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The Pndigality if the Present
Generation.
The present generation is without a
parallel or . a pret ideace in the con
sumption of its capital. It is exist
ing, apparently, without any hope of
a posterity. The people ot the pres
ent day are working far more to the
disadvantage of future generations
than if they were pilling up a moun
tain of mere pecuniary indebtedness
to be paid by those who shall come
after us.
Money can be earned with com
parative ease when material is abun
dant and the forces of another can be
harnessed up like docile beasts to do
oar bidding; but when new material
is absent productive labor is dificult
BOOKS FOR TEACHERS.
.Dove riail
liyar.1 mat i j regular at-saiou
Pratcnt Hon. A. P. Wright, chairman,
Bullock, Maliette and Lilly.
Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
Capt. Ilatnmon 1 and Mr. Merrill appeared
for furniture in court hou-o, referred Com
missioner Mallclto .iih power to act.
Treasarer’s renort read and approved.
Beport of Judge Alexander received and
ordered epread on the minute. vip:
’ To the county commissioner?, report for
1 December, 1892.
i Because o- the adjnuromed term ol the
superior court, there tr-a not as much bust*
Atlahta, Ga., Jm." 5 —Within
the next month or so there will have
been eetnbtuhet in Georgia 137
lioraries for the uee of the public
school teachers of the state. Toe
establishment of these libraries is a
most important more in the educa
tional interests ol the state, as in ad
dition to aiding in raising the stan
dard of the teachers through their
influence the manes of children who
attend the common schools will be
the beneficiaries. State School Com- (
missioncr Brad well is the originator
of the plan for_the organization of
these librariea and hoi just eent out
to each of the Tariona county school
oommissionera a circular letter giving
the preliminary instructions in rela
tion to the organisation of a teachers’
library in each county oi the state. '
Under the law piovided for county
teachers’ institutes it wss compulsory
en teschan to attend these institutes
or submit to a fine for each day ot
absence. This money collected as
fines, under the direction of the state
school commissioner, wss set aside tor
the purpose ot establing teachers’ li
braries.
Commissioner Brad well has just
received the reports lrom the county
school* commissioners teaching the
teachers' institutes of the past year,
which was the first year under the
new law, and in reference to the fines
collected for non atiendauce. In
some counties the amount runs up
as high as 1100 and in others as low
as 110. This money is to be spent at
once tor the purchase of book-, which
will form a nucleus ror a msgniiiceut
library in every coUDty of the state.
Next year the amount collected iu
fines for non-attendance upon the
institutes will in all probability be
larger than it was this year because
the law will bo more rigidly enforced.
if not impossible. The prodigal
of . our supplies of natural ga?,ail,
coal and iron may well suggest the
question. Are we not wickedly dissi
paring what should of right be en
joyed by future generations, and what
Would be our conditions to-day if the
people of a century or two ago-had
boss as wasteful of these resources as
wejsre now?
It is stated that in some parte of
Western Pennsylvania the street
lamps Ire allowed to burn all day
because the supply ot natural gas is
cheaper then the labor needed to
light and extinguish them each twen
ty-tour hours. In Indiana many of
the natural gas wells are wantonly set
ou fire fur the sake of the display of
huge volumes ut flame, involving the
consumption of an enormous amount
of tael that ought to be uiiiiz-d or
aaved up for yeens to come. Some of
thd Russian wells in Beau are allowed
to burn out in the same manner.
The coal and iron mines oi Great
Britain have been drawn upon eo
lavishly iu the last tew year* that the
coat ot producing the latter is in creat
ing rapidly, and the former if made
the subject of computations which
p dot to the exhaustion at toe supply
within a brief period of time, and in
Ryan Out of Jail.
Atla>iTa, Jitn- 7.—Judge Richard
H. Clarke to-day granted Ryan a
trial by jury, fixing hia boud at $100,-
000 Ryan gave the bond and was
released trutn jail to day. This will
probably make all the creditors a
party to the suit, which will consume
much time in the trial of the case.
life are rapidly runniug out. Disass
ter, death and defeat appear to have
marked the history of Harrison’s ad
ministration, including a .number of
his original cabinet.
The Savannah Press calls attention
to the number of yonng men on the
bench in Georgia Guerry, Gamble,
Roney, Gober. Henry Falligant. Bart
lett and Sweat are still on the sunny
That Du'ws about a bloody fight in
North Carolina was a fake, pure and
sample. Ii was worked up end sent
by an impecunious fellow at Johnson
City, who succeeded io fooling the as
sociated press. And, more, be sent
on a bill and collected bis fee from the
association before the fraud was dis
covered.
The .Augusta Chronicle was the
only Georgia daily which did not
swallow the North Carolina fake-' Mr.
Walsh thought the story sounded
‘fishy ” Well, upon second Thought,
it did have a fishy aroma about it
Great preparations are being made
in Washington for the second inaugu
ration of Grover Cleveland. The clans
will be there. They are already mak
ing arrangements for the trip. Georgia
will be well represented.
ISAAC GRIFFIN;
Washington County Redeemed.
Sandebsville, Ga., Jan. 5*—
Washington ounty ia redeemed.
The full democratic ticket was elected
for county offictrs. Not through
counting yet, but the majorities range
from 100 to 500 /
113 Broad Street, Thomasvilie, Ga.
UANUFACTTRER AND DEALER IN
The senate and boose were both
dull and anintemring yesterdsy. The
boose passed twenty-five private pen
sion bills, while Bock Kilgore was
’- Whereupon your petitioners pray the
granting of an order by yonr honor appoint
ing three road commissioners, residing as
near when said r ad is intended to go as
possible to make a. e iow of said con
templated ro^d and if then determine that
such new road will be of public utility to
make it ont and make th ir report in accord
ance with law. K. T. McLean, O. L. Ward,
John Cox and 10 ethers. .
Web the undersigned road commissioners,
tor the Thomas rill© district, recommend the
above road oi dtsenbed in above petition.
near the city.
The questiou bubs up how and then*.
Will Georgia get a cabinet position ?
Well, hardly; though she has some
fine cabinet timber within her bord-
At Watson’s Homo. B00r P°t°° the brm«-
1HOMB305, Ga., Jan 5.—The elec The people oLTbomu county are
rioo for county officer, passed off to be congratulated. At the election
quietly, the third party electing all «o Wednesday s fall set ot efficient
their candidates, but the majority* ol and competent county officers were
the November election waSredaced elected. Every min elected is compe-
by .210 . tent, and will perform his duly faith-
Blaine Doing Well. l-Htandfear^y.,
. Washington,'Jaa. 5—The re. Judge Meadows defeated'A. P. Per-
port from ex Secretary. Blaine this bam for ordinary of Brooks county at
jnornlng tvaa encouraging. j the election on Wednesday.
-LADIES A SD UENTLEMIISS
Croker, Tammany’s ■ chief, says
Ur. Morphy will not antagonize
Cleveland when elected to the senate.
There is no doubt, so it is said, abont
Murphy’s election! It is down on the
bills.
p RIDNG OUTFITS.
-THE ONLY PLACE TO GET THE CELEBRATED—
Cut down the cotton acreage. This
ts old advice, but tt » good. It has
improved with age,
New York ■ democrats should get
closer together.
Ur. Cleveland is being offered piles
and piles of advice. A great deal of
it, however, will never reach him.
This is the sad feature of the business.
AN ASSORTMENT OF
Fine Whips Always on Hand,
O. L. Wau>,
W. B. Haubleton,
W. T. Odosi,
OommiBsioaerJ.
Uniform Text Books,
si? Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 6—In all
probability one of the leading issues,
if not in i;ict tho leading issue before
the fegislgtnro at its next session, will
be the adoption ot a uniform system
of text books for the common schools
of the state. Tim issue has been
sprung time and again, but always
without practical result. With the
beginning •»£ his second term of <.ffic*-,
however, Bute School Commissioner
Brad well, ' who raised the issue - im
mediately on ts king bold of the reins
of the educational department of the
state government, by bringing it be
fore the legislature,, has determined
to make ibis the fight of his life. In
discussing the situation as regarding
the naoney expended by the citizens
oi the state for school books to day
Commissioner Brad well said that he
could give figures to the legislature
'Showing that he could save to the
state $200,000 a year by the establish
ment of a uniform system of tekt
books for the common schools. If he
can do this he certainly has the argu«
ment of the question on his side, and
when the issue is made, as he stated he
intended to make dt, before the peo
ple the importance of the movement
at once becomes apparent.
Drill Cards for Volunteers.
Lieutenant Sattcrlce, of the state
department oi military, has hit upon a
very admirable scheme for encourag
ing and making more perfect the de~
tail work of dnlis for the Georgia vo:»
umters.
He has had printed a lot of drill
cards suggesting regular schedules lor
the commanders of the companies and
will send them out to the captains
within ihe next frw days. Thus, ai
each meet!) g of the company tor drill,
it can be given ou> just what line of
drill they wi.l undergo at the next
meeting and the memberaof the com
panies a*ii! of necessity become more
interested iu their work and do it with
much more zeal than heretofore.
Gener.il Kcil has issued an order to
the volunteer forces of the state that
these dr 11 cards must be adopted.
The idea was suggested by thelieuicn
am in his report to the adjutant in
spector genera!.—Constitution.
The District Stewards-
The Dibinc* S e*aids. oi the l'hom-
asv:)le d.strict, held a meeting last
Thursday in A biny.
By resolution the i.a'ary of the pre
siding elder remains the same as last
year, $1,700. and tru- following amounts
have been aa^s.-cd each charge ior
this purpose during the ensuing year.
I'hum isMtic, 250; \ibany, 175;
Bainbrioge, 15.'; Boston, 150; Camil
la. *75; Aiupu gu., too; W tug bam,
75; P erce, too; Pelham, 100; Bakely,
140; Leary, 5c; Cokjuitr, 30; Decatur,
75; Ca ro, 130 Total, §1,700.
By respiu ion it was decided that
the apprrtio m;n for conference col
lections b : ]> accd in the hands of ihe
presiding e-dcr wnh full power to act.
—Cam.l a G ano.i.
The recent (
out the stat.; t
tbe third par<5
Georgia. Aft
election, Peck,
their followers
nominate foi
This advice w;
is a crush- r,
counties, h-.n
yoke and c:tct
democratic c:
the democrats
Is it not ume 1
lowers 0/ thesj
quirting the r:
promises no g-
Busted
;uui.:y elections through-
ho»; unnLStakably, that
•s .10. longer a power 10
cr the last gubernatorial
Wasoii & Co, told
10 rally again, and to
r eviry county office,
io lol owed. The result
Even strong third party
tol -T--, threw off the
cd juli sets of straight
Ticurs Nowhere did
ta*te a backward s.ep.
hat the oft deluded fob
• cal uui-.y bowlers were
nka of a party which
>od to the country?
Weed ’Em Out.
The following s £.1! ex.ract from
message by Andrew Jackson to the
congress t.f tnc U-u?eu States:
“I recommend *hat an actual in-
spect'On should be made m each stale
ioto the circumstances and claims of
every person now drawing a pension.
The honest veteran has nothing to
fear from such scru iny, while the
fraudulent claimant wt 1 be detec ed
and the publ.c treasury relieved to an
amount I have reason to believe
greater than has heretofore been sus
pected.”
Respectfully refetred, just now, to
Benjamin Harrison; and, later,to Gro
ver Cleveland.
Commissioner Rradwell says, and in
time inch donations as will be made
by those whoso interest is enlisted in
the cause of education to these Ii
brariea will have a powerful influence
iu disseminating education through
out the state. In speaking ol the
preliminary work of organization ou
which he is now engaged Commis
sioner Bradwell to day said that he
bad found that the teachers in the
common schools of the state did but
little reading, and this fact, with its
apparent detriment to the cause ol
education, led him to hit upon tbe
plan of establishing libraries in every
county with the county school com
missioners as librarians, the librariea
to be located at the county site, where
the teachers of the county are re
quired to meet together at least one
day ont of each month, their privi
lege under this plan being to take
whatever books they may fancy and
keep them until the meeting a month
later.
It is now practically assured that
Hon. Stephen M. White, one of the
ablest and truest democrats on the
Pacific coast, will be the next senator
from California Mr. White is no
millionaire as bis predecessors have
been. The eenatorehip, while in the
control of the republicans, has been
let to the highest bidder. Under
democratic role, it goes to the ablest
and best. See the difference ? Lelaml
Stanford’s millions couldn’t bay the
democrats in the legislature of Cali
tornia.
The Houston Home Jour »al give-
1 his good advice to the farmers of
Georgia:
‘'Raising cot.on to buy corn, meat
and other farm snpplie • that can be
raised at home will never be profira
ble, and ail prosperous farmers know
it. The Home Journal does not
pire to become general director
agricultural affairs, but we warn our
farmers against planting such an acre
age of cotton as will in any degree dis
place the necessary crops of farm sup'
plies.”
Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 5.—H. C Pee
pies, auditor in the famous Ryan case
this morning filed a claim for $10,000
as his fee as auditor. Mr. Peepies
was engaged on the work about three
months, and $t 0.000 is regarded as
rather heavy.
By the tune tho lawyers get their
fees, there will not be much left of the
Ryan assets.
tew decades, from this will render
its mining" unprofitable, because of
the great depth from which it will
have to be brought to the surface.
The process has not been carried so
Ifr in the Uuited States. As yet wo
have sot exhausted the bulk of the
immense deposits of both coal and
iron, arnica it 100k nature so Jong to
deposit near the sur ace lor onr use
We have, however, exhaused tho
larger part of Our limber supply, and
perhaps worked an injurious change
ol climate thereby, acting in small
degree on the ruinous policy, or
abacence of one, which has made
mere treeless wasas areas which were
once the seat of mighty empires m
Western Asia; and ii ia to this last
mentioned condition ot things that
I desire to call the attention of
Southernors. respectively and col
lectively, aud especially Georgiana;
and should I succeed in arotiaiog to a
proper sense the duty devolving upon
us in the reservation of the timber
that is being so. illegitimately destroy
ed, I shall have accomplished my
most sanguine expectations. It 1
tail in this, however, it will be no
lees a trutn that it needs.attention
and that speedily.
I speak thus of Georgia because
her pine torest Constitutes about one
third of all the jellow or pitch pine
ot the United States, and it is her
production for which the ravage!*
Seem to have such a thirst. At the
preseut rate ot legitimate cousump
lion aud illegitimate destruction the
forest of Georgia will become practi
cally exhausted 10 fifteen years-
Georgia pine lands are in greater
demand than her best agricultural
lands, aud day by day the eagerness
with which these lauds are sought
increases. Only a few years ego
tueae lands were a drudge on the
market at fifty cents an acre, while
now they are eaguny sought at eight
and ten times as much. For illustra
tion, we will take ten counties devo
ted to each interest, and aee what
a startling contrast the facts concern
ing the <and taxed draw. We will
first take ten counties devoted mainly
10 agriculture (Elbert, Harris, Joi.cs,
Alerewether, Monroe, Morgan, Put
uam, Sumter, Troup and 'Whitfield,)
these have retnrned for taxation, lor
the year 1890, an average deficit ot
about thirty thousand acres pet coun
ty less than there are acres in the
county. Tea counties whoas princi
pal iuterest is timber (Appling, Ber
rien, Coffee, Colquitt, Decatur, Irwin.
Montgomery,- Fierce, Wilcox and
Laurens,) have returned for
lor the same year, an avenge excess
of about seventy thousand acres per
county more than there are acres in
the county, so eager are tax payers to
own these
What has brought about this con
dition -of things, this,
uncalled for eagernees to own Geor
gia’s pine forest ?
I shall offer yon some facts and
figures and ask yon to answer this
interogatoiy for yonrself. The state
of Georgia had in 1880 about thirty
three billion feet of lumber in her
standing trees ; her expense account
for that year was a little lees than one
billion. It is estimated .that the yel
low pine, under fair conditions, will
reproduce it&lfin thirty-three years*
We, therefore, see that Georgia, by
her operations, in that yeair, was not
using her capital, but was just abopt
spending her income. 60 .in 1880
conditions were normal and hopeful.
ten years later, when the last census
was taken. Georgia had at the b*
ginning of year 1890 about thirty
billion feet of lumber, with a grow
ing, or dividend earning, capacity
equal to about three per cent, per
aunum. Her expense account for
the same year amounts to over two
billion sixty-fcur million feet. We
readily see that with no increase in'our
exper.se account, Georgia’s forest will
be exhausted within twenty years,
and if this account increased for the
next ten years with a ratio equal to
that of tbe lasl ten. by tho expiration
of that time wo shall have compara
tivsly no pine timber, and a poorer
climate. The most cun ervative esti
mate we can place on the amount of
limber destroyed annually by fire on
lands that have been tapped for lur
pentine purposes and abandoned, and
those now in use it three hundred aud
thicty-niue thousand acrej. No truer
or wiser wordSHvere ever uttered than
of thp^Hbn. S. G. McLendon,
who, (as attorney for the railroads ot
Georgia, in a petition to the railroad
commission of the state for an in
crease in rates on lumber and naval
■tores,) while discussing this- point ot
the destruction and amount of
destruction said “when I say that
turpentining injures the lumber and
the land, 1 have gone ho further than
the first letter ofxae alphabet. When
I say that fire follows the turpentine
man almost as the night fellows the
day. and that fire destroys <md puts a
•top to the reproductive capacity ot
onr forest, I present a fact which is
ippalling to all. who will stop to con-
rider consequences.
'Suppose Georgia were visited by
cyclones which would destroy the
timber at this rate. tbe. whole world
wou’d look on with bated breath.
The rid of state and national govern
ment would be invoked. The science
of the earth would be pleaded with to
Mugged a means ot. relief from such
visitation and the prayers of thi-
righteous throughout chri-tendorn
would be abknd tor to stay the hand
ol an invisible destroyer.”
Mr McLendon is a percipieut oi
the true situation and his patriotic
h'rart teams for a'lutl iu the destruc
tion of Southern sylva.
We see that the two principal items
of expense are brought about by the
operation of the saw mill and the
turpentine still that these two in
dustries have sprung iuto such gigan
tic proportions that they employ
hundreds of thousands of men and
millions of dollsra oi capital and art
sweeping away with inconsiderate
haste our pine forest; and what should
be an eye-sore to ah Georgians is that
Georgia is not reaping the profit that
is rightfully hen from this encroach
ment upon her limber. Nearly all
of the lumber shipped goes to points
outside of Georgia. By reference 1
the New Y irk Lumber Trade Jon
nal we find that ab >ut one half of ah
the yellow piue received at New
York is shipped from Georgia ports
and thus it is that Northern and
Eastern capitalist are permitted tu
come in and strip onr lands of th<
crop that it has been centuries grow,
ing aod manipulate it to their own
interests, leaving it in a nude and
impoverishing cmditi-m for the niti
ful sum of four and five dollars pc
acre.
It is estimated that tho pi
value ot the pine tree prndt
every acre ot pine land is $37.50
this is true what will its value be
when the world fully realizes that
this matchless tree and its valuable
products are about to be annihilated
aud lost to the commerse of civihza
ton.
Civilized man is wasting, reckless'y
and wickedly, the good deeds of provi
dence. and at a rate which threatens
to bring round in another quarter of
a century conditions widely different
from those of to day, unless tbe waste
be checked.
The world is an estate io which its
occnpants, at anv time, have but a
life interest and huve no right to use
it so carelessly as to needlessly lesson
its value to their Nuccessors. The old
story that we owe nothing to posteri
ty, because it has never done anything
for ns, is a mere sophistry not worthy
of a rational being, since it is only to
posterity that we can hope to pay the
debt we owe our ancestors.
J: J. Lunsford.
presrui
l respectfully suggest to the county cam
missioDcrs the piypriety of requiring the
sheriff to gstaer op all the supreme cour*.
reports a*.a hare' than deposited in the
county coart room for the ase of the ordina
ry, superior conrt and county court officials
1 have bad shelved pa. up'in tne county
court rooms where the books .can be
taken ca e ol, and accessible to any one of
the courts which will need them,
• Respectfully submitted, ,
J.R.AUSUDIB,
J.O.O.T.O.
Petition for militia district ordered pub
l»hed
To Board County Conmunontrt, Thomas
County Georgia:
We ihe uuuersigned citizens residing
within the limits of the proposed
tnct, do hereby pray your honorable body
W make a new Riiitia District in the county
of Tnomad to be laid otfaud bouuded
lows:
nmencing at the Mitchell and Thomas
county line, where it intersects with the
east pr ng of Barnetts creek running e<
along line of Mitchell ana Thom*B couuti
to tue uortheus- cornet of Thomas co-ot
embracing lot of land No. ZO, iu the 10
district, which is now annexed an » a part
Tuom»i county Thence south aloug land
lot lines to Southeast corner of lot . f land
No. 121 in the' I7tn district. Thence West
atoug laud lot line to wnere it intersects
wrin the run of east Barnetts Creek.
Tueucoia a northerly directiou ulong the
rau of said Barm U s creek to the Muchcil
county line, at starting poin- And
your petition rs further pra that you
cate the voting prtciact or' oaid new dutr ct
at Meig-, Ga. O. hiocitouce and Spei
which arc the present voting precincts,
at an inconvenient distance from a great
many of the Voter* residing iu the proposed
n-.w district, and. are luconveuient
tending justice courts, etc.
D. G. Johu-o j, J. L. Johnson, J. D, Wil
son and fifty>two others.
Road .etitiou signed by D. D Peacock
ao-l other-- orde.ed published.
State of Georgia Thomat County :
We, the undersigned citizens, petition the
honorable courts of Thomas county, to
gruut us a public road as follows : Begin
ning at McUonai t, Thomas county, going
eouih ulong ihe county ime, and known as
the Mcrionald and Boston road, first passing
over tne lands o W. H. Gibson, ii,
cock, G orge Broom, Bob Grayh-.m, Baits
Hoilis, W. H. -Redfearn Simon Ivey, leav
tu ir the county line at Bose Baker s, thence
a southwest course tbrough the la -ds of
Dr II. A. Vann’s, u T. Hopper, Arthur
Battle, and iutersectiug the Greenfield road
about (2) two miles north ol Boston. We
agree to opcu said road, if graote.. without
cose to the county, as to right of way and
bridges and cutting out. D. 1). Peacock, J
Frank Harris. P. A. Adams and hi others.
Road petition signed by James FerriU
and others or-ered published.
GEORGIA —Thomas CoCKTy:
To the Honorable Commissioners:
The an lersigaed citizeus and free holders
of Duncanville district peti ion your Honor-
aole Bo.rd o grant tnem * public .odd
follows, to- wit: Commencing at the south
west corner of lot No. 307, in th* 18th dis
trict, it being the present terminus of the
Metcalfe road, and run in a wcsleraly direc
tion. and in as straight a line as practical to
New Trinity church cn the Dekle road.
Tnere will bo required no bridge
road. Tne road will traverse lands belong-
iug to W. R and D. I. MacIntyre, C.
Copeland and J. F. Howard. T^he length'of
the road is about two miles.
James Ferrell. C. E. Lott, J. M. Ferrell
and^ten others.
We, th- undersigned Road Commissioners
forfilCtb District, G. M, respectftl ly reeom
mend that the request of the above petition,
ers be granted, and said ro.d be made a
public road.
. Jno. A Hahvin,
W. 8, Howard,
Commissioners.
Road petition signed by K. T. McLean and
uthe ' ordered published.
GEORGIA -Thomas Coontt.
The petition ot the undersigned dtisens
of said ’county,, shows that it will be of
public utility to the citizens of a id connty
to establish a new road, commencing at the
tower leit hand corner of P. L. Craignules’
lence near the 5 ml hi post on the Tallahas
see road via Duncanville in said connty, and
running in a southwesterly dir ctioa and
by the residences and through the lands of
Henry Browning, John Cox and Sidney
Howard, and through the lands of P. L.
Craigmiles, William Blair, Nelson James,
Henry Browfcing, K. T. McLean, Robt. G.
Micthell, Sidney Howard, 0. O. Cleveland.
Rem or McIntyre, C. L. Ward, G. A. Cox,
S. A. Cox and James ferrell, and intersect
ing the Hprng HU1 rood near ihe 10-mife
pust In said connty,
Commissioners, i {S8&3
Itiftd petition previoiulv published ■«
road lrom Meigs to William Willis granted
on condition, that no bridges would
have to ba built by tho county.
Read petition for road commencing at
lower edge of land lo» No. 53 in the 17th
district of Thomas connty, intersecting Pel
ham road at A. J. Writes, granted.
GEORGIA—^Qomas County.
We, the nadersigned petitioners of Thom-
and Mitchril counties, pray that the
Houoiab.e Board of mmmissioners of Thom
as county, giant ns a public road, leaving
the Thomasvil;c and Camilla road near J.
Rs Brown’tpUceon lot' of land No.. S3.
Thence >brougb No. 23 Thence - oo~ the
In olNo 12 ahd 13 to intersect with the
Pslham and Thomasvilio road at Connty
Line S 'bool house. We the undersigned do
coveacnt together to grant a bed for -said
nud through oar lards.
A. J. Wilkes, M. A. Pilcher. T. J. Davis
and fire others. r
To Honorable Board County Commissioners
Thomas County Georgia:
1 beg leave to rrport that there are 8
paupers at the poor house, the; ate all well
nd seem to be v-jry wel. contented.
" ' , W. D. Davis,
Keept
Monthly report ot county physiciai
board commissioners.
Gentlemen: lam pleased to report jail
and poor boose in a good sanitary condition.
' have made weekly vis is to each place.
“ ’Respectfully s bmitted,
L. B BoUchblle, M. D.
On motion it was ordered that a fire place
be pot in the jail
Proposition 0 f Burch to erect an iron
fence around court home square; style No.
92, post No. 2, spear top, for $1,085.00 ac
cepted. Chairman Mallette to sign the con-
tract fur the board.
f ollowing accounts passed for payment:
Judge R. Alexander
83 33
Levi Frtilr eta
5 40
J F Lilly
imeS-Eot rpride
52 4>.
Jm Nate
rhoumsA Diemns .n
B O iUlfuar
5 57
25 tO
To Piano Buyers!
Elegant Piano Lamp Given Ml
VALUE $15.00.
It is of solid brass, very ornamental, five
feet high from flopf to burner, with beauti
ful umbrella silk fringe shade Bay a Piano
and get the lamp tree. Offer good only
until January 15th.
Steinway Pianos.
Mason & Hamlin Pianos and Organ
Ma’hush«k Pianos.
Sterling Pianos and Organs.
Sold on easy payments or for cash.
Call at Furniture VVarero mas >iml soo the
Pianos and Lamps.
GEO. W^PORBKs
GENr FoE
hidden & sates Concern Mask’ i ,
Bl LINE OF CHRI TM&3 GuODr,
Board adjourned.
A P. Wricht. Chian
Riddxn Smith, Clerk.
NO LYNCHING AT^BAKERSVILLE
Ihe Report of a Wholesale Slauqht
er Pronounced a Canard-
Raleigh. N C , Jan. 5.—A special
dUpaicH just received from a pioia
inent citizen living in Mitchell coun
ty to the Daily Chronicle pronounces
the report of the riet and lynching at
Bakersville a gnss canard. “It a
lynching occurred, the report
been greatly exaggerated. Many of
the names reported among the killed
are unknown in that section.”
The dispatch has b*en read in the
house of representatives by
speaker. Specials to the News and
Observer and Chronicle eay that
there is absolutely no foundation for
the tragic stories from Baki-rsville,
that no person has been lynched and
nobody killed.
The eaact situation of the geograph
ical centre of tbe United States is a
surprise to any one who has not given
the subject careful attention. Tbe
most eastern point <f tho United
States is Quoddy Head. Me.; tbe west<
era Attoo Island, Al.iska; the most
northern. Point Barnw, Alaska;
most s- utbern. Key West. Fla. The
centre of the qua i rang alar figure
formed by uniting these lour points
is located at tbe crossing of fifty-five
degrees north latitude, and 110 west
longitude, 420 miles north of the
northern lino of Montana. It is also
true of tho United States, as of Great
Britain that the pun never sets on onr
territory, for when it is 3 p m. on At
tiolslaud Alaska, it is 9:36 a m on
the following d ip at Eastpnrt, Me
“If I gave you a pound of metal
a id-ordered you to make the m -st oui
of it. what kind of metal would y<>u
select?” ask ad a well known jewe
“Gold of course.” was the prompt
ply. “I’d prefer -«t pound if sie*
said the jeweler,* -ud I’d have it made
into hair springs for watches. A
pound of such springs would sell fer
an even $140000”
Mrs- Lease, if she goes to tbe sen
ate will, we presume, wear stockings.
This would be a set off to Simpson’s
sockleaa shins Kansas is noted for
freaks, among whom Jerry 8. and
Sister Lease stand in the front rank
Rockers, Ejs. \nirs,
I'esks, P.ctures <u.l £a&
Iron Wagons.
FORBES’ FURNITURE HO
175 BROAD STREET, MASURY 8U LDI.T3.
L l HOIK
UNDE liT A 14.13,
Thomasville.
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We now have in stock a full line of
fine cloth-covered Wood and Metalic
Caskets, also a full line of cheap
grades, all of which we propose to sell
at cut prices. Our prices will be lower
than was ever heard of before. Give
Uj a call, inspect our line and hear the
Cut Prices. L. F. THOMPSON & 00.
Broad Sh, between Citizens’ Bank and Tlio.nas & !) rkin-o
ctS,
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