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rHE POST.
WEDNESDAY, MAY V. ISI'.I.
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR AN1) PROPRIETOR.
W. P. IIM,h in I he regular agent for the
I'OS T in John hoii County, authorised to re-
e. itt tadncripUone, receipt for the name, and
t> make contract*/or adeerthdog. AU dace
ih&tUA fii paid to him.
What. Will the Democracy I)o ?
pH [Satannah Nam.}
As will Ihj scon by our Washington
dispatch, it motion wits mtulc in the*
llon.se yesterday to puss the army
appropi iation bill over Hayes’ veto
pud was defeated by a strictly party
tote, life yeas being one hundred
/md twenty and the nays being one
hundred and ten. This result was
f ontidoptly anticipated, and after the
veto if,se|f causes no surprise. The
question qpw is wjiut line of action
will the Domoyrqoy adopt in the
emergency wjjich has been brought
about by the extraordinary, despotic
pnd defiant /ivtipi) qf a fraudulent,
partisan Exccmtjvo, If would *eotn
that but one consistent course re-
pmins for them, and that is resolute
pud uncompromising adherence to
fho principles embodied in the bill
Which hits been so jnsolonMy over
ruled by oui would-bo Radical auto
crat. The demand for the repeal of
fho Federal election laws and jurors’
|eat oath should not have been made
jn the present form, in view of the
Known hostility of the Radical Exce
ptive, unless si}ch repeal was of vital
poooMjjty tq tljo W«)hboing of the
pouutry. If tlierp wits such jhstifl
pation for thedemitud—if those laws
pro uupipiKtjtutioipi), despotic*, op
prasstve aifd destructive of the rights
jmd fibortios of the people, the veto
pf a fraudulent Executive does not
phango tljeir ehaructor. If their re
poul W|}s worth an extra session of
Pongresu wjth fcjjp pcrfajji prospect
of a vetq, their repeal is still worth a
resolute, uncompromising struggle
|u dofianeo of tl|p veto, if the contest
for tlie rjght, for free elections and
pivil liberty, was to bo abandoned in
deference to the will of Rutherford
}t. IluycM. it should have been aban-
dotted hpfpyo the fourth of March
jjist, For tl| Democracy to buck
down now is for it to'assume the
responsibility both for the extra ses
sion and the surrender of the rights
iff the people at the dictation of the
jll-gotton
Hayes. It seems to us the Democra
cy are in a posit ion in which vlioyoan-
uot afford to take a backward step.
In tho conflict us it now stands, they
huvo the oordial support of tho peo
ple. By resoluto udhoroneo to their
preseut position, in which tho
debates in both houses have so well
fortified them, they will bo responsi
ble only for consistency in maintain
ing tho right; whilo by retreat they
not only surrender tho right, but as
sume tho responsibility and the odium
pf a fruitless, exasperating and ex
pensive contest. The former course
Js tho courso of safety—to yield or
falter is to invito disaster.
Wo regret to learn from our dis-
putohes that Mr. Stephens, Dr; Fel
ton and Mr, Speer, of our State del
egation, aro in favor of an ubuudon-
pioiit of tho contost., and of sending
the appropriation bills to Mr. Hayes
puiuoiimbcretl with the repealing
sections. Wo hour also of some
disagreement between tho Southern
find Northern aud Western Demo-
prats in regard to tho proper courso
to be pursued ; some of the former
being disposed to yield, whilo the
latter are almost, unanimously in fa
vor of persistent and uncompromis
ing udheronoe to tho rci>ealing claus
es. We hope these reports aro not
well. founded. At this distance with
lights before us, it is idle to specu
late ami perhaps presumptuous to
advise as to what would bo the best
course for the Democrats in Congress
to adopt in the present crisis. In
view of the vital importance of the
principles involved in the issue, the
history of the contest ’and the re
sponsibility that must rest upon tho
parties to it, it is to he hoped that
w\s$ aud prudent hut ttrm and uu-
\vavorh\g eoimeij* uiqr prevail, and
|l\ut iii whatever course may be de
termined ot\ tho Democracy vrUl be
united, harmonious and ix soluto.
Qbl. Kli S. Shorter, of Kufatila,
Ahdtanu. died on the 39th ult. lie
was a son of the. lawyer of tho same
name wlux, Ycip-sago,, attended oo.iirU
, The Cox Trial.
Atlanta is in ;i fever of excitement
over the trial of Cox who killed Al
ston, the papers throughout the
State arc all agog with the same sub
ject and even the metropolitan press
of the North and West is taking a
deep interest in the trial as it pro
gresses. The testimony so far is de
cidedly against Cox, but lie doesn’t
appeur to be much daunted, and
there are those who believe the de
fense will develop some startling tes
timony before the trial is over. The
Constitution is accused of persecut
ing Cox aud his attorneys have induc
ed the Judge .(> refuse that paper ac
cess to the testimony, alleging that it
publishes only such p*rts of the evi
dence us suits its prejudice. The
Constitution snoers at the accusation
and procecris to give tho evidence as
well as may bo from memory. As
soon as the trial is over the Consii
tution will issue a phumplilet, giving
the history of tho case, all the .evi
dence, the life of Alston &e.
The New York Herald publish!,s
in a late issue a long letter from a
correspondent who is engaged in
“working up” the South, liis re
ports about Georgia uro to the effect
that the State is rapidly improving
in wealth and general prosperity;
that the difficulties under which the
white and negro in this State both
suffer are those which arise from ig
norance, and they can only be remov
cd by the gradual growth of intolli
gonee, and that no legislation can
possibly reach them. He also says
that the product of cotton in Georgia,
North Carolina and Texas will bo so
much increased its to effectually
offset any possible deciease which
may be occasioned in Louisiana and
Mississippi on account of the negro
exodus from those States. One of
the gentlemen interviewed by said
correspondent is of the opinion that
in a fow years the seed belonging to
a bale of cotton will Ik* worth fully
half as much as tho bale itsolf, as it
can be made useful in tho following
manner.* “The lint left on tho bull
by the gin. cun bo used for batting.
The hull for . tun n injj iyvfo^tjm.ox
traction of dvo 8111118.’ The spent
.hull for paper stock, for which it, is
admirable. The kernel first for oil
and tho residue for feed. There are
new methods lately disclosed for ex
tracting every purticlo of oil, which
leave the residuum a sweet, dry and
one man power o;t .Mr. extremely nutritious food for sheep
or cattle--more nutritious than
beans ; and if tho residue be foci to
Sheep on tho cotton field the crop of
cotton will bo doubled and tho clij
of wool added thereto;”
AMONG THE ARPS,
Tho Madame Pays Hop Respect
to “that Husband of Hers.”
Editors Constitution : f’vo alius
beam it said by them what, knowed
that tho only way to git even with
the devil is to fight, li .ni with his own
fire, an I never did exznoly under,
stand jest what wua t ho moanin
that proverb afore. Wo uinfc never
too old to lain, howsomovor, an
though I’m up in the fiftys, I bed
jest now learnt, how to git at the
kerroot moan in of that, old say in, an
Pm going- to use it for woman’
rights. Hero Mr. Arp’s been infrin
gin on my name so long till Fm
troubled nigh oil to distraoslmn, an
its .been getting worse and worse for
ten years, till I’m actually ufeurod to
look into n newspaper, kaso I might
see sumthin agin my good name un
my good sense. I hov tried to make
him stop it by hoggin an teaoin
prayin an scold in an threutiiin
every other thing, but it aint no use.
You might jest as well try to make
blind mule quit kiokin. My friends
hex been ndvisin tue to writ a piece
for tho newspapers for many a day,
an l*ni jest through findin out that
they hov been tellin mo the right,
thing to do, an if I don’t quit oven
with Mr. Arp you may choke me to
death on ingun tops fur a month,
hov tried mighty hard to keep from
writin him up in the jMipers, but
women ho* feelins jest as well
men, an I don’t kero what anybody
sen agin it. I’m again to show Mr.
Aip that somebody eke can write
letters and poke fuu at other folks
besides him. I don’t kere about
git tin mixed up with the papers my
self, like on a of my nubors hex mix
ed, but*Pin jest agoin to show you
folks that I aint as big a fool as Mr.
Arp makes out, Everybody thinks
he’s powerful smart, an here they’ve
been invitin him all round to Macon
and Dalton and Forsyth and sich
places, to make lectures and give ad
dresses to schools and the like, jest
like he was some big man like Mr.
Luster or Mr. Felton, and I do be
lieve lie’s jest common enough to go
everywhere they axes him—that is if
they pay his way an give him liis
board with wash in thrqwcd in. Ho
makes believe os how lie don’t want
to go off a bit, but I knows him too
well for that. If he could git any
body else to sow on liis buttons, an
darn his socks, and tie liis cravat an
comb his hair and the like, I don’t
believe he ever would come back
agin. But sich is life. Wo women
do hov a hard time. I hev been
threatened an threatened for many a
day to take my nabor, Mrs. Free
man’s, advice an git devorced, but
I’m jest afeared ho’s made everybody
think I’m sich a lunacy that I can’t
oven hire out for a washwoman
Why, bless me, he said I didu.t even
know what good lace was, ail I
know if thereaany woman in Geor
gia who can toll it bottom me I jest
want to see her. I’ve seed lace ull
my life. I never did wear anything
but the yollerest kind of lace an I
ncverwill to my dyiti day. Mr. Arp
he says lie didn't mean to hurt my
feelin’s about that luce, an jest said
it to make folks laff, but I aint agoin
to be rnh down an made a fool of for
nobody to laff at. Navvy time.
This trouble has been goin on for
nigli thirty years, an hev raised ten
children, un there aint but one runt
the lot of ’em an he aint too
old to grow yet, for ho’s jest twenty
this month an is as pretty as any
gul, mi I’ve worked an sowed an
darned and patched for every one of
ein with the old man throwed in an
I never got any tlmnks at all ex cep to
be made a fool of in the newspapers.
Mr. Arp is jest a little too upity for
his raisin. He’s gettin purnicki-
ty cause away from home everybody
thinks ho’s perfechun porfectorificd,
but they am mighty mistaken about,
that. Just lot etn stop down in the
kitchen some mornin an hide around
an see. I don’t want no man f> oliti
around nr/^fcTien,’biit I cau’tlbegia
to keep Mr. Arp out of there, so I
jest let him do the oookin.' Yon
soo, he learned how to cook m the
army, an ho jest thinks there aint
nobody as can cook like him. I’ve
boon truinin him for a many a day
an now I boy him purty well broke
in, an ho’s gettin used to it, an he
gits up in the mornin an never says
a word agin it, but goes down an
starts tho fire un goss togettin break
fast, as natural as anybody* and lots
me sleep till its roudy to eat. Mr
Editnr, I lovo to sleep in the morn
in, and whenever Mr. Arp. lets mo
sleep jest as long as I want, I begin
to feel sorter sorry for him, 'poor
man, an I don’t think I ortor say
anything agin him for writeu mo up
in the newspapers, but I jest think
of that, lace and all my good moaiims
go right out of my mind. Ido won
dor if folks over will think 1 know
laeo, rale lace agin. But I reoken
its time to stop, kaso I don’t want
to take a whole side of yum* paper
to settle family disturbances. I amt
been hard on Mr. Arp, hov I ? I’m
jest a warning him. If he over say
anything agin me agin, won’t you
jest sorateh it out an stick in some
thin agin him, and jest lot me know
what, it was he said, ail if mo an the
gals don’t pull every lmir out of tho
top of his head. I’ll die afore I’m
buried, shore. If raisin his hair
don’t quiet him, you will hear from
me agin. Liko as 1 doiPt know
lace. Yours truly. Mus. Arp.
A Negro Killed While in the Act
of Stealing Com.
There are more ways than one to
dispose of thieves, and the following
is the plan they pursue in upper
Georgia. The Carroll County Times
gays:
A negro man by the numc of
Levi Bonner, a tenant of Mr. John
W. Stewart of Carroll county, upon
farm of his near Botvdon, was
killed tinder rather peculiar circum
stances on last Friday night.
Mr. Joseph Vance, who lives in
the same neighborhood, it seems, hud
for some time been missing corn out
his crib. Being determined to
catch up with the thief, he set a
double-barreled shot gun in the back
part of the crib, with the muzzle
jointing toward the door, a string
jcing tied to the trigger and con
nected with the door, so that when
the door was opened, the trigger was
pulled and the gun was fired. The
gun was set, we understand, late in
the evening, and just after (lark Mr.
Vance and a young Mr. Tarpley,
who happened along at that time,
started to a neighbor’s near by to
some kind of a gathering. They* had
not gone very far when they heard
the discharge of the gun. Hurrying
back, uni Mr. Vance going over into
the lot, he discovered the negro in
his death agonies in front of the
door. Before going into the lot he
first hailed to know who was there,
and receiving no answer, he went in
when ho discovered the body, 'which
he at first thought was that of a
black ox of his, nut afterwards re
cognized as that of a human being.
Tho negro, it is thought, lived about
fifteen minutes after lie way shot,
The verdict, of the coroner’s jury,
we understand, was, that the de
ceased came to his death by ‘invol-
untaty suicide.’
The muzzle of the gun was about
six foot, from the body of the negro
when he was shot. The shot used
was a size huger than squirrel shot.
The entire load was emptied i
space of less than two inches in di
ameter, just to the left of the right
nipple.”
Southern M.en In Washington.
Washington Letter to Courier-Journal
Time was wln n southern members
kept house here apd entertained
handsomely. Now it is tho excep
tion to find one doing so. Most of
them live either in hotels or lodgings,
There aro nine of those delightful
mosses formed by the senators front
this or-that state. The large for
tunes and handsome homes now here
wero exceptions bef re the war.
member or senator now with its pal
try $5,000 a year can’t keep up with
a social procession which requires
from $15,000 to $50,000 a year from
its rank and file. The result is that
the southerner, poor and proud
won’t assert himself. Ho cannot
equal or return the sumptuous on
tertainments of his woalthy north
ern or western brother; so lie goes
out but little, dresses jmorly, bur
rows m lodging*, and liis false pride
keeps him from organizing a society
where a modest house and entertain
incut, good company and c mgoiiial
people shall stand in place of a got*
geous establishment, fine equipages
and flunkeys in livery. Time was
when a senator wus a tromendou
sopiul factor, but now*, unless he has
a private fortune or is a man
rank, birth and culture, ho sinks
down to the level ot the average
member of congress.
The most str’ngont and searching
police regulations are being enforced
in St. Petersburg. No ono is allow
cd to appear oil tho streets after nine
o’clock at night w'tliout a duly at
tested certificate from the governor
of the town, stating from whence ho
came und where he is going. Houses
are closely watched, und nil lights
have to bo extinguished at 9 p. ni.
Mysterious revolutionary posters ap
pear in the public streets, and us
fast as they are tom down are us
mysteriously roplaoed. It is believ-
thut tlie Nihilists are endeavoring to
wear out tho police, or at least to
lull them into fancied security, so as
to create a favorable opportunity for
a general outbreak, Tho troops are
in readiness to move at any moment,
aud great fears tire entortaiued that
a revolutionary movement is immi
nent, • . *
What Nihilism is.
The Age.
Nihilism, in Russia, does not mean
chaos and anarchy. It means nothin
of czarism. The university students
declare in speech and pass wink
with tho secret police that czarism
must go. Extremely practical shat
ors in this idea think tho shortest way
to accomplish tho exit is to shoot the
cam*, or blow him up with an infernal
machine, but the majority want the
exit, of czarism to bo attended by ull
the dignity of revolution.
Alluding to Bill Arp's, clmt with
the Macon people, tho Macon Tele
graph says: The whole lecture
abounded in a humor peculiar to the
great Georgia humorist, which won
smiles and expressions of approval at
very frequent intervals from tho uu
diencc, and when a passage of fine
sentiment or beauty blossomed into
view amid its sprightly surroundings
of humor the appreciation of the * s tt mystery
audience was not wantiug, and dis
played itself in hearty applause.
A new medical college is to be es
tablished in Atlanta.
The Pans exposition was visited
hy 16,039,735 people.
Justice court jurors in Henry
county get five cents a day.
It requires more power to control
fortune than to control kings.
Gallows executions may be called
suspensions of public judgment.
The Des Moines (la.) school board
forbids pupils to jump the rope.
Some arithmetician has been fig
uring the Texas debt, and says it
will take $2.50 from every man, w« -
man and child in the state to pay it.
Never forget that wrong-doing can
not be made to pay in the end. It
may hold the promise of pleasure or
profit, blit shame and loss will surely
follow.
There was never but one duel
fought in Illinois. One of the bel
ligerents was killed on the field.
The sur\ivor was tried for murder,
was convicted and hanged by the
neck until he was quite dead.
England can easily subdue the
Zulus if she will take the proper
course. Let her send several thou
sand chickens to South Africa and
put them in hen-houses with spring
guns attached to the doors.—Chicago
Times.
The indefatigable and destructive
Mr. Orupp has just completed a steel
rilled cannon that throws a sixteen
hundred pound shell fifteen miles.
At such a range he would scarcely
shoot at un object smaller than a
first-class city.
'The biggest tree known in Georgia
is a poplar in Washington, Wilkes
county. It is one hundred and fifty-
five feet high, nine feet, in diameter,
twenty-eight feet in eircumfreiicc,
and its lowest branches are fifty-live
feet from the ground.
Captain Boyton, the champion
floater, who arrived at Natchez on
Wednesday, is aluost completely
broken down, but determined to
continue to the end. 'The distance
he must, paddle before reaching New
Orleans is 280 miles.
There is a bottle of wine over
eighteen hundred years old that will
be opened shortly on the anniversary
of the destruction of Pompeii, It
was •Jug out of the ruins, where it
had lain since the year 79. At t lie*
cheapest possible price the cost of it,
if invested at compound interest,
would by this time.exceed our na
tional debt.
Montgomery, Ala., May 1.—The
Montgomery and Eufunlu Railroad
was sold to-day for the benefit of its
bondholders, by order of the United
States Court. The road is eighty
miles long, and was bought by Win.
M. Wad ley. The principal compet
itor was the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, which owns a large amount
of bonds, The price paid in cash
was $2,120,(VO.
WM. A. JERNIGAM,
«TIEC WEXaEK,,
—AND—
Practical Watchmaker,
Dl ltJ.IN, OEOKGIA,
Offers liis services to the citizens of
Laurens and adjoining counties. All work
warranted and charges reasonable. Call
on me at J. E. Hightower’s law office.
may 7-tf
Sheriff's Sales.
W ILL be sold before the Court House
door in the townof Dublin. Laurens
county, Ga., on the first Tuesday in May
next, within the legal honrs of sale, the
following described property, to-wit:
Three town lots, Nos. 50, 57 and 27 in
the plnn of town of Dublin, Laurens coun
ty, Ga., levied on ns the premises whereon
J. E. Perry and C. J. Perry now live, to
satisfy one Superior court fi fa in favor of
W. F. Cannon & Co. vs. J. E. Perry and
C. J. Perry. Property pointed out in said
fi fa.
Also, at the same time and place, 200
acres of land, more or less, adjoining lands
of Mrs. Jane McBuin, Mrs. Elifair Bush
and others, known as the Green Brantley
place, to satisfy one Superior court fi fa in
favor of Wm. R. Keen vs. W. D. Martin.
Property pointed out by defendant.
Also, at tlie same time and place, 75
acres of land, more or less, it being the
southwestern portion of lot of land No.
247. in tlie 17th district of Baid coilnty, to
satisfy one Justice court fi fa in favor of
W. N. Wynn vs. A. B. Holloday. Prop
erly pointed out by plaintiff’s‘uttornev.
Levied on and returned to me by Isaac
Gay, Const. J. G’. Scarborough,
May 2, 1879. ■ Sheriff.
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.Johnson Items.
Dr. John L. Walker has located
in Wrightsville.
Messrs. Harrison & Walker have
got in their new goods.
Mr. J. E. Hightower of Dublin
wus in Wrightsville Monday and
Tuesday.
Mrs. Mary Tlmrpe, widow of Mr.
John Tiiarpe, died last 'Thursday.
Miss Mollie Walker of Wilkinson
county is on a visit to relatives in
Wrightsville.
Prof. O. W. Samples carried his
school to Johnson’s mill last Friday
where they had a fine time fishing
and boating.
We regret to stato that Mr. Shade
Williams is still very sick.
Mrs. Joseph S. Williams died last
Saturday at 2 o’clock. She was the
daughter of the Rev. Jordan Norris.
Mrs. Joseph Palmer, of Montgom
ery county, died at her father’s, Mr.
John Fullers, in this county last
Saturday.
There was a wide-spread fall of
lint cotton on the place of Judge M.
H. Mason during a hail storm last
week.
A It E YOU DRY/
If so, go |r see Wash Baker, at his
first-class Saloon on Beech Si., where lie
keeps constantly on hand, and for sale, *
Wines, Whiskeys,
Brandies* Beer. >• * 1
Cfder, Champagne.
And in fact, everything in the shape of
Liquors and Drinks to he found in a first-
class Saloon.
. A ISO
TOBACCO, (AGARS ETC.
Give me a call «nd von shall he eouvino
WASH BAKER
Sept. 18-1 [. CocnitAK Ga.
R I Willingham,
COTTON FACTOR,
SECOND ST. - - MACON, GA.
BRING m YOUR COTTON
AND I WILL PLEASE YOU,
82pOpposite J. W. Burke & Co.’s Book
Stop*. jnn22, ’79. ly
Application for Dismission.
Laurens Court ok Ordinary,
April Term, 187i).
Whereas, B. II. Calhoun, adminis
trator on the estate of Eliza Clark, dee’d,
has filed ids application for letters of
Dismission from his administration.
These tfre, therefore, to cite and ad
monish all persons concerned, to show
cause, if any they have, why letters of
Dismission should not. bp granted the
applicant on tlie first Monday in July
next.
Given under my Official signature.
JOHN T. DUNCAN,
apr7-3m Ordinary.
Tho •Central Georgia Weekly has
bought out the Sunday Ledger, aud
under the management of Messrs. J.
D. Williams mid John T. Bonfriel-
ett will unquestionably l»e made one
of the best Weeklies in the State.
From all parts of the couutry reports
come of the immense sales and increasing
demand for that deservingly popular. Sew
ing Machine, The Old and Reliable “Stan
dard,” the price of which the proprietors
wisely reduced to $20, including all the
attachments, aud at once secured fo** them
a popularity among the people, far beyond
that ever yet attained by any other machine
at nny price, the consequence of which is,
agents are leaving the old high priced ma
chines, and seeking territory for the "Stan
dard.” Knowing from experience that
with the best goods at the lonest price
they can outsell all other machines, where
the superior quality and low price is made
known. This splendid machine combines
all the improvements. Is far ahead of all
others in beauty and durability of its
work, case of management, light running
und certainty of operation, is sensibly
made upon sound principles, with positive
working parts all steel, and can be safely
put down as the perfection of a Serviceable
Shuttle Double Thread Sewing Machine,
in every particular, that will outlast any
Where the lint cotton came machine, and at a price far down below
any other. It is thoroughly warranted for
• Notice.
Treasurer’s Office,
Johnson county, April 38,1879.
Sly office will lie open in the northwest
corner of the Court Houso the Seeond
and Fourth Saturdays in each month for
the purpose of transacting county business.
JOHN Mw niGHTOWER.
57-4t County Treasurer.
five years, Kept In order free of charge.
-And sent to any part of the country for
examination by the customer before pay
ment of the bill. We can predict equally
as large a demand for them in this section
as in others. Families desiring the best
machine manufactured should write direct
to the factory. And et
wishing to seize the chance
for so desirable an agency,
tisoment in another part of this paper.
Address, Standard Machine Co., Cor,
Broadway and Clinton Flaw, New Yoik.
i snouiu write direct
enterprising persons
hnnee should apply
ncy. Sec advertise-