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ECONOMIST
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WINDER
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A. G. LAMAR,
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THURSDAY, APRIL 18. 1889.
President McKinley seems to be
stuck on Georgia. He has named
one of the new battle ships after
our State.
The little poem in another col
umn headed ‘ The Good Shephard,
is from oii“ of Winder’s best Sun
day school workers and was sugges
ted to the writer from the lessons
of the first quarter of this year.
Coming from the source it does,
we feel that it will be read with
much appreciation by all levers of
the Good Shepherd.
Judge Speer has dicided that
agents drumming for pictures to
be enlarged by lirms in other States
are not subject to city licens in
Georgia. Most cities want to
make every individual who comes
into their limits pay a license for
the privilege of working it for any
article. When it comes right home
to u°, nearly every man from self
ish interests believes in protection.
Man is a very inconsistent animal
any way you take him.
Sample Copy.
We send out a few sample copies
thi* week over the stute, If you
tfet a copy read it aud see whether
you think it worth taking a year.
Show it to your neighbor and get
him to let you send in his subscrip
tion with yours. The Economist
has stood the storm and fought for
the rights of the people against the
olasses for six years. It is among
the oldest reform papers in the
state and solicits your support aud
encouragement.
Don’t pass this by unheeded but
think over it, and the more you
think about it the more plainly
you will 800 your duty in the mat
ter, and you will not only subscribe
for it yourself but will get oth
ers. We are expecting good results
from the sample copies sent out
this week over the state and feel
we will not be disappointed. llow
many will let us hoar from them
next week?
Disputed Line Between
Walton and Jackson.
Commissioner H. L. Collier, of
Atlanta, by executive order of the
Governor, canto to Winder Mon
day, where he was met by Ordi
nary Bradbury of Jackson county
and Messrs. Barrett, Griffin and
Moore, the county commissioners
of Walton county, for the purpose
of locating the line between the
above two counties, There has
been a difference of opinion as
to the exact hue, some claiming
that the old Hog Mountain road
which has always been the estab
lished line dividing the two coun
ties from Winder to the Oconee
county line, had beeu changed in
ages so far back beyond Noah’s
day that the records had beeu lost.
With a view of trying to discover
the changes and find the original
road bed of the old Hog Mouutain
road, or Fiddler’s Trail as some of
the old inhabitants called it, a
number of the oldest citizens who
could remember back nearest the
period of the flood, were selected
by the commissioner to go over
the disputed line. Memory, you
know, is very treacherous, and
hence, there was a great diversity
of opinion as to the location of
the original Fiddler’s Trail. They
all were stronger expansionist than
Mr. McKinley and his cabinet
ever dared be, but the Waltonites
favored their county doing the ex
panding act and the Jacksonites
thought their county entitled to
the lead. Finally they got on
what they decided was Fiddler’s
Trail and proceeded about a mile
from the city, when Mr. Russ Co
ker, who is perfectly familiar with
this section and has a faint recol
lection of the time when Columbus
visited old Jug Tavern about or
just before lie discovered America,
pointed out the place where
there used to be. in dayp
gone by, a blockade still,
before Jackson and WaltoWbecame
PRO 111 BTTTTION counties, and
said he knew they were on the
right tract necause that still was
on Fiddler’s Trail. Infact, lie re
membered now that it was named
Fiddler’s Trail because the two
men who owned the still were
great fiddlers.
Dr. Hamilton and the other
gentlemen differed a 1 itile with
Mr. Coker at first, but when the
recollections of medieval days be
gan to come back to them, and
when they had talked about the
blockade still until their mouths
began to water and they could al
most smell tke corn juice and see
the smoke rising up from the fur
nace; they all agreed with Mr.
Coker that they were on the real
and original Fiddle’r Trail and had
no troublo in following it on to
the Oconee line. It is said that
the Monroe people had been led to
believe the line would be so
changed as to take in half or more
of that part of Winder on the
Jackson side into Walton, and
that they would thereby increase
the taxable piopertv of their coun
ty several million dollars, but
from present indications there will
be no material changes and Fid
dler’s Trail or the old Hog Moun
tain road will still be the dividing
line between these counties —two
of the best in the state,
“Populistic.”
New York Verdict.
No one will be scared by “popu
listic.” The world is at its lessons
aud the people learn. It has been
found that when a rich rogue feels
the hand of Right upon him he
shouts “populistic.” It is a term
coined by taxdodging, franchise
filching ingratee, wherewith to
brow-beat tax-payers. The Ver
dict will stake its young life that
“populistic” has never filled the
mouth of Scorn save on some venal
occasion wheu some great thief
of public right found his pillage
inter'ered with, or saw pumish
ment approach. No one is ap
palled by “populistic” and Judge
Dillon but gives his breath to idle
ness m uttering it. And while one
discusses “populistic” The Verdict
is thereby moved to add oue fur
ther shocking word. It has al
ready said that it’s for an income
tax, an inhertauce tax, the public
ownership of street railroad and
all street franchises; it has de
clared against presidential patron
age and in favor of the election ot'
Senators, Judges, Attorneys, Clerks
of Court, Marshals, and Postmas
ters by the people; it has cried
“smash trusts!” aud levy tax on
churches; and now, following full
aud thorough thought, The Verdict
affirms itself to be frankly aud
flatly a frieud to that dogma of
politics known as the Initiative and
Referendum. It is a doctrine of
democracy; it smells and smacks
of primitive Americanism. It is
asked for by the Hour; demanded
by the villain Time in which we
live. To day Money makes our
lawmakers and our laws. It goes
boldly about the lobby in Wash
ington and Albany at noon and
buys misrule. It makes a market
place in every capitol, where elec
ted Weakness may meet Roguery
and sell the public into bondage to
the corporations. It has grown a
case in our destinies where the
people should have in their own
hands both the power to propose
and the power to pass a law.
Their delegates are degenerate;
their rights are bartered and bid
for, bought and sold ; therefore the
people should construct to their
ow'n defense this refuge of the In
itiative and Referendum, It will
become sword and shield, buckler
and blade; a first, best line of bat
tle against those trust barbarians
of money who, bv bribery and stark
corruption seek to overrun and
overthrow us. Let men study the
Initiative and Referendum as a
tenet of politics. Let no cry of
•‘populistic” deter one’s fair con
viction. The people have trusted
too much, and treason has been
done them. They elect their law
makers, leave all to them and turn
their backs. In a day when folk
were few' and Truth was tall and
Money little, and bribery feared
the day, this confidence might do
and a congress or a legislature be
trusted to frame control. All this
is true no longer. Rotten in State
as rotten in Nation, if this public
would preserve itself from bribe
made legislation as w r ell as the
bribe-bought lack of it, this new
breastwork of Initiative and Ref
erendum must be thrown up.
It is refreshing and encouraging
to read such expressions as the
above from the New York Verdict.
a paper that clai ms to be Democrat
ic and owned bv 0. H. P. Belmont,
the man who is siding with Mr.
Bryan against his brother Peerry
Belmont. There ar few demo
cratic papers that have studied the
great questions touched on by the
Verdict sufficiently to express an
intelligent opinion as to their wis
dom and justness and fewer of them
still that would be so independent
of the bosses as to advocate such
measures. They had rather meet
all arguments, which provs these
things would benefit the masses,
make happier and more prosper
ous the people at large and increase
patriotism and elevate mankind,
by crying’’Populistic.” The polit
icians of the old parties have lived
and grown fat by crying ’’Populist
ic” whenever any measure has been
agitated that would relagate them
to the rear and advocate the inter
est of the people. Men who are
honest at heart aud want to see
better couditions, but who have
peen taught their party is infalli
ble aud cannot do a wrong have
been the prey of these politicians
who have taken advantage of their
prejudices by crying ’’Populistic”
to hold them in line. Intelligent
meu will not always be thus deciev
ed; the cry of ’’Pobulistic” by the
politicains to keep the people from
voting for what is wright and just
is losing its charm, and and ’’Pop
ulistic”—the principles of equal op
portunities to all men—will yet tri
umpt iu the hearts aud actious of
all fair miuded meu. May the ti me
soon come when the rights
of all meu will be recogniz
ed-
HUNDRED JACK TARS
CAUGHT IN AMBUSH
Rebels Kill Four Americans
and Two Britons.
WARM BATTLE NEAR APIA
United States and English Sailors
Forced to Retreat Before One Thou
sand Mataafans After >1 dicing a
Stand Against Heavy Odds.
Auckland, New Zealand, April 12.
Dispatches received here from Apia,
Samoa, April 1, say that a party of 105
American and British sailors were
forced to retreat to the beach after hav
ing been caught in ambush on a Ger
man plantation on that date. The ex
pedition was led by Lieutenant A. H.
Freeman of the British thirdelass cruiser
Tauranga. Lieutenant Freeman and
Lieutenant Lansdale of the United
States cruiser Philadelphia and Ensign
J. R. Monahan of the United States
cruiser Philadelphia, w r ere left dead on
the field. Ensign Monahan remained
to assist Lieutenant Lansdale and was
shot in retiring.
Two British and two American sailors
were also killed.
The natives engaged were some of
Mataafa’s warriors. They severed the
heads of the British and American
officers killed.
Priests of the French mission after
wards brought the heads into Apia.
The manager of the German plantation
has been arrested and detained on board
the Tauranga on affidavits declaring
that he was seen urging the rebels to
fight.
In a previous engagement 27 of
Mataafa’s warriors were killed and there
were no casualties among the European
forces.
Strong Attacking Force,
It is estimated that about 800 warri
ors attacked the Augio-American party
from ambush.
Mataafa’s loss was 40 killed and a
number wounded, the latter being car
ried off the field by the rebels when
they retired. The bodies of Lansdaie,
Monahan and Freeman, as well as those
of the unfortunate marines, were buried
with military honors at Mnlinum.
There is constant fighting with the
natives around Apia and the life of no
one on the islands is afe.
Lieutenant Philip L nkorn Lansdaie
was born in the District of Columbia
Feb. 15, 1858, and entered the naval
academy June 0, 1873. He graduated
in 1878 and was promoted iu 1881, aud
after duty at the Washington navyyard
was transferred to the Philadelphia in
June, 1890. He was made lieutenant,
junior grade, in 1893. He was in charge
of the Caravais at the World’s Fair, in
Chicago, and after receiving his full
lieutenancy was a short time on the
battleship Massachusetts. In June,
1896, he w r as ordered to the Philadelphia.
Ensign John P. Monahan was ap
pointed to the naval academy as cadet
from the state of Washington, entering
Annapolis on Sept. 7, 1891. He gradu
ated and was made an ensign iu July,
1897, being assigned to the Philadelphia,
to which vessel he w-as attached up to
the time of his death.
Proclamation by Kautz.
Further advices from Apia, Samoa,
say that on the arrival of the British
cruiser Tauranga at Apia the British
and American consuls issued a procla
mation to give Mataafa a last chance
and the French priests also used their
influence, but all efforts failed and the
rebels continued their depredations.
Property was destroyed and bridges and
roads were barricaded.
On March 29 the enemy was sighted
at Magnigi and machine guns and a
7-pounder were used. The friendlies
also attacked the enemy during the lat
ter’s retreat and several rebels were
killed or wounded. The friendlies car
ried one head through Apia, which
made Captain Stuart so furious that he
went to the king and threatened to
shoot any man found taking heads.
The king then issued a proclamation
forbidding the practice.
The German consul wrote to Admiral
Kautz asking if two great Christian na
tions approved of these barbarous prac
tices against the laws of Christianity
and the decree of the supreme court.
The admiral replied, agreeing with
the consul as to the inhumanity of the
practice and pointed out that had the
German consul upheld the decree of the
supreme court of January there would
have been no bloodshed; that the cus
tom was an old Samoan one, but first
made known to the world ten vears
ago. when the “heads” of honest Ger
man soldiers were cut off by the barbar
ous Chief Mataafa, whom the great
Christian nation, Germany, is now sup
porting.
Expeditions Sent Out.
Expeditions in armed cutters belong,
ing to the Tauranga and Porpoise are
doing considerable execution against
Mataafan strongholds along the coast.
The British forces are being assisted by
100 Samoans. About 46 of Mataafa’s
boat* and several villages have been
destroyed. In the meantime flying col
umns are being sent daily along the
roads and through the bushes near Apia.
On April 1 a force of 214 British and
Americans and 150 friendlies was sur
prised in ambush at the German planta
tion of \asi6;o. The rebel force opened
fire on the rear, left flank aud front of
the Anglo-American force. The friend
lies bolted, but the marines and blue
jacket* stood their ground splendidly,
Amerioans and British firing shoulder
to shoulder.
The Colt automatic gun with the land
ing party became jammed and the
Americans and British were repeatedly
at tha merer of the rebels. But “ter
! treat” was soun3ed three Times "Kef
the marines and bluejackets retired
Lieutenant Angel F. Freeman 0 f rh
Tauranga, who was in command of Ik
allied force, was shot through the he! 09
Lieutenant Philip Lansdale 0 f m
United States cruiser Phiiadelnhia k j
his lag shattered while endeavoring 4 , 1
fix the jammed gun. ®
Sonic .Narrow Escapes.
Seaman Hunt of the British cruise
Porpoise had an extraordinury escar*
He remained with Lieutenant Laus V
until clubbed over the head and knocked
senseless. The bluejacket revived a
the natives were cutting off his rn>h!
ear and were turning him over in order
to cut off his left ear. At this juuctura
a shell from the British cruiser Royal
ist burst on the battlefield, scaring the
rebels, and Hunt succeeded in escaping
to the beach, although severely stabbed
in one foot.
The same night the friendlies found
the bodies of all the officers, headier
The bodies were buried with all honors
at Mulinuu on Easter Sunday. Their
‘ heads were subsequently brought iu bv
Borne French priests and the grave?
were reopened and the head buried with
the bodies. ,
The loss of the enemy is not known
but probably 50 of the rebels wero killed
and many were wounded.
The bodies of three rebels were found
near where Lieutenant Lansdale and
Ensign Monagan of the Philadelphia
were killed.
The priests buried 38 rebels and much
blood was seen ou the road over which
the Mataafans had been dragging away
their dead and wounded.
There were also pools of blood behind
the cocoanut trees, the bullets from the
American and British rifles going right
through thick trees and killing men be
hind them.
DESPERATE STREET FIGHT.
Factions Clash at Brunson S. C\, With
Fatal Results to Two 31--n.
Brunson, S. C., April 10.—A pitched
battle was fought iu the streets here be
tween James Preacher, Charley Preacher
and Arren Preacher, brothers, on the one
side, and George Reid, Mack Reid,
James Reid, brothers, and Joseph Con
nellv on the other side.
Asa ro.-ult George Reid is dead, M:i -k
Roiu probably fatally wounded. Jowpii
Connelly seriously wounded and James
Preacher slighty wounded in the hands.
It appears that a negro farmhand em
ployed by George llied was subsequently
employed by the Preachers and bad
feeiiug was engendered thereby. Just
alter nightfall the parties met at the
busiest corner iu the town and an alter
cation ensued between George Ried and
James Preacher. In an instant weapons
were drawn and a general fusillade of
about 30 or 40 shots followed.
The fire of the Preachers seems to
have been principally directed on George
Reid. He received wounds from which
he died in a few hours
All the parties are men of families
except Charley and Arren Preacher.
George Ried leaves a wife and chiid.
Charley ana Arren Preacher are mere
boys, the latter not yet 20 years old.
The coroner’s jury returned a verdict
that the deceased came to his death by
gunshot wounds at the hands of James
and Arren Preacher.
James Preacher is the son in law of
Colonel Lawrence W. Youmans, the
largest planter jin this section, and
prominent in state politics. The Preach
ers have surrendered to the sherilf.
Decrease In Fertilizer Sales.
Montgomery, Ala., April 10.—The
sale of fertilizer tags by the agricultural
department up to April 1 show’s a very
decided decrease from the record of last
year, being 25 per cent less. The tags
sold up to April 1 of the present year
amounted to 901,000, while those of
April 1, 1898, aggregated 1,193,000. The
presumption is, this meaus the farmers
of Alabama are preparing to plant less
cotton this year, although as a matter
of fact the late spring may have had
something to do with the demand for
fertilizer.
Southern Ball League Opens.
Mobile, April 10. The Southern
league season opened here yesterday
with good attendance. Montgomery and
Mobile contested. The former was
baaiv handicapped by the absence of
the regular catcher, the numerous er
rors being chargeable to the battery.
Leonard, picther, showed up well,
Beecher, the shortstop, was very effi
cient. Score: Mobile, 8; Montgomery.
1. Attendance, 1,000.
Victory Reported by Otis.
Washington, April 10.—The follow
ing dispatch was received from General
Otis today: “Lawton’s command cap
tured Santa Cruz, chief city of Laguna
de Bay, this morning; casualties, si*
wounded; insurgent troops driven out,
leaving 68 dead ou the field and large
number of w-ounded, considerable num
ber captured. Lawton will pursue west
ward. ”
Confederate Veterans Re
union. Charleston, 5-
C., May 10-13, 1899*
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ans’ Reunion, the Seaboard Air Line
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mile, traveled. Tickets on sale May Bth.
9th and 10th, good to return until May
a Ist.
For information in regard to rates,
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or address
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Agent,
Portsmouth, Va.