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TXXZEJ POST.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1880.
The Way the South is Abused. I tinder item 3rd there were ap-
We publiali the following tirade I pointed as a committee Adam Jolm-
tliatour readers may sec with what son, James tfrapdon and Dr.. Robert
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR ANI) PROPRIETOR.
That Knilroild.
We publish in another column a
racy and readable editorial from the
Coebmu Enterprise on the subject
of a railroad frorfi Cochran to Dub
lin. TJio Enterprise is right in the
belief that now is the proper time to
agitate this projeot, the consumma
tion of which every one knows is!
Dublin’s only hope to become a place
of any importance. If tho now
company, into whoso hands tho
Macon and Brunswick road hns
fallen, can bo induced to bear a
goodly portion of tho expense of
building the road to Dublin, Cochran
is certainly tho direction in which
Dublin should look for connection
with the outer world. But in easo
tho citizens of tho county have to
take the mutter in their own hands,
as did tho people of Washington and
JoffOisou to build tho Sandersville
anti Louisville branch roads, then
tho routo from Tonnillo to Dublin is
tho onp to agitato. Tho Central is
tho natural routo to our markets;
tho d’lBtunce is a little loss, tho cost
of grading oud bridge building would
bo less, and, abovo all, tho people
along that routo arc already enthusi
astic on tho subject,’ Wo have ro
contly interviewed Col. Guyton, Mr.
J, L. Martin, Dr. Iiioks, and other
citizons of both Laurens and Wash
ington oountios along tho proposed
Tonnillo routo, and wo find them
ready and anxious to orgunizo an
effort to see wluft can bo dono. Some
of tho parties arp so onthusiastio—-so
keenly ulivo to tho importance of the
eutorpriso that tboy announce them
Bolves willing to invest half their
proporty, in stock. But wo don’t
want to bo understood as quarreling
about routes. Wo will cheerfully
support any project to bring a rail
road to Dublin from any point. In
tho meantime wouldn’t it bo woll for
soino of our loading men to seo tho
railroad magnates of tho two roads
and find out if anything is to bo
expected from eithor of those sources
In onso no encouragement is given
them, lot thorn put a scheme in
uhtipo that will tost tho pluck and
outorpriso of our people to put tho
road though thomsolvos.
Sinoo writing tho above wo find in
tho Nows and Farmer au account of
two or three railroad mootings whoso
object is to agitate the building of
road from- Augusta to pouotrufo
southwest Georgia, and run through
Wrightsvillo, Dublin and Eastman
Suvoij iUu tirno is at hand for Lau
rous county to movo,
Tho Situation lu itfuinc.
It seoms that, republicans are
not having things all thoir own way
in Maine after all. Commenting on
the situation tho Atlanta Constitu
lion says.*
“Mr, Blame is doing ‘ altogothor
too much crowing; for ho has not by
any moans vanquished tho fusionists
The latter aro about to remove tho
capital to Biddcford, where it will
find plenty of looal support. State
Troasnror White holds tho koys of
the atato’s vaults, aud refuses to do
liver them to tho rump treasurer
until tho courts order him to do so,
Tho rump secretary of state finds,
too, that, tho fusion secretary holds
all tho returns of tho lato olootion
not to mention tho great seal of the
state. Tho essentials of government
are therefore in a condition to bo
transported to Biddcford if Governor
Smith shall W4* to oluiugn tho
capital, as he? tho only lawful gov
ernor of tho state, has a constitutional
right to do under oxisting circum
stances. Maine bids fair to have
two governments all through 1880,
and she will therefore be able to send
to congress two sets of doctoral ro-
■* turns, will bring the whole dispute
i>re emigres-', and congress will
to decide which is tho lawful
nment.” ' u
o in ton of tho Ohio re-
prefor Grant; as a candi-
hippodromo exhib-
i tho decadence of
n very rapid. Tho
of Pennsylvania,
was overdone in
Reaction at once set
progressing. “Cam-
e were never so iusubordi-
w,—Washington Post.
shameless disregard of truth tho
Northern Republican paSss abuses
the South. It is from tho Rutland
i Vt.) Herald:
The Yankee burns slow, but lie
has been heating up all these years
of wrong, cruelty and perfidy, and,
unless we arc greatly mistaken, the
peoplo of tho north npc well-nigh the
wiling point of impatienco concern- Sibley, D. B. Hack and M. A. Evans
ing the-south; if sho won’t live under | wore appointed as Executive Com-
IJI£ HIU BVUMM I* OIIV nun v **»v/ hhmv*
law, then let lior die under law; we!
arc all sick of her loathsome shape; j
her hands dripping with the blood of
the feeble and tho ignorant, her
ovory-day life a tale of political !
murder and fraud; the olive branch
has been stretched in vain year after
rear; her povorty and sickness have mu( j 0 80 * nie atatements in reference
been the signal for lavish generosity 1
on our part; sho grasps the olive ...... . ,
branch onjy long enough to divert I which ho was requested to furnish
oiir attention and then tries to bout the secretary in writing. On motion
our brains out with a bludgeon; it it wa s resolved that a publication of
accepts everything; it renders.buck t] pr jcecdings be requested of the
no sign of reconciliation or obedience , J n 1 , Vvan
to law, and tho north in sheer despair Chronicle & Constitutionalist, Even-
says, give us once more a republican ing Nows, Waynesboro Expositor,
congre."? to make our laws operative, Waynesboro Herald, Nows A Farmer,
and a man like Graut to do his plain switiiiBboro Herald aud Eastman
duty, instead-of quibb’ing how he
can dodge it, and we will yet have 1 * .. ,, .. . „ , .
cither some respite from tile reign of Ike meeting then adjourned sub-,
terror at the south or a desert; the | ject to a call of the Executive com
south had hotter bo as barren asjuiittee.
se
McNair for Richmond; Judge N.
Smith, Dr. J. N. Oliphant, L. Q.
C. D. Brown, F. A. Sinqnefield and
Hon. M. A. Evans for Jefferson.
This committee is to report to the
Executive committee witbiu thirty
days.
tinder item 4th Messrs. G. R.
ini t too.
Tho meeting instructed the secre
tary to notify all committee men of
their appoiptment and duties impos
ed.
Mr. A. J. Twiggs, civil engineer.
Labrador than as hellish as equatorial
Africa. If the south is not ready to
let up on political assassination, ter
rorism and fraud they will bo com
pelled to retreat before those who
are willing to maintain a republican
form of government instead of the
despotism dubbed a democracy by
this gambler and horse-jockey civili-
MR. TWIGGS* ESTIMATE.
Mr. D. 13. Hack, Chairman
Sir: I enclose a hurried statement
as to the approximate cost of experi
mental survey, which will bo about
$25 per mile— for trosscEsbout $300
per mile—for grading about $1,000
zation that loafs und chops straw, p 0r u ,j] 0< f rom Augusta to Bartow,
billing it HiHc, over eon. wlii«Jtoy Ccnt j. #1 £„ astauu-
all day, and then turns its drunken I .
energies to shooting ufid cheating ttr ^ g ua £° railroad, about one quarter
tho only creature that will work, viz., | less for a narrow guage railroad.
the “cursed nigger.”
KA1LKOAI) MEETING.
Interesting Proceedings of a
Meeting at Hephzibnli. A Mat
ter in Which Augusta is Inter-
I regret my engagements will not
permit at this time a more extended
reply to your request. Respectfully
yours, A. J. Twiggs.
Some Sensible Talk.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch which
always says something worth reading
when it talks on the subject of run
ning a newspaper has "been indulging
in a little spat with some of the pat
ent outsides. It says: “We have
closely observed the career of every
paper that has tried the system 'for
the last* seven years, and every one
has either abandoned the system,
sold out or collapsed.
“No paper can prosper that is con
ducted upon such a system, and no
country paper can thrive that does
not make subscriptions the chief aim
of it’s existence. There is but one
permanent feature in tho business of
a country newspaper, and that
teature is ‘constituted by subscrip
tions. All other business is contin
gent. Advertising patronage will
not build up a paper and maintain it
upon a permanent basis.
‘The citizens of any community
who want a paper, or who deserves
its benefits and influences, will not
refuse to pay two dollars a your for
it, however small it mav bo, provid
ed the publisher shall give his atten
tion more to filling its columns with
local’news and other desirable read
ing matter, rather than keeping it
filled with all sorts of advertisements
taken at any price, and in any kind
of payment. Advertisements prove
the death of the country paper.
L'his may sound strange, but it is
true.
A permanent subscription list of
good paying patrons will give a
country paper such a firm hold in
tho minds and hearts of a commu
nity that advertising patronage may
bo made a secondary consideration
and even rejected. The country
papers publish many advertisements
that should never appear, in their
columns.”
Iticlinioml, JcIToyaou,
aud Other Comities.
The Ishmaelite says that a farmer,
cHted. Proposed roiul Through 1 living [ n the suburbs of Sparta, has a
* Blir,to » I fine stock sow. For a week past she
failed to come home at night, aud one
afternoon of this week ho concluded
to make a search for her. Extending
through a bottom in his field, is a
deep narrow ditch, and in this ditch
ho found his sow, lying flat on her
Louisville News and Former.^
A number of citizens of Richmond
Burko and otlior counties assembled
in a room of tho Ilophzibah High
School, an Thursday, Jan.^lSth, to
adopt moa8ures for procuring such I'back, and so firmly wedged in as to bo
information as may bo necessary for I unable to extricate herself. She had
determining the practicability of
uuiiaing a nutroau enrougn nnm
niond and Jefferson oouuties, with
the dosign of being finally oxtonded
into Southwest Goorgia.
On motion Mr. D. B. Hack was
elcotod chairman of tho metting, and
James A. Carswell, Esq., was chosen
as secretary
Tho chairman appointed as a com
mittee to present businoss before the
meeting Messrs. J. J. Davis, W. L.
Kilpatrick and E. RJ Carswell, Sr.
After retiring to*oonsider tho mat
ter the oommittoo on business re
ported that the first objeot was too
sook information us toaohartor for a
railroad on this route, granted in
1809.
Second—Designate tho points at
which tho road would probably
touch.
Third—Appoint a oommittooAlo^g
this designated lino to ascertain the
cost of the right way, probable pat
roiuigo of the road, trado that would
bo brought to Augusta, tho general
face of tho country, with reference
to grading.
to be dug out. Tho sow is large and
? wiy £i«V, nml’ifc iff oxtppUSlHl* StlO T01I
in while trying to cross. „ Although
she must have lain in the ditch four
or five days, sho didn’t seoin to be at
all hurt. Indeed, she appeared to be
as cool and collected as tho hero of a
dimo novel.
Tho Repiiblique Fmncais—M
Gumbotta’s organ—discussing the
condition of Russia says: “Without
troubling to see if all wont atoll at
homo, Russia has cast l^orsolf upon
tlfe path of conquosts and chimeras
Sho has tukon the wrong road. In
stead of following tho Utopian dream
of sthking Turkey at the risk of ob
tabling but a meagre share of the
spoil, how much wiser it would hav
been to huvo ont.ered- upon tho trims
I formation at homo. Her best policy
now is resolutely to take in hand
those reforms which a vast majority
domand and. oxpeot. We must al
ways reckon with Russia, but as long
as sho remains in hor present un
healthy she will bo feoblo and play
an unimportant part in tho destinies
Fourth—Thoy suggest the appoint- 0 f Etiropo. When a house is on firo
uient.of an Exooutive Committee to there is a decided originality in the
consist of three. One from Augusta running out of doors and sotting firo
one from tho county of Richmond, to the houses of others. Reasonable
and one from Jofforson county, people at such tiinos endeavor to ox
Ibis commit too to reoeivo reports of tingnish their own conflagration,
other committoos, which may bo ap-.
pointed,-consolidate tho same, takoj 'pho- Hawkinsville Dispatch says
snob stops as in their judgment may t.hatuneightoon-year-okl laddie and
be proper for securing still other fourteen-year-old damsel eloped
necessary information, and call «n- from their parental roofs in Wilcox
other meeting of tho friends of this county last week, and sought tho
enterprise at such timo and place as b iudly offices of a justice of tho peace
they (this committee) may doom | vvho mado them one for lifo. Tho
proper. _ old folks became reconciled, amicable
tTmlor item 1st Major A. H. Me-1 relations were restored, aud tho young
Laws made interesting statements, J CO uplo are as happy as ..they would
and upon motion of Mr. Adam John- b . VV o beeu brtd they waited a hundred
son, Maj. MeLaws and Hon. W. A\ yo;U . s
Clark «wcre appointed a oommitteo
to confer with the directors appoint-1 A maidon lady has resolved to
cd by the charter of 1869, aud secure I change her name to “Conclusions,
all information that may be of value, huviug heard that men sometimes
Said commit toe to report to tho Ex- jump that way.
utivo committee in 30 days.
Under item 2nd Hephsibah, Stella-
ville, Louisville and Bartow were
suggested as jpointa at which the
road would touch, looking to its bo-
ingextended finally through Wrighbs-
ville, Dublin, Kastman and Thomas- j
ville.
The Hawkinsville cotton factory
has entered upon a career of great
prosperity, it seems.
Queen Christine of Spaiu bowed
3,700 times in succession on the day
of her muuriage.
AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT.’
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rpHE FARMERS OF THIS AND ADJOINING CpUNTffiS ARE
1. FULLY INVITED TO THE FACT THAT I HAVE A FINE SUPPLY OU
Tlrpofi of ijlhL© ZEBosti IBx*a3ZLc3_s
OI‘ Fertilizers Manufactured, viz;—
SOLUBLE SEA /SLAND,
, ROYAL SUPERPHOSPHATE,
\
AND CAROLINA FERTILIZER.
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Tlie above Brands of Fertilizers are of the highest grade and have
Given Perfect satisfaction in every Instance!
All who used the SOLUBLE SEA ISLAND in this county will testify to the
value of this fine Fertilizer. ,
I will sell the above Brands AS LOW AS ANY COMPETING AGENT, and
will receive COTTON in payment for same at Dublin.
Respectfully,
The Duke De Grammont whose
death was announced by cable Satur
day, was the man, who as minister of
foreign affairs under Napoleon III.,
was charged with having precipitated
the disastrous war with Germany.
He came of a famous race of soldiers
and statesmen, and was an able but
unprincipled man. From having been
at one timo one of-tho most cospicu
ons figures in Franco, he became
toward tho close of his career one of
the most obscure of former political
leaders. lie was said to be at one
timo the strongest man in France,
and “would frequently astonish his
companions by breaking a silver five
franc piece with his fingers, as if it
were a biscuit.”.
General Joseph E. Johnston is a
poor man, yet he gave $100 to the
Irish relief fund.
Ex Senator Dorsey and his gung ;
who run tho republican machino in
Arkansas, met at St. Louis the other
day, and committed the twelve del
egates from that sato to tho Chicago
convention to Grant.
In North Carolina there are
newspapers edited by negroes,
Louisiana three, in Tennessee ‘and
Texas two each, and in Virginia
Alabama and Mississppi one each.
Tho Rev. Dr. Starkey, the new
Episcopal bishop of northern New
Jersey, is very tall aud thin, and
high church without being extreme
lie is fiftyllvo years old aud is a Phil
ad el ph mu.
Twenty-three States havo Dem
oorato Governors, and fifteen have
Republican governors, aud in several
of those latter tho Republican party
is in a minority. The Repulican
party is bh~fhe '‘decliue and fall off.”
A Dog That Can Count.
An Euglish correspondent writes
I have noticed no allusiou has been
made to tho wonderful power dogs
havo of remembering and calculating
timo. Thisfaoulty is possessed iu
a remarkable degree by a mastiff
attached to a school not mauy miles
from London, whoso inmates are
roused every morning at six o’clock
by Rollo tugging ata bell immediately
he hears the olock strike the hour,
On Sunday he will not do this till an
hour later. Another useful office
this sagacious animal performs is tak
ing some 20 pairs of boots round to
their proper rooms. Rollo is some
times rather perplexed when ho finds
a pair of new boots to deliver, but in
this case ho first carries round all the
others, aud then conveys the remaiu.
mg pair to tho vacant door-mat.
JOEL E. DEAN.
Dublin, Jan. 14, 80*ts
THE VERY BEST!
ONE HUNDRED TONS ON HAND!
JOHN MERRYMAN & CO.’S
AMMONIATED
DIS^OLVEDZDONES.
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Best for Cotlon,
Best for Corn,
Best for Sugar Cane,
Best for Potatoes, Peas,
^ And all other Crops.
One Hundred Pounds of the AMMONIATED is equal to 200 pounds
of many other Fertilizers, and is therefore fully 100 per cent cheaper.
It has proved its superiority over all other Guanos, so I say to every
farmer,
Give It a Fair Trial and be Convinced,
For Particulars and Price Cali on
Nov. 26-ts
THUS. H. ROWE, AGENT,
DUBLIN, GEORGIA
GLAD TIDINS, GLAD TIDINGS!'
T O ALL WHO WOULD SAVE MONEY. THE BEST GOODS AT THE
LOWEST PRICES.
J. X- XDIEIKISIEi Sc CO- '
TOOMBSBORO, GA.,
Have now on hand aud are constantly receiving heavy stocks of
General Merchandise
—Such as-
BACON, LARD,
COFFEE, RICE,
BOOTS,
FLOUR, SUGAR,
TOBACCO, CIGARS,
SHOES, HATS,
Tin, Wood and Willow Ware,
PLOWS, HOES, SPADES,
FORKS, SHOVELS, PLANTATION TOOLS,
BAGGING, TIES, CALICOES, DOMESTICS, BLEACHING,
FINE CUTLERY, PERFUMERY,^TOILET AND FANCY GOODS.
One Car Load Salt $1:00 Per Sack.
IVE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF THE OLD
BAY STATE SCREW FASTENED BOOTS AND SHOES.
We are the only house in tho place that can keep this make of boots
aud shoes, and WE WARRANT EVERY PAIR. If not as represented
you havo but to bring them back and wo will return your money or give
stock.” 0 tS‘y ON K ,< PAIK° rtl “ #f tUis Celebrated Shoe' noW
We buy onr goods direct from the manufacturing companies/and
hence get better terms than smaller houses that deal with middle men.
The benefit of onr advantages in prioes we share with our customers
To onr friends and the citizens generally of Laurens we offer a cordial
invitation to come and seo us. We will make it to your interest
X.
Toombsboro, Nov. 26, I8?9*3m
XDeese Sc Oo,