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The Oglethorpe Echo
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Entered at the pogtoffleein Lexington, Georgia, at
second-class mail matter.
Lexington, Ga,, Friday, January 17, 1890.
(toEiTHoui'V, county must hold a
county fair next fall, it is about time
the enterprise was being talked up.
Crops should lie pitched with an eye to
it.
None, of Lexington's real estate deals
are for speculation. Those who have
bought have bought to hold and im
prove That kind of dealing builds up
.
a town solidly.
Another eflort is being made to re¬
vive the boom of Hill for President.
This is among the politicians, The
people want Cleveland in 1*fi~ and no
one hut Cleveland will satisfy them.
Cm t .e Joey's seat in the Cnitcd
Stales Senate remains vacant because
of the ill health of Geogia’s senior Sen
ator. Democratic seats are too scarce
in that body for this to remain thus.
Gov. Gordon has set apart the 20th
insi., Lee’s birthday, as a legal holiday.
It should he observed, for without some
such observance how soon do we forget
the great men of the past who were
loved and honored.
Some of our cotemporaries are urg¬
ing the erection of a monument to
A. II. Stephens. May we ask if the
Stephens high school was not built by
popular subscription as a monument to
the dead commoner?
Tins time two years ago county
ilics were raging. Y\c don t mention
this fact complainingly, hut to ottei
congratulations to the public that it is
not so now. And we can stand a half
year oi such quietude yet.
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On: friend, <'lark Howell takes the
lamented Henry “the Grady’s place as man
aging editor of great Constitution.
Though he succeeds the only Grady he
is the only Clark Howell, and none olh
er can take Grady’s place better than
he.
From all indications the tables have
turned as to the colonization of the
blacks. It was first asked for by that
race, and the whites were so quick in
acceding to their desires that now they
are not as anxious for it as they thought
t hey were.
The fee for inspecting fertilizers has
been reduced to ten cents per ton, and
the railroad commission has reduced
the rates of freight on the commodity
twenty per cent. Now we wait to see
whether the consumer or producer will
pocket these reductions.
The man who superintended the
building of the first locomotive built in
America amt who ran the first engine
over the first track laid in America died
only a few days ago. This gives some
idea of how speedy has been the devel¬
opment of this country of ours.
We hope the press nor the people
have not forgotten the Davis memorial
fund. We seldom see it mentioned,
however. Of all heroes Davis was the
dearest to the people who loved him,
and the cause for which the memorial
fund is intended is indeed a worthy
one.
An English company has recently
bought 24,000 acres of laml in Twiggs
county. It is announced that this com
pany will put a colony of thrifty tenants
upon this property. That will do; hut
we don’t want any estate* of English
lonls ill liCOl£ia managed UN the\ ^ 1 *^'
in Ireland.
Lexington will never be a metrop
Ohs, hut with the present slight boom
as a uuclens, her citizens can l»v showing
commendable spirit and pulliug togeth¬
er make her one of the best business
towns in this section. Shelias all the
natural advantages necessary to make
her such.
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Tin 1 HI. *\uauhl MUrnDi (J t OlKlIlUll institution l has ‘ nnt I Ul on 11
a new dress. It is mught-V pretty iu a
printer s eyes, but the general public
cry out for mercy. The type is
and more trying on their eyes. Since
white paper IS SO much cheaper than
eyesight, . 4 our metropolitan press should i
use more of the fonner together with
larger type and spare some of the lat
tor. i his is just a hint.
TITR OGLETHORPE ECHO: LEXINGTON. GA., FRIDAY. .TAXCARY 17. 1890.
JUST A LITTLE WARNING.
The saving goes that ki adviec is
cheap.” The same might apply to war
nings as well. Hut were it more costly
\vc would as willingly give it to our far
mcr friends, for it is mainly upon them
tliat we depend for a support. When
they prosper we prosper; when they
fail we must make the best of failure
100.
The warning we would give them
now is as to being over confident. En
couraged by the abundant crops of last
year, there is more or less a disposition
to “go it un a larger scale,” to use a
common expression, this year. This
spirit of enterprise is commendable, hut
we would warn them to he careful that
they do not overstep the bounds of pru¬
dence. Last year was a remarkable one
in its abundant crops; we may not
reasonably expect to have just such
another in decade. It will not be safe
therefore, , „ to , base operations ...... loi this
year upon the outcome of last. It
would be more prudent to base them
upon the previous year or an average
one at least.
All things seemed to work together
last year to lift the farmers of this sec¬
tion out of their despondency. It would
be too had for them to lose by miscal
culations this year what they have
gained. We would but say, therefore,
to our farmer friends he as careful as
if the crop had been no more profitable
than an average one. It is of as much
or more importance that they hold to the
advantages they have than that they
double those advantages. There is as
much need for judgement and diligence
this year as there has ever been.
LEXINGTON’S BOOM.
It is a solid one—not a flurry—and
one that means the substantial and per¬
manent upbuilding of the town, both
iii point of population and its business.
It is an evidence that there is a bright¬
er and more prosperous time ahead for
the town and community. This is, of
course, gratifying to eycry citizen of
the place as well *ns numbers through¬
out the county who feel an interest in
their county town, and who have fore¬
sight enough to see that its boom is
likely to he fell beyond its incorporate
limits.
Ilut this boom is just now on its first
legs and yet in a tottering stage. Much
depends upon the spirit evinced by the
citizens of the town as to whether
i will continue as it, has , , begun or not; .
I
wheth(!r it will grow and he kept up
j UI pjj Oic town has reached that size arid
j pg business that volume as the sur
, roun ,]j n ,r country will sustain and sup
p 0rt _ j( j s now a ^ (jic beginning of the
boom that is necessary above all other
times for the citizens to show a broad
and liberal public spirit and enterprise.
Th «y must renlii5C ,hilt lhe in,ercst9 of
j tllt) ll,w " aru ,ir8t »"" anil their own
; individual interests must be laid aside
for awhile, for if the former is worked
for with a will and in perfect harmony
the latter will eventually follow as a
natural consequence.
Each and every citizen must impress
upon himself the indisputable fact
that unless the town is made to grow
and its importance as a business point
made greater, the possessions of indi¬
vidual citizens must not only fail to in¬
crease in value hut rather decrease.
Nor can any one citizen be a laggard
and wait for lhe balance to display their
public spirit. Every citizen has his
full duty to perform, and unless every
citizen performs his full duty no great
things can he accomplished.
Had not every citizen aided in the
building of the railroad it might never
have been built. It took all the aid ev¬
ery citizen could possibly give to ac¬
complish the purpose. It is just so
.M, tile continuation oi the Loom the
railroad has given the town. In this
we see the good effects of an enterprise
in which every inhabitant, we might
say, took an interest. That stroke of
enterprise is having its effect, but we
cannot afford to stop with it. Other
duties arc as imperative. There is more
need for union of action now than ev
or; there is a greater necessity for what
may appear as sacrificing public spirit
now than ever.
Let the people of the town forget for
| awhilo thcir own priv!Uc pockets;
> thorn come willingly and unsolicited to
j the aid o[ every enterprise; lot them
work t0ffCth er, with only the. upbuild
illR of thp town iu vicw , a „d the
place, so lonir •' Since classed dead, Will
a\N aKC, % ami I 111 a f lew years ll will ... , UC a
»ve. hustling little city peopled with a
, Paring, What we warn content ana that citizenry. is what we That must is
work for.
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A l>KMOt KATIC paper edited by col
(Uu i nun v. lids , j been established i • v
ill aoyn
York ui K. II. ll' main mam ohieei OOJLCt will Will ho DC .O <hmr snow
' ilS reader which of the two threat l>ar
’ ties . IS really n their friend and / patron.
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Sf\ ator Morgan, of Alabama, open
e fi the colonization question in Con
gress on the T.h inst.. with a speech
favorin ,T ^ the removal of the negroes ^ of
the South to the Congo basin in Africa.
A s might he expected the Republicans
are not in favor of this. Votes cast in
< Africa could not be counted for them,
THE EABMER AMD PROTECTION.
Jn*t Wlmt t!ie One lui* llad upon llie Oilier
,l "‘ ! u “'
j The American farmer, although he I
cultivates the most fertile soil in the I
world, and ought to be the most pros
porous member of the community, is
constantly engaged in a hard struggle
to secure a comfortable support for his
family and a moderate education for
his children, and to pay his taxes and
keep out of debt. This is all he can
reasonably majority hope to accomplish; in do a
large of cases he fails to
this, and sooner or later is compelled
to sell or mortgage his land and reduce
his expenses to the lowest possible fig¬
ure. He has a paternal government
which has determined that certain
classes of industry ought to he main¬
tained at the public expense, and for
thirty years he has been taxed for their
j j support; industries and have now become after these rich and favored
pow
j erful, they combine and confederate
under the name of trusts, syndicates
an j p 00 i s> an d dictate the terms upon
which the people may procure the nec
essaries of life and carry on their busi¬
ness. I 'ruler our system of taxation the
farmer is almost without tire semblance
of power to protect his own interests.
The manufactures can foresee with al
most absolute certainty what the quan¬
tity of their product will he upon the
hands, employment of any given number of
and therefore, they can combine
j whenever they choose to limit produc- farm
tion and increase prices; hut the
er’s crop depends almost entirely upon
the character of the seasons he may
have, lie cannot decide in advance
how much he must plant in order to
furnish a supply that will not be in ex¬
cess of the demand.
Notwithstanding disadvantages under these which and many the oth¬ far¬
er
mer labors, and which no act of Con¬
gress can remove, Senator Cullom
thinks protection has been more bene¬
ficial to him than to anyone else, and
he refers to “the great improvement in
the material welfare of the farming and
country people” during the last thirty
or forty years to justify his opinion.
“All this comfort and general improve¬
ment” he attributes to protection. It
would be far more reasonable to con¬
clude that if they had been exempt
from this heavy taxation and permitted
to expend their money for the improve¬
ment of their children there would be
fewer mortgages upon their land and a
greater degree, of comfort and prosperi¬
ty among the farmers and country peo¬
ple.
JVicElrec’s Wfne of Cardul
and THEDFORD'S BLACK DRAUGHT are
lor sale by the following merchants in
Oglethorpe county:
\v. a. t.atimkk, Lexington,
A. A. RAYI.E, Anon.
ciieney a caelaway, RainUtown.
Vied™ iKY^A^Yoint EREKMAN' Peter,
I jti NTEit' & co., Stephens,
winter amooke, wintervilie.
A.'T.'nRioirnY eel! m'iVi-nY' lllc '
M - smith, Smithonin.
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OIV A1N _____ U U I
! -or—
i CRAWFORD'S ECZEMA WASH
Is an absolute Specific for
Dandruff and all Diseases and
Humors of the Scalp.
If you have any scalp trouble get a bottle at
once. It contains no poison or grease and is an
elegant hair dresse r.
JOHN CRAWFORD & CO.,
Proprietors, Athens, tia.
! Jester’s Restaurant,
BROAD STREET,
^THEITS, -
Meals at all Hours.
ITHIRNISHES I 1 Oysters fried, stewed, broiled
and raw; fresh fish fried, baked and stewed;
Quail on toast; steak. Ham and Eggs, etc. The
cheapest place to buy Candies, Oranges, Apples,
Peanuts, liniiannas, Grapes, Cocoa nuts, Cider,
etc., at wholesale or retail.
W. A. JESTER, Proprietor.
i
j JQJ) flRST-CLASS BOILERS
Tanks, Stacks,
Tubes, Engines,
Gina, Mills.
j Address See, E, Loatari & Co. August*, fa
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Bn't w ira. u ittuj /.a Ou/T
i INSURE YOUR LIFE!
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And Thereby
PrOY^ fOF YOUF DeDCIldeiltS !
j AMsGllthe for Fidelity Life In
T agent tbo
I surancct'nnipanv, rtSTe. of Philadelphia, and will
a "VT^ M
Kies tori this all company in this and well adjoining
«.unities and policy holders are pleased, j
The question, “Ought l to insure mv life?” is
| no longer an open one. Txive for one’s family;
% careful regard for the future well fare of those
, ear to ns, settles it.
The Fidelity is endorsed and patronized State and by
many of the best, thinking men iu the
in this countv, Hopkins/ among whom we mav mention—
,, r , s President of lhe Georgia
Technological Hardeman, School. of Georgia.
lion. It. F. Treasurer
Hon. l>r. J. Will. Todd, A. Wright, lion. Comptroller-General. ilaygood and
S. Wm. A.
manv other of the most successful business men
of Atlanta.
it '1 .!mii'k!i'!! 1 ViisLw.'‘iLLwY' e. 1 L'l'tovnoifis]
he ^t^&k^lL^ii^civ^ and give
Stewart many others it their patrou- I
age and endorsement.
Remember, that at 30 vears of age a weeklv
3 ^
J. J. BACON, Agent, j
jiyisi Lexington, Ca. i
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3*8
LB®
.41 Ifotiom Price*.
In[ecton, Shlfiine,
Pulley, Belting,
and Fitting.
Blank Books!
With the beginning of a
Xcw Year, merchants start
off with a new. clean set of
Books.
*
My stock embraces ev¬
erything that can be desir¬
ed in Quantity, Quality, Va¬
riety and Lowness of price.
Inspection Invited.
d. w. mcgregor,
ATHENS, GA.
ISPBurke’s Old Stand.
Crawford Academy,
OGLETHORPE COUNTY, GA.
npiIE 1 SPRING TERM of 1SOO will begin Mon
Jay the Bill Fall of Term January will anti begin continue 1st six of
months. The the
September ami continue three ami a half mohtlis.
RATES OF TUITION:
Primary Department, per month, $ 2.00
Intermediate Department, per month,...... 2.50
Classical Department, per month, TOO
Pupils will between receive the ages benefit of of six the and eighteen
years the Public Fund
for four months any time during the year.
Oral and written’examinations will be held
monthly. Discipline will bo
We will make specialty firm. of boys
and girls for a class in college. preparing
earnestly' nuy solicit help, promise
We your and
entire satisfaction, will under
The Music Department be the con
trot of Miss Lizzie Cheney. Terms $8.0G per
month.
Hoard at $7.00 per month.
For further particulars apply to
A. S. RHODES, Principal.
o 1090.-o
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Lexington, Oglethorpe Co., Ga.
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rpllls L in Institution, community for noted’ boys for and health,.refinement pil ls, is located
a
and culture. The building is a commodious
brick structure welt suited for school purposes.
CALENDAR.
Spring Term of i> mos. opens Wednesday,’Aug. Wednesday, Jan. 15.
Fall Term of 4 mos. opens 0.
•il-TUITlON :«•
PRIMARY CLASS, per month......... $1.50
INTERMEDIATE CLASS, per month,. IL
ACADEMIC CI.ASS, per month........ I
COLLEGIATE CLASS, per month...... :i.oo
Payable by the close of each term.
Tuition will be charged from date of entrance
to the close of the term.
Incidental fee. Spring term, 50cts.; Fall term,
25 cts., in advance.
Deduction of public fund will be made from
above rates.
Methods of Instruction and Text Hooks the
latest approved. prepared for the higher claesss of col¬
lege. Pupils
The Principal and Trnstecsjpledgefaithful school worthy and the
united efforts to make the
patronage which good families they respectfully $(i.00 solicit. 10.00
Hoard in from to $ per
month.
For particulars address
M. S. WEAVER, Principal,
Eatonton, Ca.
After January 1st, Lexington, Ga.
]
On reading anil eunsidering the petition t>f John
G. Gibson, nominated Kxecutor of Susan M.
Wntv, deceased, to prove in solemn form a paper
minZvdd^^^
Lewi* N. .Tones be and he minor is hereby children appointed of Win.
guardian ad litem of the
1*. Rembert; and that Sallie P. Reitibert be- &au
she is hereby appointed guardian ad litem of the
minor children of James C. Rembert, decea set!.
all named in said petition. It is further ordered
that all the heirs at law of said Susan M- show
cause, if any they can, in the Courthouse at
Lexington, Georgia, at the regular term of this
court on the first Monday in February 1S90, why
said paper should not be proved in solemn form
as the last will and testament of said Susan M.
and admitted to record on such probate; that
said heirs who reside in this State and said
diansmf litem be each served personally with a
copv of this i»etitton and order at least ten days
oriBiuti- ami copies 14 oriieiLi to bn H i.sneii; ami
So'""a’nl^Te^ 1 Wn».P. Rembert, non
residents of this State, to-wit:
J. T. Rembert, Victoria E. Hall and Serena
Morton, bv the publication of this order in the ;
fi^by
SSrStiXa ^
cerutHl * joel J. bacon, ordinary,
GOODS IN SEASON!
In Endless Profusion Now Arriving- at
M. MYERS & CO,’S,
Cclloc'o G-a.
Ami tho\ will I'outimio t<> arrive dining the or tiro Fall and AY inter, keep¬
ing our assort monl fully up to iho standard of thebest. Our line
of Carpets and Hugs will bo especially oonijiloto, while
ear sleek of Shoos will bo second (o none. Ill
Pt'v Hoods wo are ne\ov outdone.
M. MYERS & CO.. ATHENS, GA.
-^HASELTON & DOZIER’S^
Music and Art Emporium,
1 12 East Clayton St., Athens, Ga.
We will sell for the next Sixty Days anything in our
Stock of Pianos and Organs and other Musical
Instruments at special reduced rates.
Splendid 4 octave Organs for $30. Magnificent 5 octave Parlor Organs,
4 sets reeds, with stool and book, for $55. Elegant Upright Pianos,
with stool and cover, from $250 up to $1,000. A full stock of all other
Musical Instruments, a beautiful lot of Pictures and elegant Picture
Frames, with a complete assortment of Art Goods at reduced prices.
Come and see us before you buy. Wc will sell for cash, on time or on
installments.
HASELTON & DOZIER, Athens, Ga.
CASH *STORE1
J. P. ARMISTEAD,
CRAWFORD, GA •9
General Merchant-Cotton Buyer.
Remember me. I will sell more goods in shorter time for less money
than any competitor. I only mention the above that you may be sure to
call on me before you buy elsewhere. Obediently yours,
J. 1\ ARMISTEAD.
NEW * FURNITURE!
The Finest, Best and Cheapest in the South!
FLEMING & BOWLES
T 2 a.e G-zestt Leaders,
AUGUSTA, • • • • GEORGIA.
838 1 S37 I^llis Streets.
Thos. Bailey, Agent.
Iron and Brans Castings, Mil}
and Gin Gearing, Shaft¬
i ing, Hangers and Pul¬
mm leys. Full line of
lhe celebrated
Osborne Reaping and Mowing
Machinery, Meadow King
s ■ " fA Mowers and Gregg
•A Reapers; Colton
ui Presses,
% ■EM Cane Mills, Evaporators, and
Mill Supplies of all kinds.
Ar We are offering special
bargains in Circu¬
lar Saw Mills,
Steam Engines, and Turbine Water Wheels and Bolling Cloth at short
notice, , Hancock Inspirators, the great boiler feeder, Eberman
Single Handle In jectors, Low Prices and none belter. Pip¬
ing, Valves, Gearing, Fittings of all kinds,
Packing, Steam Gauges, Glass Gauges.
Let us know what you want and get our prices before buying.
ATHENS FOUNDRY & MACHINE WORKS.
.A.tlieia.s, G-ecrgla.
L. D. SLEDGE & Co.,
Druggists and Pharmacists,
ST., - ATHENS.