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— —I— , TIEEIEl] post. WEDNESDAY, SEPT 18. , 1878. R. L. HICKS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. W. P. Hicks it the regular agent for the POST in Johnton county, authorised to re ceive subscription*, receipt for the tame, and to make contract* for adterUting. All duet thould be paid to him.. TIJE BARBECUE AND BAS KET DINNER. Last Saturday’* Hireling of the Committee*. at the request bf Col. B. Gen. Cook has done more hard work in Congress for the rights of Southern planters | Ilian any man in it. Then, how un generous to charge him with oppos- Eetter from Johnson. Near Hutchinson’s Bridge, Sept, 7th, 1878. Ed. Post: Not haying seen any commnnica- ing jib own bill, because it favored a tion to yonr valuable paper from this small Section out of his district. section, I have concluded it would ‘ Let hortor bo given to whom honor not be amiss to write, giving you a is due. Tako none from Col. B., he f ew dots as regards to health, crops, s Meds none other’s laurels, but give I & c> to Gen. Cook a worthy measure of i have no hesitancy in saying that approbation JJpf the Oconee river ap-1 this is one of the healthiest sections propriation. What has Oen. Cook.done for the j .Southern farmers? Nothing better I in Georgia. 'Chore rarely occurs a death in our neighborhood, oxccpt from some chronic discuse. Fevers Dublin Ga., Sept. 14, 1878. The Central and Sub-committees pursuant to adjournment met in the Court House at 11 A. M. Col. C. S. Guyton, the President and Clapt. II. A. Stanley, the Soctratary being ab sent, the meeting was called to order by Capt. Hardy Smith, one of the Vico Presidents, and It. L. Hicks re quested to act as Secretary. The object of tbo meeting being to receive roportsand loam the prog ress mude in getting up raw moats basket? and money for the festival on the 3d day of October noxt, the chair called for such reports as were ready to bo submitted. The reports banded in were of the most cncouragiug character—the one from Bailoy’s District nlono—to give a single exam plo—though very incom plete)—Bhowing subscriptions suffi cient to food six or eight hundred people with a goodly amount of mon ey. Some fourod that the fearful typo of bilious fover now raging in some sections of tho county would somewhat interfere with tho enjoy ment of tho occasion; but on close inquiry of parties frbm all sections of tho county, it was ascertained that tho sickness except in a few localities was of a very mild type, and of very little consoquonco. Tho following resolution was of lorod by Mr. Dennis McLendon and carried: That; all tbo old Soldiers and cit, izons of Laurens county bo requested to assomblo in mass-meeting in the Court House at 11 o’clock A. M. on Saturday before the Bib Sunday in rids month for tho pnrpoeo of taking into consideration tho mattor of del egating to tho Central Committee the power to appoint a special mar shal with a suitable nmnbor of assis tants &o for tho festival occasion, to gether with other matters proper to ho brought before such n body. And at this mass-mooting that each and every one of tho Central and Sub-eommitteoman be particularly requested to bo present and to bring a full report of nil meats baskets, and monoys contributed to the festival. No further busiuoss being boforo tho mooting, tho body adjourned to moot again next Saturday at 11 a. m. Hardy Smith It. L. Hicks * Ch’m Soo’ty. than try, try again for the refunding arc a i niogt unknown. In fact, the of the odious and piratical Cotton yp ])’ gi ga y that if nothing but prae- Tax. He has introduced more ticc makes perfect, it is certain they measures in Congress for this purpose cannot attain that degree of pcrfec- fchnn any other member. And I am tion they wish. It is so distressing- glad to see lie will likely be returned, | y healthy that pills have become a although I am somewhat an advocate (i ea( j capital. of rotation. | Crops, owing to the recent drouths, But the most important error of h iave been severely damaged; there Jacobus is that about Executive | w ill be corn enough made, however^ is unit about Committees. He will doubtless agree | to answer every purposo for the en with me that no one has any author- gujngycar. ' Cotton'Is cut off nearly ity to cull a political meeting except | ono ] lu lf and farmers are busily enga- the Chairman of the Executive Com mStteo. And that if a meeting is hold without this authority, it is a fraud, and its acts a nullity. lie. will also agree with me that Abram Hewitt is Chairman of the National Dein. Ex. Committee, and that HuftiB E. Lester is Chairman of our Stale Ex. Committee, that Tlios. G. Lawson is Chairman of our Con gressional district Ex. Committee, and that Daniol It. Coombs is chair man of our county Ex. Committee. These are all to whom we hold any allegiance, either direct or remote, and nono of them has any authority to call a mooting in thin county cither himself or by agent except Mr. Coombs. And ns the lute meeting in this county cannot claim paternity of any of these Political Fathers, it must have been an illegitimate. It is the duty of a member of a Congressional Ex. Committee to attend the meet ings called by his chairman, (which a quorum has failed lo do in the last call in our district,) and to look after the interest of the party in his coun ty, and to see that meetings are called by tho proper authority when necessary in tho interest of ..district -nominations. ged in gathering, as the major part is now opened. The recent rains with which we have been visited have beat en a great deal ottfc upon the ground which is a final loss. As fast as gathered it is being ginned and hur ried off to market to meet Guano notes, I suppose—what a sacrifice many farmers are making by pur chasing Guano with sneh facilities as they have for making their own fer tilizers. One hears a good deal of com plaining of bard limes. Let us ask wlmt.is the cause of it? The ques tion can readily bo answered. It is extravagance. We do not deponti upon homo industry enough. We do not try to raise our own supplies, but depend upon the western market too much for them. The misfort unes of war did not deteriorate tho value of our lands if it swept from us our other property, and you will find a majority of tho farmers of the present day trvingto live in more ease and luxury than they did.when able to do so. Whero is tho farmer who raises his own supplies that is pecuni arily embarrassed? lie cannot be found. He floats nlong quietly and smoothly, and many envy his stand True and brave Women. [Memphis Avalanche."] There arc woman of pluck and un surpassable devotion in Memphis who are daring everything for those they love. The faithless are of the other sex, of those whom the world in one of) its greatest misnomershave dubbed “the stronger sex.” While John Donovan forsakes his wife, and leases his children to die in strangers’ hands; while a son hies to Arkansas springs and leaves his mother and two brothers to bo borne by otlier hands to the grave, in con trast shines out the faithfulness of woman, as a devoted mother, as pa tient, attentive wife, as life-risking daughter, sister, friend. By the bed-side of the burning body, inha ling the poison of the sick room, foul with that odor which tells tho na ture of the dreadful disease, perform ing service which none other will do, wearing a smile while the -heart is breaking and lifting up the head when in the last agony, her person is befouled by that most repulsive and horrible of all substance—black vom it—she sits ahd watches, and 1 Cares for‘her loved one till he lives again or passes beyond her Aid. The pen- privilcgo of a representative number of citzcns to call a meeting and elect an Executive Committee. Bill Arp’s boys pulling fodder on st ilts did not make a worso jumble of I ho produce than nro tho ideas of our pcoplo on these subjects. 1Meuso give us tho code. Critic. Laurens Hill, Sept. 0, ’78." Ed. Post: “Jacobus” will understand tlmt 1 intend no pique by a criticism upon Borne of his articles, but for tho pub- lio good, to correct some errors ac cording to my understanding. I noed hardly mention the harsh language ho used about that grout man, Mr. Stephens, for he 1ms cer tainly repented of that. Will ho hear tlmt Mr. Stephens is the Grand "Worthy Patriarch of tho Georgia members of Congress? Tlmt they meet iu his room for consultation and advice? And that doubtless much of tho fame won by some, of our representatives is owing to their heeding tho udvico of this erudite ptatosmnn. However, they sohiq- times part with him, as on tho Pot ter measure, and ns Smith ulono did on the Electoral bill. Jacobus him boK would make a good Congressman under tho advice of such a wise coun sellor. Jacobus said that Col. Blount car ried the bill for the Oconee river appropriation against tho opjmsition of Gen. Cook, who fought it severely, and did so, because it was out of his district, Tho facts are, that when Col. B. had carried the measure as far as he could, after tho adverse report of tho surveyor, (which was always thrust in his face,) Gen. Cook introduced a bill for an appropria tion for Flint and perhaps" other livers in his part of tho State, and included in that hill the Oconee which, it is fair to suppose, was done About tho loudest entertainment around town now, is half a dozen houud puppies. Yesterday was a day of rejoicing in the hearts of tho pcoplo of Mont gomery, when Hon. D. J. MoRuc returned from the Convention and announced tlmt Hon. Phil Cook was re-nominated for Congress for tho 3d district, uud Hon. Jas. Blount for tho Gth. ing ,\vhen they £nnld occupy the When a paSty orgnni-I game positioilfwt&lhey -to emulate zation becomes defunct, it is the 11,; 3 CX umplo. any of her scrviceTs generally death, come to the writer’s MAAS & BROTHER, ipifc Goods. where. NERAL MZIERQIHIA-IsrDIS COCHRAN GA. icived from New York and the Eastern The largest and Best Selected Stock * >., .fifes ' s Ever Brought to this Section, and which will be sold at price Astonishing to Everybody. We invite the Public to Gall and See ns, as it is no trouble to Sho\ Planters will do well to price at our-House, before buying elsg Our Motto: To Please and Suit Everybody. We Guarantee all Goods as Represented. MAAS & BRO. COCHRAN Sept. 18-3m. GEORGL Montgomery News. k.-- Politics tiro tit a" low ebb—never hear a candidate’s name mentioned The man tlmt “totos his own skillet' will be sent to congress from this district, but I do not think lie is the choice of a great many. IIo will receive their support only through puro democratic principals, as his political career for some timo past Ims boon particularly noticed, and lms met with tho approval of but few. Prospects bid fair that the noble Blount will represent your district again, and justly does ho merit tho honor. Semper Idem. Mr. .T. W. Morrison has returned from Macon wlicro ho bought an extensive fall stock of goods. Sad Casualty. [Cochran Observer.] Tho little hoy Duncan, son of Mrs. George W. Brown of this place, on Monday morning lost while his mother was preparing breakfast found a bottle of bitters on the side board, made of ebony tree and dog wood bark put up in new brandy, and drunk about three gills of the posse, charged with | mixture. By the time ho drank it, Thos. White? lmd a his mother ’being notified, was by second committal trial before three him being speechless; ami iu a miu- .1 ustices oil tho 4th inst., and the J^e was so perfectly paralyzed that State opened her big blado through ho never moved a muscle in Ins body her attorney, A. II. Wooten, and as afterwards. Dr. Walker saw him in tho counsel for tho defense, D. M. 111 less tlmu teu minutes after lie Roberts and J. E. Kicks,'thought flawed *ho brandy, and although the Stt to had failed to make out a h° ««$ »U physicians m the place case, they introduced no evidence. 1° kamb, Dr. The Court entered up a judgement Jm'dan and Dr. J?. D. Walker of a % »t i i I I .mifrcfrnnr niil mtomlimcr Tnnr The officer mid posse, charged with the murder of Thos. of Justifiable homicide. H, Wooten is now trotting out | with a ton thousuml dollar damage case for the widow of White. Longstreot # did everything that science could suggest, he died at 7 o’clock P. M. A post mortem ex amination was hold two hour# after death, when the stomach was found hstances come to mind faster than he can record them, instances which ai‘o but a few of the -many which have become like a part of heaven in so much of earth’s hell. A citizens’ relief committeeman walked into an humble cottoge in the southern portion of the city There ho found three children ill, ono weak and listless, hut evidently convalescing, tho other tossing in burning fever. : A-little woman in black sat betwen the two and was in the act of kissing the brow of the little fevered one. “Can’t I send yon a nurse, mad am?” asked the visitor. > v “No, sir,” (the pale little woman smiled.) I liavo brought ono child through and I shall bring the other.” ‘•But you are worn out.” “Oh, no, sir. A kind Italian wo man, near by, comes in and helps me some times.” She would not yield; no other baud but licr’s could minis ter to her little ones. Ail old grandmother told Rev. Mr. EtOflon#, itbt only of having nursed tier grandson to his death, but- in want of some one else to do it, had, with her old bands prepared him for the grave. A child was stricken with fover on Alabama street. “Go,” said the mother to the father, “I shall never leave the boy, but you must not bo endangered.” The coward complied, and saw from over the way a short coffin borne out of his home. The mother is paying tho price of her de votion, and by to morrow will pass to her last home in the city. A sick man’s lady friond wrote. “Please let mo come.” And when his friends thought tlio die was cast, they consented to his summoning her. Boldly she laid aside her hat, pushed back her hair, and forcing a smile to her lips, entered the room. Some of his malo friends stood outsido on the door steps to “inquire how the boy is getting along.” These are a few of hundreds. Mothers have made their sons leave town, and they relieved apparentely of all alarm, havo sunk down to die. Wives absent have returned against tho positive orders and wishes of tlieir husbands, prefering to die with those they love rather than suffer the suspense away. God in his mercy lias sent these ministering angels to make us forget for a time the horrors of wholesale death, and contemplate in them tho glory and beauty of a Jiafter world. The Yellow Fever. [Satapnah News.] Our yellow fever reports show that in New Orleans yesterday there were two hundred and thirty new casesp and eighty deaths, and in Canton thirty-one now cases and one death. In the labter city the disease is rap idly spreading. In Memphis one hundred and fifteen deaths, number- mg many prommet citizens, are re< ported in the twenty-four hours en ding at noon yesterday, while ir Vicksburg the mortality is fearful, The disease has broken out at Sena- tobia Miss., and created great alarm there. One fatal case, an imported one, has occured in Mobile. Liberal LATEST IMPROVED AND BEST Family Sewing Mach’i The PHILADELPHIA has all 1 contributions to the sufferers are still latest improvements, and is made being'received. LittleTVey, son of Mr Harris Har vill, had a narrow escape on last Thursday. While playing in the gully in front of his father’s house, he was poisoned by eating “cowitch” bcrne3, and when found was having spiisins. A physician was immedia- atcly summoned, the proper vemdies applied and the next day ho was well as ever.—Southerner & Appeal. the very best materials, using a Ion large, easily-threaded shuttle. In word, it is THE Sewing Machine f Family use. Large, Strong and Light runnin Fully warranted in every partiq lar, and retails for empty, and very palo in appearance, which tho Doctors say was evidence Montgomery cm ity is now aceus ing some of her boys of loving mut ton. Two havo been arrested, but 1 of fiual paralysis produced by prussic l ... . j*., * d y . - no trial yet. Mr. G. W. Davis and two others went out driving last Saturday in ono direction, and Air. Beaeham uud a crowd weiit another, and both parties returned with throe tine deer apiece about night. neid contained in the brandy^ Tlio lungs were greatly congested, aud a portion of the heart- presented abnor mal symptoms. Tho bitters were prepared for a vounger brother by Dr. Carrol, and clirected to bo Carrol, ami directed to be given in teaspoonful doses. No blatno can be attached to any ono. Tlio Our candidates are rather slow in I little bov was about four years and making their appearance beforo the ‘ ax months old. parole—wo havo only ono for Clerk, one for Treasurer, two for Receiver,! three for Sheriff, and nine for Col-1 lector. The Rev. Mr. Griffith, of the Fond du Lad (\Y is.) Methodist Episcopal, has prayed that eliicken- Rotiims from the Maine elections thus far show that tho House stands: Republicans 40, Democrats 21, Green backers 64, with seven counties to hear from. Church has prayed thieves all over the land maybe turn ed from tho error of their wavs. Tho Eastman fifty pupils. Wm. E. Smith has been renomi nated in tho Second District. 1 lenry Waid Beecher t liinks that \cademy numbers J if St, Paul were now living ho would be an out-and-out Darwinian. Terrible Accident. [Sicainsboro Herald.] On Friday afternoon last, as a daughter of Mr. White R. Smith, aged about torelv^ai^ wagrorimi- ing'ftjjnr sSlH)of,'e&e slopped ST.a house On her father’s place where a quantity of seed cotton was stowed and commenced to play in the cotton. It seems that the children hud been playing on the cotton before and had dug a hole about four feet deep in it It is supposed that while playing on the pile of cotton, she fell head foremost into this hole, and being unablo to extricate herself, she wus suffocated, as life avus extinct when she was found. The bereaved fami- ha\e our deepest condolence in is, their time of trouble. TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS and upwards. Address, Philadelphia Sewing Machine C No. 144 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia, Pa Fatal Accident. [Eastman Timet.] We learn from Allen Evers that a boy of Johu Horn, of Pnlaski coun ty, had Ins head crushed and was instantly killed on Friday last, by tho falling of a cart body upon him. Tho cart body was standing upon one end and resting against the fence, when tlio weight of the child, who was about six years of age, in attemnting to climb tho body, over- ca it, a turned it, and it fell, striking the lit tle fellow on ----- - results. Gen. Cook will address the people of Cochran Aud vicinity on tho 19th inst., of Mt Veri.on on 31st inst. Rev. E. M. Whiting has so far re covered from his lute illness as to be able to return to Eastman. I HENRY T, SMITH, & SHOEMAKER. ORE A T RED UCTION IN PRICE: Call anil have your Boots ami Shoes mi to order, and thus secure a better b anil a better fit than you can possibly get buying Northern stock.. As my rates are exceedingly low, nc need apply without the cash. Constan tly on hand a fine lot of la and shoe pegs for sale. jo.27-3m. Henry P. Smith. Dublin Ga, Killed by the Cars. Two negro boys, Gus and Lee Wal- ker, brothers—one aged about thir teen and the other eleven, were found on the railroad near Oconee on yes terday morning that had been ran over by the cars on Tuesday night and killed. It is supposed that they were out hunting and had gone to sleep on the track. The Coroner, Mr. G. W. Hammock, was sent for to hold an inquest over their bodies. —Sandersville Herald. R. M. ARNAE Scientific Blacksmith, Southeast Corner Public Square All work done warranted to please or charge. BUGGY WORK ISPECIALT Johnson Items. Superior Court convenes in Wrightsvillc next Monday. Dr. J. W. Flanders is so far re covered as to be on the streets again. Mr. Thomas Brantley’s little sou about eighteen months old died last Saturday. KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND A Fine Assortment of Plows —also— THE CELEBRATED ARNAU SWE Which is superior to any plow of kind made in this country. With tha for past favors, we solicit the continua jo 20, ly of the same. Dr. A. I; Haynes and Wm. B. Snell have opened a store in Wrights- fl ville, and are selling goods very low, Mrs. Whitehead who has been spending some time in Wrightsville, Inf I- fn,. Siar-anAoW locf UVIdav left for Savannah last Friday. The post office lias been moved from A. M. Outlaw’s to Mr. W. A. Thompkiu’s store. Last Tuesday, Joe Tfromas, col., about si* years old, was playing with a pistol and shot himself. The ball entering the thigh on the inner sido nud passing downward and out ward lodged over quarter of an inch beneath tho surface. Tho hall was extracted by. Dr. J. W. Brinson, On last Thnrsday night, Phillis Boles, a colored woman in tho em- ploy of Mr. Wm. B. Bales, secretly put away a new born infant. Her actions were such as to cause Mr. If so, go to see Wash Baker, at first-class Saloon on Beech St., when keeps constantly on band, and for sale Wines, Whiskeys, Brandies Beer, Cider, Champa And in fact, everything in the shaj Liquors and Drinks to be found in a: class Saloon. , — AtSO <*■ TOBACCO, CIGARS ETC. Give me a call and you shall be com <4 WASH BAKER Sept. 18-tf. Cochran Bales to suspect her of something to be back home again, when il wrong. He ordored her to bring up brongi . , it, and it is thought from what the mother said, that it was bnned. alive. No move has been made to investi gate the matter yet. ABE YOU DBY Mr. Sol Mass of Cochran, nov New York writes to the Obsen I propose now to inform yon publication, of my firm resoln soou to start for my home. I ’ not recovered so much from unfortunate catastrophe as to be sidered well, but I am very am ve mo immeasurable pleasur take hands once more with friends, and former associates, ging you to accept, sir, the a^ 11 of my sinccrest regards, I am, Yours etc, Sol Maas. New York, Sept’r 7th 1878