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4 F .ft “H F> .'■ f r P p’■ ty $ I ’sWfe M Jf4 M A LOVKR OF HIS COUNTRY, HIS COUNTRYMEN, AND HIS COUNTRYWOMEN PUBLISHED WITH GREAT POWER, (Though Weekly) BY WALL & WILLIAMS - - - - Atlanta, Ga SUBSISTENCE TAX : ■ingle copy, one year - - - - $2 00 ■ingle copy, six months - - - - 100 NOTHING LESS, Kxcept that Postmasters are authorized to act as agents. and when sending two or more subscrip tion* at above rates, may retain 25 per cent of price as commission, K®~ Advertising rates made known on applica tion. Entered at the Atlanta Post-office as »econd-class matter, but First Class Reading ! SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1883. A bad lay-out—the faro dealer's. The theatrical circuits are appropri ately referred to as star routes. Our friend Miggs insists that Ole Bull must have been “a tough citizen.” An ‘‘Elastic Goods Company,” in Bos ton, has failed. Its credit, we surmise, was not as elastic as its goods. The Atlanta gas-works are evidently run by a diciple of ‘‘J. N.,” for he “lifts the pressure” regularly just after mid night. ___ It is beginning to be suspected that ! the late Tariff Commission was really composed of a delegation of Niagra Falls hackmen. A page of the Augusta Chronicle, while a mourning, looked like a jail window frith old Miss Lydia Pinkham in a middle jecond-story cell. The eminent paste-potters of the Chi cago daily press are coming into promi nence as the sand-baggers of the para graphic profession. An Akron child swallowed a button hook and still survives. Perhaps he found good use for it in clewing up the coat of his stomach. A recent medical advertisement was headed: “Be cured before you die !” Why, cert. The chances are dead against you after the latter event. During his three months service Sen ator Barrow acquired great weight in Congress. It is contained in one hun dred sacks of public documents. The marriage of the Independent par ty of Illinois, Ex-Senator Davis, will be sum in addition—in other words, the un ion of Addie Burr and adi-pose. The West End hyena'has disappeared; lince which occurrence various fowls and fattening hogs have also failed to an swer at the dough-pan and feed-trough. Lawyers are about the only class of men who successfully oppose a ‘ ‘woman’s will.”—Springfield (0,,) News. And even they can t do so until after she is dead. Waiting on fate is expressively term ed “tarrying till the clouds roll by,” but with most of our gubernatorial aspirants it was “lingering till the hearse rolled by.” One of the firearms factories has dis missed half of its workmen from lack of orders. The reason is plausible—at least, nearly every hip-pocket in our part of the country is overstocked. A cigar may be the best in the world, but sooner or later it meets its match.— Salem Sunbeam. But it isn t frequent that the match succeeds in “firing” the cigar. It is said that deaf and dumb people always take a hand in conversation.— Evansville Argus. Well, they are the write sort of per sons to have a quiet talk with. A Rome female, placed in the calabose, attempted to choke herself to death with a stocking. They say she was dancing a hose-reel when they cut her down. She did not get in her last shuffle. Mr. Blaine is zeported to have in his house a picture that is one of Rubens. Unless it is in soak for something Jim ought to return it to Rube at once. You know this is very suspicious weather. When the fond Western father starts out to train up his son in the way he should go, and teaches him draw-poker and pistol practice, he intends that said son shall go to the United States Senate. The colored voters of Anniston, Ala bama, have made great fame for them selves in that locality by the firmness and unanimity with which they voted for prohibition in the recent county election. It was an unexpected and re assuring exhibition of good sense and good morals. The Oxford News pays! them the following deserved tribute for their labors: Be it said to the honor of the colored people of this county that they not only voted solidly for prohibition, but side by side with their white brethren they worked valiantly for the cause, until the last vote was polled, and then they made Anniston and Oxford as well as the hills and valleys which surround them ring with the music of their banps and songs of rejoicing over the greatest victory ever won. governor hoynton and the succession. Although the scope of our journal r gives us but little editorial concern in the political affairs of the state, still we - are gratified exceedingly to note the prompt and emphatic disposition of lead ing men, presses and people to accord to Governor Boynton the clearest right to become the successor of the great Steph ens. In the preliminary canvass of last year the name of Governor Boynton was frequently used by many of the people of Georgia as worthy to be placed in the lists of the July convention which nomi j natedjMr. Stephens. Governor Boynton, after serving as a State Senator and as President of that body, preferred to have the endorsement of his constituents and his colleagues. He was re-elected to the 1 Seuate without opposition and practical ly with equal unanimity to the presiden -1 cy of the Senate. In this act, with Mr. Stephens chosen Chief Magistrate, feeble , in health and morally certain not to sur- - vivethe arduous labors of the office, the ' choice of Judge Boynton was a practi cal endorsement by the Senate and the ■ State of his eminent fitness to become the Governor of the State in one of ’ the most serious emergencies that can , arise in a commonwealth. It was say ing to the people that should their chosen ruler fall in the harness we have commissioned you a lieutenant who can and will ably and efficiently assume the duties and responsibilities of that high office. Such is the logical and truthful significance of his position. Governor Boynton has long been a fa miliar figure in the field of our observa tions. We have known him in nearly every relation of life as a citizen and we know of no man in Georgia who bears a more blameless escutcheon, who em bosoms a kindlier and purer heart, who carries a loftier and chaster intellect, or whose patriotism is of a more elevated and unselfish pattern. He has never failed to yield to man or state his most devoted loyalty or service when either were de manded and those who know him best are most lavish in their enthusiasm for his virtues, his probity and his abilities. He would make Georgia a fit and timely successor to the lamented Steph ens. Reared, it may be said, in the same hard school of experience and self en deavor which gave to Stephens his pecu liar originality of thought and action, Governor Boynton is little less conspicu ous for those qualities of self-reliance, thoroughness of understanding, prompti tude of action and integrity of motive which are rare and golden virtues in a ruler of the people. The choice of a Governor must be speedily made, but should be none the less carefully made. Mere ambitious and showy gifts in can didates have no place in the serious, we might say solemn, duty that has de volved upon the people. In our opinion the right, the best, the honorable solu tion of the question should be the prompt nomination and unanimous election of Governor Boynton. In concluding, we most heartily en dorse the following from an editorial in the Augusta Chronicle: The Chronicle trusts that there will be no strife or excited differences in this campaign. It is more than ever proper and necessary that the harmony of the party, so eminently secured by the election of Mr. Stephens to the Governorship, should be continued, and it may be well that his successor be allowed to fill out unopposed the regular term of the Governorship, so auspiciously begun by the departed statesman. If we may be pardoned for being personal, it may be said that Governor Boynton is a gentleman in every way worthy of filling the high office which has happened to him under such sad circumstances. He comes before the State with a strong, pure record at the bar, in the field and on the bench. He is directly in the line of legal promotion ; is loved by his people at home strengthened his influence in Geor gia by serving two terms as President of the Senate. Such would seem to be the proper policy at this time. And the above representative and gen erous sentiment is properly supplement ed by the endorsement of General Toombs and his earnest hope that Gov ernor Boynton shall be chosen to suc ceed Mr. Stephens. We believe that such will be the ver dict of the good and just people of Geor gia. OUR NAVAL PIROOTERS. It is said that there are evident signs in the neighborhood of Commodore Bill Chandler’s private cabin that he is pre paring a list of the naval favorites who 1 have languished too long in the port of ; Washington. Great Neptune, what a jolly lot of tars they are, to be sure! How often have we watched them sail . ing around in the maelstroms of the waltz or tacking on the placid surface of , the ball-room floor to the ravishing mu [ sich of the famous Marine Band! In fact we had solmenly made up our mind that if we ever had to join the armj, we 5 would become a naval officer. For one 1 of those nice berths in Washington we r feel sure of passing a most capital exam ’ ination. When it comes to clewing up • the spike in a Pennsylvania avenue gin- - mill, or belaying the rum-punch at the . Ebbitt House bar, we . don’t think it s would take us much practice to be as 1 handy a naval sharp as our Uncle Dick- Z Thompson, late of the Wabash fleet. . But if “reliefs” are to be organized in 1 the Washington naval fleet we are to be * counted out. We couldn’t begin to serve anywhere else with the same unction. The needs of the country and the service 1 may demand this swapping of pond- K ducks—but what a blow it will be to so ciety at the Capital! Ere the new-com- I ers learn to keep head to the wind and y avoid the trough of the sea in a waltzing s party life will cease to be worth living! 1 But—let’er roll! 8 t “I’m afloat, I’m afloat” is what the fishing-cork is supposed to warble. THE GEORGIA MAJOR. ALEXANDER IL STEPHENS. “The Great Commoner,” as his loving people of Georgia preferred to call him, has paid the last debt of nature and his mortal frame sleeps well in its narrow home. Softly and unconsciously he passed from earth to his reward. The tongues and pens of men more fitted to the task than ours have recorded his goodness and his greatness. We can only add our feeble tribute to his mem ory in the truthful estimate that he was one of the noblest minded and purest hearted patriots with whose lives and deeds impartial history has made us ac quainted. , Now that he is no more and only the rich examples of his life are left us, we feel that his virtues of private life and his qualities as a public man should be imitated by those who survive him and taught to the generations to come after him. His was a long, a useful and a historic life. He honored his race, his native state and his country at large. Above all he honored his Creator by living as nearly to His will as is possible to most humanity. “Mortalitate relicta, vivit immortalitate indu tus!” GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN. An uncommonly large amount of dis cussion is occasionally indulged in on lecture platforms and in the newspaper about the profit and safety of the imi gration of young men of the North and East to Southern localities. We have neither time nor inclination to join in any such tom-fool debates. WehaVe, however, a few moments to spare to the young men of the North who desire to seek new fields and better their fortunes. If, after a careful survey of the situa tion, you think the South would suit you—that you could live in our climate, thrive upon our products, and be content to work honestly for what you consume, don’t go to some snaggled-tooth old idi ot who has “heer’d Garrison lectur,' shuck han's with Mizzes Stowe an’ saw the Bungtown Gyards march off tu free the niggero!” If you don’t understand the religion of liberty and the American Union better than to need instruction from such a source, you had better re main in the North and not come down here with your moon-eyed maunderings. You will find that the platitudes, preju dices and pharasaical philanthropies of the era from 1856 to 1876 are decidedly and emphatically played out! No young man in the South, intending to go to the North or the West to engage in his life-work, would think for a mo ment of going to any of our political Bombasteses, or military swash-bucklers, to ask how he should act and what he should sav when he got to the North. No, thank God,'the young men of the new South are brave, self-reliant, liberal in spirit, and honestly loyal to the Un ion. They believe that freedom of opin ion and liberty of lawful action is a part of their heritage, collectable anywhere that the stars and stripes are floating. So, young man of the North, don’t mind the old snarlers of the dead and gone days of distrust and disaster. Come to the South wdienever you want to join hands and fortunes w’ith us in the works of peace and prosperity, and you will find ‘ ‘the whole kit and bilin’ ” of young Southerners equally as loyal as you are and only too ready to give you a gener ous and fraternal welcome. The Georgia Major sends out this week nearly 6000 copies, with a circula tion reaching to nearly every state in the union. Our orders from New York, Boston, Toronto, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans vary between one hundred and five hundred copies to each News Company supplied, while or ders of from ten to fifty copies each reach us from numerous other towns and cities in Georgia and other states. This is a phenomenal record for a South ern journal only four weeks old. And the boom continues with every promise of constant increase. A statue of Chief Justice Chase, nine feet high, is incomplete because an en terprising colored man of Washington stole the bronze head that belongs to it. — Exchange. An enterprising colored man of Atlan ta also stole a head ®f Chief Justice Chase from us. It was printed on a one dollar treasury note and he fancied the unique combination. An Atlanta drummer was flirting with a young lady on a Georgia railroad train. He finally asked her to exchange cards. She handed him in return the conduc tor’s check on which was printed: “Good for this trip and train only.” ’Null sed ! The Major is overwhelmed with com pliments. His friends of the press have been exceeding partial to him and to one and all he extends his hand and his most grateful salaam! (“Salaam” is a very touching word, indeed. A friend loaned it to us specially for this occasion.) An Atlanta man was traveling in Tex as and remarked to his seat companion of having once been a bank cashier in Georgia. Imagine his horror when the native turned suddenly upon him and asked: “And how much is the reward fer yer?” It is the opinion of Edison that noth ing succeeds in this world unless it is so practical that a mule can run it.—Ex change. This may be the scientific explanation of the backwardness of the colored race. Notoriously, a mule can’t run a nigger! “Ten hours is a day s work,” but the Atlanta saloons work on the double time schedule. The Major’s Roll-Call. Personol Points About People of Promi nence. Jordan.—Col. G. Gunby Jor don, 'secretary of the Eagle & Phenix Company, of Columbus, is in the city. Garrard.—Speaker L. F. Gar rard is in the city, called here to attend the funeral of Governor Stephens. Harris.—Col. Bill, of Worth, the pop ular Secretary of the Senate, was in the city yesterday. Hammond.—Hon. W. J. Hammond, our brilliant representative in Congress, has returned home. Russell.—Editor Ben E., of the Bain bridge Democrat, is here. In addition to being a first-class paper man, he is a member of the Georgia Legislature. Boynton.—Governor J. S. Boynton has rooms at the Kimball, and they are crowded all day by people from all parts of Georgia tendering their good wishes. Gordon.—General Gordon has reached Atlanta after a lengthy stay in Florida looking after the charter of his new rail road project in Florida. We are glad to learn that all of his efforts were crown ed with success. Bradley.—Horace, the artist, was engaged all the week in making sketch es of the scenes and incidents attending the funeral of Gov. Stephens for Harp ers Weekly. Talmage,—The Rev. Dr. Talmage reached the city last Thursday and lectured to a large audience that night. Dr. Talmage and Gov. Stephens were personal friends. • Howard.—Col. Tom Howard, one of the most eloquent speakers in <Georgia, has sold his delightful home in Kirk wood, and will shortly leave for Liberty county where he owns a valuable plant ation. His many friends in Atlanta will miss him. Toombs.—General Toombs is in the city, called to pay the last sad rites to the memory of his intimate friend, Gov. Stephens. General Toombs is far from well, and gives evidence of failing strength and health. Brown.—The Georgia Major appear ed last issue with an excellent cut of Julius Brown. He looks foreign in com pany with the other plantation hands, like old Si and the representative from the “Dark Corner of Lincoln.”—[Colum bia Sentinel. Cleary.—Rev. Eather Cleary, Parish Priest of Atlanta, Georgia, is now on a visit to Key West, where he will remain some time, in hopes that the stay here will benefit his health. Father Cleary is a man of great learning, and a splen did orator. It would be a treat to our city to hear a lecture from. him. —[Key West Democrat, Moran.—Mr. Pascal J. Moran has been appointed night editor of the Con stitution. Mr. Moran is a quiet, unas suming gentleman in his manners, but he is a thorough journalist, possessed of excellent ability, industrious, energetic and careful, and may be classed in the first ranks of Georgia’s most talented corps of the Fourth Estate. We con gratulate him upon his deserved promo tion and his splendid paper, the Constitu tion, upon having secured him.—[Savan nah Times. Congress did one graceful act when it appropriated SIO,OOO for the monument to Commodore DeKalb, at Annapolis. He was the gentleman whose fame is firmly established by two important events—first that he belonged to the United States Navy, while it was in ex istence, and second, because our neigh boring county named itself after him. A new York grocer sells “coffee” at seven cents a pound.—Exchange. He must have gotton possession of a set of pound weights from some Atlan ta grocer, in which event he still clears about four cents upon each alleged pound of alleged coffee. A negro named Jim Langdon was kicked by a mule on Houston street this forenoon and seriously hurt.—[Fort Worth Democrat. Is that so?' And when Jim gets well will the owner sue him for the value of the mule ? Rhode Island s fund for a statue of General Burnside now amounts to more than $30,000. The Georgia fund for the Ben Hill monument is only a little more than one-third as much. The more shame for Georgians. The Milledgeville Union thinks Atlan ta will have to change her name from “Gate City” to “Newspaper Town.” But, why so, Jerry? There are more newspapers “go out” here than in almost any other city in Christendom. Our new Governor was once the presi dent of a base-ball club. This is another proof that commanding qualities will succeed. -The man who could success fully manage an amateur “nine” will have no trouble in acceptably discharg ing the duties of Governor of Georgia. Probably the most effective part of the ice-palace at Montreal was the frieze. —Boston Commercial Bulletin. We should rather have thought it was its shiver-de-frieze. AN absent minded man walked up to the delivery window at the post-office, this morning, and throwing down a quarter, called for a whisky sour. JOURNALISTIC CHAT. “Cheek.” —This brilliant and popular journal has gotten into a new and sty lish dress, and presents an appearance altogether lovely. Dick Steele is a sun ny-natured brother of the band, and we always welcome his bright smiles in our dim retreat. A Bright Star. —Uncle Jim Anderson has recently made great improvements upon the Covington Star. He has fur bished it up until it twinkles like a bran new stellar piece from the gilder’s shop. Success to him and his bright particular Star. The Drummer. —This breezy and au dacious microcosm of fun and fancy has never lost its step since it joined the procession. It is one of the best quoted papers in the guild. Belo. —Col. Albert Belo left Salem N. C., at the end of the war with $lO in his pocket. He rode on horseback to Texas, where he is now the editor and principal proprietor of the Galveston News. The results of the war of the rebellion were, indeed, disastrous to many southerners. Three in a Row. —The editor of Peck’s Sun will soon publish his “bad boy” in book form. The Texas Sifting’s men are working on a volume and Blaine will soon bloom as an author. It therefore looks as though it would be a very warm summer for review editors. —Mod- ern Argo. Big Luck. —The Detroit Free Press has one subscriber paid up seven years ahead. Now is the golden opportunity, says Cheek, for the Free Press to—bust. “What’s this crowd about?” asked the new sheriff of a North Georgia coun ty, as he met a body of men in the big road. “Hit’s about ter hang er boss thief —drive on!” replied the leader. The sheriff drove on. IMPORTANT Art Notice A Magnificent Collection I OF WATER COLOR P aintingS Direct from the Exhibition and Studios of the Lead" ing Artists of ROME, MADRID, NAPLES, FLORENCE, TURIN, MILAN, LONDON, SEVILLE PARIS BARCELONA, VALENCIA, GLASGOW, THE HAGUE, ANTWERP, . AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, EDINBURG DUBLIN The above will shortly be on FREE EXHIBITION AT THE Young Men’s Library ASSOCIATION One week previous to being offered at public sale to be sold without re serve. AT PUBLIC AUCTION. Further particulars will be found in the coming daily papers. Catalogues will be mailed on applica tion. Address • WATER COLOR EXHIBITION, Y. M. L. A., Atlanta, Ga. ““proclamationT GEORGIA : By JAMES S. BOYNTON, * Governor of said State! Whereas, The law requires immediate action. I have, therefore, thought proper to issue this my proclamation, ordering that an election be held on Tuesday, the 24th day of April, 1883, in the State, for Governor of Georgia, to fill the va cancy in said office occasioned by the death of the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. And I do further order that the General As sembly of Georgia convene in extra session on Wednesday, the 9th day of May, 1883, at the Cap ital in Atlanta, to declare the result of said elec tion, or elect a Governor in case no person shall receive a majority of votes cast. Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at the Capital, in Atlanta, this, the Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of Ameri ca the one hundred and seventh. JAMES S. BOYNTON. By the Governor Governor. N. C. Barnett, Secretary of State. The Wives, Sweethearts, Mothers, Sisters and Cousins OF THE Georgia Majors, Colonels and Captains, (the privates were all killed) BUY THEIR Dry Goods AND SHOES FROM DAVID H. Dougherty, the Spot Cash Merchant of Atlanta, Because they can get them cheaper there than at any other store in the State. Fine Silks, Fine Dress Goods, Fine Satins, Beautiful Hosiery, Durable Shoes, Elegant Gloves, Well made and handsomely trimmed Ladies’ Underwear, Are some of the attractions shown. Spring Goods Arriving daily, by Freight and Express. Parties visiting Atlanta should see the New Goods and hear the LOW PRICES quoted, whether they need the goods or not. Give Him a Look,