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%wrawtodisocutt-cin.— LIT T-T========================================================================= THE UPSON ENTER PRISE LL 2JL OCL 101/11 “THE NOBLEST MOTIVE IS THE PUBLIC GOOD.”.--Tirgil JNO. F MEANS, Editor and Proprietor, THE UPSON ENTERPRISE* THOMASTON, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 31, 1978. AD ERTISING RATES SQUARES IT.|1M.|3M.|6M.|12M 1 Square, 2 Squares. 8 Squares, 4 Squares, 1/Coluinn, Column, 1 Column, $100 1$2 50 -200 500 300f700 4 00 | 10 00 $7 00 1000 $1500 1000 1500 2500 1500 | 2000 2000 3000 5 00 1 12 00 30 00 39 007 10 00 | 20 00 3600 | 65 00 | 15 00 | 25 00 | 4000 | 7000 | 3000 i 3900 30 00 40 00 50 00 8000 13000 % STEPBLNSECONIISIL FIGHT, sslaphis face." They had an interview . \ cu the subject, and the words were VHERE THE little GEORGIAN SHOW denied by edge Cone, and Stephens ED CLEAR GPIT. said his say. They parted in a friend- :Ty manner, but the threat of Stephens was taken up by the meddlers who |fontent duels dit never fight them, andIdle Judge met the Congressman in the piazza of Thompson’s Hotel, Atlanta, 634. on September 4. 1843 with a Conland for retraction. This |was the duel ground, and for tools Mr. Cone had a big knife, and Mr. Stephens had an umbrella. Mr. Cone THE MEN WHOM STEPHENS HAS CHAL LENGED-HIS PUBLICAITONEE OF BEN HILL—SOME HISTORIC SOUTHERN DUELS — THE HOLMES-NELMS 41- FAIR. VOL. I'. NO 22 ATTORNED A T L THOMASTON, «A. IV be not only an impudent braggart and an unscrupulous liar, but a des- picable poltroon besides. All these . proclaim him to be. Holding myself. L - notwithstanding w hat has. passedand | as follows in Sunday’s Constitution: this denunciation, still responsible : The air is hot and dry. The even to him, for what ± atty, if he De branches are getting low. The corn not insensible to shame and degrada- is curling in the blades. The mills tion, however he may be to fear.” frnda little in the morning and then Again, at the close, after speaking | wait for the pond to fill. ‘ of the Elberton disettssion is singin’ parchin’ tune. Summer flies "I will also, I trust, be excused keeps the cows’ tails busy, all nature even by the most fastidious, for the Lives sign of a comit’s drought. I language now used toward him don’t like this, but am: tryin’ to be which my own self-respect widulld; on resigned. Before I turned farmer ordinary occasions, forbid. But when | such weather dident concern she a mendacious gasconader sets up nuch if I could find a cool retreat, wantonly to asperse private charade but now Irealize how dependent is ter and malign individual reputation, |mankind upon the farm, and the far- and then refuses that redress which a |mer upon Providence. The truth is, gentlemen knows how to ask as well its a precarious Busiless all around, as to grant, no coursc is left for the and I sometimes catch myself a wish- most courteous and decorous, the 1h I was rich or had a sorter of side- most upright and honorable, but to show to my circus. put the brand of nifamy upon him. A sorry farmer on a sorry farm is a there to remain until a radical change |sorry spectacle. A good farmer 01 in his character, and especially in his : poor hand, and a poor farmer on gool , conduct, either in giving personal in- and are purty well balanced, and No, suits, or making improper amends |for them! wheif given, shall restore it. _. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, which Washington, D. C., Dec., 12, 1856." . 3 -=-, The best possible proof of the civili- 2 turn in 1 e blade of the kilife and |ration of the South, even in, that day. another stab on the other side had is that thisfulnination made simply passed between two ribs, and severed | no "brand" atall, and didn’t’remain" an artercostelary artery. So it was worth a cent. Mr. Hill replied by a not from a sense of safety on the big review of the situation and the man s generosity tHathe defied Him 1 et 11-4 *‘ - - ‘ "BILL ARP" ON THE VHO % NITUDE OF FARTING. sen A hold of without inconvenience, and NW 1 STAERDE it looks a heap more like good mon- _.yweich are con- Millwight and Machinist tinual reutinders of the war debt S aacrSt The and pesions to yankce soldiers and IF FMynestille The corn nontaxable bonds and the shoddy st sale Grass 137:115 , 46 40005 21 1102D 11101 William norates on the above text ey than greenbacks ILL furnish drawings and specifics, tions for Water and Steam Mills wmen wegitin adom- Turbine Water Wheels, Smut Machinery, ress I want the hr-hole Bolting Cloths. Mill Stones, with any and every other article of machinery pertain- ing to W ater or Steam, Grist or Saw Mill. : Best of references given if requested. Address as above april2,-ly - — : . 1—+- aristocracy who get rich off of our misfortunes. Ite locust ocratic congress green concern abolished, and if the government issues any paper money at all we il start anew with confeder- ate grey. 1 ours, BILL ARP. P. S.—It’s reported up at Pine Log that Luster is a yankee, and his arm was shot off while fighting for the other side. That wild hog nigger is a yellin for him. B. A. : . Not long since the Star contained a |tiuthful article about Sonthorn duels, |and it is not long since the lovers of weighed over two bundled LUN iwantion looked for a courteous ex- Mr. Stephens ninety-four pounds m: X - X Don the refusal to retract by |Stephens, Cone attacked him with the open RITE This was parried for some seconds with the umbrella, al- though Stephens was bleeding from cuts in the breast and arms. Then Cone threw his whole weight on him, and thus brought hit down on his back. W itli his left hand on the fore- head of his adversary, and the knife in his right. Cone cried ont: «) you, fetact, or I will cut your throat." The firm reply wits:• never—cut!" ( Blood was flowing from a breast wound reccived standing, would have reached the heart, but for| change of fire between Alexander ‘ | Hamilton Stephens, e-ice President |of the late Confederacy, and ex-Sena- tor Gen. Robert Toombs. This : Will practice in the variotis State and would have 1 x loombs. 11IS Federal Courts. 11 omee first door|would have been such an exhibition North of the Webb House. mch12-1y H. Mi GILLELAND, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN |of skill as is to be seen in the Riming ton window on Broadway, in the shape ofdollars shot through by the . rifle when tossec into the air, before in ". *2 +° • NW 1 t $ 1 | the champion. Notthat Messi 8. T.a nd Attorney airl Coinseller at Lar, | S. thought of shooting at dollars, save 2t in the way of Western and Afanti THOMASTON, GA. | Rail-road bonds, out of whash their will practice it A!# various Courtsio aITras De BidENF. SteuEc |that he couldn’t make a shadow with- !out an overcoat, and that if the states- |manturned side ways to an antagonist |he would be invisible: It gives a queer idea of the essentials for orthodox church fitembership in the South to find a man who has challenged to |deadly, combat at least two men, and |talked sissy, as they say, to a ilozen :more, reputed as still in the odor of |sanctity: Nor has he ever repented, |as the writer well kitows but thinks, as he learned to think in his Latin clas- • Se12ed to Girls on Cooli W. X. BEA LL the State of Georgia. 16 Office in the Court-house—down stairs. mehb-ly *T***ESV- JULIUS E. F. MATTHEWS, ATTORNEY AT L AW Thomaston, Ga. Benes PAE. Office up-sairs Cheney Building J. A. COTTEN ATTORNEY L AW Thomaston, Ga. r Will practice in all courts in the State Prompt attention given to all business en trusted to him mch5,-1y A. C. @REENE ATTO RNEY L AW sics, that to fight is heroic, and he was of the opinion that Jefferson Davis should. Rare committed suicide in Fortress Monroe, but not that Mr. Stephens should havedone so in Fort Warren. 2A He is said to have comencat a duel at the time the Healey portrait of him was exhibited in the rotunda of the Capitol. Stephens, who wits, setisitive over its homeliness, was consoled by Hitchcock, Gov. Crawford with the statomanfImv whnon THOMASTON, GEORGIA. Collections a specialty. Office, in Johnson’s Building. °mch5,-ly JOHN F. REDDING, AT LAW Barnesville, Ga. wm practi Blate. is all the courts of the mch5. HUNT & TAYLOR, A TTORNE1S L A land are purty well balanced, and ! can scratch along if the seasons ; but |I reckon a smart and diligent IninR : with good land to back him is about |as secure against the shiftin’ perils of this life as anybody can be : and then | if a man could have besides a few thousand dollars invested in stocks and draw the interest twice a year |he ought to be as happy as subloona- tne ry things can make him. Then you .. aas charge that Ir. Stephens had- found sce he could send off his children to the knife came to finish its work, |himself utterly overthrown in debate |school, and visit his kin, and go to Mr. Stephens caught it in his right and had no way to retain his preseAtlanta, and keep a cook and a top hand, and Uis Jeft seized the right el- tige, save to try to kill his ODDonent | buggy, and lay in some chancy ware a carpet for the old oman and new bonnets and ear rings for the girls and have s litig missionary money left. If the dreight or the Cooking classes have been popular among fashionable young ladies of late-years; but there is no cooking- class which quite equals in its oppor- tunity for excellent information that which you may find at home. Pro- suming that I am talking to a girl who has just left sch bol, I advise you to make Ise of your leisure in taking lessons from your mother. There is an absolutely splendid feeling of Harness, Saddles, Bridles, AND JEEPS constantly on hand a good stock of the abov e mentioned articles Saddles well rigged on the best Trees. Bridles a specialty. Repairing done with neatness and dispatch. Prices reasonable Also, I have with me M ONS, W. W HEILE S bow of Judge Cone: In this way the struggle lasted till both parties were on their feet again, and others had come to the rescue. The right hand of Mr. Stephens, that had seized the knife as it cable at his throat, was horribly mangled in the turning and twisting of the blade in the efforts to get it out of the grip. The hemor- rhage from the severed artery would have reesited it speedy :ddatli, but for the fortunate presetice of Dr. independence in knowing how to, make perfectly light, sweet aubstan- the FRENCH BOOT MAKER, who will tial bread. Thentiy xour nd : be glad to meet his old customers and as busenits, muftiis; corn bieail, h, proredis a all kinds or wor norm the 21101 all the different forms into which coarsest Brogan to the finest Boot. R+ breadstuff’s may be blended. Toast pairing done neat. N Prices Reduced, seems a simple thing enough, but is THOMASTON, GA.. March 12, 1878.-1v frequently so ill made that it does not| deserves the name: Gruel a necessity of the sick room, is often a hopeless overthrown in debate,| .: . to retain his pres-n tige, save to try to kill his opponent. 9 He lost no friends—a then ineredita- a id: ble thing in Georgia— and the ptib-e lie thought the Judas charge on the 9 man who had killed the Whig party, too near true to be called "a wanton aspertion of private character,”* properly punishable (at the hands of a sworn law-maker) with death. Mr. .lill was elected Confederate States Senator early in the war, and made as thihich nark as Mr. Stephens did as Vice- resident, and after the war, Mr. Stephens had a nominal election as United States Senator at a time when no prominent rebel could sit but Mr. Hill had, and still has, the actual seat, and now more prominent and powerful than Mr. Stephens.- Mr. Ilill was the first to explode the :-1 of the United States Ar- with the statement : my, whose skill arrested it. Mr. Steph- "" ***** - 11 :11 ens was confined to his bed for seve- ral weeks with these wounds, and the right hand was thought to be perma- . ,, , ., . a nently disabled. The tendons of sey- monkey, gravely replied Crawford,.Feral fingers and the thumb were sev-.... .0.0 apologized, and that is as good cred, and he begun to write with his idea that a Southern man must fight as if you shota man down South, save left haild, not using the right for or go to Coventry, and this writer at seduction or allow. In fact, the twelve months. And to thisperma-‘ code is merciful after all, for seconds | nent hurt his terrible bad chirogra- are bound by the "Wilkinson Code" phy is now due. s .to settle affairs that can be settled. Many, amusing and provoking and then to see to it that the parties things have occurred on acecunt of his ye somewhat fairly matched. The bad writing, in which Dean Stanley worst evil th the code is he law that Horace Greely and Rufus Choate the challenged party has the choice of ! were his only rivals, but without his that the annoyance was curable with ease. "How so?" demanded the lit- tle Georgian. "Just have him paint a prensile tail to it and sell it for monkey," gravely replied Cost But he apologized, and that is :halt ptaetice unthecounties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and in the Su- • Vourt of the State: D Office otor Drug Store of J. W. Hightower, mch5-1y Wespons. The one who gives the in- suit, and is apt to be to blame, thus gets a prime advantage. In the rear 1860, when not to Dd g secosstgiist washigh treheen in Georgia, the y rit- er, with Judge Warner. Sengr excuse. Printers late set up Tuesday for Thursday and North for South. Monday, Jie OH came on once ordered EX. M. SPEER. JNO: D. STEWART SPEER & STEWART, Ju. TenXN* A e ate : ATTORNEYS AT LAW. GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. non practice in all the Courts both State 5nd 1 derat June 22, 1878.-tf Tenders the public his professional ser- re and will give prompt attention to alls. GY Office at his residence. DR. W. T. HANNAH; THOMASTON, GA. army worm or the caterpillar comes and along he would have something to tables." fall back on and make him always / feel calm and cereen. I think I would hend, .... , c. 101a like that wouldent you ? and I reck:: syllogism, can overcome the . On there airt no harm in pre : * it as Agor did when he said, me neither poverty nor riclies." Most every aspirin’ man I know of in the towns and cities is lookin’ forward to this blessed state. They work and 5toil and twist and dodge in and dodge out and a thousand litte things they are sorter ashamed of with a - peleasl e Plant & Sons. . mystery to women who have no idea BANK ERS * ND RR ORTP4 of how it is evoled from the raw ma- |- BROKERS, serial. t After you have mastered the MACON, GEORGIA. Tiren-dutestion, try meats and vege- buy and sell Exchange Gold, Stopks and Any bright girl who can compre- Bothlar E at an equation, or formulate DEPOSITS RECEIVED, On Which Interest will be Allowed |remember a high tribute to his geni- |"8, when, ill the Legislature of 1859, |he made his most eloquent speech for a criminal ever made on the ground of insanity, in the Choice murder case, and Judge Thomas 1 who bore the "challenge" ed the "publication and print- , went over and offered his hand to the "branded" mail, and congratulate -d him on the speech that made a whole Legisla-! ture shed tear s, an old popular find, 3 dozen, or a full carload, .. mother kind. This writ- their time-w xhr n:,:::..t.Salctinoiious Abe Eisn appointed Bachelors |of the First Georgia District, Mr. Co- | He got "tr hen, the Savannah postmaster, and of entirely others, ten in all, re fused, to Bolt from |er was once **** ***** on AYINIE when : the ( Barleston Demotratic National he ordered "fifty pounds of ico" andican be e |Convention, with a view to defeat the | got fifty pounds of ice. But the font |other men nominatilif of a National candidate, did him good, for, 10,000 Whigs as- |While William F. Yancey, the elo- sembled in Atlanta to give him an qucht Alabamian, attempted on the ovation, and as he could not walk to text of firied "Scarlet Letter," to : meet them they gathered from w fe- fire the Southern heart and so plung- grass Georgia in the South to the ed the Cotton States into revolution." | Cherokee ids in the North, his car- and while B. F. Butler voted for Jef- |riage was drawn by her to terent ferson Davis on Every ballot, and we | accident from the horses, and he could . . — ten voted for Douglas, aid the pretty not speak but only listen to the cry of Y hires and caprices; they are posted girls brought door keys to the galler-"Stephens! Stephens! Stephens!" ies so as to hiss tis comfortably, the | from the multitude: It was now set- fir e -eate rs in Buf ke cdtiity Gectala, buried us in effig gia Traitors” in letters a foot Ion pifined on the breasts of the ten fig Widower ures. late a Pyin forities which beset hdi when icarning a "give to cook. Lucent syrups, golden cakes delicately browned bread, quivering jellies, melting creams, and the whole set of material things glorified, be- cause made for love’s sake, and for the good of one’s dears ones, are fit expressions for an woman. The charm of this accomplishment lies in the fact that it imparts to its owner a gratifying sense of power; it bestows on her, too, the power of blesning and resting those she loves best. 0herdver the cook goes she takes her welcome along. One may tire of the sweetest singing, of the loveliest poetry, of the finest painting, and of the most witty conversation, but of cooking never. Yet I would be sor- ry to have you contented to be only preparation for shuffling off a cook, only a domestic machine.- |That is not my meaning or intention, a- Beartist, poet, inventor, and well- bred woman; be the most and the best that you can, and add, asa mat- ter of course, ability to keep house| well and do all that good houstkeep-| ing include. view at the last of setting down on some good farm with creeks and springs and meadows and mills and find wattle, and windin up a perplex- in life ill peace with mankind and communion with honest nature. No ambitious man becomes lost to such pleasant hopes as these, and the more trouble he has the more he longs for it, for its about the fittenest way I know of to get time to repent and make -— *- they wear weeds upo 1 : with orn hats; they Mere with countenances. They from 1 by reason of their sub- qued and solemn air and their tender consideration for sweet girls of six- teen or thereabouts. • Eley are usually, quite anxious to marry again, and are seldom unsuc- |cesstul 111 their various matrimonial |endeavors. They know how to han- Idle a, woman; they understand her .c .tled that the only way to get Stapliensi with "The Ghor- down was to kill Him, and that is |* |partly the reason why so few have tried to do so since. General Cass had AS AGREED UPON A DVANCES M ADE ON COTTON IN STORE 0g Collections promptly attended to MANUEL SPEIR, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, . THOMASTON, GA )Shop in old Art Gallery near Chotsy & 5 Matthews.) TTTIEL do all kinds of Boot and Shoe • V work and guarantee satisfaction to his patrons. Country produce will be re. ceived in exchange for work. Send in your orders at once, mch12-1y this mortal coil. But to all such the outside investment is highly necess: |ry.. Even Beecher couldent getalong !without it—for there are a thousand little leaks in farmin that a man without experiences can’t stop and out capital can’t remedy. - Why |only this mornin one of my boys was :d. ivin across a bridge and the mule Joe skeered at his shadder and shov- ed Tom over on the hand rail and it broke, and he fell in the ereek and dragged Joe with him and the Wag- gon too and broke the tongue all to pieces, and the houns and the haims and the harness and the driver, and both the mules set into kickin with the front end of the waggon on top of em, and the hind end up on the bridge and you could have heard READ THIS! I have a good lot * LEATHER, BOOTS & SHO S, GROCERIES, *‘ * SUCH AS -~ MEAT, FLOUR, COFFEE SUGAR. A LT of which I will exchange for Hides :ROME Courier: Upon the lease charge Col. Branham was very ex- picit, showing conclusively that Judge Lester was not employed by Gov. Brown to lobby his case through the legislature. The act creating the lease was passed by the legislature of 1870, and the contract: with the Western and Atlantic rail- road company was signed up on the 27th day of December, 1870, and re- quired no ratification. Not until one year afterwards was Judge Lester employed to defend the lease in the| courts, should the company be sued by the State. His employment was after nearly $300,000 had been paid in by the lesees. Lester never was employed to aid in obtaining the passage of the lease act. .Tanbark, Corn, W heat. Shucks, or the MONEY, LOW DOWN. And all those wholowe me must come and settle, either with the CASH or note, as I wish to make a change in my business, for I can- not LAP accounts any longer. Neither can I pay my debts unless you will pay me the little you owe me. 1 ieh6-1y B. B. WHITE. C. H. CORBIN, with regard to the exact location of the vulnerable corner in her heart,_ and they besiege this tender spot so telephone, and the girls ran and assiduously that they rarely fail to screamed and the old oman failed affect a conquest. r - every step of the way, for she said Widows are particularly fond of she knowed Paul was killed as he widowers. .They even prefer a sec- fell, and kicked to deth by the mules ond-rate one to a first-class bachelor. | and drowned afterwards, and it took I can account for this upon no other twohours to clear the wreck and theory than they find it a laborious |restore the wounded and passify the and difficult undertaking to instruct women and get, everything the uninitiated bachelors in, the the racket for :two miles without a every step of the way, for she said TAINOI, been sure of the State by 10,000, but his influence gave it to Gen. Taylof by 20,000. It was after this that lie challenged Govern r Herschel V. Johnson for a discourtesy in debate. Mr. Lewellen Nelms, a young law-| yer of our, party, thought this person-| al, and, in the name of the ten, chal- lenged Mr. Holmes, Captain of the Burke sharp-shooters and minutemen Thomaston, Georgia : - • —o Once |more calm and sereen.. Now you see M+-. Editor, there’s unforseen dam- |ages to pay and nobody to pay em, |and all we can dois to charge it up , I do think that we far- MR. CORSET has invented what he |calls a self-acting thermo-signal which |by ringing a ball makes known to all within hearing when an axle or any other part of an engine is over- heated. It is a small brass cylinder, containing a system of flexible metal disks, and a dilitablo liquid, which g to be fixed to the part liable to over heating. While all goes well the instrument makes no sign ; but as the temperature rises, the liquid dilates forces out a small metal pin at the end of the cylindery, which as the wheel revolves, strike a bell and thereby warns the attendants.- Thus the necessity for constant| watching an indicator is avoided. : O er Otte is his services to the public and 0 be pleased to wait on his patrons. .= The matter was settled without fight- |to fight him. Now it so happened |ing; but in the correspondence Mr.: |that this same Holmes (now dead) |Stephens made use of his memorable| |was reputed the best shot gun man in | statement 4 "No man has any right to| |Georgia, and was very fond of chalk- |insult another like a worldling, and| |ing a human form on His barn door |then to seek a sanctuary like a Chris- with the heart in the right place, and |tian!" of chambering a half dozen buch shot| Tender the init at forty paces. He also calculat- jamin H. L- SY 00 al services. I heir profession. |ed to shoot between the word fire and from Georgia, was more serious. The — X | the count "one —so as to kill his man , writer was present in Elbert county| DDr c13 ,/before the other could shoot or aim. VI. Z. SIMMS So, like a Blg bully in a prize ring, he .YALYI9 felt safe. Of course he accepted, and |of course he took shot guns, but here |the code itited, and refused him the |"ten paces," or "twenty," at which he W -SUGGS, NT. D. A. M. PATTERSON, M. D SUGGS & PATTERSON; THUMASTOE, GA. felt sure of killing Nelms, The sec onds put it, "forty," and Nelms only got an ounce of buck shot in his shoul- mysterious arts and rudiments of |booking their dresses and perform-| |ing those other necessary and essen-| tial acts and duties appertaining to to the mule. and belonging in houshold economy mers ought to have some protection | and dom estic felicity ; wild a wid- | agin the like of, and I want Luster His controversy with the Hon: Ben- lower, from long previous practical ! to introduce a bill in the next session, • * Fill the resent experiences, can immediately attend for they ve been protectin northern . 2 to the satisfactory performance of manufactures for 75 years and neg- reene ,these things without a long course |lecting agriculture, which is the fery when the trouble began. Mr. Hill of severe mental discipline or physic subsile of a nation’s prosperity. |was iffvited to a political barbecue cal traillifig: : What, sur—2 whar would the nation (or dinner of thieat cooked in a pit,) qi where Mr. Stephens and Judge T. W. |she Thomas were to do the Democratic hearted worms talking. Mr. Stephens began his her demearfor speech in his usual tone of insolent|NC S, cheerful contempt. Said he: "It was expect-t-is it cd that representative men of the par- ties would be in debate to-day. Ido not say that Mr. B. H. Hill, the Enow- Nothing orator, is unable to discuss these great questions with me. I do I know a young widow myself, be if all we farmers was to ,—: is a tall, elegant and warm-strike for higher wages and do |hearted woman; she is dignified in noting for a single year? Echo an- : pleasant in her man-swers whar? We must have better I in her conversation | prices for our trtick, calico has come in her attire. She has down about right, but sugar and - coffee and rice and tobacto and shoes ESIRES to inform the public that he 14 .now prepared to do all kinds of work |in his line. Such as cutting and making new Suits, Cleaning and Repairing Cloth- ing, &c. Keeps, latest New York fashion plates on hand and guarantees a perfect tit in every instance. Call and see me when you visit Thomaston. Office up in Cheney’s Building. mch12-ly WEBB’S HOTEL Up Thomaston, Ga JOHN N. WEBBE, - Proprietor. RSY Terms reasonable, gd 3 BARNESVILLE BARBER SHOP, M. D. I. OAKS, Proprietor. W Work done reasonable, with neatress and dispatch. m:h 5th,-tf THE Milledgeville" Recorder says that the executive committee of the 6th congressional district was called to meet in that city last Thursday. Messrs. Chambers, of Wilkinson Roberts, of Butts, Barron, of Jones and White, of Baldwin came. There being no quorum no business was |pearly teeth, red lips, a pair of tender, |bewildering eyes and a high intel- lectual forehead, surmounted by, a Iwealth of waving, hair. Her hands taxes and workin’ the roads is in the same old holes purty much, and we can’t keep even with cotton 8 cents and corn at 30, and no market at all for potatoes and beans and horse apples and tomatoes and sich. I won- DEOETATIVE AND AECI ANIC AL |der and never touched his insulter. wouftrhitenders the citizens of Upson | That he lived with the “lead J ame" tonage. Services and solicits their pat- body until some Yankee soldier took and perfect sis of dental work done better aim, is only proof that as s afe orkinstance will visit the residences as Holmes was, it made him a little rrceisc desiring work done. All orders nervous to be faced by a living target my home rough the Post Office, or left at who Hadagun. That is a settled ax- rompt attention Thomaston will have iom now in the duello—"Remember may 22 tf |that your target is mid and going to s h o o t y o u i f i t c a n . " |The only real fight of Mr. A. II. ! Stephens was not strictly a duel s ave as it took two to do it. Etr. Stephens, |for a little man has always been both plain and loud, and he opposed t he |Mexican war steal, as strongly as did utitant euuas iscasiot, for, though, |Tom Corwin; who hoped the "yellow | Judas betrayed his master, Ee did not |bellies," as our foes were then elegant-: abusshim afterward." Said Mr. Hill ly called, would "welcome the invad- "I thundered this in their ears and, ... ,., |ers with bloody hands to hospitable they cowered under it." The issue ary again. # u graves.” Stephens more elegantly was made up not so niuch on wheth-L112 said she. ‘Why how yon |spoke of the crime to be prosecuted |er The said it or not—for he did solat- |talk‘ teet filled, against them as--|er if not then—but upon whether they |cowered or not: Mr. Stephens wrote| his demand for retraction, and Mr. is wrote about politics; and some widower to have me. |said he was insensible to any feeling wouldi t think of marrying any other of fear. Mr. Stephens challenged him, |kind of a man. , — -—-|and Mr. Hill wrote of the issue, and |in washing. f a : .4 |Their fresh fair virgins and their blooming of moral duties and said I am a, bachelor. . I haven t men- : greenbacks, and when I hear men Fer |yout!.." ..3 - mine e oesistndderees. said tired the subject of matrimony boastin’ that they done more than TACT Sen it self it since. I made up my mind that in anybody else to pass it I think they , ... 5- TRY lnet. AE : phens . DUher regarded I was not unlike mv ought to come forward and pa v the A VERY odd material is shown for - Pleasantly and fast, agents should ad |listed him: and that the present good of the manuscripts my publishers |discount. Don’t you? Silver has summer dresses. It is the Madras |dress FINLEY, HARVEY & Co., Atlanta generation may know what an awful had returned to aine marked; Not been the standard ever since the handkerchief border and all in One Georgis: (June 5,-tf- !thing that was, I copy the hot para- |exactly available." hulked ot Queen of Sheba traded with Selomon piece, and the dress is cut from this,| S 0 T : and it oughtent to be dishonored now and when finished certainly looks| Lvwss and organdie muslins have just to please a few bankers and cap- unique. revived for ceremonial dress italists who are gittin’.so much of it Es-tT/son :--Y*- Some of the patterns of these |they have to haul itabout to waggons just, terminated, and in relation to it, light fabrics are beautiful shadings of and pay freight and damage Mr. Hill has proved himself to me to harmonizing scientific dyes, farmers can tote about all we der and never touched his insulter are not say he is afraid to meet mein this discussion. I do not say that he back, ed out of this affair. . I only: say that he promised to come, and that he is DR.J.M. BLALOCK RESIDENT ***** FRIOMASTON, GEORGIA not here. This was reported to Mr. Hill, who, when next he spoke alone, retorted by saying that he had charg- ed Miru, Stephens at Lexington, and Mr. Toombs at Washington village, with "having betrayed the Whig par- ty, and having acted worse towards are soft, small and slender, and pos- sesses as provokingly pretty, a pair of feet as ever peeped out from un- der the folds of d dark dress. The other night we happened, somehow, to be together. We sat side by side in the front parlor laying a confi- dential, chat by ourselves. (The house was so still that we could Hear der if our law-makers who can save it than Judas Iscasiot, for, though Judas betrayed his the very crawling of the cockroaches in the partitions. I managed by much mannvering to get hold of that white, soft, small and slender hand of hers, I said in my tederest tone::: "Mrs. Brown do you intend to transacted. Tuc. gentlemen present, however, recommend that the chair- •. - . PR . • T. G. Lawson, appoint and put everything down low that the tintc and place for holding a con- we had to buy, and then abolish tax- vention to nominate a candidate for es and work the roads with the chiain congress in this district. As Mil- gang, and let the bell punch run the ledgeville is central and accessible, government. Such a law would give | the convention will doubtless, be universal satisfaction and immortal- held there as usual. a State couldn’t fix up an arrange- ment that would give everybody a good price for what they had to sell | man, Hon ize its author. If anybody can fix it| up I know that Luster can. We THOMAS GOODSON,, LASITIONABLE BARBER and HAIR LDRESSER, solicits the patronoge of his friends at his shop in the Johnson Building over Wm. Johnson’s store, 1 Terms reasonable, july10-ly. India rubber is soluble either in When ffiee and Outvisit Thomaston:call at his it should nave your Dental Work done as teeth extra. Teeth inserted, t _ -, best style ed, teeth atter ded to in the | JPs “Eyen until and you will e Dental At. Call once! The gafesof mercy shall be all shut up, 11110 ucm bring all yourOnly call again, but will | And the flushed soldier, rough and hard of Stephen "Went - Tends, including your | heart, 1 1 WOFK, and mother-in law/ 20 ALL |In liberty of bloody hand shall rafige lot and . Office, on | With conscience wide as hell, mowing tf like grass, tun. same lot LYON HOUSE BITON, Prop’s. , NESVILLE, - - GEORGIA Sard Def Day $2, Room Included. 90 above ho; Leald re fur Boat Es Card per B This sort of thing and his speech on |the Clayton compromise of 1848, as a climax, made things waratt in that |rather ovarm and excitable climate, |and Judge Cone, a man of Northern |birth, elected to the Judgship in Gear- se has been newly renovat- gia soon saw fit to denounce, him as hist e bed tirerenzren "a traitor to the South". in a public month -r. oLude for I speech Stephens said, when he heard 52 If of it: "If ic says that to me, I will a weekin your own town. $3 Out- want it for this Congressional dis- |naptha, and other liquids. A rubber | QUO fit-free. No risk. Reader, if you trict anyhow, for we are now takin’ cement made with turpentine dries want a business at which persons of with- silver at par and spendin’ it at 95 cents with difficulty, and, like most turpen-er sex can make great pay all the time in the dollar, and nobody knows : tine varnishes, is very "tacky - but they work, write for particulars to H. who done it or how it come so.— that made with naptha dries quickly: HALLETT & CO, Portland, Maine, ly —Lupo, one OLCILE alom. ,1 , There’s somethin’ wrong about that | , - 2 - . : can persuade sonic rich and hand- silver bill shore, and Luster must As imported printed itiAlit BEST $to 820 per day made by any some widower to have me. I rectify it next December Iknow The the court train made of French us- M6U • worker of either sex, right in . can do it. I thought they was a brag- Jin a Deschhne. . . as their owu localities. Particulars and sam- 1 would sooner take Eis a or me IIEEhtrath. all tririeced with clip) Time atthia Duartes A are Ecaha Eo a 80 cuts worse than lave. The vest is white and embroid- & Co., Portland, Maine, Jy But do you. now really?". "Perhaps, she said archly. "If I "I am now compelled by a sense of _ duty to myself and the public to make been known, that by the correspondence, wear. We and Morphine habiteured. The Original and only absolute I Send stamp for book on I Opium Eating, to W. B. Squire, Worthing D. Greene Co., Ind, TRADE Barham’s Infallible PILE CURE. . Manufactured by the 3 . Barham Pile Cure Co., Durham, N.6. MARK, on Pe furnished on applicative
