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VOL. XXX.
< i MUST LIVE OR DIE.
Editor Enterprise:— Everybody
is talking about decreasing the cotton
acreage. It is as common as patent
medicine advertisements in newspa
pers. Surely there will be •something
done, but not before it is needed.
Every thinking man knows that
five cent cotton will ruin the country
at its present cost of production I am
as big a fool as any mortal ought to
be, aud I know it. Everything must
live and die and surely the time has
past when a man can make cotton to
buy his supplies. If corn were to go
as low as twenty-five cents per bushel
he had better raise it thau to buy it
with five cent cotton. By all means
let everybody do all in their power to
reduce the acreage in cotton this year.
If the plans adopted by the Jackson,
Miss., convention are carried out it
will prove a blessing to this country
It looks like common sense should
teach us better than to follow any¬
thing to excess, that is bringing mis¬
ery aud distress widespread over the
land. The people to-day cannot real¬
ize the consequence of five cent cot
ton, empty cribs aud smokehouses.
As time passes on many people in
humble circumstances will almost fed
the very pangs of hunger as the result.
We are going to learn something
after awhile If the farmers will re
duce the acreage in cotton 25 per cent,
give “hog and homniy” more atten
tion and dispense with guano this
country will be bound to come up
again. Many men look upon guano
with as much importance as they do
the meat and bread their wives and
children eat. Last spring you could
not have made one farmer in ten be
lieve he would have sold the bulk of
his cotton for five cents, any more than
you could make him believe now that
he will sell his next crop at thiee
cents, yet this is in the bounds of
possibility, How can you pay for a
ton of guano at even ten dollars per
ton at it? Keep on the safe side, for
this is a risk. If you don’t make as
much without guano, one thing cer¬
tain you will not have it to pay for,
and again it will cut down some of
those million bales if this decrease in
acreage fails to work. This alone will
be a great thing in the cotton growers
favor. There has never been a time
since guano was introduced that we
could turn it loose as easy as now.
Count the cost of guano and the time
and labor of hauling and putting it
in the ground, and take a sound sober
thought and see how much it lias
ever paid you.
Take a fools advice, and let it alone,
this ye: ir anyhow. Sam Snip.
We hardly feel authorized to in¬
struct our farmers how to run their
business so as to make a big profit Oil
what they plant, If we knew how
to make money on a farm we would
discontinue printing and go at it.
However, we are inclined to the opin
ion that the man who raises his food
supplies upon his own land is on the
road to independence and possibly to
prosperity Cotton being the money
crop of the South, our farmers are
compelled to plant from a third to
half of their 1 and in cotton.
Mr. James P. Simms came up from
Albany Saturday and is spending this
week with friends and dear ones here,
He is looking exceedingly well.
Mr. C. L. N ixou was recently
ried to Miss Mattie Moore. Rev r, G
W. Ed wards officiated in happy style.
All of Newton countv.
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Our old friend, Mr. Jacx VV Lind
.
say, has reached Oray, Utah, in safe
tv, and says it is a cold country.
<< ifF COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER BE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, 1IY COUNTRY!
”—Jkfftckson.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 1895.
DEATH’S SAD ROLL.
MR. CHARLES C. ANDERSON,
On Thursday last Mr. Charles C.
Anderson departed this life at the
home of his sister, Mrs. E. O. Lee,
in Covington. Aged about 28 years.
He was the oldest sou of Doctor and
Mrs. J. C. Anderson, who have the
sympathy of all our people in their
time of grief and sorrow over the un¬
timely death of their precious boy.—
He was a kind hearted young man,
who made friends with all classes and
conditions of people. He was very
popular, being courteous and aecom.
modating to everybody. His remains
were carried to the family cemetery
at Anderson, on Friday, and laid to
rest in the presence of many friends
and dear ones. Rev. T. J. Swanson
conducted the burial services.
Mrs. Jack B. Meadors died at the
home of her husband in LeGwin dis¬
trict, on Friday last. She was one of
the best ladies in the county, esteemed
and beloved by all who knew her.
She leaves a loving husband and
many friends and relatives to mourn
her death and cheiish her sweet and
precious memory.
Miss Jane Armstrong died at the
home of her brother, in Newborn dis¬
trict, on Jan. 30th. Aged about 50
years. She was a gently Christian
lady whose life was devoted to mak
ind others happy.
SIGNAL TRIUMPHS WON.
By Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder.
Two signal triumphs have been
achieved by Dr Price’s Cream Baking
Powder. First it received Highest
Award and Diploma at the World’s
Columbian Exposition of 1893. Next
it secured Highest Award and Gold
Medal at the California Midwinter
Fair of 1894. At both Fairs it sur¬
passed all competitors in every respect.
The award, in each instance, was for
strongest leavening power, perfect
sustained by the unanimous vote of
the judges.
The victory at Chicago establishes
the supremacy of Dr. Price’s as “The
Foremost Baking Powder in the
Wold. The triumph at Han Fran¬
cisco confirms and emphasizes it.
DOING WITHOUT IT.
I’ve found some wisdom in my quest
That’s richly worth retailing;
I’ve learned when one does his best
There’s little harm in failing.
I thought to gather wealth untold,
And make my boast about it;
My wit and toil bring little gold—
But I’m rich without it.
I said, “The world shall bear my name.
Ami down the ages shout it!”
I shall not win the bauble Fame—
I’m just as great without it.
I thought to know philosophy,
And teach the world about it;
M v plummet will not sound the sea,
My ship sails on without it.
Another thing I’ve had to prove,
Though much I used to doubt it;
One can’t be sure of human love,
But one can live without it.
saw the world with wrong o’ergrown,
bravely fought to rout it;
j W)t j luu t it
may not reach what I pursue,
Yet will I keep pursuing; 1
Nothing . is . vain • .l that f I t can do, j i
growth of dome '
For soul comes 1 .
;
B ’’ t therefore tel) you what I know,;
Whet, you’ve lived and learned, I trow, j
You’re certain to believe it. ;
Rev. Ciiarlks G. Ames. !
SOMEWHAT PERSONAL.
Mrs. D. I. Mobley is dangerously
sick and it is feared that this good la¬
dy cannot be restored to health.
Mr. J. C. Nixon and family have
moved from Covington to Stausell’s
district. We wish them peace and
plenty at their new home.
Mrs. Leila Tompkins, after a pleas¬
ant visit here, left for Cartersville last
Monday, where she will spend several
days with her sister and then return
to her happy home at St. Mary’s, Ga.
Judge Richard H. Clark has ap¬
pointed Messrs. G. D. Heard, J. L.
Hays and W. R. King as Registrars
for Newton county, for the next two
years.
Miss Pearl Avery and Miss Lillie
Crawley, two charming beauties from
Social Circle, have been on a delight
ful visit to Mrs. S. 0. Cook at her
hospitable home, two miles south of
Covington.
Col. L. L. Middlebrook and daugh¬
ter, Miss Kathleen, left on Monday
for a visit to relatives in Texas. Miss
Middlebrook will spend two or three
months in the Lone Star State, but
the Colonel will be back in about two
weeks.
A very charming entertainment
came off in Macon last Friday night,
given by the young ladies of Wesley¬
an female college. The leading fea
tore of the evening was a drama en¬
titled “Aunt Mehitable’s Scientific
Experiment,” in whicn Miss Emma
Jarman, of Covington, appeared as
. % Emily.” It was a play full of fun
and live bur. or and Miss Emma ac¬
ted her part to perfection.
A Newborn correspondent of the
Social Circle Sentry gets off this bit of
pleasantry at the expense of one our
most popular young men: “Mr. Chas.
Sockwell went to see his best girl Sun¬
day night and lost his tie rein between
here and Covington and did not miss
it until Monday. So he decided to go
down to Mr. J. M. Harwell’s to hunt
for it. I wonder why he went down
there to find the rein?”
In speaking of the visit of one of
our fair and lovely young ladies to
Jackson, the Argus says: “Miss Eva
Avery, a beautiful and accomplished
young lady of Covington who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. M . M. Potts,
returned to her home Sunday, greatly
to the regret of our young people who
had the pleasure of meeting her dur
ing " her short visT in our town. Miss
Avery , s sweet deposition .... will ... make .
Iier friends wherever she is known.
We wish Rev. Dr. Henry Quigg,
of Conyers, a most pleasant time du-:
ring his travels in the “Old World ”
He left home one day recently to join
a party at New T ork, who leave on
the “Friesland” Red Star system for
Palestine. The party will go to Italy,
Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Northern
Africa, Southern Spain, visiting Ber
muda, the Azores, Gibraltar, Malaga,
Granada, Alhambra, Algiera, Malta,
Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids,!
Jeffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, etc,
before returning.
Rev J. F. Edens, of the Christian
Index, in noting the death of a man
we all knew and loved, says : “In the
death of Rev J. N. Bradshaw, of i
Fla., we have sustained a
personal less, and hence feel a person
al grief. Brother Bradshaw 7 was a
Presbyterian minister and educator of
ability, ..... . having . c filled ,. , j
no mean many
places distinction . and trust He in |
or
his long jife, seemed to us, to be al
Qn thc rig htside of almost every
thing of public interest. \\ e knew
him to love him. God bless his sor
rowing family.
IN AND AROUND THE CITY
Which May ar May Not Interest You.
Mrs. Jane Cornwell died at the res¬
idence of her daughter, Mrs. Strick¬
land, ii» Newton county, one day
last week.
Read “Sam Snip’s” letter on our
first page, and then hurry over to
George D. Butler’s Mill and order
your guano before it is all gone.
The District Lodge, Independent
Older of Good Templars, of Newton
county, will hold their regular meet¬
ing in Covington, Wednesday, Feb.
13th. All subordinate lodges are re¬
quested to send delegates. The meet¬
ing will be held in Music Hall.
Mrs. O. G. Hightower died at the
home of her husband, in Jackson, a
few days since. She was a gentle
Christian lady who was well known
and highly esteemed by many of our
people. Her body was brought to
Newton county for burial.
The Annual Meeting of the Stock¬
holders of the Covington & Oxford
Street Railroad will be held Tuesday,
February 12, 1895, at 7 p m., in the
court house, at Covington, Ga. Elec¬
tion of President and Directors for
ensuing year being the special busi
ness of said meeting. J. G. Lester,
Secretary.
< < Covington must be (veil supplied
with church members,” said a stranger
to one of our clerks. “She sure is,”
replied the clerk. “Got any Shakers
here ?” continued the stranger. “Plen
ty of shakers about here,” exclaimed
the clerk, “but they don’t shake any¬
more, since the new city council p'u£
an embargo on shooting high dice.
A large crowd of people were in
town Tuesday, it being legal sale day.
But little property was sold. During
the day a number of farmers met and
discussed the necessity of reducing the
cotton acreage this year. The county
commissioners also held a meeting
and disposed of much business. The
Confederate veterans association held
a meeting and arranged to be repre¬
sented at the grand re-union which
comes off in Houston, Texas, during
the month of May.
Cotton Growers’ Movement,
Mr. Editor : I have been notified to
day that President Broughton, of the
American Cotton Growers’ Association,
* ia J appointed me president for this
( - ount >
Owing to physical . infirmities, „ how
mv
eve r, I feel ih.t it wooM be impossible
for nle e, properly discharge the duties
of so important a position. I have, there
• ore » as k e ‘f President Broughton to ap
P oint Sl,me 0,10 10 l,itc m >’ l' laoe b ? the
The Aulerica „ Cotlon Growera . Pr0 .
tectiye Association, originated by the
convention of cotton growers, held at
Jackson, Miss., on the 9th and 10th of
January, has for its objects the re¬
duction of the acreage of cotton.
The members obligate themselves to
reduce the number of acres planted in
cotton in 1895 at least one fourth, as
compared with 1894.
Too much cannot he said in behalf of
this movement. The past year our cot¬
ton hardly averaged five cents per pound
If we can, by the reduction desired, in¬
crease the price of cotton but a cent and
a half per pound, the crop would he
worth nearly as much, and then there
' v <ml.» t>e a 8uv,n £ twenty-five per
1
To illustrate : Suppose that last year
a man had in cotton twenty-four acres,
and ou this land raised eight bales,
weighing five hundred pounds. Then
at five cents per pound he got two hun-
4red dollars for his crop. Suppose in
1891 hH outs r ' S OHe fa,mh and raises
Uu . safm . ratft of yieLI> he lvouId rai , e
Exhales, whiohai .-ix and one-half
cents would bring one hundred and
NO. 20.
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ninety-five dollars, allowing him six
acres more to be planted in corn or some
other food crop.
I think, if the agreement is universal¬
ly signed, that the increase of price will
be even greater still.
One thing is certain, if we don’t sign,
the price will be even lower than it was
last fall. How many farmers are there,
all over our country, who wish from the
bottom of their heart they had not
planted a seed of cotton in 1894 ! This
is everybody’s cause, and the farmers
should all rush to it as their only ark of
safety. Upon its success or failure de¬
pends, in my opinion, the financial sal¬
vation or ruin of the south.
Below I give a list of farmers, whom
I hereby appoint to take signatures ta r
our articles of agreement. When there
are several appointed in the same dis¬
trict they will please get together, and
divide out the work, so that every one
will have an apportunity to sign. If
you have not help enough, appoint as
many more as you see proper. Get the
Articles of Agreement from this or some
other paper, post them at the head of
your list, and go quickly, actively, and
earnestly to work. It might be well, in
some places, to appoint some colored
fanner, who would work among his
people.
Let all the farmers in Newton county,
big and little, assemble in the court
house, in Covington, and earnes.lv dis
eu.-s the matter and determine what
is ! >est for us to do.
If you are honest men, and want to
pay jour debts; it you are wise men,
and want to prevent waste; if you are
patriotic men, and want to save your
country ; if you love your neighbors ; if
you love yourselves; if you Jove your
wives and children, do not be indifior
ent to this cause ; but come up to the
work, believing that if you individually
fail, you will not only fail yourself, but
wreck others with you.
The following are tire farmers whom
I appoint:
Jos. B. Ellington.
John 8. Cook.
Harmon H. Hicks.
S. R. Ellington,
R. C Cook.
J. Henry Carroll.
Albert G Williams.
T. D. Stone.
G. D. Butler.
John \1. Hearing.
J. F. Henderson.
S. 0. Cook,
G. W. Hill.
J. H. Euuols.
J. W. Robertson.
I. N. Stanton.
W. A. Adams.
J. VV. Sockwell.
T. A. Perry.
A J Beleher.
T A Starr.
Charles Hardeman.
W E Harwell.
A L Gaither.
Hugh Hargrove.
K P Warren.
A C Heard.
W H. Smith.
M C Davis.
S 0 Avery.
F M dies nut.
L F Stephenson.
J W King.
George W Loyd.
Walter Downs.
W S Ramsay.
O P McCord.
Roland Vaughn.
G W Berry.
Frank Speer.
Ben E Middlebrook.
Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for your
kindness in publishing this,
I am yours respectfully,
GEO. W. STONE.
The New Episcopal ciiurcn to be
erected near the female college will
be a business advantage to Covington.
Under the Archdeaconcy system it
multiplies laborers without drafting
upon local resources. Episcopalians
coming to Georgia will settle in Cov¬
ington, when without their church,
they would not do so. A Methodist
Presiding Elder said not long ago
that he “rejoiced to see the erection
of an Episcopal church. All men are
not saved the same way. What one
method will not do another will. The
Episcopal church reach some when
the Methodist may have failed r IS
is the broad and liberal way of looking
at the subject, and we hope Covington
will liberally support the building
enterprise.
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