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HE HERALD AND ADVERTISER.
OL. XXIII.
NEWNAN, GA. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1888.
NO. 26.
'HREE-
•STORES IN
•ONE.
CHAMBERLIN, JOHNSON & CO.,
IMPORTERS
DRY GOODS, CARPETS,
—
NEW SPRING GOODS NOW IN.
T . T TvTNTr n A ATNO We handle the very bi-st. Buy at headquarters and discount every bill. I ruucaise and
|M HD V I I II IMS Lyon Silks an.l Velvets a aperialty. In Woolens aud SHls w --arry the largest-lock of im-
j IN !Jr\ I llUUL/iJ ported troods in the Southern states. Also in Table Linens, Towels, Napkins. D’Oyles, Blan-
*l\. WhiteGno-K laeoH, tdnbroiderieH, G1Yes, Hosier*, Ladies’ Cloaks, Wraps. Furs, Umbrellas. Etc., with the largest selection of French
Novelties in Triinnilngs,ever shown the “ ■‘ 1 ‘
IN CARPETS ;
Novelties In Trunnilngs.ever show n 1 n!'havine as srood facilities as any house in the United States, we can afford as we do
to guarantee prfc-s to be equal to any. Wc import our foreign fabricsi ill Carpets and Draper s direct
and tbe quality as perfect.
CHAMBERLIN, JOHNSON & CO.,
66 and 68 Whitehall, and 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, II, 13 and 15 Hunter Street, ATLANTA, Georgia.
STILL
MARKING ’EM DOWN!
My Spring Goods are all now
in, and I respectfully call atten
tion to a few bargains in the
Dry Goods and Clothing line,
as an earnest of what I propose
to do for my fellow-citizens du
ring the spring and summer in
the way of cheap goods.
For example, I am now sell
ing full Cassimere Spring Suits
at $8 that sell everywhere for
$io. Splendid Cassimere Suits at $io, worth $12. Genuine
Cheviot Suits at $14—same goods can’t be bought in Atlanta
for less than $16 or $18. Fine Worsted Suits at $16 50—
worth $20. Elegant Dress Suits, latest
styles and finest fabrics, at $20—nothing
liner in the city. I have also a handsome
line of Alpaca and Silk-Mixed Coats and
Vests—all sizes, including extra lengths.
A full assortment of Boys’ and Children’s
Suits, all sizes, and at prices ranging from
$4 to $12 50.
I can heat the world on Shoes. My
stock of Gents’, Ladies’, Misses’, Youth’s
and Children’s Shoes is the mo4 select, if
not the largest, in town. Cents’ line
Shoes, from $3 to $6; Ladies’ dress Shoes,
from $2 25 to $3 75; Misses’ Shoes, from
$1 75 to $2 50; Children’s Shoes, from
65c to $1. These shoes are manufactured
by Frank D. Weyldman & Co., of Phila
delphia, and each pair is sold upon an ab
solute guarantee.
A full line of spring and summer Hats
—Felt and Straw—all styles and prices.
An elegant line of Cents’ Neckwear, Herri * n§ ha3 ^ rked his
Furnishing Goods, etc., and the largest Clothing down so low
assortment to select from m town.
A large stock of Shirts, laundried and unlaundried. A full
linen, reinforced bosom, unlaundried Shirt for 50 cents; worth
75c. Gents’ Underwear in great variety.
Ginghams, 10 and i2^c. White Checked Muslin, 10c.—
worth 12^. Yard-wide White Lawn, 10c.—worth 12Fig
ured Lawn, 4c.—worth 5. Bleaching from 5 to 10c., accord
ing to quality. Brown Linen, Cottonades, Table Damask,
Corsets, etc. A good Bustle, 20c.
A special lot of Tobacco at 35c. per pound. Going rapidly.
I keep also a general stock of Groceries, Hardware, Plows,
Crockery, etc., which will be sold cheap, either for cash or on
time for approved paper.
J. R. HERRING.
Hen? Ctbrertisemcnts.
TAX KECtlVER’S NOTICE.
SECOND ROUND.
I will be at tlie following places at the times
below mentioned, for the purpose of receiving
returns of State a-d county t axes, to-wit:
Haralson Tuesday, April 17'h.
Senoia. Wednesday, April Xth.
Turin, Thursday, .April 19th.
Sharpsbnrg, Friday, April 20 f h,
A. W. stokes’, Sixtn district, Saturday,
April 21s .
Puckett Station Monday, April 23d.
Grantville, Tuesday. April 24th
Kirby’s Store, Wedne-dav, April 25th.
Handy, Thursday, April 2fith.
Panther Creek Court Ground, Friday, April
27rh.
Hurricane Court Ground, Saturday, April
2Sth.
Newnan, Tuesday, May 1st.
S niih’s Mills, Wednesday, May 2d. A- M.
Powell station, Wednesday, May 2d, f. m.
Palmetto, Thursday, May 3d.
14th, A. M. J. J. FARMER,
Tax Receiver.
SEASON 1888!
The Standard-Bred Trotting Stallion,
NEWNAN,
8029.
Sired by ‘-Blackwood.” 174,) sire of “Pro-
teine,” 2:18, ’‘Blackwood, Jr.” 2:22, “Black
wood Prince,” 2 -23%. etc. Ham by “Dictator,”
(IS,) sire of “Jay Eye See,” 2:10, “Phallas,”
2:13%. “Director,” 2:17, and fifteen other 2:30
performers, combining the blood oi the three
greatest trotting f mi lies: “Hambletonian,”
“Mambrina Chief” and “American Star.”
“Newnan’s” sire, “Blackwood,” sold for?30.-
000. His grandsire, “Dictator,” sold for $25.-
000. “Newnan” is a stylish, handsome dark
bay, 15% hands high, and is undoubtepiy the
best-blooded animal ever brought to this sec
tion. For terms, etc., call on or address
R. M. HACKNEY.
Newnan, Ga., April 13—3m
E. S. BUCHANAN,
DRY GOODS,
DRESS GOODS,
MERCHANT TAILORING,
NEWNAN WAGON
COMPANY.
We are now prepared to do
any kind of Wagon work, and
in the best and most workman
like manner. Nothing but se
lect material is used in the con
struction of our wagons, and
every vehicle of our manufac
ture is sold upon an absolute
guarantee.
All kinds of WAGONS,
(double or single,) DRAYS,
CARTS, etc., made to order,
with patent iron hub and axle
or otherwise, as purchaser may
desire.
Special attention given to
i buggy, wagon and plantation
j repair work. Buggies over
hauled and repainted. Horse-
j shoeing a specialty,
i All work done by skilled
: workmen, under the supervis-
i ion of an experienced superin-
Itendent, and warranted.
Get our prices and give us
an order: \\ e guai ante e satis
faction.
D. J. FOLDS, Supt.
"save: youreyes
By being properly c .id -jxctrv-
clss. :: on a eye is dfflf, . e • >tn« r, c
ifnear-Ugiiicd. or If .„• - cr.-Vn.- ur ’•
yrm,~I have t T.“sp < sses,
Framesaml alt par:>. R. :i: , I lotve ;h<
only complete ’ .s'.o'. k oi ev c r> iLiug in the
spectacle lino :a Jit v c. A'-:-. }\ : nbles.
•-hr;. '.v. L . M •.
A iso, gold, silver. ..t.k . .. -••■ i f.
W. E. A V KKV. tin- Jewt-l-. r.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
Senoia.
Mr. Editor:—Alter making some in
quiries as to the probable acreage in
small grain, corn and cotton, we reach
about this conclusion: That there is
about fifty per cent, less than tbe gen
eral average of small grain in this sec
tion, a small per cent, more in corn,
and the increased acreage in cotton
making up for what is lacking in the
other two. At this time all accounts
of the condition of wheat and oats are
promising, but all admit that there is
too little sown.
Now, we refer to our recent state
ment of fiour receipts here for January
and February—189,000 pounds. We
add to that the installment for March
and we have the enormous aggregate of
233,000. We use the word enormous in
view of the small acreage sown and the
territory to be supplied, and we will
presume that the limits of consumption
will not exceed over ten miles square;
and further, that this rate of supply
and demand must go on, and cannot
stop this side, at least, of July, 1889.
Perhaps “Farmer” can figure this out
so as to make “quite a difference”—and
right here we bow our thanks to
“Farmer” for his mathematical sagac
ity, but it does not change the quantity.
In addition, the receipts of bacon for
three months show a total of 90,000
pounds. Now, if this state of things
applies, even approximately, tc other
portions of the county, it does not re
quire any very great stretch of the im
agination to reach results.
“Farmer” says there are 2,000 acres of
small grain sown in the Second district.
I hope this is true. I do not know the
number of miles square in the Second
district, but am of tie opinion that if
three anti one-tliird (31) miles square
were sown in the First district it
would reduce tbe present corn and
cotton area astonishingly; and as
much might possibly he said of the
Second. A query might come in just
here to “Farmer.” How many horses,
mules, cows, sheep and hogs are raised in
the Second? also, dogs? Please excuse
this allusion to dogs—see Felton v>.
Simmons, in the long parliament. 1
seems that an agricultural country
ought to be a stock-raising country.
The two ought to occupy relative posi
tions; but can our country be properly
called either?
As to the cotton seed question. The
point was the difference the farmers
were paying for fertilizers over and
above what they were getting for their
seed—say *8 per ton. Is there any
good business sense in such? It is what
some people might call “killing the
goose that lays the golden egg.” Yes,
we said there were some noble excep
tions, and we stand by it. We saw one
a few days ago. He had reached his
four score years, aud he told us
that he had never bought but
two dollars’ worth of lard in his life,
and I would to God our country was
full of just such noble exceptions; hut,
alas! such are, like angels’ visits, “few
aud far between.” And why is it so?
Why are there not more? Would not
our country be in better condition?
We have also seen it in print that
much of the lands of the Western
farmers are under mortgage, but who
holds the mortgages? The moneyed
vampires that are sucking the life-blood
of our people; and until there is a rev
olution in our whole system of farming
and living, they will continue to do it,
and we will be hewers of wood and
drawers of water for these our task
masters. And more, we will scratch
poor men’s heads from now till dooms
day and transmit the legacy to our
children and our children’s children.
The employing and combining of ex
treme and extraneous measures cannot
in the nature of things produce the
desired remedy. It has to he internal
—in the man and in the land. Make
more, spend less. Talk about combin
ing to buy things cheaper! It is like
borrowing money at a high rate of in
terest to pay out of debt. One is as
sensible as the other. The cheapest
goods is meat and bread raised at home,
and t he more raised the cheaper they
get.
What is time worth when looked at
from a laboring standpoint? "What is
the labor of a man, horse, and plow
v nit per day? To be reasonable, we
will -ay one dollar per day. How
» j/ ■ lay afternoons are lost in
ta comity? IIow many laboring
are idle during that time? We
■-e there are five hundred,
nod uht there are more). At fifty
t’:t is two hundred and fifty
J, :> ■-h st every Saturday; that would
make one thousand dollars for each
Cov
mer
u: . time and money wasted. A
•. a nu was once given that had the
;■ • of divinity on it which said. “Six
days‘.halt-thou labor, and do all thy
work.” Modem practice has reduced
it to five, and five and a half days.
Ought we not to learn a wholesome
lesson from the great railroad, mining
and n aaufacturing enterprises? They
(with few exceptions* succeed. They
know the value of time and labor, and
utilize both, and their example should
not be lost upon an intelligent people,
who have more at stake than all other
interests combined.
Mrs. Lizzie Henderson, of Atlanta,
has been visiting relatives and friends
here for some days. She has returned
home.
Mrs. Lillian Laws, of Grantville, has
been visiting her mother, Mrs. Bag-
garly.
Mrs. Deracken has been suffering
greatly from acute inflammatory rheu
matism, but we are glad to be able to
state that she is improving.
Mrs. E. Culpepper has been very sick
for some days but is reported more
comfortable. We hope for hor speedy
recovery.
The members of the M. E. Church
here have remodelled the parsonage,
which gives it quite a genteel appear
ance.
Mr. J. B. McCrary has added a front
room to his residence, which is quite
attractive.
Fine season last evening and vege
tation looks beautiful.
The guano famine continues.
April lith. Vincent.
Grantville.
Mr. Editor:—All the peaches were
not killed, but I will admit that but
few were left. Dr. J. W. Moorman,
a former resident of our town, but now
living at Henderson, Tenn., writes me
that the fruit crop there is large—“fin
est prospect for fruit there has been
for years; peach trees loaded.”
Garrett & Zellars’ fine dray mule ran
away with Messrs. Zellars and Dean
some days ago, though both made a
lucky escape by jumping from the bug
gy in time. The buggy was considerably
damaged. Neither of the gentlemen
sustained any injuries. I know of but
few things more uncertain than a mule
—one of those few things is a Texas
pony.
Our town had a sensation in the shape
of a set-to between two “cullud gem-
men” last Tuesday. Not much dainag
•vas done. They were interviewed by ou
usiyor, Col. W. A. Post, and were re
nested by him to contribute to tin
ity treasury a small sum each.
Guano is out! No more until nexi
eason, and many farmers are not sup-
died. It may be best for them, as thej
must do without or make it at home.
Next winter many a day may be Utiliz
'd iw preparing coinpost heaps, ant;
bus prepare to be independent oi
commercial fertilizers. Save cotton
seed and make your own manures.
Phil Thomas shot his wife with a
pistol, (it is charged, with murderous
intent,) a few miles south of town last
Thursday. He escaped, but was cap
ured at or near Ragland, in Trou
aiunty, and tried before Justice More
land on last Saturday, under a warrant
for assault with intent to murder. Tht
Court required a bond in the sum oi
$250, in default of which Phil went to
jail.
The Ladies’ Parsonage Society, of
our town, with the assistance of friends,
gave a splendid entertainment at the
Academy last Friday night. I can’t
tell much about it, for I did not attend.
1 had a private entertainment at home.
It happened this way: Mrs. “Arden”
took two orthreeof the little “Ardens”
and went to the entertainment at the
Academy, and I (good pater familias
that I am) remained at home with the
balance of the family—especially the
baby—and we bad a royal time, baby
and I. I went to sleep the previous
night at 1 o’clock and was aroused to
meet the train at 4, consequently I
was rather drowsy while my private
entertainment was in progress, but
baby “Pat” was equal to the emergen
cy and kepi me walking until the other
entertainment was over. Under such
circumstances there is no sound so un
utterably welcome as the jingle of the
gate-latch and approaching footsteps
of the long-wlshed-for mother. But 11
digress. The praise of the entertain- j
rnent (at the Academy,) is on the |
tongues of many. Several of the par- j
ticipants are said to have acted their;
parts well, and all say “that it was just j
splendid.” The sum of twenty dol- j
I ars was realized. Arden: i
April 9th.
Puckett Station.
Mr Edito'r:—Miss Ada May Broom, ■
from Newnan, visited Miss Glenn Camp .
recently.
Miss Lillie Belle Andrews, from your ;
city, visited Miss Neta Bingham and :
other relatives not long since.
Messrs. J. F. Lovejoy, J. R. Cotton j
and W. M. Hopson, from Grantville,!
attended preaching here Sunday.
Miss Pauline Mclver visited relatives !
at Hogansville this week.
Mrs. James Cotton and children vis- :
ited relatives here la-t week.
Mr. Henry Couch killed a sure enough;
green-eyed, black-tongued mad dog
last week.
Glad to see Mr. W. D. Dennis out •
again, after an illness of several days. !
Rev. J. It. Parker, from Grantville, !
preached a most ini cresting and im
pressive sermon here last Sabbath.
had a large audience. | April 10th.
On last Sunday evening, while Messrs.
W. II. Dodds and Benson Camp were
out driving, their mule became fright
ened at some little npgroes who were
playing near the roadside and ran away.
One of the lines broke, which freed the
mule, and he ran into the woods,
t browing t he gentlemen to the ground
and breaking the buggy to pieces. The
large bone of Mr. Dodds’ leg, near the
ankle, was fractured, and he will be
confined to his bed for some time. Mr.
Camp was not seriously injured.
Pic-nic time is at hand. We have
heard of nothing of the kind for our
Sunday-school yet. Now, our school
is second t = none; are we not going U>
get up a social gat liering in some beau
tilul grove, where the whole school
can attend? Let’s have a pic-nic, aud
acknowledge the return of beautiful
spring by one day’s social enjoyment
together. Zubetus.
April 13th.
Panther Creek.
Mr. Editor:—A few days ago my at
tention was called to a buzzard flying
through the air with a bright shining
piece of tin following it wherever the
bird would go. It seemed as though
the buzzard was trying to outfly tin-
appendage; sometimes flying upward,
sometimes downward, and cutting all
kinds of antics, but the shining trim
ket kept up with its victim as far as
could be seen.
On last Saturday I made a trip to
Powell’s Station, and found farmers all
busy with their work; some planting
cotton and others preparing to plant.
Mr. Bud Herring is the biggest farmer
in Cedar Creek district. lie makes
something over 100 bales of cotton a
year, runs 12 to 15 plows, and don’t
use any cotton planteror other improv
ed machinery on his farm. He says he
can hire a negro to strew his cotton
seed, and when he gets through the
negro may lie down in a fence corner
and die, without loss to him; but a cot
ton planter wouftl rust and rot and that
would be a loss. There is much com-
laint. against the railroad authorities
• <r not allowing the passenger train to
•top at this station and take on and let
iff passengers. For this want of ac
innnn datum people who live within a
•tone’s throw of the station have
no depend upon Newnan or Palmetto,
when they could get on and off trains
Jninst at their own dbors.
’ iii.-i sorry to learn of the serious ill-
iexs of Mrs. T. M. Sewell.
Mr. 11. B. Jones’ son, name not
known, had his leg broken and his an-
-di joint crushed by being thrown from
■i loaded wagon, while crossing the
Yilar.ta and ’West Point Railroad, rec
ently.
i would call the attention of the
road commissioners of Cedar Creek
iistrietto a very bad washout in the
•ublicroad near Mr. Bud Herring’s. It
is impassable with a vehicle. Call ou1
vour mules and have it worked.
A word to the ladies about chicken
raising. If you want chickens to grow
fast, always put a little guano in the
dough you feed them. They will feath
er much faster, and get ready for the
pie-pan by the first Monday in May.
1 notice that some of the editors
say it was the Brady bill that caused
the scarcity of guano. That is not the
true cause. The fact is, some of our
farmers tried to get it all; they would
haul it a little way off from the station
and store it away, and much of it is
stored away yet. Then, again, som*-
men are using it very extravagantlj.
some as much as six tons to the horse,
some four and some three, when a ton
and a half would have been sufficient.
It will take at least one-fourth ol
the cotton crop to pay for the guano
that went under the same, and that is a
big tariff. By the time the renter pays
one-fourth to the guano men and then
one-fourth to his landlord, and then
takes out the expense of feeding stock,
black-smithing, hauling guano and put
ting it in the ground, picking the cot
ton, hauling to gin, paying for ginning,
and then paying 25c. for every bah
weighed at the warehouse, he has in
deed a small margin for profit. It ha-
always looked to me like the fee ex
torted for weighing cotton, after it had
been sold to another party, was down
right robbery. The cotton buyei
don’t pay for the negro who chopped
the cotton; or who picked it, or wh"
had anything at all to do with it. Th<
farmer can’t tack on one cent of co.~i
for making, gathering and hauling t<
market. He is not like the merchant,
who can and does tack on the freight,
house-rent and clerk-hire to the cosi
of his goods, and the consumer pay-
these expenses of the merchants.
Mr. Editor, with your permission, anil
formv own information, I will ask some
questions on the tariff, which I hop:
some of our free trade friends will an
swer. First—Were the internal revc
nue laws passed by a Democratic or ;■
Republican Congress? Second—If on -
protective s’stem should be broken
d.;wn, would not our industries be in
j u: e<. an 1 ou r homo market s destroyed?
Third—If English manufacturers can
make woolen goods cheaper than Amer
ica i* manufacturers, why is it that line
ion ; tjuys 8500,000 worth of woolen
cin l.iug from American manufacturer-
r-;: k year? And why is it that Ameriy.
exports steel rails, .nails, edge tool-,
cutlery, watches, axes, saws, hou-<-
h-;.‘ . and kitchen furniture, wooden
w: r • from bedsteads down to bale
crikt, c! .ths-pin?, boot- and shoes, fire,
arm-, agricultural implements^ book-,
maps, and a thousand other things, ty
European market? each year? Fourtl
—Now, if America can make these
goods cheaper than Europe, what ben
efit would free trade be to our people,
especially as it is said that our goods are
He ! 8Uj t rior to the kurepean goods.
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