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eorgia Enterprise.
xxvi.
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and every day adds to
psit Atlanta be sure to
, Restaurant,
„ Donehoo's will
pstreet, where you
|iB g in perfect order, a
.y. prompt and polite
jtk prices very moderate.
t» the Exposition be
so ' tell
ijj, \fr Donehoo,
from Newton county,
j ;„ r it, he will treat you
rtH'»ren, temperance
journalist, died
(f*iay last week. He
j ^rd awl earnestly for
I’jfiperance, had impair
u,|yrn his health, and
Ufk iif malaria it killed
jgitarm hearted, He genial
Ijentleman. was a
[fcwry college. Peace
,1 rest to his soul.
If.mmunicatimis appear
[ .; ire do not endorse.
L time ire deem it un
L; iat • a heated contro
L-jj Lid contributor who
believe just as we
Lk re take a stand on
question and
■fix by our opinions
we grant to oth
istcuity of purpose that
|r uurself.
ItHffljf feature at the
ec it' the trotting race
far blooded horses, to-wifc
lit* Wilkes, Enoch Ar¬
il Riles, and was wit
Itkje number of people.
!«, The purse was 8150,
pnU.3". Enoch Arden
ping kf on a wooden floor
bad but little training
Ik road, yet he came
pie race.
aCounty Farmers Alli
iW quarterly meeting
mFriday last. After
flit Order was dispos
iaoiutions were offered,
li'pted. Among those
it interest were two
•requesting the mem
care from this
P»rfrom this district
Nv man for United
puisn»t etiilorse the sub-
8 5r *bo is opposed to
bv the Alliance.
•a redutiim endorsing
•® '‘ M - L. L. .Middle
pi*of the Flint circuit,
*smembers of the legis
*? r him t, r that office,
Hon. H. L. Graves,
.....- uu mm
ut the \\ eighing
’ll Moment and caused
1 mi bv many
^ c ' ,uutl ’T
™j. Graves
p"mted. If there
unfair linn
®" U( ‘ could bo
very J
t lor believe
PMoni,, \ Hilling „.•!,• blit , are
weights ■ i. •
„• in
fchto., 1 lcni . to weigh,
> ' ,
f ■ '■“‘•iTstand
r? t!li >‘ they did
| some
i®tt-' ’ ‘ lS it ai " 11 * attack ai ’J
l9Slle explains itself,
MY COUNTRY: MAT SHE L VhR BE
111 GUT; RIOHT OR WROSO, MY CO VST BY f *»
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SO«EWHAT^ERS07*^
^ rs - H. B. Anderson has been very
»><* with f ever for some time past,
Col. Capers Dickson is attending
Hancock superior o
court.
Dr W. E. Rivers, who Has been
sick for some time is slowly improving.
Mr. Charlie Everitt has bought the
Irby residence on Washington St.
Mrs. James T. Cook has been con¬
fined to a bed of sickness for a week
or two past.
Rev. J. M. Owens, of Acworth,
speut a day recently with his many
friends here.
The Baptist church at Madison has
called Rev. J. F. Edens, of Atlanta,
to preach for them.
Let us all assist Col. Middlebrook
and help secure the Judgeship for
him. He will make a safe officer.
Mr. John R. Thompson, of Rocky
Plains, has been suffering with rheu¬
matism for a week or more past,
Messrs, W. C. Thompson and J.
W. Wright spent Sunday with friends
and -‘dear ones” at Snapping Shoals.
Mr. C. N. Floyd was united in
marriage to Miss Annie C. Cook on
Thursday last, October 9th. Both of
Newton county.
Judge and Mrs. R. P. Lester, of
Cummiug, Ga., have been on a visit
to Covington as guests of their son,
Col. J. G. Lester, and his family.
Mr. \\ m. H. Bone, of Macon, was
married to Mrs. Mollie Woods, of
Newton county, on Oct. 8th. The
bride is a daughter of lion. Augustus
J. \\ ebb. of Rocky Plains.
Col. Livingston made several im¬
pressive speeches in North Carolina
last week, and is spending this week
in the State of Kansas, making
speeches to the farmers and the people.
Mrs. Brown and Miss Lula have
returned from a delightful trip North.
Mrs. Dr. Dawson accompanied them
home. They have enjoyed the com¬
panionship of kindred hearts, welcome
home, kind friends.
We learn that Mr A. H. S. Davis
contemplates opening a gen -al mer
chantile business in Jackson early
next year. We dislike to have our
friend leave us, but trust he may be
happy, healthy and prosperous wher¬
ever he may go.
Mr. Hamilton Dearing, of Athens,
a popular and brilliant young gentle
j nian > departed this life one day last
j week. He was a nephew of Dr. J.
J- faring, of Covington, and had
been on a visit here a short while be
fore he died.
Mr. C. E. Cook, one of our large
and popular merchants, has added a
furniture department to his business
and will occupy the second floor of
his commodious store house for this
especial line. He will have general
merchandise on the first floor and
heavy groceries in the mammoth base
ment. Success to our friend in all
his life work.
One of the most perfect oil paint¬
! ing to be seen in art gallery al the
Atlanta Exposition is the exhibit by
Mrs. J. T. Corley, Jr., of Covington.
It is a picture of a Georgia beauty,
Miss Lena Stanton, of Warrenton,
j and must lie seen to be appreciated.
T It . work , of „ merit . that , charms the ,
i is a
■
and , high compliment by
eye receives
all ,, lovers , of „ art. \\ hile Mrs. .. Corley ,
has painted . many beautiful , pictures, 1
•
1 this last effort „ appears to be more nat
ural In appearance and as perfect in
1 finish as any we have seen. It is a
; charmin ,g picture of a beautiful young
: l ;u ‘y—and like the original am 1 the
j i cultured artist—worth its full weight
in solid gold.
h ^~^ he - items J
as they transpire erom one
1
week to another.
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Tw 1 he Midway wm sick all improving. I
are
! Exhibits for the State Fair must be i
i in place by 6 p. m. Oct. 21st. |
Mr. I. W. Brown is selling some
very fine mules and horses in this
market.
The next legislature will coutain
16eJ Alliancemen out of the 219 mera
bers in the house and senate.
The voters of the county should get
ready to vote for bonds when another
election on that question is ordered.
It is a hard thing to treat nasel ca
tarrh in children ; but Old Saul’s Ca
tarrh Cure is easy to use, safe and
efficacious. Sold everywhere for 25 cts.
A party of Gopsys spent several
days in this section recently. They
bought four very nice horses from a
Covington man, paying a little over
€500,00 in cash for them.
What’s better for a wound than
Salvation Oil ? Echo now answers:
<( What.” We answer: Nothing.”
. i So say we all of us, so say we all P
Only 25 cts.
It would keep half dozen newspa¬
pers busy denying the falsehoods and
refuting the standers that have been
told and circulated against Hon. L.
F. Livingston since he became one of
the aggressive leaders of the Farmers
Alliance movement. However, time
will set all things right.
IT. S. Commissioner Wm. Haight,
of Atlanta, has consented to make
the race forCongress from this district
on Uio Republican ticket. Of con rse
our nominee, Col. Livingston, will
be elected, as Haight’s candidacy will
amount to but very little, as he stands
no chance whatever of getting to
Congress.
THE DEBT QUESTION.
The question of settling the debt
of Newton county must be met at a
very early day, for an effort will be
made to secure a legislative bill to in
crease the tax rate four-tenths of one
per cent, to run for six years, for the
specific purpose of paying the indebt
edness of the county. For several
years the people have been [laying a
special tax of 100 per cent, on the
state tax to pay the debt and more
that §40.000 has been collected under ;
the present law, and yet the debt of :
the county has increased more than
81.000 per annum since the enact
ment of the existing special law. It
is useless to discuss this question at
length just now, for the present plan
has proven an extravagant failure,
and the people are unwilling to expe¬
riment with another specific tax law
fashioned after the one in existence, I
and even if the people were willing j
to pay the debt by extra taxation it j
would not be the part of wisdom to
do so in six years, when the same can
be bonded for thirty years at not over
six per cent, interest—perhaps less.
The lax payers have all they can well
stand up under now and it would be '
a hardship on many to force more tax j
money from them, when the debt can
be paid by a better plan and on much
longer time, But something must be I
done and if the debt is not bonded j
then provision ...... will be made , to pav ,
I $4t ‘ .000 by .-a
the extra taxation ,[
| years. The Enterprise „ . is . opposed
six
| 1 to increasing the , tax rate , and , m • favor i
i of bonding the debt, rr., lhe Commis n • I
j will give the people another ,
i sioners
chance to vote on the bond question
before long, and if the plan is | :
; very
I not adopted by a two-thirds vote, the j
extra tax measure must be accepted.
j What will you do about it?
REPLY TO MR. GRAVES.
Mr. Editor I notice a letter in
your paper from Mr H. L. Graves
‘‘ A ‘*»Ut Weighing Cotton,” which I
think wag “‘together out of place.
Not claiming to be very wise, but
knowin ^ 8<,me thin P. I wish to say
t T questions, * MWer that 10 lst there > 2nd > 3rd scales «<»
are no
for 1 lb notches for depots and ware
houses that would make a perceptible
brake in 1 lb. notches.
I hope it is not working so hard in
my friend’s head now, and sorry it
ever has, don’t believe there are many
in the schools he speaks of simple
enough to ask some of the questions
Mr. Graves has propounded.
Anv man with common sense can
have the beam balanced before his
cotton is weighed. I think my friend
should not be so troubled about Cov¬
ington cotton weighers and buyers,
unless he had been carrying his cotton
and selling it in Covington and get¬
ting Covington weighers to weigh it
for him. Why don’t he patronize
his county town ?
6th. I believe thy Brother Alii
auceman, Mr. Sam. Sullivan, the
“Gold” weigher, does the best he can
with his experience in the business—
he is a clever, nice gentleman. Why
don t Mr. Grave's insist that the cot¬
ton buyers put cotton samples back
in the bale and gew up the hole in
the bagging ?
7tlf Cotton weighers are sworn to
weigh cotton correctly, showing no
partiality to any one. Covington
weighers get no gain or loss in cotion,
their sallaries are the same whether
cotton loses or gains. Dont know
what kind of a scheme my friend
would get up if he weighed cotton.
8th. \\ here did Air. Graves get
information about people all along the
line and at the other end getting the
gain in weight! if there should be
any gain they do not. get it, but Cov
iugton cotton buyers get it. I dare
sa f there is not a cotton buyer in
Covington who would not be more
than willing to have Augusta cotton
factors, to whom they ship, to guar
antee his cotton to hold out in weight,
9th. Our friend knocks gentlemen
down and then helps them up giving
them sugar. This is too thin—it is
like thin air. The people who are
correctly informed about buying and
weighing and shipping cotton, don’t
see the flagrant wrong my friend
speaks of, they can’t see it and they
never will see it.
We think our friend is very wrong
in stirring up such a strife, prejudice
aud confusion in the good old county
of Newton, unless he saw something
wrong—“the flagrant,” as he calls it,
that needed correcting. We defy any
man to prove that such a thing as his
flagrant wrong is on the people, or
has been, and if there should be
Mr. Graves in not the man to cor
it. Citizen.
Mr. Editor. —Looking over my
in your paper in re¬
to weighing cotton 1 notice an
which may cause some mis¬
I take the first oppor
to correct, In affirming my
confidence in the integrity and
of our merchants and cotton
I should have included our
weighers. . , . Nothing , . is . further; . .
my desire , • than ,, to assert, , or im- . ,
. dishonest .. • dealing , .. ou the . part of •!
1 !
of these gentlemen. ,, My protest i
against tnc manner of weighing, i
has prevailed ever since 1 have .. i i
familiar wth business. j
Respectfully, II. L. Graves. i
The Alliance I
warehouse is being j
quite liberally.
TOWN AND COUNTY.
everything and everybody.
*°““ a y ‘*‘ at and you may bruise,
T **** if *?«* wi “.
r„, tlftheufstili^’
Will cling
Xhe new cemetery has been put in
very good order.
Covmgton has been paying Augu>
ta pr ces tor cotton for the past sever
al days.
A poor unfortunate in Milwaukee
is said to have sneezed himself to death.
Alas? poor creature, living in the
light of the nineteenth century and
never heard of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syr¬
up. Well, this is more thau Egyptian
darkness 1
In writing to Col. C. E. Smith, of
Washington, Colonel Machen says:
‘The Georgia Midland would be sure
to build from McDonough to New¬
born. ’ This of course is conditioned
upon the Middle Georgia and Atla n
tic being completed from Atlanta via
Covington to Savannah.
Easily answered.—If a strong man,
who has frequently suffered pain,
grows impatient and rebelious, how
much more impatient should be the
baby who does not know what suffer,
ing means. For the pains of colic,
teething, etc.. Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup
is the sovereign remedy. Price 25 ct;.
Covington real estate continues to
increase in value and so do lands ail
over Newton county. Business is
brisk and lively and the people hope¬
ful and cheerful. We boast of no
“boom” but claim to be on the road
whiefi leads to easy if not prosperous
times. Worthy men with cash ami
energy are invited to pay us a visit
and see for themselves how well every
thing and everybody is getting along
in this immediate section.
Many of our citizeus are getting
tired of the proiniscious shooting at
night in and around this city, Thev
are also becoming indignant at the
Saturday night carousals which have
been kept up for some time past at
and about the dens located on some of
our public streets, If the authorities
can’t stop this the people may take
the matter in their own hands.
Next Sunday. Oct. 19th, will be a
grand day at Grace M. E. Church, in
Covington, Ga. Meeting will be held
for the first time in the new church.
Rev. W. P. Thirkield, D. D. Presi¬
dent of Gammon Theological Semina
ry, Atlanta Ga. will preach at 11
o’clock, A. M. and P. M. Rev
Mr. LaPrade, will preach at 3 o’clock,
P. M. All of our friends are invited
to hear these intelligent and able
ministers. R. T. Adams, Pastor.
The Piedmont Exposition is now in
full blast ill Atlanta aud the attrm
tious there are niany. The agrieul
tural display is the finest and lamp
ever seen in Georgia, The races iviii
be an attractive feature while the
weddings on the 29th aud 30th will
draw well, as eeverai couples dressed
cotton bagging will be married L in
front of the grand stand, Balloon
races, Wild West Show and 111110 V
other attractions will be given unih.
An important decision was render
ed by the Supreme Court the otiu ir
day. Justice Simmons decided that
a local st °ck o law , unconstitutional
is
„ n ,i tneretore , nud. „ This decision
imv n,a > Ihvp have n a tond t»n I eiicy to revolutioniz
■
thing; • - iii some country districts. Tl,
!u " cases on which the decision Was
based came from Dm uglier! ' y to.,| M
-
con counties, i he dec non v,
effect Newti >n cmmt,- as our
ia 'v, in ewry UigtWet, was m fee
!)y ballot j
u..der toe provisions • i
state law.
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