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W. T. CONN & CO., TTWHOLESALE DEALERS in Sta- Vv pie and Fancy Groceries, Tobac- &c. 20th, 1869. 5 6m cos. Cigars Miliedireville, Ga., Feb The Edwards House, PUFFERS the best accommodation kJ for Transient and Regular Board ers. Special inducements for College students. WARREN EDWARDS. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 1, ’86. 26 ly ATTENTION BACON CLUB! All members of the Bacon Club 1 and every friend of Major Bacon, who wants to see Baldwin county instruct her delegates to vote for him, are re- S uested to attend the convention ay. Don’t let business or anything prevent you being on hand promptly at 11 o’clock. F. B. MAPP, Pres’dt Bacon Club. Mayor Walker struck silver in his artesian well last Tuesday. Baldwin Superior Court will meet next Monday. An unusual amount of important business will come before this court. It will be held in our new court house. The Augusta District Conference will meet at Warrenton next Wednes day night, and continue in session four or five days. The meeting to-day to select dele gates to the gubernatorial convention will be held at 11 o'clock, at Amuse-J ment Hall. Dr. Boring, Presiding elder of this District, preached at the Methodist church last Sunday night. The third quarterly conference was held at the parsonage last night. The farmers of Baldwin speak in very despondent terms of crop pros pects. Mr. Sam Evans says the coun ty will not average three bales of cot ton to the mule. July is trying to follow in the foot steps of June. Up to Monday morn ing (12th) nearly four inches of rain had already fallen. The Grass crop is promising. The Democratic Party of Baldwin i county wall meet at the Opera House, | to-day (Tuesday) at 11 o’clock, a. m., to select delegates to the gubernato-. J rial and congressional conventions. I Rev. J. D. Hammond will begin tbis evening a series of weekly Pray er-Meetings at the Midway Chapel. y t All are cordially invited to attend. .' Remember every Tuesday Evening I at 8 o'clock. FIRE ALARM- a SIGNAL SYSTEM SUGGESTED. I The concert at the college Tuesday ' night was largely attended and highly i appreciated. The admission price w-as 15cts for children and 2octs for | adults. About seventy five dollars j was realized, which will be applied to the purchase of a piano.• mule attached to a small wagon away on our crow-ded streets last rday morning, and started an- her mule with similar attachment, hey circled around in a lively man- for a few seconds, but were stop- before much damage was done.— Both wagons contained peaches, and this fact was advertised with a fine display by these spirited mules. In another place in this paper will be found the annual report of General iT). H. Hill, President, to the Trustees jof the M. G. M. & A. College, which we publish at the Trustees’ request. It is an admirable paper in its wise sugj gestionsand most cheering in its state ments concerning the present flour ishing condition and future prospects tof the institution. It will no doubt be |lr«ad with much pleasure by all the friends of the College and will be a F valuable help in increasing their num feer and in securing the aid which it needs to make it still more useful and efficient in the future. The College jand the community are most fortu nate in having a president so capa- t ble and so efficient, to administer the affairs of this valuable institution. Solicitor General Whitfield was ac tive yesterday in circulating a peti tion to Judge Lawson, to postpone ;he session of the Superior Court from (:he third Monday in July to the third Monday in August. The object of the •stponement is to give the farmers opportunity to fight the grass 'eh by reason of the unprecedented * of the past few weeks, has got lie upper hand of the crops and must e destroyed soon or it will destroy he hopes* of the farmer. Many sig natures were obtained and we do not ioubt that the fine common sense of he judge, and liis sympathy with our arming community, will c.ause him o grant the petition. We learn that >ur local bar are, in general, in favor f the proposed postponement, and it eems to us a wise and proper thing nder all the circumstances which irround us. Washout on Georgia Railroad. -Yesterday morning we learned that pie Macon & Augusta train, which massed here Sunday afternoon for llacon, w-as stopped by a washout liear .James’ Station, and soon there- fter another washout occurred be- lind it, leaving the train unable to go t ither forward or backward, in which ondition we suppose it still remains. Ve "ere further informed that about * ne hundred and fifty feet of trestle /as washed out near Roberts’ Sta- ion, which it will take some time to epair. It is possible that the trains lay be able to resume their trips to- ay by making a transfer of passen- ers at the trestle which was washed way. We failed of course to get ur usual mail from Macon and it is most impprtant one to us. No oubt our energetic railroad officials ill have all repairs made as soon as ossible. The rains in the section here the washouts occurred is said > have been almost unprecedented i quantity and destructiveness. A very lieavy thunder cloud passed • the southwest of this city, Sunday ternoon, giving us, however, a lib- , a l supply of rain here, which -we *e compelled to say we did not feel iftt we needed. About a quarter past 12 o’clock on Saturday last, the rapid ringing of our fire bell caused a great stir on our business streets and for a while there w r as a hurried running of the multi tude towards the place where a black smoke w r as seen rising from the rear of the stores occupied by Mrs. Woot^ ten and Mr. Wm. Carr. It soon bej gan to die out and it was speedily as certained to be caused by the burning out of a chimney in the millinery store of Mr. W. H. Carr. The ex citement subsided before the firemen could get the fire engine to the place of danger, though the firemen got it out on the streets very speedily. This incident affords us an opportu nity to make a suggestion to “the powers that be” that may possibly meet with their approval. In Atlan ta, and we presume in other large cities, after the fire bell has been rung until the fact is made known that a fire exists, as soon as the bell ringer ascertains which ward is the scene of the fire, he taps the bell the numb'er of times that corresponds with the number of the w ard and then makes a pause: after which he repeats the same number of taps of the bell and the succeeding pause, and so contin ues ’till everyone in hearing knows in which ward the fire exists. Our city divided into six wards: numbers one, two and three being east of Wayne street; which separates them from wards four, five and six that are west of it. I Number one is north of Hancock street, number two is between Han cock and Greene, and number three is south of Greene. Ward number four is south of Greene street, and op posite ward three, number five is be tween Greene and Hancock and oppo site \vard tw r o, and number six is north of Hancock, and opposite ward one, wards four, five and six all being, as above stated, west of Wayne street. Five taps of the fire bell and then a pause, followed by five taps again, and a pause—and*so on—would show that the fire was in ward number five; and thus any other number of taps that did not exceed six, (the whole number of wards,) would show the fire to be in the ward bearing that number. This system may seem a lit tle intricate at first, but the people would soon become accustomed to it and while lying in their beds at night, might be informed, soon after any alarm was given, of the locality of the fire. We have an impression that our city fathers have some such plan un der consideration. In any event, we trust that it may meet with their ap proval. . —AT- P. J. CLIME & CO’S. The Midway base ball nine played against the town nine yi^uesday in the College campus, which resulted in a score of 11 to 12 in favor of the town boys. • PROHIBITION CLUB, Will meet to-niglit (Tuesday 13th) at Amusement Hall. A full meeting is desired as business of importance is to be transacted. T. L. McComb, President. We have had an immense crowd for the last week, and the rush still continues, and we are giving the people bargains that they have never been offered before. • We are determined that all the Damaged Goods Shall he Disposed Of! We have a great many more of them left, and we will continue the sale, and at such prices as they are obliged to go; while their being dam aged injures the'sale of them, the value to the purchaser is almost as good as if they had never been wet. Everything TO COUNTRY and will be sold for the Cash and Cash only. MERCHANTS. We have many lines of Goods- that you cannot duplicate else where in price or quality. $5,000 Worth of HATS! We have bought out a firm’s entire stock of men’s and boys’ Hats at Twenty-Five cents on the dollar, and we will sell you a hat at less than half the price you can buy them anywhere. We have a sample of each kind on one of the center counters, marked in plain figures, and we will sell them in solid cases to merchants and at retail. Come and see them; we can show you more hats, and cheaper hats,* than you ever saw in Milledgeville before. Send for Quotations. ADOLPH JOSEPH. We will also, Open, To-Day, One Bwndred Dozen Jffen’s White Inliiiiiiilried Shirts. That We will Sell at 90c a Piece! You would not believe that so good a Shirt, ready made, could be sold for 20c. We can t tell you how we got them, but bring the cash and you can buy them at the price advertised. They will not be sold without the cash. PETER J. CLfflE & CO., Milledgeville, Ga., June 14th I860. 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