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VOLUME XX.
WRIGHT & RECK,
Attorneys at Law.
(OFFICE IN COURT HOISE.)
JACKSON, . _ Gt^l.
M. M. MILLS,
Counsellor & Attorney at Law.
Will practice in all the cour’s. Morey
Waned on r al estate at low rate of inter*
r.*t. Long time granted with small pay
ments, Money obtained at once without
delay.
(office in court house.)
Dr. 0. H. Cantrell,
X> E TXT TIST.
JACKSON, - _ GEORGIA.
Up stairs over J. W. Bun’s Rock
Corner.
J. W. LEE, M. ]).
JACKSON ; OA.
Will practice medicine in its various
branches.
Office at J. W. Lee & Son’s drug store.
Residence first house west of Airs.
Brady’s.
HOTELS.
Dempsy House.
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Board Reasonable, and Tuble supplied
w.tb the best.
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Fir-t Class in Every Particular.
Tin only brick hotel between Atlanta
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JACKEON. - - - GEORGIA
Cocoa and its Uses.
Properly considered in connection
with tea,* the cocoa bean presents many
interesting features.., W Idle it can ne\er
be considered as a possible product m
the United States, it is, nevertheless, a
matter of interest for our farmers. e
are not only interested in what we grow
ourselves, but almost equally so in tnose
agricultural products for winch we must
look to other countries. In p:nt
of Bulletin No. 13 of the Chemical
Division of the Department of Agn
culture we find an interesting er on
cocoa and its preparations. The raw
material from which the cocoas and
chocolates of commerce are denv cd is
the cocoa bean, the seed of the cot oa
tree. Central and South America urnn
the most important supply of this mate
rial. From Mexico to Peru on the W eat
const, and from Mexico southern
Brazil on the oast coast, and on the
West Indian Islands the more favorable
conditions for its culture are met. The
cocoa tree grows from eighteen
six feet in higlit, blooms cootmuail;-,
and yields tw r o crops a >ear.. _
has a yellowish appearance, is *
to six'inches in length, and two
ieches in diameter. _ 1' rc > nl ,i n
forty seeds grow' in the ties i\ P P
this*fruit, arranged in longitudinal ro
The seeds are egg-shaped, about half a
inch long and a quarter of an meb
thick.—[American Farmer.
Anew brooch is an owl with out
itretched wings of diamonds.
A 0 I .ga—L
Prize Picture Puzzle.
Any one can find dj * buf ids iff' ? m:ln and h!s three daughters.
Ihe picture was published in a few newspaoers some'rimifi^V he faces ° f the three young ladies,
our standard remedies. We now offer a new Drue attn F ted .considerable attention to
IS to introduce our medicines into new hom v a c ; mn f :Uon w ‘th it. As the sole object
not to compete in this one. As to thlTe 1 Sbilitv^f^Vh * FnVn PnV he . , form , er L competition are requested
medicines are held in Toronto, Canada, where h* m!!.!:* ,b . e <vhieh their
„V >rr ’P rie tcsrs of The Ford Pill Cos., ’ will give an elegant pair of Shetland Ponies*
Carriage and Harnoss, valued S6OO, (deli vered free in any part of the United States,
I oHvV r* j* *i° can make out the three (laughters’ faces. To the second will be given an elegant
• tiiniTf. r: ® ® VVatCn, se t in sapphires and diamonds. To the third will be given a pair of
Servicfi ,a 7]l?hl d /-£/ arr n! n * 8 * wiil be s iven a handsome China Dinner
Rov C u/ *i,i° h ■#** W^ 1 be K "Z n 2 Kodak Camera. To the sixth, a Swiss Music
i the French Mantel Clock- 'io the eighth, an elegant Banquet
° the ninth, a pair of CrOVVM Derby VdS6S. To the tenth) a complete Lawn
** S„!/ r | ?/?*V anC * "I?jV °. er . P rlzes in order of merit. Every competitor must cut out the above
n/ZIC 1 lcture, distinguish the three girls* faces by marking a cross with a lead pencil on each,
■WiS e ® K T e two-ce.it stamps for otio of the following “Prize Remedies:"—
l ord 8 Prize Pills;*' “Ford’s Prize Catarrh. Remedy," or “Ford’s Prize
omMW? ... ct an y oneof ‘he above remedies you desire. Address “Tlie Ford
1 ill CO, Cor. Wellington & Ray Sts., Toronto, Canada. The person whose envelope is
postmarked lirst will be awarded the first prize, and the others in order of merit. As this adver
tisement appears simultaneously throughout the United States, every one has an equal oppor
tunity. to the person sending the last correct answer will be given an elegant Upright Concert
(ri.iiid 1 lailo, valued at $>500.00. To they? rst person from the last sending a correct answer
will be given a gentleman’s fine Gold “Sancloz” Watch, which strikes the hours and quarter
bours on small cathedral gong at pleasure, and valued at $300.00. To the second from the las: a
lust-class Safety Bicycle, pneumatic tire. To the third from the last, afirst-class English Shot
gun. To the fourth from the last, a suite of Parlor Furniture. To the fifth from the last, a
handsome Silver Tea, Service. To the sixth from the last, an elegant Piano Lamp. To the
seventh from the last, a handsome pair of Portieres. To the eighth from the last, a genuin-
English leather travelling Trunk. To the ninth from the last, two pieces of genuine French
Statuary, and many other prizes in order of merit.
SPECIAL PRIZES FOB EACH STATE.
A special prize of a Silk Dress Pattern (sixteen yards, any color), or a first-class
Sewing Machine (any make desired) will be given to the first person in each State in the
11. S. who can make out the three daughters* faces. We shall give away 200 valuable prizes,
besides special prizes, (if there should be so many sending correct answers.) No charge is made for boxing
and packing of prizes. The names of the leading prize winners will be published in connection with oui
advertisement in leading newspapers next month. Extra premiums will be given to only those who are
v. tiling to assist in introducing our medicines. Nothing is charged for the prizes in any way. They
are absolutely given away to introduce and advertise “Ford’s Prize Remedies,” which are stand
ard medicines, and will be used in every family for years where they have been once introduced. All
prizes will be awarded strictly in order of merit, and with perfect satisfaction to the public. The remedies
will be sent by mail, postpaid, and prizes free Of duty.
A WATCH FOR EVERT COBBEET_A ysWER.
An extra premium of a genuine “ Fearless ” \Y atoll, (stem winder.) will be a-.vardc* to every
per; ti who sends a correct answer within 30 days after this adv ertisement appears, in case they should not
Ic fortunate enough to secure one of the larger prizes. That is, if any one can find the three faces and
c:t ! >se them within 30 days from the time this advertisement appears in the newspaper, they are
c :. ranteed either one of the leading prizes, or an extra premium of a watch on conditions stated.
No answer will be noticed that does not contain 30 cents for one of Ford’s Prize Remedies.
Address THE FORD PILL CO, “37,” Cor. Wellington & Bav Sts., Toronto, Canada-
JACKSON
Real Estate li toil Apr.
D. J. THAXTON, Manager.
SUCCESSOR TO
TT O. Benton & Cos.
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We Advertise Property in
the MIDDLE GEORGIA AR
GUS without cost to the
owner.
We are the only Real Estate Agents in Jackson, and have In our hands quite a
number of valuable and desirable, farms in Butts and other counties for sale on the
best of term®.
Also City Property, Residence and
Business Lots.
If VOU have land te sell, put it into our hands and we will find yon a buyer. If
you have houses to rent we will find you a renter. If you wish to buy a home call
on us and we will furnish team and driver.
WE ASK ONLY A TRIAL.
JacfcMß, Ghk, J une 1892.
JACKSON, GA„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1892.
MERMITEMECd
FATHER OF THE BIGGEST PEN
SION STEAL, ON RECORD.
SCHEME 10 STEM, 53,000,000,00011 OSCE,
Text of the Bill He Introduced in Three
D.fferent Congresses.
The People’s Party’s Candidate's Record
Shown Up in Congregs—llls Utter
ances Against the South.
No proposed political measure of recent
times lias aroused such w idespread in i g
nation throughout the south as the pr...-po
sition, embodied iu the 12th plank of the
St. Louis people’s party platform, for the
government to pay union soldiers the dif
ference between the greenbacks in which
their pensions hail been paid and gold.
This monstrous measure carried with it
an appropriation to begin with of $3,000,-
000,000 of which it is estimated that Geor
gia’s share would have beeu about SGS,-
000,003.
As lias been stated in The Journal
already, the authorship of ri.is infamous
provision is claimed by “Cyclone” Davis,
the people’s party candidate for attorney
general of Texas, who slates that he pre
pared it after consultation with Gen. J. B.
Weaver.
It may not be generally -known, how
ever, that this scheme to rob the govern
ment of three thousand million dollars—
the most gigantic pension steal ever pro
postal—is the pet measure of Weaver, now
candida’e of the people’s party for president.
Weaver introduced a bill in the 4(]th, 49th
and COtli congresses, providing for carrying
into effect the scheme proposed by the now
notorious 12th plank.
The history of Weaver’s connection with
this robber measure is told in the following
extract from the Congressional Record:
CONGRESSMAN CRAWFORD’S SPEECH.
Mr. Crawford said:
“Mr. Chairman: lam opposed to estab
lishing precedents by which the door may
be opened for extravagance in the future,
whether it he for the pensions or what not.
I am unwilling to place additional burdens
upon the people of my state when they are
already suffering on account of the scarc
ity of money, due to the prevailing low
prices of all products upon which they rely
for money.
“There never has bean a time in the h •
tory of this country vjjen so much unrest
•was exhibited among the industrial classes
as at the present tim9and all are looking
to the federal government for relief and a
thousand plans have been suggested.
Grievances from the farmers of the south
aud west and from the operatives of tlie
great mills of the north—products of the
farm declining ami the wages of thelaborer
reduced.
“All admit that there is cause for com
plaint, but there is great dauger of making
a grievous mistake in selecting a remedy
for the evils complained of. I want to say
here and now that it is due in my judg
ment largely to our federal system of taxa
tion and inequitable distribution of appro
priations from the national treasury. We
cannot hope for permanent financial relief
for all, sections of our country until we
have a fair and equitable adjustment of
tariff taxation limited exclusively to gov
ernmental purposes and an honest and
economical administration of public affairs.
“Through the iniquitious tariff system
the agricultural sections have been impov
erished to enrich the great manufacturing
centers. Aud but a small per cent, of the
vast sums collected and disbursed annual
ly by the federal treasury finds its way
back to the pockets of the people whose
toil it represents. To those who have
studied the discriminations of the high pro
tective tariff system there is nothing
strange in the fact that Massachusetts has
$323 per capita while North Carolina has
but $7.
“It is the polny of the republican par y
to put the government in partnership with
the manufactures in the collection of fed
eral taxes, by which the government gets
$1 as tax and the manufacturers get four
as bounty. Iu other words the govern
ment collects $200,000,000 in round num
bers every year from the foreign merchan
dise brought to this country, and the home
manufacturers, by the assistance of the
tariff laws, collect $800,000,000 from their
products, and the people nay it all.
“That is to say, the people of the United
States pay $1,000,000,000 more annually for
the necessaries of life than any other peo
ple on the face of the earth would have to
pay for the same goods.
“This is called‘protection to American
labor’ (?) and at the same time it makes
millionaires. This vast sum is being
drawn from every nook and corner of the
republic, from the rank and file of the peo
ple, as they make their daily purchases at
the stores. But the merchants are not re
sponsible, for they have already paid it to
the manufacturer, and of course must col
lect it from the people. Every man in the
south knows that most of the money real
ized at the end of the year goes to the mer
chants to settle accounts and pay off mort
gages for the year’s supplies, and from the
merchants it goes to the great trade cen
ters never to return.
“The small amount the tariff barons
leave the treasury as its part of the spoils
is being absorbed by pensions. Think of
it. We are paying twice as mnch for pen
sions alone as was required to defray the
entire expense of the government under
Buchanan’s administration, and more than
it cost England and Germany to support
their standing armies. And the last re
publican congress, by act of June 27, 1890,
added 100,000 new names to the pension
rolls, which this congress must provide
for under the law and appropriate the
enormous sum of $146,000,000 for the fiscal
year 1893, and com pari lively none of it
goes to tho southern states. These contin
uous drains upon our resources, if not
checked, will soon baukrupt the south, and
the republicans are solely responsible.
“Mr. Chairman, notwithstanding the
hard times and an empty treasury, that
side of the house has by speech and by
vote tried to u a e this a “biliion-dollar
congress,” jus-, as if they were under no
obligation to the people.
When sorrows come they come not single spies.
But in battalions.
“YOUR WHITEWASH IS TOO THIN!”
“In the midst of the financial crisis ot
the south, the Omaha convention capped
the climax l>y putting at the head of the
republican ticket a. man who was untiring
in iiis efforts as a member of tlie forty
sixth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses,
to pass a bill to pay the federal soldiers
the difference in value between the green
backs they received and gold. Aud to
carry into effect its provisions the bill car
ried an appropriation of $300,000,000 as the
first installment. Strange relief! Splen
did reform!
weaver’s infamous bill.
“I send tlie bill Mr. Weaver introduced
into the forty-ninth congress to the clerk’s
desk and ask that it he read.’’
The clerk read as follows:
Mr. J. B. Weaver introduced the follow-
ing bill:
A bill (H. R. 3378) for the relief of the soldiers
attd sailors who s.-rved in the army and navy
of the United States in the late war for the
suppression of the rebellion and to restore to
them equal rights with the holders of govern
ment bonds.
Whereas, the soldiers and sailors who served
in the army and navy of the United States in
tho late war for the suppression of the rebellion
were, from the necessity of the case, compelled
by law to receive for their services a depreci
ated currency, greatly inferior in value at the
time to the gold coin of the United States, and
Whereas,’l he congress of the United States
has heretofore in the most solemn manner
affirmed that good faith requires that all gov
ernment obligations shall be paid in coin or its
equivalent; and
Whereas, the obligation of the government to
the soldiers and sailors who hazarded all. in
cluding life, that this nation might live, is of
the most sacred and binding character. There
fore,
Be it enacted by the senate and house of rep
resentatives of the United Btates of America in
congress assembled, That there shall be paid to
each private soldier, non-commissioned officer,
sailor, teamster or musician legularly mustered
into the service of the United states during tho
late war for the suppression of the rebellion, or
to his or their legal representatives, in case
of death, as soon as his or their claim shall
be examined and audited by the Second Audi
tor of the Treasury, the sum found due him or
them, tho amount thereof to be ascertained as
follows: The Second Auditor shall ascertain
the amount of currency paid Baid soldier or
sailor at each date of payment during his term
of service, and shall ascertain the gold value of
said currency payable at the time, by reference
to the quotations of gold as compared with the
currency in which said soldier or sailor was
paid, at the city of New York at that date; and
Faid soldier, sailor or his legal resresentatives
shall be allowed and paid the difference in
value between the currency which he received
and the standard gold coin of the United States
in which he should have been paid.
Seetion 2, That to enable the government to
meet the payments required by this act the sec
retary of the treasury is hereby authorized to
cause to be issued $300,000,000 of United States
notes, or so much thereof as shall be found nec
essary of the denominations of one, two, five,
ten, twenty and fifty dollars; and said notes
when so issued shall be a legal tender in pay
ment of all debts, public and private, and shall
be kept in circulation in manner as now pro
vided by law or other United States notes.
S* Ction 3. That the sum of $3,000,000 or so
much thereof as shall be necessary to make the
payments required by this act, is hereby ap
propriated out of the memy by this act author
ized to be issued.
Mr. Crawford said: “Mr. Chairman, this
bill was introduced by Mr. Weaver at the
second session of the forty-sixth congress,
and was H. R. 2480, and on December 3,
1879, was referred to the committee on
military affairs. (See House Journal, page
40.) The same bill was introduced by him
in the forty-ninth congress, and on Jan
uary 11, 18S6, was referred to the com
mittee on military affairs. And
the same bill was again introduced
by him in the fiftieth congress as H. R.
1356 and was referred to the committee on
military affairs on January 4, 1888. Mr.
Weaver’s persistency shows the deep in
terest he had in the success of this measure,
having introduced it in every congress of
which he was a member.
“Mr. Chairman, this is one of the most
unjust and reckless schemes ever attempted
to be pushed through the American con
gTe3s, and proves conclusively that Mr.
Weaver is an enemy to the financial inter
ests of this country, and especially to the
south; for we could get no benefit from
such appropriations. It is purely sectional.
“We want a man for president whose
sympathy knows no east, no west, no
no north, no south, a president for all the
people of the United States.
“Mr. Chairman, it is interesting to note
just now that Mr. Weaver was a bitter and
hostile enemy of the southern people only
a few short years ago. “What has come
over the spirit of his dreams” that makes
him love us now? ‘Who ever loved that
loved not at first eight?’ 1 will read the
following extracts from his speeches in the
Congressional Record of the fiftieth con
gress, page 6146:
“They were incorporated into a speech
of Mr. Henderson, of lowa, delivered in
the house on the tenth, and appeared in
the Record of July 11, 1888, and were ad
mitted at the time by Weaver to be cor
rect, and he said in reply that he ‘had
nothing to take back.’
“Here are the extracts referred to. He
said at Albia July 18, 1866:
“I want to congratulate you first, fellow citi
zens, on the suppression of a purely democratic
rebellion, gotten up by democrats for the dem
ocratic purpose of dissevering this union and
perpetually establishing human slavery. Now
and forever it is established as an eternal truth
that the democracy in no place or state can
ever be trusted with government Asa party
it should disband, just as a seetion of it did at
Appomattox.”
He said in a joint debate with Col. H. H.
Trimble, at Bloomfield, on September 4,
1868:
“Here we have the old fight over again. The
confederate democracy, north and south, in
which the infamous copperhead division ol
lowa appears, are again contesiiug with Grant
for the safety of the union. As at Donaldson,
ho proposes to ‘move on their work at once,’
and there is no escape for this rank, traitorous
horde except in another surrender. Charge on
them tellow-republicans, and spare not one,
not even a deputy road supervisor, from total
political annihilation.”
lie said in Bio nfield on September 26,
1869:
“Wiat is the use of further arraigning the
defunct democracy, with all its hoary crimes,
at the bar of public opinion? IVe know that its
acts comprise murder, treason, theft, arson,
fraud, perjury and all the crimes possible for
an organization to connive at.”
“,t would be a mercy to put its record a mill
ion miles down deep in the pit that is men
tioned in Holy Writ; and I may add that if a
large and distinguished assortment of it* al
leged statesmen were sent along it would be
common justice.”
He said in Fairfield, September 18, 1870.
“The democracy, as usual, are loud in their
opposition, but what did they ever do when
they had a chance? Here in lowa they stole the
school fund, and nationally they stole tho
arsenals, the navy, tlie treasury, everything
that was not red hot, and created the very
devil’s rebellion. And these men appear and
ask for your support. They should come on
bended knees askiug your forgiveness for the
unspeakable crimes they have committed and
the wretched miseries inflicted upon our com
mon country.*’
He said in Keokuk, September 16, 1871:
“The record of the republican party appeals
to the candid judgment of ail men as impeacha
ble, save, perhaps, that it was too lenient with
the leading democratic conspirators. Tho same
old gang, save those who were shot or hung, aro
again conspiring to get po session of the gov
ernment next year. Woe to them ! for tho loyal
hosts will crush them, and crush them forever
and forever out of all possible danger of such a
misfortune to our common country.”
He said at Oskaloosa, September 25th,
1872:
“No republican can ever, under any circum
stances, have any part or iot with the hungry,
rebellious, man hating, woman selling gang
corporate under the name of democracy, a
name so full of stench and poison that it should
be blotted from the vocabulary of civilized
man and banded over to the barbarism that it
so fitly now and in all tho past has repre
sented.”
lie said at Stiles, September 11th, 1873,
in referring to the financial policy of the
democratic party:
“Isut, then, what could you expect from the
poor, blind, diseased, decrepit, dismal, damned
old democratic party?”
Continuing Mr. Crawford said:
“I desire to say in this connection Mr.
Chairman, that the brave old soldiers of
the south were just as honorable, patrio ic
and trustworthy when these fal-e and scan
dalous harangue) were made as they are in
iliis year of grace 1892. In the name of
humanity, is there any hope for the poor
and oppressed of the land who turn their
faces toward the new Mecca and worship
at the shrine of this mighty statesman?”
thorn The At_. i ; ‘o.irnal.
COMPLAIN OF DISCRIMINATION
Third Party Delegates) to Omaha After
The Railroads.
A Washington special of Tuesday says:
“A complaint of unjust discrimination
in passenger rates has just beeu filed
with the iuter state commerce commis
sion. The complainant iu th j c ise is
Thomas V. Cator, of San Francisco. The
defendants are the Southern Pacific
Company, and the Union Pacific Rail
roa l Company. The complainant alleges
that when the Republican and D mocrat
ic national conventions were held in
June last, at Minneapolis and Chicago,
respectively, delegates from the state of
California, were carried over the railways
of defendants from San Francisco and
other points at an agre and reduced rate,
amounting to about one half of the reg
ular i ates charged . for travel from Sin
Francisco to Omaha. When, in July
last, the people’s party held their con
vention at Omaha, to nominate candi
dates f r the presidency and vice-presi
dency, and delegates from California to
the Omaha convention applied to the
same line of railways for the same rates
that had been grauted to the republican
and democratic delegates from Cali
fornia, they were refused any reduc
tion whatever, and where charged and
compelie i to pay the usual and full rates,
about double the sum ch rged the dem
ocratic and republican delegates, over
the same railway and the same points.
It is also alleded that the number of
delegates from California to the Omaha
convention was greater than was carried
by the defendant companies to either the
repub ican or the democratic convention.
Kentucky Tobacco.
The crop report of th Kentucky state
conimbriontr of agiicu ture for the
month of September says: “The late
rains have brought reasonable develop
ment of many crops of tobacco, from
which poor and unsatisfactory returns
were expected. The returns from por
tions of the state known as the Burley
district, show pe centage of about 75
and, taking the state as a whole, show a
; 'percentage of 88, which includes the
Burley district. This is the general av
erage of all tobicco.”
Parrots cost but ten cents each to the
dealers in Central America.
NUMBER 39.
FLORIDA'S STATE ELECTION.
ALiilit Vote tat the Democrats Sweep
the State,
The Third Party Polls Not Over Eight
Thousand Votes.
Tuesday’s battle with the votes in
Florida was a busy one, and (me fraught
with deep meaning t > the democracy.
From the present aspect it appears that
the third party or “people's parly” bug
aboo has been snowed under so deep that
it is not likely to trouble the democracy
of Florida for some years at least.
Two months or more ago, at tho be
ginning of tho campaign, tlie democrat
ic managers w’crc rather worried over
the strong front of the peop e’s party
and many predictions of dire disaster
were made, but Florida's democracy saw
thtough the thin “republican tissue”
that covered the third party’s shoulders
and the cons qucnce is that the demo
cratic majority will probab y reach that
of 1890, the largest ill years.
Chairmau Wilson, of the democratic ex
ecutive committee, predicted a democrat
ic majority of fully 28,000, which, ,con
sidering that the opposition to the regu
lar democratic ticket throughout tho
state has been very light, certainly shows
the strength of the party. The republi
cans at their state convention in Talla
hassee advocated and decided not to put
out Btate or couuty tickets and the
result is that the slight oppesition
ot the people’s party is all that the regu
lars had to fight, and the managers feared
that this self-confi lence would bring
down the usual majority as the voters
would be tempted to remain at home and
not vote. The negroes were bewildered
at this new order of tilings and instead
of obeying the orders ol Dennis Egan,
chairman of the state republican execu
tive committee, to vote the peo
ple’s party ticket, either split on the
people’s and democratic tickets or
else would not vote at all. In Putnam,
Polk and Duval there were local iijhts
between the democratic factiont which
aided the third party, but in each of
these the “regulars” (or Call or Titnes-
Union men) came out ahead. Altogeth
er it is a rousing victory for tho regular
democratic tickets and shows the hope
lessness of the Republicans or third
partyites trying to get ahead in Florida.
Anotherrenson for the light vote is
that the poll tax prerequisites kept down
the aggregate of qualification ii all par
ties.
In Duval county, where there were
two democratic county ticket* in the
field, owing to the division in the party,
there were Itss than 150 votes cißt for
the people’s party tick t, democrats be
ing a unit on the state ticket. Marion
county, which has been a per
fect hotbed of the people’s
party, will show up with a handiome ma
jority for Mitchell and the lull t cket.
At Tampa, the home of Judge Mitchell,
the vote was prac icaliy unanimous for
him—republicans, third partyites and
negroes all joining with the democrats
in supporting him. At Anthony,
the home of Baskin, the vote is not yet
counted, but the latest bulletins and clare
that it has given from five to ten majori
ty to Mitchell.
THE TICKET ELECTED.
Latest returns up to midni zht Tuesday
night indicate the election of the entire
democratic ticket by 19,800. The peo
ple’s party polled only 6,000 votes. Tho
entire democratic ticket is elected as fol
follows: Governor, Henry L. Mitchell;
Secretary of State, John L. Crawford;
justice supreme court, R Fenwi k Tay
lor; attorney-general, W. B. Lamar;
comptroller, W. D. Bl>xham; treasurer,
C. B. Collins; superintendent public in
struction, W. N. Sh?ats, commissioner of
agriculture, L. B. Woombwell.
THE LATEST.
Reports received up to 1 o’clock Wed
nesday morning from every county in
the State and from actual returns, coupled
with careful, conservative estimates
show that Mi chcll, democratic, has m i
jorities in all ranging from from 3,000 in
Hillsborough, his home county, to 20 in
Biker county, where the third party
hoped for victory by 100 majority. Foot
ings of estimated majorities indicate
Mitchell’s majority in the state to be not
far from 25,000. Ilis vote will probably
run to 31,000, and Biskin’s will not ex
ceed 6,000.
THE SEABOARD’S NEW ROUTE.
A Line Opened for Traffic from Char*
lesten to the North.
A Columbia, S. C. news special says:
Sunday night through trains were put on
between Charleston and the north over
anew route —the Seaboard Air Line*
This is anew route, about whicti very
little has been said. It is secured by the
extension of the Charleston, Sumter and
Northern road to Gib=on, N. C , a dis
tance of only ten miles. Gibson is a
small station on the Palmetto bra- ch of
the Seaboaid A deal has been < fUctcd
between the roads and Charleston
is thus put on almost an air
line with Norfolk and the north. This
also makes a main line into Columbia
from the north, as traffi arrangements
will be made with the Atlantic Coast
Line to connect a Sumpter for Columbia
It likewise puts all ihat section of coun
try between Sumpter and nnetsvilio
on a main line for the north.
The railroad commis;ion made an in
spection of the ten-mile extension of the'
Charleston, Sumpter and Northern and
authorized it to be < pened for traffic.
THE ANTI-SNAPPERS
HAve Agreed Among Themselves to put
Out a Ticket
A New York Specid Say 3 : The com
mittee appointed by the anti-snapper’s or
ganizition for the purpose of advising
with the democratic national committee
on the subject of independent local nom
inations held a meeting. Sunday night.
Most of the memb rs were present and ii
was decided unanimously to go ahead
with their original intention of support
ing and independent ticket.
The new post office at Ocala w&*
thrown open lor business test Saturday.
It is a beauty, for which all praise is dus
Hon. John F. Dunn.