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A Financial Conundrum That Drove a
Man to His Grave.
From tlie Pittsburg Times.
Yon tire a financier. I am not,
hut I had a friend who died of a finan
cial conundrum, and although it is
too late to do him any good, I would
like to know tho answer.
He' was n good fellow, poor fellow,
hut he was unlucky. Besides, he was
n good deal of a fool.
He invested all his own money and
some more in Gloriad mining stock,
lie saw a great deal about it in a
newspaper of great former morality
and much'previous virtue. Undid
not stop to r.otc that the stock was
!)5 per cent or more below par, nor
inquire if anybody controlling the
financial columns of that paper had
been presented with a block of Gloriad
stock. He didn’t do anything but go
and blow in his savings in Gloriad.
The stock took a tumble before he
did, and at the round up he found
himself with a lai'gc hlock of Gloriad,
which nobody wanted, and no money.
His wife died, and his only son, who
had been brought up in the expecta
tion of luxury, went to the bad.
Believing still that even-a mining
stock which could get quoted and
noted every day in the paper that
uso|l to be honest when his grandfather
rend it, must have somo value, and
having nothing much to live for any
how, lie came out here to Texas to
investigate the condition of the Glor
iad enterprise.
His discoveries did not bring him
cither consolation or cash. He found
that tho nearer lie got to the supposed
miuc of wealth the smaller was the
demand for the slock entitling him to
a share in its munificent profits. Hav
ing embarked in the investigation^
"went biTiE.“'Tlie’ Turthei he went the
worse he fared. When he struck El
I’aso be had just one round, while
silver dollar left to bis name, and he
went and bought n drink with it.
The barkeeper took his American
dollar and handed hint a Mexican
dollar in change. A Mexican dollar
at that time was worth only eighty-
five cents in United States money.
There were rumors ot trouble betweeu
the two republics, growing out of
Indian raids and the pursuit of the
robbers from onff country into tho
other. A Mexican dollar was onty
worth eighty-five cents in Texas and
the United Stales dollar was worth
but eighty-five cents in Mexico. It
was early in the morning. Ho had
nothing to do with the rest of the day
or with the rest of his life, for that
matter. The Mexican eagle on his
last remaining coin suggest'd some
thing to his desperate fancy, and lie
wandered across to El I’aso Del Norte,
on the Mexican side. He bought a
drink of mescal there for fifteen cents,
laid down his Mexican dollar, and re
ceived an American dollar in exchange,
equivalent to eighty-five cents in Mex
ican money. He looked at the coin
and an idea struck him. It appealed
to his speculative humor.
He retraced his step to the Amer
ican side, walked into a saloon, called
for a drink of whisky, paid for it with
his solitary American dollar, which
lie had received in change on the
other side, and got a Mexican dollar
in change. This lie promptly carried
ove. 1 the line, bought a drink of mes
cal and got a United States dollar in
change. Then ho got to thinking.
Here was the situation. He had pre
cisely the same capital he started with
an hour before, and had distributed
(it) cents worth of liquor through his
system in the way of dividends. The
whisky and mescal were gone. They
were no further use to anybody.. The
visiblo supply of exhilerntiug bever
age had been absolutely diminished
to that extent. He had bought it at
the market price. Ho had paid for
it in cosh. He had all his original
capital still in his pocket. True, he
had contributed the labor ot walking
back and forth from tho Mexican to
the Texan side, and vice versa, but
that, as ho shrewdly decided, was
non-productive labor, ns far as the
interests of the public were concerned.
It earned nothing, for it added noth
ing to the supply of anything. He
might have walked back and forth
until the river ran dry without any
body being the better oil.
Here was n chance to gc!l even with
the section of country which had indi
rectly been the cause of his bank
ruptcy. Ho walked back to the
Texas side, bought another drink, got
a Mexican dollar in change, went back
to the Mexican town, got another
drink and n United States dollar in
change. He kept it up all day. He
picked up a stick and cut a notch in
it for every drink, ns the old Indian
fighters used to keep score of the scalps
they took, lie kept it up pretty
steadily all thnt day until closing-up
time, and set at it ngnin the next day
as soon as he could sec. He waxed
enthusiastic over his speculation, giv
ing n war-whoop nt every notch in his
stick.
But nt length lie got wondering
who was losing all this money. Ap
parently not tho bar-keepers. They
were getting the market rate for their
liquor. Surely not he, for he was
holding his own. The problem both
ered him. He was naturally a curi
ous man. Tho more he thought *of it
the more he drank; the more his head
swam round with perplexity, and the
more the subject in question became
complicated with extraordinary things
which reminded Jiim of the menagerie
lie had gone to sec when he wns a boy.
At length, when he lmd consumed
85.05 worth of Texas whisky, and 85
worth of Mexican mescal, he died in
frout of the saloon where he got the
fit-st drink, and with a silver dollar in
United States.coin in his pocket—died
of wondering who had lost the 810.05
worth of two kinds of liquor which
he had consumed, although the local
coroner said it wns delirium tremens.
But neither the coroner nor the jury
explained who lost the 810.05, and
that’s whnt I want to know.
A Disgusted Colored Republican.
Henry Kennedy, a colored man
from North Carolina, who was a Har
rison delegate to the Chicago conven
tion, has been in Washington trying
to secure the postmastership at New
born, N. C., for one ot his race. Mr.
Kennedy is evidently disgusted.
Hear what lie says:
,; I am disgusted; so arc the majority of
my people. I am going to speak my mind
when I get home, and tell the colored folks
thnt they need no longer look to the Repub
lican party for their salvation. We are only
to he given the crumbs, except in a tew in
dividual ea*c?, and white democrats who
promise to become republicans, are to he
given the fat places. There is absolutely
no use in fighting any longer to keep up a
republican organization. \ am in favor of
my people making speedy' terms with the
white people of the south, for in such a
course there lies the whole solution of the
race problem.”
Kennedy has been evidently
touched on the ‘'raw'’ by some of the
great lights of the republican party;
by the men who have been using him
and his race ns cat’s paws ever since
the war.
Getting Ready.
The deluded negroes of Liberty
county arc getting their nseension
robes in order for the lfith inst. That
is the time fixed by Bell, the false
Christ, when earthly things nre to be
wound up. ’Poor deluded wretches!
They have abandoned their crops,
nnd nre now barely subsisting, ex%
peeling, after the 16th, to be fed on
angel food. They will find themselves
hustling around after that date, trying
to get. a hoe-cake and n rasher of ba
con. This is the "angel food” they’ll
get. Their wings, and it is said a
goodly number of these have been
bought, with which to make the as
cension, will be useless. Instead, they
will be “striking the grit” in an effort
to reach some chicken roost. It is to
be hoped the lesson in’store for these
people will learn them some sense. •
Sunset Cox: "Last year our corn
crop was 2,000,000,000 bushels: It
was raised from 75,6G2,753 acres. It
would require 3,000,000 cars, with
over00,000 locomotives, In a traln^to
draw It to the sea hoard. It would
take a year to pass such a train
through Chicago.”
There is an inviting field for
"White Caps” in some sections of
Georgia. Wherever Mormon elders
nre found there should be some White
Caps. The lecherous scoundrels
should be hunted down by •■‘regula
tors”—if there is no law to reach
them. Drive them from the State.
The saloon keepers "over tlieBhine”
in Cincinnattii insisted on keeping
opeu on Sunday. The police mafffe
150 arrests. - The hoodlums in that
delectable locality attacked the blue
coats and a general scrimmage en
sued. The blue coats held the field.
A negro man in Liberty county
claims to be King Solomin. Now let
the Queen ol Sheba put in an appear
ance.
Protect the Sick.
The following bill, which has been
introduced in the legislature, or some
similar measure, should become a
law:
, “It shall he unlawful for the facility or
officers of any medical college in the Stale
of Georgia to grant or issue a diploma to
any student of medicine or other person,
unless sniff student or other person shall
have satisfied the faculty of his or her pro
ficiency in the English branches before at
tending medical lectuies, nnd shall linve at
tended three or more full courses of study
of six months each income regularly char
tered medical college in good standing anil
shall have submitted to and passed a credita
ble examination by tlie faculty or professors
of said college upon all branches usually
taught In.the, medical colleges; nnd if the
faculty or officers of any medical college in
this state shall riolnlcnny ol tile provisions
of (Ills section, lie or they shall he subject
to a line of #.1,000, said line to lie collected
out of tlie properly of any or nil of
faculty or officers of said college.”
There is a looseness, a recklessness,
about turning loose, annually, a field
full of beginners, to practice on the
anatomy ot the human race, which
should be checked. Give the people
protection against green, half educated
physicians.
St. Louis has developed a new
weather prophet whose audacity almost
entitles him to the notoriety he has not
yet won. His last programme for the
wtather contains the following :
A great event in meteorology will
take place between Sept. 12 to 15,
1889, and is destined to be the greatest
storm period that has occurred in the
past 100 years,‘or during the present
century. The storm will be universal,
covering every meteorological district
of the globe. The main part of the
storm will in all probability take its
course along the Gulf and Atlantic
coasts, producing terrific hurricanes,
tidal waves, and possibly earthquakes.
The interior portion of the United
States will be severely affected also by
eddies or “spurs” from the.main storm,
which will spread over the country in
high gales and terrific storms during
the passage of the main storm.—Ex.
Take in your sails
The outlook lor the purchase of tlie Cher
okee strip, in die imliiio territory, by tlie
government, is not promising. The Indium
sny thnt they don't wnnt to sell their lands.
Tlie Indian chiefs say thnt when their lands
were girciiAhcm, Andrew Jackson, w ho was
then President, said that the lands should
remain theirs as long ns wuter run and grass
grew. As there is no probability that wa
ter will stop running or grass cease growihg,
it IS probable that the Indians (fill remain
in possession of their lands.—News.
The Cherokee’s seem to have, as Jo
Brown would sny, the argument. But,
in the end, the whites will gobble up
the strip, and the Indian Ire made to
move on.
Helen of Troy is said to have been
sixty years old when Paris fell in love
with her. Courage, ladies, courage.
Your “Paris” is hanging around
some where. Don’t give up. A taint
Helen never won a Pam
Is the Mystery Unravelled?
It is now said the theory that a man
was the perpetrator of the Whitechapel
murders in London, has been aban
doned, and that it is known, almost,
that a woman has been doing the
bloody work. The name of “Jack the
Ripper” was given, it is said, to
mislead the police. These frequent
murders, twelve or fifteen—all women
—right in the most populous portion
of London, have been the wonder and
consternation of London for the past
few months.
It is asserted that the fact that the
killer is a woman was developed by an
unsuccessful attempt to murder a
harlot in Whitechapel, made within
the last few hours, and the arrest ot
the would be perpetrator, who is said
to be a Spanish or an Italian woman,
whose motive was to murder all the
fallen women she could in the hope
that by so doing she would remove the
one that had aroused her jealousy, she
not being positive as to the exact
woman who had charmed her lover
from her side.
In addition,, it is alleged that the
tigress mutilated the corpses of those
she killed in order to further satisfy her
crazy desire (or revenge.
Flying Trains and Steamships.
Professor Thurston, of CornelPuni-
versity, in an article in the North
American Review, expresses the
opinion that the steam engine is still
capable of vast improvement; that the
next generation will sec the American
continent spanned by flying trains in
two days, and that ships of 20,000 tons
will lie propelled at the rate of lorty
miles an hour.
The following essay on liars in
Wakulla county is from tho Craw-
fordvillc Times: “Wakulla boasts of
about five ol the most distinguished
liars thnt God, in his infinite wisdom,
ever thought proper to create. The
first lies about the merchants
Crawfordvillo; what they have to say
of the alliance. The second lies
about the alliance; what they hnvo to
say about the merchants. The third
is a general liar, who lies about his o[
her neighbors, learning all thnt can
he said thnt is bad, nnd making it a
thousand times worse. The fourth is
a general liar, lying about his great
exploits. The fifth—last but not
least—is the stinkincst liar of them
all, who goes about the neighborhood
lying about what he saw in the Wa
kulla Times, when lie never reads tho
Times, but has committed some ras
cally act, and is afraid the Times will
expose it. Such a liar the devil
wouldn’t have.”
—AT—^
LEVY’S
A Topeka paper says that there are
580 empty business houses, 3,910 un
occupied dwellings and 2,000 vacant
offices in Kansas City. This is the
reaction from the biggest town boom
the West has had of recent years and
is perfectly natural. Perhaps years
will be required for the city to over
come tlie depression that invariably
follows over-speculation. Booms arc
dangerous things—the boom-ernng
too frequently follows.
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, in trying
to placate the office-hungry of his
state, emphasized the hypocrisy and
false pretenses of the president who
was,, as a candidate, an ostentatious
civil service reformer, when he said the
other day:
"I think we arc doing quite well.
There have been four limes as many
changes made in the post offices in
Kansas by President Harrison as Were
made by Cleveland in the same length
of time. In my county there is not a
democratic postmaster remaining.”
And this President was elected on a
platform which ‘ demanded that the
civil scfvicc law should be observed in
letter and spirit.—Telegraph.
.In case of the projected exhibition
ot 1892, the honor of first proposing
such an affair is claimed for William
Euclid Young, of New York who issued
a pamphlet on the subject in 1884.
Our Mr. Levy is now
in New York making
Fall purchases, and
he lias sent us word
to KNOCK DOWN
PRICES on all sum
mer goods, and make
room for our immense
Fall and Winter stock
that is coming. So,
from now on, a 11
Spring and Summer
goods go at old
“Knocked Down
Prices.”
Remnant table full
of choice bargains
every week.
Levys
Dry (Ms Horn®
Mitchell House Corner.