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THIiE POST.
WEDNESDAY, APHIL 9, 1879.
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR AM) PROPRIETOR.
The editor of the Kastman Times
isfoa-ding on strawberries.
The QuitmanReportertvuut^Ion.
A. T. McIntyre for Governor next
year. ■ }'
Cunt. Isaac Hardeman, of Mncuii.
recent I v killed 17 partridges in 17
shots.
All true Georgians will bo ghu1*to
know that- Gclientj Gordon is conva
lescing. I
The Georgia milrond is now being
fenced in with potent steel barb
fencing. ,, \
The Cut holies have secured a lot
in Louisville, (la., ujwm which to
build a church.
The recent municipal elections in
Si. Louis and Chicago show largo
dcmocrat-ic majorities in both cities.
The trial of Captain Ed. Cox, for
tin* runnier of Colonel Alston, will
come of? in a few weeks.
The Confederate .'monument tit
.Savannah is to be cnibcllishetl by tho
addit ion of a fine bronze statue.
Young Dob Alston has been ap
pointed Messenger of (Gen. Gordon’s
committee; at a salary of *1,200 per
anmun. -aaW.
A negro was killed by fulling from
a loaded wagon, and being run ovor
by the same, near Macon, on last
Thursday.
LoniM ilie, wo hope, will soon have
a railroad to connect with tho Cen
tral. There has already been $115,000
subscribed. : '
lieports from all sootious of tho
Btato indicate that a much larger
ttrou lias been devoted .to grain this
season than last.
The I lawkinsvillo Dispatch takes
a good deal of the romaneo out of
the “south mix piTTitAOK” story
published on our'first- page.
We learn from the Cochran Enter*
j>risr ihai Dr. Morgan's now lniild-
uig in that town was injured' to tho
.Mimi of *;)3o by wind on the 80th
lilt. C-ikW'*:\ L /; . ■
It is estimated That Georgia has
received this your, at her dilforont
ports and railroad stations, 00,000
tons of guano, against 71,000 lust
year. . < . ■,.. 'M ■: ; J
Judge 1(. D. P. Twiggs has boon
retained as one of tho prosecuting
-counsel in the case of. tlio State
against Edward Cox, oltarged with
lhe murder of Col. Alston.
Jerry O’Connoi*, the policoniaii
tried for heating a negro to death
with his club, in A}ttcou, lias boon
found guilty of involuntary man
slaughter, and aontoneed to the pen-
iteutiary for two yea 1*8.
Warren county luw produced a
genuine second to Blind Tom—Mr.
Raul Messengalo—who can play on
any musical instrument without a
knowledge of music. Ho expects to
travel and will give an exhibition in
WsuTouton at an early day.
An Atlanta* policeman has been
t ried by the Police Commissioners of
that city, ami discharged from (he
force for not arresting Cox, and
thereby parenting tho killing of
Col. R. A. Alston.
It is staled that a lion belonging
to Mr. 0. W. Randal), of Palmyra,
Lee county, Has built her nest, in tho
top of a 11 ee sixty-five feet from the
ground. We presume that tho hen,
in climbing this trye, is compelled
t<> u-e her spurs.y
Atlanta Constitution.* “The pea
ches will have to lie low nntil April
lias had time to got over hot* confu
sion ami set her seal ni>on the season.
She has allowed wiutot* to hung
around the house at unseemly horn's,
ami he has even been seen sitting in
her lap." A* ^ r ‘
The repoul of tho Louisiana state
lottery charter removed, wo*believe,
the lust institution of that nature
which had any legal warrant for e,\-
h iene 1 m this country. The Lou
isiana cumvrn. like all others of its,
Glass, died hard, and a considerable
scandal has sprang from it. It is
dea l, nevertheless, and those who
oxjR*et to win a fortune from lhe
wheel " ill h;ive to look to Havanan
or some !ut furoigtt town fpif
f yfif-'tio)).
IIidw* and Brutal Act.
[fin*/in mi Tin im.]
Wo learn that a few nights ago some
depraved creature in human shape
visited the otables of Mr. .loliu W.
Coffee, and attempted to ent out the
tongue of one of his favorite horses.
The mischief was not discovered un
til next morning when Mr. Coffee’s
son noticed the bleeding at the mouth
so profusely that Mr. Coffee, after bis
attention had . been called to it,
Ihought an artery had becu severed in
some way, and as a consequence the
uuimul inusC*necessarily bleed to
death. Hut in a short time after
the horse was turned out to die, ho
returned to tho.lot and a further ex
amination showed a most frightful
gash several inches from the tip of
tlio tongue, and nearly cutting it off.
Why I Ik; liiiiiian demon should have
thus resorted to inflict a private in
jury, or.what diabolical reasoning
could have snggestcHted such, a base
and brutal act staggers tlio credulity
of all good pooplc. Such a coinci
dent would lmve been better suited
to the times of a century ago when
tho red man with all his low cunning
and barharimis nature roamed theso
forests and committed his depreda
tions.
Eight wood Iinot Bridge.
[tneinion Appeal.]
In tlio estimation of tho Dublin
Post, and “Critic,” a contributor to
the columhk of said pa(ier, Light wood
knot bridgo, in this cotinly, is u
stumbling block to the travel and
trado between Dublin and Toombs-
boro. Said bridge is owned by a
gentleman in this county, mid toll is
01111* ged all who cross thereover. Tho
pooplo of Laurens county, as per
abovo, think the bridgo should be
made froo, and for toll to bo charged
is for Wilkinson county, and especial
ly Toombsboro, to stand in* hoi; own
light. Through tho Pont, Dublin
threatens to removo her patronage
whatever that, may be, from Toombs
boro, unlew toll, is removed from
Lightwood knot, bridge. . The ques
tion arises is tho patronage worth tho
toll H
As a vale wo are opposed to toll
bridges, but are sufficiently acquaint
ed Mj’.tli the facts to venture an opin
ion in this particular ease. If the
oaso 1b one so grievous os tlio Pont
represents it to be. common humuni-
ity domands that eonnthing bo done
to alloviato tho pain that said toll
caasos the pgoplo of Laurens county.
Let us,hoar from Toombsboro on tlio
subject.
Courier Journal: “A scoundrel
named D. O. Show, who, for sovoral
mouths hits boon swindling tlio peo
ple of Alubania and Georgia by rop-
rosonting himself us agent for tlio
Courier journal and ot her papers,
has transferred his soeno of opera
tions to Florida, having recently been
plying his work at King’s Ferry, in
that State. Tho Courier-Journal
knows nothing of Show, and has no
traveling agents. It is to bo hoped
tho rascal will bo arrested and pun
ished. Our Southern exchanges
should caution tho people ngniust
tho bold and persistent scamp.
Wasuixotox April 1.—Mr. Gor
don appeared for tho first tinio this
session.'and took tho oath of otfieo.
Various bills were introduced.
Tho senate passed tho hill appro
priating two hundred thousand dol
lars for tho construction of a steel
vessol to bo used for tho disinfection
of vosscls and and oargoes coining
from tho ports snpposod to bo infec
ted with yellow fever or othor conta
gious discuses. ‘
Tho length of a pig's tail led to a
murder in Madison county, N. C.,
last. Thursday. Two farmers, named
Norton and Gaither, disputed con
cerning the length of tho tail of a
pig which they wore examining.
Norton gave Gaither the lie, where
upon Gaither told Norton to get
ready for a deadly fight, Roth men
drew their revolvers almost simulta
neously. Gaither woe fatally wound
ed ami Norton lost a thumb. The
point as to which of the two men
was right in regard to the length of
the pig's tail remains undecided.
CHEAP AND RAPED TEL
EGRAPHY
Proposed New Lines—The Balti
more ami Ohio Company’s Line
to Washington—'Wonderful Re
sults Expected.
flw l^ytiiwbfiwi Expositor 8*ys;
"It is truly encouraging to learn that
the planters are not buying so much
on time thi< year. Thousands of
pounds of meat have been sold for
cosh this year that were charged on
account at time prices last year.”
[Baltimore llulleiin.\m
Telegraph companies arc being or
ganized by. several of the leading
railroad companies under the power
granted them to do so by the tele
graph bill recently passed by Con
gress. A line has already boeu char
tered in New. York, which threatens
to bo a serious rival to the Western
Union Company. The new compa
ny is known us the American Rapid
Telegraph Company, and has a capi
tal of $(3,000,000. It is proposed to
build lines connecting New York
with Button, Baltimore, and other
cities of the West and Southwest.
It if probable that a general system
of connecting lines w ll be built by
all tho railri ads in the country, to be
used not only to their own. conven
ience, but to do a general commer
cial and press business.
The Baltimore and Ohio Company
has already constructed a line of its
own between this city and Wiishing-
ton but 1ms not yet established an
office in the centre of the city for
the accommodation of the lmsinqps
public, but this is expected to be
done. Tho subject of constructing
linos over tlio entire length of the
main stem, brunches and connecting
roads of the company is under con
sideration, and will no doubt be deter
mined upon shortly. When this is
all done a main ofiico will be estab
lished convenient to tho ‘business
Centre of the' city, and local offices
elsewhere, for tho convenience of
customers.
Tho establish moot of those now
competing linos is'oxpccted to mate
rially affect, and may probably revol
utionize, the tolegrppli business. It,
•is claimed that a new and mon rapid
system of transmitting and receiving
mossagos will bo used, and tho cost
of messages greatly cheapened. The
rates mentioned are 25 cents to nil
stations oust of tho Rocky Mountains
and 16 cents for fifty words for night
messages. Special messages for the
press will bo charged os low as 10
cents for ono lmudrod Words., Tho
plan includes not only the most hipid
delivery, and contemplates tho use
of tho telegraph in connection with
tho post otfioo, so ns to bring it with
in tho reach of all.
Tho Best Cure for Emotional
Insanity.
Philadelphia Chronicle.
Colonel Buford, who killed the
Kentucky Judge, talks too frooly
about his crime. Buford behaves
liko a man who is getting ready to
prove himself guilty of “emotional
insanity,” • There is no bettor or
more radical ouro for that kind of
insanity tlmn “pendulous suffoca
tion.” ‘
Important Changes Mooted.
IndiunnpoHs News.
Senator Pond lo ton’s bill to allow
cabinet officers seats in congress, and
tho rights to purticiputoin debates, is
an old measure revamped which he
first introduced when ho was In tho
house of representatives. It. has
boon urged by various doctrinaires,
and while it may have some advan
tages ovor tho present methods in
shaping legislation, it will necessitate
almost a complete change in our form
of government. Its logical sequence
is tho responsibility of cubinut of
ficers, making them “ministers ;”
tlio dwarfing of tho president to a
figure head so far as legislation goes,
and elections made at any timo of
adverse majorities instead of once in
two veal's.
Giviug too Much Play to his
Humor.
A telegram front Pittsburg, Pa.,
Morph 27, says: “Yesterday after
noon an old man, named John W.
ltummcll, was painting the front of
a storo on Ponti avenue, lie stood
on a high stool so as to roach as far
as possible. John Wilkinson, a
member of the tiro department, camo
along with a couple of his friends,
and said to them, with a laugh:
‘Wouldn’t it bo a joke to knock the
stool from under tho old man* ?’
The others urged him to do so, and
ho gavo the stool a kick that knock
ed it out into the street llanimell
fell on his head and side, and was
fatally injured. Ills skull is fract
ured. and four of his ribs are broken.
He is over sixty years old. Wilkin
son was arrested and is now iu jail.”
Condor Items.
Miss Zcnobiu Smith has opened a
school near Rev. Wm. A. Harrison’s.
Mr. Dennis Ken lias all his lumber
sawed for a two-story store house.
Despite the feeble opposition of
fered our new school house is com
pleted and speaks volumes of praise
for Messrs. Bcachnm, Bush, Fuller,
and Dennis Kea.
The storm of Sunday March 30th,
was very severe blowing down fenc
ing, uprooting trees, etc. Mr. K.
H. Linder’s ncW lionse was blown
down. Mr. Richard Warnock had
two hundred pnnncls of fence blown
down.
Stutisticd’for the last mouth show
two dwellings, one gin house and
screw burned and two narrow escapes
for Beachuin’s mammoth saw-mill.
All in Condor.
Corn, vegetation and fruit are bad
ly injured by the lute frosts.
Mr. George Carter’s little babe
died on the 4th iiist.
A young rnun on Buck Horn went
to hunt the yearlings in a buggy a
few days ago. He got lost and had-
to leave horse ni.d buggy in the
woods and follow a little ox which
took him to a neighbor’s house.
Our efficient J. P. had to marry a
couple of “darkeys” on the 23rd nit.,
that lmd been joined by “one without
authority.”
There 1ms been an unusual amount
of sickness around Condor this year.
Holmes’ mule has been traded so
often lie drops bis under lip every
tinni yon go to him for you to see
how old he is.
A one-horse farmer of Emanuel
near the Laurens line has planted five
acres in sugar cane
It is generally conceded at Wash
ington that the next census reports
will show the Northwest to have
outstriped all othor sections of the
country iii growth and * population,
and that Kansas, Nebraska, Minne
sota un’d Colorado will rather take
tho lead.
Kerosene oil;’ is very, good for
lamps, but it is a‘bad remedy for
earache. An Alabama paper says:
Simon Sintou7 living a few miles
from Rntlego about three weeks
since was troubled with earache, and
upon the advice of somebody, caused
a spoonful of kerosene oil to bo
poured into bis ear. He lived nearly
two days a raving maniac, and then
there was a funeral.
There is a sad man in Monroe
county. The Advertiser says that
Mr. G. W. Goodwyne, missing one
of his hogs last woek, concluded to
feed'the others on strychnine, having
hoard that it would not injure the
hog, but if stolen and baton it would
kill the thief.’ He gavo the hogs a
small quantity in water and in ten
minutes uftor drinking tho last one
was dead.
Early county Nows : In talking
with tho planters of the county we
learned that most of them were up
with tho season in their farming op
erations. Fertilizers aye being used
in groatcr abundance than" ever.
Some of the agents have not been
ablo to supply tho demand made up
on them. Wo hopo that tho farmers
may have no cause to complain at
the result of their investment.
Albany Advertiser : Some far
mers are planting this week where
the, lands wore elevated. In this
community there is not much hurry
about early planting. In regard to
guano, some bed on itsome strew
it along the furrow of old cotton
land and list, without center furrow,
while the majority prefer to strew it
when the planting is done, claiming
that fifty pounds put out with the
seed produces as good results as one
hundred pounds when bedded on.
Liberty ami Shot-Guns.
Nashville Banner.
Wlmt is our country coining to ?
Hero the other day Colonel Bob Al
ston was shot down because he would
not trade to suit the slayer, and now
Colonel Thomas Buford, of Henry
county, Ky., shoots with a double-
barreled shot-gun John M. Elliott,
of Boyd county, judge of the court
of appeals, because this judge ren
dered a decision ud verse to the claims
of Bt\ford. It does seem as if the
eonntry is running wild. Coercion
is the order of the day. Murder
stalks red-hauded through the coun
try. When *our judieary becomes
the subject of attack we 'may truly
say liberty.i$ at uti end.
.Johnson Items.
Big fires are reported from the
Sooth side of Cedar oh last Thursday,
but no particulars yet.
Mr. Ephraim Hightower is very
sick with pneumonia.
Mrs. S. E. J. Smith has returned
from Atlanta.
Mr. John A. McAfee had seventy-
five pannels of feucc burned yester
day.
We lmd a fine ram in Wrightsvillc
lost night.
There is a great deal of sickness
yot-in the county.
Wrightsvillc seems almost deserted
since court.
Mr. A. T, Linder left for Savannah
yesterday to buy more goods.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, pays
Ben Butler $17,000 rent for his res
idence in Washington. *
Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee, of-.Virginia,
wjll deliver the memorial address in
Atlanta, on the 27th of April.
The jury in the Oliver-Cumeron
breach of promise case have brought
in a verdict for Simon Cameron.
There ure intimations of a motion
for a new trial or an appeal.
Peru and Bolivia have concluded
an alliance offensive and defensive,
and have declared war against Chili.
New Cash Grocery Store
IB ~¥T
J. R Battle,
Wholesale and Retail dealer in fancy,
and Family Groceries will sell you goods
low'down for cash. Call and see.
(Store on Second St., next to the Post
Office.) Cochran, Ga. March, lfi-tf
TO PHYSICIANS and FAMILIES:
M. Y. II. MORGAN
DRUGGIST & PHYSICIAN,
COCmtAS, GA.,
Has in store at all times a large and care
fully selected stock of the* purest
Drugs and Medicines
In the market, at prices ^hat must com
mand the trade of Physicians and Families
A general decline all round in Toilet
Goods of nil kinds, and my stock is com
plete.. Give rue u call, or send your orders
to Y. II. MORGAN, .
Mar. 10, 70-tf Cochran, Go.
ESTABLISHED IN 1850.
CARHART& CORD
Importers and Jobbers of
Foreign and Domestic Hardware,
CUTLERY AND GUNS,
AGRIOULTURA
AL IMPLEM ENTS
IRON, STEEL AN^
Carriage takers’ Materials.
—AGEKTS FOR—
FAIIWANN'S STANDARD SCALES.
CItLeZ?3^^" StL
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BYPlUill’S ART OF TEACHING SCIIOOI,.
WICKERSlIASl’S METHODS OF INSTRUCTION.
“ SCnopLECONOMY.
THE HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF EDUCATION
my run.OBiBhiUB.
CAI.KIN8* OBJECT LESSONS.
watson’s hand-hook of calisthenics &
GYMNASTICS.-
SPENCERIAN KEY TO PRACTICAL PENMAN
SHIP.
JOHONNOT’S SCHOOL HOUSES.
ROOT'S SCHOOL AMUSEMENTS.
HATES* teacheii’s INSTITUTES.
THE TEACHERS’ GUIDE TO ILLUSTRATION.
CLARKE'S SEX IN EDUCATION.
BARNARD’S EDUCATION IN EVROPE.
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COCHRAN, GEORGIA.
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