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WEDNESDAY'. APRIL 2, l«7».
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
1Y. /'. I fir km it (hr regular <ujrni fur th
ROST in fitfmton <v»innfhorizrd to re.
t'itt uti*rrtnfi»nt, rtcript for (hr mine, find
to make contract* fur mtrrrtmng. All ilur*
•Aould to fKfitl fa hint.
At •VolitiMkti Hii|M>rior Court.
W« Monday, Tuesday and
the forenoon (if Wednesday in
WrighlnviUe in attendance upon
Johnson flttperior Court, it wits
pleasant to Iw among I lie friends of
»nir youth and childhood, and we
regretted not being nb)o to remain
the entire week. Wo readied town
too lute to get into the court house
to hear Judge Johnson's *• sermon,’'
as the citizens down there arc noons-
totned to call bin charge to Hie grand
jury. Kvery inch of availhhlo space
Jh the court hotfsc and on the stair
ways was crowded with people eager
to hear every won! of this great and
gm»d man who bus done ko much for
tho county of which he is the patron
saint.
The lawyers in attendance wore
General It W. Carswell, J. H. Pol-
hill, Edward Hunter, of Louisville;
Josephus Camp, jf Swainslmro; It.
li. Evans, It I,. Wart Ik W.
Robin nun. It L. Rodgors, W. II.
Parsons, Sol. Ucn’l. J. K. Hines, of
handersvillo; J, J5. Hightowor, of
Dublin; .J. It L. Allen, of Bartow.
The press was ably reprosen tod in
tlw .SandersviHe jiajiers, the Herald
and the Courier: Bartow sont up
an able corps of mcrlmuK -Mos.us.
Sinith, Outlaw, McMillan and Har
man. Mr. Outlaw, though his sub
scription for tho Post lucked nearly
three months of expiring, renewed,
and got ns up tho biggest *1.60 that
we have ovor soon.
Our Johnson subscribers refreshed
ns with a gtxxl many shekels, now
Su)M*oriptionN and other ovidonoes of
the |M>puhu ity of t he Post.
Storm-Stricken.
We lorn from the (Alton it• litem -
tier the following particulars in ref
cronco to the* storm that passed ovor
Millcdgcville on last .Sutnrday after
noon :
The wind came from the North
west, anil created a perfect panic as
it swept furiously across the centre
of the city. Several houses were un
roofed, many chimneys prostrated,
large trees uprooted, fences blown
down and.signs scattered around pro
miscuoiisty. The fine bridge across
tho Oconee river was totally destroy
ed, and in its full ono negro was kill
ed. two wagons and teams, with
l heir drivers, were precipitated into
the river, and two other negroes bare
ly escaped by running out of the
bridge. Tho negroes had driven
their teams into the bridge for pro
tection from the storm.
This is the third tune tho bridge
lias been destroyed sim-e I SIM. and
was built Inst in 1807, at a cost of
about *0,600.
The damage to the city was rather
sovoro, blit has not been estimated.
Tho negro killed in the bridge, Sol
Ware was the only person killed. Sev
eral others wore hurt.
Congress is doing but little.
!'■’ h . -nil . '
Hon. Jefferson Davis is a grand
father-lit rlo gir|. «
.Seine of tho South American states
aw) on tho (mint of war with eaeli
other.
Tho Dispatch tells m that Pulaski
county 1ms h thirty-two year old pon-
cock.
The people of Pulaski are now
moving for a bridge across the
Oenmlgce at llawkiiisvillo.
Tliot'o is to ho a branch railroad
from Wpdley to i.ouisvillo in Jetfor
son turnnty. The work is to l» cum-
liMMiecd at mur.
According to tho Atlanta Consti
iution, Georgia pays ovor;*3,500,00 f '
for guano annually, and almost oven
dollar of the money goes beyond the
borders of tho State. CYm the com
monwealth stand the drain ?
The Cochran lSutcrprlac.
We have received the first issue of
tlie atmve named paper, a neat,
newsy, and handsome sheet, of tvven
ljr*fouroolnmns, owned by Mr. Sam
Mayor und edited by Dr, T; F. Wal
ker, 1 he Antcrprise bus bought, out
the property and good will of tho
late Ooohran fMsmvr,- and is simp])'
Urn latter |>aper revived, though in
•very respect it« su|>orior and with
puny indication of a more sueccoss-
ful career. Success and long life
U the Enterprise.
The \\ ashinglon W'ft/chvntn says
a man in Nelson county gave his
children tho following names; ll,>
brow fashion, Marriage Bell, South
ern Soil, Loudon Judge, Ghhm Fig
ure, Dirt Rot and Ueil-in-tho-kiteh-
en.
The Methodist church owns more
property ttem nhy othor denomina
tion in the Union, that sect having
**>'.*.k,>4.121 invested in churches.
The Catholic Church comes next
with *•>0,985,563; then the Presby
terian (’hnrolt, *47,738,781 • the
LptSiMpaU *.‘1(5,514.640; Congrega
tional *25.0ti!i.6«i$; ihe HaptN-t.
1-0.221. Then follows a long li>t
w hich bring- up the total amount of
money invested in churchc* in i!ie
V oiled Stales to *351,229,221,
Drop after drop wears tho rock
away, inch by inch the tide creeps in.
If the women continue to oncroach
upon tho low remaining rights of tho
men*wo ahull all soon find it necessary
to fold our tents and silently steal
away to some far summer lupd whore
thoro are no women nor rumors of
women; where the climate is so.ha]my
that wo shall need no buttons nor
other tronblesomo raiment; whore
tho fictions of “lodge nights” and
“business engagements” Hindi take
to themselves wings and lly away;
whoro wo can list its at peace to tho
notes of tho hull-bull as they gore
each othor in the umphitheutoi; or
hot on t ho rod cock or tho Shuwlnock
to our pocket’s content; or Hush that
noblest of game birds; poker, without
looking tho hall door and stopping
the keyholo—a land, in short, where
men have all their rights; where mint
and honey flow ; whore the women
shall cease from troubling and the
weary he at rest; whoro never again
shall one of our uuhibor bo subjected
to such an indignity as was pructieed
upon ono of our brothers in England
tho othor day, who was sent to jail—
yes, me lords, absolutely sont to jail
•—beeauiio forsooth, ho saw fit to
exeroiso his right of beating his wife
and forcing her to sloop on the floor,
in order that, his racing dog might
occupy her place in bed.
Mr. Stephens lias the Greenback
Disease.
AV<f York Tribune contraction rep.
Alex. II. Stephens is tho latest
victim of tho greenback disease? He
may have had it lurking in his sys
tem for years, hut it did not develop
a virulent phase until Thursday
night. At the homio canons he in
sisted that tho congress should “re-
liove tho country” by issuing *500,
000,000 more legal tenders. Mr.
Stephens is to be pitied. His friends
have nearly recovered from tho pa
por-monoy epidemic, and will have
little sympathy for eleventh hour
victims.
Thus earoleth tho Now Orleans
Times: It becomes our duty—and
from duty we never shrink—to
chronicle tho fact that spring has ar
rived. .Spring, with linon duster
and smiling countenance; spring,
mm a tlower iu bit button hole und
a grin on his face, has stepped down
from the Pullman ear of time, and,
as tho Pic. raptuonsly remarks, is in
our midst once more. Sweet, sweet,
poctio spring !
The Oglethorpe Echo says that a
compromise has been effected with
with the trustees of tho Mercer uni
versity by which thoynro to turn ovor
to the Georgia Baptist association-
one of the wealthiest in the stato—
the college buildings at Penticld and
*10,000 worth of notes, half of which
sum eun lie collected. It is the in
tention to resurrect tho college under
the title of tho Meteor high-school,
thoroughly repair and overhaul the
buildinp and bring it up to the en-
vtable standard of yore.
An Alabama darkey, for a wager,
recently exposed bis head to the furi
ous a-Mults of a (rained goat. Iljs
confidence w:w rewarded by Ids win
ning the money, for, after u half an
hour'.- hard butting the goat drew off.
utterly discouraged.
Johnson Items.
The Ohoopoe is alive with raft-
timber on if*way to Darien.
Corn is worth 50 cents per bushel
in trade in Wrightsville.
1 he .Senatorial canvass is coming
to the surface in this county. A& is
well known, Johnson is entitled to
the senator from the 10th this time,
and sereral of onr citizens arc not
unwilling to obey the will of the dear
people and serve them in the capaci
ty of Senator,
Quite a handsome sum has been
raised by subscription for the relief
of Mrs. Hutchinson, the mother of
the unfortunate lad who wag acci
dentally killed a week ago.
Mr. Frank Sumner has some fine
wheat—waist high and no tendency
to boot.
Mr. J. W, Rowland is quite sick.
Mr. J. T. tSndll lias a tamo deer--
u fall fawn, which is something un
heard of by the oldoit Nimrods.
ilr. AVilclicr, of Hancock, was in
town last week.
Mrs. Nancy Sn^is very sick.
The horse drover, Mr. Hunter in
jured the business of the “Bone
Yard” last week.
A gin agent was in town last week.
Mr. J. M. Hightower and perhaps
others invested iu his new and im
proved gin.
The Sheriff of Washington county,
Mr. Thigpen, was in town last week.
Hon. Neil McLoed, of Emanuol
county, our worthy and popular Sen
ator from the Kith wits in attendance
upon Court last week.
Thoro is much sickness in the
comity. Dr. J. W. Flanders, one
of onr leading physicians had oighty-
two calls in throe wooks, afeer which
they becalho so numerous that ho
could not keep an account of them.
Johnson county can boast a band
of archers who. spend tho Lord’s day
in bird hunting. They average about
three birds each Sunday?
Mrs. Joiikens and daughter, living
throe miles from Wrightsvillo^ were
struck bv lightning last Saturday
and severely shocked. The daugh
ter’s hair was slightly singed. /No
other damage.
Mr. Wm. Johnson, who had been
indited for carrying concealed weap
ons plead guilty to the charge last
week ami was sentenced by Judge
Jolipson to a fine of §50 ami six
months in jail.
Johnson county has a common
band-box that has been in constant
use forty years land a basket made of
wire grass which has done serv.ico
sixty-four yearn.
Our host scholars tell us that the
languago of ancient Greece' was un
surpassed for its richness and variety
of expression. Well, then, when an
ancient Greek wanted to borrow five
.dollars of his classic neighbor ho
either hud to ask him,
fohnngo?
* spuds ?
jlongh ?
rhino?
sliin plasters ?
shiners?
ducats ?
soap ?
rocks ?
Have you any^ spondnlix ?
brass ?
scrip ?
legal tondor ?
lucre ?
tin ?
chips ?
pewtor ?
wherewithal ?
I ready come down John ?
or olso doff his abashed hat to the
superior flexibility and greater varie
ty and verbal wealth of the United
States languago. —ffatrleye.
An Alabama baby has twenty-six
fingers and toes. .
Tomutoos are selling at 25 cents a
bushel in Key West.
Coal to Ire had -in Bu'imngham,
Ala., at *1.50 per ton.
Forty-two rattle snakes were fonnd
under a big rock iu C’omauehe, Tex.
The negroes who left Mississippi for
Kansas are engaged in starving and
hogging.
The Sparta Times and Planter says
that Dr. Lovick Pierce, the venera
ble patriarch of Georgia Methodism,
is able to get out again, though oc
casionally thrown back by sud
den and severe attacks, llis ninety-
fourth birth-day is near at hand, and
wo hope he may have sufficiently re
covered to enjoy the nsnul family re
union.
A bashful young mau could defer
I ho momentous question no longer,
so lie stammered: “Martha, 1 I-
1—do—you—yon must have—-are
vnii aware that the good book says—
er, says that it is not g-g-good that
m liiuti should be alone?” “Then
hadn’t von better run home to your
mot In r; Martha coolly suggested.
It is estimated that on an average
of throe chickcn-coops are robbed in
Charlotte every night.
One hundred and forty students
are ut present on the rolls of the
State University in Athens.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart and her party
passed through Augusta the other
day in a gilded special car.
Within ten miles, of Gainsville,
Florida, there are six hundred acres
of land upon which tomatoes arc be
ing raised.
A splendid pair of rosewood silver
mounted crutches have been present
ed to Senator Hamilton from a friend
in New York.
By the accidental discharge of a
pistol, Miss Pochcrt, of Savannah,
.was seriously wounded in the leg the
othor day.
The Kansas fever has struck the
colored people of middle and west
Tennessee and they arc immigrating
in large numbers.
The Texas legislature has 51 far
mers, 23 lawyers, 5 doctors, 5 mer
chants, 2 mechanics, and 7 profes
sional demagogues.
Dr. Carver is iu ' London, giving
exhiljitions. The Sportsman says
such consummate skill was never bo
furo dirfjilayed in England.
Tho farmers of Madisonvillc, Ken
tuck v, have burned and sown more
bods for tobacco this season 'than
usual. An immense crop will '»5set
We call the attention of Anthony
Comstock to the fact that wintei
lingering in the lap of spring. Such
immodesty must be stopped.—
Tribune.
The Oglethorpe Echo says that a
mulatto woman taught school in that
county last year, whose hair was snow
white on ono side and coal black on
tho other.
A World’s Fair wilbbe hold in New
\ ork, at Central Park, probably in
1883. Tho-date heretofore fixed for
it was 1885, but that will probably
be reconsidered.
A colored preacher of Florida has
presented at t he office of the Gains-
viile Sun five hundred copies of a let
ter which lie claims to have received
direct from the Savior.
Carlysle is beginningtofeel his age,
ami has boon compelled to give up
*'.is midnight wanderings. Ho has
an income of *9,000 a year from his
hooks und refuses a title.
4
“Marriage,” says a cynic, “is like
putting yoip- hand in a bag contain
twining ninety-nine snakes and one
eel. Yon may get the eel, but the
chunccs are ngnin-t you.”
1 lie halanco-shcot of the Paris ex
position foots up some *6,000;000 on
the wrong sine of the ledger. The
oxpensos are said to have been 55,
000,000 francs, and the receipts only
30,000,000 francs.
Bismarck recoivos twelve letters
threatening his life overy day, It
seems to be everybody’s business to
assasiimte him, and what is every
body s business is nobody's business,
and the chancellor, therefore, still
lives
The Rev. I)r. Jasper, of Rich
mond, Va.,. having successfully
preached his famous sermon on “The
sun do MoVc” to the legislature, now
says he is going to preach it before
congress, us soon us that body orgitn-
izes.
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■ Feb, 6th, 79.
IMPORTANT TO TEACHERS'
ISrOTIOZE.
Application for New Road.
LAURENS COURT op ORDINARY.
Fon County Pukposfh,
April Term, 1879.
Whereas, certain petitioners have made
application to this Court, praying the
establishment of a new road, commencing
nenr the.residcnee of David Ware, Sr., and
running bp the residences of Mrs. J. C.
Carroll, William Allen and near the resi
dences of U. J. Hogan and E. L. Harvard,
to intersect the Coclirun Road between Q.
L. Harvard’s and the old Harvard place;
and commissioners appointed for that
purpose have reviewed and marked out
snid contemplated road nud reported to me
that said road will be one of much public
utility and convenience.
These are, therefore, to eite and admon
ish all pci-sons concerned to show cause, if
any they have, why said road should not
be made a public road on the first Tuesday
in May next. JOHN T. DUNCAN,
april 2 4t Ordinary.
k Teacher’s Library for Sale.
works°- nSiSt!,lff «a part of the following
sypuek’s art of teaching 8CHOOI,.
wickeusham’s methods OF INSTKLTTION.
School, ECONOMY.
THE HISTORY AND PnOGUKSS OF EDUCATION
BT PHIJ.OBiniJUS.
CALKINS’ OBJECT LESSONS.
Watson’s hand-book of calisthenics »&
GYMNASTICB,
SPENCERIAN KEY TO PRACTICAL PENMAN
SHIP.
joiionnot’s SCHOOL HOUSES.
ROOT’S SCHOOL AMUSEMENTS’.
BATES’ TEACHER’S INSTITUTES.
THE TEACHERS’ GUIDE TO ILLUSTRATION.
CLARKE’S REX IN EDUCATION.
Barnard’s education in Europe.
&c. &e. & e . . &e„
Every one who eaters the profession of
teaching should begin by mastering some
of the Ix-st works on the subject. 1 le will
thus within a year acquire greater skill In
teaching than would come by experience
in a life-time.
The Corbett House.
TWENTY ROOMS.
Just opened on Second Street, son-
froni . J’opliU-, next to \\
iv. Collins’ Carriage Rcjiositorv.
MACON, GA.
THE ABOVE BOOKS, THOUGH ALT. AS
GOOD AS NEW, WILL BE SOLD
AT SECOND-HAND PRI
CES. APPLY AT
THIS OFFICE.
jnu 1-tf'
ESI’ABLISHED in 185oT~
Having bwn compelled to give up the
National Hotel, l have located as above and
am prepared to furnish first-chiss board bv
he day, week or month at reasonable
lutes Shall lx; glad to see any of my old
mends and patrons. Respectfully
K a COR 1JETT,
Jmjiarfern-itmf ./nlhetv of
! Foreign and Domestic Hardware,
i!UTLERY AN D GU}?S,
AGRICULTURAL 1MPLEM 3 Vis
IRON. S'CEKi. AND
! Carriage Makers’ Materials.
Money!
Parties indebted to the undersigned for I
medical services are requested to come for-
ward promptly and settle. I have served
you to the best of mv ability, and expect
similar treatment. Verbum mf.
001 I- H. Harrison.
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Tho Mississippi stato auditor ex
empts printing offices tram taxation
because, says lie, “ A printer is a
mechanic, and the typos, presses,
etc., necessary to curry on his busi
ness are exempt as tools of a me
chanic.” *
Little Jack Greenback
Thought he would lean back
Aiul wait for the speakers pie ;
When he put in his thumb.
He looked very glum,
And (finding that all the plums had been
taken out by t he democrats) he said; “What
a big fool am I r
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'Mar, l9-6m.
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DR. Y. H. MORGAN,
DRUGGIST & PHYSICIAN,
COCIIRAN, GA.,
Has in store at all times a largo and care
fully selected stock of thc^nrest
Drugs ami Medicines
In the market, at prices that must com
mand the trade of Physicians and Families
A general decline all round in Totwrc
Good**of nil kinds, and my stock is. com
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.Afar. 19, 79-tf COehmn. Gar '
New Blacksmib Shop.
COCHRAN, GEORGIA,
have just completeil and have now In
A full operation a new and complete
Blacksmith Shop at Cochran, where 1 can
do as good work as any shop and at as-mi-
sonable prices. 1 keep constantly on hand
New PLOWS of all descriptions, and of
my own manufacture, which 1 will sell at
prices to suit the times. I have in connec
tion with my Blacksmith Shop a first-class
Wood and Cabinet Shop. I manufacture
the best
CARTS,
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BUGGIES.
Ac., Ao,
Repairing of all kinds done on short
notice and at reasonable terms. .
W. T. ROBUCK.
Cochran, Mar, 19, 79-tf
TO SELL OR EXCHANGEl
Town Property for a Farm *
I desire to sell or exchange my town
property for a farm. My property consists
of an elegunt, newly-bnilt cottage with $
acre lot, near business portion of town,
and one tenement house near the cemetery
with four acres of land attached under
cultivation.
r. ... _ _ W. J. SCARBORQUliH,
Dnbhu. Ga.. Jag, 29, 1879,