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SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 18, 1878.
“HOLD THE FORT!”
A VOICE FROM THE YEOMANRY!
llpiitofratM to tlie Rescue!
A WALKER COUNTY LABORER AD
MINISTERS UPON DR. FELTON!I
Let Disaffected Democrats Read and be
Convinced !!!
Vii.lanow, Wai.kkk County, Ga., (
June 24 th, 1878. j
Editor Mi •sscugrr:
As we are now about to enter again into
one of the most exciting election cam
paigns that has ever occurred in this county
I deem it proper that a few plain facts
should be presented to the people for
them to ponder on. Humble and un
pretending as 1 am, enframed in daily toil
as a bread winner, I can not hope that
what I say orthink will have much weight,
bnt if a plain straight statement of facts
will put my friends and neighbors think
ing, and pondering about the welfare of
onr country, then my most ardent wishes
will be gratified. My friends, if all human
foresight is not a delusion and a snare,
we are entering into a campaign for the
election of Representatives of the Ameri
can people in the 46th Congress, that will
decide our fate as a people for many long
years to come. The great struggle for
Constitutional liberty is to be fought this
autumn at the ballot box. Our enemies
are organized, unscrupulous, and power
fid. They have the government, and the
machinery of government, the army, the
navy,and the. treasury, intheirown hands.
They are using it all to crush out the last
spark of liberty and self-government in
this country. They are leaving no stone
unturned, nor furrow unploughed, to hold
on to their power obtained by fraud,
perjury, forgery, and theft. To obtain
this power to rule and ruin, they have
waded through the blood ofono million of
men. To obtain this power they have
shed the tears of millions of women and
children, as they stood with clasped hands
and despairing hearts around the ashes of
their homes. To cement and perpetuate
this p wer, they have burdened us with a
debt incalculable, and with taxes that are
intolerable. To sustain this power, they
have robbed the American people of their
birthright of freedom, and today fraud
sits enthroned in the seat where Wash
ington and Jackson sat, and now, when
their power has begun to wane, and when
the people are aroused, and arc beginning
to assert their rights, and call for investi
gation and redress, they meet us with the
cry of Revolution, aud say wo want to
rebel, or Moxicanize the Government.
Now, my friends, let us look at this
thing calmly, and without prejudice.
Where is our help in this time of need?
Where can we look for hope, if it is not in
the Democratic party? On the 4th of
March next the Senate will be in the hands
of the Democrats. The House of Repre
sentatives now stands about twelve tna
jority for the Democrats, and anew
election is coming on for anew Congress,
that will doubtless ho compelled to elect
the next President, as the signs of the
times all point to the fact that there
will be three parties in the field.
Now you see that a change of only a lew
districts —say seven or eight—will give
the Radicals another long lease of the
Government, and the power to elect, or
count out the elected President. Now,
my friends, in all seriousness, what are
we to do? Where are we to go to look
for help? I want light. Is there any
place except in tlie ranks of the organized
Democracy? If there is, I want to know
it; for my country is dearer than any
party can be. The Democratic party has
lifted the burden from our own beloved
State, and it was a united and well or
ganized party that did it: you and I were
in it then. Now. whon it is trying to lift
the burden from the nation, why cannot
we all be together? Why cannot we meet
again around the council fire of our com
mon oountry, and take counsel together
to save it.from the spoiler.
Is the ambition of one man, Dr. Felton,
and his aspirations for office, to divide us
forever? What has he done in tho four
years that he has estranged Democrat
from Democrat, and neighbor from neigh
bor, that will warrant this eternal separa
tion? Has he ever voted to relieve the
poor people from the burdens of the
whiskey and tobacco tax? Has he ever
urged the passage of a hill to relievo them
from the penalties of violating an unjust
and oppressive law, that takes honest
men from their homes and families, arid !
sends them to a northern penitentiary, for 1
doing work that made a living for them in
their childhood? What, in the name of all
that is sacred and good, has he overdone
in Congress, that any other man of
ordinury ability might not have
dene? 11c has said yea or nay, made
some few speeches, and twenty thousand
dollars and mileage, in the last four
years, and divided the Democratic party;
and if he has over fulfilled any of his
promises of retrenchment and reform that
lie so liberally made, I don’t know it.
The Democratic party are not fighting
Dr. Felton, Dr. Felton is lighting the
Democratic party—tho only party that
fights against fraud and misgovernment.
lie forces us into opposition because of
bis own course, and the course of a largo
number of honest, good men, who claim
to he Democrats, but who are helping to
divide and distract us in the hour of
supreme need, when nothing hut organi
zation and .self-abnegation will save our
country from the fate of Rome and Greece.
The armed Caesar is standing ready with
bloody hands to take away forever the
heritage of our children at the nation’s
expense: he is leveling now with the
crowned despots of tho old world, only
waiting a nod to come hack aud establish
the Empire on tho ruins of his country.
The Northern Radicals are ready to give
him the nod rather than lose power and
plunder. Shall we ho longer divided, O
my countrymen? A Laborer.
TRAGEDY IN WATER STREET.
Dennis Mahoney, William Kennedy,
and several young Water street roughs,
although drunk before 11 o’clock on Sun
day night, wanted more liquor, and went
into Manning’s barroom at 674 Water
street to got it. George Banfield and one
named Maloy went in with them. Whon
they came out, at about llij P. M., Ma
honey and Buufield walked to a lamp post,
a few steps away, and stood there talking,
Mahoney trying to persuade Ranfield to
take “nuzzer drink,” Uanfiold wishing to
go home. Meanwhile, Kennedy seated
himself on a hydrant and went to sleep.
Mahoney, seeing him asleep, roused him
by violently jerking him to his feet,
slapping and kicking him. Kennedy re-
Hunted that interruption, and Mahoney,
who was ever ready for a fight, struck
him heavily on the mouth. Charles
Wbikchart and James McCormick, who
were seated on some barrels near by,
| mixed in as peacemakers. The former
! tried to pull Mahoney away, and the
j latter sought to quiet Kennedy, who had
drawn a revolver. McCormick, on seeing
] the weapon, sprang behind a lamp post,
J and yelled, “Hi! Don't point that thing
1 at me!” and Whikeliart, shouting, “Look
out! Quit that!” jumped behind a tele
graph pole. Ranfield had disappeared.
The best figure in view for Kennedy’s
aim was Mahoney, who stood somewhat
dazed by the concerted action of his
friends in seeking cover, and utterly un
conscious of any danger to himself. An
instant later the crack of the revolver
rang out sharply, and Mahoney, turning,
staggered, screamed “Oh! I’m shot!”
and fell backward moaning, “Oh, Sap!
oh, Sap!” Whikeliart and McCormick
caught him and laid him down. Ken
nedy, the moment after discharging the
revolver, wheeled and ran up Water
street. Before the echo of his steps died
away, Mahoney was dead. The bullet
had penetrated his stomach. His last
words were his reproachful exclamation
of the nickname of the man who had been
his friend and was his murderer.
William Kennedy is only til years of
age, an Irish-American, and has been a
'longshoreman. In the cell yesterday he
seemed very shaky. “I know nothing of
how it happened," he said, “I don’t
remember anything after we were drink
ing at Manning’s, only 1 have a vague sort
of a notion that there was some sort of a
dispute between Mahoney and me, and
we walked along separate in ti e crowd for
a while without speaking. J don’t know
it for sure, but that's the way it seemed
to me. Why should I hurt him? Him
and me was always good friends, and God
knows I’d rather be lying where he is
now than be here. Rum did it all, sir;
you can put that down; rum did it all.
We had been drinking all Sunday, and
the day and night before, and the night
before that, and we were both crazy with
the liquor." —New York Sun.
The cost of the Paris exposition to this
time has been $8,700,000. The most
liberal estimate of the receipts, leaves a
deficit of $2,000,000. The Parisians are
tryin ; to make money enough out of' the
strangers who visit the exposition to pay
the extra tax. It is a splendid show
however!
FALL RIVER GAME.
THE RUIN THAT WAS WROUGHT 1Y
A MILLIONAIRE DEFAULTER.
Fall River, Mass., Juno 29. —Since
the first cotton mill was built in this ci'y
in 1814, there has been no such trouble in
the homes of workingmen, and no such
apprehension in the minds of the au
thorities, as exists here to-day. The fiery
heat of a blazing sun beats upon the
shingled roof of many a distressed house
hold, and the aching feet of hundreds of
children are sore and weary with trotting
to and from the Relief Board in tho City
Hall. There are forty-three mills in Fall
River great, substantial, solid stone
buildings—with 1,284,701 spindles and
30,577 looms, with a weekly capacity of
nearly 150,000 pieces of printed cloth.
Tho mills are there with loom and
spindle, and the city swarms with men,
women, and children ready to work.
Why, then, trouble at homo, and why
apprehension in the City Hall?
There are three causes —Angier Chase,
late Treasurer and manipulator of the
great. Union Mills, who to-day is sitting
in solitary confinement in the Bay State
prison; Hathaway, his employee, protege,
and friend, w ho awaits his trial postponed
to September, and a lack of demand for
the products of the mills.
It lias long been the boast of Fall
River that industry was the characteristic
of its people, and that idleness and hunger
were rarely seen. Such was the unchal
lenged fact; and when Angier Chase,
having been graduated from the purser's
berth he had filled raiisfactorily, became
one of the nobs of tho town by marrying
the comely daughter of Durfoe, the great
millionaire, and began at once to put it in
the power of the workpeople to own mill
stock in shares, sold as low as SIOO each,
anew era of prosperity dawned, and the
workmen felt themselves as good ns those
who hired them
The purchase of mill stock became a
fashion.
The fashion became contagion.
If a man, working in a mill, had a
smart wife and four children, also at work
in the mill, he was in a fair way to become
well off.
How?
A fair average in “good limes” was six
looms (some men managed eight) to each
worker. Each loam could turn off, say
seven “cuts” (a “cu ” is forty-five'yards
of printed cloth) per week, and the price
per cut, then, was thirty cents.
6 looms at 7 cuts each 42 cut.?.
42 cuts at. 30 cents each $12.60
6 people at $12.60 each $75.60
Jtj other words, a family of six persons,
in flush times, when business was con
stant and tho pay was good, bad a weekly
income of $75.60, of which from $25 to
$45 were put away, especially when the
mania for purchasing mill shares seized
them all, and the inducements to save
were share ownership and a rise in the
social scale.
Little by little prices fell. From thirty
cents it was reduced to twenty-one, and
now it’s down to eighteen cents a cut.
The average now made is six cuts per
loom tier week, and this, in case of the
family of six, us above given, would give
a gross income of $37.08, which would
not be bad; but unfortunately, the mills
that are at work give halftime only, and
that reduces the weekly income to $18.54.
I t would he quite possible, also, for a
family of six, all over ten years of age and
all well and at work, to get along on that
sum; but again, unfortunately, the fuels
show that although there are hundreds of
families of six, there are hut very few
where they are all able to work. In many
of them the children are like the steps of
the ladder, from the baby a week old, up
through the brothers and sisters of two,
three, five, seven ami uiglit years old.
There arc, in other words, hundreds of
families wiiere there is no work for the
father even, and hundreds of others
where tlie industrious father considers
himself fortunate il he can take home a
full week’s work, or 36 cuts at 18 cents,
$6.18. Under present circumstances
there is no such good fortune. Half
time means half work, Mid half' work
means half pay, and half pay means $3.09
for those lucky dogs who get anything.
Now it must be remembered that this
terrible prostration comes upon the men
arid women ol Fall River at a peculiarly
unfortunate time. They have been work
ing industriously and happily many years,
living frugally and saving constantly.
What for? To buy mill shares- Where
are tho shares? Gone up!
Tn other words, the houses they built
in pleasant weather are flat upon the
NUMBER ‘2O.
sand, and tho fierce sun beats upon their
unprotected heads and burns their little
ones.
No wonder, then, that it was considered
safer to send Angier Chase to State
prison quick, lest the people should send
him somewhere else first.
GENERAL NEWS.
Western banks are not doing a profit-
I able business.
j Mercedes, queen of Spain, died on the
; 26th of J une.
! A Merriwether farmer has twenty acres
i of cotton waist high.
Col. Felton’s wife, niece of Samuel J.
I Tilden, died in New York, June 20(h.
J Fire in Jacksonville, Florida, 3d inst.:
loss, $30,000.
William, emperor of Germany, is re
covering from his wounds.
Two months’ travel in Europe, with
the fare thither and back, costs S4OO.
Tho population of Peru is 2,699,945.
1,365,955 —rather more than half—are
males.
The International Monetary Conference
will assemble in Paris on the Ist of
August.
James A. Anderson refused to testify
before the Matthews committee, but
claims his pay as a witness.
Twenty-seven persons were killed in
Prussia on the 28th ol June by the caviug
in of a tunnel.
The sailors on the great lakes demand
$1.54 a day, and refuse to work for less.
The captains offer $1 a day,
Orders have been issued to organize a
posse to scour tho mountains of Alabama
for crooked whiskey.
A writer in the Constitution maintains
that “tote” is a legitimate English word,
derived from the Saxon “tod,” which
means to carry.
An ink lately invented remains bright
live days and then fades entirely out.
Especially recommended for lovers and
visiting statesmen.
The German government is taking
strong measures to repress the Socialists.
Meetings are interrupted and persons
arrested daily.
The burning of the steamboat Capital
City at Memphis on tho 2d inst., caused
the loss of two lives, and destroyed
$250,000 worth of property.
Tho Missouri river is J 7 feet 4 inches
above low watermark: higher than it has
been since 1844. Railroad trains cannot
cross it, the bridges having been injured.
A newspaper man who breaks tho
Sabbath, excuses himself thns; “If fish
are wicked enough to bite on Sunday,
they ought to suffer for it.”
j ho first bale of new cotton was sold in
New York on the 3d inst., for 20J cents.
It was from Texas, middling quality.
Last year the first bale was received
Ju’y 15th.
John VV. Bruint and Iluiuy Burton
have been sentenced to pay a fine uf
SIOOO each, and to two years’ imprison
ment in the Albany penitentiary, for
smgu[ging cigars into the country.
The lumbenne.ii of tlie North-west are
in trouble. Tho rise in the rivers has not
been sufficient to float out the logs cut
last winter. Probably half of ihcrn will
remain where they now are until next
spring.
There are tolerably strong indications
that Grant will boa candidate for the
I'residency in 1880. His election would
doubtless be followed by many plots
against the liberties of the people, and
perhaps by the overthrow of our .Repub
lican form of government.
In a struggle in East St. Louis, on June
30th, between two sets of policemen, each
of which claims that the other has no
authority, one striving to retain posses
sion of a station-house from which the
others wished to oust them, two men wero
killed.
After Thos. A. Hendricks was elected
governor of Indiana, but before his in
auguration, a special session of the legis
lature was called, and the State was
districted in such a way that at the elec
tion in 1873 when the Democrats had a
majority of over 1000, the Stato Senate
stood, Democrats, 20: Republicans, 29;
while the Representatives were, Demo
crats, 37; Republicans, 02. At another
election for United States Representa
•ives in 1870, the Democrats had a
map. it) of 7,000, but four Demoeratio
Representatives wero elected, and nine
Republicans. What a mockery of Repub
lican institutions, the fundamental prin
ciple of which is that the will of the
majority shall lule!