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VOL. 6.
TWENTY-NINE
PARAGRAPHS OF LOCAL GOS
SIP ANI) COMMENT.
..A WEEK’S WORK.
BY THE TIMES REPORTERS IN
THE NEWS FIELD.
Items Gathered and Hurried Thrown
Together for the Edifycatiou of the
Hurried Reader Who is Too
Busy For Long Articles.
PIQUANT, PITHY °ARACRAPHG
Work was commenced on tho
college building at Rising Fawn
Wednesday. The only objection
that can be found is that there is
not enough ground by an acre.
Mr. Cantrell while doing the phi
lanthrophist act should give all
that si required, as a good school
will enhance the value of his other
property —provided he wants to
sell. The people generally should
give as much as possible, towards
building this institution as it is
badly needed.
While at Rising Fawn last
Tuesday we learord that a widow
of a federal soldier had received a
voucher for SOOO and before she
could get it cashed the pension
bureau had sent her another for
SI,OOO. She lives in Deer Head
-Cove, Dekalb county Ala. We’ll
bet a coon skin to a ginger cake
that her huband was a bushwhack
er and plunderer of the weak and
(defendless,
The Presbyterian church
at this place has been recovered
this week. It js hoped that mon
ey enough will be recieved to ceil
it an frame a new belfry. Col. J. 13.
Williams authorizes us to say to
those flint have not paid to do so
at once and to increase their sub
script ion,
There still remains a class of peo
pie in the neighbornood of the
state line between Georgia and Ala*
bam a, in what is knowd as Deer
Hevd Cove that who do not know
that the war is over. On ever oc
casion that you see them they
.are dressed in their blue clothes.
Mr. J. P. Jacoway was called to
Montgomery, Ala., last Saturday
before the Alabama Railroad com
mission in reference to to the right
of way of the Ala. Great. South
ern Railroad in Tuscoloo
sa, Alabama. lie gained his point,
If our booming friends of Tren
ton and Dade county want a paper
that keeps up with the times of
the south they should send for the
Baltimore Maufacture Record. It
is a friend to every nook and cor
ner of the south.
Mrs. T. H. B. Cole gathered from
her orchard seventeen pears that
weighed twolve pounds and a quar
ter, The largest weighed a pound and
an eighth. It also measured twelve
inches in circumference, Who can
beat it?
Can a man or boy bo made to go
and buy tools to work the roads,
which will be of no benefit to him
afterwards? We would like for
some one to answer this for us.
If The TiMEaaJoes not appear on
time next week yon can attribute
it to our devil be jpg. at work on the
streets. The marshal says that he
will work them Monday.
The Times does not make any
boast as to what it is going to do
for the simple fact that it is not
able to boast.
Give a few men a little power and
jt makes them so arrogant that the
lives of their neighbors are miser
able. *
Let some of the side streets be
cleaned out and opened up. Don’t
put all the work on the main road.
T. H, B. Cole put in his appli
cation for membership of the lazy
Club Wednesday morning.
If our delinquents don't settle
up we will be forced to suspend
and sue all owing us.
Some ot our delinquents are
going to get sued before they know
It if they don’t pay up.
S. 11. Thurman mounted the
Tirone of the president of the
club Wednesday.
It is some trouble to keep books
and all legal printing must be
paid in advance.
W. U. Jacoway has bought him a
Texas pony and he now rides to
town.
If our correspondents are not
dead we would like to hear from
them,
The enclosure around the jail is
about completed.
Correspondents are wanted for
The Times.
bocal news is a scarce article
this week.
The sick are not improving very
fast,
The boomers are in Boston yet.
Cash is wanted at this office.
The Times is loaded for b’ar.
The boom is still abornin.
Call in and settle at once.
Cool nights
There are but three classes of
men' in every community, the ret
rograde, the stationary, and the
progressive. Thu two former have
little or no regard for the newspa
per or its influence and read it sim.
ply to find out what is‘‘going on,’'
hut who could fold their arms and
sec it die with tjie utmost compla
cency, leaving the progressive por
tion of the community as the only
real sufferers, The retrograde and
stationary class of every pommu
nilv are generly the critics of the
nawsuapers and Steele truthfully
said: ‘‘Of a)l mortals a critic is the
silliest; for by insuring himself to
examine all things, whether they
are of consequence or not, he never
looks upon anything without a de
sign of passing sentence upon it.”
Edwin Forrest once compared a
critic to a puppy “who barked at
everything he could hot under.-
stand.”
The entire value of a good news
paper is rarely estimated by the
average reader, One looks upon
it simply as the chronicle of pass,
ing events. Another looks upon it
as the exponent or defender of a
cherished idea, with which he is
in sympathy. The newspaper is
more than ‘this; it is conductive
to morality, honesty and the gen
eral welfare of the community in
in which it is issued. Many little
peccadillos are nipped in the bud
by wholesome dread of exposure
through the newspaper. Mon
are more circumspect when they
know that the argus eye of the re
porter or local editor is upon them.
Thieves dread and hate the news
papers. because all their schemes
and modus operandi are laid bare
before the pubiic eye. The news
paper is looked upon by the crimi*
nal classes of the community as
the light house Is viewed by the
wrecker; while it continues to il
luminate. their occupation is jeop
ardised.
A liast PijutoU,
From the Situ Bernardino Times-Imlex.
4 Jittle girl of Los Angeles,
whose family was about to move to
Arajzona, and who had heard that
country spoken of as a forlorn and
particularly Godforsaken place,
was saying her prayers before her
mothers knee the night before their
intended departure. She said all
that had eyer been taught her., and
then, with peculiar emphasis, she
said: “And now good.bye, God, for
to-morrow we are going to Arizo*-
na.”
Noting.
Money to be loaned on real estate
sfcurity at a lower rate of interest
than usual. This proposition jr«>od
only to October 1, 1889. Anpl.v to W.
U. Jacoway at office of W. U. 4 J,
P. Jacoway, Trenton, Ga, Aug 16.
23tf W. (7. JACOWAY.
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Drotrrt to the linn vein 1 , Tncst of T *l . J. Mnjnrm
TRENTON, CM., SATURDAY. AUGUST 17, 1889
TWO CARDS,
AHOUT WM, JONES WHIPPING
ms mother,
SHE WAS WHIPPED
SAYS HIS MOTMES AND THREE
NEIGHBORS.
And S. B. Austin Admits that She war
Whipped After Denying it From
Begining to End—Whipped Be
fore S o'clock in the Morning
THE "TRUTH IS MIGHTY, ETC."
We. the undersigned, hea rd that
Mrs, Jones, mother of Wm. Jones,
whom you have published as whip
ping hjs mother, had een se
verely whipped yjsitedner on Tues
day evening after it was done, she
was nor whipped as bad.ns first re,
ported, she hail 4 J irk above _ ono
of her eyes which out a gash, and
her o\M3 was blood shotten and m
the other cheek she had received
a severe lick and was also hit in
the mouth- Her lips were blood
shotted. She told us that per son
William Jones, had hit her iq the
face with his fist. She said she
did not blame her son as Austin
made him do it. When we called
onhershewas spitting up blood
which she said was caused by her
gon hitting her in the head. Mrs,
Sam Young Immediatly after hear,
ing hor screams ran to her and
picked hor up otT of the ground and
washed and dressed her wounds.
Mus. A Brown
Mrs. B. L. EJvans
Mrs. H. Craio.
Trenton, ga, Dade co, August the
7nth 1880.
Mr Efitrof dado county weekly
times after reading the charges of
William Jones in your publica
tion of July 27th and Mr austing
defense of July olrst fop Jones
published August the 3rd apd your
the Edtr reply to the same I will
send the times a few linesfor .pub
lication please admit this to go to
the public at* vou have the charges
and the good people of dado coun
ty will Imve it as it is William
Jones did slap hjs mother in the
face twice which he will pot deny
ask him and see but as to cutting
my lips and bunging up my eye’s
and badly busing me other wise
he will deny and so will I as to his
forcing ipe to live in an old hut
and make my own living is another
lie he has rupported me respect,
fully eversince before the good
people of dade county knew him
or mo Ether than if this be true
Who has lied the Edtr or his in.
formers or S.B. Austin ar Who de
serves capt reeses strap Jones or
the Edtr and his informers respect,
fully Mrs E.A. Jones
the mother of William Jones
The following is an extract from a
letter written by S, B. Austin, who
states that he lives one and a half
miles south ol Trenton, on the punllc
road. In this letter he denies
The Times’ account of the whip
ping as false from begining to end,
It will be seen from this <.xtract thai
Austin has proven himself to be the
liar. We do not propose to bore our
readers and with this ends the mat
ter through the columns of The
Times. It can be taken up personal
ly if Mr, Austin so desires. Bead
his la*t effusion?
State of Georgia )
Dade,Counly j
To the Editor of the Bide co Times
and all who uia cnance to read the
little dirty sheet, it says Austin, is
trying to lie out of it for Jones, well
we will see, the paper says it was on
monday evening, this whiping took
place, Breedlove and the old brused
up woman, says they were present at
the time the whiping took and it was
before H o’clock in the morning now
if they are to beleived, it was not on
the evening of that day, they will
sware to the report they says, and
they were eye witnesses to it does
look like they aught to know nearly
as much about It as those good neigh
bors of mine. * * s *
S. B, Austin.
The Columbus mills will not
join the proposed short-time move
ment. They will not even be rep
resented at the Charlotte conven
tion.
Nt!vvs|»u(i«‘r Law-.
A newspaper marked “sample
copy” is sent free and no charge
can lie made for taking it out ot
the office.
Ary person whr receives or
taka* a newspaper from the pQgt„
ollico ami makes use of it, whether
.10 has ordered it or not, or wbuth
!cr in his nnme’or another, is ]»eld
| !n law to bp a subscriber. and is re
! sponsible tor the pay.
If subscribers pay in advance,
they are Inqq4 tu give notice to
the publishers r,f tl)‘- end of the
time, if they do not wish to con
tinue taking it, otherwise the pub
lisher is authorized to send it on,
and the subscriber is held respon
sible until an express notice with
arrears is given. If subscribers
move to other places without noti
fying tjie publishers and ipe papers
are sept on to the former direction
they flre held responsible,
The courts have decided that
(subscribers who refuse tu take pa
pers from the postoftipp, or remov
ing and leaving them uncalled sor,
is primafapie evidence of intern
tional fraud and may b« dealt
with in criminal eourtg,
If any person ordeps his
dicontinued he must pay a rear age*
or the publisher may continue to
send it Hptjl payment i- made, and
collect the whole amount whether
the paper is taken from the office
or not. There can he no legal dis
continuance until payment js
tnade in full.
A postmaster i(i required to
notice by letter (returning the pa
per does not answer the
lew) whop a subscrib
er does not take bis paper out of
the states the rea
son for its uorheing taken. And
neglect to do tin's makes the post,
piaster responsible for the pay,
meat, a
The latest postal ’aws*are such
that newspaper nubli™crs can
have arrested for fraud anyone
who takes a. paper and refuses to
pay for it, Under this law the
man who allows his subscription
to run for some time unpaid and
then orders is discontinued, or or
ders the postmaster to mark it‘’re.
fused” and tq send a postal card
notifying the publishers, lays him
self liable to arrest and fine the
same as for theft, etc.
At Powder Springs, John 1101.
comb colored, had not been seen
since Thursday last, but not much
a larm was manifested about his
safety until it was learned that he
had not left on the local nor gravel
train on which trains ho was often
seen. When it was learned that he
had not left town on either train
his family became alarmed and in
stituted a search for him, uud Sun
day his body was found near the
bridge in the lower part of town.
He was a very stout boy nearly
grown, and subject to epilepsy and
it is supposed that he had a fit and
fell off the bridge and drowned.
Mormon elders have beep preach
ing and scatteringjiracts ip Scriv
en county, and mep and women
were invited to go to Utah, all ex
penses being paid and $3 p dav
offered until thoconyejt finds some
thing to do, This leads the Syi
vania Telephone to declare that
speh “emigrant agents” are suo
ject to a tax of SSOO under the
state laws, but as these wreched
elders have nothing to levy on, the
Telephone suggests a piue log and
trace chaiu in vindication of the
decency of the community.
Detective Roberts returned to
Columbus Saturday from Harris
county having Lynas McGehee in
custody on a charge of stealing
$250 fromC. B, Farmer a couple
gf weeks ago. H° * s in jail,
A FIMA REWARD
HUT TllEllt JI DGYIKNT WAS
VERY UAH.
CAUGHT FOR TATE
THE DEFAUiTING KENTUCKY
STATE TREASUKfcRv,
t t Scottsobro, Ala,, Was F. L<v>ng
s.on, A Traveling Reprcsenlat va
Pf tfei ,AU arita Constitution Jot)
Department, on (ply 6tl}.
HOWEVER, HE WASN'T TATE-
Ah)., August 7. —An
individual claiming to be K. Liv
ingston wm am si,,d here yester
day by Detect jyed J<J. T. lljackwcl 1,
of South Pittsburg, TuUIL, and
John Davis, of California, lie is
supposed to he !| jehard W. Tate,
The default treasurer of Ken tuck
ey. H" tallies with both photo
graph and description, but denies
being Tate.
Tate, who had held the office of
state treasurer of Kentucky since
JB6B, wap suspended on the after
noon of March 15, in a mes
jSftgo bv Governor Buckner to the
legislature, An examinatjui» of
his account* hip! revealed a short
age of over $100(000; while the bnU
lance to hig credit in bank was not
over $20,000, Tpte gave hitnsd.'
away by his strange conduct, and
investigation pioyed the fact that
his defalcations had extended over
a number of years.
He took alarm on the Friday pr«»
vious to tjp‘ sending of the mes
sage, which wps on Wednesday,
pud disappeared, the last hare of
him beiijg at Cincinnati trial night
at a fate hour.
Afterward, a large 1 |>art of the
iponey was recovered from Tates
property and bondsmen.
The above map was in Trenton
on July 30 soliciting job work for
The Atlanta Constitution. He al
go was getting pp curd advertise
ments to stick in public, places,
At this place ho wile given work.
Beforo coming here he stayed
ground Rising Fawn several days
drunk. He wais given work. He
claimed that he had got a large
amount ol work at Fort Puvne.
His prices were too low for any
money to be made out of them, let
alone paying the expenses of a
solicitor and make money, unless
he had po fixed prices.
While at Rising Fawn he ye.
fused to go to ahotel apd slept at
night on a work bench behind one
of the barrooms. ()m> of the sa
loon keepers gave him ids pieals
two or three times, outside of this,
he lives on and crackers.
When here he was just gettihg
over a djumk,
Atlanta Aug. s.=—There wse u
first-class sensation in the Atlanta
pofttoffice this%iorning, caused bv
an appointment just made by Gen.
Lewis. The new Appointee is
Chga- C- Penny, a negro, and iie is
to be copying clerk iu the registry
department. The position pays
S6OO per anumn, and has always
been filled by a white clerk, The
last jncumbment, Mr. Fred Wed
emyer, resigned on the first of Am
gust,
MU J/VONB DECIDED THI? INTRODUC
TION.
This morning (Jen- Lewis car
ries) in liis new clerk io tfie regis
try department aud proposed to
introduce liim to Superintendent
Lyons. That official declined the
introduction, and notified Gen.
Lewis that he did net care to work
in the office w'ith a negro.
,i WHITE I.APV WOULD HAVE TO
MEET T m NEGRO.
Tfij superintendent was espec
ially emphatic about the matter,
because a young lady wfio was at
one of the desks as a clerk was his
daughter, and he could not enter,
tain the thought of permiting her
to remain a moment on even offi
cial equality with a negro. The
superintendent tendered for his
daughter an immediate yesigna
’ion, and stat ed that his own resig
nation would follow in a day or
11 wo, as soon as the office affairs
could be put in shape for him to
retire.
LEWIS CHOSE THE NEGRO OVER A
WHITE Ml IN.
Gen, Lewis explained the step
by stating that the appointment
was made under the civil service
rules, and that the negro and white
plan had been put on him to till
the existing vacancy. He had se
lected the negro.
The negro came to Atlanta last
year from Chattanooga, hut was
raised here 41 id js a graduate of
the Atlanta University,
Georgia News.
There were fifty-three deaths at
Macon in July.
At Augusta business men are in
better cheer over the business pros-*-
pepts than they have been in
months before.
The bondsmen of ex-Treasurer
Adams have paid SB,OOO in full
settlement with the city of Macon
nr) account of bis shortage.
The people of August a want a
j free bridge, hut the mayor reports
this is impossible iu the present
condition of the city’s financies.
It m reported that the firm of J.
H. GalridA Co. of ‘Columbus will
be dissolved this week. Fraud J.
i,.'oli'n, the junior partner, will as
sume control and continue the bus
iness himself.
John 1,. N. jlenman has resigned
fiis position ps cashier of the Ogle
thorpe National Bank Brunswic
and will leave in a f. w days to en
gage in business in New York City.
In New York Mr. Henman will en
gage in the cotton commission and
foreign exchange business. The
style of ids firm will be Henman
A Co.
The fouileenth convention of the
Kappa Alpha fraternity will he
held in Augusta September 11, 12
and 13, 1889. Delegates from
twepty-five colleges will be pres
enf gpd also a largo number of dis
tinguished alumni. The manage-,
inept pf the convention is in the
bunds qf the alumni chapter at
Augusta, who are making exten
sive pjvpara: ions lor the enter-»
tajnppun of visiting members 'of
the order,
At Augusta th,e Mormons have
called on the police. One of their
leaders informed Chief Twiggs
Huti)rdf)y that rumors of mobs and
Lynch laws had been flying thick
and fast for several days. It had
been threatened, he said, that if
Mrs. Rhodes failed to institute
procedings in the courts certain
people would rise and take the
lpw jn their own hands. Mrs.
Rl>ot}cg’ husband was the man
who died as a result of Mormon
faith cure representations.
At Macon the assessors have
finished their work on the prop-,
ertvof the combined,gas and elec-?
trie light companies. The Con
sumers’Gas Company had return
their franceise and plant ut the
peat sum of $25‘000, but the as,
sessprs made the property return
able at $52,000 that will be the first
surprise.
The Way Of The Kicker.
From the » resect, son. Enterprise.!
Blessed is the man that steers
cleai of the wav of the kicker and
mingles himself not in the con
gregation of the mossback, but de
lights in new railroads, brickblocks
and otfier enterprises, which build
up himself and his town. He shall
be likened unto the evergreen tree
planted at the water’s edge; his
leaf shall not wither at the early
dawn of autumn, for the E,li of the
boomer shall get there—-but woe
be unto the kicker, for he shall
be left to hold the bag and his
name shall be Dennis.
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