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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor:
/JEN. JOHN 15. GORDON.
Secretory of Stnte:
N. C. B ARN EXT.
Comptroller General:
AV. A. WRIGHT.
Treasurer:
It. U. HARDEMAN.
Attornov General:
CLIFFOR DAN DERSON.
Senator—Otli District:
Dr. I 11. HAM),
of Baker.
Jtepresentative—Early County:
It. 11. LANIER.
■Representative—2d Cong. District:
HENRY G. TURNER,
of Brooks.
Tlie Sam Jones meetings are running
at fall blast in tbo tabernacle at Cartcrs
vil’e.
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A man in Thotnasvillo has in bis pos
session, so said, a ono dollar silrcr piece
of U. S., money coined in 1798.
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Tlicre is said to be much suffering
among the Augusta laboriog pcoplo on
account of the strike iu that city.
There is a world of truth in this brief
sentence from the JVcws and Advertiser :
“You may kill a lie by proving it to be
a lie, but the sting will live.”
The papers tell it that \V. J. Perry
man, of Tliomas'on, has a pet owl that
recently consumed two pounds of beef,
five rats and four jay birds at one meal.
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The Albany J\lews and Advertiser has
enlarged to a six-column sheet, whereas,
it was only five before. It lias also
lengthened out its columns a little, aud it
now presents a better appearance. Wc
arc glad to note this sign of prosperity in
our blight neighbor. /
Charleston had two showers of pebbled
Saturday. One fell about 7 o’clock in
the morning and the other about 11
o’clock. They appeared to fall in a slant
ing direction from south to north. Tlicre
were morsels of (lint among them, and all
were plainly abraded and worn by the ac
tion of water. The cause of this pheno
menon is supposed to boos volcanic ori
£'“•
Editor Howell, of tho Atlanta Consti
tution belongs to the Atlanta Conserva-
Club, which declares that tho city
is rapidly going down on account of the
foforccuicnt of prohibition, yet tho big
daily continues to blow Atlanta’s horn as
loudly as over and says tho volume of
Atlanta’s business lias increased and the 1
amount of travel has not decreased. s
How is that for a paradox l 1
Tho following is told on an Athens f
young man by some of our exchanges: (
“A young man in ono of Athons* largest (
wholesale houses found a nice little pet— (
or at least it looked like it would make a
pet —in the lack yard of his boarding
house, and picked it up. lie brought it
down to his place of business. A dog
made a rush for the little pet, and then it
became known to all the bystauders that
our young friend bad captured a skurk.
It will be several days before the young
man cau go visiting.”
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t’uder tho head of “White Slaves” the
Constitution of Sunday says that if Hen
ry George had written nothing else, his 1
description of the hopeless poverty of the 1
men, women and children employed in the
miuing districts of l’ennsylvani i would I
hare brought him into prominence. These
white slaves, for they are nothing else, 1
live in miserable huts belonging to tbo 1
companies that employ them, and from
these rude shelters they are liable to be
ejected at any time. They receive no
money, but are paid in orders on the
companies’ 6torcs. They are kept in
debt and are too poor to move elsewhere.
Year after year these wretched people
struggle on without any prospect of a
change for the better. All have to work,
even the delicate women and young chil
dren. Everywhere may be seen the signs
of abject poverty, pitiful want and heart
rending suffering Occasionally northern
papers raise a howl over the condition of
the southern uegroes. The black labor
ers and farm tenants in every part of the
south are immeasurably freer and happier
than the miners and coke and iron work
ers in I’ennsylvauia. lu fact, such a state
of affairs as Mr. George depicts would
not be tolerated here. 'There would be
either a reform or a revolution.
An i.tiitor Kcbilked.
Colquitt, Ga., Sept. 7, 1886.
'Editors News —ln the Miller county
Guardian, of August 27, 1886, under
the heading of “A Judge Ilebukcd,” I
I find an article, which appears to have been
intended to cast a stigma upon the good
name aud irreproachable official character
of Judge John T. Clarke. The article
■ carries with it, also, a gross misapprehen
sion of the views of the citizens of Miller
county in relation to the official action of
Judge Clarke, as the Judge of tho Supe
rior Court of our county.
The object, therefore, of this letter is
to removo the odium sought to be cast up
on the high reputation of Judgo Clarke,
and to correct the misconstruction which
the Guardian has placed upon the feelings
of our citizeus.
What motive prompted the Guardian
to the production and publication of this
unjustifiable attack upon the legal fidelity
of one so distinguished for legal ability
and wisdom, and for love of truth and jus
tice, I shall not undertake to define; but
knowing, as I do, that the impressions
sought to be made by the statements con
tained in the article referred to, are abso
lutely repulsive to our people, I am con
strained to repel this unwarranted assault
upon a character spotless and unexcelled
iu fidelity to tho public service, and in
devotion to public justice, at least so far
as relates to his official acts in our county,
and to the extent that he is esteemed by
our citizens. 1
The Guardian prefaces its article in
this way: “They tell rather an amusing
story on the Judge of this circuit, and it
is so characteristic of the man, evinces so
much of bis disposition to rule and dictate,
that the Guardian is tempted to perpe
trate the joke publicly.”
Now who are wc to understand to be
the author of this story, as told by the
Guardian? “They say” is recognized by
all to boa common slanderer, and unwor
thy of credit. This being true, why does
tho Guardian quote from an author so un
reliable, especially when the only effect
of the quotation, without construing its
object and purpose, is to undermino the
established reputation for official integri
ty of honorable men. Is character of so
little worth as to justify the Ginrdian in
r eagcrly seizing a flying report which is
founded in prejudice, or in a want of a
proper understanding of facts, and which
report is in fact, untrue. And to add to
the report such charges and denunciations
us the Guardian may think sufficient to
damage the reputation of a public officer
of tRo highest standard of official charac
ter. The people of Miller county are
familiar with tho official conduct of Judge
Clarke, and their esteem and admiration
for him, and their confidence in his fideli
ty and devotion to truth and justice are
alike unlimited. The spirit manifested
in the article mentioned, which purports
to give expression to tho views of our cit
izens, is truly at least a very grave mis- (
construction of those views in relation to
the official action of Judge Clarke in our 1
county. I only give expression to their 1
sentiments when I say, that the story as \
told by the Guardian does in nowise char- j
acterize his conduct, and that in no in- I
stance, in the discharge of his official du- 1
° I
tics as Judge of the Superior Court of this
county, nor iu any other manner, lias he
evinced any disposition to rule, or dictate,
further than was his duty, in his legitimate
charges to tho juries. His efforts to so
thoroughly simplify the law in his charges '
that the juries may, in all cases, be able
to render proper vcidiets, is, indeed, re
cognized and appreciated by our citizens.
They very much deprecate the efforts of
tho Guardian to detract any one of the
many merited virtues interwoven in his
character.
Tho Guardian charges that toe “learned
Judge, who has been in the habit of not
only pretiding in the court, but sometimes
being judge, lawyer and jury, was com
pletely nonplussed at a term of the court
held here some time within the memory of
man, aud now that judge has had all the
starch knocked out of bis aspirations for
Governor, for Congress, and tho Supreme
Bench, so far as this part of tho world is
concerned.”
No case is on record in Miller county
in which Judge Clarke baa.played judge,
lawyer and jury, and therefore this un
justifiable statement aud unwarranted at
tack on his reputation for unswerving de
votion to public justice, is condemned and
denounced by all. That article does not
express the feelings of the people of Mil
ler county, nor does it in any wise receive
their approval or approbation, ludeed,
they are unwilling that the Guardian shall
manipulate them, as it has sought to do, 1
for the consummation of its own undefin
ed purposes. And when it seeks to make
the impression that our people are dis
pleased with the official action of Judge
| Clarke, the answer is, they would highly
. appreciate the privilege to sustain him by
their support for any position within the
gift of the people of Georgia.
The case referred to by the Guardian
was a suit brought by a manufacturing
company against one Mr. Spooner, of tbi»
county, to recover the price of a steam
engine sold by thatcompany to Mr. Spoon
er. The cvideuce in the case disclosed,
that Mr. Spooner bought the engine of the
company with the understanding tlrat if
the engine did not work when tried, the
1 company should, within ten days after no
\ tice given them of this fact, by Mr. Spoon
er, send a machinist to put the engine in
order. Mr. Spooner set up this contract
as a defence against the company, but
fniled to shew by legal evidence, that lie
had given the ten days notice to the com
pany. Thereupon Judge Clarke charged
the jury, that before this defence could
avail the defendant, he must show by
competent testimony that he had given the
ten days notice as stipulated iu the con
tract.
It is not true that the people of Miller
county are so depraved, arid so absolute
ly unmindful of the principles of law and
justice, and of common honesty, that they
are prepared to condemn the official ac
tion of the officer who presides over their
courts of justice, and to sustain by their
approval the damaging charges contained
in the Guardian’s article, simply because
that officer has demonstrated his love for
justice by a fair aud impartial administra
tion of the law between parties whose in
terests were to be determined by the plain
aud unmistakable principles of law—
principles well defined and fully estab
lished and recognized wherever rights aud
interests are to be determined by the
weight of evidence.
The Guardian concludes by saying,
“The case came for trial before his honor,
aud after conducting it to suit himself, he
summoned his geniuses together and ren
dered a verdict for the jury. The jury,
however did not say Amen, hut retired,
and after a short deliberation, returned
with a verdict for the defendant, &c. This
so enraged the judge, lawyer and jury that
his eyes flashed fire, and sorao muttered,
indistinct sentences led the audience to
believe that Miller county was getting a
sure enough “cussing.” Hon. I. A. Bush
and Judge V. Ji. Baughn represented the
different interests of the parties in this
case, and there aro no two lawyers more
vigilantly watchful of the interests of their
clients, aud more familiar with their priv
ilege io manage and conduct tier owu
cases before the court. In their zealous
prosecution of the rights of their elieuts
they would surely not submit to an illegal
interference by the court, even if the
court should attempt to transcend its le
gitimate bounds.
Why should the Guardian conclude that 1
Miller county was getting a sure enough 1
“cussing?” Was it because the Judge
possibly evinced some degree of displeas
ure or disapproval of the actioD of the ju
ry in MMler county, in disregarding a
proper and legal charge of the court, and
rendering a verdict which required the
grant of a new trial, or was it for the pur
pose of prejudicing the minds of our peo
ple against one whose official conduct, in
the fair and impartial administration of
the law, has won their unlimited confi
dence and esteem?
The people of Miller couuty are not
aggrieved by any official action of Judge
Clarke, but on the contrary, his just, wise
and impartial administration of the law,
and his love and devotion to truth and
justice upon legal principles, which have
been so thoroughly demonstrated through
out his entire judicial administration here,
have inspired our citizens with unlimited
and unreserved confidence, esteem and
admiration. Therefore, whatever may be
the purpose of the Guardian, we wish it
understood, that our people do not join in,
nor in any measure approve, of its denun
ciation of the virtues of Judge Clarke.
D. G. Sheffield.
Mr. Turner’s Acceptance.
The following is the correspondence be
tween tho committee appointed at the Ca
milla convention to notify Mn. Turner of
his nomination and that gentleman:
Morgan, Ga.,
Han. H. G. Turner, Quiwiun, Ga.:
Rear Sir —At a convention of the
Democratic party of fbp Second Congres
sional District of Georgia, held at Ca
milla on the 25th inst„ the undersigned
were appointed a committee to notify you
that you were there selected as the nomi
nee of the party to represent this district
in the House of Representatives of the
next (Fiftieth) and to request
your acceptance of this^iomination.
With considerations of high regard, wc
are, Very Respectfully,
/J. J. Beck,
/ J. L. Dozier,
f Clarence Wilson,
! S. G. .McLendon,
\ Committee.
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Quitman, Ga., Sept. 3, 1886.
Messrs. J. J. Beck, J. L. Dozier, Clar
ence Wilson and S. G. McLendon:
Gentlemen —l beg to acknowledge
your coromuni/ation of August 28tb, io
which you, -A a committee of the late
Camilla convention, officially notify me of
| my nomination as the Democratic candi- !
date of thiidistrict for for the next Con
gress of the\lnited States. I accept the
nomination wRh profound gratitude for
this evidence of\ho continued confidence
of my constitueiAs.
With seutimons of the highest respect,
I am, gentleme/,
" t our obedient servant,
> 11. G. Turner.
.Letter trom Damascus.
Damascus, Ga., Sept. 6, ’B6.
MESsrs. Editors —l notice that you
■ don’t have anything from these parts now
a-days. I hope you do not think by that
we are lost. Not a bit of it, we are full
of iite. Our merchants are all activity.
I heard one of them say that he did not
have to buut up his customers now, as pay
day had coine—he was the one hunted.
Ain’t it nice to have such customers] and
the way cotton comes in it seems to he
just as he says.
You have not been to see us lately, and
I fear you would not know the place so
many improvements are going on. The
saw and the hammer are heard on 'every
ride. There have been six new bouses
built within the last twelve months. Cap
tain T. E. Hightower, that prince of mer
chauts, is building him a nice residence
just over the way. McNair liros. have
the lumber on hand to put them up a nice
house. I suppose Whayland will he first
to build the fire, as she says her old man
will have to make the fire and she will do
the rest.
Yes, another hoy for the Mexican war.
It arrived at 8 p. m., on the 4th instant,
and will call Mr. and Mrs W. VY'. Keaton
papa and mamma.
About the earthquake—were you there]
I was, or it turned out so. Let me tell
you. I had a fine calf in tho yard that
evening and it was uiy custom to let him
out with the others at night, which I did
not do. This seemed to enrage him and
he pawed the earth mightily. I remark
ed to my wife that that calf was going to
do some mischief before day. She said
“I’ll leave, I don’t want to he here when
it happens.” lied time come came and
she had not come back, so I turned in, af
ter saying my prayers. About that time
I heard a very low, heavy bass voice
around the comer, and instantly the calf,
as I thought, slaps his horns against the
house and it was shaken from center to all
aTound. 1 jumped up, sefeed a stick and
the first thing I ran against was a hug. I
was not long in demolishing it but the
oalf got out of my Way. Meditating as I
went bac/k how foolish I was for not turi.-
ing that calf out, I resolved, “I’ll do it
to-morrow night, if he does get with his
| mother.” -Next morning I went out in
town thinking I’d tell what happened to
my calf. About the first one who spoke
to in 3 asked me about the quake last night
and did I feci it. ‘Shore’ I did. I ask
ed who bad told him, and said, “I’ll bet
I don’t feel it to-night; I’ui going to
turn the thing out.” My friend remark
ed that he didn’t understand. So 1 relat
ed my experience. He said, “Sure, we
did not all have calves in our yards,” and
then told me what it was. Others chimed
in and all had had a similar shake up. I
won’t be so smart telling my experience
next time.
That clever Christian gentleman, Giles
D. YY’ebb, is expected home the last of
the week. \\’e all have extended arms to
receive him and give him a welcome that
men seldom have for one another.
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