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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1873
Page
2
By JAS. P. SAWTELL and J. C. IRVINE, associate and general traveling agents, the notice presents details of their agency arrangement and representative duties with emphasis on travel services and client coordination.
A compilation of scattered notes from Georgia towns: Bishop Pierce in Atlanta raised 8000 dollars in a single sermon. 14 hundred Methodists in Columbus. Milledgeville backs A H Hansell for governor. Savannah sells fifteen cent drinks dubbed Bug Juice. Cumberland county hen lays revenue-stamped eggs. Belcher in Macon takes post office charge. Cholera death tolls in Nashville and Memphis exceed. Franklin News jokes about fleas rivaling thieves in Congress. Back pay to U S Treasury tops 192,021.34 dollars. China ports ready 29,000 Chinese for California. Feagan of Houston reports 107 bushels wheat from five acres. Illinois farmer notes corn cost 29 cents per bushel. Dallas county Texas sees ten deaths in a week. a lone baby survives. New Jersey servants hired by month. beaux fetch eight dollars, without beaux twelve dollars. Nashville residents deny Asiatic cholera. Griffin News notes Kimball owes Clews one million and a Griffin resident 40,000. Lee surrender house owner gains government appointment. Boston plans no Fourth fireworks. Captain Jack captured. Photographs taken of Captain Jack’s band. Davis sends hunt for Parsons. J G Sears killed by train in Griffin. family of four left behind. Two children perish in Thomson from kerosene oil explosion. Gould Barton & Co. fail. Barton flees with funds. Henderson in DeKalb County shot by brother while scaring tenant. Hanserd house in Columbus struck by lightning. saved by firemen. J B Buchanan in Orange County Fla sends two 60+ pound watermelons to Governor Smith.
The Savannah News recalls Ex Governor Charles J. Jenkins and the presentation of a golden seal to him for preserving the Executive Department’s seal amid Reconstruction. It notes his refusal to issue funds without an appropriation and cites accompanying criticism of Gov. Smith over a death sentence in Atlanta, while discussing railroad leadership and regional crop conditions amid cholera outbreaks in Nashville and Memphis.
In a Macon dinner honoring Hon. Herschel V Johnson, toasts praised Georgia’s branches of government while Governor Johnson refrained from a formal speech. A Meriwether County vindicator reprints a state letter by James M. Suiru explaining Supreme Court debt decisions will not empower creditors or state leaders.
The Chronicle and Sentinel warns planters against risky cotton futures trades urging focus on legitimate plantation work. In Alabama's Limestone County a few days ago John Conley shot and killed his stepmother Elizabeth Conley in the presence of his elderly father, a brutal family tragedy.
Gustavus J. Orr announces a two day gathering of County School Commissioners in Atlanta on June 25 and 26 to promote public school interest, uniform operations, and fuller state-wide information. Attendees will travel free on major rail lines and be treated as official duty with per diem.
A rustic poem about a cheerful warbler in a tree contrasts with longing and sorrow, as the speaker envies the bird's carefree flight and laments personal grief. The prose section reports social events, a kerosene accident in Savannah, a banquet remark by Kendrick, and notes on Stone Mountain and mountain height and weight estimates.
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