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The Tournament at Amercus yester
day was a grand success.
A bill to amend the costftution so as to
abolish tire distinction between grand
and petit jurors, has been made the
special order for next Wednesday.
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The so-called sea-serpent has been cap
tured at last at Menasha Wis. It prov
ed to lie a sea lion, eleven feet long, that
had escaped from a circus obout four
years ago.
• -mg’ a
Minstrelsy, with its burnt cork clog
dance and stale jokes is said to be on
the wane, people are getting too far ad
vanced to be amused by such things.
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1 he Sparta Ishinaelite, lays down a
code of etiquette to govern baseball.lt
will be a brighter and happier day lor
base ball when it is played accoruing t°
the Islunaelite.
The coroners of Georgia must think
they are going to lioid office indefinite
ly. They held a coroner’s convention
in Atlanta Monday, to petition the leg
islature, in reference to certain changes
which they want made in that office.
Droughts in North Dakota has ruined
crops and it is said that the farmers are
reduced to such straits that they are
forced to subsist on “field rodents and
gophers,” “field rodents” we presume
ire rats and rabbits.
Dr. G. W. Brown and Dr. J. T. Carroll,
two old and respectable physitions of
prominence ni Douglass and ( arrollcoun
tics, were •arrested this eek, charged
Avith the murder of Mrs. Cosby Ayres,
who died last April under their
nient.
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The Georgia Senate confimed the
lowing appointments last Monday: Yv.
Ira Brown, to be judge of the county
court of Wilcox county,
A. D. Freeman, to be judge of
county court of Coweta county.
W. F. Kelsey, to be solicitor of the
county court of Pulaski county.
Some religious papers are noting it
a curious fact that the bigger a
man’s salary is the longer his vacation,
The poor fellows who receive just a
more than nothing a year lind it hard
get any vacation at all.—Sumter
lieun.—Well what in the name of
sepliat, does a fellow without
Avant Avith vacation! It's a big
that requires a mail’s time to squander it.
A most foolish and inexcusable
dent happened a few days since
Abbeville, in Wilcox county.
men “just to liaA'e a little fun’Tiid
selves in a fence corner to frighten
negro lad by firing off theirs guns
the air as he passed by. One of,the
stumbled and his gun lowered just as
exploded and the contents lodged in the
body of the unfortunate lad. inflicting a
Avound that it is feared will prove fatal,
Sueli fun is awfully jolly and those who
indulge in it ought to be made to pay
Avell for it.
Lengthly petitions have availed no
thing, Governor Merriam, of Minnesota
says emphatically that he Avill under no
circumstance pardon Boh Younger, the
Missouri out-law, who is thought to be
dying of consumption in prison. We can
not see that the Governor is far from
light. Thera’s a good deal of sentimental
bosh about petitions asking the release
of brutal blood stained criminals because
they happen to get sick while serving
out a well deserved penalty. Establish
a custom of releasing such criminal-:,
and our prisons will be empty and crime
on a boom.
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Judge John T. Clark, of Outhbert.
Avell and favorably known to the people
of Sciiley, having held court here on sev
eral occ isions, was most horribly crush
ed to death at SmithviUe last Monday,
lie wason the North bound train, which
stops two hours at that junction, and
seeing a lady acquaintance on another
train went over and took a seat with her
until the train started off. In trying to
get off the moving train the judge was
thrown across the track and the car
wheels passed over his head, almost s*w
eringit from his laxly. The mutilated
remains was taken back to Cutlibert for
burial. The unfortunate occurrence
casts a gloom over the entire State.
DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS LOADED.
Poor, silly, Mrs. Canfield, of Kansas
the scribbling wife of the president of
the National Educational Association!
Her reckless anti-Southern scribbling
has brought her to grief. While in
Nashville last week with her husband she
was feted and lionized bv the Nashvil
lians. fhe doors of the best people in the
city were open to her and the carriges
of the wealthy' were at her command,
In midst of her royal reception by South
ern people, the Nashville American cop
ied from a Kansas paper one of her pri
vate letters to a friend, in which she rid
iculed the Southern people, refered“to
them as semi barbarians and express
ed the hope that she might some day
look down from a convenient comer in
the sky and see ‘’black heels on w bite
necks.”
She innocently bought a copy of the
paper and av hen her eye fell upon that
fatal letter which she never, never, nev
er. expected to see in cold type it is said
that she swooned dead away and had to
be taken up and carried to a hotel.
We sympathize muchly with the poor
womun, like many a scribbling idiot
she had written up the South before
knowing anything what-ever of our peo
p] e _ She feels for it now, D. very sor
jy and probably will never do it again,
but some other poor deluded Kansas
simpleton will.
A man named I-ioyle has founded a
new religious sect in the Eastern part of
South Carolina. They call themselvs
“true light Baptist. They hold that it
is an unpardonable sin for a preacher to
receive pay for his work, and close their
’ il,s to l he efforts of the regular ministry.
| They have no regular ministers, but claim
that every .'member of their church is in
spired of God to interpret the Scriptures.
Another favorite dogma is that they
I constitute the only true followers of God
and that all other denominations are liead
ing straight for tlie devil.
j They reject tlie Old Testament entirely
anil receive only such portions of the New
Test ament as suits their purpose rejecting
any passages that are opposed to their pe-
1 R beliefs, uninspired.
cu ar as
They claim that the observance of the
I j Sabbath Levitical was law, abrogated and hence along reject with tiie
Sunday
' as the day to be observed in the worship
of God.
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1 The perlidv of Mrs. Lavinia Wiley, of
Atlanta, suited, last week m disgrace
to her-self, death to her paramour, im
pr i 80 nment to her husband, ruin to her
j home and everlasting sorrow to her
; children. A. J. Wiley, her husband got
! hold of a note written by her to W. J.
! IV;ot. appointing clandestine meeting,
a
going to the appointed place he waited
until ins faithless wile met and
oil Pelot and drawing a pistol he shot
de latter to death. As Pelot was leav
ing his own wife and little one to go off
and ruin the home of his neighbor, bis
sweet little live year-old daughter call
ed out: “Papa you have not kissed me
good-night.” He turned lifted her over
the palings and kissed'her, little think
ing it would be the last time on earth.
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The Supreme court of Georgia rendered
a decision iuesduy that will be of in
Wrest in railroads circ.es. Mr. P. II.
! Snook, with hundreds of others, still
scribed to the capital stock of the Atlanta
,
and Ilawkinsville ruiiroed. Hisscbscrip
tiouwas Afterwards the route of
j the road aa as changed away from Haw
kmsvilie and the name changed to the
“Ailanta and Florida railroad.” Mr.
! Snook refused to pay his subscription.
He was sued in the city court and Judge
Van Epps decided against him. The case
a\m.s taken to the supreme court. Last
March the case Avas heard by the su
prime court, but the decision held up.
This morning a decision Avas rendered m
j favor of Mr. Snook reversing the deci
sion of i lie lower court.
William Williams, the negro Avho
murdered conductor W highain, on the
S. A. M. raiiroa.l, has written a full and
complete coalession o; his guilt to his
mother at Norcross Ga., and begs her and
ail the people of Gwennetto county to
pray for him, He also confesses to have
killed a colored man named Nelse Dur
ham, in Lake county Fla., about two
years ago: and shot another, named Or
ange Murray, in the same county at the
same time. He says working on public
works and keeping bad company, lias
brought him to this sail ending. But as
usual with murderers, he expects to
be hanged and swing right off into eter
nal bliss, and asks his mother, brothers
and sisters to meet hiiu in Heaven.
Dan Malone, a negro boy, twenty-two
years of age, irimnally assaulted Mrs.
Rachel Skinner near Covington Sunday
and was taken from the officers Monday
by sixty nuiekeu men and hanged to a
Ute.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
CURIOUS FREAKS OF PUNCTUATIONS
Typographical errors anti misplaced
punctuation points occur in the best
regulated printing offices, but in a coun
try office, with inexperienced printers,
they pile in thick and fast. Some times
tire poor editor is at a loss to recognize
his own article. The ablest editorial and
most cc mplimentary notice is often, by
a small typographical error, or a mis
placed punctuation, transformed into
the silliest dogerel or most uncompli
mentary slur.
To the new beginner in the art
of type setting the punctuation
points'isa constant stumbling block ,and
to detect and correct the errors of inex
perienced printers is the constant care
and everlasting worry of the country ed
itor. Suppose for instance we were corn
menting on the good character of the
best man in sciiley county
and should write that he is an old an ex
perienced man, in vice and wickedness
lie is never found, in opposing the works
of iniquity be takes delight, m the down
full of Ids neighbors he never rejoices
in the prosperity of his fellow creatures
he is always ready to assist, in destroy
ing the peace of society lie takes no
pleasure, in serving the Lord he is un
commonly diligent, in sowing discord
ainohg his friends and acquaintances he
takes no pride, in laboring to promote
the cause of Crhistianity lie lias not been
neglectful, in endeavoring to stigmatize
all public teachers he makes no effort
to subdue his evil passions lie strives
hard, to build up Satan’s kingdom he
lends no aid, to the support of the Gos
pel among the heathen he contributes
largely, to the evil adversary he pays
great heed, to the devil he will never go
to heaven he must go, where he will re.
ceive the just recompense of reward.
The printer could follow our copy
word for word yet by misplacing a few
comma’s make our article denounce
him as the
meanest man IN sciiley county.
Thus: He is an old experienced man in
a ice anil wickedness, lie is ne\er found
in opposing the works of iniquity, he
takes delight m the downfall of liis
neighbors, he never rejoices in the pros
perity of his fellow-creatures, lie is al
ways ready to troymg the
peace of society, betakes no pleasure in
serving the Lord, he is uncommonly
diligent in sowing discord among his
friends and acquaintances, he takes no
pride in laboring to promote the cause
°‘ C "^ liaiut v ’ lieha * n 1 beea “exigent
.
endeavoring to stigmatize all public
* each<?r *' H n,akts no effort to fubdne
11S ,/ /fTT’ f Btr ‘ Tes hard
bu.lil up Satan s kingdom,die lends no
aid to the support of the Gosjiel among
the heathen, lie contributes largely to
the evil adversary, he pays great heed
to the devil, he Avill never go to heaven.
he must go Avliere lie Avill receive the
just . of
recompense reward.
FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO.
There was time to live.
Men slept in their beds,
The epoch of haste had not come.
The saddle Avas the emblem of speed.
Brawn and brains Aveut hand in hand.
We were still a nation of hand work
er s.
A day’s journey was a serious matter,
Theiiighwaya were dusty and
lous.
No house contained a sewing machine.
The canvas-covered Avalon was the
ark of trade.
There Avas not a mower or harvester
in cxisiance,
The land was lighted with candles af
ter night fall. ft
Butter was unmarketable 100 miles
from the dairy.
Steam saev mill had just begun to de
vour the forest.
The lord of a thousand acres sat with
his harvesters to dinner.
The day began with the dawn and not
with the train's arrival.
The spinning wheel and shuttle sound
ed in every farmers house.
He who could count his possessions by
the square mile kept open house for the
wayfarer.
The telegraph had just begun in Wash
ington and ended in New York.
The rich were lavish in an abundance,
which Avas not yet coveted by the keen
eye of commem? .
From East to West was the pilgrimage
of a life; from North to South v> as a
voyage of discovery.
Georgia looms up this week with in
ventors. Eight of her sons are among
those reported at the Patent Office as
having received Patents on inventions.
They are as follows.
V. N. Barrett, Atlanta. Ga., Btove.
J. T. Bowen. Atlanta, Ga., Pick. J. M
Brosius, Atlanta. Ga.: Sewing machine
motor. V. R. Davis, Temple, Ga., Cot
ton Gin feeder. J. II, Gardner, Dalton,
Ga.. Bailing pi ess. L. E. Hunt,
land, Ga., Car-coupling. E. C. Sauls, Co
Iinnhus, Ga., can tiller. A. Wever, Talla
poosn, Ga,. Petrokun til gi.fc gi i.uator,
A debt paving religion.
The people of Schley county so for as
we have seen and can learn are generally
very prompt and reliable in meeting then
obligations and do not need any lectur
ing on debt-paying but the following for
the pen of Dr. Tuttle published in the
Methodist advance, has a ring of true
religion in it that it is worth preserving
and reading over occasionally:
Jnst at this time our country needs a
religion that will make a man yay his
debts. Shouting don’t settle old notes or
accounts with God or man—cash up.
We want to pounce right on a fellow and
put him out of the church if he goes to a
ball, or theater or goes on a drunk, but
never sav a word to the pious scamp who
never pays his debts. Preachers anil peo
ple who do not pay tlieir debts are doing
tlie church more harm than dancers and
drunkards—there are more of them in
the church. Reader am I getting close
to you? Then lay down the paper and
go and pay up and you can read on at
ease. And don’t you stop paying be
cause the “statute of limitation” excuses
the open account you made for your
bread and meat—God’s laws knows no
statute. You pay it in cash or God will
make you pay it in fire and brimsone.
Goil knows no such excuse from paying
as “homestead exemption.” You raise
that excuse to keep from paying your
debts and you can stop singing. ’’When
I can read my titles clear mansions in
the skies.” You’ve got none up there.
You may say I would pay if I could.
How hard have you tried? If dying at
this moment could you say, I’ve dont all
in my power? Have you tried to save a
little each week or month for your debts!
Are you spending no money for things to
eat and wear that you can do without?
How much do you spend a year for ci
gars and tobacco? Make t he calculat ion.
Put that to your debts. Do you cat dain
ties and luxuries? Plainer diet would
keep you from making doctor's bills that
you couldn’t pav, and leave your monev
to bring up back accounts with. Do you
strut nbput with an umbrella aa'IuIc your
creditors AA'ork in the broiling sun? Don't
vou cu j s ],j nes j a Jared turnouts (maybe
they are not paid for) when you might
wa lk and use the money to make your
creditors smile? A'.plainer suit of
would be more becoming until you can
pay for those worn last summer. When
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expenses not necessarv for the feeding
anil clothing ot the body are cut off and
j app Ued to the payment of debts then
j you grow in favor of God, and not until
then does God excuse you.
Repentance on this'point must be of a
Godly sort that needeth not to be re
| ]jeIlte .l of. Reader were you not sorry
tliat v ou had not paid your debts when
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vou n iade a profession of reli don? If
you were not, that is just why you have
I no p ^ ot a ,i e p,t paying religion. True re
, p en tance has a retroactive as- well as
| | prospective effect on the true believer,
lie will as far as possible make good his
: past Avrong. Many new converts sing,
“Jesus paid it all. all to him I owe.”
“Niisuch tiling. Jesus did not pay it all,
neither do you owe it all to him. If the
week 1,efore >' nu w< re converted you
0We '* J 01!r neighbor $10 and Avasable to
^ it > y° u ow e that neighbor $10, yet.
If you don’t pay that debt it will meet
| 3 r ° a at the judgement assure as you are
a sinner - B is mean in you to expect
Jesus to pay debts for you that you can
' y° l, rself. If you have a Christian heart
* n y° u * think liow much Jesus paid for
you that you could have met at Ged’s liar
°t ^flexible justice. Some people think
the cleansing of JesuTs blood washed S;
nai away and deluged the law—no such
tiling. Jesus came not to destroy, but to
fulfiill. Jesus every where enforces the
commandments as the rule of life.
Then let the Avliole church pray for a
ie\ i\al ot uebt paying reugion. In every
revival let prayer be made that the
new converts may have grace to pay up
“old debts” aud not contract new ones
without a good probability for paying
them. Let the minister enforce this du
ty publicly and privately' (with discre
tion) and great good can be accomplished.
If preachers would look after this mat
ter of debt-paying among their congre
gation, their own debts might be more
prom ply paid—chickens come home to
roost, but preachers need to be more
caretul, prayerful and payful along this
line. I he great necessity of the time is
confidence among the people. Let t he
church command and demand her mem
bership to live up to their promises and
contracts, and soon the present tinanciol
d ;l, 'hness Avill give away to a brighter
morn u, ‘ prosperity in all business circles,
Keep the amen coiner and front seats
d( ' ar of ,nen Nvll ° (1 ° not l» a J their debts
(the pulpit too) and the word preached
will reach sinners. May God gi vein in
crease to these words which are written
f< "' the promotion of His Kingdom in the
practical dealing of men with men.”
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Tin* linle revolutions in Ilayti still re
volves Hypolite, marched against Port
au-Pritice ou the 12th, but had to; beat
an ignominnious retreat.
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular Correspondent.] I
Washington, D. C. July. 19th,
Senator Quay dropped into 'W r a6hi 11 g to |
very only business quietly this here week and said that hjJ
was to engage a lions/
for his family. Of course this blic,],. ^
nobody. That he was on a political errai f
of great importance is generally believe,!]
He has had a long conference with G-eil I
Harrison and has been all post const ant
Clarkson, Iy with Assistant who his Postmaster lientenant Gener J g
was durin
the representing late campaign, the lie and Clarkson]
republican national
committee scheme have to carry been trying Virginia to hatch for tlj uj]
some
republicans this fail, and democrats evJ ij
that state will have to keep their
wide open to hold their own.
The medical division of the Pension
office is to be emtirely reorganized. ]>
is thought that all the democrats in the
division will follow the three or f 0Ur I
discharged this week.
Hon. W. B. Richie, of Ohio, who i s
closely connected in a buisiness way with
Calvin S. Brice, was in town this week. I I
He thinks the democrats will elect the
governor and legislature in Ohio this fall,
but that they will have to work hard to
doit. But the most important statement ,
made by Mr. Richie was the following;
I can say to you without the least quali
fication that Mr. Brice is not and will
not be a candidate for the Senate. There
are many reasons why he could not at
foril such a responsibility, andin making
calculations on the Ohio Senatorship
you will save much time and worry by
leaving Mr. Brice out altogether.
In view of Mr Richie’s relations with
Mr.Brice such a positive statement lias
caused a general rearrangement of
Ohio democratic slate.
Considerable talk has beeen created
here by a speech made by a negro at a
meeting of the Ohio republication
at ion a night or two ago. He expressed
himself as being very much displeased
with Harrisons. Southern policy
thing that doesn’t exist as far as I can
see) and other things. lie also
tered a strong protest against the
ness of removing democrats and like wan-j the J
famous Mr. Flannagin of Texas he
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C ..! mconcluslon c 1 f ’. U . by 4 . lj * ,
imax saying to m
p vernment employers present. Boat
J* J‘ “tiaidof 6L ™ any a^iathm'anThewilMor- civil sep ice nonsense
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t . Td it to tta. mmffiffinn
0 f Ohio to be put where ir will do
t! , " . mOS£ f kOOU * Ahw lS an an u • l >1>ilcdIlt fr tor
° Ut *
is saitl that Gov. Foraker of Ohio
is Presidential in act ^ ve training nomination for in the ’92. republican That’s j
a bout as near as he will get to it.
I have heard whispers of a probable
duel between Senators Blackburn and <
Chandler, owing to recent newspaper
publications obout the alleged pulling
of C handlers ear by Blackburn last
Avinter. It is said that a friend of the
Ketucky Senator is now here for the pur
pose of finding out whether Senator
Chandler Avould accept a challenge.
The general impression is that he would
not.
Secretary Noble when asked as to the
probable result of the attempts being
made by the Cherokee Cattle Company
to prevent the opening of the Cherokee
strip to settlement said that he did not
care to discuss the matter further than
to s iy that the Government would rec
onizo no competitors for these or any
other lands in which it liad an interest,
and that the rights of the U. S. would be
asserted and maintained.
Mr. Morgan, the new Commissioner of
Indian Affairs seems to be a believer in
real civil service reform, even if he did
appoint his Avife a special agent. He
has sent the following circular letter to
Indian agents concerning the conditions
of appointments. “Approvals will he
made Avitli the distinct understanding
that the parties named are thoroughly
competent to fill the positions for Avhieh
they are nominatd and that they will be
zealous and faithful in the performance
of their duties; that their tenure office
is permanent so long as they remain
competent and efficient, and that the In
dian office reserves the right to remove
for CHU8t , only ». Properly lived up to
that letter vvouUl make a!1 lhe civi l se r
vie*' Iuav neccessary.
The sensation caused by the reported
resignation of Secretary Blaine was very
short lived. Schley,
A. L. Fallisisthe happy owner of a
four legged chicken, which he found in
a new brood Saturday. He says it gets
around as lively as any of them, butonty
uses the two front legs in walking, but
can beat the balanceof them in scratch
ing. He expects to put it on exhibition
when it is grown, and will try to raise
this variety for boarding house purposes
as it will give boarders more legs to
suck.—Sumter Republican.