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rOCCOA CITY GA, fAN. 21, 1887
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
If Congress investigates earth¬
quakes, as some crank has proposed,
we suggest that the investigation be
conducted by proxy, or by means of a
telescope—at long range.
Congress is jogging along doing
nothing of special benefit to the coun¬
try. The members draw their pay,
send turnip seed to their more influ¬
ential consitutents, vote and some¬
times print speeches which they never
deliver.
The tendency of the times is to
money. Far well, who succeeds Lo¬
gan, could have bought a score of
Logans at sheriff’s sale. It takes
money to get into the U. S. Senate.
u -every door is barred and open¬
ed but to golden keys” is as true
now as when Tennyson first penned
those words.
Editor Watterson, of the Courier
Journal, seems much interested at
what he calls the “Money Devil”
stalking about the country. There
are men in Habersham county who
would walk up hill all night to get
acquainted with a genuine “Money
Devil.” Bro. Watterson is wrong;
Ave want more money in the South.
The trouble is the “Money Devil,” is
too small and besides he is “in a woe¬
ful minority.”
\Y>ur Northern Editor who finds fun
In slinging Editorial brick-bats at the
South oa account of its so-called
lawlessness and want of decorum
may now take down his sign and don
the weods of journalistic widow-hood.
The Legislature of New Jersey re¬
cently assembled. The two contest¬
ants for the Speakership had a per¬
sonal scuffle for possession of the
gavel. In Indiana the two factions
go armed and make no secret of it.
When the Georgia Legislature meets
it assembles in decency and in order
and bears as much resemblance to a
model Sunday-school as the Jersey
Legislature did to a red-hot pande¬
monium.
Congress seems to have learned
how to “don’t,” as the little boy said.
That is, it “don't” do some of the
very things it should do. The very
first thing which Congress should do
is to correct the iniquity which takes
$100,000,000 now from the people
every year than the Government
needs. That this is in the interest of
capitalists and against ihe welfare of
the masses of the people, is as plain
as daylight. This being true, any
child with sense enough to keep out
of the fire knows it ought to be
changed and placed on a just basis.
Y r et Congress lets the law stand as it
is, and it is blistering the people like
a 40-horse power mustard plaster.
The small amount of work which
Congress does is a matter of surprise
to many. The trouble is too many
of the members prostitute tlie privi¬
leges of their office to advance their
own personal or political ends. Un-
nessary bills are introduced consum¬
ing much valuable time. An ambi¬
tious member, with one or more up¬
per rooms to let, will, from time to
time, occupy the attention of the
body with useless speech-making.
He will execute a series of oratorical
pyrotechnics for future campaign
purposes—all “fuss and feathers” and
not worth a dime novel. It is fre¬
quent the case that the most valuable
members of Congress are those who
indulge the least in speach-making.
JUDGE JACKSON DEAD.
Jas. Jackson, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court ef Georgia, died at
his residence iu Atlanta Tuesday of
last week. Judge Jackson was one
of . the .. ablest ,, . jurists . and one of the .,
purest and best men in Georgia. It
is the State’s loss when such a man
enters into the sleep which knows
waking. He lived a Cluistian and
died a Christian's death. His eman¬
cipated spirit now beholds the felicit-
ous realities of the New Jerusalem
and finds a welcome home in that
temple not made with hands, eternal
in the Heavens.
Stephens, Hill, Toomb?, and Jack-
son,—four bright stars for Georgia—
just over the river.
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
The organization known as the
Knights of Labor is the child of cir¬
cumstances.
The history of nations, both ancient
and modern, shows that vast accumu¬
lations of capital have aperniciousin-
fluence upon legislation and govern¬
ment and shows also, its great danger
to the masses of the people. In this
country for the last century circum¬
stances have been favorable to the ac¬
cumulation of gigantic fortunes. The
process of development in this great
country has been especially favorable
to the formation and rapid growth of
all kinds of corporations. New cor¬
poration are very frequently of im¬
mense benefit to a town, city or coun¬
try and should often by protected
and encouraged. It is not until they
attain that degree of power which
will enable them to exert an improper
influence upon legislation, or to op¬
press the people and bid defiance to
law that they become objectionable.
Whenever this becomes the case they
should by some means be promptly
and effectually checked.
Capital naturallyjtends to concentra¬
tion and accumulation, and to do this,
measures are frequently resorted to
which are a gross injustice to, and
sometimes a flagrant outrage upon,
the laboring people. This drives the
laboring man to seek some method of
protection and the latest organized
plan is embodied in the Knights of
Labor.
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MATTHEWS AGAIN.
The Senate Committee had before
it Saturday the question'of confirming
Jas. R. Matthews as Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Columbia.
It will be remembered that Cleveland
appointed Matthews, a colored citi¬
zen of Albany, as recorder of deeds
and the appointment was rejected by
the Senate. Cleveland reappointed
him and the question of his confirma¬
tion is again before the Senate. We
hope the Senate will show some re¬
spect for itself and for the Democrat¬
ic platform by again rejecting his ap¬
pointment.
Cleveland well knew when he ap¬
pointed Matthews that he violated
the platform on which he was nomi¬
nated and which he endorsed before
his election, but which he has time
and again trampled under foot since
he has been in office. We wish the
Senate could pare off about one-half
an inch from that part of his cranium
where is located that organ which is
the chief characteristic of a certain
long eared animal. Then perhaps
we could have a Democratic adminis¬
tration with less of the features of
Republicanism about it.
Senators Brown of Georgia and
Harris of Tennessee were the only
members ot the committee who voted
in favor of confirming Matthews. We
know but little about Harris and were
therefore surprised at his voting for
the confirmation. We know consid¬
erable about Brown, and therefore,
are not surprised at his voting, in sub¬
stance, to ratify a violation of the
Democratic platform.
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An Enterprising, Reliable house
—W. II. & J.Davis can always be re¬
lied upon , not only to carry in stock
the best of everything, but to secure
the agency for such articles as have
well-known merit, and are popular
with the people, thereby sustaining
the reputation of being always enter¬
prising, and ever reliable. Having
secured the Agency for the celebrated
Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, will sell it on a positive
guarantee. It will surely cure any
and every affection of Throat, Lungs,
and Chest, and to show our confi¬
dence, we invite you to call and get a
trial bottle free.
Buckuen's Arnica salve.- The
Best Salve in the world for cuts
b rus ; eSj sores, ulcers, salt rheum.
fever sores, tetter, chapped hands,
chilblains corns, and all skin erup¬
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no pay repuired. It is guaranteed to
give perfect satisfaction, or money
refunded. Price 25 cents per box
for sale by >V. II, & J. Dayis.
PBISUSLifHtAJjHtS
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What the Mt. Lebanon Shakers
Found—Incident in the His-
tory of a Quiet Com munity*
Tlie Mount Lebanon (New
York) Shakers are a quiet com-
munity, secluded from the fret
and worry of the outside world.
They are widely known, how¬
ever, for their strict honor and
probity in business.
* The Shakers believe that na-
ture has a remedy J for every J dis-
A . few have found
ease. been ---
the rest are as yet unknown.
Many were discovered by acci¬
dent. Others came to light o as
tne result of patient experiment
and research.
Nervous Dyspepsia is a com-
paratively of the new disease, growing
out conditions of modern
life. It is a joint affection of
the digestn e organs and of the
nprvniK licivouo oyotciu. Hvcfl-ATO Thp«p xiiAse two two
were formerly treated as sepa- Ac,
rate ailments, and j it • x , was „ left
tor the clear-sighted Shakers
to prove tliat the basis of this
terrible and often fatal compli¬
cation lies chiefly in the disord¬
ered and depraved functions of
reasoned digestion and nutrition. They
thus:—“If we canin-
duce the stomach to do its
work, and stimulate the excre¬
tive organs to drive out of the
body which the poisonous -waste mat¬
ters remain after the life-
giving elements of the food
have been absorbed, we shall
have conquered Nervous Dys¬
pepsia And and Nervous they Exhaust- right.
ion. were
of Knowing Shaker the infallible power
Extract (Seigel’s
Syrup) in less complicated
though similar diseases,
they resolved to test it fully
in this. To leave no ground
for doubt they prescribed the
remedy in hundreds of cases
which had been pronounced in¬
curable—with perfect success
in every instance where their
directions as to living and diet
were Nervous scrupulously Dyspepsia followed.
and Ex¬
haustion is a peculiarly Ameri¬
can disease. To a greater or
less extent half the people of
this country suffer from it—
both sexes and all ages. In no
•country in the world are there
so many insane asylums filled
to from overflowing, this alarming all resulting
disease. Its
leading symptoms are these:
Frequent or continual head-
ache; a dull pain at the base
of the brain; bad breath; nau¬
seous eructations; the rising
of sour and pungent fluids to
the throat; a sense of oppress¬
ion and faintness at the pit of
the stomach; flatulence; wake¬
fulness and loss of sleep; dis¬
gust with food even when
weak from the need of it; sticky
or in slimy matter on the teeth or
the mouth, especially on ris¬
ing in the morning; furred and
coated tongue; dull eyes; cold
hands and feet; constipation;
dry fix" or rough skin ; inability iall- to
the mind on any labor
ing for continuous attention;
and oppressive and sad fore¬
! bodings and fears.
All tliis terrible group
Shaker Extract (Seigel’s
Syrup) removes by its pos-
itiye, painless powerful,^ and gentle action direct yet
upon
the functions of digestion and
assimilation. Those elements
of the food that build up and
strengthen the mission, system while are sent all
upon their
waste mafters (the ashesof life's
fire) which unremoved, poison
and kill, are expelled from kid¬ the
body through the Tlie bowels, and
neys and skin. weak
nrostnted piosliatea nerves nei\es are a.e Quieted qiUCTv ,
toned and fed by the purified
blood. As the result, health,
wdth its enjoyments, blessings
and power, returns to the suf-
ferer who had, perhaps, of aband- seeing
oned all hope ever &
another well dav. «r
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THIS PAPER
CLUVERIUS.
Thomas Judson Cluverius, w as
hung i n Richmond Jast Friday at
o’clock.
Death on the gallows for murder.
A horrible fate; but a just one if
NVas guilty. Whether he was
S ul hy or 11 ot w hl probably never be
know,K 1]e declaretl his innocence
with his latest breath and faced death
like a man who had not uyed his
hands in blood. If guilty the law
has been vindicated; if innocent, a
judicial murder has been perpetrated.
The News has always maintained
that the evidence did not justify his
^
nnm-lrtir conv icuon, ana i we are .inner c in . tins , .
beiief since ’ than 1 be 1 r ore hi< death c
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An interesting vet saddenino- i> s-
‘ ! ~ 1
time ,• it has been watch , the ,
to tone of
the • regard , .
press „ roc , m _ , to this cise. A .
first the press was practically unam-
mous in condemning Cluverius. Ex-
pressions of scorn, and
appeals to the courts to hang the vile
murderer came flowing like molten
death sentences from the pens of law
n editois. Gradually a few
kind t expressions found „ , into .
way print
and „ n .i fi miall lia ii y v ^ was acknowledged 4 (1 „ , , by
m leading editors that there was !
an ie room for doubt of his guilt.
His convictian was unquestionably
due to the fact that he made no
tempt to show where lie was the niolit
of the murder. The prosecuting at -
torney in his argument to the
~
i , ii; , • , , • t
aue telling enect with this tact,
This was a devilish perversion of the
first PjL principle . . , of . criminal law and .
is
in effect presuming the prisoners
guilt and placing the burden on him
of showing his innocense, whereas
precisely the reverse is the law.
The Judge who sits on the bench
guiding the trial of a human being
for his life, and who hears this legal
heresy preached into the minds of the
jury by a heartless, tigerish prose¬
cuting lawyer, and who fails from
carelessness or refuses from prejudice
to make absolutely clear and plain to
the jury the law on this first great
point should himself be hung from a
gallows as high as Hainan's. We do
not mean to convey the idea tliat
Judge Atkins was guilty of this
great crime, in this case; he charged
the law in the main. Prosecuting at¬
torneys in their desire to procure a
conviction, are prone to depart from
the line of professional right on the
point referred to and judges in many
cases, to their shame, be it said, give
them entirely to much latitude in
their argument to the jury.
The taking of life judicially or
otherwise is a most solemn thing—
more solemn by far than the dismal
P orta * s to a hundred tombs. Some
officers come to re g ard lt as a ffght
matter; the fountains of kindness and
sympathy dry up and a heartless de¬
sire to see punishment wreaked upon
some unfortunate creature reigns in¬
stead. This is all right so long as the
guilty suffer; but a horrible, Satanic
visage it assumes, when their death¬
laden hands clutch the throats of the
helfiless and friendless innocent.
“The hungry judges soon the sentences sign
And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine.”
Those words of Pope’s aie not as ap-
plicable to this country as they might
have been to England at the time
they were written, but the breath from
the nostrils cf some prosecuting at-
torne G s 5eems w.th the.r
sentiment.
But Cluverius sleeps in his grave
and with him must sleep the mystery
of the murder for which he was hung.
Washington D. C’., Jan. 18 1687.
— r n ie following Patents have been
panted to residents of Ga. and Ala.
this day.
Frank Jordan, Mobile, Ala., rail¬
way fusee.
.Jas. M. Sullivan, Tbomaston, Ga.,
fertilizer distributor.
Louis T. Wctzell, Atlanta, Ga., ad
vertising showstand.
There were none to rcside»t3 of
S. C. or Fla. tliis week.
N. L. Callamer.
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CGRSBEiySED SCHEDULE.
In yjj/'ccl November itlh, to 80.
2rains run by 75th Meridian Jime.
NOKTH BOUND. DAILY. SOUTH BOUXDD. DAILY.
No. 51 | No. 43.~ No. 50 | No. 52.
Leave tlanti 7 00 p “j m 8 40 a m Leave “ New Thii.de Y< p;.ia rk lit is p 44 m
Arrive Gaine ville, 9 12 10 28 *• t a m
9 30 “ 11 00 “ | “ Bnltimo e 0 £
- Lula 10 39 “ M2 01 m* “ W; sb 9 r 11
- Tocco p i lig on ..i
v. Sei eca 11 37 “ 12 50 “ “ Cbarl t esvibe 1 p a m
12 36 “ | 2 10 “ * “ T v e bur
r Greenville, Easley 1 02 “ 2 82 “ <1 30 r
2 17 “ ! 3 43 i.lCOIIiO I
t Spartanburg “ ill -I 15 - X
311 “ an
t Gaffney 4 30 “ 'Arrive free «' O'O (6 05 r X>
‘‘ Gastoni i - 20 a m; 5 41 “ Leave Go. 11 5(1 CJ in * to — no
05 6 25_“ io
Ch ariot c Ka! i h 4 5 S- mil V in
Salisbu ry_ _ 1 '* 8 01 “ Arrive i ot S]>.in x 20 mj
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‘ Arrive Statesville 12 40 t “ Ash vi lie I
“ Ash ville _! j 6 9 55 39 “ U 1 ? StatosviOe 09 I
“ Hot Springs_ |Lea'. -
— . ulis ur ill 00 •' 11 23 p m
“ Raleigh 1 50 p in G 50 p m
“ Goldsboro 4 r.0 ‘ 11 2 0 “ {Leave Charlotte a m 1 pm
Leave Greensboro 10 8 22 ! 9 47 p nil Gastonia
10 11 28 “ Gaffneys
Aarive Danville 3 45 p m | .0 a nr Spartanburg p-s
‘j Richmond 6 “ m tt
Greenville in
1 05 a rn i 2 8 Easley II
Lynchburg 3 30 “ I p m Seneca 41
* Charlottesville 4 S 41
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“ Wa-liington 8 23 : 8 S P in i i Toccoa
Arrive Baltimore 11 It ."3 3 o ni Lula it
t i Philadelphia cc £ 12 & m Gainesville “X
Ct £ o Arrive Atlanta 4 4 44
New York *Daily except Sunday,
* Daily except Saturdays
Tullman Cai• Sei vice.
On train? 50 and 51 Pulman Buffett Sleeper between Atlanta and New York, New
Orleans and Washington via Danville. Washington and «rl
trains 52 and 53 Pullman Buffet Sleeper, Montgomery to . a
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A k r^'on trah'is Richmond and Greensboro and Goldsboro.
52 and 53 between
Trough tickets on sale at principal stations to a 1 points. For rates and information
apply to any agentof theCumpany, or c/45. to L. TA _ , YlOR ,. - n Gen. « Pass. n Agt. . ,
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SOX HAAS. T. M. Washington. D. C.
A orlti-Eastern L"Railroad Schedule.
Superintend ant’s Officf, Athens. Ga., Jan. 18 , 1888 .
CommenciugMon lav, January 18, 1886, the following schedule will operate on this road
Trains run bv 75th merid an time-one hour fkstcr than Athens tune
_ ^ excw}tl &u ; 1(iay NO ’ Zi i NO 5l I Daily except Sunday. NO. 50 NO 52
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^Sive Hanllooy Vt , g c3 3 ©ortn 3 Leave Tallulah Falls 00 a m
Grove, 9 53 3 u Arrive at Ciarkesville (X a m
A g ;veat Lnla cG 2 E Leave Atlanta 00 a m 1 i
Atlanta *—*►"■“* £* 3 Leave Ln'a it\^ a m 00 33B
“ “ “ “ Tallulah Ciarkesville Falls 1 H* O* ^ 3 5 Arrive Arrive at nariuonyGrove Athens 1 p pm m 0>o
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conneCl ; 0 ns made at aSsfe/SS Lula with passsenger trains on Richmond and Danville Rai 1
g-byktotjmdJW. ^
* th> Ea d West.
No , t an Gen. Pasj. Agent. H. R. BotNA*D, Stt’T.
C. W.Gulaks,