
ruling passion with a great many persons.
At the North and in the West large nnm
bers of ambitions person*, male and female,
are daily taxing tbeir powers, both mental
end physical, in walking round a track,
cheered on by excited spectators. The task
laid down to sometimes beyond the ability of
the walker, nevertheless he or sb# strives on
with aching joints, even when hopeless fail
ure stares them in the face. Sometimes,
however, they soceeed, as, for instance :
“At l o’clock thia morning Madame
Exilda La Chappie successfully completed
her task of walking, and in addition to two
thousand quarter milts in as many quarter
hours, walked three hundred quarter miles
in three hondred censecative periods of ten
minute* each.’’
That certainly was a wonderful feat, and
one not often witnessed. Mtos Jennie St.
Ciair, of Bo*ton, however, did not fare so
well. She soon caved in—had a fainting fit
—became hysterical, and bad to abandon the
track. Indeed, she should never have gone
on it.
Now, what does all this amount to? We
admire out-door and in-door exerrtos very
much, but we are uncompromisingly opposed
(o Women pursuing such a career as will
make them target* for the gibes and jesta
and sneers of the motley multitude. There
are innumerable means of recreation open to
the pure woman within the radits of the
home circle without resorting to these ques
tionable sources, and when she goes before
the public for gain, it to a suggestive idea
whether her conduct is not open to cen
sure.
Trftly the world moves. It moves faster
and faster every day. Presently it will start
into a run, and then there will be a scramble
worse tbao ever for the post of honor.
We ass content with an bumble place in
tbe rear rank for the present —we are.
Gok*.—And now, ofte* many weary,
wretched years—years of misrule, dishonesty
and all manner of corruption—the United
States Senate is “redeemed, regenerated and
disenthralled”-‘-Democraticot)cemore. Some
will step down and out who could have bet
ter adorned a blacksmith shop than the
Senate, while some other* Will step up and
in who will shed lustre on lfi9 American
nsme. “Now to the winter of our discontent
made glorious summer, ’’ etc.
SaNBiBL*. —The editor of the Sumter
Republican, learning that some parties in
Americus contemplate starting a paper in
that city, says they had better count tbe coat
before undertaking tbe job. Solid wisdom,
that. Experience proves that he who aspires
to the publication of a newspaper it reach
ing after something that is ealealated to ex
haust bis exchequer and bis patience qaicker
than anything else.
Had. — We saw not long since ten or
twelve boys, from ten to twenty years of
age, all dronk. Another argument in favor
of ths prohibition q eetion .—Rerrun Co.
Newt.
An argument, also, in favor of the Mosaic
law, via : a sound application of the birch.
Lent.
To-day is the first Sunday in the season
of Lent, a season which is generally observed
throngbout the Christian world by the
Episcopal and Catholic Churches. The
origin ot the religious custom is claimed to
dote back to the first ages of Christianity.
Bishop Wheatly says Irenseus, who lived but
ninety years after the death of Saint John,
and who conversed familiarly with Saint
Polycarp as Polycarp had with Saint John,
has transmitted incidentally to the Church
that th s season was observed in his time and
in that of his predecessors. It is claimed
that (he Christian Lent look its rise from
the Jewish solemn humiliation before the
expiation. The name. Lent, is taken from
tbe old Saxon word which signifies spring,
os the season comes in that portion of the
year. The forty days seem to have been
fixed principally in accord with the days of
fasting of tbe Lord in the New Testament.
Tbe first day of this season is called Ash
Wednesday, and upon it the early Christians
clothed themselves in sackcloth and sprinkled
ashes upon their heads a* proof of their hu
mility. 1 he season this year embraces forty
six days, as Sundays are regarded as fest ivals,
and are, consequently, not observed. Friday
before Easter specially commemorates tbe
crucifixiou of tbe Lord, and is called Good
Fiiday. Easter day follows on Eunday, tbe
13tb of April, tbe third day after, and it
commemorates the resurrection.
The Catholic Chnrch prescribes a diet for
the period of Lent, and all good Catholics
observe with groat strictness the regulations
of tbe chorch. The Episcopalians, however,
are not so strict in corporeui regulations, but
set tbe season aside as one to be derated to
the contemplation of holy things with such
abstemiousness and self-denial as will prove
that tbe pleasure of life are in a large meas
ure laid aside. Tbe church admonishes all
to ab tain from all public amusements, en
tertainments and sncti things as tend to di
vert the mind from holy things.
Tbe gave ties of the cities of the Christian
— |j— mt J f‘fl nrp laid aside da-
Mra. Feltaato Attack on Senator
Gordon.
It would seem that not only is tbe wsr
upon tbe Democracy by the disorganize™ in
the upper portion of the Stats to be carried
on-with increased bitterness, hnf that, so far
as they can effect it, our politics is to be
degraded to a leval never before reached In
the history of parties in Georgia. While
the Democrocv, trusting in the intelli ence,
patriotism end past bitter experence of our
people, may have little to fear from the
factious combinations of unprincipled dema
gogues and seff-seekers. every good citizen
renst deplore the resort to a method of
politieal controversy an grossly offensive to
good taste and so demoralizing to onr nodal
life as that adopted by the so-called Inde
pendents—a method which not only enhsti
tntes personal abuse far argument, and
makes private character tlie silhjeet of ruth
less assanlt, but even draes woman from the
quiet of the domestic circle into the rode
arena of political strife.
This tendency of Cherokee Independent
torn is mo»t strikingly demonstrated bv the
recent scurrilous attack upon Senator Gor
don bv Mrs. W. H Felton, wife of the In
dependent Representative of the Seventh
Congressional District, in a letter to the
Augusta Chronicle and Conrtitutionnlitt. Mr.
A W. Reese, of the Macon Telegraph, hav
ing alluded to the fact that dnring the Con
gressional canvass in the Seventh District, a
letter was written to Senator Ferry (Repub
lican) soliciting material aid from the Radi
cal Congressional Campaign Committee for
Dr. Felton in his canvass against the Dem
ocratic nominee, Mrs. Felton assumes not
only that she is alluded to as the writer of
the letter, but. to use her own words, that
“Senator Gordon is the author of the assault”
upon herself, and at once proceeds to heap
upon him n tirade of abnse, coupled with
the mast defamatory and slanderous charges
against his private character, such as no
man would venture to utter, and as no one,
not ven his bitterest enemies, will for a
moment credit. Mrs Felton admits that
she wrote a “friendly letter lo Senator Ferry,
asking him to use his influence” in her hus
band's behalf, but denies that she made any
appeal for Radical money to be n«ed in
securing her husband’s election. Hbe offers
no proof to show that General Gordon had
any agency in the exposure of her rsgotia
tions with Mr. Fsrry, of the Radical Con
gressional Campaign Committee, or that he
had misrepresented the purport of her
“friendly letter” to that gentleman, but
holding him responsible for Mr. Reese’s dis
closures. most rudely assaile him. not omit
ting, however, to bestow a share of her
resentment upon Mr. Reese, the Macon
Telegraph and tbe “organized Democracy of
Georgia.”
Until the appearance a few months since
of the famous Mrs. Jenks' letter to Hon.
B. H. Hill, the annals of Georgia politics
has furnished no such demonstration of
"wifely" partizansbip, and. for reasons that
will readily snggpst themselves to lire reader,
it is to be hoped that these rash examples
may find no future imitators in the South.
Had the slanders contained in Mrs
Felton’s letter been uttered by a responsible
party they would have needed no refutation
from Senator Gordon, though they might
have incurred his resentment. As it is, they
will fall harmless against a character too
exalied to he reached by the shafts of
perlizan malice, while upon the crafty op
ponent who inspired them will rest the odium
of meanly shirking tbe responsibility wf their
Utterance.
In tbe course of her letter Mrs, Felton
says : “Chivalry seems to be at a diseoant
wilh tbe so-called ‘organized’ in Georgia.’’
This charge has been made before by the
so-called Independent organs. Thera stems
to be very strange views entertained in
regard to chivalry by some people. True
chivalry respects the proprieties of life. It
to as unchivalric for a l»dv to sfep out of
her proper »phere and assail one whe cannot
resent the injury, as it to for a man to be
rode to a lady The chivalry of • husband
would shrink from placing bis ia the
position of inviting resentment which chiv
alry forbade. But we think sotta of our
worthy cotemporaries must be heliusoenabte
to the lady’s charge in this case. It tna
unchivalric in them to give her W-jodged
letter the immortality of print. If bee hue
band cannot or will not restrain her ambi
tion to enter the political arena, tbe pram
should.— Savannah Newt.
The Arlington Eitate.
The Arlington estate, by the latest turn
of the legal wheel, has been taken out at
possession of the Government and dsdated
the rightful property ot the sen sf nary
Randolph Lee, who received it Ibom George
Washington Custis. to whom It had been
willed by Washington. Tbi* important
decision has been rendered by the United
States District Court ol Virginia, sitting at
Alexandria. Thera will be further appeals,
but the chanees now seem to b* in kvor of
tbe Lee family regaining potbessioa of the
estate, or having their relinquishment of It
made well worth their while. Waatmtgtuu
bv his will bequeathed Arlington to Geaetfe
Washington Parke Custis and his heirs for
ever. Custis was the adopted son of Geo
eral Washington. tie died in aod by
his will left tbe property to his daughter and
only child. Mary Randolph Lee. who became
the wile of Rooert K Lee. After her death
he provided that all the property should go
to her eldest son, George Washington Custis
Lee, and to his heirs forever. Shortly before
her death Mrs. Lee and her son emleavored
to make a compromise with the Government,
and offered to surrender her title and that of
ber heirs for the sum of $300,000. Her
petition gave rise to an angry debate in tbe
Senate, and nothing was done. Mrs. Lee
diud in 1673, and her son, who brought suit
for ejectment, again offered to compromise
He presented a memorial to Congress, which
sets forth the principal points iu tbe case.
The memorial states how, in September,
1863, three Tax Commissioners (or the
insurrectionary district of Virginia fixed the
earn of $92 07 as tbe amount ol tax due ami
payable to tbe United Status upon the
Arlington estate, which was valued opor.
the land books of Virginia for the year 1860
at $34,100. For the non-payment of the
tax the estate became forfeited to tbe United
States, aod Commissioner! advertised it for
sale. The sate took place on the llth of
January, 1864. when, no persoo bidding an
equal to the taxes tbss accrued, aod the
exists having best) selected, under tbe direc
tion of tbe Government and id pursuance of
6 1864. for Government ii«e, for war. mili—
♦arv. charitable and educational purposes.
*he Commissionors bid it in for the sum of
$26,800. The Arlington estate to-day is
much more beautifal than it was when in
the possession of t|p Lee family, A large
amount of n*.ney has been expended on it
»y the Governm nt. and numerous drives
and rarri 'ge-wavs have been ent through
the gronnds. The view of Weshington,
with the Cepitol and its nt.tny other inter
esting points, from the portico of the man
sion i» superb. The 200 acres around the
mansion a f e set apart for burial purposes
and inclosed by a substantial stone wall.
The reminder of the property is occupied
hy what is called the Freedmen's villages.
About 100 colored families reside there, and
pay rent bv performing esch year a pertain
smonn' of work, under the direclion of the
command,mt of the post. Seventeen acres
have been civen by Act of Congress ta
Maria C. Hyphax and her heirs forever. She
was a former slave of Parke f'nstis, and tbe
story is told th >t there are rome stray drops
of b’nod in the family of the Syphoxes. Tbe
Fort Whipple Reservation, as it is called
a portion of the Arlington estates anti in
cluded in the suit—was set apart in 1872.
It is used for the instruction of the Signal
Bervice Corps. It tbe Superior Court
should confirm the conclusion now reached
in this case, the Government may find it yet
advisable to listen to propositions of com
promise with Ihe Lee family, although it his
twice refused to do so. It would be, on
many accounts, very awkward to relinquish
a property which has been put to such
special uses Custis Lee, who now has bis
hands greatly strengthened, may, however,
be less inclined to compromise me,isurej than
he was ia 1873. —Philadelphia Telegraph.
Whbn Beast Butler was n candidate for
his present seat in the House, he told the
Republicans of his district that there was
great need for some one in Congress to fight
the “Confederate Brigadiers,” to prevent the
payment of "rebel war claims," the liquida
tion of the “rebel debt,” the remuneration
of the South for the freed slaves, aod the
pensioning of “rebel soldiers,” and to kill
many other equally objectionab’e or illegal
measures. .Such an appeal touched the
Republican heart, and Butler was elected.
“Now,” says the Bridgeport Farmer. ‘he
not only av>ws his readiness \o support
‘rebel war claims’ of certain classes, but
actually advocates the pensioning of wounded
‘rebels,’ neither of which measures is asked
for by the Houth.
Ot*r Htockbriilge Letter.
Mr. Kddo) : —Toe farmers of this vicinity
are hard at work—up early and late—
driving away with nil their might, to get
their land rendy in time to plant corn.
Wheat to making a poor show; but will
soon brighten up. under the genial warmth
of the Spring sane bine. Owing to the severe
winter, thin, if we can get
half a staWw Fall oats, though, they are
better than a full crop of Spring sowing
Prof. D. M. Franklin has a fine school,
and to fully alive to his duties. He gives
perfect satisfaction.
J. T. Bond will fertilize his cetton this
year with Cotton seed alone. He ha* already
commenced distributing it. My neighbor
W. W. Ray. never used a pouud of guano
in hto life, and he lives as well or better than
many who do use it. There is no farmer
who cannot make his own fertilizers if he
will only begin in time. Go to the woods,
rwke up the leaves and top loam, haul into
the field, dtotribate broadcast or in drills,
and by so doiog yoa add to yaur land some
thing that will be a sabgtantial benefit to it.
Our lands have been in cultivation so long
they need revitalizing. Spread on your
litter, torn shallow, and subsoil as deep as
you can By so doing, in four or five years,
instead of gathering twelve or fifteen bushels
per acre, you will, with ordinary seasons,
gather from thirty to forty bushels per acre
of corn, aod the attme of wheat. The farm
ers of this oountry wilt have to let guano
alone and depend npoe their own eat oral
resources for fertilizers if they would make
farming pay. G. B Branan.of this neigh
borhood, tried leaves and top losm by the
side of guano last year, and his cotton was
much better where the loaves and loom were
used. The test was a fair one. It would
do you good to see what an immense quan
tity be has ready for the present year, and
at a cost of not more than ten dollars, time
and labor iocloded.
Three negro houses were burnt north of
tbis place last week. One tost Saturday,
on Mr. F,. Morris’ place, in which two chil
dren last tbeir lives—the other two earlier
in the week.
Rev. G. »Y. Morris will preach at tbe
Stockbridge Academy on the first Sunday
in April. Aoricola.
March 3d. 1879.
Lowe's District.
Mr. Editor :—Thinking you would, per
haps, like a few dots from “these parts," I
undertake the task of furnishing you with
such as I find, which, owing to a dearth of
news, are few as well as dry.
Farmers generally, owing mainly to tbe
long, almost unprecedented cold winter, are
somewhat behind haod, as compared with
last year, in their preparations for tbe on
coming crops.
Wheat is little, and if appearances indi
cate a small yield, yonr editorship and Jack
Stilwell will not feel like “bustiu” at the
next Valentine Drawing, if floor from
Middle Georgia raised wheat is to be made
into to cake that’s to do tbe “bustin.”
Fall oats are generally killed, so says
Square Browo, tbe African black * mith.
Those sowed sioce Christmas look well, and
promise, somewhere in mid.summer, to shot
MihdliMitdfailifiiiihLitfPnU to
|ii<Tce the cracks of Georgia farmers' (?)
corn-crib*.
That ‘ little swell” about the goaoo con
vention turns oat just lik*. “I told you so ! !*'
or, at least, guano is turning oot on wagon*
into the fields, and that, too, without a very
great change in the prices.
T»lk about farmers co-operating to resist
commercial rings and cliques! Why, it’s
the sheerest nonsense. This District once
bad a Lodge of true, genuine, living Gran
gers. Bat, alas ! the pour little thing didn’t
live long enough to know its parentage t
What do you say to it, brother farmers f
“Say to what Why, to planting enough
corn this year to make enough of that im
portant, indispensable article to last us the
whole year round ; build good .fences; raise
our own meat, wheat, and everything else
necessary to strengthen the inner man. and
thus grow happy, prosperous and indepen
dent. Ab ! how sweetly the latter words
sound. The old song that “cotton is king”
has proven true in a way we didn’t expect
it. If king means a tyrunt, I'm certain
cotton is king; for never was there a ty
rant, or such tyranny, as there is in this
country where al) is cotton ami no corn.
Our excellent and efficient teacher at
“Grassy Level Seminary” is, after several
weeks’ illness with a very severe spell of
pneumonia, able to be up again, though she
will not report for duty, by advice of her
attending physician, until next fall term,
when we hope she will return to ns in full
health, and fresh as a Lily. During the
interim Miss Cora Brown will fill the duties
•f pedagogoeist, which position (many
thanks lor the favor.) she has already been
filling, during Miss Moor's illness, with rare
skill and peifect satisfaction to a!! concerned.
We predict a brilliant future for the young
teacher should she choose to engage in the
laudable and praiseworthy profession of
“teaching the young idea bo* to shoot.”
Miss Mary Atkins ha 9 a flourishing little
school, of 18 or 20 scholars, in the upper
parfof the District, in the neighborhood of
Mr. T. J. Westmoreland. We kuow
Vlary to be a competent, conscientious,
fai'bful, painstaking teacher ; and are pleased
to know she is giving general satisfaction.
Dr R Adams ia on a highway (near the
“big-road,” auyhow,) of replacing his mill
and gin-house that, with seven or eight other
giu-houses, was burned in this county last
fall and winter. We understand that the
Doctor Btill has the larger part of bis last
year’s cotton crop on hand yet to be ginned.
What patience and determination! Cn*
advantage, however, tne Doctor will have"
, over us: he will be getting his money when
oars is all gone! gene!! gone!!! “Rainy
days sometimes bring good luck.”
“They say” that Mr. Jason Weems is the
happiest,proudest papa id all-fhesedigging.”
Never mind, quondam friend, just wait a
while, ontil you get like -os—“like the old
woman That lived in the sbo*;” e tc. ; etc.
then yoa will know wheat from rye.
While we’ve the pen in band it may. per
haps. be well enough to sound a note ft\ m
this Rip Van Winkle District in political
matUrs. One of our State journals, in
speakiug of Gov. Colquitt’s maneuverings to
be bis own successor, says : “Give us a man
in xt time who can say no to o friend as well
as a foe.” So say “we uns ” That man is
ex-Judge John I. Tlall, of Griffin, Ga ,—a
man who is thoroughly qualified, in every
essential part malar, to grace the position
with that dignity, ability and firmsets a*e*g
Barj in a Governor of the great State of
Georgia. Judge Hall ia* maa of the old
Roman type, who, knowing his duty, to not
afraid to do it. 3och a governor Georgia
needs, and snch on one eke wants and must
have before she can stand out bareheaded in
the pure sunlight of heaven. Let honor and
merit have the prize, regardless of a puny,
silly, sentimental favoritism
Notwithstanding political tricksters and
demagogues have been predicting the down
fall of this great country, we were not pre
pared to ae« it come to pass so soon and
suddenly to we did yesterday in the falling
to pieces of “Loyd’s famous map" of these
United St*tee, one of which we have in our
possession. There was Dot enough patriot
ism iD the pasteing to bold it together.
Hurrah far the Southern Confederacy 11 It
is free and independent, nofc, of those terri
ble Northern States—at least, as it was on
this aforesaid “‘amous map” Peaceable
secession is no longer a doubtful political
problem. It was done without a drop of
blood, or any other disturbance whatever.
The great event of the day is the near ap
prowch of well, we will tell you in our
next, perhaps. X T. Z.
Lowe's District, Ftb. 2 9th, 1879.
New Advertisements.
GEORGIA — Hemri: Cocntt:
Ordinary's Office, March 4,1879
John J. Lauey. admin istratoi of John S.
Hunt, deceased, of said county, has peti
tioned in writing for leave to sell lot of laDd
No 149, in the eighth district of said county,
and ail of the teal estate of said deceased,
li objections exist, let them be died in this
office oa or before the first Monday in April
next, or the leave will be granted.
mcb7s4 A A LEMON, Ord’y.
in jour own town, $5 out
free. No risk. Header, if jou
waut a business at which persons of either
sex can make great pay all the time they
work, write tor particulars to H. Hxulstt &
Co , Portland, Maine,
NEW FIRM!
Copartnership Notice.
IFI AVK this dav sold » half interest in m f
business to G F. Turner, and the
and stvle ol the firm will he known in fnture
as Harper 4 Turner. R. T. HARPER.
January 9th, 1879.
We respectfully solicit a share of the pub
lie patronage, bt-licving we can show as fine
arid well assorted stock of goods as will be
found anywhere. Our stock of
DRY GOODS
Is complete fn every particular, and includes
a fine assortment of Ladies’ Dress Goods,
Linens, Bfeaehings, Domestics, and Fancy
Notions of all kinds.
Clotliin* S
A new and elegant lot of Clothing, *f every
style and quality. Gents’ Underwear a spe
cialty.
HATS ANA CAPS
I o suit the taste. 0 | tlitaavtw, m iat prises
BOOTS AND Sy.oESI
Our slock of Roots and Shots, hav„_
bought at a bargain ia the Northen. — „ r .
kets, we can afford to sell sheep, and are re _
pared to offer extra inducements to the trav,.
Pnrniture!
We have also a large lot ol Furniture Bed 1
steads, Bureaux. Washstauds,
Tables, Chairs,,’ etc—which we will sell at
extremely low figures. Bed-room- setts »
specialty.
GROCERIES.
Special attention is called to our stock ot
Groceries, winch is quite lurge, and com
prises every artiele kept io that line.
Our stosk is being constantly replenished
with Uoods that are carefully selected by ex
perienced buyers, and are bought lor cash
from first bunds, thereby enabling us to sed to
advantage—both to ourselves and customers.
With all these facilities we are prepared to ex
hibit at all times a complete general stock,
and parties wishing to buy can always fiod
some specialties at v, ry low prices at our
store. Give us a cad
Harper A Turner.