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*rio: H-. HODGES; .Ed'-tc* and Bufclislier:
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A?Uinta’s Postmaster.
j ^Observer's” Last Reply.
LV?i week OoF.-It. J. Lewis was f Editor, Roms .journal:, We
installed pastmasier at Atlanta.. 0£ feel very grateful to "AntLCcxa-
conrse he is a republican, and at- missidfier for having f/aived his
most his first official act- declared prerogative in order tliriu we may
him a negro lover of the most pro- otlr discretion in regard
: perry, Thu&bday, August 8.®
L-:' ; c- . 1 - L -~mrrr
. .The Georgia legislature is mak-
v Ing a voluminous record.
INFERIOR erogff thm year are re-
7 ported in every civilized, country)
£he United States excepted.
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The. Southwestern Railroad has
.-hauled this season about three
• .IfedusandiCar loadsof watermelons.
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' Thb first “straight” bale of new
jLf,
' crop Georgia cotton was received
• • at Macon by Warehouseman W. F-
. •: Price, last Friday.
i ■ It is noted as a remarkable fact
that Editor H. W. Grady does not
bfpress the same views on the tar
iff question af ard enunciated by
Orator H. W. Grady;
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The-next semi-aniiual cduven-
6 ■ .- fioh of the Georgia State Agricul-
. trpral Society will be held at Cedar-
. , tbWn next Tuesday and Wednes
• i day.
y fQjroh tji ..
- On August 81st the Supreme
* . Court of of Georgia adjourned nn-
cil the 3rd Monday in September,
and Justices ^Bleckley, Blandford
and Simmons are now in New
York.
It is a remarkable fact that com
paratively few negroes migrate
northward, though their political
aHegian|p i3 pledged to their
“friends,’
section.
the republicans, of that
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new clerk/ and agked Lewis that
the installation of the negro might
be delayed until Xliss Lewis could
fix up her books and leave the of
fice. This Lewis refused, and Miss
Lyons resigned at once.
Mr, Lyons regarded this action
of Lewis as a personal affront to
hiniself rind daughter, and resign
ed his position, to take effect as
soon his department can be turn
ed over to a successor. The good
people of Atlanta are indignant,
and Mr. E. Yan Winkle, the
largest bondsman, immediately
withdrew his name 'from the bond
of Postmaster Lewie.
This action is ungen tlemanly,
and savors stroglj of social equali
ty, Lewis declares that the ne
gro went in under the civil service
rules, he having ranked best in the
in the examination. The record
declares this mm false, showing
that a white candidate made 87£
points and the negr<»85.
Our people will*never agree to
have negroes placed in close busi
ness relations with our daughters,
and the man that attempts to
force such a conditon should be
ostracised. The action of Lewis
shows a mean spirt, in thus forc
ing the resignation of Mr. Lyons
and-his daughter. Most likely a
republican southern policy is here
by indicated.
Hon. James H... Guerre, of
Lawson, is now Judge of the Fa-
taula circuit, succeeding Judge J.
T. Clark, who was accidentily kill
ed on the railroad at Smithville
a few.weeks ago. Judge Guerry was
elected by the legislature last Fri
day, on the first Joallof. Thus a
candidate for ’congress has been
removed from the path of H. G.
Turner, of the 2nd district.
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The regular passenger train on
on the Atlanta & Florida railroad
has been discontinued. .^-Passen
ger travel is now accommodated
by a coac’H attached to: a freight
train, whiclpwill leave Atlanta for
Fort Talley jtliree mornings each
week, and leave Fort Yalley^oT
Atlanta the other three mornings.
C~ |—
Spokane, Washington Territory,
was almost completely destroyed
by fire last /.Sunday,-entailing a
loss of about $14,000,000.
-—“Col.” Isaac Slappey, a -high
ly colored citizen of Houston coun
ty .at large, is now behind the
bars in the county jail, under sen
tence to serve 12 months in the
chain gang. He’ was convicted on
the charge of carrying concealed
weapons; He. displayed the pis
tol in a difficulty with another ne
gro on Mr. G. C. Nunn’sfarm near
Perry. The case against “Col.
Slappey has been appealed to the
Superior Court, and in default of
bond, the jail will hold him. Ike
is cfimjdedly a bad citizen’, and
very general satisfaction is ex
pressed at the"fact that he is ’ at
last within the clutches of the law.
. --- The fact that this prisoner was
,„6jy' pubhahedmAe paper, not a u owed lhe dfejtfon of pay-
mg a fine, may be taken as evi
dence that Judge Miller is deter
mined to “put down” the practice
of toting pistols, and will use the
full power of his office to that end
“A Friendly Tip” is a most ex
cellent railroad? guide published by
. the Georgia Central Railroad Com-
* .pany, compiled and edited by/Mr.
Clyde Bostick, Traveling Passen
ger agent.
An English syndicate have on
foot a’seheme to secure control of
tha principal cotton mills of the
• United States'. If successful, this
. ivould prove to be the most powur-
r fill trust known.
One million dollars is the esti
mated value' of the Georgia fruit
• crop-this year. It is also estimated
that Houston fruit growers have
already received one-fourth of that
amount fed 1 thb peaches sold this
,-seaBon. -
The bondsmen of ex-City Treas
urer. Adams have paid the city
council of Macon $8,000 in settle-
mentof the claim of the city against
- himas,a defaulter. The amount paid
-represents the real estate owned
by Capt. Adams. -
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It is reported that Tom Wool-
BA^fqlk concluded his self-imposed
fast .last Friday, after; doing with
out food seven days. Evidently
he concluded he would eat what he
Could get, if he couldn’t get what
he wanted.
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The counties of Dodge, Laurens,
Montgomery, Pulaski, Telfair and
Wilcox will join in an agricultural
• and industrial fair' at Eastman this
fall. The fair will be under the
Management of Dodge County
Fair Association, and a'liberal pre
mium list-will soon be issued.
New York Ledger is how.
^.publishing a special “Library” of
'’'tlfb 6’hpicest serial stories previ-
ons.iy.published in the paper. <
- or more novels are issued each
%pptl), ' at $1.00 for cloth and 5
cents for - paper binding per vo>
times. The novels now offered are
“Her Double t Life,” “Unknown,”
The Gun maker of Moscow,” Maud
irtou, The Hidden ’Hand, Sun-
'defed Hearts,—all good.
nouncerl type.
to another reply.
see S5Bni personally, or write them di
rectly over their, true name, then' their
complaints are noticed,and not otherwise.
We asked i'Anu-Gommissinouor” in.
our last to- show by ih.e force of urgu-
gumerifc a nibre fnigai and exemplary
.sysieinoflocal gover'uMent, To -which
fie says: .‘-I feaf the force of argument
would be lost in this dicussion.” We
State oe Ohio, City of Toledo, )
. Lucas County, S. S. y
Frank J. Cheney makes oath
jthht He"is the^senjor partner of t,he, g
firm of F/J. Ghehey '& Co., doing
bufliiess ih the city. of Toledo,
county and state aforesaid,, and
that said firm will pay the sum of
•ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
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Last-Msuday a-negro appoiutee I 1 purpose mafemg S few s ate-
repoi'tal for duty in the registered: mMt3 . ** w,t f » oI , takm S
fetter ddpartmeut. Of this depart- i aa 7 ™ dae adraat »S a wbateyer,
i^eut Mr. W. C, Lyons is- superin-1 ^ si “P ] y t( ?.? orrect som^-inad-
tendenfc. and Miss A. Y. Lyons is ? uertaEces which occur in- Anti-
deiivsry clerk. Mr. LyonsTefused j Commissioner’s’’ last article. First,
to recoghize rin iutrodaction to the starts out by saying,
Secretary NiSBEilsays the next
Georgia state fair, to be held at
Macon from October 28'to Novem
ber 1st next, will be the most sue-
witiiin the record of the
ite Agricultural Society. Ap
plications for space are already be
ing made at such a rate as to as-
fre tfi.trSecretary that all the de
triments will be remarkably fhlL
te- counties than ever before
■tfill contest for the. county premi-
mne-.v Y Y.
John L. Sullivan, the Boston
was arrested iif New York
f last:Friday 5 - on a requisition
rqm. GoV. Lowry of
Hill * endorsed the requisi
4Son and- the
Carried ■ to
Arrest,' and
plkced in jail,
prize fighktug in Purvis
#hicii the recent- Sullivan--Jxjjrain
•T#We are satisfied the objec
tions of Mr. G. W. Singleton to
the. proposed Perry public school
system can be suc' >r '~~ p nlly contro
verted. ‘ However, we wilOsave it
to some citizen who favors tae law,
We have already given plain ex
pression to our opinions on the
Subject, and do not see fit to write'
more just now on that line. Our
columns are open free for discus
sion. The system cannot be adopt
ed unless-two-thirds of the voters
desire it.
—The Perry subscribers of the
Fort Yalley Enterprise failed to
gee the last week’s issue of -that-
paper, and cir account of that faih
ure we are unable to give anytSng
like a report of the .re-uhiqn pf
tha Third Ga. Kegiment. We
: the. re-union didn’t prove too-
T notice'
in your last issfie that. 'Observer’
changes the nature of his .bharge
against me.” This is incorrect.
We have made no charge against
him, whatever. He made the
bharge against t-he grand jury, and
according to our understanding,
afterwards denied “it—the result,
perhaps, of a treacherous memory.
This is why we called his attention
to it, and why the grand jury is in
volved in this discussion, his sur
prise to the contrary.
We know each individual mem
ber of the grand jury to which he
alludes, and we know them to be
■men of honor and renown—men
who are not disposed tp engage in
“trickery” at the sacrifice of their
honor and the interest of the pub
lic generally. As tt» what many
may have “thought,” is a matter.of
moonshine. The thoughts Of a
man cannot be introduced as evi
dence. How can one man know
the thoughts of another? God
alone is the discerner of- thoughts.
When we set out to impugn the
moral, social, political or official
probity of our fellow-men, we
should not forget that we must
deal in facts—(Lot thoughts—
facts that are incontestable—facts
that will sustain us in our thoughts,
then, and not until then, we are at
liberty to express ourselves freely
if we desire to do so; This course,
however, is not always advisable.
The legislature having been peti
tioned to change the law in regard
to the method of selecting commis
sioners, does not necessarily imply
that something is wrong in the ac
tion of the grand jury. No “think
ing man” would arrive at such a
conclusion.. We remember well
that it was frequently said to ns
that “the people ought to have the
right to select the commissioners
by popular ballot,” hence we hold
to our assertion in regard to o'Ur
form of government;’ ’
1 no# ball the attention of
“Anti-Commissioner” to the fact
that the idea of establishing a
board of commissioners was not of
American conception. For an ex
emplification, I refer him to the
Exchequer of England, th% duty of
which is almost identical with that
of our commissioners’ court. If
the interests'of England demand
the maintenance of a court in or
der to protect her finance, why not
that of America? The extent of con
sanguineous relations' that exist
between our people aucl those of
England naturally impress its with
the great importance of a court
similfo: td that of the old country.
The “protection” of our finance
was the moving cause that sprung
the Commissioners’ court fhto ex
istence. When this court is so im
portant, why should it not be per
petuated? Should we abandon a
court of such vast importance simp
ly because somebody’-s friend has
been defeated;'or because the con
stituent. members are npt geograh-
icalfy situated to suit the notion’s
of every man ? Such aii idea is
absurd in the extreme.
Now, in regard to the metal roof
ings the commissioners simply got
the wrong man to do the work.
The best workman in the county
inspected the work’ while in prog
ress, and reported to ns that it
would hot do. Not that there w5s
anything wrong with the metal
shingles,- but that the commission
ers, -thrhVYgh inadvertency, had em
ployed the wTteg man, or rather
he had commenced wrong. He told
hs how many inches deviation had
been effected, and, said he, “the
whole thing will have to come-off.”-
“They, were pat on under the di
rect supervision of a member of
the board.” This, is about ah well
as ctrald be expected of one man.
If the whole board cquld have held
a council of a few minutes the re
sult would ‘have been different.
The boarcl could have' discharged
Hie workmian for inefficiency. -
The commissioners are not expected to
listeii to-the complaints of anonimons
writers ifl public journals, at the expense —Carry your cotton to Willis F.
of the county.' I suppose each of the
commissioners baw tlie letters of cc in
to; suppose each liad pro-
plr.ee complained of, eacli
allowed the per diem
' ; services, aggregat-
to the county. Our
—In the Court of Or dinary last
Monday Augusta Felder was al
lowed a twelve months’, support
from the estatefof Simon Felder
deceased, and Ryal Davfe was ap
pointed administrator of the es
tate of James Davis, deceased.
:
—Mrs. Fannie Whioehurst has
oar thanks for a couple at the
finest old-fashioned, “pound pears”
we ever saw. Parties desiring any
of this fruit for preserving pur
poses, can be supplied at’ reasona
ble' prices.
[seal.]
Agree with him exactly Unless there'is j fo -J an d every case o£ catarrh
a sufficiency of .'force brought to bear j , faQ ^ b ^ ^ of
from some source, we are satisfied that > tr „ i-r p a J
out people will not abandon the present ! MaUs v
system of controlling our finances. j - ^ TRANa- o. LHENEY,
Yes, we will go to the court house and owofn to before me and sub
find it just as he says, but while we'tare I scribed In my presence, ^this 6th
there, let us inquire into the matferi | day of December^A. jJ., loqo.
From whence the new'jail ? The records
will show that it was paid for. They
won’t show that any such jails were bnili
in ante-bellum times. An iron badge
paid for. Ho skeh thing hi former days.
Various streams have been bridged with
in the last decade that were forded be
fore, all of which have been paid for, and
the records will show it. -
What does these improvments say 1c
the transient observer? Do they not
stand as unmistaken evidence of pros
perity? Could they have been erected
for less money under the “one man” sys
tem? Our people wanted these things
for their own safety, and not for the pur
pose of getting rid of the public funds.
The son of one of our bestjeititizons lost
an eye while endeavoring to cross a
stream near this place, that ten times
the cost of the bridge that now affords
complete safety could not have pur
chased. Another citizen lost a mule.
The-peoole asked for a bridge, and the
commissioners complied with their re
quests. Sholild we not have our per
sons and property secure against jeop
ardy, though it costs us something more
than the old way, as the records will
show? The amount expended on public
work for tfie last twenty years .is not to
be attributed to.any extravagance on the
part of the commissioners, but it has been
for the purpose of providing for • the ne
cessities of the people; neither is the ex
cess expended during the existence of the
board to be taken as evidence against
the absolute necessity of said board, as
“Anti-Commissioner” would have it.
We grant that he may have served his
purpose, as he says, but he has made a
signal failure in supporting his asser
tions. Ho must remember that unless he
gets a majority of names to his antici
pated petition that it will pot represent
the will of the people. We can assure
him that good feeling has been main
tained our part. -Again we thank him
for the privilege granted us. and also
thank the editor of the JouiskAi, fbr his
kindness. J
How we are done.
Respectfully,
Oeseevee.
Echeeonnee, Ga., Aug. 3, 1839.
—Mayor Davis deserves a hearty-
vote o£ thanks front the entire
•toivn for his order to the marshal
in regard to ridding our town of
the gangs of idle, loafing negro
boys, who obstruct the sidewalks
with their draught boards, marble-
rings, etc., and collect in groups
to smoke cigarrette stumps, to the
the annoyance and disgust of all
lady passers. These vagrant mokes
can subsist on two soda crackers
a day and what cigar and eigar-
fette stunips they can pick up.
Beginning with Monday morning
this order of things will be
changed, thank's td odr worthy
mayor. '
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—It was our pleasure several
days ago to walk through Mr. G.
W. Killen’s vineyard, at his home
in Perry; The grades'are Cataw
ba and Concord, the latter princi
pal!, and by tasting repeatedly, we
proved their quality to’ be strictly
first-class. The vines were as heav
ily loaded as any we ever Saw,
though they bore their first crop'
last year. From less than an acre
Mr. Eillen expects to make about
Iwo barrels of wine. He began
that work Monday.
•
—Another party of Perry hunts
men, with Mr- C. P. Brown, of
Pulaski county, went deer hunting
in' the lower eleventh district last
Saturday. They didn’t kill a deer,
but we are informed Mr. Norman
Miller shol ja doe down, fbut she re
covered end escaped. We were
unable to secure specific details of
the hunt.
WE DESIRE 10 IMPRESS
Upon the Planters of Middle -Georgia that we <dmll
“HAMMER DOWN” prices ch
tie tc
A. W. Gleason,
Notary; Public,
Hall’s Gatarrh Care is taken in-
tevually, ahd acts directly upon
the blood and rnnens surfaces of
the, system. Send for testimo
nials free. ; .
F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
RQL, Sold by druggists, 75c.
HOUSTON SHERIFFS SALES;
Will be sold before the court house
door in the town of Perry, Houston coun
ty, Ga., between the legal hours of sale,
on the 1st Tuesday in September, 1889,
the following property, to-wit:
Fifty acres of lot of land Ho. 30 in the
8th district of Houston county, owned
by defendant, Jno. T. Hartley; and being
the only 50 acres of said lot .owned by
him: also that 200 acres of lots of land
Hos. 105 and 106 in the Lower Fifth dis
trict bf saidT cohnty of Houston, and
being the only two hundred acres of said
lots owned by said Hartley. Levied on
as the property of John T. Hartley to sat-,
isfy a fi. fa. issued, from the Superior
Court of said county, and returnable to
October term, 1889; in favor of Small £
Mallory vs. John T. Hartley-. Legal no
tice given to tenant in possession this
July 24iE; 1SS9:
Also, at the ssmo time and place, the
undivided one-third interest of John R.
Wimberly in lot of land Ho. 47 in the.
18'ch district of Houston county. Lev
ied on as the property of defendant, John
R. Wimberiy, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued
from the Houston County Court in favor
of Win. Knpferinan vs, John R. Wimber
ly. Legal notice given to tenant in pos
session this the 29th of J ulv, 1889. .
M. L. COOPER, Sheriff.
JSiOI FOR SALE.
Tbs interest taken in the mani>
faeture of brooms in Perry is
shown by the number of persons
visiting the factory; Ido not sell in
a less quantity than oiie dozen,
and that people wishing a smaller
Humber may know where to get
them, I give the names of mer
chants here who keep them .in
stock:
¥m. Brunson,
C. H. Moore,
0. F. Cooper,
L. F. Cater,
L. M. Paul,
S, L. Speight;
W. D. Day.
, Yariety Works brooms are bet
ter and cheaper than any other in
the market. Bay them and keep
the money at home. Encourage-
home manufacture; and take no
other kind.
_E,.J. FuiAeb,
Lessee Perry Yariety Works.
and particularly so to those who are eoumpelled to purchase on ti me
The past season the “FARMERS’ALLIANCE” wa| entirely
we alone quoui- j ’
nored by the merchants in Middle Georgia
pro is.
We Sold to them at Exceedingly Mw Prices*
In this way we have caused merchants of Mac.m, and all around
Macon, to abandon, to a large eitent, the ruinous time prices formlhr
charged. . r v
Jfe Expect to Kill Completely the Old Time T/ice*
in 18-)0.
So. therefore, our OPEN BID to the
will be made known to them on apubcafi
refuses to meet said terms, confer with t
above refers to
Alliances of
if your
S -1.1.1 clAUu
Mb idle Georgia
’ ca! merchant
y >-h- trr.-if*: ihe
1%
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Oij FERTILIZERS we have a regular time price, which will be
lower than ever before sold at. We have purchased several thousand
tons of GEORGIA CHEMICAL WORKS and CHARLESTON
ACIDS; also, COTTON SEED MEAL, -MILLER and LISTERS I
PIPE ANIMAL BONE FERTILIZERS, GERMAN KAINIT, Etc |
RODGERS, WORSHAM & CO-,
420 and 422 Third Street, Macon, Ga.
J OH IS SON ■& ESTES,
MACON, GEORGIA.
5t>4 td 560 Poplar Street, Campbell & Jones’ Old Stand.
Cotiete Pa
AND DEALERS IN
•'T-\
ipplies.
EiTHfR FOR CASH OR OH VMS',
A FULL LINE OF BEST GRADES OF AMMONIATED GUANO, I
ACID PHOSPHATE and COTTON SEED MEAL, always on hand. |
Mr. W. S. FELDER, of Perry, will be with us, and would
pleased to have his friends remember him.
FINDLAY IRON WORM
MACON, GEORGIA,
C. D FINDLA If, Proprietor.
Also, successor to A. B. Farquhar <fc Co., an-J E. W’ Wilt & Go., of the laid |
Central City Iron Works;
-MANTOACrUBER AND DeAUEB IN-
WHAT I KEEP.
• I KEEP
lee and Lemons
, FOR EYERYBODY.
I KEEP
Flour, and all kinds of
Family Groceries.
I KEEP
Cry Goods and Slides,
i Kelp
STRAW HATS.
from fbe ’nest to the cheapest.
j , i KEEP
AH Kinds of Plow Stocks;
and castings for same.
I.KEEP
Everything Kept-in a Variety'
Store-
Can on me for Ice and Lemons. Cheap
as' ihe cheapest.
€; H; HOOKE,
Perrv, Ga.
IFYOWWilf
FIRST-CLASS
GROCERIES,
Steam Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Shaftings, Pulleys, Sugar Mills, Syrnp Kettbf,
Horse Powers, Mill Gearing. Castings and Machinery of every description
Steam, Gas and Water Pipe, and Fittings, Brass; goods, for water or steam [
■Steam Gauges, Hancock Inspirators, Belting, Babbit Metal, etc,’etc,’
FINDLAY’S RENOWNED COTTON SCREWS, |
* For Steam, Writer, Hand or Horse Poorer.
PACES UP OR DOWN.
FINDLAY'S CELEBRATED
X.- L. COTTON- GINS,|
FULLY WARRANTED,
S@paJ.iB a Specialty
filers, Separators; arkf till Muds of Machinery
Repaired.
Steam Engines of all makes,
two INSPIRATORS MADE NEW-
—Attention is directed to the
change in tlie advertisement of Mr.
L. F.. Cater. He is offering a job
lot of goods at greatly r-edyced
prices.
Price, M'acon, Ga., the only ware-
man in Macon who does an exclu
sively cotton biisiness. Read his
advertisement in this paper. t£.
—Cholera Mo
rors to the :
Shoes,
CONFECTIONERIES,
Fruits in Season,- di-
gars, Tobacco, Etc. .
Examine my stock before purchasing.
Besides a full stock of .
STANDARD GOODS,
I will always liave oh hand some
Brick''Makers', Mackineru
The different parfaf of the “'SWORD” machine made and kept in stock at 1
factorra’a prices.
TIME AMO FREIGHT SAVED BY ORDERlNC|
'* FROM ME.
I Barrow and Truck Wheels especially designed for Brick Makers, constantly
hand. All the patterns of the late-f‘Centrai City Iron Works,” inducung
patterns -pf the Faranhar Engjnes, are owned and used solely by. me-
- pond or call y/hCn you wish anything in the way of castings, machinery o.
pairs,’
G. ±3L
FIZ7DLAY IRON WORKS, Maccm Ga.
^S^Send for Circulars and Price Lists.
PERRY,
GEORGIA,
DEA3YEB IK-
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