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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. _ 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.” * • * 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! *** 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. *** ’ 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. 0*** 0 Ci •.•J £ f mm 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. K, / » 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 * 3 13 o or f& 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 * & » * * ® ® 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 —AND— Business University, —ATANTA, GA.— BOOKKEEPING. SHORTHAND. TELEGRAPHY. PENMANSHIP. * % ARITHMETIC. GRAMMAR. SPELLING, ETC. A. C. 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