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THE - RECORD.
OFFICIAL ORGAN JOHNSON CO.
Fublishert Every Tuesday at Wrigiits
ville, Georgia., by
W. J. WHITE, Editor.
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THE - RECORD,
Wriglitsville, Georgia,
TUESDAY. SKI’EMHit 7, 1807.
If the Dingley bill fails to gather in
h surplus, so as to produce a further
contraction os t he currency, the efforts
to get rid of the greenbacks will be re¬
doubled.
Every effort is now being made to
force Mexico to adopt the gold-stand¬
ard. The success of this effort will put
one more nation at the mercy of the
World’s money power.
Millions upon million* are being
made m New York through the ad¬
vance in wheat. These profits do not go
to the farmers; they go to the specula¬
tors and gamblers and are taken from
the people.
Great reformers are neves handed
down to the people through t he good¬
ness of the men in power. Reforms
always originate with the masses ol
the people, and become affective as the
people become determined.
The Atlanta Constitution now
reaches Wriglitsville from eight¬
een to thirty-six hours after publi¬
cation. Quick time, this, consid¬
ering we aro loss than 200 miles
from Atlanta.
Yellow fovor has boon declared
epidemic at Ocean Springs, Miss.,
about 100 miles each from New
Orleans and Mobile, a rigid quar
ontino already being in force in all
cities and towns adjacent. Great
alarm is felt in the coast towns,
but every effort is being rnndo to
confine the fever to Ocean Springs.
Tho Yanks aro again reminded
that the Georgia boys know how
to shoot. Our crack team didn’t
do a thing to tlioso fellows up at
Sea Girt, on the Jersey coast, last
week—they just brought back ev¬
ery first prize that was offered dur¬
ing tho entire contest. New Jersey
or New York coming in, some
times, in second or third place.
Niggardliness hi the house of
God toward God’s cruse is a pre¬
vailing weakness. We look with
contempt on paupers who make
themselves so by indolence and
parasitic inclanation. How much
worso is a church paupers? He
knows little of the riches of grace,
lie lives upon the sacrifice of oth¬
ers. He considers only his own
pleasure and think it is blessed
only to- receive. These paupers
are not those who ave without
money; they are those without tho
grace of living. They have tho
means but not the mind to give.
Their meanness makos tho spiri¬
tual enterprises of the church halt.
—Ram’s Horn.
CIVILIZED(?) CHRISTIAN!?) NATION
Great Britiau is the leading Chris¬
tian nation of the world, It is, offi
cially anb historically, the favored fol¬
lower of the meek and lowly Jesus.
In all her temples the beautiful doc¬
trine is taught that we must return
good for evil, and that, being smitten
upon one cheek, we must turn tho oili¬
er.
At this blessed moment Great Brit
ian has six different wars on her hands,
and is grabbing land and slaying the
native's in almost every xuarter of the
globe.
If Geeat Britian were not so raven¬
ously reltgous she would be considered
the most monstrously wicked empire
the world has seen since Rome fell.—P.
P.P.
GOOD PUBLIC ROADS
XUMDKK THREE.
It is intensely gratifying to The
Record to observe the wide-spread
awakening among the people in
regard to the improvement of the
public highways; and also, that
the policy of employing all the
convicts on the public roads is
growing and gaining strength
among the people. The Record
also notices with undisguised
pleasure, that tiio commissioners
of roads and revenues of Fulton
county have held a meeting whose
deliberations were on this line,
and that they nave inaugurated
a movement for a state convention
of the road commissioners of each
county to consider tho matter of
formulating, or in co-operation
with other organizations, formu¬
lating legislation which shall give
this direction to convict labor.
It really seems that the time
has arrived—that the golden op¬
portunity of the law-abiding (arm¬
ors,'mechanics and laboring men, is
now presented for them to make
their power felt; and not relieve
themselves of taxation to support
law-breaking non-producers, but
the odious exactions now imposed
on them in working public roads
—thoroughfares practically un¬
used by a largo majority of the road
workers under the law. The op¬
portunity shall not bo allowed to
pass unimproved—unavailed of—;
but the parties so directly inter¬
ested should come forward in full
voting force and power, completely
revolutionize the road laws, crush
the present convict lease system
out of existence, and forever for¬
bid the employment of convicts
in any way, in a needless peniten¬
tiary, or elsewhere, in competition
with honest, law-abiding citizens,
engaged in manufacturing or
other industrial pursuits.
Mr. Walter R. Brown, a loading
Atlanta lawyer, and a member of
the Fulton county board of com¬
missioners of roads and revenues,
in a speech before a convention of
Fulton county road commission¬
ers, Aug. 21st., said “the existing
road laws wore on abomination.”
It is presumed by the readers of
The Record have read tho proposi¬
tion of principal keeper of the
Penitentiary, Hon. Joseph S. Tur¬
ner, in regard to the establishment,
after many years of labor and at
high cost, of a permanent peniten¬
tiary, where the convicts shall be
employed in farming, (ginningcot¬
ton, corn etc.,) and in such manu¬
factures, (cotton goods, shoes, wa¬
gons etc.,) as will make it self-sus¬
taining! How? By direct compe¬
tition with honest, law-abiding in¬
dustrious citizens.
A not insignificant number of con¬
victs would make astute, successful
lawyers;—and if the idea of a self
sas-tninod penitentiary is wise and
good, and is to prevail, why just
let a bright, young twenty-year
convict read law and serve the
state as solicitor general, take cases
at big foes which, as tho convict
money does now, would go into the
state's treasury.
Why not?
The Record has neithei time
nor space now to “show up” Prin¬
cipal Keeper Turner’s proposition,
but may give it some attention in
a future issue.
The last United States census
gives the male population of Geor¬
gia, twenty-one years and over at
a fraction under 400,000. The
Georgia road laws requires all per¬
sons (ministers and some other
callings exempted) between six¬
teen and fifty, to do road work,
and it is not an exaggeration to
estimate those between these ages
at not less than 400,000. The law
stipulates that they shall work on
tho roads, not exceeding fifteen
days during the year; and, also,
that delinquents shat not bo fined
less than one dollar nor more than
three dollars per day.
This, by implication, places a
value of one dollar per day on tho
road-worker.
Now the male population of Geor¬
gia twenty-one years and over being
400,000 and that of those between
sixteen and fifty being estimated
at about the same, it is uotuureas-
oimble to assume that 200,000
able bodied working men ave called
upon to work on the pub!ic roads.
Atone dollar per day—the implied
legal value of their labor—this re¬
sult follows: 209,000 men gives
$200,000 per day, and fifteen days
the enormous sum of $3,000,
contributed annually towards
up the roads by farm and
laborers; or at sixty cents a
at which Principal Keeper
estimates convict labor, we
have the not so enormous, none the
less astonishing sum of $1,800,000.
This is what the present laws—de¬
nounced by Walter R. Brown ns
“abominable’’—call for, and for
non-compliance with which heavy
penalties are imposed. If fanners
and laborers and workingmen gen¬
erally do not perform the duties,
or are not subjected to the penal¬
ties, it i3 the fault of those whose
duty it is to inforce the laws.
To give the above brief outline
of, and suggestive calculations
based upon, the “abominable” law,
is all The Record can now do;
time and space will not permit
more. A full exposure of the “a
bominablo” statue would provoke
a uninveraal outburst of indigna¬
tion. The laws could not be en¬
forced—the complication and in¬
justice of them forbade it. Had
any serious attempt been made to
enforce them they would long
since have been swept from the
statute book.
The Record may have some¬
thing more to say about those laws,
as well as something about Princi¬
pal Keeper Turner’s so-called prop¬
osition in subsequent issues.
Speculators and money gamblers
growing rich over tlie abundance of
wheat and every dollar gained by them
means a dollar lost by some one else.
A temporary rise in wheat caused
crop failures abroad shows no change
in the conditions that have been crush¬
ing (he farmer for many years.
The man who will not aid in deliver¬
ing his country from the greed of mo¬
nopolists and speculators becomes by
liis indifference an enemy to his coun¬
try.
D. P. USRY, M.D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office in C. M. Wood’s building
(43) Wrighteville, Ga.
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Farmers’ &
Merchants’
Warehouse
WIUGHTSVIBLE, GA.
WALKER & SIMPSON, Prop’s.
* Newly Built and
* Entirely Fire Proof.
We are now in position to handle cot¬
ton, and ready to accommodate the
public. Expert buyers will be on hand
to pay Savannah prices, thus
to the farmers a saving of
$4.00
Per Bale.
Hank of Wriglitsville will loan
money on warehouse receipts.
Weighing, storage and insur¬
ance, forty cents per mouth.
W. T. WALKER, Sworn Weigher.
This being anew and important
§ « enterprise for the county, a liberal
patronage is respectfully and earn
X estly solicited. Yours to serve,
WALKER & SIMPSON.
Hawkins &
Page——
Dealers in Fancy and Fam¬
ily Groceries, sold at lowest
CASH
PRICES % %
come and give us a trial.
Here are, a few of our
prices:
Lion Coffee 15cts per pound
Arbucldes Coffee - - 15cts per pound
Greeu Coffee - - lSets per poiuul
Jury Lists tor September Term
grand jury.
1 .1 A .1 Wadter ir, G N Ivey
2 J I) Stephens 17 Fred -Cartoi¬
8 P B Beilingfleld ls C T Bray-
4 A T Clark 19 S A McWhorter
5 A T Binder 20 C C Pope
fi A I V Stephens 21 E E Smith
7 .7 W Johnson 22 If G Powell
8 U S Spell 28 T .1 Arline
9 Bonis Davis 24 .1 W Flanders
10 W Allen Page 25 A D Mayo
11 Henry Page 26 Mathew Bell
12 C. M Dent 27 II C Mason
18 W II Price 28 J M Page
14 S 1. Fortner 29 Z T l’rescott
15 E R Underwood 30 Wm A Webb
TRAVERSE JURORS-1st Week.
1)1)1 Mayo 19 It T Mayo
2 .1 1) Webb 20 B J Wiggins
3 .1 Sam Flanders 21 A J Minton
4 Henry Greenaway 22 8 J Hammock
5 K A W Johnson 23 Chas A Moyo
9 J W Smith 21 J C Snell
7 Henry Stephens 25 J Bennett Powell
8 D 7. Douglas 20 M It Perkins
9 G W Pullen 27 A J M Robinson
10 W B Price 23 I) S Smith
11 J W Right 29 D B Palmer
12.1 A Douglas 30 D S Meeks
13 G 1> Snell 31 ,1.1 Frost
14 John G Right 32 Wm Anderson
15 J M Mason 33 B 8 Cox
10C M Franklin 34 Jno B Anderson
17 K J Sumner 35 W H H Stewart
13 W B Ivey SO .1 It J Mi mbs
Life
Size
Portraits
From the largest and best
house in America, satis¬
faction guaranteed, repre¬
sented by
M C Hartley,
WHIGnTSVILLB, Ga.
Any information desired
can ho obtained at The
Record office, where any
pictures may be left for
enlarging.
Nannie
Lou
Wart hen
Institute
^ ^ ^
Fall Term
Opens September 1st
with a full corps of
efficient teachers.
The President will ar¬
range for hoard for
pupils if desired.
Parties desiring to
Board
Pupils —
should see the Presi¬
dent. Let pupils en¬
ter promptly, For
information and cata¬
logue call on or write
to the President.
F. G. WEBB, A.M ■ 9
President.
B.V.
Comes to the front with the
line of
Pants, Hats,
Shoes, Clothing,
Dress Goods,
Dry Goods
Of all kinds. Also a com¬
plete line of
Family and
Fancy Groceries
Tinware, Etc.
Thanking you for past patron¬
age and inviting you to still con¬
tinue to examine my goods and
get prices before you buy. I am,
Yours to Serve,
B.V.ROWLAND
[Successor to Rowland Bros.l
SPEAKING
Right Out
If it wasn’t for what it brought you, your money wouldn’t
possess much value. It isn’t tlie money you work for—it's
what it brings. Make it go as far as possible—Get the best
returns. Every item you buy from us—every dollar in¬
vented— sii any line—brings you the fullest returns. If
it isn’t that way, speak right out, anil the money will be re¬
turned. Every sate must be satisfactory—its our way and
we insist upon it.
The Correct
Qualities
In ladies and children’s hosiery, the fast color, long wearing
kind, at exceptionaly reasonable prices. Ladies black (the
kind that most dealers ask you 15 cents for) our price 10
cents pr. Ladies fine imported hose—worth 25 cents—our
price 15 cents, Children's black hose—good quality at 5
cents pair. Men’s heavy, mixed socks—the 10 cent kind—
our price 5 cents. There’s nothing better for the price.
Silks, velvets, and all widths, and styles of braids for trim¬
ming dresses, at prices that will make you wonder how we
bought them so cheap.
i® &
;®; jgj
Hens’
Furnishings
Men’s Negligee Shirts—in the newest colorings—they com¬
bine comfort with style—Special at 50 cents. Good Shirts
as low as 20 cents. Men’s collars anb cuffs—all the latest
styles—prices right. Men’s ties—soarfs—bows—four in
hand—newest and most correct always—each 10 cents, and
up.
It will pay to “locate” your fall and
winter trade at our store. There’s
9 « the if a crisp anything quality tone back wc to sell our of you them, prices, goes and wrong, there’s then
we stand ready to protect you.
-X- -X
Just Exactly
Right.
In price—equality—style—are the suits we sell you—suits
that will wear well—stylish and durable
All the latest—up to date dress good—come and look at
them, and you will admit that our store is the place to buy
a pretty dress. Compare these prices with prices elsewhere.
Yard wide Sea Island 5 cents; yard wide bleaching 5
cents; yard wide sheetings 5 cents; best Turkey Red cali¬
coes 5 cents; best checks 5 cents;
Come to See us. Prices Are Right.
LOVETT BROTHERS,