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CRAWFORDYILLE ••• DEMOCRAT.
Volume 7.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
the Supreme court de¬
clares THE BILL TO BE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
A RADICAL RELIC RUBBED OUT—SPE¬
CIAL RIGHTS you NONE BUT EQUAL
RIGHTS FOR ALL —A TRIUMPH OF
LAW AND SENSE WHICH STRENGTH¬
ENS THE DECREE THAT THE REPUB¬
LICANS MCST GO.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
Washington, October 15.—The
most important decision rendered by
the Supreme court of the Uuited Stales
to-day, was that in the five cases, com¬
monly known as the civil rights cases,
which were submitted to the court on
printed arguments about a year ago.
The titles of these cases, and the states
from which they came are as follows :
No. 1. The United States against Murray
Stanley, from the United States circuit
court for the district of Kansas.
No. 2. The United States against Mich¬
ael Kyan from the United States circuit
court for the district of California
No. 3, The United States against Samuel circuit
Nichols, from the United States
court for the western district of Missouri.
No. 20. The United States against Sam¬
uel D. Singleton, from the United States
circuit court, from the Southern district of
* York Robinson and wife
No. 2*. Richard A. and Charleston rail¬
against the Memphis the L mted States cir.
road company, from
cuit court for the district of lennesee.
These cases were all based on the first
and second sections of the civil rights
act of 1875, aud were respectively pros¬
ecutions under that act for not admit¬
ting certain colored persons to equal
accommodations aud privileges in inns
or hotels, iu railroad cars and in theat
res.
the defence set up.
Thu defence set up iu every ease was
the alleged uncunstituti omilitv or the
law. The first aud second sections of
tiie act, which were the parts directly
iu controversy, are as follows :
Seciiou 1. That all persons within
the jurisdiction of tne United btates
shall tie entitled to the full and equal
eu'oyineiit of accommodations; advai.
tages facilities aud privileges of inns,
* land and water,
punlic conveyances on
theatres, aud other places ot public
amusements, subject only to to the con¬
ditions and limitations established by
law, aud applicable- alike to citizens of
every race and color, regardless Servitude. of any
previous l. conditions of
provides _________
Seceiid section that any a>er
---v forfeit of five hundred 4'#
liable to a be recovered
dollars for each offence, to
iu civil actions, and also to a penalty of
from five hundred to one thousand dol¬
lars fine, or imprisonment from thirty
days to one year,to be enforced in crim¬
inal prosecution. Extensive jurisdic¬
tion is given to the district and circuit
courts of the United States in the cases
arising under this law. Tiie rights and
privileges claimed by and deuied to col¬
ored persons in these cases were full
and equal accommodations ia hotels,
in ladies’ cars on railroads, and in tiie
dress circles in theatres.
THE HOLDI > Q OF TIIE COURT.
The court in a long and cafefully pre¬
pared opinion by Justice Bradley, holds
1st_Teat congress had no constitu
al authority to pass the sections in
question under either tiie lJtii oi 14th
amendment of tiie constitution , 2d.
££SrS:Ld a onT.S' prohibi- t ^
suectine which the states are
faws led from do“g making certain or enforcing certain
or acts, but is cor
rective legislation necessary or proper
for counteracting and redressing the
effect of such laws or acts. That in
forbidding the states, for example, to
deprive any person of life, liberty or
property, without due process of law,
and giving congress power to enforce
prohibition, it was not intended to give
congress power to provide due process
of law for the protection of life, liberty
•tnd property, which would embrace al
most all subjects of legislation, tut to
provide modes of redress for
acting the operation and effect of state
laws obnoxious to prohibition. Third,
that the 13th amendment gives no pow
er to congress to pass section referred,
because that amendment relates ouly
to slavery and involuntary servitude
which it abolishes, and gives congress
power to pass laws for its enforcement;
that tiiis power only extends to the sub
iect matter of the amendment itselt,
namely : slavery and involuntary serv
Rude; and the necessary incident aud
consequences of these conditioi s, a.
it has nothing to do with different races
or colors, but only refere to y ’
the legal equality of the differe
and classes of citizens being p ei
for in the fourteenth ameBdraeut,
which prohibits the states n g
anything to interfere with such equa
ty ; that it is no infringement i
thirteenth amendment to refuse ^
person the equal accommodations, and
privilege of an inn or P 1 **®® P
entertainment, bowe y
lative of his legal rights, that t
poses upon him no badge of Slav _y
involuntary servitud ,
cti ™ r „ on
some part of sabj e incidental
to aDOtber and hold
thereto, such , as inability .to prop
erty.to court, etc., makeMnt^tMo and ° taiM^in f
civil rights act, which a . , ihpl tlf . 9e
incapacRies might be oUp P ort8 ^
13th amendment It does n °L tu
fore, follow that the act of 18.o can M
SSS&S onl/tS? vIlTd'S 0 ^ tte
GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 1883.
law in the states, not in the territories
or the district of Columbia, where the
lugislatlve power of congress is unlim¬
ited, and it does not undertake to de¬
cide what congress might or might not
do, under the power to .regulate com¬
merce with foreign nations, and
amongst the several states, the law not
being drawn with any sucli view.
Fifth—That therefore it is the opinion
of the court that tiie first and second
sections of the act of congress of March
1st, 1S75, entitled “an act to protect
all citizens in their civil and legal
rights,” me unconstitutional and void,
and judgment should be rendered upon
the indictments accordingly.
JUDGE HARLAN’S DISSENT.
At the conclusion of the reading of
Judge Bradley’s opinion, which occu¬
pied more than an hour, Justice Har¬
lan said that under ordinary circum¬
stances and in ordinary Cases he should
hesitate to set up his individual opin¬
ion in opposition to that of his eight
colleagues, but in view of what he
thought the people of this country wish¬
ed to accomplish, what they tried to
accomplish,’ and what they believed
they had accomplished, by means of
this legislation, be must express his
dissent from the opinion of the court.
He has not had time since hearing that
opinion to prepare a statement of the
grounds of iiis dissent, but he should
prepare and file one as soon as postible.
iu the meantime he desired to put upon
record this expression of his individual
judgment.
GENERAL NEWS.
A Brief Review of W hat,the Country 18 as
Culled lor ;the Readers ot The Demo¬
crat from our Exchanges.
The southern part of Arkansas boasts
of a big pea crop.
A bale of cotton has been sold in
Hope, Ark., that weighed 1,696
pounds.
Lump coal is delivered at Owensboro,
Ky., at eight and a half cents per
bushel.
The liog crop of Kentucky for 1883
will he larger than it has been for ten
years
Mississippi is building more railroads
this year than any other state in the
Union.
Ten dollars per ton is the price of cot
ion seed at tiie mills in Van Buren,
Arkansas.
There,are said to be more Baptist
Churches in East Tennessee tiian post
olfices or grist mills.
Wells and springs are failing in ML
Meigs, Shorters, Autauga aud other
v" X&jjmisf: which never, or rare¬
Sandbars, were
ly, seen before til the Alabama river,
are plainly visible now.
Two hundred workmen find employ¬
ment iu tiie erection of the Newberry,
S. O'., cotton factory.
Lexington Kv., lias 101 Jacksons. 9G
Smiths, 86 Johnsons, aud 53 Jones.
Set down Smith.
The Associated Reformed Synod of
the South will hold its next annual ses
sion in Chester, S. 0’., beginning the
25tii iust.
In the public schools of Montgomery,
Alabama, 1,500 pupils have been enter¬
ed, nearly equally divided between the
two races.
The old house in which Stonewall
Jackson was born, iu Clarksburg, Vir¬
ginia, was torn down a few days ago,
to make way for improvements.
Arkansas li is paid the United States
an aggregate of nearly
rev
Two?
sticks are iu the possession of Robert
Tale, of Norwich, Chenango county,
N. Y. The walking-sticks ingeniously contain
1,400 separate The pieces contains 2,000 pie
wrought. cane from histon
ces, many of them relics
cal spots.
j esae Powell, a brakeman, living in
Nashville, Tenn., dreamt that his train
was about to collide aud jumped from
w bat he supposed to be it. He was
found on the sidewalk next morning
with neck and legs broken and other
wise injured. He had jumped from a
two-story window.
An extraor d,nary pearl has been
f ound a t Nichol Bav. It is composed
0 f n j ne distinct pearls about the size of
peiis 0 f a fine lustre and firmly bedded
together iu the form of a perfect cross
aljou t an inch and a half long. It is a
per f ec tiy unique curiosity and is ex
. )ect - ex ] sa y S the Melbourne Argus, to
f etc |, a f a bulous price, owing to the ex
traordinary coincidence of Rs perfectly
repreS p n ting the symbol of Christianity,
^ ‘ s of Peru , Indiana, owns
SPV n ty . t | iree farms in Indiana that
jn ^ high ’ state of cultivation,
^ ^ owDg thousanda 0 f aore3 j„
Texas, Arkansas, Michigan and Iowa,
nine residences, business blocks with
out nural)er some 0 f them being situa
ted in Chicago and Indianapolis, three
banks, several stores, and as many
’ ccn(luct3 bnnself. The
whjch he
i ema j ndfcr 0 f tiie earth is gradually
failing into Mr. Shirk’s hands, but he
rna ^ Hnd wi|1 allow tho rest
of us to ren t from him.
The heavy electric wires are a source
coutiuua l danger. On Friday
^ ^ while some of tUe officers 0 f the
£ u n er Electric Light Company were
making a tour of inspection iu Dayton,
Ohio, one of the lamps, by which the
js lighted, wenL out,
o[ the Dayton Com
n a uv. in lowering the lamp to examine
R took hold of the conducting wire
where tiie insulation was worn off, and
^ £ He died three minutes
ouTofme/’ 1;u iug . “The life is burned
ALL AROUND US,
UATHRRING THE NEWS FROM OUR
EXCHANGES.
BEING THE DOINGS AND
OF OUR NEIGHBORING COUNTIES AS
CONDENSED FOR OUR READERS—
OGLETHORPE, WARREN, GREENE
AND OTHERS.
nANcocK.
Ishmaellte, October 17th.
More criminal matters were disposed the
of last week than ever before in
same length of time in this county.' ^
Th« ftrand Turv found extending over thirtv Tpi
true bibs
murder to buying produce after night.
ine H o7co^dn f Lnenl F Sf teSth f o°n r tX
ast ffi. Jr ILt* is very y much
improved of a .
The property owners of bparta stand
very much against their own
in lending no encouragement to the
organization o( a to de„.rtme„t
A mad dog was killed at Mr. H. *.
Garrett’s on last Sunday, but not uotll
it had bitten several dogs and cats.
OGLETHORPE
Crawford News-Monitor, October I7th.
Corps of Gypsies were in towu Tues
day.
John Knox will W made marshal of
Lexington. ,,
Three thousand people were at Anti¬
och church Sunday.
You can’t get enough money chang
ed in Crawford to buy a pocket-book.
Dr. Mark Willingham sold one pair
of fish for $8 last week.
A disturbance was raised about the
burning of the gin house at Bairdstow ;
last week, and during the time Mr. <>.
H. Bynum shot a Mr. Finch through *4*
th. hand or am. Ik. wound
Mr. Anderson LIttte h» obtains* the
services of-a king snake and put it in
the depot to help his pretty cat make
peace with the rat creation. It is a
very large one, and was put in the de¬
pot last Sunday.
T GREENE. i
Herald and Journal, Octoner 12.
Cotton Willie receipts.to Griffies, date former 875 bales. cilizar. j
Mr. a
of Greenesboro, died iu Atlanta on
Monday.
On Wednesday morning, Miss Ad »
L. Davis married to Mr. J. i ’ G
was
WhorUtr, Rev.TdR Swsnwa c#''
Mi. L. C. Tortiert ana family after
an extended trip North and East.; Lave
returned to theii home in Greenesboro.
Died in Greenesboro on last Saturday
morning, of diptheria, Annie Louise,
daughser ef Hon. W. II, Beanch, aged
five years.
On last Tuesday evening in Athens.
Miss Lottie Rutherford, of Athens, was
married to Mr. Joshua C. Hutchins, of
Atlanta.
On last T need ay night at Shiloh
church, in this county, Miss Letitia JS.
Burke was married to Mr. Jesse ('.
West, the Rev. J. S. Callaway officia¬
ting.
A mate!) game of base ball was played
ed m Greenesboro last week, between
tiie Greenest oro and Union Point
clubs. The score 29 to 10 iu favor of
the former.
Colonel John M.Graham, the efficient
court stenographer of the Augutta cir¬
cuit, and who lies been on an extended
trip over Europe, will return home the
latter part of this month.
We learn that Rev. Mr. Stratton, the
worthv pastor of the Baptist church m
Greenesboro, has received a call to
Colorado, Texas. We have not learn¬
ed whether be has accepted.
wilkes.
Gazette, of October 12th.
Miss May Foreman is still quite sick
with fever.
We regret to know that Mrs. J. W.
jjark»lale is quite sick,
McKenney and Miss Lizzie
Reese, of this county, were were married maineu on on
« Mr t a mm of this countv has
' that lias
a cradle in use m hi., famttv fam ly
rocked three generations, au g
for three more, or longer,
The salary of the postmaster at act this
place has been reduced by an of
Congress passed at the last session,
from twelve hundred to eleven hun
dred dollars. The reduction took effect
the first of this month. This is not be
cause less business is done by tins office,
but because the standard in regifiatmg
Hilaries oy the amount of business, has
been raised.
Dr j. H. Lane showed us on Wed
. cotton for
nesday a very fine stalk of a
dry year. It would be a pretty good
stalk for good seasons. It was
foftr and a half feet high, well
branched and well fruited, and grew in
a field where not enough rain to wet
the ground has fallen since some time
in June. It is the Simpson prolific va
riety .
There was a general skirmish among
a lot of colored brothers and sisters out
in Freedmansville last Sunday evening,
They first indulged in abusive language
tliat was very unbecoming a people that
aspires to be elevated in the social
scale; then they resorted to a picket
fence and jerked off the palings Gibson for
weapons. In the melee Steve
drew a dirk or a saber, and swinging in
every direction soon cleared a consider
able space about him. Niggers in reach
of Steve were very scarce. He was
bound over next day to answer the
charge of carrying concealed weapon,
¥ M’DUFYtJS.
Journal, October 17th.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. Farr, died at 3 o’clock, Tuesday
morning, October 9,1883, and was bu¬
tted at Sweetwater church.
During tne current year our county
has suffered from more sfekness, »nd
far mote than the average number of
deaths.
A.- W.*Arnett, aged about 63 years,
died 12 of o’clock, congestive Tuesday chill, night, in this October county,
at
1883, and Wrightsboro. was bpried Thursday fore
noon at
At 5 o’clock, a. m., on Thursday
last. October 11, 1882, the infant child
-of Mr. J. T. Ansley, aged about three
weeks ’ died in thi * county, and was
buried at Union church at 2 o’clock, p.
m, ’° n iaay "
4SSfif 8? and £S$\ 522
80U - dled of congestion of the heart, at
8 o’clock, p. m„ buried on Friday, October Thomson 12,
1883, and was in the
ceme t e ry on Saturday afternoon. Ser
viceJ were conduc ted by Bev,O.C.Cary.
wm - « p„,. rv W,*S.nS afffld •>*
; n ^is county, at 2 o’clock, p, m., on
Saturday, October 13, 1883, aud was
buried at Union church Sunday after¬
noon. Itev. A. B. Thrasher conducting
the services.
Mr. Wm. R. Hayes, of this count ',
brought us a curiosity From in the potato
line last week. the main root a
number of smalll roots branch off, upon
which are growing both red and white
potatoes. We have seen mixed pota¬
toes, but have never before seen both
colors growing from the same root.
A thief enterred the room of Mr.
Wra. H. Johdson, of Thomson, Mon
day night, and car ried off his watch
and Si>me clothes and six dollars -in
money, a pocket knife and Borne keys.
The watch is silver with a silver guard
chain.
„
^ ■ £» u. G . Senator of of Athen., that S.«- I.
“tonal district, 1 {• 1 -“
Atlanta, Ga.; April 12th, 1883.
Mu. Mays : The bottle of Oliver’s
Quick Relief you feave me did a great
deal of good. It cured my sick boad
ache in a few minutes, it cured my
J* ^
bor8 8 8ufferin g with a severe head
ache bro&ght oa by high fever. I rub
bed his head freely with the Relief and
he dropped asleep in a few minutes, 1
want a dozen bottles. I don’t expect
to be without it in my if. family.
J. Jackson
Watehm i O. U. R.
,.IC J 1 t. 1 J z*i~ r
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NOTICE.
The Board of Trustees of the Craw
fordville Academy will meet on the 6th
of November. 1883, for the purjiose of
electing a Principal ot said academy
for the year 1884. Applicants will
please present their applications to tiie
undersigned with testimonials in time
to be passed upon. By order of the
Board. Oct. 4th, 1883.
W. II. Brooke,
Secretary and Treas. B. T. C. A.
1,000 MILE TICKETS.
Gkoroia Railroad Company, 1
Office Gknf.ral Passknoer Aokt.
Aiiousta, April 5th, 1879.
COMMENCING MONDAY. 7th st,,
his Company will still ONE THOUSAND
MILE TICKETS. TWENTY-FIVE goe<i ovor main line and
branches, at DOLLARS
eack. these ticketH will be issued to in
divlduals. firms or combined. families, but not to
firms ond families
E. K. DORSEY,
May9,1879 General Passenger Agent.
<$eari
I have icnowr. ar.d hutched theme of Swift’* 8pe*
..fic ior ave» fifty yen/#, ami have never known or
•jearrt of a failure to cuie Blood Potaon when prop
rly taken I lined it on my eervanta from 1850 to
1865. an did also a number of my neighbors, and in
l*v, rv caee • hai came within my knowledk* B effected
t curt. In all my life l have never known a remedy
ttiru would so fully accomplish what it ia recom¬
mended U' do Ga.
H. L. DENNARD. Perry,
I have known and used Swlft’a Specific wfynderful for more
than two fy year*, und have ncen more remedy
result* from *it» use than from any and in safe or
ouv of the Pharmacopreia It in a certain
antidote to ail aorta t Blood Pojaon.
J. D CI&OH SMITH. M D..
Atlanta, Ga,
WHAT DRUGGISTS SAY
Who have Seen tht Effecu of Stvero Teat*.
Hah given letter natlwfaction than any remedy for
Blood ihmpujg * we have ever nandfed.
SC1ULLRK 4 STEVENS, Wubtngton, D. C.
Many physicians h»v« endorsed 8 S 3,ai»p^
elite lor Blood InnesKS CO.. Memphla.
S. MANSFIELD A
a Blood very Have «Si‘«WMSrStC5 wen
HlWUPS PATTERSON. DaUaa, Texas.
W n
We do no* hesitate to .ay that for a year past we
have aoiii more of .Swift a Specific (8. S. S.) than
all other Ulo'Kl Pnnfiera combined, and with moat
aatomshing remits One rentlemao who wed half
a down bottle, uyi that it ha. done him more good
than treatment which rest bun *1,1100. Another who
b&e 9W| it for a Serofnloaa affection reports a per
maoect cure from It* one.
VAN SHaACK. STEVENSON * CO..
Ctucago.
tl.000 REWARD f
Will he paid io any Chemist who will Bad 00 enaM
y«i« ot trio Oottle. S S. S.. one particle of MCrcoiy,
Iodide Potassium or any mineral eubaunes.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO,
Drawer t, Atlanta, Oa.
free ©
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Number 41.
THE GLOBE HOTEL BAB,
Augusta, 6a.
:^scsis*s When
In Augusta if you wish a delightful beverage call at the
GLOBE HOTEL BAR.
oct G-om Augusta, Ga.
A FURNITURE BOOM!
-WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS /A r -
FUBIIXu;BEi
Atlanta, Georgia.
Constantly have in stock and are receiving daily, everything In th- ir line. Bed
A steads. Bureaus of all kinds, 1 arlor Sets, Bed-room and Chamber Sets, Wal
hut, Mahogany and Imitation Woods. Mattresses, Spring Beds,
Chairs, l ablea, Sideboards, Looking HlasKea, and
other things too numerous to mention.
w,„„ -» . it*.
JOHN NEAL & CO,
sep28-jm Broad Street, Atlanta, O a
.
W. H. HOWARD, C.n. HOWARD, S. r. WKlSIOEIt.
W. H. IIOWARp ,& SONS.
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Cotton Commission Merchants.
Np. 20 Seventh (McIntosh) st^et, Augusta, Georgia*
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• A H. FRANKLIN,
Cotton :4*u. A A-,;/: Commission , g. » . j** . f?\
Merchant,
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W- “ ' ' AUGUSTA, GA. | , *
Htorituamres M«do oafcctoignmsnts. - -
STOKELY A
Cotton Factors and Commission
merchants.
115 Jackson st., Augusta, Ga.
IOITElT * >sr8onal attf?nt,on to Weighing and Sale of Cotton. CONSIGNMENTS
SCH 310
JOHN W. WALLACE,
COTTON FACTOR
At the old Stand of Warren, Wallace k Co.,
729 AND 731 REYNOLDS STREET,
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
strict Personal Attention Given to Weighing and Selling COTTON. Bugging,
Ties, and Supplies Furnished at Lowest Prices Also agent for the celebrated
g38’83 Prices and Terms Satisfactory.
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Fullerton’s New Light House
COOKING STOVE.
Ithaslwen ri*nuirksd br all who have
seen the “New Light House," that it is tbs
finest, largest, arid handsomest stove they
have ever seen tor the jiriee. Write to D.L.
FULEUTON. Augusta, Ga., tor particulars
We keep in stock the
“Star Churn,”
L Milk Cans, Milk Buckets, Milk
[ k Pans,Brass top Shovels. Tongs, and
And Irons, and all sorts of
KITCHEN UTENSILS.
D. L. FCLLEUTON,
ssp21hm AUGUSTA. GA.
Cheapest Carpets in Augusta.
STOCK LABOER AND PRICES LOWER TIIAN EVER BEFORE.
‘XStfVSSJEl
Poles Canton and Cocoa Mattings, Cbromos. Write for samples.
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