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Dr.V, D. Lockhart, >
Jno. Barton, \ Editors..
* Domooratic Ticket. 1888-
CLEVELAND AND THURMAN!
For Congress 9th District,
’ A- W. CAROLER.
For Reproßontfttlvo.
J. N COGGINS
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Tbe city of Atlanta covers 45,018
acres of )3*d.
The United Sales Ci,n aino 9,000,
000 farmer*.
Tin dernocra* c party is threaten
ed with a bre-toin Clarke.
Izaac May of Elsas, May & Cos.,
Atlanta, is dead.
The Gull" Coast lias ha 1 a threat
storm—-doing some’ damage.
The Piedmont Chautauqua went
out in a blaze of sky rockets, fire
works and gasworks.
Sam. Jo us tiiaks Cleveland is a
brave man, w,th a back-hone equal to
a circus pole. Sam has been there.
The democratic campaign fund now
foots up something over $150,000. It
will be double that befo r o Oetobcr.
Atlanta claims to be the second larg
est mule market in the world. She
sells over $d 000 000 a year.
Tho recem ti ;<>da iu L< uieiana have
done gie t da > ege t 'be rice crop.
Also the sugar crop lias been 6ome*
what injured.
A eer'i in co gre-i m<n m a neigh
boring state is out with the newspa
pers beertt;-' tl.ey failed to whitewash
his record t.fore the people.
C' mptru'ler VVr ght thinks the di
gest for th ■ s year will show an inorease
over last rear of $1,000,000. This
Bpeaks well tor Georgia.
The Constitution seems to be
much intere ted in baseball mat
ters, judging from the enormous
amount of news printed in its col
umns en the subject.
The primary election in Fulton
county b-r s. nator, resulted in the
election of Frank Rice by a ma
jority ol‘ 30a. Another primary is
ordered for representative.
J. J, Cummings, a railroad con
ductor. died of delirium tremens in
Atlanta on Sunday night, lie was
from Denver, Colorado, and has a
wile living in that place.
Dick Xow, the republican elec
tor for tlie Atlanta district, will
take the stump early in October.
Mr. James Gray is fho democratic'
elector. lie \\ ill lire hia first gun
in Atlanta,
Tt 18 h irmt., the malit’a wore call
ed cut to arrest a gang of negro des
peradoes in Charlotte, N. C. They
entered buk yards of farm houses,
kiiled chickens, tore up gardens and
insulted and abused everybody. They
were a gang of railroad roughs.
An enormous “trust”—another
name for a lag swindle, lias got hold
of all the bagging in the country,
and propose to make farmers pay
enormous prices for it. The far
mers alliance is kicking against it,
but it is likely they will be power
less to help themselves,
.Murder in Mitsisnippi is becoming
a disgrace to. tbe South. Nearly ev-
e r y week she has a killing.
Every litvls brainless, jack-leg law
yer and politiaiau, that jnrups up, has
to kill Eoinebody before he can make a
record (!) with his friends. More
justice at the end of a rope ia what is
needed.
By sotno means a report has
keen circulated about Athens and
elsewhere that Banks’ delegates to
the Senatorial Convention did
not intend to vote for McCarty,
the nominee of Jackson’s primary.
llow the impression got abroad is
not known. Banks lias never ex
pressed dissatisfaction to Mr, Mc-
Carty. Her delegation voted as a
unit for him in tho convention last
Saturday at Oillsville.
“When the wicked rule, the peo
pie will mourn,” is the old maxim,
but it is being verified every day,
You have only to read of the cor
ners in wheat, speculations in lard,
oil trusts, bagging combinations,
and thousands of other nefarious
schemes of wicked capitalists to
extort money from the toiling mil
lions to be convinced of the truth
of the saying.
Of all the forms of oppres
sion and misrule that this country
has ever suffered from, the gigan
tic trusts and combinations nowin
vogue are the worst. The accumu
lation of vast amounts of capital in
the hands of afew individuals me
naces our free institutions, and
nothing short'of government inter
ference will ever put a slop to it.
Col. A. I). Candler, democratic
nominee from this congressional
district, will address the people in
the court house next Saturday.
Let all the citizens lay aside their
work and turnout. He is one of
the ablest representatives in Geor
gia, and is thoroughly posted on all
matters pertaining to the interests
of the people, A more staunch
friend of democracy is not to be
found among the nation’s legisla
tors. Come out and hear him,
Tilings are about evenly distri
buted in this world, Forth Geor
gia may not boast of great fertility
of soil or great wealth, but she can
take the cake when it comes to
good water, pure air and good
health, What advantage would it
be to move and leave all
these, in search of a rich country,
where yellow fever and malaria
are rife, aud deadly disease lurks
in every passing breeze? Be sat
isfied where you are.
It is reported that in the Hack
ensack meadows of New Jersey,
the mosquitoes are more than an
inch long and have horns on their
heads, upon which maybe counted
the wrinkles indicating their age.
Some of them carry a small hypo
dermic syringe under their wings,
with which to draw out the blood
of their victims. Other mosqui
toes die during the winter, but
these Hackensack mosquitoes fat
ten on snow-balls and get ready for
the spring campaign. Protective
tariff has favored them,
Many of the people of this sec
tion who emigrated to the West,
have returned—some ol’theinwilh
their families half dead and buried
in a strange land. One young
man with an interesting and heal
thy family, decided a few' years
ago to sell out his nice little farm
in (Banks and go to Arkansas. He
lived there two years, and during
that time lot two of his children,
and then died himself of typhoid
fever. Ilis wife and the remain
ing little ones returned grfef-strick
en and sick, and are now battling
with the world as best they can to
earn a living.-
The time of year will soon be at
hand when the emigration agent
puts in his best work, Flaming
posters advertising untold -wealth,
and cheap homes in the West, will
soon be on every doad wall and
Btore door in the country. Maps
and circulars by the thousand will
be scattered broad-cast over the
land, to induce you to leave the
home of your nativity and seek
your fortune in the far West, Pay
no attention to them. Look at the
stfeam of pale and sickly, and dis
consolated ones returning from that
land, grief stricken and poor in
purse, and you will be satisfied to
remain in Georgia, even if you
have to eat corn bread and drink
branch water the balance of your
days.
Anew survey will be made from
this point to near Eudora with a view
of getting the Covington & Macon
railroad extended to this place. A
pleasant and harmonious conference
was recently held between a commit
tee of our representatives and Major
Key and Colonel Machon, and the out
look is pr> mining for the road to be
brought here. Let oi l Newton put her
shoulder to the wh -ol and s*cuie this
extension, tor if we reject the lile al
proposition made it will probably be
the ast and best opp rtnnitv we wid
ever have to ge this much needed line
[Covington Enieruri*e
A Grand Showing.
Geomia - ' 'Xabla propei ty foots up
357 863 331 dollar*. This makes a
net gain of 15 258 002 dollars over last
vear The state has grown 123 000,
000 richer in nine years.
Tno digeste from all of the counties
in the state have been rceeiyed at the
comptroller general’s office
The property in the aggregate return
ed by the 137 counties in Georgia sum
up 227,803,331
But this does not include the prop
erty returned by the taxable railroads
in the state, which will aggregate 29,-
000,000 dollars.
This makes Georgia's proporty foot
up the snug sum of 357,863,331 dol
lars.
There is upwards of 30,000,000 of
rialroad property iu Georgia, which is
non taxable. The Centra), the South
western, tbe Augusta and Savanah,
and the Western and Atlantic roads
are exempt from taxation.
Tho digests from all of the counties
show a net increase over last year of
11,255,002, and the net gain in rail
.road property returned will amount to
4,000,000, which runs up the aggre
gate net increase for tho last fiscal year
to 15,258,002.
Iu 1879, jußt nine years ago, the di
gest showed the property in Georgia
to be 225,003,419 dollars, and the rail
roads returned the same year 9,868,-
129 dollars.
So that in nine years, Georgia has
gained about 120,000,000 in taxablo
property on the digest, and 20,000,000
dollars in taxable railroad property.
In other words, the state of Georgia
?s richer by about 123,000,000 dol
lars, more than she was nine years
sgo.
C W. Hood & Son,
HARMONY GROVE,
GeeneraL Merchandise
And Plantation Supplies.
Onr stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Boot* and Shoes can not be sur
passed in Durability and Low Prices. Wo keep in Stock all that the farmer
needs. Our Line of staple groceries are complete. We keep a full line of
Fancy groceries, Dotions, etc. Also Bagging, Ties and Guanos. Country
Produce taken in exchange for goods. Call and examine onr Goods. 19
w, A. Qmllian & Cos.
Harmony Grove,
Plantation Supplies-
W e keep a good Line of Merchandise t*oods. and m fact o-*-orything to suit
the wants of the Farmer at the very lowest figures. Call and examine Stock
when in town. Country produce taken in exchange for goods.
Hardman & Comp’y,
HARMONY GROVE,
dealers' in
HardwarE & CutlerY.
Our Line of Stoves, Tinware, Agricultural Implements, Etc., can not be
found in better Quality and Durability, elsewhere. We also keep a good line
of guns for the Fall trade. Call and examine our stock and prices. 19
W. W. JORDAN.
HARMONY GROVE,
Undertaker & Furniture Dealer.
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My Line of Furniture contains all that goes to make up the parlor, house
hold, and kitchen. Also carry a full line of Caskets and Undertaker’s outfits
From the Cheapest to the Finest Qualities. A fire Hearse in connection.