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THE TOCCOA NEWS.
EIW. SCHAEFER, Editor & Prop’tor
TOCCOA, GA., OCT. 14, 1882.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Congress — 9th District ,
ALLEN D. CANDLER.
For Congressman At-Large.
THOMAS HARDEMAN.
Of Bibb.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
The evidence is daily growing
stronger that Candler will carry Hab
ersham in the November election.
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One hundred and seventy five new
cases and ten deaths from yellow fe-
£er, are reported at Pensacola. Fla.,
from the 7th to the 10th inst.
A rumor has gained currency to the
effect that the ownership of the Rich¬
mond and Danville railroad system
has changed hands, the Standard Oil
Company of New York, having pur¬
chased a controlling interest in the
system.
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Frank James, the noted murderer
and train-robber, surrendered to
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, a
few days ago. He was placed in jail
at Independence, Mo., to await his
trial before the criminal court which
assembles in November.
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Many voters are changing from
Speer to Candler in this county.
Several of Speer’s warmest supporters
in Toocoa, who by force of their
intelligence and social position are
influential gentlemen, say they can’t
support him any longer.
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Daniel P. Ferguson, of Clayton
county, will contest the election of S.
B. Hoyt, of Fulton, as Senator from
the 35th district, and has served him
with a formal notice of his purpv>se.
The taking of evidence in the case
will be commenced in Atlantavon the
18th instant.
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Early Tuesday morning last a col
lision on the new railroad, running
from Chattanooga to Atlanta,
occurred at Oolewah, Tenn., by which
the two engines were completely
stripped and Engineer Jas Walters
and Pilot Hobbs killed, A. freight
train standing on the sidetrack was
run into bv a passenger train. The
wreck was fearful.
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Reports from all parts of the state
of Ohio justify the opinion that the
democratic state ticket was elected
last Tuesday by a majority upward of
five thousand. Five hundred and
forty seven precincts and wards,
out of a total of 1967 precincts
in the state, show a net democratic
gain of 12,278 on the vote of 3 881,
when the republican majority was
24,309.
A disastrous occurrence took place
at Hawkiu’s bridge over Little river
in Cherokee county, last Sunday. A
large crowd had assembled to witness
the baptizing of several persons at
the foot of Hawkin’s iron bridge,
some 125, or more, persons, male and
female, crowding upon the bridge for
the purpose of getting a better view
of the baptizing. '1 he bridge gave
way, precipitating all into the river
below, a distance of 20 feet or more
and seriously hurting about thirty
persons.
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The Southron, of the 10th inst, in
in its the article Ninth’’ “Independent! is victories
mistaken when it
asserts that “Senator R. D. Yow is a
Speer man.” Mr. Yow is a square
Candler man. If, “T. S. Davis, of
Habersham, is a Speer man” many of
his organized friends, who supported
his election most zealously are
deceived, as more than one of them
stated to us that Mr. Davis had
informed them that he should not
support Mr. Speer in this race.
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Hon. Pope Barrow, of Athens, has
consented that hia friends may use
general his jfame as a candidate before the
portion Assembly for the unexpired
ofSenator Hill’s term in the
United should be States placed Senate. in the If Senate. Mr. Borrow *Geor.
gia will find in him neither a feeble
nor a faithless representative of her
rights and honor; but argument, a Senator, able
in debate, logical in pol¬
ished in oratory and loyal to every
patriotic duty—such a Senator, in¬
deed, as would fitly finish up the term
of tae illustrious Hill.
Nervousness, debility, and exhaust¬
ed vitality cured by using Brown’s
Iron Bitters.
Dispatches of the lltb, from Co-
lu mbus, O., indicate that the demo-
cratic majority in the state election
held in Ohio on Tuesday, the 10th,
will reach 25.000, and that the Con¬
gressional delegation will probably
stand 15 democrats and 6 republi¬
cans. Democracy is on a boom all
over the country, and the result in
Ohio is one of the most pleasant, as
it is, to us, one of the most surpris¬
ing, political events of the year.
The following “election notes” are
from the Evening News: The next
Legislature will contain nine inde¬
pendents.—Three Republicans are
elected to the Legislature, two of
them negroes,—-Colquit claims a
majority of representatives are for
him for the senate.—Four counties
have gone gone for Gartrell. These
are Bartow, Burke, Spalding and
McIntosh.—Stephens and Gartrell
will again goon the stump—Stephens
to beat Felton in the seventh and
Gartrell to beat Speer in the ninth
district. How strange is politics !—
Macon Telegraph.
An Editor's Knife.— Here we
have a knife. It looks like a saw,
but it is a knife. It belongs to an
editor, and is used for sharpening
pencils, killing roaches, opening
champagne bottles and cutting the
hearts out of bad men who come into
the office to whale the reporters.
There is blood on the blade of the
knife, but the editor will calmly lick
it off,'and then the blade will be as
clean and bright as ever. The knife
cost seventy cents, and was imported
from London, Connecticut. If you
are good perhaps the editor will give
it to you to cut off the cat’s tail.—
Unidentified Exchange.
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There are but two parties in Geor¬
gia. The tendency of Independent-
ism is toward Republicanism and,
therefore, deserving no sympathy.
The recently published correspon¬
dence of Dr. Felton shows that he
will act with the Republicans. Gar¬
trell can be nothing but a Republican.
Repudiated by the Democracy, both
factions of the Republican party
united in his nomination. Indepen-
dentism is but Republicanism in thin
disguise, which party is the same to¬
day as it was in 1870 and has ever
been since its organization, deriving
its force from war upon the South
and the Constitution.—Thomas Har¬
deman.
THE ELECTION.
The Constitution of the 10th puts
down Mr. Stephens’ majority at 56,-
548, with thirteen counties to hear
from, Banks, Camden, Dooley,
Fannin, Franklin Gilmer, Hancock.
Madison. Miller, Paulding, Tatnall,
Towns and Union.
The senators chosen in the section
surrounding us, are
Phil W. Davis, of Elbert for 30th
(list; R. D. Yow, of Franklin, for 31st
dist; W. M. McAffee, of Lumpkin,
for 32d dist; W. I. Pike, of Jackson,
for 33d dist.
The represantative in the same
section are
Elbert—J. B. Jones.
Hart—A. G. MeCurry.
Madison—Young Daniel.
Clarke—R. B. Rusself.
Jackson—J. B. Silman # —Hudson.
Banks—T. M. Griffin.
Franklin—D. O. Osborn.
Habersham—T. S. Davis.
Hall—J. E. Redwine £— Deaton.
White—J. J. Kimsey.
Rabun—R. E. Cannon.
THE CONTEST IN THE NINTH.
CANDLER ELECTRIFIES CLARKE —Hl8
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION —THE
SPEER RACE.
Special Correspondence of The
Constitution.
Athens, October 9. —Being here at
what might be termed the “hub” of
the ninth district, I think I am in a
position to see and know things con¬
cerning the congressional race a little
better than some people. Mr. Speer
has opened his campaign. He had
announced that he would address the
people at the opera house in this city,
his home, on Friday night, October
6th. Jfr, Candler was to arrive in
the city about dusk same day. The
‘‘Candler men” were on qui vive and
sent a delegation to the opera house
to get the best seats so that they
could clearly understand all the
points Mr. Speer made. Quite a
large crowd of negroes thronged in at
the opera house, and took seats on
one side to hear Mr. Speer, while
outside the loud hurrahs and ringing
shouts announced the arrival of the
•‘standard bearer.” He had a warm
reception, and was made to feci
perfectly at home, although he was
in Athens, the place of residence of
Mr. Speer. I heard many say that
Mr. Speer’s speech was not near as
good as some he made against Mr.
Bell in his former race. Mr. Candler
was called on by the very best people
of the city*. Saturday night he dis¬
coursed upon the political issues of
the day at the opera house. I did
not have the opportunity of hearing
Mr. Candler, and therefore asked a
prominent gentleman what he thought
of his argument, His reply was:
“CANDLER WILL SWEEP THE FIELD.
He is beyond all doubt the best man
that could have been placed in nomi¬
nation, and the good people of the
ninth will carry him through over
whelmingly.”
During Mr. Candler’s argument, a
very unfortunate occurrence, that at
first was thought to be a trick, caused
him to stop. The supply of gas was
limited, and very suddenly all the
lights in the opera house went out,
together with all the street lamps and
those in the hotel. Lamps were
brought in and he concluded amid
the loudest of applause that showed
the enthusiasm in the ranks of the
democratic audience. I must not
omit saying that Mr. Candler was
met near the city l ; mits and escorted
into the city by a large torch light
procession. Everybody is very much
enthused with regard to the race and
a lively time is expected, especially
when the democracy marches solid to
the polls on the 7th and elects the
“one-eyed plow-boy of Pigeon Roost.”
W. W. T,
SPEECH
DELIVERED BY
J. T. MULKEY, ESQ.,
On the Political Issues Involved
in the Campaign in the Ninth
Congressional District, at
Payne s IIall, in Toccoa, Ga.,
September 25th, 1882.
Fellow Citizens : This is the second
time I have had the honor of ad¬
dressing you on the political ques¬
tions of the day, during the present
campaign. I am a democrat and have
always been one—the first and only
Republican vote 1 ever cast being the
vote I cast for Hon. Emory Speer two
years ago. And now I wish to be
distinctly understood. If I vote for
him now, I do so knowing that I vote
for a Republican. There are no
intermediate grounds. Emory Speer
was as good a Democrat as Thomas
Jefferson until the convention, or
ring, or moss-backs in the Ninth
district, refused or failed to nominate
him. Had he been nominated by
that “rotten ring” four years ago
?
we wool-hat boys, the whites, and the
woolly-heads would never have known
how rotten conventions are. He
calls himself an Independent Demo¬
crat, and votes with the Democrats in
Congress on every occasion, so he
says. Now, fellow citizens, if we
want a man in Congress to do any¬
thing that the Republicans will
approve of, just send Emory Speer
back. He is the man to put negroes
in office —past acts prove it. Pledger,
the Republican, failed to get the post-
office in Athens because he wanted
Mr. Speer to pay up the “sugar” he
promised him in the campaign four
years ago, and then Mat Davis comes
in as a Republican, aided by Air.
Speer. I do not criminate Mr. Speer
on this point as much as some, from
the fact that I think Mat Davis is the
smartest one of the Davis family that
Speer has put in office. Thousands
' f men vote for Mr. Speer and cannot
tell why. They say it is because be
is so smart. I admire his wit and
his shrewdness as much as any man.
He is so smart that he can make the
glass-eyed man believe any sort of a
tale—he can make some men believe
he is an Independent Democrat.
There is no such name—it is simply
Democrat , or it is simply Republican —
he is one or the other. That is the
question for us to decide and we must
say every time, Republican. There
are three classes who will vote for
Mr. Speer—the glass-eyed, the
freedman and the Republican. You
ask, Where is the gentleman? I
answer, he is in the glass-eyed crowd
is blinded to some extent—in
fact, so much so that he can’t see the
Republican in Emory Speer. The
Speer gentleman thinks he is a good
Democrat. Aot so, gentlemen. I
wish I could get others to see as I
now see. Look bow he coincides
with the Republican party—he suffers
himself to be made a tool of with
them they chuckle in the sleeve
when they see so smart a man as
Mr. £peer suffer himself used as
tool, aud duped by them. And then
look on us —a set of dumb asses who
support and patronize such a man.
One of the greatest mistakes Mr.
Speer ever made was when he had
anything to do with the man who
holds his letters or correspondence
with the President and Republican
party. Any man upon the face of
the earth should have had sense
enough tc have known better. Just
one look at Christy ought to tell any
man not to trust him with his busi¬
ness. 1 now warn Col. Candler,
when he is elected to Congress to
have nothing to do with that man
Christy. A word to the wise is suffi¬
cient.
The blackest puppy in the basket
is that Injunction filed by Mr. Speer.
He, as an Independent Democrat,
ought to be willing to let all his
friends go into the side-show and let
Christy exhibit. Can’t you see how
pretty Christy would look just laying
out that Republican correspondence.
Gentlemen, just think of it. What
about supporting any man of Mr.
Speer’s sense that has made such a
record. What record? The Pledger,
the Davis, the Christy injunction^
Arthur Republican, negro supremacy,
Yankee Doodle round the Capital
and come in at the back door, record.
Put on your Sunday-clothes and go
to work for Allen D. handler to
represent the Ninth district in the
next United States Congress, who to
day is as good a friend to the freed-
man as now lives in the Southern
States. I want every man within
the sound of my voice to bear with
me to day. I cannot help speaking
just what are my simple, honest
views. Let us see ! In case we fail
to return Mr. Speer to Congress- j t ou
mark what I tell you—he has a good
place now somewhere in the Repub¬
lican ranks. He is a resident of
Washington city now, comes down
here and stays just long enough to
canvass the Ninth district, and get
elected if he can, and go back to
Washington, and then and there pull
the freedman over the head of the
white man and put him in a $2,000
office. How is that for high? I am
not opposed to the freedman having
all the rights and benefits that be¬
long to him under the Heavens and
at Law. If you promote and bring
forward the negro in preference to the
white man, you will bring trouble in
the land ; and then,] who will be to
blame? Our public men. It will not
be best for the freedman, and time
will so tell it. We want the best and
truest men in office. If we send a
man to Congress who acts badly we
will be like our merchant who sold a
rotten bag of cotton two years ago ;
he now has a lot of calico so rotten
that he has to cat it, can’t tear it; he
says he thinks the calico was made
out of the same cotton be sold, and
thinks he is the proper man to handle
the calico ; all he hates about it is
there is more of the calioo than he
thought the bale of cotton would
have made. Just so, if we send Mr.
Speer back to Congress—there will
be more of the bad record than we
are looking for.
But, I like Mr. Speer—he is a
magnet—he really possesses fascina¬
ting charms. It is his coalition prin¬
ciples and being allied with the Re¬
publican party that weans me from
him ; and whilst I must drop you,
Emory, let me, like Simeon of old,
depart in peace.
For fear I weary you, Gentlemen,
I must hasten through. You all want
to know why I am cheered so on my
right—because, don't you see, old
man Turner and son are there, and
they are Candler men. They cheer
me on the left, Mr. Caleb Taylor, Dr.
Doyle, Mr. McAllister and others.
You notice none of the jack-leg law¬
yers cheer me—they arefepeer men ;
yet Mr. Speer can’t give an offlae to
all of them. Why? Because all the
important offices apust be given to the
darkies of Clarke eounty in order to
get their support for our Mr. Speer.
I am asked just here why ami go¬
ing to vote for Mr Speer. I answer
because he has promised a good place
to Charlie.
Now, Gentlemen, here is the proper
view to take. IIow can I, in the face
of all these political facts, with the
faint prospect of one of my sons get-
tiug a position somewhere in the
Government service, vote for a man
of Air. Speer’s political record? No,
no ! Let me vote the old, true Dem¬
ocratic principles, handing them dowu
to my own sons and their posterity,
teaehiug them that this is a white
man’s country and a white man’s
government, and boldly oppose all
political demagogues to the utmost of
my ability.
Hon. Allen D. Candler is now the
best man I know of in the iVinth.
LETiER FROM COLORADO.
Special Correspondence.
Pueblo, Col., Oct. 9, 1882.
Nearly every one who visits this
part of Colorado for the first time,
even if partially informed about i
beforehand, is grievously disappoint¬
ed at the arid aspect of the plains,
and finds it hard to believe that the
application of that beneficent agent,
water, can make every inch of these
barren-looking table lands literally
“blossom like the rose.” One can
hardly imagine a more dreary-looking
country than that lying about here.
If we except the spots here and there
that have been developed by irriga¬
tion, there is nothing to be seen but
sand, dry buffalo grass, sage brush,
and prairie dogs. But it is wonder¬
ful what a transformation irrigation
produces in this comparatively
rainless area —upon this “barren and
dry land where no water is’* of the
Psalmist. A stream of water here is
worth more than a dozen silver mines.
They saj r irrrigation is simply scien¬
tific farming. The tiller of the soil
here is a chemist whose laboratory is
a certain area of.land ; everything but
the water is at hand - the bright sun
the potash, and other mineral
ingredients, not washed out of the
soil by centuries of rain. The climate
secures him always from an excess of
moisture, and wliat nature,fails to
yield, greater or less, according to
the season, he supplies from his
irrigating canal, and with it he
introduces, without labor, the most
valuable fertilizing ingredients, with
which the water in its course through
the mountains has become charged.
After what I have seen of its results
I am thornughly satisfied of the
beauties of irrigation, and if these
whole plains could be subjected to
the process what an Eden this would
be. But there is where the trouble
comes in. It is just as difficult to
irrigate without the necessary
conditions of situation as to water,
etc., as it would be to invoke rain
from the clouds. Hence these barren
plains in this year A. D. 1882.
The country about here as well as
about Canon City and Colorado
Springs, and further south in New
Mexico, is largely devoted to grazing
—both cattle and sheep being
included in the industry. Although
in many respects the sheep business
is less attractive than cattle raising,
it deserves attention as an important
and growing industry, which is
doing much for the prosperity of this
region. There is, to be sure,
something exciting, and in a sense
romantic, about the steer and bis
breeding, while the sheep is a quiet
and modest animal. C ne can fancy
the broad hatted “cow boy” ou his
fleet horse and throwing his lasso at
full gallop, as feeling himself a sort
of Spanish toreador , and perhaps
imparting a spice of danger to the
chase by flaunting a red scarf in the
eyes of the lordly bull. But the
Mexicau sheep herder, on the other
hand, plods monotonously after his
flock, and all the chasing is done by
his shepherd dog. Only one man
that I have heard of was ever able to
find anything alarming in the nature
of this simple animal. Desiring a
supply of mutton for his table, he
shot one of his neighbors sheep, and
was overtaken by the owner while
carrj ing it away on his shoulder.
“Now I’ve canghtyou, you rascal,’
said he ; “what do you mean by shoot¬
ing my sheep! Sternly and grimly
replied the accused* “Til shoot any
man’s sheep that tries to bite me. *
However, it is not for the excite-
SEEK
health and avoid sickness.
Instead of feeling tired and
worn out, instead of aches
and pains, wouldn’t you
rather feel fresh and strong ?
You can continue feeling
miserable and good for no¬
thing, and no one but your¬
self can find fault, but if you
are tired of that kind of life,
you choose. can change it if you
How? By getting one
bottle of Brown’ Iron Bit¬
ters, and taking it regularly
according to directions.
Mansfield, Ohio, Nov. 26,1881.
Gentlemen:—I have suffered with
pam in my side and back, and great
soreness ing on all my through breast, with shoot¬
tended pains with my body, at¬
sion of spirits, great and weakness, loss of depres¬
tite. I have taken several different appe¬
tnedicines, and was treated by prom-
inent and physicians spleen, but for my liver, kid¬
neys, 1 got no relief.
Bitters; I thought I have I wou>i try taken Brown’s Iron
now one bottle
and a half and am about well—pain
In side and back all gone—soreness
all out of my breast, and I have a
Strength good appetite, and flesh. and It am gaining in
called the king 0/ medicines. can justly be
John K. Allbnder.
Brown’s Iron Bitters is
composed of Iron in soluble
form; Cinchona the great
tonic, together with other
standard remedies, making
a remarkable non-alcoholic
tonic, which will cure Dys¬
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Weakness, and relieve all
Lung and Kidney diseases.
ment or amusement there may be in
it that men pursue the occupation of
herding either sheep or cattle. It is
the “almighty dollar” they are after,
like all the rest of 11 s, and, as related
in my last letter, there is enough in it
hereabouts to make it intercs'ing.
This is no less true of sheep raising
than of cattle herding. It may be
here stated that between the flock and
the herd there is an irrepressible
conflict. Bitter feuds have sprung
up between the cattle and sheep men
of this vicinity in consequence of
which whole flocks of sheep have
been poisoned in a night, and some
years ago several bloody encoui.tcrs
occurred. The difficulty is the shecu
and cattle will not graze on the same
ground. The roving steers stempede
the sheep so that they often get lost,
and cattle stand and trample so long
in the water that the dainty sheep
will not drink. On the other hand,
cattle do not like sheep, and refuse to
herd where they have been, for one
reason that they gnaw the grass so
close there is nothing left. It is a
clear case of “incompatibility of
temperament, ’ and a separation has
generally to be effected.
Of the profits of sheep raising as
carried on in this region, and the
methods and liffi of ihe herder, I shall
not have space to tell you in this
letter. My next will be devoted to
that subject, and then after a glance
at the town of Pueblo itself, and also
Colorado :■ prings, the handsomest
place in the State, we will go down
into New Mexico.
Sfot.
HABERSHAM SUPERIORCOURT
AUGUST TERM 1882.
Sarah J. Mauldin
Burton vs. Mauldin. ► Divorce, &c.
It appearing to the court that the
defendant in the above case, Burton
Mauldin, does not reside in Haber¬
sham county, and further that he is
not a resident of this State. It is
therefore ordered that said defendant
appear at the next Term of this court
and answer said cause and that
service be perfected upon him by the
publication of this order once a month
for four months previously to the
next Term of this court. August 28.
1882.
C. H. Sutton, 4 "
Granted Fltf s Att’y.
C. J. Wellborn, J. S. C.
The above order a true transcript
from Minutes of Habersham Superior.
court at the August Term 1882.
This Sept 30th, 1882.
J. H. Addison, C. S, C.
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