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JOHN Ii. HODGES, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE.
PRICE: TWO 1)01.1
VOL. XX.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1890.'
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HOUSTON SHERIFFS SALE.
£ will sell before the court house door
in the town of Perry, Houston connty,
Ga., within the legal hours of sale, on
the first ICnesday in February, 1890, the
following described property, to-wit:
Lots of land Nos, 181, 182,197, 198,
273,224, and the east half of lot No. 240,
all in the 13th district cf Houston coun
ty, and containing 1/500 acres more or
less, and known as the late Thaddens
U, Holt plantation. Levied on to satis
fy a fi. fa- issued from Houston Superior
Court in favor of J. W. Coomha vs. B.
TT Kingman, administrator of A. J?. Holt,
deceased, and returnable to the April
term, 1889.
GRANDMA'S NEW YEAR'S TURKEY, j. “Who was here last night, Mol-
1 Jy?” pa asked.
n.T 0 ata- aC ..m ? ,ni». j <.j fc was Terry," she screamed.
We all went to Grandma "North's; “It’s him, the tkafe, that’s got me
for our .New Year’s tfinris*. She; money! We counted it, and he (p-d neatly m a white silk shawl—
dined with us on Christmas, and | says as how there was enough to Molly’s only piece of finery,
we always spent New Tear’s with ] get married on after New Tear,
her. When 1 say all of us, I mean Have him arrested, Misther North,
she howled, “in me chisr, wrapped | Why Woman arc Fascinating,
in the silk shawl me grandmother;
lift met’’ The power qf. fascination inhe-
Tbere it was, sureTeuougb, wrap;
Also, at tbe same time and place, that
certain dwelling house, and tne real es
tate upon which it is built, of BE Smith,
in tbe 13th district of said county; about
20 -yards of store-house of said Smith in
the forks of the connty line and Snow
roads; said lot containing acres,
more or less. Also, one tenement house,
and the real estate upon which it is
bnilt, of B E Smith, in tbe 3rd district of
Dooly bounty^ on - lot No. 47, containing
60 acres, more or less, about 400 yards
aonth of said store-house, both forming
one tract of land. Levied on as the
property of B E Smith to satisfy a fi. fa.
in favor of Baker & Lawrence, vs. B E
Smith. Returnable to January term,
1890, of Houston Connty Conrt.
M. L. COOPER, Sheriff.
Jan. 2nd, 1890.
J GEORGIA—Houston County:
pa and ma and Helen aDd Alice
and myself (Boberfc), the only boy
m the family, and I can tell you
being tbe only boy, with two older
gisters ordering you round, and
nagging and making fun of yon,
isn’t a delightfnl position.
Pa is grandma’s only child, and
that’s the reason there’s so few of
ns when we come together at a
family dinner. To be sure, we
have other relatives, but they live
’way up North, and I haven’t seen
half of them, and couldn’t even
tell yon half their names.
Grandma lives on a farm about
two miles from the town of Shel
ton, and though she’s a very old
lady, she’s as spry and active as if
she was young, and manages the
farm by herself just as well as
for the howly Ysrgin’s sake.’
“But bow did he get the keys?
pa asked.
“How can I know?”she groaned.
“I had awful dhrnmes all night of
walkin’ and climbin’ and I was
that sore this mornin’. He’s got
me money, some way;” and then
she began to howl again.
Pa went to the town, 'but sure
enough Mr. O’Brien wasn’t to be
fomfS, and the man where he
worked said be had gone off on
the north-hound train, but said he
would be-back in a day or two.
“An’ where did the dirty thafe
get tbe money for his ticket?”
cries Molly, “whin niver a red cint
did he have in his pocket?"
Pa told her he had put the po-
The return of the commisionera to set
apart a Vi months support for Mrs. Sarah
E Means and 4 minor children from es
tate of M H Means, deceased, having
been filed in this office:
This is therefore to cite all persons
Concerned to appear at the February
i term, 1890, of the Court of Ordinary of
said connty, and show cause, if any they
have, why said retnm should not be re
ceived and made the judgment of this
court. s
■Witness my official signature this
January 2nd, 1890. J. H. HOUSEB,
Ordinary.
Gdopgia—Houston County:
T. N. White, administrator of the es
tate of D A King, has applied for dismis
sion from his trust:
This is therefore to cite all'persons con
cerned to appear at the April Term,
1890, of the Court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they
have, why said application should not be
granted,
Winess my official signature this Jan.
2nd, 1890-
JH HOUSER, Ordinary.
Geobgia—Houston County:
The returns of the commissioners to
set apart a twelve months support for
Mrs. Alice L. Bragg and two minor chil
dren, from estate of J F Bragg, deceased,
having been filed in this office:
This is therefore to cite all persons
■ -concerned to appear at the February term,
' 1890, of the Court of Ordinary of said
l oounty, and show cause if any they have,
’ why said return should not be received
and made the judgment of this court.
Witness my official signature this Jan-
2nd, 1890. J. Hi HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
t \\ T. 33. Means has applied for letters of
A) administration on the estate of M. li.
iM Meausjof said county, deceased:
r ; T-u’s is therefore to cite all parsons
concerned to uppear at the February term,
1890, of tlfe Oourt_ of Ordinary of said
comity, aud'showT ause.if anytbey have,
why said application should not be
-granted.
Witness my official signature Ibis
Jan. 2nd, 1890.
•T.H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA--Houston County
I ff Taylor, guardian for Cora L.
Woodard, has applied for dismission
from his trust:
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the February
term, 1890, of the Court of Ordinary of
said county, and show cause, if any they
have, why said application should not be
granted. H
Witness in;
12nd, 1890.
iy official, signat are this Jan
J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
MONEY TO LOAN.
In sums of $300.00 and upwards, to be
secured by first lieuson improved farms.
Long time, low rates andeasy payments.
Apply to DUNOAN & MILLER,
Nov. 20 th, 1889.—tf ' Perry* Ga.
MONEY LOANS '
On Houston farms procured at the low-
ost po3sib le rates of interest. As low, if
not lower than the lowest Apply to
W. D. Nottingham,
tf Macon. Ga.
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saes^r'asewwa
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and thut w« mn r»p«id. Wo pay all
yea knew all. If you would uko lop
IUdmii^Co*.lk>x IIy>rtl«ili Malifc
, - ... , J , ... lice on his track, and that quieted
grandpa did when he was living. S0Bhe ma ed to |g| j|
We live so far-from Pine Grove
—that’s the name of the farm
that we always get there a day or
two before New Tear’s. I mnst
say for grandma there isn’t any
thing stinting at her table, or
winking or frowning at yon not to
take two helps of this or that, and
when she catches ma or the girls
doing it at me she calls out:
“For goodness’ sake, let Bob eat
as much as he wants to. Where’s
the sense of stinting a boy of thir
teen in his eating? I like to see
young people eat as if they enjoy
ed their meals, and not mincing
and dallying over tbeir plates.
Let the boy alone, Maria.”
Grandma has a cook; an Irish
woman named Molly MoShane,
just as jolly and good-humored as
herself. She’s lived ten years at
Pine Grove, andshe’s as glad to
see ns all as grandma is. She’s
no beanty, Molly isn’t, for she’s
short and squat, and has no more
figure than a cotton bale, and her
face is broad and red, and her nose
looks as if it had been mashed flat.
She isn’t young, either, but for
all that she's got a bean named
Terrence O’Brien. A worthless
young fellow he is, 'grandma says,
wb-, wants to get- a| Molly’a ■ ag of
savings, -.ltd if-he can cajole her j
managed
ner, batshe cried qnarts between
times.
That was the day before New
Tear, and after dinner grandma
took os into the pantry to see the
things. bh;L couldn’t begin to
tell yon what loads of pies and
cakes and froite and candies there
were, but we hardly saw anything
for looking and wondering at a
monstrous’ turkey that hong from
a hook in the ceiling. It was
mammoth, and grandma said that
old as she was, she had never seen
anything like it. It was of a big
breed to begin with, and had been
fattening in a coop for a year.
“For two months,” grandma
said, “that tnrkey has been fed on
pecans and walnuts, and just look
at the fat! Hit isn’t delicicions,
then Pm no judge of a fine tur
key!”
Even Molly got up her spirits
over that tnrkey, and told ns how
she wbb going to staff it with truf
fles, and such gravy! After that
she had another crying spell, and
took herself off to bed.
The next morning after break
fast she took the keys out of her
pocket and started off to the pan
fry. I %vent along,, bnt she was
ahead. She opened the door and
out: Of litem withouTiaraJing M SI 8 K III ^ cried 0ut ’
* & “Where s the tnrkey?
“The tnrkey!” cries grandma,
springing up.- “What does that
he’ll do it; but if he can’t, he’ll
make her Mrs. O’Brien, and get
away with the money. But Molly
keeps a tight grip ou her bag. She
and Terence count the money over
every two or three monthji, hut she
holds on to every nickel; and he
can’t get one of out of her.
Pa tried to get her to put her
money in a savings bank, but she
hooted at him.
“No, sor, I’ll niver be that silly
to put me money where I canuot;
see it whin I want. Banks break,
and if I had all the goold and sil
ver and jools av the world, no
hanks wonld'see ’em, and swaller
em np. Sometimes I dhrame av
me money, and thin it does me all
the good in the wurld to open me
chist, and see me hag all safe.”
“Take care, Molly!” pa said,
laughing. “Since Terry knows so
well, where yon Keep your treasure,
some bright morning yon’ll wake
np and find both bag and sweet
heart. gone.”
Molly got red, and cried ont:
“An’do ye mane to say sor, that
Terrence O’Brien, what comes av
the good old shtock,—why, the
O’Briens come av the kings ay
MnnBther,—that he would demane
himself to beja dirty thafe? Ah,
niver!”
“Very well,” pa said, still laugh
ing. “HI were you, Molly, I’d
change my hiding-place now and
then. It won’t do any harm.”
She didn’t answer, but went
abont looking troubled until gr and
ma had to scold her for being so
absent-minded as to put sugar in
stead of salt into the soup, and
burned the chicken to a crisp.
“What is the matter with you,
Molly?” says grandma.
“It’s the evil one that’s got into
me, I think, ma’am,” Molly said.
“I’m just dazed, and I feel as if
some great throuble was cornin’.’’
That was at night, and the next
morning there was the greatest
hullabaloo you ever heard. Molly’s
bag of money was gone from her
chest, and she was in hysterics.
The strangest thing of all wbs, she
always wore the key of the chest
ou a string around her neck', and
it never came off, day or night
The key was in itB place, and the
cheat locked as usual, but when
she opened it the money bag waa
gone.
girl mean?”
“It isu’t there, grandma,” I said,
and then everybody ran to the
pantry. Molly waa sitting on a
chair, looking scared to death, and
gasping for breath.
“It’s gone! it’s gone. 1 ” she hol
lered, jumping np and clapping
her hands; “It’s- goriSj like me
money 1 - 'The -dhoor was a locked;
ahd thfh key in me\ pocket.’ - The
windows"is barred, ‘ look! They
haven’t been touched! Howly
saints, bntit is bewitched the house
is!”
Well, it was just as she .said.
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Every one looked at each other,
and graodma lifted Molly’s head,
and slapped her hack, and made
her drink some water. When she
came to herself she was white and
trembling like a leaf. Toil couldn’t
hire her to touch the tar key, for
she said the witches had been
moving it, and ma and grandma
had to stuff it and put it to roast.
Pa said he was sure that Molly had
put the turkey in the chest, may
be when she was asleep. _ At any
rate we made* a splendid dinner,
though Molly said she was expefet-
ing us us to drop down dead, or ran
raving mad after eating it. That’s
the way she said bewitched things
sefved the folks in the old country.
We sat around the fire late that
night, talking over^thipgs. Just
as we were going to bed Jim, the
hired man, came to the door, and
said: “I don’t know what’s the mat
ter with Molly. She’s walking in
the yard barefoot, with just a night
gown on, and it’s freezing hard.
I spoke to her, and she never turn
ed her head, but jnstkepton.”
“Just as I thought,” pa said,
jumpingup, “tirewoman is a som
nambulist, a sleep-walker. Ton
must not make a noise, or wake
her suddenly.”
We came upon her at the bars.
She polled ont one as well as I
could do, got through the hole, and
then moved swiftly toward the
hen-honfe, which was in the hack-
lot. We followed her there, and
she was fumbling in tne straw and
moss of an empty nest She drew
something out, and as the moon
was as bright as day, me could see
that it was a white bag.
“It’s her money, snre,” whisper
ed pa.
She took the bag to another nest,
and covered it there carefully, and
then marched ont of the hen-house,
not seeing ns, though we were al
most touching her.
She went straight to her room,
and pa said we must leave the mon
ey in the nest, and we could tell her,
and let her get it herself.
Ton ought to have seen’her the
next day when we took her to the
hen-house, and showed her the lost
treasure. She hugged the bag,and
kissed it, and cried over it, as if it
were a lost child; and then she hol
lered about her injustice to her dar-
liut Terry O’Brien, and how she
would send for him, and marry
him that very day.
I am glad to say. “Misther
O’Brien” didn’t have the spend
ing Molly’s earnings. He had
been concerned in a burglary, and
the police were after him, and that
was the reason he had left town
in such a hurry.
He never came hack, and Molly
still lives with grandma.
^retjSan-.women may, moreover, be
divided into two kinds. All of ns
have seen the old lady, generally
white haired, with kindly, pleas
ant features, on which time has
set unfriendly marks; who still re
tains all her attractiveness. Note
how the hoys and girls adore her.
They will go to her and confide
their sorrows, their hopes, their
bright ambitions, even when they
would not breathe a word to" their
mothers. The kindly, loving in
terest evinced in a lad’s affairs by
such a one has time and again first
implanted the impulses in his
heart which eventually led him on
to an honorable career.
Quickly, almost by stealth, the
good work is done by such, and the
good seed sown which will ripen
after a time into a rich and abttn
dant crop. On the other hand, we
have most of ns seen, perhaps in
real life, certainly on the1 stage,
tbe fascinating adventuress who
by her thrilling beaute de diahle,
enslaves men’s souls, and leads
them (on the stage) to dare all for
her sake. This is directly opposed
to the sweet old lady in her old
fashioned chair,and thes etwo form
the opposite poles between
which the women who fascinate
vary.
Types differ, and any. one you
may select has some position be
tween these two opposites. Take
for instance, a’pretty and maybe
witty woman who, hardly of her
own free will, makes every man
fall in love with her to a greater
or less degree. She may be inno
cent of all evil intention, but her
position on the scale is not far re
moved from that of the melodra
matic sorceress. Or, again take
instance of the pretty young ma
tron, -who, while devoted to home,
husband and children, Jet has sev
eral intimate friends-of the male
persuasion. But her influence is
all foi^good. Her fascination is
exerted in a worthy cause, and she
has found out a great truth—that
there is no friendship so lasting,
so pleasant and so true as one be-
Jtween persons of opposite sexes,
where a’ true feeling of bonne
camarraderie exists and there is
no pretense t'- love-making Such
a women, if she iiv^s long enough
bids fair to develo.riuto a snowy
haired old lady on whose friend
ship the children will rely.
Roils in the South. Th-_ ....
Editors of .northern and eastern Th.nje who kiv v Wd’ u A
papers afe prone to aggravate ev- d-rsoti, d r
ery difficulty in the South betneeu Hotel, sayo :ii- O;ouiia :.t ,>io; ;
negroes and whites as acts of de- j can, are familiar with his habit of j
liberate wrong to the negroes, and | talking in rhyme. Upon every fa- |
thus make political capital for the : vorahle occasion,' and frequently i
repnbean party. ■ when it is least expected, he pats
There were several riots in Geor- t| le commonest' form of c mversa- j
gia and other Southern States tio ,. ^ ,f jh^li,,,, s •..»->■ ; j
Christmas day and in some, drunk- an d often says some clevm- h .i
en negroes were the instigators, Yesterday -he tried- this upon a i
resisting arrest and causing death.” i gRest named Charles MeGrew, j
The following from the Chicago J f rom St. Louis. MeGrew, who has j
Herald is fairer chau the usual known Anderson for several years,!
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The dawn begins to flicker over
another United States, in the
Everything was: in' its place, 1 the southern hemisphere on the other
H ■-—■-“-• - J - side of the globe. “The project
of consolidating the Australian
continent into one powerful state,”
says our British contemporary,
the Spectator, “has tsken a great
step forward.” The movement to
ward such a union of the Austra
lian colonies has been in existence
some time, led hy the colony of
dnoks and geese and mutton, and
not-a singlepie or cake had been
tpnehed. The thief, whoever it
Was, only’ hankered after the big
tnrkey.
“But who could have taken it?”
says grandma, looking hard at
McJlyr “I don’t suspect you,
Molly, for you have been with me
for ten years, and I’ve neyer miss-
ed a pin But did yon have visit
ors last night, and did yon give
theinn peep at the turkey ?”
“Me have visitors!” Molly cried,
“and me pore heart broke entirely
at lorin’'me’ money, and Terry’s
rascality. No, ma’am, I cried; till
the slape came, an’ thin I dhramed
of the tnrkey. Tes I did, and it
was alive ah’ flj in’, an’ I runnin’
afther it.”
Well, it’s no use moaning,”
ndma said. She’s a sensible old
lady, and Bhe never cries over spilt
milk “We’ll go without any din
ner if vou don’t go to work, Molly.
I am sorry about the turkey, but I
reckon we must make a shift with
out it. Where’s the sage and on
ions for the goose stuffing?”-
“Here’s the onions, ma’am, but I
clean forgot the sage yisterday
when Jim went to town for the
things. But I remember I have a
bag of sage in my chist, I keep for
gargles. I’ll run and git it.”
We heard her lumbering up the
stairs, and then she gave a screech
which sent ns up there in a hurry.
There she was lying flat on her
back, pounding her heels on the
floor, and howling and laughing
like one of the lsnghing hyenas you
see in the shows.
“It’s the tnrkey! the tnrkey,”
Victoria, and resisted principally
by the colony of New South
Wdles.
There are 1,400,000,000 people
on the earth, and all these, as
some one cbmpntes, could be
gathered in a field ten miles
square, or in 100 square miles of
territory, and every /last man of
them reached with one telephone.
Who, exclaims the Detroit , Free
Press, says the world is over-pop-
ulatedi-when one book agent may
address such an audience?
The breeding of fast trotters and
pacers, peculiarly an American in
dustry, is assuming large propor
tions. There are now in the
Union nearly 5,000 horses that
can trot or pace their mile in 2:30
or less time.
Friday.
Lee surrendered on Friday.
Moscow was burned on Fri
day.
Washington was born on Fri
day.
Shakespeare was born on Fri
day.
America was discovered bn Fri-
day.
Richmond was evacuated on Fri
day. .
The Bastile was destroyed on
Fsiday.
The Mayflower was landed on
Friday.
Queen Victoria was married on
Friday.
King Charles I. was beheaded
on Friday.
Fort Sumpter was bombarded
on Friday.
Napoleon Bonaparte was horn
on Friday.
Jnlins Caesar was , horn on Fri
day.
The battle of Marengo was
fought on Friday.
The battle of Waterloo, was
fought onFriday. _
The battle of Bunker Hill was
fought on Friday.
Joan of Arc was burned at the
stake on Friday.
The battle of New Orleans wbb
fought on Friday-
The declaration of independence
was signed on Friday.
K people would cease laying to
cultivate each other it would dis
close their own needs, which
would keep them busy cultivating
themselves,
A knowledge of right and wrong
is embraced with the senses, and
no one needs teaching more than
he who feels able to instruct oth
ers of what right or wrong is.
A prominent negro politician
in Atlanta has been convicted in
the city court of stealing, and was
sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000,
or serve twelve months on the
chaingang; He stole lumber by lature.
the car load, and rented a lot from
the sheriff of the enunty on which
he stored it.
A barrel factory will be estab
lished at Bainbridge, Ga., some
time the present month by Mr. E.
C. Lamb.
The New Tork grand jury re
cently made a presentment in re
gard to electric light wires; it says
the business of generating and dis
tributing electric currents should
be investigated by the next legis-
newspaper comment from that
quarter. This comment refers to
the affair at Jessilp, Ga.
“The ‘race war’ iq Georgia, like
most of the others reported in that
quarter, appears to have been a
fight between a party of drunken
desperadoes and a marshal’s posse.
It is true that the drunken despe
radoes were blacks and the law of
ficers were white, but this appa
rently had no more to do with the
origin of the fracas than the fact
that some of the men involved wore
stiff hats and some of them soft
hats.
Of course the episode will he
made the text of many hppocriti-
cal essays in the bloody-shirt press,
but all such fulminations will avail
nothing. The obvious dishonesty
of the partisan who sees nothing
but race and political hatred in
Southern lawlessness, and who ex
cuses Western and Northern vio
lence of the same sort on other
grounds serves to defeat the very
objects i^hich it is sought to ad
vance in that manner.”
A I
travels for a coffee and tea house I
in St. Louis, and he was -on the j
lookout for Anderson to make a I
crack at him in rhyme. -* j JL^EI.CLSX'NaT'SS.j..
Soon after breakfast. MeGrew J To at abovthrao j^aa.orttalatest
appearechat the desk and asked for .....
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National Education 'Bill.
The Blair Educational hill, as
reported to the Senate, has several
amendments. Among them are the
following: L The quota of any
State which shall he refused by
the Legislature, shall be. covered
into the Treasury, instead of being
divided among the rest of the
States. 2. The requirement that
copies of school hooks, authorized
by the school hoards, shall be de
posited with the Secretary of the
Interior, is stricken ont; also the
section giving the respective Leg
islatures power to ^distribute the
funds apportioned to the various
Territories. 3. It is explicitly
stated that the training of persons
of different colors to become teach
ers shall not be required in the
same schools. Mr. Blair gave no
tice that as soon as possible after
the close of the holiday recess he
would call the bill up for action.
It was placed on the calendar. A
third bill, containing the outlines
of a national-school law has heen
introduced by SenatorTngalls. It
provides for the appointment of a
national board of education, con
sisting of one member from each
State and Territory and the Dis
trict of Columbia, who shall have
charge of all the machinery of a
school system, the districts of
which shall be established where-
ever the parents of twenty-five
children ask for the appointment
of a teacher. All instruction shall
be in English, the age of pupils
may be from four to twenty-one
years and the curriculum shall in
clude the arts and sciences.—Na
tional Democrat.
A hand organ manufacturer has
no special cause to be proud of
his business, and yet he is continu
ally patting on airs.
Neuralgic Persons
And tboee troubled with nervousnew resulting
from ear® or overwork will be relieved by taking
Proton’s Iron Bitters. Goralno ’
bU tnuf mut Mid crossed red lines on wrapper.
Stanley’s work in Africa is of
higher value the more one hears
of it. It appears that among the
things he has settled are these:
The Congo traced from the sea to
its head: discovery of the water
shed of the Nile and the Congo
systems: almost absolute proof
that Lake Victoria is the largest
body of fresh water in the world;
and that the ancient “Mountains
of the Moon” have their equivalent
name in the modern Ruwenzore,
the highest peak of which he esti
mates to he 18,000 feet in altitude,
and which is entirely snow-capped
for 1,200 feet.
There are many people alive yet
who want something for nothing.
About fifty are in Sioux City. A
man named R. A. Sears of Minne
apolis sent ont offers to give three
pieces of elegantly upholstered
furniture as an -advertisement - to
all who would send 90 cents to pay
for boxing. Many sent the money,
and-got three cate little iron toys
with plush seats and pretty finish
The recipients were surprised, and
yet cannot claim that they were
bably swindled, Tor they got all
they paid for.
In Vienna practical philanthro
py takes the shape .of cheap eating
houses for poor people. There are
ten cooking kitchens throughout
the city that feed an average or 1000
people each and every day. The
average cost of a dinner is 8 cents,
and a supper 4 cents, both meals
comprising about the varieties the
common eating houses furnish.
the key to his room, which was No.
42, and it was then'that Anderson
met his match at rhyme-making
“A man by the name of Charlie
MeGrew ran off with the key to
forty-two,” said Anderson, as he
threw the desired piece of brass
upon the desk.
“When Anderson used to live at
DesMoines he paid his debts with
spurious coin,” chimed in Me
Grew.
“In a search for liars you’ll find
bnt few that can hold a candle to
Charlie MeGrew,” retorted Ander
son, withorft a moment’s pause,
“Satan had a son who would not
work, so he hired him out for a
hotel clerk,” came the second in
stallment from MeGrew.
“The devil himself threw down
his fan, and went on the road as a
travelling man,*’ shot off the hotel
rhymester.
♦“The devil’s son was a little raw,
but a better hotel clerk I never
saw,” continued the travelling
man.
“And the devil said: ‘Now, let
me see, T believe I will peddle
some coffee and tea,’ ” suggested
Anderson.
“When Anderson takes a real
bad spell be ifiakes one think of a
breeze from—well,” said MeGrew,
as he wnlkpfl over to the cigar-
*stand.
“There was a time when Chari—”
But the porter put a stop to tbe
poetic dialogue by yelling in sub
bass: “Passengers going east over
the Builingfcon, Rock Inland, Chi-
Minneiipolis andSt. Pint, all
aboard!”
K, HLF
»74 and 576 Che
MACON,
fry Street,
GA.
|IF. YOU WMT
- FIRST-CLASS
groceries,
>, Siloes,
CONFECTIONERIES,
Fruits in Season, Ci
gars, Tobaceo‘Etc.
.rtftrmine my stock before purchasing.
Besides a full stock of
STANDARD GOODS,
X will always have on hand some
Specialties,
at remarkably low figures.
Xiookout for changes in this ad
vertisement.
3.L SPEIGHT,
PERRY, GA.
J. Off. BEMER.
Opposite L;
n.’or, MucoiJ,
Ex-Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana,
says he is wholly ont of politics,
and that, therefore, he may ex
press opinions which otherwise He
would not. As a private qjtizen,
with no desire for political nower,
he predictedprepnblican defeat in
the Third Louisiana district, and
in Ohio, New York and Virginia.
Now he predicts that in the next
congressional elections tbe demo-’
crats will re.egain control of the.
House. He says that the new navy
yard is certain to be established at
New Orleans.
In the postoffice building there
are 800,000 European postal cards,.
Ten years ago Postmaster' General
James ordered 1,000,000 oto these
cards, supposing that they would
probably be used in a year or so,
for they could go anywhere in Eu
rope, and cost only two cents. In
ten years only 200,000 of them
iiave been sold.
Pennsylvania is going to present
a claim of §3,000,000 to congress
for losses inched in border conn-
ties of-that state daring the inva
sion of Confederate troops. The
state has advanced at different
times §900,000 for the relieE of
people who sustained losses, and
congress will also be asked to put
that amount in the-state treasury.
Pennsylvania is not at all mod
est
A Chicago'paper says “it was - a
green Christmas at the North,
and a bloody one at the‘South.”
The Northern papers show, how
ever, that there were ten men
killed in the North to one in the
South.
1 Scrap of Paper Sure. ITgr I.i re.
It wa3 just an ordinary scrap of
wrapping paper but it saved her
life. She was in ‘the last stages of
consumption, told by physicians
that she was incurable and could
live only a short time; she weigh
ed less than seventy pounds' On
a.piece of wrapping:*, paper sh»
read of Dr. King’s New Discovery
and got a sample bottle; it helpe'd
her, she bought a large bottle; it
heiped her more, bought anothei
and grew better fast, continued its
use and 15 now strong, healthv
rosy, plump, wei^hid" 140 roar d" ?
to W. H. Cole, Dnirrr,
Smith. Trial Bottles
derful Discovery Fr
Drug!,tore.
Meals at all Hoars. Open
Day and Aiglifc
Sleeping Accommodations in Con
nections; 25 Cents a Bed.
Elegant Barber Shops Attached!^.
LIQUID
I have just opened f he elegant
‘SUWANM&E RIVER SA'R'
Where only the best Liquors will be
6oe mo when in Macon.
WiJl fill ju?8 promptly, and at low fin--
mres for cash. My liquors are guaran-
teed to be the best In tlie-market.
Respectfully; .
WILL WAUAOA.
673 Forth Street, Corner of Pine,
MACON, GA.
Kennesaw
519 FOURTH ST., MACON, GA.
Open Day and Night
at All Hours.
The Best Stock of Wine-, Lioacrs and Cigars,
Accompanied by all tbe Delicacres of tbe
Season.
THE
- A XZfcT
RESTAURANT- DEPART
Polite Clerks and Attentive Waiters al
ways on band.
GrXVE MSA CALL.
_ J.' VALENTINO, .Agent.
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