Georgia topics fill page with crops banks and law notes
The Georgia dairy of July 9 1875 reports peach shipments in abundance and cotton stocks in Macon warehouses totaling 1592 bales. It notes the State Lunatic Asylum cannot admit more patients, Columbus plans a female college, and a spike in opium use nationwide. A Dallas wheat crop notes prices from 85 cents to $1. Albany News cites Willingham’s large corn and cotton acreages. Foreclosure suspends Albany Central City, a Forth Bridge plan is outlined, and debates surface over licensing women to preach. Foreign capital, Georgia laws, and court systems are criticized as unreliable and hindering investment.
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Columbus
United States
Connecticut
Albany News
Psamuel Bard
Atlanta
Benjamin Conley
Jeff Davis
University of Georgia
South
Dallas
Texas
Albany 2
T. H. Willingham
Augusta
Georgia
Supreme Court
Cadi
Pondering the Cotton Planters
The Nashville American notes long standing losses from thefts in cotton shipments as bales move through classification sampling and handling. It cites New Orleans and New York as examples and urges factors to pursue a plan to prevent the annual losses borne by cotton growers.
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Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Beecher case ends with hung jury in Brooklyn trial
The Beecher case terminated Friday as jurors discharged after failing to reach a verdict, three for conviction and nine for acquittal. The Savannah News condemns the trial as a disgraceful expose of social rottenness and deceit in a notorious Brooklyn free love inquiry.
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Henry Ward
Savannah News
Beecher
Brooklyn
Granger's Festival at Stonewall Grange July 3 1875
A Stonewall Grange festival report describes a day of ceremonies led by J D Clarke and W C Dodd with a poem by Miss Bell Crittenden. Speakers praised the Patrons of Husbandry, discussed debt, and proposed a Grange store plan in Cuthbert. The event closes with thanks from Stonewall Grange.
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J. D. Clarke
W. C. Dodd
Dawson Grange
4Th District
Thomas Crozier
Cuthbert
Bro
Clarke
Stonewall Grange
Stoneewall Grange
Eufaula origin tale linked by Macon Telegraph
The Macon Telegraph discusses how the name Eufaula arose, citing gazetteer references and old settlers. A Seminole chief Welansnee Wather loved Maydawn of the Creek, defied her father, and died from an arrow at their hidden meeting place near Cuthbert. Maydawn named the vine Cuthbut before nightfall. Professor Jevons weighs in on probability of card deals.
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Macon
Eufaula
Telegraph
Billy
Cuthbert
Welans Nee Wather
Maydawn
Weraunee
Welannee
Gentle Notions and Memories From a Georgia Correspondent
An Occasional Correspondence from int i con Ga July 84 1875 reflects on travels from Cuthbert to Lanier House Macon. The writer recalls school days, a lost romance with a Nashville Alabama congressman, poetic allusions to Burns and Webster, and ends with a somber mood about the journey north. Also notes a snake bite remedy using copperas and reports 30 000 watermelons moving through Smithville en route to Chicago.
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Con
Cuthbert
Alabama
Lanier House
Dib
Georgia
Lagrange
Carlile Beaman
Macon
Burns
Mary Campbell
Greenock
Daniel Webster
Christ
Smithville
Chicago
Fort Gaines Revered Town Life and a Peculiar Case
Fort Gaines is pictured as a charming town with strong churches and unity among Baptist Methodist and Presbyterian factions. The article notes a dedicated sexton, a thriving academy led by Jno W Dozier, and a Virginia born teacher Miss Maria Freeman. It highlights the town’s scenery, railroad, river bridge, live oaks, and prospects for settlement. A law case from England involves a Peculiar People father who treated his son by prayer and annointing, was convicted of manslaughter but spared after appeal, raising questions on medical care. Texas and Tennessee are expected to bake their own bread this year.
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Fort Gaines
House of God
Baptist
Methodist
Presbyterian
New Jerusalem
Maria Freeman
Virginia
Live Oaks
Court of Criminal Appeal
Ministers and Deacons Meeting Set for August 29
The second session of the Ministers and Deacons will convene at Dover church in Terrell county on Sunday August 29. Queries for discussion include church discipline authority, intra church litigation, Pauls contributions, death and angels, aiding church members with goods, temperance discipline, and the nature of the soul. Also noted is Grange No 350 inviting farmers to cultivate uncultivated lands in the North and West, plus news of a forthcoming Southern Methodist Church paper in Atlanta with R K Payne as publisher.
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Atlanta
Alston
Clarke
Mlinister
Dover Church
Terrell County
Paul
Judea
Man
C. B. Holmes
M’n. Columbus Tartar
Sec
Grange No. 350
Columbia County
Southern Methodist Church
W. P. Harrison
R. K. Payne
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Albany
Firth of Forth
Scotland
Bowman
Methodist Church
Ati
Peterr
Boehm
Philadelphia
Fort Valley Mirror
Elijah Smith
France
StonEwaLu Grance
W. Stanley Jevons
Mary
Elberton Gazette
Tennessee
Male High School
Santa Claus
A Mercantile Department
M. A
Randolph
Court House
Said
D. F. Sapp
Superior Court of
Stewart
W. F. Westmoreland
L. A. Smith
Raxports
Richard T. Dozier
J. J. Harden
Court of Ordinary
R. T. Dozier
Johanie J. Harden
Judon M. Gormley
Allison & Simpson's
Vnew Bar Room
H. J. Geeslings
College Street
Satterwhite Hotel
Janet
New Orleans Insurance Company
Baldwin & Warner
Attention Builders
Allison & Simpson’s
Metropolitan Tea CO
Young Hyson
Stegt
Imperial & Gunpowder
Metropolitan Tea Company
Vesey Street
McLean
T.8
Powell
Contr
Jeweler
Binniger
Old London Dock
Jamaica
California Muscatel
Malaga
St. Julian
T. S. Powell
Quarterman & Ackerley
Junell
ILVER
T.S. Powell
R and
St Stationer
Mason
Jery
India
Owwell Druggist
Bldek Aephalian
Jaud Nd Walger S Adip
Powell’s
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