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WEDNESDAY, - - - APRIL 3, 1878.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Bret Harte is playing out, as it were.
Southern strawberries are selling in
New York at $1 50 per quart.
Lord Salisbury is quoted as the great
est English failure in statecraft recently.
Gen. John H. Morgan’s widow is said
to have been killed in the recent Kentucky
tornado.
Nast represents a Cossack kicking Ear]
Derby and asking: “Is that British in
terests ?”
The Chicago Times welcomes Jules
Verne to America as an “accomplished
and experienced liar.”
The editor of the Galveston News, it is
said, sits in his parlor at home and edits his
paper through a telephone. Lazy man.
The next Rothschild wedding will be
that of the daughter of Baron Willy, of
Frankfort, to Max Goldshmidt, of the
same city, a wealthy banker.
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Senator Howe has discharged his blun
derbuss and the President “still lives.” Let
no Democratic Senator take a hand in the
fight. It is exclusively a Republican quar
rel.
Chesterfield, Va., boasts a widow,
fair, fat and forty, who is anything but a
Chesterfield. She can wind up a dis
cussion by knocking a man down three
times before he can get in a lick.
Mr. Baker’s pig pen at Wellesley hides
its diminished head in the presence of Dr.
Eddy’s hog palace at Finchville, Ky.,
which cost $20,000. Many a weary human
tramp may wish himself transmogrified.
Senator Howe, the red-mouthed Radi
cal from Wisconsin, made his threatened
attack on the Administration yesterday.
His term is nearly ended, and he thinks he
can secure his re-election by denouncing
the President.
The State of California is emphatically a
big one. It is larger than Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont. Massachusetts, Con
necticut, Rhode Island, New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Mary
land, with 8,751 square miles to spare.
Attempts are being made in France to
get up a grand celebration o£ Voltah-e’s
centenary of death. The conservative and
religious journals oppose it on the ground
that Voltaire was an infidel in religion
and more a lover of Germany than France.
Editor Dana, of the New York Sun,
and Jibe jV t„t< ney- Ge n e nil of Louisiana are
about the only persons who are not discour
aged by Returning Board Anderson’s re
lease. Here w T e have a beautiful exemplifi
cation of “two souls with but a single
thought.”
Referring to a report that Western cap
italists had bought the World, that paper,
with fierce irony, says: “We did not know
that there were any Western ‘capitalists.’
We thought ruffians of that sort were ex
clusively confined to the East.” This
ought to set the West wild with rage.
Two golden curls, sent from New York
to a lady in the Indian Territory have caused
a terrible commotion in the Washington
Post Office Department, where they were
mislaid. The machinery of Government
being brought into requisition, they were
found in a pigeon hole. Dynamite is noth
ing sometimes to “only a woman’s hair.”
The uews from Europe continues war
like, and confidence in the power of the
coming Congress to frame a durable peace
is rapidly diminishing. The friends of the
Czar intimate that in order to protect him
self against England he may have to occu
py Constantinople, and drive the “un
speakable Turk” out of Europe.
Buell telegraphs from Washington that
the real struggle over the Texas-Pacific Rail
bill has fairly begun. He says, by a close
canvass, there are about eighty members of
the House and fourteen Senators certain to
vote against it, while the remainder of both
branches are uncertain. It will require, at
'the least calculation, thirty Senators and
120 members to pass the bill.
Arguing in favor of Liberia, one of the
colored speakers said: “In this country
the negro is a nation of bootblacks, host
lers and house servants— a race of menials ;
if he wishes to rise he must go where he is
on an equality with his surroundings.” We
venture to say that the Liberia surroundings
will make bootblaeking, etc., in the South
a dream of Paradise.
Secretary Sherman’s alleged change
of base upon the Silver bill theory has re
vived a good anecdote. It is said that
somebody asked Thad. Stevens why he
had prepared thirteen articles of impeaeh
iment against Andrew Johnson. Thad.
.replied : “Oh, we took an odd number to
hold John Sherman. If we had an even
(number Sherman would divide them and
•straddle both sides, but with an odd num
ber lie’s got to lean one way or the other.”
The doubtful rumor that Very Rev.
John Henry Newman was to be made a
Cardinal has drawn public attention to that
extraordinary man, whose learning and
piety are proverbial. While Dr. Manning,
his old friend, has become the head of his
church in Great Britain, John Henby
Nbwmah, a simple priest, has been teach
ing, for many years, the ragged children of
Birmingham their catechism. The proba
bilities are that both are fitted to and satis
fied with their spheres.
Tbay, Blanche and Sweetheart on the
Northern press are in full yelp over what
they call the “bleeding of the National
Treasury by the Democratic South.” The
chief point of attack is Mr. Stephens’
Texas-Pacific Railway bill, which is for
the good of the whole country. Men with
their pockets full of subsidies are nice mis
sionaries to preach against simple justice to
the South. They were not so tender in con
science when “loyalty” was a synonym of
gigantic and unblushing theft.
We see it stated that the late William
M. Swain, of Philadelphia, one of the most
successful journalists of the present cen
tury, gave it as a result of hU'experien? K
that “whilst wM
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The November ire approach
ing, and the Republicans are beginning
to discuss their chances of capturing the
next Honse of Representatives. The
commencement of the present session
found the House composed of one hun
dred and fifty-one Democrats and one
hundred and forty-two Republicans—a
Democratic majority of nine. Several
Democratic members come from dis
tricts that are very close politically, and
the Republicans claim that they will be
able to defeat enough of these next No
vember to give their party control of
the popular branch of the Forty-Sixth
Congress. They gleefully assert that
if they defeat only five Democrats who
now have seats, and continue to hold
their own, they will have a majority of
the next House. This is true. Five
votes subtracted from the Democratic
and added to the Republican side would
give the former one hundred and forty
seven and the latter one hundred and
forty-six members. But the Republi
cans will not “hold their own.” The
failure to consider this view of the mat
ter is the weak point in their calculations.
The Chronicle and Constitutionalist
has carefully examined the figures of the
last Congressional elections, and from
that examination makes the following
deductions:
There are eight districts now repre
sented by Democrats which we are in
danger of losing at the next election.
They are: The Eighteenth Illinois,
where the Democratic candidate was elec
ted by only twenty majority; the Nine
teenth Illinois, where a Democrat re
ceived a minority of the votes cast but
was elected as a plurality candidate
through the candidaoy of an Independ
ent Repnblioan against the regular Re
publican nominee; the Thirty-first New
York, where similar causes produced a
similar result; the Tenth Maryland,
where the Democratic majority was
fourteen votes; the Second Ohio, where
the majority was seventy-five votes; the
Fourth Ohio, where the majority was
ninety-six votes; the Thirteenth Penn
sylvania, where the majority was eighty
one votes; and the Eighteenth Pennsyl
vania, where the majority was eighty
nine votes. Notwithstanding the close
vote in these districts, in five of
them Democrats were elected in 1874
and re-eleoted in 1876, and it is not
very probable that they will be lost this
year. If they and the other three are
lost and the Republicans hold their own
there will be a Repnblioan majority of
seven in the next House. But there are
in the North and West eleven districts
now represented by Republicans that
may very properly be termed doubtful.
These are : the Fourth Indiana, which
gave a Republican majority of twenty
seven and a plurality of. three hundred
and ninety-five; the Sixth Indiana,
where the majority was two hundred and
seventy-six ; the Ninth Indiana, which
gave the candidate a plurality and not a
majority; the Third Massachusetts,
where the majority was five votes ; the
Tenth Ohio, where it was two hundred
and seventy-one; the Fifteenth Ohio,
where the majority was five hundred
and four; the Sixteenth Pennsylvania,
where a plurality candidate was elected;
the Seoond Wisconsin, where the ma
jority was three hundred and twenty
eight votes; the Second Missouri, where
a Republican was elected through the
oaudidacy of an Independent Democrat;
-the Third Missouri, f.iu iifloriij
was nineteen votesjand the Fourth Cali
fornia, where the majority was one
vote. If the Democrats should lose
their eight doubtful districts and the
Republicans their eleven, the Demo
cratic majority in the nexu House would
bo fifteen—six more thau it is at .pres
ent. But there are eight districts iu
the Southern States that the Republi
cans are certain to lose next Novem
ber : the Fourth Virginia, the First,
Second and Fifth South Carolina ;
the Seoond Florida ; the First
Tennessee; and Third and Fifth
Louisiana. If the Democrats lose all
their doubtful districts North and West
and the Republicans lose none, they
would have exaotly the same majority in
the next Honse that they have in the
present. If Republicans and Democrats
lose all doubtful districts North and
West, the latter will have thirty-one ma
jority. If the Democrats hold their own
and the Republicans lose their doubtful
districts the Democratic majority will be
fifty-five. It would seem from these
figures that there is no reason to fear
that the Forty-Sixth Congress will be
Republican. The Democrats are almost
certain to have a majority ranging from
nine to fifty-five.
STATE POLITICS.
The Atlanta Constitution of Sunday
contains a long article on State politios
that purports to give the politioal situa
tion in each of the nine Congressional
Districts of Georgia. Iu the First Dis
trict it mentions as the probable oppo
nents of Mr. Habtridge, Messrs. Geo,
R. Black, of Screven, Jno. O. Nioholls,
of Pierce, and J. L. Warren, of Chath
am. It omits to mention Judge Harris,
of Brunswick, and Judge Tomkins,
neither one of whom, it is said, is averse
to entering the field. In the Second
District it mentions Mr. Wm. Tumlin
as a candidate against Mr. Smith, but
concedes that there is little doubt of
the re-nomination and re-election of
the latter. In the Third District it
speaks of Messrs. C. C. Kibbee, of
Pulaski, and Allen Fort, of Sumter,
as possible candidates against General
Cook. We, on the contrary, do not be
lieve that either one cf the gentlemen
named will oppose General Cook and
think the latter will be returned
without serious opposition. In the
Fourth District it says Mr. Habris
will be opposed in the nominating Con
vention by ex-Governor Smith or Judge
Crawford, of Columbus, and Messrs.
Persons, of Coweta, and Tuggle, of
Troup, and in the election by an Inde
pendent successor to Mr. H. W. Hil
liard. We have heard it intimated
that, in all probability, this Indepen
dent candidate will be Mr. R. J. Moses,
of Mnscogee. In the Fifth District it says
Mr. Candler has not yet decided to be a
candidate for re-election. We think there
is little doubt that if he iB he will
encounter the opposition of the Consti
tution. Judge John I. Hall, of Upson,
Messrs. Stewart, of Spalding, Dunoan,
of Honston, and Mynatt, of Fulton,
will contend for the nomination, and
Dr. Homer Virgil Milton Miller will
carry the banner of the Independents.
In the Sixth District, the Constitution
believes Mr. Blount will not have aEy
opposition. We think this a mistake.
The upper portion of the District de
sires a showing, and Newton county will
probably furnish a couple of candidates
in the persons of Messrs. Floyd and
Page, It is not at all probable, how
ever, that Mr. Blount can be defeated.
In the Seventh District the race seems
up between Dr. Felton, of
Ms the Independent candidate,
" JBames R. Brow.v, of Cherokee,
iIIIIIIP jg yneoof the Convention. This
H be the most exciting eou
■gxfiaiupaign. Dr. Felton, as
bgbaudantly proven, is
SgKthe people, bat
thatyjau
“ We are to have an independent can
didate against Hon. A. H. Stephens.
Judge William Gibson will make the
race. It is generally believed that Mr.
Ste phens will represent the Eighth as
long as he wants to, or at least as long
as he lives. When he is gone we may
look for a dozen new men in the field.
The politicians in this District are said
to be the most polite in the State. They
never think of crowding one another,
and are always willing to give the man
in office a fair chance.” We have no
means of knowing what foundation the
Constitution has for its statement con
cerning the candidacy of Judge Gibson,
and would like that journal to be a little
more explicit. It is true Judge Gibson
has held Court recently in a number of
the Northern oounties of the District,
but only in return, it is said, for kind
ness shown him by the Judge in whose
Circuit these counties are situated. From
what we have been able to learn Mr.
Stephens will be returned to the Forty
sixth Congress without opposition, if he
should, desire a re election. In the
Ninth District the Constitution thinks
Dr. Carlton, of Clarke, will be Mr.
Bell’s most formidable opponent be
forai the Convention, and that Mr.
Speer, of Clarke, will be an Indepen
dent candidate no matter who may be
the nominee. Altogether the political
bill of fare is very inviting, and we may
expect an exciting campaign this year in
most of the Congressional Districts of
Georgia.
PLANT FOOD CHOPS.
The news from Europe is volcanic.
War on a tremendous scale may not is
sue from the mighty preparations of
England, Austria and Russia, but it
canuot be questioned that the signs of
the times are anything but pacific. It
seems to us that, with such storm-sig
nals flying, the Southern planters and
farmers should beware how they venture
their all, or what practically amounts to
it, on a too great crop of cotton. We
have never seen but one idea advanoed
npon such a subject and that was the
folly of negleoting food crops for cotton
in the event of a European oonflict
which would inevitably involve the
British Empire. Brought face to face
with a danger so imminent, we admon
ish our country friends, if they are wise,
to first make sure of their food supplies
before planting cotton. Such a war as
now menaces will make cotton cheap
and breadstuff's of all kinds dear.
It will be, in any event, a godsend
to the East and West and a hardship for
the South. But the dreaded calamity
to our people can be very much lessened
by their being wise in time and becom
ing as independent as possible for food
supplies. Much can be done, and, if
done generally, the South will be aston
ished at her own powers of self-suste
nance and the lesaou thus taught and
confirmed will be priceless in value to
this and coming generations.
If there should be no war, we hold
that great gain will ensue to all classes
of our people by shortening the cotton
production and increasing that of bread
stuffs. A l etter price would be offered
for our peculiar staple, and no man in
the country ever regretted that his well
filled corn-bins were the substantial re
sult of his own labor and thrift.
We earnestly impress upon the far
mers of the South, at this particular
time, the serious importance of making
food fi.nst qml cotton afterward,_aniL_
e'ome what nray, we know that our ad
vice is the best and that no man who
puts it into praotice will havecause to re
gret it. But, if it be neglected, and
Jar should come, a pew curse would
escend upon this section. Other evils
have been largely forced upon us ; but
this would be self-inflicted. We would
grieve to see our people in want in a
land of plenty, or what ought to be
suoh ; but that dreadful affliction may
really come if planters do not have a
care. Let the policy this season be
food first and cotton afterward. It is
the true policy and we trust will be
generally adopted by those whom it
most concerns.
A PRETTY CONCEIT DEMOLISHED.
It is well known that the Senate bad
an all night session on the Silver bill,
and it is equally well known that some
of the Senators visited the cloak room
too often during the night and became
very drunk before adjournment. The
newspapers have all published the gen
eral fact of the inebriation as became
the chroniclers of the times, but it is
noticeable that no journal has descended
from generalities to particulars and giv
en the names of the soggy Solons.
The names were an open secret in and
out of Washington, but they were never
blazoned in type because the spree was
so badly mixed—there was such a dis
solving of party lines ia whisky—that
publication would not have made
capital for any political party. The
drunk was designed with suoh devilish
ingenuity as to paralize the pen of the
partisan paragrapher of the political
press. There were three Senators who
floated their powerful minds in “oold
tea” to suoh an extent as to temporarily
incapacitate themselves for intelligent
mental or physical effort and to become,
in the vernacular of the day, drunker
than a whole ftviary of boiled owls.
Singularly enough thi4 trio of topers
represented the three parties known to
Americal politios. One was a stalwart
Republican, one was a Bourbon Demo
crat, and one, the drunkest of the lot,
shades of Horace Greeley and Samuel
Bowles ! was an Independent. The
Chronicle and Constitutionalist knew
these things, but revealed them not,
because it did not wish to give away its
friend, the Bourbon Democrat, who
drank too deeply of his favorite spirit.
We would have continued to carry the
dreadful secret in our editorial bosom
had it not been for the congratulatory
cackle of a little Radical rooster “down
East.” The most trivial causes have
often produoed the most terrible
effects, and a recent article in
the Kennebunk (Maine) Eastern Star
compels us to make the dreadful rev
elation. The Eastern Star, of March
22, under the heading of “New England
All Right" says :
We do not belong to that class of Americans
who estimate their State or section higher
than the country, and we haye little admira
tion for a people who are forever pluming
themselves upon matters of assumed local
superiority. At the same time we are bound
to maintain what is right even in this disagree
able field, especially when it is the fashion in
some quarters to taunt our own section with
intolerance, pretense and hypocrisy. While
we should never thinkof setting up a claim
to be “better than other people,” we are
bound to resent the charge that we are not
quite so good. These ideas are suggested by
several recent occurrences in both branches of
Congress. Only a few days ago, during an
all night sessiop of the Senate, the galleries
witnessed a revolting exhibition of intoxica
tion among the Senators in the discharge of
their official duties upon the floor. What
spectacle more shocking than pubhc drunk
enness in such a body as that! The press of
the country, so far as we are aware, has been
sufficiently charitable and dignified to sup
press the names of the unfortunate men, but
the fact has already been noted that there was
no New England Senator among the number.
In this respect at least New England has not
been found false to her professions.
Can any one read the above without
b.ejpg tempted to exclaim that New
upon her fata?
ATJGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 3. 1878.
ter has done the business. Silence is
no longer a virtue but a crime. He has
wiped his mouth and thanked God
that New England Senators are not
as other Senators—not as their de
praved associates from the South and
West. Sonthern and Western Senators
may imbibe the insinuating smash, the
treacherous punch, the bewildering
sour and the maddening oooktail, but
the New England Senator—never. The
descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers in
the Senate reject even the innoouons
cobbler and turn with loathing from a
lemonade with a fly in it. The editor
of the Kennebunk Eastern Star imposes
a duty upon ns, painful it is true, but
whioh, painful -as it is, must be per
formed. The comb of the Eastern cook
must be cut. Be it known, then,
that, according to common rumor, of
the three Senators who were con
spicuously drunk on the night of
the passage of the Silver Bill, two were
from New England and represent New
England States in the Senate. One was
Newton Booth, of California, Inde
pendent ; another was William W.
Eaton, of Connecticut, Democrat ; and
the third was George F. Edmunds, of
Vermont, stalwart Republican! Now
the murder is out, and New England
may make the most of it. We were loath
to give up Eaton, but we sacrifice him
iu order to get even with St. Ed
munds. We might pile on the agony by
repeating the current Washington rumor
that St. Edmonds (who looks, to em
ploy the witty expression of a Georgian
sojourning at the National Capital, as if
he had been dug out of Plymouth rock
with a pick-axe) is never drunk before
five o’clock in the evening and never
sober after that hour, but we forbear.
We wish to chasten, not to crush. If
any section of the country came out of
the all night session with flying colors
that section was the South. Eastern
and Western men grew husky of voice
and eccentric in locomotion while dis
cussing the dollar of the fathers, but
Southern Senators emerged from the de
bate with steady nerves and unolouded
brains. We do not say that they were
better than their neighbors. They may
have sought strength and invigoration
in the secret recesses of the eloak room
while grappling with the great finanoial
problem of the day, but if they did they
carried their liquor like stout and gal
lant gentlemen as they are, and did not
make exhibitions of themselves for the
amusement of the galleries, to point the
morals of Murphy lecturers and adorn
the tales of the correspondents of a
licentious press.
SHIELDS AND JACKSON.
Writing of Gen. James Shields, who,
though living, technically died in battle
in Mexico, according to records still
in the War Department at Washington,
a correspondent says : “He was the
only Federal General who had the satis
faction of whipping Stonewall Jaok
son, and ho is rather proud of that
distinction, as any man might be.” The
only time Gen. Shields encountered
Jackson, we believe, was in the cele
brated Valley Campaign, which made
Jackson immortal and sent Shields
into something like obsourity. The
Federal army was badly in need, at that
time, of some man to “ whip Stone
wall Jackson,” and if Gen. Shields
had accomplished the feat he would
hardly have gone to the rear while his
adversary marched to_ the front rank of
the greatest Captains iff the world’s
record. We rather think there is some
mistake about that whipping, but will
cheerfully accept correction for the sake
of the truth of hi3toiy.
JUSTICE NEEDED AS WELL AS VIGOR.
The Savannah News, of Tuesday, makes
mention of the arrival in Savannah on
the day preceding of several citizens of
Hancock county, who had been arrested
for alleged violations of the internal
revenue laws of the United States. The
prisoners were Messrs. L. E. Culver,
Wm. R. Gilmore, George Walker, W.
J. Renfro, and a colored man named
Henry Hicks. After a preliminary ex
amination Messrs. Culver and Walker
were discharged on account of the weak
ness of the testimony against them, and
the other prisoners were required to
give bond for their appearance for trial
at the next term of the United States
Circuit Court. The News compliments
the United States officials in Georgia for
pushing offenders against the laws so
vigorously, and says “the most zealous
Radical may feel perfectly assured that
under Democratic regime the United
States laws were never more faithfully
or rigidly enforced.” We are glad to
know that the new Marshal and his
deputies are making a commendable
reputation for activity and fidelity in the
discharge of the important duties of
their offices. We have no sympathy
for men who knowingly violate the
revenue laws of the United States.
These laws are made by the Congress of
the whole country for the government
of all the people, and they must be re
spected and obeyed. When they are
not, it is the duty of the Government
officers to detect and arrest their viola
tors and bring them to speedy trial and
punishment. In their efforts to repress
crime and punish criminals they should
receive the countenance and cordial
support of all good citizens. If the
revenue laws are unjust or oppressive
let the representatives of the people in
Congress repeal them, but while they
are on the statute books they should be
vigorously and impartially enforced.
Bnt Federal officials should be careful
that while in the discharge of their duty
they do not put the citizen accused, not
convicted, of crime to needless inconve
nience, or treat him with unnecessary
severity. Complaint is made that the
citizens of Hancock, whose arrest is
mentioned above, were taken to Savan
nah, in the extreme Southern portion of
the State, for a hearing before a United
States Commissioner, when there was a
Commissioner in Augusta, within a very
short distance of their homes, before
whom they could have been brought. If
it be true that there is a Commissioner
in this city who was empowered to
investigate the cases the officials are
very much to blame for carrying their
prisoners a hundred and fifty miles
farther to Savannah. The objeot of all
law is to give persons aooused of violat
ing the law a speedy and convenient
hearing, so that if they are innocent
they may be discharged, and if guilty
committed or required to give bond for
their appearanoe for trial. As the re
sult in the oases mentioned shows, two
of the four white citizens of Hanoook
arrested were so innocent of the offense
which they were charged with committing
that the Commissioner at onoe dismissed
the cases against them, yet they were
put to the trouble, expense and mortifi
cation of a long journey to a strange
city, when, apoorfling to statements
made,the matter would have been great
ly simplified by stopping them in Au
gusta. An explanation is in order. If
there is not a United States Commis
sioner in this city authorized to investi
gate alleged violations of the law in
Hancock county, there is of course
nothing to be said against oarrying the
prisoners to Savannah. If there is such
a Commissioner here the Marshal shonlJl
instruct his subordinates as to
duty to the citizen utJ/B
jUtfe duty to the Government
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
A CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT
IN WASHINGTON.
Iu the Halls of Our Back
ward—The Congressmen of This and Other
Days—lnteresting Interviews —• Prospects
for Public Lands, Etc.
[ Correspondence Chronicle asid Constitutionalist ]
Washington, D. C., March 24.—T0
see a live President and. to witness the
deliberations of the American Congress
were prominent among the things to
which my youthful mind turned with
an eagerness that knew no bounds. As
a boy, through the reports of Congress,
I kept paoe, so to speak, withlthe Toombs
es and Sewards, the Douglases and Sum
ners, the Stephenses and Campbells,
the Brookses and Growses, and my idea
was, “there were giants in those days.”
And so there were. Nor has the num
ber been diminished as largely as many
suppose. Education has. been more
generally diffused, year by year; the
people have been gradually lifted to a
higher plane, so that the distance be
tween representative and people i&nqi
so great as it was in the earlier days of
the Republic. The public press, oom
pendiums of information—general and
specific—and other agencies have operat
ed to bring about this result. Many,
who seem never to have taken this
view, deelare that we have no great
men now. In support of theis view,
they cite one to the speeches of Mr.
Webster, Mr. Olay and others. Ido
not pretend to Sea- ;
of suggest
this
this when
preilominates <:tied;
day when orations,
abounding in and
sentences that been
forced to give nicely
boiled down; in figures
of speech have “facts and
figures,” it is unfair rapudge men by
the standard referred tbf I confess that,
at first blush, I was sorely disappointed,
but, unless my theory ibe incorrect, I
see the gentlemen alludfd to in a truer
light. Again : Thp . jpinion prevails
that to be elected to .Gpngress is to se
cure a sinecure—a of honor and
profit, but free frofh labor; a place that
guarantees the amplest leisure either
for drives, jollifications, or reading. I
remember that, in spading that most ex
cellent book, whicltevery young man in
Georgia should read and re-read—Wad
dell’s Life of Linton., Stephens—l was
afforded a pleasing Insight into the
habits of good Congressmen at the time
Hon. Alex. H. Stephens first took his
seat in the House of Representatives.
He appeared then, as doubtless had all
his associates, to have had several hours
of leisure each day, and that without
negleoting committee duties, etc. Those
hours he devoted to the study of the de
bates to which the Constitution gave
rise among the fathers. What a change
has been wrought! What strides have
our people made ; and when I say our
people I mean the people from Maine to
the Rio Grande. This progress has
wonderfully increased the duties of Con
gressmen, so that if there be a Senator
or Representative who desires to be true
to his high trust, he must expect to do
naught else but work, work, work. I
want to say just here that if there be a
gentleman of elegant leisure among the
representatives of Georgia in the Senate
or House I have not been able to spot
him, and I have had occasion to seek
ont each one of them touching a matter
of great importance to oUr State. Shall
I mention Mr. StephenjtlwhG is at the
zenith of his power afix influence, or
Senator Gordon, wherever
placed, or Mr. Blount,
or Dr. Felton, ever doing, or
Senator Hill, watch
ful ? What is said be said
of all.
Apropos : It be stated
that the policy Ad
ministration does nH the j
appointment tnoLj^tamo
crat,
given i c
I chance JH
large
i 'ihtnalTO
the PosfVH
been auviHfl Wfo
the
understood. Nit
’twas ever thus, in
stances that Hayes’
mode of procedure tl^^^HLai’.
Your had time
for sight-Reeing— nothing to
report. He bad the with Hon.
Gustavus J. Orr and P. Price,
to be sent here from upon an
important mission—dßj, to urge
upon Congress the aWi-opriating to
the States of public jaods in aid
of popular education—the annual
distribution to be madb the first ten
years on the basis of illiteracy. To
that, educators North (and South are
agreed. In that seemingly extra liberal
concession to the South M (for the census
looates the bulk of illiteracy with us),
every fair-minded man North and West
concurs. Why not ? In 1780, at a
critical period in the Revolutionary war,
Virginia herself ceded to the Govern
ment 83,000,000 acres of hind. The
condition of the cession waß that the
lands should be held “for the use and
benefit of all the States.’" I regret that
I have not at hand the foots as to ces
sions by other States. The spirit of the
grants was the welfare of all the States.
The net annual yield of sales of public
lands is, in round numbers, $1,500,000.
This sum, apportioned to the several
States and disbursed under State laws,
would give North Carolina about $68,-
000; South Carolina, $51,000; Georgia,
$80,000; Alabama, $65,000 ; Florida,
$12,000; and so on. A bill, which con
tains the proposed features, is now in
the hand of Judge Goode, of Virginia,
ready to be presented yto the House.
In the Senate, Mr. | Hoar has in
charge a bill, which toot only pro
vides for the setting* apart of the
net proceeds of land saliß, bat adds the
net income of the Patenr Office and cer
tain moneys from the, Union Pacific
Railroad. I do not think the latter
provision will remain if- the bill ; I do
not see that it should,' The amounts
thus obtained should goHutf the Treas
ury. But the income,
over and above expenJjKvhich amounts
to about $100,00(1 could not
be made to take a course,
since really a tax on
the inventive
Hon. G. J.
city) have had a num
ber of Senatoi^"^f'
The manner in lemon—
Senators Y T imlom,
Blaine, Cam<>roiMßHHHB 4 > ; Hoar,
McDonald, Max
ey, and Representative Stephens, Has
kell, Steele, Harris, Blount, Aiken,
Davidson, Felton, ef al., met and lis
tened to the words of our mission was
gratifying and encouraging. They went
at once to the root of the matter, and
not a Northern or Western man—and of
course not a Southern man-r-iutarposed
an objection to a scheme which, if suo-'
oessful, will greatly benefit the South.
Senator Blaine was particularly out
spoken and agreeable. He said he could
see how Maine would be benefited by
the adoption of so wise and liberal
a scheme; because, if the South
reaped the first fruits, .the reflex influ
ence of that reaping would be felt at the
North. That was the Senator’s idea, as
I understood it. Iffr. Blaine, Mr.
Ferry, Mr. Christianry and others,
manifested a very deep interest in the
educational and general condition of the
South as graphically described by
Hon. Mr. Orr. Mr. Blaine had been bo
free and pleasant that, when we were
about to ( I ventured to say : “ Mr.
Blaine, we all know you in Georgia."
His good natured reply was ; “fee, but
that depends on how yon know me."—
There are many facts and inoidents in
connection with these * interviews that I
would like to give yoftr readers, but I
desist. 1 must say this, however, that
the interviews referred to confirmed me
in the views I have Bug held, that the
one thing needful forlfche creation of a
spirit of genuine cofeiliation, and the
exciting in the heartslof people of one
seotion a sincere inten&t in the welfare
of the people of otkemeotions, is a bet
ter knowledge of eawTother. What a
happy day will it bß'pr this country
when the extreme maßtpt both parties
will oease judging a b4*ondemning peo
ple of whom they except
through hearsay ! V m
To Senator is
greatly extended.
It was through
it was brought * 8 .
tinguished g.J ' " faKT
JAOnfI
A Gossipy Letter—Seeking Office—Seed and
Sheep—Postal Saving Banks—Mr. Ste
phens—Mrs. Hayes—Georgia and Immigra
tion, Etc.
[ Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist .]
Washington, D. C., March 25.—This
city is chock fall of jacks-with-lanterns,
and there are from ten to ono hundred
men, who are diligently chasing them
day in and day out. The class that has
become subject to the hallucination re
ferred to embraces men of all ages,
sizes and conditions. Many of them
have grown old in the cause—and as in
digent as old. Yonng men are here
wasting both time and talents. To
morrow, to-morrow, to-morrow is the
promise upon which they have confi
dently relied for months, until, in many
oases, the months have ripened into
years. lam not denouncing them ; I j
am only bewailing their lamentable con
dition. A member of Congress remark
ed to me a few days ago that the people
South had just begun to feel that this
Government is, in part, theirs—hence
every Congressman from our section has
a pretty large mail daily. The bur
den of the letters accords with the state
ment jnst made ; they are in the nature
of requests for books, seed, information
concerning patents and claims, etc. A
lady desires a tea-plant and a gentleman
writes in expectancy of two or three im
ported sheep. These and even more
curious petitions come up from all parts
of the country. Those that come from
the Sonth are cleverly construed to
mean that the people consider them
selves once more in the honse of their
fathers, and they are there not only to
stay, bat to share equally the benefits
and privileges of the Government. And
they are right.
Among the most active members of
the House of Representatives is Mr.
Waddell, of North Carolina. He has
jast introduced a bill whioh looks to the
establishing of postal savings banks. It
provides for depositories at all promi
nent points throughout the country, and
makes ample provision for the security
of the funds that may be confided to the
trust of the Government by the people.
The provisions of the bill are wise and
far-reaohing in their purpose. The
adoption of the system ijfill do mnch to
beget in all our people a spirit of sav
ing, In the depositories proposed, day
laborers, newsboys and clerks can put
their savings, small or great, as against
“a rainy day.” They will have the sat
isfaction, too, of knowing that the
money is secure beyond a peradventure,
beside drawing interest. Someone once
asked a wealthy citizen of Augusta how
he became rich. The gentleman prompt
ly answered, “By saving the half I
made,"
Mr. Stephens has been suffering for
two days past from neuralgia in the face,
but he wheels himself iu front of the
Speaker’s desk every day, and almost in
variably has some measure of impor
tance to present. Marvellous man that
he is, one can not broaoh a subject of
which he is not full to overflowing. Had
he entered the ministry, as in his early
life many thought he would, he would
have been as successful at least as Mr.
Moody in the application of incidents
gleaned from multiplied fields. I con
fess that the moment I saw Mrs. Hayes’
face in one of the illustrated weeklies, I
was captivated—it had so many marks
of loftiness of soul. The statement
did not surprise me, that her ten
derest sympathies wer§, iu oommon
with others, extended to tbe Hon.
and Mrs. Felton, when their little
son, Howard, was so dangerously
ill, and that, the moment the cloud was
rifted, she sent a cheering messenger iu
the shape of a basket of beautiful
flowers. Nor was I surprised when Dr.
Felton, himself, told me that, day after
day, would come a similar messenger,
with kindly inquiries as to the child’s
condition, and it was thought that only a
servant had oalled, until Mrs. Felton,
happening at the window, saw Mrs. Hayes
driving from the door. That was so
womanly, so motherly—her calling to
make the inquiries in person. I felt like
standing up, hat in hand, whilst the
Doctor related the incident; because it
was a kindness shown to Georgians,
k f fiopefl A* h*™” -b'vva abb.Uu give
"bn something positive touching the
Polish Immigration Society in this city,
to which reference was made in my let
ter from Columbia, S. O. We say we
are anxious to have a good class, of peo
ple come into our State and make it
their home. Are we ? Or is it merely
the usual expression ? We do not, of
course, want common laborers; we
have enough of that class, but we need
those who will come prepared to trans
form our broad aores into successfully
conducted small farms. It is a fact; too
little is known about Georgia. How
have the Western States, less favored
in respect to climate, etc., than our
State, been peopled ? Their thriving
and constantly increasing population
has been brought to them through the
agency of systematic advertising. Can
we not set Georgia on a hill ? We must
do that, if we mean business.
Martin V. Calvin.
SWIFT VENGEANCE
Meted Ont to Jolin Wallace, the Littleton
Murderer*rT|ie Historic Sqqr Apple Tree
Brought Into Requisition—And Johntg Body
Found Dangling From Its Limbs.
Burton, W. Va., March 24. —Judge
Lynch had a high court three-quarters
of a mile from here this morning, and
John Wallaoe, the Lung Drain Run
murderer, met ths fate he riohiy de
served. At half-past one o’clock this
morning fifteen armed men, with re
volvers drawn, rushed into Black’s
Hotel, where the prisoners were confined,
and went to the room where John Wal
lace was kept, presented pistols to his
guards’ heads, threw Wallace down on
tbe floor, bound him hand and foot,
and, putting a rope around his nec£,
sajing to him; “John Wallace, ven
geance has overtaken you," dragged
him up the railroad track three-quarters
of a mile and hung him on an apple
tree, and at eight o'clock he was found.
All the passengers on the express train
this morning saw him, as he was only
about fifty feet from the track, up a
small ravine. A tall man, six feet
high, face white as the driven snow, eyes
open, head thrown baok, faoe turned
upward, as if he was appealing to the
Throne on High for mercy, hands
tied behind him, feet loose, one pants
leg in his boot and the other out; a light
colored slouch hat on one side of his
head, dressed in sack coat, pants and
vest, made of home-spun goods of red
dish gray, with a rope around his neok,
three feet from the ground; this was
John Wallace, the Wetzel county ffend,
dead, and, as the wind blows, he swings
first his face tamed upward and eyes
open; then his back tnrns to you, and,
shuddering, you retrace your steps
to Burton. The authorities took him
down and iippanneled a jury and held
an inquest. A medical examination
shows his neck was broken and spinal
column dislocated, and death must have
been instantaneous. The jury rendered
a verdiot of fleath at tjie bands of par
ties unknown tp then}. G§°rge Baker
was taken to see bis brother after he
was laid out in the Barton Armoyy, and
was heard to exclaim : “Qh, I hope that
them that done as ke dPfic (fiay lay the
same way," and burst into tears, John
Wallace was overheard to say to the
lynchers as they were taking him out of
the hotel : “Henry Villars is the one
who approached me about murdering
them. 1 want to be hung, but want
you to hang Villars.”
H “W T-o Bty, ft.
[Cincinnati tyateUe,}
While variola States see proposing to
imitate Virginia in collecting a ta* on
the sale of liquors by adjusting the
Moffett bell punch, the Massachusetts
House of Representatives has voted
that saloons shall have no curtains or
ground glass windows. Customers must
drink in front rooms exposed to the
gaze of all passers by. If the Senate
ratifies this aot, and the Qovernor
signß it, and, above all, if it is enforoed,
the State’s revenue from license is
likely to be diminished. Customers
will fall of to an alarming degree,
especially in small to'w'ns, and dealers
will not care to continue the business
on the narrowed 1
— : ——
Dooley’s js prepared
'with special reference to supply the de
mand for a uniformly pure and always
reliable baking powder, Made from
pure grape cream tartar, is free from any
injurious substanoes, and perfectly
jvholesome. All sizes are strictly full
Bright, Every dealer who sells it is au-
Ejjtfed to guarantee it in every respect
BKrakihasers,
K to tilt up with
BARNWELL BASHI-BAZOUKS
TWO NEGROES HUNG FOR A
CRIME OF UNPARELLELED
ATROCITY.
Harrowing Detail* of the Awful Barbarity
of the Criminals—For a Few Dollars They
Kll la Man and His Wife and Roast Their
Children Alive—They Go to Their Graven
Protesting Their Innocence, Notwithstand
ing Their Previous Confession.
Williston, March 22. —Tbe murder
ers, Dexter McCreary and Fortune
Bush, expiated their offenses to-day
upon the scaffold at Barnwell Court
Honse. In accordance with the provis
ions of the recent act, the execution
took place withiu the walls of the jail, or
within the temporary stockade whioh for
a time represents our jail. To the last
the prisoners persisted in declaring their
innocence.
Particulars ef the Crime.
On the night of the 3d of January last,
or the morning of the 4th, the small
eabin in whioh dwelt a negro man, nam
ed Stephen Enicks, with his wifs and
two young children, the oldest abont 3
or 4 years of age, the youngest about 18
months, was burned down, and the cal
oined remains of the family found abont
2, a. m., amongst the ruins. Stephen
and his wife were found pretty nearly
where they were wont to sleep, in an in
ner room, partitioned off from the oth
er portion of the apartment containing
the fireplace. The remains of the in
fant were fonnd near the mother’s feet
—those of the other child near the door,
in the onter apartment. Under Steph
en’s head was found a clot of coagulated
blood. There was but one door to the
house, slightly fastened with a pieoe of
trace chain and a railroad spike thrust
through the links, from the inside.
There were no other means of ingress or
egress, but the door was very frail and
would have yielded to the slightest vio
lence. Great excitement prevailed at
the time amongst the colored people of
Williston and the surrounding country.
The house stood on the publio highway
from Williston to Barnwell Court Honse,
and not more than 600 yards from the
house of D. P. Sprowls, with whom
Enioks was working as a farm laborer.
The Murdered Man,
Enioks,was an exception to his race. He
was careful, saving and industrious, and
had aooumulated considerable money,
whioh was supposed to be stowed away
in the house. At first, the general im
pression was that the fire was accident
al, but the position of the bodies and
the fact that no trace oould be found in
the ruins of the silver money whioh was
known to have been hoarded in the
house, led to suspicion of foul play.
Every effort was made by the white peo
ple of Williston and Elko to obtain a
due to the mystery. Fortune Bush, it
was discovered, had, on the day after
the fire, exhibited to a negro woman
living on the plantation of Mrs. Walton
Hair, about one and a quarter miles
from the scene of the tragedy, a pocket
book, afterwards proved to be identical
in description with the one belonging to
Enioks, in whioh he kept his money.
Bush boasted to this woman of the pos
session of his rival's acquired wealth
which, he told her, he had just discov
ered in a field. He opened it to her,
and showed her that it contained con
siderable silver, but on being requested
to let her examine it more particularly,
he suddenly shut it up, as if alarmed at
his own communicativeness. He told
her, however, that he had money
enough to leave with and would go away
as soon as he got his wiie “fixed.” It
was found also that Dexter MoCreary had
been with him on the night of the mur
der and near to the house of Enioks. Dex
ter wa . sought for several days, and at
last discovered about fourteen miles off
from bis usual place of abode. He had
all his worldly goods on his person in
the shape of two or three pairs of pants
and five or six shirts. Dexter was brought
by the constables who arrested him to
Williston, where he subsequently con
fessed, voluntarily, to several witnesses
the whole details of the tragedy, *
„ ~- a.. s ,
' -•** fpil
On the night of the third, about ljc or
12 o’clock, he and Bush met by appoint
ment near Enioks’ house, for the pur
pose of plundering the hoard said to be
concealed there. Fortune entered the
house by pushing up a plank in the
floor, entering the outer ohamber and
admitting Dexter by the door. While
searching for the money, Mary Enicks,
the wife, awoke and called out, “Who
is there ?” Fortune, who had an axe in
his hand, struck her down by a blow on
the head, and as she fell she dropped
the infant from her arms, Before her
husband oould fully recover Lis con
sciousness the murderous axe of Bush
descended on the head of the half sleep
ing man, and all obstacles being thus
remov3d to the attainment of their burg
larious purpose, they ransacked the
honse and obtained the pocketbook al
ready spoken of. To oonoeal the horrid
crime, Bush pulled the bedclothes over
the bodies, sprinkled them with kero
sene from a bottle in his pocket and set
fire to the house. When the murderers
retired they fastened up the house con
taining the dead parents and the living
offspring, thus offering them as a sac
rifice on the funeral pyre. Retreating
to a field a few yards in front of the
house they watphed the progress of the
flames, and listened, without a spark of
pity, to the agonizing screams of the
eldest child, til] amidst blood and fire
and smoke its little spirit went out with
one dying wail.
On the Scaffold.
At 1:10, p. m., they ascended the scaf
fold. Bush, in a few curt sentences,
deolared his innocence, and hi ß readi
ness to die. No tyemor of the voice, no
quiver of the limbs, betrayed the slight
est sense of fear on his part. McCreary,
as he stood on the scaffold, showed more
nervousness, and proceeded to harrangue
the party present apologetically. He
endeavored to review his case and to
plead his oaqge as if it was still in issue;
but his whple harangue was so full of
palpable contradictions and positive
falsehoods that, in pity to his qoul, we
were glafl the sheriff announced to
him the time was up. Descending the
ladder, Captain Lancaster bade them
farewell. Amidat the folds of their
black oaps they replied ; "Good-bye,
sheriff,you will never have to aooount for
this," They each thanked him and Jailer
Lambert for the kindness shown them,
and at 1:25, p. m., amidst protestations
of innocence, the drop fell with them,
and they were launched into eternity,
At one and the same moment of time
the eye beheld two stalwart meq-rliY
ing, breathing, sentignt SWUres—
standing in all th&ty proportions,
clearly imfcimfld against the Southern
Bky—bpfore that eye had time to twinkle
two lumps of inanimate clay were be
held dangling near the ground, sus
pended like dead dogs by the neck.
McCreary’s death wa t g Instantaneous.
His neok vns dislounted by the fall,
and pot a quiyer was manifest vyhen he
fell. Euslii on the Qther hand, gave
three conyulsiye, upward m°Y e ments of
the body and tfeen all was over. Dr.
Q'Rannpn examined the bodies ten min
utes after the fall, and all pulsation and
muscular action had ceased. At 1:46,
p. m., the bodies were cut down,
placed in coffins and delivered to the
relatives of the deoeased.
A IfATIJ.
He p Convleted of RMlnc a lUao aiy\ Sen
tenced to Be Hung Hot and|
Remaining at Larne \oari, (a Ke^aa*
tured. ...
On the fsth of last January a man
named Washington McDaniel was
brought to Augusta and lodged in the
Riohmond oounty jail, under a benoh
warrant issued by Judge Bartlett. Mc-
Daniel’s oareer has been a rather strange
one. In 1866 he killed a man ip Wilk
inson county and two
was tried, convmted pf murder and sen
tenced to )?e managed to
efiect his escape, however, before the
day for the execution arrived. A short
hme afterwards i\e recaptured, but
while h’a eantprera were conveying him
bao| to ms pjd quarters, be again
escaped ana made his way to Florida,
where he remained nearly three years,
passing under the same of Charles
Heath-. Me then returned to Qeorgia
and for the past five years has been
working for Perkins <fe Bro. at their saw
will in Burke ooanty. Last January he
was identified as McDaniel, arrested and
brought to Augusta. We understand
that it is snspeoted that he is the party
who murdered a man named Cornwall at
one of the stations of the. Central Rail
road, robbed hie atoe and then set fire to
and bUThed it to the ground. Wilkinson
County Court will be in session next
week and MoDauiel will be oarried
refuses to
$2 A oroKr ot " I 7POSTAGE PAID
USTA : -i
CAROLINA^(^je^Z
HE REVIEWS THE MILITIA AT AN
DERSON.
Eight Hundred Men In Idne— Noble Utter
ances From a Noble Heart—He Reviews
the Campaign of 18T6. and Calls Upon the
People to Mtand Solidly Together iu the
Coming Contest—Does Not Sympathize in
Any Abuse of President t' H yes—No Bar
gains Made Abont South Carolina—The
People of Anderson Present Hampton With
a Fine Horse.
[Special to the Chroniote and Constitutionalist .l
Andbbson, S. 0., March 27.—The
militia review by Governor Hampton
and General Moiae was a grand success.
General Humphreys commanded eight
hundred men in line at the review. At
the conclusion a political, meeting as
sembled. Hon. J. P. Murray offered
resolutions endorsing Governor Hamp
ton and nominating him as the choice
of Anderson county for re-election,
whioh were enthusiastically adopted.
Afterwards Governor Hampton was es
corted to the stand. He, Generals
Moise and McGowan, Judges Mackey
and Cooks, and Colonels Cothran and
Hoyt spoke. Governor Hampton ex
pressed his gratification at meeting the
people of Anderson, who inaugurated
the movement for the political re
generation of the State. He said he
came not to inaugurate the campaign,
or dictate candidates, but to meet the
people of Anderson to thank them for
the support rendered and remind them
of the pledges made two years ago. Vic
tory then crowned our efforts. It was
the most startling campaign in the
country’s history. You know the re
sult and all that followed. Through all
those trials there were no fights, no
riots, no bloodshed, not even a fist
fight. Although we won, Federal
troops shut us out of the State House to
keep men not elected in office.—
He was determined to have our
rights. Civil war threatened us. We
had to be cautious. He restrained our
people, and by delay secured recogni
tion without a conflict. It has been
charged that a bargain was made with
Hayes to withdraw the troops. It is
false. No bargain, no agreement, no
compromise, nor even understanding
was made or proposed. He asked the
withdrawal of the troops beoause the
Federal Constitution required it. He
was willing for his government to fall if
unsustained by the people. He was
willing for Mr. Chamberlain’s to stand
if it could without troops. He did
Mr. Hayes the justice to say that
he believed ho had too muoh self
respect, too muoh respect for South
Carolina and too much for him per
sonally to make any proposition for a
bargain. He did not sympathise in any
abuse of Mr. Hayes. He opposed the
electoral commission when passed, be
cause he believed it would defeat the
Democratic candidates, but when it de
cided the question Mr. Hayes acoepted
the decision of the Court. He had
made no bargains in the State, had
never spoken to Mr. Chamberlain but
onoe and never expected to speak to him
again. He favored amnesty to all political
offenders excepting the leaders. Being
victorious, we can afford to be magnani
mous to those who have been lead
into error, but he assured the people
that whenever the evidence justified, the
ringleaders shall be brought back and
tried. He said he had to thank the
people for the manner in which they
sustained his government. When they
called for ten per cent, of the taxes, if
every one had paid it would have raised
one hundred and thirty thousand dol
lars, and the people voluntarily paid in
one hundred ad forty thousand dollars.
He said that our people must remain
united, and that for that purpose they
could afford to differ upon non-political
subjects and remain solid upon political
matters. If your selection of candidates is
wise and judicious, there will be no con
test for the State offices. You will have
the hardest fight for the legislature, and
should be vigilant over your rights.
He said that he may have made mistakes,
but where he did 1 Wme—>g.ononrred in
closed
r ul" South
Carolina and expressed the belief that
the future is bright for South Carolina.
The uttermost , enthusiasm prevailed
throughout the entire mooting. Eight
to ten thousand persons were present.
The citizens of Anderson county pre
sented Hampton with a splendid black
horse to-night. E. B. M,
PALMETTO NEWS LEA VES.
Drum fish are appearing at Beaufort.
Spelling bees again bfltez in Green
ville.
The Anderson Artillery Company has
organized.
Bishop Howe preached last week in
Walterboro.
Greenville is holding picnic exposi
tions upon Paris Mountain.
The Oounty Democratic Convention
of Orangeburg met last Saturday.
The State papers seem to think the
Legislature’s last aot the wisest enacted.
Miss Pauline Myers, a young lady of
Orangeburg, died last week in that
town.
A plan is on foot to introduce a num
ber of colonies of grape growers in
Sumter.
The Columbia Register thought that
the mock session of the Legislature was
a failure^
A little child of Mr. Beck, in Orange
burg, was killed last week by drinking
Belladonna.
Two New York drummers were arrest
ed Saturday in Charleston for drumming
without license.
Hon* .T. C, Sheppard, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, was present
ed with a cane by the members.
The Commencement exercises of
Charleston College took yesterday
afternoon at the A Gfl demy of Music.
The anniversary exerc ses of the
Charleston Y. M. C. A., conducted Sun
day evening by Dr. Munhall, drew large
crowds and were very interesting.
Charles Anderson, a colored man, was
killed Friday at tfeaeca River trestle, on
the Air June Railroad, by a large em
bankment of earth falling upon him
while at work,
A true hill for robbery has been found
in Pickens against Redmond. Hie band
has been dispersed and he is in full
flight. Revenue offioers have also been
indicted by Jndge Mackey for outrages
upon citizens.
The Charleston News says th&t the
commission to Exchange second
mortgage and non-mortgage bonds of
the South Carolina Railroad for con
solidated second mortgage bonds have
organized, and will issue receipts at once
to those who surrender the bonds.
Detective 8. J. Coates is on trial in
Charleston for assault and battery.
The Governor’s determination to re
fer the electoiu 0 f Ohanoey Woster to
the Ghaideston delegation meets with
opposition.
The Siberian bark “Amor.” in Char
leston, is being ooppered. Some promi
nent Republican leaders are on the list
for the first trip.
The News and Courier thinks that
Charleston has the advantage oS rest
ing her business interests upon a safe
and substantial foundation.
Olay Rioharfopn, of the Columbia
Register, \ known to the press gang as
“Rich,” has been appointed Paymaster
of the Tenth S. 0. ?. T.
On Wednesday Right last, James
Bowman, coloxed,, stabbed and killed
Audrey Ejohelberger, colored, near
Fomavia. They were both at church,
and qnarelled about seeing a woman
horn©,
Henry M. Wise has been oonvioted of
the killing of Fletcher Brown, at Ross’
Station, some months ago. The killer
and the killed were both young men in
the very prime of and both' regard
ed, some time to the killing, as
fast friehdh.
The Forest Ffcren,
Reports continue to come in of the
destruction oaused by the forest fires
last Sunday. They appear to have ex
tended over a number of counties and to
have consumed a vast quantity of wood
and fenoing, while several dwellings were
also destroyed. Dr. E. G. Scruggs’
residence, in Glascock ooanty, near
Gibson, fell a prey to the flames. Gib
son itself was in danger, but the people,
who were at ohurob, turned ont and
fought the fire. Mr. Thomas Warren’s
house, in Jefferson oounty, was de*
stroyed. Fenoes in Taliaferro, Glas
clook, Jefferson and Greene counties
were laid in ashes. A gentleman from
Columbia oounty reports that the firea
raged in that oounty Siinday and de
stroyed much wood *fld fencing. The
whole country isjjllfid with smpke, The
fires appear to tuK’e originated from
burning lanters have been
clearing crop.
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THE STATE,
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS*'
Carrolton has whooping cough.
Macon is pimpled with base ball.
St. Patrick’s day was not observed in
Thomas ville,
Mulville, Chattahoochee county, now
has a postage stamp officer.
A Butler genius has invented anew
and easy way of splitting logs.
. Mining business in Georgia now
ohiefly operates in smelt guano ore.
The Gwinnett lierald emphatically
opposes independent candidates in the
Ninth.
Randolph county is planting sheep
wool and rams’ horns very extensively
this year.
Mr. David Dickson, of Hancock, has
some of the finest artificial fish ponds iu
the State.
A well known literary character of
Griffin will make his debut this week iu
the lecture field.
A Texas paper says that Senator Ben
Hill, as a boy, never ate peanuts unless
he was iu a crowd.
Jackson county thinks of issuing
bonds to keep her criminals in bonds—
in fact, ereot anew jail.
The Henry County Weekly discoun
tenances General Toombs’ candidacy
‘‘because he is an alien.”
Major D. N. Speer, of LaGrange, has
been elected a director of the Atlanta
and West Point Railroad.
The Macon merchants jvvill erect the
handsome fountain presented to the
city by Hon. John P. King.
A Thomasville photographer has taken
pictures of fifty negro babies this week
to fill an order from Chicago.
The statement taken from a Colmn •
bus paper, that their girls have organiz
ed a base ball club, is repudiated.
Mr. J. H. Lumpkin, a rising young
lawyer of Atlanta, delivers a lecture to
night on the “Logic of Creation. ’
A negro named Phil Gordon c<; emit
ted suicide on Thursday last by drown
ing himself in the Chattahoochee river.
South Georgia doesn’t look very lov
ingly upon the proposed independent
candidacy of Dr. Felton for Governor.
Secretary Avery is much pleased over
the admirable disposition of the fund
granted by the State for Savannah drain
age.
Gen. P. M. B. Young, Commissioner
to the Paris Exposition, has closed his
office, and no more articles will be re
ceived.
The Whitfield oounty sheriff has fall
en into the clutches of the revenue
men. The department is now investi
gating official whisky in Georgia.
The glanders have made their appear
ance in Cobb county among the mules
and horses. Three have been shot to
prevent the spread of the disease.
A young man in Henry oounty,jscaroe
ly out of his teens, has accumulated
enough to retire from business, and
lives off the prooeeds of his capital.
Last week’s Detroit Free Press cot i~
tains a handsome sketch of General
Joseph E. Johnston, from the accurate
and fluent pen of Major Sidney Herbert.
The following additional notaries
have been appointed : J. M. Murden,
for the 605th District, Taliaferro oounty;
W. S. Grisler, for the 465th District,
Jackson county.
The serenader maketh night mourn
fully pleasant in Columbus by tuning
his harp to the shimmering moonbeams
and accompanying with his lute the
music of the spheres.
Attorney-General Ely decides that the
new Constitution vacates no office of
notary. After all the present commis
sions expire, then the new rule will be
put into universal application.
A few days since, as Mr. Peter Yates,
of Sandersville, over seventy years of
age, was returning home his horse ran
away, tearing the wagon in whioh he
rode to pieces, and throwing him out
with much violenoe.
A Qolumbus horse, after tearing up
his buggy and capsizing another team,
broke all of his legs, in a runaway fe
the champion girt, and retired from tho
field. In his humble way, he rivals
Oonsigney and O’Leany.
Mr. F„ Herm- Rjchs> ■
lauta i QWiibinon,
sary address before the Oxford ?srary
societies next Commencement*- Mr.
Richardson is a graduate of Emory Col
lege, and his college record has been
amply sustained hy his journalistic ca
reer. He is one of the most industrious
and newsiest reporters in the South.
Macon had her usual fire Monday.
Rowing is again popular in Macon.
Rome is troubled with an Indian doc
tor.
Savannah is to have an elevated rail
way.
Sandersville wants to open anew
street.
Athens is building another new ware
house.
Horso thieves abound in Jackson
oounty.
Mr. Joab Atkinson, an old Athenian,
died last week.
Monroe oounty has detected the glis
ten of a gold mine.
Baptist and Methodist churches are
to be erected in Gibson.
In the Atlanta stock market, mules,
have advanced sls per head.
The Maoon cotton factory is putting
in new and improved machinery.
Elder T. M. Harris, of Sandersville,
is lecturing on Swedenborgianism.
The Air Line Railroad have determin
ed to locate their shops in Atlanta,
Someone attempted to fire Mi-. W. J„
Dumas’ residence, in Forsyth, recently,
Atlanta has resumed specie payments.
Gold is paid on checks at on 6 of her
banks.
Rome prevented the circus from pa
rading through the city by a fifty dollar
license,
The Odd Fellows of Gainesville have*
a grand excursion to Atlanta on the 27th
of April,
_ Solicitor-General Hines, of Sandera
ville. has recovered from a severe ar f ml
of measles.
Mr. John Grier, of Butts county, <y,>
killed last week by being thrown from
his wagon,
An unmailable letter, directed to Mr
A. L. Dortic, Augusta, is held in the
Savannah post office.
It is now that the G. M. I.
k e c-° r ®' aniz ® < ?* the State property
at MilledgeviVje as academy buildings.
Rev. Thos. Battle, aged 93 years,
lives in Monroe county, and is one of
Vae most remarkable men in the State.
Thomasville has about five hundred
Northern visitors. Physicians say the
climate is better there than in Florida.
In Bibb oounty, Saturday afternoon,
Mr. Warren Peavy shot and mortally
wounded his brother-in-law, young Mr.
Hammock.
An eighteen year old lad in Mouß>e
oounty weighs 140 pounds, has never
used narootics or stimulants and is
anti-earuiverous.
One hundred cords of wood were
burned, Sunday, in DeKalb county.
Fires are reported in nearly every sec
tion of the State.
The Atlanta Constitution shows the
advantage of experience in Congress by
pointing out the high committee stand
ing of Georgia members.
The Athens Fanner trusts that the
Georgia Railroad Convention will in
quire into the practicability of aiding in
the extension of the Northeastern Rail
road in the direction of Rabun Gap,
Knoxville and Cincinnati.
DANCING,
An Anansta Woman'* Views on iheSuWect.
The following, from the pen of Miss
Louise W. King, of this city, appeared
in tha last number of the Atlanta Sunny
South :
There is much ado about nothing of
late. By nothing, i mean nothing
wrong—namely, dancing. Now, I will
preface this by stating that I am not
much of a dancer, because my wind is
short, but 1 do take exception at the
tirade lately made against this—to me
—most innoeent of all amusements.
“ To the pure all things are pure,” and
there was never anything, even in the
Sacred Volume, truer than this. Is
there anything in this world that can
not be distorted for evil ? To the young
it is the luxury of motion, like the colt
turned out to pasture, who must get
rid of animal spirits and exuberance by
physical exereise. To attempt to put
evil ideas into the minds of these young
ones is, I think, as, injudicious as any
immoral literature would be, for it sim
ply amounts to this ; that they are
brought to look upod what to them waa
a haaßhful, as a sin
ful; immoral n|BßWjM|)anciug is
tinned in many .
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