Newspaper Page Text
2 THE WAYCROSS HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1893.
HERALD FCBLI6HI5G COMTAXT.
} Editors .»d P.bIUl»tr.
Published every Saturday at the Herald Office
Plant Avenue, Waycroas, Ga.
Subscription $1.00 per annum.
Address all communications and remittances to
THE HERALD*
Our authorized representatives will be provided
with proper credentials defining their authority, duly
, *<^mmunicatioosfor publication must bear the name
of the writer. Purely personal controversies will be
taken only as advertising matter.
Commuaicatioas to insure insertion most be in by
BSATURDAY, AUGUST 12,1893.
EDITORIAL SHORT STOPS.
Crisp, of Georgia, is the Speaker.
Nothing wrong about that.
The French blockade in Siam wa
ters was raised on the 4th inst.
The extra session of Congress may
not be very long, bat it will be load.
The down-fall of the Chicago meat
speculators gives general satisfaction.
The daily expense of running the
Chicago show is $15,000.
Chicago pork is in a pickle and so
are the Chicago speculators.
It has been suggested that receiv
erships be added to the professions.
The Democratic dictatorial commit
tee for Georgia now seems to have
its headquarters in Washington.
Watson spoke in Cuthbert Satur
day. The returns will be in to-mor
row.
France is a little careful not to'
knock the chip off a fellow’s shoulder '
who is about her size.
In its haste to repeal the Sherman
silver bill, we hope Congress will not
repeal the democratic platform.
Tillman’s bar-rooms are not making
much money for the state of South
Carolina.
Congress shouldered fhe troubles
of the nation yesterday. Let us all
rejoice and lie exceedingly glad.'
Whatever else it may lack it is
believed that the present Congress
will have plenty of backbone.
The silver convention in Chicago
failed to settle the question, but it is
to be hoped that Congress will.
On the 20th inst. two white women
suicided in Anniston and one in At
lanta.
Four counties in Georgia, Glynn,
Elbert, Colquitt and Putnam show a
decrease in taxable property of
*554,451.
The Atlanta Journal speaks of
Judge Sweat as the^best parliamenta
rian in the late Congress of Judges
in that city.
The Georgia Congressmen have
kissed their wives good bye, and it is
quite possible some of them have bid
farewell forever to their constituents.
Bradstrect and Dunn report an im
proved condition in business circles.
We hope Bradstreet and Dunn know
what they are talking about.
At eleven o’clock this morning
Congress assembled. What will they
do, and what can they do? are the
questions.
And now the politicians are all
claiming that they belong to South
Georgia. Well, we’ll investigate their
claims when the time comes.
A man at Kingston, N. Y., recent
ly sold his wife for forty-five cents.
They cost *1.50 down this way, and
are scarce at that.
The terms upon which Siam propo
ses to secure peace are very expen
sive. France needs another lesson
from Germany.
The ‘'Nancy Hanks,” said to be
the fastest train in the South, is to be
suspended. She dont pay, and cold
blooded business says she must go.
The working man is pretty badly
“downed” in Colorado. The adage
about “downing a working man”
. don’t seem to hold good these days.
In these times of trouble and finan
cial distress the fanner who is mak
ing a living should be happy and
contented to wait for better times.
The New Orleans Picayune sounds
an alarm against the danger of lepro
sy known to exist in the State of
Louisiana.
Senator Colquitt is said to be in
better health than for sometime past,
and it is pretty well understood that
be hasn’t lost his sleight at the “halle
lujah” lick.”
The Vera Jean, which arrived in
New York this week, passed the
open boat Flying Dutchman, ,in
which a sailor is crossing the Atlan
tic, on July 19.
The slate makers for Georgia who
reside in Washington, had better go
into the hands of a receiver. That’s
where they are certain to land sooner
or later.
A Democratic President and Dem
ocratic Congress ought to insure
some Democratic legislation, and
nothing else is going to satisfy the
people. The time for monkey busi
ness has passed.—Albany Herald.
The gold that was recently shipped
to Europe is coming back, the same
eagles, and double eagles, and in the
very kegs, with seal unbroken, in
which they were shipped from New
York.
The Brooklyn Standard Union
says: “John Temple Graves, of
Georgia, would solve the race prob
lem by planting a negro State in the
heart of the republic and have the
government, afford every facility for
its development.”
The only trouble about giving
some of the offices to wiregrass
Georgia is that -it will cause the
Georgia colonels to emigrate to this
section, in vast numbers and we
doubt if they are all desirable cit-
zens.
The existing financial depression
has caused more suffering in Colora
do from actual want, in proportion
to her population, than any other
State. Thousands of men are out of
employment and are entirely without
means.
The Boston millionarie who hanged
himself in his barn is said to have
been eccentric. Eccentric is a mild
term for the idiocy of a man who
would deliberately kill himself when
he had money enough to get out of
Boston.some'.other way.—Ex.
There is no necessity for dilly-dal
lying now. The law-makers are to
gether, they have had time to study
the questions which will come before
them and should act at once.
One hundred years ago grave rob
bers got more for the teeth of a cada
ver than they did for the “subject”
itself. They were disposed of to
dentists, who used them as “artifi
cials.”
Mr. Turnrer does not belong to
that class of politicians known as the
“yon tickle me and I’ll tickle you”
gang. Neither he or his friends have
or will have combinations or log-roll
ings. H. G. Turner is a candidate
for Senator on hU own merits. Now,
don’t forget that.
France maintains the parity be
tween her silver and gold coins, at
the ratio of 15 1-2 to 1, and it is
nonsense to say that the United
States can’t maintain the parity here
at the greater ratio of 16 to 1. The
suggestion that the silver dollar
should be made any heavier than it
is, is intended to prejudice it in the
minds of the people by making its
weight and size burdensome to them.
—Ex.
When the . Fifty-third congress
meets in special session on August 7,
sixteen States will be without Repub
lican representation in the House of
Representatives: Alabama, Arkan
sas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mary
land, Mississippi, Nevada, South
Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Vir
ginia and Wyoming.
Congressman Ben Russell - was
around to-day in the corridors of the
postoffice department. He stirred
up the Albany postoffice which has
been hanging fire for some time.
He wants the matter settled and that
speedily. As yet the Waycross post-
office question has not been discussed.
—Washington Cor. Macon Tele
graph.
The Washington correspondent of
the Savannah News says the race for
Senator in Georgia is narrowed down
between DuBigopn and Nortben. It
may be that the Atlanta and Wash
ington end of the business is nar
rowed down between the two gentle
men mentioned, but South and Mid
dle Georgia with a right smart slice
of North Georgia Is solid for Mr.
Turner.
We are willing, if nothing else will
do, to give North Georgia the gov
ernorship, but we will furnish the
next United States Senator or break
a trace in the attempt. We have the
material cut and dried, in the person
of H. G. Turner. Do you hear?—
Telfair Enterprise.
Mr. Ryals is right and it may be
relied npon as a reasonable certainty
that no material opposition would-be
offered to the name of Turner for the
Senate—Irwin County News.
The cholera news looks bad. The
New York four hundred may yet
have to go to the World’s Fair, in
stead of risking the cholera in a for
eign land.
Steve Clay is certainly in the race
for governor. The gubernatorial
matter is not worrying South Georgia
to any great extent, but she has her
head set on the Senatorial question.
The newspapers have been freely
discussing the silver question for
months. Now, let them hold their
breath and listen to Congress do the
cussing.
The martyrs to vice far exceed the
martyrs to virtue, both in endurance
and in number. So blinded are we
by our passions that we suffer more
to be damned than to be saved.
Now Congress is in session, it is to
be hoped that the slate makers for
Georgia ^Washington will find an
other job.
And after all havn’t we been more
scared than hurt?
The Eastman Times is out strong
for Turner for the senate. In fact
we do rot know of a paper in the
Wiregrass region that has not en
dorsed Turner. What has the Wash
ington correspondent of the Morning
News to say about this?
A pair of jaded horses with a big
covered wagon passed through Tope
ka the other day on its way to the
World’s Fair. The outfit left Cali
fornia May 18, and expects to reach
its destination at least by the fime
the railroads get ready to carry into
effect the half rate to Chicago.
The reading of “Jesse James lit
erature” Is said to have wrought the
downfall of the yonng Ohio man who
was hanged at Columbns this week.
Bad books can distance bad com
panions in wrecking character, but
thousands of people who are careful
"about their children’s associates never
trouble themselves about what they
read.
The presses in the Waycross Her
ald office will hereafter be. run by
water power Editor Ferham will
manage, however, to get up a full
head of steam occasionally by using
“lagerine,” a drink that is daily
growing in popularity in Waycross.
—Hawkinsville Dispatch.
Editor Beverly should reniember
that Waycross is a dry town. Such
remarks as the above may bring
Tilllman’s spies down upon us.
In the telegraphic accounts of the
electrocution horror at Auburn it was
stated that the victim moaned,
clutched frantically in the air, kicked
out his legs, and had to be tied to his
cot, “hint” the report continues, “the
doctors stated that he felt no pain.”
It is hot stated by what occult means
these medical gentlemen obtained
their information npon the subject.
To tile common and unenlightened
spectator the half-electrocuted man
certainly did not seem to be enjoying
bimself.
Out and Out for Free Coinage.
Ben. Bussell is out and out for
free coinage. He says: “I will vote
to substitute the Sherman act with
an act giving us the free coinage of
silver. Any ratio necessary to ob
tain free coinage will suit me. I
favor an income tax and repeal of
the tax on State bank issues. Give
any man who was injured in defense
of the union a liberal pension, bnt
leave out the sutlers and camp fol
lowers and those who are still afflict
ed with diseases that they acquired
just before going into an engage
ment. The free and unlimited coin
age of pensioners is a very bad
thing. A thorough and fair revision
is needed”
The Melon Crop.
“The Atlanta Constitution says that
Georgia’s melon crop this year is es
timated to be worth nearly a quarter
of a million dollars to the farmers
and perhaps a hundred thousand
dollars to the railroads in the State.
The State’s crop will run up to 8,000
car-loads, it is said, and at *60 a car
the farmers will get almost a quarter
of a million dollars.”
The fact of the business is that the
melon crop of the past season has
not paid expenses by many thousand
dollars, and the loss falls heavily
npon the grower, of course. The
railroads are not to blame, but over
production is. The supply is greater
than the demand.
The burglars say they do noi care
to open np the closed banks.
AMONG THE ORACLES.
A number of vessels have recently
entered the port of Brunswick.
The banking capital of Georgia is
*15,688,241.
Brunswick’s new paper is to make
its appearance to-day;
It is rumored that citizen Peek has
again broken loose in Georgia.
The only way to depose Judge
Lynch is to put a stop to outrages.
The heavy imports of gold are in
spiring confidence in business circles.
Albany is receiving new cotton in
limited quantities.
And now all the towns are prepar
ing to pay the higest prices for cot
ton, but that won’t be very high.
Mr. W. S. Fleming, one of Al
bany’s best citizens died in that city
on Saturday night last.
Hawkinsville is to have a county
fair when the crops are all laid by.
We’ll guarantee that it is a good one.
A white rapist was lynched in Ken
tucky on the 3d inst. That’s right;
hang ’em all, black and white.
Tillman says he will arm his con
stables and spies and they will return
leaden bullets for rotten eggs.
The great army of the unemployed
is steadily increasing in numbers in
the eastern and western States.
Hicks, the weather prophet, says
the hottest weather will be between
the 8th and 12th of this month.
Oysters are beginning to ripen and
in a very short time they will be ready
to -poll.
The hotel lobbies at Washington
have been the scenes of furious de
bates during the past few days.
The “first bale” is still coming.
Almost every town in the state has
cpg., i ii p iv
Gov. Northen says the Judges’
convention was a failure. Gov.
Northen may not be a judge.
Brunswick is to have a new even
ing paper to be called the “Evening
Call.” Brunswick is no dead town.
The Cuthbert Liberal suggests
that the weekly press association
disband.
The outlook at Siam is not peace
ful. England is aroused and trouble
of a serious neture is apprehended.
Rev. S. S. Sweat has been elected
librarian of the Macon Public Libra
ry-
It is said the Hoover postmor
tem examination in Savannah will
cost the county *500.
The cyclorama of the battle of At
lanta was sold a few days since at
Sheriff sale for the sum of *937 35.
It cost *37,000.
John Day, a drunken white man
from Palatka, committd suicide in
Augusta recently by drinking a pound
of chloroform.
Savannah has not yet become
reconciled to Brunswick’s 23 feet of
water over tbe bar. All the same,
Brunswick will get there.
If the Albany Advertiser gets
reasonable prices for its ads it ought
to be making more money than any
country daily in the State.
A boy named Hand shot and killed
an inoffensive farmer named Turner
near Carrolton on Saturday last.
Hand is in jail.
What will the merchants do if the
farmers make all their provisions at
home?—Irwin News. Swap rags
for grub.
An Albany cow died from eating
a barb-wire fence. Poet Stanton re
marks that this is another argument
for hay raising in Georgia.
We heard one of our largest pear
growers remark yesterday that he had
sold his entire pear crop and that it
only netted him one dollar and a half.
—Thomasville Times.
Some are in favor of the judges of
the superior court rotating, going all
over the state. At their present sal
ary they can hardly rotate in their own
circuit.—Times.
It is said that a bill will be intro
duced in the next Georgia legislature
to make all county officers ineligible
to election to more than two suc
cessive terms.
You never hear a' bill collector
whistling a lively air. He usually
looks as it be had just swallowed a
pint of strong apple vinegar.—Cap
itol.
The grasshoppers have not ceased
to be a burden in some of the Ala
bama counties. Whole crops have
been utterly destroyed and the green
trees stripped of their foliage.
The Sparta Ishmaelite says: “The
law against carrying concealed weap
ons affords protection only to des
peradoes. It places law-abiding cit
izens at their mercy.”
At considerable expense and trouble
the young people of Thomasville
recently gave a “cracker party.”
When we were young thejpeople of
Thomasville gave nothing but cracker
parties.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun says
that a South Georgia candidate for
governor will be trotted out in time.
It begins .to look as it South Georgia
was fixing to spread her butter too
thin —Brunswick Times.
From the ashes of the Herald and
the News has sprung into existence
a new paper in Cochran—the Tele
gram—with Mrs. G. E. Pennick,
manager, Croome Pennick, editor,
and Hugh Lamb, assistant editor.
The iBhmaelite makes no secret of
the fact that it will not support for
office any candidate who repudiates
the Georgia and the Chicago Demo
cratic platforms.—Ishmaelite.
This should go without saying, we
should think.
When Georgia has a Governor and
a United States Senator from South
Georgia there will be cause for
shouting. And from present indica
tions the boys may begin getting
their organs in tune to holler. Every
thing points to that end.—Enquirer-
Sun.
Why is it that the Waycross Daily
Herald has not made its appearance
at this office, Bro. Perham. We’d
be the gladdest in the world to have
it.—Jesup Sentinel.
The neglect was unintentional,
brother Sweat. You shall have the
Evening Herald in the future.
Who cares if the Southern Base
Ball League does go to pieces? In
the first place it was no Southern
league, but a lot of third-ciass hood
lums from the North brought South
for tbe purpose of making money
Albany Herald,
Editor Ben Perry, of the Canton
Advance, says that South Georgia is
entitled to the United States Senator.
We will be fair enough under these
circumstances to say that North
Georgia is entitled to the governor.
Whatjwill you take, Ben?—Bruns
wick Times.
The happiest man through all this
turmoil of failing banks and toppling
business is the newspaper man. Hav
ing no money in bank to be locked
up, and but few bills to be lost in the
case of business ruin, he’s just about
as well off as a hog on ice. If he
can’t fall down lie can stand up.—
Citizen.
Mr. Joe Harley, a well known res
ident of Sylvauia, Screven county,
was killed day before yesterday by
the Central train near Dover. His
head was fearfully crushed and man
gled beyond recognition. Harley
had been very despondent for some
time past on account of misfortunes
with which he had met. For this
reason some think he committed sui
cide.
The whole trouble of the convul
sions and collapses in financial cir
cles appears to have been provoked
by the tardiness of assets to keep
their appointment with liabilities.
In nearly every case the assets are
reported to double the amount of
liabilities, bnt the latter is always on
time and vehement in making its de
mands while assets are proverbially
tardy in coming to the scratch.—
Macon News.
The Macon News says: “The pa
pers of North Georgia are crying out
against what they are pleased to term
sectional spirit, by which is meant
Sonth Georgia’s demand for a division
of the official pie. You hear no cry
of sectional spirit so long as the razor
backs from tbe chinquapin orchards
are gobbling np all the pie, bnt let
tbe wool hats from the Wiregrass
call for a slice and np goes a howl.
The wool bats have been sawyers of
wood and drawers of blanks so long
that they have come to the conclusion
that it is the natural condition of folks
in this belt. But there is where they
are wrong. The slate is already
badly rattiedj and when tbewoolhats
touch elbows it will be shattered.”
South Georgia’s Candidate for Senator,
There seems to be a persistent ef
fort on the part of the Washington
correspondent of the Savannah Morn
ing News to make it appear that
Hon. F. G. DuBignon is South Geor
gia’s candidate for United Stages
Senator, and to limit the contest be
tween Mr. DuBignon and Governor
Northen, wholly ignoring every other .
name suggested. Now, we happen
to know how all this comes about:—
Mr. DuBignon and the News’ Wash
ington correspondent are both Mid
dle Georgians, and old and intimate
friends, hence Mr. DuBignon’s can
didacy from that source.
Once for all we will put our
friends on notice that the people of
South Georgia have their minds
made up to run and elect Hon. H. G.
Turner as their candidate for Sena
tor, the ablest man from the South
in Congress, and who is peculiarly
fitted for the Senate, and who is un
derstood to be entiraly acceptable to
Middle and North Georgia.
We would like to ask the corres
pondent of the Morning News, at
Washington, how it happens that he
is so well posted in regard to the
wishes of South Georgia. Has he
been here ? If not, from what source
has he received his information ?
The fact is, this slate making for
Georgia in Washington is getting to
be a little monotonous. That the
people of the wiregrass region pro
pose to think and act for themselves
in the future, is certain, and it is al
so true that they are almost a unit
for Mr. Turner for the Senate. We
make this assertion without the fear
of successful contradiction, and when
the time comes '‘the proof of the pud
ding will be chewing the bag.”
Ben, You Are Quite Right.
Representative Russell wants the
Civil Service Commission investiga
ted. He says the Commission has
established codes of questions which
very few can answer and which do
not serve to test the fitness of the ap
plicant for the duties required.
Mr. Russell is not alone in finding
fault with the Commission. Otber
Congressmen say the Commission
has bad its own way so long that it
has fallen into a rut, out of which it
should be pulled by a Congressional
investigation.—Atlanta Journal.
Lack of Cash in California.
In California the prevailing stringency
in the money market has reached the
farmer, for in that state the growers of
wheat and fruit have been accustomed
to rely in harvest time upon advance.,
from the banks. These advances are
withheld this year even from the owners
of the large ranches, and in parts of the
San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys
grain that should be cut is standing and
will be lost for the lack of the money re
quired for the payment of harvesters.
The fruit growers are said to be in a
worse condition, because there is no
market. The large canning factories are
idle for want of the advances usually
made to them at this season by the
banks.
Must Cut Them Short.
The Convention of Supreme Court
Judges recently held in Atlanta made
the following important change in the
rules: 'In all criminal cases below the
rank of felony, speeches are to be limited
to half an hour, except by special per
mission, and to two hours in others.
Another very important change makes
the failure of counsel to strike within
one minute forfeit the strike delayed.
If more than twelve jurors remain after
all the strikes are exhausted, the twelve
shall constitute the trial jury.
Naval Store Men’s Association.
The Naval Store manufacturers of
Georgia, Florida and Alabama will meet
in convention at Savannah on next Wed-
day, August 16. It is understood that
the object of the meeting will be to de
vise some means to avoid over produc
tion in the future.
It Should Be In Every Honip
J. B. Wilson, 371 Clay St, Sharps-
burg, Pa., says he will not be without
Dr. King’s New Discovery for consump
tion, coughs and colds, that it cured his
wife who was threatened with pneumonia
after an attack of la grippe, when var
ious other remedies and several physi-
eians had done her no good. Robert
Barber, of Cookiport, Pa., claims Dr.
King’s New, Discovery has done him
more good than anything he ever used
for lung trouble. Nothing like it Try
it Free trial bottles at A. B. McWhor
ter & Co., E. B. 'Goodrich and B. J.
Smith’s drug Store.
Rev. W. H. Thomas says: “I have
tried your Wonderful Life Preserver
and find it an excellent remedy for
Coughs and Colds, it is alsa a good
appetizer *ncfi am'satisfied it is the best
I have-eyer -used;” Sold by all Drug-
giito. mfy 19—1 y.