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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday a*
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
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March 18th, 1897.
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OFFICIAJ. OKf.'AN OF TIII3 ITI'V
OF BAINBRIDOK AM) DECATUR
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
Everybody ready for the South
-west Georgia Fair? Yep;
Nonight’s “Sandman’s Story.”
Tom Watson bossed the State
Democratic Convention. Just so,
Just so.
Richland lost her ice plant last
week. Brown of the News will
now have to take his’n straight
and out of a gourd.
No mullet supper, no fight ia
the way one of the denizens of
Raleigh-town puts it now. Satur
day night passed off very peace
ful.
Is’nt it remarable? Five fellows
came in Friday and paid for their
papers. The devil, the foreman
and the editor survived the shock
and are living to tell the tale.
Marshal Davis of the U. S.
Court found some of his old slave
negroes a few days ago in Savan
nah and the re-union was realy
affecting from all accounts.
Every Bainbridge citizen that
can will take in the Fair atDonal
nonville next week as they are
all deeply interested in its sue
cess.
The boys have had swell time
of it this week. The fellows put
over the sturgeon supper had to
sit in the gallery and eat peanuts.
How the mighty do fall.
The distant bay of the possum
dog reminds a fellow that per
simmons will soon be ripe and
the possum and tater proposition
will be well worth discussing.
“Hog and Hominy” the banner
that was long waved by the
lovers of this section is at last
becoming the banner of the pros
perous and soon will be that of
the faithful.
Cole Blease threatened to con
test the gubernatorial election in
South Carolina. Now Cole, old
boy just go to it and see if we
care. An extra licking or two
would not do you much damage.
Postmastei at Sales City,
Mitchell county charged with
embezzlement. What a pity, the
poor fellow must have been bet
ting on elections with A1 Spence.
The disloyalty to the Party in
its hour of need will reap its own
peculiar reward in the coming
days both in the minds of men
and the manifest of measures.
Mark the prediction.
One of our exchanges objects
to having women on the jury be
cause they would punish the
ugly men and let the good look
ing one off free. Has anyone
heard Shelby Davis, Roy Powell
or me kick on letting them
serve on the jury? If so please
rise and stand until you are
c unted. “Let ’em serve, say we,
iet 'em serve.”
The man that imagines he is a
political power has a slim
pedestal to stand on and every
campaign year brings this more
to light but it does not keep
down the ambitions of the would-
be- warwicks.
This editor is sure getting a
touch of life now, has two little
boys, two cats, one dog, one goat,
one pig and a rooster to take
care of while his wife is away.
Outside of these, things are
pretty quiet around the editorial
home.
The Southwest Georgia Fair
and Home-Seekers edition of the
Donalsonville News that has
been issued this week in the way
of a booster edition is some inter
esting document along education
al and agricultural lines.
They tell us the lunatic asylum
is full of men that thought they
understood their wives but it
does not take a Solomon to tell
what ails them this time of the
year or in the spring either when
the millinery openings are on £
Waycross has a gas system
in operation now that seems to
have the edge on their old and
reliable “Jet” but we warrant
that it will not render any more
valiant service than Jet has in
days gone by.
And now comes a fellow along
and says that there was no
Nathan Hale. First thing you
know some fool will dispute the
existence of Jess Willard and
Ty Cobb if this devilish skepti
cism keeps growing.
How would like to be one of
the prize animals at Donalsonville
and get part of all that petting
and admiration that one of them
gets. Being decorated with rib
bons and all such as that.
They had a burning case at
Cuthbert a few days ago. Now
let us hear from Ohio on this
matter again. It is the right of
that state to discuss lynching as
they are beleivers in the practice.
The moving picture business
has gotten to the point where
we would like to see a six reel
film entitled “The Mysteries of
Macon” or “How Watson bossed
the Convention” That picture
would draw good patronage most
anywhere except in Macon.
Flaring headlines inform us
that the Bull Moosers have en
dorsed Whitman for Governor of
New York. Now if Whit will
keep quiet about it, few will find
it out and it may not hurt him
much.
The campaign liar that ought
to be put on exehibition at the
Southwest Georgia Fair next
week at Donalsonville really
lives in Bainbridge, everybody
will recognise him as soon as he
is put on display. You know
him?
The banks of Valdosta show
that they have five milliens dol
lars hoarded up down there. Why
dont they turn some of it loose
and let it get busy? That’s the
kind of change that does good
and counts.
Roy Powell of the Calhoun
County Courier attended the
State Convention this year and
we felt safe just as soon as we
learned it. Roy usually keeps his
politics on straight and while not
a shining political light he is a
pretty steady old chap after ali.
Notice where a friend of ours
wants all reformers examined
by a board of examiners before
they are allowed to blow their
game. The fellow that would ex
amine T. Bosh Felder's bean and
give him license as a full fledged
reformer would be guilty of
malpractice and would lose his
job instanter.
No politics to talk about now
and we are compelled to talk
about each other and our neigh
bors. Going down the street a
few days ago we heard a woman
that seemed to have gotten the
start on the balance of us.
Savannah got a new preacher
last week named Taliaferro.
Wonder if they have worn out the
crowd they already had down
there? The wear and tear on a
parson in the coast city ‘ ‘they do
say is mighty peart”.
The boll weevil has done an
awful lot of damage in this
county and it will now be a case
of hog and hominy sure as you
live. The farmers of this section
have been slow learning it but
they have come to the conclusion
that the weevil is a living menace
to well filled dinner pail.
There are some men that you
can agree with one hundred times
and then disagree with them
once and they forget!all but the
one time you did not agree. That
kind of a man is what you call an
overbearing fool and one that
cant agree with himself twenty
four hours on a stretch.
Laying all jokes aside now
when is that circus coming to
town? There is not one bit of
use in delaying that thing any
longer. Got a ten year old kid
that wants to see it. That’s all
the interest we have in it but
that is very important interest at
this writing.
The guys that had so much
money to put on Hughes have
made their absence very con
spicuous so we learn. That is
usually the way. When the show
down comes the men that pre
tends to want to bet two to one
on Hughes hunt the tall timbers
It is no even bet as sure as you
live.
Dont it amuse you to see a
smart Ferdie get the fishy eye
from the ladies when he has
stood on the corner all more than
an hour especially for them to
admire him. If it were not for
the law against cruelty to animals
not many of these things would
be at large.
Just suppose that all tennis
players had to run up against a
six pound axe and a cord of four
foot wood to get that exercise
they seem to feel that they so
fondly need. How many of them
will play tennis then?
A fellow reading Johnny
Spencer’s paragraph last Tues
day entitled “Go toot Doc” is
well convinced that said Johnny
at one time in his life had a ter
rific attack of what the wise guys
call “puppy love” but what me
and Johnny know was the real
thing.
Atlanta eats six hundred bar
rens of flour per day says the
Journal. We hope to goodness
that some of that flour will get
into some biscuits when we have
to go there again. Old wasp
nest light bread aint fit for a
south Georgia gent to eat at no
time of the year.
On being asked what is cruel
and inhuman treatment we can
only define it by saying that
arresting a coon for a skin game
and jailing him when possums
are ripe. If there is anything
more inhuman than that we don’t
know it unless it is to steal a
fellows “last drap” on Sunday
morning.
A woman was held in Italy by
the authorities as a spy because
of her good looks. Now what
would become of a bunch of
Decatur county beauties were
they to wander into the spaghetti
country. They would all be con
victed it good looks was all the
evidence needed.
If it was not a dangerous
thing to compliment a red-head
ed man we would call attention
to the great improvement in the
news columns and editorial work
of Thomasville Times-Enterprise
here of late. A good paper and
getting ‘ 'gooder” is the facts of
the matter. From a daily stand
point they beat them all into this
point with fresh news.
Fellow was fined ten dollars
last week in Quincy for the 4 ‘illeg
al impounding” of a hog. Does
that mean to “scuse a man some
thing concerning of a hog” or is
it a new term in the legal lore of
hog-lifting? McFarlin ought to
be more explicit in his terms.
Know now that he is a member
of that Silk Stocking Club.
The Donalsonville High School
opened up a few days ago with
220 pupils, a good corp of teachers
and a most satisfied bunch of
patrons in Georgia. The west
side city makes a big showing
along educational lines every
year. What’s the secret? is it the
teachers or the patrons or both?
Some say both and a good town
behind it all and that sounds like
it.
The hardest man on the world
to clear before a Decatur county
jury is a man that is charged
with wife-beating. The Decatur
jury has little patience it seems
with a man under that charge
and it takes about a minute to
convict one after thp jury goes
out. The sooner that a man
learns that he is not living in the
stone age the better off he is.
They claim that thin girls will
be all the rage this winter.
Enough to make a man rave
when he gets a half-Nelson on a
bean pole that needs weather
boarding as bad as some of the
sistern we have seen with this
new rigging on. Never make one
of a plump healthy, South Georgia
girl dont care how much style
you fling in.
It has never been our purpose
to ignore anybody but when a
gink expects this paper to allow
its columns used to abuse the
Democratic Party they are in for
a big line of silence. This is a
democratic paper and is not a
free channel for any political
scraps of any man or set of men.
Cane grindings will soon be
gin in this part of the country.
Every time we go to one we have
a deep feeling of sympathy for
the guy up in the mountains of
North Georgia, Tennesse and
North Carolina that know not the
joys thereof. If there was not an
an immense bunch of the popula
tion of this country foolish the
whole business would move down
here in God’s country.
The women are to wear longer
skirts this fall. There now, you
derned reformers you see what
you have gone and done. A set
of liars that really did not think
the women were going to let
them be longer or else they
would have kept their mouths
closed. Always some fellow that
spoils a good thing. Think what
tun it was to follow a short skirt
five blocks and then when it
turned around you saw in it a
woman fifty years old and not a
chicken like you thought it was.
What fun.
The Atlanta papers seem to
fairly despise peace. The elec
tion was hardly over before they
had to get busy and start a row
between Watson and Dorsey.
There was no need to hurry as
Tom would not wait long until
he tried to get in the saddle and
no man that can be elected
governor ot Georgia will ever be
little enough to fetch and carry
for Watson or any other man.
Any effort to Watsonise the
Democratic party will fail} The
people will not follow off after
any man in to the Republican
party. It promises nothing for
our part of the country. The real
reason of northern attack on the
party is because the South is
reckoned with by the administra
tion.
The women are wearing over
alls in some sections. Why not
let them, wear them, they do
most of the work anyway. No
objections have been filed by the
Bainbridge Loafers clubs that we
can learn of. Stand on the public
square most any day and you
will see just how many of them
have to wear them in a way in
Bainbridge.
Ohio is getting so rantanker-
ous and so like the terrible south
^bout lynching that it is time to
put them out of the Union if we
prescribe to them the same treat
ment they wanted to give Jus in
years agone. Killed a Sheriff’s
little daughter and came near
killing him because he kept a
mob away from a negro prisoner.
Tom Watson thought he took
“off a biling” last week sure
enough when he called on a
Democratic Convention to re
pudiate the democratic party.
Tom says that the Democratic
Executive Committee can not
call a Democratic Primary. Might
as well be a fool and say that a
Methodist bishop cant call a
Methodist Conference. When his
“biling cools” he will find that
there is little real syrup in it.
Delinquent Brother let this
sink into your skin. Paper costs
us one dollar per day more than
it did a month ago to send this
paper our. You want a paper,
you want a good paper in your
town and you can’t get it unless
you will tote fair with it. If
your paper is cut off just remem
ber the high cost makes us cut
off everyone that fails to respond.
We can’t help it and it is easy
to avoid by just slipping us that
long delaved but dearly beloved
dollar.
Occasionally you see where
some fellow rises up and says
that tne boll weevil is a dream, a
myth, a scheme on the parts of
fellows to seel certain brands of
cotton seed. This unworthy sus
picion is now costing many men
in this county lots of hard money.
Years back when this paper
would preach on the boll weevil
text and try to impress the
danger, men would come in and
accuse us of being in partnership
with fellows trying to dig them
by selling cotton. Sometimes
bought experience goes a long
ways but this cost too much to
be reslished.
The old line democrats when
they read of the threat to not en
dorse the Rational administration
in a Democratic State Convention
get stirred up and are ready to
get down to hard pan again and
fight the party’s battles in the
state once more. This half demo
cratic. half socio-populist organiz
ation we have cant live and
prosper and sooner or later we
will have to raise the real demo
cratic flag and fight it out. Our
party is mongrel party is more
for office and less for princi
ple each day.
Tom Watson is now in belly-,
aching because John Boifeuillet
helped his old neighbor and
fellow townsmen for governor?
Nat Harris. If John had not help
ed the old man he ought to have
been kicked out of the state.
Watson has aroused the dislike
of his neighbors so that no man
he advocates can carry McDuffie
county and he thinks that every
other man should hate his neigh
bors. The writer was not for
Harris by any means but they
will have to get up a better
charge ‘against John for us to
turn him down. We have always
had county pride and will always
tear our shirt for the home man
whether it suits Mr. Watson or
any one else. We despise any
man that cant help his .home
man but expects his home man
to help him.
tne state
nus several old .
:es ’ sev eral of the oial
it seems sad that eA
oUWlowsthafc
the trough should fel
by not allowing them t 1
off the doings of the k
have in mind a very a!
chaffeur two years a J!
not even allowed to 3
a druggist or a grocer?]
tnp. Gee, how the ^
fallen. In fact the «.
after years of J
would not even allow t
along in his Ford.
It has suddenly u
some of the boys that
swing counties just
want to in elections v
cracker has got that fool
voting for who he wants
Mr. Big Man cant p rom i
indiscriminately like he
do. Threats of high and
displeasure cuts very l ltt ]|
with him now. In the
poor cracker knows mi
issues and politics than „
Man and he is still learnin
Cracker reads his pape.
Big Man reads only thi
lines of his. In the yeai
by the country voter
town and consulted Cm
Bill about his politics bufl
few more years Curbstoi
will have to go see patron
rural route to learn of
measures and men.
The time will soon beoi
when we can have a real
era tic party in Georgia am
our partv primaries. The|
parties can have theirs i]
want to and it is to be hoi
the Executive Committeel
stiffen up its back and
down the gage of battle
bolters, the loosers, the Re
cans and the Fusionistsaw
a real fight for Demo
supremacy. The party now
Mongrel shape can have
or purposes above office ge
If one wing is in power am
fusion element leans their
they want to admit them
counci], if the other gets in
do the same and it is now
to draw the line. No man o
to the men of the other pi
having their primaries as
do in other states but it is
for Democracy to stand for
thing else than electing a
or two men to office.
Notice where a fellow tol
Tift county folks that the
weevil was 90 per cent s
Brother Herring, you can
your readers that man LIE!
must have had an axe to g
Friend Herring drop down
and see hundreds of acres <
cotton and not a bale to
hundred acres and then tell
folks that he is a bald faced
of the water. Any man that
go about the country telling
lies ought to be ham strung,
your folks Brother Herring
if they listen at that man
govern their planting aecordn
they will repent of it «»j
cloth and ashes and the next
that gink comes there it *
county economy to ride
down the Canon” on a rai -
your people further r
Herring that it is the sa
sternest and most des
reality they will ever W e -_
them to write the farmers o-
county and they can boo
man out of their county
says the boll weevil i=
cent scare.
There Is more Catarrn Is'
of the country ihan 'M ®j , * i
put together, and for : eat. ■
posed to be incurable. y fj!
local remedies, and by con. no a
to cure with local treatroen . r iJ(
it incurable. Catarrh J a tonal'
greatly Influenced b> cons* cor j:
dltions and therefore ten >* arrt ji
tional treatment. Hall a cheneJ
cine, manufactured bj r _ ct;t uM
Co.. Toledo. Ohio, « a -» - a i
remedy. Is taken toternallf f SaJ#
thru the Blood on the -
of the System. One H-r ty p-at ®
ward is offered for an Seal
Catarrh Medicine fails tc cu -
circulars and testimony ^ c o&i
F. J. CHENET & CO u
Sold by Drugg.sty n ,p5t;»
Hall’s Family Fills M -