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A i’AMOiT AND POLITICAL JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA.
^ Volume 2.
ALBANY. GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1S82.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
A new trial has been refused Echols
and Johnson, convicted in Clark Supe
rior Court, of. assault with intent to
murder. The case will be carried up
to the Supreme Court.
Proposals for the public printing of
the State of Georgia for the next two
years are now in order. See official
notice published elsewhere in this
morning’s Xews and Advertiser.
The will of the late Cornelius J.
Vanderbilt will be contested by his'sis-
ter. He left an estate worth $750,000,
not one penny of which went to any
person by the name of Vanderbilt.
In its pitiful efforts to bring Mr.
Stephens up to the full standard of an
organized and consistent Democrat,
the Atlanta Constitution is about to
overdo the thing and convert him into
a regular hide-bound Bourbon. t
31acos Telegraph: Gov. Colquitt
says that the nomination of Mr. Steph
ens is “settled.* ’ The people have not
moved, not a delegate has been select
ed. If this be not unadulterated boss-
ism, we are unable to appreciate the
genuine arlicle.
"SEE WHAT
H HP
CM MB WILL DO j
Waynesboro, November 1,1810.
r. j. A. *0will, Waynesboro.*
Dear Sir—l desire to express, through yo*. to
the proprietors, my thanks for the benefits I have
derived froo
SUL’S
HEPATIC PANACEA
1 have suffered, as you know, for the past nine
years, f.ora Dyrpepsia and liver trouble*, aid to
ouch an extent as to fear death would bo the im
mediate result. I have been using H. H. f. for
six weeks, and Iroin the tin e I commenced liking
It I found myself reliev«d, aud I would not now
be without It for any consideration.
Very reapecftully,
A. E.MOBIEY.
FOR SALE BY
GILBERT 3l OO.
In the Presbyterian General Assem
bly in Atlanta on Saturday an issue of
$40,000 of bonds was authorized to re
establish the publishing house of the
denomination. Further communica
tions were received from the Spring-
field Assembly which satisfied the
scruples of the members, a'ter which
fraternal messages were exchanged
and fraternal messengers duly appoint
ed.
We learn from the Allan's Post-
Appeal that a dispaich has been re
ceived in Washington by a friend of
Senator Hill saying that his condition
is again alarming, and also that a spe
cial bad been received at Little Bock,
from Eureka Springs, saying that
Senator Hill’s condition 19 precarious,
though slightly improved. Death may
come at any time, or life may be pro
longed for months. He is hopeful, but
realizes his critical condition.
struck
THE GLORIOUS COUNTRY.
AS SEEN BIT POET BILL ABF.
The Philosopher Drop* Into Poetry
and Show, the Sprint; Time Fer
vor Poising Thron-Ii HI, Ink—
About Brine a Boy—The’Old Way
and the New—Bee Hive, and
Plow*
Atlanta Constitution.
Just now the country is most glo
rious. You city people ought to
shut up your doors and co.me out
and see the smiling land, and luxn-
riatc in beauty and innocence and
peace. A sore and beautiful harvest
is in sight everywhere aud the farm
ers are about to be redeemed. Na
ture is id her teens just now—.a
blushing maiden wearing pantaletts
and preparing to bang her flaxen
hair. How’s that for high ? If I was
a poet I would sit in my piazer this
lonely evening and breath a poem
or an ode or an idle or a pastoral
song aud lay:
How sweet the sunlight rests upon the land
The woods are happy in their summer
; clothes,
The waving grain by gentle breezes fanned
Gives token of good picking for the crows.
The fields an proud and ‘•feeling'of their
oats”
' as wheat;
*. notes
ig fat stick out a feet.
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The New York Wor Id is
with the peculiar fact that Sergeant
Mason’s act of insubordination has
netted him $7,000 in cash, an offer of
$1,500 a year, and the reputation,
among emotional Republicans, of a
hero, while bis comrades, who merely
obeyed their orders and did their
duty, will, having been duly employ
ed in chopping wood aud being strung
up by the thumbs, end by being
scalped on the plains or dying in the
poor house.
We are in receipt of the first copy
of the Atlanta Evening Herald. The
debutante i9 bright and sparkling in
its rending matter, and pretty typo
graphically, and all in all is just the
sort of paper that ought to ho expect
ed from those bright lights of Georgia
journnlistfl—Mr. Sam Small and Mr.
Charles Howard Williams. May its
secure establishment be made in a few
weeks, and its clever proprietors reap
the harvest of. lucre their labors
richly deserve.
On the call of the roll in the House
of Representatives last Monday, there
were ninety-eight absentees, while in
the Scrnto on the same day (here were
thirty members absent. Congression
al absenteeism is getting to be one of
the greatest evils in the country, and,
as the New York Sun well says, it af
fords numerous opportunities for riug-
iters and jobbers to push their
schemes through the Federal Legisla
ture. The success of these classes is
doubtless, in a great measure, to be at
tributed to the absence of those sent
to Congress to guard the- interests of
the people.
Tue Bostot Advertiser, in a recent
editorial on “Southern Farming,’’says:
‘The most hopeful sign of the ap
proach of a better understanding be
tween the North and South is to be
looked for, not in the words of repre
sentative men, bat in the increasing
industry and consequent prosperity of
the sections. This advance in wealth
will produce that satisfaction which
does much to make it natural for indi
viduals and for nations to desire to
live peaceably with all men. Men
hard at work are apt to bo better citi
zens, and contact with the soil is help
ful. Not only when the merchants
and bankers of the South report sue-
cessful business, but, more, when the
farmers testify to a large yield under
the impoved treatment of the land, ia
there reason for congratulation.’’
The news from the grain crop in
Georgia i-t most cheering. Every paper
we pick np brings out the champion
oat stalk or wheat stalk, as the case
may be. In the Southern part of the
State it is particularly booming. If
we could believe that it indicated a
perfect reformation in the agricultural
policy of this section and a determina
tion on 1 the part of the Southern
planters to produce at home the pro
visions needed for home consumption,
we would hail Ibis as the dawning of
a new era of prosperity to this section.
This increased acreage in winter grain
ia the result of the hard lesson taught
the people of this section by drouth
and the ruinous "Western grain that
has been dealt ont to them the; past
year. “Sweet are the uses of adversity,”
provided we have the sense to profit
by its lessons.
Jesso. I feel the poetic inspira
tion all aboard, bnt somehow my
rhymes have to be powerfully
strained. This I suppose is the fault
of our langiage, thongh possibly it
may be mine for there are a power
of tolks who swell up and gusb, but
are not poets. Maybe that blank
verse is my forte in the spring of
the year, for they say it is a higher
type of rapshody and is more esthet
ic. Blank verse don’t jingle like a
jewsharp, bu; it elevates a man to
more e lierial regions. Blank verse
has no long meter, or short meter,
or 8s, 7s and 4s, but just meters all
along the line, whether its long or
-hurt, like tie quire sings in the
Episcopal cturcli, and can trot, or
pace, or gallop through a sentence
and make the tune to tit it, meter or
no meter. Still I don’t think old
people ought to try to write poetry,
lor they cani'gct up sufficient gush.
Age knocks ;he poetry out of a man
just like mairiage knocks the music
and romance out of a woman. She
quits playin’the piano in about two
years and tikes to the sewing ma
chine. She quits singing and goes
to cluckin’ and scratchin’ around. 1
don’t liko that. It always makes
me sad to set an anxious, careworn
mother, ani it would seem like
enough to scare off her own girls
from marrjin’, but somehow it
don’t. The longer a man can keep
up his boyisi feelings and hilarity
and play hots with his little boys,
and the longer a woman can langh
and frolic acd picnic and romp with
her childrei the better for 'em.
When Mrs. Arp condescends to put
on her long-sared snnbonnet and go
with me anl the children to the
dewberry pitch I am happy, ticks
or no ticks. That’s an event, that is.
Dewberries aie ripe now, and we
eat ’em withsugarand shore enough,
cream and nake pies out of ’em,
aud if sugar was cheap or easy to
get, we wojld all be happy. No
family of siae and appetite like mine
ought to go through the berry sea
son witboul a barrel—for there are
blackberries and huckleberries and
rasberries and cherries for tarts, and
peaches and apples for dumplings
and everytllng for jelly and pre
serves and a dollars worth of sugar
at a time is ju9t an aggravation.
Mrs. Arp said yesterday she had
“rather be stinted in anything than
sugar 1 ’—“aud coffee”—said I. “ Well,
yes,” said she, ‘T can’t do without
coffee”—“and plenty of butter,” said
l. “Yes, and butter,’’ said she, “and
good flour,’’ said I, “and lard and
nice clothes and number 2 shoes and
so on and so forth aud so on, all of-
which ends in wanting plenty of
money. Jesso.
The clover is blooming high this
year and looks too lovely to cut
down, bulsuch is life and the end of
all things.
Time cuts down all
Both great and small.
Old father Time used to go
about in summer clothes with noth
ing on bnt his bones and scythe
blade in his hand, b”t now we can
cut down ten acres to hi9 one with
a buckeye reaper. They ought to
get up a new picture with the old
feller sitting up on a machine and
driving a pair of Kentucky mules
in a wheat field at harvest time
There area heap of the good old
primmer and spelling book pic
tures going out of date. Nobody
ever uses an honr glass now. No
body ever sees an old-fashioned bee
hive with a round top and made of
straw. The old farming pictures
look curious to this generation—
the humptbacked man cutting his
wheat with a crooked sickle, hold
ing a bunch in one hand and cut
ting it with the other. And there
was two men a plowing—one was
driving the steers and the’ other
holding the plow, and thats where
Ben Franklin got bis maxim—
“He that by the plow weald thrive
Himself mult either hold or drive”
But now one man will sit upon a
cultivator or a pulverizer and do ten
times the work it a d >y. I dont
see how them old time tellers did
make a living, for with all our im
provements it is nip and tuok to
get along and keep even. Bui some
of those old spellin' book pictures
stick fast and dont degenerate a bit.
That rude boy still climbs the apple
tree, old dog Tray still gets into bad
company, the bull gores the ox and
the milk maid has vain expectations
and turns over the bucket just like
they did in the olden time. "We can
mend up our machinery and invent
new ones bnt our old habits and
traits of character remain about
the same. I dont know that oar
people are any happier than they
yrere 4,000 years ago and the same
old truth prevails. Man that is
born of a womans and there are
no other sort that I know of, is of
few days and full of trouble.
Bill Abp.
TBB ENSILAGE EXPERIMENT.
Ope ulna of the Silo at the Exposi
tion Grounds till* !hom!ns
Ailauta Post-appeal.
At ten o’clock this mottling tie
Stale Commissioner of Agriculture,
attended by several gentlemen in-
lerested in the experiment, west
ont to the Exposition Grounds to
open the Silo, filled with twenty-five
tons of green forage nearly eight
months ago, nnder direction of the
Agricultural Department of the Cot
ton Exposition. It was early in Oc
tober when the forage was pot in.
It consists of pea vines, green- corn
stalks, with the fodder upon them,
suckers from sorghum cane, sweet
potato Tines, and ragweeds, the pea
vines and coin stalks predominat
ing. The forage was chapped np by
a telegraph cutter into quarter inch
bits. As the ensilage was thrown
into the pit two men packed it down
with their feet into a solid mass, so
as to leave no apertures for the sir
to circulate in and create rot. After
the pit was filled the air was exclude
ed from the lop by means of hea7y
boards fitted close together and
weighted down by about eight toils
of stones. The pit is fourteen feet
long, eight wide and eight deep.
Col. Mark A. - Harden,, under
whose supervision the silo was orig
inally constructed, was found wait
ing upon the ground with two col
ored hands from the cotton factory
wheu the party arrive:!. The hands
went promptly to work removing
the weights, and in a few niinmes
laid bare a blackish upper strata of
decayed vegetable matter, probably
half an inch in thickness: through
which the sound forage underneath
showed here and there in small
green spots. One thrust of the shov
el removed the outer coating and
discovered a perfectly preserved
mass, which continued all the way
to the bottom unbroken by decay.
Judge Henderson and CoL Harden
both took up a handful, and, after
examining it thoroughly to test its
soundness, ate a small portion, and
declared it equal in flavor to the
sweetest sour trout they ever tasted
in their lives. At first there was
disagreeable odor from the upper
strata, but half an inch below every
thing was sound and green, and at
eight inches from the surface the
ensilage was found to be in excel
lent condition for stock feeding. As
shown by the marks, the weights
had fallen ten inches lower than
when first placed in position. Dur
ing the first twenty-four hours after
the forage was pat in, it settled at
least two inches, and the other eight,
before the Exposition closed. By
that time the mass became so firm
antLclosely packed that it conld be
compressed no further. Judge
Henderson and all the gentlemen
who had a hand in the experiment
seemed delighted with its success.
They invite all parties having stock,
to send out and get free forage. Sev
eral parties have already made ar
rangements to accept the iuvitation.
!SOUTHERH_SENTIhIENT.
REGARD TO POLITICS AND
POLITICIANS.
Afc Gausefi by the New York Time*—
Tbe Sou'll Still Solid in lt« Affilia
tion wltii the Democracy, Disap
pointed with Arthur’s Policy, and
but Little Interested In the Tar Ill.
The most watchful care cannot
prevent the presence of flies in the
summer time, and many are the de
vices for destroying them. One of
the best and most agreeable plans is
to cultivate geraniums in the win
dows. There will be no need of fly
brashes.
VUlfzIng Wild Coffee.
Savannah News.
Editor Morning News: The ac
companying slip, from the New
York Star, presents to us matter for
onr investigation. If the. statement
by the Star shall prove to be correct
we will have opened to us an addi
tional article for commerce, and for
a new industry. The formerly ana-’
thematized saw (or fan) palmetto is
now being utilized, root and leaf, for
paper, rope, and other purposes;
and if the troublesome weed, the
wild coffee, can be hatched as hemp
and twisted into substantial cor
dage, onr commons, fields and bogs'
will no longer be “rigged with
corses dark.” H. C. W.
THE WILD COFFEE PLANT.
It ^appears there is a weed in the
Sonth known as the wild coffee
plant, causing the planters a gr.eat
deal of trooble and annoyance. II
has recently been discovered that
rope produced from this weed is
equal to the best hemp, and mnch
softer and stronger than jnte, and
can with case he twisted into, the
very best rope. This great and im
portant discovery was made by ah
old negro. It appears that tbe old
fellow, being in need of what is re-
gared as absolutely necessary to
complate the harness of a male, a
piece ot rope, which he was unable
to procure, began to look about for
something which would answer the
same purpose. His attention was
directed to tbe wild coffee plant. He
cut the stalks and treated them in
tbe same manner he had been accus
tomed to see hemp treated in Ken
tucky, and the result was a fibre
of good length and of surprising
strength, which the old man soon
converted into rope: If the wild
coffee plant is as extensive in the
Southern States as it is said to be,
this weed, heretofore regarded as a
pest, may prove a blessing in dis
guise, and be of inestimable: value
as a source of revenue, supplying all
the rope and bagging used in the
South,
Help or Opposition.
A certain amount of opposition is
a great help to a man. Kites rise
against and not with the wind.
Even a headwind is better than
none. No man ever worked bis
passage any where in a dead calm.
Let no man wax pale, therefore, be
cause of opposition. Opposition is
what lie wants, and must have, to be
good for anything. Hardship is the
native soil of manhood and self-
reliance. He that cannot abide tbe
storm without flinching or qoaling
strips himself in" the sunshine, and
lies down by the way-side to be over
looked and forgotten.
Tunl* Campbell’* Return.
After" an absence of eight years,
old man Tunis G. Campbell, ex-
State Senator, ex-penitentiary con
vict and ex-boss of McIntosh coun
ty, arrived in town from "Washing
ton on Snnday evening last ."We
have not seen the old man, and learn
that he is keeping close until after
court, when he proposas to make a
big speech to his people. The ob
ject of the old man’s visit to Darien
just now is not known by any but
those in his confidence. We will
keep onr readers posted as to his
doings in this section. '
New Yobk, May 29.—The Times
prints 500 answers to- the following
questions, addressed to 100 editors
of Democratic papers at county seats
in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida Geor
gia.-Louisiana, Mississippi, .North
Carolina, South Carolina and
Texas:
First—Is the policy of the Dem
ocratic pal'ty managers in harmony
with'the general sentiment and peo
ple of your district? It that policy
excites any dissatisfaction, is it
chiefly directed against the princi
ples or persons sustained by the
parly leaders.
Second—How do your people re
gard the administration ot President
Arthur.
Third—Is there in your neighbor
hood any decided expression of
opinion in regard to the tariff ? If so
what is its extent and nature?
TUE ANSWERS SUMMED UP.
The Times summarizes the an
swers to the first question' as fol
lows : That the South is solid in its
affiliation with the Democratic party
■nay be laid down as made abso
lutely certain by the observations.
The masses still look to the Democ
racy as upholding their best inter
est, material and political, on all
nstiual issues. The people are a unit.
Ferliaps one-fourth of the letters
speak of dissatisfaction with the
methods of the leaders, but the writ
ers are very careful to state that tbe
people are in full harmony with the
parly principles, and will forget alt
local differences in defending"
them. Only in two responses to the
first clause as follows is the answer
made not entirely so. In two or
three states the legislation is not en
tirely satisfactory to the whole of
the party; as for example, the stock
law in South Carolina and the pro
hibition law in North Carolina have
divided the party; but this, division
is a State matter, and would be lost
sight of in considering national is
sues. ‘ They oppose the Kepnblicans
as seeking an alliance with the col
ored man and patting him in power
over them. They assert that the ig
norance' of that race unfits it for
control, and its supremacy would
annihilate all hqpe of prosperity. Of
tne responses to the second questions
the Times says that in ail the let
ters references to the hope of the
South from Garfield’s administra
tion seem like a wail. The people;
liowevt-r, truotod that President Ar
thur would carry out the policy of
his predecessor, but disappointment
ha* followed, and more than half tho
letters speak of him as a narrow
partisan, seeking only the interests
of his -party, as one ftom whom
nothing beneficial for the South
can come. The appointments to
office in the South, as a rule, are a
great cause of disappointment, and
are regarded S9 showing that Ar
thur is not friendly disposed. From
the three states of-Mississippi, Louis
iana and Arkansas only, come ex
pressions of praise, and these are
almost entirely dne to tbe Missis
sippi levee proclamation, and even
then generally mingled with words
of distrust. The answers to the
third question show, with one or
two exceptions, little discussion of
the tariff reporter among the peo
ple. Many writes say that the ques
tion is not understood by the
masses: one that they have no con
ception of what the “tariff” means.
The truth appears to be that they
are too buisy tc take any interest
in the matter, and being chiefly
agriculturists the subject naturally
attracts much less attention than
in other sections of the conntry.
About thirty letters say that were
there is any discussion at all the
feeling is hi favor of a tariff for
revenue only with such incidental
protection as would naturally fol
low.
THE NEW COTTON CROP.
SpeelalSBeport* of It* Prospects,
New Yobk, May 29.—The World
has special dispatches from New
Orleans, Galveston, Memphis and
Mobile, which, it is claimed, have
been carefnlly prepared, showing
the piesent condition and prospects
of the cotton crop. Tbe report
sums np as follows:
If the seasons, from the present
time until cotton picking begins,
is a good one, there will be a con
siderable increase in the amount
of cotton grown in Alabama and
Texas over last year, and quite as
much (notwithstanding the over
flow) in the States of Arkansas,
Louisiana and Mississippi. The re
ports from the Atlantic coast and
may be regarded as promising a
yield in excess of that of the cur
rent season, last year, and approx-
mating, no boubt, the largest ever
raised.
Georgia Polities.
Special to CtnrfnwmH Commercial-
Atlanta, Ga., May 23.—There is
an exciting phase in Georgia poli
tics. Tbe Constitution this morn
ing prints a letter from Hon. Alex.
H. Stephens, in which he says he
will accept the nomination of the
Democrats if tendered, and that the
telegram of Hon. Emory Speer,
which states that Stephens would
accept the nomination of tbe Inde
pendents, was unauthorized. At this
-tbe organized Democrats are jubi
lant. The Post-Appeal, however,
the organ of the Liberal movement
in tbe South, which is running Steph
ens, says this afternoon that this ac
tion is playing into tbe hands of the
Liberals, and that the Democrats
have to take Stephens. Should the
Democrats nominate Stephens, and
he accepts, that will also make him
candidate of the Liberals, who
will have a fnll ticket for State of
fices against the organized Demo
crats, and upon them the fight will
be made with the head of the ticket.
This settled the Liberals hope to
carry three or four Congressmen
and elect the Legislature.
NEWS PROS BAIN'BRIDGE.
Oallsibentc Exhibition—Personsl—
Bestlxs—Attempted AssssslnatE
—About the Cropv—other Items.
Special Correepondeace Ness and Advertiser.
Baisbbidge, Ga., May 28,1882
Tuesday night, at the fair grotnd
hail, Miss Flora Shackleford and ler
calisthenic class delighted the cti-
zens with a public exhibition, in
sisting of exercises with wanis,
dumb-bells, music and reritatiois;
concluding with" the laughable fa’ce
of “All is Fairin Love and Was!’
Tite.scholars acquitted lhemselres
admirably, reflecting credit upon
their pretty teacher.
Z. T. Crawford, Judge of '.he
county court of Manatee county,
Florida, and Henry Johnson, editor
of the Appaiachicola Tribune, have
been circulating amongst ns durisg
the past week. Both are clever,
genial fellows, whom we are always
delighted to see aronnd. Mr. Johi
L. Boynton, JiviDg eight miles
above ns, lost his little son, Alber:,
last week. V. M. Borum, of this
place, and Mre. Jane Truluck, of
Wltigham, died during the same
week of pneumonia. Mnmps have
attacked the citizens of "Whigham,
and is getting the best of them by a
large majority. It is no respeclorof
persons or color.
Harry Miller attempted to assassi
nate W. H. Harrison on Snnday
week last, at the latter’s residence
in the eastern part of the county.
He sent a heavy charge of bnckshot
at him whilst feeding his horse, but
fortunately missed. The day aftet
his murderous attempt he was
caught "in Thomas coonty by bailiff
Stephens, bnt escaped from his
clutches and is now at large.
Our City Marshal has a bran new
uniform of blue, adorned with brass
buttons. We feel proud, citified,
and stnek-up. Don’t caro a conti
nental for your old artesian well
now. Got U-n-i-for-m-ed “perlice.’’
Aha!
Onr farmers are reaping one of
the largest and best oat crops ever
made within the memory of man in
Decafnr county.
The corn and cotton crops are, as
the ladies say, “perfectly splendid:”
No grass. Needing rain in portions
of the conntry. . O. G. G.
Out Sale!
1,7 3.:'?
We have notified the Public that we will sell our Entire
Stock
AT AND BELOW COST
as we contemplate making' a chai
in the next few months. Our w ^ i
the Northern markets purchasing a Nice and WeU-AsL
sorted Stock of
in our business with-
r. Glauber is now in
The Right Showing.
Editor News and Advertiser:
It ia doubtless worth ail the pe
cuniary losses, the dreary shortcom
ings of many Georgia farmers in
past years, if they are jnst begin
ning to realize tbe one important
fact that an intelligent and more ex
tended cultivation of the cereals
must, in the end, prove the only and
surest road to wealth and inde
pendence. It is claimed, and justly
too, that the bounteous yield of the
oat crop, for the season just closed,
may be considered a regular Geor
gia bonanza.
And should such result be farther
supplemented by a corresponding
snccess in the production of corn, it
wonid a difficult task to estimate the
real benefits oocnrring, not merely
to the farming interests, bnt in
healthfal revival of business through
all the arteries of trade.
It is to be hoped that the end may
prove aaspicions as the beginning,
and that the year of grace, 1882, be'
come memorable in after annals as
the veritable year of jubilee.
It is. bnt simple justice, however,
to the farmer to say that, for many
post seasons, he has encountered the
one serious drawback in protracted
drouths to a satisfactory yield of
com, oats and other products. For
this reason, if for no other, the phe
nomenal snccess in the cnltnre of
grain for ’82 will stimulate him to
still greater effort iq. the fntnre.
In the light of this experience the
fact cannot be ignored that when
planting interests can be so directed
and diversified as to make the re
mits of cotton cnltnre an exceptional
surplus, instead of being wholly ab
sorbed as heretofore the rale, in
in compulsory payments for Wes
tern corn, bacon and expensive fer
tilizers, from that bright day may
the Northern belt may not be ex- be dated the true financial greatness
pected to be quite so favorable as - - - b
those from the the Gulf States, bnt
the whole situation at this time
of the Southern States.
It will be a revival of the golden
age, exerting an influence for good,
like the leaves for the healing of tbe
nations. Imparting new life and
vigor to the spirit of enterprise
everywhere. It will again set in
motion the two long sluggish wheels
of commerce. It will be the guar
antee of steady employment to
many a now idle, despondent me
chanic and laborer. It will invoke
and invite an intelligent, thrifty im
migration to otlr borders, cansing onr
waste places to bloom in a night, as
at the stroke of an enchanter’s wand,
Inspiring the faint-hearted with re
newed faith and hope in the better
and brighter days to come. S.
Intelligence from Eureka Springs.
TT .¥5 t ? EKA » -Abe., May 26.—Senator
Hill is reported by his physician as
being mnch better, and although the
case seemed absolutely hopeless, the
improvement in his condition is
such as to warrant the hope that his
life may he prolonged many years.
Senator Hill has his family here
with him, and all that slciil ard the
kind offices of his friends can do for
him is being done. Among the re
cent arrivals here are Mra. John
Culpepper and Mrs. Edgar Thomp
son, Atlanta,'Ga.
DRY GOODS
which we offer in addition to what we have on hand
We respectfully invite the Public, especially the Ladies,
to call and be convinced, as we mean business, '
onr Stock consisting of
Race Mits, Lisle and Sid Gloves, Laces, JRuchings,
Ladies’ Neckwear•, Corsets, Hosiery, Table
Linen, Towels, Silks, Lawns, Trim
mings, Parasols, Hans, Etc. .
Ladies’ and Cents’ fine City-Made Beets and Sines
axtd SLgpsas,
Trunks, Gent’s Clothing, Etc.
TERMS:—STRICTLY CASH OH DELIVERY^
Special Inducements in Wholesale Bayers.
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