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THE DUBLIN POST.
DUBLIN, GA., MAY *1, 1879.
Ter 111 s, $ 1-50 a year in advance.
Local Affairs.
Mr- Mincey wants a few eats.
Mrs. Mercer Haynes is very sick.
Plenty of rain and too much grass.
Mrs. Daniel Anderson is very sick.
No one in jail except the women.
The complaint about grass is fear
ful.
“Safe” Blank Notes for sale at tills
office- f
Renew your subscription for the
Post.
The flies are worse this year than
usual.
Mr. J. M. Howard, Jr. j lias a very
sick child.
Butter is worth 20 cents in this
market.
Mr. Hudson lias been sick for
several days.
Down with ' those ghostly old
china-trees.
Howards’.place of business is being
made very, attractive.
The Colville brought down a load
of freight last Saturday.
Our ilsbermen all have Black-
shear’s mill on the brain.; .
Mr. Chavous expects to remove to
to Hawkinsville this summer.
Mr. Poland is over at Condor
painting for Mr. Wesley Ken.
Dudoodles of nice country butter
in town fat sale last Saturday.
The turpentine distillery at this
place seems to be doing well.
The oat crop of this section is
much improved by the recent rains.
Mrs. Dr. Hightower has 130 spring
chickens. One lien takes care of 38.
A heavy arrival of new goods
expected at. Wolfe’s within a day or
two.
A goodly number ot farmers in
town last Saturday ; all complaining
of grass.
Mr. Lakesays the elder Mrs. Perry
in jail Ls very7nucH Hfs(y>imia:ej[l.with
the situation.
.Mr. .J. J. Conner.went over to
Hawkinsville on professional business
last Monday.
Fishing and loafing are the prin
cipal occupations of the citizens of
Dublin at this time.
In ordering articles advertised in the
Post, please mention where you saw the
advertisement. f
Read wlmt Mr. Chavous has to
say. He is offering some desiralbe
property very low.
The hardest rain fell at Condor on
last Saturday within the memory of
the oldest inhabitant.
Read what Mr. Surchett has to say.
lfe is offering somebody a chance
to make a ten-strike.
WANTED.—Fifty subscribers to pny
for the Post in corn.—Highest market
price allowed. 4t
Mr. T. B. Fuqua has a spring-
sown collat'd lacking 1£ inches of
being four feet in diameter.
Dr. Hightower has had the low
grounds of his lot blind-ditched, and
the ditches work like a charm.
Amid all the grass and rain the
farmers have the consolation of sue
cess in planting out potato draws.
Messre. J. E. Hightower and I,
T. Keen returned on Monday night
from a junketiug trip to Florida.
Mr. Surchett contemplates remov
ing to his plantation to sec whether
a change will not improve his health.
A great deal of new plank fencing
has been erected in Dublin recently,
adding nmch to the looks of the
place.
We had the pleasure of showing
Miss Nellie Maddox and Mrs. John
Jackson through our printing rooms
last Friday.
If j'ou want to see how handsome
ly Mr. Poland can put up wall paper,
examine the job on J. W. Peacock
& Co.’s drug store.
3fr. and Mrs. Chandler had quite
a serious adventure last week in
crossing one of the ‘‘gully brauches”
on the other side of the river, but
escaped without injury.
On lust Saturday Messrs. Henry
Dontdsou and Richard Warnock had
a* private wind and. hail storm that
did considerable damage.
A goodly number of the citizens
of Dublin and vicinnity attended the
burial of Mrs. Vigal, at Valombrosn,
last Sunday afternoon.
There is a bunch of keys at this
office, also a gold pencil case. The
owners may come forward, pay
charges, and claim property.
Mr. Jas. W. Carter, of the extreme
eastern portion of this county, con
templates removing his family to
Dublin for the purpose of educating
his children- Right.
The Post always takes it as a spe
cial favor to have parties drop in,
while in town, and report affairs of
local interest. You have no idea
bow much it helps out the editor.
A Cook Wanted.
A good cook, washer and ironer, who is
willing to live in Wrightsville, can get
excellent wages by applying at this office
immediately, ; muy21-2t
Mr. J. A. Burney has an old sow
so very industrious that she keeps
the sidewalks constantly plowed up
m the south portion of town. Our
council should try to purchase said
sow of Mr. B. and have her killed or
otherwise disposed of.
A' Word with Our Subscribers.
On the 20th day of June next the
Post will complete Volume I, and
several hundred subscriptions will
expire. We hope every subscriber
will renew by that time and pay for
another year. Shortly afterward we
shall revise our subscription-book ;
hence it is desirable that all should
make arrangements as early as possi
ble. 2t
Par Nobile Fratruni.
Mi’. J. T, McDaniel was in town
on last Thursday to have pictures
made of his twin boys—universally
given up to be the finest looking pair
of three year old boys ever seen in'
Dublin. They differ iu weight only
a half pound, and are as much alike
as two. peas. How their mother dis-.
tinguishos them we are nimble to
understand.
Death of Mrs. Vigal. *
Mrs. Vigal, the last surviving
child of Gov. Troup, died, in
the insane Hospital in Milledgeville
on hist Thursday night. Hor re
mains were brought back to her old
home at Valombrosa and buried on
last Sunday afternoon. A more
extended notice of hor life and the
circumstances attending her death
will appear in the Post next week.
Judge Bostick, of Wrightsville,
was iu town on Monday and favored
us with a call. * He reports Wrights
ville as dead dull. “Dead,” he says,
“is the word.” His wife, we regret,
is not iu good health. He expects
to take her to north Georgia in a
p\y days to try the benefits.of moun
tain air. The Judge once lived in
Dublin and has many friends in this
county.
Mr. McDowel, one of the parties
in the bloody fight we mentioned a
week ago, is not doing as well as was
at first supposed. It. is feared lie
will not recover. Mr. Pryor has
been to town since, but shows tlie
loss of blood in his pale face. He
has been over to see McDowel and
they have made friends and agreed
to drop the whole uffnih
We had a pleasant call on last Mod-
day from Mr. J. II. Bolton, of Long
Branch, Tatnall county. He is agent
for the famous Cooper traction en
gine, and we hope our citizens who
contemplate purchasing engines will
consider the claims of the Cooper.
Mr. B’s. horse, he tells us, ran away
near McVille last Saturday, broke his
sulky and gave him a painful bruise
on the leg.
Dr. Battle.
Dr. Battle, president of Mercer
University, will fill Rev. W. S. Ram
say’s pulpit in Dublin on the first
Sunday in June next. The sermon
of this eminent pulpit orator will be
a rare treat to the people of this com
munity. For logic and breadth of
thought Dr. Battle has few equals,
and we hope none of our citizons who
can possibly come out will fail to do
so.
Our friend, Wesley Koa, than
whom there is no more observing or
practical farmer in the county, has
this to say of hogs and hog cholera:
“that he has never known a Guinea
hog to be affected by that disease.”
If this is the experience of others,
and the fact satisfactorily established
that cholera does not kill a Guinea
hog, the remdey for that scourge of
farmers is easily found, i. e., raise
none but Guineas.
Capt. Nance’s fishing party march
ed in Monday morning about 7
o’clock behind two darkeys carrying
their striug of fish on a handspike.
They were cats, caught on set hooks.
The sight so thrilled those who saw
it with fish-catching hopes that with
in less than an hour troops of Dnb-
linites might be seen sallying forth
toward the river, armed with tackle
and poles and reveling in their bloody
imaginations ill the slaughter of the
finny tribes.
A Pleasant Trip.
In company with our esteemed
friend, Mr. Conner, we rode out into
the country on last Wednesday after
noon and spent the night at Mr. S.
B. Whipple’s, returning the next
morning by way of Valombrosa.
Mr. Whipple, as is well known, is
one of the largest and most success
ful fanners in this part of the State,
and we endeavored to interview him
for the benefit of our readers; but
found that a description wo heard of
him several months ago was true,
namely, that he possesses a most
happy faculty of extracting other
people’s views without letting out
any of his own. lie let slip one ex
cellent thought, however, with ro-
spect to the use of guano, which, by
the way, lie uses on his entire crop,
He knows that guano is exhausting
to the soil, und that land will not
long bear tho use of that stimulus
unless accompanied with some kind
of vegetable matter. Tho most
practicable wav of supplying this
matter, lie thinks, is to allow half of
your land to lie out every other year
and grow up in weeds and grass to
lie turned under the next year as a
basis for the guano to act upon.
And the cost of fencing would ren
dor this plan impracticable without
a stock law.
Mr. Whipple, though apparently
engrossed with the affairs of his
plantation, curiously finds time to
cultivate a natural aptitude and
fondness for mathematics.
At Valombrosa we found Colonel
Wayuc driving ahead with the vast
farming operations of that historic
place. He lias, by* all odds, the
finest corn and cotton we have seen.
Hundreds of acres of corn nearly two
feet high, and cotton five or six
inches high with six leaves, all hoed
and plowed out, and not a particle
of grass to bo seen.
CocilliAN, May 12.—About four
o’clock this morning the guard-house
at this place was destroyed by fire.
George Long, a negro prisoner held
for burglary, was burned in the
building. The screams of the un
fortunate negro aroused the village,
and every effort was made to siive
him, but without avail. A portion
of the building was torn down by
those who were endeavoring to save
the prisoner, but the flames made
such headway that it jyas impossible
to reach him. His shrieks wore
hoi'rtrendering. He was to have
been sent to Pulaski superior court
for trial this week, and it is suppos
ed that the guard-house was fired,
either by the prisoner or somo of his
friends upon the outside for tho pur
pose of affording liiniun opportunity
to escape.
The Chicken Road—Wlmt This
End of the Line Has to Say
About It.
[IlawkimtviUe Dispatch.]
The Dublin Post is still pegging
away on tho “Chicken Road,” und is
endeavoring, it seems, to monopolize
the subject, but at this end of the
Queen Victoria has left golden
opinions behind her in Italy. She
talked with ease and kindness to tho
poor washerwomen of tho lake, and
the olivuwood workers in their shop;
she stopped her carriago and spoke
pleasantly to the peasant boys, who
doffed their caps as she passed, and
she took great delight in the lovely
scenery about her. She has return-
ed to England in vigorous health.
A GOOD BARGAIN!
0 WING to continued bad health, I re
gret that I am obliged to discontinue
business, und I desire to sell my store
house and lot, Jgfttt u great sacrifice, jgg
I will also soil everything in the store,
including ull the license required to retail
liquors aud tolmceoes for the year 1870.
The stand is given up to be the best iu
Dublin for that business. Any person
desiring to enguge in a good, paying busi
ness has now a good chance, aud a sure
one.—I huve been engaged iu the business
for over twenty years, and can say that it
has paid mu well. There is also a good
"building lot on the place opposite the ho
tel. Parties buyiug could enguge in the
business at once, aud have the advantage
of two Superior Courts; also, fall, winter,
and part of spring with tho sume license.
1 also wisli to call the attention of all
persons indebted to me to settle up AT
ONCE. All who fail to settle up iu the
uext sixty days will find their notes or
uccounts in the bunds of officers for col
lection. Remember this is no idle talk: it
shall be done; so you may look out.
THOMAS P. SARGHETT.
An $800 Place for
$450 Cash oh $500 Half Cash,
S ITUATED IN THE TOWN OF
Dublin. Good Buildings and 12 acres
FRESH LAND under good fence. A
quarter of mile from Court House. Apply
to me at mm. A, CHAVOUS.
one of the oldest settlers of this por
tion of Georgia, says the “Chicken
Road” was cut out ; n 1825 or 1826.
At that time old Hartford was the
trading point for the people of the
country for forty miles around.
When the order for cutting tho road
was passed by tho Inferior Court it
was ridiculed by the people, and it
was said at tho time that nothing but
a few dozen chickens would ever bo
brought over tho road—lienee the
name “Chicken Road.” And Mr.
Carruthers says “that is all there is
about it.”
Now as the question in dispute
does not seem susceptible of definite
settlement, but is a matter of memo
ry and veracity between aged aud
respectable outside parties, the Post
moves that the matter be dropped,
and that both papers console them
selves with the reflection:
“I know not how the truth may be,
I tell the tale as 'twos told to me.”
Notice.
Treasurer's Office.
Johnson county, April 28. 18711.
My office will be open in the northwest
corner of the Court House the Second
and Fourth Saturdays in each month for
the purpose of transacting county business.
JOHN M. HIGHTOWER,
57-4t County Treasurer.
10,000
NAMES of residents
wanted. For 25 names
and 25 gents we wifi send
you a lino silk handker
chief, every thread silk,
regular price, 1.00, G. W
Foster & Co,. 125.Clurlt
St,, Chicago. 111.
Mur, 10-flm
The Corbett House.
TWENTY ROOMS.
J ust opened on Second Street, son
ond door from Poplar, uext to W
W. Collins’ Carriage Repository.
MACON, CIA.
Having been’compelled to give up the
National Hotel, I have located us above mid
am prepared to furnish first-class hoard by
the day, week or montli at reasonable
rates. Shall lie glad-, to see any of my old
friends nnd patrons. Respectfully,
e. a. coubett.
NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS!
J. I!. WOLFS,
DnxTDlixL, - - - - G-eoriga.
— DEALER IN rr-
FANCY DRYGOODS,
ORGANDY MUSLINS,
VICTORIA LAWNS,
FIGURED PIQUES,
NOTIONS AND HOSIERY,
HATS, boots & SHOES, JB4KS AN "
STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES,
. HARDWARE & FARMING IMPLEMENTS,
CROCKERY, TINWARE, ETC., ETC.
Phase don f ask for Credit without offering goad paper as collateral,
for if helps me to credit and to do it on good terms. .jgrJ
— nplO-tf
CLOTHING axLd. HATS.
WINSHIF & CALLAWAY,
No. BO Second St Macon, Cejrgia,
Keep the Largest and Best Stock of CLOTHING and HATS for
men and boys to bo found iu the Stale. HATS of ull grades.
Keep partly made Shirts, and Umbrellas very cheap.
Vgrouit GOODS) ARE MliflT-CLASS APT) OUR PRICES TI1ELOWEST. jg<}
WINSHIP & CALLAWAY.
marli) 70-lf
MRS. M. K. MOV AY, A. E. CHOATE.
M’VAY & CHOATE,
(Successors to W. T. McYny.)
OOOHEAJST, : i : • GBOEG-IA.
W E have to day cuterod into partnership, and will continue the Warehouse and
Mercantile business of the oJd und well known house of W. T. McVav uudur
the above Firm, Nairn 1 and Style, M, fj, MCVAY ^
■A. K CHOATli
We ask a coin! nuance of the patronage m> I literally given the House from vonr
Comity for the past, five years, aud pledge ourselves to use every effort to make the
New Firm Worthy of Your Support*
x^ct-ptVhlsk!y >TT0N luwl aU “ ,lM,r PAWM PRODUCE, nnd sell nil clause* of goods
WK AUK ALSO AOICNTH Foil A
ecigoh: g-rade ferttt
Cochran, Felir’y
. m*A T A LO IK PRICE. Jj®
* CHOATE
IOUSE-FDKNISHINO EMPORIUM.
GrEO * S. OB EAR,
92 CAerry St. : : : MnoonGf-a.
W. F. GEFFCKEN,
Btxggy JVEajIkiez?.
/iuililing anil Repairing done to Gome und see the finest assortment of Crockery, French Cliinu, American
Order. All work entrusted to me China,
Neatly and Promptly executed at pri
ces to suit the times, Shop on south
east corner Court /louse Square.
Call and see.
June 20, ly
Application for Dismission.
Laukkkh Court ok Ohio nary,
April Term, 1879,
Whbiibah, B. H. Calhoun, adminis
trator on the estate of Eliza Clark, dec’d,
has tiled his application for letters of
Dismission from his administration.
These are, therefore, to cite and ad
monish all persons concerned, to show
cause, If any .they have, why letters of
Dismission should not he granted the
applicant on the first Monday iu July
next. <
Given under my Official signature.
JOHN T. DUNCAN,
apr7-8m Ordinary,
Sheriff’s Sales.
W ILL lie sold before the Court House
door in the town of Dublin. Laurens
county, Ga., on the first Tuesday in May
next, within the legal hours of sale, the
following described property, to-wit:
Three town lots, Nos. 50, 57 and 27 In
thcplun of town of Dublin, Laurens coun
ty, Ga., levied on as the premises whereon
J. E. Pcmr and C. J. Perry now Jive, to
satisfy one Superior court ti fa in favor of
W. F. Cannon & Co. vs. J. E. Perry and
C. J. Perry. Property pointed out in said
ti fa.
Also, at the same time nnd place, 200
acres of land, more or less, utljoining lands |
of Mr*. Jane McBain, Mrs. Elifuir Bush j
nnd others, known us the Green Brantley
£ lace, to satisfy one Superior court 11 fa in
ivor of Wm. R. Keen vs. W. D. Martin.
Property pointed out by defendant.
Also, at the same time und place, 75
acres of land, more or less. It being the
southwestern portion of lot of lunu No.
247. in the 17th district of said county, to
satisfy one Justice court ti fa in favor of
W. N. Wynn vs. A. B. flolloday. Prop
erty pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney.
Levied on nnd relumed to me by Isaac
Gay, Const. j. c. Scarrorouojj.
May 2, 1879. Sheriff.
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Also, Charter Oak, Sunny South. Cotton Plant, and other desirable nat-
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