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Volume XNIL==Number 27.
BARGAIN BAYS
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DAVISON & LOWE’S
HLL • THIS • WEEK. &
Encouraged by the appreciation shown of our Goods and Prices
since the opening of this season, we are redoubling our
efforts to please our customers. We will let
no house offer greater bargains nor
better selections of goods.
ltssk Eareftilly Over Tfjese Offerings:
THIS W r EEK’S SPECIALS.
Best Ammonia oc pint. Complexion Soap 5c cake.
Aimon Oil Butter Milk
5c for large cakes Snow Cap Soap, worth 10c.
5c for pure Castile Soap, worth 10c.
5c box for Jap. Tooth Picks, 5 packages to each box.
15c for Hudnut’s Perfumes, worth 25c.
Good Tooth Brushes 5c, 10c, 15c and 20c.
Good Hair Brushes 25c, 35c, 50c and 75c.
Good Hair Combs 5c, 10c, 15c, 25c and 35c.
Picture Frames 5c, 10c, 15c and 20c, worth double.
Hair Curlers 5c, 10c, 15c, 20c and 25c.
Purses 5c, 10c, 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c and 1.00.
Belt Buckles 15c,.25c, 35c, 50c and 95c.
Sterling Silver Belt Buckles, Belt Pins and Stick
Pins.
New style Shirt Fronts with Tie 25c.
NOTIONS! NOTIONS!
4c ball for Crochet Cotton.
4c Basting Spool of 500 yards.
10c ball for Knitting Silk. and
Japanese Fans 5c, 10c, 15c, 20c, 25c, 35c, 50c
75c.
Silk Fans 50c to 2.50 each.
Children’s Fans 5c, 10c, 15c and 25c.
SCHOOL HOSE 5c, 10c 15c and 25c.
School Handkerchiefs lc, 24c, 5c, 10c and 15c.
School Satchels 10c each.
Sailor Hats 25c, worth 40c.
Sailor Hats 39c, worth 50c.
School Umbrellas 50c, worth 75c.
School Umbrellas 75c, worth 1.00.
Fine Silk Umbrellas 1.35, worth 2.00.
Infant’s Silk Finish Socks 15c, worth 25c.
Ladies’Fast Black Hose 5c, 10c, 15c, 25c, 33c and
50c.
Cent’s Seamless Socks 5c, 10c, 15c, 25c and 35c.
WHITE GOODS.
Check Muslins 5c to 35c per yard.
White Lawns 5c to 50c per yard. Lawns, Linen
FULL LINE Persian and India
Lawns, Jackonets, Cambrics, Swiss and Organdies.
PRINTED WASH GOODS,
Best Prints 3Jf. 5c and G4c.
Percales 5c, 10c aud 12^c.
Irish Lawns 10c aud 124c.
Printed Lawns 5c, 8e. 10c, 15c and 25c.
French Lawns, Fast Colors, 10c, worth 20c.
EMBROIDERY SALE.
We place on sale this week some of the greatest
bagains ever offered. We can save you 25c on every
dollar’s worth.
LIST OF NEW ARRIVALS.
Jackonet Duche3, Indigo and Black and White Fig¬
ured Lawns, Crepe Devenice, Morbid, and Figured Satteens, Silk
Striped Challies and Battist, Plain French
Organdies.
TD^.T 7 ~T £2 O 3 LO 1 *
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Cl©-37“tom. Street,
LEXINGTON, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1895.
DRESS GOODS.
Black Goods—New Weaves, all Weights, 15c lo 2.50
a yard. Colored and colors, 124c, to 1.50
goods, new weaves
per Fancy yard. Mixtures 1.50 yard.
15c to per
Silk Warps and Silk Mixtures, Imported Challiesand
Evening Shades in Woolen and Silk Mixtures, 18c to
1.25 per yard.
SILKS! SILKS!
Morning Silks, Silks for Street Dresses, Evening
Silks, Silks for Shirt Waist, and Trimming Silks, 25c
to 2.50 per Satins yard. and Morias for Skirts.
Duches
DRESS TRIMMINGS.
Silk aiid Beaded Pasmentries, Edgings, Bands and
All Overs.
Chiffon Edgings, and All Overs.
All Overs Laces, White Eucru and Black, with Edg¬
ings to match. Collarettes, Black, White and Ecrue.
Hand Crochet
WE ARE AGENTS FOR
Thompson’s Glove-Fitting Corsets, 50c to 2.50 each.
Ferris’ Good Sense Corset waist for ladies and child¬
ren, 25c to 2.00 each.
Jouvin and Maggioni Kid Gloves.
Keyser Pat. Finger tip Silk Gloves.
Royal Stainless and Onyx Fast Black Hosiery for la¬
dies, children and men. pair.
Cotton Lisle and Silk from 5c to 2.50 a
HOUSE FURNISHINGS.
Lace Curtains, Chenille Curtains, Mattings and Rugs
—all New.
Special Sale this week of Lace Curtains and Mattings.
4.50 for Mattings, Mattings, worth worth 0.00
7.50 for 8.00.
8.50 for Mattings, worth 9.00.
10.00 for Mattings, worth 12.50.
12.50 for Mattings, worth 15.00.
Lace Curtains in all the new works and designs, em¬
broidered Notts and Swiss Curtains at special low
prices for this week.
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT.
Under management of Miss Powell, All the new
and stylish things on exhibition in millinery parlors, 2d
story. Napoleon and Dutch Bonnets, French Pattern Hats.
New style high crown, curved brim Sailors. New
things in Children’s Hats and Caps.
HOUSE-KEEPERS.
Table Linens 25c to 2.50 per yard. dozen.
Napkins and Doylies 25c to 5.00
Towels 5c to 75c each.
Linen Crash 8c to 25c per yard.
White Quilts 50c to 6.50 each.
SOME COTTON FACTS.
As Well as Some Astounding
Figures as to This Crop.
Already Several Thousand More Bales
Marketed Than was Made in 1892-93. „
What Can be Expected Next hail.
Beyond the very low average price
at which nine milliou bales of cotton
have been marketed general interest
in the largest crop of American cotton
ever raised has not commanded any
thing like the attention that the small¬
er one of 1892 exercised. The feature
that has aroused the greatest care and
thought has bten the effect of the low
prices upon the growers of the crop
aud the millions of workers identified
therewith. The low price has despoil
ed to a very large extent the credit
facilities of a very large body of cotton
growers, inasmuch as being unable to
liquidate old obligations they are pow
erless to negotiate new ones. Ihe in
direct influence of the low average
value has been very far reaching and
has been felt to a greater or less ex
en in every denartment of finance,
trade and manufacturing, and is re
sponsible for the increased commercial
death rate for the first quarter of the
year, or 800, against 6Gd for the same
Penod in 1894, although the amount
involved was something css.
Leaving this phase of the effects of
the phenomenal crop that is nearly in
the remarkably easv disposition of that
portion of the crop in sight which1 is in
excess of the total crop of 1 .1-. -, to
put it mildly, has sui prised the cotton
marts and manufacturers ol the world
under the mercurial trade.conditions and generally have un
satisfactory that
prevailed months without betoken a promiseot ray ol hope in six
to improve
ment. In the ace of such facts the
marketing of nine million bales of cot
ton that have been delivered from
plantations cannot be regarded Very other
wise than as extraordinary. for
innately however, the people familial of this
country have become so with
big things that when details of fabu
lous receipts of any crops, man u fact
ures or indebtedness are expressed the
wonder manifested thereat. by un
knowing ones is lost by in student he greater
amazement caused the s re
ply: Ts that all. Neither pigmy
nor mastodon proportions are any
longer of effect giant.minds upon speculators, that
operators or those are
the propelling forces. power Million of the and comrner- bill
eial world s
mns of debts, financial bushels, negotiations gallons and
and the pounds,
othsr measures of quantity no longer
derange the appetite of any body of
leaders in the struggle for wbiyh commercial
supremacy, in support of state
naent we point to the mercurial iudif
““l 11 wM ? h a Cr °? f po *l lbIy
10,000,009 bales , is regarded l by those
whose interests it bears most heavily
u P£ Consideration n- .... of ... the figures ,. pertain- , .
ing to that portion ofJhe crop that has
been received for the seven months
ended with March will now be pro
sented, as some of them in bold type
will undoubtedly occasion no little sur
prise. The total quantity received
trom plantations between beptember 1,
1894, and March 51,189o, is in round
uumners 9,060,000 bales, or --,000
bales more than the en ire cropof 1892,
which tilv has was been 9,038,707 disposed bales. of JIhis follows: quail
as
European exports, 8,610,800 bales;
boulhern Northern spinners, spinners, ol8,000 1^523,337 bales; bales; stock
at the ports, 924,o06 bales, aud stock
at interior towns, 323,03- bales. Com
paring these items with the figures for
1892 and some wide discrepancies the be
come apparent. 1< or instance, ex
cess of receipts this year to March ol
is 707,725 bales oyer those for the same
time in 1892, yet the excess of exports
is 753,048 bales, which disposes ot the
increase in crop, and which quantity
will be enlarged, because cleared the quantity the
on shipboard and. not 60,0b0 at bales
end of last week was
greater than in 1892. Ihe quantity of
cotton taken by American spinners in
seven months was 2,341,3.,7 bales, or
02,120 bales more than for the same
period in 18.L. At the shipping ports
and interior towns the stocks on March
•>! amounted to l,247,o98 bales, or
197,411 b*J,' e8 than at the same
time in 1892, which result lias .been
foreshadowed by the larger exports
and the takings by American spinners.
These figures appear satisfactory,
but undoubtedly, as was the invisible case in
1892, they do not include an
mevement, as without such the crop of
1893 would have realized much better
prices and could not have supplied the
spindles of the world. It is this
phrase of the supply that becomes in
teresting to growers of cotton. From
appearances it is more than probable
that the exports to Europe will exceed
0,000,000 b-les, of which a large quan
tity will he carried over on September
1st, aud will be used to depress prices
of the new crop should it reach 7,000,
000 bales. Another feature of the
crop being marketed is that it is very
clean and will luruisD nar*re from
a pouud of lint than the average crop,
besides which an average increase of
six pounds in the weight of hales is a
factor of fair importance
T It is lS this .1 view 1 of the ffathoring cron *,
that , cotton cultunsts must loat and
! give all the weight of doubt against
; ihemselves before determining upon
the acreage that shall be planted period in of
cotton. At this advanced
tl,e ..<1icocklemgcaref.il, foregoing facts, such lb.
force of all the as
the crop in sight, the export and the
quatitity to be carried over at the
Subscription $1.00 a Year.
of the year, beyond one-half of a
mal crop there is not a single fact
will warrant such an acreage associated being
ceeded. Planters aud those
with them in growiug cotton have had
a hard time for seven months, it is not
to be bettered by repeating what has
brought such financial distress upon
them. Cultivate cereals ou as liberal
a 8cale aa p088ible and the raising of
other food products will surely prove
to those mostly interested that cotton
is not. the only plenty product that will furn¬
ish peace and to so many homes.
— New York Daily Dry Goods lieeord
er.
AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION.
What a Committee of Congress Says
and Suggests About the Matter.
The chief clauses of the report re¬
cet ,j].. niade by the majority of the
S ,, ^ ocwl . , C ,, * mm,ltee "... ol .. the .. Lower ,
House of Congress, appointed . to iu
quire iuto the causes of prevailing ag
rieulturai depression, are as follows:
ia unnece88ary * for the committee
to euter int0 or d e ll upou tho f act
U iat agriculture g is depressed in industv/, every
branc 0 { lh ,s most important ‘ ^
d that tho value8 of land and far
8nrrounding8> uule88 under exceptional
rare CODd j t j on8 * have depreciated
dd \ aSj lh pleased. rc , ia8in g power of the
dollar But while the
, f^ers of proporty owne d by the Amcri
has decreased in thirty
years from nearly one-half of the total
we£dlb j n qgfiO b , i e88 than one-fourth
in i 890 , ’ 0 f which 30 per cent, is now
und „ mortgagn f / , taxes have steadily
incrca8ed at d d( bla now require four
times the labor to be paid off than was
then required. dollar The purchasing tho farmer’s capac
d J 0 f the to secure
la nd and while his produco has increased
four-fold, ’ the power * to pay his
taxe8 au d debt8 ba 9 re maincd at a
8tand8lil) . la 187:! wh eafc sold from
$1 55 t0 $2 2 - a bu8bel while accord
in * rk t o ^4 Spoffords almanac, ’ i d in New
y in , heal wa8 8 0 at 50
I)i8CU88ing ttee the causes “Class of depression
(be Comml says: legisla-
4j on 0 f lbe wor8 |, character encumbers
tbe 8ta | U t e bo oks aud has been carried
0 n lo the detriment of agriculture and
i|s dcpendent industries for thirty
_’ culminating in the crime of the
age tllu demsnotiastion of silver in
j 87 - b q' be demometization of silver
WB9 a bo ; d atroko in tlie interest of
capital that has reduced the value of
evcry pr(jduc t in the world. This is
conclusively proven by tho fact that
j us t, as silver has depreciated, in like
proportion have all otner values fallen
j n tbe sca j e- Silver bullion today has
tbe capaclly t 0 purchase and as land much and
wbea { cotton, commodity pork, corn
cvcry otber that it ever
bad t. berc f ore i be depreciation of the
w htte metal simple means the depre
c j a ^i on 0 f every article uuder the sun
with one single exception the gold of
*-The tariff system of taxation is not
only unequal but, as for the past thirty
year8 administered in this country, is
^^4 un jt , 0 the consumer and has
budtj up trusts, combines and gigantic
corporations that have not only amass
e d immense wealth at the expense of
tbe peop | C) bld which have assumed to
control and direct legislation and so gratify as to
perpe t ua te their power
t be j r grced . The tariff bears with un
due we j gb t upon the producer of agri¬
cultural staples, as it forces him not
0Q j_ t0 buy ; n tq ie de arest market, but
(Q s(d ] j Q open competition with the
wor i d , g lowest prices. Agricultural
depre88 j 0n i 8 still further augmented
by tbe ga j e futures on our stock ex
cbaDge8< where the grain gamblers
„ row r j cb by gelling wind, while the
bone8 t aud judustrious toiler on the
pra j r j eg reaps the whirlwind,
,>]c 00( ] adulterations add millions ac¬
aua u y r 0 t b( > farmer’s losses and com
pe j bim 4 0 raee t j n competition added other the
4 b j e f_ f bese might be which
cauge8 bu f i be principal ones stagnation to
agr j C ultural depression and
(U 4 rade j 8 dlie ba yg been cited. The
rem edv lies in remedial relief legislation, will and
(ml jj lbati 1E procu red not
come permanently. To secure relief we
8Uffge8t .
r |’ ba t silver should be remone
lized at the ratio of 10 to 1.
u 2 q’ ba t so long as the present un
j U8 t an d unequal system of protection
C0R ri n ueH agriculture should receive its
; usb proportion, and, as this cannot he
secured by a protective tariff, a bounty
on exported agricultural staples fish should in
be a [[ 0 wed similar to that on
1813 and for which Jaha (j, Calhoun
voled /
. t3 Tbat gambling in futures shouhl
be ,‘ prevented by law
4 That a nationa i pure f 00 d law
8bou , d be enacled />
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Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair, San Francisco.
oeafne** cannot be tnred.
b j, j oca ] applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only
one way to to cure tleafne—, and that is by
constitutional remeJies. Deafness is caused
hy an irnflanied conditmn of the rnacous fin
I^^^youTiav^a rumbling s^ondor i£
perfect hearingand when it is entirely closed,
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflama
tion can be take out and this tube restored to
its normal condition hearing will be destr-iy
ed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
^ w jjl give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that con
not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure: Send
for circulars; free.
F. J. ClIENEY &. CO., Toledo, O.
j «r8.kb___
California dried peaches nt at TLo f he
j Racket Store.
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
It Holds Our Present and Our Future
at Stake.
It is axiomatic in morals that no one
has a right to make merchandise out of
the temptability of his fellowman. No
proof can enforce this truth more
strongly than the bare statement of it.
If it be not self-evident, a moral phi¬
losophy is impossible, and we cannot
tell right from wrong.
This axiom of ethics implies an ax¬
iom in slate-craft, which is like unto it:
No government has the right to au¬
thorize one citizen to make a profit out
of the temptability of another. To do
so is iniquitous in principle and inju¬
rious in policy. principles, licens¬
Tested by these a
ed saloon is a shame in morals and a
scandal in politics. The most specious
defense of its existence flonest can barely pal¬
liate the crime. argument
overwhelms it with condemnation.
All this most of the people of Geor¬
gia steadfastly believe. Hence the ex¬
istence of prohibition which uow aud bless¬ cov¬
ers nearly all of our territory
es nearly all of our people. Special
acts, local option aud the three-mile
law, have made nearly all Georgia dry.
Here and there are wet spots, found
for the most part only within city
walls.
But these wet spots do incalculable
mischief. In them are the cages
where open-eyed tigers bear the. blind
cubs which wander into dry districts
seeking what they may devour and de¬
vouring what they seek. These dens
must be broken up before we can en¬
joy the full security aud peace which
prohibition is so well calculated to af¬
ford.
It is manifest that the cities in which
these dens arc located will not break
them up. They Rcrvo too well the
ends of ward politicians. It is the
statement of a simple fact to aillrm
that the saloon dominates the elections
in those counties in which our cities
are located, that had prohibition unless can never de¬
be permanently therein
liverance comes from beyond established their lim¬ by
its. This is painfully members of the
the altitude of the city
Legislature towards all measures of
moral reform. With a very few hon¬
orable exceptions (who become fewer
every succeeding session) they can be
relied on to oppose every bill which
looks to the suppression of the liquor
traffic and its allied iniquities of gam¬
bling and prostitution, “The ass
kuoweth bis master’s crib.”
Good men aud helpless women and
children, in the cities, are iu subjec¬
tion to the saloon. They cry out to
their brethren on the outside of the
city walls to rescue them, and their
cries should be heeded. It is selfish
and a very sinful thing for us to sit
down in our quiet retreats, where pro¬
hibitory laws shield and shelter us, and
leave these captiyes to their unhappy
fate. If wo indulge this selfishness we
shall eventually lose the prohibition The cities
which we ourselves children enjoy. rushing
arc. growing. There Our grand are children
iuto them. our
will be born aud brought up. For¬
eigners also are pouring into them. If
we do not very soon extend the benign
rule of prohibition over these cities
they will corrupt our families and dis¬
honor our homes. Moreover they will
conspire to take our rural prohibition
from us. City masses being swiftness more
compact, move with greater
and power than do the scattered voters
in the country.
It is within reason to say that tho
prohibitionists in Georgia are now
abundantly able to secure the passage
of a prohibitory law for the entire
State, and that every year they delay
to da so they will become less able to
a complish it. Ten yeais from now, if
the matter is delayed so long, the adop¬
tion of such a law will be next to im¬
possible—perhaps absolutely so. It
ought to be done, and can be done in
this year of grace, 1895.
When the Legislature reassembles
next October it will find, well advanced
on the calendar, a carefully drawn
measure, which ought to be passed
without further debate, and without
material amendment. It is a bill hav¬
ing this just merit, whatever else may
be said of it, viz.: It allows no man to
tempt another for purposes of gain.
It takes the profit out of the sale of li-'
quor, and that draws the dragon’s
teeth.
That bill will become a law if the
prohibitionists of Georgia care enough
about the matter to demand it.
Shall we not rally all along the line?
Let good men of all churches and
creeds see to it that their Senators and
Representatives give their support to
the measure, and demand of them to
know the reason why. The support
will be forthcoming, for there are no
valid reasons to offer for withholding
it.
Let us attend to this business as ear¬
nestly as the saloon keepers attend to
their side of the question. Our inter¬
est should be far greater than theirs,
and our zeal far more ardent. We
; have more at stake than they have—
our homes, our altars and our children
are involved. The noblest interests of
are at stake both present and
j future. It. A. Candler^ I). 1 .
j
| itJtHj i»« Much r«r *mi.
j Mr. Fred Miller, as of Irvin/, 111,, writes that
he had a severe Kidney trouble back for many
years, with severe pains in his and also
j that h»s bladder was affected, He tried many
j socalled Kidney cures but without auy good
result. Ahmut a year ago he began use ot
) Wectric Electric Bitters Bitters is and especially found adapted relief at to once, cure
;
«f.li Sj-J “(J-",
P rove our statement. Price only 50c. for
; i ar g e bottle. At Little’s Drug Stote and VV,
1 J, Cooper & Co.’a.