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LOCAL news. PEER*. Thursday, August 14. Fair Warning'. _\11 parsons are hereby warned under penalty of law, not to em ploy Sam Hnslnrn, a negro boy about 13 years old, who is pledged by legal contract to work for me nntil December next. C M. Simmons. Near Henderson, Ga. Vehicles Cheap. If yon want a buggy, wagon or road cart, OR sure to call on me. I have a lot of good vehicles which Twill sell cheap. C. F. Makshall. Perry, Ga. SEINGLES! SHINGLES! My sawed shingles are sotd Un der a guarantee. They are equal the best drawn shingle. Sold any quantity. Call and see samples. C. P. Mahshall, Perry, Ga. Good House for Sale. 1 will sell at a bargain my dwell ing house and lot in Perry. Ap ply at once. L. S. Touksley. 1 can now furnish undressed lumber of the best qualtty, in any quantity desired. C. P. Marshall, Perry, Ga. —I can supply sawed shingles of a very superior quality, in any quantity desired. Call at my store and see samples. 0. P. Marshall, Perry, Ga. ■ Ice plentiful, at C. H. Moore’s, Perry, Ga. —Corn and Fodder for sale Apply at farm 2 miles from Perry, Hayneville road, or address W. M. Boon, Perry, Gn. --Go to C. H. Moore for Ice and Lemons. 3t. cows i'oi: SM.I-: 1 have for sale half a dozen good .nilcli cows with young calves. They can be seen on farm near Perry. S. L. Norwood. For Sale Cheap. An excellent 50-saw Brown Cot ton Gin Feeder and Condenser, in first-class running order. Call at my farm oue mile east of Perry. W. D. Pierce. HERE WE ARE Al tltc Variety Worlts Again, We can now furnish Lumber, Meal, Hoe Handles, Brooms, Cof fins and Toothpicks. We shall have two gins this year, and can gin your cotton on the fly. Don t wear your hands out shelling corn when you cau shell it at the riety Works free of charge. E. J. Fuller, Lessee. THE Ya- AT HOUSTONFACTORY Give the Very Best Returns in MEAL AND FLOUR. IT OTT SAN SAVE MONEY In Purchasing For particulars,apply to the ?ditor of THE HOME JOURNAL. We have for sale, in any quan- ti..v, ilia following standard legal Liatiks: iron clad -votes. Mortgages. Landlord’s Liens. Bond for Titles. Warrantee Deeds. Administrator’s Deeds. State Warrant and Mittimus, Summons—rCounty Court. -Enforcing: Lien. Forthcoming Bond. Magistrates’ Summons Possessory Warrants. Magistrates’ Subpoenas. Summons of Garnishment, plaint on Accounts. notice we will furnish lanks called for, at ■ice for wi ich they can on or Atlanta. * Sidewalk Gleanings. Local Ncwk or Xotcji au<’. County —Tn« harvest is at hand. The price of labor may be an issue. Our farmers are managing their own affairs. Cotton picking is the order of business. The weather Tuesday morn ing was decidedly fall like. The prospect is now good for excellent late gardens in Perry. There wiil be a Sunday school picnic at Providence church to-day. —Madam Rumor is silent about the next marriage to take place in Perry. —Miss Annie Norwood is m Macon visiting her sister, Mrs. E. F. Bronson. —The fall turnip crop will be abundant considering the area de voted thereto. —Mr. W. C. Giles, of Macon, has been visiting relatives and friends in Perry this week. —The standard of milch cows in Houston is fifty per cent higher than it was ten years ago. -Judge W. D. Nottingham and family are in Perry this week, vis iting relatives and friends. -Several house painters have been constantly busy in Perry du ring the last four or five months. —Miss Theo. Everett, of Fort Valley, is in Perry visiting her aunts, Misses Kate and Lucy Fel der. -The members of Stonewall Sub-Alliance will at once order about 1,200 yards of cottou bag ging- Mr. W. G. Riley,of Macon,was in Perry last Sundaj and Monday, enjoying himself with relatives and ’friends. -Many of our farmers have demonstrated that Houston raised horses are equal to the best Ken tucky product. —It is uot improbable that the Farmers Go-operative Union, of Fort Valley, will establish a branch store ut Perry. —Unless some new houses are built in Perry, our citizenship will not be be increased to the. extent now contemplated. —Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Holtzclaw returned home last Friday night from Tallulah Falls, where they spent two weeks. —Mr. J. H. Powers, of Perry, is one of the engineers engaged to survey the Ocmulgee canal at Macou. He is at work there now. —Where there’s a determined will, a way can always be found. Apply energetically this to Perry’s needs, and we’ll have another rail road. —The agreement to close the stores at six o’clock everery after noon in Perry expires by limita tion to-morrow—Friday, August 15th. —Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Brunson left Perry last Monday afternoon for Twiggs county, where they will spend ten days visiting rela tives. —Mr. J. P. Callaway, of Macon, has been in Perry this week, visit- iting the family of his son-in-law and daughter,. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Riley. —Sheriff Cooper began last week to summon the grand and traverse jurors drawn to serve at the next October term of Houston Superior Court. —The business interests of Perry absolutely demand another rail road outlet. 0 nr citizens seem de termined to secure it. They can if they will. —We are informed that Dr. J. B. Edge, of uear Dennard, will be a citizen of Perry next year. He and his wife wiil be cordially wel comed when they come. —Judge A. L. Miller, of Macou, was in Perry last Thursday and Friday, and while here he grant ed a charter to the Farmers’ Co operative Union, of Fort Valley. —Buyers go to the cheapest market, and sellers where they can get the best prices for their pro- ducts.*Perry merchants and cotton buyers should bear this fact in mind constantly. -Negotiations are now pending for the sale of two dwelling hous es and lots in Perry, now rented. If consnmated, these sales will bnng two additional fanplies to Perry to live. —Messrs. J. S. Parham and T. J. Blewster, of Magnolia, Arkan sas, are in Houston visiting rela tives. They were in Perry Mon day and Tuesday, the guests of Mr. E. S. Welkins. —Rev. J. C. Brewton began a series of protracted meetings at Houston Factory Baptist church last Sunday. Daily services, morning and night, will be held through this week. lave? mmm In auswei to a. call,a majori'yyif the business men of Perry arse:u- bled in the Superior court room last Saturday morning to consid er ways and means of securing to Perry the railroad that is being constructed from Hawkinsville across the county. The work of grading is in progress from Hawk-" iusville to Grovania, and a prelim inary survey has been madu from this last named point to Fort Yal- lay; the line passing Perry about 2i miles on the west side. The meeting was organized by Mr. W. H. Norwood being called to the eh ail - , and Mr. J. B. Clark requested to act secretary. The situation was discussed from a business standpoint, and a de termination to secure the road to Perry, if possible, was' soon aseer- cained to be the unanimous desire of the meeting. The direct result of the meeting was the appointment of Dr. B. .F. Tharp, Messrs. W. H. Norwood, R. N. Holtzclaw, C. C. Duncan, and M. L. Cooper, a special committee to confer immediately with the authorities of the Empire & Dublin road, and witli Pres. Alexander of the Central, and pre sent the desires and claims of Perry business men concerning the proposed new road. A proposition to raise a fund to defray the expenses of this eornit- teemet a hearty response, and in a short time about one. hundred dol lars was subscribed, and the meet ing pledged to double that amount if necessary. This indicates a determination on thepart of our citizens to do something for Perry, and we feel sure success will be gained, if they continue energetically on that line. Perry lacks less than a mile of being on an air line from Grovan ia to Fort Valley, and we are in formed that the Empire and Dub lin people are disposed to come to Perry. We are further informed that overtniesliave been made ferthe use or purchase of the Perry brunch. This, though, is not what we want. It would not improve the situation much for the branch to simply change hands and be come part of another road. We want another road outright. We must have another road, or the people will realize great loss by another road being built across the county,a few miles from Perry. If we cannot secure this road to Perry we must do something for ourselves. The feasibility of building a road from Perry, via Houston Factory, to Kathleen,-has been discussed, and that road can be built, if our people so deter mine, and go to work in a busi ness way." Perry must have an other railroad. Our business men may as well realize this fact now. They must also become alive to the fact that talk will not get it, from any source. Money and en ergy must be expended. Perry will not continue to grow unless onr business men push it. The committee has opened com munication with the authorities with whom they wish to deal, and they may have something impor-. tant to discuss when they meet for consultation to-morrow. Mr. Bayne, the engineer iu charge of the surveying party, was in Perry yesterday, and the com mittee held a consultation with him. The result of that confer ence we know not, but the impres sion prevails on the streets that the Empire & Dublin railroad can be secured to Perry. Within a few days the commit tee will have a report to make to the citizens. —Prof. E. H. Ezell, of Byron, President elect of Butler Male aud Female College, was among his friends in Perry Monday. He will go to Butler on the 22ud inst; on the 25th the first terns of the school under his management will be opeued. Of Prof. Ezell as a man and and teacher, we ean say noth ing without repeating compliments already spoken or written. He in forms us that a number of Houston boys will attend the Butler college, and that a normal department wili be added to the curriculum of the college,for the purpose of express ly fitting the students- for teach ing. —Quite a number of our people went to the depot last Friday night, expecting that Tom Wool- folk would be brought down on the train, but they were disap pointed. Judge Miller was here that day, and it was probably infer- ed that his presence meant an ex tra term of Houston Superior court for the purpose of sentenc ing Woolfolk. While here he didn’t say anything that would indicate when the sentence would be deliv ered, or by whom. —One of the prettiest teams of colts we ever saw was driven about the streets of Perry last week TLe animals are Houston raised and be long respectively to Messrs W; Branson, of Perry, and G. W. Me Dowel, of Ross Hill. Probnl-ly the public r. "ds Houston county aiv kept in good condition as the roads <>f any county in Georgia t’ aV are worked under the general, road laws of the state. Vet the-rdads are far from being kept in first-class condition. At any season of the year the roads in some parts of the county are found in very bad condition, and at all times there are hills np which full loads cannot be. drawu. This condition of our roads is pos itively antagonistic to the business interests of all who travel, the farmers and merchants particular ly. It is a fact known to ail peo pie acquainted with the provision's of the law, that the law itself is good nough, with the exception that the enforcement clause is not sufficiently firm. In Houston, Us probably in oth er counties, it is well known that the recommendations of grand ju ries prove absolutely worthless to cause any improvement in the methods of working the roads. Year after year bad roads are re ported, and the commissioners are respectfully requested to put them in good or’der at once. On each grand jury there are probably several toad commission ers, and as a rule ^inefficient road work is overlooked under promise that the roads will ba pni ip .good condition as soon as possible with out hindering pressing farm work. Our readers will re -ember that several years ago the legislature gave Houston a good road law, whereby the public thoroughfares should be worked by taxation, un der control of our county com mis-' sioners. Theenforcemeni of this law was enjoined, and then posi tively prohibited by opposition of the people carried into court. We favored that law then, and we now believe its defeat was a blow to the general interests of the county. However, we do not propose here to advocate the re-establishment of that law. All men who travel in buggies, carriages, carts or wagons, suffer many inconveniences in going ov.t roads that are cut up by wheels into dpep ruts, or that have across them gullies that have been wash ed out by rains. The steep hills are worse still, operating as posi tive prohibition to full loads. It is onr purpose here to sug gest. that these hills be graded. Knowing that the work will not be properly done under the existing law, we submit that it would be in the direct line of public economy to make provision therefor out of the county treasury. If there is a bar to the expenditure of public money for such a purpose, we sub mit that onr representatives would serve their constituents most admirably by securing legis lative authority for such work during the next session of the gen eral assembly. Just now we do not propose to give a detailed plan, but insist that the public interests of all our citi zens demand that the steep hills on the public roads be graded. The columns of the Hohe Journal are open for a full and free discussion of this subject. egiu Tues- —It would be most commenda ble for the ladies oE Perry ' to or ganize a Woman’s Educational Aid Society, for the purpose 'of raising funds to sustain one or more worthy girls at the Girls’ In dustrial School to bo established at Milledgevilie next year. The last' legislature appropriated funds only sufficient to establish the school, aud pay the teachers, but the pupils mast pay for books and board. Many young girls . who would bo glad to get a practical, working education, to fit them to earn their own living, are unable to pav boaid aud incidental fees. Let Perry send at least one. Can’t our pastors start the movement. The lauies will then carry it to success. —A comprehensive exhibit of Houston pi'ednets at the nest state fair, or at the Piedmont Exposition, would serve our agricultural and industrial interests most excellent ly. While we do not expect our people to make any such exhibit, we hope many of our farmers and manufacturers . will make individ ual exhibits. Every such exhibit will illustrate the capacity of out sail, and the advantages of the county. Such advertising always paj^ indirectly, if not immediately in dollars and cents. —It has be.en several times dem onstrated that hay made from na tive Georgia grasses is equal to any placed on the market. It has also been shown that the product of an acre in Houston will yield a greater value in bay-than in cotton, considering the time an J expense. Tliis hay can be made a merchant able product, if p t np in neat and convenient*bales. There is a great opportunity in this line, this year, : for Houston farmers, and we hope • a number of them wili use it :;> ■ their pi 'airattcdntinue through day. . It is under the auspice-, ex the Macon tlisii iet of the 51. E, church,and the teats will bs occu pied by Houston and Bibb county people. A large attendance and good time is anticipated. ; Thisis-the third annual meeting, audit is expected to be largest and most successful ever held. The presiding elder, Dr. J. O. A. Clark, will have charge of the meeting, and a number of other ministers of the district will be uresent to assist him". There are nice tents, one for the entertainment of the pub lic. The utmost effort will be made to accommodate all who attend, but we advise all who go there Sunday to carry something to eat, as it will be impossible for the tent holders to feed the large crowd that will be there. It is the desireof many here that an excursion train be run from Perry on Sunday, but as no formal application has been made, it is uot likely that it will be done. Thu camp-ground is incorpora ted, and a force of policemen will be on duty to maintain order. As most of oar readers know, the camp-ground is near tiia Ecbe- connee.crossing on the Southwest- n rial road, in Houston county, about two miles from the line of Bibb. Other Local Mention. —Mr. D. B. Wimberly, of Macon, was circulating among his friends in Perry Tuesday. [Rev .’?«§& Hyman, pastor of the South MaCoii Baptist church, is assisting Rev. J. C. Brewton in the protracted meeting at Houston Factory Baptist church. We have good- authority for the assertion that the Central railroad company will extend the Perry Branch road southward, whenever ' another road is built across the county, to connect with the A..& F. road at Fort Valley. — We are told that Mr. G. M. T. Feagin and Pres. J. B. James will represent the Houston county Al liance at the state- Alliance meet- in Atlanta next Tuesday. -We have heard of several farmers within a few miles of Per ry, who have four or five -bales of cottou, c-ach, open in their fields. Three bales of new cotton were received in Macon last Mon day, at W. Ft Price’s; warehouse. They were grown and shipped by Mr. John FL. Grace, of Houston counfy. —Mr. John P. Eos’s, a native of Fort Valley, and son of Dr. B. L. Ross; now a rising young lawyer of Macon, has been endorsed by the bar of-Mncon for the judge- ship of the city court of that city. —Mr. L. A. Houser and family will move to Peri-y this fall, and our people are prepared to wel come them cordially. We under stand Mr. Houser has already made his arrangememeuts, aud and will engage in mercantile bus iness. —Mr. J. E. Andrews carried sev eral wagon loads of cotton to public gin Tuesdey, and yesterday two bales were ready for the mar ket. These make three for Perry this, season. Mr. Andrews is one of onr best farmers. —Rev. Robert Adams, of Amer icas, will preach at the Presbyte rian church here next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, and again in the evening at 8 o’clock. Our people remember with pleasure a former visit of Mr. Adams to our town, and no doubt he wili be greeted with large congregations. —There are several mineral springs of high grade near Peny, and is among the probabilities that arrangements will be made to util ize one or more of them for pub lic benefit. We were told here yesterday that there is one on the Ross Hill farm that was anylized several years ago and that the wa ter proved to possess medicinal properties of a high.order. This spring has been lost sight of, but an effort will be made to re-discov- er it, and the public may soon hear something more about it —From the Fort Valley Leader we learn that Pres. C. G; Gray, of tue-Houston County Sunday School Association, has gone to work in earnest to increase the Sunday- school interests throughout the county. He has furnished the: su perintendents with merit.of Prof. W r ..‘B. able’ corps cf.assistants. During the last scholastic year Prof. Dew has given general-satis faction. It is true that some com- plaiuts have been made; and a few patrons withdrew their children, but this does not argue agaiust the competency of the principal. No man can please everybody, in any avocation, or avenue of life. The system under which the school is now operated has been tried only one term, and that trial has to a great extent demonstrated the wisdom of our people in adopt- the plan. The incidental fee is small, and the tax on the town property to supply the balance needed will be very light. The tax has not yet been assessed, and of course we cannot tell what it will be. The chances are good for a very large increase, in the attendance, especially 7 from the country. The incidental fee,—amounting ro S1.00 a month—covers all that must be paid by pupils who do not reside in Perry. The school bids fnir to be a great and special benefit to the town, and it behooves our people to givejit their cordial support in word and deed. A Pleasant Visit. Rev. D. D. Bateman, who re- eutiy spent ten day's visiting Habersham church, in Burke county, assisting Rev. Wn. J Robertson iu a protracted meet ing there, returned to Perry last Friday night. He reports the meeting a most pleasant aud prof itable oue, large congregations at tending every day. Iu fact, he says, the congregations were the largest he has ever secu at a coun try church anywhere. Mr. Bateman has always loved Perry and Houston county people intensely, but he is now satisfied there are .. other sections whose people fire equally kind and un selfish, and Habersham will ever thus liye in his memory'. The people of that section of Georgia are generally prosperous, contented and happy. Rev. Twm. J. Robertson, the pas tor at Habersham, aud who so ac ceptably served Perx-y during .the two last conference years, desires to be remembered in love to all the people. MACON, GAJ . UfW’ Strict personal attention to all business. _gB1 AMPLE ARRANGEMENTS FOR HANDLING COTTON. LIBERAL ADVANCER AT LOWEST RATES. PROMPTNESS. AND POLITENESS ARE MY, MOTTO. X solicit your patronage and guarantee full satisfaction. —A negro Alliance for Houston county was organized at Perry last Saturday 7 afternoou. The ne gro Baptist church at New Hope was the place of meeting, and sev eral hundred negro men attended. An organizer from Crawford coun ty managed the affair, and we learn a temperary organization was per fected by the election of thefollow- ; officers: Lee Bright-bawk, superviosr. Bob Freeman, treasu- rer, John Nobles,s ecretary. "We havn’t been able to get inside facts yet, but we learn that' the chief object of the organization is to regulate the sale of cotton and the pui-chase of farm supplies. —The Fort Valley Leader says: “A letter in the hands of the Leader shows that Gen. C. D. An derson has made his returns to the Comptroller General, and that they were received and found to be correct, and that the General was very highly complimented as to his efficiency and fitness as au offi cer.” —Mr. R. J. Smith is spending some time visiting relatives in and around Jacksonville, Telfair conn ty. He left Perry last week. —Any one desiring to' purchase Syrup kettles or a first class cane mill, can secure a bargaiu by call ing at this office. Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Cyr yaj our not ot cot C. B. Willing ham’s Whose aroujMonae, Grogeia. The above hieroglyphics o Cleopatra's Needle, the Egyptian monolith in Central Park, New York, has long puzzled antiquari ans and philologists to deeiphei-. But a Mercer graduate in the em ploy of the house, after painful and hard research, has found that sorted out and correctly arranged it simply reads, “Carry your cot ton ; to C. B. Willtogbam’s Ware house, Macon, Ga. Perry Public School. The Bali Session of the Public School of Perry will begin on the first Monday (1st (lay) in September next A full corps of the very best teache-3 have been employed, the building has been repaired and made comfortable, and the school will be conducted in a man ner that will be pleasing to all who de- -sire thorough instruction and strict di.' 7 - mmmm MACHINERY AND CASTINGS OF E. CR OCEETT, and make yourself rich and the boys happy. E. CROCKETT, Macon, Ga. O. L. RENFROE. C. R. AULTMAN. RENFROE & C0„ 310 Second Street, - - Macon, Ga. RETAIL DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES. Mew Goodsl Good Goods! .Low Prices! lJS§=Give u s a trial, and you will be sure to come again. Polite and prompt attention, and orders by mail attended to with the greatest despatch possible. W. J. ROSS 5 GO., Wholesale Manufacturing and Retail Dealers in m arnapj ROAD CARTS, HARNESS, WHIPS, ROBES, BABY CARRIAGES, ETC. 414 and 416 SECOND STEET, MACON, GA. 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