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WEDNESDAY MORNIMi AtTO 18, 1880.
Xlueiui Mur ion Co*, (5
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NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKtT
FOR F RESIDENT:
W. S. HANCOCK,
VF r Bh'Kti YI. VA XIA.
FOE VICE-PRESIDENT:
W. 11. ENGLISH,
OF INDIANA.
FOR GOVERNOR:
A. H. COI4UITT.
Democratic Convention Third Con
gressional District.
The Democratic Convention for the
TliirdCongressional District,will meet
in Hawkinsvillo on Wednesday. Sep
tember Ist, to nominate a candidate
tjor the Forty-Seventh Congress
Counties will be entitled to two Del
egates for each Representative in the
Legislature as heretofore.
By order of the Executive Commit
tee.
W. 11. Willis, Chairman.
June 21, 1880-td.
Wc learn Mr. R. J. Moses will
stump the Slate for Colquitt.
—-#
Governor A. 11. Colquitt will ac
cept the recommendation of the ma
jority.
Now it is said the republicans are
vowing the census shall be reviewed
in the S- utheru States, because ol
fraudulent returns in those States.
lion. Sam Half, one of the finest
lawyers of Georgia and a Hardeman
delegate from Mr. Hardeman’s own
County, will stump the State for Col
quitt, if necessary.
Ex-Senator Norwood has accepted
the leadership of the minority, and
proposes lo do what Dr. Felton re
fused to do—try to disrupt ihe den:
ocratic party.
The Hon. Thomas M. Norwood,
the candidate of the “heroic eleven,’’
will find it difficult to place Governor
Colquitt on the defensive as the mi
nority boastfully claim. Let him ex
plain to the people why he voted for
the salary grab while United States
Senator,and pocketed the full amount
of back pay. Also, why he voted to
increase President Grant’s salary
lrom twenty-frfe thousand to fifty
thousand dollars a year, and when
the bill was veloed by Grant himself,
voted to sustain the bill. Also, how
much he is to have as paid attorney
for forcing the people of Georgia to
to pay the fraudulent bonds wdiich
they have declared, both in the Gen
eral Assembly and in the convention
of 1817, as utterly void. He will
find that the people will call upon
him at all points to explain these
prominent features of his record be
fpre hearing his indictment against
Governor Colquitt. The people nev
er fight with “stuffed clubs.”
The Macon Telegraph & Mess
enger says: When the average
Georgia Democrat reads tnat a
Qommitco of the minority of tlie
late Georgia convention have ten
dered their nomination for Gover
nor to Dr. W H Felton,the so-call
ed independent representative in
Congress from the seventh district,
he will put on his. thinking caj.
Felton is the bolting congressman
holding his position in defiance of
the organized Democracy of his
district, llis lab'rs are all di
rected to breaking down tho or
ganization, authority and influ
ence of tlieDemocratic party in his
district.
Primary election was held in Tal
bot county at the precincts yesterday
to nominate a candidate for Repre
sentative for that county, and a can
didate for Senate in that district. —
Hon. Henry Persons was endorsed for
Congress. The foHowing delegates
were appointed to represent Talbot
county in tbe nominating convention
ut LaGrange on the on the 25th
lust,: J C Maund, A J Harris, J T
philips, A T Chandler, R Brooks, S
Cottingham, D G Carreker, Sim
Smith, Maj. W A Panel, J II Wor
sl.l, Dr. R E Griggs, J T Willis and
E A Baldwin.
Tho Minority Hunting for a Gov
ernor.
The following correspondence will
explain itscll:
[Tolcg’ am ]
Atlanta, Ga., August 10 h, 1880.
Hon. \V. iI. Felton: Probnbio dis
ruption atm reeomiucudution of Col
quitt by liis fol owt rs.
Wi 1 you rmiko the race against
him, assured of strong support. An-
swer. 11. 11. CARLTON,
J. L. Wauhkn,
Wm. Gauuaud.
[Telegram, j
CarteUSVlLle, Ga., August 10th,
1880.—H Ji Carlton and others: My
friends want me to continue tho race
for congress. So 1 must decline the
race lor Governor. W. 11. I'iiLToN.
—Cartersville Free Press.
To thoso who have read daily the
proceedings of the late Gubernato
rial couvontion, the foregoing cor
respondence is a clear indication of
ihe motives of the minority in that
body in adhering to the fragmentary
fight against tho large and well -sus
tained majority. Wo say well-sus
tained majority, .3for the reason that
the delegates who cast 224 J votes for
Colquitt, with few exceptions, were
chosen by the people in primary elec
tion, while the small and factious mi
nority were chosen by those most
iniquitous of all political bodies false
ly called “mass meetings.”
Ths invitation, by 11. 11. Carlton,
of Clark, one of the most fiery and
bitter of the minority, and J, L.
Warren and William Garrard, of the
city of Savannah, (the home of lion
Thos. Norwood, the man whom the
committee of eleven nominate for
Governor of Georgia,) was sent to
Dr. Wm. H. Felton (:he head and
front of Independentism in this
State) while the convention was in
session and two days before its ad
journment, thereby showing that, in
stead of being iron-ribbed demo
ciats, as they proclaim themselves,
and true to tho time-honored princi
ple oft! at grand old party, they
were playing hide and set-k with the
man who lias, of all others, done the
organized democracy most barm in
this State. They were moving with
“malice aforethought” in the direction
(>f disintegration and a thorough
demolition of the clearly defined lines
of the oiganized democracy.
The man that they sought, fellow
democrats, to to make your loader,
has been charged by tho whole dem-
ocratic press as neither “fish nor
fowl,” “hot nor cold,’’ and deserved
to be "spewed out of the mouth" of
all good democrats And yet these
men had the temerity to meet after
the adjournment of the Gubernato
rial convention, which gavo Governor
Colquitt 2241 votes out of 34S£, and
in a spirit of self exaltation, to pro
claim themselves the “heroic and gal
lant remnant of the democratic par
ty” and appoint acommittcc of eleven
men to nominate a candidate for
Governor. That committee lias done
so. and present to the people of Geor
gia—not the Hon. Thomas Harde
man, who did have a following in the
State; not the Hon. R. E. Lester,
who also had many friends; nor Gen.
Gartrell, nor JuJgo Warner, who
were formally before tho people aod
the convection —but the Hon. Thom
as Norwood, of the city of Savannah,
a delegate to the convention who re-
fused to yield to tho clearly express
cd will of the people as represented
by the large majority in the conven
tion. Did that gentleman have the
emergency and its probable resuh
in view when he helped to force the
convention to adjourn without a nom
ination? Ah 1 who can tell? At any
rate we have not, as the Savannah
News says, “avoided the insult and
injury of having a scrubby ‘dark
horse’—the modern invention of po
litical trickery and corruption,” fois
ted upon us. The people did not
call for “another horse,'’ and they
will not have him.
the convention.
After right days wrangling and
shameful stubbornness in Atlanta,
the convention failed to agree, and
recinded the two-thirds rule, and the
mojority, with 224| votes, recom
mended Gov. A. U. Colquitt to the
people for re-election. The delegates
ilien nominated N. C. Barnett, of
Atlanta, f<>r Secretary of State; W.
A. Wright, of Atlanta, for Comp
troller General; D. N. Speer, of
Troupe, for Treasurer, by acclama
tion, and Clifford Anderson, of Ma
con, for Attorney General,
Hon. J. W. Renlioe, feeling lie]
would net havu a lair showing bofoio
the convoutim after tho icturn to
the majority rule, decided to go di
rcoily before tho people, and will
therefore bo an independent candi
date for re-election ns State Treas
urer.
After tho convention adjourned,
the minority reassembled in the
room and mado some bitter speeches
and showed their bitterness by de
claring the majority had (/one to the
independents and that tho minority
were the tine dtmoracyof Georgia.
Judge Lyon off-red tho report,
which was as follows:
1. That in the o] inion of this
meeting of our delegates, the action
of the majority of the convention in
recommending Alfred li. Colquitt as
amlidatc for governor, without his
nomination under tho rules of the
convention, is not binding on the
people of Georgia, as the action of
tho majority of the delegates in
convention is revolutionaiy and
disorganized.
2. That it is the sonsc of this
meeting that the people of the state
t-hould have a candidate for govern
or who shall represent tho principles
advocated and maintained by the
minority in the late convention
3. That a committee of one from
each congressional district and two
from the state at large be appoint'd
for tho purpose of taking suitable ac
tion for carrying the foregoing reso
lution into effect, and that the result,
of their labors be published without
delay.
They appointed a committee of
nine to prepare an address to the
people ol Georgia, and select a can
didate for Governor. The following
is the commute: Messrs. Carlton, of
Clarke, Lyon of Bibb, Wilkins, of
Mususcogee, Warren of Cbathan,
McDowell of Effingham, Imboden of
Echols, Howell of Webster, Broun
of Fulton, Alexander of Cobb, and
Hollis of Marion.
THE NEW STATE EXECUTIVE COMMIT-
TEE.
The following is the state commit
tee appointed by Colonel L. N.
Trammel by order of the convention.
State at large—Willis A Hawkins,
of Sumter; L E Shumate, of Whit
field; 11 J Moses, of Muscogee; Wm.
Phillips, of Cobb.
First district—L J Jones, of Burke;
It W Grubb, of Mclntosh.
Second district —Richard nobbs,
ot Dougherty; W A Harris, of
Worth.
Third district—John A Cobb, of
Sumter; Geo. P Woods, ot Pulaski.
Fourth district—A D Abrahams,
of Troup; T M Willis, of Talbot.
Fifth district—W T Newman, of
Fulton; J II Mitchell, of Pike.
Sixth district—John L Wimberly,
of Twiggs; John L Hardeman, of
Bibb.
Seventh district—Arthur II Gray,
of Catoosa; Newton I Turnlin, of
Polk.
Eight district—Wilberforce Dan
iel, of Richmond; Miles W Lewis, of
Greene.
Ninth district—C J Welborn, of
Union; Tyler M Peeples, of Gwin
nett.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Augusta Chronicle: After a pro
longed and at limes bitter contest,
the members of the democratic state
convention have agreed to disagree
upon tlie nomination of governor,
but united upon t h e presidential
ticket and all other officers. We re
gret that there should have been any
division of this kind, but tho minori
ty would have it so, and they must
take the conseqm nee of their stub
born resolve. It was a mistake, we
think, that the majority rule was not
insisted on from the beginning. 01
c iur.se, there would have been avocif
erous outcry upon tne part of Gov
ernor Colquitt's opponents, but even
that would not have been as bad as
what has really happened, Having,
however, adopied tho two-thirds rule
it had to be abhorred to, and tho mi
nority were sufficiently powerful to
create a dead-lock that continued to
tbe end and left the majority no oth
er alternative but to propose to the
people of tbe name of Governor Col
qu tt lor re-election, and ask their
siifiragcs in October next. This was
the best and wisest course left them,
and we have no doubt that the masses
of Georgians will respond in such a
way as to carry. Alfred 11. Colquitt
into the governorship for tho second
time, enthusiastically and triumph
antly. The ramp ol the convention,
the irreconcilable element, the un
yielding fragment, may place in the
field against, him another candidate,
but lie will lead a forlorn hope and
be beaten disastrously,
Macon Telegraph: We are sure
that democrats who insist on bring-
ing out an opposition candidato will
bo sadly disappointed in the result of
their undertaking, whether it be a de
feat of their own man ortho election
of Colquitt, or of the so-called re
publican candidate. Let democrats
who think they cannot vote for 00l
quitt avoid pushing their antagonism
to a point which will destroy the uni
ty of the party. Such an internecim
contest as is now tbcateiicd in Geor
gia must be one of the most calatn
itoua to tho state and to the national
democracy that can well bo imagin
ed. As to the state, it remits us t >
the chapter of accidents and cn-uul
tics In a squabble wi'h so call and re
publicanism. It wi I kindle person
al animosities—hard lo bo healed. —
It will distract our great industrial
interests, and oust us perhaps mil
lions, and result in no good at all.—
As to the cause of the national dem
ocracy, what can ho more discour
aging than to see Giorgia, which has
won so much respect and reputation
as a progressive, intelligent and to
la bio commonwealth, thrown into
such due rd and disorganization as
those movements portend.
Macon Telegraph: Minorities have
no power to heal disorders except by
concession They can only ag
gravate the quarrel and make the
breach more disastrous ami incura
ble.
Savannah News: A majority of
the convention, amounting to almost,
two-thirds, has been forced by' a com
bined minority to adjourn without a
formal nomination of a candidate
for governor, while the minority, in a
manner that has no precedent in our
political history, assuming tho char
acter of a convention of the peoples’
delegates, proceed to organize party
division and to place a candidate in
the field. Reduced to ils last anal
ysis, tho result is an undisguised at
tempt on tho paitot the minority of
the convention to overrule tho will of
the peopli as expressed by tho ina
jority. General Colquitt who, after
a bittor and relentless canvass, stood
in the convention with a plurality
of nearly Fur to oue over his
highest opponent, and a majority of
nearly three to one over tho com
bined opposition, is called upon to re
tire from the contest in humiliation
and disgrace, while his opponents
cast about over the state for some
new candidate who they are willing
to support for governor. At this
late hour w 7 e cannot discuss such a
preposterous demand. Suffice it at
this time to say that we shall have to
change our democracy of Georgia
very much before we can believe that
they will countenance and approve
such revolutionary usurpation, out
rage and injustice,
New Oileans Picayune: That ac
tion was to all intents and purposes
equivalent to a nomination, and will
be so regarded bv tho Georgia Dem
ocracy. There is no doubt that
Governor Colquitt will be elected by
a large majority.
The Rome Bulletin fays: Tf the
convention in Atlanta adjourns with
out a nomination, on the heads of an
impudent minority will rest ail the
blame. On the other hand the clear
headed, overwhelming majority will
go home with light hearts, feeling that
ihey have been true to their trust,
God, and their native land
The Rome Tribune says: He is a
poor judge of humanity who says
Governor Colquitt is a weak man.
His erect caniage, stern eye and rug
ged countenance, denotes exactly to
the contrary. In fact he is very
strong/nan in every sense of the
word—strong in will, strong in pur
pose and strong in resolve#.
The Atlanta Constitution says: The
question with the minority was no;
who the people want for governor,
but who would become the champion
of tne prejudices of a few men-
Tlis Macon Herald: We would
consistently oppose Governor Col
quitt before the convei tion; but when
it comes to joning the independents
and fighting tho organized party in
order to defeat him we beg to be ex
cused. We cannot go that far.
The New York Tribune says: A
deadlock has been produced in the
Georgia democratic convention by
the two-thirds rule. The majorty
will not give up their candidate, Gov
ernor Colquitt, and the minority will
not permit his nomination. Proba
bly two state tickets will bo run.
Both factions will support the Han
cock electoral ticket, however. If
there was such a thing as a repub
lican p; rty inCeorgi i.lierc would seem
to be an opportunity for it t® elect
the next governor of the state.
1 here is no such thihg, however.
There are thousands of republican
voters, but no party. If tney tried
to form an organiza'ion and make a
contest, tho two wings ol the demo
cracy would shut together like a jack
knife.
The North Georgia Times: Colquitt
lias been nominated—yes,overwhelm
ingly nominated—by the people—who
are more powerful than any conven
tion—and the people will elect him
independently and triumphantly if
the convention does not ratily their
action, The will ol the people shall
and will prevail.
Dalton Citizen (anti Colquitt). As
a good democrat, iron-ribbed and
irue to the time-honored principles of
that grand old party, we think for
the sake of harmony, that the minor
ity should have yielded to the major
ity and given the democratic banner,
wj,:h a unanimous, rising vo/e, into
the hands of that Christian patriot,
Alfred H. Colquitt.
The fastest trotting of the world
was done at Rochester, N, Y., on the
12th insf., by Maud S., in 2.113
time to the mile. St. Jqlien made a
mile in 2.13f minutes,
A lady in Columbns was shocked a
few days ago by lightning and after
ward went in:o convulsions, but is
now better.
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
Rick, Nava no, Cos., Aug. 3, ISBO.
KMTOtt Abous:—Many peo[)lc in
the old statca wliish to know whut
sort of country Texas is, nnj it is
right tout they abould know, but
there is n presiateni effort on the
part of interested partus to keep
them iu ignorance, that they may as
much as possiblo prevent emigration,
It is not to my interest in this com
munication to deceive any one, as I
have no land lor sale, but expect to
make my living by raising stock. Im
migration will tako the range and is
therefore detrimental to my individ-
ual interest; but this country is too
valuable to remain long unsettled,
and I have many friends that I wish
to avail themselves of the present op
portunity of greatly bettering their
condition. Hence my excuse for
writing. Eastern Texas is a good
deal after the order of the old states,
and I would not advise farmers with
horses to break up and go there.
Among the hills it is generally poor
and healthy but on the water courses
it is rich and unhealthy,
Western Texas is generally a
prairie Country with a sufficiency of
timber for fire-wood and fence posts.
In many sections there is an abun
dance for fencing and building pur
poses. The face of the country, as a
general thing, is about as undulating
as is neccsary for the best, but, like
other countries, there are some very
broken and very- level sections. It is
different from any other country 1
ever saw, however, in the fertility of
the soil. It is rich every where in
in the valleys and on the top of the
highest hills. Not much difference
in healthiness. Most of the water
courses go dry hi the summer, but
that is no great inconvenience, as we
can, by building dams across hollows,
save as much water as we want for
all purposes. The earth holds water
here like a jug, and it never escapes
until used or taken up by evaporation.
There are many constant springs all
over the country, but not a sufficien
cy for all purposes. With the rain
falls that we have here crops are
about as certain as they are in the
old states. The seasons thus lar for
the present year have been very pro
pitious. The wheat crop of the
county averages 12 to 15 bushels per
acre; the oat crop 50 to 60. The
corn crop will average 35 bushels
and will soil for twenty to twenty
live cents per bushel. In the early
fall it may bo bought at 15 cents-
Wild prairie lands may bo purchased
here for from three to six dollars per
acre. Improved lands are higher ac
cording to improvements. Fencing
land is quite an object, but no more
than clearing and fencing timbered
land. Lumber is worth 17 to2odol-
lars per thousand feet. The range is
giving away to some extent from the
influx of immigration, but thousands
of horses are raised in the coumry
that never know what it is to be fed
until they are taken up for use. Many
mares die lrom oid age that never
ham to oat corn. There is plenty of
grass for hay yet, and but few fann
ers pull their fodder. Cattle arc
moving west. Sheep raising is quite
profitable, the owners often realizing
100 per cent, on their capital.
The pionter country is quite healthy
except on the water courses. It is
a mistake about rich land and good
health not going together. There
arc lands in this county that will
make a bale of cotton or o 0 bushel ■
of corn per aero on which I would as
oon risk my hea th as any place in
your county.
Texas is fifty years ahead of the
old states in the use ot improved im
proved implements in farming. All
the hay is cat with mowers run by
horse-power. The reaphook and cra
dle are laid aside for the reaper, har
vester and/elf-binder all ran by horse
power. Instead of the old fashioned
plow, we uso the sulkcy plow ar.d
cultivator, either walking or riding.
With the reapers, one hand and team
can cut and bind 10 to 15 acres of
grain per day, and with the improv
ed plow can cultivate 50 acres. To
cultivate land here requires one-third
ess work than is necessary in the
[other Southern States.
We have a good many railroads in
operation and many others under way
ot construction and in anticipation.
So we have access to the world as
well as any other country or scetion.
Much is said >n condemnation of
Texas society. I presume society is
about ns good in Texas as any other
State iu tho Union, except on ti e
fiontier, and an good there as on tho
frontier of any of tlie Western States,
it is assaiß.'d to keep people from
leaving the other Status t ■ come here.
Texas is dislined soon to be the em
piric State of tho Union.
Rcspelfuliy,
Julius Turner.
The Conyers Weekly reports that
upon an average they have the fin
est cotton crop in Rockdale county
ever known before. If nothing hap
pens to it now, there will be received
at least 2,500 more bales at that
place this season than last, which
will make a diffVrenco of $125,000,
counting cotton at ten cents.
The Conyers Weekly learns that
an exceedingly rich gold mine lias
been discovered on the plantation of
Mr. Henry Maddox, of Rockda'e
county. Already an enormous price
has been spoken of, but the fortunate
owner will probably keep it. Work
in the mine will must likely be com
menced at once.
London, August 13.—A Paris
dispatch says a mass of earth fell
yesterday and crushed two houses
at Vieuxport, near Piortiers.
l'cn bodies have been recovered.
Ten more are said to be under the
ruins. The fall of the earth was
occasioned bv an immense land
slide, which destroyed some large
lime kilns.
Dublin Gazette.—Last Wednes
day morning a young man, in this
place, awoke from a refreshing
night’s slumber, both deaf and
dumb, nor lias he spoken a word
since or heard at all. The night
before when lie retired, lie could
talk and hear as we.’l as lie ever
could ll c remembers no nnpleas.
apt feeling during the night, nor is
ho effect id in any other way, We
sympathize with the young man
who is very intelligent and a gen
eral favorite with everyone. lie
is about twenty-one or twent-two
years old.
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL SERIES
A Change in School BeokS.
Talbot ton Register.]
After careful examination and
consultation with several of the
teachers in our county and in Geor
gia, including such ripe scholars
and experienced teachers as Rev.
Prof. J. T. McLaughlin, Prof. John
E. Fuller, Prof. J." S. McDowell,
Prof. T. L. Johnson, Prof John A.
Clements, Prof. J. P. Nelson, Prof.
J. H. Hammett, Prof J. B. Mc-
Dowell and others, the .Board of
Education of Talbot county on
Tuesday, the Gth, rescinded and re
voked their adoption of Appleton’s
Series last year, and adopted and
prescribed instead for a term of live
years, the text-books published by
Messrs Ivirson, Balkeman, Taylor,
<fc Cos., New York and Chicago, and
who have a large depository in Ma
con, in the house of J. W. Burke
& Cos., under the immediate man-
agement of our friend, Capt. Rob
ert E. Park Those books include
the New Graded, American Edu
cational Readers, Cathcart's Lit
erary Reader, Swinton’s Word
Books of Spelling, Swinton’s Ge
ographies, Swinton’s Histori s’
Specerian Copy Books, Robinson’s
Arithmetics, and Webster’s School
Dictionaries. All of these books
were in pretty general uso in Tal
bot county, and they were popular
with teacher and pupils. Recent
ly our neighboring counties of Mus
cogee, Harris, Upson, Taylor and
Meriwether adopted Series.
Every county between Columbus
and Atlanta on the C. R. R. now
uses this Series. The four largest
Sourthorn cities, with the oldest
and best established public
schools, viz; Baltimore,Md., Nash
ville, Tenn., Mobile, Ala., and
Charleston, S. C., use these excel
lent books, and last week ten
Georgia counties adopted this Se
ries and proscribed their use for the
ensuing live years.
The New Graded Readers aro
the best graded, best printed on
best type, abound in best, purest
chastest and choicest selections,
are best illustrated, best bound
and best adapted to school room
wants of any books now before the
public. Swinton’s Geographies
and Word Spellers and Histories
aro used almost as universally as
those ever popular books, Webs
ter’s School Dictionaries, and Par
leys’s Universal History. They
are to be found in almost every
household, and grow constantly
more and more popular every
where.
Robinson’s Arithmetics have for
years been the mathematical text
books in our widely known and
time honored Col insworth Insti
tute, and very many of our best
oducatedmcn were trained in these
admirable books. Robinson docs
not make a hobby of ono
system, but employs analysis,
synthesis and all other late and
improvod methods. Tho cities of
Columbus and Savannah use these
books as their mathematical sc
ries, and deem them superior to
all others.
Spencerian copy Books are tho
original ones, and all others aro
copies and imitation of them, it
is useless to spe k of Webster’s
Dictionaries. They aro known
and recognized as the Eng’ish and
American standard wherever our
tongue is spoken.
We invito attention to tho fol
lowing article from the Macon
Telegraph & Messenger :
TIIK SCHOOL BO (IK WAR.
Brom the Jonesboro News wo
ake the following account of tho
proceedings of the Board of Edu
cation cfFayette county:
On the 25th of June this impor
tant body of educators met at
Fayetteville, the county site, and
selected text books for public
schools of tiie county. /’crimps
no county lias ever had such a
fierce and animated contest on tho
book question as has agitated this
exclient, solid county during the
last several weeks. Rev W P
Smith and I II Van N.<sh, of D.
Applet >n & Cos., Robert E Park
of Ivirson, Blakcnian, Baylor&,
Cos.. Kendrick,of University Pub
lishing Cos., and L V LaFaste, of
Lippincott cfc Cos. have all active
ly and zealously convassed tho
teachers,members of the board and
citizens generally, the main point
of dispute and controvesy being
between the New Graded Readers,
represented by Mr. 7’aric, and
Appleton’s Reader, represented
by Messrs. Nasli and Smith. That
contest was earnest, in fact, bitter.
The members of the board are
among the very best citizens of
Fayette, gentlemen of high social
standing, <f fine education, of
discriminating judgement, and
who were impartial and desirm s
for the best interests of the teach
ers and tho children of the coun
tv .
As we stated before, the fight
was between the three readers;
New Graded Readers. Appleton’s
Readers, and Jlo'm>'s, Readers.
The first mentioned was unanimous
ly adopted.
ANIIOUNC EMENTS
the Voters of Schley County.
I hereby announce inys. lt'as an In
dependent candidate for tho Legi-da
ure from -Schley county, at the elec
ton in October next. I earnest y so
licit your suppoi t.
june29tf H. G. DANIEL.
To the Voters of Marion County.
I am a candidate for re-election to tho
office of County Treasurer and solicit
your voles. Election first Wednesday
in January next. Respectfully,
td " H, Stevens.
To tire Voters of Marion County
I respectfully announce mj’self ns a
candidate for election to tho office of
Tax Collector at the ensuing January
election, and solicit your support. I
have lived in tho county over 40 years
and have never asked you to honor me
before, and hope my life has not been
such as to merit dishonor now.
td. J. B. Minteu.
For Clerk of Superior Court.
To the Totors of Marion County.
I hereby announce myself as a candidat.
for the office of Clerk of Superior Court at
the election in January next. If elected I
promise to try and make a faithful and ac
commodating officer.
Respectfully Ac.,
J. S. McCORKLE.
To the Voters of Marion County.
Fellow Citizens:
I am a candidate for election to tho
[louse of Representatives, from the
county of Marion, in the in xt Legis
lature, and respectfully solicit your sup
port. I will submit my claim loyally
to the action of a Democratic nominat
ing convention, if one should tie order
ed. S. B. STORY.
July 19th, 1880-td
FOE THE BEN ATI,
We are authorized to announce that W. B.
BUTT, of Buena Vista, is a candidate for
the Georgia Senate from this (the -24th) dis
trict, snbiect to the action of the nominating
convention td
FOR TAX-COLLECTOR'.
To the Voters of Marion County
I hereby announce myself as a candidate
for llio offieo of Tax-Collector at the election
to be held in January next, and I solicit
your sufferago. W. J. SMITH.
July Sth, 1880-td.
FOR THE SENATE.
We are authorized to annoncc that
J is. D Wilson, of Marion, is a cand
date for the Georgia Senate from this
(the 24thdistrict. Subject the ac
tions fo the nominating covcntion.
For County Treasurer^
To til* Voters of Illation County.
I am a cand date for the office of
connty Treasurer, and solicit your votes,
at the election in January next.
W. A. McMICUAEL.
Aug. 3rd, 1880- td.