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— (The §ruc gitizm. SjHivan Brothers. Publishers. soiiscription Rates: CijjP Copy one year - - $2 00 six monois u three months .1 00 50 P 0 S i T I V E L Y CAS H. TRUE CITIZEN. L.C. Hayse, J.T. Newbert, President. Cashier. Volume 8. Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, October 26th, 1889. Number 26. *0- Gov. Foraker is said to be rv s ick. The south will pray for his recovery on the idea of loving on( .’s enemies, and doing good to (1) . )se who despitefully use us. Ex-State Treasurer Burke has not not yet sailed from London, tj i(U !gh there is no cause for his stay . crass the waters. For him at this juncture there should be “noplace like home.” Green B. Baum, of Missouri has been appointed Tanner’s suc cessor. In a former administration lie was in the Internal Revenue department. lie was not a special favorite of the south. THE ft EURO IN OHIO. A steamer was wrecked off Turks Island during the big Sep tember gale, and the crew was for (jays in an open boat without food water. The rains furnished their scanty supply of water. The negroes in Chicago and Indianapolis on the 21st had reli gious services in which prayers wore offered up in behalf of the wronged and oppressed negroes of the south. On this day the negroes of the south were having their usu al good time, and were not even aware of these queer proceedings in their behalf. The world is full of busv bodies and deluded foojs. Iu Murray City, Ohio, a Republi can stronghold, a large placard is posted on the streets in these words: “No blacks are wanted in this place.” There was but one negro family in Murray City, and the night before t he appearance of this placard, the house in which this family lived was burned to the ground. This family had done no wrong, violated no law, demanded no rights, but they were negroes. Therefore their house was burned from over them, and after shivering all night in the cold, when the morrow’s sun dawn ed upon their blackened and char red home, they read the inscription, “No blacks are wanted in this place.” And yet these white people come to Waynesboro to teach these very blacks—but at the same time thty get their money. Oh, what good people, how disinterested! SOI JUNES. Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy died at his home in Athens on last Sun day. Mr. Phinizy had for many years occupied a prominent place in die business circles. He had large means (his property is valued at over a million) and as a director of the Georgia railroad he did much towards working its stock up to its present high valuation. His home was noted for its hospitality, and lie possessed many good traits ! which won the respect ot all who j Anew him. Up to October 21st;Savanuah cotton receipts were 63,000 bales ahead of last year. When it is re membered that nearly all the farmers are members of the alli ance, and alliancemen are holding hack their cotton, the idea at once presents inself what must the crop be? If shipment outside of the al liance run the receipts up to 63,000 bales over last year, where will cot ton go to when thejholdings of the alliance are turned lose. Hr. Jas. Camak, of Athens, is a connection of Mrs. Du Bose, of Warrenton. He has through his attorneys tiled two suits against the Atlanta Constitution, a criminal suit for libel at Warrenton, and a civil suit for damages at Atlanta - The ground of t-huf'prosecution is the letters written by Mr. Bruffey from Warrenton when he wrote up the killing of Cody by McGregor, in these letters Mrs. DuBose figured as the disturbing clement which caused the difficulty. Sam Jones talked sense when he said that the newspapers would never drive him out of the pulpit as long as the people paid him $30,000 a 3 - ear for preaching. Only a few years ago Sam didn’t even play second fiddle in Cartersville. He lived out on its little suburbs in a little old shanty. Now, the live city of Cartersville keeps time only with His movements. ITis investments and enterprises cover the whole town, and Mr. Jones is a power in the land. His money comes easy, and he spends It like a lord. He is fond of horses, and his variety and style of turnouts are startling to behold. In his stables can be found anything in the way of horseflesh, from the wee bit pairs of Shetland ponies up to his blooded high step pers, whose royal pedigrees reach away back yonder into the dim ages of horse history. Sam Jones has made his piles of money, but during the time the grass didn’t grow under his feet. He has done a sight of hard talking. His talk has reached out in every direction, and though his searching argu ments may have gone down into the pockets of his hearers and taken therefrom the “demnition cash,”yet his pleadings have also touched their consciences, and caused many a down grade foot passenger to tarry on the way, and meditate upon the wratii to come. He says that he will be able to give an ac count of bis stewardship, and ac count for every dime that lias been dropped in his contribution hat. CniCAOO ONCE A TRADING POST. It is usual in legislative bod ies for all bills to originate in the House, and for the Senate to pass upon them before they go to the executive for his approval. Our senators say that the House venti lates every question so thoroughly and so long that a very large amount of their work is unfinished business, and not ready for their action. On last Friday the Senate adjourned early in the forenoon, be cause there was no business before it. It had to wait for bills to coine up from the House. On Saturday, the House adjourned early in the forenoon, because the speaker could not get together a working quorum. Many of the members had gone home with readily procured leave of absence, while others were tak ing in the sights of the. Exposition and the pleasures of their surround ings so rapidly drawing to an end. In the meantime the people are p-aving the piper without any of the pleasures of the dance. IW Special correspondents of newspapers in their avidity to send sensational news very often jump at conclusions, and in doing so do their people serious wrong. The news as sent out a few days ago of file uncalled for lynching of a ne tt 1 ' 0 train hand at Waycross was altogether untrue, and there was the slightest foundation on which a truth loving man could have built up such a report. The negro was standing on the top of a freight car and did not pay any at tention to the “tell tale” which no- iitied bralcemen and others of the approach to the crossing of the E. T., ^ a. & Ga. road. His head coming into violent contact with the heavy '-irnbers of the crossing, he was of course instantly killed. His body Uas picked up on the track, and the inventive mind of the wide-awake correspondent at once wired that the negro had been taken from a Passenger train and lynched by (of course) unknown parties. A few days ago while in Atlanta the writer spent some time yery pleasantly listening to a conversa tion between Judge Van Higgins, of Chicago, and the wile of the best member in the lower house of the legislative assembly. This lady was the third female born in Chicago, and is to-day the oldest woman claiming Chicago for a birth place, and yet, in years or in looks, she is not old by any manner of means, for she has apparently many a year of life and activity and pleasureable anticipations spread out before her. Judge Van Higgins was also one of the old citizens of Chicago, and the two went back to the past and re vived many, to them pleasant and to myself instructive, reminiscenses. To sit and listen to one who had scarcely gone beyond the middle boundaries of life bringing up the reminiscenses of frontier life at this little outside military post, where now stands the great city of the West, forces one to put on his study ing cap and do some tall thinking. It is no fourth of July talk to say this is a wonderful, a great, an amazingly expanding country, with unlimited capacity and taking on qualifications truly wonderful to be hold. To compare the cities across the waters, whose manhood *run back away yonder into the distant centuries, to Chicago, about whom a lady now in the prime of life can talk about, when as a trading post, a speck of feeble existence away out on the distant confines of civiliza tion. With such a future of only a few years ago, and such a present of truly magnificent and comely proportions, where is the imagina tion that can picture the future? TUE DESTRUCTION OE FORESTS STILL GOES ON. As a people we live too much for the present, and are in many ways careless of the future. We care much for the the immediate effects and are indifferent as to the result in the hereafter. Even in our busi ness affairs we have adopted the convivial motto of Horace, carpe diem—get all you can out of the present. But there are some prac tices which the sober second thought of only a few minutes should induce us to abandon—and that right speedily. If the denuda tion of our forests is carried on oply for a fewyears longer the timber be but de- AI- question will become one of serious import. In two centuries as many trees have been destroyed in this country as were consumed in south ern Europe during the long period of two thousand years. Though ours is a new country, and in many sections there are uninhabited re gions, yet only sixteen per cent, of our vast territory is covered with forests. A writer whose studies and researches have made him an authority on such subjects express es the opinion that unless the de struction of trees on our hill slopes is stopped, at no distant day, the cotton states will be under the ne cessity of raising their crops by ir ngation while the locust will rav age the plains on the gulf coast. In many of the states, the land all along the mountain slopes is being denuded of trees, and the winter rains and thawing snow are wash ing away the soil. One result will surely follow, the rivers will only branches in summer, floods of overwhelming and structive freshets in spring, ready in many localities have these disastrous results taken place. To such causes can only be traced the increasing overflows and de structive freshets of the Savannah river. The intelligent nations of Europe have already realized these truths, and not only the woodmen spare the trees, but the replanting and cultivation of forests has be come u prominent branch of in dustry. The government of France owns one million acres of forest land, Germany lias thirty million acres, and in Prussia, Norway and Sweden the cultivation of forests has been carried to such an extent that the increase of timber has gone ahead of its consumption. In this respect the capitalists of Europe are showing wisdom gathered from ex perience. Every day we read of large investments ot foreign capi talists in American forests, and al ready do these rich syndicates pos sess little principalities In the va rious states of the Union. An Eng lish syndicate owns 110,000 acres in Wisconsin; an English syndicate owns 175,000 of best hard wood tim ber in Iveutucky for which they paid only $2.50per acre, and they are confident of yet realizing $100 an acre from it. One English syndi cate owns 700,000 acres in Mississip pi. Sir Edward Reed owns 2,000,000 acres in Florida, while hundreds of thousands of acres are held by these rich foreigners all over Texas, Georgia, Alabama and the Caro- linas. It would not only amaze us but furnish food lor the most sober reflection were it known how many million acres of our national do main are owned by foreign capital ists. These investment are of com paratively recent date, and from present indications only a begin ning has been made. In our own state what huge ef forts are being made to send all of our timber to market. The pine forests beneath the middle belt of Georgia are rapidly disappearing, and greedy capitalists are running their branch railroads in every di rection in search of more timber. The yellow pine of Georgia is eagerly sought after by the outside world, but the day will come when the same timber will be needed at home and the people who are now selling it for a mere song will themselves be forced to pay many times the prices they are now get ting. Georgia is not only selling off the tress on her heavily timber ed land to syndicates and foreign capitalists, but her people at home have their bump ot destruction ful ly developed and every where in things both great and small, does the process of destruction go steadi ly on. This denudation has been so unwise and improvident that on a large number of plantations in middle and upper Georgia there is a scarcity of timber even for farm purposes, and yet even amid this growingscarcity the destruction and waste would utterly dumfound the the citizen of the old world, aud the time will surely come when what we now waste would make our children comfortable. The in telligent people (and fortunately they are the ruling element) of the more densely populated states have already been forced to realize the situation, and have adopted wise precautions for staying these de structive in-roads. In every locali ty where there is thrift and intelli gence, are stock laws in force, and there is an immense saving of labor and timber, and a corresponding improvement in the productiveness of the soil and the general output of the farm. This area of intelli gence has but dawned in Georgia, and only the more intelligent and progressive counties in the middle and upper portions of the state have adopted this wise provision. The magnificent timber lands of poor old Burke county have al ready gone to waste, and on many farms productive acres lie idle bi cause of the lack of timber suitable for fencing. The intelligent farmer feels this and did it not require some effort on his part, the evil would be remedied. But the predominating element of the blaekbelt is the con trolling power, and even our repr esentatives in the legislature with all the lights before them are afraid to introduce bills when requested by the most progressive class of their constituents. The day for the stock law of Burke county will surely come. But before the eyes of the masses are opend wide enough to see the evil that is threat ening them, the trouble will have already come, and stern necessity will force them to do, what only common sense all along dictated. $|F0B 13 weeks. The New York 1111 n s t rated NEWS will be mated, se- Planters Loan % pavings Bank, 821 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA. Capital—Ail Paid in Cash, $100,000. With Stockholders liability which guaran tees absolute safety to all depositors. Thisis the oldest Savings Bank in this city With an unbroken record of nearly 20 years. It transacts a general Banking business in all of its branches, and is authorized to re ceive and disburse money, securities or prop erty in trust, and to act as finanefal agent for any person firm or corporation. tpcT" Interest allowed on deposits in the Savings Department. apr2U,’s9-by curely wrapped, to anyaddressin the United States or Canada, for three months on the receipt of One Dollar. I.iberai discounts al lowed to agents, postmasters and clubs. News agents can sell this paper freely, open ly and above board. Sample copies mailed free. Address NEW YORK ILLUSTRATED NEWS, 252 Broadway, New York City. John L. Sullivan, the terror of Fakes and Hippodromes, is the Spor iug Editor. ALEX. G. CARTER, Dealer in LIQUORS, WINES, —The sure cure for chills is Frog Fond. Sold everywhere at 50c.— see that you get the Frog, and take no substitute. Merchants with more enterprise than honor some times offer substitutes and urge they are just as good. Ask for Frog Pond and have no other. E. L. BRINSON, ATTORNE Y-:-AT-:-LA W, WAYNESBORO. GEORGIA. Will practice in all tlieCourts except the Court, of Ordinary. jani5.’SK-by o o 33 129 hH O > K3 H in 3 S- co o 2 2 » H o CD 31 CD -A CD m a w in aq cr C_l CD H ^ 2 Kcrq i—H O & ® 5 ?? CD > C CD cz CD hH Q a £ H3 32 ® CO o o 03 S£ -d P 5 " ° w „ O ? s IS PI s rrr r m 3) Q > E? S B NOW ^ Ready for Business ! MAN A_TT, The Tailor, HAS ARRIVED With an elegant line of NEW GOODS For Fall and winter, and he guarantees the best workman ship, newest styles and best fits guaranteed. Call early and make your own selection. JYUYIMA.U, “The Tailor,” Waynesboro, :: Georgia. aprl0’85tf GG ft M ◄ d5 PS <1 ft o H 4-> ll n o 03 0 - n o -d ® 3 01 § ® § r O T B &< ■ O *• g t ® « O I ", H J § H < W ft o cS •pH p H § xn CD O K P3 * < filLDERS jjVfg plLLS, Are the best for all LIVER DISORDERS, 25 Cents a box. Try them. Sold everywhere. For Sale at Wholesale by Whitehead & Co., Waynesboro, Ga. marl0,’89-by - CIGARS, and LAGER BEER. Corner ot McIntosh and Fenwick Streets, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Liquors at wholesale prices, The best whiskies always on hand and for sale. Special attention given to the JUG TRADE in Burke. Remember the best, purest, aud Liquors, Brandies, Wines, and Cigars. aug.3’89-am STOVES FOR ALL PURPOSES AND ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR Housekeeping Hardware. Fine Table Cutlery. Plated Forks and Spoons. Meat Cutters—all grades. Sausage Staffers. Self-Basting Broilers. Self-Heating Sad Irons. Practical workers in sheet metals. Estimates promptly furnished on general job work. SALESROOM: 831 Ellis St. J FACTORY: ) c SALESROOM: \ 832 Broad. AUGUSTA, GA. sep 23’tiy-km. C.G.&LW. BURGH, Dealers in Fine- V/hiskies, Cigars, Tobaccos, Etc., 1131 Broad St.. AUGUSTA, GA. We pay special attention to all orders from the country, and we would like to meet our country friends when in ttie city. Ugy- We have $1.50 Per Gallon, AND UPWARDS. Nothing in AUGUSTA can EQUAL IT! sep28,’89—am I will be at the precincts in the county for the purpose of collecting taxes as follows: FIRST ROUND. Precinct. 7:Sd Alexander Lively’s Girard McNorrill’s Store Lawtonville Birdsville, Midville Bark Camp Cross Roads 71th J. A. Green—Branches... 71st Greens’ Cut <>7th Tarver’s School House. . tioth Kilpatrick’s Cross Roads i>!lth Gough’s Store 72d SECOND ROUND. Precinct. Dist. Alexandder 63d Lively’s <UUi Girard 68th McNorrill’s Store With Lawtonville 6lst Birdsville 75th Midville 73d BarkCampCross Roads 71th Harrell’s Store 71st Greens’ Cut 07th Tarver’s School House 65th Keysville, 65th Kilpatrick’s X Roads . tiHi h Gough’s Store 72d Milieu 61st Dist. Date. 63d October 1st . Wth “ 2d . HXth “ 3d . With “ 1th . 61st “ 7th . 75tli “ 8th ilth 10th 11th llth 15th 16th 17th Date. November 1th •* 5th “ Gth 7th “ llth •• 12th •• 13th “ llth “ 15tli “ 18th •* lllth “ 20th “ 21st “ 22d 29th I will be in Waynesboro every Satur day. Please meet me promptly as the state and county needs money. G. A. WARD, T. C. B. C. sep21’89 Deter a. ^renner^ co„ 810 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. Pianos Organs and REMOVAL! * To 846 BTIOAD ST., (2d Door Below Campbell,) AUGUSTA, GA. (UP STAIRS OVER L. A. R. REAB’S.) We have seenred two strong points in the ange: First—Mitch lower rent. Second—Away above high water mark. We invite all ch want to purchase Carpets and House Furnishing Goods to call and see us, as it is our aim now, as it has been in the past, to sell GOOD GOOS AT EXCEEDINGLY LOW PRICES. We never allow misrepresentation of goods. Our stock of Velvet, Brussels and Ing -ain Carpets; China, Napier and Pine Straw Mattings—Window shades, Lace Curtains, \V iu low FOR THE FIRST TIME IH AUGUSTA, THIS GRAND OFFER. A genuine China Dinner i TEA and BREAKFAST SETI& COMBINED, 148 pieces, g 5 WORTH FULLY 846. * ^ OUR PRIOIY OF THE BEST MAKES. LOWEST FACTORY PRICES ! []£5|r’ Terms to Suit Everybody. Chickering & Sons, Mathshek, and Sterling Pianos, Mason & Hamlin’s Orga n ° s Special attention given to Tuning and Repairing. We offer elegant English Porcelain $9. $12, and Englist China Dinner Sets at $17, $29. Don’t Fail to CALL and inspect our stock. We can suit the most fastidious and unhesitat ingly pronounce our slock the largest and most select ;ever shown in Augusta or South of Baltimore. r*| l-r . WE LEAD UU I 1 OUR SPECIALTY. GLASS* Bligh’s-:-Cry stal-:-Palace! 809 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. NO GOODS < MISREPRESENTED ( REMEMBER I ALL °°^rranted. BUGH’S !*) SLIGHTS \ BLIBH’S bj sep2S,’89—am (Awarded First Premium at the Augusta National Exposition.) SEASON OF ’S8 and ’89 ! READERS OF THE CITIZEN WHO DESIRE TO SECURE SOLID, RELIABLE ancl COMFORT ABLE FITTING BOOTS AND SHOES. are respectfully and cordially invited to call and examine my stock and prices before mak ing their purchases. The quality of the goods I have sold the past three years, is my strong est claim to patronage. I was the first and only house in this city to announce that No Shoddy Goods Would be Kept ! I have kept that promise. In all the Shoes I sell, certainly some may have failed to give satisfaction. It would be astonishing if it were otherwise. I have never failed to make all claims of such kind good! I enjoy no monopoly in buying good SHOES; other dealers can buy them, it they will. The difference is tiiis—Some dealers want the profit, and don’t care what, they sell so the profit is made. I also like a fair profit on my goods: but I aiso have some pride in my business. I take pleasure in selling only good shoes. I would rattier have the credit of keeping the best shoes than that very doubtful honor of selling the cheapest. The Best is Always Cheapest! I keep the best. Another fact I wish to call attention to, tgST I EMPLOY NO DRUMMERS. jrJ I urge every one coming to the cjty to beware of these leeches. The city abounds in White and black drummers for shoe houses. I pay no percentage to drummers. The cus tomer who trades with me saves! this. HONEST GOODS, FAIR DEALING, COURTE OUS TREATMENT of all custoners. This is what I guarantee visitors. MR. PETER KEEN A N is still with me. It would be a waste of words to speak of him to the readers of THE CITIZEN. He has special charge of the Order Department. All orders by mail will receive prompt attention. A. J. GOULEY, 722 Broad St., DEALER IN RELIABLE FOOTWEAR, UGUS T , GEORGIA. Jg&jy- I sell the Goodyear Glove Co’s., Rubber Goods— 1 They are the best. made. sep.28,’89—am IEUO-^OOEELRjS Furniture Dealer, Warerooms 547, £49 aud 551 Broad treet, AUGUSTA. GA :o: I liaye the largest warerooms and carry the FINEST STOCK in my line in the city. I do only a CASU :: BUSINESS, CAN GIVE BETTER GOODS For the money than can be bought elsewhere. My stock is FULL IIST EVERY GRADE and bought at BOTTOM PRICES ! CALL and see me. sep28,’99—cm W. I. DELPH, 831 BROAD STREET : : AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Wholesale and Retail Dealer iu Cooking Stoves, Heating Stoves, Grates, W oodware, Tinware, Etc. Galvanized Sheet Iron for Evaporators, Tinplate, Sheet Iron, Solder, Etc. BUY THE NEW Poles, Cornices, Door Mats, Hearth Rugs, Crumb Cloths, Brooms, Brushes, Dusters, Ac,, is very large and complete. Wall Papers. Borders and Decorations. Our stock in Wall Pa pers is large and attractive. .Steel Kngeavings. Paintings, Chromos, Baskets, Pietura Frames, Room Mouldings, folding Screens, rubber strips for doors and windows. JAMES G. BAILIE & SON, Agts., S46 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. onto. *89—bv \ Age! SIXTEEN SIZES IN STOCK. Tbi« STOCK hat teen sold by ns for 15years giving satisfaction. We keep plain, PLAT-TOP STOVES, aug 31,'89 and also Step-Stoves, price s from $8 00 and up. Heating Stoves for Coal and Wood, all sizes and kinds. SEND FOR CIRCULARS. sepl4,’89—am ' - ■' ■ - - ■VMM — Cook Stoves. W. L DELPH, Augusta, Ga.