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ZNoimli Cleoririan.
BELLTON, GA., AUGUST 21, 1«79.
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Billy Moore sent us, last week, a
copy of his sprightly Augusta Week
ly News. It is like everything this
gentleman serves up for the public—
first-class in every particular.
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Col. Redwine, the live and energetic '
Representative of Hall county, is en
gineering a hill through the Georgia
Legislature, establishing the line be
tween the States of Rabnu and North
Carolina.
The Legislature, while it is in the
investigating business, ought to ap
point a committee to investigate and
analyze Atlanta whiskey, as it does
not seem to agree with some of the
members.—Phonograph.
While the Legislature is engaged in
wrestling with the State house officers,
we would suggest to the body the pro
priety of investigating the inspectors
of comniercitil fertilizers. We believe
they will strike a rich vein of“ilc.”
Try it while the steam is up.
The Dower Association, a vankec
swindling concern, with a Gulf De
partment in Atlanta, exploded a few
days ago, making a fond report. Mr.
Frederick Pfeffer, of Gainesville, took
a nibble at the tempting bait , ami is
left to mourn his irreparable loss.
Exit Whitcomb.
The Philadelphia Record says:
“After all the agitation, while about
30,000 white settlers wore making
their way into Kansas less (han 7,000
negro exodusters entered the State
just enough to give a healthy sun-burn
tint to the tide, of immigration.”
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Texas has six cities of over 10.000
inhabitants each, thus: -Galveston,
35,000-, San Antonio, 22,000; Houston,
25,000; Austin, 17,000; Dallas,2o,ooo;
and Waco, 10,000. Besides this, she
has eight cities of 5,000 and upward,
thus: Brenham, Fort Worth, Bryan,
Sherman, Corsicana, Paris, Jefferson
and Marshall.
Mnj. W. J. Houston, General Pas
senger n.nd Ticket Agent of the Air
Line Railroad, it is more than proba
ble, will be appointed one of the
Railroad Commissioners, should the
pending bill became a law. Maj.
Houston is a good railroad man, and
is one among the oldest inhabitants of
Atlanta,—Augusta News.
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Ger>tgia is the wealthiest, happiest
and most prospi’Tnns-State in the
South. There is cheerfulness and
thrift throughout her borders. Het
people arc at work. There is no
groaning over an unsettled debt. Her
railroads permeate almost every nook
and corner of her wide domain. She
is emphatically the Empire State of
the South.—Knoxville Dispatch.
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The managers of the Colored Exo
dus have issued an appeal for pecuni
ary aid for “the destitute negroes” in
Kansas, notwithstanding the recent
announcement that the emigrants had
all found homes and employment.
The.appeail is best, understood when
considered in connection with the late
ly announced Republican project of
colonizing a large number of Southern
negroes in the close State of Indiana.
And now it is said the new consti
tution of Georgia is a difficult machine
to adjust. As Gen. Toombs said, it
was made “burglar-proof.” We hope
it is so. So far as we understand it,
we like the new constitution. The
difficulties of legislation now, doubt
less, grew out of the expansive quali
ties of the constitution of 1868, which
gave the Legislature too much lati
tude.—Cartersville Free Press.
There is no reason why the cotton
planters should not be aide to control
the price of the stable as easily and as
profitably as the cotton speculators.
It is no longer a question of supply
and demand but a question of money,
co-operation and manipulation. One
of these days the planters will make
something out of the lessons the
speculators are teaching them.—At
lanta Constitution.
The Georgia Advocate, in speaking
of the railroad commissioners, says:
Mr. W. J. Houston has been sug
gested as a map ip every way quali
fied for the office of commissioner,
and we most heartily endorse the sug
gestion. His integrity, ability and
Christian patriotism, makes him emi
nently tit for the position. The in
terests of shippers and of the railroads
would be perfectly safe in his hands.
Let him and one other equally trust
worthy railroad mau be appointed,
and let the third man be taken from
among the large shippers of our State, j
This will give both interests repre
sentation in the commission, and will
leave the balance of power with the
railroads where we think it should be.
THE 923 TRANSACTION.
Col. 11. IV. J. Ham, of the Gaines
. ville Eagle, was before the “dozen i
and one.” committee of the Georgia
Legislature, one day last week, and
I testified to a little transaction between
himself, Comptroller Goldsmith and
i W.« T. Christopher, of the Atlanta
Phonograph, in which Mr. Ham, as
agent of Goldsmith, attempted to
buy Christopher into silence with his
newspaper, so far as the investigation
of Goldsmith’s office was concerned.
Mr. Ham and Mr. Goldsmith swore
just so “X” about the money used in
the transaction, and if Mr. Ham is : <
reported correctly in the Constilu- i
tion, we are. at a loss to see what
i became of the money loaned to Ham. I
We quote:
After I got the money I went to see
Christoph-r and mentioned the matter
to him, and he said he had “thought, j
the matter over” and that he “could |
not afford to do it,” and “would not I,
put himself in a position of that, sort.” 1
1 came back and gave the money to
Goldsmith. First, I stated that I did
not know what Christopher would do.
Christophcu- hail said he was going to
publish bis article, and he did not
think it would do injustice to Gold
smith. I said to let the matter stand
open until I saw the article. What I
said to Goldsmith was to leave the
impression that. 1 was uncertain as to i
what Christo] her would do. When
the article' did appear, I saw it, did , 1
injustice to Gohlsmith. He wrote to 11
me at Gainesville! to “send mo hack ;
the *25 I loaned you, as 1 need it.” 1
brought it back ami gave it all to him.
It, would see-ni, according to this bit I
of testimony, that Col. Ham paid the
money bm-k to Goldsmith tunic: but |
in the- same! issue of the (kmstitnliem. I
Mr. Goldsmith is reported as saying 1
that “Ham has mil yet paid hack the: I
money beam'd him.” The publie- hits
no means of ascertaining who is right I
and who wrong about the transaction, I
but one thing is very certain, if the i
committee believe, any part of Harn’s ;
statement, Goldsmith ought ter be ini- j
peached for this attempt to muzzle a 1
newspaper by the use, of money.
We arc no member of the Georgia
: State Agricultural Society, neither are
we a Granger, hut wo would inquire,
if not out of order, whatever became
of the Direct Trade Union of the
Patrons of Husbandry? We know
some gentlemen who took stock in
that, institution, so highly recom
mended at the time by A. H. Col
quitt, then President of (he. Georgia
State Agricultural Society, who have
never received any per cent on the
i investhi'enF. Would it not be a good
I idea to investigate that matter and
see what went with the money? If
our recollection serves us N> any ad
vantage, the D. T. U. of the P. of 11.
was chartered by the Legislature, and
certainly that body would have as
much power to investigate it as Con
gress had to look into the Freed
man’s bank.
i In fact, says the Baltimore Sun,
’ “the maintenance of State rightsnot
| only enabled the States north of Ma
son ami Dixon’s line, to free their j
i slaves, but gave them the only point
\iTapptii from which they could con- 1
• duct, their attack upon slavery in the'
~ South. It furnished the original Free- I
soilers with their arms and ainmuni-I
tion. Chase, was a States rights Dem
ocrat because a Freesoiler. Hale and
Adams were States rights Whigs be
cause of their antagonism to slavery.
When the fugitive slave law was
passed every Northern State opposed
it and obstructed its enforcement by :
the United States marshals—just as \
. now the Democrats are everywhere !
opposing the presence of United j
States marshals at the polls—upon
. the principle of States rights.”
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The Warrenton Clipper would like ■
to see one thing. It would like to see •
investigated “the motive and con
duct.” of all the Executives, from
; Bullock down to the present incum
bent, in making appointments to office
authorized by law. We should like
Io have the record overhauled, too, so
as to know precisely the names of all
applicants during Bullock's reign and
since, directly or indirectly, and the
claims they laid in for such offices.
This may be interesting reading, and
will doubtless develop a system for
the rising generation to study, and be
come thoroughly informed “how to
rise to position.”
On the calls of the yeas and nays
in the House of Representatives, last
Monday, about fifty members were
absent. A constitutional vote of 88
for the passage of any bill would
have required the support, of two
thirds of the members present. This
shows how absenteeism may be in
strumental in defeating legislation
; demanded by two-thirds of the peo
ple. The necessity of hereafter elect- i
1 ing men who will stick to their posts i
of duty is thus made, apparent.—At- <
lanta Dispatch. i
SHAME—EVERLASTING SHAME.' •
We take the following from the I
I Athens Watchman, and-we endorse'
■ every word of it;
The Legislature of Georgia—those ■
who pretend to reflect the views and :
represent the interests of the people— I
have recently voted that they trill
not extend the aid of the State, to the
pitiful amount of 820,000. to the re-!
building of the Notrb Georgia Agri
cultural College,' at Dahlonega, while j
it is a well known fact that the chief I
executive officer of the State—the I
mau who is called Governor—refused '
or neglected to take out a new insur
ance policy on it, and thus lost the !
whole amount of its value to the I
State.
We are now, and have always been,
in favor of concentrating the land I
scrip fund, voted by Congress to the
State of Georgia, at Athens'aml Dili-I
lonega—knowing that there seemsjto 1
be an envious feeling among metn
bers of the Legislature against this I
particular section in regard to extend
ing State aid to its educational, as '
well as material development—and :
in behalf of our fellow-countrymen of
Northeast Georgia, as well as in Uie
interest of rii/ht and juxtice, we enter '
our solemn protest against this action !
by our would-be waiters, (who are, or
should be, the servants) of the people,
and would gently hint to them that
at. the next election the real xovereiyns
of Georgia—the honest, hard-fisted
yeomanry—who pay the bulk of the
taxes and afford sustenance to the
State government. wfHri^kLjlyyn * to
a strict accountability.
WHAT .UK. TILDEN THINKS.
Mr Springer, a Democratic member
of Congress from Illinois, recently
spent a day with Mr Tilden al the lat
ter’s residence in New York city. Mr.
Springer reports that from Mr. Til
den’s conversation he was not ini
. pressed with the idea that, lie. (Tilden)
was again moving for a nomination
i for the Presidency. Mr. Tilden told
Mr. Springer that. it. was a matter of I
vital importance that the Democracy i
should win at the next Presidential 1
election, for the reason that the coun
try is now approaching to what prom
ises to be a long era of prosperity,
and if the Democracy can ride into
power on this wave, to which it will
have contributed so largely, it will re
main in possession of the government
for an indefinite period. On the other
hand, should the Republicans rekin
i power they mr Hable to ftofrl mt-To;
a half a century to come. Whichever
parly wins the next Presidency, Mr.
Tilden says, will get the credit of
■ bringing about the good times that
are surely coming. With regard to
the Ohio campaign, Mr. Springer re
ports Mr. Tilden us enthusiastically
for Ewing, for the reason that Ewing’s
' election will be the entering wedge
Ito success in the great Presidential 1
campaign of next year, which promi
ses to be the most exciting known 1 in
! political history. To this end the
Democracy must not lose a single
point. The question of candidates
must be a secondary matter, and only
one object sought after, namely, sue
, cess. About the family quarrels
j among the Democracy of New York,
! Mr. Tilden expressed no concern. He
said they would be settled properly
when the time for action came. There
would have to be a compromise,
which would undoubtedly bring forth
ex-( ongressman Clarkson N. Potter
as the Democratic candidate for Gov
i ernor of the State. Mr. Springer re
ports Mr. Tilden as in excellent
health.
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We hope that the present Legisla
ture will go to the very bottom of
every charge which lias been or may
be brought against any of the State
1 officials. Let no favoritism be shown.
Put every official in the crucible—if
demanded -and try him as with fire,
'fhe people want only the pure gold.
Consume the dross. We must sayi to
radicals and Independents in the next
canvas—and we must say in truth—
that the Democratic party has the
nerve and the honesty to expose and j
punish crime, be it committed bv
Democrats or any one else. The
Legislature make this record.
We can hear, even now, the sancti
monious whines about Democratic
corruption. Let us be ready to meet
it. It can only be successfully met
by the present Legislature probing
every charge to the bottom. Let
them do it fairly and unflinchingly, if
they have to stay there until Christ
mas to do it. Turn on the lights.—
Thomasville Times.
A new industry has been started in
Atlanta. The Southern Newspaper
Union, the Union of Cincinnati and
the Sunny South of that city, have,
united to form a large patent outside
and inside manufactory. They fur
nish these ready-made insides and
outsides to over three hundred papers '
in the Southern States.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT A FEW
THINGS.
' Editor Georgian :It does make :
: a wonderful difference whether your
I bull gored my ox, or my ox gored
! your bull.
, This thought is at present suggested
by two editorials in a Northeast Geor
gia paper—the one advocating the in
; terference of the Legislature for the 1
reduction of railroad fares and freights;
the other opposing the interference of
| the Legislature for the reduction of
I legal advertising.
The market value of railroad stocks
I and the dividends declared, do not in-,
i dicate that the railroads of Georgia
are growing very rich at the expense
I of “the dear people,” nor that their
! rates could be much lowered.
The bill before the Legislature very
| much resembles a patent for the con
struction of a machine to feather a
I few nests, at the public expense, for
individual use.
On the other hand, that the legal
‘advertising cun be done at- less ex
pense to the public, is evident from
! the fact that the press pays the coun
i ty officers from twenty-five to fifty per
| cent commission on the advertise
-1 ments, which money often comes out
!of the small assets of widows and
1 orphans.
Mr. Editor, I am strongly in favor
of sustaining the -country press,’ and
would like to see at least one paper i
published in every county in the J
State, and that paper, to the exclu- ,
sion of all outside competition, deriv- |
tng all the benefits of its county ad- !
vertisements, at paying rates, in ad-j
vance, without more commission to
the comity officers than these receive ‘
for the collection of other moneys. .
But I would like to see that comity :
paper in possession of the jewel— i
romaxtriirt/.
Living in the back woods and taking '
only country papers, I do not keep up ,
with the proceedings of the Legisla
ture, and both the bills referred to
I may already have been disposed of.
j However, I am not writing for the !
| Legislature.
Another subject is Governor mak-'
ing. Strenuous efforts meet with so !
little success in finding fault with our 1
present Executive, that I think it
would be well to keep him where he
is. The Georgian evidently favors I
Gen. Gartrell, ami he seems to be a 1
man eminently qualified for the posi
tion ; but, as prophet ies are in order,
|let me say that, if G?v. Colquitt be
not tiii'Tiomifiee. that SdTftTiern Geor
gia will prefer h<-r claims. That, sec-1
tion has several men who would ablv >
till the Executive chair, ami among
them Hon. Nelson Tift, whose tin.-m
--cial ability cannot be questioned, and
whose persistent honesty of purpose,
more than anything else, has made
him enemies. Had he done nothing
else, his scathing exposition of the
Bullock dynasty, during the short
time he was in Congress, and his re
cent articles on the wild land ques
tion, would be sufficient to establish
his ability.
But I did not commence with a
view to nominating a candidate for
the governorship, and will dose with
out trespassing further. X.
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General Jesse 11. Drake, a promi
nent citizen of Nash county, N. C., I
died Friday last. In accordance with i
his death-bed request the will was
opened, and it was found that he had !
left his whole fortune, estimated at !
from SIO,OOO to 530,01 X). to three of!
his former slaves. Calvin Drake.!
Aaron Drake and Judah Drake, for '
their lives, with reversal to their!
children. He leaves all his estate. 1
real and personal, to them, and says:
“They have been my faithful slaves,
and have remained with me since their
freedom. nursing and earing for me
in my old age. and I desire them to
share my gratitude.”
The Boston Herald is alarmed at !
the thought that the West is now so !
strong that it will probably be able I
to secure the appropriation of 825,-1
1000,000 during the next ten years for ;
the improvement of the navigation of i
the Mississippi river. If the Herald i
will take the trouble to make the cal-1
culation, we have no doubt it will !
find that the New England States i
have within the last ten years ex-!
torted from the people of other States j
much more than 825,000,000 in the i
shape of protective duties on their !
manufactures, fishing bounties, pav j
for the depredations of their fisher
men in British waters, etc. It is i
about time that the West was putting
in for a share of the favors of the '
government.
It is estimated that the Goldsmith
impeachment will cost the state 830,-
000. It looks as though the people
have the worst end of the. horn any
way you take it.—Dalton Headlight.
! Cotton worms have put in an ap
pearance in some parts of Mississippi. I,
NEWS ITEMS.
The yellow fever is still raging at!
Memphis.
Atlanta is threatened with a cavalry '
company.
Mr. Blackburn, “governor-elect” of
Kentucky, is nearly ”0 years old.
The Indiana wheat crop is now es
timated at 55,U00,000,000 bushels.
Mississippi made last year 22,500,- ;
Otto bushels of corn and 484,000 bales .
of cotton.
Three persons in Wilmington, J
North Carolina, claim to be over 100
years old.
The Ledger, of T.ancaster. S. €'.,!
says there was a slight frost in town 1
ou the 9th hist.
Jackson county property has de- i
creased in value over sixty thousand (
dollars since last year.
I
The Cumming Clarion suggests that I
the people appoint a committee to in-,
vestigate the Legislature.
The Democrats in AVashington j
county, Mississippi, have nominated
a negro for the Legislature.
The cable dispatch announcing the
death of Nellie Grant Sartoris is ail
an error. She is still alive and well.
' The Democratic State Convention
; of New York has been called to meet '
at Syracuse on the 10th of September. ;
The quantity of registered mail i
matter passing through the post offices !
lis increasing rapidly, which means
business.
Farmers in South Carolina, where
the no fence law is in force, say that
they can now make money on cotton
| at 5 cents per lb.
The cotton crops of the lower Ar
! kansas river this season, are said to
s be the finest that have been known in
' that country for years.
The Democratie party in this State
j will be.united and hard to beat. It is
j foolish for republicans to think other-
I wise.—New York Mail.
Cabarrus county, N. C., has, by j
popular vote, adopted the stock law— ;
that is, a law to require the fencing 1
’ in of stock i nstead of crops.
The widow of the late Gen. Brax
ton Bragg is a guest of the AVhite
Sulphur Springs, in Hall county. She
is a fine looking, pleasant lady.
( ongres small-De La Malvr, green
back champion, declared in a recent
speech in Maine, that education injur-!
.ed the colored people at the South 1
more than it benefit ted them.
Mr. J. A. Carter has associated
with him in the publication of the
DeKalb County News. Mr. AV. E.
Giles, and promises to enlarge and
make the News a first class affair.
During the year 1878, the Southern
States are estimated to have produced
5,200,000 bales of cotton, an increase
of 338,577 bales from 1877 ; 212,000
hogsheads of sugar, an increase of
84,247 hogsheads; and 572,000,000 lbs.
of tobacco, an increase of 12,000,000
pounds. These are the three great
agricultural staples of the Southern .
States. These products, at wholesale ;
‘ prices, aggregate in value about four
hundred million of dollars, and as ;
they are all raised for sale, and not j
. for consumption on the plantations,
! they constitute a vast commercial I
j production such as few other regions !
of the same extent can boast of.
NEUROTIC!
The only remedy that will cure
gXenvH.lg-i».,
HE.Ib.P HE, DYSPEPSIA, ASTHMA, \
HEART DISEASE, NItIHTMARE,
! ’ i
SORE THROAT, CROUP,
COLIC, SPRAINS AND BRUISES.
Let everybody try it.
DANIEL & MARSH, Atlanta,
General Agents for Southern States.
“MASTIN W. RIDEN,
-4 TTOHNE Y .1 T LA JU
AND
SOLICITOR OF CLAIMS,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
I
(COLLECTIONS in Northeast Georgia
> and Claims against the United States
'xr B P ec * He is also a Commercial
i Notary for Hall county. aug2l-tf
A. J. SHAFFER, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
St’ECIAL attention given to tliscaaes
common to women, t will guarantee a
radical cure in all eases of Hropsv, after
examiu.-ng patient#. niavl-lv
FOR PARTICULARS SEE
im tii|
ALL PERSONS LIVING AVIWT OF
xV the Chattahoochee River, who des re
to have their cotton ginned at my gin. will
have tiee passage over my brixlge, coming
and going. Gin for the seed, or the-Jltth
of cotton. Splendid house to store your
cotton in. Sixty-saw Gin—finest m.-i&e in
the world. Everybody gets their own
seed. House, Engine and Gin brand new.
__ M.
IXotico.
ON the 9th day of March. 1878, Congress
pass'd an act which gives a pension
to all flold era of the war of 1812, who
served 14 days, or were in any engage
ment. and to the surviving w’dows of
such soldiers, no matter when married.
Proof of loyalty not re<ju red.
Also restoring to the Pension Rolls the
names of all persons now surviving who
were pensioners for service in the war of
i 181?, or any of the Ind.an wars, whtve
. names were stricken from the Pension
! Rolls at commencement of the late war.
Proof of loyalty not required.
I am provided with the necessary blanks
: and will give special attention to these
claims. M.W. 1:1 HEX,
Attorney at Law and Claim Agent,
aug2l-tf Gainesville. Go.
bit nn mi
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BRING ON YOUR
Wheat and Rye!
1 will pay the highest market price for
Wliojit mid
To those indebted to ine either by note or
account, or exchange goods at the
CASH HKICE,
Call ami see me when you come to
; town, ami ; r <‘t prices before buying else
where. .I N. COGGINS,
julyl7-tf B-llton. Ga.
ACTUAL
STUDENTS ON CHANGE AT
FOR
(17'Circulars mailed tree to any address.
n>ay2!’—tim B. F. MOORE. President
oti c e .
i Georgia, Banks County.
Notice is hereby given that the legal
advertising fur said county, on and after
the publication of this notice, in accord
ance with the statute in such < ascs made
and provided, will he changed from the
i (iainesville Eagle to the North Georgian,
a newspaper published at Bellton, in said
i county. July 7. 1879.
B. F. Srddatk, Sheriff Banks Co.
K. J. Dy.vk, Clerk Superior Court.
T. F. Hill, Ordinary.
TH E AT LANTAGLObS|
IS THE
LIVELIEST AND FRESHEST
j lA'EEKLY NEWSPAPER published
! , ’ Atlanta. Issued every Saturday.
: The circulation has been largely increased
so that the Globe is now read l>v 2.(MK> me
< chanics and others in the city of Atlanta.
■ As an advertising medium it excels all
| other publications, reaching, as it docs,
i the popular masses and remaining in sight
during the entire week. Subscription SI
per year. For advertising rates apply to
J. R.& W. M. JONES?
Proprietors, Atlanta, Ga
WM. H.
ATTORNEY AT L A
HARMONY GROVE,
JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA.
LIAITHI-'l L ATTENTION given A
A Collections and al! other Bnsine™
Clients’ money never spent, but
forwarded.
JOHN M. FINDLAY®
!**t udon! nt I\>a®
GA INES VIL L
\4 H l- -i'e prompt
<-.>!!< ction ot
.1. 11. E'tes Son.
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