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'X'HZHr POST.
\VKDN KSDA V. KKIl. 1!». 1*79.
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR ANI) PROPRIETOR.
w. r. ii,h-h is the regular agent for the
V'JHTin Johtvem county, authorized to re-
e-'ir, s'lWrijifioni, receipt for the name., and
to mob' contracts for* udeertmng. All tVien
•ho a Id U 7*7 id to him.
Mlicnimit’s Letter.
Atlanta
Howell,
Ouo of tlio editors of the
Constitution, Cupt. K. 1*.
addicted a note to Ucncnil Slier*
man after bin recent trip through the
State asking him to write the results
of Inn observations with respect to
the natural advantage of our soil and
climate, and the resources of onr
section, as a means of attracting the
attention of capitalists and immi
grants to Ueorgia. Tlio reply elicit
ed lifts been publisheil throughout
the entire country and wo doubt not
will have a most excellent effect.
Hu thinks the great desideratum of
tho Non Mi is immigration, which was
formerly prevented by the existence
of slavery. Hut now, ho says, no
country on earth offers so many in
ducements to immigration as the sec
tion extended from Lynchburg, Vato
Huntersville Ala. And he advises that
Non thorn immigration bureaus bo es
tablished to turn tho tide this way.
One great drawback to immigra
tion to tho ftouth is the belief, sedu
lously cultivated by tho radical poli-
ticians and their organs, that social
and political ostracism and porso
cution await all stnmgors who make
their homes in tho South. Putting
hitiHclf on record on this point, Cion:
Shornmu writes: .
“I um satisfied from my recent
visit, that Northern professional
nu n, manufacturers, inoohunics and
farmers may como to Atlanta, Home
and ( liaiianoogu, with u certainty
of fair dealings mid fair encourage
ment. Though 1 was personally re
garded the beta noir of tho late war
in your region, tho author of all your
woes, yot I admit 1 huvo just puss 3d
over t he vory ground dosoiutod by
the civil war, and luivo received
everywhere nothing hut kind and
courteous treatment from tho high
est to tho lowest, mul I heard of no
violence to others for opinion's sake.
Homo Union men spoke to me of so
cial ostracism, but I saw nothing of
it, mid oven if it do exist, it must
disappear with tho present genera
tion. Our wIiqIo framework of gov
ernment is founded on the personal
mid political equality of citizens, mid
philosophy teaches that social dis
tinctions can only rest on personal
meritand eorresjionding intelligence,
and if any part of a community
clings to distinctions founded
on past conditions it will grew less
with timo und finally disappear.
Any attempt to build up an aristo
cracy or a privileged oluss at the
Honth, on tho fact thnt tlioir fathers
and grandfathers onco owned slaves,
will result in a ridioulous failure and
subject the authors to the laughter
of mankind. I refer to this subject
iiioidently because others have ar
gued the ease with me, hut. wliothor
attempted elsewhere in tlio South, I
am certain it will uot be attempted
in Georgia.”
Nciv»iw|M!r Lnvs.
We would call the ffpcdfll attention
of our postmasters and snhseriliers of
this |rii)ier to tho following synopsis
of the ncw8]mpcr laws :
1. A postmaster is required to give
notice by letter (returning a paper
does not. answer the lmv)when a sub
scriber does not take his paper out of
tho office, mid states the reason for
uot being taken; any neglect to do so
makes the postmaster responsible to
the publisher for the payment.
2. Any person who takes a paper
from tlio poBt-oflicc, whether direct
ed to his mime or another, or wheth
er lie has subscribed or not, is re
sponsible for the pay.
3. If any person lias ordered his
paper discontinued, ho must pay all
arrears or tho publisher may
continue to-send it until payment is
made, mid collect the whole amount,
whether it ho taken from the office
or not. There can he no legal dis
continuance till the payment is made.
4. If the subscriber orders his pa
per stopped at a certain time, mid
the publisher continues to send it,
the subscriber is hound to pay for it.,
if ho takes it out of the post-office.
I’ho law proceeds iipon the ground
thut a tnnu must pay for what he
uses.
5. The courts huvo decided that
refusing to take a newspaper or pe
riodical from tho post-office, or re
moving and have them uncalled for,
is prima facia ovidenceof intentional
fraud.
Tho whipping post bill was defeat
ed iu tho North Carolina House of
Itopresontafives by a close vote—45
to 42. Tho Wilmington Sfar says
there is a steadily growing public
sentiment in that State in favor of
its restoration, mid sooner or later it
will be restored.* Tlio Star thinks
that “a majority of the people are
now in favor of re-establishing it.
Virginia adopted it some timo ago,
and it has worked so satisfactorily
that its repeal will not bo listened to.”
The signing of a definite treaty of
penoe between the osar and tlio port©
puts an end to the Russo-Turkish
war, which began nearly two veurs
ago. The evacuation of Turkey is to
W concluded in a month, oxoopt
from Homnelia, which must ho free
of Russian soldiers by the first of
May. according to the Berlin treaty.
The war indemnity that Turkey is
to pav Russia is freed by the now
treaty at :KK»,000,000 paper roubles
—a sum that Turkey cannot easily
m- ■• '
Eastman lias a select school.
Johnson Items.
There is u good deal of sickness
in the county at this time.
Col. B. 1). Evans of Sandersvifie
was in town lust Monday.
Cupt. T. W. Kent mid Mrs. Kent
are rejoicing ovor another fino boy.
Col. J. K. Hines and Capt. Wm.
Parson of Sandersvillo wore in
Wrightsvillo last Friday.
Grtin Sharpe, son of Mr. John
Sliarpd, diod last Thursday.
We hud a tin wagon in town yes
terday.
Dr. J. I. Haines passed through
Wrightsvillo from Bartow last night
with two fino shad.
Mrs. Jane Rowdy, a widow lady
living ii^ tho lower portion of tho
comity is suffering greatly with ory
sipelas in both hands.
Mr. Siugloton passed through
Wrightsvillo yosterdny going to
Swainsboro.
Eastman Timex i “Mr. James Mill
tin, of Chuunooy, made 500 bushels
of corn on thirteen acres of land, mid
000 gallons of sugar eano syrup from
one and u quarter acres. And yet
pcoplo complain of hard times, and
iivo in a country susceptible of such
fine producing qualities.”
Cult Rutherford B. Hayes.
Philadelphia Times, Ind.
Now that Samuel J. Tilden bus
boon heard from, let Rutherford B.
Hayes be called upon the stand by
the enterprising gentlemen of the
Potter committee. The case against
Mr. Tilden is bad enough. The
ease against Mr. Hayes is worse.
The fact is established that the
presidency was for sule and that it
was sold. Friends or emissaries of
Mr. Tilden tried to buy it, and fail
ing to raise the means, because their
chief would not authorise the pay
ment of the money price demanded,
there was no sale. Friends or emis
saries of Mr. Hayes tried to buy it,
and succeeded. The returning
board people could not get money
from Mr. Tilden, so they demanded
tho equivalent in patronage from Mr.
Hayes, and they got it. It was
agreed that they should be provided
for if tho stolen goods wore deliver
ed. Mr. Hayes is now in possession
of the plunder, and has boon faith
ful to the disreputable promises made
in bis beliulf. Some of the thieves
are in the department offices at
Washington; some tire representing
tho government in foreign countries,
ranging in rank from envoy extraor
dinary mid minister plenipotentiary
down to consular ugeut; some are
luxurutiug in the rich pasturage of
the custom-houses; the buyers und
sellers uro all provided for at tho ex
pense of the government. It is
charged against Mr. Tilden thut ho
did not repudiate and denounco/iuch
small fry as Felton and Weed because
they sought to buy tho title that wus
wrongly withheld from him. This
showed weak ness, culpable weakness,
on tlio part of Mr. Tilden. But what is
to bo said of Mr. Hayes, who ratified
tho corrupt proceedings of his under
lings, enjoys the fruit of crime, and,
so far from repudiating nnd’denoun
ciug tho criminals, has loaded them
with olHciul favors? In tho ouo case
it was crime attempted; in the other
it was crimo accomplished, and mak
ing a glory of its shame. The coun
try would like to hour what Mr.
Hayes has to say m his own dofonsc
(Jail Rutherford B. Iluyos.
• The Tilden Movement.
«
Clltnciimti Enquirer Interview with •
Governor Carlisle.
I toll you, Tilden is loomiug up,
If ho docs not get the nomination
himself he will name the man that
does. The old man has a long head
mid knows what ho is doing. He
may bo nominated by acclamation
there is no telling. Next to himself
1 think he favors Bayard, who is
very strong in the east, and perhaps
could carry Now York, New Jersey
mid Connecticut. Judge Field,
grout personal friend of Mr. Tilden
is also spoken of us a possible coni
promise. Seymour has boon spoken
of, but he is threatened with soften
ing of the brain, and the amount of
Wo clip tho following from tho
Georgia Templar. Mr. White,
will be remembered, once worked on
the Post:
“The voice of another temperance
man was heal'd in the land for the
first time, on lust Sunday, in the
porsou of a twelve pound boy, at the
residetioo of our friend, Mr. Wultor J
White. If his voice is always raised
ns it has been for the last 48 horns,
iu tho cause of tomjioruuco, he will
become a “Mighty nuin of Gath.”
We congratulate Walter, mid hope
that in the future ho may have no
tronblos, but little ones”
Eastman Times: “Little George,
about three years of ago, son of Mr.
L. L. Burch of tins county, died on
Sunday last after intense suffering,
caused from a burn received about
two weeks before. Tlio afflicted
parents huvo the sympathy of the
entire community in which tliev
live.”
Doctor Luke Blackburn, who is
the prospective governor of Ken
tucky, says that “rise up” William
Allen is his candidate for Prosidont
in 1880.
An orator docluring that fortune
knocked ut every man’s door onco,
nn old Irishman said: “When she
knocked at mine l must have been
out.”
In a village of Italy thirty young
girls are said to be possessed
devils.
exertion that would bo required of
him to make the canvass would kill
him. Ho needs repose, which he
could not have if he engaged iu the
uxoitement of a presidential contest
Now York will doubtless be for Til
don for first choice. Tho broach be
tween him und John Kelly has been
closed, and they uro now working
together harmoniously, lie ivould
unquestionably carry tho state
against any republican that could bo
uumod.
The Stalwarts Rise to Explain
Albany Journal, rep.
Bou Hill says lie is opposed to war
claims. But lie said ho wus opposed
to the silver bill and then voted for
it. Ho said he was friendly to the
prosidont and then donouuccd him
No man knows so little about Beu
Hill’s sentiments us Bon Hill him
self.
of
Gumbcttu bus gone up nnotlior
round of the ladder, being uow speak
er of tlio chamber of'deputies, us he
has long been its recoguized louder.
Freni whore lie stands, to the presi
dcuey, of the republic, is hut a step,
which, bnrriug accidents, ho will in
ovitablv take in due time.
* .rrr: .. ■: m
The river and hurbor bill, as per
fected by th$-Committee on Com
moree, contains among the nppropri
ations tho following for Georgia
Savannah .harbor, #100,000; .Coosa
river, 145,000; St. Augustine creek
#5,000; Chattahoochee aud Flint
rivers, *22,000; Hruuswick harbor,
#10,000.
Ripe stmwlicrries at Daytona, Fla.
Watermelons are in the Key West
market.
A white hawk has been killed in
Lincoln county, Kentucky.
A Louisville, Ky., factory is turn
ing out 1,000 axes per day.
Parliament reassembled on the
13th; the Reichstag on the 12th.
Only four counties in South Caro
lina pay as much as one cent on the
dollar.
It is estimated that t he popnlation
of Texas has increased 60,000 in the
last two years.
A Sun Antonio cow 1ms given birth
to a calf six legged, double bodied
and double headed.
John Hope, supposed tube a Man
hattan Bank robber, lias been arrest
ed in New York.
A paper box manufactory iu Rich
mond, Vn., employs 300 bands and
makes 50,000 boxes jier day.
Hard times iu England, small-pox
in Irelaud, plague in Russia, rinder
pest in Prussia, ami prosperity in
Franco.
The striking miners ut Coshocton,
Ohio, threaten to assault the men at
work ut the Union mines if they do
not ceiise to work.
Northern papers report heavy
shipments of Georgia pine to the car
manufacturers of the east and north.
It is lighter and tougher than north
ern pine.
A petition is circulating in Ten
nessee which will be presented to the
legislature protesting ugainst the
working of convicts outside the pen
itentiary walls.
The Brooklyn health officers
charge that a number of cows suffer
ing from pleuro-pnounionia have
been taken from their stalls and
slaughtered. Their carcasses will be
held for examination by veterinary
surgeons.
Gamliotta could pretty surely have
had tho French presidency, but he
wisely chose to be the real rather
than the nominal leader of France.
He is still young, and if lie had taken
tho presidency he would soon have
fouud himself luid by ami labelled
“ex-prosidont.”
A caucus of Radical Senators in
Washington on tlio 11th was very
inhurniouions, and after a long wran
gle the following was decided on: To
abundon tho effort to unseat Senator
Butler of South Carolina and put Cor
bin in his place; not to resist a repeal
of the. juror’s irou-clad oath, but to
opposo the repeal of the law provid
ing for Federal supervisors of elec
tions.
A terrible accident occurred on tho
11th inst. at the foot of Grand ave
nue,' Kansas C'itv, iu a cut bcin
made for the Chicago and Alton rail
road. Tho cut, with its walls ninety
feet high, caved in, burying teams
and workmen under six thousand
yards of falling earth. Six persons
were killed outright and several were
wounded. Tho scene at tho place of
disaster was heartrending.
Women are admitted this year for
the first time to all the examinations
and degrees of tho university of Lon
don, without exception, on precisely
tho same terms os men. At the
winter matriculation two weeks ago
there were nearly 600 candidates
altogether, and eleven of these were
young luitics. One lady presented
herself at tho examination for the
degree of bachelor of laws. These
are tho first twelve ladies who have
been admitted to the regular exami
nations of any English university.
MRS. M. E. MCVAY.
MAX VAY & CHOATE,
(Successors to W. T. McVay.)
COCHRAIT, : ; : : GEORGIA.
W E have to-day entered into partnership, and will continue the Warehouse and
Mercantile business of the old and well known house of W, T. McVay, under
the nbove Firm, Name aud Stylo. M. E. MACVAY,
A. E. CHOATE.
General George Washington Park
Cnstis Lee, who is pluiutiff in the
Arlington cose, is about forty-five
years old, tall, handsome, and re
markably like his father, General R.
E. Lee. He is President of Wash
ington and Loo University, at Lex
ington, Vo., where lie lives with his
two sisters, Misses Mary and Mildred
Leo, in the house where their father,
mother and sister died. He is an
old bachelor, and very shy of the
gontle sex. Ho was graduated first
in his class at West Point, and, like
his father, came out of a four year’
course without a single demerit
mark. Miss Mary Leo was a few
days ago entertained by Lord and
Lady Napier at Gibraltar, and a few
weeks before was within the Russian
linos iu Turkey.
A. E. CHOATE.
We aslc a continuance of the patronage so lilwrally given the House from your
County for the past five years, aud pledge ourselves to use every effort to make the
New Firm Worthy of Your Support.
We buy COTTON and all other FARM PRODUCE, and sell all classes of goods
ev jept whiskey
WE AKE ALSO AGENTS FOU A
eilGKH: GKR^IDIE FERTILIZER
ETAT'A LOW PRICE.Jgh
McVAY & CHOATE.
Cochran, Febr’y 19, 1879-tf
M PORT ANT TO TEACHERS
o
A Teacher's Library for Sale.
Consist'ng in part of the following
works:
*
syphku’s akt OF TEACHING SC1IOOT,.
WiCKERSIIAM'S METHODS OF INSTRUCTION.
“ SCHOOL ECONOMY.
THE IIISTOUY AND PROGRESS OF EDUCATION
HY PHI LOBIliLIUS.
CALKINS’ OBJECT LESSONS.
WATSON’S IIAND-BOOK OF CALISTHENICS &
GYMNASTICS.
SPENCERIAN KEY TO PRACTICAL PENMAN •
SHIP.*
IOIIONNOT’s SCHOOL HOUSES.
HOOT’S SCHOOL AMUSEMENTS.
BATES* TEACHER’S INSTITUTES.
THE TBACiyatB’ GUIDE TO ILLUSTRATION.
CLARKE’S SEX IN EDUCATION.
BARNARD’S EDUCATION IN EUROPE.
&C. &C. &C. &C.
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BRING ME YOUR COTTON
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tcuehing should begin by mastering some
of the best works on the subject.. He will
Unis within a year acquire greater skill in
tcuehing than would come by experience
iu a life-time.
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j:m22 1879 ly
From all parts of the country reports
come of the immense sales and increasing
'demand for that doservingly popular Sew
ing Machine, The Old aud Reliable ‘'Stan
dard.” the price of wiych the proprietors
wisely reduced to *20, including all the
attachments, and at once secured fo- them
a popularity among the people, far beyond
pit ' ' IK M vim n that ever yet attained by any other machine
Q l\A VW AjJat any price, the consequence of which is,
J # vy n EE agents are leaving the old high priced mn-
f A * L 1 £3 chines, and seeking territory for the “Stan
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with tlie best goods at-the lowest price
they can outsell all other machines, where
the*superior quality and low price is made
known. This splendid machine combines
all thu improvements. Is far ahead of all
others in Iwauty and durability of its
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and certainty of operation, is sensibly
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. Shuttle Double Thread Sewing Machine,
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and upwards. Address,
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No. 144 N. Seventh Street,
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nug 21-ly
machine, and at a price far down below
any other. It is thoroughly warranted for
five years, Kept in order free of charge.
Aud sent to auy part of thc.country for
examination by the customer before pay
ment of tlie hill. We can predict equally
as large a demand for them in this section
us in others. Families desiring the l>cst
machine manufactured should write direct
to the factory. Aud enterprising persons
wishing to seize the chance should apply
for so desirable an agency. See advertise-
tisement in nnother part of this paper.
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AT
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HOLMES' CROSS ROADS,
Of any dimensions and in any quantities
can be obtained on tlie shortest notice.
Good supply of ordinary* dimensions al
ways on ibe yard.
Wc invite the attention of our
friends and the Public generally to
onr cnrefull selected stock of Pure
Wines, Brandies, Whiskies,
Candies, Crackers, Tobncco,
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