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The True Citizen.
’R A THUS BORO, OA., FRIDAY, MAY 12,1882.
“ The Survival qf Hie Pit test.'
Title Next State Senator.
The Sylvania Telephone grows fever
ishly excited in Ins last issue over the
prospect of an Independent candidate
being brought out for the State Sena
te) rsbip of this, the 17th District, for
the next elec ion from Burlce county.
The editor of the Telephone sees, or
seems to see, in ihe near future an in
fraction of a solemn treaty among the
counties forming the District, an in
fringement of the rights of the other
two counties by Burke, or tin abroga
lion of the time honored custom of ro
tation. But above all, the establish
ment of an Independent paper in VVay-
ro sboro, (-veins to be the fact most sig
nificant. So far as the establishment
of Thf Citizen is concerned, let our
t roller disabuse his mind, and his soul
rett in peace'. The Citiz n was es
tablished by i s proprietors unaided
ii. d alone, and is run in the special in
terest of ho party: it cleaves to the
principles of the Jeffersonian Democ
'racy with the tenacity a drowning man
in mid ocean would cleave to a life
boat.. It objects to wrong wherever it
is found ; it will insis upon an honest
; d ministration of the government, and
will expose any and all dishonest acts
0 the executi >n of the lows and the
(' ' oursement of the public funds, no
matter by whom done. YVe hold our—
sv. es fret; to advocate any men or
measures which we believe to be the
best f.ir the whole people. So far thru
h regards The li izux, the Tele-
phone lias gone off at a tangent, has
caicu atad witho.it his host—is wrong.
We believ) the rotation system is
pernicious, but we have never even sug
gested the name of a citizen of Burke for
lie office of State Senator, and hold
c urselvcs free to support a candidate
f.ooi either of he other two counties,
pvyided it be shown tint ho is th>?
1 cst man to be had for th • office in
t..e District. And when such a Sena-
t .I' is elected —no ma ter from which
coun y—we insis that he be retained
in office so lopg. as he faithfully docs
L,is duty—and id longer. Wo deem
Die change of Senator every two years
detrimental to tlie inters s of the peo-
\ e of the Dis riot, and can see no good
reason for the displacement of a true and
tried officer to make place for some one
those, who must be untrained and un
tried.
There may be an Independent Candi
da e from Burke—we have heard the
subject only slightly discussed. I f there
i- and we deem him lie fittest, we shall
support him, if not the superior, vve shall
support his opponent. The telephone
i- taking the right course to induce an
.Independent to take the field, and will
learn later there is prudence to he ex
ercised in politics as wc.l as other
matters.
not propose to follow any party or in
dividual in their wrongs. He who
pledges himself to blindly follow the
dictates of any party, right or wrong,
is a fool, a craven or a coward, and is
already ripe for stratagem, treason
and spoil. No, no; The Citizen
cannot follow men like Mr. Farrow,
and his Coalitionists. We shall give
our support to the candidate in the
coming election whom we deem the
fittest.
Farrow < videutly desire.' pa-
>'rs tor the Coalitionist, JMin C-m-
t \ i- t > Tart one in Atlanta, ami one is
dreadv under headway in Wayues-
m>r> and rumor proni-m . an iher one
n this locality. — .Macon Telegraph.
The supposition is violent that tin;
inove paragraph refers to The Citi-
:en. We laid down <>ur political
iews atthebegining and wo thought
hey could not be misunderstood, but
‘ seems we were mistaken. Now, we
ave to say, that if Mr. Potash Far-
•>w expects us to join his rabble
rev/- without followers or princi
ples—his surprise will be great, and
iis disappointment profound. The
Utizen will do no such thing. We
re independent not only in polities,
»ut in every thing else as well. We
vill bo the ala yes of no party. Our
irinciples are those of the old and
mre Democracy, which no party can
leny must be the organic law of any
mvernment which expects to pre-
er<’o free institutions or equal civil
herty. To be an Independent, we
t, giving justice t«> all
We do
tht,
I3F” There is a new paper pub'
lished in Waynesboro, called the True
Citizen, owned and edited bv the
Sullivan Brothers. It is a newsy,
well printed sheet, and brimful! of
substantial reading matter We hope
it will always stick up to the princi
ples its name indicate, and in theory
and practice be a true citizen in all
that, the words imply, fearlessly ad
vocating everything that is calculated
to further the interests of old Burke
and the State generally. We wish it
every success, and cheerfully place it
upon our exchange list.—Swains-
boro Herald.
Thanking our contemporary for
his good opinion, let us assure him
that The Citizen to will always all
that its name implies, and will en
deavor to disern the right, and to de
fend that right without fear favor or
affection. Its course is, and will re
main, independent—not partieu arly
in politics, but in everything in which
wrong may be done or right defend*
ed.
A.fter the 15th of M-iv, we
will revise <>ur subscription list.*, and
(he names of all who have not p-fid
up by that time will be dropped
from the list We connot afford to
run all the while without monev.
We trust all will come up and s • 111 ■ -
hot re the day mentioned, as we don’t
wish to leave off'any. We intend to
come down to a strictly cash basis.
It is the only successful plan. We
mean business.—Sylvania Telephone.
Sensible to the last on that point,
brother Telephone. We commenc
ed on the cash plan, and propose to
stick to it closer than a brother.
It appear 5 that Mr. Joe Twiggs,
son ui Judge II. .D. D, Twiggs,
who was with the R mntree boys when
the fatal affair took place, was satis
fied that Walter R iuntree was killed
by a ball from his brother’s pistol and
not by Frank Johnson. He says when
the difficulty occurred he was be
tween Walter Rountree and Johnson
and knew that a shot fired by John
son could not strike Rountaee ' with
out, first, striking him .(Twiggs.)
Bartow Rountree was firing at, John
son, and while this firing was going
on Twiggs felt Walter Rountree
shudder convulsively, as if struck.
He was then satisfied that Bartow
Rountree had accidently shot his
brother while firing at Johnson. He
said the lacts before the solicitor-
general and the latter went to Judge
Erwin and told him about it. Judge
Erwin, who D now in Augusta, says
ho at once appointed a medical com
mission to go to Quitman and exam
ine the body. Their examination
satisfied them that the fatal shot was
fired from a central fire cartridge, of
large caliber like that used by Bartow
Rountree, and altogether different
from Fr ink Johnson’s pistol, which
was a small Colt’s. Upon their ‘re
turn to Athens and report of these
facts, the solicitor-general withdrew
the indictment charging Johnson
with murder and laid another charg
ing him with assault with intent to
murder, before the grand jurv, who
returned a truebill.—Athens Banner.
The safe in a Maeon store had a
combination lock, and the numbers
wi re known only to the t^o members
of the firm, yet money was stolen)from
it frequently, and the lock showed no
signs of being picked or forced. It was
clear that the thief unlocked the safe
systematically and to solve the mystery
a watch was kept one night. While
all was dark the men heard somebody
go to the safe turn the knob and open
the door. They tired in that direction,
and a yoll told that the culprit was
hit. They then lit, the gas and found
that it was a negro boot black, only
18, who had frequented the office.
He had learned the combination not
by seeing the figures, for he oould
not tell one from the other, but by
watching and remembering the motions
of those who did the locking and un
locking. Soveral weeks of close ob>
i nervation put him in practical posses-
I sion of the secret and then by hiding
j under a oo alter and being left in when
I the place was closed for the night, he ex
perimented until successful.
Swainsboro Herald: On the east side
of Litile Canooch river, opposite An
tioch church, is a hedge of rocks of
various heigh s, sizes and shapes, ex
tending parallel with it for about a
half a mile. The highest of these pro
ject from the base of a hill, and it has
been lound by riding over the lull, im
mediately above the rocks, that, it has
a hollow, ringing sound, the sound of
horse's hoofs being distinct’y heard
half a mile distant. It is the opinion of
several, who have sounded it, that here
is a cave leading from the rocks below,
under the lull; and that if access could
be gained to it, it would bo found to
have been the hiding place of some
ancient band of Indians who inhabited
this coun ry. Should this be the ease,
no doubt but there would be found in
numerable quantities of Indian trophies,
trinkets, &c.
THE TRUE CITIZEN.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
U- S■ Internal Revenue
DEPT’Y COLLECTOR’S OFFICE 3D DlST.
TO ALL WHOM IT CONCERNS
Waynesboro, May 1st, 1882,
I again call the attention of liquor
and tobacco dea ers to the internal rev
enue laws, requiring every person who
seds spirituous and malt liquors, or in
toxicating bitters, and manufactured
tobacco to pay a special tax as follows,
to wit;
Dealers retail liquor $ 25 00
“ wholesale “ 100 00
“ malt liquors, w'l’sl 50 00
“ “ retail * 20 00
“ in manuf’d tobacco.. 5 00
The revenue year commences May
1st, 1882, and ends Aprd 30th, 1883.
Dealers in liquor and tobacco, who
commence business in May, will be re
quired to pay for the whole revenue
year, Those who commence business
after May will nay from the first of
the month in which their liability com
mences, to the following May.
Those who carried on the business of
dealers in spirituous liquors, and deal-
rs in manufactured tobacco prior to
May, 1882, and uuve deiayed the re
newal of their license from any finan
cial inability to pay the tax at that
particular tim -, and wish to continue
the business during the present revenue
year, are respectfully informed that
they can con'inue their business
through the month of May without
violation of law; provided the special
tax is paid by the 31st of May. It
would be reiteration and tediousness,
of an already unpleasant, subject to
say to the planters hat they a:'e liable
to the special tax of dealers, if they fur
nish tobacco to their employes either
at or without a profit.
I can only admonish them, a rain,
that they incur a risk of court, proceed
ings before the criminal courts of the
United S’ates if they neglect to obtain
special tax stamps before they com
mence the business of liquor dealers
and healers in manufactured tobacco.
Within the past two years a large
number of farmers, white and colored,
in Buiko county have, “technically ”
violated the revenue laws by selling
manufactured tobacco to their laborers
without license.
Lt was in my discretion, after col
lecting the special tax, to have their
names reported to the United States
District Attorney for prosecution, or
to have sworn out warrants against
them before a United States Commis
sioner. I did neither—bo ause 1
knew that their failure to take out
license was not attributable to any de
sire to violate the law, or to avoid the
payment of the trivial amount required,
and that it was for want of knowledge
of the law imposing the tax and infliat-
ing a penally for non-compliance with
the same.
Hence, there has not been a single
case carried before the courts by me
during my supervision of the revenue
affairs in this county, and 1 sincerely
trust that if it should be my good for
tune to supervise the colloation of the
revenue during the current excise year,
that you may then deserve the envaible
record you now bear lor strict compli
ance with the Internal Revenue laws
of the United States.
I am of the opinion that the peop'e,
generally, now understand the Revenue
la >VH sufficiently to enable thorn to com
ply with them without furl her informa
tion from this office; but if there are :vny
who desire further information on the
subject it will afford me pleasure to
impart, it at any time.
In conclusion I feel it my duty, as
ia my greatest pleasure, to say that
Burko lias the cleanest record, as re
gards compliance with the revenue laws
of any county in Georgia. As she is
the banner county in everything else
it is my highest ambition to be one of
her humble citizens and to aid in keep
ing up her reputation, for consAratism,
to its present high standard.
Thanking my follow oitizous for their
moral support given me in the dis
charge of my duties, I am, respectfully,
JESSE WIMBERLY, Dop’y Col.
AT WAYNESBORO, CA.
BY THE-
SULLIVAN BROTHERS.
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Independent in All Tiling-
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Neutral In Nothing.
Not Pledged to Any Party
Faction, or Individual.
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A JOURNAL FOR THE PE0PL
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Devoted t*> mi^fferestsof the people of Burko county, th
struct ion, entertainment and advancement a laithfm ana l
chronicler of all Burke county happenings a tail' recorder ol a i
ant events elsewhere occurring—a sturdy advocate ot coirect*■ e eis
principles of government by the people and lor the people a just, up
and honorable journal.
In all those things the CITIZEN hopes not to prove remiss-m its
duty—it is a public institution, and every subscriber and .patron is a
stockholder— the Publishers are merely their agents, and their duties and
responsibilities are reciprocal—we think we can promise that
agement will do its duty, and if the public will do theirs, it wi piov
immense power for good in the community.
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