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m unu urn POBtISHED EVERY Tuesday Morning. Office in ftorman’s Brick Building. Terms*, pe YeAV, SH)O,C.:i .. Six Month®, SOc. 45" Advertising low in proportion. j. H. Prop'r. C [ TIBS’, COLUMBUS, GA. HEADQUARTERS FOR CLOTHIN G. fpHOMAS most respectfollr solicits Inf •!.! c'.'V'ht'ri'. an X Fine and Extensive stock oi NEW OI.OIItING tor MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS and CHILDREN ! szysz t v' sr£Sf*s®sS garment is tried on that Thomas tuvs m •! I ’ u ".C-t ~, V./Lllin ■ cheap clothing that roa.ivm.idecloth.ors g.mr..:lt slit. , r : . mI. mfr I lit is daily receiving shipments from Ins man.ilnctarer wine ~ ytc the tiidc benefit of finding something new and tasty at tie- EMPORIUM of FASHION ! In addition to the clothing Department, y'i will hud a largo nmt couipU* Furnishing Goods and Hal Department. In the Furnishing Department, yon will find the celebrated IveepTYlttgituni Ilonmii S*liiTt, And as to the Fit. Quality and Oheanne-s of ho 1C- • > -' I e-' -A who k.vs tried them, and buying in preference tow' m.'cr-•hirt. , In the hat depart..-U yNi -..i1l fm 1 the 1. brat. >. >.11,1 ■ N It A r mad at U delphia, and not a. Ofange Valley Mo Jersey, win r- It- . .u.,, t.m s his grade. It is well f-r the trad., to kn-w t-.e diflowiu* •S*u SPECIAL OltDEltS mode to mcasme at short not-o, uml only tn tn*i tIASS mu- Wedding Suits a Speciality* No charge for Show ng* Don't Forget it: No Shoddy Clothing for Shabby Genteel. april27 HP upifrc . k ill Iltt GTJNBYS BUILDING, ST. CLAISSi. Columbus, O-a. ii *:a i si-zit irv Carriages ! ltmnri.os, Jr Harness, Saddles, fllnps 1 Buggy 1 ni* forelfas, Harness Eeallier, Etc. Agent for .Tat It Hill &C / . <•• 1 i c.ted'hand ma.L- Cone .rd Har pers ai.d \\ liars. ”' Sdiotield’s Iron Works, Macoa, Georgia. Steam Engines of all Sizes ! Steam Boilers a Specialty, BAW MILLS, GRIST MILLS AND MACHINERY Of all kinds as low as Northern Prices Boiler Tubes for all kinds of Engines, on Hand. Agents for t lieLeflell "Water N\ lx-H. mario bi J, S. SCHOFIELD. . I Lead with the Largest Stock of FURNITURE! SOUTH of BALTIMORE 25 Pieces Carpeting INCLUDING ALL STYLES INGRAIN TAPESTRIES, BRUSSELS, &e. just m;cu!vi:i>. RUGS in endless variety- ROONEY, COLUMBUS, GA. f !M3.—Recollect the oniv Furniture S tor a ip stairs no v -30s- decll VOL. 5. Slje CiefTfliu fUgister. HET'XTM'OI-.iDSr Brass and Iron Foundry, AN l > A/EACHINB SHOP t MANUFACTURE Stettin Engfineis, Hoilt'rs, fSuw, C*i*iss< ft.ml Sugar I^lillrs. Octton Presses, For Hijhd, Hprse or Steam Power. Also, Gin Gearing, & Horse. Powers Sugar Mills and Iron HailiJig’s SSjpeoictlAti©©- Wo also manufacture.and soil tho celebrated Pennington Horse Power, ha cheapest and best horse power made. And, also-. Pennington's Turbine Water Wheel, qtial to the best, add 100 per cent, cheaper. First i lass Went! Guauantb t>. We have recently bought all the patterns belongin'; to the late TO. Nob 1. an ao cun.illation ol over ;10 years, and we are now prepared to repair any machinery made bv him. We are"as wall fixed f-r patterns a* any ooaoern in the State. Our senior has boon in the business over thirty years, and botli of us are practice machinists and founders. Address A. REYNOLDS & SON. MACON, GA, Corner Filth and Hawthorne St. ftir Send for Frice List and irctila rs. fcldHtf F. B. PATTERSON & CO. BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GA. General Housefurnishing Emporium ! Sioies, Grates, Wooden Wait Hollow Ware, Crockery, Cota i [{tears, Tin Ware, Kiiciieii Eels, Handsome Decorated Chamber Sets,ss, Tin Sets, $2.25 up. Boss Cofli e rots, 75c to 81.00. Full lino Silver l’lateil floods, warranted best in tl.o market. Lumps and Lamp Goods. Everything needed in a housekeeping out fit. Prices to suit. COME AND SEE ME. noCHf GUO. S. OBEAB, 1 IO ( lluM-i-.y S<Macon, (in. Excelsior, Champion, T^j mjgA Monitor, Cambridge, Calumet, oook: stoves. Kafuty and Fairy Queen K' nisene Cnok Stoves, Refrlgernt ri, wntcr co->l.;rfi Ice Cream Fre zors, Fowler's Improveil Fly Fans, IXI. Fly I r.ips, ami Feather Dusters. . Pull lines of French ami American China, both plain mill decorated Crockery, A|;ido lien war-, Tim War - Wood Ware, lia-:kets, ete. Damps. Clnml limsimd Olusswaro. Full assortment of Table and Poeket fliul rv. New flood , New Patterns of Silver Plated Ware. Come and look, no trouble fo show Goods. aug!7s EVANWINKLE&CO. . : ■ U;j , Building Work f -d. - W-i For i'rices a-1- -'." 4 AiY; '•> ’ ’• jri E. VAN WINKLE & CO. 214 and 216 Marietta St, and 16, IS and 20 Foundry St. Atlanta, Ga. jnlySO—mey‘27 "consolidated !T Georgia Warehouse, AND Grange and Farmers' Warehouse! The business will go on c.t the GRANGE A FARMER*?‘ WAREHOUSE unie th -Ist of October n'rxt. after v-bicb tiiin ali the business will Dr trail;-,furred to tits GEORGIA WAREHOUSE, one block lower down, on the kudo street known ut GammcUs Stables. -I VV \Y OO!.! ()LK. I ' .1 -i !•:>, *v : N may 11 b I—aug 31 COLTJMBDS, GEORGIA. TALBOTTOX. LA L ROT COUNTY, GA. k TUESDAY, el AN U ARY 25. 188 L Education in the South, Now Orleans Times, | The schools of the south tvoro j never mare prosperous than at pres ent, nor the prospects for increased prospei ity in the futuro more en couraging, The southern people gcnarally are betraying of Into a keener interest in the great cause of education than at any former period. This is evinced by the proceedings of the t.oaekeiV institu tes,held annually and semi-annually in almost all tho southern states;by the public speeches in behalf of education—by tho increased school attendance—by the continued erec tion of institutions of learning, and last, but by no means least, tho bright, instructive educational pe rioilieals constantly springing up at various southern points. In no state, north or south, has the cause undergone a more pro nouucod advance than in Georgia. H r well-nigh perfect system of public schools is the pride of her people and thti admiration of ttie entire section. 'Tho report of the state school commissioner, which covers tho state's educational opera tions from 1879 to 18S0, fully justi fies the foregoing, and is, further more, replete with facts giving promise of still further improve ment, but while Georgia is per haps a little ahead in the honorable race, her sister stales arc not lag ging. On tho contrary, they aro steadily advancing, and the present outlook the time is not far distant when their institutions will vie with tho boasted seats ,ot learn, ing in the north and east. The Business Situation. Tho Financial Chronicle sojrs, it is not tleKirablo to take a rose col ored view of tho business situation which is not warranted act ual f.iets; but ovon accenting this basis, it may fairly be said that the appearance of commercial aud financial affairs throughout tho country at the close of this year is one of sound aud healthy pros perity, which lias never boon equal; led. Tho danger ahead whenever it may and ivelop can .hardly spring from any inherent weakness or rot tenness existing at the present mo ment,, Imt is mol‘c likely to ariso from going too fast, Some railroads m .y be built which cannot earn their interest, wheat may be grown [with all the new land) till tho price goos to 80a90 cents in New York, general confidence may carry things upward until stook sells at 80,which have no hope of dividends for ten years at least. The demand for loans on new enterprises may bo so rapid that money will com mand 132 per day for months to gether, All these possibilities are worth a passing notice. Small vs. Large Farms. The largo plant,ati ns in tho Southern States are being rapidly broken and di sided into small farms, and the steady yearly increase in tho amount of cotton raised is* to a considerable extent, duo to this improved system of planting. Bns tween 1860 and 1870, Georgia added 21, 820 to the number of her small farms, and it is estimated that within the last tin years farms of this character have doubled m number. These farms aro there designated as one-horse, tWo-horse* four-horse farms, and so on, according to tho number of horses employed in working tho land. This system of plant ing is largely engaged in by whites as w*dl as ii' grows. many of them aro worked exclusively by whites, and sta tisticians who ha ye devoted ’considerable attention to the subject, calculate that from one-half to throe-.fifths of tho pres ent cotton crop is the product of white labor. The custom in cotton planting now is to fertilize tho land thoroughly, and this, too, has had the'cffeot ot in creasing the amount of ootton raised, J)r Tulinagr ,Mbo groat dirinfy says! Until a man can read ’the Declaration of American \ Independence, the Constitu fcion of the United States, and tho first chapter of Genesis, and write a petition for citizenship with his *own hand, and calculate how much is the interest of the United States, and |f£l Jlho difference be tween a republic, fi limited monarchy, and a despotism, he is not fit to vote at any poll between Key Best and Alaska. A pine tree was cut down in Sumter county, the other day. from the heart of which ten thousand good shingles wero made, and the framo of a sugar mill from its top. Jt measured throe feet three inches in diameter. There were built in this country last year 7,207 miles of railroad. Dakota lead off with the greatest mileage, JOBO, with Texas second, with 658, Louisiana is put down Lr ninety-eight miles, being more than any other southern state ex cept Texas and* Virginia. The knowing ones say that Mr, Jas G Blaine will be Secretary of State, under the new administra tion, and Mr Foster of Ohio, Secre* tary of the Interior. Corn is being burned as fuel in the locomotives used on tho St. I Paul and Chicago railroad. Wise and Otherwise. An inch of rainfall is an immense quality. There aro (>,!272,G-lt) squa o inches lo the ncre> and an inch of rain on ur; acre would be equal to 32,622.5 gallons, weighing 113 tons. There is said to boa represente tivo in Congress from Alabama who has never made a speech or offered a resolution or a bill. lie draws his pay promptly and is very popu lar in his district, Tho introduction of tho electric light into the factories at Macon has created a stir, and probably a, large hotel in the ciiy will also use it. Senator Blaine has prepared n bill to reduce letter postago from three to two cents. It is said that Mr W W Cofcoran, of Washington, has given away in all $3,000,000 in private charities, and that this was about three-quar ters of his fortune. Senator Whyte, of Maryland, has introduced a bill in tho Senate auth orizing tho purchase of oue of Gen: Washington's swords for $20,000, to exhibit at tlie Soi'ktotVn celebra tion, New York owns two ol Washington's swords. Andrew Jackson said: ‘'Plant your manufactories by the side of your farms, and yon will cover your country with blessings." Mrs I laves' Christmas present to Mrs Garfield was a fine sideboard and extension table for tho dining room of the White Hittso, Tho anniversary of the emanci pation proclamation was celebrated by the colored poople in Savannah on tho third inst, Gen Ben Harrison, of Indiana, has received the republican caucus nomination for Senator from Indi ana to succeed Senator McDonald, democrat. lie is a son of Presi dent Harrison. Mr- Speer's bill to remove the duties from cottou machinery is a move in the right direction, and should receive tho support of all tho Southern delegation in Con gress. Madison has Cl young ladies] and a half dozen young men to pick from, A Columbus belle received calls on Now Year's day in her mother's bridal costume. A Sumter County sow had twelve, eighteen and twenty-taroe pigs in succossivo litters. Hon. J (1 Fair is tho new Sena tor from Nevada. lion, Eugene Hale is the new . Senator from Maine, When you soe an old man amia ble, mild, eqna' 10, content and good humofedi be sure that in liis youth ho has been just, generous and forbearing. In his old age ho does not lament the past nor dread tbe future. It is like tho evening of a fine day. Very few people know that Nor folk, Va., is a great cotton market* But it is a fact that Norfolk is the second largest cotton port at the South, New Orleans being the first, lie presen tatiros Stephens and Carlisle think, so we hear, that Georgia's electoral voto wilknot bo counted. Cotton in India. Tho decline in tho cultivation of cotton in India in a matter which must naturally take place, since neither the soil nor the climate 19 as fa vorable as in this and Homo other conns tries, and consequently it does not pay to produce it in competition with tho United States, Egypt and Brazil TheJ cultivation cf cotton in Indifi on a largo scale was promoted by tho British government so as to obtain a supply inde pendent or the United States, when, ow ing to our civil war, this country could not supply tho raw material required by tho British manufacturers. With the re turn of full crops in this country, tho British government has neglected its cot ton fields in in India, and the result is that the acreage has decreased from 11, 547,800 in 1875 to 8,876,627 iu 1878, a a decline of 23 per cent, in throe years, but this is not the worst of it. Tho yield per acre has fallen from 111 pounds to about 95 pounds, and the price is 15 per cent, lower, so that there cau be little, if any profit in lbobusiness. Ifcweuld seem that without government aid the growth of cotton in India must be uTando'ird and, as any agricultural product which has to besubaidizcd Ik not worth its cost, in the long run, cotton growing in India is doomed. The Utail DaMOArK,—In tlio contested election case of Campbell against Cannon, Governor Murray qave the ci-rtificato of election to the former, the anti-polygamist can didate. Mr* J. T. Henderson, Commissioner of Agriculture in Georgia, thinks the guano trade this year will shew an inceasc of at least 3d.C00 tons above the amount sold hi this State in 1879 GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES, Boors, Sash and Blinds. pinV'hT K !, no,t dn Mv 1 Ht m,r own .manufacture, both WHITE ami YEtbOW INh. Better than any Western made Goods brought to this market. We aro constantly Manufacturing and can fill outers ot odd sizes at short notice RETAIL PRICE 35 PEP- CENT DISCOUNT from Chicago Price List, Special Prices to Contractors; lONGLEY & ROBINSON; .JuneW 38 DECATUR STREET, ATLA&TA GA. % W. COLLINS, Manufacture*- of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES { WAGONS !> Ti* „ 7*2 fc 7 -1 Second S<i’eet. MACON, - - . GEORCIA - ‘ IDT sstooik: AND FOB SAM LOW PmivP^a!?^? 8 ’ Cabriolettes, Rockaways, Ladies and B 1/i^ 1 * loetorTo P and No-top Piano BoA and Coal Boy. A# Uk £3 ICS* Webster Wagons, AViilburn Wagons, Studerbaker Wagons* One-Horse Wagons, Harness, Baby Cabs, etc., etc* gall and be convinced. I Handle more goods in my lino than any other house in tho States of Georgia, Florida, or Alabama. My facilities are such that we defy competition, I will treat, you right. ,10v25 W, W. COLLINS, Macon,Ga BTOEVSS 2 E : N. HAYSf SON, JSW |\V of TIN \VA Id-; In all J t *lw * j* STOVES,.J W‘- -XL in ir ye'l want to see someitllliK nice auil clieun, rail on us al No. 133 West Side Broad Street, Columbus Ga. Opposite Central - . EVERY STOVE IJARANTEE'H. 1 -■■. i .... _ DIXIE WORKS. MACON, GA. BARTRAM, HENDRIX & CO, PROPRIETORS \ rA NUIw>CTUJIHS of fho best Sash, Dx>rs ond Bliiuls inalo in tho State fiv iTI. II other house building mnt.rial sue 1. as Wipdo>. and Door fraiues. Mouhlii i Stmrs BailusU m Newpls.Sproll-skwed and Turned avork. Send for pnre list. nplß b! NE W GOODS. HAVE JUST receive 1 a stot?of kh all 4 e new designs i?^tho MERIDEN BRITANNIA CO, E E C T Ii * > Silvdr*Plaited. 'XKF TartieH svislunj* Bridal Present-; will do well to call a*'ct exaniine mj r*toCk and pric-H bf.toro purchasing elsewhere. A full stock of 1647 Rogers Bro‘s Al Spoons/ Forks and Knives always on hand, Special att' ntion given to Watch and Jewelry A F PICKERT, Successor to G II Miller, j.dy V.) Ko 5 Whitehall street, Atlaiila, Gaf Job VVtirk. 9;*' ml All aloPstf. cf ,I<.l, W oil. den in tlio hest H’.y’r-;; p.tk 1 at the low r o*t pvirtN, at the KEGTSTEK JOB OFFICE Our Job is Itir nished with a vine powek Wimss and al the latest end most approved styles o type. We 4o l>ett< i- work for noi:oy- 'hnix any office in th State. Give us your ortltew and we will pleare you. . NO. 4