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The = RECORD.
CHURCH SERVICES.
Methodist—Services every
morning and evening.
school meeting Tuesday evening.
at 4 :0t) p. in. Strangers
the city are cordially invited to
these services. Rev. T. IV.
pastor.
Baptist—First Sunday 3:00 p. in.
evening. evening Fifth Sunday, morning
services. Sunday school
a. cordially m. Strangers visiting tlie city
invited to attend these
ices. Rev. B. A. Ivy, pastor.
and Christian—Every Sunday
eveningservtees. Prayer
Wrightsville Thursday evening. Strangers
tend these services. cordially Rev.T. invited L. Harris to
pastor.
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SOCIAL and
OTHERWIbF..
Miss Nannie Haines is
friends in Wrightsville.
Look at llayes Bros. & Co’s
ad, and call on them in their new
ters next to Post office.
The many friends of Master
Anthony will be glad to learn that
will be sitting up again in a day or
as soon as he becomes a little
Tlie Hon. W. P. Wideman, of S. O
will deliver his famous lecture
The Grit” at Wrightsville Wednesday
night Sept. 15th. at 8:30 p. in.
General Admission 25c,children 15c
Reserved seats 35c.
Rev. T. W. Ellis left for Macon
terday to remain several days, divid¬
ing his time between the bedside of
sick brother and filling the pulpit in
his work for the Master, assisting in
protracted services now in
there.
We regret the s’ekness of Mr. J. 15
Howard, of Regnant, and hope soon
learn of his complete recovery
health. Mr. Howard’s son now a
ister of the gospel, and who was on a
visit to his father, was also taken
denly ill last week,the results of which
we have been unable to learn.
Mr. L. B. Price, Jr., says he lias
best one horse farm in Georgia. He
foots up his crop this year at 3,000
dles of fodder, 300 bin he's of
twelve bales of cotton, 150 bushels
potatoes, 100 bushels of peas and
gallons of syrup. If anybody can
that yield he wants to hear from
The largest second hand
house in tlie south. We quote a few
bargains here: Rambler, $10;
ling, $14; Hartford,$16; Crescent,$14;
Allen, $15, and 200 others. We
antee every bicycle we sell.
Augusta Bicycle Exchange,
(65) Augusta, Ga.
Why is it that our market here is
not more plentifully supplied with
peas? Our farmers plant them freely
enough, but a bushel of peas can rare¬
ly le found among our merchants,
though they always command a good
price, and always sell for more than
corn. Will someone kindly enlighten
us upon this question.
One seldom finds a more accommo¬
dating and agreeable conductor than
Capt. J. A. Parker, of the W. &
While being closely attentive to his
routine duties, he is ever watchful for
the comforts of his passengers, es¬
pecially the ladies and children. He
knows everybody on his line of road,
from end to end, and is ever ready
with a pleasent word in his daily greet¬
ings of these, his many friends.
The Nannie Lou Warthen Institute
is fast filling lip with pupils.now num¬
bering eighty, and we hope the corps
of efficient and zealous teachers of the
school will receive the full and hearty
support.of the public. At no time has
this school been better equipped for
thorough educational facilities,and we
predict that the close of this term will
show a greater improvement in the
advancement of its pupils than at any
time of its past history.
Hon. C. S. Meadows now believes in
the fact that all mules are tricky.
Last Thursday he started for Wrights¬
ville with a trusty (?) three old mule
to his buggy, and working an open
bridle on his muleship, which took
fright at an umbrella, broke loose
from Mr. Meadows, and ran about two
miles, literally painting the buggy
with mud but otherwise not hurting
it. Shortly after that the same mule
was being driven again wben it jump¬
ed completely over a fence into a field,
and again the buggy escaped injury.
The Central train leaving Macon for
Savannah at noon Sunday had a slight
accident that might have resulted
more seriously. Just east of Gordon
the engine struck a horse as it had
run upon a short bridge, carried it up¬
on the pilots to the other side and
rolled it into the ditch with no other
hurt than a cut foot. The
in his efforts to stop his train applied
the air-brakes suddenly, the
causing the air-hose to be torn from
the feed pipe upon the engine,
causing a few minutes delay.
I tor Morgan showed himself equal
all emergencies, and the delay
hardly noticed by the passengers.
Mrs. Rowland Passes Away.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland, an account
whose sickness appeared in
The Record last week, passed away;
at the home of her son-in-law, Mr.
John A. Hightower, a few miles from
Wrightsville last Friday, and was bur¬
ied at the Rowland family burying
ground on Saturday.. Weakened by
age, the tired frame could not combat
the disease, and the weary one is now
at rest. Our sympathies are extended
to toe family in the loss of a mother
and friend.
Last week’s Cotton Sales.
Three hundred and fourteen bales of
cotton for Wrightsville is the receipts
of last week, from Monday August 29th,
to Saturday September 4th. Of this
number only 167 went through the
warehouse, while the remaining It7
went direct to the depot for shipment,
the warehouse,also,shipping sixty-one
bales ot their number received. The
staple is generally showing up well
in quality most of it showing high
made middling. The receipts this
week, from present indications, will
doubtless reach 500 or over.
Capt. D. N. Sanders, associate editor
of tlie People’s Party Paper, is at the
Grady hospital m Atlanta suffering
with complicated bowel troubles. .We
wish him an early recovery.
Mrs. G. W. Perkins, the highly es¬
teemed amt much beloved wife of the
president of the W. & T, railroad,is ly¬
ing dangerously sick at her home in
Tennille. Four physicians have been
in attendance upon her during the
past two weeks, yet tlie ravages of ty¬
phoid fever remain unbroken. Her
many friends watch with much anxiety
for an early change for the better in
her condition.
A Main man brought a suit in eject¬
ment against bis neighbor for occupy¬
ing three inches of his land, and he
was discomfited no little when a sur¬
vey proved that he himself was the
trespasser to tlie extent of two feet
and eleven inches. Then the neigh¬
bor proved to him that, all fairy stories
do not exist in books by slinking bands
and telling him he need not move bis
fence. Human nature may be the
same tlie world over, but it is evident
that different sorts of it are often
found side by side.
ON THE LINE.
In its issue of July 27th, The
Record contained an editorial on
“The Lynching Fever”, a portion
of which was, a few days later,
published in the Atlanta Constitu¬
tion. But why didn’t the Atlanta
Constitution print the whole arti¬
cle? Here is the objectionable
paragraph omitted by our esteemed
contemporary:
“That crime is on tlie increase no
one will deny. Especially is that true
in the crime of assault, and one can¬
not look into a daily paper any day
without seeing from one to seven or
eight accounts of assaults from differ¬
ent sections. The condition is alarm¬
ing, and our women and children are
never safe when left without protec¬
tion. Is this the natural 'outgrowth
of results from the infamous campaign
circular sent out by XV. Y. Atkinson,
Steve Clay and others in their appeal
for the negro vote in tlie late election?
And is this act of lynching the peo¬
ples’ endorsement of that circular?
Then let the good work go on. Rut if
boys” will stop that hanging and
shooting, and let tlie torch and stake
be the penalty for that infamous crime,
they will soon find subjects for that
kind of notoriety extremely scarce.”
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In the last issue of the People’s
Party Paper Mr. Watson has this
to say bearing upon the subject:
Public attention tias been once more
drawn to tlie convict question by tlie
report of Mr. Byrd, in which lie set
forth the horrible abuses of tlie chain
gang system.
Have not we populists preached
upon that text all over Georgia?
Did we not write and speak about it,
world without eud, in tlie campaign of
1894?
Did not our State Chairman, lion.
D. Cunningham, take the matter
hand again in 1896, and endeavor to
the evil?
Did he not even go to the extent of
out a Habeas Corpus to take
of the illegally held county con¬
from the private persons who had
them to do private work in vio¬
lation of law?
Did our good Democratic friends
any stock in the question then?
None at all.
They were busy just then
that Rape circular, and they counted
upon that as being sufficient for the
negro vote in that campaign.
And they were right.
The Rape circular was
Every “Democratic negro” was out on
the stump howling about the
Atkinson who, in the language of
said circular, had pardoned a
“who had twice been 3onvicted of
rape committed upon a white
And Atkinson got the negro vote.
Since that time rapes have
So have lyuchings.
THE EXACT SITUATION.
The Atlanta Constitution and
other democratic papers have, of
late, had considerable to say on
the inhuman and brutal treatment
of the convicts by the private les¬
sees,though these papers were pain¬
fully silent in 1896 when thisqueS
tion was carried into (he courts by
the populist chairman. But Mr.
Watson explains the situation so
pointedly and fully in his last is¬
sue that we reproduce it, though
our limited space scarcely per¬
mits it. Here it is:
Now let the Governor “take the mat¬
ter m his own hands” and finish the
work so well begun. As he shows, the
purpose of the inspection lie ordered
was to make a change “AT ONCE.”
That should mean NOW.
The holding of eight hundred men
in illegal confinement is a crime. It
is a blot on the good name of the state.
only person who can stop it is the
acting through the attorney
The legislature has already
It lias specifically declared such
leases to private parties to be illegal.
It has inhipited them.
The governor holds the key to the
Strong pressure will be
to bear to have the whole
thrown over to t he legislature
He will be urged to withhold executive
on one pretext and another.
The constitution and the people are
to give the governor full credit
for a determined stand for t he vindica¬
of the law. The legislature does
not meet for two months. In the mean¬
ttie Governor will not, of course,
eight hundred helpless victims
be held in illegal confinement!
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This is all very well, but why was
the Atlanta Constitution silent when
Mr. Cunningham went into (lie courts
with the very question in 1896, and
tried to get justice done to these poor
The law was the same then as now :
the violation was the same then as
now: the courts were hero llien, as
now, and the last one of these misde¬
meanor convicts could have been taken
away from the private parties who
held them. Had this plan been done
some lives would have been saved,
much misery prevented, and many a
blow averted.
What encouragement did the popu¬
list chairman get?
None. The democratic editors,
now so loudly, were mute.
They will neither see nor hear. The
chief violator of that law was a grand
mogul of the democratic party, a
member of t heir committee, a contrib¬
utor to their boodle fund, and they
dared not hit the sinner.
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There ought not to be any politics
in a question of this sort. It is a ques¬
tion of humanity, and all humane men
should unite to put down the abuses
in the chain-gang system.
If the Constitution can get the evil
all honor to that paper.
If Atkinson will enforce the law,
rescue these helpless wards of the
from illegal and inhuman vassa¬
all honor to Atkinson. Let the
work be done, and we pops won’t
the honors to him who does it.
Miss Claude Reynolds, of Lothair, is
the. family of Mr. Richard
Lovett.
Shoulder Shots from Ohio.
A vote for a bad system will cancel
year’s talk about the beauty of
Great crops of golden grain may
but cannot overcome the evil
of a golded monetary system.
The man who sees the need of better
is no patriot if he does not
to make others also see that need.
The object of "goverment by injunc¬
is to prevent the accused from
the benefit of a trial by jury.
Get your slate and figure out how
it would take you to accumulate a
dollars, if you saved all that
earn.
The man who looks for financial re¬
through the Democratic party
have faitli sufficient to remove
(
It is folly to talk about a country be¬
free in which the only freedom
have is to submit to corporate
or starve.
If there were no meh in enforced
in this country the just de¬
of the miners would have been
long ago.
Syndicates and corporations are
seeking to get control of the Alaskan
fields so that they may still con¬
trol the money of the world.
Under just conditions in this coun¬
try, the prosperity of the farmer would
not be dependent on hunger and dis¬
tress in other countries.
The man who only works for reform
when he personally feels the
of adversity cares little for principle
and less for righteousness. .
The adoption of the initiative and
referendum will serve as a
that public officials are the
and not the rulers of the people.
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Beautiful eyes grow dull and dim
As the swift years steal away.
Beautiful, willowy forms so slim
I«ose fairness with every day.
But she still is queen and hath charms to
spare
Who wear* youths coronal — beautiful
hair.
Preserve Your Hair
and you preserve your youth.
“A woman is as old as she
looks," says the world. No
woman looks a3 old as she is
if her hair has preserved its
normal beauty. You can keep
hair from falling out, restoring
its normal color, or restore the
normal color to gray or faded
hair, by the use of
c
Ayer’s Hair Vigor.
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Cheap Excursion to New
York via Savannah and 0. S- S. Co.
The Central of Georgia Railway of¬
to its patrons further opportuni¬
to visit New York city via Savan¬
and (he O. S. S. Co. at a very small
Excursion tickets will be on
at various points on the system
Aug. 26, Sept. 1-4 inclusive, Sept.
inclusive, good returning thirty
from date of sale. The rates are
low that the trip is placed within
reach of cveiy one. For further
information apply to your nearest
agent or write J. C. Hale, G. P.
A., Savannah, Ga.
The passenger department of
Seaboard Air Line at Portsmouth,
Va., has issued a uir'qne,
tive and useful souvenir in the
shape of a paper weight, being
bale of cotton reduced to
two by three inches, laying on a
truck while an idle negro seated
on the bale enjoys his watermelon.
This attractive as well as useful
article can be obtained by
in stamps to T. J. Anderson,
Pass. Agent, Portsmouth, Va.,
to cover cost of mailing.
Ordinary's Advertisement,
Countv.
all whom it may concern: W. If. Trice, ad¬
of tho estate of Loyd Trice, applies
lo me for letters of dismission from said admin¬
and 1 will pass upon his application
the first Monday in Doce:nbor next, at my
in Wrightsville, said county. Given under
hand and official signature, this Cth day of
1897. J. K. Page, Ordinary.
12-1
County.
To whom it may concern: O. s. Fortnor
in proper form applied to
for permanent letters of administration on
estate ef Mrs. Sodhiro Fortner, late of said
this is to cite ail and singular tho cred¬
and next of liin of said Mrs. Sophire
to he and appear at my office within the
allowed by law, and show cause,if ahy they
why permanent administration should not
granled to O. 8. Fortnor on Mrs. Sophire
estate, W itness my hand
official signature this fith day of Ordinary. Sept., 1897.
J. E. PAGE,
County.
all whom it may concern: ,T. C. Wiggins
in propor form, applied to mo for per¬
letters of administration on tho eBtato
A. B. Brookins, late of said county, this is to
all and singular tho creditors ami noxt of
of A. B. Brookins, to be and appear at my
within the time allowed by law, and show
if any they can, why permanent adininis
should not be granted J. C. Wiggins on A.
Brookins’ estate. Witness my hand and of¬
signature, this fith. day of September,
J. E. PAGE, Ordinary.
Sheriff’s Sale.
County.
Will be sold before the courthouse
in the town of Wrightsville, with¬
in the legal hours of sale, on the first
in October, 1S97 the follow¬
ing property, to-wit.
One hundred head of sheep, more or
less, known as the O. S. Fortner sheep,
marked swallow-fork and nnderbit in
ear, and undersquare in the other,
being in other ear marks. Also
third undivided interest in one
Massey Cotton Gin and iron screw,
cane mill, one bay mare about 8
years old, one eye out, one cream horse
about 12 years old, one black mare
with white face and wtiile feet and
legs, about 4 years old, and one syrup
boiler, levied on as the property of O.
S. Fortner to satisfy one li fa issued
from the supreme court of Johnson
county in favor of J. M. Outlaw vs.
C. T. J. Claxton, O. S. Fortner, et al
and transferred to C. T. J. Claxton et
al as securities. This Sept. 3 1897.
C, G. Powell Jr. V. S,
Are 4
You Mf mt
Buying
Your goods at the lowest cash prices? If notf'
you should take advantage of our Sledge-ham¬
mer prices and not fail to come to see us to drive
your bargains.
It
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For competitors to surpass us iii
selection, or to approach us iii
prices. Our stock for Fall and
Winter—1897-8—is daily arriving.
Come to Corner Brick Stoi’e, next to Post Office,
and get our prices before buying. Thanking
you for your liberal patronage in the past, we
are Yours for Business,
HAYES BROS. & CO.
Iw FINEST RW:¥L!
E. Tompkins. H. C. Tompkins. D. L. Simpson;
TOMPKINS BROS. & CO.
-Dealers in
Goods, Groceries, Shoes,
—-Etc., Etc., Etc.—
In New Warehouse Building
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do these prices strike you, to begin with :
P. Lorillard Snuff per lb, 45c
Arbuckle's Coffee 7 lbs for 1.00
New water ground Meal per bushel 60c
Horse-Shoe Soap 3 bars for 10c
Best checked Homespun per yard 5a
Seamless Knox Socks per pair 5c
Good pair pants from 45c to $3.00 per pair
Negligee Shirts from 25c to 75c
Ladies’ Shoes from 80c to $1.60 per pair
Gents’ “ “ $1.00 to $2.50 “ “
Best Oil at 15c per gallon
83 88 88 88 88 E8 83 S3
Highest market price paid for
all kinds of country produce.
WE YOURSELF INDEPENDENT.
Southern Shorthand
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