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E. i. SMITH & CO.
STK-3 3W
SHOE-STORE
EVERY ?J13 Vu&:.lI?
Cor. Ci;r. .‘o»: ;<'■ »<■.: • A'.c.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. JANUARY 24, 1888.
liY TELLiEloc.i.
In for.
from «
V. i<.,
AiiUSLc/S 1LLNE&S.
HE HAD ANOTHER CHILL THIS MORN-
INC*
;li% I rinitl* Ai»|»rrl»ei*%iTe of Seri*
Olit UvmiIu.
\\ a■*uiNvioN, Jan. 17 — [Special.]—
^i» :iK. I t’.trii-le, who was taken with a
.• elnil at 7 o'clock list night,
:, a .l nriother etull at I o’clock this morn
ing. At 11 o’clock he was resting easily.
His friends are very apprehensive of se-
i ions results.
uin liu
A MONSTER CUN
Mii.wai
cial.j — Tl»e \\< :»ther \ f <
coldest of the season.
UiH'erenl parts ol the cit
tool below zero. '1 he hr men were!
railed out I» had a dozen small Mazes, tony tort I.oiib-.To Tlirow a
and several of them were badly froze n. llc»vy Ball Four Jlllem#
Two or three drunken men Were earned 1 T> _ T __ to ic n .
l°th« station■ house Wily frozen, andI ci ,V] - Wm Tl'.'Cramp's Sons have b£m
oiHriwoiuan, Mrs. Della Mratford, died “ 1 , d a contract by the Julian gov-
» •“ ambulance ou W * V to tiw hospt- . for lhe co „strocti 5 n of ■ Zalin-
U ’ , I ski dynamite gun, which i* to be forty
.. , „ feet long and to be made in three sec-
I lions, and designed to throw a projectile
ere. An
l been
W bald
At I.aCrosse the m *rc
40 belo v. At lla.-ine it
-8. and -Oil wa< ev.-ryw
passenger tra*n, which i
lor three days in a sr
Spooner, reached A^ iliul la»
diaw’.i by two engines an 1 v.v.l
plow in tronl.
Sr. l\\i i*, Minn., J in. 1 1 '■ —'
Torn Anderson, farmer, of ITac
is missing.
1)ki.*.i:ai»k, M<>nt., Jan. I E—
There are report
tailed
A HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.
A WOMAN AND HER SON TIED TO A
TREE AND SHOT- I
IN DISTRESS
JEPllTHAirS DAUGnTER.
CUT OFF FROM COMMUNICATION WITH
OTHER PLACES-
Tli. K unbaml and Two Chllclre.1 Burnt In \ Out of Furl and BuroloE Ilulldlnc* to Mak.
Their House.
Ciiatkstox, W. Va., ] m. 19.—
[Special J—Wo'd iraches here
lrom O.aia, Wyoming county,
that the H.ttlield gang made a raid
Saturday night on*the house oi Sim
M Coy. brother of Randall, whose
house was bu-rc 1 an I a portion of
liis f on '.y ki'lcd several diys ago
and taking Mrs. Randall McCoy to,
a tree, tied he' to it and then ‘hot
her death, together with her elJest
son. I he house was set on ti e and
his two yoonge.t children were
bur.led to death.
A TREATY WITH MEXICO. 4
In Agent .(Otir Government Nego-
tlating F.rOn«-Hotr a Redaction
»of rnrlfi Stimulated Business.
G tat expectations a e based 01
Ire.
Ill in Mu ilsun Valle
Salurtbr
ill Itir I Mill I, Ml
gliing two hundred pounds a distance
of four miles. The gun is now being ^
made, under direction of Lieutenant /a- h prosfcects of a commercial trea-
luiski, and will be completed in about J , y b tween the United States ano
Mexico.
N goliations are now pending be
tween the agent oi our government
John \V. l’o-ter, formerly n.inis’er
to M xico, and lepiesent itives of
the sister republic. From iS74 to
1S83 the import trade ot Mexico in
crease I fiom $31.010,0.10 to $51'
000,0 xj. Since 1SS3 the increase
has undoubredly lieen very great,
bjt tne figures ale not obtainable
beca ise 01 the lariliness.it M.x-can
two weeks.
A REDUCTION IN WACES
AAlurll Allccls Eleven TUou.nnd
■ :>u|.laj rc. oi «n Irou C ornpany.
.Tuiisstown, I’a., dan. 18.—[Special.]
Inis Iron Company has posted
111R notice: “To enable the
.. meet the great decline in the
ee of its products, it is forced
• a general reduction of about ten
t. in all wages and salaries, to
net on and after February 1st
This order alfects over 11,000
s, of whom 7,500 are at dobns-
A BIC FAILURE-
i he l am
1 lie folio
riling p
uiiployt 1
Brownville, M nn., Jan. 19.—
[Special ] - The people of this val-
ey are in dire distress. They have
found no communication with the
rest of the wo»ld for over th.ee
weeks. The la t train to itrivr
•reie came in December 26th
There is not a lump of coal or a
-tick of firewood in the market.
The people have confiscated aU
the fuel of the Manitoba company
a d lorn down and burned their
r ilioad buildings
OR. TALMAGES THIRD SERMON TO
THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.
“Broken Promises of Marriage'* the Sub
ject or 111. Discourse—lfetrothal la an
Act So Solemn That to Break It I. an
Everlasting Wrong.
MORE LABOR TROUBLES.
An Association .1 Rolling Mills Rc-
, - ' anetafiwagn. '
I’ll 11. A DELPHI A, Jan. 19.—[Spe
cial.]—The rolling m II association
yesterday decided uD'in a eeneia
reduction of wages in the nulls tep
resented ill its organization, from
the basis of 2 1-2 rents per bar to 2
cents per har, or nearly 10 percent.
The Bible extols one who “aweareth
to his own hurt and changeth not.”
That is, when you make a promise keep
it at all hazards. There may be ca-.es
where deception has been used at the
time of engagement, and extraordinary
circumstances where the promise is not
binding, but in nine hundred and ninety-
nine cases out of a thousand engage
ment is as binding as marriage. Robert
Bums, with all his faults, well knew the
force of a marital engagement. In
obedience to some rustic idea lie, stand-
tor all mankind. And if these base ;
dealers in human hearts be females, ! RUr £° ot sorrow alter Atlantic surge ot
they are left after awhile severely alone, sorrow, and the tempests of human hate
striving in a very desjieration of agony of . ^ Satanic fury are in full cry. Oh
cosmetics to get back to the attractive- woman of many troubles, what are all
ness they had when tliev used to brag 1 tha I®* 8 ** of worldly delight, if they were
how manv masculine affections tliev had offered you, compared with the opnor-
slaughtered. Forsaken of God and honest ‘V nit y of .he'pmg build and support bar
men and good women, are sure to be all fiers which sometimes seem giving
6uch masculine and feminine triflers with wa 7 through man’s treachery and
human and yet immortal affections. Oh, ®*e world's assault. Oh woman, to
man! Oh. woman! having plighted your tlie dykes! Bring prayers, bring tears,
troth stick to it! , bring cheering words! Help! Help!
B.™..,. „ t>„_ T TV, irotll SUCK 10 111 “““6 e..ee.... 6 "ulus: Iieipi 11.
J ?Tr. 22 ' ,? . > ■' T ' 06 * n g on one side the brook Ayr, and Mary | An( j liere Inv idea w : d „ nf , , » . Anti, liaving done all, kneel with us
togth^hirdtffhS iri^of'P ai H P ^ U ,L n the . otl,er ’. V,'"' "‘ eir ! to say not only to those who Igive made the l ) l,ak . in « waU «| 0 Ood of
“I Women of* Ame^l with Se” b£nt° ofT ai f uristtvke iix solemn promise of marriage, aad ‘ he - a — ’
Hints to Men.” His subject was. ‘ Bro- < ^g^Tfidel tv O ie“ r u P’S* l ? tl,08e " h ° h T at * he
ken Promises cf Marriage,” and his text Sj T^ament of'ti^ bo^k^ZStadav “ ***" F ro , nounc f d one when they
from Judge, xl 35: -I Tare opened my • Old ^en^thathook day. | are two, or ... diversity of tastes and likes
mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go ^ found t | ie words . -Levitieus xix.
™~ He said: 12: Ye shall' not swear hv mv name
Jephthah the commander m | falsc)v; j am the Lo rd ..i And OI1 the
chief of the IsraebtishTorces, is buekhng [ COTCr c f the. New Testament in his own
cn the sword for the extermination of j | iand%vr itjng: “Matthew v, 33: Thou
the pestiferous Ammonites, and looking | shalt not forswear thyself, but shall per-
np to the sky be promises tliat if God f orm unto the Lord thine oaths.”
will give him the victory he will put
death and. swvita^.-a -a biurt
-offering the first x-that-, sOpme*
out from . tli.! door of h r* ‘ i$t"i““
stead when he goes hack. The hurrah
ing of triumph soon runs along the line
of all the companies, regiments and di
visions of Jephthah’s army. ‘A worse
beaten enemy than those Ammonites
never strewed any plain with their car
casses. Gen. Jephthah, fresh frdrn his
victory, is now on iiis way home. As lie
comes over the hills and through the
valleys the whole march homeward for
Ills men is a cheer, hut for him a great
anxiety, for he remembers his vow to
slay and bum the first thing tliat comes
A Congressman Sued for Divorce.
Chicago. llt.Jan. 19.—[Special ]
A News special from St. I.ouis
-ays; Miss Moore, who claims to
he the wif-of Coogtessmao O'Neil!
i CRan suit for divorce fiom O'Neill I forth from his house to greet him after
Fee-da-, but dropped it on being 1 bis victory.
. , , , , r * . . Perhais it mav be tlie old watch dog
t 1 I by <nen.li. tna. she must have a j ^ firet out , and who eoulTl
revd»*ncr in the s^ate tt» otita’n a J ^ | ienr [ t 0 out the life of a faithful
"•a'lJi 1^ in c‘urt. L'a^ning yes- | creature like tliat, he cornea fawning
oflici »ls ipreparing tier report*, icr Jay t H ? t O’NeilTs residence he»c - and larking and frisking and putting up
Engl • <1 get** t e 1 .»ge*st si a e • f vv .s m tli i«*nt, she instructed her , bis paw against his master in merry wel-
at iinie\ to pmceed with the cave. I 001110 after long absence.'’ XT ~‘ '* A
the M
Unite i S:
Fran :c. (»t
ing in ilie*
Th*M -
ally bel g
and w '
J import »
I few to’lit'
mum an \ >
I h«
•ext. tvi.-hl
am l’.jl'o a -1
tolker l.udirti Uunk Swindle.
t (little company Su*
Hit lleuvy I.iabilitlc^.
, Wynining, Jan. IS.—
| — i ne ehi*»t lmlustrv of the
; • L - . .....I
ichasj*
The ; en <ro
o.v sv, Lub.luies $1,- in<1
I rapid
— — - I rich c
RiDE TO DEATH- I aiu t ,
Wise i nt
• i .» .ladean’a. 1
n-oiiR, has received another . .
i»v the suspension of * ' w
eivtipanv yesternae.
Lub.luies JM.- i • , “' 1 1
a lr
An.AM.A. J;U1
efli.n lotbise a U
l.el.eral Julius
l.roiiisht tousmi
ing U tter.
ti AI S K^X’l l.I.K,
the lalitor «il litt-
hall 1*. the folio
K Is--.—T<
‘Tiemral l.oiigti t » t," .viai le i an«i
pained me, nut only f.u > *sn> til Us lncor-
reel statemeiits, hut us placing him be
fore the public i»s an object of cnanty
With thanks lor tour intended Kindness
in giving the use of your j .iper tor the
coti* etion ol Im.d> to relieve ibis neces
sity. I beg von will vviiini!aw his naint
at once in sio h a comu ciioii, :uui if any
aluong his ohi soldier^ have sent llieir
linte to iheir oM chi f, 1 beg you to re-
tutn the same, with iiiuiy thanks foi
tiieir love ami devotion, w inc i to him i*
worlii mote than gol«» «*r silver. Tin
genera), though tai I:om licit, is uhh-
with vvf.ut he owns, to live m col tpara
A Nt jcio W. inan (iela llrUnk an«l Dies In
I* iso a.
' . \\*: a. J1".—[Special,]—llen-
.1 i j -_;ro Troiuan. was found
. . ..nmk Niurietta street this morn
r :.e was arrested, taken to prison,
.u • : . a :evv hi mites. The coroner’s
u.-y i n*.* red a verdict of death from
i..i 4 int; oi iIm* Corner Slone.
An.ania, .Ian. IS.— [Special.]—Thu
rot oer-stoite of the Hebrew orphan asy
lum was laid to day, Hon. John S. David
son presiding. Speeches were made at
lit.- opera house as it was too windy at
the grounds to he comfortable. Gover
nor G.-rdon made a splendid speech, also
Hun. Simon Wolf. The corner stone
was laul by the order ol B'nai lirith and
| the Masons.
A Jtctt Trick.
! Atlanta. Jan. 18.—[Special.]—The
! Atlanta & West Point passenger trains
| are now tilted with a new appliance for
; signaling the engineer to start. By pull*
1 ing a cord a valve is opened connecting
with the air brake, which blows a small
whistle in the engine. The advantage of
this over the hell line is that it never
fails to work, and never gets caught like
a hell line does.
nc s
Four -U
ystein
-I N
t'n
i>
F
The Turner* v«
U lkne Bay
pc , i J ■ T ic
It
U
ttilC
i.e-i t
U cie' e* of
. Th.* Aubrclilvta.
\Y» ., Jan. 19 —
turner*- of thi* c t>
circrlar lcner to
the
ctl* ot I-a- Turn
.\. rth
a'K i*io f 0 i tin
hi*i nu- »iber* 1
1*. meric
• expL*l-
d the o*
lb>p Clin
lloiniriUe in I»il«sburg, Tcnn.
Chattanooga, Jan. 18.—[Special.]—
Lart night Simon Higdon and Frank
Martin got into a quarrel over a young
| lady at the house of Mrs. Wardburger,
in South Pittsburg, Tenn., when the
former was shot by the latter in the
stomach. Higdon only lived a few hours
I and died in great agony. Martin made
| Ins escape.
supreme (’onrl ot tirorgio.
) A 11.asta, -Ian. 18.—[Special.J—The
. .-oiiit vvH- occupi-d this morning with
I 1 tie hearing wf the Bartlesville case, be-
| .Min ye>lerday. Judge Alexander Speer
, 1 l-!|. >*e l the court this morning in be-
! half of lav lor
great
all kin
countr.
and tra
er kno
Lis.
eflect i'
ed lor ncr »iut es T
has be j 1 stun-.l t '• mmiu?»* j
and ha comple • iy iaNiti-d t it* !
gloomy pic 1 cti *ns 01 the Mcx<cn •
protect, im-ts. The imp rta ie « 1 |
Mexico .IS a C ^rnrilcfCial *s n«
fully a.»; reci it« d in the I'nilci
States. Tnc Miccc vf 1 ttrmir.atio
of the pt*n *in£ treity ne^otni »n
SfuJU r sS£i«^rT*:
graph.
No; it was not
that which came forth to meet Jephthah.
Perhaps it may be a young dyve, let out
.from its cage in the general’s home,
Morristown, i |an. 10.— j which, gaining its liberty, may seem to
pc*' 1 M * M ry A Bro n, > 1 Tejoice in the public gladness and tlutter
• • rc 1 li or id IS orns * ou the shoulder of the familiar head of
w t , * t -<*sed of cott«<-<e r a* the household. But who could have the
j, p ot>e»’V. ha- been indie- *i * ,ear t to slay such a winged innocent?
- * * * * „ * p .. . . ‘ No; it was not that which came f<»rtli to
* j 1 P . I meet Japhtliali. Or it may be some good
u co. due eU a ladies bank j neighbor that will ru-it out to greet him
| after having first )»eefi in to tell the fain-
Tbi- .ilic!i!;un Grfenbacker^ ! ily* of the near appro;-oh of tin.- general.
.. .. ^ | But who could slay a neighbor who had
, \ \licn.,J .in 19. [ ?* e- , come on the scene to rejoice over the re-
!). V ullcr, lo; jj t tb« i nni*;' household? No; it w not tliat
grcc iback p:« ,f v in j which came forth to meet Jeph: lull.
11* i-'Uetl a c«i| for a J As he advances up-.*n liis home the
,,-inM w hich s’.a 1 .»r«n- ] door ojiens, and Gut of it comes on<* whose
1 appearance under other circumstances
• would have been an indescribable joy.
ut 01 V,
»an wi
N e “
i,i)-
f p tity.
iiion.
l’rizft Fighting iu Florida.
Iacksdnvili.e. Fli.. J II'. 9 —
[S|>i. al.] —Tiun’iiy Bmies ni'tl
linns F i’ini<,in. Fiathvr wviRhts.
i.w in an e si'it-r uml hgbt li*-'
A ( ollapse Strike.
niKSTKK, N. Y. .Ian. 18.—[Special.]
1* )«-ng »tnke of shoemakers in this
which has continued since Nov-
1 Nt, has collapsed, the men re
11^ 10 work ai the inanu'actur rs*
la are up 1
ho they cl
SPECULATORS SCARED-
Atlanta, }an 19—[Special.] —
The seatlor OtntHo are pr«tt\
well sol J, but thetc aie some good
ones left.
For thematir.ee performance va
cant sea r .N may be found. There
are as m iny a* 300 seats on the
first floo^ unsiJd* In the Falconv
seats on the very front row have
not been taken.
The se .ts for Julius Caesar have
not been quite as well sold as those
lor Othelio, and there are still some
choice seats for sale.
The speculators who loaded up
on Tuesday morning have not
found the market quite as bti**k a*
anticipated, Yesterday morning
ho\s were out oflerirg tickets f.»i
-a’c, but as they wanted 100 pt
tent, on the investment buver
vvere scarce. The outlook is n
»t all encouraging for the specula
tors, and the e does not ?eem to 1
is many mdl.ons in itasatli.st
uppjsed.
THEY BLEW OUT THE CAS-
And Tlint ESloiv Total The Two li
rantiThrir Live*.
ugan out, hut fa led.
Chicago .Vlarkct.
Chicago J hi. 19- (Spec al.) —
\Vh“. t n|Jniil F- brii»ry,
C•■rn, 1anu.iv, -lS|c. O ts, Miv.
IIS@33i • IM C januaty anil Fc's
man $i d .ivi. Lard. Fvmuary, $7-^°
Shmt r.civ, Januaiy and Februaiy.
<17.30.
So Cremation for lb. Auarcbitfo.
CniCAiiO, 111. Jan. 16—[Sjierial.]—
‘I’he |irojiosition 10 cremate the boiliea of
the dead anarchist' was shelreo’ yester-
dav al a meeting of the defense commit
tee.
BREVITIES.
Darien is to have a big hotel.
Augusta is to have a pronouncing bee-
Waynesboro has an oil mill in full
blast.
Col. H 0. Wood, of Griffin, b.s been
heard from.
Elberton has 150 white children in
school.
Copper has been discovered iu Heard
county.
Whisky or bread! which nball be
cheapened?
Gordon institute al Barnesville open
ed * iili 1!K> pupils.
Edit' r l’earsons has been elected
Mayor nf Talbnlton.
'I he I’uti ’ m com tj fair association
New Y uk Jan
- l\v.. . 2 •
1 ul I. F
X « ei i
"ie 1 * r» ■
l*r R.w. v
•9 — (-
t‘ S hi
’•)
but under tli.- pic *ge of a s; criiice lie
Comes a horror which blanches his cheek
and paralyzes his form and nlm«>st hurls
I him flat to the earth. His child, his
I only child, his daughter comes skipping
i out to greet him. her step keeping time
[ to a timbrel, which she shakes and smites,
j Did peer a conqueror’s cheer end in such
j a bitter groan? No wonder Dore, in two
! of Iiis masterpieces, presents the scene.
And Handel made it the last and climac-
! teric work of liis life to put this pathetic
I and overpowering circumstance in an or-
■ utorio. seven months toiling amid its ma-
1 jestic harmonies until his eyesight gave
( •out; and. as though th“ sad scene
of Jeplitliah’s daughter's sacrifice were
too much for mortal vision, the grand old
musician was led blind into tlie orchestra
for the first rendering of Jephthah. All
tlio glories of victorious Avar are Wotted
out from Jephthah’s memory, anti his
banner is folded in grief, ami his sword
goee Lick into the scabliard with dolorous
dang, and the mulfled drum takes the
place of the cymbals and the *‘tremolo,”
the place of tlie truni|>et, and he cries
out: “Alag, my daughter, . thou hast
brought we very low and thou art one
of tiiem that troulile me; for 1 have
opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can
not go back.*’ During two.months amid
tlie mountains without shelter, . the
maidens who would have been at her
wedding ranged with Jephthahlsdaughter
up and down, bewailing her coming sacri
fice.
Commentators and theolotrians are in
dispute as to whether that. girl was slain
or not, and as to whether if she were
slain it was right or wrong in Jephthah
to be tlie executioner, a discussion into
which I shall not be diverted from the
overmastering consideration tliat we had
better look out what we promise, better
be cautious what engagement we make,
better that in regard to all matters of
betrothal and plighted vow we feel the
responsibility, lest we have either to
sacrifice the truth or sacrifice an immortal
being, and we be ledHsrc«y ouF with tlie
paroxysm of a Jephthah: “I have opened
mv mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot
go back.”
There is one ward in almost all the
insane asylums and a large region in al
most every cemetery that you need to
visit. They are occupied by the men
and women who are the victims of
broken promises of marriage. The
women in those wards and in those mor
tuary receptacles are in the majority, be-
» ill he 1 1 • race track.
TL' •* • rs of K!l*ert are buying ! cause woman lives more in her aflfoclions
arg«-quantities of supplies. tlian does man, and laceration of them
,w„ », Til.A c..l..r.-d Ktaved .ra ! *» <’«•<*' “ more apt to to » dementia
r ll»!tiim.rv,worth -fSti.OUU. ! f" aa f-it.tlUy. In some regions ..f thia
,. „ „ . ... land the promise of marriage is consul-
I here nre pupils in the public ; fre( j Havo no solemnity or binding
rh.iMlt of I*, m-, uita ten t. actiers. j ^ orce | t was only made in fun. They
el.
i i i
ill.
i [Special.]
».U’d in the leg
i*M» • e,l to the
, ' eAO .t’ lives of
-ting . .** n-«t tV;
fii.itl.l L
* a 1
i> o . t.it tl -oru<
• nni on full.
..d lilt
Atlant r*j black l»st is thus/ • row may change th, ir mind. T!:i er.gage-
I posed « .• elv of whites. 8 » -to. s ment may stand uytil *>rae o:-.** more at-
I don’t jl unkin Atlanta. i tractive in person or opulent in estate
\,'W, I.iti.e Hon. Jno. 0 CarUle’* appears ou the scene; then t’. o rings are
illnrss . ill Ilf received w i h pr. ft.un.l i returned and tlie amatory
I till iul.it 'rir.r 1 ijhl.
tier* owners ol I _
ground th It for-1 Nghth Iux.son. Id Ja 19.
j ati ns «»f mini fig in- , [ Spt C* >1. J—A
•om
Winds
cane,
Btorjiis. Th- ship lah
tirnbly, and ug :i
SUbllifVgid. 'i l.t be.
the (••duns 11 ioue-1. si.
the bridge (.aliuigtd j;
A Morrhoii
\V Ki.V.mi'KKT, U.
8tort*hoiis<
ry s woolen coup an
ut fntv vv. i «l>c—
.ipitalms. It was | c«i men came down Hum Ch cag*
r»u»mitte?. lard one hundred came up Item
I Streato**, to see Ham* Gilmore, o»
Oiurair**. Paul, and Hilly Mye»s 01 St e«-
t«ir. fight for the midul we.gh
championship of tlie 1 o thwest.
\NNAH, J*.n. 18 —[Special]—J. J
. chief • f the Savannah chain gang
!y \\hipped James Collins, a sick
■ I. lie usid a bug
final clubbing his victim with
i the thick end of it This outrage was
1 ; loll.‘Web next morning by a brutal heat-
i 1:1 g with a paddle made of aboard. "When
1 I’radv found bow serious the injuries
' were he skipped.
1 in
stroked by lire
'ill.* building c.
of wool, Whirl
nnd the it i11.1i 1
will probably l.
ptrnaMv de- riTTsiuuu, Hu
t:»i'. morning. I A committee representing the locomo-
11 d.
, fully
nnd.
A K"ctition;tur lliglier Wages.
rmsiiLMKi, Ha., Jan. IS.—[Special.]—
representing the locomo-
' brotherhood on the Peon
ompuny’s lines, called on General Mmn-
ar**r Baldwin ester lay nnd presented a
I petition for an advance in wages.
Ulurdi
of
l*revciit 1
BlIAlNKHI*, 'IlNN,. .Bit
C al.]—A Swede from Mil
tliat the man wh » ninr h*r.*«i
seven children on Friday
Olstroin. and that tl e can?
was that Olsfrotn found
family would have to peusli Y10111 lack of
food and fuel in the bitterly cold weather.
Nocro Lymhcra lobe Defended.
I C11AIU.F.STON, S. C., .Ian; 18.—[Spe-
lo—[Spe- cial.]—A ma s meeting of negroes, held
* Lr.es says j bore Inst night, appointed committees to
his a if.* nnd j raise collections to defend the negroes
was Henry j charged with lynching Waldrop, a white
• of the d. ed | man of Pickens county, a fortnight kgo.
that all th
A Iran (Intent Count.
and $1,003 a side- 1 he fi*ht dii
• iot begin till aftci 3 oVlot k thi-
-Iiorninj;. It to k place in the olil
opera hoti'e. Both combutan’s
look cl prettv fine and overwork e •
hut tha Streator crowd came up with
plenty cf money with which they
were prepared to back their fighting
carpenter, lidmoie's people were
also well healed, but they refused
to take anything except two to one.
Even at these terms some money
changed hands. In two short
roundsMyers knocked Gilmore out
Myers was not even scratched. Hi
admirers went almost crazy .
THE OHIO SENATE-
Wiser II >nl It el
Cincinnati, Jan. 17.—[Special.]—
i Count Krona was arrested at Lawrence-
bare, I ml., last night, for obtaining money
I.oftsvii.1 e, Jan. 1'i—(Special )—The I under false pretenses. It i» said that he
pastor of ibe l’resbylerian church of 1 is wanted on similar charges in Milwau-
Je sey City was induced by the glowing | kec and several other places,
eloquence of one of the luitv of his tlock
Tlie t'enrleeulb Victim.
Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 17.—[Spe
a member of a New York stock exchange
firm, to take a llyerin wheat. The pood
man went in, and he also came out, hut
wiser, if not hitter, at least sadder, for
the loss of $300,ti00 sunk in margins.
Tlie Cold Aided Their llicapc,
St. Lotus, dan. 16—(Special.)—All the
prisoners in the Bryan, Texas, jail, es
caped yesterday through a hole in the
wall, which they made while the jail offi
cials were keeping warm in the jail of
fice.
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WXXtCAN VtJSTANO LISTJtKST, »p,,nis! .tow.
tidaata W Iwiaiaj, wua mou
cial.]—John Madden, the fourteenth vic
tim of the Bradford disaster, who was
injured at the tank house,died thismorn-
ing.
A yiiirderrrta .taistake.
Parkkrsvillk, W. Va„ Jan. 16—(Spe
cial.)—Sherman Lynn shot and fatally
wounded Carrie Berg, Saturday night,
thinking, in the darkness, that it was her
sister Lizzie, who had rejected hin.
The Republican Factions In Open War
With Each Other.
Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 19.—[Spe
cial.l—1 he republican factions in
the Ohio Senate refused last even
ing to adopt a resolution condemn
ing the action of the body in elect
ing a democratic clerk- The dem
ocrats helped to defeat the resolu
tian by joining the bolting republi
cans. The factions are again
open war and there is no longe
any possibility of a compromise.
COLLISION ON CINCINNATI SOUTHERN
A Serious Lou of Life Reported—X
Particulars Tet.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Jsn. 14.—[Spe
cial.]—Reports resell here that the f*st
mail and freight on the Cincinnati South
ern collided at Oneida this moroti'g
causing serious loss of life. No parlieu
lars yet.
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.-ret thruURhnti the country.
She working men of this c untry lose
illions every year by strikes. Ol
om-e the e Tployirs lose vastly more
Lelcgates from the Savannah Valley
ill meet in Augusta on the 25tb and
have a magnificent binquel at the Ar-
ngtun.
A prominent mill president and bank
president, of Augusta will subscribe |1,-
tA)U each to the new Y. M C. A. build
ing that is soon to be erected.
A negro athmithville, Ga., attempted
practice social equality at a dinner
house. The northern tourists were very
diguant at the treatment given the ae-
gr°.
Kish CominfsHio er IT. H. Carey, is on
_ visit to Florida to study the htbita of
the shad in St. Johns’ river with the
hopes of introducing them into the
streams of Georgia.
Col. E. R. Dorsey his promised to gire
the citizens of Augusts special rates to
Atlanta to see Booth & Barrett's[pertorm-
anoe provided they make up a party of
twenty-five. Fifteen have expressed
intention of going.
\V. B. Lowe, the senior partner of W,
B. Lowe iV Co, re :ent contractor* on lhe
Augusta and Chattanooga railroad, has
brought suit against Bondurant & Joplin
claiming that he can get no accounting of
tha affairs of the concern and that the
firm owes h m a considerable sum of
money and are trying to dispose of their
property to avoid paymentof same.
DA!«IE(.!IYILl<E.
Dakielsville, Jan. 18.—'The Daniels-.
Till- High School opens Haltingly.
About 8u pupils, notwithstanding the bad
weather.
Miss Lucie P Norris, of Aulreville, S.
C. , the accomplished assistant has not
vet arrived, and Miss Bessie Johnson is
filling the place satisfactorily fill she
comes.
Mr. Tom Haynes last night was
knocked down by a polo in the hands of
Bud Strickland,and after falling him,Bad
stuck his knife in Tom's back and left it
there. His mother pulled the knife out.
Dr. R P. Sorrells is attend ng the
wounded man. Too much barley corn.
John Moore has paid up, and the great
Mrs. Holds passes from before the pub
lic for the present
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letters
anil ail relationship ceases. And so
thero are ten thousand Jephthah’s
daughters sacrificed as burnt offerings.
Tho whole subject needs to lie taken out
of the realm of comedy into tragedy, and
and women need to understand that,
while there art exceptions to the rule,
once having solemnly pledged to each
other heart and hand, the forfeiture and
abandonment of tliat pledge make* the
transgressor in tlie sight of God a per
jurer, and so the day Cf Judgment will
reveal it. The one lias lied to the other;
and all liars shall have their place in the
lake that bumeth with fire and brim
stone.
If a man or woman mako a promise in
the business world, is there any obliga
tion to fulfill Ik? If n man sign a note
for $500, ought he to 1x17 it? If a con
tract be signed involving the building of
a house or the furnishing of a bill of
goods, ought they stand by that contract?
••Oh, yes,” always answered. Then I
ask the further question: Is the heart,
the happiness, the welfare, the temporal
and eternal destiny of a man or woman
worth as much as the house, worth $500,
worth anything? The realm of profligacy
is filled with men and women as a result
of the wrong answer to that question.
The most aggravating, stupendous and
Gad defying lie is a lie in the shape of
broken espousaL
But suppose a man changes his mind,
ought to not back out? Not once in ten
thousand times. What if I change my
mind about a promissory note and de
cline to pay it, and suddenly put my
property in such shape tliat you could
not collect your note? How would you
like that? That, you say, would be a
tend. Sols the other a tend, and pun
ish it God will certainly as yon live and
just as certainly if you do not. live. I
have known men betrothed to loving;'
good*- womanhood-, resigning
their engagement' and the . victim
went down in hasty oansnmption
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KEXICAX KUSTAKU IJNnQOTOAM rtyoroKC,
while suddenly the recreant man would
go ud the aisle of a church in.brilliant
bridal party, and the two promised “I
wifi” with a solemnity that seemed in
surance of a lifetime happiness. But the
simple fact was,' that was the first aat of
s Shakespearean play entitled, “Taming
the Shrew." He found out, when too
late, that he had not married into the
family of the ‘-Graces,” hut into the
family of the “Furies.” To the day of
ids death thamunler of his first betrothal
Suppose a ship captain offers his ser-
Vfees to take a ship out to sea. After ho
gets a little way he comes'alongside of a
vessel with a more beautiful flag, and
which has perhajis a richer cargo and is
bound for a more attractive port. Sup
pose he rings a licll for the engineer to
slow up and tlie wheel stops. Now I see
the captain being lowered over the side
of the vessel into a small boat, and lie
crosses to the gayer and wealthier
craft, and climbs up tlie sides, and
is seen walking the bridge of tlio
other ship. 'J pick np his resigned
sjicaking trumpet nnd I shout through it:
“Captain, what does this mean? Did you
not promise to lake this ship to .South
ampton, England?” “Y'es,” says the
captain, “but I have changed my mind,
and I have found 1 can do lietter, and 1
am going to take charge here. I shall
send hack to you all the letters I got
while managing tliat ship and everything
1 got from your ship, and it will be all
right.” Y ou tell me that tlie worst fate
for such a captain ns that is too good for
him. But it is just what a man or wo
man does who promises to take one
through the voyage of life, across tho
ocean of earthly existence, and then
breaks the promise. Tlie sending track
of all the letters, and rings, and necklaces,
and kee)<sakes cannot make that right
which is in the sight of God, and ought
to be in the sight of man, an everlasting
wrong. What American society needs
to be taught is that lictrotlial is an act so
solemn and tremendous that all men and
women must stand back from it until
they are sure that it is right, and sure
that it i- • "t, and sure that no retreat
>viU be tie . vd. Before tliat promise of
lifetime companionship any amount of
romance that you may wish, any ardor
of friendship, any coming and going.
But espousal is a gate, a golden gate,
which one should rot pass unless lie or
she expects never to return. Engage
ment is the porch of which marriage is
the castle, and you have 110 right in the
[Hindi if you do nut mean to pass into the
castle.
The trouble has always been that this
whole subject of affiance lias been rele
gated to the realm of frivolity and joke,
and considered not worth a sermon or
even a serious paragraph. And so the
massacre of human lives bus gone nn and
the devil lias had it bis own cruel way,
mid what is mightily needed is that
pulpit, and platform, and printing press
all speak a word of unmistakable air'
thunderous protest on this subject of
infinite important-. We pm rle:.r out
into thin poesy and light rending the
marital engagements of Petrarch and
his Laura. I >:mte and liis Beatrice,
Chaucer and his Philippa, Lorenzo do
Medici and his Lucrctiu, Sjicnser and his
Rosalind, Waller and hisSaccharissa, not
realizing that it was the style of their
engagement that decided their happiness
or wretchedness, their virtue or their
profligacy. All the literary and military
and religious glory of Queen Elizalieth’s
reign cannot blot out from one of the
most conspicuous pages of history her in
famous behavior toward Seymour and
Philip anil Melville and Leicester and
others. All the ecclesiastical robes that
Dean Swift ever rustled through conse
crated places cannot hide from intelli
gent people of all ages tho fact that, by
promises of marriage which he never
fulfilled, he broke the heart of Jane
Waring after an engagement of seven
years and the heart of Stella after an en
gagement of fourteen years, and the
poetic stanzas he dedicated to their ex
cellences only make the more immortal
his own perfidy.
•‘But suppose I should make a mis
take,” says some man or woman, “and
I find it out after the engagement and
before marriage?” My answer is. you
have no excuso for making a mistake on
this subject. Thero ore so many ways
of finding out all about the diameter and
preferences and dislikes and habits of a
man ‘ or woman, tliat if you have not
brain enough to form a right judgment
in regard to him or her, you are not so
fit a candidate for tlio matrimonial altar
as you are for an idiot asylum. Notice
what society your especial friend prefers,
whether he is industrious or lazy, whether
she is neat or slatternly, what books are
read, what was the style of ancestry,
noble or depraved, and if there be any
unsolved mystery about the person under
consideration postpone all promise until
the mystery is solved.
Jackson’s hollow. Brooklyn, was a part
of the city not built on for many years,
and every time I crossed it I said to my
self or to others, why is not this land
built on? I found out afterward that the
title to the land was in controversy, and
no one wanted to build there until that
question was decided. Afterward I un
derstood tho title was settled, and now
buildings aro going np all over it. Do
not build your happiness for this world
on a character, nia-online or feminine,
that has not a settled ard undisputed
title to honor and truth and sobriety and
kindness and righteousness.
Oh woman, you havo more need to
pause before making such an important
promise than man, because if you make
a mistake it is worse for you. If a man
blunder about promise of marriage or go
on to an unfortunate marriage, he can
spend his evenings away, and can go to
the club or the Republican or Democratic
headquarters and absorb his mind in
city or state or national elections, or
smoke himself stupid or drink himself
drunk. But there is no placo of regular
retreat for you, oh woman, and you could
not take narcotics or intoxicants and keep
your respectability. Before you promise,
pray and think and study and advise.
There will never again in your earthly
history be a tinio when you so much need
God.
It seems to me that the world ought to
cast out from business credits and from
good neighborhood those who boast of tlie
nntnber of hoarts they have won, as the
Indian boasts of the number of scalps he
has taken. If a man will lie to a woman
and a woman will lie to a man about so
important a matter os that of a lifetime’s
welfare, they will lie about a bill of
goods, and lie about finances, and lie
about anything.. Society today is brim
full of gallants, and man milliners, and
carpet knights, and coquettes, and those
most God forsaken or all wretches—
flirts. And they go about drawing
rooms and the parlors of water
ing places, simpering, and bowing, and
scraping, and whispering, and then re
turn to toe club rooms if they be men, or
to their special gatherings if they be wo
men, to chatter and giggle over what
was aaid to tbem in confidence. Condign
punishment it apt to come upon them
and they get paid in their own coin. I
could point you to a score whom society
has let drop very hard in return for their
base traffic in human hearts. As to such
men they walk around in their celibacy,
after their hair is streaked with gray,
and pretending they are naturally short
sighted when their eyes are so old in sin
that they need the spectacles of a sep
tuagenarian, an eyeglass about No. 8,
and think they are bewitching in their
stride and overpowering in their glances,
although thev ere simnlv laughing stocks
and dislikes are neither one nor two, but
a dozen—make tlie best you can of an
awful mistake. And here let me answer
letters that como from every state of tlie
American Union, and from across the
sea. and are coming year after year
from men and women who aro ter- I while God will take you up out of your
rificallv affianced and tied together disturbed and harrowing conjugal re la
the
wind and tlio sea shall 'hush the one and
silence the other. To the dykes, sisters,
mothers, wives, daughters of America,
to the dykes! Tlie mightiest catliolicon
for all the wounds and wrongs of woman
or man is complete absorption in the work
to rescue others. Save some man, some
woman, some child!
In that effort you will forget or be
helped *0 hear your trials, and in a little
of Trie
Best Make.
hard knot, a very hard knot
The- letters run sometliing like
tills: 4 * What ought I to do? My hus-
tion of earth into a heaven all the hap
pier because of preceding distress, Wher
Queen Elizabeth cf y.ngbmfl
band is a drunkard.” “My wife is a i ing it was arranged that the exact mo-
gadabout and will not stay at home.” , went ® ier death should be signaled to
“My companion is ignorant and hates the people by the dropping of a sapphire
books and I revel in them.” “I like ring from a window into the hands of an
music, and a piano sets my husband . oflicer, who carried it at the top of his
crazy.” “I am fond of social life and ! speed to King James of Scotland. But
my companion is a recluse.” 4 *1 am try- ; your departure from the scene of your
ing to do good and my lifelong associate earthly woes, if you are ready to go, will
is very bad. What shall I do?” My not be the dropping of a sapphire to th€
answer is, there are certain good reasons j ground, but the setting of a jewel in a
for divorcement. The Bible recognizes king's coronet. Blessed be liis glorious
them. Good society recognizes them, j name foreverl
But it must be the very last re- ■
sort, and only after all reason- !
able attempts at reclamation and adjust
ment have proved a dead failure. When
such attempts fail it is generally because
of meddlesome outsiders, and women
tell the wronged wife how she ought to
stand on her rights, and men tell the
wronged husband how lie ought to stand
on liis rights. And let husband and
wife in tin unhappy marriage relation
stand punctiliously on their lights, and
there will lie no readjustment, and only
one thing will be sure to them and that ia
a hell on earth.
If you are unhappily married, in most
cases I advise you make tho best you can
of an awfully bad largain. Do not pro
ject your peculiarities more than is nec
essary. Perhaps you may have some
faults of your own which the other party.
in the marital alliance may have to suffer.
You are in the same yoke. If you pull
aside the yoke will only twist your neck.
Better pull ahead. The world is full of
people who made mistakes about many
things, and among other things about
betrothal and marriage, and yet have
been tolerably happy and- very useful in
the strength of God and by the grace
promised in every time of need, if
those who seek it conquer the dis
advantageous circumstances. I am ac
quainted with lovely women married to
contemptible men, and genial men yoked
with termagants inspired of the devil.
And yet under these disadvantages my
friends are useful and happy. God helps
people in other kinds of martyrdom and
to sing in tlie flame, and he will help you
In your lifelong misfortune.
THE TARIFF AGAIN.
Editor Banner-Watchman: If some
humanitarian would suggest that the li
quor and tobacco tax be devoted to buy
ing linen dusters for the Esquimaux or
red flannel shirts for the Hottentots, 1
really believe that the proposition would
find supporters among the protective or
gans. These mouthpieces of monopo
lisms will accept. any suggestion that
tends to deprive the general government
of the Internal revenue tax, thus neces
sitating a continuance of the oppressive
duties on the necessaries of life. The
protective tariff papers care not what
becomes of this money, just so it is not
left in the public treasury, thus being a
constant menace to their interests. The
tax on liquor and tobacco adds annually
over one hundred millions of dollars to
the receipts of our government, and so
long as it is kept up not only enables,
but demands a reduction in-the tariff du
tiet that are bearing so hard upon the
great masses of our people and are bank
rupting and driving to the verge of ruin
our agricultural element.
President Cleveland, on the re-assem
bling of congress, devoted his entire mes
sage to this subject, and urged upon the
representatives of the people the vital
RornpmVior thepatieiice of Sob. YYliat » a Portance of enacting some law that
ife he had! At a time when he was will reduce the enormous surplus now
heaped up in the treasury, and that con-
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one great blotch of eruptions, and his
property was destroyed fiy a tornado, and,
more than all, bereavement bad come
and the ;ioor man needed all wise coun
sel, she advises him to go to cursing and
swearing. She wanted him to poultice
his toils with blasphemy. But he lived
right on through liis marital disadvan
tages. recovered bis health and liis for
tune and raised a splendid family, and
the closing |>arngraph of the hook of Job
lias such a jubilance that I wonder people
do not oftener read it:
“So the Lord blessed the latter end of
Job more than his beginning, for lie had
fourteen thousand sheep, and six thou
sand camels, and a thousand yoke of
oxen, and a thousand she asses. lie had
also seven 6ons and three daughters. And
he called the name of the first, Jemima;
and the name of the second, Kezia; and
the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
And in all the land were no women
found so fair as the daughtersof Job; and
their father gave them inheritance
among their brethren, frltor this lived
Job a hundred and forty years, and saw
his sons, and his sou’s sons, even four
generations. So Job died, being old and
full of days.”
Now, my badly married friend of either
sex, if Job could stand it by the help of
God, then you can stand it by the same
divine re-enforcement. Y'ou have other
relations, oh, woman, besides the wifely
relation. If you are a mother, train up
your children for God and heaven. If
you are a member of a church, help
move on its enterprises. You can get so
much of the grace of God in your heart
tliat all your home trials will seem in
significant. How little difference does it
make what your unrighteous husband
calls you if God calls you his child and
you are an heiress of whole kingdoms
beyond the sky?
Immerse yourself in some kind of out
side usefulness, something that will en
list your prayers, your sympathies, your
liand, your needle, your voice. Get
your heart on fire with love to God and
the disentlirallment of tho human race,
and the troubles of your home will he
blotted out in the glory of your conse
crated life. I cry out to you, oh woman,
as Paul exclaims in his letter to the
Corinthians: “What knowest thou, oh
wife, whether thou shalt save thy hus
band?” And if you cannot save him you
can help in the grander, mightier enter
prise of helping save the world. Out of
the awful mistake of your marriage rise
into the snhlimest life of self sacrifice
for God and suffering humanity. In
stead of settling down to mope over your
domestic woes, enlist your energies for
the world's redemption.
Some parts of Holland keep out the
ocean oidy by dvkrs. or walls of stout
masonry. The engineer liaving these
dykes in charge was soon to be married
to a maiden living in one of the villages,
the existence of which depended on tlie
strength of these dykes. And there was
to be a great feast in one of the villages
that approaching evening in honor of the
coming bridegroom. That day a great
stonn threatened the destruction of the
dykes, and hence the destruction of
thousands of lives in the villages shel
tered by that stone wall. The ocean was
in full wrath, beating against the dykes,
and the tides and tlie terror were still
rising. "Shall I go to the feast?” says
the engineer, ‘ ‘or shall I go and help my
workmen take care of the dykes?”
“Take care of the dykes,” ho said to
himself; “I must and will.” As ho ap
peared on tlie wall tlie men working
there were exhausted and shouted: “Here
comes the engineer. Thank God! Thank
God!” The wall was giving way, stone
by stone, and the engineer had a rope
fastened around his body, and some of
the workmen had ropes fastened around
their bodies and were let down amid the
wild surges that beat the walL Everything
was giving way. "More stones!” cried
the men. “More mortar!” But the answer
came: “There is no morel” “Then,”
cried the engineer, “takeoff your clothes
and with them stop file holes in the wall.’’
And bo in the chill and dai '.mess and surf
it was done, and with the workmen’s ap
parel tlie openings in the wall were
partially filled. But still the tide rose
and still the ocean reared itself for more
awful stroke and for the overwhelming
of thousands of lives in the villages.
“Now we have done all we can,” said
the engineer, “down on your knees, my
men, and pray to God for help.” And
on the trembling and parting dykes they
prayed till the wind changed and the sea
sulsided, and the village below, which,
knowing nothing of the peril, were fall
of romp and dance and hilarity, were
gloriously saved.
Now, what we want in this work of
walling back the oceans of poverty and
drunkenness and impurity and sin is the
help of more womanly and manly bands.
Oh how the tides come ini Atlantio
jC« ;e
lrCXtCAlf’KTJSTANa LTXIMErr. for Mav an]
tinues to groar every month. The gov
ernment cannot use this money, that is
being drawn from circulation and must
eventually, and very shortly, too, pro
duce a financial panic. The President,
with his clear head and proverbial sound
sense, recommends a reduction in the
tariff duties on the necessaries of life. It
seems to me that this suggestion should
meet with the hearty endorsement of
-very good citizen who has the welfare
of all cltsses of our people at heart. It
appears that our “infant industries” have
been protected long enough at the ex
pense of the tailing masses, and
from tender infants they have lived long
enough to grow into robust manhood,
being now in their second century. But
i istead of the wise and patriotic words
of the President being accepted by the
protectionists—who it really seems that
should be content with the privileges
they have so long enjoyed—they demand
that the time be still longer and indefl
ni ely extended for them to hoard up
wealth at the expense of a patient and
long-suffering people.
But there still stands between these
monopolists snd their selfish interests
the internal revenue taxes. Unless this
source of revenue to our government is
abolished, the manufacturer knows that
be must give up at least a portion of his
precious privileges. So a sytematic and
bitter warfare is inaugurated against the
revenue department. In Georgia the
protection organs have been peculiarly
bitter and severe upon this branch of our
government. In fact, to show the vital
importance to their cause, they ask that
the government no longer be allowed to
collect a tax on liquor and tobacco. I
have only to refer to the inconsistent and
ridiculous attitude assumed by that great
and leading Georgia paper, the Atlanta
Constitution. We find this paper, that
should be giving its influence and power
towards upholding the majesty of the
law, actually using its columns iu trying
to make martyrs of law-breakers. The
moonshiner is depicted in the most over
drawn colors, while the officers are held
up to the public gaze as the miserable
tools of a tyrannical and despotic gov
ernment Suppose all the papers in
Georgia should lend their influence in
upholding and supporting criminals,
what kind of country would we have?
If the illicit distiller was engaged in the
honorable and deserving business of
making two blades of grass grow where
one grew before, and was being perse
cuted in this laudable undertaking by
the millions of a brutal dynasty, he could
not receive more earnest or ardent ap
plause and support than the Atlanta Con
stitution is giving the men whose busi
ness it is to secretly, and in defiance of
law, transform the staff of life into a
liquid poison.
Failing to arouse the indignation of
the peoplp, as was hoped and expected,
we next find the Constitution, in its in
considerate desperation, attempting a:
appeal to the cupidity of the tax-payers
of Georgia, hoping thereby to accom
plish th* ends of the protectionists. Home
innocent old countryman from South
west Georgia wro.e that paper a sug
gestion that the states assume the taxa
tion of whisky. Like a drowning man
catebing at a straw,' the able editor of
Atlanta’s groat daily seized upon this
proposition and without consideration
or investigation adopt the suggestion as
his own. Had that editar taken the
gains to read the Constitution of his
own State, in honor oT which h‘s paper
is named, he would see that instrument
provides that all taxes shall be levied ad-
valorem. This would preclude the
levying by the State of Georgia of a
specific tax on whisky, sad would pre
vent the adoption by the State of any
such system as that which the general
government now has.
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For Georgia to collect a special tax on
▼hiskj and tobacco would be to over
throw and override the fundamental law
)f our State; but the Constitution could
indorse such an act m order to carry its
point, with just as much consistency as
when it sympathises with the illicit dis
tillers of our State. This ridiculous
suggestion by the Constitution shows
the lengths to which a man can be car
ried in his desperate defense of a lad
cause; but there is a certain degree of
consistency in a protectionist advocating
such extreme measures when we con-
siderthat the end they are aiming at is the
oppression of nine-tenths of the peopte
of the country that a fractional part of
eur population may gather around them
4 h^ great bulk of the wealth of our
country.
In my last letter I showed the gross
injustice to Georgia smiths South that
an acceptance of the Consfitntion’s prop
osition woold entail. Since that time I
have collected additional statistics bear
ing upon the Internal Revenue laws,
which I will sdd as a clincher.
I find that the aggregate tax p«id by
the state of New York from 1862 to June
30, 1887, to be $621,803,500 94. while
that of Georgia was $23,744,818 23
There are 13 states only that contain a
greater population than Georgia, white
there are 20 states that have paid more
internal revenue tax since the law was
coacted, and there are 21 states that
have paid more tax since the repeal of
the cotton tax in 1868. Since the repeal
of this tax the total arasunt of internal
revenue tax paid by the state of Georgia
is $8,601,825.64, while in Illinois the tax
paid during the same period is $370,192,
676.83.
I find that the per capita tax paid; by
each inhabitant in Illinois since 1862,
(taking the census of 1880 as a basis of
calculation) to be $146.82, while that of
Georgia is only $15.34. There are 29
states which have paid more tax per
capita than Georgia since 1862. The
per capita paid by each state, since the
repeal of the cotton tax, shows that Il
linois paid $121.07 while Georgia paid
only $5.G1 and that there aro 29 state!
that have paid more tax Bince 1808. Tho
per capita tax in Illinois last year, was
$6.95, while in Georgia it was 29 cents.
It may be claimed that titis tax is paid
by the consumer and not the manufac
turer of whisky. We will answer that
by showing that there Were ip New Y’ork
State, in 1887,31,863 liqnor dealers who
paid tax and that .tbere was one to
every 159 inhabitants, while in Georgia
there sre 1,615 who pay this tax or one
to every 949 inhabitants.
In California there is one retail liquor
dealer who pays scecial tax to every 77
inhabitants, while in North Carolina
there was one to every 862 inhabitants.
In Illinois there was one retail liquor
dealer who paid the special tax to every
264 inhabitants, while in Alabama there
is one retail liquor dealer who pays tax
to every 1,185 inhabitants.
From these statements you will aee
that they Dot only manufactured and
paid tax on more whisky than we did,
but that they must have a larger num
ber and a greater proportion of con
sumers.
In reply to the Constitution’s article, a
few days ago, that out million sf dollars
was paid annually by this state, I wil
call attention to the fact that tha com
missioner's report shows that the state
of Illinois pud $1,080,896.11 more tax
last year than the state of Georgia has
paid for the entire time since 1862, in
cluding the cotton tax.
The duty collected on sugar and mo
lasses for the fiscal year 1885, was $52,-
784,74400 (about the same amount was
collected last year). We will find that
the pro rata share of this tax paid by the
people of Georgia is $1,619,289 00, while
the entire tax paid on the whisky pro
duced in this state amounts to $202,-
239.00.
Mr. Editor, how any intelligent man
in Georgia, unless he has a personal and
selfish interest iu the matter, can oppose
a reasonable reductioa of tariff, is more
than I can see. There is not aa individ
ual in our state, it matters not how poor
or lowly, but who could have his ex
penses, outside of what is grown on ths
farm, largely reduced by a change in our
tariff. From every three bales of cotton
i Georgia farmer raises, one goes into th*
pockets of the monopolists. Every time
a good lady sends a dozen eggB to mar
ket, four of them go into the capacious
pocket of the man who is protected by
our tariff laws. Is it a matter of surprise,
thea, that, a* Mr, Stephens most truth
fully said, “the rising of every sun finds
the Georgia farmer poorer than when it
set?” For more thaa an hundred years
has congress passed laws especially for
the benefit of the manufacturer. He ha*
been pampered and protected until this
class is beginning to believe that their
forefathers fought, bled and died for th*
blessed privilege that they might lattsn
and grow rich on the sweat that fall*
from the brow of the honest and toiling
husbandman. I think it high time that
the tables were turned, and if congress
won’t protect the farmer, at least give
him the privilege of buying the goods
necessary to his existence in tho cheap
est market. If any one must be mads
paupers, let it be the men who earn their
iving under a shade, and not the claia
that toils, scorched by the rays sf ths
noonday sun, and towhose honest licka
the whole country looks for bread. If
our American raanu r actun ra cannot
longer exist without making serfs of our
‘artners, the sooner every mill and work
top shuts down the better.
And right hhre let me again aak th*
reader* of the Banner-Watchman, which
had yon rather aee taxed, the demoralis
ing luxury of whisky, or the necessaries
of life? The repeal of the revenue laws
means (ree and cheap liquor; but ths
continuance of the burtbensom tariff du
ties add from 25 to 60 per cent to ths
cost of every article yoa use. A tax on
liquor and tobacco forces congress to
make such changes in the tariff as will
lift a mountain load from the shoulders
of the toiling masses. Be not deceived
as to the issue now before the people of
Georgia. Respectfully.
T. L. Gasrr.
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