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pel,and-,at prices that will. cob*- pete 3 witb any city. .Cay and lojok at out samples and g$t oiir.= priees, and you will leave-your orders. - ? Macon, ga. § Pi Wo'NOQVJt • &f)xovd moiloo k * ?- - Ngffifpg 'MOXXOO Editor Homs Journal; Ad article appeared in your issue of September 12tli, signed “Plain Farmer,” intended to be -a criti cism of'my guano bill. I do not object to criticism from any one, especially from the source of “Plain Farmer.” I have seen fa vorable comments on the bill from many of the leading papers of the state, but if I am correct in guess ing who. “Plain. Farmer” is, his op position and criticism is the most unanswerable argument I have yet seen in favor of the bill. r lhis is help to me so far as a reply concerned. V Only one charge he makes against me I wish to explain, viz: my op position to electing the Commis sioner of Agriculture by the. peo ple. He makes the charge, but fails to give . the reasons offered by me at the time. I do not be lieve I will miss it when I say the office of Commissioner of Agri culture is one of the most im- i ; __ portant m the state. Me has the sole selecting and appointing of six gaanO and fifteen oil inspectors. Last season, according to official tatements on file in his office, gu ano to the value of over four mil lion dollars was inspected by these six inspectors. The state gets nothing from the inspection of oils. The fees allowed by law go to the inspectors. The amounts collected,by some of-. the inspect ors of oils exceed the salary of the treasurer of the state. • Here; you have six guano and fifteen oil in spectors, all paid high? salaries; and what an office to be coveted by designing and bad men, is the of fice'of Commissioner af Agricul ture I fear there are men in this state who would willingly give the salary of the commissioner for electioneering purposes, simply to get where they could exact from every one of these inspectors apart of their salaries, and by collusion with Unprincipled sellers of . guano, jeopardize the whole agricultural interest of the state. But some one will ask are you unwilling' to trust the farmers of this state with the election of Commissioner of Agriculture? I answer as *• [ t an swered during she discussion of this bill in the senate, that I am not unwilling to. trust 1 a majority of the white farmers of this state with anything.. When you say commit it to the people, you say commit it to many that are unre liable and purchasable, I a^k-the question : Isfi reasonable to sup pose that a governor, owing his election largely to the farmers, would appoint a man of no stand ing and reputation, and one not in fnil sympathy with them? The governor, in making the appoint ment, does so under restrictions! In the first place the applicant/ if he is an applicant, must be a prac tical farmer, and the governor heretofore has been guided by the wishes of the State Agricultural Society in making the appoint ment. :?T . v - To shpw my regard for. the wish es of the farmers of my~ section, X will state that yhile this bill was being considered, Senator Ballard came to me and said that he thought I was doing wrong in op- posing a bill tjjat- - the farmers wanted. I replied that if I kneW their wish in the matter I would certainly respect it The bill was ithen postponed, to hear from the .State Alliance, which was fo meet in a few days in Simeon, Notwith standing my views in. regard to. the bill, I promised Senator Bal lard that if the .State Alliance would endorse the bill,'. I would withdrawal!. Opposition and vote for it. They refused to take any action on the bill, and I voted in accordance with my best judg ment. The bill haying passed, I shall cooperate vith them in securing the best man for the position. .1 will state again that I do.noth* object to criticism when it is done. Don; pure motives and not from personal ones, . When done ttjes o'fmyrame- — who liar- criticism. So>"distorted are the minds of some men that they will never see the difference. Jsltany wonder that’such men are'; always distrusted and. looked upon with suspicion by the' people? The article of “Plain Farmer” bears the ear marks and tactics of a well known political sorehead, who has been .a standing and perpetual can didate for i years. His i platform has always been petiioasa! abuse of well known and respectable gen tlemen of his section* and of popu lar and useful institutions of the state. He has stood ! square upon that platform, proclaiming as far as his voice could/reach, that Ihese men and institutions were rotten to the core, and not fit to be trust ed, and every election the people have answered him, “and thou, too, Brutus.” B. W. Sanford. Back Sen's Arnica. Salve. National Democrat. For some time we have had. in j The difference between tbe our mind the importance of some j Democratic and Republican par- plan by which the great of • ties on the question of taxation is A Deservedly Titled American, Edward Scovell, the tenor of the Boston,Ideal Opera, Company, is one of the few men in the coun try who h$s the right tqjarefix the French title of Chevalier - to .his name. He is a native of Detroit, Mich., but has spent a great por tion oh his life abroad; first as a student of music and afterwards in the various, opera houses of the continent. He acquired his title of Chevalier during the time that President McMahon was at the head of the French republic. One day while riding in the suburbs of Paris a carriage drawn by two spirited and very much frightened Russian ponies dashed by him. The occupant pf tke i carriage was a lady, very beautiful and very richly dessed, and the coachman had lost control of the horses.. A moment after the carriage had passed the coachman was thrown from his seat, and the ponies plunged madly ahead. ScoVell put spurs to his horse and in a few moments overtook the runaways. He found himself unable -to. head them;off, and so sprang 'from his own horse to the. back of the near-? est pony. After receiving the thanks of the , lady, he regained his own horse and rode away. A few days subsequently he received a message from the Minister of War requesting his immediate: at tendance, r He waited on the Min ister/ and there learned for the first time that the lady he had res cued was the Minister’s,wife.The muchly-obliged -Minister gave. a dinner in the American’s honor, and at its conclusion made a short speech,eulogizing his guest, *and concluding' with the words, “Rise, Chevalier of France.” Whomever heard of a mine? Yet one has been discov ered at Palmyra, 1 Wis.; It isn’t precisely a Mine; in fact, being a large quantity of eliees which was buried, many years ago beneath a factory and there in some manner forgotten. It has just been covered hud the. Xfihiable .product is being quarried out by the pres ent owners of the factory. The Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey probably does not mind the, inevitable jokes about his extraordinary: name, for if lie did he.could easily .make it less conspicuous. That marvelous and appetizing surname would never fail to attract attention, but Edward B. Grubb would be far less likely to stir .the punstpr into madness than E. Burd Grubb. We beg leave to ' remark ■ that Edward is unquestionably Grubb for .the Democratic Burd—Nation al Democrat There is a movement on foot to bring back the remains of Datiy Crockett; the .hero of fihel Alamo, to his birthplace m Tennessee. He was born midway between Greenville and Jonesborough* where the landmark of his cabip home if still to be sees. Daniel Diawbaugb/of Peurfsfl- nifu has resolved to carry his claim or being the discoverer or the people can become owners of homes. We Want no socialistic of communistic plan of/ distribution. We want no plan by which our good people will be enabled to em igrate to some bjand of promise, nor do we want any plan by which ifien may win or become owners of homes for which they have -not paid a fair value. /.What w a do want is some means by which ev ery honest toiler may own a home, be it a little cabin on a ten-acre lot, or/a neat cottage on a hundred? acre farm; we want the man who works it to own iX-lb There is no place on earth so sweet as home. Be it ever so. jimnble, the owner of a.home is a better . man and. £i better citizen on account of its ownership. W t - When a man has a little piece of ground and cam put daily labor on it, every lick he puts there is a permanent improvement forchis loved ones. He will at once begin to look to the good of society and the country, for he feels that right here my wife is to spend her fu ture life; right here my boys and girls are to be reared, and perhaps will marry and rear families of their Own. Then I must do .all in my power tcTphrify and elevate so ciety. I must help-to'build church es and schools and home industries right here. : Tt is imppssible/for a man who is a.renter to have this feeling. He cannot work to improve the land, because he knows ; that nine times opt of ten if a worthless ne gro wers'jtp come along and offer one hundred pounds mdre cotton per annum for the/faxm than he gave, the negijo would get’the land and he wouldfhave to move. We want our .. -brethren to own farms, and we waist those of our brethren who have, the m.opey to see to it that the worthy men have an opportunity to do so. God never intends a man to accumulate wealth for his..own selfish! purpo ses, buj; he . wants every man to whom he has entrusted this wealth to put it where it will do the most good. not a difference : between 47 and 40 per cent, which; ip a mere mat ter of detail, nor > a /question be tween a prohibitory; tariff on one side and. free • trade on the other, which ds a mere academic discussion, of no interest ; to -prac tical -men. But it is a difference that lies at the very root of a l government, a question upon which it depends whether oar Govern ment shall be of the people, for the people, and by the people, or a Government of all the people by a very.few Qf the people for an extremely? limited. ? class of the people. The Republican party says that taxes are blessings, and the more the people of a nation are taxed individually, the more prosperous the nation is as whole. The Democratic party declares tiial taxes are burdens,land the less we have of them thfi better, and that the idea of enriching the whole community by taking prop erty in minute quad tities - from a- great many/people and giving it in large quantities to a few people is simple rubbish- Sixty million dol lars in one man’s pocket is a very imposing evidence of his prosperi ty, but the nation would' be better off if. each one of 60,000,000people had a dollar in ;his pqcket, al though, it is tree that the $60,000,- 000 would not make much show when divided up. Undoubtedly it make’s money circulate to take it out of one pocket and put it in to the other, but that doesn't make the = whole, - amount any ' greater. And so it makes it circulate to take from one man and give- it to an other, but the process does not bless the than itjis taken from. f The Best Salve in the world fpr Colds, Bruises, S ires, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever ‘ Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi tively cures Piles or. no pay re-, quifeck >Tt is guaranteed?, toy give- perfect "satisfaction or money re funded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Holtzclaw & Gilbert. COTTON SEED., An Intelligent Toad; Mr. E. L. Holdridge, of South Butler, New York, is the owner of a toad which has developed a re markable degree of traetability ■and intelligence. In;eating the toad has been trained to use a small knife and fork, and it is said cheese^to handle these implements with, the grace and skill of an epicure. At the.conclusion pf the meal the toad regularly uses a small nap kin to wipe its mouth. An act which it performs with becoming gravity. Mr. Holdridge is at pres ent teaching the toad to use a toothpick, but it is still very'awk ward in the.- use of those , imple ments, The toad readily 1 Walks upright,- and apparently ignores the characteristic hop of its pater nal ancestors in the act of locomo tion. It is also affirmed that the toad is developing a degree ofiseon- science,.as itihas .been known to shed tears'of r emorse upon several occasions when reprimanded by Mr. Holdridge for .some. impro priety or lack* of etiquette at the table. .. . . It is; said that the common, cow catcher attachment, to . locomotives is about the only article ,o£ com mon use that has never been pat ented. Its inventor, was D. B. Davies, of Columb,us, .Ohio, who found his model in the .plow. Red lights on, the rear car of trains; it is further. Said, were In these days pf rapid railway traveling it is interesting to read the following extract from the Belgian News: “In the archives of the railway from Nuremberg to Earth has been found a protest signed in 1835 by the members of the Royal College of Bavarian Doctors, pointing..put the danger, of the new mode of traveling. The following are passages from this remarkable document: . ‘Locomo, tion by means of any kind of steam engine should be prohibit ed in the interest of public health. Rapid change of place cannot fail to produce among * travelers the mental malady called 'delirium furiosum. - Even if travelers con sent to ran the risk,.. the state ouhgt, at/least, to protectittte.g&eb- tators. Nothing but lo'oking at a londotive which is passing rapidly is sufficient to produce the same mental affection. It is, therefore, indispensable to erection each side of the line a paling 10 feet high.’ ” ..While a French gir| was play-; ihg with a rope about her neck the other afternoon in a Lnke Yiiliage (N. H.i) tenement house, the building was struck by ^light ning, and the story goes, the. lope was destroyed by the electric .cur rent, but the child escaped unin jured. A month ngo, it Is added, the same gifl was struck aad- thrown into a ditch by the locoffio- tive of an express train; hot Was unhurt. / -: ’ A charter has been granted for a railroad in Liberia,. Africa. ; It, will be thp first in tifat country.* Its length will be 656 miles. Tbe transition from long, linger ing and painful -sickness to robust health marks an epoch in the life of the individual. Sack a remark able . event is treasured in the memory and the agency whereby T will pay the highest market price for Gotton Seed, delivered in Perry. J. Wr Claret ft I HOUSTON SHERIFF’S SALES, . Will be soldbsfore, the court li'oriae door in the town of Perry, Houston couiti ty, Ga., between the legal hours of sale; on the 1st Tuesday in November, 1889, the following property, to-wit: AH- Of lot of land No. 90.lying north of Big Indian creek, contauiuig t 27t£ acres/ more or less; all of lot No! 121 lying; north of Big Indian creek, containing 100 acres, more or less, and the east half of lot No. 120, containing 101 W acres; niore or less. All lying in the l?-th dis trict of said county, and aggregating’ 229 acres, more or;less.-;*Levied on ari the property of John fi. Wimberly to' satisfy a fi. fa. from Pnlaski Superior Courtth favor of J. O. Jelks k Bro. vs. Jolpi.Il. Wimberly and D./F. Mathews. Legal nofice of levy given/ ? : Also, it same time and place, 140acres; of land mere’ or less, off the southern; portion of lot No. 115, in the 5th district' of said county, cut off by a line running east and west across the lot, and being all of said lot except 60 acres off the north part owned by D. F. Gunn .and Mr. Hammock. TMs Jajadkndwii’a'stiie Wiley LeverettihobiWplace, and on' which froin Houston Superior Court, April term, 1889, in favor of P. A. Crowder vs: Wiley Leverett. Legal notice of levy given. ~i •: • • a. Also, at same tune, and plicd; .3‘Acres’ of land in the northeast comer of lofe-No. 77, on which is.situated the J. B. Wiih- berlv residence and improvements; 10ti§' acres more or less, being the northeast half of lot No. 92, in the- 12th district of said county. Levied oh .tit:- as the property of J ohn B. Wimberly to a A fa. from Houston Superior satisfy a fi. fa. from Houston Superior Court, returnable to October term, 1889/ in favor of Abial Converse vs. John B/ Wimberly . Legal notice of levy: given.' Alsd/?at sanfe?time' ahdplace, one black’, mare mule named Lucy, about twelve' years old. Levied on as the property of W. F. Engram, one of defendants, to sat-’ isfy a -fi. fa. from? Houston Superior Court, October term! 1881, iu favor of A. S. Giles, Ordinary, for rise, etc., vs.'N. T.* Johnson, principal, and W. F. Engram/ security. Levy made by J. W. Colyer,’ former sheriff, and turned over to me for - r' : ; ' M. L; COOPEBj Sheriff. P»rry, Ga; Oct. 3,1889. sne mi Wi i County BaSUfTs Sales. Wifi be sold bafofe the court house, door in the town of Perry, Houston countyj Ga.; between the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday.in November 1889, the following property, to-wit: ' Pi One steam engine, one Massey cotton- gin, and one cotton press. Levied on as the property of. Wiley Leverett, and in- his possession, to riitisfy a fi. fa. from Houston County Court, returnable to’Oo-’ tober term, 1889, in favor of D. J. Baer vs. Wilev Leverett. J.N. TUTTLE; C.B. Oct. 3rd, 1889. . .. , ■ you 0AN- Save . MOKTEY ——AT THE—- MAC(M TEim FACTORY YUU CAN BUY Maeon-Made T^unlriE, "Va lises, Satchels, Haail- Bags, Poeketbooks, arid other leather goods in flfis linej of . the very best quality, at } . EmST-HAXD pricM. Examine Our stc'c& f/hen in the city. ,.... I VAN &. CO 410 Third Street, Macon, Ga. * msam FOE EYEEYBODY. I KEEP Flour, , ancT alt finds of Groceries. ■ .* *■ I KEEP Dry Goods and Slides/ I KEEP , the gbM health has keen atfeiinecl ... . , at ii3 gratefully blessed. Hence it is the sq^ges.tioil of the late Mrs. thrf y. . heMd j raise of .« .rmlway aeei- WtteK . So . many M ! (lent m which she lutu a ! to thp use of the Great Alterative:'; * and Tonic. If you are troubled ; STRAW HITS,. from the berfc co the cheapest.- tienfc in which slie had a escape. Ail Kinds of Flow Stocks, and castings for same. — CONSUMPTION SUBELY CUBED, . . . . To mu Er>iTon—Please inform year rar.A ! d,S8aS ^ ^ lane N s > - “imreraedy for; he above or Stomaco, o£ Joug or shc'rtlstaDci- j peer. Termanentiy C’jrad. i lag you wilisareiy -hud relief by! Sold at* iuy.eoc Llectric Bitter . e-o ,^i e a j. Holtzclaw j e. I KEEP Everything Kept in a Variety S tore. — - ' •• ?- .• Call on me for Ice and Lemor as the cheapest. C. H. M001