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iiENKV COUNTY WEEKLY.
R. T. HARPER & CO.,
rRf'PRIETORa.
Terras of 9nbscriptiop $1 50
(INVARIABLE IK ADVANCE.)
.1 AS. F.. BROWN, Editor.
HAMPTON (iA., JULY 11. 1P79.
lorial Brevities.
Fi.berton want® a Fair.
Quitman lias a Lodge of Honor.
Tai button is n good wool market.
Barnksvili r has had nn elopement.
1 iie.bridge question exciles Augusta.
Dr. R. R. Harden, of A Hunts, is dead.
lux Legislature is tinkering at the Code.
It is said watei melon voice will make good
jelly.
Hill and Stejihens have bjried the
liatchet.
sWatok Hampton is suffering from bin
wounds.
Dr. Lipscomb is prostrated by nervous
debility.
Tiik Rehoboth Sunday-school Convention
was a success.
Thr Tennessee Legislature leaves the dog
alone in his glory.
JudOk Underwood favors tbe release of
Grant and Nutting.
Rattll'Snakks are a common product in
some parts of the Staid.
Tor Legislature met on the 2d, and is
now up to its ears in work.
The road from Tolbotton to Cbuljbeate
Springs is now iu good order.
Professor Mallon is the new Superin
tendent of schools iu Fulton county.
The Commencement exercises of Mercer
University were unusually attractive.
Albert Callaway, a piomising young
man of Macon, killed himself last Satuiduy.
Five hundred dollars reward is ( fFercd for
tbe authors of the Laurens county jail de
livery.
The friends of tbe late Dr. Myers io
Suvuunuh have erected a monument to his
memory.
These is an old Depress in Upson county
who speaks French fluently j but she just
mangles the “Queen’s English.”
The Buena Vista Argus objects to dogs
atti tiding church. We thought Brother
Singleton had a more liberal creed.
Senator Carpintrr declared in the Sen-
Htc that there is no such thing as a trial by
jury in tbe Federal Courts; and, we may
add, very lew in any other.
Perpktuat. Motion. —Someone in Ber
rien county claims to have invented perpet
ual motioo. Here is what the News says
about it:
Mr. Vickery, of this county, who is re
poited to have invented a perpetual motion
machine, is said to have his invention closely
hid from public view. We heard of a peu
tlcmuH who offered him five dollars just lot a
look at it, but he was refused. Another
gentleman offered him a thousand dollats in
cash for it aod a good per cent, on all money
rtade by tbe invention, hut tide was also re
fused. So there must be something “in it.”
Perpetual motion !—something that goes
ever! Like Benjamin Franklin, we are un
believers ia it. Human genius, though
capuble of wonderful development, has not
yet reached that point. Perhaps, however,
this Berrien county man can prove that
‘‘there are giore things ’twixt heaven and
earth than is dreamed of iu our philosophy.”
It is time for the Democratic pnrtv to
take a stand on the money question. It is
time to take a stand with Bayard and the
bondholders, or wilb Thurman and the
people. It is shameless to temporize longer.
The rank and the file of the parly favor the
“Ohio idea,” as it is derisively called by
Eastern Democrats.— Sparta hhmaelilt
Keep quiet. Ail these matters will adjust
themselves during the campaign. Do not
become impatient and fly 06 at the handle.
Let os wait for the wagon. Large bodies
move slowly. Haste sometimes results la
tally. The Democratic party is prepuring
to pass the bridge and then burn it. The
gnns ft am Ohio will thunder the signal for a
geueral engagement.
Rsd Hot. —The canvass in Ohio promises
to be red hot. Both Ewing and Foster are
in earnest. They want the office of Gover
nor. and are willing to labor for it Foster
baa the most money, and be and his relatives
will go to the extent of their pile to secure
it. EwiDg was in the war; Foster birtd s
substitute. There is enough churged nguinst
each to give him a life situation on the
chain-gang; and perhaps it tr mild be a
benefit to tbe country if the defeated man
could find his way to the penitentiary when
tbe campaign closes. But we hope Ewing
will wiD, albeit his notions 00 tbe currency
question are unpopular. It will be a hard
tussle
A GtoitGLA Gibl-— M I63 Leila A. Noble,
a young lady of Georgia, while traveling in
Europe went down to the bottom of the
great Dolcoath mines, (Wales,) a distance of
•over 2,200 feet, and fearlessly explored its
reuemea. The feat called forth hearty
The Leaning Svstem.
'! he Wesleyan Ch<i«tiar) Advocate hn* this
notice of an article which appeared in a lafc
number of the Christian- Index :
“The Chriilian Index, m'ntioning the fact
• hat there are twelve bandied convicts leased
out by the State of Georgia, adds this
piregpnt phrase : 'Supposed to he receiving
nnriiahmen* for or me.' It is to hp hop<d
that the Legislutim, al its appioachlng se«-
sion, wilt look thoroughly into this loose
ststem. It is full of imperfections and lia
ble to constant abuses in many directions
It nothing elre could he said against it. this
; 9 enough ; too many prison rs get away
As it perms to us. tbe whole systf m is ut
terly iuadiquote and unsatisfactory.”
We indorse the above most heartily. This
!ea=e business is a farce. It is an undoubted
failure. The people nre waking up to the
fact that justice is not meted out as it should
be. Even could this system be justified on
the score of increased revenue, the manner
in which it is carried out utterly defeats the
ends had in view, v<z : the punishment of
tlie convict. The excuse why it was gone
into nt all was that some means had to be
devised to reduce tbe expenses of the State,
and those then in power, in the fertility of
tiieir inventive genius, fell upon this. But,
as above stated, the plan “is full of imper
fections, and liable to constunt abuses in
many directions.”
l/d ns reason u little. The end and aim
of the Legislature in the ndnption of the
penitentiary system was the proper punish
ment of petsons convicted of certain classes
of crime. If, daring his confinem nt, the
prisoner could be made to earn something,
so much the better. At any rate, bis pun
ishment for violating the law was the first
object in view. Tbe system operated well;
•*—at some expense, it is true, but it worked
well under Democratic rule. When the
Rad cals got in power, among their many
strange and ruinous schemes was Ibis one of
leasing the convicts. A Radical Legisla
ture, many of whose members have since
served terms on clmin-gangs, adopted the
plan, and for years this miserable farce bus
berm going od.
Admitting 'hat the State ha- been benc-
Gtted by this system, financially, which we
very much doubt, it has done more than
enough mischief to counteract any good it
may have accomplished. Tlie abandonment
of vuluable property at Milhdgeville is
among the leust of the evils it has wrought.
Nor is the sending here and there, in quiet
neighborhoods, of bodies of cut-throats,
murderers, nssussins and other criminals,
likely to conserve tbe morula or the peace
of the people. The presence of even one
such character is suggestive of evil.
The system is wrong in other aspects. It
operates disastrously to the laborer, us well
as to others. It throws into the probabili
ties tbe labor of the convict being put io
the scale with tho honest man. A serious
and determined opposition to the system has
already been manifested on the part of the
people, and we hope the present Legislature
will adopt some plan that will come Dearer
fillit g the behests of the law.
New Volume.
With thiH issue The Weekly enters its
fourth year. Volume 1 fI. is itmortg tl>e
things thot were ; but it made a record while
in existence that we huve no cause to be
ashamed of. It battled for the right ; it
denounced error, and upheld with all its
ability the true interests of this section. In
the volume here begun the same liue will be
followed. The Weekly will continue to
ophold the tauth, and to vindicate the honor
of Georgia.
Now, friends, lend a Helping hand. There
are many persons in this and neighboring
counties who should take Thr Weekly, und
we sincerely trust that our friends will make
some effort in its behalf, however small, so
that we may be all the better enab'ed to
work io the line of our mission. Henry
county especially should see that its home
organ is sustained.
Send iu your names am! help ns a little.
Thr 4th was observed in very many cities
with much eclut. Enthusiasm prevailed gen
erally. In some portions of the country no
notice of the day was taken over any other;
yet it is evident that there still lives and
burns, deep down in the hearts of all Ameri
cans, a lingering regard for this natal day of
our independence. However much its out
ward observance may be neglected, it is a
fixed fact that its history is cherished by the
nation, and the thrilling thunders of the rev
olutionary struggle will reverberate through
all time.
Fai« Play.—Thk Wsbsti.Y has never ex
pressed a preference for any man for Gover
nor ; but in the name ot fair play it protests
agaiust (be flings which are being made at
Governor Colquitt for his Real iu religions
iillairs. The Governor is a conscientious
Christian, an upright and honorable man—
ihe peer in this respect of any man iu Geor
gia—and should not b« the subject ot ribald
r- or jest for simply carrying out bis pro
fessed convictions, honest as everybody' knows
them to be. Stop it.
Tint ‘Central Georgia Weekly is laboriug
hard and to but very little purpose in en
deavoring to belittle certain men and jour
naU in 1h Li SlatA ( In ujl binej;\CHjq no aiig
gest to our contemporary that a more re
spectful tone would be likely to accomplish
but now we shall never meet "again.” '
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From Pecksville.
Mr. Editor .’—After a long silence. I grn*p
♦he quill.to give you a few dots from this
dark corner.
We will soon have the Rmall grain gath
ered into the garner. Wheat has yielded
»bnn'tnn<lv this season. William (lowan
raised 2*i bnrhe'a nn one acre, and our f iend
end neighbor, Pi| v Wf John, nearly doubled
TTnc'e Book Wvnn in the wheat line. Bil’y
is sn nrnu.l of bis achievement that he has
not misquoted a single passage of scripture
sinep.
•Tame® T,egnin who ha-* had a long spell
of fiver, js slowly recovering, and will soon
be on foot again.
Farmers have made sad havoc with the
grass since the drv spell set in, and most of
them are up with their work Sam Tingle
nr d John Hooter, are the hardest workers in
this pommnnitv. Their emaciated hoTes
fullv attest this fact, as there is but little left
of them save skin and bones. They should
rejoice, however, that their hides are tough
enough to hold what bones they have—till
peb time, at |ca°t
The Quarterly Mpp*ing for this circuit
will he at ffew Hope Church on the
second Snndnv in Ju'v The meeting will
prob iblv be protracted several days.
The funeral sermon of C I. B'lloek will
I be preached hv Rev James Kimnref at
Sardis on the Ist Sunday in A ngust.
We are having a very interesting Sunday
school nt this place now Ihe entire neigh
borhood seem to feel the importance and
great need of a proner training of the young.
We are rejoicing muchly over tho pros
pect of the mail route through here It i“
one of tlie needs that has long been felt, and
will enable us to hear of all the floods, dis
asters at sea, earthquakes, suicides, mar
riages, and other things equally as bad, be
fore thp t ews becomes old to others
fir. Wvnn sits and sighs the live long day
for jasr a few more barrels of water to glide
down Tu««ahaw. Unless it tains soon that
stream will be as dry as a contribution fu>x
and the Dr. will have to set k the aid of
steam power. Proci.us.
Dear Weekly: —lt bus been some time
sinre this portion of the countv has received
o notice in your attractive columns. ‘ Full
many a flower is born to blush unseen,” etc-,
was not written of us (or we are determined
to be heard. The hardy son* of toil in this
section lujJb struggled gallantly this year,
and the world may as well know it. As n
result o* their labors they have fine crops—
at leusl of cotton. Corn is not so good.
The farmers are, to u=e n common and
expressive phrase, nearly done “laying by,”
and are rot pushing their labors so vionr
ously a* they did a few weeks ago, Yon
may now drive by a farm house long after
the hour of noon and see the proprietor sit
ting barefoot under the spreading boughs of
some friendly shade tree, every now and then
giving a significant squint at the sun as he
hitches his chair further in the shade, while
a smile of satisfaction steals over his rough
lectures, as much as to say : “Ab, old Hal,
you have warped me this summer ; but never
mind, we will soon dissolve copartnership
for a season ”
1 notice in your columns n name r.flered
for census-taker in 1880. Now we have a
man down here that would just fit that posi
tion exactly. He is worthy, well qualified,
and ought to have It. I allude to W. W.
Harper, the active and popular agent for the
‘•Centennial” cot'on gin.
A writer in a late issue, signing himself
J. L. Adams, lakes savage hold upon a piece
recently penned by our reverend friend, J.
M. Thurman, nnd fights its frantically. It
is rather unkind in friend Ad ims to place
the construction that he does upon the piece,
and allege that Bro. Thurman lias not pro
perly read his Bible, and I don’t know what
else. Now we are not going tc permit this,
for Bro. Thurman lives tight down here—is,
in fnet, one of us; and in the innocence of
his Ireart he wrote that short piece, not
thinking to stir up uny strife. It was writ
ten in a spirit of pleasantry, and we intend
that there shall be no misconstruction of it.
Bro. Adams seems to love religious fighting
and if he doesn’t watch will place himself in
the same predicament ot a young man claim
ing to be from somewhere near Hampton,
who wa« down he.e two or three years ago.
( That was when we had a grocery here. VVe
have reformed since) Well, this young fel
low entered our usually quiet place with bis
punts stufled into his bools, at d s-oau com
menced making tearful gyrations with his
arms, at the same time loudly pronouncing
left-handed blessings upon Peeks Ville and
the world generally, »o the no small terror of
the women and child ten ; and as lie stamped
up and down in front of the grocery door
would yell out, “I am the best man that ever
walked Main street in Peeksvilie! Can
whip any man that ever trod sole-leather!
Whoopee! I am naturally spilin for a fight!
Dare any man to call me a liar! Drutber
have a fight now than to eat my dinner 1”
The next morning he was found sitting on a
wood-pile in the rear of the grocery, with his
face buried in his hands, and groaning hor
ribly. He had a tearlul btuise on the back
of his hi ad, three of his front teeth were
knocked out, and he sported a black eye
W e remarked that beseemed rather batte cd
up, and lie faintly murmured, “Yes ” VVe
continued : “Thought you said yesterday
that you loved fighting.” “So 1 do," he
said, “but then I'm uo glutton. Do you
take me for a blamed hog!"
“Charity hides a multitude of sins” Bro.
Adurns Guy llaspar.
From Tussnliaw.
Nlr. Editor :—During the pist few weeks
the weather has been dry and hot on this
side of the county, as in most sections. 'l'bere
have been but few light showers of rain, and
growing crops are sufl-ring. 1 think that
corn—especially uplauds— is injured, al
! though it has generally been well worked.
Garden vegetation is also suffering. Cotton
is growing. Small grain turned out very
well.
We have had some sickness, principally
1 among children, but so far confined to settle
ments. home have died. Two beautiful
little girls were buried near Locust Grove on
the 18th ult., the daughters respectively
of Mr. and Mrs. Piuitt and Mr. and Mrs
Colvin, who have our united sympathy*
I'bere is nothing exciting in these parts.
I desire to say to Bro. J. L Adams, of
Oi.k Lawn, that there was a slight mistake
in the copying of the paragraph I gave The
Weekly My copy read: “If Bro. A.,
our retormer, don’t cease to be so astouUlnd,
and Bro. J. L A , of Oak Lawo. so demon
tuntial til tue utkA'P.'— "»mIH
Weekly Baptist,” etc. I haven't the pleas
ure of an acquaintance with Bro. X ; My
attention was specially c.tlled to hii com
munications by a zealon® advocate of what
is known as the Stumbling Slone doctrine,
(which I believe allows a person to select
his own creed and act independently of
everybody, so they don't stumble into an
organization or nn to nn ordinance,) claim
ing that it was Bro. J (I. Coldwell, of the
M. P. Ch urch, and that be had espoused
their cause. I cou'dn’t deny it, as I knew i
nothing about it. About the time of the j
appearance of Bro. X’s article expressing
such great astonishment at what he heard a j
minister say of baptism, and that everybody j
couldn’t see that they ought to be immersed
to fulfill righteousness, this same brother in
formed me that he was mistaken. I simply
alluded to his astonishment and your demon
strations. but didn’t reflect upon b'S plan of
reformation, nor yojr mode of baptizing, nor
your demonstrations, nor shan’t at present,
and pe: haps not nt all, as I have no
relish for controversy ; and it is more than
probable that neither yon or I would inter
est thr paper or the public. But, Bro. A.,
I still (ail to see anything strange in that
language, coming from anybody. How did
von expect to accomplish anything if your
demonstrations (to which I simply alluded,
without comment,) escaped our notice ? Wp
read about all Thr Weekly contains. And
how do you know tha* I was not willing for
The Weekly to publi-h what Bro. X. and
yourself might have to say ? I certainly
didn’t say so, nor did I feel so. I have great
veneration for my Baptist brethren and
friends, of whom T claim some in all tbe
families—Primitive, Mi-sionary, Free-will
and Bible Christians—and bid them God
speed in every enterprise for good. If no
applicant goes to them. I want them to bap
tize him. and if they come to me believing
immersion the proper mode of baptism, as an
humble minister in the Congregational
Methodist Church —I will administer the
ordinance that way, in the name of the L 'rd
Jesus. Bitl am very happy in being a
Congregational Methodist, my brother, and
not a Congregationalist; nor am I in the
wrong pew, but wi'ti n a body of Christians,
wherein 1 believe the pure Word of God is
preached and the sacraments duly adminis
tered by duly authorized persons, and where
each member is a constituent of the church
—having also a tribunal to which 1 am
amenable it I become inconsistent. I am
glad. Bro. A., that The Weekly is not re
sponsible for your publications. It relieves
it of a great responsibility. 1 make no pre
tentions to being advanced in Bible knowl
edge, and was not strictly scripturally speak
ing, but usiug the term iu its general accep
tation.
I have known a great many Baptists who
didn’t baptize. 1 don’t know that the
Christian Index and Southwestern Baptist
ever baptized, yet as a journal it will bear
the appellation, for we can see its doctrine
manifested in almost every article. I have
seen a great many people that never bap
tized who are proud of that appellation be
cause it expresses theii religious sentiments
and their relations to that great body of
Christians. I called The Weekly excel
lent beeuose it is a neat, firm, high-toned
domestic paper that every Innniy in the
county needs But if it should abound with
such productions as Bro X's “great aston
ishment” and your baptismal “demonstra
tions.’’ we will have to call it Bip’i’t, but
still shan't know what kind of Baptist to
call it. John M. Thurman.
'lussaliaw, June 3 Oih, 1879.
Brooks Station Locals.
BY S. 0. BODY.
The continued drought has proved almost
fatal to early planted upland corn.
W. G. Bishop threshed out one hundred
and ninety-two bushels of wheat, gathered
front 19 acres.
VVr had a fine shower of rain on last
Sabbath. It rained one hour—the first
since the 17tti ol May.
Messes. Stf-ikiieimrr & Bowers are yet
in the field threshing wheat. They will
reach 10,000 bushels this week, aud will
continue through next week.
Judge Mitcham has resumed his school,
after two weeks* vacation. The Fall session
has opened with a flue prospect, and prom
ises to excel the Spring session.
Ma. Emanuel Sledge, in a friendly
scuffle with one of bis neighbors last week,
received a fall, which resulted in breaking
bis leg a few inches above the ankle joint.
Mrs Coixin’s school was re opened last
Monday with a considerable increase. The
fall session of her select school will be largely
attended. Her patrons were mnch pleased
at the progress and profieieucy made by her
pupils during the Spring term.
The katydids commenced their nocturnal
lullabys ou Thursday, the 26th of June.
According to the oracles of the weather
wise, frost make its appearance in 12
weeks after, which will give us the first frost
for the year 1879 on September the 26th.
The District Conference for the Metho
dist Protestant Church will convene on
Thursday, the 24th inst, at Brooks-Station.
Many ministers and delegates from a dis
tance are expected to be in attendance. Rev.
F. H. M. Henderson, the President of the
Georgia District, will preside.
The croquet ground has been removed
beneath the umbrageous foilage of Rev.
L. M. Boykin’s grove. A delighted audience
assembles every afternoon to witness the
scientific skill of our amateurs. We chal
lenge the five adjoining counties to beat our
club of four in a double matched game.
Wbc will respond ?
Mr. Joe Prince aud family, from Amer
icus, are on a visit to Dr. J. W. Duubar’i
Mrs. Prince is the appointed representative
of the “Memorial Association” to receive
lunds to assist iue ladies in Southwestern
Georgia to remove the Confederate dead
from Andersonville to Americas. Success
«K*» l- J Ttr istpys v _
The 4th of July singing at ’County-line
Ghnrgli was attend'd by "Into thousand
pe’ople. and was tbe most sociable affair of
the kind ever witness, din these parts. The
d, lilierntions were presided over by Absalom
OgM ee, with dignhy and eatisfac’ion.
Fayette, Spalding. Meriwether, Pike, Cow
e'a and Tfenry counties were represented hy
some of their l>est citizens.
Our negro religionists have an unceasing
revival, and make the midnight hideous wdh
their enthusiasm. One-half of the assembly
are preachers, ami all of them must take a
bout ip voc feron« harangue ere the serviees
close. It may be ealled a revival, but Web
ster’s lexicon has another word that suit®
the occasion much better—nuisance.
Whenever a cloud rises in the west and
tak-s its course eastward, Andrew Dunbar
takes down the railroad in a quarterly meet
ing trot, in advance of the cloud. He says
he desires once more to see a rain fall on
hi® farm. If it should rain on his farm some
night while he was asleep, I verily believe
he would go crazy. And then you might
look out for another “susnneide.”
We have many hea'ed discussions over
the verdict in the Hill-Simmons trial in
Atlanta a few weeks since. The majority
express the affair as one that reflects much
discredit upon a Georgia jury. The ex
pressed opinion is that tbe conduct of Sim
mons in the whole affair was brutish in the
extreme, and he should have paid the pen
alty with his life. We have no more sym
pathy for men of this class than we have for
voracious wild beasts of the jungle, or the
forest. the sentence be reversed and
Hill set at liberty, is the populnr feeling.
Mr. Joe Prince is something of a poet,
and always makes his illustrations in verse
instead of anecdote He illustrated his
point in an nrpnmmt on hard times the
other day. thu.-ly :
“Now It is apples, peaches, pears and
pin in® ;
It is neither here nor there,
So take it as it always comes
And never get angry a"d swear.”
1 have been following Joe around ever
since he uttered the above stanza. 1 have a
great passion for poetry, ami fall in love
with all the poets for their genius.
Our Stockbridge Letter.
Mr. Editor: —We are moving tilings
around lively now, bringing the summer
campaign to a close. Some of our fanners
have finished “laying by.” Early com is
materially injured.
Miss Delia Cawley departed this life on
tbe 21st ull., at the tesidence of her si.-tcr,
near this place.
There is some sickness in onr neighbor
hood now, though mostly confined to chil
dren.
Mrs. Sarah E nambrick is *o have her
dower located soon by the county surveyor.
Our section has been unusually quiet since
the Revenue officers were here.
Our fourth of July celebration look place
at Panther creek, near this place, and was
marked hy a degree of t njnyinent that wo
have rarely seen equaled The people began
to gather early in the day, and by ten
o’clock no less than e ; ght hundred had col
lected on the ground, all hent on having a
good time, and fully prepared for any amuse
ment that might be suggested. 001. T. C.
Nolan arrived about eleven o’clock and
favored us with one of the finest orations
that was ev 'r heard in these parts. He did
honor to himself as well as to the occasion,
and was enthusiastically applauded He was
followed by Uncle Davy James, who made a
®hort temperance speech, after which the
baskets were produced aud their contents
spread upon a table erected for the occasion,
when all present were invited to partake
which they did with evident redsh The
fantostics made their appearance during the
day, to tbe great amusement of tiie entire
crowd, and especially tbe little folks.
The large cotton fac'ory at Flat Shoals,
belonging to Roocrt Clarke, was destroyed
by fire ou the Ist inst. lusured for 835,000.
Auricola.
Obituary.
Martha J , consort of Benj. P. Thomp
son, and daughter of J T. and L. E. Law
rence, was born near Woodbury, September
30th, 1853, and died in Hamptou, Ga., June
19th, 1879.
At the age of fifteen years stlie attached
herself to the M. E. Cbutch, South, at New
Hope, Meriwether county, but after mar
riage, for sake of church privileges, united
with the Pi imitive Baptist Church, in which
she remained a consistent ami exemplary
rat mber to the end.
Those noble qualifies which so admirably
adorned her youth and won so many kind
and true friends, characterized her short,
though quiet, peaceable, geuial and joyous
life. Indeed, her “career had been like the
blaze of the sun in the fierceness of its noon
day glory, and her death as lovely as the
summer’s evening when the sun goes down
iu tranquil beauty without a cloud.”
She was a dutilul daughter 4 a kind, teo
der and affectionate wite and mother; a
geutle, obliging and cordial sister; an un
selfi-h, sincere and respectful iriend and
neighbor, aud an earnest, constant and con
sistent Christian, whom none knew bat to
love, none named but to praise.
She has passed from the society of those
who loved her to bask in the sunlight of
immortality, exchanging the home on earth
tor “an home not m.ide with hands eternal
in the heavens; ’ laying aside the cross to
take op a crown. O, blessed hope! glo
rious destiuy ! sublime reality ! The reward
of the righteous is now hers, and the be
reaved family and friends may re-t assured
that she is iu that beautilul laud, where
“hxerlasliug tspriug abides,
Aud,never Withering flowers.”
A Friend.
Humpteu, Ga., July 9f*, 1879.
WOOL
Carded at Wynn’s Mills 1
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Wool carded promptly at WyDD’s Mills,
and at the High Falls at all seasons of the
year. Experienced carders at either place.
Woo! rolls for sale very low for cash, or ou
credit. J A C WYNN.
Wynn’s Mills May 22d—5t
Georgi a—Hrnrt Goonty: . ~
Rndolphus Welch petitions for letters
of guardian-hip of Jerry Wimhush, colored.
These are therefore to cite and admootsb.
all parties concerned to be and appear at
my office within the time presetibed by law,
and show cause why said letters should not
be granted Raid petitioner.
Given under mv band and official signature
this 4ih day of June, 1879 ,
A. A. LEMON,
j 1 fis4 Ordinary.^
GEORGIA— Henry Gobnty :
Miles H. Campbell petitions for let
ters of administration cn tho estate of Tho 9.
R. R berts, deceased.
These are therefore to ci’e and admonish
ail parties concerned to be and appear at ray
office within the time preseribtd by law and
show cause, if any they have, why said let
ters should not be granted said petitioner.
Given under my hand and official signa
ture this 28th day of May, 1879
my 2884 A, A. LEMON, Ord’y.
7. O. Huglies,
BOOTS AND SHOES!
To the Public!
On nnd after the 15th instant I propose
making a reduction in former prices of from
10 TO 20 PER CENT. Satisfaction guar
anteed in all cases, or no trade. I will use
none but the best material, and shall make it
my aim to please all who favor me with their
patronage. I will take in exchange for work
country produce, at the highest market price.
Hampton, Ga., June 13;4t
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
BY virtue of an order from the Ordinary’s
Court of Henry county, will be sold
before tbe Conrt-honse door in the town of
McDonough, Henry county, Ga., on the first
Tuesday in July next, between the legal'
hours of sale, tbe following property, to-wit:
Three-fourths undivided interest in tbe mill,
mill yard and water privileges of the mill
known as Samuel Lee’s mill, lying and being
in ihe 12th district of Henry county, and
situated on lot No 8 io paid district, the
same being the lot of land whereon James
Gilbert now resides. Sold as tbe property
of Sumuel Lee, deceased, for the benefit of
the heirs and creditors. Terms cash., May
28th. 1879 WM.O BE'ITS;
Adtn’r de bonis non of Sam’l Lee, dec’d.
SALOON!]
BEST CIGARS!
FINEST WINES!
PUREST_LIQUORS!
CINCINNATI BEER ON DRAUGHT.
BILLIARDS AND POOL!
ieb2Btf
TIT * 1 A LIMITED NU Vi
lli 0 Tit flfl ,er active ' energetic
■lf nil I |,H 1 1 canvassers to engage in a
■ 1 wUUUUpleasiot and profitable bus
iness.
Good men will find this a rare chance
TO MAKE MONEY.
Such will please answer this advertisement
by letter, inclosing stamp for reply, stating
wbat business they have been engaged in.
Xone but those who mdan bn=ine.<B need ap*
Address Finley, Harvkt & Co.,
je27 Atlanta, Ga.
GEORGIA —Henry County :
John R. nnd Joseph B. Price, ad
ministrators of Eli Price, deceased, petition
for letters of dismission.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all parties concerned to be and appear at my
office within the time prescribed by law, and
show cause, if any they have, why said let
ters should not be gianted said petitioners.
Given under my hand and official signa
ture this July Ist, 1879.
A A. LEMON,
jul4Ss Ordinary.
0 I C
Why Everybody Goes to
D. B. BIVINS’
To Get
Sr/ S-QQdSf §roesriss,
BOOTS MB SIDES, MATS
And Caps, Notions,
Cl otliing,
CROCKERY, GLASSWAR^,
Plantation Supplies., Furni
ture, Etc., Etc.
It is because they can get better bargain*
at his store. A- word to the wise is suffi
cient. sept2o-6tn