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CRAWFORDVILLE DEMOCRAT.
Volume 7.
JUST A KISS.
Our hands were clasped to say good-bye— much
That little word which means so ;
Bat something hiding in., her eye
Lent strange sensations to the touch.
“Wood-bye,” she lisped, but never stirred
The four soft fingers in my own,
As if the girlish heart demurred,
Reluctant to be left alone,
So dumb before the lips that spoke,
1 bent and kissed them on the. sly broke ;
The fingers loosed, and then she
The silence with a sweet “Good-bye.”
Now, when I pause to say farewell—
Such wisdom 1 have learned from this —
I know as true as tongue can tell
A lingering hand means just a kiss.
RAYTOWN RAMUS,
AS PILEO UP FOR DEMOCRAT
READERS BV “VIDETTE.”
CROPS, N21VS ITEMS, EVERYTHING IN
GENERAL WITH A LITTLE SPICE AND
PHILOSOPHY THROWN IN FOR FLA
YOKING.
(Special Correspondence Democrat,
—Do right, always tell the truth and
shame old Nick !
—We are having beautiful weather,
just right for health. These bright
frosty mornings, put new life in a per
s .(i, and make one feel that this worM
is a beautiful home for mortals after
ell.
—Our 'ittle community has b en coti
eideinbly stirred over the sad misfor-
1 one that befell our popular and polite
lellow-townsman, Mr. Linton Lewis.
As he was returning to his home from
a visit to some fair inamarate in
Wilkes last .Sunday night about 9
i ’clock, he way way-laid »nd shot just
as be was swimming the river at the
*dit Darden ford near the plantation of
Messrs. Darden and Poiie. Through
t >e divine providence of the Almighty,
t ie assassin’s shot missed its mark, and
I .o’ Mr. Lewis and his horse were con¬
siderably spattered with shot, none are
ensidered as mortal. Mr. Lint, has
1; e sympathy of a host of warm
II iends. The river was high and no
doubt it was intended tliat Mr. Lewis
«ould fall into the l iver when shot,and
llius his friends would think he was
drowned, but as in thousands of other
cases—“Man proposes^ but God dis¬
poses.
■—We .think that a . larger
“TSpL fofuriong in-rats ciflie, aYmbwn buiGr all „ pros- *’ R *
p, er9 a heavy crop of grain is made
;iud our farmers, are all right for an¬
other year, they will upset it all, by
dropping off their grain sowing, next
fall .and rush head over ears for big
cotton crops. Why will they do it
knowing too, from 20 years sad expe
i ience, that there is no money for the
cotton fanners ? There is big money
in ii, for the merchants, for the cotton
factors and for the Northern capital
jsls hut not one dime for the man who
raises it. They are compelled to see
this for it costs the average tanner ten
cents per pound to make it, and then
sell for 81 to 9. That is making money
with a vengeance and to boot, lie must
I .ay his labor, and pay his merchant for
meat and bread, ana pay his guano
bill ; all out of his 9 cents cotton. To
sea the different brandies of industry,
or professions, tliat all look to the cot¬
ton" farmer, to give them riches, out of
his labor, would convince any man
that there would be none left, for home
ju^er dividing with all these, and that
ijf riiat he does. We are accustomed
t a ear old people sigli and exclaim,
•*kii ! well times are mighty different
now, to what they were, in my grow¬
ing up. In those days every body’s
smoke houses were full of meat, cribs
full of corn and often plenty of each to
sell. Money was plenty, could borrow
at 7 per cent, every man’s credit was
good even a poor man, with not an
acreof land could get anything he
wanted ; his credit was sound, and
then no one made over 5 or 6 bales of
cotton to the horse. 1 can’t get used
to this great^change.” Now the key¬
note, to the whole is cotton and incred
ih’e, as it seems, we would be a more
prosperous people, if we could not grow
one lock of it. We would then raise
plenty to eat at home, a id that is what
the hattie is for. We are blessed, in
that, for we iiave a country and cli¬
mate, wherein we| can Northern grow every and
thing needful. Our
Western neighbors, are far ahead of us
in comforts and wealth, aud yet, they
are limited in their productions. Forc¬
to be for only certain tilings can
be grown with them. Let all iu
they are beating us sadly in the race.
It is not, that our people do not strive
to make money for we do, but they
overreach us, in judgment,in prudence,
in ecouomy, in fact in everything. Put
South, and . let , „ him . . uu
a yankee down
derstand, everything as he does his own
country, and he would make one dol¬
lar to our dime. Our farmers go out
right backward for a fortune, and
will never be “right side up with care,
until there is a radical change, iu nur
whole system of farming, and rnanag
ing. We must quit
of our interests, and watch every m
tion of the tide or we will be diowuea.
We must keep an account book, where
in we iot down every item of our ex
nen**es of oar farm, and the income de
rived F* from it Not one farmer in ten
_nv idea of the actual cost of his
farm the presen year. At the end of
tbe vear, he finds himself out of po .
so many dollars ; then be begins to cast
up in his mind a rough estimate of
what he has paid out he never thinks
of the small expenses, an en i e
W* ftis^urry^uup! ^Tr rhf dance tesins Then
and haul off, and
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21st, 1883.
pay the guano bill, the meat and corn
bill and dry goods bill, and the black¬
smith bill, and by this time, all is
gone, and lie is left at the same stand¬
point he began at, only one year older.
Worked hard all the year for a little
meat and bread. Something he could
have made with half the work at
home, and then not have had the men
whom hejowed^watchii g hisJeotton,and watches,
watching him as a eat a
rA,. Many of our farmers work of hard
all'the year, raise a big erop cotton
and then do not have the privilege of
selling his cotton wh.ete heideases. Fie
owes some man the lull’s share of
for some tilings that maybe the mer¬
chant let him have very unwillingly,
and with a quaking heart for fear he
never get his pay for it, and now
kt payday be brings his cotton to this
man, who gives him the market price
on his account. So on it goes, and fre
qUeutly a man sellsliis whole crop aud
never handles a dollar of the money.
TTio only money a cotton farmer ban,-.
dies is a little he borrows at the begin
ning of the picking season to pay out
to the cotton pickers every Saturday
night. Now I aura friend to the farm
er and the merchant too, l am in
of justice to each party. If a Dimer
buys trom them let mm pay them and
not smuggle any of his crop behind the
law. Not treat them as I saw a farm
town a ,0,7,-n of miles aw-v a
few few je.tis ve-irs ago ago seive servM the tne man man who wno nad nan
rqn him. lie went to the merchant
and told him, “I have made my crop
on the supplies you advanced, but i
can not pay you aud have anything left,
so I am going to sell my cotton and
put the money in my pocket to live on
another year, I wilL pay cash for my
supplies and next fall 1 will pay you^the
money.” Now this was wrong. He
should have paid what lie owed, and
«* »'“»!*»«
farmer at living puces ana what he
bought of the farmer, he ought ju duty
bound have given all it was worth. 1
saw a country man enter one of the
large cash houses in a certain town a
fpw <fi rtuvs asm and lie traded a bill of
ten ten oi twelve twelve dollars aojurs with wnu the me clerk merit,
and when lie pulled out his purse and
paid it, he tiien asked the clerk wtiat
would he give him for eleven dozen
ego-s frk he had there don’Anow with him ? The
replied I reckon
they.aie woith 10c per dozen, do you
not think they are worth that i I’ll
make you n liberal offer, I’ll give you
ten cents and pay vou the cash now V
Bring them out lets count them and
see iftliey are all sound. Of course
you know I can only pay for the sound
ones.” dmle And thus he.ratUed for' Wf^^f^joiten, oui
when he k,*ew that they were selling
at 25 and 30 cent* per dozen on the
street, aud scarce at that price. Now
that was wrong. He priced his goods
and the country man should have pri
ced his eggs. I had a merchant friend
to with f* him me as f to ou f® high charges, ! et * “Why we
are com f .elled to do so to save ourselves.
He hav- Unmake the good man pay
the debts of the bad payer or we would
iose, but when we hnd we wni lose a
bill on a bad customer, we just add
little uio'e on your bill, and a little on
smne one else we know will pay, and
thus we save the bill.” Now is not
tliat poor encouragement to be honest
and pay'your debts V Where is the
justice? Because I or you try to act
uouest, we must dig and slave to pay
for something some other neighbor got?
Is it right ? Neither do I think all oi
our merchants deal unfairly by tho
farmer, but vvnat I aim to get at is
tiiat the farmer ofteuer than the mer
chants go to the wall. I mean too
that the farmer more than all others
arts down-troddeu. when if they would
but use their judgment, their labor,
their brains and their money to a bet
ter advantage than they are doing at
present, they could put this world at
their feet. As I said before, see at the
different professions dependent on the
Southern cotton raiser. As tiie situa
tion now these are ail masters of the
farmers, but if we were to do as Bro.
Bonner said, run our schedule on a
different basis, we could have them as
slaTes. Why our farmers prefer serf
dom, to a Kings Scepter I can not im¬
agine. No other nation on the face of
the globe would not even the savage
Zulus of Afric origin, would bend the
knee in servile subjection when they
might “sit upon the throne.” This is
why that Northern agent spoke like he
did. livery man with half a head can
see that we could so easily be the mas¬
ters where we are slaves and wonder
why we do not rule instead of being
ruled, drive rather than be driven.
Yet still we do not change and appar¬
ently we do not want to change.
A New Story by a Georgia Lady.
The Savannah Weekly News of Sat
urday, January 5th. will contain the
opening chapters of a new story, entitled
“Charlie,” bv Mrs, Ophelia Nesbit Reid,
of Eatonton, Ga., now liying in author Washing¬ of
ton, D. C. Mrs. Reid is the
“Mulfit,” “Ouly Nora Hartley,” “The
Harold Brothers,” and other serials.
“Charlie,” like other emanations from the
pen of this gifted writer, is beautifully well
written, and devolopes a plot that is
managed throughout, and is deeply inter
esting. mJmmoth S^ges
T !h^t H comSg ail the of of
r( . ading matter , eoroprising dispatches naws to the
the weekj telegraphic accurate up merket
i I0ur0 f going to press, original serials,
reports, agricultural departments items, devoted to Geor
.*tc. Florida Special and South Carolina News.
i gia, ln a<id i t< ^
tl< i l L ^
* . . .
cony of any‘of News the Libhaki puhliaj.
«.<j novels of the Morxino
umt •^™"“*
Subact.pt,on $2* EsTtLL^ropr^or. yenr‘in
J. U.
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-Clocks one and eight day, trom *2
1 to 810 »t U. Myers.
GEORGIA. NEWS
Pneumonia is prevalent in the neigh¬
borhood of Liucolfttoo.
The mountains all around Tallulah
were covered with snow this week. **
Gilmer county people drive eighty
miles to get their truck and produce lo
market.
There are thirteen maimed
erate soldiers in Macon who draw pen
siousfrom the State, ‘ i
The old wise negroes up about
.mony flkwar. Grove say that the red clouds
£ ue _ * fr
Three hundred and fifty thousan
dollars is now the total subscription t,
Savannah’s new hotel.
The temperance element of Clark are
aroused aud say they will test prohibi¬
tion early next year.
A negro of Albany is advertising for
his truant wife. Live dollars is the
reward offered
Land iu Oglethorpe has advanced 36
p er ye,,^ S j nc e the adoption of the
stock law : Says Mr. Gantt.
The wheat and oat crops in North
G a i)re r?port ed as looking re
mar k a bly healthy and promise a
Uian ordinary vield . it
I he Oglethorpe , fence - trouble
about settled, and fences will be abeG
ished on January 1st, 1885. This couA
P * . e < aecented c l bv both sides •
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There are four bar-rooms in
and seven white men connected with
them and no one of the seven drink a
drop of intoxicating liquor,
There is a tree on St. Simonas Island
under which the whole white
ki on 0 f Georgia were once collected to-'
outlier. Georgia was then an abolition
state .lumtar
A o. Franklin county (™
jjj es numbering between seventy-five
au( i a hundred souls, boarded the train
at Toccoa the other day on their way
10
Chipley , Leader T . : rp, There „„„ is a a lo(W lady m
town that makes enough milk and but
worth* . , d seven dol
lais woith of ot milk mux a and a butter u p per
month.
Cartersville Free Press : The fact
that our people ^-t^have^to hpy
corn last yea , <
If follow, Hi .
money at home. we s
laudable rule and raise our ownu.it
aud flour, we shall in ten years be
richest county in the State. / /
A ripple of excitemeut was caused i
Douglassville, MondaV sdff afterpo“h
d. m.- Smith, having /box car of ti mj l
a Loifll
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. attach-]
liailroad, levied on with an
ment. Tne claim is for lost baggage
that the railroad refused to pay for.
j s 8aI( j i, a )f a dozen of
t|)(( btude(lta of AtllwlB iiave C0U)p ] 0
ted .V plans to walk to Atlanta, a purse
, $ U0 Mng , ai8ed for the winning
K The distance is 71 miles, and
u f 0IUJt » „„ m , ( ,le two days,
wlll UH|i) „ (>|lt> ail(t llie firsUo
. , lUu C apitol ■ will take the pot.
1 '•.» Ilanwell bun says : >n «ou
day morning jiHt before day. Ur. II.
N. Mulltey who was staying at .u.
ilios McDougal s, was standing befme
the mirror couihiug his liair an< began
to reel. Mrs. DouguM caught hob ot
him and eased him down on the looi,
when it was discovered that lie vas
dead. The night before lie ale a hearty
supper, and apppeared to be in exceflent
health. MivAiulkey was an old man,
probably 70.
Gridin News 16th: Last evening
when Jim White returned from supper
to the postofilce, he found the money
and stamp draweis broken open and
part of the contents gone. As far as has
been ascertained, the thief or thieves
obtained twelve cents in money and
from three to live dollars worth of
stamps, the greatest loss being
breaking of the patent locks. It is
supposed tliat the thief sneaked in and
secreted himself in the office in the
dusk just before closing and went out
through the back door, which was
found unfastened,
—I most earnestly entreat every
family in which there are children to
get Dr. Pitts’ Carminative and use it.
It will relieve the children of much
suffering. I have known of some re
markable cures it has made. I iiave
Known it to cure when all hopes of cur¬
ing had been despaired of.
Mrs. A. Florence,
Coleridge, Barbour Co., Ala.
—When you feel yourself gradually
breaking down don’t wait un
til you have taken to your bed. While
you are still able to be up and about
tight the grim monster disease by the
use of proper restoratives. The best
remedy for malaria, indigestion, weak
kidneys, constant fatigue, fits of djzzi
ne.rs, heart disease, short breath and
other complications of a disordered sys¬
tem is Brown’s Iron Bitters. Its magic
influence in conquering diseases of an
exhaustive nature is most astonishing.
A Little Gold wa« Spent.
Mr. Z. A. Clark, of Atlanta. Ga., in
peaking of SW.oo in gold, desires to say
. thp ' readers ' of this paper, that the whole
J *
( >f the . above amount was spent , • in a f trnit -
S ess effort in finding relief from a tern tile
Blood Poison affecting his body, limbs ami
nose—presenting ugly running ulcers. He
1> now sound and weM fhaving been mired
by the most npeedy and wondei ful rem .
ever before known, and any interrested
party ^rn who may need a Blood Purifier will
from him that three bottles B. B. B
restored his appetite, healed all ulcers,
relieved his kidneys, and added 21 pounds
to his weight in 30 days. decH-jtn
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T: f mg** m tm
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Hoarseness, For the Cure Bronchitis,Croup, of Coughs, Colds,] Influ¬
enza, Asthma, Whooping Cough, In¬ re-j
cipient Consumption and for the van-I
licfofconsumptive persons in ad
ced stages of the Disease For Sale
by all Druggists.—Price, 25 Cents.
i as 2
“W\PED OUT.”
The Story of an Atlanta Boy a3
told, by His Fa her.
TRUTH I,SI A NUTMIEUU.
Mr. Frank Joseph, lives at . 245 r Jones T
street, Atlanta, and has a promising hoy
01 a,x summers. When the boy was about
three years of age a peculiar swelling vvas
discovered on his neck., Various liniments,
poultices, effect. etc. were applied without a per¬
ceptible The swellings increased,
although internal and external remedies
ti were physiciav used continually called . in Becoming who alarmed,
was at once uro
(fcouneecMt a genuine ease of well develop¬
ed .scrofula. He used all the various rem
profession ‘’ r 'io--s usually such resorted to by Die medical
in diseases but other glands
The ing of the parts presented a ghastly siglit.
«mac|ated, boy became quite feeble and greatly During
and muble to walk.
a period of over two years hair Ins condition from bo
fftnm head, more perilous-the he rapidly fell hie
and lost his eyesight.
During aud all this time lie was properly eared
New lor Medical treated, and was also treated at
condition college for three months, yet
his steadily grew worse,
Now comes tho almost miraculous escape
ot this lad. IBs eyesight was restored,the
surfaces lieaied, tho whole system was re
„ ovateil H nd cured sound and well, all by
use of Blood only Balm—which one single bottieofB .11,1#,—
eij,n be hart at
per bottlei. Sold In Crawford vide by
Wr- K * DLlIJ. H> ■* -me
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iUTIONAL'HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GA.
T OCATOD IN THE CENTER OF THE
IJ City, only one Mock from Union pas¬
senger depot and the depot of the Georgia
Pacific and East Tennesee, Virginia an.1
Georgia tiio rallroaes, Terms, in 82.00 the same day. building of
hotel. per
E. T. WHITE, Proprietor.
ma house.
STONE MOUNTAIN. GA
10 Aftles) From Atlanta.
Opened fo summer guests good on the 1st of
may. Cool 1 •, water, only a
fmv mill if . from the city Board,
§2.000 per * , y ; 510 per week ; §30 per
month. Ad u e
iv. T. VFMITJS, Atlanta or Stone Moun¬
tain, Ga.
We advise everybody to buy JgJi
Furniture,
Mattresses,
Pictures, Etc.,
—FROM—
F. L. Padgett,
1112 Broad Street,
Augustta, Ga.
Photographs and prices on
application.
CURED KY
Oliver’s Quick Relief,
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headache,Tooth¬
ache, Colds. Sore Throat, Bites, ami
.Stings of Insects, Colic in
II irt.es, &c.
Prepared by
MAYS & CO.
Atlanta, Georgia,
For sale by Dr. R. J. Reid and Thomas
ulton, Crawfordville, Ga., and J. A.
Kendrick, Sharon, Ga.
* Carminative SVrUP. J V
—FOR—
Golio, Diarrhrea, Nausea,
Coughs, Cholera Infantum,
Teething. Cholera
Morbus.
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l)U \ W \ r xr Al riT^PiPC MIS
^ T T * X A X A
Druggist and Apothacary.THOMSONjGA
For sale bv Dr. R. J. Reid Crowfordyille
Ga., J A Kendrick, and Geo. W. Overton
bbarem. Ga.
Number 50.
BE MI MB EB
REMEMBER in line this of age Business of Sharp is clouded Competition, to its when utmost e v ery ca¬
pacity, the merchant must not only (ill his store with goods calculated to please
the people in botli quality and price, bat he must announce his
Bargains and Inducements
the Clearly people and in forcibly to the public, f am satisfaction prepared this season to meet the wants ily of
a manner which Must give to each and every patron,
NEW AND SEASONABLE GOODS!
Will meet the expectations and desires of the most economical puichaser, b.’ ng
r eful sele^jpus of tlu latest styles
^
In Alt Departments
No branch of my business receives more careful attention than my
ft&t
Trimmings Comprising jilegant Patterns, Latest Styles, Unique Novelties, with nil kinds ef
to match. My goods were PUKCllANKL) FOR CASH, and 1 Inland to
glvihehenefit of tho
DISCOUNT TO MY CUSTOMERS
it will cost you nothing to thoroughly convince yourselves that such is n allv trttt.
I only ask tliat you call and see for yourself.
Dutch Bulling doth of all Numbers.
Polite Attention Shown to All.
I a IMS KB&ZR m
MILLER’S GORNER. AUGUSTA, GA
DR. R. J REID,
Crawiordville, Georgia
1 HAVE on hand a FULL STOCK of provisions such «s SUGAH, COFFEK
FLOUR, BLACK and GREEN TEAS. Also, ready-mixed PA 1 NTS, cruine yellow,
venitlan red, white lead, linseed, machine and kerosene oils. Powder, shot and giro
cap^, tobaccos cigars ami smiffs. which I am offering very LOW for CASH. CALL
on taaandyon Fob. 25; 83’ly. Win be surprised to know how CALAP my GOODS are selling.
*
THOMAS AKLIKTS,
Crawforcbille, ■ Ga,
-DEALER IN—
Fin Wines Liquors, Oigir3, Tobaccos,
BILLIARD ROOM IN CONNECTION WITH BAR.
'* v i: 1 > fir: ml* i.inni, I tvill he, hereaftir compelled to sell strictly for cash
and all those indebted to me are requested to come forward and settle their account at
ouch or I will lie forced to put them in tli * luuds of an attorney for collection. I
thank my customers for past favors aud invito thorn and my new friends to glvo CM
a call. THOMAS AKINS.
I hH . FRANKLIN,
Cotton Commission Merchant,
AUGUSTA, GA.
Liberal Advances Made on Consignments.
nep2t
In rami C Jristmas Exhibition
-AT
THOS. FULTON’S
Fancy Grocery Store.
CRAWFORDVILLE. » :: GEORGIA.
On which ttcr-asion will he presented the largest stock of fee works, Toys, Dolls.
Bohemian Glass Ware, Crockery, Baskets raisons and Fancy dried articles suitable for lemons, .’oliday
gifts, also plain stick and fancy candies, . figs, nuts, oocoanut*,
oranges apples, canned goods, pickles, flour, meai, meat, sugar, coffe. and stock feed.
/ keep on hand also the very best brands of T • banco and Cigars, thankin: the public
for past favors, J respectfully solicit a continuance of the some.
l-tUC A LL A N 0 SEE M E, as I think that 1 can make it to your interrat, as I am
determined not be under sold.
Tliomas Fulton.
D *
-THE
Qreat Furniture Palace of Augusta.
WE take pleasure in announcing that we have moved our elegant stock of Fural
ture. to 840 BROAD STREET, old stand of Myers & Marcus. We have this larga
eve^Xed."^ steady in business is what lias caused 8 TVLE QUALITY oW of
PRICE The increase FINE8T our STORE and FINEST STOCK us IN io GEORGIA n.r.v* «o
^ Wa now have THE
Write forcatalogue or call and see us.
J T BOWLES _ & CO., __
omT) 840 BrOail IV fel'ett, 1 4A AUgUS* 1 a, n Ua
