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HERALD AND ADVERTISER.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1887.
NO. 43.
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BY THE NEWNAN PUBLISHING CO.
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NEWNAN.
Newnan 1h the county-seat of Coweta
county. Oa., and contains a population of
8,500. It is situated on the Atlanta and West
Point Railroad, the main highway to New
Orleans from the East, and North; Ik 30 miles
from Atlanta, 4;>7 miles from New Orleans, 36
miles from Griffin arid 24 miles from Carroll
ton. The Savannah, Qrifflr. and North Ala
bama Railroad (running from Griffin to Car
rollton) intersects the Atlanta and West Point
Railroad nt this point, making it theonly Im
portant railroad junction between Atlanta
and Montgomery, Ala. The people are enter
prising, intelligent and sociable; the locality
as healthy as can be found In the South. Four
religious denominations are represented
in the community — Methodist, Baptist,
Presbyterian and Episcopalian — and six
churches furnish ample accommodations for
church-going people. One female college of
thirty-four years’standing, one male semi-
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nary and numerous private schools comprise
the educational facilities of the community.
There are now In successful operation in the
city twsnty-flve dry goods and grocery stores,
three drug stores, three millinery stores, two
hardware stores, one shoe store, two !>ook
stores, one jewelry store, two leather and har
ness shops, two livery stables, two carriage
repositories, two meat, markets, one tin and
stove store, three hotels, three restaurants,
two coal yards, one furniture store, two tailor
shops, two bakeries, several shoe shops, one
cigar and tobacco store, two barber shops, one
photograph gallery, one Job printing office,
one tin mfg. co., one real estate agency and
one newspaper. Two national banks, amply
capitalized, furnish all the accommodation
needed in the business community. Between
fifteen and twenty thousand bales of cotton
are received annually and four large brick
warehouses are required to store and handle
It. Liberal cotton buyers, representing New
YorK, Savannah and Atlanta, are in the mar
ket every season. A handsome opera house,
three stories high, with a seating capacity of
seven hundred, does duty as town hall and
theatre. Mostof the leading theatrical troupes
visit us during the fall and winter season. A
public library, comprising over a thousand
volumes, Is one of the popular institutions of
the town. A mineral spring, whose curative
properties have been thoroughly tested and
proven beneficial in hundreds of instances,
is located within a stone’s throw of the town.
The OUfeton Springs, also noted for their
health-giving virtues, are situated only six
miles distant. The mystic orders are repre
sented by three Masonic lodges and one lodge
of Odd Fellows. The various manufacturing
enterprises that contribute to the life and per
manent prosperity of the town (one of which
furnishes employment to seventy-five or one
hundred hands the year round,) may be clas
sed as follows: Wood works, foundry and ma
chine shops (known as the “R. D. Cole Man
ufacturing Co.”); one furniture factory; two
whiskey distilleries; three wagon repair
shops; one manufacturing jeweler; one ci
gar factory; one guano factory; one cotton
seed oil mill; one marble works; one tan
nery; one tin shop; one grist mill; one gun
smith shop. Between two and three hundred
skilled mechanics of all classes find constant
and remunerative employment here. The
different professions are represented as fol
lows: twenty-five lawyers, nine doctors and
three dentists. Our merchants and business
men are noted for their enterprise and liber
ality, and their several branches of trade are
as firmly established as can be found in any
town in the State. The trade of the town is
drawn from a wide territory, extending into
all the adjoining counties, and is anuually
increasing.
month. G. L. Johnson, W. M.
Secretary.
W. A. Mitchell
Nbwxas Chapter, No. 34, R. A. M.—Regu
lar Meetings 4krsf Tuesday nights in each
month. R. W. Freeman, if. P. W.A. Mitch
ell, Secretary.
Hikam Council No. 18 R. A 8. M.—Regu
lar meeting third Tuesday evening in each
month. Orlando McClendon, T. I. M.; R.
W. Freeman. Recorder.
A. J. Berk r CouxciL, No. 758, R. A.—Reg
ular meetings second and fourth Monday
nights In each month. L. R. Ray, Regent;
Daniel Swint, Secretary.
Newnan Lodge, No. 37, A- O. U. W.—Regu
lar meetings first and third Saturday nights
in each month. Geo. H. Carinical, M. W.;
Daniel Hwint, Recorder.
Coweta County Bible Socieiy.—Depos
itory at M. L. Carter & Co.’s.
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
President—J. A. Hunter.
Vick President—Orlando McClendon.
Secretary—P. S. Willcoxon.
Treasurer—H. C. Fisher.
Directors—A. B. Cates, E. M. Cole, J
Anderson, A. C. Pease.
Librarian—Miss Julia Robthson.
The Library is open on Wednesday’s and Sat
urday’s from 9:30 a. m. to 12 in., and from 7:30
to 9:30 p. ra.
S.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—W. B. Ber
erry.
Mayor pro tem—H. C. Arnnll.
Aldermen—J. J. Good rum, H. C. Araall,
K. W. Andrews, J. S. Powell.
Treasurer—R. W. Andrews.
City Clerk—L. S. Conyers.
City Attorneys—Willcoxon & Wright.
Marshal—J. E. Robinson. Deputy—J. A.
Lee.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Clkrk Superior Court—Daniel Swint.
Ordinary—W. H. Persons. Shf.ripV—
George H. Carinical. Tax Receiver—J. J.
Farmer. Tax Collector—I. N. Farmer.
Treasurer—H. L. Jones. Surveyor—J.
B. Goodwyn. Coroner—M. F. Duncan.
COUNTY COURT.
J. W. Powell, Judge; P. S. Whatley, Solid
tor. Monthly sessions—Third Monday in each
month. Quarterly sessions—Third Mondays
in January, April, July and October.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
J A Hunter, Chairman; P O Colltnsworth;
’ D Simms, J N Newell, W W Sasser, Com
missioners. R W Freeman, Clerk and At
torney. Meet first Wednesday In each month.
POST OFFICE.
Postmaster—J. R. McCollum.
Assistant Postmaster—A. H. Argo.
Office hours from 7:30 a. m. to 6 p. in,
closing the mails.
The up mail closes at 11:48 p. m. and down
mail at 2:11 p. m. Grillin mail closes at 0 a.
pi- and the Carrollton mail at 3 p. m. Office
open on Sunday from 3:20 to 4:20 p. m.
3ui>ictari).
MANUFACTURERS.
The R. D. Cole Manufacturing Compa
ny.—Established 1854; incorporated 1884.
Manufacture steam engines, boilers, saw
mills. corn-mills, power cotton presses, shaft
ing, mill gearing and castings of all kinds;
lumber, sash, doors, blinds and moulding;
house contractors and car-builders. Employ
125 hands in various departments. R. D.
Cole, Bv ,president; M. Cole, vice-president;
P. D. Cole, Jr., superintendent; M. F.Cole,
secretary arid treasurer.
The Willcoxon Manufacturing Com
pany.—(Mills located at Lodi, 6 miles west of
Newnan, on the S., G. and N. A. R. R.) Or
ganized October 12th, 18<>8. Manufacture
varus, knitting cotton, and carpet warp,
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Yearly consumption of cotton, 700 bales.
Average number of hands employed, 75.
H. J. Sargent, secretary and treasurer.
Tiie Coweta fertilizer Company.—
Manufacture several brands of high-grade
commercial fertilizers. Capacity 100 tons per
day. Employ SO hands during working sea
son. H. C. Arnail, president; J. A. Hunter,
viee-president; W. J. Driskill, superinten
dent; H. C Fisher, secretary and treasurer;
Geo. I. Jones, general agent.
Furniture Factory.—Thompson Bros,
proprietors. Established 1SG7. Manufacture
all kinds of house aud kitchen furniture.
Employ from 8 to 12 hands
Cigar Factory.—M. Salbide, proprietor.
Manufactures all grades of cigars, employing
both domestic leaf aud best clear Havana.
Wholesale and retail.
BANKS.
First National Bank.—Established 1S71.
Cauital stock, ?5u,000} surplus, $70,000. W. B.
Berrv, president; John D. Berry, vice-presi
dent; H. C. Fisher, cashier; P. B. Murphy,
assistant cashier.
COWETA CIRCUIT.
W. Harris, - -- -- -- - Judge.
H. M. Reid, ----- solicitor General.
Campbell—First Monday in February and
August.
Carroll—First Monday In April and Octo
ber.
Coweta—First Monday in March and Sep
tember.
• Douglas—Third Monday in January' and
July.
Fayette—Third Monday in March and Sep
tember.
Heard—Fourth Monday In March and Sep
tember.
Meriwether—Third Monday In February
and August.
Troup—Third Monday In April and First
Monday in November.
FBOM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
Newnan National Bank.—Organized in
1885. Cash capital, $50,000. Charles C. Parrott,
president: J. S. Bigbv, vice-president; R
W. Andrews, cashier; John S. Hollinshead,
assistant cashier.
CHURCHES.
Baptist Church—Rev. J. H. Hall, D. D.,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath at 10.30 a.
in. and 7:30 i>. in. Sunday School at 9 a. nt.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday night at 7:30
clock. Young Men’s Prayer Meeting every
Monday night.
Methodist Church—Rev. AV. R. Foote,
Pastor. Preachiue every Sunday at 10:30 a.
m. and 7:15 p. ni. Sunday School 9 a. m.
Class Meeting at 4 p. m. Ladles Prayer
Meeting every Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Young Men’s Prayer Meeting every Monday
night. Social Meeting every Wednesday
night at 7:30 o'clock.
light at7:3UO'«ocK. _ ,
The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
meets on the first Monday afternoon in each
month at the church, at 4 o’clock.
Presbyterian Church—Rev. Jas. Stacy,
D.D., Pastor. Preaching on the first and third
Sabbaths in each month at 11 a. m. and < :30
p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 9 a.
m. Prayer Meeting every Thursday night at
7:80 o’clock. Communion quarterly.
Episcopal Church.—Rev. E. Dennison,
Rector. Second Sabbath in each month, at
10:30 A. Jf.
CIVIC SOCIETIES.
Newnan Lodge, No. 102. I. O. O. F^p-T. E.
Fell, N. G.; W. E. Avery, V. G., E. S. Buc-
hannan, Mac. Sec’y; Y. H. Thomp-on, P. S.,
W. C. Snead, Treasurer. Meets every Friday
night. „ .
Ruth Rebecca Lodge. No. 12 —Meet?
•very seooRd and fourth Monday nights at
oSTrKra’ Hail. R. F. Milner, N. G.;
W. E. Avery, Beo’y.
Obion Encampment, No. ^-A^Cates,
p.; i. H. Thompson* H. P. f R* *• mliner,
8 toweta Lodge,No. 80, F. A A. M.—Regular
Meetings 2nd and 4th Tuesday nights in each
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Grantville.
Mr. Editor:—The sound of hammer
and saw is heard about the buildings of
the “Grantville Ginning and Manufac
turing Company.” Repairs are being
made upon the ginnery, new gins will
soon be put in place, and ere long the
hum of the gins, accompanied by the
whirr of presses and mill-rocks, will
greet the ears of passers-by. This com
pany was very fortunate in securing so
desirable a location as our town affords,
for they will have one of the best sec
tions of the county to support their en
terprise, and an area not confined to a
narrow limit. If the territory over
which they will have almost undisput
ed sway be taken into consideration, in
addition to the character of the men
who are at the helm, there can be no
wonder at the fact that the stock of the
company is already above par.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Sadler left
Thursday morning on an extended tour
through the Northwest.
Mr. Willie A. Speer, of Atlanta, is
here on a visit to relatives.
Mr. P. O. Collinsworth and “Dixie”
White are attending the reunion at
Bailey’s Springs to-day, (Thursday.)
Mrs. Wliite and children, of West
Point, have been visiting relatives here
for several days. They left on the
cannon ball” Thursday morning.
Garrett & Zellars are having a neat
little three-room cottage erected on
the vacant lot in the rear of their store
on Corinth street, and it will he for
rent.
Master Marvin Banks has a sheep
which he lias well trained to harness.
Sometimes he rides it over town, to the
delight of the small hoy.
Mr. N. O. Banks, accompanied by liis
wife and children, left last Monday for
Spartanburg, S. C* to visit the mother
of Mrs. Banks.
Mrs. Bullock and two children, of
Columbus, are here for the summer. To
escape the beat and dust of a city and
to enjoy pure air, good water and a
liealthly, climate a more desirable
place than our quiet little village would
he hard to find. We have a commodi
ous hotel for the reception of visitors,
and “ye host and hostess” would look
well to the comfort of all who desire to
spend the “heated term” in a pleasant
locality. Auden.
Aug. 4th.
tutional questions — betterments and
worsements, and things not divine.
We did not get any rain Monday last,
hut Tuesday morning the clouds were
in a working, mixing, twisting way, and
looking watery.
Nearly everybody have colds.
I have a fine music class at Macedo
nia. It sounds like a convention.
Mr. James Bird and another gentle
man from Heard county passed through
this vicinity last Monday in pursuit of
a negro thief who had stolen a shot-gun.
Nothing but shot-guns will stop this
stealing business. Chain-gangs are only
feeders to the great institution of steal
ing.
An old lady wants to know what Joe
Brown’s betterments are, and says if
they make churning easier she wants
one, for it takes her a long time to get
the butter after the old way of churn
ing.
Revs. Mr. Allen and J. C. Sewell are
conducting a protracted meeting at New
Lebanon.
I learn that A. J. and J. C. Sewell
will make four thousand bushels of com
this year. Our people are calculating
on buying it at twenty-five cents per
bushel. Ripples.
August 3d.
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PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!
AND BUY YOUR
CIGARS
M. SALBIDE.
MANUFACTURER OF
FINE HAVANA CIGARS.
SMOKE THE “NEWNAN GIRL”
CIGAR.
This Cigar is better than many and equal
to the best 10c. Cigar sold. It Is manufactur
ed from the best imported Havana tobacco,
and I guarantee it to be free from all artificial
and poisonous flavors so dangerous to the
smoker. It is
THE BEST!
THE BEST!
THE BEST.
This is everybody’s verdict. Retail price
only 5c. For sale at my store, and also by
Messrs. Orr, Kirby A Co., Greenville street.
My “Two-font” oan’t be beat. They are bet
ter than your hifalu tin’, drugged-to-death 5-
centers.
My clear Havana Cigars are as good as the
beet Imported, and can be had for leee than
half the money.
Will manufacture cigars to order, any de
scription and In any quantity.
Call oa or address M. SAL&IDE, Cigar Man-
ofteeturer. Opera Boose baUdlng, Newman, On.
Panther Creek.
Mr. Editor:—I am at home again, but
can only remain two or three days.
Everything is wet and getting wetter.
Corn blown down, cotton twisted until
many of the feeding roots are tom
loose. Potatoes are getting so large
that the ground is cracking open; tur
nip patches are fine; watermelons sour
ing on the vines; children have the itch
and old folks the backache, while some
complain of vertigo and won’t go. The
creeks and rivers are full to overflowing.
Corn and other crops on bottom lands
are badly damaged, and it looks now as
if it was going to rain forty days and
forty nights aud then clear off showery.
Hard time on visitors and big meeting
folks.
Lots of fellows and tlieir folks are go
ing to see their wives’ people here, yon
der and everywhere that I have been. I
meet them on the highways in wagons,
in buggies, and on the cars. I noticed
a happy couple on the cars the other
day, or I guess so, judging from the
amount of “smacking” done hi a short
run of twenty miles. Any one would
think they were hungry or greedy for
kisses. I have never admired this pub
lic kissing business: the “smacks” have
to be too short. I like long “smacks.”
Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Hyde’s little son,
Albert, is quite sick with fever. A. B.
Hyde’s little daughter is better; so also
is the child of J. C. Sewell.
About ten or twelve days ago a rabid
dog passed through this vicinity and
bit two of Mr. Llewellyn Smith’s dogs.
Mr. Smith put up his dogs and is now
awaiting developments. They are fine
fox dogs, and it would he a pity should
they develop rabies.
Stealing is getting quite common. A
few nights ago some one broke into Mr.
James Alsabrook’s meat house and stole
all the meat he had; and then they
broke into our cook-room, but were dis
covered before they had made any haul.
Mr. J. A. Hyde’s smoke-house was bro
ken into and robbed of a fine ham and
some other meat. Chickens are going
off half a dozen a night; com fields are
being robbed of roasting ears; and on
last Sunday morning one negro stole a
buggy from another negro.
The Chattahoochee is very high, and
much of the crops are under water. I
understand that Col. G. H. Sanders says
Roscoe.
Mr. Editor:—Last Wednesday eve
ning the rain began to fall, coming from
the northeast, and it continued to rain
almost incessantly until yesterday
morning. The Chattahoochee river and
Cedar creek have been higher than since
the April freshet of last year. The dam
age done to the crops along the water
courses, especially the river, is almost
incalculable. A great deal of the cotton
has been flooded, and is now covered
with mud. The old planters who have
been living on the river for a long time
say that the cotton will die. They also
think that the corn is ruined, especially
that which was in full roasting ear, for
a great deal of that lias already soured.
The farmers are all very gloomy and
low-spirited over the prospect, hut we
hope the losses are not so had as appear
ances indicate. Such a freshet at this
season of the year is quite unusual. The
river is not in the banks yet, hut it took
the second rise yesterday and rose twoL
or three feet during the day and night.
Mr. James Stan* and his daughter,
Mr. Louis Starr and his grandson, Mr.
Lee Osburn, of Franklin county, Geor
gia, and Dr. Orange Starr and wife, of
the Fourth District, are all visiting rela
tives in Roscoe.
Andrew J. Sewell, Esq., went over to
Camdlton last Monday to superintend
the selling of some property belonging
to his father’s estate.
Mr. William Roberts wears a broad
smile and does not realize that times
are gloomy. It is a girl.
Mrs. J. E. Long lias quite a peculiar
rising on one of her fingers which pains
her very much.
Rev. Mr. Allen preached an interest
ing sermon at Roscoe last Sunday night
from the subject, “Be contented with
your lot.”
The meeting at New Lebanon is being
protracted this week. A good meeting
is in progress. Oracle.
August 3d.
It was a fine tribute to a worthy man.
Mr. Cole joined this church during the
great revival of 1847 and soon after was
made one of its deacons, and has always
been considered by the church as one
of its best and staunchest friends. His
emotions could not be repressed when
he spoke of former days and his con
nection with the church. Where are the
sixty-six others that joined with him at
that memorable revival ? Three are still
members of this church, but a very
large majority have received their “let
tors of credit” and gone to that gener
al meeting “beyond the river.” Rev
H. S. Rees and Rev. V. A. Ham did
the preaching at the general meeting,
August 3d. S
White Oak.
Mr. Editor :—The rains have done
great deal of damage to cotton and
com. That on bottom land is nearly
ruined. The Gordon bridge has been
washed away and several others seri
ously damaged. White Oak was as
high as ever before known, if not high
er. The fanners generally have about
one week’s more work to do before
they are done with their crops.
Mr. Jim Benton has taken unto him
self a better half. We have been una
ble to obtain the name of the fortunate
bride.
Mr. Frank Martin, who is now on a
visit to our community, lost his mule
the day that he an-ived.
Boh Whatley killed a rattlesnake the
other day.
Your correspondent witnessed a lu
nar rainbow in the summer of 1884, be
tween 10 and 11 o’clock at night.
Mr. Henry Dominick is moving hack
to his home in the Second district.
Rev. J. L. Hemphill’s school has clos
ed until fall.
Our 5th sergeant will be at the reun
ion of old Company A next Thursday.
Am going over to draw my rations.
About sixty persons attended the
singing at Pleasant Grove last Sunday,
about twenty of whom joined in the
exercises. The singing was very good,
except one slight discord, resulting
from the neglect of the composers to.
set tlieir music so as to chord with the
conversation that is generally carried
on as an accompaniment to the exerci
ses. A.person who undertakes to write
music should be able to adjust his har
mony to suit all occasions.
August 3d. Splinters.
SECOND ANNUAL MEETING
Sixth District.
Mr. Editor:—One of your correspond
ents writes such exquisite letters about
the weather that it really looks like
intruding for any one else to mention
the subject; hut we have had such an
abundance of weather the last fort
night that she will no doubt forgive
this, the first trespass, upon her do
main and let some one else startle your
readers w * . the unexpected announce
ment that it has rained. For four daj’S
and nights it fell, alternately, in those
“gentle, refreshing showers,” and “in
torrents,” and every other way, until
the weak-minded became alarmed and
thought it would never stop until we
had another one of Noah’s showers. It
was a big rain. Our venerable friend,
Sim Whatley, says he does not remem
ber to have seen such a September gale
in July before, and he has never seen
as much rainfall since the “Harrison
freshet,” away hack in the 40’s. The
lands are badly washed; corn is blown
down, and much of it will be lost; but
many of the best farmers say the cotton
is not injured. It is had enough, hut
could have been much worse. For in
stance, suppose the extremely hot
weather had continued to the present!
Altogether, we have good reason to be
thankful. The crops are still as good
as the land can produce.
The general meeting of the Fourth
District met at Ebenezer church last
Friday. Rev. A. D. Freeman preached
he is damaged one thousand dollars by i the introductory sermon and R. D.
the overflow. The crops of J. P. Jones
and Dolphin Cox are covered with wa
ter. J. C., A. J. and Harvey Sewpll are
sufferers from the freshet, and others
up and down the creeks and river. It
is better to he rained out than burned
out; it will all be right a hundred years
hence.
As my territory has been
Cole, Sr., was elected moderator. The
delegates from several churches failed
to get there on account of the bad
roads and extremely rainy weather;
but quite a number showed their disre
gard of the sprinkling and pouring pro.
cess, and our delegation came very
Of the Confederate Veterans’ Associa
tion of Coweta County.
Pursuant to adjournment the Confed
erate Veterans’ Association of Coweta
county met in the Court-house last
Tuesday, at 11 o’clock, A. ar.
Major J. P. Brewster, President of
the Association, occupied the chair.
The minutes of the meeting of 1880
were read by the Secretary.
The Chaplain, Rev. C. W. Carter, be
ing absent, Rev. W. R. Foote opened the
exercises with prayer
Hon. Hugh Buchanan, the orator of
the day, was then-introduced, who ad
dressed the Association. The address
was one of the happiest efforts that has
ever been.credited to this distinguished
gentleman, and was listened to with
closest attention by the large crowd as
sembled. His speech was mainly ex
temporaneous and delivered with all
the fervor and eloquence characteristic
of the natural orator. While he paid
reverential tribute to the hallowed
past, he discarded the time-worn plati
tudes that speakers usually drop into
on such occasions and addressed him
self to some of the living issues of the
day. Said he: “I am not here to talk
of the leaden hale, the hardships of tin*
march, the sufferings of the hospital, or
the numerous privations incident to
the life of the soldier; for the gallant
veterans assembled here to-day are all
familiar with these things. Whatever
vituperation the Republican politicians
of the North have hurled at the South
from time to time, not one has ever had
the temerity to charge the Confederate
arms with cowardice. Their military
achievements have been glorified in
song and story, and tlieir heroism is en
shrined in the colder but more enduring
pathos of history’.
“The South was, before the war, the
most prosperous country on earth. I
had rather have been a Southern plan
ter then than wear the crown of a king.
The Southern home was the ideal abode
of refinement, culture and content ment,
and existence was a delight. But dis
sensions came and grievous issues were
injected into our politics that resulted
in one of the most sanguinary wars of
which the modem world has any record.
For four years the South stood up va
liantly in defense of the principles of
State’s rights and governmental free
dom, contending against odds that
would have crushed and annihilated a
less heroic people; and yet when the
conflict was ended and, more in despair
than defeat the Southern arms were
grounded, the principles for which we
near being rebaptized by plunging into
a swollen stream. No better selection fought were as strongly implanted as
scribed I shall have to write on consti- ' could have been made for moderator, when the first note of war sent its defi
ant echoes quivering and trembling over
the land. As there had to he a war, 1
am glad I was in it, and up to this good
hour I have never had cause to regret
the part that I took in it.” The speak
er here compared - the strength of the
opposing armies, showing that the
South was vastly inferior both as to
numbers and equipment. He said there
were seventy-three Federal cemeteries
only twelve of which are located in the
North, and in all tihese cemeteries there
are to-day 303,000 graves or a dead
among the enemyihalf as great as the
Southern army. .Aside from this un
known dead theroare almost an equal
number whose graves are unknown,
making a total dead even greater in
number than the. entire army of the
Confederacy. “These figures provoke
a glorious sadness,” said he. “It cost
the North $6,500,000,000 in money to
overcome the South, or $1,000,000,000 in
money for each 100,000 Confederates
engaged in the war. As a result of our
slaughter the National Government is
now pensioning five hundred thousand
maimed Federal soldiers, and widows
and orphans of deceased Federals.
Latter-day politicians and so-called
patriots tell you of a ‘New South’, and
they malign and insult you with th »
term. They would have the ‘New
South’to he like the ‘Old North,’ arr:
to me such a South is not desirable.
Give me the Old -South, pure and unde-
tiled, and I could ask no greater boon.”
The speaker here adverted to the sub
ject of the tariff and made a telling ar
gument against ithe fallacy of protec
tion. He said tlte object of some of our
leading Southern newspapers in advo
cating protection—notably the Atlant
Constitution and Macon Telegraph—is
to build up large manufacturing cities
at the expense of the small towns and
the agricultural Jiamlets. He would
advise the people of the .South not to
he seduced hv such talk, because one of
the inevitable results will be to divide
the Democratic party and create con
fusion and discowl where all is now
peace and harmony. He wanted a Sol
id South above all things, because tin-
prosperity of our section depended uj -
on it—socially, politically and commei-
cially.
He continued in-this happy strain fo»-
thirty minutes or-more, during which
time the delight of his audience varied
only from earnest enjoyment to enthu
siastic applause. At its conclusion the
Association voted its thanks to the
speaker.
On motion, Hob. P. F. Smith was
chosen as the speaker for the next an
nual reunion. Hon. P. H. Brewster
was chosen alternate.
On motion of P. iH. Brewster a com
mittee of three from each militia dis
trict and five from the town distric'
were appointed to co-operate with other
committees of veterans in the county
in providing entertainment for visiting
veterans in Newnaai on July 21st, 1888.
The committee, asiappointed, is as foi- ’
lows:
First district—M. II. Couch, Labe
Freeman, AV. T. Amall.
Second district—H. AV. Camp, J. D.
Arnold, S. L. AVhatley.
Third district—J. D. Sims, AA r . H.
Beavers, AV. S. Askew.
Fourth district—\V. F. Summers, A.
. Brown, AA r . AV. Thomas.
Fifth district—Y. II. Thompson, Dai,-
iel Swint, A. D. Freeman, P. II. Brew
ster, L. R. Ray.
Sixth district—J. B. Goodwyn, T. B.
Parks, H. A. North.
Seventh district—G. E. Cranford, AA\
II. Steed, J. C. Mixon.
Hurricane district—J. AV. Anderson,
J. H. Summers, T. AA\ Saxon.
Panther Creek district—Yan Allen,
J. M. Boon, J. P. Beese.
Cedar Creek district—J. M. Glass, J.
N. Sewell, AV. M. Redwhie.
Turin district—R. B. Perkins, C. J.
Harris, John Strickland.
Grantville district—P. O. Collins
worth, M. S. Smith, Dr. J. M. Stalling-.
Haralson district—Dr. P. Taylor, Ho-
sea Gray, J. J. Herndon.
• On motion, the Association decided
to have a barbecue on the 21st of July,
188S.
The Association then adjourned, sub
ject to the call of the President.
J. P. Brewster, President, Louis F.
Anderson, Secretary, and Jos. S. Nall,
Assistant Secretary, were continued in
office.
Attempted Suicide.
An attempt at suicide was made last
week at the residence of Henry Na
tions, who lives four miles north of
Carrollton, by Airs. AVashington, from
Coweta county. Mrs. Washington is of
unsound mind, and her husband had
brought her over on a visit, thinking
the change might he beneficial to her.
On Friday morning, just before dav.
missing her from the bed, he went to
the back porch, when he noticed a
white object on the well. Thinking it
was his missing wife, he made for the
well, but before he could get there
she jumped in. He then went down
and attempted to rescue her, but was
unable to ao so by himself, when Hen
ry Nations, AV. G. McKenzie, Henry
Sharp and others came to his assistance
and succeeded in getting her out. If
was some three-quarters of an hour
from the time she jumped into the well
until she was rescued. The strangest
part of the whole affair is that she wa*
not hurt at all, although the well i«
some thirty feet deep.—Carrollton
Times.
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