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CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, GA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 4 , 1891 .
,‘Who Struck
I Billy Patterson”
A FAMOUS MYTH
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he first thing I thought of after
my arrival was to put my former
resolution into practice by investing!
about one half of my proceeds ofjpy
property in real Chtal^"an3“ this I
accomplished as soon as practicable,
and the purchases I then nwde re¬
main m my possession to the present
day. Having made it a rale never
to purchase real property ou ^specu¬
lation with a view to sell again, and
never but when I had the money to
spare without running into debt.
And by adl ering to this rule I have
from time to time increased my pur¬
chases of real property as fast as I
made money by commerce never
risking more at any one time than
half I was worth, considering that
were I to lose that half, 1 still had a
sufficiency left to make myself and
my family comfortable and inde¬
pendent. A merchant possessing a
fortune should never put more at
risk than one half he is worth and
should he have the misfortune to
lose that half,* which is more than
probable^be outfit to retire immedi¬
ately from business, or it is fifty to
one, that he will lose the olher half
and be left a beggar. Want of pre¬
caution has been tho cause of many
failures after persons had made fort-
unes but unfortunately merchants
consider themseves entitled or rather
disgraced unless they will trade not
only up to their capital but as far
beyond it as they can obtain credit
what belter is this than a gamb’er,
stacking his money on games of
chance and doubling his bets every
time lie w r ins ? It is true that chance
may favor him for a time, luck, how-
everjfas it is termed by the thought-
[• s>V'must soon turn and he is soon
brdke and ruined, and such is the
fate of merchants who make use of
all their capital and credit in com¬
merce in the shipping line, nor have
I ever known any one to succeed on
this principle for any length of time,
I am perfectly sensible that had I
placed my spare money at interest
instead of investing it in real estate
that it rould have been much more
productive in my own life time. This
however was not my object, because
my life was uncertain, and I might
leave a young family to take chance
in the world. Considering myself
iherefore acting for posterity, I have
thought it better to leave them real
estat, ‘ than mone Y or stock, the two
latter being too easily parted with
whilst the former is more likely to
stick by them and is the last thing
y0,, ”!- Pe0P 6 t r Se ] P S ° Se t t
In the " <mr,e ? f “ acttve « a
“ teB -‘ Ve *»*»*•“ «">“»?*• t*
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great-katisfaction,.
and
I liniplonM. of
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ccnil^ qae-e.ver gajyto
fir§t : ’bj try' ’taking bating advantage
me for the
a.o ne.it and afterwards by obtamn^t
myprop r y at sacrifice for much,
less than whitit #^:iy,brth.” It hasl
everb^^ chase ‘seTI'prbp^rty wm-me-never of kind to but
or any
where the seller and buyer were on a
perfectly ev» n footing as to mforma-
tion. Every thing I possess was
purchased openly and fairly m the
market, and I thank God that I have
thus far lived and I hope to die with
a Hear . .conscience. . -r In order , to u git’ . „ T
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through i the .. ld with ... and , sat-, a
W ease
isfaetioo-tin • laige eonoerns, it is not
to be altvays just bat
often #ierdhs nor is there anything
lost by-this when it ia
that those who act on this pneiiiie.
will generally Jiave a nreferance
all their dealings with others.
In early life ai Philadelphia I ex¬
perienced considerable inconvenience
J n not being able to find young
ple suitable for companions. They
were all more or less tainted
folly and vice, and did not seem to
suit my turn pi grind, this
me to associate, .with people
older than myself and to take to
study of books to fill up my
both of which I found of great ad¬
vantage as it led to warm friendships
that lasted throughout life without
a single exception. At. this time I
applied my<elf pretty much to the
study of natural philosophy for which
I had great propensity, and had I
then possessed an independence of
two thousand dollars a year, Neptune
should never have sported with
fortune and feelings in future life.
On my arrival in the West Indies
in the year 177G, it opened up a new
scene for me for which I was little
qualified, for I had previously lived
all my life ,&qaqng religious peop'e
correct principles and it was
the contrary wi th most of my
acquaintances and those I had to
transact business with.' No one came
thereto settle life, all were in quest
of fortune ..to retire and spend it
elsewhere.- Character was little
thought of. Of oourse it
the utmost circumspection and cau
tion to steer clear of difficulties A
kind and -superintending
in this as in many other concerns
my life enabled me however, to sur-
experienced mount every asl difficulty, young and
then was.
Eustatia Three days T after my arrival at St.
Was invited to spend the
evening with one of the most res-
pectable r famiiies of the place, con¬
sisting of three gentlemen and three
ladies, two of the latter being sxn-
gle ladies were introduced and we
played whist during the evening.
N o money .was introduced nor v as
anjf sum mentioned for the game
which induced me to think that it
was altogether for amusement, bat
the next evening the head of the
house called on me with a pile of
dollars saying that it was the result
oi my winnings the evening before,
and offered to pay me which I refus¬
ed to accept, observing that I never
played for money, at least for not
more than a trifle to keep up the at¬
tention of the game. This estab¬
lished my character against gam¬
ing and I then resolved with myself
that I never would game so as to
lose more than ten dollars at cne
time and this resolution I have kept
faithfully ever since, and had I not
taken and kept it I probably might
have been ruined as was the case
with some others of my acquaint¬
ance in the West Indies.
TOM WINN AND THE “DISIN¬
FECTANTS.”
Fi '™ Th$ Jackson Herald,
The Atlanta Journal of last week con-
tained a lengthy write-up of our sister
town of Liwrencevillc. Among other
notab!c thioga which distinguish the
town of LvwrtnceviJle, mention is mnde
0 f thSfact that “Hon. Thomas E. VTisn
Uve8 notqQite tlme mfl€8 , ro . a town.’*
»<• .t least th.ee cities claimed
the WU-Phc* of Homer, but there is
only one place in the v.-orld that can la,
cl.lu to ihe proud eminence ot having
toeY'u,m.s™“,r i Jratlaunlofe'
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tache t Winn’s picture being mo80 ornit- “
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Then the Journal,a ™**«P an-
oth f r statement concerning Mr. Wtvn
catries us clean off our feet. It
i3 this:
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“His gajlant fight for the nomination
,*“* r ', be nomination against Pickett
^ a PpIC priatcl, “the -acrid, tt.
aud the deviP’-is strong in the
of the Georgia Demrcr^y.”
The -wanl «*di8i*feclauU’ , ".ie the turn-
g, g point indbe above paragraph It j$
a baprv f Tt may be; and probably
typogmpldcal error, or a missprint
Wa Up us c dami.-or somethinz like that
it ^ch harder hit than brother
WlIlu recieTed at the hands of lht
Herald ,, dnemg ; hjs late interesting . , . .. cam
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p 2 ign,“whieh .... Uiso „ strong . . the memory
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Jo3t T *!*-£&"*■. %ya^haiaog rickc, Darnel, around ,
the Mr. Wina
h * b<,( f arot ' oee ’ Klte, ® Ad ^ dn * e -?
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ceptiou tbia tidure, oi ^(d Mr. Winns jjjggjgg'lii “pliant fight con-
against the disinfectants.”
A RARE RESOLUTION.
From Hart Countv
All'ance.
Printed Verbatim et Literatim.
At a call meeting of the Hart
county Alliance, Feb. 20th 1891, Rev.
J. T. W. Vernon offered the follow
ing resolutions which were adopted
by a vote of sixteen yeas, eleven not
voting, total twenty-seven.
Resolved That we commend the
Hon. F. B. llogges for not voting
for J. B. Gordon for the U. S. sena¬
tor aid ,that he’s wouithy of our con¬
fidence and that we respectfully aske
Franklin and Habersham countey al¬
liance to pass resolutions endorsing
the Hon. F. B. Hogges, our state
senator for the statesmanship
he manifested m voting for the Alli¬
ance nominee the Frend of our or¬
der.
Resolved That we request these
resolutions to be publish in the South¬
ern Alliance Farmer, Carnesvili/e
Tribune, Claikesville Herrel and
Hartwell Sun, and a copy of the 3rd
resolution be furnished the Hon. F -
B. llogges expressing to him the con¬
fidence that the Hart county Alliance
has in him as a member of our order
that as thar servant he is ever ready
to carry out thar instructions, and
we will stand by him in the Futur as
he has done by us in the past.
BIG SMITH ITEMS.
There has been a great deal of
sickness and some death in our neigh-
borhood recently.
We have seven shingle mills and
two steam saw mills and they are all
sawing a great deal of lumber.
Look out fur the stock law, we
will get it after awhile
We have four schools in this dis¬
trict and we have four lodges of
Farmers Alliance, two white and two
colored. I have been visiting sever¬
al of the lodges and all seem to be
working together in harmony and for
the good of the order.
The Tugalo sub-alliance lias adopted
Stonewall guano for the present year
A. M. Grihble is having one hun¬
dred acres of land cleared on Mrs.
Sims’ farm. He owns four shares
himself.
J. J.
The Georgia legislator who can ob¬
tain an improved system of highways
is the man who is m demand just
now.
UNSUCCESSFUL FARMERS.
The unsuccessful farmer makes
cotton his chief crop and has his
smoke house and com crib in the
west. He buys on credit irom year
to year, an d doesn’t take much stock
in intensive farming, prefermg to
move m the old, beaten track where
his fathers moved a hundred years
ago. He is too hard pressed to send
his children to school, even if he be¬
lieved that a farmc-r boy needs much
education* The unsuccessful farm¬
er has been convinced by men of the
typo of Livingston, Gantt and Brown
that all other avocations in life are
“agin” agriculture. The unsuccess¬
ful farmer is expecting a government
warehouse to bring him “relief” In
many’-instances he has joined the Al¬
liance and is waiting for something
to turn up, piobabiyfor the millions
that England is to send over to buy
his cotton at twenty cents a pound.
The Georgia Chatauqua opens in Al¬
bany March 9th.
NOW TRY THIS.
It will co3t you nothing and will
surely do you good if you have a
cough, cold or any throat chest or
lung trouble. Dr. King’s New Dis¬
covery for consumption, coughs and
colds is guaranteed to give relief, or
money will be paid back. Sufferers
from La Grippe foond it just the |
thing and under its use had a ,
speedy , and - perfect , recovery. try! xry
a bottle at O IT expense and learn
for „ yourself - just , how good , thing ... i
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it is. Trial bottles free at H., M.
Freem an T s Drug Store. Large
sizes oOcts. aud $1,C0.
VOLUME. XVI .--NO. 7 .
COL FORSYTE'S FIGHT.
DESPERATE STRUGGLE WITH RED¬
SKINS BACK IN^THE SIXTIES.
Nine Hundred Savages Against Fifty
Volunteer Sconts—Death of a Hero,
LI out. needier—A Cheyenne War Chief
Killed While Leading a Grand Charge,
[Copyright by American Press Association.]
ATTLES with. In¬
dians were taken
l 0 for granted in the
development of
3 the wild west. In
fact historical lit¬
erature, from the
% time of the earli¬
& < n est settlements, is
\ filled with thrill¬
ing stories of en¬
m counters with sav¬
ages. Now and
k then one appeals
with novel force
i tion to our of the apprecia¬ daring
ti-'j and endurance of
tho fighting men
of the border, and
one such was the gallant struggle of Col.
G. A. Forsyth and a band of fifty scouts
with the terrible Cheyenne and Sioux war¬
riors and their bandit allies on-the line of
the Kansas Pacific in ISOS. In August of
that year there was an outbreak of savage
fiendishness along the borders of Kansas,
Colorado and Nebraska east of Denver.
The tribes of the region opposed the con-
struction of the railroad, and began to raid,
ravish and kill over a widespread territory
of thriving settlements. Their deeds were
such that no white man able to handle a
weapon could stay the passion of
Among the officers at Fort Wallace was
Col. G. A. Forsyth, a civil war veteran
who had served with Sheridan He was
on staff duty and had no followers, but in
the excitement of the hour drummed up
fifty unemployed scouts, mounted ana
equipped in their own wild fashion, and
placed himself and men under military or¬
ders. The second in command was a hero
fitted to hold such relation to the gallant
colonel. This was Lieut. F. II. Beecher
(nephew of Henry Ward Beecher), also a
civil war veteran, and one who had been
disabled at that. He was under orders to
report for duty in Washington at a later
date, and volunteered, or even begged, to
fill in the interval fighting Indians.
The command started for the scene of
the most recent depredations reported at
Fort Wallace, and struck a trail on a
branch of Republican ri ver on the 14th of
September. They followed the trail two
days without seeing a redskin, but evi
dences pointed to their presence in the vicin¬
ity. They were trying to mislead and am¬
bush the daring party. On tho afternoon
of the 16th Col. Forsyth halted and estab¬
lished camp on Dry Fork, a stream with
but a few inches of water. He was in the
center of a plain skirted with hills and
dotted with clumps of stunted trees. Late
in the afternoon a band of several hundred
Indians rushed from cover and attempted
to stampede the animals that were grazing
near the camp. They were repulsed, and
Col. Forsyth, assuming this demonstration
to be the forerunner of a grand attack,
moved his force to an island in tho middle
of the water course. The island bore a few
low trees. On the morning of the 17th
every man was alert before daylight, and
not a moment too soon. The horses were
tied in the bushes close at hand, and while
several picked marksmen kept up a fire on
the nearest Indians, their companions dug
rifle pits and made a circle of them so as to
receive the enemy on all sides.
The Indians kept up a steady fire with
their improved repealing rifle3 and coolLy
took position in easy range, boys with bows
and arrows stealing up very close by crawl¬
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ing on tho ground. A shower of bullets
and arrows soon announced the onslaught
of numbers. Col. Forsyth bade his men hold
their fire and save ammunition for the try¬
ing moment. The elevations at a safe dis¬
tance were covered with non-combatant
savage.?, old men, women and children,
and with a wild, weird whoop they began
to jump aud gesture as a band of mounted
warriors, numbering several hundred, set
out at full gallop toward the island. Not
a shot was fired by the scouts until the
savages came within easy reach. Then a
rapid fire was opened, sending down the
frontlines of warriors. The charge had
been made in solid column, as if to over¬
ride the brave little band in the riflepits.
At the head rode the war chief of the
Cheyennes, “Roman Nose,” a typical sav¬
age of the wilds. No gaudy calico, or
flower sack stuff, or cast off army blanket
corrupted his regal figure, which was of
giant build. But buckskin and beads, and
feathers of the wild wing, and a robe of
the rarest fur, distinguished him over all
his followers and above many a noted chief
of these degenerate Indian days. He was
a tawny colored war god, breathing fire
and flashing lightning from his eagle eye.
But all that heathen magnificence was not
bullet clad, nor was that noble form in¬
vulnerable. “Roman Nose” fell within a
few feet of the riflepits, and the painted
bucks that survived the terrible volley of
death shrank back appalled at the
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C2AEOF OF THE CHEYENNES.
It was nearly midday, and Col. For.syth
was not long in divining the true situation.
He was surrounded by immense num¬
bers of bloodthirsty redskins, which after¬
ward proved to be Cheyennes and Sioux
over 900 strong, led on in all the fury of
their race by Roman Nose. This royal
savage had boasted that only once had he
taken a white man’s hand in friendship,
and then it was at a council where the red
men haughtily demanded the cessation of
railroad building by the whites under the
alternative of bloody war. Gen. Hancock,
^, ‘T™ Ul
what the Indians wanted they could have
it, and Forsyth and his men were realizing
that the promise was being ohserved all
around. There was a line of dead Indians
and pomes keeping company with the
gii en t body of the Cheyennh dhief. The re
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thrir savage ire. At the end of two cfr
three ho urs the y renewed the attack and
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PEERLESS NORTHEN
HonestlyAnd Feeriessly
CONDEMNS ALLIANCE
BOSSES.
Editor SoutV.crn Alliance Farmer;
It is not my purpose to handy words
with you.
In recent issues of your paper you
have made many statements, with
winch you have connected oty name,
that are untrue. I ask space in your
next issue to deny some of them.
1. It has been long known to a
great many allianccmen that there
are, in the public mind, many grave
charges against the character and the
conduct of some prominent officials
in the alliance, The recent confer¬
ence of alliancemen, hold in this city,
met to determine the be#t means for
investigating and establishing these
charges, in order to rid the alliance
of the odium they are bringing upon
all it s members.
2. 'I'he conference in question was
composed of true and pronounced alli¬
ancemen. Every man in the confer-
encc is an alliancemen, earnestly seek¬
ing the good of the order.
3. Tho conference was, in no sense
political. There were members pres¬
ent who held different viewe on wbat
were know as political iesues in this
state. These gentlemen were agreed
in believing there is corruption in
high places in the alliance, and they
are so determined to so charge be—
fere the proper tribunal at the pro¬
per time.
4. The action of this conference
is, no way, a fight on the alliance,
aud it cannot, possibly be so con¬
strued. It is a fight by true aliiance-
men for the preservation of the alh-
am e. Your paper is not the alliance,
and to condemn yom paper is not
fiightmg the alliance. The alliance
is far more important than your
paper.
Mr. Livingston is not the alliance,
changes made against Mr. Livingston
for corruption, would not be charg«s
against the alUanoe.
ti r. Copeland is not the alliance
Charges made rgainst Mr. Copeland
cannot be called, in any sense charges
made against the alliance, as Mr#
Copeland is not the alliance.
Mr Daniel is not tlia alliance. K
any man attacks Mr. Daniel, h§ is
not attaking the alliance.
These men are nothing more than
hired servants of the alliaaee. As
such, some of them will be called to
account by the alliance, in its proper*
ly ordered machinery, for tome of
their bad conduct.
Do?s any man hold that tlie minis¬
ter is the church? If the minister
should be charged with corruption,
can the church afford to endorse him
and, in the face of the charge, abso¬
lutely stifel the investigaatii-n of the
mime? Such a church would present %
a stiange spectacle before the people,
Just s > must it be with the alliance
The alliance c nnot afford to suffer
under these charges against its offi¬
cials and indorse them without inves¬
tigation. Why are you seeking
endoisement before an investigation
is Ik d, if the charges are not true?
Lei me say, in conclusion that, at
the proper time an i before the pro¬
per tribunal, charges will be submitt-*
ed. R o amount of bluster or brava¬
do or false statement will p> event the
carrying out of the purpose agreed
upon.
The alliance is a grand conception.
Its principles command the admira¬
tion and respect of every good eiri*
zen. We can not afford to see the
organization go down under charges
that are not answered. Good men in
the order are determined to rescue ihe
alliance from the dangers thatg.hreatj
en it.
Rest assured the hour for judg¬
ment is coming. No amount if “en-
can stop it.
\Y. J. Northern-
Ertgcne F.*eld lo the boy^: Gath¬
er yourself together, young man; gird
up your loins and wade out of the
wallow* There aie better times be-
yoi d and ^pleasant meadows ove.
there* This is a beautiful world of
ours and on the whole humanity is
very appreciative ami very lovable.