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Joe Brown's health is said to be im
proving.
The legislature is still driving away
at the State railroad bill.
The trial of Dan Alston for the mur
der of the Scotchman Wilson began
Monday at Decatur.
Ex-Speaker Carlisle is visiting Mexi
co and being royally entertained by the
president and Dons of Mexico.
Sullivan has taken an appeal to the
Supreme Court of Mississippi and is out
on a bond of $1,000 to appear in Febru
ary.
The Augusta Exchange endorses the
move against the jute trust and pledges
its support to the farmers in their con
test.
The number of Free Will Baptist in
the South, a statement of which we pub
lish by request, will surprise many of
our readers.
The legislature adjourned last Mon
day in respect to the memory of Hon.
Louis Arnheim of Dougherty, who died
in Atlanta Sunday, of consumption.
The whole of the Vindicator “corps,”
proprietors, publishers, printers and all,
are member's of the church, and of the
same church.—Dooly Vindicator.—
Great scotts! and does the ehurclrsur
vive?
King Humbert of Italy, lias created
Thomas A. Edison an Italian Count.
Now the great American electrician
should return the compliment by hav
ing King Humbert made a Georgia col
onel. then honors would be about equal.
We tender our old Florida friend and
. contemporary John Temple Graves
of the Rome Tribune, our tenderest sym
pathies m the loss of his wife Mrs. Mat
tie Simpson Graves, who died last week
at her home in Rome.
From a paragraph published in anoth
er column, it will be seen that Tom
Wnolfolk did not attend his hanging last
Friday. If Tom, like most murderers
claim, has made his peace with God
and is sure of stepping off into eternal
bliss, it is a great pity to keep him wait
ing so long at the pearly gates.
Eben S. Allen, the defaulting ex pres
ident of the Forty second and Grand
Street Ferry railroad company, was
sentenced to fourteen years penal servi
tude. New York courts are to be con
gratulated for being able to deal out jus
tice to millionaires and paupers alike.
Tbe Liverpool cotton exchange de
dines to allow any tare <on cotton bag
ging, and seems to be decidedly
with the jute combination. This how
ever should not discourage our farmers,
Some other substitute for jute grown in
the South can be ado {Vied with probably
lietter results.
The Freewill Baptist of the South,
have established a church paper at Nash
ville Tennessee, called, Tbe Christian
Herald. It is a well gNJfcten Up six col
umn folio, and puts in some able wmrk
in support of free will, free salvation,
and free communion. It also advocates
strongly, a union of all tire liberal bap
tist.
The champion slugger. John L.Sulli
van, being convicted was sentenced to
twelve months imprisonment. To view
the affair from a slugger’s stand-point
twelve months imprisonment for fight
ing without getting mad would seem
harsh and unjust, but when we consider
the matter from a moral point of view
and recon the pernicious and brutalizing
influence of prize fighting upon the ris
mg generation and the importance of
curbing the natural inclinations of the
vicious and the brutal for the benefit of
society generally, we must conclude
that Sullivan has well merited his sen
tence. It may not improve his morals
or make a better man of him, but it wf I]
deter others from adopting prizefighting
•as a profession and teach them to enlist
their powerful muscle in a better cause,
IS IT HONEST AND JUST?
If the Georgia legislature, should
pass a law exempting a man from all
obligations to return a horse, ox, wagon,
money, or anything else, borrowed of a
neighbor, all would pronou nee it a bad
law, contrary to the laws of God and to
every sense of honesty, yet the princi
ples involved are precisely the same as
those that should govern the exemption
laws of Georgia. It is no more right to
buy your neighbors goods and neglect to
pay for them than to borrow them and
decl ine to return them. If a man starts
out with nothing except what he buys on
credit, then he owns nothing until his
debts are paid and any law that exempts
credit bought goods from liability to the
creditor is communistic in its workings,
No more unjust and unchristian-like
would be a law taking from those who
have labored and accumulated some
thing and distributing among those who
are idle and extravegant. Exemption
laws are simply legal loop holes for t he
unscrupulous debtor to slip through after
suppliying himself with what does not
honesty belong to him, while the con
science of the honest debtor revolts at
the thought of legal wrong and he gives
up what he has, to pay an honest debt.
Every legal exemption from honest
debts should be wiped off our statute
books.
Judge David Terry who resigned his
seat on the Supreme Court bench of
Califonia to fight United States Sena
tor Broderick and killed Broderick in the
duel and more recently added to his
reckless fame by marrying the notorious
Sarah Althea Hill, while acting as the
leading attorney in her famous case a
gainst the estate of U. S. Senator Sharon.
wound up his stormy career last week
with a bullet in his heart, While press
ing the suit of Sarah Althea who claim
ed to have been lawfully married to Sen
ator Sharon he and his client Sarah were
both sentenced to six months imprison
ment for contempt of court. On
Wednesday of last week he and his Sa
rah Althea walked into a railroad din
ing room and seeing Chief Justice Field
of the U. S. Supreme Court, who had or
dered their imprisonment, immediately
assaulted him. Deputy U. S. Marshall
Nagle resented the assault by firing a
bullet through the heart of Judge Terry
killing him dead.
The Monroe Advertiser commenting
on the Mr. Brady’s Guano bill that pass
ed the house of representatives last week
says: "It opens the doors very wide for
purchasers of commercial fertilizers, who
are or may lie, so disposed, to plead them
selves out of paying for manures pur
chased. It, to a very great extent, bas
es the payment for commercial manures
purchased on credit, on the honor of the
purchaser. This however is the best bas
is for credit, and if all our collecting laws
were framed on this line it would be best
for the country. If this could largely di
minish the quantity of guano used in the
state it would no doubt be best for the
people.”
The proposed excursion of Georgia
farmers to the farms of the Northwest
seems to meet with hearty approval by
the people of that section. Major Gless
i ner who heads the excursion has
; recieved letters from his friends in Ohio
urging him to notify them of the exact
time so they may he prepared to greet
j the Georgians with a warm welcome
and a liberal hospitality,
Prof. A. J. Clark, of the Cuthbert Mil
itary and Agricultural College solicits
the patronage of Schley and surround
ing counties. This is a home institution
and should be patronized. Boys can get
as good instructions here as any-where
i else and have the advantage of being
near home and encouraging home
people
The residence of Mr. B. W. Wheeler
of Americus, occupied by Mr. Brugan,
was burned about 9 o’clock yesterday
morning. There was a small insurance
on the house but no insurance on the
contents. The loss on building and lur
uiture is about $1,500. The origin of
the tire is unknown.
An Athens man has discovered that
the common ho « weed that our Armors
have to wr, 8tle with ever N N ear kpp P
it down, will make as good bagging
Hnd ro l M> as J u * e and can be made up by
the same process, by the same machin
ery and with tar less expense, as there
is no duty on it.
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Dr Latimer, of Macon, took a dose of
aconite, mistaking it for paregoric mid
diet! in spite of all efforts to save him.
BRINGING IN THE GOLDEN SHEAVES.
The big Gospel tent at Union School
house, Sumter county, was crowded last
Sunday to its almost capacity. The
county people flocked in from every di
rection and hundreds came out from
Americas. Much interest was being
manifested and Rev, G. 13. Allison the
Minister in charge, was in the heightli
of his glory though he appeared to have
but one assistant.
Mr. Allison is an earnest worker; there
seems to be nothing contracted, narrow
be g oted in llig {flea 0 f religion. To
j j get them t i )e people into the church be the delight and make of
j do right seems to
Ids soul, whether they join his church
or some other denomination appears to
be of little concern to him. He threw
wide open the doors of the church and
j earnes tly invited all to come in. We
j not j ce that several joined and had their
names sent into other churches.
Most of the new converts were young
people, but we noticed Sunday among
the accessions, one aged old father whose
snowy locks and unsteady step indicated
that lie had long since reached the zenith
of manhood and had been for many
years tottering down life’s shady slope.
If this old man has been all these long
years. in the service of satan, there
must have been great rejoicing in Heav
en last Sunday on his deliverance.
The Sunday School children were seat
ed near the pulpit and right well did they
perform the duties of a choir. The sing
ing added much to the interest and en
thusiasm of the meeting.
Here, for the first time since we left
Georgia many years ago, we heard a sis
ter called on to lead in prayer. To most
ladies such an attempt would be a most
trying ordeal, and for this reason we
we have ever entertained a strong pre -
judice against c tiling on the fair sex to
do in public what nature seems to have
constituted her fordoing only in private.
In this case, however, there was no fal
tering; at once a soft, sweet, feminine
voice, low but clear and distinct, burst
forth in an earnest, entreating supplica
tion that seemed to touch with its pathos
the heart of every hearer, penetrate the
etherial space, reach the celestial throne
and apeal directly to the ear of the Heav
enly Father himself. We thought it was
one of the most feeling petitions that
we ever heard sent >ip in behalf of sin
ful man.
There was no camping on the grounds,
but the liberal hospitality, ever conspi
cious in Sumter county, was as promi
nent here as elsewhere. All the neigh
bors seem to have came amply equipped
for such an occasion and at noon the
sumptious spreads made in the shade of
the surrounding grove, were tempting
enough to gratify the taste of any epi
cure. Invitations to dinner came so
fast that had we accepted all, we would
be (here eating yet.
Morally, religiously, socially, and oth
er-wise the people of Sumter are unex
celled. All along the route to the place
of meeting, are conspicuous evidences of
thrift, enterprise and prosperity. We
noticed old fields that were considered
worn out twenty-five years ago, now
producing crops that would do credit to
the fertile plains of the Northwest. Im
proved methods and intensive cultiva
tion has transformed these old pebbly
hills into blooming gardens, and the
Sumter county boy is a rattle brain idiot
wko allowed liimself to be lined away
from the land of his birth by the fleeting
phantasmegoria of “a better land be
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SUCH IS LIFE.
There now seems to oe a strong prob
ability that Queen Victoria will be in
duced to commute the death sentence of
Mrs. MaybrLk to imprisonment for life.
The doomed woman was an American
girl who married an Englishman and
moved with him to England. Her
American friends are taking an active
part in trying to get her sentence com
muted. There w r as no direct evidence
that she poisoned her husband, in fact
it was shown to the court that he was
a confirmed arsenic eater and might
have overdosed himself, but her gay
frivolous fast life and numerous private
letter to other men led to the presump
tion that she might have desired the
death of her husband and the jury it
seems convicted more upon general had
character or matrimonial unfaithfulness,
than upon any evidence of overt act of
guilt.
With the Enquirer Sun, we think the
supreme court of California did right in
refusing to adjourn out of respect to the
memory of Judge Terry. The court
very properly held that Terry was un
wo.thy of any such consideration, hav
mg resigned from the beneh to flglu a
duel and having l»een killed while mak
ing an assault on a justice of the su
picnic court ol the United States.
HOW I MISS YOU.
For the Schley County News,!
I miss you now from near the stile,
Where you had your turnip patch:
I miss you when I light a fire
And haven’t any match.
I miss you when my ’ile is out
And I have td go and borry;
And when I think of your ’tater pie
it makes me awful sorry,
I miss you when I walk at eve
To visit neighbors kind,
I miss ihe voice so often heard:
“Tom, Cawood why don’t you mind!”
I miss our chats, 'bout fol ks and things,
While we oft let dinner get cooi;
I miss the warning voice that said:
“Aubrey, go long to school!”
I miss your visits after meals,
Along with your brush and snuif;
1 miss our gossip, then so free,
But, there, I’ve said enough,
By Mrs. F. M. Lasalie Gainesville Ga.
To J. W. an old neighbor, now absent.
WASHINGTON LETTER
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington D. C. Aug. lGtli 1889.
The hot weather oppresses the aver
age office seeker, and as he mops his
hot face he.tells you that he has about
concluded to go home, and adds in a
confidential whisper, that he is only
waiting for a remittance. He no longer
stops at the Ebbitt House though he
daily haunts its nearly deserted corri
dors like an uneasy ghost. The fact is
that the movements of the President ex
cites little interest here as enough of
him has been seen to justify one in de
ciding that he will do nothing surpris
ing, and outside the close profession of
politics, this is a pleasant state of affairs.
Only the self elected statesmen mourn
and will not be comforted.
You can never tell when a politician
is permanently done for. Take for ex
ample Hon. James W. Reed, formerly
of North Carolina. A number of years
ago Mr. Reed represented the fifth dis
trict of that state in the House. He was
an able, companionable, easy going
man and he became involved in finan
cial difficulties, resigned his seat in
congress and left North Carolina un der
a cloud. Few knew where he had gone,
j On the frontier he commenced life over
again, and now reports come from Ida
ho that he has a fine chance of being
chosen as United States Senator, if the
Democrats have a majority in the new
ly organized Slate’s legislature.
The latest development in the Cali
fornian Sharon-Hill-Terry drama, crea
ted a profound impression in Washing
ton. The shock to public feeling is to
be attributed more to the indignity
offered to the supreme couit, and
through that lady to the entire country,
than to the killing of the misguided
and unscrupulous Terry. While no one
disputes that the deputy marshal was
not to be excused in killing Terry unless
he knew the Justice's life to be in dan
ger, still public sentiment would be
largely with him even had he no reason
to k> believe. On the immunity of
judges from danger of personal hurt on
account of acts committed in the fear
less discharge of their duty, rests the
sanctity of the law; and marshal Nea
gle, in his wild western way, pretty
well supported it.
Murderer’s Row at the district jail is
uncomfortably filled during the dog
days and the capacity of the space is
seriously threatened by the increasing
number of homicides. There have been
at least a dozen murders among the col
ored population since the middle of
May. These negro toughs fill themselves
with gin costing about seventy cents a
gallon and then repair to their swelter
ing, fetid dens, up unventilated alleys
and i all to fighting, a thing by no means
surprising when one considers the pos
sibilities of gin and hot weather com
bined. Active hostilities are generally
introduced by a game of “crap,” an in
teresting social game played upon the
ground with large dies, being a negro
hodge-podge complication of the com
mon game of porker die. No city in the
United States contains so many idle ne
gro men as does Washington. How
they all live is a mystery. Thousands
came here at the close of the war and
have remained, without visible means
of susport, ewer since, and have brought
up numerous progeny to learn the same
trade, living without work.
Baltimore and Philadelphia have
come nobly to the assistance of Wash
ington, in its three cornered fight with
New York and Chicago for the location
of the Three Americas Exi>osition. The
Baltimore adherents base their endors
ment of the propriety of holding the ex
position in Washington, upon the na
tional character of the enterprise and I
the fact that no municipality in the j
country is equal to the burden of ex
pense attached to such an enterprise.
It should lie under government super-
vision and control and nowhere woul
such control be as unhampered by oth
authority as in Washington. t
Schley.
SCHLEY COUNTY.
Schley County is composed of tc-ritory Cl’l
off from Sumter, Marlon and Macon counties
It was organized in 1859. and named for
the old Colonial Governors of one oi
ernor Schley. Georgia; Gov
Its location is Southwest-Central. Area lx
square miles. General features, hilly, j t
spevsed with level plateux. n or
The soil veil
fertile all over the county, but varies in color
ismie places being red clay, some dark brown
very sticky in wet weather, some pebbly und
some sandy, under-laid with clay subsoil.
Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, potJ
toes, ly, peanuts pumkins, and melons, chufas; peaches, rice, wheat, rye, bar] ]
pears ,pru ncs
pomegranates, plums, apples, apricots, quin!!
ces, cherries, grapes, mulberries, strawberrie
raspberries, goose berries, beets, ■■
cumbers, squashes, tomatoes, cabbage, cu
field, orchard turnips andoth.
er and garden products, grow
here to perfection.
The fence corners, waste places in old g c J
and forest, abound In ail kinds of wild fruit
such as blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries
whortleberries. May haws, black haws, plums
elielries, crab apples,persimmons, fox grain's!
Winter grapes, muscadines, ehinquepjns!
•trasses, cd many do of the best varieties of import-1 I
grasses well here, especially Bannuda,
herds, blue and orchard grass. I
stock The raising no fence is law rapidly prevails becoming- in the county, yeti I
one of the
finest leading horses industries of the county some of the I
in the South are raised here, and fl
the rich golden butter and sweet country hams far-1 1
that are daily brought to market by the
mors of Schley, could not be beaten anywhere. I
Cotton happily is the the day money has crop of the county, but | I
past and forevevr gone
when the people of Schley depended on other ev-1 I
sections for their meat and bread. Nearly
ery farmer in the county makes plenty of corn I I
and bacon for home consumptions and many
of them make a surplus to sell. No particular I
attention is given to poultry raising, yet the I
people have all they want for home use and I
one man with a horse and wagon keeps busy I
the year r< mnd hauli ng chickens and eggs from I
Schley county to Amorieus. I
The health of the county is excellent, theav-1
erage above elevation level and being drainage near two thousand feet j I
sea is generally good
here. an epidemic of any diseases, was never known j
The farming people of Schley are inteligent 1
cultivated pie in the world. and relined The as any agricultured poo- j
county is dotted with
school houses and churches, and a half grown
person who cannot read and write is seldom,
if ever met with, and of the negro race most
of them since freedom can read and write, j
PIEDMONT EXPOSITION.
Events of theday admonish us that the ■
Piedmont Exposition of 1889 will attract*
the largest number of capitalists, invest-*
ors, agriculturists, manufacturers, and I
practical men general y, that ever attend-1
ed a Southern Exposition, who will vis-1
it Atlanta during October of the present I
year. For this reason it behooves every I
county and county alliance to be repre I
seated at this great Exposition, which I
will be a material factor in adding to tlw I
prosperity of the South. It is the earn- I
est Company, request that and the desire of the Exposition ] ]
material resources of
your section be advantageously display- I
ed at our Exposition. We appeal to you
on the ground of local pride, State fealty
and Southern prosperity, to gather the
best samples of your products, and pre
sent them here in creditable form. We
know it will require time and money, j
but the results will more than compen
sate you for your trouble.
What we offer to county or county (
farmers’ alliance and individual displays: j
To the county or county' farmers' alli
ance making the largest and best display
of products, grown or produced by resi
dents of the county, $1200.
To the county or county farmers’ alli
ance making the second best display as
above, $700.
To the county or county farmers’ alli
ance making the third best display as
above, $900.
To the individual making the largest
and best display of products grown or
produced by him or her, or under his or
her direction, $500.
To the individual making the second
best display as above, $250.
To the individual making the third
best display ns above, $150.
Single exhibits contesting for prem
iums in any of the other groups may he
included in either of the displays of this
group, and individual displays may also
form a part of county or county farmers’
alliance displays.
The whole of this department is limit
ed to articles produced in States of the
Piedmont section, viz: Virginia, North
C'aiolina, Georgia, South Carolina. Ala
bama and Tennessee, and all articles ex
hibited must be grown or made by the
exhibitor.
For information, see page 26. premium
list.
The management of the Piedmont Ex
position will extend every facility to
Alliances or counties desiring to make
exhibits.
nVl Trusting that we will receive voiirap*
,. ... . , ,
attention ,
desire that this to call is umr to the’fact
nut. a State, countv, or local
exposition, and but will lie national in its aim
Yours respectful 1 ) ,
d-dmoni xi * >S ^thanta**
Ga.