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r .rT:TXC POST. WKDNESDA V, MARCH 10. 1879. ft. L, HICKS, EDITOR ANT) PROPRIETOR. H' /* Withr i* tit* rtfffdar ngt.nl for tit vosn,> >hn*>H county, hvihoritfd to re- r irr * lli ■ viptioM, h Cctpt fur tilt Mmt, ntul to make contract* far advertising. All due* kho'tUl hr paid to him. The Garrard Bonds. At IiihL (ho Garrard bonds arc on nalo. Mr. Renfioc, tbo treasurer, informs us Mint Iio has orders that will coror the wliolc Usuo of the bonds. Tills Is cortainly a triumph for the state of Georgia that cannot bo ovcroatimutod. There are three cor|K)rntiottB on I ho continent of America that are floating 4 per cent, bonds, and they ard tho United States government, tho city of Bostou and the state of Georgia. It is gratifying to note, too, that tho bonds are being received univer sally, as far as hoard from, as cur rency. There can be no question of tho constitutionality of this issue of bonds, and they will provo a great convenience to the general public. They enlarge our currency without inflat ing it. The bonds arc bonds in tbo severest sense of the word, and if there is anything illegal in them tho illegality consists, as Mr. Xian ard has aptly said, “in tho smallness of tbo type and the size of the paper,” We hope, therefore, to see them freely tiled throughout tho state to facilitate barter and trade. In any ovont, howovor, tho experiments of four per cents has proved a success, and Georgia's orodit gods up to tho vory highest point. And it drives in tho wedge that will just split our enormous interest account, square half in two!—Atlanta Constitution. The Republican party is sorely bothered with tho negro. Tbo bal lot was presented to him that ho might reenforoo tho political strength of tho Republican party. While this Hot was being performed tho “party bf humanity” put its greedy hands in the negro’s pookots and stolo all his money. Discovering that the negro can not bo depended on to vote .the Republican ticket, a leading Re publican candidate for the Presidency insists that ho shall bo disfranchised, and 1ms been baokod by the party. Tho latest Republican effort, to han dle the negro question is tbo propo sition of Senator Windom Intake the negroes, bag and baggage, out of the Southern States and plant them in tho Northern Statos. Thou tho ne gro appoars on tho scene ami ohjeots, unions a wholo territory is given the yuce, where they can bo all to them selves and got rid of choir bogus Re publican frionds. Tho Republicans inay writ lie and groan over, this busi ness, but they otui not dispose of the negro in that way, Thoy might raise a fund out of their own pockets to put snob negroes as are willing to leave the South in Mai no or Massa chusetts or Michigan, but no Con gress will vote u territory for tbo ne groes or anything of the kind. Tho negro has been given abundant facil ities for making something of him self, and where ho bus not boon in- terforred with by tho Republican thlovos and pseudo-philanthropists in the South he has done well. In Georgia, for instance, tho negroes own $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 worth of property, Tho negro will get along vory woll in tho South if he is treated bko othor American oilmens in that section. Tho attempt, of the Republicans to deprive him of his ballot or her facilities for getting property is shameful and unpardona- . me, us is tho Republican effort to make him an nssasin and moomliury, and to keep him in a state of hostili ty towards his host friends.—Courier Journal. • ' ■' W' *'" ■■■-« 1 —» A Historic Voice That Is Spared to His Country. Washington Past, \ the sonorous t ones of N longer reverberate it is a satisfaction cli a voice is not to o service. As he out tho United irt in Boston, hie marvelous i will recall glorious mom- liant skedaddlo which SJSs —imiu Hit- urged on his Gen. Gordon is out in a reply to Mrs. Felton's-letter which we noticed two weeks since. Tic ignores Mrs. Felton in the matter and pays his respect* to the doctor. After a few withering gonernl remarks lie takes up the charges against him seriatim, and refutes them utterly in every word and in every syllable. On tlicGlth hint, a most melan choly tragedy was enacted in Atlanta. Gob It. A. Alston and E. S. Cox got into u dispute about a trade connect ed with the lease of sonic convicts, which resulted in the former gentle- man’s being shot to death and the lat ter badly wounded and lodged in jail for murder. Robert M. Martin, who a few years ago gave $100,000 to tho vari ous churches in New York, was a few days ago sent to prison for five days for stealing a coat and shirt in that city, lie failed in 1873, and has since been a pauper. . Congress convened yostordny. Some predict a very short session, while others think it will be contin ued far into the heated torm, and still others who believe this extra session will dovetail into tho regular torm in Deccmbor. Tho Republicans arc grooving Haves to veto tho repeal of the ob noxious laws which the Democrats are determined to wipo from our statue books. The last boarder, says tho Appeal, admitted to tho Wilkinson county jail is a little negro boy twelve years old. Ho burglarized a house near Tuombsboro. Tho German Roichstag has got Bismark in hot wator about bis so cialist bill. Bayard Taylor’s remains reached Now York from Berlin on the 13th inst. Tigo Anderson is ondoavering to have the city of Atlanta cleansed. Atlanta Constitution: In a brief conversation with Hon. Milton A. Chandler yesterday the reporter learn ed some interesting facts relative to tho appropriations made at tho last session of Congress to tho rivers and harbors of Georgia. Tbo total amount appropriated to tho improve ment of rivors and harbors in the country was about $G,000,000. Of this amount loss than $300,000, or one-thirtieth of tho wholo amount, was received by thnjStuto of Georgia for tho improvement of our rivers and harbors. Tho chief appropriation was $100,000 to the harbor at Savan nah. All the Goorgia members fa vored this item except Mr. Chundlor. Ho says them wore ‘so many tilings in the section that wore wrong that he could not voto for it.’ This ap plies to various intondori improve ments on tho Savannah rivor near the harbor. An appropriation of $10,000 for tbo upper Savannuli rivor failed in spite of strong efforts mado by Mr. Stephens to mduco its pas sage. It is said that bo was consid erably chagrined at this failure, as one of his jjot Congressional schemes was defeated by it. Tho other ap propriations foi improvements aro the Georgia rivers referred to, the Etowah, tho Clnittahooclioo, tho Coosa and the Flint. Summing up all the sums thus appropriated, the total falls short of .$300,GQjjJby a good deal. Our membors did all the)' could at' Washington to securo moro liberal appropriations to Stato improvements generally, but that they did so well is much to their credit. Tho appropriations given to tho rivers and harbors of the State, if judiciously applied, will bo of grant sorvioo. A\ o hope for more help to carry out tho good work thus begun. A Sight to Inspire tho Nations. Baltimore Gazette. Thera is no spectacle so grand and classic as a stay-at-home republican politician, fourteen years after the war, kicking and pounding the ven erable Jefferson Davis, and daring somebody to defend him. Tho Ticket to Win. . Balnbrklgo Democrat. Tildeu aud Hendricks for 1880 is tho ticket that will win. The detn ocratic party is bound by every prin ciple of honor, equity and justice to nominate, elect and place those gen tlemen, at the head of the govern ment. Col. Blount’s Opinion. James If. Blount represents the sixth Georgia district: “His impres sion is that his constituents person ally preferred Mr. Thurman and next Mr. Bayard. As he knew nothing of the sentiments respecting the claims of Mr. Tilden for the renomination, he could not speak with any degree of intelligence at this time. It was, however, a moral certainty that if the will of the party required the renomination of Mr. Tilden he would receive the unswer ving support of the democracy of Georgia.”—N. Y. Herald. The Solid South. E. S. Smalley in New York Tribune The south is still a unit in senti ment to a remarkable and discourag ing degree. Find wlmt a Virginian or a Georgian is thinkiug on any question of national politics and you need not ask what a Lousiunmn or a Texan is thinking. If the question has tbo slightest bearing on the pros pects of tbo democracy for obtaining full control of the government the mountaineer on the Bltio Ridgo aud the “tallied” of tho Carolina turpon- tino forests will bo of one mitid with the sugar-planter on the Mississippi and the herdsmen on the Texas plains. Not tho least progress 8eems 4 to have been made in the directiot of disintegrating the intelligent clas ses of the old sluve states. They arc as solid to-day its they wore in the midst of the rebellion. Lieutenant Hull bus been promot ed to Captain of the Athens Guards. In the mjdst of life we are in debt. —[Thirteen different paragraphers. A man in Richmond has.the brass spectacles that John Brown woro on the scaffold. Under the new law a Georgia pis- tol-toter was given twelve months in prison the other day. Richberry, S. Cflioasts of a sheep that chews tobacco with as much avidity as a man or a worm. Kentucky loaned the United States a great Whig once, and it wasn’t half as bad then as it is now.—[Yonkers Gazette. A cominittco of the Pennsylvania legislature has reported a bill making it unlawful to keep Spitz dogs in that State. Twenty female M. D.’s have been created'at the annual commencement of the Woman’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It won’t cost Hayes anything to get his washing done* Some Chinese laundry will give him u life ticket.— Boston Post. By free use of cotton seed, manure and deep plowing Gov. Drew, of Floridu, last year raised on one acre ot land 130 bushels of corn Mrs. Sarah, Poss, of Taliaferro a^uc Twelve children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. nty, eighty-nine years *of age, is ancestor of one h mid red and Sonic New Deviltry. Baltimore Gazette. Iii order to make Mic third term boom still moro the organ of .the ltn- plaeubles at Washington makes the ustonnding statement that “the pro position to pension maimed confed erate soldiers was seriously talked of by many republican loaders during President Johnson’s administration and tit that time was understood to have received the hearty approval of General Grant.” Mr. Ben Butler will evidently have to invent some new deviltry if lie expects to get ahead of the third termers. After a while wo shn.ll probably hear that Grant was a fulLbloocled confederate brigadier—as Butler clearly was. The Extra Session. ' St. Louis Republican. That session will be an interesting ono. Tho bitter struggle, of which we already bavo foreshadows, between the two nearly balanced parties in the liouso, will retard tho public business and protract tho sitting, while every thing done or omitted will bavo direct reference to tho presidential struggle in 1880/ Ohio Men Make Very Poor Prophets. Cleveland Herald. The people will hold tho demo cratic party responsible for this extra sossion of congress and the disturb ance it will bring upon the country. We advise it to mako tho most of its present lease of powor. It will be the last democratic house of repre sentatives that will assomblo for years. The painting of that stupendous swindle, tho Electoral Commission, is on tho market. Grongross has very properly refuse:! to buy it. Tho National Republican Committee, or Zaclt Chundlor himself, should pay tho $10,000 for it and prosont it to Rutherford B. Ilayos. The event tho picture portrays is, us Senator Book remarked, one of which the country eanuot bo proud, Black-Tongue Among Sheep. Tho Albany News learn that many sheep in Worth oounty aro dying up rapidly from a disoaso kiuwn as the blaok-tonguc, and that Mr. Hamble- ton, noai^Ty Tys has lost nearly five hundred out of a Hock of some twolvo hundred head, and that others hud lost heavily also. “The Name of Mother.” There are words that speak of qucucliless love. Which hum in the hearts we cherish, And accents that tell of a friendship proved That will never blight or perish. There are soft words murmured by dear dear lips. Far richer thau auy other; But the sweetest word titat the ear hath hoard Is the blessed name of mother. Oh, magical won) / may it uoverdie From the lips that love to speak it; Nor melt away from the trusting hearts That even would break to keep it. Was there ever a name that lived like this? Will there ever lie such mother? * The angels have reared in Heaven a shrine For the luly name of mother / A freight train on tho Central road ran into the roar ond of a passenger train near Milieu Thursday and smashed up tilings generally. No body hurt. Died, at Washington, D. C., on tho 4th inst., the forty-fifth congress. “No father seeks its merits to dis close, or draw its frailties from their dread ubode.” Least said soonest mended. What is Washington’s loss is our eteritil gain.—[Boston Tran script. Speaker Randall is credited with the statement that one hundred and forty-eight members would attend tho Democratic caucus. This will, be a majority of nine over all, as there will bo hut two hundred and eighty-seven members of the next liouso at the organization. Omaha Herald: “Gov. Tilden will be t he candidate of our party in 1880 if lie lives and so wills. He will beat Grant, or any othor man who runs against him, just so sure as that ho shall be a candidate. The little man of Gramercy Park will carry Now York in 1880, as ho carried it ni 1870, if lie shall run tho race. The marriage of tho Duke of Con naught, with tho Princess Louisa Margaret of Prussia, took place on tho 13th inst. at.St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, with all tho ceremony be fitting tho Royal positions of the brido and groom. The Royal family of England was preseut, the scene was brilliant, and tho wedding pres ents plentiful, rich nhd magnificent, •Johnson Items. There is some sickness yet in and around Wrightsvillc. The farmers of Johnson county are wanting a light ram. Otherwise thoy aro having some fino weather for planting. Dr. J. W. Flanders passed through Wrightsvillc this morning with a fine string of fish. Mr. Richard Walker Ims moved in to his now house in Wrightsville. Mrs. Nancy Snell is very sick She has just returned from visiting her daughter, Mrs. Wilohor of Hun cock county. The hog cholera has agaiu made its appearance in this county. There is a hen’s egg in Wr ightsville three und one quarter inches long. Some of tho farmers who have ex- amtned their seed cane report it damaged so much that they had to grind, it. Sherod Willis and Mary Douglas of this county woro married last Sun day. Some of tho merchants of Wrights ville aro complaining of sore eyes from looking up and down the streets for customers. ROBT. H. MAY 4 CO,, MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN Callages, Baggies, Wagons, OIb-i.1 .cLnpezoXs Carriages Saddles, Harness, Valises, Leather, Whips, Trunks and Shoo Findings, Etc., ROBT. H. MAY. Repositories, J i A S R T° 0 4 D T YEiB { MACON, GA. 1 208 Broad St Au- S. 8. PARMELEE. gusta. 98 Cherry St. Macon March, 19-tf. Application for Administra tion. GEORGIA—LAURENS COUNTY. Whereas, Mrs. Janette Vickers has Hied her application for Letters of Admin istration ou the estate of Ashley E. Vickers Sr., late of said county, deceased. These are to cite and admonish all and singular, tho kindred and creditors of said deceased, to show cause, if any thev have, why letters of administration should not be granted the applicant on the first Monday In April next. Given under my Official Signature Feb ruary 15th JS79. JOHN T. DUNCAN, fcbl5,1879-Ull • Ordinary. Macon, SOUTHERN DEPOT. STEAM ENGINES, LD.FAEqCflAR.Lrk, Pa., Cheapest r.nd best for nUp pose3—simple, strong, enJ< cable. Also Traction En gines for common roads. Saw, Cuist ao*d Rice ■JIlLI/i, OlSfl, PEE93E3 and M ao n retvv ftoncr- ftlly. Iniahricii promptly nmwernf. Vertic&JEngineo.wltU or without SS-« 1 wheels, vory convent- s cat, <von unlval and " complete in every do- .tail, best and Georgia Fig! 2. Tho Farquhar Separator • (W<r.-.nUll) Awitu'.hi.'i! Wo:*;, York, r*. tfcktexMrar. Uni dim!- ■Unpled. tm» t economic l *nd Perfect itt Rend for. 11!iitrnt*il CutAliMr-e. I«d4r for market. Address A B Far suhar, York, Pa, Keeps constantly in store a stock, of Machinery of all kinds. At this season wo call your attention to our stock of • Grain Cradles, Weeding Hoes, Dickson S\vceps, Farquhar Sweeps, &c., ' Which we offer very low to the trade and country merchants. Address, A. B. FARQUHAR, Macon, Ga. JESSUP J. SMITH, Manager. ♦ mar 19 78-4m CLOTHI1TG- and. HATS. WIM1P & CALLAWAY, Wo. 50 Second St. * Etfacon, Georgia, Keep the Largest and .Best Stock of CLOTHING and HATS for men and bojs to be found in tho State. HATS of all grades. Keep partly mado Shirts, und Umbrellas very cheap. tWOUR GOODS ARE FIRST-GLASS AND OUR PRICES THELOWEST.^ . WINSHIP & CALLAWAY. mar!9 79-tf MRS. M. E. MCVAY. A. E. CHOATE. MCVAY & CHOATE, (Successors to W. T. McVay.) COOHRAJSr, : ; : : GEOEGIA'. W E have to day entered into partnership, and will continue the Warehouse and Mercantile business of the old uml well known house of W. T. McVay, under the above Firm, Name aud Style. M. E. MCVAY, A. E. CHOATE. We ask a continuance of the patronage so liberally given the House from your County for the past five years, aud pledge ourselves to use every effort to mulcc'tho New Firm Worthy of Tom* Support, We buy COTTON and all other FARM PRODUCE, and sell all classes of goods ev x?pt whiskey - _ . WE AHE ALSO AGENTS FOB A HIGH G-iEl-A-IDE HERTILIZEE ; tyvir A LOW PRICE. JgZ MeVAY & CHOATE.- Cochran. Fehr’y 19, l6?fl-lf From all parts of the country report come of the immense saleS and increasin demand for that deservingly popular 8ev ing Machine, The Old and Reliable “Star dard,” the price of which the proprietoi siFPOMn Ar a pfiN P A wi8e, - v re dueed to $20, including all th oECOJND - - MACUN, GA. attachments, and at once secured fo- ther a popularity among the people, far beyon that ever yet attained by any other maebin at any price, the consequence of which it agents are leaving the old high priced mi chines, and seeking territory for the “Stat dard.” Knowing from experience th* with the best goods at the lowest pric they can outsell all other machines, whei W. Burke* Co.’s Book | he su P° ri or quidity and low* price is mad 1an22 ’79 lv knowu - This splendid machine combine — !_—* •?_ all the improvements. Is far ahead of a The Strutting House, |work, ease of management, light ^runnin . ' and certainty of operation, is scnsibl TOOMSRORO, GA. made upon sound principles, with positiv in 1 working parts all steel, and can be safe! * • . put down as the perfection of a Serviceabl 0. H. L. STRUBING Proprietor shuttle Double Thread Sewing Machint iAi in every particular, that will outlast an ' • * machine, and at a price far down beloi Thanking the Public for tlielr liberal any other. It is thoroughly warranted fo patronage in the past, I respectfully ask a five years, Kept in order’ free of chare continuance of the same. My House is to , part of the country fo near the Depot and first-class In all its ment ofSbill ^We^nT^cd^wwS appointments. os large a demand for them In this sectio as mothers. Families desiring the bef machine manufactured should write direc Good Conveyance B. 1? Willingham, COTTON FACTOR* BRING ME YOUR COTTON AND I WILL IJLEASE YOU. (^“Opposite J. Store. v "iwiiuj, tv ot'iw mu cumiuu mipuiu Always in readiness to accommodate F* r so.desirable nn agency. See advertii Ihc Travel in;; Public «Uh Wgo“Si‘ "sS’jd K,! n 'e'Co,/^ from Toorosboro to Dublin or any other-Broadway and Clinton Place New YoJ point. feW 79-tf