Newton County GaArchives News.....SOMEWHAT PERSONAL October 30, 1890 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Thompson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002524 July 16, 2006, 4:56 pm The Georgia Enterprise October 30, 1890 ~Col. Alfred FRANKLIN, of Jackson, spent Thursday here. ~Solicitor General Boykin WRIGHT, of Augusta, spent Sunday here. ~Mr. Joe W. WRIGHT has bought 200 acres of fine land near town. ~Mr. S. H. STARR, Sr., has been spending this week in Atlanta and Sunnyside. ~Judge Will HAIGHT, the Republican candidate for Congress, was here Sunday. ~Mrs. S. N. STALLINGS, and son Otto, will spend a month or more with relatives in Tampa, Fla. ~Mrs. I. W. MEADORS and mother, Mrs. WOODRUFF, will probably spend part of the winter in Florida. ~Dr. A C. PERRY, one of our most popular and successful physicians, was called to Eatonton last week on professional business. ~Messrs. Charlie HENDERSON and Charlie JORDON, two of Monticello’s popular young men, spent Sunday evening in Covington. ~Mrs. T. P. CALLAWAY, of Lexington, and her little grandson, Willie STEWART, have been visiting our town for the past week. ~Brother ANDERSON, of the Star, has been visited with another touch of rheumatism, but is able to be at his post of duty. ~Hon T. M. MERIWETHER, of Wilkes County, spent part of last week here as the guest of his daughter, Mrs. J. G. LESTER. ~Our friend, Mr. J. H. BAILEY is prepared to make new boots and shoes and repair old ones. His shop is on Washington Street. ~Read the letter of Col. Dickson on our editorial page headed “Support the Congressional Nominee.” It is an appeal from a patriotic and faithful Democrat. ~Hon. L. L. MIDDLEBROOK, of Covington, is a candidate for judge of the Flint Circuit. The Newton County alliance has endorsed him for that position and asks alliance men everywhere to support him. The Colonel is qualified to fill any position within the gift of the people. - Lithonia New Era. HOME AND OTHER ITEMS ~Fifteen or twenty new four room tenement houses are being erected at Porterdale, to be occupied by people who will work in the new factory. ~On Tuesday next, Nov. 4, no Democrat can afford to withhold his vote from Hon. L. F. LIVINGSTON, the Democratic nominee. Active opposition is in the field and duty demands that every Democrat come out and help defeat the Radical candidate. ~Secret circulars filled with falsehoods are being circulated in this district to defeat Col. LIVINGSTON for Congress. Let democrats believe no report, listen to no charge, but like men go to the polls Tuesday and support the nominee for Congress. ~A few white Republicans and quite a number of Negroes are busy organizing in Newton County to cast a full vote for their candidate for Congress at the election next Tuesday 4th. Let Democrats wake up and see that a full vote is polled for the Col. LIVINGSTON our nominee. ~The Republicans are doing all in their power to defeat Hon. L. F. LIVINGSTON for Congress. A big meeting was held in Covington, Monday night where half a dozen Negro politicians made speeches. All over the district the Republicans are holding meetings and unless every Democrat comes square up to duty defeat is possible. Democrats must rally to our nominee and see that a full vote is polled for Col. LIVINGSTON next Tuesday Nov. 4. ~The secret circular charging Col. LIVINGSTON with being in sympathy with the Lodge election bill, or any other Republican measure, is a lie out from the whole cloth. Pay no attention to that or any other charges, but vote for him for Congress Tuesday. In speaking of this infamous forgery Col. LIVINGSTON says: “Now, this letter purporting to be signed by myself and sent to John LIVINGSTON is a villainous fraud and entirely a substitution for what I did say. Instead of saying we wanted the Lodge bill or something like it, I told him emphatically that I did not want it, and among other reasons for my opposition I wrote it would breed a war between the races and in the end a wider alienation of the sections and all people of our country. And still in this circular John LIVINGSTON swears this letter is a copy of one I wrote him. It is a forgery from bottom to top. Every sentence is a forgery from bottom to top. Every sentence is a forgery. It does not represent one single sentiment of mine. Furthermore, I can prove by men in my office who saw my letter to this man that there is not a word of truth in it. TOWN AND COUNTY, EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY ~Col. LIVINGSTON will speak in Covington on Saturday at 11 o’clock a. m. Everybody is invited to hear him. ~Several of our young men attended the State Fair and went down to Houston County Wednesday to see Tom WOOLFORK hung. ~Mr. P. H. FERGUSON tells us he contemplates leaving Covington. If so some one else will be appointed postmaster. ~What has the republican party ever done to help the colored people of this county or state? Every colored voter should hear Col. LIVINGSTON’S speech in Covington, next Saturday morning, at 11 o’clock. ~Wednesday night of last week ten convict hands working on Mr. W. B. LEE’S plantation about 14 miles from town, broke out of the stockade and made good their escape. Dr. J. W. LEE, who has charge of the farm, followed on the trail of the convicts until they reached near McDonough, where the gang divided. Mr. W. B. LEE _______ _______ _______ capture them. They effected their escape by the aid of a “trusty”, Willie ECHOLS, who carried them into the stockade where they were confined a mattocks, by means of which they broke through the enclosure. All of them are Negroes, and their names are as follows: John SMITH, Gus DUPREE, Lambert BELL, Charley FARRELL, Willie ECHOLS and Amos HESTERDAY, from Newnan, GA.: Freeman CLARK, Jim HARRISON and Ben FIELDS, from Gainesville and Joe BAYNES, from Alpharetta. Mr. LEE has failed to capture any of the convicts up to Tuesday of this week. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/newspapers/somewhat1464gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.4 Kb