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THE POST. WEI INKS D A V . KKM. 12. 1*79. R. L. KDlTOlt AND H8CKS, IMIOIMHETOR. IP. /*. Ilirl.M t» Ih. regular agent for the POST In Johnson no, nty, authorized to re- eft* ttnhsrf lotion v, re* rip* for the smite, and to mate* con trarts for < nd cert Mag. All dues should br jntid to him. tolinstm Items. Wi Another Macon Man Shoots Himself Through the. Heart—• AccIrtciitnL From the TtUgraph & 3femtenger j wo learn of the sail occurrence* of the death <*f Mr. \V. Arthur Whit tie of! Macon, about twelve o'clock on Sun- j cmint y j n j 0 i^nrens. day night lust. He hart just return * Sjmrgeon sermons. law preached 1,452 learn that Mrs. Shaw has rent' cd a house and is going to live again in Wri glitsvillc for awhile. .-}.':<■£■ Dr. llcilgooil the old marshal of Wrightsvillc has moved from this Tlie Farmers’ Victory Won ! A \ahishh* lesson may be learned by t he farmers from the recent tri umph they have achieved over their wonld-bo oppressor*, the guano man ufacturers; and that is, that fchoy |Ni*He*i an influence in the commer cial world which they can make felt provided ( heir demand is reasonable wnd they act with concert, ft was dear to all men of sense that the guano manufacturers were up to something crooked from the lucre fact that they held a meeting to decide Ujion the price to l>o demanded for guano. If t hey had desired to do right and bo content with a reasona ble profit on their guano thoro could tMjyfi been no necessity for their moating. If the price of tho tnato- torials of whioh guano is manufactur ed had not fallen proportionately with cotton, thou thore would have boon no necessity for any resolutions not to sell a ton of gnuno for less than 51)0 lbs of cotton;—if they could not afford to Boll for Ichb, the price of guano would have risen to that amount naturally. Hut the truth of the whole matter is the guano men were not willing to share with tho farmer the shrinkage in profits. And they believed they could bull-dose tho farmers, into paying whatever they might demand. Hut for once Hip tillers of tho soil rose in thoir might, ami with the aid of the press throughout the .State, refused to bo thus fieeoe.d by a sot of Holf constitu ted commercial autocrats. Hut now that tho fanners have brought those fellows to their knoos, lot them ho us grand in their forgiveuoss as they have beeti determined in tho contest. Lot every farmor buy what fertilizers tie is sure will pay; but beyond this ♦vo hope no num will go. Heforo taking leave of tho subject we hope to bo pardoned for remind ing our readers that tho Post was one rtf tho first, if not tho very first j>ui>er unywhoro in this section that eumo out boldly and emphatically in (the gmmo wur on tho side of tho far mer. \Ve did not know or oaro how imiuy guano advertisements tho pa jhw might lose by tuning this defiant {•ositinn. It is by tho yeomanry of Jjaurons eoutity that tho Post is sum mined, and in all their righteous contests the Post will bo found but- We learn from the Tehjraph & Mr*xengcr, that Air. O’Oonner, a po liceman of Macon, in arresting an old negro man on Sunday lust, struck him with his baton, whioh resulted iii the death of tluvold man a few bourn after ho had been confined in tlu> barracks. It seems that the old mnn made very little complaint, and jt was not known that ho was ut all seriously hurt, until ho was Jound dead in his cell; and oven a careful . explanation of the cause of his death (ill the skull was sawed open and a plot of blood about half tho sizo of a iiiun's fist was d jsoovored. The skull was also found to be fractured, and remarkably thin-being loss than the sixteenth of an inoh. Ml\ O’Connor was immediately uprostod and put in jail. The occupation by the Roumanians of a jHisition near Silistvia, which they claim belongs to tho Dobrudja, is a aerjous affair. Thov have Leon summoned by Russian authorities to withdraw, bnt refuse to do so, and a pbjiision is therefore probable, Judgu l| r , H. Fleming has boon iiomin^t.'d to All tho unoxpirod term pf the late Hon. Julian Hurtridge. Mr. Fi. T. Hyington has disposed pf the C.kH'brau Observer to Air. W. F. Kelsey, who ha* already lakon ebarge of the paper, Air. Hyington Inis returned with his fatnily to Fort , Valiev, his former home. The plague striokon oitios nml dis- < rit t> mio to be burnt with the ap- proval of the Czar, as the only moans pf staying the scourge, ed from the Lanier House, where lie hud been spending the evening with friends. His brother, who wtw also sleeping in the room, was awakened by the opening of the door, anil said, “Halo, Arthur, is that you?” he re plied, “Yes,” in his usual tone of voico. His brother thinks that m replacing the pistol in a drawer which was ciowded with papers, and about as high as a man’s head, that the pistol was accidently discharged and the contents entered the head o£ Mr. W. Arthur Whittle, killing him in stantly, and in this opinion lie is sustained by the finding of the coro- iic.’s jury, after hearing all the evi dence.—Mr. W. was about 24 years of age, ami was very popular in Ma con. Fresh Beef, Turkeys, Chickens and ISggH Wanted. [UuwkhumUe Dispatch. ] The Georgia State Agricultural Hooioty, represented by two hundred and fifty or threo hundred delegates, will meet in Hawkinsvillc the 18th of February, and many visitors aro also expected to ho in attendance. Tho question now is to find some thing (ami enough) with whioh to feast this groat crowd of distinguish ed farmers ami attendants. They must not return to tlicit homes in distant parts of tho Static feeling that wo have not done all that wo could to entertain them and tako cure of them. They wore invited to hold their next, convention in Hawkins- villo, ami they are coining, and wo must—-one and all—do our duty. Wo must huvo a fow stall-fed beeves, two huudred fat turkeys; ami chick ens, eggs and homo-mado sausago in abundance. Sonio of them may want buttermilk, hotuo-mudobutter, eollards, etc., and these little things should not bo overlooked. Let us do our best—oxtemfour hospitality cheerfully—and nemo of our visitors will leave our town dis satisfied. Mr. Allen Simmons of this county died last Sunday. A Mr. Sherman from Alabama was in Wriglitevillc Friday and Sat urday last selling rights to a scouring fluid. We loam tlmt he sold the county rights to two meu in the county. Mr. Hyman a celebrated cancer doctor lias been stopping in Wrights ville this week. Mr. Harnmii of Bartow, and Mr. Everett of Washington were in town yesterday. Mrs. Catharine Snell’s kitchen was burned down last Monday night with everything in it. Mr. Hodges Snell was pretty badly burned in trying to extinguish tho flames. Thore had been no fire in the kitchen since 12 o’clock in the dnv. The black plague is re]>orted to be in South America. The public debt of Georgia is about twelve millions. Athens young men are clerking at 85 a month and board. Sherman and party received no |K>piilar demonstration in Jackson- H; Dentil of an Excellent Woniiin [Sanderscille Herald.] On Saturday last, Mrs. Duniol, wife of Judgo Sampson Daniel, de parted this life. For long weary yeuis she liml been fclio subjoct of groat physioal suffering, hut at length worn, exhausted nature gave way and the woary wheels of lifo stood still. Tho affliction falls heavily upon the borouYod family, as wo learn this is the first douth tlmt bus ovor occurred in the iminedmto family. Tho best commentary upon the mil value of her maternal intluQuce addod to that of her worthy and esteomod husband is to bo found in tho fact, that all of their children are worthy and orderly members of the ohuroh. The mem bership of tho ontiro family, parents and childron, is at 0hoopoe Baptist church. May a happy reunion await the entire household ui tho bright realms above. Montgomery Nows. Tho mail from MtVornon to McVillo for the last three or four trips has boeu from six to eighteen hours behind time. Mr Coffin's twins arc tho most in teresting show in town. One of the morclmnts of Bartow contracted with “my—son—Staf ford” to deliver him an unlimited number of pomtnu at 50 cents per head, not thinking Staff would bring him more than two or throoat most; bnt in about four days after the con tract was made Stafford drove up to the merchant’s place of business with thirty-two and told his employer he was very sorry he conlcl not got him any more hut he “hojiod to bo exons ed m tho two nights ho hunted were not good nights to ketch pomms” The merchant excused him. Air. W. E. Fountain has rearranged the yard and garden and mudo some other repairs on Oapt. Hughes’place in town and it all looks touch bettor. Prof. C, J. .Tonkins and wife are on a visit to Mr. John MoLcod near MtVornon. The sugar crop of Louisiana is es timated nt tictiveen 180,000 and 190, 000 hogsheads. Twenty-four out of tho thirty- eight Governors in the United States now arc Democrats. The orango-growers of Florida are turning their attention to the mak ing of wine from oranges. A large section of the democracy still think “Tilden and Hondricks” arc good names to conjure with. A bad case of yellow fever 1ms just occurred at New Orleans, uml the doctors don’t know wlmt to think of it. A glowing account of tho river counties of Mississippi. The grout estates gono to ruin and woods, while the negroes aro rugged and destitute and too shiftless to work whore there is a oluinco. Annie Bartel, tho female who at tempted to walk 3,000 quarter miles in as many quarter hours, in New York, had to abandon the undertuk ing at the 5U0tit quarter. Thoro wore ninety-six executions in this country in 1878, and nearly two hundred hangings by mobs Juflge Lynch, etc., mostly in Texas Pennsylvania lmd the largest number of legal hangings, and Texus the majority of tho impromptu neck tie parties. Brigham Young’s widow has nuir- riod off so expeditiously that there aro scarcely a dozen of her left uow. A notice of ton per cent., reduction of wages has been postod iu tho T.vno ship building yards. This will uffoct six thousand workmen and ouo bun drod and forty-two cotton mills in tho Bolton district* Twouty-threo of these aro closed, and twenty-eight working on shoro time. The largest locomotive over made is on its way to tho Rocky Mountains for tho Atchison, Topeka and Kan sas road, It is so heavy that tho roads refuse to allow it to pass over thoir bridges, thus making it neces sary to tako it across by piooo-mcal. Its weight is 118,000 pounds. It was a very honest old Dutch Judgo in Scolmrrin oonnty, who lis tened for several hours to the argu- Tho Marietta Journal says it reported tlmt a colored school teach or, who has been reading law for the lust three years, will make upplica tioii for admittance to tho bar at tho next term of Cobb snporior court It is said that he Ims perfected him solf so thoroughly that his admission will be inevitable. Tho English language needs one now word badly, if no more. A cor respondent of tne Interior Journal describes a supper tablo “which fair ly groaned under the abundance of all kinds of dolicucios.” etc.; a letter in tho Glasgow Times tolls of anoth or table that “gronned under the heavy weight of a magnificent. Christ mas dinner,” and m almost evory ru ml uowspaiwr you open you find one or more tables tlmt groanod under similar burdens. Wlmt tho English language is required to do just now is to furnish a substitute for tlmt word “groaned,” and he who shall establish tho habit of making dinner, supjier or banquet tables scream or Sheep shearing by horse power is the latest labor-saving invention an nounced. Application for New Road. AURENS COURT of ORDINARY. jj For County Purposes, February Term, 1870. Whereas, certain petitioners have made K lication to this Court praying theestab- ment of a new road, commencing at the residence of G. W. Payne and running by fbc residence of Dr. Green, W. II. H. Ashley and H. E. Kmtz, crossing Turkey Creek at Bruzeal’s bridge, thence by Mrs. Brascal's, thence to the Macon and Dublin road running from flic direction of A. E. Vickers southward, thence down said road y the residence of Dr. Kurtz and intcrsec- ng with the Dublin anil Cochran road near the residence of Dr. Kurtz ; and com missioners appointed for tlmt purpose have reviewed and marked out - said coutempln- ted road and reported to me that said road will lie one of much public utility and convenience. These are, therefore, to cite and admon ish all persons concerned to show cause, if an}* they have, why* said road should not Ik* made a public road on Saturday the loth day of March next. Given under my Official Signature this February 4th 1871). JOHN T. DUNCAN, Ordinary’. J. B. Reed, conductor on the Texas Pacific railroad 1ms been de tected in passing fifty dollar counter feit. bills. A great influx of immigration to America from Europo, especially from England is expoetod next spring and summer. Tho Berrien county Xem states tlmt a barrel of choice syrup was sold at Alapalm a fow days ago for eighteen cents per gallon. Wiley Chambliss, of Berrien conn ty, made last year thirty-six bales of cotton on a throe-home farm. Tho largest bale weighed 727 pounds. The new pension bill takes 8150, 000,000 from tho treasury, and leaves John Hhcrinun disconsolate over his darling resumption scheme. The student of wild western liter ature will regret to learn that the original Buffalo Bill died eight years ago. His name was Bill Hickok. A fellow named F. G. Figures who says ho Ims recently traveled through the South, writes for a Bos ton paper sonic dreadful things about the popple down there. He is not tho Figures tlmt won't lio. lie is the Figures tlmt won’t do anything else. From all .parts of tin* country reports come of the immense Sales and increasing demand for tlmt deservjnglv popular Sew ing Machine, The Old and Reliable “Stan ilard,” the price of which the proprietors wisely reduced to $20, including nil the attachments, and at once secured fo- them a popularity among the people, far beyond that over yet attained by any other machine nt any price, the consequence of which is, Agent* are leaving the old high priced lua chines, and seeking territory for the "Stan dim!.’’ Knowing from experience that with the best goods at the lowest, price they can outsell all other machines, where the superior quality and low price is mnde known. This splendid machine combines nil thu improvements. Is far ahead of ail others in beauty and durability of its work, ease of management, light running and certnjnty of operation, is sensibly made upon sound principles, with positive working parts all steel, and can he safely put down ns the licrfection of a Serviceable Shuttle Double Thread Sewing Machine, in every particular, that will outlast any machine, and nt a prico far down below any other. It is thoroughly warranted for five years, Kept in order free of charge. And sent to any part of the country for examination by the customer before* pay mont of the hill. Wc can predict equally as largo a demand for them in this section us in others. Families desiring the best machine manufactured should write direct to the factory. Auil enterprising persons wisliiug to seize the chance should apply for so dcsimblu an agency. Sec ndvortise- tiscuicut in another part of this paper. Address, Standard Machine Co.. Cor. Broadway and Clinton Place, New Yoik. feb5 70-tf Application for New Road. I AURENS COURT of ORDINARY. -J For County Purposes. February’ Term, 1879. Whereas, certain petitioners have made S licution to this Court praying the estnb- ment of a new road, commencing at Dr. Chappell's mill and running, as marked out by the reviewers, to Oak Grove church, thence down tiic Macon and Dublin road to the old public road leaning to the Allen place, crossing Turkey Creek at the old Allen Turnpike and passing the residences of Dr. Chappell and B. II. Fordham, aud running the land line between W. W. O’Neal and Mrs. M. J. Brazeal and inter secting at the end of said 'line the new road now being established from Mrs. Brazcal’s towards Oodiran ; and commis sioners appointed for that purpose have reviewed and marked out said contempla ted road and reported to me flint said road will he One of much public utility and convenience. These lire, therefore, to cite and admon ish all persons concerned to show cause, if any they have, why said road should not he made a public road on Saturday, the 15tli day of March next.' r %. Given under my Official Signature this February 4th 1879. , JOHN T. DUNCAN, Ordinary’. THE BUILDING WITH FUGS. No. 9 Cotton Avenue, Macon, Go., IS THE PEACE TO HAVE YOUR Pictures Nicely Franied 33. 3D. IZR-ViasriEJ, Manufacturer if PICTURE FRAMES of every’ description DEALEE IX Wall Brackets, Window Cornicing. Art ists’ Paints, Brushes, Canvas, Drawing .Materials, School Books, Sunday School Song Books, Blank Books, Writing Paper Gold Pens, Pencils, &c. &c. PICTURES ! PLTCURES !! PICTURES !!! I am headquarters in this line. Think of this Elegant Chromos 25 x 30 Inch.)* in WALNUT FRAMES, Only $2. VALENTINES! VALENTINES!! VALENTINES!!! Cupid’s Darts, Useful Hits, Hits 'em Hards and Comic, at wholesale anil retail. Parties desiring valentines, who can’t: con veniently visit the city, can have the same sent to their address, postpaid, on receipt of price. —IN STOCK— , Games, Croquet, Base Ball Material, Per forated Mottoes, Gold or Silver Paper, in short, FANCY GOODS in endless nmn- lier. Illustrated entulogue sent to any address. Correspondence invited. Ad dress. 12. b. IRVINE, . 9 Cotton Arenac, (Building with Flags) MACON, GA. I FOE 1879 THE DUBLIN POST. T AURENS COURT of ORDINARY. JU For County Purposes. January Term, 1879. Ordered tlint the following named per sons he and they are hereby appointed Rond Commissioners for their respective districts : Smith’s, 52d District G. M, J. F. Fuller, J. S. Draw, W. W Smith. Jackson’s, lBODtli District G. M. B. B. Linder, II. T. Jones, James L, Keen. Buckeye, 8pth Dirtiiict G. M. James Morgan, * H. D. Moutford, T. J. Blackshear. Bailey’s, 391st District G. M. J. I. C. Stanley, Charlie Hilliard, J. J. Bowen. Buroamy’h, 341st District G. M. J. T. Chappell, G. S. Watkins, R. I). Dixon. Harvard’s 345th District G. M. J. M. White. W'. A. Gainey, Wm. Gilbert. Hampton’s Mill, 344th District G. M. David Ware, D. J. Darsev, A. B. Clark. Duhlin, 342d District G. M. D. P. Robinson, J. II. Yopp, C. W. Linder. And it. is further ordered that Piuctuck\ 343d District, G. M., he and is hereby di vided into two Road Districts, viz: alltliat portion of said District, lying on the east side of the Telfair road sliall he known us Road District No. 1. And all that portion lying on the west side of said Teluir i shall lie known as Road District No. 2, of the 343d District G. M., and tlint said Telfair road shall ho worked by hands from both districts, and shall he under the supervision of hotli sets of Road Commis sioners uuder such arrangementsi as they may make themselves, and tlmt W. B. F. Daniel, J. F. Grinstead, and II. R. Lowery are hereby appointed Rouil Com missioners for Road District No. 1. nml R. A. Beddingfieid, J. T. Rodgers, and B. H. Calhoun Commissioners for Road District No. 2, of the 343d district, G. M., of said county’. ‘JOHN T. DUNCAN, 2t Ordinary. THE PEOPLE'S PAPER. —» The Post lias now been before the Public for six months, and we leave the Public to judge how far we have succeeded in our eudeuvors to furnish a first-class Local DPa.^>ear. But the reception with which tin.* Post ims met at the hands of over six hundred bona fide subscribers encourages the belief tlmt our efforts .have not been altogether in vain. We sliali put forth all our eiver- jes to make the' Post for 1879 a better paper than ever, and we respectfully ask our friends to aid us in nil enterprise cal culated to he of so touch heitofit to our • Local Interests. To this end will not erorg sabxrrilwr to the POS’l seen re- for as one new rash sub scriber ? The favor we ask would cost hut a slight effort on the part of each subscrib er, and yet would raise the circulation of the* Post equal to that of any country Weekly in the State. Dublin, Gii., Jail. 1-tf Tho Great Family Paper. monte of counsel ami then said: “Dis shriek or yell or howl, or oven sigh hase 1ms boon very ably argued on : or squeal, and thus put a stop to this both sidos, and do tv have Loon some j incessant groaning, shall thereby forty niso boints of law brought tip. pluck bright honor from tho jwle- 1 shall dake dree days to consider i faced moon and thenceforth- forever dose boints, but 1 shall eventually i be kuown of all men as the beuefac- decide for do bluintiff, 1 tor of his race, The Strobing House, TOOMSBORO, GA. fOf 0. H. L. STRIDING Proprietor —tot— Thanking the Public for tlieir liberal patronage iu the past, I respectfully ask a continuance of the same. My House is near the Depot and first-class In all its appointments. Good Conveyance Always in readiness to accommodate the Traveling Public who may wish to go from Toomslioro to Duhlin or any other poitt. THE NEW YORK LEDGER For tho Now Year, 1879. Entering upon the new vcftr resolute for the work of a new volume of the ledger, it will he our ambition to make that volume superior to all its predecessors. People who have passed from childhood to middle age as renders of the Ledger understand very well our rule to have every number fresh, original, interesting and attractive. Almost every variety of question la an swered in our columns. We. engage the very best writers of both Continents without reference to cost. The most eminent divines, of different denominations, write regularly for the ledger. All who have laid the ledger heretofore we are sure will wish to continue it; and those who have never taken it before would spcedilv subscribe if they knew one-half the good things in store* for our readers during the coming year. Terms for 1870—Postage Free. Single copies, per annum; four copies. $10, which is $2.50 a copy ; eight copies, $20. jxkstage, free. The party who sends us $20 for a club of eight copies, (all sent at one time,) will be entitled to a copy free. Postmasters and others who got up clubs, in their respective towns, can afterward add single copies at $3.50. No subscriptions taken for a less period than one year. When a draft or pioney- order cam conveniently lie sent It will be preferred, as it will prevent tho possibility of the loss of money by mail. Remember that the postage on the Ledger to all parts of thu country will be paid by U6, so that our subscribers will have no postage to pay. tyWe employ no traveling agents. Address all communications to ROBERT BONNER. Publisher. Car. William & Spruce Sts,, Npw York Lumber! Lumber! AT L. C. Beaeliam's Mills, HOLMES' CROSS ROADS, Of any dimensions anil in nuy quantities can he obtained ou the shortest notice. Good supply of ordinary dimensions al ways on ilu* yard. Sills, Plates <foc. can be sawed forty-tiro feet long. PRICE: $1.00 per hundred. Liberal reduction made in price on large hills. L. C. BEACH AM* ilecl8-3m The National Hotel. (Nearly opposite Passenger Depot,) Macon, Georgia. TERMS per DAT, $1.50 single meals, .SOcts SUPPER. LODGING * BREAKFAST,... ..$1.00 1 M10 Proprietor feeliug thankful for tho . very lilieral patronage he has received for the last ten months, now begs leave to say that this FIRST-CLASS HOTEL Is in perfect older in all its arrange, ments, and the most convenient of anv in the city, being only 100 yards from the Pas. senger Depot office, where are always Attentive Porters To receive Baggage and conduct Passcn gore to aud from the Hotel. I have made such improvements as to enable me to accommodate all who mny bo plonscd to give us a call. My fare shall ho as good os the fare of anv house in the State, anq my terms reasonable. Call and try us E. C, CORBETT. Proprietor,