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Georgia Affairs.
A curious incideDt occurred In Lexington
ft few days ago. A flying squirrel was found
on the back of a sow, and had sucked itself
full of blood. It was knocked off with a
stick, and was so much inflated that when it
was struck it burst open. Wasn’t It a vam
pire bat instead of a flying squirrel ?
Last week, says the Ojhihorpe Echo, a
negro in the employ of Mr. J. Phillips, of
that county, became enraged at a horse he
was drivinr, ni d picking up a fence rail,
struck the auim ll a fierce blow on the head
and killed it. The negro was from Athens.
The Quitman Free Press tells of the very
narrow escape from drowning of little
Johnny Ilardee, the five-year-old 6on of
Captain Tom Ilardee, of Brooks county, re
cently. He was with his father In a boat,
and suddenly fell overboard in water about
ten feet deep. Captain H. did not see him
fall, but heard the splash and saw the bub
ble?. Johnny sank to the bottom, and his
father, with great presence of mind, waited
for him to rise. He came up feet foremost,
and was pulled into the boat,not much hurt
but somewhat frightened.
The Greensboro Home Journal remarks
that ‘'The Savannah News, the peer of any
paper in the country, has come to us, for
the last few days, double-sheeted and
double shotted, with a fine railroad map in
the bargain.”
The Times sees nothing ahead but a pleas
ant and prosperous future for Columbus.
The Cuthbert Appeal wants every editor
in Georgia to be in that city on the 12th of
May when the Press Association meets, and,
in order that ample accommodations may
be prepared, it desires every editor intend
ing to be present to favor it with a postal
card.
The late frostr did not destroy all the fruit
in the upper portion of Meriwether county.
Enough for a pretty fair crop is still re
ported as on the trees.
A correspondent of the Hamilton Journal
says that on the place of Mr. R. G. Hood,
in Harris county, are two pine trees, which,
after reaching an altitude of sixty feet, have
joined, and are now perfectly engrafted into
each other. Their trunks are six feet apart.
The place has been settled fifty years, but
the oldest inhabitant knows nothing of their
wedding.
The Madison Madisonian thinks this is a
funny, funny year. It says: “They are
digging sweet potatoes in Houston county,
harvesting wheat in Lee county, this year’s
crops. The potatoes are as large as hen
eggs and the wheat averaged ten bushels
per acre of extra quality.”
The Ainericus Recorder has received the
first watermelon of the season. It was
sent that paper by Messrs. W. A. Ponder
adJ T. F. Turner, of the Seventeenth dis
trict of Sumter county, on last Wednesday.
It was twelve inches long and fourteen
Inches in circumference, and we 1 matured.
The Americas Itpublican learns that Mr.
Dempsle Hooks., of Sumter county, has five
chickens that were raised by his little girl,
which he can make do almost anything.
They will follow him about, form in a line
in front of him and march around at word
of command. If he takes a piece of corn-
bread in one hand and a biscuit in the other,
and let them see the latter, they will run all
around him, fly up on his shoulders and try
to*get into his pockets for the biscuit.
A special from Atlanta to the Macon Her
ald states that Potash Farrow has been re
appointed United States District Attorney
by Justice Bradley, of the United States Su
preme Court, that duty having devolved on
Bradley on account of Mr. Hayes’ failure to
nuke an appointment, and Farrow’s previ
ous commission having* expired on the 19th
inst.
Under the caption, “A Sensible Mule,”
the Oglethorpe Echo says: “Mr. John W. Ba
con, ol Lexington, has a mule twenty-one
years old, whose wisdom has certainly In
creased with age. Last Friday 6he went to
a blacksmith shop and poking her head in
the door refused to tro away uutil a work
man came out and fixed an ?.wkward-
fitting shoe. When the blacksmith ap
proached the animal held up to him the bad
shoe, and so soon as he had reset it left per
fectly satisfied. This mule always goes to
the shop of her own accord when anything
is wrong with her shoes. The workmen
know old Judy’s ways, and never fail to at
tend to her wants.”
Says the Eatonton Messcitqer: ‘‘On Thurs
day the train on the Eatonton and Gordon
Road ran off the track three miles from
Gordon, and dill not come in at all that day.
There were a good many disappointed faces
about mail time. We learn that some dam
age was sustained on the engine and that the
track was considerably torn up; otherwise
there was no injury, and the passengers es
caped unbruised.”
Oglethorpe Echo: ‘‘We learn that in some
sections of this county the feeling against
the 6tcck law is so strong with a certain
class of whites that thej* threaten to shoul
der their guns in defense of what they con
ceive to be a God-given right, should the
law pass. This Ic all buncombe. We sug
gest that after court a delegation of planters
be chosen by the fanners of this county,
composed of fence and anti-fence men,
whose mission it shall be to visit the coun
ties of South Carolina where the new law is
In operation, and by observation and inquiry
among the farmers there, see how it works.
Upon their return home, let them make a
report setting forth their views. If it is fa
vorable, let the question be at once voted
upon in this county ; if adverse permit it
to drop. Let this delegation be a large one,
computed ot every class, color and condi
tion.”
I nder the head “The Biggest Paper
{?_ G « 0I * , J a ’ 1 Atlanta Post remarks:
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week
the Savannah News was priuted as a double
sheet and was the biggest sheet by a large
majority ever printed south of the Ohio
river. It contained eight pages, with eight
columns to the page, and was simply im
mense. There Is no paper in the South
which has the facilities for getting out such
a sheet. The nearest approach to the mam
moth News can be made by the presses on
which the Daily lost is printed, which can
turn off a sheet of eight pages with seven
columns to the page.”
A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle
from Sparta says: “On Monday Messrs.
Stearns, Lewis, Patillo, Slaton, Dr. Aubrey,
and others, leave for Savannah, to testify in
°ase of Janies A. Long, the thievish
t? ut * agent who kept the post offices along
; Ia con and Augusta Railroad in such a
6 «r for so long a time. Finally, the festive
* a u of twenty-five years was caught, and
J, ow U nited States Court is trying to
iear him by refusing to try him, on one
P ctext or another, until one or more of the
-11 are dead, and he can’t be tried at
tim *° me °f us have been to Savannah live
untrt !»° te8tIf y» and the young gent is still
Dart ' hereafter route agent6 may break
Packages, but the witnesses will play Igno-
v n V. ra ther than be dragged over eight
tim re< * an( * f° rt y niiles yearly for a life
Justice*’**^ cr * m * Da * is unw BIpt of
Ad' 8 ji 110n,6 correspondent of the Brunswick
: “ ‘In a joint oath, sworn and 6ub-
l~4i ^ r° oa day of November,
Can’ *^ eS8r8 - John Roberson and Joseph
thrw non » ^ in an account against Gen. Ogle-
Zgl* 1 . state that in May, 1736, they, to-
twenty other * inhabitants of
of t? ei i ca ’ went t0 m aking of brick, sawing
in orH er ’ ant f providing of other materials,
i r to build twenty-seven brick houses,
toll , abor they continued till December
^ owing.» Some of the old brick are now
bunaT plowed up from the site of these old
buUd ng8 ’ when parties need brick for
are houses, chimneys, etc. They
UuntL u to very sound, and better
juf* r e bric k of the present day fflr ordi-
j purposes, A6 no brick have been
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1880.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
made in or near the island for the last cen
tury, the question naturally arises, where
did Oglethorpe find suitable clay ? Our
neiehbor and life-time friend. Major Dait,
of Brumwick, assures us that in his earliest
recollection there were the remains of ex
tensive brick yards on Brickkiln creek, be
tween where St. Simon’s Mills are now
located and Frederica, on Crispin Island,
north of St. 8imon’s, and the Hermitage,
on Turtle river. At the latter place splen
did tiles for hearths and fire places were
made so well and hard they would ring like
metal when struck. In Major Dart’s youth
they were often spoken of as the Hermitage
tile.”
‘‘Is St. Simon’s Mills improving ?” asks a
gentleman from the interior, of the corre
spondent of the Brunswick Advertiser.
“Yes,” he replies, ‘‘there have been built
within the last eight months several dwell
ings and one business house. The steamer
Ruby has been completed, by the running
of which there is double daily communica
tion between this place and Brunswick.
The Savannah and Florida steamers touch
here going and coming. On some days there
are three to five steamers passing, so that
any one wishing to go North or South by
steamer can leave almost aDy time. One
afternoon last week there were four steam
ers in sight at the same time, besides four
or five other craft under sail. Besides the
regular telegraphic communication, we
have now a Bell telephone in operation, 60
that we can hear the trains on the railroads
in Brunswick, the bells ringing, etc., whilst
the Brunswlckians serenely sit in their office
and enjoy sermons preached on the Island
on Sabbath afternoons.”
The Darien Gazette propounds the follow
ing conundrums: “In the South, and par
ticularly in Georgia, we don’t care a cent
about the ‘exodus movement.’ But sup
pose it should succeed, and the cotton pro
ducing capacity of the South be reduced
one-half, who would be the worst hurt, the
Southern people, who would get as much
for 2,500,000 bales as they get now for
5,000,000, and who would raise all their own
corn and bacon, or our Western brethren
who would lose their be6t market for these
last named products, and gain in place
thereof the meaner or thieving half of our
Southern negro population. G-e-n-t-1 e-m-e-n
of the West, outside of politics, it’s worth
thinking about.”
In regard to the comiug census the Ber
rien County News says: “A#circular from
General Walker, Superintendent of the
Census, asks farmers to be prepared to an
swer questions concerning their products.
The census will be taken next June, and the
product and acreage of wheat, corn, rye,
oats, barley, peas and beans, rice, cotton,
potatoes, viueyards, small fruits, sugarcane
and sorghum in 1879, will be called for. The
wool clip for the calendar year 1880 is to bo
returned at the Bame time. The products
of the dairy, and the slaughtered animals,
the value of the garden, forest and home
products, are to be returned for the twelve
months eudlng May 1st, 1880. Procure a
memorandum or pass book, cut this item
out and paste it on the book, and begin now
to make a list of all the products of the farm
from May 1st, 1879, to May, 1880. By so
doiDgour farmer friends will be prepared to
make an intelligent report of their products,
and promote the taking of the census.”
Says the Thomaston Weekly: “We are
pained to chronicle the sad death of Mr.
Robert Mlllen, or this county, which oc
curred last Thursday about dark. The facts,
as we get them, are that his wife being
absent, he put his little children to bed,
and had concluded to go over to his
brother-in-law’s, Mr. Doc Alford, for a
short while, and having lost the front door
key, fastened it on the inside,and attempted
to get out of a window by means of a short
ladder, which slipped, aud he fell to the
ground, breaking his nose and neck. He
died instantly. The children heard the
fall, but did not know that their father was
lying dead under the window. Mr. Alford,
who lives only a Ehort distance from Mr.
Milieu’s, came over in about five minutes
after the fall, and it was he who first dis
covered the corp:e.”
Darien Gazette : “All up through our piney
woods there are able bodied young white
men, either out of work or laboring at low
wages. We have often wondered why they
do not come down to Darien and pitch in
at the mills or in drifting timber to the ships
or in learniug the business of stevedoring.
Tha mills pay high wages aud cash. The
mill employes and drifters are mostly col
ored. The stevedoring is divided between
foreigners and colored men, the former
mostly from Canada. A drifter makes about
$1 50 per diem; a good stevedore from $2 50
to $5; a common hand from #1 upwards, a
day. We have no feeling against these par
ties making the money. This is a free coun
try and every man has a right to earn his
money that will work, and after he has earned
it to do what he pleases with it. But as mat
ters now stand tens of thousands of dollars
annually paid out at this port to over a thous
and employees, a great amount of which is
carried away by the workmen aud invested
in a foreign country. Just at this season of
the year, too, labor at the mills is very
scarce, for the average colored man will
quit his dollar a day to go home and plant
his patch, if he never realizes (which is usu
ally the case) a cent from It. Now it strikes
us that if the bone and sinew of our interior
could overcome the habit of hanging around
the little clearing and the old log cabin, and
turn their faces to the seacoast, that they
would better their conditions and save lots
of fhoney to the old State which is being
lo6t to it forever. There is no bonanza in
all this, and a man would have to go reso
lutely to work to shake off all old habits and
predilections and adapt himself to new, and
especially steer clear of ‘benzine ;’ but if he
will do this, we venture to say that he will
succeed, and feel much more comfortable
at the end of the year than if he had stayed
at home, during a good part.of the time,
dangling his legs from the old worm fence,
chawing tobacco and talking over neighbor
hood affairs. We love the wool hat boys of
Georgia, and hence these words of sugges
tion.”
Florida Affairs.
The recent duel between Yudalicio Pina,
a negro cigar maker of Jacksonville, and
Rafael Toledo, a Cuban, and also a cigar
maker, in which the latter was killed, was,
it is 6&id, the result of a quarrel caused by
Pina slapping a child of Toledo.
A correspondent from Live Oak writes us
that much fear was lately entertained and
expressed that the late cool spell would in
jure the growing vegetables and fruit. He
Is glad to note, however, that this fear is
not realized, aud that very little, if any,
damage will be inflicted. He says the re
ception by fruit growers of several car
loads of crate material indicates their confi
dence in the crop.
A Live Oak correspondent writes that
quite a romance broke the calm of the
dull monotony In social circles at that place
on Monday last. It was no less than an
elopement and marriage. The contracting
parties were Edgar 8. Elliott, proprietor of
the Conner Hotel, as groom, and Miss
Mamie Hamby, daughter of W. S. llamby.
Esq., as bride. He says: “The lady, at
tended by her sister, went out seemingly
for a walk, and being joined by several
friends, resorted to the residence of Mrs.
Taufkirk, where the groom, accompanied
by the minister, soon appeared, and In a
trice the happy couple were made one.”
The members of Duval Lodge No. 18, A.
F. and A. M., Jacksonville, on the 15th of
March, adopted a resolution against gam
bling, as follows: Resolved, That any Mas
ter Mason, a member of this lodge, who
shall participate in pernicious games of
chance, shall be held as departing from the
high standard of morals held by Masons,
and should be amenable to discipline.”
According to the Mirror the shipments
from the port of Fernandina coastwise dur
ing March show an increase of 160 per cent,
above the same month last year in lumber,
of 30 per cent, in rosin, and of 5,000 gallons
of spirits turpentine ; while In foreign ship
ments the increase has been 20 per cent, in
lumber and above 300 per cent. In cotton
seed. Says the Mirror : “Our export trade
Is constantly on the increase, and in a very
few weeks the gain will be still more notice
able.”
The Radical negroes of Florida want to
rule the party just as much as do their Geor
gia brothers. Out of seventy delegates to
the Madison Radical Convention only three
were white.
At a Republican meeting in Marion
county, the other day, Little Giant Dennis
told the audience that they “ might go to
h—11 if they didn’t want to hear him speak.”
Whereupon they responded with tremendous
applause, indicative of the fact that they
approved of the sentiment, and preferred
the torment of the condemned to the tor
ment of hearing him talk.
The Lake City Reporter is afraid that poli
tics will interfere too much with farming in
that section. It says: “ While business is
growing dull with the merchants is evi
dent the farmers are squarely working their
crops, and if politics don’t grow up too fast
this season a large crop of cotton will be
made. The farmers live In dread of elec
tion years, and thinking men are asking,
‘Do not our elections cost too much?’ ”
On Saturday night last, James Long, aged
98, and Johanna Hines, aged 60, were united
in the bands of wedlock. They are both
colored, and reside at Fort George Island,
near Jacksonville.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: “As stated
in our issue of Wednesday, a party started
in pursuit of F. A. Hardy, who so promis
cuously robbed the citizens of Apalachicola
a 6hort while since. The party was com
posed of four men, all of whom were well
armed. They left In a sf.il boat for St. An
drew’s bay. On arriving there they learned
that Hardy was only about a half hour
ahead. Energy was renewed, and all were
more Interested as the distance between
them and the fugitive grew less. In a short
while they overtook and captured Hardy.
He was forced to get in the boat, and the
party began their homeward journey. Hardy
wanted to steer the boat, but his captors
would not allow it. The water was quite
rough, and some of the party objected
going around the cape in the boat. Two
volunteered to carry the boat around,
while the others went ashore and took a
road across the peninsula. When within
about twenty miles of Apalachicola the
three 6torped at the house of a Mr. Spate
for dinner. Up to this time the prison
er had made no effort to escape
but entertained the party with yarns. He
told of how he and Buffalo Bill (Wm. A.
Cody) had fought Indians out West; the
number of men he (Hardy) bad killed, what
a crack shot he was, and many other ac
counts of his adventures In the wfld West.
The meal was finished, and all had thus far
gone on smoothly. Hardy stepped to the
door, drank 6ome water, and very politely
asked Mr. McNeill to have some. The gen
tleman draok, and handed the dipper back
to Hanly, who returned to the door aud
placed it in the bucket. In an instant he
grabbed Mr. McNeill’s gun, which was near
the bucket, and cocking both barrels, said,
‘ Now, gentlemen, it is my time.’ He then
backed out of the door, keeping the party
covered, and ran for the woods. Both gen
tlemen tired 6ix rounds each at him, but
without effect. They followed some dis
tance, but never saw him again. He Is now
at large, and also has Mr. McNeill’s fine shot
gun.”
Jacksonville Breeze: “It is somewhat sin
gular that so few tourists can be prevailed
upon to remain here through the summer
seasoD, when every citizen can bear witness
that it is by far the mo6t pleasant portion of
the year. A great many of our prominent
business men on Bay street once had the
idea that to 6tay here during the summer
season was but little short of suicide, but
now they hold far different opinions, and
while enjoying the charmiug breezes of the
Gulf, recognize the fact that summer is a
great institution all over the State of
Florida.”
The Tallahassee Patriot saye: “The skele
ton found last week In the woods, in Jeffer
son county, by a party of hunters from this
place, of which mention has been made, is
supposed by some to be that of the peni
tentiary convict Newton, the murderer of
the Reach family in Duval county, who
escaped from Chaires’ prison camp in 1878.
It is highly probable that he bad got lost in
the wilderness, of which he knew nothing
whatever, and wandering about until tired
out, footsore and hungry, he had lain down
and died where the skeleton was found.
The shoes corresponded exactly with those
he is said to have worn, and other evidences
point plainly to him. The two walking
canes found near him were probably used
to assist in walking, as he was evidently
much fatigued, and not from wounds as was
first supposed.”
St. Augustine Press : “La9t Thursday night
as the telegraph operator at this place was
passing through Artillery lane, having just
closed his office after a hard day’s work, he
was seized by the leg by some living object,
unknown to* him on account of the dark
ness, but that its teeth were in good con
dition was apparent to him in less ‘than the
twinkling of a bed post.’ ‘Snakes V
•Snakes !’ yelled the young operator with an
abundance of lung power that would have
done credit to Edwin Forrest in his palmy
days. The whole neighborhood was aroused
by his cries. Fortunately a well known phy
sician and druggist (we will not mention his
name on accouut of his extreme modesty)
was passing along St. George street, and
hearing the young man’s cries of distress,
hastened to bis assistance. Lighting a lu-
cifer, he discovered—what ? that our young
friend, the operator, had actually been
seized by an alligator about four feet in
length, and it was only through several
vigorous blows on the summit of his cra
nium that the reptile could be induced to
relinquish his hold. Now we have heard
many wonderful alligator stories, origina
ting in different parts of the State. Some
of them we, and others, have swallowed
whole, and some of them we have consid
ered just a little transparent, but what we
are now writing is gospel truth. The an
cient city is a city of wonders. They are
always breaking out in new spots, and now
we claim the champion alligator, who roams
about our principal streets at night seeking
whom he may devour.”
Fernandina Mirror: “The Savannah Morn
ing News comes to us this week enlarged to
double Its former size. This paper has de
servedly won a creditable positiou and con
stantly increasing circulation, and is among
the best of onr Southern papers. It is the
favorite paper from ‘outside the lines’ in
our 8tate.”
Under the heading “Cucumber is King,”
the Fernandina Mirror says: “On Tuesday
last the Transit Road brought over its line
some fourteen car loads of vegetables, and
this is but the beginning, a6 it were, of the
business. Twenty-three hundred packages
were shipped by the St. John’s steamer
alone, to De transferred to the New York
steamers at Charleston. Only to think of
the number of hills of cucumbers and
tomato vines, and squashes and beans, to
furnish these piles ot crates which now
form the main business of the railroads
and steamboats in Florida. Year by year
this trade is bound to increase, and our
lands along the line of the railroad and
around Orange Lake and all connecting
means of transportation, will be the
most valuable lands in the country,
not even excepting the orange groves. The
business will become systematized, and buy
ers will take the produce from the grow
er at the point of shipment, making the
business a safe and reliable one. It is a busi
ness into which whole families can enter and
be profitably employed, men, women and
children—requires but little capital and ha3
a short season, and that at a healthy season
of the year. Unlike cotton, it does not
drag from January to December, but re
quires sharp work, nimble fingers, activity
aud energy for a few weeks, ana then comes
rest aud 'enjoyment. In the more tender
vegetables, such as beans and tomatoes,
Florida cannot be competed with, and
probably certain products will be exclusively
grown in Florida, and certain others in
localities north of us.”
The Starke Tdegraph says: “As an evi
dence of the healthy condition of our State
and county finances, we are happy to state
that the grand and petit jurors and witnesses
at the recent spring term of the Circuit
Court for this county were paid off
with the cash. This is the le
gitimate fruit of honest government,
secured by the united efforts of Conserva
tives and Democrats. Another four years
of honest and economical administration of
the State Government will place our little
State on the high road of prosperity along
side of 6ome of her more favored sisters.”
Under the heading “Infanticide of Twins”
the Pensacola Gazette 6ays: “A charge of
outrageous crime was investigated in Judge
Chain’s court, Milton, on Wednesday.
Frank and Melissa Artis were arraigned on
preliminary trial for infanticide—or rather
infanticides—it being charged in affidavit
that they had caused by neglect the deaths
of their twin children, aged about eleven
months. The defendants are negroes who
live in the neighborhood of Milton, and
the complaint was made by neighbors
of their own color. It was testified
that Artis and his wife would be absent
from the house for many hours, leaving the
infants without attendance or nourishment;
that not long before their deaths they were
left aloue, lying on a corn sack on the floor,
from S o’clock in the morning until II
o’clock at night, the mother having fol
lowed the father to Milton. Testimony
elicited was conflicting, and the court bound
over the accused in the sum of two hundred
dollars to answer to the next term of the
Circuit Court.”
“ How do you pronounce s-t-i-n-g-y?"
Professor Stearns asked the young gen
tleman nearest the foot of the class. And
the smart bad boy stood up and said it
depended a great deal whether the word
applied to a man or bee. The professor
sternly said that it applied to a man.
The smart boy hesitated a moment, and
then said “ there was still the 6ame ele
ment of uncertainty. If it was applied
to the man by the bee the g was hard,
but” . But just here a passing organ-
grinder paused under the college win
dows to play “Pinafore,” and nobody
could hear the rest of the sentence.
BY TELEGRAPH.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Ex Governor Hart’s Residence
Jacksonville Destroyed.
in
Special Telegram to the Morning News.
Jacksonville, April 26.—A fire this morn
ing destroyed the residence of ex-Governor
Hart, one of the finest dwelling bouses in
the city. It was partially insured for four
thousand dollars.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
No Colored Policemen Wanted in
Hartford. Conn.
SENTENCES OF PENNSYLVANIA
CORRUPTIONISTS.
Foreign New* Item*.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, April 26.—In the Senate,
Mr. Butler presented memorials of the
Charleston Board of Trade for an appropria
tion for work on the jetties of Charleston
harbor, and for the enactment of a bank
rupt law. Referred.
Mr. Teller submitted a resolution that—
Whereas, It has been reported that the
Secretary of the Interior proposes to take a
number ot children of the Cheyenne Indi
ans, without first having obtained the con
sent of their parents, for the purpose of
educating them at Hampton, Va., or Car
lisle, Penn.; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Committee on Indian
Affairs be instructed to inquire into the
truth of said report, and also in
quire whether any Indian children now
at school at a distance from their par
ents were taken from their parents
without their consent, and report to the
Senate whether any legislation is required
to protect the Indians in possession of their
children.
In explanation of the resolution, Mr.
Teller sent to the Clerk’s desk and had
read a letter from Chicago 4n the New
York Times ot last Friday, regarding the
proposed removal of Indian children. The
resolution was adopted.
After the presentation of a number of
petitions the Senate resumed consideratlcn
of the bill authorizing a retired list for noL-
com missioned officers of the army.
Mr. Allison offered an amendment author
izing the President to appoint each year two
cadets at large to West Point Academy.
This led to a long discussion of the right of
colored men to participate in the benefits
of West Point Academy, and the relations of
the two races when compelled to associate
In that institution.
At the expiration of the morning hour,
the bill and amendment went over without
action.
The Senate then resumed consideration of
the resolutions declaring Spofford entitled
to the seat now occupied by Kellogg, and
was addressed at great length by Mr. Jonas,
of Louisiana, who made an elaborate argu
ment in support of the resolutions. He was
followed by Messrs. Blaine of Maine, and
Butler of South Carolina.
Mr. Jonas declared that the Packard
Legislature was never recognized by the
people of Louisiana. The Nicholls Legisla
ture was recognized not only by the
people of Louisiana, but by every
department of the government, and was
the only body competent to elect a Senator.
He made a long argument, citing legal
authorities and Congressional precedents,
and going over the whole history of the
case. He charged Kellogg with the respon
sibility for most of Louisiana’s troubles for
many years, and said the testimony showed
that his associates and supporters were
of the worst class of ignorant and un
scrupulous politicians aud carpet-baggers.
The minority of the Privileges and Elec
tions Committee had endeavored to Inject
sectional prejudice! Into the case. He wish
ed the Republican Senators might visit Lou
isiana and see how 6he was beginning to
recover prosperity under self-government.
In the course of his remarks he denied that
a bargain was made when Butler and Kel
logg were seated.
In the subsequent debate Blaine asserted
that the majority was attempting to break
a solemn agreement made when Kellogg
was seated. He read from an editorial
in the Charleston News and Courier
of March 24 containing extracts
from the Congressional Record of No
vember 27,1877, to show that an agreement
was made to vote on Kellogg’s ca6e, and
immediately after on Butler’s, Mr. Thurman
appealing to the Democrats to consent and
rely on him as to the wisdom of that course.
Mr. Blaine considered this good Democratic
authority for his statement.
Messrs. Bayard and Bailey earnestly de
nied the existence of such agreement,which
they said thev would consider dishonor
able to the Democrats and Republicans
alike-
Mr. Butler claimed that he was seated on
the merits of his case, and there was no ar
gument except that a vote should be taken
at a certain time to facilitate the business
of the Senate. He was in no way responsi
ble for the editorial in the News and Courier,
but saw nothing improper in its statement
of facts.
Mr. Hill, of Georgia, also desired the ex
istence of an agreement, and would vote to
expel any one proved to have entered Into
such a bargain. He claimed that Spofford
had been refused an opportunity to prove
his case by a Republican majority.
Mr. Blaine said, though the bargain could
not be proved, everybody knew it existed.
Mr. Kellogg denied any connection with
any bargain, and based bis claim to hi6 seat
on the fact that he had been seated on the
merits after a long discussion.
At 5:40 o’clock th .? Senate adjourned.
In the House, under the call of States,
the following were introduced and referred:
By Mr. Dunnell, of Michigan—A resolu
tion calling on the Secretary of the Treasury
for information as to the number of persons
connected with the life saving service who
have been disabled or who lost their lives
in rescuing life and property on the coast.
By Mr. Vance, of North Carolina—To re
lieve the distillation of fruit from the taxes
now imposed by law.
The morning hour having been dispensed
with the House went into committee of the
whole on the bill making appropriations for
the District of Columbia. The bill was
amended in some unimportant respects,
reported by the House and put on Its pas
sage, but as no quorum voted it went over
without final action. The amount appro
priated by the bill is $3,423,697.
The House then adjourned.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
London, April $6.—A Ghuznee dispatch
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
DEATH OF JOSEPH SELIGMAN.
Attempts to Assassinate a Noted Cin
einnati Gambler.
BRITISH OFFICIALS RESIOS1XG.
Severe and Fatal Storm in Misslssipui
BARK ON FIRE AT SEA.
Ol'R JACKSONVILLE LETTER.
Failure of tbe Peach Crop—Adapta
tion of Florida to the Culture of
Early Fruit* and Vegetables—The
Orange Culture In middle Florida
—The Government Suits Against
Governor Drew Held In Reserve
tor Political Purposes —The Dis
trict Attorneyship—A Cuban Duel'
The Radical Fight Over the Guber
natorial Nomination— The Con
gressional Canvass.
Congressional Committee Notes.
THE WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer.
Washington, D. C., April 26.—Indications
for Tuesday :
In the South Atlantic and East Gulf
States, southwest winds, warmer, partly
cloudy weather, occasional rains, rising ba
rometer, possibly followed by cooler north
west winds in the interior.
In the West Gulf States, northerly winds,
rising barometer, cooler clear weather, ex
cept in the southern portions, cloudy and
possibly rainy weather, with falling ba
rometer.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, west
and north winds, rising barometer, cooler
followed by warmer clear or clearing
weather.
In the Middle States, falling followed by
rising barometer, south and west, and dossI
bly in the interior northwest winds, cloudy
and rainy followed bv cooler clearing
weather.
SEVERE AND FATAL STORM.
Meridian, Miss., April 26.—A heavy
storm passed over Macon, Miss., last night,
blowing away twttity-two houses, including
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad machine
shops, the roundhouse, depot, telegraph
office and master mechanic’s office. Sixteen
cars were blown from the track. Seventeen
persons were killed and twenty-two wound
ed. The loss of property is estimated at
not less than $100,000. Meridian was called
on to send physicians, and six or eight have
gone from here to attend the suffering.
COMMITTEE NOTES.
Washington, April 26 —The House Com
raittee on Post Offices and Post Roads
adopted a resolution to-day favoring the
resolution of Mr. Shelley, of Alabama, for
the establishment of ocean mall steamship
routes, to be served by American built ves
sels, at a proper rate of compensation.
Col. Reed, of St. Louis, afterward made
an argument before the committee in tbe
interest of the Mississippi Valley Steam
Navigation Company.
ATTEMPTS TO ASSASSINATE A GAMBLER.
New York, April 26.—A Cincinnati spe
cial to the Times says two attempts have
been made within the past forty-eight hours
to assassinate Epb. Holland, the famous
gambler, and the leader of the gang of
repeaters which carried Cincinnati for Til-
den in 1876. Both attempts failed.
on fire at sea.
Baltimore, April 26 —The Norwegian
bark Arizona, arrived at this port yesterday,
reports that on the 5th inst., in latitude
39.58 and longitude 52.20, she passed the
Norwegian bark Mathilde, abandoned and
on fire. A bark of that name sailed March
20th from Wilmington, N. C., for Glasgow.
BRITISH OFFICIALS RESIGNING.
London, April 26.—The London corre
spondent of the Edinburgh Scotsman says it
is reported in official circles that Sir Austin
Layard and Sir Henry Elliot, British Am
bassadors to Constantinople and Vienna,
have sent in their resignations.
Sl*Dl)EN DEATH OF A BANKER.
New Orleans, April 26.—Joseph Selig-
man, senior member of the firm of J. «fc W.
Seligman 6c Co., bankers, of New York,
died suddenly in this city of heart disease
yesterday.
WHY NEGROES WERE IMPORTED.
Tlie Attempt to Republicanlze In
diana Acknowledged on the Stand.
says General Stewart again engaged the
enemy on the 20th. The enemy numbered
eight thousand, known as Mooski Jalum’s
army. After two hours’ fightiDg they were
defeated with a loss of four hundred’ killed
and wounded. The British los6 was two
killed and nine wounded.
A Calcutta dispatch says : “While the re
ports of King Theebaw’s death are not con
firmed, official Intelligence has reached In
dia that he la suffering from a dangerous
malady, and attempts are being made to
stay the disease by sacrificing virgins.”
APPLICATION REJECTED.
New York, April 26.—A Hartford special
says the Hartford Police Commissioners
have rejected the application of S. 8. Bosey,
a colored man. for appolntmenton the regu
lar police force. Basey is a tall, powerful,
intelligent man, somewhat well known as a
member of the troupe of jubilee singers who
recently visited England. He is highly indig
nant at the action of the Board, which he
and his friends assert was prompted solely
by aversion to his race. He was recom
mended by many prominent citizens for ap
pointment.
SENTENCE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CORRUP
TIONISTS.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 26.—Judge Pear
son this morning sentenced Wm. H. Kemble,
Emil J. Petropp, Charles B. Salter, Jesse B.
Crawford, and Wm. F. Bromberger, each to
one.thousand dollars fine and one year’s im
prisonment at hard labor in the Easiern
penitentiary.
THE LATE WESTERN STORM.
Chicago, April 26.—Further reports of
Saturday night’s storm show that it extend
ed all over the whole Northwest, and did
much damage to property.
When the Republicams came to the
head of the French Government,in 1848,
they were all poor, while the Legitimist,
Napoleonist and Orleanist members of
the Assembly possessed nearly all the
wealth. All this is changed now, how
ever, and a canvass of the French As
sembly to day shows that the Republi
cans exceed the Reactionists—Napole-
onists and legitimists—in point of
wealthy members, and boast of one-third
more millionaires than they. This is
cited as a proof of the decadence of the
noble families of France, and the pro
gress being made by the lower and mid
dle classes of the country*
The Senate Exodus Committee was on
Friday enabled, through the testimony of
Gen. Thomas W. Conway and of the
witnesses whom Senator W indom had
brought forward, to prove concludvely
that the negro exodus was a scheme to
Uepublicanize Indiana. Conway, who
was at one time Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction in Louisiana, but who has
recently interested himself in Kansas
politics, testified that he came to Wash
ington last fall and had a conference with
Mr. Hayes and Zach. Chandler. The result
of this wos an agreement that the tide of
negro emigration should be turned from
Kansas to Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.
Conway then went to Indianapolis and
saw John C. New, Chairman of the Re
publican State Committee, Judge Mar
tindale and Colonel Holloway, Postmas
ter. They told him that they could take
care of 5,000 or 10,000 negroes in Indi
ana. The witness then went to Governor
St. John, of Kansas, and the scheme of
colonizing the negroes in Indiana was
explained and agreed to. Agents were
then sent South to Cairo and other places,
and the negroes induced to turn their
steps towards Indiana, being told that
the Kansas people were standing on the
river banks and filing at the steamers
which carried the exodusters. Then he
went back to the Indiana men above
mentioned and reported what he had
done. Witness was asked why he had
thus persuaded the negroes to select In
diana as their future home, and
he answered that it was because of
his love for the Republican party.
He thought it would be a benefit to the
country to let that part}* remain in power,
and so he used every means to effect that
purpose. The Republican party, he
thought, was in a higher state of civili
zation than the Democratic. It would
therefore be a good idea to make Indiana
Rt publican. He acknowledged having
received between $200 and $300 for his
services, and said he lost $700 by Zach.
Chandler’s death. His whole testimony,
which was given deliberately and plain
ly, caused considerable sensation, giving
to the Democratic members of the com
mittee the very evidence they have
hitherto been vainly seeking and which
they did not expect to hear from a wit
ness summoned by the opposite side.
A couple were lately married at Turin,
but, in consequence of harsh treatment,
the wife soon after returned to her fami
!y, and applied for a divorce. The hus
band then sought an interview with her,
and induced her to return at once to his
house. That night he stripped her, put
her into a bag until she was suffocated,
and then dropped her into a narrow well
in her mother’s garden. The corpse was
discovered by means of an illuminating
mirror from the top of the well. The
husband confessed his crime and was
executed.
Miss Hill sued Mr. Harrison, at Say-
brook, Conn., for $10,000, because he
failed to keep his promise of marriage.
She testified that she was twenty-one
years years old and he sixty-three. She
loved him, she said, notwithstanding the
difference in their ages, though she was
greatly shocked when she learned how
old he really was. She supposed him to
be about forty, until he took off a black,
curly wig, and showed a small remnant
of grey hair. She fainted at the sight,
but afterwards became reconciled to him.
Then he in turn grew cool.
In Westfield, Mass., a well known
lawyer recently changed his office after
more than twenty years’ occupancy.
They say he still continues to go regu
larly every morning to the old office and
ascend the stairs until his eyes fall upon
the legend in large display type, “Re
moved to ,” when he gives his hat a
jerk over his head and bolts in the direc
tion of his new quarters, looking around
to see if any one has observed him.
There is terrible distress in Asia Mi
nor, even within fifty miles of Constan
tinople. Cattle, sheep and Angora goats
are carried off in large numbers by dis
ease. Brigandage, which is almost ne
cessitated by hunger, is on the increase.
The country between Angora and Ismidt
is becoming a desert. Four thousand
people of the Moussoul district have emi
grated to Ragdad.
bummer (to educated man on train):
“What bouse do you travel for?” “My
own.” What line of goods do you deal
in ?” “Common sense.” “Well, my friend,
I must say you carry a very small sample
case.”
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Jacksonville, April 24. — Floridians
must forego the luxury of peaches and milk
for this summer. Accounts from various
portions of the State indicate that the crop
of that delicious fruit is an entire failure.
This is unfortunate, as much attention was
being given to this fruit, especially to the
early varieties, ripening ia May and June,
that bring extravagant prices in Northern
markets. Plums have shared the fate ol
the peaches, and will be equally scarce.
The sand pear, so popular in Southwest
Georgia, has been extensively introduced
into Florida, and finds here a congenial
soil an<Tclimate. In a very few years the
shipment of this fine fruit from this State
will be large and lucrative. A day or two
since I saw a few small watermelons
brought from the upper St. John's. This
is about a month in advance of the usual
time for their ripening.
In all such small matters as these—small
in detail, but large in the aggregate—Flor
ida must, from her situation, always have a
monopoly. The rapid increase of wealth
and the luxurious tastes developed thereby
have created a demand for fruits and vege
tables at unusual seasons, and strawberries
and green peas upon the table of a wealthy
New Yorker on Christmas day flatter bis
pride while they tickle his palate.
Some of the West India Islands can beat
us a few days in the production of these
articles, but then tbe shipments are few and
far between. There is no daily line of
steamers and no railroad for the speedy car
riage of these perishable dainties.
Florida is undeniably the hot or forcing-
house for the remainder of the States, and
in this respect need never fear rivalry. Theu,
too, as railroads develop the State, two hun
dred miles or more south of this point, and
facilities are afforded for the qu'ck and safe
transmission of such commodities to mar
ket, the business will assume greatly in
creased dimensions and present vast propor
tions. Polk, Manatee, Sumter and other
counties will contend for & portion of this
business, and their rich lands and exemption
from destructive frosts will give them supe
rior advantages.
It is a very easy matter to combine the
cultivation of early vegetables with the
growth of an orange grove, and the man of
industry can make his living by the first, for
the benefit of the man of patience who is
waiting for the second. In a very few years
from the present, wealth will roll steadily in
upon the orange growers of the St. John’s
river, and the entire country drained by that
great stream will be a scene of activity, en
terprise and achievement.
At last the Middle Florida planters have
caught the orange fever, aud have sensibly
concluded to raise something else besides
cotton. A large demand has sprung up in
that section for young trees and seeds, and
a very brief period will increase their In
comes, relieve their indebtedness, and, to a
very great degree, render them independent
of negro labor. This latter argument is a
very great desideratum, and will appeal with
great force to those who are compelled to
rely upon employes, proverbially unreliable
and untrustworthy.
It was supposed that the suits of the gov
ernment against Governor Drew, for alleged
trespass upon the public lands, would be
taken up this week in the United States
Court, now in session. A motion was made
by his attorneys for a trial, or dismissal of
tbe case from the docket.
District Attorney Stickney hummed and
hawed, wasn’t exactly ready—the surveys
of government land had not been made,
where the trespass had been committed,
and so on and so on, winding up with au
appeal for delay, which was finally granted
by Judge Settle, who said, in acceding to
the motion, that in doing 60 he was 6train
iDg a point in favor of the government.
Nobody here doubts for an instant the
innocence of the Governor, so far as any
criminal intent was concerned, and the
coolest heads and best informed minds
simply regard the matter as another trick
for political purposes. This sort of warfare
has long been practiced by the Radical lead
ers, and just at this time a little political
capital was needed, especially as Governor
Drew, who may be renominated,would prove
a verv formidable antagonist for Mr. Stick
ney, who himself aspires to the chief mag
istracy of the State of Florida, to encounter.
I am informed on most excellent authori
ty, that an agent was here from the land
office in Washington with the instructions
that the trials should be had immediately or dis
missed.
Now, if this be so, there is good ground
for arriving at some harsh conclusions.
People say that these cases are hung over
the head of Governor Drew like the sword
of Damocles ; but the Governor, for a man
iu such a distressing predicament, wears a
remarkably* calm physiognomy, and presents
the appearance of a person whose appetite
is good, digestion unimpaired, and whose
conscience is free from any twinges of re
morse.
They also persist in expressing the belief
that these cases would long since have been
nol prossed had they not been hung up for
use In just such a contingency as the pres
ent. In a year of State and National elec
tions, such a charge upon the State Execu
tive is splendid ammunition, and might in
fluence a few votes. Desperate are the re
sorts of desperate men, and there are those
in the Republican ranks who would strike
down, with a remorseless band, character,
reputation aud liberty, in their mad anxiety
to accomplish their own selfish purposes.
Should the trial ever occur, and it is set
now for the first Monday in June, the evi
dence will be found totally insufficient to
establish the charges.
As Is usually the case, when the United
States Court is in session, there is a goodly
attendance of scrubby Radical politicians.
They hang around like bees about a sugar
barrel, waiting for an occasional job as a
juror. SiDce the reduction of the per diem
pay, and the operation of the new jury law,
they have been shorn of many of these little
emoluments and wear somewhat longer
visages, as they dolefully think of departed
privileges.
Mr. Stickney has been again rejected by
the United States Senate for tbe position of
District Attorney. It is now said that an
ad interim appointment will be tendered to
and accepted by Col. Bisbee, after the con
ventions of his party have been held. As a
matter of course he would never be con
firmed by the Senate.
Up to the present time there has been no
action taken upon the nomination of the
Reverend Hicks as Supervisor of the Cen
sus. CoL- Bisbee’s selections are not pala
table to that body.
Who will say that the days of chivalry
have departed when two men, who have had
a previous difficulty, walk out to a secluded
spot and crack away at each other until one
drops with a severed femoral artery ? The
other springs to his assistance and dashes to
the city for a carriage. On bis return he
finds his antagonist dead, and an officer in
waiting takes him in custody. Such are the
facta as they occurred a few days since in a
duel between two Cubans of this city.
Under the laws of this State if one person
kills another in a duel the slayer is guilty of
wilful murder, and the survivor in the above
case has been held for trial on this serious
charge. The entire arrangement was proba
bly in keeping with the crude Ideas enter
tained by the foreigners on this subject.
Thus far Ledwith is still in the van of all
the Republican candidates for Governor. He
is undeniably the popular man with the
black wing of that party; but, with very few
exceptions, he is opposed by the white ele
ment. Money will be freely used at Gaines
ville for the purchase of delegates, but if
the negroes manifest the same independence
they have shown in other Southern States,
Ledwith will be successful. It is said that
Bisbee’s slate shows the name of District
Attorney Stickney for Governor, and while
his own candidacy for Congress may render
it imprudent for him to take an open stand
against Ledwith, it is known that he is bit
terly opposed to his nomination, and will
use all nts influence to effect his defeat. It
was a very shrewd trick on the part of Bis
bee’s friends to hold the convention for
Congress two days In advance of the State
Convention. If he should fail in Jackson
ville, be could throw off disguise at Gaines
ville and oppose Ledwith openly. If suc
cessful he will be to position to aid his de
signs by the promise of place and patron
age—if elected.
There will be numerous elements of dis
cord at the Radical State Convention, suffi
cient to render that body as disorderly an
assemblage as that you have recently had in
Atlanta. The figbt on delegates to the
National Convention will be between friends
of Grant, Blaine and Shenuan, with tbe
odds largely in favor of the third termer.
Bisbee will very probably be renominated
for Congress, although it is not yet known
how far his prospects may be impaired by
the antagonism of the friends of Ledwith.
Hia nomination will have one good effect,
that of condensing and concentrating to*
greater extent than any Republican in the
Stole all the weight. Influence and strength
of the Democrats.
Attorney General Raney, who has been
prominently mentioned as a candidate of
the Democrats of the First district for Con
gress, will not permit his name to go before
the convention. This is entirely reliable.
He is young, and can wait for the laurels
that will encircle his brows.
So in this district Mr. EL K. Foster, of Or
ange county, will not appear among the as
pirants for Congress. He is a lawyer of fine
abilities, popular manners, and would have
made a brilliant campaign. There are sev
eral gentlemen in this district who will be
warmlv supported by their friends in the
coming convention, anv one of whom will
represent us ably and honorably.
The spirit displayed by the Morning
News in getting out the double sized issues
during the last week, have attracted very
favorable comment from the press of this
State. Much is expected from the power
ful assistance of your paper during the
coming contest.
Summer is fairly upon us, and all of the
large hotels will close by the first of May.
Some four of the steamers that plow our
river during the winter have already taken
their departure. W. R. B.
GOV. A. H. COLQUITT.
Unjust Censure of tlie Governor—
What He Is Not Responsible For—
His Appointments to Office—Crltl
clams Upon His Religions Work
Editors Augusta Chronicle and Consti
tutionalist :
In common with all honest men, I
admire the independence, boldness,
honesty, unswerving maintenance of
right and sturdy opposition to wrong
which characterizes your journal. Be
cause I feel thus. I am encouraged to
write you this communication in relation
to the Christian gentleman, the good citi
zen, the faithful officer whom a majority
of eighty-one thousand voters of our
State have elected Governor. His char
acter, public and private, has been per
sistently assailed. His motives in all be
does, whether officially or otherwise,
have been misrepresented and calumni
ated. His very labors in the cause of
the Christian religion - a cause which he
has served humbly and faithfully all the
years of his manhood —have been de
nounced as a hypocritical attempt to win
the favor of religious people and gain
the of the colored citizens.
If a State official with whose appoint
ments or official existence he has had
nothing to do, prove dishonest or
unfaithful, he is arraigned and held up
to public condemnation as a particeps
criminis. If a defaulting county Tax
Collector absconds, be is made responsi
ble for not having had the fugitive from
justice arrested before his default WM
nown. Everything that goes wrong in
any department of the government i9
attributed to the Governor’s fault of
omission or commission, and everything
that goes right is right in spite of the
Governor. During a long and unevent
ful connection with political life, I have
never known a public man more cruelly
persecuted, more persistently misrepre
sented or more unscrupulously slandered
than Alfred H. Colquitt has been, during
the three years and a hflf of his official
career. Now, Messrs. Editors, who are
they who thus assail him? Who lead
the pack who are barking and snap
ping at him at all times and on all
occasions? In nineteen cases out of
twenty they are men, or the followers
and retainers of men, who seek political
distinction and hope to attain it by per
suading the people to “drop Colquitt,’’
or they are disappointed office seekers,
jobbers or parties who aimed to make a
living out of the public treasury, whose
ambitions, aims and cchemes Governor
Colquitt has thwarted. I do not claim
that the Governor is infallible. That
would be preposterous. He mey have
made appointments to office which you
and I may have not thought the best
and fittest that could have been made.
He may have seen men and things
through different glasses from those that
you and I use, but I do claim that in
every appointment and every’ act he was
conscientiously persuaded that he was
doing the best in the promotion of the
great interests entrusted to his care.
And, sirs, in what does his fault consist?
One of the most constantly repeated
charges that I see preferred against
him is that fie lectures in Sunday schools
all over the State, and that he preaches
to colored congregations. A man who
love9 Sunday schools, and desires to ele
vate the religious and moral sense of the
negro population, cannot be an efficient
or faithful Executive! I confess that I
am old fogy enough to rejoice that our
Chief Magistrate is a Christian. The
fact gives me a comfortable sense of se
curity ; and I believe there are thousands
and tens of thousands of men in Georgia
who think as I do, and who admire and
respect and trust Governor Colquitt be
cause he labors to promote Sunday
schools, and though not ordainel is not
ashamed or afraid to preach the Word of
God whenever opportunity offers. But
he does this to curry favor with
religious people and “catch nigger
votes.” Long before the war, when
quite a young man, being on his planta
tion in Baker county, when he not only
did not seek votts, but had declined a
re-nominafion to Congress, when the
negroes were slaves and nobody dreamed
of their having votes to “catch,” Alfred
IL Colquitt taught in the Sunday schools
and preached to the negroes. Does the
fact that he is Governor demand that he
renounce or suppress his religious faith
and practices? No, Messrs. Editors, the
good men of Georgia, of all religious de
nominations, all who prefer religious to
irreligious and virtue to vice, who desire
that the pure and the good shall prevail
over the corrupt and the wicked, rejoice
and are glad that our Governor takes time
to participate in bringing the children of
Georgia to a knowledge of God’s truth,
and in bringing our colored people
to understand and acknowledge the
restraints of religion. And I now call
on these good men ot Georgia to rally to
the support and defense of their slan
dered Christian Governor, and to see to it
that he shall be his own successor in the
Executive chair. Let them sec to it that
lheir representative be n jt driven from
his high position of usefulness by the
persecutions of bad and selfish men.
Though they may not expect that a
Christian can escape persecution, let
them see to it that he be not “wounded
in the house of his friends.” It is time
that the voice of the honest people
of Georgia be heard in support
of our Governor, and it is time
that his enemies and slanderers be
made aware that the honest people of
Georgia do not believe his professions
and practice of Christianity should make
a forfeiture of popular confidence. Of
Governor Colquitt’s services in bringing
about a better feeling between the North
and the South, in allaying the animosi
ties and removing the prejudices growing
out of the w*ar, I intend shortly to ask
your permission to say a few words.
these days, when motives are so frequent
ly impugned, it is proper for me to state
that I am not an office holder, either in
esse or in posse; that I have no “axe to
gTind” or favors to ask, except that the
Governor stick to the Sunday school and
preach whenever he can. Quondam.
COLONEL HARDEMAN CALLED TO
THE FRONT.
Interesting: Appeal from Represents*
five Citizens ot Houston County,
Asking: Him to be a Candidate for
Governor-Stirring Reply from
Colonel Hardeman.
Macon Telegraph.
Houston County, Ga.
Colonel Thomas Hardeman, Jr., Macon,
Ga.:
Dear Snt—The time has arrived when
the people should take into consideration
the Gubernatorial question. The office
of Governor is one of importance, and
we consider it is essentially necessary
that it should be filled by a man that is
honest and fully capable. We, the
undersigned, have our preference: and
forgetting not and remembering the
great services you have renderwi our
party and country, as Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee of the
State, as legislator for a number of times,
as Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, and President of our State Agri
cultural Society: filling each and all of
those offices with distinguished ability,
and giving a good and true account of
your stewardship wherever we have
placed you, we deem it of the greatest
ingratitude not to say you are our choice
for that responsible and exalted position;
and we desire to know whether or not
you will consent to be our standard
|bearer in the approaching contest. An
early reply is respectfully solicited. Re-1
spectfully yours,
~ ~ | D. C. Dud bar,
T. D. WarreD,
W. W. Waeuon, Jr.,
R. II. Baskin,
J. B. Erherage,
W. C. Winglen
EJwin Martin,
John Smith,
P. C. Smith,
W. S. Wallace,
B. A. Walton,
L. P. Warren,
so essential to the success of that party
which alone promises us the benefits of
home government and the Hesssinga cf
civil liberty.
I am. gentlemen, with grateful regard,
your obedient servant,
Thos. Hardeman.
A FAMILY BURNED TO DEATH.
Tbrllllng Incident of the Great Firs
In tbe Dismal Swamp.
Reports come from Portsmouth, Va.,
of terrible devastation and destruction
of life and property in Tyrell county,
N. C., by the Dismal Swamp fires that
have been raging in that section for the
past week. The whole A1 be marie Sound
side U said to have been laid waste by
the flames. As they swept through the
woods, destroying everything in their
way, many bouses were burned, and in
one case so rapid was the progress of the
flames that an entire family were burned
to death before they could reach a place
of safety. The circumstances of thia-
dreadful affair are ;is follows: Zacha-
riah Owens, a well known citizen
of Tyrell county, was engaged in
getting shingles from the Swamp on
the Alligator river, and living near his
business^ a house entirely surround
ed by the woods. Mr. Owens left
home on Monday for the purpose of pro
curing provisions.- He had not gone far
before he saw' that the flames were ap
proaching so rapidly that his house and
family were in great danger, and he re-
amily
traced his steps to endeavor to save them.
He reached home and hurried his wife
and three little children away in the vain
hope of reaching the main road, thereby
leaving the swamp and the flames be
hind them and saving the lives of those
dear to him; but tlie effort proved abor
tive, and they were overtaken by the
flames ill the swamp, midway between
their home and the place of refuge, and
the entire family, qonsisting of father,
mother, and three children, were burned
to death. The following day a party
of citizens was formed and a search
was made for the bodies. They were
found all together in a narrow path in
the swamp, the mother with the infant
pressed on her breast, the father and the
other two children lying near by.
B. M. Bateman,
J. L. Holt,
J. N. Bateman,
P. W. Stubbs,
J. M. McIntosh,
R. L. Smith,
Fred. A. Toomer,
W. Brunson,
Robert J. 8mitb,
M. H. Thomson,
J. H. Hose,
W. II. Johnson,
W. W. Wagnon, Sr., O. C. Bateman,
Ira Akins,
J. \Y. Mathews,
C. A. Gantt,
T. M. Butner,
Sheriff Houston co. f
D. W. Laurens,
G. P. Pattershall,
J. Pierce,
M. M. Mlnchen,
E. L. Felder,
T. B, Goff,
C. D. Anderson, Sr.,
W. G. Mills,
J. B. Barrett,
G. C. Nunn,
J. E. Jones,
Luther J. Thomas,
G. W. Singleton,
D. U. Riley,
John F. Harper.
At a theatre the other evening a man
at the back of the audience muttered be
tween acts that there was a large fire
down town. Immediately ninety seven
men hastily said to their ladies, “I will go
out and see whether it is in the direction
of our office. ” They all returned at the be
ginning of the next act and reported,
“No; it is in a different direction.” One
indiscreet young lady was heard to re
mark, “It must h^ve been a fire in a
clove factory.”-
►*-*-*i —*
The assignees qf feter Herdic, the
bankrupt millionaire of Williamsport,
Ba., sold by auction a few d**ys ago
$1,250,000 of his assets, the whole yield
ing only $1,500. He was recently dis
charged from bankruptcy, having sworn
that he was not worth a dollar. He was,
nevertheless, the principal bidder at the
sale, and, as he was better informed than
any one else as to the value of the assets,
may recover enough to take another
start in the race for wealth.
COL. HARDEMAN’S RESPONSE.
Macon, Ga., April 24, 1880.
Messrs. B. if. Bateman, Gen. C. D. An
derson, W. W. Wagnen, Dr. R. H. Bas
kin, Wm. Brunson, T. M. Butner and
others :
Gentlemen—-Your letter asking if I
“will consent to be your standard bearer”
in the next Gubernatorial canvass has
been received, and it would be unbecom
ing affectation in me to withhold the ex
pression of the gratification it afforded
me. I am no stranger to you, gentle
men; you are residents of an adjoining
county, and many of you have known
me from my boyhood, and it would be
unnatural were I not gratified at this
manifestation of your appreciation and
confidence. I am the more sensible of
your good will, because I recognize
among your signatures many who in days
past gave this same generous confidence to
another. Speaking of the office of Presi
dent, the great and gifted Webster said
“while the office is quite too high to be
sought by personal solicitation, it is
not to be declined if proffered by the
voluntary desire of a free people.” I
most heartily reiterate the sentiment.
The office of Governor is one of honor
able distinction and great responsibility,
and wh’le it is worthy of the ambition of
the highest and ablest of Georgia’s
sons, it should be reached by the volun
tary offering of the people, and not
through private solicitation or political
combinations. I shall resort to neither
of these means in carrying out your wish
es believing as I do that the people, if
left to select for themselves, will make
such a choice as will redound to the har
mony of the party you represent, and
the welfare and honor of the State.
The success of the Democratic party is
essential to our peace and prosperity. \
division in its ranks will engender strife,
disorganize labor and bring disaster to
our agricultural interest. We need for
our pros]»erity quiet, quiet in our homes,
quiet in our industries, quiet in our coun
cils; and nothing will so conduce to this
peace and quiet as unity and harmony
in that party which has rescued the State
from bankruptcy and misrule and estab
lished her upon a foundation of honor
and prosperity. This quiet, this har
mony, can be, will be secured, if the peo
ple are permitted to select for themselves
their standard bearers without the dicta
tion of “leaders” or the combination of
rings.
Y'ou have been pleased, gentlemen, to
refer in complimentary terms to my ser
vices as Chairman of the State “ demo
cratic Executive Committee ” in a trying
hour of the State and party’s history. At
that time patriots were alarmed for free
government. We were endeavoring to
free ourselves from Republican misrule.
Division in our ranks alarmed our people,
but that division, by prudence and con
ciliation, worked no detriment to the
party, and the State was secured an ad
ministration of her government that
gave peace in her borders and confidence
m her future. In that canvass, at a
great personal inconvenience and expense
(for I made a personal canvass in fifty-
two counties), I endeavored to discharge
my duty to the full measure of my abili
ty ; and 1 am glad to know you think
those labors contributed to the success
of the parly and the establishment of
good government. I fear, however, your
allusion to my services at that crisis is
an unfortunate one for your purposes,
for inaction then is the plea of availa
bility now, and silence is endorsed and
commended because it has no political
record. The days that tried man s fealty
to his party and to his State’s best inter
ests, were the dark and trying ones,
when Federal soldiers guarded our polls,
and Federal bayonets'glistened in our
legislative halls.
I had been a Whig—a Henry' Clay
Whig—from boyhood, but I saw then
the hour had come when patriots all
should unite to save the State and her
liberties; and I did not hesitate to es
pouse the cause of the only party that
gave us a hope of home rule and consti
tutional govt rnment, and from that time
until now I have endeavored to discharge
my whole duty in maintaining its cause
and fighting its battles.
As a legislator, I sought only the ad
vancement and development of the
whole Stat©. I only regiet my inability
to have discharged the duties of the trust
reposed in me in such a manner as to
have redounded more to the public pros
perity and the State’s welfare. In my
present position as President of the
State Agricultural Society (to which you
allude, and which I prize higher than
2ny ever conferred upon me by the peo
ple of my native State). I have labored
to cheer the spirits of our farmers, to
elevate their industry and to encourage
them in their commeadable efforts to
rebuild their fortunes and restore the
State to her once elevated and honorable
position. In these labors I shall never
weary, regardless of party preferment
or political honors. The permanent
prosperity of the State depends upon
successful and remunerative industry, and
this can only be secured by a wise, just
and conservative administration of her
government. This much the labor of
the State demands of her rulers, and to
the Democratic party we must look for
this administration, which can be best
secured by forgetting past dissensions
and renouncing all personal pretensions.
The interests of the people and the wel
fare of the State demand this much from
political aspirant*. I would, therefore,
counsel harmony, and forego personal
Dreferences if they are incompatible with
the great interests of the State. My
course in the past in this respect is a
guarantee of what it will be in the future,
and I therefore say to my friends that
under no circumstances will 1 consent to
the use of my name for the honorable
position tq which, in their preference,
the? would call me if it will endanger in
the least degree that harmony which is
The Boston Transcript reports a case
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a little girl thirteen years old did not
know her history lesson, the teacher
made her “stand up” until she tainted
away, cutting and bruising her face as
she fell. Worse than all, when the mat
ter was brought before the school com
mittee, they endeavored to whitewash
the teacher/
A Polish family named Solinski in
Pittsburg, who buried an infant six
months old recently, had the coffin
taken up to be buried in another ceme
tery. The coffin was opened, and they
were horrified to discover that the child
had evidently been buried alive, as it
bad turned over and was lying face
downwards.
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