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HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
R. T. HARPER & CO.,
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J AB. E. BROWN, Editor.
HAMPTON. G A., MARCH 14. *1879
Editorial BrrYitlr*.
Senator Batard Ho* nine children.
rHiI.ADKi.PHiA ha? 300 miles of railroad
Albany wants a sttamboat to run on the
Flin*.
Poos are selling ?r. Dalton at 7% cents
per dozen.
The Methodist Church at Quitman was
damaged by fire recently.
It is said that Mr. Tilden’s health is very
«eriooßly affected at present.
Gen. D. 11. Him. has made the University
•f Arkansas a great success.
Wilkinson county takes no stock in agri
cultural cluhs and associations.
The wild land discussion still goes on.
We may have a word to say next week.
Mr Fooenk Stokes, of Terrell county,
was recently killed by a kick from a muie.
The great Vanderbilt will case has been
finally settled hy compromise. ‘There’s
millions in it.”
The C<urt-house ®f Worth county will
be moved from its prevent site to another
locality before long.
Many members of Congress are predict
ing the de.'eat of Randall for the Speaker
ship of the rext Mouse.
Report in Washington—Stephana and
Felton against th" Democratic party in
future elections—quite likely.
A Lament. —And now the newspaper
men of Charleston are lainentiig the change
of things in that goodly city. They crieth
thus :
“A walk from the News and Courier office
up Biond strict to King was invariably pro
dQetivi of h good half column of local news.
’• he ready bludveon, the delightful knife, the
adorable pistol and the cflective brickbu*.
were always in action, and the glorious mur
der, pleasant suicide, ever-welcome riot and
joy-inspiring exposure of official rascality
were of regular occurrence. The reporter’s
life was then a constant scene of erer-vary
iog, delirious excitement, and ‘copy” could
be supplied hy the yuid at any time ol day
or night ”
These newspaper reporters are down on
Hampton ; “because,” soy they, “there hasn't
been a good murder for a year, and no riot
in twenty-four months; the burglar has
gone out of business," while such little
amusemmls as exchanging shots is unknown
AII is changed, and the aforesaid searchers
alter news are miserable.
Cotton.— lT re is wliut Mr. CJ. Graves
said, during the convention at Hawkinsville,
in relation to tbe growing of cotton in
Egypt, lie says the staple is inferior to out
own, and bis statements are borne out by the
letters and persona! experience of other end
nent agriculturists:
“The average cotton crop for the year
1875-’76 and ’77 was 638 obo bales of 450
pounds, reducing the Egyptian weight to
cur own 'ihe production per acre is from
200 to 800 pounds of lint, ihe average acre
producing 400 pounds. For quality it is
inferior la our uplands Ihe dry atmosphere
making it dry and brittle in staple. It
brings about one cent per pound less than
our crops in Liverpool. Near the coast
where there is moisture in the atmosphere, h
finer staple is produced, btiiging, in the
Liverpool market, two cents more than our
best uplands It constitutes übout oue-tenth
of the whole crop.”
Col. Robt. A. Alston Killed. —Col.
Robt. A. A[|ton and Mr. Edward S. Cox
had a rencontre last Tuesday in Atlanta, in
which the lormer whs killed, and the latter
seriously woundid. Fight shots were fired
Ihe quarrel gri w out of some transaction
connected with the convict lease system. Col.
Alston was a prominent politician, a true
aid tried Ihmoetat.a thorough gentleman,
and bis loss will be lelt throughout the whole
State. He served gallantly in the late war.
and was at one time Genera! John Morgan’s
Adjutant. The Coroner’® jury rendered a
■verdict that the killing was wilful and pre
meditated murder. Cox is in jail.
t'oNGßF.ss—The F> rty-fifth Congress ex
pired ©n midnight of ihe 4’h instant. It
left much business incomplete. There was
abundant time tn which to put through
every important measure, but members were
so bm-ily engaged in looking efter party af
fairs that the business which they were elect
ed to attend to was neglected; hence, an
extra session is inevitable. The President
has aKeady issued bis proclamation, end the
Forty-sixth Congress will assemble ob the
18th inst, now close at band.
Poor Pkffsdfvck—Many negroes in
this country lely principally for their meat
upon rabbits, which they capture in large
numbers in our old fields.— Oglethorpe Edw
And many of the same class in this and
other counties rely upon meat they do uot
raise. Judging from the numerous raids
Blade upon stores in Henry county, they rely
•poo their iSorts in this direction for a sup
port.
The Battered w Don. ,,
Dunn Piatt, the editor of the Washington
Capitol, lately inet with a mir-hap in the
shape of nn unmerciful pummelir.g at the
hands of a gay and festive enemy by the
name of MeGarruhan. The D"n was the
weaker party, and was the unwilling victim
of the worst whipping received by any man
in Washington during the Congressional
season. He, however, intends dying game
If he cannot fight, lie cun write, and this is
displayed wonderfully well on all occasions
In revenge for his defeat he again comes up
smiling, with this:
'I he golden era of purity has gone, ai d
with it vanished the peace arid dignity ol
the Senute. The Capitol iteeif, from end to
end, is the resort of rogues, disreputable
men, with iniquity fully enameled on their
canning countenances ; lewd women, painied
and bi jeweled, lairly swami about ihe cor
ridors and lobbies—drinking, quarreling,
boring Congressmen, and making the place
reek with til'll and vulgarity. No respectu*
nle woman can visit the Capitol without a
guard of male friends and escape taint, and
no man can ‘card out a member,” as it is
culled, without incurring the suspicion of
being a lobbyist.
Here, indeed, is a terrible bill of iudict
rnent. If it be true, then i 8 our National
Capitol a disgrace, and our la «-makers ui.fil
to perform their high functions. But it is
hardly probuhle that it is near so bad as
represented There may be many officials
in Washington who are corrupt, but at the
sume time it is almost certain that a very
large majority of the Senators and Repre
sentatives are above price, und cannot be
approached with mercenary or corrupt prop
ositions. A few persons ready with such
means to guiiMHheir ends should not be
itguriitd us indicative that all are guilty. A
line of distinction should bediawn.
Men who (like the battered, beaten und
used up Piatt.) have been unable to cope
with u foe in u tough ami tumble contest,
ure apt to have recourse to strategy to ac
complish their ends. Accordingly, he tires
his Capital Columbiuds at the whole mass,
in the hope that somebody may get lot.
And if somebody is not hurt by the forego
ing explosion it is not the Don’s fault. He
is mad—very mad—he is mud as u March
hare; and he will continue to work upon
the capital thus furnished him until some
one else lakts him in Laud.
But seriously, we regret to see a disposi
tion ou the pail of many correspondents to
chinacttrtze VV ashingtou us the aggregation
of all tl.ul ih coirupl und venal, 'lliere tmiy
be, and doubtless is, a vu.-t amount oi
scheming among those who have axes to
gtiud ; but, ori the alher hand, there are us
good men and an pure women at the Federal
Capital as exist anywhere on the face of the
ear'll. And our only object in occupying
the space we have w ith the mutter is, fiist,
to show how liurd it is lor a man to submit,
and then how fur he will go for the sake of
revenge.
Extinguished —ln « published letter,
March 4, General Gordon does the most
scientific *oik of his life—the utter, abso
lute, final extinguishment of that friend of
Radicalism, Doctor Felton ; and necessarily
it skins and exposes the Pat sou’s right-hand
“man”—his wile. Had this been a ease of
surgery, it would have immortalized the
operator ; nevertheless, us it is, it sets the
marplots of the Seventh District before the
public as they deserve, while it establishes
the General more fi mly.il possible, in the
affection of all good men.
The General’s letter is a manly defense
against the aspersions of those who ure
ready to witness his downfall. It is a fear
less answer to charges made and long since
found to be false—emanating, as most ol
them do, from the hearts of persons destitute
of principle, or capable of any feeling save
that of revenge.
Black-Tongue Among Siieen.— Report
reaches u j that many sheep in Worth county
are dying nn rapidly from a disease known
as the black-tongue, and that Mr Humble
ton, near Tv Ty, lias lost nearly five hundred
head, and that olhets had lost heavily also.
We trust some remedy may be discovered in
time to check this disease.— Albany News
It would be advisab : e for owners of sheep
in Henry county to take measures to prevent
this terrible disease from getting among their
flocks.
Wild I.andc—The controversy going on
betwien Hon. Nelson Tift and the Comp
troller General relative to the wild lands is
attracting some attention. A considerable
quantity ol ink has been expended on both
sides in the elucidation and discussion ol the
question. We have an abiding faith in the
integrity and honesty of our Comptroller
General, however, and do not in the least
question bis ability to set himself right in
the matter.
Letter from Clayton.
Mr. Editor :—l notice in your paper that
yon request “us ruralers” to send in short
communications ; -and, as a son of Erin once
remarked, having nothing else tod), I thought
I would write you a few lines, hoping they
might find you enjoying the same blessing.
Now. if all the rest of the “ruralers” are
like myself they have nothing to write or
talk about except cotton, com, guano, and
the ding nigger. But pi%uming you w ould
like to know bow we are getting on do»n m
our settitmeof, I have this to say: I buve
been cogitating, [erigrinating and perambu
luting around considerably, and from what
I can gather and see there is a greater rpiril
of improvement and energy being manifested
upon the part of the farmers this year, up to
this time, than I’ve seen for years. More
n<'w-prnnnd ami old pine fields being cleared,
fence corners cut. old fences repaired, ar,d
tenement houses bailt. There is, in fact, a
general disposition on the part of our farn
ers to spread oat and try and do more, live
closer, huv less, plant more corn and small
grain and cotton, and nse
fertilizers and buy less guano lhan hereto
fore.
Some of mv neighbors are planting corn,
while some are through planting and are
now bnsily engaged in preparing their land
for cotton. Everybody seems to be fully
alive to the future.
Scarcity of money and n wofnllv defective
labor S-. stem are the greatest evils we labor
' under just now. 1 hear that the negroes
; have united for the purpose of demanding
j higher wages, ai d avow 'heir determination
! not to work at the o'd prices. Of one thing
; i am qnite certain, u large number are loaf
ing about the country, doing nothing but
gamble and steal All are armed with a
deck °f cards and a pistol, 1 hope the law
making power will make some iffort to rem
edy this evil in future, and quit harping on
the dog law. Two-legged dogs do far more
damage than the four-legged ones. More
anon. Hicup.
High Point. Clapton Co., March 10. 1879
Communicated. 1
Reformation—No. N.
Some of mv friends say, “1 stopped be
cause I had told all I knpw The fact ; s,
howev»r, that, after giving the vn'ject a lit—
| tie thought and atlen'ion, I was simply as
tounded at the magnitude‘of the suojeet—at
ilie things that could be said nn the di'efiil
necessity of a thorough reformation, on a I
most every tenet held to and. put for'h hy
the religious world, and had to stop to catch
breath for the stupendous task that was be
fore me.
Just think of it ! A Doctor of Divinitv.
—"big preacher,"—said, not a thousand
miles from here that our Lord Jesus <’hri“t
was “baptized in Jordon” as an introduction
to Hid priestly office on earth!! Mirabilt
dictu! Wlmt must the lamentable condition
ol the “small fry" he when “big fish” talk such
learned nonsense? Why, every little Sunday
school child knows, or ought to know, thut
nobody, except a descendant of Aaron, of
the in’tie of could enter the priestly
office during ihe Mosaic Dispensation, under
which our Saviour lived and (lied. A few
plain Scriptural citations will suffice to show
that Jesus Christ was not a priest while on
forth, in the form of perishing humanity.
Hear Caul, a “1) 1).” in Moses’Law, and
tile great apostle to the Gentiles : “For the
priesthood being changed, there is made of
necessity a change also of Ihe law ; for lie of
whom ti.ese things are spoken pertaineth to
another tribe, of which no man gave attend-
ance ut ihe altar. For it is evident that our
Lord sprung out of Judo ; of which tribe
Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood
And it is yet fnt- more evident; for thut
! alter the s nrliitidc of Melcb'zedek there
oriseth another priest, who is made, not after
the law of a ctrnul commandment, [is not
baptism a washing of ihe body or flesh with
water?] but after tbe power of an endless
life." Hebrews, vi: 12—16
Again : ‘ Now of the things wh’ch we
have spoken this is the sum. We have such
a high priest, who is set on the right hand
ol Ihe throne of ihe Majesty m the heaven ;
a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not
man. For every high priest is ordained to
r tier gifts and sacrifices ; wherefore it is of
necessity that this man have somewhat also
to ofl r." Now listen : “For if He [Christ]
were on i arth, he should not be a priest,
seeing that there are priests that offer gif's
according to the law.” Heb., viii: 4
Notwithstanding the plain Scriptural dec-
I ration that Christ could not he an high
priest on earth. Doctors of Divinity (?) say
lie was baptized as an introduction to that
office. They haven’t the courage, or are
lacking in Bible knowledge and facts—one
or the oilier, or both—to say what Christ
himself says ol llis baptism, lie said it
was "to fulfill all righteousness Mat the w,
iii : 15. And nowhere, in all the Testa
ment, can 1 find where Fie, nr the Apostles
for Him, say* one word about His baptism
(i. e , "in the river Jordan,’ ) as a priestly
ordinance, or us an induction to the priestly
office.
How a Doctor of Divinity can take a de
scendant of Juda, '‘according to the flesh,"
and niak hini a priest under the Lvitical
law is a puzzle of puzzles, us well as a mani
festation of unpardonable Scriptural ignor
ance. And yet, in the 19th century, the
year ol our Lord, 1878, in a land of Bibles,
and in an age ol wonderful achievements in
knowledge of all kinds, a 1) 0.. a teacher (?)
ot t'hi i-tianity, dal publicly announce, from
the pulpit, to an intelligent and Bible-read
mg audience that Jesus of Nazareth whs
“baptized in Jordan” as an induction to the
priestly office !!! And lie is only one of the
ten thousands of representatives of the same
and similar schools who are going up and
down through the world pouring the wine of
confu-ion ami error into the ears of hundreds
of thousands of willing listeners. This is
ihe reason, my friend, why my arm fell
paralyzed by my side, anil my per, ceased to
move in behalf of reformation. It was the
enormity of error “that stopped me.”
If it was necessary that Jesus Christ,
“who knew no sin and in whose mouth no
guile was found,” should submit to an im
mersion in water in order "to fulfill all
righteousness,” it is a thousand times more
necessary that we, who are the veriest ot
sinners, should also be immersed in water.
“into the name of tbe Father, and of t,,e
Sbm, and ot the Holy Ghost,” in obedience
to a righteous command before we can be
righteous iu all things ; and none But the
righteous can see God. D tutors of Divinity
to the contrary not withstand ng.
Wbat the world, learned and unlearned,
needs is a more thorough acquaintance with
and conformity of heart and life to all the
teachings and requirements of the "tru'h as
it is in Christ Jesus.” And until ihis sim
ple audea-y remedy is resorted to, Christians
will remain terribly diseased iu both heait I
and head; and continue wrangling, dividing I
and teaching things that the Bib’c know*
nothing of. except to condemn. And how
willingly. my friend, would I stretch out my
arms, God only knows, to arrest the present
great evil of false teaching, that, like ■
canker worm, is erting out the very core of
onr pure simple rei : gion, as taught bv the
Christ and IDs divinely commissioned Apos
tles and Prophets ; but, situated as I am, mv
amis are too short fur the work, because of
a want of lime
But, nothing daunted, I shall s*i!l, ns I
said in the beginning, from time to time
proceed in a leisurely manner to animadvert
upon various subjects of a religious charac
ter, und, in doing so. I have reason to believe,
from assurances and words of approbation
and encooreg-ment received from many
other’- - besides those of my own ‘ faith and
order," that my words of admonit ion are not
failing entirely e-till-born at the feet of their
parentage
All I ask of nnv one is to compare mv
savings wi'h the ‘ wonts of eternal truth ”
and if not in perfect keeping wi'h it, to turn
nwav from them as the foolish op ni >ns of a
poor finite ercaime whose opinions, like
every other uninspired man's in all things
pertaining to God, heaven, etc, are not
worth the time it takes to otter them. It is
facts, and not opinions, t! at is able to make
us wise unto salvation. We ore commanded
to “Preach tbe Word,” and not opinions and
such like. X.
Gordon Replies to Mrs. Felton,
and Mrs. Felton’s Husband-
A Srerrhins; Letter.
Washington, I). Cl.. March 4'h, 1879.
Editor s- Chronicle and Constitutionalist, Au
gusta, Ga .-—A letter over the signature of
Mrs. W II Felton, publi bed in your paper
of the 23d ulto., came to my notice in the
last days of the exp : ring -ession, when my
w hole time, night and day, was necessarily
given to public business. I wish it distinct
ly understood that, in my reply to the state
ments contained in that extraordinary com
rnunication. nothing that I shall snv is appli
cable to Mrs. Fel on, with whom I have and
shall have no controversy.
There is no longer any room for doubt
that Dr Win. H. Felton is the author and
circulator of the calumnies which, insinuated
by him nn ihe stomp, have been so often re
pented in his organs in the Seventh (ion
gretwional District, and which were so sig
oa'ly rebuked by my almost unanimous re
elect i«n to the United Stales Senate.
Dr. Felton is th fiist Georgian, arid I be
lieve the only American in any sphere of
life, who has shielded himself from responsi
bility for his falsehoods by tak'ng shelter
behind a woman and that woman his own
wile and ihe moth' r of his children.
Indeed, I do not know that such an in
stance was ever known in any civiliz 'd com
munity. The common law, which on this
subject is the essence of English sentiment
and civilization, contemplated the man as
the (inter picket, standing at his doorway,
guarding his wife from rude contact with the
world, while she, in toe d lieate privacy of
home, presided over its hallowed precincts,
softening, sweetening, and sanctifying its
holy endearments. This, too, is ihe spirit of
ihe Christian Church in all the earth. Re
ligion, then, and civilization and the common
lew and manhood und womanhood alike re
volt at the wanton profanation of the holiest
relations of life. It almost makis ns lose
sight of the sickening spectacle of this min
ister of the gospel bearing false witness
against his neighbor.
I entered the canvass of the S“venth Con
gressional District, not from choice, but at
the call ol the political organization of which
I uin 11 member 1 umde no assault upon
i I>r. Felton’s character during the entire can
i vase. 1 did not mention his name until his
i slanders upon my character made it proper
lor me to repel them. This assault, there
fore. is absolutely without excuse, wanton
and reckless.
A lew words will suffice to dispose of his
effort to shamefully misrepresent inv admin
i-trution of the Atlanta department nf the
Southern Life Insurance Company, and my
connection with a great and patriotic move
ment by the leading educators of the South
io rid the schools of the country of partisan
text-hooks The insurance company failed
from no fault of mine. When the two dread
ful epidemics of the Mississippi Valley oral
the general financial panic in the country
broke the paient company at Memphis, the
ooks of 'he Atlanta departim nt, over which
1 presided, showed that every death loss it
had incurred had been paid, and the trans
mission to the parent company at Memphis
(«f near one and a quarter millions of dollars
As to the book enterprise, I was induced
to connect myself with it in obedience to the
wishes and advice of the best of men at the
South among them General Lee himself.
No surprise ought to be felt, since our fail
ure in war, at the disposition of Dr. Felton
to slander every cause and every man who
had the conti leuce or friendship of that hon
or. d man.
Although this most neediul school-book
enterprise has mad- no money, it has sur
vival the panic, and is still tarnishing books
of the highest order by our ablest teachers,
to Southern and Northern schools, despite
ibe efforts of wealthy rivals and the enemies
ol the South to break it down.
I do no' know to what Dr. Felton makes
reference when he charges me with having
gros-lv wronged some Southern Bishop. It
is unqualifi-dh false that I ever borrowed,
used or obtaiued in any way one dollar, or
ever was under pecuniary obligation to the
extent of one farthing to any Bishop, North
ern or Southern, except to a beloved and
holy inuu now dead, whose son served upon
inv staff, and who sent me, near the close ol
the war. without any solicitation trora me,
about t?3(K), as well as 1 can remember.
That debt was disehuiged, uiter tbe war,
bv stocks, the best 1 had, and in amount
sufficient, as I believed, to more than camel
it i say nothing in this connection of the
appearance of a Representative of Georgia
and a me . ber ot the American Congress, in
the high and statesmanlike role ol luring ins
minious to uncover every private and bu-i
--ness transaction ol uiy life in fruitless effort
to find something to blur and stain my rep
utation. 1 invite his inspection aud reve a
tious ; and if be has discovered that these
stocks sold tor less than the debt, let him
aud eveiy one iuteierted kuow lhat I stand
ready to make good every cent ot loss, it auy
occurred on that debt, not only with „m ney
but wtth the gratitude due lor an unsolicited
and unexpected kindness. done me in the’
distressing hours ol the late revolution.
lits reierenee to my eonuecliou with the 1
lenop 0 f convicts under the laws of (Jenr'ia.
i« h.vt nnewerrd bv the record* o( the tf'ale,
and the correspondence on its fib’s. These
show that the law was passed by the chosen
LegLlatnre of onr own people ; that it was
passed withont rny knowledge or agency ;
that the bids were invited from all citizens
in accordance with law, by the Governor;
that whatever interest was necnred by hid
for my plantation, wns tendered by me to
the State, soon alien the contract was signed
and beforp any of these prisoners came into
po-session of Col. Locke't, tb” president if
the companv ; that 'his interest has always
been subj'Ct to any disposition the anthori
ties of the Kta'e might see fit to make of it.
My r •usons for wishing to be releas' d from
my obligations in connection with this lease
were givim more than two years ago, and
are a sufficient answer to this strange effort
of Dr. Felton to do me this additional
wrong.
But not satisfied with these shameful per
versions of me private business affairs, Doc
tor Felton descends to the lowest of all
meanness, in seeking to create the impression
that he or any other man believes me cup i
ble of corrupt practices as a Senator of the
United States. Ido no* wish to do Doctor
Felton a wrong, nor to u-e language unbe
coming myself ns a tnan. or as a representa
tive of (Forgia ; but without feir of dam
age from Irm. hiding, a« he does, behind Ins
wi e his grey halts and the rob s of p u i -
i-tf-r of Christ. I ought to he pardoned for
saying of this effort that nothing worse was
ever attempted by any man. It is the very
blazonry of all that is ha*e false and fiendish.
Dr Felton seeks justification for this wick
edness in the idle gabble of the partisans of
two gteat rival railroad schemes, who charge
■improper mot ves to men on either side of
the controversy ; who refuse to vo'e as their
interests demand, not one of whom will he
or any other min dare to quote bv name in
such connection Me ha« not even the ex
cuse of a new paper charge, such as that
made by s New York journal recently,
charging bribery against many of the purest
and best men in public life from both sec-
of the Union. The gentlemen who are
thus wantonly assailed by this New York
p*per voted with a large majority of the
Senate for a subsidy bill. The wicked false
hoods circulated bv Dr Felton against mv
seif are founded upon my vote in a minority
on the bill to provide a sinking fund for the
Pac fir: Rni roads. Mv vote was against
that hill, and time and experience ate fast
demonstrating the propriety and wisdom of
that vole, not only on the score of principle,
hut in the interest of the public treasury.
I advocated a bill which required these great
roads to pay into the Treasury a fixed sum
every year to meet their obligations to the
Government. The bill which passed required
these roads to pay a portion of their net
earnings Had the bill I desired passed be
come a law. we would to day have in the
Trcusary from these roads ai least two mil
linus of dollars, whereas the bill which did
become a law, nod for refusing to support
which 1 am slandered by Dr Felton and his
ailiis, Ims failed, us 1 predicted some twelve
months be lore its passage, to bring one
farthing to the Government. And I now
wish to add another remark, thit no man
can say when a dollar will be secured under
it Yet this in m—'alse to his people in
war; false to the political organization
which saved his people in peace ; false to
tire teachings ot Him whom lie professes to
lollow ; begrinuned-wiih a wicked and cor
rupt alliance w ; th the enemies of his party,
section, and people, has the audaeious
efirontery to assail ray character in public
am! in p' vate wnh the vi'e and hypocritical
pretense that he or any living man believes
me capable of giving that or any other vote
for venal considerations.
These are strong words, I know ■ bat they
are true words, and are forced fiom me by
tbe„ conviction that no deeper wrong was
ever perpetrated than this man has attempt
ed upon me. For months I have borne in
silence the most brutal attacks from him and
h:s ailies ever mad' 1 upon any man in public
life. For months I have borne his secret
efforts at defamation here in Washington;
nnd now I do not believe that the people of
Georgia, who have honored me in war aud
in peace fur beyond my deserts, will ask me
to refrain longer from placing on record, (or
the sake of my children and the people who
elected me, my public denunciation of these
foul aud atrocious calumnies,
J B Gordon.
Pre-eminent
As an elegant hair dressing stands Parker’s
Hair Balsam, deservedly popular for the
beautiful hair it produces, and its healthful,
cleansing and healing properties. Commenc
ing at the toots, it promotes a luxuriant
growth of young hair, and unfailingly re
stores gray or faded hair to its original
youthful color giving a soft, rich and lus
trous upper s of great beuuty. It is
pleasantly cooling to the scalp, cleanses it
from Dandruff, cures itching and humors, and
stops falling of the hair. It is perfectly
harmless, exquisitely perfumed, never soils
the skin or gums the hair, and pleases every
body by its many excellent and attractive
qualities. Buy a bottle from your druggists,
Pe bles & Ri'ad, and test its merits.
Worth Twick thk Sum. — We are just in
receipt of Toe Chicago Ledger, the leading
family paper of the West, which is now en
tering upon its seventh volume. The Ledger
is a large fotty-eight column weekly paper,
printed upon bold plain type which can be
read with ease, by either the old or young,
and is filled with choice stories and matter
of particular interest to every household.
This excellent journal is supplied to sub
scribers. postage paid for the extremely low
price of one dollar and fifty cents per year.
In order to more rapidly increase its present
large list of readers, the publishers of this
pap' T have just made a new contract for the
manufacture of several thousand fiae Nickel-
Plated English Steel Barrel ai.d Cyiin ler
Seven-Shot Revolvers—22 caliber—which
they propose to ihstribute among their sub
scribers at cost, and therefore, offer one of
these elegant weapons of defence and The
Ledger one year for tiiree dollars. The re
volver will be sent by mail, postage paid, on
receipt of the price. They have already
distributed 5,000 revolvers, and are mailing
hundreds daily. Now isyonr time to get a
first-class revolver and the best paper in the
country for less than half tne actual worth
of either. Taree sample copies of Ihe Led
ger will be sent to auy address tor ten cents.
Address Ilu Ledger, Chicago, 111.
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Copartnership Notice.
In A VR this day sold a hair interest io my
business to G. F. Turner, and the name
and style of the firm will be known in fnture
as Harper & Turner. R. T. HARI’EB.
January 9th, 1879.
We respectfully solicit a share of the pnbS
lie patronage, believing we can show as fine
and well assorted stock of goods M will 90
found anywhere. Our stock of
DRY GOODS
Is complete in every particular, snd iaelades
a fine assortment of Ladies’ Dress Goods,
Lmens, Bleachings, Domestics, and Fancy
Notions of all kinds.
Clotlalns s
A new and elegant lot of (limbing, of vvery
style and quality. Gents’ Uoderwear a spe
cialty.
HATS AND CAPS
1 o suit the tastes ol the masses, and at prices
that will meet the requirements of thv trade.
BOOTS AND SHOES I
Our stock of Boots and Shoes, having been
bought at a bargain in the Northern Mar
kets, we can afford to sell cheap, and are pre
pared to offer extra inducements to the trade.-
Furniture !S
We have also a large lot of Furniture—Bed
steads, Bureaux, Washstands, Wardrobes,
Tables, Chairs,,’ etc—which we will sell at
extremely low figures. Bedroom it Us *
specialty.
GROCERIES.
Special attention is called to our stock of
Groceries, which is quite large, and com
prises every article kept in that ling. *
Our stock is being constantly replenished
with Goods that are carefully selected by ex
perienced buyers, and are bought lor cash
from first hands, thereby enabling us to sell to
advantage—both to ourselves aud customers.
Witb all these facilities we are prepared to ex
bitMt at all times a complete geueral stock,
and parties wishing to buy cau always find
seme specialties at v t ry low prices at our
store Give us a call.
Harper & Turner.