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Our Social Customs.
MATTHEW ARNOLD EMPTIES A VIAL
Tbe Dyspeptic Historian Found Nothing to
l'leare Ills Tastes—Finds Fault with
Our Nasal Twang—Calls Our
Newspapers Scandalous.
Mr. George \V. Smalley, the well-known
London correspondent of the Tribune, in
his Sunday cable to that paper, says:
“So complete is the stagnation in Eng
lish public life at the end of holy week,
that for once I ask leave to pass over gen
oral topics. There is, at any rate, nothing
in routine afiairs which better deserves
America’s attention than the article by
Mr. Matthew Arnold in the April Nine
teenth Century, on “Civilisation in the
United States.” Only last Wednesday,
Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Bright were ex
plaining to a Birmingham audience, and
virtually to all England, how close is
the kinship between England and Amer
ica, and how deep are their mutual
regard and respect. It is well that they
spoke when they did. Three days later
might have been too late. Now comes a
man not less eminent in his own sphere
than either of those two statesmen, with
such an account of America as might, it
believed, close the mouths of our real
friends abroad.
This article is remarkable in more re
spects than one. It is at least remarkable
tUat a great English writer should have
thought it wortli while to fill pages in say
ing “Ditto” to Sir Ixipel Griffin. He takes
for his text that raw young Anglo-Indian’s
remark that there is no country calling
itself civilized where he would not rather
live than in America, except .Russia.
Upon this Mr. Arnold enlarges. This
is his text, this the refrain of his article.
His sweetness has turned sour; his
light turns everything he touches
black. If he praises, he praises just
enough to make the contrast between
praise and censure effective. Three years
ago he thought America had succeeded
well in solving the political and social
problem. .Now lie hints that this success is
due as much to the good fortune of the
American people as to their wisdom or vir
tue. What lie now deals witli he calls the
human problem. Civilization, accord
ing to Mr. Arnold, is the humanization of
man in society; and according to Mr. Ar
nold, civilization in America is a failure.
That is his general reason; his first partic
ular reason is that American civilization
failed to make Mr. Matthew Arnold com
fortable. He complains that all luxuries
are dear, except oysters and ice; that the
clubs are expensive; that cab rates are
prohibitive; that tailors’ and mercers’
charges arc a third higher than in Eng.
land. There are, he says, a hundred
OTHER SIMILAR GRIEVANCES
which he might mention. Lest
should be in doubt os to how much
portancc he attaches to such matters, lie
says expressly that when a man is passing
judgment on a country’s civilization,
puiuis of iiiis kind crowd to his memory
and determine his sentence. True, ins
judgment and sentence having been thus
determined by those trivialities, he contra
dicts himself on the next page, and declares
that civilization docs not exist in being
supplied with the comforts and conveni
ences of life. This contradiction it is
which enables him to arrayagainst unhap- t ‘
py America a host of other censures. What
he next demands is that civilization shall
be interesting, and America not only failed
to provide Mr. Arnold witli cheap cabs
and good peaches, but failed to interest
him. There were two tilings which he
liked: First, wo do not put “Esquire”
after a man's name on the envelope of
letter: ami secondly, American women,
though their voices and intona ion v ere
displeasing to his car, had for him the
charm of a natural manner lacking to the
English. Those two, and those only. For
the rest. America had neither beauty or
distinction. The common and ignoble pre-
— ” The landscape did not delight him,
nor the climate, which he pronounces
harsh. Between tlie climate of New Hamp
shire and the climate of Florida, lie de
tected no distinction. Nor arc there nuy
beauties in the cities. The one American
architect of genius, Mr. Richardson, who
might have beautibed them, had to work
under injurious conditions. Of the really
beautiful in the other arts and in litera
ture—I quote textually—very little has
been produced there as yet. Tlie very
names of tlie towns annoy him. As for
distinction or elevation, we have it not.
We have had able men—Mr. Lincoln for
one. But Mr. Lincoln had not distinction.
The glorification of the average mail is our
religion. The newspapers are our damna
tion. The absence of truth and soberness
in them, the jiovcriy in serious interest,
the personality and the sensation-monger-
ing, are beyond belief. Their news is news
for the servants’ hall.
W1IAT All.HI) MR. ARNOLD.
Here we approach the true source of
Mr. Arnold’s woes and griefs against us.
Never would 1, nor any one, have sought
for or believed in a low motive for ail this
labored disparagement of America. But
Mr. Arnold himself supplies it. He prints
with comical solemnity paragraph after
paragraph of his ]ierHonaI experiences. A
Boston paper made him too old. A Chi
cago paper described his features as harsh,
his manner's* supercilious, and his clothes
as ill-fitting. A New York paper publish
ed a facetious criticism of Chicago attrib
uted to him. and Mr. Medill refused to bo
il... l:- A..1.1 ...i »reneur.ced him a cur.
Is this present article also a hoax?
These specimens, concludes our
late guest, will give a clear
enough notion of what the newspapers
over there are. American literature is lit
tle or 20 better than American newspa
pers. He complains that we read Amer
ican books: “Far from admitting that in
literature they have as yet produced little
that is important, they play at treating
American literature as if it were a great,
independent power. F’or every English
writer they have an American writer
to match, and him good Americans read.”
Ifedoes not mention one American writer
nor make one exception to the _ sweep ol
this contemptuous condemnation. F"or
him Hawthorne baa written in vain; Emer
son, whom he once patronized, is forgot
ten ; Holmes, with all his wisdom and deli
cate humor, he, for aught that appears, in
cludes among those funny men wnose ex
istence lie reckons a national misfortune.
Lowell’s incomparable satire, his poetry,
his penetration and authoritative criticism
have not impressed ills English rival. Mr.
Arnold might at least have recollected the
are at this moment being nourished and
formed on the navels of a native author
called Roe, instead of those of Dickens and
Scott. -
NO CULTURE HERE.
Whatever relates to culture becomes the
uccaeit.il uf a sneer. Even our American
accent, so offensive to tie cockney ear, we
omitted to apologize for. We have no
modesty, no consciousness of our inferiori
ties. All is talk and self-glorification. We
have the incredible audacity to believe in
ourselves and our country. There is_ no
rebuke at this mood from an American
source, and no sane criticism upon this
madness of conceit. There is, so far as I
can see from Mr. Arnold’s melancholy
pages no sane man left in America since
his departure. There are plenty of culti
vated, judicious, and delightful individu
als. .So much he graciously concedes.
But he seems to consider them all cowards.
They know, says Mr. Arnold, how false
and hollow the boastful stuff talked is,
hut they let the storm of self-laudation
rage and say nothing. Even in private,
adds he, many of the most cultivated
Americans shrink from the subject, and
are irritable and thin-skinned when it is
canvassed.
What an amusing people we are! We
seem not to have liked being told, even by
Mr. Arnold, in his Olympian nay, that we
are a nation of ignoble braggarts, living,
as he now says, in a fool's paradise. Worse
still, perhaps, we have by continuing our
self-deception shut against ourselves the
door of improvement. We know some
thing, it appears, about politics and soci
ety. In wnat concerns the solving of the
political and social problem, we see clear
and think straight. In what concerns the
highest civilization, we are blind and stu
pid. Is that a creditable account? I do
not say of America, but of any people who
ever existed! I end as I begin. This
elaborate lampoon on America comes from
too high a quarter to bo neglected; or to be
met with ridicule only. Sir Lopel Griffin
was nothing,his book nothing. No American
cared for his calumnies. Where they were
noticed they were' laughed at. Sir Lopel
attained to his highest importance when
he began to peg upon which a mightier in
dictment than his was hung. Mr. Arnold
we cannot too completely concede it to
him—is among the first, if not actually the
first, of all living Englishmen of letters.
His papers appears in the leeding review
of the day, It is by far the most damag
ing, as it is the most acrimonious, of aii
recent attacks on America. If I supposed
that any great multitude of English were
going to read and believe this skillful
scandal, I should think it almost an inter
national calamity. It will at. any rat
delight every Englishman who disl
America. In vain does Mr. Ar
eal to his life-long detrac
his own countrymen. He repeats
suppose by way of sweeten
ing the dose to us, that
the English upfyer class is materialized,
the middle class vulgarized, and the lower
class brutalized. When lie chooses to say
such things, he is an Englishman reviling
Englishmen. They may settle the matter
between them. But he now presents liira-
5011 seif as an Englishman traducing Ameri
cans before the English public; an Eng
lishman doing what lie can to alienate two
kindred nations. If he wished only to
rend nn n le»«r>n, why does he bring forth
his long warehoused animosities in nn
TtlE HOWLING TEKItOB.
English instead of an American periodical.
For my part, I never read anything which
I thought more deplorable. Air. Arnold
well knows how deeply the admiration
and friendship for him, often expressed in
America, have ever been. F’or that very
reason, I am bound to say the more
plainly, what I think of tills peevisli and
splenetic criticism.
Costly, but Vulgar Dinners,
From the New York Star.
Our dear old friend Deacon Shepard,
who has undertaken the genesis of the
Mail and Express, has admitted some
pretty-flowery statements into his paper.
Dinners at $175 "a plate,” which is a vul
garism to begin with, are impossibilities
unless tlie jdntes were Mrs. Astor’s gold
ones or Mrs. Stevens’ silver ones, which the
guests .nre nruvemed from carrying away
by the usual presence of detectives. And
■L_ presence
then $15,000 worth of roses” seems rather
high for even the Bradley Martins’ guest*
to sniff at a single entertainment, and Mr.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, ns Air. Shepard
ought to know, is not idiot enough
spend $12,000 on flowers for one entertain
ment. Nor did tlie Livingston ball at
Delmonico’s cost more than a fifth of the
stated sum of $30,000.
Nobody cares for these highly colored
stories except tho good clergymen who
look after our morals (and bank accounts,
too) and the country papers, who swallow
the big figures printed just ns they do the
World s statement of circulation.
The Terrible Moment When tlie Cyrt
Swept Through Calhoun.
From the Calhoun Times
The cyclone winch roused tlie citizens of
Calhoun on tlie night of Afarcli 20th, came
up from the southwest, doing very little
damage until it struck the town. It would
have to he experienced to be fully realized.
No pen can describe the feeling caused by
this wonderful freak of the wind. Just
before night a heavy rain set in, Cuming
from the southeast, but soon after the
moon shone brightly, and no one dreamed
that the ominous clouds then gathering in
the southwest could mean such destruction
to our quiet and peaceful city.
At half past nine the lightning played
across the horizon in tlie west and south,
and later was seen creeping toward the
town. Each flash seemed nearer and near
er, until tlie heavy roar of tlie wind could
be distinctly heard in the distance.
Louder and louder came the roaring,
until all at once, about half-past ten
o’clock tlie mighty storm swept over the
town, houses strained and creaked, rocked
by tlie resistless power of the wind, women
trembled and strong men quailed before
the fury of the storm. In nn instant it
was gone, and we thought that nothing
could stand before such force. Alen rushed
upon the streets through tlie drenching
rain, and with their lanterns, sought to
succor those in need, if any there should
lie and to view the ruins, which they knew
had been left in tlie track of the dread
cyclone. Friend would meet friend, and
the first inquiry, coming from tlie heart,
“are vonr people safe,” would meet with
the response “yes, thank God,” until the
whole town sent up a prayer of thanks to
God that no lives were lost. The loss of
property does not and cannot cause the
the grief and sadness of death ;and our peo
ple pleasantly and good humoredly
view their losses, and resolved to go to
work and rebuild, with thankful hearts
that it was no worse.
No people ever viewed tlie ruins of their
town with braver hearts—no word of mur
mur lias escaped their lins—and with grate
ful hearts for the Providence which spared
the lives of their families, their neighbors
and their friends, have gone to work, and
our town will come out of tlie ruins with
renewed energies and buoyant spirits for
the prosperity and progress which must in-,
evitnbly come upon us.
Calhoun is a town of one thousand in
habitants, and there is not ahousehold in it
but felt the shock of the storm, or suffered
by it. In one way or another all were vis
ited. Some only lost a few trees or fences,
while others lost their dwellings, out
houses or barns. It was a fearful time,
and tlie impress made upon the youngest
intelligent child will remain with it to the
grave. ,
A REIGN OF TEIUlOIt.
Numerous 3Incl Dogs Seen Ih and Around
ltnlnbridge.
From the Halnbridge Democrat.
Since the death of th<» rabid cow, an ac
count of whose malady was published last
week, this dreadful disease seems to be on
the increase. The cow was kept confined
in a stable until death relieved Her, and
her body was then dragged to the commons
near the academy and left by tlie owner to
be devoured by dogs and other animals,
and there it lay until the following day,
when the city authorities had it buried.
After the body was left there some of the
school children went near it, but were
chased away by a large and villainous
looking dog who followed them to the
academy.
On Sunday, we learn, another dog suf
fering with every symptom of hydrophobia
was shot and killed near the academy.
On Afondav morning at 2 o’clock still
another rabid dog was seen at the yard of
Air. If. Nussbauin bv both him and sev
eral members of his lamiiv. This animal
was biting, snapping, winning and howl
ing in a most unnatural and terroizing
way and thus awoke the entire neighbor
hood. He was biting everything in reach,
himself included, and so made his way
into the yard of Mrs. Aliff Williams and.
bit a pointer pup and an old pointer dog
owned by Captain Desvergcs. Afr. Nuss-
baum is also of the opinion that his dog
was bitten and has had it killed and burled.
On Aiondav morning still another rabid
dog—n large yellow one—was seen by a re
liable colored man in the woods near
where the cow was buried, howling, yelping,
foaming and biting at everything." This
man stated that he iiad bitten great
gashes out of life own hind quarters, and
that he saw him tear a large mouthful out
himself. The negro had nothing with
which to despatch the dog, and in his own
graphic language “hit the grit,” and left
the dog still at large.
Tlie town is at last waking up to tho im
portance of protecting itself and every
man with a care will tote his pocket artil
lery or a dog-killing cudgel.
MORE MINI).HEADING*
A Remarkable Escape.
From the Darien Gazette.
Airs. Bailey, wife of Capt. Arthur Bai
ley, of tlie Ridge, had quite a narrow es
cape on Saturday, of last week, while rid
ing on the causeway at Carnnghan road, a
few miles from town. While on the
bridge, the horse hacked with Airs. Hailey
and two children off of thecauscway, the
horse falling on the buggy smashing it
up, Airs. Bailey and the children having
fallen out. The most remarkable thing
about it was that they escaped without
being seriously hurt. Right here we would
suggest tlie propriety of placing a railing
on both sides of the same.
IH<1 Not Forget Iler Manners.
From the Talbot ton jv'ew Era.
An old negro woman, Scylla Afiddie-
brookes, who was a witness In a criminal
case, was called to the stand. As she
mounted the stand, she astonished and
amused all within the court room, bv
turning to his Honor, Judge Smith, and
saying while she bowed very politely
“good morning Judge.” She then turned
to the jury and said “good morning gen
tlemen." Judge Smith with a due appre
ciation of the old lady’s politeness, bowed
and responded “good morning madam.”
Kprerkle'a New Refinery.
Philadelphia, Pa., April 3.—Clans
Spreckles, of San Francisco, ha* determined
to locate his opposition sugar refinery here,
And to-day purchased a site on the Delaware
river front, paying half a million dollar* in
cash. The refinery is expected to be in
operation within a year.
If Sufferers From Consumption,
Scrofula, Bronchitis, and General Debility
will try SCOTT’S EMULSION of Cod Liver
Oil with Hypophosphites, they will find im
mediate relief and permanent benefit. The
medical profession universally declare it a
remedy of the greatest value and very pal-
atabic. Read: “I have used Scott’s Emul
sion in aeveral cases of Scrofula and Debility
in Children: Kesulta most gratifying. My
little patients take it with pleasure,”—W.
A. Hulbebt, M. D., Salisbury, III.
Mr. Clark, of Lexington, Develops a More
Wonderful Power In Tills Line.
From the Lexington Echo.
Since the discovery of this “sixth sense,”
as many are inclined to term it, of mind
reading in so many or all of our people,
there has hardly been a gathering that se
ances were not given. Mr. Z. II. Clark,
who is such an excellent medium, has tak
en special interest in the new discovery,
and has performed some truly wonderful
feats and made several further discoveries
in connection with it.
His latest and most wonderful feats have
been performed when only a wire served
as a connecting link between tlie brain of
the )ierson whose mind was being read nml
his own, He takes a common steel wire,
any length, and by pressing one end 0/ it
to his forehead and temples while the sub
ject does the same with the other end, lie
is governed by their minds as unerringly
as if he had hold of their hands mid they
touching the hack of his neck. What
the final ontcome of the discoveries made
by tliis gentleman will be can be only con
jectured. He lielieves that a wire miles
long will conduct the thought of one per
son to another as well as one only a few
feet. If this be true, we may be enabled
not only to read the minds of our compan
ions, but as well the thoughts of persons at
a distance.
AVe notice that in many places trials of
this new found power are being made in
different sections of the State and country
where the news of the recent wonders per
formed in Lexington have been carried,
and that in all cases the sense, if sense it
may be termed, is found to exist more or
less with everybody. Scientists are begin
ning to look into tlie matter, and we watch
with interest forlheir verdicts upon it. If
the power is one that has ever existed in
man it is strange that it should have re-
mained unknown until this late date.
A Fine Peach Crop*
From the RMtirmn Journal.
Thoee who wem to know way that a fine
|>each crop may be anticipated in this see-
tion.
HAKRISOX.
Hiind Tlffcr*—Hewnnl for tlie Murderers of
• Jenkin#—Teacher Turned Out.
Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Harrison, April 2.—Saturday night it I
leaked out that Beveral parties in tills
community have been running n blind
tiger at Harrison every Saturday night for
several weeks past, and the parties to the
business were pul on notice that the law
will be enforced against them to its full
extent.
This is a prohibition county and tlie
good people are determined to suppress
this illicit traffic.
It is now believed that whisky was a
prime factor in the murder of tlie negro
Robert Jenkins, an account of which was
furnished the Telegraph last week.
Our citizeus have offered a re
ward of $240 for the appre
hension and arrest of the perpetrators of
this heinous crime. This sum will likely
be duplicated by the Governor, a strong
petition to that end having been forwarded
him some time- last week.
Afr. Edward Brantly, one of tlie oldest
citizens of this county, died at his home
near here Saturday, He was about 80.
Air. John F. Hooks, formerly of Wilkin
son county, died Sunday at his home about
three miles fi-om Harrison. lie was sixty
years old.
Air. Charlton Rogers, of Tennille, one of
the clever and courteous salesmen for C.
A. Sessions & Co., spent Sunday with rela
tives here.
' Air. A. J. Jeffers, of Wrightsville, also
spent Sundny in Harrison. His visits arc
becoming quite frequent.
Air. Root. Aloye, son of Hon. R. J.
Aloye, was in from Linton, Ga., where he
is going to school, during the past week.
Tlie recent severe raius have injured and
delayed the farmers greatly, much of the
corn being washed up, while the ground
will not be dry enough to plant in seve
ral days.
The Harrison High school continues to
grow in public favor, now numbering near
100 pupils. The school will give a public
examination and exhibition at the close of
the spring term in July.
The pupils of Harrison High School
are on a lark to-day. Having turned
Professor Harris out, they have taken
possession of the town and arc holding
high carnival on the grounds. 1 lie profes
sor has left.
WRECK NEAR ALBANY.
Baggage Car Demolished, a Coach Bailly
Damaged and n Train Hand Injured.
Special Telegram to Macon Telegraph.
Albany, April 3.—The train leaving
here for Blakely this afternoon jumped tlie
track about four miles from here in the
Po'casin swamp, completely demolishing
the baggage car, throwing off ten feet of
trestle and badly damaging the second-
class coach, bnt leaving the first-class
coach on the track with little damage.
The track was torn up for two hundred
yards but miraculously only one person, a
colored train hand, was hurt, and he not
seriously. •
The cause of tlie wreck was a broken
axle on a freight car just in front of the
baggage car. The engine witli two box
cars carried, the passengers and mail
through. Captain John A. Davis, the ef
ficient agent at this place, as soon as noti
fied, made up a train and left for the
wreck, carrying with him surgeons and
•II .tM available force he could obtain*
tjuite a number of our citizens went to
the wreck in buggies to render assistance
if needed.
Knitter Services nt tlie Church—Seniors Off
Geologizing.
Oxford, April 2.—Easter was observed
here witli appropriate services at the vil
lage church. The church was brightened
by the presence of beautiful flowers, and
all the surroundings of the occasion were
in keeping witli tlie day which was being
commemorated. Dr. Hopkins preached a
striking and appropriate sermon, taking ns
his text: Revelation, 1-18, “I am he that
liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am
alive forever, amen; and have the keys of
hell and death.”
The Seniors of Emorv Coltewe wen) |ft
Atlanta to-day for the purpose of having
their pictures taken. From there they
will go to Chattanooga on a geological
tour, being accompanied by Professor G.
W. W. Stone.
MARRIAGE AT AUBURN.
Nuptials of Mi^Tnncred C. Retts anti Mill
Mamie M. Urown.
Special Telegram to Macon Telegraph.
Auburn, Ala., April 2.—Auburn had a
notnble wedding this afternoon. The high
contracting parties were Misa Maude At.
Brown, daughter of President Wm. Leroy
Brown, of the Agricultural and Alechacical
Galkin. and Mr. Tanned CL Betts, of
Huntsville, a son of Judge E. C. Betts, who
fur f..111- year- past has held the position
of commissioner of agriculture of tho
Stale of Alabama.
Mr. Betts, though quite a young lawyer,
lias nlreadv taken a high stand in his pro
fession.
Bishop Wilmer, who was to have per
formed the ceremony, did not reach hero
on account of high water and I)r. Fiber-
hart, of Afontgomery, officiated, in his ab
sence.
McIntosh at tlie State Fair.
From the Darien Gazette.
McIntosh countp will be heard from at
the next State Fair.
Three hundred dollars has been raised
for the Afclntosh exhibit at the next State
Fair. .
Interesting Experiences,
nirnm Cameron, furniture dealer of Colum
bus, Ga., tells hfs experience thus: For three
years i have tried every remedy mi the tint
for Stomach ami Kidney Disorders, but got
relief, until I used Electric Bitters. Took live
liottlea and am now cured, and think Electric
Ritteri the beat blond purifier In the world."
Major A. B. Reed, of West Liberty, Kentucky,
tueed Electric Bitters for an old standing kid
ney affection, and saya: “Nothing has ever
done 1110 so much goon an Electric Billers,"
Sold at fifty cents a bottle by Lamar, Hank In &
Lamar.
DENTISTRY—DR. 8. B. BARFIELD,
No. 60*4 Mulberry Street, Macon, Georgia.
Office hours—9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
r-vO YOU WANT WEALTH? YES. THEN
you must Drat secure health to enable you
to ffgbt the battle of life. In theae daya of de
ception and fraud It Is a great comfort to know
that the afflicted hare a tried and reliable rem
edy like Henson’s Plasters for the relief of
cbest pains, weak back, kidney affections, rben-
matlsm, sciatica and aches and pains of every
description.. Over 5,000Physicians and Druggista
voluntarily testily to their valne in such dis
eases, and say that Benson's Plaster Is the most
popular external remedy ever acid by them.
Some unscrupulous dealers will try to palm off
worthless imitations on ctrelesa buyers. Ask
for Benson's and take no other.
GAVE HIMSELF UP.
Boytk Dlaekahear Turns Up with n Rndly
Wounded Ann.
Monday nijjht Bovd Blaekshcar, who was
one of the principal actors in the Republi
can rumpus in tlie first ward Thursday
night, gave himself up at the police bar
racks* His friends had arranged tlie bond
of one hnndred dollars required, J. \V.
Brooks, tlie colored merchant signing tlie
bond, during the afternoon, anti it was
left in tiie watchman's office for his signa
ture.
It seems that Blaekshcar received n
wound in the left wrist during thd shoot
ing, supposed to have been done by Mose
Green’s bullet. Since that night he has
been stopping witli a friend on tlie Clinton
road, a mile or so from where the row took
place. Tlie wounded arm was looked after
by Dr. Gibson.
The case is set down for Wednesday,
when all tlie facts in the matter will prob
ably he brought out.
A Remarkable Well.
Air. W. C. Lovett, of Shady Dale, and
one of the largest farmers in Jasper
county, was in tho city Alonday. His
well had sixteen feet of water in it before
the recent earthquake. A few days af
terward it was found that the water had
risen ten feet, and has continued twqpty-
six feet ever since. It is supposed "that
the earthquake widened the crevices
through which the water flowed into the
well.
Coulil not Youcli for Their Intelligence.
From the Talbotton New Era.
Gov. Smith (now Judge Smith) saya
that upon a certain occassuin while he was
in Washington he sat in the gallery of the
House of Representatives with an un-
lighted cigar 111 his mouth. Presently he
was tapped on the shoulder by an Irish
doorkeeper, who said, “no smoking al
lowed in here.” “Yes,” replied tlie Gov
ernor, “I am not smoking, I am only hold
ing the segar in my mouth. You don’t
object to a gentleman’s putting tobacco in
his month in here, do you?” “Well,” re
plied the officer, “the members below will
see yez with the segar in ye mouth and
they will think ye are smoking.” “What,”
said the Governor, “do you mean to tell
me that such an intelligent body of men
can not tell whether this segar is lighted
or not.” “Oh, h—1," said tlie officer, “I
can never vouch for the intiiligence of
those men. Put up your segar.”
Until tlio Sklu whs Raw. Roily Covered
with Scales Like Spots of Mortar. Cured
by tlie Cuttcura Remedies.
I am going to tell you of the extraordinary
change your Cutleura Remedies performed on
me. About tho 1st of April last I noticed some
red pimples like coming out all over my body,
but thought nothing of it until some time later
on, when It began to look like spots of mortar
spotted on, anil which cumcoff In layers, accom
panied with itching. I would scratch every
night until I was raw, then the next night tbe
scales, being formed meanwhile, were scratched
off again. In vain did I consult all the doctor!
in the country, but without aid. After giving
up all hopes of recovery, I happened to sec nn
advertisement tn the newspaper about your
Cuticura Remedies,and purchased them from my
Hntcrofa» ( anil nKtajna^ i"H'.C'il?.!? TCliC-.
I began to notice that the scaly eruptions"gradu
ally dropped off and disappeared one by one,
and have been fill If cured. I had the disease
thirteen months before I began taking the Cuti
cura Remedies, and In four or five weeks was
entirely cured. My disease was eczema and
psoriasis. I recommended the Cuticura Reme
dies to all in my vicinity, and I know of a great
many who have taken them, and thuuk me for
the knowledge of them, especially mother: who
have babes with scaly eruptions on their heads
and bodies. I cannot express in words the
thanks to you for what the Cuticura Remedies
have been to me. My body was covered with
scales, and I was an awful spectacle to behold.
Now my skin Is as nice and clear ns a baby's.
Geo. Cotey, Merrill, Wig.
Sept. 21,1887.
February 7,1888.—Not ft trace whatsoever of
the disease from which I suffered has shown
itself since my caiy. Geo. Cotey.
We cannot do justice to tho esteem In which
Cnticura, the great skin cure, and Cuticura Soap,
an exquisite skin bcautlfler, prepared from it,
and Cutic ura Resolvent, the new blood purifier,
are held by the thousands upon thousands whot»e
lives have been afeide Mppjr by the cure of
agonizing, humiliating, itching, scaly and pimp
ly diseases of the skin, scalp, and blood, with
loss of hair.
8old everywhere. Price, Cuticura, 50c.; Soap,
25c.; Resolvent. $1. Prepared by the Potter Drug
and Chemical Company, Boston, Mass.
IWSend for “How to Cure Skin Diseases," 61
pages, 50 illustrations and 100 testimonials.
XPLES, black heads, red. rough chap
fl oily skin prevented by Cuticura 8
1 and
CUNT BREATHE.
l’alns. Soreness, Weak
Cheat l’alns. Soreness. Weakne
fa\#wllacklng Cough. Asthma, Pleurisy
. 2sK t and Inflammation relieved In one
A fci *r— minute by tho Cntleurn Anti-I’nln
Fluster. Nothing like It for Weak Lungs.
EXECUTOR'S SALE OF REAL ES
TATE IN MAOOjf.
GEORGIA—BIRB COUNTY-By virtue of the
last will and testament of If. B. Troutman, late
of said county, deceased, I will sell before tbe
court house door In the city of Maeon, between
the usual hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in
May next, tbe following iiroperty, to wit: One
undivided half interest In a brick storehouse on
Third street, In Macon, adjoining tbe warehouse
now occupied by W. B. Sparks. Terms—One-half
cash, balance In twelve months at 8 per cent,
interest. apr3wtt
TULANE UNIVERSITY LOUISANA.
(Formerly, lM7-18M,tbo University of Ixmlalana
Its advantages 'for practical Instruction, and
especially In the diseases of tbe Southwest, art
unequaled, aa the law assures It superabundant
material from the great Charity Hospital, with
1 (a 700 beds ami 20,1100 patients annually, stu
dent* have no hospital fees to puy, and special
instruction Is dally given at tbe bedside of tba
■lek, aa In no other Institution, For catalogui
or information, address
Prof. 8. E. CHAIILE, M. D„ Dean,
P. O. Drawer 261. few Orleans, La.
l"P>wly
iemorrhages. I'sS'r*'«»#»
Sores, Ulcers, Wounds
Sprains & Bruised
It la cooling, dooming and IleallaV
Catarrh v tamo * ,,fl,c « |< "‘*fortS
Ual *.* liV J 11 ? 9 ** 0 ' COM in th ■ IP ad a*
"Pond’s Extract Catarrh (
specially prepared to me* serious casi.
should lie applied with Pond's Extra,,
Aioanl Syringe. 1
Rheumatism, Neuralqia
No other preparation baa cured
coses of those dm resting complaints t
GioExtract. Pond’s Extract
ter la Invalurblejn these diseases
Logo, Pains in Back or hide, Ac ’ Uuu '
Diphtheria, Sore Throat.
• <laVto..« “‘ Ct I ' r °"“ >t!y - 1,e ' a * «
PjJoc JN'nsUIleeaing or Itching, j*
JTllCO, Is tho greatest known remedy im!'
hlly curing when other n.edieines'luJL
failed. Point’s Extract Ointment ii
of great service where the removal of
clothing la Inconvenient.
Fcr Broken Breast and
Sore Nipples.hevo 1 '"^
used The Extract will noyerbowl’h.
out It. Pond’* Extract Ointment is
tbe best emollient that can bo applied.
Female Complaints. &&
ity of female diseases tlio Extract can be
used,as la well known, with the greateit
benefit. Full directions accompany
b ° tUe ' CAUTION.
Pond’s Extract Tho gennhitM^j
the words “Poncl’s Extract" Mown In
the gloss, and our picture trado-msrk on
surrounding buff wrapper. Noneotherli
genuine. Always Insist on baying Pond's
Extinct. Take no other preparation.
It it never to d in bulk or by meaturr.
Sold everywhere. Price*, tor., SI, $1.75.
Prepared only by POND’S EXTRACT CO.,
NSW YORK AND LONDON,
trttutusatawflily
t Dr. HENLEY'S
A Most Effectivs Combination.
Tills well known Tonic and Nervine is gaining
great reputation as a care for Debility,
Ni.», and MilLVOIN disorders. It relieves all
languid and cCiidiUoas of tbe- sys
tem ; strengthens the intellect, and bodily functions;
lilllilla tin u-wrrv mil Vwevs.u . alitadlies.uflnn • ra.
stores Impaired or lost Vitality, and brings back
youthful strength and vigor. It is pleasant to the
taste, and used regularly braces the System against
the depressing influence of 3Ialuria.
Price— $1.00 i>er Dottle of 24 ounces.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
HANDY & CGY, Propriet'rs, Baltimore.Md»
1an3 1y
wim
COOK STOVES
ALWAYS SATISFACTORY
EIGHTEEN SIZES AND MBS
ill PURCHASERS CAN BE SUITED
MANDFACTUKRI) BY
Isaac A.Sheppard & Co.,Baltiraore,MiL
AND FOR SALE BY
.CLARENCE H. CUBBEDOE,
miR24wiy 110 Cherry St., Mncon, Ga.
ARBUCftLES’
namo on a paokngo of COFFEE is a
guarantee of oxcollcnco.
ARIOSA
COFFEE is kept in nil first-class
stores from tho Atlantlo to tho Pacific-
rnrsrFF
WVI * ■>•*
Is never good when exposed to tho air;-
Always bay this brandin hermetically
soalpd ONE POUND PACKAGES.
I CURE FITS!
Wbn I say cure I do not mean merely to stop tneni
tor a time and then have them return 1 nj®*n ■
radical cure. I havn mada tbn dianaan of 1ITS, EPUC
BPKY or FALLING KICKNK.S8alifo-longatpdy. J
warrant my n-medy to cure thn wont caan. Dae* 0 *
other* haro failed fa no reason for not now majM*
core, bend at ones for a treatise and a.SYea BeUio
*4 my Infalhblo remedy. Givo Kxpmu and Poet
U. a. itOOT, Ml d, 183 Pearl hi. Now York.
novW-
CPw«i»as^g!S£
S£Na FOR CIRCULARS. ^ ,
Jnn7wly
Notice to Debtors andCreditors 1
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY-A11 persona in
debted to the estate of William O. \Mn.on, late
of said county will make settlement wl’fi the
undersigned, and all persons hnving claims
against said estate will present the same to me.
T. O. VINSON’,
, . Kxecntor William G. Vinson.
feb2S-w-f,’. Pust-olHcc—Fort Valley, Ga.
HINDERCORNS.
Th« only suro Cure for Corns. Stopi all pain, InniJ*
?oinfart to the feet. ISc.at IJruggtJte. Hiacox AOo.,1*-**
PARKER’S "GINGER TONIC
from It* combination of valuable nunlictne*, is
to the eaeewee of (Unger In the euro of Cramp*, tone.
Dy’peprta anil llowel dlwirdera, and la Invaluable for ,
Throat and Lung troubles. L’ae it without dclav It j oil
have Cough, Uronchitla, Asthma, Weak Lungs. Wo.«|L
/~\RI)INARY’8 OFFICE JONES COUNTY, GA..
vJ February 8, IM.—Notice Is hereby nM
that from and after this dato tho legal adv*£
tisements from tbe Ordinary’s office ami Cl*'**
office Superior Court of this county, Adminis
trators' sales, etc., will be published In the Jones
Uounty.lleadllght, until further notice.
P.0 LAND T. RO««
Ordinary and Clerk Superior Court,
feb 28 w-f-t.
SOUTHERN DEPOT
WATERTOWN STEAM ENGINE CO.,
SMITH & MALLARY, MANAGERS.
MACON, GA.
Carry full line Steam Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Grist
Mills, Belting, Lubricating Oils, and Machinists’ Supplies.
Mr. J. C. Pinkerton, General Southern Agent, will have
an office with us. >lj „