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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1891)
*TBE DEMOCRAT* iS THE Official Organ OF TaMerro*Comity. By Moore Bros. VOL. XY. A SNAKE WRECKED HOME. A jersey Family Seriously Be¬ deviled. THE KITCHEN FLOOR SINKS IN And Reveals a Terr'bio Sight Uuder the Dearth. A WrantfliDg mass of Reptiles. The Philadelphia Press tells a story of a home wrecked by snakes. The scene is located conveniently in New Jersey, and the story relates to a family named Githens, who lived on a farm near Lambertsville. The '••ess says: On Friday last, as Mr. and Mrs. Githens moved around to get their breakfast that morning they noticed the earthen floor about the big stove in the kitchen somewhat cracked. But they gave it little at¬ tention, and went on with the meal. Soon after 7 o’clock the farmer left the house and walked .a hundred yards off to the barn, where he was getting in some hay. His attention was called from the job not long after¬ ward by a wild shriek from his wife, who rushed out of the rear door ot the hut and beckoned excitedly for her spouse. He hurried towards her. While Mrs. Githens was upstairs in the garret she had heard a jumb¬ ling sound below, and looking down The rickety stairway to the kitchen saw a strange sight. The stove gaping was gone, and in its place was a hole 3 or 4 feet- across. Without waiting to investigate she summoned her husband. Amazed at the collapse of his kitchen floor Githens got a lima bean-pole from the yard, 8 feet long ) and shoved it down into the gaping chasm to test its depth. Standing back from the edge lest the earth ishould further crumble he reached the rod down six feet, when it seem >ed suddenly to be gripped by a mus <cular hand down below, moved and Jf.wisted about and VtpA Anally wrenched from his grasp. Involuntarily lie started back and ¥i.s wife screamed. Things were .serious enough to make a call upon the neighbors desirable. A number of Githens’ friends were told of the crisis and hurried vvith him back to the kitchen. The hole meanwhile had become bigger- A piece of newspaper was touched with a match and tossed in¬ to the aparture. As it blazed up in its descent it revealed some sort of of life in the big cavern. A lantern was finally got and its rays thrown down the black hole. And then the three men saw a 'sight that made them sick with fright. The whole bottom of the chasm was one bristling bed of snakes—smooth, shining black snakes. The reptiles were of every size. A big head, with open jaws ; and darting forked tongue, was rais¬ ed up above the squirming heap that must have belonged to a huge 12 Joot crawler. Wound in and out liu'ough his folds were scorces of IjbIw snakes from 6 inches to 3 feet long. Tht whole earth seemed to be wriggling, and at the disgusting sight the party threw themselves backward from the loathsome place. They took but one look more, and that was enough. The whole house, it was evident, would soon be over run with the creeping horde, and Farmer Githens and his wife moved away to a neighbor’s. How Rats Steal Eggs. The town, Waco, Tex., is infested with rats, in countless legions. They run through the streets, invade the stores and residences, devour grain, flour and groceries, and make of themselves unmitigated nuisances, which the application or ordinary and extraordinary remedies has fail ed to remove. While they accept almost any * thing that comes in their way as edible, they have a penchant of eggs, arc! the way they convey them from the nests to their boles i- thus re¬ lated bv Sam Whaley, the jailor, who has made their habits a study: “I set an old black hen right up there.” he said, pointing to the cor ner of _ the . jail ... yard, . ^ Dan Nord’s horses are stabled, “and they earned off every egg, and broke the tlie hen up. She went laving again in two weeks and stall. - Two her nest in another were in the nest, and these remained Che €mmf 0 ll*" lie undisturbed, but when the third was laid it disappeared, two still remain ing. I watched and saw the rats— four of them. “The smallest of the quartet strad¬ dled his four legs over the egg, hug¬ ged it tight, then rolled over on his back, holding the egg tightly pressed against his belly. One rat took the prostrate one by cars just like a boy holding the handles of a wheelbar¬ row and kept him steady, while the other two took him by the tail, and they went, pushing and pulling until they had gotten the egg to their hole under the brick wall.” A. Kischner, one of the largest li¬ quor dealers-in Waco, has observed that there are sober rats, who never touch a drop; moderate drinkers, who take just enough, and regular sots who get drunk every day,^ and and possibly go home and heat their families, The drip from the heftr faucets is where the rats do their drinking. Tin pans arc kept under the faucets to catch the waste beer ami protect the floor, and to these pans the rats resort. Tne moderate drinker takes a sip or two, then wipes his wiskers on his front leg and gallops off. The old toper drinks deep, reels off to the back yard, falls clumsily into his hole, and the squeaking heard after he gets into his cellar, indicates cith¬ er that he is whipping his wife, or she him, or that lie is making her rush after remedies. This is Democracy. The following are the democratic articles of faith as laid down by Thomas Jefferson : 1. The people, the only source of legislative power. 2. The absolute and everlasting severance of church and state. 3. The freedom, sovereignty and independence of the respective states. 4. The Union a confederacy, a while they shake hands with each other.! 1 4 *ilia:- ,n *<y* raised.' ■— 1 all depends on is compact; neither a consolidation nor a centralization. 5. The constitution of the Union, a special writer ot granted powers, limited and defined. 0. The civil power paramount to the military power. 7. The representative to obey the instruction of his constituents. 8. Elections free and suffrage uni versa). 9. No hereditary ofliec, or order, or title. 10. No taxation beyond the pub¬ lic want. 11. No national debt it possi Me. 12. No costly splendor of adminis¬ tration. 13. No proscriptions of opinion or of public discussion. 14. No unnecessary interference in individual conduct, property or speech. 15. No favored classes and no mo¬ nopolies. expended 16. No public monies except by warrant, of special appro¬ priation. 17. No mysteries of government inaccessible to the public eye. 18. Public compensation for pub¬ lic service: salaries moderate and pervading economy. Judge Waxem’s Political Pro¬ verbs. Better turn a man loose when he gits too big for his party. Newspapers is the makin cr brak¬ in' of the average statesman. Thar wouldn’t be no polifishans ef thar wasn’t no gait reseet-. A Congressman that makes money outen his job needs watchin' A man ain’t good for mutch else after bein’ President of the United Statcs. Hohlin’ offis never seems to git tiresome to the holder. The aigs the American Eagles lavs * ain’t fer sale at enny price. VV hm a tanner gits in debt i v, tne next string he wants is to git in pol hicks. • In votes is power. glorious . W«Wic . This grate and of ours ts worth every cent she h» trogi us - of this . t The mothers nation willin’V, kt * he fathers wair the [>ainM ! ^ ^ T wheel bosses vou read ab )Ut i s almighty darn ; tn v,beni sort of critters when you ■ undertake to drive them S day.— Detroit Free Free. ‘ ,fc IDe- , v r otecl tc .O O-Sr3.ers.ll3 7 '-” CRA WFORDYILLE, GEO RIDA Y, SEPTEMBER 4,1891. OREM OLD AUGUSTS. The City by the Foaming Savan¬ nah River. THE COTTON MARKET OF THE SOUTH. A Few of the Moet Prominent, Success¬ ful end Prompt Cotton Factors ot the Electric city. When you see recorded in the daily journals that Augusta is on a move, you can set it down as being a fact. A Ilcrald representative was in the electric city awhile this week, and he was surprised to see so much improvement going on. Hus line of improvement starts at the ear shed. and all about there are new buildings just being completed, and along the street as you themselves go up town, improvements present on all sides. , On Bread street, thf^e are many large, handsome and -J? *ly buildings being erected and the city shows more thrift and go-ahead now than it lias in ten years. Business is rapidly regaining its standard and the outlook now is that money will be flush in Augusta this season. HIIir.KY .NIXON & CO., A firm of young j’. gentlemen F. com¬ posed of Messrs. D. J. Langdon, Sibley, well Iv. N»' -o'mid S. are fixed with cash, brains and warerooms to do mi iftunonse cotton commission business this "business fall. They ine experienced in tlisir and always treat their chstomeFs in the best manner and on Very reasonable terms. Their place of business is 731 mid 733 Reynolds street. They want cotton shipped to them from this county and wo invite your at tention to their card in this paper. 8TOSE «. <-A VAN A mill Ave among the leading factors on 1 machinery agents of Augusta. Their excellent warerooms and offices are at 101 Jackson street, corner of Rey¬ nolds and opposite the cotton ex change. Mr. O. M. Stone, one of the Lest known business men of Augusta is salesman for this firm, which in ” treatJi ' nri-'Cs tor the t llU Us cu to them. The I>kmocbat saks of its readers a careful perusal of the announce menls of these most reliable firms and hopes that yon will ship them your cotton crop this year, feeling that, in doing the square claim thing by you, they will hereafter you as regular customers. PAY YOUR DEBTS FIRST. We can’t see the need of laws these days to help a man get out of paying his honest debts. There are hundreds of them all around us who make debts every time then opportunity them¬ presents itself and worry selves twice the value of the pur¬ chase in trying to keep from paying the debt. The kind of material they are made of we are not able to tell, but they arc all through the country. So much so, that it is often the case that people are heard to say that thy have lost confidence in the hu¬ man race. This is a terrible state of affairs arid we are sorry for the country and ourselves when we are forced to note these facts. A newspaper published in the United States sheads its first page with these words: He avIio won’t pay bis just debts forfeits the respect of his fellow men. The Augusta News adds the fol¬ lowing good words: A man that can and will not pay an honest debt should be made to do it. A promise to pay money violated intentionally is just as dishonest and disreputable as the practices of a dead Vx-at who goes through the world sponging his living out of others. A man of pride will never, if possible to prevent it, allow his debts discussed and his mean way to avoid paying related and denounced Lv collectors, as is often done, if you don’t intend to pay an honest debt which you know to be right when you can do it junta s well as not, you c rtaitily care very little about your reputation in a business coin inunitv for honest and square deai ing. « j v England the owner of the car.ine that has no collar is hauled U n and fined for his neglect. The dog is not molested.” Send this to Georgia Legi.-I , itur- and , enquire , ; the dog law “that was to be in tms State. ! ^ mix will soon liecome a law, , P ^ board of ^pUy equalization ^ na| sub¬ ’ f j jeet to taxation in the state. file ^ £i conS Ht of five citizens, 88 per day each day while engage 1 in the discharge 1 of'official duties. This will increase the value of property in state, and it is a good law. -1 man should not object to paying what he has. THIS TIME THE WIFE PAYS. sII 1C MV ST 01VK 1IRR cowboy nvs HAND $3 A WKKK AS alimony. A Patterson, N. J. dispatch says: George Griiushaw claims to lie a cowboy. He was married several years ago to a buxon widow, ft was ,, case of love at first sight. Tlio couple lived happily together foi several years. Last spring they be¬ gan to have disagreements. George wanted to move out west, where ho could toss the lariat and bring the angry steer to grass, Mrs. Grim shaw preferred to end her days in a little cottage on Sand Hill and re¬ fused to accompany her cowboy to any place further away than Coney Island. This dissatisfied George. He took things in his own hands and attempt¬ ed to run the Griiushaw ranch. He made a disastrous failure of it. llis wife left him and went to keep house ill the mountains at Preaknoss for John DeWitf the owner of a small truck farm. George was much put out by his wife’s absence and, being a full fledg¬ ed cowboy, lie would not deign to tower himself by working. Ho ed on Lawyer Randall to see if was any law in New Jersey by a wife could be compelled to con¬ tribute toward her better half’s sup¬ port pending divorce proceedings. Lawyer Randall summoned Mrs. Grimsliaw before a jury and at the jurors’ advice she consented to al¬ low her husband *3 a week alimo ny. Griiushaw felt elated over the jury’s verdict and gave expression to a couple of Apache war whoops, sim¬ ilar to those lie heard in Arizona, in the San Oatlinn mountains, several years ago. lie expect* his lir ' **■-* Tifrejrrjiwi 1 iBn ■ State Elec, this Year. Pennsylva 2,'will elect treasurer and general, and vote whether**, ntnmal conven¬ tion shall be In 1 elect delegates to the same. Iowa, Xov. 8 4 elect Governor and other State ‘ers and Legisla¬ m ture. & m if * . Maryland, Xo S, will elect a Governor and of r State officers and Legislature, ole upon six proposedrunendmts to the constitu¬ tion of the St/X ' Massachusetts. i.v. 8, will elect Governor and o huiie officers and Legislature. J 5 ' Mississippi, X,will elect three railroad commission* and Legisla¬ tors. Nebraska, Nov. will elect asso¬ ciate justice of t supreme court and two regents < '» State univer¬ sity. —..... ' ijy Now Jersey; ' j,’. 8, will elect part, of the Senatend Assembly. New York, No ° will elect Gov¬ ernor, Lieutenant t veruor, secretary of State, eomproli treasurer, attor¬ ney gen oral, engii f and surveyor, the Senate, the Am hbly, ten justi¬ ces of the supreme onrt and a rep¬ resentative in CoVvcss from the tenth district. 4 Ohio, Nov. 3, wiielect Governor and other State offtir* and Legisla¬ tors and vole upon 1 ?-reposed amend - ment to the com- lion providing for uniformity of taitiun. Virginia, Nov. 3y ill elect one half its Senate andp House of Del egatea. New No Times, Most all the >* 1 cs both white and colored are u ing in favor of Ihe Ocala 1’latfo Tins people ot kgia are to be seriously troubled Wn with one Scott Thornten 01 y sltage. Tub people no 'uiuyo want to know where * i 0onstitu tion stands o- '♦fflrm. Wrfi if Oh *1,000,000 u. gmself. He should not b* m aid to come South. One third party delegation has been heard from in llabcrsHm county in this State. We exp them to be tlie last. I , Tin. negroes aroujd tli Quitman do get are going to strike jf not their own price for -inking coton, says the Montczuranjltecord. Tin; Hartwell Huf ventures to say of the next Speaker of the House of Representatives : He will be a gentleman as well n a Democrat. And the wheat trust in the west was only a trick by shrewd dealers to cheat the poor farmer again. There are so many slick tongues in this world and there :an be so many nice things written. Look sharp or you will be left evert time you taclc a bust farmer. Tiiosk noble Alliancemen in con¬ vention in Atlanta jumped on the legislature for not putting that *2.6, 000 encampment fum,l in the sum to be given to the widows as pensions. They are right. The) widows need that money worse thin the military boys of the statm? I f we had a law in Georgia making the shirt on any man’ - hack, and all other property he ow nz, subject to levy and sale for hn i debts, there would not be so rnurl. \ talking about till! scarcity of money} It is not so much tlie scarcity of looney that ails the country as it is'etim lack of con¬ fidence; proper seen ('lies and better collection laws. Exc hange Tm-.UK will be a b% convention in Atlanta on the first Wednesday in October next to cob Mist plans of re¬ ducing the acreage •otfeon next year, The conven r»n should be largely attended an 1 j jg farmers of Georgia and the Sc h should raise - I only half the arnoum G I now do. We most railse more «»Dre- wean quit the fh-iaww* | ^ 1 -“ --- A gentleman of . „ ! j- , on , has figured it out that Berrien . *l>nty has cient area to give t< acres of land to every family ii ,e ° r?,a ’ iXl . further, that these , acres ligently cultivated w SU furnish an abundant support L a family of five persons. This acre Imzmes* not only • k m mmen county. 1 en acre »ei en >** *■' this countv wou naze a tine uv U n fS : an otuthan !••• Highest of all in Leavening Power. —Latest U. S. Gov’t Report. fg% :%Rlt fi © . h B W 3 gm" : ABStmrmx pm m Express robberies m Georgia will soon be as common as they used fo be in the west. There must ho something wrong somewhere. It, is settling so it is an easy way for ras cals to got boodle. Ox OT TUKRK ELI tin Cures 4 to 5 day*. Guaranteed not to cause atrioture. If lined in tlmo is a preventive 76 eta. a bottle, the same also as other 81. nrupn ra¬ tion*. Waahlnsfton, l’repareil.by <Ja. the For EU sale Modi cine Hammaok Co., * Bird, Crawford vllle, tta. hy fine show cask for catalogue. TERRY M'F'G CO., Nashville, Ti;t; t --------AUGUSTA .STKAM UUNIMG Main Omoa and IVok - I’MnckHonSt., AugiuU: < First Class WorK fJu:i? n’ (! o’ui k tui noil over to the Urmocha i ml ilovvn. For further linfnrr.ii;' r. the Kdilor. soil. 1 Till] DEMOCRAT J»«m h all KIti'lft of nloo «)oI> Worlc.^fl a, t. hirlry. I*. K. NIXON, H, It, LAND HUM. cini r-\/ * m.w-M & CO.. ©0TTON + FA6T0RS, «UAN0 DEALERS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 73! and 733 Reynolds St. AUGUSTA, GA. IJberal advances made on all exuisigiimwns, prices „ ling;,.bi" and T'os tur iUlied at market Sibley’s Ammoniated Dissolved Bone, .......................... STONE: & GAVAMGH, ©OTTON + FA0T0RS -- MACHINERY # AGEN6S. No. 10! Jackson Street, Opposite Gotten Exchange, AUGUSTA, GA. o. JVC. STOTSTID, Salosman. made consignments. Commissions 80 cents. Storage 26 cents. Liberal advances on Jesse TbL©L_ipson 11 & C f> _—Mawtt»aot 0 **b* Or- - DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, Mouldings, Brackets, Laths, Lumber and Shingles. -DEALERS IN Window Glass and Builders’ Hardware Plaining Mill and Lumber Yard, Hale Street t nr Central KailoadTard. AUGUSTA, TH»8 18 ONE Of THE 40 STYLES WHICH WE WlAKE The Tattler And Slanderer. Backbiting—that’s just the term exftc tly! These blood sucking in¬ sects which fasten themselves on the tendercst spot along the vertebral column—you can neither sec or reach them, and, like all cowardly and despicable enemies, they always strike behind the hack. Call it not a fault, rather brand it ftH A crime. You pick my pocket, and yon take the earnings of, per¬ haps a week- you pick at my repu¬ tation by the poisoned beak of slan¬ der, and what do yon do? -you take away my credit; put thorns in my midnight pillow; cause every man I meet to look upon me with susjiic ion ; you let loose an invisible, all pervading taint into the atmosphere, a gainst which I cannot defend my¬ self. ft produces something worse than disease for it can be checked by no skill and can be reached by no medicine. Happiness flies from the household before the breath of the slanderer and it is in his power to snatch the bread out of the mouth of hungry children and turn tlie en tire family out of doors. Of all the faults which taint and tarnish human nature this reveals very worse phrase of spontanc malice and wickedness. I can look with charity upon of a man who is occasionally away by his passions, We find a kindly spot m our harts the killer who, maddened by a provocation, strikes the blow—we can pity the ree lirig drunkard, who has been en¬ and drawn down from his self by thoughtless, convival companions—wo can almost excuse the thief who has been driven by the hunger-wolf to appropriate the goods of bis neighbor for Ids life is sweet; we can drop a tear over yon¬ der wretched creature, who is mak in# a trade of his charms in the street, when we call to mind the want, the temptations, and “atan like inducements which she so long wHnsMsx. , f „f starva tion. But ransack, as we may, our whole museum of charity, and we find a solitary patch or rag I wherewith to shade a solitary spot of the moral loatbsomenes s of the aUnden-r. He or she is an -nemy ^ V) mat) and to society and , himself, and can serve no one but the devil. No. ICO, STAR GEAR SPINDLE BODY. s.Ttrsjj. noon nxm, c» ruwu vsszvxr" 14J ■ uMt sTo sns. sgi g w assr KINGMAN, STURTEVANT & LA R R A B E E —HLEiaa MUI LBEM fr roi> run, catalogues. BIHCHAWITONf M* V. n37 mama 4. a o '4 E . . e a PRAOTICAI. K km SS \ !*THE DEMOCRAT* 13 THE Best Ad'it Medium IN j Middle Si.25 Per Tear NO. 30. Tnt: legislature will adjourn on the 18th of September. Tin: Alliance, convention in Atlan¬ ta fully endorsed the Ocala Plat¬ form. Home Council. Wa take plensiue In calling the atten¬ all tion of mothers to a homo euro for fllaease# of the Stomach mid Bowels, • medicine so Iona needed to curry chlldro# safely tlnough the critical si, ;><s ot Teeth Mf. FITTS’ RUMINATIVE 1* an Incalculable blosnlnp: to mother anl child it la an Instant relief to cello of Infanta, a disease* with which Infants of suffer as much the first four months thotr life It iilvosaweet rest to the sick and fretful child. It strengthens and builds flush to up the the punv. weak corrects,drum gives appetite iiom ana thS bonds, cures Dlnnhneu and Dysentciy. A panacea tor the children Try on* hotth*. It ousts only. BOTTLE, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A 1'2 ■ 1 til "1 P fl i nJb K ITH !.A i l.t r I V,‘MOVEMENTS ? *’v«* «?' C i «»{| t. GttitrAnkf'd. VV-'Y^V’ " ’ N 1 1 ;o!i>'. rtf • i :m^ssam .!». standard I ! SCALES Men I 11 irGtl ri-it'cln i- Gil. H'plly «nrr*nH*d. 3 ^00 $1‘j ’ l; Low, *„«W. ATI ANT.V f'iA ''' U VI. f, A H*'T RXa2 DUIAILI AID O O 0 O 9 IO? IXPIUOIVR
