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THE POST.
WEDNESDAY, I)KO. 4. 1878.
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
IP. P. Hick* ik the regular agent for the
POST in Johnmm eonntg, nnthorked to re-
trice HiiliH-ription*, rceriptfor the name, and
to make, rout wets for tuMtiMng. AU dm*
should be paid to him.
U»u<t nml Whiskey Laws.
Tlio following letter, which we
received u few days ago, cuntniitH
Htich «mml and catholic views, and
withal so aptly pilt, that wc take tho
liberty to pnldinh it.
Laurens Hill Nov. 25, 1878.
Mr. Hicks,
Dear Sir:
1 wend by Mr. ICilhitu $1.50, pay
for paper. I am with you on tho
foml question. 1 concur fully with
tho views net forth in the Post. In
udditioii to tho arguments you have
advanced in favor of letting out the
public roads to bo worked by con
tract# let mo give you a dot or two
more. The'raid duties under the
prciscnt. system hour very unequally
ti|K)n the people in certain localities.
I give oho imitaueo out of many: in
llurvunls (list.., tho road from Laur
ens Hill across Rocky crock in the
direction of Cochran, is a very hard
raid to keep tip, and requires from
threo to Bix thus work to put it
in good order. In tho next (list,,
(Hinson's) the road is sandy and
comparatively love! throughout tho
(list., and tho hands are ne«’er re
quired to work more lhau one day
In each year and sometimes not ho
much as that. It is not fair for one
not of men to work six days for the
public mid another sot only one day
or Icbh.
On tho liquor question that is now
before tho people of this county. 1
can say this,—no kind of legislation
etui restrain a man from imbibing
who is fond of alcoholic stimulants.
If wo keep him from solacing liitn-
Btilf ut a tippling shop ho will drink
at homo, which is worse, for it an
noys his wife, doraugos his business,
mid demoralizes every body on the
place, lie Imd much bettor go to
tho grog-shop mid take |i spree
among “birds of a feather.” It re
quires extraordinary moral firmness
to resist temptation once t ho habit of
taking a social glass lias been imlul
god m. Rut legislatioi. can never
give a man moral tirmness, or make
him hotter, we muse work at hi*
heart. I am in favor of free trade
and Stato rights and sailors’ rights
uml woman's rights mid nil other
rights oxeept the right to open a
shop at every cross roads to tnittio
with negroes for produoo. It mat-
tors not whether the shop is tilled
with whiskey and tobacco or calico
and crackers, it is the trafficking bus-
iniiss I oppose, because I believe it
encourages theft, and where whis
key is kept the business is car
ried on in its most aggravated form.
No man in my opinion has the light
to do unything which endangers the
peace and property of the eoiunmni-
ty in which he lives—-a man dares not
set tiro to his own house if it endan
gers tho property of others, and the
sumo rule might apply to athoi
things as well as tiro.
Very Respectfully.
.1. M. White,
DICING IN ANOTHER J-U-G!
The llrst Miracle Mustered into
Service to Sustain the Truffle in
Whiskey.
III HUN Cl a., Nov. 30. 1878.
Editor Vost:
The resolutions offered by Dr.
llicks on the 5th iuftt, in tho muss
meeting hold at tho court house in
Dublin, Laurens county, to prohibit
the sulo of liquor in said county, and
the elaborate essay written bv Esto
in its favor have elicited a few
thoughts from the nndei'sigued which
ho has hastily thrown together.
lam opposwl to the resolution from
prmoipU*, and. while 1 shall endeavor
to sustain myself by showing eonelu
study tho error of the resolution and
tho inevitable injury which, should
it over go into effect, would follow.
I mi not at all nit enemy to tom-
jH-niiKV or its advocates. It is sheer
folly to prosumo that any man should
sell liquor from tho more fact that he
fools it his right or his liberty to do
so, without expecting some rortmner-
utiou from such sale. Rut strenuous
arguments luivo boon used to show
that the use or traffic in liquor is a
crime of equal heinousucss with ob
scene or vulgar language to females.
This is fully answered by reference
to the fact tluu the same Author, that
on one extraordinary occasion con
verted water Into wine, did not at
any time advise or encourage any one
to use vulgar or obscene language to
either mules or females., or by any
precept or example show him that
lie, mortal man, hud the moral l ight
to do so.
Indeed, it is too late for ns to stop
tho traffic in tiny commodity whore
it hu- been established for lo, these
thousands of years, and where, too,
the very idea has been instilled in
every mind that its use is a liberty
which every man lms a right to en
joy. Every nation of the earth has
delegated toils subjects the privilege
of this traffic, with tjiiffo or less re
striction, and to stop this right would
he setting up u despotism intolerable
and unprecedented. The great tend
ency of tho age is to liberty of thought
and action, both mental and moral.
•Society is differently constituted from
wliut the investigations of E*m> have
shown it to be, and will never sub
mit to the prohibition of the sale of
liquor. A few persons rtiiiy unite
and stop t he sale and even the use of
stimulants for u short time, a corpo
rate body, even a comity may suspend
it; but history has shown the last
political, tinunciul and moral condi
tion of that body prohibiting or at
tempting to prohibit such sale to be
worse than the first.
Tho plan suggested to improve the
morals of a people, to-wit; by remov
ing whiskey from their midst, is a
fruitless one, and toads to do more
injury than good. Wlntt moral sua
sion will uot do for tho heart never
eun be done by force. Would you
improve tho condition of Mr. Giles
by telling him he should abandon bis
malicious course ? Would you make
a thief morally bettor by tying hn
hands so he could not steal ? Nav,
if we would improve our fellow-man
and make better citizens wo will do
it. by the small voice. We are taught
that heaven is peopled with those
who have right and wrong sot before
llioiu alike, and that it never was in
tended for those who had to be iin
prisoned to keep them from eHfne.
Rut, aside, it is a question of pub-
lie weal that Karo is interested in.
and I ho innteriul prosperity of the
county—not Dublin, it being no
part thereof—not of a few sinful,
“unscrupulous whiskey sellers,” not
of those who chanced to holiovo with
those seltish speakers on the 5th iust.
that tho sale of liquor was and i
AWAY WITH THE POISON!
How the Whiskey Bill is Kogard-
e<l by the People of Johnson
Where the Prohibition Law has
been in Force several years.
WniuimviLLE Johnson Co. Ua.,
November 21st, 1878.
Editor Post:.
You calf on the citizens of our
county to enlighten yon. so far as
our experience goes, on the difference
between u licensed liquor selling and
an anti liquor selling community
I do not expect to give you much
light on the subject, only so far as it
has operated in the county of John
son. Four or five years ago, when
Judge Johnson was appointed to the
Bench ot the Middle Circuit, liquor
selling and liquor drinking were in
full blast in this county, and we had
amongst ns auv number of bclligcr-
nnts who could knock down, drag
out and demolish any amount of op
position, and could pitch into one
another with a forty-wild-cat power,
and feared no noise During Judge
Johnson’s first term of the Court lie
filled the jail full of those heroes, so
that one of iheiir number, who bad
taken on himself the title of ‘'■Boss
of the Hotel,” scut a message to tho
.Judge stating “that lie hail as many
boarders us bo hud room for, and that
lie need not send any more of them
to his hotel, as they were already too
much crowded for the good of their
health.” So much for the use of
spirit uous liquor.
After this, wc commenced war on
the whiskey traffic and continued it.
until we abolished the trade in John
son comity, since which t ime we have
pence and order during elections,
courts and all otjicr gatherings of the
people. The jail stands toimnl less,
and, best of all, tlio people express
themselves well pleused with the
change. Even the old topers say
they could not be induced to consent
to the re-establishment, of tho trntfic.
I could name sc oral who formerly
belonged to the class of belligcrimts
mimed above, ivbo, while under the
nfluencc of liquor, were outrageously
noisy, turbulent, overbearing anil
cross; so much so that they were con
sidered dangerous, and their friends
wero fjreq non tty »»t g.w t mu bin to.
keep them from doing or receiving
mischief. Those men are now peace
able and orderly citizens, ure highly
rosjiected citizens and lmvo not been
intoxicated or sworn a profane oath
in two or throe yours, and as drink
ing was their only failing, they are
now living in pence with tlioir neigh-
bora. Is not this worth somethin/ ?
Blit some will object to putting down
benollciai to the county, but of the* the liquor trade, because they say it
whole country. If so, why turn all
the local trade to other markets,, and
livest the county of. its sli.iro of both
public and privuto tiimncos. See.
for instnueo, the county wlioro the
sale of liquor has been abolished, and
wo witness a continual tloiv of money
from thence into other treasuries,
ami soon the very men who procured
its abolition become disgusted at see
ing their wisdom so far outstripped,
and at seeing the artful agencies em
ployed to ovudo the law. The igno
rant become imputjent nml tend all
the time to impair tho society in
which they live. Yet, appeals are
being mode still for more legislation,
because of a worse condition of the
county, worse citizens, worse in eve
ry particular, more corruption, more
expenditures, uml, at tho same time,
every act of legislation increases this
trouble, every tux adds one hundred
per oonL to its price, and two hun
dred jK»r cent, to the poison and art
ifice used in its preparation.
More anon,
PHOENIX.
An exchange notes the fact that
the lowest prices at which cotton lms-
sold in this country during the last
fifty years was in the spring of 1845,
when it was as low os four cents per
pound. Tho highest price paid for
it,* during the same period was one
dollar and ninety cents, in 1804.
It sold ns high os fifty-two cunts,
however, for good money, 1800.
“Did the minister put a stamp on
you xvheu you married, Mary?”
“A stamp, Charlie! What for
pray?”
“Why, matches ain’t legal with
out a stamp you know!”
One false step, ono wrong habit,
one oorruiit com]union, ono 1«hw>o
principle, may wreck all your pros
poets, and all the ho|tcs of those who
love, honor, and regard yon.
abridges their right to drink. Our
people have that right and they exer
cise it. Some keep it in their houses
and use it as lliey please, but do uot
molest others with it, and there hay
boon cases where it has been eliiu-
dostincly sold here, but such eases
will occur uny where unless wane
pains are taken to detect and bring
the offenders to justice.
And now, 1 suppose you hav • seen
that wo think we have bonofitted by
tho abolition of the liquor traffic.
That is just what we think ; and we
also think wo have a right to claim
of you that you abolish it also. Our
oitizons would be content to do with
out tho poisonous liquid, but for
few of those hells set up in your
county on the line of Johnson, wlioro
death is retailed to our citizens, and
wlioro they are iudueed to meet and
drink, quarrel, fight und shoot que
another.
As 1 said above, wo claim it. of you
that yon should abolish the traffic in
intoxicating drink, and thereby rid
us and yourselves of its evils, the
evidences of which, I uni sorry to
say, you have inside the walls of your
juil. *
J.vcon Junior.
Laurens Hill, Nov. 28, 1878.
Ed. Post:
For some time ii has been a desire
of some of our jieoplo to try the ex
pertinent of working the roads by
contniot ami taxation. Before one
makes this change the matter should
bo well Considered and thoroughly
discussed.
No one will deny that our system
as at present operated falls fur short
of filling the requisition of the pn*
lie, and very fur short of complying
with the present road law.
The law now gives road commis
sioners authority to oolleet fines to
the amount of $3,00 |ier day for
every day a defaulter fails to work,
when notified. They can sell any
thing lie has or put him in jail for
the debt, or for contempt if yon
please. The road overseer is enti
tled to one half of tiie. tine money.
he overseer cun call upon the Or
dinary for mattocks or picks, and he
bound to furnish them at the ex
pense of the county.
Blit instead of this or snlwtitutiug
pair of mules for a half dozen
bunds, we see them trying to dig
bard clay with their flexible cotton
hoes, ai d putting poles across the
oads and pine straw in inudholes as
i specimen of their ^engineering
skill.
Fun you mane a law any stronger
for collecting taxes than this one for
collecting fines. Both arc the same
one sense. There i3 nothing
lacking in the main iu the present
law. The trouble is in not having
executed. This lies in the power
of the commissioners who arc subjoct
to a tine of five hundred dollars for
failing to do their duty. But who
is going to prosecute them ? That
is the duty and privihge of any citi
zen of the county, Commissioners
and overseers are about as far from
doing their duty as the hands.
Flense tell me how yon are going
lo collect a fine out of a fellow if
-oil can’t got n days work out of
him, with the jail door staring him
in the face and the jailor at bis
back. If you pass that law, for thi<
community the bands mostly who
now do the work will pay ho taxes
and it will work a hardship upon
those who do. although you.. make
it a per capita tax.
It will and docs work well m
enmities where there is a largo city
or town population containing many
non-laborera. But it will not
work well for our county.
If you would see bow road con
tracts would work out for our peo
ple, look at that thousand dollar
contract on the Telfair road, and
see bow nice u thing it was, and
what a sacrifice to the tax payors.
Our ]Kfoplo would drop such a law
as quick us they did the County
Board which was a most thorough
representative body, but it was ahead
of the uppreoiati.ni of our people, by
ut lntivl •>«'.. gvn«rutiuil!i.
Let the road officers under the
present law do their duty and we
will have good roads, which is a
save index of mi intelligent people.
The roiul law was a few years ago
thoroughly investigated by a special
com mi.too of our legislature with a
view to change. But after much
discussion uml elucidation it was
decided that it could not be well
amended. 1 think a change would
be well to allow it optional for a
citizen to give labor or money.
If a man don’t choose to work lot.
bun Send up to the overseer §1.00
every morning at roll call and let
him pay it over to the county treas
urer through tho ordinary under
oath These arc simply the views of
Critic.
A Cruel and Unnatural Mother—
She Hides Her Babe Iu a
Brush Pile and Leaves it.
Johnson Items.
[.Ilaiekinsrille Di*pa/eh.J
On Tuesday morning last as a col
ored man was coming into Hawkins-
villcou the Iliiyiieville road, lie heard
faint cries of a babe issuing from n
pile of brush and leaves in a little
field inside the corporation. The
man got over the fence, removed the
brush aud discovered a young babe,
apparently born but a few hours,
wrapped in some old rags. The man
took the babe and brought it to the
court house in Hawkiusville, when
the sheriff, county judge and clerk
were notified of the occurrence.
Steps wore at once tuken to find
the mother of the infant.
A yonng colored woman, Lcttie
Mayo, was suspected of being the
mother, and Mr. Thos L. Camitfiors,
couuty court buliff, wok entrusted
with the duty of finding her mul as
certaining tlio facts of the case. Mr.
Carruthers took the babe in his bug
gy and proceeded to the plantation
of Capt. R. \Y. Anderson, where the
woman was found at the house of her
mother. When the woman was
shown the .babe she appeared pleased
took it to her bosom and nursed it.
She gave no reason for her lack of
motherly care for her offspring.
Buck From California.
Flunk Merritt bus returned from
California, whither ne went a year
or two ago to join his father, Mr.
Simon Merritt, who left lluwkius-
ville for tho West some nine years
ago. Frank says he likes California
very well, but he likes Georgia bet
ter. He left California aiiout two
weeks ago, and up to that time be
lmd not seen a drop of rain since last
December. Tlie lands are irrigated,
and flue crops are made. There
were about five thousand sheep and
several hundred head of cattle upon
tho ratiche upon which lie was en
gaged. The slice]) were watered
from a well eight hundred feet deep,
a steam engine being used to pump
the water out of the well into a large
tank. The trees, gardens and yards
were watered from this tank.
Ditches are out through the farm?
and the crops are watered friun
mountain streams. When ho left
California grapes, pears and utlici
traits were, in abundance, grupe.-
elling for ono cent per pound.
Only gold and silver are used, there
being no greenbacks. Nothing
smaller than ten cent pieces are used
in change. Wool was so cheap there
lust season that some stock men
would not shear their sheep, a t tin
price would not pay for the labor
The Chinese ure looked upon a -
a low, degraded race of beings, ties
titute of virtue, intelligence and
honesty. They work cheap, live
cheap, and whenever one dies, hi.
bones are returned to China.—
Haudeinsvilie Dispate?).
Whooping cough is raging in and
around Wriglitsville.
Dr. ,T. W. Flanders’s little son,
(lassie has been very sick but is some
better.
Lit Mo Moll ic Smith, daughter of
Mr. W. Jf. M. Smith died of whoop
ing cough last Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Smith luis been very sick over
since.
Hog cholera has made its appear
ance again iu t his county.
Capt. Kent raised this year 390
bushels of corn on fifteen acres of
pine land With cue handful of cotton
seed to the bill. He also ims a cot
ton stalk nine feet and nine inches
clear of the root.
Mrs. Mary A. Childs and family,
of Macon county, are visiting friends
and relatives iu Johnson county at
his time.
If a fellow wants his hands well
shaken and his pockets tilled with
grouudjKXis, now is the time.
Mr. Hodges Snell mid Miss Net
tie Per vis daughter of Rev. J. B.
Pen is wero married last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bradshaw,
are rejoicing over a tine girl, which
we forgot to mention last week.
Mr. Ephraim Turner, Ja$|ier Sweat
aud Samuel Hammock are candida
tes for coroner in Julinson county.
J. E. Hicks Esq. of Mt. Vernon,
I was in Wrightevillo last Friday.
[ The doctors report very little siek-
I no.* iu Johusou county at this time.
W. J. SCARBROUGH & CO,
B A It ROOM,
ZD-p-Tplim., G-eo,
Keep always well supplied with
Aurora Beer,
WINES LIQUORS AND CIGARS
Also a good assortment of
Family Groceries,
tYhich they will sell at prices to suit the
time*. Give them a will. je20. If.
Affcrover twenty years experience in 1 he
LIQUOR BUSINESS,
On the comer of the Court House Square,
ready to serve all who want to purchalo nil r-
thing in my line. I keep always on hand' a
tuff stock of
ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS. r
ANU r
S“t?_ HiOTiLis !
on draught. Also a line stock of ( :ri e'/t
Family
All at which I offer to sell Ml *
Ckea*» fos-Cash.';:; 1 ’
Give me a trial and he convinced. Tam in** ,,!1>
Agent for the : •' 7
“OLD TALLEY WHISKEY.’ "
i<! 2 °- (f - T. P. SAKctiErr. '
II
(Neariy opposite Passenger
M!G © S5, ^ J! ‘
TERMS PER DAY.. ,
SINGLE MEALS...,....'
FIR,ST-CLASS itOTEL
I» in perfect jrder in all its nrnimre V
menls, and llie most convenient of un/i„ "
tlie city, being only lOOytirflsfrdin the G
senger Depot otliee, where m e always .
'ft
- *•*'•*« m» liiqiq, 'I.-/
1 have made Mich improvements ns *«> 1 'i
enable me to accommodate all wl," „, v J, ■
l>lcn.s<*<l lo srivd tin n null AT„ V n A ! >W
plonk’d to fAyii us a call MvSt
nsirood ns the fn’m ...... . ri yh^ll,Jiq,, f
asgood as the fare ofanyhouse in'‘the
and my terms reasonable. - -
The Strubing House.
TOOMSBORO GA.
0. H. L. STRI DING Proprietor
Thanking the Public for their libe
ral patronage m the past I respectfully
«»k a contiuuance. of the same. My house
Is near the Depot and first-class' in all
its appointments.
Good Conveyance
always in readiness to accommodate the
Travelling Public who may wish lo go
from Tooinslioro to Dublin or any other
point.
R. M. ARNAU,
Scientific Blacksmith.
Southeast Corner Public Square.
AU work done warranted to please or no
charge.
BUGGY WORK A SPECIALTY
KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND
A Fisk Assortment of Plows
--ALSO—
THE CELEBRATED ARNAU SWEEP
Which is superior lo any plow of the
k id made in this couutry. With thauks
for past favors, wc solicit the continuance
of the same. , jo 20, ly
T.P.SARCfiETT.
I
t, and
Hotter myself that I know a little alamt
md wish to inform the public that I s:it
AT MY OLD STAND f tO f
The National liotel,
75ets
dT
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E. C. CORBETT. Proprietor.
• •' ’ / i i, i
W. F. GlaFFCKEfa, . ;
Buggy
Buildmt/ aud Repairing done lo
Orihr. All work entrusted to me ■
• •* -. i * ’■ .j-f
A eatli/ and Promptly eitecuted a/ pri~
com to suit (he fi‘metP >tm ^/iirph)ii‘tdinth■ :
cast corner (unit House Square.
Call and see.
jiuie 20, ly
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If r o, go to see Wasli Baker, at his
first-ela s balobn on Beech St „ where he
keepc couhtantly on baud, smd lor sale,
>\ uiCh, W hiskeys,
Brandies Beer, • .
Uider, C'hampugiic,
And in fact, everything iu the shape of
J/ujUu. h aud Drinks lo be found iu a fii st
ela: s .jidoou.
ALSO ,
'TOBACCO, CIGAliS ETC, ...
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