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mmm OFEMKA, ALA.: rBESJJAT JANUARY 27, 1874. OPELIKA DEPARTMENT K. AJ. ((RAY, EDITOR. • Xbo Urantr Meeting BCUr „t this place on Tbutaday next will be, no doubt, one of the most inter esting 'yet held. Our country friends will be hero in force, and probably the Bession will bo continued for two qr more days. In addition to the important matters be fore its body for consideration and action, learn that they, as well as those who have not the pass-word, will be addressed by Col. Wra. II. Chambers, Master of the State Grange, a gentleman well known to most of our people, a practical farmer, bard thinker and a good speaker. Col. A. K. Calhoun, edifor and proprie- or of this paper, bos, we learn, consent ed to address our people. Hearsay gives i Colonel an eloquent tongue aod a wise head. Wo hope our people will make the casion a gala day. The ladies are espe cially invited to attend. Mayor's t’ourt. Miss Nettio Dawson, col’d—and very colored—was brought up on the charge of displaying her dubious charms Railroad after dark—all of which, bein'’ contrary to the ordinances made and provided, she went to the calaboose a default of one dollar and cost. Marshal llrooks says if tbo girl above bad not been so black as to make the night -visible, be would not have seeu her. _. r _ If you have never before thought how many reodors an advertisement in this paper would give you, think of it now We’ll toko an even bet that Opelika has as many “blow bards" as any town of its size this side of the Potomac. We saw a doz n testing their talents in this way last k, when the luDg tester was stuns I. Power equal to n Mississippi high pr ‘ 0 steamer is held by a few for euiergt -ies. Honey easy. Exchange on New York and New Orleans buying A ; selling at par. Trrtite i Saturday was about as usual—negroes predominating ou our streets. We note no chnugo in supplies. We quote : Hulk meat !U ; flour $7 ,70 fa'12 for fancy ; corn $1 10 ; rnoal $1 10; sugar 10(a) 11 ; cofl'ee 32(5)35; syrup .">0(5) SO ; oats 80(5)85 seed ; bran $1 75@2. Potion Receipts light. No change in quota tions : Middlings 14 Low Middlings i;ij Received previously 13,728 “ Saturday 10! OPELIKA DIREOtOKV. Millinery. Total. .13.830 AI.VIUnA NEWS. MKS. C. V. BARLOW, Fashionable Milliner auil Dressmaker. iu’e Ag*ut ul Butterick 3l Co.'s Patterns, ike late Banking House oi bhnppuid & i'u., Opelika, Ala. ju J.'l Notaries Public. U. D. HIGGINS, Being appointed Notary Public lor Lee cdunty, respectfully solicits the patronage of bis friends. Holds Court 1st uud ?d Saturdays of each month, K. C. Ilollifield’s Uw oftict JiU.5 Eating Houses. ROGERS' EATING HOUSE, Bight at the Depot, open at all hours. Hot and Metals for all Trains. J»21 Furniture, Ac. At Panic Prices. A. O. HARWELL, Dealer in nil kiiula of Furniture* Also, Metallic, Wood Collins, and Caskets. j.il8 Chambers street. Lawyers. A. J. VIC KERS, and Counsellor* At Luv. ju-'l Tailors. J. H. €\nPBKi.L, Tailor, Cutting and Making in the Latest Styles, pairing neatly done. South Railroad St., over Furniture Store. Dentists. J. I.. K. SMITH. Dentist, >ues Plato Work and Plugging on reasonable dec'll] terms. Chambers street. Barber Shops. WESLEY KARRINUER, Barker. Joruer South Railroad uud Chambers street 1 dec23 HIGNON A TURNER, Barbers South ltuilroad street, um.ur Adams House, dec*! Hotels. " ALABAMA 1IO I'M E, uietit to husiucss portion of the city. G, W. ALLKN, Prop’r. ADAMS HOUSE. go to Opelika, bo sure to stop at House, opposite Passenger Depot. Doctors. DR. JT. W. K. WILUAKN Offers his professional services. Office over R. M Green A Co.’s, Chambers & R. R. streets. Insurance. E. 1. IIOWEN A NON, Gencrnl Insurance Agents. . Railroad Street, over R. M. Greene & Co.’, Dissolution. milK linn of B. M. BLOOD WORTH A CO. is this _L d«y dissolved by mutual consent. MRS. CHAR LOTT K CLUTfc A CO. having bought Mr Rlooilworth’s interest, will continue the business under tli© firm name of CLUTK A CO., who ussumo all indebtedness of R. M. Blood worth A Co. All indebted to the old firm will please come fort and settl", as it is in the hands of ladies nlotu MRS. MOORK will he found here as usual, to wait upon her friends. jul8 1 $200 Reward! or persons who Station, on the ‘J of any persou ■ place obstrurtioi ith eviflence to convict the persn removed the track near Smith ill Inst., or lor the apprebensio i ho nitty at any time maliciously -One bouse in Mobile bas exported twelve thousand barrels of rosin this season. —A negro, Toni Satikey, who is to bo hung in Montgomery next Friduy, bas confessed his guilt. He previously bad insisted he bad not killed bis man. -Judge Woods in bis late decision did not touoh lho legality of future cotton contracts. That question was not before him, but one where middle men, i, e. standing hetweeu buyer and seller, were concerned. —lions. Ii. E. Parsons, J. C. Goodloe and it. W. Cobb, commissioners from the State of Alabama, connected with the question of the annexation of West Flori da, are in Tallahassee. -Col. Forsyth, of the Mobile llerjinter, having been suggested as the Democratic uundklato for Gubernatorial honors, says: “If there is one thing which we have always had a particular fancy not to be, it is a State Governor, ” and won’t listen to any further suggestions on this line. —On Saturday, in the U. S. Circuit Court at Mobile, Judge Woods rendered a decree ordoriug the Alabama and Chat tanooga Kailroatl to be sold on the first Monday in May. The minimum price is live million dollars. The proceeds are to be applied to extinguish the olaims of the first mortgage bondholders. —A number of Montgomery Radicals have founded an organization, similar to the national guards, and are preparing a way to burst up the present city council, and the existing stato of things at the next electiou. The leaders are prominent whites and negroes on the Republican Hide, and numbers 300 already. —The following is a Ust taken from the Isow York Time*, of Jauuary dividends paid in that city by Alabama railroads : Alabama Central $G 1,000, Alabama k Chattanooga $313,720, Jacksonville, Pen sacola & Mobile $100,000, Mobile it Gi rard $2(5,032, Mobile it Ohio $38,073, Nashville & Decatur $70,000, New Or leans, Mobile A Texas $442,000, Savannah, Griftia & North Alabama $3,320. Selma, Rome A Daltou $38,087, South it Noilly 1 Alabama $164,000. —The Stockholders of the Montgomery Water Works Company met Friday. The annual reports show that Messrs. Mo- Donough «t Flaunery have taken the con tract to furnish all material and erect tho work-i for $180,000. Montgomery has granted valuable privileges, and agrees to ; pay $73 annually each for 100 fire plugs. The Hoard of Directors have authorized 1 the issuance of $123,000 eight per cent. I first mortgage bonds, uud executed the mortgage. The works will be completed by June. Josiah Morris was re-elected I President. I —Tho Washington correspondents state I some rumors have been started by the I Republicans about tho Agricultural Col- I lege at Auburn. The frieuds of other lo- I calities are bringing to the attention of I Congress the tnnunrr in which the Gone- I t*al Assembly of Alabama happened to se- Ilect Auburn over other places, the indis- I position to Admit colored applicants, the I waste of tho college funds, etc. Just now lit bids fair to be the source of another in- 1 vestigation. I —The averuge length of a farmer’s lifo I sixty-five years, while that of a printer ■ but thirty three ; hence the necessity ■of paying for your paper promptly. Wo ■have not long to live, and wo would like ■ to have u little money before wo die. I —It is somewhere related that a poor ■*oldier, having hfd his skull fractured, ■ was told by the doctor that his brains ■were visible. “Do write to father,” he ■replied, “and tell him of it, for he always ■®aid I had no braid's.” ■ —Jones complained of a bad smell ■^hout the post office, and asked Brown ■^bat it could be. Brown did not know, ■hut suggested that it might be caused by ■lha dead letters Opelika, Ala , Do INSURANCE. ATLANTA DEPARTMENT EACLE AND PrtENIX fciaNUFACTURiNC CO. CONDITION OF THE .Eagle & Phenix IVSanufact’g Co., January 1st, 1874. OFFICERS: Cen. JNO. B. CORDON, President. Cen. A. H. COLQUITT, Vice President. J. A. MORRIS, Secretary. J. H, MILLER, Sup’t Agencies. Assets Nearly $2,500,000.00! Ratio of Assets to Liabilities 146.39-100 to (100. Has just established a Branch at Columbus, Oa., and opened au office at tho “GEORGIA HOME” BUILDING. Tho oitizens of Columbus and adjoining country are urgently requested to ex amine the claims of this Pioneer Company to their patronage and support. Investments made and losses adjusted at homo. COLUMBUS GA. BRANCH. R. N. MILLER, Cen’l Ag’t and Manager. OFFICERS : W. L. SALISBURY, Pres’t. G. GUNBY JORDAN, Vice Pres’t. 1.. SPENCER, Secretary. i.mm.mue * umti. iJc.Yj’.t Jmploj An lien... Hook Ac time., Hill. lie. Stock. HI! Stoek on Hi. «, 1:1 on no .1.0 . It'll 1» t lei l.ol.l.-1- • lini-ni.l Hi Dejio.lt. Hooke.. " '"niH- L'rolitn to Dividends Declared since 1869, $429,160.00. Total A Skein $1,849,738 24 Duo DoposilorH #75,87,0 lit Oiltstandiug OortitloatoH 57,137 00 Every other lialiilily 28,1011 08— 161,006 27 (liosi.lca Capital Stock ami undivided jtrolits.) Surplus beyond all Liabilities $1,688,641 97 I, It. liunby Jordan, Secretary and Trenmiror of Engle and l’heuix Manufacturing Oompauv, certify tlijjt tbo above atnteiuuul ih correct and true. G. GUNliY .IOHDAX, Hoc’y and Trofta’r. AttOHt: — 1. M.-Divinh. Notary l’ltldie. [Seal. 1 .Jnnntuy co, 1871. if M. ,1. ORAWFOKD, G. W. DILLINGHAM, W. b. CLAlill, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : ALFRED I. YOUNG, C. A. REDD, W. R. DROWN, l’ETElt UHUF.lt. S. G. MURPHY, it. M. MULFORD, MEDICAL BOARD: G. J. GRIMES, M. P., D. W. JOHNSON, M. D. ■FJT Polieio.i in Northern OouipnnieH can lie transferred without loss or additional utlnv. Full particulars givou by inquiry at tlio oflico. > Keep Capital at Home. Good Solicitors Wanted. LAMBERT SPENCER, Resident Agent. SADDLES AND HARNESS. Will Not be Undersold! Saddles, Harness, Bridles, Collars, Whips, Trunks, Satchels, Wagon and Plow Bridles, Hames, Back Bands, Trace Chains, Ami all oilier goods in my lint* for sale AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. All of my goods are hand made, made at Louie, and satisfaction guaranteed. REPAIRING done cheap and good. Will make any kind of New Work to order. 1 positively will not lie undersold Ly any house. Will givo time to prompt paying customers. W. R. KENT, 102 Broad Street, Columbus, Un. Ja4 deo.Lwtf SECURITY—PROMPTNESS—LIBERALITY ! r mii: Georgia Home Insurance Comp’y. t OMIM KS TO OFFER THE 1*1111.IU INDEMNITY against Loss by FIRE ! Having Paid her Friends and Patrons Sinc^ the War $800,000,00, She Wants a Chance to Cet it Back. J. RHODES BROWNE, GEO. W. DILLINGHAM, SAM’L S. MURDOCH BANKING AND INSURANCE. J. RHODES BROWNE, President. OEO. W. DILLINGHAM, Cashier, GEORGIA HOME BANK. Bank of Discount and Deposit. Deals in Exchange, Coin, Stocks and Bonds. Drafts Collected, and prompt returns made. THU lilllilllli liilli SAVINGS BANK Offers tlie greatest imluccments tu tlioso having - idle funds, for which they want uiuloubted security, a liberal interest, and prompt payment when required. DEPOSITS of Si and upwtirds eived. Deposits can be withdrawn in person or liv check by those of our patrons wlio live at a distance. INTEREST allowed at Seven ^7) Per (.'cut., compound ed January, April, July ami October—four times a year. SECURITY.—liy the terms of the Company’s charter, the entire capital and property of the Company and the private property of the (Shareholders is pledged for the obligations of the (Savings Bank. DIREC ORS ; I'rcNitlviit. Columbus, Oct. 1st, IK NOTICE. T HE undersigned, with tho view of arranging his business to closu it up at uu early day, offers his entire stock of SADDLES, HARNESS, TRUNKS, And other goods in his Hue, At Very Reduced Prices! FOK C ASH ONLY ! and to be convinced, ploose call uud examine stock and prices. N. n.—All persons who are indebted to me are requested to call and Hettlo without further notice. H. MIDDLEBROOK. Columbus, January 1st, 1874. <od*w2m FIRE INSURANCE. FIREMAN’S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY —or— San Francisco, California. Cash Assets, $675,000 GOLD! Prompt, Reliable, Liberal! G. GUNBY JORDAN, Agent, COLUMBUS. GA. LOTTERY. 1’OIR ill Grand Gift Concert tuK TUB BENEFIT OF THE Public Library erf Kentucky. Over a Million in Bank! Success Assured! v fit,i, ci.imtx On Tuesday, 31st March Next! In order tu meet the general wrlfh and exp***.- tutloti of tho public and lieket-holders, iur the lull paymontol (he m igniticont gilts anu> una- ed for the Fourth < I rand (lift Concert of tbo Public Library of Kentucky, tlio management have determined tu pustpunn tho Concert and Drawing until Tuesday, tbo 31st of March, 8741 Tuoy have already realizod Over a Million Dollars, tr M n * lftV0 14 T,ln,, >* -Agents yet to hem Only 60,000 tickets have boon issued and 12.000 Casli Grift**, #1, noo, one, will be distributed among tho tickot-holdors. The tickets are priuted in coupons, ul tenths, and all fractional parts will ho represented in the drawing just as wholo tickets arc List of Gifts. ONE OKAN1) CASH (I1FT *250,000 ONE (IRANI) CASH GIFT 100,000 ONE (IRANI) CASH GIFT 50,Go*; ONE ({RAND CASH (IITT 25,000 ONE (IRANI) CASH (IIFT 17,600 10 CASH ttlFTS 4110,000 each lOO.lMX) to CASH GIFTS 6,000 each 160,000 oo CASU (11 FT'S i,ooo each 60,000 40 CASH (11 FT’S 500 each 40,00«j loo CASH (11FTS 400 each 40,000 160 CASH (J 1FTS 300 each 45,000 260 CASH (11FTS 200 each 60,000 326 CASH GIFTS 100 oach 32,600 11.000 CASH GIFTS 60 each 660,Ooo TOTAL, 12,000(41 FTS, ALL CASH, amountluk to ti,600,000 * Tho chances lor a «i!t arc as one to live. Price of Tickets. Whole tickets$60.00; Halves $25.00; Tenths, or each coupon $6.00; Eleven Whole Tlckots lor ot Tickets. Tlio Fourth (lift Concert will he conducted in all respects like the throe which hate already l)eon given, and full particulars may he learned (rum circulars which will he sent iroo from this ollioo to all who apply for them. Ordo.s for tickets and applications for agen cies will be attended to in the order they are received, and it Ih hoped they will bo sent in promptly that there may bo nodisappointment or delay In tilling till. Liberal terms given to thoso who buy to sell again. All agents are peremptorily required to settlo up their ac counts and return all unsold tickets by the 20th day ol March. THO. i:. IIHAMM'/l'Ti:, Agent Public Library Kentucky,and Manager ol (lift. Concert, Public Library Building, Louisville, Ky. [delsd2taw&w Tickets lor sale and prizes Cmlied without J. KIIODES BllOWNE, IWl of Hut (Jo. •JAS. I?\ BOZEMAN, Capitalmt, Atlanta. J. It. CLAPP, Mnunf’tr, Clapp’s Pnctorv. Hon. JOHN MoILIlENNY, Mayor. JAMES ltANKIN, Capitalist. N. N. CUUT1S, t>f WellMjCurtiH A (Jo. L. T. DOWNING, Altomey-at-Law. I). ]*'. WILTA’OX, Socretnry of tlio Co. JOSIAH MOltlUS, Banker, Monfq’v. CITAltLES WISE, CLOTHING. THORMTOH & ACEE No. VO BrOa«^ Street. Capt. C. A. Klink, Agt. Tlckots sold by mo cathrd without d John D. Blackmar, AKont liy i Jool4 til FERTILIZERS. CHEMICALS—PURE ! i mi HOME-MADE FERTILIZERS, AT I."" 1 I'llJCK ■ E. C. HOOD & BRO. Have Just Received a Now Lot of Men’s and Boy’s CLOTmiVG, At a reduction of 20 to 25 per cent, on former whole sale cost prices, which will enable them to sell at less than Cost prices for the same class of goods purchased earlier! La »d Piaster in the season. As we were able to get a still further re-j duction of from 5 to 6 per cent, for the cash, we will sell. at corresponding low prices. Now is the time to buy good ; Clothing at lower prices than ever sold in this section. So*' Call and sec for yourselves. ja; , ! Notice. All.MKltH WI8IIIN "),)(. FF.KTII.I/flU, ((. .11111 SS«»N, Aa-nl ('<-nl.nl I wi111 Pure H. and M. Fertilizer. AI«o rniiHl.nu),. u„ lima. Dissolved Bones, Ammonia, Nitrate of Soda, and Potash Salts W. JOHNSON, Agenl. MO Here’s Your Climice. Guano Notice to excuse for \ rusty suit ! Planters. CLOTHING AT COST ! if, nk.yt rimm* n \ v.- w i u in's jt ,'i pEl;It .-'iti %.m> rim O u IV. .J. BUSSEY, All ENT FOR American Cotton Tie Co. A ll approved patterns ok improved COTTON TLKB, furulnhed in any quantity, at lowest market rates. Adply to O. GUNBY JORDAN, Je4 tf Baglo k Ph.-nix MauTg Cu. WOOD, WOOD! oin\dly by application MUSCOUKjS MANLKAOT NO CO. dec28 tf Attention for Ten Days! A PORTION of tho Watches, Jewelry, and Clocks given to me to repair, may uow be found with me. Also, the uusottlml accounts hd<1 notes. My friends would do me a favor to call, settle and take away their articles. T. 8. SPEAK, Agent, At J. U. Bramhall’s Sewing Machine Agency, tf! oo llrnud Mtreet. Colmni.ilH. lia PRATT’S ASTRAL OILT^ Absolutely safe. Perfectly odorless. Always uniform. Illuminating qualities superior to gas. Hums In any lamp without danger of ex- tdodiog or taking tiro Manufactured express- ly 10 dlxplttco the use ol volatile and dangerous oils. Its safety under every possible test, and its porlect burning qualities, nre proved by its continuod use in over 300.000 fa mi lien. Millions of gallons have been sold and no ac cident—directly or Indirectly—has ever occur red from burning, storing or handling it. The immenseyearly loss to life andproperty, resulting trom the uao of cheap and dangerous oils in the United States, is appalling. The Insurance (J«»mpanics and Fire Commis sioners throughout tho country recommend the ASTRAL as the best safeguard when lamps are used. Send for circular. For sale at retail by tho trade generally, and at wholesale by the proprietors, (3HARLKS PRATT a CO., 108 Fulton Street, New York. COPARTNERSHIP. milK UNDERSIGN KI) MASK THIS DAY FORM KD A COPARTN KRS1IJ P under the firm nan 1 WILLC0X Sc HAWKS, for tie- transaction of » Uoii.tiI 1 i.snran. •• Rn.iu.— in thh city. I). F. WILLCOX, Col it tu bits, Oct. 13, 1873. W. N II AM KS. Willcox & Hawks, General Insurance Agents, 79 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga., resenting a list of tho oldest and largest InHiirance Compuniffc in the • ..untrv,-Tim.-Tried »ml -Tested,•’ with assets exceeding $27,000,000! Clothing and 'Underwear, liads, Umbrellas, Trunks, Valises, Carpet Bags. . itc.. at Cost for Casli. THOMAS & PRESCOTT. DRY GOODS. Grand Clearing Out Sale ! to maki; niiAi't fgrtiii spring trade, m j: now ofm i; Our Entire Stock of Fancy Dress Goods AT AND BELOW COST. FOR CASH ! l\n l.W:iM Bill t II t HIM l.l IS l.ou t^ IB I’d I BIND M.M.M II IK L. '•V '»F PA('I f 1C BL'ANO ( IBl.K p M IKIC .ca: Cnltllli will be Hg.kl ll<*gr ' ip, |.',u MuJ.lluiv. rovol^viI Uy mu ami In tuTordiiiire will* iiitltirUy oTmucIi ob. Illicit <J a tu (lii*« (trlt. ,(11 l.i|. »k1« Deliver Soluble Pacific Guano for Another Season W. H. YOUNG, .A. (DJ^JFLTD. WILLCOX A HAWKS IL r. WILM'OX. MILLINERY. Bargains ! Bargains !! and Fancy Dry Goods at Panic Wll.l., ON (Nil A FT Fit TO-MUBKOW, OFFKIt II FI', KN'TIKK STOCK I'F MILLINERY AND FANCY DRY GOODS FOR CASH, AT PANIC PRICES ! |Col.lt„l,u,. Hi. BOOK db NE"\A, T S Atlanta l’aper Milln, JAMES ORMOND, <W Retell to thin sheet as a specimen of Newt Jhiper. myJ3 tf l
