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TIIK MON’UOK ADVKHTISKK. !
FORSYTH, GA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY . EE
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BY McOINTY & CABAN188.
T JFSDA Y MORNING. MARCH 27. 1838.
Registered in the P< ,t Office of For
yth, ( ia.. a corn! cl matter.
A message from beyond the At¬
lantic brings the statement that 119
persons were burned to death last
week in a theater at Oporto.
All indications now point a
stead}* movement and a fixed de
termination upon the part of domo
cm tie congressmen towards a re
dm l ion of the tariff.
An election for the sale or no sale
of liquor in Pike county will be held
on tho 30th instant. Tho prospects
are that the election will be a quiet
one, as it should he.
The warehouse of Pope k Fleming
sit Augusta, Ga. was destroyed by
fire, Friday, lo-gethor with 1,000
bales of cotton, Tho origin of the
fire is reported to be unknown.
Wherein is tDo consistency of
those protectionists and protection
organs who condemn the Mill’s tariff
bill because of its internal revenue
features, and at the same time, laud
applaud and advocate the Randall
bill?
whether or not the pouch crop
has been destroyed by tho late
freezes, is a question much discussed
among our people, but is slill unde¬
cided. Our opinion is that this
crop was materially injured by the
freeze of Thursday night..
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Some northern newspapers are
disponed to criticise the management
of southern railroads because of tDo
late railroad horror at Blackshear,
Ga. Statistics prove that tDc rail¬
roads in the south are much more
free from such horrors than are
northern railroads.
Upon investigation of his books
by export accountants, tho defalca¬
tion of Treasurer Tate, of Kentucky,
is found to be not less than a quart¬
er of a million. Tate is reported to
bo in Canada. Steps looking to
impeachment are being taken by
the Kentucky legislature.
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Rivers in the north and west are
renorlcd tn he -it filoed n<0 r VUm
country, railroad bridges are washed
away and much damage done to
other property. Out of this, may
grow a flooding of the lower Missis¬
sippi country, and great destruction
to property.
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the Criterion, edited by* Charles
T. Logan, and published fortnightly
in Atlanta by Criterion Company,
is a new bidder for public patronage.
Tho Criterion is well gotten up;
starts out with a good corpse of con¬
tributors and comes to us filled with
good matter. May success crown
the efforts of brother Logan in this
new enterprise.
MONEY MANIA.
Another state treasurer has gone
crooked in his accounts. A special
to the Revolting (Louisville) Times
of tho 20th instant from Frankfort,
Ky., says :
“Governor Buckner this morning
suspended the treasurer of the state,
J as. W. Tate. Tate is charged with
defalcation in his office, and it is said
lie has fled from the state. The de¬
tailing official has been treasurer for
twenty-one years, llo was consid¬
ered the soul of honor, and the news
will produce a tremendous sensa¬
tion throughout the state. A later
dispatch says that the investigation
immediately instituted on tho rec¬
ommendation of Governor Buckner
lias, up to 11 o’clock this morning,
disclosed a deficit in Tate’s accounts
of8150,000, and that irregularities
seem to run back eleven years.”
Tho numerous accounts of such
Crookedness in officials, the unpreee
(Vnted burglaries and money thefts
beKiig committed in all sections of
our country, lead us to conclude that
certaVdy a money mania is seizing
upon t\e o\ly people.
Not does this class of crimes
tend to engender such an opinion,
but also theVmany subterfuges being
resorted to, :\ul tho various schemes
devised to ol\ain money, Even
current conversation in most assem¬
blies has tor t\e leading theme,
money. Indeed universal has
that beeomethisgraspingajp’ced tor money
it is observable even among
children. Men in the hunkblor walks of
lite, in the medium walksi and in’the
highest walks of life are beaming so
perfectly and so completely domi¬
nated by this mania for monesy that
character confidence, trust, reputation\ and
fceem to them to bff\ of
secondary or minor consideration 1 -
Ibis maddening craze for money i.4
swelling into huge proportions—it
over-leaps nil the rules prudeneo
and propriety, and s taggers 1
not at
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 27 1S88—EIGHT PAGES.
robWn burglarizes 8 truo bank * t * ,,dbf vaults, f fr dynamites ! om, \ “I
money safes wherever found, and |
against its victims no place is sate J
where money is supposed to be. It
gives birth to skulking and highway j
robbers and wields the assassins |
blade.
With the facts and lights before
us, can any one doubt that there !
exists in this country a money
mania? The truth on this point is j
too manifest to admit of doubt. Then
it becomes us to ask why—why in¬
deed, is this so? Where and whence
the germinating cause?
Is it tracablo to the multiplication
of millionaires in our land, and the
multiplied evidences of extrava¬
gance upon .the part of the wealthier
few? Or is it tracable to the ap¬
parently increasing disregard for
extravagance in public expenditures
and to the practiced system of polit¬
ical economy in our government
that feeds the wealthier and, at the
same time, beggars the poorer
classes? Or is its origin to bo found
in that deluding system of taxation
that binds the nose of laboring peo¬
ple to the grindstone of poverty,
and pours a flood-tide of increasing
wealth into the vaults of monied
kings? But be tfie cause what it
may, it is, nevertheless, true that
evidences of this mania are dotting
our land and country, proving that
men of established reputation for
honesty and integrity, arc under its
sway, being lead to do, in order to
obtain money, those things that
fasten upon them the charge of rob¬
bery and theft. Poverty, clad in in¬
tegrity and honor, is far better and
more bappyfying than wealth robed
in the toga of roguery and wearing
the crown of theft.
♦
MR. RANDALL’S PLAN.
Sharp Criticism of the Pennsylvania
Statesman’s Scheme.
Providence Journal.
The sufficient objection to Mr.
Randall’s plan for getting rid of the
troublesome surplus lies in tho fact
that it is based on a wromg princi¬
ple of revenue reform. The major
portions of its reductions is made on
the internal revenue side by repeal¬
ing the taxes on tobacco and fruit
brandy and materially lowering the
tax on whisky. Now, it must be
perfectly clear to every unprejudiced
mind that in reducing the govern¬
ment’s revenues those taxes should
first be taken off which are a burden
to tho largest number of people.
tobacco But under tax ope certainly nwsont rn’irnr. the "J'
is not bur
den that is most widely felt. No¬
body pa}*s either of these taxes ex
copt the people who use these com¬
modities, so that, save for the lim¬
ited number of persons who need
alcohol for industrial purposes and
those who occasionally are obliged
to purchase alcoholic compounds of
a medicinal nature, the whisky and
tobacco tax is one that is paid vol¬
untarily. More than half our pop¬
ulation do not contribute a cent to
the government’s internal revenue,
and are not, therefore, feeling the
burden of that tax. But the tariff
taxes arc, many of them, the means
of placing an added burden on every
household in the land. They add to
the cost of tlie materials that enter
into the construction of our houses,
of the carpets, crockery, tinware and
glassware with which they are fur¬
nished, of every kind of clothing that
we buy, of many universally used
articles of food, and practically all
tho tools that our workmen need.
Furthermore, in addition to tho ex
tent and weight of the burden it
]>laces on consumers, tho tariff, by
reason of its heavy tax on raw ma
tcrials, throws an insurmountable
obstacle in tho way of the full de¬
velopment of many important in¬
dustries.
C learly, then, of our two systems
ot taxation, it is the tariff which im
poses the heavier burden and dis
tributes it most widely; and now
that the federal treasury is in such a
condition that wo can afford to re
duce the taxes, the reduction should
he made, mainly, at least, on the
more burdensome side, and where it
will afford relict to the largest possi
b!e number of people. The correct
ness of that principle would seem to
be indisputable, and yet it is directly j
violated by Mr. Randall s bill, which
would make more than 70 per cent. :
ot its reductions on tho internal
revenue side of our system of taxa
t‘ ou *
Again, in view of what changes
have been made in revenue system
since tho war. any further large re¬
duction of internal taxes at this time
is manifestly unfair, considered
merely as a measure for readjusting
the fiscal arrangement of the war
era to a peace basis. In 1866 the
government s income from internal
taxes was 19,000.000, and from
tarifl tax 8179,000,000. Since that
time, however, by successive reduc
tions ot internal taxation, tho
revenue from that source has been
brought down to 8118.000,000, while,
by leaving the war tariff practically
unchanged, the income from that
source has risen to 8217,000,000.
In common fairness, before the in¬
come from the former source is still
further reduced, there should be
something like a proportionate re¬
duction in the revenue from the lat¬
ter source. And yet Mr. Randall’s
plan is to take 870,000,000 oft of the
lighter side of the public bur
den heavier and only 825,000,000 off of the
side. It is a preposterous
pIVposul.
Conventions.
The State Democratic executive
committee convened Wednesday at
the Markham House, Atlanta, Judge
B. II. Bigham presiding. All the
districts were represented except
the 3rd and 10th. May the 9th was
chosen as the date for holding the
State Convention to select delegates
to the St. Louis convention. Wed
nesday, j August 8th was chosen as
he date for holding the convention
to nominate a governor, state house
officials and presidential electors.
The hour of 12 o'clock on the days
named was the time agreed on for
the convening of both conventions.
From the proceedings of the com¬
mittee we clip the following to-wit:
Resolved. That the state demo
eratic executive committee recom¬
mend that the democracy of Georgia,
in each county, select their delegates,
in such mode as the executive com¬
mittee of each county may adopt,
for the first convention, on the first
Tuesday in May, and for the second
convention on the first Tuesday in
July. That each this
Resolved, county in
state be entitled to double the num
her of votes that the county has rep¬
resentatives in the lower house of
the general assembly.
Resolved, That each county bo
requested to select as alternates the
same number of persons at the same
time and in the samo manner as it
selects delegates; and that the com¬
mittee recomend that each county at
the time of its election of said dele¬
gates pass resolutions requesting the
state convention not to admit any
delegate unless ho be regularly
selected, either as a delegate or as
an alternate, and that no person not
a citizen of tho county be allowed
to represent said county as a dele¬
gate by proxy, and these resolutions
to both conventions.
Under this ruling of the executive
committee Monroe will be entitled
to four delegates to these conventions.
While we deem it hardly necessary
to make the suggestion to Monroe
county voters, yet it will be well for
them, in selecting their delegates to
the May convention, to know that
tho men whom they may select as
delegates, have settled and decided
views on the tariff question which is,
and will be the vital issue in the ap
approaching political campaign.
Georgia’s delegation to the national
convention at St. Louis ought to be,
and we apprehend will be, solid for
a proper tariff reform. 3’o accom¬
plish this end, let every county in
Georgia see to it, that her delegates
Atu' crud ity mis principle.
A large and fresh supply of the cel¬
ebrated Royal Owl and Jersey Flour
just received by S. B. Head
Not Too Much Revenue.
Tho New York Herald comment¬
ing on Senator Colquitt’s late speech
in the senate on the tariff question,
says:
“No farmer wants more revenue
collected than the government needs,
because the accumulation of money
in the treasury makes money in
circulation scarce and dear, and
when that is the case the outlook
for him is not a very promising one.
Neither does lie want the revenue
raised from the necessaries rather
than the superfluities of life, because
to supply his wants the necessaries
and not the supeifluities are required.
Among the superfluities is whisky.
The farmer has no need for whisky.
It serves no good purpose, and is
the greatest of all demoralizers of
labor. Why then should the farm¬
er desire free whisky while all arti¬
cles of clothing for himself and fami¬
ly, and about all kinds of agricultural
machinery and implements—even
the ties and bagging in which tho
cotton is sent to market—are taxed?
Senator Colquitt made it very clear
that the wise course for farmers to
pursue was to support the demo
eratic party. He could not under
stand, he said, why the monopolists of
Pennsylvania were so anxious to
give their workingmen free whisky
and tobacco while denying them
untaxed clothes, if, as they professed,
they aimed only to promote their
workingmen’s conclude interests. It is safe
to that whenever a man in
public life, or in private life for that
matter, aggressively advocates free
whisky and tobacco, he has a selfish
interest of some sort to protect, and
that all of his solicitude about the
welfare of the farmer and workmen
is the merest pretense, and intended
to hide his real purpose. Senator
Colquitt is the friend of the farmer
and workman, and the tariff policy
which he favors will bear the closest
scrutiny by them.
Is Consumption Incurable?
Read the following: Mr. C. H.
j Morris, Newark, Ark., says: “Was
down with abscess of Lungs, and
friends and physicians pronounced
me an incurable Consumptive. Be
gan taking Dr. King’s New Discov¬
ery for Consumption, am now on
my third bottle, and able to oversee
the work on my farm. It is the
finest medicine ever made.”
Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio,
says: “Had it not been for Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Consump¬
tion I would have died of Lung
Troubles. Was given up by doctors.
Am now in best of health.” Try it.
Sample bottles free at Ponder &
Hill s Dru"- Store,
Cl o
clo. FT a o other,
Senator Colquitt's great tariff
speech delivered in the U. S. Senate
on the 12th instant is having a telling
effect in every section of the Union
whero read. It is the ablest,clearest,
and most comprehensive speech in
favor of tariff redaction, which
means in favor of the masses, it has
ever been our privilege to read. Of
this speech the Washington corres¬
pondent of the Enquirer-Sun says:
“I am in a position to know some¬
thing about the effect which Senator
Colquitt’s speech has had and is hav¬
ing in congress and in the country.
Demands for copies of the speech tor
circulation have come in from iowa
and Illinois, and other states in that
and other sections. These applica¬
tions are from leading citizens, who
unite in the expression of the opin¬
ion that the general distribution of
the speech in their localities is all
that will be necessary to secure
democratic success on the line of
tariff reform.
1 make note of all these facts be¬
cause they will be of interest to the
many readers of the Enquirer-Sun,
and because of the personal gratifi¬
cation that 1 feel as a Georgian and
as a democrat, in knowing that
the strongest and most telling en¬
dorsement that our democratic
president has yet received has been
from the hands of a Georgia senator.
It will be a matter of no small pride
to Georgians to know that Cleve¬
land's message and Colquitt’s speech
on it, constitute all the campaign
artillery that the will be needed to bat¬
ter down defences of protection
from ocean to ocean.”
A fine Berkshire Boar tor sale.
A. II. Bramblett.
NOTICE TO DISTRICT ROAD COMMIS¬
SIONERS.
IT 1 having j been represented public roads by the in late this
Grand ury that the
county have net been, heretofore, properly
worked and kept up to the standard re¬
quired by the statute in such cases made
and provided.
This is therefore to notify the Road
Commissioners in each district in the coun¬
ty, and they are hereby ordered, their to have
ch and every public road in respec¬
tive districts properly worked as the
law directs and kept in continued good
order. The temporary or slight working
of the roads just prior to the sessions of
the Superior Court is not a compliance with
the road law and will not be recognized as
such.
J. F. CHILDS,
JOHN A. DANIELLY,
W. T. LAWSON,
Corns. Roads and Rev. Monroe Co.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.
fy EORGIA—Monroe county—Notice is
Vj hereby given to all persons having de¬
mands against E. R. Vaughn, late of said
county deceased to present them to me,
properly made out, within the time pre
rcribed by law, so as to show their charac¬
ter and ».*•- *. ?\And all persons indebted
IndaC payment to me.
John H. Vaughn,
Adyn’r. of E. R. Vaughn.
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
To my friends and customers of Monioe county, and elsewhere, I desire tosav that
I have received, and am now receiving, the biggest, cheapest and best selected stock of
Spring Goods, ever brought to Middle Georgia. I rely on ray past record as a guarantee
than to tho people retail that House I will in give the South. them more, No fresh shop nobby" goods, for their almighty dollar,
any old worn goods, no second or third hand
stock, but all fresh, new goods in the very latest novelties. I take special care in my
selections, and use every effort to get just such styles as will please my trade.
MY LEADERS--CLOTHING!
I still carry the famous Vocrhees, Miller & Ruple’s fine clothing, as well as all
grades in cheaper goods, and I claim that I wil sell you a suit, 10 to 20 percent cheaper
than Macon or Atlanta.
DRESS GOODS!
Without presupmtion 1 say that I carry the best assorted stock of Dress Good and
Trimmings with in the country. I have all the newest shades in Plain and Fancy Suitings
Trimmings to mateh in Velvets, Braids, Moire Silks, &c.
WHITE GOODS, HAMBERGS & LACES.
Last summer I made for myself a reputation on these goods and being inspired to
greater efforts by my last year’s success I have now a stock of White Goods, Laces and
Hambergs, that are the admiration and wonder of all the ladies.
SHOES AND SLIPPERS!
Shoes and Slippers are a big factor in iny stock, and I can fit tlie largest or small¬
est foot, and also the largest or smallest purse.
It is too much of an undertaking to try to tell the people ot everything I have*
but suffice it to say that I have got everything kept in a
DRY GOODS STORE!
That you need and will sell them cheaper than you ever thought you could buy them.
Come m and take a look through, I will take great pleasure iD showing you.
Y'ours truly,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesville, Ga., March 22nd, 1888.
N. B.—MR. JOHN F. HOWARD is still with me, to help extend you a cordial
welcome.
The Best-~The Cheapest. X
Gantt’s Improved Cotton Planter Stands at the Head of the List.
Was awarded
first prize at the
Georgia State
Fairover all com aw Kmr.- :
petiotrs, there be¬ Evafi
m
ing on exhibition fl|
planters from™
North Carolina, is
Texas, and va¬
rious parts of K '_^ I
Georgia.
Write for Prices and Sample Planter.
JAS. T. GANTT, MACON, GEORGIA
ESABLISHED 1860. kebuilt 1883.
R. C. WILDER’S SONS
BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS AND MOULDINGS, MANUFACTURERS OF SASH, DOORS, BLINDS
ETC.
Our purpose is to keep a full line of goods needed in House Building. Builders, Hard¬
Harison’s ware, Painters’Supplies,Glass, “Town Country” Putty, Mixed Pure Paints, White Lead and bt.st Linseed Oil; also,
and guaranteed to be equal to any made. Our
of machinery rough and is all new and the latest improved. We guarantee satisfaction. Full supply
dressed Lumber. Shingles and Laths al wavs on hand, at the lowest market
price. R. C. WILDER’S SONS, 614 and 622 Third Street, Macon, Ga.
D. H. GREEN.
JEWELERI
Tax Receiver's Notice.
I will be at the following places on the
dates named for the purpose of receiving
Tax Returns, to-wit:
At Redbone, April 2nd and 23rd, and
May 14th. Culloden, April 3rd and 24th, and
At
May 15th. Kelsey’s, April 4th
At Russelville and
and 1 >th, May 16th.
At Burgey s, April 5th and 26th, and
May 17th. and Dame’s, April Gth and
At Pope’s 18th.
27th, and May and
At Johnsonville, April 9tli and 30th,
May 21st. Unionville, April 10th, and May 1st
At
and 22nd.
At Proctor’s April 11th, and May 2nd
and 23rd.
At Cabaniss, April 12th, and May 3rd
and 24th.
At Middlebrook’s A pril 13th, and May
4th and 25th.
At Forsyth every Saturday except the
Saturday before the first Sundav in each
month. N. A. SAPPINGTON, T. R.
March 10th, 1888.
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TARIFF
-Oil
NO TARIFF!
The public is notified that 1 have this day purchased the entire stock of
Groceries, Provisions, Etc.
Of Messrs. PONDER & b LEI CHER,
Ami have moved my large and complete stock of GROCERIES to tho
.stand formerly occupied by PONDER & T LLLCHER on the North sido^
Public Square, next door to Bramblett & Bro. The public are invited to
call and examine my STOCK and PRICES, and you will find the
BEST AND FRESHEST
SOCK OF
PROVISIONS
1N THE CITY,
Compare my PRICES and }*ou will conclude that it matters not whether
the Tariff or no Tariff laws are in force.
1 CHALLENGE all competitors to undersell me. 1 UNDERSELL tho
Cheapest. HEAD, Agent.
S. B.
FORSYTH, GA., Jan. 2, 1888. For Mrs. \V. II. Head.
E. Van Winkle & Co.
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
■1 PUMPS,
TAnlls, : * Etc. I!
HD
CONSTRUCT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
WATER WORKS
RAILROAD WATER SUPPLIES
STEAM PUMPS,PIE5 AND BRASS GOODS,
COTTON GINS!
PRESSES, OIL MILLS, and SAW MILLS and all kinds of FOUNDRY
-WORK!
Bggr Send for Catalogue and P.-;..,™
214 to 222 Marietta Street, ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
COTTON SEASON OF 1887- 8!
Planters of Monroe and adjoining counties are informed that
W. T. MAYNARD & CO.
HAVE PURCHASED THIS MAGNIFICENT
FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE
And renovated and fitted it up with the LATEST IMPROVED TESTED
and the Proprietors ar» premred to 7 & 1 * SCALES; sr \ r
WARE-HOUSE BUSINESS earrv y GENERAL yv™ t> » COMMISSION AND
CAPT. J. D. PROCTOR
SALESMAN
ADVANCES MADE ON COTTON IN STORE l
1 same building will be
^FLi-syth' 1 Ca° ° f th<? public is rfes pectfullg >r '"
solicited by th e proprietors.
MAYNARD & PROCTOR.
W. H. SPENCE,
at cole's warehouse
Corner Hill and Taylor Streets,
GRIFFIN - Georgia,
IS j IIE ONLY PLACE THAT YOU CAN BUY
THE
STUDEBAKER WAGON 9
WHITE HICKORY WAGON, COLUMBUS BUGGY,
Jackson G. Smith Buggy and Dump Carts.
ALSO WHIPS AND HARNESS.
asa
G. F. THURMOND,
-DEALER IX-^
Staple and Fancy Groceries
■Head’s Block, FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
I keep constantly on hand a FIRST CLASS stock of FRESH
FAMILY GROCERIES, TOBACCO, CIGARS,
-CONFECTIONERIES, FRUITS, ETC._
FRESH BREAD A SPECIALTY.
An inspection of my stock and the patronage of the public respectfully
solicited. Country Produce bought and sold. sept21