The Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1890-1900, March 27, 1890, Image 2

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Perky,' Thursday, March 27. The scheme of boring several artesian wells at.Hacon is being considered. Hon.L. P. Livingston will de liver an alliance address at Amer icas to-day. The overflow of the Ohio river at Cincinnrti has caused consider able damage to property in that city. It is estimated that the capital invested in railroads in the United States amounts to one billion dol lars. » The midday train that formerly left Macon for Atlanta on the Central railroad, will probably be resumed next Sunday. uaaga and Cliattanooga. Haul and Federals, equal, if possible, to Temperance Mass Meeting- Chicamauga’s Confederate yelL It is still a mystery why news paper correspondents almost inva riably write hurriedly, and request the editor to correct all mistakes. A banking and investment com pany has been organized at Mar- shallville, with a capital stock of $25,000. A charter will be secured at once. The Georgia Chaat&uqua at Albany is in successful progress, To-morrow (Friday,) will be Gov ernor’s Day, and Gov. Gordon will deliver an address. of A crank named Erickson, San Francisco, Cal., has predicted that San Francisco, Chicago and Now York will be destroyed by an earthquake on the I4th of April next. The Macon County Agricultural Society will'hold a fair at Marshall- ville next summer. The, prelimi nary steps have been taken, and the fair will surely be a success in every particular. It is reported that the railroad now being constructed from Abbe- villo to Waycross will be extended to Hawkinsville, and thence to Fort Valley, where it will connect with the Atlanta & Florida. It- is authoritatively announced that the Covington and Macon rail road will be extended from Machen to Covington, and the Middle Georgia & Atlantic road will be built from there to Savannah. Current rumor says the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad company is negotiating for the purchase of the Empire and Dublin ' road, for the purpose of connecting directly with Savannah. The Southern Investment Com pany received its charter at Wash ington, D. C., last Saturday, and perfected its organization. Con gressman Carlton, of Georgia, is president, and Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, is vice president. The com pany is supplied with abundaut capital, and will do much for the south by inaugurating new enter- •prises, etc. -0 The following gentlemen have been nominated for Mayor and al dermen of Fort Valley. The elec tion takes place next Wednesday, April 2nd: For mayor, Capt. John A. Houser; for aldermen, Messrs. W. E. Brown, A. S. Martin, E. A. Moody and W. F. Wynne. The ticket is a strong one and meets with universal favor. An anti-trust bill has been dis missed in the United States Senate this week. Senator Sherman is its author, and it is sate! to be so far-reaching as to prohibit an agreement among farmers to hold cotton, corn, or other products, for better-prices. We do not b elieve any legislation except a ‘reduction of import duties on necessities will protect the people against trusts and’ monopolies. m Mb. L. A. Hale, a prominent lawyer of Eastman, and ex-mem ber of the legislature from Dodge county, is now an inmate of Chat ham county jail. Ee was sen tenced to five months imprison ment by Judge Emory Speer, of the United States district court, for contempt of court in fraudu lently interferring'with the Jands of Dodge & Go., after being Order ed some time ago to desist. 1 In Bibb Superior Court last Monday Judge Miller placed a fine of $1,579.50 on a well known gam bler of Macon, for keeping a gam- rouse in the city. This gam- had been frequently indicted, hence this heavy fine, Judge Mil ler having previously warned the ^amblers that severe penalties would follow convictions for gam- This fine is the heaviest imposed in Macon for Of the fine $539.50 was to be paid, but held dant as a sort of fituve good conduct. tlemen held a ville for the purpose of determin ing the status of .the prospective peach crop. For this purpose a committee of experts were appointed. The re sult of the investigation is given by the Fort Valley correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution. “One hundred and fifty buds not selected were carefully examined, and eigbty-eigbt were sound with sixty-two dead. Thirty buds each were examined, the Elberta, Thurber and Chinese free, showed twenty-two live buds with eight dead. The Tillotson, thirteen live, seventeen dead. The Crawford, nine . live, twenty-one dead. C. G. Gray, of Fort Valley, pres ident of the union, told the Consti- stitution that with no further dam age, the peach crop will be equally as large and yield more money than the crop did last year. While peaches will be fewer od the trees, they will be larger, bring better prices, and there being a large number of trees of the hardiest varieties just coming into bearing, that Fort Valley will ship as many or more carloads oE peaches this than last year, and the size will make up all damage done by the cold. Fruit men in this section are greatly encouraged at the pros pect, and are already making preparations for shipping through the Georgia Fruit Union, of this place.” In addition Mr. T. O. Skellie, manager of the Georgia Fruit Ex change at Macon, told us last Sat urday that his investigations war rant him in believing that a fair fruit crop in numbers will be growE. and that it is quite likely that in quality and size the fruit will be superior to the crop of last_ year. This opinion was applied specially to peaches and plums. In talking with a Macon Tele graph reporter, Mr. S. H. Eumph says: About 40 per cent, of the buds were killed iu if the two freezes, The trees stood it well, only the oldest and exhausted being in jured. Nursery stock went through all right. Apples were uot hurt, nor were wild goose plums, The pears went by the board. “But it’s not such a great ca lamity as has been made out, this freeze of two Sundays ago. While we will have only 60 per cent, of fruit, you must remember, we have nearly double the acreage of bearing peaches this year that we had last year. Sb that the in crease in acreage about makes up for the loss by freeze. There will be just as much fruit shipped Then, again, the fruit will be larger and will be finer, and ‘we will get better prices.. There will be little or no shipping to the West. New York, Philadelphia and Boston take all our fruit.” We are strongly inclined to pin our faith to the belief entertained by the gentlemen who are reported above. • They know as much about the peach and its growth as any men in Georgia. Dcnnard Dots. GATHERED BY THE JUDGE. - The moon has changed and all signs of blood spots and mud spots have disappeared. After the moon grows older and court adjourns these same spots may reappear. The fishing business at this place has been on a boom for' several days past, no less than one hundred trout, besides as many of other lands, having been caught the past week. Perry is well represented to-day, and I hope the young gen tlemen may be as successful as the traps. Much is being said and written about the alliance and its stand as to politics. I suppose no thinking man of the order will deny that it is standing on dangerous ground. Polities is the rock that will wreck it in the morning of its usefulness, if the order becomes a political organization. I see that a mass meeting has been called to. appoint a new exec utive committee. Every voter that can ought to attend and appoint a committee that will be an honor to themselves and to the county. I see that the candidates are get ting restless; and hope the friends of each candidate will keep him in the bounds of reason, .and if possi ble avoid the disgusting scenes of two years ago. I think the . sooner the selection Veteran^ aunty, greetin Gen. John B. Gordon, Com- of the Ex-Confederate Veterans South, having recently issued his'general orders looking to the preparation and final con summation of the grand re-union to be held, embracing July 4tb, next, at Chattanooga, Tenn., and on the battlefield of Chicamauga, Ga., it behooves some one of the many old ex-soldiers of onr county to call attention, or, in fact, take initiatiatory steps toward an organ ization that the few, or many, as the case may be, wishing to attend said re-union, will the better be able to obtain and enjoy a full share of whatever arrangements to which organizations may be justly entitled. Therefore, feeling it none the less my duty than some other com rade, I hope I will not be consid ered officious in thus agitating the matter, and through the kind offer of the Journal’s columns, request ing all ex-soldies now living in the county to meet at the court house in Perry on Wednesday during re ’cess of the first week of our Supe rior Court in April The object and purpose will be to form either a county organiza tion, or local organizations in the different sections, which can co operate in obtaining position and transportation to the grand rally, of perhaps both Confederates and Federals whose joint object, as understand it, will be to designate and mark out all points of interest' and positions of occupancy by ‘troops of both armies at Chica mauga during the two or. more days of the bloodiest battle fought on this, or pernaps any other con tinent, It is scarcely necessary to say that under the direction and guid ance, on onr part, of the now grandest living knight of them all, and at a time so auspicious to al most every class of business men to accept and enjoy a short recrea tion, no one need anticipate other than pleasant results. The fires of war no doubt have entirely burned out, but memory still loves to go back and linger, and chat, and even weep, in in stances, over the embers of that momentous, horrible past. The Great Captain of the Uni verse, as some are disposed to as sert, may have, hidden Himself, so that shook the very mountains, and seemed to proclaim again and again to the now fleeing Confeder- erates, “Chicsmauga’s defeat is Sullenly and stubbornly, but surely, we doffed our hats to the The advocates and friends of TemDerance in Houston county are requested to meet at the court house in Perry on Tuesday, April Stb, at 12 o’clock m., for the pur pose of selecting delegates to the convention of the State Temper- boys in bule, and gave them can- ance Association, which will as- non after cannon, as perhaps a just recompense for the blood drawn from them at Chicamauga. Who, a strong and representative dele- to speak, behind the clouds, and’ other fellow, too. He may cry of officers is made a business mat ter, the better it'will be for all eon- another, and still another, earned. We are very particular in employing men in our private bus iness, and should use the same care and judgment in the selection of public officers. If all are candi dates who will hold the election? left us to go to pieces on the breakers, but the terribleness of the fiery ordeal, and the many ra ging storms through which we passed, left an impress, all the same, on every soldier, which can never ‘be set aside. Privations and trials, and dangers and death the common enemies of all, moving under the same banner, and men acing all the soldiers alike, of what ever army or nationality, intuitive ly fixes a woven web around each individual soldier that cannot be cut or destroyed. The mere mention now, twenty- six or more years after, of Chica mauga’s blazing field, with its broken and smashed artillery, its dead men and horses in piles, and even in great heaps scattered all over its broad'area, make men of the old lines shudder to this day, or almost persuade themselves that it is a dream of the past, without a reality. The terrible and death dealing onslaught of Hood’s men upon the Federal lines on that memorable Sabbath, and the con sequent wild flight of the flower and strength of the great North before the chivalric and impetu ous rush of the Southern soldiers, rises up before memory, not as a myth, but as a reality, fraught with results unsurpassed in destruction and slaughter anywhere else on earth for the number of civilized soldiers engaged in deadly con flict.. But what is civilization? And do we still realize that many a quiet citizen of Houston county in 1890 was of that firm and impet uous soldiery of 1863, that made a record of battle, the blood, of the victims of which, poured into an ordinary channel just after the battle, would have floated the for mer savage Indian of that forest in his canoe across to Chattanooga? How strange the revelations of time, or where is the justice of a boasted civilization? Again, the seige of Chattanooga, —the occupancy and battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge by the. Confederates, ’till Grant, bo said, “commanded the world to right wheel, and literally- swept ns off the face of the earth,” or in truth, off the ridge, with bro ken heads and bloody. noses. So distinctly, through memory pierc ing over the ridge through the blinding smoke of battle, we still see one blue line after another, and without limit, eiawling up, up, up, through fire and smoke and lead and iron and rocks, ’till finally, a breach on the right centre, and then, let me ask, on either sidh, would dare cry coward? Surely not a soldier. Again, the scene presented by Grant’s “world of an army,” with glistening bayonets, just before the battle, as viewed from Mis sionary Ridge, moving in the sun light in eschelon upon us, passes before memory as the grandest and most awe-inspiring ever ex hibited on this earth by one army to the other. Sublimely awful does not express it. They were onr enemies then, and a fight to death was momentarily closing in front and all around us, with no hope for our thin lines save our naturally strong position, to suc cessfully meet and beal; back that seething mass of armed and deter mined soldiers; but let me ask how many of the ragged Confederates stood only for a moment in that awful balance and gazed, and even admired, the regularity of move ments of the grand army of the North, which only a short while be fore had been sent reeling, bleed ing and flying in dismay before the victorious Confederates. Such is war, with its crowning victories to-day, and crushing de feats to-morrow. Such is memo ry's silent, yet rapid flights back beside the bloody streams, and over the ragged rocks, now in.tbe thick est of the fight, then m tbe midst cf the bleeding and dying, that emotional nature bleeds at every pore. But away with these reminis cences, so long smouldering under the ruins of the past, yet so vivid ly stereotyped on memory, that to mention only opens up afresh to every soldier as an actor, the rapid ly recurring and changing scenes around Chattanooga in 1863 Then let especially the old Chic amauga soldiers of Houston coun ty, whose numbers are perhaps greater than from any other one county in. the south, begin at once to prepare themselves and business to go up in encampment, and live over the past with each other, and semble in-Atlanta on the 8th of May, next. Houston should send gation. Let all sympathizers with this good cause be on hand, and take an active pail. The democratic voters of Ho as ton coun ty are requested to assem ble in mass meeting at the court house in Perry on Monday the 7th day of April next, at 12 o’clock m. A full attendance is desired, as a new executive committee is to be elected. By order of Josehh Palmer, Ch’m’n. Dem. Ex. Com. H. C. E. L. Felder, Sec. A Lady’s Perfect Companion. Onr new book by Dr. John H. Dye, one of Now York’s most skillful physicians, shows that pain is not neeessary in child birth, but res fits from causes easily un derstood and overcome. It clearly proves that any woman may become a mother without suffering any pain what ever. It also tells how to overcome and prevent morning sickness and the many other evils attending pregnancy.' It is highly endorsed by physicians every where as the wife’s true private compan ion. Cut this out; it will save yon great pain, and possibly yonr life. Send two cent stamp for discriptive circulars, tes timonials and confidential letter in seal ed envelope. Address Fkakk 1 hohas & Co., Publishers, Baltimore, Aid. «-« -* —■ wanted. GrO od Agents! to represent the “HARTFORD LIFE AND ANNUITY INSURANCE CO.” in Perry and other towns in Houston and adjoining counties; State reference. Ap ply at once to HENRY I. SEEMAN, GeneralAgeut, 96 Bay Street, Savan nah, Ga. T ax Receiver’s Notice. I will be at Perry the -first week of court, April term. Powersville—April 14th, from 8 to 11 a m Missionary Ridge, but we can give him hail Columbia on Chicamau ga. Your old comrade, W. H. Norwood. Mossy Hill Mnsiugs. DICTATED BY DOC. Rev. James Thompson preach ed at Henderson Methodist church last Sunday, quite a good congre gation in attendance. Mr. C. B. Till visited the Cen tral city last week on business. Maj. A. P. Jones paid a flying visit to Vienna last Sunday. Miss Mamie Brown, now attend ing school at Perry,was at Hender son last Friday, Saturday and Sun day. She was accompanied by by her friend Miss Annie Peddy. Mr.' E. M. Graves, of Elko, was at Hendersen Sunday, to the delight of his many friends. One of our young men paid a flying visit to his best girl last Sat urday night, and on approaching the door, a cat, which was sitting there, gave a loud squall, which scared the young man and the lady very badly. Go again, Bill, maybe tbe cat won’t scare yon any I am a poor writer, bnt will start the wheel, and perhaps some one else will keep it rolling. The cold snap killed a good deal of corn, and many farmers have planted over. My observation leads me to believe that the corn was not killed to the roots, but only to the ground, and that if it had been let alone it would have come out, and grown off rapidly. The oat crop is looking some what better. Perhaps they were not entirely killed, and they may yet come out and make a good crop. The old “hill” is now in very good fix, but indications are now good for rain, and if it comes, I fear it will become as sticky and muddy as ever. I hope it will re main in good gx until “John Dooly” gets through hauling guano. The farmers are preparing their grounds in haste for cotton plant ing, which will soon be the order of the day. March 24th, 1S00. —The storm last Saturday was especially severe at and around Fort Valley, much damage was done to fencing, and several houses were blown down. Beware of all kinds of Cough then in the centre, and so on, was j Medicines that contain Morphine, followed by a wild shout from the ‘ Brewer’s LuDg Restorer has none. Byron “ 2to4 pm LaVilla “ 15th “ 8 to 11 a m Hartley “ “ « 2to4 pm York 16th “ 8 to ll am Feagin ,i « ,< 2 to 5 pm Kathleen “ 17th “ 8 to 11 a m H’ston Fac’ty “ “ “ 2 to 5 pm Tharp “ 18th “ 8 to 11 a m Eva “ “ “ 2to4 pm Ft. Valley “ 19th “ Murph’s “ 21st “ 8 to 11 a m Taylor’s “ « “ 2to4 pm Richardson’s “ 22nd “ 8 toll am Elko “ “ “ 2 to 4 p m Grovania “ 23rd “ 8 to 11 a m Hayneville “ “ “ 2 to 4 p m Perry. “ 24th, and Fort Valley 25th and 26th, to take the tax returns and agricultural statistics for the year 1890. Tax payers will please hear in mind (as it will save lime and trouble) to be prepared to return all the farm pro ducts of all kinds produced the past year, and stock of all lands on hand, acreage of all crops, including fruits, for this year for themselves, tenants and cropers. Ciias. D. Anderson, . Tax Receiver, H. C. 111 IE?. SIPZR-IZfcTGK G-en.tle SprirLg'I Is upon ns, and we are ready for it. Wachtel’s Clothing is recognized everywhere ns correct in design md artistic finish, made from se lected fabrics and designed by the best tailors procurable. —If you have any pictures to be framed, send them to J. H. Logne, Fort Valley, Ga. Work done at Macon prices; satisfaction guaran teed. To Houston Physicians. It is the earnest desire of the County Medical Society of Hous ton for every regular physician in the county to meet with us at our next reglar meeting, in the town of Perry, on Wednesday after the 1st Monday in April, at 12:30 sharp. Dr. J. B. Edge, Ch’m’n. Dr. L. A- Felder, Sec. pro tem, —Bntterick’s patterns for ladies and children, for sale by J. H. Logne, Fort Valley, Ga. Good Board at Reasonable Rates. At the coming session of Hous- Superior Court, jurors, witnesses, and others, who desire to obtain board at a reasonable rate, car be accommodated at my residence, next to the store of W. D. Day. Very convenient to court house. Rates, one dollar a day—single meals 25 cents. D. D. Bateman, Perry, Ga. Day G rally. Service from my thoronghbred Jersey bull, Day Grady, can be se cured at my lot, at any time. Will not serve elsewhere except by spe cial contract. Terms of service—$2.50 in ad vance. J. G. Davis, Perry, Ga. March 17—2m. HENRY BRAGG. My throughbred young stallion, Henry Brrgg, will be in Perry during the first week of Superior court, in April next. Those desiring service will please meet me in Perry. Afterward my horse will fill all engagements made at Perry. Persons wishing service in July will please write me. Service $10—with in surance. John F. Lame, 1 m. Unadilla, Ga. THE GRIST MILLS O. L. REXFROE. J. TOM WHITE. RENFROE & WHITE, 310 Second Street, - - Macon, G-a. RETAIL DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES. New Goods! Good Goods! JLow Prices! U@L.Give us a trial, and yon will be sure to come again. Polite and prompt attention, and orders by mail attended to with the greatest despatch possible. M. C. BALKCOM. BEN. T. RAY. BALKCOM & RAY, DEALERS IN Groceries, Plantation Supplies, and lieneral Merchandise, 453 MULBERRY STREET, MACON, GEORGIA. Handling Country Produce a Specialty. customers outside the city we will furnish anything ordered, at lowest market price. ROB’.T H. SMITH, Late of Smith & Mallory. CHAS. If. HALL Jr SMITH HALT,,’ ' MACON, - - GEORGIA, -DEALERS IN- ACHI1TE :ES YT, STEAM ENGINES, Boilers, Saw Mills, Grist Mills, G-ins, Presses, Mowers,'Hay'Rakes; -Machinery Supplies. Office at Coleman & Kay’s Warehouse. 0, P.& B. MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN SASH. DOORS, SLINDS, MOULDINGS, MANTELS, PAINTS, OIL, LIME, AND MACON, GA* -AT- HOUSTON FACTORY Give the Very Best Returns in MEAL AND FLOUR. OT^E MOTTO The very best goods at the lowest possi ble price. If you want to see an elegant line of BOYS’AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHING, Yon must see WACHTRI/y CHERRY ST., MACON, GA. PRACTICAL HINTS To Those Contemplating the Purchase OF A PIANO. You can buy a Plano from *160 upward. Let us know how .much you care to invest, and we will give the full value of your mouey. .The best instruments arc auporior in all res pects, and if desired must be paid for. There is no alternative. What are you willing to pay? We would suggest the following to aid you: WEBER PIAYOS. The favorite Piano of the world’s great singers, Patti and Nilsson. Positive evenness of scale, sus ceptibility of action, freedom from metallic tone, and extraordinary durability, characterizes this world famous piano. EVERETT PIANOS. “An honest piano at an honest price,” or in otb- r words, a strictly first-class piano within the sach of those of moderate means. The Everett Piano took the highest award at the recent Georgia State Fair for superior tone, per fect action, and elegance in design and finish. The victory was complete, though the Everett came ir^ competition with most of the best known Pianos of the world. HARVARD PIANOS. The summit of superiority in a low price ptano. The great parlor favorite on account of its not being high-priced and shoddy, bnt low-nriced and reliable. Full Cabinet and Grand Size. ALL HONOR AND GLORY TO GEORGIA! The first 0/the southern states to invent and man ufacture a Piano! And greater the honor and dis tinction when is can he shown that the GEORGIA MADE PIANO 'has improvements which no other piano has or can use. / A PERFECT SOFT PEJDAE. So constructed that it can bo applied and. held in position for any length of time without continued pressure of the foot. With this wonderful Soft Pedal arrangement the tone of the Piano is so j-Teatly reduced that person practicing can scarcely be heard outside of the room. Worth its weight in gold to persons of nervous temperament. DUPLEX TOUCH. A simple Improvement which enables the per former to change the action from light to heavy; the object of which is to strengthen weak fiugers and wrists. Some persons can never become good performers on account of weak fingers and wrists. tne problem in its duplex touch. No otherpiano possesses these great improvements. In tone the Cooper is grand, every noia btfing oUar as aboil, We handle in our business pianos of nine dBTer- ent makes, and organs of five different make*. Write for catalogues of different manufacturers. Call on or address. GEORGIA MUSIC HOUSE, 158 Mulberry Street, Macon, Ga. N. B.—Our Pianos took all premiums at the State Fair of 1689. Pianos represented by other firms took not a single premium. Merit will tell! TO BUILD A HOUSE Easy Terms, Secure FIRSTiCLASS IHVESIMEHT THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, TAKE STOCK THE INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION. For particulars, apply to JOHN H. HO DCFS, Agt. Perry, Georgia, COME TO SEE ME! I have a GOOD WAGON YARD, which I tender my friends FREE. Good Stables, and Good SlecpingHonses. Four honses from the Macon & Western Bailroad. Well located, on Houston I have in stock a good Bupply of Liquors and Groceries, and et prices that defy competition. •Try mo ouce, and you will be con. WELL WAGJfOX. MACON, GA. —The Southern Farm and the Home Journal will be furnished together one year for $2.30. The Farm is the agricultural paper es tablished at Atlanta by Henry Grady. The price for it alone is $1 V. E. WALTON. C. L. BATEMAN. BYRON, WALTON & BATEMAN, Ga. -DEALERS IN- Dry Goods, Groceries, Farm Supplies, Gents’ Furnishings, Staple and Fancy Articles. BEST GRADES OF GUANO. A SPECIALTY. COTTON FACTORS, ® % Money Loaned to Planters at Lowest Bank Bates.„©£( Jan. 2nd, 1890—3m. REDDING & BALDWIN, MACON, GA. CLOTHIERS END FURNISHERS. FULL STOCK OF SUITS - mbit ^.nsrzD BOYS. A LARGE LINE OE Hats and Underwear, Shirts and Neck-wa r, Umbrellas, Rubber Goods and Overcoats. Call on them, and yon will find goods and prices to suit yon. REDDING & BALDWIN, • 368 Second Street, Macon Ga. POLITE ATTENTION GIVEN ALL GUESTS. ROOMS. „V . > EDIBLES THE MARKET AFFORDS. - RATES Liberal reduction by tha week, or by the • : .‘A:’-:-