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THE MORNING CALL.
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Vol IX. No. 133.
A LABOBIOm SESSION
The City Fathern Grew Weary in
Well Dowa.
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There wee • fall board of aldermen
present last night, preaided over by hia
Honor, W. D. Davis.
After reading and confirming the
minntee of previous meeting, a peti
tion was read from citizens of West
Griffin, in the vicinity of the old
Graotland place, asking for the exten
sion of a water main, so they can ob
tain water privileges. Referred to wa
ter committee.
A petition from the firemen and va
rious citizens, asking that tt sub driver
be employed for Stonewall’s horses,
said assistant to be in service two days
each month. Petition granted and
salary fixed at |3 per month.
The proposed contract between city
and county for the working of county
roads and streets of Griffin jointly with
the convict force, elicited much discus
sion.
The matter was finally referred to
the Mayor, chairmen of the finance,
street and police committees for per
fection and report at next meeting
Superintendent Howard, of the wa
ter works, stated that during the re
cent cold weather many spigots, in
private use, were left open to run all
night to prevent freezing and pipes
bursting, and asked that such extrav
agant waste of water be prevented. Re
ferred to committee on water.
The chief of the fire department was
instructed to buy two new nozzles for
No. 1 fire company.
The question of janitor was again
discussed eloquently and indefinitely,
and a vole being called the matter was
referred to the police committee for
further investigation.
It being stated by Aiderman Strick
land tbat the city of Griffin had but
one patient in the pest house, and that
one a convalescent, it was recommend
ed tbat the board of health close out
business there as early as possible.
Council adjourned.
Another Tiger Caged.
Policemen Gordon and Phelps yes,
terday pulled the most extensive tiger
outfit found in the city in many weeks.
John Hood, an enterprising, ambi
tious negro, having become tired of
digging wells in Fayette county,
thought he would come to Griffin,
where he bad heard tbe extract of corn
and peach brought fabulous prices,
and was bard to get, and in a short
while be would be prepared to retire
from business in luxury.
John and his wife opened up a "bor
ing bouse,” near the ‘‘long bouse” on
Broad street, and John having bored
many a bole in the ground for water,
bored a hole through the floor where
he kept peach and Apple Jack on tap
at short notice
But yesterday all <>f John’s hopes
tumbled when Gordon and Phelps ap
peared and began to hunt for tbe trap
door in tbe place
Six jugs and a dozen bottles, a dram
glass, tin cup, and other articles, were
taken out, but not a lint of elixir could
have been squeezed out of all the ves
sels, but tbe odor remained to tell the
tale.
John and his outfit were carried to
the lockup, where he expressed a de
sire to see tbe mayor and he would tel)
him all
Mayor Davis was soon present, when
John put up a sincere plea, saying he
was guilty and would never do so
again if allowed to go.
The mayor required that he deposit
|2O and costa in the vaults of the
treasure or work upon the roads of the
county 60 days, to be held as a pledge
pt John’s sincerity.
John says he will have to join Capt.
Camp’s charm string, but it will be
the last time be ever does such a thing.
The Modern Way.
Commands itself to tbe well-informed, to
do pleasantly and effectually what was
formerly done in tbe crudest manner and
disagreeably aa well. To cleanse tbe
system and break up colds, headaches,
and fevers without unpleasant after effects,
nse the delightful liquid laxative remedy,
Syrup of Figs. Manufactured by Califor
nia Fig Syrup Company.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Plain and Practical Views Upon thi
Cotton Question.
Lathsm, Alexander k Co. receutlj
sent out a letter on tbe cotton acreage
of 1898, in which they invited the at
tention of merchants and planters tc
the enormous losses sustained by the
South on account of excessive cotton
crops, and suggested a reduction in
cotton acreage and diversification ol
crops as the most effective remedy,
Tbe press of the South very gene
rally printed their letter, and from tbe
many communications received, it is
tbe opinion tbat if .this subject were
properly put before the planters, they
would cheerfully reduce tbe cotton
acreage this year, in order that remun
erative prices might be secured for the
next crop.
In another letter just received by
the Morning Call Latham, Alexander
& Co. say: ,
“Under tbe head of ‘crop diversifica
tion’tbe Galveston News, in its issue
of January 15th, published a number
of letters urging the planters nf tbe
South to reduce cotton acreage, and
we publish the following letter on this
subject, written by R. R Dacy <fc Co.,
Houston, Texas:
'“The planters must diversify their
crops and plant less cotton or our
beautiful land, with the most produc
tive soil on earth, will reduce to pau
perism, want and misery those who
have the power in their bands to monld
tbeir destiny,
“They claim that unless tbe tenant
and average farmer will agree to plant
a certain amount of ‘cotton acreage’
tbe merchant cannot and will not sup.
ply bis wants. We have seen consid
erable Texas life, and state, without
hesitation, that tbe average Texas
farmer lives poorer than any other.
The land he tills will produce equal to
any in tbe world, and if thrifty he
could within a short time make him
self altogether independent of tbe
merchant, Instead of contracting debts,
he would have money to spend with
bis merchant.
“On most plantations tbe luxury of
the garden is ignored. Luxurient
grasses, ready for bay about the time
cotton picking commences, are neg
lected, allowed to waste, instead of
jousing, because all time and labor
must be given to cotton. On tbe
opening of spring he must buy pro
vender for hia working animals. Those
things which a countryman in Europe
or the Eastern states of our land would
consider necessaries of life and health
are neglected—certainly not from ig
norance, for you seldom see a grown
man or woman that cannot read and
write.
“Note the following facts and ponder
over them :
“The planter has not raised the corn
or wheat to provide his own house with
bread.
“He has not raised the horses or
mules required to keep up bis farm.
“He has not raised the cows and
hogs to supply butter, milk and meat
for his own table use.
“He has not rai ed tobacco, potatoes,
peanuts, or'sugar cane or sorghum to
make sugar and syrup for home con
sumption.
“He has not raised even a few chick
ens and turkeys to have eggs, and on
some special occasion a good fowl for
dinner.
“He lias not raised any of tbe many
vegetables—cabbage, turnips, lettuce,
tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, etc , so
nutritious and easily cultivated in this
climatq,and soil.
“He has not raised any melons, but
be knows tbe luxury of one on a hot
day, taken from a well or spring, upon
coming from hard work in cultivating
the one and all important cotton crop.
“He has not raised any apples, pears,
peaches, plums, apricots, figs or grapes
—any of these he could raise, if he
would.
“But, the bead of the farm by pref
erence takes his team, drives to town
and buys from bis merchant all tbe
various necessities—also butter,cheese,
lard, coffee, tobacco, eggs, peanuts,
sugar, cabbage, turnips, melons, candy,
a jug of syrup, a sack of eorn and a
bale of bay. Anything his merchant
has not in stock be must do withont,
or the merchant mnst send out and
get it for' him. Still, he seems blind
to his owu welfare and continues to
plant cotton, let the price be what it
may.
“America produces about th'.ee
fourlhs of all the cotton grown in the
9RIFFIN, SEOReiA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY V, 1838.
world and no other country can lake
precedence. The very low prices ex
j fating now for cotton are not of special
benefit to any one. On account of
over-production the planter must sell
his product below its coat to produce.
The merchant must take it in pay-
* ment of tbe planter’s account and do
hie utmost to clear himself on a close
* margin, if al all The buyer must
1 seek the world by cable and telegraph,
meeting competition for any outlet
for it, often simply swapping dollars to
make sales and relieve himself and
bankers of the load.
“Tbe manufacturer, learning from
experience, buys close and is willing
so.ne one else should carry the cotton,
since it saves interest and risk, and be
cause the contracts be can make for
his goods are scaled to the closest
point, and bis capital is necessarily
employed in the manufacture of goods
be must carry, because of tbe over
production. Hence, ' tbe enormous
crop, besides entailing heavy losses to
the farmers, is a disadvantage, and the
entire responsibility lies with the far
mer. Tbe balance of the power is bis.
To success or ruin all must follow him.
"With such experience and actual
facts tbe farmer should be willing to
call a hall, use some judgment, diver
sify bis planting, and next fall the re
sult will already begin to show such a
wave of prosperity for this land of the
south, that every man reducing bis
acreage in cotton 25 per cent or more,
would feel tbat be had been instru
mental ,ia part, in bringing it about;
that it was the turning point of sue
ceea in bis farming life and be had
lived to iearn and be convinced that
something was better than all cotton.”
Bold Thieves-
About 9 o’clock Monday night, a
negro man entered Mr. Thad Clark’s
store, in East Griffin, and after pur
chasing some small articles handed
him a dollar in settlement.
Receiving his change, he called for
sime other article, and while be was
examining tbe goods, two of his ac
complices, wbo bad remained at the
door up to this time, came in and stole
three or four dollars from tbe showcase
where Mr. Clark left bis change, and
skipped out.
Mr. Clark, discovering his lose, and
knowing the negro with whom he had
just been trading was one of the clans,
seized the scoundrel and attempted to
bold him until help could arrive, but
tbe negro succeeded in breaking loose
and making good his escape.
Neither of tbe negroes are known,
and no arrests have been made, al
though tbe police are in the search.
There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all the other diseases put
together, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it a local
disease, and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a consti
tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu
tional cure on the market. fit is taken in
ternally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes
timonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY -& CO.,
• Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
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Two Nights, Beginning Wed
nesday, Feb. 9th.
The Favorite Comedian,
EDWIN TRAVERS
Supported by a Superb I Company, pre
senting Wednesday night Gillettee’s
Famous Comedy,
The Privaia SBcrßiary
Thursday night—the Latest Musical
Comedy Success,
A Jolly Night.
Prices cut in half—soc., 35c., 25c. No
higher. Seats now on sale at usual place.
Ta Cura Constipation Forever,
Take Cascareta Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C. C. CX fail tc cure, drvzgists refund money.
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
THE FACTS PLAINLY GIVEN.
W. H. Brewer, the Invincible, Strikes
Back From the Shoulder-
, Editor Call : The forcing of the rail
roads to withdraw the four cents differen
tial they had imposed on the buyers of
less than car lots of classes B, C, D, F—
sugar, molasses and a number of other
goods—will save to the consumers not on
ly of Georgia, but to those of all the states
south of the Ohio and east of the Missis
sippi, thousands upon thousands of dol
lars. For the information of those not ac
quainted with the different classes, 1 will
style class Bis meat, lard and all other
packing house products; class C is flour
in sacks; Dis grain, and Fis flour in bar
rels.
The railroads are trying to make it ap
pear that the withdrawal of the differen
tial was voluntary. The day after the pe
tition was filed, Mr. Egan, the vice-presi
dent of the Central railroad, hied himself
off to Louisville, and it was then decided
to call a meeting on Jan. 25th. The
meeting was held and it was then decided
to withdraw the differential. I was urged
on the 21st to withdraw the petition, and
had I done so the differential would not
have been withdrawn.
Mr. Egan states the railroad officials had
informed him there were no complaints
from other places. Why have complaints
not bepn made? Because they have never
studied the question. They have been
meekly bearing the burden these railroad
sharks have imposed upon them.
Whenever it can be properly presented
to the people the enormous tax placed up
on the farmers and other consumers by
these railroad monopolies—whose head
quarters are Wall street, New York—there
will be such an uprising of the people,
from the mountains to the seaboard, that
will hurl from power every official who
upholds them in their robbery. I call it
robbery, because this heavy burden is
placed upon the people by power . not by
law.
Let every county in the state send rep
resentatives to the next legislature who
are free from the influence of these rail
roads—men who will endeavor to relieve
the people from some portion of this enor
mous tax, placed on them by these rail
roads—a tax greater than the state taxes
you to carry on the government. Cease
your cry against the high state tax until
you free yourselves from the unlawful tax
imposed upon you by these railroads.
Are you going to continue paying the
extortionate tax of the to be
poured into the coffers of Wall street?
They have robbed the widows and or
phans of the Central of Georgia of their
magnificent property. They did not even
leave them a few crumbs. Guardians in
vested the funds of their wards in this
property, believing no security could be
better, when, lo I these vultures scented
from afar and swooped down and grabbed
it all, leaving these dependents penniless.
Not satisfied they are now imposing such
burdens upon you in freight rates; they
hope in a few years to have your lands,
and have you for their tenants; they are
now demanding the pound of flesh—will
you give it? Ido not believe you will.
W. H. Brewer.
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IN WASHINGTON’S TIME
Furniture was as stiff and straight as the
manners were formal. The furniture of
today, of which there are exquisite sam
ples in our superb stock, have all the vir
tues, without any of the lumbersomc,
ungainly features of Colonial styles/ We
are making a special feature just now of
Oak and Mahogany, which are the best
value for the money we have ever offered.
CHILDS SCODDARD.
Dissolution Sale
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THOS. J. WHITE HAVING BOUGHT MR. 0. F. WOLCOTTS INTEREST
IN THE BUSINESS OF WHITE & WOLCOTT,
Offers at Absolute Cost!
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All Winter Suits for Men or Boys,
All Overcoats for Men and Boys,
All Winter Underwear.
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THESE GOODS MUST BE CONVERTED INTO CASH AT ONCE. NONE
OF A JOVE ARTICLES WILL BE CHARGED TO ANY ONE AT THESE
PRICES. ANY ONE HAVING ACCOUNT ON MY BOOKS CAN HAVE
THESE ARTICLES CHARGED, BUT AT REGULAR MARKED PRICES.
THOS. J. WHITE,
SUCCESSOR TO
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p We will continue to sell everything In the
WILLIAMS STOCK at the marked cost until
Feb. 15 th.
Call and price our goods before making a ,
purchase.
21 Hill Street—at Scbeaennan Store. ' ,-j
R.F. Strickland X Co.
New goods of every kind bought right and
sold right. Others get our prices and
try to meet them; they don’t
always do it.
THOSE NEW EMBROIDERIES
OF OURS ARE MUCH ADMIRED BY EVERYBODY. THE PATTERNS ARE
ALL OF NEW DESIGNS AND THE PRICE IS THE ONLY THING CHEAP
ABOUT THEM.;
10-4 UNBLEACHED SHEETING 12fc.
10-4 BLEACHED SHEETING 15c.
4 4 CABOTTB BLEACHINGS Ojc. ALL THE BEST BRANDS AT THE
LOWEST PRICES. *
SATIN STRIPED TICKINGS MADE TO SELL FOR 15c. WE BOUGHT
THE WHOLE LOT—OUR PRICE 10c.
MENS UNLAUNDERED SHIRTS THREE FOR |I.OO.
MENS NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, NEW STYLES, 50c. EACH.
NEW FLOWING END FOUR-IN-HAND TIES 50c.
LADIES HERMSDORF HOSE 124 c., 15c., 20c. AND 25c.
MENS SOCKS, FAST BLACK OR TANS, Bc. TO 25c.
SHOES, SHOES I
ALL SAMPLE SHOES AND BALANCE OF WINTER STOCKS WILL BE
CLOSED OUT AT REDUCED PRICES.
R. F. STRICKLAND & CO.
J. H. HUFFS BOOK AND MUSIC STORK
HAS OPENED UP A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF
LACE VALENTINES'
Fmlt Ritas »d Hlt-EHad Cmlcs. 1
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Ten Cents per Week
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