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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE.
II. I). SMITH, EDITOR.
POULAN
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Was thought to he a false
report , but was found to be
true.
flews broke out among the
people of Worth county that
McGirt &
McPhaul
Were selling Goods cheaper
than any other merchants in the
county , which was investigated
and found correct.
flow we ask the people of
Worth and adjoining counties
to come and examine our line of
We Carry a .Side Line of
Wash Pots,
Dinner Pots,
Stoves,
Stove Furniture.
Plows,
Plow Gear
Ail All Faming Utensils.
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
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f
—AND ALL—
Heavy Groceries.
CLOTHING!
We have a large lot oj
Clothing selected for the Fall
Trade, and we want to sell
them rapidly. We have put
them at very low prices. We
can save you enough of money
on one suit of Clothes to pay
you for coming to Poulan.
When you want Hats, come to
see ns.
When you want Shoes, come to
see us.
When you want Suits, come to
see-ns.
When you want Harness, come tc
see us.
When you want Groceries, come to
See us.
When you want Stoves, come to
pee us.
When yon want Furniture, come
pee US,
We be™ B oo,1 ,»d polite ««le.me»,
eo that when you come to see
goods will be thrown down to you for
your examination.
'
WARE LINE from a handsome Tile
to a Grind Rock.
TOU <YCCO.
Everything from a pinch of Snuff
a box of Tobacco.
Call and examine our Goods and
prices. We will take pleasure
showing you.
We have one of V the £ host
MILLS in « the country. Bring
rougli rice and let ns bull it.
Have vour corn ground here '
■u’o Aye will -u.-ill gin rn n vmir your p„tf cotton r „ for f jou ,
then buy it or ship it from our
bouse free of drayage.
’ ^iutn Turn vour your face race this tins way wnv and nn,7
q:.t store headquarters for trade.
jJIcGii't j A M) -mg- _
ASH BURN, WORTH CO.. GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER l? 1897 .
REV. DR. TAIMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN-
DAY DISCOURSE.
The Different Lives Men Lead—Why Sonic
Are Successful am) Others Fail —A Life
of Sin anil Worldly Tntlulgcnre is a
Dire Failure—Tlie Life Worlh Living,
Text; “What is your life?”— James lv„
11 .
If we leave to the evolutionists to guess
where we came from and to the theologians
to prophesy where wo are going to, we still
have left for consideration the important
fact that we are here. There may be some
doubt about where the river rises aud some
doubt about where the river empties, but
there can be no doubt the fact that wo are
sailing on it. So t am not surprised tliat
everybody asks the question, "Is life worth
living?”
Solomon, in liis unhappy moments, spirit',” says
it is good,” not, "Vanity,” “vexation of
“no are iiis estimate. The fact is
that Solomon was at onetime a polygamist
and that soured his disposition. One wife
makes him wretched. a man happy; more than one makes
But Solomon was converted
from polygamy to monogamy, aud the last
words lie ever wrote, as far as we can read
them, were the words “mountains of spices.”
But Jeremiah says life is worth living. In
a book supposed to be doleful and lugu¬
brious and sepulchral aud entitled "Lamen¬
tations,” he plainly intimates that the
blessings of merely living is so great and
grand a blessing that though a man have
piled on him all misfortunes and disasters
lie has no right to complain. The ancient
prophet cries and out in startling intonation to
all lands to all centuries, "Wherefore
doth a living man complain?”
A diversity of opinion in our time as well
as in olden time. Here is a young man of
light hair and blue eyes and sound diges¬
tion and generous salary and happily
affia'nced and on the way to become a part¬
ner in a commercial linn of which ho is an
important clerk. Ask him whether life is
worth living. He will laugh in is your face
and say: "Yes, yes, yes!” Here a man
who has come to tho forties, He is at the
tiptop of the bill of life. Every step has
been a stumble and a bruise. The people
he trusted have turned out deserters, and
the money he has honestly made he has
been cheated out of. His nerves ave out of
tune. He has poor appetite, and the food
lie does eat does not assimilate. Forty
miles climbing up the Hill of life have been
to him like climbing the Matterhorn, and
there are forty miles yet to go down, and
descent is always more dangerous than as¬
cent. Ask him whether life is worth living,
aud he will drawl out in shivering and
inbuhrious no!” and appalling negative, “No,
no, decide
How are we to this matter right?
oously and intelligently? You will And tlie
same man vacillating, oscillating in his
opinlou from dejection to his exuberance, and
if he be very mercurial in temperament
it will depend very much on which way the
wind blows. If tlie wind blow from the
northwest and you ask him, be will say
“Yes,” and if it blow from the northeast
and you ask him he will say, "No.” How
are we, then, to get the question all righteous¬
ly answered? Suppose we call nations
together in a great convention on eastern
or western hemisphere, and let all those
who are in tho affirmative say, "Aye,” and
all those who are in the negative hundreds say, “No.”
While there would be of thou¬
sands of those who would answer in the nf-
ilrmativo, there would the lie more millions
Who would answer in negative, and
because of the greater number who have
sorrow and misfortune and trouble tlie noes
would have tt, The answer I shall give
will bo different from either, and yet it will
commend itself to all who hear ir.o this day
as tim right answer. If you ask me, "Is
life worth living?" It answer, “I all depends
upon the kind of life you live.”
In the IIrat place, I remark tliat a life of
mere money getting is always a failure, be-
cause you will never got as much (;s yqq
want. The poorest people is in this country scissors
are tlie millionaires. There not a
grinder on tlie streets of New Y’ork or
Brooklyn who is so anxious to make money
as these men who have piled up fortunes
year after year in storehouses, ii) Govern¬
ment securities, in tenement houses, in
whole eity blocks. You ought to see them
jump when they hoar the fire bell ring,
You ought to see them in their excitement
when a bank explodes. You ought to see
their agitation when tariff. there is Their proposed a
reformation in the nerves
tremble like harp strings, but no music in
the vibration. They read the reports from
Wall street in the morning with a concern¬
ment tliat threatens paralysis or apolexy,
or more probably they have a telegraph or
telephone in their qv/n houses, so they
catch every breadth of change In tl(6 money
market. The disease of accumulation hits
eaten into them—eaten into their heart,
into their lungs, into their spleen, into
their liver, into their bones.
Chemists have sometimes analyzed much the
human body, aud they say it is so
magnesia, so much lime, so much chlorate
of potassium, I? some Christian chemist
would analyze one oi those financial be¬
hemoths, lie would And ho is mndo up ot
copper and gold and silver and zinc and
lead and eoal and iron, That is not a life
worth living. There are too many earth¬
quakes in it, too many agonies in it, too
many perditions in it. They build their
castles, and they open their picture gal¬
leries, aud they summon prime donnas,
ami they offer every inducement tor happi¬
ness to come and live there, but happiness
will not aome, They send footmanned and
postliioned equipage to bring her. She
will not ride to their door. They send
princely escort. Hhe will not take* their
arm. They make their gateways trium¬
phal arches. She will not ride under them.
They set a golden throne before a banquet. golden
plate. }>jate. She unu turns luruM away away from ixDii* the
gy-g of those who have had large ftccum-
j a ji ure
ulation. into considers-
And then you roust take SS
ss.%tuft of affluence. It is esti-
ting fall far short of hun¬
mated that only about two out a
dred business men have anything worthy
the name of success. A man who financial spends
his life with one dominant idea of
accumulation spends u life not worth liv-
ms,
S Vmhm7tV , , .
be d most unfortunate
Every four years the two
men in this country are the The two men reservoirs noro-
mated for the Presidency. and malediction
Of abuse and diatribe
g ra q U ally All up, gallon above gallon, hogs-
head above hogshead, and about mtdsum-
mer these two reservoirs will be brimming
full, and a hose will be attached to each
one an ,; j t w m p ] a y away on these two
nominees, and they will have to stand it
and take the abuse and tbo falsehood, and
the caricature and the anathema, and the
cftterwauIIng an q the filth, and they will
be rolled in it and rolled over and over in
it until they are choked and submerged
at by all the bounds oi political there parties
from ocean to ocean. And yet are a
hundred mon to-day struggling for that
privilege, who and helping there them are thousands struggle. of men
are in tho
Now, that is not a life worth living. You
can gel slandered and abused cheaper thau
that. Take it on a smaller scale. Do not
he so ambitious to have a whole reservoir
rolled over on you.
Hat what you see in the matter of high
political in preferment you see for In what every is called com¬
munity the struggle
social position. Tens of thousands of peo¬
ple trying to get into that realm, and they
are under tevriilc tension, What is social
position? it is a difficult 1 bin# to tiefliio,
but we all know what It is . (ukhI morals
and intelligence arc not necessary, but
wealth, or a shew of wealth, is absolutely
Indispensable. There aro mon to-day as
notorious for their libertinism as the night
is famous for its darkness wiio move In
what is cailod high social position. There
are hundreds of out and out rakes In
American society the whose names aro men¬
tioned among distinguished guests at
tho great levees. They have annexed all
tile known vices and are longing for other
worlds of diabolism to conquer. Good
morals are not necessary in many of the ex¬
alted circles of society.
Neither is intelligence necessary. You
find in that realm men who would not know
an adverb from an adjective If they met it
a hundred times in a day, and who eould
not. write a letter of acceptance or regrets
without the aid of a secretary. They buy
anxious their libraries to have by the the binding square Russian. yard, Their only
ignorance is positively disreputable. sublime, making And
English grammar ill most
yet the finest parlors open before them.
Good morals and intelligence are not neces¬
sary, but wealth or a show of wealth is
positively indispensable. It does not make
any difference how you got your wealth, tf
you only got it, The best way for you to
get into social position credit, is for you to buy a
largo amount on then put your
property in your wife’s name, have a few
signment. preferred creditors, Then disappear and then from make the an as¬
com¬
munity until the breeze is over and come
back and start in the same business. Do
you not see how beautifully that will put
out all the people who are in competition
with you and trying to make an honest liv¬
ing? How quickly it will get you into toiling high
social position? What is the use of
forty or fifty years when you can by two or
three bright strokes make a great fortune?
Ah, iny friends, when you really lose your
money bow quickly they will let you drop,
and the higher you get the harder you will
drop.
There aro thousands to-day in that realm
•who are anxious to keep in It. There aro
thousands in that realm who are nervous
for fear they will fall out of it, and there
are changes going on every year, and every
month, and every hour which involve heart¬
breaks that are never reported. High so¬
cial life is constantly in a butter about the
delicate question as to whom they shall let
in and whom thny shall push out, and tho
battle mirror, is chandelier going on—pier against mirror chandelier,wine agaiust pier
cellar against wine cellar, wardrobe against
wardrobe, equipage against equipage. Un¬
certainty and insecurity dominant in that
realm, wretchedness enthroned, torturo at
a premium apd a life not worth living!
A life of sin, a life of pride, a life of in¬
dulgence, voted a life of the worldliness, flesh and a life devil, de¬
to tho world, tho
is a failure, a dead failure, an inflnito
failure, I care not how many presents garlands you
send to that cradle or how many
you send to that grave, you heed to put
right under tho name on the tombstomo
this inscription: "Better for that man if be
had never been born.”
liqt I shall show you a life t.fiat }s worth
living. A young man Bays; "! am ], f , ro .
I am not responsible for my ancestry.
Others decided that. Iam not responsible for
iny temperament. God gave ine that, Jiul
here I am in the evening of the nineteenth
century, at 1 twenty years qf qgo. I am
here, and must take an account Of stock,
lien: I have a body, which is a divinely con¬
structed engine. I must put it to the very
best uses, and f must allow nothing to
damage this rarest of machinery. Two
feet, and il;ey mean locomotion. Two
eyes, and they mean capacity und they to pick out tel¬
my own way. Two ears, are
ephones of communication with all the out¬
side world, and they mean capacity to
catch the sweetest music and the voices of
friendship—the with infinity yery of best articulation. music. A tongue, Yes,
almost
hands with which to lyoleomo or resist or
lift or smite or wave or bless—hands to
holy mys«|f and help others,
"Hereis a world which after(1000 years of
battling with tempest and accident is still
grander than any architect, human or an¬
gelic, could have drafted. I have two
lamps to light me—a golden lamp and a
silver lamp—a golden lamp set on tho
sapphire mantel of the day, a silver lamp
set on the jot mantel of the night. Yea, I
have that at twenty of age which defies all
inventory qf valuables—a soul with capac¬
ity to choose or reject, to rejoice or to
suffer, to loye or to hate. Plato says it is
immortal. Seneca says it i , immortal.
Conlqciqs says it is immortal. An old
book among the family folios, a book witli
leathern cover almost worn out and pages
almost obliterated by oft I perusal, Immortal. joins the I
other books in saying am
hnveejqhty years for a lifetime, live Sixty years
yet to live, I may not an hour, but
then and I for must long lay out life. my Hixty plans intelligently added
the twenty a I have already' years lived—that
to eighty. I
will bring me to must remember
that these eighty years are only a brief
preface to the live hundred thousand mill¬
ions of quintiilions of years which will be
my chief residence and existence. Now, I
sponsibilities, understand my If opportunities is and my re¬
there any being in the
universe all wise amt a!! beneficent who can
help a man in such a juncture, I want him.”
The young man enters life. Ho is buf¬
feted, he is tried ho is perplexed. A grave
opens on this side and a grave opens on
that side. He falls, but h« rises again. He
gets into a hard battle, but he gets the vic¬
tory. The main course of his life is in tlie
right direction. Ho blesses everybody be
comes in contact’ with. God forgives his
mistakes and makes and everlasting recorder
his holy endeavors, qt the close of it
God says to him; "Well done, good and
faithful'servaut. Enter into the joy of thy
Lord,” whether My Xirother, my dies Ulster, 30. I do not 30,
care that man at 40,50,
70 or 8Q years of age; you can chisel right
under his name on tho tombstone these
Words. "His life was worth living,”
Amid ihe hills of New Hampshire, In
olden times, there sits a mother. There are
six children in the h'msohnid four boys
and two girls, Small farm, Very rough,
hard work to coax a living out of It. Mighty
tug to make the two ends of the year meet.
The boys go to school in winter and work
the farm in summer. Mother is the chief
presiding spirit. With her hands she Units
ail the stockings for tlie little feet, and she
is the maDtua maker for the boys, and she
is the milliner for the girls. There is only
one musical Instrument (n tho house, the
spinning wheoi. The food is very plain,
but it is always well provided. The winters
are very cold, but are kept out by the
blankets she quilted. village On Sunday, when
she appears in the church, her
children afgund her, tip; minister looks
down and is reminded of the Bible descrip¬
tion of a good housewife. "Her- children
arise and up and nail her blessed; her husband
also, hepraiseth her,”
Some years go by, and education, the two oldest
boys want a collegiate and the
household economics are severer, and the
calculations are closer, and until those two
boys get their education there Is a bard
battle for bread. One of these boys eaters
tlie university, and preaches stands in righteousness, a pulpit widely in¬
fluential judg¬
ment and temperance, and thousands dur¬
ing Ids ministry are blessed. Tho other lad
who got the collegiate education goes Into
the law, and tlieaeo Into legislative balls,
and after awhile he commands listening
senates as ho makes a plea for tho down¬
trodden and the outcast. One of the
younger ing the boys foot becomes of the ladder, a merchant,, but climbing start¬
at
on up until Ills success and Ills philanthro¬
pies are recognized all over the land. The
other son stays at homo because tie prefers
farming life, and then lie thinks lie will be
able to take euro of father and mother
when they get old.
Of the two daughters, when the war
broke out, one went through the hospitals
of Pittsburg 1,muling and Portress Monroe,
cheering up tho dying and the homesick
and taking tho last message to kindred far
away, so that every time Obrlst thought oi
her lie said, as of old: "The same is my sis¬
ter and mother.” The other daughter has
n bright home of her own, and in the after
noon- the forenoon having been devote
to her household -she goes forth to bun
up the siek and to encourage the dlscon
aged, leaving smiles and benediction all
along the way.
But oue day there start live telegrams
from the village for these dangerously live absent ones,
saying. "Come, mother Is 111.”
But receive before another tlioy can telegram, be ready to start they
saying, "Come,
mother is dead." farmhouse The old neighbors gather
in the old to do the last office of
respect. But as the farming son and the
olorgyman, the and tho daughters Senator and the mer-
ohnnt and two stand by the
casket of the dead mother taking the last
look, or lifting their little children to see
onoe more the face of dear old grandma, I
want to ask that group around the casket
oue question, “Do you really think her life
was worth living?” A life for God, a life for
others, a life of unselfishness, a useful life,
a Christian life, is always worth living,
I would not find it hard to persuade you
that the poor lad, Peter Cooper, making
glue for a living, and then amassing a great
fortune until be could build a philanthropy
which has had Its echo in 10,00(1 philan¬
thropies all over tho country—I would not
tlnd it hard to persuade you that bis life
was worth living. Neither would I flint it
hard to persuade you that the life of Sus¬
annah Wesioy was worth living. Hhe sent
out one son to organize Methodism and the
other son to ring his anthems all through tho
ages. .1 would not find it hard work to
persuade you tliat the life of
Frances Deere was worth living, ns
she established in England a school for the
scientific nursing of the sick, and then
When the war broke out; between France
and Germany hands scraped went to the front and with her
own the mud off the bodies
of the her soldiers weak dying -standing in the trenches and
with arm one night in
dier tho hospital—pushing to bis ooueh, all hack frenzied a German with sol his -
as.
wounds, lit; rushed to tbo door nAd said,
"Bet mo go, lot me go to my liobe mutter,”
—major generals standing back to lot pass
tills angel of mercy.
Neither would l have hard work to per¬
suade yon that Grace Darling lived a life
worth living- the heroine of the lifeboat.
You are not wondering that the Duchess of
Northumberland came to see her and that
people of all lands asked for her lighthouse
and that tho proprietor of the Adolphl
theatre in London offered her $100 a night
just to sit in the lifeboat while some ship¬
wreck seene was being enacted,
But I know the thought in tbo minds of
hundreds of you lived to-day. You say, "While I
know all these lives worth living, I
don't think my life amounts to much." Ah,
my friends, whether you live a life conspic¬
uous or inconspicuous, It Is wortli living,
if you Rve aright, And 1 want my next
sentence to go down Into the depths of
all your souls. You are to lie rewarded
not according to the greatness of your
work, but, according to the holy industries
with which you employed the talents you
really possessed, Tho majority of tho
crowns qf heaven will not be given to peo¬
ple with ten talents, for mast of them were
tempted only to servo themselves. The
vast majority tlie of people tho crowns of heaven talent, will
be given to who had one
but gave it all to Go 1, And remember that
our life here is introductory to another. It Is
the vestibule to a palace, but who despises
tlie door of a Madeleine because there are
grander glories witiiiu? Your life, if
rigidly lived, is tile first liar of an eternal
oratorio, and who desplaes the llrst. note of
Haydn’s symphonies? And the lire you
live now Is all the more worth living be¬
cause) U opens Into a life that shall never
end, tho and tlie last letter of the word "lime”
Is first letter of tlie word "eternity!”
WHEAT QBOP SITUATION.
Estimated Deficiency of 14,000,000 Quar¬
ter# In the World's Supply,
Tho Mark Lane Express, of London, re¬
viewing "The th« weather ordp situation, lias been says:
adverse to Urn
completion tity of of tlie out harvest, is and the quan¬
“The grain still considerable.
French wheat crop Is estimated at
31,000,000 quarters By the chief writers of
the l’aris press. Correspondents of Eng¬
lish business Arms state that the crop will
amount to from 33,OOb,QOO to 33,000,000
quarters. The Austro-Hungarian crop is
stated tq be X?,000,000 quarters. If this is
true, it adds greatly to the gravity of the
situation.
“Tim American crop is reckoned by care¬
ful judges to be 63,500,000 quarters, or 11,-
000,030 quarters improvement, to offset a
decline of 9,000,000 quarters in Uiissia and
3,000,000 to 10,000,000 quarters in France.
"All the figures point, therefore, to a de¬
ficiency in the world's supply of 11,000,000
quarters. Should tho demand be actually
as large qs tills, the stores of old wheat will
be used up, and a erisls of groat serious¬
good ness will only be prevented by generally
prospects fqr the spring of 1S91. VVe
are nof, however, entitled to argue that
such prospects will be more than the av*-r-
HER SPECIALTY IS TWINS.
A Colored Wife, Under Eighteen, Hu»
Given lilrth to Four I'alr*.
Not yet eighteen years old and the moth¬
er of four pairs of twins!
This is the record made by Pearly Brad¬
ford, a colored woman of East Ht. Louis,
Hi. Tim remarkable young mother asked
Dr. Woods, Supervisor of tlie Poor, ior
food to keep herself and children from
starving. She has Lean a resident of East
St. Louis 3v<jyears, she says, having come
there bom New Orleans, where her hus¬
band Is now trying to g<-t employment.
All but throe of her children are dead The
live ones are healthful and strong, though
quite young. Bradford
Mrs. is very black. She will
not be eighteen years old, she nays, until
November 35 next, and is again approach¬
ing child. motherhood, She was married when a
Dr, Woods made « careful investigation
into the statements made by Mrs, Brad¬
ford and found them to be correct and the
woman honest aud truthful.
Dr. J. F. Gardner,
i’hysicinn and Surgo<ui.
Calls Answered Promptly
DAY AND NIGHT.
Special attention given to diseases
of women and children.
Residence at the Hicks place.
ASH BURN, GEORGIA.
DR. J. F. GREGORY A CO.,
SPEC’I AGISTS.
Rupture, Catarrh, Rectal Diseases,
Hemorrhoids (Files), Fistulas Cured.
NO KNIFE, NO PAIN.
Room No. 1, Heard Buildiug,
Cord el e, Ga.
167 Cotton Ave., Macon, Ga.
WARREN L STORY,
Physician aud Surgeon,
8YOAUORH, GA.
Diseases of Nose and Throat.
DR. \V. J. TURNER,
Physician and Surgeon,
ASHBURN, GA.
Special Attention Given to Diseases
Women and Children.
Office in Room No. ‘i, Betts Build-
ing.
Residence: \V. A. Shinglor’e.
Calls Answered Day or Night.
Telephone No. 18.
DR. T. H. THRASHER,
Physioian and Surgeon,
Ashburn, Grobgja,
General Practice Solicited,
in tlie Christian Building.
C. B. WALKER,
Physician und Surgeon,
Hycamomb, Georgia.
GEO. W. COOPER,
DENTIST,
Aahdobn, Gbougia.
Office, Room N«. 4, Betts Building.
W. B. CONE, D. D. 8.
I Make a Specialty of Grown,
and Replantations.
Teeth Extracted Without Puiu.
Ashbubn, .Georgia.
W. T. WILLIAMS,
Attorney at Law.
Land and Collections.
Sycamore, Georgia.
A J. DAVIS,
Attorney at Law
Abhbukn, Georgia.
Real Estate and Collections.
Prompt attention to ail business placed
in our bands.
B. B. WHITE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
AHiiiti KN, Gkoiuma.
Will practice in all the Courts, State
and Federal.
J. G. PDLH1LL,
Attorney at Law,
Sylvester, - - Georgia.
Practice in all the Courts. Patronage
Solicited.
w7 A HAWKINS,
Attorney at Law,
e Building, Rooms 4 and 5.
Corbel*, Georgia.
Prompt attention given Vo all business
intrusted to iny oare.
John F. Powr.i.L, J. XV. Powatn,
Vienna, Ga. Anhburn, Ga.
JNO. F. POWELL A HON,
Attorneys at Law.
We practice in all the courts. Im¬
mediate and careful attention given to
business placed in onr bunds. Em¬
ploying one secures services of both.
Business solicited and inquiries
promptly answered.
‘PARK, ~
FRANK
Attorney - at - Law,
PouiiAN, Georgia.
B. W. ADKINS,
Attorney at Law,
Collections a Specialty,
Poulan, Georgia.
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411 Orders lor *
Laths, Shingles , Staves ,
Car Sills , Bridge Stuff,
Flooring , Moulding , Brack-
ets, Ceiling, Etc
Will Receive Prompt Matin.
We carry a well selected and assorted
atoek of
Dry Goods,
Hardware,
Groceries, Etc.
If in need of anything in
CLOTHINO,
Such as MEN'S AND BOYS'
SUITS , We Can Fit You.
WE HAVE A NICE STOCK OF
CADIES’ DRESS GOODS AND
TRIM MINCH
would he pleased to bIiow
the ludies of Ashbnrn and sur¬
rounding country.
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OUR CANDIES...
Are Fresh and Fine.
Flour,
Meat,
Grits,
Rice,
Sugar,
Coffee,
Meal,
And in fact any and everything that is
kept in a first-class Grocery House can
be had at our Large Brick Store as
cheap as the cheapest.
We Curry a Foil Line of
FURNITUHB.
UP STAIRS
Our Stock of SHOES is Complete, with
a Specialty of Ladles’ and Chil¬
dren’s Fine Sunday Wear.
We also handle the best brauds of
Cigars , Tobacco , Snuff, Etc.
Full line of the best makes of
STOVES NOW ON HAND.
All kinds of STOCK FEED M
REASONABLE PRICES.
The citizens of Ashburn aud sur¬
rounding country are cordially invited
to cull aud inspect our stock.
We have a Wagon Yard and Stalls,
Feed Troughs, etc., for the conveni¬
ence of our customers especially.
Respectfully,
J. 8. BETTS & CO.