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'Col. Joe Poibil of Louisville was in tow u ksfc Monday. • M»v John. Noma of Johnson county wosin towria day or two ngo. Mr. Joel Pony bought an alligator shin last Friday from Giles Damol(col- oml),wliieh .said Giles took from the carcass of an alligator nine feet long. The City Fathers are agitating the Important Notice. The Dublin Post is the name of a now paper recently started in Dublin by Prof. R. L, Ilicks. The first num ber is on our table, presenting a hand some. appearance and filled with inter esting mutter. Success to the enter prise.—Sandcrsville Herald. For tho above, the brethren of tlie quill will please aceopt our thanks. A well-written communication on Capital and Labor will appear next weok.' Tho Sunday School picnic at Wrights- ville on tho 20th inst., is to bo a big thing. Everybody is invited to come with a basket. Wo hope to lnwo the pleasure of boing present ourself—but alas! for the oditorial basket. Especial attention is directed to tho notice of the Ordinary and Sheriff, that from and after this date the legal adver tising of Laurens, county will be done by the Post. PUBf.IN GA. t JULY 4, lfffi, Tcrms, $b00 a year in advance. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square, first insertion.. „.......$1. Each subsequent insertion. Local aOticjs, her line One column one year. 120. " six months. 70. Ten lines make a square. Isaac T. Keen, Proprietor. Advertising Pays. Messrs.’Adams and Turner bronnght a beef to Dublin two weeks ago, but failed to sell it all—they had to take a portion of it back home. Before they left town, however,we induced them to insert a little advertisement in the Post to notify the people that they would be in town again with beef on the follow ing Friday—they to pay us for the ad vertisement in beef. On Thursday tho Post of course spread the news fur and wide that a lino article of beef would be in town the next day. The rcsiut was, customers poured in so rapidly that tho beef was all sold in almost no timo, and many wonld-bc customers were sont away empty, and among then' ourself. Advertisin', Dealer in Dublin. We say let. it be done. Mr. Geo. Cuvrcll of Cochran, for many years a prominent merchant of Dublin, and once the Sheriff of (his coun ty was in town last Tuesday.. He has a host of friends throughout the county who are always glad to have him amongst them. He favored us with a call and $1.50 for the Post. Mr. J. R. Locke, brings us a sample of the largest snap beans wo have ever seen, also a sample of nice table peas the seed of which he procured in Vir ginia while soldiering it in that state fifteen LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS . Will be inserted at the following rates Sheriff sales, each levy, $3 00 Sheriffs’ mortgage sales, 5 00 Application for letter of iwlmin’tion, 5 00 '• “ : . ..gnar’ship. 5 00 Dismission from administratim, 5 00 Dismission from guardianship, ’ 5 00 For leave to sell land, 5 00 Application for homestead, 2 00 Sales'of real, estate by administrators, executors and guardians,' .persquare,4 00 Sales of. perishable property 10 days, 1 75 Estray notices, 80 days, 3 00 Divorcesj—mlelo perfect, service, 8 do F A MIL Y G ROGER IE S BACON, FLOUll, Local Affairs. - Mr. J. W. Maddox sends us a very - -fine stalk of cotton, which Ire 'says is a. fair sample of a largo portion of ; liis or op. . Mrs. Jno. B, Jones sends us three t S!3? a |g®S» 12, 13, ajhl ,18 ^otmees. ;) s [. --- ^IiN L; Or Jenkins favored us with a;call on Thursday last, presented us a 13 ounce tqma to and subscribed, for the'Post. " - We arc u nd or alligations to Mr. W. A. Sims for a tine Kansas watermelon on tho 21st Inst. Thq. first melon we ever tasted in June. /j Subscribe for the Post, the peo- ’ * pie's paper. • Over one hundred harrels of rosin and' thirty barrels of spirit's arc now lying_ at Mr. Johnson's Distillery awaiting sh'ipjnent Tho boat ’is up ' „c;the.riVgr > clearing-dHt‘ ? obstructiqns. vr*? ! ■ HOffARpJ. Hightower of Johnson dropped in upon,ns .on Friday last. He tantalized, us by..de^cribing; an ex- traordfiary hunch pi .poaches -which he had endeavored to send us',"-but -whidl' lf(l?l gift jul'red from the stein, ahd tlef'otire'd by tlie messenger. The River and Harborappropriii t ibn-fijll kaA-'-n'ot—piisijcjljFBut J^ivqcotiJiiiueSgto tp barter, ill . carriage .Work-—hikes nny- ycars ago. Our friends are 'solicited to report local af fairs of interest at this oillee. This is for you. ' tf. The election for county officers* is ap proaching, and tlie people are begin-' ning to want to know who are to be Parties wishing to ig pays, but such advertis- ing as that doesn't pay tho printer.' WEATHER REPORT. As recorded by Hon. J. T. Duncan. State Commissioner of Agriculture, T. P. Janes, lias furnished Judge Dun can with a thermometer and rain-guage, and requested him to act as “observer” for this section. Ho records in a book prepared for tho .purpose tho tempera ture at 7 a. hi.j at 2 p. m., and at 9 p. m. each day, from which the daily ave rage is obtained. At the end of the month tho^nontlily average is made out. The rainfall and motions of the wind are also carefully recorded. Monthly reports are forwarded to the Commis sioner to be utilized in the solution of the groat problems’of me teorology. The J udgo commenced liis observa tions the 1st. of April last. Below \vc givo results for June: Lowest mean tempq-ture, 14tli G7£dogs. Highest “ “ 20th 84.1 “ Mean to nip’ tu re for the month 774 “ Total ra i h-fall 4.65 in'di os' the .candidates, placetheir friends properly before the people should aunouiieetheir candidates in the people’s'paper. It will not cost, much. ! Miss Etta Warren is quite ill at the home of Mr. IV. A. Joiner’s. An important article from tho pen of “Jacobus, we regret, came in too late for insertion this week, it will appear next. The mail from Wrightsville to' Dublin will probably go into operation the 1st of October. A bushel and a half of corn will bo taken as subscription for the Post one year.' 1 "Tins offer only for .thirty days. Mr. W. M. Tillery tlie enterprising captain of the Hook and Lador Com pany is agitating the question of pur chasing a fire en'giuo.' Messrs. Q. L.i Harvard of Cochran, B. B. (pianev add W. J. Hightower of Motions, Fancy Articles, Etc., Etc, Which I offer to the public, AS CAN !BE BOUGHT IN THE MARKET. All I ask iff; give me ft trial. ISAAC Jl\ KEEN, BROFHIETOR. , 'Dultin, Georgia, Parties who are bohiud with me,I will still furnish with supplies through the summer, If they will conic up olid make mo secure. june30 Cm henry I*.SMITH, BOOT AND SHOE MAKES a mi at reduction in prices. ■' ; Call aud have yoqv Boots.tmd Shoes made,to oninm.; thuV tlnw cure a bettor boot and a better tit than you can possibly get by buy! Kind Words, a neat little six-column paper, comes to US this weok. Its appearance, as well as the matter with/ which it is filled, is decidedly attractive, and reflects much ^Credit.upon its editor arid proprietor,; 'R. L. Allieks. We welcome the Post to our exehango lirt, trusting that its years may be many and' full of honor, and itself a eourco of both pride arid, profit to itsHoiuidov.—fioutiierHCr and Appeal. We have received volume 1, number H of the Dublin Post, a neat, bright and newsy journal. In his salutatory bettor boot Una a betlev fit tlum you can Northern stpyk., As my rates arc exceedingly low, riouc no oahii. • , je27-Um. .;, j ■ ' nh^ihd and-ngarPHinf^K lias been suffering terribly with some thing like paralysis. ‘ Dr, Hightow er,-'who attended him, feared for a while, that tlie paralysis of stunt; of his members might be permanent. Hon. II, M. Burcli called on us on last Friday, expressed himself as well pleased with the Post, and said he thought we reflected tlie views of .the people throughout the county in tlie position wo had taken in favor of our <1 i s ti n guished representative Col,. Blount. Mr. B. wished us a lug suc cess and emphasized the wish with •ivh .IsiU&O.v. . . The citizens of Johnson and'Mont gomery-counties, and the public at large:aro,reminded- that they will no longer have to pay-ferriage at the Dublin Ferry. Come over friends;, -Ai aiul loam Whatfgreat things ourmer- , chants can do fo: a -well fifty feet jde self from serious and holding-the to falling ori'hiff head Col. A. E. pickers, now residing most of his timo; on his plantation in Leo county, was; in town last Monday. A.Good Earn for Sale. Mr: IS. F. Blackaiear is^ffertng for wile bis magnificent Carr Hlioals place, on (he east side of tlie Oconee river, five miles above Dublin. Tu addition to 550 acres of good land, there is on. the place ono of the most splendid Ho saved hini- -y "by catching id (wo presume) ; , By pajdng high prices for carriage work. Tliii rcsuscitatecl and all others saved from n k!»»«W fine I), WARE'S CARRIAGE S fl ON T1IB DUllLIN SQUAllEi Every brft&cb of life busilietfs -grefttTy i-cdtloed. i Bii; and liundaomely gilded, for *5EfWB paniiCu Woric unequuHcd in stylo, and llifisji by any oo,untry shop. W. F. CEFFCSCEM, 'atcr pokers in Georgia,- hot ex celled by (lie celebrated falls of Augusta -or Oolprouus. One hundred acres cleared and fenced; 50 acres now in cultivation; 100 acres of tho finest cane swamp, which, through natural embankment,' is not sub ject U> overflow; 800 acres of well limber ed pine woods; good range for cattle both winter and summer. Except two cabins, no improvements. Will soil either with or with out fish-fiap privileges. Cheap for the cash. Building and Repairing done lb Order’. Mp rootle hv Imetcd to me Npally and Promptly executed at prices ti suit the times. \ Shop 'on southeast corner Cquipfipyst Square. Call 'and see. c june 20, ly. ' 1 reached our sanctum on Friday. The Post is a twenty-four column shoot, published at Dublin, Laurens oounty, Ga., by It. L. Hicks, editor and pro prietor, at .81.50 a year. The entire outfit is new. We welcome Bro. Hicks back to tho fraternity, and congratu late him .upon the neat appearance, both typographical and mbchanical, of Lis new paper as well as tlie editorial management, as evidenced^ by its well you. You will bo surprised to,learn what a change .has come over Hi 1 ? spirit qf llio prices Iff Dnbli^..-:* ‘ *.v -• -- - A few thorough-hr at Berkshire boar pigs for sale, farrowed 17th day of March, 18J8, of the. colebraled' S/empy stock, im- ^)«ed in December, from England,, by Othello, bred by- Cbas. Tpylor, Elms Farm New Jersey. ^ Also' two sets of running k*.'in->jQ»ttrfstfB0"eff -ili,>4lie ufjccssary Woo^ ' hncl iron wdrks to run a gin. Apply to Bout. Wayxe, nr L. C. Pkuev& Co,, Dublin. K . • ..julylif.: ; Col. Ramsey* the Principal of tho' Dublin Academy will close the exer cises pf the present-term with a pnb- lic examination, on the 18th. inst ^vnn^a’^ird^nribi tioii a t night. Mr. J. J. Bowen] frdrii tJio.Hipprir portion of the county dropped in on its soo^ J^Ion<|ay morning with a fitPffefNfPtF Iriitcrmelbn iii one hand and a $1.50 in ilio other to pay twelve months’ subscription to the Post. ,Hc i3 ; . a ; ,clever wliole-seuled, gentleman, and this is not the first ' "lira higher mould. When wo were gettmg' up a subscription- to ptir- chaso a li^wyi ft>rb Lee; Academy a few years ago, we recollect that, » nm.amc.d..imm, he c<%lrjl?uie4 -More oaah.«ito-any FREE FERRIAGE AT THE DUB LIN FERRY. R. M. A R N A U, SeientiflcBlacksmitli. Southeast Corner PuMic Square. , * ' All work done warranted, tO pleuso or no ebayge. filled columns of select reading mat- tor.—- Eastman Times. Wo have received the first issuo of the Dublin Post, edited and owned by A Pleasant Call. We had a call from Col. O. 8; Guyton on lust Monday. He laid a full grown cottoulbowl bri’our tal'flo, sl ating that lie had a ten acre 1 field in, which there, was an average of four or five bowls to : the stalk; and Arango to say, that-fen acres laid not a particle of guano. Tlie cotton which lie fertilized quite liberal- BUGGY WORE A SPECIALTY, Mr. II. L. Ilicks, of Dublin, Laurens eounty. The material is entirely iriewf and. the paper, notAVithShinding the djfiicultici? attending tlie first issue, pre^ sents a creditable appearance. Mr. Hicks is a finely educated gentleman, and has enlisted in the profession of journalism with a determination to make it a success. We take pleasure in exchanging the Dispatch with the Post. —llaiolcinsville Dispatch. Til'd first issue of the Dublin Post,has made its appearance at our sanctum, and is quite a creditable sheet. It is neatly printed and wcdl filled witli ably witton editorials and spicy local.items. KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND A. Flee Assbrtiiioiit of #ldws,, ;f ; I -ALSO- c , , „ 'ji THE JUSTtr CELEBRATED ARHM! SWEEP, Which 1b Buporior to any plow of tho khul mmJc in lids country. With thonkff for past jfavorff, we Solicit the Oonfiuiiarico hi jc 20, ly. BALES We arc sorry that its courteous editor misconstrued our little paragraph, but since he saw fit to refer to it with so* much real editorial courtsey, let us. no\v earAll kinds GUN and PISTOL REPAIItlNG done, promptly and scientifically, '.All. kinds of -■/ BLACKSMITH WOR K ti AlffOiOXccubdat^ -s> hope that his experiendd will not be that of tho average: country editor, but that his brightest anticipations may be fully realized, and that the Post, not withstanding its present genteel ap pearance, may improve, and continue to improve, and ever be a “po.ri; that will do to tic. io.”-South Georgian. 5. W. FLANBEBB, M. D., Physician and Accoucheur. WRISHTSVILIE, GEORGIA. Calls attended day or night-. Office at his residence. jo 20, 1878, ly. BALE’S SHOT GEORGIA—Laurens County. Oiuuxauy's Office, July 1st, 1878. Notice is hereby givenThat from and nflor this date, the legal advertising enmnallug from this office will be published iu the Dublin Post, a newspaper published ill Dublin Ga. JOHN. T. DUNCAN, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Laurens Counts'. Sheriff’s Office, July 1st, 1878. Notice is hereby given that from and after this date, the legal advertising emanating from this office will bo published in the Dublin Post, a uewapaper published in Dublin Ga. DENNIS MoLKNDON, Sheriff. Professional Cards. J. B. MICKS, ESQ., -Arij'fe'iSr aij Hiarwr -AND- HEAL ESTATE AGENT. Mount Vernon, Georgia. je 80, .1878, ly. . E. O. BOSTICK, Law. WRIGHTSVILLE, GA., jo 20, 1878, ly. WM. H. WYLLY, Att’y and Counsellor at Law, SANBEItSVILIiE, GA. Will practice in the Gourts of the Micldlo Circuit and Bankrupt Courts. Particular attention given to the defense of criminal cases. , -f. jo 30, lyi JAMES J. CONNER, Attorney a.t Law* DUBLIN, GEORGIA. jfl 20, ly. A. F. DALEY, Attolrney at Law, WRIGHTSVILLE, GA., jo 20, ty. J. G. Bower, O. Bower. BOWER & BOWER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. TRW INTON, GA. jo 3.7-ly. JAMES E. HIGHTOWER, Attorney ■ at Law, DUBLIN, GEORGIA. Office next door to Dubpin Post. jc 20, ly. MEliCER HAYNES, Attorney - at Law, DUBLIN, GEORGIA. Collections mode a specialty. Office in Court House. jc 80, ly.. Br.fl. H. Hightower. PRACTITIONER OF MEDICINE AMD SURGERY, Dublin, Georgia, Calls promptly attended day or night. Of fice next to Hotel. Room at the residence of James E. Hightower, je 20, ly. Dr. T. H. Hall ' Witli RES173IE THE Practice of Medicine From this date. june20 flih DR. 1. H. HARRISON. General Practitioner, DUBLIN, GEORGIA. Office at Drug Store. , Calls during absence may bp left with 13, J. Tajipi.ey. At night he cun bo found nt the residence of Airs, Keene. je 20, ly. C. HICKS, M. D„ PRACTITIONER. Mount Vernon,- Georgia. jc 20, ly.