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Jao.H. HODGES, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, July 16.
It seems that Secretary of War
Root will soon resign.
Gen. James Longstreet is critical
ly ill at his home in Gainesville.
At Columbus last Saturday a far
mer of Ohattahooche county Bold
109 bales of cotton at 12£ cents per
So far as the public will know,
the investigation of frauds. in the
postoffice department have been
practically abandoned.
Gen. Casbius Clay of Kentucky
lias been declared insane by a court
of inquiry at Lexington, and will be
confined in an asylum.
£”It may be expected that the mar
ket price of cotton will deorease
gradually as market time of: the
1908 crop approaches.
Labt week the House of Repre
sentatives passed a bill providing for
the election of county school com
missioners by the people.
In England Iasi* week, U.- S. sol
diers won the target prize in a con
test with England, France, Germa
ny, Australia and Holland.
An ex banker of Louisville, Ky.,
has been convicted of embezzlement
and ,is now serving a sentence of six
years in the federal prison at Atlanta.
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It now seems probable that a bill
to repeal ohe fourteenth amendment
to the federal constitution will be
considesed at the next session of
congress. £ *
Industrial development among
negroes is not a produot of text
book education. Evidently at the
schools the negroes are taught how
to avoid work.
At Amerious next Wednesday and
Thursday, the annual convention of
third district Masons will be in ses
sion. An interesting and instructive
program will be presented.
An increase of' $88,677 is shown
in the aggregate returns of taxable
property in Clinch county. The re
turns of thiB county are the first to
be forwarded to Atlanta this year.
The large publishers of school
books are emphatically in favor of
the bill introduced in the Georgia
legislature providing for uniform
text books in the publio schools of
the state.
There is no need for- the expen
sive Eustralian ballot system in
Georgia, and the senate did well
last week in defeating the measure
providing for the establishment of
that system.
Another effort will be made to
seoure tbe extradition of Greene and
Gaynor, the fugitives from Ameri
can justice now in refuge in Canada.
It seems v that these refugees have
become legal wards of the Domin
ion.
The negro problem is becoming
acute in several northern states, and
it is evident that throughout the
north and east “the wards of the
nation” are regarded as an increas
ing menace to neighborhood peace-
fulnees.
The democrats in counties where
in the negroes are able to elect rep
resentatives and county officers are
opposed to the bill now pending in
the Georgia legislature providing
for the election of oounty school
commissioners by vote of the peo
ple. Those counties are Lee, Lib
erty and McIntosh.
. Pope Leo XIII was yet alive
Wednesday morning, though criti
cally ill since July 5th. His vitality
is remarkable for a man of his age-
93 years. The latest report says his
strength was diminishing slowly but
continuously. Re was u] '
A Bad Example.
There is a legislative rule, if not a
state law,gthat no measure can be le
gally! passed Ui-lapsjthere be.preseit
and voting a quorum—a specified
number of members. This applies
alike to the House and Senate.
Notwithstanding this rule, or law*
about fifty bills were passed by the
House of Representatives last Sat
urday with less than a quorum of
its members present. Similar work
was done the Saturday previous.
In extenuation of this violation of
rule, law and propriety, it is Baid
that most of the laws thus passed
are of local character that had been
examined by the committees and
reported favorably.
While this is doubtless true, and
perhaps no harm will result so far as
the laws are direotly concerned, it is
a sad commentary that the law-ma
kers are themselves law-breakers in
the very act of making law. If a
law is violated in making a law, can
that law be legally a law?
However this may be, the law
makers have by their 'action declar
ed that when it suits their conven
ience it is right to violate law. ,
On the Saturdays mentioned so
many legislators were at home* at
tending to , their private business
that a sufficient number were not at
their post of duty to legally trans
act public business.
There is. certainly need of disci
pline in the Georgia House of Rep
resentatives. Representatives should
be held to the performance of duty
every legislative day, certainly in
sufficient numbers to legally pass
upon the bills presented.
This protest may sound small, but
it is right. If the representatives
can’t attend to the business for
which they were elected, let them
resign and go home permanently.
As a whole, each branch of the
legislature should uphold its dignity
and integrity by refusing to trans
act business illegally.
Another critioism that one hears
talked about in the oorridiors of the
hotels in Washington is the close
personal relations of the President
and Congressman Littauer, of New
York, who has been caught graft
ing while a member of c ongress by
grabbing a contract to furnish
gloves to the army. Mr. Littauer
has boasted of his intimacy with the
President and of his “pull” at the
White House. Did that “pull” have
anything to do with landing the
glove contract while he was a mem
ber of congress and therefore against
the law? The people would like to
have an answer to that question.—
Correspondent.
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Visit number two of the Europe
an squadron of the U. S. navy was
the talk of the time at Portsmouth
harbor, England, last week. Admi
ral Cotton and officers of the squad
ron were officially entertained by
British naval officers, received by
King Edward, and compliments be
tween the nations were exchanged.
It is intended, evidently, that these
displays of war strength may prove
a means of maintaining peace. It is
not unlikely that behind all this so
ciability with foreign nations a po
litical scheme for home use is in
powerful stimulants, and he will
probably be dead when this is read
by our subscribers.
As general manager, Col. W. A.
Huff is doing great work for the
Georgia Btate fair. Under the per
suasive influence of $20,000 in cash
premiums the exhibitors <yrill be le
gion, and thousands added to thorn
sands of visitors will attend to see
the great object lessons in Georgia
productiveness, enterprise and thrift.
Let there be no hindrance to the
great work. Houston will be there
in good shape.
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Twenty-seven steel bridges for a
railroad have been built in Africa by
the American Bridge .Company. The
bridges were built at Philadelphia,
14.000. 000 pounds of steel, and with
1.000. 000.000 feet of southern pine
lumber and provisions for a year,
shipped to Africa. Twenty-one
white Americans and a. considerable
number of African laborers placed
the bridges within less time than a
year.
At Lincoln, Nebraska, last Friday,
a man convicted of murder was
hUng while the attorneys were pre
paring an injunction to stop the
hanging. One injunction had been
considered and a short reprieve
granted, but immediately following
the refusal of the injunction the
original sentence was executed.
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A Confederate War Relic.
In April, 1866, 10 or 12 members
of “Havis’ Battery,” or “Southern
Rights Battery,” were cut off from
the command, which was then in
North Carolina. These soldiers were
in Macon, Ga., when Gen. Wilson
captured the city of Macon. All of
them made their escape except two,
Messrs. A. H. Tharp “and L. S,,
Tounsley. They were held prison
ers in Macon ten days and paroled.
Mr, J. E. Barrett was of the num
ber. A yankee soldier rode up to
where Mr. Barrett was standing
and, dismounting, ordered him to
hold his horse while he went into a
saloon to take a drink. Mr. Barrett
immediately mounted the horse and
rode to his farm in Houston. He
kept the horse until he died.
Mr. Tounsley has \ carefully pre
served his parole, and he has kindly
permitted us to copy the document
for publication.
The parole is as follows:
Headquarters,
Cavalry CorpB, M. D. M.
April 27th, 1866.
I, the undersigned, Lott S. Touns
ley, a private of the Havis Ga. Bat
tery, do solemnly swear that I will
not bear arms against the United
States of America, or give any infor
mation, or do any military duty
whatever, until regularly exchanged
as a prisoner of war. Should the
capture of the Garrison of the City
of Macon be legal, the parole will be
binding; if hot, they will be released
from all obligations.
Lott S. Tounsley,
Havis Ga. Battery.
Description: Height, 6 ft. 10;
Hair, light; Eyes, hazel; Complex
ion, light.
I certify that the above parole was
given by me on the date above writ
ten.
By order of Bre\et Major Gener
al Wilson.
G. H. Knekland, Captain
and Provost Marshal C. O. M. D. M.
Georgia Will Have an Exhibit.
H. H. Cabaniss, publisher of the
Augusta Chronicle, and part owner
of the Atlanta Journal, headed a
delegation of the Georgia Press As
sociation upon a visit to the World’s
Fair a few days ago. When the
members of the association, of which
Mr. Cabaniss is president, were re
ceived by President Francis of the
World’s Fair, Mr. Cabaniss assured
the president that Georgia would be
at St. Louis with an exhibit credita
ble to herself and to the south, and
all the editors present joined in the
pledge.—World’s Fair Press Bureau.
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Young Men and Women, Attention.
The North Georgia Agricultural
College, established by the state, of
fers the greatest and most paying
investment. Tuition free, board
cheap, climate heallhful, surround
ings cheerful, discipline exact, schol-
ership high. It has distinguished
graduates, earnest students, able
teaohers. It holds "the state cham
pionship for oratory and has the
finest cadet corps under a most dis
tinguished West Point graduate.
For particulars, write to
Dr. El S. Avis, President,
Dahlonega, Ge.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys
tem when entering it through the. mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never be used* ex
cept on prescription from reputable phystcians,
as the damage they will do is ten {old to the
good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s
catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J'. 1 Jheney &
00., Toledo, 0\, contains no mercury, und |8 ta
ken Internally; acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Hall’s Catarrh Cure he sure you get the genuine.
It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, O.,
by F. Ji Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Hall’s Family Fills are tne best.
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WALKER AND
Guaranteed
Clothes...
represent tbe most advanced
ideas in fashionable clothes.' This ap
plies to the materivl and handiwork
that enter into their making I
The steady demand for the high-
grade make of clothes we sell, shows
the trend of public opinion and con
firms our assertion that meritorious merchandise will secure
the patronage of the particular and critical, yet appreeiatiye
ciothes-buying public. Some new and exclusive things in
Irish Homespuns, Crashes, Series, and other cool things
for hot weather are being shown here now. See them.
bend Us Your Orders by Mail.
Benson, Walker & Moore,
The TJp-to-Date Clothiers'.
MACON, @ GEORGIA.
J, L. Smith’s Improved Portable
Seat for picking cotton, peas,
beans, berries, milking cows,
fishing, budding trees, or any
work that requires a stooping
position. ■
Will be on exhibition at the
Georgia State Fair. •
For sale by
W. H. TINKER, General Agent,
510 Seoond Street, Macon, Ga.
AGENTS WANTED. ,
W. H. HARRI
DENTIST;
Successor to l>r. W. A, BlassengMne.
OFFICE OVER DOW LAW BANK, i
PORT VALbEY. : GE' JJL " L
if you have one, if not please youT^ sweetheart and you will
get one. If you have neither, then you should get one, and
there is no better way of accomplishing either of these
things than by giving them a ride in one of our new bug
gies. See them before buying,
Or Somebody Else May
sell you one that will not suit you as well, and make you
pay more for it than we would.
If Yon Cannot See
your way clear to buy a new buggy or wagon, then let us
overhaul the old one for you. We are in position to give
you the best work at the lowest prices.
Don’t Fail
to see us when in the market for Vehicles, Harness, Mow-
ers/Kakes or any kind of Harvesting Machinery, Gasoline
Engines, Wind Mills, etc.
And Be Sure
to examine The ‘.Sapid Fire Hay Press if you have any idea
of buying a hay-baling machine. It is the best and cheap
est. Write for paiees and particulars.
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The Williams Buggy Co.,