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<0 he True Citizen, Livs Weekly Paper on Live Issues Published Every Friday Morning, at Way nesboro, Ga., bv the JUL L IV A N B B 0 T H E B S. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Copy One Year, $2.00 “ “ Six months, 1.00 ** “ Three months 50 tzr All subscriptions must be accompanied bv the CASH. T— 11 , 1 1 < Current Comments. THE TRUE CITIZEN, Yol. 1. Waynesboro, Ga., June 30, 1882. No. 10. The True Citizen. -:0:- Advertising rates liberal. Transient advertisments payable in ad vance. All contract advertisements payable quar terly. All communications for personal benefit will be charged for as advertisements. Advertisements to occupy special places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates. Notices in local and business column 5 cts. per line; in local lUo s. per line, each Insertion For terms apply at this office. Every effort to procure a respite for Guiteau seems to have tailed, and he must expiate his crime to-day upon the gallows. The Last Resolution.—Whereas we have “attended to all other matters of interest to the party,” Resolved, That we, the Democrats of Burke county, in mass meeting assem bled, now proceed to organize the Her ald. [Communicated.] HON. CLAIBOJtNE SNEAD. For many reasons we should be glad to see Hon. Claiborne Snead continued Judge of the Augusta Circuit. And not the least among them is, that, in our opinion, an artful, designing and deliberate conspiracy was formed to re move him, at the end of his present term, from his seat on the bench. The “Protest” of the McDuffie coun ty committee has, we sincerely believe, a secret history, of which those gentle- imen ought to be ashamed ; and in the We hope the Burke county Democ-1 public letter of Mr. Sturgis, pretending racy will bear with us a little longer, as i either to apologize for, or explain his we assure them we are working hard to friendly, and in no sort of sense oonfi- organize the Herald. If the seasons I dentialepistle to Judge Snead, there is hold out,and the conns turn'out well we I a transparent special pleading, and want hope to have it well organized by elec-1 of candor and manly courage thatre- tion day; but if there comes a drouth fleets no credit either upon a man of high now, we considder it a hopeless case. Judge H D. D Twiggs, of Augusta, has been mentioned for Congressman for the State at large.—Ex. spirit or a good Baptist. With regard to Mr. Roney’s defense and attempted vindication, it appears to us extremely feeble, disingenuous lisle of Beauty, Fare Thee Well. Shades of ev’ning, close not o’er us, Leave our lonely bark awhile ; Morn, alas 1 will not restore us Yonder dim and distant isle. Still my fancy can discover Sunny spots where friends may dwell, Darker shadows round us hovei^- Isle of Beauty, fare thee well. 'Tls tie hour when happy faces Smile around the taper’s light; Who will fill our vacant places? Who will sing our songs to-night ? Through the mist that floats above us, Faintly sounds the vesper bell, Like a voice from those who love us, Breathing fondly, fare thee well! When the waves are round us breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye is vainly seeking Some green leaf to rest upon ; When on that dear land I ponder, Where mv old companions dwell, Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! HICHMOND BOJ.ITICB. STEPHENS AND BLACK DELEGATES ELECTED. The Texas wool clip this year, will bring the flock masters the sum of 87,500,000, If Jugde Twiggs will announce, we j find full of falacy, Suppose the convei 1 - will not only take pleasure in nailing his sation referred to had taken p’ace in Mr. banner to,our masthead,but will obligate I Roney’s office, and not under the shad- ourself to publish Mrs. Whitson’s ac- j ow of his home, is it true that a private count of him in her “Book of Sketches” \ remark in such a place should he held once a month, monthly, till day. We have lately been written to by distinguished gentlemen in various parts of the State to know how the nem ination of Mr. Stephens was appreciated by the Democrats of Burke county.— A ft i r a careful examination of the field, .we are satisfii d th;it neither the Inde pendent or Bourbon Democrats d sire less sacred than elsewhere ? In the light of all the facts and circumstances, is it not a begging of the question to say | that “a lawyer’s office is a place of bus iness !” A lawyer’s office is a place of I business only when professional matters are being discussed ; this remark of Judge Snead, WHEREVER MADE, was in the very nature of things, a con- fHendial communication. And if Mr. In some parts of Texas this season, 400 to 600 bushels of potatoes per acre has been the crop. A lady in North Alabama claims to have cured herself of a virulent cancer by the constant use of clover tea. The oil mill at Columbus, Texas, started In February, has turned out 600 barrels of oil, 350 tons of cake and 35 bales of lint cotton. Gen. Sherman is said to contemplate the trial by court-marshal of three or four army officers, "who have heen applying for military details through members of Congress, instead of through their common superiors. the nomination cf Mr. Stephens as their . , ‘ , ... , . • , Roney did not so regard it, why did h9 .standard bearer in the gubernatorial 1 J l wj , >. attempt to hide his conscious sense of race. We, uowever, be leve that the / ....... convention or mass meeting to assemble here next Tuesday, and which wi 1 be ^n'ro.led the' Bourbon element, as * bl » man '” undcr » soleran P led 8 e of “ .we apprehend the Independents will croc ^‘ ave little to do with why should he have treachery and bad faith by communica ting it to Col. Tutt, who “is an honor it, wi'l appoint tephen,s.delega es to so to the guber- atorial convention to meet i i At'autaon t he 19th of July. Theie are a few, a yfcry few, who will give Mr. Stephens ’ ah enthusiastic support, while the parly ' will support him if he is If he regarded it an open statement, and supposed Judge Snead so considered it, why should communicated it to Col. Tu t in ‘confi dence.” But Mr. Roney s ys, this re mark was made to him by Judge Snead while lie was on the, Bench.and during the New York, June 24.—Rev. R Moffat Neil, act ing pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, is accused of having forged his cer tificate of ordination and his credentials. He is very p< pular with the congregation, which has largely increased. Utica. New York, June 24.—Charles O. Liver more, while repairing his store in Nortli Brook field, found a pocketbook under the steps con taining several thousand dollars. The matter is supposed to bo connected with Colonel Porteur Miles, who died from exposure in November last, near Schenectady, with $20,000 on his person. Wm. Deveer, aged 17 years, a young athlete of Brooklyn, on Tuesday last, to amuse his com panions, placed both his feet at the back of bis J gates, and they were elected : Chronicle & Constitutionalist 25th Inst. Pursuant to call a mass meeting of the Richmond county Democracy was held at the City Hall yesterday, at 12 o’clock. There was quite a large attendance and with few ex- ceptions perfect unanimity prevailed. Maj. J. V. H. Allen, Chairman of the County Democratic Executive Committee, called the meeting to order and stated that its object was to select delegates to the Gubernato rial, Congressional and Senatorial Conventions and to appoint a new Executive Committee. On motion, Maj Allen was elected permanent Chairman and J. L. Max well and T. R. Gibson were request ed to act as Secretaries. J. H. Neibling offered the follow ing resolution : Resolved, That this meeting do now adjourn until Saturday evening next, at 8, p. m., and that a primary election be held at that time to select the delegatee, to the different conven tions suggested by the Executive Committee of this, county, and for any other business that may be regu larly brought before the meeting. Mr. Jno. F. Armstrong moved that the resolution be laid on the table.— Carried almost unanimously. Mr. Mullarky moved that a com mittee of five be appointed to nomi nate delegates to the various conven tions. W. H. Fleming, Esq., said he thought it would be better to nomi nate delegates in the meeting, with out appointing a committee. Mr. Mullarky withdrew his motion. Mr. Fleming taid he understood that there was perfect unanimity among the Democracy of Richmond county in supporting Mr. Stephens for Governor. [Applause.] He thought men should he selected re presenting all classes and sects. He | presented the following list of dele.-, neck. He was taken ill afterwards and went to a physician. He, however, died Thursday last, cerebro spinal meninngitis having set in. In ac complishing the athletic feat he had ruptured his abdomen and otherwise injured himself. Advices from Sherbro, an Island near Sierra Lecne, dated May 21st, state that the natives of Martio, having plundered a boat belonging to 1 Bunt.he Island, where the British Government • 1 f progress of the trial. In the name of ev- Officersar*stationed, and having fired on the nominal,eu lor | . . . . ..... t police who went tc arrest them, the Governor of ,i • i • o • iii» puuctj wau w«ni» u cirresL liiwiii, me that reason, and - not because he is their | er - nn S sacre m professional e hies, ^ S | erra L eone prooeeded to Martio with a force choice. A popular Independent candi-) date, in our judgment, would ma eriaiy lessen Mr. Stephens’ majority in Burke cminty. ' momg tin candidates for office would not any thorough—bred lawyer of Blue Jackets and inflicted a loss of two hun- ! understand that such a remark was con-1 dred kiUed 011 inhabitants. 1 fidential. No Judge could possibly say | such a thing otherwise than in a eonfi- Eastman Cor. Hawkinsville News: The white wonnn who has been in jail here for some time ... xt i ,, , for stealing a pair of pants from an old colored amt'al way. No honorable, educated mar., was taken out a few.days ago by Mr. member of the bar could possibly Ulider- j Cooper, who paid the costs, etc., and lip?. t.ak,en . ..i „ Tf • . i her home as a servant In his family Her hus- stanu it otherwise. He is not only an . , u . „ , ... J band, who was in all probability the most guilty officer of eburt, but all imaginable of the two, left her as soon as. she got into rjtp. It is stated by his friends tint j amenities, if lie be a gentleman, should [™ ble ‘ K is 1,oped that 8he ' has ,oatned ;e isnead declined some time ago to subsist between him and his presiding H Ihe number offering, or proposed by llieir friends, for the Judgeship'of the fei'ugusta Circuit Superior Cour, is very Snead declined some time ago to • them lo press his name for re elec- 1 ^/tehikand that he is n t in the race.— ^ct increases the nuinber -of can- f Vhdutes, and one of two counties are I '. yet to hear from. ; T he above panagruph, from the Au- News„ of Monday evening, is not syi she will not soon forget. but will be staff ling Judge; arid, the dimest‘shadow of bad faith is a bar-minister on his escutcheon that neither future achievments nor lofti est charity can wipe out. We say this, too* for Judge Snead : He is brave, faithful, truthlul, honor able— sublimely just—and fearlessly many friends of Judge impartial. If he has made mistakes. A mysterious murder was per Ctrated in Macon on Friday night last. At .the hour of midnight, a pistol shot was heard in the vicinity of Third street, betweon Oak and Arch streets ' Early Saturday morning an old man. named Boisier James, was found mortally wounded' b'lng in the weeds near the sidewalk In that lo cality. He stated that, lie had been shot by a white man. He died at two o’clock Saturday morning. St. Paiti,, June 25.—On the Manitoba Railroad . tlnead in Burke county. Indeed so un- they have never,, for,a single moment, bno, near Atwater, Minn., a work train, eon- looktd for was such information, that j by his lhtlest enemies, been supposed j entfne ’ and tweh ^' tw was running eighteen iyjles per . although, we have learned to place im-] to be the result either of cowardice, i hour, when without any visible muse the engine. r> ‘p,licit confidence in statements made by favoritism, want of courage, or fear 0 f j caboose and five flat oars Jumped the track on J i ’ b ’ an embankment twelve feet high, landing in a tjje News, we cannot believe that Judge ! anybody’s influence. But his mistakes, ten foot pool of water. The engineer and six rtnend would do the wishes of his friends (in the judgment of the Supreme Court, jf Burke as well as oilier comities in I hayo heen wonderfully few : and we juit, the violence to so summa- | challenge his record, in support ot this ithdraw his name for re-ele.Ciion. [ statement, compared with his brethren ^if,", however, the report is true, and on and off the Bench, in Georgia. *t£,udgeSnead persists in staying out of Swedish and Norwegian workmen were killed and the fireman and five others injured. More are supposed to be under the water with the wreck. [‘the race, the public will consider it a jt’sfc in which a conscientious and sensi- Ive gentl smun, an honsest officer and a just judge has been driven off by the machinations of scheming office seekers, whose .'lonesty, to say the least of it, is doubtful. In our opinion, if Judge Sseftd I ah refused “to stand” for re- Afiotityb he will ehango his mini after ^poniKts hisVriends in Burke county [.( week, when he comes to Waynes- ro to hold his appointed adjourned No, no , the friends of J udge head who appreciate,-him at his true >rth, cannot permit him to retire in or* Another thing : We hold this to bo true—that a man who is ever loyal and oonstant to his people in time oi war, oan never, under any circumstances, wilfully throw a shadow on their judici ary in time of peace. And one word more : the author of this article can be found by applying to the Editor of The Citizen, with the certificate of Mr. Tutt that the man who inquires for his name means business. Burke. Columbia, S. C., June 23.—About five o’clock Thursday afternoon, during a short thunder storm, the beautiful Confederate monument on the State House grounds was struck by lightning and the life size white marble figure of the sol dier surmounting it was dashed to the ground and demolished. The bolt strpek the rim of the hat and glanced off, entering the base and shivering It. The head of the soldelr was out off, and a mass of what was one of the hand somest pieces of monumental sculpture in the country lies at the basa an utter wreok. The seasons oontinue good to this date, and from every portion of thaainnn- ty comes the most ( glowii the orops. said 1 ■proa The Berrien county Newt says: We are In formed that an election for Sheriff was held at IrvrlnviUo at the appointed tiino, but at, no other precinct. Nine votes only were cast, which elected Mr. Dun Molnnis. The fact that he had no opposition caused lie people to take but little gjiterest in the election. The polls would probably have been opened in the 5th district, but that was the day set apart by "Uncle'’ Jake Paulk for his sheep sheering, whioh Is usually a more Important event to his Geo. T. Barnes, Joseph Ganahl, Solomon Marcus, Charles C. Jones. Jr., A. C. Walker, John F. Arm strong, John S. Cook, M. J. Carswell, P. Walsh, Jas. L. Gow, P. J. Berck- mans, Charles Spaeth, J, V. H. Allen, L. A. Dugas, Jr., Adam Johnston, C. H. Cohen, J. M. Seag<\ W. T. Gary, James Tobin, M. P. Carroll, Joseph E. Burch, M. V. Calvin, S Warren Mays, Edward Perrin. Mr. Wm. M. Dunbar said Mr. Fleming stated that the Democracy of Richmond county were almost unanimously in favor of Hon. A. H. Stephens for Governor. He denied that such was the fact and thought that those opposed to him should be allowed to put themselves on record. He moved that the delegates appoint ed go to the convention uniostructed. Maj. Ganahl offered the following as a substitute to Mr. Dunbar’s motion: . . : , Resolved, That the Democracy of Richmond hear with pleasure and gratification that the distinguished Representative in Congress of the Eigth Congressional District, Hon. Alexander H. Stephens will be pre« sented in the Convention on the 19th of July for nomination as the Demo cratic candidate for the Chief Magis tracy of the State. Resolved, That while some of us may have differed with Mr. Stephens as to questions of minor policy, no son of the land has served his country with more conspicuous purity, use fulness, abiljjy, fidelity and patriot ism, none has been longer tried, none found more faithful to the principles of Democracy, not one has more en deared himself to our party and peo ple ; that we, therefore, congratulate that party, and that people upon the event of his nomination, and pledge ourselves to use every honorable method to secure so auspicious a result. Resolved, That we see in the nomination and election of Mr. Ste phens to the office of Governor the oblivion of bitterness and strife which shall grow from that rule of Wisdom and Moderation and Justice which characterize the man and form the three pillars which have been set as the seal of our noble State. Major Ganahl’s resolutions were put and carried almost unanimously. Leonard Phinizy, Esq., said he believed the next business in order tion. He believed that there was nor. a living soul in Richmond county who would not support the gentle man whom the delegates would sup port for Congress. JJe alluded t<» Hon. James C. C. Black. [Applause.] He nominated the Following dele gates, who were unanimously elect ed : J. B. Cumming, Joseph Ganahl, Z. McCord, T. B. Phicizyy W. II. Howard, James A. Loflin, J. H, Alexander, Edward O’Donnel, Joseph Myers, C. H. Oetjen, Samuel W. Mays, J. A. Carswell. Mr. H. H. Hickman said he never held an office; neither was a military man. He once belonged to the Sil ver Greys, who proposed to fight, bleed and die on the borders of tbjfc town [laughter.] Neither was he a politician, but he had come to this meeting as a citizen and a Democrat. He offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the Democracy cf Richmond, having every love for the person, pride in the ability, aqd con fidence in the judgment, temper and exalted moral worth of their fellow- citizen, Hon. Jas. C. C. Black— coupled as these qualities are with a rare gift of logical and persuasive eloquence qualified in every particu lar to represent this District in Iho Congress of the United States. Resolved, That animated'with this conviction, and in ’ the "'confident as-_ surance that the Democracy of the Eighth District would be served by no one with more eminent ability, in tegrity, usefulness and honor, this meeting unanimously presents the Hon. James C ; C. Black, of Rich mond, for the 1 suffrages of ‘he Con version which shall assemble to nominate the Democratic candidate * to the high trust of Representative in the 48th Congress. Calls were made for Mr. Black, who was not present. C. H. Cohen, Esq.; norriinated tho following delegates to the Senatorial Convention, who were unanimously elected : W. M. Jordan, M. J. Verd- erv, R. L. Pierce, (T. H. Howard, J. T. Bothwell and J. T Fleming. The following resolution, offered by Mr. John F. Armstrong, was adopted : Resolved, That the deb gates to the several conventions be authorizrd to fid any vacancies that may occur in their respective delegations. Mr. Walsh said he desired to offer a resolution for a more thorough organization of the Democratic party. He presented the following which was unanimously adopted : Resolved, That we respectfully suggest to the State Democratic Con vention soon to assemble in Atlanta the adoption Qf t‘q<?, system of organ ization recommended by the National Democratic Committee at their meeting held in February, 1880. L- A. Dugas, Esq., offered tbc fol lowing which was unanimously adopt ed : Resolved, That we, the Democratic party of Richmond county, in mass meeting assemble'!, look with pride on the able and efficient manner with which our esteemed fellow-citizen, the Hon, Wm. A. Wright, has dis charged the duties of the office of Comptroller-General, and earnestly recommend him for renomination to that office. On motion of C. H. Cohen, Esq., the chairman was instructed to appoint an Executive Committee for the next two years at his leisure. A motiou by Mr. John F. Arm strong that seven members of the Committe constitute a quorum, was adopted and the meeting adjourned. A dispatch from Danville, 111., dated June 22d, says that Allie Mills, aged fourteen years, Mary Oglie, agsd seven teen. and Mary Jones, aged twelve, committed suicide this morning, by ta king arsenic. Allie Millls gave as a rea son for her act, that her sister lived with a shameless woman, Mary Oglie’s reason was that she was an orphan, and Mary Jones took the drug beoause the others did. neighbors than the election of a county offloer. ,, , They never lose an opportunity for expressing the selection of ^delegates^to the i their regards for this venerable old man. The barn of J. H. Shopp, near Shire- manstown, Penn., was fired by tTamps and destroyed a fevt nights ago, with four Aldorney cows and four thousand pounds of tobdftco. The tramps, who were captured, fired the barn because they had been refused fooi. * *" 1 The busU „ ness of the laboring men 8th Congressional District Conyen- se ems .be ti i - j .r ■« *