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The Crawiordville Advocate.
l UAWFORDVILLE. GEORGIA.
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Subscription 1 IVr \ oar.
C. L. SMITH, Eon ok.
Local News.
Mr. Jesse McDonald spent court
week with us.
See notice of the convention in
Thomson on the 16th inst.
Teachers’ meeting was held at l>r.
Reid's last Tuesday night.
Mrs. fie race Holden has returned
from a short visit to Augusta.
Cottage prayer-meeting was held
at Mrs. Mildred Rhodes’ Monday
night.
Messrs. G. T. Edwards and C. C.
Caldwell went to Atlanta Sunday,
and returned Tuesday with a drove
of horses.
Thc grand jury paid our county
officers quite high compliment.
The clerk of court especially seemed
to please them.
A photograph of Liberty Hall,
with the school children grouped on
the front steps, was taken by a pho¬
tographer from Madison last I ues
day.
Mr. Vic Jones and Mr. Wages,
two of the Georgia road’s most
popular and clever conductors,
stopped over in Crawfordville Tues¬
day night, on route for I’owelton to
take a bird hunt.
Two patent medicine physicians
sojourned in the city for a few days
this week, much to the regret of sev
eral of our citizens. Tuesday even¬
ing they left without settling boaid
bills.
At the session of the superior
court only three criminals wore sent
off to the pen. All three were given
jobs of twelve months’ duration.
Messrs, Griffin Bros., of 1 eun s,
leased the convicts from the county
this year.
The llx-Tieasurer’s Book Found.
The long lost treasurer’s books
have at last been found. :
last Monday Judge Hammock,
Taliaferro’* ex-treasurer, sent for
our present treasurer, Air. A. J. Chap
man and turned over to him over
$500, which amount he said was duo
the county with interest, The hooks
were lost and were not found until
lately. before
Desiring to straighten them
turning them in, Judge Hammock iu
making a close inspection, found lie
was due the county the above men
tioned amount, which he at once paid.
This act relicts much credit on
Judge Hammock’s integrity and his
friends are glad that the books were
found and everything straightened.
This is Encouraging.
Etxn otTvili k, N. V, March 2, ’95,
Publisher of Tho Advocate-Demo
crat, Crawforville, Ga.:
My Dkak Silt 1 send you one
dollar. Pleas© let me know, on en
closed postal card, tho date that it
pays up to.
Make your paper “hum" with ideas.
There is not a day to lose to save
this country from becoming Euro¬
peanized and robbed of its liberties.
Modern Democracy has, since
1892, gone further in that direction
than the Republican party ever dared
to go, aud has become “a hiss and by
word,” here in the North, as it ought
to be in the South, which it has
cursed long enough.
Yours truly,
K. D. North kit.
Attention, Populists!
A convention of the Populist pat¬
ty of the Tenth Congressional Dis¬
trict of Georgia w ill l>e held at
Thomson on March 16 at the court
house at 10 a. m. for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for Congress
the approaching election. !
at j
James Barrett,
Ch’m’n Executive Committee Teath
Congressional District.
\V. C. Chatman, Secretary.
Advertised Letters.
If not called for in 30-days w ill be j
sent to the dead letter office :
Chapman* Miasee'Minnie Crutchfield, Fhigie
Nancy Harris Emma
Jones,‘Rosa Luke; Alessrs. James L.
Reeder. C. N. Robinson Mrs. Lula
Roberts. !
C. II. Farmer, P. AI. |
Grand -fury Presentments.
We the grand jury, selected,
chosen and sworn for the February
term of Taliaferro superior court,
make t,he following general present¬
ments :
The hcv> ral committees report as
follows —
We find the hooks of the treas¬
urer carefully and neatly kept, and
vouchers for all money paid out.
Amount on hand, $1,543.98, as per
statement rendered by treasurer.
We find the books of clerk supe¬
rior court neatly and correctly kept,
and in a style that reflects great
credit on the officer as regards both
the order and neatness of his re¬
spective department.
We find the records of the sheriff
correctly and neatly kept.
We find without exception all
dockets of justices of the peace cor¬
rectly kept, and all cost duly item¬
ized.
We find the county school com¬
missioners’ books correct, with bal¬
ance on hand last report, $5,454.14,
and has vouchers to cover that
amount. We herewith submit his
annual report. We recommend that
be give in his reports the average
attendance of each school seperately.
Wo also recommend that the fol¬
lowing named parties be paid the
amounts attached to their names for
services as members of the board of
education. Rendered service since
the spring term, 1891: T. L. Chap¬
man, 2 days, $4; J. R. Anthony, 2
days, $ 1; A. G. Beazley, 7 days, $14;
J. A. Woodall, 7 days, $11; John
Johnson, 0 days, $12; W. < >. Holden,
1 days, #8; T. VV. Morris, 4 days, $8.
Committee on books of ordinary
and county commissioners report as
follows: We find after examination
the books of both ordinary and the
county commissioners correctly and
neatly kept.
We recommend that book of cost for
court of ordinary, which is the private
property of II. II. Flynt, be pur¬
chased for $5, and turned over to
the ordinary.
We recommend that the town
council have deed and contract to
public horse lot in the town of Craw¬
fordville •Vecorde,,^ ’
The committed appointed at the
August term of court, 1894, to ex¬
amine the records of county during
recess, ask that they bo given till
August term to make their report.
The same was granted.
We call attention of the county
commissioners to the condition of
bridge at Mr. Ogletreo’s mill; also
the condition of ford at Buncomb
branch on road leaving Crawford
villc to Malayer’s bridge, and recoin
mend that proper steps bo taken to
have same put in passable condition;
aEo at Williams creek, in 172d dis¬
trict, we find nearly impassable, and
at Malayer’s bridge and at branch on
same road leading to Malayer’s bridge
three and one-half miles from town,
are in very had condition. Also
ford on Stephens’ creek leading from
CTawfordville to Lyneville is in bad
condition.
We recommend that the district
road commissioners see that good and
competent overseers are selected to
supervise the work of our public
roads, as we believe this the most
important step in having good roads.
Committee on public buildings re¬
port that tbej jail is in good condition,
with the exception of a few broken
glass. We find the court house in
fair condition.
We recommend that Jno. W.Swan
be appointed as notary publu\and ex
officio justice of peace in the 604th
district.
In taking leave of his honor, Judge
Reese, we teuder him our sincere
thanks for the dignified, able and
impartial|manner in which he has pre¬
sided at this term of court. We
lender Col. Wm. Howard, our cour
teous solicitor general, our thanks
for kindness shown our body and
assistance rendered.
We recommend that these present¬
ments be published in our county pa¬
per, provided it will not cost over
five dollars.
Samuel J. Flyxt, F'oreman.
M. F. Griffith, Clerk.
It seems that several officials of
-Mexico have been arrested for de
frauding the postoffice department j !
A recently elected member of the
United States Senate could give the
culprits pointers on how to get out
“
of it.
GEORGIA’S SORROW.
GREAT SYMPATHY FOK THE
GOVERNOR.
Mrs. Atkinson Now Undergoing
Treatment at a Private
Sanitarium.
The terrible calamity which has
befallen Mrs. W. Y. Atkinson, the
good wife of Georgia’s present Gov
ernor will occasion universal Borrow.
Tike a clap of thunder from a
cloudless sky it was learned a few
days ago that Mrs. Atkinson had de¬
veloped decided symptoms of de¬
mentia.
The sensational facts leading to
this discovery, although discussed in
a private manner, were carefully con
cealed from the public until one day
last week when the Looking Glass, a
sensational weekly published in At¬
lanta, contained an article on the
subject.
Governor Atkinson in tue mean¬
time lias placed liis wife in a sanita¬
rium at Washington where she will
undergo medical treatment ^for hoi
mental aillictions.
The active interest taken in Gov
ernor Atkinson’s recent gubernalo
rial campaign by Mrs. Atkinson and
her almost super-human work in his
behalf have passed into history as
one of the most brilliant and striking
evidences of a wife’s devotion.
She did the entire clerical labor of
ihe campaign, and to her efforts, it is
conceded on all sides, the nomina¬
tion of Governor Atkinson was
largely due.
Being a woman of frail constitu¬
tion this terrible strain mentally and
physically brought on a
wliioh culminated in the sad calamity
compelling the removal of the lady
tortile institution at Washington.
Immediately after the removal of
the Governor and his family into the
executive mansion on Peachtree
street the eccentricities of Airs. At¬
kinson began to excite comment.
It was never dreamed, however,
that any affliction of the mind wirt
responsible for the lady’s oocasioi'T 1
strange conduct and Governor Atkin¬
son, himself, who is reported to he
a most devoted husband, never once
suspected anything wrong.
Soon after appearing in society
Mrs. Atkinson, who had always been
of a retiring nature, developed a fond¬
ness for the gorgeous costumes which
displayed in a conspicuous box at the
theatre. While attending a play on
one occasion, it is stated, that she
drew a sandwich from the folds of
her clothing and ale it in full view of
the audience. At another time she
placed her opera glass in reversed
form to her eyes and gazed at the
audience, laughing heartily all the
time.
But the facts that brought her
sadly deranged condition to the real¬
ization of her husband transpired
only recently.
She went one day to a dry goods
store in Atlanta, and when in the
act of leaving, concealed several
small articles about her person. The
act w as noticed by some of the em¬
ployees, but a memorandum was
simply made of the articles taken,
and nothing said about the affair.
It is understood that the poor de¬
mented woman acted in a similar
manner at other stores. She at
length appeared again at the first
store referred to and in a dazed sort
of wav appropriated several articles
for which she had no earthly use.
This time she was detained, and
when asked to return the articles,
did so in a listless way, and saying
that her name was Mrs. “Atkins.”
The merchant made out a bill for
$1,000 aud gave it to lawyer Hamil¬
ton Douglas for collection.
When this bill was presented to
Governor Atkinson the crushing
realization of bis wife’s mental de¬
rangement dawned upon him for the
first time.
After recovering to some extent
from the terrible shock the governor
asked several trusted frieuds to in- j
vestigate the affair and advise him, j
The result of their investigations j
shows conclusively the mental irre- 1
sponsilnlitv of Airs. Atkinson, and (
by their advice the unfortunate lady
was placed in the sanitarium for
treatment.
The following is the letter written
by the governor’s friends on Ihe sub¬
ject:
Atlanta, Ga., February 27,1895.—
Hon. William Y. Atkinson, City.—
Dear Hir: At your request we, your
neighbors and friends, have investi¬
gated the charges which have re¬
cently been made and circulated con¬
cerning Mrs. Atkinson, your wife,
imputing to her conduct, violative of
the rights of property. As a result
we have ascertained that the charges,
soni^ or all of them, are probably
true as to the mere physical facts.
We have also ascertained that her
conduct is attributable to mental
aberration, caused in part by great
mental strain during your candidacy
for the office of governor and partly
by the habitual use of morphine and
other opiates or narcotics. We have
no doubt that she was morally irre¬
sponsible for her acts on the occa¬
sions referred to. Under the facts
which have come to our knowledge
we think it due both to her and you
that she be sent to a suitable sani¬
tarium or asylum, public or private,
for timely and proper treatment of
her unfortunate malady. We advise
that this be done without delay. Very
# ruly and sincerely your friends,
L. E. Bleckley, Alvan D. F’ree
man, Samuel Lumpkin, T. J. Sim¬
mons, Spencer R. Atkinson, Jno. L.
Hopkins, J. M. Terrell.
Tenth District Convention.
The People's Party Execntive
Committee for the Tenth congres¬
sional district met at the court house
in Augusta February 21st.
Chairman James Barrett, of Rich¬
mond county, called the meeting to
order, and finding nine answers to
call by counties, delared a quorum
present and the meeting open for
business.
It being stated that the principal
object of the call was to consider
the matter of ordering a nominating
convention, Major McGregor, of
Warrencon, moved ihat a convention
of the Tenth congressional district
bo called to meet at Thomson, Ga.,
on Saturday, March 16, 1895, for
the purpose of naming a candidate
for congress. The motion was
unanimously carried, and the various
county committees requested to see
'to the matter of selecting delegates
in the usual manner.
The chair was requested to ap¬
point a committee of three to get up
an address to the people of our dis¬
trict showing the true condition of
things politically and give such ad¬
vice as they might think the situa¬
tion demanded.
A committee of six was appointed
to wait on tho Hon. Thomas E.
Watson and invite him to address
the people of Richmond county on
the night of the 28th.
One of the committeemen made a
short bnt effective talk on the im¬
portance of every People’s party
man's registering, and upon motion
it was resolved that the various
county chairmen (through tho militia
district chairmen) urge upon every
one of our people to register at
once.
Secretary Horace Darden tendered
his resignation as secretary, giving
good and sufficient reasons for so
doing, whereupon he was relieved.
Thanks for past services were offered
him, and W. C. Chapman, of Rich¬
mond, elected to serve the balance of
the term. w. c. c.
Well Done, Brethren.
We are glad to note that at the
reform press convention held at
Kanas City last week, at which
over 1,500 reform editors were pres
ent, the attempt to commit the Pop
ulist party to the abandonment of
every issue but the free coinage of
silver was promptly defeated. Chair
man Taubeneek ami a few other
leaders who are stationed at Wash
ington seems to have gotten so far
out of touch with the people as to
recommend this plan, but the ern
phatic. manner in which it was dis
missed at the late St. Louis confer
ence, and the unanmity with which
the reform editors decided to remain
“in the middle of the road,” is apt
to set this matter at rest for good.
The other reforms demanded in
the Omah 3 platform are of equal
importance with the demand for
rc co i n ajre. Thev ’ are a trinity of
v *" inoperable.' It
has taken time to educate , the , pec
to understand them; and the
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time having been spent, and the
educative work among the masses
having been carried to the point
where victory is assured because a
majority is in sight, why should a
retrogressive step be taken now, and
more than two-thirds of the demands
of the people set aside ?
Of what use is it to spend time
and money in acquiring an education,
if as soon as the pupil graduates, the
whole oourse he studied is to be set
aside ?
Why should one measure of ini¬
quity be stopped only to give fuller
play to others? There can be no
radical reform in government, nor
radical improvement in the condi¬
tion of the people, ’till all the de¬
mands of the Omaha platform are
enacted into law. They form a
harmonious whole, and to take away
a part destroys the utility of the
whole.
The meeting last week demon¬
strates that this is in truth a peo¬
ple’s movement. The leader who
would sidetrack it or circumscribe
it, will be set aside and left in the
rear of the procession.—The Daily
Tribune.
A Calamity Howler.
It was at the corner of Broad and
Flunter sheets, in Atlanta, during
tho big snow. A small newsboy,
not more than seven years old, tried
to cross the street. A two-horse
sleigh was coming down full tilt, the
driver erect, the plug-hatted owner
seated beside a fur-clad lady, who
carried a well wrapped poodle dog
in her arms - In a moment poor little
“Biscuit” the street waif, was sent
sprawling in the mud, his papers
were scattered, torn, ruined. He
was picked up crying pitiously, a ver¬
itable calamity howler. “There,
there; you are all right. Don’t cry,”
said the man who helped him up.
“You ought to be thankful you were
not killed, running under horses’ feet
that way,” said the plug-hat in the
sleigh. But a young woman, a clerk
at a neighboring store, spoke kindly to
the trodden little wretch, gave him
a quarter to buy more papers, and
dried his tears.
The above is an actual occurence,
witnessed by the writer, It is civiliza¬
tion in minature—an object lesson to
those tvho continually berate popu¬
lists of being calamity howlers. The
man who patted the boy on the hack
and told him he tvas all right did so
through a kindly motive; but the boy
knew he was not all right, and so he
howled. He knew his last cent on
earth had been spent for papers, and
that an unfeeling autocrat, indiffer¬
ent of his own existense, had ridden
him down in giving pleasure to one
of his own kiud—) for the woman ca¬
ressed the dog and scarcely glanced
at the boy). The little beggar knew
supper and bed—even beggars needed
beds that cold weather—and break
fast and perhaps tomorrow s papers
could not be bought, for his capital
was scattered in the slush of the
streets of the great city where it is a
crime to beg for bread!
What sense was there in telling the
boy he was all right; to cheer up and
imagine times were ail right and he
would see an immediate improvement
in his financial condition ?
Didn’t he know better :
The populists, dear little friends,
are just like that little waif of Atlanta
—and so are lots of democrats. They
have been run over ruthlessly, 3nd
^eir possessions sei/.cd bv giant
■^^hevm^n^So^ ^ 11 wSt it
W3S or w t, 0 ‘j t wa that run over them,
yet they are under the Juggernaut’s
wheels and they feel the bruises,
Now and then a little one-horse poli
comes along an sets mud ° De and °*
tells him ^tvaight—the he is all right, to stop ew -
mg. If he sto P ^ i: is only long
enough to hear the plug-hat tell him
"
he mmgmmimi glad ■ he . .. is — permitted —
ought to be
to live.
Now my dear brother, which po¬
sition in this little scene do you oc¬
cupy ? Don’t fool yourself that you
are the plug-hat and own the Jugger¬
naut. You may be riding, but if so
you are either the driver or the
poodle, and your master paid a price
for you. Do you propose to continue
to be made use of to crush the weak
and helpless ? Do you propose to con¬
tinue the assertion that times wotild
be all right if people would stop
talking ? Don’t you know that ain’t
so ? Don’t you know that if every
man, woman and child in Delvalb
county was to “howl calamity” till
next fall it would not affect the price
of cotton in Liverpool or bonds in
the White House ?
The law of supply controls these
things when not interfered with by
stock gambling and corners, and in
our present ease the supply of money
is not equal to the demand—hence
the hard times. All you have got to
do now is to convince the calamity
howler that he has got plenty of
money. Then he will stop howling.
If you can’t show him this, give him
a job at living wages, and that will
settle the question with him.
Put the “calamity howlers” to
work and they won’t howl.—The
Clarkston Clarion.
Sheriff’s Sales, Taliaferro Co.,
Georgia.
Will he sold, at public outcry for cash
to the highest bidder, within the legal
hours of sale, before the court bouse
door in Crawfordville,on the first Tues¬
day iu April, 1895, one tract of land
containing one hundred and thirty
seven and one-halt (187 1 j) acres, more
or less—known as the Williams place,
and described as follows: “Said tract
lying ana being in Taliaferro county,
Georgia, ou the waters of theOgeecifee
river, and bounded on the north by
the lands of the late Samuel W. Chap¬
man, deceased; on the east by the pub¬
lic highway or road connecting Craw¬
fordville with Powelton, in Hancock
county,and the White Plains, in Greene
county; south by lands of Dr. R. J.
Reid; west river. by the north px - ong and of the
Ogeecliee Levied on to be
sold, with all the improvements there¬
on, as the property of Louisa 1 >arden,
deceased, in the hands of Jesse E. Dar¬
den, administrator ou estate of said
Louisa Darden, to be by him adminis¬
tered according to law, judgment to satisfy a fi.
fa. to execute a or decree
from the August term of the Superior
court, 1894, of said county, in favor of
Mrs. B. E. Smith, guardian, etc., vs.
Jesse E. Darden, administrator on
estate of said Louisa Darden, deceased.
Property pointed out by plaintiff’s
attorney and described in said fi. fa.
and decree; and found in possession of
Levi Young, upon whom written notice
of levy and sale was served in person.
This the tith day of March, 1895.
D. P. Henry,
Sheriff Taliaferro Connty.
Sheriff's Sale, Taliaferro Co
Georgia
GEOXGIA— Taliaferro Cofnty :
Will be sold in front of the door of
the Court House of said county, to the
higlitest bidder, for cash, on the first
Tuesday in April next, within the legal
hours of sale, all that tract or parcel
of land lying in one body, containing
eighty-two and three-fourths acres,
more or less, situated in the 004tli dis¬
trict, G. M., in said county, adjoining
lands formerly of T. J. Portwood, J. S.
Acre, F. N. Brown, H. M. Holden and
others, now of W. A. Legwen, Allen
Edwards, Tim Stewart and others.
Said land levied on as the property of
Martha R. Brown to satisfy an execu¬
tion issued from the Superior Court of
said county in favor of Sallie A. Far¬
mer, as executrix of the last will and
testament of S. J. Farmer, deceased,
and in her own right, against said Mar¬
tha R. Brown., this tith day of March,
1895.
D. P. Henry, Sheriff.
Sheriff’s Sale, Taliaferro Co.,
Georgia.
GEORGIA— Taliaferro County ;
Will be sold in front of the door of
the Court House of said county, in Craw¬
fordville, within the legal hours of sale,
to the highest bidder, for cash, on the
first Tuesday in April next. 1895, the
following property to-wit : All that
tract or lot of land, lying in GOlst dis¬
trict. G. M.. said county, about three
fourths of a mile from town of Craw¬
fordville. countaining (one acre, more
or less, • levied on as the property of
Brown Tappan. adjoining lands of J.
W. Hixon, on the north and East, on
the west by church lot. and on the
south by public road leading from
Crawfordville to Lyneville. Said prop¬
erty levied on by J. W. Tucker, consta¬
ble for said county, on March 5, 1895,
to satisfy a fi fa. issued by Geo. 8. Ed¬
wards. tax collector of said county,
defaulting taxes against the said
Tappan. Notice of levy served
tenant in possession. And said levy
over to me by said Tucker, to
and seiL
D. P. Henry, Sheriff
Taliaferro County,
March 6, 1895.