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The True Oitizei A Liv« Weekly Paper on Live Issues Published j Every Friday Morning, at Way nesboro, (la., bv the S U L L I V BBO THE US. It A TES OP SUBSCRIPTION : $2.00 1.00 r>o One Copy One Year,.. “ " Six months. “ “ Three months, t^“ All subscriptions must be aoeoinpanicd j by the CASH. ^nesboro, Ga,, May 12, 1882. No. 3. Advertising rates liberal. Transient advertisments payable iu ad ranee. All contract advertisements payable qua <• terlv. All eommviuications for personal benefit will be charged for as advcrtiseineuts. Advertisements to occupy special places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates. Notices in local and business column 5 ct«. per tine; in local lOois. per line,each insertion. For terms apply at this office. Current Comments. Hartwell Sun ; Ticks announce thomselyes ready for the pic-nic season. Guiteau will leave Washington City on the 80th prox. for Hades. The air- breaks will bo put-on at the start. The I»ress on Mr. Stephens, OPIMOl^S OF THIi rRKSS. Macon Telegraph. We will support Mr. Stephens if he is nominated by the Democratic party. Atlanta Republican. Senator Hill has resigned. Who j Alex has long wanted to get to the will he appointed to bo his successor i Senate. It there is a vacancy soon by the Governor? - i Colquitt should appoint him and get him out of the way. Georgia don’t ! ^ )f ' r °fTHE Phuk Citizen, published by cn • l Sullivan Brothers, at Waynesboro, want lum m the race tor Governor this 1 - J ’ year. Greenesboro Herald. Hon A. H. Stephens will govern From the many flattering notices given to The Citizen by our ex changes, we copy the following and re turn thanks to our brethren of the Press for their good opinion ; We have received the initial num- The Deatli of Jesse James. Our exchanges say that Senator Brown’s health is greatly improved and he will not resign his seat in the Senate. The Hartwell Sun man must he very economical. He wants the town coun cil to plant the court house park in his town in peas. liurke county, and pronounce it very good, indeed.—Conyers Weekly. The True Citizen is the name of a new and well gotten up paper, just the State of Georgia alter the next elce- | started at Waynesboro, Ga., by Sulli van Brothers. They are practical typos, and will doubtless send out a good paper.—Greenesboro 11.ome-Journal. We have just received the first num | tion, as he has consented to become a I candidate for the office of Governor. Hurrah for little Alec ! j Rome Courier. | We would like for Mr. Stephens to ' receive the support of the Democratic ! party, and we would be willing for the j The watchman in Conyers will here- j party to relax somewhat its rigid dis- after tap the hour of the night on a cipline or adherence to formalities to hell. The editor of the Weekly will bring about suefi a support. her of The True Citizen, published at Waynesboro, Ga., by the Sullivan Brothers. It is a five column, eight tage paper, and is as neat as a new pin. It’s general make-up is good, and it is edited with ability. We gladly place it on our exchange list.—Hartwell San. tap a beer keg every hour in the day. Sylvania Telephone : Judge R. O. Lovett, of Waynesboro, Ga., and Col. John D. Ashton, of the same place, Calhoun Times. Mr. Stephens announces that if it is Wc have the first copy of The True Citizen, a new paper published by , . . „, , , ., | Sullivan Bros., fit W a vnesboro, Ga. uu. ucduc vi mu i i I ]n the style of its mechanical get up, be a candidate for Governor he muy | tlie aLility oT its editorial management comply with the request, hut would . and iu fact all ihe essentials of a supcess- the were the only visiting attorneys at our ; f er to ret ; re f rom public life. Mr. | ful newspaper it stands already in court this week. Stephens belongs to that minority ol Georgia patriots who does not seek oi- Several of the Southern Representa tives have refused to pay ihe assess- flee. meat, made by the Democratic Con- j LaGrange Reporter, grcssional Campaign “Committee. J Will Mr. Stephens compel the Staie The days of political honesty seem Democratic Convention to nominate about to come again. I him, thus repeating the tactics employ- ' ed by him in his own district a few Conyers Weekly: But very little i front rank of Georgia weekly journal- I ism. In politics we differ from The True Citizen, and regret to see it start on the wrong line, as we view the mat ter, hut we welcome it jis an honest and able antagonist, a foeman worthy of our steel.—Decatur Rows. We hope that the differences of opinion between The Ckizen and more corn will be sold in this market this year. Our farmers have eommene- ; years ago? Is Mr. Stephens “a biger j News will be few and always honest.— man'’ than the Democratic party—the ; \\ T C have no doubt that the views of us , erreat mass of the people of Georgia? ed using their greet oats and wheat for ,, . b , I We pause for a reply. g ock food and will only need corn for i „ . . , Atlanta Pest-Appeal. Mr. Stephens will enter the Sena'c puarter of the State I Camber by the time honored route of ! the State executive mansion. What to g ock ioon uuu wuj only their own consumption. From every comes the most-globing accounts of T ,, „ , Vhe small grain crops, mi harvesting *»» th > 8 ? Is Mf ., Stephens will commence in earnest next wcok . 1™1 forward lor Governor to secure t j ie j his election to tike Senate ? Is he a candidate for both positions at once ? Atlanta Critic*. So there will be plenty* of bread iu land and we vnfl'not be compelled to send our “Bmjamin down into Egypt” again for sometime. Scviven county has three candidates announced for Sheriff ; foui for Clerk ojf the Superior Court; three for Tax ! f/olleotor ; one lor county Treasurer ; lone for Tax Receiver, and one for C’ouiitw Surveyor. Won’t it take a to elect all of these. k And this\s “harmony.” Kirs. Fr»noJPfc(j(|ijayfi^gtty8 that % expenses of her brotlic __ Fjeft her and hor husband penniless ami homeless. Her personal property in Chicago and real estate in Wisconsin Tul he sold out in a couple of days under mortgages. She proposes to lec ture for a living, beginning at Cooper JL'ion next Tuesday. Mrs. Scoville is evidently lacking in every feeling of delioao^ when she would parade dm•disgusting crime and disgrace of her assn i&b*\ brother to the It is rumored that in case Mr. Steph ens is elec ed Governor, his coud.ii (we believe it is cousin) Mr. Git Greer will be appointed principal keeper of the penitentiary in place of Nelms. It is a position that would fit Git pretty well, but we fear that his high ambi tion will meet with a sad disappoint ment if ho waits to receive the place from “cousin Alex.” Augusta News. Dir. Stephens has surely outlived jition, lie says that his earnest from public life, ando he consents to serve his people once more only in the Inpe of bringing har mony to the party. We assure him in all earnestness and sincerity that he cannot do this by compromising with the faction led by Farrow, Longstreet and Felton, and backed by 60,000 negroes and the Arthur administration. White we shall support Mr. Stephens both concerning good government are the same. Tiie Citizen is a stern ad vocate of the principles laid down by Thomas defier,son, but its opposition to the uial administration of these prin ciples is equally firm. We shall oppose with all our strength the miss appropri ation of the public funds, no matter by whom made, we are disgusted with hobby, and the sentimental gush of crocodile tears of politicians, pumped up for no other purpose than to fool the people. No, brother Word, we do not differ in political principles but on the question of their honest adminis tration. worlybu^ro-tkc pindic st.iy'e foi i>iou< y * j w j^j 1 pleasure if lie is the nominee ~ I the Democratic party, and if he plants Walter Holliday, a sixteen year old himself squarely on the Democratic you'ii, atteinpteiFsuioide last night, noar platform, wo shall oppose his nomiria- ps resilience, on the corner of Hunter , tion and election with all the strength ingum streets, by shooting him- j that in/us lies, it he accepts the nomi- fbft breast, near the heart, national’the meeting iu June that a party was given at sA of Mr. Gits Haynes, which f acres.-, ihe street from Holliday’# and jo young man was not invited, ywung l.idy, Miss Maude Kennery^for wjoom tie had an affection, was *fmo of the, party, and Holiday, seeing her dancing, seat her a note, requesting her ,^-Tiot to dance any more. She did not regard the request, however, which is su|.po v:e to le t he reuse n why the VC>ar *; mat; attempted to take his life. He v.\i- n I lie street near the house at f ml after the shooting he was Messrs. Tutwiler and were passing at the each was summoned dod to the wound. The u s condign is considered o ball, after entering near the ingod dAmvvard and passed ^idney.^^^vtita Post-A ppeu Griffin Sun. regretted to hear, a few weeks go, o Mr. Stephen’s intention to re tire frail the publio service, for so long as hb health is spared him, it will bo oxpc'C od for him to remain in public We acknowledge receipt of a copy of the first issue of The True Cite en, a new paper started at Waynesboro, Ga. It is an eight page weekly, neatly got ten up, Independent in politics and published by Messrs. Sullivan Bros. We take pleasure in adding it to our exchange list.—Sylvania Telephone. We are in receipt of the initial num ber of The Truk Citizen, nublished weekly by Sullivan Bros-, at Waynes boro, Ga., and proposses to live or die by its motto—“The Survival of the Fittest.” If it keeps up to its present standard of excellence it will live, but we kindly suggest to its editors that they are a little “off” in selecting their office furniture, when they make the following announcement; For Exchange.—Any one who has a good cow with a young calf, and desires to exchange them for a good double-barreled shot gun, can hear of a chance to trade by applying at this ulfice. Better keep the slnt gun, Bros. Sullivan, unless you belong to the fam ily that licked Paddy Ryan, for you will find that as a vaccinator it will be worth more to an Independent paper in Georgia than all the calves that you can got in the office.—The Drummer. We would say to our contemporary, that we have no use for guns, now, but propose to try moral suasion. He has been a faithful servant country, and his people have s delighted to do him Imor, as ill ever do. It is our opinion that lie in now in his sphere, llis ideas uiuxt* from so long a connection with Congress, be full of topiqy of only a national character, and so long as he has concluded not to retire, it would pleifxy a greater number of Georgians forii/n to remain a member of Con grefclthan for him to become Governor (e. Sylvania Telephone : Wo learn that on Sunday night last, Mr. Frank Dwelle,at Milieu, was attacked by an unknown negro, as ho was closing up the lunch room, and oame very near being seriously cut. lie received two ugly gashes from a razor, but, fortunate ly, they wore not deep, only laying o,fi the skill. lie knocked the negro down or would perhaps have been fatal ly cut. This is the second lime ho has been attacked by unknown parties, and he should always be prepared and on the lookou*. Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat. “Let not Cseser’s servile minions Mock the lion thus laid low : ’Twus no foeman’s hand that slew him. ’Twas his own that struck the blow.” Not one among all the hired cow ards, hard on the hunt of blood mon ey, dared lace this wonderful outlaw, twenty even against one, until he had disarmed himself and turned his back to his assassins, the first and the only time he did it in a career which lias passed from an almost fabulous romance into that of history. We called him an outlaw, and lie was; but fate made him so. When the war came on he was just turned of fifteen. The border was all aflame with steel and fire and ambuscade and slaughter. He flung himself into a band which had a black Hag for a banner and devils for riders. What he did he did, and it was fearful. But it was war. It was Missouri against Kansas. It was Jim Lane and Jenni- son against Quamrell, Anderson and Todd. When the war closed Jesse James had uo home. Proscribed, haunted, shot, driven away from among his people, a price put upon his head, what else could the man do, with such a nature, except what he did do? He had to live. It was his country. The graves of his kindred were here. Ho refused to be banish ed from his birthright, and when lie was hunted he turned savagely about and hunted his hunters. Would to God lie were alive to-day to make a righteous butchery of a few more of them. There never was a more cowardly and unnecessary murder committed in all America than this murder of Jesse James. It was done for money. It was done that a few men might get all the money. He had been liv ing in St. Joseph for months. The Fords were with him. He was in the toils, for they meant to betray him. He was in the heart of a large city. One word would have sum moned five hundred armed men for his capture or extermination. Not a single one of the attacking parly need to have been hurt. If, when his house had been surrounded, he iiad refused to surrender, he could have been killed on the inside of it and at long range. The chances for him to escape were as one to ten thousand, and not even that; but it was never intended that he should be captured. It was his blood the bloody wretches were alter; blood that would bring money to the of ficial market of Missouri. And this great commonwealth leagued with a lot of self-confessed robbers, highwaymen and prostitutes to have one ofits citizens assassinated before it was positively known that he hail ever committed a single crime worthy of death ! Of course, everything that can be said about the dead man to justify the manner of his killing will be said. But who is saying it? Those with the blo^d of Jesse James on their guilty souls. Those who conspired to murder him. Those who wanted the reward, and would invent any lie or concoct any diabolical story to get it. They have succeeded, but such a cry of horror and' indignation at the infernal deed is even now thundering over the land that if a single one of the miserable assassius had either manhood, conscience or courage, he would go as another Judas and hang himself. But, so sure as God reigns, there never was a dollar of blood-money obtained yet which did not bring with it perdition. Sooner or later there comes a day of vongeanop.— Some among the murderers are beasts of prey. These, of course, can only thirst. But, whatever they dread most, that thing will happen to them. Others again among the murderers are sanctimonious devils, who plead the honor of the State, the value of law and order, the splendid courage required to shoot and unarmed man. in the back of the head. And these will be stripped to their skin of all their pretensions, and made to shiver and to freeze, splotched as they are and spotted and piebald with blood, in the pitiless storm of public con - tempt and condemnation. This to the leaders will be worse than death. Nor is the end yet. If Jesse James, had been hunted down as any other criminal and killed while trying to escape or in resisting arrest, not a word would have been said to the contrary. He bad sinned and he had suffered. In his death the majesty of the law would have been vindi cated. But here the law itself be comes a murderer. It leagues with murderers. It hires murderers. It aids and abets murderer^. It bor rows money to pay and reward mur- dererers. It promises immunity and protection to murderers. It ip itself a murderer—the most abject, the most infamous and the most coward ly ever known tohi-tory. Therefore, this so-celled law is outlaw, and these so-called executors of the law arc out laws. Therefore, let Jesse James’ - comrades—and he has a few remain ing worth all the Fords and Kittles that can be packed between St. Louis an<l St. Jo—do unto them as they did unto him. N<>, the end is not vet; nor should it be. What right had any officer of this State to put a [trice upon his head and hire a band of cut-throats and highwaymen to murder him for money? Huff r through cold or hunger or brows in blood. ? Anything can be told of a man. The whole laud is filled with liars and robbers and assassins. Mur der is easy for Si00. Nothing is safe that is pure, unsuspecting, or just. But it is not to be supposed that the law will become an aliey and a co- worker in this sort of civilization. Jesse James lias been murdered, first, because an immense price had been set upon his head—and there ^ isn’t a low-lived scoundrel to-day in Missouri who would not kill his own father for money; and, second, be cause he was made the scape-goat of every train-robber, foot-pat and high wayman between Iowa and Texas. Worse men a thousand times than the dead man have been hired to do this thing. Tlie very character of the instruments chosen to do the work show tbe infamous nature of the work required. The hand that slew him had to be a traitor’s, Into till the warp and woof of the devil,a work there were threads woven by the fingers of a harlot.. What a spectacle! Missouri, with splendid companies and regiment* of mi itia; Missouri, with 117 sheriffs, as brave and efficient on ihe uvei age as any men on earth; Missouri, with a watchful and vigilant lmtr-ltal in every one of her principal towns and cities; Missouri, with every screw and cog and crank and lever and wheel of her administrative machinery in perfect working order; Missouri, boasting of law, order, progress and development, and yet to surrender all these in the face of a single man— a hunted, lied upon, proscribed and outlawed man, trap pod and located in the midst of thirty-five thousand people—to ally himself with some * five or six cut-throats and prostitutes that the majesty of the law might bo vindicated, and tlie good name of the State be saved from all further re proach. Saved ! Why the whole St»to reeks to-day with a double orgy, that of lust and that of murder. What the men failed to do the women accom plished. Tear the two bears from the flag of Missouri. Put thereon, iu place of them, as more appropriate, a thief blowing ou4 the brains of an unarm ed victim, and a brazen harlot, naked to the waist, and splashed to the