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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1890)
. x i. m cM eg<C owjtji |ji wv-i PPBLIBHBt) E VERY THURS DAY. SubserlptiOB $1,00 A I>arin APYAMT’.. Ellaville, Ha. Thursday Jan, 23, 1890. R. DON. McLEOD Editor. Dr. S. A. Riley of Haw kinsville died last week of i analysis. Tim Cuthbert Enterprise and Appeal has started out on its tentli year, full of hope and a determination to grow better The Rope of Rome and eight Cardinals are wrestliing with influenza. They ought to send to Ellaville for some of Dr Scarborough's Cough Drops. • ♦ • The confession of Ed Johnson, one of the negroes arrested for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Miller of Houston county discloses a regular organized gang of negroes murder to and rob. The young wife of Mr. Ed William?, of Oglethorpe, who was married only three months ago, died at their home in that city, last Monday of pneumonia and Mr. Williams, himself is dangerously ili. The Macon County Citizen says when an attempt is made to change the county site you will hear a war whoop from the boys on this side of the river, assisted by many friends on the other side and it will he such a one that will demoralize the opposition. ---«>*• -ft*.------ Mr. Emmett Houser, late editor of the Macon County Citizen, has turned up at Weatherford Texas, and secured a posi tion on the “Constitution,” published at that place. The Constitution introduces him to the public as “a gentleman worthy of social esteem and business confidence,” No mail was received at or taken away from Ellaville from Saturday to Tues day. The powers at Washington we pre sume consider any kind of a slipshod mail service good enough for the solid South May be it is; it will have one good effect at least, it will keep the South solid against a party that renders such ser vice. Lula Rav. a woman with a pretty face and a bad character, residing in the out skirts of Dawson, shot and instantly killed Mr. H. A. Suggs, of this county, between 11 and 12 o'clock Thursday night with a 38-calibre Smith – Wesson pistol. He was trying to break into her house, Suggs leaves a wife and several children. —Montezuma Record. The Proposition to settle in the upper Congo country a colony of negroes from the United States meets with much fa vor in Brussels, says a correspondent. It is thought this would greatly facilitate the peaceful introduction of the ideas and methods of industry and commerce of t)ie civilized countries. King Leopold nnd all the Belgian merchants concerned in the African trade favor the scheme. * - —♦ « War 1ms its cessations of hostilites. pestilence has its seasons of abatement, but the demon of strong drink marches ever on, striking down its victims from among all classes. Among its latest vic tims is Mr. J. T. Menardie, formerly a Baptist minister of some prominence, who was found clrad in his bed, in At lanta last week, the result of heart fail ure caused by intemperance. Miss Pbosa Skellie and Mr. W. II. liar r.sof Fort Valley, burning with a desire to be romantic, drove up to the residence of Rev. B. L. Ross one night last week, produced a bogus marriage license and in the presence of friends got married just in fun. Imagine their surprise and utter discomfort jiext day when they discovered that the contract though in tended as a joke is binding and they bound are together by law. notwithstanding the license was bogus. V nile tie the Royal Arch degreo being conferred was upon Rev. Mr. Johnson of Huntington West Virginia, last week by the Masons of that city, he happened to an unfortunate and unseen accident that resulted in his deal h. In confer ring this degree it is necessary that the candidate he lowered into a vault-like room by a block and tackle. The vault is about thirteen feet deep. When Mr. Johnson, who was a heavy man, was swung over the trap by the initiating c nnmittee preparatory to lowering, him the rope broke and he fell to the bottom. A HARD MASTER IS DEUX. Twenty years ago the farmers of the Northwest were the most independent and prosperous working people under the sun. Many of them lived in rude houses, some in log cabins, they wore coarse, but comfortable clothes, drove clumsy wagons, used such agricultural impliments as they could best afford and kept out of debt. They were healthy and free from the cares that weigh down the man whose farm is burdened with an interest bearing motgage. As the years rolled by and Eastern cap italist found their accumulations a drug in the Eastern market they sought bor rowers in the West. Agents were sent out to distribute flaming placards offer ing long loans on farms at 4 per cent in terest. Seductive pamphlets were scat tered ’broad cast portraying beautiful homes, handsome barns, improved agri cultural impliments, fine thorough-bred stock, splendid new buggies and wagons and demonstrating how all these things could be procured by mortgaging the old homestead and securing ready cash. The Western farmers were captured by by the glittering golden bait thrown out. They mortgaged their farms and got Ithe coveted gold, though in; most cases about one third of the amount was claimed by the agents for commissions, cost etc. With what was left, after pay ing cost and commissions, t hey built fin er houses, bought finer clothes, liner stock, liner buggies and wagons, sup plied tlieir farms with latest improved implements and for a few years things went smoothly and the Western farmers were apparently more prosperous than before; it was evident that they lived more plentifully and many of them ex travegantly. But whpn thejtime for set tling up finally came most of them fell short. The increased facilities for mak ing crops caused, it seems, a correspond ing over stock in the markets when the year was favorable. Wheat dropped down to $1, pork 3 cents, corn 14 cents, Whatever the cause might have been the result was the same with the West ern farmers, they could not meet their ebligatioirs. The sweet tempered solic iting agent developed into a caustic im portunate collector. Many of the farm ers had their beautiful lmmes sold under fore closure of mortgage and have since become mere tenants. Many others se cured extension of time by making part payment and are to-day struggling on under the bttrden of a debt that they could have avoided by using economy and being content with moderate means until they could pay cash for better. We have since passed through some of apparently very prosperous sections of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and other stales of the Great Northwest, and was surpris ed.to find so many fertile farms and love ly homes so burdened with debt that their owners were restless and unhappy. Hundreds were anxious to sell out and start life a new, but there were more’sell ers than buyers. There is so much solid truth and sound advice in the following clipped from the Alliance column of the Marion Patriot that we reproduce it for the benefit of all who are susceptible to good advice. “ The first resolve every farmer should make on entering upon the new year. ;is to lreep out of debt. There can be no permanent and reliable prosperity on the farm under the blighting incubus of the credit system. Farmers must free them selves absolutely from its ruinous effect, It is the bane of prosperity. It requires the laying of things that are not needed or rather which could be easily gone without, and engenders extravegance, which ends in disappointment, failure loss of confidence betwween man and man, a general looseness of morals, No policy practiced by any people could possibly make or keep them poorer. There is not a single article used on a farm that the farmer can afford to buy on a credit, if it is possible to get along without it. If bought on a credit, mu chinery or farm implements may by some accident be rendered useless; drouth may strike the credit bought fer tilizers and destroy all prospect of in creased yield. A great bargain in live stock, when bought on a credit, will most likely encounter accidents or death mid prove an unfortunate purchase. In fact, there seems to be something of a fatility attending the buying on a credit the betting on the result, for at last that is what it amounts to. The heaviest burden that a farmer ever staggered under is an interest-bearing note of hand. No man can tell what a day may bring forth, find when a farmer buys on a credit, with the expectation of paying for the same with the proceeds of his crop not made, and frequently before being planted, he isgambling, betting on chances and laying himself liable for a sum of money which he is to pay at a certain time on the chance of his crop being good. Keep out of debt. Avoid it as you would a pestilence. What you unnot pay for in cash do without.” SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. MIXING KELIGION AND AVHIKEY. Henry Adams the biblical crank who was incarcerated in the Atlanta jail for for illicit distilling and declined to take an oath, even wh n it would set him free saying “The good book says ‘swear not,’ and I’ll stay here till 1 die befo' I’ll take any oath,” has been released upon Ms simple statemtnt of his financial condi tion. From the inventory he gives of his worldly effects it would seem that he had found precious little profit in moonshine distilling. He stated that he had nothing in the world but a wife and four children, a bedstead and a look jng glass, a table and a few plates, cups nnd saucers, a stool and a few plain chair the whole worth about twenty dollars, Regarding the fellow’s strange idea the Cuthbert Liberal says: “There is a tender conscience kid in the Atlanta jad-a moon-shiner who refuses to take an oath. He has been convicted of illicit distill ing. He acknowledges the fact. He was fined and in default of payment was sent to jail. The law requires him to swear that he is not able to pay the fine before lie can be released from jail. He refuses to take an oath becanse the bible tells him to swear not. Here is a man guilty of vio’ating the laws of his country; guilty of making whiskey, the great breeder of crime and destroyer of happiness; and yet too religious to take an oath. Verily “folks is the curiousest tilings in the world.” HOW A N EDITOR FEELS. An Exchange says:— This is the way the editor feels when he does up his sen timents in blank verse: I would flee from the city’s rule and law, from its fashions and forms cut loose, and go where the strawberry grows upon its straw, and the goose-berry grows upon its goose, where the catnip tree is climbed by the cat as she clutches f or her prey—the guileless and pected rat on ratan bush at pi ay, I will catch at ease the saffron cow and cowlet j n their glee, as they leap from bough to bough on the top of the cowslip tree; and list while the partridge drums on his drum and the woodchuck chucks his wood, and the dog devours the dog wood plum in the primitive solitude. Oh let me driTik from the moss-grown pump that was hewn from the pumpkin tree! Eat mush and milk from a rural stump, from folly and fashion free—new gathered mush from the tnusnroom vine an d m jlk from the milkweed sweet, with pineapple from the pine. And then to the whitewashed dairy I’ll turn, where the dairyman hastening hies, her ruddy and golden-red butter to churn from the milk of the butterflies; and I’ll rise with the earliest bird, to the fra grant farm yard pass and watch whi !e the farmer turns his herd of grasshop pers to grass. VICK’S FLORAL GUIDE. We have received from Janies Vick, Rochester, New York, his Floral guide It is a pamphlet eight by ten inches in size, and with the covers, which are by no means the least important part of it, contains an even one hundred pages, Although called a “floral guide,” it is de voted to vegetables as well, and includes as full a list and description of both flow ers, vegetables and also small fruits as could be brought within the compass of a book of this size. The firm takes the same pride in rais ing choice vegetables as in developing attractive varieties of flowers, and after using their seeds for a number of years we are able to recommend them in the highest (erius. We advise all our readers to send lOcts for the Guide (which can be deducted from first order): and if there are any of our lady friends who can succceed in growing a natural rose which will corn in beauty with the New Striped Rose shown in the illustration, we should like to receive an invitation to call and see it. • ^ ♦ Sparta Ishmaelite:—It is the habit of hyenas to prey on the dead, and this ac counts for the manner in which some of the putrid sheets of the North attack Jefferson Davis. One of the hyenas, (.he Indianapolis Journal, after indulging in a tirade of insult and abuse of Mr. Davis and the South, calls on Secretary Blaine to demand an apology of the British government because the British vessels at New Orleans half masted their flags out of respect to the memory of the dead President of the Southern Confederacy. ----- * m ♦ Cuthbert Enterprise and Appeal.—Dr. R. E Tombs exhibited yesterday a hunch of English Peas which lie had just taken from his garden. The pods were well tilled and nearly ready for the table. The Dr, says that he will soon be enjoy ing this garden luxury unless prevented by an early freeze. pedate The twin babies of Hardy Spivey, col ored, died this w eek within a day of each other. We did not learn the cause but suppose it was some infantile trouble. W. W. C is a concentrated extract of roots that grow in the South, and con tains more medicine than any other preparation before the public, and is the best liver and kidney medicine that has ever been disco vered. If you don’t be lieve it give it a trial. Hawkinsville News.—Some time ago an Englishman turned up in our neigh boring town of Dublin and asked to be elected night watchman. To inspire confidence, he showed written testimo nials signed by Queen Victoria and offi cers of high rank in her court. It seemed to the unsuspecting citizens of Dublin, a natural and proper thing for Queen Vic toria to give certificates of character to persons who seek the exalted position of night marshall and they gave him the of fice. He got hold of some of the town’s money and skipped. He has been cap tured in Atlanta and is now’ in jail. The citizens are beginning to suspect that Queen Victoria never wrote that testi monial. though none of them are famil iar enough with the old lady's hand writing to be very positive about it. Three Graded Lang Shan roosters, nealy grown only 75 cents each. First come first served. Apply at this office, Garrett – Sons No' 11 cigars the best tn the market at Caskey – Greens. A WINCHESTER FOR SALE. » A bran new Winchester Rifle, 38 cali bre, for sale. Apply at this office. JEFFERSON DAVIS- Memo rial Volume now being prepared by Rev. J. Win. Jones, with assistance of Mrs. Davis, will be authentic, charmingly written, beautifully illustrated and bound, in every way worthy of the subject. Agents wanted. Complete out fit, –c. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re funded. Order now. First come, first served. Address R. F. JOHNSON – CO. 7t 1009 Main street, Richmond, Va. BEGGS’ CHERRY COUGH SYRUP Is giving splendid satisfaction to the trade and the sales are positively marvelous, which c.in be accounted for in no other way except that it is without doubt the best on the mar ket. Ask for and be sure you get the geuuino. We keep i£. Dr C, H. Smith Druggist RELIEVED AFTER FIVE YEARS SUFFER ING FROM NEURALGIA It is with great pleasure that I recom mend your valuable medicine, Wool dridge’s Wonderful Cure. My wife has been a great sufferer from Neuralgia for five years. Her case was given up by the physicians to be the worst they ever saw, but since using your Wonderful Cure she scarcely ever suffers any pain. She <vas also greatly relieved of Indiges tion. Wishing you unbounded success. I am Yours truly, J. B. Knight. Columbus. Ga., June 11, 1889. Ellaville High School. Spring Term of the Ellaville H gh School begins Jan., 6tli. 1890 and ends June. Terms: $1.50 to $3.00 per month. Music: $3.00 per month. Those who may be unable to make monthly payments throughout the term will see the principal and make special arrangements. The public fund will be recieved in yayment as far as it goes, but we wish it expressly understood that we do not propose to teach for the public fund alone. We solicit all who have children to educate to entrust them to us. We ad vance our pupils as rapidly as thorough ness will warrant, for thoroughness and not show is our motto. S. J. Cole, A. B. Prin. Miss Emmie Hornady, A. B. Asst. Miss Rabun Bass. Music Teacher. Geo am a ) To whom it may concern. Seni,KV COUNTV. ( S. Moutgombry Adminis trator on the Estate of Henry Spivey deceased basin dim form applied to the undersigned for leave to sell the lands belonging to the es tate bcheard of said deceased, the and said application will This oit first Monday in February J89IL Dec. 31st. 1889. T. R. Myers Ordinary S. C. CITATION FOR LETTERS OF DISMISSION Schley Georgia* I Wherens, A. J. Autry, nd County. f minis trator on the estate of Mi- 9. S. E. Autry, reprcsentsjo the court that ho hits fully administered Mrs. H, E. Autry’s es tate. This is therefore to eite nil persons con cerned to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his administration and recieve letters of dismission on the 1st. Monday In March 1890. T. B. Myers, Ordinary. m t-jfi ’’fi t ft "V • h Ml n m ;13 m m h : • i Drs. cram AND All i y se 4 i 1 Q3 C/5 Oglethorpe Street Ellaville G– You can find all the leaf ing Patent Medicines, Full stock of Drugs, Chem cals, Paints Oil, Varnish –C, Lamps and Lamp Kerosene Oil, Potash, Soaps, Soda Starch, Best Brands of Chewinl and Smoking Tobaccos Oil garetts and Macaboy Snuffl m V Writing paper, books, Inks-Black, and Indelible, Pens, holders, Pencils, Crayons, Blacking, Combs, and Whist brushes, ing and shoe Polish, –c. 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