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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1871
Page
3
The column reports occasional frost in parts of the county and predicts crop retardation for cotton. It notes ripe plums and dewberries, upcoming blackberry season, and busy farm life. Obituaries mark the death of Miss Julia Smith and Mr. W. E. Hickey with community mourning and closures.
Col John T Brown visits the engineer camp 12 miles southeast where crews locate the new road. Brown Smith and Buchanan win contract for grading and cross-ties for 350 miles with rapid progress expected this year. The engineer corps will begin grading near town next week as eight miles near Cotton Hill near readiness for cross ties and iron.
A letter seeks reader response to why society mourns the rich more visibly than the poor. The writer laments clergy and townsfolk who feign concern only after a humble person dies and questions the justice behind public ritual and graveyard display.
The Democratic State Convention met in Frankford with broad attendance. Nominated were P. H. Lesslie for Governor J. G. Carlisle for Lieutenant Governor D. H. Smith for Auditor J. W. Tate for Treasurer I. A. M. Henderson for Superintendent Public Instruction F. A. Dawson for Register of the Land Office and John Rodman for Attorney General. The platform endorses amnesty and tax reform, opposes centralized power, condemns unconstitutional actions, supports state sovereignty, and pledges to defend life liberty and property under Kentucky law.
Governor Rufus Bullock proclaims a one thousand dollar reward for the capture of Jack Horton, a Black man accused of assault with intent to commit rape against Prudence Elizabeth Heron in Bibb County, issued April 15 in Atlanta. Horton has fled justice and is to be delivered to the Bibb County Sheriff for trial.
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