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_-any kind of- JOB PUNTING -GIVE THE- —-A- -'X’SCiJi.-fet-i.—'— JO^EN lil. HODGES, Proprietor, ' ■ - v, : \ir 5g| st.'-icu*' ' ‘ Deroted to Home Interests and Culture. TWO DOLLARS A Year iu Advance, XIX. I GEORGIA, TiniJtCSDAX, A T OYEMBER 7, W. fice is fully .prepared to' do any kiii'd'd^Cpininereial job work_ that j may be needed. All lively ' yacT- -ded, and at prices that will com- | pete with any city. Call and look | at'our samples and get our prices . | and you willleave-your orders. .-Jr- ~ i-to i in ■ I w mb W m ««d P ts ?*+- O £ O © S S3- 1© m t i m ■rxaLXjIS IBV 701181 MAOOW,« 3* & CP !*frs> ^ H 8 cr^ I sr S- I# WS 'O & o feral e*s 0 g uXy o IT ^ 1 1 I I (Z2 S E- Oj 00 w © I-* is O Sr a si ^5 32 SB © sscd SC c yd Peter and the Doctor. pEAi>! Where is Mrs. Beaziey r s | man, Sam? Go ask the worms in Published by Bequest.' , , r ! the graveyard where he lies. Mr. A doctor named Royston had j^efl^e’s woman, Sarah, wasiWte^d- suea Peter Bennett for hig bill,! gq tsy him, and her funeral fras ap- long over-due, for attendihjg the j pointed, and be had the corpse wife of the latter. A, H. Stephens ready Where is that likely Bill, was on the Bennett: side,. aed L ‘ Robert Toombs, then ..Senator- of the United States, was for Dr. as belonged to Mr. Mitchell? Now in glory, a’ expressin’ his opinion of Royston’s doctorin'. Where is that baby gal of Harry Stephen’? jtShe is where doctors: 'cease from Royston. The doctqp.prdVed bis number P‘HPlSBr%. according ^;Troublin’^ and the infants are at local custom, and hi3 own author! ty to do medical . practice. Mr Stephens told his- client that the ^physician had made out his case, [.and as there was nothing where- ■with to rebut or offset his claim, the only thing left to do was to pay-it.- * “No, sir,” said Peter, “[ hired you to speak in my case, and now speak.” ..... Mr. Stephans told him there was nothing to say;, he had looked on. fo -se^'th^t it was made out, and it was. Petal 1 wffs obstinate, : aind at last Mr. Stephens told; him to make a speech himself* if he thought one could be made. I “] willj” said Peter; ,Bennett. “if Bobby Yoonibs won’t be too hard on me.” , . Senator Toombs promised, and Peter began: .... “Gentlemen of the jury: You and I is plain-farmers, and ;d.f we don’t stick together these doctors and lawyers will git. the advantage of us. I ain’t no lawyer nor doc tor, and I ain’t no objections to them ip. their proper places; but they ain’t fanners. gentlemen- 65 the jury. Now, this man Royston was a new doctor, and I went for him to come and to doctor my wife’s sore leg. Ap'd be come and put some salve truck on it, and some rags, but never done, . it no good. . Gentlemen of the. jury, I don’t Believe he is na doctor, no way. . There is doctor^ as is doc tors, sure enough, but this man don’t earn his money, and if you send jjop him, as Mrs. Sarah At- kinsoh did for a negro boy as was wqhtk §1,000, he just kills him, and wants you to pay for it” I don’t,” thundered the doctor. Did you cure him?” asked Pe ter, with the slow accents of a j udge with the black cap on.., . The doctor was silent, and Peter proceeded: As I was a sayin’, gentlemen of the jury, we farmers; frhen we sell our cotton, has got |6 give rally for the money * fre ask, and doctors ain’t none too good to be put to the samA.rule. And I don’t believe this Sam Royston is no doctor, no how.” do rest. Gentlemen of the jury, he has et chicken enough at my house to pay for his salve, and I furnish ed the,rags, and 5 don’t suppose he charges for inakin’ her worse, hud even he don’t pretend to charge for curin’ of her, and lam fiftmbly thankful that he never give her nothin’ for her innards, as he did .his.other patients, .for somethin’ made ’em all die mighty sudden.”: Here the applause made the speaker sit down in great confu sion, and in spite of a logical statement, pf : tlpe case by Senator Toombs, the doctor lost, and Peter Bennett won. Accidentally Made a Prisoner, fA; cquple of St. Louis lawyers recshtly/frertrisitp, ope.of .thS;,sub terranean vaults cf the court house iu that city, to look over, so die old court records. On6' of-; -them was compelled to leave before the pa per desired t^ar found, and going out slammed the door . without thinking of the consequences. The automatic lock performed its duty, and his friend \yas a prisoner, The Mend discovered .thi's,disagreeable fact only when hp had. unearthed “he paper he desired and turned to go. The lock could not be work ed, and he could not attract atten tion by calling. Finally, under the dirt and cobwebs ; that had Been gathering for years, fie fdftnd a narrow grating through which he could just peep out on the street. Calling through this ,he attracted (lip attention jjf a passers I'jj %ho rushed into the sheriff’s office and announced that a prison er was trying.to escape. Investir gation disclosed the pent-up attor ney. Mayor Beuregard, of Montreal, has sued La Minerve, the organ of the dominion government, for libel for, having asserted that lie has no right to the dgaoratipfi of the Legion of Hcnor which he received wheii Gen. Boulanger was the French Minister-y olj.AYm?;; -- The chief justice .of; the province, Sir E. ll. fiorion, has been asked to issue a peremptory order that Gen Boulanger come to Montreal at once to testity. that Beaure? gard’s decoration is legitimate, and j was given by President Grevy, of’ France. As -Boulanger is now on The physician again put iu his oar with, “Look at my -diploma, if you think I am no doctor,” “His diploma j”..;hsblairned the new-fledged orator, -frith great con tempt, “His diploma! Gentle- ,, T , j - r .. . , ,., me D , a big word tor printed *' e Isl * n!lpf Jelsej '' 1113 heldtl,at sheepskin; and it didn’t make no, doctor- of the sheep as first wor& it, nor.'dr^B it of the man ; ^|io-di6w carries it. A good newspaper has he fiinst answer a courts;. summons from William Wentworth, of Minne sota, is a disappointed office-seeker more in it, and I pints out; to you who has becopie-the::-victim “bfe a that he ain’t no doctor at all.” strange Hallucination. From 9 d. The man of medit^ee was now m. to 4 o’clock p. m. he is as sa in.a fury, and serjearaed out, “Ask tional as anybodyj but at Other my patients if.I am not a doctor/’ times he imagines that lie is Pres- “I askecLmy wife,” retorted Pe- i^ent Harrison, and that he is toTi-“*n 5 abe said as how she - making Federal appointments. No thdught you wasn't.” “Ask my other patients, Dr.-R^yaloh. This' seemed . the straw that broke the camel’s back, for Peter replied withua.look and tone of un utterable, sadness: •/‘That re aj hard sayin’, men of the jury, and one doubt in his imagination he has said supplied his Relatives with choice offices, — Farmers- in the yrbimty of An derson, Indiaria; are excited over N©M-©E7 the - appeafance of a gang of young , wolves in their wood lots, A malt-: gentle- j Eer of sheep and chickens have re * j been killed, A big. huMting party quires me to die, or to have power , has been organized to kid off : the .as I’ve^-hearn tell ceased to be; ex-1" prowlers. . * * ' ercised since the Aposiles. Does * ' : 't^T. he expectlme to Lrijig the Angtl' . _ >vilie iist bii.the Bills of. fare Gabriel down to ioot h'is horn be-ffi^ing cars bn rujlroads fore his »time,, -’and erv aloud; j 9 rC55i “S J° wa bas this ^ictice at Awake, ye deadl.and.tell this court j the ^pttomi MNo. liquors sold iu and jury yojtrfl^Moffdf-Roygtoh’s'r^ 10 state ; ^ • . G. , practice!’ Am 3-to goto tMsnelyj Thbnffik^ia^rv.-of 5e^ York, chui’chyard and rap on dhe silent ; aged 17 yelirfj jc as died - froui au tomb, and say to some as is at last at rest from: .pLysici and doctor’s Git up here, you Delays in the Law. Monroe Adrertisor. In some way the Relays in the admibintiation of the law have fb- hbm% fiucBj that it .getting to be a tedious job to adminisler the law at all in cases of crimes of grave import. This difficulty is not local nor limited to one state, but is almost universal. Petty criminals are usually : tried and punished .•’with dispatch. But criminals guilty, of crime involv ing liberty ,or life, especially the latter, are kept out of trial through legal technicalities and tardiness of law until in many in stances the ,patience of the law ^biding citizens [becomes . thread bare. Indeed, in eases of murder, it is getting to be somewhat diffi cult even to secure a jury to in quire into the facts touching the 'saflto.:; Lawdslmadeiito protect so ciety against criminals, ybt- the more heinous the crime the great er the effort upon the part' of 4he counsel to stay the penalty that attaches *tfe.. the criminal; }t Every legal technicality and subterfuge is resorted to, to st&y the prosecu tion of the party charged with a heinous crime. And not infre quently, when a criminal has been tried and found guilty, the chances of delay .afforded by the law are taken advantage of to the fullest extent to keep off as Jong as possi ble the the infliction of the pun ishment. On this point the Ma con Telegraph.aptly says: “A petty 1 thief may be promptly sent to prison; it takes; weeks pr months of uiAemi-tMhgE effort to convict a murderer, and convict- may only mean that : the first of many chances have gbne . against the criminal. Even if all’ the chances go against him and he has finally to pay the penalty of his crime many montliSj. or perhaps years, will have elapsed, and his experience serves to illustrate the faults of our judicial system rather than the consequences of wrong doing. Under such circumstanced the. greater part of the moral- ef fect df, capital punishment is lost, and it is the moral effect only on bad men that justifies society in deliberately taking the life of one of its members guilty of crimed” "Such prcBeedings . largely, in crease the cost of executing the criminal laws and thus piles up a burden upon the law abiding citi zens. Further, they seem to cul- , tiVate thatitemBlg spirit among the people that drive's them in some instances to a resort to lynch law. In a work soon to be, published Cardinal Gibbons commenting on this sublec says: A crying evil is the wide inter val that so often interposes be tween a criminal conviction and the execution, of tfil sentence, and |he frequent defeat of justice by the delay. Humaa life is indeed sacred, but the laudable efforts to guard it have gone beyond bounds. Of late years the .difficulty to con- eonvict, in ffi.urddr trials especial ly, has greatly increased from the widened application of the pleas in bar, notably that of insanity. When a conviction’ has been reached innumerable delays gen erally stay the execution. The many grounds of exception yell6w> : ed to the counsel, ^theTSippedg from the court, to another with final ap plication to : ' ! the governer, and the facility with which signitures are Obtained, have combined to throw around culprits au extravagant protective system and gone' far to The Australian Ballot System. . V «4 M&con Telegraph. The practical tests €f tfij?. Aus- toeUan ballot system at the S&ient elections in Connecticut, and Mon tana - seem to have been univer- 8^y satisfaotpry 7 and will no doubt increase the favOV frith which this reform is considered, in other states. - ' ; '- : The bill which originated this plan of voting was passed by the legislature of South Australia in 1858, and the ffiaiqipfdyisiQns of that act are copied in the statutes which have b.een adopted by sev eral states of tke'Union to proride for similar safeguards of the ballot. The Australian act provides that the government must supply a sufficient number of polllcg places, and must furnish them to accom modate voters’ according-to the re quirements of ,$he act. An ample number of ballots containing the name of evety candidate to be voted for at the election must be supplied by the government. The law then prescribes that “the voter shall retire alone to some. t^npecisL-; pied compartment of the saidBootfi (polling place), and shall there in private and without delay, indicate ■tfie uame of each candidate for whom he intends to Vdte by leak ing a cross, the center of which shall be contained within the square opposite the name of such candidate, and .then shall fold the voting papefAndideliver itr' ter. .the, presiding oflicer,.who shall With out unfolding the* same, openly deposit it in the ballot-box, and 'the voter shall then quit the poll ing booth.” It will be seen that this law im poses an educational qualification to the extent that no man can be sure he*. is voting as he wants to vbte unlfiMs can-*, read. The main points in favor of. ^his law fere, that it reduces the opportuni ties for bribery and intimidation and that -it guarantees as. far as paapfcicable a secret ballot. It r<L iieues the voter .from outside pressure a&efceijr Sind more corh- fietoly th'ah an^’ forin of 'pollihg yet devised. The abomination of strikers and bulldozers at the polls is done away with by it about. iaS completely as may be.- Tfi'ere are so many strongreasons in favor of this system of- voting that the rap id growth of its popularity in the United States is hot to be .w0ader- ed at It has already Been adopt ed in Massachusetts^..Connecticut, KentucJ^frriWfeGohsin and Mon tana; feM its advocates are confi dent that within a few years every popular election held in this coun try will be under the safeguards of the Australian system. One of its effects at the reebfit Connecticut elections was that the democratic vote was largely increased in the manufacturing, centers. .Hereto^ fore ffialiy .mnployes have had their tickets handed to them at the polls by bosses representing their pro tected employers and have voted them under dread of discharge if they failed to do so. "V^hpn the wage workers- of CdniiidtiCtit found an opportunity to express their real political preferences through the medium of secret ballot the re^ suit was adecided democratic gain. || ? •" »-tH r"— The rtallest .sttioke stack in the Uiiited States was finished Friday. It will be connected with thp forty boilers of the four new' inills of the Fall River Iron Company. -- Ifi is 850 feet in height, and cost 840,000. Two chimneys in Glas- pa sit v E BARGAIN'S. .4 . J t F. iiF.i' : ; Reliable Clothier, anil Furnisher-. MACOlv •' vxA : - Will give liiacustjinu’re bettor.goods, low er prices! a£dt a .hir^or assort merit i 6 To fit a boy ’lirea years old, ortha target * , -sized mao,.- „ f Gr GwA ' i. m mmt, *' * ? ' N 574 ancL576 Cherry Street, *23 MACON, OA { - *• ? i IF YOU Flu a^CLASS.'. mm OOWREpTiO;{\'ER;ES; - Fruits m -Seascn:.- Ci- : gars. Tobacco .Etc. ■ Examine- my f stccS . -bolore punAtai-'ing. Resides S.fhfi gioek’oS! - ! . ’ - STANJjARD (iOUDS. I wili-alway^haje t,cSie.‘. at remarkably low figar^e. ^“Lookout for changes in thifi ad vertisement. ' ^ R. ' ’ S.L. GA- - J, H. BEiXEE. {j S; g- f t-J. Bill . -Opposite Hotel Lanier, JjAeon* O-i. ., Meals at all JfotitsA .Open Bay and YigM, Sleej^tng:Aocomuridati jiri! in Con- nectionn; 2a Cento a Bed. El egan t ^aiber Shops i Attae bed W i gow, Scotland, are higher, ope Be-j rob jury trial of lts^snbstance and ” . , , „ ^ l ; - efficacy. A prompt execution of the 1D S ^ e ° u an ^ tho ether 4.5 -eev efficacy. A prompt execution of the lafr’s sentence after a' fair trial-id 1 that which strikes terror ’ iii evil Merit "VVins. Tfe desire to say to our citizens, doers and satisfies the public con- thaiftir years we have been sell- science. The reverse of this leg "Dr, King’s New Discovery for among u's has brought reproach , P r ’ ^ n = s —- upou ple^ble gmrnds lor the J*. .f S hlvl. ? “ ^ application of lynch law. : v=. 1 1 CONSUMPTION SURELY CURm | never handled remedies that sell; Xccompamo as well, or that ' Lave given sneb- and state' died a natural death, or was j -up some by clocfcota;’. He j bis patients, and,.gentle* the jury, they lrf .ail BE™ 8 ™™™ m . iu :uf. Editor—Please lEfor- yotir read-, j universal satistacti'on. \\ a do not „ PTstliat Iliave a p<->sitivereme-iyIortfceaboTa tfc ot ; named disease. Bv its-timeij-ase thousands pi . hesitate to guarantee them every r“fw^ cs S ? .fi ulvc cure4 - i time, and we stand ready to refund' ‘ islir.inyeglad-tB sendt’ivp Bottles of my reme- J ^ < TUC uy pRHEt<? au\* of- your readers who'liavecon-r tuO plli’CbESG priCt?, If- satisfactory - iC symptlon.it-’Ibeyivill semi me their express | results do not fdtfow their use’ , aftii post emee address. Respectfully, ' • v - ,, T y.^r.ocu.w >i r, ?si Pearl st,, n wYorfc. , iUese remedies nave won th larit-y purely on th bltzelaw & Gilbert,