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TITT-1 Sl'N. MARTHKM- ItART <Ol STY. * • • K.|lcll.l.c l. ISSJ. E. R. BENSON, Managing Kmtok. J. H. McGILL . • • • Editor. One Dollar in Advance. Look out for the blue X. which liulieatM that your subscription expires with this number. Will he -lml to have you renew. | STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. FOR OOVRRXOR, A. 11. STEPHENS, of Taliaferro. FOR SKCTKTARY OK HTATK, C. BARNETT, of Baldwin, FOR COM PTIW WXKR-tI RSERA L, WM. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond. FOR TREASURER, I). N. SPEER, of Troup. Ft>R CON<IRKSSMAN-AT-LAROK, THOMAS HARDEMAN, of Bibb. r.r l'.n|(rrM-i:t|thlh IHntrlct. 110N. SEABORN REESE, Of Hancock. r*r Ihr !■! Hon*** of *irrtnuilallm, HON. A. G. MuCUKRY. Election Ist Wednesday in October next. The highest ambition or the Independent is to get office and destroy Democratic organization. Democratic opposition to Mr. Stephens may lead to his defeat. W hat then i Ihe triumph of Republicanism. Just think or it—that little old man “in his dotage ” made a long speech in Macon while the cyclone was sweeping over the city. The Savannah Times says General Gar trell is working for nothing and paying his own expenses. That's all right. He 11 make it hack when he goes to farming. Mr. Stephens in his Macon speech stated one fact that we have always held to, and that is—“ There are but two parties in Georgia, really, the Democratic party and the Radical party.” Mr. Stephens caused considerable mer riment by a slip of the tongue in his speech at Macon. In speaking of his record he said: “There is my record. Compare it with General Garfield's —Gartrell's (Some how or other I almost always think of Garfield when I say that).” With all the nominees of the Atlanta convention outspoken in condemnation of independentisin, the Democratic wagon can just roll right along, without any fur ther misunderstandings among the passen gers.— Macon Telegraph. Jesso ; and the fore wheels of the wagon* arc on Mr. Stephens’ chair. Let 'cr roll ! Mr. Stephens is rising to a grandeur he never attained before. 11 is speeches are full of strength, vigor, and clearness. Wonderful man ! Grand old man ! Frail almost as infant, he is the most conspicu ous figure upon the American continent. Were it not that it would debar him of the pleasures of Heaven, we could wish that he might never die, but live on through all time an example of the triumph of mental strength over physical impotency. The Governor having been petitioned by a large number of citizens to appoint llenj. 11. Hill, jr., to the position held by his fathc", and Mr. Hill hearing that he was considering the appointment seriously, has written a manly letter to the Governor asking him not to do so. This action upon the part of Mr. Hill will bring his name prominently,before the Legislature, and may induce that body to elect him to fill the place so highly honored by his lament ed father. The Telegraph says Mr. Stephens' speech in Macon was much better than the one delivered in Atlanta, and would be far more satisfactory as a campaign docu ment. Since Mr. Stephens in that speech endorses fully the address of the State Democratic Executive Committee, which draws the lines sharply between Democra cy and Indcpcndcnlism, the Telegraph an nounces that it is prepared to give him its unqualified support. We arc glad of this, for the Telegraph is to be coveted as a champion and dreaded as an adversary. Thk Hartwell Sun says wc should be ashamed of ourselves for calling Alex Stephens ** Dry Hot.” According to its logic, Mr. Stephens should be ashamed of himself for saying the Democracy was af flicted with the same coinplaint.' We never heard of the word "dry rot" until Stephens applied it to the Democracy of his State and to the party to which lie pre tends to belong. —Atlanta Critic. Wc have no idea Mr. Stephens ever said any such thing ; and if lie did that would not justify the Cl itic in calling him “ Old Dry Rot.” Suppose Mr. Stephens were to say the Democratic party is afflicted with corruption, would that justify the Critic in calling Mr. Stephens corrupt? The Critic's logic is too thin. There never will be a time when any political party will be entirely free from corruption or “dry rot.” Mr. Stephens would never speak of an individual as “ Old Dry Hot.” A public journal lias a l ight to criticise a public man's record, but it is never justi fied in stigmatizing him with vulgar, un feeling epithets and names. The Critic is not by itself in this kind of warfare; it is indulge 1 in to too great an extent by the press of every pi'.ukil complexion. KI N IIR4WIXUN FROM THE I‘IIEKK - The yellow fever is increasing rapidly at Pensacola, Fla. There are 125 cases of small-pox in Bol ivar comity, Texas. Maine has gone Republican, as usual, by an increased majority. $4,300,000 worth of confectionery is sold in New York City yearly. The Savannah river roso 20 feet in 2 4 hours after the storm, at Augusta. The Franklin Register hears of several children dying in that county from diph theria. The Athens I'aimer- Watchman hears of a great deal of cotton rotting in the fields from rain. A negro woman and hoy were killed in a wagon during the storm by a falling tree, near Beaufort, S. C. A Virginia physician says lie bns never known an habitual consumer of tobacco to have the typhoid fever. Mrs. Mary C. Yarborough, an aged lady, was run over by n train in Atlanta on the 12th, and instantly killed. Gov. Colquitt is cxpecteil to deliver the annual address at the North Carolina State Fair on the 18th of October. A young man named Thomas Danlaw fell between the cars on the Port Royal road on the night of 10th, and was crushed to death. Stephen A. Douglass was born tn Ver mont, but he always said it was a good State to be born in—provided one emigrat ed young. The Egyptian troops made a sudden at tack on the British at Kassassin on the 10th instant, but were repulsed with consider able loss. Win. A. Bain, foreman of the pattern room at the Athens Foundry was killed by a hugh boulder of rock from a blast last week. Judge Twiggs is said to be “sweeping” things. Well, now, Scab Itccsc can get him a sweeper’s place if lie prefers that to a clerkship. —Macon I'ctei/rafih. The Muscogee senatorial convention ballotted SOI times before it nominated Thomas DcWolf, of Chattahoochee. 'I he nominee is a practical printer, and 74 years old. A little daughter of Mr. Z. L. Burriss. of Anderson county, S. C., wns kicked in the fnce by a mule last Saturday, break ing her left cheek hone and probably des troying the left eye. Two negroes were killed by Saturday night’s storm near Thomasville, (in., two at Tallahassee, and live at Quincy, Fla. A man near Darby villc, Fla., was blown 3tX> yards and killed. Dr. Felton’s old friend. General Wofford, asked him some questions at Dalton last Saturday which the doctor found pretty hard to answer. General Wofford is a Clements man in the present emergency. —Atlanta Constitution. Tel-el-Kcher, the position of the Egyptian army,was surprised and captured by the British, on the 13th. Over 2.000 men were killed. The Egyptians are in full retreat to the desert. Arabi’s army is completely demoralized. The cyclone on Saturday night and Sunday was pretty general over the South ern States. Much damage was done to crops, fences and timber. Contrary to expectation it was no more severe on the coast than in the interior. Judge Erwin will retire from the bench at the end of his present term, and, it i.- rumored, will form a partnership with Pope Barrow to practice law in Athens. N. L. Hutchins, of Gwinnett., is, so far, the only candidate to succeed Judge Erwin. Two negro boys, aged respectively 8 and 12 years, were run fiver by the train on tbc Carolina Central railroad a few nights since, and their bodies were cut all to pieces and the track was strewn with the bloody fragments for a distance of fifty feet or more. Tn Wilkinson county. Miss., there is a man who, in 18(10, registered a vow that he would not cut his hair or shave his whiskers until the Southern Confederacy had gained her independence. Ho has kept his vow and now his hair nearly reaches to his knees and his whiskers are long and shaggy. Mr. Kcely, the inventor of the new motor power, has signed papers pledging himself to give the stockholders hacking him more explicit information in regard to his new machine, lie announced at the meeting that he should in a short time be prepared to run a train of cars from Phil adelphia to Chicago at a cost of 50 cents for motive power. Mrs. E. E. Shipp, living with Mr. G. 11. Walker, of Schley county, own a table that was made by a revolutionary soldier over one hundred years ago. It was made by her great, great, great grandfather, is of solid oak, and put together with screws and glue, not a nail being used, nnd is to day as sound and good as when first made. It is two and a half by three feet, and perfect in every way. The grand jury in Gwinnett county, before either Speer or Candler spoke stood: Candler 20, Speer 3. After liear ing Speer, 21 for Candler and 2 for Speer. After Candler's speech, solid Tor the plow boy of Pigeon Roost. In Hall county tbc grand jury stood : Candler 22. Speer 1. In Habersham that body of representative men stood 1(1 for Candler and 7 for Speer. Ibe Athens Banner thinks these figures show how the mountain counties stand. Henry Warl has answered the question, ‘‘ls it wrong for a Christian to dance?” in a characteristic way. “It is wicked,” he says, “when it is wicked; and it is not wicked when it is not w icked. In itself it has no more moral character than walking, wrestling or rowing. Bail company, untimely hours, evil dances, may make the exercises evil good com pany, wholesome hours and home influ ences may make it a very great benefit." The democracy of the ninth district were never so solid and combined as to day. Each member of the party is gal lantly at work, and we will bury Speer and coalition next fall beneath a rousing majority. Mr. .Speer knows that he is defeated, and it is even predicted by some that be will retire from the race. —Athent Hun n er- Watch man. Old Allen Gresham, an old colored man. the oldest man in Burke county, residing on Mr. Job Gresham's plantation, died last Sunday morning. Old Allen is snid to have been 112 years of age. which makes the date of bis birth 1770. six years before the Declaration of Independence, lie was probably the oldest mail in the State.— Waynesboro True Citizen. MR. NTEIMIEXH’ WAR RECORD. Extract from Ills Npevrh at Macon. Now, my fellow-citizens of all classes— those who do not understand me—all I ask is, as did Themistocies, Strike, but hear me—hear me to-night, nnd then if you condemn me, do so. Now, it has been said, intimations have been made, that my war record was not right. 3ou have heard part of that war record. I have heard .intimations, seen it in news papers, that there was a controversy be tween Mr. Davis and myself, which ob structed the success of the Confederate government and ended in the failure of the Confederate cause. 1 know there is a general misapprehension in the public mind about that relation between Mr. Davis and myself. I aflirm here to-night that there never was an unkind word or an unpleasant word or controversy be tween Mr. Davis and myself from the beginning down. \Vc did disagree upon some questions of policy, but when 1 pledged myself to the people of Georgia in that secession convention, in a speech you may have read and can now' read, that ni}' fortunes in weal or in woe should go for my people and my State, that pledge has ever and on all occasions been thoroughly redeemed. But mark you, whenever 1 disagreed with the administra tion of Mr. Davis I went directly to him; 1 never intended to be a schisrnatist, I submitted my views. I saw, or thought I saw, (excuse what may seem to be vanity or egotism) I thought I saw great danger from the superior shipping and naval power North that our ports might be blockaded. My idea was to get the forty five hundred thousand bales of cotton that wc then had out nnd abroad before the blockade commenced, by giving the plan ters nine cents per pound in eight per cent, bonds, that would have amounted in all to about two hnndercd millions of dollars. By shipping it abroad we would have, holding it there in Europe at fifty cents per pound, a capital of at least eight hun dred millions ol dollars. All this you will see in my speeches. Did that look as if there was any infidelity or disloyalty to the Confederate cause? The policy was not adopted. I believe it was afterwards admitted. Dr. Craven, Mr. Davis's physician, stated that lie ad mitted to him in Fortress Monroe that it that policy had been adopted the financial troubles would never have occurred, and there might have been a change in our cause. Now, I state briefly and reverently that there never was any personal contro versy or difference between Mr. Davis and myself. We differed upon several ques tions, but never did I obstruct his adminis tation ! Never did 1 do anything to dis courage our soldiers in the field, but all my labor was devoted to their welfare and to their safety, and at my instance three hospitals were established in Richmond for the comfort and safety of Georgia's soldiers. [Applause.] There may be some here. Nay, did 1 not visit them, and my own house Tn Richmond was a hospital, where they were receiving my daily atten tion with the attention of physicians. [Applause.] 1 do not intend to dwell upon this. The idea of my war record ! 1 did everything I could ; I stood by the cause to the last; I did not even lice from arrest. I was taken, ns my honorable colleague lias told you, to Fortress Monroe. If I had seen fit to escape I might have sought it in that way. 1 abided my fate. 1 was determined to stand trial if ever they brought it. and to vindicate the right that I pursued, believing that 1 had committed no offense against God or man in any con nection with it. [Applause.] 1 was put in a dungeon, low down, damp, dripping with water, walls five feet thick ; 1 was there for three months. There is where 1 con tracted that rheumatism that has laid me up and disabled me from walking for the last twelve years. It was in that dungeon in Fort Warren. That is a part of my war record ! [Great applause.] I intend ed to abide the results of the war. 1 was committed to it. and I stood by the llag as long as it was afloat. So much for that. CunrisU'rNte Itoinls. The Richmond people have again com menced buying Confederate bonds. From the favor in which several of our “rebel Brigadiers” are held by the present Ad ministration, who knows but that these bonds may prove a good investment after all? —Courier Journal. (#riV" Valises, small and large, just re ceived and fjr sale cheap. Benson \ Cos. TiIRM'HOOL QUESTION IN NT I.Oll*. Tlie Col#rd People Nel Their fhlMraa to the White NehooU m*l treat* a Sciitallon. St. 1/iuis, September 12.— Great ex citement exists in St Louis oil the question whether colored children shall be sent to the public schools where white children are taught. During tin: vacation the school board selected a site for a school building for colored children located be tween railroad tracks. '1 he colored people objected to this location and threatened to send their children to school with the whites. Yesterday at the opening of the schools colored children applied for ad mission into the white schools, but the principals refused to admit them. Ihe ex citement grew apace and the hoard ordered the schools closed for the day. Last night several street fights occurred, and to day the schools were again opened. A few white children presented themselves, but the colored ones were again on hand, and yesterday's action was repeated. Some of the teachers !c r t their schools. Finally the schools were again closed for the re mainder of the day. The board had, meanwhile, rented a building to serve as a school for the colored children, but the negroes would not send their children there, claiming the right to have them enrolled in the white schools. Fights occurred between white and colored children this morning. The excitement is growing, and it is not known how the matter will terminate. Deserving Articles are always Appreci ated. The exceptional cleanliness of Bar ker's Bair Balsam makes it popular. Gray hairs are impossible with its occasional use. __________________ linporlant to Farmers. Editors News: 1 beg to call attention, through the columns of your paper, to a very dangerous practice among cotton giiniers that has recently come to my knowledge. 1 learn that when cotton is fed to a gin in a damp state it clogs the saws, so that the gin cannot be run rapidly, but that if oil is poured on the saws the cotton does not adhere to them—and it is a common practice among giuners to oil the saws whenever they have damp cotton to gin. Oiled cotton will take tire spon taneously at a temperature of about 110 degrees, a temperature often reached in the sunshine, in close cars or warehouses, and in the holds of ships ; and the practice of oiling the saws of cotton gin* endangers lives and property to an extent that can not be estimated. Many tires at sea that have not been accounted for may have originated from this cause. 1 would be glad if all papers in the county would call attention of farmers to the danger of this practice, of which, no doubt, most of them arc aware.— Cor. 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" avoid h**s in the Mails, please send money by Registered Letter.* Only Imported by II AY LOCK A JEXNEY (l<ate Hay lock 4: Cos.) *S ’V Aden’s for Aiueri-: 1 7 Dry St. S’ex* Y’ork VIIS ♦ — m ym AGAIN TIIK DOGS OF WAR ARE LOOSE! And while the Arabs of the East arc murdering humans in cold blond, we will devot our talents to to the more humane business of simply SLAUGHTERING PRICES Wc do this knowingly and willfully, because the people demand it. and the way we buy our goods justifies it. You can’t be disappointed m our stock of FALL & WINTER GOODS. It's immense—every department full to overflowing, and so nicely selected that the most fastidious will be unable to find fault with the quality of the Goods or the induce ments we are offering. It will he to your detriment if you fail to see us, for we cer tainly have a royal line of Goods AJT BED ESOCED lEPESICIES I Our Alphabet. All kinds of Goods—new, fresh and clean—at the lowest prices. 3B Buckets, Bran, and Best of everything. c Coffee in abundance, at the lowest prices ever known in this country ,* Candy, Crockery, Cloth, Clocks, etc. ID Dry Goods—of which we carry a staple line. Drugs—such as you need. IE Essences, Eye-Water and Balsams, etc. B A Flour—several grades, from good family to best patent process. Gr Groccries, Guns, and Grindstones. HI. Hardware, Hollow-ware, Horseshoes, and Hats. I Inks—in bottles of all sizes. T Jute packing, and Just too many things to enumerate. ZED Kettles. Knives, Knitting Bins, Knit Shirts, etc. Lamps, TiOgwood, Locks, and Lots of other tilings. Much under this head, including Mighty good Molasses. ' ZfcT Nothing but New Goods. No old shop worn stuff. o Oh ! just look at us! Opening new Goods every day ! Oils and Other things. Powder and a Power of other things. Q Quick sales and short profits, our motto, as well as Quality and Quantity. Rice, Rat Traps, Rope, and a Rousing stock. S Sole Leather. Shoes—all Sizes—all new—Such bargains ! A big lot of Home made Shoes made to our own order, including a lot of Jack Whiting’s best Kip Boots. T Turnip Seeds, Tobaccos, and Tinware, at astonishingly low prices. TJ“ Up with the times, and Under obligations to the trading public for past patronage, and Under the impression that we will get our share of the trade this Fall. Vinegar—best apple. Very great Variety of nice things in our stock, sold by men of Veracity and Vigilant m looking after the wants of Visitors to our store. "W Wait no longer, but come on now and get your share of the bargains. DD Xcuse haste and a bad pen—we haven’t time to enumerate. You should improve this opportunity, so come along. z Zats about all we have to say just now. The Goods and prices will speak for theo SlTe PRICES WILL TELL. SODA—Sc. per pound. , _ 41 no I GOOD RIO COFFEE—none of your rotten grained stuff—9 pounds Tor | SARDINES—IO boxes for SI.OO. • t ? CLOCKS—Good nickel cased time-keepers, $1.50. I LADIES’ WORSTED DRESS GOODS, 10c. per yard. 1 JEANS, for Men’s and Boys’ wear, from 10c. per yard, up. COTTON CARDS—4Oc. per pair. I EEUSOU & CO., Hartwell, Ga. SEPTEMBER, 1882. !