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Columbia Sentinel.
PUBLISHED EVI BY THfItFUkY AT HAHI.EM
GEORGIA.
■NTEBKD AB SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE
POST OFFICE IN HARLEM. OA.
THURSDAY, APRIL 29 18®fi
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Is to inform you that your subscrip
tion is due, and as we need the
money, kindly ask all in arrears to
come up and give us a helping hand
by paying up their subscription.
CITY AND COUNTY DIRECTORY
CITY COUNCIL.
J. W. BELL. Mayor.
C. W. ARNOLD.
W. E. HATCHER.
W. Z HOLLIDAY.
M. FULLER.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
O. D.DARSEY, Ordinary.
O. W. GRAY, Clerk and Treamirer.
B. IVEY. Sheriff.
O. HARDY, Tax Collector.
.1. A. GREEN. Tax Receiver.
J. C. GOETCHIUB, Coroner.
MASONIC.
Harlem Lodge, No. 276 F. A. M., meets 2d and
*th Saturdays.
CHURCHES.
Baptiat—Services 4th Sunday, Dr. JI. It. Cara
veil Sunday School every Sunday. Supcriu
tendent—Rev. J. W. Ellington.
Methodist— Every 3rd Sunday. Rev W E.
Shackleford, pastor. Sabbath School every
Sunday H.A Merrv, Sunt.
Maris’trate’s Court 128th District, G. M., 4th
Saturday. Return day IS days before.
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Agitation In Augusta.
FACTORY OPERATIVES PREPARING TO
STRIKE.
The Knights of Labor Send a
Petition to Jfill Presidents,
Who Thereupon Issue a
Circular to Their Employees,
Protesting Against Outside
Interference —The Result.
Atlanta Constitution: Augusta,
Ga., April 20 —Two weeks ago th"
executive board of the Knights of
Labor petitioned the presidents of
the cotton factories to abolish the
•'line or pass system,” that no knight
be forced to take the place of a dis
charged knight until investigation by
the executive board of knights; that
all machinists receive three dollars
for twelve hours’ work; that fifty
yards shall constitute one cut; that
where one mill pays one dollar and
thirty cents daily for card grinding
and another pays one dollar and
seventy-five cer ts, the average price
be one dollar and fifty-two and a half
cents; that the average price thus ob
tained be raised fifteen per cent.
This advance is to begin May Ist.
The executive board asserted that the
operatives have quietly submitted to
from thirty to thirty-five per cent
reduction during the last two years.
They ask an advance now because the
mills can afford it. They desire a
conference with the superintendent
and overseers on any vacancies or
discharges that they may fill the
vacancies. They ask for a holiday
for the employes on May Ist, when
they will discuss the labor question
and kindred topics, and invite the
presidents of the mills to attend and
appoint two speakers to address
them. There are eight cotton mills
in Augusta, employing three thou
sand hands. It is thought most of
them have joined the Knights of
Labor. The presidents of the mills
held a meeting to day and issued the
following circular letter to their em
ployes in the mills, not noticing the
executive board of tho Knights of
Labor:
Your attention is requested to a
calm and careful consideration of this
paper. We have received a com
munication purporting to come from
an organization known as the Knights
of Labor, and signed by the master
workman and executive committee of
that order. That communication
pretends to set forth certain grievan
ces under which you are suffering
and demands their redress. This
order claims to be acting at your in
stance and in your behalf. If this be
true, we decline most positively to
recognize any outside interference
between our employes and ourselves.
We are always ready to confer with
you as employes—but in no other
capacity—upon all subjects to com
mon interests. We recognize that
the rate of wages is a fair subject of
agreement between the employer and
employes, and that the right to work
or quit working for another belongs
absolutely to every person who is
not a convict or a slave, and the
right to et-ploy or not to employ,
another is absolute and incontestible.
These rights can only be limited by
the parties themselves. We shall
therefore, be glnd to receive and
fairly consider any communication
from our employes as such, but we
will not allow any outside parties to
manage our affairs.
In conclusion we would call your
attention to the fact that at present
the mills are earning very little more
than the expenses, and that up to a
recent period they have for several
years been run at a heavy loss, their
stockholders receiving no dividends,
while during the same period the
employes have at least received a
living.
The Knights of Labor h»l<l a meet
ing here to-night, which was largely
attended, and the following preamble
and resolution adopted:
Whereas, our executive board has
been positively ignored by the mill
presidents and as it is positively
contrary to o.r constitution for us to
adjust any grievances other than
through our executive board, there
fore be it.
Resolved. First, That all the op
eratives and employes of the mills do
absolutely and positively decline to
confer with the president or any
other person except through an ex
ecutive board.
2. That we indorse fully the ac
tion of the board.
3. That we forward to-each of the
presidents whose names appear on
the circular distributed through the
mills tc-.lay, a c >py of these resolu
tions.
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—Sick headache, is the banc of many lives;
his annoying coinpaint may be cured and
prevented by the occasional use of Dr. J. H.
McLean’s Homoeopathic Liver and Kidney
Fillets, they are pleasant to take no larger than
a pin head, and are the ladies’ favorite for bil
iousness, bad taste in the mouth, jaundice, for
leucorrhea and painful menstruation.
For sale by all druggist.
Oldtown Camp.
Sum© Account of the Place Where Major
Jackson Will Spend Six Years
Atlanta Constitution: Oldtown
penitentiary camp is in Jefferson
county, ten miles distant from Louis
ville .
For the next six years it will be the
abiding place of Major George T.
Jackson, of Augusta.
Oldtown has an interesting his-tory.
About the year 1718 George Gal
phin, a young Scotchman, recently
arrived from Scotland, stopped at
Charleston. A few weeks after he
crossed the Savannah river and took
clfarga of the Indian trading post at
Greensborough. He found the In
dians quite friendly. He dealt
largely in cattle, to tend which he
brought, from Charleston several
Scotch-Irish families. These fami
lies formed a small colony, which
became the nucleus of St. George’s
parish.
Upon one occasion an Indian chief,
while lounging about Galphin’s store,
wanted a certain gaudily colored coat.
Resorting to a trick of his tribe, he
said to Galpbin: “Me dreamed last
night you gave me dees coat.”
Galpbin knew the Indian custom,
and gave the coat to the chief. The
next day Galpbin said to him: “I
dreamed you gave me all this land.”
The chief was outdreamed but he
gave th® lan J, savins', “Well if you
dream him you must have him, but
you and Indian no dream anymore.”
The place is known as Galpbinton to
this day.
The intrigues of Mary Musgrove, a
half-breed who kept a trading-house
at Yamacraw, inflamed the Indians.
Galphinton became untenable, and
the colonists moved up the river
eight miles and built a fort near the
Ogeechee river. This they called
New town, the place they left being
thereaftern kown as Old town. A
village sprang up at New town, after
ward Greensborough, and then
Louisville, the capital of the State.
Inquiries at the capitol yesterday
developed that the Old town peni
tentiary camp is owned by Mr. T. J.
James a farmer. He leases one
hundred convicts. Major Jackson
will have light work, probaly being
made custodian of Mr. James's ac
counts.
—Sick Headache, a .ensation of oppression
and dullness in the head, are verv commonly
produced by indigestion; morbid despondency,
irritdbility and over sensitiveness of the nerves
may,a in a majority of cases, be traced to the
same canse. Dr. j H. McLean’s Homoeopathic
Liver and Kidney Balm and Fillets will posi
tively cure.
For sale by all druggist.
IN FOR THE WAR.
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Slaughter of The Innocents
AT
No. 1, Railroad Street
KARLEM, GA.
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R. L. LAMKIN
Still in Front
With the biggest announcement of the sea
son. He is going to make things lively for
the citizens of Columbia.
Realizing’the power of that commodity generally known as
‘cash,” he has determined to sell
Goods as Cheap
As Augusta or Anywhere Else.
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Will keep constantly on hand the following
goods, which he guarantees to give satisfac
tion :
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FLOUR, HAMS, SUGAR, MEAL,
D. S. SIDES, COFFE, GRITS, LARD, TEA, RICE,
SALT, CRACKERS, STARCH, SOAP, SODA,
TOBACCO, SEGARS, SNUFF, SYRUP,
MOLASSES, CHEESE, HARDWARE, ~2
TINWARE, WOODEN WARE, CANNED GOODS
Dry Goods.
Boots, Shoes and Domestics
IMPROVE YOUR STOCK!
1 he 1 rotting Stallion Strathmore, Jr., will
make the Spring season at my farm in Co
lumbia county, four miles west of Harlem.
PEDIGREE.
Strathmore, ,lr., is by Strathmore, Sr.; first dam. Melrose by
Administrator; second. Mattie Price by Woodford Membrino;
.third, Miss laylorby Pecks Idol; fourth, Carrie I), by Don
Juan ; fifth, Romance by Sir Leslie.
TERMS :
$5 single leap, $lO for the season, sls for insurance. Fifty
cents to the groom in all eases. Special nites may lie made for
I three or more inures. Apply to
S. C. LAMKIN,
HARLEM,
JESSE THOMPSON & CO.,
MANUFACTU RER.S OF
DOORS, SASH & BLINDS
Mouldings, Brackets, Lumber,
Laths and Shingles.
DEALERS IN
Window Glass and Builders’ Hardware,
Planing Mill and Lumber Yard,
Hale Street, Near Central Railroad Yard, Augusta. Ga.
GIBSON COTTON SEED PLANTER
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Price List:
The Gibson Cotton Seed Planter, complete SIO.OO each.
The Gibson Attachmeht for Dow Law Planter 4.50 each. '*
The Gibson Attachment for Farquhar Planter 4.50 each.
Apply to or address,
W. S. LAZENBY,
HARLEM, GA.
\\. D. BOWEN,”
Manufacturer and Dealer In
Guns, Pistols, Powder, Shot, Caps,
Catridges, P ishing Tackle, Etc.
1028 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
Aw ork and repair done with neatness and dispatch.
Globe Hotel,
AUGUSTA, GA.
J. W. Gray, Proprietor.
In elmto Proximity to Opora House, Telegraph Office., Exprees Office, Fort Office. O1 *•
Principe! Retail square of the City. Rates according to location of room.
Car. paea the Hotel every ten mmutee.