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The W atkinsville Advance.
W G. SILUVAN,
Fiditor, P ubl isher & J ob Printer.
TERMS,— Oae Dollar per Year. Sixty
Cents for Six Months.
IS PUBLISHED ON EVERY TUESDAY,
Watkinsvilie, Ga., September 7, 1880.
Entered .it the Post Office at Watkinsvilie Georgia,
as SECOND CLASS MATTER
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Cotton is opening rapidly.
We are having light showers.
We visited Athens last Saturday.
Yesterday was dry and dusty.
New cotton will soon be rolling
through town.
The steam whistles are now heard
in the land.
Our citizens had a singing at the
church last Sunday night.
When you sell your cotton re¬
member your county paper.
The Lazy Club still argues politics
before the president who sleeps all
the tiire.
The fodder pulling season is over,
and cotton picking has commenced
in earnest.
fhing A good buyer could make a good
of U by catching the cotton
at this point.
Our town is quiet owing to the
fact that the farmers are all busy
with their cotton.
We return thanks to the Oconee
Fair Association for their premium
list sent us. We wish the Associa¬
tion great success.
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One of our devils says that Cnl.
ft. E. Thrasher is ditching his
5 fork field,” with rails. We have
heard of fencing by ditching, but
never heard before of ditching by
fencing.
The Athens Chronicle has enlarged
to a seven column paper. Brother
Stone has already one of the neatest
of weekly journals as well as one of
the best. The top of the ladder
isn’t far off, Friend Joe! we wish
you success f
New goods will soon be the order
of the day. Look closely to the
columns of the Advance, and see
where to purchase. Of course all
first-class business houses will keep
their business before the people.
We had laid on our table, last
week, a portion of a cotton stalk,
about Sinches long and containing
fifteen bolls. The limbs are not
over an ineh, or an inch and a
long. The cotton was grown by
Mr. M. C Griffeth and handed us
by Col. B. E. Overby.
Mrs. Dr. Richardson and her two
day daughters 1 arrived home last Satur¬
after an extended trip to the
mountains and Springs of North
Georgia. We are glad to welcome
our friends back to their old home.
Mrs. Branch also returned from a
trip day. to North Georgia, on the same
While in Athens last Sanrday
Col. W. H. Jones, Sunt, of the N. E.
Georgia Stove and tinware depot
carried us through his house. He
is .doing a live business and we hope
■Yiend Jones may meet with success.
The Boss coffee pot sold by this
house is reallv the “Biss’* of other
coffee pots. 'We tried all the other
makes and can find none to equal
the “Boss.”
Our friend and fellow townsman,
Mr. W. B. Langford formerly the
proprietor of our carriage and buggy
manufactory, with that has secured a position
five ardware firm Messrs
Childs, Nickerson & Co., of Athens,
Ga. Bed has many friends in our
county and is a man of unqualified
business talents, and will prove
ouite an acquisition to this already
popular firm We do not like to
give you ud, Bed, but it is on “the
bill’s and it must be did !”
One ofthemostshoeking murders
we ever read of was commited at
Oulloden, Monroe County, in this
.State, on the 18th inst.' The par¬
ticulars of the sad affair are as
follows: Mr. Gray Hiiismnn had
a negro boy employed about as a nurse.
The negro’s age is twelve years.
On the evening of the murder this
negro in the boy house was when fooling Mrs. with the clock
Hillsman
told him if he did’t let it alone she
would report him to Mr. H., and
have him flogged. lie walked sud¬
denly Mr. Hillsman’s out of the little house, boy, followed three by
or
tour years old, for whom the nt-irro
time was employed elapsed us a nurse. Some¬
and they did’t return,
when a search was made for them.
The little boy of Mr. H., was found
in » dry well, near the house, with
ms head beat into a jelly. The ne¬
gro bov was found soon afterwards.
A Hn* was found tveur the well
which l the negro used in beating
death the little to
nttle whits boy. Th
negro has plead guilty and
ftent to jail. He says he committed
tbecnme because the little boy
did t want to go with him to the
UOU9C.
Kansas girls walk seven miles
Late-fooled to trade a dozen eggs at
a country store for a spool of thread.
Nothing stuck up about girts who
are cut out for No. 1 wives.
And Extensive Diy Good House.
From the Southern Merchant a
paper devoted to Mercantile interest
of the State, we clip the following
article about one of the live firms of
Athens, Messrs. James M. Gray
&Co., That journal says :
The controlling commercial ele¬
ment in all cities, ranking next to
groceries Goods, and provisions, enormity is Dry
whilst its is only
understood after a careful survey of
the field.
Millions of dollars are involved
in carrying stock when other staples
are carried w ith thousands ; and
the commercial palaces erected
to form the homes of this gigantic
monster which rules the operations
of man. are representatives of our
progressiveness. In Athens, though
m no pretentious building, we found
goods a representative house in the dry
business that has no rival in
the South—we mean
JAMES M. GRAY & CO.,
who, whilst making a great specialty
in mourning goods and silks, do a
trade very in heavy wholesale and retail
the general staples of dry
goods, i-uch as colored silks, shawls,
black goods in Cashmere Tamese,
brilliantines. bambazine, basket cloth, alpaca and
In white goods, nain¬
sooks, jaconets, India twills, muslin,
colicoes, table-linen, towels and
marseilles quilts ; in woolens, flan¬
nel repellantsand blankets; in do¬
mestics, cottons, prints ticking,
duck denims, chevoits, etc., as well
33 hoots and shoes; ladies and
gentlemen’s shirts, furnishing goods, such
as for which the firm is sole
agents for Eighmie’s patent bosom
shirt, a splenbid article for wear;
also collars and cuffs, ruchings,
frillings, lace scarfs, corsets hoiserv
and notions generally. The house
has special opportunities rarely
enjoyed by the trade at large, by
which it successfully holds the ap¬
pellation on which heads this article.
The styles as they appear in the
fashionable centres of the East, are
immediately point. The transnlanted to this
6tock embraces a full
and comprehensive line of goods
which are purchased in large lots
from first hands, and this is the
secret of Messrs.
gray & co’s
ability to sell superior goods for
cash at surprisingly low prices.
Liberty Local News.
Our people don’t care for politics.
They are mixed.
At this writing diptheria is still
raging. There is a malignant sore
throat that the adults are having
while the children are having the
regular type. We call it all dip
theria.
Mr. Me. the boys tell a good joke
on you, is it so ? Was that really
the cause of your sticks being
broken ?
There are a great many water¬
melons in the fork. The Oconeeit's
are regular visitors down there.
I heard one of our farmers say
that he never bought more than
three bushels of corn till this year.
He runs a five horse farm, and
the drouth last year caused him to
have tfl buy fifteen this year. He
raises as much cotton to the horse
as any of our farmers. He is at
home at work, while others are
hauling supplies.
In memory of Poor Shanghai
Dominick. My old rooster had
great faith in Dr. Tanner,
and was a great supporter of Tan
nerism. He said that he could go
thirty days without eating, drinking
or even gnawing the head ef a cane.
Accordingly (July) on the 20th of last
month he entered upon his
fast. No one could persuade him
out of the notion. The female
element first tried to, make him be
iieve that it was impossible for him
to succeed in his undertaking and
to quit his nonsense. But that had
no effect on one who had so much
faith in Tannerism. They then,
female like, tried to make him be¬
lieve that they were full believers
in doctor Tanner and his ism. They
told him certainly he could make
the trip without any trouble. This
only made him the stronger in his
determination. He said tnat he
though and that the he could honors out himself. do Tanner
wear I
have piration, kept a sheet showing the res¬
temperature, <tc., <fec., &e.,
of old Shanghai Dominick, during
the last thirty-nine days of his life ;
for that i* the day of his fast upon
which he ceased to breathe. He
was conscious till the verv last and
and asked me to be sure that I kept
a coriect account so that the world
might see Shanghai what he had accomplished.
Poor Dominick is gone!
gone!! gone!!! A meeting was
called and appropriate resolutions
formed. “Wnereas in the death of
Shanghai Dominick this communi¬
ty has lost one of its oldest citizens.”
There was a long list of resolutions
formed. I will extract one or two.
“Resolve 5 that we recommend the
Liberty correspondent to write a
Biography world of Shanghai Dimineck,
that the may know him as
we do; and see in him the Abraham
of the present age. And that we
use all efforts to obtain every item
of interest that we can for the bene¬
fit of his
Resoivefithtbatwesparenoefforts
order in aiding that the sale of obtain Ibis book, in
we may means
to erect a monument to the mem¬
ory of our much beloved friend.
A British ship has sailed for Tex¬
as with 3,500 barrels of oil, made for
the purpose of preserving railroad
ties und bridge timbers under a new
process.
officials Of the bishops, judges and other
personages who took part
the ceremony of Queen
coronation dead. forty-two years ago,
ore now
NOTICE!
From and after this date,
all legal advertisements from
the Sheriff and Ordinary’s
Offices of Oconee, must be
paid for in ADVANCE! It
is not fair nor just to these
officers to become responsi¬
ble, and have the money to
pay out of their pockets.
(Xr* Those indebted to us
for legal advertising and
subscriptions are hereby no¬
tified to come forward and
settle at once. This means
BUSINESS!
W. G. SULLIVAN,
Ed. end Pub. Advance.
The Ninth District.
The undersigned candidates for
congress in the 9th congressional dis¬
trict have agreed upon a joint dis¬
cussion on the lollowering terms,
to wit: The party opening the
debate to speak one hour, the other
to follow in aspeech of one hour
and a half, the opening party to
conclude in a speech of thirty
minutes. The parties shall open
and conclude on alternate days.
Either party shall have the right to
rise and correct a mis-statement of
fact without argument, the time oc¬
cupied not to be counted against
the speaker. Each meeting is to be
presided over by a chairman se¬
lected by the parties alternately
who shall preserve order and keep
thetime. All tnepeople and most
especially the ladies are invited to
attend these discussions. The
parties agree to the following ap¬
pointments for joint discussion,
and request all the papers in the
district to publish this agreement
and the appointments.
H. P. Bell,
Emory 8r ken,
appointments.
Lawrenceville, Tuesday, Sept: 14;
Dahlonega, Friday, Sept. 17; Daw
sonville, Monday, Sept 20; Gaines¬
ville, Wednesday, Sept. 22; Gum¬
ming, Friday, Sept. 24; Jasper,
Monday, Sept. 27 ; Ellijuy, Wed¬
nesday, Sept. 29; Homer, Monday,
October 4; Jefferson, Wednesday,
October 6; Danielsville, Friday,
October 9; Cartiesville, Monday,
October 11 ; Athens, Wednesday
night, October 13; Watkinsvilie,
Friday, October 15; Madison, Mon¬
day, October 18 ; Toccoa, Wednes¬
day, October 20; Clarksville, Fri¬
day, October 22 ; Cleveland, Satur¬
day, October 23; Clayton, during
court week.
Advertising.
Every community is made up of
producers and consumers, of
buyers and sellers; every individual
is, to a certain extent, both a pro¬
ducer anti consumer. That which
he wants he must obtain from those
who can furnish it, and hehas some
things He can furnish to those who
want them. It is not, enough,
however, to be able or willing to
supply the things that others need;
nor is it enough for one to need
what others furnish. Both producer
and consumer must be brought
into communication with each
other’s wants, and the facilities for
supplying their wants, before active
trade can spring up between them.
This is done by advertising. The
man who best understands the laws
of trade by which demand and sup¬
ply are regulated, and who the
most wisely advertises his business,
is the man who succeeds the best.
Our most prosperous business men,
in every department, to-day, are
the men who advertise the most
thoroughly. If you have anything
which the people need, the more
widely you make it known the lar¬
ger will be your gains. No one
need expect to do an extended busi¬
ness in his line in these days who
fails to advertise freely and liberally.
Force your announcement upon
readers by its prominence, its
wording and type; and keep it be¬
fore them. The publie will not
rush in and buy you out the first
day; it has other things to tiunk of.
It will glance at your advertise¬
ment the first time it appears, read
it the second time, and buy the
third .—Athens Banner.
i A respected woman at LaFavette
l n d. ( has never been legally J ‘mar
ried to the man she regards as her
husband, 'i his is her way of
ing the property which, by the
terms of her first husband's will,
she would lose by marrying again,
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The largest cotton-seed oil mill
n tlic United States is being erected
1 in Little Rock. It will have a
P a cily of , using , three , , hundred
I of cotton per day. The work will
employ six hundred and fifty
Mere Facts.
Facts are stubborn things and
some-times very hard to understand.
For instance, here are three, which,
taken together, are extremely
perplexing:
First. The New York Tribune,
on the 19th of Febuary, 1873, said
that Gen. Garfield, the Republican
canidate for President, “had ten
shares of Credit Mobilier stock;
never paid a dollar; received $329,
which, after the investigation began,
he was anxious to have considered
as a loan from Mr. Ames to him¬
self.”
Second. The New York Time*,
on the 20th of Febuary, 1873, dis¬
tinctly stated that Gen. Garfield,
the Republican canidate for Pres¬
ident, “presented a most distressing
figure,” and that “his participation
in the Credit Mobilier affair was
complicated by the most unfortu¬
nate contradictions of testimony.”
Third. That the New York Trib¬
une and New York Times, after
severely denounceing Gen. Garfield,
the Republican canidate for Pres¬
ident, for the “disgraceful transac¬
tion’ aforesaid, now pronounce him
a truly good citizen and enthusiasti¬
cally support him for the office once
held by Washington, and are doing
so to-day in the face of the most
overwhelming testimony furnished
by themselves of the guilt of the
said Gen. Garfield.
It is now really a perplexing ques¬
tion for the stalwart readers of the
able journals we have referred to
know which they must believe, the
Tribune and Times of 1873 or of
1880 .—Baltimore Gazette.
Captain John L. Browning, for
many years a conducter on the
South Carolina railroad, entered
Beall’s drug store late yesterday
evening and evinced by his actions
that he was feeling unwell.. He
pulled off his coat and loosened his
shirt collar as if suffering from
suffocation, ts he seemed to be
unable to speak, Mr, Gardelle, a
clerk in the store, supposing he had
an attack of asthma, handed him a
dose of assafcetidu, which he was
unable to swallow. He made
powerful efforts to withstand the
attacks which had seized him, but
but they proved of no avail. Sev¬
eral gentlemen who were standing in
the store at the time rushed to his
assistance, and caught him as he was
in the act of falling. They carried
him to the rear oi the store, laid him
down and obtained medical as¬
sistance immediately. He rested
apparently easier and breathed more
freely in a reclining position, but
after lingering a short while hi*
pulse ceased and he died withont
a struggle .—Augusta Sews.
An Iowa woman by her will left
an old arm chair to one of her sons.
In the stuffing was found a roll of
hank notes amounting to $400.
Thefogal question is whether the
money belongs to the son.
-*•••*— •
The timber and lumber business
in Georgia will amount this year to
300,000.000 teet, and will exceed $6,
000,000 a year.
Although paper collars have to a
great extent gone out of use within
tfie last ten years, 200,000,000
them are now muufuctured annually.
The new park at Augusta, Ga,has
been fitted up witli a grotto, two
fountains, and a miniature lake It
is also to be adorned with statuary.
Over twenty births occurred in
Conyers The Weekly in the past fifty days.
calculates that if this
ratio continues the population of
the town will be increased by natu¬
ral means about seven hundred by
the next census.
that As proof, need says the railroad, Ellijay Courier,
we a we will
inform the publie that for the last
week wagons, from Cherokee coun¬
ty, North Carolina, loaded with cot¬
ton rock, have been passing through
Ellijay Dalton. en The route for tbe railroad at
distance is about
eighty miles.
ANNOUNCEMENT*).
To The People.
My I friends are hereby notified
that am a candidate for Itepre
■tentative in the Legislature from
Oconee county. If I get enougn
votes to elect me, (which I hope to
do,) I will serve my country and
the State to the best u£ my ability.
augl0,1880.t-d. W. W. PRICE
Look Out.
Many friends will support Mil¬
ford Roach for Representative of
Oconee county at the ensuing elec¬
tion. A full expression of his far¬
mer friends is solicted.
MANY FRIENDS.
Harness Shop.
The undersiflMd wtshe* to inform
the public that he is now ready to do
all kinds of work, New Harness made
and repairing old Harness, are my
specialties. Ail work first-class and
reliable. I out be found at my shop
ready to do all work, at any time
Call on me and see. Satisfaction
guunuiU**"). W E. HARRIS.
JuneW, 1880,3-ui. Watkin*ville, Ga
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W. H. JONES, Superintendent.
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NEW ADVERTIEMTS.
GEORGIA— Oconee County.
Whereas, Mary C. Thrusher ad¬
ministratrix of Barton C. Thrasher,
presents duly to the Court, in her peti¬
tion, filed and entered on re¬
cord that she has fully adminis¬
tered Barton C. Thrasher’s estate
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned, kindred and creditors
to show cause, if any they can,
why said administratrix should
not be discharged from her admin¬
istration, and receive Letters of
dismission on the first Monday in
December next. J.R.-LYLE,
8ept .fi,18 80.3-m. Ordinary.
GEORGI A— -Oconee County.
Whereas, Barton E. Thrasher,
Executor of Isaac Thrasher, repre¬
sents to the Court, in his petition
duly filed and entered on record,
that he has fully administered Isaac
Thrasher’s estate. This is therefore
to cite all persons concerned, kin¬
dred and creditors to show cause,
if any they can, discharged why said Executor
should not be from tiis
Executorship, and receive Letters of
dismission on the first Monday in
December, next. J. R. LYLE,
8ept.fith,1880.3-m. Oidinury.
Ordinary’s Office, Sept, fith, 1880.
GEORGIA— Oconee County.
Whereas, William i ouluot, ap¬
plies to me for valuation and setting
apart a Homestead of reality, and
I will pass upon the same at 10
o’clock a. in. Sept 29th 1880, at my
office, in Watkinsvilie. Given
under my hand at office this Sept,
fith. 1880. JAMES R. LYLE,
Ordinary.
Mania and Charlotte
Air-Line Railway.
PASSENGER Department
ATLANTA
— TO
THE EASTERN CITIES
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Atlanta, Ga, June 1st. 1880.
CHANGE CUT SCHEDULE.
On and after June 1st. DOUBLE
DAILY TRAINS will run on this
road as follows :
EASTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 7:20 a. in.
Leave Lula..... 7:24 a. m.
WESTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 9:29 p m.
Leave Lula.... 9:30 p. m.
EASTWARD.
NMHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Arrive at Lula. .. 6:23 p. m.
Leave Lula..... ... 6:24 p. ro.
westward.
Arrive at Lula 8:51 a. m.
Leave Lula.... 8:52 a. m.
GOING EAST.
LOCAL FREIGHT TRAIN.
Arrive at Lula.. *#»*#»»*# 11:35 a.m.
Leave Lula...... 11:5* a. m.
WESTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 11:55 a.m.
Leave Lulu.... 12:15 p. m.
THROUGH FREIGHT TRAIN.
Arrive at Lula, 4:15 p. m.
Leave Lula.... 4:25 p. m.
Close connection at Atlanta for all
points West and Southwest. Char¬
lotte for all points East. Through
Tickets on sale at Gainesville,
SencecaCity Greenville and Spar
tariburg to all points East and West.
G. J. FORE AC RE, Gen’l Manager,
W. J. Houston, Gen. Pnm.&T’k Ag’t
campaign. The Atlanta Only /VionograpA, 50 during
cents for
months. W.T. Address,
Christopher <k Bro.,
Atlanta, Ga.
D. C. HURLEY,
* have PCONEE jSlf^EET, ^t i HENS, pA.
removed my carriage and wagon business to the
H- tdsrson Brotn^rs* < >ld St?aid*
where with improved machinery and fine Northern Workmen I will
build and repair in the best manner vehicles of every description. 1 also have a
lot of fine buggies built by Hodgson Bros, „
which I will sell at a low price to
make room for my new wagons. My work is all guaranteed and my prices rea
0. C. HURLEY,
augl7,’80-ly Athens, Ga.
JAMES E. MURRAY. I I. W. THRASHER.
Murray&thrasheR Watkinsvilie, ?
Georgia,
In returning our thanks to our friends for their very liberal patronage during
the past, we would again renew our offer of one of the &
Largest and Best Selected
STOCK II GOODS!
Ever brought to this section, and ask the people of this and adjoining counties
this Stock careful examination. tn
give a Jn
OF Dry Lloods Our Lines
JEANS.
BLEACHED and BROWN DOMESTICS
8TRI FES and Cll ECKS,
PRINTS, of standard makes, from 6c. to 9c.per yd.
LADIhS TIE8,
DRESS GOODS,
ETC., ETC., ETC.
GliASSWARE, CROCKERY,
MOORE’S SCHOOL INK,
FINE CIGARS and TOBACCO,
STATIONERY,
is full and at low fePARTMBNT prices. Owr
FANCY Goods
Has had the most carefisl selections, and m style and xuaKty can't be
We have the best line of
Boots Shoes Ladle’s and Mens’ Hats Caps,
We bate ever had, and at prices that defy competition. Our stock of
Ready-Made Clothing
Is large. Of tbe best stylss and material, and bought with' a view to meet
the wants of all class of purchasers. Suits from $2.75 m>
The Departments of Drugs, Hardware and Staple and
Y % CY GRCCERIEg,
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call and examine. complete. MURRAI We again ask you to
Watkinsvilie, Ga., May 5,1880. & THRASHER.
To the Vote™ of Oconee
cotrjvrvt t
From a promise made heretofore
I now announce my name as a can¬
didate for Representative.
mar!7-td M. M. SWEATS.
To the f*n»l ir.
Many Voters will support Mr. \V Y
ELDER, as a candidate for the Legis
lot a re at the *nNuiug election.
MANY VOTERS,
»pr7, '80-td
Hancock and English und Nor¬
wood Badges by mail lOcenU each.
Reduction to Clubs.
IV, T. Christopher ABro.,
Atlanta, Ga.
/a*- jy p -}j fJLLIVAN
Fashlo able
|) BZSSMAm andlCLLINg {[
Watkinsvilu, Ga.,
Begs leave to offer her services to the
ladies of Watkinsvilie and vicinity
an a dressmaker and milliner. Hat*
and Bonnet* re-trimmed and renovated,
cheaply urensmakiug and fancy work neatly and
executed. All the latest maga¬
zine* and pattern* always oo hand.
Hatixf&ctum guaranteed, Price* liberal.
Give her a trial.
Now is the time to subscribe to
Tux Advance. Only II a yea*.