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THE TRUE CITIZEN.
Yol. 1.
Waynesboro, Ga., May 5, 1882.
No. 2.
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vanoe.
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terly.
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Advertisements to occupy special places wil 1
be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates.
Kotloes In local or business columns inner to )
for 10 cents per line, each Insertion.
For terms apply at this jfiftpe.
The editor of the Swainesboro Herald
was not at ail troubled with politics in
his last issue.
The town council of Swainesboro
sccins to have entirely collapsed, In
the general presentments of the grand
jury for the April term of the Superior
Court for Emanuel county, just past,
they make the following recommenda
tion : “The roads and streets in the
incorporation of Swainsboro are in bad
order, and we find that the laws and
regulations controlling the incorpora-
Current Comments.
Lynching is becoming very fashion
able out West.
Senator Brown was 01 years of ago
on the lath ult.
There ig very little wheat planted !
in Burke, and we do not think there
is a thrash in this county.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, has
pardoned the Ford brothers, who were
condemned to death for the murder of
Jesse James.
Howgate is described as being forty-
six years old, five feet ten inches high,
with sandy hair and coinplex’on and
blue eyes. Five hundred dollars re-
ward is ofFered for him.—Savannah man. however, advertises for a meeting 1
News.
This will put Driscol on the rampage-
Dr. Bliss attended the President about
three months, which makes his services
equal to $100,000 per annum. Who
is simple enough not to see that this
appropriation was beyond all reason
too much? While all the other ap
propriations mentioned in the bill are
on a par with those of Dr. Bliss. Mrs.
Lincoln’s allowance was raised from
$3,000 to $5,000 on the plea that it
was impossible for her to live on so
small a sum. The people from all
parts of the country had contributed
a sum to Mrs. Garfield which aggre-
tion have been suspended. We recom- j grat ed $125,000, or more, besides her
mend that the Commissioners of said i husband died 0W nin a a neat little for-
District look after the matter at once | tun0 . W e have no word to utter
and have the roads and streets put in against either of the above named ladies,
order.” Mr. G. W. Smith, council-1 They are by refinement, education and
social posi'ion, two of the most prorni-
of the citizens of that town to organize nent ladies * n the ]and< We haye noth .
a town council. Mr. Smith’s m
has a lonesome look about it.
A Dream Nearly Realized.
Georgia is now entirely unrepresented
ing to sny against the donations and
contributions of private citizens—they
gave their own, and had a right to do
we
The citizens of Emanuel county cover
nice pieces of lean ham with strychnine,
weighing five or six pounds, and drop
it about promiscuously, says the Swains
boro Herald. They must have more
meat in that section than anybody has
in this part of the world.
We have been told that there is a
negro in one of the many penitentiaries
of the State, we don’t know which one,
from this county, whose time expired
last October, but who is stiff held in
durance vile. Of what good is the
State Penitentiary Commission?
We have seen several lots of oats — ,
in town which we think would bear up promptly resign, and give place to some 181 e • s to ex resic ent irant,
a man’s hat tossed out at random upon , one who is physically able to at'end he has already cost th- country count
it. But we have not seen any as good to the duties of the office of Sena 1 or.
as John Dolvin’s Virginia wheat, which The interests of the State are too great
he said would bear up a wagon and to allow of the expected long neglect
team driven over it without making a | in the highest and most important legis-
A special disyatch from Lacka-
waxen, Pa., to the Philadelphia
Times says : “A brakeman on one of
the regular freight trains on the iNew
York, Lake Erie and Western Rail
road met with a most singular escape
from death the other night. There
had been an unusally heavy rush of
freight over the road and ho had been
at work constantly for two days and
three nights. Between Deposit and
Hancock two trains collided and made
a wreck, which was likely to detain
the trains and blockade the track for
some time. The breakman in ques
tion was sent back to flag the first
approaching train. He went back
about a fourth of a mile, the regular
distance required by the rules of the
company, and feeling very tired from
overwork he sat down on the track,
on the outside rail, to wait. Before
five minutes he was sound asleep.
While thus asleep he dreamed he was
public funds, when their are millions of \ lyi n g on the track and that the At-
in the United States Senate, both of w ' th ’*■ a » tbe '' P leased - Bu ‘ we do
our Senator, being absent on sick leave, | ob l ect *° sucb » «**'«» waste of the
Senator Hill, it is generally believed, - ,, , ...
will never live to go back, and the ladies in lh,a broad c0,mtl 7 who are as l»ntic express, one of the miftest
period of Senator Brown’s absence "*■*. delieate ’ a " d « «° od b 5’ birth '
from Washington is extremely indofi- as eithl>r of tbem > wl ‘» labor witb
nite, if he is ever able to return to the hcafI and hands to earn the money to
duties of his office. While we believe « the,r share of ,he laxes whioh lb ™
that Georgia has as able a delegation goes to ™ell this enormous nppropri.
in the Senate as any State in the Union,
and fear the time will be long before f° r lunate
she has another of such representative by the hand of the assassin
men and able statesmen, we think,
under the circumstances, they
tion. The wife and family of any un
citizen who happens to fall
, is as much
entitled to a large donation from Con-
should & reFS as e hher Mrs. Linc'ln or Mrs.
dent.
At a recent meeting of the Texas
Press Association the commit,ee on ad
vertising repor'ed in favor of refusing
advertising 1 hat. came through agents.
This is the first sensible thing we ever
knew a Press Convention to perpetrate
lative body of the Nation.
Miss Appropriations.
The appropriations of Congress, so
far the present session, have not been
any more reckless than usual. But so
The so called advertising agents bleed goring have been ^some of the appro
both parties to the con'ract, but he
always bleeds the publisher most.—
We want to see what action the Geor
gia Press Association will take in this
atter.
A new Chinese bill has passed the
* J j(fe.>pf ,> sentatives by a large
.lajority, and wilrTikely passive Senate
'mptly and by a decided Vis,sent.
Republican party bccou^^^utfeatly
gfrmed at the effect of the late
the Pacific States and far Western
tates. will doubtless bring such influ -
nee to bear that we predict that the
•resent, bill will receive the executive
signature promptly.
The tctal value of the property of all
kinds of the State for the ;^tr 1881
aggregates $270,993,888, being an
increase of the preceeding year of $18,-
996,611, which does not substantiate
the assertion made by some evil design
ing politicians that the people of the
State are growing poorer every year.
r fne aggregate white polls is 137,322,
being an increase of 2,999; of colored
oils, 94,748, with an increase of 649.
less thousands, while many thousands
of the Union soldiers, who met the storm
of battle in earnest, is more entitled to
it tlmn Gen. Grant.
This is the way the publics money is
squandered by their representatives in
Congress, with a gushing show of senti
ment and patriotism, when in reality
all these appropriations are made only
for partisan reasons. But these ap
propriations “are not a drop in the
I ucket,” and if the common people of
trains on the road, ran over him and
cut off both arms, mangling him so
terribly that he could not possibly
survive. The dream was so horri
ble that the man aw'oke with a^start,
to find himself lying flat on the track
and the Atlantic express coming
around a curve about thirty yards
away, at the rate of forty miles an
hour. To seize the red lantern and
leap from the track was but an in
stant’s work ; the engineer of the Ex
press saw the ligh t and stopped the
train just in time to prevent a collis"
son with the blockaded freight
trains.”
State
Executive Committee
Call.
It seems almost impossible to be
lieve the severe injuries from which
the brain sometimes recovers . An
instance is rented in which a Fr ench
man drove a dagger throug h his
skull with a mallet, in an attem pt to
commit suicide. He struck the dag
ger about a dozen times.' The we&p,
on which was ten cente rmeters long
and one wide, was nearly embedded.
In order to remove the dagger, the
patient was placed on the ground, and
while two strong men held his shoul
ders, the dagger was forcibly pulled
with carpenters’ pincerB, but to no
avail. Strange to say, thdee proceed •
ings did not cause any pain, and al
though patient and assistants were
raised off the ground, the weapon re
mained immovable. At last the man,
walking without much difficulty,
was taken to a coppersmith, and there
the handle of the dagger wa9 fasten
ed by strong pincers to a chain, which
was passed over a cylinder turned bv
steam power. The m an was then se
cured to rings fixed in the ground and
the cylinder set gently in motion,
when, after the second turn, the dag
ger came out. No pain bad been sut
fered by the patient during all these
maneuvers, and after r cm a in ing'in
the hospital for ten days, he return
ed to his work and the wo und gradu -
ally healed.
Mr. Malone Wheless, of New O r
lean^, has recently invented a vqrv
ingenious machine for rep orting, b.y
which ho claims he is able to rCpor'
over two hundred words pe.r minute,
the words so reported containing a I
the vowel and consona nt sounds. D>-
has so arranged the lan guage that any
combination of sounds can be inetan
taneously produced by the math
ematical permentatio ns repsesentt d
by the instaument. The reading of
the record so made i s not confined ti
the orator alone, as in stenograph},
but any one who is familiar with tl <
table by which the instrument ie op
crated can readily tr anslatc any repoi i
produced. He not only claims m;
periority over short-band asto&pee ,
but as to the perfect accuracy wiG
which any one can report. Tl-
mathematical com bin aliens are so n
geniously arranged th at no two p<
mentations can ever represent tl
same sound. Mr. Wheless, wl
is also an expert in te hgraphy, clain
Atlanta, Ga., April 25, 1S82.—
A meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee ishereby called
to assemble at the breakfast room of j diat the speed of send ing telegrapl
priations of even this modest Congress, the Nation could be brought to realize j the Kimball House, in Atlanta, on message* can be increased fiom fii
that we mention them for the purpose t] |f . profligacy in the exptnditure of the the 18th day of May next, at 2 o clock
of showing the people where the money public funds indulged in by 1 heir good P A full meeting is desired, as
paid into the public treasury goes.— \ servants in Congress, it seems to us, business of importance will be before
Let us begin with the appropria'ions they would rise, en mass, and toss the committee. The following named
made for the benefit of the attendants
upon President Garfield : The bi 1 ap
propriates for the relief of Lucretia R.
Garfield the sum of $50,000, less any
sum paid to the late President Garfield
on account of his salary as President
ited States. It pay3 to Dr.
Bliss $25J>^^®*fc Agncw & Hamil
ton, $15,000 each ; to Drs. Reyburn &
Boynion, $10,000 each; to Dr. Susan
Edson, $10,000 ; to William J. Crump,
3,000; to the searetary of the navy,
$10,882; to William R. Speare, under
taker, 1,835; to C. F. Jones, of El-
beron, $1,092, and to the various mer
chants and others, sums varying from
fifty cents to $1,000. It provides that
when Surgeon-General J. K. Baines
shall be retired from active service, lie
shall be placed on the retired list with
the rank and pay of Major-General.
I t further provides that there shall he
added to the medical corps of the army,
one surgej* with the rank, pay and
There were 9,572 poll defaulters, being , 'M e T • . . n , , .
„ , ’ ,, ° {emoluinwl of Lieutenant-Colonel, and
authoKOs the President to promote
Jaj^J. Woodward to that position.
au increase of 999 over the preceding
year,
The Atlanta Constitution says : In
the case of Myers vs. Finney, before
Judge Hillyer, Friday, a question of
the legality of advertising sheriff sales
in papers issued on Sunday came up.
Judge Hillyer ruled that such adver
tising was not in accordance .vith law.
lie stated to a Constitution reporter
yesterday that advertisements required
aw and generally referred to as
legal advertisements,” were null and
^.'blished on Sunday. This
.portant matter to those intc-
Washing*on City into the Potomac.
But there is a way to put a stop to
this squandering of the public rrrney
easier to be obtained than the above.
Let the people support no candidate
lor Congress who will not pledge him-
sett to support no measure tor any ille
gitimate appropriations, and to do all
in his power in opposition, and when he
fails to execute his pledge, simply exe
cute him.
To this already enormous appropria
tion, was added before its passage 15,-
000 for Mrs. Gat field for life, and
Mrs. Lincoln, wife of President Un-
coln, reoeivod a $15,000 appropriiwm,
and her annual appropriation, which
had before been $3 000 per annum,
raised to $5,000 yearly. iScxt on the
list comes cx-Presidont Grant, who
used a National naval vessel for four
years, nearly, to travel over the world
at an enormous cost to the •government
—that is to the people—with a yearly
appropriation of $15,000 for life.
A homicide w*as committed on the
place of T. J. Wells, Esq., near Scar-
boro, in Scrivn cunt) ou Saturday
last. Henry Wright, a negro man
about twenty-one years old being the
victim. It seems that some words
were passed between one Jim Sappo,
a negro boy about, seventeeu years old,
and Henry Wright, when Wright
threetened to get a razor and cut
Jim’s throat. Whereupon Jim pro
cured a piece of fence rail and struck
Wr ight a heavy blow just above the
ear to the hack of the head fracturing
the skull, from which he died the
same night. Sapp was arrested, the
coroner notified and an inquest held,
which resulted in a verdict of mur
kier against Sapp, who was committed
to jail to await trial.— Sylvania Tele
phone.
The Georgia Legislature should
reach out i helping hand to the en
couragement of sheep husbandry by
lev \ ing a tax on the thousands of worth
less curs that infest the country and
play such havoc with this important
mdustiA We would be glad to soo
a tax oWive, or even ten dollars im
posed on eviry head of dogs in the
land. The interest of the people de
mands it '
gentlemen are members of the com
mittee, for the State at large : J. E.
Shumate, R. J. Moses, L. Mynatt
and Wm. Phillips.
First District—J. J. Jones Burke
county; R. W; Grubb, McIntosh
county.
Second District—Richard Hobbs,
Dougherty oounty ; W. A. Harris,
Worth county.
Third District—John A. Cobb,
Sumter county; George P. Wood,
Pulaski county.
Fourth District—A. D. Abrahems,
Troup county ; J. D. Willis, Talbot
county.
Fifth District—W. T. Newman,
Fulton county ; J. H. Mitchell Pike
county.
Sixth District—Jno. L. Wimberly,
Twiggs county ; John L. Hardeman,
Bibb count)!
Seventh District—Arthur H. Gray,
Catoosa county ; N. J. Tumlin, Polk
county,
Eighth Destrict—Wilberforce Dau-
iel, Richmond county ; F. H. Cooly,
Wilkes county.
Ninth District—C. J. Welborne,
Union county ; T. Al. Peeples, Gwin
nett county.
Leander N. Trammell,
Chairman.
message* can oe increased irom nit
the average number of word* p< >
minute, to two hundred, and with
gruat accuracy as is attained by th
present system of telegraphy. By th
use of the machines so constructe- ,
a speech taken in Congress, for ii
stance, can be transmitted to New
York, or any other distant point, s-
tiiat a party at the register in New
Y"rk will be able to read the speech
while it is being spoken in Washing
ton. Mr. Wheless ha b been employ
d in shorthand some ten years, de
voting the past three years lo the
construction of his invention.
During the late tornado a Wilkinson
county man tied his wife to a slump
with a rope to keep her from being blown
away. The wind died out and she
came near being drowned by the rain
before he oould recollect where he tied
her.
Dr. G. W. Gardner told a Post-
Appeal reporter that he desired to
say something on the a ubject. of email
pt x. He says there i a not a case of
the disease in the city, nor has then*
ten, but what is pro noun cud fmall
p«>x i» only the black n:essl<s, a dL-
ase accompanied by the same sym-
t'ms as small pox, with the excep
tion of the disagreeable odor peculiar
lo the latter. He says there is ala*«
*< me difference between the two dis
ases in the formation of their pu»-
ules. He dt clares that then* is such
disease as black measles, and that
lie is supported in his theory by
medical books. He has seen the dis
ase in Peru once in 1857 aud Again
in 1859.
It is is not moessafily fatal when ii
receives the proper attention, and is
c»nfined rxc.mively to the colored
people. If the cases which were pro-
ounced rmall pox were such, the
< ontagion would spread to the whites
* well as to the negroea. I^ut Dr.
Gardner coi tends that the disease
i < w prevalent will, not be taken In
the white people, no matter how
much they may be exposed lo it, tut
u it were small pox it yirould he as
uadily la ken by the whites as by ':lie
biacks. He saya he has teen many a
ase of small pox, *ud he knows tins
s not small pi x, end he believes l-o
will be lully supported in bis theoiy
y the fact that ihe disease will aot u
ie out wi tliout I’ictimifing a single
white pe reon.— (Atlanta Pi*!’Appea l