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JOHN II. HODGES, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE.
#1.50 A YEAB IIST ADVANCE.
VOL. XXVII
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1898.
NO. 42.
CALLER B. WILLINGHAM,
THE TENTED FIELD,’’
Cotton Factor,
Macon. Q-sl.
§§hip me your Cotton and get the best
returns. I give my business close per
sonal attention, and my reference is my
record in the Cotton trade at Macon for
twenty-seven years.
Money to loan at 8 per cent per annum.
C. B. WILLINGHAM,
Macon, Ga
or,
“Reminiscences of the Late War”
From 1861 to I860.
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COTTON FACTORS,
AND DEALERS IN
GRRCERIES AND PLANTERS’ SUPPLIES
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We take pleasure in informing our many friends and the
public that we have removed to our Warehouse at ... .
517, 519, 521 POPLAR STREET,
(B. H. Kay’s old stand), where we are prepared to handle
their cotton.
We shall always keep on hand a full stock of Groceries
and Planters’ Supplies, and we will sell goods to planters
at merchants’ prices. We make a specialty of Bagging
and Ties. Please give us a call.
MAYER & WATTS, Macon, Ga.
J-. T, CALLAWAY,
Bank, Office and Store Fixtures,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Safes, Elevators, Desks, Typewriters, Show Cases, Comptometers, Scales. Etc.
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At our extensive display of rare offerings for
season Fall 1898 will develop a picture of
perfect distinctiveness.showing in bold relief
numerous groups of stylish, well-fitting and
elegantly trimmed Dress and Business Suits,
beautiful Neckwear, Up-to-Date Hats, Medi
um and Light Underwear and scores of other
useful articles at exceedingly fair and rea
sonable prices.
Your inspection of offerings wiM prove a
pleasant and profitable experience to you.
Yours to serve,
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Prompt Attentiou given to Mail Orders.
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FALL AND WINTER
ATTRACTIONS
OUR
SHOES
are the best that
can be had for
the money. Re
member that ev
ery SHOE that
leaves oar house
is guaranteed to
give satisfaction,
or money refund
ed.
Will interest prudent and
economical buyers.
0ur $5.00 & $3.00 Suits
Still lead them all.
Boys’ and Children’s Cloth
ing at about half what you
will have to pay elsewhere
MILLI
NERY
Every lady vis
iting Macon
should see our
Millinery De
partment. Eve
rything new,styl-
ish and cheap—
in fact not more
than half that
others charge.
Hats trimmed to or
der while you wait.
Dry G oods of Every Description.
Dress Goods, White Goods, Domestics, Cottonades, Etc.
There’s no konse in Georgia that
' will attempt to match our prices.
THE DIXIE SHOE AND CLOTHING CO.,
Cor. Cherry & Third Sts.,
MACON, GA.
Written by an ex-Confederate Soldier.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Our brigade being somewhat
broken down by reason of the
Florida campaign and the long
tiresome trip from Jacksonville,
Fla., to Petersburg, Va., Beaure
gard determined to hold us in re
serve and not put us in the Drew-
ry’s Bluff battle unless it became
absolutely necessary, therefore,
stripped for battle, we took posi
tion, parade rest, on a high hill
about one mile to the right of the
point of attack. At the appointed
hour the South Carolina brigade
advanced in line and assaulted
Butler’s right. The sharp crack
of the rifle, and the deep-toned
thunder of the enemy’s artillery,
slowly answered by our artillery,
rang out furiously upon the soft
morning air for a few moments,
then it all died away in the distance
and we could hear the drawling
huzzas of the federals and we
knew that they were getting the
best of it: The assaulting column
had wavered and failed to dispute
ground under a galling fire with
that degree of stubbornness neces
sary to insure success, and were
repulsed and driven back. Seeing
this, Beauregard immediately or-
dered a Tennessee brigade to the
assault, which, in like manner as
the first, was repulsed and driven
back, and again we heard the draw
ling huzzas of the federals which
told too plainly that they again
had the best of it. By this time-
tbe situation had become painfully
critical, and our brigade was chaf
fing with anxiety to be led against
Butler’s right. We were not kept
long in suspense. The result of
the day and the fate of Petersburg
were tottering in the balance.
Soon the order came from Beaure
gard to Colquitt to assault Butler’s
right flank and turn it at any cost
and at all hazards. Instantly we
were in line and ordered to double-
quick. We had a mde to go over
very hilly grouod to reach the
point of attack H and when we got
there we were a little^ short of
breath. We halted, dressed the
line, and listened to a few encour
aging words from Colquitt, then,
God bless his memory, he gave his
usual words of command: “Follow
me boys,” and with his staff dash
ed into the arena, followed by the
troops at a full run with the hide
ous rebel yell ou their tongues.
Simultaneously, our - artillery, to
our right, opened a deafening
thunder of cannonading, and the
very earth seemed to quake and
tremble under our feet as we dash
ed across the fields to a thick clus
ter of woods iu the near edge of
which was the enemy’s line, which
we foand abandoned and the ene
my gone without our firing a gun
at him, but a few hundred yards
in our front we could hear the of
ficers trying to arrest the stampede
and rally the panic-stricken feder
als; threatening them with dire
punishment if they did not stand
and give us battle. Onward we
pushed, leaping over the enemy’s
works and into the woods which
were literally strewn with blankets,
acks, cooking utensils, and
occasionally a gun. Meantime the
oflicerp, many of whom were un
questionably brave, self-poised
men, had succeeded iu quieting
the fleeing federals and inducing
them to stand and change a few
vollies with us, then they broke
again and could never again be
rallied. Back in the rear and a
little to onr right on the top of a
hill from which a full view of
Richmond, Petersburg, Bermuda
Hundreds, and the adjacent coun
try could be had, mounted on their
horses, sat President Jeff. Davis,
Gen. Bragg, the Secretary of War,
and their chiefs of staff, with their
field-glasses, watching the move
ments of the two armies. It waB
said that when they saw Beaure
gard’s 15,000 troops, led by Col
quitt, swing around Bntler’s 30000,
gain his rear, capture nearly all
his artillery, wagon trains and ar
my stores, and his own head-quar
ters, and cut off wire communica
tion between him and Grant on the
other side of the river, and drive
him at John Gilpin speed down
the James, they went nearly wild
with delight and threw their hats
high in the air, and Davis sent a
subaltern to Beauregard to ascer
tain what troops were leading the
charge. Beauregard replied: “You
are authorized to say to the Presi
dent that Colquitt’s boys are har
nessed in the lead.” Upon receipt
of which President Davis sent the
following to Colquitt:
‘‘Gen Colquitt, you should feel
proud, as you doubtless do, of the
honor of commanding a brigade of
men who are absolutely invincible
on the field of battle.”
• (To be continued.)
Aspiration.
Success.
Did you ever hear of a man who
had striven all his life faithfully
and singly toward an object, asked
Thoreau, and iu no measure obtain
ed it? If a man constantly aspire,
is he not elevated? Did ever a
man try heroism, magaanimity,
trnth, sincerity and find that there
was no advantage in them—that it
was a vain endeavor?
Your aspiration will become in
spiration, and you will push your
work with a glad enthusiasm.
Think you Angelo did not reach
nobler results because he carved
his own religion in forms of breath
ing marble, and painted it abroad
in the glory of his frescoes? Think
you Hugh Miller read the story of
the rocks less eagerly aud careful
ly because he thought he was read
ing the thoughts of God iu the
strata of the earth? Thiukyou Ca
rey made poorer shoes because
while he stitched aud hammered at
the cobler’s bench, the love of God
made melody iu his heart, aud
great schemes of missionary enter
prise took shape in his miod? My
young friends the true service of
God is so broad,so inspiring,so pure
in its motives that by it all is lift
ed to a higher plane. No honest
work is sordid when done for Him,
and you will find no force or facul
ty of mind or heart that will not
fiud most powerful stimulus.
No matter how poor a man is as
long as he is progressing, however
slowly, his life is healthy and he
has hope. But the moment a man
ceases to progress, when he ceases
tp grow higher, wider and deeper,
when he has ceased to acquire pow
er to get od, then his life becomes
stagnant and mean.
From the polyp to the saint it is
said there is a perpetual striving—
a divine dissatisfaction.
The noblest character would soon
degenerate if it lost its love of ex
cellence. This is the mainspring
of all great character. This pas
sion for excellence is the voice of
God bidding us up.and on lest we
forget our divine origin and degen
erate ‘ into barbarianism again.
This principle is the guardian of
the human race. It is God’s voice
iu mao, it is the still small voice
that whispers right or wrong to
every act, it is the gem the Creator
dropped into the past when he
fashioned ns into his own image.
Remarkable Rescue.
Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield,
111., makes the statement that she
caught cold, which settled ou her
lungs; she was treated for a month
by her family physician, bnt grew
worse. He told her she was a
hopeless victim of comsumption
and that no medicine coaid care
her. Her druggist suggested Dr
KiDg’s New Discovery for Con
sumption; she bought a bottle and
to her delight found herself bene
fited from first dose. She contin
ued its use and after taking six
bottles, found herself sound and
well, now does her own housework
and is a9 well as she ever was.
Free trial bottles of this great Dis
covery at Holtzclaw & Gilbert’s
Drug Store.
It has been less than two years
since the law making life impris
onment instead of death the penal
ty for murder in Colorado went
into effect, aad yet agitation has
already begun looking to a revival
of the death penalty. It is assert
ed by those who wish a re-estab
lishment of the gallows that the
life-imprisonment law has resulted
in an epidemic of ciime.
DeWitt’s Witch hazel Salve has
the largest sale of any Salve in the
world. This fact and its merit
has led dishonest people to at
tempt to countefeit it. Look ont
for the man who attempts to de
ceive you when yon call for De-
Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve, the
great pile cure. Coopers Drugstore
The largest proportion of single
persons is found in Ireland and
Scotland, and the smallest in the
United States. In Ireland sixty,
seven per cent, in Scotland sixty-
five per cent.; bat in the United
States only fifty-nine per cent, are
in that condition.
millions in Sawdust.
Savannah News.
Millions of feet of timber go to
waste every year in the form of
sawdast. There are thousands of
sawmills in the country, and each
of them produces daily from ten
to 500 or more tons of the waste
product. Many mills bnrn all of
the sawdast they can nnder their
boilers, bat with most of them get
ting rid of the accntnalation is a
matter of annoyance and expense.
Mr. Victor L. Emerson, a Balti
more inventor, claims to have per
fected an apparatus and a process
by which sawdust is given a value
of about $30 a ton —about the val
ue of high grade gold quartz.
Very natarally Mr. Emerson is
keeping his process a secret. There
is money in it, if his claim is well
based, and he means to get some
thing out of it for himself. Broad
ly speaking, however, the process
consists of “carbonizing the saw
dust and extracting the by prod
acts.” From the hydrogen gas
given off by the sawdust during
the carbonizing process, it is said
a city can be famished with light
and heat at the cost of ten cents
per thousand feet of gas. The
precise nature of other byproducts,
or of the chief product, is not stat
ed by Mr. Emerson, bnt it is under
stood that chemicals, paints, print
ers’ ink and calcium carbide can
be made from them, besides other
things. Recent experiments have
been conducted at a large saw mill
in Ontario, and the succeps achiev
ed is said to have given rise to the
projection of a number of new in
dustries to be operated near the
saw mill and which will draw their
raw materials from the sawdust
pile*
It is to be hoped that Mr. Emer
son’s apparatus and process are
available for handling yellow pine
sawdast, as well as the spruce saw
dast of Canada. Georgia produ
ces, and wastes, annually sawdust
enough to make a mound over-the
Washington monument or to car
pet a township. If this present
waste product could be turned into
money even at half the value of
high grade gold quartz, it would
be a boon to the lumber manufac
turers and to the people.
Deafness Cannot lie Cured
Old fashions in dress may be re
vived, but no old-fashioned medi
cine can replace Chamberlain’s
Colic Cholra and Diarrhoea Reme
dy. For sale by Holtzclaw & Gil
bert Perry, and L. W. Stewart,
Myrtle Ga.
by local applications, as they can
not reach the diseased portion of
the ear. There is only one way to
cure deafness, and that is by con
stitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of
the mucous lining of- the Eustach
ian Tube. When this tube is in
flamed you have a rumbling sonnd
or imperfect hearing, and when it
is entirely closed deafness is the
result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken oat and this tube re
stored to its normal condition,hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by ca
tarrh, which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of the m neons
surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dol
lars for any case of Deafness
(caused by catarrh) that cannot be
cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars; free.
F. J Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
RSPSold by druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best
-
Winston N. C., claims the dis
tinction of selling more pounds of
leaf tobacco direct from the hands
of the farmer than any other loose
market in the world. The present
tobacco year the market will sell
2,000,000 more pounds of tobacco
than it has ever sold before, the
sales reaching to more than 18 ,
000,000 pounds.
More than twenty million free
samples of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve have been distributed by
the manufacturers. What better
proof of their confidence in its
merits do yon want? It cures
piles, burns, scalds, sores, in the
shortests pace of time. Cooper’s
drugstore.
S
We want everybody in Houston County
to visit Macon’s most popular and most
mammoth
DRY GOODS STORE.
We are the acknowledged leaders of new
styles, and we guarantee to give you bigger
bargains than any house in the Central
City. Our low prices for Silks, Black and
Colored Wool Dress Goods, Cloaks, etc.,
keeps the store always busy.
553 CESBBY STREET
MACON. CA.
Ask Anybody About
THE PARK HOTEL,
RATES $2.00 _A.
The Best Hotel
in the “South.”
Sample-
Free Bus, Baths and
Rooms.
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If You Want Anything
FURNITURE,
BEDROOM SUITES, PARLOR SUITES,
DINING TABLES, SIDEBOARDS
Chairs of any kind, Tables of all sorts,
BEDSTEADS, MATTRESSES, SPRINGS, WINDOW SHADES
AND POLES, BABY CARRIAGES, ETC.,
You can save money at
Paul’s Furniture Store.
A complete line of COFFINS and CASKETS always
on hand.
GEORGE PAUL, Perry, Ga.
BRICK WAREHOUSE OPEN.
I take this method of announcing 1 to my many
friends and customers that my Warehouse will
he open at the beginning of the cotton season.
I will use my best efforts in every respect to
give satisfaction to all who bring me their cot
ton. All cotton brought to my Warehouse will
be handled and insured thirty days for 50 cents
per bale. Liberal terms made for storage after
the first thirty days. 1 want your business.
Respectfully,
W. D. DAY, - - PERRY, GA.
W. A. DAVIS & CO.
W. A. DAVIS.
W. F. HOLMES.
All of the snitors of a girl’s
hand in Borneo are said to be gen
erous in their presents to her.
These presents are never returned;
therefore the wily yoang lady de
fers as long as possible a positive
selection of the happy man.
An Old IdMU
Every d»y itrengtheni the beUef of emi
nent phyricitni that impure blood is the
oauee of the majority of our disease*.
Twenty-five yean ago thii theory iu uied
m a basis for the ibrmnla of Browni’ Iron
Bitten. The many remarkable cures effected
by this famous old household remedy are
sufficient to prove that the theory ia correct.
Browns’ Iron Bitters is sold by aU dealers.
BEN. T. RAY-,
We handle cotton for 50 cents per hale. Liberal
advances on cotton in store at lowest rate of inter
est. Lowest insurance of any house in the citr.
Our facilities for handling cotton are unsurpassed.
We absolutely guarantee satisfaction. We work
solely in the interest of our customers. Our rec
ord is our guarantee.
405 and 407 Poplar St.
MACON, GA.
F. S. HARDEMAN %
COTTON FACTORS,
AND DEALEBSIN
Groceries and Planters’ Supplies,
409. 413 and 415 Poplar St., MACON, GA.
Commission on Cotton 50c. per bale. Liberal advances
on cotton in store. Consignments solicited.
We also carry a full stock of Bagging and Ties.