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ECONOMIST Official Organ Ordinary. ■— wmm OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WINDER PUBLISHED every theksdaV evenin' 1 * JEFFERSON office: With the Ordinary in the Court House P. W. guattlehaum will represent the paper and take subscriptions. Subscription Rates. One Year, - “ $l-00 A. G. LAMAR, Editor and Publisher. 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* On account of the Confederate Vote* - ans’ Reunion, the Seaboard Air Line will 8811 tickets to Charleston and return at very low rates, based on one cent pet mile, traveled. Tickets on sale May Bth. 9th and 10th, good to return until May a Ist. For information in regard to rates, schedules, &c. apply to Ticket Agents or address L. S. Allen, Gen’L r Agent, Portsmouth, Va.