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o . PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Subscription SI,BO A Year lit ADVANCE. . DON. McLJSOD Editor. Mclitarat * 4 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. *- ♦ •— 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 y° nd - | 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.