Georgia Historic Newspapers

    *THE DEMOCRAT*
IS THE
Official Organ
OF
TaliaferFo^County.
By Moore Bros.
VOL. XV.
THE TOILER.
Heavy the heart and weary the brain,
But write, my pen, O, write!
For rest from labor will come again.
With a kiss from her lips at night.
Sonnet and story—trace them well.
In beautiful lines and bright;
But the tonrtercst thought in my heart
will dwell
%
On the kiss from her lips at night.
And the world may frown on the head
bowed down,
And its splendors veil from sight;
I bear the cross, for I gain the crown
With a kiss from her lips at night!
—Frank L. Stanton.
O’NEAL THE SCOOT.
Some Daring Deeds During the
Civil War.
STEALS THE GENERAL’S BEST HORSE.
He was Demanded to Show His Papers
hut Showed a Pistol and then
Escaped.
Among the many brilliant figures
whose gallantry and daring won only
local celebrity in North Carolina dur¬
ing the war, none was more con¬
spicuous than O’Neal, the scout. Ac¬
complished and daring, yet he was
wholly unknown beyond the limit of
his field of action. He was a hand¬
some man, tall muscular and grace¬
ful, a fine swordsman, a capitol shot
and one of the best riders that ever
put foot in a stirrup.
He never forgot a road or the lay
of the land, and he always remem¬
bered a face or a voice. For the
rest he was cool, quick-witted, quiet
and observant. During the time
that my command was in eastern
North Carolina I frequently served
as a scout with O’neal and not sol
dom accompanied him into the ene¬
my’s lines especially about the time
that General Hoke made his march
against New Berne.
In that town lived a pretty woman
who was a great friend of O’Neal,
and who was also much admired by
General Terry, the commandant.
m Union tdTO&ra»<T 8 iawSBe«
Miss-for patriotic reasons, accept
ed the attentions of the general, and
betrayed his confidences unscrupnl
ously to O’Neal. Whenever there
was a ball given in the city O’Neal
attended if possible. Superbly uni
formed as a federal officer or plainly
dressed as a citizen, he invariably
monopolized Miss-, to the great
chagrin of General Terry, who rel
ished a bit of flirtation with a pretty
woman as much as most men.
On one occasion, when O’Neal had
absorbed the lady’s attention. Gen¬
eral Terry came up and abruptly de¬
manded his name and regiment.
O’Neal was masquerading as a eap
tain in a ne wly arrived regiment, and
gave the required information with¬
out a moment’s hesitation. But Gen¬
eral Terry’s suspicions had evidently
been aroused, and lie demanded to
see his papers.
O’Neal measured lum with a cool
stare and then said quietly:
“This is a very singular demand,
General Terry, but if you will ac
company me to the hall, where I left
mv overcoat, I think I can satisfy
you.” singular oli
General Terry, with
tuseness, if he really had any sus
pieions, went with him. There were
only a few soldiers standing near the
oor, and they were absorbed, wateb
halirooiii. Now it chanced
that O’Neal vs hung Iris coat
> v
door. He .
near the outer
hand into the pocket saying:
“I hope tbis will settle the qiu-s
tion satisfactorily, general,” and as
he withdrew it he brought the heavy
barrel of a navy revolver with stun
I'"* t “ 8 « fhp head rE i- of the
doubting general, and, dashing at tot.
speed through the open door, turned
,c«n, OT » 8 . ll ,V,,.-, 1 „«»rfU.Io,c
; panic
to saoeiao. ,
On another occasion his audacity
took a bolder flight. General Terry
owned a superb mean.-colored thor
horse, which he valued so
highly that he had it cared for
a scion of royalitv. —
O’Neal had a passion for
ho.-scs, an*i wanted it, and bets ran
high, in camp as to how soon he
would ride in on the thoroughbred.
One day an awkward,
“sandhill tacky,” dressed in
as-dyed jeans and wearing large
Bilver-rimmed spectacle*,
himself at Terry’* headquarters
lie ,\v*
Ii ■ %■ r ■ M c m o c v al $
THE FARMERS’ SUCCESS
|
j j Q 0eg Not Dep end Only Ujtflj t&m
Legislation.
j
py^ SUFFICIENT FOOD CROPS,
Aud Raise Meat With Cheaper Food
than Corn. A writer in Augusta
Chronicle Uses Chufaa.
Nobody doubts, nobody denies,
that the farmers need relief—imme¬
diate and permanent relief.
Burdened with debts, with inert
gages and liens on the land, stock
and growing crops, While cotton is
actually below coat, it should not ex¬
cite surprise, that they so eagerly dis"
cuss the merit of every scheme of
relief that is presented.
“Tut’: sunTREASOiiv io.a n”
has been discussed from every possi¬
ble standpoint. The stay law even
has been seriously considered by
some, and it is not patting the mat¬
ter in too strong a light to say that
necessity, if nothing else, will com¬
pel us to make a change. 1 have no
substitute for the “subtreasury,” but
I know that I have
“SOM ETHlSl 1 nr.TTEu’
than the plan which too many of
our farmers arc now pursuing, to wit;
buying corn at SI and SI .2a and
meat 10 to 12 cents on tune, and ex¬
pecting to pay 1 he debt with 6 to 8
cents cotton. in common with all
true Democrats, i sincerely believe
that the legislation of the Republican
party has been unequal, oppressive
and burdensome to the great agri¬
cultural masses and interest*) of the
country, and I trust that the present:
agit *tion and discussion of the van
ous measures of reform abolition and<l$^|j|f of all
may result in the un¬
just and vicious laws; yet it is true,
lhat uv > a * farmors > liavc l ,laced
‘N y‘» ls 10 ba bomc >,
oni ow n ...|ou utr.,, an< wi nce, i.
1 ; v
of making!
- food ourselvw d
. tor an
QWr „ tock thc wi8eHt measures of re
^ not 8ave us from ru im
-
cue ip money
^ ^ 8toughtly advocated by
^ ^ * by others
^ know tllat cheap lar a and ba
w m bo indorsed by all. I have
' ’
, ated jn farm, that
bui)(lanec of mo>t ^ lard can be
rii<( . a allll04t frce of cost b V plant
inff th<J , lg ish cllu fa.”
On the 17th day ' of last Septem
. . .. „„
h X ,».v
,__
planted in tho middles. Iron, the
*<‘pteniher «tb of March,
'ome.gi y <> - nigs,
Hading pi^s, in ebufas, and fed in
than thirty bushels . of ,
this tune less
^ rn to them. 1 killed fifty fine
Hiehcve s<, (irmly that the
el.ufa is an essential to successful
fanning, that 1 have, now growing,
on my farm eighty acres of them
«» d 1 havc known lhe,n t0
fail of making a full crop.
Planted alone, in row's four feet
apart and dropped two feet apart in
the drill guanoed lightly, they pro¬
duce on light pme land from twenty
five bushels per acre. About one
]ieck of seed will plant an acre .,,'
They make well, planted , in . middle .
of corn rows, and without extra
work. w When planted alone, one or
at most two light plowings and one
L *ing will suffice. They keep well
owrii the fall and winter in
They have no CtpuLiG a Io«<l I« r
fowl , ' lIei ntinuela^iig ' through
.hewmt,r,f,llo-r«l««,,lYl Wh.-n hogs .. - are fattened exclusive- , 8 -m.
l v on chufas the Lrd is net quite xo
S» .....
« n W» i- » objcMto. *' A B»W.
oft . tew day?* . will ...
on corn tor a ' rum
■» ^
c ff ., contiriUfe t0 knock at the
^ ; ^ ^ ^ ^
j Matures for all necessary reforms
better laws, let us plant le«s
introduce chufas and other
{oo ,i.,, ro< i n ciii" crops on
Sou . Jiern farm , and in ]c ,, than three
y ,.. lr , w ... wii | j K . t h f; most
| j aj|! , tJlc happiest people in the
wor j d
J. N, Omthakt. '
N v t:K ss, G.v, Aug. 24,1891.
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Advertise in the 1 >iukj' zki.
v
asked for a permit to pass
the lines. To a close examination
he gave such unquestionable evidence
of good faith, soitbrams and “buf
falo” loyalty that the pass was given
him amid much chaffing, and
al Terry asked him how he meant to
travel. “On a erittur,” he answered.
“A horse, 1 suppose you mean.
Well, where is he ?”
“Hitched out thar in the street,”
said the cracker, pointing to a small
fuzzy, indescribably wretched-look¬
ing little Banker pony.
“Why, you don’t expect to ride
twenty miles on that miserable brute,
do youasked the general.
“Thirttt 1 kin swap him for a bet¬
ter,” was the reply of the old man
as he shambled awkwardly out of
the room.
About two hours before dawn a
man riding a superb cream-colored
horse presented himself al the out¬
posts, showed his permit from Gen¬
eral Terry and was allowed to pass
through the lines without qcation,
and Three hours later both horse and
rider were safe in the confederate
lines.
When Terry’s hostler went in the
morning to feed and groom the mag¬
nificent charger he found instead a
small and most wretched-looking
Banker pony fastened with a rope
halter, to which was attached it card
bearing this inscription:
: “Swapped for a better,” and :
; left for General Terry with the ;
: compliments of O’Neal, Scout, ! :
; C. S. A.
it is needless to say that although
Terry offered a thousand dol¬
reward for O’Neal, he never saw
man or beast again.—An Old
Confederate, in New York Heconl
Cotton Seed and H tills
Gradually the prejudice against
use of cotton seed and hulls bpingl as a
food for i^ock arid hogs is
of heads ot caam were
on the hulls alone which
eat as readriy as hay, whith no
results. Used with cotton-seed
meal, ... the proportion o one pound
of meal to four pounds of hulls, they
have been found at the N orth aro
lma Experiment Station to form a
profitable feeding rat.on for steers.
We take the following details from
- press bulletin issued by Lb. Hat
•z. «•
, .
lour steers tod at N. L. expen
......
an average during tins time 7
Hffis of m«il, which ,s almost ex
aetly in proportion of 1 lb. meal to 4
of hulls. The average gain for each
steer was 118 lbs., and the total cost
for food was 80.85 each. The gam
in weight and the increased value of
thc beef over the original cost gave
an average profit of the above steers
of 89,88 per head in cash. The val
ue of the manure ,n addition will
doubtless pay for all thc trouble."
The roasting of the seed is advised
by those who have used them for
feeding hogs, and several machines
have been introduced for the purpose.
The one most commended is like a
coffee-roasting mill, but made of fine
wire gnaze. Into tbis tho need is
placed, and turned slowly over a lire
until the lint i t destroyed and the
«eed roasted so that it readily grinds I
_ j j f e 'j ‘| ow .- v i
on 1 mil
..»> * • ‘
made splendid mt animals with . . u
(" r - i,e '•} “ ■ ° a ^ ' j
the facdiU afforded t , ,
- y '
ar.ee of cotton seed and hulls, why i
,h,. ,.„ub b„ oitlicv l«ct
•* > 1 1 West? It can be
ih.in , , , ,.r
c icaj.ci ,
It seems almost as VTmc though Mr. ;U- ,
, prediction .. yet . to . come
kmson s was
true that t e mt wou < come <> «
the least valuable part of tie cotton
Govkrnov. Noi-.thf.n s‘.iU hoi<u
his charges against Pres. Li\ ing- G n
0 f the State Alliance and says that
j he Mr. wi Livingston u tt « t hem is at strong the proper in the time. state
as
he will ever be. His connection
j w -jth Pat Calhoun in speaking railroads over has
,be State in favor of
j greatly kened him with hundreds
j of the ALiancemen who are
s afraid to say so.
fcfc ZDSTrct©d.-to 3 C 3 -©n.ea:si 11 - 37 '."'
CllAWFOROVILLE, GEORG ID AY, SEPTEMBER 11,1891.
ATLANTA DEFEATED AND!
NOT THE SOLDIERS.
The papers of Georgia have been
full of abuse the past week
or two about the action of the
Legislature in net accepting the Sol¬
dier’s Home tendered them by the
people of the State through its prop¬
er officers.
It will he remembered that the
move to get up this Home was orig
mated in Atlanta, by the late Mr.
Grady, and at that time our position
was against the aid of the old sol
diers in that way. There are so few
who would attend a home a fancy
poor house as it would be- -that we
looked upon the move as a costly
one for the real benefit it would do
the needy soldiers of our state.
There is not an old Confederate
veteran in this county to-day who
would leave his family, home and
neighborhood to go to Atlanta and
be penned up m a city“ home t’ov the
few destitutes.” Their pride is too
great: and their deep love for the dear
ones with whom they have lived before
and since the war is too strong
to be trampled for (ho sako of a lew
oaves of bread and a few clothes
with which to keep out the cold.
Their love i’oi homes and dear
ones was shown in their efforts to
win the victory for their cause.
They offered their lives then to de¬
fend their homes and people, and
non they will spend the few remain
ing years of their lives in these eliei-
i she,! homes, and accept gladly any
gift the. State may give rather than
be separated from these fond ties.
I’ho old soldiers who have no
homes nor friends in (lie State are
very few and many of them would
Home would naturally be. Wo don’t
SSSnatr ’ i 1
M* us the ft. [est attempt
et canonsi; |
Never go tot. 1 ..Ac no ! s
bare The in devil the ft,'<| 4 ;|§ tired of
;
watching , i, ?
the ct
Theology :tlO' | [thing to
take into the p'< |
No man eve^ tolt i 0 icligion by
misting- God J
When (he \\J understaiul
•: - : .n it . Y, :
There U no *r 1 light in
the blind man’s <
The devil ii| indy to
go all the wavC t,li’him.
One bimd .# prove to
.•mother that tf- n 8 im
T'he devil is*l T Me when he
finds a man win. Ida work.
Love is the m pg can
lighten burdens fug to them.
Thc man that 5*'raid of lit 11 ®
sins is the man t
Every life is Jee, i speaking
either fw O’iirEY Must. Him.
If you want to f trem¬
ble resolve to l,e a* ' jiy Christian.
IIow we do ad- jltlie wisdom
of f mse who conn k us for ad
vii j lively . & j is only
it. j
hero and || | % r
who thinks. m fb
When you want id crook
ed made straight, !>'■, m JnA railroad
map. .
The in; long us ho
can keep a bad t: 1 ? ,i thinking
of his mother,
If head-work a n, live saved
the world itavc-vrid Obccn done
Iw fore the ffi.pi
To ,ha vo W'b; G- -’inlay is a
good things but ^ |i every
day life kbettffc u»tf
When you ave^ 1 ^ nve
the world pi ' : heart,
God will cowjo
Don’t do’ mm ;, will
r
wound vanr yoi
! : f
^ble mair in tt
most adfish blessed,^ one. f '
Tt is a 18
when wo have dor
We have p leased fa
Jordan &.
The above cotton V JumwHnm firm
» well known in this fin of Geor
gia and their fairness J that business is
one of their first rule causes
the people to pat, unm them so
^eely. They guarani e n
in nin every respect art f and t joy.- arc every wm
g
hand. See ,hip.bJ.Fr.io,, their carl in another
ool,„n„^„l of
your cotton. They vfcll handle it
fropular Davison & Fargo.
This firm, ycomposed of
Messrs. J. ilaiper Davison and
Charles T. Fargo, is only a few years
old but it has at nee stepped
into prominence in tin notion factor
and commission merchant kisiness in
Augusta. They now- rtO among
the first in their line and will extend
you all the oourtesies possible andin
sure you thc best market price for
your cotton. Read thyi" advertise
raent and send them some cotton.
V'ou will not regret it, /'
C. H. Howard &Co.
The firm of W. It. Howard &
Sons having been ciissblved by the
death of W. II. Howard, the senior
member, tho surviving partners,
Messrs. 0. II. Howard and 8 . P.
Weisiger, have formed under themselves
into copartnership the style of
C. 11. Iloward & Go. The old firm
of W. 11. Howard & Sons had a long
and honorable career;; their friends
were legion, and they always reeeiv
ed tlifur .share of cottyn* The new
* ir,n need no introduction to thc
planters of Georgb. [With y<-:«Y of
experience I and amplq facilities, they
^
t „ habile the fleecy x aple to the ad
vantage to the farmer. Their inter
W» .1 C, II. Ilowmi *
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| A A Card. r—J--*
\
) Qwi to the , !e ato « ou blisl
j ness manager, .Mr. itf. M. Jordan,
?ur Mr. Bm.tb has|b en uphisfarm
[•'* Viim^to-’thc devote his eri
, Iiumw We have
gecare d the s«rvice«o 1 Mr, Jno. V.
Tarver, one of the d le t and best
known cotton men a Augu-ta, for
- JSJy “J vl 0 ^Tk our
friends and in the future,
the past, use o tr best
j ors to please our pa ton*. The firm
j name remains uncle »g« d.
| read our ird m
j column. Jo ,j\S & SlHTIf.
Augusta, Ga., Auc, 20, ’91.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
IS* 'Sr% m
0/0 b* a lf'% p l.m O^ m. : a >
i
a ■'-j i
m
Dkmocrats should organize.
Lsstuau of tin 1 soldier’s home
money subscribed Uy the state
build the home should have been
in the shape of gifts to those
actually need help.
Home Council.
Wx take pleasuie in cel linn the atten¬
tion of mothers to a home cure for all
diseases medicine of the Stomach rout Bowels, »
so limy needed to carry children
safely lluough Clio critical Stage of Teeth
tog.
PITTS’ CARMINATIVE
Is an tnoalcutnWe Weaatng to mot hoi awS
child It Ih an Instant rellof to colic of
Infants. « dlscaus with which Infant*
suffer 8* much the first four month* <>l
their amt fretful life It child. .lives sweet It strenffthwis rest to tho Met) un-3
t-iiUda up th« weak glvea appi-Uti- aoi
flesh to the puny, corrects, drain from tin
bowels, cures llliinlioe.i ami .Dyseiibsiy.
A panacea for the chtldren Try one
bottle. It coats only.
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A BOTTU
ot tii mm m,i O n res
tin 4 to
fi days, (liinrnntoed not to eitu.-o
htrlctura. If used in time i - u
preventive 75 els. a bottle. I ho
\ name size as ether St. ttrepa r:v
tlens. l’repnrcil hy thc Kll Me.ll
cine Co., Wnshimiton, (in. her sale hy
llutnnmck & Bird, Crawfordville, t.a*
There is no one m Georgia wlio
"ill arc
than w,\ but we desire the aid to
given in a way that will do them
most, good generally. We don’t
the idea of the State’s paying
more money for the lino of officers
run the Home than is really receiv¬
ed by those who need aid.
It is a well known fact that At¬
lanta has heretofore had the Legis¬
lature hy the horns—or by some
other good hold—and that city lias
never before been defeated in any
matter of that kind which she want¬
ed the Legislature to do. And to a
great measure this single idea de¬
feated the acceptation of the soldier’s
Home. Wo firmly believe that if
the building had been in any other
city in the State, the Legislature
would have accepted it. It, was
not tho old soldier that was aimed
at in this defeat, but it was the
great city of Atlanta that has always
wanted everything and generally
got what she asked tho Legislature
for. Can we wonder that this great
wail, which started in the papers by
the people of Atlanta, caused such
a fuss?
Still we do not hold that the ac¬
tion of the Legislature was wholy
right. The people of thc State have
a right to be indignant at the
blunt action of the lower house of
the Assembly. They either should
have offered a substitute for the de¬
feated bill or else have enacted anoth¬
er immediately that would have met
the wants of the needy soldiers.
Wo are not in favor of leaving them
Pi the mercy of the cold world.
A substitute by Mr. Sibley, of
Cobb, was sent in and, according to
our views of the ease, is the bill that
would do the soldiers the most
good.
The substitute provided for an
“appropriation sufficient to the needy
confederate soldiers of the State,
$100 to be given to each one. actual¬
ly entitled to it, that lie might re¬
ceive the benefit of it at home and
with Ids family.”
Tho shame that falls upon the
Legislators’ heads is that they voted
down the only bill before them to
aid the needy soldier and did not
consider a substitute. For this they
deserve great censure.
Tins'os that try to run without tin
aid of the State pr* will always
meet with the same fate the Stale
Fair did. “It has soured,” says a
neighbor.
! *TBB BlMCtBAT*
IS THE
Best Ad’vt Medium
IN
i Middle Georgia
$1,25 Per Year
NO. 37.
Tkxas lias a big cotton crop com
mg.
The President goes up to Jimmy
Blame and says, “Jim arc you going
to run?” “O, yes, Ben; I’ll be the
next nominee.”
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J2T *OrclorH And Consignments for Baffglng of and Cotton Tics Solicited. Augusta, Ga.
.?. IIAKPKH DAVJHON. CJII&ULKft T. FARGO.
0 AVI 80 N & F argo
COTTON FACTORS
AND
commissioN + merchants.
7BO Reynolds Street, ( Next door Cotton Exchange.)
Augusta, Ooorgila.
ir Oousigumonts solioltod.JS
We l’ay tStrict Personal Attention to Our Jtnsincss.
Jordan. & Smith
Cotton * Factors,
Augcista, C3ra.
Liberal advances mode on Cotton In store.
Bagging and Tics, at lowest market prices.
IV« guarantee satisfaction In every respect. Our .Salesman Is one of the oldest
and best cotton men In Augusta.
SYTriVo aro Agents for tho Cotton Bloom and Oullelt tiled Brush Bins, with
Feeders and Condensers. These Gins have no superiors,
Aug. 20, 1801.
O. T. ftlDDKy. J . K. NIXON, S. II. l.AMJlirM.
SIBLEY, NIXON & CO •5
(Huwaihhovh to (*. T. SIBLKV.)
©0TTON # FA0T0RS,
GUANO DEALERS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
731 and 733 Reynolds St. AI G18TA, GA.
Liberal aclvancen made on all com i^umenta,
|{' | G{fJn<r am) Tic ; furnfiihecl at market prices mMSi
Sibley’s Ammoniated Dissolved Bone.
Bigb Grade Arid Pbospliats and pun- Herman Kafnit,
strict P« rxonaf attention to Wntvbing and Sampling Cotton.
STONE ft GAVARAOGH,
©OTTON + FA0T0RS
— AKrao
mACHINERY * AGENBS.
No. 101 Jackson Street, Opposite Cotton K •!'- T)J/C AUGUSTA,ga.
O. M. STONE, Salesman,
Liberal advances made on consignments. Commissions 50 vents. Storage 25 cent*.