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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
Volume XXII.==Number 29.
UPSIDE DOWN
That’s the Way we are Turning
Our Stock This Week.
It is Only the Middle of April, but when
a Whole Car-Load of
NBW GOODS
ls clamoring for admission, spring cleaning must begin early. Before the vernal
equinox draws the line over which grim winter dare not step, onr store
shall budand blossom with a strange beauty. In the meantime
THIS MAY INTEREST YOU.
We secured through the New York Dry Good Exchange—for spot cash, at 00
cents of the dollar—a large lot of desirable merchandise from the
THE E. S. JAFF8EY ASSIGNMENT.
We bought this lot of goods to sell, not to keep. They go on sale Monday,
April 15tli, without reserve.
Make Out Your List and Come this Week.
Dress Goods, Silks, White Goods, Wash Goods, Casimers and Domestics.
House Furnishing Goods, Mattings, Lace Curtains, Shades, Poles, Rugs, Chenile Por
tiers and Covers. Table Linens, Towels, Napkins and Crash White Quilts and Dra¬
peries. Shirt
Notions of all kinds. Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, Shirt Waist, Fronts,
Neckwear and Gloves.
Embroideries, Laces, Ribbons, Umbrellas and Parasols,
AND WE WILL SAVE YOU 25 CENTS ON EVERY DOLLAR.
Our Millinery department is brim full of all the new things in flowers ribbons
and ornaments- You should patronize this department if you like stylish Hats.
Madame Tully’s Preparations Can be had at Our Store.
4HNDUSTRIHL HOME DHY. W
Our store will be run by the Industrial Home Committee Saturday, April 20.
We will donate a certain per cent, of the entire day’s sales to charity.
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LEXINGTON, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1895.
GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS
For the April Term, 1895, Ogle¬
thorpe Superior Court.
COUNTY AFFAIRS STRAIGHT.
All Officers Performing Their Duties
Well and the Public Institutions
Being Admirably Conducted.
State of Georgia, Oglethorpe
Co. —We the Grand Jury chosen and
sworn for the April term, 1895, re¬
spectfully submit the following General
Presentiments:
Through special committees we have
examined the public buildings, records
of county officers, pauper farm, con¬
vict camp No. 3, located in this county,
also the books of the Justices-of-Peace
and find as follows:
We find at the pauper farm five in¬
mates—one white aud four black; four
females and one male. Three have
been discharged since last report.
We find the farm in good condition,
some underpining needed to the houses
and the steps need repairing, and, as a
matter of economy in their preserva¬
tion, we recommend that they be
whitewashed.
The committee visiting the convict
camp report total number of convicts
136—whites sixteen and blacks 120
all males. Building in good order,
clothing and bedding sutlieient, food
wholesome, well cooked and a bounti¬
ful supply. We find but one death,
aud that by accident, since last report.
Health of the camp good. We recom¬
mend the appointment of Ambrose
Culbreth as chaplain of said camp.
We find the books of the Justice-of
Peace, Ordinary, Clerk, Sheriff and
Dispensor to be neatly and correctly
kept, reflecting credit upon each offi¬
cer.
We recommend the appointment of
W. T. Burt as Notary Public to fill lie
vacancy in the 233d district and W. C.
Trible in the 227lh district.
We find the public roads in the main
in fair condition considering the ex¬
cessive bad weather. The Elberton
road near Mr. Salmons’ is reported in
bad condition and a bridge near the
same place is much in need of repair.
The Beaverdam ford near B. H. Bar¬
nett’s fish pond needs immediate at¬
tention. The condition of the ford at
Olive’s old mill place on Clouds Creek
has been brought to our attention and
we endorse the petition to the County
Board for a bridge at that place.
We insist that the road authorities
see to it that the public foads be kept
open at least fifteen feet, the nar¬
rowest limit recognized by law.
The Treasurer’s booing show amount
on hand at last repon, $2,707.94; re¬
ceived since from all sources, $8,150.50;
amount paid out as per vouchers,
$0,410.37; commission on same,
$304.16, leaving a balance on hand of
$4,089.91.
The Clerk, Ordinary and Sheriff re¬
port no monies collected for the county
since last report.
The Tax-Collector reports out of a
levy of $9,357.76 a collection of
$9,264.61, leaving amount of solvent
tax uncollected, $93.15. Amount in
bank not turned over to Treasurer
$1,200 35. '
We find the court-house in good
condition, the jail cleanly, the inmates
cheerful. The floor cf one of the cells
in a state of decay; several locks in
bad order, to which we call the atten¬
tion of the authorities, and recommend
the readjustment of the lever locks on
the upper floor.
The County School Commissioner re¬
ports 32 white and 41 colored schools;
white pupils; 1,259 and colored 2,046;
amount paid teachers, $10,498.75;
amount paid for the administration of
the office, $551.64.
We recommend that the Commis
sioners pay the cost entered up against
the Road Commissioners of the 236th
district at October term of the court,
We also recommend that the Commis¬
sioners levy a tax sufficient to pay
Clerk T. G. Lester fifty per cent, or
$26.63, for transcript cf evidence in
felony cases carried to the Supreme
Court, it being the means provided by
law in such cases.
We recommend that the pay of
members of the County Board of Edu¬
cation be two dollars per day.
We return onr thanks to his honor,
Judge Seaborn Reese, for his able and
lucid charge to our body, also to Solici¬
tor Howard for his advice and counsel
extended to us.
We recommend that the above pre-
Subscription $1.00 a Year.
“■ in the Ogle
Columbus J. Landrum, Foreman,
Joseph D. Winn,
Joseph S. Bauohn,
GEORG K J. CUN NINOIIAM,
Du. W. II. Reynolds,
Joseph JL Weihs,
Lock W. Collier,
David M. Gaulding,
John V. Garrett,
Willis B. Jackson,
John C. G. Stevens.
Ciias. M. Witcher,
IIinton C. Zuber,
Redding S. Martin,
Du. Ed. L. Sanders,
Royal A. McMahan,
Dr. Phil R. Bradford,
Fred. T. Berry,
James V. Andrew,
Rout. S. Gilliam,
James A. Rowland,
George W. Cunningham,
James II. McWhorter, Clerk.
Ordered that these presentments be
entered on the minutes and published
as therein recommended. April 10th,
1895. Seaborn Reese.
Judge S. C. N. C.
I certify that the above and forego¬
ing is a true transcript from the min¬
utes of Oglethorpe Superior Court,
April Term, 1895. This April 22,1895.
T. G^Lesteu, Clerk.
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THE MINORITY RULES.
A Majority of the People Against Sa¬
loons But They Exist.
Georgians are the victims of a great
wrong. More than three-fourths of
the men, nine-tenths of the women,
and all of the children ot this proud
State are wearing the yoke of servitude
which up to this good hour they have
beeu unable to throw oft. There is no
middle ground another to take. When I do
the bidding of I man willing, or
without my consent am his servant.
A small minority of the citizens of
Georgia have their hands on the
throats of the vast majority of the free¬
men cf this State and say to them:
“We are determined to have our way
about this whiskey business, whether
you want saloons among you or not we
intend to force them on you.” Be¬
cause this small minority have their
grip on the legislature of the State,
Georgia cau’t get a prohibition law
put upon her statute books.
Why will freemen allow themselves
to be robbed of the priceless heritage
for whieh the fathers of the Revolu¬
tion shed their bleed—the right of the
majority to rule. This corner stone of
the doctrine of state-rights—so pre¬
cious to every free citizen—the citizens
of the Empire State of the South do
not enjoy. We believe in the princi¬
ple of the rule of the majority that lies
at the foundation of all free govern¬
ment. That rule is violated, tramped
in the dust today in this State. The
majority of the people—men over
twen y-one years of age—in Georgia
are not free. They want the intoxi¬
cants put beyond the borders of the
State, but they do not have their way.
How long will the freemen submit to
this wrong? How long will they sub¬
mit to wear the yoke put upon How their
necks by the liquor power? long
will they consent for this direst enemy
of the prosperity of our people to slay
its thousands of our fathers and broth¬
ers and sons year by year? How long
will we allow comfort this destroyer of the hap¬
piness and of our homes to
desolate our fair land?
Who can answer this question? The
large majority of the counties in this
State have long ago gone into the pro¬
hibition column, and yet the legislature
of Georgia at its last session refused to
pass a law prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of intoxicants. What sort of
representatives do some of these coun¬
ties send to Atlanta? I affirm that the
people of Georgia are not represented
in the legislature. legislature If do the men and you will
elect to the not
not represent you, ask them to resign
and put in somebody who will. Don’t
allow yourselves to be deprived of your
rights by keeping men in the legisla¬
ture who do not represent you. I
affirm that if the people of this State
were represented in the legislature
there would not be a legalized saloon
in Georgia inside of twelve months.
It is time for the people of this State
to arise in their might—in the power
of the ballot-box—and demand that the
majority-rule shall be sacredly enforc¬
ed. It is time for this ovewhelming
majority of unpurchaseable prohibi¬
tionists to say to the advocates of the
saloon: there is but one way in this
free State by which you can have your
wav, that is by out-voting us. The
majority is for prohibition—the minor¬ prohi¬
ity is against it; our homes for
bition—the minority is against both;
the happiness of our mothers, the sai¬
nation of our bays, the good of society
and the prosperity of our country are
all on the side of prohibition and in
^jj e majority—the minority is opposed
to them all. Freemen of Georgia, you
know your strength, assert it for home
and country; you know your rights,
dare maintain them.
W. P. Lovejoy.
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair, San Francisco,
Several good young mules at close
prices at Maxwell’s Staples.
BOUGHT THE CHARTER.
The Augusta & Chattanooga Railroad
Project Taken up Again.
The old charter of the Augusta and
Chattanooga Railroad. Company has
been purchased by a construction com¬
pany which is forming with headquar¬
ters in Atlanta.
The new construction company is
chartered with a capital slock of $250,
000 with the right to extend it almost
ad libitum.
More than $25,000, it is claimed, has
already been paid in and the old char¬
ter has been purchased from the old
company. The Augusta and Chatta
uooga railroad is a line that was first
conceived many years ago by ambitious
capitalists in Augusta and Chattanooga
and wealthy farmers all along the line.
Ttie road was to run up the Savan¬
nah valley on the Georgia side through
the counties of Richmond, Columbia,
Lincoln and Elbert, there switching
off through the mountains of northeast
Georgia to Chattanooga on a direct air
line through the Blue Ridge.
That was many years ago. Since
then tho scheme has been taken up
more than once and has failed as of¬
ten. At one time, with General Cle¬
ment A. Evans as president, the com¬
pany went so far as to engage W. B.
Lowe & Co., of this city, to begin the
grading of the line and the work went
on until something like fifteen miles of
the line was graded out of Augusta up
to about Walton’s island on the Savan¬
nah river.
Then came the collapse again and
nothing was left of the venture but fif¬
teen miles of sand bank.
Since then the scheme has been tak¬
en up again. It is now proposed to
run the road iu a different course, run¬
ning farther away from the Sa¬
vannah river than was at first contem¬
plated and passiug of Columbia up by Appling, tho
county seat county, VVash
ington, the county seat of Wilkes coun¬
ty, Lexington, Harmony Grove,
Gainesville, Dawsooville, Jasper, Dal¬
ton aud thence to Chattanooga.
The charter of the new construction
company has already been drawn and
securer} from the courts and it is claim¬
ed that at a meeting to be held iu At¬
lanta next week there will he quite a
permanent and substantial company
formed.
The work of getting sufficient capi¬
tal together to purchase the old charter
of the Augusta and Chattanooga was
accomplished by Mr. E. II. Richards,
of this city and Generul Clement A.
Evans.
Nothing definite the will be given out by
these men yet on plans they have
in view further than to say that a meet¬
ing will be held in Atlanta next week
for the purpose of drawing up the
plans .—< '(institution 20 III.
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He is Warned. .
An ambitious young man, one in
whose bosom the fires of journalism is
burning, wants to mount the tripod
and illumine the world with the flashes
of genious aud luminous thoughts
over-charged which struggle for expression in his
braiu. In his dilemna
he the'Quitman applied to Editor Free Clarence Groover,
of Press, for infor¬
mation as to the duties of an editor.
Editor Groover, who has been there
himself, with a fatherly interest in the
misguided young of man, proceeds to
point out a few the qualifications
necessary to make a successful editor.
We quote from the Press:
“A young man wants to know what
are the duties of an editor, for he
would like to be one. If he has the
necessary qualification, he stands a
good show to be a successful editor, if
he does not he had better shovel sand
for a living. lie must be able to write
a poem, discuss the tariff, umpire a
ball game, report a wedding, saw wood,
beat a lawyer, describe a fire so that
the readers will shed their wraps,
make a dollar do the work of ten,
shine at a soiree, address a horticultu¬
ral society, measure calico, abuse the
whisky habit, test whisky, subscribe to
charily,’go without meals, attack free
silver, defend bimetalism, sneer at
snobbery, wear diamonds, invent ad¬
vertisements, overlook scandals, praise
babies, delight afflicted, pumpkin pie raisers,
minister to the heal the dis¬
gruntled, light to a finish, set type,
mould opinion, sweep the office, praise
the widows, run and for office, speak at
prayer meeting stand in with eve¬
rybody And and after everything.” he had beard all these
things from the mouth of the prophet
he bowed his head in great grief.
“It is easier for an elephant to go
through any sort of an eye than for me
to array myself in the editorial gar¬
ment with all these trimmings,” be
said.
And he went away exceedingly sor¬
rowful; and the lest state of that young
man shall be worse than the first—
Selah!
DcaftiPM. Cannot he Cored.
by local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of deafness, the ear. There is only
one way to to cure and that caused is by
constitutional remeiies. Deafness is
by an imflamed condition of the mucous fin¬
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is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or im¬
perfect heariug and when it is entirely closed,
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflama
tion ean be take out and this tube restored to
its normal condition hearing will he destroy¬
ed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused fay
catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh} that con
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