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tho WliiNtie.
v of | he lw«t papers in Georgia
:m> laboring under flic idea I hat tltc
*"!<’ minion of the democratic party
in lliis Suite is lo remain nltuched to
the tnif end of the Northern dcmoc*
nicy’s liiHim. To accomplish this
high and holy pltqmsc no sacrifice is
too great for ns to make. In order
to lender the best service to our
Northern friends, (who get all the
loaves and fishes while wo take pay
in unlimited quantities of old ling,)
we are willing to allow our State
government to become us rotten wit h
corruption as the republican party
itself,, No one will deny that a
triumph of the national democracy
would Ik* of great benefit to Georgia:
but it. seems to us that wo are paying
loo dear for the whistle when we
sacrifice good government at Atlanta
•to secure good government at Wash
ingfori. Good government, like
charity, should begin at homo.
it is true all bur esteemed con lorn *
poruries are crying in the ears of the
legislutnro, “let no guilty man es
cape;
at the same time they
stand ready, with brush and bucket,
lo whitewash every blotch of corrup
tion which the legislature shall
expose. To expose democratic cor
ruption. they fear, will enable the
independents to disrupt the demo-
erutio party in Georgia, and thus
jeopardize our prospeols for scouring
a democratic pros!dent next year.
Hut we are glad to seo that our
legislature is not taking its cue from
the press, but from the people. And
Iho sooner 'the machine politicians
learn that Iho people demand the
purification of tho democratic pni'.y
the better.
The scandal now flooding the
metropolitan press of tho country
oonoerning Senator Oouklimr.'of Now
York, and the wife of ox-Govonmr
Sprague, of Rhode Island, creates a
profounder sc nsulion throughout the
country, we believe, than the famous
Hoeeher-Tilion case. It is said that,
(’fn king's social and political mil li
enee its lost, forever.
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Tho preparations for the impeach
ment of Goldsmith are being pushed
with as much haste ns is consistent
with Iho gravity of the ease.
There me thousands of people in
the wiregmss section of the State
who have for eighteen months stead
ily believed that Goldsmith ought to
he in the penitentiary.
Tho new California constitution
provides llmt tin judge ahull receive
his salary till able to swear that
there is no base on tho docket which
has boon (Imre over ninety days.
Let our Salons put this sump of wis
dom from, the Pacific slope in their
pipes and smoke it.
It is refreshing to see with what
vigor Goldsmith can perjure himself
when he undoubtedly knows that
everybody is satisfied of his guilt.
The legislature has been encour
aged by tho “ilo” they linv© struck
in tho comptroller genernrs office,
and have appointed committees to
look into all tho State departments.
And it is rumored tlmt we shall hear
of some startling disclosures.
Goldsmith was not satisfied with
his efforts to bribe two meuthers-of
the general assembly, -lie employed
11. NY, .1. Hum, editor of the Gaines
ville Eagle, to bribo the editor of the
At lanta Sunday Phonograph to sup
press an article which was damaging
to his ease. Ilam was a little more
cunning than H. P. Wright, but
got caught all tho same.
Wo think it high time for our es
teemed contemporaries to throwaway
their Goldsmith whitewash brushes
since that impudent bribo dispenser
has endeavored to buy up a Georgia
editor with the paltry sum of ten
dollars!
(’oakling hits got to be a bigger
man than old Beecher in the scandal
business.
Governor Hendricks is confident
of General Ewing's election.
ing of the law in regard to carrying
concealed weapons, says:
We arc apt to forget there arc two
sides to this question. We loscsight
of the thousand instances in which
life is saved and property protected
from the attack of the rubber or the
assassin by the timely use or the ex
hibition (it the deadly wca)ton. Only
a few days since, soon after the re
cent mimlers in Fulton, a person in
an adjoining county, saved his life or
property, or it may be both, from
the assault of a set of tramps, by the
use of a pistol. We are constantly
hearing of such cases. Yet a person
who arms hmi«elf for a defense
r inst robbery or assassination
uld he imimhcd indiscriminately
with the blank leg who is armed for
no such motive! Is this reason or
justice?—Still it is law. But it is
said the law applies to concealed
weapons. Without stopping to show
the inconvenience and often the im
practicability of always having one's
means of defense exposed to view,
wo will say right here that we never
yet saw the sense or shadow of a rea
son in concluding that there is more
danger in one’s using a concealed
weapon than one excised—more
danger in drawing a pistol from his
pocket, than there would he if he
laid it strapped outside. You cun
not stop the vicious from violating
this law; thon why deprive the hon
est of this means of defense? We
trust Mien that the legislature, in
stead of throwing away time by mak
ing the law on this subject more
stringent, will either wipe out what
is in existence, or so modify it. ns to
give honesty mi equal showing with
rascality.
A Washington dispatch to the New
York Tribune says a prominent
Democratic politician, who recently
held a long eoiiversati m with Hon.
Ham’l .1. Tildeu, represents that gen
tleman as expressing some doubts as
to whether lie will he able to secure
tho Democratic nomination for tho
next Presidency, because of defection
towards him .South and West. Press
ed to name a candidate aside from
himself who would answer to all tho
requirements, Mr, Tildon is said to
have remarked that Justice Field, of
California, appeared to him to bo the
strongest and most uvuilublc man ;
that .Judge Field's relatives are very
wealthy, and would lie willing to
spend a million or two if ho were
nominated ; that the Pacific States
would undoubtedly bo solid in lijs
favor, and that lie would stand a
better chance in Now York and the
other doubtful Northern States than
any of the other candidates whose
merits have been discussed.
Not an Attack on the Governor.
Sparta Islmmelite.
The declaration t hat all this inves
tigation ut Atlanta is but part and
parcel of “the war on Gov. Colquitt”
dobs that gout Ionian great injustice.
Some of the governor’s friends have
injured him more by unnecessary
zeal in his defease than his worst
enemies have by uncalled-for bitter
ness in their attacks. The investi
gation of the departments is not an
attack on the governor.
Tho Torch of Trut h.
Tho Dalton Enterprise says “a
good deal is being said about injur
ing the Demoevatio party by investi
gations and agitating the records of
public men. If the Democratic par
ty can not stand this, the, sooner it
fulls tho hotter. Any party that can
not. survive an application of the
torch of truth to all its parts is un
worthy of support.”
Governor Sprague went gunning
the other day for undo intruders upon
his midsummer domestioity uwl there
promises to la* a grave historical
donln as to how many of the enemy
he encountered. Governor Sprague
is not a man to be trilled with, how
ever it may be with Mrs. Sprague.-
^"'ngfleld Republican.
Spri
(’tinkling is a cowaiuly brute;
cowardly in politics; emvurdly on the
stump; cowardly on the Horn* of the
senate. Behold your god, stalwarts,
with blunolted fuee, trembling lips,
quivering legs, sneaking like a*whip
ped dog by night out of Providence,
with a shotgun iioiuted at his sleek
carcass!— Ctm rier-,fou rnal.
A Harrisburg soldier lost his hear
ing during one of tho engagements
of the civil war. A few ovenings
ago ho went into tho river to bathe,
and while thrusting his head under
tho surface of the water he thought
he hoard a loud report. Instantly
raising his head he was astonished to
find that his hearing hud been re
stored.
Light womllniot Bridge.
WiU.inmn Appeal.^
About five years ago ('apt. J. A.
Mason entered into a contiaet with
the commissioners of Wilkinson
county lo build the above named
bridge and to keep it in repar for
the term of ten - years. A certain
sum of money was paid by the coun
ty for building the bridge, and to
keep it up the proprietorship was
vested to Captain Mason, and he em
powered to levy toll upon all except
citizens of Wilkinson county. The
contract has boon faithfullly complied
with up to date, bill, nmv the citizens
of Toomhsboro and vicinity have
approached Captain Mason with a
proposition to make the bridge free.
Captain Mason whose contract, con
tinues in force for five years after
the 1st of January, 1880, agrees to
make the bridge free and keop it in
repair until the expiration of his
contract upon either of two condi
tions: First that he ho paid the
sum of WOO when the bridge is made
free, and after the 1st of 'January,'
.188). the sum of ♦100 a year for the
four remaining years of his contract.
Or: He will muko the bridge free
upon the payment, of WOO, the
county to annul, his contract to keep
the bridge in repair for the four
years after the 1st of January, 1881.
Taking into consideration the first
of those propositions, the citizens of
Toomhsboro have, by subscription
already raised Hie ♦200 to be paid in
cash, and have petitioned the county
commissioners to pay the ♦lOO asked
annually for the remaining four yours
after January, 1881. that Captain
Mason will have to keep the bridge
in repair.
We think that. Captain Mason dis
plays great generosity in making this
proposition, for any thinking man
can see that there is no margin for
profit, in ♦10 (> a year for keeping in
repair such a bridge as Lightwood-
knot, and it, is further known as fact
that the toll from the bridge does
yield a revenue of clear profit under
the present, contract.
This bridge should, he made free
and it is clearly tho duty of the
county to render some assistance' in
the mutter. The toll imposed upon
the citizens of contiguous counties,
Laurens especially, rs elcmiiy uiAugor
nistie to the interests of onr'County?-
This bridge is a connecting link be
tween Dublin and Toomhsboro and
all of Laurens county. The toll is a
stumbling block in the wnv of com
mercial transactions between the two
places, and as such diverts to other
points trade that would otherwise he
secured by Toomhsboro. The toll
works a hardship upon the citizens
of Dublin and Laurens county, and
a financial loss upon the citizens of
Toomhsboro and Wilkinson county.
In thus depreciating the trade of
one of her towns, and the property
of the citizens of ono section, Wil
kinson suffers ti direct loss; a loss for
whicc she alone is responsible; a loss
which she can stop if she will.
This bridge should be made free,
and can be, if the county commis
sioners will thoughtfully consider
the subject. To remove tho toll
from this bridge will so appreciate
the value of property in Toombsboyo
and vicinity that the tax returns will
more than repay the 8100 to bo ju»id
out. annually for four years to secure
the freedom of the bridge. The cit
izens of Laurens want to trade with
tho citizens of Wilkinson, but we
bar them off by a toll-bridge in their
path. They desire free intercourse;
Toomhsboro desires it; the citizens
of Wilkinson desire it, and we hope
that the county commissioners of
Wilkinson will grant it. We hope
that this matter will ho adjusted
without delayer all trade that should
come across Lightwoodjknot bridge
will be forever alien ted from us.
The sum of *100 annually for four
years is too paltry to he seriously
considered when so much good can
bo accomplished, and we hope the
commissioners will grant it at their
next mooting.
A boy will fight like fury for his
place ut the first table, hut when it
comes to turning tho grinding stone
after dinner he's harder to find than
five aces in a pack of cards.—Elmira
Gazette.
The yellow fever, it seems, will
not do much this year outside of
Memphis. And in that city there
seems to bo only a limited supply of
material.
The Body of tin* Late A. i. siew-
art.
New Yoke, August Id.—It is now
asserted positively that the family
and friends of the late A. T. Stewart
have been apprised of an offer made
by parties who claim to ho able to
produce the body of the deceased
millionaire', and who have established
genuineness of their offer by sending
the silver plate and handles of the
burial casket to this city. It is stat
ed that kite parties claim to be in
Montreal, and have opened negotia
tions through a lawyer in this city,
enclosing a fee of ♦dot) for liis servi
ces. They offer to produce the
remains for ♦250,000. The lawyer
has laid the matter before Police
Superintendent Walling, and depos
ited the plate and other articles for
warded to him at the police head
quarters. Judge Hilton, however,
refuses, it is said, to accede to the
demands of the parties. It is alleged
the remains are in an excellent state
of preservation.
A Dead Man ox Horseiiack.—
To-day, about one o’clock, while T.
Quirk was riding along Iho public
road about four miles above Wash
ington, on the Bayou Bieuf road,
near the Galliger place, he saw a
man riding in advance of him. The
person in advance continued to ride
forward a short distance, and then
he fell heavily from his horse, lie-
fore lie fell Mr. Quirk arrived within
speaking distance of the man, and
remarked.* “My friend, you are rid
ing very slow.” A negro' close by
answered: “Mr. Quirk, that man
is dead,” and shortly afterward the
man fell. Mr. Quirk after ascer
taining that the man was dead, in
formed the authorities, and the body
was promptly brought to town,
where Dr. J. 0. Champbcll and a
jury proceeded to make the proper
examination, and discovered that he
was shot, the twill entering 'near the
centre of the forehead. The man’s
nufno is Ernest Duval. Four men
are under arrest, three negroes and
one Indian, who aresnpposed to have
committed the murder.—jY. 0.
Democrat.
The Thomasville Southern Enter
prise asserts upon its honor that it;
never publishes anything without,
either personally knowing it to be
true, or having undoubted evidence
of its truth. lienee the following
story, which would never otherwise
be believed, must, under existing
circumstances, be accepted as em
phatically correct. It says: “A
gentleman of this county is the own
er of a turkey gobbler that lays eggs,
sets, hatches and carries the young
brood. All except the first are acts
known to have been, and that seems
as probable as the others. There
were but a pair of turkeys on the
place. Thojicn had a young brood
following her, when a nest contain
ing three turkey eggs was found.
Not, supposing the hen to bo laying
again so soon, these eggs wore be
lieved to have Iveen laid by her at
some previous time, but just then
she was killed by some means, and
after her doatli still another turkey
egg was found in the nest and the
gobbler bent ou setting on them.
His desire was gratified, and after ho
had been setting a week, enough
chicken eggs were put in to make
out a sotting. He proved faithful,
and in three weeks time came off
with the brood of little chickens—
his own eggs having failed to hatch.
But ono of the brood still survives,
and this he delights in carrying. lie
is expected to ‘wean’ soon and com
mence laying again.”
.Johnson Items.
Mr. Daniel Bush and Lucinda
Nobles, of this county, were married
last Sunday.
The store honso of J. M. Wood,
of Wrightsville, will soon be finished.
At ono of tho night trials of the
the Notary Public, this week, the
case was brought to an end bv the
marriage of tho litigants—a colored
couple.
Mr. David Rawls killed a rattle
snake this week live feet and four
inches long.
We are to have another wedding
in Wrightsville to-night if the parties
come lip to their promise.
‘Man wants but little here below,’
where ever he mav roam, and when
ho culls for lager beer he wants but
little foam.
V ... >.■ •;, . •
Local Legislation for Laurens.
Eastman 'limes.
The act ponding before the Legis
lature, fixing the compensation of
the tax receiver and collector in Lau
rens, passed the House on Monday,
the 11th inst. A few years ago, it
seems, there was a local law passed
reducing the commissions of officers
of Laurens county, including the two
above named, and intended only to
apply to the commissions arising from
the county tax, but in entering the
same on the journal it was so chang
ed as to cause it to apply to the btate
tax as well, and thereby cutting down
the commissions of these officers far
below other receivers and collectors
in the State. The object of this act,
as we understand it, is to place these
officers on an equal footing, and en
titling them to receive the same
commissions as are now allowed to
other receivers and collectors for
collecting the State tax.
A prominent Democratic Congress
man in Tennessee took his daughter
to task because she permitted her
lover to stay awhile after ten o’clock.
‘Ijo, pa,’ said she, we were only hold
ing a little extra session.’
Boston has a supply of eighteen
gallons of water to each person in
that, city, and yet very little of it is
used for bat)ling and still less for
drinking purposes.—New Haven
Register.
The three proudest moments of a
man’s life, between the cradle and
the grave, are, when he gets his Hist
pair of red top hoots, when the girls
first call him “Mister,” and when the
doctor tells him it’s a hoy.—Ex.
When a Chinaman makes love to a
girl, he doesn’t rave about bis heart
panting for her, otc. No—lie sim
ply tells her that he loves her better
than be does rats, and she believes
him.—New York Telegram.
Mrs. Langtry, the English beamy,
is only 24 years of age.
When it begins to thunder the
milk knows its sour has come.
Saratoga boasts of a lady who
wears $100,000 worth of diamonds.
Parole is a tempearate horse. He
could hot take another cup.
The first gun in the. Gohkling
campaign burst at the breach.
There wero 11 ex-governors at
Saratoga last week.
To rival Brigham Young is (he
greatest effort of my life.—R. Conk-
ling.
Philadelphia Item: No hoy is
afraid of a yellow jacket when it has
a girl in it.
A railroad forty miles in length is
soon to connect Java and Jerusalem.
It will be the first work of the kind
in Palestine.
Industry, brains, and cheek—
these throe, but, the greatest is
cheek.—Quincy Modern Argo.
Blessed is tho bee-hokler for it
cells its own honey and saves the
commission.—Erratic Enrique.
There is in London a “society for
preventing street accidents and dan
gerous driving.”
The Strobing House.
TOOMHBORO, GA.
fOf
0. H. L. STRUM NG Proprietor
t ot
Thanking the Public for their liberal
patronage in the past, I respectfully ask a
continuance of the same. My House is
near the Depot and first-class iu all its
appointments.
Good Conveyance
Always in readiness to accommodate
the Traveling Public who may wish to go
from Toomsboro to Dublin or .any other
point
The Corbett House.
TWENTY ROOMS.
Just opened on .Second Street, sec’
ond door from Poplar, next to W
W. Collins’ Carriage Repository.
MACON, GA.
Having been compelled to give up the
Nationaniotel, I have located as above and
am prepared to furnish first-class board by
the »laj*. week or mouth at reasonable
rates. Shall be glad to see anv of my old
friends and patrons. Respectfully,
e. a cmuiETT.
For Kent,
A room suitable for a slieomaker’s
bur,mess iu the Southeast corner of
the Post building can lie rented very
low.—Apply at this office. tf.
Undersold by Nobody!
<3-0 TO
J f W. PEACOCK & CoJjj[
-FOR—
Pure, Fresh Drugs
AND EXAMINE TOEni STOCK OF
Flavoring Extracts.
Gelatine,
Cream Tartar,
Machine Oil,
Stove Polish,
Jamaica Ginger,
Hops,
. Stock Feed.
Castile Soap,
Nutmegs,
Glass Cutters,
Pepper.
Spice,
Ginger.
Mustard,
Magnolia Balm,
Tint's Hair Dye,
Hair Oil. J
MitcluTs Eye Salve,
Thompson’s Eye Water,
Carla “
liolic Salve,
Oxalic Acid,
„ . ■ _ Pain Killer.
Pam Kill It.,
Opodeldoc,
Mustang Liniment,
Gurgling Oil Liniment,
McLane’s
McLane’s Volcanic Linim't,
Rankin’s N. & B. Liniment,
C. C. Arnica Liniment,
Brow n’s Bronchial Troches,
.Pierce’s Golden Discovery,
Syrup of Tar,
Cherry Pectoral,
Tutt's Expectorant,
Jayne’s Expectorant,
R '
Rndway’s Resolvent,
„ , German Syrup,
Malt, Globe Flower,
Cod Liver Oil and Lime,
Ayer’s Hair Vigor,
~ ir Re
newer,
Hall's Hair
Simmons’ Liver Regulator
b ever Ague Tonic,
Wright’s Pills,
MeLane’s Pills,
Harter’s Pills,
Ayer’s Pills,
, Rudwuy’s Pills,
Strongs Pills, Jayne's Pills,
Brand ret h’s Pills. Tuft’s Pills
Cook's Pills, May Apple" Pills,
Harter's Iron Tonic,
Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid,
August I'lower,
Kathairon for Hair,
Seltzer Aperient,
Injection Broti,
Pond’s extract,
Bradtield’s Female Regulator,
Female’s Friend,
Vermifuge, Worm Candy,
Starch, Rat Poison,
Tricophrros,
klfrey’s C<
Godfrey's Cordial,
T . . ... Soothing Syrup,
Jackson s Magic Balsam,
British Oil, Bateman’s Drops,
Sage’s Catarrh Remedy,
IlciskcH’s Ointnicnt,
Pignut ns Asthma Remedy,
And so on to the end of the chapter.
WE HAVE A 1.80 A l.AftCE X.OT OF
Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff,
Candies, Crackers,
&c., &c.
Also a good stock of the finest quality
of Letter paper, Legal Cap, Fool’s
Cap, Note paper, Fancy Box
paper. Envelopes (all' sjz-
’’ens, inks,
es). Pens, Inks, Blank
Books Pencils
(Dixon’s American Graphite), Erasers,
Pencil Protectors,
(with calendar), Magic:
Inkstands, Perfumery’with
Ocean Spray apparatus, Black
ing, Blacking Brushes, Indelible
Ink, Syringes, Ginas Cutters, Ac., Ac,
Which we will sell loir (hnrn for the
O A 8II
PARTIAL PRICE-LIST.
We will sell you
Slate pencils, per dozen,... ..... 5 cents
Lead pencils, “ “ so “
Good ink, per bottle 5 ••
Best envelopes', per package It) “
Note paper, (best) a quire, 1/5 “
Candy, per 11> go ««
Crackers, per pound, 10 “
Sulphur, *• “ io “
Salts, •< . “ 74 .<
Camphor gum, per ounce o “
Castor oil, per qt 75 “
Compound eathart. pills, perdoz., 10 “
Tutt's and all other patent pills,., .20 “
Simmons’ liver regulator (large).. ,00 “
£3?“A1I other goods sold at correspond
ing figures.
333*“ Please do not ask for credit,
HV» never do that lei ml of
business, not even
hardly ever.
J. W. PEACOCK & CO.
July 2. 2t
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
AH persons indebted to Win. Adams,
late of Laurens county, deceased, are
requested to make immediate payment ;
and all persons having claims against said
estate will hand them in in the time pre
scribed by law,
W. C. Adams )
[- Admini’rs,
31. A Adams )
July 7.1879-0t
BRICK, BRICK!
We lmyc 100,000 bricks now read)
m ay
for deliver)* at $8 per thousand.
Liberal reduction where large num
ber is taken.
Smith & Wigoi.eswohth.
Dublin, July 30, tf
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