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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, ] L J 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.