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PERRY, GEORGIA, nfURSiMX OCTOBER-24,.L889.
NO. 42.
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Plain Farmer, Again .
Mb. Editor.—At •=< last the
“mountain has labored,” and the
proverbial “mouse” has. been
brought forth. Mr. Sanford has
not responded to a single charge
made against him,—not one, He
evidently intends and . hopes to
to draw away, the ;minds ; : of the
people from .the subjuct .under dis
cussion, by calling their .attention
td my political defeats. He calls
me a “political sorehead.” If
my head is sore, it has been made
So by espousing the cause of the
people and trying to butt corpora
tions and their friends out of the
political arena; and I expect to
keep it in the same condition for
the remainder of my days in the
same worthy (as I concieve) en-
deaver. It seems Mr., Sanford is
hot able to refute my charges,
and is driven to the necessity 6f
calling public attention to my po
litical defeats;- A I will say I have
always received the strongest vote
where I am best known. My friends
know how I was defeated and so
do. those who assisted in my defeat.
was done by candidates being
out near me. I never heard of my
integrity, political or otherwise,
being questioned. The gentle
man says he does not object to
criticism when it is done from
pure motives, and when argument
is used,and not abuse. I did not use
abuse—no indeed—I made and now
make charges against his legis
lative action. Personally, I have
nothing against the gentleman,and
he knows it, but failing to x-efute
the facts charged against him,
he desires to make the public
think that my attack is personal.
He evidently wishes to raise the
“persecution howl” and wants
sympathy^, I glory in the • princi
ples involved in my defeats. But
what has my defeats to do with
Mr. Sanford’s bill? If I was de
feated for espousing the cause of
the people, I certainly ought not
to complain. The people will un
derstand all this, for I am, have
been, and will ever be, against cor
porations. A few more remarks
concerning Mr. Sanford’s bill.
The bill is really an insult to the
common sense of the farmer. He
seems to think that the farmers
are sach 'ignoramuses that they
would believe they had, got some
thing wonderful, (if his bill had
passed) when it was only what
they had before and were com
plaining of. I appeal to the com
mon sense of Houston county, if I
am not correct. How, Mr. Sanford
must not get his back up and get
vexed because ninety-nine farm
ers of one hundred, in this sec
tion, object to his bill, and he
must not expect to satisfy them by
calling me a .“sorehead,” find by
calling attention to•; my political
defeats. All know how I .was de
feated.. I will npt recall all the
methods. And I must say some
times “minorities”. are right. I
have Sever dreamed of personali
ses .between Mi'. Sanford and my
self, but if my brother or son had
introduced. Mr. Sanford’s bill,,I
would have fought it all the
same. I am unalterably on the
side of the people,and against cor
porations and useless offices which
are kept. Tunning at the expense
of the people.
I will answer that portion of his
‘‘bill” that allows the. farmer to
draw a little guano from each sack
a.bd;send it to the chemist. Sev
eral years. ago l id that same
thing. I drew from ten sacks, and
put it in a neat little package, and
forwarded it to the state chemist
with the request that he analyze
it; he wrote to me wishing to. know
what brand the guano was, and he;
would send me an analysis. I
wrote back to him that that was;
just what I did not intend he should
know. -1 stated plainly that I
wanted hini to analyze it,, and let
me know ,whaf the package con
tained. I have never heard from
him since. . He knows,. and I
know, that he cannot guess the
same thing twice.
. How, if the Commissioner of
Agriculture is such a panacea .for
all our ills, andf can work such
' wonderef iifa^iMltdre/ft is a freat
pity that he has not come to Mr.! had before. All was left to the
Sanford’s relief, as .he has been,; chemist before, and the same if
from what I can learn, about as. his bill had become a law.
successful as a farmer as “Plain 1 Coiild he think that the farmers
Faamer” has been as a politician. I were stupid enough to think- that
I have never? yet seen, to my they had got something; when, in
knowledge, on6 first-class farmer
who was in favor of continuing
the department of agriculture.
Hot being able Jo refute, Mr.
Sanford lugs my defeats before the
people, hoping to hoodwink the
farmers to facts which are appa
rent.
i Me attempts to explain or re
fute only one charge, and it would
have sheen better for him to have
remained silent, as he comes
squarely up and confesses that the
commissioner of agriculture is so
important that the electing of that
officer can’t, with safety, be trusted
to the people. And a new thought
strikes him, and he says he would
be willing to have the matter in
the bauds o!£ the white people—
(far-fetched, indeed)—to think
reality they had got nothing. ‘How
for the want of space I must close
this article. I have only this to say.
that Mr. Sanford seems to think
that the class he alludes to, can be
trusted or. allowed to vote for the
president dr for the Governor, or
state senator, or for congressman,
but it will not do to allow them to
vote for an office so important as
commissioner of agriculture; and
he plainly implies that the white
men must not vote for him for
fear that the negro might vote too;
thus he seeks to widen and deep
en the one-man power, and to ex
clude the people from the ballot-
box. Mr. Sanford must certainly
be a stranger to constitutional lib
erty as understood, by qnr fathers.
T expect I have been as good a
The Couiitfy in Great Peril, j Bitckiew's Arffica salve;
*, j- The Best Salve in the world
Detroit Free Fr6ss. ; {'for Colds, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers',
.. V 4-1 ~ Ja' Salt Bheum, Fever Sores, Tetter,
“Good heavens! but the country GhappedHands, Chilblains, Corns
is all ruinedi” he; shouted, as he and a n SkiH 'Eruptions;, and posi;
met an acquaintance on Fort tively cures Piles or no pay re
street yesterday. quired. It is guaranteed to give
“What do you mean?” perfect satisfaction or money' re?-
“Why, there was ad awful frost Price 25 cents *3? box,
. , . . T1 ... .,, . . ..v , : For sale by Holtzelaw & Gilbert,
last night! Everything was killed j . vj ..
that the negroes care anything | customer to the guano companies
about who is commissioner. What
is it to them more than to us?.
He says the commissioner is one
of the ffiost important officers in
the state, andhe plainly implies
that if anything was to happen to
him disastrously," our agricultural
interests would-be ruined at ,once.
A first-class successful farmer
told me a few days ago,that he
would give more for guano with
out tags, .than with them, for he
has no ‘confidence in thepnspector,
nor in the " tag business,' at all.
How Mr. Sanford arraigns me for
accusing those in office of practic
ing fraud and deceiving the peo
ple. I stand ready to prove more
crookedness than Mr. Hanford is
aware of. A gentleman (?) a few
days ago told ; me that a member
of the Legislature of 1886 inform
ed him that a party gave him (the
member) five hundred dollars to
push a certain bill through the as
sembly. He took the money and
used twenty-five dollars' of it on
two negroes and he put;four hun
dred and seventy-five dollars into
his pocket. How perhaps a half
dozen members received the same
amount. And he further informed
my friend , that such transactions
were common there* (how is this
for high Mr. Sanford?), and by
the free use of their money these
powerful .corporations always get
their favorite bills through.. Ido
not cast ariy vile insinuations, as
Mr. Sanford is pleased to call
them. I deal only in .facts,
and they'ars stubborn things, and
will not down at his bidding. If
a member of the Legislature had
madekuch a-confession thirty-five
years ago it would have outraged
him from decent society and sunk
him into merited oblivion; but
how now? ; Such conduct is con-
siderered now as ah evidence of
ability and sharpness, called keen-
ery by the negroes. The love of
money is declared in Holy Writ
to be the root of all eviljand as it is
now an acknowledged fact, that it
shapes, in a great measure our
laws; what thenH ask in all can
dor, is to be our future ? Well may
we call the lave of money the root
of all evil. It sold the Christ—
raffled for. his garments, and. it
has crucified every virtue between
thieves; ; i.During the reign, of Sol
omon silver #as made to be in Je
rusalem, as stones; yet the king
dom fell to peices immediately
after his death; The accumula
tion of all- the wealth of Borne in
the hands of a few caused the
downfall of that powerful era.
pire; so with France about the
close of the 18th century; and if
Godin in his infinite mercy does
not stay the; hands of extortion
a’ndoppression, it will.be the fate
of our beloved country before
three more decades.
iIf 4- am correctly informed, Mr.
Sandford voted against the Brady
bill, when, he must have known
that seven ont of ten. of his con
stituents were in favor ;q£ the - bill.
I firmly believe that Mr. Sand-
fords bill was introduced to kill; cm
the Brady bill, and strange to j
think, lie __ evidently thought it i
would be % great benefit te ns,;
when as 1 "
just the s•
as Mr; Sanford has. I have pur
chased within the last twenty years
eighteen thousand dollars worth of
it, and have paid for all of. it ex
cept what I purchased this year
and I am ginning cotton now to
pay for that, and will pay every
cent of it, if I have cotton enough.
Mr. Sanford believes, and would
have the people believe, That I am
a very unruly individual. ( Well,
people do not expect golden opin
ions from leaden instincts.) I am
now living right where I was born
and raised, and I never had a liti
gated lawsuit in my life, and was
never sued but twice in my life,
and that was ; immediately after
the war. I am now sixty years of
age,, and have lived in peace with
my neighbors all my life, and fer
vently pray that I may confcin ue to
live so.
Very respectfully,
Plain Farmer.
Oct. 15th, 1889.
A Peculiar System of Fraud.
Dr. Lewis Dodge,-an old resi
dent and former practicing physi
cian of Chicago, now residing at
1801 Wabash avenue, claims to
have been defrauded in a very cu
rious manner, out of $40,000 worth
of property in the last two years
by a series of very peculiar real
estate transactions. His story is
that Mar ford Corbin and his wife,
of Caown Point, Ind., assisted by
an attorney named W. W. Hiehols,
also an Indiana man, have system
atically worked fraudulent deals
upon him until he is now almost
penniless. In one transaction he
claims to have deeded Corbin val
uable property for a piece of land
which the latter claimed to be free
of encumbrance, but which was
in reality encumbered to its full
value. In two other cases he says
he sent deeds to Corbin to be re
corded, bubhs oq the contrary sold
the property to third parties and
pocketed the proceeds. To recov
er some of his lost realty the doc
tor Tuesday brought suit in the
superior court against Corbin and
his wife for $15*000, He will fol
low the petition tip - with another
suit to the amount of .$25,000.
as dead as a door-kail.”
“Well, J dunno.”
“But I do. Land only knows
what will .become of the poor folks Perry*,
this winter. One calamity follows
another at lightning speed.”
“Well, now, but I have a fine
field of corn and it is quite ripe
and beyond damage. That’s the
case all over.”
“Yes, but—”
“And my potatoes are ripe and
cant be hurt a bit.”
“That may be, but—”
“And a frost like that wont hurt
apples any. It is the usual time
o' year to get frosts,- and the crops
are ahead of the average time if
anything. y} i
“But you don’t seem to real
ize.” h
“Don’t I?” V ’ ?
“Ho, sir. This morning I went
out and lo! every tomato vine in
my garden was wilted and black
ened.” • ’ . H
“I see. And yon had two vines,
probably?”
“Yes, four of them, and they
are gone—killed dead. I am no
alarmist, but if we don’t see more
suffering this, winter than for
years before, ttien it will be be
cause providence 1 comes to our
aid with summer weather. Gone!
All gone! Good day.”
COTTON SEED.
I will pay the: highest market
price for Cotton Seed, delivered in
An old observer of Washington
life says that each'; new President
begins his term by spending
more money on hospitality da
ring the first year of :office than
daring any of tile succeeding ones.
The expenditure decreases gradu
ally, it is said,; Until the fourth
year, when the ordinary President
begins to think more about ‘ sav
ing money Tor. the coming rainy
day than about spending it for
dinuers and receptions.
A curious complaint lias been
raised in Philijelphia about la
bels on bread. The- question
seems to be, which is preferable
—a tin tag, Or one of paper ? Tin
tag adherents claim that the pa
per stickers are often affixed to the
loaf by means of saliva, and they
assert that itis f riot pleasant to
find a bit of printed paper swim
ming in your consomme. They
state that if is equally.undesirable
to find your bread papered on the
under side, or to taste the flavoripf
gum arabic in yourptiddirig. The
other faction claims-.that a piece
of painted.tin is neither nutritious
nor pleasant to the taste, and that
a tin tag tangled in one’s wind
pipe is a consumation devoutly to
to be avoided.
J. W. .Clark.
HOUSTON SHERIFFS SALES.
Will be sold before the court house
door intbe town of Perry, Houston coun
ty, Ga., between the legal hours of sale,
on the 1st Tuesday in .November, 1889,
the following property, to-wit:
All of tot of land No. 90 lying north of
Big Indian creek, containing 27}£ acres,
more or less; all of lot No. -121 lying
north of Big'lndian creek,- containing
100 acres more or less, and the east half
of lot No. 120, containing 101 }£ acres,
more or less. All lying in the IPtb-idM
trict of said county, and - aggregating
229 acres, more or less. Levied on as
the property of John R. Wimberly to
satisfy a fi. fa. from Pulaski Superior
Court in favor of J. O. Jelks & Bro. vs,
John R. Wimberly and D. E. Mathews.,
Legal notice of levy given. • • • ■ ;
Also, at same time and place, 140 acres
of land mere or less, off the southern
portion of lot No. 115, in the,5th;district
of said county, cut o~ff 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. This landknown as the
Wiley Leverett home place, and on which
he now resides. Levied on as "the prop*
erty of Wiley Leverett to satisfy a fi. fa:
from Houston Superior Court, April
term, 1889, in£avor,ofP. A. Crowder vs.
Wiley Leverett. Legal notice of levy
given.;, -i : ." ■■; L ,r f v) - . j. - G
Also, at same time and place, 3 acres
of land in the northeast comer of lot No.
77, on which is situated the J. R. Wim
berly residence and improvements;
101M acres more or less, being
the northeast half of lot No.. 92, r in the
12th district .of said county.- .'Levied on
as the property 8f John R. Wimberly to
satisfy a fi. fa. from Houston Siiperior
Court, returnable to October iei'm, 1889,’
in favor of Abial Converse vs. John R.
Wimberly; ' Legalnotice of levy given*
Also,, atriaine time arid place, one black
mare mule ririined Lucy, about twelve
years old. Levied on as the property of
W> F, Ecgram, one of defendants, to sat
isfy a fib fa., from Houston Superior
Court, Gcfober.term, 1881, in favor of A.
S. Giles, Ordinary;for use. etc., vs. N. Ti
Johnson, principal,. and W. F. Engrain)
security. Levy made by J. W. Colyer,
former sheriff, and turned oyer to me for
Hi. M. L. COOPER, Sheriff. -
Perry, Ga. Oct. 3,1889.
County Bailiff’s Sales.
Will be sold before the-court house
door in the town of Perry, Houston
Yonnty, Ga., between the legal hours of
>3@| on the .first Tuesday iff November
1889, the following property/to-wit:
One steam engine, one Massey cotton
gin, and one cotton press. Levied on as
the property o£ Wiley Leverett,. and in
his possession, to satisfy a fi. fa. from-
Houston County Court, return able to Oc
tober term, 1889, in favor of D. J. Baer
vs. Wiley Leverett.
J. N. TUTTLE, C.B.
Oct. 3rd, 1889. .C' ~
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The latest artistic craze in Eng
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b?nt into curls and carves by
pbfers, imitating wrought iron
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ticles, such as flower glasses, fairy
lamps, and night lights;, the ma
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The state of Georgia should not
own property that in course of
business comes : iff competition
with the business of any citizens
of .Georgia. - ;
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