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VOL. XXI. THENEEL SHOE CO. Jos. N. NEEL, of Eads, INeel & Co, Jno. C. EADS, “ “ X (XRECTOHS: John W. REID, Waiteb F. HOUSES. The most popular Shoe St< we in Macon. Why? Because we have the Stock, the prettiest store, the most good a, the Lowest Prices. DON’T FAIL TO SEE US ON SHOES. tan mmm aata 557 CHEEKY STREET, & Furniture, Best and Cheapest, FOR CASH UR ON INSTALLMENT. Parlor Suits, Climb er Suits, Bedsteads, Chairs,Tables Safes, Mattresses, Bureaus, etc. of all descriptions. Complete Undertaking Department. OIEOIE^G-IE ZP-A-TJUi;, PERRY, GEORGIA, Pure Groeeries! I desire to call attention to the fact that I have in store, next to the A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF fancy and family groceries, Fruits and Confectioneries, Tobacco. Cigars, etc. Fish Every Sa.tiirday. .. , My Stock is FRESH aud PURE, and prices very LOW. Patronage solicited. Agent for the SINGES SEWIN G HACHINE. Full line of Fixtures and Oil on hand. J- M. NELSON, Perry, G-a. Choice New Goods! I have just received a nice lot of early Spring Goods consisting of PRINTS, GINGHAMS, OUTING CLOTHS, And other DRESS GOODS, which the ladies are invited to examine. 0 (gappy alls©* 5$M]@)E§i* HIATTS* AND A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE OF GROCERIES* gig” Prices LOW, and Goods FIRST-CLASS. ■ i, m wiiL©ii Co.rx*oll street, - CROCKETT’S IRON WORKS, Bmw* ® H Everything sol.d at spot Cash Prices. No Discounts to Middle Men EVERYTHING IN MACHINERY MADE BY GEORGIA WORKMEN, B@“ Ask for. whafc you want. The price will be low; the work j hitting the grit somewhere in the strictly first-class. E. CROCKETT, Proprietor. PERRY, Ga. LOVE’S CONQUEST. Daughters of America. I have heard of a wonderful monarch. A sovereign of absolute sway. Who cnnqnors the heart? of his people. And holds them in hooping for aye. In palace and cottage he reigneth. O'er prince and o’er peasant the same, For the poorest is rich aft his coming, And the wealth of the world is his name. At the touch of his marvelous scepter The fettered go singing, straightway, While the proudest in heart kneel before him, And delight his sweet law to obey. Ah. the strongest are weak at his coming. And the weakest are mighty through him, Ho joy but it Is brighter beside him, No sorrow his glory can dim. Though he comes to thy heart as a stranger. Oh, prize him all gladness above, For that day is the day of thy crowning At the hand of thy sovereign—Love 1 ———a RETREAT FROM LAUREL HILL. Enlightening and Instructing Hor- niiry. Jim’s Desorption of the Alligator. Two Oaths Ad ministered. Transcribed from a Soldier’s Diary for tbe HOME JOURNAL. july 14th 186L “Is that so?" says Horniky, now half raised np off the log, with month partially open intently lis tening, or entirely oblivious to all the other boyB immensely tickled at his antics and thejgreat interest be seemed to manifest in Clint’s story. “Yes,” sayBfClint, “that is a la mentable fact, but we don’t intend to tell it that way when we get out. We’ll say we gave the Yanks what Paddy gave the drum, at Carrack’s Ford—drove them back with great slaughter, and then retreated in good order. Mix it up.” “I golly! that’s the way to talk it—make berlief,” says , Horniky. “I use to lie about bow as once I whipped a bar, an’ most everybody in the settlement bleeved it was so for a loug time, ’till a feller what seed me and the bar both, and I didn’t see him, told the people I run like the dickens and the bar couldn’t keep in Bmellin’ distance of me.” Well, how-some-ever,” says Clint, pointing to Blank; “there is a man who was on the rear guard, and perhaps fired among the first shots after they scrambled out of the water on the opposite bank from the enemy.” “Mister,” says Horniky, “did they shoot at you too?” “Yes,” says Blank, “and just like they didn’t care how they hit me, nor where they struck me at. I tried to think as fast as I conld where was the best place to be struck, but-the more I thought the worse nneay I got, and immediate ly jumped behind a big poplar, and for a few minutes laughed at George Paul and Me. Felder, each behind a little tree, as an old shell from a battery came schreeching through the boughs. They both skeedadled at once and that was the last I saw of them-really don’t know if they are both dead or still CASTORIA for infants and Children. “CiUtori* Is BO well adapted to children that known tome.” H. A. Aauiua, M. D. t 111 Eo. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. “The ose of 1 Castoria’is sotmiversal and its merits so well known that it seems a work of «m>eiWx>gatlt«» to endorse lt_Fewarette within easy reach/ Into Taster Bloomtogdalo Reformed C D.D. 'church. Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, WormaTgivea sleep, and promotes di gestion, Without injurious “For several years I have - - ’ and shall always continue to Edwix F. Pabus. H. D., “The Winthrop,”125th Street and 7th Ave^ . New York City. Tb« CBsmsa Compaht, 77 Mbhjux Stbeet, N*w Too*. EADS, NEEL & ONE . the only PRICE - r»m Ti/TA-COU, We wantyour trade. Will make it to yow interest Come to see ns. MrvWAI* TER F. HOUSER will do the rest. IASS, Ml ® 552 & 554 CHERRY STREET, • Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. says any says mountains. Well, for a little while I felt quite safe, bat you see there were so many of the Yanks and so few of me , that as soon as they stretched out they conld get a sort oE cross fire on me, and squirmed or edged to one- side of the tree, the other fellow would crack down on me, and directly the bark was flying off both sides of tree with mo in the middle as wild as a buck.” „ Had yon like a squirrel,” Horniky. Yes, in a worse fix than poor squirrel you did’t kill.” “But why didn’t you run?’ Horniky. “Well, as 1 was going on to tell yon, as soon as I got a chance, I did run like the d — e — to get a better position, you know.’ “I don’t blame you,” says Horni ky. *Td a skinned too, and I’d a kept on skinnin’, you bet “How much more yon got to tell mister?” says Horniky to Clint “Oh, lots of it, if I had time to spare,” says Clint “We were in a manner cat to pieces, with many killed and cap tured. How many of our army escaped we are unable to say, for in tbe battle that raged -furiously for a time and daring a heavy storm of wind, rain and bghtening we fellows, with a battalion of our regiment were cut off and retreat ed np the mountain, while onr army after the death of our gener al, Garnett, pushed np the river, still fighting their way, endeavor ing to hold and carry the sick in front and along with them.” “My Lord, that was worse then eny bar fight I’s ever beam of,” says Horniky “Well, finding ourselves hope lessly cut off, and now with McClellan’s whole army between us and our forces, we at once de termined to leave the battalion and endeavor to make onr way through the mountains to Monterey or Staunton. We were already in an almost starving condition and com pletely worn ont, yon might say, or had nothing bat pluck to subsist on ’till we conld do better. Some suggested one thing and some an other, but all were agreed that iir was a gopher casefwith us to avoid starvation, or by hook-a-ma-crook, we most get back into God’s coun r try. None of ns knew which way to start. One man was as wise as the whole pat together, or the whole were stranded aud at the mercy of chance to find the key to the situation.” “What sort o’ lookin’ key was it?” says Horniky; “and what sort a thing is a hook-a-ma-crook?” “It wasn’t ajkey at all, but you are the kind we wanted to find, and we will expect you to manage the hook-a-ma-crook for ns. That isjonly a word we used to express our situation. It means to slip around an* 1 hide, or get oat if you can. “We had been np to this time al ready fighting and retreating day and night for several days without a morsel to eat. Why didn’t yon kill a cow or some hogs?” says Horniky. “We didn’t have time,” says Clint, “every moment was others wise engaged.” “Well, to make a long story short, for it would take a whole day to tell you, all we left the battalion and wandered through the forest almost starved and in despair, not knowing which way to go ’till we came in sight of Cheat River, which gave’ns some idea offwhich direction to further trend our way. That night after the battle we pro cured a little ^something to eat from some of yonr good mountain people, and slept in the mountains wet and cold, without blankets, and so on ’till now-we feel fortnnate to find the key to thesitnation in yon, or that we have some one to guide, direct and help nsj through the wild regions lying so great a dis-‘ tance between us and onr next base of operations. “You see these boys all seem to be full of fun and mischief now, but we have undergone enough in the last week or two to have killed ordinary men. Wo are from the south,)and now after so mhch rongh and tumble we are as hard as light- wood knots, or can almost five like an alligator in tbe winter time. 'Bat stop a minit, mister,” says Horniky, “and let me ax yer what is a alligator?” “Did yon never see an alligator?” says one of the boys. “No, and don’t know what they is,” says Horniky. Well,” says Jim, “they are a great big, long thing, as long as from me to yon, with. great soales on them which look a little like scales on a large fish. In fact, they are a great fish, so to speak, and with power enough in its tail to knock yon into a cocked hat at one lick, and then swallow yon to boot.” “Golly whopper! I wouldn’t like to git close to one,” says Horniky, ‘Yes,” says Clint, “they swallow a lightwood knot or small like pieces of wood in the winter and lie on the bottom of the river or mill pond, so said, without eating any more ’till the next spring.” ^ “Is Eh at so?” says Horniky. “Yes,” says Clint, “and each of us swallowed a cypress knee a week or more ago, and -have man aged very well to get along with little or nothing to eat” “Did you ever try it?” says Watt “Golly, no! I couldn’t never git the thing down my throat, and be sides I haint no room in my stom ach for it,’*-says Horniky. “That big soldier,” pointing to Zeke, “looks like he swallowed a good big one.” “Yes,” says Jim, “it takes two to fill him up right” “What’s that you say about me?” says Zeke, now nearly asleep. _ “Well, yon fellers is had a hard time, if yon is tellin’ the trnth ’bout fightin’ and starvin-so long,’ says Horniky. “I thought when ! fast seed yon, yon was strange lookin’ men, but I didn’t say noth in’—only thonght to myself.’ “Well,” says Clint, “we must finish onr instructions to Horniky, aud the object to be accomplished through him. Yon most take us,’ says he “tbrongh the mountains over trails where only cattle or huntsmen travel, to avoid all the more thickly settled sections; We may be wrong in our impressions, bat we think there is a large ele ment, we mean men of the moun tains, antagonistic to us m senti ment, that is; against ns,-who might attempt to gather together and capture or butcher us. We are able and willing to cope with any thing like onr own numbers, but we think best to avoid a conflict of any kind, and steadily push our way on ’till we make a connection again with onr army. “Now-we are all going|to pledge onrselves and swear to yon that no harm shall befall you while in onr hands, unless you so decree it by yonr acts, thereby bringing suspi cion upon yourself and disaster to ns. We mean should yon deceive or mislead ns.” “Boys,” says Clint, “hold np yonr right hands and I will now administer the oath.” Five hands went up at Clint’s command, bat the sixth, making the seventh with Clint;and without Horniky, lay listless on Zeke’s breast, who lay flat of his back and faat asleep and snoring most out rageously. The attention of each, as well as Clint, and also Horniky, .now killing himself laughing is turned together to the happy state into which Zeke had drafted away. “Hold on boys,” says Clint, “take down yonr hands ’till we wake Zeke up. All must swear in this matter.” “Tarn that old- gobbler over,” says Jim to Watt, “or pull one of his sore toes and see how he will take it.” , — “Zeke! Zeke! Oh Zeke! get np. The Yanks are coming - through the mountains after ns, and we mast get away from here quick.” “Wha-wka-t’s that?” says Zeke, a daze, and now hurriedly scrambling to his feet, looking as wild as a buck. , “Nothing,” says Clint, only we want to swear yen with the bal ance that we won’t hurt Horniky.” Horniky seems now like he would go into a dock fit enjoying Zeke’s temporary discomfiture. “Hold up your hands boys,” again comes from Glint. Up comes Zeke’s hand with the balance of ns. “You,and each of you,do solemnly swear before High Heaven and all these mountains around ns, that Hornikyshallhave every protection and the kindest treatment while in our hands, so help you God.” “Golly! I’s glad to hear that, and now feel easy again,” says Horniky. “One more oath, now boys,” says Clint, “and we will move on moder ately ’till night, camping some where again in the tkioket. Hold up yonr hands. “Yon, and each of yon, do sol emnly swear before High Heaven and the blood of Horniky, that in theeventhe misleads or betrays ns, the moment we are satisfied be yond a question, be wilfully done so, be shall die to atone for his vilainly, so help yon God.” Horniky now looks ill at ease again, whereupon all say to him: 'Have no fear, if yon are only true to ns—we are honorable, and will die by you in the right.” “Well,” says Horniky finally," “yon can trust me as yon would yerself. l’s true to the gizzard. I’s for the Southern soldier from the crown of my foot to the sole of my head. My dad is in that army now, and fit at Carrack’s Ford with yon all, I rec’on. _ I would er bin thar myself, but I love to hunt so good I hate to quit it. I ain’t ’fraid to fight—.you bet I ain’t” Well boys,”''says Clint, “we have had a good long rest, and suppose we travel on again.” ’Agreed,” says all the others, at the same time calling to Horniky to take the lead, bat not to go so fast. “Just a moderately pert .gait,’’ says Zeke. “The milk of human kindness most be np in yonr nature, says Jim to Zeke. “Oh well, it’s no use for yon to taunt me, for yon know my feet are in a worse condition that any one in the crowd. “That’s not so, look at Horniky, he’s entirely barefooted and as lively as a cricket’ “Come along np with me pard- ner,” says Horniky to Zeke, “and I will show yon how to step light and ketch the donbled and twisted lick on ’em.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) A great deal has been said about the consumption of cotton, but in the estimates of the probable in crease in coming years, little ’’has been said of what is likely to be required in the countries to the sonth of os. There are reasons why this is a great oversight, and all calculations which do not make a-large allowance for the trade of Spanish America are likely to be far from correct. As it is now, the trade in cotton goods is seventy-fonr million in the West Indies, Mexico and South and Central America. ^This trade is possible, when the cotton mast go to England to be spun and woven, and freighted back from across the Atlantic. It may be im agined what the consumption will be when all this cotton is span and woven in the fields, and, instead of crossing the Atlantic twice, comes directly from the south Atlantic and Gulf ports by the shortest route. It is ajenrions fact that North America is ahead in the trade with Europe and behind in the trade with South America. Why this should be is hard to see, unless it is because the decadence of ship ping under the war tariff has re moved onr flag from the merchan dise of the world. It is a recent dictum of thlTrepublican state de partment that “trade follows the " '• This sounds like bitter irony for the party whose insane policy drove our flag|from the sea. This will not always be so. As Peesident Harrison has happily said: “This flag shall float on un familiar seas,” but only by the re laxation of the hide-bound policy of this party. When the flag does float wherever England’s is to be seen, our trade will grow as far and as fast as England’s. It is inevit able that our cotton mills will sup plant those of Great Britain in South America. When the Nica ragua canal is opened, no country on earth will be able to compete with ours in Chili, Peru and all the north and west coasts of South America. But it is not only the sixty mill ions of England’s cotton trade in Spanish America that we will get. The easy access to our mills and the closer affiliation of the south ern nations with our people will make trade as fast|Jor faster than we win it. The development will be greater than the conquest. Where now the population is 55,- 000,000, it will swell rapidly to twice these proportions. The im migration to the Argentine Repub lic has, until a short time ago, been more rapid for some years than that to the United States. It is not unlikely that, within twenty years, the people in Mexico, Sonth and Central America and the West Indies will number a hundred million souls. They have just be gun a new life, the fullness of which no man can measure. Thus, while on the fertile plains of Texas and in the vast alluvial region of the Mississippi valley, we can see untold millions of bales of cotton, we can- also see across the water untold millions of human be ings coming np to be slothed with the fleecy staple. We want every mother to know that croup can be prevented. True croup never appears without warn ing. The first symptom is hoarse ness; then the child appears to have taken cold, or a cold may have accompanied the-hoarseness from the start. After that a peculiar rough cough‘is developed, which is followed by the croup. The time to act is when tbe child first becomes hoarse; a few doses of 'Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will prevent the attack. Even after a rough cough has appeared, the disease may be prevented by using this remedy as directed. For sale by Holtzclaw & Gilbert. The Republic of Honduras is very rich in the valuable wood called mahogany. A recent sur vey of these forests estimates the valae of the trees of this variety which are fit for market at §200,- 000,000. Little Giants! Little Giants! Little Giants! are the pills that do the work successfully, effectnally and permanently. We warrant ev ery bottle to give satisfaction. Sold by L. A. Felder, Druggist, Perry, Ga. The price of platinum has ad vanced folly 100 per cent, owing to its increased use for electrical purposes. The Constitution prints to-day two timely letters on wheat grow ing. They show how this grain may be made a sure crop in Geor gia. There was a time when wheat was as staple a crop in this state aB cotton, .There are now standing in North Georgia the walls of a great flouring mill which was sup plied - exclusively with grain from the fields of this state and Tennes see. The flour which that estab lishment made of Georgia wheat was shipped across the Atlantic and.sold in competition with the -best flour from the mills of Eng land and France. There is no rea son why this conld not be done now. The neighboring state of Tennessee produces enormous wheat crops. That for middle Ten nessee alone was estimated at 3,- 000,000 bushels l$st year. In East Tennessee the crop is not less sta ple and successful. It is a poor farmer there who cannot make twenty bushels'an acre. East Ten nessee is almost the same in soil and climate as northwest Georgia. The valleys run from one state in to the other,the trencLof the weath er is that way, and the difference between Yaun’s vatley and Sweet water’s valley is very slight, so far as soil and climate go. But the farmers of Georgia, af ter a succession of poor crops,have come to the conclusion that they cannot grow wheat.^They think the soil or the climate has changed. If the soil has changed it may be restored; and, so far as the climate is concerned, the most careful ob servations of the government for nearly twenty years '.have failed to reveal any change. There are men in north and middle Georgia who have never quit planting wheat, and have hardly ever failed to make a good crop. They say there is no mystery about their success, and any farmer who will prepare the ground right,'sow at the right' time the right kind of seed, look well to drainage, rolling, etc., will make a good wheat crop as often as he makes a good cotton crop, and will find that the grain will pay him better. We print letters from two such farmers to-day—Major J. F. Jones, of Hogansville, and Captain H. J. McCormick, of Stilesboro. They have succeeded in different parts of the state, and we conld print letters of scores in middle and north Georgia who make wheat a paying crop. The time to begin plowing for wheat is near at hand, and these letters appear when they will do the most good. If we can restore to Georgia this great staple, the agricnltnre of the state will be strengthened beyond computation. Wheat is a cash crop, as saleable as cotton, and, if we make it pay as well, we bring a flood of money into tbe state at the time of year when it is most needed. Is your hair falling ont or turn- Mr. G. D. Walston*- Wilson, N ing gray ? If so, try Beggs’ Hair C., says: After being a martyr for Renewer. It will stop it at once. I fifteen years to Sick Headaches, I Sold by L. A.- Felder, Druggist, 1 discovered in Bradycrotine a trne Perry, Ga. friend after taking the first dose. .Monroo Advertiser. The best way to ascertain wheth er or not the condition of a people is being bettered is by comparison. Then to ascertain whether the people of our own locality are in better condition thanj they were a year ago or in former years, is to institute comparison after learning the present status and knowing the status formerly. There are evi dences cropping ont here and there which tend to show that the peo ple of this section as a whole have made some advance on last year’s condition. There is more old cot ton in the handsjnow, of farmers, than at this season a year ago. THa corn crop and other crops that have been harvested, are reported to better than they were last year, and a great many of onr farmers have, been more careful and pru dent in their expenditures. These are all evidences in this direotion. A local correspondent writing to an exchange touching this matter, says: We have as much confidence in the future of the south as we ever had, aud are Bure that the future is bright in our section. It la true that the stringency of money has retarded business some, but that has worked to the best advantage for all. Onr farmers are in better fix, and will be able to meet tbeir obligations. Merchants and h«nir_ ers have all dealt very cautiously for the past twelve months, and with it all, our opinion is that all are on a better basis than they were twelve months ago. Capital here can do as well as anywhere, and there*are investments that can be made on a sound basis and per fectly safe. The farmers all say that they have made nearly enough of corn, hay and peas to last them through the next year, and the low price of cotton has taught them a lesson, and all say that they will not plant more than half the cot ton next year. A large portion of our farmers are able to hold half of their cotton crop, saying half will settle all their obligations,and leave them with their corn and hay and half of their cotton on hand.” “Oh! how I dread to see my hair turning gray,” is a remark made by so many ladies. If they only knew that 75 cents invested in one bottle of Beggs’ Hair Renewer would not only check it at once, bnt give it ’a luxurious and glossy appearance, we know that^ they would not hesitate to buy. We guarantee every bottle. Sold by L. A. Felder, Druggist, Perry, Ga. Japan’s Emperor has decreed that every man who provokes a du el or accepts a challenge shall pay a heavy fine, and serve from six months to two years in the galleys. The taunting of a man for his re fusal to fight when challenged will be regarded as slander, and will be so treated by the courts. Between disease and the many cheap preparations which are palm ed off under the name of blood pu rifiers, take your chances with dis ease, until you can procure Ayer’s Sarsaparilla—the only reliable blood purifier. Sold by all drug gists and dealers in medicines. According to census- reports, there are 12,500,000 families in the United States. Of these, 10,500,- OQO occupy farms and homes that are either owned or rented by them ■unincumbered. The other 2,250,- 000 own homes and farms incum bered by mortgages. If people would take the advice oLHoltzclaw & Gilbert; the drug gists,-they never would start on a journey without a bottle of Cham berlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar rhcea Remedy. It can always be depended upon, and is pleasant to take. Heed the Warning. It is not infrequently the case that itching pimples and irritating “cat boils” are the forernnners of larger boils, or the more serions carbuncles. Invariably Nature puts out her danger signals, and they should be heeded atonca The pimples and little boils show that the blood is not in a good condi tion aud nature is trying to relieve the system, A few doses of Swift’s Specific at this juncture will ac complish wonders. The eruption will be healed and the system cleansed of its impurities. The modem paraphrase of the old say ing, “A stich in time,” eta, is that “Timely stitches will save nine pairs of breeches.” The modem form has a touch of humor that does not modify the truth of it. In that veirnwe may Bay that a course of Swift's Specific prevents ills terrific. Switzerland has as riany-rail ways as the New England States. So great is the demand for sil ver dimes that they are turned ont now at the rate of 100,000 a day. No less than §3,176,477 in dimes have been struck off in the past three years. For this purpose, states the Detroit Free Press, all the uncurrent silver coin is being reworked, notably the silver half- dollar, which is a clumsy pocket- piece and very unpopular. The novelty banks which the dime sav ings institutions are sending out are supposed to be answerable for the sadden demand. The three mints of Philadelphia, New Or leans and San Francisco are kept bnsy supplying the wants of the people in this line. A lemon tree on the farm of Thomas Kennedy, at Noonan’s Lake, Fla.,.nineteen years old, has borne eleven years, and has earn ed for its owner §106 in a single season. Good Looks. Good looks are more than skin deep, depending upon a healthy condition of all tbe vital organs,. If the Liver be inactive, you have a Billions Look, if yonr Stomach be disordered you have a Dyspep tic look an*d if you Kidneys be af fected you have a Pinched Look. Secure good health and you will have good looks. Electric fitters is the great alterative and Tonic that acts directly on these vital organs. Cures Pimples, Blotches, Boils and gives a good complexion. Sold at Holtzclaw & Gilbert’s Drugstore, 50c. per bottle.