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THE ARGUS.
. i. HARnoi ft J.V. ncDONALD,
Editors and Publishers.
Entered at the Posloff-oe at*Jackson
as seeond class mail matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
Tacksoii. Va., September 20, I§9l.
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
Democratic Ticket
For Governor.
HON. W. T. ATKINSON.
For Treasurer,
It. U. HARDEMAN.
For Sec. of Sta'e.
A D. CANDLER.
For Com. Agriculture.
R. T. NESBIT.
For Comp. General.
W. A. WRIGIIT.
For Congress.
C. L. BARTLETT.
For State Senate.
WALTER C. BEEKS.
For Representative.
T. J. DEMPSEY.
For Sheriff.
J. O. BEAUCHAMP.
For Clerk of Court.
JOHN O’REAR.
For Tax Receiver.
J. H. HAM.
For Tax Collector.
W. L. CARTER.
For Treasurer.
T. L. WILLIAMS.
For Surveyor.
B. J. JINKS.
For Coroner.
JESSE McKLEROY.
Jackson is the best cotton mar
ket in this country. Farmers
get more on an average for
their cotton than at anyother town
in this country. The merchants
here sell goods cheaper than any
other merchants and anything you
want is for sale in Jackson cheaper
than the same kind of goods at
any other place. The truth is when
you get a little more for your cotton
and get your goods lor a little less,
the common sense ot it all is this :
it pays and pays like anything to
come to Jackson.
We don’t think Atlanta waut6 the
earth, but she comes nearer getting
whatshedoes want than any city we
know of!
Keulucky has redeemed herself!
Owens beat Breckenridge in the race
forcongresa ou Saturday lat by at
least 500 majority. Madeline can now
celebrate the event by going on the
6tage. Billy Breckenridge had a
pretty good following, however, and
this goes to show that while Kentucky
is a very moral state, she does not be
lieve in condemning a man tor the
first o fie use.
WHEN MILKING TIME COMES.
H. W. J. Ham was at democratic
headquarters in Atlanta one day last
week, and while there he regaled Steve
Clay wi'h the following anecdote;
‘‘These populist make me tired/'
continued the snollygoster, shifting
himself in his chair, “They remind
me of a story I heard. A little one
galluB fellow way out i 1 the country
was driving a cow and a calf down
the road. It w'as one of these here
little hard, nubbin looking calves.
The little fellow drove the cow and the
calt without any trouble until he met
a big old steer in the road. The three
. passed the time of the day and then
when the boy tried to drive the cow
on the steer drove too. lie tried to
drive the steer back and finally got
him away from the cow but the calf
followed him. Then he tried to head
him off but the old steer struck iuto a
trot and the calf, with tail iu the air,
lit out after him in a dead lope. The
boy was unable to catch him ard as
he fired a parting rock at him, he
yelled out, *go it you durn little fool.
I guess you will learn some sense
when milkin' time comes.’"
“When I tee some of these fellows
running around the state after the
populist steer, leaving the democratic
cow, I feel like saying ‘Go it, durn
you, 1 guess you will learn some seuse
when milking time comes.’"
THE FOREST FIRES.
Everv heart that can respond to
the pleadings of a tingle sympa
thetic impulse must be deeply
touched by the newspaper accounts
of the devastating forest fires that
have recently prevailed with such
mad violence in portions of the
gr< at northwest.
It is truly heart rending to think
of the hundreds ot unfortunate fal
low beings, who in the hitter an
guish of wretchedness and despair
have woefully perished in t,he[fur
nace of the lurid flames from which
there was no escape, so fleet and so
resistless was the deadly march of
the fierce conflagration. It truly
seems incredible to those of us who
have never been eye witnesses of one
of these cyclonic fire-fiend®, that
such vast tracks of country could
be swepped by the devouring demon
so rapidly a 3 to render Uimpossi
ble for thousands of human beings
to escape the embrace of the appal
ling pursuer.
Think of the consternation, of the
anguish and dispair that must be
wrung from the sad hearts of those
in the clasp of the deadly monster,
who realize that loved ones are
writhing in convulsive throes of the
same exquisite torture.
The loss of property, immerse as
it has been, is not to be considered
in comparison with the excruciat
ing pangs wrung with such rugged
violence from so many expiring hu
man B>>uls.
While those of us who in the ben
ficient dispensations of providence
have our lots cast in a land that
experiences no such calamities, shed
tears of pity over the victims who
suffered atfii died in unutterable ag
gony amid the torturing flames of
the terrible forest fires *hat haye
so completely devastated portions
of the Northwest, we should not for
get to be thankful that we are sur
rounded by so many blessings and
exempt from the dai gers of such
appalling terrors as have swept like
a bosom of destructun over large
tracts of country, leaving in its tract
a wilderness laid waist in the ashes
ol desolation.
If there is-a person in Butts coun
ty who is willing (and we are sure
there should be many of them) to
contribute to the cause of helping
these unfortunate people in their
dire distress, the Argus will receive
anything that they may desire to
donate, and see to it reaching the
proper authorities. Other towns
are helping in this laudable enter
prise, and we feel that Jackson and
Butts county should do something
to relieve the distress which now
prevails among the unfortunate in
the northwest,
THE DAILY PRESS
Seems to be very much annoyed at the
political slings of this paper. In his issue
of Sept. 14tli, Mr. Watson cartoons the
idea of the Argus on the piano party.
We are under many lasting obligations to
the Press for its services in this matter,
for in our midnight dreams we would see
rising up before us just such a “nigger ’
as the colonel has in his cartoon. Any
one who has seen the cartoon has a perfect
picture of Mr. Watson’s office.
THE DIFFERENCE.
There is as much difference between
the populist and the democratic ides on
finances as on any other subject. The
democrats, from Cleveland to Atkinson,
are in favor of the free coinage of silver
and they are together in its conclusion,
but they differ as to how to accomplish
the restoration of silver to its foirner mon
etary basis. The democratic party is the
only party in this country that does pro
pose to restore silver and then fix its ratio,
which is the only sensible way to legislate
on that question.
CONSISTENCY THOU ART A
JEWEL.
What does pupulist mean? why,
it means the people, well, what does
vox populi vox dei mean ? why it
means the voice of the people is the
voice of God. Well that means the
voice of a majority of the people is the
populist voice, but a very small minor
ity is now claiming to be the populist
or the people, but no more inconsistent
s tliau their other claimsJTncoimsten
cy" would be the most appropriate
name for that crowd.
ALL FREE*
1 hose who have used Dr. King’s New
Discovery know its value, and those who
have not, have an opportunity to try it
Free. Call ©n the advertised Druggist
and gat a trial .Bottle, Free. Send your
name and address to H. E. Bucklin & Cos.,
Chicago, and get a box of Dr. King’s New
Life, Pills Free, as well as a copy of
Guide to Health and Household instructor,
Free. All of which is guaranteed to do
good and cost you nothing R, G Bryans’
Drug store.
FLOVTLLA SHOOTING.
Stobe Greer shot Dr. Tharpe iu the
shoulder. The wound is not consider
ed dangerous though the ball has not
been extricated. Circumstances or
cause of shooting not known.
THE REMEDY FOR LYNCHING.
Two or three years ago a conven
tion of uegroes, held at Indianapolis,
we believe, suggested as a remedy for
lynching that county In which such a
crime occurred should be mulcted
in & considerable sum of, say SIO,OOO,
for the support of the victims family,
the proposition did not attract much
attention at the time, but we sec now
it is being commented upon by sev
eral of the most influential of our
Southern exchanges. The Charleston
News and Courier, for instance
says:
“The merchants of Memphis, who
have raised a fund for the support
of the families of the 6ix negro men
who were so brutaly murdered bv a
band of assassins a few days ago, are
rcceiveiug warm commendation from
papers all over the country. They
deserve all that is said of them, ot
course, hut the fact is that the county
in which the men were ki led should
be required to bear the burden thet-e
few citizens have taken on themselves.
Probably the best way to break up
the lynching and murdering business
is to make it unprofitable to the com
munity that tolerate it, by pensioning
the dependants of the victim in every
instance. The tax payers and juries
will take a different view of the evil
then and quickly find ways to end
if.
And on this the Memphis Commer
cial comments by saying that “there
is a great deal of virture in the sug
gestion and the next legislature should
consider it.” We think ourselves
that there is some merit in it, though
perhaps not as much as those who
brought it forward imagine. We do
not doubt that some lynching?, where
the victim has been guilty of a pecu
liarly atrocious crime against a wo
man, and participated in by practically
all the people of the communities in
which they occur. The community
is therefore responsible, and under
such circumstances there is always
if not justification for the crime, at
least ven much to palliate it. But
in many cases the lynching is done by
men who contribute very little to
the tax funds of the counties in which
they live,,and would belittle strained
by the fear that the property of other
men would be heavily taxed because
of their crime.
That this remedy is suggested and
advocated is proof, however, that the
people ot the South are awakening
to the dangers involved in the
growth of tlie lynching evil. The
growth of that evil, which culminated
in the murder of six negro prisoners
near Memphis, must be checked.
The feelius that it must be, we be
lieve, is growing to be universal
among our people. In our opinion,
the best remedy is that of which
there has been a partial application in
Virginia and North Carolina—the
doing away with delays in court, in
suring prompt punishment to brutes
accused of the crime which generally
provoke lynching. It is true that
the trial under such circumstances of
a man accused of a capital crime may
not be what it should be—calm de
liberate and careful of the rights of
the accused. It may be said that con
viction under any such cir
cumstances would be almost certain ;
that the proceedings would merely
be lynching by the State’s offlceis and
according to the forms of law. This
would not be wholly true, but even
it it were it would bo better than
lynching by an irresponsible mob.
CRISP’S SPEECH.
In his speech in Atlanta speaker
Crisp, the star of the South spoke these
undying truths in his honest and
frank way of doing all he does.
The democratic party enters upon its
contest with republicanism and every
temporary issue which may present
itself, with courage and confidence.
While we have not done all we hoped
to, we have done more in the past year
to redress the wrongs of the people, we
have done more foir their relief than was
ever done by any party in the same time
in any country under the sun.
These are bold words, but I hold my
self ready at all times to defend them.
Coming into power at a time of panic
when busines was at a stand-still when
labor was unemployed, when our
treasury was empty, with courage and
fidelity we entered upon a struggle
with the enemies of the people We
emerged from that struggle victorious
in this.
We have repealed the McKinley
law.
We have greatly reduced taxation.
We have made living cheaper.
We haye made all money taxable.
We have taxed surplus incomes.
We have restored freedom of elec
tions.
We have reduced public expenditures,
and we haye declared undying hos
tility to all trusts and monopolies
organized for the oppression of the peo
ple.
On these foundations we build our
bouse; on these issues we go before
the public. For them we have “fought
the good fight;” to them we have kept
the faith, and of them we haye no
fears.
TWO THOUSAND.
Dollars given away in Jackson this
fall. War has been declared by the
warehouses aud it means two thousand
dollars iu the pockets of the farmers
who bring their cotton to Jackson. Now
every bale you carry afty where, other
than Jacksou, you loose just that part
of your share of the two thousand dol
lars.
FROM oTARK.
Editors Augu?—A ft w days aitci
the nomination for congressman am
county officers one of our noighhois
sent after us to go 1o his he use as
quick as we could gd there V hen
we got there he was lying down and
seemed to be in a v< ry strange lix ac
cording to our understanding of tlie
laws ot Georgia and the church ot
Scotland.
The weather wasdoing herself nice
ly that day according to the etiquette
of August, and the royal advance of
dog days. Our friend was trying to
occupy both sides of a couple of pal
lets on the lioo'r. now here is what
he told us in his own language :
‘•You know my stock pasture ex
tends down to the Yellow Wafer
creek, and there is a considerable cane
brake . on both sides of the creek.
Some timer my cow was hard to find.
So I put a very high sounding bell on
her One that could be heard from
Key’s Ferry to Jackson, and from
Fovilla to Worthville, in fact, the peo
ple for miles around were as familiar
with ray cow hell a3 the people of
Philictelphia are with the sound of old
Liberty bell of 1776. One evening
last week about sundown my cow
came running home in a perfect fren
zy, and m a perfect lather of sweat
She would run around in the cowpen
and bellow and paw up the ground,
and then I noticed that the bell was
gone. So that night she never gave
any milk at all, although up to that
time, she had been giving three gal
lons a day, with a plenty left for the
calf. Next morning she could not be
driven back down that way. Just
refused to go. I went down to look
for the bell, and I could hear the bell
rattle in different places about, but
when I would get to that place it
would be at some other paid of the
pasture. The next nigliT, as the moon
was shining, I got two of my neigh
bors to go down with me, and such a
time as we had will never be experi
enced again.
The bell would pass in fifty jai ds
of us sometimes, ami there was a
foot log across the creek, and it would
go over that log some times so quick
it sounded like someone had hit a
wire tence with a bar ot steel. Some
of them in the crowd said witches,
hobgoblins, and ghosts all at once. So
we turned our pockets inside out, set
our hats bottom side up, made cross
marks and sptiu them.
At last I told them the way to drive
off evil spirits was to think of some
of the contemptible and egotistical
things on the face of flic earth, so we
all thought of Ida Wells, the female
kangaroo, of Mississippi, that had
been in England and the northern
states lecturing about the animals
tlmliad been lynched in the southern
states. Then we thought about billy
goats, donkeys, colored preachers and
Madeline Pollard, Fred Douglas, and
John Sherman. So one of my friends
said he had a large steel trap, and
would go home and get it, and set it
on that foot log, and we fixed the trap
and went homo with the understand
ing to meet early next morning.
Well, we met next morning and lo and
behold fastened in that trap was a
snake nine feet long and fastened to
its tail was my cow bell. The snake
had run its tail through the loo] of the
ball and tied it in a hard. knot. So
now, I have told as near as I could
about the circumstances, what do you
think about it, and can you explain to
me 90 strange an occasion ?”
We told him we could not interpret
so sti ange a thing, out the first time
we vvent to Jackson we would relate
the story to our friend Guthrie, and it
might be he could throw some light
on the matter.
We started to leave and his better
halt followed us to the front porch
and said she hoped we would not no
tice what Hubbic had said as he was
a little oft'and had been for sometime.
About two weeks ago tl ere was a
two gallon jug come to the express
office for him labeled “Juliette dew
drop," and lie began taking a little
frequently if not oftener. Well that
put it jntoliis head to want :o run for
congress, said he had plenty of money
and could buj' enough ot the two
hundred 'dollar counties to get the
nomination. His ambition was to
show Tom llced that there were other
men in the Union that could use high
flowing language. Then he said he
wanted to introduce a hill to buy the
Waycross battle ground, and have
three brass moruments set up in hon
or of Corbetr, Mitchell and Northern
The next jug was labeled “The
latest dispatch from Covington."
Then lie wanted to run for the legisla
ture. lie said there were rings in
J teksoii, FloviHa, Indian Spiing, Jen
kinsburg, Worlhville and Elgin, and
he wasdetermined lo get the country
people arraigned against the towns and
that w*uld nominate him. The next
jug was labeled “Butts county eye
water/ aud that was what did the
work. He wanted to run for coroner.
Said that the two men already out
did not need the office. One ot them
had beim in office until he was a i dir
ect capitalist aud the other was a
preacher, and that the preachers al
ways get the best of everything, and
the fried chicken throwed in. But
by the time that jug gave out he im
agined tlie cow and snake story, while
there was not a word of it so. The
cow is alright, the bell was never off
of ler and the wlioie of it was caused
bv enthusiasm.
OCCASIONAL.
The Star Store
l fall, ]
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Ik top ai taisg tnli m bi M uj is tk last IS noatk
ZEEas Been IPlienLOxnLexial I
It Has Been the Talk of the whole Countiy.
low tlio reason of is MerM Business is:
I OUR GOODS ARE BOUGHT RIGHT^
'V sy-'S’-ttfr 1&-T C ?-TANARUS&
The old saying : “Goods well bought are half sold,”
is as true as gospel.
Gor Tim Bops have Returned from the Eastern Markets,
'sbsTOir.
k i eidf ml tiisi Em to market this season!
(SP~ X <P~ r^r ~ l xP~ r i T ~ t Z" > C&-Z&--CSJ—W
•> Mr. Hampton Daughtry to buy Clothing, Gent’s Furnishings, &c <j
Miss Covington to buy Millinery and Fancy Goods. <cj
3 Mr. R. L. Daughtry as our general buyer. 4
Ph_,ch _rf j_ -Al sSfa—cS'xJ
With these experienced buyers in the great markets guided by Mr. Ik L. Daugh
tiy, who is belter posted and more familiar with selecting and buying goods for
this market than any man in this country, to sa\ we have the right sort ot goods at
the right sort of prices, is expressing it but tamely. Never in the mercantile his
tory of Middle Georgia has such a stock of goods, for quality and prices, even been
offered to the trading public. Our large store rooms are filled Irom one end to
the other, and tilled almost to the top of the house with goods that are adapted to
to (he wants of the people, and with prices that no competition can equal.
Remember Our motto is : “Goods well boughtare
Goods half sold.” These words we keep
before Our Buyers All the Time.
Anybody can go to market, who has good credit, and buy a stock of goods ?
tit up their house and then advertise and blow big, but thequestion is have they
goi the light sort of goods at the right kind of prices. Ah! heie is where the
“rub comes,” and right here is whcie we want you to stick a pin. It repuires
tact, taste, knowledge, experience, mrve and cash to bny a stock of goods properly.
Others may advertise pat things, talk anr
MAKE A VERY BIG NOISE.
But remember rve have got the goods, and all at bottom prices and we are going,
to do the business
We Know times are hard, and Cotton low.
But our goods are all marked down to hard time prices. When you visit Jackson
COME DIRECT TO THE STAR STORE
And make yourself at home. Misses Fannie Brady and Fannie Pope, Miss Covington, Cliai lie
Smith Sherrod Pope, Bob Lyons, Harap Daughtiy, Henry Morgan, Miss dary Duke, as well as the
re&tof ur, will do our best to make it plesant for you.
Truly Your Friends,
THE MI MERCANTILE COMM,
Proprietors of THE STAR STORE.