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The Herald
Official Organ Town and County
Ttlkk M. Pkkpi.kh, - Editor
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Tuesday, June 29, 1897,
Then* are now twenty prison
ers in jail in Walton county
waiting a trial.
I)r. Blosger and Rev. J. L.
Tillman are conducting a lug
tent meeting in Atlanta.
Tom Reed, in making up his
committees, has not given the
South a single chairmanship.
When a man is said to loose
his temper he generally exhib
its more of if than at any other
tifhc.
There are ninety-three in
mates in the white blind insti
tution of this State a id 28 in
the colored.
Popp Brown, President of the
State Agricultural Society, is
being boomed as a candidate
for Governor.
It is stated that McKinley
wants to buy Cuba and has of
fered a hundred million dollars
for it. Where Mill William get.
the money?
The tariff bill drags it slow
length along in the P. S. Sen
ate. There is only one consola
about it, Congressmen are earn
ing their salary.
Tom Blodgett, the irrepressi
ble Tom, says he has got a
place at last. That his ser
vices have been recognized and
he will be a deputy marshal.
The appointment of Col.
Walter 11. Johnson as Marshal
for the Northern District of
Georgia, was confirmed by the
Senate last Friday, and he will
take charge of the office on the
first of July.
W. H. Branda, a white man
engaged in the turpentine bus
iness near Screven in Wayne
county, was shot and buried in
a gopher hole Thuislay. His
remains were not found until
Saturday. There is great ex
citement in the vicinity.
The Blalock investigating
com mi t lee is allowing up the
departments in their investigu
tion There will be some spicy
revelations made to the next
Legislature by this committee
and they may result in an im
peachment .
Ben Tillman sometimes* gets
off a good thing in his homely
way. In discussing the tariff
question he says, “if there is
any stealing to lie done, South
Carolina wants her share of the
spoils.’’ And why not? If the
people are to be oppressed for
the benifit of Yankeedom, why
not let thi* South have a share?
Stoney Keel of Newton coun
ty has been sent to the peniten
tiary for making counterfeit
money. Keel is but a plain
countryman, but lie succeeded
in making counterfeit coins out
of lead and babbit metal that
passed. He then manufactured
counterfeit moulds and sold
them, and in this way was
caught up with.
The Georgia negroes who
have not yet tasted the fruits
of a Republican victory are
getting impatient They have
waited until it seeme to them
forbearance ceases to be a vir
tue Now they will call on
McKinley in a body. The great
leaders will march to the White
House and ask the reason wl y
this is thus.
Gold continues to go to Eu
rope. One million and three
hundred thousand dollars were
shipped from New York one day
last week. And thus it goes,
gold getting scarcer every day.
Millions ruu off to Europe and
gold the only standard circnlat
ing medium. As it gets scarcer it
gets higher and everything
else will be depressed in value
until a revolution comes and
shakes the country from center
to circumference.
Covington had a shooting
Si.rupe last Friday. Two lead
ing business men, J. P. Sims
and W. S. Bell, have bad some
trouble recently and Bell made
threats that one of
them would be buried. Sims'
armed himself with u shot gun
and the first time he saw Bell
opened fire on him. Bell
dodged into a barroin. He was
hit in two places but the
wounds are not serious.
Walton county is having a
■wordy war over a change from
a County to a City court.
Gwinnett has . tried both and
every intelligent man in the
county who has investigated the
matter is satisfied that a City
court is far more preferable
than the ojd County court.
The fact is the County court
did not meet the necessity of
public business, and gave very
little relief to the Superior
court. The City court is tak
ing more than half the civil
business from the Superior
court and keeps our jail nearly
(dear of prisoners.
BRYAN IN THE ASCENDANT
Bryan’s popularity seems to
increase rather than be on tlie
wane. Most men who rim for
the Presidency anil are defeated
are regarded in tin’s fast age ns
back numbers, and retire to the
seclusion of private life, but not
so with Bryan. He is more
popular today than last. Octo
ber. He is regarded as a Na
tional issue, for the reason that
he represents a principle. It
is not the man, but the free
silver theory of government
that, grows in popularity every
day. The people feel that we
are on a gold basis, and it has
accomplished just what was
predicted: brought ruin, de
pression and bankruptcy on the
country.
Here weare, grovelling along,
waiting for that tide of pros
perity which was to come under
McKinley’s rule and the fixed
gold standard, and the cry
comes up from every depart
ment as business for relief.
The Republicans seek to bring
back pros|ierity by heavy taxa
tion—by building up the manu
facturer* at the expense of the
people, but even their tariff
program, if ever enacted, will
not meet the wants of the peo
ple, and next year when the
people have a chance to be
beard at the ballot box, such a
revolution as will follow has
•ot been seen for many years
The Democratic party will
have a majority in the House
in the m*xt Congress. Mark
the prediction.
DOESHIGHTEMRERATERE
PRODUCE CRIME ?
For the last two weeks we
have been suffering from a hot
wave, or more properly speak
ing a tide of high temperature.
The long days of June have
been an 1 try, actually burning
up gardens, and seriously af
fecting the growing crops. But
this is not all: there has been a
wave of crime in the land; mur
derers, homicides, suicides and
other blood-curdling stories of
wanton w recklessness fill the
daily papers that delight, to
spread before tile people hor
rible details of human depravi
ty-
The question is frequently
asked if the hot weather has
anything to do with this spiiit
of wreyklessuHss ? For years
we ba\e noticed that during
these extreme waves of heat
crime is more prevalent,
especially murders and suicides.
The same effects lead to the
conclusion that they are pro
duced by the same cause.
If we were to stop to reason
absut it we might conclude that
excessive heat tends to cause
depression of the animal Bpiritß
and a consequent despondency
that affects men mentally and
physicnlly. The heated brain
and nervous exhaustion tends
to make people wreckless, and
produces a species of temporaiy
insanity.
Whether this theory is true
or not, no one cun doubt the
fact that during these hot spells
crimes of high grade are mul
tiplied. We hardly pick up a
paper that does not recite the
details of some horrible crime.
Husbands murder wives and
children, brothers engage in
deadly conflict Mitli brothers,
strange and unaccountable sui
cides and crimes ol high de-
Eff'-e. _
The Grand Jury of 4 Fulton
county wants the Justices of
the Penes put on a salary, in
stead of the present fee system.
That Mould lie a fancy idea.
There are probably B,(KX) Jus
tice* of the Peace in the State.
Soma of them do not average
more than one case a month,
while* others have from two to
three hundred a month, and
these duties occupy all their
time. Now, to put them all on
the same salary would be folly.
Besides, under the present sys
tem the men who litigate in
the courts pay the costs, and
not the county treasury.
We believe in the old idea
that the dancers should pay
tbs fiddler.
HUNG LAST FRIDAY.
Terrell Hudson Mas hung last
Friday at Decatur. The exe
cution was in private, but a
large crowd Imd gathered to
see him after his execution.
There was no excitement even
among the negroes, ami Sheriff
Austin did his work so well
that the fall broke Hudson's
neck, and in a few minutes he
was pronounced dead. His re
mains were turned over to his
brother, who refused to tell
where be mss to be buried.
TEN THOUSAND IN LINE.
Ten thousand old Confeder
ates, grizzled, Mar-worn veter
ans, marched in line in Nash
ville last Thursday. It is said
that there were at least fifteen
thousand in the city, as was
shown by the number of badges
distributed, but there were ten
thousand Mho inarched down
the street behind Geij’l. Gor
don, and Georgia came up with
the largest, division.
Ten thousand men, who 82
years ago laid down their arms
and pledged a soldier’s honor
to keep the peace. They were
not soldiers of fortune, but
brave, true men, who left home,
wife and children to take their
chances in the storm < f war.
And the old rebel yell that
waked the echoes along the
Cumberland that day Mill never
more be heard on the battle
field, No man who ever heard
that yell ns it Boated back from
a storming column can ever
forget it. It carried terror to
the enemy and hope and en
thusiasm to the gray-coated
soldiers who followed the stars
and bars.
We imagine General Gordon,
as he beard that familiar Hound
come down tho line, rose in his
surups and felt the fire of youth
tingle through his nerves.
CRAZY Ft>R WANT<)F ’WORK
It is said that one half of the
world does net know bow the
other half lives, and it might
be added that, half the world
does not know the misery of
the other half. Here in Atlam
ta a gi od workman has gone
crazy because be could nob get
work to support his family.
Ho muh able and willing, bill
could not find enough M’ork to
keep the wolf from the door.
He got the idea that he would
lie arrested and lodged in jail
for failing to support his wife
and children, und '‘eeaine dan
gerous. The neighbors bail him
locked up for fear he would do
something rash. And yet prob
ably M’ithin a stone’s throw of
his home were people, more
blessed by Providence, who
daily wasted enough to have
made this family comfortable.
But lie did not ask charity;
only work—honest employment
—a chance to make a living.
It is a sad example of how the
extremes of poverty and at*
lluence jostle each other on tho
public st reels.
TRYING CASES IN THE
NEWSPAPERS.
One of the crying evils of the
day in reference to the enforce
ment of the criminal law is
the sensational newspaper.
Every case of any magnitude,
and especially if there is any
thing sensational in it, is first
tried by tbe public. The pub
lic has no means of information
except the press, and as soon ns
a crime is committed reporters
are sent out to gather up the
facts. It is the fad now to
make everything sensational,
and a reporter who simply stat
ed cold facts would soon be
fired. Hence, lie must hunt up
all sorts of bear-say evidence
and then he puts the filling in.
This goes' to the country us
facts, and on this one-sided
statement, for tin- reporters
usually fall into the hands of
one side, the public makes up
its mind. And a conviction
once fixed is hard to eradicate.
It frequently controls over the
evidence introduced before the
jury.
It is bard to suggest a reme
dy. The Legislature would find
it impossible to meet the ques
tion fully. It is one of those
evils that everybody recognizes
but cannot provide against:
GEG RGIA AT TH E (’ E NTE N
NIAL.
Georgia was well represented
at the Nashville Centennial
last week. A largo delegation
of the old Yets were there, th<
Governor and a full regiment
of State malitia, the Governor’s
horse gourds and his hosts of
staff officers, the directory of
the Atlanta exposition, the
Georgia Press Association, the
women commissioners from
t his State. If fact Georgia did
herself proud before her neigh
bors.
Georgia is the Empire
State and when she undertakes
to do a thing it 's well done.
She furnished the pretty
women, the best orators, the
gallant Confederate heroes like
Gordon and Evans, whose
names and military records
furnish part of the war record
of tbe Confederacy,
GORDON STILL TO COM.
MAND.
Gen. Gordon, who has been
commander in chief of the Con
federate Veterans Association
from its organization, wrote
a letterjsome time since posi
tively declining to serve longer
in that office. He felt that it
was due bis comrades that he
should not monopolize this of
fice and asked to lie released.
in looking around fora suc
cessor a number of distinguish
ed soldiers Mere discussed,
among them Stephen D. Lee,
Gen. Evens, Gen. S. B Buck
ner and others, It fact it
seemed hard to center upon any
one man who could enlist the
enthusiasm of Gordon.
When the time for the elec
tion came and the old soldiers
had assembled in the 7th re
union. Gordon was re-elected
over bis protests and lie will
serve another year.
The State Teachers Associa
tion is at Warm Springs this
week. Among other matters of
interest to be discussed is uni
formity of text books. A bill
is pending before the Legisla
ture requiring all public schools
to use the same text books.
Why the teachers oppose this
we have never been able to un
derstand. It Mill certainly be
a great saving to tbe patrons
who have to pay for these high
priced books.
One of the great complaints
has been that these changes,
made to suit, tbe whim of each
teacher, is very expensive. If
the same books were used in all
the schools of the state an ar
rangement could be made by
which the prices could be re
duced and then all the children
m a family could use the books
if they were taken care of. In
addition to this, where families
inoVe from one neighborhood to
another, and their children
have to cb’auge schools, there
will lie no necessity for buying
another supply of books.
Why teachers should object
to t his surprises us. And yet
it is said that the bill was de
feated in the last Legislature
through the influence of the
teachers of the State.
GEORGIA GET~THE NEXT
RE-UNION.
The Bth re-union of Confed
erate Veterans will be held
next year in Atlanta. The
city council of that city sent a
special invitation as did a num
ber of other cities, but Atlanta
always gets there.
In fact it is the most suitable
place for such a gathering. Its
central location, its accessabili
ty by rail to all points Sooth
and its character for unbounded
hospitality, and its facility for
handling a crowd with ease,
makes it the place for such a
meeting. You can’t, crowd At
lanta or exhaust her hospitality.
The State depart
ment seems to be in bad shape
The investigating committee
lias not been able to find much
fruit from the expenditure of
mo much m niey, Whether it is
the fault of Prof. Yeats, who ia
at the head of this department,
but Home how the*fact, remains
that it is making a poor hliow.
It will be remembered that
the department was once before
abolished and by hard work re
established. The indications
now are that an effort will be
made to abolish it ugain when
the Legislature meets.
- .
Omaha will have the grand
exposition of IKOB. Congress
has passed a bill, and it has
li-en approved by (tie President,
contributing #200,000 for the
t rans-M ississippi exposition.
It is expected that it will be
international in its character,
but especially representing the
great West while Mexico, Cen
tral America, Japan and China
are expected to take a deep in
terest in it.
the"*'prices.
Tho market quotations in
Chicago last Saturday were:
July wheat, 72j cents; Septem
ber wheat, tio cents; corn, 26
cents; oats, IS cents |»*r bu.;
pork 7J cents; lurd, ifLitf*.
STATE FAIR.
The ten thousand dollars to
be raised in Atlanta to secure
the State Fair lias been raised,
and it is now regarded as cer
tain that the Fair will be held.
The Princess of Wales fed
three thousand lagged and hun
gry children one day during tbe
jubilee. Her reward was great
er than those who spent their
thousands ou tine trappiugs.
Dr. Ticlienor s Antiseptic
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Gun-Shot W ounds,
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i
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*Lawrenceviile
City School.!-*
JAMES A. BAGWELL, Supt.
Opens September 20th and continues
for 9 scholastic months.
Healthy location. Moral and religious
influencesgood. An excellent corps of
teachers.
Expenses per month--Board $lO, Tui
tion 50c, 75c and $ 1.00.
For Catalogue and other information,
address the Superintendent at Auburn,
*
Ga.,or J. P. Byrd, Secretary Board of Edu
cation, Lawrenceville, Ga
Over the County.,
MEADOW.
No sickness at this "’riling.
Mrs. I). B. Atkinson lias re
turned to her home in Atlanta. I
C.. I). Whitehead und wife
visited relatives Buford last
Saturday and Sui day.
Guess what young man went
to see Ins girl Sunday night and
coldn’t talk enough to keep her
awake. .
J. W. Whitehead of Craig
visited relatives here recently.
MissTullie Atkinson of Frog
town spent last Saturday with
Miss Leilit Atkinson.
Jack Brooks of near O'use
and C. M. Atkinson of this place
went to Atlanta on business
last week.
Preston Willis of Craig visit
ed relatives here last Sunday.
I .el uvel'V Body fake Tilt lltli-
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PUCKETTS.
The rye crop is about thresh
ed up, and the yield is very
tine.
Crops ate in excellent condi
tion, and the fanners are talk
ing of the summer rest.
’Squire Andrews is in "Buford
this week.
We have a fine crop of black
berries, add the good ladies
should lose no time in making
jelly, jam, etc.
Mi and Mrs. Bailey of Zion
Hill passed through here last
week .
Prof. Glaze has purchased a
new top-buggy. Look out, girls,
M. A. Forester of Teagle is
now a full-fledged dentist, and
is making $7.00 a day. Don’t
argue hard times with us when
a man can make this much
money daily.
Prof. J. S. Cheek of Zion
Hill was here recently.
N. J. Wallace bus the tirst
cotton blossom from this sec-
tion.
Roberts Broadwell and fami
ly of Buford spent Sunday with
relatives here.
Success to The Herald and
its editors.
SNELLVILI.E DOTS.
The farmers are laying by
their corn.
Mrs. Sarah Cauuoii is stil*
very sick and is not expected to
live long.
There was a very destructive
hail storm passed through this
section lust Thursday. We
learn that W. I). and J. M,
Williams suffered most from it.
Mr. Will Oztner was up to
see his brother Bob recently.
J . I). Rutiedge, one of Law
renceville’s hustling merchants,
was down to see his mother
Sunday.
Miss Exer Deshong, a pretty
young lady of Bermuda, was
the guest of Miss Lena Cofer
last week,
R. C. Ozmer spent Sunday
with home folks at Lithoniu.
The broad smiles on Dr. Co
lor's face are not caused by
sporting a new cart. Its the
arrival of another young doc
tor at her home.
We are requested to say that
there will be a big picnic at Ma
guire’s mill the 3rd of July.
Everybody come and bring a
well tilled basket.
Mr. Darling Cofer, of Nor
cross, passed through here re
cently euroiit to Ceutreville.
Some attraction down there we
presume.
’Tin with sadness that we
chronicle the death of A. D.
Johnson, of near Haynes Creek,
who passed away Saturday the
:>tstli with typhoid fever. He
was buried at the old Johnson
burying ground Sunday after
noou. He leaves a wife aud 8
children, two of whom are down
with the same disease and are
not likely to live. The lie
leaved have oir sympathy.
Mr. Johnsou was an honest
hard workiu citizen.
-CAIN’S-
STILL THEY COME^
Have you seen our new line of Organd
ies? If you haven’t, you should come at
once, as they are going fast.
Our line of French Figured Organdies at
15c are being advertised in Atlanta as a
leader at 19c.
We also have the plain French Organd
ies in all colors, including white, with lin
ings.
In this lot came another beautiful line
of Shirt Waist goods.
Also a new lot of black and figured Sat
teens.
Boys Wainis a( 25c.
A lovely line of Summer Lap Robes.
With the assurance of a good fruit crop
comes the necessity for fruit jars and jelly
glasses, We can supply you with either
the Mason or Woodbury jar. We also
keep extra rubbers.
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