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Ill mm r ..... '5 M V" VVr'-^^fEPTL fm 00 l,;im33U&S3-A YEAH. PablUaeil Syery Thursday Horning. *rio: H-. HODGES; .Ed'-tc* and Bufclislier: ‘ . I ’■--’ •■• ' ; '- : 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. it 4* • . . ... - *'»••• •*■ The. Southwestern Railroad has .-hauled this season about three • .IfedusandiCar loadsof watermelons. .Uiu •: ‘i L : " ' 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; (-0-4 ; 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 mm m 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. © •<— 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. - - —r - 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. ‘ « 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 t 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. ' . : —-— —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% tv 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- i i