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HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
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.1 AS. K. BHOWIV, Rdifnr.
HAMPTON. GA.. MARCH 28 1879
F.dltorlal Rr«
Coi.pmros wants another Baptist Church.
Booth, the actor, is worth half a m llion.
Snatch thK : v*s art flourishing In'BrgDS-
Xrick.
Tag Talbot County Fuir will be held In
October next.
Thrri are two flourishing literary socie
ties in Forsyth.
E* Prrsidrkt Datis haa been invited to
twit Columbus, Oa.
Mr. Tildih has been inv ted to speak at
the State Unieersity.
Thr cotton reason row cloalrg has been a
good one in Savannah.
Six new hydf.iulic eotton presses will aoon
he put up in Savannah.
Goon prosjecta for small Jfcraln crop* are
reported in TTonston county.
A port omcß haa been established at
Riddleville, Washington county.
Katr Sothfkn will soon be moeed to a
place near Reynolds, in Taylor county.
Thr Democratic members of Congress arc
pnizlrd at fiudiig themselves in the majority.
Hon. W. B. Fi.rmiro will succeed Judge
Tompklna on the bench of the Eastern Cir
cuit.
Akd now cornea Col. A. T Mclntyre as
a candidate lor Governor. Trot ’em out,
gentlemen.
Thr Confedorata monument to be erected
fn M aeon will he put in position some time
hi May next.
Two new lodges of the Ancient Order of
■fforkingmen have recently been instituted
id Savannah.
O’Lrary haa handed over the champion
belt to Rowell, who will take it back to
England with him.
Thr firemen of Augusta claim to be ex
empt from jury duty. The matter will ba
settled by the courts.
Thr Governor of North Carolina haa
made a rrquiaition on Governor Colquitt for
the body of Hiram Norton.
Conviction in Bibb county for mnrder is
• thing of the past. •‘Not guilty," or a
mistrial, is generally th^verdict.
Or and after April Ist the sale of emi
grant tickets to Arkansas and Texas will be
discontinued by all the railroads leadiog
Westward.
Andrew oohxson. Jr., the last surviving
sort of the late ex-President, died in Tennes
see last week. He was for some time an
editor in that State.
Dr. I jlPScomb, or Vanderbilt University,
will deliver the presentation address at the
approaching Commencement of Emory Col
lege. It will be a rare treat.
Of Edgar Poe, Colonel Higginson, who
•aw the poet onee, says that he had an es
aentially ideal face, not noble, yet anything
but coarse, with brilliant eyes, an ample
forehead, and a look of overseusitiveuew.
Wwt John Chinaman paid:
"WliJffc I wish to Irmark,
And my ijlw '• P 1 ;
That (or ways Ih*.' ar* t*ark
Ami lor bills that aye vafrf.
This Congless is damee peculiar !”
Tn* Kentucky Supreme Coort ha# deci
ded that the statute against gaming, wbicn
enables a person losing at a faro table to
recover his losses from the pinprietor, will
not work the other way, and atlow the pro
prietor to tecover losses Irom lortonate play
i*r*
A BArtai.oa whd lately died io Manches
ter, England, left bis property to the thirty
Women who had refused bis matrimonial
offers. He said in his will that to their re
fusals lie owed the peace he had enjoyed
daring life, and that be felt himself their
debtor.
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Great excitement exists in Washington
eounty in consequence of a rnmor that SBO,-
000 was buried during the war in Newford
•Creek, in that county. There has been much
digging and bunting there, and people are
going crasy over the matter. It is a nice
sora, and will enrich the finder if—he find s
tt.
Tb« St. Louis Ttmei- Journal says : “ The
Arkansas Legislature took a iChess the other
day to witress a bowie kuife divertisemeot
between the minority and tbe majority of
tbe ways and means committee. While the
doctors were sewing up the minority the
m.jori'y got in ilitir leport, which was
unanimously adopted.
New Yore Sun : It will take tbe Re- I
pablican Senator" some lime to accustom
themselves to tbe fact that they are now in
fbe mioority, and a still longer time to re
concile themselves to it. That the sense of
the situation has not yet penetrated their
wnderstandings is shown by their attiwnpt to
dictate to the majority what shall acd what
Southern Success.
“Ti e developin'nt of the cotton manufac
ture at the Booth is one of the most encour
aging signs of the times. One cotton mill
at Columbus. Ga.. which now employs 1,600
hands und nses 260 bales of cotton every
wo> k. shows a surplus on its business of
81 581 000. its expenditure for wages alone
amounting to $400,000 per anrnm Several
cotton laetorio*-aie to be creeled at Mobile,
in Alabama, and the advantages afforded by
the South for this particular brunch of in •
dustry will, no donbt, result in its establish
ment at many other points. These advan
tages con-l<t in the ( acts that eotton is two
cert g per pound cheaper than at Northern
factories; tlmt production is also cheaper
to the extent of the saving on the transpor
imion ol raw material, and that cotton
goodg can be rhipped just us conveniently
fioin contiguous Southern ports as from
those at the North."— Northern Exchange
The item to which we here give promi
nrnce is Irom a journal that does not believe
much ‘good can some out of Nnzireth.”
And yet it is sometimes foreed to be candid,
and state the ease truly. The people at the
Noith. however, have but a foible insight
into tLegrnwiig capacity of this section
Whut is doing in Columbus will in ‘he
course of a few years be accomplished else
where, until not even the much vaunted
looms of Europe will give stronger evidences
of prosperity. Columbus is favored with
almost illimitable wnter-powpr ; and yet
there are other mills and other rivers, and
other capitalists, and men of energy, that
will develop means hitherto unthought of.
Nor is this ull. The advantages at com
mand will inure to Southern success, and
success at one point will give renewed life
und vigor in another. This is indicated in
the above. Alabamians have long beheld
the grand success of the Co'umbns factories.
They have seen that, instead ol being allowed
to waste, the immense volume of water in
the Chattahoochee has been utii'zed in rnn
ning mills. These mills not only give’em
ployment to hundreds, of worthy people, but
they cheapen clothing, and thereby confer
upon a large portion of the public a real
and a lasting benefit.
And yft more. It is evidence that the
South before a great while will take a long
strido in the right direction. If cloth can
be made hete, why not oilier things as well ?
100 long have our people been ‘-howeTs of
wood and drawers of water,” and never has
this humiliating truth been more keenly felt
than now. This feeling, more than any
other one thing, serves as an incentive to
energetic action—to the investing of every
surplus dollar in some remunerative enter
prise—to a vigorous prosecution of enter
prises already begun, and the establishment
of real independence of outside assistance
Some time will elapse ere the year of
jubilee comes, but it will come as certain as
fate. Our sunny land, hlegsed by heaven
with all the advantages a people could de
sire, wld yet be fully supplied with the
ineaus of niakiug us great and prosperous.
It will not only regain its old-time splendor,
but will shine forth with udded glory and
power. And to mole it be.
Concealed Weapons.
We incidentally noticed on our local pngo
last week the determination of Judge Bpeer
to aboli-h the bud pructice of carrying con
cealed weapons. The subject is again re
ferred to in order to hold up the warning to
all persons guilty of the offense. The carry
ing of a pistol, dirk, or other murderous
weapon, is fraught with evil and evil only.
It is the resort of the coward, the excuse of
the assassin and the snbttrfuge of the rob
ber. It is the source of nntold mischief,
supplemented by misery and woe te many.
It fills jails, entails a vast expense upon the
State, and jeopardizes human life.
Judge Speer should he aided by the whole
jvipple in bis praiseworthy determination.
He fas set himself an herculean task, but
l) v ' il lh* - man to accomplish what he under
takes; 11 fa docs succeed in this it will be
a niom;m«.ot to h e conrnge, and will entitle
him to the gratitude P* every friend of law
and order. It is fo bebopeu that the other
Judges will co-operate with Judg*** Speer in
this most commendable work, slid not cease
Until the pistol business is broken up en
tirely.
Sa*s the Charlotte (X. C) Observer:
When society frowns with the proper sever
ity upon tbe cowardly bully who goes to
and fio in the earth cootinually peeking
brawls, with a rrvolver strapped around hie
waist, and when human life begins to com
mand a higher price iu tbe Courts than it
does now—that is to say when murder be
gins to be paid (or by the life of the mur
derer— then will the carrying of weapons
stop, and stop more summarily than it will
in tbe meantime. Wbat this country needs
is not so ranch ihe taking away of pistols
from its citizens ns the sure and speedy pun
ishment of the-c ci'izens for any improper
use made of them.
Littt.k —The refusal of tbe United States
Treasurer to pay the $72,000 due Georgia
is in keeping with the usages of his party,
Tbe bill granting tbe payment has been
through Congress and signed by the Presi
dent, and yet Sherman refuses to pay the
amount, on tbe gronnd that Georgia is due
tbe Government for back taxes. It is to be
hoped that a Democratic Congress will see
that its mandate* are Obeyed, and that the
amount due is promptly turned over to
’_H_. *' " . _
Rkerf, oh Fki.ton.—Mr. A. W Reese
the Washington fen respondent of the M-eon
telegraph, thus speuks of Dr FeitonV recent
letter:
‘The late let'pr of the late W. H Felton,
which somehody has sent me a« printed in
the Cartersville Express. deserves some no
tiee at mv hands, which I proceed, here anO
now. to give. In tliat letter it is charged
that ‘a grand consultation wns he'd in
, Washington to conclude the attack on mv
wife, commenced in the Macon Telegraph
and Messenger some weeks ago.’ 8o- far as
that statement concerns, or involves, or is
intended to involve me, it is a lie, Tbe
charge that I amain ‘humble,’ ‘pliant’ tool
of Gen Gordon, or any other man. is also ■
lie, eminently wnrthv Hie man. who, from
[ the shelter of the pulpit, assails all who dare
; question his political orthodoxy, or expose
lis political Lesson It shames me to think
that Georgia should bo held responsible to
the country for a representative in the
national councils so meanly malignant and
unscrupulous ; a servant of the Master so
utterly regardless of his example and teach
ings ; and a fnan st» entirely Inst to all the
instincts and inspirations ol o fair and manly
foe. But, sav what he will, he cannot escape
the od urn of a political alliance with the
enemies of h'* race and country for personal
advantage, nor make his countrymen forget
i hat to triumph over them he bear .ugh t and
was eager to accept uid from the infamous
liidicul party.”
Statistical. — Hi re is a fearful array ol
facts condensed into a small compass. Read
and reflect :
‘•There are in the United States, 146 000
saloons, 128 000 schools, 54,000 churches,
500.000 manufacturers and sellers of liquor;
•ne-twelfih that number of preachers and
one-fourth 'he number of teachers, and be
ing more than twice the number of lawyers,
dociois and preachers. 1 hese liquor deal
ers have 5.000 000 daily customers, or one
hall the entire population. One hundred
thousand are annually tried for crimes coin
mitted under the influence of liquor."
And yet men cun be found who declare
that there is no harm in drinking intoxi
cating I quors.
A traveler in Kansas thns writes of the
Indians *hi,h are to be found in that re
gion : “I should hate to leave the loveliest
post in America logo down wlere the In
dians abide in all their natural, rugged, un
spoiled beauty. It is a very difficult thing
to spoil the beauty of an Indian. The
smuil-pox can’t do it. It i&ther improves
them to be run over by a freight train.
They look better natured and kinder alter
they are struck by lightning. It snhdues
the grotesque ferocity of their expression to
boil them in oil. I don’t really know how
you would go to work to spoil the beauty of
a live Indian.”
The Baltimore Gazette thinks r proper
sentiment wns developed in the caucus of the
House Democrats. Mr. Stephens, of Geor
gia, advanced the theory that the country
was suffering excruciatingly and was in need
o? ?ome legislative einolienta. but the ma
jority of the participants in the caucus
seemed to hold to the idea that the business
before this session wns tbe pa.ssnge of the
Appreciation hills and the repeal of the
political measures already agreed open.
Tornado.—A fearful tornado passed over
Millidgeville on Saturday last, destructive
alike to life and property—several persons
being killed und the Oconee bridge entirely
destroyed. It was indeed a terrible blow,
and one fr«m which the ‘ old Capitol’' will
not soon recover. The damage to property
is estimated at 880.000.
Gown Rack to Farms— Just after the
war, when inflated prices painted pictures of
fortnnes in all kinds of city and town voca
tions—when banking, insurance and the
agency business were supposed to yield
wealth nlmost without limit, and when it
was believed that fortunes could be made by
merely organizing some sort of stock com
pany, and putting the shnres on the market,
there was a general Hocking of yoohg men
from farms to cities and towns to get rich
without labor. But that delusion bus ended
in bitterness and disappointment to thou
sands all over the land, and proved that the
game of living by the wits is one that very
few can thrive at. We are beginning to
realize that farming possesses ow pre emi
nent merit—it will yield a living, if nothing
more, and that is more than can be said of
iTtany city pursuits. It is generally esteemed
a piSdding, nnromantic business ; but this is
by its exemption from tbe harass
ment* *nd tragic featuns that too often
mark the Gainful and exhausting struggle for
tbe maintenance of credit and social poeitioo |
in city life. It requires but a small capital ;
to go to farming. This offers a simple solu
tion to the livelihood pi oblem to all who are
willing to work, and it is N ratifying to find
that the fact is beginning to ts.' realized by
many weary of prolonged idleness *u cities.
St. Louis Republican.
A Moav Convkndar .e Act. — Here is a
sweet morsel for the consideration of Messrs.
Blaiue, Ingersoll. et. al , of the Radical ranks
which they can reflect upon : Jas. Kllis, a
colored blacksmith in Anvericns, who. by
ndostry and economy, has acquired a com
petency and quite a lucrative trade ia bis
profession, on learning that his old mistress,
Viginia Ann Wisham, was in very reduced
circumstances—without even a shelter—
went before Justice J. B. Pilsbnry and
J. H Allen, Clerk of tbe Superior Court,
sad made her a deed to a small place in
Macon county, thus giving her a home in
her old age without lee or reward. Surely
such good deeds as the*e are recorded above,
and will there entitle the donor to a home
in that “home of many mmsions.” Jim
Ellis is a hard working, honest man, and
though his skin is a little dark, his heart is
all right. (Sober and industrious, he has
many Iriends among the whito- race of our
city, who w.ll esteem biin now wore than
ever .—America* Republican. (
Gen. Slocum on the Murder of
Mrs. Surratt.
(Jen IT W. S'octim, one of the most di‘-
tim/nMicd brgarlp. division, corps artd grand
division commanders of iHp war, recently
delivered a lecture id Brooklyn on agents
of the great struggle, during the coarse of
which he expressed the opinion, always
held hv the Union, that Mrs .Surratt was
a murdered woman He sai l :
“I am going to speak to yon one woid
about the ixeention of Mis. Surratt at the
close of the war, for f Ihmk 'nine good
lessons can he burned from the s'ory of
Uer trial and death. I believe any people
situated as we were ought to he cautioned
against pbicing implied confidence in evi
dence given at a time of high excitement.
I cool I stand here to-night, and rela'e to
you fitly incidents that would stive to
caution everybody against taking evidence
against o'liers when the people Were all in
a state of intense exciitment. There never
was a day, there never was an hour, that
I did not believe that Mrs. Sirratt, was as
ii noeen* n woman as there is in this hall.
; [Applause] Hhe was the keeper of a
! boarding house in V. ashington. She boaid
|ed Wilkes Booth and half a dfz n other
Rebel sympathizers, and she had a ion
John If. Surratt. Wilkes Booth was guilty
[of shooting Vr, Lincoln, and this poor
woman was brought to trial in connection
with W ilkes Boitfli, and through the ex
ci'rmerit of the times her neck was brought
to the lial’er. Her daughter, a young girl
eighteen or nineteen years of age, on the
morning of the execution went to the Presi
dent's room and Pegged permission to say a
few words to him on behalf of her mo her,
ai d u Uuited States Senator from our own
State, who ac'ed as door Tender, repulsed
her. saying : ‘No, no ; you cunnot go in.’
Worse than that, meaner than that, the poor
girl three or lour years afterward, married a
clerk in the Treasury Department. No
charges were made against him, hut because
tins cleik hail married tbe daughter of Mrs.
j Surrott he was discharged. Let us hiag of
I our i chit vements, but at the same time let
| us learn to look our faults and errors fairly
and equurely in the face aod acknowledge
them when we have cause to.”
The mu d*r of Mrs. Snrratt was the most
cruel and cowardly act ever committed in
any civilized country. I; is a curious and
| suggestive fact that all who were chi'fly
responsible for the execut on of that innocent
woman have lelt the unseen hand of the
Great Avenger. Stanton, S eretary ot
War, who was perhaps the worst of tbe
number, committed suicide in a fit of re
motse, although the fact was sought to be
concealed. Pre-ton King, tbe Senator from
New oik who repulsed Annie Surratt at
the President's door, in like manner ended
his own life by deliberately jumping fiom a
f 1 rry bout into the Norih titer at New
York and drowning himself.
Andrew Johnson, who signed the death
warrant and despotioally suspended the writ
of habeas corpus that had been granted by
the court, wus st< ieken suddenly with death
upon hi* return to the Senate alter he hid
lelt the Pre idency Judge Advocate Holt,
who conducted the prosecu ion, long ago
disappeared from public view, and whether
dead or alive, nobody knows and nobody
cares. And John A. Bingham, who assisted
Holt, was driven from Congress in disgrace
as.one ol the Credit Mobilier bribe-takers,
and sought reluge in Japan, where, we be
lieve, he now is.— Rochester (A'. Y ) Union.
Montenegro's Good Fortune.
Simultaneously with the signing of the
definitive treaty of peace between Russia and
Turkey, peace has been concluded between
Turkey and Montenegro, out of whose bick
erings grew one of the leading causes of the
war. 'I he plucky little Principality lias not
gained all til t it deserves, lor Oat taro, its
natural seaport, still remains attached to
Austria ; but it has gained a good ileal more
than the most enthus a-t c of its friends were
sanguine enough to ho;*- for even so recently
as a year ago Lacking Oattaro, it has at
least sceuied Antivari und so obtained u
port of its own ; and it lias obtained, fur
ther, the inland town ol Podgoriizu, valuable
as being the commercial eemre of a com
paratively large tract of liifl country When
it is remembered that Montenegro went into
the war with only a single town to her name
—her little capital city ol Cettinje—i«d so
circumscribed by hostile Pow. rs as to be
completely cut off from nntaxed communi
cation with the world at large; and when it
is perceived that as the result of the war shi
has gained two towns,each of which is iargei
than her little capital, and one of which is-a
seaport, it is very obvious that her victories,
in proportion to her strength, have been
uotiiing short of transcendent.
While the Turks will grit their tee'b over
the good foriune that ha-* come to Montene
gro, ihi? good fortune will be observed with
general satisfaction throughput Chrisbr.dom,
for never was good fortune so richly deserv
ed, It is tbe result of honest effoit and ol
the most persistent und most gallant fighting.
The struggle between the Montenegrins and
their Turkish masters has been going on
ever since the Turks entered Europe. In
every generation, for more than 400 years,
this brave race b is protested consiaotly and
I vigorously against the Ottoman usuiping
domination, live Montenegrins have been
, slaughtered in battle time and again ; their
hills have been overrun by Tuikish soldtcrs;
their dwellings have been burned und their
wives and children have been carried away
into captivity. By fire, and sword, and
rapine, tbeir country has been laid desolate
end almost depopulated This has happened,
not once, but many times. And yet they
fave never flinched from the position tuken
when first the infidel invader endeavored to
subjugate them in common witb the races
by whom they were surrounded They were
determined to remain unconq lered, and in
spite of the relatively vast armies sent
against them—as tbe army of 84 OUO men
dispatched hy the Porte in tbe year 1853
and beaten back with great loss—uocon
quered they have remained to this day.—
Philadelphia Times.
The Greenback Element. — Ihe fact that
the greenback eleesm iu the House evinces
a strong disposition to connect with tbe Re
publicans. s.iys the Baltimore Sun, is regard
ed with much satisfaction bv tbe shrewd
Democratic leaders. Ihe majority, if not
all of the Greenback members owe their
election to Democratic votes, and it is argued
lhat when the Democratic m isses see that
they have been tbe means of electirg Re
publicans in disguise, they will not be so
likely hereafter to desert their own party
standard. Mr. De la Matyr, the Indiana
Greenback member. who i* generally recog
n zed as'he leader of. that el m*n* in tie
House, is very sure, it is thought, to act wi’h
the Republicans In his district in 1876
the Ureenbackers polled on Iv 1 464 votes,
while the Democrats polled 17,932 Yet in
1878 the Democrat* iodoiped his nomina
tion, and o( course elected him. The Demo
crats of the West will find 'hat t-hey have
nothing to make by such coalitions as thi-,
and it may have the iffet 10 help induce
them to return to the time-hono ed Detn -
cratrc hard-money principles.
An Indiana Hanna'. —‘The capital d>-
triet ol Indiana has th dist notion ot being
represented in the Forty-fijih Congress by
John Haunt He is a shoit man, with a
tieavy shock of unclipped black hair, with a
very broad face covered With a heavy, jagg ■
black beard, a very low forehead, a very
long waist aid very short legs, with very
long fingers and very big feet. The wai t
ol his coat is longer than ti e waist of hs
person. The skiit reaches below his knee*
and Ins trousers above his shoe toptw He
has a Granger Step, pigeon-toed on the right
side and a lope on.the left. He never wears
a cravat, and, wjth the long skirts of his
coat flaunting, and the broad, square bot
torn? of his trousers' legs flapping, cuts quite
a figure on the floor of the House. As a
iqreaker Hirma belongs to the Conger school,
never aliasing an opportunity to stir up the
Deni' cralic animals by some inepive com
ment of rasping harangue. He is also a.
member ol the House Committee on Naval
Affairs, und, although in his hoosier home he
is more accustomed to two smoke stacks on
a flaiboat, he says he does not ol j ct to two
‘ stove pipes” on a “schooner.’’ —Globe Dem
ocrat It ashington Letter.
A Cam, on tub Democrats to Stand ry
tiikir Colors —There can be no retreat lor
the Democrats from the position they hare
taken as to tbe repeal of the F deral supe -
visor laws, the jurors’ test oath, anil the u-e
ol troop* at ihe polls These law* must be
repealed, cost «hat it may Thr Democra s
of the last Congress stood wiih pi rfpi t
unanimitT upon ih s ground, and for the in
coming -Congress to recede from it would
cause a feeling ol shame and despair in the
rank* of the Democracy that would he fore
boding of r'eleat in 1880 A back down
would bp greeted with the scorn and deris
ion of the Republicans. It is announc<d
that Mr. Hayes will veto the repeals, and
veto any appropriation bills to which they
may be ttached. This would he the mo t
fortunate Ihmg that could possibly happ. o
to the Democracy. That would he ihe finest
issue that could possibly be made up lor
them before the country at the next election.
It must alwn'S be remembered that this is
not ‘ hasty legislation," to check which the
veto tower wa* given to the Executive. It
is not a new law to be passed, bnt an old
and vicious one to De repealed. It is a law
which the people see has lodged too danger
ous a centralizing power in the Executive, a
power which bus been corruptl. used and
which will be so again, und it is the puipose
of ihe people to lake it away. It is thus
exactly analogous to the contest in England
between the Common* and the Royal Pre
rogative. Let that issue be clearly made
before the people here, uud there is no doubt
how they will decide it .—Baltimore Gazette.
New Advertisements.
SHERIFF'S SALE FUR MAY.
'Vjll be sold before the Court house dooi
i i the town of McDonough. Ga., . n ti e first
Tuesday in May nex', within the legal hours
ol sale, the following property, to-wit :
Eighty-five acres ol innd mote or less, in
said county, lot unknown but bounded as
follows : On the north, south and west by
lands of S 11 Griffin, and on the east hy
lands of K W Jackson. Levied on as the
property of R M Walker and J A Walker
to satisfy a fi fa issued front Henry Superior
Court in favor of Stewart <fe Ham hr ck vs.
the said R M Walker and J A Walker.
Tenant in possession notified this 21st day
of March, 1879
WILLIS GOODWIN, Sheriff
Gullett’s Improved Cotton Gin.
Plavtkrs are respectfully invited to ex
amine this Gin before buying I will keep
sample Gin, with Feeder. C mdenser and
Gullett’s Double Revolving Cotton Press
(dispensing with a lint room,) alwa- s on band
for exhibition. We guarantee the most per
leet satisfaction to purchasers, in f7ary par
ticular. Toe price will be reduced n> xt a-a
son from $4 to §3 50 per saw on the Gins,
and from @1 25 to $1 on the Feedeis. I
refer all to the accompanying certificates of
our cotton buyers and planters of last year,
and to the eeriifieaies of well known planters
who are using Gullett 'a Gins, as to the extra
prices obtained for cotton vtoned on them
J A. BEEKS, AgeDt.
Griffin, Ga., March 10, 1879.
Griffin, Ga., March 1,1879.
We, the omit r.-igned, are using theGullett
Improved Lght Draft Cotton Gfn Tbe
Gm is of superior workmanship For fast
ginning, safety in running and light draft (to
do the same work,) we think it has no equal;
bat the most important feature is Ihe attach
ment for opening and improwing the sample.
The best cotton is improved by it so as to
bring from >£ to 14 cent, and stained and
diny cotton from % to 1 cent per lb. more
in Ibe Griffin market than on other Gins
(Signed), W J Bridges T W Manlev, J T
Mauley. ......
Griffin, Ga , Msv 17 187-6.
T ° J A Uech, Agent for the Gullett Gm
Man tgLo . Griffin, Go —AI your re
quest, we, planters and dealers in coitoo, give
to the public oor opinion of your Gsn. We
lake pleasure in saying to ail in need of new
Gins ihat it is now a well established fact
that cotton ginned on these Gms brings a
higher price in our market than any 01 her,
and tbe Gins are growing in public lavor.
Cotton giomd ou ibem sold lasi re,son at
from C 4 10 1 ceoi per pound above tbe mar
ket puce. Mr. Gullit’s attacnim nt ior im
proving the sample oi cotton we aie satisfied,
is what he claims for it. I'be Gin appears
to have reached perlection in gin machine v.
(Signed) A C Sorrel, T J Brooks, R P
McWilliams. S B McWilliams, 1) W Pat
terson, R H Sims, 1 J Blood worth.
1 am also ageut for the celebrated Eclipse
Portable Engine, manufactured by Fuck &
Co, lor the cuuuties ol Butts. Spudiug I
Fayette mid Clayton. J. A BEtKa.
Headquarters
FOB SOOS BARGAINS l
The Vert Best goods
At the Lowest Prices I
PLEASE give me your attention while t
throw out -ome strong, broad remarks,
foil ol interest, if economy forms any part of
the new leaf you have pledged voarself to
turn over at the beginning of the year. I
will b' giu by teliing you (though it is hardly
necessary.) that the country bus resumed
specie p .ynients. and that it will materially
cuange the monied v.dm *of all art. cleg of
merchmdise. It is bound to bring every,
airing down to what is called SOLID RUCK
BOTTOM. I will add in ibi* connection
that I have in store and shall be constantly
receiving, at intervals to sud the seasons, a
superior line of goods, comprising a I articles
usually kept in a Dry Good* and Grocery
Storw, and if you arc a lover of N ce‘ G#od«
and Low Prices, you can’t tail to appreciate
my efforts to please the public in every way.
Because resumption pluced gold H par.
you most not get it into your head that I urn
too proud to take it. On tbe contrary,
gold, silver or greenbacks are alike to me.
1 take any legal money that is offered, and
agree to give fn exchange the best equiva
lent that can be had in this market. Give'
me a call.
«H. P. Mcln.osh.
himpton Ga.. March 2I;ly
ALWAYS
IT TIE BOTTOM
In Prices 2
And at the Top
WITH AN UNTARNISHED
Reputation for Pair Dealing!
THIS may be called n fine speech by those
who have never taken the trouble to
make my acquaintance, or to study mv mods
of doing business. Still, 1 don’t ask any
body to take my word, or in faet to be !,,flu
ei ced in any wav by a mere advertisement;
but cordially invito all to call and investigate’
lor themselves, feeling sure I eun prove that
I mean business and every word I say.
Fair dealing helps trade better than fair
weather. Nothing bnt steady, low prices,
tear in and 'earont. will create and main*
tain a irade such as I have had since 1 cotu
menci d business. No need ol argument—
prices alone tell the story.
I have now in stock, and will continue to
keep such articles as
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES.
ROOTS. SHOES, HATS, CAPS,
PLANTAIIUb SUPPLIES,
And a varied and choice assort tm nt of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Thanking my friends and patrons for their
former libeial support, I hope, by keep ng
the best and selling as low as ;he lowest, to
merit a continuance ol the same.
25. T. Manson.
Hampton, Ga.. March 21-ly
Exchange Saloon l
Smoke, Drink and be Merry f
The Finest Liquors and Cigars in the
Market!
NEW BILLIARD AND POOL TABLE l
POLITE AND ATTENTIVE CLERK r
SSaT"Give me a call. N. F COX',
meh2ltf Proprietor.
Notice.
GEOt*.GlA—Henry Countu:
All persons are hereby notified that foar
weeks after date application will be made to
the Conn of Ordinary of Henry «ounty for
leave to sell certain mill proporty, to wit:
Lee’s mill, situate, lying and being io tku
orgmal 12ih district of said county, (tbe
same being a portion of the lot of land io>
said district npoo which now resides cue
James Gilbert,) belonging to the estate of
Samuel Lee, late of said county, deceased
January 29, 1879. WM. O. BE ITS
Adm'r de bonis non of Sum’l Lee. dsc’d.
Resolutions for the New Year
All persons indebted fo me are earnestly
requested to come forward a 1,0 settle ~|3 e
tlmr accounts will be placed in an nffiVe-'s
hawds lor immediate collection. ’l’be money
most positively accompany a || future orders
and no credit will hereafter be extended to
e*-n the most sincere Iriend. Plea-e take
particular notice of .he above and govern,
accordingly.
B P THOMPSON’.
Hampton, Ga , January 10,l878:3in
“Olenooe.”
This celebrated stallion will stnnd for the
season as follows : At Hightower’s stables
Jonesboro, from March 19th to April Ist’
At Mitchell £ H ghtower’s stables. Ha-np
ton. from April Ist to 15th. At Jonesboro
from April ]sth to May Ist. At Hampton
from May Ist to May 15th. At Jonesboro
from M«y 15 hto June Ist. At Hump 00
|root June Ist to 15th. mchil;3m