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Carncsville, Ga., September 12* 1K1M1.
An Explanation,
The readers of The E.vtkiipiuse
and its exchanges in the Eighth dis¬
trict doubtless noticed that we had
nothing to sny of Judge Lawson's
nomination for congress in our last
issue, and had room to think strange
that such an Important matter did
receive our attention. We wrote an
article in regard to the nomination
and did not know that the manuscript
had been misplaced until the paper
had gone to press, and it was then
too late to do anything. The Ex-
TEKPuisk was glad to know that the
nomination fell upon a man w ith such
a distinction as a gentleman and
statesman as J udge Lawson has. The
Eighth district is not only proud of
his nomination, but the whole state
is pleased to know that he will be
tine of democracy's leading standard
bearers in the next congress of the
1 'nited States, Franklin county
greets her eleven sisters in their wise
selection to represent the Eighth,
EDITORIALLY PARAGRAPHED.
South Caiiolina has about as
much disreputable politics as any
state in the Union.
Livingston says he will stand by
the democratic eaucusses. Ilo and
Brother Winn arc not in harmony.
Col. Winn says now that be will
stand by the democratic eaucusses
whenever it is of interest to the dem¬
ocratic party.
From the present outlook the peo¬
ple of Georgia had rather see General
Gordou in the United States
than any of his probable opponents.
There is an effort being made
among the republicans of the Fifth
district to get Mr. John Silvey,
wholesale merchant of Atlanta,
oppose Col. L. F. Livingston for con¬
gress.
D«. Felton on last Tuesday chal¬
lenged lion. R. W. Everett for
joint discussion of the political
of the day. The answer of
is looked forward to with much in¬
terest in tiie Seventh,
There is some doubt expressed
to which of the candidates—-Felton
or Everett—will receive the
of Hon. J. C. Clements, who
drew from the field of contest
tween him and Everett.
IIon. John Temple Graves
resigned the position as editor-in-
chief of the Rome Tribune,
he could not consistently support
Felton for congress, the stock-hold¬
ers not being wilting for him to
otherwise.
Brkukenkidge, of Arkansas,
been bounced by the republican ma¬
jority in the low er house of
Breckeuridgc was elected from
district in which Clayton was assas¬
sinated, and the republicans claimed
that he was implicated in the
though the evidence was overwhelm¬
ing to the contrary.
Speaker Reed lias been re-elected
to congress, receiving the largest ma¬
jority that lias ever boon given
him botore. It is thought that
will put Reed in direct line to re¬
ceive the presidential nomination in
’92. While it is considered a
for Reed, it is also considered defeat
for Blaine. 1 he papers charge Reed
with buying many of his votes.
I)r. McCuxe is not satisfied with
his meanness in advocating tho pas¬
sage of the Conger lard bill, and crip¬
pling an important industry of the
South already to the extent of twen¬
ty-five per cent., but he is now sit¬
ting back in Washington City dictat¬
ing to the people of Georgia as to
whom they should send to the United
States Senate to carry out his dema¬
gogic sub-treasury scheme. McCone
■yvili fall and great will be the failing.
Charges of Bribery in the Eighth,
There is a sensation in political
circles now, caused by the charge of
one Mr. Roane, of Wilke* county,
that there was money used in the
congressional nominating convention
at Athens that nominated Judge
Lawson, Mr. Roane charges that he
offered Mr. Lumpkin, the chairman
of the Olive delegation, M00, or more
if necessary; if lie would cast Olive’s
strength for Colley. Mr. Roane fur-
thoy charges that lie saw Lumpkin
and one of Lawson’s leading friends
in close consultation, and that shortly
the Oglethorpe delegation withdrew
name and cast her vote for
Lawson, and by this Ronuu charges
that Judge Lawson's friends must
have raised the hid. Mr. Lumpkin
and Messrs. Lawson, Colley and
Olive all deny emphatically any such
a deal being made. Mr. Lumpkin,
however, gives this remarkable sym¬
pathy front Mr. Roane:
“While discussing the prospects of
the different candidates, he (Roane)
said he thought Olive or Colley one
ought to get the nomination; that
neither of them wore as able to hear
the burden of the campaign as the
othec candidate, and for the kind feel¬
ings that he entertained for Olive, lie
would, if Colley should be the suc¬
cessful candidate, ho willing to take
from las own pocket *500 towards
meeting the expense he incurred in
making the race, and if that was not
enough he would try and get up more.
I only thought ho meant this as an
intended Limbless to a defeated
This statement bears on its face a
bill, whether MrLumpkin construed
it this way or not. Wc do not be¬
lieve there was any monev used, hut
do believe that Roane attempted to
buy Lumpkin for Colley. The three
candidates owe it to the pure democ¬
racy of the Eighth and to the State
and entire country to make a clean
breast of these charges, let the cor¬
ruption fall where it may. As for
Frauklm she demands, and w ill con¬
tinue to demand until accomplished,
a complete and satisfactory uncov¬
ering.
The Financial Situation.
• There is just at this time consider¬
able excitement throughout the coun¬
try in regard to tightness in money
matters, and the best of financiers
differ as to the cause of the alarm.
Some think that the stringency is
caused by the unprecedented devel¬
opment of the country in the differ¬
ent lines of business, that transfers
and exchanges are not made fast
enough and the disbursements of the
government are too small. Others
say that the situation is not unusual
for this season of the year, and that
the present closeness will he entirely
overcome inside of sixty days,, while
still others claim—and which from
the best information we can com¬
mand are probably the nearest right
that there is a corner on money, be¬
ing manipulated by eastern specula¬
tors. There Is no doubt about the
situation heiug very unsatisfactory to
the commercial world. The tight
that is being made on national banks
and high money is causing the mon¬
eyed men to call their money in, and
while the present fight is going on
many of them will bo slow to let their
money out. If it were not for the
almost certainty that contracts for
cotton will have to be filled the situ¬
ation in the South would lie gloomy,
but it is to be hoped that this, if not h¬
ing else, will bring relief to our people.
He Wants to Go to Congress.
The state lecturer of the Farmers’
Alliance of South Carolina, AY. T.
Tolbert, lias announced himself as a
candidate for congress against Con¬
gressman George 1). Tillman. Mr.
Tolbert appears in a card in which
he uses the following language;
“When a man joins tho Alliance
he takes a solemn obligation to do a
great many things. If he fails to do
them he violates the obligation.
Amongst other things, when he joins
he swears to support and protect the
principles of the Alliance. Now, this
sub-treasury scheme has been adopted
and endorsed by lnvth our national
and state Alliances. It is one of the
great principles of the Alliance, and
the Allianccman who refuses to sup¬
port that principle violates his obli¬
gation. I nm making no personal
tight against Col. G. 1). Tillman, for,
as a man, I admire him, but I don’t
hesitate to say that everything hon¬
orable will be done by me openly and
above board to put men in congress
who are friendly to this great scheme,
and put those out who are opposed
to it.”
—Screven county has endorsed
Norwood for tiie senate.
General Gordon and the Alliance.
The National Economist, the na¬
tional organ of the Farmers’Alliance,
of last week has it long editorial on
the scmitc contest in Georgia. The
article for the moat part appears very
lair on its faoe, and there are no
praises too great for General Gordon's
honesty and patriotism—but all this
shrewd praise was for the purpose of
getting in an under-handed lick that
would cut Gordon’s support from him
among tlio members of the Alliance.
The editorial says to the jieople of
Georgia that Gordon is an honest
man, and by his speech before the
meeting of the State Alliance at At¬
lanta, he fold them tinder the circum¬
stances, “Gordon does not want or
expect your support.” To put such
a construction on Gordon’s prophetic
and patriotic speech is crawlingly
mean. The Economist knows that
Gordon wants the votes of the Alli-
ancoineii of Georgia, hut that lie was
not the hypocrite to speak other than
his convictions to gain their support.
The Economist’s position is: That an
Allianccman should only support men
for office who promise to support the
sub-treasury scheme, whether the
scheme is satisfactory to their indi¬
vidual convictions or not. Notwith¬
standing they have adopted national
and state platforms and do not allow
their members to vote from convic¬
tion, they still claim their order to he
non-political and purely democratic,
all of which is very strange to the
average thinker. The editorial con¬
cludes with this knifv-in-the-baek
style: “It is, however, the plain
of every member of the Alliance in
Georgia, no matter how groat a friend
he may ho to Governor Gordon, to
take him at his word in his rejection
of their support for this
That he would rather he defeated
than to have their votes is the only
fair and honorable construction
can possibly ho put on the
The Allianccmen of Georgia may
low this imprudent and
advice, but we do not bclivc it.
People With Big Ideas.
From the Atlanta Coostitutlou,
A farmer living a few miles from
Atlanta complained the other day
that it was a hard matter to find la-
Iwrors who were willing to at¬
tend to the little odds and ends of
farm work.
From the highest to the lowest,
rich and poor, black and white, we
are all under the curse of big ideas.
Too many of our young men rush in¬
to professional life because they arc
not willing to work their way up m
the trades, beginning with a small
salary. Our clerks set up for them¬
selves before they have mastered
their business because they are in a
hurry to get rich, I’rofitable open¬
ings for manufacturing arc neglected
because they are small industries.
Nothing smaller than a cottou factory
or a rolling mill will satisfy most of
our people. Bright young men who
would make good workmen and earn
a good living prefer to begin life as
architects, civil engineers and con¬
tractors. Mon waste the money that
would jit the end of the year buy a
small suburban lot. They cannot
consider such trifles. When they in¬
vest in real estate it must be on a
large scale, with a big mortgage.
Everywhere it is the same. Men
dream over their magnificent schemes
and neglect the small things of life.
They want to leap to the top of the
ladder and make a fortune by a single
lucky hit. Before they will dig, and
hammer, and save nickels until they
turn into dollars, they will go to the
devil.
Our friend, tim. fanner, knew what
he was talking about. Ilis laborers
were under the spell of big ideas.
They wanted to do work that would
show and produce great results. They
scorned the little trifles of farm work,
such as patching fences, cleaning
ditches, saving horseshoes and nails,
raking up the leaves, and a score of
other things. And yet these small
matters must be looked after, or the
farm will not be a success.
It is differentjjup north. The cli¬
mate there makes a man hustle in
order to keep warm, The summer
is so short that it takes a man’s best
work to provide for the winter. Down
here it is just the other way. The
climate invites a man to do nothing
in order to keep cool, and the winter
is so mild that the poor do not suffer.
Perhaps nature has done too much for
us in this southern country. The
thing to do is to go into partnership
with nature and make this region the
richest m the world. We can do this
by paying more attention to small af-
fairs. Let us keep our big ideas for
the fHtnre, and do the work that needs j
to be done in tlic present.
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PRICELESS LEGACIES.
“He a good man, my dear.” These
were the last words ever spoken by
Sir Walter Scott. They were spoken
to his son-in-law, Lockhart. How
sad the death-bed scene, how bright
the endearing words. There on I,;,
death-bed lay the great writer, “the
wizard of the North," the author of
Waverley and its hosts of successors
that had taken the literary world by
storm. There, waiting the inevitable
shadow through which his dimming
eyes caught glimpses of the bright¬
ening vistas that led to the “Golden
Somewhere,” lay the great man dy¬
ing. There, by his bedside weeping,
stood the young, the handsome, the
gifted, and popular essayist. How
thrilling those six words from the
pale lips of his more than father must
have fallen on the ear and heart of
tll.Tt , already , , famous . young man, com-
*
. of , such , men as JrlHWCr, ., . Av- ,
p.Tfltofl
touil, and , , Dickens! . , ,
Blit ,, the , singular • , and , most .11 lovclv
*
tiling about , It . was, that , the , author ,
, hose had settled ,
on w name
fame . thought , , not OI , greatness, , but . ot ,
V 1
goodness, , the , , last words , to one lie ,
III
loved. It - was not a dvmg , . request
to his son to be great as an author,
but to be good as a man. It was as
if he had said, be good to the poor,
the weary, the wayworn, and sad.
Be a light and a blessiong wherever
yon go. Be charitable to the faults
and the failings of your fellow men.
And when your heart overflows with
mirth and humor, ami your frank and
cordial laughter must be heard amid
the gay throng of your young associ¬
ates, let it never be heard so as to
wound the feelings of others. Be
gentle and genial and tender, and
you will be dear to all and hated by
none.
The utterances of great authors,
whether with tongue or pen, are
priceless legacies to t’'C few who read
them in after ages. The modern
novelists, compared with the great
authors from Fielding down to
Thackeray, arc stale and unattractive.
They are like the autumn leaf in R.
II. Wilde's beautiful poeiu, “restless
and soon to pass away.” Where
now is the writer front whose peu
flashes the diamond splendor*, that
stood out as separate and insulated
glories on the pages of Scott and
press lias forbidden such utterances
to die out of the world of mcu. How
glad we are that their point, their
brilliancy, their wit, their humor,
their pathos, are embodied and em¬
balmed and yet alive to remain
ns forever. O wliat charities
in lienedictions still smile on
pages to greet and to bless us! O
what rainbows of beauty grace
summer days of prosperity, and span
the dark gloom of our seasons
sorrow !
The literary man in the
of his books may be sad, because poor
and neglected and misappreciated,
but he can never be lonely. He lias
company that the common world
knows nothing of. He “calls spirits
from the vasty deep" of the past, and
holds converse with the deathless
dead. There before him are the
crowned kings of thought. There
Hector lights again with Achilles,
an< l side by side stalk Agamemnon
ai Hail “| Homer to the on beauty the garnished and the stage. glory
l> ^ books. limy make the past
our heritage and home. They are
the everlasting monuments for
thoughts that cannot die. Dead
kings may lie nameless under hoary
pyramids, but crowned thoughts,
when once uttered, live on forever
on the living pages of our books.
From the study of these silent pages,
with their tongues of fire, how many
an ardent genius has risen inspired
for the liar, the senate, the pulpit.
l>nt from all there never came a
sweeter message to youthful aspirant
than this, “lie a good man, my dear.”
-—Father Rvan, the sweetest war
poet of the South, and indeed one of
the grandest of all the priests of the
beautiful in the temple of song, said
in one of his fine poems: “There’s a
grandeur in graves and a glory in
gloom.”
—Reason, being of the earth
earthy, wanders and blunders amid
the scenes within the bounds of the
finite. Faith, being of the heaven
heavenly, leaps at a bound to the pos¬
sibilities within the upbore of the in¬
finite.
‘ ant,K1 tho an,i
umoroHR at, cndant of the redoubta- -
^ on Q u ' x °te, gave utterance to
secular beatitude, “Blessed be the
who invented bicep.”
Sheriff Sales
I\7TIX itc Md on the first Tuestlaylin Octoter
YV next*uttlwuourt house tlixir in Carnos-
vl1W\ K»i«l county, within flu* Weii\ hour* of sal**,
to tint highest bidder for cami, the following
iiroiierty, to-wit: ...
‘“,*1*.^
must Uiwlraltlu lots in tin- town. Levied mi ;i* the
uruuertv of II. II. Nelms by virtue of ami to sat¬
isfy a 111 fa. Issued from Franklin Superior Court,
in favor of 11. l'hillips .V On. a«ainst 11. II. Nelms.
Written notice K‘ven defendant pluintilt's as required by¬
law. ITopertv pointed out by attorney.
Tbia September 3d, 18'JO. ,1. O. McOoskki.i., Sheriff.
ALSO at till* same nue-eiulith time and interest place, In unr
ritual and undivided Kl.'itli <i. M., of a
tract of land lyinj; in the district,
Franklin County, on the waters on Uumloff creek,
aiiji lining lands of J. C. 1 lam roll, T. S. \\ hit-
wnrtli, Mrs. Sophia Randal and others, contain¬
ing live hundred acres, more or less, Said and known is
as the Henry ( happelear old dwelling nlaec. and place
well Improved, having gissl neres-
san oiit-liuiidiligs. anil the funning lands the in a
gissl state of cultivation. Levied on as prop¬
erty of W. T. (’linppelear by virtue of and to sat-
|s|y a II. fa. issued from the .lutices Court of the
21Jtti Ilistrlet, (L M„ of said coiiujy, in favor of
11. S. Chap|ielear, executor of the estate of ,1. II.
Cltaplielear, deceased. Levy made and returned
to me for sale as the law directs hy J. K. Craw¬
ford, J.. < \ Written notice given defendant as
the law directs at time of levy. Property September pointed 3rd,
out hy 11. S. Chappelear. This
im J. C. McConnell, .sheriff.
POSTPONED SHERIFF SALE.
ALSO at the Kune time and place, three undi-
v idt'd mie-tentli Interests in a tract Iir parcel of
Lull lying in sal,l county on the waters of North
Uroail River and Turkey ( reck, in the LV./tli ilis-
triet, fl. M., adjoining lands of .1. H. Loport.-on,
,S. K. Cannon, ft. ll. Burton, anil other*, individual cvntain-
lug K30 acres more or le»«, lieinff three
tenth interests in the place undivided whereon three-tenths Mrs. Mary
p. Haguell now lives. The
i„t, rest* sold as the reverslouarv interest* lorm-
crly owned l.v three of the heirs-at-law of W. W.
n a gweii, deceased,ami deeded to n. it. Nelms.
Sold as the iirots rly or ll. II. Nelms hy virtue of
ti u issued Irom Franklin H. Superior U. Nelms. Court Prop- In
favor pointed of It. Phillips hy ft plaintiff Co. vs. attorney. Written
erty out s
notice given tenant in possession. This Senn mis r
a, istio. j. c. McConnell, sheriff.
New - Goods!
LOW PRICES!
We have just received one of the
best selected stock of shoes that has
ever been brought to C’arnosville.
We have a genuine Kangaroo hand¬
made shoe for $4.50 that takes the
cake. In
CLOTHING
we have a nice line and can save you
money. In Notions wo intend to
keep up the reputation of the house
—to carry the best selected stock in
town, and can prove the assertion
with the goods. Wc have on the
road a dandy line of Hats, and can
surprise you in a $2.00 hat.
-Grocer ieS-
Wc will continue to keep in stock
a general line of Groceries, consisting
of fresh meat, flour, sugars, coffees,
etc. When you come to town call
in and see us. Respect,nllv,
icoiell &
LIBEL FOR DIYORCE.
Georgia, Franklin County.
J. A. Reed ] Libel for
vs. , in Franklin
Annie Reed. | Court, March
J 1800. defendant:
To Anmed Reed,
are hereby not ified and required to
and appear at the next term of the
Superior Court of said county, to.
held in and for said county on the
fourth Monday in September next,
then and there to answer the plain¬
tiff’s petition for divorce in said court.
As in default thereof the court will
proceed as to justice shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable N. L.
Hutchins, Judge of said court. This
July 10, 1890. J. M. Phillips,
Clerk Superior Court.
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