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VOLUME I.
|A S?K COIATI GAZETTE
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LOIMSKS.
’ronton Lodge; No. 170, F . A. M.—.T. T.
se|l, \V. M.; J. A. Kennett, Sec. Meets
ftr.-t Wednesday night in each month at 7 p. in.
Biising Fawn Lodge, No. ?915, F. A. M.—S
tl. Thurman, W.M.; U. l\ ’i turn, See. Meets
fiilt and. third Friday liiglus in each month.
■l o. <l. (’.— 1). M. Cm I ley N. C.j
tide. Meets every Saturday night, t “
CHURCHES.
pi. F. Chuprh, South.—Services at Rising
Fiwn first Smidav in each month at If o’clock ;
thafh School at ■ clock a. in., e 'er' - Siin
. At Trenton, second Sunday in each
montli t II o’clock; Sabbath School at ft
o’tiock a. m., every Sunday. Prayer .meeting
tvjij Wednesday at fi:dtl, . m.
cur NT Y COURT."
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IB* entity Court, .meets first in M eacli
mouth. J. Ken nett, Ordinary.
SUPLIUoirCnUKT,
Hon C. l. McCutclu-n, A. T. Unde-
AHoriiev-Gcn r:il : N. W. Colt*, Clerk.
Merit third Moikljiy in .Maieli md S iptember.
.COUNTY OFFICIALS.
J W. Blevins, ShniH : J. A. Bennett, Ordi
hatv : XV. S. Taylor, County Surveyor : .lohn
fUsjjrk, Tnx A*se*svr ; .lohn Moreland, Tsix Col*
icfiM • O’Nrsil, Inai.'tirtr; J. C. Taylor,
totally f'uprriulendcnt, *
TOWN DIRECTORY. 1T-
A. XI. "ale. P. M.,T. J. Park, Agent ;inl
©|*rtor ; Stewart, .J. P.
LEG A L.
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HT..T. 1 Mtrjikh), Attorney at Law.—Office'on
owner of ( liureli and Aialnima streets.
ib. Ci. flair, Attorney at I.aw.— 0 ff.ee J JJrcu
tj§A. \> . I.ale's I i.sii ss Lome.
I’ll YSJCI ANS.
@l’r. Fiirks.— residence, on Alabama
4 or’.
PHY CO I>S, GROCE 111 ES AC.
§ |T>. M. CuPoy, dealer in staple and Fancy'Dry
©yds, eontli side public square.
f\ otrhi rside ABn w n,’dealers hi Fry floods
e#i > and General Merchandise: frontinir
ralroad.
. M. Male, dealer* in* Family Ct rocerics;"*at
Pwtofliee.
Trer.tor,
J LEGAL.
'Jm • I*. A J. P. Jacoway, Attorney sat Law.—
on east side public square.
id'A; .PHYSICIANS.
|Hb'. XV. F.. Brock.--Office at residence, in
neti hern p;: l of the village.
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Professional Cards.
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attorney at law,
USING FAWN, CADE COUNTY, GA.
n.i. pay proic't at ion to the e.dleefion >f
®J§ llK * and nil L oss intrusted to bis car'," in
® f ‘ ev 'l courts lor of Made,
X'llker nnd Catoosa. l-tf.
.5. i*. MALk,
& Coiirscilor at Law
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GA.
W"-'- fTi'ctice :n tU Superio. Courtsjof Dade
and Catoosa. Strict attei.tion“given to
'"llretion ot claims, or other business in-
to his ear-. j.jj*
w. U. I t.owiv,
4"‘TOrNEY ATLAW,
Tr.LNTCN, DADECOUTY, GA.
lu. i rcct ce in counties of DaL'
, r ;u, “ t Ciitoota. Collecting a specialty.
The Rising Fawn Iron Fur
nace- It 4 Jlaiiagcinc lit &c.
Mr. Editor-— ln your issue of Jan. 11
there appeared an article in regard to the
management of the Rising Fawn Iron
Furnace, headed, “Information Want
ed,” and after i ing facts that are
known to every casual observer, closes
as follows: “If all this he true, it is
enough to awaken the sensibilities of i lie
coldest sinner and arouse the indigna
tion of every lover of justice and philan
thropy in the land.” To this no reply
has been made, although it was publish
ed in sight of the furnace and in the
midst of a people interested in its propci
management. Their silence can only he
construed into an admission of the facts
fit- td, and a smiling ,hat to he true, a
more gigantic fraud was never attempted
to lie pcrpetrateil on a people,
A short history of this unfortunate af
fair may be of interest to your readers:
This entciprifie was carried tlnough by
a New York company at a cost ot over
six hundred thousand dollars, and when
completed, considering the close proxim
ity of its ore and coal and other natural
advantages, second to no property of its
kind in the south. This company was
authorized to issue first mortgage bonds
to the extent of $125,000 for which a
deed of trust was executed to the trus
tees on all the property of the company
except its product, to secure the the pay
ments of the bonds which were due in
1881; the interest to he paid semi-annu
ally, and if they remained in default af
ter due six months, the whole became
due. The coupons attached required the
bonds to be presented and demand made
for payment at the financial office of the
Rising Fawn iron,Fo. in of \c \\
York. In the summer of 1876 this com
pany blew (lit the furnace and went back
to New York, leaving a considerable in
debtedness, for which a large number of
labor liens were foreclosed—in all about
140. .Some were on record before the act
was passed authorizing ibe issuing of
the bonds. And besides these, various
other judgments were obtained and exe
cutions issued, and the property adver
tised and sold by the sheriff to.J. W.
Cureton for SIB,OOO, he giving the Ris
ing Fawn Iron Cos. bis bond to reconvey
to ih m the property on ti e
payment of the SIB,OOO in 80 and 60
days, and on failure they were stopped
from any action against him. Soon af
ter this sale Mr. A. S. Colyar appeared
in the interest of the present bondholders
to get possession of this valuable proper
ty, and finally succeeded in making a
lease for 90 days, and then formed a con
spiracy, got possession of the contract,
lost or destroyed it, and attempted to
hold the lease 90 days more. Failing in
that, they assumed to have a title, or
ganized a company, and issued stock cer
tificates. In the last named plan Mr.
Warner was made president, and five
out of seven of the directors from Nash
ville and two from Dade, one ol whom
was their ally and acted a piomincnt
p"rt in all this strategy and fraud, for
which he feared to return to Dade coun
ty to his family, and finally went to Tex
as. The.oilier was their attorney. How
much fairness there was in this 1 leave
the people to judge, and think when wc
take into consideration the hundreds of
poor creditors who arc the sufferers,
whose rights are usurped by the bond
holders, no parallel can be found for such
a Wrong. After this failed hey turned
their avaricious eyes on the bonds and
bought up SBO,OOO of them and received
the interest promptly on demand; but
openly avowed they wanted the proper
ty, not the interest; and when Cureton
was making arrangements at the first na
tional bank to pay the inkiest, I am told
their attorneys were watching to gar
nishee so as to create a default. Foiled
in this, they filed a bill in the Federal
court in Atlanta, in which they allgcd
that Cureton had destroyed from one
fourth to one-half of the property, and
that the repairs would not last but a
few weeks; but this was controverted by
the best citizens in the country. An
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Ovlier allegation wi ~ there were eight
bonds in default, and they refused to
take tlie interest on them, and insisted
on the trustees taking possession of the
property, which they refused to do; tLey
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GA.. THURSDY, MAY 22, 1879.
to tin* IligSit, Fearless Against the Wrong.”
also asked the court to appoint a receiver
to take charge of the property. Cu c
ton had, in the meantime, repaired and
put the furnace in blast at a cost of sev
eral thousand dollars, and was operating
it more successfully and economically
than it had been since its erection, and
on his success depended tho hopes ot hun
dreds of creditors who had entrusted
their interests in his hands. These eight
bonds claimed to he in default were de
posited as collateral security, with an
understanding that tho coupons were not
to he presented, and thev were not and
no claim or demand for the interest, un
til the present holders bought them, and
when they presented them at the office
the interest was tendered them and they
refused to take it, and claimed the whole
to he due. Epon this issue a receiver
WTi*appointed in the person of B. E.
Wells. “Yeni, Yidi, Viei”—l came, 1
saw, I conquered. When lie came lie
brought with him a U. 8. "Marshal and
the agents of the bondholders, and re
quired Cureton to move out his goods
and commissaries at a heavy sacrifice,
and give room ior the bondholders’ in
terests, and they have been virtually in
possession ever since.
These parties bought their own coke
and paid themselves for it out of the pro
ducts of the furnace, paid themselves for
their goods and commissaries out of the
furnace, an l pocketed the profits, which
will amount to two or tlnee thousand
dollars per month. The prod iction of
the furnace cannot be estimated under
SB,OOO per month, this aggregated makes
not less than $5,000 per month. They
have b >n operating it fifteen months;
the profits have reached $67),000. Mr.
Wells has retired from the receivership
and turned it over to Mr. \\ arner, one
of the bondholders, i know of no par
allel tor this unscrupulous action, save
in the reign of Queen Anne or King
George 11, when for petty treason or fel
ony, a subject forfeited all his chattels,
interests absolute, and the profits of all
estate of freehold during life, and after
his death all his lands fee simple, ex
cept those entailed to the King. This
must be the king’s year, day, and waste,
when he had the liberty of committing
waste on the lands of felons by pulling
down their houses, extirpating their gar
dens, plowing thei: meadows and cutting
down their woods. All this, and more
too, has been enacted by these parties in
free, republican America. If this is to
he tolerated, how long will it he before
your liberties, your rights, will he tram
pled ruder foot by these moneyed lords?
Arc these people traitors,are they felons,
that they are thus treated? or is it he
eai: j thoy are in control of a large por
tion of the convict force of both Tennes
see and Georgia, and through the force
of habit extend the same treatment for
this country? T jy seek to monopolize
by obtaining its most valuable interest
by stratagem and wrong. These parties
seek to make it appear that this proper
ty is not profitable. If so, why, “after
they have tested it”, do they show such
a craven desire to own it? \. ny spend
thousands of dollars to get it?
Col. I>. E. Wells took charge of this
furnace on the 6th of Feb. and I am
creditably informed by one who knows,
that it was running on foundry iron and
did so almost entirely through that
month; hut his repot t shows to the court
that the highest grade reported was sil
ver giey—. ~L worth by six dolia.s as
much as foundry iion per ton, and hence
his report shows a loss in that month of
several hundred dollars. Now 1 am cred
itably informed that Cureton was clear
ing about one hundred dollars per day
when he turned it over to Wells,and Wells
claimed in his report that he mado iron
€ith one-third less fuel, and paid ten
percent, less for labor than did Cureton.
Again, 1 quote from his port that the
machinery of said company generally
has been injured and the boilers greatly
damaged through the unskillfulness, ig
norance or carelessness of the former late
management; that in all machinery run
by st am, the invariable rule is to have
from two to tliree,geiit*rally three,guaga
boeks arranged one above trio other to
show the top surface of the water in the
boiler. Now every word quoted above
was intended to deceive the court and
misrepresent the facts. Wells knew that
every gUage-cock was on tho e ho’lers
when he got it that is on it now; and the
mechanic that managed it for Cureton
managed it for him for nine months af
terwards, and he gave him a certificate
and recommendation as an experienced,
first-class foundryman. My God! what
a solicism! his report abounds in mis
representations, and is more an attack
on Cureton than to show to the courMhe
result of his management. His egotism
abounds in almost every sentence. A am
he says under present management of a
thoroughly competent and ski led man
in the business, employed by receiver, a
much better iron is bring made. Now
the laets are, this man was discharged
from the South Pittsburg furnace for in
compotency, and when here said he did
not understand charging a furnace and
was discharged by \\ ells, and Demurs,
this unskillful and ignorant manager
that he so often refers tc in his report,
continued to manage the furnace for nine
mouths, and deserves the credit for its
success; rnd he ( Demurs) holds a paper
under Weils! own hand and signature
that charges hack on him a willful niis
reprsentation when he alludes to his in
competency and want of skill to run a
furnace. lie refers eleven times to the
former management in bis report. Now
is, this old sinner knows noth
ing about the former management of this
furnace, for he was never there from the
time they signed the contract for coke,
be for** the repairs were completed, until
he came to take charge as receiver. Now
the facts are that all this waste and
damage done to ibis machinery is charg
able to them, and was done during their
niimtv days’ lease, in which time thev
burnt out the hearth, damaged the ma
chinery, fixed the respo 1
superintendent who state and is
now in Texas. And they made use of
the entile products and refused to make
any This is the sequel to
this subterfuge, behind which he seeks
to hide his i\Msei< us guilt, and fix it on
an innocent pimy, and this is not all; lie
has had the nari^r-gunge railroad torn
up and theJron removed, destroying tlie
conned ion Between the furnace and the
coal bank. KSor does he stop here, hut
suffers the enclosures around the lands to
he hauled off the premises and used—
posts and plank fence sold and carried
off the premises. Hired emissaries are
paid to lay around and watch Curetou’s
acts to find something to found an ac
cusation against him. Behind all of
this lurks a moneyed power whose law is
gain, and who commands the services of
unscrupulous men who are ready to sac
rifice friends, muzzle the truth, murder
justice, and take power for right.
Again, on the first Tuesday in June,
1877. there was sold four lots of coal
lands and bank containing machinery,
cars, drum, wire rope, and enclitic, and
E. I). Graham bid it in with a distinct
understanding with Cureton and other
creditors that it was to he deeded to
Cureton ns the other property when he
paid the purchase money; but in viola
tion of the agreoment, lie in a few days
deeded the property to Warner and Mor
row, and when Cureton made them a
tender of the money they icfused to take
it,and claimed the property as their own.
This property was excepted from the
other sale by a claim filed, wl-ich Gra
ham publicly declared was worthless;
and that he °nd the parties understood
it, and done it to use in another way.
Now the estimated value of this coal
property is $30,000; this added to the
profits they have made, amounts to $95,-
000, full, if not over, par value for their
bonds, and yet they want full value and
accrred interest besides.
If ‘ill tliis is right, if this injustice, if
this is equity, then the law as establish
ed by human experience from the con
nection ol causes and effects, and obser
vation Oi human conduct and the ordina
ry test of human nature, is false, and
man has sought in vain through the.
great book ot natural and revealed law,
for a code of morals to govern the recti
tude ol the world, and Christianity is a
farce- Justice,
There is talk of a bill to make a State
of Xk idian Territory.
Southern Justice.
Prompt justice to criminals in the
South has generally been associated in
the public mind with the court of Judge
Lynch, out no fault can be found on le
gal and conventional grounds with the
proceedings which have culminated in
the conviction of CoX, of Atlanta, for
tho murder of Col. Alston. ’The social
position of the victim and of his murder
er, gave the case more than usual promi
nence in the Southern mind, and so
averse, generally, is the respectable
Southerner to admitting that a man of
good birth and breeding can commit a
crime that the pnhlic in both North and
South was prepared for a disagreement of
the jury, in spite of the positive quality of
the evidence against Cox. But the trial
seems to have been conducted with entire
fairness, the prisoner has had all the de
fense that his case would warrant, and
the upshot is n reccommendation by tha
jury of imprisonment for life. A start
ling and dramatically suggestive feature
of the case is that Cox is the first man
upon whom (he new law, allowing ju
ries to reecommend life imprisonment as
a substitute for capital punishment has
operated, and that this law was passed
by the aid of Cox’s victim, Col. Alston.
In spite of the angui: h suffered by the
woman the wife of the prisoner, for whom
all true hearts will bleed, the justice of
the punishment cannot he doubted. The
taking of life, except in ghsolute self-de
fense, must he sternly rebuked by all so
ciety that in modern days makes any
pretence to civilization.—N. Y, Herald.
Do Ihe Dying Suffer Pain?
People do not like to think of dead).
It is an unplcasent subject; but it con
stantly obtrudes itself, and there lias been
much speculation as to whether mental
or physical pain attends the final act Ob
serration teaches us that there is little
pain of either kind in dying. Experience
will come to us all one of these days but
it will come too late to benefit those who
remain. It seems to be a kind provision
of nature that, as we approach the dread
event our terrors diminish and the cow
ard and hero die alike—fearless, indiffer
ent or resigned. As to physical pain, Dr.
Edward 11. Clarke, in ‘Visions,’ says;
‘The rule is that unconsciousness, not
pain‘ attend the act. To the subject of it
death is not more painful than birth.
Painlessly we come whence we know not.
Nature kindly j rovides an anaesthetic
for the body when the spirit leaves it
Previous to that moment, and in prepa
ration for it, respiration becomes feeble
often accomplished by long inspirations,
and short, sudden expirations, so that the
blood is steadily less and less oxygenated.
At the same time the heat A acts with cor
responding debility pjßucing a slow,
feeble and often irregular pulse. As this
process goes on, tin blood is not only
driven to the head with diminished force
and in loss quantity, but what flows there
is loaded more with carbonicacid gas, a
powerful anaesthetic, the same as that
derived from charcoal. Subject to its in
fluence the nerve centers lose conscious
ness and sensibility, apparent sleep creeps
over the system; then comes stupor, and
then the end.
Cheerful Valediclorj.
Ashevil!e'(X. C.) Journal; In this is
sue of the paper I offermy house and lot
for sale. My object is to quit the country
—possibly for the country’s goo<. For
the past nine years I have endeavored to
make a livelihood bore at tire newspaper
business, and at this writing I am a good
breathing representation of the Genius of
Famine, or an allegory of Ireland (Paring
the potato rot. The day star of m v pros
perity lias gone down behind a dark cloud
of unpaid bills and uncancelled obliga
tions. As resort, I propose to
cast my lor among the Mongolians of the
Pacific coast, and with this view mv leis
ure moments are devoted to deciphering
the hieroglyphics on a Chinese tea chest
while I patiently await the advent of a
purchaser.
The recent severe weather m Italy
threatens the total destruction of the silk
Worm.
D. M. ( J I.LI'A , Business Max
General Grant lias gone to Spain.
King Alfonso of Spain will be married
in ()ctober or November.
r J be President has recognized R. Lehr
as consul of Belgium at Baltimore Md.
The Governor of Texas lias called the
legislature to meet in extra session June
10th.
\\ m. 11. \ anderbiltsailed for Europe
from New 5 oik in the steamer Britannic
yesterday.
Tom Scott is in Florence, Italy, Mrs.
Scott has returned to New York.
I be International Congress to consid
er the plan of a Panama ship canal met
in Paris, Thursday.
New York city is to have a great baby
show. Over 300 entries have already been
made.
A conference at Barnsley, England,
representing 120,000 colliers, decided to
demand ten percent, increase of pay.
In the wrestling match between Police
man Mnldoon and Theobald Bauer at
New York Wednesday, Mnldoon was
the victory.
One hundred thousand copies of Ben.
Hill’s recent speech have been ordered
bv the Republicans of Wisconsin as a
campaign document.
Captain Law f on, of the Fourth calval
ry, shot and killed a soldier of the Twen
ty-second infantry, for mutiny, at San
Antonio Texas.
The export and import duties of Cuba
amounted in 1878 to $22,230,444. Dur
ing the first four months of 1870 the
the f -.toms receipts exceed those of the
same period last year by $1939,254.
The Evangelical Ministers’ Associa
lion of Boston'have decided to call a
convention of churches of all denomina
tions in Boston and ten miles around for
May 26 to sustain the municipal author
ities in enforcing the Sunday laws.
Ihe funeral of Rear Admiral Enoch
G. Parrott took place from St. John’s
Episcopal church, Portsmouth, N. H $
Wednesday Rov. Charles A. Holbrook,
officiating. The ceremonies were of the
simplest character, all display having
been enjoined.
Hon. Andrew D. White, United
States minister to Berlin, accompanied
by his wife and daughter, sailed from
New 1 ork for Europe Thursday in the
Inman steamer t City of Brussels. A large
number of bis friends were present to see
him off.
The eight annual meeting of the Un
derwriters’ Association of the South
will be held in Atlanta, Ga., on the 21st,
22d and 23d instant, correct the existing
demoralization in the matter of rates
throughout the South.
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Advice from Port-an-Prince Hayti,
April 25 leport several sudden deaths
from a fever, of which heretofore only
foreigners have been victims. The city is
very filthy and it is astonishing epidemic
disease has not developed there before.
m m
The American correspondent of the
London Times is Mr. Joel Cooky one of
Mr. G. W. Childs, staff on the Ledger
of Philadelphia. Mr. Cook receives
from the Times, it is said, an annual
salary of £l/000 in gold—or $5,000.
M iss Annie Montague appeared as
Josephine in Pinafore, at the Lyceum,
Theatre, New York, Monday
The World says she filled .he p>><* <
cel lent ly well—her tine voice
method being sustained by \.# V
acting leaving uotl.ing to regret.
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