Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893, December 21, 1883, Image 1
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. # --- — — - -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 • - 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 M m . ... A T: f mg** m tm s : 2 ".-:, cs 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 ~ 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. - 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