The Middle Georgia argus. (Indian Springs, Ga.) 18??-1893, April 21, 1881, Image 2
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NDT.VN SPRING, GA., APR 21,1881
LOCAL MATTER.
Lo‘t fail to road '‘.Toe’s composition”
'*n the Lcn, in the another column.
Winter no longer lingers in the
“lap. of spring” and We now have a
'•KNrrvr cpring day.
dr. A. ]>. -mitli and his sister,
•liss Alice, Avi.il attend the Georgia
Pres£ association Romo in May.
1 * - .
S. 11, Ji’.vin, oi i u Creek, (’olfax,
,'o., Now Mexl o, r:\vs: —Mv wife has
hcen cured oii a cougl) f!i thirty years’
standing hy Wermrrv an -“OnL Lnng
'a<l.” —Hce Adv.
L.tlic lo' of now goods j list re
lived at "Alta Vl.Aa/’ wo have
Oil, Ycrmifungo, Terpentine, Tints
tills, Mustang T iniirenf Foutz
(kittle Powders &c. .
J< ini T’.rc'edlovf , Avho has keen lin-'
■i ring on the brink for several- weeks,
lied Tuesday night from maps with
unales, thenews of his death reached us
<totale for a more intended :ix>fic' in this
Ladies who ■Appreciate Elegance
and beauty aroitsing Parker,!s
Balsam. It is thebe-: article sold for
.-cstoring gray hah* to h’s original
dor andbeanty.
q>ir 7 Ira
He v; s r. little void an l or lie nev
t Would have said,Perhaps wc liad
better walk on till we com:? to a seat
where we can set together., ..Oh no‘
die replied sweetly :yor and down in
he cha : r and T will bo tie settee
NOTICE.
Mi versons indebted to ke e into of
•hilui Currie, late c f said < onnty doceas
<! are requested to eovho fonvar<l and
settle those having el aims against said
•state will present them in tevnrn of law.
nvi’.irSWb
Hundreds of Men, Women and
Children Rescued Vom-beds of
pain, sickness and : most death
aid made strong and hearty by
' barker’s Ginger Tonic are.the best
;viuonce;' in iho .world of its ster
. ling worth. You can hud these in
every community. Po*t. • See ad
vertisement. ftor.7’Bl-lm
Mr.sJoscvph Collins who moved from
/his county to Spaulding county, last
winter, shot and kill c ' aa . self on Thurs
ay evening la-!. Wo Lrrn that Mr.,
C. vas in the field wi‘h a gun hi his lap.
vhen a colored man i\ ked 3iim fer the
A iine of day, ami in la’s chert to draw his
..•{itch from liA ock h the gun slipped.
Torn liis lap and fired, lodging the con
tents in Ids breast, from the edicts of
, which he died on Sunday morning, his
remains was brought to • Jackson on
-Jondav for interment.
Mr. Tom Peters, who lias charge'
of the bath li use and grounds, is'
acting everything in first class or
der, him and Dr. Bryans will leave
■ nothing Undone, necessary for the
•entertainment of the public, they
have now opened a nice confection
ery and have the ohskosh Ac., in
• operation, the “dying ponies" are
being put in order ready for the
May" festivities, and wo expect the
festive and gav to enjov themselves
io their hearts content, this season.
.Mr. Peters expects to get up
something lively during the month
of May and all hands should be
'gating ready for it.
Last Friday was ab-a-d day in
Forsyth. A Jasper comity* citizen
got on the warpath and tne whisky
that was in him commenced curs
ing out everybody in Mr. Brooks'
establishment. The marshal took
km promptly in charge, and on his
allure to pay a fine of ton dollars,
ho was placed in jail. Mis friends
thought they would help him out
and tried to prize the iron bars of
the iail window apart, but Tom’s
head became fastened between the
bars and he hollered like a clever
fellow. He is a good citizen when
sober, and will feel bad about his
experience in jail. _
Next morning his fine was paid
and ho was released.
On the same day two citizens of
iUc countv, who are prone to get
drunk, whenever they can get whis
key, indulged in a little fight that
cost one of them ten and costs.
Jim Greer, who has the reputa
tion of being a bad negro, engaged
in a fracas with Gus lleek, one oi
his colored brothers, and out him
severely on the head. Jim now
languishes in jail, and will, we
trust, receive a sentence that will
-top his career oi gambling and
fighting.
The Gus was quite badly cut.
The knife penetrated the skull, go
ing through both bones, or plates.
Drs. Alexander and Moore dressed
the wound.
The warrant against Jim was dis
missed for w ant of a prosecutor. The
Mayor had ten dollars collected
from him for disorderly conduct.
MAXIMS.
T m3 Him great who for love’s sake
Can give with generous, earnest will:
iet he who takes for love’s sweet sake
I think I hold more generous still,
I how before the nob 1 ;. min d
J hatnreely great wrong forgives ;
* 18 • die one forgiven
" 4l ° Hears that btmlen well and lives.
it may i>e hard to gain, and still
! o keep a lowly seadfast heart.
J Ho who loses has to fill
A harder and a truer part.
( dorious it is to wear a crown
Gf a deserved am 1 purr success:
He \tho knows howto fail has won
A crown whose lustre is not less.
Gre tit may he he who can command
And rule with just and tender sway 5
Yetis diviner wisdom taught
I’Ctter by him who can obey.
Blessed are they who died for God
And earn the martyr’s crown of light.
1 et he who lives for God may be
A greater conqueror in His sight.
THE BEST IN THE WORLD.;
I have secured the Agency of
Butts County* for the sale
cf The Eclipse Engine
acknowledged the'best ever made,
alsotfhc •
EC LTPSE SEPARATORS AND GINS
all standard Gins Ipcludjng feeders
and sondensork •* *
COTTON PRESSES AND SAW
MILLS,
and will duplicate? any broken piece
of piping nr Vitlys (an furnish any
part .about an engine, ail
kind of ' ;
CASTING AND BELTING.
All who wish to purchase can save
time and trouble by consulting me !
* '* J. C. Mekidfth,
.Indian Spring, Ga.
A SENSIBLE GIRL.
This is the way in which a
Louisville girl disposes oLa young
man, according r-o
Journal. She mws: “You have
asked me pointedly if I can marry
you> find I have answered you point
edly that I.Fan.. J[ cap marry a
man who makes love :to a different
girl every month. I can marry a
man whose main occupation 'seems
to be to ioin in gauntlet in front of
churches . .and theatres, and
comment audibly on the people
who arc compelled to pass through
it. I can marry a man whose only
means-of support is an age father. I
can marry a man who boasts that
any girl can be won with the helpof
a good tailor and ah expert tongue,
I can marry a man, but I
w-o-n-t 1” * *'■ . 1
THE .DOWN GRADE.
L .
“Just at this time wo venture to
point out the road which' leads to
bankruptcy- It is readied by a
direct rout mostly down grade and
meeadamized It passes through
warehouses supply stores and the
clerk’s office. It is ussually trave
led by improvident farmers in the
spring they remain at homo during
the heated season and toil without,
the stimlafmg iiillueixces which
encourages the thriftyplanter, early,
in the falUhe same route is travel
again, but the traveling is then
uphill and with loaded teams and
heavy hearts.* This treadmill
business dent fatten- the farm or
enrich the farmer. Like the running
of oats ’ through a threshing
machine, it ma\ appear to be doing
a big business, but it fails to fatten
or improve + h r ' thresh. How long
our farmers call stand this fanning
mill process, is a problem. Go
slowly 011“ this road, my friend,
unless you are willing to work for
nothing and board yourself, Nufft
said.” • *'* 1 f
Bead the advertisement of J. C..
Morideth in another column if you.
want anything in the way of machi
nery. Ho lias secured the local
Agency for the celebrated Eclipse*
Engine and other machinery, lie:
proposes to keep on hand yalys and.
piping etc. So that parties can
replace a broken piece art short no- !
tiee. He secures his agency from 1
one of the cleverest and most relia-;
hie men in Georgia. Mr. Thos.;
Camp of Covington, the General"
Agent.
We learn that energy induciry of j
Mr. Camp has built up such a trade*
for the Frick Company, that they
arc preparing to establish a branch
manufactory at Covington to make
anything from an engine down to a
wheelbarrow, including reapers
and mowers, separators and rice
mills, to supply the trade of Mr.
Camp in Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina.
The manufactory will be a great
acquisition to Georgia and Mr. C.
deserves great credit for building
up a trade that will bring io us an
investment of one hundred thou
sand dollars.
'Kendall's spavin Cure always
cure* if properly used. Bead Ad
vert isement.
The Vienna Dooly county cor
respondent of the Amcricus li nr (hi
de n writes that paper the tollowing
account of a mysterious and bloody
tragedy: “From Mr. Bierce V.
Locke*of this county, wo get the
following particulars of a terrible
affair. which, it is reported, occurr
ed hn Moiiday last in the extreme
j eastern portion of the county.
1 Locke docs hot vouch for tlie ■'cor
rectness nor accuracv, as to details
Jof tile rumor, ui giwS them AS
coming from parties resident in tlie
neighborhood in which the affairs
is ejdd to have Occurred. It seems
that Miss Mary, youngest daughter
ot Mr. and-Mrs. Ja mes Bradshaw, j
was sent by her mother on an er
rand to a neighbor’s, not far distant,
f ailing to return in due time, in
quiry wa - instituted as to her
w boreal loutsTwhen it was discover
ed that she * had not been to the
house of the neighbor where she
had been sent. The family now be
came thoroughly alarmed, and with
the assistance'of the whole neigh
borhood a search commenced.
Bloodhounds were procured, and
the young lady was tracked from
hel‘ father’s gate along the path
leading in the direction she was
sent, and finally to an old well in a
field about a mile away. Here she
was found at the bottom of the
well, with her head beat almost to a
jellv, and other marks of violence
were visible upon her person. No
clue to the perpetrator of the crime
has been obtained, and the affair is
shrouded in mystery,”
THE TIMES.
Daily our streets are filled with
wagons hauling to the .eorakrv gu
ano and supplies of every kind,
even including large quantities of
Western hay. The credit system is
again on a boom, real estate and
personal property is being mort
gaged with waivers, of exemptions
guaranteed;by the Constitution and
laws of the State, and the C’lerk of
the Superior .Court is kept busy
registering those iron-clad papers.
The situation.is alarming to the
lover of his country, and frequently
the question can be heard asked.
What is torbe. the result! There can
be but one answer: The-tich will
become richer, and the poor, poor
er. The writer has no Spirit of the
Agrarian,but he in common with
others can but view with sad fore
bodings of the future-—the situa
tion. The fruit crop is gone, the
corn is to be planted over, and
farmers are far behind in their work
generally.
Already in debt for guano, mules,
corn, flour, hay, bacon and dry
goods td’ the-amount of three hun
dred thousand dollars at a moder
ate estimate,with only three months,
of the year passed, unless blessed
with good seasons for making, and
fair prices in selling its crops, the
county cannot hope to more than
extinguish its indebtedness. Should
there be a failure of the cotton crop
it is’ ineyiatbly bankrupt, and
many persons will bo sold out of
home and all they possess. —Mon-
roe Advertiser.
FORSYTH’S FIRE FIENDS.
Mr. G. D. Allen, our mayor, be
lieving the firC to have been ineen- !
diary, dispatched to Mr. Jones, the
detective, of Atlanta, to come down
immediately and ferret out the mat
ter. Mr. Jones, accompanied by
Mr. J. F. Hildeband, a detective,.
arrived yesterday morning. Mr.
Jones returned to Atlanta, and left
Mr. Hildeband to work up the case.'
Twd negro bhys,' Wes Bye, about,
eighteen ye4rs of age, and Stephen
Wynne, .10 years old, were suspect-*
ed. Mr: Hildeband had them ar
rested at * once, and took ’ Stephen
Wynne to a private room. Mr. H.
says Stephen was very much excit
ed, and asked why he had been ar
rested? Mr. H. told him he knew
too well why he was arrested, and
aftor some conservation with him
the negro gave himself away, and
finally made the following startling:
confession: He said that Wes
Pye and himself made a plot two
weeks ago to burp those buildings,
for the purpose of getting goods;
that that they were to meet on Sun
day night last; and did meet to ex
ecute the fiendish purpose; and
crept around in the rear of the
bar-room, a wooden building, and
put straw underneath, and each
one insisted on the other applying
the match, but finally they agreed
that both should apply the match
at the same time, and in three hours
$20,000 worth of property was re
duced to ashes. Stephen \Y ynne
testified to all the above statment
at his eomitmeut trial this after
noon in the county court, and also
confessed to the detective that he
burned Mr. Hussey’s store a short
time ago.
AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.
In the upper part of this county,
a sixteen-year-old young man the
name of William Reeves, courted a
twelve-year-old girl by the name of
Emly Foster, She consented to
marry him, and her parents gave
their consent. Last Sunday night
was the time set for the marriage.
It appears that the young lady and
her parents, with the concurrence
of some friends, had decided to
play a joke on young Reeves. On
the night set apart, Reeves appear
ed dressed in his best, happy in the
thought of uniting his destiny with
one so pure and lovely as Miss Em
it, little dreaming that there is a
"many a *lip between the clip and
Aho lip.” A young -man named
Chas. Prance robed himself Hi bri
dal attire, and a snowy veil hid his
face. An uncle agreed to have a
marriage license and he provided
one in the shape of an old guano
note, Which lie placed in an envel
ope and handed to Thomas Thax
tOn, whot appeared in solemn digni
ty to make the twain one. \ oimg
Reeves, still uneonsious of the plan
to victimize him, with confused
motions escorted his prospective
bride to a position in iront of Mr.
Thaxton. who quickly, performed
the ceremony. Immediately Miss
Emly Foster stepped from a place
of Seclusjom and congratulated the
groom. Young Reeves looked at
her in astonishment, and he turned
and looked at his bride. Someone
had lifted the veil from Prance's
face by this time, and when Reeves
saw to whom he was mar
ried, he looked the very picture of
dispair, and exclaimed, “My dollar
and a half is gone.’ The ludicrous
affair was witnessed by about sixty
persons. The young man at .last
accounts was quite wrathy and
says he intends to have the young
lady yet.- -Marietta Journal.
JOE’S COMPOSITION ON HENS.
Hens is female Chickens ruse
tors is Mail chickens. A hen aint
A lien until she gits grown, a Ruse
ter is a fuseler all the time. A hen
has got just as much wright to he
called a ltuster as a Ruster has a
Hen is just as much A ruster as A
ruster is. they all roost but Ma sez
the mails always throw off on The
femails. you no Ma is a Femail
just the Same as a lien is. Pa is
the Ruster in our family but some
times ma thinks she ort to be rus
ter, and he Makes her Stand around
I tell von. She is just like marys
Lam till pa goes off Then she plays
Ruseter. Hens and ruseters goes
together, if thare wasnt no rusters
thare woodnt Be no hens, and if
thare wasnt 110 hens Thare woodnt
Be no rusters. So it Is just a Stand
off. When it cums to aigs tho a
Hen lays over a Ruster a Long
ways, i dorit believe o ruster coocl
lay a aig to save his life. If you
see a ruster lay a aig dont you eat
it. Thare is sure to be sumthin
crooked about It. Hens can lay
aigs just as easy as our ole Hound
can suck em, but thay think it is
so orful smart, just like they need-.
ntto Lay aigs lessen they Want to.
1 thing is curtain, yu Cant make
a lien lay till she gets Reddy. Yu
may have a meetin of citizens an
appoint a cummitty to hurry Her
up, yu may use a Derrick an a
mustard plaster, or to get a Nuse-'
paper reporter to try to get her to
make the aig public, But she wont
Do it till she gits readdy. me and!
billy Smith tryedto make 1 lay 1
day; and ever since the since then
the Hen was out of fix. We sole ;
her to a Bolding house. Aigs aint:
Never bad when thay is Ist Lade,
pa says ram a bad aig. He says i
wus alrite When i was Ist lade,
but i Was kept t< o Long, he says
the cannibals Spoiled a Nice angel
By not eatin me When i was a ba
by. when a man Breakfast he
Forgits everything else, brake a'
Bad aig on a man When he is In ;
trouble an he Forgits all about It..
a Bad aig aint entytled to no Ites
peck. Dont put confidence in a aig
lessen you no it. if a aig loses their
place in society yu just as well let'
it go. Tha are like the.
Sun, and yu'just as well try to
keep 1 From settin as the the other,
the Sun don’t set Cepting in the :
west, But a Hen can set anywhere.
Yu just as well argue with a Wo
man as to argue with a Hen when
she want to set. when she wants ;
to set she wants to Do it bad, an yu
cant make Her think she dont no'
her buznesss. if yu tie sticks on a
settin Hens legs she will the standin
up. then she looks like the only
Thing the Lord ever made in Vain,
making chickens is a inity slow
buzness, i see why thay doant
lay eni already made, like gotes.
When a hen has chickens she is as
Proud as a girl with new spring
close, and the Ruster struts around
like he had a hand In it. rusters
hunts worms and calls the Hen and
chickens up To let em see him eat
it himself. This is the way sum
men gets along in the wurld, eatin
what belongs to the widders an or
funs. when hens and Rusters gits
too Old to be any good thay is sole
to hording Houses and made Into
spring chickens. Next to hash you
cant tell nothin Bout spring chick-
en. Onct we had a Hen which had
more Senee than Billy smiths broth
er which Has fits, aigs wursnt wurth
But 10 Cents a dozen an she look
Like she wanted to Die. she wood
nt sociate With the other hens and
woodnt have no carry ins on with
the Ruseters, but she coodnt help
lavin. 1 Day she went and set
rite up against the stable with her
head on the Ground so she coodnt
lay. she got along Mity well at
Ist, but i thought the stable Wood
get the Best of it, 2 weeks after
she been settin thare i went down,
and thare Wusnt nothin thare but
14 aigs and sum feathers and claws.
The hen was laid away. When
them aigs was hatched the Chick
ens tried The same gaim when aigs
was 'Low, and pa killed cm. A lien
teadfr to-her own buz ness when she
is ill a Coop. Joe.
c~r~ y
BILL ARP'S TALK.
Farming is a very veriegatcd business.
Besides the regular work there is always
something turning up that* lias got to be
done. The long line of plank fence on
the public road was getting old and
rickety, The planks were sawed too
thin at first and the nabors couldn’t
climb over to hunt brids or go afisbing
with any safety for themselves or the
fence. The posts were rotten and after
a high wind had to turn out and prop up
the concern. We’ve been dreading that
job, but it had to lie done. So the boys
set me to digging post holes. I got a
long pretty well in the loamy bottom,
but when I struck the gravelly clay as
we rose to the hill, I begun to feel se
rious, and the farther I got the serious
er I became. A great man} people pass
along the road—most too many for my
business, for when I see em coming I
dig away like killing snakes, and when
they quit looking I stop to blow and
sometimes they come so frequent I don’t
get to stop long enough. My bands are
powerful sore and my back aches. I
thought fpr a weile I had a touch of
rheumatism, but the family all laughed
at me on the sly, and so I kept on a dig
ging. I always prided myself on my skill
in digging a post hole. I can dig three
while a buck nigger is digging one.—
Give me a long-handled slibyel, and I
can beat a patent machine, but I can’t
hold out as long. There is a heap of
science in building a fence. It takes a
number one carpenter ;to do it right. If
the holes are not dug in a true line most
of them will have te be dug over again
on one side or the other when the posts
are set. The bottom of the posts ought
to be set in a line, find the, top by the
eye. You-nee,dn’t put a plum bob nor a
spirit level to split post. It won’t pay.
But a good eye will do the work. I’ve
seen palings nailed on all catawampus iij
front of fine houses, and it always gives
me the conniptions to look at ’em. But
we are building a plank wire fence. We
got good chestnut posts,,some split and
some round, and we packed them welll
at the bottom. That is ti e secret of
making a post firm, in the ground.—
Don’t fill up full and then pack at the
top. Our posts are twelve feet apart
from center and the plank are a full inch
thick. The base is nine inches and
there are three more plank six inches
wide with space of three, four and six
iuches and then conies a barbed wire
eight inches higher which makes makes
the fence four feet high. The joints are
all stripped with six inch plank and a
good chestnut stob driven down in the 1 ,
middle of every pannel and the plank
nailed to it, and the posts are sawed off
with, a bevil a few inches obove the
wire, and this is our kind of a cheap farm
fence and if any farmer knows of a bet
ter one I would like to know it. I don’t
know exactly how long a good chestnut
post will last, but nabor Freeman says
he lias seen one up in Gordon that a
gate was hung to.by General DeSoto, or
some other feller, and it’s there yet. He
says a chestnut sorrel horse will last’
longer than any other color, I wish I
could find a chestnut sorrel cow. I would
buy her, for old Bess is dead. She was;
a noble animal, and we all loved her like 1
a friend. She has given us about six
thousand gallons of milk —good, rich,
heaithymilk— but she will neveigive any
more in this world. She has gone where
the good cows go, if they go anywhere,
and I reckon they do. The cow-pen,
looks lonesome now, and Mrs. Arp is sad,;
for Bess was her favorite, and she knew;
it. She was a game cow, and disdained
a dog as much as possible. Old Bows,
tried to nrtse her one day,' and she threw
him up about fifteen feet and came down
on her back, but he didn't stay there
long. They never made friends in life
— 0 “ J ' -
but I hope they are now at peace and
have become reconciled, for they were
both good friends to us. Bows had no
tail to speak of for it was cut off in infan
cy, and I’ve wondered how it would be
if dismembered bodies all come together
at the resurection how his puppy tail
would fit on to tile old dug’s stmnp. We
are fixing n!w to plant corn end my
boys are half crazy for a cultivator. I
reckon they are a good thing and save
labor, but I saw one at work last sum
mer and the darkey who drove ft broke
down a power of corn in turning at the
end of the rows and a right smart at
other places where the stocks were a
little out of a bee line. They can’t dodge
round like a single plow. I wish there
was some better way to drop corn and
have it come up in a.perfect row. and I
wish there Was some contrivance to lay
off corn rows and cotton rows perfectly
parallel. The mule has to have sense
and man, too, to make a decent furrow
and not many of them have got it. I
wonder if a man couldn’t ride a horse
and pull after him a thing with wooden
teeth that would mark several rows at
once, though I wouldn’t advise the using
of it in stumpy land qr uew ground. I
liketoseea farm look like a great big
garden that is laid off and worked by a
line. Gardening is my forte if I have
got any forte which satisfies me I am a
descendent of Adam, for that was his.
I’ve just built anew arbor lor the grape
vines to run on, and the chestnut posts
were long, green and heavy, and they
had to be toted about fifty yards, and I
thought it my paternal duty to take the
heaviest one and leave the lightest for
the boys, but before I got the lh>t one to
its place I weiggled powerfully, and felt
like I was knock-kneed and box ankled,
and I looked back the boys were holding
on to the fence most dead with laughing,
and that evening they had Mrs. Arp out
in the garden to show her my circus,
and I havont heard the last of it yet
BUILDERS’ SUPPLY HOUSE
+o'
B. H, BROOMHEAD & CO.,
Successors to LONGLEY & ROBINSON,
Office aud Wareroom, 26 DECATUR Street, ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
DOORS, SASH, LINDS.
MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, STAIR RAILS
NEWELS, SCROLLS, BALUSTERS,
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE, NAILS, MINED PAINT,
PURE WHITE LEAD, LINSEED .OIL, Colors of all Kinds, Dry and
in Oil GLASS, PUTTY, GLAZIERS’ POINTS, KAL
SOMIXINE. PAPER BORDERS
AND CENTEUr*
but green chestnuts- Heavy timber. }
tell you. I’m working tbe car do n hov
„wjt!> a level apsMrs. Arp she sil
with her sun bonnet on and ever and at
on encourges me with an uxorial smile
She is a splendid overseer, she i-, anc
she has an eye to beauty and to mo
When the dog-wood blossoms she is go
ing a fishing .and take me along to kill
snakes and bait li&< hook. Bn A Am*.
WATCHMAN WHAT OF THE NIGHT
We sec the question, “is the south
growing'poorer, 55 being extensively
discussed, and the public mind
seems to be at a loss to know wheth
er we are really prospering or net
We have no doubt but the state ,
Georgia is accumulating sonV
money, hut we don't believe th
mass of our people are improvin >
their condition, we believe the toil
ing masses are spending their thru
and energy in a Vain endeavor t<
benefit themselves, while the wealth
of the country hs’concentrating h
the hands of a few. •
This being admitted a> a fact, h
should he our aim to find out th<
cause, of our trouble, and make hi
effort to remove the cause. Wh;
are our people being impoverished
while a few individuals are making
princly fortunes? Why Is it that
so many good men all oyer the
land can scarcely'feed and cloth
their families ’ while a few are he
coming merchant princes R, R
Kings and.Bankers?
These-questions should be pro
pounded to every thinking mind
thd wrong should he righted if it
lies iii the reach of human power,
the Press of the south should bring
to bear their power in boVY of the
toiling masses'. ■
They are striving heorically foi
the agricultural' advancement' v ;
her prolific acres; they are string
gling to build up up her prosperity ;
to enthuse her people with the spir
it of enterprise; to infuse life into
her manufacturing and railroad
enterprises, and to develop her in
ternal i mprovcmenf s.
They are turning the full force of
their gihnj and herculean nowers
toward the development of hoi
home interests.
We believe onr united efforts Gar
acccomplish much fin shaping the
destiny of a people,' so" far as can
be accomplished' by public senti
ment, we believe the local press has
more power over public sentiment,
than any other agency on earth, 'i-r
--power for good, or evil cannot he
enumerated, it is the power that
moves the ’people. It terms any
controls public sentiment. It is a
verification of the axiom that “the
penis mightier than the sword.”
It is the beacon light which points
out the shoals and rocks, and
warns them avoid their hidden dan
gers. It is the great electric light
which illumines the whole area of
our advanced civilization, and ri
vals in its brilliancy all the bright
suns of enlightenment which In \a
illumined the world, and to-day if
the powerful champion of constitu
tional liberty and the rights of man
0 n the globe.
We believe the united efforts of
the Press of the United states could
involve this country in a civil war
in less time than twelve months, or
on the other hand produce a public
sentiment that would give peace
prosperity and happiness to oui
people, such should be our mission
for Georgia at this time.
To unbind the shackles which
have so long hampered her fair
limbs; to bring her forth from the
spirit of complaint and discontent
into the day-dawn aud effulgence
of a brightor destiny, and by every
means within our grasp, win Juv o\
our own unaided exertions or by
reason of extraneous assistance, ele
vate her on the pedestal of ainvy
the admiration, wonder and poor of
her sister states, within the broan
radii of this land of free people and
a “free press.”
Of the cause of our trouble we
will write in our next.
[to be continued.]
NEW BAR!
I have now opened my new bar in the
Mclntosh House at Indian Spring anti
am reads’ to serve the public, 1 sviil keep
on hand the very best and finest brands
of liquors wines and brandies
affords, choice cigars &c. Mr. McCord
familiarly known as '‘Cook” McCord
will preside as “mixologist” I will also,
continue to serve the public at my old
stand in Jackson.
ti J. J. EASTON.