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Waynesboro, Ga,, June 23, 1882.
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Jurrent Comments.
hen the Jasper County News
ishes to <%py any of our articles or those
>f our contributor^ It is heartily wel-
ime, but we think he might give us
edit. “Tota” fair, brother Whitfield.
The memorab’e charge of the English
avalry at the awful pass of Balaklava
is of world wide fame. Of the noble
six hundred, two hundred we are told,
rode
“Back from the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Dell "
but the 8th Georgia, which went into
the fight at Manassas, about six hun
dred strong, had but a remnant of sixty
men drawn up when after the battle
and victory, their offic. rs reviewd the
ield. Well might the heroic Beaure-
ard bend low as he passed them—
.ying with emotion. “I salute the 8th
[eorgia with my hat off,”—L. Virginia
ench. v
iThe Banner-Watchman states that
fittle Ovid, son of Mr. John Bird, is
jw in his sixth year, and can read and
Jrite wiih w-mdeiful acouracy. He
yarned to lead before his parents ever
[new of his studying at all, and can
low auswer with precision questions in
doman notation and simple uiultiplica-
|on.”—Ex.
Will somebody who knows toll us
that becomes of all the smart men that
the® youthful and precocious prodigies
ial!e, as we have noticed that there
very great disparity between the
inbers of exceedingly talen’ed babies
the corresponding number of
ed men which they ought to produce ]
We have reseived the Tavares Her
[Id, published at Tavares, Orange coun
Fla., by the Herald Publishing
|’.o., and edited by Col. Alex. St. Clnir-
)rams, a former Georgia journalist
acknowledged ability. The Herald
model of typographical neatness,
[i well filled with interesting reading
jester—io fact it bears the impress of
Te brain of 8t. Clair-Abrams. By-ihe-
we received four copies of the
!d at once, which illustrates the
mty ‘of our postal system, and we
Jbuld like to know where the first copy
raited for four weeks until the o'hers
iiame up with it ? Any of our readers
who feel interested in this great orange
raising country, can see the Herald by
^ling at our office.
Fe have received, and take pleasure
theMarrianna (Fla.) Courier
ir exchange list. The Courier is
Cal in our nativo county, and has
a deeper interest than a mere
super. In that office we began to
p a knowledge of the “art presirv-
a w iy back in the ’40’s, when
Fas called tho Florida \\ hig, and
edited and published by Thomas B.
tender, Esq., who has long since
fathered to his father?. Only a
liar names appear in the columns
Courier, and strangers have taken
If places. Where are the Pittmans,
[e Roulacbs, the Bryants, the Elys,
pui all the friends, acquaintances, and
uhonlmates of our booyhood ? Again
Ire picture the bright little city ot Ma-
ina^Uythe mind’s eye, as she sat
li queen upon the banks of the
it, rippling Chipola. The picture
||ges, and faithful memory carries us
>ack to the days of careless boyhood,
rhen with gun and dog we roamed over
the sunny hills and through the green
galleys there in pursuit of the wild dser.
tut the ' most sacred spot to us in our
‘‘native land” is the grave thatVraps
the sacred dust of a loving and beloved
mother. The tear springs unbidden to
the eye, and the heart grows sad and
weary when these long past scenes come
for review; but the heart grows hard
id the feelings petrify when the mind
tho injustice aud
>uld have been
i—between us
sable as that
tus aud Dives!
)—there is a
taaoe is Mb
Emory Speer h s filed n bill and ob
tained a temporary injunction aguiust
the newspapers of the State, and espe
cially against Messrs. Yancy, Cranford
& Gantt, publishers of the Athens Ban
ner-Watchman, prohibiting the publica
tion of his correspondence with Presi
dent Arthur in reference to the appoint
ment of Madison Davis, colored, to the
postmastership at Athens. Mr. Speer
has long since proved himself to be a
doubly dyed hypocrit, and deserves the
contempt of all decent citizens of the
State. An , honest man can view his
political course, short as it has been,
with no other feeling than nauseating
disgust, and his warmest political
friends and advocates arc forced to hang
their heads and blush with shame when
ever this injunction case is held up to
their view. Mr. Speer entered his
Erst canvass as an antagonist to the
abuses which were being practiced by
the Democratic par'y, and there were
found good and true men enough in his
district to elect him. Twice hive the
people honored him with their confi
dence, but he has destroyed that con
fidence, and must now rot and swelter
and s'ink in the p itrefying puss which
oozes from the burst corfupt abscesses all
over his political character. Neither
need Mr. Speer expect to keep these
letters, these dainnning but unanswer
able evidences of his perfidy, hid be
hind the flimsy covering and restraint of
a puny “injun tion.” The people are
aroused—they want them, and will Lava
them at all hazards. Had Mr. Speer
preserved his integrity, and have perse
vered in the high mission, the annihila
tion of political dishonesty, which great
w<>rk the people of his district had
called on him to do, then, at the end,
might his name have been engraved
high up on the pillar of fame; but a
dishonest heart and an inordinate ambi
tion have done their work — have made
him a political cravnnt — and ’‘the
end is nigh”—the brilliancy of the me
teor is doomed to eternal darkness.
Now, one word of Mr. Christy, the
ex private secretary (God save the
term) of Mr. Spe^r, who, it is said, has
offered this private correspondence and
the secrets of of his employer for publi
cation. We would not change one word
of the above criticism upon the course
pursued by Mr. Speer unless it would
more stongly express our disgust at his
perfidy, but if Mr. Christy has done this
thing, he deserves a double share of
contempt, and has proven himself to be
a traitor whose honor is too thin to pro
ven 1 the betrayal of any confidence how
ever ?aored. If he has done this thing,
hw would, had he lived at the crucifixion,
have been a fitter subject to have be
trayed his Savior thin Judas Iscariot.
No act cau be meaner than the betrayal
of private secrets—no matter what, or
under what circumstances—obtained in
'he way in which it is said Mr. Christy
obtained this information. Mr. Christy
in his newborn zeal to re-enter the par
ty which he deserted to support Mr.
Speer, should not forget his honor, and
should realize 'he fact that honorable
men will view him as the grea'er traitor
of the two. If Mr. Chisty has betrayed
the private confidence of his employer
in this way, he is too good a yoke-fel
low to “lean off” from the tongue as he
is now doing. If he is innocent, let him
show it, and save his name from the ap
plication of the tern—Traitor.
lor Thk CrrizzN.
Tlia frloMinina-
ar UNKNOWN.
Prom the west tho red is dyinjf,
Softly fades the crimson gold.
And the shadows—ion*, are lying
’Cross the hearthstone gray and cold.
From the welkin stars are peeping—
Sleepless sentries of the skies;
From the east the black Is creeping
On to where the crimson dies.
Passing forms are growing dimmer,
Disappearing in the glade.
In the starlight now they glimmer—
Ere from vision’s range they fade.
On the night the soft moon rises,
Glowing with a burnish’d ring;
But the scene she solemnizes—
The vanish’d touch she ne’ei can bring.
Now with evening comes the hour,
When the dews of mem’ry fall,
And we feel the subtle power
Of hearts so still In mystic thrall-
In the gloaming thought grows sweet’r,
Softened by the dying light;
Vanished mem’ries are completer.
Nourished by the gentle night.
In the gloaming let me linger,
’Till the moon grows bright and chill
There I’ll read the silent finger
Pointing down sweet memory’s rill.
Waynesboro, Ga., June 17th 1882.
MU. H TEPJIKXS' P03ITI0X.
Savannah News.
Atlanta, Ga , June 18.—Mr.
Stephens telegraphs the Constitution
correcting errors as to his position.—
First as to the correspondence with
Felton, Speer & Co. He says : “No
such correspondence ever took place
between me and either or any of the
parties designated.” He claims to
have been a steadfast Democrat,
never but once failing to support the
Democratic nominee, and that was
Greeley. He repudiates any sym
pathy in connection with Long9treet,
Felton, Speer and others to injure
the party.
Second. His Casey letter was not
A FIOHT WITH A X A MO A TOP
Dublin Post,
On Saturday night last Mr. W. L.
Renfroe left Dublin late after supper,
and having some twelve miles to drive
he did not reach home till 2 o’clock
Sunday morning. Mr. Rcnfroe’s
house is about a half a mile beyond
Rocky creek—a stream which is
known to be infested with alligators.
He had crossed the creek and was
near the house, where he had a dozen
young pigs confined in a pen. The
moon was in the zenith and the night
was almost as bright as day. Sud
denly his horse received a ponderous
blow on the shoulder from the tail of
an alligator, knocking the animal en
tirely out of the road. The alligator
did not follow up tho fight, but now
stood on the defense, in a threatening
intended ns a threat that he would l at ^ u ^ e ’ h'^ever, with his huge,,
ran independently .f not nom.nntod to ,„ k „ th „ ond r of . barrel; & f r
Washington, June 16.—The South Carolina
appropriations In the river and harbor bill pass
ed the House in committee to-day as originally
fixed. For continuing the Improvements of the
Lynches river, $4,400; Great Pedee, 16,000;
Wateree,$15,000; Wappoo Cut, 810,000; Charles
ton harbor, 8300,000; Georgetown h trbor, 87,000;
Edisto river, 88,000; Big Salkehatohle river,
$5,000. A survey was ordered for the Waccaraaw
river, between Conwayboro and Wacoamaw
lake.
Bhunswick, June 17.—A serious fire occurred
here last night, which swept away two entire
blocks. The total losses will aggregate 820,000
The insurance Is about $14,000. The fire origina
ted lu Roberts’ drug store, and soon that and
the next block were enveloped In flames The
principal losers are L. D. Hoyt & Co., C. H. Dex
ter, Mrs. J. L. Roberts, J. 8. Martin, D. G. Risley
& Co., T. B. Goodbread, J. J. Spears, Symmes &
Atkinson, C. P. Goodyear, the post office, A.
Kaiser & Bro., Mrs. M. C. Rowe, W. E. Kay and
R. 8. Mlver-
for Congress by tbe convention, but
meant that if the convention called in
question his integrity as a Democrat
>md repudiated him on that ground,
then he should appeal to the people
to vindicate him.
Third. He says he did not mean
to be understood as saying there was
no po itical issue or difference be
tween Speer and himself. There is,
he affirms, a wide difference. “He
is an Independent and acts outside of
the organization, while I aru an or
ganized Democrat, acting within the
organization.”
Fourth. He declares that he has
never authorized any person to say
he would accept the nomination of
any party or association of individ-
The following are the exercises of the com
mencement of 1882 of Mtddle Georgia Military
and Agricultural College, at Mllledgevllle, Ga.;
Sunday, July 9th, commencement sermon by
Rev. R. P. Kerr, of Savannah, Ga. Monday,
July 10th, 10:80, a. m„ exercises by the students ;
8, p. m., annual address before literary societies,
by A. R. Lawton, Jr., Esq., of Savannah, Ga.
Tuesday, July 11th, 10:30, a. m., exercises by
students ; 4, p. m., drill by cadet corps; 8, p. m.,
callsthenlo exercises. Wednesday, July 12th,
10:30, a. m., commencement address by Hon. J.
A. Billups, of Macon, Ga.; 4, p. m., prize drill in
manual of arms by cadet corps; 8, p. m. t anni
versary celebration of literary societies.
There is com whisky and old rye, and whisky
manufactured from wheat, and various other
kinds of whisky, but whisky from smoke 1b a new
article. A Milwaukee dispatch states that a
party of New York capitalists has purchased a
large tract of land in Shawnee county, Wiscon
sin, and that a $25,000 plant is to be established
at once to be utilized In the manufacture of alco
hol, acetic acid and charcoal. The capitalists
referred to have secured the right to the use of
a retort that will condense the smoke of the
burning timber, and by a peculiar process ex
tract from one cord of wood six gallons of 85
percent, alcohol, fifty pounds acetate of lime
an# a residue of acetic aoid, leaving sixty bush
els of charcoal. Work is to be begun at once.
R. took a rail from the fence and u
rammed it into the monster’s thr.oat.v
Quick as lightning the alligator
closed on the rail and hurled Mr. ft. 1
against the fence, hurtiug him badly ,
arid snapping the rail like a chalk
pipe stem. He then called to’ his
family to send him his gun, pistol
and ax. While waiting for his wea
pons he amused himself by pitching
fence rails into the alligator’s mouth.
He broke a dozen as easily as he did .
the first. When the weapons came
he shot the alligator twelve times
with a Smith and Wesson pistol and
four times with a shot gun, and then
buried an ax in his head in eight
places. After all this life was ebt
extinct for twelve hours afterward.
AH the pistol balls, however, did not
enter. Fully half of them glanced
harmlessly from tbe tough hide and
went singing away through space.—
uals, except the Democratic party, or When the monster besran to feel that
vote for any one except its nominee.! bis foes were getting the best of him,
Mr. Stephens’ telegram utterly i j n .^ ie a K on y°f pain and despair, be
crushes out the “Liberal Independ- i
ent” Republican ring so far as he is
out, making the earth
concerned, «nd puts him squarely
before the July convention as free
from any entangling alliances, and
makes his prompt an unanimous
nomination a certainty.
Columbus Times: The Hamilton
Journal complains of the poor finan
ciering in the State Treasury Depart
ment because there are now in the
coffers of that department, after pay
ing all matured interest and bonds,
and setting over to the school fund
$300,000, some $857,000. The Jour
nal does not put the resnonsibility on
anybody particularly, for keeping so
large a sum, wrung from tho tax pay
ers, unemployed, but in a general
way charges it on the “State officials.”
We think in this matter with the
Journal, thHt it is not only poor, but
death of Willis Kelly, the colored employe at 1 View of the condition of tbe peo~
the Savannah Paper Mill, by being crushed ! pie of tbe State, it is cruel financiering
beneath oue of the pondert us mixing pans oni. i i,
1 to hold so much of their money in
Friday, was mentioned in the Morning Neios of ■
Saturday. We learn that the unfortunate vie- j State Coffer?, Unused.
t im was a very worthy and thrifty man, and had j 9 with the L., g i 8 |a ture and not with
accumulated a property valued at th ee thous- a ~ n
and or four thousand dollars. He was be ween the 4 *Stftt© officials. Tbe IjOgislatUre
forty-five and fifty years of age, and lost his wife I levied the taxes and provided for its
ral benevolent societies and lodges In this city, i collection, and after paying all lcglti**
and in one them, tho order of Wise Mon, had his j raR te demands against the State the
life insured for 82,000. He hud just finished a £4 , ...
neat two story framed dwelling on Bryan street. ! Officials had nothing to do but to
The dnoeaaed loaves a brother in Jefferson j keep the balance, whether it W«S one
county, in this State, who U heir to his little
estate. He was born In Middle Georgia, and
wa» well thought of among white people who
knew him, on account of his industrious and
sober habits.
But the fault
Hon. A. II- Stephens will probably
be the next governor for Georgia, for
Joe Browu, Gov. Colquitt and the At
lanta Constitution says it shall be so.—
Marianna (Fla.) Courier.
Our
correct
“will pj
for
the
lorida oontemporar
I may be
n saying that Mfl
Stephens
bably bo the n«
Povernor
but if hel
nderstood
4*gK:ople a littll
k^ter, he
theij^dS
Atlanta Post- Aitpeal, 17th Inst-; A sad ease of
injustice is developed in the pardon to John
Turner by Gov. Colquitt this morning. Turne r
was convicted in 1874 at the Chatham County
Court of an assault with Intent to kill another
man. He was sentenced to the eonvlot camps
for ten years, and was assigned to the Dade
Coal Mines. In the following year Robert
Young was oonvioted at the same court of bur
glary and sentenced to fifteen years. They met
at the mines, but nothing, except Turner’s oc
casional quiet protests, wa ever heard or de
veloped to indioate his Innocence. Now, how
ever, when he has served over eight years of his
term, working underground at the most degra
ding toll ever inflicted on humanity, with all the
Infamy and vile assoolatton connected with the
condition of a eonvlot, it turns out that he was
entirely innocent. Young, who has recently
manifested symptoms of a religious awaxening,
made ^statement to one of the officials that
eaused^ie keenest Interest to be aroused In the
case of Turner. The statement was, in faot, a
confession that he, Young, was guilty of the
crime for whloh Turner was being punished.—
An application for Turner’s pardon was at once
prepared and endorsed by all the penitentiary
"1 dais. Young will now have the ten years
Jits present sentence, which will keep
*-♦<1 the year 1900.
He was brhugbt to town and put
on exhibition here Sunday afternoon
and was a big show. He was pro
nounced by all to be the largest alii
gator they had ever seen. He wan
over ten feet long and extraordinarily
large for his length, it being decided
that he would weigh fully 300 pounds.
It was discovered that he broke hia
tnil when he struck the horse, and
that was probably the reasou he
stopped offensive operations. The
horse was injured—it may be- per
manently—in the shoulder which re
ceived the blow.
Mr. Renfroe is entitled to the credit
of an unusual degree of courage for
the manner in which he ridded tho
community of so undesirable a neigh
bor.
dollar or a million. The Treasurer
has no right to use or place the State
surpluses^oxcept as he is authorized
to do by the Legislature. But, ex
cept as the Journal would seem to
convey a censuro of the “State of-
cials,” we fully agree with it, that it
is “poor financiering.”
A New. York letter says; “Not
long ago a good deal of curiosity was
aroused in one of the interior towns
of this State by the mysterious ope
rations of some capitalists who were
experimenting with a paper mill. It
was learned that the object of the ex
periments was to make a paper out
of the tobacco plant, so that cigars
could be made by maohinery. It
cost the experimenters considerable
money to discover that they
not make a pulp without
the itavor of the tobacco,
succeeded in poisoning
in the creek.”
For several weeks past Butler
county, Ky., has been the centyn of
Mormon missionary labor, and Hie
result is such a disturbance of pubhc
and private peace as the county h”*
not seen since the war. Fomilian
have been broken up and friends
separatee’, and the jealousy and bit
terness have reached a point which
threatens still worse results. The
Mormon elders, alarmed at the Storm
they had browed, retired for a time,
but they are expected to appear agniii
in the neighborhood of Huntsville
shortly. “If they oome,” writes a
correspondent of the Louisville Com
mercial, ‘‘there will be some lynching
done, as the people through all the
neighboring counties are desperate.
If no other law will protect them,
they will have to resort to mob law.’ 0
Jasper county News: Oao day
last week Mr. John Speights, ot thia
county, told a negro man io his em
ploy to go cutting oats, and that he
wanted him to out 75 bushels that,
day ; the negro began, work aa hour!
after sunrise and cut about oae and
three-fourth acres. Mr. S. had them *
threshed and it turned out that the
negro had cut in less than one dayj
fnom one and throe-fourth acre®
landfone hundred and tweuty-aix
a half bushels of good oats, thus ahe
; that the Isod produced
to 70 bu^iels per acre.
Bainbridge it about to reoi
iruet ‘