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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MOliNlNO, JULY 23, ‘.88!).
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NEEDS OF OUR VETERANS.
Gov. Gordon'^ends a Message (o the Leg
islature.
Atlanta, Ga., July 18.—The gov
ernor sent the following message to
the general assembly to-day on a timely
topic:
To the Semite and Home of Re^rrfentatirrs
The experience of the executive depart
ment in the administration of the law ex
tending aid to 'disabled ex-confederate sol
diers induces me to suggest tome amend
tnent of the statutes. I'p to this time pay
ments for this year have been made to 2,400
applicants, amounting to an aggregate sum
of $l'ffl,00»; Others arc applying, and many
more will 'doubtless be allowed. The depart
ment has been compelled by the terms of the
law to refuse a Urge number of applicants
whose proofs did not meet the requirements
of the statute: In many instances these ap
plicants were not legs meritorious and far
more necessitous than some whose cases
came distinctly within the provisions of the
law. Such cases have taxed the sensibilities
of those charged with the execution of the
act to a degreo which can only be appreciated
by those who have witnessed the disappoint
ment and distress of applicants who, confi
dently believing in the justice of their claims
upon the state, have been necessarily turned
away without its bounty.
Charged with its administration, I a in im
pressed witb the belief that the restrictive
clauses of the present law exclude from its
benefits many who richly deserve the state’s
boucfaction. I am therefore impelled by a
commanding sense of duty to earnestly rec
ommend such amendments in this regard ns
both gratitude and honor demand, an 1 ns
you, in-yotir wisdom, may deem it proper to
enact. Although a quarter of a century of
stirring ah.d momentous events has passed
since llifcy laid down their arms, you have
not forgotten, nor wilfyou forget, that host
of great-hearted men who rallied at the call
of the state and lost in her service the power
of «clf*supp«igjg; The wide-spread desolation
light bljM war prcycntc^i foretime,
ned iml di.'abliflj^joyd^
to a benignant Pr^pdence and the recuper
ative energies of her people, fveorgU U no
longer unable to discharge in some degree,
at least, her obligations to the men who s>
bravely responded to her summons and have
so patiently awaited for some proj»er recog
nition of their services and sufferings.
Hut there is another class—the widows
orphans ot our dead soldicrs^who-tyVtf
l?ccn deprived both of their natural p(bjee*>
tors and the means of support, and whose’
eases are therefore lOmmended with special
emphasis to your thoughtful consideration
and sense of justice. Inasmuch as nn amend
ment to the constitution will he necessary to
bring t iem within the purview of the stat
ute’s provision, I respectfully and most earn
estly urge the present general assembly to
inaugural* this movement without delay.
Jt requires * no argument to establish the
justice of the claims. Inability to pay has
hitherto been the state’s justification. This
inability no longer exists. Considering the
state’s available and convertible assets, her
Chunks of Wisdom.
Marion McDaniel b a philosplicr.
He lives in Columbia county, Ga.
The Augusta Chronicle publishes the
following extracts from a recent pub
lic address of the gentleman named:
“Free tuition in the State university and
its branches will never educate the poor,
and fiee tuition for boys and not for girls is
a discrimination as unwise ns it is uhjust,
Some, if not all, of you would he astounded
to know the number of mothers in Georgia
to-day wbd are trying to raise families and
yet are unable to read the Lord’s prayer in
their mother tongue. The public school
system, as it has existed f»r a number of
years, is a cheat and a fraud upon the chil
dren. In the name ot reason nud common
sense I ask is it possible for the state to ed
ucatc our children by sending them to
school three months out of twelve and then
turning them loose the balance of the year
like the colt or the wild ass upon the moun
tain ? The parent who expects the state to
tike the same care of his children that he
would himself is doomed to disappointment.
To the wayward boy the state says let him
go—the parent says “O Absalom my son,
my son.”
We liean much said of late years about the
New South; the Old South made the New
South possible. We hear of prosperity in
mines, manufacturing and merchandise., Imt
agriculture, t he foundation stone of all busi
ness, is depressed and demoralized. At least
three-fourths of the people of (Jeorgia arc
engaged in farming; this is their dependence
for feeding, clothing and educating their
children. From this source they must look
for the building up of good public highways,
good schools and churches. Situated as the
Anglo-Saxon is in Georgia to day, we can
not afford to be divided upon these vital
piestions, which may he deiioiuiuate'd the
heart, blood and arteries of civilization.
Thirty years ago there was hut one mil
lionaire in the t’nited States; now there are
fifteen hundred. Wealth is no longer sent- as once liudcr wav'
tered broadcast among tho people, but is
being concentrated in the iron grip of the
few, who would dictate without a blush to
n free people. These money kings, in build
ing themselves up, are pplling tin* labor
ing world down.
RAILROAD NEWS.
Work to be Commenced Immediately on
|the A. T. & G-
Mr, Blake, president, and nther ollicials
of the Augusta, Tallahassc k Gulf railroad,
was in the city* several days this week per
fecting arrangements for the early comple
tion of this road. From a prominent gen
tleman, who is connected with the road, we
learn that the sub contract for grading the
roadbed through to Tallahassee has been let
and that work will be commenced immedi
ately J The work Jof construction will be
pushed th/oiigli ns rapidly as possible, and
and it is expected to have the road complet
ion .-hurt while.
This grutlefii in also hinted that the road
would not stop when it reached Tallahassee,
a? is believed by some of our citizens, but
that il would lie built through to Augusta.
We hope, however, to hi* able to give more
definite news about that end of the road
Soo ii. — Tn! 1 a h a ssea n,
Thus it will ho scon that the liucs
are being built that will sidetrack
Thomasvillo, while site is asleep or
McOawhcr like, waiting l'or something
to turn up. In heaven’s name what are
we waiting for ? If no more stock is
to he subscribed by the masses let the
capitalists go ahead and build the
road. It is needed badly, and the
project. i( undertaken at once, before
other outlets are opened up, will
bring to us other lines, that are in
need of another outlet as badly as we
arc. If taken in time the route from
Thnmasvillc to Cordelo can he made
a most important line in a great sys
tem, connecting the various lines of
Florida with the great west and north.
Will not the heavy stock holders in
the recent movement to build the
road increase their subscriptions to
the required amount and put the road
To add to the agricultural interest and
income of Georgia brightens the hopes ami
prospects of three-fourths of the children-
indeed, ft brightens the hopes of all. Agr
.culture is the l»cdrock upon which all «»tli>
business must rest. Suppose the agricultur
al Income of Georgia could be doubled—thi
wiuld he life—this would he like suddenly
lifting an immense weight irom a powerful
spring which had not lost its elasticity, hut
had been held flown by fonc. Then sup
pose the farmer nud his little ones could
reap tic benefit of their honest toil, hope
would revive in the hearts of pareut.-
could be seen and read by all in the faces* of
the children, and hasten the time when the
money changers will he kicked out of the
temple and our father’s house no longer a
den of theivea.
public debt is nothing. Let us then prepare
to discharge without further postponement I Everybody that inani| ulates cotton after
this dobt of horn r, ns snored nn obligation the farmer makes and hales it, semi tliei
i ever rested upon nn enlightened and children to college, while tile farmer send
Christian people.
J. IL Gordon.
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Editor James Bacon, of the Edge
field Chronicle, says: We arc by no
means a horse. And yet we arc not
a fool. When our Farmers’ alliance
shall be duly organized and strong
enough to do something, let them
take measurea to diminish the produc
tion of cotton, establish a factory of
their own, nud make their own l
ging. One dollar a piece from all
nlliunce men would do this. Of
course, as regards the oue dollar, we
mean all^hc alliance men in the
South. At.present, ns we understand
it, the Southern mills that are to
make the cotton bagging are to
charge 12A cents for it. This is non
sense.
“Will you pass me the butter,
please?” asked a stranger of a snob at
a restaurant table. “That’s the wai
ter over there, sir,” broke in the snob;,
“nothing could induco me to believe
that you mistook me for a waiter?”
Certainly not,” returned the stran
ger, “I mistook you for agontlcman,”
Two members of Mt. Olive church,
of Brown county, Ind., had a fight at
a prayer meeting in the church, one
night last week. One of them had
just finished a prayer, and rebuked
the other for talking and disturbing
the meeting. This led to the fight.
Both were fined by a justice of the
peace.
his to the cotton patch. lie is ileuiei) tie
privilege of cither selling or pricing it. ami
the dream of luxuries that cotton may buy,
with the average farmer, is a thing ot
past. Instead of making supplies at home
in this highly favored country, where tWo
and three provision crops van he made each
year on the same land, the farmer, with
cotton on the brain, is scratching the hacks
of the hills, already cotton sick, and paying
two and three prices lor meat and bread
transported a thousand miles at the expense
of the cotton planter, who could grow it at
hon.e for less than the cost o: freight.
It would seem, from present indica
tions, that the legislature is deter
mined “to fight it out” on some line;
it doesn’t matter much what line it is,
“if it takes them all summer.” They
may, or may not, be as successful as
was Gen. Grant, when lie laid down
the proposition, and stuck to it.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: Tin-
office of jail inspector for Georgia
would be a pretty fat thing lor any
worn out politician who feels like it
is the duty of the state to support him.
Three interesting hills before the
legislature arc those to prohibit the
sale of cigarettes to minors, to make
druukenness a crime, ami inqiosc a
tax on dogs. The first has been passed
by the Senate, and the other two
were introduced the other day. If the
the bill for a tax upon dogs should
become a law, the money should bo
devoted to tbo common school fund,
Savannah News.
Growing Jute.
A movement is springing up look
ing to the cultivntion-of jute in the
South, and the firm of Rogers, Wor
sham tic Co., of Macon, arc interesting
themselves in the matter. A report
cr of the Macon News interviewed
Mr. Rogers the other day, on the sub
ject, and he said:
‘•I have been very much encouraged re
garding the raiding of jute in Georgia hy .•
conversation had with Mr. I. C. Plant, of this
city.
Ii'. IMant tells me he raised on three-
fourths of an acre on his swamp farm below
Macon, fully one ton of jute. Mi. l’lnnt also
states that lie had a freshet which did not
ulfort the jute, and that he is satisfied that
reek and river bottom lands are the most
uitable lor jute.
“Now, in this event, we can use lands for
a jute crop on which corn and other crops
so often destroyed by inundation, and ai
rs a risk to plant.
It is reasonable to suppose that a farmer
produce one ton of jute from nn acre.
Now, if lie sells this at the factory at 2 cents
nts per pound, it pays him $10 per acre.
‘•There are two pounds of jute used per
yard in bagging, so, therefore, tin- raw ma
terial will cost the manufacturer ! cents per
I, Ask any manufacturer in this State if
aft't make good profits selling this bag
ging alb cents per yard, which is about half
the price we now pay.
I shall request the secretary of Agrietil-
* at Wa diington ta procure from a consul
at some point in India, the date of planting.
le of cultivation, etc., of jute, and al-
o of cotton, so we can compare the two and
thereby plant at the proper time here.
I have also had very encouraging talks
1». many good farmers.’
A Righteous Measure.
A. .-qiceiul to the Augusta Chronicle
from Atlanta, say*:
Mr.Gordon, Chatham, who, by the way. is
one of the most polished men in the House
ntrodiiccd a*bill this morning which will
commend him to the tender regard of the
working women of the state.
The bill provides that ail owners of large
mercantile, manufacturing nud other estab
lishments ofj like character, where females
are employed, shall provide comforable seats
for use of said females when not otherwise
mployed, and that it shall be compulsory on
the part of the owners of such establish-
i*nLi to permit the females iu theii employ
to sit dow n w hen not engaged at work.
Speaking uMiis hill this morning, Mr. Gor
don said that it is a custom in many large
establishments w here females are employed,
not to allow them to sit down during busi
ness hours. In many eases they are qn du
ty ten and twelve hours a day, and do not
have an opportunity to sit down. Such
abuse creates disease, lie said, and he thought
his bill would correct the evil.
To Close Out.
YVc lire offering oiu*
entire stock of Shoes
and Hats at and below
cost. These goods
must lie sold by Sept.
1st, and wo are offer
ing unheard of bar
gains in our line. All
goods sold for the
cash. Positively no
more goods charged.
We also offer- our
store fixtures for sale,
and store house for
rent.
All parties indebt
ed to us will please
come forward a n d
settle at once, as we
want the money.
LEVY’S
Has Made a
BIG GUT
IN ALL LINES OF
To continue unti
closed out.
Our remnant table
is ful of choice 13AR-
gains, and will be all
Summer.
108 Broad St.
SBbStill left, a few
of our (i B-1 cts. Ging
hams, worth 10 cts.
JLievys
Dry Ms loose
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