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Dr. J. H. Etheridge,
Physician & Surgeon,
LEARY, GA.
The Democratic Executive Commit¬
tee of C.illioun comity are hereby no¬
tified to meet iu Morgan on Saturday,
£he 29th iust., us tfn Vji is business of
importance to transact,
L. G. Cartledge, Chairman.
July 19. Ii, 1882
Through the Country.
Mr. Editor:
Having pas ed over a considerable
portion ol Cal boon and Baker coun¬
ties within til.- la t wet-K, I thought I
you Id, through the columns of your
appreciated Coi.rier, tell you of some
filings I SiW and heard. All along
the road from Wilkinson fs Bridge to
the home of J. II. Rowel, Sheriff of
Baker county, the crops of corn, cot-
jot), sugar cane aud potatoes ate just
simply fine. I saw at Mr. Thom is
Bal.on'e faun a chartered cotlon crop,
and a' Henry Perry's corn on old field
laud ;p the late of fifte-.ii bushels per
*R.re.
I speqt;} few p'easant hours with the
genial Sheriff and his lady and hugely
euj yed a sumptuous repast in fine
vegetables, beef, milK. butter, jellies,
catsups, and last, but not least, some
mighty good fiopr bread iu the round,
as Bill F.u-e would s >y.
I learned, in conversation with cer¬
tain parties, that BaKer will probably
have two promiuent citizens out as
cnndid.it. s for the legislature, in the
persons of lion. W. W. De ws and
Hon. Primus Jones, the present iu-
cumbaot. Now, that §ouqfls right,
bo;s; if you do havo a little election
fan, have it over two good men, and
jf you elect < ither of tins? gentlemen
county will be ably represented.
Well, further as to the crop. I
stood in the center of one seven hun¬
dred acre pa’ch, all loaded down with
fruit; aud, Mr. Editor, I tell you now,
that's tbe bigge.-t cotton patch all in
one field and under one fence I ever
paw. I judge from the condition of
crops on Beach Grove, that Phil has a
good set of hands, and a fine mapager
jn Jim Barbrec. I know of the hospi¬
tality of Jim and his excellent lady;
!‘the.truth of the pudding," etc.
Po reaching home I found that a
flejuge of rain had fallen, filling the
drjed up ponds and brunches to over¬
flowing; atiJ also, that the protracted
meeting at Round Top church was
growing iu interest anil a glorious re¬
vival of religion is confidently expect-
ed.
I see the Masonic Lodge and Acqd-
emy is well under way and will soon
be ready for occupancy. Now, gen-
Hernen, Phil, undoubtedly needs some
money, aud what say you ‘Q coming to
flis re’.i -f on the Academy at once ?
Mr. E lilor, hoping you abundant
;-ucce.-s with your enterprise, and that
I) . O. H. Pauli will be brought for-,
ward by the party to represent this
Nenaloril district, I am, sir,
Y'ouis Affectionately,
* *
Leary, Ga., July 26, 1882.
1CCAL BREVITIES
Cotton is* little rusty.
Fodder was considerably damaged
by the heavy rains.
Onr merchants had a very good
trade last Saturday.
Watermelons are getting so cheap
that nobody wants them.
We are adding numbers of now sub-
scribers to our list every day.
Capt. Hobbs and Mr. Tarver, of
Albauy, were in Leary yesterday.
Worn on the improvement of the
Court House commenced last wcck.
It is given up that Leary can’t play
Baltimore pool and drafts—“so said/’
Wouldn't it be a good idea for the
logde to publish its dates of meeting V
Mrs Spencer, &f Albany, is a wel'
come( j viaitoi* to our town at present.
\Y e hear some talk of the catterpil-
lar—not enough to frighten yet, hows
ever.
Remember that we take country
produce in payment of subscription to
this paper.
There is said to bo less sickness in
our immediate section at this time
than ever before.
We saw peaches for sale on our
streets yesterday. The crop this year
is by no means large.
A two-story bricK store,40x100 feet,
is to be built by a certain enterprising
man in this town soon.
Bub tell Dave to make “Griff’’ tell
’em to stop. The Major is not hero to
attend to the business now,
When you meet a man with red eye
don't ask him what's the matter. Its
a point upon which he is sore.
Mr. Horsely will commence adding
to his dwelling soon, which, when
completed, wifi he a cosy affair.
When is the council going to have
the wet weather ponds ditched ? Eith¬
er do this or establish a ferriage.
A good barber can do well in Leary
Even tbe drummers that stop here
would almost keep a good shop going.
Mrs. John Webb spent the day here
yesterday. She brought little Lucy
with her, and Jim Turner was happy.
Some of our cifizeuS* complain of a
scarcity of chickens and eggs. Now
is the time to get a good price for
them.
Good Rice, 12 pounds foF §1. Best
Flour for §9 per barrel, 10 lbs Yellow
C. Sugar for $1 at
jnl28 W. J. Grubbs’.
The side walk on Railroad street,
leading west, is almost iu an impassa¬
ble condition and needs work bad-
i.r.
Newt. Clower, of Blikelv, was in
towu Tuesday. We are glad lo state
that he did not foiget to bring his
laugh with him.
We are glad to weleom j home Mr.
A. W. Turner and lady. Tiny have
been on a visit to relatives and took iu
the lucliau springs
There will be lots of goods here this
fall, and “if anybody wants anything"
out of Leary they can just simply get
it, and we ain't afraid to say it.
Mr, Jas McGregor, one of the clev¬
erest chaps on the road has been
drumming up this section this and last
week, and has sold some good bills,
The Academy and Lodge bni lding
will soon be finisned, and Leary may
feel pi'oud of it. We can now look
hopefully forwaed for a large school,
Maj. J. F. Larx aud family left
Tuesday morning to summer a little
among friends and relatives in Seroia.
We hope they will have a pleasant
trip and return safely.
Miss Lizzie Addison is visiting Mrs.
W. T. Simmons. She and three hun¬
dred and fifteen more young ladies,
say onr young gentlemen, ate welcome
as rain in Summer.
Cotton is begining to open rapid¬
ly. Culbouu will send in a bale soon
and wont liave to pull up tbe Stalks
and hang them on a fence to do it, ei¬
ther. No insinuations.
The. hardest rain which we ever re
member to have seen, fell on Sunday
night last. AH the afreets, ponds are
fall, and much sicimcss on account
fhereof is anticipated.
W. A. Pledger, about the biggest
nigger in the State, says that Stephens
w ^|j no t get one thousand colored votes
j D jjj s coming race. Of course he
knows everything and always tells
the truth-
Mr. Stephens remained a member
of congress until after the gubernato
rial convention, an el.ction will now
be held by the eighth district to fill
his place. Seaborn Reese has been
si>oken of for the short aud J. C. C.
Black the long term,
On last Sunday it was onr pleasure
fo visit the beautiful little • home of
Mr. B. F. Bray, upon the hill, among
| 1,10 oaks - According to our way of
thinking this is the prettiest plaoe in
town, and we‘11 het Bob will agree
with us. Aud he uot ouly lias a pret¬
ty house but there is a sufficiency of
everything around him to make it
comfortable and happy. One of the
host wells aud ..otne of the best water
we ever saw can bo found there.
The well is dug deep and walled up
from bottom to top with rock, mak¬
ing it impossible for it to cave, easily
kept chau aud free from trash and
sediment. When we had been shown
ail (he conveniences around the house
we waliied out to look at the crop,
which is as good as we ever saw Cot •
ton, corn, cane, peas and potatoes
are very fine. Mr. Bray is ono of
the live atshome sort, he has enough
last years corn to do him fora long
time yet. Helms a cane patch he
thinks lie will make fifteen barrels of
on syrup and peas aiul potatoes world
without end. Fcum what we have
seen, wo have concluded that here
would be a good place to take dinner,
and that we intend to take advantage
of au invitation tendered us the first
opportunity we have.
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Again bad luck has happened to the
artesian borers. This time the ream ■
er became fastened, aud at the bottom
of the well, which was 130 feet deep,
and on attempting to raise it tho rope
broke, rendering necessary to get it
out or the commencement of a new
well. We admire the energy and
hang-on of Mr. Specer.tlie contractor.
If there is any water a la artesian in
the bowels of the earth anywhere
around here he will fiud it.
A wire rope was sent for this morn¬
ing, and Mr. Spencer thinks he will
be able to get everything all right by
to morrow. When wo want to learn to
“cuss“ we will attempt (lie boring
of an artesian will.
Rev. Mr. Curry has been engaged
in a protracted meeting at Morgan for
the past week or ten days and on Sun¬
day morning last, thanks to our friend
Turner, we had the pleasure of seeing
twenty seven baptized. This speaks
well for Mr. Curry aud the Morgan
people.
A protracted meeting is being held
at Roundtop church and we are glad
to see so many of our town people at¬
tending. Eleven have joined up to
to date. Mr. Muse, the pastor, and
the Rev. Mr. Hanks,of Albany,are en¬
gaged in tbe work. We hope the
good work may go on, and many
more be added to the church.
Now boys, we have one on Dr. E
Last Monday, while sitting in his
wiudew, upstairs, calmly gazing across
fields of corn and cotton, that stretch
out South of town, he saw some
object leisurely picking about in the
grass. Hasting down stairs to Capt,
Boyd, he breathlessly exclaimed:
“Capt. ‘ where's your guu ? I want to
In’ll a wild turkey I have seen just
across the field. ‘Now,Doc.,’ said the
Capt. ‘you wouldn't kill old man
Martin's old setting hen, would you ?'
Doc., looking a little blank, “Oh,
shucks ! I might have known it was
old man J/urtins.’’
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On last Sunday evening when Mr.
Iloraely's horse was hitched in front
of the Methodist churob, he became
restless or was frightened and broke
loose. In backing the buggy off from
the trees it was run against one oj
them and came near being turned
over. The only damage done, how¬
ever, was to the single tree and har¬
ness. Always taxe your horses from
the shafts when yon leave them.
Leary is just simply the liveliest
town iu seventeen States. Mr. F. P.
Griffin has just closed a trade with N.
W. Pace & Son to build a nice hotel
on Broadway, near the livery stable.
Nothing “sloncby" about Leary, and
don't you fail to remember it. We
are going to invite Albany and McIn¬
tosh to live with us when it's finished.
The favorite amusement now is
catching fleas in steel traps. Could
be made a profitable business if the
traps were stronger, and they were
skiuned for their hide and tallow.
Some are so ferocious that they have
to be shot upon being taken from tbe
traps. They grow very large here.
They prey upon dogs and cats.
We understand that our neighbor,
Baser, will probably have three Cans
didates for the Legislature—Messrs.
W. W. Dews, Primus Jones, and W.
L. Spsrling. This will Kick up a live¬
ly old racket in Baker this fall. We
will bet fifteen cents against ° a dozen
eggs „ that ., one of them, or some other ,,
man, will be elected.
How would it do for the ladies of
onr town to inaugurate some kind of
aid Society, for the purpose of raising
funds to aid in' taking cure of onr
clnirohes aud other public institutions?
To give a towu life and hasten its
growth, even the ladies will have to
come together and lend a helping
band.
Mr. Geo. V. Pace, the enterprising
oariiage manufacturer, mill man and
contractor anil builder of Arliuglom
was in town h st Monday, He made
four contracts for buildings while
here. We are glad ho was successful
and proud to see Leary building.
— .......
Rev. W, L. Curry is arranging to
build a handsanae dwelling on his
plantation in BaKer. N. W. Pace &
Son, of Arlington, are tho Contrac¬
tors, which is a sufficient guarantee
that it will be substantially aud neatly
put up.
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Some peculiar species of caterpil¬
lars are eating down corn and millet
near Macon. They attacked a thirty
acre patch of very Due millet a few
days since, and wore but a short
while in devouring every vestige of if.
A friend from Arlington writes us
there is a very young gentleman stop¬
ping at Mr. W. A. Bockom's and
quite a young lady at Dr. Ewell's, and
they bring jay to their papa's hearts.
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Arlington School Examination.
Mr. Editor:
Thinking some of your readers
would be glad to bear simethiug of
the examination and exhibition of the
Arlington Academy, I have taken it
upon myself to furnish you with a
synopsis of the programme:
On Tuesday morning tho examina¬
tion of classes was commenced with
the spelling class. They hadcommeuc
ed spelling when we entered the school
room, but that we heard was good;
especially did Louie and Ilamil Smith
Oscar Butler, Gussie Jones und Bobie
Bostwick acquit themselves credits
bly. They are excellent spellers for
little fellows.
The advanced grammar class did
well, and their promptness in auswer-
ing the questions showed that they
had not been idle during the term.
iSext examined was the little fel-
lows' history class We watched this
with much interest, and can say wo
never saw as small children du so well.
In the little folks reading class tho
children gave evidenco of having been
carefully instructed. Miss Emmu has
spared no pains to train these young
and tender minds correctly.
The rapidity with which the arith¬
metic class solved the mysteries of
figures, and the readiness with which
they explained how it was done, prov¬
ed that this department was not negs
lectcd.
The spelling class in the primary
department did well. The little chaps
are not far behind the higher class.
There were several other classes
examined, but we haven't the space
to mention them, anil condense our
letter by saying the exiamnation all
through was a success.
At 8 o'clock p. m. Butler’s Hall
was brilliantly lighted and tbe doors
thrown open to admit the crowd that
gathered there to witness the exhibi¬
tion. We did uot havo long to wait
ere the curtains were raised, and then
—what a lovely sight met our gaze:
the stage beautifully decorated with
evergreen and beautiful flowers, the
children gathered around their teach¬
er, who led, all the school joining her,
in that grand, glorious old song, “Joy
to the World, the Lord is Come,"
which was nicely rendered.
Master Bobie Rice being introduced
to the audience, delivered the Intro-
ductory, which he did with credit to
himself and teacher. Thsn followed
a lengthy programme of speeches,
music, dialogues, etc., dnly one essay
being read, the subject of which was
‘’Give," which was beautifully writ¬
ten and gracefully delivered by Miss
Huron McClain.
The prizes were awarded, with an
appropriate little speech, by Mr. W.
H. Boynton to Master Ilamil Smith
and Miss Dickie Beckcom.
At the conclusion of the programme
Mr. Ii. B. Taylor was introduced,
who pleasantly entertained us, for 20
minutes, in a well-word :1 address on
education. This clos' I tho show.
Tbe parents returned home fully
satisfied, doubtless, that illiss Emma
has dope her whole duty.
! The school will be opened again
September 1st. Parents, show the
appreciation yon have for a most corns
petent teacher by giving her a liberal
patronage. J. L. S
Arlington, Ga., July 2fl, 1882.
NEW MILLINERY GOODS.
I have received a very select stock
of Millinery Goods and will be pleased
to have my friends call. I am very
thankful for past fnvors and solicit
a continuance of the samo.
Mrs. At,ice B. McClain.
The Ordinary of Monroe county
will issue no more retail liquor lis
cense,
Stewart county has four candidates
for legislature. So has Lawrens, bo-
sides two for t ho Senate.
Four bales of the new cotton crop
were received at New Orleaus from
Texas, ou Tuesday last.
i)r. d/ell declined the position of
professor of systematic theology in
Mercer University, to which ho was
recently elected.
Crops in the northwest of Ireland
are iu a frightful condition. Huy is
lying cut in the fields surrounded by
water, and potatoes are blighted.
The captain of a mail stamer from
Constantinople lias been arrestedjastlio
spy of Arabi. lie lias made; impor.
taut confessions
A New Orleans special announces
the death of lion. Julian Neville,grand
sou of the revolutionary General Dan¬
iel Morgan, and himself for 50
years prominet in Louisiana political
aud social life. He died of paralysis,
in poverty, attended only by his blind
and cripple wife.
The building of a railway from
Gridin to Jackson, Ga., to connect
with the Macon and Brunswick ex-
tension, now completed to At¬
lanta is seriously agitnting Griffin. It
should be built by all means and It
Would probably proved the first link
of tj,ie long contemplated railwuy be¬
tween Grifflin nod Jfadison, build¬
ing of which is only a question of
time.
Cincinnati stands well to tho frout
as a beer drinking city. The retail
cost of beer consumed nnnually within
the wagon delivery of tho Cincinnati
breweries is 97,000,000, as shown by
official statistics. Reduced to glasses
the number drank is 140,000,000.
This is estimated as equivalent to 467
glasses for every man, woman aud
child in Hamilton county.
A vein of silver four and a half feet
thick, bearing unmistakable evidence
0 f being a true fissure, and assaying
$150 worth of fine silver to the ton,
bas beon discovered in tho famous old
Magruder mines, in Lincoln, county,
Ga. Yhese mine- were worked years
ago for gold only, and yielded $1,000
a weeic, and, if vigorously Worked will
duplicate that sum now. This impor¬
tant discovery will invest them with
new interest and add greatly to their
value. Tho reasonable probabilities
arc that other veins of rich silver ore
exist in that part of Georgia and tho
adjoining portion of South Carolina—
possibly extending into North Caro¬
lina.
The Democrats of Congress aro get¬
ting in some telling blows now, in
their contest with tho Republicans
over the tariff question. They are
showing conclusively that the little
piddling reductions which the Kepub
licans propose aro all in favor of man¬
ufacturers, bankers, etc., and that tho
poor and laboring people of the coun¬
try will not bo at all benefited by them
The Republicans resorted to many
ways that were dark and tricks that
were vain, to avoid a square is¬
sue on the tariff question—their Tariff
Commission was only a device to that
end—and when found that they must
do something, they proposed the tink¬
ering which the Democrats aro now
showing up so plainly that the people
c annot fail to see through the whole
fraud.— New s and Adv!
A girl in Colorado had been receiv¬
ing the attention of a young man for
nearly a year, but becoming impatient
at his failure to bring matters to a
crisis, she resolved to ascertain his ins
tentions. When he next called she
took him gently by the ear led him to
a seat, and said: ‘Nobby, you've
been fooling ‘round this claim for
mighty near a ye ,r, an’ hev never yet
shot off jour mouth on the marryin’
biz. Tve cottoned to you on the
square clear through, an’ hev stood
off every other galoot that has tried to
chip in, an’ now I want to come down
to business or leave the ranch. Ef
you're on the marry, an want a pard
that'll stick rite to yo till ye pass in
your checks an the good Lord calls ye
over the range, just squeal, an we'll
hitch, but ef that ain't yer game draw
out an give some other feller a show
fur the pile. Now sing yer song or
skip out. - He sang.—Chicago
Times.
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