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wElL DONF. Cfc'NTLEMEN. hold and-is talking fiercely aggres-
it£ 0 f the fact that there are give tariff talk to huge crowds in the
* ^ Isrge daily newspapers in big Western Reserve.
1 fir , u g hot, shot of feigned re- | Another development in Candidate
the Georgia House of Rep* I Campbell’s favor fs the incautious
uiives for passing tne Smith publication by the Republican news!
;u te, wldcb in substance is the papers that his note Tor $3,000 went
bill, vet the truth remains to protest last week. This eatab-
, e people of Georgia are prais- lishes his poverty beyond question
^e House for this wise and da- and poverty is popular this year. It
ictioD* likewise prominently identifies him
&l uiatioos are in order, and with the large and influential debtor
Je being showered upon the class.
wll0 voted for this bill from Candidate Campbell is not yet a
fjrm and every workshop in j safe bet, but he is coming.
State.
the aw ikU —bstitute * 8 a w * 8e I A new paper is peeping from the
Us every purpose is to en- a?* 108 .of the Savannah Times. The
leisure. 119 . , ~ . Georgia editor is able to fight fire here
llie Constitution of Georgia and hereafter.—Constitution.
„ h,.Qvs n non the rail- But no Georgia editor will fever have
M "ears upon tne ran- | OCCRsion flcrht flpo hapaa , rnp . tbey
-
ifiv h° 1 ^ ,
,, |Drt jpon the people of Geor-
" raj Han nek has always urged
ilnlfilinent of this duty that tue
a!»ture owes the people of Geor-
wd *e had confidence in the
representatives to the extent
> ■ Mi
pif
paring
f°
ourselves that they would
occasion to fight fire hereafter;
don’t go to,that sort of climate; for who
ever heard of a wicked Georgia editor f
—Americas Times-Recorder.
No! oh no! Taught patience in a
better school than Job; tortured to an
early death by the everlasting frowns
of a criticising public; chased around
the town by creditors all (Jay and haun
ted to agonizing dreams at a late hour
borne
from Atlanta without at n, 8 bt b y an unrelenting Devilcrying
I fff Ah M a +U >11 V dl
Copy!”—— oh no there’ll be no fire
* . » • II I • wu uv bUUiC II UCUU JUIO
i&rming such a duty. After all, I fl^hting hereafter. The hereafter will
^ b»ve only required the railroads | will be sweet by contrast,
the Slate laws. The Atlanta
jujujI bas very aptly put the ques- \ Thk bri # Lt P“ragrapher of the Atlan-
|8 follOWS.
active. Circolation cam*, prices went gaining any interest whatever, at the same
down, trade diminished, debts accumaiat- time paying regular the interest on the
ed, rexes increased »nd a wave of disast- r bonds deposited. It is here, where gov-
swt pt over the country sir.-wing wrecks eminent bonds get in their be>t work
everywhere and leaving agriculture pros- 3rd. By depnaitlng large amounts into
trate. Tue people want mote money to the disbursing officers in banks where it
bring back the condition of those prosper- can be used and upon which no interest i8
ooa days of years ago and' they believe by paid ,
restoring silver to the position it ott
front 1793 to “
tie legitimate ^
reli- ve to some extent - the industrial 1 by another designated by the secretary of
int- rests of tue country. v j the treasury.
Another truth your correspondent states am, By having a Pnsrcfflce account the
m bis letter, which is being severely real- necessity or f unction of which cannot be
iE d today by Uts masses. It is this: Thai dearly defined.
RON H W fiPir 017 JBB Jt all tbe gold and all tbe Stive* that could By these methods there was on the 28th.
UUll* a. u, DullLl, Uf dur* be put mto Citculaiion, and all the treasuiy I day of February 1890 $203,821,814 in
Is What the People
Want and Will
Have.
ears ago ana mej; own-ve uy paid.
er to the position it occupied 4 b. By manipulating the five per cent.
1873 will add something to I fund fortbe redemption of National banks
tf monetary, circulation, and I nobs, so the position of one bank is held
PERSON, RESPONDS
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ro THE ARGUMENT OF HON.
S. G. M’LENDON.
FREE COINAGE AND THE NA
TIONAL banking system
DISCUSSED.
AND THE SUB-TREASURY EX
PLAINED AS TO ITS WORKINGS.
no>es or green backs, and all the Natiou.d
banks notes were added together it would
not make up volume of currency sufficient
t - meet the demands of trar constantly ex
panding agriculture and commerce. H--
aski d what shall be done to increase the
volnme without doing violence to all
values and all national interest to the land.
Says be: “The illmnce repl e?, give us
the free coinage of silver and the sub-
I treasury plan or something ' better, and
abolish the National banks. I have
alrt ady discussed tne silver question and
the sub-treasury bill perfectly,, I do not
propose to discuss, but as. ro national
| banks, I wish to submit some r mirks for
pos- <-8sioo of i be National banks and
being loaned to the people on a high rate
ofimerest. meanwhile the banks were
paying but one per cent interest per
a»uum on only $127,401, 251 and receiving
the entire interest on their bondf deposited
in tue treasury. For this vast sum the
banks pgy the. government $1.274,102.51.
the people pay *he banks tor tb>- u«e of
this sum of eight per pent. $16,225,745,-
12. a loss to the people and a gam to tbe
banks of $14,961,642 61. W. H. English
the Presioeat of a National bank in In
dianapolis, in retiiing from the Presi
dency of said bank says to the stock
holders: "I congratulate the stock-holders
A Full and fair Discussion of the Great |
Problem.
tbe consideration uf ti ougbtful and con-1 of our enterprise. The bank h»B been in
8t *y i , v ® m, ' n . .. „ . operation fourteen years under my control
This sub-ueasury, like Banquo’s ghost, with a capital of $50 ,000. In th- niean-
refusiog to down, and being today one of I time it has voluntairly reinrned $509,000
the uvest financial issues agitating the I „f c-pitalstotck hick to its stock holders
Editor of the Banner-. , .
lo tun. supplement accompanying the 01 hogs and national
miixts of the American people, why is ii
Ur Editor, that all wiiters on finanoe and
p- liticri • ODomy who write ii^ihe interest
ret use tu
ts Journal says: “Even as tbe birds
covered the ‘babes in the woods’ with
'Wbat individual or corporation I leaves in fairy times, so the artless rail-
tl honest intentions can object to r °ad lobbyist showers the guileless leg-
lo the law of the land ? islators with free passes in these Ber
ner bill days.”
Yes, but to a passing spectator it has
come to pass that with all these passes
the Berner bill, or “something better,”
has passed with surpassing peace and
passionless passivity. Pass!
• anner of tbi- 6ih inst whs a communi-
eation sigued by 4. Q. M. upon the finan
cial situation, said by your pap> r to nave I
been addressed to Detnocra'-Allianceinen
and ail. This communication slitting
out by depreciating the fact that abuse had
beeu subsiituteit for argument, and railing
and accusation bad usurped the function |
of calm discussion. I began its peiusal
lion, would not
do more than I
pfOTBIOg
fuy raiiroad corporation in Geor-
aeajoyiag advantages in viola-
t ol the Constitution, those ad*
puM should be taken away. If
I ii got permitted tbe private citizen
I bin It the law with impunity, that
piifse should not be accorded to
lijoid companies.
The effect of the bill, should i
htoneliw, will probably be to help
)fi me railroads and the people,
hi; remove ti e roads jrom politics
puling ’.hem out of the category
lilt-breakers continually strug-
pg to escape punishment, and put-
D^ihem on a business basis. It
tlklptue people by giving them
Ik lover height rates that naturally
klorfroa competition.
'The Senate will do well if it foie
It the example of the House and
(tie the measure a law.'
Editor Crawford, of tbe Athena Ban
ner, is a good conservative Democrat,
good newspaper man, and good
writer. We judge this of him.—Jones
boro News.
And this is on« instance where “judge
not that ye be not judged” has no ap
plication. An admiring public has
long since judged just such a judgment
of Editor Wallis, of the Jonesboro
News.
Says tbe Macon Evening News:
People can learn, if by no other way
• ban experience. When Fassktt was
made collector of the port of New
York be said he knew potbing about
the business, but could soon learn. De
resigned when he was nominated Tor
governor of his state. He will soon
learn what running for governor
meanB.
p« ople, conclud ng wiib a suggestion as
a plan (or increasing the currency in
consistent with common sense and reason
and utterly impracticable,
This writer after admitting that tbe cry
of bard times goes up from ihe nieicbanit-
tbe fstm-rs, the manufacturers and .the
laborers that our country is in a state ot
distressing unrest, asserts that there are
three measures of relief pioposed which be
wishes to brietly discuss. The fust of tbe
three is the tree coinage of saver, tbe
popularity of ibis measure with the
people in his humble judgment is the
great overshadowing cause ol tbe present
financial pralaysis which is embracing tbe
whole commerce ot America. In this
opinion your correspondent is eminently
comet. A trick of tbe money manip
ulators of Lmbard and Wall streets annum, and that ibis money H/loaned by
made possible to a large extent by the I the banks to the people, not oniy at 8 per
National bank system, which he attempts | cent.per annum, but any per
*■ * ““ oon
AYE. THERE’S THE RUB.
Will is needed more to briufr
tout* reco dilution of feeling be-
•kb .ue Democratic party ndw ib
»od earestricted diacussiona ot
aituuies before the government
here is too much pride, prejudice,
id animosity prevalent for the good
the Republic.—Athkns Banner
Ntiere is the trouble in Demrcrat-
twks. Tue party—that is, what
Jkftof it—u as solid as it ever was.
Ill true Democrats are standing to
Nkr shoulder to shoulder, and
ifreis no cause for a reconciliation
' J n ebauce lor one.—Jonesboro
mi
"'ll!, there is trouble even in the
^aocratic ranks. Tbe people need
^ wd unrestricted discussion of
^ party’s principles. A campaign
Education is needed. When tbe
hice, an organization founded
Democratic principles, and es
6l itlly Detnocra’ic to the core, be-
ta « divided upon Democratic mean
* tt4 ’ ' s at once clear that Demo-
truths have not been as clearly
ss forcibly expounded as they
l *5 be. Aye, there’s the rub.
^e AlliaDCb out West has bolted
^ Democratic party and formed o
hlrd P art >- Why ? Because they
101 ful1 )' realize that the Demo-
#ll ' c P arl y's the only party for tb'
e it this country. Why get
the Democratic parly to, ask
i^t what that party demands?
1 Democrats now go to work
j. ex pisin these things. Let as
^ s campaign ot education. And
all, let the Democratic press
^ U9 « aDd argue Democratic doc-
.J tS unl) esitatingly but with pa-
in the language of plainness,
*° )e rness and of truth. '
^DEMOCRATIC prospects-
tiie Ohio campaign the eyes of
. tm °cracy «.{ this country
Redj U8tnow The Greenville,
U -Newr-
Thr statue of Jkffbkson Davis,
which has been lying in the depot at
Jackson, Miss., for several months, was
unpacked and found to be unsatisfac
lory. The committee has declined to
receive it. The Memphis Appeal-Ava-
launch thinks that if another isto t be
made the work should be intrusted to an
American sculptor.
If our esteemed contemporary, the
a ngusta Chronicle, wishes to appear
ecadstent and ^straightforward in its
defense of the consolidation of rail
roads, it ought to destroy its files. The
Bannkr has two or three old copies that
will have to be burned.
An adder was recently killed near
Dablonega. Ga., which had two dis
tinct and perfect heads and four eyes
When interrupted its two tongues
would dart out simultaneously and its
four eyes glitter.
In the resin belt of the San Joaquin
Valley, California, the growers are
obliged to employ Chinese laborers ex
clusively. The heat is so intense that
even the negroes are unable to bear it
Owing to the immense numberef re
cruita wanted in the Frenoh army the
standard of height baa constantly been
reduced. It is at present little more
than five feet.
Thk largest dog in the world is in the
St. Bern ard Lord Bute, now at the
Menthon kenn -Is at Phocenixyille,* Pa
He was bought from Tbomss Shiloock
of Birmingham, Enland, for $3,650
I hf.rf. is still a lingering impression
in Georgia that the railroads were made
for the people and not tbe people for the
railroads.—Atlanta Journal.
“For tb s relief much thanks.”
“Don’t lun down your town,” says
Stanton’s Billville Banner. “It is a
heap better to blow it up with
dynamite.”
Spkaking of thi “Gold Cure” for
drunkenness, an exchange very peitly
suggests that it is “$I0 aud post.”
Judge Crisp, is most cer sin to be
S - «kcr ot the next Congresa.
says:
a oK look brighter
L ' than «>ey did two week;
»tid Campbell has salleo
liij t ' a wonderful fight.
hr i he# ln ° ne d * y was his re
iljo #8t Tuesday. He is carryi-
into the enemy's atropg-
besiies paying them in dividends $1,496,
250 part of which wav in gold and now
turn it over to you with a capit-il
un mpaired, amt $32 ,000 of tbe undivid
ed earningson banJ. To t*ds might be
added tbe premiums of' United States
bonds at present pr.ee, atuouu mg to
$30,000.
A profit of $2,383,350 accumulated in
fourteen years fiom an original capital of
a half million dollars, or $ 70,232.15 per
year., A.l ibis paid by the people for tbe
use of tbeir own mon<-y. Cannot a cheap
er medium be found through which to
ocean steameis to < mr shores from foreign I emit money from tbe government to tbe
countries laden with gold to bby the far-1 people? The areal masses of tbe people
■tiers grain and cotton has dispelled the I 8r e beginning to think there is, and the
lark cl'-nda of business »$agnatk>u and I industrial classes are organizing to get
n athwart our buSinesa jky gleams of j themselves in shape to find it. lu tbe
business | tosperity, why will not these I blazing light of all these facts, your cor-
a.-ricul ur.l products properly placed iu I respondent says instead of keepinu up the
.overnment warehouses afford as safe a I war upon Natioual basks, which has ni-tb-
ba-is for a portion of our circulating I jog t«» feed upon exc.-pt prejudice and ig-
imd um as gold, silver or even the govern-1 norance, he would suggest as something
meut credit. If they posagps ths inherent better than the sub-treasury that these
power to command foreign gold and raise! ba ks be perpetuated, and the law under
’be clouds of business gloom in their owu | which they exist and operate be amended
the following respects:
discuss it. If it is a delusio:
a full and fair discus-ion
anything else to disclose it? Is not the
reason because they itfe kfi aid that such h
discussion would prove this muen abused
measure to bo a simple aolulioa of the
monetary trouble 'In this country In a
manner as fair snd just to tbe mnaaca ot
r tbe people as to the national banks and
with hopes Uiuyant of falfing upon a clear, 1 a 0,J bu ks. If the recent approach of
calm, tair and logical argument upon tbe | ocean att-atneis to <iur shores (rom foreign
great question whieh will overshadow
every other qu* -tioo in the future,
American finance ” revealing in its con
clusion a happy soluiion of this vexed
question Alter reading and re-ieading,
disappointment L found it to be Only a
feeble and bkeptical attack upon tbe tree
coinage of silver, a weak and very thin
defense of na-ional banks, an announce-
m- ut of a fact known and felt by the
larger class of our people, that tb<- amount
ot money ot every kind in existence, is. ... .... ,
wholly insufficient tor the needs of tbe I * a, *d could they not uphold a cutrency tor l and cb&ni
tb>- people?
Passing «n to bis defease of National
banks you “correspondent says: “It is a
common belief that the government of the
United dates lends money to tbe National
1. I would have tbe law so changed as
thatAhese banks could loan money on real
estate. 2. I would require all National
bank- to issue National bank notes up to
tbe full amount of their capital stock, se-
tmaks at one p- r cent per annum and that I cured, of course, by a deposit of govern-
th se banka 1- nda this money to tbe people
at 8 per Cent per annum, and that tbe laod
owner is shut out because be cannot
borr. w on real estate. If' this is really
Hue why should there not , be, and as a
matter of tact would there not be a hun
dred National backs where we have one.
Tbe belief here spoken of is more true
than'common. Ii is a notorious fact that
'be government of the United Stales does
issue Nation-1 banks bills and furnish
them t-» tbe National banks for a circula
tion at a cbai geo t only one per cent per
the
cent
to defend, tie asset ts nnoiher truth wlieu 1 banks can extoit out of tbe borrower,
be savs that the rights of capital and the
rights of the masses are entitled to equal I prohibited tiom loaning money on real
respect and no man is,eitber statesmau or I estate and tbe reason why there ate not a
patriot who refu-es to recognize eiiber, I hundred Natioual banks where we have
[,ui forgets tbe rights of the masses m bis one is simply because of the sc .rcity and
arguments. dearnt ss of the government bonds requit-
His argument against tbe free coinage I ed to be d<-poei£ed by the banks to secure
of silver is very scrptii at the main and | 'he redemption «»l tbe bills and for the ad
meut bonds. The details of such require
ment shall be just to tbe banks, of course,
and this is the p au to increase the circula
tion and supply the people with plenty of
money. T o this first proposition our great
Ametican financier aDd ex-Comp<roller of
the Currency, Mr. Trenboltn, takes issue.
He says national banks constitute a body of
bankers exclusively devoted to the collect
ing. tbe safe keeping and the employment
in temporary loans of tbe floa'ing capital
of tbe country, that tbe banka that serve
the farmers best are those that move their
_ 3 with least delay, and a bank in an
agricultural section that gets its funds tied
only objection being a fear of its depre
ciation and tbe demand of the gold-bugs
paper payable in gold from tin- poor la>r-
lower—reams of to<> arap have been used
to convince tbe people that their govern
ment could not make m<mey out of paper
unless it was based upon gold, and the
banks and bond holders bad the gold or
the control of it, and this generation has a
combination of men who hold all the
up in long loans to farmers mistakes its
office and vocation, and is as great an ob
it is just as true that National banks are I slruction to local prosperity as a railroad
v,. . „ . , — . i wou j^ b e ,j, al ghcjjd txire all its freight
cats out during tbe dull season for an em
ployment that k-eps them out of its reach
and control beyond tbe season during
which tbe community depends upon it to
take away tbe produce of its y< are labor,
and to bring back the comuiodities essen
tial to its winter benefit aud maintenance.
The secoud proposition to increase tbe cur
rency by requiring the banks to issue their
notes to tbe full ramount of their capital
of gov-
lUbtful practi-
An Engine Goes Through a- Freight
box—A Negro Brakeman Badly
Wounded, but not Fatally.
A bad collision occurred yesterday
morning about half past three o’clock
just where the Georgia, Carolina anff
Northern crosses the track of the Ma
con and Northern road.
TheG., C. A N., freight was just
pulling out for Monroe, and was about
half way across the track of the M. &
N„ when a freight train on the latter
road came dashing through the cut at a
rather high rate of speed.
And then came a crash, a splitting of
timbers and an agonizing cry
from a human being.
The engine of the M. & N. freight
had plunged eutirely through a freight
box of tbe G. C. & N. train and had
precipitated a negro down a high em
bankment to tbe grouad belo w.
The negro man was first looked af
ter. His name is Joe Polk and he was
a brakeman on the Georgia, Carolina A
Northern and was on the car which was
Btruck.
The force of the collision hurled him
from his position and threw him down
the embankment. He fell upon his
head, striking a large rook.
As his head struck tbe rock, the blood
fleto fully fifteen feet. It was thought
at first that he had been killed.
Medical aid was summoned and bis
wounds dressed. It was found that the
whole forehead had been laid bare down
to the eyebrow^, but that no fracture of
the skull had resulted.
Thus while it was quite a painful
wound, the negro will recover in all
probability.
Tbe car was torn all to pieces and
bales of cotton scattered in every direc
tion. The engine was badly demolish
ed also.
After getting all the wreck out of the
way the two freight trains went on to
their destinations.
The blame of tbe affair is hard to
find. The G. C. & N. train was running
schedule time, while the M. & N.
was behind. Tbe engineer of the M. &
N. freight, when he saw how near his
train was to the other, reversed his
engine and put on the brakes. They
.did not work, and he and his fireman
jump.ed to save their lives.
This accident teaches one lesson very
clearly.
There should be a watchman kept
constantly at this point.
dilinnHl and better reason that the govern
ment is and has been loaning these banka
in the nature of deposits all the money
they wls. e l without any interest. 1
After giving several illustrations of the I stock to be secured by th<
modern operation of the organization of I ernment bonds isof very
“There are millions in it” said
druggist when asked about Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup. Price 25 cents.
For sometime past I’ve been a rbeu
matic. I recently tried Salvation oil
which gave me almost instant relief. I
sincerely recommend it as it has entire
ly cured me.
JAMES GORDON, Balto. Md.
cability as a measure to increase tbe circu
lation. Tbe United States government
bonds being already is.- ued, and in the
bands of the boldere. without any constitu
tional or Btaiute power to compel the bol-
dersof these bonds to bank open down
price or sell them to be banked open, how
will it be possible for the banks to obtain
National banks which clearly contradicts
b ta position or rat her intimation that tbe
government does not so loan money to
National banks, your correspondent fur-
indebtinessDf tbe aocalled civilized na-1 ther says: “Tuat b.* finds Horn the reports
ions of the earth which represents tbe I«« ‘be comptroller ot the currency 1890
entire value of these nations, a d they that there are several National banks tb tbe
cell* cl usury from the whole thing. This chy of New York whose aggtegaie capital .
condition culd not exist without having I amount to $14 700,000 w o could if they them, and should they be able to obtain
the money based upon gold and silver. A j bad bonds deposit' d under the law have every government bond in existence to is-
comn'odity wholly inadequate and incou-1 issued them by tbe government $13,230,- sue currency upon, where is any law that
venient for the use of the people but just 1National bank notes and yet tbev have I could compel them to loan it over their
tbe thing for the usurers. They can dodge I outstanding Oct. 1890 only $107,850 of I counters if tbey did not choose to do so,
tbe tax on it, contract - it, move it, hide it, I their own bills. Teat in a list ot fine I an d what would prevent them from still
and steal it, and will continue to do so aa Nations! banks in Georgia whose combin-1 contracting the circulation by stacking
long as tbey can m ke the common bead I ed capital is $1 500,000 upon depositing I their notes in their vaults and refusing to
believe that money must be redeemable iu I over nut- ni bonds they could have Issued j loan or-discount paper, just as they have
any kind of money which they call good I $1.350;000 circulation and yet they refus- done tbe past spring and summer. It
money, and which they claim to he kept I ed to do this aud only had issued $198,260.1 would be a useless expenditure of time and
to redeem tb« money tbe people use, and I Tb** °n March 1st 1890 there were in I means for the government to increase the
so lot g as they don’t know the difference I New Yolk City forty-five Nation banks circulation, without some method of in-
tt is just as well as though they bad it, for | doing business on a combined capital of I jecting it directly into the arteries of trade
they never have tbe necessity to exchange I $48,850,000. These banks could have in I and commerce. To create a currency to
a legs! lender money for this so called good I eitcutation thetr own notes amounting to I be locked up in the vaults of National
money and they never will. As much as 144,000,000 but as a matter of fact they only I banks will aff rd no relief. Banka based
has been said about paper money and,gold I bad In circulation $3,!06,000. The Na- J upon Don-taxable interest beating govern-
and silver money there is no such thing I t'°nal banks id the live years ending Oct. I me nt bonds are based upon the National
legally as gold and silver money and paper 131,1890 increased 839 in numbers and j debt. If our National debt was paid tbe
money. Money as the measure of price or I dutiug tbe Bame period the National bank j National banking system would go down,
value save ait eminent and able American I circulation decreased $151,345,453 or at I \y e have already paid our debt twice, and
... — T " 1 are paying it again. Shall we keep on
paying tbe debt over and over again to
taking and retaining the impress of I DaoKs bavin* a o.mbinea capital $8.-1 foster a monied aristocracy, which is worse
that authority. It is tbe recognize11 776,000 upon which could have issued $3,-1 thau u blooded aristocracy. Social prob-
pie ence of tovereiguty in tbe market and 1398,400, in National bank notes, these I i e ms are assuming great proportions in
in tbe couits an a medium of exchange or.I batik* had out standing that day only I America to-day. Tbe relation between
a means to tin end, it has no value but tbe I $827 530 of such notes,” , I capital and tabor are daily b* coming more
sovereign will recorded upon its face its I Now Mr. Editor, in addition .to these I strained. The stream of misery grows
value being fixed by tbe will of the govern-1 statistics let me add in this line that the I broader, aa ooloesal fortunes rise skyward
ment and not by tbe intrinsic quality of I ntire capital of tbe National banka in the I the poverty in all our great centers of civ
that upon which it is impressed legally it I Uuited States government iu Oct. 1888 was I ilization as well as throughout the landlord
cannot yary. A silver dollar being made $432,242,216 while tbe circulation was I and mortgaged cursed communities is year
. .. * ‘ "*■ “ * ‘ * * more terrible and general
by tbe nuiboriiy of be government a legal I only $157,702,809 and has been constantly I by year growing
tender in the payment of all debts,> tender | deer, asiug since as shown by the reportsol I “He who lets bis country die dies himself
if it will compare its acceptance by the I the comptroller of the currency. Some of I ignobly, lets all things die, and all things
creditor, be be goMbug or laborer. Give | the banks bave not taken out or put in I dying curse him.” Isay, too, let us have
tbe American merchant, farmer, manufac-1 circulation one dollar of National bank j open, free discussions of the truth by tbe
tute and laborer a silver dollar made a J bills which they were prtviliged £to do, best brained and broadest statesmanship
Wiiile others were surrounded tbeir entire I and soundest patriotism of tbe age. The
circulation in the face of r all these facts I coming statesmen of th>s a:e who expect
collated arranged and presented by your I to lead the people mu-t be able to grapple
able . statesman, ta there a man I with the intricate problems of political
in all this broad land will say I economy and finance, and bold enough to
that he has not proven beyond I siaud by tbe interests of tbe great masses
a shadow of a doubt that tbe National | in all -its adjustments. H. W. Bull
’Rah for oursenuot-
That New City Hall—Tbe City aw
are putting tbeir heads togetli-
Cltv hall question, andj^are
seeing what can be done towards rais
ing enough money to go akead and
build a hand«ome building on their
naw lot. They have alroauy purohased
the lot of Judge Herrington, and pro
pose to erect a handsome structure
thereon. D is said that the new build
ing will be finished inside a year. It
will he quite an addition to the city.
legal tender in the payment of nil debts
and taxes and that will purchase every
thing they desire. I ark what more conld
a gold dollar aff.rd them, so there is not
ihe least danger that the free coinage ol
silver will drive gold into tbe hoarding
vaults and send it to a premium. Free
coinage will do no such thing. We bad I banks of this government ar» willfully and
free coinage of silver in tbe country and filouiously gmliy of cent'acting the ent-
gold never went to a premium as a cans. - ren -y and a stupendous fraud es banks of
queue?. On the conltaiy the free use of issue and government nx dium for dis-
ailver will make less demand for gold. If | trittulm* ue currency among the people,
there was a prospect that gold was going I The reason these hanks have nut availed
to be a premium in ibis country, the gold themselves of tpeir privilege tu issue notes
which is being held in reserve in Eniope I of circulation ta very obvious to those in
would immediately set k a profitable mar-1 Natioual banks, legislature: and the Com-
ket here. Gold will become lesa valuable pettioo of currency repot ts.
as mom y when silver becomes m re val- There are five different methods by
uable. As it becomes less valuable it will I which tbe government loans money to the
be h.-a deu-lets . - - —- I banks, but neitherone ta called a loan by
But tb'- mass* s of the people are not ip-1 either the banks or government, in «acu
ten s < d in tbe cold product. What they gome outer term ta used for tbe purpose of
desire and med And are going to make an deceiving the penpl- as to tbe real falls,
effort for is a {fee circulation of money I The meth ids referred to, arts First
N ta ciicukttion issued by the go vert - jihe deposit of 4100,000 in government
mtnt and {fivrn to tbe people but a citcn-1 bonds in the treasuiy, the depositor is
latlon frea from manipulation «nd con- loaned $90,000 on wbich -ta paid by the
Uncurb t< r the purposes of peculation by bank*of one half per '*“* ^
the th< ney sharks of Wail street. The
p* ogle bet an business either on the*, farm,
in tjS. w orkshop or behind the coulter at | ment bonds in the treasury tbu go/ern-
t hefcloee of the war wl tb a plet boricscircu
THE LASH AND PILLORY.
A Return to Punishment of Olden
Days In New Jersey.
New Castle, Del.. October 3—This
morning Sheriff Simmons whipped five
criminals, three negroes and two whites
as follows:
Lorenzo Walters, Colored, age 15,who
banks, but neither onetacailed. a loan by j jjgo 8tood one hour in tiie pillory.
; John Jackson and Daniel Sordon
both colored, each five lashes.
John Mnrpby and William Moore,
both white, each ten lasbes.
Andrew Price, colored, about 70
cent, every six I years of age, who stole chickens, stood
mouths or one per cent m-r annum. one hour in the pillory.
wULMoundgumyo.
met. twill deposit with ruck b<.uks $l-j forgery, also stood one hour in the pil-
Friceg wue hub anti tru’lp was 000,000 In lawtul money without re- lory, and will spend one year in jail
A Baby Is Born to the Ex-President
and Mrs. Cleveland-The News
Spreads Rapidly and Everybody
ts Sharing Grover’s joy—Many
Congratulations Received.
New York. Oct. 3.—The happiest
man in New York is ex-Prcsident Grover
Cleveland. His office on William street
has not recently seen his smiling, round
countenance. This has been accounted
for us there has been a night of excite
ment in the Cleveland household on
Fifth avenue. Ever and anon Grover
paced the floor, sending messages and
questioning each person as they silent
ly and cautiously tread the halls and
stairways of his home.
Thiis continued until 12 o’clock, when
a lady feiend rushed to the ex-president
and whispered something in his ear. A
twenty-by-thirty smile went from ear
to ear and the happiest man in the
United States was the ex-president,
when lie found there w:ts a female ad
dition to his family.
The news whs quickly communicated
to friends of the ex-president down
town, and since the arrival of the new
comer in the Cleveland household tele
grams have been pouring in by the hun
dreds of a congratulatory nature.
In some parts of the city even cannon
have been brought into play and the
grertest enthusiasm has been manifest
ed all over the metropolis.
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THE ATHENS DISPENSARY
Passpa Its First Saturday Evening.
It was quite a lively day yesterday at
the dispensary.
Tbe sales went away up in the hun
dreds and a large number bought in
enough for Sunday.
A8the hour drew near for closing up
yesterday evening the animation mid
stir around the dispensary increased.
The people cast a look at the setting
sun and then made a dive for their liq
uor. Some of them came down Broad
street in a fast trot and rushed into the
dispensary all covered with perspira
tion.
And inside were about fifty, all cry'
ing to get the stuff at once. They knew
all couldn’t be waited on by sundown,
and it was a scramble to see which
should get it first.
Aud then came the closing hour
when ths manager motioned to about
twenty-five to get out, and they got.
But they didn’t carry their whiskey
with them.
The sales of liquors for the three
days amounted to about eight or nine
hundred dollars.
Every day at twelve o’clock Manager
Johnson turns over his proceeds to
Clerk: Mitchell and takes 'the Clerk’s
receipt.
From Thursday morning at 7 o’clock
to Thursday at noon the sales amounted
to $115
From Thursday at noon until Friday
at noon tbe sales were $275.
From Friday at noon until yesterday
at noon, the sales ran up to $262.
The average sales are between two
and three hundred dollars per day.
At t)ris rate the sain for a year would
reach $75,000, but in a few weeks they
will run down to one hundred dollars
day or leas.
A LITTLE FA THERLY ADVICE
.“If ever you marry,” said an old
gentleman to his son, ‘'let it be a wo
man who has judgment enough to su
perintend tbe getting of a meal, taste
enough to dress hersi’f, * pride enough
to wash her face, am ., ense enough t<
use Dr. Pierce’s Fav rite Prescription
whenever she needi it. ” The expreri
ence of the aged has shown the “Favor
ite Prescription” to be the best for the
cure of all female weaknesses and de
rangemente. Good sense is shown by
getting tbe remedy from your druggist
and using it whenever you feel weak
and debilitated. It will invigorate and
cannot possibly do harm.
Miss Marie Bruce, of tbe Home
School has been called home on account
of the illness of her grandmother.
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FREE PASSES
Are “In It” With the Housp Committee
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 3.—[Special.]—
It seems that the members of the leg
islature are loth to givetup the pleasure
of riding on free passes.
Yesterday the committee to whom
was referred the bill of Mr. Whatley
prohibiting judges and members of tbe
legislature from accepting courtesies (?)
in the shape of free passes, reported
the bill b*ck to the house with the re
commendation that the “bill do not
pass ”
Mr. Whatley said: “I was not in
the house when the report was made,
but there will be a minority report, and
will urge its adoption. I am in dead
earnest in this matter, aud will urge the
passage of my bill.”
Mr. Whitfield’s insurance bill that
created so much interest in the early
part of the session, is soon to come to
tbe front again. Today Mr. Whitfield
had it m^de the special order for Wed
nesday morning, at which time he will
press its passage,
It is a good bill in the interest of
the people,” said Mr. Whittled, “and it
ought to become a law. 1 have waited
until the members had time to look into
it and see what great good it will ac
complish, and I am bow ready to urge
that it become a law.”
Governor Northen to-day granted
two pardbufi, on the recommendation of
the judges and solicitors who tried the
cases. Charles Hamilton, who ta serv
ing a life sentence for murder and has
been iu the penitentiary for seven years,
from Meriwether couuty is one of the
fortunate parties, and the other is David
Davis, who shot a man in Dooly county
but did not kill him.
' One of tbe most important bills which
has passed the legislature this session is
the one which passed tbe senate this
morning. It had already passed the
house, having been beeu introduced by
Mr. Boifeuielet. The bill is to regulate
state banks. It provides that no bank ,
shall lend any of its officers any part of
the funds of the bank unless the loan
is secured by good collaterals; that tbey
shall not by loans reduce their depos-,
its lower than 25 per cent, of their de-,
maud deposits; shall not loan to any '
one man more than 10 per cent, of the
capital and surplus; and that the banks
shall be inspected at least once a year,
and gives the treasurer a $1,200 clerk to
assist him in this matter. i
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Moore Retire* From Office.
.. ashington, Oct. 3 —Third Assist- -
t.nt Secretary John Moore has retired
from office iu the department of state
to undertake the duties'of professor of j
international law at Columbia college, i
New York. Mr. Moore has filled the
position of third assistant secretary I
since Mr. Bayard’s accession to the of-'
fice of secretary of state. He has taken
a prominent part .in the Behring sea ne
gotiations, and ta the author of some
standard w orka on international Uw.
He was the. literary executor of the late ;
Dr. Francis Wharton, who held the po- ’
sition of solicitor of the state depart- i
ment, and completed the valuable edj-
tion of that Writer’s 'legal work. Thai
chair.that Mr. Moore is about to fijl has j
been newly established, and he will be '
its first occupant. - .
A Husband'* Vengeance.
x ARLS, Oct. 8.—A sensational murder
r..as committed in a wine shop at Cour-
bevoi, where a large number of persons
were drinking. Without any notifica
tion whatever a ' dentist of' Courbevoi
named Morchede rushed into the tavern
auu, casting a rapid glance around the
room, suddenly drew a revolver. He
then aimed the weapon at Army bur
geon Mantin, who was present, u;ld
fired two shots: Man tin fell dead upoi.
the floor. Marchede, who suspecteu
his victim with undue intimacy with
his wife, escaped iu the confusion.
Back From Wesleyan. -Miss Eunii e
Thornton has returned from Macot ,
where she went to enter her sister, Mns
Lula, at Wesleyan Female College. /
liu^la,