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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,