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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 nickel-plated. Interiors aleely fitted with uub-ttaasurioe, book •p*ccb and pigeon holes. 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