The Southern watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1854-1882, February 09, 1882, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextNewton conr.ty took "lent*” to het'n. A Tennesseean killed IS crows at one Mint. y i» to make* lour ofthe South jhl lfkrch Morsaa county votes on the fence question February 2Sth'. / Clalrtcott, the actress, ia dead-beatlny hotels In North Carolina. barite, tat women often go about with the least bustle in the world, A new building for insane negroes is being built at Midway. Ga. The gallows stands walling forGuiteau in the Washington Jail yard. — * —« Unltcau declares that he removed Garfield gently and gracefully." The News aud Vidette, of Monroe, have con* solidated. A good idea. A man named Taylor killed tVebb Williams, a miner, in Gilmer county. There were tailawful executions In the United States during the year 1881. Charles H. Foster, the noted spiritualist me dium, la incurably Insane. A Cincinnati hospital doctor la accused of striking a sick man In bed. The Baptist pastors Of Chicago hare declared themselves against revivals. Last year there were 000 suicides and 1,2*7 murders In the United States. A drunken young mnn near St. Louis murder ed his grandmother last week. Oglethorpe county bad another delivery from her now 18,000 jail tbe other day. Lemons, taken freoly, Is said to be the best cute for small pox yet discovered. If It takes ten mills to make one cent, what ate th» y.roflt* in a barrel of flour? About 72.0oo.000 bushels of grain were shipped lrom America to Europe last year. The venom of serpents is said not to differ chemically from the human tallva. A rat weighing 24 pounds was killed in Que bec after having bltte'n two children. » *United ttates. there \ urge nr©*, and the damage fr»o,000,000. *7*7 "* ce, ' ,rco,h '* "tid to be an Indication of blood poisoning. Drink corn whisky. A Swell,h family In New York have eaten 17 puppiei. 2 horses and innumerable cat». Three negroes were poisoned, one fatally by eating spoiled 1 >ecf in Montgomery, Ala. Canada threatens to sever her connection from England and strike for independence. Poisonous pork is killing, number of people ’Ut W est. Raise your own meat, Mr. Farmer. Ex-President lfayes lead a gang of cowards who hung Gultcau in effigy the othor day. ManrDawson. Ga. Willie M, rt in accldcnully ahot and killed his half brother, last week. * A Virginia hog weighs aoopoundi. The hog she has in Congress only weigh s so pounds. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 30,18S2. editor Southern. Watchman: . ' "A, ,6 SlpflO.the announcement. of Madi- Frtm the Sarvnnah Acits. > ftiEUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. Neglect of ita Claims-A Comparison with Em ory and Msrcer-lto Proud Rocord—Uj\]ui Criticism Examined--Whatit has Dane 1 * and msBol^t^ftw*. PeopjJ. of j, examples they aye always doing'good. What religious instruction from books Is equal to Hie pure character of ares- A handsome monument has just iiecn erected in Knoxville over Parson Bvownlow' * grave. There » re more whoops on the Inside of a bar rel of whisky than there n re hoop, on ouuide. Dr. Felton win offer against Hill for the Sen •te. The Doctor is entirely too office-hungry ■ There aro in Congress eight Irishmen, four Scoichmcu, five Englishmen and three Germans. Another plot to assassinate the Czar baa been discovered. This thing i, getting monotonous. It is probable that the Virginia Legislature will uboll,,, the chain-gang and whipping post. s * T ° 2 5,' 06# rcs " lar B »P'l«t chuTchea and 8.850 Roman Cath.dlccathedrals in this counts)-, Georgia haa over a million dulUre in her treasury. Among the funds aro 1,400 ponnds of ton can tell a ladies'age, it ia asserted, by ‘ hc •*“ °* hcr hat-brim—every ineli represents five yoars. A school teacher at Red Bend. Ind., attempt' edto punish a pupil aged 18, and was tubbed to dea;h. A horse was once tried and eon vlctcd at Dyon, France, for killing a child. Tuc animal waa duly executed. r The Spanish government has Instructed the Cuban authorities to abolish corporal punish- meut of negroes. Emah Chaddock and hit wife, each aged* county, aa„ to Arkanaaa. A ghost haa appeared near Toronto. It visit! a d welling at night, robed la white, and vanish- es Into mist when penned. Every execution In Louisiana the past few years has been discovered to be illegal—Ln fact they were judicial murders. While practicing at araherv in Cincinnati a young lady s arrow penetrated the brain of a xnan and killed him instantly. kevl hv^ , ., he b ° J * c »P‘a« wild tur- keya by running them down with horses. They are chased from eight to nine miles During the past menth over 1,000 laborers at work on the Panama canal hat* died of small pox In the little town of Pennomenc. A negro woman In Marlon county fell head foremoat Into a well B0 feet deep without injury ft s lucky she didn't fall sbin-foromost J * H I"? 1 " ,tor mtrri *E c wishes he had one tenth of the money he had fooled away on pthcr girls to buy a baby carriage with Breakfast caps for young ladies come In vart- !“*£!“. N , i ? ht ‘JP* for y° un * gentlemen are also fashionable. They come ln tumblers. *‘“7* Fformons, who have a church. Thereat of the population of that city practice polygamy under other dcnomlnatioual names. Athens w c,u “» »»y«: "terry Gantt, of the WMkliM* MWln * upOD « 01 *»• beat 1 the «nd is unking it uncom- fonably warn for Dr. Felton.” This world of ours 1. quite a wealthy planet “ “>Irteen billion, a year. Its debt take, ten billion., and lu capital 1« elghty-Uve billion,. capital hMbLd.°ta*w h “ V * b °° n •"“•'O »«»> their ntubands In France, on a charge of fighting a wo*iL Th ° hU3b * nd * * c,ed “ anconds and bmh women were wounded. *" ® ,d ? Br ° “* n ,n A,hens carries a certain nole ,ot over 8100—a debt due for canvassing twenty counties. He is offering It Sot sale at a discount. Oen. Toombs says Dr. Miller will go with Fel ton .new party because be is a man of philun- L h ~ P .l and ,* ymp * ,hy ' “ d «■» always be fonnd with those Ju great distress. \. \ { * Negroes who emigrated to Texas and Arkan- sas last tall and winter, are now writing home and begging friends to tend them money to en able them tocomcbaek to old Georgia C * U0d * tn den “* t '* offlee in the city of Charleston, and through mistake he pat the wrong one under the Influence of ether and extracted all her teeth. A suit for damage*. Pattern's, the convict who shot a woman, baa been sentenced to another ten year* in the pen itentiary—to begin when hie present term ex pires. When Felton Is elected Governor hc will pardon him. * ■ -—1 that as a plant oUextneM l0 “" °° prop * rUei by btria * Wiere Is a young man traveling through Tex- u» vaccinating negroes with hoeswax?He „ T , ^7??“ ontby “>« forernment. ohsrgeXjp! and threatens dire penalties to those who refuse w operated on. < , \ t * dJ ‘" ™ to Athene the other day retailing his advertising space ut ISO a year— Mt. Young, of the Crawttndrqie Democrat. Be Informed us that Athens paid gaud prided Yes, 8 Bt may pay for the white paper. The !;»est Improvement ln telegraphy U . mechanical devise whereby a tvoc-wri... Jt one point, connected by wire wttbw^Sto tS atroment at another point, writes out any wpw “JW«x»sa!s»: •^n^b.rwf^ontth.oonrentorc'^I Skates? “ n “ cniud * < Millkdgevii.le, December 31.— For several months past I have notic ed in printand heard in addresses and elsewhere remarks calculated to in jure tbe State University. The impu tation has been pat upon tbe legisla tors of the Btate that they have at tempted to “drum” for the Universi ty. Now, the truth is that it is the only male college in the State which has no “drummers” out, and that to some extent accounts for the fact that the number of pupils is not so great as it has been several years since. The denominational colleges have two “drummers” in the Wesleyan Chris tian Advocate and > in the Christian index, which deal out praise con stantly and unstintingiy of Mercer and Emory colleges, and in which ap pear assertions injurious to the inter ests of the State University. Besides, Emory never fails to be represented at the various District Conferences, of which there are about thirty during the year, and at the annual confer ences and carap-mpethteN • _ la true as tegards the associations and conventions in the case of Mercer. Thus every minister becomes a sub agent in the interests of these colleges. An agent Is employed to travel In the interest of each institution to “drum” up endowment and patronage. The wonder is under this system that in the case of a denomination -having 150,000 members, its institution of learning averages under a hundred pupils yearly. Surely this can not be attributed to the system. It is a wise system, and the denominations are perfectly right in using it. I merely mention It to show that tho opinion generally held that the denomina tional institutions are at a disadvan tage in competing for patronage is to a great extent incorrect. The Univer sity of Georgia lias no organ by which it may speak to the people and tell them of the advantages to be derived from a course pursued in its halls. The press of the State never take any especial notice of the University. T read constantly two leading dailies in which the advertisement of free tui tion occured, and no attention was called to the same at any time, and no notice taken of what may be called an epoch in the history of the institu tion. Of course, Ido not mean that the press should become “drummers” for tlie University, hut I do not see that the interests of the State will be injured by kindly notice and praise being given of the institution at times. The University has no access to any public meeting during the year ex cept directly before the Legislature once, and indirectly by the appear ance of its professors before the State Agricultural Society. It will be read ily seen, then, that if tbe patronage of the University ia not what it ought to be, it is the fault of circumstances, and not in the'Untvexatty, Of course persons intent upon bene- fltting the ‘ denomraationkrctnieges disavow any desire of ipjuring the University of Georgia. May l>e that is so, but there are assertions made which have doubtless caused injury. Some of these I know. I know not how many others of a similar nature there have been made in the still hunt all over the state. I wish to no tice and answer some of these. An agent of one of the denomina tional colleges stated within my hear ing, that even with free tuition at Ath ens, a student could go through the institution he represented at less ex pense; this he said was because of the extravagant mode of living at Ath ens. I cannot imagine how lie could believe this. He certainly could not have tried to inform himself on the point of expenses, or he would cer tainly have known that Athens 1b a much cheaper place to live in than the place in which his institution is situated, having, I suppose, the best wagon trade in tho State, and this causes the products necessary to a boarding house to be cheaper than elsewhere. It may safely be said that Athens is the cheapest place for a col lege for males in the State. Extrava gant habits in Athens are not known. This might have been the case before the war, but not now. The young men who go there do so with apurpose to acquire knowledge, and to be fitted for the conflict of life. I have not specified by name the author of this assertion, for It was made in private. It certainly does not bear publicity, ,1 have been .nformed that a person authorized to represent another in stitution stated atThomasville, where the State University has a branch college, that a student at Athens en joyed no religious advantages at all, little or no religious influences were brought to bear upon him, and the Agent of Mercer University states in his lecture, delivered in different parts of the State, that (he State <mh- not teach religion, thattbis Is entiife- ly outside of ita province, and hence that education at a State university must of necessity be a one-sided edu cation. Now, what is religion ? le it ft belief in predestination or freedom of the will, in immersion or in afTu- sion, in th»Episcopacy or in the Pres bytery, etc. ? Doubtless mkhj 'would sgy so. If so, then' is the State Uni- •pected professor daily to be read by; Superior Court, one Coi the pupils who appear before him. *. ^Athens Itself, -I verilyj believe, has more religious services than any other place in the State. A person coulctbe at church nearly all of Sunday, and actually attend a prayer meeting each night in the week if he so chose. I re peat that persons attending the Uni versity of Georgia have as good relig ious advantages as elsewhere. The State cannot teach religion! Why in the very first act of the Uni- . ted States appropriating lands'for ed ucational purposes we have the fol lowing language: “Articles. Relig ion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall for ever be encouraged.” Encouraged for what? Why the inference can only be to teach religion, morality and knowledge. On this point let me quote what Bishop Clarke said in the Congress of the Episcopal Church which recently met in Providence, R. I. It is quoted approvingly by the National Journul of Education, which CO] States Senators, thirteen Prof essoi flrat class male colleges. Mercer tices one Governor^ three' Jti ~ ,™-»t as postmas- t— cit y> much discussion Is *^ut the actions of the ^J| . brilliant young member from the Winth.’VIllanyo^hlSheretoicro warm and enthusiastic supporters , and ad- k h*d*1 htOsb 9“ WitU,the man v similar pe- ; nqt ln a .direct attack upon the Uni ts shows ho disposition todrive versity of Georgia (for.all intention-of religious instruction from the schools injurlngtheUniversity is disavowed), President of the Confederate States, a Vice President of same, etc., etc. That does not look one-sided, as regards the University of Georgia, at least. There have been many thljjgg said, Mr. John A. Cobb, of Sumter connty, eaya cot- - . „ the w a ^“^to vaiuoto versity debarred from inculcating any ^ °* tortfltam, and that as a plant Rnoh nnrflnnlnr onf nf ia snob particular set of views on its pu pils? But religion has been defined to be “the recognition of Godas an ob ject of worship, love and obedience- right feel jnga toward ,Go& as tightly apprehended.” In this 'sense tlte University Is not debarred the prev ious privilege of attending to the spiritual welfare of those committed tfdter.; Md|fj(i,^(dJhat she can not have any reference to religion, I svy that she does. % scruple not to •ay that the University is not tiw leges in this respect. I know this, r; Altttls flve-yearold boy Was told by his motb- . er to ajnuaehla outer, a child of three. He did -te by telling her the following rtory: “Onoo ’there was a man named Jesm Christ Hewaaa good man, but some had men go) him ai they meant to hang him; and ril ha ssSS Th,B,o ^f ^hftifttii’AteOoUtiofi'ot the Univef. •Uy. This has been kept up for years! Also on every. Sunday evening the Chancellor is required to give a le«- e ^ dent "* wh «»*»reqoiwl to attend. These are always excellent and do great good. The professo) emeo — are all church mem! anywhere; and in this way . by the] of the country. Said ho: “So long as the system of common school education prevails—and in our country there is nothing whicli can be effectually substituted in its place—it would be folly for us to expect that the peculiar dogmas of any denomi nation of Christians should lie impos ed upon the pupils; but there are great fundamental truths of morality and religion common to all whose opinion in such matters is entitled to respect, which might lie taught with out offense, and which must be taught if we would ltope to have our children grow up to be good citizens and be come useful members of society.” I have examined the catalogue of most of the State Universities and all of them seem to require as much at tention to morality and religion as the denominational colleges. But the agent of Mercer University having promised that the State can have nothing to do with religion, says that State education, therefore, must be one-sided. In proof of this state ment let me refer him to a few exam ples. The class of 1826 was a conspic uous example of one-sidedness in ed ucation at a State University. In that class there were only four Judges of the Superior Court, one each for Geor gia, Texus, Alabama and Florida; on ly one Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States; only two members of Congress, only one professor serv ing in Kentucky, Tennessee and Geor gia; only four ministers of the gospel. This is one-sided of course, for no con ductor of a railroad train, no book agent is mentioned in the list. Tite class of 1629 is another shining exam ple of the one-sidedness in education. In it there were only five professors of male colleges of high grade (twwPree- idents and one Chancellor); two bish ops I Aye doctors of divinity among seven ministers of the gospel; one treasurer of the State of Georgia; one surgeon at the United States Military Academy at West Point, not to men tion doctors, lawyers, farmers, teach ers, etc. Surely it is one-sidedness in education when the class of 1838 pro duces such men as J. T. Irwin, Speak er of the House of Representatives of the Georgia Legislature; John Le- Conte, President of University of Cal ifornia, etc; B. M. Palmer, D. D., the foremost Presbyterian minister of the South; Williams Rutherford, Profes sor of Mathematics, University of Georgia; Shelton P. Sanford, Profes sor of Mathematics of Mercer Univer sity. But jesting aside, it does seem that this is rather many-sidedness than one-sidedness. Away with such an idea that the education which has given to juris prudence Campbell, of the Supreme Court of the United States, Chief Jus tice Jackson, Herschei V. Johnson, Junius Hillyer’ T. R. R. Cobb, and Chief Justice Benning; to legislation, Alex. Stephens and -Howell Cobb,and John Gill Shorter and Ben Hill, and Nathaniel J. Hammond ;*to education,' Crawford, Waddell, father and son, Hlllyer, Joseph and John LeConte, Curry, Rutherford and Sanford; to the church, Bishop Pierce (Methodist), Bishop Scott (Episcopalian), Palmer (Presbyterian), and William \yil- liams (Baptist), must be one-sided, To show that religion must be pro scribed at a State University, in one class of seventeen only seven were ministers of the gospel, not quite half; in a small class of four only two were ministers, Just half. I have ex amined the catalogue of Emory and Mercer, and find that comparison with them is not at all against the State University, rather otherwise. Of the .eight Chancellors-whi$h the University haa. hid, all .Uiuve.been ministers but tbe first one. Let me give some figures with reference to the three institutions, and let us judge whether the education obtained at Athens Is any more one-sided than that obtained at Macon or Oxford. I take the year 1875 as the limit of my comparisons—for we have cata logues of all three of the institutions extending only to that year. Let us begin at the founding of Mereer and Emory colleges. The catalogue of Meroer contains more information with regard to her alumni tikv'the catalogues of the University of Geor gia and Emory College—having some information ooncerning nearly every alumnus. Emory’s has not a great deal, and the catalogue of the Univer sity of Georgia gives information con cerning those only who have attained to some prominence. Let us see them as to ministers of the GospelEmory reports 185, Mercer 64, and tire State University reports) 68, four more thafa' Mereer for the same time. That is not a bad showing fbr a place which is de barred from teaching religion. Doubt less, for apparent reasons, the number of ministers is greater in tire last .case than afpears. This is not ataHprob- abieln the other two eases. In the case qf Emory, the other figures that’ I shall give may be too small, but they arertethpf ut^teUTthe list of alumnU Mfircer's catalogue probably oon tains .the full list. In the period under consideration then, Emory no tices no Governors, one Judge of Su- ~ Court » e Congressmen, two .United but indirectly. For instance, the edi tor of the Wesleyan Christian Advo cate took occasion a short while since to depreciate military colleges, say ing that they were out of keeping with tlie age, but that many persons were attracted by brass buttons and stripes, and hence would attend mili tary colleges—implying, of course, that they were actuated by no higher motives in so doing. Now, the editor must know that these schools do not make a specialty of forming soldiers out of its pupils. Not the least germ of an Idea is implanted in their minds that a career of arms should be con sidered a profession of life. The young men are taught to such an extent that they would not be fit fora green squad if their country need their services. Tlie editor has studied to little pur- pose if he has not learned that in pro portion os a country is able to defend itself does it lessen the chances of be ing at war with other countries. I re fer him to Buckle’s History of Civili zation for information as to how gun powder has tended to civilize the world, aud hence lessen the num ber of wars. Let each of two nations be con viced that the other is prepar ed, and there will be little war. Cer- tainly, then, these schools are not out of keeping with the age. What objec tion can there be to them, then ? The exercises of drilling give the young men a good carriage, and develop the physique. Is there anything wrong in this? Young men will have exer cise. They should have exercise. Some, however, are Inclined to neg lect it. What better plan could there be than for the University to take this exercise in hand anff regulate and re quire it? Is base hall (tire ordinary amusement of college boys) to be pre ferred to -this? Certainly notel It is far more violent, and is not controll ed. Morally, far more evil feeling and speaking is engendered thereby than could be in drilling where everything is carried on systematically? Some institutions, Vanderbilt for instance, have established gymnasia as a substitute. This does very well for the exercise at least. There should be a a gymnasium and an overseer and instructor in every institution that can afford it. We value too little tlie truth “Sfcru tana in tano corpore.” As to the uniform (brass buttons, etc.) besides the economy, it has other qual ities, as does the whole system, which would commend themselves favorably to the editor were they near enough home to him to be examined with care. But from time immemorial de- caudalized foxes have been running through the country preaching the beauty of foxes without tails. Mr. Vulpes Reynard, editor of the Trapp- ville Sly-Sheet, devoted to Home In terests, Decaudalization of the race of Foxes, etc., laments in plaintive tone that Miss Sharpnoee has married Mr. Fuchs, and says: “But there are many foxes so silly as oven to be lead away into matrimony by the beauty of a brush.” Souvestre in “Le Philosophe sous les Toils,” tells us that a magician of Bagdad had two sons—one blind and one enjoying a! j the delights of sight. The'bllnd'boy being subjected to the taunts of his more fortunate brother on ope occasion bewailed hie sad fate so much that tho tether promised to give *him whatever he might ask. "Can you give me sight?” said he. -“Fate does not permit it,” said his father. “Then,” said the boy eagerly, "I ask yon to put out the Bun.” I come now to another indirect at tack upon the University; for, though unintentionally done, it is calculated to stir up ill feeling toward friends of the University, ♦hloh anyone knows is naturally transferred to theUniver- eity. I refer, of course, to the giving of $2,000 to the University by the Leg islature. I believe the editor of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate'says hc has no objection to the $8,000 interest annually paid on the debt owed the University. Now, as I have' under- stood, this (2,000 k only for one. year to tie over till next summer on account of obligations entered into. Perhaps I may be wrong. Suppose a& In view of ail the facts was it wrong to give this money? The agent of Mer cer says it is. (Why?); for It makes collegiate education so bhesp that it will not be appreciated. Strange, but stranger still is when he states within less than fifteen lines that the the Atlanta Ui think not. Why was not to the poor—public Oh, I understand now. M' greatly . concerned for schools. Well, it was m seven Professors In first class colleges. Athens reports no Gov< ors, eleven Judges, eight Judges Su perior Court , three Judges Supreme Court, one Senator, eleven Congress men, twenty-five Professors in n colleges of high degree. (Thee logue doesn’t mention female leges). In its whole course the Uni sity ahpws on ita dtslogut u^Feek after wee Judges, thirty-four Superior Coi ten Judges Supreme Court, one Ju< Supreme Court of the United States, 7 three Senators, five Governors, thirty- nine Congressmen, two Bishops, for ty-three Professors in first-class male colleges, one hundred and seventeen ministers of the Gospel; also a Speak er of the United States House of Rep resentatives, two Comptroller Gener als of Georgia, a State Treasurer, a verMty 1 given- „ stem? beholdf, editor is runii 9& ’ pttblid .PAW** wth it, ifet a. stone’s throw iybthus. ^ y .’ ^ competing road. t .-editor' r ^ ;*.*»*.,*.■*, \ -~ opened his columns and invited «nent intruder is the Cuautitlan Nar- Gold lace is coming Into favor asi — — 8e „t row-guage, which was here before the vqrsity has given totiie hyafichfiSP he*., income, amounting to the first named shm. versity of Georgia (for all lntention of ®ow* let us take last year as an aver- ■ RAILROADS III MEXICO. hm^.iijxxte+B-t'.l It laiiJ Pleated puffs make effective tabllers Scotch ginghama are no w offered for aJe-’H «. ■. I. I.'W pendent ofwfcht? • nere ft Iff Ilia-nut- party ; independent of tie ttfsiftrm tite white people of the South; a* in dependent'that for a' few words bi flat- .... , _ , te *y from the Racjfcajparfy; ho turns in against the system, and was a Me “ can Central got its charter, and j Chenille dotted tullo is used for ball hlsbaek^Mpon the intelligence of tho ■ strong opponent of the system. -Hal/ "***£• 'I' V'. ' ; joins ;4he negro and W|ca! ture’s greatest law is change.” Edi- the Palmer and Sullivan folks, as tlie Levantine satins ate superseding P art y, ahd seeks to bring hack to old tors change'their views sometimes 1 .” Wffitnnlng.Of their.maln.line to Lpjrp- Surah Bilks. . : „ , * Georgia thbdayai'of Bullock and^^Uia But waa it wrong? ^ThepewonWftd ue.ftw forty. Atlny silverteapotlsthenewwateh •* nfa te*»«oh. He is “joined tohla drags denominations into such a'ifl&d 1 JhWw epfi«tej»A;wtil keep pretty close charm/ ' ldolB »” and sets himself, up as their as this ought to be certain : ofKit for mlto*, whem they, turn to „ , j leader. AIeaderofSvho s ? r A crowdof #ound. Ignorance is no Axeuae^ t**™***”* the.Paeifle.biMar, •^"ags.negroes, K&ft and the £>lng. injury to an innocent 1 pkrtW ^ u - Ignorance of the couiitry. He is “o Now, instead of the State’s luttltii neftiterteextenaton throuribflan Luts * Lhemlle rocheo are stylish trim- mire a fit representative of ' given $2,000 totiwUnlYcnttetf.Oedii.' to’ : lM’Mtlw^Mkte’bir^, Secretary of the United States Treasr jAt, I think Tcan aho» «QnMaiare>i.T<i^M te^ia-'' *h« blackest negro Radical "ry, o Solicitor of same, a Provisional, ftqfctbe-Unlversity has given $48 M0 •**»■ i^hihnahWWAnd El JtieOiosendjWi jW 1 ®. mourning. , ;j'' helfas made hte Iiblitloal - to the State, at least $35,000 of which* APaelfla nbmnoh .to.th* ooast at Young ladies use tulle ruches ja ‘ b ®^^ Justiy claim mahV pi has gone to (he support of the belovCff and a.GuU hranob, via n flan, m&imiipi't* lace. ,. ; r' lT ’ followers, •“* public schools. Since 1873 the iJitf? ^ rfr^Tf age, and we Slid that there were in these branch colleges 997 pupils, of which 837 were in public school grades, and 160 were in college grades (sophomore and fr«»qhm [ nw-»j..ceir.X Jnadiaitaavlt. %"|i vnllny. whl-h Only one sixth teete in fepUtge grades. Let uq say one-fourth of the money went to instructing these college pu pils. There remains still more than $36,000 given by the University of Georgia to the public schools of the State—voluntarily given. It has made in five sections of the State free schools for nine months open to the people where three months was the school term before. This somewhat offsets the twenty inferior schools for three months mentioned by the editor. The unselfishness of the State University will appear when it is known that very few of these pupils ever go be yond these s c 11 oo Is —n ay, ! more, that at leastone-third are girls, and cannot attend the University of Georgia, and of the pupils going elsewhere to com plete their course, some go to the de nominational colleges. Will the edi tor enlighten his Baptist and Metho dist constituency upon this generosi ty? Will he become indignant be cause tlie: public school.'', system has absorbed $35,000 of the University’s money and is absorbing it yearly at the rate of $9,500? I fear he loves the public school system too well for that. But why should there be any pull ing against each other in this glorious work of education ? There is enough for all to do. I am happy to state, and X know that Drs. Havomnn »**<( t daw Meroer eoaktomaW tuition free Vthem to work. If rise at kO^hefi as education at tfaa University iroffiSSJESfSSTE IF '-£3353: tuition at Meroer is not article there furnished too cheap, though Inclined to dissent, Tfim too tian A^4W«s^iiifcleti555eth? dists and Baptiste to Interview legis- tt °y *btod for the gift of (^OOO.Why nottbeEplsotipaliaas, the Presbyterians, etc., if the thing is wrong? Ah, thev have »ri know that Drs. Haygood and Land rum, rejoice with me, that a young man’s mental, physical and spiritual welfcre is not imperiled at Athens, Oxford or Macon. God be thanked for three such noble and Christian bodies LqtnsieeOjfnize the fket that the better and. more prosperous one institution Is, just to such an extent the others will tend to be—if let alone. I am glad of the existence of the de nominational (Ifieprecate the name sectarian) colleges. They do a noble work. Every church ought to have a college. It is recreant when it does not. But these colleges will be better for the existence of others. The exist ence of a multitude of nations is best for liberty; the existence of a number’ of evangelical denominations is best for the purity of the faith, and for the holiness of the members; even so the existenoe of oolleges of good grade is best for the attainment in each of high scholarship and good conduct. Let me not be misunderstood. No one be lieves more strongly than I in denom inational schools. I am not on the offensive, but defensive. I am merely defending, my alma mater, whom I love, from assertions made without sufficient consideration. ' • » ... FABRionrs. • hirers have cast him overheard, and ■ “e palned-to {acknowledge that the* onde wejte.jfollowers ofataan so car- H y 6eIf ‘ a ^ ran dizement as ** MUfdt flte duty lie Dwes hjs constlt* • * uenteiwtd the South at large, ami who foree u l^ B a °nce dow u- _ - r ‘ ism and m rOHdAd jteoepertty wlth-’Hfc’ threats of » railroad war, and I thjnjff that within a year theratesfor freight and passage between Cuaatitlan and Mexico will be badly demoralized. The most Interesting part of the rall- \ POISON FOR THE PEOPLE. f Ftert ami Health. Committee of experts tell of adultera tion in food that is simply appalling. Were the ingredients whleh are mixed with food lnocnous it would still be a very great hardship; but when it is known that the most violent poisons are employed it is a marvel that the whola country does not rise up and put a stop to such practices and punish all dealers who sell poisonous articles of food. If confirmation of these startling state ments were needed one has only to read the facts recently brought to light in Chicago, where itta impossible to find MjjflMB nnt m mmm ° f the mtlkisgo^cL Inthat city the bread, without exception, is poisonous; the of leaves ‘faced”BrasiSn'btoe ami chromate of lead. 8eveittylfive per cent, of the cream of tartar is white earth, and' the. coffee is coated with lampblack But CMMgo ia ho W*se than other cities. Baking powders are largely composed of ahim.JDIckling fluid diluted with stflphhric add, alum and verdigris to give it a * it accomplished by using the Tajo de Nochistongo, or cut of Nochistongo, a gigantic hydraulic work, which was undertaken 270 years ago for the pur pose of draining the valley, and which Is one of the world’s wonders merely from its magnitude, it is some five miles in length, it is at the deepest part two hundred feet in perpendicu lar depth, for a length of more than half a mile its depth ranges from 150 to 200 feet, while there are more than two miles of it where the height is from 100 to 130 feet. This is a bigger cut than the cat in passenger rates to Chicago last year, and no other coun try but Mexico could have done sa vast a work, and spent so much time and money to produce so small a re sult. It was commenced in 1607, and finished in 1789. It cost over $6,000,000 in cash, although the work was done by forced labor, and cost the lives of 60,000 Indians, and it is no account. Its history is peculiar as a history of failures. It was designed to carry off the wa ters of the Lake of Zumpango, whose overflows had inundated the capital, and on the 28th of November, 1607, the Viceroy made the first stroke of the pick in what was proposed as a tun nel. Fifteen thousand Indians were kept at work, and in eleven months they had pierced a gallery four miles long, with a section of twelve feet in width and fourteen feet high. The water of the lake was let in, and as the gallery was in loose earth the cur rent promptly commenced to wash the earth down. They kept digging it out and constructing lateral sluices until finally, in 1629, ip a tremendous rain, the tunnel filled, the lake over flowed, the city was flooded, and those who had no boats and couldn’t swim had to stay at home. The engineer was put in jail, but that did no good. Then the Virgin of Guadalupe was brought to the city, and even that method failed to lower the level of the water. The city remained flooded for five years until an earthquake opened some subterranean passages and let out tho water. Then the Virgin of Guadalupe was restored to her shrine, the engineer was let ont of prison and told to go to work and enlarge the tunnel. This he proceeded to do, but ln 1637 the direction of the work was handed over to a religions order, the monks of St. Francis, who started to make aa open cut of the tunnel. They worked at it for forty years, when the job was taken away from them and given to a lawyer. He. went to work so vigorously, throwing down earth Into the water course, that in two months he had the tunnel blocked up again, and this time It staid blocked up for eighty years. Then they.got it open again, but It was neveif-dpen enough to carry off all the water of a « e g» , ®« A »- kaixsas travelers- about iif when it rained hard and the eitywas flooded they could not get at the work—when the dry season came they didn’t need any drainage; In 1745 the merchants of the city took hold of it, and in 1789 they had the cut completed as the Mexican Central Company found it. a great; aeal or our confectionery should be punished as a crime, for ranch of the candy ao)d to children is limply a lump of white earth, made attractive to the eye with arsenical paint and i*eetenedtvfth gluco#., Cost- ly spices are countoHeited ta a terribly grotesque manner, the flavoring being given by the rankest poisons. In tbese n*" 1 -f-n ariultniati .... _ the largest part. We import annually 2,000,000 pounds of this * “ cent’s worth Of 1*800 people—and the bulk . A fry _ „ port la usedin the preparation of food Baptists have it in their power toon- and clothing. • ,'k. cases -of “wto- dering needles.” The most occurred'in insane persons, who hav? a liking for pwallopring Si“2SL£s= dies as does an old pin-cushion^ Af- calglrl swallowed 495 needlra^cTbjoh subsequently presented themselves at and were n relieved of some whiclrpassed out of her'hand, arm, side, chest and thigh,: two years after she had swallowed them. The above related cases were not unattended with any painful effects, and one nee- sssssasaz- White gauze brocaded with gold is used for ball dresses. • intel- i than fs iwhoia* Oaaer Inent, fed ttoem to'the “Slough ’of$ctpon±” ' ‘ht.’Wttteh lmidHfgbts te wallow, Omy • grow disgusted,*afid are fltet r ^ Diamonds are set in a row around the finger in guard rings. An interrogation point in diamonds is a new Parisian brooch. Geona point lace is worn plain an the fabric without fullness. Mother of pearl satin is the novelty for wedding dresses. Appliques of velvet or plush on Bat in are seen on opera cloaks. > No wardrobe is complete during Lent without a severe black dress. Pongee trimmings wrought in lace patterns are among the late novelties. A gold sunflower it the aesthetic de sign for breastpins and finger-rings. ” A short mantle of sealskin completes Parte dresses of brown watered ailk. A single piece of Russian lace is made to cover the front of satin dress skirts. A garland of mixed roses ia newer than the corsage bouquet for evening dresses. Natural sunflowers and lilies are now used by florists to decorate draw ing rooms. Folding screens for holding eight or ten photographs are handsome when covered with plush or velvet. Primary colors and old-fashioned shades are announced forsprlnggoods in place of the faded bines and dingy greens now fashionable. WHAT MAKES A NOBLEMAN. I deem the men a nobleman. \Vho acta a noble part, *'»»’»• »hke by word and deed He bath a true man’s heart. s &&’t£t£’M h,Dn eUe ’" I doem the man a nobleman Who stands up for the right, “ *““■ -rk for charity in the work ror cnaritr x«?i ln £ 11 P le “ure and delight. **• °S manliness . .^BpPthif open brow, And never yet was known to do An action mean and low. to tite cratlc party, whose key unlocked the doors of the Radical prison, loosed us from our bondage, and sent smiling peace, plenty and prosperity through out the length and breadth of oursim- ny Southland. Goon, Speer, with your work of de struction. Call together your hoarde of howling negroes, thieving carpet baggers and black-hearted Radicals. Come on with your hungry army and make fierce your warfare against the land of your birth; against the charge entnjsted to your keeping; against the intelligence of the country ;against white man’s rule and in favor of negro supremacy. Your reign is shori; your political grave is dug; and the next election will bury you so deep that it would take millions of years for the sound of Gabriel’s trumpet to wake you up. The tombstone, with tlie in scription, “False! Unhonored!” is ready, and as you sink out of sight with your gang of ignorant negroes and Radical plunderers a shout will go up from the white man’s party that will echo and re-ceho among the mountains nnd valleys of the Ninth district when your name and your works have long been buried in obliv ion. Reformer. AN HISTORICAL INCIDENT. 16eem the tn&n a nobleman Who strives to aid the weak, A wA,S?fc? r i h «*?i eT ® n ** * wronf, WouM kind forgiveness epeak: Who reea a brother in all men. From peasant unto kin*. Yet would not crush the meanest worm. Nor harm tho weakest thin*. ' I doem tha man a nobleman— Yes. noblest of his' kind— '&7fa. ,xc * tee W Th. (W rood iU. Who loves the _ And aids It all he can. de- 1 The Colored Weather Prophet.' New Tfark Sun: Toby, the surname- less cqRKSd elottd-reade® of Oradell, N. J., promises to rival the Canadian oracle and tite Hackensack, meteorol ogist. He accurately, . foretold' the . t for Friday.^ Saturday li ^ e ®, ^ a slip of atalk; with a reporter on Tlmrsday. ? a PfJ*° m hi *P<>pR«Undwrote: - g7 - reporter q»TbMMky: From the testimony of appreciative neighbors, Toby’s predictions for the past three years' have been more gen erally correct than- those of Devoe, yennor and the Weather Boppm* Toby’s modesty looms up ih string with the self-assertiveness of the oth er prophets. He has, Aoreover, no scientific theories to explain why. he misses. His methods seem to be un translatable. He maybe likefie^ to Blind Tom, in that he confessedly prognosticates because he cannot help W“ : • '■ . er-f’ P. d t «T«t>'j-0’jSMaor « The Lion And the Lady.. . . . 1 *0II*— •> Wt Bottom Pott a pair of i ion cubs on few years ago, on Thursday paid a „ visit to one of^|^ t ttiilfoa Ethper&r.. “ The) huge beast recognized her and manifested his delight by the most eixtravagant demonstrations. He lick ed her hand, sprang np and; placing hiapawa nponr the gtatta«i>*MM46 force his head through the bars. Mrs. Lincoln laid her fees against hto vast jaws and put her arms through (he -j Heputout bis pawsto “shaim athjs mistress comm$nd f ,>nd thenj as if OVfiPnnmft with inw lav r^Anm anil lng altogether like a frisky kltten. Don’t use the eyes for reading or fine work in the twilight of evehing or early taoon. ” iwvT ^ * * ltd'll “ HOW TO ADVERTISE. A Hartford, (Conn.), man wi nouncing newspaper advertising to a crowd of listeners. “Last week,” said he, “I had an umbrella stolen from tho vestibule of church. It was a gift and val uing It very highly, I spent double the worth in advertising, but I-have not recovered tt.” j- “How did you word the advertise ment?” asked a merchant. “Here It 1b,” said the man, produc ing a slip cut from a newspaper. The merchant took'it and read: vpVat, the .vestibule of the ■ church last Sunday evening a black silk umbrella. The gentleman who took it will be handsomely re garded by leaving it at flan Fernando •treat.” “How,” said the merchant, “I «m a liberal advertiser and have always found It paid me well. A great deal depends upon the manner, in which an advertisement te put. i Let us try for your umbrella again:Kftd ir you do not then acknowledge that advertte- ing pays I will purchase you a new one.” . i “Jf the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the vestibule of the “* church last Sunday does not wish to get into trouble and have a stain cast upon the Christian charac ter which he values so highly, he will return it to No.—- San Fernando street. . He Is well known.” TMa'iUtiy appeared in tlie paper, and on the following morning the man was astonished when he opened tite front door of bis residence. On the porch lay at least a dozen nmbrel-' IasofaUahades and sizes that had been thrown. In; from the sidewalk, •J sotton Pott. had hot— Jivea hi accordance with the conditions and begging the loser to keep the lit- tie affair qi man .......pnibieHaatow^. andJs Mtar n—t ot. the lavgut wholeaMe ^aiere In that-article in the world. Judicious advertising always pays. first assistant postmaster gener- the following prefer ^ . “Postmasters will not allow non- 7 subscribers to take from the boxes, ■trtr will they hand to them tiewspa’ pers addressed to.subscriberej refolded as if overcome with joy, lay down and and^retumed^tntbZZZZ’ ° la , rofted over uttefl»g.m^hUe gueef little grants aud .growls, and behavs^^-’ verbal or written front'sUch subscriber. A vio* on of this regulation will be con- sidernd os sufficient groupd for the re moval efithe ■ Don’t take some other person's me- . iu are troubled some what as they were.'' ’ As a newspaper correspondent, I had occasion to visit the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, in February, 1869, to witness the exhumation and rendition to their respective relatives and friends of the remains of the con spirators in the Lincoln assassination. President Johnson was about to go out of office, and he issued an order permitting Christian burial to tlie bodies of the five persons implicated in the death of Lincoln—Booth, Mrs. Surratt, Atzerodt, Payne and Harold. They had been buried in ammunition boxes of common pine wood, six feet long, two feet wide and two feet deep. When the lid was lifted from Booth’s coffin his face was perfect, with tho exception of a small hole about the size ofa dime in eaclt cheek. His hair was in as good condition as if he had just come out of a barber shop. In taking out the body to plaee it in a handsome rosewood coffin supplied by his mother, Mrs. Booth, of Baltimore, the head dropped oft' front the body. Not so with Mrs. Surratt. Her face and form were perfect and she looked like one in a happy, dreamless sleep. Her head adhered to the body in the process of transfer. Payne’s body was greatly wasted, but Atzerodt’s was the worst of all; for wlteii the army blanket that covered his remains were lifted up it revealed a shapeless mass of blackened boues and ashes, with a bald and separated skull in one eor- Taiking of this matter of the Lin coln assassination, I remember ask ing Andrew Johnson one day, when we were traveling through East Ten nessee, at a time when lie was run ning for Congressman-at-large against Horace Maynard and Frank Cheat ham, why it was lie did not pardon Mrs. Surratt. He was in a communi cative mood and he said: “The true history of that case has never been told. It was represented in the papers that I refused to see An nie Surratt (the daughter of Mrs. Sur ratt) when she came to tlie White House, the morning of the execution, asking for tho pardon of iter mother. Tho fact is that I never knew it was Miss Surratt, because a man named Muzzy, who had general charge ofthe White House, came to me aud said that a crazy woman was down stairs and wanted to get in and see me, and she wouldn’t give iter name, but was crying and tearing her hair and ex hibiting all the evidence of insanity.” “But would you have pardoned Mrs. Surratt,” I asked, “supposing you had known better?” “I might have,” he replied, in his blpfi way; “she didn’t do the shoot ing, but was an accessory to it." Ingeraoll'K Creed. Interview in Ckicmjo Timet. 1. Happiness is the only good. .<-> . 2. The way to ho happy te to make others, happy. Other things being equal, that man te happiest who is tite nearest just—who is truthful, merciful and in telligent—iu other words, tho one who of life. 3. The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. 3. Reason is the lamp of the mind— the only torch of progress; and instead of b[owin'g that but and depending upon darkness and dogma it is far better to fnfcroaso that sacred light. "•'5. Every man should be the intellect ual'proprietor'of himself—honest with himself and intellectually hospitablo— and upon every brain reason should bo enthroned as king. ’• That every man must bear the con- itu&s], at least of his own actions; T he puts his hands in the fire, his hands must smart, and not the hands of another. In qtheVwords, that each man must eat the fruit ‘of the tree he plants. Don’t wear’close, lteavy fur or rub- .3?on’t try to.lengthen your days- by cutting short your night’s rest; it la poor economy.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Southern watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1854-1882, February 09, 1882, Image 1