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COTTON FACTOR! MACON, ga: VO ‘NOOVW 10 VR -GIVE THE- -A TRIAL. ADVERTISE SUBSCRIBE FOR THE H031E JOURNAL Headquarters fir Houston news, JOIIjN H. HODGES, Proprietor, Demoted to Home liiterests anti Culture. TWO BOLLAES A Year in Advance. XIX. rzn 'NG|gLGS NOAAOO PERRY, GEORGIA, nfURSiMX OCTOBER-24,.L889. NO. 42. —The Home Journal Job of- J fice is Tally prepared to do an¥ kind o£ Commercial job work that may be needed. All nicely <pad- ded, and at prices that will com pete-with any city. Call and look, at our samples and get our pries a ,• and you will leave your orders. “ 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. 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