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THE MONROE VOL XXXIV COST! COST! NO FOOLING! BUT FACTS! 01'i'ora October the 1st to January the 1st I will sell everything in my store AT STRICTLY FIRST COST! I I will have no favorites either in customers or the line of Goods. Remember that everybody cun buy anything 1 have got at THESE PRICES. M 3 * reason for doing this is not that 1 am going to break or quit business, nut with the new year I am going to take a partner into 1113 ’ business, and it is our desire to run the stock down as low as possible. Thin is no old Cost Chestnut, but I mean absolutely what i say ; and if requested will show original invoice on any article from a paper of Pina to a fine Dress or suit of Clothes. it is needless for me to particularize for my customers and friends all know that I keep the N EW EST, CHOICEST and BEST SELECTED STOCK in this section, The most desir able goods will of course be picked up by the first purchasers. So call earlj*. In selling goods at these cut prices CASH will he demanded for everything. No goods will be charged to anyone. 1 shall also insist on prompt settlement from those who owe me. Yours truly, EDGAR L. ROGERS, BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA. Messrs. EUSTACE <’. ELDER and JAMES M. JOHNSTON, arc with me, and extend a cordial invitation to all their friends to call and see them. -AYCOCK- Manufacturing Company, -M A N U FACT U11E RS O F-- DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, Mantels,-Moldings, Balusters, Newels, WINDOW AND DOORFRAMES. DEALERS IN LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS AND BRICK. ALSO, CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. \Vt> now have our Factory in operation and will bo glad to sec all wanting Building Material and give prices. We feel confident we can please both 111 price and quality of our work. Call before making your purchases and get prices. Factory 13th Street, Opposite Cotton Factory. OFFICE PLANTERS’ WAREHOUSE, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. N. B.— Our Blinds are wired with Patent Clincher Machines, and will not break loose, thus pseventing the unsightly appearance that most others do. R. L. SWATTS THE LOWEST PRICE FURNITUREi Dealer in Middle Georgia! slock is large and complete, including Side Boards, Book Cases, Marble and Wood top Tables, Single and Double Wardrobes, Office, Library, and Dining Chairs, Dining Tables, Bed Spring Mattresses, Childrens Beds, Cradles, Ac. 1 have a large to< k of WINDOW SHADES, CORNICE POLES, Oil Paintings and Pictures, Plush Bronze and Gilt Frame, Wall Pockets, Ha Backs. Basics Ac. Picture Framing a Spreialy. I \v il! call your attention to the NEW HOME SEWING MACIININE, which lam now selling for $35.00. Call to see me and get my prices. j K. L. SWATTS. Barnesville, G:i. FURNITURE! FURNITURE! x W e advise all of those warding Furniture of any kind to go to JOHN NEAL & CO., Nos. 7 and 9 South Broad Streets, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. A* they keep a thill Line, which they are selling at LOWER PRICES than can be h«J elsewhere Set- from $17.50 up, ote. Don't forget ouraddress. Hunnicutt & Bellingrath • 7 jdt: a Xais^s Stoves, Tinware, Galvanized Iron Cornice, Sewer and Dr: l Pipe, Sani¬ tary Plumbers, Steam and Gas Fitters. THE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT Of Cooking; and lU'atin- Stoves. Rii> m Coal llods. Tin Sets. Granite, Iron and Enameled \\ are, Bras* Fire Sets. Andirons, Coal \ ases. Fenders, ami in lacl all kinds ot llousefurnishing Goods in the State. Plain, Enameled and Nieklc Trimmed Grates. Marbleized Iron anclHardwood Mantles 5 TILE HEARTHS AND TILE FACINGS A SPECIALTY. \\ ater ( . sets. I rinaD, Hydrants, Bath Tubs, Pumps, Hydraulic Rams Hose, Steam Cocks, Valves, Gas Fixtures, Woooen Ware, Feather Dusters ilrustles, &c., &c. AGENTS FOR KNOWLES STEAM PUMPS, Hancock* Inspirators, Dunning's Boilers, Climax Gas Machine, Otto Gas Engines, Wrought Iron Pipe for .Steam, Water and Gas. ffsgr Write for Prices. ATLANTA, GEORGIA DYB V J liB? ' ^ £ rJM FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 29, 1889. A REVOLUTION IN STEEL. A staff correspondent sends from Springfield, O., to the Atlanta Con¬ stitution, the following: The revolution about to be made in the manufacture of steel is the most important change in the iron busi ness that has occurred since the in¬ troduction of the Bessemer process. Mr. Bookwalter, the millionaire iron man of Springfield, says the new process of converting iron steel will do with a $10,000 investment what the Bessemer process does with a $150,000 plant. A ton converter making four heats an hour, will de carbonize 100 tons of pig iron in a day. Every iron furnace making a hundred tons a day will he able to convert its product into steel ingots through ma¬ chinery that it might pay for in a few days’ business. The difference in the cost of invest¬ ment between the new process and tlie Bessemer is due largely to the economy in power. It requires a GOO horse power engine to furnish the 25 pound blast, which is forced through the molten iron from bottom to top by the Bessemer process, while a forty horse engine furnishes the two pound blast which is used to stir and beat the irom fron the top in the new process. Mr. Bookvvalter’s superintendent says that the blast sent through the iron from the bottom fills the molten mass with air hubbies and causes the floating impurities to mix with the metal all through. For this reason lie says the Bessemer people have to cast their steel in fourteen inch in¬ gots and break it down to smaller si7.es with heavy and expensive roll¬ ers. Mr. Bookwalter claims that by introducing the blast on top the im¬ purities are not mixed, the iron is free from bubbles and is almost as fluid as water. For this reason He is enabled to cast his steel in 2, l T inch or five inch ingots as the rolling mills desire. This difference, he says, will save five dollars a ton in rolling. The process is very simple. A ton of pig iron is melted in a cupola and run into the converter. A two pound blast is introduced on the surface and the temperature is raised till enough of the carbon is burned out to leave steel of the desired hardness. When the iron goes into the converter it has two or three per cent, of carbon. In about eight minutes after the blast is put on all the carbon but, say thirty five hundreths of one per cent, will have been burned out. If the metal is run out with that amount of carbon remaining it makes steel suitable for rails. If all but twenty hundreths is burned out it makes the grade used for nails, and if only five hundreths are allowed to remain it makes a soft wrought iron. Tool steel retains about fifty hundreths carbon. The question that interests Georgia and Alabama is, will the new process utilize ores which have over ten or twelve hundreths of one per cent, of phosphorus? Mr. Bookwalter thinks he can manage iron with not over 20-100ths phosphorus. This would in¬ clude much of the ore found in north Georgia. Another iron man here says, however, that the best grade of steel could not be made of ore con¬ taining over ten or twelve hundreths of one per cent phosphorus, but he coupled with it the remark: “The patent for the Basic process will expire in four years.” “What will that amount to?” “Why, then the steel will be made in the south. While the Bessemer process will not admit of much phos pliorus, and therefore excludes your southern ores, the Basic process re¬ quires as much as two percent, phos¬ phorus and that kind of ore you have in the south. Another thing about the Basic process is that it makes steel of greater tensile strength than any other. The Washburn and Ma¬ con wire works use 1,600 tons a week of Basie steel, and it is all brought from Germany. “The Bessemer people got hold of the Basic process and retired it be¬ cause they were determined that the south should not make steel. They have millions invested in Bessemer plants and are bent on protecting them.” This shows how Mr. Carnegie, while lie nursed a presidential can didate and piped of a policy that would develop the resources of the wholeeoimtrv.hashad hishand on the throat and choked out for a time the very life of our most promising in dUstr y Ingrowing Nails. One who has bad many years' experience with it uses a coneentrat ed solution (an ounce of perfectly fresh tannic acid dissolved with Six drachms of pure water with gentle heat, and has the soft part around the nail painted twice a day. Two e:u»es recently had no pain or lame ness after the first application, and went about their work immediately, which they could not do before, After about three weeks of this treat ment the nail had grown to its prop er length and breadth and the cure was complete. No other treatment of any kind was used though former ly* he introduced lint under the ingrowing nail in such cases. —Medical Journal. WHAT AN AFRICAN SAYS IIIS PEOPLE ONLY AT SC2IOOE IS A Vi ELS IC A. Thp African wi»o is the (Attest of Bishop Turner, Tells of the Condition oi the .Ne. grocs in Africa. Rev. Samuel J. Campbell, the Af¬ rican preacher, who is visaing this country, is a black man, evidently of pure negro blood, and a member of the AJandingo tribe, He stands about five feet eight inches nigh, has a well formed head, intelligent black eyes, small mouth and chin, is bet¬ ter proportioned and has smaller hands and feet than most negroes. He has an easy dignified manner of quiet reserve, and speak , English well and fluently as it it were the language of his every day life. In speaking of his own country he be¬ comes more enthusiastic, especially in regard to the resources of its fields and forests and the wonderful min¬ eral wealth of the mountains. “Whi.e I am an African,' said he, I have lived for a long time in civi¬ lization. I go among the natives a great deal as a treaty maker. They are not wild people, as it was inti¬ mated to me since I have been here. They are very fond of trading and come into the town by hundreds for that purpose. They (the natives) are governed by kings. Each tribe has a king and several head men who assist him in governing the people. “The laws ato very strict, but for the Violation of certain rules you can pay. For instance, if you stop the road and interfere with trade you can pay for that, but it you in¬ terfere with the king’s wives or a young unmarried woman it is death. They take you out and chop your head off and throw your body in the creek. “For young girls there is a place called the ‘gregory bush,’ say five acres, fenced off just as you would fence off a college, and in that space they gather two or three hundred girls. The girls go in in October, November and December, and re¬ main there a 3 *ear. They undergo certain rites and training and are taught obedience to their husbands and how to conform to the rules of the tribe. They are also taught to doctor their husbands whe \ey are sick. During that time no man is allowed to enter, and if a man has a wife in there he has to carry to the gate whatever he may wish tp send her and there deliver it to the mis stress ot the place. He is not allow¬ ed to speak to his wife or shake hands with her. “Before going through the grego¬ ry bush, girls are not allowed to at¬ tend funerals or to take part in fam¬ ily business, because they are re¬ garded as sinners and unfit for busi ness. \Ye are trying to put the gregory bush down, because it is doing great damage to civilization and Christianity. It will take time to get rid of it. “The Africans never steal from each other. They are very strict in that particular. In regularly or¬ ganized towns they trade a great deal and make large country cloths. This cloth is woven in strips as wide as my two hands. They* use crude looms, and in this way 7 a man will weave two or three hundred yards in a day*. Eight or nine widths of these strps are then put together and of the wide cloth so made, two yards sell for a dollar. The mer¬ chants buy 7 these cloths by the hun dreds and thousands and sell them to the crewmen. The houses are built wiih caves extending over be¬ yond the end of the house and a bench is put there, and upon it cloths are arranged. If a man wants to sell his cloth for eight heads of tobacco, he will put down eight rocks and put a leaf of tobacco on the cloth and he will go off and leave it all day. When lie comes back he may find his cloth gone but he will find the tobacco there in the place of it. If you want a cloth you take it and leave eight heads of tobacco. No one dares touch the goods for if he interferes and no account can be given they call the town together and set to work to find the guilty party. When he is found they take him out and chop his head off, and they don't have any* stealing. “In trading they use as mediums n p exchange ” tobacco, ’ powder, f ’ guns, brass kettles, salt, rum and cowries. Cowries . small white . shells are brought from England. They are'very are filled with dlack* gum and valuable. The natives wear them as ornaments. “The crewmen are natives who au a(e%^t^r m r 1hovlS nS| We these crewmen are engaged. Some times 30 or 40 crewman are at work loading diversfand one ship. They are great can remain under water half an hour and they kill sharks, They sharpen their knives and go under the shark and cut him open, They are the bravest men in tiie country, and have never been en slaved. They were afraid to enslave them, because they found that their wealth was in the crewmen’s hands, You don't see any mulattos among them, though they are continually brought in contact with men of all races. If a mulatto is born among them they drown him in the sea. “The Africans are tall muscular people, well put together. The^r are 4 1 J I I not as historians have represented j them, with loin; feet and red eyes, some of the most handsome people in the world you will find in Africa. As a general thing they are beauli fully shaped and not dwarfed like Amerieans. Especially the females are better developed. The Pessi and Bundi tribes have thick lips and flat noses, and the Congo people pm take of that peculiarity. 1 he great majority of Africans do not mve t’at.feature. They are as clever looking people as you will nt ‘ “l think the African lias only* been in America at a university, and I think he will make his country the greatest in the world. Provi¬ dence is working up this race to a higher point of civilization, and fi¬ nally they will go out. 1 think the system is wrong. I.think that in these schools they ought to be teaching the boys and girls in an industrial department, and instead of keeping a boy six or seven years in the school, filling his head and developing his hands, it would be belter to educate the hands with the intelliect and let them both come out accomplished.” *»• The Duty on Tin. Atlauta Journal. The senate of the United States ad¬ opted last week, by a party vote (ex¬ cept that Senator Brown voted with tiie Republicans) an amendment to its tariff bill imposing duties ranging from 33 to 70 per cent, upon tin plates and plates of composite tin and iron. It was alleged in the debate by demo¬ cratic speakers, and admitted by re¬ publican senators, that there are no industries making tin plate now in existence in the United States. The latter supported the amendment on the ground that there was tin ore in Pennsylvania and one or two of the western territories, which could be worked if protected by the exclu¬ sion of foreign competition; the duty was to be laid, not to protect an exist¬ ing iudustry, bat to build up a new one. If it is constitutional and proper to pay from the treasury a bounty on sugar produced in the United States, so as to encourage and build up the sorghum and beet industry, why was it not also best to pay a bounty on tin plates, so as to develop that industry also? In both cases the money would be collected from all the people by taxation and given to another and a comparatively small portion to help them in their business. The only difference is tiiat the people taxed can more readily see the injustice of the bounty system. Tin plates are now admitted free of duty. The imposition of duties will necessarily have the effect of increasing their cost to the manufac¬ turers, and they must have increased protection on their wares by way of compensation. Thus all the people of the country are to be made to pay higher prices for tinware to develop an industry confined to one or two localities and one or two companies. This is in conformity with the policy of protection throughout. It taxes the people not outy to support indus¬ tries existing, but to force the crea¬ tion of new ones by increasing the cost of importations -, ..a ro give them a market for tneir high priced pro¬ ducts. The pretense that this is done for the benefit of American labor is false, as is shown by the wages paid to the workers in tin in the large establish¬ ments of the country. We were told, a few days ago, by a gentleman en¬ gaged in business of a similar kind, that the manufacturers of tin coffee pots paid their workmen only 20 cents per hundred for making the half-gall¬ on pots, and prices equally low for other sizes. Can the prices paid in Europe be less than this, or can the imposition of a duty on tin plates (now free) have the effect of increas¬ ing the wages paid by employers to the workers in tin ? No one can be¬ lieve it. Dr. Talmage on the Sabbath. The great divine in his grand ser¬ mon, Jan. 13th, on the Sabbath day, said, most eloquently and truthfully: “The Sabbath comes, and it bathes the soreness from the limbs, quiets the agitated brain, and puts out the fires of anxiety that have been burn¬ ing all the week. Our bodies are sev¬ en day clocks, and unless on the sev¬ enth day they are wound up, they run down into the grave. The Sab bath was intended as a savings bank* into it we are to gather the r-sourees •**? ty,° h " «" *° b “ty “ r ““ s ' le > hls °" “ * 11 ; aln ®' h ' so " n bon ® a - ! P Up 6 m > . J V* ! ~ „ . , i **, n ir< V'' , * a ' ,a /' e '* r ‘ jrea ' Lord’s T day gives a mortgage to ^ase Physical and estate death and at upon the most his entire unex P ecte< * moment t. at moitgage ill je foreclosed, and the soul ejected from the premises. Cough ! and Cough ! ! and Cough ! ! ! What in the world is the reason you will cough and keep coughing and still keep trying inferior medi eines when "BEGGS 5 COUGH SYRUP will positively relieve your cough at once? This is no adver tising scheme, but an actual fact, and we guarantee it. B.D. Smith, Druggist Obstacles ol the Farmer. By Fr'Hl, of Alsborough, Ala. I have read with interest the dif ferent communications on the con dition of the farmers. I see the law ver, doctor, merchant and preacher, all theorizing, but none of them sug gest a real remedy for his relief. In the first place, we all sensure the banks for not furnishing money to the farmers as to the merchants! Look into our exemption laws and it solves the grand prohibition that is in the farmers way. 2nd. Take the lien laws made in favor of the mer¬ chants, who use it as a means of op¬ pression, and it affords facilities for a large class to obtain a living and live in laziness and neglect their crop work, only to make the present crop, and when it is finished loaf the re¬ mainder of the time. 3rd. Our being compelled to raise only one crop which we can obtain money for, and that is cotton, only having money once a year. Give the farmer a maiket for every¬ thing he raises at cash prices, and pay the cash for the same and enable the farmer to pay cash for his work and tools—everything he needs—in¬ stead of this barter system which is established throughout the south. The merchants of this section will refuse to pay cash for meats and order from Memphis and Chicago and send the money out of the country that would otherwise remain here. The same thing exists with corn hay, oats, etc. To make a country prosperous, everything should be sold for cash at its market value, and retain as much money in the hands of the producer as possible, and it will return again to the merchant, if not by one man it will by another, and this is one of the causes of so much dissatisfaction among the farmers. Another cause is the neglect of our common free schools. Large appropriations to high schools and schools in towns forces the farmer to neglect the edu¬ cation ot his children, as he is not able to pay board, and of all classes and professions, we need an educated farmer most, and the proper place is in his country schools. Keep the young men away from towns and and cities if you wish to make good farmers of them. Let them acquire a knowledge of agricultural chemis¬ try by which they can utilize ma¬ nures to the best advantage, and learn to keep out of debt, to know that work is honorable ; and to raise his children to work is his first great duty, and by so doing you will di¬ minish crime in our land.—Southern Farm. THE tJDYING OF VOTES To tc Dealt With by the Randolph Coun¬ ty Alliance. CiTTHBKET, Ga., Jan. 17.—Ran¬ dolph county alliance mot in this place Tuesday. Their object was to form some combination in the pur¬ chase of fertilizers. The matter was referred back to the sub-alliances with the understanding that they make the best terms possible with agents. Among other matters discussed was the prevalent mode of purchas¬ ing floating voters in the different elections. The alliance bound themselves solemnly together in a pledge that they* would ferret out and report every offense of that na¬ ture which may occur in their re¬ spective precincts at all coming elec¬ tions. What on Earth. Is the reason people will not, can not, or do not see any difference in cheap nostrums put up by 7 Cheap John houses or irresponsible parties at enormous profits, rather than take a medicine of world-wide reputation undone that is giving universal satis¬ faction at equal price ? No medicine in the world is giving such un paralled satisfaction for purifying the blood as BEGGS’ BLOOD PURI¬ FIER & BLOOD MAKER, and every bottle tiiat does not do its work will cost you nothing. B. D. Smith, Druggist. One of Georgia’s Needs. Columbus Enquirer-Sun. . What Georgia needs is a board of pardons. The duty and sibiiity of considering and passing upon the numerous applications for pardons should not be placed upon : the S overnel \. In J. he mid J of tl ' e . h nnrae ” >UH c* ’ ° each cJW onlj be neoeessarj for it to meet at tVlt y er ?p °f ° /'' ' ^ ° t ut * 1 ' ' i fourth district will introduce . a bill ; providing: for suen a lhe i ne.d ses sion, and i t should p ass. &yrup*tngs s __ Is Nature’s own true laxative. It is ine most easily taken, and the most ' effective remedy known to Cleanse > the System when Bilious or Costive; to dispel Headaches, Colds, and Eev ers; to Cure Habitual Constipation, indigestion, Piles, etc. Manufactur ed only 7 by tbe California Fig Syrup Company, San Eraoscisco, Cal. sy For sale by Alexander & Son, For syth, Ga. NUMBER 3. ROYAL U/TpuO, ?oK«S C is is% mk pas K i « k , 1 T ■ 30 Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot he sold in competition with the mul¬ titude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall street, New York. Governer Bullock’s Remedy. Atlanta Constitution. in a recent issue of the New York Press Governer Bullock elaborates his plan for settling tho controversy as to the suppression of the negro vote. Briefly stated his remedy is that in congressional districts where there is only one candidate and not a full vote the election shall he made null and void until a proper propor¬ tion of the known vote is east. In other words, Governer Bullock sug¬ gests that no member of congress shall he entitled to a seat who is not the choice of a full vote in his dis¬ trict. This it seems to 11 s, is a round¬ about way of getting at the matter, Why not announce that no member of congress shall he seated who is not elected over an opponent by a This majority of those entitled to vote? would be an easy way to get rid of southern democratic represen¬ tatives in tho house, for tho republi¬ cans could, at no expense whatever, prevent nominations by their party in the south, and also instruct their voters to remain away from the polls Nothing would be easier; and, al¬ though the democrats might contin¬ ue to elect their candidates, they would grow tired of it and after a while, seeing that congress would refuse to seat their represontatives elect. Governer Bullock’s remedy is one that would certainty suppress demo¬ cratic representation. Tho only reasonable remedy from a republican point of view is to do away with tho various congrssional districts. The duties of the army would be complex, hut a little complexity more or less would do no harm. In tho first place, the army would have to com¬ pel the republican party to organize and make nominations, and then, after the nominations, were made, it would have to get behind the re¬ publican voters with its bayonets and compel them to go to the polls. This done, tho remedy would bo complete. They ould Have Been Saved. We can not but notice how many of the citizens of this country, of both sexes, are apparently being taken away before their time. One of Georgia’s most honored sons—her gifted silver-toned orator, not long since fell a victim to frightful male dy. Gen. Grant was another victim ; and the dispatches from the world across the Atlantic tell us that Germany s new emperor will very soon follow his honored father. Many others, scores and hundreds, unknown to greatness, but very dear to those around them, are perishing every year from the same scourage. It is unnecessary 7 to tell you that this terrible, repulsive and loathsome disease is—cancer. Can it be cured? Medical skill has ap parently* exhausted itself, and tho surgeon’s knife has cut in vain to root ^ out Seemingly, cancer is incurable, Now whut is to be done? If you wa j t unl ii the disease is upon you ; s t 00 i a j e> Then why 7 not antici pate the monster and use the prevent ative * In order to avoid this and an Sod „f all Purifiers—“Guilin’s Pioneer Blood Renewer.” It extracts. the virus from the blood and keeps it in a pure and excellent condition. Don’t delay nntilit is too late. Call at the druggists for an almanac, and Y ou W 'U find tbat this celebrated medicine has cured, right here in F our own country, about every dis¬ ease emenatan g trom a depraved coadition of the Wood. A few bottles taken in tho spring and fall will be all that you will need, -An old adage, but a very* good one, that “an ounce of preventive is better than a pound of cure” is very appli cable here, Ask for “Guinn’s Pioneer Blood Renewer,” the druggists all sell it v