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ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
Er.LE.v J. Dortch. Editor
FFICIAL ORGAN OF FRANKLIN COUNTY
A?Vt 22. 1891.
novel argument.,
Mr. Lon McConnell has been in-
troducing to his readers through
the columns of tha Enterprise a
line of argument that is novel to
tb© honorable journalism of Geor-
gia. There was no necessi'y for
lus offeringTne a grave offense re-
garding the public printing. But
there was a necessity for respectful
answers to respectful questions con¬
cerning this offense. Mr. McCon¬
nell first endeavorei to answer sirn-
pie facts and questions by abuse,
and finally by taunting me with rav
father’s debts. Family biograph¬
ies ai’e very interesting to certain
classes of people. If my personali¬
ty had been cast in Mr.McConnell's
mold I might retaliate on this line
in a manner that wo Id not be very
pleasing to the vanity of the En¬
terprise editor. Doe3 Mr. McCon¬
nell object to stating to fair-minded
and sensible people, his motive in
holding up father's debt to me?
He has been talking about “sinister
motives.” It wiil be interesting to
know what adjective he will apply
to this particular motive.
I do not know who my father’s
creditors are, and I am indebted to
the editorial columns of tlu
Enterprise for the knowledge
that Mr. McConnell is one
of them. But however much I
may deplore Col. Dortch’s financial
embarrassment lam in no way re-
responsibie for it. I hope it is no
disgrace for Col. Dortch to owe Mr.
McConnell considerably less than
$20 (as I understand.) If it were a
disgrace and the editor of The
Tribune were held responsible for
it, what possible bearing can it have
on the issue between Mr. McCon¬
nell and me ,regarding the “sinister
motive^” of the grand jurors in
awarding tne public printing to
The Tribune.
The Enterprise says in its last
issue :
“Miss Dortch can’t sail under false colors
when I am the object of her benbvolonce. She
headed the list for one hundred dollars in my
behalf after my misfortune, bnt it was like
other lists she has headed--the heading ^.a all."
Our leaders can not fail to
amused at this. Mr. McConnell’s
anger was first aroused because we
had been rejoicing, as he said , at
his financial embarrassment. He
now concludes that we have been
endeavoring to make him the ob¬
ject of our charity and benevolence.
He impresses us a person who
wants to got mad, and does not
what to get mad at. Our readers
will be interested to know what
new conclusions he will deduce
from that innocent subscription.
Here are the facts about it which
we staled last week, to show that
we had not, as Mr. McConnell
charged, rejoiced at his misfortune
—Last year when the Masonic hall
and store 1001 ns were swept away
by disastrous firs we set up an ac¬
count of the burning while the
flames were still raging, and then,
in obedience to one of the generous
impulses that sometimes come to
us all in the presence of great dan¬
ger and great misfortune, we open¬
ed a subscription and headed ii
with one hundred dollars, for the
benefit of the sufferers. It was not
intended for Mr. McConnell any
more than for the othir men who
were burned out at that time. Nor
was it intended as an insult to them
by an offer of charity, and no
one understood it in “that way.
Such subscriptions are common in
cases of disastrous fires. It is
amusing to see Mr. McConnell be¬
come so angry a^t-kc very suspic¬
ion of a humiliation that lie sneak¬
ed behind the grand jury in order
to heap upou us a few weeks ago.
It is true that i have moved in
other enterprises—notably among
them educational work for the pour
girls of Georgia^— in which I have
failed to enlist the interest of the
people. What motive did you have
in taunting me with such failure,
Mr. S
can failure m a good work , have on
the issue between you and me ?
Whatever 1 have.done was done ia
good faith and from a desire to
H-u '??'• no truthful -V ° wucj,mt person - v who anj knows j
n.e will say that I have endeavored 1
to “sail under false colors” iu any
work I haye ever done in journal-
ism or any oil er field.
“AtthetimcMias Dortch beaded that list she
had material in Tni: Tribune office that the
cash came oat of my pocket to pay for, and is
yet unpaid to me.”
This is not true. There has not
been an inch of material of any
kind in The Tribune office since
we hare owned it (save paper and
ink that were used while we were
at school or not connected vrilb the
paper) that we did not buy and we
know just where the money came
from that paid for it and Mr. Mc¬
Connell did not furnish one farth¬
ing. The editor of the Enterprise
says that Col. Dortch borrowt d $6
frem him in Oct. 1880 to get acme
material out of the express office
for The Tribune. This is a matter
between Mr. McConnell and Col.
Dortch. We were n it connec ted
with the paper at that time, and
previous to Ingv. 1889 had done no
work on it tor two years." After
learning through the editorial col¬
umns of the Enterprise that Mr.
McConnell held some claims
agaiust The Tribune it was only
after the most persistent efforts on
our part, 1 , that we were able to
ascertain from him, the nature of
thcJ claim. Most white men hokl-
ing an .account agairis The Tri ¬
bune would have presented it to
me in-toad of advertising it tlnough
the editorial columns of a newspa-
per. But if The Tribune did owe
Hr. McConnell for $0 worth of ma¬
terial now in the office, what lias
that to do with the issue between
us ?
We give below some statements
made in recent issues of the
Carnesville Enterprise:
In Mr. McConnell's explanation
published in the Enterprise of
April 3rd regarding the awarding
of the public printing, he says
that sympathetic appeals were made
in behalf of The Tribune because
its editor is a woman, etc, and
“The goddess of Justice unfolded her banner
over The Thihuxe and the Enterprise sank in¬
to sack-cloth and a* lies, and by a vote of 12 to
9 charity and sympathy had wsn.”
“The truth is, those who made sympathetic
appeals in behalf ol The Tbibun'e were not
sincere, but did it for sinster purposes. They
have been grinding axes and have mors to
grind and know that the Enterprise is not at
their service. ’’—Enterprise, April 3rd.
* *
“We do not charge anything whatever to the
editor of Tiie Tbibune that is questionable in
this matter from any standpoint.”--Enterprise,
April 3rd.
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‘ I stated the facts about the grand
sentments jury pre¬
and this is what hurts Miss Ellen J.
Dortch,”--Enterprise, April loth.
it -Jr
“The ‘axe-grinding’is the obstacle that Miss
Dortch cannot remove, nor override, and she
insists that I turn it over. Now, If I thought
Miss Dortch did not understand this charge l
am not so unfair as to see some reason for her
demand.’ ’’--Enterprise, April seventeenth.
*
“But the leaders charged with the dishonor¬
able action know that I know who they are, and
if they think I have done them an injustice let
them show their hands, and I will give the pub¬
lic some of the most interefting reading matter
it has had for sometime, and I promise that it
wiil prove very satisfactory or very unsatisfac¬
tory to The TmiiUXE.’’--Enterprise April
seventeenth.
These statements are inconsistent
and can not be reconciled. Mr. Mc¬
Connell flatters himself that he oc¬
cupies safe ground when he says
thatquestian of corruption and axe
grinding is an issue between him
and the grand jurors. Sensible
people know that it is an issue be¬
tween the Carnesyille Enterprise
and The Carnesville Tribune,
in which of course, the jurors are
implicated. And sensible people
wonder why a brave man like Mr
McConnell does not speak out and
tell .what he knows. He has spared
nobody and nothing heretofore.
He has even dragged my father’s
debts into the issue.
Now Mr. McConnell may Bold
up other debts of my father and
debts of The Tribune— for we do
owe some though not much and
nothing to him, and our debts will
be Honorably discharged as soon as
honest work can do it—but he can
not hide from fair-minded men and
women that he is a cowardly falsi¬
fier.
He may publish whatever he
thinks may be unpleasant an i humil
atiag to me, but ha cau not answer
argument iu that way, neither can
he cover up the fact that lie has
made a cowardly and falsifying
charge which he can not, and will
not dare endeavor to substantiate.
“Of Liberty Born of a Patriot’s
Dream”
it* day, wiil
iio*tm the!«.«,«., The fresh
f Sf > in 5 - ili h© placed hv
* iir bauds above
uie sa.ertd monies of
°“ r de4, ! lIeS8 dead * ^ hile pat iotisai
abides , vri'.h u«, we will liunor u mem
it
. ,, , r , ,
a,l -h each rcfcutiiing spring time ve will
aruia ^ *heir graves with our lilns'
Court-Room Reminiscences,
They had in Texas just before the
war a Judge Morris on the bench.
He W3-3 an able jurist, and very few
of his decisions were ever reversed
by the Supreme court. Hut he
always cccentiic, often humorous,
and sometimes strange in his de¬
portment on the bench. There was
one thing noticeable about him in
every important case that was tried
before him. After the case had
fairly „ started, he would seem to
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pick 1 him out a , knot m the ceiling or
crack , the , plastenng, , and , sot
a m 1
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his . . steadily ... , while , ,
eyes upon mat, : e
would twirl his thumbs one over the
other, as if paying no attention to
what was going on in the court-room.
But he Was all the while devoting his
mind to what was going on, as the
lawyers to their chagrin frequently
found out. He seemed to delight in
sawing a lawyer off, but always in a
quiet and good-humored way. We
will give our readers one or two m*
stances, from which any number
of similar ones may be imagined.
In one of the towns of Judge Mor
ris’s circuit, there lived a man by the
name of Simpson. lie vas always
called “Judge Simpson,” because for
years he had bfcen county judge
hi* county, which office at that time
in Texas paid well. Well, m the
course of events the people got tired
of Judge Simpson and decided to let
him step down and out They did so
by electing another man to his place.
Judge Simpson, ex officio, knew
some law, indeed he had been an ex¬
cellent county judge, and now he
concluded to go into the practice.
So he studied awhile with one of the
law firms in the village, was easily ad
united to the bar, and was ready for
the sand and saw dust of the arena.
His friends told him that,.in order t<*
bring himself into notice as an ad vo¬
cate, he would better voiuuteer in
some important case. Well, not long
afterward# some poor fellow had the
bad luck one day to kill another fel¬
low, and Judge Simpson volunteered
to help prosecute. it was never
clearly known why Le volunteered
against the accused bat it was sn r -
pooed that at some time or other they
had been at outs. Time rolled on,
assize week came and the nuuder
ease was tried. Of course it had
been fixed up with the District At¬
torney ( vhat we call {Solicitor) and
Judge Simpson for the latter o
make a speech. And he did. He
spoke Aviih virn and lung force.
Simpson was a elever and sensible
man, but this was a new field to him
and his speech was a good deal in
the style of Sergeant Buzfuz . in the
celebrated trial of Airs. Bardeli
against Mr. Pickwick in Dickens’
great novel. Judge Simpson would
march up to the jury and march
back and tell them what they
do with this bluod-dyed rascal who
had taken the life of a fellow
with malice prepense and in the
peace of the State. “Gentlemen of
the jury,” said he, “the law says
wlioso skeddeth man’s bisod by
man shall his blood be shed !” Here
Judge Morris took his bright dark
eyes off the speck on the ceiling and
fixed it severely on the speaker with
these words: “Just stop
litre, Judge Simpson. The legisla¬
ture of Texas has passed a great
many laws, some of them wise ones
and some of them very foolish ones,
But the legislature of Texas never
did jrass any such such law, as who¬
so skeddeth man’s blood by man
shall his blood be shed ! I shall rule
o*t j our law, but go on with your
argument, Judge Simpson.” Every¬
body laughed, Judge Simpson
wilted, and the presiding judge
placed his eye serenely on the ceil¬
ing again
Morgan II. Looney.
(To be continued.)
Prof. Looney’s Lecture.
On last Saturday morning* Prof.
Looney delivered a lecture before a
lasge and apyrecialive audience, to
his composition class. Subject:
“The Influence <;f the Living on the
Dead.” After explaining the ob¬
ject of his lecture and method of
teaching, be showed the duties and
obligations of lite, the mysteries of
life, the universality of attractior. or
influence: Every outside influence
enters within and becomes a part of
our being.
It Is useless for us lo say the sub¬
ject '*"■ was handled in a most insUuc-
gt.ru,»,„« and log,.*! man.
no, WctUrnt tbis the most sue-
ee. ul conecivau.e. Ifc
this : The I ro^essor lectures every
baturday morning at ton o’clock, the
elass takes notes and on the next
Saturday before the lecture read
wh it they have written. Thus what
he teaches by theory they are com-
pelled to mske a practical explana-
t-on of "
Le ,, - eaetiDo .. „ , . the .. , ,
is peans a-, tee- .
o.
his class, will they aot gather them
up ?
RsSHM^S DANVilLE S. R (
ATLANTA & GH.ARI,OTTEAIRLINE
'"DIVISION;
CONDENSED SCHEDULE OF PASSENGER
TRAINS.
I 1 efifeet March 8ih, 18)1.
NORTHBOUND. DAILY.
EASTEKX TIXE. No-13.
No. 3s No. 10.
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IFVVE g.loAM
ll loAM T.oorM
7.33PM 8 .43AM
7.45PM 3.55AM
Duluth *u 7.57 I’M S. 06 AM
Suwance S.osl’.VI 9.17 AM
Buford 82^.PM 11.31 AM
Flowery tv- r,- v. 8 241’M 9.45AM
Gainesviile 12.4oI’M 8.4oPM lo.o5AM
mia l.oorM 9.O0PM I o.32 AM
Beiiton 9.12PM I o,36AM
Cornelia 9.37PM 11.00 AM
9.42PM 11.05AM
1.5oPM lOloPM 11.35AM
WESTMINSTER lo ,53PM 12.15PM
SENECA 11.15PM 12.35PM
CENTRAL 3.o5FM !I.5oPM 1.25PM
GREERS 1.15AM 2.5oP
WELLFORD 1.31AM 3.07PM
SPARTANBURG 4.43PM 2.ooAM S.3oPM
CLIFTON 2.22AM 3.45PM
COW PENS 2.27 AM 3.5 gPM
GAFFNEYS 2.56AM 4.15PM
BLACKSBURG 3.11AM 4.33PM
GROVER .21AM 4.44PM
KINGS MOUNTAIN 3.37AM 5.02PM
GASTONIA 3.59AM 5.25PM
LOWFLL 4.10AM 6 38PM
BELLEMONT 4.19AM 5.48 PM
ARRIVE
CHAR LOTTE C 55PM 4-toAM 6.15PM
SOUTHBOTND. DAILY.
No. 37. No.ll. N'0.0
CHARLOTTE 11.46PM 1.5oPM 1 ooAM
BELLEMONT 2.14PM 1.23 AM
2 24PM 1 83AA1
2.36PM 1.45 Ail
kinos mountain 3:ooPM 2.03 AM
w 2.13AM
r. lacks burg a 2 33AM
GAFFNEYS 3.45PM 2.55AM
COW PENS 4.15PM 3.22AM
CLIFFTON 4.18PM cig6AM
ARTANBURO 1.50AM 4.33PM twlAM
WELLFORD 5 o2FM 4-otAM
GREERS 5.13PM 424AM
GREE NVILLE 2.43AM 5.46PM 4.53AM
EASLEYS 6.13PM 5,2oAM
CENTRAL 3.30 AM 7.o5PM 6 ooAM
SENECA 7.34PM 6 48 AM
WESTMINSTER 7.55PM 6.2s AM
TOCCOA 4 Mo AM 8 36PM 7.26AM
MT. AIRY 9.o9PM 8.00 A M
CORNELIA 9.14PM 8.05AM
BELTON 9.42PM 8.29 AM
LULA 5 29AM 9.45PM 8.32 AM
GAINESVILLE 5.5oAM jo.ioPM 8.57AM
LOWERY BRANCH 10.29PM 91
BUFORD lo 42PM 9 31A
SUWANEE 10 55PM 9 45AM
DULUTH 11 o 6 PM 9 57AM
NOKCROSS 1117PM 10 loAII
CHAMBLEE 11 2'PM lo 32AM
ARRIVE
A TLANTA (E. T. ) 7 2oAM 12oongt 1] ooAM
Additional trains N os 17 and 18—Lula accomo-
datiou, daily except Sunday, leaves Atlanta 6 3o
PM, arrives Lula 8 12 PM, Returning, leave®
Lula 6 15 AM,arrives Atlanta 8 5o AM.
Between Lula and Athens—No, 11 daily, except
lo Sunday, 4o AM, and arrive No. 9 Athens daily, leave Lula 9 5o PM, and
114o PM, and 12 3o PM,
Sunday, Returning and leave No. Athens, daily, No. lo daily, and except AM
12 J j O I’M, 6 So
arrive Lula 9oo PM and 8 2oAM. 8£
Between Tocooa andEIberton—Nos. 61 and @3
daily AM, except arrive Sunday, leave Toccoa 11 45 AM, atfft
4 oo Elberton 3 35 PM, and 8 45 AM
Toccoa 7 J O PM and 7 oo AM
Nos 11 and 12 carry Pullman Sleepers! between
Washington Sleeper between and Atlanta,*and Nos 9 and 10 Pull
nun Atlanta and New York.
jjJNos 37 and 38 Washington and Southwestern
Vestibuled Limited, between >. fclanta and Wash
ngton. On this train an extra fare is charged
on first'class ticket*'only.
For detailed information J as to local an
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep-
ng-car reservations confer with (local agents, or
address
AS. L. TAYLOR, L. L, McLESKY,
Gen .passAg’t, Division Pass Ag+y
Washington, D C Atlanta, * Ga
Miami university, fa fhe ffirtlo vilfegu
of Oxford, G., £c«Yd tvro uistfn^nished
men to the present afimiirisfcratioo, ope
being President Harrison Mmsel& Tha
©Gmr ia Minister Whitclaw field.
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It Is Hard to Waste It.
Some advertisers nave an idea that
j only copies going to paid up subscriber#
I are useful to them. This is not quit© so.
®' or expimple, suppose a journal has 25,-
| 000 actual subscribers to whom the
paper goes regularly. Suppose it prints
5,000 extra copies a week, which are sent
as specimens to good parties, whose ad¬
dresses are supplied by its agents and
readers, and mails 5,000 one week to one
set of persons, tho next week to another
set of 5,000 and so on. In this way 200,-
000 extra persons are reached during the
year, while if the extra 5,000 were sent
every weak to 5,000 paying subscribers
i only that number could bo reached. In
' the former case 285,000 persons are
reached. In the latter case only 30,000
all told. A persoa receiving a copy of a
j j journal frith, request which, he to examine lias not it, seen will usually before,
a
I look all through it, advertisements and
alL Such a course is as useful to the
yearly advertiser as if his card were sent
to the whole 285*000 persons, or even
more so, for his single loose card receive#
far less attention than would be found
in the columns of a reputable journal.
—Orange Judd Fanner.
The Art of Advertising:.
Advertisrn'j seems to be an art yet to
be discovered by seen© people. That
is, the practical part of it. A con¬
stant stream of water from one or more
fire engines will soon extinguish or get
under control a very large fire, while a
fow buckets cf water, dashed on bore
and there, have little or no effect. Tha
modem fire department is practical, and
has outgrown the old bucket system;
and so with modem advertising—plenty
,
of *•. ^ ^ & practical, common sense I
“hrShin-W o,
fish y oa a certain kind of bait; not
all fish bite -it all kinds of bait. Not all
people respond to every advertisement,
The newspaper is a medium iudispen-
sable to the majority of advertLsei*, be-
cause cf it3 wide and repeating-circula-
tkm. As a promoter of trade and profit
newspaper advertising is no longer an
°P practical en L 41T l estl and °? ; intelligent . t ^. mann doa er, ® ia and *
pays because of its effective *,jss and
cheapness..--Beatrice (Neb.) Democrat,
Eoy=i_A.3sri5:3L.I3Sr
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SPRINGS I
Natures remedy
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Dyspepsia, fndgestiOn,
Skin Diseases • •,V*
ABN ALL
KIDNEY Affections,
■CO]- r.i
WHY YOU SHOULD GO TO ,
FRANKLIN SPRINGS!
BECAUSE FOB HEALTH AND RECREATION IT HAS NO EQUAL. V
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WHY YOU SHOULD GO TO
FRANKLIN SPRINGS 1
Because it. is no pdddle hole like a gieat many springs at summer resorts, but the best water m h
United States sa
WHY You Slioacl GS-o To <
FBAnKLIn spfings
it is two m’les from Royston on the E. A. L.*RR- wheie you aae fr eejfrom’all durt, nnekaand >
WHY XOU SHOULD GO TO
FRANKLIN SPRINGS !
Becauee it is equal lo anv mountain or seaside resrt for ciolness, being in a monntainois cwnfery
free from mosquitoes and malaria, and surrounded by thousands of acres of natural foreit where
you get a Iresh atmosrffiere. A * f '/ .
Why You Should Goto
FRANKLIN SPRINGS!
Btciuse board from $20 to $25 month at U e ‘ i
you can get per
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which is lower than any other first2class house. Conveyances from the railroad to the springs and
no railroad has a more efficient and acocuiodating set of offiials than the E. A. L. R. R.
WHY YOU SHOULD GO TO FRANKLIN SPRINGS !
Because U.e SPRINGVIEW HOTEL is t! e place to stop* at. Telegraph Office in Hotel, dti^
mails, first-class hacks fcq*n Roys ion t> springs, and first-class railroad facilities. Address
SPRINGVIEW HOTEL, ROYSTON, GA. +.
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