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DE rOLIMV WEEK LI \EWS.
I TEREI) AT THE PoSTOFFICE AS SEC
OND Class Matter.
EN, T. DROCK, ; Senior Editor.
D. C- CRiSCOM. ; Junior Editor.
j TRENTON," cTa-TjULV 20,TsW.
ANNOU fxCEwl £NTS,
Jl
Senator,
We are amlionzuu to annouuee '4. J,
UiupkiU, ot UVLIOU as -i cHUUHiaIe 10
jjjrcsciii liie ociutluiiiu uioiiJet in
i. lu next iegi&nuuie.
. We are auitiorized ;o aunounee Col,
. . C. jSisijot >, ut ciovciuutc. its a onn
iuaie lo represent Uie -t-tui Senaiurial
, iSllTcl iu D»e next luglMalUl'e,
VV E are auUiorized 10 aiinouiice J. B.
dcwotiuiii, ot .o as a eanui
ittwj lo leprcsem uie t-tlu benaiori*»x
ItairioL iu Uie next legislature
i W E are authorized to autiuiiuee »*tiu
• Jliejl i-ope, oi *» nUWooU, as « eauiti
late to represent tne a*ur Senatorial
Jist.net >u tire oext legislature,
Rfcpresbrudtiue,
We are auitionijeu to announce T. J.
Kilpatrick, ot Coie as a candidate
tor lieprcsenta ive lo next legislature.
We are authorized to aunounee J.
V\ . rilevius, oi Xvisiiij;, i-aiVu, as a cau
date lor KepresenlaWte to next legisla
ture.
WE are authorised to announce (»,
W M latum, ot i renton, as a candi
date tor Kcprescntuuve to next legisla
ture.
She. iff.
We a e authorised to announce W,
A, H>rd, ot Iren ton, as i. candidate tor
rc-cicellon as seetiU.
•Ve arc oAuioriAnd to announce J.
T. ooldrighl, ol Trenton, as a candi
date lor fthcrilt'.
" ax Collector.
Wk are authorized io announce John
Slaton, of Rising havvu, as a candidate
for 1’ ax Cu.ioeior.
W e are authorized to aunounee the
name ot Clayton, latum, of Rising
Pawn, as a eandidaie ter Tax Collector.
W E are authorized to announce the
name of J. K. Aeuti, of MorganviJle, as
a candidate for lax Collector.
Tax ..ssessor.
We are authorized to announce J. H.
Corput, of Trenton, at a candidate tor
Tax Assessor
W k aie authorized to announce w.
T. iiarUine, ot Cloverdale, as a candi
date tor Tax Assessor.
E art! authorized to announce J
R. Kookout, of ..lorganville, as a ca .di
date for Tax Assessor.
ii * ■ i
J. B. McCollum is hugging the
woods close. Come out J, B, don’t
be afraid..,.
Shew, mate! We are for Clem
ents. If he cannot be had, we are
for “Brad.”
1 he lilt lo Catoosa Courier is sure
to be a worrier, before the election
is well on.
Some of the candidates seem de
void of political sagacity, and are
Using dissimulation for prudence.
Cols. Jmmpkin and Nisbett have
been hunting them up this week,
and' tmlli say they will curry Walker
by two-thirds,
Col, Mich Pope thinks you will
find iiiore \\ nlker county people in
( hattanoogd, than heating about
the bushes in the mountains.
Who is going to run against
Sheriff .Byrd and J. W. Wool
} bright. One or the other is sure to
be elected, if somebody don’t come
out.
Just before going to press the sad
news reaches us that It. E. Cross
had been stabbed at Morgannvilie.
and perhaps fatally, No partieu**
lars can lit* gleaned now, but it is to
bo hoped that the reports will nut be j
verified.
Ibe pot has begun to simmer, and
the chances are, it will be “bileing”
in a week or two, several of the can
didates'baving begun their monkey
business We are neutral between
them all. but if any unfair advan
tages are taken we will explode,
and not be responsible for the con
sequence.
The new sleeping car line be
tweeen Chattanooga and Lousville
via Queen & Cresent Route and the
new Louisville Southern Hailruad
meets a long felt want. The busi
ness man requiring a whole day in
Louisville can board this through
alee per in the Union depot Chat
tanooga any evening at 7 p. m, and
reach Louisville at the convienent
hour of (i :30 next morning, return
ing from Louisville at 8 p. m. and
arrive at Chattanooga M:2O a. in.
This is thtf shortest and quiukest
time between the two cities.
PUBLIC ROADS.
Three weeks ago we inserted a
short editorial in regard to our
. present system of working public
roads, and stated that we had not
I .
| given the system a thorough test,
and that such should he done be
fore condemnation was passed. To
our article Mr. Lee comes out in
bitter denunciation of the present
mode, and attempts to show the
fairness and probability of a sys
tem of a property tax for road pur
poses.
Be it understood, our pot hobby
is. a desire to see our public roads
worked bv convict labor, and we
are prepared to show by facts and
figures the advantages of this over
all systems known to State govern
ments ; but as to our position as
assailed by Mr. Lee, we have only
to deal with the present system
and the one proposed by that gen
tleman, against which we would at
all times enter our protest.
Mr. Lee says our present road
laws are a “relic of slavery,” and
“a specie of serfdom,” and “a sys
tem of loose government.”
Let the wheels of our state gov
ernment cease to turn; let the de
cendents of a noble race of ances-
who for a century and more
guarded the liberties of the people
of the empire state of the South,
throw the mantel of shame over
their disgrace. The statute books
of Georgia hear on their face an
evidence of “serfdom,” a “relic of
slavery,” and “a specie of loose
government,
But no! a second Moses lias
arisen from our very midst, and
condemns a state’s disgrace, and
with the mighty arm of the patri
arch of old, proposes to wipe out
all the shame for a century borne, j
Take Mr. Lee’s example of the!
t)74th district, with NO hands, 12 j
of whom are laud-holders. Under |
the laws as they now are, each
hand may be compelled to work lo
days in the year, ant] with over)
seven men to the mile; working
even live days in the year would
be about 36 days work of one man,
r
Now, if these 30 working days
are properly put in, live years
would mark a change in the yoadi-!
tion of our roads.
Our law has invested certain in
dividuals with power to execute its
provisions, and these individuals
are in turn responsible to a higher
power fora faithful performance of
their duties. Then .if the law is
not enforced whose is the fault?
Not the legislature that made the
law, hut he whose duty it is to en
force it. Whatever is within the
scope of the human mind is not an
impossibility. Cannot a man do a
| possibility which is santioned by
! the law?
Any number of the 80 road
hands of the 974th district can be
apportioned by the commissioners
on any road within three miles of
their residence, regardless of dis
trict lines.
Then why is it impossible to ob
tain a fair and equal distribution
of the hands? It is the duty of
the road commissioners to- know
the condition of the roads within
their jurisdiction, and to appoint
the hands accordingly. Let an
overseer require of a hand a certain
tool upon a certain day, and see if
that hand is not there with the
tool required. Any man or boy,
snbjeet to road duty, can obtain the
tool with which to work tho’ he
may borrow.
Any reasonable man should see
at once the practicability of our
present system, if only the provis
ions of the law are enforced.
Then the only question between
Mr. Lee and myself is, whether or
not the man who has no land should
be subject to road duty.
Should the twelve land holders
of the 974 h Dist, be taxed a suffi
cient amount to have the same
work done as would be by working
the 80 hands five days in the year,
counting their labor at one dollar
per day, fthu average tax per each
land holder would be per
| year. Could you land holders bear
1 this additional burden of taxation?
! and what would be his yearly prof
i its Iron, his farm? How much of
| the land holders property would
remain at Jthe end of ten years,
with such a tax on his head? In
Mr. Lee’sown words “is this jus
tice? is this fair?” A man owning
a team for hire, would use the pub
lic road more than the free holder
whose farm is taxed at $4,000, yet
he does not pay one-tenth the tax
paid by the land holders. “Is this
justice? Is this fair?”
What we how we reap. The seed
of the thistle always produces the
thistle. Indifferent ism to the up
building of the schools fostered
any longer will result in a terrible
impression being made on the
minds of the children who are
looking to fathers and mothers
for example.
Rising Fawn, with her furnace,
well-to-do merchants and men of
means, and with the hundreds of
little children in and around her,
ought to blush with shame when
they think of the great interests
they are sacrificing on account of
their petty differences as to where
there school building shall he loca
ted. There is nothing parents can
he more criminally careless in.
Rising Fawn is without a sem
blance of a school house, or even a
building they can convert into one.
The church should not be desecra
ted with a school, but reserved for
divine services and sleight-of
hand performances. “Oh, consist
ency, thou art a jewel!”
The representative candidates
are wonderfully selfsatisfled, Each
one believes he is the man, and <h>
not know how conceited and com
ical they look, when they touch
the newspaper man in the short -
ribs,pat him on the back familiarly,
with a broad triumphant smile,and
say “I’ll go in hv about lot)
votes. Several ot them have al
ready promised to buy us a new
press and pay for the paper ten
years in advance. That’s the kind
of a representative we want.
MORGANYILLK DOTH!
Local Lappings are scarce.
Sunday school is booming.
Mr. Douglass Killian is still en
joying gooti health.
ft The Sarh’s Chapel singing class
will have an all-day singing at this
place.
To tell whether the train is on
f..me, ask Dave Tittle if he is going
to Chattanooga. ®
Protracted meeting by the Meth
odist clinch will open here on Hat
urday before the second Sunday in
A ugust.
Mr. John ('lark can.be seen rid
ing u huge plow, turning a hun
dred-acre wheat field for the pur
pose of planting peas.
Mr. J. M. Wellborn, our genial
telegraph operator, who has been
on the sick list for a few days,
is still at his post of duty, hand
ling electricity.
Mr. W. E. Hillman, who has
proven to be proficient in the study
of “galology,” realizing no benefit
therefrom, says he cun beat any
man playing chess.
A voung man received a letter
from his ladylove asking him to
be sure and come next Sunday, but
owing to the nature of her sex,
she managed for him not to get the
letter until Monday.
Mr. Griggs, Supt. A. G. S. R. R.,
has a petition being signed by the
citirens here, asking that the can
non ball train be authorized to
mail. If this should be
accomplished, we will have four
mails per day instead of two.
Why are candidates character
istic of the most smooth and gen
erous nature of any living class of
people? When you find a full
blooded candidate, you find a man
who will always greet you with an
affectionate smile, one who will
lend you anything he has, one who
would regard the most insulting
words or acts as charitable, and
you also find a man who will lay
other business aside and hunt for I
a lost boy supposed to be wander
ing through the wilderness Give
us more candidates and we will
have more water melons.
Withered Blossoms.
GEORGIA — Dade County.
Agreeably to an order of the
court of Ordinary of Dade County.
Will be sold at auction at the court
house door of said county on the
first Tuesday in August next within
the legal hours of sale. Twenty
tweand six-sevenths (22 6-7 ) acres
of lots of land number forty-four
in the eighteenth (IN) district and
fourth (4 ) section of said county
bounded North by tin* lands deed
ed, by Mrs, S. C. Gass to John
Long, and Houth by the lands of
Mary A. Howard, both boundries
being parts of same lot, and bound
ed East mi West by original line
of sa d lot. Hold as the interest of
the minor heirs of George H. Gass
in the lands belonging to Abraham
Tinker deceased. Lerms cash.
This 2d day of July, INNN.
JosiAH Gass Att’y m fact for
Geo, H. Gass, Texas guardian.
GEORGIA—D ad e Corn ty ,
Whereas J. E. Patterson admin
istrator of L. F. llooke, Thomas
Hooke and Mary E, Ridley, repre
sents to the court in his petition
duly filed and entered on record
that he has fully administered
their estates. This is. therefore, to
cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any
they can, why said administrator
should not be discharged from his
administration and receive letters
of dismission on the first Monday
in November IBSB. This July 2d.
1888. J. A. Bennett
Ordinary.
Will he sold on the first Tuesday
in August 1888 at the court house
door town of Trenton, county of
I)ade. and state of Georgia, within
the legal hours of srle f ho the high
est bidder for cash the following
property to-vv;
One sorrel horse with white feet
sripe on nose, admit fifteen hands
high and about sevi n years old,
One day-bank mare seven years
old,and a'uiut fifteen hands high.
Fne L>hv mare mule, sixteen hands
high, and about four years old, one
iintv horse mult about fifteen hands
higoand about nine years old, and
one mouse colored horse mule about
nine years old. and one bay mure
mule about fourteen banns high
and about .ix years old.
One, one and one-fourth Tennes
see wagon? unit two Tennessee wag
ons each, being number three. One
set wagon harness, two pair plow
gears. .Said property le\led on as
the property of S. B. Austin to sat
isfy an execution issued front the
Superior Court Of said county in
favor of T, 11. B. Cole against S. B,
Austin, Thouuis Cummings and
Jacob Green. Property pointed
out by defendant 8. B. Austin.
This July 12th 1888. W. A. Byrd
Hhoritf.
E. B. KETCH KRSIDE.
PHYSICIAN : & : SURGEON
TRENTON GEORGIA,
Will practice in the town and
surrounding country.
JOHN G. HALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
RISING FAWN, GEORGIA.
Special attention given to all
legil business in the Superior and
Supreme courts.
T. H. LUMPKIN,
Dealer in
Groceries, Tobaccc
and Cigars.
A JV'etv Stock and Complete
Lijie of Goods Just
Received
FINE POCKET CUTLERY.
A. T. FRICKS,
PHYSICIAN &. N( RhHO\
RISING FAWN, GEORGIA
Will practice in the town of
Rising Fawn and surrounding
country.
B. P. MAJORS,
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Keeps oh hand a full line of
Canned Goods. Fancy Can
dies . Tobacco • Cigars-
Cigarettes Oatmeal
EVERYTH!,MC KEPT IN A FIRST CLASS STOR r
JOE SIMPSON,
lirCLOTHIER^
CHATTANOOGA. lENN„
Has the Best Lighten! Store in the City
| When making an investment you ■
want all the light you can get. j
All Goods Marked in Plain Figures.
U E sells for light prices, light protits, lie treats yon in such a manner that,
II your heart will b« light with satisfaction ;. and (dolhe you in away that
you will bo light in society. If you have a light pocket book, and want to get
all that is possible for your menus, call on
uTo© SI mpson,
(JmUniiooga, Trim.. - Nrxl lid .\;«iiriianl llttuk.
Avery Plows. Fishing Tacle
INCORPORATED.
Carter, Magiil & Ewing,
Successor's to J 11. Warner S Co-
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Guns & Powder. Double Shovels.
WASSIVIAN & BRO.,
77 7 and 719 Musket Street ,
Have Reduced all Suits on the First FlocVr
to the Uniiom Price of
F*er
.w # tOv] £3XI3[T
Tie's is just about 50 cents on the dollar
of cost. We intend to <T»o out every suit
«
in the house before our lull goods am.e. and
for this reason we oiler our suits at half
price
CALL AT THE
Golden Eagje Clothing Hse.
Co • r; ’"' \ \ '>oo t, 'F'.'.'W;.
YOUR VALUABLE PAPEBB AOAIXST - . FIRE! FS^Et
■ ' II L yoUR BILVEBWARR Ai.D MONEY AGAINST BURGLARS.
H The Victor Safe
Deeiffnail forth" Farmer, Luajcr, Ilocicr, Poutmiwtcr,
Nerihant, Towmaip am] Coaaly Oftlrvr, the Hubs,
In fact evesry 0119 should have a sccr.ro placa for valuables. Wo
offer In the VICTOR SAFE » Ursi-elaaa Fire-Pro©*,
Burj'l»r'Pr«of, Combination Lock Safe, iiandsomclp
flnlahetl. Round corners, hand tleooraied ; burnished portlooa
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