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HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
R. T. HARPER & CO.,
rfVTRIETUM.
Tarms of subscription $1 50
(iNVARUBI.T IB ADVANCE)
JAN. F. BROWN, Editor.
HAMPTON. GA.. MARCH 2t. D 79
Editorial Hr* Title*.
An. art a ha* a bonnet factory.
Tm population of Augusta is 27 000.
A Carat a i* to hare another i«e factory.
r>.iD«a cocstt ha* a full treasury and a
new jail.
Bii.i. Arp will lictnre io Macon on the
25th inwt.
Straw Bißßiaa arc being *old Id the Ba
vannnh market.
And now Felton ia elandering Gordon
•vtr bit own name.
A t.ARoa acheot of whalei were seen off
Pert Royal recently.
Tin owner of ■ Chicago poannt stand hat
formally gone into bankruptcy.
Tub Georgia Baptist State Contention
will meet in Columbus on the 24th of next
month.
Thb Thomaaville Times baa entered upon
i'a serentb volume. May it lire always and
flourish.
Mm. Emma Au-trm.,of Richmond county,
baa been adjudged a lunatic and sent to the
Asylum.
Pomr Northern friends bate presented to
Senator Hampton a pair of silver-mounted
crutches.
Tub farmer* of North Georgia are jubi
lant over the praspeat of good wheat and
oat crept.
Thb good people of Cuthbert will cele
brate the •‘glorious 4th” with a public lair
next July.
Urn. Got dor is seriously, and it is thought
dangerously, ill at Washington. May he
have a speedy recovery.
Nome enthusiastic Irietid has added the
name of Hon J. H. Blount to tht list of
gubernatorial candidates.
Oust of the societies at the Female Col
lege at Gainesville has been named Butler,
in honor of Hon. D. K. Butler.
Thr esse of A. W. Gibson, on trial for
tbs morder of I) W. Coleman last Novem
ber, in Macon, resulted in a mistrial.
Mr. B. F. Barksdai.b, a Wilkea county
farmer, picked up on his plnce last week a
nugget of gold weighing nearly three penny
weights.
Nxar the site of Jacob's well, in the city
of bamaria, Palestine, there is a Baptist
church with a congregation cambering a
hand red.
Hon Samuei. J Raitdat.i. was re-elected
Speaker of the House last Tuesday, defeating
Garfield, the Republican candidate, by a
vote of 143 to 125.
Mrs. Fri.toic in advised by a cotempornry
to let politics albue and go to darning her
husband’s socks. Better go to mending his
general reputation.
W. P Pledger, erstwhile a temprranoe
lecturer, and a Radical “man and brother”
after the Bullock sort, contemplates starting
• literary paper in Athens. lie will prob
ably fail.
The Forty-sixth Congress stands as fol
lows: Senate—Di usocrats, 41; Republi
cans, 32 ; Independents, 1. House—Demo
crats, 147 ; Repablicaus, 129 ; Greeubsck
ers, 11.
Mr. Jok Jobss, who does duty ns city
editor of that sterling old journal, the Tele
graph and Messenger, furnishes more inter
esting reading than can be foonri on the
local page of any daHy in the Stale.
Wr hare received the prospectus of the
North Georgia Argus, a new werkly paper
to be issued at Gainesville, commencing this
week. Mesßiß J. V. S. Timberlake and
Henry Joses will lather the enterprise, and
we shall expect a good newspaper.
T«‘gr eat scarcity of marriageable wo
men" in the Slate of lowa is the reason as
e gned by Lotis P. Bode, a farmer of She
nandoah, Page county, in that State, for
writing to Superintendent Jaakson, of the
Board of Emigration, at Castle Garden,
New York, asking the latter gentleman to
select and send him a wife.
We Lave frequently had occasion to call
the attention of our readers to the superior
merits of the Scrrnnnah Weekly Netcs. Mr
Estill, the publisher, is still adding to its at
tractions and enlarging the sphere of its
usefulness, until now, both in literary merit
and as a complete family newspaper, it stands
io the front rank with the best weekly pub
lications in tbe United States, and is in tiuth
an honor to Southern journalism.
The Griffin Neiri thinks that Georgia is
pietty well fixed in the matter of political
parties. It says : “Georgia uow has a
Pemocratie party, a Greenback party, an
Independent party, a Radical party, and
eoroe of tbe finger boards are beginning to
point to a Woman’s Rights party.” If,
however, tbe last Burned is not more worthily
represented than appearances seem to iodi
eate, it will not live ctco tbe usual nine
Bod the. j
The Wild Laad Muddle.
So far, Thk Wkfki.y has taken but little
stock in the wild land controversy. It has
believed, and shall always believe, that if
any wrong has been done, or fraud commit
ted, it cnnld not be jnstly charged to the
present Comptroller General; for it is a
well established fact that Mr Goldsmith has
.time and again asked the legislator* to
repeal the lew under consideration. He
soon fonrd the law us at present exist
ing was likely not only to be misconstrued
but wrm giy interpreted—in Tact, to open
the door, und open it wide, for a heavy
canrse of swindling. This he knew ; arid,
knowi.ig ih's, he has, we repeat, often en
deavored, and earnestly, to have the law
either amended so as to remedy the evils
complained of, or repejlrd altogether. On
this point we may have mere to say here
after, as we desire to show how a good offi
cer can be nnjnstly blatmd.
One great evil resnltmg from these loosely
constructed statutes is in allowing residents
of ane county to return the lands they own
in another and distant county. Often this
is done for a purpose, and the lands thu*
returned do not in fact exist, or if they do
exist cannot be found. Hence, when ft fas.
are issued for taxes they are retifhned as
worthless, because the land cannot he dis
covered. The legislature will very prob
ably at the coming session cure this and all
other defects in the present law, and then
there will be no forther cause for complaint.
So far as the prepent Comptroller General
is concerned we believe be is innocent of
anything like fraud, or any associate crimes
connected with the matter. Flis whole
course as an officer has been characterized
by high integrity and an earnest desire to
advance the interest of the State. Such is
our faith in the man that we believe he
would suffer his right aimcnt off rather than
receive ODe cent dishonestly. And we feel
well assured that when the whole matter
shall have gone through the crucible of leg
islstive invest gat ion he will he found to be
untainted with anything I ke fraud, the un.
supported insinnutions of others to the con
trary notwithstanding. This we confidently
believe will be done.
The matter is one that is claiming much
attention at present, and properly so, because
of its important hearing on the revennes of
the State. It will come before the Legisla
ture at its next sessien, when it is to be
hoped the whole controversy will be settled
and when, too, the G om pUoller General will
be triumphantly vindicated.
Rut it is not our purpose to argue the
question at present. We simply desire to
say that a faithful, honest and competent
public officer should not he censured for
obeying even a bod law. He had no dis
cretion bat to obey, and this- he has done,
even when he knew hardship would result.
Toe many laws are enacted without due
consideration. Too often it is the case that
in the execution of these statutes men are
blamed without cause; uud this is undoubt
edly one af these cases.
l et the proper power see to it that jus
tice. full and complete, is meted out to the
present Comptroller Genernl.
A Fihk Farm.—Whenever we read an
item like th • following, we begin to feel jeal
ous. We desire our good old county to
come forward and show what she cud do.
From the following it will be seen that
three thousand dollars will be realized
from fruit alone on one small farm.
Now, why can’t our farmers introduce fruit
cultare into their business, and mike it just
as profitable ? There is no reason why they
should not, and we hope they will yet realize
the importance of this branch of farming
industry. The Cuthbert Appeal, in speak
ing of the fine fruit farm of Mr. S. T. Jen
kins, near that place, says:
If no freeze or blight of any kind befalls
this little paradise it will yield him. cleur ol
expense, three thousand dollais this year.
He bss every kiod of drying machine that
ingenuity ran invent, to turn uil into money
that is not put oo the market in another
shape. Nearly all this labor is performed
while the bands employed to cultivate the
fields are doing nothing else, and at seasons
of the year when labor is plentiful and cheap
Besides his fruit there is hardly a (arm of
like size in Randolph county that produces
more cotton, corn, wheat, oats, peas aud
potatoes than “Harvest Home.”
Ebb or thr Grkat VV albino Match.—
The great international walking match,
which began in New York on Monday, 10th
iost., ended last Saturday night. There
were four contestants —Rowell, (an English
man.) Eonis, Harriman and O'Leary. It
was won by Rowell, be having accomplished
the wouderful feat of walking 500 miles in
six days. For this lie will receive the chum
pioa belt, #3,000 of stake money, and fitly
per cent, gate money—thereby making httn
richer by near #30,000 than when he landed
on oar ahores O’Leary and Ennis have
already challenged him for a second teat.
Cot,. Nhi.son Tift’s article on the Comp
troller-General failed to crea’e much excite
ment in this city or the State. The ground
hail already been run over, and hi* boom
erang fell fiat aud stale.— Atlanta Phono
grap\.
Wonder if the Hon. Mr. Tift wouldn't
like the office himself? We da-e say he
was prompted by some such selfish aiotive.
Cf.ATTON county needs reform badly
Constitution
And what, in the name of all that’s fcoly.
does Atlanta need 1
The 1 rue Case —The Bainbridge Aigus
thus correctly lays down the status of the
negro. There may be occasional exceptions,
but as a general rule the postulate of the
Argus is true—at least, in this region, and
it is presumed in other sections also :
We trust that the tendency of the colored
people to settle down upon lands of their
own is, as nur Atlanta contemporary puts
it, “a happy omen for the future,” vet we
are inclined capitally to doubt it ; and for
this reason, among others not necessary to
enumerate : The majority of this class of
oilmens when left to themselves are proverb
ially thriftless, and their mode of cultivating
land is of the rudest style. A bare main
tenance of life is the only goal to which they
aspire, and they will contribute little, if any
thing at all, to the wealth of the country.
'I hey.do not cate for comfortable homes, nor
attractive larms. “Knfticien' unto the day’’
is their rule, und they take no thought of the
future. YVhen their rations give out, for
meat they repair to the rivers and ponds ;
and for bread their inclination* lead them to
the blackberry patch. After they have
harvested their meagre crop of cotton and
corn, the money received is soon squandered.
The Brooklyn Piesbytery on Monday de
cided to try Dr. Tulmage on the following
charges presented by lire committee appoint
cd at the previous session: Deceit and
falsehood in s'aieinents regarding bis with
drawal from the editorship of the Christian
at Work, in stating the sittings in the Taber
nacle we/e free ; in arousing J. VV. Hath
away of dishonest practices arid then deny
ing it ; of falsehood in collecting subscrip
tions for payment of the church debt ; of
deceit in the difficulty concerning the organ
ist of the Tabernacle, and of stating he was
to be arraigned for heterodoxy when he
knew that such was not the case.
The War of the Disorganize!*
t'pon Senator Gordon.
YVe have not felt it incumbent on us to
print in our columns, says the Savannah
News, the personal attacks of the Feltons
upon Senator Gordon’s private character—
first, because we do not consider eiiher Mrs.
Felton or the Rev Dr. Filtnn personally
responsible for the slanders contained in
their letters ; second, because we are averse
to making the Morning News the medium
of ribald abuse and gross personalities ; third,
because we believe this unprovoked and ut
terly ui justifiable assanlt upon Senator Gor
don to he only a part of a vile political con
spiracy of certain sell seeking, unscupnloiis
demagogues, aided and encouraged ny lead
ing Radicals in Washington city, having for
its object the demoralization and disruption
of the Democratic party of Georgia; and
lastly, becan-e we are unwilling to aid the
conspirators by disseminating their unfound
ed senders and irrituting personal abuse.
YVlrile lor these reasons we have not
opened our columns to Senator Gordon’s
irresponsible traducers, we have felt it a
duty we owed to him, to the cause of truth
ai d to the Democracy of Georgia, to spread
before our reuders his dignified and manly
letter, in which he so signally vindicates
himself from their foul calumnies.
In the Augusta Chronicle of Thursday
Dr. Felton uppears in a letter over his own
signature, in which his effort seems to be
divided between fulsome praisrsol his‘ noble
wife” and a reiteration of her stock of stale
slanders aguinst Senator Gordon. If we
had not already given go<d and sufficient
reasons for not burdening our columns with
Ihe Felton Correspondence, a feeling ot char
itable eommiseraiion would excuse us for
not reproducing a production so discredita
ble alike to the head and heart ot the ‘lode
pendent” Representative of the Seventh
Congressional District. Fulsome, feeble
and flaccid as it is, however, this letter dis
closes Ihe true animus of the Felton foray
upon General Cordon, and would seem to
have helped our Iritnds of the Chronicle to a
correct conclusion as to its true character.
Our worthy contemporary commenting on
this correspondence, says:
“An attentive consideration of these com
munication* leads us to think that the real
issue is one of political principle, and that
the true secret of this sudden cannonade is,
that it has been discovered that Dr. Felton’a
success in the Seveuth Congressional District
last fall was mainly, if not solely, due to
Republican aid and comfort It seems
pretty conclusively ascertained that an effort
was made in the contest to detach the Re
publican vote from Dr. Felton, and thus
leave him, shorn of that powerful reinforce
ment, to contend as best be might with the
regular Democratic nominee. It seems
equully clear that, with a keen apprehension
of this danger, Dr. Felton, either directly or
by agent, appealed to tbe lenders ot the
National Republican party to keep their
vote steady for him ; and, lastly, the internal
evidences are sirong that this material assist
ance was given hun with tbe result of secur
ing his triumph.
“YY bether General Gordon was ever con
nected, just after the war, »ith business
rntei prise* which proved failures, is a mutter
of no special interest to tbe people of Geor
gia. The hisory of those times is replce
*ith like disasters. The war had swept
away millions of capital, and scarcely had
we begun to repair those losses, when the
poisonous breath of Radical reconstrucioo
dulled enterprise, destroyed credit and
blighted hope. Those years in whieh Gen
eral Gordon was, like the great bulk of his
war-worn and impoverished countrymen,
struggling for bread, are strewn with wrecks
of many bright anticipations, and uny ver
diet which would condemn hint lor having
been overwhelm d by disaster would like
wise condemn them,
“Knowing this, why do we have Dr. Fel
ton harping upon that subject ? Can it be
lor any other purpose than to create an ex
citing and acrimonious skL issue, which will
divert public attention from lie close alli
ance, in Georgia, of Indepeudentism aud
Ridicalism. and blind the eyes of tue people
to that great impending issue at our uext
genera) elections, whou the Democracy ol
Georgia will be called on to meet the o.d
foe under a rnw name, and oppose under (ho
flag of •Independent,* a black tine of battle
office red by white faces”
“Why no w« have Dr. Feltoo harping «o
that suhj-ct ?” Because abuse ol Democrats
and boeiiiity to the Democratic p rty is the
price which ‘lodi-peudenttsra" pays tor Rad- j
teal alliance ar.d aid. To “create «n acri
monioos side issne which will divert public
attention from the elo*e alliance in Georgia
of Independent ism and Radicalism, and blind
the eves of the people.” these wicked and
unjustifiable assaults are made on Gen. Gor
don. Without publicity through the pregs
their vile slanders would fail of their pur
pose. YVe submit that it is not the province
of the Democratic press to furnish the me
dium for the circulation of thesp calumnies.
I/*t the so-called ‘ Indcpei dent” press stir
up strife and discord to ‘-blind the eyes of
the people.” In this crisis of Ihp nation’s
deliverance from Radical n=nrpatinn, mis
rule and oppression, the Democratic press
of Georgia has a more patriotic, a higher
and a holier mission.
Carrying Pistols.
Our reform Legislature, among the many
good things tbut it proposes to do for the
people, is trying, I believe, to amend the
law in reference to carrying pi-lols. A
prominent Georgian told me an incident the
other day that may be of interest, and which
he assures mp actually occurred :
Georgia has a stringent pistol law. The
pennlty is forfeiture of the pistol, a fine of
fifty dollars and, at the discretion of the
eourr, imprisonment for thirty days. A
short time after this law went into effeet.
Judge I/’«ter was holding court in one of
the mount iin counties of North Georgia,
at d, right in the m ; d*t of the trial of a cause,
he asked the attorneys to susoend a few mn
inen's, and told the sheriff to lock the court
house doer and let no man pass out without
permi-sion from him Then, said the Judge
in his firm decided wav, -‘Gentlemen, f saw
a pistol on a man in this room a few mo
ments nen, and I cannot reconcile it to my
sense of duty as a peace officer to let such a
violation of the law pass unnoticed. It mav
be that it is my duty to go before the grand
jury and indict him, but if that mao will
walk up to this Rtund and lay his pistol and
a fine of one dollar down here, I will let him
off this time, otherwise I will go before the
grand jury and testify against him ’’
The Judge pnu-ed, and the attorney who
was sitting down just before the stand, got
up, slipped his hand in his hip pocket, drew
out a neat ivory handled Smith k YVpsson
six shooter, and laid it and a dollar down
before the Judge.
‘•This is all right,” remarked the Judge,
‘ hot vou are not the man that I saw with
the pistol ”
At this another attorney, sitting immedi
ately in front of the Judge got op and,
drawing out a dollar bill, laid it upon.the
stand
“This is right agnin,” suhl the Judge, “but
you are not the man 1 speak of.”
Thereupon, a large man, just outside ihe
Pht, walked around, ran his hand in his bos
om and, drawing out u huge old army pistol,
laid it and a dollar hill on the stand.
“I d* elure,” exclaimed the Judge, ‘‘if this
don’t beat all; you have done right, mv
friend, but you are not the man that I saw
with the pistol.”
This process went on until nineteen pistols
wers lying on the Judge’s stand. Then
there was a pause, and it appeared as if the
crowd was pretty well disarmed; at least, if
there were any more pistols in the house
their owneis did not stem disposed to give
them up.
••Gentlemen,” resumed • the Judge, “here
are nineteen persons who have acted like
men in this business, but the man that 1 saw
with the pistol .has not come up yet, and
now,” continued he, pulling out his watch
and looking toward the far side of the court
house, “1 will give him one minute to ac
cept mv proposition, and if he does not do it
in that time 1 will point him out to the sheriff
and oidet him to take him into custody.”
Immediately two men from the back part
of the house began to move towards the
Judge’s stand. Once they stopped and
looked at each other, and then, coming
slowly forward, laid down their pistols and
their dollars As they turned to leave, the
Judge said: “This man with the trlaek
whiskers is the one that I s»w with the pis
tol.”
Then Judge Lester gave a shait lecture
upon the cowardly, foolish ami wicked habit
ol carrying concealed weapons, and assured
his audience that in the future the law would
be strictly enforced. The Court proceeded
with its regular business, and it is needless
to add that in that county the habit of car
tying pistols was broken «p. — Cor. Nashville
Amei ican.
Southbrn Trirutk to Sb.nator Bruce
YVhile the vote was being taken iD the But
ler-C’orhin case the other day, the handsome
and aristocratic mulatto Senator from Mis
sissippi remained in the cloak room, in con
versation with a friend Mr Corbiu searched
him not and said : “Mr, Bruce, they are
taking tbe vote." But Mr. Bruce made no
reply, and continuer! his conversation Soon
alteiward, Mr Corbin; with increased
eagerness, gave him the same information,
when the Senatorial representative of the
colored race cooliy inlot med him (bat if tie
voted at all it would be to kt-tp Geueial
Butler in his seal. And yet Bruce was
neither bulldozed nor intimidated, and i nly
aeted just as independent colo.ed people in
South Carolina dare now to do, who tad to
support the representatives of Radicalism
Tue Radicals will soon learn that all colored
men do not wear ttuir collars. By the way.
Mr. Biuce did goial service in the tobacco
fi>*ht, .mid will leave the deuate currying
with him the respect of those with whom
he has served.
Concialku YVbapons.— Judge Alex. M
Speer, ol the Flint circuit, announced train
tbe bench ut the Monroe Sujierior eoart, and
will announce throughout his circuit that in
the lutuie be will not be satisfied with in
payment of a fine lor the second offense of
carrying toncinlrd weapons. For the first
offense he will inflict a heavy flue, but lor
tbe second nothing short ot the jail or chain
gaug will ran.-ly off tided justice. Judge
Cqieer is the fiisl Judge in me Btaie to take
the lutaiive iu tins matter It .others wtil
loliow ibe example we uiay be saved iu the
luture irom ihe hvait rending spectacle re
cently witnessed io Atiuuia Boys, look
out 1— Gi iffin News.
A funny scene was witnessed a few days
ago in the Federal Couit at Danville, Ya.,
ibe Juuge ol which (Mives) it wiii be re
collected, recently instructed bis giaud jury
to indict a number ol county Judges tor not
putting colored uien oo tbe juries. A color
ed man nauiea Gravely was indicted tor sell
ing liquor without license Yt ben he saw
the jury before which he was to be t.-ied
•bout equally divided belwten white aod
black, he excMmed : “For God Almighty
sake don't let them niggers try me!” Efforts
were made to pacify him. but he never be
came reconciled. He insisted that “nigger*
wonld hang a man just to see him kick.”—
Baltimore Sun.
From Lowe's District.
Mr. Editor: —“lhe event of the day” has
happened; but as you have already an
nounced it, we will let it slip, by simply
wishing the young coople a joyful married
life. By the way, if, “Irom the abundance
of the heart the mouth speal eth,” we may
expect to hear of another wedding before
many mo r e moons have come and gi np ; for
there were no less than six articles, in Titr
YVbeki.y of the 7th in«t , on the subject of
matrimony and marrieil lit-
The air is made musical these days with
the strange and peculiar notes of passing
cranes going np North to spend Ihe sum
mer—like other rich folks in beautiful leath
ers. ‘ They say” that the winter is over
when tbesp strange migrating feathery tribes
seek a more congsnial dime during the sul
try days of a Southern summer. And, in
deed, it must be true; for it seems as if
Spring hud ‘‘busted wide open,” with all
natnre joining in the chorus. What a
beautiful tie me for poets to write upon !
“ The model farmer of Lowe’s District ” is,
we unders-tand, on the q ui Vive for that corn
he planted some time ago. VVondcr which
way it went, as it has not come np vet?
Perhaps the beat below has distilled it Into
spirits, to quench the thirst of those who
have trafficked in Ihe stuff above. Siten
would be tiui just sod fair, os we ought to
“reap what we have sown.”
They .say that Totrim Brown arid Charlie
Lynn can do more plowing in less time than
any other two fellows in this District. Go
it boys; that's t-he way we got our start!
Mr YY r G McDaniel will, we are in
formed, open a school at Thompson Creek
Academy this Fummer. • Such an idea, we
think, is h ghly commendable, as a school is
sadly needed in that community, there not
being one nowhere within reach. Mr. Me.
has the advantages of a collegiate education,
and is. no doubt, well pr< pared lor the work.
His uncle, the lamented Charlie McDaniel,
ex-President of Bowden Collegiate Institute,
ih ante bellum times, was unsurpassed as un
edneator, oiator and rhetoricianist. YY’e
have heard strains of eloquence burst forth
like torrents from his lips, rivaling the
majesty and beuuiy of the silvery-tongued
Cicero, or the volcanic eloquence of a De
mosthenes.
Why is it that Hampton cannot have a
post office money order department, Mr.
Editor? (Jan you tell ns tbe law on that
subjeet ? Dues the law require that a city
or town must have a certain number ol in
habitants to qualify it for such an institu
tion ? lam certain Hampton needs su h a
convenience, and badly. This depjnent hav
ing several dollars (or a distant frieod, in a
distant Southern State, had to send all the
way to Atlanta for exchange before getting
it in ship shape for the mails, not being
able to get it registered or expressed in
Hampton, and consequently had to go three
time* to Hampton lor the exchange. Such
inconv niences are insufferable, and the
otherwise go-abi-ad business men of H.
onght, we think, bestir themselves to remedy
the evil, or Hampton will lose its prestige
for thrill, pluck a d bnsiness-ltke ways.
The fat mere are making good use of this
pretty weather; and farms that a little while
ago looked bleak, dreary and famine-like,
aie presenting a beautiful appearance be
neath tbe plowman’s steady tread. Tbe eye
that can see no beauty in freshly plowed
fields is simply lost to all that 8 beautilul
Capt. S R. Boown, as usual, leads the
van in farm work. But how can he help it,
with Andrew, his son—a worthy scion o a
noble sire—to push oo the work, while the
Captain stops to rest and smuke the pipe of
peace amidst plenty, and prosperity bloom
ing all around ?
Close in tbe wake of his footsteps are
Charlie Dapree, the Barhams, Lowe, YY’eems,
Puffins, Amis, and a host of others too te
dious io name one by one, all striving to win
tbo prize for the first bale of new cotton.
YY’hile the farms ere all teeming with life,
and being put into good condition, I am
sorry to say tl at a passer-by- canoot fitly
enjoy it, owing to the miserably bail condi
tion of our public roads, which io some
place* are scateely passabl But they must
ever remain so until a more sensible, perfect
and thorough system of road working is
adopted. YY’ben that will be, this deponent
kuowetb not.
Think I will have to take all back about
the “cake bustin’,” for wheat begios to look
up, und you* editorship and Jack Stilweli
may have to try it again on the same kind
ol material, unless you go and do like us,
t. e , draw your valentine lor all time to
come ; ti en fore, we’ll have needs to stuy at
home and hear -‘curtain lectures,” instead of
lover’s wooings. But it’s useless to admon
ish, for nothing wih convince either ol yon
bnt actual experience. So, go it, aud learn
for youiaelvea, like all the world bus done
betore you.
According to an old weather prophet’s
sigo, this is to be a dry year. “YVhen tbe
first thunder oloud of tbe new year comes up
fioin Ur- northwest it is to be dry ; but it it
comes from the bouih it will be wet.” It
setms to me it would take a thousand years
experience auu close observation t* verify
the certainty of these signs ; but as “I am
no prophet, nor the son of a prophet,” I
don't know, and will leave it to time to
prove.
What a blessing it would be if somp peo
ple con|d refrain from chewing their quidt
and squirting tobacco juice all over the floor*
during divine service Hueh public indecency
is disgusting in the highest degree, and
ought to be abandoned V every gentleman.
The ladies wonld be grateful fnr such a
favor, a* it would fnve their dresses the soil
ing pollnti n of such filth. X. Y. Z.
March 1 3th, 1879
New Advertisements.^
Headquarters
FOR 8008 BAMimS!
The Vert Best Goods
At the Lowest Trices!
PLEASE give me your attention while t
throw out ome rtrong, broad remarks,
full ol interest, if economy forms any part of
the new leaf you have pledged voirself to
turnover at the beginning of the year. 1
will te-gin by telliny you (though it is hardly
necessary.) that the country has resumed
specie piyments* and that it will materially
change the monied vulm sof all art cits of
mcrulnndise. It is bound to bring eve, v
thine down to whui is called SOLID HOCK
BOTTOM. I will add in this connection
th.t 1 have in store and shall he constantly
receiving, at intervals to suit the seasons, a
supvrior line of goods, comprising a I articles
usually kept in a Dry Goods and Grocery
Store, and if you are a lover of Nice Goods
and Low Prices, you can’t fail'to appreciate
my effiris to please the public in every way.
Because resumption placed gold at par,
you must not get it into your bead that I am
100 proud to take it. On the contrary,,
or greenbacks ate alike to me.
I take any legal money that is offered, and'
agree to give in exchange the best equiva
lent that can be had in this market. Give
me a call.
, H. P. Mclntosh.
Himpton. Ga., March 21;ly
ALWAYS
IT TIE BOTTOM
Ira. Prices 2
And at the Top
WITH AN UNTARNISHED
Reputation for Fair Dealing!
THIS may he called a fine speech by tWe
who have never taken the trouble to
m,fee my acquaintance, or to s’udy mv mode
of doing business. Still, 1 don’t ask any
body to take my word, nr in laci to be influ
pi ceri in anv way by a mere advertisement,
but cordially invite all to call and investigate
lor themselves, feeling snre I can prove tbut
I mean business und every word I suy.
Fair dealing helps trade better th n fair
weather. Nothing bat steady, low prices,
rear in and ear out will create and main
tain a trade such as I have had since I com
menctd business. No need l of argument
prices alone tell the story.
I have now in stock, and will continue to
keep such articles as
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES.
BOOTS. SHOES, HATS, CAPS,
PLANTATION SUPPLIES.
And a varied and choice assortment of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
T hanking my friends and patrons for their
former lihetal sqpport, I hope, by keep ng
the best and selling as low as the loweat, to
merit a continuance of the same.
Z. T. Manson.
Hampton, Ga., March 21-ly
Exchange Saloon 1
Smoke, Drink and bs Merry!
The Finwt Liquors and Cigars in the
Market i
NEW BILLIARD AND POOL TABLE.'
POLITE AND ATTENTIVE CLERK I
teg-Uive me a call. N.F COX,
mch2ltf • Proprietor.
“Grlenooe.”
This celebrated stallion will stand for the
season as follows : At Uigbtower’s stables
Jonesboro, fi om March 19th to April Ist!
At Mitchell A Hightower’s stables, Damp*
ton. from April Ist to 15th. At Jonesboro
Irom Aptll 15rb to May Ist. At Hampton
fiom May Ist to May 15th. At Jonesboro
Irom May 15:b to June Ist. At Hamp oo
from June la to lath. mch2l ;3m
A ctdiilq ? ou waQt to make .a©*
AgeiilS MONEY pleasantly audUsi
admess Falley, Harvey & (v’o., Atlanta, Ga.
TO MAKE MONEY
Pleasantly and iast, ag.-uu suouid addr<r«*
Matvey & AU*ot», Ua.