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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1871
Page
3
Advertisements urge readers to try Hunt, Rankin and Lamar line of trusted proprietary remedies. Promoted products include Yellow Dock Sarsaparilla for blood, Hunts Liver Bitters and May Apple Pills for liver issues, and Central City Worm Candy as a vermifuge for children. Sold at T.S. Powell's and J. J. McDonald's.
Travel tips and home remedies tout the Pats Kitten and Pain Killer for dysentery, cholera morbus, asthma, bone soreness, and fishing injuries with hourly dosing and bathing. A doctor approves bone setting relief. The page also promotes the American Publishing Company Specimen Book and Parlor Album as a money-making prospect, inviting readers to send for details.
Public notices offer legal blanks at low prices with prompt cash terms. Then several ads from W. E. Besson Burkeville Drug Store urge buying pure medicines and household goods, praising decades of service, reliability, and low prices. Also promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a tonic and discusses advertising to sell or rent property via the Appeal newspaper.
Randolph Superior Court meets next Monday week. Cols Tumlin Atkins and Slood travel to attend B C C Railroad stockholders meeting to elect officers for the year. Local merchants Mitchell Perry praised for active trade. Crop lien business easing this year as planters buy with care. Physicians defend their charity practice amid a squib about a doctor who refused to treat the poor. Gunn’s Fort Gaines flour praised for good bread. A serenade night yields to a pestilent mosquito. No dangerous smallpox in city. three mild new cases reported. Owen Sealy advertise spring goods with short profits. new storehouse stocked. Local quarry owners display carved rock usable as marble and for monuments. Memphis real estate distribution advertised. Macon agents listed. Reverend Blakeley Smith delivers pointed quarterly meeting sermon condemning fashion and worldly vices.
The piece urges all to decorate Confederate graves next Wednesday at five at Baptist Cemetery and then at Methodist Cemetery, with short speeches. It also covers a successful Andrew College concert, praising students and staff, and mentions church revival efforts in Cuthbert led by Rev. McHan and Dr. Baldwin to aid a local church and Sabbath School for needy whites.
The Fort Gaines Column describes Porter Wisperty’s conviction for robbing Mr Joyce at Cotton Hill and recapture by local authorities. It also notes a damaging hurricane on the 8th inst caressing the county, wrecking homes, fences, crops, and trees with severe rain and wind, yet sparing some family members from harm.
A Georgia proclamation dated March 22 1871 offers a 500 reward for the apprehension and delivery of James Mullins in Cherokee County with an additional 500 upon conviction. Mullins escaped from jail after being indicted for simple larceny horse stealing.
A Dougherty County proclamation announces a one thousand dollar reward for the apprehension and delivery of Jackson Colbreth alias Cuthbert, a colored man described as a notorious desperado connected to the murder of Samuel Green near Albany. The reward supports bringing him to trial with sufficient evidence to convict.
A proclamation from the Cherokee County authorities dated April 12 announces a murder alleged to have occurred December 22, 1865, in Cherokee County. Noah Bell was the victim, a person of color, allegedly killed by John Patnamnam who fled justice. The state offers a reward of one thousand dollars for his apprehension and delivery to the sheriff for trial at the Capitol in Atlanta.
Grand jurors for May term 1871 listed by week and role. First week jurors include C O Brooks D F Bryan J W Aaron J T Brown M Atkins SW Burney J N Stanford J W Sealey B L Bridges T J Coram J T Cleveland A Knighton N R Brown J W Bragan TI Ball B Bass MW Bell J J Boyett GL Baldwin WL Baldwin G B Slaughter Ia L Brown C A Knighter G A Ball. Second week jurors include W O Harper J T Hardin Lucius Smith Ti F Sessions T B Statham W J Hicks J A D Grubbs W H Shelly Horace Powers H H Jones B J Jackson W C Sawyer Waut Spear R J M Johnson A W Gillespie T M Gordey Hardy Hay W F Powell E J Hall B M Garrett David Jones T H Jones IT Jenkins T J Smith H Hicks W H Phillips J J Jones R Fillingin HY Grayson I R Ferguson J P Hay 8S Senn W D Hammock W T Calhoun E Pittman RW Gamble RN Carter W B Hall Aaron Price T M Callaway Winfield Scott RD Jenks J A Halston BJ Smith D RB Stewart W C Hay S A Smith H J Hays A B Hendry W C Peacock M B Smith W B Spurlock W W Wrenfree N M Weaver John Singleterry A Rice GM T Perryman H A Crittenden RW Duke RM Puckett
The document lists three men with physical descriptions: A J Blackwell about 22 or 23, 5 feet 6 inches, 150 pounds with dark eyes and hair. Henry Spencer about 22, 6 feet 7 inches, 135 pounds, light hair, blue eyes, scar, quick speech. John Spencer about 28, 6 feet, 206 pounds, fair, light hair, blue eyes, one leg slightly shorter causing a limp.
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