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The Herald Official Organ Town and County Ttlkk M. Pkkpi.kh, - Editor 1 G« rrrrac.. — z 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 FOR 1 Gun-Shot W ounds, BURNS, BUSES AND OTHER INJURIES, i HEALS WITHOUT INFLAMATION OR SUPPURATION. Cooling! Wootliiri|»! Comforting! Harmless! I Measanl! Ftellsilile! For Sale By Druggists. *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- AI.I). 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. SEND YOUR Job W ork ToThellerald! k Satisfaction fat Guaranteed. 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