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JOHN H. HODGES, Proprietor,
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROCRESS AND CULTURE.
PEICE: TWO
! -A. Year '.
VOL. XXI.
PEKRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1891.
NO. 25-
-BETREAT FROM LAUREL HILL-
Pursued ByMcCIellan. Battle, of
Carrier’s Ford. Death of Gen.
Garnett—1861.
Transcribed from a Soldier's Diary for the
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GEORGIA—Houston County:
M. L. Cooper, guardian for Houston
F. Cooper, lias applied for dismission
from his trnst:
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the
term; 1891, of the Court of Ordinary of
said county, and show cause, if any the,
have, why said application should not be
Witness my official signature this May
2G, 1891. J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
Georgia—Houston County:
II. E. Murray, administrator of estate
of ]j A. Culp, latoof said county, de
ceased. has applied for dismission from
his trust: ...
This is, therefore, to cite all persons
concerned to appoar at the September
term, 1891- of the court of Ordinary of
said county and show cause, if any they
have, why said application should not
be granted. , ...
Witness my official signature this May
2G 1891
’ '' J. H- HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
Mrs. Sopbrania Gurr, widow of T. J.
Gurr, lato of said county, deceased, has
applied for twelve months supportrfrom
estate of said deceases:
Thisisthereforoto cite all personscon-
cerned to appear at the July term,
1891 of the court of Ordinary of said coun
ty, and show cause, if any they have, why
said application should not be granted.
Witness my official signature this May
2G, 1891. J H. HOUSER,
Ordinary.
Georgia—Houston County:
Zack Hayes, administiator of estate of
James Hayes, late of said county, de
ceased, has applied for-leave to sell
lands belonging to said estate:
This is therefore to cite alTpersons con
cerned to appear - at the July term,
1891, of the Court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they
have, why said application should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this Ivlay
?G, 1891. J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA Houston County.
T. 1). Warren, administrator of the
estate of C. A. Warren deceased, has ap
plied for dismission from liis trust:
Tkis is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the. August term,
1891, of the Court of Ordinary of Hous
ton county, and showcauso, if any they
have, why said application should not be
granted. -
Witness my official signature this
April 30, 1891.
J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
Mrs. C. M. Holleman, administratrix
of estate of B. Holleman, deceased, has
applied for dismission from her trust:
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appoar at the July term,
1891, of the court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they have,
why said application should not be
granted. .
Witness my official signature this'the
30th of March, 1891. ,
J. H. HOUSEIv'Ordinary.
Application lor Charter.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
COUNTY 01 HOUSTON.
To tho Suporior Court of said county.
The petition of John G. Brown, O. E.
Houser, W. H. Roberts, A. E. Wimberly,
H. Benson, S. E. Bivins, W. H. Hirrison,
J. Q. Ellis, J. J. Houser, of siiid.State and
County, and L. S. Worsham and A. M.
Rogers, of said State and County of Bibb,
respectfully represents that thoy desire
for themselves, their associates and suc
cessors, to be incorporated for a period
of twenty years, with the privilege of re
newal at the expiration of that .time, un
der the name of the “Grovania Oil and
Fertilizer Company.”
The object of their association is pe
cuniary gain, and the particular business
they propase to carry on is the manufac
ture and sale of oil from cotton seed,
the refining, compounding and prepar
ing the same for market, the manufac
ture and sale of fertilizers of • all kinds,
ginning and baling cotton, grinding
corn, wheat, oats, rye, and other grains
and substances, to sell the products of
their manufacture, to buy and sell cot
ton seed and ail other kinds of seeds,
phosphate roek and all other articles nec
essary to the .successful conduct of said
business.
The amount of the capital stock of said
corporation is Twelve Thousand dollars,
and they desire the privilege of increas
in'* said amount to any amount not ex
ceeding One Hundred. Thousand dollars,
said capital stock to bo divided into
shares of Ono Hundred dollars each.
Ten per cent, of the capital stock has
been paid in.
The place of business of said corpora
tion is to he Grovania, in said county. '!
They ask the privilege'of buying, hold
ing, selling, leasing'and renting real es
tate and personal property for the pur
poses of said business, and also to mort
gage or otherwise encumber tho same, to
borrow money, make promissory note£,
to issue bonds and script, or other evi
dence of debt, and to seenro tho payment
of the same by mortgage, deed of trust or
otherwise, and to make all contracts and
obligations necessary to tho proper con
duct of the business.
- To siie and be sued, plead and be im
pleaded under tho_.corporato name, to
have and ■ use- a corporate seal, and to
make such by-laws and regulations as
may be necessary not inconsistent with
law, and to do all other things necessary
and usual iu the conduct of the business,
and to have all the privileges and rights
under the law usually granted to such
corporations.
Therefore, petitioners pray for an or
der incorporating them under the name
and for the purpose aforesaid. And pe
titioners will ever pray, etc.
Wm. BRUNSON, Jit.,
Petitioners’- Att’y.
Filed in office, this 27th day of May
1891
M. A. EDWARDS,
Clerk.
Gsobgia—Houston County:
Tho above is a true Copy of the origimd
petition for charter for the Grovania Oil
and Fertilizer Company as appears of file
and record in this office, this, the 27 day
ofMaylS91. ai. A.EDWARDS,
Clerk*
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Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castorla
july 13th 1861.
Again another horseman dashes
up to the rear guard and confirms
the intimatioufirst announced that
a heavy force of mounted infantry
are indeed pushing through' the
mon n tain upon us.
The rear guard is now nearing
the riyer, where.it can be seen that
the army is almost through the
stream, in places np to the chips of
the soldiers, while some few wag
ons of sick soldiers are yet stanch
ing, or in tarn trying to pnll into the"
stream to cross with the suffering
burden.
Again and again another, and an
other scout or horseman dashes np
to the rear guard in wild excite
ment; and.simultaneously almost,
others come flying over the rocks
and down the mountain, indeed in
front of McClellan's large advance
force of mounted infantry pouring
through the woods from every
where; all oyer the mountain, out-
fiauking our mounted ecouts or
small cavalry force, and driving
them pell melt into the river.
The guard or footmen, now well
into, or perhaps about midway the
stream, seeing, the great danger'of
being trampled under foot and
drowned in the wild flight of the
Green Briar and Bath Mountain
cavalry, our own rude and undis
ciplined (recently mustered- into
service) horsemen; or indeed
while with all haste fording,
stumbling over rocks and shoals,
bobbing up and down, in and out
of the water at full length, to reach
the other bank from which to open
fire upon the mad rush of McClel
lan’s men; or again, under this'
wild rush-of. excitement, and now
spirited musketry fire from McClel
lan’s men, while yet we are in the
river, many of the guard are com
pelled to fix bayonets to force a
deflection or passage to the right
or left to avoid being trampled nu-
der foot an dindeed drowned by onr
own wild horsemen; which to them
at this moment had become'a mat
ter of self-preservation, or “the sur
vival of the fittest” in a free and go
easy race for the other side of the
river to avoid capture or death on
the first bank, or in Cheat river. In
less time than it has taken to nar
rate this ridiculous,, yet very, seri
ous incident at the opening of the
battle of Carrick’s Ford, the guard
and the horsemen scramble up the
opposite banks, as wet as drowned
rats, to open fire on McClellan’s
men now giving the whole of us
hail Columbia from the other side.
Scarcely before the guard had
assumed anything like a solid
front, or indeed while yet keeping
up a desultory fire from behind
trees and other... obstructions, the
enemy succeeds in bringing to
bear upon us a battery of artillery,
whose first shell comes crashing
turobgh the trees and-undergrowth
to burst near my friends McPher
son Felder and GeQrge Paul, both
of whom at this moment were keep
ing up a lively fire from behind a
moderate size, bnt friendly old
tree. On the impulse of the mo
ment, or in the greatest mental
surprise, friend Paul exclaims:
“See that Mack!” and as if impell
ed by some other more uncontrolla
ble impulse or hallucination of the
brain,breaks for another and larger
tree out of line of fire of the bat
tery. What reply, if _any, Mack
made Parti, I know not to this day.
They were in the direct line of fire,
while I was farther to the right or
out of the direct line, and behind a
huge old poplar.
My diary says: “I find myself
wholly unable to prevent my teeth
from chattering, (wet and drab
bled, to say nothing of other influ
ences at work upon irie) but at the
same time enjoying a side-split
ting-laugh at the expense of friend
Paul, (good old soldier) who exhib
ited such extreme surprise and
wild astonishment, both in counte
nance and actions. My position
behind the big old poplar tree, and
a little ont of line of fire ! of bat
tery, afforded ine fine opportunity
to see, and, on the impulse of the
moment, to heartily enjoy ^their
disccomfiture and their apparent
dread of another and another shell
rapidly to follow.”
The silver lining upon m-y
cloud, however, was of but a mo
ment’s duration; the exegencies of
the'occasion now becoming too in-
exerable to admit of even a glance
at the other fellow to. ascertain
what be did or did not do.
In the smoke of battle and. rain
now enveloping iis, friends Mack
and George were non esfc, or had
disappeared from me, ns well as I
from them, and for the next eight
or ten days that followed neither
knew if the other was dead or
alive.
But in this brief moment be
tween tue flash of the cannon, the
lifting smoke of the bursting shell,
or the envelopment by that of bat
tle, in which my friends were lost
to view, that surprise and aston
ishment on friend Paul’s face and
in every action, was so indelibly
stereotyped upon my mind, that to
mention now becomes a reflex, of
the past, or finds me again behind
the "old poplar tree enjoying a good
laugh at the expense of friend
Paul. He may have forgotten it,
bat I have not. Nor am -1 indi
rectly lying, as this morning, enter
ing the rear guard, to hold him up
to-the slicking point or to prevent
his failing courage, the same as he
to me, but in all sincerity and
truth to remind, or call back the
old soldiers to how often these lit
tle ridiculous incidents turned up
in the tightest places aud under
the most uninviting circumstances.
To gently lead them back iu the
labyrinthian past, along the bloody
streams, over the rugged ways, uc-
der the many dark clouds as well
the few bright skies. To arrest
decaying memory, dig up the in
side incidents and mishaps of the
soldier’s life, or contrast, as we chat
on the way, this happy present
with that furious and unhappy
past.
Nor would I appear,- at this late
day, ns a historian, with filed rec
ords before me to compile a new or
more complete history of the war,
but only aud solely, in story, as
one of the many thousaud, yet liv
ing witnesses who saw from differ
ent standpoints and in different
lights, and who, under oath, would
honestly dispute each other —with
my private elaborated diary as a
basis of fact-to hold up against
treacherous memory’s alabi which,
in so many words might say, I
know not of these things, or it is a
dream without reality—a statement
of fact without a basis of truth.
Or again,young and even some sol
diers enlisted long after the storm
of war was full upon us, and the
first or small beginnings had been
engulfed by the still larger and
pressing new ones, might say we
never heard .of the suffering, starv
ing and bleeding race between
Garnett and McClellan.
Butin memory,'and for senti
ment’s sake, or for the edification
of those old soldiers whir either
met that or any other similar trials
of war; will continue fighting and
retreating, to whip and be whip
ped, climbing the mountains, wad-
ing thestreams, ploughing through
and over the snows, shivering on
the ice, weeping, laughing and
chatting the past with the present;
and with the hope to keep ahead,
without being cut off and surround
ed,’till memory is appeased or ex
hausted, and '’till the oblation of
the past to the present is fully com
pleted in story, and fact combined.
The inner life and trials of the
soldier so fully encased by the out
er records of the war, or held : in
common- as one whole.. I would
allow every old soldier to testify
this way and the other,or even im
peach me if"they can, but would
still ask them to follow me iu sym
pathy as I endeavor to. open the
old road now so badly obstructed
and overgrown with time, and so
effaced and obliterated ns to be-
come-almost unrecognizable, to say
nothing of recognizing themselves
as a factor and participant in the
blazing scenes all along the old
route. >
The gallant Virginia battery
stationed on the pike leading to
the ford as the guard is pushed
back, now pours charge after
charge of grape and cannister into
McClellan’s solid columns pouring
into and through the river, andL
now indeed like hellhounds, mov
ing np and on every side of the
pike facing the fire of onr battery.
From the right and left ofibattery,
Talsvin’s Va. regimeut and others
with the First Ga. regiment fur
ther in the rear, pour a destructive
fire of musketry into the enemy.
But in solid phalanx McClellan
still pushes to the front to make a
breach in onr lines to the left of
center, which to close again or
drive back at this point the gal
lant G*ruett sword ib hand rushes
to the fronipalas! to fall pierced
tbrongb-the heart with a in in rue
ball.
a heavy force down the river fromTly advise, or it’s miserable coward?
the other side to cut off aud - snr-;ice of the moment,
round Us. I All the combined powers or parts
In this moment of confusion, up- * of a broken whole'rush 113 a rein-
on the death of our commander | forcementto save and sustain in
and the threatening aspect in our j the hoar of the greatest trial, dau-
r-ear, our lines are rapidly hurled j ger and despair, while the ingenni-
back in front, while some portion
of the rear guard and six com pa
nies of the First Ga. regiment are
driven obliquely, back and on the
side of the mountain overlooking
Carrick’s Ford. About this" same
moment a heavy column of McClel
lan’s forces push into and through
the breach, driving the balance of
our entire army down the river.
The wildness of the mountains
surrounding and overlooking Car-
rack’s Ford, together with the rap
idly flashing lightning, the contin
uous peals of thunder, (along with
the cannon) accompanied by the
most terrible rain during the bat
tle, which had-ever {alien upon ns,
seemed to-add to and heighten the
horribleness of our situation.
' These six companies, some few
scouts and a portion of .the real
ty of necessity often becomes a
(savior) saver at last,
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
A CITY LOST FOB 1,000 YEARS.
St. Louis B e public-
That one Of the greatest of all
the-eities built by the Buddhists iu
the East should have been forgot
ten and lost in the depths of a
trackless forest for 1,000 years is a
carious fact that takes a powerful
hokhon the imagination. Readers
of Ferguson and Sir Emerson Teu-
ueut have heard something of the
architectural wonders of Anarad-
iiapura, the ancient “City of Gran
ite,” in the island of Ceylon, and
of the unparalleled immunity of
its structures and rich monument
al remains from the ravages of tho
THE CULTURE OF" HAY.
SHORTENING THE SESSION.
Jadge-John P. Harris, of New- ' OresnsboroHeraM-Jounui.
ton county, Ga ., has beeirengaged , For years the people of Georgia
in farming nearly all his life. Un- ' have endeavored to secure from .
til a few years back he devoted--their representatives the passage
most of his land to eoru_and cotton, j of some Jaw which will result in
The Covington Star gives the.sub-! shortening the legislative sessions
stance .of-Judge Harris'remarks: and holding them within the con-,
before the sub-alliance of that stitutional limit. Their efforts
town, giving his experiments in
grass culture. Judge Harris said:
‘At the time I made the first ex
periment, it was a necessity iu or
der to do anything with about 20
acres of fine bottom land, which
-had become so thoroughly sodded
with Bermuda grass that I-could
have proved futile so far, and -
while, during the' canvass preced- ?
ing the election, candidates- are
very profuse in their promises,
when jthe time foi~ action comes
there seems to be sach a diversity
of opinion as to the best method
that nothing practical has‘been
not plow it to any advantage, and accomplished,
consequently could not get com to I I Q common with a number of
despoiler and the religions fanatic,
guard, pushed back in battle and Since the above authors wrote
dismembered from our army, now great progress has been made in
hopelessly cut off, must either sur
render or become indeed wanderers
through the wild and barren moun
tains back to Stanton or Monterey,
Virginia, over Cheat, Alleghaney
and Bine Ridge mountains-. The
guns of our army still distinctly
heard, yet becoming more and
more indistinct, seem to bid us
farewell, or now indeed to sound a
death knell to the last hope in the
future;
Each soldier, still holding fast
to his musket as yet his only and
best friend, eyes each other as
much as-to say iu the language of
the parrot to its mistress of itself
and the monkey: “We’ve had a
h— of a time.”
- The pattering rain on the leaves
of the forest would seem to sing a
lullaby to the jaded and famishing
soldiers; would seem to sing a song
of quiet and rest to. tired nature’s
crying demands, but self preserva
tion becomes now a law unto itself
toi even individual consideration—
a rea.lity stripped of . every doubt,
hanging on the slenderest thread
.for safety; aud cannot for a single
moment,listen to the delusive in-
buences that.would tempt and be
guile.
Action, quick and determined
actionl No if’s nor and’s can en
ter the discussion in the mind " of
the soldier, nor can find a reasona
ble lodgdement in The brain, now
whirling as on a pivot, and able
this moment to see naught else but
air and mountains as a support aud
pilot.
But miud and will power boldly
steps-to the frout and takes com
mand of the shattered and almost
stranded bark—takes command to
steer it still on through the break
ers, and perhaps to some harbor of
Safety, or in one more last aud des
perate effort go down to rise no |
more.
Vet the already three or four
days and nights of hunger, pitiless
rain, sleepless nights aud days of
toil which have continued to test
must still test “the survival of the
fittest;” and no soldier now im
paled, so to speak, on the side or
the top of the mountain overlook
ing Carrack’s Ford can answer for
the ’morrow.
A cordou of Federal soldiers
(the enemy) perhaps now tighten
ing its lines around us for capture,
or a fight to the death, is seen at
least in imagination; starvation in
our midst; McClellan’s whole army
between us and our support or
friends, and a wild waste of moun
tains all around us, would seem to
tempt us as it were, “to lay down
onr banjos and cry.”
But tho resource of the truly
courageous aud determined soldier
is never exhausted while yet there
is life, while yet there is a ghost of
chance to" cheat victory out of its
perhaps well wonjreward, or regain
partial success out of almost posi
tive defeat.
Death may hold its terrors, and
the heart- may weep fora moment
in .bitterness, but hope and despor-
ation coalesce, and on the - spur, of
the moment swSar the impending
sentence shall not stand, shall not
be executed. ./
Manhood leaps from the iron
grasp of exhausted nature and re
asserts itself withoutknowiDg liow,
from whence, or why it is-so. The
giiawing huuger-forgets its pain,' or
is lost in the excitement of the mo
ment and crouches in subjection
to the will power tbat_ overthrows
and dethrones it. The delusive
insinuations that all is lost, all is
clearing up the jungles and bring
ing Anuradhapura once more to
the light of day. Mr. Burrows,
who visited the city in 1886 and
1887, gave a remarkable account of
the progress made in archaeolgicai
discoveries in- and around this an
cient buried city during the last
ten years. Readers of' this note
who care to know more about this
immense lost city, the limits of
which are about six and a lialf_ by
four aud a half miles, will find the
above mentioned account by Mr.
Burrows in Macmillan’s. Magazine
for September, 1887. Since this
acount was written the clearings
and excavations have yielded won
derful results. The outline of this
gigantic relic of a past age is that
of a flattened oval. -The wonder
ful palace of Cingalese, supposed
to have been built about two thou
sand years ago, aud. of which Mr.
Burrows gives an elaborate de
scription, was ODly discovered in
1886, aud its size and position al
most exactly agreeing with the
most authentic account extant from
an eye-witness of Anuradhapura in
her glory—Fa Hian, who yisited it
in the early part of the fifth centu
ry-
When The Earth Was Young
When the earth was very young,
says Dr. Ball, Astronomer Royal
for Ireland, it went around so fast
that the day was only three hours
long. The earth was liquid then,
aud ns it spun around and around
at that fearful speed, and as the
sun causedyver increasing tides
upon its surface, it at last burst iu
two. The smaller part became the
moon, which has been going
around^ the earth ever since at an
increasing distance. The influ
ence of the moon now rises tides
on the earth, and, while there-was
liquid to operate on in the moon,
the earth returned the compliment.
Electricity is employed in a Ber
lin cafe to boil coffee. A platinum
wire passes in spiral form through
several glass jars, the electrical
current quickly raising the water
contained to boiling points and the
coffee is thus prepared in the view
of any one in the room. A small
electric railway conveys the coffee
to the several tables, so that the
guests may help themselves to
their liking.
John Schrimsher, of Emporia,
Neff, weighs T45 pounds, and his
wife weighs 404 pounds. She is_
thirty-one years old, and is still
gaining flesh. Her father weighs
over 500 pounds, and her mother
tips the . beam at 410. She has a
sister, twenty-seven years old, who
weighs 460 pounds, and she has
four brothers whose combined'
weight is over 1,500 pounds.
Last year there was spent in this
country, for tea, the sum of §30,-
000,000; for coffee, §122,500,000;
and for malt and spirituous bever
ages, §900,000,000.
La Grippe Again.
During the epidemic- of La
Grippe last season Dr. Ring’s New
Discovery for Consumption,. Colds
and Coughs, proved to be the best
remedy. Reports from the many
who used it confirm this statement.
They were not only quickly reliev
ed, but the disease left nq, bad af
ter results. We ask you to give-
this remedy a trial, and we guar
antee ' that you . w-01 be satisfied
with results, nr the purchase price
will he refunded- A It hn^ no equal
j in La Grippe, or any Throat, Chest
grow upon it to, do any good. So,
for cultivation. I gave it up, and
let the grass grow. I then pro
cured a. mower and hay rake, and
from these twenty acres I saved
my first crop of hay.
“I had cultivated these bottoms
for twenty-five years, until they
were overrun with Bermuda grass,
and made from five to six barrels
of corn, to the aefe; but this crop
of- grass paid me.better than any
crop of corn I ever raised on the
laud. I sold the hay readily in
maiket after this first trial with
the grasses.
“The next year 1 enlarged my
operations, and from about the
20th of May to the lOtb-of June,
would sow all the laud iu millet,
peas, sorghum and corn,and would
smooth ami. plow the land for crab
grass and other native grasses.
Now, it is a fact well known to
many, bnt not to ail, that weeds
will come to interfere with the
grass until the middle of Mayto
some extent, but do not come to
amount to auything after the first
of June.
“I made a business of mowing
on shares for those who had grass-
e.s, and have often cut from 10,000
to 15,000 pounds of hay per day,
^fid have realized as high'for a
day’s work as §70. Now, this is
big talk, but if. you will take the
pains to investigate the truth of
the assertion,' I will pay for all the
time aud trouble you may have in
making the investigation iE I do
not prove it to be correct, and will
show a written certificate from one
of the most reliable men in New
ton county, showing that in one
day’s work he saved §100 worth of
hay.
Now, as to the kind of grasses,
they are all good. Bermuda, if
high enough to cut, is fine. Le's-
pedezia, or wild clo.ver, crow fool
millet, Johnson grass, sorghum,®
corn; aud, in fact; almost auy’.liing
is good. Broom sedge will make
good foragT if cut at the proper
time, and that is when it is fully in
bloom.
“I think any man can safely try
these two experiments: Take two
acres of land alike in quality and
condition. Plant one in cotton,
and sow the other in German mil
let, sorghum, peas or corn. Put
as much manure on the acre-for
forage as -you do on the one for
cotton. The result will convince
any man as to which is the more
profitable. -
At fodder palling time, start
two good hands alike—one to the
corn field to save fodder, the other
to saving grass with a mowing
blade, and you will find that the
hand saving grass has saved about
ten times as much as the one sav
ing fodder. Hay is now worth §25
per ton. By the preparation of
one or two acres of land put in mil
let or sorghum, (and we have no
sort of conception of the latter as
a lorage crop) the yield is large
and one of .the most. nutritions
feeds there is. It is time we were
looking more into such matters,
and not always travel with the
rock in. one end of the bag. I have
saved, housed and stacked hay un
til it seemed to me that I had more
than I would ever sell. Gne sea
son I had in, of-all kinds,200 acres,
and by the 15th of December had
sold the last sheaf of it. Last
season I had in about 130 acres
in peas, corn, sorghum, etc., and
could have sold twice as much as
I made.' ■'*>
“In brder to save hay, it is lire,
essary to do the work as rapidly as
possible; and, if the sunshine is
good, and the weather dry and hot,
all short grass can' be cured and
housed with one full Jay’s sun on
it. If it is talfi heavy grass it will
take longer, Li order to keep the
hay good and bright, it should I e
pnt up in small, sharp cones, as the
dew will make it dark.’
the people and with many papers
of the state, the Herald-Journal
has advanced the opinion.that one
of the simplest and best ways to
obtain a shortening oE the sessions
is by remanding local legislation
to the various counties. None will
deny, we think, that local acts are •
responsible for the adjourned ses
sions; that if the legislature would
confine itself to general acts the
body could-easily complete its la
bors within the forty days provi-
ded by the constitution. Then
why not confine the general assem
bly to general legislation? If the
local acts consume their time, in
creasing the expenses of the legis
lature, why not place those acts in
the hands of the various counties,
and the expenses of such legisla
tion where it properly belongs, up
on the peojfie demanding it? No
one will for a moment deny that
the people of the counties are best
qualified to pass upon legislation
which effects them alone. Then,
if they are best qualified, why not
give them the power, through local
legislative commissions, of passing
their-local acts?
It has been argued by some that
the delegation of legislative pow
ers to others than the general as
sembly would lie unconstitutional.
The argument of constitutionality,
we take it, comes with but ill
grace from a body which has vio
lated that constitution repeatedly
since its adoption. The numer
ous summer-sessions which have *
been held since the constitution of
1877 was ratified,, have been open ..
violations of that instrument, and
while repeated violations may have
caused the people to acquiesce in
them, and has established precc- ^
dent sufficient, the fact remains
that the constitution has -been set
at defiance once in matters of grave
moment, aud the ends attained—
aud which have been used as justi
fication ■ of the violation—are no
more important or pressing than
the demand now made. --**
Bat why cannot.the act be made
constitutional? The people would
quickly ratify an amendment which
would assure a lessening of the
sessions of the general assent Dly,
and the plan proposed gives this
assurance.
Why not give the counties local
legislative powers ? The state gov
ern meut of Georgia is foundeanp-
on tho principle of democracy that
the people shall rule. Is not leg-
islation by the' counties of their
internal affairs the strongest kind-
of democratic principle? Is it' not
in perfect harmony with the spirit
of the constitution, and the spirit
of the government in all its branch
es? If so—and who can deny it?
■how simple it will be to make
the letter of the constitution com
ply with the spirit'and principle
of the government which gave it *
life and still.give3 it force and
power.
The principle we advocate is a
correct one; it meets the approval
of the people; it is demanded by'
the increasmg and diversified in
terests of the state, and the-legis-
lature cannot longer evade it. Give
us local legislation by county com
missions.
Merit Measured by Success.
beyond hope, bides from the fierce; or LaC£? tron fai e . Tria i boUle freP
McClellan having fully counter- ‘scowKof re-asserted prowess de- a £ Holtzclaw &- Gilbert’s Drug
vailed us at this point, now pushes mnuding a retraction qf itsqmnan- Stoi’e, Large bottles, 50c. and SI
TOR. THE MOOD.
Weakness, Malaria, Indigestion and
The wonderful popularity* of
Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.) is the
natural resalt of the tests to
which the public has put it. The
merits of the medicine have re«
mained the same, bat the knowl
edge of the people with respect to
its remarkable properties has in
creased until now there is a de
mand, forit wherever the English
language is spoken. S. S. S. was
first offered as a specific for conta
gions blood poison. “For that it
was, and is, trnly a specific. But
it is now regarded, wherever its
virtues are known, as a true spe
cific for all forms of blood disease.
Whole colums c->nld be filled with
testimonials to this-ffffecf.
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