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JAOKSON HERALD
ROBERT S. HOWARD,/
Editoi' and nblisher . v
VOLUME 11.
O. "W- dupre 3
Gainesville, Ga.,
18 HEADQUARTERS for good reliable goods, and the Leader in Low Prices. My stock of General Merchandise is the
■ largest I have ever carried, and the most extensive and best selected stock ever brought, to tfainesville, My
Ory Goods Department
Is full and reniete in every line. The most elegant line of DRESS GOODS. SILKS, SA 1 INS, PLAIDS, SIRIPES and
DROCADES ever offered here. A superb line oi FLANNELS, WA ILKPIiOOIS, OASIMEKES, JEANS, CLOi IIS, Ac.
My stock of LADIES’ CLOAKS will equal that of every house in the city together. Jins line is Complete in all grades.
Every lady can he suited here. My
Glove, Hosiery and Corset Departments
Are full of the best goods and lowest prices. In MILLINERY, IIATS, RI BOONS and TRIMMINGS, for ladies wear, l have
an elegant line, with .MISS MARY IIEADKN a superb Trimmer, at the head of this Department.
Clothing - ! Clothing !
In my Clothing Department may always he found everything pertaining to a lirst-class clothing store. This stock is unequal
cd in this section. “ KEEP’S” Shirts, Collars and Cuffs a specialty. No fancy prices. I have the largest stock o ' Boots and
Shoes, for Gents, Ladies and Children, ever offered to the trade in Northeast Georgia. Ziegler’s Shoes, and other noted brands
in fall lines. My stock is complete in every department, and as to prices I will guarantee to sell anything in my stock as low
as similar goods can be bought in Atlanta or Athens, or any other market. All 1 ask is an opportunity to convince you.
Come to Gainesville. Come to see me. C. W. DuPRE.
P. S.—l buy all kinds of Country Produce at highest market prices.
SPRING! SPRING! SPRING!
WE ARE XO IF RECEIVIXG OUR
Spring Stock,
CONSISTING OF
Calicoes and Dress Goods !
ALSO, A LARGE LOT OF
READY-MADE CLOTHING !
CONVE. ww vs, vy
The Bargain Store !
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roverished condition of the blood, this peerless remedy, has rn my hands, made some wonderful cures.
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JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 12, ISB2.
VsAcGUwX.
ANNUAL REPORT
Of the President of the Gainesville,
Jefferson & Southern Rail
Road Company.
To the Stockholders :
No meeting of shareholders having
been held last year on the day op
pointed in your by-laws for annual
meetings, and nothing having been
done at the date of mv last report, ex
cept the running of two or three ex
perimental lines by the Engineers, this
report will cover all the operations of
your road from the re-organization of
the Company, on the day of ,
1880, to the od day of May, 1882.
On tiic 25th day of September, 1880,
contracts were entered into with
Messrs. Mooney, Tumlin & Mooney
for the clearing of right-of-way, cul
vert work and grading on the first 10
miles of your road, beginning at
Gainesville. On the same day the re
raaining li t miles of the line to Jef
ferson were let to Messrs. Blackstock,
Alexander & Gould.
The prices at which all of this work
was let were extremely favorable to
the Company, being at least 70 per
cent, less than is now being paid for
similar work by all other new roads in
Georgia.
Owing to the long cold winter of
1880, but little progress was made
with the work till the opening of the
spring of 18S1. In the meantime, the
Messrs. Mooney. discouraged by the
slow progress of their work and the
rapidly increasing cost of labor and
supplies, abandoned their contract.
For the same reasons Messrs. Alex
ander and Gould pursued the same
course.
Fortunately, however, for the Com
pany, arrangements were effected with
Mr. J. W.jTumlin, of the one firm, and
Messrs- C. M.-C. Blackstock & Sons,
of the other, to continue the work at
the same prices at which it was origi
nally contracted. This they did with
but little interruption, and began early
in the spring to push the work with
commendable vigor. Mr. Tumlin com
pleted his work late in December, in
a manner satisfactory to your Board,
considering the low price at which it
was done. All his work has been paid
for in full.
The Messrs. Blackstock continued
the work of their firm at the original
prices till the first of June last, when
they found it impossible to prosecute
it any further at the prices they were
being paid. At this juncture the Pres
ident and a part of the Directory as
sumed the responsibility of increasing
the prices hitherto paid these gentle
men 2 cents per yard for all materials
moved by them. This arrangement
was subsequent ly ratified l>3’ the whole
Board, and the Messrs. Blackstock are
now pressing their work to comple
tion. They will, perhaps, complete it
by the first of August.
Early in the year 1881 a proposition
was made to the President and Direc
tors of your Company by “The Jug
Tavern Rail Road Association'’ to
take and pay for twenty thousand dol
lars of the common stock of the Com
pany on condition that the Company
build a brancli of its road from Holly
Spring, or some point in that neigh
borhood, to Jug Tavern. Accompany
ing the proposition were subscriptions,
made in proper form, amounting to
about seventeen thousand dollars and
a written guarantee, signed by respon
sible parties, of the remainder of the
twenty thousand dollars tendered.
After a long and annimated debate,
the proposition was accepted by the
casting vote of the President, the Di
rectors being equally divided on the
question, and the President was in
structed to advertise for sealed pro
posals for clearing the right of way,
culvert work and grading on the en
tire line, from station 457 on the main
line to Jug Tavern. After this action
the Board adjourned to meet on the
9th day of June, to open the bids and
award the contract. In the meantime
the President and Directors had been
enjoined from contracting the work of
this branch, or diverting the funds of
the Company, or [dodging the credit
of the Company for its benefit. The
Company being thus completely estop
ped from building this branch as they
had undertaken to do, these gentlemen
interested in its construction contrac
ted with Mr. John C. Sage to clear
right-of-way, build all neeessar\ T cul
verts and do all the grading on the
entire line for twenty-four thousand
seven hundred and fifty dollars, and
FOR TIIE PEOPLE.
gave their individual obligation for the
payment of the money. They select
ed Col. ,1. E. Rcdwinc as their agent,
to superintend the work and sco that
it was done according to contract.
Mr. Sage, under the direction of Col.
Iledwine, at once entered on his work,
and has now completed it as far as tiie
Mulberry r river in a manner entirely
satisfactory to the superintendent in
charge.
All that part of the line south of the
Mulberry was sub-let by Mr. Sage to
Mr. 11. D. Jackson, who is prosecuting
his work in a very satisfactory man
ner, and now has only about two miles
to grade.
In August, after the President and
Directors were restrained from aiding
in the building of the road to Jug
Tavern, an amendment to the charter
of the Company was granted by the
Legislature of Georgia, authorizing
them to build a branch of their road
to Monroe or Covington. In this way
the injunction was dissolved, and the
Board of Directors thereupon, by
unanimous vote, adopted the contract
made by the friends of the Jug Tavern
branch with Mr. Sage, and assumed
control of his work and payment for
it. In the resolution adopting said
contract it wa9 provided that the Pres
ident and Directors should have the
right to have Mr. Sage's work inspec
ted and passed upon by a competent
Engineer, before final settlement, if
they chose to do so. Out of abundance
of caution, I sent the Chief Engineer
of the Company, Capt. Collier, over
the line with orders to measure all
grades and cuives, and report. The
result of his inspection was, in the
main, highly gratifying to me and
creditable to Mr. Sage. With a slight
change of grades at about three points
designated by Capt. Collier, which
changes Mr. Sage has made, the road
comes up in ail respects to the require*
incuts of the contract.
MORTGAGE BONDS.
Early in the spring of last year the
President was, by resolution of the
Board, authorized to have prepared
and put on the market an amount of
the first mortgage bonds of the Com
pany sufficient to realize four thou
sand dollars per mile. In pursuance
of this authority, I, on the first of
June, entered into a contract with
Messrs. John J. Cohen & Sons, of Au
gusta. for the sale of two hundred and
forty 7 five thousand dollars of said
bonds. This was deemed sufficient to
iron and equip the whole road, includ
ing both branches.
By the terms of the contract eighty
thousand dollars of these bonds were
to be delivered and paid for on the
first of August, eighty thousand on
the first of January, and the remain
der by the firsLof April last. In case
the payments were not made as speci
fied, the Messrs. Cohen were to forfeit
all claims for commissions for the sale
of the bonds.
This contract was made after the
proposition cf the Jug Tavern Associ
ation was made and accepted and be
fouktltf injunction. It provided for
pledging every mile of both brandies
of the road to secure the payment of
every bond. Hence, when I was en
joined all proceedings under this con
tract were arrested. I could not de
liver the bonds by the first of August,
the time specified, without violating
the terms of the injunction. The re
sult was that I started anew on the
10th of August where I was on the
first of June.
In the meantime, the assassination
of the President of the United States
had had a very depressing effect on the
stock market, and by the middle of
October, when we finally got the bonds
on the market, the scarcity of money
and high rate of interest in England
and France had forced back on our
own markets many millions of Ameri
can securities, which were and still
are offered at such attractive figures
that investors are slow to buy the
bonds of new rail roads, and especi
ally short local lines.
We, however, succeeded, about the
first of November, in realizing out of
eighty one thousand dollars of the
bonds. With this money rails and
fastenings have been bought and put
down on 17 miles of road, and an en
gine and five cars, all new and of best
build, are runniug on it every day.
No other bonds have been sold, but
negotiations are now pending for the
sale of a sufficient amount to purchase
rails and fastenings lor the remainder
of both lines as far as Jefferson and
Jug Tavern.
Owing to the unusually small bond
ed debt authorized by the Company,
all the proceeds of the sale of the
bonds will be required to buy iron and
equipments and to build the bridges.
The remainder of the grade, the tres
tles and the cross ties must be paid
for out of stock subscriptions. If the
stock originally subscribed on the two
linos of road is paid as the interest of
the road and good faith on the part of
the subscribers demands, the amount
realized will be sufficient to do, the
work mentioned above, for, by refer
ence to the following tabulated state
ment of receipts and dPAnrsemcnts, it
will be seen that of the forty thousand
dollars subscribed and guaranteed by
the two branches of the road, only
about seventeen thousand dollars lias
been paid. The twenty-three thou
sand dollars unpaid will be amply
sufficient, after making reasonable al
lowances for losses from inability of
subscribers to paj’, to do the work re
quired.
The total nett receipts, from all
sources, that have cotnc into my hands
have been as follows:
Cash borrowed from the Bank
of the State ofCmorgia $ 970.00
From sale of $11,500 of the
bonds of the city of Gaines
ville 38,345.00
From sale of SBI,OOO of the first
mortgage bonds of the Com
pany G 8,850.00
From subscriptions on the Jef
ferson line 3,C05.29
From subscriptions on Jug
Tavern line, including ain’t
collected and paid out by Di
rector Kelly to contractors
($3,518.45) 8,232.05
From private subscriptions in
Gainesville 50.00
From interest on money loaned 60.00
From sale of Jackson land 800.00
From sale Of subscription notes
on Jug Tavern line 607.00
From earnings of road 1,307.20
Money borrowed b) 7 me on my
individual note and loaned to
the Company, for which l
hold, as security, notes given
by stockholders at Jefferson
for stock 483.33
Money borrowed by mo in the
same way and loaned to the
Compan} 7 , for which I hold,
as security, notes given for
subscript .ons on Jug Tavern
line 2,956.91
Making a total, for which I am
accountable, of $120,359.38
In addition to the above, Di
rector Pendergrass has col
lected from stockholders on
Jefferson line, and paid out
to contractors on that line... 4,763.07
This last item !s covered by my
warrants drawn on him. 11c
has also paid out other am’ts
not covered by my warrants
aggregating, 1 am imformed,
and believe, about 743.51
Thus, it will be seen that the to
tal receipts from all sources,
including am’ts collected and
paid out by Director Pender
grass, winch amounts never
went through my hands nor
those of the Treasurer, have
been $130,783.16
*
The total disbursements have been
as follows:
For grading v ...$ 39,500.00
For cross ties 8,257.56
For rails and fastenings 50,703.80
For engine and cars 8,463.30
For laying track 2,433.23
For engineering 2,246.89
For trestles, water tanks, stock
gaps, &c 4,493.47
For right-of-way, damage to
crops, &c 1,202.87
For salaries other than Chief
Engineer 1.400.83
For interest on mortgage bonds 2,849.17
For telegrams, printing and
traveling expenses 526.97
For attorneys fees, fees of trus
tees, &c 1,690.00
For engraving mortgage bonds 925.00
For all other expenditures 282.10
$125,274.10
Cash, to balance 1,085 28
The above does not include amounts
paid out by Director Pendergrass.
When that is added, it will make the
total disbursements.
In conclusion, I desire to say to the
stockholders that the constant aim of
the management has been to pay for
all work as fast as it was done, and
avoid creating at any time a floating
debt sufficiently large to give us any
annoyance, and at the same time to
circumscribe the bonded debt within
such limits as to be able at all times
to pay its interest, and thus save the
road to the stockholders. Thus far,
we have succeeded in the objects.
You have 32 miles of completed road
bed, 17 miles of track, and one engine
and five cars, all new and of the best
build, and all are paid for, and still
your serai annual interest is only $2,-
800. These results have been accorn
plished solely within ourselves. We
have had no State aid, nor the mate
rial aid, or even the moral support, of
any other rail road company.
While to build a road in this way
is hard, and perhaps slow, it is never
theless safe, and when it is completed,
if it pays a profit, ( is many good rail
road men think yours wiil do) that
profit will go into the pockets of the
men whose money and enterprise built
the road, and not to fill the coffers of
bondholders or mammoth rail road
corporations, whose aid has been em
ployed, and who remorselessly swallow
up all. regardless of the interest of
private stockholders.
Upon a review of the operations of
your Company, I congratulate you on
what you have done and the very sat
isfactory condition in which I find
your affairs.
Respectfully submitted.
A. D. Candler, President.
Jug Tavern.
Walton county, Georgia, lies like a
square with one of its corners pointing
north, and way up in the corner is Jug
Tavern, an insignificant hamlet, named
from the fact that an old fellow had a
house there in which he would accom
modate travelers, serving refreshments
for man and beast, notable of which
refreshments was regular mountain
dew corn whiskey, taken by word of
mouth out of a gallon brown jug, slung
adroitly over the right shoulder by a
simple twist ofthe wrist, bringing the
nozzle to the right hand corner ofthe
imbiber’s mouth, properly turned and
adjusted to receive it. This hostelry
got the name of Jug Tavern, and a*
it was the principal part of the lucali
tj\ it all come to be known as Jug
Tavern.
Monroe is tho capital cf Walton
county, and a railroad ruri3 north to
Monroe, from Social Circle, on the
Georgia road. Jug Tavern is north
of Monroe, and Gainesville, iu llall
county, is still further north of Jug
Tavern. To get a connection with
the Georgia Railroad, anil to develop
a rich agricultural country, Gainesville
citizens and influential men along the
line, projected the Gainesville, Jeffer
son and Southern Railroad, which will
run through Jug Tavern, from Gaines
ville to Monroe. For a considerable
distance the road, which lias become
to be known as the Jug Tavern Road,
has been built, and the locomotive
puffs and whistles among the hills of
Jackson county, well on toward Jug
Tavern.
A proprietor, not liking the homely
name, sought to change it to “Laura
City,” in honor of his loved spouse,
but it wouldn't work. As Jug Tavern
the harnlet achieved its power and
glory, and as Jug Tavern the people
said it should reap the honors.
Colonel Boh Bacon says the Jug
Tavern Road has an opportunity for
fame and wealth such as has never
before been presented for the grasp of
ambitious men. lie says he will re
sign the secretaryship of the Georgia
Railroad Commission, if the Jug Tav
ern Road will appoint him General
Passenger Agent with plenary powers.
“ Look on the map,” says Colonel Ba
con. “You see Jug Tavern is on an
air line from New York to Atlanta,
to New Orleans and the City of Mexi
co —'the Great Through Route frim
New York to Mexico via Jug Tavern’
—great Ciesar. but wouldn’t that be
a stunner on a big blue, red and white
poster? Talk aboutyour ‘lvennesaw,’
’Piedmont,’ ‘Pan Handle,’ ’Kankakee,’
Kokomo,’ ‘Sunset’ and ‘Crescent,’
I’d lay ’em all in the shade with the
‘ Jug Tavern'— * Take the Jug Tavern
Route for all points south and south
west and for the City of Mexico,’
would be the legend plastered all over
the North, and they’d take it too !”
It’s a pity 7 Colonel Bacon is caught
in a railroad commission with only
exercise for his talents in worrying
railroad officials, whqn lie could be so
much more useful with vocal elo
quence, and spread of printer’s ink*
directing the travel of our restless
millions, even by the way of Jug Tav
ern I —Railroad Record.
HOW WATCHES ARE MADE.
It will be apparent to any one who will
examine a Solid Goi and Watch, that aside
from the necessary thickness for engraving
and polishing, a large proportion of the
precious metal used is needed only to
stiffen and hold the engraved portions in
place, and supply the necessar} 7 solidity
and strength. The surplus gold is actu
ally needless so far as utility and beau
ty are concerned. In JAMES BOSS’
PATENT GOLD WATCH CASES, this
waste of precious metal is overcome, and
the SAME SOLIDITY AND STRENGTH nre
duced at rom one-third to one-half ol the
usual cost of solid cases. This process is
of the most simple uature, as follows : a
plate of nickle composition netal especi
ally adapted to the purpose, has two plates
of SOLID GOLD soldered one on eac.iside.
The three are then passed between polish
ed steel rollers, and the result is a strip o,
heavy plated composition, from which the
cases, backs, centres, bezels, &c.. are cut
and soaped by suitable dies and formers?
The gold in these cases Is sufficiently thick
to admit of all kinds ofehasing, engraving
and enamelling; the engraved cases have
been carried until worn perfectly smooth
by time and use without removing the
gold.
THIS IS THE ONLY CASE MADE
WITH TWO PLATES OF SOLID GOLD
AND WARRANTED BY SPECIAL
CERTIFICATE.
For sale by all Jewelers. Ask for Il
lustrated Catalogue, and to see warrant.
A bomb Bursts
IN TIIE CAMP or TIIE INDEPENDENTS.
Hearing that Mr. Smith Clayton
had withdrawn from the committee of
gentlemen appointed at the late Mark
ham house conference to prepare and
publish an address to the people of
Georgia, a Constitution reporter
caught him on the wing yesterday and
asked: “Is it true that you have
withdrawn fronathe committee?”
‘‘Yes. I have just returned from
the Post-Appeal office, where I left a
request that my name be stricken
from the names signed to the address
which, as you know, is kept before the
public in that paper.”
“ Do you object to stating why you
have taken this step ?”
‘‘Not at all. I never object to giv
ing candid reasons for any course
which I see proper to pursue. I free
ly confess that a decided change has
come over the spiritof my dream with
in the past few weeks as regards the
so-called liberal movement in the state.
I went in‘.o that movement under a
misapprehension. I fully believed
that it had for its object the formation
of anew party, which would unselfish
ly devote itself to the great work of
bringing about a more liberal political
-entiraent in Georgia, thus enhancing
her prosperity. I took this view from
the audience and became enthusiastic,
applauding as rapturously as any in
dependent democrat at my side. But
being of an enquiring turn of mind I
passed the glare of the footlights and
have been watching the play from be
hind the scenes. I marked the man
ner in which each actor‘‘made up.”
I noted the movements of every scene
shifter. I talked with the property
man, caucussed with the prompter and
hobnobbed with the stage manager.
In a word, I saw through the inner
workings of the whole combination,
i didn't like it, and so left the theater
before the curtain fell upon the last
act.”
“Well, what did you see?”
“ I saw enough to convince me that
the political fight in Georgia is fast
narrowing down to bourbonism on the
one hand, and negroism on the other
hand. Of these two evils, I regard
bourbonism the lesser. The truth is,
that the republicans are fooling the
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO for Six Months.
independent democrats and inflaming
tiie negroes against the whites—ami
all for a wicked and utterly selfish
purpose. The republicans known as
the syndicate arc using the independ
ent democrats as a lGvcr to lift them
selves and their frends into federal
offices in Georg'a. The republicans
are'iuflaming the negroes by appoint
ing many of their number to federal
office. All this means that the feder
al patronage in Georgia is to be used
twoyears hence to givo Art hur a Geor
gia delegation to help him to another
term.”
“ But how ?”
“Why, with the aid of the so-called
liberals. Before the play is over a
good many independent democrats
will receive federal appointments.
One has already gotton an office—Mr.
Tripp, of Cartcrsville, who received
the office of a staunch republican, Dar
nell, who was kicked out by Arthur.
By this system of office-giving to inde
pendents, negroes and republicans,
Arthur hopes to control the liberals
of Georgia in good time. Arthur is
trying to make the independents think
that they are leading the procession,
but they arc really riding abreast with
the republicans, while the negroes are
in advance. Sec Davis, Pledger,
Pleasants, etc. Through such appoint
ments, underjeloaks of aid in building
anew liberal party in Georgia, Arthur
hopes to control tho negro vote of the
state, which is essential to the accom
plishments of his purpose.”
“ Were you offered an office ?
“Yes. A few nights since I was
offered aposition as mail route-igent,
I believe, on the State road. I didn't
feel that I had done anything to de
serve office at the hands of a republi
can administration, and knowing that
if I accepted, the position would bo
labeled as the price of my future al
legiance to-Arthur in the state. I de
clined. I was much obliged all the
same, though, for the place would
have paid me more than I am now
making out of journalism.”
“ What else did you find out behind
the scenes?”
“That the object of Arthur’s now
party in Georgia is to get the legisla
ture. If they should succeed, they
will redistrict the state to suit them
selves with a fair prospect of putting
several republicans and negroes in
congress from Georgia. To this end
you will see in the near future many
republican and negro candidates for
the legislature. The negroes and re
publicans will support the independ
ents for the state offices, and in turn
the independents will be expected to
support the negroes and republicans.
The negroen even now openly
declare that they hold the balance of
power in the state, and every day
brings fresh indications of their de
termination to take the lead at the polls.
They are fighting their best interests,
and will probably wish before the
campaign is over that they had not
entered the liberal movement.”
“ Do you know that the present ad
ministrat on will give this movement
substantial aid ?”
“I know that Arthur told a promi
nent Georgia republican, to whom he
has recently given an office, that lie
intended to do for the new party in
Georgia what lie has done for the new
party in Virginia. It is well settled
that the office-holders under Arthur’9
administration will be assessed to
raise funds to build up this new party
in Georgia. Such would not be the
case unless the president thought the
success of this movement would re
dound to the furtherance of his politi
cal fortunes. In short, Arthur is play
ing for a second term, tho state of
Georgia is the chess-board, and he is
going to use just as many black men
and white men as he can in order to
win a delegation.”
“You don't propose to help him to
do it ?”
“No, sir. Asa white Georgian,
and a democrat, I feel that, knowing
what I know, it is my duty to part
company with the so-called liberals.
I believe in the fullest political freedom
for both white and black, but I see in
this present movement in Georgia, as
how conducted, an element which
menaces the lives and property of the
citizens of this state, and warn all par
ties concerned that an}' collision be
tween factions which the near future
may develop will give overwhelming
and, perhaps, mournful evidence to
the world that the white man still rules
in Georgia. I say this, too, in all friend
liness to the colored man, whose best
interest, socially, politically, material
ly lies in resisting with his full strength
tho unhallowed eflbrts of the adminis
tration at Washington to sacrifice him
in the interest of a second term.”
“ How do they expect to carry the
state with an overwhelming whito
sentiment against them ? M
“They Gount on the solid negro
vote, massed by the administration,
and led by white office-seekers in va
rious parts of the state. Seeing this
I became disgusted with the move
ment and, as a white man and a dem
ocrat, thought that my withdrawal
was in order. I trust that any of my
friends in Georgia who may have been
misled by my position will aocord mo
credit for conscientiousness and profit
by my example. In conclusion. I beg
you will state that I hereby tender ray
resignation as a committee of one to
arrange for reduced railroad rates to
the June mass meeting. 1 will state,
also, to office seekers throughout the
state that the position of secretary of
the late conference is open.” —The
Atlanta Constitution.
NUMBER Y 2.