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The Crawiordville Advocate. l UAWFORDVILLE. GEORGIA. - - 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. 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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.