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The True (tftizen.
W /vYHEaaOHO, GA., FRIDA : MAY19,181«.
" r rh« tturotoal of the Fittest.'
Mr. otepbetid fbr .iovernor.
Con reasraan Black is much better,
and wi 1 soon return to Georgia.
It i- r ported that all the cotton
p 1 1 u 1 in Northeast G orgia has
'>e • j (tided by the recent cold weath
er.
! be Coalitionists—nine in all—com-
j r ng the greater part of the whole Four inches of snow fell on the
]> rty, held a meeting, or 4 lonference,”! in ' u " t;,i ' 8 at Maryville, near Knox-
as he Vtlanta Port-Appeal puts it, in I "» Monday. The fruit crop in
Aunta on the 15th msl , nd Hon. A. * lm ,st ” n,ire, y killed -
ii .‘■'■•ephuns was “indorsed recommen
d'd ’ or nominated as the candidate
f r «' In vomer of the whole 4 nine,” and
j.o '.toned the June mass meeting in
ti' * ,i tly. This action on the par of
1.1 •-»»- called [ndepenle’its, or Coali-
t < ' is was e idently hurri 'd up to
f'.r.-tal the action of the Democratic
' fi! on
a s
•II.
A New Y >rk farmer plowed up a
goM riig lost by one of his aunts
thiri v--.five years ago. His sisters and
his c 'Usi'is will get him to do some
plowing f >r them next week.
Atlanta Post-Appeal, May 17 h :
soon to be held- o nominate The Me'hodist Conference at Nashville
.ad i.rJ hearer for th it party for the yesterday elected five additional Bish-
i ii Governor, every indication I °P S ’ Alp ieus Wilson, ot Baltimore;
• ; .• 1 ; i.r to Mr. Stephens as their can-Y Cranberry, ol Vanderbilt Univer-
.to also. What effect this rapid ac- si y > Atticus G. Haygood, of Georgia ;
lii { the Coalitionists vvi 1 have upon ^ Hargrave, of lonessee, and Dr.
c •. adorn of the Democratic pur y binus l arger, ot Now Orleans.
jt,.:o ovUuts must discov r, as the;
. Democratic papers of the State ; Nasiivillv, Tenw, May 17.—The
'c . .'ig ilarly silent upon the subject. j fol owing note from Dr. Haygood,
• ( vnliiucct, as expressed by individ President of Emory College, was read
, is that if Mr. Simpkins does no. in the Con'erence this morning : “To
o the Coalitionists, he will pr >b i the Bishops and Members of the Gene-
)' !>e die nominee of the Democrats, ral Conference of t ie Methodist Epis-
: t i is the situation as it now presents ; copal Church, South: My Dear and
i! ■-» and we await fit are develop- j Honored Brethren—I am deeply moved
>..• r.! i with groat interest. Our own by your action yesterday in ele ning me
( i. on is‘hat Mr. Stephens will be
i ,. later! by the Democrats, and then
i ihcly that (hero will be only one
• v o.date in the fie.d, as lew men in
• it* care to meet’‘the old Comuio-
r m the held when he “stands” for
: (('. i' The next few weeks will de-
j.i r, e the ac'ion of the Democrats,
ii :he c .nv.o's be opened.
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i\he HmquusStion.
i'be rer-rnf. resolutions of some of the
Ct ions uf McDuffie county harshly
• titii .Ring Judge Snead’s administra-
f'on of justiei in that county have at-
/,;u nd c. nriderab e public atten ion.
!» in a novelty in Georgia for a mass-
n (
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as a Bishop of our beloved church.
Though I might well fear the respon
sibilities of the office, I do not shrink
from its labor ; yet, with a clear con
vie ion and deep sense of my dutv to
God and my fellow man, I respectfully
and humbly decline to accept thy posi
tion to which you have called me. I
cannot, with a good conscience, lay
down iho work which I have now in
hand. With perfect lvspeot and abid
ing love, I Ain truly, your brnher,
Atticus G. Haygood.”
The Washington Post of the loth
has the following positive statement:
‘‘Chief Jus ice Carter and Judges Mac-
'< feting to sit in judgment on a Judge Arthur, Hagner and James held a
! t.e - up rini Court, and pub ic opin-
<\ di.«i3 m.i sustain 'bis resort to politi-
4 .0 hi tram :nt.ilitVes to over awe 'he
Dr,iti. As <> the' right of Judge
t rad to make tbe rulings complained
of, the of i ion of the Augusta. bar, one
* t the most learned and intelligent in
‘•e Prato, is un niiuous that he had
i\.l! a ;thurify ; and if ibe universal
consultation - aturday summing up the
arguments of counsel in .he application
of Guiteau for a rehearing. The con
sultation lasted four hours aud was
marked by the most searching exami
nation of authorities arid die most
rigorous analysis of every point made
in the arguments. The judges were
in thorough harmony all through
inull a of i ho circuit up to this time j and in reaching a decision, not for
one minute differing in thy gene
ral steps by which the decision was
reached, although, of course, each
judge had individual opinions of variou s
points of law and their application.—
The decision will be announced May 22.
The decision affirms the decision of
the court below, of course, overruling
the exceptions. This disposes of Gui-
teau’s last chance and he ,vill be hang
ed June 30th, 1882.
«
Much has been said in the .North
about proscription that I mean to
advert to it in every letter. I have
not yet found a town in Tennessee or
I Georgia without its quota of North-
c eaus ar.y tiling, he has made an up -
right, eiiergehe, and satisfactory Judge.
'There is trie point in the resolutions
P at has not received attention hereto-
•T:.re, and it strikes- us vith amazement.
In the preaud le the following langu
age ot < urs : “we are filled with gravtst
appiehi tisioris at seeing a. systernali:
i tfnrt made by a few citizens to con
tra 1 Jt.rms in making their decisions;”
nr.!ii tic rt one of the resolu ions reads
j.m follows: “Resolved, that we cou
th u»a in unme.'uuired terms the efforts
u.aiJe to i octroi or unduly influence
«r.o de isioris of Grand anil ’Spocial
Juries and we hereby earnestly call
i ,>tm toe Jury Commissioners to use
1
! e made by a mee ing of some chi-
os against the entire bo ly of their
low-ci’iJiens. Tt intimates that the
I're itest care in the selection ofi . , rM at • .
f 1 l.erners. At Chattanooga, Marietta
and other places, the postmasters are
“Yanks,” and of course Republicans.
The M tyor of Chattanooga % a Wis-
y Comitiihsibhers of McDuffie county | consin man, and the Common Coun •
e hi on false to their oath bv putting j oil has its Northern element. These
, .rro; or persons ot the Jury biolc, ln01) their politics and vote tt eir
ii.ol '1 nsoersc'- alike the intciligenco .. , , ...
\ „ , i o ” ; i tickets without the slightest tear or
: . : mi. gnty of live Grand and hpocial v
: o,h by holding them upas men so hindrance. 1 hey associate With men
Mjijpid a not to see that they are being; who fought in the G mfederate ranks,
iitni.led or so corrupt :is to be j and there is no animosity. Their
‘ 1H *' u ' ud .' l M,s> 'hle that, j WJ y OS ln;uo welcome, and no door
t ...i sister county is in the terrible, con- . . . . ......
„ - l,w tW c rwilntion* ropn-wnl1 18 A Vlloh '«“ n w “-
< . •/ t| u . Judge law'ess ! Are tbo I I11Hn ™ not called upon to rush ’and
.• y i loiumissioners foresworn' Are'I embrace a Wisconsin woman. Bo-
■ 1 1 rand and Special Jurors ignorant euuse a Southern woman does not
stand at her gate to bid a Northern
woman welcome is no proof of u»i-
mositv. If anv Northern man be in-
l vi n.11 men, unfit to be in the J’lirv
And is nobody what they should
bn* the tew’citizens who recently
n meet ing there f We know soiiio-
\> tf t id dm people of McDuffie,for* we. teffnred with in Georgia it is not on
■ nffty lived there, and do not hesi— account • >f i 11 e wo\'‘ho v’otes, r>r the
Hinay ttmtin virtue and int.-lll-1 80 otioo he hails 'Vom. It is liimause
are tbe pn r ol-mv people,
.a...stneinres | * ie “ as '‘""'i -h time on Ins hands to
hem are 1 Mieddle with Ii'her people’s business.
M. Quad.
Postmaster General Howe, has is
sued an important order, the opera
tion which will be of great benefit to
the mercantile classes in all large cities
ot the country. It directs that after
the first of July next all letters on
which a full rate of postage has not
been prepaid, instead of being for
warded to the dead letter office shall
be held by the postmaster of all letter-
carrier or free-delivery offices and the
addressee informed by the official card
that it is only necessary to remit the
postage due and receive the letter.
It was ascert fine 1 that nearly one-half
of the letters received at the dea l let
ter office for lack of pr-p ii 1 full rate
were from cities where the letter-
carrier system is in operation. The
new order will consequently make 111
postoffices centres of distribution for
matter now receive ! at one centre—
the dead letter office. To illustrate,
the postmaster at Baltimore tested the
new regulation several months ago.
Out of 1,300 letters that would have
been sent to the dead letter office for
lack of proper payment all but thir
teen reached their de-. ination without
the circumlocution of the dead letter
"(Tice. A full rate of jost 'ge i.s three
cents. The class of letters referred
to are those of which a two or one
cent stamp has been affixed, or no
stamp at all. The new order will
enable the f >ree employe 1 in the dead
letter office to give prompt attention
t" the business rn »re properly belong
ing to it, and leave to the posttn asu
■ •rs in large citb's the duty of forward
ing ali mail m tter that comes within
the provisions of the new order of
the postmaster-general.
Memphis, M iv 16.—Captain Jerry
Hutchinson, of the River Mail Ser
vice was killed near Trinity, La., on
May 7th while attempting to arrest
Appleton and James Atkinson. The
Atkinsons xveie fugitives from justice^
having been convicted and sentenced
to be hung for the murder of Mrs.
Atkinson, wife ot one and mother of
the other, in Penniscot, Mo., some
time last summer. Capt. Hutchin
son, accompanied by Will J. Hudson,
hearing that the Atkinsons were in
the vicinity of Trinity, La., passed
down a few days ago for the purpose
of making the arrest, but the crim
inals were on the alert, and when the
officers approached the younger At-
kinsun shot and mortally wounded
Hutchinson, who jn turn shot and
killed the eldest Atkinson. The
youngest. Atkinson then made good
hi' escape. The Sheriff' of Trinity
with a posse of men, is scouring the
woods in search of the escaped mur
derer, and a reward of §500 has been
offered for his arrest, besides the
ward offered by the governor of Mis
souri for Ins first crime.
San Francisco Whale: The first
breechioading whale gnu made hasjust
been completed by Robert LiJdle, of
this city. It was made to go on the
whale steamer Bowhead which starts
for Arctic waters Tuesday, under,
command of Captain E. E. Smith.
The gun in shape bears a strong re~
resemblance to an ordinary breech-
loading rifle and weighs 105 pounds,
it has a rebounding lock, and the
lengt h of the barrel is 36 inches, and
is 15-16 inches calibre. It fires
with precision either a harpoon or
bomb lance the distance of thirty odd
yards, while even further than that
it will do good execution. The gun
swings on a swivel and can be tired
in any (leered direction and at al
most any angle, and is about as easily
handled as an ordinary firearm.
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The silk industry in America now
amounts to §40,000,000 a year, and
it is predicted that in the near future
it will reach §100,000,000. Silk
worms wore many years ago culti
vated in Georgia with conaidi^hble
success ami an effort will he made to
y
revive the inJustry in this Slate.
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