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Dade County Times. TRENTON, :::::: GEORGIA. Office’ of Publictiom (’ole Building, up stairs. Published every Wednesday. —1« ..I - Correspondence solicited; but to receive nt teation, communications must be nccoiupimic by a responsible iiarnc—not lor publication but as a guarantee of good faith. Contributions of news solicited from every quarte- Rejcjtcd articles will not be re turned unless accompanied by n stnmp. fsfirAdvertising rates and estimates given on application. Sfbsription —One year, $1.50; six hionths, 75 cents; three months, 40 cents. All letters should be addressed to THE TIMES, Trenton, Ga. WEIIMSIIU, OCTOBER 8,1884. ANNOUNCEMENTS. coroner. Wo are authorized to announce the name of J. W. Brown, of Cole City as a candidate for coroner. We are authorized to announce the tiame of 8. M. Tor bolt, of Cole City as a candidate for coroner. TAX COLLECTOR. We are authorised* ’to announce the name of 1 John Clark as a candidate for Tax Collector. Elec tion first Wednesday in January, 1884. Oft DIN A RV. We place our name, T. A. Havron, before tire voters of Dade as a candi date for Ordinary. It is our desire, and we intend and will, to make the race entirely upon our individual merits and qualifications. Chattanooga had a little fire Sun day night. The legislature will convene the first Wednesday in next month. One of the leading features of But. ler’s addresses isfin favor of protective tariff. We maffe a trip to Chattanooga tbe first of tbe week. Business is reported to be rather dull and money scarce. On the 23d inst., the question of restriction will be voted upon. Let all deliberate!v consider the issues and vote according to their honest convic tions. A bill has been filed to condemn, and commissioners appointed to as sess the amount of damage for a right of wav for a railroad from Chattanoo ga to Point Lookout. Many of the strongest temperance advocates oppose entangling the move ment with political alliances. Let it stand or fall on its owu intrinsic merits. In Petersburg, Va , and vicinity, all cotton factories have closed on ac count of the scarcity of water, occa sioned by the drouth. It throws out »/f employment over 700 men, women and children, who are now on suffer ance. The best evidence of tbe success of the Democratic party in the coming election is the drift of the heavy bets in favor of Cleveland and Hendricks. It is better than newspaper reports and what politicians say, for men do not go into it without being well informed. THE LAST OF THE LINE. Broken by tlie storms of State ami fate, the venerable Jefferson Davis awaits with Christian fortitude, the summons, that shall place him with the silent majority, and among the comrades who fought and toiled, and lost, on this side of the “Rolling Riv er.” He has lteen married twice, and Iras no rfiale descendant who Dears his Harm. Not long since he lost his cult son. Recently ‘.he death ot the mm of CJen. Jus. R. Davis, Biloxi, Miss., took away “the last of the line.” With him the lust hope of perpetua ting by male descendants the ltame of Jefferson Davis expired. The <«en cral is a nephew ol Jefferson Davis. The affectians of Mr. Davis and the whole family were bestowed upon this • eioii of ii noble stock. In his death they see that the name will go out with i‘s greatest repiescntalive.— j Nashville W orld. The Issue. It being just upon the eve of the election to be held in Dade county, to decide an important issne now pend ing biff ore the people of Dade, an issue fraught with untold consequences, an issue, the result of which, will leave its impress for good or evil, upon the people of this county for generations to come, it seems to me that the case should be fair and impartially stated, and placed before the people in such a way as to cause them to think, and to act and vote intelligently; and then we need have no fears of the result. If we can get the people to think and study the question at issue, to soberly and deliberately draw their conclusions, ami then vote in accordance with the verdict of their better informed judg ments, nine times out of ten they will vote right. The masses, uninfluenced by prejudice or passion, and controlled by the desire to do light, scarcely ever err in matters of policy. Upon this very principle, as a basis, rests our beloved democracy, our republican form ol government. The objection is urged by some that it restricts our libyrties as citizens of this great and free republic of ours to say that we shall not make and sell intoxicating liquors as much as we please, ami when and where we please, provi ded we are willing to pay the government for the privilege of so doing. That is all very nice in theory; but it we, by observation and experi ence find that the practice ot such lib erties is detrimental to our own best interests, has a tendency to degrade us, and make us slaves to our appe tites and baser passions, would not the verdict of common sense be, let ns icinove the evil ? Sell-protection is the first law of nature, and if out lib erties, or rather the abuse ot them would endanger our existence or wel fare, would it not be well tor us to res trict onr liberties in accordance with this first and highest law of nature ? The poiLt for us to decide in studying this question is this; Does the pres ence of a saloon in a, neighborhood, a community or town, tend to elevate the people morally, socially and intel lectually ? Or is the reverse true ? It we find upon careful, deliberate and unpaitiul investigation that it tends to Iteguile the youth of our land and entangle them in its deadly coils ; rob vigorous manhood of self-respect, moral force and power of will, and make him a raving maniac, prepared to smite his best friend, even the wile of bis bosom to the earth ; send gray hairs tottering in shame and sorrow to the grave ; multiply the wailing and suffering of widowhood and orphana ges ; fill our poor houses with paupers; our jails and penitentiaries with crimi nals, and our lunatic asylums with howling demons, raving maniacs-- who will say that ’t might not so be altogether suppressed ? Who will contend that the traffic in intoxicating liquors is constitutional, and therefore ought to be allowed ? Who will vote to harbor bis deadliest enemy because he is allowed to do so by the constitu tion'? On the other band won’t there be a mighty rising up of the people ot Dade to put away from among us this accursed thing ? Why, mv dear sirs, suppose ibis county was infected by bands ot outlaws, hordes ot ban ditti, would there not be a mighty marshaling of forces to expel the inva ders ? We have a worse foe to con tend with in that it strikes diiectly at the higher nature in n an, blinds bis moial sensibilities and pieparcs its victim for all manner of crime. 'I bis is indeed a dark picture, but \lie half has not been told. There us another standpoint from which this question might be looked at. The sale ol whisky in any place is a bar to the establishment and suc cessful operation of schools ior near that place. Excuse us for a bit of per sonal obseivation jn*t here. We have been connected with schools both as student and teacher, where whisky could be bad on every hand, and at all times ; we have known young men to go to such schools, the h.>pe of doting parents, the pride of loving brothers and sisters, and the boast of generous friends; I have known these same voting men to fall in with others who drank, lake the poisonous howl, tip the decanter aiouiul tlie card table till morning light, fqiend the fol'owing day in sleeping off' the effects of the night’s potations, unfit for study or recitation, and the next day when called upon for an excuse fot absence,, played sick. This is m>t ail exception-j al case, but ono of hundred-*• 'hi the o.her hand at schools where whisky was not sold in seven miles ot (lie place, we have seen drunkards reform and become studious, make rapid progress, become religious, and grad uate with honors and go home to be the comfort and solace of aged parents. Neither is this an exceptional case. How is it in Dade ■? T here an* more than, two saloons to our school. What can we expect from such a state of af fairs ? Il l were an artist I would paint two pictures and present them to the people of Dade county lor their consideration, In one cf these pictures I w ould show some twenty saloons, where men made in the image of God, deal out deatli to their fellow men: with here and there a youth, a middle-aged man, an old man, staggering to and fro making night hideous with their oaths, imprecations and demoniac yells. In one of these houses of hell 1 would draw a picture of two friends first drinking together, next disputing then coming to blows, and finally tbe one burying bis dagger to tbe hilt in the heart ot the other, with his life blood flowing from his wounds; the father, the mother, the brothers and sisters meeting and ringing their hands in anguish mintteiable At another of these places I would paint an old decrepid man, spending the money earned by his wife at the wash tub, not for tbe coffee she sent for but for that which would poison his mind, influence his passions, destroy his reason, uud prepare him to return to his home and abuse his beloved com panion who is wearing her life away in trying to support her family. In one corner of this picture I would en deavor to paint a home scene, once happy but now desolate, tbe father a raying maniac, a jug of whisky sitting near him, a little child lying near it as if in the arms of death, caused bv drinking from that jug, and the dis tracted wife and mother leaning over her darling almost in the agony of complete dispair. The other picture should not be desecrated by a saloon. But here and there I would paint a church, where the people forsake not the assembling of themselves together, In here the Sabbath is honored and God is worshiped ; a school house where the minds and hearts of the children are being trained and devel oped, where tbe little children, the boys and tire gills, the young men and young ladies are being prepared for usefulness ami happiness. In this picture, also, I would endeavor to paint a home scene, but not like the other In this there should be the pa rents, the children, brothers and sis ters, suit mmled by the comforts ot life, with books of history, science, travel and romance and games ot amurement, where all is harmony, peaee and Jove. And then 1 would say, my countrymen, which of tliese do yin like best ? T hese are no fancy sketches, but actual facts and possibilities. People ot Dale, we can retain the saloons, raise up our people in igno rance, exposed to the damning influ ence of the glog shop, make drunkards or our young men, and prepare them for almost any crime pi the whole catalogue of crime, fit only t fv the asylum, the ]>enitentiajy or thek chain gang. On the other band we|caii do away with the saloons, have first-class schools all over the county witj no counteracting influences where wo can have our children trained for useful ness and happiness, our young men fitted loi good citizens, farmers, law yers, doctors, statesmen, in fact, pre pared to fill any office of profit or trust to w hich they might be called. Which will you have? Choose \e this day whom ve will serve. Trenton ami Rising Fawn both ought to support good schools ten months in the year, and could and would do it but lor the sale of whisky in those places. Ami just so certain as that is the ease no man who lias the education ami organizing ability requisite for such an Undertaking, is going to ruts the risk of an almost cer tain failure, wnen he can g:t go d places all over this country where lie lias not this evil influence to light against. The election to test this matter is near at hand, and we feel almost cer tain that the decision will be in favor of piobibition; and if it is we predict that in less than tlnee years there will be goo 1 schools where needed, and general prosperity and good Ice iug; lew convicts sent to tlie chain gang from our county, and lower heart lend ing sighs caused by the excessive use of the intoxicating bowl. Let every body go to the polls and vote for pro hibition. I almost wish the women were allowed to vote in this election. I am sure there would then be no doubt of the result. F. M. Streit. An lowa lawyer inc'ndcd in 1 1 i clients lull: “To wakilig i]> at nights and 'thinking of your < a'-’ !f.\” SILENT INI'IjUENC’E. YVe are touching our fellow-beings on all sides. They are affected for good or for evil by what we are, by what .ve say and do, even by what we think and feel. May flowers in tbe parlot breath their fragrance through the atmosphere. We are each of u* as silently saturating the atmosphere about us with the subtile aroma of our character, in the family circle, be sides and beyond all ;lm teaching, the daily life of each parent and child mysteriously modifies the life of every person in the household. J’lie same process on a wider scale is going on through the community. No mail livetli to himself, and no man ilyetli to himself. Others are built up and straightened by our unconscious deeds; and others may bo wrenched out of their places, and thrown down by our unconscious influence.—Con gregational ist. A SOLEMN PROCEEDING. A prominent and intelligent gentle man of Whitfield county lias recently been engaged in a novel and rather soh'inn pursuit, that of superintending the digging of bis own grave. Ho lias selected for this last resting place a romantic and quiet spot, remote from the j a ring noises of the busy world, and lias bad the crypt, which will re ceive his mortal remains, nicely ce mented ami enclosed with an iron railing, Although in the evening ol life, tiiis eccentric gentleman is still hale and hearty and has flattering prospects of a still longer existence.— Citizen. NEW STORE. . Dry Goods and Groceries CHEAP CASH OR BARTER Call ahd See Mo J. B. BURTON, Trenton, Ga, Coughs, Colds. Catarrh, Consumption All thor.it, Breast, and Lung, alleclionscur ed by the old-established “.SWAY NS \\ lI.D Cll FURY.” The firs, does give relief and a cure Speed I y follows. 2-i Cts., or sl.uO at Druggists. ELECTION NOTICE! 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