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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1875
Page
3
The Cuthbert Appeal highlights Quarterman and Ackerley’s Drug Store offerings including pure drugs medicines and patent tonics. It notes rain, farm work, post office boxes for rent, and a surge of war impact on cotton prices. A legal notice covers a murder trial in the Superior Court with verdicts of manslaughter and murder.
The sixth annual Randolph County and Vicinity Bible Society session met at the Presbyterian church. Rev W A Parks urged vigorous work, noting past officers’ shortcomings and calling for families to read the Bible at home. Officers elected: Rev R A Mickel, president. J C Martin, secretary. Dr K A Quarterman, treasurer. Capt Pratt advertises genuine Norfolk oysters and other goods for sale.
A ceremony in Cuthbert on the 24th was performed by Reverend Thomas Muse uniting W A Beanp and D A Moopy in marriage.
The Library Drawings conclude with the Monster Concert in Louisville on the 27th, featuring one hundred performers led by Gilmore for the benefit of ticket holders. Admission requires a valid ticket. A Paris student dies insane after a dissecting room incident involving a frozen arm. Other notes joke about legislative bills on chicken preparation and a rural man’s dog days wish, plus chitlins chatter.
A Saturday dawn blaze in Dawson destroyed twenty plus wooden business structures including Wood groceries Orr groceries Marshall & Reddick McDonald & Peet J W Johnson dry goods and more. No insurance covered the losses estimated around twenty thousand dollars with several offices and a gun shop badly damaged. Fire spread through tightly packed facades amid light rain and minimal wind.
The State Grange session introduced a committee to memorialize the Legislature on an immigration bill and condemned newspapers promoting speculative cotton prospects. The Direct Trade Union spoke on supplying through the union. Georgia Grange adopted The Grange as its official organ and urged Congress to refund illegally collected cotton taxes to producers. Officers for the coming year were elected and a resolution asserted farming can be made profitable. Adjourned to meet in Atlanta in December.
Mr F M Duncan of Douglass county introduces a bill to waive homestead and exemptions for heads of families and guardians or trustees of minors. The measure requires joint husband wife signatures and county officials approval for guardianships. The article also notes Georgia’s land values and recalls a 1711 English Bible belonging to John Appleyard of the Eagle and Phoenix Manufactory.
The piece weighs migration inducements and Texas prospects against northern depopulation and factory labor harms. It contrasts Texas’s land riches with warnings of false promises, notes Massachusetts child labor issues, and hints Brigham Young’s plans.
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