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Newnan, Ga., Friday, November 2, 1888.
WEEKLY CIRCULATION, J.750.
JA8. E. BROWN, EDITOR.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT :
GROVER CLEVELAND,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT :
ALLEN G. THURMAN,
OF OHIO.
FOR ELECTORS AT LARGE:
Thomas E. Watson, of McDuffie.
John T. Graves, of Floyd.
for district electors:
1. James A. Brannen, of Emanuel.
2. Augustus L. .Hawes, of Decatur.
3. Thos, B. Felder, Jr., of Laurens.
4. James M. Mobley, of Harris.
5. James A. Gray, of Fulton.
0. RobleyD. Smith, of Crawford.
7. McConnell L. Johnson, of Bartow.
8. John T. Jordan, of Hancock.
9. Howard W. Newman, of Cherokee.
10. E. Howard Calloway, of Burke.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE FIFTY-
FIRST CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE FOURTH CON
GRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF
GEORGIA:
THOMAS W. GRIMES,
OF MUSCOGEE.
exchange, the capital stock of which ;
has been fixed at $1,000,000. The ex- j
change will begin operations as soon as ,
$50,000 in cash has been paid in. There ;
are fourteen hundred and forty-three
Alliances now in Georgia, with a mem
bership of sixty thousand. The meet
ing adjourned to assemble on the 1st of
February next, place not yet designa
ted. -
THte trial of Geo. H. Eddleman for
the killing of Thos. Gresham, which
commenced in Fulton Superior Court
last week, has resulted in a verdict of
acquittal. There is great indignation
among the friends of the murdered
man, and this feeling found vent on
Monday night at a public meeting, at
which the jurors engaged in the case
were denounced in very severe terms,
their verdict being openly character-
izeed as a disgrace to Fulton county.
On Tuesday night the crowd met again
in front of the Court-house and burned
the twelve jurors in effigy. Eddleman
has left the city. \
Don’t forget that Hon. Thos. W.
Grimes, the Democratic nominee for
Congress, has opposition in the person
of a stalwart Republican, and that the
Republican candidate’s friends are ac
tively at work. Go to the polls next
Tuesday and vote.
Do not fail to vote next Tuesday. We
are in the majority only when we turn
out and vote, and carelessness or indif
ference on our part may easily result in
having the scales turned against us.
More Houses Needed.
Never in the history of the town has
there been such a demand for houses
in Newnan, or so few that can be
had, as now. Property is appreciating
in value every day. Houses regarded
heretofore as being neither rentable ox-
saleable, are now in demand at almost
any price the owners may stipulate.
Within our own knowledge, several that
have remained vacant for months at a
time are now occupied by good tenants
—people who have come in during the
past twelve months. Many others
would come if they could obtain hous
es. A dozen different parties have been
in the city this week in quest of houses,
and numerous inquiries have been re
ceived by letter from various points.
There are at present scarcely half a
' dozen vacant residences in the city, and
they will be occupied befoi’e January
1st. And then?
This is a serious question for proper-
t y owners and capitalists to consider—
those, at least, who have the welfare
and prosperity of the town heart—and
one to which they should address them
selves without delay. There is no dis
guising the fact that Newnan is on a
boom—not of therazzle, dazzle, ephem
eral sort that so frequently emanate
from enterprising real estate offices—
but a genuine, active, substantial boom.
New houses are going up constantly,
but not fast enough to supply ihe de
mand. Others are needed, and needed
at once. Judging from the number of
inquiries and applications that have
been received within the past few days*
there is little doubt that tenants could
be found for at least twenty-five new
residences befoi-e Christmas.
Here is an opportunity for the New-
uan Land Company, and for private
real estate owners as well, which they
cannot afford to ignore. Those owning
land should either improve it, or dis
pose of it upon such terms as will in
duce others to do so. It is an emergen
cy that affects not only the present
welfare, but the future growth and
prosperity of Newnan, and one that
must be met.
The State Fair will open in Macon
next Monday. Fine exhibits wall be
made in all the departments and the
fair promises to be a success in eveiy
particular.
The President has designated Thurs
day, November 29th, as a day of thanks
giving and prayer throughout the Uni-
ted States.
Several Republican emissaries have
been in Newnan and vicinity the past
week, presumably in the interest of
the Republican candidate for Con
gress. Three white men were here last
Saturday, and contrived to get howling
drunk before they left. One of the men
was understood to be the correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette,
and during his stay was in close commu
nication with some of the leading color
ed Republicans of the community.
Grant, the maroon-tinted statesman
from Griffin, has been in town this week
also, trying to incite the colored voters
to greater activity in the coming con
test, with wlxat effect will probably be
made known on the 6th inst. Every
Democrat in the co; nty should turn
out next Tuesday and vote. The ne
groes can organize in a night’s time—
indeed, they may be already organized
—and in a contest with this element
we are never safe until the last Demo
cratic vote has been polled and the vic
tory announced. Be sure to vote.
The Democratic outlook brightens
all along the line. Victory will surely
be ours if we but do our duty, and what
that duty is should be clear to every
Democrat worthy of the name. Cleve
land has made the best President the
country, has had since the war. Thur
man has done valiant service for his
party for half a century. Grimes has
won and received the unqualified in
dorsement of his party and deserves to
be returned to his seat in Congress.
Then let every Democrat in Coweta
county go to the polls next Tuesday
and cast his vote for Cleveland, Thur
man, Grimes, and tai'iff refox*m.
The county trustees of the State Al
liance exchange met in Macon last
week and elected officers and directors
for tly3 ensuing year. No place has yet
been selected at which to establish the
Communicated.
“Ripples” Replies.
“Farmer” insists on my showing one
item of crookedness in the Department
of Agriculture. The act of the Legisla
ture of 1S74, creating the Department
of Agriculture, provided that the Com
missioner should have but one clerk,
and said clerk’s salary was fixed at
$1,200 per annum;—yet Commissioner
Henderson, in violation of that statute,
employs three extra pei*sons, two of
whom are clerks. One receives a sala
ry of $1,200, and the other $1,700 per
annum. He employs R. J. Redding as
assistant Commissioner at a salary of
$1,700. The act never authorized the
employment of an assistant commission
er. The Legislature fixed the salary of
the clerk of the Commissioner at $1,200;
yet Mr. Henderson, in his extrava
gance, employs two sub-clerks and pays
them a higher salary than was author
ized by the Legislature. Now, by what
authority did Commissioner Hender
son employ these extra clerks, and
what warrant has he for paying sala
ries not contemplated by the act crea
ting his office ?
I always thought the head clerk of
any business department received the
highest salary, but this is an exception
to the rule. We find that Col. J. S.
Newman, editing elerk of the Depai-t-
ment of Agriculture, received $1,700
from the State of Georgia, and at the
same time (according to J. T. Hender
son’s sworn statement) he was getting
from the State of Alabama, as chair
man or president of the Agricultural
College, a salary of $2,500. (See page
25, proceedings of joint committee ap
pointed to investigate the Agricultural
Department, Ju)y 20, 1SS3.)
I hope when “Farmer” looks at the
above that he will then turn back to
page 19 of same report and see if his
friend, Jack Henderson, did not swear
that if Newman got any compensation
or salary from any other source he did
not know it. This question was put to
J. T. Henderson by the committee:
Question—“Does he (Newman) re
ceive any pay or salary from any other
source ?”
Answer—“I do not know.”
I can’t reconcile Henderson’s sworn
statements. I hope “Farmer” can.
Henderson swears that if Newman got
any pay other than the $1,700 he did
not know it. Then he swears that New
man is getting $2,500 from the State of
Alabama for filling a chair in the Agri
cultural College of Alabama.
Here is another question that the
committee asked Mr. Henderson, (page
19 of same report:)
Question—“I suppose that his duties
here require that his whole time be em
ployed ?”
Answer—“Yes, sir, during the whole
of the office hours. Office hours are
from S A. M. to 12 m., and from 2 p. m.
to 5 p. M.”
Now, I ask, was it legal and right for
the Commissioner to employ a citizen
of another State as clerk in his depart
ment, who was drawing a salary from
his own State? Are there not plen
ty men in Georgia qualified to do the
work performed by Newman? If not,
our old State is in a bad fix. Almost
any farmer could write up a cotton
manual, poultry manual, or crop report.
Let us examine the l’ecord a little
farther and see if one W. B. Henderson
doesn’t get a salary besides the com
missions allowed him by Commissioner
Henderson. (See reports of 1881-2-3.)
Any one that has ever passed along in
front of the Capitol in Atlanta wili re-
• member that a certain glass jar stood in
j one of the windows of the Agricultural
Department with a few fish in it. It
appears that W. B. Hendeison, a salar
ied clerk of the department, received
as high as $18 per month for feeding
said fish, and there were other men and
boys employed to handle the same.
With such pampering I should not be
surprised if those fish were as large by
this time as the one in which Jonah
took passage when he went as a mission
ary to preach to the Ninevites—that is,
if W. B. Henderson continues to feed
them.
Another illegal step taken by Jack
Henderson—(I call him Jack because
his friend calls him Jack,)—was that
he misapplied $150 of the people’s mon
ey for a patent right to Jack Warner’s
worm-killer—an old machine that War
ner brought to the Exposition from
Texas. Warner got the $150, and the
State of Geor.ia has never seen him
from that day to this, nor one of the
machines. I think the way the machine
operated was something like this: The
worms had to be caught and put into
the machine, when the crank was turn
ed and the worms were slaughtered*
(See contract between Jack Henderson
and Jack Warner, page 269 of the white
washing report of the joint committee
of Senate and House, 1881.)
“Farmer” has much to say concern
ing the supposed benefits to be derived
from the inspection of guano, and thinks
they should not have th • right to plead
failure of consideration. In my next I
will show up some of the irregularities of
this inspection business. It appears from
the sworn evidence that the following
named inspectors fell short of tags ana
could not account for the shortage only
by shifting the responsibility on the
poor printer. Inspector O. T. Roberts
was short 1,220 tags; Inspector W. P.
Harden w r as short 1,490 tags; Inspector
Samuel Hawkins was short 1,990 tags;
Inspector W. H. Howell was short
24,365 tags; Inspector E. L. Thom
as was short 1,494 tags. These
shortages are for the years 1882-3. The
joint committee charged Commissioner
Henderson with gross carelessness and
dereliction of duty in not counting the
guano tags as he received them from
the printer. He holds the inspectors
responsible for neglect of duty, when
he alone is chargeable with official re-
missness, and makes them pay Jive cents
for each tag lost. The tags, as every
one knows, are worth fifty cents each.
Henderson says himself that he accepts
the printers’ couutas being correct, arid
never verifies it. For his neglect of
duty the inspectors had to pay out of
their own pockets, at one time, $1,255.-
15.
I say, let the people have the election
of a Commissioner and they will be sure
to choose a man who will attend to the
duties of the office.
More anon. Ripples.
Panther Creek.
Mr. Editor:—In speaking of the differ
ent stores in operation in this district
last week I unintentionally neglected
to mention Mi*. A. J. Sewell’s stoi*e,
which I regret. Mr. Sewell is doing a
good business, and a cleverer or more
obliging merchant cannot be found in
the State. He sells goods as low as the
lowest.
Mr. D. P. Power has traded his inter
est in the Sewell mills to Mr. Jacobus
Petty for i*eal estate, amounting to three
or lour hundred acres, in Panther Creek
district.
A difficulty occun*ed last week at a
x*oad-working, on tlie third section of
the public road leading from Newnan
to Roseoe, between Ed Powell and
Minor Garrison—both colored. Garri
son received' a painful stab in the back,
and at the same time some one strnck
him in the small of the back with a hoe.
Garrison is laid up, though I learn is
doing very well. He is an old man,
while Powell is a younger and much
stouter man. The trouble had its origin
in a joke.
The death of Mi*. John Lester is deep
ly deplored in this community, where
he was highly esteemed. He was a
young man of generous impulses and
noble character.
Mr, J. L. Doster is smiling because
his first born is a son.
We have had an abundance of rain,
which has checked the opening of cot
ton.
The quarterly meeting for the North
Coweta circuit will convene at Jones’
Chapel on Monday, November 5th. It
is understood that Presiding Elder
Pierce will be in attendance.
We are glad to learn that Judge R.
L. Richards, of Cari*oll, who was strick
en with paralysis last week, is improv
ing. We hope he will soon be restored
to his accustomed health.
Our aged father visited us this week.
He is now 87 years of age.
Candidates and winter pinks are
blooming.
I don’t think one fat ’possum ought
to have all the ripe persimmons.
Stealing is almost of nightly occur
rence in the county now. Mr. L. M.
Carter caught a negro by the name of
Buchanan Mays in his corn-crib last
Sunday night. Bhck tried to compro
mise with Mr. Cartel*, failing in which
he did the next best thing that could
have been done for the community—
f. e., skipped for parts unknown.
No sickness in this vicinity at present,
so far as I know. Everybody’s hearty
and feeling good. Ripples.
Oct. 30tn.
ROCK
BOTTOM
PRICES!
ELEGANT
LINE OF
CLOTHING
NOW IN STOCK!
FULL LINE LADIES’ AND GENTS’
UNDERWEAR!
NEW AND STYLISH STOCK OF
HATS AND CAPS
GORGEOUS ASSORTMENT OF
NECKWEAR!
Checks at 7c.
Sheeting at 6\c.
Shirting at 5^0.
ALL-WOOL JEANS, 30c.
Most complete line of
SHOES
in town, all grades—Gents’,
Ladies’, Misses’ and
Children’s !
A GOOD BROGAN
for $1.15, and other grades
proportionately cheap !
A Job Lot of
AXES,
at 50 and 75 cents ! Former
price, 90c. and $1.
Acknowledgements.
The following named parties have
settled their subscription dues to The
Herald and Advertiser for the
three weeks ending Thursday, Novem
ber 1st, which we hereby acknowledge
with thanks.*
T. A. Atkinson, $1.50; John House-
worth, $1.50; J. M. Brittain, $1.50; D.
W. Broadwater, $1.50; F. M. Dennis,
$1.75; T. J. Young, $4.50; S. W. Woods,
$1.50; A, B. Brown, $1.50; R. A. Brown,
$1.50; Wm. Newman, $1.50; W. H. Dan
iel, $2; F. B. Chandler, $1.50; S. C. Bow
en, 75c.; J. T. Currans, $1.50; J. H.
Hindsman, $1.50; John Dukes, $1.50; C.
B. Cotton, $1.50; R. L. Smith, $1.50; J.
D. Carmical, $3; T. D. Haines, $1.50;
N. S. Hyde, $1; A. S. Carmical, $1.50;
C. H. Killian. $1.50; E. D. Haines,$1.50;
Wm. McCombs, $1; W. F. Culpepper,
$1.50: Thos. Leigh, $1.50; Miss Jimmie
Harris, 40c. ;C. P. Edmondson, $1.50; R.
N. Moses, $3; Fuller & Norris, $3; R.
B. Perkins, $1.50; L. J. McLane, $1.50;
W. J. Hardy, $1.50; Mrs. C. A. Dennis,
$3; B. II. Wright, $1.50; J. F. Sponcler,
$1.50; T. S. Persons, $1.50; P. F. Smith, j
$4.50; E. C. Cureton, $1; S. S. Wells, I
$1.50; Fred Hunter, $1.50; Isaac Car- j
l’ington, $1.50; D. IT. Brown, $1.50; J. j
W. Young, $1.50; Mrs. J. D. Stafford, « tttt t
75c.: M. W. Barber, $1; Jesse Addy, . WEPPI ;\l(j Rj ^iLL
j $1.50; H. D. Haynes, $1.50. ilA.LilVIAi-.'lvJ ot uiu.
^Tull stock of GROCER
IES! Flour, Sugar, Coffee,
and everything in the srocery
line, CHEAP !
clothing
our stock of Gent?’,
in and comprises all the new F has never bJ
rics. A handsomer assortment of dotting them ^ ^
displayed on our counter^ a d ready-made Clothi
that will astonish you. A suit 01. g d to se ll then?
for $5 seems incredible, but we ar P p^ fine Dre ss ^
this figure, and all the way up t0 $3 * L quality.’
cannot be matched in the city, either m style or q y ^
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BOOTS and
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Fifty cases of the celebrated Bay State Bocits just receiv
including every style and quality, from the heavy
the finest French calf. A large assortment of Boys
all sizes. We make a specialty of Boots, and guarantee eve
pair sold. , |
We are also headquarters for Ladies’ and Gents fine Shoe
and recognize no competitor in this market. Our stock ei
braces everything that could be desired in this line. t
assortment of Children’s and Misses’ School Shoes, diffeFf*
styles and qualities.
Remember, the “Bay State” Boots and Shoes are the
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HATS AND CAPS'
We have the largest and handsomest stock of Hats.
Caps in the city, and are offering them at prices that defy
competition. Prices range from 25c. for a good Wool Hat.
to $4 for the finest Felt. Caps in great variety.
HARDAWAY & HUNTER.
T. E. FELL & CO.
NEWNAN, GA., October 26, 188S.
The Hunting Season is now upon us, and there is no
sport more exciting, exhilarating, or healthful. We are pre
pared to furnish anything in this line—Breech-Loading Dou
ble Guns, Muzzle-Load Guns, Single Guns, Repeating and
Sporting Rifles, Winchester Repeating Rifles, Octagon bar
rels, 26 in., at prices that are not duplicated this side of Balti
more. We have the best $15.00 Breech-Loading Gun ever
offered in this market; former price $20.00. Machine-loaded
shells, any gauge, at reduced prices. Hunting equipments,
Gun Cases, Coats, Flasks, Belts, Loading equipments, etc.
It sounds stiange to those not posted to hear retailers talk
about importing where there is no Custom House, but this is
the way it is done : The orders are given to the importers in
the Spring for what Guns we want. The orders are consoli
dated and sent to the Manufacturers. The duties are paid
by the importers, the Guns assorted on arrival and re-shipped
to the different customers. We save a per cent by this plan,
and our customers get the benefit of it.
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