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FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTER
UV ELLEN J- DORTCH VOL. VI. NO. 33
TIIE GREAT GEORGIAN.
Toombs First Effort on the Stump.
He Meets the Greatest States¬
man in South Carolina at
That Time. His
Victory.
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jng of this remarkable man
wis exhibited at WilHngton, a small
riHage in AbbeVilfe District (its’ tiie
the present counties WeYe then call¬
ed), South Carolina. Goiicral Geo:
McDuffie, the only representative of
Demosthenes in this country since
Patrick Henry, lived near there.
McDuffie was harnessed lightning,
lie forged the chain of logic at a
white heat. He was the most ner¬
vous, impassioned and thrilling trib¬
ute of istrated|ibfffi^tje|^-^3e the people of that* daw- He
demo
as Euclid did geometry, while foam¬
ing at the month and screaming like
aCre»k Indian. lie had married
the only daughter of Dick /Singleton
(he celebrated millionaire turfman
and nee planter, and lie owned
four bundled slavcsand made eight
hundred ba
had been :
Governor of South Carolina, and af¬
terwards United Same r. The peo¬
ple, before making up their mind
on any political subiec', would say;
“31 r. McDuffie is going lo speak at
Morrow’s old field two week from
now; and I will wait tilt I hear him;’
and there they come forty and fifty
miles and camp out aj| night to heai
him, and his speech would decide the
polities of the, wtifdfe state once a
year. On this AVillingtan occasion
it was announced that the ‘everlast¬
ing mouthed Bob Toombs was com •
ing over to meet him.’ Four thous¬
and people wore there when that
rash young Georgian crossed the .Sa¬
vannah to meet the lyon in his den,
to beard the Douglass in bis balls.
Toombs rode a horse, and it was re
i l. • y '■ \ ; :
marked that his shirt bosom was
ftained with tebaeco juice. Yet lie
was oue of thehanfsoinest n.en that
ever had the seal of genius on his
bro.v. His head was round as the
celestial globe, His abundant,
straight, bl tus.
ion oyer his
He bad as many teeth as a shark,
and as white a^ ivory. Hi- eyes were
black ag death and bigger than an
ox’s. Ilis step wag as graceful ns the
wild cat's and yet he weighed two
hundred pounds. His presence
tivated^pi»n idolators of
McDuffie. He bonnded in the
like a black maned Numidian
from the unknown deserts of Middle
Georgia, to reply to the
Jnpitcr of the up country of the
proud Palmetto State.Ifc was tho
memorable overthrew that McDuffie
ever sustained. This was in the
rison-A r an Burcn election of 1340. His
ar gunient, his, invective, his
bearing torrent #f irreverent
tion, is a tradition in that
even now. McDuffie said: ‘I
beard John Randolph, of Roanoke,
met Tristam Burgess, of Rhode
but this wild Georgian is the
of this age.’ After that South
admitted that Georgia was
more ttanr rtnmfup
fugitive* from justice. This was
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til
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ti. m-iwl* M ty.SWeri. Nbh.,
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was a secret session os the cabinet to
see whether we should bombard Fort
Sumter. Toombs was then Secretary
of Slate and was regarded as the most
rash, headstrong and violent man in
the Confederacy. AY bile in the pres¬
ence of Mr. Davis, the balance of the
cabinet gave their opinion in favor of
the bombardment, Mr Tooms was, .as
was his custom, pacing the floor.
Wfien’ft came his turn to express' his
opinion, to the aniazamcnt of all he
yelusmendy opposed the attack, and
made one of tlio most remarkable
■
speeches of all his life in opposition to
it. He said it would be the doom of
Confederacy. He said: ‘Le
Charleston go. Give up Sumter. Let
it be provisioned, but never explode
the volcano that is under our feet.’
He said is was suicide and madnest
would lose us every friend in aU
North, and exhibited all bis magni¬
ficent powers in opposition to the at
He said: ‘Mr. President you
wantonly strike a hornet’s nest
fills the North from ocean to occur,
legions, now quiet, will swarm out
to sting us to death. It is unnecessary;
it puts us in the wrong; it is fatal.’
And so it was. Toombs was the wis¬
est and the greatest of all the states¬
men of the Sourthern Confederacy.”
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POPE SAVED.
It turns out that Henry Pope, the
negro who was convicted, sentenced
to be hung for assaulting Miss Ken¬
of Chattooga countv, is the
wrong man. If Governor Gordon
not respited him an innocent
man wo dd have been hung. Judge
the presiding judge of that
has just coma from Summer¬
ville the county site of Chattooga
From him i t is l earned that
negro from A\ r aiker county, who
to Somerset counly, Kentucky;
has been jailed. The nvgro was
working on the Rome and Decatur
railroad near where the deed wav
committed Feb- 3, tiie very day the
henious crime occurred. The negro
admitted his guilt to the authorities
of the jail. A requisition has been
forwarded and he will be brought
to trial.
AVORTII ITS AYE1GHT IN GOLD
Dr. Pennington, of Palmetto, Ga
a well known and prominent pby
scian saj^: During mv umi
the practice of medicine, I used a
great deal of the preparation known
as M other’s Friend, and want to re
comm end it to every woman and
to my brother physicians. It makes
jabor easy, hastens delivery and re¬
covery, “nd ins,ires safety of both
mother and child. No woman can
be induced to V 1 througti the ordeal
without it after once using it. I have
also sold it as a drugget, with the
best of satisfaction. It is certainly
worth its weight in gold.”
AH druggists sell it. For partjeu
lars and full directions address.
Dr ad field Regulatoi Co Atlanta G.i
GOOD RESULTS
J). A. Bradford, wholesale payer
dealer of Chattanooga, i enn., writes
that he was seriously afflicted with a
severe cold that settled on Ins
j ia q trie ,| many rcmelics without
, >W!C fy, Being induced to try
Kj|( ^ NcT Discovt , rv for Cousump
o awkmm
me o M, IT’ Since
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** LLE, GA., TUESDAY august, 1887.
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MARRIAGE IS A PARTNERSHIP.
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The Independence of Married People
Now Gnaatet TlianEver Before
Marriage is siftl only too often a bar¬
gain, but at least it is no longer an
entirely one-side l bargain. It is ten¬
ding toward Hie only true ideal of life¬
long- eompauionship—a partnership on
equal terms, with equal give-and-take
on both sides. AVomen no longer feel
bound to render that implicit obedieuce
which was considered dc rigueur in our
great-grandmotber’s days; and men no
longer universally demand it
Husband, moreover are begining to
learn that their prime duty is not “to
look after” their wives. The very
sentence .is iudieative of the most
ghastly misapprehension of the whole
ideal of pialriiijony. The general feel¬
ing of society condemns a man who
lives to rule t.is wife on the same
principles as a pasha rules his
harem.
And indeed the whole scheme of
modern life makes it prrctically im¬
possible for him to do .mar¬
ried woman enjoys, as a rule, com¬
plete liberty during the livelong day
and even at night it is frequently
impossible for a busy man to escort
his wife. Thus everything turns on
the relations between the married
couple.
If a girl is really in love with the
uiau she marries, she may be trusted
with any amount of subsequent free¬
dom. Ittgof, not; and therefore we
say that the injudicious and world¬
ly parents who are responsible for
the, great majority of ill-assorted
unions are abo responsible for the
many'evil remits which are to be
seen'in society attinii dayr^v
For it is a fact that rows of En¬
glish girls are as much forced into
marriage as the French girl, whose
husband is selected while she is yet
in her
n0 —hut by the whole tone of her
education, by the exaggerate! fear
of being an old maid, by the obvious
necessity of making way tor a young¬
er sister, by the persistent scheming
of her parents and by her own
longing for emancipation. .
For marriage uudoubtedly does
mean emaucip.ition to most women;
and it is precisely those who look
forward to it most who are likely to
make the worst use of if.—Pall M'dl
Gazette.
PRETTY' BUT NOT PRACTICA¬
BLE.
That is a pretty story which comes
ftout Indiana detailing how the lives
of bur drods ot passengers on an ?x
press tram on the Cincinnati and
Indianapolis railway were taved by
“an old aunty” who discovered that
a bridge had been burned down.
Very pretty indeed. But what the
public wants co know is, arc we
obliged to depend for safety in rail¬
road travel upon an old aunty who
happens to be moseying along the
track? What if tbe old aunty should
take a day off occasionally? The
thought is too horribb to entertain
A railway that neglects to provide
and relies upon. Provi¬
dence and old aunties,seems to us to
incur a rather reckless degree of re
sponsibility.
FOR S ALE
Two elegant Chicago cottage Or
^ rtn s of the most desirablo style
aj)<1 >IJWI1 j,j K>ra l terms. For par
ti#uIar , apply at this office,
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|u ' cl1 thirteen "' Stales woim-ii ^
W«l,ool
Kansas mid Nebraska were
tales making 15 tho initial movements
[towards ll is Hid’
j T1IE FELTON WINF. BILL.
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This bill has ptspfd both the Homsc
aihl Senate, and needs only th* signa¬
ture of the Governor to become a law
There is no probability of the bill be¬
ing vetoed,, and it may be looked
«n as a law, and it is oue for which the
good people of the State arc thankful,
©flow we give the bill, which pro¬
vides.
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“That from alter the passage of this
act, in every countyAn the State, where
either under the general local option
act, approved September IH, ISHd, or
any other local or general act, the sale
of spirituous or intoxicating
have been or they nfciy hereafter b*
prohibited, but with except tons in re
latioH lo any kind of wines, a tax of
ten thousand dollars shall be annually
levied and collected from each and ev¬
ery dealer in domestic wines or other
intoxicants not prohibited as aforesaid
for each place of business where sold:
Provided, that nothing in this act shall
be so construed as Vo levy a tax on
dealers in or producers of wines man¬
ufactured from grapes or berries grown
on lands owned, leased or routed by
said dealers; and provided further,
that said wines shall not- be sold quan¬
tities less than one quart, and shall not
be drank on tho premises where sold.”.
The wine rooms of Atlanta enabled
the liquor men of that pWee to eva/k
tl»e spirit of the prohibition 1 law, ’ ani
this fact no douht, caused I>r. Felton
frame this Dili, which is the death
blow to tha liquor traffic. Nowhera ii
Georgia, where prohibitiaa hna had «
ifcir trial, i* there a dem«*<l fora repaal
«f th* law. Atlvene has haew a prehi
bitio* city for quit* awhile, and non*
of the dire calamities which the *hti%
predicted have befallen th* city. It is
an joying at thin day alxKtm nnequaled
aTjLding Thmmhmrrr tiw W MMB| a law
« no
>'ite is i» danger,
NOTICE TO FARMERS.
On page 25.of the Agi-ienltuind
list of the Piedmoat Exposition eu
taloguo appears the following:
Maddox, Rucker * c o.. Bankers
iWd Cotton tactois, Atlanta, G a ., of¬
fer for the best bale of upland eottoa
HO© in gold. Second best ffe®
Third best $30. T Le bales to weigh
not less than 450 pounds, aad to be
exhibited in the name of the pro
ducer.
A WONDERFUL INVE NTION
The Cosby attachment for th*
sswing mkchme is now bring off*r
•d for sale iu this county by Mr.
■ B Higginbotham. It is lighly
recommended by persons who bar*
have used it, aid a purchaser is
found at almost every house wh*r*
there is a sewing machin*. Its sim¬
plicity rurkes its use enslly acquired
and its cheapness places it witfeia
the reach of all.
THIBTY-NI^E YEARS A FU¬
GITIVE.
A singular case of desertion from the
army came before an A ustriz.n court
martial recently. A Cnrmolan re¬
cruit deserted the ranks in 1881 ,
to lited ihir’y-mne years He
•ounteins and forests Of
Crinthh, associating only with
rds and woodcutOers, his only
laidg ill tnife* of hi* own Wit
He contrived to make it
livlit^I hy wi.lmg roeih, but, at to*
01,1 .no-Lo, ■»' l,„o„,.ml '“r: m *»
year lie suirwnU-ied t« flic a
Tiny liAve eotwlrmned
i tflglit (limiihs Hard lafmr, wKT»4i
Under llie iifeii ustai!''***, .Cem* rath*
e’r a harsh *eiilnii«o,
DR. IIAYGOOD’S LETTER.
Two Georgia PapcrstPay Their Re¬
spects to the Doctor.
If now the Legislature will give
us a law placing the parents of mu
Intto children in the chain tang, it
would be worth while.—Rev. Attieus
G. Haygood, ,
If the reverend gentleman means
wliat ho says, it might put a number
of Ins “brothers in yellow,” in the
chain gang, for there are a number
of mulatto fathers in this country
who have mtdafltb children, but if he
means to prevent licentiousness and
miscegenation, ho will find thi
Georgia already lias laws imposing
a fine or murislinictit iu the chain
gang for such disgraceful conduct
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and it only remains for I he gentle
to go before grand :in tho coun¬
ty where the offense is committed
and, if lie lias the proof ho can soon
start the party o: parties on their
way to the chain gang, and then
his heart .can rrjotce and ho can
swell Hi c convict camps. Hut Mr
Hay good a nows these facts and need
not be told of them; therefore, it
;q pears to us that the above remark
h)<C)K]( , a 3 s a taunt ami not wilt
a view' . of , obtaining ,. • further legislation
on the matter complained of. S ineu
ho lias been manager of the Slater
school fund; his taste for tho “broth¬
er jn.black” has become one of
social affinity,nnd if ho cun curry favor
with not them philail t hropists, who
have funds to distribute, and he can
be made the distributor at, a hand
some salary, he don’t mirrl casting
a few slu-s lives.—J'JllbliU on the people among “
whom he PCSl.' ■ “
Dr. Attieus G. Haygood strength¬
ens Ins Northern connections by ie«
marking.
“Then is a law iu Georgia against
inter-marriage, a low more violated
ten to on**, if not in the letter in
the reality and spirit of it, than tiie
law of mixed sehoo's. If now the
legislature will give us * law placing
the parents of mulalti children iu
the chain gang, it would he worth
while”
If the reverend cu/rninator would
write a history of his “sister in
black,” it would probubly far excel
in interest and accuracy his gloomy
production of his brother o£ the same
line. Perhaps the great reformer
desires a closer acquaintance with
the eh sin gang, and therefore urges
the enforcement of a law against pn»
rents of half breeds. W« might go.
further and inquire what degree ot
relationship subsists between vague
eoncubinagoand intermarriage. The
doctor’s theological training should
enable him to distinguish tho differ
enoe betweeu a sin and a sacrament*
He seems to have a tinner grasp
upon the wallet in which his solicited
wealth is stored than upon his logic
oi liU facts.—Savannah News.
LADIES OF THE WHITE
HOUSE.
found i ,i„ that lt the, r.mnct, ». metimis .ms tm
<*►»•»’« duties produce a low. wc
tired and titiuwloOs stale of the
tern, and that iron restores richnwis
D ,,Ulor to tin, Wood, l*rk
» o.tut.1 liMltlilul to... 10
organ, an ,,,,oo*.. wa| ro ».
the brain,-all
ur ,,, ,m 'Dim.
$ 1 .00 YEAR in advance
MOKE ABOUT WOOLFOLK.
Evidence Going to Prove He
templated his Crime Several Weeks.
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Mr. Birch Horn, ot Crawford
county, was in Macon Wrdnesday.
lib relates an incident that taken in
relation with all the other circum¬
stances of the AVoolfolk massacre >
strongly points to Tom Woolfol.k .its*
the guilty man, and also that he has
been contemplating the deed for
about six Week*.
Mr. Horn sometime ago had bought
an engine from Mr. Ii II AVoolfolk,
for which ho paid aU, or n part in
iiotcs. The last of June Mr. Horn
loarnod that Mr. AVoolfolk regret
led the trade, and wanted the en¬
gine back, Mr/ Horn told bis
informant, Mr. AVooloik’s attor
ney, that he was willing to annul (he
sale, and to pay Mr. AVoolfolk reut
for the engine, Early in July Mr.
Horn got on his horse and rode over
Air AA'oolfolk's. When a ghort dis.
taneo from the house ho met young
Tom Wolfolk. He asked Tom if hts
father was at home. Tom said he
was at home, hut he could not say
whether he was at the house, at the
stables or out in the fichl. Then
Tom said:
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, those
“You Want to see him about
notes?”
Although Mr Horn did lief know
that Toth knew anything about the
notes, lm ieplled, “Yes,” f ,
Tom responded: “You
be in a hurry about paving thews;
you will have to pay me anyhow.”
“Ilow so?” said Mr. Horn.
“That’s best known to
was 7«>m’s answer.
Mr. Horn thinking it was all
turned bis horse and returned homi
Ho never thought anything
about the matter until fee hoard
the murder of the family, rtN
TH H I M ii ' ~ i§ " ”
, in i instantly he them
mind, an<l saw m
rens m to suspect Tom of the
<terr. —Telegraph.
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ALL MEN ARE NOT HAD
Neither me all prepared remedies
rcliabte. This is proven by th* re¬
sults following the use of Dr
Harters Iron tonic for dyspepsia
benmalism, scroliiln, jaundice, tor
pid liyer and general weakness.
OR SALE
A scholarship in the Louisville
Business College, including book¬
keeping and penmanship, This is
ene of the best business colleges in
America. For terms apply at this
office.
BUCKLeN’S arnica salve
The best salve in tho world for
cuts, bruises, so* es,ulcers, salf rheum
lores, eorns, sores, tetter, cbapfied
bands, cut Warns, and all skin erup
turns; and positively cures piles, or
no pay reqwred. It is guaranteed
^givc satisfaction or money refuwltd.
For sale by II M Feemati.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND
CREDITORS.
All ^ persons having demands
||st of A C ^
of p r .,„| l |i ll deceived,
j (t . rt .|,y notified to render hi their dd
L, u to tiie undersigned aewrding
law, and a,, persons, indebU-d to
nw ... ro.|ulwl lo n»U» 1m
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Adui'tor.
OPIUM IN IOWA.
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An Assertion that There are 10,000
Victims iu That State.
A newspaper paragraph has been
seen in inanv of .the State papers
which states that there are ten
thousand victims of the opium
habit, reported in Iowa by the State
Board of Health. Under the date
August Uth, Secretary Kenedy
wrote to tho Democrat Gazotje that
the current report was evidently
bused on an in vestigation made by
Dr. Hull, foimerly a member of the
Hoard. It originated in a paper
preoared by the doctor, which was l
published in the last biennia! rc
port.
Secretary Kennedy says in refer¬
ence to tho statement before allud¬
ed to-that 10,000 cases of the •piiim
habit have been reported—that there
is abundant reason for lielicving the
number of victims of the habit is
far in excess of That given. Ho adds -
that it is exceedingly difficult to get
the facts again d, the objection of J
druggist* and the concealment of
the victims. Dr Hull wiys that
opium is to day »* greater curse <han
alcoholaad justly claims a greafer
number Oi helpless victims which
do not all com* from the ranks of
reckless men and fallen women, hut
the majority of them «rs to be found
among the educated and the most
Yumur* 1 and useful menjVars of *>
eiety; and, as to stx, vre may «onut
out the prostitutes so much given to
this vi«e, and rtill find females far
ahead, so far as numbers are eon’
eorned”—Davenport-Demoerat.
i-r
dropped in on a neighbor r*e«iltly.
“Hut when I step on* to feed the
pigs, and List i^ysell on th* fence,
and throw my soul n#o a f*w hues
of ‘Wait till the Clouds iVill By,’
it does seem that the ivorfo WjlS
to Jive o.'i after all.
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WIIAT IRRIGATION DOES.
A F Scott, who ran* ax irrigaUd
farm on Dove ereek, says that his
farm of eighteen acres employs five
handi( end clears over alt expenses
nearly $3,000 a year. At present, he
has nire aores m sweet potatoes,
which wilt average 400 huWred
bushels to the acre. Aweet potetoes
arc now selling at one dollar per
bushel, but if he dispose# of his
whole crop at sercnly-fioe cents, hi*
potstocs alone will yield Um §3,400
The f*rm by being enlarged and al¬
falfa and Johnson grass added, could
no doubt !»e made to return mors
without much extr* labor; but ns it
it is it rfiows (oncWively that an
farm is a bonanza, beeanse
the dryer the season the les* com pe¬
tit! >u there is in produce, add con
soqucntly the higher prices eve re¬
ceived for the products ot the farm —
San Angelo Standard.
citation.
Franklin Counly
To all vybous it may concern: John
B Aderhold, admiuiatvator of Lev is
A) lerhold, dewased, has in due form
to the undersigned for leave
sell the land belonging to tne es¬
tate of said deceased, and that said
apl Ucatioii will !>o )*> ai I on tho hrst
uionday iu September next.
Ibi. Angu.t 5th 18*7.
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