Georgia editor reviews slump in breezy letter from Toccoa
In a 1895 Georgia dispatch from Toccoa, Colonel Edward Gilliam, editor of the Reidsville Review, comments on politics, Longstreet, the Cuban affair, and the silver debate. He notes meetings in Gainesville with W. J. Ham and a book by Longstreet, laments newspaper coverage of the slump, and urges a united Democratic stance amid tariff and silver disputes.
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Edward Gilliam
Reidsville Review
Toccoa
Eprron Neconper
Georgia
Dink Botts
Hoke Smith
Cleveland Cabinet
Gainesville
W. J. H. Ham
Gainsville
James Longstreet
Bill Peon
Ben Franklin
Dr. Kingsbury
Longstreet
Leo
Chevalier Bayard
Sir Galahad
Sherman
Atlanta
Hillsboro Raises Sunday School Allowance by Twenty Percent
Local measure grants a twenty percent raise on all bills for Sunday school services. Officials approved the adjustment as part of a broader support package for religious education institutions in the Hillsboro area.
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Santa Claus
Hillsboro
County Commissioners Meet and do Much Business
The Durham county board examined and approved bonds for county officials including Sheriff John V. Riggsbee and Treasurer Thomas J. Holloway. They stopped lending the county third house to Mormon elders, questioned printing bids, and noted Orange County Observer as printer at legal rate despite a lower bid from the Recorder. Taxpayers question favoritism and spending.
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Commis
Durham County
John V. Riggsbee
B. W. Barbee
H. G. Herndon
G. A. Barbee
W. T. Neal
James Pikett
J. W. Barbee
J. T. Womble
R. T. Howerton
H. N. Snow
Fidelity and Deposit Co.sureties
Thomas J. Holloway
Fidelity and Deposit Co
W. J. Christian
W. W. Woods
Register of Deeds
DeWitt Mangum
Wiiich
Orange County Observer
Recorder
Orange County
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Rosemond
Yale
E. A. Rosemond
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Able Constitution
New York Sun
Eli Perkins
Kentucky
Eli
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Atlanta Constitution
Sone
Samuel Jones
Fair Brother
Epwanp Griliam
Orange
Fort Snelling
Minn
Ayer
W. H. Wann
Quimby Av
Lowell
Mass
R. F. Laws
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Nate Brown
Mr. Laws
MO. J. Riley
W.A. Barham
Jos
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