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ROBERT S. HOWARD, Editor.
JEFFERSON,
FRIDAY MOHMU, J,ly 13, 1881.
It is rumored that Aleck Stephens is going
*to> or has already commenced another book.
•It appears that Guiteau has been a nui
■aance for years, and a regular dead beat; in
fact, be is crazy.
Reliable parties estimate that at least 40,-
000 bales of the new cotton crop will be sold
before the first of September.
The Fourth of July passed off with but
little celebration this year, and the list of
casualties is consequently below an average
for that day.
Tbo first bale of cotton of tho new crop
was sold in Galveston, Texas, last week, and
brought over eight hundred dollars. It will
not be long until Georgia scores her first
bale.
New Hampshire taxes church property the
same as other property, whenever it exceeds
ten thousand dollars in value. We would
like to see this law in force in Georgia; it
won’t hurt anybody, and will do some good.
The assassin of President Garfield will
only be confined at hard labor for three years
and subject to a fine of one thousand dollars,
in case the President should recover, as this
is the extreme punishment provided for such
a crime.
It is a fact that the Southern people should
reflect upon, that propositions to come to
their assistance have only come since they
have shown their ability to holp themselves.
Self-reliance is our surest hope for the future.
—Savanmih Neivs.
Ex-Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, is of the
opinion that a well arrangod coalition of Re
publicans, Grcenbackcrs and Independent
Democrats can carry that State this fall.
There may be some trouble about the divi
sion of the spoils.
•The Pall Mall Gazette, a leading English
journal, in discussing our present financial
condition, predicts that if a large grain crop
is made in Europe, and at present the pros
pects arc exceedingly flattering, that it will
be a very difficult matter to prevent a finan
cial panic this winter.
Atlanta’s Cotton Exposition is goiug to be
the big attraction in the United States this
fall. There is but one trouble in the way,
and that is the lack of hotel accommodations,
for notwithstanding .the fact that she has
enough room for the usual demands in this
line, yet it takes but a small crowd to ex
haust her surplus hotel room.
The Chronicle <$- Constitutionalist, of Au
gusta, will get out its third trade issue on the
first of September. The managers propose
to make it the paper of the season, and to this
ond they ask the co-operation of the public
in gathering the necessary information. It
•will be a splendid opportunity to get your
'business before a host of readers.
The National Educational Association
meets in Atlanta on the 19th instant, and
continues three days. The bod}- is composed
of the most advanced educators in the United
States, and is of great importance in many
respects. Atlanta proposes to entertain them
in her usual'magnificent style. One of the
features of the meeting will be an excursion
to Toccoa and Tallulah falls.
Ex-Senator Conkling is of the opinion, and
has advised the authorities, that the assassin
of the President should be more severely
punished than if he had committed the same
offense upon a private individual. This idea
may suit Mr. Conkling, but he will please
excuse us, as we cannot subscribe to the
doctrine—our life is as dear to us as that of
the President of the United States.
Northern papers coincide with lion. Thos.
Hardeman that the great obstacle to univer
sal prosperity in the South is the usurious
rate of interest the planters have to pay for
their fertilizers and provisions. The city
merchant will not lend the planter money,
(for then he could not get more than 8 per
ent. interest, but by advancing him provis
ions while the crop is “ making,” the mer
chant manages to charge such profits as to
receive from 20 to 40 per cent.— Augusta
Chronicle *.s• Constitutionalist. Yes, and the
rate of interest or per cent, charged for the
supplies depends entirely upon the risk the
Jfcerchant runs in making his collections in
ffhe fall. The rate of interest will bo high
just as long as the collecting laws remain as
they are at present. When you change them
so that the creditor can get pay for what he
has sold, you will find men more cautious
about going in debt, and moucy will be cheap,
because it will be safe to lend it out.
The fact that lie would leave his family in
poor circumstances, in the event of his death,
weighed heavily upon President Garfield’s
mind. In order to relieve this anxiety, the
moneyed men of New York city started a
subscription a day or two after the shooting,
and have already secured over two hundred
thousand dollars, to be given to Mrs. Gar
field in case the President should die.
We have been led to believe that it took
untold piles of money to manufacture cotton
after it left the farmers’ hands, and yet the
census will show that there is half as much
Capital invested in ginning and packing ma
chinery in the cotton States as is invested in
cotton manufactures in the whole Union.
And it is asserted that there is more money
in properly preparing cotton for market than
there is in its manufacture.
Interesting news from Mexico informs us
that the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail
road is now constructed to El Paso, and the
track graded to the river separating the two
republics. It is confidently believed that the
bridging on the stream will be completed in
three weeks, and the iron laid across into the
Mexican town of Paso del Norte, thus effect
ing the first entrance into Mexico of a rail
road from the United States.
All of the advocates for the repeal of the
usury law assert that the merchants, under
the existing law, charge cxhorbitqnt rates for
what the} 1, sell the farmer on time, and at
tribute all of the extra charge to the fact that
the farmer cannot borrow' money and buy for
cash ; in other words, he is oppressed by the
merchant because he cannot borrow money
at eight per cent. Now, it strikes us that
this is just shifting the oppression from the
shoulders of the money shark to those of the
merchant. Both, money lender and mer
chant, make you pay according to tho risk he
runs in ever getting back either principal or
interest. There is one point in favor of the
merchant, and that is, that he is more dis
posed to sell his goods and take the risk than
the money lender.
The Albanj T deadlock still continues, and
the prospects for a speedy settlement are dis
appearing at about tho same rate that the
comet is making. There can be no solution
of the difficulty unless one of the three parties
gives up its position, which is not at all likely.
Mr. Conkling still keeps enough adherents to
prevent the Republicans from making a
choice unless it is Mr. Conkling, and the anti-
Conklingites cannot do anything without the
aid of the Democrats, and the Democrats
don’t propose to help either party unless they
are allowed to name the men. The Demo
crats are the best off in the crowd, if they can
just secure an adjournment without an elec
tion. They are confident that they can carry
the new Legislature that is to be elected this
fall, and thus secure both Senators.
OUR LAW MAKERS.
Last Wednesday week our Legislature met
in Atlanta according to adjournment. The
first thing they did was to pass exceedingly
patriotic resolutions in regard to the attempt
to assassinate the President, and then went
to business with their coats off. They had
plenty of business on hand, but for fear that
they should run out, they are taking on a
fresh supply. We cannot afford to mention
all of the matter*that goes before them in the
shape of bills, but will give only the impor
tant measures of a public character.
The committee appointed at last session to
look into the management of the convicts
have made their report. While they find that
the convicts are well treated and cared for in
most instances, yet they report some marked
exceptions, where reform is absolutely neces
sary. It is understood that they will recom
mend a commission to look after them.
The temperance question is receiving more
attention than one would suppose. Several
general bills have been introduced, and an
innumerable quantity of local bills.
Hon. Pope Barrow, of Clarke, has intro
duced a bill to provide for the building of a
new capitol, to cost a million dollars.
As affecting us locally, we notice the intro
daction in the House, by Col. Estes, a bill to
amend the charter of the Gainesville, Jeffer
son & Southern Railroad. Also, a bill to di
vide the Western Judicial Circuit.
Someone has introduced a bill to increase
the Governor’s salary to $5,000.
The Lunatic Asylum enlargement is receiv
ing proper attention, and we think it will not
be long until it is built.
The rate of interest promises to become a
prominent topic again.
The bills to change the Code are innume
rable as usual.
Gov. Colquitt’s message was short and to
the point.
The Stale depositories will most certainly
be abolished.
There has been but little waste of time in
speeches. The fact is, it is too hot to speak.
The weather has commenced affecting some
of the members already, but they will have
to stand it, as they adjourned last winter be
cause it was too cold for them.
Mr. Garfield Improves.
The latest news from Washington is that
the President is still improving, and as each
day passes his chances for recovery increases,
so that it is now regarded as highly probable
that he will survive the murderous assault.
Public opinion has been undergoing a great
change in regard to the probable cause of
Guitcau’s act. At first the idea was preva
lent that Conkling & Cos. had a hand in the
matter, as they would have been benefited so
much by Mr. Garfield’s death. Now, from
the best indications, we are satisfied that this
idea has but few adherents, and that all think
ing people regard the act as that of a man
who was not sane or well balanced, and who’s
mental abberation had been aggravated by
his being denied a public office.
Mr. Speer Speaks.
We made mention week before last of the
then prevalent rumor in regard to Mr. Speer's
vote in the organizing of the House of Repre
sentatives this winter.
At the time we expressed our doubts about
the truthfulness of the report, for we hardly
thought that Mr. Speer was so blinded to his
own interests as to abandon the party that
had given him his honors and go off after a
party that had no backing in this State.
After a lo: g silence, Mr. Speer has, to
several friends, denied the charge in toto, and
in plain and unmistakable words, and gave
as his reason for not denying it at first, that
he could not afford, and it was beneath him,
to attempt to deny every rumor that had been
put into circulation against him by desiguing
enemies.
Judge Hiram Warner.
LIFE AND CAREER OF THE DISTINGUISHED EX
CIIIET JUSTICE OF GEORGIA.
At noon, yesterday, Judge Iliram Warner,
who has for several months past been con
fined to his bed, died at the residence of
his grand-daughter, Mrs. E. W. Martin.
The event was not unexpected either by bis
family or by the public, but the announce
ment will be received with regret in every
part of Georgia. Ilis career is historical;
the history of his public life is a history of
Georgia, covering a long and most interest
ing period. It does not fall within the
scope of a newspaper article to trace in de
tail the career of his commanding intellect,
his unconquerable will, his firm integrity,
or the wonderful strength and simplicity of
his character, but a brief sketch of a life re
markable for its sterling virtues and its
great usefulness will not be out of place
here.
Iliram Warner was born in Massachusetts,
on the 29th of October, 1802. At the age of
seventeen he came to Georgia, and became
an assistant teacher in the academy at Sparta,
where, notwithstanding his youth and inex
perience, he gave general satisfaction. Like
many of our most prominent public men, lie
studied law and prepared himself for the bar
while teaching. lie was admitted to practice
in the Autumn of 1824, and soon afterwards
settled at Knoxville, in Crawford county.
He took such a position at the bar and as a
citizen that lie was soon elected to the Legis
lature, representing Crawford county from
1828 till 1831. Among other important
measures, he introduced a bill amending the
Constitution so as to remove the property
qualifications of Senators and Representatives
contending that a man’s capacity to make
laws should not be estimated according to the
amount of property lie might possess. This
bill was defeated at the first session, but it
soon became a law. Ilis firmness and integrity
were well di.Bpla}'ed during one of his races
for a Legislature which was to elect a public
officer whom a majority of his constituents
were believed to favor, and for whom Judge
Warner’s opponent had pledged himself to
vote. There was opposition to 3’oung Warner
because he would not make a similar pledge,
and a few days before the election, during a
speech at a regimental muster, lie was asked
whether he would make the pledge, and he
indignantly replied: “I mayor may not
vote for that officer, but I will not degrade
myself so much, or those whose suffrages I
seek, as to make a pledge in advance as to
what I may and may not do as their represen
tative. If the people whose suffrages I seek
have not, from their knowledge of m3* general
character, sufficient confidence to believe that
I will honestly and faithfully represent their
wishes and interests, then vote against me ;
but if they have such confidence, then I should
be extremely happy for them to manifest it
at the ballot box on Monday next.” The
answer was appreciated, and he was elected
by an increased majority. From 1833 to 1840
he was Judge of the Superior Court of the
Coweta circuit, and from 1840 to 1845 he
practiced law in all the counties of his circuit,
attending them regularly and promptly and
making money rapidly; and in 1845, when
the Supreme Court was organized, he was
elected one of its Judges, which position he
held till 1853, when he resigned.
In 1855 he was elected to Congress as a
Democrat, from what was then the Fourth
District, defeating the Hon. Benjamin H.
Hill; and after serving one term he declined
to be a candidate for Te-election. It was said
of him by one of the reporters of the House :
“ I love to report his speeches—he always
has something to say.”
During the war he practiced his profession
and attended to his farming interests, in
which he lias, unlike most professional men,
been ver3 r successful. lie was fond of agricul
ture and was almost as good a farmer as he
was a lawyer.
lie was made Judge of the Coweta circuit
again soon after the war and went from that
position to the Supreme Bench in 18G7, where
he remained most of the time as Chief Justice
till July, 1880, when he retired voluntarily the
second time.
lie has been in Georgia sixty two years,
and for over forty years has held public po
sitions—a sufficient evidence of the confidence
reposed in him by the people.
He was a man of great mental vigor and
indomitable will and perseverance. In every
position intrusted to him he was firm, faithful
and fearless in the discharge of duty. One
of his most striking traits of character was
punctuality. lie was always in his place at
the appointed hour, and as Chief Justice
alwa3’s ascended the bench when the clock
struck the hour of opening Court. It is said
that for twelve years as Judge and practicing
attorney in the Coweta circuit and for the first
four years on the Supreme bench he never
missed a single terra of any one of the Courts,
regular or adjourned, making sixteen suc
cessive years in which he was promptly present
where duty called. Ilis decision and firmness
of character were admirable. He was a very
temperate man, and Hits fact, added to his
regularity of habits and strong constitution,
lengthened out his days and helped to make
him emphatically a hard worker. Ilis legal
attainments were never doubted. “ What is
the law,” was the question which controlled
his decisions : and this lie always sought for
with diligence and zeal. Man}' regard him
as the ablest Judge we ever had on the Supreme
Bench. No man contributed more to the
jurisprudence of the State than he or was of
orreater benefit to the legal brotherhood.
Ilis friends feared that when lie ceased to
labor, so active had been his life, that he
would soon cease to live, and this the sequel
proves. This hurried sketch cannot accord
him meet praise. Noble, honest, brave and
faithful old man, lie has passed to his reward.
Profit by bis example. —Atlanta Constitutioyi.
Americus Republican: “We learn from Mr.
E. J. Cheek that on Saturday last a young
man, accompanied by a young woman, with a
four or five months old baby, drove up to the
door of acolored woman, Edie Glover’s house,
four miles from this city, and asked her to take
care of the babe until they returned from the
springs. The colored woman consented, and
a large bundle of clothes was deposited also
with the child. The couple departed and have
not been seen since. The description of the
parties can be had from the woman. Mr.
Cheek stated that he would carry the child to
his mother as he returned home from the city
on Wednesday. This looks like a most heart
less and cruel case of abandonment.”
3lcio Moettiseuieuts.
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TIIE Fall Term of this school will open on
MONDAY, July 18th. and will close October
7th, 18S1. Rates of tuition the same as hereto
fore. The tuition of pupils between the ages of
6 and 18 will be credited by the pro rata of the
Public School Fund.
We hope that pupils will enter at the opening
of the school, that they may take an even start
with their classes. Respectfully,
july S M. L. PARKER.
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I WILL keep on hand, in Jefferson, a full sup
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COFFINS
—AND—
BURIAL CASES
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effort will be made to serve parties promptly and
satisfactorily. Respectfully,
apl 29 W. A. WORSHAM.
Mto farmers ,
and TKRESHERMEN.
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Clorcr Hu tiers. Horse Powers or
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Etc .
Churches and Ministers supplied with Books at
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BURKE & ANDERSON,
Feb. 2-j Athens, Ga.
AN OLD SAYING
TELLS US THAT NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS!!
VERY TRUE; BUT WIIAT MADE TIIE
SUCCESS?
Men shake their heads now-a-davs, and say the big stores arc eating up the little ones. But what
made the big stores big? They were all “ little ones” once. Ten years a*'o we occupied
would be called at present a very small store. To-day wo devote ° 1
TEN TIMES AS MUCH SPACE
to business as wc did in 1871. What has caused this
Enormous Grrowtli ?
Certainly not possession of any secrets of business; certainly not advertising, though that has con
tributed its share ; certainly not our location. There is only one explanation ;
Tireless Industry aiul Pleasing the Public.
Pleasing the public means having just what the people want at the
LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES.
This policy is the one we have pursued for the last ten years. The attractions which wc offer in
the assortment, in the quality, and, above all, in the prices of our goods arc such that no ladv can
resist going to J
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“W"±x±t;e Goods-
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any house m the city. Ladies who want BARGAINS, New and Stylish Dress Goods
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OUR SHOE DEPARTMENT
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Also, all kinds of FARM TOOLS, PLOWS, IIOES, RAKES, FORKS, Etc.
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FOR THE SUMMER TRADE, 1881 !
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WITH BRIGHT PROSPECTS OF A LARGE
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case or dozen, for J t> *
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In this line you will find any and every article needed.
Housefumishing: Goods
SUCH AS
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June 17th, 1881. No. 7 Broad Street, Athens, Georgia.