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The Tribune AS TVVIUU THE CIRCU.LA- TION OF ALL THE OTHER PAPERS IN FRANK¬ LIN COUNTY.' Q>' 1jk.it Advertising Medium In North Georgia THE SUFYiVING COFEDERATE VETERANS. ATLANTA OPENS IIKR GATES TO THEM. Tho Annual meeting of the Con¬ federate Survivors’ Association of Georgia, will he held at Atlanta, in : n tho new Capitol, on Thursday 1 October 28,1890. After tho business of tho Assoeia- Is finished,the convention will adjourn to the Piedmont Expostion. In tho afternoon, at 3 o’clock, there will be a Grand Sham Battle, in which the Veterans will bake part. I n the evening, at 8 o’clock, fliere will be a’Conledcrato Reunion, at the New Capitol, when Short Addresses will be mado by a number of Con¬ federate Soldiers. Every Ogamzation is urged to send as laigo a delegation as possible. Tbo Rail Iioad Faro tor this occu¬ gjon will be ono cent per mile pppb Commanders are requested to notify their Camp. Come in a body and make this a great day. Uuou II. CoLqm-, Adjutant General. J. 11. Gorham, Commander in Chief. * * Atlanta, Ga., Sept 1st, 1890.— Dear Sir: — A Confederate Re¬ union will ho hold in Atlanta, dur¬ ing the Piedinout Exposition. ’ The dMq is Thursday, Oetolier 23d. The Annual Meetiug of tho State Association will he held at tlm Now Canitol. at 10 o’clock a, ra. Vvjll he a Grand fih.qti ti.ittle at tut Exposition grourds, in which you are invited to participate, The vory Low rates given by <j*»- the mrte » » wy #n» tunity for your Camp to vinil Atlauttt» filC AVOIulctful gVO’WUI^ ^ * , 0 Jind SCO me, best Exposition "that has ever been held in the South, mi J yj- CU‘I’fU13 _ !10 > Ot Georgia . wiliwel— come yon as Brothers aud Comrades. Atlanta will open wide her gates to greet you, and the Piedmont Exposi¬ tion Company will rejoice to see you. A strong effort is being made to bring together all the Confederate Generals, and as many old soldiers as possibles On the evening of the same day, at 8 o’clock, there will bo a Grand Confederate Jubilee, at the New Capitol, when Speeches will be made by a number of Old Soldiers—God blesfl them. Yours vory truly, Hugh H. Colquitt, Adjutant General Poodies and apples aro a disastrous failnro In many parts of tho Union. This is »ad nows to fruit lovers. Bnt thero are yet two crops that will be nbundout this foil, and those are sweet potatoes and politics. Tlwt S’aTmera’ Alliance of Maryland havo taken pleasures looking to a practi- col eoifftlon of thoir diffleulttea. They propose to establish in Baltimore an sgrionltural exehoogu which shall bring producer and consumer into direct com¬ munication. In same such way as this the question of tho traneportatkm of /arm products must work itself out. It Is our taodos of distributing goods te consumers that Coot so much and eat up tho profits through of all concerned. The good/ pass too many hands. Co-oper¬ ation ought to try its hand in this field. Tho prospect is thnt applications foi aid under tho dependent pension net will exceed half a million. Tho now law mereif- ptovitei peiwiona for eoldloreoi their widows or children who aro de¬ pendent aud need aid. Thoee already drawing pensions, those who are able tc work for their living, or thoso who are In government employ aro not entitled to assistance cud r tho dependent ism- lion act. It is said, however, that num¬ bers of persons already getting pensions sr occupying good places in government miplriy have applied for additional help. Buffldeut to my they will uot Jtot to ♦ $ VOL XIV CARNESV1LLE, FRANKLIIS COUNTYr GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 17,1890 NO 34 A CORRECTION. W. C. Moss, of the Lavouia Nows Rays that I made the statement that there was only three or four first grade teachers in Franklin county. There must bo a defect in his optics, I wrote no such statement for I woqld consider it a stigma upon the good teachers ot this county. Won¬ der it the Prof, makes such hlundort in the school voorn as he in quoting my si Moment? J. M. Htilme. The trwumry of tho Argentine Itopub- Uo may bo empty, but tho rich soil will still grow ns much ns ever, thero aro ex¬ actly ns many shoop, horses ftnfl cattle in the country ns thero were before, and every ono still holds it former value. 8o let tho projfressivo republic gather up and go on. There is nothing to hinder her working out of tho load of debt slio has piled up, but it will tako years, and ihq must not go in any deeper. pie Kemmler execution by. electricity seems to haro been unnecessarily har¬ rowing. For weeks previous to the event tho tiowspn-^ro of New York, some of the prison ttfiVdnla «wi a te od portion of the pqpukwo «f tho state ap¬ ing pear to have been tn a oaodltkm borhir¬ on hysteria. Several times the elec¬ trician in charge of tbo execution was changed and there was a gouorot oxhl- bition of nervousness and confusion that I machineimpoesibfcx mado tbo perfect working A cool, <£ <lotorinine& Jbo ! j head and stewly nerves aro woc^qi « time like that. ad W' physicians testify -j|hat after tb4' fli'st shock Kemm- ler wn« nticoneckms. TIk) horror that overcame thoeo pree- eut ut tho sceiKi may have boon turgoly due to tho irev/hess of it all. It may he that hanging ts viewed with more equanimity because we aro acountq^ed agitate tbo p.ub t joct of doirg away p ll0 d«ith penulty altogether and rabatitutinu for Ufti. jM SSi 3 ^ ^ _ wii t cf capital punishment: From physical, humaaltarloa and ju«lk*Inl tstarjfV poiuts tho time ia rlpo for tta cousiOeratlon. Wo SK m.i ttmt fanpHsnummt a*- lit" win be rtiu only proper punlsbuiont iiwUmI to a murtiorv.r. Tliitite, IrKloed, Uve ouly ratknutl uHtt-bvKl which ocienoi, rccoaKnoDd. r f nom whkJi tw»doctm**m be preaohot Robert. Purvis. Aug. 4 a distinguished dtiren of Phih adelphla, Robert Purvis, celebrahxl Iris eightieth birthday. His name is fivmil- iarly enough known even to this gonera- tion as one of tho original American abolitionists, of whom ho and tho poet Whittier, along with Harriot Deechor Stowe, are almost tho only survivors. It is generally suppoaod thnt Robert Purvis is a negro. This to a mistokre Ey his mother’s side bo to tbe grandson of a beautiful Moorish woman and a German Jewish baron. Ou thin side is the warm, impassioned oriental blood. On his fatber'B sido ho to pure English, fighting Anglo-Saxon; and Purvis has tho two natures woll mingled. Not in feature, manner or appeara.TK» hist ho any look of tho negro. Ho has, Tbe rhllndelphia Press says, "a skin so fair that a Spanish beauty might onvy ft-; a manner so gracious and cultured that a scholar and poet might desire it/, a his¬ tory so remarkable that many of tbe greatret men in this world would gladly exchange it for tlteirs could tho records of time bo changed.” Purvis’ grandmother, tlKiugh a Moor, woe betrayed into slavery l>y ft compan¬ ion, mi Arab girt. Therwe she woa bought nod roecood by kind pooplo who were struck with her remarkabte beauty and stately manner. Purvis himeeif waa bom to wealth. Ho might, if ho had oboeen, oeeerted his white blood, and been one of the first men nocioRy aud otherwise in tlie country. Instead l»o knowingly and deliberately cast his lot with those who sought to froo the slave, and lias bom to tills day the odium of himself being a negro. His hnpnsnioned oratory and remarkable personal beauty at once attnr.tel the attention of oR tlie early workers for autt-slavory. Along with Garrison. Lucretia Mott, Wendell Phillips and the rest, Robort Purvis was mobbed, catted, threatened and Ills life Bought more than anco. All of thoae lived to note that whenever there is tre¬ mendous opposition to u cause to which no radical immorality or wrong Is in¬ volved, that cause triumphs very quick¬ ly. Of some of his thrilling experiences in slavery times Purvis remarks: "There are moments wlwn any man, nw hisllfe.*’ matter who ho is, cares nothing for DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST* OF MtANKUN FACTS AND FANCIES, FOUND HERE AND THERE. lt. B* 'Tillman lias been nominate for governor of S. C. Aliases Julia and Fannie l’oule are visiting relatives at Cromers Mill. 1Ye want correspondents fi om oviwy postoffice in the oounly, who will write the news iu crisp, condensed form. Col. .Spencer Smith, who has been m Cal. for two or three years, arriv¬ ed in CaVn^vUIe last Wednesday night, It is about (Free weeks till the legislative contest A 1 ill be over, and the candidates are warming up to their work. Wtni will it profit a man if ho gets highest office within the gift of Georgia at the sacrifice of honesty aud selt-reqpect. -;—* Phfi Ti^vuucy CrroKi met at the court house Friday night, and pre¬ pared a very interesting program for next Friday night. llm man who falls pqt with a uowspsp.ef \>Ccause it prints some¬ thing he does not endorse, could just .reasonahty ostracise the uioreh*-' that deals in a hue of ~ .. t. vvanl to - D ocds ho does i >u rebase. Tho Star of Bethlehem which makes its appearance every 315 years, and which was piesent at the birth oi Christ, can now bo seen in the evening after 8 o’clock, a little to tno south, ot east. Miss Annie Bramlulte was in town Friday. Miss Bramletto has been teaching in Franklin county for somo timo. It is probable that she will attend Prof. Loony’s school during the fall term. Itwould.be a great blessing to tho people if most of the teachers in the county would do likewise. The newspaper that is always on the fence till it discovers the popu¬ lar side, and then ciawls down on the big side, is not worth the pa¬ per it is printed on- As long as we are able to wield a pen, wc shall advocate the cause wo believe is right, let the result bo what it may. , We will tell the truth as we see it. And if the peoplo are tired ot truth and justice, political aud individual honesty, and want fawn¬ ing demagoguery, they will have to g° somewhere else to get it. It has boon snggeoted tin** it will do away with tho tedious roll ooH on votes in the bouse of wpreeentafcires to intro¬ duce tbe method of registering and counting votes by ek-ctrioity. A ma¬ chine could be perfected that would count in an instant every vote for and against a measure, and guard against fraud at the same timo. A lock box with a button attached to each mem¬ ber's desk would enable him to record his vote. _________ Photographs taken of tho planet. Mare April 9 and tbe day following show whnt astronomers declare io be » terrific snow storm in progress. The storm la repre¬ sented by a white spot around the south polo of the star. It is progressive, show¬ ing much heavier in tho latter of the two seta of Impressions. If tlw citloo keep on obtaining uow counts they will havo long enough to increase tn population up to tbo figures they c»U for by tho time this thing w ow*. LITERARY CLUB AND THE DANCE. Km tor Tribus*— In your issue of Sept 8rd, Mr. J. F. Shauuon shoots again over one whole column of your paper, and if he hits the mark at a single shot 1 fail to discov¬ er it. Mr. Shannon seems to dote considerably on the fact that 1 delay¬ ed so long about sending in my re¬ ply. I would have attended to the matter sooner if 1 had known lie was in such a hurry about it. The troub¬ le was I v as busy pulling fodder. Besides my article was in Tub Trib¬ une office more than a week before it was published. Mr. Shannon says there is only one .issue between us to-wit: “was the disgusting performance, to(Ob- server) at a meeting of the Literary club ?” Oh, no that is not the issue. If ;it is admitted that it was a dance I have no more to say. lint lei us see what the issue is. In my local that appeared first in regard to tho dance, l said: The members of the Literary Society at a meeting a few nights ago, engaged in a regular old fashioned Viiginia dance. In Mr. Shannon’s reply lie said: “There has never been a dance in Central Acad¬ emy and I feel safe iu saying there never will bo.” Now we have tlie issue, was it a dance. But for the sake of argument let us admit that Mr Shannon has the issue down nght. Lot us see what Prof- Cooper had to say on that eventful night. bor some cause, I know not yVu ! tho regular opening ««crc**a of the dnh wer^omitted, and Prof Cooper stopped to the front and satOi ’ iUc u j.nu uts gont at to have wo aro V an w**, tion here to-night. ; aher myself m,r any of „,y pupils have put out said •i i. iort w,. liv-o - • have added only a few regular program of the Literary c ut). The Prof, further stated that his pu¬ pils had not lost a single lesson m making preparation for the close. Mr. Shannon says they had b rn making prejmrati on for three months. Pro'f. Cooper and most, it not nM his pupils are members of the Literary club. Tho performance was not di-gust- ing to me as Mr. Shannon says, I did not think it such a bugger until he called my attention to it. The editor need not look for any communication from me on the Alii- auce or the protracted meeting, un . less oue of those organ inations were to engage in a dance. In that case, I might possibly make notice of them. I do not wish to charge, anything to the Literary club but the dance, and not that if it is not guilty. But why does Mr. Shannon kick so furiously at a local in regard to it ? If it was a dialogue, it was not original. If it was a dance of any other kind it was not original. The truth is, there was not any one there that night, that . . was capable ot getting up an ongi- nal dance. As to why I did not sign ray ra ne to the article, I will say that is my business. I am net afraid ><x ,n y neighbors to know who I am, and ! the moBt ot them know who it is without signing my name. If any one is so very anxious to know who it is they can easily find out. I did not toll Mr. Bhannou I knew nothing about the article whon he asked me who wrote it, but I told him I thought I kuejv. And when ho asked mo who wrote it, I told him that was a b cray horse of another col- or. He said he was going to reply aud 1 offered no objections, Ho is a free man, and ibis is atreo country. So you see thoro is as much old Pe- ter iu Mr Bhauuon as myself. OnSKRVKK. Thero seems undoubted evidence that the electric current at th@ execution of Kemmler was feeble, owing to defective working of the machinery. This was one of the secrete that leaked out by ac¬ cident. There- ought to be, and doubt¬ less will he,'.-i thorough investigation of why the machinery worked imperfectly, AGAINST MR. WINN But Not A Fawning Demagogue. W e clip the following from the Caniesville Tribune: \\ inn’s reasons tor refusing to meet Pickett in a joint discussion might be summed up in the one word roar. Winn is an intellectual ignislatuus lie has been thrust upon tho peup.o of the ninth district by tho Alliance party, llo lias said that he would not bo bound by the Democratic caucus, llo is not the choice of the unbiased Democracy ot the ninth district. lie is not a sound Demo¬ crat., and we would vote for Pickett before we would support Winn. The editor of the above paper writes like a man who has been reud- mg the Brunswick Times ami not the Alliailoo Farmer. Our neighbor should remember that fanners nrq tlm mainstay of the state, and when he defeats the Alliance, he defeats the people and defeats democracy If we lived in the ninth district we would certainly vote tor Winn as every loyal Democrat will do. Woe to the Democratic paper that bolts thoparty now-Danielsville Monitor. We don’t know Wa man writes ^ hag ^ m . }i ^ UmuM ^ Wo are not a man, hut w'e find the Times brim full of health- ^ adi ,. cr Wfc flo not deswas to IJftn'y Brow«;\ve uot bcillg !cad , )y „, c Alliance party; wo aro not support- t he nominees of the ^ Al.fam* 1 J becanse ,, aro a and do noUnid , .c-magoguery consist- ent with « uud Democracy. There . hmtago which is ours, and the of tage o .. n icm j o]d oi t* ,» i«au;ftinl . , speech. We me glad that fear 'of the Alliance party has never deterred us i tom condemning moves which must be eoiideiilRod by every man of any intelligence who has the back¬ bone to be honest, \Ys shall coh- tiuue to speak the truth when we speak nt all. "Fanners’ Alliance” aro two words conspicuously present in all political now3 items this sumfher. A loud call has gone across the water for Cbauncey Depew to come homo and straighteu out somo of his bad boys in the New York Central railroad. They took advantage of his absence to misbe¬ have. English is tho tongue that will con¬ quer tho work-. Therefore let no not talk it through our noses and buck in our throats, but let uo open our lips and pour it out as if we wore proud of it, ns wo uro. ____ A young Washington mother who has to get up nights to attend to her littlo child has discovered that if she walks backward sbo will not bit her chins againet tho furniture in the dark. There is no patent on tho invention. Tlm wavo of progTces lws curkd over the Argentine Republic into Patagonia. This country used to be described in tlie geographieo an a wild and desolate region inhabited only by savages. Pros¬ perous ranches and colonies now occupy tts table lands, aud half a million Pata- goniau sheep await the flret market. Cardinal Gibbons ways of Sundayob- servant*: "Sunday should be first of all a day devoted to religious worship, and sooond, to inuocont and lioalthful recrea¬ tion, as being tbo only (lay in which the groat masses of the peoplo havo timo to seek rolaxatiup. from their work Tbo New Orleans Timos-Domocrnt kat/wu how to extract philosophy from failure. It tolls ua thnt tha Louisiana orange crop is short this year one-half, that tho Delaware pouches are destroyed, and finally that Now Orleans herself i < Importing onions from Egypt and potar toes from Great Britain, and then re¬ marks: "The failure, however,, is merely a temporary incident Wu shall prob¬ ably have a larger aercaoj anda larger over" OUR SCHOOL Let Us Q.oo m 11 ' It is gratifying to boo our people taking school snoli lively interest in the whioh opens the first Monday in! October. (Franklin county is appreciating the fact that wo have secured the services of oco of the finest educators in Geor¬ gia, torthe ensuing year. .Competent assistans will be om- ployed by Prol. Looney, and the mu¬ sic department will bo under the supervision of Mrs. Looney who is one of tlm (finest vocalists and pian¬ ists in the State. It a expected that the attendance will ruu up to more than two hundred buforo the close of the first quarter. Wo will have to build a new and bet- tet school house. The present struc- ttiio cannot accommodate more than seycuty-five, and it has stood for Jiftecu years a disgrace to oui civili¬ sation. There is not a shabbier school building in any town in the county. We have, boon so hide bound about providing a commodious school honso for Carnesvillo, that the colored people are beginning to out¬ strip us in this line. Shame on us. A county worth a way over a million dollars, sports a school house at its county scat, valued at $3QU1 A , town worth more than two hun¬ dred thousand dollars for fifteen years has contented itself with a $300, school building! One oh the most illiterate counties in .the mo-t illiterate state in the lJ 1,1011 ran not afford to slumber while the rest of mankind is up and do- In this far , advanced age, edneatren * th “ ^ "*"*'*’ ^ power. ‘ Th(>11 , et lls build up a good school ll0 ^ ^ Carnesvillo and educate Z' , 1 8 . ^- n , We have a fine teacher and a fine (Ida f or tho work of an able I acuity aml a , lnc Bclml ahuiul if wo on!y ^ 0 ,„. ghoiilder to tho wheel and p , lslltile enterprise, Aricfisoa. It woe fitting that the United Utates should designate one of hor faetest utsl haiidsomeet cruisord to stop Ixmeath tlvj shadow of tho Statuo of Liberty and ro- cedve the remains of tho groat inventor Ericsaai and convey them thenco to his native Bwodea Of trim tt is to bo said ho hardly received from any pooplo tho recognition that ho doaorved during bis Ufctlmo, therefore It la tho more appro¬ priate that, dead, he should have such poor honors ca both his native and adopted country can boetow on blin. Eto wotlt rooms in New York city were always Jealously guarded from visitors, and their oocrote have never yot been given to tho public. Bnt it is known that up to Ids death he was deeply occu¬ pied with inventions which ho regarded an important us any ho bad previously given to tho world. An otllcxw tn tho Swedish navy, ho woo promLnout at a vory oorly ago, but ho resigned his place hi givo himHolf wholly to m<«h»nlcs, coming to America and making it hia homo. In honoring hia remains tho gov- ormuont pu-yu a compliment to all its Scandinavian dtusoua, of whom, there are hundreds of thousands. Meautimo, of tho inventions wlioso fruits mankind are now enjoying from tlie hand of John Ericsson may bo men¬ tioned tho steam fire engine and tho re¬ volving turret battle slitp. In the latter ho gave tho world what tho secretary of tho navy designates iu his circular lottor as "tho goon of tho modern battle ship." Tho screw steam propolli* which now driven votieols through tho water- at f lip rate of WO miles a day was also Ericsaon’fl invention. Tlirico honored bo both his remains and his memory. They will do it, tho ludics—smuggle goods when they come borne from Eu¬ rope, and they nearly ulways got caught at it, but that doos not stop thorn. If they will pevwlst, however, at least they ought to be vranied against concealing amtndajid stuffs In. the bustle. That article of femiaiuo uppure l is uow so out of fashion thiit the vory sight of one ,1s enough to awakv-u the sur.pic4>m of a eruel custom house feminine in-ipoctor, and ski uwkes r dtvo for it first thing. ~r "^r THE POLITICAL CALDRON —is—_ Ik^innuig to Bo’L IN OEOIICIA SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TB1B- UNE AND GET T1IK LATKS’I NEV/S f . O’ *61 Pkk Annum. .JZj '■ >-h* -------»~itig tut i j_n OCR AGE DF DISHONOR. I Franklin is a prohibition county. For nearly a decade.«fjycarsCarnes- v|llo has boon a “dry town” in practice as well as theory. No people have witnessed more btneficont influences of the prohibi¬ tion act, than tbo people who lived iij Caruesville in the days when dram shops wer o open, and were still here in tho blessed days that billowed their banishment Suroly tlieru is uot one man with a soul as big as a mustard seed, who would raiso bis hand to aid in filling poor housos, jails, or¬ phan asylums, insane asylums. But tile man who strikes a blow at pro¬ hibition does this very thing. Aye lie does more, ho aids iu popula¬ ting hell. Now, drummers fiom anti-prohi¬ bition towns come into Caruesville and sell spirituous liquors. Our people don’t want whiskey here,and tor that reason they voted it put. It is a disgrace to our manhood, a dishonor to tho cause ,whioti wo es¬ pouse, that we have so long permitted the unholy tratlic. flow much longer will Franklin see tliu blessings of tbo grandest act that ever breathed its benedictions above our people, snatched from them? In tho name of God and home, let us make Carnesvillo the stronghold of prohibition. Let us make our town too hot for whiskey drummers. g. a. n. When th. rovolutionary taffl.wlthw2L war ondacLe aailliH . r , )f Amvvii ■ U nof i tb-ir the Cincinnati, to oedebrate their return topWul pa»«tta. which in that fey ^-ultaxn- mwHj. benco tbo name, IVy also thwlred to porpetewte memory jailed of friendship that bad e» muon# them, IkahkI togottrar m they ware by "Oangera they had passed.* The orgauiwition la continued among their posterity to tide day. When the Ann-rl on civil wur ended, the common soldiers who had ftsigkt for the 0nksi fttrtiKxl tbe sook<ty of the Grand Army of Us itepubBc. At first it wuu oeeupted < hloily with lAxiuratko day coreinoukri, tbieo with tho proper ixitennont oi devoosed rvoPbora' remains, then with other thltifjsi Until finsfiy tt came to Ainbraco in its eoxpo all matters pertaining to tho welfare of the ex- Union soldier. Ah tho old soldiers bo- oomo tower in number tbo G. A. It. he- ! oomes mere imposing and influential. Tho order will bo taken up and perpetu¬ ated whilo tbo republic elmll Inst liy the Sons of Veterans. The time will come when tho proudest hereditary honor a man can have will ho that he is descend¬ ed from a veteran of tho Grand Army of the Republic. Thoro is good reason why the annual reunions of tlio G. A. R. should beccme more imposing with each year. Meu who fought for thoir country in ’61, and fought successfully, fc^vo fought tbo bat¬ tle of life since, and conquered just as splendidly. When the G. A. H. ootne together at their annual mooting, tha magnificent purade which marks tha opening of the encampment numbers in its ranks senatora, congressmen, govern¬ ors of states, generals, famous orators, lawyers, physicians and men of business whose narnou uro known the world over. Those successive, this honor, fame and wealth, the gallant old boys of ’01 hare gotood in tho twonty iive years siuce the war ended. Among visitors present at the late reunion in Boston were no leu than five governors and oue ex.govumor. Verily it was tho flowor of tho land that oflored their lives to their country in ’01. As timo goes on, and tho veterans, With hair whitening each year, moot for their animal rounion, bringing with them those glorious old tom battle flags, more and more honor will still be shown (tw in. As thoir number grows lees their fame will grow greater. The original package dealers in meet parts of tha Union havo signified that they will obey tho United States law which forbids thorn to continue business. This is really very kind cf them. c(ur co diish aristocracy may go, but .Mi codfish bulla aro assured. Theef- fort 0 £ tho United States fish commission j ^ p^pagato codfish along tho shores of Massachusetts havo boon entirely suo- cessful