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THUR3DA /. JANUARY;2H. U 899.
Legal Advertising.
All legal ads not settled for will be
dropped after second insertion. Parties
Interested will take notice.
Rhode Island’s new capitol is
b3ing built of Georgia marble.
Most lawyers have very little re
gard for the rights of witnesses.
The rise in cotton always takes
place after the farmers have none
to sell.
The senate has unanimously
agreed to take a vote on the peace
treaty on February 6th.
Senator Bacon’s great speech in
the senate last week against ex
pansion is worth reading,
Nathan Bay Scott, republican,
was elected United States senator
yesterday by the West Virginia
legislature.
The Macon Telegraph says that
our country has become a great
creditor nation. We presume the
1 elegraph does not cohsider the
South a part of the country.
The Czar of Russia is having
new batth ships made and issuing
pronunciamentOß for a general
disarmanent. lie ought to stop
one or the other of these things,
Quay is not having smooth
sailing in his ruoo for re-election
to the senate from Pennsylvania.
In yesterday’s ballot he lacked
fourteen votes of getting a major
ity.
In Savannah a republican was
elected member of the city council,
but so soon as it was discovered a
recount was ordered and the re.
publican, oh! where was he?—not
in it.
1 p to this time not over ten per
cmt. of the amount of fertilizers
have moved that had at the same
time 1 ust year. This shows the
tendency at present to reduce the
crop.
Farmers seem more determined
this year to use less guano and
make- more supplies than hereto
fore- It is to be hoped this de
termination will stick and that
next fall every man will have
p' nity of corn and meat to supply
his farm.
The prohibition question is a
good moral point, but cannot be
forced by politics' The only way
to succeed ou this liue is by edu
cating the masses. We admit that
most people have much to learn,
but it is really the only wuy to
civilization. —Ex.
OCONEE COURT.
Some Things About The
New Judge, the Court
And the People of
the County.
We went down to Watkinsville
Monday to mix and mingle with
the clever and hospitable people of
Oconee county for a few days and to
see Judge Rus .ell in his first court.
Most every man in Oconee county
spends a few days at Watkinsville
during court week, and Monday
there was a large crowd as all were
anxious to see the new judge of the
Western circuit.
He made his debut on time, and
his charge to the grand jury elici
ted the praise and endorsement of
all present.
Judge Russell soon let every one
know that he could dispatch busi
ness, and in a few minutes after
opening court everything was
moving like clock work.
Judge Russell received many
congratulations this week from
the people that were highly com
plimentary. Oconee has a set of
clever and efficient officers, all of
whom look closely after the inter
est of the county.
Watkinsville has made some
substantial improvements since
we were there last and indications
point to more during the year.
The farmers are a little blue
over the hard times and scarcity
of money.
We met many friends we had
not seen for years and enjoyed our
stay of two days very much. There
is no bettor county m the state
than Oconeo nor one with more
clever and progressive people.
The Enterprise, untbr its new
management, is prospering and is
a live county paper and one of
th > fixtures of Watkinsville.
The New York papers tell us
that the stock gamblers have
fleeced thousands of victims dur
ing this month, A few men make
great fortunes by such operations,
but the great hulk < f taose who
bite come out losers. The specu
lative craze appears to be on the
increase, and men risk all they
have trying to make fortunes in a
few days.
The Atlante Journal says Quay
bases his main hope of success on
Democratic aid, and adds that, if
it goes to him, the Democratic
party in Pennsylvania will be dis
graced. If the Journal had also
said that the Democratic party
had very often disgraced itself, its
editorial on “Quay’s Chances”
would have been complete.
‘‘Peg Log” Williams says the ne
gioes are leaving North and South
Carolina and Georgia for the Mis
sissippi valley and the west. This
will be bud news lor the Demo
cratic politicians in these states.
Altrulatte Son of Heaven.
The emperor recently escaped from
his prison in the island at the Southern
lakes, Ebo park, where he had been
confined by tho empress dowager since
tho coup d’etat. But when his majesty
got to the park gates the imperial guard,
all creatures of the empress dowager,
shut the great gates in bis majesty’s
face. A crowd of eunuchs, who dared
not offer the imperial person any vio
lence or attempt to use force in prevent
ing his majesty walking to the park
gates, followed him in a body, however,
and upon tbo gates being closed they all
knelt in front cf tho emperor, beseech
ing bis majesty with tears to have
mercy on them and not attempt to es
cape, for it would mean the death of all
of them as well as of the guardsmen at
the gates wore ho to do so. The guards
men also kowtowed and joined in the
general prayer, while ou the other hand
they sent one of their number to apprise
the empress dowager at Peking of the
matter. Tho emperor finally took pity
on his suppliant subjects and quietly
returned to his prison.—North China
Herald. _
Jurors for Jackson Superi
or Court, February
Term, 1899.
GRAND JURY,
1 Jas W Wood
2 Robert J Fleemau
3 Wilkius J Haynie
4 Robt Morris
5 Wm T Appleby
6 Richard F Elrod
7 R S D Lanier
8 Thos N Highfell
9 Jno T Espy
10 Chas F Holliday
11 Wm H Cooper
12 Linard J Vondereau
13 Sam C Potts
14 Wm M L Steed
15 Thos W Wallace
16 Henry R Howard
17 Robt Iverson
18 Lucius A House
19 Thos L Smith
20 Samuel P Higgins
21 Sam B Culbertson
22 Crawford M Porter
23 S W Sackson
24 James F Burson
25 Thos J Bennett
26 Crawford C Nunn
27 Thos W Webb
28 Francis M Bailey
29 Wm H Walton
30 Richard J Pentecost
Traverse Jury—First Week
1 James M Brow a
2 Joseph F Wilhite
3 Crawford M Sells
4 Jas A McDonald
5 John W Robertson
6 Geo B Raiden
7 Jno W Creighton
8 Jno M Wilhite
9 Henry M Watkins
10 Wm W Williamson
11 Jesse M Jackson
12 Joseph J Fowler
13 Milton W Caruth
14 Milton Thompson
15 Newton F Jackson
16 Joseph R Shields, Jr
17 Wm T Harrison
18 Jno II Giles
19 Jno J Orr
20 Jno T Lord
21 Jno H Dunnahoo
22 Dilmus Potter
23 Sam A Walker
24 Walter C Davis
25 Wm S Coleman
26 ThoB Pane
27 Jas S Shelton
28 Robt It Hitchcock
29 Jas T Adair
30 Eli M Wilson
31 Milford H Wood
32 Wm E Mathews
33 Jno II II Simmons
34 Wm A Shed
35 Jas R Roberts
36 Jno M Hawkins
Traverse Jury—Second Week.
1 Alexander J Ray
2 Chas D Oaks
3 Milton 0 Pittman
4 Lions M Posey
5 Joseph C Hunter
6 Edwin Barber
7 Milton A Benton
8 Wm C Hood
9 Anderson A Nowell
10 David H Parks
11 Thos C Little
12 John T House
13 Barmgton A Hill
14 Robt D Johnson
15 Madison T Massey
It) Albert A Fambrough
17 James W Stewart
18 James T Holland
19 Fidridge II Shaw
20 Wm R Lvle
21 Wiley J Harvil
22 Joseph W White
23 John O Stockton
24 James C Stephens
25 W m 1' Nunn
26 Chas D Hardy
27 David O Elder
28 James B Hancock
29 Alonzo Ivey
30 \\ m J D Millsaps
31 \V m J Herrin
32 Archer E Short
33 Thos W Grav
34 Wm B Power
35 Frank E Lay
36 Marvil A Millsaps,
THE POPULIST PRESS.
THE LITTLE APPRECIATION SHOWN
FOR THE WORK IT HAS DONE.
The Starting Point gad Basil of m
Great Educational Work-Hott the
Fnrmer* Cane to Be In Front—Ap
petite* ill City Ileernlta.
In 1890 when the people’s party made
its first great fight for supremacy it was
composed almost entirely of farmers.
The people of the towns and cities held
aloof, and many of them didn’t know
what was the matter. When the re
turns for the gubernatorial election
were coming in that year and an im
mense vote for Powers was being report
ed from every country district, fairly in
telligent men in Omaha said, “Who in
thunder is Powers? I didn't know he
was running. ” They knew Jim Boyd;
they had heard of the Republican can
didate, but this new force that had
grown up in a night they could not un
derstand. They read nothing but the
city papers, and the more one reads
them the greater becomes his ignorance.
If they had read The Independent, the
Missouri World, The Silver Knight,
The Nonconformist or the country
newspapers they would have heard that
all things were passing away and all
things were becoming new. The inde
pendent papers scattered all over the
United States were preaching anew
gospel then and have continued to
preach it ever since, and in doing so
they have fought against poverty, ridi
cule, discouragement and contempt, but
they were not dismayed; they knew
that truth was mighty and must pre
vail.
After the movement was fairly start
ed and the new party had commenced
to win victories many of the people of
the cities and tow r ns cast their lot with
*he reformers and gave to them their
influence by voting a little and holding
office a good deal. Lawyers who were
silent until victory was in sight all at
once became noisy patriots. Merchants
and clerks waited until there was a
chance for loaves and fishes, and then
they came up to the help of the Lord
against the mighty. The lawyers cap
tured all the congressional and many of
the legislative nominations, and the
town boys crowded the statehouse and
the reformatory and the benevolent in
stitutions. All this time the reform pa
pers were continuing the good work of
spreading reform ideas. They were
waking up the sleeping people and mak
ing men think who never thought be
fore. The Populist party proper never
cast over 2,000,000 votes, but the Pop
ulist principles have pervaded the
minds of millions of the voters of the
old parties, and th 9 reform press is en
titled to the credit for most of this edu
cational work.
Now, what have the Populist papers
gained by their unselfish works V Noth
ing but glory and the satisfaction of an
approving conscience. None of them
has got rich, many of them have had
a constant struggle to keep the wolf
from the door, and not a single one of
them is supported as it ought to be.
Most of the farmers take one reform pa
per, but out recruits from the cities
still take old line party papers and no
others. There are men in Nebraska to
day that are holding good positions by
virtue of the efforts of our newspapers
that do not j>ay a dollar and have
never paid one dollar to the reform
press. If the Populists are ever to be
victorious, they must quit supporting
the newspapers of the enemy; they must
assist the men that are assisting them.
They must build up influential newspa
pers. The Populist press does not need
brains, but is sadly in need of money.
If it has almost changed the entire
thought of the nation in its present con
dition, what could it do if it were finan
cially independent and prosperous 1
Omit sending your money to the men
that hate and despise you. Quit buying
ammunition for the enemy’s guns. Send
your money to your friends, to the men
who have labored for you for long years
in the past and expect to continue that
work for long years to come. —Omaha
Nonconformist.
Bitter Irony.
And it came to pass that while the
newspapers are loudly shouting about
the unexampled prosperity in the land
they are cutting right and left into their
working forces. A local news writer
says The Plain Dealer “slid” five men,
Tho Press put four men “on the hog,”
and on other papers a number of men
were also discharged lately. This same
scribe also learned through correspond
ence that in Chicago 20 competent re
porters were laid off, that in New York
52 persons were “let out” by one paper
alone and that in Washington “the ax
is swinging everywhere.” And so it
goes, v * liar with working long hours or
not at all the aristocratic newsgather- !
ers may - u learn that they are “intel- ■
lectual proletaire, ” and that there is!
such a thing as a labor question after
all. But the bitter irony of being com
pelled to puff prosperity with their Fa
bers and having the gaunt, gray wolf
looking on over their shoulders is a pic
ture that haruionir.es thoroughly with
the present humbugging and hypocrit
ical capital!- io competitive system.
Cote to perpetuate it, gentlemen. Quite 1
likely you couldn’t live without it.— I
Cleveland Citizen. I
TURNING THE ARGUMENT.
Jail Look With Topullat
tkt Republican Claim*.
Plutocratic papers, when prating of
prosperity, tell us that there is now
$880,000,000 in gold in this country
and that the increase in circulation
since 1896 is $291,000,000. If this
statement is true, then we have about
one-fifth of all the gold on earth. I a
that not going to make gold exceeding
ly scarce in the other nations of the
world, and isn’t there likely to be a
great scramble for the precious metal
gome of these days accompanied with
an appreciation of the standard metal
and falling prices for everything else’
When all the world is contending for
the little pile of gold that is in exist
ence, we are likely to see such times as
even the wisest men never dreamed of.
The same plutocratic papers also tell ua
that the balance of trade last year in
our favor was $600,000,000, and that
therefore we should have received that
much gold from somebody, but in fact
we only received $105,000,000, but they
account for this by saying that we are
now a creditor nation, and that some
body owes us half a billion dollars for
our excess of exports, which will some
time be paid in gold.
They also say that our large exporta
tions will continue. Now, suppose they
do and every year Europe, Asia, Africa
and the islands of the sea are either
sending us their gold or becoming in
debted to us in the sum of $600,000,-
000. Is it not clear that in five year*
all the gold in the world will be
long to us and the rest of the nation*
will not have a cent ? Of course their
premises are all wrong, and their con
clusions are all false, but if they were
true then the above is exactly the way
things would end. So much for the bal
ance of trade argument. But her' ' i
another dead give away in the claim*
of plutocracy.
Their present arguments force them
to admit one of the strongest conten
tions of the free silver men. They claim
there is the greatest prosperity ever
known in the country and at the same
time admit that there is an increase in
the circulating medium of $291,000,-
000. That gives away their whole case.
What prosperity there is results from
the immense increase of money. We
told them in 1896 that prosperity could
only come with an increase of money.
They said we were lunatics and fool*
for saying so, but all the same such
prosperity as we have is founded on the
fact that money is 20 per cent more
plentiful than two years ago, and it
doesn’t hurt the argument any even if
the money is all borrowed and we and
our children are bonded to pay it. An
increase of circulation does increase our
prosperity, and the goldbugs are estop
ped from denying it any longer.—
Omaha Nonconformist.
fit-auTy UTilii Deep.
The London correspondent of the
Sheffield Daily Telegraph states that a
well known society beauty has just had
the “outer skin of her face removed
with a view of renewing her complex
ion.” The operation is not only “pain
ful, but tedious, because it is done by
pin prick, as one may say. The whole
of the outer skin is removed in this
way, and if the operation is successful
the patient emerges with a face of be
witching brilliance. That is the result
of the present case. Few people know,
but any one can see, that her complex
ion has been remade.” We must con
gratulate the editor of the Sheffield
Daily Telegraph upon possessing a cor
respondent who exhibits such enter
prise. The story is as pretty as the new
face.—London Lancet.
Government by IMutoeraey.
It is no exaggeration to say that nine
tenths of the laws are made nowadays
by the judges, and that they are made
in the interests of the rich and powerful
and to destroy the poor, and the sooner
the laboring man understands this the
better for his liberty and his life, for
his life is really at stake.
The judge is the most powerful offi
cial in the machinery of modern civili
zation, for he can override statutes and
even the constitution whenever neces
sary. Legislatures are notoriously cor
rupt and work in the interest and pay
of corporations. When they do pass any
laws in the interest of the poorer classes,
the judges are at hand to declare them
unconstitutional.—Clarence S. Darrow.
They Will Own the Earth.
All the gas, heating and lighting com
panies of Pittsburg have been consoli
dated. The capital invested exceed.!
£26,000,000. The new company will r
the future control the gas, light and
heating supply of Pittsburg and Alle
ghany and will have absolute power to
make, raise or lower the price to all
consumers. It is stated that the tru:
operates under the omnibus charter c
the Philadelphia company, one of the
leading concerns forming the new con:
biue, and will retain that name. Tli:.;
charter embraces nearly every conces
sion within the scope of human ingenu
ity and is, in fact, carte blanche.
KotliscUilds, Farmers.
The Rothschilds are negotiating to
purchase about 45,000 acres of land in
the Mariposa grant in California for
£1,000,000. It is thought they will
operate bonanza farms through their
agents.