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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 "" TV Red X 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. ° • w B KI)b . BUCKi j p. 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. ee • ... , ■ , ■ —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. w Slaughter of The Innocents AT No. 1, Railroad Street KARLEM, GA. r 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. :e: Will keep constantly on hand the following goods, which he guarantees to give satisfac tion : .*». 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 ~~W.," WW 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.