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Petition for Letters of
Dismission From Administration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, February Term, 1885.
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\7hereas, N J Carr, Administrator upon
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show cause on or by the May Term,
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Monday in May, 1885, why letters of
dismission, from his trust as aforesaid,
should not be granted to said petitioner
as prayed for.
Witness my hand and oflicial signature,
this February the 2nd, 1885.
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Tax Notice.
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w m . Tax Receiver.
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["Federal Union Established In 1829.
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Milledgeville, Ga... May 5, 1885.
Number 43.
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What Kind of a Government Do We
Live Under?
The Republicans, in tlie conven
tion which nominated Mr. Blaine for
the Presidency, declared that ours
was a consolidated government; that
is, that tlie people in mass of the
United States so-called, constituted a
nation. No democratic orator,
throughout the whole contest, ever
disputed, as far as we saw, that gov
ernmental dogma of tlie Republican
party. The Union & Recorder dis
puted its truth from the commence
ment to the close of the campaign.
No Democratic paper, as far as we
saw. added its opinion similar to that
of the U. & It., nor has a single one,
or a single Democratic leader as far as
we know, done so since the campaign
ended. There seems, then, to have
been a general acquiescence in the old
Federalistic doctrine or indifference
jpjout it, that ours was not a confeder
ation of free, sovereign, and independ
ent states. At the close of the old
revolutionary war the King of Eng
land---George III—made peace with
the victorious colonies, not in a body,
hut with each one, separately, as a
free sovereign and Independent nation
of tlie earth,. They formed a union
under articles of confederation, and
each was recognized as a free sover
eign and independent State. This
lasted for thirteen years, and during
that time there was no President.
For purposes of convenience, a con
vention was held to form a new con
federation. each state being recogniz
ed as a sovereign state, anil claiming
the right-to withdraw from the new
confederation,, if either one should
deem it necessary for its safety and
happiness. Some, 24 years ago. deem
ed it necessary to withdraw and were
forced by arms to remain in tlie union.
What we are seeking to learn is, what
is the true nature of the government
under which we live. Mr. Jefferson
contended that the government, in
his day. was a government of free
sovereign and Independent states, and
lie triumphed over the consolidation-
ists, was elected President and his
doctrine prevailed for over sixty years.
The sword, it is said, overthrew his
doctrines hut can the sword dethrone
the principles of the fathers and pre
vail for all future time. But our ob
ject, now, is merely to notice some of
the absurd flourishes which exist
about our change from a confederated
to a consolidated government. France
is a state, England is a state. Russia
is a state, and the consolidation of all
the people of this country into one
political community would make it ‘a
state.
The divisions of France are called
di-parte-inentes, in English, depart
ments. There were at one time near
ly ninety of these departments, each
one governed by a Prefet, or in Eng
lish. a Prefect, or Governor. The de
partments, which are merely parts of
a department, each one being govern
ed by a suh-Prefet.
England is divided up into counties
like our states, which are regulated
in about a similar way; indeed our
county system is copied from the
English methods. Let us suppose
now. that the Republicans are right,
and that the inhabitants of all our so-
called states, and territories, are con
solidated into one great mass from the
great Northern lakes to the Rio
Grande, and from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean, forming the greatest
compact state on the earth. We ask
where is the statesman, within its im
mense boundaries, who Fan find a
state save the-one within those limits.
Every foot of land, or water, within
those boundaries is a part and parcel
of a single state or nation. The Re
publicans look to the consolidated
government as a central sun and wor
ship it as the Magi <"lo the solar King
of our system of worlds. The Demo
crats seem to he growing indefinitely
national, for on this subject, they are
as mute as the silent stars. Our con
stitution as framed by the inspired
fathers was the most stupendous and
magnificent monument of human wis
dom and ingenuity that the world
could boast of. yet the republicans
discard it and the silence of the Dem
ocrats hastens its exit. But we are
straying from tlie purpose in view.
All see tlie blood dripping from the
wounded constitution, something
must he done to satisfy remaining
scruples. Politicians’ jockey; resort is
had to political icsthetics; a beautiful
flag is kept streaming in sunny skies,
bedecked with stars, with the old in
scription. “E Pluribns Ununi’’ to de
ceive and betray. We ask tlie most
cunning and skilf- ,1 balancer, the
most ingenious statesman in the land,
whether a Republican or Democrat,
if in this extaordirmry change he can
find hut one state in this mighty po
litical inetempsycosis. Is New York
still a state? is Georgia a state? is
Virginia or South Carolina still a state?
If we had all tlie gold and diamonds
that were taken from tlie mines of
of Potosi. the Pactolian sands, or the
beds of Golconda, we would bet all
against a handful of sand that no
man in American can show hut one
state in tlie limits described under
consolidation or centralization.
What is a State ? The great defln-
ers and explorers of political sciences
tell what it is. We need not quote
from their writings. It is unnecessary.
Every one. without exception, defines
a state to he a free, sovereign, and in
dependent government, or country,
whether a republic or a kingdom. If
ours is a consolidated or centralized
government, these divisions called
states, are not states, are only de
partments. occupying positions simi
lar to those of France ; and the coun
ties in this country, are what the ar-
rondisseinents are in that country.
When the North American colonies
gained their independence of England,
they formed a confederation. When
the South American colonies gained
their independence of Spain, each
state preferred to maintain an inde
pendent existence. Chili, Peru, Co
lumbia. Ecuador, and all the rest are
free, sovereign and independent
states, and therefore, occupy a higher
position than tlie American colonies,
who once were states, hut have lost
their independence, if ours is now a
centralized government. While we
desire to state these facts we are not
seeking to disturb the quiet of tlie
country, hut it is a misnomer to speak
of our former states, as states, when
they are only departments of a consol
idated nation.
Several, and whole families were
overwhelmed and drowned by a wa
terspout which rolled down over the
lowlands cast of Medicine Lodge City,
Kansas. It was from five to 12 feet in
height carrying death in its wake.
Many persons, men, women and chil
dren" were saved by clinging to trees,
in their night clothes ami some with
out any clothing at all, hut still alive.
Tlieir cries were heard over the roar
ing waves. Many persons were drown
ed. Some got on houses and the
houses were swept away.
Wilson, the great inventor, and
the patentee of the celebrated Whee
ler and Wilson sewing machine is a
lunatic, and has been put in the
asylum by his wife and daughter.
Another victim of strong drink has
been brought from affluence to pover
ty. and finally finds a home in a luna
tic asylum.
The Constitution quotes Talmage
aS saying, “Flirtation is damnation,”
and remarks, “If the doctor is right,
it will take a big stock of damnation
to supply the demand.” We have
no doubt the supply will equal to the
demand.
The policy of Mr. Cleveland seems
to be to replace colored Republicans
in office in the South hv competent
colored Democrats.
Mr. George Riddle, of Carroll coun
ty, Maryland, has living with him at
tiie present time, twenty-two of his
daughters.
Washington Letter,
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, April 27th, 1885.
The last week has been about the
first smile of Spring that Washington
has enjoyed since the peculiar vernal
weather that favored President Cleve
land's inauguration. The parks,
lawns and shade trees have resumed
their garb of green and the Capital
city never looked brighter and fresh
er "than it does now. Since many
thousands of shade trees have grown
to an umbrageous height, Washington
has much improved as a summer resi
dence, and it is well it has, for the in
dications are that it will he. for the
next four years at least, the enforced
summer home of many who have been
in the habit of spending the hot sea
son in tlie mountains or by the sea.
Heretofore Government clerks have
been given an absence of thirty days
with pay with the privilege, frequent
ly, of thirty days more without pay.
It has been their custom to leave their
desks for this long period no matter
how much their work was behind. In
this way the public business has been
neglected. A long summer vacation,
anti parennial systemic laziness lias
had the effect to place the public ser
vice in such a laggard condition that
it is now necessary to work of nights
in order to catch up.
' It is said that the new administra
tion will curtail the customary sum
mer vacation, or deny it altogether to
those in offices and bureaus that are
behind with their work. The Presi
dent proposes to spend the summer in
the city. He will live in the presiden
tial cottags at Soldiers Home, which
is about three miles from the White
House, and he will drive in every
morning. His new horses have just
been received from New Y'ork ; they
are an excellent pair, and, it is said,
can trot a mile in three minutes.
1 think society is doomed to he very
much disappointed in President Cleve
land. Society has piped to him, hut
he will not dance. He politely par
ries all her mealy-mouthed overtures.
Last night a box" was reserved for him
at an amartuer operatic performance
in which a large number of young so
ciety people took part. The president
was expected, hut he did not appear.
Had he been sent for, he would have
been found in his office in his shirt
sleeves before a pile of papers. He
lias been expected at a number of
places, hut lias invariably disappoint
ed those who expected him. In this
respect he is quite different from his
predecessors. Lincoln, Grant, Hayes
and Arthur were frequently seen at
the theatre and at both private and
public entertainments. The president
lias made hut one call, that upon W.
W. Corcoran, Esq., since he has been
in Washington,
The new Administration has gone
to work in a practical, thorough, com
prehensive way to make such changes
in the management of the public bus
iness as will facilitate its transaction,
save time and money, and better ac
commodate the immense number of
people who have dealings with the
Government. This is the beginning
of an already well defined and what
promises to be an exceedingly ener
getic and successful policy. It is also
a matter of the first importance to
which little if any conspicuous atten
tion has been given for several Ad
ministrations past.
The republican party, like an old
tenant, had become careless of its trust,
and had allowed the property to run
down, as it were, or at least to go un
improved. It was comfortably fixed,
in full possession of tlie patronage and
power of the Government, with what
it seemed to think was an indefinite
lease in prospect.
That both the need and the room
for reform existed, is made evident
by the number of important steps in
that direction which the new Admin
istration is already taking and others
which are contemplated. The doc
trine of letting well enough alone, to
which its predecessors adhered, is a
loose and dangerous doctrine. It is
believed that by the time the various
plans of re-organization are perfected
which the heads of the departments
have in view, the offices will he filled
acceptably to tlie party, and the sala
ries attached to them will he honestly
earned.
Letter from Florida.
Okahumka, Fla., Apr. 22nd, 1885.
Fditor Union & Recorder:
It has been a long time since I
wrote to you last. Our railroads are
completed and our crops are nearly
matured, I mean of corn, &o.; our veg
etables are in the market with the
best results that Florida has ever en
joyed. Tomatoes, beans, and egg
plants have averaged $3.00 per crate
from January 15th to this date, and
there is no reduction in the market.
Early cucumbers and egg-plants have
been sold for as much as $0.00 per
crate. Our corn is maturing, 1 had
green corn on my table today at din
ner. from my field, not from my early
patches, and our melon, potato, pea.
guava and banana crop will come in
later, and with tliis diversity of crops
and the results that we have always
hail, saying nothing of the oranges,
lemons and limes, it is certainly the
most promising country in tlie World,
and aside from all that I have men
tioned, lands are all the time advan
cing in value at a rapid pace. All im
provements properly made will pay
five dollars for one invested, as so
many people come to this country
who want to buy a home, and not a
place in tlie woods. Houses and or
ange trees sell land in Florida. 1 have
several improved places for sale, and
1 have several thousand acres of un
improved lands for sale from $10 to
$35 per acre, and all in four miles of
Okahumka station on the Florida
Southern railway, all in the Lake
region. God's own country, the green
est spot of this earth. Speculation on
lands in this county in bringing it
from forest to farm and grove is in
calculable, and 1 feel very anxious to
see more Georgians take advantage
of the opportunity. Money is what
everybody wants, and south Florida
is the place to make it, if a young
man has a little money and some mus
cle and energy and a good deal of de
termination, and some judgment as to
the kind of land to buy. Come to see
me and 1 will not mislead you.
H. A. Wyse.
dissatisfied.
An old farm-house, with pastures wide,
Sweet with flowers on every side’;
A restless lad who looks front out
The porch with woodbine twined about
Wishes a thought from in his heart :
( lit. if 1 only could depart.
From this dull place the world to see.
Ah me 1 how happy I would he !
Amid the city’s ceaseless din.
A man who round the world has been.
Who. amid the tumult and the throng.
Is thinking, wishing all day long:
< >h. could 1 only tread once more
The field path to the farm-house door;
The old green meadows could I see,
Ah, me! how happy would I he.
—Dublin (Ireland) Times.
An Essay on Hope.-“Hope springs
eternal in the human breast,” and it
also makes us believe that we are go
ing to have good crop year. Hope is
said to he a siren, hut all like to listen
to her song. Youth listens, and is en
chanted, manhood, invigorated, and
old age is strengthened. Blessed
hope! The magic- wand of youth, and
the staff of the old man whose locks
are whitened by the frosts of time.—
Lincolton, Ga., News.
The approaching marriage of Miss
Julia Jackson, daughter of “Stone
wall" Jackson. is talked of among the
early events of spring. She will wed
a Mr. Christian, of Richmond. This
marriage will attract more attention
than any other event of the year in
the minds of the followers and admi
rers of the great Confederate leader.
Editor Brown, of the McDonough
Weekly, has been heard late at nights
singing an original ditty, thus:
“In the gloaming, O my darling.
Still the air is cold and wet;
Listen to me, O my darling—
Do not change your flannels yet! "
Finland has protested against the
issue of letters of marque, should war
take place between England and Rus
sia; but her voice will be only a whis
per in this warlike roar of the giants.
Sweden has determined to remain
neutral. The King who has been
making a tour of Europe is hastening
home.
ft LOVE MATCH.
From the Courier-Journal.
It was a chilly November night
when the train got into Hampden.
Hampden was one of those new un
finished places which require tlie
brightest of sunlight, the greenest
frame of quivering leaves to make
them at all presentable. And in the
gray, uncompromising medium of the
November dusk, Hampden looked
dreary enough, with the dark chim
ney of the new silk mill rising out of
the hemlock woods, the staring Queen
Anne depot, the church, which bore a
strong family resemblance to a child's
wooden toy" and the stone quarry to
the left, which reminded the thought
ful looker-on of a gigantic fortifica
tion in an unfinished state.
“Hunfph!” said Mrs. Nedley, as she
looked around her. “A queer place.”
Her niece, Phebe, was there to meet
her with a box wagon and a wlxite-
nosed old horse.
“Folks can't always choose where
they're to live,” said Phebe, who was
always in a state of antagonism to
Mrs. Nedley. “anil Hampden is good
enough for me.”
“How is Philip?'’ asked Mrs. Nedley.
“Philip is well,” said Phebe, as she
helped the depot hoy to hoist Aunt
Nedley’s trunk into Hie wagon.
Philip Harrow was Mrs. Neilley's
favorite nephew. She had paid his
bills at school, superintended his for
tunes, anil finally purchased a share
for him in the new silk mills.
“lie's all I've got", said Mrs. Ned
ley, except Phebe, and Phebe and I
never did hitch horses together. And
1 want him to succeed in the world.”
Bui within a few days a new claim
ant had arisen to Aunt Nedley’s pro
tection and tender consideration.
“To lie sure, she is no relation to
me,” said Mrs. Nedley. “But her
mother was my dearest friend, and I
think I will adopt her ‘for my sake.’’’
And it was scarcely an hour from
the time in which she learned that
Sylvia Gray was an orphan that she
wrote a kind letter to the girl, inviting
her to come to the East for a visit.
“If you like it, my dear, there need
lie no occasion for your going hack",
she wrote. “We are both alone. Let
us he companions to one another.”
She had waited and waited and no
reply had arrived; and while she
waited a plan had developed itself in
her mind.
"If she is her mother’s daughter she
can't help being pretty,” said Mrs.
Nedley. “Phil is a handsome lad. She
shall marry Phil!”
And this explains Mrs. Neuley's
presence at Hampden.
“I suppose you are still keeping
house for Philip ?" said she to Phebe,
as they drove along in the chill twi
light. "
“No,” siiid Pliebe, skillfully guiding
the old horse down a steep place in
the road.
“He hoards, eh?” said Mrs. Nedley.
"No, lie don't hoard,'’ answered
Pliebe; “his wife keeps house for
him.”
“What ?" said Mrs. Nedley.
“He is married”, announced Phebe,
very much in the tone in which she
might have said: “It is a cold eve
ning". or “the train is late"’.
“Philip married !” repeated the old
lady—“married! Stop. Phebe; don't
drive a step further ! Turn around at
once. Take me back to the station.
I'll return to Concord.’’
“Ain’t you going to see Philip ?"’
asked Phebe.
“Nift if lie's married,” answered Mrs.
Nedley, in a choked voice.
“He's got a proper, nice wife,”
pleaded Phebe. “You’ll like her.”
“No I shan't,” said Mrs. Nedley.—
“Philip—married. Phebe, if you don't
turn around, I'll get out and walk.”
Mrs. Neilley's will was like adamant,
and Phebe Barrow was forced to suc
cumb to it.
And so it happened that Pliebe and
the wliite-noseil pony arrived, solitary
and alone, at the little cottage of the
mill Superintendent half an hour
later.
Phil came out into the porch, carry
ing a lamp in his hand.
Mrs. Phil ran after him. with a pink
apron tied around her trim waist and
her brown fringe of liair flowing back
from her forehead.
“Where’s my aunt?” said Phil, as
Pliebe jumped out. “Didn't she
come?”
"She came,” said Phebe, curtly;
“hut she's gone hack again."
“Gone hack again? - ’
“Yes. She didn't like it because
you’ve got married ; so she's gone hack
jy the 8:06 train.'’
"“Oh, Phil!" cried Mrs. Barrow, who
was a round, cherry-cheeked little
woman, with soft, hazel eyes and
a mouth like a rosebud. “What shall
we do ? Why didn't you consult her
before you married me?"
Phil Barrow broke into a great
laugh.
“My dear”, said lie, “it wasn t her
consent 1 wanted; it was yours."
‘Oh! hut, Phil, she has done so
much for you.”
‘She's a good soul, hut she’s eccen
tric," said the mill Superintendent.
Go in, Pliebe, and get your tea."’
“I'm sure 1 can't eat a mouthful,”
said Mrs. Phil, despairingly. “And
the biscuits 1 mixed myself : and the
fried chicken, and the White Mouti-
tain cake—oh, Phil, oh, Phil!”
“Don't fret dear." said Phil, “my
Aunt Nedley has missed a very good
supper, that I can tell her.’’
“But I have blighted your future,”
said Mrs. Barrow, tragically seizing
the sugar tongs.
“We'll go to Concord to-morrow and
see the old lady,” soothed Phil. “She
must surrender if she sees you, wifey.”
Pliebe chuckled grimly.
“That's all very well,” said she,
“hut you forget that an old lady anil
a young man don't look at a girl with
the same eyes.”
“Hold your tongue, Phebe,” said the
mill Superintendent. "Where's the
use of always croaking?"
And then Mrs. Phil, began to laugh,
and Phebe. who, after her crabbed
fashion, was fond of her pretty young
sister-in-law. laughed also: and, after
all. the dainty little supper was eaten
and enjoyed, "even though Aunt Ned-
ley’s face was steadfastly turned to
ward Concord.
Her own fireside had never seemed
so solitary and dreary as it did upon
that November night.
Tlie maids gossiping in the kitchen,
were called upon to rekindle the dead
fire. The tea, smoky and half cold,
was served, and Mrs. Nedley was just
resolving to go to bed when Betsy
brought a letter.
* “Postman, mum. he left it a week
ago." said she. “It had fell back of
the letter box. - ’
“Ah,” said Mrs. Nedley fitting on
her spectacles and scrutinizing the
seal and directions, “frftm Silvia Gray!
Now I shall have some one to love in
Phillip's place.”
But she had not read three lines be
fore she flung the letter indignantly
on t in* sulking fire.
“Married!” she exclaimed. “That
child! Is everybody crazy to get
married, I wonder? And she hopes I’ll
excuse her. hut her husband thinks—
Folly and nonsense! What is her
husband to mil Betsy, p|y chamber
candle!”
“Bless me, ma'am!" said Betsy,
“what has happened?”
"Everything," said Mrs. Nedley,
“Don't "let me he called before 8
o'clock tomorrow morning. I almost
wish that 1 could go to sleep and
sleep forever."
And Mrs. Nedley. in the silence and
solitude of her own room, fell to
thinking to what charitable institu
tion she could leave her money.
With the Psalmist of old, she could
earnestly have cried: “I anitv, vani
ty, all is vanity.”
" “1 loved Philip," she said, and I had
set my heart on Silvia Gray—and such
a match as it would have been.’’
She was sitting at her luncheon the
next day. with the cockatoo on one
side of her and the poodle on the oth
er. when Betsy opened the door.
“Please, ma'am,” said Betsy, “com
pany."
“Betsy," said Mrs. Nedley, severely,
"I told you I was not at home to any
body to-day."
“Please, ma'am,” giggled Betsy, “he
would come in."
. “Who would come in?” said Mrs.
Nedley.
“It's me. Aunt Nedley,” said Philip
Barrow, “and my wife. Don't he
vexed.”
The Tall young mill superintendent
came in with liis pretty wife hanging
on liis arm.
"Won't you kiss me, Aunt Nedley,”
said Mrs. Phil, putting up the rose
bud lips—“for my mother’s sake ?”
“Eh?" said Mrs. Nedley.
“Didn't you get my letter?” said
Philip's wife.
“Letter?"
Mrs. Nedley was more convinced
than ever now that she was asleep
and dreaming.
“I wrote you ail about it,” said Mrs.
Phil. “Don’t you know? I am Silvia
Gray. 1 met Philip when became out
to Denver to look at the new mill
machinery, anil lie would be married
immediately. He said he was sure
you would forgive him. Will you
forgive him, Aunt Nedley?”
“Y’es, my dear. 1 will," said Mrs.
Nedley, her face brightening up like
the full moon peeping through mist
wreaths. "But why didn't they tell
me you were Silvia Gray ?”
“Philip wanted to surprise you.”
said Silvia, hanging her head.
“Well, he has surprised me,” said
Mrs. Nedley.
She went hack to Hampden with
the mill superintendent and liis wife,
and slept in the pretty pink and white
bed-room which Silvia had prepared
for her with so much pains ; and she
praised Silvia's chicken salad and
prune pies, and she even condescend
ed to approve of Phoebe's half-com
pleted silk counterpane; for life was
all couleur de rose for her now.
It is a great thing for a woman of
Mrs. Neilley’s age to have her own
way.
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English merchants are closing out
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Scrofula for 30 Years.
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CITIZEN OF GRIFFIN.
HIS EARLY LIFE A MILITIA GEN
ERAL—THE CAUSE OF HIS RE
TIREMENT FROM THE RAR-
—A PHILOSOPHICAL
CHARACTER.
Editor Griffin News:— In your
short hut appropriate notice of" the
death of General Thos. Pinckney
Smith, you say he was called General
“hut did not claim the title." I do
uot know if he claimed the title hut
he certainly is lawfully entitled to it.
Away hack in the forties when yet a
young man. he was elected Brigadier
General of tjie Second Brigade, - thir
teenth division Georgia Militia. The
brigade consisted of all the arms bear
ing citizens of tlie then counties of
Baker, Thomas and 1 think. Decatur.
He succeeded General Thomas E.
Blacksliear, who resigned and moved
to the fur West. The real Generals
of the late war have superceded the
Militia Generals of the ante helium
peace establishment, butthereare yet
lingering among us a few who trace
Military title to that era-. The Gen
eral was elected when lie yet had
aspirations to distinguish himself
among his' fellow citizens by success
in law and politics, hut. alas affliction
soon laid its weighty hand upon him,
and he had to abandon liis profession,
and every other pursuit for which he
was fitted. The condition of his eyesight
became such that lie could not read or
write sufficiently to pursue any voca
tion which required much of either.
As might he inferred, the cause which
produced this affected his whole system
and rendered him in fact an invalid. An
incident of his affection was peculiar—
so peculiar that 1 never knew or heard
of anyone similarly afflicted. He
could not hear any illumination. The
brilliant electric, "tlie gas. the lamp
or the “tallow dip" were alike to him,
andhe hail to retire to complete di rk-
ness. But the brightest sun light he
could stand, by shading liis eyes with
colored spectacles, which lie never
used however until tlie latter years
of his life. I first knew him in the
spring of 1844 when lie resided at Al
bany, Ga., then in the grand old
county of Baker. That was liis home
when he was elected Genera).
During his residence there, he was
prominent as a lawyer hut was not
adapted much to politics. He was too
independent in his demeanor, and too
candid and caustic in liis speech fur a
politician. He moved from Albany to
Macon, soon his physical infirmity
alluded to, became so great as to force
his retirement from practice. He was
a native of the county of Laurens and
reared there when Laurens was one
of the finest counties in tlie fitate.
He studied law at Milledgeville, and
I think under Wm. 11. Torrence.
This put the General in contact with
the then very able local bar, and
gave him knowledge of distinguished
men in the various parts of the state.
Hepersonally knew Sami Rockwell,
Wm. H. Torrence, Win. Y Hansell,
Judge I,. Q. C. Lamar, Judge John G.
Polhill, Joel Crawford, Seaborn
Jones, John H. Howard, and many
other distinguished lawyers, whose
names I cannot just now recall. His
memory of men and events dated as
far back as the beginning of the
political contest between Clark and
Troup and being a bright and ap
preciative youth, there grew up a
friendship between him and Gov.
Troup, which continued until the
death of the Governor. Valdosta,
the Governor's plantation home in
Laurens, was the political Mecca to
which many Georgians made tlieir
annual or semi annual pilgrimages to
have their faith renewed andstrength-
ened by hat eminent Georgian, and
among the most faithful was General
Smith. And such would come from
distant States to visit him. The first
time the writer saw the Governor was
in the summer of 1849 when he was in
the company of MirabeauB. Lamar, of
Texas, who" had come from that State
to visit his political father.
As long as General Smith's eye-siglit
lasted him he was both a student and
a reader. His information derived
from hooks as well as men was ex
tensive, and interesting. He had a
distinctiveness of enunciation, a
fluency of speech and a fund of in
formation, that rendered him one of
the most entertaining of talkers. He
was not more widely and better
known because of his affliction, liis
knowledge of old Georgians of family
history, of interesting topics that it
may do to talk of, hut not to pub
lish", was greater than that of any
one in my knowledge. He knew
incidents in the lives of British and
American celebrities that could he
found nowlien* except in the rare
old hooks of the Astor Library, or
had been related to him by some old
antiquarian long since sleeping the
eternal sleep under the daisies. Many
voung men and young women notic
ing this quaint looking old gentleman
upon some street of our Georgia
cities, and not knowing who lie was,
would he surprised beyond descrip
tion, to learn that he knew more of
their ancestors than they did. He
could perhaps tell each and all the
maiden names of their grandmothers,
and perhaps of tiieir great grand
mothers—what they diil not know
themselves, nor could know in any oth
er way. The death of General Smith
makes the third in the course of a few
years of the best informed ’upon
modern Georgia history, anil Georgia
people. The others are Wm. H.
Sparks and Cincinnatus Peeples. I
had the grateful opportunity to have
several conversations with the latter
during his last illness. He was more
interesting than he ever had been,
and I could not help reflecting upon
the precious memories that must with
him soon perish, never to he revived.
General Smith may have left some
manuscripts written long ago. or dic
tated to others, hut if so I know
not. Richard H. Clark.
Atlanta, Ga., April 14, 1885.
A Poor Italian Finds $15,000 in Gold.
Signor A. Vatnhne, the person who
has suddenly come into the possession
of a fortune, is one of the proprietors
of the Hotel d'ltalia, corner of Pacific
andSansome sts., San Francisco, Cal.
He drew the $75,000 in the February
drawing, on ticket No. 28,600, in The
Louisiana State Lottery for $5. He
is a little black-eyed Italian, about 35
years of age, and bears a very good
character. He takes his good fortune
very quietly* He has put his money
away, without having made any
change yet. He made his brother a
present of $10,000, and is going to cel
ebrate liis fortune by keeping open
house all next Sunday.—San Francis
co, (Cal.) Chronicle, March3.
Come to Stay.
A Boston paper, in speaking lately
of the number of new medical reme
dies which are offered to the public
every year, called attention to tne
fact that the majority of them have a
very short existence. Some are never
heard of after twelve months have
passed by: others are forgotten m the
course of three or four years, whileit
is a rare thing to know of any which
retain their popularity longer than
eightbr ten years. When there is an
exception to this rule, d maj be set
down as a fact that the article possess
es some extraordinary merit to sur
vive so many changes. The most re
markable illustration of this is seen in
St Jacobs Oil. Steadily and surely it
worked its wav into public favor, re
ceiving no help, except from its own
efficacv, and to-day there is hardly a
civilized country in which it is not hail
ed as a conqueror of pain. Like Ten
nyson's brook, men may come and
men may go, but St. Jacobs Oil goes
on for ever.
There is great activity at all the
Russian army and navy depots. Some
new and powerful item clads will! soon
be launched at Abo.
Liberty Enlightening the World.
This new Wonder of the World,
which is now being loaded on the
French transport Isere for shipment
to this country, is the largest sta,tue in
the world. Some idea of its magni
tude may be obtained from the fact
that forty persons found standing-
room within the head. A six-foot
man standing on the level of the lips
only just reached the eyebrow. While
workmen were employed on the crown
of her heail they seemed to be making
a huge sugar-caldron, and they jump
ed with ease in and out the tip of the
nose. Fifteen people might sit round
the flame of the torch, which eleva
tion can he reached by a spiral stair
case within the outstretched arm.
The London Daily News, in speak
ing of it, says: “It is out and away
the largest statue of modern times.
The Colossus of Rhodes was nothing
to it. It could carry the ‘Bravaria’ or
the‘Hermann’in its arms. It towers
\° .if from the yard of the Rue
de Uhazelles, where it has been eight
years in construction, and the view
from its coronet sweeps clear of the
six-storv houses and bevond the walls
of Paris.”
The weight of this stupendous
statue is 440.000 pounds, of which
116.OOO pounds are copper and the re
mainder wrouglit-iron. It is expected
to arrive in New Y’ork about the 25th
of May, where it will he erected on
Bedloe's Island, this being the loca
tion selected for it by Gen. W. T. Sher
man. who was appointed by the Pres
ident to make the selection. When
placed in position it will loom up 305
feet above tide water: the height of
the statue being 151.2 feet, that of the
pedestal 1)1 feet, and foundation 52.10
feet.
This imposing statue, higher than
the enormous towers of the great
Brooklyn Bridge or the steeple of
Trinity Church, which is the loftiest
in the city of New York,—higher, in
fact, than any of the colossal statues
of antiquity,—by its rare artistic pro
portions as well as by its stupendous
dimensions, will add another to the
Wonders of the World. A word
should he said of its artistic merit.
The pose, stride, and gesture, with its
classic face, are pronounced perfect;
the drapery is both massive and fine,
and in some ptarts is as delicate and
silky in effect as if wrought with a fine
chisel on the smallest scale.
The conception and execution of
this great work are due to the great
French sculptor, M. Bartholdi, who
lias devoted eight years of liis life anil
most of his fortune to this great work,
anil whose generous impulses, which
must be on a scale commensurate with
this noble work, prompted him to
make such a gift to the United States.
The committee in charge of the con
struction of the base and pedestal for
the reception of this great work are
in want of funds for its completion,
and have prepared a miniature statu
ette, an exact counterpart of the orig
inal. six inches in height, the figure
being made of bronze, the pedestal of
nickel silver, which they are now de
livering to subscribers throughout the
United States for the small sum of $1
each. Aside from its being a lasting
souvenir of this colossal statue, it will
ornament our homes and hear testi
mony that we have contributed to tlie
completion of one of tlie grandest
works of modern tunes. All remit
tances should he addressed to Richard
Butler, Secretary American Commit
tee of the Statue of Liberty. No. 33
Mercer Street. New Y ork. The com
mittee are also prepared to furnish a
model, in same metals, twelve inches
in heigiit, at $5 each, delivered.
We feel assured our people will be
only too eager to testify their grate
ful sense of the friendliness of tliis
magnanimous offer on tlie part of the
French people, anil to reciprocate the
kindly and liberal sentiments in
which it originated, by thus aiding in
an active prosecutiou of the labors
that may lie required to give the
statue an appropriate base and pedes
tal. Now is tiie time to do it. Who
ever wishes to have the honor and
pleasure of contributing to the erec
tion of tlie grandest statue of any age,
to say nothing of the sentiment that
should be welcomed, and encouraged,
must act promptly, for the money will
be raised as sure as the sun rises. Eve
ry subscriber sending $1 will be sup
plied witli a miniature counterpart of
this great aqd imperishable statue of
“Liberty ialighteiiiug the World.’’
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