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*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 -“
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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.
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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,
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STONE: & GAVAMGH,
©OTTON + FA0T0RS
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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.
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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
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Men I 11 irGtl ri-it'cln i- Gil. H'plly «nrr*nH*d.
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