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FRIDAY. AUGUST 10.1877.
PIASSVLVASIA VH. CIXIBCIA.
The billowing is an article, which aj>
peared editorially in The Jtortk Amcri
*nn (a ]nper published In Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania; of the .‘10th ultimo :
TOO TATEHXAL BY HALF.
and om-'again** dtwwition in the State
of (ieorgia, “to do tlie fair thing” by the
«olon*fl or some fellow has
lying for the belt and will win. Will
to zti&T,z£sx*i?'£>2 till. Convention called to rehabilitate
the Constitution there happens to have
been no colored candidates, or at least
none elected if any there were. Now we
should siiwwse that a people in earnest
ationt doing the fair thing by any clw*
of citizens would take counsel with some
of (he more prominent members of that
SS
to succumb to the weakness of human
nature in that respect. They have con
, ...... the th ‘" B , m the _ A truly , pa
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ternat style.
tVell, every friend of the jio.ople ought
to regret it. If I be Georgians mean to
do well by the colored man they cannot
^m..mJ r-quallty , o..,r can 0 ,T!vi^"' only be realized 1 ., : V"l t where v. , ’" 1U l? the 1
strong extend u hand to the weak, and
the wise teach wisdom by consenting to
act with, aa well as for, the ignorant and
inexperienced. No man lias ever StlC
K?^cli tlie 1 ‘KSifyl;tlSfS
intcroHtn of that clans, and by teach*
iiig the more teachable of the class how
to help themselves.
T he colored people of Georgia are no
doubt practically out of the business of
Constitution making, and by the action
of 01 the me whites. Willies. True, 1 rue the me whites Willies declare Iieelare
that they arc going to do the fair thing
paternal protectorate over the colored^
Georgian, aa is common enough in ca»
tern Euro,*• and Asian affairs. But we
cuts-,rp'dcna'd^na'rnmH.is from soS
ern people. If the Federsl government
errs In being paternal, what are the
white Georgians doing ? We place but
a trifling value upon the promise of any
people to do for another people what the
latter are soon or lato Ixuind to do for
themselves. I lie gravest error of all is
“ 5 rf»"T»S impossibii
scribal class at all. It is an
ity; for when that happens the govern
mi nt Is no more one by consent.
petent to engage In the
making business as a high average of the
intelligent class of whites. This can
colored men—taken up and elected to sit
in that Convention ’< We submit it to
Die very conservative imople hereabout
whether it would not have been a little
better hml some tiling of that sort hap
pened. will Jt may Is* that the rights of the
race not suffer abridgment Is-eause
the rare is excluded from a part in the
!ng so m'ueh'beforehnlid,*it** wjuW* hSfe
been n oreat deal mure formality'‘of renum.rii.o
most people l,ml the invit
ing a few negroes to sit and act in the
Convention lieen observed.
good might accrue to the race would ^
held as an act of great magnanimity to
ward a people who have more to forgive
than any people on the globe.
\\ e republish the abovo article in full
for the purpose of making a brief com
ment on it.
Now let im see what is tlm burthen of
complaint that comes to us, and against
the inoplo of Georgia, from a citizen of
the State of Pennsylvania, In that
article. It is simply this: That the
people of Georgia in the exercise of
their sovereign right in selecting dele
gales to a Convention to meet for the
purpose of making a Constitution for
the State of Georgia did not exercise
that l ight as the citizen of Pennsylvania
would have had them do. In this that
they did not select any colored dele
gates, or in other words that they eon
fined that selection lo tlie men of tlieir
choice. And on account of the failure
to select some colored delegates to the
Convention, the writer of this article
despairs of there lmlng any disposition
on the part of the people of Georgia “to
do the fair thing by the colored people”;
and says “some fellow,” who has been
holding out this idea will win tlie belt
for lying. Whether voluntarily or not,
the laws of Georgia, organic, as well as
statutory, have granted citizenship to
the cob red people ; but we do not un¬
dent sod that that grant interferes with
the right of every citizen in voting .at an
election to vote the ticket of his choice.
That is what the people of Georgia did
at the election for delegates to the Con¬
vention. Nor do we understand that
because a citizen, or class of citizens, are
not selected for office that they will be
denied any of their rights. Tlie Con¬
stitution when made will effect all the
citterns of the State alike the wlrfte in
the same manner as th# colored people.
The law for one is the law for all. We
have heard < f no colored candidates for
tlie <\m vent ion. They had a right to
offi r for it if they desired to do so ; and
as they did not, and the people of Geor
gia did not deem their counsel necessary
in the Convention in order that “the
fair t iling ' Aigtot be done, and a good
Constitution made for all the citizens of
the State, we cannot conceive how it is
many way a matter of ecmwru to a
citizen of Pennsylvania. We would say
to this inhabitant -A the hunt of Molly
Maguires, strike* Ac . attend to > oWr
own State affairs, and' w>e if yo»v have
ing enough !;, do to regulate them to
infuse courage into your cowardly
militia that ran from Pittsburg—and l*t
Georgia alone. Georgia ia a sovereign
State, and lias the same rights, securer!
in the same way. to regulate her local
affairs that Penmdyvania has. if not
may she well say
E’er “Why planted »a, an independent wish
in my tuind?''
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Was IT A I'OSV'KSTIOS <>■ .% n;c;l>—
UTURE1
ticm aiid U*e selection of such known
and admitted statesmen as Toombs,
,,enki "*> R***e, Lawton, Lewis, Pierce
and many otberdtatinguisbed Georgians,
(before even the “obituary” notices
appeared in pamphlet). We did not feel
victory, for this we already possessed.
Objectionable obsequiousness to Federal
power almost inviting consolidation, and
a a «anamg t anding bid m-i for ror bribery on retry anucorrup- and comm
tion in the shape of six millions of
fraudulent Bonds, urgently required at
tention by a Convention Gubernatorial
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tion.
But alas’ alas! And Sclah, wl.at do
our eyes behold. A mass meeting, with
f Vcry otber n * an s pocket full of resolu
tions and ordinances, and hundreds of
old old dull dull axes axes to to be be isdnted. jiointcd, ground irround and and
up-set. Instead of the known and tried
statesmen, . , whom . tlio .. whole . . people .
! rejoiced to see in the Convention
being recognized as the » controling controling spir spir
it», ^'nlith’a”"(not" the unknown ciur fteapasseas, Clmrlie),*Monaeliea] Holcombes,
mnlaiV/i, with l'liarasccic countenances,
seems to control every vote, and amend,
the report of the advisory committees, of
twenty-one select, wise men, with ira
P«nitv, and at pleasure.
We ne think lllillk this this wise-in-thcir-own-con
re it (hiss of small frv eross mid noliii
to defeat all the ^>o<I the wisest can
insert
Schemes personal or nartizm "the seems to
tion, »f «>ntrolling and large the majority action of Conven
a seems never
to have comprehended the wise counsel
- 18 'rnerable ,,, 1 resident. Me want .
- vour name to give currency toour action,
but your experience and sense we can
dispense with until our axes aio ground,
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f,ur I ,po l ,lc will accept instruction,
butnot from the Itespasses and IIol
con,lies. Honest reform does not mean
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bun *> ,,or can il menn exclusion from
public position of talent and worth, and
substituting therefor official imbecility
thimt tar Office, uncompensated
** a’timaie rewards, it omce is mil,, uc
sired as Indians or pigeons covet looking
glasses, to pander to personal vanity,
iUI ,j reilcet tlieir beautiful feathers, ’ what
,,m >' " p cx «' ect . f,om , Dieir ... occupants „ ?
If the devices of knaves are being im
proved by false keys, dies, forgeries and
w " y
the profession of every pretender be
a ise improved, until metals cannot be
detected unless tested in the fire. Some
jiersons do not believe in hell, because
the quantity of brimstone necessary
to "m the lire, yet if every man carries
bis own brimstone, smeil. you can easily detect
them by their So it is by the
demagogue politician, always pander
ing to the ignorance and vices of tlie
vicious, his position is easily assigned;
never rising to the dignity of asserting n
principle or essential truth. The truth
in its greatest elegance is pure and sim
pie, and thus it should be communicated,
as nine men in ten, are or should be
struggling for subsistence, and to benefit
hy his labor Ids fellows,
They cannot lie thinkers for want of
time and fatigues. Severe mental labor
is not in accord with our natural indo
lence, and unless it pays to think we ae
rept thoughts as coined by others. If
we adopt either as our coin, eminating
from the crucible of deep thought, well
saturated with the purest patriotism,
would you accept Jenkins or Holcombe,
Toombs or Resspass, Reese or Smith,
Lawton or Mouseley? Let the jxxiple
of Georgia decide, not that it is the work
of her Convention and her wise states
men, but the work of Pharaseeical ax
grinders, many of them seeking to till
places above tins* which they now dis-
grace.
If tlie people of Georgia cannot trust
her chosen representatives to make her
laws what virtue can there bo in )>er
sons seeking higher promotion by pan¬
dering to the vices of the ignorant, in
i b'ad of elevating our humanity to one
common brotherhood V
We shall hope on, even against expeo
tation, and the proper time fearlessly '
ami independently , , „ present . our views . es
peetallv of that j>oii ion of the work that
'»!*'" I*w W o» cmmarn*
buildvrs.
[Communicated. ]
Bethany High School.
On the 30th ult, we had the pleasure
of attending tlie public exercises of this
school. The examination of the differ
cut classes very clearly demonstrated
the faet. that I’rof. Sinqison discharged
Ids duties ably and faithfully. Misses
Mattie Taylor, Xornie, and Mattie
Rhodes evinced thoronghness in all their
studies. The undaunted Master Frank
Rhodes, who “goes by whats m the
book,** was not to bepuzzled by Maj.
Smith's rigid questions. The little boys
and girls passed through their exaiuina
tions creditably to tbenwelves and teach¬
or. At 2p. in. Capt John C. Hurt of
Union Point made a short an^i -loquent
address to the School. Oapt II. is a
great advocate for educa ting «» - ung.
Speeches were also made by Co’. W. W.
Lumpkin and Prof. W. *. I gynolds.
Col. L. “was not prepared" to make a
speech, and didn’fknov,- what o say.”
But he “thought the people of Georgia
had progressed; not upward., rot for
wards, but backwards."’ •*T' ladies”
i.'«<«, But the
^ a ^ now the lur S"* -st men
be « Ver “»•*’ And al1 *••••» they
,,a '| I *rogn ssed. ! Seme in the
audience thought the <> .'onj id “pro
^ ress# ’ , J *°°* 1 Prof. 1. i;i *.is quiet
Christian manner, proved to the people
«nil.l leave their child rut The exer
cises were then closed till By. m. Peo
pie were coming in all t lie evening. By
the time old Sol withdrew I,.a scorch
n»g *»y* behind the the went, westm ^ r .nils, ■ ore n.,iie quite
a ,ar £ ft crowd had asaeml-d on the
memorable gftunda of B^hany. The
.u-****
o’clock, when the crowd tu^emn like a
avalanche. Oldv a*n, liabies
and dogs “didn’t have mu showing. ”
But after all were seate. everything
Mas T u ' td a,,d g°°d bebavirj, during the
" hole excrei.sf-s. Music, seeches, coro
I’ositions and charades tiffed the
g vramm* ramnM ‘. The T,,e “Git«v Gipsy Chufitcaa” rw.....te M ” hv hy
Mr. Frank Taylor and Mia»Ella id Rhodes
receive! much applause, was very
pni^^^oithy. When tl*« Dancing
Dutchman” appeared on tto stage, the
^"°* e “ ouse roare( ^ "ith laughter. The
gentleman seemed t# have India
rubber springs under his No. 10 shoes,
so high did he jump. The young man
on Womans *»«■•»•» Rights,desenMf Av.gn«,ueservepmucn much credit creuu
for * ,IS K » 00 ® be ‘ ,av ^ or - AHhough «»U"U*U mwe inter
r opted several times bv applauses, he
done. Misses Rhodes untr Smith <iC”
quitted themselves well hi the music
To “W tlie least, fcwg will the
exhibition at ^ethary b” temem
by those present. ^ \ isitor.
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CA r~^ a w N t E 1—' MILLS TV ATT T O
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flco .Lombari&Co.,
FOXIEST CITl FQ^XIDav* tststf
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AUGUSTA, _ GEORGIA,
We use Wrought Iron Journals in our
Rollers.
W Send for Circular and Prices.
m*y25.l877-j-y.
TlnTTr *Nv'W TTurVinn jJa,rU vC wiiOp. QVins-i
has I )’>CK JONES tate of Kodhsl ostw Circle, Ga
opened a Barbershop Henry Wii
si!"unino."})!’,: Hab'amt'" ffits'fn"the
best style of the art. Bair cutting a Special
'> • Call on. DOCK JONES.
T NOTICE.
FOREWARN and forbid any and all
persona trespassing whomsoever, from hunting, fishing,
or upon my lands in any way or
manner whatsoever, t will prosecute any
and all trespassers to the extent of the law.
i will make a special contract for pasturing
stock, but in alt cases where no contract (in
cents writing) each is made, day I will charge twenty-five
per for all Horses, Mules,
Cattle aud Hogs running in my enclosure.
August 8, 1877. JAS. H. FLYNT.
CRAMPTON’S
IMPERIAL SOAP *
Is the Best!!
Crompton's Imperial Soap is the Best.
Crompton's Crompton's Imperial Imperial Soap is the Best.
Crumpton's Imperial Soap is the Best.
Crumpton's Imperial Soap Soap is is the the Best, Best,
Crampton’s Im perialjjoap is the Best
Crompton's Imperial Soap is the Best.
Crampton’s Crompton's Imperial Soap is the Best.
Crampton’s Imperial Imperial Soap Soap Is the Best
is the Best.
This Soap is manufactured from pure ma¬
terials, ami as it contains a large per¬
centage of Vegetable Oil, is war¬
ranted fully equal to the best
imported Castile Soap, and
at the same time possess¬
es all the washing
and cleansing
properties the of
cele¬
brated (ter¬
mini and Preach
is foundry therefore Soaps'. It
recommen¬
ded for use in the Laundry,
Kitchen and Bath-room and for
general household purposes; also
Printers, Painters, Engineers and Ma¬
chinists, as it will remove spots of luk.
grease, tar, oil, paint from the hands.
:Os
The Huntingdon Pennsylvania Monitor of
April 6th, is;7, pronounces this soap the
best in the market as follows:
K oa(Icr , „e don't want you ami to suppose that
this is an advertisement," «ai33f3 pass it over
^PSWS?VV -t'rompion's Imperial ^oap." r Having used
it in our office for the part year, we can re
commend it as the best quality of soap in
use. It is a rare thing to get "a Soap that
»h* wilt hands, thoroughly also cleans* from printing ink Cramp- from
as linen ; bat
laundry soap vvdl do it and we know
chinists, printers^painters it will 'enjrinecrs'aiul of all ma- de
as remove grease
wRll^fitOc "atMir 1 ^^For* general 1 ffiiu^'hohi
purposes it cannot be excelled,
o:
Manufactured oiriv by
champton brothers,
.A*-'. D Ie ’-n Hilledgeviiie onlv by C.
by Dr II. S. Miritb. Druggist; Richards A
Legwsn, Tucker A Stewart, Stewart A llris
stephens^and .C~\\TUamsA U ' ^
D. Svm.
.« ' For Sale also by J. M. Laoy A Co.,
of Taliaferro county ,' v <; (H). ». How¬
ard. at Barnett. Ga?
jnnel-t-v
>EW
25 FANCY CARDS all new styles with
Xassau. name, JOe. pet Xew paid. York. J. B. Husted,
Kens Co.,
Revolver and ( artfidSCS for $3.
revolver;aBrswkssartide A fine riiekie-plsted, seven-shot, pocket D It.
revolver ; a first-elass article. VdiC SentC. O. O.
ou receipt of price. P ‘
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Water-Wheel
m^s^TibF^^t^rk^e
duced. HAM, York, New pamphlet, ftee. X. F. BURS-
1-a.
n»S?K.££t.rii b
JftMgSrY SsH£
•^’^SZJn'gjKS^rwr.i. Ttm State
TMP«»10|, sump#"
WuMimX l. A. nU
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totwt
Wltl a Coia 18 a h F i ! DANGEROUS. « . wmcwt-o
T
Wells Carbolic Tablets.
a sure r.-medy for ( oughs and all cliseases
lb "“ “*
PUT UP ONLY IX BLUE BOXES.
Sold by all Druggists.
C. X. CRITEXTOX, 7 Sixth Avenue , Xew
York.
(JJenn’s Sulphur 1 1 Soai).
_ Thoroughly . Cures . Diseases of the Skin,
Beautifies the Complexion, Prevents and
r a ^ fcd,P '?asS"o?\b"'Cutiele^and Counle^
acts contagion. SOLD
BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Prices— ...... 25 Cents per Cake ;Box (3 Cakes)
70 Cents,
X. v B.—Sent 11 by Mail, prepaid, on receipt
c. ^X^ CRITTENTOX, Prop’r., 7 Sixth
Avenue, N. Y.
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nmp Wh will during these
A --------- tinriikl ur ----— r Lit -Dard -Iiitiu times umca uispuse dispose of 01
n ^ w j® ,,<1 swond-haml
and Organs (including their new Souvenir
“! l< * Boudoir) are the best made. 7 Octave
£*<>}»*£, Lra «a>"’ 7 Si
•» '° *ff *£; ” ^P*
and y n rt
warranted. Local and traveling agents
wanted. Hlustrarcd Catalogues Mailed. A
i Churches, ,ber »* discount Hi- sheet to music, Teachers,' at half Ministers, price.
HORACE WATEKS&SONS, Manufacture
eaer8 ‘ ’’ » t., Union Sfjuare,
Mrs. A. E. Shields
WILL open school for Girls and small
Boys on the first Monday in September, in
the Millinery building next door east of Mrs. Asian's
Store. She proposes to teach for
three months during the-Autumn and will
givm her patrons the benefit of the “School
SCHOOL *, l!p will and also has reduced continue her her rates MUSIC to
r month—giving S3
day pe five one lesson per school
or per week.
»upvvwlk4 o « .
NOTICE.
Tr RS. EMMA I! BEAZLF.Y, will open
a School for sniail children at her Iiousc, III!
I lie 1st Monday in August. She will teach
three months, and give the patrons the
benefit of tlie free school fund.
julyl3-n-w
Due Legal ° UotlCe.
\\ ’) r E, the undersigned, forewarn and for¬
bid . any and all persons whomsoever, from
hunting, fishing, or trespassing upon our
lands in any manner whatsoever, or any
lands we control, and will prosecute any
and all trespassers to the extent of tlie law.
L. ACBEE,
It. T. EDGE,
JESSE FOKTWOOD,
R. n. PORT WOOD,
TITUS RICHARDS,
MRS. MILDRED BIRD,
Dr. S. H. PERKINS,
THOS. J. STEWART,
ROBERT GUNN,
Dr. R. J. REID,
Wm. REID,
ALLEN JANES.
11. T. RHODES.
Mrs. MARY EDWARDS*
Mai. W. H. CHAPMAN
BEX. R. RE1I).
' J. It. REYNOLDS.
MRS. E. LYLE.
mav25-h-m JAS, II. FLYNT.
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Sold by A. K. C HILDS & Co., Athens, Georgia^
RICHARDS 77 A LEGWIH, Agents, Crawfordville, Ga.
mar- 3 -’ -b-m “
SOUTHERN
Calendar Clock Company,
rmi r rr> rr, nawraevnJJk Ga - April 1877.
f locks ssstfssajtt are desirous that our friends and the public should know how we appreciate th?
gentlemen Sl2^^^J^Ssr*Uafi«in.SSk£ as vour agents. \ our One Price System we appreciate amiwp w»fi SsS r < * e *™**
* owl ««"■■ eWbeie aa yon hare bad in our county. * ’ > ou •»
j Q Ellis. Joiner, Judged R Holmes, "Vi^H DuF&e, _ John Rutherford
II ’ Wrtt^T*7 avlor J LDown*, ’
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B W Judge, JTBorum * WJ Johnson 5 Ic ^ arth y»
ENGlocier, W Tarver, Wm£« wrr rf0ri1,
B Mrs Fannie Jones,
'/n 1 nVTV J H Summerford, ssxsssr" Isiah Smith, ss. Stwalf ‘ ”
w ,> ' V V J INoblin S B
it w', V-h-i n'*’ KB Petty,’
SH Lewis,’ Wm Short, ’ A J Lockerman ’ JohnlMniHi Bffft-? 6 *'
ES Griffin, WD Coley, Bohr Reagan, wX wl’
Duncan Me Eat hen, J C Shannon, T 7. Ennis, ’
JW I AU- Alien, a !? HYHalcom, £ e u-‘lr? n tilocier J F W M Jones, Means, N Vincent v J ’
e ' ' S H Bov ton
« HC Watters, h B Thonipson, rII. Da Jl ,e U J C Fuftington,
Stephen Jones, H film B Felder, SSS, R T WiUUms 8 ’ ii™ if 4^ 1 ;" S ° lomon -
iS,K£,». J » S *“ ,s ' S&te-ur. H '
STATE OF GEORGIA— Pulaski County.
miiatile 1Umbel ° f ^ fore K" ia 8 MBl^^ersonsT^nd am tLr^ey^e
KS,‘jTl.tT.K “ in o! T ”‘ K ' n "i" S3- “7 wlicol!
Witness my hand and seal of office this April 12, 1877. P. T. McGRIFF,
Ordinary.
What the People say of the Calendar Clocks.
B E, the undersigned citizens Stewart County, > r
of having so 3 oi tune ago bouciit of
one of the agents of Southern Calendar Clock Co., one of their handsome Clocks Fashion
take pleasure in saying to our neighbors and friends, that our utmost conceptions ‘ of
perfect time keeper and perpetual Calendar are fully realized in niece a
mechanism. 1 much be said tlieir favor, thin wonderful of
00 cannot in and we advise all who are able to
do so, to avail the opportunity now afforded to purchase one.
JBSaville, W 11 House Cpt .1 N McMichael, John Johnston, Mrs X A If older
GW Kenyon, Dr J K Barnum, Cpt EW Spooner
Mrs M L Ball, J Y Stanford, John Brown. Swift Crunihlv ’
Thos T L House, JL Joiner, GWArd.TC, John Yarbrough.
STATE OF GEORGIA— Stewart County.
I, J. B. Latimer, Ordinary of said county, (lo certify that the foregoing list contains
tiie respectable citizens of Stewart county. They are men of varacity and their statu
ments are entitled to full credit. Witness my official signature and seal; this 25th dav of
.«£. m J. LATIMER,
500 PAIRS GENTLEMEN'S
SUMM11 SHOES
v alue $2,000.
PRICES FROM $1.75 TO $5.50.
PETER KEENAN, '
AXD OF AUGUSTA, GA.,
has now on hand, and for sale, a supply of GENTS’ SHOES, that cannot bo excelled by
any house in the SOUTHERN STATES. He invites tlie people oft
TALIAFERRO CO UNTY,
ALL WHO READ
THE DEMOCRAT,
to call, or send their orders, to his house, where they will be honestly and fairly dealt
with, lie repudiates “SHODDY" with which the market is filled, and keeps nothing
hut work made up to his own order and directions.
of Every months article sold purchase. will be faithfully represented, and taken back or exchanged inside-
3 after The Stock of
Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Shoes,
s full Come to overflowing, and buy of SHOES the latest styles and colors.
your where you will he HONORABLY and FAIRLY” dealt
witli.
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and STICTLY FAIR DEALING is still the rule of the HOUSE.
PETER KEENAN,
june-l-h-m eatral Hotel Block, Augusta, Ga.
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