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In ew Series.
IN AUG DEAL ADDRESS OF [GOVERNOR
A. H. COLQUITT.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives :
In accordance with the constitution and laws
of the State, I appear before you to take the
oath of office as Governor of Georgia for the
next four years, No edict ol an autocrat con
venes us in this ball to-day : no coersion, wheth
er it comes from a master or the exigencies of a
faction, or the peril of the State—has forced us
to assemble for this ceremony. But, self-mar
shalled, we are here to witness the peaceful
change of public administration; the dutiful
and dignified surrender of power by one public
servant, and the assumption of official responsi
bility by another.
The custom of prtdece sors, as well H3 my
deep sense of gratitude to A people, dert nd
from me a few words expressive of that grati
tude, and indicating, in general terms, the policy
which the times seem to demand.
The unprecedented majority which called me
here, overwhelms me with thankfulness. Lan
guage fail- me iri the attempt to give it adequate
expression, it shall be my effort to prove the
depth of my gratitude by a complete devotion
to the public interests committed to me, and
by an unt emitting care tit at neither the t honor
nor the welfare of this beloved commonwealth
shall suffer bv the confidence you have reposed
ii: me as the servant of the State. The execu
tive government of a free, great and prosperous
commonwealth iiko Georgia, with its million
and a quartet of intelligent inhabitants, affords
for the exercise of patriotic statesmanship, a
sphere of honorable public service as exalted
arid comprehensive as the amhi'ion of .iy man
could desire.
Diffident of niv ability, and distrusting my
own capacity for this high and holy service,
whilst 1 solicit ycuir counsels and co-operation,
1 shall reverently invoke the aid of Divine Prov
idence to enable me to fuiiill the solemn obliga
tions which I am now to assume.
The allusion to the large majority by which I
was elected—the largest ever before given in the
State on a similar occasion—has been made, not
in any vain spirit of personal triumph, but to
deduce from the magnitude of that majority
two important public lessons. It. exhibited the
intense and univer-a! interest felt by the masses
of our people in this State, in securing at the
ballot-box, the victory of those who are con
tending for the liberty and rights of the citizen
and the limitations of the constitution. Never
before i„ Georgia has there been a more pro
found conception of the true principals of con
stitutional government, a more wide-,-oread.-cc--
sibility to the dangers threatening our free in
stitutions, or a more ardent and conscientious
sympathy with the friends of the constitutional
union. This noble devotion of our peoph to a
republic of liberty and lav.-, bas pervaded .ill
sections of the State and animated all classe
of our population. It has given such an ex
pression of sincetv confidence iu the legitimate
methods of lawful election, as lames no doubi
of out- fidelity io our constitutional modes of
giving them utterance asd effect.
lu the grand popular majority of the recent
gubernatorial election, is to be read Ihe o\er
\vhriming interest that Georgians ia me
great issues r.c.v convulsing the country, and
their determined purpose lo keep in alignment
1 1 1 (he :■ ii ioti: millions "i oui not
friend® who arc seeking, by the peaceful ir.itru
mentalitj f lawful sufi to i
good government, uuder the ur.dispi.-tcd supre
macy of I lie federal Constitution
1 but speak my own deep-felt sentiment, arid
echo the public voice of Georgia, whan I say
il-.ai in ail tbe complications of national poliUc-,
now so replete with fevered interest, we stand j
in immovable sympathy with the elected expo- j
neut ef constitutional liberty retrenchment and j
reform. We will adhere to him aud his co-la- i
borers, with the fidelity dueto the -hv.nipion of a i
righteous cause, in every patriotic endeavor
they may make to secure the honest and tin mi;-,
takabie will of a large majority of the American
pi ople, constitute nally ex| ess i t tbe j
1 refer with especial pleasure to the second
lesson of our gratifying and unprecedented mn
jority in the gul lernatorial contest repeated no j
less decisively in th idcntiul election in
our state.
As the benefits’of local self-government have
been experienced, and the baleful influence of
malicious interference has be-n withdrawn, the
colored people have recognized that our own
home folks are their true friends, and hence
they have fraternized and acted with us politic
ally. Large numbers voted with us, and swelled
the Gubernatorial and Presidential majorities
beyond all nrecedent. They have witnessed
in all material interests the effects of a good
home government, administered by people wed
ded with them to the same soil, and whose in
terests are all interwoven with their own. Of
no right has the humblest of them been depriv
ed. The advancement of the race in knowledge
and civilization has been, and shall continue to j
be, a special trust ind solemn duty. Hence,
cordial relations, so natural and so accessory
both to them and to Lbe whites, are being rapid- ;
ly and permanently established, and quiet and |
peace and sympathy between the races pervade ;
the entire State.
The people of this entire country have but to
look, and they cannot fail to see how the more ,
powerful race, when left to its own sense ot .
right and policy, will treat the colored citizen .
and how, when thus fiee to act, the ra<-es feel
for each other a mutual interest, pursue a com
mon course, and enjoy a reciprocal prosperity.
How wise were the lathers when the , rested the
Constitution upon the solid, pillars ol local -'elf
government in the States i
Georgia, gentlemen, is the home of all Geor
gians, of every race, color and condition ; her
local government is the government of us ail;
one future for weal or woe awaits us and our
families, and the nobier feeling of our na*ure,
as well as the haul common sense of the self
interest oi all, demand the united political ac
tion of all.
But to pass to other matters of domestic policy
wherein all Georgians have a common anu a
vital interest. Not only were Constitutional
and political liberty talismanic words of power
in the late great contest, but retrenchment and
reform shone conspicuously on all the banners
that heralded the victory of the freiuds of Con
stitutional liberty at the polls. The eyes of a'i
Americans look with confidence to the great re
former just elected President, to reform the na
tional administration.
Let us, gentlemen, look at home, and whilst
my own immediate predecessor and your indi
vidual predecessors, have not been unmindful of
their duty, let U3 remember that times have
changed, and values of all kinds lia\ e shrunk and
are still shrinking. We must further retrench—
we must reform yet more. It is our impe ative
duty to lighten the public burdens. Twenty
years ago the taxable property iu Georgia was
„ver five hundred millions of dollars. To-day
it is a million and a quarter. With less than
'
half the property, wo have nearly three times
the taxation. With properly thus J ated
id < ntinuinj; 1 lej ret iate a -.if las lone f r
the las' two or three years, it is clear that our
revenues will diminish in the same proportion,
and our income will not meet our obligations.
These obligations, gentlemen, are sacred. The
interest on our debt, uow about eleven millions,
must and will ’be paid, and our credit at any
and every sacrifice must be maintained. The
current expenses of the State government must
be promptly met. Our charitable institutions
ip. In this exigency we are
driven to'two alternatives—retrenchment or in
, reasc j x io . Ihe 1 ttei mi st be avoided,
if possible. I invite your earnest attention to
the former, and now engage that in alt methods
which your experience and wi -dem may devise
for saving the people from increased burdens, I
will most cordially co-operate with you. Let
us not wait for grand occasions, or for instances
of prodigion: waste in which to begin our re
forming economy. If we cannot save large
sums, ict us sec io it that the smallest leaks,
which are wasting the public treasure, if there
b< e neb ill be st ed. In
dearth and fioancts! pressure a? we are no a* ex
periencing, a system embracing small economies
is not to be despised or neglectc-d. Rigidly
honest expenditure in the public administration,
State policy demands. Rut, besides thi.-, i
moral effect a ill In- secured by it. which will be
of incalculable benefit. While we give the
whole financial world the fullest guarantee of
our;solveney by such a policy, we, at the same
time, place before every household in the State an
example worthy of all imitation. We rebuke, by
this example, a wasteful. nd ostentations expend
iture among our p<v pie. which us surely wrecks
the substance and of the home as ,t
destroys the more imposing structure called the
public credit. The counties and municipalities
of the State will catch the inspiration, and tv c
will again ;ce the universal rule, and taxation
never draw another dollar front the producers’
pocket to be wasted or misappropriated.
Our work is before us. gentlemen, and a grand
achievement is within our grasp. That work is
the restoration of a vast heritage, which a sad
fortune has solely wasted and damaged. It is
to evoke a thousand splendid resources, now
unutilized. It is to maintain the proudest and
noblest tradiiions—an honor unsullied—the
status of as worthy and respectable a constitu
ency as exists, and its position by the side of
the nos* advanced of commonwealths. This
labor, vast as it is, exacts no impossible thing
at our hands. With the blessing of Heaven
and the agencies of clear and heads pure hearts,
it may be accomplished.
Again solemnly invoking the divine aid upon
our efforts io serve our beloved Slate, 1 now
take tltc oath of office
The President of ,'he Senate then declared
General A. H. Colquitt Governor of Georgia for
the next four years.
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GOV. SMITH ON FEDERAL RELATIONS.
Oar retiring Governor closes Lis mes
sage with the following emphatic lan
guage in relation to the present political
complications:
Before closing this, my last annual
communication to tho General Assem
bly. I cannot forbear a brief reference to
tbo grave circumstances which now sur
round us, and seem lo threaten the ex
istence of the liberties of the people.
On a given day, over eight millions of
freemen, representing nearly forty five
millions of people, came forth from - ■
.bluing places and quietly proceeded to
the ballot box, for the purpose of choos
ing their rulers for the next four years.
Chi ■ grave proceeding was characterized
by the utmost good order, notwithstand
ing the pvesenco, in many places, of the
military forces of the government, sent
thither to overawe the we . and igno
rant, and to secure the election of par
ticutar candidates. The law pointed
out the mode of selecting the President
and Vice President of the United States.
The question as to who should hit these
high offices had been referred to the
ballot box. The true result of that ref
erence no candid mind can doubt. The
election was held in pursuance of the
laws of the United States and of the
seveial States. Itwas peaceable and- j
derly, and free from intimidation and vi
olence. And yet. immediately after tho
election, wo find a few adventurers, act
ing under the direction of ambitious
leaders at the Federal capital, and back
ed by tho military forces of the govern
ment, attempting, by fraud and chicane,
to set aside the eminent statesmen chos
en by the people, and to force into their
places persons whom the people, after a
fair trail, had refused to elect.
The question arises here: Shall the
candidates fairly and legally elected by
the people be placed in office, or shall
persons rejected at the ballot box be ele
vated to power ? Shall law and order
prevail, or shall fraud and violence have
the mastery? Shall the people of the
United States choose their own riders,
or shall political cheats and swindlers be
permitted to perform that vital office
for them ? Wt have appealed to the bal
lot box ; shall the result of this appeal
stand, or shall it be- set aside by force
and fraud ? If the latter, then our free
institutions are already at an end, and
constitutional liberty on tho American
continent has received its final blow.
The right of the people to choose their
own rulers is the corner stone of a
free Democratic republic; and when
they voluntarily abdicate this invaluable
privilege, or allow it to be wrenched
from them, they have already obtained
their own consent to become slaves.
No more sacred cause can engage the
patriotic efforts of a nation, than the
firm maintenance of the fundamental
right in all free Governments to say
who shall rule over it. This right the
people of Georgia and, I trust oi’ every
other State in our Federal Union, will
never willingly abandon. No division of
the dirty spoils of ofiice, no promise of
personal advancement, no engagement
to withhold the iron hand of power
can ever compensate the people for
the surrender of a right at once so dear
to themselves, so vital to the very exis
tence of constitutional liberty.
The people of .the United States are
thus brought face to face with a most mo
mentous responsibility. What shall be
done? What shall we do ? The motto of
our noble State furnishes the safe guide
for our own action in tiiia solemn emer
gency: ‘‘Wisdom, Justice, Moderation "
It is not for us to lead, cr even to suggest,
hut io follow. It is the plain duty of
Congress, Ly adhering to law and estab
lished precedent, to give effect to the
clearly and legally expressed will of the
people. But if Congress should, un
happily, fail to do this, then it is believ
ed that the proper determination of the
grave questions now confronting us can,
in the last resort, be safely left to the
sober judgment of the right minded poo
pie in the Northern States. If it can
not, tiaeu wo are powerless, and they, as
well as'cur selves, will have lost the it;
estimable right of freemen —the right of
Sfclf-govemmcv.it. When they shall have
decided what is proper to bo done for
rvation of tl 3 right, i
but little to say that tire people of Geor
gia will be found ready to co-operate
with them, and to do their whole duty,
under any and all circumstances.
EILL ARP Oil THE SITUATION.
Ton must excuse me, but it is impos
sible to suppress myself altogether at
this time. I feel like a little crow in’ will
open the pores and help digestion, and
do me good generally. And didn’t we
lick ’em ; and did you say his name was
Hayes ? And is he the man who said ho
didn’t mind it himself, but his heart bled
for the poor nigger ? Priests and Invites
of Jericaho ! how much will he bleed ids
pocket. Why, bless your soul, the nig
ger is free. He can go to Ohio if ho
wants to. We havn’t got 'em penned up
If Hayes, or whatever his nm s, w ill
cajl ’em, they’ll come. Atnd _t curious
the darkies don’t go io ili.ar friends ?
Ain’t it curious their .onus don’t come
down to see th if they are soever
lastin’ sorry ■ Maybe they are intimid
ated. Tl truth is, Mr. YVattorson, them
Radicals give the nigger suffrage to Lam
ble us and out-vote us, but they never
counted on it givin’ us 30 more votes in
makin’ a President. The nigger voted
for Hayes, if that’s his name, and elected
Mr. Tilden. Hurray for the nigger.
Next thing you hear of these Radicals
will be tryin’ to take away his vote, or
colonize him in some fun-in’ land.
But it’s too late—the dog is dead.
They may talk about intimidation aud
countin' out and boldin’ on, but it can’t
be did. Knaves don’t take kings in this
game. They stocked the cards and had
the shuffle and deal, and we won it, and
the stakes wo arc bound to have. We’li
fight on it, sur. Yes, sur ; if the worst
comes to the worst we’ll whip ’em agin.
Two hundred and fifty thousand major
ity has settled this question. As Gen
era! Gordon said : “Stand up, my conn
trymen, stand up; don’t wilt nor wither;’’
we have met the enemy anti they are
ours that is if we can keep ’em. I know
they are as siickery as eels, but we must
hold ’em The iji'u of the nation depends
on it. Liberty and free speech and ha
beas corpus are aii in peril. Four more
years of Radical rule and this country
will be as lifeless as an Egyptian mum
my. They must not be allowed to steer
the old ship any longer. Its agin natur.
Its agin the law of .Moses, aud Revela
lion, and the Shorter Catechism, and the
long-meter doxology. My wife says if
the fight must come, the women ought
to take a hand this time, and site is ready
to tare hair with old mother Hayes, if
that's her name, or any other jpvoman
who is mournin’ for the nigger.
Mr. Watterson, sur, we have patiently
bided our time. We saw this galorious
event a cornin’. If it wasn’t a star in
the East it was a roarin’ borealis in the
North. Wo knovved there was justice
and generosity in tho bosoms of North
ern Democrats. For a long time we've
been listenin’ to the rumblin’ thunder of
their indignation. Ever and anon it has
vibrated upon the air like the shake of a
young earthquake, and we’ve lived in
hope and defied despair until at last tho
pent-up storm came down upon ’em like
an Alpine avalanche, or a simoon in the
desert, or a typhoon of the tropics, or
a cvclone of tbe raging seas. Oh! it
was terrible, terrible! Excuse me for
growin’ eloquent, if you please, for it
seems to me 1 still hear the mighty voices
of three millions cf honest Democrats
exclaimin’ with trumpet tongues, “Get
out of these Augean stables and let us
turn the Potomac in. The stencil of
your corruption has overspread tlm land.
Ye have made the rich rioner aud the
poor poorer. Ye have smothered hon
esty, garoted industry and sown discord
among kindred. Yc have put your
Southern brethren in a pit an 1 dyed
their shirts in pokeberry juice, and called
it blood to deceive the people, but like
Joseph of old, they will vet be put in
power and save the land from ruin and
destruction. J oseph a brethren repent ed
in tears and sorrow, but ye will not re
pent. They did not steal his silver cup,
but ye will steal and carry away in your
carpet-bags not only the cups, but the
saucers and the spoons. ”
Why, sur, the first official advertise
ment Mr. Tilden wiR put into the Wash
ington paper will be fixin’ a day of
thanksgiven’, and callin’ for eefo. i pro
posals for a penitentiary big enough to
accommodate 30,000 Radical theivos w ho
have stolen a thousand million of dollars
from- the national treasury.
Mr. Watterson, sur, Uncle Sammy Til
den is going to take his seat in that cheer
—if ho lives. There’s doubts about a
heap of things in this subloonary world,
but there ain't no doubt about that. Let
’em rip and roar and snort and cavort
like a dyin’ aligator if they want to. but
Mol. Y.-No. 30.
my private opinion is a heap of ’em had
better be marshallin’ their assets for
trasportation to some iun-in and un
known clime. Intimidation! Or. my
j country ! A? iazin impudence l Who hat
j been intimidated for the last ten years ?
Haven’t they kept us under bayonets all
the lime ? Haven’t they divided the
army about half-and-half between us
and the Injuas ? Let 'em hunt for in
timidation nearer home. Why, sur,
there was thousands of humble Demo
crats in Ohio and Pennsylvania who
wanted to vote for Mv. Tilden, but their
bread and meat depended oh not doing
it- How about all the ■■ >Tkm nin the
shops, mills, factories, that belonged to
the Radical;-; who made iin.iv bio.; foil i n--
tunes out of the late war • There was
no intimidation of course, bat i.im boss
call- them all up and a : “You vote us
you please, but if you don’t vote for
Hayes (didn't you say that was his r a:m\)
you can come to the eapbdn ofdoe and
settle, and get your wr,ikin' papers. '
The tiuth is, Mr. Walterson, those
Radical cowards hate been afraid of us
so long that tb-y have got intimidation
on the brain. Ben Butler was invited to
go to Now Orleans to help count, but lit;
. idn’t go: ho replied by it pv.ph—
"Great spoons ! I can’t go. I .feel in
timidated.” Now the worst case I have
heard of is Jack Allen’s. Ho had three
I hundred negroes on Lis sugar plantation,
j and bein’ p nod for labor he offered
every d-V .ey who stayed at Lome an ,x
--trado ..r in silver, anti they stay id. The
shine ci the coin intimidated 'em, and
-o Louisiana is to be sot down for—did
you say his name was Hayes ?
Ni . forth otb v side of the picture.
These Radical rascals made the poor nig
gers believe that if Mr. Tilden was elect
ed they would all be put on the block
and sold into slavery. They were made
to believe a lie and put in fear of losin’
their liberty, and that wasn’t intimida
tion was it 1 Why. sur, in the last ton
days 17 of ’em have axed me io buy ’em
wncu the sale comes oil, but I’m af erd
to do it. They lmvo follered these Rad
icals so long I’m afeerd they would steal
everything I’ve got. Sur, if there was
some high and mighty arbiter of these
issues who would speak to ns from the
clouds—some great and supreme judge
a settiu’ on the top most peak of the
Rocky mountains a lookin’ down with
majestic wisdom upon this bedeviled and
bewildered Lind, he would throw out
every nigger vote that such intimidation
carried to Hayes, which they say is his
name. Bur, the intimidation was all on
the other side. Even the carpet baggers
and scalawags who roost around us like
buzzards watch in’ a sick horse, would
have voted for Uncle Bern if they hadn’t
be#n af< rd if loosin’ ir offie
were intimidated, and now they are la
men tin’ they didn’t do like Saru Bard,
and flee from the wrath to come before
it was too late, and make themselves
unanimous.
Sur, I know that ail of us, move or
less, ere livin’ under a measure ol intim
idation. The fear of the la-:;, the fear
of society, the fear of the devil, or some
other fear keeps us all intimidated.
There are some men I would lick if I
wasn’t ufeared they would lick mo.—
There’s mighty few men living in a state
of perfect freedom. Our domestic and
commercial relations give the lie to it
every day. You know Low it is your
self; but are all these relations to be
busted up on that account ? No sur—
by no means. A reasonable quantity of
intimidation is a wholesome thing for
beast and man.
No, let ’em count us out if they dare
to. I know they can beat tho almanac
and the multiplication’ table and the
devil himself on a count when they want
to. Their only chance to get out of his
kingdom whan he gets, ’em is to fool
him on the count some evening at dress
parade.
But we’ve got some long heads a
watchin’ of ’em. and they’ll be caught at
their rascality. Joe Brow; and Bam
Bard have gone to Florida, and Toe is a
whale. He’s some on a count himself.
He’s counted votes before, and imint for
got the lick. Whether he learned from
Bullock or Bmlock learned from him J
don’t, know -, but Joe didn’t jine Gideon’s
band for nothing. • He slipped in aud
glided out just as easy, and nobody
knew when it was done. Sam Bard
doesn’t do that wav. He tumbles in ami
tumbles out with a regular sommerset,
and makes as much noise in doin’ it as a
school boy jumpin’ into a mill pond.
But Joseph is all right now, and our
folks are bettin’ on him.
One thing is shore and certain—wo
are not going to. have that other feller to
rule over us—and did you say his name
was Hayes ?
Yours jubilantly,
Bru, Arp.
At a recent Nunday-school reunion
the surperintendent proposed* that they
form a lino and march to the song,
“Hold the Fort.” Accordingly the line
v.-u-s formed with Deacon L. at tbe
bead. All went beautiful until they
came to the second verse:
“See the might, host advancing,
Satan leading on,”
when they were all so impressed with
the exceeding appropriateness of tbo
thing, that singing, marching, decorum
and all solemn feelings were knocked in
to pi by a general roar of laughter at
the expense of Deacon B.
♦££*
The National Democratict Committee
will probably not favor any unusual par
tv demonstrations ut this time.
From the Index and Baptist.]
OOSN-PIBLD PREACHER L
From fiio spirit of the times, and the
- cm : tendency of things, it appears
.hat corn-held preachers are fast giv-
Ir.g an ay to those who are unwilling to
do anything for a living outside of the
ministry, if we look at this in its true
light, we see that if there are none to
preach except these who devote all
their lime to the work, there will bo
many churches without pastors, and
many preachers without churches. I
think the plan followed by many good
preachers and live churches is very
good: the church pays what it can
; and tbo preacher preaches some, and
plows some, and thus he lives very well
wnl tlie churches arc not money rais
ing.
The idea that a preacher must not
work at all, but study all the time, is
erroneous, and leads many young
preacher: in the wrong way. I honestly
believe that some of the best sermons
that havo ever been preached, were
studied up between the plow-handles,
when tho sky was blue and the fields
green, and the birds singing sweetly
in the forest, when all nature seemed
favorable for study. Under such in
fluences the preacher is able to preach
soundly and vigorously, not feebly and
spiritless.
Again, I see that those country
preachers baptize more than others;
; hoy have less trouble in their churches
ami fewer exclusions, aud very few
departures from tho faith; but few
agents visil them, and but few things
are said about them in tho papers, yet
they are busy at work, praying, and
1 tidying, and toiling, aud thinking of
a, La:.; 1 of Rest and of the redeemed
tin ,n., that will bo there, and of the
love t) o> have for Jesus. Labor makes
t swud here, and they love to labor
for Cod. Many of these men are better
educated than many are willing to
admit; real self-made men, able to
comp: ..fiend tho truths of the Bible
aud they hold to them, not running off
aft, r the whims, isms and notions of
tho day. i'liey arc not “open conimu
liionistV’but hold on to the truo priu.
ciples of the Gospel.
My memory takes me back to tho
day that sire pleasant to remember,
when these old-fashioned preachers
were more common than now, I well
remember their interest and zeal for
their churches. I love them now,
though they are long since dead and
gone, and I am glad that we have some
of the same sort still left, who, like
them are ever laboring to be of some
U3o to those with whom they live.
HYDROPHOBIA'S HORRORS.
Albert Klomp, of Jersey City, was bit
ton by a Spitz dog some days ago.
YouiiV, Klomp frequently said that ho
was not well’ and one Sunday morning
experienced a constantly increasing dif
ficulty in breathing. When ho began
vo eat and dlink ho swallowed laboredly.
At midnight a spasm shook him violent
ly. His mouth began to fill with saliva
almost as white and thick as cotton.
This ho spat in every direction so
strongly that it reached the ceiling and
Em walls. In tho endeavor to clear his
ng saliva ho uttered
sound • that to hi horror stricken rela
tive; seemed like the growl of a small
. -•E l,; the t.nat of a faro
cions dog, and at four o’clock on Mon
day afternoon he died.
“Young Klomp,” said Dr. Gilman,
“died hydrophobia. When I first
with itreat difficul-
Sftliva, resulting
Eon the E lurking effect of the hydro
phobic poison upon the nervation of tho
mouth, called oat that tho doors must
be kept shut, and had spasms closely
following each other. Excepting when
raked by a spasm, ho was conscious. He
. no fever. His pulse was settled at
150, and In perspired so as to moisten
hfo clothing. As soon as we learned
that ho had be in bitten by a dog, we de
cided to use woorara. Wo injected it
beneath the skin of tne loft arm. At
once lie said he felt, better. Mo repeat
ed tho injection, and he said that he felt
still more improved. Had ho been a
lad of much vital force, and had the
woorara been injected in season, it is
probable that ho might have lived. But
lie was of slight build—unusually slight
for his age—and of little force. There
fore the racking of the spasms soon ex
hausted what he had.
TO KILL A TOWN,
To kill a town in two years, closely
and promptly ob,servo the following
rules :
Ist, Rut, up no more buildings than
von are obliged to occupy yourself.
2d If you should have an empty
building to rent demand three times
its value.
3d. Look sour at every new comer
and give tho cold shoulder to every
merchant or merebanic who desires to
come among you.
Go abroad for your goods and
wares; by no means purchase from
vonr own own merchants and manufac
turers even at the same price or less.
sth. Don’t contribute one cent to
the cause of religion or education.
Finally, put a thorough finish to
your work of vandalism by killing
your local newspapers, by refusing to
subscribe or advertise, so that persons
at a distance will not know that any
business is lining clone in your town.
Death of Mr. F. Bowmen Phinizy.—
At last this estimable young merchant
has departed. He died last week, aft< r
an illness of ten days, of typhoid pneu
monia, at his residence in this city. Mr.
Phinizy was about 27 years old and son
cf Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy, of Athens,
Ga. Although young in years, he was
one of tho first and most prosperous cot
ton merchants of this city, and his death
will create a vacuum in business circles
which will bo felt for a long time.
[Constitutionalist.
What is that which flies high, flies
low. has no feet, yet wears shoes? Dust