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Georgia Siftings.
Dawson is having a jaundice epidemic.
Lands in Terrell county are selling as
high as S2O per acre.
Emory college opened with 300 stu
dents.
$5 Per barrel is the way Keifer pears
are selling at Thomasville.
The Dodge county fair begins October
15th.
The Sweetpotato crop in south Georgia
is the finest ever known. \
Lincoln county expects to get up a
stock show.
Alpharetta has an .elevation 90 feet
higher than Atlanta
The South Georgia rice planters ex
pect a large rbturn in the way of making
money from their prospective crop.
The stock law won by a majority of
nine in Hall county.
The three C’s railroad is now being
built to Augusta.
The railroad from Atlanta to Knox
ville is 224 miles and is finished.
The glass factory brought 103 families,
about 500 people to Augusta.
A squash weighing 125 pounds was
raised in Athens by Mr. Ed Lumpkin.
Adairsville wants water works, and
efforts are being made to secure ,a sys
tem. ■ *’’
,-. Worth county Agricultural Fair will
be held at Pouion on the 14th and xsth
of October.
Terrell county will vote on the ques
tion of a new eourt house on the Bth of
October.
The Hon. Wm. L, Scruggs, envoy ex
traordinary and minister plenipotentia
ry, of the United States, at Venezuela,
leaves soon for Caracas where he will be
located.
The McCoy Brick and Tile company
have organized at Augusta with a capital
stock of $40,0f0, with privilege of in
creasing to $150,000. The daily output
will be 60,000 brick, valued from $5 to
S3O per thousand.
Just one hundred years ago cotton
spinning was put in successful operation
in America by Samuel Slater, at Paw
tucket, B. I. Their cotton centenary will
be celebrated by processions and an in
dustrial exposition at that place.
Athens will have a free mail delivery.
Post-office inspector Darby, of Washing
ton, says the receipts for ths last fiscal
year were over SIO,OOO, and that Athens
is entitled to a free delivery. Inspector
Darby thinks the system will be in'oper
ation by January 1.
The I6th annual convention of the Na
tional Women’s Christian Temperance
Union will convene on the 14th of No.
vember and close the 19th. Every state
and territory in the United States will
be represented. There will be delegates
from Canada, England and other foreign
lands.
The returns from the 137 counties have
been received, and they show that the
net increase is nearly ten per cent in one
year. The total value of returned prop
erty last year was $345,938,837, not in
cluding railroads. The returned prop
erty of this year, not including railroads,
is $378,486, fl6B. The total increase is
$32,548,031.
The anual shipments of cotton manu
factures for the United States are $12,-
000,000 a year. Georgia has fifty-eight
mills, 424,085 spindles and 9,736 looms.
Georgia consumed last year 150,973 bales
of cotton, weighing 68,927,645 pounds.
South Carolina stands second, and
North Carolina third in cotton spining
in the South.
Atlanta is certainly a railroad town.
Her steel fingers are reaching in all di
rections. The contest is to pnt parallel
cars to the sea, as one of Russia’s fa
mous emperors, who drew the “air
line” from St. Petersberg to Moscow.
This prospective road would be 65 miles
shorter than any other route. It takes
you through DeKalb, Newton, Jasper,
Morgan, Putnam, Baldwin and on to the
Savannah river.
From the evening of the 23d to the
evening of the 24th the Jewish people
all over the world celebrated the fast of
Tom Kipp'ur, or day of atonement. All
Hebrews, at or over thirteen, are required
to fast; no food, either solid or liquid—
not even water—must be allowed to enter
the throat. Exceptions are made to this
rigid rule in favor of those suffering from
a revere illness. They pray for forgive
ness for sins committed during the past
year. The acenes in a synagogue of an
orthodox congregation are very impress
ive—the members are clad in their burial
robes from cap to slippers, all of pure
white line*.
Augusta has forty-eight cars for her
twenty-six miles of electric railway.
Oglethorpe wants telegraphic connec
tion with Montezuma.
The new steam laundry at Milledge
ville is completed.
Gordon county is to have her colt show
on Thursday, October 9th.
Hon. Patrick Walsh has guided the
Augusta Chronicle for 28 years.
A railroad from Ellerton to Washing
ton is being talked of.
The Gaiuesville cotton factory will be
running by the first of October.
Gordon county will have her colt show
Obtober 9th.
Sea-island cotton has been greatly
damaged by nut.
Warren county will hold her fair Oc
tober 22,23 and 24.
Major James P. Walker is nominated
for the 12th senatorial district.
Dr. J. E. H. Ware is the nominee for
the legislature in Fayette county.
The Calhoun fair opens November 12th
and holds through the 14th.
Henry county expects to have a colt
show.
The number of people employed by
the railroads in this country is 704,743.
We are glad to note that Lourens
county has produced corn enough to
meet the needs of her people.
More than 100,000 tons of rails have
been received in Macon for the Macon &
Dublin railroad.
Major J. C. Key of Monticello is re
ceiver of the Covington and Macon railj
road- The road is to be sold. .~v
Atlanta’s oldest citizen, Mr. Thomas
G. Crusselle, died last week, of paralysis.
He built the first house in Atlanta.'
$380,000 is the capital stock of the
Flint River Land and Live Stock Com
pany.
The Russian bark, Vesta, reached Alli
conte, Spain, with a cargo of lumber from
Brims wick.
Terrell county on the Bth of October
will say whether she is to have a new
court house or not.
Hon. E. B. Smith of Jasper county is
the nominee for senator from the 28th
senatorial district.
The National Woman’s Temperance
Union meets in Atlanta, November 14th.
Mrs. W. C. Sibley is President of the Ga.
W. C. T. U.
Mr. Phil. W. Davis of Elbert county
will make the race for State Senator in
the 30th district against the regular nom
inee, Mr. C. M. Nitcher.
The lower part of Pulaski was visited
by a cyclone and terrific hail storm last
week. Much of the cotton was ruined
by the hail.
Rev. Leonidas C. Torkelson, a minister
from Africa, expects to leave Savannah
with 2000 negroes in November. He will
take the colony to Africa.
The Manly Manufacturing Company,
of Dalton, has closed a contract to fur
nish 200,000 feet of Georgia pine to con
struct side-walks in Chicago. t
Mrs. Hancock of Crawford county owns
a pear tree that two feet from the ground
measures five feet and nine inches around.
The tree is over fifty years old and still
bears delicious fruit.
The canning factory at Eatonton has
suspended operations for the season.
Three thousand cans of fruit and vege
table were sold. This is doing well as
there was so little fruit this season.
One of the interesting features of the
state fair will be the Sugar Beet factorv.
Mr. M. A. Lunn, of Grand Island Neb.,
will 'show the beet industry in all its
workings.
More than 600,000 pieces of mail mat
ter are sent to the dead-letter office every
yfear on account of incorrect, illegible or
deficient address and insufficient postage.
2,000 pieces is the daily average.
Four hundred dollars worth of glass
was destroyed at the glass works, in At
lanta last week. Some malicious boys
threw sand into the furnace when the
glass was being melted.
The Oconee Spring of Putnam county
possesses very great medicinal powers.
The building of the Middle Georgia and
Atlantic road will make the spring easily
accessible, and there is no reason why
the spring should net beeemo a health
MMNHrtI
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE GEORGIA STATE ALLIANCE.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30, ±B9O.
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Dame Agbichltube.—You politicians have been flattering me until lam tired. Now I will teach you that lam not to
be fooled any longer.
Politiclak.—Oh! Oh! Please let me off this time and I will pass any law you want.
Dame AoßicrrLiUKE..—“Law!” “Bosh!” I have had enough of being set up on a pedestal and called “Liberty,” and of
laws for “protection” that protect other folks. No, I have had enough of your tribe. 1 will shift for myself for awhile.
THE CARD
In Which Dr. Macune Replies to the
Governor.
Editob Constitution Governor Gor
don has recently, in several of his
speeches, as published by the Constitu
tiQn and other papers, spoken of me in a
manner calculated to bring me into con
tempt with the people of Georgia, fol
lowing which several papers of the state
have seen fit to publish bitter, false and
scandalous articles about me for the evi
dent purpose of exposing me to the ridi
cule and contempt of the people. Every
Srivate citizen in this country, however
umble, has some rights that should be
respected, and not the least of these is
his good name. I have never in my life
held any political position, n|ver been a
candidate for any office or a candidate
for the nomination to any office, and
never intend to be, and therefore I real
ize that the public is not interested in
me personally, and I would not intrude
upon you with this communication but
for the fact that your good governor has
so ridiculed me before the Alliance peo
ple of your state as to be—if not refuted
—a disgrace to that order, on account of
the responsible position I occupy in its
ranks.
His denunciation—probably in the heat
of passion— has been bitter and extreme,
and it continues to re-echo and reverber
ate from one end of Georgia to the other.
I shall not, in reply, protest my own in
nocence, neither shall I disclaim being
“piebald” or “zebra-headed,” as he al
leged. I surely cannot, by a just public,
be held responsible for my. physical de
fects, if I have any, or any ungainly ap
pearance.
My politics were correctly stated in a
recent issue of The Southern Alliance
Fabmeii. I went to Texas when a boy,
have lived there to the present, and never
failed to vote the democratic ticket but
once, and that was in 1872, when I, like
many other good and sound democrats,
including that great Georgia stateman,
Alexander Stephens, refused to support
Horace Greely.
Fortunately I have the very best evi
dence that could possibly be adduced to
meet the heated ridicule and denuncia
tion of Governor Gordon, and that is the
cool, calm and deliberate letters of Gov
ernor Gordon himself, written before he
became agitated by the vexations' that
attend political strife, and after my posi
tion, record and Conger lard bill history
had been published all over Georgia.
On the 21st of July last I was stopping
at the Kimball house. The clerk told
me Governor Gordon had called twice to
see me, and hauded me a letter as fol
lows:
Slate of Geobgia, Executive De-
PABTMBNT, ATLANTA, GA.—Hon. C. W.
Macune. My dear sir: I would be glad
of a few moments’ conversation with you
before you leave the city. Very truly,
J. B. Gojmoon.
I immediately went to the oapitol,
met the Governor in his office, ana for
over an hour listened to his description t
of a corporation he was forming for the
purpose of operating the Evans process i
of extracting seed oil by methods $3 p*r 1
ton cheaper than the old methods. I (
was deeply interested in any method for
increasing the gains to the cotton plan- ■
ter, and told Governor Gordon that I ,
was on my way to Little Rock, Ark., to (
meet the State Alliance of that state, ,
and if he would formulute the whole j
matter in writing I would present it to
them on its merits. This he agreed to
dot On the 24th of July I received, in
Little Rock, a letter from Governor
Gordon containing the typewritten pioi- ;
pectue of the proposed corporation, its
organization, its objects, methods and
benefits. This document I file, as I do
the original letters, with you, for the
inspection of any who desire to do so,
ana will simply quote the leading fea
tures of the prospectus as an appendix
to ray card.
Tho following letter accompanied the
prospectus in the same envelope:
State of Geobgia, Executive De
pabtment, Atlanta. Ga., July 21,1890.
—Dr. C. W. Macune, Little Rock, Ark
Dear Doctor: The enclosed is hastily
written but will explain sufficiently, I
trust, the plans of our movement. Please
read it over carefully and hold counsel
over it with the brotherhood. You will
observe that the names of the direptors
for several states are left blank. Advise
me how best to fill them. Each director
will be given (italics his) $5,000 possibly
SIO,OOO of stock; but let this be confiden
tial for the present. Yours truly,
J. B. Gobdon.
Now I submit that Governor Gordon
when cool and collected approached me,
when I knew him to be governor of the
great state of Georgia, hunted me up
and addressed me on the “executive de
partment” paper, knowing my political
history and position on the Conger lard
bill, and tendered me the responsible
and honorable positi in of being associ
ated with him on a board of directors of
a $7,500,000 corporation, where I should
participate in the management and con
trol of that/amount of the people’s
money and, more than that, asks me to
suggest others to be appointed as direct
ors, each of whom is to be “given $5,000
in stock and possibly $10,000.”
Immediately after the adjournment of
the State Alliance of Arkansas, I came to
Atlanta, called upon the governor and re
quested him to take my name off the list
of directors, and notified him that I could
not serve in that capacity. I had sug
gested one or two other names, that I be
lieve were appointed.
Now, I submit that there is no viola
tion of the confidence that should attach
to a personal correspondence by the pub
lication of these letters for three reasons.
1. The enterprise, if fair and legiti
mate, is not injured thereby.
2. Our relations have been changed by
the governor himself, and
3. They were necessary as the best ev
idence to correct the bad impressions
made by the governor's speeches.
Again, I submit that I had a right to 1
decline the appointment as a director 1
without giving any reasons, and that my 1
so doing was no reflection upon the eh- 1
terprise, and should not have aroused the
displeasure of the governor.
In conclusion, I simply desire to leave
a fair and impartial public to take their j
choice between the heated attacks of s
Governor Gordon and his expressions of t
esteem and confidence in me as shown by i
his acts and letters. f
C. W. Macune. 1
The Prospectus.
Following are quotations from the 1
prospectus above referred to:
STATEMENT .
OF THE. (
FARMERS’ CO-GPEATIVE COTTON, >
AND PAPER STOCK CO.
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Sole Owners of the Right to Treat Cot- j
ton Seed by the Celebrate Evans
Process, Both in this Coun
try and Europe.
John B. Gordon, Presidents, Ga.
L. L. Polk, First Vice-President, Wash- (
ton. D. C.
W. T. Forbes, Second Vice-President,
Atlanta, Ga.
F. Stukby, Superintendent of Construc
tion, Louisans.
Board of Directors —L. L. Polk, W. J.
Northen, J. B. Gordon, John W. Evans,
W. T. Forbes, J. R. Maxwell, C. W. Ma
cune, E. Strueby, and an Allianceman
from each of the states of Texas, Louisi
ana, Arkansas, South Carolina, Ala
bama, Tennessee and Mississippi.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE, ATLANTA, GA.
BRANCH OFFICES TO BE HERE
AFTER ESTABLISHED.
Total amount of common
stock $5,000,000
Total amount of preferred
stock $2,500,000
“This company is organized with pe
culiar features, methods and objects,and
it challenges successful denial of the re
markable facts contained in this brief
prospectus.
“It asserts without reservation the su
periority of its methods, and of the mills
it proposes to build, over any other cot
ton-seed oil mills or methods in existence
and it invites the closest scrutiny of the
proofs submitted.”
Following this is the description of the
wonderful methods of the system on
which the work of this company is founded
and a general dissertation on the value of
its results. Then follows the financial
plan, to wit:
It would be safe, therefore, to say that
we could even work over the meal from
the other mills and extratct from each
. ton of it an average of 12 per cent, or
thirty-two gallons. Add the increased
value per ton and of the oil, and the sav
’ ing in refining and labor, and it to safe to
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have a clear, fixed and certain profit of at
least $3 per ton more on every ton of
crude or rough cotton seed treated. In
other words, if the 850,000 tons worked
by the present mills had been treated by
our percolating process, they would have
made over $2,000,000 more per annum
than they did make.
In the erection of mills it requires
about SI,OOO for each ton of seed intend
ed to be treated daily. That is to say, if
it is intended to erect a mill to treat 100
tons of rough or undecorticated seed
daily, it would require for plant and
working capital about SIOO,OOO, or say
$1,000,000 to treat 1,000 tons of rough or
undecorticated seed daily.
Now let us suppose that this company
raises but $1,000,000 cash, and treats 1,-
000 tons of seed per day, and let us sup
pose further, that the mills now in oper
ation clear but $1 per ton. This Farm
ers’ Co-operative Company by our pro
cess would clear $3 more, that is. $4 per
ton. or $4,000 per day, or in 200 days
SBOO,OOO.
The interest—6 per cent—on the pre
ferred stock of $2,500,000, leaving for
dividends on the $5,000,000 common
stock the sum of $650,000, or over 12 per
cent.
But the aggregate profits would, of
course, be proportionately increased as
larger sums were raised and additional
mills erected.
To this must be added the profits from
manipulating the meal and manufacture
of fertilizers, and especially the profits
to be made bv the conversion of the cot
ton seed hulls into paper stock of ths
finest quality, and of great value. The
profits from this source, it is believed,
will approximate those realized from the
oil mills. With the vast advantages of
this percolating patented process and its
devices, with the use of our higher
grade of meal for the manufacture of
fertilizers, with the combined power of
southern farmers behind it and controll
ing it, there is scarcely a limit to the
success which this enterprise may attain.
In the estimation of Mr, Streuby, one
of the ablest of oil experts and practical
qil mill builders, it must revolutionize
the business in the southern
THE FINANCIAL PBOPOSHTOX
The 6 per cent preferred stock is to be
sold at par, payable in installmeuts; b*t
with each share of preferred stock, two
shares of the common stock, fully paid
and non-assesable,will be given as bonus.
Thus each subscriber will receive three
shares of stock for each one purchased,
and as seen above,the common stock will
probably be worth far more than the pre
ferred.
SUBSCRIPTION LIST.
We, the undersigned, agree to take and
pay for the number of shares of SIOO each
set opposite our names respectfully of
the 6 per cent preferred stock of the Far
mers’ Co-operative Cotton Oil and Paper
Stock Company, upon the following
terms, to-wit:
1. The price of preferred stock to be at
par.
2. The payments to be 25 per cent cash,
ballance in installments of —per cent each,
as called for by the board of directors or
executive committe, on thirty days’
notice.
3. the deferred payments may be made
in cash or cotton at the market price, or
in cotton seed, delivered at the market
price at points to be designated by the
board or executive committee.
4. All checks for payment of stock
must be made payable to the order of the
order of the Farmers’ Co-operation Cot
ton Oil and Paper Stock Company and re-
Bejpts are to be given by the company for
mfch payments until the last installment
is paid.
5. As each share of preferred stock is
paid for, the subscriber is to receive a
certificate therefor,and in addition there
to certificates for two shares, or double
the amount of common stock.
Our Alliance is moving onward and
upward. We are true to the order. We
asked the mayor and council of Toccoa
to create the office of public weigher,and
they did so, and appointed a brother Al
lianceman to weigh cotton.
At a regular meeting of Liberty Hill
Alliance, No. 1656, the following resolu
tion was adopted, with the request that
the same be pulished in our state organ:
Resolved, That all the members of this
Alliance have the public weigher, who is
an Allianceman, to weigh their cotton.
Yours fraternally,
E. H. Davis, Sec’y.
Things have come to a pretty pass in
Georgia when a man’s democracy is
measured by his servile cringing to ene
man. It is openly threatened in many
counties and senatorial districts that the
nominees must pledge themselves to
support Gordon for the senate, else they
will have opposition from the “straight
out” bosses. If hero worship, blind,
servile cringing to any one man must be
the measure of democracy, then democ
racy is a sham, worse than the republi
canism that cringes before Reid, the
bully. If to be a democrat in Georgia
one must bow the knee and doff the hat
; to John B. Gordon, then we thank God
i that we are not a democrat.—Liberal
i Enterprise.
i Captain J. L. Hardeman will bring the
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