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'L'HB FOBT. •WEDNESDAY I I'RRUAUT 10. 1887. J. A. PEACOCK Editor. School* mid School Teachers. Olio of the civil Horrioc examiners, who recently examined a (urge num ber of applicants in a’ Southern State for partition! in tjio servico of the government, myt that not one in ton could giro satisfactory answers ito tho simplest questions in the olo ineatury English branches. Inquiry developed .that itwo thirds of tho iip» ipticHiits had boon pupils of the public schools, while tho other third hud :i-0ccircd .their training in private schools. 'This is not a good showing for the’ .schools. Tho Morning Nom ia in-/ .dined to believe that tho fault is both with tho systoai mid .the touch- ott. In Georgia, outsido of tho cities, notorious.that tho public schools are wofully inefficient. With their throe month*’ torms and almost on- .firo.lack of .facilities for teaching, they aro little more than schohtftic- spasms. Tbo State School Commis sioner says tho trouble lies with tbo .Ststt«| v which refuses to appropriate ■money enough to moke the school .efficient. The Morning News is not prepared to deny tbij, but at the same time calls attention to the fact ithat the excuse does not help tho school. Wherever the trouble lies, .tho system is viitually a failure aud cf course, tho schools arc inefficcnt. The futluro of tho private schools to accomplish good results is partly duo to the existence of tho public schools. The luttor have greatly in- Jurod the formor, as is proved by tho •dosing of many of tho former that wore ouco famous. Poople huvo got- *ton into tho Iiubit of behoving that three months in the public schools iufford all tho oduoution their child ren! should roodvo in the year, and •they therefore will not support the privato schools. But, if tho public schools were •opon nine, or uvea six, mouths in tho year, and the privato sohools ■woro overflowing with pupils, no >gicat amount of good would bo ac complished unless u change woro madu in tho diameter of teachers employed. Tljo .Morning Nowi does not moan to inuko an indisoriminate attack upon tho touohors of tho ; Stuto. Thero aro many who aro tho poors of any in tho country, whethor •iu point of looming or ability to im part wlmt they know. But there am also u very largo number who aro lucking iu learning and ability, and who aro without oxporiouco. The laws governing tho selection of (teachers for tho public sohools arc almost usoless, for in many instances .tho examiners are oltlior incapable -<»r careless. Tho result is thero aro hundreds of bhindoring hoys and girls iu tho public soitools going 'through the lnrco of giving instruc tion to the young. An unhappy farce it is, too, for it entails a whole sale slaughter of tho innocents. Tho State School Commissioner himsolf admits that many of the teachers in tho public sohools aro sadly defl- cioaU In many of tho private sohools tho state of affairs is just as bad. Teachers aro omptojed who look tho essential qualifications for accomplishing good results. If this bo not true, why is it that tlioro aro ho many peripatetics among tho teachers in tho private sohools y Why is it that the trustees of these schools are always saying to thoir •tenektn, "Move on y” Even trustees ■of sohods will bold on to a good iking when onoo it is in their posses sion. Unless oomiug generations are to be the merest smatiers the State trust take vigorous hold of the pub lic schools aud make them efficient. Means for (intending tho terms, for' providing-proper facilities and for obtaining ibroughlv qualified teach ers must be .devised. Tho matter is too important >to admit of delay or .U> warrant anything but a liberal ^policy—Savannah. .Xcw*. Notice. is hereby givou that tuy wife, Susan >\ Beaty, has my consent to become .» public and five trader after publi cation of this notice for one month. Jambs A. Bbaty. Feb. 3, 1837. Mot ice. ; Ja hereby given that my wife, Mary Kcu, has my consent to booomo u public and free trader after publica tion.of this uoticp.Xor one mouth. Jttl. JO. 1887. Wm. Kiev. THE LAND OF LIBERIA. THE aXPEniCNCE OF AN EMIGRANT. An Ataliamn Colored Mon OlteM Dlvnar. agtiiR A -1 ..uni at III* CmiMrr-4WS> fled tv JLiv.< nml lir Hurled iu Amorim. Anderson Jones (colored) returned to tills city a few weeks ago from Liberia, in Africa, where he went in the spring of 1885. IIo is now at home in Mont gomery, and says ho is hero to stay. Ho is stopping ut ids father's, out be yond tho Womon’s Homo, In tho eastern portion of tho city. An Advertiser reporter went out to see him yesterday, ami from his own lips hoard the story of the travels aud trials and stay in tho land that docs not flow with milk and honey. **! loft Montgomery on Fob. 84.1883, one year ago last February, for New York, accompanied by my wifo aud two children. Wo sailed from New Fork for Liberia on tbo last day of February. In our party thero woro tifty emigrants, Including men, women, and children. We had a very pleasant voyage, und landed at Monrovia, Liberia, on April 4. We went to Liberia under direction of the Coloni sation Society of Washington. The society furnished us, according to promlso, with provisions to last us six months. After we reached our desti nation wo had our land surveyed, and set about to build houses and settle. As for my part, I soon found that the rainy season was too cloao at hand, and I did not have timo to settle on the land set apart for me. 1 then got two acres from another man in the settle ment, and built, a little house In which 1 lived while there. I planted aud raised a few potatoes, and wo ate them and enjoyed them. The house I built was ton by ilfteeu feet. I built it with j small poles and covered it with bam boo. Tho rainy sermon sot in about May 1, and continued until along sorno tlmo in November. Sometimes tlio rainfall would be steady for a week or two, and then it would slack up an hour or two a day and commonce again. But for Btx mouths wo had no sunshlno or dry weather, and during all that tlmo wo woro conllnod iu-doors, and could not do anything In the way of outdoor work to earn u living. In tho fall tho rainy spell ends, and then there is nothing but drought and hot sun shine for six months. We had no win ter, and tho only cool weather came during tho rainy spell, in what wo call tho summer months hero." There aro many things that must mako an American fed very much out of place in Africa Continuing tho talo of his bitter experience, Anderson said: “ In cultivating tho soil, the aottlers, os well as tho natives, have to do all tho work with hoo9. There are no horses or niulos or cattle m that country. In somo of the oldest settle ments thoy have u few cattle, but they aro very small and dwarilsli. A full- grown cow in Africa is no larger than a year-old oalf in this country. In tho Bottlomont where wo lived I never saw but the one poor little calf, and not a single liorao or mule iu the country. I was Blok about throe months, and was greatly troubled with bloodthirsty little insects known ub jiggers. They are itunllor than a (lea and far more troublesome. They attack a victim on tho feet while ho aloepB and work thoir way Into tho flesh, forming had sores, 1 saw many people with sovornl of their toos fairly eaten oil by the little pests. In my sickness 1 had no medicine and no physician. Thera was no doctor in tha settlement, except herb doctors, who mako their own medlclno. People in that couutry cau't make money, nnd it takes hard digging to make a little something to cat. 1 had a little money when I wont there, but everything was so high that it was soon gone. The inau who is employed by the Coloniza tion Society to issuo provisions to tho settlers swindled us out of supplies for twenty (jays, nnd just at a time when we needed help most. “Tho poople over thoro don’t much like for settlers to come away. But thoy can’t raise any objoctloiiB, and tho natives ara all peaceable. When a man decides to leave he has to post a written notico of hts Intentions in a public place for ten days and get a passport from the Government 1 wrote letters to my people here and received replies. The letters go aud come around by English steamers. I was bent on com ing hack to Alabama, though I had no money «iut no means of making it hly relative* here and iu Texas stmt us 8100, nnd we sold our beet clot hoe to raise 823. Wo did not have to pay fare for our little girl, and only 825 for tho boy ami 850 each (or myself and wife. We took passage on the bark Mon rovia, and sailed from Liberia on Julv 7. lauding iu New York on Aug. 8, ana In Montgomery on Sept 5. I had no cause to leave tills country, and now since 1 am at home in Alabama once more, 1 will not lHither about going oil again to go anywhere." Anderson Joues is thirty-tlx years old. Anderson ia above the average of his rave in point of Intelligence. His wife is a tight mulatto woman, Titov have two children. They had one child bom in Africa, which died early aud was buried them Anderson says that Liberia i> « mighty poor country to live in, ami there are many other American negroes there who would corns back it they could, lie thinks this Is God's country and U willing to live his life out aud be buried here, tie cobies homo sick w it U fever, and la get ting well slowly.—Montgomery Adtor pine five ecu’ cigars at Hicks’s. P. X p Tn». Dublin Post and the fc.iv | T} annuli News, or Mucoti Telegraph, i | ( or Atlanta Constitution, for he I small atim of u year. Now is J cnicKi v ash. rose boot, potasbicm- tho time to get your county papci I I T* HkNOliiX. und a large city weekly for a small amount of money. POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder nover varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomenew?. More economical than the ordinary kinds, nnd cannot bo sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight uium or phosphate powders, Sold only in cam. Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall St. N. Y. The Dublin Academy Tuition Payable Monthly. ftatess Primary Classes $1,60 perm. Intermediate 11 $3,40 per in, Advanced " $3,30 per m, For further information address PEYTON L. WADE, A.B.. Principal. N. B.—Board nt reasonable rates may be had in the town. Jan 12 tf. I. H. S HI T 1, Mauufac.urcr and Dealer in \Yniches and Jewelry of Every Dc scriphon. AGENT FOIt Wai.than, Elgin, Springfield and Lan caster Watch Movements Encas ed nt Gold and Silver. ALSO AGENT FOR Win. Smith & o’s celebrated Polled plate vest chains, warranted • to wear ns well as solid gold. Repairing of fine nnd complicated watch es a specialty. Watches sent mo by ex press or mail to be repaired will bo put : In order nnd promptly returned. Next door to Hooks’s hotel, DUBLIN. GEORGIA, NOTICE. I have this day sold iny entire stock of goods to W. F. Linder, who will coutin ue the business nt the samu store. In pur chasing my mercantile interests, Mr. Lin der assumes no liabilities of the old firm. Wiley Lock Iu retiring from tho business heretofore conducted by me, 1 beg leave to thank in, friends and tho public for the patronage extended to the old firm aud solicit a cou- tinucancu of tho sumo to Mr. Linder. I will remain iu tho store during tha present year, and all part'.cs indebted to mo, either by note or account, will please come forward and make full settlement at once, or tho snmo will be placed in the hands of an ofiiccr for collection. Respectfully Fob. 16,1887. Wiley Lock. Administratrix’s Sale. GEORGIA, Laurens County. Will be sold before the Court House door in tiro town of Dublin, said county, on tlic first Tuesday in March, 1887, within the legal hours of sale, tho follow ing described realty, to-wit: 80 acres of lot No. 185; that part of lot No. 380 lying east of tho public road, containing 20 acres; also lot No. 156, containing 20SJ acres; lot No. 155, containing 203J acres; lot No. 165. containing 2034 acres; lot No. 166, conUuulug 8024 acres, including gin house and screw, nnd adjoining lands of Fannie Ogboruc, Joel Pierce, Joel T. Coney, G. W. Bishop. «T. T. Chappell and Ira & Stanley. The public road beinir tbo line from the gin house to the ford of the mill creek, containing in the aggregate 910 acres more or less, and also" that portion of land known as tho Ira Stanley place, containing 17 acres, of lots Nos. ISO and 187, more or less; all in the 2nd district of originally Wilkinson, now Laurens county. S«uu tale will be made for the puronce of paying the debts of the estate of John F. Burney, deceased, and of making dis tribution of said estate among the heirs ot the said John F. Burney, deceased. Said sale made subject to the widow’s dower and an annuity in said lauds. JANE E. BURNEY, Administratrix Cum-Us Anucx Alveitiv itt paper. THE GREATEST ns poirnvs OF THE ACE. CERTIFICATES. re *i„- Albany, Ga„ August 1, 1885. Dr. Whitehead - Dear Sir;—I had it had case of blood poison, which for two -years defied all treatment. One bottle of P. P. p. made a pei rnanent cure. John Gafphky; - Waycross. Ga., July 80, 1885 I had the -rheumatism for five months, and 1 took one bottle of Dr. Whitehead’B P P P aud itcuied me sound and well, aud I hesitate not to recommend it to those who desire a blood purifier. Respectfully, J E Smith. F.ftecn Years a Sufferer from Rheumatism. What Hon. W. H. Wilder, Mayor of Albany, Ga„ says. I suffered fifteen years with Rheumatism and during that time tried allthc so-called specifics that I could hear of. One of them I paid $8.00 per bottle for and took nine bottles ahd received no benefit from any of them. My grandson, who runs on the 2»®59& flnall y g ot ft bottle of P- P- P- (Pnckly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium) while in Waycross and induced to take it. The first bottle showed its won derful effects, and after continuing the use of it f6r a short time the Rheumatism disappeared, und 1 feci like a new man. .1 'take great pleasure in recommending it to sufferers from Rheumatism A1t ' W.H. WILDER Albany, Ga-, Juncl 0 , 1880. Lakk City, Fla. , June 24, ’89. C. IT. Newnmn, of Lake City, Fla., says his wife has suffered for seven years with a complication of diseases, of which Asth ma was the most prevalent. She has not laid down in bed for sovau years. He has expended all tho monev his business hue made him in that time ‘for medicines, physicians, etc., to obtain relief for her but without any success whatever. He was advised by physicians to try P. P. P. He flnally did so, expecting to dorive no benefit, but after taking less than two bottles eruptions appeared all over lier and oho immediately begun to improve, and now her skin is perfectly clear. She sleeps soundly every night on an ordinary pillow - , und her general health lias not been better in years. Mr. Neuman, who is u merchant of Lake City, is very enthu siastic over tho cure, and* thinks it the grandest blood purifier aud tonic of the age Waychoss, Ga. . Nov 6, '86. Greenville. Flu.. June , 886. Dr. if littefVnid: In the year 1878 1 was attacked with a severe ease of Blood Poison thut defied all treatment. 1 wont to several physi cians hut found no relief. Finally 1 went before a bourd of physicians at Tallahassee nnd was examined, and my cuse was de dared to be a virulent cose ot Blood Poi son, aud all the medicines they gave me fulled lo eradicate the dreadful disease aud my life was in danger. I lost the use of my left urm, and'a physician ut this place said my arm would have to bo ampu tated. The corruption that came from the various sores wut so offensive that I disliked to come in contact with my friends aud neighbors. I took thirty-two bottles of an Atlanta Blood Purifier, also a lot made in Baltimore, nnd iu fact everything Uiut 1 could hear of, but recelvcc no bcnc* flt. I had entirely despaired when vour Gcueral Agent. Mr. Clarkson, came hero advertising P, P. P. (Prickly Ash Poke Root und Potassium) nnd induced me to give it a trial. 1 got one large bottle, took it, and one ana a half small ones, anti tho various sores havs healed entirely nnd the new akin has a clear, healthy color, and my general health is better than it Las bcon before in ten years. I consider it tbe grandest blood medicine of the age, as such a small amount shows its -wonderful effects. I am agent of the F. R, &N. R.-R. at this place, Greenville, Fla., and take great pleasure in recommending a medicine that has performed such wouders for me. Respectfully yours, J- W. ttiMMERLY. _ Waycross, Ga„ Nov, 16, '85. Dr. W. H. Whitehead: Dear Sir:—At your rqqaestl will state mv cas, Some years ago I contracted ma laria in its most violent form while living at Newark, N. J. I .consulted various physicians and look uumberlcss prepara tions recommended as sure cures," but it stuck to mo like a brother—or more like a mother-in-law. I finally came South, and while hero tried now remedies said to "al ways cure malaria, but it stuck to me, and you know the old broken-down condi tion I was in when l caino to you. You put me to taking your P P P aud 1 im proved rapidly, and am to-day in as good health as 1 ever was—in fact better. As a remedy for a broken-down constitution it has no equal. 1 ours, etc. T P Cottle. The above medicino is for sale wholesale and retail, at WIUIXOHAX. 11 f ? 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Engine, Mill aud Boiler Repairs PomptJy done. Cast Iron and Brasi Every day working 100 hands. H. HICKS&CO., HEADQUARTERS FOR 818&51S *> 8©»SS* Dublin, Ga. G. HIllSCHMAN IS NOW WITH Einstein & Lehman, SJ VA XNA If, - GEORGIA.! Dmgps, Me«3Liciiaes ami Books. -ALSO- Xiffj 11 bnsced oil, varnishes, window glass, putty, white lead, sash i black T »! .i ,1 i U | 8hL if’ PlU ‘! t bruahc “? marking brushes, glue (white and brown), Di Hi miff b . ack i’ uutll V , r 8 ' m:,c ‘lnnisls oU, lamps, lamp fixtures, lanterns, kerost sla ‘ cll > {Barbies, creuiu tartar, trusses, syringes, eye goggles, nip shouWer b?ncf« tC c S i S l a° br Y slie8 ’ Wuckiug, .carbolic soap, oustile soap, riiober nlpp s^cn.iuf soda, alum, salt petre, sulphur, in curb sodu, bluing, fixed o ?‘ 1b -_V mslnl 'd. ginger, cloves, nutmegs, blue stone, copperas, iiavorl Urnire CtS ' mft dd fcl ’» »ndigo mud, Spanish brown, breast pumps, tubing tackle, m: raZor Horsford s Bread Powders. 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"wiyw, via/viu, it cosier s speuers, inns, pencils, slat mk erasers, paper fasteners, ru iber bands rulers, magic inkstands, calendar pen protectors pen holders. Arnold’s Writing Fluid. A full Hue of the school boi recenUy adopted by the School Board for the Pub ic school of Laurens count' Hymn Books, and Psalmists. &T" Wewill order auybook hot In stock and furuis ame «u a short timo at publisher’s prices, provided the money is left with the orej Ii. HICKS & CO., ; DUBLIN. GEORGIA. 1 feb 18-tf MLA RTjTTT M^a.C3-^L25X3STEI TlXFIaliJ Best In Tb.0 World. ; ascnl.ssgr. thootloc HOe nuulo '.ntely eafo rlUo oa Gall, ry.fitxirilna: ncdTir- set Rifles, iroria rsaaTracl. MARLIW FIRE ARMS CO., - New Haven, Conn. i UfrftU tnoJ-a* vrtih om oi our a rifles, uveuxy matinntin nTn f at »lAty /oft. afterflfty fciiotj aina.lv t^n fln«t and do cleaning Surtnc Um j-nttr* aejMivx afcoti. xteca foot carrr off iiaarlr aU U*« FUi.uunatmaldMfl