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About The Toccoa news. (Toccoa, Ga.) 1893-1896 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1895)
The Toe tea -News t I. CHR'STY. % ildiors , Proprietors, D BRYfl-iT, Wo have received the first few Initial numberkof theAthehs Eve- ..in* long Vw« w. under 11110 * r ,u n. new ' n.-nrem- man ►, incut, aiid il is fully justifying the |>rediction we made in reference to ii last week. It is a handsome, 1 icolv •■/„>’•< printed six ’into column paper pU> * „.„l 1(1 ,d P 1 11 h, ” nire ,,,d and hiS ms ass ° t'iatcs are making it fairly “hum. Much success to them. Mr 1) <J Bicker* who ban been for some time past the brilliant and aide city editor of I he Gainesville t! packer, has resigned that position ned will turn his attention in an- other direction. He has made the local columns of the Cracker apdr- hie with his bright wit and solid common sense We wish him much happiness nil prosperity in his new field, and are satisfied he achieve them. The Boston Herald remarks that 1 He e hi* mg events f i.rsot of current current nibiorj hislorv Iiavo been largely the work of live journalists. ’' But for don. B.rni- J toiqthe . honored dean of r the corps of M-usl.i„ H ,on corrospondo,.ts, U.e» would have been no national park mi the battlefield of Chieamauga ’ ami „ n .| nut lot f .lournaiist Ts.,.rnniiuf Henry Ii.nnr \v (Irrnlv ‘ there would bnvn ‘ been no ‘ Y. eotton exposition ot » 1881, , and ,, but for tor that tint exposition exposition as as an an insmra mspira- tio’n to Grady 8 associates and sue- fiessoffrmi the Atbuitnronstitiition ’ there would hate been . no interna- 4; nnn i ovniwbirtii J ,,f ‘ "• Tho Now York Sun sees South¬ ern prosperity in tho near future. In a late issue it says: “Tho South is now only in tho beginning of its progress. It is taking the first steps merely in a forward march, which m twenty years to come w ill have carried it so far beyond whore it now is that its present advance¬ ment will seem slight compara¬ tively. Tho Southern States have the area and resources whose de- velopment requires- a population so much greater than they now have Unit when the knowledge of the opportunity extends and is inviting hy Southern enterprise, immigration will pour in rapidly.” Mr. Joseph M. Burry, an Alder- man in the city council of Athens - committed suicide at his residence in that city, on Wednesday morn¬ ing of fast week,- by shooting him¬ self through tho brain. No cause is known for the commission of the rash deed, except that he had been in bad health foTa year or so phst. H*' was possessed of considerable means. Wo knew Joe Barry well •*—having been raised together al- most, from small boys—and no kinder, truer, more ed hoy or man ever lived. ing tragicdeath will he deeply true regretted Hv a large 6 circle of outside of his relatives. Peace— peace to his ashes! At the special election for Con- gressman, hold in the Tenth dis- triot last Wednesday, Hon. J. C. C. Black, the Democratic Candidate was triumphantly elected—his ma- jority being 1,602 votes. This was Fn spite of the fact that in Lincoln county about 700 Populists were permitted to vote who had register- od illegally, because there was not sufficient time to cite them to ap- pear befoPb the board of registrars according to law. Although he is threatening Contest again, we are satisfied little Tommie Watson had better accept the inevitable mid 1 subside. The best thing for him to do politically, w'ould tie crawl-into a hole and pull the hole in after him. The Athens Evening News says ph, iclnn mg m the statesmanship and wisdom of intelligent Ameri- cans, it is concluded that the masses a.e able to revolutionize, purify and elevate the existing mAthndo ” i^vnilinn 1 ‘ I gib , 1 .ition. . r e it can be done by ignoring claims and importunities of pro-' fessional politicians and ehreric office-seekers, and selecting o'inrnvL men of known nrobitVof 1 ' : con- Histency ami , ted patriotism, .• exa . fresh from the ranks of the people, to fill official positions. Let the office seek tho man, «nd abrogate »hd disregard theclaimrof every man who seeks' the office. The bane of American polities is the craze engendered to hold cffic^ re- - « gjvomment will become clean and Sum lost , WATSON WILL CONTEST. “ Tom v\ ritBDli s organ, the i ( eople> . Parly Pai^r. published in Atlanta. remarks the Columbus Enquirer- Sun. announces that the election tin ’ t„ tl I t 1 \ •• - in , *n .1 < is r.c "1 f <m tested. 1ms may be taken as au- thorit « tiv< *- The Paper says: “ 1 he frauds committed in this elec- lion o^he in Richmond 1 demand^thsTwecon- and Hancock conn- j r count ies ,.,t this election before a committee of 4 ingress he in the interest 'Y of baiiot re-1 °T t ; ," th 1 he frauds in this election, . .• judg- ■ , ing from reports from the district. were hlist mainly committed in Hie Pop- ! counties After demanding a registration law which would pro- tect the ballot box from a horde of i illegal voters, it appears from the registration lists in various conn- ties where the Populists are strong, hundreds of names were illegally placed on them. These were verv proper] v t hrown cut: bv those au- thorized to do so. rpl Lius . is . tneclnet , , . ~ ground upon which Tom Watson will ... before , e the ,, T> Republican r* Con- go gross and ask to be seated. Mr " alson . 18 . on , v m - ills .. reCKORing. 1 • Yt It . ^ * ' } ”, the methods “ employed 1 A, l,,,th sldes . thselectlm, ; . . tho m Tenth district in 1894 were widely d but the frauds neroe- ’ tU1< , . ,loln committ'-u*, , w <re wip- . O’" ed out h 7 th0 agreomeflt mto for a I,ew el, ... *ction. T It , was agreed at this time that tho election shoulcl . ... be a fair c . one, and that the sh(mld {)0 j eft to the legal ° voters ot the country, ^o or tar as we can judge, the Democrats car- He 11 Al d out UUL this 11118 agreement d » reeiU0I1L to 1<J the let- 10t tor. There is no record of frauds or attempted , frauds . on their . part during the recent election, and its general conduct by Democratic managers entitles them to a full recognition of their purpose and their efforts to have a fair election. Tho result as shown by the official returns gives Horn J. C, C. Black a majority of 1,602 votes out of a total poll of 19,022 votes in the en¬ tire district. We do not believe the Fifty-fourth Congress,-although Re¬ publican, will show the Populist contestant any favor, although Mr, Watson is quoted ais having said just prior to the election: “I am defeated, but a Republican Con- gress will seat me.” When the Congressional committee examine facts, wo believe they will re¬ commend that Mr. Black be per¬ mitted to keep his seat. WILES OF THE DEMAGOGUE. No word is so much upon the tongue of the demagogue a>r people, remarks’ the Augusta Chronicle. By this, however, he does not wish to indicate the great body of the population counted by the head, He does not mean to indicate the mon , b 3 ’^ose ,, . la , jot % and money the ; Cimntry ls lcept He does \ "t “ indlCate fcl \ e 1 Sbbef, thinking men wuo „ attohd to their own business and are willing to trust the management of public affairs t.o officers’selected with their wisest judgment. These all are so I far out of the range of his consul- Nation and approval that he will not class them as of “the people.” Those upon whom he bestows this distinction may not be described as a base and ignoble rabble. There may be aniOfUg them some persons °f good sense and of good inten- lions. All of those who follow bad leaders are not m the beginning j bad. It is, however, from no lack of effort on the part of those lead- ers if «ich of the followers does not ! become virtually os bad as himself. The demagogue always starts out " ith seductive arts of flattery— " i^ 1 avowals of the utmost disin- ( terestedness, and with the assurance that nothing-save'a love for those whom he wishes to benefit would he knows that such arts will most readily influence. The classes with whom prejudices are most runner- U he'regards us and nowerfnl aro-thmae vrlinm b as b specially pec lain nttea fitted loi for Jus purposes. The topics upon which he can readily excite their passions are not far to «eek The u^ide and “varied' in eo V lence of the rich and the 1 forms of - oppressing’the , poor which moneyed men devise is a theme which will always command eager listeners Thus the dissatisfied the envious, the jealous form the bu!k of .. tbe peop i e '- whose allegi*- a nee h0 secures by assuring them that he is the one man who appre- c i a t es their wrongs and- is willing lieve 11 c c tnat thTt thev the are are “the the people neohle” 1 , whom somebody is trying to de- - ceive all the time. He would not have it t»ecur to them that he is |)j mae ]f the thief deceiver and that wh ii e professing to save them from th^rh.f TYA.'YJ .... T.;* ° „„ n 11 m a tdr more misciile , tOlis deception: The “people” constitute the tools with which the demagogue operates 1 “ Ule . which , . , he lus . _ pieces moves on c ^ e8S_ ' K ^ ar< ^* All the time, how- e \er, it is his continuous and most effective cry that others are trying ' to do just J what he is doing. w _ Corbett and Fitzsimmons, if they tight at all, will have to find some more congenial clime than Texas 111 " bicti to locate their proposed ‘'mill.’ r \ he Legislature of that State one day last week, by a prae- tically unanimous vote, adopted a law forbidding prize fighting. The Governor had called an extra ses- sion of the Legislature to act 011 this special matter. -- No Divorces in SoutH C&rolina. After a prolonged debate the South < arolina constitutional „ . convention ... 1ms tleoitle'd to stand by the time-honored P°ticv “ of the State in the matter of di- , W, it was the tne sentiment senument of ot he co » vent,on that no divorce should be granted for any cause wliatever. The debate was full of interest. On the one side ifc was contended that the Caro- lina was due to the sacred ness'of the relation, and to the practical carrying out of the rule that husband and wife should take each other tor bet- ter or worse until death parted them. The other side argued for divorce On serl'oturai scriptural pound irroand of ot adultery adulterv but but lL Was "dliout a\ail. It came out in the discussion that nearly every news- paper in the State, nearly every preach- *r and the majority of the people op- v P°^ ed . a dhor ce ] , aw. South Carolina is the only State in . the Union in which it is ilnpossib | e t0 obtain a divorce. It has been so from the first, with the exception of a brief period of carpetbag rule. In those evil days alien legislators forced a divorce law upon the commonwealth, but it was very unpopular,and its provisions were taken advantage of only by persons front other States and the negro pop- ulation. The. moment the whites re- gained control they repealed the odious j aw< if the South Carolinians go to ex¬ tremes in this matter they err on the side of virtue. It is better to have no divorces than to allow them upon the numerous and loose grounds permitted in other States. In some parts of the country the marriage tie rsf hardly re- spected, because it is so easy for men and women to get rid of it and con¬ tract new alliances. Under such a sys¬ tem people are careless in selecting their partners for life, whereas in South Carolina it is regarded as a very seri¬ ous business. The young men and wo¬ men and their parents in that State know that marriage is a solemn thing and that its bonds cannot be broken. Naturally, this makes society more guarded in its conduct toward stran¬ gers. Handsome and magnetic adven¬ turers knock in vain for admission into the society circles of Charleston and other cities in South Carolina. A man’s credentials must be something more tlian * us outward appearance and a well filled pocket book. Before people ad- mit him t0 the ir firesides and intro- duce him to their daughters they want to know just who and what he is, and all about his antecedents. Still it must be admitted tliat it works a hardship in some cases for a woman to be compelled to remain the wife of a man who turns out a felon, a brutal rascal or a notoriously unfaithful hus- band. But this makes a woman all the nior « caretul to select the right man for a husband. Whatever may be thought of the wisdom of South Carolina’s pol¬ icy in’this respect, it must be said that for pure morality her husbands and wives cannot be surpassed by those of any civilized country in the world 5 .’ One thing, however, ought to be done, South Carolina should be liberal enough to recognize the divorces granted in other States, even in cases where a per¬ son goes from that State to another and gets the courts to release 1pm from his matrimonial obligations. In sbhh ease's thine should be no legal ban upon the parties or their children by later mar¬ riages if they should return to South Carolina.—Atlanta Constitution. Patronize Home Merchant*. The Rome Tribune has the following sensible editorial, which applies with equal force to Toccoa and - all other live and progressive towns, and therefore we c °Py it: facilities for transportation that they are enabled to ship goods he?e and sell them at as reasonable prices as they caff anywhere. For that reason the people ot <*>•">'* will Bad P to their tn- teresi - to patronize home merchants. There is no reason nor sense in going abroad to do your shopping when yoffr home merchants offersucb inducements ' I4 their well selected’ afcfi low*' prifred *»"**• The dr - v Roods ,nen have laid in the most beautiful stocks of stylish and seasonable goods ever brought to the city. They advertise liberally and sbheit your trade.- Give it to them and hel P build up your town. ri>en. at h°„,e increases the * an<1 re lrns to he hands of the spender in a short time.- Money spent in markets anff trade centres is din^n! h° I C resuirrces 1 our spendeV! & and does not return to the The tbeir ur Ke upon our people to spend money at hottte and help support borne institutions. f>u*inees in the South. Reports to the Manufacturers’ Keo- ' urd s * ,ow that the high price of cotton is neatly stimulating the business in- Crests of the South, and while purcha- of goods do not jet show any very large increase, merchants and business nieh generally are anticipating a great hnprovemont in all dire’cJohs. It is ^tinmted that the higher price of cot- run as compared with last year and the increase in grain production will make a net difference to Southern farmers of over $100,000,000 as compared with In iron interests there is considerable elation in Birmingham over the cess of the use of pig Iron made in that district in the manufacture of basic steel - The president of the Sloss Iron ‘“III YT’ °/ savs . “I think the successful manufacturer of basic pig and its sale and use by the be^ steel manufacturers in the l nited b to thU di8trict tion ’with that would have no trouble iii making basic pig. it had not been demonstrated. Its complete demon- stration will, in uiy judgment,cause in the early future the building of a large plant here ami I feel confident tHat vve will demonstrate that Binning- ham can manufacture basic steel more cheaply than any other point in the world ’ I ust as we have demonstrated that we could beat the world in the manufacture of pig iron for foundry purposes ” Ihelistotindustnalenterprisesre- for the while . ported week, coveringa eludes a $50,000 cotton mill in South Carolina, a $100,000 grain mill in Ar- ?. ai ? sas , a furniture factory, electric light and waterworks in Georgia, a <^,000 lumber mill in Mississippi, a $50,000 quarry company in North Car- olina, an ice plant and a twine mill in South Carolina, j a $50,000 ’ electric light plant and a floi r niill in Tennessee, ar- ra ngements for the development of sul- pbur mines in Texas, a $100,000 coal company and a $50,000 cotton seed oil mill company in the same State, a $150,- 000 furnace company, 100 coke ovens and a $100,000 gold mining company in Virginia, Wedded to Work'.’ There is no task so hard as one in which we have no interest or sympa- Giy* The only way to achieve success is to b come wedded to one’s work. ^"ippiness is an elusive quality. When most sought after it is hardest to real- lze ’ When least considered as the end and sum of your labor it comes most- sw i ttly and surely. The great secret of contentment is to live lull up to every moment 5f ex¬ istence. The past belongs to memory, the future to dreams. The present is the only real life. Therefore, if one will but cultivate a habit of living tru¬ ly up to every requirement of existence, I happiness will lollow in a series of ! swee t surprises that will prove dearer 1 than the wealth of all the earth. Our complex natures are so constitu¬ ted that we are happiest when in per¬ formance of some task or the fulfillment of some duty. Work is good for the body and good for the mind. It sus¬ tains the spiritual and mental capacity. Ldleness is a thief that robs the soul of its ehiefest treasures, contentment and a clear conscience. The gospel of work is the hand-book of happiness. It is the foundation of all creeds and the ground work of true faith and truthfulness. Where you find people hardest at work there you find them enjoying the most pleasing luxuries. The courtship may be filled with anxieties, but once wedded to your work the most formidable prob- lem of hie is solved. The New York Sun very sarcastically says: “We have official news from Havana that the ‘Spanish government has un- ch*r consideration a plan for the moral and material pacification of Whenever there is an uprising in Cuba we learn that Spain is considering a plan for that purpose. During the ten years’ war she got up a plan that look¬ ed promising, to be put into effect as soon as the insurgents laid down their arms; but it was shelved when the but- j cher Valmaseda had completed his \C6fk.-and that was the last of it. The i only plan for the moVa! and material pacification of Cuba ever put into exe- cution by Spain has been that of the the bayonet and the garrote. As soon as Martinez Campos reached Ha- vana last spring he gave notice that he had a pacifying plan, which he would hold in reserve; - and - thereupon he be¬ gan the work of - carnage. Cuba can never be pacified while Spain holds her in bonds.'” About 2.000 persons in’ France are marked as anarchists and are constant- j ly watched by the police of the various European countries, according to ; Germany and Russia with 240 each, j -Austria and Belgium with 60 each. As regards occupation shoemakers, car- i penters and day laborers of all nations furnish large proportions of the anar- ; chists, while the educated classes hard- 4' appear. German tailors and'print- ! ers,Swiss watch makers and Italian clerks and bankers, and French I waiters and persons without avowed T lne *f te ” d T" those of other nationalities. ; sians differ from all the others in i her cent, of the persons under sur- veillance are students, another 30 per cent, professional men and’hardly 1 ”° education, It has been stated, backed'up by con- elusive statistics, that if Texas were put to the test she would be able to supply the whole world with of the L u,ted states was i,o94,o03 bales. Last year the cotton crop of Texas alone was 3,275,853 bales. There are in New York a dozen or more restaurants, most of them buffet lunch rooms, whose proprietors assume that all men ?Te honest artd thereby save money, Alters are employed in these lunch ro'ems. The patrons help themselves, and a table of prices, lettered on or behind the counter, give each one 1 he information necessary to make out his own bill. There is no one to spy on him, and as he goes out be steps at the cashier's desk and pays what he owes. Such restaurants,says the New York Sun. are a mystery to rural visitors, who look upon New York as a very Kicked place, filled with bunco men and muscular thiigs, wlio spend their time in sandbaggingcountryiben on side streets. That any mail should .™ wh ?* ,tb in Mture seems to the average country- men. When he comes to New York he is pretty sure to visit one of these eve¬ ry-map-his-own-waiter restaurants, lb out it There te onle aucl^restaurant iu the lower part of New York that takes in between $500and $1,000 a day. The manager of it says that experience has taught him that not one man in a thousand tVili fttteihfit to cheat such a restaurant. “I know men,” he said, who would never think of correcting an undercharge made by a waiter, and yet when they go to one of these buffet lunch places they are scrupulously bonest. Now, ho^.do you account for that? Our profits depend on it, because it does awajr with waiters.” (CORRESPONDENCE;. Tufialo. Sheriff Cribble his wife and Miss Genie Carte r, of Clarkesville, visited in onr settle- meat last week. The Sunday school at Rock Creek iias vaea- I led u "bl tee 2^t Sunday in April, ’96. Mr Joseph Fricks and wife, of Ft-Madison, | S. C. visitee their home place last week, j Mr Bad Harbert and wife, of Walhalla, S. C. were visiting in Tugalo last week. The early frost has bit a great deal ot the late corn and cane. Cotton will make about half a crop this season. OneofMr. John Mills’ children is very tihs week- Unci.s Jack. Exhibition at Ited Hill Academy. Cn Friday afternoon last I left Toi coa and went down to Red Hill academy, in Franklin county, to attend the entertainment to he given that evening by the pupils of Miss Ella Davis’ school at that place. There was a lr’rg’e crowd of people pre'ewt to witness the exercises, and at their conclu¬ sion the unanimous verdict rendered was that it bac’ been a most complete and enjoyable occasion. The exercises consisted of declamations, e says, dialogues, recitations, &c., by the stu¬ dents, and all were rendered in such a man¬ ner as to reflect the highest credit both upon the pupils and their accomplished instructor; Mis- F.lla Davis- The program was nppropiiately inter-pe- sed and enlivened by strains of sweet music from the Carncsville brass hand and from a string band which was also in a'tendance. At the conclusion of the program Rev W. A. Cooper delivered a mos instructive and interesting address on the genera 'subject of education, whieli was listened to very atten¬ tively by the large audience. I had the pleasure of meeting many old and valued friends at the entertainment, and after spending a short time in conversation with them after it was closed, I left for Tocooa, feeling gfad that I had had the pr viiege of attending it. II. J. (J- Seed Short-Stops. Done foddering for this year. Three large frosts—Sept. 30tn and Oct. 1st and 2d. Farmers are beginning to turn their stub ble Mr. T, W. Spencer, who was shot some days ago, may prove to be fatally hurt yet, as is suffering very much and they think gan¬ grene has taken plaee. We learn that Mr. B. T. Fry, who left for Knoxville last week, returned last Monday on account of si ikness. Mr. M. A. Wester spent some days in D. last week. Mr. D. R. Fry has sold his syrup mill to Mr. W. H. Alley, near Alley’s Chapel. We learn tbit the school will start at New Liberty op'Monday morning next. A Sunday sc hool was organized at Macedo¬ nia last Sunday morning. The protracted services held at Macedonia for nine days and nights was attended by a large crowd and much interest was taken in the meeting. There were 21 converts, who will be baptized next fourth Sunday morning at 9 o’clock, by the pastor of the church, Rev. L. L. Free. The Sunday school at New Liberty ehurch has aoout 50 enrolled and thc-average attend¬ ance is about 36. We have good singing and very good lessons, and the school is by no means a drag. Oct. 5th, 1895. J. F. INSURANCE BROKER WANTED To represent the {Reliable pice (Underwriters. able Applications for gin house risks at reason¬ rates soiieind Addi-ess W. S. MONTEITH General MaftageR Columbia. S. C. * jUB, “ SNEL^'A'N YU. OJEce over Matheson Merchandise Co.’s store °“ ^ ***“• T0CC0A, GEORGIA. ATTENTION! time is Mosey- save time and M iKE MONEY BY BUYING THE PERFECTED M Georgia” Pea and Bean xp F. T. WALLER, Please mention tics Clarkesville, Ga. paper. .-eptl‘3 3m m mm hbwb * TOCCCA. 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