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Newnan, Ga., Friday, December 14,1888.
WEEKLY CIRCULATION, 1,750.
JAS. E. BROWN. Editor.
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probability that the troops will be need-
e< Tlfe'coroner’s jury in the Hawes
murder case completed its work to-ciay,
having discovered sufficient circumstan
tial evidence to convince them ol tlie
guilt of Hawes. , .., ,
The body of the other child has not
yet been found, but the search contin
ues.
A Substitute for the Brady Bill.
A bill has been introduced in the Sen
ate to provide more adequate protec
tion to the farmers of Georgia against
fraud and imposition in the sale of com
mercial fertilizers and chemicals, and
from a cursory reading we are inclined
to regard it as a sensible and altogether
While it may not
The Birmingham Horror
On Tuesday, 4th inst., the body of a
little girl was found in East Lake, near
Birmingham, Ala. The fact was estab
lished that she had been murdered, and
subseqently the body was identified as
that of May Ilawes, daughter of R. R-
Hawes, an engineer on the Georgia Pa
cific road. Circumstances pointed to the
girl’s father as her murderer. On
Wednesday afternoon he was married
to a young lady in Columbus, Miss., the
publication of which event led to the
discovery that he had a wife living in
Birmingham. On Wednesday night
Ilawes and his bride passed through
Birmingham, going towards Atlanta,
when he was arrested and lodged in
jail on the charge of murder. Subse
quent investigation revealed the fact
that he had never been divorced from
his first wife, and that she had been
missing since the previous Saturday, as
well as a younger child. Search for the
woman’s body was instituted at once,
and on Saturday afternoon it was found
at the bottom of a lake, four miles dis
tant from the lake in which the body
of little May Hawes was found. When
this discovery was made known a mob
surrounded the jail and demanded the
surrender of Hawes. The jail was
guarded by Sheriff Smith and sixteen
deputies, who refused to surrender
their prisoner. The mob became more
violent in their threats and made a
movement as if to take the jail by as
sault, when the Sheriff, after repeated
warnings, ordered the guard to fire
upon them. The order was promptly
obeyed, and when the smoke cleared
away it was found that two of the as
sailants had been killed outright,
while nine others have since died from
the effects of wounds then received.
After this tragic occurrence the most
intense excitement prevailed, and it be
came necessary to call out several com
panies of militia to preserve order.
There is considerable excitement yet,
though no further acts of violence have
been attempted.
Sheriff Smith has been arrested on a
warrant charging him with murder,
and the feeling against him is extreme
ly bitter, though his conduct in defend
ing the jail is warmly commended by
Gov. Seay, and will be approved by or
der-loving and law-abiding people gen
erally. While every one must deplore
the tragic events resulting from the
mob’s assault, there should be nothing
but praise for the brave officer who in
terposed his life to save that of the
helpless creature entrusted to his keep
ing by the law, whose mandates it was
his sworn duty to obey.
The prisoner’s guilt is not yet
established, however criminating the
practicable measure.
circumstances surrounding the mys
tery may be, and his death at the hands
of the mob last Saturday would have
been wilful murder. While it will not
be denied that a more prudential course
on the part of those in authority might
have averted the disaster, yet, having
reached the critical extremity describ
ed, there was nothing left for the Sher
iff to do but perform his duty. That
duty was plain and imperative, and in
volved the life of a human creature—a
helpless prisoner in the hands of the
law. Had he been less prompt or cour
ageous in the performance of his duty
Birmingham would have suffered the
ignominy of an act far more disgrace
ful and hurtful in its effects than could
possibly result from the death of the
eleven men who were seeking to out
rage both law and public decency by
their insane efforts to wreak vengeance
upon the hapless wretch whom the
Sheriff was trying to protect. Hawes
maybe guilty of the terrible crime with
which he stands charged, but until this
accusation is sustained by positive proof
he must be considered innocent, and is
entitled to the fullest protection that
the law can give.
The latest information obtainable at
the hour of going to pres is contained
in the following special from Birming
ham to the Atlanta Constitution of yes
terday:
News comes from Columbus, Miss.,
of finding in that city another link.in
the chain of evidence against luck
Ilawes.
One week ago yesterday morning,
Hawes went to Columbus to marry Miss
May S. Story. Wednesday morning he
went to a barber shop in Columbus to
■ret a bath and change his undercloth
ing. He left in the shop a bundle of
soiled underwear, saying he would cab
or send for it later, lie evidently for
got all about it, in the excitement of
preparing for his marriage with Miss
Story, at 3 o’clock. To-day the bundle
of clothes was opened, and stains ol
blood -were found on all of it. The
character of these stains indicated that
the blood had soaked through the man s
outer garments, staining the underwear
Coroner Babitt will have the bundle ol
clothing shipped to this city at once,
and it will be placed in a safe place
along with the other blood-stained evi-
dences of Hawes’s guilt.
The situation to-day is hopeful. All
the excitement seems to have passed
away. The Anniston Rifles went home
to-day, and the other companies will
follow to-morrow. There is now no
be designed as a substitute for the Bia-
dy bill, the fact that it originated in the
Senate’ is pretty good evidence that it
is meant to be anticipatory of the meas
ure proposed by Mr. Brady. In any
event, it would be difficult to conceive
of a measure more unfair or inequitable
in its operations than the bill intro
duced bv Mr. Brady, and whether the
Senate bill should be acceptable to the
friends of the Brady bill or not, there
no question but that some substitute
will be offered and finally adopted.
The main features of the Senate bill,
briefly outlined, are as follows:
1. Any farmer, at the time of the de
livery of any commercial fertilizer or
chemical which he may have purchased,
may demand that a fair sample of such
fertilizer or chemical shall be drawn in
the manner hereinafter prescribed, and
for the purpose hereinafter set forth.
2 The sample so drawn shall contain
not less than four ounces, and shall be
drawn in the presence of the seller or
his agent, and the farmer and his agent,
by any person who may be jointly se
lected by them, so as to fairly represent
the entire lot of each fertilizer or chem
ical. The person or persons drawing
the sample shall immediately place it
in a glass bottle, securely cork and seal
the same, and deliver it to the Ordina
ry of the county in which the purchaser
resides, .or in which the delivery
made.
3. The Ordinary shall receive the
sample, mark it with a consecutive num
ber, and record it in a book to be kept
for that purpose, entering the number
of the sample, the name of the brand,
the number of tons represented by the
sample, the name of seller and purcha
ser, and the date upon which the sam
ple was delivered.
4. If the farmer or purchaser shall be
dissatisfied with the effect of said.feitil-
izer on his crop he may, after notice
given to the seller or his agent, demand
that the sample deposited with the Or
dinary be analyzed; whereupon the Or
dinary shall send the sample by express
to the Commissioner of Agriculture,
withholding all information as to name
or brand, except the consecutive num
ber as aforesaid.
5. The Commissioner of Agriculture,
on receipt of such sample, shall require
the State Chemist to analyze the same
according to the rules for analyzing
other samples of fertilizers. The anal
ysis, when made, shall be at once re
turned to the Ordinarv, under the si
nature of the Chemist, verified by the
signature of the Commissioner of Agri
culture and his seal of office.
6. Upon receipt of said analysis the
Ordinary shall record the same in con
nection with the record of the sample
already made, and shall hold the origi
nal analysis subject to the order of any
Court in which may be pending any suit
for the purchase money of the fertilizer
or chemical represented by the sample
and analysis thereof.
7. Upon the trial of any case involv
ing the merits of any fertilizer or chem
ical in any of the Courts of the State,
the analysis of such fertilizer or chem
ical shall be accepted to show the real
composition of such fertilizer or chemi
cal, and the defendant in such suit shall
be entitled to a rebate or reduction from
the contract price of such fertilizer or
chemical in proportion as said analysis'
shall show a less commercial value than
the guaranteed analysis.
S. The Ordinary’s fee for keeping a
record of samples deposited in his office
shall be fifty cents for each sample, and
all express charges when samples are
forwarded for analysis shall be paid by
the party or parties interested.
Georgia, and its advertising columns
show that it is liberally patronized.
Though one of the latest accessions to
the ranks of the fourth estate, Editor
Speer is already a recognized force in
Georgia journalism, and is making rep
utation for himself and his paper every
day. We esteem the Weekly for ‘‘auld
acquaintance sake,” of course, but are
not so warped by partiality that we
cannot perceive and appreciate the
merits of the paper from a professional
point of view.
The New York Chronicle's cotton re
port for the week ending Friday, 7th
inst., show that the total receipts
since September 1st, 1SSS. have been 2,-
867,176 bales, against 3,379,965 bales for
the same period of 1887—a decrease
since September 1st, 1888, of 512,7s9
bales. Thesd figures indicate a de
crease in the cotton in sight on the 7th
inst., of 477,673 bales as compared with
the same date of 1887, a decrease of
348,854 bales as compared with the cor
responding date of 1886, and a decrease
of 253,334 bales as compared with 18S5.
A bill is now before the Legislature,
and is being pushed with commendable
energy by its author, to increase the
appropriation for maimed Confederates
from the present amount (about $60,-
000 per annum) to $130,000. There are
less than two thousand beneficiaries
now on the list, and from death and
and other causes the number is de
creasing at the rate of one hundred
and sixty per annum.
The Woolf oik case, which was car
ried to the Supreme Court several
months ago on a motion for a new trial,
will probably not be heard before Feb
ruary or March.
It will cost $75,000 to furnish Geor
gia’s new capitol.
Communicated.
Agricultural Department — Reply to
“Ripples.”
port says. In the very next sentence
they-say: “Whether or not sufficient
authority is found in this section for
these appointments, in consideration of
the addition of the inspection of fertili
zers to the business of the department
and the greater amount of clerical work
necessary to be done in order to a prop
er administration of the affairs of the
department, than seems to have been
contemplated by the General Assembly
at its organization, we think the em
ployment of these persons referred to
should he approved.” Now, what are
we to say of this ? “Ripples” goes into
the report and selects what suits him to
make a damaging accusation against the
Commissioner, and does not tell ns
what is said in the very next sentence
of the report, and which changes the
whole aspect of the case. He sets forth
that which, by itself, is a condemnation
of the Commissioner, and withholds
that which immediately follows, and
which makes the report a positive ap
proval of the action of the Commission
er. Now, is not this a little crooked in
“Ripples ?”
But this is not all “Ripples” keeps
back about his item. This is but the
report of one-lialf the joint committee.
Three pages farther on we have the re
port of the other half of the committee,
in which they assert that “the employ
ees mentioned above and the expendi
ture of money for the salaries are clear
ly authorized by section six of the or
ganic act.” (See page 4 of their report.)
And they mention the numerous du
ties and the kind of work performed by
those employed in the department—
Redding, Newman and others. (See
1st, 2d and 3rd pages of said report.)
And they go on to say that this con
struction of the act has received the in
dorsement of Gov. Smith, Gov. Colquitt,
Gov. Stephens, Gov. Boynton and Gov.
McDaniel.
Now, “Ripples” saw all this, for his
quotations and references show that he
has read the reports of the committee
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I This article was written for publication be- an( j the evidence taken before them
re “Ripples’ ” last article appeared., | yefc hg says not one WO rd about it. This,
The Electoral College, which has
met heretofore on the llth of Decem
ber, will meet hereafter on the second
Tuesday in January. The change is in ac
cordance with a recent act of Congress,
and the Presidential electors will there
fore assemble in Atlanta on the second
Tuesday in January, 1SS9, for the pur
pose of casting the vote of the State for
President and Vice-President of the
United States. The College is organ
ized by the election of a president and
secretary, after which the vote of the
State is formally announced, certified
and sealed. Three copies are prepared,
one of which is carried to Washington
by special messenger and one sent by
mail. The Secretary of State receives
the remaining copy, which is deposited
in the archives of the commonwealth.
The College concludes its duties by
electing a messenger to carry the vote
to Washington, who is paid according
to mileage, at the rate of twenty-five
cents per mile. Dr. W. F. Gay, of Tu
rin, Ga., has been prominently men
tioned as a candidate for messenger,
and if he consents to the use of his
name will undoubtedly receive astiong
support.
the
The Henry County Weekly
newsiest, bert managed and most care
fully edited country weekly in Middle
foie “Ripples
In “Ripples’ ” last reply he starts out
with the following remark:
“ ‘Farmer’ insists on my showing one
item of crookedness in the Department
of Agriculture.”
It will be recollected that “Ripples”
made the assertion that the crooked
ness of the department had been made
public and brought to light by W. Y.
rUkinson, and what I insisted on was
that he would show one item that Mr.
itkinson had so “made public and
brought to light.” We are to infer that
he could not name an item that had
been brought to light by Mr. Atkinson,
or he most certainly would have done so.
Of course, then, he withdraws his asser
tion, and will admit that he is mistaken
when he so confidently madeproclama
tion that W. Y. Atkinson had exposed
the crookedness of the department.
Well, he shifts his position, and seems
determined to get an item of crooked
ness, as he calls it, somewhere in the tran
sactions of the department. I accept the
change and will meet him on the item
he mentions. His item is, that the act
organizing the department “provided
that the Commissioner should have but
one clerk, (but is put in by ‘Ripples’)
at a salary of $1,200. Yet,” he says.
Commissioner Henderson, in violation
of that statute, employs'three extra
persons in the department, one at a sal
ary of $1,200, and the others (Col. Red
ding and Col. Newman) at a salary of
$1,700 each.” To get his item, “Rip
ples” goes all the way back to the in
vestigation of the Agricultural Depart
ment in 1883, by a joint committee ap
pointed by the Legislature; and he
takes just what suits his purpose and
leaves out all the balance. That com
mittee was composed of eight members
—three from the Senate and five from
the House. The department, for two
weeks, was carried through a most rig
id and scrutinizing investigation—par
ticularly in regard to the item selected
by“Ripples,” that is,the employment of
this extra force. Four of the joint com
mittee made one report, and four made
another, the two reports differing very
little, By the second section of the act
creating the Agricultural Department
of the Commissioner was to have “one
clerk to assist him in the clerical duties
of his office,” and at a salary of $1,200.
And in the sixth section of said act it
was enacted that, besides the salaries
of the Commissioner and his clerk, the
sum of $10,000 was appropriated “for
the support and maintenance of said
department and for the payment of em
ployees that it will be necessary to em
ploy to properly carry out the inten
tions of said act.” The Commissioner
was given one clerk to help him do his
writing. But there was a great deal of
other writing and other work that could
be done, and ought to have been done.
(See reports and proceedings of joint
committee). If it was such writing and
such work as was necessary to carry out
the intentions of said act, it was the
duty of the Commissioner to employ
men to do it, and such employees were
to be paid out of the appropriation for
the department. However, in the con
struction of the above clause from the
sixth section, the difference of the two
reports principally originated. One re
port says: “We find in the office of-the
Commissioner four persons besides
himself—two at salaries of $1,200, and
two at salaries of $1,700 each, who are
engaged with the performance of the
duties which we believe the Legisla
ture, in the organization of the depart
ment, intended should be performed by
the Commissioner and one clerk.” Here
is where “Ripples” gets his item. t-See
page 3 of said report.) But he stops
short off and doesn’t give all the re-
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then, is the position of his “item of
crookedness.” Both parts of the com
mittee agree that it was right in the
Commissioner to employ these men to
do the work they were doing; that it
was work necessary to be done; and
they do not object to the salaries as be
ing too large for work to be done by
experienced and well-informed men,
and a good deal of the work requiring
laborious and scientific research. The
only difference between them was that
one part of the committee believed that
authority had been given by law to the
Commissioner to supply these men,
and the other part believed that au
thority had not been given in the out
set, because the Legislature did not
foresee how much work was to be done,
but they believed that there was a
necessity for their employment, and
that the Commissioner did right and
that his action should be approved and
sanctioned by the Legislature. The
Legislature acquiesced in these reports,
which were practically of the same ef
fect,and thus the Legislature sanctioned
the action of the Commissioner, and he
stood completely exonerated before the
committee and the Legislature. This ac
tion of the committee, and the Legisla
ture sanctioning it, settled and deter
mined all things investigated—the item
of “Ripples” and all else was investiga-
ed and reported on. If “Ripples” were
a member of the present Legislature
and were to introduce a resolution to
investigate this item, the employment
of Cols. Redding and Newman, or any
thing else that the former committee
(of 18S3) had investigated, the Legisla
ture would not entertain it for a mo
ment. What, send out a committee to
investigate a thing which another Leg
islature, by a committee, had already
investigated? Go back and try a thing
which had already been tried five years
ago and settled in favor of the Com
missioner? Such a thing would be un
heard of. This, then, is the one item
of crookedness in the Department that
“Ripples” has attempted to point out;
and we have on one side of the ques
tion, Gov. Smith, Gov. Colquitt, Gov
Stephens, Gov. Boynton, Gov. McDan
iel, and now also Gov. Gordon, and the
eight men composing the investigating
committee of 1S83, and the Legislature
who acquiesced in their reports and
sanctioned their action. On the
other side we have “Ripples.” But
“Ripples” calls the investigating com
mittee of 18S3 a whitewashing commit
tee. We see what difficulties he runs
into. He set out to make the Commis
sioner of Agriculture a dishonest man,
and in trying to do so we have seen how
he has made the Governors of the State
dishonest, and the heads of Depart
ments and the Judges of the Supreme
Court, and the members of the differ
ent Legislatures, all dishonest; for they
used, at public expense, the same t hings
that the Commissioner of Agriculture
did. And now, to make goqd hi.s accu
sation against the Commissioner, he
has to make the joint committee that
investigated the department in 1883 a
whitewashing committee;—that is, a
committee who, in violation ot their
oaths, would conceal frauds committed
by tiie Commissioner of Agriculture,
EMPORIUM
Trade has been light this fall
and in order to reduce our
stock of—
DRY GOODS.
CLOTHING,
SI I OKS,
AT
J. T. SWINT’S!
We would have the public
to know that, as usual, we are
still in the ring with a larger
stock of Dolls and Christmas
tricks than ever before. We
bought them at prices way
down below zero, and, sink or
swim, survive or perish, live or
die, we are going to sell them
at the lowest prices ever seen
in this county. The man who
won’t buy his children Christ
mas tricks this year ought to
be denounced by society and
disowned by his mother-in-law.
Any person that comes into
our store with money to buy
Santa Claus will never go away
dissatisfied. We will sell' you
about as much as you want to
earn, for a dollar, and for two
dollars we will almost load a
wagon up. This is no exag
geration. If you don’t believe
it, come and give us a trial and
give us a trial. We can con
vince the most skeptical.
Below we quote a few pri
ces, which are from io to 20
per cent, cheaper than the
same goods can be obtained
elsewhere ;
London Layer Raisins, 15c
per pound.
Mixed Nuts, 15c. per pound
Fancy Candy,
per pound.
Stick Candy,
per pound.
Large, Fine
per dozen.
25c. to 35c
ioc. to 15c.
Apples, 20c
Oranges, 30c. per dozen.
HATS,
HOSIER V,
GENTS’ AND LADIES’
UNDERWEAR,
1
and everything
Goods line at
prices for the
in our Dry
reduced
’•rear I
NEXT THIRTY DAYS!
One lot-of jerseys at cost,
to close them out.
$2,500 worth o
prices that will mal
your eyes.
All-wool Jeans
yard, and a big
grades at prices eq
Shoes, at
you open
at 2 sc. oer
1 ne
u a I
of all
v low T .
Gents’, Youth’s and Chil
dren’s Clothing at prices sur
prisingly low.
The
Gents’
completest
and Ladies'
line
of
Under
wear in town.
Axes 50c and 75c, worth 90c
and $1. These an going likeT
, 1 '' \
hot cakes. Come and buv be- j
fore they are all gone.
to condemn him;—and this against such
men as Livingston, Barksdale, Zachry,
Hwe, Crenshaw and others of the com
mittee, some of whom were decidedly
opposed to the Agricu'
An endless variety of Dolls,
from 5c. up to $1.50. About
-load of Toys that we
give away.
In addition to all of these
we have a nice line of Shoes,
ltu?ai U De U part- Hats, Calicoes, Ginghams,
ment and were* saying hard things j J ean s, etc., that we will Sell at
If you want
against it, as “Ripples does, and a x-; 1 D rices
ions if anything wrong existed m the \ er\ low pi ices.
department to find it out and expose ; bargains come to see US.
it, and thereby condemn the manage- p P mprnhpr the nlare NTn a
ment of the department if it could be KememDei tne place, AO. 3
condemned. And this is the best he Greenville Street.
could do in the way of an item of cnTTX _
crookedness and fraud against tke de-j J. 1. SWINT.
partment. ^ armer. i
Give
us a call olid we will
guarantee a sale.
HERRING & HILL.