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^OLUME LX.IEI. ]HoOTHRKS D REOOBD^B bl,l ^ beJl * I ‘Ht9.' f CONKOMDATZD 1872 Milledgeville, Ga., August :>0. 1892.
Number 9.
Editorial Glimoses and Clippings.
Personal prosperity does not wait i
Convict Labor and Pablic Roads.
upon legislation.
The President of the United States
was 59 years old on the 20th.
The boll worm has attacked
cotton in Southwest Georgia.
I The trouble betweeu the miners
and the state authorities in Tennea-
! *«e, arises from the fact that free
white men object to laboring side by
1 side with convict labor.
the. This pride on the part of the free
: white laborer Is natural and com
mendable.
Though these white men are poor
and perhaps illiterate, they feel that
they are better than a convict. They
feel that in the social scale they are
higher than the inmates of the peni
tentiary. They feel that in laboring
side by side with the convict that
they are contaminated.
{ They remonstrate against the law
ltev. Thud Pickett is the lhirdj Rn( j tj,e p 0 |j C y 0 f t| le g ^ R j 0 t | ult
H I...1 or
mittee retired Winn and decided in | convict in their daily labor. This
favor of Pickett. j sentiment on their part is approved
Governor Flower, o? New York, Is ln * eneral ‘ b ? tb « People. And
!LII effective and convincing speaker. | some St ate Governments sympathize
His latest speech was on the Buffalo ] so f ttr with them in this tuattcr, tliat
’* tri . l T- 1 li, '° rt a,l M : the policy is—iiot to bring free labor
and did the business. 11p said: J ms , . . , . , .
t hing has got to be stopped.’’ n,,,! co,,viot labor iuto competition
«.—■»- witli each other.
Henry de Rothschild, one of the! It strikes us that there is one rein*
vs' *»•' »•
one of the Paris Rotlischilds and said ; application two great, important and
to be tile heir.to more than $50,000,000,
He is an athletic youth of 19 years.
Edward Bermudez, late Chief Jus
tice of Louisiana, died on tlie 22d in
New Orleans.
Ttie total immigration totli° United
States in the year ended June HO, 1892,
amounted to 010,323 souls.
The Grand Army of the Republic
will hold its unnual encampment at
Washington in September.
Letter From Rev. C. B. Anderson.
Washington Letter.
Ri ral Haix, N. C. \
Aug. 23d, 1892. >
Editors Umox-Recordkr:
When 1 wrote my last letter to von
I decided to quit, lest I weary you
and your readers with my scribbling,
but. if you will excuse mu for writing
another one, 1 will not. write any
more unless I feel like it.
The weather here is hot in the day
time but the nights are cooler. Some
nights 1 ear. sleep under a blanket or j
quilt, comfortubly. It is very dry here
now, having had no rain for nearly
four weeks. The corn and tobacco
crops are suffering badly. They are
diminished much now, and will be
much more so if the drouth continues
much louger. The wlient is thrushed
and put away and they have made
from 40 to 200 bushels on tile farm.
From.Onr HopnlarCorrosponclont.
Washington, Aug.\’3rd, 1892. r
Secretary of State Foster gives in- i
dications of having an attack of
“Jingoism." No one is surprised; the j
attack has been expected ever since
lie entered the cabinet. It is part and
parcel of the spheme to get up a for
eign war scar# hs a bid for votes tor
Harrison and Held. The only dlfficul-
| ty lias been in finding a weak coun-
“ try that would give the administra
tion a chance to bully it until after
tlie election. Turkey, which is cer
tainly weak enough to lie bullied by
any government, is the victim selec
ted, the special occasion being the
recent burning of the house of Dr.
Bartlett, an American Missionaiy in
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report^
Baking
Powder
ABSOU/TELY PURE
_„,i , j Asm minor. Secretary Foster admit,,
ana some even more. 1 lie people of 1 ., . , „ .. . V
.i,j a . ,, , , , i that similar troub f*s have occurred
tins county have bestowed upon me
lavished kindness. Invitations all
Senator Thomas G. Gibson, who
represented this District in the state
Senate in the last. Legislature, went
Shrewd politic.iarfc say tliat the
next race in the Sixtli district for the
Democratic congressional nomination
will lie between Berner, of Monroe;
Hartlptf. of Bibb; Whitfield, of Bald
win, and John 1. Hall, of Spulding.
The contest i« two years off, lint tlie
political prognosticators will be in
time.
around, far and near, “come to see j
us, ’ and th*-y have been feeding me !
before in the dominions of the Sultan,
but, n national campaign being now
pending, lie proceeds to tigrntively
chew soap, in order to foam at the
... ... : mouth while he informs the wide-eyed
honey comb, something of which I am 1 J
very fond, ami many other good I
tilings too tedious to mention, and I
am growing fat, somewhat on them. I
The universal custom ot this country I
is to have their suppers about live j
o'clock iu tlie evening, or between
live and six, then after which every
thing is cleaned away, all domestic
duties are gone through with before
gather in from the business of the
day and are ready for family prayers,
or if there be church services they
are ready to go without slopping to
I
newspaper men, who visit tlie De
partment of Stale, in his heaviest
trugedy voice that “I huve cabled
a demand forindmenity and for the
punishment of tlie guilty parties, aud
the United States cruisers Newark
aud Bennington will be ordered to
Turkish waters to support this
demand, which this governor propos
es to enforce at all huzards," No fear
need be eutertained of a war witli
the sublime Ports. Secretary Foster’s
demand it like that made by Rtidini,
the I taliau premier, upon tills gover-
inent just after the New Orleans mas
sacre—intended sololy for home con
sumption and effect.
Tlie acting Attorney General has
declined to give an official construc
tion of tlie new eight hour law, which
the acting secretary of tho Treasury
■ •quested, on the ground that he can
not legally do so until tlie question
comes before him in connection witli
tlie administration of tlie law. Tlieie
is lots of politics in that eight hour
law or rather in the construction
which the legal officials of the Gov
ernment may lie pleased to put upon
it, which accounts for the refusal of
the temporary head of the Depart
ment of Justice to give an official
opinion on tlie subject lit this time;
.. ... .. the Presidential election is too near
, , Pl ,licatio “ of the 0rt, ‘ DR 7’ tl,e “ u,u ’ towards the mountains and round I at hand, and the g. o. p. has already
Hen. Beauregard passed through ' btr of couvi ‘' t ' , • l{uar<l8 ’ &c “ 1,8 win about. A few miles off stands the
Tennessee the other dnv en route to 1 put the roads in good repair. And | grand old Pilot with his head lifted
practioal questions will be settled.
There is a cry throughout our whole
country and iu every state ot our
union for better public roads.
Tlie old system of workiug roads in
astray after the Third party leaders | thj() ,. 0 untry is unsatisfactory and
S^^kHud renewed ids Sance virtually amounts to nothing. In
to tlie party of ills fathers.—Angus- many states new laws for working j and both men and women
ta Chronicle. roads have been enacted aud various
1 plans and systems of road work are
! being tried.
It lias been suggested in Pennsyl
vania, that the state use Its convict j ** ftt aft ‘‘ r ,lark be,ort * they start,
labor in making aud keeping in re- like tlie plan. It works well here,
pair the public roads of tile state. We i • M'*unt pi.kasast.
think it a practical solution of these Last Sunday three ladies, one man,
qluttiom of rond work, .ud of oonvlot | Sta’Y'tJ o'noi*
labor. In Georgia some of the coun- wagon. We Imd gone about three
contractors several hundred thousand
dollars without a corresponding re
duction being made iu tiie price paid
tlie contractors. It is charged that
tlie change was made at Carnegie's
request,ami experts say that it large
ly deteriorates the defensive qual
ity of tlie armor. Tlie acting secretary
of the Navy attempts to explain it bv
saving thut the style of armor culled
for l»y the original specification conM
not be made in tIlia country. Tliat
fact was very well known when tlie
contracts we»< made but the contrac
tors agreed to put iu plants to make it.
This they have not done, A better ex
planation will have to tin given or ('on
gress will have to investigate, it is
pi obable that a coiislderaale portion
of the illegal profits of this change
lias already found its wav into the
Treasury of tlie National Republican
committee.
To Sanderiville and Back.
Three years ago Dr. J. T. Reese, of
Newnan', planted out seven acres of ties work their roads with its convict j miles of the six when one of the
ordinary s*»!0 land iu grapes. This labor, aud these counties have the wheels dropped from tlie axle. As it
year, after he had gotten 1,500gallons ^ the , ut „ of Georgia. j ''T^Thl horiesMonne.Tand ’iZt
of wine from Ins grape crop, lie was * out. l lie horses stopped atul we got
offered $1,400 iu cash for the seven >Ve have traveled over much of the | out and began hunting tlie linoh pin,
acres. The offer was promptly and | state und the best public roads that we ! but it could not. lie found. What
indignantly declined. I have been over are iu Bibb county, shall we dot ijiree miles hack home,
— — I „„ , . , . , . r three miles to tlie churoli and it is
It is said flint “Ben" Russell, dem- I 1 18 oounty 1,808 18,0, ‘V ict labor in , , 10 t. 1 proposed we make a wooden
ocratie nominee for congress from tlie I working tlie roads. This system, by pin, so we put tlie wheel to its place
second district, can “play a fiddle and i counties will do only where the courts and fastened it there with this pin
call a cotillon along witli any of the 1 f tir uii*li many convicts, as iu Bibb,! aml ",«*'<>. The 'J’ beal
bovs. “Bob’ Tavlor.it will be re- . , ... stuck to its place. I he faithful steeds
membered, once ‘ fiddled" his wav Fulto,1 ‘ Richmond and Chatham, carried us through safely aud we
into the gubernatorial chair of Ten- ' But make it a state affair aril have ! arrived at the church in good time,
nettfee. Hut Mr. Russell will not have ' the state to send to each county on Look! What a congregation! Where
to fiddle for votes. annlinatlon of the Ordinary the mini <1,d all , the8e P eo P le from? I- rom
Uppm,anon OI lilt nimary, me UUIl) t f ,»*nrd« the mminfaiim nnH rmitwi
Yellow Sulphur Springs; and wlnl.* he let tlie couuty pav the actual ex-
was in Bristol several men who served j pen8e80t the work ' to the state, ln
tiuder him over thirty vears ago. at , , , . .,, , ,
the time he fired on Fort Sumter, j tb,! * wa >’ ,be col,v,ct8 will not be a
called to pay their respects. The I hurdetl on the state, and the taxes
general is now 75 years of age. but he j f or t lieir support will he paid by the
is in fine condltionjdiyslcally. j people ln ^curing better roads.’
Earl Rosebery, \yiio lias a promi-| “•
nent place in the Gladstone ministry,
suffers from insomnia. With all the
advantages of
purchase a ni
lions of poor ....... .... . . , , ,
effort. Eari Ro-ebery is com para- asked wlmt lie thought of the third
tivelv voting. He married a daugh- party, as it was well known that the
ter of the house of Rothschild, wlio latter had been doing considerable
died a year or so ago.
lost too many voters to tako any more
ciiances.
The republicans are raising the cry
of “no money,” with which Senator
(Juay tried unsuccessfully to bam
boozle the democrats iu 1898. The
dodge did not work then und it will
not now. Every intelligent man, what
ever his political opinions, knows
work nmong tlie negroes of Upson
conn tv. Roberts took a seat on a
The coalition of tlie People’s party 1 ,lr >’ >.'«''<•* bt, -> tt,, d delivered himself
and the Republicans i< now moving! 0 ^ tip* following:
upon the Democracy of Georgia. I “1 t" 11 * the niggers dey better let
But since this unscrupulous comh'im dem third party folkser Iona, i lungs
tion has he#n nnoo\^»rcc1 am) defeated V OH 4 ^° 11 ^ km»w nothin tall iinoiit,
in the Alabama election there need >’ ou better let «r lone. They llx up
be no fear of its.suceess in any other things so dat dev look mighty nice,
quarter. Conspiracies cease to be 1 ,ue of ‘*P‘ , 1 ur i n / wa C
dangerous when exposed. The Dem- i "hen mv young nnstis fust growed
ocratie majority in Georgia will b
towards the clouds.
Well, we heard a good sermon from
the preacher. After dinner it fell to
the lot of this scribe to preach. He
did the best he could under tlie oir-
cumstanoes. After lie had gone
through he invited penitents to the
altar for prayer. Out of that large
congregation one girl about twelve
vears old came under deep conviction.
Henry Roberts is a censiblo colored I 1 went back to this meeting the next ' that the republican party can always
•lav. A glorious meeting it was. 1 j raise a big corruption fund among
feel that I am a better mail and a . . . . , . . ,
little further on iu Hie way to life. It , tbe ,,, ° i tecte ‘ 1 « aa '* ,,f «^urers; who
was a privilege to he there and weep know only to well that the enormous
witli those tliat wept nml to rejoice I profits which such legislation as the
with those that rejoiced. i McKinley tariff law enables them to
Eight or ten young indies came to , ... . ,
the altar deeply interested and when | P° cket at the expense of the people
the first prayer was offered for them j are entirely dependent upon the sue-
they did not return to their seats as a [ cess of tlie republican party. Benator
great many do, but remained on their : Quay started the cry of
knees. They did not arise at tlie end
of the second prayer. They contin
ued to wrestle for salvation. We
labored with tnciii for some time, but
none of them were converted that
daw but since ! lenrn tliat. some of
the
nsomniu. With all the Henry Kotierts is a rensimo coioreu i
r vast wealth, he cannot j tlie plantation off Mr.
ight’s repose tliat mil T..I. Nelson, nearThoiuaston. While |
r men get without nn t, ”* t to w » the other day he was!
hkclv to range between 50,000 and
<5,000 ill the next count of ballots.—
I’liiladelphia Record.
sip. I had to make fires in de parlor tiiein have been. Tho tloor of
when cuuipany come. One cold Sun- church was not opened, and 1 was
day young mist's told me, ‘Uncle glad of it. 1 think iimny of our
He'iirv I’m gwine to have cuuipany preachers are at fault for this^ever-
to night and 1 waut you to make lasting opening tho doors
tlie
no money
hoping thereby to detract public at
teuiiou from tho corrupt use of j
money by tho republican National j
committee of which he was then i
chairman, ami Mr. Harrison’s lackeys I
who Hre this year running that com- |
mittee, have started it again for the i
same purpose. Let tlie fact not he |
lost sight of by any democrat that
In the Name of Labor!
In tlie troubles growing out of tbe
labor qnestiofi, many of the most
active participants are not laboring
men.
Tlie Chnttatiooga Tiinps is, presnm
ably, well acquainted witli Hie situ
ation in East Tennessee, and it makes
tile following statement:
“Tbe talk about th*-se mob“ liefug
conqiosed, as to a majority of them,
of workingmen, in any true sense of
the title, is foolishness. Not one in
three of the rioters iu Anderson
county would do, ever did or ever
will do, ten liouest days’ work iu a
year, if lie could make $5.00 a day.
Tliey are largely mouutnin raga
bonds; men who hunt, lonf, driuk,
fight, ahuse au<i neglect their women
und families, make moon shine whisky,
are rhrouic breakers of the peace.
Altogether they form as undesirable
aud as dangerous an elemeut of our
population as do the most objection
able importations of Huns, Hicillian*-
and Arabs. They are In the present
troubles more from a spirit of pure
mischief, because they hate and waut
to rob any man who eavps bis earn
ings, thus secures u competence, amt
conducts himself like a good ami
orderly citizen.”
Doubtless there is a good d-al of
truth in this. The treachery, ttie bru
tality and the readiness to steal,
everything in sight displa <-«l by
many of tlie meu engaged in the iu-
surtection make it plain that others
besides liouest workingmen took n
hand iu tlie outbreak.
Here is something for the well
meaning hut dissatisfied elements of
our population to consider. They
run a terrible risk when they lake ah
aggressive stand, aud, in an organ
ized way, make even a show of force.
The danger i.- that thousands of idle,
reckless, desperate men, not satisfied
with tlie cause of labor, will rush iu
making tlie farm sustaining, it. was and precipitate anarchy, claiming
there I saw four beautiful colts, plen-l tbat ar, ‘ boo '*« toilers driven
- , ... * . . I by tlieir i;rit»vi\uce8 to adopt violetil
ty of hogs, hominy, oats and ten hales u / etho , li K T , leiie oriuiiD<l | 8 ‘ HrH re »dy
of old cotton. Let us all try this jq rob iiml murder in fin* name of
plan. ; labor, and, when the llnul settlement
I left my friend’s house Aug. 19th, «•“»“•>'. the authorities find it difficult
„ , , , i to separate tlie two classes.
, a. in., under more favorable aus J Th ; lnr( , 8t way for the liouest »n<!
pices. The clouds had disappeared ^ intelligent workingmen of America
and tlie ray was bright. Crops were to secure the reforms they demand is
not as good on my route as I had rea- tr> to , *’ 4 '
. , , ' . , can accomplish more through public
sou to boU<*ye. On tlie piny woods opinion, when they nre right, than
land crops were small aud hud the I tliey can through mob violence when
rust (cotton I mean). One fcathre i they are either right cr wrong,
noticeable iu Washington; three- AH classes of people in this country
. .. ... ... . , ? „ .. (naturally •yuipatliize with our wnge-
fourthft of the cultiyatable fie ds seen * workers. This iK»pular sympathy
from tlie road" were iu cotton. But!can heludlclously utilize 1 so tliat it
1 must sav some of the prettiest farm- wifi work wonders. But mistaken
ing land l‘have ever seen was in tJle ! methods endangering peace prop-
1 l«*rtv aud life, will change this feeling,
vicinity of Bandersviilo. I arrived In| Labor should ally itself with law.
Samlersville at 11:30 a. m. and pro- it‘degrades itself when it permits
ceeded to the court house where the conditions uuder wliicli tlie criminal
i , ni i ,i ! classes will make an organized fight
delegates were in waiting for the „ K . Hillst h „ ci „, v , they .lid iu Ten-
Bald win delegation. I felt greatly | nesaee.
iu tlie minority, being the only one In this free country, labor will ot>
present, but I promised tliat Baldwin tabj ,ld _°* under the law.
... , , , i . .. and good citizens will never go out-
would be no laggard nor link iu tlie si<!e ^ f the , aw to MCIlre r<dr Ji 8 or ft>
distance, but would do her part at! enforce a remedy.— Constitution,
the election in giving tlie nominee un
On tlie evening of Aug. 17th 1 left
home en route to Haudersville 1 was
exceedingly anxious to observe close
ly tlie crops as I proceeded on my
way through the country but on ac
count of incessant rains I was obliged
to keep my head and body closely
ensconced (n my umbrella. Any
way I managed to get to my friend.
Mack Buck’s home, after wading
through what appeared to be little
oceans running up uml down tlie pub
lic road. Friend Mack gave mo a
warm welcome, u good supper, and
opened a s|NUikii>g Dew box of cigars
and told me to help myself. Wlmt
hospilality we find among tlie coun
try boys! Mack is also a progressive
farmer, raising a diversity of erops,
overwhelming victory. Eh, demo
crats. 1 represented you, I have
promised.
After a few preliminaries Washing
ton nominated her choice, \V. C.
Mathew.-. Iiuncork nml Baldwin rec
Have You Read
How Mr. W. D.*Wentz, of Geneva,
j N. Y„ was cured of the severest
I form of dyspepsia! He says every
thing he eat seemed like pouriug
: melted lead into tiis stomach.
Hood's Narsapuriiia effected a perfect
"Hv was cheap and sold when It wn
High
flung deui hiss its i:i my mouth and I
foil ii< i it wet n’t no syrup tall, but
someliodv had spilt saft soap on nq
It heir conversion, tlie door of tin
church is opened, tlie congregation!
requested to stand and sing, the 1
is what
'I’hc Southern colony in New York hVth Bo i tell de nigger* dey better preacher urges them to come and join
"‘‘ •I a meeting on the 22.1 for the pur- lot dese third party folks erloue. 1 the church, t hey come and are re-
"9,000 Southerners in tlie me-, folk
session and just afterward
broke Mr. Holman down.
There is a very decided difference of
opinion among the democrats here as j
to tlie wisdom of the uational com
mittee in deciding to open a brunch
headquarters at Chicago. Of course j
tliey all sincerely wish for good results
but if you follow after dem you am not greatly mistaken you may ' frosn the innovation but many express
11 1 '* 1 1 -1-.. the fear that they may not come.
Tlie Navy department n.ay Hud
itself the centre of a great scandal if i
retract. 1 do not accuse any preacher it does not satisfactorily explain why
of taking these chaiacters'in know- j tho 8ty j e st eel armor plates now
oguiziug her choice were proud tu ! V ,,rH * Full particulars will lie sent
nominate him by ucclninutiou. i*^ }, t>l, «, wr ' te ‘ ^ ood ^
J well. Alims.
ocatod j
speakers!
Ham.
Democratic
Legisla-
j sev-
ready
debater,
auec -
crowd,
issues
been se-
through
A-ant espee
I .a* highest praise has been won by hilly to pit him against Watson, lie
b>' Hood s Hills for their easy, yet | is every idf Watsou’s equal as n
efficient ncVjon.
stump speaker.—Atlanta Journal.
□-PRICE’S
200men were presuut will git fooled, besides losing what find drunkards, adulterers, uancers, t j lu
< rs i!! r, ,is ,0 their fellow Southern-. yon got. Belter let ’em erlone! Bet- gamblers, swindler-, Ac., in the Math-1 T
a ^ v °catiopr work for tbe ter let ’em erloueP’ odiiit obaroh iu full fellowship. If 1
adoiVte l' ' ’ ,e 1)euiocr utic ticket was j - ♦ - am mistaken 1 would be glad to,
were ,i ’ t a V d * be following officers 1 Maj. A. O. Bacon's ser
Tboiiii^oV- : Col. W. P. j been net*ured at the natli
ftweiis-^tr«» s,>creb4r y» Capt. Edward paign lieadquart«ys in N
also an ,.r u '- r ’ ' i,l,oujas E- Yoiiug;! and he will do gAod wor
long list of »• ,ve co'utuittee and u I mocracy in directing tlie n
• v i<*e-|>residents. • of the campaign speakers.
services have
national cam-
N'ew York,
work for Do-
»movements
know
ingly. There are some iu said church beinK furalabe.l by the Betlileheni
hs pure as this tflobe affordtf. lb« . * , , 4 .
Lord help tbe preacbem and tlie hoa Works aiul the harnwie concern
church. C. II. Am>krsox. * v/a« changed in a way to save the
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