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%/\at. ^Democratic 2tctc€l,
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TOCCOA, GA.:
SATURDAY, JULY .30, 1892
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The indications now are that Berk-
man’s attempted assassination of
Fricks is a part of a plot by Anar-
chists to murder a number of Pitts-
burg millionaires.
The Republicans are trying to aid
the strikers to compromise the troub¬
les with Carnegie & Co. Tnis strike
business seems to be a blow at the
high protective tariff of the quondam
g. o. p.
* * *
The anti-option bill lias a suspic¬
ious look; it appears to be a clevei
trick devised by the millionaire mill¬
er? of Minneapolis, to hoodwink the
farmers, knock down the price
wheat, and enable, the grabbing mill¬
ers to grab more millions as the gold¬
en harvest years roll round,
* * *
There are indications of fusion be¬
tween the Republicans and Third
Partyites in North Carolina. That
is to say, men opposed to
protection and the force bill
uniting with a party determined to
enforce both measures on tho coun¬
try. Funny* bed-fellows.
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Fifteen widows of Revolutionary
heroes aro still living and drawing
pensions. Two of these reside in
Georgia, Mrs. Mary Newton in Ath¬
ens, and Mrs. Meredy Smith in Nevv-
nan. With these 15 as a basis, curi¬
ous mathematicians mi ght estimate
the probable number of the relatives
of soldiers of the late war drawing
pensions at the end of the next cen¬
tury*.
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Great quantities of corn are being
exported into Mexico. During the
past four months 24,000,000 bushels
have passed through Eagle Pass,Tex.
going south. It is all white corn,
and in Mexico it brings from £2.50 to
#3.00 a bushel. It is grown in Kan¬
sas and Nebraska. If Georgia had a
few millions of surplus bushels to ex¬
port each year hard times would soon
disappear.
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There is nothing at the fancy.fruit
stores on Broadway*, says the New
York Tiibune, more refreshing and
attractive than the beautiful dark
red-cheeked Elberta peaches from
the orchards of Georgia. They are
larger and much more delicious than
peaches produce 1 on tho Delaware
peninsula, and in New ,/ersev. They
are sold there at 50 to 75 cents a box
containing about three dozen.
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Cooking can now be done by elec¬
tricity*. Ordinary cooking utensils,
such as frying pans and kettles are
coated on the bottom with an insula¬
ting enamel, in which is imbedded
a zigzag wire conveying the current.
To prevent radiation tho enamel sur¬
face is protected with asbestos. The
electrie current is switched on from
an inca descent lamp. Meat,
hies and everything else is cooked in
a short time; there are no unpleasant
fumes, no danger of fire, while the
cost is alniust nothing.
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7 he silver and gold question sterns
to be left in Congress in the form of a
resolution requesting the
to carry on negotiations with the gov
ernments of Europe, looking to the
establishment, by international
ments, of a coinage ratio of loior 16
ounces of fine silver to one ounce of
fine gold. As an inducement to the
foreign governments to enter into
this arrangement, tho resolution
‘° " ,a ke redaction of Lent,.
tive per cent, . on wool, china ware,
hardware, guns, glass, and manufac-
tur«s of siik and cotton. This
smacks of bribery. The relation of
.he o„i„a S e of gold and silver ,o tar-
iff duties is not apparent.
nations should be induced to inrree ,
to this coinage business ou the basts
of the actual relative values of the :
two metals and not by the political
trickery .of a bribe.
WOLF FIT.
Editor Toccoa News:
Please allow me a little space in i
your columns, replying to J. R.
< ’amp in last weeks Enterprise,
also an article that was published in
the Alliance Farmer some time ago.
The latter article was a lie from be-
gj nnin g to en d. Mr. Camp was
at the Democratic meeting held at
Eastanollee, which he has referred
We would like to know how a man
can write about and testify to occur¬
rences at that meeting when he was
positively not there.
The gentleman who replied to him
was there and so was I, and I know
he did not misrepresent the meeting
in a single instance.
He said in his article to the Alli¬
ance Farmer that Wolf Pit district
was solid to a man, (with 3 or 4 ex¬
ceptions), for the St. Louis platform.
Now, Johnny, you know that is a
positive falsehood. Now all we dem-
ocrats ask of you third partyito cor-
respondents is that you tell the truth;
which is impossible for you to do and
carry out your rotten plans.
You say in your article to the Eti-
terprise that the gentleman is a “liar,
hyena, and a cowardly sneak.” Do
you know who he is? I do; he is a
gentleman of as fine a character as
any man in Franklin county. I know
him and know whereof I speak.
Yes, John Rattler, we know, and
so does all Franklin county, your
brothers Stonecypher and Camp.Yes,
your Bro. Thomas Jefferson Jerusa¬
lem My Joe John Stoilecypher’s
speech was a “buster.” He can tell
all about “coon skins,” and he went
on to say in his speech to say that if
“killing Republicans would bring
free money and more of it down south
he would be willing to start out to
knocking them in the head; that he
would not take time to go by home
to tell his wife and children where he
was geing.” That was what the Rev.
Parson Stonecypher raid.
As to your brother 8. N, Camp’s
speech, it can’t be equaled. Both top
and bottom crusts were newspaper
clippings, and the stuffing was of
newspaper clippings, and tho grease
that it was shortened with was the
skimmings from half a dozen third
party papers that had been stewed
down so 'ow that the grease had sort¬
er scorched.
It was Mr. Camp instead of Mr
Davis who read his speech from news¬
paper clippings. Mr. Davis only
showed in his t a inap representing
the Northern and Southern states.
Johnny, the trouble with your
crowd over Mr. Davis’s speech was
that his subject was too deep for you
to see into. A man to make you un¬
derstand will have to set his back^
band away back.
Don’t be sc positive unless you
know more. Don’t pull your throt¬
tle so wide,you might “bust your hi-,
ler.” But in your next article don’t
forget that we don’t want any of your
noted St. Louis platform and force
bill in ours. We are Democrats cur-
selves. Your Bro. Stonecypher laid
his pou in vhe sh*de, since he saw
what a mistake he made.
A Democrat Straight.
IN ME MORI AM.
Mr.Wtr. R. White died at his
homo in Anderson, S. C. on Wednes¬
day July 6th at 4 o’clock a. m , aged
59 years. Mr. White was born in
Oconee county. He joined the Pres¬
byterian church at Bethel, near Wal-
halla, and for a number of years serri¬
ed as an Elder in that church. He
was an efficient worker in the Sunday
school, anil a good Christian hearted
man, making friends wherever he
went.
He had been sick ever since he
came to Anderson, but bore his illness
with great patience. He told bis fam-
ily and friends that he was ready and
willing to die. Rev. Mr. Friarson
talked with him several times, always
found him ready to talk about his
dear Savior. Mr. White leaves a
wife and 8 children, 5 boys and 3
girls ; the youngest being 12 years
old.
We extend our sympathies to the
bereaved family. His remains were
interred in Silver Brook cemetery,
Rev. Dr. Friarson conducting the
funcral services,
A Friend.
A LEADER
now it is dearly in the lead amoo^ pure med-
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P\ lrest medicine for alt ailments of Stomach.
from the system. Satisfaction guaranteed
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TURNER VILLE
Crops look well so far; if
continue there will be a large crop
cora gathered in this vicinity this
I am g’ad that the people are be-
ginning to see the necessity of gong
t0 a,ul making their home sup-
P lies
Squire Thomas J. Dooley had 6 K>
busbeIs of Cl »rn to sell; and some one
told rae the other day that the hole
was going toward the back end of the
crib in a hurry. He has a better
trade than an}* store I know of.There
are so many people there after corn
he has to let some of them go back
home and came again.
G. A. Anderson is building four
rooms to his house.
Mrs. Susan E Anderson is verv
sick, but we hope she will soon be
able to resume her work.
Joshua Rumsey has been suffering
considerably with his foot he hurt the
other day. He says he would make
him some crutches to walk or. if it
was the other foot that was hurt.
Association talk is cheap now.
The Turnerville association convenes
Thursday before the 3d Sunday in
August. Your writer heard one the
biothers and his wife talking about it
the other day and site said that it
would take all of the chickens that
she had and she was afraid she would
not have enough even then. The gen
tleman of the house said that he was
not going to have all those chickens,
killed and eat up by eornebo iy else .
He said : “I want some of them , and
if we kill them then I won’t get to
them, for I know that I will not get
to eat at the first table. ’ He said
that he would buy a quarter of tough
beef and not let it be cooked done
and it wouldn’t take much to do
them.
Subscribe for the News, and get a
good paper, one that is brim full of
news. Uxcxe Ned.
The sun lias come out once more,
but we fail to see anything wrong
with the old fellow, though he has
been hid so 'long dming the rainy
weather that he might have mildewed.
There is no use for us to talk about
the weather. Everybody knows how
it is himself. One of our neighbor-
claims that it has damaged him and
his tenants about 200 bushels of com.
Mrs. Alice Anderson is reported to
be at the point of death. The doc¬
tors think she is beyond recovery,but
we hope she may yet recover.
Our young friend, Jas. Franklin,
lost a small child some days since. It
was bitten by a pilot snake.
Crops on the uplands are looking
well, but the low lands are almost a
failure, on account of too much nun.
Porter Green ofRabun county spent
a few days here visiting his brother.
11. T. Green.
Mrs. R. T. Green has relumed
frocn a visit to her people in Tennes¬
see Valley, and Tate is wearing a
smile a yard wide.
Mitchell Franklin, at the West
House is entertaining a number 0
summer visitors from Athens.
The Misses Hodgeson of Athens
are spending the heated term at the
residence of their grandfather, Capt-
J. S. Kennard,
One of our young merchants’ \Y. F.
B. has an item charged to one
customers thus: “Jesse R Du
lothe hog money, which is two
dollars and sixty-five cents.
We want a lot of war titles to fit
eur candidates, as we have to elect
everything in our District this fail
from bailiff down to president.
Our new Notary, who is a doctor,
not of divinity, but of medicine, and
is used to signing his name with an
M. D., to it, now puls it M.D.,
N. P. & Ex. J. P.
The biggest thing on the program
for next month is the Baptist associ¬
ation which will be held at Mt. Zion
church at this place, and we are
bound to be a Methodist unt 1 that is
over. Nocturnal Wanderer.
HARVEST EXCURSIONS.
The Richmond and Danville and
Georgia Pacific Roads have arranged
for a grand excursion to Texas and
Arkansas this season. The tickets
will be sold August 2nd, 3d and 4th.
good to return witliin 30 days at one
fare for round trip.
The Georgia Pacific by way of Bir-
mingham forms the shortest and
ouickest quickest lire line to Texas lexas and and Arkansas. Arkansas
Famous k through car route. Maps
&c. free upon appliction to W. H.
Tajloe and A. A. Vernoy, General
A f"£ *’ 10
House, AUuma, L»a.
„ bright . . people the quickest
are to
L. e s 01 ”y^ nt P e °P ,e th»Yi«‘e
Early , Risers. , . If you are not
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The News.
MARTIN.
Mis* Maggie Dean,"an accompliab-
young lady of Atlanta, is visiting
relatives and friends in the city.
Miss Lena Cooper of near Avalon,
who has been quite sick for several
weeks is much improved in health.
Conductor W. E. Cason of the Sea
Board Air Line R. R. who has been
sick for some weeks, is at home in
this city much improved in health.
Miss Lucy Brown who has been
visiting friends in South Carolina
ret irned home.
S. O. Childs of the Central li. R. is
visiting relatives in the city.
Ja=. J/oBath and Prof. Jerry Ayers
of Eastanollee were in the city last
Sunday.
J/rs. J. T. Peyton of J/t. A iry, who
has been visiting relatives and friends
in the city lias returned home.
Win. McCarter of the Gate City
has been spending some tune with
relatives in this county .
Mr*. T. J. Cason and sons Ed-
ward and Robert visited Elberton a
short time since,
O. R. Randall of Atlanta lias been
visiting relatives and friends in the
city.
W. B. Stovall has returned from
Macon, where he has been attending
college.’
A series of meetings began at the
Baptist church at this place on the
23J inst. conducted by the Pastor,
Iiev. Mr. Crawford of Lavonia.
E. C.
ANSWER THIS QUESTION.
Why do so many* people we see
around us seem to prefer to suffer and
be made miserable by Indigestion,
constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Ap -
petite, corning up of the food, Yel¬
low Skin, when for 75c we will sell
them Shiloh’s Vitalizer,guaranteed to
cure them. Sold by T, A. Capps,
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KEEP IT UP,
Mr. Editor: The suggestion in
your issue of July 16th, regarding an
a’hletic association, if executed, will
be an organization of which the city
may be proud.
Most all cities that have life, vim
and that ‘ get there” spirit which
characterizes a growing town, as Toc¬
coa is, has an association of this kind.
An athletic association is as essetw
tial in a certain wav, as a religious
organization. While one perfects
our morals, the other makes us phys¬
ic illy perfect. Apollo was a perfect
ma , morally an 1 physically .
As it now is, strangers when visit-
i lg the eity,seing so many of us loiter¬
ing roind killing time, form anything
but an exalt d opinion of us: while if
we had a hall fitted up with the nee-
essary outfit, we could agreeably and
profitably pas, off lhe time, and by
inviting visitors to join us, could
make their stay in the city more
pleasant.
One point about this association is
that it would save our merchants the
wear and tear on their chairs, which
thc T novv so tastefully decorate the
sidewalks with, for the convenience of
those uno have nothing to do but sit
icll y b >’ whi,(J father Time is ticking
roinutes and hours that are wasted
an 1 unreoallable.
Keep this suggestion hot Mr. Edi-
^ or ’ an< ^ sec we cannot advance
ons roun ^ U P ^he ladder ot progress
by organizing this association. S,
SHILOIIS CONSUMPTION CURE
This is beyond question the most
successful Cough medicine we have
ever sold, a few doses invariably cure
the worst cases of cough, croup and
Bronchitis, while its wonderful suc¬
cess in the cure of Consumption is
without a parallel in the history of
medicine. Since its first discovery it
has been sold on a guarantee, a lest
which no other medicine can stand. If
you have a cough we earnestly* ask
> ou to try it. Price ldc. 50c. and
SI. If your lungs are sore, chest, or
back lame, use Shiloh’s Porous Plas¬
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What a Cipher Is.
‘ A cipher dispatch is simply a dis¬
patch in cipher, and a cipher is sim¬
ply an arrangement between two or
more persons by which certain
agreed upon words or signs are used
instead of the real words. There are
thousands of ciphersinuse-.practi-
«dlv every business house has
£? of
more or less intricacy; and many
private persons have cipher's. There
are two or three cipher makers in
this city. An ordinary commer-
^ ^ will make a book of 500
pages or more.—New York Sun.
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Suiloii’s Catarrh Remedy. —A
marvelous cure for catarrh, Diphthe¬
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With each bottle there is an ingeni-
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ce «!sful treatment of those compl aints
" i,ho “ t «>>**•• 50c ' Sold
, a. Capps.
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Early Risers, Early Risers, Early
Risers, the famous little pills for con- and
stipation.eick headache,dyspepsia
nervousness. T A
Tlipolo;?- nmi RvMpon.
Tlio Rev. Dr. Putnam, for many
years one of the ablest and most be¬
loved of the Unitarian clergymen
about Boston, went on one occasion
to preach in a New Hampshire vil¬
lage. He was effusively greeted by
one of the congregation, who said to
him: “Dr. Putnam, I am delighted
to hear you again. I remember
when you preached here before, some
ten years ago, and I shall never for¬
get your sermon.”
“Ah!" said the doctor, pleased to
be remembered. “What was the
subject of mv sermon f’
“I don't remember exactly," was
the reply,
“Do you recall anything in it
which will help to bring it to my
mind?”
“I only remember distinctly one
thing,” said the other. “You said
that theology is not religion by a
blamed sight!”
Dr. Putnam occasionally told the
story with great gusto.—Minneapolis
Journal.
The First Railroad Station.
The first railroad station in the
United States was the Albany termi¬
nus of the Albany and Schenectady
railroad. Up to 1842 it stood at the
corner of Broad and Van Vetcheu
streets (now Third avenue). It is a
one story building about twenty-five
feet square.—Yankee Blade.
A Scotch Sentence.
Lord Braxfield admitted the abili¬
ties of a criminal who was undoubt¬
edly an accomplished murderer, for
the judge said, “Y’re a clever chiel,
but y'll be nane the warn* of a hang¬
ing. my man.”—Hard Scotch.
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Methodist F.pisi-oj al Church,South
ing 11 a. in. and 7:30p m every Sunday. B
day school 10am evciyS inday; J \\ Sim eJne.-day
supt. Frayer service <:30 p m
eve. B P Allen, Pastor.
Presbyterian Church, Rev L A Simpson
pastor; preaching at 11:30 am and 7:30 p m
on 2nd and 4th sabbaths in each month.Sen-
day school at 10 a m every sabbath, W M
Busha supt. Prayermee ing at 7:30 p m every
Wednesday.
Baptist Church, Rev A E Kecse pastor;
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SIR WILLIAM’S ANDROMETER.
HI. Death at Forty-sight Prevented Him
from Testing It for Seventy Years.
Sir William Jones, the friend of
Dr. Franklin and of all other good
men, lived only to lie forty-eight
years old. But lie had constructed a
system which he called his “Andro-
meter,” by which tho life ot a man
up to seventy years was carefully
mapped out with a view to his best
education and practical virtues.
Thus from one year old up to ten
the child was to attend to speaking
and pronunciation, spelling, reading
and repeating the grammar of his
own tongue, morals and religion,
natural history with experiments,
dancing, music and drawing. Be¬
tween ten and fifteen he was to
learn the history of his own country,
Latin and Greek. French and Italian
(German in 1774 not being regarded
as important). At fifteen he was to
make translations, write composi¬
tions in prose and verse, etc., and
from that age up to twenty was to
study rhetoric and law. history and
mathematics, with logic and decla¬
mation thrown in.
From twenty to twenty-five the
andrometer man was to study phi¬
losophy and polities, ancient oratory,
etc., and at twenty-five begin travels
and cultivate conversation. At thir-
ty he was to enter public life, having
previously made speeches, studied
state affairs and advanced in history,
law and eloquence. “I am fully con¬
vinced,” he wrote, at the age of
thirty-four, to Lord Altborpc, “that
an Englishman’s real imi>ortanco in
his country will always he in a com¬
pound ratio of his virtue, his knowl¬
edge and his eloquence, without all of
which qualities little real utility can
result from either of them apart.”
He also thought that “a virtuous
and knowing man, who has no nat-
ural impediment, may by habit in¬
quire perfect eloquence.” Lord Gran¬
by, however (the famous “murhis"),
“will never bo eloquent until lie is
less modest." And then, in 1777,
while Chatham. Fox and Bunke wore
all in parliament, Jones grieves “that
our senate is dwindled into a school
of rhetoric, where men rise to dis-
play their abilities rather than to de¬
liberate, and wish to he admired
without hoping to convince.”
But to go on with our andrometer.
At thirty-live the “civil knowledge*”
is to be “mature” and the “ch>-
quence perfect;” from that age i >
forty-five “national lights” are do
fended, “the learned protected, the
virtuous assisted, science improved.
fine _ arts patronized , and laws enacted
and supported.” The andrometer
mau ’ havNr**.® «U this, at forty
five attends to “the government ; I
his family, education of his children,
firmness as a patriot and virtue as a
citizen,” the last culminating at fifty
years. Between fifty and fii iy fiv -
ho is to compose historical, orator¬
ical, philosophical,political and mu! ,1-
ematical works, and from liity-nvo
to sixty “continue former pui suits.”
At sixty he would begin to enjoy
the fruits of his labors—“a : devious
retirement, an amiable family, uni¬
versal respect and consciousness of a
virtuous life.”
Sir William Jones himself never
got into parliament, nor did ho at¬
tain the fifty yearn, dying in India
at the age of forty-eight in 17U4.
But ho was vigilant as a magistrate
film as a patriot and virtuous as a
citizen, and he composed most ot the
works he mentioned. Indeed, “being
made perfect in a short time, lie ful¬
filled a long time.” He was not
without the Englishman's desire for
money, and said by the time lie was
twenty-eight he hoped to be worth
£20,00U by the practice of the law.
He had accumulated much more
than this at forty-eight, besides a
great deal of renown. But I do not
see any pounds, shillings or pence in
the andrometer. —Boston Advertiser.
Figure Signs.
Some of the down town streets are
particularly rich in figure signs.
Warren, Murray, Frankfort and
safe's “ that vicinity are
filled With gilt coffeepots, saddles,
guns, pipes and many other objects.
Quo Warren street dealer in cutlery
has “* a hu K e knif<; amt fork
over his door on one side and an
^ule , sffeot’'a ,,
on ftankfort r«*et
of enormoU s dimensions conjures up
visions of the "(iloriou-s Fourth." A
figure of Peter Stuyvesant is set up
by one insurance company, a Phoenix
rising from the flames symbolizes an
other, while a third is well repre¬
sented by a globe half sunk into
a lettered sign board.—New York
Times.
A horse will eat in a year nine
times his own weight, a cow nine
times, an ox six times and a sheep
six times.