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VOL. XV
NOUNCEMENTS
FOR ORDINARY.
inkiu^ounty e undersigned hereby announces
at the Should ansueing the elec-
1 in January next. peo
deem him worthy and manifest it
electing him to such position, he
feel truly thankful, and will en¬
rol' to discharge the duties of the
e with fidelity and to the best of
ability. Daniel MeKenzie.
jllow Citizens- I hereby an
Hnce myself Franklin, a candidate county at for tho Ordi
■log ■y of election in January next. Bo- en
cripple and afflicted so that I
u unable to make a support for my
Mt Hnestly and family by hard labor, I very
solicit the kind support., of
Kted K fellcwcitizens in this race. If
I will nse my every effort to
Bor KiO office with credit to Respectfully myself and
to the county, T, A. Stovall.
Fellow Citizens: candidate I hereby for Ordi- an
uncc myself Franklin a county at the
ry of ensue
frcnpple i election in afflicted January next. I Being
and go that amun
frlc frmily to by make hard a labor, support 1 very for myself earnestly and
■licit the kind support of my fellow
Kizens Be in this race. If elected I will
my every effort to fill the office
■ith credit to myself and with honor
■the county. Res J. nectfully.
T. Harrison,
respectfully the announce of myself Ordinary a can
Ate for office
mklin county at the ensueihg elec
in January next.
j. A. S. Turner.
FOR ORDINARY.
date ■ hereby for announce Ordinary myself of Fran a candi¬ kb#
■nty at the January electioon.
ispect’y. George L. Carson.
1 FOR RECEIVER
■At the solicitation of many friends I
■aounce myself a cadidate for the
■ice of Receiver of Tax Returns of
■ranklm county at the ensueing elec
frn. Being a cripple and uuabb to
porm lake manuel labor by which I can
pd family, a reasonable I support ask for the myself
frs of the very humbly for their aid. vo
county R. Lecroy.
Having Jesse
become unable to make a
'ingfor myself and family on the farm
cause of my decrepitude, I respectful/y
■nounce my name sb a candidate for
le office of Tax Receiver, at the eleo
•n in Juauary next. As to my
Ira city, responsibility and qualification
■vould refer to any lespousible man
1 Gunnels or Stranges district Hat
»y know me. I respectfully solicit
b support oj the people at this time
- W, H. Smith
I hereby announce myself ‘ a cand
tough te for of Tax friends Receiver, will and hope
my vote for me
elect me. J. F. Ledbetter.
11 announce myself a9 a candidate
lr Tax Receiver of Franklin coun-
V at the Januar Re jection.
A. Landrum.
I hereby announce myself a candi
for Tax Receiver of Franklin
the ensueing election. If
. duties of
will discharge the
effice prt mpily and faifblully.
T. W. Aaron.
hereby for announce Receiver myself of a Frank- can
Tax
county at the Janury election. If
I will discharge the duties
the office promptly and faithfully.
S. A. Porter,
I hereby announce myself a can
for Tax Reciever of Franklin
me January election.
L. K. Burruss
I hereby announce myself as a candi
tie for Tax Receiver of Franklin
lanty, at the ensueing Respectfully. January elec
)n .
0. J. AYERS.
FOR SHERIFF,
Having by mutual agreement be-
6en myaell and my Hon. opponent
Candidas for Sheriff submited
name to the votersof the
the election held on he 16th of
gnst 1888 to nominate a candidate
T Senator and having been
by a majority of the votes
at said election I wish to express
thanks to my supporters and
* the support ot the people in the
®uary election. J. C. MeCoipclJ
J respectfully announce myself as
candidate for the offico of Sheriff
tfianklin county at the ensuing
^ion in January next.
T F Williams.
OUB MOTTO « INDUSTRY, ECONOMY AND PERSEVERANCE.
FOR SIIERIFF.
At the solicitation of many of the
voters of Franklin County I hereby
announce Sheriff myself January a candidate for
at the election. If
elected, I piomise to fill the office
with fidelity and to best of my abil
ty. from the Hoping for a liberal support
voters of the county, I am
Respectfully yours &c.
H. A. S. Brown.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
1 hereby announce myself a candi¬
date for re-election to the office of
Tax Collector of Franklin County.
L. J. Green.
I hereby announce myself a candi¬
date for the office of Tax Collector
of Franklin county at the ensueing
election in January 1889.
W, E. Bowers,
FOR CLERK.
To the voters of .Franklin county: 1
hereby announce myself ns a candidate
for Clerk of the Superior Court of
Franklin county, at the ensueing
election in January next. If you
will elect me I will perforin tbo duties of
the office promptly, and in a styl c that
will be creditable to me. Hoping to be
elected. I remain your Fellow citizen.
J. M. PniLLirs.
With many thanks to the peep/o of
Franklin county for past favors I here¬
announce the Superior myself Court. a onmlidate Is elected for
Clerk of
I will do all that can bo accomplished
by my humble ability to keep the of
flee in good condition. A, Resp’y J. Neal.
FOR TREASURER.
With many thanks to the citizens
of Franklin county for their hearty
support in the past I again announce
m yself a candidate for Treasurer
If elected I will discharge the duties
of the office promptly and laithfully.
Thomas 0. Burton.
NOTICE.
Notice will is be hereby made to given the next that session applica¬ of
tion for the
the general assembly bill of having Georgia the fol
passage of a local
owing title as entitled caption. to prohibit .
A hill to be an act
the manufacture of spiritous and intox
icntia% liquors intFranklin county Ga.,
to provide a penal ty therefore and for
other purposes. This Augnst 28th 1888.
PROFESSIONAL NOTICES.
A. G, McCnrry ) P.tP.P/oflh
Hartwell, Ga j OdnesrilleG
McCURRY & PROFFITT.
Attorneys at Law.
Will give prompt attention to collec¬
tions and litigated causes both citil
ci iminal, in the counties of Jranli*
H art, Habersham, Madison , and BMI
and elsewhere by special conrac|fr°»
Office in the court house at Cavnesvill*
and Hartwell.
PHILLIP W. DAVIS.
Attorney at Law, Elberton, G».
Will practice ill all the conns of »*
Northern circuit and in Frankh* i
adioining counties in the W*«**»
Oircuitand also m the Supreme **•
United States epuats. Prompt *W« nt io*
given to all business o ntrustedwitn
him.
W. I. PIKE.
A. ttorney at Law, Icfferson, G*.
contract.
A. N. KING.
Attorney at Law, C aruesville. Ga.
Offic e in the Court House.
DORTcnr __
' i s- CarnesviUe, G»f
Attorney at Law,
in the Court House.
J. b.,parks.
Attorney at Law, Carnesvillo, Fa
Fromp; attention given .o a-1 busin
ntrusted with him,
s*
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m Proa’
Jnd mri of
CAKNESVILLE, GA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23/ 1888.
Old Time FhkIucUoiis Superior to
ern ArticK'S—Cheap Paper.
The application of science to iho useful
arts lias not been an unmixed blessing.
It has rendered many things cheap that
were once very costly. It has madr
numerous formerly tilings common that were
scarce. It has shortened the
time required to produce various articles
needed for the common wants of life. It
has been chiefly employed for producing
things quickly and cheaply. It has sub¬
stituted very common and sometimes
wasto materials for those that were rare
and possessed of considerable valuo for a
variety of purposes. It has explained
many old processes, like that of making
steel, leather and mortar, but has not
improved them. In truth, these and
many more articles mado before the era
of scientific invention wore much
superior to any produced now.
No steel of modern manufacture equals
that made at Damascus, centuries before
there was a scionce of chemistry. N*
leather compares with that mode by the
Saracens, specimens of which are pre¬
served in many public museums and pri¬
vate collections in Europe. The mortar
aud cement used in the construction of
buildings in the old cities of Italy was
much superior to any produced in any
part of „»e world today. What is true
of mortar is substantially true of brick.
Tho brick made by Nebuchadnezzar, ac¬
cording to a report of a traveler, having
outlasted their original purpose, aro now
employed for paving the streets of mqfr fa
ern Bagdad. The temples built by
shepherd kings of Egypt are still in a
good state of preservation, having been
U3ed in turn by the believers in throe or
four forms has of religion.
Science greatly cheapened tho pro¬
duction of paper, but it has given us an
article that is very perishablo. The gov¬
ernment of Prussia lately commissioned
some chemists and expert manufacturers
to examine the paper used for official
records of the greatest importance to tho
nation, the registers of marriages, births,
and deaths, and that employed for print¬
ing books, magazines and newspapers ml
home and abroad. They Lave just sub
mitted a report that is as alarming as it
is interesting.' They state that the jpaer
on which many public last records fifty are written Soma
or printed will not ia already years. exhibit¬
used twenty years ago Of ninety-seven
ing signs of decay.
German and foreign magazine* and
other periodicals of the better cIm*
examined tho commissioners report
*
others were printed being so poor that it
will lose alt its strength in from twenty
to fifty years. Some of the paper o«
which magazines are printed approach is decaying to the
so rapidly that a near
The three magazines that seem dostined
to immortality are printed on paper mad*
from cotton and linen rags, whil# the
others are printed on paper mad* from
substitutes like straw and wood pula h
of e p P a r per ar Stific' 'mSofchm teen
employed and many chemicals used. The
paper on which many of tlta very
pronounced books and magazines to bo in a werqjjpnnted perflfct fltate of a
preservation. Such is tfc* case with
most of the paper used in books printed
,‘rom for tv t> > r V.mdwd yean ago.^
Paper in..’-.' ‘rain .craw, wooi jzilp
and other similar materials by tho alkalies MQ
ploymant of chi >rur ■ and caustic
may answer for printing uewspaperr. aid
elieap novels, but something better abaukl
be used for printin'/ standard books, offi¬
cial reports and magazines. Tho people
who live during next century miy bo
grateful to the manufacturer* who sub
fected and Ou t otr produced i ' r to tbo the Action paper of oj i.iustio “rbich
toda tariff speeches
our sensational nowisu/.u
awe printed. They wffi, however, wont
the deeds to the property they bold and
the books in which they are recorded.
The report made by tho experts in Proa
gia should claim tho immediate attention
of our national, state, county and muai
a'pal officials. It should also mtwret the
publishers of library editions of etandaxd
works.—Chicago
ueriuAity'n Aoro.uu. cor,,«.
At some recent experiments made
under the auspices of the aerostatic corps
ffeile a balloon was poised 2,500 meters
tests of this kind, so many difficulties
were met that the promise of any really
study have at last succeeded in ovcrcom
Sgf’S.ttffwSAJTlS'S not told, the reason
ju=t wliat wav obvious.—Scientific we aru Amert
for ,hia being
can. ______
ladin’t sem °r roppie*
The country then dSKrW-A took ^
pXpj: sTwliite flo?er°toAed and wa. U lS tb |
Pdds pure kwigfi*"*
Woonn England will require
rations of piety to undo
e
111 uiriiS
E Latte*.
1 HE VINSONS.
JIM VINSON ALIAS DR. JAMES
A. VINSON.
The Career of a Shrewd but Un¬
principled Citizen of Franklin
County.
M ANY of the citizens of this
county remember the Vinson
family, tho male members consist¬
in'] o! Jesse and his four sons, John
W. Jim, Dick and Henry. They
hailed from Union district, S. C.
John W. better known as Wes, came
to this county about tho year 1849.
Ho represented himself as au expe>
nenccd mill wright, though la fact
he was cot a mill wriulit, or even a
carpenter or moclinnic. buu was
handy with tools. lie imposed him¬
self on George Cromer, now de¬
ceased, us a superior workman, and
by his aptness for the trade and with
the aid of a book calltd tho Mills
Wrights Guide, he put up tho mas
chinery known as Cromers Mills an
made a good job of it. There was
probably hut one other merchant
mill in the county at the time Vin¬
son built Cromers Mill. Later on
he built several other mills, one of
the last being a merchant null for
John 0. Green, built on the site now
occupied by J. VV. Crumps Mills.
This mill was completed about the
year 1868 and was burned down
some time afterwards. Tho burning
was supposed to bo the work an
incendiary. Wes Vinson was elec¬
ted sheriff of Franklin county in
„„„„ 1857 ’58. He seemed . to have .
or
a sort of a rattling, uucertain
State before his term of office expir
j immediate cause of his
difficulty ...... and . e fight . . with ...
was a
R. Osmint, who was severely
11 ; * “> i
tho fight occurred over a game
f cards, ’ whieh they were playing
, money. xr. Vinson went . to Ala- ..
a where he still resides unless ho
moved or died recently.
This much of the history oi Wes
given as a sort of prelude to the
of his brother Jim’s career.
by the successful career of
as a mill-wright, Jim and Dmk
him in 1868, and a year or tjrg
old Jesso and Henry came*
old man died in this county in
or’68 wifh small pox. About
year 1855 all the boys except
made a tnp to Mississippi*- On
way they attempted the role o f
and got into trouble. At
place they had a good house and
in a good deal of money, but
performance was so poor that
were arrested and foiced to
up the money they had collected,
which mishap termiaated their ca¬
as showmen.
While in Mississippi Jim formed
thn acquaintance of one Miss Susan
e [i whom he married and brought
to this country. I. i« ..id tb* .ho
was,intelligent aud fine looking wo
mao, and belonged to a good aod
family. Jim worked
a t the mill-wrighls trade and
How., a
fine looking man, dissipated.
q.torr«l.on.e,pl«ck / ahrewd,fall of
and a great liar. In Dc
ber I860 he was en«fig*d on a
at Cromers mill, aud one day
went to work when drunk. Mr.
forbade Lu workirg until
he got sober. Jim cursed much
but k «P t hackio K al
of timber, until he made a miss
stroke and stuck the ax In hi* left
knee. N. C. (Jordon who wa* pres.
came to Camomile after a docs
but failed to get one and Jim
came ycry near bleeding to death.
Ilia knee was a little stiff as long as
he remained in this county. He
joined the army as a private in 1862,
and was living at the time on the
lands ot Asa II. or Jesso Ayers*
whore he left his wife and several
children in very poor circumstances,
fie was never soon in this county
again. In tko march to Gettysburg
he dropped out of the army, and the
last over seen or heard of him by his
acquaintances here, until a few weeks
ago, w as on the rotreat of Loos army
from the battlefield, when he was
seen by James A. Mitchell. lie in»
formed Mr. Mitchell that that ho
was cutting wheat at five dollars a
day, nud was dono with tho war.
At tho close of tho wav Mrs. Vin>>
son was m very destitute circumstan¬
ces, and was forced to sell her bod
clothes and almost every article of
furniture and ware about the house
for bread. In the fall of 1865 she
bound her children out and made
her way to her father's home ill
Mississippi, who furnished her with
money to come back for her cbils
dren. It is said that she bought
them from the men to whom they
were bound at twenty-five dollars
apiece. She wont back to Mississ¬
ippi with the children and has not
been heard from since.
The strange pari of the story now
begins. Old man Vinson and Dick
died long ago* Wes has been gone
nearly thirty years and Jiui was
supposed to ne dead. The restless,
turbulent aud noisy Vinsons were
almost forgotten. A few weeks ago
postmaster at Carnesvillo re¬
ceived a letter from a lady in signing
herself Hannah J: Vinson and al¬
leging that she was tho widow of
Dr, James A, Vinson formerly a
practicing physician of Uarnesville,
Ga. The postmaster had never
heard of Dr. James A, Vinson,
nor of Jim Vinson either. She
mentioned the tact that n brother
other husband was once sheriff of
this county, and Dr. James A. Vin¬
son was soon found to have been
no other than our old county man,
Jim Vinson. Mrs. Vinson gave a
pretty full account of her
life niter ho located in Mercerburg
Pa.) in 1863. Joseph II, Hers liber’
ger a Justice of the Peace in Wash¬
ington county, Md., has also written
a letter to N. C. Gordon, confirming
Mrs Vinsons story, The following
is the story of his life after lie was
seen by Mr. Mitchell on the retreat
from Pennsylvania:
Soon after the retreat, Vinson
made his appearance at Merceiburg
Franklin County. Pa., claiming that
he was surgeon of 8th Ga. Regiment
and had been sent by the Conleder
ate authorinves to take charge of
the sick and wounded Confederate
soId ; crs nt that place. The sick and
wounded soldiers were placed u nder
his care and it seems from the ac¬
count that that he rendered good
service, not only to the Confederates
but to the Yaukeesoldiers as well.
The sirviying soldiers were soon
sent to other points as prisoners of
uar and Dr. James A. Vmson, as
bo was called remained at Mercer¬
burg and practiced medicine for
more than twenty years. Iu the
Spring of 1804 he married a fine
y'>uug lady by the name of Hannah
J. Brant, then about 18 years of age.
They lived together until the 28tb
day ot July last, when Vinson died
of paralysis at Conococheague,
Washington county, Md. Besides
ins widow he left seven children,
the youngest bring about one year
Five of the children are boys,
of whom arc married. About
year 1884 he moved from Her
Fa., U I'airvie*, Wash- j
NO J
mgton county, Md., where ho lived
aud practiced medicine throe years,
and in the spring of tho present
year lie moved to Conococheaque in
the same county whero he died, and
where his family now live. Mr,
Hershberger says, “Ins widow is very
poor and the Dr. was addicted to
drinking.”
A man turning up in a strange
place and commencing a now role
in life, must necessarily have antes
dents to correspond to tho change.
Vinson was equal to the occasion,
and hiB fertile brain devised the
following story whioh he told whon
he located in Mercerburg aud stood
by tho remainder of his life.
He was a soldior, and member of
tho l’almotto regiment in Iho Mexi¬
can war. Was present aud assisted
in taking the city of Mexico. The
wound inflicted in his left knee by
his own hand, whon drunk at Cro*
mers mills in Doc. I860, was inflicted
ho said in battle at the taking of tho
Mexican capifcol. After his rotum
from Mexico, ho studied medicine
with Dr, Freeman at Carneavillo, and
after graduating praotioed medicino
boro until 1862. In tho year 1862
Georgia was invadod by Yankee sol¬
diers und Vinson being employed by
tlio Confederate government ns an
army Surgeon, he was captured and
confined in the jail at CafnesrilJe.
Whilo hold a prisoner in Carnesvillo
jail by his Yankee captors, his wife
was stricken with fevar and died.
Although bis residence was onty a
few doors from the jail, his cruel cap¬
tors refused him the privilege of see*
mg his wife during her sickness or
after death, Boon after tho death of
bis wife he was sent to Tennessee as
prisoner of war. 'Thorehewaskept
in close confinement for a time, but
finally mado his escape and joined
the confederate .army as a private
soldier. He was transferred to the
8th Ga. Itegimont and made army
surgeon, nud served as surgeon of
of tho Regiment until ho was Bent
by the Confederate authorities to
wait on the sick and wonnded at Mer
corburg.
In all tho story thero is no Bhadow
of truth, excopt, that ho had a broth -
who was once sheriff of this county.
Ho wbh never a soldier m tho Mexican
war, nor nearer Mexico than tho state
of Mississippi. He was never a pris¬
oner of war so far as any one knows.
He nover studied or practiced medi¬
cine in this county. He knew nothing
of tho science and practise of medi¬
cine when lie left here in 1862. There
was never a Yankee soldier In this
county until 1866. Jim Vln*oa alias
Dr. James A. Vinson was an unprin¬
cipled man. He cruelly deserted his
wife and children here, and doubtless
ruined tho life of a good woman in
Pennsylv vnia. The tidings of his
death will cause no sorrow hero.
FRANKLIN SIIERIFF SALE
Will be sold on the 1st Tuesday in
November next at the Court House
door ia said county within the legal
hours of sale to tho highest bidder
for cash the following properly to
wit:
in Ono the tract 213 dirt. or parcell G. M. of of said land lying
containing seventy county
one acres more or
less ^adjoining lands J C Wilson, J
W Canady and others. Said land is
very well improved, having erected
on it a very good buildings dwelling together and the
necessary ont
with some 80 or 35 acres of good up¬
land in a high state of cultivation.
Said land levied on by R O Harrison
L. C,, and returned to n.e for sale as
the law directs by virtue of and to
satisfy tho an execution issued issued
Justices Court of the 213
Q M of Franklin’co in favor ot
J H Moots, against Asa Gbai and E
E Obar. Written notice given ten¬
in possession as required by law
pointed out plaintiff. Thig
f. Iff. 1888,
c. McConnell, sheriff. -