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About Upson enterprise. (Thomaston, Ga.) 1878-1879 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1879)
VOLUME I THOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 15, 1379 NUMBER 37 THE UPSON ENTERPRISE ADVERTISING RATES QUAEKSTIT. 11 M.13M. €M. I 1% M Saunro. $1 00 |$2 50 $700 1000 $15 00 teuarer. 208 5,001000 1500 25 00 25 00 ran. The bullets fell all around us. and one struck me on the thigh. . • ACCOUNT OF the OUT- ploughing through the flesh just un- NEAR AT WHITE RIVER AGENCY-der the skin. It stung me like a wah) wish MEEKER’S STATEMENT OF HER and I thought it timeto arop. I fell EXPERIENCES AS A CAPTIVE AMoxG to the ground. --- 1 MRS. MEEKER’S THE INDIANS. Squares, (Squares, Colvins 2000 4 00 5 00 I12 00 ‘ 30 00 | 2900 1000 | 20 00 | 35 00 1 65 00 15 00 | 25 00 40 001 7000 I 30 00 000 1 4000 50 00 80 00 7000 180 00 DR. J. M. BLALOCK, Thomaston, Georgia. L. C. SUGGS ATTORNEY A T THOMASTON, GEORGIA. Will practice in the several Courts • „he State. oct23,-tr WESLEYAN FEMALE INSTITUTE. STAUNTON, VIRGINIA. Auv one who desires to educate his daughter thoroughly, on the lowest terms and least expense, in one of the first schools for young ladies in the United Staten. which opens September 18th, 1879, write for a Catalogue to Rev. Dr. WM. A. HARRIS. President. juIr12.-tf Staunton. Va P. L. PEACOCK, J. W. HUNT. W. N. HOLT. C. S. ELLIS. PEACOCK, HUNT & Co., Cotton Factors General Commission Merchants, No, 2 Kelly’s Block, 188 Bayst., ANNAN, .. GEORGIA IDE RAL advances made on consign, wents of Cotton. Being agents for no particular brards of Bagging. Ties, etc., we till orders for any brand desired at the lowest market prices. The New York Herald printsan in- teresting statement by Mrs. N. C. Meeker concerning the recent massa- cre at the White River Agency. She "Trouble began when the agent in- dicuted an intention ot ploughing eighty acres of land lying between Douglass avenue and the river. * The Indians had not used the land except for their ponies to run on. It was open and unoccupied. As soon as he heard of any dissatisfaction about the matter the agent called the Indians together, and settled it by obtaining the consent of the majority of the In- dians to plough. Chief Johnson failed to attend the council, and when the Utes gave their permission he grew angry, and it was his son who shot at the plough-man. Afterward John- son said he was ‘No angry ;‘ but back of all this there were signs of wick- edness and secret plotting, suspicious movements, increasing rumors, large sales of ammunition and false charg- es that the agent had cut down the rations. This last was false. The government had reduced or changed the issue of rations for all the Indians. My husband gave the White River Indians regular and full government rations, but he had orders from Wash- ington not to issue rations to the Un- compahgre, Uintah, Arapahoe or oth- er outside visiting Indians. "O the morning of the massacre Douglass came to the agency and spoke of soldiers coming. My hus- band said : "‘Let them come. They will not hurt any one. But we will send for We offer to our correspondents the Inf- est information of the markets by daily |l 61, : 1, mail, and. when desired, by teleg raph: all the chiefs and head captains to and will give prompt personal attention | hear their complaints and talk the wall business entrusted to us. sep19 tf LT. LEE, E.B.LED, W.J. LAWRENCE. A. T. Lee & Co., COMMISSION MERCILINTS, HAND- COTTON FACTORS, Consignments Solicited. Highest market price guaranteed. Charges for selling cotton very moderate. Furnish Barging and Ties and Fertili- more at lowest market quotations. Make promt returns and liberaladvaueemente • Bille of Lading, Nil the Savannah Weekly News to "E lar shippers gratis. ° sep20 tT. (IFGRGIA—UrsoN € OUNTY.—Where- Uas L. W. Elling on. Administrator onthe estate of S. A. Ch ppell, deceased, applies to the undersigned for letters dis- missory from his Admini.tratership. The efors all persons concerned are re- tired to show cause (ifanv they have) NOY said a ministrator. on the rst Mon- day of December next, should not Le dis- thurged. Given under my hand and seal of office, Sept 1st, 1870. A. WORRILL, Ordinary, MORTGAGE SHERIFF’S SALE TILL be sold before the Court-hose co" deor is Thomaston, Upson county, the first Tuesday in November, it between the legal hours of sale, the Lowing descried property, to-wit: matter over.’ "Douglass did not say much and went away. We did not Tar any particular danger, though ou Sator- day, three days before the massacre, they had moved their tentsand wom- en and children to the wilderness.— The Indian Pauvitz asked me on Sat- urday, Sunday and Monday if I was afraid. I said,‘No.’ Pauvitz wasthe husband of Jane. |"I was in the kitchen with my daughter, washing dishes, about half- |past one o’clock. We had just finish- ed dinner. Some of the Indians had eaten with us, and Chief Douglass had been picking around the table and joking with my daughter Jose- phine while we were washing the dishes. There came a volley of fire- arms—a succession of sharp explo- sions. It was startling and I knew what was coming. My daughter and I looked into each other’s faces. Mrs. Price, who was washing clothes at the door, rushed in, exclaiming: "What shall we do ?" "Josephine said, ‘Keep all together,’ and the girl was as cool as if she were receiving callers in a parlor. "The windows were shot in. Our The Indians captured Josephine and Mrs. Price first, as they were behind me, with Mrs. Price’s bies. all turn round and smoke and laugh and talk. Sometimes the ceremony is repeated all night. I assisted at two of these medicine festivals. Mrs. Price’s boys became expert it sing. : somnambulic state, and in a pose closely resembling that assumed by the late Charlotte Cushman lu the celebrated sleep-walking scene of "Lady Macbeth," stood Ilia wife, while |ing Ute songs, and they sang to each in either hand and ominously fishing other on their journey home. The in the gaslight she grasped the man- A political party needs a machine in the sense that it needs a work- ing organization. . The machine in this sense exists for the good of the party. The machine in this sense is an in- strument of the party —an essential instrument, perhaps, but still an in- strument. The arrival of General Adamsiegener, he kept quiet while the lady There is no vitality in political ma- -N EW- • hel A ms is soliloquized : "[Toll the carer in an chine, al The strength of a political machine: DiaCKSillILa Shor sick-bed ceremonies were very moth carving knife and fork. Curi- r strange and weird, and more interest- ods to know just what was going to .‘ I saw the body of my husband ing than anything I saw in all my be the denotement of this kTENk stretched out ou the ground in front captivity of twenty-three days." of the warehouse; all the clothing was gone but the shirt. was not mutilated. The arms The bods described, and the councils that fol- easy p ion in the right hand, thus." ims were lowed in relation to the surrender of All .. - -|ushe dipped the point of the huge as looked as penceful and! ndtural as follows:r 18 narra ive concludes kuifa as gracefully a • teneing-mas- |ter 12 the broad-sword exercise.— extended at the sides of the head. Th is the strength of the party behind it. The object of a political machine is Near the Livery Stables, as in lifebut blood was running from "Next morning we left for Un sThen » continues, ... . . the mouth. Istooped to kiss him, compalgree in charge of Captain dent, "bend Blight but just as my lips were near him 1! Cline and Mr. Shermr- PL / :. !. Saw an Indian standing stone still, looking at me, so I turned and walk- ed away. Douglass afterward said that my husband was shot through the side of the head.” Miss Josephine Meeker has written out a statement of the experience of the captives while among the Indians, from which we cull some extracts. An incident of the first halt after the march southward had begun, is thus related : "Then the brave chief, Douglass, who had eaten at our table that very day, walked off a few feet, returned and placed his loaded gun to my fore- head three times, and asked me if: to de the work required of it by the THOMASTON, party. GEORGIA The ... . - y the left wrist and When a political machine tries to served as scout iu the army of the a insert the fork in the breast of the tur- control a party the order of nature is key, one prong on either side of the reversed—the tail tries to wag the Ireast : one." A id, suiting the ac- dog. This makes the dog laugh. tomac, and Mr. Sherman as chief clerk at Los Pinos Agency. To these gentlemen we were indebted for a safe and rapid journey to Chief Ou- ray s house on the Uncompahgre riv- er, near Los Pinos. We rode on po- nies forty miles the first three days, and reached Captain Cline’s wagon. on a small tributary ot the Grand tion to the word, she was about to plunge the fork into my friend’s anat- When the engineer of a political machine—whether the engineer is a omy, about where the ribs join the United States Senator or a Presiden- sternum, when he caught and disarm- ed her. She drew back and glared at him for a moment, and then, pushing back the sleeves of her robe de nuit. We took the buckboard wagon and pointed her fager towards him and traveled the next day to the Gunni-1 ‘ son river, and the next and last day 1 her : "The only way to reach your hus of fear we traveled forty-five miles, La., , .:.... 1. band 4 heart is through his stomach! and reached the house of good Chief 0 Ouray about sundown. "Here Inspector Pollock and My was going to run away. I told him I | brother Ralph met me, and I was hap was not afraid of him nor of death. and should not run away. When he found that his repeated threats could not frighten me, all the other Indians[ py enough. Chief Oa ay and hisu- ble wife did everything possible to make us c mfortable. We found ca:- pets on the floor and curtains on the windows, lamps on the tables and turned on him and laughed at him, and made so much fun of him that he stoves in the rooms, with fires burn- sneaked off and went over to frighten ing. We were given a whole house, my mother. I heard her cry ‘On! and after supper we went to bed and and supposed that she thought some slept without much fear, though terrible fate had befallen me. I shout- ed to her that I was not hurt; that she need not be afraid ; that they were only trying to scare her. The night was still, but I heard no response.— mother was still haunted by the ter- rors she had passed through. Next morning we breakfasted with Mrs. Ouray, who shed tears over us as she Since that night this gentleman has slept in another apartment with the door bolted and a stack of trunks piled up against it. ‘The History of Petrolium. A correspondent of the Philadel- phia Times, writing from Oil City, Penn., thus universally used petrole- um: "In 1841 petroleum was used briefly sketches the history of the now as a medicine. At that time and up 1853, it was known as ‘Seneca Oil,’ probably on account of its having been found on the surface of Seneca lake, and having first been used by tial candidate— runs this instrument of a party counter to the judgement of the party, he lies a wke nights think- ing what the party will do about it. It is supposable that in certain cir- cumstances a political machine may be more intelligent than public opin- ion, but in the United States public opinion is the court of last resort, and possesses the power to enforce its de- crees. A party which is worse than its machine is an untrustworthy party. A party which is better than its machine cannot be controlled by its machine. When a political machine ceases to be responsible to public opinion it is time to change the engineers, for if it is better than public opinion it will —*0) —. I would respectfully inform my friends and the public generally, that I have open- ed a Blacksmith Shop at the old stutid of John Bland, opposite the Steam Shop, where, for connection with W. 0. Smith and John Bland, I am prepared to over- haul old Buggies and make them look like new. Repairing Brigetes and Horse- Shoeing a Specialty, I will guarantee all my work to be firstelass in every particu- far and at hard pan prices. All those who are indebted to me for work done in the past are earnestly request to settle up promptly this Fall. in order that I may carry on my business. Respectfully. oct 1-1n J OI1 N D. CA RA WAY MASE FACTURER & REPAIRER of Buggies, Wagers, &c., &o Tenders the public his thanks for past patronage and solicits their future fav- ors sept20,-1m MAKER AND DEALER IN iThe Indians looked at each other. All |hands took a drink around my bed; then they saddled their horses, and Pursune led my horse to me, and knelt down on his hands and knees for me to mount my horse from his back. He always did this, and when he was absent his wife did it. I saw |Pursune-do the same gallant act once Ifor his squaw, but it was only once, |and none of the other Indians did it |at all.” A touch of feminine nature is thus described : "On Wednesday and other days, one of Supauzisquait’s three squaws put her hand on my shoulder and said:‘Poor little girl! I feel so sorry; you have no father ! and you are a way off with the Utes so far from home! She cried all the time, and said her own little child had just died, and her heart was sore. When Mrs. Price: came into camp another squaw took| her baby (Johnny) into her arms and| wept over him, and said in Ute that she felt very sorry for the captives.” Miss Meeker witnessed a genuine war dance, which she describes as follows: - "One of the favorite amusements was to put on a negro soldier’s cap, a The North half of lot of land number 64 first move was to get under the bed uinleg (ch umngLount con- in Josephine’s room to avoid the bui- short coat and blue pantaloons, and| more on less, improved. Leviedon under lets, which were whizzing over our a superior coita ed from heads. Josephine had the key of the ENRt.L Curtin , Natzhews vs. James H. Beall, as the inert of said James H. Beall, to Batis- ied. 2 fa. Tenant in possession noti- 81236 C. T. FOX, Sheriff. 40850,-108 We have on hand Orders for BRY tram, at PRICK can be left with J. T. is Geo. w chard & Bro’s. store, or rich will receivoft, at the yard, all of average lots vie prompt attention. FALE EADBUICK CE wno nobsand. The Brick we offer superior 7They arancome and see for your- WOOUTTY CORD of HARD E will be paid. W bich the HIGH EST bade us good-bye. Then we took the Seneca Indians as a medicine. mail wagons and stages for hom The mode of obtaining this oil, at Three days and one night constant | that period of its history, was by travel over two ranges of snowy throwing blankets on the surface of mountains, where the road was 11,000 still water where the oil was wont to teet above the sea, brought us to the accumulate, and after they had be- beautiful park of San Lins. cone saturated to remove them and "We crossed to Rio Grande at day- extract the oil by wringing the blan- light for the last time, and a moment kets. From this primitive beginning later the stage and its four horses has grown one of the leading indue- dashed up a street, and we stopped before a hotel with green blinds, while the driver shouted ‘Alamosa. The moon was shining brightly, and Mount Blancho, the highest peak in Colorado, stood out grandly from the four great ranges which surround the park. Mother could hardly stand — She had to be lifted from the coach, but when she caught sight of the cars of the RioGrande Railroad, and when she saw the telegraph poles her eyes ! tries In this State. It was not, how- ever, until the years of 1853-4 that pe- :troleum began to be valued as an il- laminator, and this only in a limited way. crude state for it was then burned in its in old lard-oil lamps. brightened and she exclaimed I feel sate.’ In closing this want to thank Chief Ouray, and Gen. Adams. To them our escape." ,‘Now letter I which were liable to explode at any time. "Between 1854 and 1857 it became known that the explosive qualities of this product could be removed by sub- jecting it to a process of distillation, and from that time its value began to be recognized. Here a difficulty arose. This wife : The oil could not be gathered in suffi- We oW6 A River Turning Into a High |Cent quantities to supply the demand |and something must bo done or the new industry would fll through — Accordingly in the year 1858 a joint stock company was organized for the The Ohio River is now lower, it is:...... .1 = .2 21 ,. 1,‘. purpose ot boring into the rock in said, than it has been for twenty five . 4 1_ quest of the now valuable oil, and milk house and proposed to go there The bullets were flying like hailstones and we locked ourselves into the milk house, which had double walls filled in with adobe clay, and there was on- imitate the negroes in speech and walk. I could not help laughing, be- cause they were so accurate in their personations. On Sunday they made a pile of sage brush as large as a wash- stand and put soldiers’ clothes and a hat on the pile; then they danced a years, and it has a deal of capacity to get very low on slender provocation. At any number 01 points it can be easily forded. Navigation is wel nigh suspended, and between Pitts-| burgh and Louisville freight is piled up in many places on the banks, wait- ing for the rise which, it has been predicted by the weather-wise, will as they waltzed ly one little window. We stayed | war dance and sang there all the afternoon and heard 110 around it. They were in their best sounds but the crash of guns, we clothes, with plumes and fur dancing knew all the men were being killed, caps, made of skunk skins and griz- :and expected that the Indians would zle bear skins, with ornaments of ca- finish the day with the butchery of gle feathers. Two or three began the the women. Frank Dresser came in dance, others joined, until a ring as the women. Frank Dresser came in shot through the leg. He killed an Indian just as we let him into the milk house. About 5 o’clock in the afternoon the firing ceased and all was still. Sud- denly we heard the low crackle of flames and smelt smoke. Then we large as a house was formed. There were some squaws, and all had knives. They charged on the pile of coats with their knives and pretended that be inefficient, while if it is worse pub-| lie opinion will not tolerate it.—Now| York Evening Post. HARNESS, SADDLES, BOOTS, Etc. / T will seff my goods cheaper than any body in Thomaston 82011 A queer fish of a man arrived at |the Brush at Feet depot from the South| yesterday, in company with a sheep’s gray ulster and a bulky satchel, and: when the hack-drivers went for him| he called one of them aside and said:| "I am a singular man. I’m worth over a million of dollars, and when I take a notion to a person I can afford to buy them a house and lot.” "Take you right up, sir," replied the hackman. ‘Perhaps you will—perhaps so. Let me tell you something. I landed in Toledo ten years ago, get into a hack C. H. CORBIN, Merchant Tailo Thomaston, corgia 2 4 OULD respectful inform the public and drove up town, and the hackman TITOULD resp never said a word about fare. He win Thheh seemed to take a liking to me. In four weeks I presented him with a team and hack worth $1,200. Yes, I’m a singular man." "Get right into my carriage, sir,” said the hackman as he opened the door, and the stranger complied and was driven to a hotel. As he got out lie said: "I guess I’ll take your name. I may ... .. as made arrangements wit hN.Y. importers by which he can fur- nish fine imported woolens of German, French and English manufacture, at N. Y, cost cash prices I always keep the lest N. Y. Fashions on hand and guaran- tee a perfect fit in every instance. P.S.- No pie ce goods kept, such as are sold by merchants in this market. USE THIS BRAND take a freak to present you house and lot.” "The are is fifty cents, sir! ed the driver. with a repli- Col. E. L. Drake was put at the head singular man! "What! Didn’t I tell you I was a E of this company, with full power to push the enterprise. The work prov- ed to be full of difficulties. The fa- cilities for probing the hard rock at that time were exceedingly limited. The derricks used were only thirty feet high and the drilling tools only weighed in the neighborhood of two "You did, sir, and I’m another. I want my fare." "Look here!" whispered the man as he put up his pencil, “you have lost just exactly $40,000. On the way up here I determined to put you in my will for that amount. Now 11 BEST IN THE WORLD not come this season. Scarcely a boat |L. , ... , 1: 1:1 hundred and fifty pounds, and the of any kind is to be seen on the upper 1 part of the stream, if it may be called old ‘horse-power’ was used for run- such. The Ohio has not had water enough since July for the transport- ning the machinery. With all these difficulties to contend with the work progressed slowly, and it was not un- tion of coal from Pittsburgh to Cin- cinnati, and the latter city has beuti August 29, 1859, that the drill suffering for fuel. The price of coal struck the shale rock at a depth of has more than doubled, and there is seventy -one feetand the well immes- so little on land that people will hare diately filled uD to within five inches of the surface. A small pump was in- to renew their supplies through the railw ays, which will advance the rates be hanged if I do!" "I had rather have my fifty cents now, and I can’t wait here all day for it, either!” "There it is,” growled the stranger as he fished up a half dollar after a great deal of trouble, "and now, sir—” But the hackman didn’t wait. The singular man watch him turn the corn er and then entered the hotel, turned the blotter wrong end up to register his name, and his voice was heard saying: "If I can’t get a room looking out on a circus procession I don’t want any at all !”—Detroit Free Press. BETTER THAN ANY SAL- ERATUS. One teaspoonful of this Soda used with sour milk equals Four teaspoonfuls of the best Baking Powder, saving Twenty Times its cost. See pa kage for valuable information. If the teaspoontul is too large and does not produce good results at first, use less afterwards, febl-tf CULLODEN sorted, and the production was found to be about forty barrels per diem, at which rate it kept up for several they would burn the brush. They much more. Any quantity of coal is became almost insane with frenzy and awaiting in flat bottomed vessels at The dance lasted from Pittsburgh to float down as soon as excitement. 2 o’clock until sundown. months. This well was located in Tree township, Venango Then they the river shall have risen. Some 25,- Cherry 1‘000,000 bushels are reported to be at county, about two miles from what The system of medical treatment that point, more than has ever been is now the city of Titusville, on the Portland Bar, at banks of Oil Creek. Other wells "While in the building we barely lows by Miss Meeker, the Falls of the Ohio, is now an island soon followed, and people began to whispered, and tried to keep Mrs. | "No whites are admitted to the tents of very considerable size, and the flock to this new field of excitement. Price’s babies still. As the fire was while the Utes sing their medicine. Falls themselves look like an arch - ready to tap the veins from which the increasing we left the milk house cau- songs over the sick, but I, being con- pelago. The Ohio would be, as has saw it coming through the cracks in the ceilings and knew that the de- took the coats and all went home. struction of the agency buildings had begur.| among the In dians is described as fol- accumulated there. tiously, and Josephine reconnoitered sidered one of Pursune’s family, was been said of the Arno, quite a respect- the enemy. ‘It’s a good time to es- allowed to remain. When their child able river, if some more water was cape,’ she said. ‘The Indians are busy was sick his family asked me to sing pumped into it. It seems to get shal- with them, which I did. The Medi- lower every year, and some persons stealing agency goods.’ CULLODEN, GEORGIA, The language of postage stamps in- stead 01 flowers, has just been invent- :: liquid wealth poured in such profus- ion. A Confederate cap-machine been unearthed in Danville, Va. has In "We went around in front of the | cine Man kneels close to the sufferer, ! in the West have seriously proposed May, 1861, W. H. Wash, a millwright agent’s office and found the doors |with his back to the spectators, while to fill it up, and convert it into a high- I invented a machine that would make Open and things undisturbed, except that some of my husband’s clothing he sings in a series of high-keyed way. lay on the front stoop. We one, living or dead, and no any one having been killed. saw no sign 01 We ran 30,000 caps in ten hours. He sold it to the Government for $15,000, return- ed to Lynchburg, made another which ed.. Thus, when a postage stamp is placed upside down on the left hand corner of the envelope it means ‘I love you;‘ in the same, crosswise, ‘My heart is another’s;’ straight up and down. ‘Good-bye, sweetheart, good- bye: upside down in the right hand The School embraces three courses of study: The Preparatory Course, intended 10 prepare students for College; The Commercial Course. to prepare young men for Business: The English Course, to lay the foundation of & common Eng- lish Education.6 Terms reasonable. Board cheap. FALL TERM BEGINS AUG, 11th, 1879 in a line with the buildings, toward the sage brush, so as to keep the buildings between us and the Indians, who were at the warehouse pulling out the goods; but we had not gone far before we were discovered, and the Indians made for us, tiring as they grunts, gradually reaching a lower and solemn tone. The family join, and at intervals he howls so loud. v Miss Corson’s lectures on cooking had a capacity of 80,000 per day (ten that one can hear him a mile : then |had a singular effect upon the wife of hours) and sold it for $3,000. He sub- his voice dies away and only a gurg- |a gentleman re siding in Washington, sequently manufactured another with corner, ‘Write no more;‘ in the cen- tre at the top, ‘Yea ;‘ opposite at the bottom, ‘No;’ on the right hand cor- ner at a right angle, ‘Do you love me ?’ in the left hand corner, ‘I hate you;’ For further information, address C L. FLOYD, A. B., Prin"l, Culloden, Monroe Co., Ga. REFERENCES. Rev. T. G. Scott, For- 1 " - * " E. Lambdin, Presi- top corner on the right, 4 wish your syth, Ga.; Prof. C. E. Lan friendship; bottom corner on the dent of Gordon Institute, , , a \ . , • Ga.; the Fact lty of the Uni ling sound is heard, as if his throat was full of water. The child lay near- left, ‘I seek your acquaintance ; on a The gentleman was awakened from a a capacity of 12,000 caps per hour.— sound sleep about 2 o’clock in the When Richmond was euacuated this ly stripped. The doctor presses his morning by a flood of gas-light in last machine was put on a heavy wa- lips against the breast of the sufferer. the chamber coming from the jets in com and carried to Danville, where it and repeats the gurgling sound. He | the chandelier burning at full head. has remained in a rubbish heap ever sings a few minutes more, and then Standing over him, evidently in a since. line with the surname, ‘Accept my love;’ the same upside kown, ‘I am engaged ; at right angle in the same place, ‘I long to see you ; in the mid- die at the right hand edge, ‘Write me immediately.’ . . Barnesville, , the Faetlty of the University of Ga., Athens, Ga. |L BLACKWELL’S II a IN DURHAM TOBACCO
