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T^c Cmwiu* Comunr, 77 Hubei* Sisbkt, Hew Yon. WITH LATEST IMPROVEMENTS ita. riFr.lrU Tolly OuarnnlMMl. HiW.HUneARD A ^*^ibr «r V4 aarry «*ouk various Uoufcharu points ftir qhIcIc tklivtry uoou r®cblj>t of orders. ' OSGOOD’ S. Standard fissIsnuUI. Fro! If 111 i 3 Toil {35. iY.**.mVuh auill'aMOfcint 7033 VVPTIS (V . ITLV IOXKCDTICD -AT THIS OFFICE Citation For New Road. Georgia—Houston County: To: al^whom it may,cohcem: All parties interested are hereby noti fied that, if no -good cause be shown to the contrary, an order will be granted by the Commissioners’ Court of said county on the first Monday in. September next, establishing a . new. ropd, as marked out by the road commissioners appointed for that purpose, commencing at J J Smith’s store, on the Henderson and Hawkins- vUle road, thence to the town of Elko, on the G. S. tP.K. E. Said road, if es tablished, will run through t}ie lauds of the following named persons: J. J.Smith, Mrs: M. J. Mhhs, Jerry M. Thompson, Mrs. J. D. "Watson; Mrs. E. Cole, Wm Edmundson, J. F. Houser and David Knight". Bv order of court. J. M. Davis, July 3D, 1891. rn “ : Clerk. K : „ r: -e to V llir-VV' fe/ VW* f m -Nl PKKN c > •- - c -~ y S’ 1 ■ Ac o n Ohlldren Oryfor Pltcher’aCa.torla. True Greatness rests upon the imperishable adamaut, resistin alike mutation of time, and the malice of meu. Reputation may suffer, fade and di.% it is simply the verdict of to-day, which -'may be trneor false; but character is of different texture, and is not effect ed by the opinion, either favorable or unfavorable, of meu. Reputa-, lion is what we think of anyone, character is what one is. True greatness need not concern itself about post humous glory. History is faithful, and will set it forth as it is. The chronicler may be false and misstate facts, but the ’-philosophy of fact, which is the province of history, will strip off the veil and set forth the truth and will not concern herself with what is pronounced in the heat of passion and the fog of prejudice, The rebel of this age may be the crowned patriot of the next. True merit can well afford to wait the verdict of the future, appealing from a false tribunal to the voice of the future Isistoriau who will concern himself only with the truth and the honest purpose to tell it, giving each age, event and person that niche in the Temple of Fame forced from adverse circumstances and the unreasonable . opposition confronting honest endeavor. This principle for the time is not always successful is best shown in the hour of seeming defeat and disas ter, but Truth will weep that even for a time it suffered, and her brighteat banner was furled, retir ing from the unequal contest hav ing lost all but that priceless jewel —her honor—her character. Worldly wise men may deify the axiom that “nothiug succeeds like success,” but history will reverse the verdict, rendering success fail ure and failure | success. Success is more frequently won by the sur render of manhood and the abou- donmeiit of principle. The rebels of this century may be the heroes of the next. Posi tions will be reversed and the crown mourned by the uncrowned of to day, will in the future adorn the, brow of time greatness. -SECESSION constitutional. An apppal to. the constitution granting the right of peaceable se cession, was ohswered hy asserting that the constilitution was a “cove nant with death and in league with hell.” The Slogau "of the North — The Union! the Union,must bo pre served, was hypocritical cant, ad dressed^ to the ignorant rabble, ■succeeding in its purpose in rais ing an army, keeping up the de pleted ranks and operated to de stroy the Union for which • such concern was expressed. The leaders of Northern thought and action for aquarter of a century preached the gospel of secession,, and when the crisis came, the South had no other resource or redress broke with the ganeral government. She was accused of a dark conspir acy, entered into for the purpose of disrupting the best government the world ever saw, and must be whipped back into submission, preaching the gospel of Union, branding herself as a willful liar; declaring that no secession could be found in the constitution, and therefore, the South was in a state of rebellion, and when at last she yielded to brute force, the North somersaulted again, declared the South had seceded; was a conquer ed province, and as such E5d no rights but such as the dominant party should be pleased to grant her. The leaders of the South were incorruptible patriots of ripe wis dom; acknowledged ability and con spicuous statesmanship, correctly apprehended the situation, knew the meaning of the storm that.was blowing, divining the future, know ing that success was exceedingly problematical, but forced to jour the issne to protect honor Which was esteemed most of all. The South came from the san guinary field with arecord of un questioned skill, a conrage never equaled, having lost all but her honor.. This preserved;-, she con sidered the price worth the effort, and the honor of maintaining it of more value than the sacrifice made arid the toils and suffering endured. The South stands to-day beside the tomb of her precious dead, re calling the fearful conflict, her slain sons, her oppressedorphaued children, her hushandless women, saying: “Miue honor was more than all these, and knowing the bitterness of the fimdict, the hiss sustained, listening to the lam ci tations of broken hearts, the de r ; feat, the dark days of reconstruc tion, I wo aid make, the fight- for the maintenance of mine lnuor of royal subjects.” Wise statesmanship and patriot ism asserts that, no people have a right tfrentail the heritage of we apon.future generations, the dif ferences of which should be s ‘ttled now. The conflict was iuevitble—come it must, and it was courage and wisdom that forced the cnlrnitiito tion rather than parry the blow, and permit it to fall" upon our. children, who had no voice or act in bringing it on. NO APOLOGY. Southern people "and the_ Lost Cause need no apologists, no cant ing time servers, making them selves the pliant tools of a rapa cious, intolerant foe for .the pur- pose.of temporary advantage. The one who came into this world ou Southern soil, breathing Southern air, nurtured and reaped in a Southern home, understand ing Southern sentiment aud honor, witnessing the gallaut conflict, stands before the world a self-con fessed rebel and conspirator, has forfeited every right distinction and honor of the South, and should be driven beyond our sunny clime, followed by the maledictions of his slandered and outraged country- bled, bleeding suffering Southern should erect oar funeral pile and soldiers in a state of almost" fren- ; together with our women and chil- zied despair,made Kis last and most ; dren.offer the sacrifice, leaving no gallant fight for his honor, his! trace of our bsiog but the nrn of home and his "henfogs. The Ten-; ashes that may resist-the power of riessee Boy was on his mettle. and Uheflames. native heath. From the bloody: . oub "WOMEN field he could see the steeple or his have been, placed - by our loyalty village churcn, and his cottage au( | devotion upon the pedestal of embowered with tne beech, the oaK • pm-jty, modesty, ' gentleness, wife- and the elm. Again he recalls the j hood, motherhood, and there by the whispered prayer of .mother, the; he j p o f q 0( j we w ;n keep her, and sighs grid tears of sister, _and the | wo3 j 0 the man whose impious oft repeated vow of lover spoken j hand would seek to dethrone her. broken sentences. Tnese all ' She is oor Queen, and &s long as came to him with unwanted and in-1 s j ie occupies that throne no Queen THE SACRED MEMORIES which gather about our dead, their toils, their sufferings, their unex ampled courage, the.empty sleeves of the scarred veteran, -who still lingers a little while, the connect ing link of the past, the ' remnant of the grandest soldiery the world ever saw, forbid that we should frame weak excuses, and indulge in miserable whimperings, utter ing weak apologies for the part we took in the glorious struggle. Rather let my right arm be stricken from my N shoulder, iny tongue keep eternal ' silence than the one be lifted against the South or the other should pronounce the charge of treason, and stigmatize her sons as a band of conspirators and rebels. The Southern army was the flow er of Southern chivalry, the rank and file possessing men who could with distinction command brigade, division or corps. SOUTHEBN CIVILIZATION. This array was the outgrowth of Southern civilization, the best, the purest, the most exulted type the world ever produced. Out of this civilization- came this splendid ar my, whose genius, skill, prowess and deeds of daring caused the world to forget Thermopolea,' Pharsalia, Waterloo and the charge of the Light Brigade, im mortalized by the witchery of the productive imagination of Eng land’s Poet Laureate. Poesy has found a grander epic in the first Manassas, the place and field where the Southern army re ceived its first baptism of fire, and where the first column of its prow ess was raised with a dash that dumbfounded the insplent invader and hurled him ifi disgraceful route from" the bloody, field to his own capital, feeling insecure under the guns oithal city. A few battalions shattered a vastly-more numerous foe, superior in all -the equipments of war; in Gettysburg, where the gallant Pickett led forward his dec imated ranks arid with "the force of a thunderbolt !i.urled : them against Round Top, the key of tiie battle- They move with a stately.graudner, facing The hail of grape, canister, shell and ball as though it" were a pleasant passtime, . holding’ their course, charging over abattis and (Rich, placing the stars and bars upon the staff from which but an hour since, floated in .defiance the stars and stripes. "With no -sup port maintaining their place amid smoke,-, carnage and deatli, while a hundred cauripri ;weTe.vbelddng creased power, and with his hand aud eye uplifted be appeals to the God of battles, and the silent oath is registered “the enemy vanquish ed or the grave of the soldier. What mattered the dead level plain oE more than one mile, it were as nothing. By his side s'ord the hoys of Georgia, Alabama, the Palmetto" State all—the entire South was represented in this des perate conflict. Old Pat Cleburne with the en thusiasm peculiar to the race of the Emerald Isle,disdained to dismount from his fiery charger,‘with sword aloft he called and led his men to glory and .death, and upon the last; embankment of-the enemy’s work's side by side the warrior and war horse were found rigid in death; companions in life, in death were not separated. Around him -lay in sickening, heaps the boys from Al abama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tex as, Florida, Louisana, 7 North and South Carolina, Virginia, Ken tucky, Maryland and Missouri; but nearest the hero, and thicker still were the boys from Tennessee, saying indeed: “We are all - one, but this is onr home, and we claim the right of rendering the most costly sacrifice.” , WHERE.IS THE SOUTHERN MAN who can stand upon the field of Bull Run, Round Top, the Locust Giove, upon the banks of the Po tomac, travel through the Wilder ness,-look upon Fair Oaks, ascend the hill of Chaneeliorsville, visit old Shiloh, and then turn his eye -toward the last sad act in the fear ful drams, witness'the unbidden tear as it falls from the cheeks of the noble Lee, and become the apologist of the.South? Can such a wretch be found? If so, hurry him from our shores, the Benedict Arnold of the South, let him no more have place with us. NOT ACCIDENTAL. I repeat, this army Was not acci dental, not a machine, but was pos sible ouly to the civilization from whence it sprang; none like it be fore, no duplicate possible after. THE SOUTHERN HOME. I thank God there-still- remains to us some of these old Southern homes, aud a'fragment of the old civilization. Passing one of these old palatial homes I feel that I should stand with uncovered head The imposing fluted. Corinthian column, the wealth of piazza, and veranda, the vaulted ceiling, the artistic frescoe, profnsi-.m of rugs, carpets aud curtain's; all from the looms of Damascus or some other Oriental loom, the large cabinet of bric-abrac, tfie costly paintings representing the masters, the re production of Athenian sculpture, the grand piano, the _ spacious dinning hall, the trained and neatr ly clad servants; all speak of a re finement, culture and elegance which found their home only in this Southland. From.such homes came much of the Southern army’. SOLEMN. OBLIGATION. To keep green in the memory of our children, and to preserve in tact that civilization is the solemn obligation of the" remnant/of that glorious array whose blood has en riched every inch of our soil, ren dering doubly sacred onr splendid heritage. -sr All that is best,, noblest and purest in our race had their birth in this home. No people can be great without ih So; far as I am inf orined pare, exalted aud noble- womanhood - has found her last resting place, her congenial at mosphere in this Southland. I am thoroughly: convinced, that out their streams dr- death a:nl ! no calamity so great, so withering thousands of infantry enfilading j and crushing could come upon onr the heroic add devoted Baud who 1 South, than Woman’s Bights, as found their graves after having interpreted and set forth hy Lucy made the inostglorioaspnge of his-4Boston, Snsau B.Anfhdny and kin- tory ever .found in-military annals, j dred spirits. If our t women are There tlie.y stood" in isolated gran-1 ever thrown upon the hnstiugs, duel", the definition of -the. sub- ! enter the unholy scramble andin- limist conrage"'(hr- world" ever. trigur- for office, posing before the knew, crowning by that single; world in the bloomer costume, un- eharge the South wito a _-diadem sexing the nisei ve.-, then will virtue brighter and more glorious than " aud purity see that no longer can was ever placed upon a brow; in they find a home beneath the stars. 1 presion arid brilliant in afttions, is Fraiiklin, where the hungry, eider- Bettor a thousand times that we demonstrated by his incomparable ever had such loyal subjects. Her imperious will and loving disposi tion is at once our pride and joy. PAR AND NEAR. 1 Great things liave the qaality of more distinct definiteness as we re cede from them. pike’s peak lifts his snowy crowned head—in majestic grandeur, piercing the clouds, easily the monarch of -all he surveys You stand at his base utterly ignorant that he stands be fore yon. The mist and the little hills, hide his colossal dimensions, he is there just as great, but to you he is nothing. Yon traverse the' desert, and af ter one hundred miles are made, yon look .back —there he stands, you see nothing else. The dis tance that causes the little moun tains to fade, only serves to throw the dimensions of the old monarch Vnto clearer view. When Lee surrendered at Appo mattox the'fignre which filled the world’s eye was the man of desti ny (?) the little hill, while Lee, in the lofty courage which maintain ed a personal charcteri, the world never surpassed, was present in all his greatness, but unseen. But the march of a quarter cen tury has dispelled the illusion, and one now casting his eye toward Ap pomattox sees only Lee, thif incom parable Lee, the most accomplish ed military character of his time, unequaled in action, undaunted in conrage, patient under defeat, calm in victory; Lee the Christian gen tleman, the full rounded character is the Pike’s Peak of American history. -STONEWALL. What Southern man would not hesitate to bring forwardold Stone wall aud place him along side . of Shermari, the man of unsavory fame and name? . What historian will fail to see tlie'greatness of our mian-of fate, who equally believed that it was decreed that he should keep his pawder dry aud come out victori ous from the conflict. Glorious old Stonewall! who had the dash of- Murat, the conrage of Ney and the execution of Napoleon, will con tinue to disclose his true greatness as the centuries come and go: If his life was brilliant, his death was sublime. “Tell Hill to prepare for action, harry forward Stuart-,. let us pass over the river.and,rest un der the shade of the trees,” thus the Christian warrior died. DAlVIS AND. LINCOLN. Davis the traitor, Lincoln the martyr, stand side by side, and thank God our peerless vicarious sacrifice does not suffer in the com parison. These two men represen tall that is good in Western and Sonthern civilization, for the highest virtues of both were incarnated in them. I have nothing but" admiration for Lincoln and affection for his memory. Not one flower would I pluck from his brow, but would unite with rny fellow citizens across the line in doing him honor. He was better than his associates, driven on by the resistless tide of popular opinion,he became a party to measures and expedients he did riot approve. The man of genius, the man Of nerve, purpose and ac tion, the man of heart, soul and honor—one of the few of: his time and-section, who grows larger as the years register the departure on the" dial of-time. With boldness and withont fear we place by his side Jefferson Da vis and challenge investigation, gladly leaving to posterity the task of assigning^?ach his proper place. Davis was great in many direc tions. His skill, and daring in handlings the Mississippi Rifles gained the victory on Mexican soil state documents, which have never been equaled by president before him, or president after him. He was glorious-in war and in action, sublime iu his patient endurance of a persecution and slauder which followed until his grandund heroic spirit left its frail tenement. Koseitth pleading the -cause of his people, Webster with his mar velous powers, Jefferson the seer and sage, Adams and Madison, brilliant and acknowledged masters in the world of letters, not one of these eau snatch the crown of true greatness frorii the brow of Jeffer son Davis. He is to-day more ad mired, more honnred, more loved than any hero of the Lost Cause, His place in the temple of fame will be bard By that of the Father of his Country,-both the products of the South. The hero of the struggle, the main dramattis persona of the trag edy is the man who erried the inuskdt—he was the flower of the land and the personation of chival ry and courage. My comrades, I glory iu the fact that I carried the gun. Old boys. I went in with .you while Belshaz zar’s malady had full possession of me, my knees smote together and my cowardly legs came near dis gracing my brave heart. I always bad a profound sympa thy for that colonel of a regiment of buttermilk rangers, who was surprised iuto a slight - skirmish, and when the music of the minnie was heard, rode up and down hi3 line exclaiming: “Men for God’s sake don’t shootany more, it makes them worse.” -I was never first in the fight nor ""the last to retreat. Old comrades, I love you ^every one; in your prowess and achieve ments I glory. THE PHOENIX: How grandly has the dear old land sprung up from the ashes of her desolated homes. She has written her brightest page of his tory since the war. It was the pluck of the old-Veterau that hjas accomplished '"this uoble work. Thauk God, he has the grandest country ou earth,, and no man has more clearly purchased his right to this fair clime, the land flowing with milk aud honey;-her grapes out rival the bunch of Eschol, and her.Elberta peach, bringing sub missive subjects to her feet the au tocrat of the east, while her mel ons have conquered the,world,. No wonder that bird of fable saw that her occupation was gone, refusing to give another illustration of springing into full life from the ashes of her death. When the goddess of liberty shall stand forth for her grand and final coronation, the brightest gem that sparkles in her diadem will be that oi Southern chivalry, genius and bravery. IT IS ALL MOONSHINE. A Little Child’s Experience fu n -Lighthouse. and put the presidential diadem upon the brow of Zachariah Tay lor. In debate he was a foe worthy of the steel of any man past or present. His statesmanship was conspicuous for breadth of com Mr. and Mrs. Loren Trescottare keepers of Gov. Lighthouse at Band Beach, Mich., and. are bless ed with a daughter, four years old. Last April she was taken down with measles, followed with dreadfal Cough and.turning into a Fever. Doctors at home and at Detroit treated her, but in vain, she grew worse rapidly, until she was a mere “handful of bones.”— Then she tried Dr. King's'New Discovery, and after the nseof two and a half bottles was completely cured. They say Dr. King’s New Discovery is wortji its weight in gold, yet you may get atrial bottle / free at Holtzclaw& Gilbert’s Drug Store. Cotton is said to be lower than for fifty yearf. Over production has not as much to do with it as some people think. It is under consumption in the markets of the world affected by the great stress in England, the country that reg ulates the price of our sonthern product. That distention of the stomach which many people feel after eat ing, may be dae to improper mas tication of the food; bnt, in most cases, it indicates a weakness of the digestive origans, the best rem edy for which is one of Ayer’s Pills, to beriakeu after dinner. The word cially used May 16,1656, when Mr. Archibald Cary reported to the Yirginia Convention,-then in ses sion at Williamsburg, the famous, resolution “ to declare the United Colonies free and independent States.” hum- FOIl THE BLOOD, Weakness, Malaria, Indigestion and Biliousness, take BROWN’S IRON BITTERS. It cures ,iuick.For tale By OH dealers In roeuicine. Get the geoaf e. Savannah Morning Xeiv3.- In an interview . in Atlanta the other day Hon. W. Y. Atkinson, chairmau of the democratic execu tive committee of this state, iu an swer to a question whether he thought the Democratic party of Georgia would be embarrassed iri the presidential campaign next year by the third party movement, is reported to have smiled and said: “This talk abont a third party in Georgia is all moonshine. Those who look to the farmers’ alliance for material to form such a party, mistake their intelligence, and will be woefnlly disappointed. There are no better democrats than Ilia farmers of Georgia.” Mr. Atkinson ought to under stand the political sifuafion-in this state pretty well. He is in a posi- - tion certainly to understand it, and it is to be hoped that his under standing of it is right. The Morn ing News has expressed tlie opin ion frequently that the farmers of Georgia could not be induced to abandon the democratic party. The fact that Mr. Atkinson was asked whether he -apprehended ■»- trouble from the third party move ment shows that there is a belief that the People’s party will make make an effort to get a foothold iu Georgia. And that there is some founda tion for the belief-there is no doubt. Mr. Atkinson remembers probably that jnst before the coming of Gen. Weaver and Mr. Simpson the alli ance paper in this state suggested that alliancemen might act with the People’s party in national af fairs and the Democratic party in state matters. Did not this look like an effort to find out how the alliancemen regarded the People’s party movement? And were not the speeches of Gen. Weaver, Mr. Simpson and President Polk at the recent alli ance meetings -rather significant? Did not President Polk say, in ef fect, that if alliiinceraen could not gdt what they wanted inside the Democratic party they would go outside of it? Ad9 how about Congressman Watson? It is true that he says that he is just as good a Democrat as there is in the state, but, at the same time, he declares he gees but little difference between^ the plat forms of the Democratic and Re publican parties, and considers the Ocala platform better than either of them. He stands on the Ocala platform, and that platform has been adopted by the People’s par ty- Does Mr. Atkinson think the Ocala platform will be incorpo rated into the national Democratic platform? Is it not quite certain that it will not? But it will be a -- part of the platform of the Peo ple’s party. - If such should be the situation, what course would Dem ocratic alliancemen of Georgia take? With which party would Col. Livingston, Congressman Watson and other alliance leaders act? Would they, does Mr. At kinson think, stand by the Demo cratic party which had refnsed to indorse the Ocala platform, or would they be found in the Peo ple’s party—the party that had ac cepted that platform? Mr. Atkinson doesn’t answer questions like .these in his inter view, and perhaps he is not pre pared to do so at present He sim ply expresses confidence in the fi delity of alliance Democrats to the Democratic party. - . The Morning News does not be lieve that any considerable num ber of alliarice Democrats of Geor gia would support the People’s party, even if theie leaders should feel impelled by their convictions to do so. They have received too many benefits from the Democrat ic party, and are too firmly con vinced that it is the party th^t can render them the greatest service, to leave it But the belief that many in oth er southern states may be peraua-. ded to leave it exists. That it does is shown hy the efforts of Senator George, iu Mississippi, and Gov. Tillman, in South Carolina, are making io convince Democrats, hat the sub-treasury plan will not >- . - • | State” was first offi- ^^ Wbicb l be r There is some satisfaction in the positive manner in which Ml At kinson speaks with respect to alli ance Democrats of this state. He is in touch with the Democratic party in about every; county, and the inforinotion upon which be bases his opinions" is no doubt reliable. Now is the time to subscribe for gold by L. A. the Home Journal, - Perry, Ga. Is your hair falling out or turn ing gray? If so, try Beggs’ Hair Renewer. It will stop it at odco, Felder, Druggist rb-P] /"' .A- -■" " ir ‘ si: