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D. H. DOUGHERTY
ATLANTA, GA.
Please stand in the shower for a few minutes and allow
us to hold your hat and umbrella, and let us state that there
must be some misunderstanding about the thing, for we did
not capture a line of ocean steamers, nor we have not scooped
in what few auction houses there arc in New York; neither did
TERRIBLE
SURGICAL OPERATION!
A FATAL MISTAKE.
The Cleveland (Ohio) Press,
of February 23d, 1883, pub
lished an account of a fatal
surgical operation which caused
a great commotion among med
ical men throughout the whole j
country, Dr. Thayer, the most
eminent surgeon in Cleveland,
pronouncing it scandalous. It
we have all of Broadway, New York, wrapped up and shipped appears that a Mrs. King had
out to us as a sample lot, for we don’t do things by halves,
But here is the trouble for this week:
An immense stock of choice new WHITE GOODS.
45-inch wide Lace Flouncing and all over and narrow to
match.
New Nottingham for yokes.
Mull and Swiss—the largest and handsomest line we have
ever shown.
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.
LEAD IN LOW PRICES.
New White and Cream Mils.
An immense variety of white fans.
A whole car-load of Table Linens, and we lead the pro
cession on low prices.
It will pay you to consider well before you go elsewhere
to buy Dress Goods. We know positively that no house can
touch us on low prices. •
DOUGHERTY & CO.
IN LOW PRICES.
Our lace and Swiss Embroideries arc superb. We are
lower than ever, owing to “CUT RATES.”
A big job in Ladies’ White Dressing Sacks, beautiful styles,
formerly sold at $2 to $5, and we are closing them at $1 for
choice.
We beat the State on handsome Ruchings.
Elegant lines of novelties in Handkerchiefs.
SHOES.
We have had to add two more men to our Shoe De
partment, which sliows for itself how our trade runs. We out
sell and undersell everybody on Shoes, and are prepared to
prove what we say. Shoes for everybody and lower than any
body.
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.,
ATLANTA, GA.
E. S. BUCHANAN,
DEALER IN DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES,
SNEAD’S ODD STAND, WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
NEW GOODS,
K very thing Selected with Care and BOUGHT FOR CASH. We will Duplicate
Atlanta Prices iu anything in the Dry Goods line.
NOTIONS AND NOVELTIES
Of all kinds; also a full line of
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
Ami a General Line of
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
I also carry a full line of
been suffering for many years
from some disease of the stom
ach, which had resisted the
treatment of all the physicians
in attendance. The disease
commenced with a slight de
rangement of the digestion,
with a poor appetite, followed
by a peculiar, indescribable dis
tress in the stomach, a feeling
that has been described as a
faint “all gone” sensation, a
sticky slime collecting about
the teeth, causing a disagree
able taste. This sensation was
not removed by food, but, on
the contrary, it was increased.
After a while the hands and
feet became cold and sticky—
a cold perspiration. There
was a constant tired and lan
guid feeling. Then followed
a dreadful nervousness, with
gloomy forebodings. Finally
the patient was unable to re
tain any food whatever, and
there was constant pain in the
abdomen. All prescribed rem
edies failing to give relief, a
consultation was held, when it
was decided that the patient
had a cancer in the stomach,
and in order to save the pa
tient’s life an operation was jus
tifiable. Accordingly, on the
22d of February, 1883, the op
eration was performed by Dr.
Vance in the presence of Dr.’
Tuckerman, Dr. Perrier, Dr.
Arms, Dr. Gordon, Dr. Capner
and Dr. Halliwell of the Police
Board. The operation consis
ted in laying open the cavity
of the abdomen and exposing
the stomach and bowels. When
this had been done an examin
ation of the organs was made,
but to the horror and dismay
of the doctors there was no
cancer to be found. The pa
tient did not have a cancer.
When too late the medical men
discovered that they had made
a terrible mistake; but they
sewed the parts together and
dressed the wound that they
had made, but the poor woman
sank from exhaustion and died
in a few hours. How sad it
must be for the husband of this
poor woman to know that his
wife died from the effects of a
surgical operation that ought
never to have been performed.
If this woman had taken the
proper remedy for Dyspepsia
and Nervous Prostration (for
this was what the disease really
was,) she would have been liv
ing to-day. Shaker Extract
of Roots, or Seigel’s Cura
tive Syrut, a remedy made ex
pressly for Dyspepsia or Indi
gestion, has restored many such
cases to perfect health after all
other kinds of treatment have
failed. The evidence of its ef
ficacy in curing this class of
cases is too voluminous to be
published here; but those who
read the published evidence in
favor of this dyspeptic remedy
do not question its convincing
nature, and the article has an
extensive sale.
COMPENSATION.
One woman. In fars and velvets;
Another, in squalid rags;
One rolled by in her stately carriage.
The other stood on the flags.
One woman, alone in her carriage;
By the other a little child.
Who, watching the prancing horses.
Looked np in her face and s
She stooped to her boy and kissed him,
And gave him a boarded crust;
The other had jast left costly blooms
Where her one son lay in dost.
One, back to her darkened mansion.
Wealth cannot hold death at bay!
One, back to the hut where labor
Brought bread for the coming day.
Perhaps, as over the sands of life,
Time’s great tide ebbs and flows.
More fates among us’a e equa 1
Than their outward seeming shows.
ed to tell through the columns of the ; He Had to Wait.
Fifth reader how swift he used to be j Detroit Free Press.
as a warrior and that the warpath is
overgrown with grass. He very sel
dom writes anything for the papers
except over the signature of Veritas,
and the able yonDg stenographer who
used to report his speeches at the
council fire seems to have moved
away.
So they wander on together, waiting
for the final summons. Waiting for
the pip or measles, and their cough is
dry and hacking as they cough along
together toward the large and wide
hereafter.
They have lived so near Manhattan,
where refinement is so plenty, where
I the joy they jerk from barley—every
other day but Sunday—gives the town
a reddish colol, that the Shinnececk
is dying, dying with his cowhide bools
on, dying with hectic flush on, while
the chnrch bells chime in Brooklyn
Bill Nye Visits the Shinnecocks of
Long Island.
There can be nothing more pathetic
thap to watch the decay of a race, even
though it be a scrub race. To watch
the decay of the Indian race has been
with me, for many years, a passion,
and the more the Indian has decayed and ^ew Yorkers go to Jersey, go to
the more reckless I have been , D get their fire water, go to get their red-
studying his ways. j eyed bug J' uice ’ E° to 8 et their cooking
The Indian race for over 200 years i "
has been a race against Time, and I * aI away at Minnehaha, in the
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
MY GROCERY* LIKE IS COMPLETE.
PURE GOODS AT LOW PRICES
“SELL” IS MY MOTTO.
Come ami see me and be convinced. If you don’t buy you will be treated politely. W. C.
tirace 1b with the house and will be pleased to see his old friends.
E. S. BUCHANAN.
BRADFIELD’S
WHAT SHALL WE DO TO BE SAVED?
HOW CAN WE SAVE MONEY?
The latter I can regulate; the former I can assist you In.
I have on hand a large aud well selected stock of SPRING GOODS, and they must be
*old. My stock of
SPRING CLOTHING
Is complete and will please the most fastidious. Come and see them. Boys’ suits from $3 to
912JMV. Men’s Suits from |7-50 tc $2G All i waut is a chance to show them;—the goods will
fell themselves.
My line of DRY GOODS consists of Ginghams. Lawns, Muslins. Dress Linens, Table Dam-
Checks. Bleach iucs, Sheet ’ * v ' 1_ * 1 *
staple Drv Goods and Not ions.
A big line of Men's and Boy
a handsome lot of Men's soft and stiff Hats.
I sell the best hand-made Shoe in town for the money—both for Gents and Ladies'* My
stock was selected with care and comprises all the late novelties and styles. A large Jot of
medium grade Shoes always ou hand.
GROCERIES.
Mv stock of Groceries consists of Corn, Meat, Flour, Meal, Syrup, Sugar, Coflfe, and ev
erything needed to refresh and sustain the inner man. This department is replenished every
* n<J foods sold are guaranteed to be fresh and sound, or money refunded. Will
•eu low far Cash, or Oh Tnuc for approved paper.
Get my prices before buying elsewhere; I can make it to your advantage to do so.
. Bleachings, Sheeting Shirting—iu fact, everything and anything in the way of
Joods and Notions.
A big line of Men's and Boys* straw Hats; can't be beat in town for style or price. Also,
bfttidcnmp Inf nf Mott’s enft nn«f stiff U«ic
An infallible specific for
all the diseases peculiar to
women, such as painful or .
suppressed Menstration •
Falling of the Womb,Leu-
corrhcea or Whites, etc.
FEMALE
CHANGE OF LIFE.
If taken during this crit
ical period, ereat suffering
and danger can be entire
ly avoided.
REGULATOR!
need hardly add that Time is away
ahead as I pen these lines.
But the Indian is on the wane, what
ever that is. He is disappearing from
the face of the earth, and we find no
better illustration of this sad fact than
the gradual fading away of the Shin-
necock Indians near the eastern ex
tremity of Long Island.
In company with the World artist,
who is paid a large salary to hold me
up to ridicule iu these columns, I went
out the other day to Southampton and
visited the surviving members of this
great tribe. I give here a rough pic
ture, representing the artist and my
self as we appeared while entering the
hostile reservation. The reader will
see that we were calm.
Neither of us knows the meaning of
fear. If we had been ordered by the
United States government to wipe out
the whole Shinnecock tribe we would
have taken a damp towel and done it.
The Shinnecock tribe now consists
of James Bunn and another man.
But they are neither of them pure
blooded Shinnecock Indians. One-
legged Dave, an old whaler, who, as
the gifted reader has no doubt already
guessed, has but one leg, having lost
the other in going over a reef many
years ago, is a pure blooded Indian,
but not a pure blooded Shinnecock.
Most of these Indians are now mixed
up with the negro race by marriage
and are not considered warlike. The
Shinnecocks have not been rash
enough to break out since they had
the measles some years ago, but we
will let that pass.
There are now about 150 >Shinne-
cocks on the reservation, the most of
whom are negroes. They live togeth
er in peace and hominy, trying most
of the time to ascertain what the wild
waves are saying in regard to fish.
The Shinnecock Indian has united
his own repose of manner with the
calm and haughty distrust of industry
peculiar to the negro, and the result
is something that approaches nearer
to the idea of eternal rest than any
thing I have ever seen. Theairseems
to be saturated with it, and the mooD-
liglit is soaked full of calm. It would
be a good place in which to wander
through the gloaming and pour a gal
lon or so of low, passionate yearning
into the ear of a loved one.
We visited Mr. James Bunn at his
home on Huckleberry avenue.
He told us the thrilling story of the
Spanish Sylph, and how she was
wrecked many years ago on the coast
near his house, and how the Spanish
dollars burst out of her gaping side
and fell wilh a low, mellow plunk in
to the raging main.
Now and then the sea has given up
one of these “sand dollars” as the
years went by, and not over two years
ago one was found along the shore
near by. What I blame the Shinne
cock Indians for is their fatal yearn
ing to subsist solely on this precarious
income.
It is, indeed, a pathetic picture.
Here on the stern and rock bound
coast, where their ancestors greeted
Columbus and other excursionists as
they landed on the new dock and at
once had their*pietures taken in a
group for the illustration on the green
backs, now the surviving relic of a
brave people, with bowed heads aDd
frosting locks, are waiting a few days
only for the long, dark night of merci
ful oblivion.
So be walks in the night time, ail
through the long fly time, he walks by
the sorrowful sea; and he yearns to
wake never, but lie there forever in
the arms of the sheltering sea, to lie
in the lap of the sea.
At least that is my idea of the way
the Shinnecock feels about it.
The Indian race, wherever we find
it, gives us a wonderful illustration of
the great, inherent power of ram as a
human Ieveler. The Indian has per
haps greater powers of endurance than
thewwhite man, and enters into the
great, Unequal fight with rum almost
hilariously, but he loses his presence
of mind and forgels to call a cab at the
proper moment. This is a matter that
has never been fully understood, even
by the pale face, and, of course, the
Indian is a perfect child in the great
conflict with rum. The result is that
the Indian is passing away under oar
land of the Dakota, where the cyclone
feels so kinky, rising on its active
hind feet, with its tail up o’er the dash
board, blowing babies through the
grindstone without injuring the ba
bies, where the cyclone and the whop,
per journey on in joy together—there
refinement and frumenti, with the
new and automatic maladies and
choice diseases that belong to the
Caucasian, gather in the festive red
man, take him to the reservation, rob
him while his little life lasts, rob him
till he turns bis toes up, rob him till
he kicks the bucket.
And the Shinnecock is fading, he
who greeted Americus Vespucci
when he landed, tired and sea sick
with a breath of peace and onions; be
who welcomed other strangers, with
their notions of refinement and their
knowledge of the Scriptures and their
fondness for Gambrinus—they have
compassed his damnation and the
Sninnecock is busted.
BADGES,
MEDALS,
BANGLES.
ENGAGEMENT BINGS,
ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC.
MADE TO ORDER
when the Indian agent wiil hare to
seek some other healthful, outdoor ex
ercise.
So the consumptive Shinnecock, the
author of “Shinny on Your own
i Ground and Other-Games,” is soon to
! live only in the flea bitten records of a
great nation. Once he wrote pieces
for the boys to speak in school, and
Important Measures Now Fending
in the Georgia Legislature
When the General Assembly of
Georgia adjourned there were pending
before the Senate thirty-one bills, one
resolution, one report, two messages
from the Governor and a memorial
Senate matter—and seven House bills
and one House resolution. The char
acter of this matter may be thus de
scribed: Prohibiting the acceptance
of free passes by public officers, incor
porating the Florida, Cbicamauga and
Northern railroad, re-organizing the
Stone Mountain judicial circuit,
amending article 4, section 14, of the
Constitution; amending the Code rela-
tive to the wrongful sale of mortgaged
personalty; providing for recording
mortgages; allowing parties charged
with crime to testify in their own be
half; amending the Code in relation to
the pay of State's witnesses; creating
the office of Prison Inspector for the
State; fixing the salary of Judges of
the Supreme and Superior Courts; al
lowing amendments to be made to
schedules of assets, and creditors re
quired to be made parties to voluntary
assignment; providing for appeals
from one jury to another in Superior
and City Courts; amending the act
relative to life insurance on the assess
ment plan; carrying into effect the
amendment to article 7, paragraph 2
of the Constitution; numerous amend
ments to the Code and various corpo
rations.
In the House there were 287 bills on
the unfinished calendar. AmoDg the
most important of this mass of bills
we note the following:
To make uniform the rules of law and
equity in this State.
Providing for the arbitration of labor
disputes.
Providing for pleading or proving a
failure of consideration on promissory
notes given for commercial fertilizers.
Requiring railroad companies to re
turn their property in the counties
through which they run.
Repealing the law for inspecting fer
tilizers.
Protecting the cemeteries of the
State.
Regulating the rate of interest.
Establishing a bureau of labor and
industrial statistics.
Regulating the years at which mi
nors may be employed in factories.
Amending the Constitution regard
ing the selection of grand and petit ju
rors.
Preventing the sale of opium to par
ties habitually using it.
Establishing two agricultural farms
and an experimental station.
Regnlating the employment of labor.
Creating a reformatory prison.
Creating a board of equalization in
each county.
Amending the Constitution so as to
allow counties to aid in internal im
provements.
Providing for aboard of. bank ex
aminers.
Carrying into effect section 14, ar
ticle 7, of the Constitution, by provid
ing a sinking fund.
Prohibiting the traffic in futures.
Establishing a permanent peniten
tiary and supply farm.
Carrying into effect paragraph 3,
sec'ion 1, article 7, of the Constitution
in relation to maimed Confederate sol
diers.
Authorizing the commitment of ju-
venile offenders to houses of refuge.
Making void all agreements to pay
10 per cent, attorney’s fees.
Taxing wine rooms $10,000.
On a Michigan Central train the
other day as the “batcher” came into
the car with a basket of oranges an
old man, whose wife sat beside him,
was very anxious to buy half a dozen,
but she waved the boy on with:
“He can’t have ’em. He never eats
one without the juice runs down on
his shirt bosom.”
“Shoo! but I want two or three,
Hannah.”
“You behave yourself ! you want to
get cramps and raise a great row, don’t
yon?"
The boy soon returned wilh boxed
figs, and the old man beckoned to him
and began to lick his chops.
“Pass right on!” said the woman to
the boy, “He hain’t eat a fig for thir
ty years, and I guess he cau go thirty
more.”
The boy passed on and returned with
peanuts. The old man was ready for
him, but the wife protested:
“He can’t eat ’em. It’s been ten
years since he had a tooth in his
head, and he’d have to swallow ’em
whole. No, Reuben, you let peanuts
alone.”
Twenty minutes later the boy was
back with candy packages in which
there were prizes, and the old man ex
claimed:
“I’ll hev one o’ them or—bust!”
“Then you’ll bust,” she replied as
she motioned the boy to pass on. “It's
agin the Lord and law to take chances,
and yon wouldn’t git nothing nohow.”
“But I’m going to buy sumthin’,
Hanner.”
“Well, you wait. You can’t have
ice cream nor lemonade, and if he
comes with popcorn or buttermilk,
don't you dare to raise a fuss. Just
you wait. We’ll be in Detroit at C
o’clock, and then, if there happens to
be a grocery handy by, you can buy
six berriDgs for 5 cents. Herrings is
something to stay by you, Reuben
and the heads and tails will keep
moths away and are good for warts
We’ve got too old for gewgaws, Reu
ben. What we want is the wuth of our
money.”
The Country Press Heard From.
Texas Siftings.
When the inter-State commerce
law went into effect and free passes
were abolished, the country editor was
too dumbfounded to speak for some
time. He couldn’t realize that the
time-honored custom of “dead-head
ing” over railroads had been swept
away. But he gradually recovered
from his amazement, and then he was
mad. He took the railroad time table
out of his paper and killed every free
railroad advertisement. Then he be
gan to fire away at the roads and their
management.
Below are a few extracts from the
country press that Texas Siftings has
been able to cull:
It doesn’t hurt us any to walk. It
is good for us. It fact, when we had
an annual on the X. & Q. road we ai
ways walked when we were in a real
hurry,—Flytoxvn Ranger.
Hardly a day passes without an ac
cident on the alleged railroad that
runs—or rather crawls—through this
town. It9 rails are often broken—like
the company.—Borax Plaster.
Can nothing be done to stop the
shrill whistles of the locomotives on
theY. I. & T. railroad as they ap
proach the depot? People who live
iu the vicinity find it impossible to
sleep in the morning, and sick folks
are driven almost crazy by it. It
would seem that there are do rights in
this country that a bloated railroad
corporation feels bound to respect.—
Coon Ranger.
One of our most valued citizens had
a narrow escape from being run over
by the morning express on the Snap-
’ern-up line yesterday, owing to the
failure of the engineer to blow his
whistle. If our authorities do their
duty they will have that engineer
hauled up and fined.—Snag City
Sentinel.
Wonder where the general ticket
agent of that combination of twin
streaks of rust and right of way, call
ed the “Great Ctesar route,” got his
title of “colonel.” He was in Canada
during the war, and no one thought of
calling him anything but “Zeke" un
til he got a position as ticket agent.
Zeke, we are onto you.— Upcreek
Snorter.
A Car Coupler Wanted.
New York Sun.
Among railroad men it is universal
ly admitted that the common method
of coupling cars is about as primitive
aud as dangerous to life and limb as
can be devised, and that the man who
invents a proper substitute for it will
reap both fame and fortune. The pat
ent office has issued over 3,000 patents
for improved and automatic couplers,
and yet noue has been invented which
seems to be perfect UDder all the re
quirements of railroading. Many
men have spent the best portions of
their lives in devising couplers only to
find when they were subjected to prac
tical use that they had defects that
were fatal and could not be corrected.
Said an inventor: “There are plenty
of couplers that are practical and safe,
but the great trouble is that their first
cost is a little more than that of the
ordinary man killer, and as money is
dear and brakemeu are cheap they
won’t adopt them.”
“I hardly think that is fair to the
railroadB,” responded a third. “In
my opinion, the great obstacle to the
adoption of automatic couplers is the
lack of uniformity in the height of
cars. The master car builders have
adopted a standard, but they have no
means of enforcing It on roads. If all
the cars could be made of one uniform
height, there would be but little diffi-
Items of Interest Called From Our Ex
changes.
Grapes are ripening rapidly around
Griffin.
Tallapoosa needs more hotel accom
modations.
The crop outlook is better than for
several years.
A lady in Bulloch county is said to
have 100 head of young turkeys.
The Stale Agricultural Society will
meet at Canton on the 9th of August
The corn crop of Dougherty county
is safe. Recent rains have insured
good yield.
The colored citizens of Washington.
Ga., have organized a hook and ladder
fire company.
Work on the new boardiDg-house of
the LaGrange Female College was be
gun last week.
The ex-Confederate soldiers of
Heard county will have a reunion at
Flat Rock on the 20th of July.
Mrs. Cleveland will accompany the
President to Atlanta when he comes
to visit the Piedmont Exposition.
Douglas county voted on the stock
law question last week, which result
ed in favor of “Fenci.” by a majority
of 261.
John Mitchell and wife, of Oconee
county, have been married about sev
enty-five years. They have a son 70
years old.
There is a movement on foot to pe
tition the Ordinary to order an elec
tion on the whiskey question in Gor
don county.
The Second National Bank of
Brunswick has been organized, with
a capital of $100,000. It is called the
Oglethorpe National Bank.
A fine new boat for the Chattahoo
chee river, called the Fanny Fern, is
on her passage down the Mississippi
for Apalachicola aud Columbus.
W. M. Griffin, of the Twenty-eighth
district of Sumter, has a four-year-old
sow that has littered and raised sev
enty-two pigs in the Ia9t three years,
Members of the fifty-second Georgia
Regiment are invited to a reunion at
Dahlonega on August 10th, and of the
Seventh at Powder Springs on July
21st.
George Milton, an old gentleman of
65, residing in Bibb county, has se
cured the first pension granted to any
Mexican seidier in Georgia,—$8 per
month.
culty in devising an automatic coupler
; that would work; but at present you
The remainder is of a mixed char- j might as well try to make a straight
acter.
No arrangements have as yet been
made to start up the Pioneer paper
mill at Athens, but it is hoped that
something will soon be done looking
to that end.
There will be a reunion of the sur
viving Confederate soldiers who went
to the war from all of what was origi
nally Campbell county, at Douglas-
ville on July 23.
The majority for “no fence” in Mus
cogee county is about 200. The city
districts voted almost unanimously
for “no fence,” and the country dis
tricts heard from voted for “fence.”
Mr. Ham, of Hall, says he will press
his bill in the Legislature to prevent
the sale of tobacco to minors under
sixteen years of age. He will cite the
Illinois law of that nature now in
force.
The first regular shipment over the
Georgia Midland was received at
Griffin last week, and consisted of 136
bales of cotton from Columbus, and
was consigned to parties in Knoxville,
Tenn.
The Athens Board of Education is
nvestigating the charges of drunken
ness and indecency against W. H.
Davie, one of the coiored teachers, and
if they are sustained he will be dis
missed.
Aaron Crosby, of East Mitchell,
brought to Camilla eighty-two pounds
of collard seed a few days ago, which
he sold at twenty cents a pound. That
is cheap, but it beats cotton. He raised
them on half an acre.
A bill was introduced in the Legis
lature last week authorizing the Gov
ernor to re-lease the State road, sub
ject to the approval of the next Leg
islature, and providing for an adjust
ment of the question of betterments
by the Governor and lessees.
The friends of prohibition held a
preliminary meeting last week to
wards making an effort to get rid
of the sale of intoxicating liquors
in Greenville and Meriwether county.
An executive committee was appoint
ed and a vigorous effort will be made
for prohibition.
U- A- Pope, of Leesburg, says that
the melon crop of Lee is the largest he
ever saw, and the melons the finest in
the world. In the last three or four
weeks they have been shipped nu
merously and have already turned
loose about $10,000 in the county, and
the prices still hold up.
Maj. McCIung, of Gwinnett county,
has been living in the same house
where he now lives for fifty-three years.
During ail that time he has been in
Ben Smith’s district. Recently the
district lines were so chaoged as to cat
him off in another district. He says
he does not feel at home.
The Brunswick Sera Id understands
that A. B. Sherwood, representing a
large lumber firm in Michigan, has
obtained an option upon 16,000 acres
of timber and land belonging to the
Tison estate. If the sale is made the
purchaser will establish a large saw
mill on the property this fall.
The river bank at Augusta, from
McIntosh street down, presents abusy
It is not justice to put one lawyer
contributed largely to McGuffy’s and °“ the at a “““ and
Sanders’ periodicals, but now you ! ° tber to , *** h *f
never hear of an Indian who is a g^od j J 6 * 01 and C0l,ect large fees for
extemporaneous public speaker.
___ _ . , He no longer makes the statement j Rooms in real estate have created j cause school teachers are, as a rule,
W . JCL. A V iliK X , i he is an aged hemlock, that bis j $150,000,000, of wealth since January j women of sense; and no woman will
PiMBTitlt Street,
Jr R. HERRING.
THE JEWELER.
limbs are withered and his trank at- j l”t. Next to industrial growth this j give np a sixty position for
i lacked tptfaecmwtabie. Bebaaceas- J showing is good for the country. j tea dollar i
stick without two ends as a coupler
that will do the work required by the ; scene daily—two different forces en-
present circumstances.” ; gaged in boat building. Already the
— • : shape and style of the first boat for the
“How does it happen that there are ! Augusta company has become appar-
so many old maids among the school ent , and now that lumber is In plenty,
teachers?" asks an exchange. Be- work will move ahead rapidly.
C. E. Williams, living about eight
miles from Americus, says he has
eight acres in eotton.tbat is literally
epramdwitb bolls nearly grown, and
thinks he will get in a bale of cotton
by August 1st. The weed is the finest
he ever had, and promises the largest
yield of the staple he has ever
In accordance with a petition Cram
a large number of voters, the ordinary
of Butts county has ordered an elec*
tion on the question of “whiskeyorno
whiskey,” to be held on August 4th,
next. This will be the third time an
election on this question has been
held in that county; both of the form*
er ones went for whiskey.
Collector Crenshaw has forwarded to
Washington his report for the fiscal
year ending June 30th, 1887. This
shows the office to be in excellent con*
dition. For the year endiDg June 30,
the collections from all sources were
$336,69S.77, as against $303,971.91 for
the year ending June 30, 1SS6. The
balance in favor of this year is $32,726.*
S6.
Barnesville Gazette: Tke colored
people crowded the cars to Griffin
Monday. The inspiration, we learn,
was a poster announcing that John
Sherman and Fred Douglas would
speak that day in Griffin. Our infor
mation is that a colored preacher in
Griffin originated the idea and worked
up the circular announcing the false*
hood to fool his people.
The farmers living on the Mulberry -
river, in Jackson county, are very
much excited about a strange animal
that is roaming around in that part of
the county. Ben Arnold, a negro, sent
his little girl to the spring after water,
when this strange animal attacked
her aud inflicted such fearful wounds
that the child died from it on last Sat
urday. It is thought that it is a wolf.
A Walker county constable by the
name of Hayes was arrested last week
on the charge of obstructing the mail.
Hayes levied an attachment on the
horse used in carryiog the mail from
Uiuggold to Rock Spring, compelling
the mail boy to walk the entire dis
tance. Haye9 was taken before Com
missioner Walker, and in default of
bail was committed to Fulton county
jail.
At a meeting of the Confederate
Veterans' Association of Troup coun
ty resolutions were unanimously adop
ted inviting all of the survivors of the
Thirteenth aud Sixtieth Georgia regi
ments C. S. A., to meet their comrades
in LaGrange on the first Wednesday
in August to attend the annual reunion
of this association. Ample provision
will be made for their comfort and en
joyment.
The Eagle makes the following
gratifying statement concerning the
success of the match lactory at Gaines
ville: “The demand for these goods
is constantly growing, and it is prob
able that it will not be long before
they will supersede, at least in the
South and Southwest, all other kinds.
This factory is a great thing for
Gainesville, and it is a pity more such
enterprises are not inaugurated.”
The Georgia Southern and Florida
Railroad Company has offered the cit
izens of Vienna, Dooly county, land to
build a new town on, and also to build
new Court-house if they will remove
the town to the road. The road will
run within two and a half miles of the
present town, but a9 the company
have not purchased the lands in that
section yet; they are not prepared to
say just now bow far off the new town
will be located.
A hitch has occurred in the prelimi
nary arrangements of the anti-Prohi-
bition party of Whitfield connty.
The petition, praying for an election,
presented to the Ordinary last week,
was found upon examination to have
been improperly drawn up, or not in
accordance with the law bearing up
on the subject. So a uew petition
will have to be made out and signed
again, which will necessarily cause a
■delay of another month.
The Albany Rows and Advertiser
says that castor oil is an infallible
remedy for the sting of bees or other
insects. It has been tried by a num
ber of persons in that city, and has
given almost instant relief in many
cases. The castor oil seems to coun
teract the poison and allay the pain
as soon as applied. As the remedy
is said, by reliat.'e persons who have
tried it, to be a prompt and never
failing one, it is worth remembering.
A few days ago H. C. Bagley, of
Americus, received a letter from a
firm proposing to locate in Americus
for the manufacture of agricultural
implements if the people would take
some stock in it. Mr. Bagley replied
that the people would take stock in
anything that promised to be profita
ble and invited them to come and look
over the ground. The firm said they
had read such reports of Americus as
to convince them that it was a grow
ing city and had a prosperous future
before it.
S. J. Denard, the defaulting Tax
Collector of Wilkinson county, has
given bond for his appearance at the
adjourned term of the Superior Court, '
which convenes in that county this %
week. Mr. Denard has repeatedly
promised his bondsmen to get up the
money and pay the balance, but has
failed to do so. According to the
Comptroller-General’s statement he is
due the Stale about $1,100 and the
county a balance of $870. There is
much speculation as to how the trial
will result. The sympathy of the pub
lic is with his bondsmen.
In the Senate last week Mr. Peek
introduced a bill which is designed to
be a great auxiliary to the local option
laws. In fact, it is no more nor lese
than a direct stab at the popular “jug
train.” The bill makes it unlawful
for any railroad company or express
company to carry spiritnons liquors
for distribution into any county in
the State where the sale of such li
quors is prohibited. If this bill Is
passed it will bring about a mighty
dry spell in a large portion of the
State, as the express company is the
great feeder of spirits in <