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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1896)
0 [GH GEORGIA. . THEREDFROM OVER r HE STATE, Interesting Hap prom Day to Day. of democrats at indorsed Major tilth iB= taE " F op f f nominated Tndkl “es ^ inroe n The nominees ^Harrison offices f Preston, for ordinary; clerk superior court; James ^ Henry Gunter, tax ; geasorer; Smith, tax receiver; fieet° r E i c. Babe Dial ftSTreadwefl, > sheriff, with ________ deputies; Ad i Barney - d James Lord, sur coroner, aa ft tor. ti, j! bought from W. E. Algee&Co., | [icb laI jta an engine, a twenty-two passenger and new rails for EL “ The line when completed Georgia from Idem to Adel on the and Florida, will be thirty L miles long. It will proboWy be Ufded with a road owned by the L te Lumber Company nearly and the Mis together will have seventy like of track. I Ljje Sir more trne bills grand have jury been against found L Floyd county of L w. M. Bridges growing out investigation of his defalcation as jdntv school commissioner, with forgery, Five making of tem charge him Ball six bills against him for that time. One is for misdemeanor, mak five on that score, with one for iBibezzlement. No effort has been mJe to arrest him, nor has there been idv demand for another bond, aDd he skill enjoying his liberty under the 8,300 bond for his appearance at curt, Eleven true bills are hanging Over him, I The special election held Thursday ■n Morgan for or against the sale of Hiquor was oue of the most exciting list ■ever held in the county. The of Registered voters was the largest ever ■[town, and the campaign ou both ■sides has been conducted for weeks ■nth great vigilance and enthusiasm. ■Notwithstanding the excitement, there ■were Ibo no disturbances, and absolutely drunkenness, both sides making a ■fair fight. The result of the election Ivas a majority of 250 in favor of a prohibition law, a majority of 301 jirem I and 219 the from precincts the city outside precincts. of MadiBon * * * The corn and cotton palace to be erected at Fitzgerald at oDce will be "pen to exhibits from IrwiD, Wilcox, | I counties Berrien, from Coffee, Telfair and Worth tfmber September 8 th to Sep- 22d. The building will cost $2,100 aud will be 170 by 170 feet. A iarge dome in the center of the build¬ ing will be handsomely decorated with corn and cotton on the interior and exterior. The committee will offer the frizes to the counties that will enter toe contest, Thev are for the best f°tmty best dispUy, display, §75, for the second “Hay, §50; for the third best §25. * * * August 12 will be a grand day among I he 0ld soldiers of Cobb’s and Phillip’s -gion. Then they will hold their ‘•. aiar annual reunion at the little town of Ivennesaw, formerly known as H ant y- It is on the Western and H-titic r »Broad, a few miles above - arietta, and is interesting from the jact Wu .atnous that most commands of the soldiers began their in these -nit iif war e at this place, then a recruit is S ground, There the survivors g&fher every year to fight their _ battles and to renew the friendships be around the campfires that blazed four long and bloody years upon Iff this tei ded field of war. The meeting yfar will be one of unusual inter ana will be largely attended. Ip ting of E. & p. Stockholders. IW 1X S ^ '’ lanu Ckholdere $ ac tRring . of the Eagle met and in Rumbus (V„ j day company a or two ago and took the reorganization of the r aDd tbe Protection of the Aa- wbichH^' > hi mterests . ia the ia litigation i H S ° ^ . ootnpany is involved. n oc Vas effbred and passed jtri *aonp tke recommendation the of ■ ers as to the making of §75,000 o Elements Ti at the mil|s. Gunby °,^ tke Jordan mili’s receivers, S. fp • • and Captain J a ,] ’ has just been issued to * ' twman. Some of its para «e as follows: “As 4 Pia Q t for the mannfac :urg nf Cottc m and woolen « rtojH aeT -i coc< ldions goods, the attached to this h / 8re hi * hI v favorable to reu yaiu - “Fo ' b:e * of jears the products soli bave been extensively •--i Uie requirements of an ex- acting trade and have established a reputation and good will which is of material worth. An amount of the ma¬ chinery of these mills is now much worn, as well as of antiquated types, and therefore unproductive of good results. The recommendation is made that §75,000 be expended in necessary im¬ provements—new machinery and re¬ pairs. From the receivers’ statement as to the financial condition of the company •‘he following extract is taken: Total liabilities......... §1,588,737.00 Quick assets, valued.... 410,063.51 Excess liabilities §1,178,673.49 Less quick assets not valued; stocks and bonds, face value of which « §227,555.17; real estate, not valued: machinery, not valued. The Farmers in Earnest The published letter of R. T. Nes¬ bitt, commissioner of agriculture, to the farmers of Georgia and other southern states, created a stir in busi¬ ness circles and among the agricultur¬ al classes of the state. In that letter the commissioner urged the farmers of the state to com¬ bine and form an organization for the purpose of resisting the efforts of the cotton tie manufacturers to obtain a price for their ties this year almost double that obtained last year. The suggestion of the commissioner that the farmers hold their cotton and adopt some other kind of tie for bind¬ ing the cotton bales than the ones now used, which are made of steel. He expressed the belief that some other material for ties may be feasible and suggested wire. There is a wide difference of opinion ou the subject. Many merchants who have traded in ties for years insist that the manufacturers have lost money on all ties sold during the past two years. The increase in price this season, they declared, was necessary in order to keep the manufacturers from going to the wall. There are only six cotton tie factories in the United States. Of this number three failed under the strain of the low prices of last year, and it is said that every one of the six lost money. The explanation offered for the in¬ crease in price this year is that the price of the raw material has risen to an enormous extent. Commissioner Nesbitt in his letter stated that the price of iron was the same as last year. This may be true, but the price of steel, out of which the ties are made, has increased this year to §23, where it was only §13 last year. The merchants claim that the freights from the manufactories in Pennsylvania and Ohio have increased 33 per cent, over last year. In substantiation of the claim tnat the increase is not due to the forma¬ tion of a “trust,” but to the increase in the price of steel, the mer¬ chants point to the increase in the price of other goods made of steel. All of of such goods are priced at double what they were last year. Ties rose in price last year from 65 cents per bundle to 90 cents, and many farmers anticipate a further rise in the price thisvear, though they are now quoted at §1.35 a bundle. Hard ware men and wholesale dealers in bagging and ties who were interviewed expresss a willingness to sign contracts calling for the delivery of ties at any time during the season at the present price. They do not expect a Vise in price. THREE SWUNG UP. Louisiana Mob Takes the Law Into Their Own Hands. A New Orleans special says: Jules Gueymard, a storekeeper,was assassin¬ ated one night last week in St. Charles parish, while standing on his front porch. A Sicilian named Lorenzo Saladino was known to have a grudge against Gueymard and was suspected of the crime. Circumstantial evidence caused his arrest on Friday. The sheriff had great difficulty in preventing the peo¬ ple from lynching Saladino then and there. The sheriff secretly conveyed the prisoner to Hahnville, the connty seat, and placed him in jail. This structure is a new brick building and was guarded by a negro watchman who has performed the duty several years. Two other Italians named Decino aud Angelo Marcuso were confined in the jaiffor the murder plantations. of an aged Spaniard on one of the About midnight a mob of about fifty persons, well armed, surprised the guard, battered down the doors of the jail and took out the three Italians. The prisoners cried and begged for mercy, but the crowd took them to a stable a short distance away,gave them two minutes in which to pray and then strung all three of them up by the necks to the rafters. Outlaw Dooliu Kills T wo More. Bill Doolin, the outlaw, who escaped from the jail in Guthrie, Oklahoma, four weeks ago, was surrounded by deputy marshais at Wewoka Wednes¬ day night. fight took place and A desperate fusiiade of shots Doolin during a es¬ caped. Deputies T. M. Gregor and Horace Reynolds were killed. , BILL ARP’S LETTER. HOT WEATHER UNFITS WILLIAM FOR HIS WORK. An Explanation as to the Origin of July and August. Julius Ccesar was a very great man. He was a democrat aDd the leader of his party when only thirty-three years old, and held the highest office before he was forty. But I don’t understand what made him cut a slice out of the middle of the year and name it July. And his son Gus did the same thing and named it August. If they wanted to dismember the year and a id two more months why dident they take it off the tail end and lap them on to December. I don’t like July nor August nohow. It seems to me they get hotter and hotter as the years roll on. I can’t work in my garden. It is so warm that I can’t gather the vegetables nor mow the grass tor the cow with any comfort. I sweat all over with pers¬ piration and have to change my gar¬ ments every day. € ,Ve don’t go to bed until 11 o’clock and can’t sleep good for an hour after, but I reckon it will come all right again before long. I reckon so. It always does. Whatever is is right. My wife borrowed the baby again last night. Ever and anon she has to have a baby to stay over night and sleep with her to remind her of the good old times when she nursed her own and fondled them and patted them in the restless night. So little Caroline, who is the youngest graud child, was left with her to comfort her rtnd it made both happy, for the little thing loves her grandma and hardly knows which mother she belongs to. I got to sleep about midnight, but my olfactories or esophagus or larynx or throttle valve or whatever you call it was out of order and I suppose I was snoring pretty lively when I heard a voice calling me: “William, William.” Asleep or awake that uxorian voice al¬ ways makes me jump with alacrity. I hastened over to her corner of the room to see what was the matter and rap against the center table and a chair and waited for orders. Suddenly she whispered: “I just wanted you to turn over. You snore so loud yon will wake up the baby. Don’t snore so.” With a subdued feeling I started back to my bed, but it was awful dark and I couldent find the round table that was in the middle of the room. Slowly and cautiously I felt my way, when suddenly my nose collided with the top of the mantlepiece. This guided me to my little bed again and I assumed a tired and recumbent po¬ sition and ruminated on the battle of life. But I mustent snore was the or¬ der. The baby mustent be disturbed. This injunction weighed sc heavily upon me that I was afraid to fall into a deep sleep and of getting sonorous again, so I slumbered along and dreamed I was traveling to heaven or some haven of rest, ami on every barn and board fence and rocky cliff there was a red letter sign like a patent medicine sign and it said, “Don’t snore! Don’t snore! Don’t snore!” and by and by we reached a high mountain and there was a youth climbing it with a banner and I thought it was the excelsior chop we used to see in the blue-back spelling book, but as the breeze un¬ folded the banner I saw it was “Don’t Snore, Don’t Snore.” Just then I was awakened by a gentle sonorous ol¬ factory sound that came from the other corner of the room and so I ventured over there and touched her tenderly and whispered: “Don’t snore; you will wake up the baby.” This baby-raising business is about the biggest business I know of and the most responsible. I was one of ten that my mother raised, and my wife has raised teD, and we have raised ten, and it looks like sumo of our posterity are on the same ancestral line. But there were no grandparents in our family and we little chaps had to rough it like Cain and Abel did. Nowadays it takes two parents and three or four grandparents and several aunts and a nurse and a baby carriage to raise a child, but that is all if the child is blessed with sue c~ priv ileges. The dear little things ought to have a good time in infancy, for trouble will surely come when they get older, and I rejoice that the modern children have a bet¬ ter time than we did. I remember the little brown cradle that we were all rocked in, and when there wasent a baby carriage in the town. I remem¬ ber when the average child had no nurse save its mother, and she did the housework and made all tlm garments, too, and dident know she was having a hard time. The little chaps dident have their faces washed nor their clothes changed but once or twice a day and they were set down on the floor or the ground and given some home-made playthings, and they, too, dident know there was anything better. Even the children of wealthy parents were turned over to the little darkies' and were happy in,their keeping. I remember when Evan Howell, the political dictator, was bobbing around with the little niggers and got so dirty playing in the sand you couldent spot him nor tell tother from which. But now his little grandchildren gofd go around in laces and ribbons and buttons and ride in a §40 baby carriage and bathe in a §40 bath tub, and Evau thinks it is all right, and I reckon it is. Ours come as near doing the same thing as they can and so do everybody elses. It. is a beautiful trait in human nature to improve on your own raising and to sweeten the hardships of childhood. But the time will come when the boys and the girls get big enough to be useful and then they should be made to know it. They should be raised to habits of industry. The girl of ten years should help her mother in house¬ work and in nursing the baby. The boy of ten should begin with the hoe in the garden and the ax at the wood pile. The piano is all right, and so iB the pony, but work should he mixed with pleasure. Sometimes I think there is too much schooling aud col leging going on in this generation and too little work. The curriculum of our public schools is now uine long years, say from eight to seventeen, nnd then o r >m-‘s ♦hi*-, ri ra of college and no work in all that time, no habits of industry, nothing but books, book?, books. There is hardly a sweet girl graduate in iho state who can make her own dresses. She goes to the milliner aud keeps her poor old father on a strain. Pehaps the college boy takes an honor and gets his name in the papers and then, of course, he must study law and dabble in politics and depend on the old man for a sup¬ port. These kind of nice,smart,good for-nothing boys are in every city and town and village. They know nothing of the practical concerns of life. They couldent plan a house nor run a saw¬ mill nor an ice factory nor a brick¬ yard nor even a little farm. They know nothing of horti¬ culture or the science of growing flow¬ ers and evergreen. They couldent hang a door or make a gate latch or put up a roller window curtain. But they know a little Latin aed Greek aud some geometry and perhaps can tell you whether the deluge came before or after the flood, and they can play base¬ ball and football and dance the german and wear tanned shoes and bellybands to perfection, but they arc good boys and so smart and have such nice man¬ ners and winning ways that their mothers are proud of them, but their old fathers are serious and perplexed. College life is very facinating both to boys and girls, but to most of them it is a waste of precious time. Education should be mixed with labor. It should be hard to get, not easy.— Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. FLORIDA’S POPULIST TICKET. A Declaration Made That Watson Will Withdraw. The Florida populists in convention at Ocala nominated the following tick¬ et : For Governor—A. W. Weeks, of Walton county. Secretary of State—J. T, Keller, of Volusia. Comptroller — P. W. Knapp, of Hillsborough. Ocala. Treasurer—L. H. Calhoun, of Attorney General—Frank Harris, of Tampa. Court—D. L. Judge of the Supremo McKinnon, of Jackson. For Superintendent of Public In¬ struction—O. N. Williams, of Osceola. Commissioner of Agriculture—J. H. Richburg, of Santa Rosa. A resolution was offered to the effect that if Sewall did not withdraw in 30 days S. F. Norton’s name should bo substituted for Bryan’s. After much discussion the resolution was with¬ drawn and the following adopted: “In accepting Bryan, the democratic nominee, the populist party has done all that reason and justice can demand. We desire a union of all reformers, and a failure by the demoerts to with¬ draw Sewall and substitute Watson places the onus of possible defeat of reform forces upon the democratic, and not the populist party. ” In combatting the resolution de¬ manding Sewall’s withdrawal, S. S. Harvey, leader of the party aDd a del¬ egate to St. Louis, said some populists walked so straight in the middle of the road that they gradually leaned back and fell over. Mr. Harvey asserted positively that Watson would with¬ draw. Harvey said he knew whereof he spoke* ns he had been consulting populist leaders in several of the eouthern states. GOLD STANDARDISES AT WORK Executive Committee Holds Its First Sleeting Indianapolis. The executive committee of the gold standard party held its first meeting in the Century Club rooms at the Den¬ nison hotel at Indianspjlis Saturday morning. The committee organized by elect¬ ing W. D. Bynum chairman and John R. Wilson, of ludianapolis, secretary. This committee of transportation Illinois,chair¬ was appointed: Hopkins, of and Hold¬ man ;Falkner, of Alabama, ing, of Ohio. The committee on cam¬ paign literature is composed of Cntch eon of Minnesota, aud Usher, of Vis , cousin. Mets v. Bynum and Wilson were authorized to select headquarters in Indianapolis, to be used until the ca tional convention at least. BUTLER ON WATSON. WHAT THE SENATOR HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE GEORGIAN. Affirms That North Carolina Will Sup¬ port Bryan and Watson. Senator Marion Butler, chairman of (he populist national executive com¬ mittee, has given his first expression upon the present situation. In a letter addressed to the commit¬ tee on arrangements for the rally at Atlanta Thursday night he gives in terse form his views on the democratic and populist tickets. He states that a number of democrats in his state have already declared for Watson and says that the populist party, by correcting the error of the democrats in nominating Sewall, have won over the mass of voters. He states that he will resign at once as chairman of the state executive com¬ mittee of North Carolina and attend to his duties as chairman of the populist national committee. Following is the letter in full: Elliott, N. C. Aug. 4.—Messrs. James lv. Hines, A. A. Murphy, James L. Sibley, committee, Atlanta, Ga. Gentlemen : I have just reached home and find your esteemed favor of July 29th awaiting me. It would give me great pleasure to accept your invitation and be present at the Bryan and Wafc son ratification meeting in the Atlauta tabernacle on the night of Augnst Oth, and regret very much that it will be impossible for mo to attend. Our state convention will be hold next week, and as state chairman every hour of my time will be required in this state un¬ til that date, when I will resign as state chairman aud at once open head¬ quarters to perform my new duties as national chairman of the people’s party. A number of democrats have already declared for the ticket nominated at St.Louis,namely: Bryan aud Watson, in preference to the ticket nominated at Chicago by their own convention. Every fair-minded and intelligent voter in America who believes in the principles of trne re¬ publicanism and true democracy as represented by Lincoln and Jefferson, recognizes the fact that the ticket nominated by the peo¬ ple’s party as St. Louis represents those great principles of good govern¬ ment better than the ticket nominated at Chicago by the democrats. In short, we have corrected the shortcomings and errors of the democrats at Chicago, aud if the democratic party, as an or¬ ganization, will uat accept the correc¬ tion I believe that the great masses of the votors of the country who are not yet in the people’s Bryan party will do so by voting for and Watson. The poople’s party today has the respect and confidence of every patriot in America. We have put country above party—we have practiced the doctrine that we have preached, and it is to such a party that the American voters nre now looking for leadership and deliverance. Trust¬ ing that your ratification meeting may be a great success, I am yourB very ti uly. Marion Butler. TEXAS POPULISTS Hold Their State Convention at Gal¬ veston. The Texas populist state convention met at Gaiveston Wednesday and waa called to order by “Stump” Ashby, the state chairman. The morning was spent chiefly in speech making, tb# various committees on temporary or¬ ganization, credentials, etc., being ap¬ pointed. Mr. Burney, of Kern coun¬ ty, was elected temporary chairman and Mr. Galloway, of Navarro, secre¬ tary. Temporary organization was not per¬ fected until nearly noon, and the credential committee required so much time to attend to the affairs that came before it, that the convention spent the afternoon listening to the orators. At 5 p. m., the credentials commit¬ tee sent word to the temporary chair¬ man, Mr. Burnett, of Kern county, that it would be unable to report un¬ til 8 p. m., and an adjournment was taken until that hour. Ail the speak¬ ers were “middle of the road” men, and denounced any combination with repnblicans or gold democrats. The platform as prepared by the committee on platform passes over the St. Louis convention without reference to the candidates, the platform adopt¬ ed there merely being indorsed. The payment of a fee to ex-Governor Hogg in the Corbett-Fitzsimmons case is re¬ ferred to and the state administration is denounced as extravagant and fos¬ tering a family of favorites. The placing of raw material on the free list is denounced. An eight-bonr working day and mediation between corpora¬ tions and employes by a state board in cases of strikes are advocated. A re¬ vision of the convict law is favored, and alien ownership of land in Texas is denounced. Recent statistics show that the in¬ crease in the crutch manufacturing in' dustry is keeping pace with the pro¬ gress in the making of bicycles.
