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Leary Retail Market. COTTON. dnuRoTOir—MJcWllnjj ........ 1'o^e J.ow Middlhur-. •.. 10«<c Good Ordinary.... m,c Ordinary..»..-..».» •o- ARLIXGTOX ii FT A11. MARKET. GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS ICoiiN ...» *■* OR Me a i. » ►- 25 fiiOUH—SiVperfiire . , c tHI Family . ts 00 Fancy Family . OG 00 $acOx—S houlders . . —c Clear rib sides 1-*. Clear rlh hulk sides 14c Hulk shoulders . . —c hard > l<ie Sllgur Cured Hams.... Me Bai.T 14(lc COUNTRY PRODUCE. Wool................. 24U@25u Burriiit.............. fcmcKERs, Grown,..... • • • 15c / Frying Size .... Hides, Dry.. .... l -i|c Green j»c Tai.i.ow ...... • ••• llKKMVAX ...... ^' fiunr Steak, Roast, Mutton, 10 fcoos,.. ........ ...r * • *{»??? t »*« ADVERTISE IN THE COURIER, and ggt rich in a short while. SEND US $1.50 AND GET The Caihouu County Courier. It is a live, newsy paper. 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. -•- 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.’’ -.«.-- 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. ---- 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. SUBSCRIBE FOR YOUR COUNTY PAPER PRICE SI.50 PER A.VNUM. 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. SUB SCRIBE FOR THE Salka Csnnty Courier! County Organ o! Calhoun and a local nowspaper tot Several Other Counties* PUBL1SI1ED at LEAKY, GA. SUBSCRIPTION s ONE YEAR........ $1 50 . SIX MONTHS,.... 75 THREE MONTHS, 50 Politically ilia CotiniRn will be strictly Democratic, and will at atl times uphold and advocate the prin¬ ciples of thiSj our grand old party, tho life abd protection of our country. For the advancement of Religion, Education and all Moral Progress our earnest efforts will be directed. Eve ry enterprise tending to tho building up of this and surrounding counties will receive our hearty support ;and endorsement. will mafk b ( Tho present year one the most exciting politioa! campaigns on record, and reliable nows will be of great interest to all. Such we will endeavor to keep our readers posted with, besideB furnishing each week a budget of LOCAL NEWS, GENERAL NEWS , LITERATURE, AND HUMOR The Courier being published in a section thickly populated with good, substantial farmers, makes it one of, the best advertising mediums in the State, and we respectfully solicit tbe patronage of all business men, as well as a continuance of that of onr old patrons. Respectfully, JOSHUA JONES, Leary, Ga.