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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1887)
Ctttttffwtatlfe ; <$ By CLEM. G. MOORE. VOL. XI. Fo st or & Doughty f COTTON - F*j^OTOX^S -AND ^COMMISSION M ERC ANTS, A UGUSTA, GEORG! A. Warehouse and Compress occupying block bounded by Washington, Ttvigg, Cal¬ houn ond Taylor Streets, and connected with all the railroaps centering here by double tracts extending into our yards. Drayage saved, r attention • will -hi I* dovotea i , , to . IM , bu.me.s , m • •• it, deu.b, ................" eoisisnnicnts we giiavantce >-«*»*.» turns. Liberal adeances made on Consignments. Office: lO’T' S^eynolds sstreet. I^”li 0 oms for Several years occupied by Augusta Cotton Exchange. S. PHINIZT. J. PIIINIZY. J. TOBIN. gram 1 <3 as J COTTON--* FACTORS. New Standard Fire-Proof ATarclionso. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. E0~ Liberal Advances on Consignments. FURK1TUKE! Reliable Goods, Fair Dealing. --Prompt attention. HEW STYLES- Call on, write to FC. W* THOMAS No. 85. Whitehall St., ATLANTA, GA. DusiiiesS DiTOetorY -OF THE TOWN OF The following firms and business houses have placed their cards in this directory for the purpose of showing the public where patrons can be accommodated by their services in their respective lines of business. We recommend the following name to the public as reliable dealers, and they will all serve you at short notice. 3VHLLIKEB.Y M RS. M. A. ASK IN. Dealer in Ail Millinery, Neckwear, Notions, etc. Dress-making to order. H J RS. M. C. TROPE, ALL Dealer in Millinery and Fancy Goods. Drugs and Medicines It. J. KE1D, Practicing Physician, Dealer in Patent Medicines, Drugs, ©fall kinds. Books, Pens, Pencils and all fancy Stationery. JEWELER C. S. LUCAS, Watch-maker and Jeweler. Watch, Jewelery and Gen. Repair shop. Watches and Jewelry always on hand. AWYEES- 1% f Z. ANDREW S, , Attorney at Law. Practices in this and the adjoining counties. Office over S. Stewart’s store. 4U >Y O. MITCHELL, . Attorney at Law. Practices in all the courts. Office over S. Stewart’s store. J. VV. H1XON, Attorney at Law, Office in the Mitchell Building. J. F, REID, Law. At orney at Practices in all the courts. Collections prompt remittances a specialty. CONTRACTORS. -y^r. J. NORTON, Contractor and Bcilder. Good wors at short notice. - E . K. BOONE, Contractor and Builder. Good work and at low rates. E . B. FITTS, Contractor and Bnuws. Good Work Guaranteed. J TOB WORK DONE at ttoe Dsmoorat Office very reasonable. CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORG; . FRIDAY, JANUARY “1, 1887. XXolioXs* rjAHE ORAWFORDVILLE HOTEL. hMjrs. Kate Kent, Proprietress. Good Fare. Terms 82. per day. Practicing Physicians A RTHUR G. BEAZLEY, M. D. Offers his services in the general prac tice of Medicine and Surgery. ___ JQR. L. A. STEPHENS, Practicing Physician. Will he pleased to serve alt. Office in Gee building. Work Shops. Jjj rr nriFTRFF Manufacturer and Dealer in Wagons and Buggies. BlacksmithinS and , ,r General , Repair ,, . or , . j JpDMoN GOLUCKE, Cabinet Work, Fancy Turning, anp | Stairbuilding. Gin and Mill Gearing a Specialty, J . N. CHAPMAN. Manufacturer and Dealer in Buggies, Wagons and Harness. Blaek smitliing and Repairing a specialty. rpllOMAS J. EVANS, X Blacksmith. General Blaekmiithing and Repair Shop. Work Guaranteed. -—-= (-’orvorol w831Sr3.i Mr.rrV,onrlico M6rCll3.IlulS6. rTASPER MYERS, i Dry Goods, Clothing, Notions. Groceries and Furnishing Goods. i ■y-yr. c. bristow, Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries and everything in a ceneral store. ^JHARI.ES Dry Goods, Groceries BERGSTROM. and General Mei ehandise. Terms cash. „ •jdTUB RICHARDS, Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions and General Merchandise, OYLYESTUS STEWART, Dry Goods, Grocarios, and Gooaral Mornhandise. Devoted to the Interest of Taliafffo County, the People and fieaeral lews. THE LABOR WORLD. * S' REPORT OF ME IF YORK Rlli E.41! OF STATISTICS A$fl LJFROR. Investigation and Inqniriini into the Work* iitginaii’M Position. New York State Commissioner Peck, ih “Fourth Annual lb-port of the Bureau .tatist.es ot .alien-, ... says: Imd mi u.le U ra found extended among the members ol' or^m i/od lcil>or any previous year in the history of ot’ country, mid while such agitation in wholU-'imwarrmf ed aud'crhiiiiial turn Startled With horror cities, the populace oral of the \V estern it pas -O failures and successes of which will not b lost or fail to serve as les-ous of value to student of social and ceenonuc questions, ft The subject of apprenticeship is treated a* great Jengtli and in a most oxnau>tive ner. Among other things the Commissioner Sa Xa.'» ^ahn4 of the labot question it I s been (bund apmontieeshir- exp«lient am noetssary to look into our and system—the means at hand of renewing foreign skilled labor. Oui ;> supply meciianics is daily .augmented by the labor of Kurope, and while this foreign ment superior'll is not that'produred equal tc> the sfilled labor i in our own country, > Whether unrestricted emigration be disputed. i>e or: be not a national workshops blessing may the will but a visit to the of btata and ine. bauifs are J foreigners. esiablishment#* Indeed, in many trade and industrial there is not a single American at the WliS^^ilw-u' hands of foreign-born j" workers, « and most of the boys and young men learning the are cither foreign born or sons foreign-born workers And the opinion by whole' trades, but by sections of them, and that these sections were largely eon- had trolled by foreigners, or natives who thXbor°.iu a i ” lbi b ** ° D estion » The Commissioner argues in favor of man ual training asu means of keeping up the the supply of trained labor oraius and 0,0 preventing h,ave ot tbo m!ch“ne”’ aa from be< The conclusion at which the Commissioner arrives in regard to “.Shorter Hours of La general ^axsrfss-^tssrts' movement made the first was on day of May last looking to the reduction of the hours of labor from ten Mew(> to eight vr* r dasp The seemed orgnno.eti.Mi-: of Brooklyn those 1 1 have acted wore the States, cert than of other cities in and were by far more successful, having won a majority of the cases where demands were made. It is true that while a large percentage of all engaged in the movement asked for a reduction of two hours a day, very many bf the organizations did it with day’s a view work.” of compromising on nine hours as a He next gives brief hi-torics of the notably leading strikes in the State during the year, those in the Troy laundries, the sugar refineries, and on the street rail¬ roads. The losses by those, different strikes, boycotts, Am., he is unable to give in total, but fifty-eight firms alone report an aggregate of $11, 0011 ,000. On the other hand the losses of wages the to striking cmnlovos represented <> v sum of *'t, COUNTERFEITER ARRESTED. ClinttnnonKii Bcteetlvrs Capture a Solo rious Character. A special from Chattanooga, says: A detective has discovered one of the most extensive counterfeiting establishments yet broken up in the South. For several weeks an almost perfect counterfeit coin has been circulated in the city, and all at tempts to trace it up proved fruitless. Saturday an old man trifling was seen purchase, to enter a store and make a re¬ ceiving ninety cents in change. On his departure it was ascertained that the coin he left was counterfeit The detectives were notified and at once put him under surveillance. Saturday night he was ar lested and $C(J in counterfeit found on Lis person, lie proved to be Mullins, of the mo * uotorlous counterfeiters m America. , He was arrested tjvo years ,,^ 0 ut p„ rt Scott, Arkansas, and escaped l>v turning State’s evidence. It was as certauied . , that , the ,, den , . . the , . heart , of . is in the city and has been conducted as an electro-plating establishment. It is now in the ban is of the police, and three other arrests have been made. It is thought that thousands of dollars have bee, issued from these. The counterfeit ls cear, y perfect. THE CENTKNMAI. < KI.EISKATIOXH. The senate special committee on cen tennial celebrations has held a meeting anfl ,p, f .ided with reference to the centen nial of the tiie promulgation of the constitu tion, that celebration shall consist of an address and some civil and military displays, the details of which are tone settled hereafter. With respect to the 400th anniversary to the discovery of America, it was decided to recommend that a joint committee of the two houses he raised to take the subject of an appro priate celebration in 1892 into considera tion. THE WAf» BASCEtW. weeks ago Tabitha got married and the young people of the neighborhood, celebrated the in eluding her four sisters, event by dancing all night and nearly all the next day. On the evening of the second, Martha, one of the sisters, lost her reason and developed into a raving maniac and four days later the bride went stark mad. Since then the three other sisters exhibited evidences of in sanity and the worst is feared. ftim*! MO front* fj, 9i^SST««ini-ry, ABOUT THE Tuii-atuosa, BOOM. Hir minsImin nail Bristol. Thedechirat ion of incorporation was lijcdj^Mtul'ilnv for till' chatter of the tidw . to be known as the Alabama railroad. It will run from Mom gomefy to Troy, W from Troy to Chat Flu. The Highland Falk and Land Improve iy ,ejfit mtpHdi Company was also organized, with. « etock of six hundred thousand v IH^ coifipiwi} owns live. uuniticu acres of land, mostly oak and pine forest, in the east, ru suburbs of the city. The U,,,k J * a,! ,ukon - TESc.AUKmA’s BIG COSHV-tY. » * J , incnnuiMtitm nf th« ('<vi| «Ji ** >„ u w r0 ,^nv I,,,,, ^‘ 'Z 1 l acres of suburban knifaml ..frifc citv 1 ujn-tiy, , <t , iiii^e . «nu . muuu ......■ ,‘f the finest coal mid iron land in the state, lies at a comuiirativcly .short dis ^nce from this place. After paying for ad lands, the company will have in its treasury a|d a cash capital of five hundred cightv-tive assured thousand dollars. that thf fA it hi now an fact mm rAilroad, a branch of the Louisville Nashville system, the terminus of which is now only twenty-six early miles day, dls be completed at an the ^curinsr to Tuscaloosa two of most important railroad lines in the ^Wjuth. Capital has also been secured for build * fe ..\r u „- n Mlaalaainnl nnd Tiisea lhk*4t>«dPhas &nd’f«cit!il(fe. been tlmre to secure railroad drlvaegea Orleans - capitalists , f to- Ian! hate made large purchase Northport, of just in and about the* town oi oppo- 3 j te Tuaealocsa, on the Warrior river. NEW isruuanuES IN HIKStWOHAK. „ » which will at ouee erect a large ■?r foundry ;■ andd machine works O# the company's The new company is headed by u - W ’ Ballard - ,,f Birmingham. Among 1 he .stock hi .1 d ers a^. the. presidents pf two of the city banks. pf p . Debardeleteli alinotfaCea the that erection he has peirfected rtf a large, mram^wneut# rolling null •% at • Bessemer. ™.».«»-«»..•« .>, *5 «»« > ‘ The city councils <M Hfktol itritf. (,o()d J t m, T ’ irand u na«t : tuottslt'. VcSeW subtofh^.r jfa'itm ‘ dMAtrtI end •„ A,. ie ,3 ’r < t , pi ■ i 1 '' - hi-.-, / . bgth, Teiiuessce. They also oiter a'do . na tk)ti of $10,000 to the first person or « mll rm .‘ buildinvr IU1 1 a 100-ton iron furnace in o their town, A DISTILLERY BURNED. The Building and Machinery Entirely lle ntroyed nt Terra Ilanie. At 3 o’clock Saturday morning mi alarm af tire called the department to the Terra Haute distillery, where the lire was found raging in the upper floor of the main building, in which were the wine and beer rooms and wine vats. It was found impossible to reach the, (ire with a stream, and for a time the effort of the firemen were turned to saving the surrounding buildings from destruction. About 1, 000 tons of hay was packed in a yard contiguous to the buildings. The firemen which repeatedly extinguished the flames had started in the roofs of the dwelling houses adjacent. The fire burned north and soutli through the building, The roar of the flames and the hissing email¬ of the burning liquor was fearful. The ing of the ponderous and’all vats, rectifying ap paratus, stills the network of the machinery was floors appalling. and At of 4:30 the a. m. the upper walls south wing went down into a seething mass of fire, willi a thunderous crash that made downward the ground tremble. The fire spread through the building, and soon the boiler room was burning from end to end. Tremendous clouds of sparks and living coals filled the air and were scattered broadcast by the wind. Great fears were entertained for the safety of the , )0n(led warehouse, but it was saved from destruction. In the bunding were not less than (15, 000 gallons of high wines and 20,000 gal Ions of low wines and rectified whisky, ^ a , am0llnt of rye ma lt and oats w@re •„ gtore; alg0 al)0Ut 10,000 bushels () f cor n. The building from top to bot tom is a total wreck. .James Nugent, a watchman, is sup posed to be buried in the ruins, as he cannot he found. Crawford F airbanks the prinnpal owner, estimates the loss at about $100,000. iiie insurance wi ag g««?te about $70,000. I tic building W ‘L be rebuilt as soon as possi >le. At J a. m. there was nothing standing except one back wall One year ago tins month a boiler explosion at the distillery ’ killed seven persons and caused heavy , damage to the property, A FATVJ, KXrl.OSION. j Toe boiler at the saw mill of Mr. Skel scalded. Perry Ford, a neighbor, hi*body was killed, his head severed from by a portion of the boiler. J. W. Skelton, the proprietor, was slightly wounded in the hand. John Sheron, of Atlanta, lud his right leg broken and otherwise in jured. Buck Shearer was slightly wound ed in the arm. Old man Demsev was slightly wounded in the head. Charley Demsey was blown a distance of forty feet. Terms: $1.50, in Advance. A TOWN TERRORIZED. \ Bad - of Attalvs Uenortcil in a Texas Villnjie- Tvm Men tlui ili i i-il \ perfect Ciitulla, flsign the ol terror exists scat in of tin i.« ton a of < i»unt> s»llo cpuuty, Tex., eighty mile- south of Fiil .Antonio. As the result of fatal juals 1 .existing in the community County tXimmtssiotter Jlill ami ami another man have been shot down and killed in cold bteuft within the mst month, and the »f both, although perfectly mill well lv0ou r y, lmvt*not Ik'oii unvstrfj. I . - i j I dot'* eigilstpl eomuiittees have organ i/.ed n> huirt the a.-sn.-dns, but t!■.<■> seem : *° «»<*«•»*' headway, all Hough it is mi j d*’™ *oM '!>•’> the murderers have never ,rl * tliCCOUHtV. IIk* town is pi. a u t m all) ........ in-.rtl;.i h.v, ««.! is SX. i i^ wut a “ ou tljl ' ( ak «' P j boMWeil the two Inctions . into wlimit the tommuMK eominunitv f is divided 1 A. _ • LAND . GRANT DECISION. ; , The AUbau .,1 and ( l...«in.... 0 K,. Itnilroaii Cnnn.t Condemn ( en.ln .,«-da. In the ease of the Alabama ami Chat tanooga railroad company again-..... , Tennessee and Coosa railroad | c.iiipany , the secretary ol the interior has alhrmed i the decision of (Commissioner Spaiks, of July 31) 1885, which held that a tract of laud within the six miles granted limits of the grant to tin* state of Auihama by j the act of.June 3, 1856, to aid in (lie eon- 1 Struefion of the Tennessee and Cmisa <£ j Alabama and Ohnttauooga railroad com | pany, as indemnity, notwithstanding the the -fact flint the Tennessee and Coosa railroad has not been eonstmeb-d The decision Is iiuide on the ground that the grant;' in question has never been foifeit ed bV congress. The. case involves sev j „ vi,lc ni l thousand " irt acres icl of land in tie-Hums ' A1 - " TRO UBLE AT NIAGARA. A Kmrffe M asm ol Rock Falk on the Cnna* (linn Hhlo. Over 220,000 Quebec yards of lime¬ stone and slate rock of the bank of Nia¬ gara river, Hear Horseshoe falls, on the Canada Side, fell out Thursday. The mas* fell with a tremendous crash, which Wtw h eu*d ami ennsiftirably fflffor miles around. the The break has changed n^a ajK pearanoe of the bank, now a dark i&bkqk chasm can h” seen behind the Itdla fr/Sn 'B _ _ , The mass ofljcock which , »i; tA*. feet dor pi ngy*!., % I’n 1 , ‘. 'indr* 1 1 aria seventy ?'m« -EJjv main rock lias left a perpendicular wall, The tremendous weight of the ice which has accumulated during the past three weeks, with steady frosty weather and low water was the cause of the break. DUTCH TO BKTTI.K IN FI.OKIIIA. Negotiations which were completed syndicate of at Dutch Jack¬ sonville by a bankers in Amsterdam, Holland, acquired from the Florida Land Mortgage compa¬ ny, limited, a vast body of timber land in west Florida. The purchase embraces a solid area of nearly nine hundred square miles heavily timbered. This is the largest single transaction made in the state since the great I fission sale in 1881. The syndicate proposes to form a great land and colonization company, building a railroad into the purchase and coloniz¬ ing from Holland. HCIMIEHMU HI III-* VICTI.U’H MON. The dead body of Nel-on Borden Wila found near Point Plea-ant., West Virginia. Three years ago Humeri killed John Letcher during a quarrel. Lester’s W)11 Aimer, then 13 years old, told his | mother and others (Inti when he was big j enough lie would kill Borden. The fact , that lie was hunting yesterday in the I woo ,j K where Borden was found dead 1 ,rives color to the belief that he has car- 7ied out hi* threat, a non.Hit B XI* MW I ON. The boiler of A M. Morris’s mill, nt. Jeannette, La., exploded Saturday, d> molishing the boiler house. Demos Morrissee ami Gmlfrc-y i’roost were bad ly KCttldud. E. Pellerin and a negro called Gus were slightly scalded, and a girl who was pulled from under the ruins is believed to he fatally scalded. ki.hiai.oi onov The remains of sixteen of the crew of ' Elizabeth k( . (| f s lui> were ■ • i Saturday in the cemetery of the H o.-iety at Norfolk, I|nr j er the supervision of Coi. C. W. t j J( , G,.|,j,a n vice consul, who rep OWII ,. rs of the ship. The tlia clja|)laiD l ,U,u of the society officiated. A SMALL PUI.’CII STOLEN The mail pouch for the north bound train, containing about 100 letters from New Orleans and Maysville, including two registered letters, was stolen 1 J'JENITKNTIARY BUItNED. The state penitentiary of Kentucky. at Frankfort, was burned Saturday, The building and contents were valued at $<>5,000, and the insurance was only $8,000. Fortunately, all the prisoners were locked up in the cell house, which is a separate building and fire-proof. NO. 2. INFORMATION W!Af4Y PERSONS v at thift season I i IlNw suffer from yk ^either y Jleatlachff mmh f/ mm jr Rheumatism, $fcural(ji(t r r Pains in the JAmhs, Jiaek and \ / Sides, Had Wood, 'sf ( uiliycstian - Dyspepsia, Malaria , Constfpation A Kidney Troubles, VOLINA CORDIAL CURES RHEUMATISM, Bml Blood and impurities, K idney Troubles, by cleansin'? the blood of nil its streagtbeDing all parts of the body. -m—VOUHA CORDIAL CURES Pol-f SICK-HEAOACHE, .Sh \,,, .-.Ol ‘ i itiins iu (hr l.tiiito, - . .- (0USJ CQRfllJL (KS DYSPEPSIA. StSSSS 5 ®** ' —VOLINA COPDIAt CUBES KEBVOUSKESS, -•—VOLINA CORDIAL CURES OVERWORKED nnd ))eiie„i.. l*«»y and «ct!.v gemma qhtMn*. Vuitf, JUsilwiiiMfi.t ami i.atriti.Min tui a v «n..» \i,„,.<t i>i..r, ^gp|g for 1SST - a i»:uni«m»»*. coinj»u;u: Muii.-a<mr«-d|itofa:c.iio«iagestamp. am VOLINA DRUC & CHEMICAL CO. QALTI1VIORE, MO.. U. S. A. Georgia o Railroad Co. Stone Mountain Hoiite. OEEH’E (iKNEKALMANAGER, ‘ A t ! ({l?STA ’ tJA NOV '-Id, 1886,' sira,n ' , •» . ^ , lie immiving |i.isseii(?ei m i dido will "qV!’',' J't ’/'■ (10th meridian time, 3* ' J xs'r—B AttgiiHl aii.Y. a time - ' Leave Augusta 10:50 a m Mae,on 7:lt* am “ MilledgevUlo 11 o 20 i:t a m 11 WaSUiiigten Crnwfordville a m Arrive I 20 p m “ Athens 5 20 p n» “ < lainesville « 25 p m ‘ “ Atlanta 3 45 p IS No. 2 —East—Daily Leave Atinuta . . ■ HOf/a : “ (iai ncs ville . . 5 55 a ( . Mhi-ns . 9 ooam “ Crawferdvillb I2t2j»m Arrive MilledgevUlo Washington . - 2 4 20%m 49 pm “ , . “ Macon . . 3 '>J5p» .if << Augusta . . p I,T m KO. 3 ,VKST—PA1I,V. NO. 4 KAST—il* I Lv. Augusta »:4(>,p miLv. Atlanta 7:110 p,m Lv.CrTv'll l 15|plm Ar.C'f'dv’U Ar. Atlanta 0:40 aim Ar.August.-, s.cqla'm ; 's n.r. - j* - Li'ftye fug'-Aa j vi ( m aia | f.-'.i vv irawfordvlllo Wusliington 9 ■% 41 & Arrive t un “ Athens , 12 Vi aa» •* Gainesville K v, pm “ Atlanta 4 DO pm No 28 —-East—Daily. Leave Atlanta 2 45 p m *' Gainesville 5 55 a n, Arrive Athens 7 40 pm “ Crawfnrdville 6 «8 pm Arrive Washington 35 pm Leave, Washington n*. 20 pm Arrive Augusta 0C p m r-eTSUPKllII IMI’KOVKI) SLEEP EitS TO AUGUSTA AN 11 ATLANTA. Train No 27aml 28 will stop at and reeeir* paHiuigers to anil Iron-, thefollowing p ant* only: Crovetown, Harlem, ’rawfordvitle Hearing, T liomson, Norwood, Harnett, < Madison, Kn» Union Paint, Gteeitesboro, lodge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyen Lithonia, Stone Mountain and Deeator. The Fast Line has Through Sleepf from Atlanta to Charleston GUKKN} K. K. HOJ1SKV, JNO.W. Gen. Passenger Atft. Gen’i. Manage Jok W. White, Agent Gen’e. Traveling Passenger 'll I CASH STORE. j i ’-HAWr >m>V) un . „ GEORGIA. Since I opened last September for striet y cash, my trade has increased and mj customers seem to wear a pleasant smii* oil their faces over the great bargains re ceived by their thoughtfulness of saving dimes and dollars, knowing that cash ia riding and regulating business of every kind. So, in accordance with the above fact as encouragement, t again invite my customers to come and buy for cash at y-u can and save trouble and extra charges. I have on hand a handsome lot of dry goods, boots, shoes, hats groceries* glass-ware and everything that can be found in a general store which 1 will s#S low dovv nfor the cash. G1IARI.ES BERGSTROM. — RULES: Legal Advertisements must be paid for IN ADVANCE, or satis¬ factory arrangements made for the I payment of same. j *........ arc due after first insertion. Advertisements that run 3, 6 or 12 months are due Quarterly. Subscribers will find anotiee on the margin of their paper at the first of the month if their subscription ex¬ pires during the month. Clem. G. Moore.
