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Official organ of County of Decatur
Official organ of County of Miller
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li UXBRIDGE, GA., SEPT. 1, 1892.
The Democratic legion are march
ing steadily onward to a grand and
glorious victory in November
Bight will triumph.
A few cases of cholera have been
reported in the United States. Ev
ery necessary precaution should be
taken to prevent its spread in this
country.
“I don’t give rebels in the south
vouchers. I would rather furnish
rope to hang every d—n one of
them.”—General James 15. Weaver,
People party candidate for presi
dent.
The worst enemy to the farmer
is the pestiferous little office seek
er, who is constantly stirring up
strife between the city and country
people :—Augusta Chronicle.
Truer words were never spoken.
The Dawson News says that the
third party people in the Second
congressional district are not
hopeful as they were, but they will
hold a convention in Albany, Sep
tember 1., to nominate a candidate
for congress against Bn Russell.
Social Equality.
We take the following from the
News of the 27th :
“Mr. Watson’s speech at Sparta
Thursday resulted in an incident
which droved quite sensational
its charactor. About 2 o’clock
while Mrs. Roberts, who runs the
hotel, was in her dining room
superintending the serving of din
ner, a large negro man marched
boldly into the room. Mrs. Robert:
was taken with surprise upon see
ing him told him he must
leave. The negro replied that he
would not, for his leader, Mr. Wat
son. has said that the color line had
been wiped out; that he was on
the same footing with white peo
ple, and could come to the hotel if
he liked. Mrs. Roberts told him
he could go to Mr. Watson’s house
and do as he liked, but could not in
her hotel. Finally, it was necesa
ary for a policeman to remove the
negro. Mrs. Roberts was for Wat
son Thursday morning, but she is
now as strong a democrat as is in
the ranks of the old party. Mr
Roberts saw Mr. Watson afterward
and told him no amount of money
could induce her to favor him, and
also, that it was just such men as
he and others who went around the
country talking to poor, ignorant
negroes, that made them insult
ladies.”
The better class of the colored
people cannot be duped into join
ing the Third party. They will
ignore the propositions of the dis
gruntled politicians because they
know that they could not possibly
be benelitted by such men being in
power.
Farmers should turn their atten
tion more to diversified farmin'
Since the production of cotton has
proven to be un-re munerative
many farmers will be compelled by
necessity, to diversify their crop
more. Begin to think and plan for
another year.
W. A. Pledger made a speech in
Covington a day or two ago. He
said as there would bo no republi
can candidate for governor, he
would vote for Governor Northen,
as lie knew him to be a friend of
the colored man. lie advised his
hearers not to vote for the third
party candidate.
The Southern Alliance Farmer,
steeped in third partyism, abound
ing in vile abuse of the democratic
party, is being scattered among the
alliancomen of Georgia. It is do
ing all the harm it can. How long
will alliancemon be misled'by this
third party publican?
flow if Work*.
The cotton producers of the
United States sell their cotton in
free trade market and then pay
protective tariff of fifty j>ei cent on
nearly all the cotton goods they’
buy.
Statistics show that for the last
fiscal year the exports of cotton
fabrics from the United States
amounted in value to $13,605,857.
having fallen off somewhat from
the exports of the previous year
under the obstructive influence of
the tariff. These exports consisted
almost wholly of uncolorod and
unbleached cotton cloths.
Outlie other hand, the imports
of cotton goods during the year
amounted in value to $28,323,72;’
and consisted almost entirely of
printed and painted cloths, knit
goods, laces, embroideries and oth
er articles of highly finished pro
duclion. Upon these imports of
cotton goods American consumers
were obliged by the McKinley
tariff to pay an average duty of 50
per cent. The effect of the
creased duty has been to stimulate
the efforts of foreign manufactur
to produce articles to suit the
tastes of this market. Upon do
mcstic production of cotton goods
the-tariff has just the opposite ef
fect. While every variety of fine
cotton goods come in, none but
coarse and cheap cotton fabrics can
go out.
“Peek's slavery bill” discrimi
nates against the tenant in favor
of the landlord. In an indictment
for breach of contract the landlord,
under the bill can testify, but ten
ant, being a defendant cannot.
Thus the poor man is made infer
ior to the rich man before the law.
The introduction of such a bill in
the legislature was a blow directed
at the agricultural laboring classes
and the poor tenant. Vet Farmer
Peek now seeks the votes of tho:
classes to elect him governor of
Georgia.
The bulk of the new crop of
Havana tobacco will not be in con
dition to work for at least two
months yet. This tobacco is more
gummy than usual, owing to the
long drouth. At this season the
bulk of the crop is usually well
cured and ready for working, but
this year it is very bad—not on
account of quality, but because of
the length of the drouth, which
made it impossible to cure it. The
tomprano tobacco is full of green
spots while the medio tiempo
very nice, but as stated before, it
will take a few months to cure.
Light colors, shading from Colorado
up, are scarce, and it is feared that
in the curing light leaves will be
come still darker.—Tobacco Leaf.
Tlic 3ifpro in Politics*
There is a good deal written in
the newspapers now about the Ne
gro in politics. It is the Republi
can organs, however, that are giv-
themselves the most concern
about the Negro in politics. Here
in Democratic Georgia neither the
Negro nor his white friends are
ng themselves any trouble
about the Negro in politics. The
truth of the whole business is that
the Northen Republicans have com
menced to realize, after so Ion
time, that the Southern Democrats
can control more Negroes than the
emmissaries of the faithless “grand
old party” can, and that’s just wha
pesters them now about the Negro
politics. The Negroes them
selves are beginning to learn from
experience who their best and only
al friends are, and they are no
longer the deluded, willing dupes
of the carpet-baggers that they
were when they were being fooled
by such promises as the mythical
“forty acres and a mule.”—Herald.]
Elsewhere we give a bill intro
duced by Lieutenant Peek, the man
whom it is said run out of the first
fight he got into and hid behind a
log during the war.
Lieutenant Peek is now runnin
for governor under title of Col.
Lieutenant Peek it is said re
signed to keep from beingcashierd.
The Lieutenant introduced a bill
when he was a member of the
legislature. As he is now asking
the colored people to vote for him,
perhaps it would be well for them
to see that bill and how it would
have affected them and how he felt
when be was nothing but a left-
euaut and didn’t need their vote
Of course the Lieutenant has re
pented for that bill, or he will tell
the colored people so.—Ex.
The Trade ’Indr.
Harry Edwards, one of the hesi
posted men in Georgia, sends the
following special to the Macon
Evening News from Sparta :
I have it direct from a prominent
state official whohimself will short
ly charge it up on the stump that
the long talked of fusion between
the third party and the republican?
of Georgia lias at last been formal
ly accomplished. The trade is that
the republicans will support all
third party candidates for con
gress and state offices and the third
party will -apjiort the national
ticket.”
Can it be saved J
When the State Alliance conven
tion of Tennessee met last Tuesday
it was discovered that only fifty-
three counties were represented
against eighty-three last year, and
the membership of the order re
presented in the convention wa-s
only 7,200, against 28, 1 OCX) last year.
The facts stated by President
Livingston in his address to the
alliance convention of Georgia, re
cently in session in Gainesville,
show that the disaster brought upon
the order by the events of the last
year has been little less serious in
tiiis state than in Tennessee. Mr.
Livingston showed by the official
records that last year $11,000 was
paid in dues and this year only $0,-
000; was the membeers of the or
ders then numbered more than 36,
000 and now only 13,000. At the
height of its prosperity, it will be
remembered, before it began to
take part in politics, the order had
trength of 80,000 in Georgia.
The truth seems to be that the
alliance is now a mere shadow,
caused by the fact that it has fallen
largely into the hands of the Third
partyites and is being used for their
own political advancement and not
for the good of the members of the
order.
It was thought at Gainesville last
week that the order had been res
cued from the hands of the politi
cians by the conservative members
and that it would march on to bet
ter achievements, but recent de-
lopments show that the men who
are in the order for the good it may
do have been deceived.
Colonel Ellington, who is the
new president, is a strong Third
party man, as are the other newly
elected officers, but upon takiDg
the oath of office the president pro
mised, with the other officers, to
steer the order clear of politics. A
resolution was also passed pro-
hibting the further preaching of
Third party doctrine in the South
ern Farmer, the alliance organ.
These resolutions and pledges
seem to amount to nothing, how
ever, for in a very recent interview
with the Atlanta Herald Colonel
Ellington strongly intimates that
he will continue to encourage alli-
ancemen to become Third party
ites, and says the paper will con
tinue the same attitude it has held
heretofore and pursue the same
line of policy.
Those who love the order for the
good it may do as an unpartisan
league of farmers have food for
serious thought furnished them in
the figures given by the late presi
dent and the intimation the new
president has given of the policy to
be pursued by him. Iftliey would
save it they must act quickly.—
Alliance Paper.
The Farmer ill Colitics
We have received a letter from
an alliancemen from which we take
the following extract:
I agree with The Constitution
fully about its position towards the
third party. I am sure this new
departure has.done more harm to
the alliance than all its enemies,
but I do not agree with the argu
ment of others, that the alliance
should not have anything to do
with politics. How else can the
farmer assert his rights hut at the
ballot box ?
The writer is correct in his posi
tion about politic.-. It is better for
the country and for all classes that
the farmer should-take a stron
hand in politics—the truth is they
have in the past paid too little at
tention to the politics of the country
and designing men have taken ad
vantage of them and passed law
that utterly ignored their interests,
But this does not justify the farm
ers in permitting another elas* of
designing men to use their organ!
zation in building up a special
party, simply to put themselves
into fat offices, when they have no
qualification, except to go over the
country and howl about what they
expect to do, when any man with
a spoonful of brains knows it i
impossible and impracticable to
carry out their schemes. Nothin
was working better for the interests
of the farmers in the state than the
alliance until this third party craze
was injected into the organization
by ambitious men who saw the
strength of the movement and
wanted to utilize its force to gratify
their ambition.
The farmers were stronger
side of the democratic party than
they will ever be with any other
party, because the principles of the
democratic party are more in har
mony with the demands of the
farmers than are those of any other
political party that ever existed in
this country.
The fundamental principle of
the alliance—“Equal rights to all
and special privileges to none”—
was announced first by Thomas
Jefferson, the father of the demo
cratic party, in his first inaugural
Centralized government the world
over is death to the farmers’ liber
ties. Take Russia, in which all
power is centralized, Banking rail
roads—everything, even the land,
is controlled by a central power.
The farmers are serfs and many
to-day are dependent on the chari
ty of other governments to keep
them from starvation, while they
all as a class are in the lowest
depths of poverty. Yet we have
men to-day in Georgia who are
trying to fool the farmers by get
ting their assistance to do the same
thing with our country, and put
our farmers in the same fix, and
are calling upon them to ignore the
grand old democratic principle of
home rule.
Lot the farmer take an interest
in politics; let him hear and read
all that is said, all that comes his
way, and by all means let him vote
for men he can trust, who will not
deceive him to get an office, and
ho will not dishonor the office
after begets it.
Men who will deceive one party
ill deceive another, and-men who
are so anxious for office that they
can have no time for anything else
but to seek it, are not safe men foi
the farmers nor for any class. Let
the farmers study politics and
they cannot be fooled by every
little agitator who wants to ride in
office on their hacks.—Constitu
tion.
Cleveland is the only man who
has been in the executive chair
since the war who has had the
courage to veto a general pension
bill in the face of a demand to sign
it by the representatives in Con
gress. But the Reed Congress
came on and passed it. Harrison
signed it and what has been the
result? It cost us $19,000,000 this
year. Do you know that every
man, woman and child in Georgia
is paying $2.50 a year for pensions ?
Do you know that there are 1,000,-
000 pensioners on the rolls and they
are being increased at the rate of
1,000 a day? I am. in favor of
pensioning the gallant soldiers who
saw service on the field,but not the
camp followers and bummers.—
Crisp’s Atlanta sp- eeh.
Ynd yet the Third party is rais-
; Cain because, they claim, that
Cleveland won’t give them' free
silver, which Tom Watson says will
only give them 30 cents per capita
rnoro circulation. If this don’t look
like “strainingat a gnat and swal
lowing a camel,” then we don’t un
derstand the situation.
Saving-And Curing Tobacco.
Pinch a leaf near the end of the
stalk and if it shows no sap, go to
stripping.
When assorting keep an eye
single for the bright, glossy wrap
pers.
No matter what a tobacco agen
(who wants your crop for i
song) tells you. Do your own sort
ing and by no means put long and
short, bottom and top leaves, and
dark and light all in a mass. If
you do, you are rigging up a plan
that’will sell your crop all for low
grade.
Make frequent tests of your to
bacco in shape of cigars. Try until
you find that your tobacco shows
up a long, smooth white ash and
will hold fire from four to eight
minutes without puffing—then and
not until then you can really con
sider that your tobacco is in a
marketable shape.
Lap the tips of the leaves when
bulking away. Use a nice clean
box and be sure that the buts are
all turned outward and do not
touch either side of the box. Have
plenty of boxes and put each grade
in a separate box and keep the box
off of the ground.
Roll your tobacco into a cigar,
take a few whifts; if it burns with
a black ash it is no good. At pre
sent we arej growing too many
kinds of tobacco and tho matter
must be remedied before another
seed bed is made. The Vuelta
Abajo is the tobacco to grow and
no mistake. Never sow a bed with
any other seed. Examine the crop
of your neighbor and if he has the
variety named secure seed of him
just as soon as it is ripe and put it
away carefully.
If any reader has a large hogs
head or two try this plan. When
you are ready to give give your
crop the final sweat make a some
what open tube a trifle higher than
the hogshead, place it in the center
then build the hands around it,
buts to the outside, points to the
center, leaving a space between the
buts and staves. This shaft will
serve as a chimney or flue and the
vapor of the sweating will pass off
through it and thus overheating to
a great exent will be prevented.
Insert a themometer in the chim
ney and try not to let it rise higher
than 98 degrees. That’s high
enough for any thermometer to
“act up” in Florida. About fifteen
days will be required togo through
this process if the weather is at all
favorable. When this is done you
can ivite the buyer to step into the
the barn and examine your work.
If you are a new beginner it may
not be to perfection but you will
learn and it will pay you to learn.
Here is where the money is—not
selling in the field or right after
stripping.—Floridian.
Citation-
GEORGIA—Decatur County:
Marv M. Autrey, guardian of John
Autrey, having applied to the Court o.
Ordinary of said county for a discharge
from her guardianship of John Autrey s
person and property, this is therefore,
to cite all persons concerned to show
cause by tiling objections in my
whv the said Marv M. Autrey shall not
receive the usual letters of dismission.
Given lijidcrmvofficialsignat.ire. luis
August 31st, 1892.
C. J. MrxxF.Bt.rx,
4t Ordinary.
Citation.
GEORGIA—Miller County:
Jas. F. Roberts, administrator of A.
G. Roberts, deceased, has in due form
applied to the undersigned for leave to
sell the lands belonging to the estate of
said deceased, and said application will
be heard on the fourth Monday in Sep
tember next, at my office. This 22nd
August, 1892. J. W. Cowart,
4t Ordinary.
Libel For Divorce.
GEORGIA—Decatur County:
Savanah Askew ( Libel for Divorce
„ s in Decatur Superi-
' s - ) or Court, Novem-
William Askew ( ber Term, 1891.
The Defendant, William Asken, is
hereby required personally or by at
torney to be and appear at the next
term of the Superior Court of Decatur
county to be held on the second Mon-
dav in November next, then and thero
to answer the libellant in her libel for a
total Divorce, as in default of such ap
pearance the Court will proceed as to
Justice shall appertain. Witness the
Honorable B. B. Bower Judge of said
Court this 30th day of August, 1S92.
C. W. AViMbereey,
2am-2m Clerk.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Miller County:
Will be sold by virtue of an order
from the Court of Ordinary of said coun
ty, between the legal hours of sale, be
fore the court house door, in the town
of Colquitt, on the first Tuesday in Oc
tober next, the following property to-
wit:
Lot of land No fifty-four (54) in 2titli
District of said county, containing four
hundred and fifty acres, more or less,
also the South half of lot of land No
twenty-seven (27) in 26th district of
said county, containing one hundred
and twenty-five acres, more or less.
Also lot of land No fifty-three in the
26th district of said county containing
two hundred and fifty acres, more or
less.
Also the East half of lot of land No
sixty-eight in 26th district of said coun
ty, containing one hundred and twenty
five acres, more less.
The last mentioned lot and half lot
sold subject to a claim in favor of the
Eastern Banking Company, versus A.
J. Bush and Lula Bush. Terms cash.
This August 22nd, 1S92.
W. S. Bush,
Administrator of A. J. Bush.
PROMISED REWARD I
Wi Blountfi Co
Having cast their lot with
the citizens of Decatur county,
and looking to the mutual inter
est of Planters and themselves
believe that the low price oi
cotton demands a reduction in
weighing charges to
10 CENTS PER BALE.
Believing that Planters will
appreciate the many advant
ages offered by us in a
Good Brick Warehouse,
Good Stables and Camp House,
free Lot and Water,
Polite and Prompt Attention,
Coupled with the great aid
offered at our Bank to hold
cotton or borrow money, and
keeping open warehouse all:
the year round we believe that I
they will appreciate these ad- I
vantages and encourage us by |
a liberal patronage.
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Ladies Vests at 8, 25 and 50e, regular price 10, :!5
Ties, plain toe at 65c, former prioe$i.lin. Ladies ibifnrdTi-
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Shoes $1.25, former price $1.75. These prices hold
1 oNLY S= Go°(i For Fifteen Dajs Onlj:
A Word to the Wise is .Sufficient.
To the Gents we will allow a.liberal discount on all -ood‘s
! Straw Goods, Gent’s Famishing Goods, Clothing,
j A large shipment of Fruit Jars just received. ). i ial Jars $1.25t.erd--J
$1.00 per doz; Jelly Glasses 50 cents per dozen. new iineoftrj
Shades, Lace Curtains and Poles at a reduced ,iric» *
On all Spring and Summer Goods wegive you the very low .: r.
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The Price of Tobacco.
Tobacco is bringing good prices
this year. The following, taken
from a late issue of tho Mt. Ster
ling (Ky.) Advocate, will show
that the weed is bringing in Ken
tucky:
The Bodmann House Thursday
offered some very good tobacco for
Jas. B. Boude, of Pendleton coun
ty. It obtained $38.00 and $23.00
per hundred. For C. L. Graves, of j
Yugusta, 1 at $30.00; for J. M.
Yrmstron, 4 at $29.00, $17.75, $26.00
and $24.00; for A. II. Ishmaei, $27.-
75; for Leslie Combs, Lexington,
Ivy., $24.75.
Now Kentucky does not raise as
fine grades of tobacco as is being
and can be raised in this section.
But even at Kentucky prices, our
farmers can make money.
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The Covington Star has a timely
editorial urging the third party
men to return to the democratic
fold. It says:
“Come back, doys, come back.
“It is never too late to do good,
unless you never do itat all. There
no possible chance for you to
elect your men to office, and so you
had better come back into the
democratic party before it Is too
late to do so.
“So far as the white element of
the third party is concerned, there
is no possible hope for it to increase
in numbers between this time and
the October election, for every
white man who is going into the
third party did so during the “fer
mentation” in politics, last spring,
and was left in it when things set
tled down into their present status.
“There is consequently no new
changes from the democratic ranks
into the third party since that up
heaval took place; hut, on the con
trary," many democrats who went
out during the “fermenting” period
have seen the error of their ways
and have returned to their allegi
ance as good and loyal democrats.”
Tlic Most Magnificent Stock Ever Exhibited South of I
Macon and West of Savannah in the State.
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stealiug goods, but 1 was not caught,
We donot steal all of our goods, but there is no
soon we will be arrested for selling goods so
telling
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New Advertisements.
Citation.
GEORGIA—Decatur County:
To all whom it may concern: T. B, I r
Gremmer, administrator of R. J ~
mer, deceased, has in due form
to the undersigned for leave _
real estate belonging to the estate of
said deceased, ana said application will
be heard on the first Monday in October
next. This August 30, 1892.
C. J. Musseri.vs,
4t . Ordinary.
TUOMASVILLE . GEOHUIA
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Citation-
GEORGIA—Decatur County:
To all whom it may concern: Wil
liam H. Williams having in proper form
applied to me for letters of administra
tion on the estate of Alexander M. Wil
liams, late of said county, this is to cite
all and singular the creditors and next
of kin of said A. M, Williams to be and
appear at my office on tho first Monday
in October, and show cause, if any they
can, why permanent administration
should not be granted to said William
II. Williams on said A. M. Williams’
estate. Witness my hand and official
signature, this August 30,1891
C. J. MCJfSBBLYIt, L.
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