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ATHENS fcAMrfcfi ; ttESDAY MOltMSd, 8EPT£M6£fi « 1891
THE BERNER BILL AND THE GOODWIN
tSUBSTITUTE.
The practical difference between
the bill to regnlate railroads, which
was reported by the Committee and
of which Mr. Berner is the author,
and the substitute offered by Mr.
Goodwin is, that the Berner bill pro*.
Tides that an illegal and void con
tract shall be set aside by the courts,
while the Goodwin substitute leaves
it standing and imposes a fine on
the company if it discriminates. In
other words the Berner bill carries
out the Constitution and the Good
win bill does not. No doubt the
Goodwin bill is well intended by its
author, but fuller reflection will sat
isfy him that it is an unwise mea
sure. The railroad companies under
his bill will simply pay the fines and
then take it out of the shippers. If
anybody doubts how this bill will
operate, let him ask any official of
the Terminal Co. which of these two
bills are best for the State, the an
swer will be, the Goodwin substitute.
All the Terminal asks is, “Do not
set aside my lease.” It will pay the
fines cheerfully, for it will get it all
back out of the people. Just so the
lease is left standing, you may im
pose fines ad libitum.”
No greater mistake can be made
than to commit the State Govern
ment to the proposition that an ille
gal contract between two corpora
tions will be allowed to stand if the
corporations will pay enough money-
That doctrine may prevail tempora
rily and it may cause the defeat of
the Berner bill, but it is an unsound
and dangerous doctrine and the heal
thy public sentiment of this State
will rise up and repudiate it. No
amount of money paid as fines by
the railroads will entitle them to a
license to make illegal contracts. As
said above the fines will net come
out of them, the people will have to
pay them. But the ability to pay
fines ought not to confer a right to
violate law. It would be a hideous
spectacle in Georgia for laws to be
made excusing corporations for vio
lating the law if they will pay heavy
fines and at the same time dealing
out punishment to all who are not
able to pay. Tho Berner bill is a
conservative, moderate and useful
measure. It will put an end to this
conflict between the people and the
Terminal combination. It will set
tle the dispute. It will be found in
practical operation beneficial to rail
roads and people. It does no more
and no less than the Constitution
says “shall” be done, simply to set
Aside the illegal contracts.
The Terminal Company had better
Accept tfie Berner bill now and be
thankful. If they continue to oppose
it and should succeed in defeating it
the day will never come again when
they will be able to settle upon such
liberal terms. They had belter let
it alone. This is not Pennsylvania
and they are not the Pennsylvania
Co. The people control Georgia, not
the Richmond Terminal. They may
defeat this bill, but they will be
damming up the waters of retribu
tion if they do.
QUEER TELEGRAMS-
Some weeks ago when the break
in the market of Terminal stock oc
curred the Atlanta Constitution was
flooded with a column full of what
purported to be a special telegram
from New York, stating that it was
an attack of Northern men upon the
Terminal, and that the South ought
to come to the rescue. It was as
sorted that Northern capital was ar
rayed against the Terminal because
it was a Southern institution. This
thin and transparent device was not
trusted and it deceived no well-in
formed person. It was known that
the Terminal itself was controlled by
Northern men and that fourteen out
of seventeen of its directors lived in
New York. So we heard no more of
that.
Now comes the same paper and
publishes another batch of special
telegrams from New York asserting
that the break down in prices is
caused by an attack upon the Ter
minal here in the South. Surely
the Terminal must be “between the
Devil and the deep sea.’' One week
it has made itself obnoxious in the
North and the next it has turned the
South against it. It begins to look
as if it had lost its hold upon the
M
SECOND
JOSEPH!
TO NONE
Again I repeat, second to none as Bargain-Giver in Athens. I know whereof I speak. How do I know ? By the excl n r
my numerous customers, who crowd my store: How is it that you can sell cheaper than other stores ? I must, simply becaus °*
I AM THE ONLY BARGAIN DISTRIBUTOR IN ATHENS
and to continue the luxurious trade, I will and must SACRIFICE PROFITS. I say to the people of Athens and vicinitv P
Compare! Wake up and investigate. Study your own interest. Judge for yourselves. Don’t be lured into the star™ ° l ] lpare !
who, in the past, made it a practice to scream FIRE! FliiE! to the top of their voices when even the slightest* smok "* tl,0se
visible. Their cry of bargains is of such valne as a counterfeit dollar in a broken National Bank. You will be down ti,;* 6 " as
MAX JOSEPH’S, and enjoy this GRAND SPECIAL BARGAIN week. ’ S Week « at
l invite you to a little
Grocery and Dry Goods
Picnic, when in honor
of the week, I will offer
about 5 0 0 dollars
worth of
GROCERIES.
And about 800 dollars worth of
DRY GOODS.
And about 600 dollars worth of
at a glorious slaughter
just to have a little fun
all around.
These 1900 dollars worth
of goods are especially put
up for a tremendous driv«, to
have that little bit of fun,
that make customers and My
So-Celled Competitors
A PICNIC.
While my entire Sixty Thou
sand Dollar stock will be
thrown to you this week at a
great bargain, yet this little
bit of Nineteen Hnndred Dol-
lors worth of extraordinary
fun-making Bargains, will be
the Picnic of the week.
This will save you
money, The Store
opens at six o’clock.
An extra force of sales
men will be put on my
Grocery Department,
and an additional force
on the Dry Goods and
Shoe departments.
Be on hand bright and ear
ly and secu’e the pic^ of these
Nineteen Hundred Dollars
worth, as mentioned below
f r this Peek’s specials, such
as you have never heard of
before, and likely never will
again.
12 boxes Matches for 5 cents;
21 lbs Ex’ra C. best White Sugar
fori 00.
5 lbs best pure golden Rio Coffee
for 1 00;
5 b’xes fine sardines for 25c; 5c. a box
6 bars full weight Horse Shoe Soap
for 25c;
5 lbs best Soda for 25 cents.
Of the above Groceries, not more
than 1 00 w»rth of each article will
be sold to any one customer. The
prices being so fabulously low, I
don’t want one customer to get all,
and some none; therefore the limit
of 1 00 worth to each customer, which
will make it a judicious distribution
One Great Bargain
IN MEN’S UNDERWEAR !
66 2-3 per cent off from last winter
prices.
One lot of heavy Undershirts at I8c.
for a 65c Undershirt;
Two Lots Blankets, two colors, va
rious colored borders;
38c for a 1 25 White Blanket;
42c for a 1 50 light gray Blanket;
THREE LOTS JERSEYS,in Blacks
with fancy trimmings:
Lot 1: 38c for a 1 00 Jersey;
Lot 2: 58c for a 1 35 Jersey;
Lot 3: 78c for a 2 00 Jersey;
DOMES l’ICS and BLEACHINGS.
4£c for a lot of heaviest Plaids;
4£ cests for extra heavy unbleached
Shirting;
4 cents for good quality Checks;
2J- cents a yard for one lot good length
remnants Bleachings;
5 cents a yard for one lot Remnants
all wool double width Cashmeres;
I2£ cents a yard lor one lot of good
heavy 25 cent Jeans;
12^ cents a yard for one lot scarlet all
wool Flanne', 20c quality;
I2^c. for one ot crimson twilled Flan
nel, 25c. quality;
6c a yard for one lot Canton Flannel;
25c for one lot various colors Opera
Flannel, 65c goods;
25c for one lot fringed Ladies Scarfs,
original price was 75c;
1 80 for one lot Beaver Shawls, last
winter price $5 00;
2|c a yard for one lot Pol adot Cali
coes, 6c quality;
5 cents a yard for one lot Ticking;
8^c. a yard for 3 lots twilled doub ; e
width Dress Goods 20c. grade.
The great Bargain Day
SHOES.
Not more than one pair of one sii
each customer.
One lot Ladies Royal Kid B u
Shoes, fair s,itched, extensio Q
for fa 1 of the year, in »1 ^
2 25, at the small sum of
75 Cents a Pair.
All fresh goods and warranted.
One lot Ladies Extra Quality
gola Kid Button Shoes, Kid
Cloth Tops, Patent Leather Tii
very stylish, the newest out,
worth 2 50 and 3 00, for this wee
Only $1 25a Pair!
Come and look at them. See
Shoe Department.
Yours, Respectfully,
confidence of the public both Noitu
and South. It reminds one of a sto
ry told by one of the speakers dur ]
ing the late prohibition campaign
about a widower who bud married a
widow. The widower had some chil
dren by bis first wife and the widow
nad some by her first husband, then
they turned in and had a lot them
selves. One morning the unhappy
father of the family heard his wife
calling him loudly and excitedly
from the back yard: “John, John,
come ont here quick ; my children
and your children are fighting our
children.”
SOME EXCELLENT ADVICE-
Says the Charleston News and
Courier:
The Hon. James M. Smith, of
Oglethorpe County, Ga., is a farmer
who employs three hundred hands,
and runs a well-equipped railroad
of his own within his farm limits for
the purpose of hauling his supplies
und products economically. He is,
therefore, 1 ‘'considerable of a farmer,”
and is a recognized authority on ag
ricultural matters. Mr. Smith has
just published in the Atlanta Con?
stitution a letter of advice to the
farmers of Georgia, of which the
Constitution says: “This letter is
timely for two reasons: First the
time to sow oats is at hand, and this
letter is on that subject Second,the
coming year will be one of high
prices for cereals, and farmers who
have to buy corn will find it bard to
make ends meet If they have not
made enough this year to last until
next fall, the best thing they can do
is to plant a large crop of]oats to sup
plement their corn supply. This is
a matter of immense importance, for
the fall oat crop ripene before sum
mer, and it will be a small corn crop
that will not hold out till then. If
next summer the farmer has his barn
full of oats, he will not have much
high-priced corn to buy.” All this
appies to farmers in South Carolina
as well as to their neighbors beyond
the Savannah River It is pretty
certain that the prices of corn, wheat,
oats and bacon will all be higher
next year than they have been this
year. The provident farmer in South
Carolina will make his plans accord
ingly, and the planting of a fall crop
of oats is the first matter that re
quires bis attention.
A few days since, and a new cotton
firm settled in Athens and commenced
business.
It was the branch office of Messrs. S.
very simple process, Inman & Co., of
i bv thorn end whi«h V tW and under the
THE GOODWIN SUBSTITUTE-
The impression is gaining that
the substitute offered bv Mr. Good
win, of Fulton, ia just what the Ter
minal combination wants. The Ter
minal owners are taking care of their
speculation in stocks in Wall Street.
To set aside the lease of the Central
will interfere with their speculation,
imposing fines will not The adops
tionofthe Goodwin substitute will
be a great victory for the Richmond
Terminal. They will be perfectly
satisfied with that bill, for if they
have to pay any fines, they can gel
it back by a
well understood by them, and which
makes the people pay it at last JEJie
Goodwin bill leaves all their^
contracts in full force nirtLth&t
all is the main point jCjArtthem!
No doubt the inflt&Myff Mr’ .Liv
ingston upon the legipjkti^e has con
tributed largely to aid the Terminal
in this contest. He has been very
active and he is very influential and
very adroit. He will ebaum bis opin
ions, however, on this rauroad queso
tion. The people g^Hfy are stand
ing right where theifflliance con
vention stood whem^Kbt in Atlanta
and called for le°®ation enforcing
the Constitution, Jgt may be possi
ble for Mr. Livingston and the other
Terminal speakers to control the leg
islature on this qqgstion, but^jt will
not 8top there. They caJjpdtcontrol
the people.
MAX JOSEPH.
ANOTHER AGENCY.
ESTABLISHED IN ATHENS TO BUY
AND SELL COTTON.
IIEATII COTTON COMPANY
Of Charlotte, N.C. to do Business In
Our Midst—The Growing Impor-
. tance of Athens as a Ctoton
Market
If the Berner billis defea&d ii : *3
.in lu. v... i .'u
management of Mr. J. S. Cowles.
- iSfpw comes the establishment of an-
big cotton agency in Athens, and
^ne that pr oposea to do a big business.
Mefesre. John Van Landingham and B.
E. Humphries, of Charlotte, N. C., re
presenting the Heath Cotton.Company,
have been in the city a couple of days
looking around for a suitable office at
which to locate their business.
The Heath Cotton Company has
heard very much of the advantages of
Athens as a cotton market, and has
determined to establish a branch office
here. This company does an immense
business in buying and exporting cot
ton, and has branch offices at Norfolk,
Va.,|West Point, Va , and Monroe, N.
C., Charlotte being the Central office.
To this list of branch offices is now
added Athens, Ga. ‘
The gentlemen representing the com
pany were delighted with the city and
finely impressed with the prospects of
its business future. They, have not ss
CAPT. J. F. WILSON’S FUNERAL
Held at the First Methodist Church.
The funeral services of Capt. James
F. Wilson at the First Methodist church
were conducted by Rev. C. W. Lane at
4 p. m. who delivered a grand tribute
to the character of Capt. Wilson as a
Christian gentleman, as a gallant sol
dier, and as a good citizen.
The Confederate Veterans were pres
ent, both at the church and at the cem-
etary and at the close of the ceremo
nies at the grave paid a tender tribute
to the memory of each of their deceas
ed comrades, James F. Wil-
«°n and A. G. Tnrner, (the latter
being buried the evening before) by
decorating their respective graves
with flower*; with the following words
from the Secretary of the Survivors’
Association; “these rosebuds are the
emblems of immortality, not only the
immortality beyond the grave, but in
this life, for as long as the sun contin-
11OQ I TO /hi t*n lilt n n l . • <■ _ . .
Headquarters School Supplies.
Wd imriro oil a _ n * *■
will be by this Goodwi
It is better for the I
Substitute.
d t *
nothing at all tbau to pass. thqGpod-
win substitute. If they arb not
willing to pass a law which sets aside
unlawful contracts let them adjourn
without any action at all and leave
the whole question open for a new
legislature to deal with. Unletft the
state of public opinion
greatly a new legislature wifi*
chosen who will enforce the Conejk
lor as long as tbe sun contin-
ues its circuit, as long as tie tidesofold
Ocean shall ever ebb and flow, and a>
tong as the river by whose banks our
veterans are laid to rest runs to the
sea, and wherever the English lan
guage is spoken or written, through-
out ail the coming ages, the name ami
fame of the Confederate soldier will
ever be remembered.”
We invite all students to - make us a call and see what we
thera ' have 011 Hand a full supply ol
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NEELY’S REVERSIBLE
ujut
ej fc pla.ee for thejr jbtfice, hut
(do a few days, ”
tution.
Van .Landingham has • returned
tb’Charlotto. * The office here will be in
oharge of Mr. Humphrip? "
-Athens is grbwing id -importance as a
cotton market. ‘The lar^e receipts and
excellent gradb^f'cotton call for more
agenciesam# coming.
The establishment of branch offices
here by Messrs, s. M. Inman & Co.
and th^peyath Cotron Company means
^Weatideal to Athens.
t simply means more money with
ich to buy the cotton that rolls Into
Athens every falL
THE SENIOR CLASS.
Meets and Elects Its Officers for This
Term
The Senior class held a meeting yes
terday morning on the campus at which
a full set of officers for the ensuing
term were selected. The newly elected
officers are as follows: E W. Frey,
President; H. H. Smith, Vice Presi
dent; S. fi. Sibley, Prophet; J. Fred
Lewis, Historian, J. E. Welche, ora
tor; W. G. Park, Poet; R. De T. Law
rence, Treasurer; J. S. Horsley, Sec
retary and J. C. Blasingame, Chaplain.
This is a strong set of officers of an
able class of students.
The class of ’92 is made up of some of
the brainiest men in college, and is an
honor to the institution.
Tbe Married Women Leave Home.
Poplab Bluff, Mo., Sept, ia—A
queer case occurred here. Three wo
men arrived from Hoxie. Ark., and
stopped at hotel Freeman. Only one of
them registering and she tinder an alias.
In the morning three anxions husbands
came from Hoxie looking for their ran-
, wiv y 8 ’ found traces bat
did not get sight or their spouses. La
ter they learned that the women had
taken a morning train for the south,
again having their baggage checked for
Hoxie. Two of the hnsnands declared
they would themselves take a trip to
Texas, but the third remarked that "If
& me i4 would be
all right with him. * Tho ’woin«/were
all young. There was no e
any scandal.
Hurled for Four llonra.
Looanspout, Ind., Sept. 18 —While
James Miller, of Ohio county, was dig
ging a deep ditch o i his farm the hanks
closed over him. When he was covered
Miller’s arm was thrown upward, and
his hand protruded through the dirt
His loug absence from the farm honse
created alarm, aud a boy was sent to
of«?o I?* K Foil ?. win R the course
of the ditch the boy discovered the un
covered hand, aud Miller was rescued
and resuscitated. When restored to
consciousness Miller said that while he
was buried he was for a long time con-
scions, but unable to move. Air must
have reached him through an aperture
caused by his protruding arm. He will
recover.
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Lamar Knocked Him Ont.
Roanoke, Va., Sept. 18.—L. Q. c.
Lamar, Jr., son of Associate Justice
Lamar of the United States supreme
court, who came here in the interest of
the Hamilton-Brown Shoe company of
St, Louis as attorney in the assignment
of Green burg & Morris, engaged in an
encounter with the latter me.ulier of
k“ mar desired an audience
when Morns assaulted him. At the
ho ?" e Lamar again made the re-
Morns used insulting lan-
! former dealt the latter two
heavy blows, Ituocking him down, then
X- —* Lamar was ar-
, stood trial aud was dismissed.
of
Davidson to 8neceed Senator Call.
Tai.lahasse, Fla., Sept. 10. —Gov-
ernor /leming has appointed ex-Oon-
gressman Robert H. M. Davidson of
Quincy, to be United States
Florida, to fill the vacn“y^X
bj the failure of the legislature to elect
% successor to Hon. Wilkinson CML
Colonel Davidson is a native of Florida!
5® was congressman from the first
Honda district for fourteen consecn
W« ye ^!i ba !l^. bee " elected hr
surprise
Governor'. Plowing Match.
,.ftt TUIORK ’. Sept ’ 10 —Brown,
the Democrats candidate for governor
f£^? h r*^ b ' be “ r ' h “w«“'S:
4 he has. touched a plow for ten
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