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Newnan, G' . Friday, Dec. 16, 1887.
DANGERS TO TREASURES.
Eternal Vigilance Ih (lie I’rice of Posses-
Kion of Gems and Jewels.
“Possessors of rare or unusually valu
able gerus, ’ : said a well known gentle
man the other day. “are menaced with
all sorts of danger to their treasures.
Eternal vigilance seems to he the price of
possession. Indeed. I sometimes think it
is too high a price to pay for the pleasure
of wearing costly jewels. But women,
you know, will have jewels if they can
get them, and are willing to undergo
almost any conceivable amount of trouble
or risk to retain or enjoy them.
“One of my engagement gifts to my
wife was a ring which had been the be
trothal ring in my family for generations.
It is an opal, probably the finest of its
•size in this city, surrounded by diamonds.
Originally there were fifteen diamonds of
the first water. Some years ago the set
ting began to show signs of age, and my
wife left the ring at one of the foremost
of the Broadway jewelers’ stores in this
city. In a few days the ring was re
turned, and the assurance was given her
that the prongs holding the diamonds m
place had all been strengthened, and that
the ring would last indefinitely.
“Recently she determined to have the
ring reset in a more modern fashion. \\ e
went away for the summer, leaving the
ling at a well known jeweler's. Soon
afterward my wife received a very polite
note to the effect that only thirteen of the
diamonds were available for resetting, as
the other two were very clever imita
tions. To verify the statement the jew
eler forwarded the two bogus diamonds
by express to us. They were certainly
the best counterfeits that I ever saw.
“S*>. it seems, the newest of all dangers
to diamonds is the dishonesty of the dia
mond setters. Gf course, the great ma
jority of diamond setters are unquestion
ably honest. It is a class of workmen,
like diamond cutters and polishers, fa
mous the world over for honesty. Still,
black sheep will steal into any flock'.
Butlers in private families, especially in
England, where they have access to
otores of plate and jewels that are often
■of fabulous value, are a conspicuously
trustworthy class; yet here in New York
only a short time ago a butler who had
made the round of some of our best fam
ilies was detected in changing the superb
diamonds in his mistress’ earrings for
trumpery glass. He was by trade a dia
mond setter, and who can tell how many
gems he exchanged for paste when lie
was working at his trade?”—New York
Sun.
The Clocks of Faris.
The flight of time does not seem to he
regarded with as much solicitude in Paris
as in an American city. The Parisians
allow the minutes to take care of them
selves. I have never seen, two clocks in
Paris, if I found them running, that kept
the same time. Once there was a pecu
liar industry here which obviated this in
convenience. It was that of the clock
winder. This person was paid a certain
sum each year to keep the clocks in
order. He had his regular set of cus
tomers, and I believe made quite a good
thing out of it. He has vanished with
the empire. In every room at every
hotel and boarding house in Paris there is
a clock. It is always on the mantel; it is
always made of brass, with shiny Cupids
twining brazen wreaths of cabbages
around what looks like a tombstone, in
which reposes the ghost of a clock. This
work of art, which is purely ornamental,
is religiously covered with a glass case,
on which is collected the dust of ages. If
you should remove this sacred protection
and endeavor to shake the clock itself
with the idea of making it go, a few mel
ancholy ticks will be your only reward.
An innovation recently has been the
Pneumatic Clock conqmny, which takes
charge of a number of clocks, regulating
them by air power. The pipes have got
out of order on an average twice a week
since it began business, and Paris has
been left timeless.—Paris Cor. New York
W orld.
r On a Louisiana Sugar Plantation.
Whisky drinking is a common vice
among the plantation negroes. Looking
over the books of a plantation store in
Terrebonne parish, I observed that among
the items charged in each entry there was
pretty sure to be a quart of whisky. In
deed. whisky occurred oftener in the ac
counts than bacon or flour.
Indian cornmeal is no longer the staple
breadstuff on the plantations, us in the
days of slavery. The negroes prefer
wheat flour, and insist on having a good
quality. They consume large quantities
of bacon and salt pork. Fresh beef they
seldom eat. They v;iry the monotony of
hot biscuits and bacon with game and
fish. Rabbits abound, wild ducks are
plentiful, and rivers, bayous and hays af
ford an abundant supply of fish.—E. V.
Smalley in The Century.
Twenty Kinds of Kangaroos.
There are twenty different sorts of
kangaroos, among them the blue, red,
Wallaby, black, gray and forester, the
latter furnishing the best leather, as it
lives mainly in wooded sections. When
the shipping ports are reached the hunt
ers dispose of the skins by auction to the
highest bidders and realize about seventy
cents a pound. Kangaroo hunters make
fine livelihoods, their gains often amount
ing to several thousand dollars per year,
while one man is known to have cleared
$4,500, free of living expenses.--Cor.
Globe- Democrat.
Among the Ghilzais.
Before a good many of the tent? there
stood a rude tripod, consisting of three
poles tied together near the top. Sus
pended to these were goatskin churns,
which were operated by two women
jerking them smartly back and forth.
The art of making such butter as we are
accustomed to seems to be unknown
among these people; but they obtain
from their goat milk a tasteless substi
tute, called mus-cal, which represents
the fatty properties of the milk. An
other production obtained from it is
mast, a thick, tartisli preparation, which,
with bread, forms the staple food of the
Ghilzais; in taste and consistency this
mast somewhat resembles clabbered milk.
A very palatable and sustaining article of
food for using on the march is prepared
by making mast up into dumpling like
halls and drying them in the sun. Bush
els of these portable articles of food were
spread out to dry on the drooping roofs
of the tents and on cloths on the groftnd.
By another process is ‘made a very
wholesome and refreshing drink called
doke. In taste and appearance doke is
closely allied to buttermilk, but by some
peculiar process is endowed with proper
ties that keep it fresh and wholesome for
an indefinite period of time. A Ghilzais
starting for a long journey across the des
ert takes on his camel a goat skin full of
this doke and a liberal quantity of the
sun dried mast balls, Half a bushel of
the latter and a skinful of the former
provide him with wholesome and appe
tizing food and drink for a week’s jour
ney.—Thomas Stevens in New York
World.
Work Among the Indians.
Grace Howard, the well known jour
nalist’s oldest daughter, writes home
from the Crow Creek Mission, Dak.,
where she has comfortably established
herself, that her plans for the betterment
of the industrial condition of the Indian
women are already under way. She lias
not gone west as a teacher, as the papers
have rejiorted, hut lier scheme, which is
an original one, is to open on a small
scale an establishment for the cutting,
fitting and manufacture of clothing and
other household articles which the Indi
ans now beg from the missionaries or
buy when, as does not often happen, the
agents have any for sale. Her work is
for her own sex. “Indian girls,” she
said to me just before her departure,
“are like white American girls in one re
spect at least; they will not go out to ser
vice. They do not make good servants,
and, aside from housework in the fam
ilies of the officers on the frontier posts,
there has been absolutely nothing for
them to do. No wonder they sometimes
drop hack into barbarism. I want to
give them a chance industrially. ” Miss
Howard is in her early twenties, a fine
looking girl, very much in earnest.—
Now York Mail and Express.
Coptic. Religious Kites.
On entering a Coptic place of worship
one would hardly imagine himself in
other than a Greek church. In the vesti
bule there is a large basin for washing the
feet, where, ever Jan. 18, to commemor
ate the baptism of our Lord, the water
receives an especial priestly blessing, and
then occurs excessive bathing therein by
the men and boys. But they observe the
day with more gusto in the river. After
the Nile itself has been baptised by pour
ing in some consecrated water, the entire
Coptic male population may tie seen
swimming about. As each dives, another,
standing by, says: “Plunge, as thy father
and grandfather plunged before thee, and
remove El-Islam from thy heart.” To
return to the vestibule trough, it is also
there where, on the eve of this day, on
Holy Thursday, ami at the Feast of the
Apostles, the priest washes the feet of the
whole congregation! The Coptic clergy
must be made of sterner stuff than most.
—Egyptian Cor. Cleveland Leader.
The Practice of Interviewing.
The practice of . interviewing has been
carried to a great length, and has been
much abused. Cases have arisen where
published interviews have been declared
genuine wlic-n, as a matter of fact, the
article was the offspring of the brain of
some clever but unscrupulous reporter.
But’ in a great many instances, even the
ordinary interviewer is a blessing to the
public, giving, as he does, corredt and
timely notice of catastrophies and casual
ties which hut for him might remain un
known for hours or days. In the case of
a great accident, say on the railroad, the
reporter is the first on the spot ascertain
ing the details, placing the blame where
it belongs, and enabling the public to
judge of the cause. The risk of fraudu
lent or incorrect interviews is greatly
lessened, indeed removal altogether, if
the person interviewed is allowed to re
vise what he has said.—Martha J. Lamb
in The Epoch..
An Oculist's Advice.
“It is very wrong.” said an oculist, |
for people to buy glasses without ha ving J
ie eye examined. They might as well I
•der medicines to be put up without a !
lysician's prescription. The eye is a j
jry delicate organ, and improper glasses
>t only cause headaches and other t rou
es, but often permanent injury to the
trht. Glasses should lie regularly pre-
xibed. and then fitted by some one who
iderstands the business thoroughly,
his is particularly necessary when spec
kles are worn.”—Philadelphia Times.
may -
but* it cannot make it praise
worthy. —Joubert.
The easiest way to find out a girl s age
4§ t? atdj some other girl.
Seats Should be Lower.
Why are the seats in all public places
and vehicles graded to the measure of
the average* man, so that three-fourths of
the women must sit on the edge, or with
their feet dangling, or barely reaching
the floor with their toes? It seems to lie
one of the survivals of the masculine pre
tension that never suspected, until lately,
but that all things, women included,
were made solely for the male creature’s
convenience. It is not iiecause seats an
inch or two lower would be any less com
fortable to his lordship, but simply be
cause it never came into his lordship's
head to think of anybody eJse’s comfort
in the matter. Every row of feminine
feet swinging from the bench of a street
car suggests the sensation of congested
blood vessels and uneasy muscles.—The
Argonaut.
Rainfall of India.
From records covering more than
twenty years, it appears that the average
annual rainfall of the whole of India, ex
cluding Burmali and the Himalaya, is
about fortygwo inches. The range—one
of the most wonderful in the world—Is
from about 500 to 600 inches iu Cherra
Punji to from 1 to 5 inches in Sindh.
Pare Air at Night.
The season of the year is approathing
in which doors and windows are usually
closed, and the matter of pure air be
comes one of serious importance. During
the day, the air of living rooms is pretty
certain to be changed more or less by the
frequent opening of outside doors. During
the night, however, not infrequently all
outside openings are tightly closed, and
the occupants of sleeping rooms might as
well place themselves for the eight or
ten sleeping hours of night in an air
tight box.
In the morning, persons who thus de
prive themselves of life giving oxygen,
the great necessity of life, awake unce-
freshed and dispirited, languid, pale and
weak, with headache, giddiness, no
appetite, and many other symptoms of
foul air jxiisoning, to which the system
has Iteen subjected. This accounts for a
very large part of the colds and physical
wretchedness, of which a good many
complain and which is ordinarily ascribed
to the change of season. The system is
filled with impurities as a result of de
ficient oxygenation of the blood, and so
the body becomes, in a high degree, sus
ceptible to all causes of vital disturbance.
The reception of a few fever germs is all
sufficient to bring on a violent iilness. by
setting fire to the fever breeding material
with which the tissues are filled, as the
result of deficient air cleansing.—Good
Health.
Inspection at West Point.
Suddenly the drum again taps sharply.
The gray and white flocks in each com-
pany street resolve themselves into two
long parallel files, elbow to elbow, that
face suddenly outward from the center
of the camp at the List tap; the glisten
ing rifles spring up to “support arms,’
and each first sergeant calls off his roll
as though the last thing he were thinkin,.
of was the answering “here;” one after
another the white gloved hands snap the
pieces down to the “carry” and “order”
as each man answers to his name; the
sergeant faces his captain with soldierly
salute and takes his post; the captain
whips out his shining sword; the lieuten
ants step to their posts—and then begins
the sharp inspection. Man after man is
passed under the scrutinizing eye of the
young officer. A speck of rust about
the rifle, a dingy belt plate, a soiled or
rumpled collar, a tear in the glove, a
spot on the trousers, dust on the shoes,
a single button missing or unfastened—
any one of these or similar solecisms, bo
it on part of first class man or plebe,
tent mate or stranger, friend or foe. will
probably be noted on the (company delin
quency book that day, and published by
the adjutant to the whole battalion the
next evening.— Charles King, United
States Army, in Harper’s Magazine.
Whooping Cough and Magic.
A curious display of superstition was
lately witnessed at Maryhiii, where
measles and whooping cough were-prev
alent. A traveling candy man and rag
gatherer’s cart, drawn by an ass, was
standing before a row of houses a little
off the highway. Two women, each the
mother of a child suffering with whoop
ing cough, took up a position one on
each side of the ass. One woman then
took one of the children and passed it
under the ass’ belly to the other woman,
the child being held with its face toward
the ground. The second woman caught
the child, and, giving it a gentle somer
sault, handed it back to the first woman
over the ass, holding its face toward the
sky. Each child was so treated three
times, after which the ass was allowed to
eat something from the child's lap. Sub
sequent inquiries showed that the moth
ers, whose number had been increased
by two others during the ceremony, were
thoroughly satisfied that their children
were the better for the enchantment.—
British and Colonial Druggist.
The tsly Heidegger.
Heidegger’s ugliness was declared im
possible to surpass. One of the courtiers
of George n wagered that he would pro
duce some one who should be pronounced
uglier than Heidegger. He was allowed
a few days in which to unearth his cham
pion, and it is said that he employed
them in personally ransacking the worst
slums in London. Somewhere in St.
Giles’ he found an old woman whom he
thought sufficiently plain to confront
with Heidegger. When the two were
put face to face the judges said that it
was impossible to decide which of them
was entitled to bear the proud title of
“ugliest being in London.” A courtier,
however, suggested that Heidegger should
Solitary Confinement at Louvain.
The rules of the prison are such that
the convicts must replace their hooded
masks as soon as the doors of their cells
open. They cannot expose their faces
even to their wardens. If, perchance, a
face is 6een by a doctor, it is paled by the
long sunless shadow in which it lives and
the want of bracing, blowing air, for
even the daily walk of an hour in the
prison yards is at best only exercise in
cramped passages between two high
walls, partly roofed, shut in by iron
gates, stretching out like the sticks of a
gigantic fan. and where a few stunted
plants soon wither and die.
The prisoners have that flaccid fleshi
ness which comes from absence of move
ment and stimulating activity; yet in con
tradiction to the opinion prevailing in
France that no man could stand solitary
confinement for ten years without suc
cumbing or getting insane, it has been
found not to he the case at Louvain.
Two of the inmates have dwelt there
since 1864, the date of its foundation, be
ing transferred to the Central house after
a ten years' imprisonment at Ghent.
They had been condemned to death, hut
owing to the virtual abolition of the
penalty of death in Belgium, the king
had commuted their sentence to the per
petual entombment of their present
abode. When prisoners have deserved
an alleviation of their penalty by ten
yeara of uninterrupted good conduct,
they are sent to Ghent, where the rules
of the prison allow of their working in
common.—Boston Commercial Bulletin.
1888.
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The hoys of the national guard, -who
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sustaining and the safest of drinks. In
shaking of the matter with the surgeon
of one of the regiments recently, a re
porter was told that for the tourist and
the sportsman cold coffee was quite as
good as for the marching soldier. “You
see, ’ ’ said the surgeon, ‘ fin places where
food ri scarce or bad, coffee prevents
typhus fever by counteracting rapid
waste of the tissues. Inere is no more
dangerous internal waste than that
caused by fatigue, inasmuch as the vital
ity is too low to throw it off, and thus all
the living stuff in the body is poisoned by
what is dead. I have seen persons suf
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ing before now, simply because they had
walked more than their strength would
bear. In point of fact they were poi
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and outer doors and noiselessly open
them by means of a cord attached to the
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In Place »f Dynamite.
Wood powder has recently been intro
duced as an explosive in the Belgian
army in place of dynamite. The powder
is obtained by treating ordinary sawdust
with a mixture of nitric and sulphuric
acids, which is afterward formed into
cartridges by means of powerful presses.
To protect these cartridges from moisture
they are afterward covered with paraf
fined paper. The instantaneous produc
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air in contact with the
sion causes the
_ put on the old woman’s bonnet. Thisi i^ace surface of the cartridge to act to
he did, and the additional ugliness it ^ct/vsvio o v- tf/n F «c n faimninPL Hllil tllf*
gave him was such that he was unani
mously declared the winner.—Chambers’
Journal.
Genuine Antique Oak.
In boring a well on a farm some five
miles south of Colusa, Cal., Mr. Frazier,
who has the farm rented, struck a piece
of wood at a depth of 170 feet. The
wood brought up by the augur was in
an excellent state of preservation, and
was pronounced “all oak.” This place
is only fifty feet above the sea level, so
that the wood is 120 feet below the
ocean’s surface. If it was sunk there
when this valley was a lake or an arm of
the bay, it was in pretty deep water.
How long since this piece of wood was in
a growing tree? The valley of course
has grown, but without some convulsion
of nature the growth has been slow, not,
perhaps, over one foot per century. Then
has it been 17,000 years since this oak tree
grew?—Colusa Sun.
Mushrooms Indigestible.
Dr. J. Uffelmann asserts, in The Archiv
fur Hygiene, that the proportion of nutri
tive materials in the edible mushrooms
has been over estimated, and that those
plants are comparatively difficult of di
gestion.—Frank Leslie’s.
The eggs of a single sturgeon, counted
by Frank Buckland, numbered 921,600
and weighed forty-five pounds,
Actors are Serrons.
I have to give much different advice to
an actor < >r an actress, if I am called to
vLit them professionally, than I would
members of any other profession. All
successful actors and actresses have ex
cessively nervous temperaments. They
are nearly always morbidly sensitive.
Medicines act with different degrees of
effect upon them, and at the same tune
you have to prescribe for much different
regimen. Then one has to exercise great
care and have special knowledge in order
to diagnose correctly in the case of an
actor. The actor may appear to be at
death’s door one moment, so far as his
physical condition can testify, and in an
incredibly short space of time you will
find him at normal again.—London
Physician.
The excessive use of perfumes, so long
considered vulgar, has once more become
fashionable.
some extent as a light tamping, and the
power of the explosion is directed to the
other face. In comparative experiments
made with wood powder and dynamite
it was ascertained that, for equal weights,
charges of the first substance were at
least as powerful as those of the ’second,
and the results were more regular.—Bos
ton Budget. •
W. A. TURNER,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, Ga. if
Practices iu all the State anil Federal Courts.;
Office No. 4 Opera House Building.
W. Y. ATKINSON,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, Ga.
Will practice in all Courts of this and
adjoining counties and the Supreme Court.
J. S. POWELL,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, Ga.
Collections made.
I
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G. W. PEDDY\ M. D..
Physician and Surgeon,
Newnan, 3a.
(Office over \V. E. Avery’s Jewelry Store.;
Offers ills services to tiie people of Newnan
and surrounding country. All calls answered
promptly.
T. B. DAVIS, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Newnan, Ga.
Offers his professional services to the citi
zens of Newnan and vicinity.
DR. THOS. COLE,
Dentist,
Newnan, Ga.
Depot Street.
1888.
HARPER’S BAZAR.j
ILLUSTRATED.
Harper’s Bazar is a home journal. It ;
combines choice literature and fine art Ulus-!
t rat ions with tiie latest intelligence regarding j
i he fashions. Each number has clever serial
and short stories, practical and timely es- |
says, bright poems, humorous sketches, no. ;
Its pattern-sheet and fashion-plate supple- j
inents will alone help ladies to save many i
times the cost of tiie subscription, and papers
on social etiquette, decorative art, house- j
keeping in ail its brandies, cookery - etc,, i
make it useful in cv. ry household, and a true
promoter of economy. Its editorials are
marked by good sense, and not a line is ad
mitted to its columns that could offend' the
most fastidious taste.
HARPER’S PERIODICALS.
PER YEAR:
HARPER’S BAZAR $4 00
HARPER’S MAGAZINE 4 00
HARPER’S WEEKLY 4 00
HARPER’S YOUNG PEOPLE. 2 00
<£6ucationaI.
THE
36th SCHOLASTIC YEAR
—OF—
COLLEGER TEMPLE
WILL BEGIN
Monday, August 29th, 1887.
Having recorded our most, successful year,
we present the claims of able instructors,
high scholarship, moderate rates and health
ful locality. For particulars, address,
M. P. KELLOGG, President,
Newnan ,Ga.
188B.
PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL,
PALMETTO, GA.
SPRING TERM WILL BEGIN THE FIRST
WEDNESDAY IN JANUARY, 1888.
‘
How the Chinese Plant Pearls.
Owners of grounds at the Pearl Islands,
in this bay, and which islands have been
unproductive since the pearl yielding
ovsters died off. might take a hint from
the Chinese, who practice oyster culture
to a considerable extent, and whose bam
boo oyster field-; are prepared far more
carefully than a field for the growth of
the sugar cane. Holes are bored in old
ovster shells, and these are stuck on pieces
of split bamboo about two feet in length,
which are then planted quite close to
gether on mud flats, between high and
low water mark, bat subject to strong
and tidal currents. These are supposed
to bring the oyster spat, which adheres
to the old shell and shortly develops into
tiny oysters. Then the bamboos are trans
planted and set some inches apart, until
within six months of the first planting
they are found to be covered with well
grown oysters, winch are then collected for
the market.—Panama Star and Herald.
Postage Free to all subscribers in the Uni
ted States, Canada, or Mexico.
The Volumes of the Bazar begin with the
first Number for January of each year.
When no time is mentioned, subscriptions
will begin with the Number current at tiineoi
receipt of order.
Bound Volumes of Harper’s Bazar, for
three years back, in neat cloth binding, will
be sent by mail, postf ge paid, or by expre-s,
t'.-ee ol expense (provided the freight does not
exceed one dollar per volume-,- for $7.00 per
volume.
Cloth Cases for each volume, suitable for
binding, will be sent by mail, post-paid, on
receipt of $1.00 each.
Remittances should be made by I’ost-Offiee
Money < frder or Draft, toavaa chance of loss
■ Newspapers are not to copy this advertise
ment without the express order of Harper
* Brothers.
Address HARPER & BROS., New York.
Intelligent people, healthy location, ex peri— ,
j enced and conscientious teachers. Due atteu-
j tion paid to the primary grades.
t TUITION.
| Primary grades, per month $1‘jf
| Intermediate g-aries, per month 2 (Its
I High school and collegiate grades, per ino 3 OPt
j Board, per month. $8 00 to $10 OF
; For particulars, address or consult
THOH. H. MEACHAM. Principal,
Palmetto, Ga.
!WALKER HIGH SCHOOL,-
1888.
i THe Spring Session Opens on the Second
Tuesday in January.
‘‘The Stern Duties of Life.”
The young woman who read the essay
at graduation upon "The stern duties of
life upon which we are about entering"
was last seen in the hammock reading a
Seaside novel, while her mother was
washing the dinner dishes in the hot
kitchen.—Boston Transcript.
COMMERCIAL
FERTILIZERS!
It will pay you to write for copy of our
; “Farmers Guido” before you purchase Fertil
izers this season. We make specially forfot-
ton. Corn, Tobacco, Wheat, Oats. Vegetables,
Melons, Oranges. Grasses, ete. Address
: NATIONAL FERTILIZER Co.
| Mention this paper.) Nashville, Tenn.
’ W. G. SADLER, Sec'y and Gen’l Supt.
POMONA NURSERIESi
POMONA, GA.
West Virginia is the latest claimant for
honors as a gold field. A deposit in
which the rock is said to show ten ounces
to the ton is said to have been discovered
mile# from Wkecliuc....
* All kinds of Nursery stor k tor sale, eueap.
[ Apple, Peach and Plum trees, $ic per hun-
! dred. Grapevines,*! 00 per hundred, standard
i varieties; special varieties cheap iu propor-
; tiou on large orders. Prices furnished on ap
plication. Address PHILLIP SMITH,
s oeU4-:>m- Pomona, Ga.
; SaT^BKiNG your Job Work to Mc-
j Clekdon & Co., Newnan, Ga.
THE COURSE OF STUDY
is such as to prepare for the higher classes in
Colli-ge, or for practical life; and its comple
tion enables the student to take charge of the
advanced schools ot the country.
Girls are hoarded by the Principal. Thev
study at night under his supervision, and thus
not infrequently are doubly benefited.
REGISTER FOR 1887.
• '.a
First session. UO pupils. Second session* }
122 pupils. For the year, 1C2 pupils.
As public schools will go into operation nex!
year, ournumi. r must necessarily be limited
The entire school will be taught by the Prin
cipal. .
RATES OF TUITION.
i L r ° m f'U’ 0 to t 10 ? Pe r “onth. Board and
tuition, $13 per scholastic month.
No room for loaders.
DANIEL WALKER, Principal.
g U SI N E Spy N I V E R S i T Y
SCUD FOR C/RCULAR3.