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PnMUhed Ev®ry. Thursday Horning.
no.H. HODGES, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, October 28.
Thr Georgia legislature is in ses
sion.
Thr state fair at Valdosta will
open next Wednesday.
A "loaded” man and a loaded pis
tol make a dangerous combination.
The Southern Cultivator is the
best agricultural paper for southern
farmers.
Stove manufacturers have agreed
to advance the price of their prod
ucts 10 per cent.
A ten-story building will soon be
ereotod in Savannah, jointly by two
banking corporations of that oity.
Can it be that the Rough-Rider
president has ridden rough-shod
over the political aspirations of Sen
ator Hanna?
An acre of land that will not yield
enough to pay expenses of cultiva
tion and reasonable interest on $10
is not worth Cultivating.
Columbus is making great prepa
rations for the entertainment of the
Confederate veterans during,the re
union there on Gdtober 28th and
: Senator Hannah is evidently not
in the game to settle the Penn
sylvania coal strike. Perhaps he was
lost in the shuffle before the deal was
fixed.*
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The Atlantio, Valdosta and West
ern railroad has beeome a part of
the Georgia Southern and Florida,
the transfer having been completed
[last week.
Perhaps the present silenoe of
Marcus Aurelius Hanna is the hush
., triad precedes a storm. If so, there
Va hot aud dusty times in store for
the republican party.
•, Quarantine aga'nst Cuba has
. been removed earlier than usual this
■year by the government at Wash
ington, on account of. the continued
absence of yellow fever.
Profit comes easiest to that far- 1
•ner whose constant effort is .to in*
•Tease the producing capacity of his
Utid, rather than to him who in
Teases the number of acres oultiva-
ed.
Boyd, Knioht & Co., Valdosta,
Ga., will give a handsome cook
;«tove to the lady of Georgia or
Florida who guesses nearest the
number of paid admissions to the
utate fair at Valdosta.
Samuel Spencer, president of the
Southern Bailway Company, is also
president of the Georgia Southern
A’Florida, and yet they say the
Southern does not in any manner
control the G. S. & F.
Dr. Aohklus H. Mitchell, the
>ldest graduate of the Georgia
■> ate University, celebrated his
»th birthday at his home in Afch-
is on Wednesday of last week, Oc-
•ber I5th. He graduated in 1827,
75 years ago.
Political Duty.
On the first Tuesday ip November
next, the 4th day of the month, rep
resentatives in the 58th congress
.will be ejected in all the states of
the Unidn. ; ^ ];
' The present congress is republi
can by a considerable majority, but
the indications now are that the
democrats will elect a majority of
the next congress. !
In most of the states there are
some districts in which the contest
will be close, and of course the in
terest felt will induce a full vote.
In Georgia, however, a different
condition prevails, and' the eleven
democratic candidates nominated
by primary vote last May will have
no opposition in the election.
This fact does not lessen the duty
of all democrats to Vote. It should
be a pride to Georgia democrats to
elect their nominees by a vote as
large as that east on nomination
day.
In the third district our represen
tative was nominated without oppo
sition, aud we owe it 4o him and the
party that a large vote should be
polled on November 4th. ■ ;•
In writing to the Home Journal
editor about tiekets and the eleotibn
several days ago, Mr. Lewis said:
"As I am the only one to be voted
for and having no opposition, .it is
natnral to expeot apathy on the part
of the people. Therefore urge that
they turn out on Novemher 4th, and
I shall hope to get a good vote from
your splendid county, and through
out the district. On >just such an
occasion Mr. Crisp, my predecessor,
was elected to cpngress bv a 'smtp
vote. He was afterward handicap
ped by this, republicans claiming
that he was uot entitled to his seat
bn suoh an insignificant vote. Let!
this not occur again.”
Mr, Lewis is right. 'He arid' the
other Georgia candidates deserve
the full democratic vote of their re- 1
speotive districts.
Time and and again republicans
in congress have taunted southern
demooratio congressmen with lin
ing been eleoted by exceed iritis
small votes. On several occnsi ^
this faot has formed the basis nf $ ■
forts to roduee the southern •
cratio representation in congress t>y
means of regulating the -representa
tion in. accordance with the votes
oast at the election.
Of course there oould be np jus
tice in this, bnt our-.political pride
should impel us to the performance
of political duty, and thereby avoid
the charge that our supremacy had
been attained by intimidation, and
other fraud.
The cost of. the election must be;
paid, be the vote small oriarge, and
a heavy vote eosts no more than a
light vote per precinct.
Lot the third district, and Geor
gia, poll a vote of Which we?-may be
pro.ud.
A special from Wilkesbatre, Pa.,
to the Atlanta Journal says the loss
es occasioned, by the eoal strike for
23 weeks aggregated a total ofj
$142,600,000, as follows: iLoss in!
strikers’ wages, $28,700,0QQ; em
ployes other than strikers, $6,900,-
000; to business men in ;atrike re
gion, $16,000,000; to business men;
outside the region, $10,300,000; cost:
of coal and iron police, $2;300,000;!
cost of maintaining non-union men,
$650,000; troops, $850,000; damage
to mines and machinery, $6,500,000.-;
At Hamlet, N, C;, a compress and
2,400 bales of cotton were destroy-
ud by fire last Sunday. J. M. Wil
son of Clarksville, Ga., bookkeeper
of compress company, attempted, to
xtinguish the fire and was qauglit
. y the flames and burned to death.
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Republicans will attempt to attaoh
political significance to the fact that
President Roosevelt and,other re
publicans have been - persistent in
their efforts to settle the anthraoite
coal strike. But wait, and see if the
minors don’t get the little end of
the arbitrators’ decision.
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Columbus, its business enterprise
and industrial growth,was thorough
ly and attractively illustrated in a
special edition of the Enquirer-Sun
last Sunday. Each of the thirty-six
pages of the speoial edition is a genii
< f editorial science and t.vnnwvmrW-
< f editorial science and typograyh
i aal art. Congratulations ate due
the paper and the city.'
'At the Hague recently there was;
an arbitration court to consider the.
claim of the United States against!
Mexico for a: large sum ,'bf mbIney
called "The Pius Fund,” The.
claim of the United States was sus
tained, and ^ithin the ; ensuing
eight months Mexico will! pay $1,-
,4^0,682.27, and thereafter annually;-
a certain sum urit.il the entire claim
has been'paid. It is reported from
Mexico that the government of that
republic will abide by the awarS^ v !
It is now said that J. Pierpont 1
Morgan is well pleased with the'
commission appointed by President;
Roose\elr to arbitrate,- the coal ;
strike. It is further declared that,
the names of ' the commissioners.
Were furnished the president by Mr.
Morgan. If this be true, the miners
will not be in it, to any material ex
tent. ' .
An effort is now being made to
combine the saw mill industries of
Arkansas, Louisiana,Mississippi and
Tennessee into one organization, the
‘‘Hardwood Manufacturers’ Associa
tion of the United States.”
A Potent Crime Factor.
Of the 29 cases on the criminal
calendar of Houston Superior court,
carrying -firearms^ was the founda
tion of 1^; nearly fifiy per cent.
Of the four murder cases, three
were due to the fact that each of
the defendants hud a pistol conceal
ed in his pocket. In the other case
the defendant was out hunting with
a gun. In one of these murder
cases there- were two indictments
against’ the defendant other than
that for murder. Of the eight oth
er cases dtie to carrying concealed
weapons, it was developed in the
trials that the difficulty in each in
stance was due entirely to the con
cealed pistol. It was a remarkable
fact that in every case, except one,
the defehdant claimed that the
shooting was accidental.
This record is alarming, but it is
scarcely exceptional. In fact, it is
true that in every section of this
state, and others where there are
many negroes, a large proportion of
the criminal cases in the courts are
based upon: the unlawful praetice of
carrying concealed pistols. It is
known also that: all the. shooting
scrapes among negroes do, not get
into oourb. • r ,
Almost without exception the idle
and vicious residents of all commu
nities carry pistols concealed, and by
reason of this fact they are impu
dent, reckless and dangerous.
Some good men have criticised
the law against carrying concealed
weapons as'one infringing upon per
sonal rights, but in view of the in
crease of crimb l dirfectiy due to this
habit, there shoUld be none to con-
demn-the-'ldw,'-but all should use
their best efforts Jto have the law enr
forced strictly.
v Matty judges arid other prominent
citizens-have "condemned the pistol
carrying ' practice in unmeasured
- terms, arid it Should he stopped.
Exeept as a wriapoti of protection
against burglars and other depreda
tors of the horiie and its surround
ings, there is no - need for a pistol
Concealed in a person’s pocket, pn,
liio highway or elsewhere, it ever
H- lnces a carelessness of danger that
!y becomes an incentive to- law
lessness of a grave character.
If the law as it is cannot prevent
the vicious from carrying concealed
pistols, then there should be a more
stringent law.
Our representatives should give
this nirf&btier careful ; consideration
during the session just now begun.
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A damage suit that had been in
court twenty years, Mrs. J. O. Chris
tian vs. the Columbus & Rome Rail-
road Cq,, was oouoluded in tne Su
perior court at Columbus las Thurs
day, the jury rendering a verdict for
$20,000 iri favor of the plaintiff.
An agent of the railroad had killed
the husband of the plaintiff while
transacting business for the railroad.
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It was reported iri New York last
ek that i Secretary Shaw had
bought $16,000,000 of 4 per cent
gov^nl^ient ^ondsl
Tlioro i8 more C«t«frfti r Tn this section of the
ico.uutry than all other.. psoases put. together,
ana until the last feSv years was suppGseuto be
incurable. For a great many years doctors pro
nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by“ constantly failing to cure
-y}fbi 1 ncaU^atme.u,ii >; pnftpppnced it. Tnpurable.
science has proven catarrh to bo ’a constitu-
tiohal’diseas^'ahdthefefore'requires ccnfetitu-
tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh’ Cure, manu
factured by F. J.'Chphey & Co.. Toledo’, Ohio, is
the only considtutiohal oure on the. matl?ot it
is taken internally in doses from iO drops to a
teaspooriful. It acts directly on the blood and
mucus suriaces of the system. They offer one
huudred dollars for any ;caso. itfales to cure.
$end tpy circulars stncl J#stirhouials.
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MACON, GEORGIA.
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