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i 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. :oOo - Independent in All Tiling- -o:0:o- Neutral In Nothing. Not Pledged to Any Party Faction, or Individual. -o:0:o- A JOURNAL FOR THE PE0PL -—o:0:o- 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. -o:0:o- TERMS W S' Ono cony one year, Cash in advance, l ' % “ six months “ “ k “ three months “ “ Advertising rates liberal, to be obta Address, 8. L. S