The Southern watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1854-1882, March 02, 1882, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextL man In Goodmap. Ml**., QJtlbftnd fcevtAdfcn dead with a rifle. llahltN arc de*crD*4 as coupons attached to il»«* of matrimony \>\, A Nthitr boy of 1**. y negro wo • was married in 1 of 4'olumbu* made Ujc c^g *tand. but Italian* of 1< >* note uiado the peanut stand The cotton nnd woolen mills at \Vc«*on, Mi**., pay M jmr cent per annum nu their Mock. A swam of bee* in California settled on a bi* sitUlasnuke nnd slung it to death. AOinan killed a scorpion with a krt and no tail. A Kentucky icad on each e Hev Charges A, Stately. of Klberlon, was t i» d to Alina Davis, near Augusta. t is said that Jay Gould once sold mouse trap? i u living. He now deals in man traps. Miss Klnlln. of Chicago. t**ently married a Mr. Wood. Little splinters will be picked up A man near Griffin has •lO.OOO peach trees on i is farm, and is ndding 200 more acres to his or- Illinois congregation has arraigned its r for habitual drunkenness, playing cards inday and lying consumer for chimney* has gone Cincinnati. We will attach one to cigarette-holder. Southern Hates had Itv’iOO.OOO acres in ii't year; and lost ntxmtt'ion every acre i planted. *• Spragi T'i her hn»b« !'« be tarred ai ic has been formally divor ml. ConVling, her acducc id feathered. c are 1.000 Indians yet in the Everglades ida. They speak their own language, but inerted city, sixty miles long, cut out of i ky face of n winding cllIT, has been dis- ■d in New Mexico. Another lunatie asylum was burned near New York lust week, nnd two of the imnuter. perish- Mt In the flames. In Sumter county. S. c.. there is much com plaint about the no-fciiec law. and the farmers threa'.en to go !>a'*k to the old plan. fseiotis heii cold, of day nor darkness* until, at nine he, this woman of rare grac» rnd match- o’clock, lier niaid brought» cup of coffee I preventea bv sickness'in invfamily less charm, whose eye rested so worship- to her door. Thi servants had been a,.-] afcd , bu ,i, les „ engagements, from fully on the face of the rnnn who had prised of Uie master’s return the »•***^giving eorller attention to the coni- hefore. She took the coffee now imd - nlunicatioa of Dr . felton wb ich ap- tlirown himself on the cushion at her leet—older than the years themselves would warrant, for 9lie, Sydney Keed, was in reality but six years fleorge Win ston’s senior. But six years leave their impress when their way lies over burn ing plow shares. There were lines upon the lovely face, and a sadness in the beautiful eyes, no time unaided could have wrought. She passed her hand now, lialf-bewllderingly, across her brow. “fs sorrow for me really at an end I” she murmured. “I cannot grasp it!” “At an end forever, darling, if my strength avails anything to keep it from yon7door, for to-night you belong for the last time to yourself. To-morrow you belong to me!" answered the young, confident voice. He was hut twenty-two, this i>oy. SJie was twenty-eight, and a widow. Her married life had been one of unutterable wretchedness. Four years la-fore, lier hiisliand had deserted her. Two years later she had learned of bis death, which cl frit* ; tor’.- platform in I liean party? Who has risen up to c °u;Mr.iJ, February21,1882. , standoh that platform withtheDo* SSXSSL drank it. “When Mr. Winston comes." said, “admit him yourself, Marie, and bring him immediately here tome." An hour later, her door opened. “Not dressed, my darling!" cried a happy voice. “Sydney, in God’s name, what bus happened?” For he saw now the white, haggard face, upraised so piteously to his. With marvelous strength and calui- peared I in the columns of the AtltmSr ?° ,,w £****!»»«* Democratic « sb< ‘, Constitution oft he 14th instant. There is really but one issue between Dr. Felton and myself. That issue is It AS tic IX FACT JOINED THE REFUR- LICAX PABTV? It is my purpose to discuss that issue upon the evidence. The Doctor, as is well known, lins frequently been a candidate for Congress, and elected in ness she told him all. lie lhtenfcd at- j his district as ail independent Demo- lent I v until she had quite iiuUhcd, and I crat. In his last race, however, he then, with one bound, he gathered her suffered a crushing defeat, which very to his arms. “What is this man to you that he much increased his bitter feelings to wards the organized Democracy. should take you from me? You are > Some time ago he formulated a politi- * 1 never will forego my ! °#l platform, and lirst published it in mini.—mine, claim!” At the old, tender masterfulness, of his tones , her woman bowl- reasasrte<Wt a Chicago paper. In the many con tests which he had in his own district, die had ncvei befbMVbuiKMCiiflceasai^r Ml elf. She bowed her head ujarn his to do such an act. About the time breast, and burst in a passion of sobs. “My love—my own!" lie whispered. “This is but a chimera of the darkness. had taken place in a drunken brawl in a j Our wedding-day lias dawned—you are mine! Oh, my darling, come to me!” But now she lifted up her face. “He is iny husband, George,” she said. "M.v duty lies with him. Now, leave me, I can liear no more. Aon, who have always said you loved best in me niv womanhood, my purity—you would not tempt me to sin V No, dear, | and to And it." “No, Sydney, I s of amusement on Sun r-aaipe when r.,ke,l ny > iiled Snliliath-HchiHil. eoiiinl marrlaiEr* of Hindoo women are in- aeinic. Ijdely u widow of only seven years . married in I'nleutla. pepper hush ept through the -rt high and heat tear luildin, (ia., hoe iieen sinter tor -da years. It is 12 abundantly. daui;htei.« of Mr. Robert Cun ire living—aged respectively, t human raerillees n heathens of Africa t'ellou among them i e being offered up Supiiose we scud t a missionary? vltile women eloped from Holiday imrg. last week with colored men. We pity ii lioan the poor, misguided negroes. "I lie pojiulailou of the Vnltcd States haa In creased IT.OOA.iul sinee the late war. It ought to he dee reused to tin- extent nf those Mormons. far Western city. She had |dit on the outward badge of mourning in memory of tlie days when lie, handsome and reckless, had smiled away her girl's heart. She buried in his unseen grave lier weight of woe, and with it all Ids faults. She thought, too, that she had long buried youth and hap piness, but three months since they tad resurrected themselves, and listening to George Winston’s pleading words and loving prayer, she found resistance had f died her, and so granted him the Ixxin ) he asked of ln-r. And to-morrow was to lie her second i wedding day. Fondly find hopefully lie i painted to lier the coining veal's, each , moment of which should bo to her a rec ompense for past misery. She said little. It was such joy to hear his voice, to feel Ids touch, to creep into the shelter of his love arid rest there, grateful and content. It was ten o’clock when she bade him good-night. She still felt the tender pressure of liis lips upon hers as she mounted the stuirs to her room. She had made hint leave her thus early be cause some of her preparations were yet to be made for to-morrow, and she had promised him to retire before midnight —though her waking dreams, she said, were so much sweeter than any slumber igbt bestow, she hardly thought the ; »« d hu laid tbe beav - v b,,rdcn doW n * j this platform appeared he had a se- i erct conference at the Markham House I in Atlant&with a number of the most {influential members of the Republi- ] can party in this State. None but | Republicans were present at this | meeting. It was at once charged 1 through the newspaper press that the conference had been licld for the pur- ! pose of forming n coalition between : I>r. Felton and the Republican party in Georgia with a view to controlling government of the; State except Re publicans? Is it possible that the Republican party of Georgia , has be an organization? Has the national- 'hold was never sought by me. Felton Republican party given ppits Repub- can ism and come forward as au organ ization and given ip its adhesion to the Doctor and become entirely, along witli him, Democratic as he pretends to lie? Are President Arthur, Gobb ling, Grant and the other ten thousand stalwart Republicans, whose business for years it has been to wave the “bloody shirt" and oppress the South ern people, independent Democrats? What a great political evangelist has Dr. Feltou become! He has succeeded in making everybody outside of the organized Democracy independent Democrats and patriotic people. Tlte question is not whether pretending that the whole Republican party has come to him to join with him in purifying the government of tile eountry. Have the Republicans given up their organization, or is the Doctor acting in eoncert with their organization? What soldier who des erts liia colors in the face oft he enemy hut may set up the same plea as the Doctor does? Did the British army - i . .. ...... ... , j goto Benedict Arnold? Did they era- leave me and ffrget me. Yon are young . the approaching election In the .state. bra( . e oplnl or d , d , 3 -you have lint to lock for happiness , The Doctor sent out appointments to them? The nreten.i™ .mm. ♦mis address the people, and about the an not resist your j same time, or soou thereafter, the words; you bid me go, and I obey you. | State executive committee of the Re- Put first, love, I exact a promise—when j publican party met in tlie city of At- you are free, send me word. I will leave lanta. At this meeting it was resolv- an address, where a letter will always • ed that the Republican party inGeor reach me. 1 must put tlie ocean between ! gia would have no candidates at tlie „s—I could not stay here and prove obe- j fall elections for the principal oftice or dient else; but, my own, 1 never will re- : offices of the .State, liut would go be- noiniee my claim—and la- it one year, j fore the people upon Dr. Felton’s plat- or ten, or twenty, one line will bring uie i form. The charge was made through to vour side, to leave it never again. i the press that this action of the eom- Then, with a thousand mad kisses, lie j inittee proved conclusively that Dr. sealed the promise he had exacted, ami Felton and the Republican party of Ho says he is going side of lifo; pity 'tis 1 something of the valueor truth and honesty while he was ascending the sunny side. He calls attention to the fact that •> r—Yl hoijSAn officS:. .. Trite C> his instincts, l^e did this with the intent tomake a falsF'improssibn upon the public. The office which I Tbwre'a n<*.vf_r a life so happy But has It* tfim* of tears: Y#t the* sim *hinfs out tho brigtitor Wlujuevpr tho temped There’s never a gnnlen growing With ro*es in every plot; There’s never n heart nn hardenetl But It has one teiuter Hpot*, We have only to prune the border To lind the forget-me-not. never held an office that he did not seek.. Qqv. Colquitt, at Uie instpuce and «pon the pet Uion of It very large number ssf members of tlie legisla ture, saw fit to tender me a position upon tin- Railroad Com in is-inn. ITo^ til the tender was made' I had no knowledge of the fact that the Gov ernor had been, petitioned, in my be half; tho Governor had certainly nev er been applied to by mefor the place. All these fiusts I am sure Dr. Felton There’* never a sun that rUes But vev know ’twill set at night: The tinta that itk'Ain in the morning At evening ure just as bright: An«l the hoar that is the aweetest I* between the d:»ik an«l light. There’s never r. ctrenm so happy Uut the wakingui;vkes us sad; There’s never a tin am of sorrow hut the waking makes us glad; We shall look some day with wonder At the troubles we have had. THIRTY DAYS IN THE SNOW. A Terrible Journey ft*on Salt Z^tke to Colorado. A Denver exchange says: There —. —, ... . are at present registered at the Al- knows to be true, and I am yet to pvord House two geutleuicu, who hear of tlie first man in'Georgia who i objecta to the m&uner fn which I ha ve : performe<l the duties of my oflice. I have ever thought it an honor to, lie " m “ tu— r —* within tho past few days have had most remurkable and thrilling experi ences. One was Mr. Mahoney, spec ial agent.pf tlie ^ostofilee department. er he is acting and Intends to act most perilous trips—a journey ou- witli them.. He deceives no one by go intoihe Radical milks to seek it. t jy known to the traveler In the heart With a kindness characteristic of Win : of the Rock v mountains in Inidwin- the Doctor reminds me that 1 was once _ ,c . - . • - *.* A CANDIDATE FOR THE SENATE, and foilfd to be elected. Weir, I per- were about thirty days on the road, haps felt the usual arnouut of mortifi cation a defeated candidate experien itaturally, like all candidate* 'They were twenty-five days “in the went out from her, believing earth lieUl , the "State had come to a “capital un- no such wretched man as he. derstanding” that they would act »»«*«*« ! together on this platform, and that Five years had passed—five years to the “coalition” thus formed would be Sydney Keed of faithful, devoted duty— i supported and aided by the influence live years during which her love and fund money of the national Republican care alone fostered the feeble spark of j party. All these facta were well known life in Harold Reed’s remorseful heart, to the Doctor when he made About it thousand million dollars of the na tional debt hnvc been paid since the war—nnd n like M»tn stolen by the Kudieal pnr*v. Island pays its Legislators $1 it day. od there is one State in the Union that u* value of ft laciiislutor! pathi: r borribb with tin the young \ brutalities »e Nihilists. •eently tortured to omen being reser- We ran blit *yra- An Atlanta lady bought some country butter *tid found it full of blnek worms. In Athens tho hair* don’t have time to turn to worms be fore the butter flies. Powder nnd gloves are the last things put on t*y the girls before going to u party.—liazpr. You are not going to get us to ask what is the tir*-1, if we never find out. ■inatlo dimes takes w ith )*er*ons mall-pox. Itadicftllsm some- ons who Iinve been innoeu- lfttvd with lndependen exclian^re a fair one. Tlicrc' were some letters she wanteil to look over—some to lie destroyed, others to be preserved. Among these latter were a few he had written her, during a short absence, a month previous. She took out the first from its wrapper to reread, but had not turned the page when there came a low rap at the door. “Come in!” she cried, half impatient ly, without looking up. She had given orders to her servants not to lie disturbed. She liud told Marie, her maid, bo come to her at midnight. It was not yet half-past ten. and, with his last words murmurs of grateful love and blessing, the tired eyes closed, shutting out forevermore the vis ion which all these years hxd liccu their light and gladness. She had no word from Georg# all this time. He had kept Ids promise faithfully. For a year longer she, too, would lie silent, and then—all, thru she IIIS AUfiASTA SPEECH, » yet upon that occasion he did not, so far as I have ever learned, attempt to explain away their force and effect, hut contented himself by simply sta ting that he had theretofore cast none other than a Democratic vote. He did not even venture to say that he would ever cast another. This was the case ! part to prove that every charge which , , ^ . as it stood when I submitted to the he bus made against mvself. either we* 11 sun or mu me mori l( 1 interview in tlie Atlanta Constitution I expressly or by innuendo, is ntalic- wquld look Into his fare-oncomorel,.s-, oftliu _. Mst ^ uueontradieUH , | ious anU fa , 8e . I will show, further, facts in the case satisfied me, as they | that the assault which he has made them ? The pretension which the Doc tor sets up is an insult to the intelli gence of all men of every color in the land, and yet this is all the defence to the charge of party treachery that tlie Doctor can make. He can produce no exculpatory evidence, glib us he is on tlu- tongue. He cannot, even upon Ills bare unsupported word, relieve him self from the charge of willful and de liberate treason against the party whose principles he pretended that he has always held and maintained. He is conscious that he stands before the people who have honored him, .with a reputation withered and blasted, un less lie can divert tho attention of the public from his own treachery by as sailing and throwing dirt upon “better men than himself.” Hike the cuttle fish he inks the water and then seeks thus lo escape pursuit. Just here I have A PROPOSITION to make to tho Doctor. If he will frankly come forward, acting once in his life like an honest and truthful man, and confess that he is a Demo cratic renegade in the Republican camp, as all the proof clearly shows him to be, then I undertake upon my fid,’I possibly thought liiir4 ody for nay defeat; but no amount of mortification which 1 * ex perienced, and no resentment which I felt, ever drew me info thq Republi can parky., Can the.' Boctor say as much for himself? Forthe present I have done with the Doctor. I know that his purpose fs to adver tise himself to Republicans by assail ing Democrats; nevertheless I an nounce that I have used but a small portion of tho ammunition laid away for him.' If occasion should seem to demand a further expose of his politi cal treachery, I have the material on hand and will lie ready to use it. Let me advise him that he hereafter de vote himself to the performance of du ties imposed under a commission higher than can be issued from auy authority upon this earth, which he professes to hold. Doctor, tin rrroir. James M. Smith. ten to Ills voice. liicy might ho friends only, but | djd ;) ,| rcasoIlab ] e men, that the Doc- \ upon ti)£ whole.jttdiciaqrofth*State, would friendship e’er lieforo hnvc been .... , , , J SEsSSE*!’ so sweet? TUelove she long repressed as The door opened at her summons, but j si “ •**>» beM , swa >’’ U ’ ^ burst f ;> one entered or spoke. | a,,d bad r '' n0 " m ’ d l,S 1..... « 1. .. ii.MA .i.mtA I,.... in tt- ,.,tn tlia* tor had ceased to be a Democrat, and i in his communication referred to, was had committed his future fortunes to 1 done with wicked and corrupt intent PiiM MouitUtn. X. is uuriictinj: intention is the seal of a prnbaMe volcano, lir. Felton is >ur Ucornia volcano, an-l each week vomits out i seething mass nf lire and brimstone. It i .sserted that Grant will be n cnndl' date for the Democratic Presidential nomlna* tlon in 1S84. lie would make a most suitable loader for Felton’s "Jeffersonian Democracy." Darwin, in his new laiok. estimates that there are in gardenaKt.?67worms to the acre. Darwin must have Rot his statistics foom Mr. cer* titivate in hr. I.yndon's Primer. An old lady was trying to get her son in a printing office when tlie foreman asked tf he could feed the press. She said she reckoned so tor be had been used to feeding the cows. A letter from an Alusku missionary gives par ticulars of the torture of whole families for witchcraft. Wethink Congress must have been bewitched when it I (ought that old leeburg. A New York man M years old i» cutting a new (el of teeth. This Is nothing unusual. Now It s set of teeth f)5 years old was cutting nnew man you might record the fact. A young farmer in New York fell in love with with a handsome youth dressed in women’s clothes and was duly married. "Ho was astran- gar and they took him in." "Well,'.Marie, wlisit is it?" slip ques tioned, ansi slowly raised her eyei, to find—no Marie, no servant, but a man’s form, gaunt and haggard, darkeningtlie threshold—:i man’s eyes, hot and burn ing. fixed upon her face. She sat carven into stone. It was piti less to see tlie blood recede from her face, leaving it white and drawn. If three hours previously she had looked older than her lover, ton years were now- added to h er age. Her lover? No longer had ahe a right to the possession of the sweet title, for lie whose gaze held hers was her living husband—the man whom for two years she had r.aourncd as dead. lie entue forward at last, closing the door behind him, and advancing, with feeble, t ottering steps, toward her. “Speeds to me!" he said. “Give nie one word of welcome, one w ord of for giveness !” She opened lier lips theu, but no sound came. “I—I know,” he went on. “You need not tell me. Yon were to hnvc been ntnr- Wlien the time came for her to w rite the letter, she knew not how to word it, though every day for months she bad fancied the hour when she should pen it. But at last she wrote these situ words: “Come to me, George. You will not the keeping of tlie Republican party. | upon his part; that it was done with I certainly felt no malice against him the purpose of eluding and mislead- ler. The two men endeavored to make journey across the eountry front Salt Lake City to Durango. They nnd during this time they were sub. jected to all the trials imaginable. piece' ,'tfiey have been abused.* C*«h’t tike them." “-Abused," said the old man. “(Abuied," nnd he took up the lifty- cent piece niul looked at it tenderly. “itVnd yon won't take it on account of tho holes. Heaven grant that I did nut have to offer it to you. Years ago, when my first child was a little girl, j punched a hole in tlie coin nnd strung it around her neck. It was lier con stant plaything. At night when she went to bed we’d take it off, liut early at morning she would call for her wnteh. AVlien our Joinj—you didn’t know Johr., did you? No? Well, he used to come to town a gqpd deal." . “Where Is he now?" aaxvdthe mer chant, not kuowing wlmt to say, but desiring to show appreciation of the old man’s story., . •‘He was killed In the, war. I say that when John >'as a little boy I strung this quarter -around ids neck. One day his watch got outof fix, he said, and he filed these notches .In It. ' llAfcftv-* ‘-tag , THE LOVE OF AN HONEST MAN. There's uinny a thing that Uie maidens with As thev journey along in lift*. As they take iheir part in the busy world And share in it* cares and strife; Perhapa they wi*h for a costly hou*e, With fnmitnri* spick and span— But to crown the whole, they care the most For the lovo oi an honest man# Yes, pretty maiden, where’er you ore, - In palace or humble cot. Whether your life is fair and bright. Or trial and toil yonr lot. Whether your name i* Flora May, or humble Mary Ann, You will be luck if you win that love— The love of an honest mau. O, a maiden may prizo her diamond set, Of (lreaaea o£ lilaal atvla: Or Inhabit a hnnSTof coatlr build. .withaiNWfiWWnWfifr i/'liw But thegroatcatbteulug to wnman’s life— Let her gain it while now ahe can— From her golden took, to her silver hali9. la the love of an honest man. on account of this act. I thought then, j i»g and falsely impressing ignorant as I still think, that lie made a great ] colored people, no one of whom but ( mistake, but that it was one which ■ that is more honest than himself. '! * M . D | eould, under the circumstances,do but i undertake further to show that for the * | little injury to the Democratic party. I purpose of deceiving the public and .... ! Let it lie borne in mind just here that • misrepresenting myself as toWpres- vet have forgot tontine, and 1—V have tbis fbar K e constituted the whole ease j cut penitentiary lease system, he lias lived but to remember.”’ | against the Doctor. If he was inno- , degraded even himself by making a cent his defense was a simple one. If, j false quotation from my interview, iu fact, lie had not become a renegade ! which he pretended to be answering, from his party lie had only to show * Sydney Rkkd.’ These she sealed and addressed to the address he had given her, and sank back in lier chair to dream awhile, ere touch ing her bell and ordering it posted. A happy smile p'.ayed about lier lips. Tlie future, so long closed to her, again opined its gates of promise and feasted her hungry gaze. Idly she took up a paper at her hand, holding- it before lier eyes as a screen from the fire, when her attention was arrested by a name—the name which was inscribed upon the envelope whose ink was scarcely yet dry. It was a printed description of George Winston’s marriage to the young and beautiful heiress of one of Knglnml’s noblemen. The marriage had taken ried. It would have been a crime. But j place in Ismdon, a fortnight before. A toad in England was known lo frequent a door-,i,-|. lor Ho years. That toad had the patience of certain Congressional candidates in Mr. Ste phens' district. A negro in Kentucky stole a hog, nnd in cross ing a fence his neck was caught between a rail nnd the gambling-stick, and the next day the lliiei was found hanging dead. A Virginia negro drinks a pint of kerosene oil every day, ami says the sensntion produced Is similar to Uiat of whisky. That darkey will tuake good kindling wood tor tho devil. •V mail named l.yle, near Centreville, Texas killed four negroes riding In a wagon at m single shot. With such marksmen, no wonder why Dial State whines for more colored targets from tlie "old red hills of Georgia!" for tills, I would not hnve come. I would still have let you give credence to my death. Oh, Sydney, will you not be lieve me when I swear to you that, both for yonr sake and my own, 1 wish to God 1 were!" The littery misery of his tone brought lier own desolate anguish more fully be fore her Witli a low cry, she buried her face in her hands. The letter she held fell from them. Still she heard lier husband speaking as though from afar off. “Courage, Sydney!" he said. “You will only need patience, dear. Look at ntc! It is not hard to sec that I am a i doomed man. I liavo never recovered ' from the wound I received in the ntfrnr One, twice, thrice she read it through, and then, very quietly reaching forth, she took up the letter she liad written, that hi# platform, published at the time nnd under the circumstances, was not significant of treachery to the Democracy. He had it iu his power to show that tlie Markham House conference was merely a social visit by ills numerous lending Republican friends, who felt solicitude foq his health, and that they just happened all to meet, for that purpose only, in his private room at the same moment. He eould have shown that on that oc casion uotliing was done or said about his platform, or which looked, direct ly or indirectly, to his joining or act ing with the Republican party. Kurely ' the kind friends who felt such a deep interest in the Doctor’s health would have hesitated to relieve his character from any unjust imputation on ac- ..... —i —v —r — pressed it an instant loiter white, quiv- j count ot their visit. It wasequully i__ cring ami, falling on her knees,! his power to show that the adoption dropped it in the tlnraes. As the fire darted up sho laughed I committee was unwarranted, aloud, iu the strange stillness. Others . might easily have disproved the of his platform by the Republican He The Governor of Virginia La* vetoed the bill gainat dueling. Virginia duelists are the best | in which they repot ted me to have licen life tnsuranci society extant: and the Governor don't want to endanger the lives of his peopli b> taking this protection from them. Some crusty, rusty, musty, fusty, dusty, gusty ■urmudgeon of a man gave the following toast a a tlreman's banquet: " Our engines—May liey be tike old maids: ever ready but never vanted!” A number nf hands afflicted with small-pox are manufacturing cigars in New York, to tie •'lipped South. Well, this ts belter than Ship ping such doctrines as Felton's "New Move- men'." to tho South. would have seen but the light tlie paper gave, but she saw more—it was the fun eral pyre of a broken heart. A TALE OF WESTERN LIFE. Many anecdotes are told of the ingen- , EXISTENCE OF ANY UNDERSTANDING | under which funds and influence were ; to be furnished by the national lie- j publican party to secure the success ofthc alleged “coalition.’’ He might have denied in his Augusta speech A New I'.cdford minister asserted that accor ding to sound Methodist belief Garfield had MIC to hell, because he did not believe in tbe 'i rinlty, w hile Gullcan would go straight to hca- ' on it he repented ol his erlmc. f man In Africa was lately kicked to death by an ostrich. Ostrich tanning is attended with great danger to the keepers. We would like to > .ow trout a safe distance the cross between a b> alUty Georgia mule and an ostrich. A Connecticut mat. commuted suicide that Lis family might get the Insurance on his life. The company fought the claim: nnd so It turn ed that the victim killed himself for the benefit of some poor but honest lawyers. The Isst census shows In South Carolina an,, hr. whites, and hlacks; In Mlsaludpp! o.'.DS whites, and 4fi3.(ftS blacks; and In Louis iana Cd OJI whites, and tfSAU blacks, or In the three states 412,511 more hlacks than white*. 1 hose ate the only States in which the blacks arc more nnmerous than tho whites. i Will some ot our young frlendg work oat the following curious pussle? Tske n strip of paper or card-board u iochee long and 5 inches wide; thus giving a surface of U Inches. Now. cut th* strip diagonally as trne as yon can. giving two pieces tn the shape of a triangle. Kow, tneaa- u ™ e sactly 5 Inches from tho larger end of each strip and put them Into the shape of an exact square, which will be just 8 Inches each way. killed. Dissipation helped tlie along—though si not 1 that night, Sydney, no drop of liquor lias touched my lip#. When a man stands so close to Death that he recognizes liis icy breath, he secs things with new clearness. During my long anti dcsjierate illness. I thought of you with a longing you can never dream of, but 1 dared not send for you. 1 felt that all my right was forfeited. Nor will I trouble you now. When I am dead, you shall learn of your freedom. Until that time, you will hear of or from mo never aguin." lie stooped as he finisher!. She knew that he lifted up the material ol her dresB nnd pressed it a moment to hi* lips. Slowly and lultoringly he again cross ed the room. Ills hand was on the knob of the door, when she broke the spell that bound her, and rose up to her feet. “Stay, Harold!" she said. “Your place is here. It was you who deserted me. You shall not say that I deserted you." . He staggered against the wall. "Oh, my God!” he oried; “is this an angel or a woman who thus speaks to me?” “It is no angel," she answered; “only a woman, striving to do the duty so plainly marked before her." Bat the strength which had upheld him in his hopelessness now failed him. With a great cry, he cast himself down at her feet, striving in vain to check the saty which so cruelly rent him. Very gently she soothed him. She had no tVme toreidlM her own misery, until at last, she left him, quiet and sleeping, ta • room beneath her rdbf. I will show farther, that he intention ally maligned Judge* Hillyer, one of the purest auS' most intelligent men whoever wore the ermine In. Georgia, l»y willfully suppressing the truth, in regard to the girl convicted suokh sen tenced for simply takingi as Felton alleges, fifty cent*. . I undertake fur ther to show that he lias falsely at tempted to mislead the public witli regard to the convict lease system by misstating the facts and suppressing the truth in the Rattaree ease. Now, Parson, step to the front. You, who like Mr. Ohadband, areever grinding oil out of your palms and prating about the “tew-ruth," confess the treachery of which you stand convict ed already before the public, and then you will have some claim to criticise the conduct of others. Until you per form this one act of honesty, you can never put me upon explanation, or induce me to defend myself against your charges. The Doctor says that he NEVER GREW RICH IN OFFICE. That seems to be one of his regrets. He is saddened by lost opportunities, possibly. If lie should ever get in again we will never thereafter hear a similar complaint front him. He says, in effect, but that for my advocacy of Norwood’s candidacy,the latter would have swept North Geor gia. He here unintentionally paid me a compliment. I bad never sus- PLEDGED TO KILL HER FATHER. From Honiara, one ofthe most nour ishing towns in the Volga Govern ment, Is reported the following tragi cal incident, painfully illustrative of the baneful influence exercised upon overwrought natures in Russia by tlie Nihilistic propaganda. (Some weeks ago a popular preacher in one of the Samara orthodox churches gave deep umbrage to the Revolutionary Com' ■{wilderness;’’ lost, half starved, near ly frozen, buried in the snow, and '.were beset with Indians. Mr. Ma honey said: [ A few weeks agq I received instruc tions from the PostOttice Department at Washington, telling me to go over the route and report, upon the practi cability ofputtfng oil United States mail service between Escalante, in Vtali, anil Durango. They furnished me with the map of the country. On the map the country through which I had to pass looked very inviting. There were numerous rivers and lakes ami the may was dotted over with towns and cottages. A dozen or more springs along the route were also no ted. I was aware, however, to some extent, of the nature of the country, and did not start expecting to find a country overflowing with milk and honey. At Ogden I engaged tho ser vices of Mr. AVItheck, and old-timer, as a guide, anti we started. The first 2T,0 miles, or until we reached Jub, was passed over without incident. Front there we had a wearisome ride to Escalante. We met our first dis aster at the crossing on the Colorado river. The weather was extremely cold. We were driving over on the lee, when, with a cracking noise, the lee gave way and our wagon was precipated into tho water. Every thing was spoiled—the Hour turned into dough. It was with the greatest difficulty that we saved the lives of our mule?. After a very cold day’s work we got the wagon out of the riv- ■er, andswied mvmtrclFof-uui ^imvls- ions as we could. Ilacou • was about theonly thing left. Everything else was lost. There wasn't a particle of game in the country—not a deer or a bird. We were left with what we had iu our wagon. We trudged on a few days more, often not making one mile an hour. The snow was so deep that travel was almost impeded. Soon after this we entered the canon of the Escalante river, probably never trav eled by wagon before. Tt is wiki and rugged in the extreme, the sides ris ing perpendicularly a thousand feet or more. It was necessary to eros9 this river fifteen times, which was of- imd compare their watches to see if they were right. Sometimes John wouldn’t like it, because Mary’s watch was bigger than his, hut she would cxpluin that she was bigger than hint, and ought to have a bigger watch. The < hildrett grew up, hut as they hud always lived in the woods they were not ashamed lo wear their watches. When tv young man came to see Mary once she forgetfully looked at her-’S) cents. “What are you doing?" asked the young man, and when sh« told him she was looking at her watch, he took it as a hint, and went home. After this she did not wear her watch iu company. Well, Mary and the young man married. John went oil iu the army and got killed. Mary’s husband died, and about two years ago Mary was taken sick. When her mother and I reached her house she was dying. Calling me toiler bed, she said: “Papa, lean over.” I leaned over, ami, taking something from un der her pillow, she put it around my neck and said: “Papa, take euro of my watch." The old titan looked at the merchant. The eyes of both men were moist. “Do you see that hoy out there on the wagon?” lie said. “Well, that is Mary’s child. I wouldn’t part with this money, but my old wife, who always loved me, died this morn ing, and 1 have conte to buy her a shroud.” When the old man went out he carried a bundle in one hand and the “watches” in the other. DIDN'T MEAN TO TELL. And I would f could recr.l! them— Would L hod not been so weak. Oil, thill one unguarded moment! Were it miiic.to live again. AU tlie Btrengtli of iis temptation Would appeal to mo in vain. inittee of that city by recalling, with fervent eloquence, the assassination j ten done at the labor of unloading the of Alexander II to the remem- j wagon and carrying the pieces over brance of his congregation, and veho-j by main strength. From this time only nttercil Whnt is ever in my lienrt: 1 am happy when beside him. \Vreteh«*fl when we nrv apart. Though l listen to his prni«es Always longer than I should. Yet my heart ran never hear them • r fii ]l i And T would not. eoul ! not pain hii Would not for the world ofleud; I would have 1dm know I like him As a brother, as a friend. But I meant to keep one secret In rny iKisom always hid: For I never meant to tell him That I loved hin-hut I did. WINTERV!LLE ITEMS. mently invelghfng against the mur- ! 011 our troubles heaped upon us. The {derers of the late Czar. A few hours I first night out of the canon our camp later the committee held a meeting j was invaded by Indians. They were for the purpose of deciding what pun-I half-starved, and went for our pro' uity of travelers to conceal valuable th&t ^ coaUtion oxiBted Bnt property from highwaymen. Me read j ^ t , u . Do , tor *~. r attempted any of of sonic who carried counterfeit coin, ( ( bege things? He has not, and simply for tho purpose of handing it out on de-1 f or tbe rea8on that he dared not. If raand and diverting search for genuine | lnnocentj he Unow vcrv we U what his work coin concealed about the person. There • line o{ defense ought to be. If not j pccted by action or non-action in the is a story of a number of ladies anil gen. j gujjtj^ be knew that the proofs of his premises I could have exercised so tlemeu, traveling by chaclt over a very . j nnot .ence were at an easy command, j much influence. In this connection, lonely and dangerous road in the West, j bas not produced, nor has he at-1 il occurs to me to invite the Doctor’s who entertained each other with tales of. romped to produce these proofj^ be- I attention to a sweeping which did highwaymen, and tlie various gtrategem* j oause 0 f a consciousness of guilt on ! happen in North Gergia Just after Mr. resorted to for the safe-keeping of val- hispart. Insteadofmoetingthc charge Norwood’s defeat. If I remember fairly and honestly with a plea of not guilty, and meeting the evidence uables. One young lady incautiously admitted that she had concealed four hundred dollar* lu her right shoe. Short ly afterward the coach was stopped, and Uto passengers werecompelled to surren der their purses and watches. The rob bers, dissatisfied with the meagreness of their booty, declared that they would search the baggage if four huudred dol lars more were not forthcoming. “You will find jmt thn r . amount in the right shoo of the young lady opposite," said a middle aged gentleman, who had been silent during the whole proceeding. The shoe was promptly removed, and the highwaymen, after taking the money, and politely complimenting their victim on the prettinessof her foot, allowed the coach to prooeed. The young lady was inconsolable. Tbe middle aged passen ger was roundly denounced os an accom pllceot the highwaymen, and threatened with arrest at the first stopping plsee. But on arriving there he disappeared be fore tills could be carried out. The next morning the young lady was agreeably surprised by a very handsome remit tance, several times the ^amount ofthe loss, from tlie supposed accomplice (who had managed to obtain her address), with the explanation that his trunks contained forty thousand dollars, which would Inn been loot bad tbe highway* men Woken open tho tfr^ga^e. against 1dm with proof sustaining^' self In North Georgia, and in which aright the Doctor was then a candi date for Congressional honors, hina- ishment should be inflicted upon the offending priest for his inflammatory Utterances. After some discussion, the committee resolved that he should be put to death, and its members drew lots for the executioner’s office, which fell to a girl of nineteen, affiliated to the organization only a few days pre viously, r „ ^ _ ri . Upon drawing the fatal lot she ex hibited some agitation, but speedily collecting herself, accepted her mur derous mission with the words, “The committee will have reason to be sat isfied with the manner in which its decree will be carried out." {Next morning the doomed priest was awakened shortly after daybreak by the report of a firearm discharged in a room contiguous to his own bed chamber. Upon entering the room iu question he beheld his only daughter stretched out at full length ui>on the floor near the foot of the bed and Wel tering in her blood. She had strength enough left, before expiring, to con fess to him that she hnd pledged her self to take his life, in obedience to tbe orders of the Secret Committee, but had preferred killing herself to fulfilling her oath. Exhorted to re veal tho names of her fellow conspi rators, she steadfastly refused to do bo, and died without having uftorded any clue that could lead to their de tection. that plea, what Is the .character of the defense he has attempted tomakt? In his communication reference to this charge of treason to his party is met by the simply statement that J ' HE KNOWS OF NO “COALITION” except an honest uprising ot the Inde pendent people. What independent people does he mean? Who were the independent people closeted with.hlm at tbe Markham House conference? Bo fitr ns I have ever heard there waa but one independent Democrat besides himself present during that mysteri ous interview, and he left before any thing was said upon the subject .of politics. * I yepcat, who were tho Inde pendent people present at that con ference? So far as any one knows, no one except Dr. Felton and bosses and district 1 mtde the only speeches de livered by nie in that part of the State during the Norwood and’Colquit can vass. “The Indignation of the people bad become fatigued," as Mr.Toombs would say,j with the Doctor’s derna- gogueism and methodsgenerally, and they wereiletcrmined to settle with him once for all. They placed awbip of cords U the. bands of young Clem ents, who soourged the Doctor out of office and into permanent retirement. The^'mene, mene;'tekeV’ of the Doc tor, Clements recorded in stripes which hjtve not yet healed. Tlie ef fect of this beating the pnbUe per ceive. The Doctor is a political Pari- ah, an outcast from all decent party associations, and hence HE IS SBEKINO REFTJOE m- leaders of the Republican party rtf and companionship’in the Republi Georgia. General Longstrect was there. Is he an independent Demo crat? Colonel Farrow was present; ■Mr. Buck wo# alio there, .and alarge number of others, who, ail have Al ready intimated, belonged to the ■ or ganized Republican party of this State. Which of tho "independent -people". panfonshJp? ’J’hlris simply the were present at the ubetlqg of tbb can party. Til* Doctor inti he desires fo lead the hoi men to the redemption of too Does he suppose that any honest man iydung or old, will follow him ? What have men, aged or young, to promise themselves front the Doctor’s 0pm- grtr’e whine upon the pa»t of the Doc- * >, ! An Ohio exchange relates this ex ample of akind of a man who thinks mote of his tobacco than he docs of his wife: Only a short time ago, while we Bat lni-an Osceola store, we saw a man and. bis wife from the country trading; The woman had the appearance of be ing a hard-working, industrious, in telligent lady. She was examining a piece of calico or other cheap dress goods. Tho clerk said, “Shall I cut yon off teffiyards?" - The pale faced, overworked woman turned to her husband, and in a tim id, frightened manner asked him if she might buy a dress, as she needed It, and the cost would be less than one drtUhr. “No," he grunted, “I can’t afford it;” and yet he had just paid aa much visions with a voraciousness never before witnessed by any of our party. We were glad to do unytliing for them however. They were not welcome visitors as you may judge. Well, they hounded us for some distance. They hnd struck something rich, and they meant to do the best they could. We finally got rid of them, and had scarcely done so when n driving snow storm overtook us. It continued un til the snow was three feet deep. We then lost tho trail. Wc hunted for it, but could not find it. We were lock ed in, hundreds of miles away from home. After the storm abated we found the trail again, and continued on our way. Thus we continued for days, and at times were on the point of giving up iu despair. Btarvatiou stared us in the face, nnd wc had to use melted snow for our cooking. The springs market} out on the map were fictitious, and-tho towns were a hun dred miles apart, instead of dotting tlie map. The towns we met were oc cupied by only a few people, and these were housed in like Esquimaux in the Arctic regions. We reached the settlement more dead than alive. We were thirty days making the journey, and a number of times thought every day would be the last. I wouldn’t make the trip again for the State of Colorado," and Mr. Mahoney tossed himself back languidly. “What’s the use of a mail service over a country like that?” asked the reporter. “That’s It. But It Is ndt for me to say. If the Rost Office Department pee fit, they will put on the service. They do without mall altogether now.” By Reformer. The way to get rich: Go to manu facturing cotton butter. (Patent ap plied for.) The whooping cough is prevalent and the mumps attacking some of tho oldest sett.crs. The Superintendent's house at the pauper’s farm is l>oiiig painted. We need a new Academy building. Who will move in the matter? Will the present stiff prices for pro visions continue'.’ is a question many would like unraveled. Hour, wc learn, has tumbled, and corn likely to follow suit. Red l’ittard says how about Ills last weather prophecy? That lie has guessed aright lor this week, and that is one time better than Venuor for this year. Show us the exhibitor who failed to get the first prize, diploma o. award at the Gotten Exposition, and we will show you a high private who fought in tlie rear ranks of the Confederate army. Our public roads will perhaps get a working this month. The pencil tree bloomcth. • The hen cncklctl). Very few remembered Valentine Day in this baliwiek. Can anyone tell us why it takes a letter two days to go from our burg to Athens? Steam power is getting be low par when a locomotive can only travel 3 miles per day. The original track of land at tho pauper farm (10G acres) has been cleared upand'^^JJ^Jti'-Jtion. Mr. B. B. Williams hits a patch of “hog clover" six inches high. A new public road lias been laid out, bogintng at Boavcrdam and go ing north to the Madison line. Wo learn that some dissatisfaction has grown out of It. A gentleman near Athens will plant three acres iu watermelons this year. Aged Cotton. The Cost of Liquor. . Columbut fr'mrs. There were four bales of cotton .brought to market yesterday from the plantation of Col. F. Terry, who lives near Waverly Hall, Harris couuty, that wore 'grown anj gathered in'the year 1380, baled with ropes, and have been reposing in his gin house ever since. He waa offered 47}i cents for it in 1885, but would not sell it because he thought that the.revenue tax of three cents per pound was unjust, sud he said ho had rather burn the cotton than submit to Ml* auu J LV uo UUU jUOV jJUlU HO 1UUVU ftFpt great plug of navy and a paper CrtV° of smoking tobacco. The poor, Illy-clad but neat woman sabsided as though this was no new * the - old tinie fT experience, while .feer •rough,, coarse —t-J.T»T- T ' * —* and animal husband bit offa mouth; " • of the weed and. ordered her to gei ready for dumb. friends The jnost direct road to starvation : Selling corn shelters exclusively for a living in the South. Rev. Miss Oliver, in advising young men how to avoid extravagance, and to trail-l homes for themselves, says that every time they drink a glass of beer they swallow five bricks. If Miss Oliver’s assertion is true, we know n man who, at the lowest calculation, carries a row of four-story tenement houses inside him. We do not drink beer, and therefore do not know how it feels to have our internal economy hampered with a brick yard. Miss Oliver does not inform us ns to what kind of building material a person swallows when he drinks champagne. We presume it is some ornameutul kind, because the other morning, af- ter attending a banquet, we felt as if a marble mantlepleee and a carved Such injustice by the government. He had at the close of tlie war upwards of 100 bale# (4 .c<Utotv-aBAatffi'hM-*-few mnlte cornlce that had no bnslness more left, UwfoFjwl, neeytyoU'hls tt»ffd,"wcrc jostling themselves in- ■ US, and we determined to stop drinking the 1 seductive juice of the gooseberry and build for ourselves an ancestral man&ldit with marble lined CorrldorW&nd hot and effid -baths! on dvery floor.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Southern watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1854-1882, March 02, 1882, Image 1