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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.